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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

hadn't seen him for a couple Of
months. The old man looked weary,
his eyes sunken.
Never expected you to stay here.
I'm damn glad to see you turn out
to lead us fellers," said Pop, with a
broad smile on his face.
When everybody was gone the
committee held short meeting
Harris told them not fall for any
promises. Just demand a clear-cut
answer" he said. Then the COM
mittee decided upon the demands:
y To rescind the cut. q To put
more men on. 81 To increase the
wages 10 per cent for all the men
in all the departments.
The following day at lunch time
the committee numbered into the
Office. Mr.. Barnes was closeted with
the president discussing the situa-
ton. They knew about the meeting
that had taken place the night be-
fore and that the men were getting
ready to fight. Mr.. McDermott was
for a strong policy; just fire the
leaders and anyone that would re-
fuse to accept the cut, but Mr..
Barnes suggested maneuvering.
Perhaps the talk of strike will
blow over"
The president and the directors
agreed to it.
Barnes came out of a side room
and greeted the committee smil-
ingly. Cliff handed him the writ
ten paper with the demands. Barnes
glanced at it.
What is your name, please?" he
asked, softly.
TITS not a personal matter" said
Cliff. I'VE are giving YOU the de-
mands presented by the commit
tee, elected at a meeting of the
men in the shop, We want you to
take back that cut and then we'll
talk about the rest of the demands.
Listen, young fellow, there is no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
WORKERS SCHOOL AT
LOUISVILLE, KY.

A WORKERS SCHOOL in Louis
II vile, KY, has been organized
and is now in its fifth week of ac-
tivity. Thirty-five Negro and white
workers, students and intellectuals
have enrolled in the School and at
tend classes regularly The courses
given are: Economics, Funda-
mentals of Leninism and Negro
Problems. A comrade was sent
there by the National Training
School Committee and together
with the cooperation and hard
work Of the comrades from Louis
vile, the establishment Of a Work
ers' School has been made possible.
We congratulate the comrades in
Kentucky and trust that they will
continue their good work and make
it possible to establish Workers
Schools throughout the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Killing SIP e d, Meagre
Wages in Old Citadel
of Wage Slavery
By MILTON HOWARD

IN rebellion against as terrible a
1 wretchedness and exploitation to
be found anywhere in the hellholes
of capitalism, 1000 600 textile work
ers, the greatest labor army in his
tory, are now marching forth in
national strike.
Textiles have been an old fortress
Of capitalist plumber and working
class misery. 1t is now almost a
century since the then young Fred
erick Engels, co-worker of Karl
Marx, showed the world in his clas-
sic Condition of the English Work
ing Glass" what weight of misery
and degradation English capitalism
was placing upon the men, women
and children who stood before the
looms in Manchester and Liverpool.
Textiles is still a fortress of pitt
less capitalist plumber. Roosevelt,
that past master of trickery and
false promises, fixed his N. R. A.
codes first upon the textile workers.
At last, he promised them, their
burdens would be lifted.
But the past 10 months have
been hell for the 100000 or more
textile workers who spin the looms,
and Roosevelt bears the response
bility.
THE average weekly wage is not
more than SO a week. The codes
we're to have fixed weekly minimums
of $12-$14. But the minimums have
become the maximums. No family
can live on this wage. No person
can buy sufficient food and shelter
with this wage to keep body and
soul together.
Roosevelt's MIRA. code Shortened
hours" to an eight-hour work day.
But the work load was raised &C
cordingly and every textile worker
now has to produce in eight hours
what he used to do in II hours.
The stretch-out is murderous. The
workers have to fake their time
cards to keep their jobs, maintain
their work schedule" and at the
same time obey Roosevelts benign
MIRA. code.
We have been warned from the
time the code took effect that we
must produce heavier work load
in eight hours" a textile worker
states. "Since we cannot do it in
the eight hours no matter how
furiousIy we drive ourselves, we
have to work five to twenty addi-
tional hours every week without
any pay, and these extra hours we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
John Reed Club Will
Present Art Works to
Biro-Bidjan Museum

The John Reed Club in New York
will represent to the Jewish Pho
neers in Biro-Bidjan a collection of
works of art paintings, etchings,
sculpture, etc.
The club issued a call to all John
Reed Clubs throughout the country
to participate in this collection.
The John Reed Club has in
formed the Icor that only works of
the highest standing will be &C
cepted and that the entire collec-
ton will be exhibited during the
jubilee convention Of the Icor which
is to be held in the city of New
York on Dec. 49, %, and 80, 1894.
The exhibition will then be taken
to Moscow and from there it will
go to Biro-Bidjan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
REGISTRATION FOR FALL
TERM AT N. Y. WORKERS
SCHOOL OPENS TODAY

In last weeks column we announced
4 some of the new courses added
to the Fall term of the school. At
this time we address ourselves pri-
mariIy to the members of the Com
munist Party, Young Communist
League, trade-unions and mass Or
CARNATIONS. The recent struggles
in San Francisco, Toledo, Minnea-
polls, the present strike of the tex
tile workers and many other i'm
portant struggles of the workers in
the United States demonstrates con-
clusively that the revolutionary
movement in the United States has
now entered higher stage in its
development.
The capitalist class is utilizing
every means in order to combat the
militant struggles of the workers
the use Of the armed forces of the
government in San Francisco, To-
ledo, Minneapolis and other places,
the action Of the vigilantes in at
lacking and destroying the trade
union headquarters, Party head
quarters, Workers School, etc, the
attitude of the leaders of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor who came
out with a call for an attack on the
Communists. within the unions, the
use of demagogy on the part of the
Roosevelt MIRA. administration, the
actions of the leaders of the Social
ist Party, and the renegades, Love-
stoneites and Trotskyites, which re-
suited already in the betrayal of the
struggles of the workers in Mime
apolis and other places.
All this makes it essential for
every worker to have a clear under
standing of what is taking place.
This can only be achieved on the
basis of the teachings of Marx, En-
gels, Lenin and Stain. The Workers
School in its program for the Fall
term has a number of courses which
will aid the workers in acquiring a
clear political understanding of the
revolutionary movement and the
tasks confronting the working class
today.
The following courses are espe-
cially important: Principles of
Communism, Organization Prin-
cipleS for Party and League mem
bers, the class in Trade Union
problems, the History of the Amer
lean Labor Movement, the class in
Shop Paper and Leaf1et Prepare
ton, and of special Importance is
the class in the problems of the
Negro Liberation Movement. We
urge members of the Party and
League, members of the trade
unions and other mass organiza-
tons, to study the problems of the
Negro Liberation Movement in
order to get a clear understanding
OF the Importance Of the unity of
the Negro and white workers in the
struggle against capitalism in the
United States. We are unable to
enumerate all the courses given in
the fall term in the School.
Catalogues containing the de-
scriptions of the various courses at
the School may be obtained at the
School office, Room 301, Sc E. 18th
Street, daily from II an. TO En-,
ard Saturday from 10 an. to 4 pm.
Although the number Of classes
in the various subjects have been
increased, in view of former expert
ences we urge everyone to register
early as classes fill up very
quickly. Last year in the fall term
the school had a registration of
close to 1000 students. With the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Paris Subway Workers
Unite To Win Demands

PARIS. Aug. 81. - United trade
union sections have been formed
here at the Subway stations Porte
Champeret and Maillot. At the
Etoile and Dauphine stations SINH
lar sections are being formed.
Trade union unity is being realized
among the Paris subway workers
on the basis Of a program Of de-
mands including the 40-hour week
without reduction of wages. The
united struggle is to be carried on
for this program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

Leader of the National Textile
Workers Union, which is propos-
ing unity in the textile strike with
the United Textile Workers and
the rank and file.
are not allowed to register on our
time cards in order to keep the
records straight for the N,R.A."
In 1882 ten workers did the work
now required of only four-almost
TRIPPING of the production load
per worker. The distances traversed
by every worker rushing madly
from loom to loom grow all the
time. Every ounce Of strength,
every drop of blood is drained to
feed the whirring spools at the
cost to the mill owners.
THEY start young in the textile
l towns. And they can never
escape. Once a mill worker, always
a mill worker" is a common saying
in the textile shacks. Boys and girls
in working class families in the tex
tile towns reached the mills before
the age of IT. Many get there at
IL and IA.
The codes were to have abolished
child labor. Where it was profit
able to get rid of the kids whose
young bodies could not feed the
mercilessly whirring looms fast
enough, the bosses made a virtue of
necessity and hired the "older folk"
again-at the same wage, most of
the time, or maybe at slight in
crease nullified by a tremendous
increase in the hated stretch-out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

to say about taking back the cut:
We'll, We'll consider it" Barnes
said, biting off the end Of his cigar.
But we want to know for how
much we're working"
80 far things stand as they are
Barnes replied, slowly
I'm other words you won't tell us
yes or no?" asked Cliff.
you aren't a business man.
young fellow. I just want to tell
you that whatever the company is
doing, is for the sake Of the COM
pany itself as well as for the men"
90 x, let's go" said Cliff, cut
ting Barnes short.
THEY filed out into the street.
Harris was waiting for them.
Cliff told him what Barnes had an
sWered to the demands. The or
ganizer said that he had expected
that, but that there was nothing to
worry about. The committee would
meet in the evening and make final
preparations for the strike The
whistle blew They went into the
gates.
Cliff was bit confused and dis
appointed. He had expected a
clear-cut answer from the boss, and
a good one at that, so that he could
have come to the meeting ready TO
tell the men that he had argued it
out with the company and won the
resembling of the cut. Now, Barnes
had cheated him out of it. He
thought that the director was a
darned shrewd fellow, who didn't
give a definite answer Just to keep
them on the string so that the men
wouldn't know what to do. Cliff
began TO think that it might have
been the wrong thing to go to the
/ company.
ITO be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
" H A It's o N

TWO WORKERS arrested in raid on So
cial Youth Culture Club coming up before
Special Sessions Court, Smith and Scher-
merhorn SITS. Brooklyn, Tuesday, Sept. 4.
: workers urged to pack court,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
ri

HARRIS followed. He spoke about
II the wage cut and how to stop it.
The bosses will not stop the cut I'M
less we prevent them" he said, land
the only way to prevent them is to
strike" He went on to recount at
length what had taken place in
other shops and how the men had
stopped wage cuts elsewhere. He
led up to the suggestion of sending
q committee to demand that the
cut be rescinded.
I'VE have no illusions that the
company will grant our demand
without a fight, but We want to
prove to the men who aren't pres
ent here tonight that the only way
we can stop the cut is by striking.
And not only that. if we win the
fight, Wen make the company stop
the speed-up and increase our
wages" The men applsuded.
warmly.
WHEN he had finished a commit
" tee of six was elected. Cliff was
to be the spokesman. Weber tried
to decline, but when he saw that
there were a lot of volunteers, he
accepted, too
After the meeting Cliff and a
committee got busy taking down
the mems names as they were leav-
ing the hall. Somebody tapped him
on the shoulder. It was pop. Cliff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
WORCESTER WORKERS
SCHOOL

DLANS for the establishment OF a
/ permanent Workers School
have been completed in Worcester,
classes to be conducted in a new
manner. The instructor will be the
supervisor of the class, assigning
topics to individual students who
will prepare, organize, and lead the
discussion for each class. This
method will insure the participa-
ton of the entire student body and,
it is hoped, develop teachers and
leaders among the workers.
Glasses will begin September 5th
at the Workers Center, 3 Harrison
St., Worcester. Students are urged
to register early.
DEGISTRATION at the Cleve-
II land Workers School, 1924 Pros
pect Avenue, has already begun.
Many new courses have been added
fer the fall term such as: National
Question, Self-Defense in Court,
Dramatics, Radio, Leafet Making
and a series Of short-term SYM
posiums, one dealing with Current
Events, the other on Workers
Health.
A Buffalo Workers School has
n been definitely established. Reg
istration begins today at Labor Edu-
cational Club, 760 Main Street.
Courses in Principles of the Glass
Struggle, Political Economy, Union
Strategy and Organization, Negro
Problems, Elementary English, will
be given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

Synopsis Cliff Muigan, 19-year old unemployed worker
his east to look for job In small town the
he finds work in wire factory At he meets Edna,
handsome daughter shopkeeper, and falls in love
with her. There ay-of at the wire works
A union organizer Max Harris Cliff becomes
active in the organization distributed calling
workers to meeting. There large and enthusiastic turn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

There are 10 different national
tiles among the textile workers,
with French Canadian, italian,
Polish and Hungarian workers in
the majority in the textile mills.
From Maine through to New
Hampshire and New England to the
shack towns of Alabama the spirit
of Gastonia, of Passaic and Pater-
son rises once again.
A million men, women and chill
dren from the squalor of the COM
pany towns and the tenement slums
are fighting for bread, for better
wages, for an end to the exploiting
cruelty that coins their lives into
profit for the mill owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
The Real Leaders of the Workers

IT'S astonishing that politically
Comrade Scuster should fail to understand the sinister significance
Of the Sinclair movement Far from viewing
Joy" is rather a portent of extreme danger
1t not for the pass through
termede stages as the penou esser ev The
experience Of the workers
this Although there is doubt
ported Sinclair because of their bitterness the
ruling regime in California the thing
nomc freedom which Sinclair promises only mirage
His in corrslng thousands
the Democratic Party is the Herald Tribune
weaving the through
its leadership Of scores of struggles in California has eloqunty
onstrated that is the only leader
and of the state.
There doubt that the large vote for
the rebous mood OF the California
Sinclair and his associates in the Democratic
they know how to divert this resentment
Sinclair movement calculated neutralze the miancy
California workers and its jobhe job of
10 ruthlessly this demagogy
There doubt too that thousands of California
voted for Sinclair naively
voting for of the capitalist
fraudulent Epic Plan" not the
perpetuang the life of capitalism,
Socialist has now become servant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Illusions About Sinclair

THE letter that have quoted is important believe
reflects the Illusion that undoubtedly the minds
Of many regarding Upton snca candidacy And the
for Sinclair" writes Comrade Schus "for at least
occasion for joy of sort"
How this vote be occasion joy of the
writer
deuson for the workers ocialdemocac meader
II not worse"-it is difficult to understand
Certainly the large for Sinclair revealed the that
thousands of California showing their
against the fascist terror surrounding the
this does not that is which will aid the
their fight against the California capitalist
Mr. Ernest X Linde staff correspondent of the New
Herald Tribune writing from President Rooyes
the other day. told about the advice getting
from prominent California Democrats regarding
The tenor Of this advice said Lndy that
should be surrounded with practical New Dealers who could
him from going too far pointed
bringing into the Democratic
votes which otherwise would radical
of both major parties"
Just who these candidates outside paresP
The Herald Tribune according
to this analysis Of the California political situation which
cuaed
stration Mr. Sinclair is deterrent breaking
of large bocs of votes especially unemployed
Communism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Comic" Propaganda

GRED radio comedian advertising products
presented anti Communist sketch his program
writes Albert
this humorous brainchild of his Allen editor
paper which carries writep city
Russian
that he wearing collar 1t out that Mr.
Arthur Brisbane capitalist
spoken jestD The comedian could
threatens to throw bomb Mr. Allen threatens
of the office Get
Ouch! You're biting legr the
his receding signifies his
the editor to his secretary Get with
line: DOG"r
Thus Mr. Allen implies that demonstraor is uncouh
shavn omo-throwing Russian bum dog psychological
effect this nsdous suggestion Intangible
atey calculated but it therefore all the
loubtedy this bit funny mental poison building
butressing vicious prejudice Mr. Allen proved
himself faithful to his capitalist environment"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
n. r. A. Has Intensified
the Crushing Poverty
of the Workers

nice people" who feed upon their
blood, drained by the legal robbery
and slavery Of the textile factories,
have risen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04
Is It Really "An Occasion For Joy?"

HONADE sCHUsTER is it possible for to
for Sinclair IAN occasion for of sort
statement that "M Sinclair powerful deterrent the
of large bocs of votes especially the
the of Communism"
The Herald Tribune correspondent additional insight
the Sinclair situation THE presented in this
by the California politicians Ed that nobody
tive than Mr. Sinclair could prevent thousands
unemployed from much farther the seeking
obectves by direct action
by Democratic progress"
Here have the peculiar Upton
Were not the Austrian
in precisely the way?
And Sinclair himself, in statement Immediately
nomination. boosted that have
to join the Democratic Party in the 1884 than
went to the polls yesterday
Of the Democratic Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-04

Featured played in THE Fountain"
a new RKORadio picture based on
the Charles Morgan novel, now play
ing at the Radio City Music Hall
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
or I<efS
New York Stocks

NEW YORK, Sept. 25. tU.P)-The
advance was resumed on the stock
market today after an interruption
to consolidate gains in the preced-
| ing session. Advances ranged to 3
points and volume increased.
Early in the day the list was ir-
regular. Further selling in U. S.
Smelling was an adverse influence.
Later this issue rallied along with
the general list. Railroad stocks
and bonds were strong spots.
The rally in rails was accom-
panied by further reports that some
favorable railroad news would soon
be forthcoming. New York Cen
trail moved up from 20 7-8 to 22A
and other eastern roads made cor
responding rallies.
Steel shares responded to i'm
provement in the industry. U. 8.
Steel touched 81 7-8 in the morn
ing and reached 341a where it was
up points from the previous
close.
Silver shares were depressed
when U. s. Smelling sold down to
HE. 1t came back 4 points from
that figure and other silvers made
good recoveries. Tobacco shares
were higher and General Cigar
equalled its 1894 high. Columbia
Pictures made a new high for the
year in strong amusement group.
American Telephone gained more
than 2 points in the communica-
tions. Mercantile issues continued
in demand with Macy up nearly Q
points. Utilities, motors, and build
ing issues made gains ranging to 8
points.
Dow Jones averages were the
highest since September S, the in
dustrial average at 92.72. up 2.27;
the railroad average at 1927, up
1.21, and the utility average at
20.64, up 0.84.
Sales totaled $4,000 shares, $780,
600 shares coming in the final hour.
Yesterdays volume was $4,000
shares. Curb sales were $4,000
against 10000 shares yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
AUCTION

For sale at public auction, in ac-
cordance with provisions of Section
5 of Chapter 339 of the Statutes of
1888. at Charles Deeker's Garage,
Winterhaven, California, at 10 A.
M. October End, 1894: home
made lotion trailer, registered
CRADLES Y. p. Lines of Arizona,
Inc. Also to be sold at public auc-
ton 11:30 A. M. October End,
1894, at Sandhills State Highway
Maintenance Station, 18 miles west
of Yuma: one Chevrolet truck and
semi-trailer, 1888 model, engine
No. T-3700477, licence BE P-236,
also registered to CRADLES Y. P.
Lines of Arizona. All the right,
title and interests of CRADLES Y.
P. Lines of Arizona in this equip
ment will be sold on mentioned
date and time unless tax in amount
of Ten Hundred and Seventy-four
Dollars and Sixty-five Cents
($1, ,07465) and costs, One Hundred
and Thirty-two Dollars and Thirty
six Gents ($10236) is paid before
said time and date.
(SignedD RAY L. RILEY,
20t10 State Controller.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
RIVER READINGS
Jury Postpones
School Hearing

LOS ANGELES, Sept. IS. CU.D -
Three hours before the entire Los
Angeles county school board was to
appear before the county grand
jury today, scheduled inquiry into
school affairs was called off by the
jury's schools committee.
The hearing was ordered post
poned indefinitely, not to be held
until after the Thursday election at
least, following conference be
tween Foreman John P. Buckley of
the grand jury and Georgia M. Wat
son, chairman of the schools com.
mittee.
The foreman explained that 10
was not the intent of the jurors to
permit any investigation to be used
by either side in the recall election
of Letitia Lytle, William Beaudry
and Arthur Eckman. members OF
the board.
The investigation was said by the
Progressive Federated Council to be
based on charges that school EN-
ployees had ben forced to distrib.
ute anti-recan literature.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
L. A. Stocks

LOS ANGELES, Sept. rs. U.P) =
The market took an upward turn
in early trading on the Los Angeles
stock exchange today. Volume con
tinued light.
Pacific Finance led, with 300
shares sold, opening at 87s and
holding there, unchanged.
Edison common sold 400 shares,
opening at IL, climbing to 1915, slip
ping to IL and recovering to 1878,
up u.
On volume of 300 shares or less
Claude Neon was unchanged al
In; Chrysler was up IA at 33; Ed
ison rs was up Is at 1917; Security
First National was unchanged at
261a; Union Oil was up 1s at 14B
and Southern Pacific was up IL at
18%.