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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Nash Company
Cutting Wages
By a Worker Correspondent

by WOTheT correspondent
KENOSHA, Wise. = The Nash
company is beginning to slash at
our wages!
The first attempt to cut wages
took place in the Rear Axle Gear
Cut department. A few years ago
this department was changed from
piece to, gang work. At that time
the rates were cut and the men
were forced to work more machines.
After the strike last spring, the
company promised to do away with
the gang work system in the de-
partment. This is how they did it.:
Since, in the rough and finish cut.
the company couldn't add any more
machines (the men we're speeded
up as much as was humanity pos
sible), rates we're slashed 20 per
cent! Instead of the 5 per cent
increase guaranteed by the strike
settlement, they were cut from 80
cents to IS cents an hour.
On the tapping jobs they were
compelled to run an additional ma
chine. One man was laid off and
the others are expected to make Up
his production. They call it the
hop, skip and jump"
Frank Panlaner, the labor
foreman, and his flunkies, OWE,
two-faced Abe, and Jake Kemen,
tell the men that if they speed UP
and cut the rates, then they will
get the work from Racine and have
more to do This is probably be-
ing done by the Racine foremen
too, so that what will happen is
that the company will get the work
done cheaper and the men will get
laid off quicker.
Union brothers! The whole shop
must be prepared to come to the
defense of this department. The
company will cut us next, if they
get away with it there. Demand
that the company carry out the
settlement!
No wage cuts! No speed up!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
One-Third of Lane
COttOnMiIIFamiIies
Now on ERA Relief
BY a Worker Correspondent


NEW ORLEANS, La.-Yesterday
an old woman fell in the Lane Cot
ton Mill and injured her head on
the concrete floor. She had spent
the better part of her life in the
cotton mills here in New Orleans.
and now she is so old that she is
unable to operate a machine any
more, so she is compelled to clean
the sweepings.
The frame hands are only making
about $40 for a weeks work, so
the sweepers and cleaners cannot
make very much.
One of the old hands who was
unemployed was sent for to 60 to
the mill as they had a job for him.
He got up out of bed. He had
been sick for several days, but he
needed the work. He was only able
to work for one day and two hours,
and then had to go to the hospital,
where he was compelled to remain
for several days, and when he re-
turned to the mill after being dis
charged from the hospital he was
told that they had to get someone
else to take the job.
Since the advent of the N. R. A..
there are no extra hands in this
mill. There never we're many ex-
tras.
About one-third of the mill fam
lilies are on the E. r. A. for support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
BE A VACATION UDARNIK
New York City.

INGW 1 OIh Olby,
Some comrades in our mass or
CARNATIONS look upon the summer
season as a time of slackening &C
tivity, time for Waking things
easy. 1t is true that quite a num-
Der of comrades manage to get
away from the sitting heat of cities.
Naturally the result is smaller at
tendance at meetings with curtailed
activity.
This unavoidable situation if
properly approached can be changed
from a drawback into an advan-
tage. First of all, those who have
to stay in town must see the ne
cessity of attending meetings more
regularly than usual, so as to make
up for the absence of the comrades
who are on vacation, and for the
same reasons they must also carry
out their task with greater energy
and promptness.
AS to the vacationists, they should
be made to see the opportunity that
is theirs in being in a position to
spread on far flung field into
remote places, the cause for which
they work and fight. Many con-
facts can be made. Literature can
be sold and distributed, collections
made. Money can be raised through
parties, picnics, etc. Lectures and
meetings can be organized, also
study circles. In this manner can
vacation be made to yield not only
wholesome rest and recreation. but
also excellent results in our class
struggle work.
Branch organizers should take
this matter up at their next branch
meeting. The subject should be
discussed by the membership. Every
member who is going to leave town
| should be asked to pledge himself
to carry on the work of his or
ganization, to report by mail re-
suits to the organizer or secretary
as frequently as possible and have
literature sent out for distribution
BY working along the lines in
dicated above, we can turn slack
ness into activity and reap har-
vest of results where nothing was
expected to materialize.
Every class conscious vacationisi
an organizer! agitatorl propagan-
dist! every class conscious vaca.
TONER a shock brigade worker!
ADOLPH WOLFF.
(Signature authorized).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
NEWS OF YORK. PA, PLANTS
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT

YORK, Pa.-Today, Saturday, the
York Wall Paper Co. posted notice
on the plant that the plant was
closed.
The Red Lion Pa. Cabinet Co.
has signed closed shop agreement
with the furniture operatives. re-
Movable May 8, 1885. Tho - =
plant in the U. S. or anywhere de-
voted exclusively to rao-o 49,.
can employ 300 men.
York Ice Machinery Corp. men
are organizing, also the A. B. Far
quhar Co. Seventy-five per cent of
the former and 50 per cent of the
latter are organized, guess. in the
American Federation of Labor
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
in
Boston Seek
New Prices
Unanimously A g aims t
Extending Present
Agreement
By a Shoe Worker Correspondent

By Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON. Mass.-The stitchers'
local of Boston voted unanimously
to go on record on June 1S against
the extension of the present agree
ment, and for price negotiations
on the prices worked out by the
price committee, and that an
agreement be signed on the basis
Of these prices only until March,
1885.
This decision was made after a
report on the present situation
given by the members of the
Joint Council. Brother Clarified,
members of the Joint Council in
his report made clear that the
workers of Lynn, Haverhill, and
Lowell extended this wage cut
agreement because they lost faith
that the present leadership will
ever fight for them. that by giving
in to the manufacturers we will
not build a union, that we must
all get together in spite of our
officials who have no fighting
spirit in them, and build our UNI
ion through increases in wages.
1t was also decided that this
resolution be sent to the other
locals of Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
SKILLED LABOR AND THE
APPRENTICE

New York City.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I would like a thorough explana-
ton on the attitude of union men
working in very skilled trades,
toward apprentices. In the trade
where I work, skilled men get sore
whenever an apprentice does some
thing that is very simple, and which
he can pick up very easily. The
skilled men say, "Ycu must work for
just few years and then you can
do this kind of work"
I think this is unfair and holds
back progressiyeness.
What do you think? R. F.
Editorial reply.-The problem of
the apprentice is very serious one,
and the A. F. of L. leaders have
shown no desire, nor have they made
any efforts to solve this problem.
On the contrary they have taken a
very antagonistic attitude toward
the apprentice question generally.
In certain skilled trades, the A..
F. of L. leaders, in order to mo-
nopolize the trade, refuse to allow
apprentices altogether. Such action,
they think, would enable them to
divide the jobs among the few
skilled men within the organ
ization. They overlook the fact
however, that outside of the iuris-
diction of the A. F. of L. there are
hundreds and hundreds of workers
who have learned the trade and
compete with the organized workers.
In those trades where apprentices
are allowed, strict regulations are
applied as to the work they may
be permitted to do in the shop. The
regulations, however, do not deal
with the specific needs of these ap-
prentices.
Many A. F. of L. unions, in their
constitutions, have a provisi n
which states that an apprentice is
to learn the trade within the period
OF three to four years. In practice
however, we find that in most cases
wiz app OAIiNO AlOCo bllS WOI VI d
skilled man in two years.
Instead of forcing the employer
to allow the apprentice four hours
OF work during the first two years
six hours of work during the third
year, and at the age of Is full time
work, with wages equal to that OF
a mechanic, the A. F. of L. leaders
have made no provision as to hours
nor wages. In fact, the apprentices
/ work as long hours as the journey
men and receive only a third OF
the wages received by the skilled
men.
The employers would, of course
rather employ an apprentice to dc
The work of the skilled journeymer
and this is where the conflict
arises. 1t is a fight between the
journeymen against the apprentices
who are forced to do the job fol-
one-third OF the amount received
by the mechanics.
The solution to this problem is tc
organize those apprentices in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
PARTY LIFE
Building the Mass Movement
In Small Industrial TOunS
Erie Section NegLects to Penetrate Into the
Factories and Lead Strike Struggles

italist court in Jefferson, Ohio. in
the county court. Our Party COM
rades were not on the job advising
the strikers that they must not give
up their strike before every one
of those arrested were freed. Theirs
was militant fight against police
force and thugs, who were shooting
tear gas bombs on strikers, who
were picketing the factory and de.
Tending themselves. The strikers
who we're inexperienced in the
strike were willing to accept any
sensible advice from the Commu.
nists, if any Of our comrades had
been there to lead and advise the
strikers. But as it often happens,
we are busy somewhere else in Sec
ton activities, but not involved in
the strikes. The result is that when
we are not on the job the A. F. Of
L. takes advantage Of our negligence
and our weaknesses. Then we Won
der why we do not make sufficient
Roadway.
There is no reason whatsoever
why our section comrades could not
take better care of situation like
this. If the section does not have
one capable comrade who can be
used to build the Party and unions
As mile distant from the section
headquarters, then the section must
inform the District Buro of the
Party about those strike develops
ments and demand forces from the
District and T. U. U. L.
Our Central Committee has
spoken many times about the i'm
portance of building the Party in
small and middle size towns. I
want to say that precisely in these
towns we very often have a situ-
alton which is ripe for our work
The same holds true in regard to
our unemployment activities. We
have neglected these small towns.
1t is not enough that a section
committee send a special letter"
as the Erie section did, when the
above mentioned metal workers
strike had gone on for 16 days.
telling the Party unit what "pos~
sibilitieS exist" to build the Party
among the strikers. That is not
enough. 1t is not enough in a
town where our Party unit does
not meet for three or four weeks.
The Party section knows that but
it does not consider it necessary
to take steps to remedy the situ-
alton
In the first place it is the duty
of the section to see that enough
help is gotten from the district to
build the party in towns like ASH
tabula, where there is a base for a
strong Communist movement. At
present we have in addition to
the small Party unit, a Finnish
Federation club, which has been
very sectarian and lacking leading
comrades who would be able single
handedly to broaden the move
ment. BY joining all our forces
together there is possibility to
build a broad English speaking
revolutionary movement in Ashta-
bula in the near future. But it
needs real direction and assistance
from the section committee and
the district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. - The Bowery
Branch Young Mems Christian
Association, 8 East 3rd street, is
alleged to be the richest Y. NJ. G. A.
branch in the city. It collects
tremendous sums Of money yearly
by gifts, contributions and dona-
tons, through an intensified, go
getting ceaseless drive for charity
funds as they call It.
The Bowery branch of Y. NJ. c.
A. at present, as in the past, has
been housing unemployed men sup
ported by the city or Federal gov
eminent, through relief money
which is paid directly to the Bowery
Branch Of Y. M. G. A.
Yet these needy young men as
they so nicely call them in their
propaganda - brochures and PAM
phlets, are treated and rated as
buns" and outcasts. Besides they
have to pay back to whatever has
been extended to them on credit.
Thus the B. B. Y. NJ. G. A, collects
money in three ways in compensa-
ton for one service, namely:
/. Relief-money for each one on
the relief-roll.
2. Donations by private people.
3. Whatever the poor needy men
are able to pay back with money
earned on small extra jobs. and so
forth.
Here are a few figures officially
pubhcized by the B. B. Y. M. G, A.
on their income of bread-Ines and
credit-system.
In 1888, they served S87,597 meals
In their 5 and 10 cents cafeteria
Still they claim that they do not
make any profit. 1t is outrageous
to think, when one hears about how
the Bowery-Y. keep the buss- boys
and kitchen-help working Is hours a
day with not even a half an hour off
for lunch. They have to eat in
between picking up the dishes, etc.
The N. R. A. code hours are not
only violated, but they do not even
pay the code-wages. they pay only
IS cents a day, out Of which 80 cents
is taken as a payment for their beds,
leaving only SIS cents as compensa-
ton for 13 hours work. S45 1895 was
extended as credit in the dormitory,
which has a capacity of about 300
beds at $3.50 a week Every week
they collect $3.50 from one floor
alone, and yet they claim that they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
BY T. N. C.

By 7. n. G.
For three weeks an important
strike of metal workers was going
on in one of the most important
factories in Ashtabula, Ohio, with
out any planned work of our Party
during the entire period of this
strike. This strike was called by
the A. F. of L. union and as a
matter of fact it was the first strike
in this factory, or at least the first
one for tens of years, as far back as
the workers can remember. This
shop is producing parts for the
Fisher Body Co. and is, therefore,
a very important unit in the auto
mobile industry.
This shop, which is known as the
Ashtabula Bow Socket Co., has been
one of the worst sweat shops in
town. An idea has been created
that the workers of this shop are so
backward that they would never
fight. However, the strike broke
out, in spite of our failure to pene-
trate into these shops. Our Party
section does not seem to be awake
to the situation, although number
Of strikes had taken place in
Ashtabula. The Greenhouse work
ers strike is still going on, which
has lasted over a month now. There
was flshermen's strike, and our
Party section did not give any lead
ership but left the workers to be
betrayed by the A. F. of L. and
N. R. A. bureaucrats.
The workers. of the Bow Socket
Co. voted almost unanimously to
pull another strike unless the com
pany came across with the promises
that were made. Our Party sec
ton has not given help to the
small sectarian unit that we have
in Ashtabula, in order to raise g
mass struggle, to demand freedom
for the 81 or more workers who
are being indicted to face the cap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20

ReGctiOnGry Leaders in Boston Stchers' Local
Try to Pare WGy for Arbitration

Stitchers' Local gave a clear answer
to the bosses and the Joint Coun-
Gil, and on June Is voted down
this gag decision of the J. c., only
two voting for it--Jack Kassner,
who is sorry that he can't put a
police badge on and help the bosses
to fire these militant workers, and
Jack Shapiro, muddle-head who,
under the cloak of rank and filism
is going hand and hand with the
reactionaries and renegades, in
forcing cut-throat conditions on the
shoe workers.
But this is not settled yet. The
rank and file workers know that
now, when we are faced with Au-
gust LIST and the fight for condi-
tions, reign of terror will start
against the Communist and militant
rank and file workers, to deprive
the shoe workers of their spokes-
men. 1t is therefore necessary
that we all rally behind the mill
tant workers, for democracy in the
union, guaranteed to us by the
Constitution, for increases on Au-
gust LIST, against arbitration, grad
ing and 18-month agreements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
By a Shoe Worker Correspondent

by a Shoe worker Correspondent
BOST Mass.-Though the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union is new union, and the bulk
Of the shoe workers of Boston
looked forward to an organization
that would eliminate the bad fea-
lures of the reactionary A. F. of l..
Boot and Shoe Union, nevertheless
the executive of the stitchers' local
and the Joint Council of Boston
do not base their decisions and ac-
tons on the policies outlined at
the Amalgamated Convention,
where the rank and file fought for
a democratic organization.
The Joint Council passed a de-
cision that any shoe worker dis
tributing leaflets not authorized by
the j. G. will be suspended from
the union. The decision was based
on May Day leaflet issued by the
Harvard shoe nucleus of the Com
munist Party and Young Commu-
mist League. The leaflet, among
other things, pointed out that ''the
increases in wages in some depart
mentS were due to the activities of
the militant rank and file workers,
and especially members of the
Communist Party and League.
Immediately the reactionary ele-
ments of the Stitchers' Executive
Board, who follow the I.ovestone
renegades, made an attack on the
leaflet. The lead in this attack was
taken up by the notorious j. Kass-
ner (expelled. from the ranks of the
left wing for his strike breaking ac-
tivity in the Clayman Shoe strike
last March, He made an hysterical
speech that it is poison for the
workers. and the rank and file
members of the Executive Board
who follow blindly these misleaders
brought in q recommendation to the
local meeting TO condemn the leaf
let" This recommendation was
carried by a majority of three votes.
The Salvagios and Zeligmans
then took it up at the j. G. and
passed the motion to suspend any
member giving out leaflets.
But what is behind this motion,
and why do the manufacturers APP
prove of it whole heartedIy?
The present officialdom of our
union is unable and unwilling to
lead the workers in a fight for in
creases in wages. Basing them
selves from the outset on arbi-
tration, grading and concessions to
the manufacturers, they are afraid
Of the Communist Party members
and all other militant shoe workers.
who have been the only ones to
point to the shoe workers the
treachery of the officials, and this is
what these leaders are afraid Of
Therefore they passed this motion
so as to try to silence the leaders
Of the rank and file, and at the
same time give an opportunity to
the manufacturers to fire these
workers for fighting for better con-
ditions.
AS it has ben proved, the bosses
understood very we'll this decision.
Right after, Sarah Barr, mill
tant rank and file worker, was fired
from the Dartmouth, the boss Civ
ing the reason that "the pamphlet
she was selling was the Communist
position on the Haverhill strike"
Evidently what is poison for the
Joint Council is also poison for the
manufacturers
But the rank and file of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Another Medicine Humbug

N. Stevens, Chicago, nl.-Louis
Kuhne's book, THE New Science of
Healing" is neither new nor scien-
tific nor healing. The idea that
vaccinations are poisons is as old as
vaccination. His other contention
that baths can cure all diseases,
and that all diseases are due to
fermentation of foreign matter in
the bowels, is another one of those
fallacies that cannot be eradicated
from the mind of the ignorant and
the semi-educated. 1t is waste
of time to refute these superstiitons.
We can say about the teachings of
modern medical science what Lenin
(whom you quote said about Marx
ism: THE teachings of Marx are
all powerful because they are true
and they cannot be reconciled with
superstition, reaction or defense for
bourgeois oppression" Louis Kuhne's
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
A "Simon Legree'' on
Portland FERA Job
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

PORTLAND Me.-Simon Legree,
in the person of Mr.. Blumer, is lord
and master of the Furnishing gang"
as it is fittingly named by the FEE.
RIA. workers. Mr.. Blumer believes
in having the workers earn their
dole, and keeps their noses on the
grindstone until the whistle blows,
and then some.
Monday, June 4, had been an
unusually hot hard day. The men
decided to have their tools in the
box and be ready to leave the job
at 5 instead of few minutes past.
Boss Blumer made a great COM
motion. but the men were not in
Inundated. Heap big chief lost a
feather or two out of his bonnet,
and has had a little more respect
for the workers ever since.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-20
Packing House
Strikers Left in
Lurch by ALL
By a Worker Correspondent


LOS ANGELES, Cal After
eight months, what do the Wilson
clearinghouse strikers have to show
for their patience and trust placed
in Hobart of the A. F. of L. and
the National Labor Board?
The National Labor Board has
rejected the demands Of the strik-
ers and left them to the mercy
of the benevolent Wilson and Co.
Mr.. Hobart with his ability as a
"negotiator" has arranged with
Mr.. Peterson to issue application
blanks to all strikers who wish to
work for Wilson's again, which
means that when the company
needs men it will hire those who
have been good boys" and who
have signed the application. Any
worker who is labelled Red" or
Communist" by Hobart will not
be able to go to work. In fact,
Hobart has convinced Mr.. Peter
son that there are many Reds"
now working in wilson's and that
they should be replaced by good
A. F. of l.. men.
This raising of the red scare"
by A. F. of L. officials is their
usual tactic when they feel their
influence over the workers slip
ping. They use every means to
prevent any militant action on
the part of even their own A. F.
of L. members.
The fact that the packing house
workers are disguised with the A.
F. of L. (Amalgamated Meat Cut
tiers and Butchers Union) is
shown by the great support and
sympathy they give to the Pack
ing House Workers Industrial Un-
ion, rank and file controlled
union which offers the only real
method of fighting against the in
creasing rotten conditions in pack
ing houses.
Hobart is splitting the solidarity
of the workers by holding out a
vague promise of job if they
are good boys and DO not join
the P. H. w. I. U.
Just how afraid Wilson 81 Co.
are of this fighting union is shown
by the tight board fence and
locked gates they have erected
around the plant. 1t is shown also
by the fact that they sent their
chief stoolpigeon and snooper, the
Waterman, one Tom Walton, with
two armed body guards, to a meet
ing of the P. H. w. I. U. to see
what Wilson workers were there
and to scare them away from the
union meeting. The chairman had
to stop the speakers and invite
these rats to leave, explaining that
their presence was an insult to
honest working men.
The spirit of the meeting was
not dampened in the least by the
visit of these rats, but continued
after they left. The workers en-
Enthusiastically applauded Ezra
Chase, who spoke on conditions Of
the workers under the N. R. A.
Six new applications were turned
in and promises to bring still more
workers were made