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The Washington times., 1934-09-14
Book Chosen Head
Of Charities Drive

D. C. Book has been elected head
of the Alexandria United Chari-
ties, with Walter Pierpont vice
chairman. Robert M. Reese will
serve as secretary and Francis
Fannon treasurer. Mrs. Leroy Pea
body will continue in charge of the
office. The drive for funds will
be held this year from November
4 to 10, inclusive.
The Washington times., 1934-09-14
Christmas Coming,
Post Office Advises

Formal notice that Christmas is
coming was served yesterday by
the Post Office Department.
Postmasters throughout tn e
country were instructed to make
certain they have sufficient
money-order forms to carry them
through the holiday season.
The Washington times., 1934-09-14

"YOu would
not be leeve
m q y o u
wouldn't be-
1eeve me-"
In a plain
tive statement
after the re-
cent D e m o.
G ra tic cleo
ton victories,
c h a m a n
H e n r y P.
Fletcher said
II, is evident.
that "the peo-
pie of tn e
country have
The Washington times., 1934-09-14
M'CALLUM ELECTED

William A. McCallum was
elected commander of Sergt. Jas
per Post, No. 13, American Legion,
at a meeting in the Thomas Circle
Club last night. C. Frank Nc
Carthy was elected first vice com
mander and Daniel M. Goodacre
won the election for second vice
The Washington times., 1934-09-14
Iiams Describes
Communist Work

Description of Communistic &C.
tivities during the recent strikes
in San Francisco was given by Col.
George E. Ijams. assistant admin.
istrator of veterans affairs. in an
address before the Military Order
of the World War at the May
flower Hotel yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-09-14
AUTO LOOTED

John w. Taylor, 1900 Kalorama
Road, Northwest, reported the
loss of clothing valued at $75 from
his automobile early today while
the machine was parked near the
Union Station.
The Washington times., 1934-09-14
Now
6. o. P. Theme Song.
Henry P. Fletcher Hurt.
Du Pont Clan Unfriendly.
BY Helen ESSary

Suggested theme song for
the use Of the Republican
national committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
A. FL. Heads Help
Gary Bosses Build
NO-Strike Machine
BY a Steel Worker Corresuondent

BY a Steel Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind. - Fellow workers.
since the strike was sold out last
week. rumors are going on through
all Departments and these rumors
have been proven with the bank
ing up of No. 9 blast furnace, and
reducing of 3 open hearth furnaces.
Some of the armed gangsters are
laid off, but we still have the motor
cycle squads going around the mill
and there's much more spying 60
ing on.
The bosses have found a way to
hire new workers and get them all
mixed up with the old time work
ers, and this was done by reducing
the working time. Fellow workers,
this was done not because there
aren't any orders, but by the lead
ers of the American Federation of
Labor and their arbitration system.
And now what has been taking
place in the past two weeks in the
transportation and the locomotive
shop. They've hired more than Is
workers on the extra list. Fellow
workers, we know that they were
hired fo- strike breakers. Besides
all this they had six legionnaires
hired from Crown Point as special
| GunnerS,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
firing and
Speedup in
Gary Plant
By a Steel Worker Correspol

BY Steel Worker Correspondent
GARY, Ind.-The production of
steel is dropping down and the
speed-up is increasing in the trans
portation department in the past
two weeks. 1t dropped from Is en-
gines down to eight engines and in
general the forces are reduced all
around.
Take the skull crackers, for in
stance. One shift is pulled off
the entire crew. Then the mould
yard crew is taken off. The work
must be done in two shifts that
used to take three shifts to do.
Not only that, but since the drop
in production it doesn't matter who
comes along; you must take his
order and do it.
For instance, take the 44-inch
blooming mill. 1t used to run II to
Is turns a week. Now it dropped
to five straight turns week, and
if one stops at the main gates you'll
see more workers coming out with
their lunch boxes, being turned
back, than you would see workers
on the job.
And yet some Of the workers
think that the Amalgamated Asso-
citation or the A. F. of L. fights for
the workers rights, and then again
some think that the MIRA. will
force the steel mills to increase pro-
duction. We, the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union members
must now openly agitate among
our fellow workers, to make them
understand the meaning of unity
and point the SM.WIU. which is
a real union fighting in the inter-
ests of the working class.
For instance, the other day as I
was going to work in the afternoon
shift, I noticed picket line in front
of our leading butcher shops, and
asked a fellow worker if he knew
the meaning of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. I asked him why
it is that the meat cutters are out
on strike and the butchers are
working, since they are all affiliated
with the A. F. of L.
This worker replied to me that
they we're both members of the A.
F. of L., but he claimed that if
they all go on strike at the same
time it would be against the prin-
ciple of the A. F. of L.
I stated that we are all class
brothers, fighting for the same pur-
pose, and it is not necessary to
divide the unions in this way. I also
pointed out that our union accepts
all workers regardless of color or
political belief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

make the required sum. Also they
have to wet the sand heaps, which
take from six to 26 pots of water
per heap.
The boss tries to divide the men
by favoring some with work that
makes them S. to SIS a day. They
will not share up with the men
who only have So or $2.25 worth
of work. The Shop Committee CT
the A. F. of L. doesn't have any
thing to say about giving all an
equal break.
The bosses also have some one
planted among the members of the
international Foundry Workers Ca
F. of ID who carries news to the
bosses. Anything said in meeting
of the union can be repeated word
for word by the general shop fore
man next morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
.Mich. Steel Workers Look for
Strong Rank and File Union
Opposition Movement In A. A. Locals Needed
To Struggle for Better Conditions

by a Steel Worker Correspondent
ECORSE, Mich.-In the last 10
Yeas the down river section of the
vicinity Of Detroit became a real in
dustrtal center. The down river sec
ton includes the part of Detroit
which runs from the Rouge River, on
the west side. along the Detroit river
to Elizabeth Park. It takes in River
Rouge, Ecorse. Wyandote, Trenton
and a few other small townships
and villages.
The larger plants on the water
front are the Standard Oil Co.,
Great Lakes Engineering Works,
Nicholvan Steamship Co, Murray
Body Corp. of America. Great Lakes
and Michigan Steel Corps, Wyan-
dote Salvage process, Wyandote Al
kali Works and at the end of Tren-
ton, like dot after a line Of writ
ing, stands the Detroit Edison power
plant.
I don't believe there is a single
person living in these sections who
does not feel the pressure Of these
industrial slave drivers.
The conditions Of the workers in
these shops (big or smalD is the
worst around Detroit. There is no
organization at all, except in the
Great Lakes and Michigan Steel
Corps.
Las, year the Amalgamated
Association Steel Union organ
lied few hundred workers, but up
to the present time the honorable
officials of this union did absolutely
nothing for the betterment of the
steel works., Their only activities
are to collect dues and plan some
picnics, but when some one takes
the floor to present some of the
grievances, the officials as a rule
adjourn the meeting.
The workers have found out that
the N.R.A. never had it in mind to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Struggle Against
Blacklisting at
COrnell-Dubiliel
BY a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK. - Mass picketing
went on at Cornell Dubilier Con-
denser Corp, from II noon to 100
D. M, the other day. 1t was led
by Radio Factory Workers Union.
affiliated to the A. F. of L. and
supported by the Y. P. S. L. and
the Socialist Party. william Budie.
organizer. is a Socialist. $50 were
on the picket line, about 125 So
cialist workers and Y. P. S. L.
members, and 25 strikers.
An open air meeting was held
from Il a. m. to II noon at which
Budie and Norman Thomas spoke,
using left phrases for action, etc.
All this was the result Of strike
called eight months ago by Budie
and which for the past seven
months has had no publicity, except
on a few scattered occasions. Budie
refused to allow picketing while he
was carrying on negotiations with
the N R. A. which resulted in only
about rs strikers remaining out.
The N. R. A. decided that all
blaclSlisted workers be rehired. Mr..
Blake, president of the corporation,
refused to Grant this and has won
the 800 workers in the shop over to
his side since Budie and the A. F.
of L. demand that they all be fired
Most of these workers had been
hired after picketing was suspended
seven months ago.
The Independent Radio and
Metal Workers Union issued leaf
let calling for the solidarity Of the
blaclSlisted workers and the work
ers in the shop. to fight for rein
statement of all blacklisted workers
against firing, and for equal divi-
sion of work. The leadet received
a good response from a large per-
centage of the workers. The riot
squad was called down, but no at.
| tempt was made to break the picket
line. Attempts were made to force
the picket line across the street, but
failed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

cation of union that will help them
in their troubles.
At present the A. F. of L. union
holds meetings every Saturday night
at Wyandote. But one can hear on
every corner or beer garden or any,
where where steel workers come
together things like these: Il won t
go any more to these damn meetings.
It's no use. I won't pay any more
dues. Why, those officials don't
share bit"
Fellow workers, it will be the
greatest mistake, if you do not pay
any more dues and drop out of the
union. A union is controlled by the
fake leaders only until the rank
and file wake up to see the situa-
ton. The immediate and first ac-
ton is to organize a rank and file
opposition, and put into leadership
the real leaders from the rank and
file who will work for the better
ment of the conditions in the shops
and for better living standards for
every steel worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Piece Rates
Cut Often in
.X-RGyPant
By a Worker Correspondent

LONG ISLAND CITY, n. Y.-As
you get off the Greensboro Plaza
station and walk two or three blocks
to your right you will see dozens of
different shops and factories. Out
standing among them is the West
inghouse X-Ray, where about 200
workers are working. have worked
over 20 years in various shops and
factories, but I have never seen any
exploitation like that which goes on
here.
All the piece work rates in this
sweatshops have been cut in half,
or even less than half. No matter
how quickly you work you will never
get the bonus. I have worked three
weeks in the machine shop depart
ment on all of the machines, and
was never successful in getting the
bonus. Should the workers even
accomplish the assigned tasks on
Time the rates be cut again.
They have here q complicated
time assignment system, according
to which the hour is divided into
thousandths. Previously the time
assigned for each piece was given
in minutes, and it was noticeable
whenever the bosses would steal the
time. But at present with the sys-
tenn of the thousands, it is not no.
ticeable any more.
The workers are requested to
work two hours weekly in order to
provide for the wages of the fore
man.
One cannot get the Ioo in this
factory unless through the Geneva
Employment Agency, which gets
from So to $40 fo~ the job. This
is the way I got my job after I
was refused employment by the
foreman. 1t is generally known that
the foreman divides with the en-
ployment sharks.
One worker told me that ne has
worked two months in this factory
and saw is workers discharged dur
ing this time.
I appeal to the workers to write
to the Daily Worker and other
working class papers on conditions
in the shop. The working class
press will help us organize into a
union in order to defend ourselves
against the exploitation of the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
40 q
Gen the II eplllesp
Keeping Up Our Infant Mortality Rate

half inches of cheek, no tight
dresses, no hair falling over face or
below neck, no bare legs.
Counseling Simplicity and econ
omy' in food, setter, clothing and
travel, Chiang-cloaking drive
against the living standard of the
masses under his pious representa-
tions-says: In order to attain a
higher level of morality, it is neces-
Sary first to practice simple and
ascetic ways of living, for luxury
and intemperance have ever been
the mother of sin"
"Ascetic ways of living"-huh!
Polite name for starvation!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Wehrle Stove Co.
Sets Impossible
Foundry Speedup
By a Metal Worker Correspondenl

BY a Metal Worker Correspondent
NEWARK, Ohio. = The Wehrle
Stove Co., not satisfied with the
code, in the last two weeks has
instituted one of its own.
In the foundry department the
shakers-out are required to make a
sum of not less than $3.50 per s
hour day and five days a week
which makes $i7.50 per week, or
lose their joos. At the rates they
are paying it is almost impossible
for some of the workers to COM
ply with the said rule.
At 2 cents each per flask for
double mclds (Rockovers) and So
cents per hundred for single mclds
R-K's) they have to shake out
IT'S double molds or 1000 R-K's to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Roosevelt's Words Are
Only Thing Official
Has for AA Members
BY a Worker Correspondent


FAIRFIELD, Ala.-Mr. Caraford,
the organizer of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers, invited A. A. members and
the members of the Mine, Mill and
Smelter unions to hear Mr.. Roose-
welt speak Mirch, Crawford and
Lepson we're at the meeting. These
three leaders last March sold out
the T. c. I. mine strike here.
The workers are not satisfied
with the wage cut that they have
got. Since the strikes we can see
the discomfort of all the workers,
but the most outstanding thing
that Caraford got for them in the
steel mill was to tell them to come
to hear Presid ent Roosevelt S
speech. This is what they call col
lective bargaining for the workers,
but the workers are sure that they
cannot eat the speech.
At the Westf1eld plant where
they work by the ton at 10 cents
a ton, they get $3.50 day, cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
CBy a Steel Worker Correspondent

by a Steel Worker Correspondent
HARRISON, N. $50 sure was
the Crucible Steel Co. that they'd
be able to railroad through a COM
pany union disguised under the
name "Atha Works Council" at the
Atha Works in Harrison, that on
June % they put it to a vote. BY
all sorts Of means they sought to
ter-orize the workers prior to the
vote, thinking that by these tactics
thy would get an easy victory.
Imagine the surprise Of the bosses
when they found this scheme de-
feated. One could well imagine the
defeat when the bosses announced
it as vote of $50 to 1886, and this
when the workers had no means ia
check up.
The bosses well have realized the
power of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union, for this
defeat was attributed to the men,
bers of the S. M. w. I. U. within the
plant and the leaflets issued by the
S. M. w. 7. U. both within and out
side of the works. The vote Mo-
campaign instilled the men with
such confidence that in a mass they
swamped the whole farce.
Hoped To Start Speed-up
The company had hopes Of in
stituting a maddening speed-up in
case the Atha Works Council was
established. by means of bonus
system that worked backwards, and
also by placing a minimum on pro-
duction which meant doing two
days work in one day. Through
inside" information the S. M. w.
II. U. department groups of the
Crucible Steel knew that there was
enough work for all the men for
months to come, but the company
on the flimsy pretext of mo Work
began to lay off men, telling them
that it was temporary, but to be
ready to return to work.
At about this time the company
received a new contract for six-inch
shells from the Government. eve
weren't supposed to know about
that Immediately afterwards the
company stated that the balloting
was unfair and proceeded to prepare
new vote.
The rumors we're that the workers
we're to put their check numbers on
the ballots. We of the S. M. w.
I. U. made several attempts to pub
licize this in the local papers (both
in Newark and Jersey City, N. ",
but the newspapers weren't in
terested and even one had the
audacity to state that that did not
constitute news"
Our district organizer, Albert
Fisher, called upon the Regional
Labor Boa-d and demanded that
this vote be stopped A telegram
was sent 70 Madam Perkins. This
telegram was referred to National
Steel Relations Board. They prom
ised" to thoroughly investigate the
matter"
A telegram was sent to the super
intendent of Crucible Steel Co.,
Harrison, N. j., to stop the bote. The
bosses Of the Cruc:ble Steel saw the
reaction of the workers and quickly
withdrew the whole scheme.
Bosses Try To Act like pals"
But this did not mean that the
Crucible Steel Co. will be deferred
in giving The workers representa-
ton" The bosses became great
pals" of the workers. They were only
trying to help their employees"
The "Atha Works Council" would
have meant better conditions for
the men. Why listen, Charlie, how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
Crucible Steel Co. Workers Defeat
Company Union Scheme in Harrison
NeV Members Joining Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union Following BalEOting

I long can the company last if you
spoil pieces?" And the bosses pro-
ceeded to instruct the worker the
proper way to do the work Before
it was, you god-damned stupid
son-o "a bitch, = Go check your
time"
The men distrusted all this. They
knew that the company was only
biding the time to dish out a new
scheme. Then it began. The fore
men circulated the lie-that unless
the men organized by July IL the
government would not give the COM
pany a contract. Trusted" COM
pany men were picked out to or
ganize a union. On company time
they went from man to man calling
meeting.
Meetings were held on the out
side-but with no comparative sue
cess. Then meetings were held
within company walls. The trusted"
company men were the Spokesman
Men who formerly were against the
company union now stated that the
workers should not have voted the
"Atha Works Council" down. At
one of these meetings on company
premises the men got up and walked
out, leaving six of the company men
behind who went on ahead and
railroaded through committee of
five that we're to represent" the
workers on the day shift.
For a while the stool pigeons
went around with bent heads NUT
tering the scott repeated phrase,
THE men don't want to organize. y
No attempt was made to even con-
ceal the part played by the bosses
in organizing this independent
union. Why, the bosses even have
promised a 10 per cent increase in
wages after the union is organized.
But the men know this is as much
lie as any of the other company
promises. They also know that a
greater Speed-up will go into effect
after the union" is organized.
S. NJ. w. /. U. Growing
During all this time leaflet after
leaflet was issued by the S. NJ w.
I. U. exposing the entire scheme.
The men were instructed to boycott
the meetings and to continue to
work to organize the local of the
S. M. w. I. U. Each day saw new
members in the S. M. w. I. U. and
each day We shall see new members
in the S. M. w. I. U. Groups have
been organized in each department
with chairman honestly elected by
the workers. Every one has an ac-
tive voice in any of the work. Each
day we are becoming more powerful
and soon expect to deliver a smash
ing blow that will resound through
out the entire steel industry.
AS a member of the S. M. W
I. u, I call on all workers of the
C-ucible Steel Co. who are willing to
fight for higher wages and better
conditions not only for themselves
gut for their fellow wo- kers to join
the Steel and Metal Workers Indus
trial Union SO that we can have
honest representation.
And in closing may ask those
men of the Atha Works who have
not subscribed to the Daily Worker
or who 90 not as yet buy the paper
to get their copies each Tuesday or
Friday afternoon at the Pennsyl-
vania Bridge near the gates from
the Daily Worke1, agent, and learn
what workers are doing throughout
the United States in their fight for
better conditions and higher wages.
And stop and have chat with the
Red Builder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
How Steel Walkout
Spirit Was Blocked By
A. A. Heads in Ecorse
By Steel Worker Correspondent

BY Steel Worker Correspondent
CORSE, Mich.-There was gem
eral sympathy for the steel strike
here, but 50 far the A. F. of L.
union leaders have been able to
lead this in quite opposite channels.
For instance, the workers are
waiting fer the strike call. The
company fills the shops with gun
men. This makes the workers still
angrier and what do the union
leaders do? They're telling the
workers that they have to wait un-
til the order comes from the main
Offices Of the Amalgamated. The
workers were waiting one day, two
days, ten days, but no orders came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17

$3.50, at $4,000 tons. They get $3.75
day for $4,000 tons. Those who
get IS a day for $4,000 tons and
those who get 81 day are cut
1925 on days work.
Before the strike Of the miners
in Hampslop the workers received
81 cents ton for coal. Since the
strike they get 40 cents. This means
they got 5 cents cut. Wages lost
are 10 to Is cents, making the total
loss of the workers $3.50 a day.
This is also true in No. 8 mine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-17
WHOLE PAPER GOOD
Paterson. N. }

PdJ6TSOll, IN. u
Dear Comrades:
Enclosed in this letter you will
find 81, which will pay my subscrip-
ton to the Daily Worker for three
months.
My last sub to the Daily Worker
expired on May Is; however, have
been receiving the Daily Worker
regularly and I want to thank you
kindly for continuing to forward me
this paper so stock full of interest
to every worker.
Your news items, both current
and foreign, the editorials, the
splendid column conducted by Mike
Gold or Sender Garlin-in fact, al
most every bit of the papers con-
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terest and vital Importance to evsry
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