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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

gered and answered, Say that
again and I'll show you what I'm
trying to do"
Without answering, the party
walked over to the stand and casu-
ally started to buy and eat hot dogs
and soda.
There were several painters in the
bunch who were standing around TO
help the pickets. These workers i'm
mediately recognized Jake and
zausner.
Whsn they told the woman who
they were, she went over to to
them and said, so you are the
leaders Of workers, you scabs and
rscketeers! Is this how you help
to organize workers and improve
their conditions? My husband is
trying to fight and earn enough
to buy bread for my children and
you leaders buy at a store where
there is strike-you. :"
Jake and the others went on
calmly eating and said nothing The
workers in the Brotherhood should
know who their leaders are and deal
with them accordingly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Fight to Make Pay
R aiSe Permanent
Linotype Boss SAYS Its
Only Trial

NEW YORK.-The Mergantbalef
Lirotv51e Company has grented an
additional wage increase of 10 per
cent to its employees. in an endsa-
vnr to stem the srav'inV influence
Of the steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union.
This additional raise was given
for a trial period Of one month to
stop the organic ton Of the men
in the shop. so that no resistance
would be shown when the raise is
withdrawn. The s. M. w. I. U. is
now campaie hing to make the 10
per cent raise permanent. More
men are signing with the Union all
the time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

DUE to the militant efforts Of the
" left wing opposition, Dubinsky
failed to force upon the entire cloak
trade the accursed piece-work. The
workers in the larger inside shops
succeeded in resisting the attacks
on the week work. Between Is per
cent to 20 per cent of the cloak
makers are still working week-work.
In the dress trade, also due to
the vigorous campaign conducted by
the industrial union, HICKMAN and
Zimmerman were compelled to post
pOne the Inauguration of their
scientific wage-cutting schedule.
The 1000 votes polled by the OPP
position in the last elections in
Local % was q mighty warning to
the combination Of Socialists and
Loyestonites that are ruling this
local.
Still conditions are becoming
worse, and only militant action by
the workers of each shop, through
shop committees, through the or
ganized efforts Of the shops work
ing for one jobber, can and will
the dressmakers put a stop to the
greedy attempts Of their employers
and to the cooperation given to
them by the union leaders.
The recent lockout by the con-
tractors has emphasized the col
liberation of the union leaders with
the jobbers. Their policy has driven
them into a tight corner. from
which further concessions to the
employers is the only way out.
1t is Of great significance that
in the dress shops controlled by the
industrial union conditions are
much better. The Industrial union
is doing its utmost to enforce vigor-
ously the wage scales won in the
agreement with the employers. This
explains to great extent why the
dress bosses are attempting to force
their workers to Join the I. L. G..
w. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Phil Zausner and Jake the
Bum Patronize Struck Shop
By SOL SHERMAN

BROOkLYN-On Sunday night,
April %, an incident occurred in
Coney Island which shows up very
clearly the character f the leader
ship of the A. F. of L., especially
the leaders of the Brotherhood of
Painters, particularly of District
Council No. 9.
A strike was being carried on by
the Cafeteria Workers Union, sec
ton of the Food Workers Industrial
Union, in Nathans. a hot dog and
soda stand at Surf Ave. and 18th
st. The picket was walking UP and
down, carrying a sing explaining
the strike and appealing to the
workers not to patronize the stand
during the strike. A large group of
workers we're standing around help
ing the picket. AS usual. the police
were there with their Move on"
slogan. But the crowd stood there
and helped the picket.
Enter Zausner and Jake the Bum
At about II pm, beautiful car
pulled over about twenty-five feet
from the stand and a crowd of six
got out. They started to walk to
Nathans, when they we're approach
ed by woman, the wife of the
picket, who told them that since
there was strike at the place, they
should not buy anything there, and
show solidarity with the workers on
strike. In the group that got out of
the car were Phil zausner, Secre-
tary of the District Council No. 9,
and the notorious Jake the Bum,
former business agent Of local l02
of Brooklyn of the Brotherhood
The answer Of Jake was, Get
the hell out OF here, what are you
trying to do, pick up a MANI"
The woman was Immediately an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Terrific Speed-up in
Standard Spring Plant
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. = Here in Harlem
there is a factory named Standard
Spring Body Co. at 422-31 104th st.
The factory is producing springs for
auto bodies and push-carts.
The workers are hustling under
terrific speed-up almost to the point
of collapsing for fear Of losing their
piece of bread. Knowing that mill
lions are jobless, the boss pays from
$12 to S18 for a 44-hour week, re-
gardless of the fact that the boss
signed an NR.A. code for 40-hour
week. Besides the superintendent
compels the workers to work over
time every day until 7 in the evening
and sometimes as late as 10 o'clock
for little additional money; 80 to 80
hours a week they have to work to
exhaustion.
We can expect nothing from the
A. F. of L. leaders. The A. F. Of
L. leaders have faxed us but they
have not fooled all of us. They
asked $40 to s25 initiation fee and
they collected about 50 apiece. If
it had not been for the A. 2. of
L. we would have had a union and
the 40-hour week.
We should join the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
The American bosses cannot buy
the leaders OF that union, as all who
read the Daily Worker know. The
general Office of the SIN. VIII. is
IS E. 18th st. We must join out
militantly the Industrial Union and
struggle for better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Co. Union Moves To
.Gyp Subway Toilers,
Trainman Reveals
Calls for Building Strong
Transport Union
New York
By subway Worker Correspondent

BY a subway Worker Correspondent
LONG ISLAND CITY. n.
Y. - Via the PETERBOROUGH
Rapid Transit stovepipe CONF
mittee, rumor has it that we
are to be rewarded by the
valiant efforts Of the brotherhood
Company union with a return Of
our 10 per cent that was taken from
US by Messrs. Murray and Bowling
for their high salaries while say
ing to us via their press that no
man working for the I. r. T. was
worth more than $50 weekly.
This 10 per cent is to be paid to
US thusly: 7 per cent cash-3 per
cent to old age pension fund. but
Is it not funny that this r1mor is
about the road just at the time that
the Byrne Bill in Albany is about
tn become law. This bill Is to he
statewide and Is in effect to take
.3 per cent Of every employed mans
womsns and child's wages weekly
for three years or until large
enough reserve fund has been built
up and then If by some unfore-
seen calamity you happen to lose
your job, you are to receive a grad
uated amount Of from IS to SIS for
a period Of 16 weeks and this too
to be doled out by q member Of a
certain political party!
OF course, it will be explained
by our illustrious company union
that after due consideration and
elaboration with all parties con-
cerned (of course not the rank and
f1le-they don't count they have
come to the conclusion that this
idea is great thing and so forth
with us again cut per cent.
Must Resist Assaults
Brother members and foremen
Of all transportation companies. let
us organize into the Transport
Workers Union independent so
that now, and in the future, we
can offer mass resistance to all
assaults on our wage conditions. and
on our very existence, to pay re-
ceivers' and officials salaries and
pensions yearly, that if we worked
a lifetime u hours a day or night
for or 7 days a week. we could
never hope to attain But we have
in the present way, being morgan
lied, only one alternative in the end
"over the hill to the poor-house.
Think itover men. then talk to
your pal and then do as free men
like our forebesrs would do: Or
ganize into minute men" detach-
ments and say no more taxation
without representation"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Problems of ILGW
To Be Discussed at
Series of Forums

Since the last strike many devel-
cpn1ents have taken place in the
dress trade. With Zimmerman's
bluff and the polished demagogy Of
HICKMAN and Dubinsky, the condi-
tons won in the last strike were
undermined First they carried
through stoprage of the lover
priced garments and introduced
flat prices for zone" week. This
was done without the knowledge of
the workers. It is months since the
stoppage, and flat prices still pre-
vail. The Scientific schedule" was
then announced. for which our Of
ficials paid $4,000 from the treas
ury. This scientific schedule means
unprecedented speed-up d
thereby increased unemployment in
the trade.
Must Stop Flat Prices
During this period the Left Wing
Of Local % has been continuously
calling upon the dressmakers to
fight agains flat prices, the "scien-
tific schedule" for p stoppage in
the trade to bring up the wages to
the minimum scale, for the 30-hour
week, for unemployment insurance.
etc.
The Educational Committee of
the Left Wing has carried on a
number Of Open Forums, has is
sued a bulletin and thousands of
leaflets and through many other
methods has educated and mo-
bilized thousands Of dressmakers
against the class collaboration
policies Of the leaders of the IN
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers.
Now the Educational Committee
has organized a series of lectures
on every vital problem confronting
the dressmakers. The frs lecture
was held last wednesday. On Nav
2, at 8 pm, Louis Weinstack will
srssk on Trade Union Democracy
at irving Plaza Hall,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

became impatient with the unbear-
able conditions that prevailed in
the shops. The original idea of
the Socialist leaders to replace
strikes with N. R. A. codes could
not be carried out entirely. The
strike wave in the needle trades;
among the dress, whitegoods, and
the referendum of the cloakmakers
against piece work, bears testimony
to the militancy Of many tens of
thousands of workers. In some
trades. where the burocracy was
more firmly entrenched, they sue
ceeded in preventing strikes.
A typical case is the mems tailors,
where Mr.. Hillman and his ma
chine stifled the eagerness of the
workers to strike and promised
them the blessings Of the code, with
the result that the conditions of
the mems tailors are far from be-
ing improv%l. The situation is, in
fact, going from bad to worse I'M
der a code that provides for 40c
an hour with a terrible increase
in the speed-up,
Forced Better Codes
Only in two trades where the
workers broke through the dam
erected by the leadership, and
where the left wing opposition and
industrial union have considerable
strength, was the N. R. A. forced
to hand down better codes. The
Socialist leadership Of the cloak
and dressmskers union tried its ut
most to hide from the workers the
underlying causes which are re-
sponsible for the more decent codes.
They took the credit for President
Roosevelt, General johnson, Earl
Dean Howard, and modestly, for
themselves also. Then, instead of
strengthening the workers by build
ing shop committees, price commit
tees, ETC., to see that the newly
won conditions be maintained, the
leaders, in their usual manner,
pinned the hopes Of the workers on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Trip to USSR is Prize
In Subscription Drive

NEW YORK. = Soviet Russia
Today" announces a national con-
test to obtain 10000 new readers by
June /, of which 5000 are to be
subscriptions. The first prize for
obtaining the greatest number of
subscriptions will be a trip to the
Soviet Union. Additional prizes
consist of books, articles, statuettes,
and pamphlets The New York Dis
triet is offering prizes of its own in
this contest, consisting of two weeks
at workers camp, one week at
camp, books, and an autographed
copy of "U.S.S.R. in Construction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Workers Condemn
.LOyeStOne Clique
For Strikebreaking
1000 Attend Trials
Held in Three Parts
Of New York

Two thousand workers participat-
ed at the open trial of the Love-
stonites. held in Bronx, Brownsville
and Brighton Beach, last Thursday
evening, April 26th. The workers
listened with great interest to the
charges brought by the Furriers In
dustrial Union, and to the testi-
mony of several workers from the
shops. The verdict against the Love
stonites was voted upon almost
unanimously,
Although challenged to appear at
the trials and to defend themselves.
the Lovestonites did not come to
any of the three places. They didn't
have the CUTS to face the workers
on the charges of treachery and
strikebreaking against the fur work.
ers and their union.
Charles Nemeroff was chairman
at the Ambassador Hall, and Irving
Potash was the accuser. Among the
witnesses we're Bach and Esterrnan,
two strikers of the Zimmerman and
Scher fur shop, where the Loveston-
ties are concentrating their forces
to help the boss break the strike.
H Benjamin, leader of the unem-
ployed workers told a typical tale
of the vicious splitting tactics pur-
sued by the Lovestonites to break
the ranks of the fighting unemploy-
ed workers. Levitt and Koralenko,
metal workers, testified on the man
euvers of the few Lovestonites to
defeat the rank and file Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union.
Old Closkmaker AssaiIs Clique
]. Winogradsky was the accuser
in Brownsville. Blum and Bader of
the kaufman Fur Shop, and Gross
of the Zimmerman and Scher shop
we're witnesses. Very impressive was
the testimony of an old eloakmaker
of Local g. Levinson, who was for
7 years in succession a member of
the Local Executive Board and for
2 years a member of the Joint
Board. Levinson was aligned with
the Loyestonites during the last 2
years, until he was convinced of
their trickery and deception of the
workers. Levinson brought out
many facts that the Lovestonite
clique was in many cases worse than
the whole Dubinsky, Nagler outfit.
Prudential, another elderly cloak
maker, also testified.
Rank and File Testify
In Brighton Beach, the chairman
was Carl. and S. Violin was the ar
ctSer. The fur workers jacobson,
Teddy Albert, Zimmerman and
Krsvitz were the witnesses. A rank
and file member of Local %, who
was in the audience. also testified.
The witnesses made clear to the as
sembled workers how the Loveston-
ties are acting as window dressing"
for the hated and discredited
racketeering group of the Joint
Council. to undermine the condi-
tions OF the workers and to spread
the evil of contracting in the fur
trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Hardly a Shop Where
Minimum Wage Scale
Is Maintained

OF the most outstanding import
ance to all needle trades workers
is the determined struggle Of the
fur workers against a ring Of en-
emies that is trying again to smash
their industrial union and to re-
vive the rule Of the hated and
discredited racketeering group Of the
A. F Of L. This gang. known as
the Joint Council of the Interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
WIN Give Good Account
Leather Workers Win
Three Day Strike

NEW YORK. a three-day
strike, waged with great militancy,
the workers of the Lasko Leather
Strap Co., located at 125 Canal ST.,
won their demands for weekly in
creases of So. equal division of work
and recognition of their shop COM
mittee The workers in body
joined the Independent Novelty
Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
MUSICIANS ATTENTION

NEW YORK. -Rehearsals of the
I. w. o. Symphony Orchestra are
held every Tuesday at 7 p. m. and
every Saturday at 3 p. M, at 1o6
T. 14th St., third floor, the Freiheit
Gesangs Farcin Hall All instru-
mentalists are invited to attend re-
hearsals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Organizer Arrested
In Knitgoods Strike

NEW YORK.-The strike in the
Winton Knitting Mills is still going
going on, J. Rapport, organizer of
the Knitgoods Workers Industrial
Union, was arrested in front of the
Winton Knitting Mills on Friday
April 81, in the morning. Trial has
been postponed for Monday, April
30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
knitgOods Workers
Win Strike In N. Y.
To Picket Brooklyn Mill
Today

NEW YORK. The workers of the
Claire Knitting Mills returned to
work with a complete victory. A
strike was declared by the Knit
goods Workers Industrial Union,
against discharge of one of the
workers, but while on strike other
demands we're placed before the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Workers in Two Trades
Force Better Codes
by Militant Fight
BY MEILECH EPSTEIN
Editor of the Needle WOrkefl

On the eve of May Day, it
is appropriate to start with a
brief review of the general
situation in the needle
trades.
Many needle trades workers
too we're victims last summer Of
the sky-high illusions created by
Roosevelt's New Deal" The So
cialist leaders Of the A. F. of L.
unions were among the high-pres-
sure statesmen of the N. r. A. Still
they could not check completely
tentedly resting on their laurels.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Trade Union
Directory

STEEL AND METAL WORKERS UNION
The regular monthly meeting OF the Ma
chine shop Local 3ol will be held Friday
May 4 at $40, in Columbia Hell. ia
Court Street. Brooklyn Nomiustion will
take place for all oficers Of the local
Elections will take place on june l.
MARINE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION
dnesday-Regular Business meeting
Note - Formerly an educational meeting
was held every other Wednesday, but the
present situation demands weekly business
meetings.
Thursday-open air meeting at evening.
Friday, pm.-waterfront Unemploy-
ment Council Business meeting.
Sunday-Port Oreanizstional Committee
of Union meets at IL pm; pm. Sunday.
Open Forum.
MEETINGS OF UNITED SHOE AND
LEATHER WORKERS UNION
Shoe Trade Board meets every Wednes-
day at pm
Shoe Grievance and Membership Com
mittes meets every Monday at 6 pm.
Slipper Trade Board meets every Mon
day at pm.
Slipper Grievance Membership Commit
tee meets every Thursday A. pm
stitchdown Trade Board meets every
Shoe Repair Trade Beard meets every
Mondav at s pm.
Executive Board meets every Thursday
at pm.
Joint Council meets every second Friday
of the month al ! pm.
All meetings are held At the hesdausr-
ters Of ths union, q W. 18TH s..
BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS DECOR
AToRs AND PAPERHANGERs OF
AMERICA
Local Union 2sl. every Friday, at 2io E
i04th St. NY.C.
Local Union 400, every Monday, at 100
E ll6th St.. N.Y.C.
Local Union 499, every Wednesday, at
Labor Temple, a4th st. and and Ave,
N.YC.
Local Union 84s. every Monday. at Labor
Temple, S4th St. and End Ave, NYC.
Local Unoin SEQ, every Monday, at 218
E. seth St. N.Y.C.
Local Union 905, every Friday, at Hunts
Point Palace. Bronx. N. Y.
Local Union loi1, every Friday, at 100
E. l16th St., NY.C.
Local Union 81, every IL 49, La-4s
Painters Rank and File Protective Asso-
citation meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday
OF the month at the Labor Temple. esth
St and Second Ave Room Z
N tne above locals there are organissd
groups Of the Painters Rank and File Pro-
tectiYs Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
New District Set Up
by the Metal Union

The New York District Board of
the Steel and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union has announced that
!. Metropolitan District has been
established This district will en-
brace Newark, Harrison. Hoboken,
Elizabeth an, othee points in New
York and MAJ. Isrse--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Rank and File Testify

necessary forces for the light in
dustries and that not any organ
izcr would do for this work.
Recently a change has been
made for the better, as result of
which we are sure work among
subway workers will be carried on
in a systematic and consist mt
name. TIE above letter has
been helpe-l In affecting this
chanse.
ANDREW Ovwr q .gn.
Secretary T. U. U. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

Stop depending for news and
information on the capitalist
press that faycrs the bosses and
is aeairst the workers.. Stibaeribe
to the Daily lyoers-, 49, rica's
only working class daily news
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
PICTURE OPERATORS SUPPORT
III. n. 1898

NEW YORK-Local 306. Motion
Picture Operators, l. A. 7. s. E.,
unanimously endorsed H. r, 1890.
the Workers Unemployment In
suranoe Bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01

concern, for reinstatement of the
discharged worker; week work in
stead of piece work for winders;
kritters. warpers and winders to
work IS hours instead Of 37ia hours
per week.
All of these demands we're won
All the ktlitters, Wrappers and wind
ers Joined the Knitgoods Workers
Industrial Union.
The Union calls upon the Knit
goods workers to support the strike
CT the Wii1ton Knitting Mills. Come
on the picket line on Monday, April
80, at 1880 a. m. sharp. at 260 Wall
about Street, Brooklyn.
This strike was declared against
wage cuts and the attempt Of the
manufacturer to maintain a 40-hour
week instead of the 35-h0ur week as
he has settled with the Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
They Double the Work
On Us in Hotel Edison
Maid Charges in Letter

Daily Wor,ser:
I am a maid in the Hotel Edison
at 46th st.
We are supposed to work eight
hours a day, but after our work
is done we have to help out at
night until IL o'clock. That makes
us work IS hours a day and we
are worn out by that time.
The head housekeeper keeps an
extra set of cards which we don't
punch on the N. R. A. clock and
also under different names. The
night maids come in at four o'clock
and work very often until am.
They punch a different set of cards
They double the work on us, SO
they won't heve to hire more help
The extra card at the time keepers
is only fake to cover ourselves.
They done away with the house
men and we must do most of their
work. A MAID FROM THE
HOTFT EDTSoN