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The daily worker., 1934-09-04

W bAtS 4CdOlAl6 O14ASld4S VI lllG O1ubGl
Textile Workers and the capitalist
press in order to permit "arbitra-
ton" that will evade the main, spe-
ciflc issues put forward by the
workers themselves.
The following are the demands re-
garding wages and speed-up:
l. Hours: Two shifts of thirty
hours per week with no exemptions
2. Differentials: The establish
ment Of four minimum wages: Un-
skilled-$1300 per thirty-hour week;
Gemi-skilled-$18.o0 per thirty-houl
week; skilled-$22.50 per thirty-houI
we Elk; y-skilled - $4,000 per
thirty-hour week.
8. Machine load: The revision OF
all work loads on the basis of reason
and ordinary common sense.
Work Regarding the load
ing of work on individual workers,
the strikers demand:
Changing over and big jobs: All
changing over to be done by spare
men. All big jobs such as knock
ing of cams, removing and replacing
top and bottom shafts, loomsides
and dolby sides, loom sleys, solid
round swing rails, leno warps, other
warps for bad harness, reed, hitch
back or other defect not the fault
of the loom f1xer, broken heddle
bards, done by spare men. Samples
to be taken care of by spare men.
Machine load-Weaving Depart
ment. Coarse fabrics Definition of
coarse fabrics:-not fine in material
or close texture; low priced goods) ::
Nom Automatic plain looms: Width
of loom 40 inches or less. Maxi
mum number of looms to a weaver:
3, Filling 36's or higher:-Sley AZ
or less. For every counts of fill
ing below 36's one loom to be de-
Quoted. For every 10 inches increase
in the width of the loom, Ole loom
less to a weaver.
Non-Automatic plain box looms:
width of loom 40 inches or leSs.)
Maximum number of looms to a
weaver:-6. Same proportionate
allowance and deductions for filling
and width Of loom as for plain non
automatic looms.
Non-Automatic Dolby and JAG
guard looms: width of loom 40
inches or less.) Maximum number
of looms to a weaver:-6. Same
proportion allowances and deduc-
tions for filling and width of looms
as for plain non-automatic looms.
Machine load carding and spin
ming: Picker men-Four machines;
Card Tenders-Medium to fine 20
cards and strip their own without
carrying laps; Card Tenders = rs.
cards without stripping or without
carrying laps. (This means to keep
cards clean, doff and put in laps
and take out the f1y); Assistant
Card Grinder-Grind two or three
cards day and responsible for a
section of about so cards; Double
Tenders = Four machines; Ribbon
Tenders-Four machines; Comber
Tenders - Eight machines; Draw
Frame Tenders-24 deliveries: Stub
ber Tenders q frames; Interme-
diate Tenders-2 frames; Second
Tenders-2 frames; Fine or Jack
Tenders q frames Fly); Aux
iliary help of doffers for speeder
tenders in relation to job.
Spinning Room: 6's Yarn-48O
Spindles; 8's Yarn-6O0 spindles;
los Yarn-720 spindles; ISIS Yarn
720 spindles; ISIS Yarn $40 Spin
dies; 2o's Yarn-960 spindles; 3O's
Yarn = 1900 spindles; 4o's Yarn
and over, ,440 spindles.
Spinning room dOffers rates:
Rates per 100 bobbins only no extra
work.
Production: Warp: 10000 to A, 900
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Mill Towns Picture of Hunger and Wracked Bod
4. F. I. CHIEFS CONCEAL DEMANDS
FROM WORKERS In TEXTILE STRIKE
U. T. W. Officials and Capitalist Press Act to
Permit Arbitration and Evade Main, Specific
Issue From Workers

NEW YORK.-The complete list Of textile strike de-
mands published in yesterdays issue of the Daily Worker
reprinted in this special edition. inasmuch as they have
not appeared in any other newspaper in the country
The strike demands being deliberately hidden both
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
htoIerabIe Speed-Up
And Starvation Pay
Are Fruits Of N.R.A.
Companies Pile Up Profits While Tens of Thou
sands of Families Live on So Weekly Wage
National Average Is silly
Bv MILTON HOWARD

Statistics can never tell the full story of the slavery
against which 100000 textile workers pttng their
organized fighting power
But the unvarnished figures give picture of
what slavery in textile town means, of what the
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

W UI htI aft DtIIIB UIoJIIDUUtu
throughout the. textile region. The
entire membership Of the. Commu-
mist Party has been. modified to
throw its force into the strike.
The very atmosphere is charged
with strike sentiment. Just how
many will walk out in the Pennsyl-
vania District is impossible to say
at this time. The one great hitch
in the movement is the action of
leaders of the A. F. of L. unions
who are doing everything in their
power to sabotage any Develop
ment or real united strike action.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
East Pennsylvania
Textile Workers Rush
Strike Preparations
Wilkes-Barre Silk Official Sabotages Strike
Wood, Silk Union President, Asks Pinchot
To Send Troops

EASION, Pa. IA Labor Eastern
tile preparations
the big textile ceneP adephia soudburg Allentown Eason Sn
Reading were preparing to join the general wakou which spreadAn
throughout the country
reported that 10000 worsted cotton will
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

The Daily Worker can Better Aid
Your Struggles if You Build its
Circulation.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
UphOlsterers'
General Strike
On in Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 3.-Up-
holSterers here are out on a general
strike demanding higher wages,
shorter hours and recognition of the
National Furniture Workers Indus
trial Union Local IT, All six shops
in the city are tied up.
The strike has effected a complete
walkout. The furniture bosses have
attempted to recruit scabS from out
of town.
Negotiations are being carried out
between the settlement committee
and the employers on the basis of
the workers demands.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
Classified

YOUNG COMRADE wanted, care for girl 6;
light housekeeping. Good home. Box
10 c/o Daily Worker.
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

A Red Builder on every busy
street corner in the country means
tremendous step toward the
dictatorship Of the proletariat!
The daily worker., 1934-09-04
A.F.L. Chiefs Talk
To Dam Discomfort

Continued from Page y
The daily worker., 1934-09-04

ONE ROoM-Bath, kitchenette, furnished,
modern elevator apt. Upper West Side.
Until Oct. l. Very reasonable. Box IS,
CO Daily Worker
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Evening star., 1934-06-25
Aerodrome TO Be Improved.

France will make extensive i'm
provements at the Rochin Aerodrome.
Evening star., 1934-06-25
Town Gets Rare Coin.

Je6burgh. Scotland has just been
presented rare coin OF the Mary
Queen of Scots period and will place
1t on exhibition in the Queen Mary
House 1t was discovered recently IN
the Grangemouth district Bearing
the date 1865, 1t is one of few known
to carry the name of Henry Darnley
as King OF Scotland On the reverse
side is a figure of the Crookston
Castle yew tree where Darnley and
Queen Mary are believed to haV
courted.
Evening star., 1934-06-25
LETTE R OUT
By Charles r. Joseph.
BY CECIL JENSEN.

spell the word called
the letter column opposite the word
kept there.
.-4a-Sn Sn4urdarnI
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
RAD|OOPERATOR
THOUGHT GONE
WITH LINER
Stayed at Post as Fire Ate
Through Floor; Wife
Fears He Is Dead

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 G.N.S).
Charles w. Rogers, heroic radio
operator aboard the MORO Castle,
was believed late today to have
paid with his life for his bravery.
He was known to have stayed
at his post until flames were
cracking across the floor Of the
ships radio room. He has not
been reported since at any Of the
hospitals along the Jersey shore,
on any of the rescue boats or at
his home, COL Avenue E, Bayonne.
N. J.
Fear was expressed Rogers
either was trapped by flames or
waited until after the last boat
was put over and perished after
leaping into the ocean.
His wife, Edith, and her mother,
Mrs. Louise Edmundson, grew in
creasingly apprehensive as the day
wore on without word from him.
Rogers had been with the boat
only two months. A pioneer wire
less, operator, he had been en-
ployed at Station WIZ when it
first was operated and also had
served as an operator in the
United States Navy.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
To MISS
WASHINGTON

Northwest storm warnings were
ordered flown today from the Vir-
ginia capes to HatteraS as the
tropical hurricane moving along
the Atlantic coast diminished in
fury.
The storm center will miss
Washington if it continues on it's
present route, Weather Bureau Of
ficials said today. However, the
lower Chesapeake Bay region is
expected to receive winds of Is
miles or more velocity.
Meanwhile, Washington today
was putting things to right after
having been inundated by rainfall
yesterday and last night of 3.73
inches, more than fell during the
entire month of April. Last
nights series of near cloudbursts
flooded portions of the city and
nearby Maryland and Virginia,
tied up traffic and destroyed roads
and rails.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Coast Guard Flier
To Seek Survivors

In an effort to rescue what
few passengers and members Of
the crew may have escaped death
in the Moro Castle disaster,
Lieut.. R. L. Burke, in charge Of
the Coast Guard air station at
Cape May, N. j., today is await
mig orders from the Navy Depart
ment to fly over the wreckage
area, pending a change in the
weather conditions. He hopes to
be able to pick up many pas
sengers who may be drifting at
sea near the spot where the
Moro Castle went down with an
estimated loss of 200.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

much, the fire spread from port
to starbOard and the whole
deck was burning before they
could get much water on it.
"The passengers apparently
didn't know what the alarm
meant.
There are notices posted in
all cabins informing them what
to do in case of emergency but
doubt whether 20 of all those
on board had read them.
"The last part of the trip
was pretty rough, and a good
third Of the passengers were
suffering from sea-sickness. Con-
fined to their hunks, weak
and half asleep, I don't think
they ever had a chance"
Mr.. O'Connor said he reused
as many as he could, about 20,
before he ran to his fire station
to help in the futile battle against
the blaze.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

AsBURY PARK, N. j., Sept. 8
GNSO.-Police and Coast Guard
officials today gave out the names
Of the following survivors of the
burned liners crew:
Clarence Monroe, seaman: John
Caldwell, Felix Serjo, Morris Am"
erosky, Max Hassein, and Norman
Witherspoon, walters; A lb e t
Gasch, Richard Kops, Joseph
Ferry, Benjamin Meyer, John
Cuba, John Smith, Florenzio Rod
riques, stewards; Nicholas Capac,
Ellis Beaumont, Donate Varela,
Antonio Orzio, oilers; David
Vinck, porter, and William Lock
mier, seaman.
Frank Carey, waiter; Percy Mil
Ter, steward; Sinclair J. Hender-
son, waiter; Charles Eichler, stew
ard; Thomas Moves, fireman; Gus
tav amrin, quartermaSter !;
George Gonzales, waiter; Charles
Gruns, John Gross, Arthur Bag.
ley, Walter Clody, Charles Jensen,
of Buffalo, N. Y, seamen; Andrew
Zabala, fireman.
Edward Jansen, waiter; Joseph
Montanvales, oiler; Adds DAILY,
bellboy: Milton Stephenson,
waiter: Joseph McManus, seaman;
John Saulters, fireman: Joseph
Fernandez, seaman; Joseph O'Con-
nor, steward; Charles Brink,
waiter; Joseph Stilgas, seaman.
Andrew Cola, fireman; Samuel
Hoffman, quartermaster: John
Cellwood, steward; John Diand,
quartermaSter.
Other survivors identified at
Asbury Park were:
Charles Macon, New York;
Aurelio A. Pieara, Havana, Cuba;
Herman Cluthe, Glen Ridge, N.
j., cruise director; Mae Walmey
Brooklyn; Edna Beck, New York;
Dorothy Fergenstein, Brooklyn;
Mrs. Harriet Brown, Philadelphia,
and Ida Weiser, Brooklyn.
Jerry Edgerton, East Milwaukee,
Wis, crew member: William JUS
tbs, Newport News, Va, electri-
clan; Francisco Garcia, Key west,
Fla, crew member.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Daughter of Cuban Vice President
Rescued by Heroic Waiter on Ship

waiter wrenched the window
away, although the flames were
coming close, pulled me through,
gave me q lifebelt and threw me
over the side where / was pulled
into a boat. 1 owe my life to
him.
"I got a mOmentary glimpse Of
the deck and cabin and they
seemed to be all consumed by
the flames. I was the only pas
senger in the boat that picked
me up"
The waiter who saved Mrs
Capote was Carl Pryor, 35, OF
Newark, Ohio. He also was res.
cued with Florence Roberts, OF
Pawtucket, R. l.. and Anne Con.
way, Of Brooklyn, who said sew.
eral crew members took them
from their cabin and put them
in a boat with another young
woman and several Seamen.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Girl Survivors Sing
To Keep Up Morale

ASBURY PARK, N. j., Sept. 8
G.N.S).-Three young girls who
sang a steady chorus of "Row,
You Sailors, Row. kept tip the
morale of lifeboat load of sur
vivors from the Moro Castle,
Steward Joseph Markov revealed
today.
Mr.. Markov and other members
of the crew found the girls hys-
terical on the sun-deck. They
packed them in the lifeboat and
they kept up the sing-song chant
all the way to- shore.
Their sangfroid recalled the IA
nous story of Mrs. "Leadville
Johnny" Brown, widow Of the
Colorado mining plunger, who
escaped from the Titanic by tax
ing an oar and pulling with the
seamen, encouraging them with a
string of profanity that has since
become history.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Wutchman Who Discovered Fire Tells
Of Arousing Sleeping Passengers

ASBURY PARK, N. j., Sept.
3. u.N.S.).-"A third of those
passengers never had a chance.
They had been sea sick, were
weak and in their hunks and
couldn't get away"
Weak, near complete exhaus-
ton, Joseph O'Connor, 5O-year-old
watchman on the Moro Castle.
was brought ashore today and
gave the first survivors, account
of the origin of the fire which
destroyed the liner with heavy
loss of life. He said:
'Tt was about $3.50 this morn
ing. I was making my regular
rounds when / Smelled smoke.
I traced 1t to the recreation
room, just forward of admiships.
II went in and the -oOm was
just one big chunk of flames. I
sounded an alarm at once and
the crew responded quickly.
"But, before they could do
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Burn or Jump" Was Only Choice
Aboard Moro Castle, StewQrd Saws

SPRING LAKE, N. j., Sept. 8
0N.SD.-The flat charge that
some passengers aboard the Moro
Castle had no alternative but to
"burn or jump" was voiced today
by Jerome Morris, Brooklyn, a
steward aboard the ship. He said:
"Flames swept the b prom
enade deck.
"By that time the crew and
passengers had been called.
II fought my way to the A
deck (the boat deck but it was
too late to get to the lifeboats.
"They kept us standing on
the lower deck.
"The fire started eating its
way down that deck.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Gov. Moore Sees 100
Persons in Ocean

ASBURY PARK, N. j., Sept. 3
UNSD.-Four .lifeboats, carrying
about 80 persons, were seen ap-
preaching the beach here shortly
after noon. Shore watchers said
they were from the wrecke e d
MORO castle, still smoldering off
shore.
Gov. A. Harry Moore, Of New
Jersey, flew from Sea Girt over
the scene of the disaster and on
returning reported:
II saw at least 100 persons
in the water. Some were dead,
some were swimming around
waiting to be rescued"
The Coast Guard cutter,
T pa, it was announced, is
standing by the hulk of the Moro
Castle attempting to get lines
ard to tow the wreckage
ashore.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

THE passengers were hud-
died in a group.
1t was either burn or jump.
Finally an 1S-year-old girl
took the plunge. She jumped.
others followed.
$50 did l."
Mr.. Morris was picked up by a
ll1eooat and brought to shore
here. He voiced censure also of
rescue efforts by nearby steamers
saying:
Three liners were not far
away while the fire was in prog
ress, but they didn't lower their
boats for long time.
Finally they did,"
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

ple up. All of the superstructure
was burned. It was a grotesque
sight.
BIOtted by Fog
Every now and then a big bank
of fog would shift over the scene
and blot it out completely.
There was no lifeboats out ex-
cept the one off the prov OF the
burning ship.
During the brief intervals when
the fog had shifted away from the
scene we shot our pictures. We
started back after about 20 min
utes. The flames were still jump
ing high in the air off the MORO
castle and the other boats were
still standing by like a lot of big
grey ghosts at a bonfire.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
Rescue Workers Find y Bodies
On Beach; Injured Crowd Hospitals

The injured are being sent to
Fitkin Memorial Hospital and the
Point Pleasant Hospital.
Those suffering from immersion
and exposure are being cared for
in homes of local residents.
Bob Smith, who said he was
cruise director of the MORO
Castle, exhausted after swimming
for miles to shore, was taken to
police headquarters for treatment
He said:
"By the time I got on deck
the boat was a mass of flames.
There was only one life pre-
server left and not q lifebOat
in sight. Then I saw . girl
standing on the deck. tossed
her the life belt, hoped over
and swan all the way to shore,
and 1 just barely made it,"
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

SPRING LAKE, N. j., Sept. 8
H.N.SD. - Twenty-Five bodies Of
victims of the Moro Castle dis
aster were reported found along
the shore front between Manas-
quan and Point Pleasant by police
and other rescue workers return
ing here with survivors of the sea
tragedy.
A policeman said:
"YOu can hardly go mile on
that 1O-mile stretch without
finding body or two"
Passengers and members of the
Moro Castles crew brought ashore
near here were being hurried to
police headquarters for immediate
medical attention and the drug
and hospital supply of the town
has almost vanished.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
U. S. Starts Probe
Of Ship Disaster
By International News Service


Immediate investigation of the
Moro Castle disaster was begun
today by Dickerson N. Hoover, as
sistant director of the Bureau Of
Navigation and Steamboat 1nspec.
tion.
Mr.. Hoover conferred at once
with his New York and New Jersey
agents and asked for all details of
the tragedy. He said the MORO
Castle was one of the finest vessels
afloat in the American coastal
trade. He added:
"The Moro Castle is equipped
with every device known to
provide for the safety Of pas
Sengers and cargOes. Our in
SpectOrS in New York and New
Jersey so far have been unable
to obtain firSthand infOrma-
tiOn, but am certain that the
equipment provided by the Op-
orators of the Moro Castle
would give the crew and the
passengers more than an even
break in any emergency"
LONDON, Sept. 8 G.N.SO.-The
liner Moro Castle was insured fol
$2,500,0O0, according to informa-
ton here.
In addition, special loss insur
ance was carried. It was believed
Lloyds, which handled the insur-
ance, stands to lose about So, ,O00,.
600 BY the tragedy
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
BY M. A. BARON
Written exclusively for International
News SerYica

Written exclusively for International
News Service
NEW YORK, Sept. ga col,
umn of smoke more than five
miles long and showing black
through the shifting gray fog
guided us to the burning MORO
Castle today.
We had been enormously di,
rected to a point 10 miles off
Ambrose Lightship. We circled
around and couldn't see anything
so started down the Jersey shore.
After about Is miles we saw what
looked like great black funnel
reaching into the sky.
Flies Over Ship
We headed for it. It was
smoke. We followed it for more
than five miles when we sud-
denly came over the flaming boat.
1t was about o'clock then. The
scene below certainly looked like
a disaster. Flames were leaping
SO to 100 feet in the air from the
MORO Castle which was ablaze
from stem to stern. A lifeboat
bobbed in the rough waves about
100 yards off its prov.
There were three or four other
boats around the Moro Castle,
several hundred yards away. All
of them appeared to be pitching
in the heavy sea, I thought
recognized the Monarch of Ber,
muda among them.
Smaller fishing craft hovered
alongside the big rescue ships
bobbing up and down like corks in
the water.
We had been there only a few
minutes before the big smoke
stacks began to melt and crum
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

ASBURY Park, N. j., Sept. 8
U.N.SO.-Heroism of a ships
waiter who risked his life to aid
passengers on the wrecked Moro
Castle, was geographically re-
lated today by Mrs. Renee Men
dez Capote, head of the general
culture department of the Cuban
school system, and daughter of
the vice president of Cuba.
Sonora Capote was one of the
first survivors of the Inflated ship
to reach shore. She said:
II was awakened by one of
the walters banging on the win
dow of my cabin. / had a de
luxe cabin, ON the main deck.
II went to the window and he
told me the ship was afire. 1
opened the door leading to the
corridor and was driven back by
the smoke that poured in. There
were flames in the corridor. The
The Washington times., 1934-09-08

and rushed up the hatchway from
E deck, forward. I found other
members of the crew fighting a
furious blaze amidships.
l took hose and Joined in
lighting the blaze, which seemed
to have gained considerable head
way. It became evident soon that
there was no way to control it.
Hose Lines Break
Several lines of the hose broke,
and as they did the men manning
them ran for the lifeboats and I
soon found myself fighting the
fire with two other men.
When I too found that the fight
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
JAPAN

TOKYO, Sept. 8.-The Japa.
nese government has signalled
it's readiness to engage in a race
for sea supremacy by deciding to
demand such naval reductions by
the United States and Britain as
would give the Japanese navy the
parity Tokyo regards necessary
"for national safety"
BY a unanimous vote the cab
met of 13 members confirmed the
big Three's" decision to notify
the United States before the end
of the year that Japan considers
the washington Naval Treaty has
outworn its usefulness.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
World News
FRANCE

PARIS, Sept. 8 (U.S0.-The
French, especially Partisan fash
ion designers, are feeling the sting
Of Americas BUY American"
campaign.
One of the leading French bus
mess papers, Jorunee 1ndustrielle,
publishes a front page commen.
tary, pointing out that while the
United States used to be the best
customer of LA Mode Francaise, "
she is today "manifesting an alb
stention very damaging to our
trade balance"
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
GERMANY

BERLIN, Sept. "a new
plan" under which Germany pro-
poses to buy from foreign coun-
tries only as much as the respec-
tive countries buy from her will
be announced Tuesday by DR..
Hjalmar Schacht, president of the
Reichsbank and minister Of eco
nomics, it was stated today.
Germany's exports and imports,
including agricultural products
and raw materials, in the future
will be rigidly controlled by gov
ernment boards, the ministry Of
economics announced.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
SPAIN

MADRID, Sept. 8. - Madrid
awaited today the arrival from
Barcelona of more than 3d.
900 Catalonian landowners to pro-
test laws of the autonomous Cata-
lonian government which have re
duced rents of their tenant labor
ers almost to nothing.
The Madrid government moved
swiftly to assure the demonstrators
safety from bombings by Socialists
or Syndicalists who claim the fed
eral government is depressing the
workers by kowtowing to the land
lords.
The Washington times., 1934-09-08
TELLS OF HORRORS ABOARD B
SURVIVORS DESCRIBE
CHASTITY SCENES

it was hopeless. Somebody yelled:
"There are passengers in the
A-deck cabins"
We tried to search the cabins
on our side of the deck. All the
lights seemed to be out in our
section of the ship. I couldn't
find anybody.
Someone cried to the men:
"YOu can't do any more to
save passengers. Save your
selves"
Next was the order:
"Cast off the gripes."
Editors Note-O' 'Sulliva n
reached shore in a lifeboat)
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before his ship burned in such a
way.
It took only minute to cast
off the lines, so the boats were
swung free in the davits and low
cred to the level of the deck.
saw quite few people stagger
out of the smoke and jump over.
board.
We tumbled into the boats
pretty lively. I don't think the
boats on the port side of the
ship had much chance to lower.
Maybe one or two did get away.
We tried to fight the blaze but