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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
Call Against War Is
Blocked By Chairlady

BY Needle Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-Local As of the
International Ladies Garment Work
ers held a meeting three weeks ago
at which it was noticed that a del
egate from the American League
Against War and Fascism had come
to speak. AS he sat through our
old business and while we were
discussing shop conditions, we
thought he would be given the floor
before the meeting was over.
Everybody waited, the meeting
was dragged on till eight O'Clock,
when the chairlady suddenly ad-
journed the meeting without having
asked the delegate to explain his
call. The workers. all crowded
around the young man and
asked him why he had come, and
then they stormed around the
chairlady and demanded that the
young man be allowed to appeal
to the next meeting for delegates
to the Chicago Congress.
The chairlady was called faker
and severely criticized for her atti-
tude, as the IL.G.WU. has passed
resolution against Nsziism and
Fascism, and is now raising fund
of $4,000 from the workers, SO the
workers wanted to see some action
taken by their union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
By Shoe Worker Correspondent

By a Shoe Worker Correspondent
BOSTON, Mass.-The owner of
the Scholnick Shoe of Boston, Mr..
Browerman, the chairman of the
Eastern Shoe Manufacturers ASso-
citation of Boston, addressed his shop
crew 5000 on Friday, Oct. IL, pro-
posing that they accept Is per
cent cut in wages. Per decision of
the union no shop crew meetings
are allowed to be held in the shop.
To force the crew to attend the
meeting, Mr.. Braverman held back
the pay of the crew, which is usu-
ally given out 4:30 pm, until after
$50 pm. In his address Mr..
Braverman tried to intimidate the
crew to accept reduction first by
promising to supply them with
steady work" for the next six
months if they accept a Is per cent
cut or else he will move his plant
out of Boston. He also attempted
to turn the crew against the union
by all kinds of insinuations such
as: you must decide your own
faith, don't leave it to the paid
officials of the union, they have
their jobs and do not care for you.
Take secret ballot and decide for
yourselves" At a meeting of the
shop crew on Oct 14th called by
the joint council, which was one of
the stormiest ever experienced by
the union, the meeting finally adj
journed orderly, after vote to
support the stand taken by the
union and the Joint Council against
allowing wage reduction in any form
was carried by great majority.
On Friday, Oct. 10 the Scholnick
Shoe again passed out a question
naire, together with the pay slips
containing the following questions:
Are you for or against accepting
is per cent cut in price rates and
receive in return steady work for
six months, which will in the long
run and on the average give you a
larger pay envelope? Answer yes or
no." signed Scholnick Shoe Co. The
workers we're told to answer the
question and return to the shop
where they get their pay.
There is no doubt that when the
chairman of the Manufacturers
Association dares to go so far in
intimhating his shop crew and even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
&C. W.OfciaI
WhiteWdSheS
Wage Fraud
By a Worker Correspondent

TRENT ON, N. J. At the
Schmookler Manufacturing Co. here,
wheer the workers are organized in
Local 10 of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers of America, young
woman had been employed as a
machine operator for two years on
piece work. The number of tickets
handed in at the end of the day
to Mr.. Firestein were supposed to
correspond to the amount of work
accomplished. Mr.. Firestein RENTED
only part of the wages due and
kept the remaining money The
locals chairman, Steve Laurenick,
quoted the false price to the oper-
ator.
As soon as the fraud was dis
covered, MT. Massina of New York,
an official Of Local 10 of Trenton,
N. j.. was notified. He sent a rep
resentative, Tony Cardinale, to
whom the young woman presented
her grievance at special meeting.
Mr. Firestein, Mr.. Laurenick, Mr..
Schmookler, and several other shop
representatives were all present.
She was assured at the meeting that
she had been cheated. Tony Car
dinale believed to have fixed matters
up by offering her $S.47 taken from
Mr.. Firesteii's pay, the difference
due her from the previous weeks
wages. What about the shortage of
two years which amounted to over
$500? Also why did the chair
man keep all the union books for
two years and collected in the
meantime so cents per week from
every employee?
It is obviously clear that Mr.. Car
dinale was trying to protect the
grafters instead of the person
claiming the rights of her wages.
In a word, Mr.. Cardinale informed
her that if any legal steps were
taken she would be expelled from
work and the union. He was warned
that if that was the case, the affair
would be publicised. He remarked
most ironically that all the news
papers in the world wouldn't bother
him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
Trimming
Union Aid Asked
A.C.W. Leaders Send Workers Back After Strike
Conditions Getting Worse and Worse

the leader of that strike.
After we went back to work we
learned that there was no longer
union existing and conditions
were getting worse and worse. Here
is another shop in which the girls
would respond 100 per cent.
That's why I am writing this
letter to you Perhaps you would
be able to help your girls as well
as you helped the other girls in
the sweatshopS. I am speaking for
so or 10 girls, and ask you in their
behalf.
See what you can do Immediately
as the season is on now, and we are
working almost for nothing. The
reason am writing this letter to
you in your office is because my
brother is a metal worker and a
steady reader of your Daily Worker,
and that's how I became also a
reader of your Daily Worker. To
my opinion, the binding and baize
workers should be classed in the
textile trimming trade.
NOTE: For information and
help in organizing, the workers in
this shop should get in touch with
the Textile Trimmers Union or
the Trade Union Unity Council.
The address Of the Textile Trim
mers Union is 40 W. 18th St.,
New York; T. U. U. c., 1893 Broad
way, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
Rank and File Advances Militant Program To
Defeat Hunger Schemes of New England Bosses

attempting to bring about COM
pany union in his shop, that the
manufacturers have decided to at
tempt to smash the union.
The shoe manufacturers are try
ing to utilize the dissatisfaction of
the shoe workers to turn them
against the union entirely. They
take advantage of the usually slack
period and especially the greatest
unemployment in the shoe industry
because of the general intensified
ton of the crisis, to establish the
open shops in the shoe industry
But regardless of all these factors
involved, the Boston shoe workers
must and will defeat the bosses
attempt to break the union. We
remember well how the shoe manu-
facturers always before we had the
union, in the slack period through
similar schemes put over wage cuts
under the promises that when ii
will get busy the cuts will be re-
turned and when the season started
they put over more wage cuts. This
situation can not and must not re-
peat itself.
The shoe workers must realize
that the present officials of the
United, general, as we'll as loca,
officials, are not doing as much as
can and must be done. 1t is the
duty of the militant rank and file
to force the officials to adopt q
militant program to defeat the
bosses, such as:
y A thorough mobilization of the
shoe workers at local and general
mass meetings to clarity the situa-
ton and expose the main aim OF
the manufacturers to smash the
union.
q Registration of all unemployed
and develop struggle for the
securing of immediate relief for the
unemployed, and demand a project
for the unemployed shoe workres
from the ERA.
- To prepare for a struggle for
increases in wages to meet the rise
in the cost of living as soon as the
next season starts, around the
middle of January. If this program
is carried out the union can sue
cessfully defeat the shoe bosses
aims and the union can be strength
ened to carry on the struggle for
higher wages and better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
Boss Gives Crumbs
ToSplitUnion Ranks
Grievance Committee at Johnson e Johnson Nus
Be BrOGdened To Include Every Department

dues payments coming from the
pocketbooks of the Johnson & john
son workers are quite enough to oil
the high above-the-w workers U. T
W machine. The workers were
continually warned by priests ano
officials against the Reds and the
Daily Worker because it opens theil
eyes. John Dada, the business
agent, who poses as a radical" be-
fore the militant workers, did his
best to put over the sellout by di-
yiding the real radicals from the
rest Of the workers.
Although the consciousness
Of the strikers was fine and they
returned determined to continue the
struggle for their demands. one
thing was missing. That is the or
ganization of this rank and file
sentiment to prepare the unionistS
for possible maneuverS of the
management to GUST militant strik-
ers, and to struggle against any
other attempt to attack the union.
This was because the Communists
and other clasS-conscious workers
had not sufficiently reached these
workers to explain how they must
make their union effective, rescting
to any discrimination against q
single member, broadening the
grievance committee to represent
every department, and showing the
management, with unshakable unity
that there was to be no fooling
around.
If the boss sees a Union gaining
real foothold, he has plenty of
tricks in the bag to gradually make
it serve the same end as a COM
pany union. First he will try to re-
move the members who might
make this harder, then he will Of
ten dole out some crumbs, a wage
increase here and there, and
promises.
This has happened in johnson &
johnson. BY whatever means the
workers were forced out Of their
jobs, it spells discrimination and an
attack on the whole organization.
We do not criticize the girls in the
spinning department for getting a
raise; they are certainly entitled to
it, but make the company under
stand that the union will fight for
the gaining of the demands of every
single worker in every department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
By a worker Correspondent

CHICOPEE FALLS, Nass.-Some
weeks ago the workers Of the Chi
copee Manufacturing Co. johnson
81 johnson cotton mild, fled back
to their Jobs, four weeks of strug-
gle behind them, and facing them
the same conditions with promises
as the result of their struggle. Prom
Uses from the National Textile Board
of a report" assurances of the A.
F. Of L. officials about a glorious
victory. The victory "is all too big
for you to understand now; in fact
you don't need to understand" Ito
quote Miss Neary, A. F. of L. or
ganizer) There were promises by
the big boss that the company would
endeavor to meet their demands
when it was feasible.
When the betrayal telegram came
from German, Sept. %, the feeling
of the strikers ran high against this
incomprehensible order to go back
before any of their demands we're
won, without a single definite assur-
ance Of union recognition Union
officials were forced to go along with
this tide: the local business agent
sent back a wire to German ask
ing him to please explain what
was the victory they had won
And the workers kept on striking.
The Daily Worker with the head
line Stay Until We Win was
seized and read eagerly, and the
strikers closed their fists. You
could see in their faces the feeling,
This Union that we have built is
going to mean something" The
week went on and the officials kept
pumping into their minds that they
could put their trust in them to
win the struggle through peace
able negotiations This and the
pressure Of hunger enabled Cor
mans co-workers to convince them
that this strange victory was all
they could hope for. and that the
Union led by wise officials would see
that their wages were raised and
working conditions improved las
much as possible"
These officials, with their COM
Portable salaries and travelling ex-
penses, no doubt really felt that
arrangements could be made with
the management to dole out a few
crumbs here and there; and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
.Rr ANN TON

In introducing me to this column,
Helen Luke let me see some of the
letters she has received weekly. I
looked them over for an hour, and
found there were no two in COM
plete agreement! Each writer had
her (often hiss own idea on what
should be found in this column.
There were some who were very I'M
! patient that space and thought
should be given recipes, household
| hints, fashions. That was bourgeois
nonsense, they said. What really
concerned the woman in the home
were the struggles III the shop, the
movement of the unemployed for re-
lief and unemployment insurance,
and organization in her neighbor-
hood But still others said, What
are you going to try to do-give a
class angle to carrots? Let us print
nothing but the things the woman
is practically concerned with in her
home, the nutritious value of varf-
Gus foods, scientific data on the
care Of the children, etc. Let the
rest Of the paper take up the ques-
ton of women in regard to the class
struggle This controversy was the
fundamental one. Then there we're
lesser arguments. Within the field
Of foods, there were dozens of opin
ions as to just what foods were
really nutritious, sharp disagree
ments, heated discussion. Each Of
fered her own authority on her own
pet matter.
My conclusion from these letters
was that from the very outset of
my running the column, I must
realize I won't be able to please
everyone. Into our crowded column,
we must speak of the basic things
that confront women in the home.
We must address ourselves to the
housewives, of courSe-but not only
to the housewives, because in the
homes of the working class today
are mothers and wives who must
also work in the shop when they
can get a job. There are grown-up
girls, young women who are at
home, out of a job, unmarried be-
cause in many cases they are afraid
to raise babies in a capitalist world
where there is no stability or Sc
curity.
So it is that our I'm the Home"
column must cover many women's
problems. All angles of their lives
must somehow be included. Foods,
health, home, family. These are
important and must be written Of.
But also we must speak of those
m wing economic and political
forces that determine everything
the woman does in her home-the
high cost of living, the struggle of
women workers for better condi-
tions, the struggle of working class
women for their rights, not the old
feminist rights, but the real and
basic right of a woman las well as
NAM to job or to unemploy-
ment insurance, to, as Margaret
Cowl has said, "a joyous life" for
herself and her children.
would like to have this column
occasionally sketch the life of a
working class woman. For where is
there story more dramatic, in
tense and honest, than the story Of
1.-THE life of working class woman,
whether in the home or in the shop?
Above all, let the readers of this
column feel it is their own. hope
the same interest and shower of
correspondence that gave Helen
Luke such pleasure in conducting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
By a Worker Correspondent

MOBILE, Ala.-The speaker at a
meeting here, one DIR. H. I. Phillips,
opened his attack on the Commu-
mist Party by saying that every one
who wanted to see this country re
main as it is was Klansman.
The day has come when the
Khan must again mobilize in the de-
Tense of our country"-So said
Phillips. If he would be truthful, he
would have said, THE day has come
when the sneaks must mobilize to
fight down the rising indignation of
the masses, with terrorism and all
the savage brutality they can mus
ter"
Friend Phillips then extolled the
past activities of the Khan. Their
efforts to make the Negro keep
their places" their efforts to Cypress
the white worker of the South also
came in for their share Of praise
from this foul mouth-piece Of the
fascist boss class. He said that it
is WAR. He is right, it is class war,
the struggles of the masses against
the impossible domination of the
entire capitalist class, of which the
Khan is but one weapon of terrorism
against the miSery-ridden workers.
The former objects of the Khan
rule of terrorism, the Jews and the
Catholics, we're invited by Phillips
to join hands with their former
enemies, in fight against the
workers.
In speaking OF the recent strikes,
Phillips even went so far as to con-
denim the Communists for their
, stand against the arbitration of the
recent textile strike, and to praise
the sell-out tactics of the A. F. of L.
Some of the comment heard
about the speaker were very bitter.
The consensus was largely in favor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
Boston Shoe Workers Mobilize Against Wage Cuts
Socialist Lawyer Bearack Proposes Is Per Cent
Slash, With Wages Now Averaging $8 Weekly

slack periods the average wage of
the shoe workers is around So to
SO a week, Also because of the
tremendous rise in the cost of living,
the shoe workers have received an
indirect slash in their meagre wages.
This proposal is made by the So
cialist, Bearack, at time when the
demand for wage cuts and attempts
to smash the union are made by the
shoe manufacturers throughout New
England and throughout the coun-
try. The shoe bosses, as we'll as
some of the union officials who are
opposed to the policy of struggle
against the bosses, are only looking
forward for the signal when a wage
cut will be granted somewhere. to
start the ball rolling, and then a
general wage cut would easily be
put over on all shoe workers. We
can still remember the effect of the
betrayal of the shoe workers of
Lowell had on the situation. Lowell
started and the rest fell in line.
The Socialist, Bearack, knows all
that, but in spite of all that he is
true to his role as a Socialist Party
leader to betray the interests of the
workers. The workers of Boston
remember we'll the strikebreaking
role of Bearsck in the struggle of
the needle trade workers and others.
Every worker must be convinced of
the true role of the Socialist leaders
and of the service they render to
the bosses. During this election
campaign, any honest worker who
still has any illusions about the
Socialist Party leaders, and any rank
and file member of the Socialist
Party, must condemn such betray-
ais and vote for the candidates of
the Communist Party who most
courageously and boldly lead the
struggles of the workers at all times
for the immediate needs of the
workers and for the overthrow Of
the whole capitalist system that
breeds hunger. misery unemploy-
ment and war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
BY a Needle Worker Correspondent

By q Needle Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK; work for the
Economy Binding Co., at 1873 w.
21st St., New York, for the last six
months. It would be impossible to
explain to you the conditions ex-
listing in the shop. We are about
so or 10 girls. The biggest pay in
that shop is $11. I wonder why the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union does not organize the girls
in our trade. There are about 1900
girls working at the Binding and
Baize shops.
Two weeks ago. when the girls
went out on strike at the textile
shops, a few girls in our shop sure
ly thought the textile union would
organize our shops. I wonder
whether you can turn this matter
over to the proper people. Per-
haps they can do something for our
girls. am most positive, if some
circulars would be given out, our
shop would respond 100 per cent.
There is also a cousin of mine
who works for the Star Binding
on Fifth Ave. That shop went out
on strike about year ago. But
the next day the officers sent them
back to work. The officers of that
union were at one time of the Anal
gamated Clothing Union. A Mr..
Olander, who was brother to the
manager Of the Joint Board. was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
BY a Shoe Worker Correspondent

by SnOe worker correspondent
BOSTON, Mass. = The infamous
labor" lawyer, Mr.. Bearack, who is
the lawyer of more than score of
A. F. of L. locals and prominent
Socialist leader, also the lawyer of
the United Shoe and Leather Work
ers Union, proposes that the Boston
shoe workers accept Is per cent
wage cut as his only solution to
keep the shoe manufacturers from
moving from Boston and a solu-
ton of strengthening the union
The investigation" committee ap-
pointed by the MIRA. from Wash
ington declared that there is nothing
in their power to stop the shoe
manufacturers from moving, and
proposed to the union to suggest a
solution on how to keep the shoe
shops in Boston, limiting that the
shoe workers shall accept wage
cut pending a thorough "investiga-
ton by them.
Mr.. Bearack, the Socialist, pro-
posed that the union grant "re-
adjustment" downward of course.
of 10 to IS per cent to four of the
largest shoe shops in Boston and
whose owners are the leaders of the
Shoe Manufacturers Association,
which is carrying on campaign to
cut wages and smash the union.
This was rejected by the Boston
J. G. and the GE,B.
This proposal is made by the in
famous Socialist lawyer Bearack at
time when he as well as every
body else knows that the shoe work.
ers are even now working for starva-
ton wages, taking into consideration
the very short seasons and the long
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
dwelling Of Monument
Brings $Il to Daily

THE occasion of the unwilling of our beloved
"A Comrade Oslno formerly
W. O. Brooklyn which took Sunday forget
our revolutionary the Daily upon appeal of
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