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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
BY a Laundry Worker
CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK.-The so-called gen.
eral strike which was called by
Local $40, Laundry Drivers Union
CA. F of l., has developed into a
regular sellout,
The leaders of the local stopped
the rank and file drivers from
really forcing the general strike in
the Bronx and New York
The officials of Local $40 from the
very beginning tried to maneuver to
stop the drivers. First, the officials
fatty refused to issue a leaf1et call
ing for a general strike; secondly,
the officials refused to allow mass
picketing or any mass action.
Schscter, Socialist President of the
local and other officials, split the
ranks Of the drivers into small
groups. All scabs are allowed to
operate without hindrance by strik-
ers. The officials have capitulated
before the police terror and have
completely stopped all strike activ-
ity, except canvassing customers to
stop the bundles.
The following laundries are still
on strike:
The eastman and Master Laun-
dries in the Bronx; in Manhattan.
Surprise. World Sun, Whitehouse,
Eagle, Manhattan, West Side, San
itary and Star.
The Hudson Laundry and the
World Laundry have signed ten
tative agreement agreeing to the de-
mand of the union for $25 a. week
guaranteed, Is per cent commission
and SIS a week.
The conditions among the drivers
in New York offers a splendid OPP
portunity for a real general strike.
We can still do it if the following
tactics are applied:
1-Organize flying squads of hun
dreds Of drivers.
2-The pulling Of the large shops
first such as National, the May
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Mass Picket Lines Are Needed
10 Strengthen Laundry Strike

flower, Stancourt, Carolyn and other
large laundries.
3-The establishing of mass picket
lines before all laundries.
4The election of rank and file
strike committee chairman. instead
OF Icy Massur. petty racketeer.
5-Immediate establishing of a
united front of the industrial union
Tor pulling of the insiders.
6-Setting up relief committees
as the union is practically broke.
The officials of Local 80 have re-
fused the floor to Sam Burland, Sec
rotary of the Laundry Workers In
dustrlal Union. At our meetings
however, as the sell-out becomes
clearer to the drivers, the resent
ment is growing and a united front
may yet be set up.
AT the time of writing, the Cash
man Laundry. which is the largest
on strike, has 30 trucks on the
streets without any action being
taken by Local $40. The Manhattan
Laundry has 10 trucks on the streets
and six on strike, with no ATTEMPT
being made by Local 80 to stou
the scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
By Steel Worker Correspondent

GARY, Ind. - Fellow Workers,
these are our conditions in the
Transportation Dept in the U. s.
Steel Works here: The speed-up
is unbearable and this has been 60
ing on for some time. But now,
since the last lay offs, it's even
worse.
AS you workers know, sWitchmen
are supposed to be allowed to stop
and eat their lunch. Even though
there is a rule that the switchmen
and engineers are supposed to have
90 minute lunch time at any time
after II am. and Jpn. on the day
shift, and on the four O'Clock to
midnight shift, between the hours
of to 7 pm, and on the midnight
shift, between 3 and 5 am, you can
try and stop at that particular time,
and see where you get off.
This is the reason: not that the
yardmasters are any too strict, but,
as you workers know, every engine
that is in the yard works for diff
ferent departments, and the hunkies
are the real discriminators. There
is a pit foreman, and a labor fore
man, and on top of all this, a
general turn foreman, and even the
hook-ons are after the switchman.
This gang of maniacs does not care
to see an engine stop for or 10
minutes, and that is how the
Transportation Dept. is run in this
main steel works.
Now, fellow workers, on Sept. 14th,
the electrical workers from No. 3
and No. open hearths had called
all the charging machine operators
and the ladle and hot metal crane
operators together for a minute in
the plants main Office, together
with the electrical superintendent.
demanding an hourly rate of s.
cents per hour for the charging
machine operators, and IS cents per
hour for the crane operators. They
demanded this for the reason that
any time a furnace breaks loose or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

Eliminated
By Layoffs
By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, nl.-At the Interna-
tional Harvester Co., here, in the
last month or two, we workers have
been called to the Office to be ques-
toned about our length Of service.
When we came to the Office, our
names were called, and We were told
to sign our names. That was about
our length of service. Some of us
who were laid off over two years,
regardless of how long we worked
for the company before, had to sign
that we just started as new men.
All the years we worked before
are no longer counted towards our
vacations and pensions. Some of
the workers had worked with the
company for over Is years, and now,
when the time came to receive their
pensions, because they had been laid
off just before, they were robbed by
the company.
Workers, We did not take that
time off, the company laid us off.
We are not to blame. We must de-
mand that these workers be replaced
on the books and given credit for
the service they spent with the
company, and also those workers
who have long service should re-
ceive the pension.
And now a few questions to the
representatives who were elected in
the company union elections. All
OF you were elected by us workers
to represent us in the company
union. Some of you are represent
ing the company, not us. What are
you doing in the Works Council?
The Company is taking our rights
away as with this pension business.
and all of you must fight to de-
fend these rights Some of the
workers told you representatives
about the company attack on the
workers. Representatives, we de-
mand that you. as workers, fight for
our rights, and also fight for the
workers who have 25 years of serv-
ice or over to be pensioned off, and
given enough money so that the
workers will be able to live.
Fellow workers! That's what we
are getting from the company union.
When we get old, we are out! We
must fight against the company
union and have union of our own
choice. The workers union: The
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

NEW HAVEN, Conn.-The manu-
facturers, feeling that the unions in
the steel and metal industry have
been sufficiently weakened, are
using the company union and the
yellow dog contract to put over 10
to IS per cent wage cut, along with
further reducing the buying power
Of the dollar by having the food
and garment trust raise prices. This
does not tell the whole story.
Roosevelt is calling for a truce be-
tween capital and labor, the same
old rotten gag the Hoover admins
tration tried, and the so-called rep
resentatives Of labor, the pot-bellied
Greens, Lewises, and VOLS, are
again rushing TO the rescue. The
top executives of the A. F. of l.. are
about to promise to hog-tie the mill
tant rank and file to a no-strike
agreement.
We remember the last agreement
in Hoover's term. Did the bosses
keep their promises of no wage
cuts? Like hell they did. Before
the ink was dry on the no-strike.
no-wage agreement, the bosses
clamped down with a stretch-out,
share the work, and wage-cut
attack that reduced wages in the
steel and metal industry over so
per cent.
Did the A. F. of L. top leaders
keep their agreement in the face of
this vicious attack? And how! But
the militant Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union grew in
strength and prestige from a small
organization. Months before the
wage-cuts, up till the present day
we fought the Greens and the whole
Metal Trust to get back these wage
cuts German, the Judas of the
textile workers. has already signed
a truce, to hog-tie the textile work
ers for six months.
This is not only an attack planned
against the metal workers. The U.
S. Steel Corporation sets the ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Z. S. STEEL LAYOFF MAKES SPEED-UP WORSE
Only 2 of e Pipe
Furnaces Working
By a Worker Correspondent

BY a Worker Correspondent
ETNA, Pain the plant
where I work we just make pipes.
We don't work steady. We have
six pipe furnaces, about two of
which work. We work one week
and are off for another week,
sometimes for two weeks.
The plants in this district are
doing little, and the unemploy-
ment is very bad. Starting to-
day, the B. & o. railroad is send
ing freights and trains over the
Pandle railroad, McKeesport and
Pittsburgh, to New Castle. This
will remove over $50 men. I get
copy of Fight Against War and
Fascism every month. I speak
to my friends against war and
fascism every chance I can.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
STUDENTS REPLACE PULLMAN
WORKERS AT LOWER WAGES
BY a Worker CORRESPONDENT
By a Worker

CHICAGO, Ill.-The Pullman Car
Co. constructed a couple of new
Stream line trains and had to re-
pair several cars. Therefore the
company was compelled to rehire
some of the workers of which some
were high school graduates. After
the work was completed the old
workers were fired and the high
school students were kept to run
the machines for starving wages.
The old workers. for being loyal to
the employer and faithful to the
Constitution, now receive patriotic
bean soup and sleep in Roosevelt
Hotel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

the age of Il. For many years
she labored at this unpleasant
trade. putting in eleven hours daily
for about a dollar and q half
week. Nights she went to church.
At a wedding, Margaret made the
acquaintance of other young people
with whom she and her chums as
ISOLATED, attending church affairs
and other respectable" gatherings,
until new acquaintance took them
to a meeting, where young Miss
Cowl heard expounded Socialist
theories, story Of the rise of CAPT
talism. development of a revolution
airy working class, and its historic
mission, to save its own life and
give a new lease on life to human
ity generally by destroying that
economic system (which develops
into fascism, bringing chaos and
war;
Within six months Miss Cowl was
an organizer for the Socialist Party
This was in 1914, just after war
had bsen declared.
Since then Margaret Cowl has
had a long education in the revo-
lutionary labor movement. She,
with others. left the Socialist Party,
becoming with other 'left-wing"
elements. a charter memFe" Of the
Communist Party. She has spent
years in organizational work among
miners, cloakmakers, and textile
workers.
She has been very active in the
LEAGUE Against War and Fascism,
helping to organize women's com
nittees, which sent delegates to
Paris. She is now directing the
womens work of the Communist
Party. and as stated, is editor of
working Woman"
Vote for Margaret Cowl.
Vote Communist for state Sys-
tenn Of adequate old age pensions,
maternity, accident, and disability
Insurance and childhood protection
at the expense Of the employers and
the government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
A WEAPON FOR FASCISM

Crosby, MINI.
Dear Comrade Editor:
At the Interdenomination Mis-
sionary rally and conference held
at Medicine Lake, Mimi, suburb
of Minneapolis, during the week
ending August 26. the doctrines in
the Jewish Protocol were put before
the So-called Christian people as
facts that are proved by the scrip
lures. The Protocol is supposed to be
a plan formulated over the centuries
by the Jewish leaders providing for
the final domination of the world by
Jews. 1t has been proven time and
again as fake, but we find that
the issue has been raised now in
very appropriate place, as this can
be used as the foundation of an
anti-Jewish, fascist movement here.
The Jews are accused of deliberately
fostering the depression on the world
so that economic control may be
easier for them, as they are sup
posed to have all of the money.
1t is only step from this idea to
the persecution of the Jews, and the
building of fascist army.
1t is up to the workers to expose
this false doctrine the moment it
starts to crop up in the churches.
Jewish workers, learn the lesson
of Hitler's fascist Germany. Co.
operate with the Communist Party,
before it is too late, with the work
ers of Christian, Jewish, Moham-
medan, of all religions and races,
who can in united effort push
the Fascists off the face of the
earth.
u r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
IN THE HON E
Woman Candidate Is Veteran Labor Leader
BY HELEN LUKE

The editor Of the Working Woman
magazine is among the candidates
on the New York Communist ticket
for election she is Margaret Cowl,
candidate for State Senator Q2th
District.
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y, she at
tended parochial school as a child.
Her emergence from this religious
background into foremost ranks of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
japanese Buying Dogs
for War Purposes

ABERDEEN, Wash.-Recent ships
loading here from the Coastal ports
for the home ports of Japan have
been endeavoring to purchase young
German police pups up to eight
months of age 81.
A recent Jap freighter had about
30 aboard and were endeavoring to
buy more when questioned upon the
uses of the dogs and the need of
them they openly replied that lin
side Of 10 months there is going to
be war in Siberia and they would
need them (the dogs)," presumably
for message carriers and for pos
sibly dog sleds in the north.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Build Basis
Of National
RadiOUniOn
BY a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Upon the
initiative of the National Council
of the Radio and Metal Workers In
dustrial Union-a national conven-
ton of radio and metal workers in
dependent unions was held in Cam
den, N. j., on Saturday and Sunday,
October and 7.
At this convention were present
81 regular delegates, representing
organized locals in the R. C. A.
Victor, Camden, N. j.; Atwater
Kent, Philadelphia; Tool and Die
Makers local, Philadelphia Camden
area; R. C. A., Harrison, N. j.; In
dependent Union of Radio Workers,
Greater New York. In addition to
the regular delegates, fraternal del
egates were present representing the
following organizations:
Instrument Workers Union, New
York; Tool & Die Makers Club of
New Jersey; Allied Wood Workers
Union working in radio cabinet
plants Red Lion, Pa. and also 8
fraternal delegates from the New
York District of the Steel & Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
All delegates present, during the
2-day session, brought out the work
ing conditions in their respective
shops and territories, and the need
of organization to meet the attacks
Of the bosses in the radio and metal
shops Delegate after delegate from
the various territories also exposed
the attempts that are being made
by the leaders of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to destroy the mil
liant independent unions. The con-
vention unanimously passed the fol-
lowing resolutions:
1-Endorsing Bill H. r. 1893
as the only Unemployment In
surance Bill for the workers. p
Endorsing and pledging full sup
port TO the movement for the
organization of the Independent
Federation Of Labor in the U. S.
"a resolution to fight for the
S9-hour week, With no reduction
in pay nor increase in the speed
up. A resolution demanding
the immediate unconditional re-
lease of Tom Mooney. 5-A res
olution endorsing the League Of
Struggle against War and Fas-
cism, and pledging cooperation
and support.
The following kilograms were also
decided upon to be sent:
Ito Governor Miller of Ala
bama demanding the immediate I'M
conditional release of the Scottsboro
Boys. 2-To the German Ambas-
sador in Washington demanding the
immediate unconditional release of
Ernst Thaelmann. 3-To the strike
committee Of the maritime workers
in the Atlantic and Gulf ports
pledging support in their struggles.
These delegates represented, ex-
Guiding the Steel & Metal Workers
Industrial Union, 1854 organized
WotKerS IN plants employing some
1900 workers. All these delegates
represented officially recognized
unions in their shops.
A constitution, recognizing the
class struggle, dues system, and
books were agreed upon. The Con-
vention also decided to begin the
publication of a monthly paper-tc
be known as the Radio g. Metal
Worker.
All delegates enthusiastically
pledged to go back to their respec-
tive organizations. urge immediate
aff1liation of the independent unions
to the Radio & Metal Workers In
dustrial Union, and to build a Ma
tional militant independent union Oh
the radio workers throughout the
U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
NOTE:

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers in these
Industries to write us of their con-
ditions and their efforts to or
ganize. Please get these letters
to us by Saturday of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Painters Call
On Workers To Contribute

CENDNG in six dollars to the Daily Workers
the Alteration Painters working shop
upon example
points
Seattle which far has the of little activity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16

re volu t ionary
fighters is most
interesting, and
indicative of eff
feet Of MARKHAM
t h e orie S on a
wide-awake, eX-
plotted worker.
Unable to finish
school, Margaret
(third of seven
,hildren) went
to work in a to-
bacCo factory at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
LETTERS FROM
OUR READERS

because of the volume of letters re-
ceived by the Department, we can print
only those that are of general interest
to Daily Worker readers. However, all
letters received are carefully read by the
editors. Suggestions and criticisms are
welcome and whenever possible are used
for the improvement Of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-16
Men Fired AS They
Become Experienced
By a Worker Correspondent

bg hVThcT Correspondent
WILLLAMSPORT, Pa. - Piece
workers are told in the morning
how much work they must turn
out that day. Men carrying iron
and pouring are paid II to 70
cents per ton, and told how many
tons they must carry that day.
Experienced men are not en-
ployed here, and as they become
skilled they are laid off or
worked out, and unskilled hired
in their places.
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Arrested Three Times,
But Force A Permit
For Election Meeting
BY a Worker Correspondent

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A permit
for outdoor meeting on the Election
Campaign was refused. The COM
rades decided to go ahead with the
meeting
The speakers for the meeting
were, VIM. Young, Mayor of Platt,
Michigan, running for State Rep
resentstive; Edla Seppi, candidate
for County Office; Guy Miller,
County Candidate: Ken Woods.
member Of the Young Communist
League.
The speakers we're all arrested.
taken to the station, and released
Immediately. They went back to the
spot where the meeting was being
held, and we're again arrested and
immediately released, and returned
to the spot of the meeting. They
were again taken to the station, and
were given a permit to go on with
the meeting.
This shows that by persistency we
can hold meetings. There were
about 200 present at the meeting,
and the crowd was very enthusiastic.
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mercenaries of all kinds, strike
breakers, l00-percenters and fas-
ciSts In writing these three novels,
Farrell presented a startling native
counterpart Of Gorkis THE Lower
Depths" Occasionally, in the midst
Of this morass Of ignorant youth
sinking to degeneracy and bestiaI-
ity, a note Of hope has appeared.
An isolated character here and
there has risen from the swamp
and projected a dream of a new So
ciety, new life. But this has been
rare in Farrell's work.
The publication of Calico Shoes"
makes necessary a thorough reval-
uation of Farrell's work. Such re-
valuation is doubly needed because,
despite the rapid forward move
ment of revolutionary literature in
America, Farrell seems to be stand
ing relatively still ideologically. The
stories in Calico Shoes" although
some Of them are in themselves eX-
cellent pieces, seem to be merely
by-products Of the greater and more
painstaking labor which went into
the writing of his novels. This is
evident not only by the dates
which are appended to each Of the
stories, but by the hasty and, in
some stories, careless manner in