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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
StrikeNOOU.
AutOMHn'S
Wife Says
Wait At Fisher Body
For Someone to Yell
''StOp Working
CBy a Worker Correspondent

FLINT, Mich.-Inside the Fisher
Body No. / plant the boys are wait
ing for some one to yell stop work
ing! We are going on strike"-de-
handing adjustment Of speed-up;
better wages; shorter hours.
Workers at all factories in Flint
are for strike. Many don't like
the delay, they are looking with sus-
picion on the leaders Of the A. F.
of L. Workers are saying that if
the union don't do something about
getting better conditions for us, we
will discontinue paying dues to the
union. Many are very angry for
failure to bring up the strike.
March 20, at pm, Buick work
ers had a meeting where they all
voted for a strike today. Buick,
No. II, wanted to walk out this
morning, but somehow they were
stopped.
My husband came home for
lunch, very weak and tired; he
didn't even have an appetite for
lunch, he was so tired; saying he
can hardly drag himself around.
And work! One can hardly catch
his breath, they are speeding the
lines so. It's most disgusting and
unbearable.
Today they fred Joe Livak be-
cause he protested against the
speed-up on the body finish line,
and that not enough wages are
paid. The shop steward from the
"A. F. of L., johnson by name, went
to Joe's foreman, Douglas, asking
him why did he fire Joe. Douglas
didn't answer, but went direct to
General Foreman Thompson and
the general foreman scolded the
shop steward, saying to shut up,
that he isn't running this shop,
and until then he and all men
should do as told or get out. There
was lot more to it but the work
ers didn't dare listen, for fear of
being fired.
This made the sentiment on the
body lines go from bad to worse
The workmen hushed, but everyone
of them eyed the foreman with
hate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Company Union At
Republic Steel Co.
Backs 1O-HOur Day
(By a Steel Worker Correspondent

by a Steel Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, In.-Just a few lines
to describe the tactics Of the COM.
pany union in the Republic Steel
Corp, at 108 st., here.
The company called us clippers to
work 10 hours daily. The company
union representative showed us
again that his attitude is in favor
Of the company's side and against
the workers will, with the pretext
that 10 hours work is only tempo
rary. When a few workers protested
about the 10 hours work, the COM
pany official said, you fellows al
ways have been working 10 hours.
1 don't see why you don't do it
row"
The conditions at this mill every
where and in every department are
unbearable. The Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union is work.
ing hard to organize the workers
into fighting organization, but the
cmopany has restored, in and out
side Of the mill, powerful spy sys-
tenn by which the workers are fol-
lowed. Workers, the S. M. w. I. U.
is at the gate every day. They
want to organize us but we do not
even talk to these workers, depend
ing on the fake promises of the N.
R. A. and the sweet words of the
company.
Get organized in a powerful In
dustrial Union and force both COM
pany and government to keep their
promises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Smash A. F. L. Gag on Strikes, Urges
Detroit Auto Worker Correspondent
Points Out MisIeaders Are Telling Men to Wait
Month or Two, When LayOffs Begin

because we are being Speeded-up
all the time to build surplus stock
for Ford and ChrysIer.
1t was particularly absurd because
the Highland Park auto trim line
went on strike today at lunch-time,
demanding an increase in pay-and
got it!
Maybe that was why Mcdonald
was so emphatic about not going
out on strike. 1t does put him in
w,cng with the management, who
hope through HIN and the whole
leadership Of the A. F. of L. ~
brC ak the strike.
Strong Opposition Needed
Fellows, we've had enough of this
sort of thing. Collins and Green
are working hand in hand with
Roosevelt and the auto manufac-
turers to delay and break the strike.
We've got to smash that kind of
leadership! We've got to build up
strong opposition to the betrayal
methods of Mcdonald and the rest
Of his gang of hand-picked officials.
We've got to get together and
force Mcdonald to adopt our po-
licies of fighting against the man
agement, not of cooperating with
them. We've got to get together
with all the other unions, with all
the organized and unorganized men
in the plants to make q strong
front for higher pay and better con-
ditions. And we've got to do it right
away, now, not next month, when
we'll all be sitting at home. Come
on fellows, let's do it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Dear Comrade:

Dear Comrade:
In the Daily Worker Of March 7.
we were very much interested in the
experiences of the comrade from
Rockford, H., not only because he
is member of our district (Dist. 81,
but also because in many ways the
life Of his unit parallels our ex-
perience here. In our case, how
ever, the Section Is located in city
at a considerable distance, which
has added to the weakness of our
unit.
1t is our opinion that this comrade
touched on the chief cause of his
and of his units trouble when he
said, "The Literature Committee was
so weak 1 had nothing to do with
it," 1t has been our experience and
observation that without theory
there can be no inner Party work,
and very little correctly guided
struggle. A certain amount of spon-
taneous struggle around easily re-
cognizable objectives can be carried
through with very little theoretic
clarity; but the test comes when
this point is lost or won, and it be-
comes necessary to use this struggle
as paving brick in the road to-
ward Soviet America.
r.. has no old members, the en-
tive po1-tv Unit 1,a1yiy,U hoay, e4o,.tad
with a group Of the most militant
Chain gang" workers. The almost
seventy miles between this new unit
and their own city made it very diff
ficult for the Indianapolis Section to
give us the correct guidance. But I
am very much afraid that at least
three of the four Indianapolis Units
are suffering from the same lack of
theoretical growth as our own unit.
Seven months after the R.. unit
was organized, not one member of
the unit had the slightest idea of the
function and duties of the unit buro.
Most of our members are still ig-
norant of this basic principle. Two
Of us have read the Daily Worker
constantly for more than two years.
A few others have read this impor-
tant source of Revolutionary knoWl-
edge and inspiration part of the
time. Our repeated urging that a
real study group be founded has met
with no success. Although the
Communist" has been within the
reach Of the entire membership at
all times for the past year, only
three or four have read an occa-
sional article. The rest have not
even taken the trouble to look at it.
Other workers publications the
Labor Defender, Soviet Russia To-
day, and the T. U. U. L. papers
are read almost entirely by non
party workers.
This criminal neglect of even
those sources of f-education
which are easily available even in
this rather isolated community has
resulted in sloppy, slip-shod ap-
proach to every problem of Party
work. Even when the intolerable
conditions of last year sent the I'M
organized workers searching for
leadership and program, our unit
had nothing to offer. When some
of the Acknowledgment directives
from the Section or District hap
pened to fit local conditions to the
point that a struggle was begun, our
unit lost itself in the laundering at
tempt of the blind to lead the work
ers whose eyes were only half open.
Mistakes have been made in the
last year and a half which will
handicap the Revolutionary work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27

to penetrate the big factory.
Another important prerequisite
for successful concentration is
therefore, that we shall look upon
the concentration point not as an
isolated unit, as if in a vacuum, but
in relationship with its surroundings
and connections.
The Question of Demands.
In the past few months the center
demands we put forward in the
Yard were to get back the Is per
cent cut, to put the laid off men on
C. W. A. jobs and for social in
surance.
These demands, especially the
first, met with the enthusiastic re-
Spouse of the workers. These we're
their demands as the above men
toned act of the 1000 workers
proved.
Now that the workers are about
to get back their Is per cent cut
we can point out that their action
is at least partially responsible for
it and we can cash in" on this Or
ganizationally.
We can say therefore that our
main demands we're correct.
But we entirely neglected to take
up the smaller, every day grievances
of the workers. We failed to mobi-
lie the workers to fight these
grievances and consequently could
not strengthen either our rank
and file group or our union. In
the immediate future we have to
pay much more attention to these
small grievances and at the same
time not to push into the back
ground the other major demands,
but skilfully link them together to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Achievements OfTOOlPlantin
USSR Told by Correspondent

try about 100000 reamers, drills,
milling cutters, taps, dies and other
cutting tools.
Built on an empty field on the
outskirts of Moscow. the Freser
plant began operations on the first
Of April, 1882.
On May Day, just one month
after the opening of the plant, the
first milling cutters, reamers, drills,
taps and dies began to stream out
of Freser to the machine and trac-
tor stations and the heavy industry
plants,
Now Full Pledged Workers
That was a year and nine months
ago. A person who had seen these
former peasants in their home
made bast-shoes working on the
most modern machine-t tools then,
would not recognize them now.
They have become workers .
proletarians who handle their ma
chimes and lathes with the calm
rapidity and assurance Of old, skill
ed factory hands.
Before 1882 (the first year of pro-
duction) had ended, they had mas
tered the production of 1856 types
and sizes of cutting tools. BY the
end of 1888, they had learned to
produce 434 different types and sizes
of tools.
During the first quarter of 1888,
they turned out rs per cent of
spoilage; 4.8 per cent during the
second quarter; as per cent during
the third quarter; and 3.5 per cent
during the fourth quarter.
The youth and former peasants
who run the machines in the Freser
plant will master in 1884 the pro-
duction of new types of cutting
tools never before manufactured in
the Soviet Union.
They will learn to produce ten
new types of milling cutters, five
types of drills, eight types of dies,
and six new types of taps. In all,
they will master the production of
% types and 760 sizes of cutting
tools.
They will learn to produce, in
1884, milling cutters with inserted
teeth. This alone will cut down the
import of the high-speed steel by
80 per cent and save the country
about one million gold rubles. They
will learn to produce collapsible
dies. hot-twisted drills, and milling
cutters weighing 325 pounds apiece
They will raise their productivity
of labor in 1884, by a minimum OF
20 per cent, and will produce 26,-
100000 rubles worth of cutting tools
compared with the 100000 rubles
! worth produced in 1888.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
az an Auto Worker Correspondentl

'Da ~ AAANt HHRANNNA
DETROIT, Mich.-We, auto work
ers Of the Briggs Highland Park
and Mack Ave. plants sure got a
good taste of the betrayal role of
the A. F. of L. leadership at our
first closed meeting held at Amity
Hall on Thursday, March %.
Because Of the strong strike SEN
timent in the plants, we joined the
United Automobile Workers Union,
believing that through a strong and
fighting organization we could go
out IN strike and get higher wages
and 9etter conditions.
However,, Fats" Mcdonald, the
organizer, made it plain to us right
of the bat that the A. F. of l..
doesn't work that way at all He
explained that the A. F. of L. is
against strikes because ct would put
them in wrong with the manage
ment." Well, who in the hell are
we striking against anyway if not
the management?
Re went on to explain that We
weren't strong enough for a strike
yet, and when we were strong
enough (which would be in about a
month or two) we wouldn't have to
strike at all. We could just send
him to talk turkey with the bosses.
What kind of reasoning is that?
Need the Money Now
The whole thing would be a good
joke if it wasn't so damned tragic.
We need the money now! In a
month or two we will all be laid off,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
From a Pattern Maker)
st. Louis, Mo.

0O' AOIuoJ N4O.
Daily Worker:
I am very anxious to join your
Communist Party, and would like to
subscribe to your paper, but as the
situation is, I can't make my way
clear.
I am one of the unemployed and
haven't worked three solid years,
and I can't see anything for the
near future.
I am a pattern maker by trade,
and can make anything out Of wood,
from building houses to wood carv-
ing, SO it seems to me, I must be
unlucky.
I happen to grab one of your
papers every now and then and it
thrills me as I read it, for it has
facts, not withholding any of it.
Here's hoping that some day may
become a regular member.
Sincerely yours,
M. NJ. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
MurdererS of
John Bielak
Helped by ALL
By an Auto Worker Correspondent

By an Auto Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-For the infor-
nation of the Daily Worker, I
would state that John Bielak might
have been killed for his union &C
tivities and that the Dawn Patrol
Of industrial spies are not a few
sissies. Don't forget that. They
are recruited from Crosse Point
italian gangsters, the Sicilian mob.
Frank X Martell was openly
charged by James Francis Murphy,
organizer of the Street and Alley
Cleaners Union, with being a gang
ster head. Murphy carried the sign
up and down Woodward Avenue
until the Martell gang stopped him
and broke up the sign. Notice how
the A. F. of L. organizer, Owen,
tries to show that Bielak could not
have been slain for union activities.
The Rank and File of the A. F.
of L. should scrap Martell and then
the United Front of labor will clean
out the spies. Mechanics Educa-
tional Society Of America men, who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Laundry Union
MiSleader Fights
NegrO-W hiteUnity
But Women in South
Get Together in
Strike Meetings
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBy a worker correspondent
BESSEMER, Ala. - This is on
wage differentials in the South: In
the Southern States, the bosses are
able to use one part of the workers
against the other. This is seen
clearly in Mr.. Ames' speech at the
Tutweiler Hotel in Birmingham,
Ala, Feb. 81, when Mr.. Anes saw
that the N. R. A. is bad for the
working class Of the South. He
tried to show the difference between
girls in Southern and girls in
Northern States, when he said that
the Italians are better working girls
than the white girls here, that the
Negro and white girls Of the South
are fast for one hour, and after
that they are ready to drop, in the
mills.
But Mr.. Ames did not speak about
the organization Of the girls in the
Northern States. They fight the
bosses in the Northern States, but
in the Southern States, the bosses
see the growing unity Of the Negro
and white girls of the South and
this makes the bosses afraid of the
unity of white and Negroes, United
in one Front, because in the South
the deep slave system has kept the
Negroes and white divided.
This shows in the laundry here,
where. the leaders of the union says
that he tries to keep the strike
down by any means, but the work
ers forced them to come out on
strike and we could see the unity of
white women and Negro women in
this strike, although the leader tried
his best to split the ranks of the
women. The leader had the Negroes
in one hall and white in another
hail. but the workers went to the
Negroes meeting and asked the
women to come to their hall. The
leader did not want this to happen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
TO ORGANIZE SPANISH
WORKERS
New York City.

Editor:
Four Comrades OF Brooklyn, hav-
ing studied very closely the sit
uation in Spain, and realizing the
big revolutionary movement, Wish it
to be led by the Communist Party
of Spain. We thing that the Daily
Worker doesn't give much import
ance in their columns, to this mat
ter. We have decided to propagan-
die and mobilize the Spanish
speaking workers by doing this
work. We notified you that we have
a very close contact with these COM
rades that lead the revolutionary
movement in Spain, especially with
the International Red Aid, with
which we are affiliated.
Therefore, we four comrades have
joined together and we have formed
this New Fraternal organization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
SIS FOR NEW PRESS

OIlCdgU, III.
Dear Comrade:
I am sending you SIS to help to-
wards your new press. Please send
me certificate of acceptance.
And also please send me infor-
nation in regards to joining the
Party. I am So years of age and
still retain my revolutionary blood.
ID. V.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Wheat Allotment and
C. W. A. Do Nothing
by a Farmer Correspondent

ny a FARMER COrreSpOndenJD
PEERLESS, Mont.-Enclosed find
$3.50 for one year of the weekly
edition of the Daily Worker, as 1
cannot get enough money to take
it daily.
The wheat allotment has not
helped the farmers much, Just
pacif1er, and the c. w. A. is no
better. Only few got work
through cold and blizzard weather,
and now that the weather is fair,
most all are fired, with the roads
that were worked on impossible.
are joining up in Ford's, should
watch Slim, the Swede; the Can
adam, Irwin; Walkowitz and
Charlie Ware. They are the eyes
of Ford.
How about making the Daily
Worker, the MESA. official jour
nal?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
PREPARING THE HARVEST
A REAL COMRADE AND FRIEND
Detroit NTirh

E. Boston, Mass.
In Soviet Russia, they use the
tractor to pillow the ground in order
to harvest, and to make the second
five year plan a success.
Here in America, we must use
the Daily Worker" to educate the
masses, in order to organize and to
make the revolution success.
G. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
NOTE

We publish letters from steel,
metal and auto workers every
Tuesday. We urge workers in
these industries to write US of
their working conditions and of
their efforts to organize. Please
get the letters to US by Friday of
each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Letters from Our Readers

called 1.-THE Spanish Speaking Pro-
letarian Aid" We have issued a
leafiet calling for mass meeting
to start organizing the Spanish
workers. M. G.
A REAL COMRADE AND FRIEND
Detroit, Mich.
Dear Sir:
I am a daily reader Of this paper
and enjoy 1t very much. Now I
wish to write small column about
one of your workers by the name
of Mrs. Anna Kushner.
She is the most faithful and kind
hearted lady have met in years.
She is so nice. She has almost for
saken her home and children for
the cause of your paper and her
felloW-men.
I think she should be spoken
about in the paper, for the good
work she has done in behalf of the
paper. I thank you in return and
hope to see this printed in the Daily
Worker. Mrs. A. G.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-30
Problem in "High" Finance

The ins and outs of high-pressue fi-, nancial deals are things nobody but an ex- pect of their mystery are positively exas- poets of thir mystery are positively exas- perating in their deep incomprehensibil- ity.
 For instance; the Federal Trade Com- mission is told that three power con- panies in the southwest tied up somewhere in the Insull chain, committed fantastic inflationary skullduggery back in the palmy days before the Insull crash. All told, it is charged, these firms inflated their values by $20,0O0,O0O paying vast unearned stock dividends and boosting rates sky-high on the basis of fictitious valuations,
 Now what we untutored folk who stand on the outside can't fathom is simply this: what was the point of all this phenagling, seeing that the Insull chain eventually foundered anyway? The public was taken for $20,000,O0O, on this particular deal- but it didn't even profit the gang that did the taking.
 There's some point to putting over fast one, if you make money thereby; but when insiders wind up back of the eight ball too, what's it all about?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-30
More Vital Than Reds"

It is easy to understand the demand for the deportation of alien Communists found guilty of participation in violence and riot ing, in connection with strikes or relief work or anything else. The nation needs, however, to be careful not to carry this anti-"red" feeling too far.
 Communists, or anyone else, should not be denied their rights to free speech and free assembly, as long as they obey the law. They should not be punished or de- ported without fair trial. There should be no wholesale assumption of guilt without. proof.
 The reason for such carefulness is not undue tenderheartedness toward radicals. It is recognition of the fact that the pres eryation of certain rights is more precious to the American people than freedom from noisy, trouble-making agitators. If those rights are angrily denied to one group of persons, they can later be denied fo others. There would be nothing but re- oret if Communists were suppressed 10 the advancement of Fascists, or if dictat,, inc what some people were to thisk and aav led to dictating to all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-30
Cause For Trouble

Down in New York City, there is a gen. tleman who has made millions out of strikes. For years he has been supplying big industrialists with strike-breakers, and the business has been profitable one. And while the present era has put lot of business his way, he doesn't like the looks of the signs and portents.
 Eve been in this business long time" he says. "I'm no chicken. I've made mil- lions breaking strikes in this country. There's plenty of trouble ahead. We're going to be lucky if we save this country from revolution"
 It is probable that this gentleman is taking an unduly pessimistic view of the situation. But it might be added that if the workers of America ever do get into a revolutionary mood, one of the prime causes will be the activities of the men who make business of supplying profess sional thugs to act as strike-breakers, guards and strong-arm men in industrial disputes.