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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
WARNING BY CAROLINA
WORKER AGAINST UTW
Points Out That German Is Still Its Leader, and
So 1t Can't Pose As NelU Union

bosses were the ones that went back
to work.
Now what have we in Concord at
the Brown MillP We have young
German, Red Lisk. What did Red
Lisk have the nerve to say, and
what he said was lie. There was
leaflet put out in the Locke Mill
by the National Textile Workers
Union, which exposed the bad
lights and the stretchout on the
Weavers, and also about the bad
place overhead which might hurt
some workers if it should fall. All
of these things were looked into
after the leaflet was put out in the
mill. What did Red Lisk say when
all of this was done by the National
Textile Workers Union? He said:
Look what we did at the Locke
Mill!
Now the workers at the Locke
Mill know that Red, the young
German, and his sellout union
would not do anything to help the
workers. They also know that the
leaflet was signed National Textile
Workers Union, and it said the
workers could join for so cents
initiation and Is cents month
dues. We know that Red Lisk and
his sellout union could not take
members for so cents initiation and
Is cents a month dues. Why? Be
cause German and the high paid
officers of the U. T. w. have a good
time while the members work for
nothing.
When young Concord German,
Red Lisk, made a speech over the
radio in Charlotte for the U. T. w.
few weeks back, what did Cam
paner, the superintendent Of the
Brown Mill, say about him2 He
said I didn't know it was in you to
make speech over the radio like
you did. Now if Campaner likes
Red Lisk's speech the workers had
better look out. Why? Because
there is something dead up the
branch.
Some workers in Concord will tell
you the U. T. w. is a new kind OF
union. They say this because the
sellout leadership says SO. Why do
these leaders keep the workers in
the dark That is simple. They
know if they tell the workers In
Concord that the U. T. w. which is
here now is the same union which
was in Concord before they won't
join. Why? Because the workers
don't want to be sold out. 7 have
convinced some Of them it is the
same sellout union, and have been
sold out by the U. T. w. before and
ought to know.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Speedily and Lay-OE Pile Up
On PhilIips-Baker Go. Workers
Rolling Machines Force
Girls To Work Faster
On The Conveyors
(By a Worker Correspondent

PROVIDENCE, R. I. = For the
past month or SO I have been
watching the use of the rolling
machines which were installed in
the Phillips Baker Rubber Co. Be-
fore these speed-up machines were
put in the factory, there were two
or three girls rolling the foxing,
and since these machines were in
stalled these girls were either laid
off or given somebody else's jobs.
Now, without these two girls on
the conveyors the use of the rolling
machines makes more work for
about three other girls on the con-
veyor, namely, the two second foxers
and the outsole placer. The speed
with which these girls must work
to keep up with these machines and
at the same time keep from getting
piled up by the shoes literally poured
down the conveyors is entirely too
much to expect from any worker.
It is just this speed-up which has
caused the accidents of several of
the girls. One had to have several
stitches taken in her hand; another
hurt finger so badly that it will
never be straight again. Yes, she
has more fingers left, but if the
bosses like to part with fingers or
with whole hands why don't they
cut off their own?
Yet even with these accidents more
of these rolling machines are be-
ing installed. Workers, your job
is your bread, and it is just such
machines as these rolling machines
that are causing the layoffs which
we hear about every day.
The bosses tell you that he will
call you back in about two weeks.
Then, of course, as the weeks turn
into months, it is time you were
looking for another job. And now
they have cut the working hours of
the entire making room. This is a
wage-cut, fellow workers, and it
only means profit for the bosses and
more misery for the worker Work
ers, protect your jobs by protesting
against speed-up.
"JEPRU."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Bankrupt AL. Policy Is
Continued by Wagner Bill
Bill Dunno, in Speech at Senate Hearing, ShOsVS
HOtO Program Hit Workers Conditions

matter is that the employers have
taken these gentlemen at their word,
are continuing the official program
of the American Federation of La
Dor, as it was before the crisis
and as it was and is expressed in
their adoption of N.R.A. and Clause
Ia as the official program Of the
American Federation of Labor, to
which, by the way, Mr.. Hillman,
of the AmaIgamated Clothing Work.
ers has now affiliated his Organiza-
ton, seemingly having seen the
light.
These leaders today, just as dur
ing the boom period, are talking
about keeping industrial peace. Any
labor leader worth his salt knows
that workers strike only when con-
ditions have become almost unbear-
able, or when they believe that a
strike will forestall a new attack
upon their wages and working con-
ditions and organizations. Any
labor man knows that strikes re-
Quire tremendous expenditures OF
energy and sacrifice by workers and
their families. He knows that in
this country they mean in all proba-
bility that many workers and their
leaders will be arrested, jailed,
dubbed and even killed in struggles
to maintain or improve living stand
ards. He knows that because of the
tremendous power of the employ
ers, their bankers and their gov
eminent, it is only at certain times
that effective strikes can take place
when for one reason or another
this combination of forces is weak
ened and the solidarity of workers
is at a high level.
Therefore, to fail to take advan-
tage of such a combination Of CIR
cumstances is to play into the
hands of the employers and the
whole capitalist class. II is there
fore treason to the working class.
Yet all these gentlemen insist to-
day that the maintenance Of in
dustrial peace is the paramount
factor in national recovery, while
such self-appointed friends of labor
as the Rev. Father Haas are for the
Wagner Bill because Its ultimate
purpose is to increase purchasing
power" and maintain equality Of
bargaining power in the wage con-
tract" and so forth and so on.
There is no such thing as peace
in industry under capitalism, and
there never will be. The attack Of
the employers upon the working
class and its organizations never
ceases either in boom periods or in
periods of crisis.
ITO Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
New Deal" Cut Me
100 PC, Writes
Texas Veteran
By a Vet Worker Correspondent

BY a Vet Worker Correspondent
DICKINSON, TexaS.-The New
Deal" cut me 100 per cent July /,
and I am badly crippled besides,
service connected disabilities, which
the Veterans Bureau claims is not
proven although it has been con-
sidered so since September, 1904,
and, at the age of So, penniless,
crippled and disfranchised latter
Jan. 81 this year unless I can raise
SITS for poll taxi, which will ex-
clude me from retahating at the
polls for the injustice done.
Even those who are still drawing
some pension are mostly willing for
someone else to pull the "hot chest
nuts from the fire" for them, and
when pressed to help they reply like
this, "Oh, if we join anything but
the recognized organizations, the
remaining part of our pensions will
be cut off-see where you are at"
The enemy" has unlimited facii-
ties (the Press, Chamber of Com
merce, pulpits, banks, etc., with
their whispering campaign and
charges that we are retarding the
administrations recovery program.
This you know is the solid Demo-
cratic South" and a Democratic adj
ministration. Any embarrassing
questions are labelled unpatriotic,
or propaganda from Russia, which
Immediately settles the question.
1t might be possible to slowly
awaken them by some news of the
outside comrades efforts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Smith
Carpet Workers
Welcome ''Daily' -
Rushed When There Is
A Little Work to Do,
Spies TerrOrize
Workers

BY a Textile Worker Correspondent
YONKERS, N. Y.-Thousands of
workers in Yonkers have worked in
the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills
here. For the last few weeks they
have been laying off again. In my
department, where we weave on the
big looms, they laid off 90 more
workers last Saturday. They told
the men they would send for them
when they were needed, and in the
meantime we can die Of hunger for
all the company cares.
They rush US to death when there
is a little work to do, and then lay
us off. Right now the few weavers
who are left have been speeded up.
The minimum yardage for the
day is set at the amount the fastest
weaver produces working at high
speed. If We don't produce we are
called before the bosses, given hell,
sometimes sent home for a week or
so. or laid off for good. There is
a dial attached to each loom to
show the amount of yardage pro-
duced, and each day a time keeper
checks up. If loom breaks down,
the bosses won't accept this as an
excuse.
We must come in each morning
ready for work, but very often after
we wait around for an hour or two
we are sent home and told to come
the next day. If the loom breaks
down, we are sent home for hours
or even half day, because under
the NR.A. the worker must be paid
if the loom breaks down. Many of
the workers live far from the mill,
and in order to save the carfare
they wait around just the same and
are not paid cent for their time.
The bosses are always looking for
ways to cut off the workers. Be-
fore the big lay-off, the company
employed beamhands, now the
weaver together with the loom f1xer
has to do the beam-hand's job. The
beams weigh about 200 lbs, and
the weaverS get no pay for sweat
ing to put them in place. Besides,
the weaver loses time while the
loom-flxe gets the job ready, and it
usually takes two hours.
The company formerly had man
on the floor to put in plates, but
now the weavers have to change
their own plates. Although the
m-f1xers have more work, there
are fewer of them in each weave
shed, and if our looms break down
we have long wait. The loom
fixers are worked like mules.
There are many spies in the mill,
and the bosses try to keep us ter
rorized so we won't organize. The
Alexander Smith is one of the big
gest and richest carpet companies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
A VOICE FROM HOUSTON, TEX.
Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas.
The only thing here of any good
news interest that I know of at
present is that now, for the first
time in Houston, radical students
and others are giving the weak
kneed liberals real battle in the
Houston open Forum. Several
weeks ago we had Lewis Brownies
version of Hitlers mistreatment of
Germany.
One genuine Communist speech
was made by comrade forcefully
defending Dimitroff, denouncing
Brownies classics version of the
German situation, and unfolding
Henri Barbusse as fighting Com
munist. Browne had slandered Bar
busse as a liberal pacifist. This
speech was answered vigorously by
Browne, only to bring on him
TRADES from dozen comrades, who
all asked him embarrassing ques-
lions. The very evasiveness of the
speakers replies to the radical
questions and outbursts was enough
to start people thinking who had
never thought before.
This situation in an open forum
was more sensational to Houston
ians than comrades in the East may
be able to conceive. The forum is
organized and financed by the up
per crust Of Houston, and as such
it has been very reactionary. In
cidentally this is one of our sources
of anti-war material.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

I have suggestion to make that
I believe will help tremendously in
making our party the spearhead of
the working class against the Social
Fascists as well as against the whole
program of capitalism.
We often speak of the lack of
forces. Much Of the reason for this
is caused by the lack of under
standing among new Party members
Of the problems facing the working
class as a whole. Many times it is
Impotence at the delay of good
times" that brings workers into
the Party. After they get into the
Party they have no opportunity to
learn why it is necessary to strug-
gle. They take the stand that we
must talk" the majority over to
our stand before we struggle.
I am of the opinion that some
organizational effort should be
made by every unit to provide a
Communist Manifesto" Wage,
Labor and Capital" and "Why Com
munism," to every new Party mem
Der. The agit-prop should see that
these comrades read and under
stand them. If the agit-prop does
not understand them he should
take the tip himself. Each unit
should make an inner drive for the
Daily Worker also. If every COM
rade will read the three booklets
mentioned along with the Daily
Worker every day, he will soon be
able to see the political reasons
for his actions and explain them to
other workers.
Every Unit can raise about 50 to
buy these pamphlets. These pam
phlets should not be given out and
forgotten. They should be used to
form a library. If new member
wishes to keep them he must pay
for them. But If he cannot afford
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
No Law Against Peonage
Says Arkansas Official,
Refusing to Prosecute

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April s.
No prosecution will be made on the
basis of proved charges Of peonage
on Arkansas plantations, because,
as Assistant Attorney John H. Cald-
well has pointed out, there is no law
against involuntary servitude in Ar
kansas.
A two weeks investigation has
shown that many prisoners, mostly
Negroes, are paroled and turned
over to wealthy planters to work
in the fields. The prisoners are held
indefinitely, paid very little or Moth
ing, often being kept in debt to the
plantation owners. If they COM
plain, they are threatened with i'm
mediate return to prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
By a Textile Worker Correspondent

CONCORD, N. C.-Fellow work.
ers of the South, take warning from
a worker who has been sold out by
the United Textile Workers, affili-
ated with the A. F. Of L. German
will be in Charlotte, N. c., soon, and
his business is to get the workers
in Charlotte and the South to join
the sellout union, the UT.W What
have they done for the workers at
the Brown Mill in Concord, N. c.,
and other mills where they have got
a good membership? The bosses
dock the weavers, put in stretch
out, and cut ratings, and the A. F..
of L. officers say nothing about
that. All they will tell the mem
bers is wait till we get strong
enough and then we will take steps.
Any union man that belonged to
the U. T. w. before knows what the
steps will be. They will take steps
to sell you out. Ask the workers,
did L. M. Barnheart have a store
before the U. T. w. came to Con-
cord, N. c.; and also ask them did
l.. M. Barnheart have a farm be-
fore the U. T. w. come to Concord,
N. G. Q921-1922) and see what
they tell you. Ask the workers in
Danville how German got the work.
ers to vote off the strike. He told
the workers in Danville, Va, if they
voted off the strike they could go
back to work on their old jobs that
they come off when the strike was
called. Did they go back to their
jobs? Yes, the ones that took their
union books and gave them to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
JObFW Everybody,
Writes Peter Pan
From Soviet Union
BY PETER PAN
Now in the Soviet UniOn)

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-Even if
am late to voice my approval for
the new Daily" must write to
you and tell you that it is now the
best medium to organize the work
ers. Their struggles clearly and
wildly are pictured in its pages. 1t
is almost unacceptable.
1t is up to the comrades to put it
in every workers hands having no
home and every workers organiza-
ton. Intensified work will do it. 1t
has everything that big capitalist
paper has, and then some features
that cannot be reached by any boss
sheet. 1t is equal to the Humanite,
organ of the French Communist
Party, which has a circulation OF
over 100000 daily.
1 am writing all this from my
experience as an old Daily Worker
agent in Los Angeles, where the in
famous Red Squad succeeded in
having me deported, thus thinking
that the Daily" should suffer.
appeal to all comrades in Los An
geles to double their efforts. Make
a drive "our answer to Hynes!'
Through the efforts of the I. L.
D., District No. IA, and the work
ers' organizations, was finally al
lowed voluntary departure, and
came to the Workers Fatherland
When passing through the Kiel
Canal German workers we're look
ing and waving their hands. Some
officers on the bridge of German
boats tried to give us the Nazi
salute, but the workers on the decks
saluted us in the Red Front salute
Since coming here on Nov. 4 the
I. L. D. here took me to home
that was once somebody's palace
and every day they take us to visit
museums and factories.
We visited many factories, at
tended many factory celebrations
during their fulfilling of the plans
and the Soviet workers asked us
about the life Of workers under cap
italist countries, and especially why
it is that so few workers are organ
lied in America. Comrades, this ]
couldn't answer and am passing il
on to you in order to realize what
very small number are organized
have been here over 20 days now
and have not yet seen any Brother
have you dime for coffee?'
Everybody works and all are busy
Buildings are going up on every
side. Every day sees new heights
of production, new records are
broken before they are printed
wages are continuously going up, tc
higher standards, to a new life!
Helping the Daily" now is the
duty of every worker. On to 100000
circulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
BY WILLIAM F. DUNE

Itssgould, be an injustice to the
al - brotherhood leadership to
leave them out of this brief survey
Of the development of a policy dis
astrOus TO the Union membership.
I quote from a pamphlet written
in 1925 by Earl Browder entitled
"Class Collaboration versus Class
Struggle" Browder quoted one H.
V. Boswell, at that time vice-pres-
ident of the Locomotive Engineers
Bank in New York City and whose.
statement was widely circulated in
LIE Hearst press:
pl"Who wants to be a Bolshevik
oven he can be a capitalist in
fcad? We have shown how to mix
ex and water; how to reconcile cap
ital and labor. Instead Of standing
on a corner soapbox, screaming with
rage because the capitalists own real
estate, bank accounts and automo-
biles, the engineer has turned in
and become a capitalist himself.
Now it stands to reason that
such men won't start any movement
to destroy property or ruin big bust
ness Why, Only last Spring we
bought a substantial interest in the
Empire Trust Co. Of New York City.
If you could have seen SchWab,
Heckscher and the locomotive en-
gineers seated around the directors
table, you'd have recognized the
scene as an entirely new turn in
what used to be called the fight
between capital and labor"
One head of the B. of L. E died
in disgrace. The present one is in
dicted for embezzlement and fraud.
And what has become Of the rank
and file of these engineer capital
lists? Well, where are the SHOWS
Of yesterday"
The re lit of this policy, which
was accompanied by expulsion of
all who opposed it, was that the
A. F. of l.. unions went into de-
cline which continued up to 1888. A
further result of this was that
coupling labor-management-coop-
Grafton with the belief in so-called
permanent prosperity, the official
leadership made no real effort to
increase wages or shorten hours, al
though the tremendous increase in
labor displacing machinery in chem
ical and mechanical progresses, in
standardization of product, and in
the speed-up, is now history which
no one dares deny.
Were # not tragic for American
workers it would be amusing to see
these same labor leaders appearing
here now and complaining Of unfair
labor practices by the employers IN
der Clause Ia. The truth of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Girls In Packing Room
Rushed SO That They
Draw Less Pay
(By a Worker Correspondent


PROVIDENCE, R. I. = I am a
worker in the Phillips Baker Rub
Der Co., and having read the ar
ticles by "Jepru" in the Daily
Worker I got up enough courage to
write one about my department, the
packing room.
There are about 10 people work
ing in this room. 1t is poorly ven
tilated and poorly lighted, and
plenty dirty. I guess the rubbish
has to be pretty well piled up all
over the room before the bosses
take the trouble to have someone
clean the place.
The boxes in which the shoes are
packed are piled high around the
girl workers inspectors, lacers,
packers, etc., and this causes the
air to become stale where the work
ers are. There is always plenty of
dust flying all over the place, and,
as Jepru said, plenty of cockroaches,
I believe more in the packing room
than in the rest of the factory. Our
coats and lunches are put anywhere
we can find free space.
On the belts the girls have in
spectors who are cranks and always
rushing the girls so that they finish
their work early and get less pay.
Sometimes they work SO hard they
haven't time to go to the ladies'
room, and if they do go, their in
spectors time them as to how long
they can stay away from their con-
veyors.
The fellows are treated even
worse than any horsepower would
treat his horse. Pushing iron cars
loaded with bars all day long is no
easy job for the measly pay we get.
"Jepru" was right about everything
he said in the articles. Something
should be done about it. Come on,
the rest of you workers, write in to
the Daily Worker and help do away
with these conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Economy Act fastened
Death of Sick Veteran
BY a Worker Correspondent


ATLANTA, Ga.-My husband, a
World War veteran, died Jan. 10,
1894, from heart trouble, disease
so badly aggravated by his service
in the army that he was discharged
with 100 per cent disability. Our
family physician saw him a few
days after he was discharged and
he gave him only six months to
live. That Economy Act, with all
the worry and hardship it caused
my husband, brought about his
death sooner that it would have
come otherwise.
He ordered one of your calendars,
which came after his death. I no.
tice that you are also sending lit
erature concerning the WE.SL.
I am militantly in sympathy with
all your efforts. My husband was
reading the Daily Worker at the
minute of his death, lying up
against his pillows in bed. The last
book he had finished was Soviet
Main Street." He was heartily in
sympathy with Communism, and
did what he could for the cause in
spite of his illness.
I will do all I can, too. I have a
14-year-old daughter who goes to
high school.
am now, since yesterday, a sup
ply teacher in a school where I al
most choke because I have to act
such capitalist sympathizer or lose
my job.
The children are from the very
poor working class. I shall get ac-
quainted with their families and
see into their conditions.