The Daily Worker

TERROR RAGES AGAINST GARY FOREIGN BORN

Steel Workers Answer By Organizing Into Metal Trades Industrial Union

(By a Worker Correspondent.)

GARY. Ind.-For twenty years I have been working in the Gary mills of the U.S. Steel Corp. For the last eight years I ran a crane. Up to Nov. 1 I was working 8 hours a day, two or three days a week, getting 53 cents an hour. I have a family of 7 to support.

From Nov. 1 this year they made me work 10 hours a day while there is work, paying me 53 cents for the first eight hours and 21 cents for the remaining hours. The foreman told me if I wanted to work that way it is alright, if not I can quit.

This is a new way to cut wages.

CUTTING WAGES.

They cut the wages in the Gary steel mills right and left.

The workers are waking up, although slowly.

I attended the celebration of the thirteenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution on Nov. 7 in the Rumanian Hall. The hall was packed. The speakers told how the workers in the Soviet Union are happy and are bettering their material, cultural and sanitary conditions daily while the workers in the United States are forced to undergo the miseries and sufferings of the unemployed who are walking the streets.

BOSS TERROR.

On Nov. 14, Friday night, the Bulgarian and Macedonian workers in Gary were celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution in a hall on 14th and Adams Sts.

When the meeting was over uniformed officer No. 70 came into the hall and pointed a gun and together with two plain clothesmen held up the entire audience of 130 people, terrorized them for 20 minutes and after they searched them one by one arrested three workers and took them to the police station. Two were released after two hours and the third after 24 hours.

Officer No. 70 was drunk and smelled of moonshine and many workers were afraid that his shaking hand would discharge the gun.

There is a mad hunt for foreign-born workers in Gary by uniformed officers, plain clothesmen and immigration officers. They search the houses of the workers without warrants, arrest them and deport them by tens and hundreds.

BUT WORKERS ORGANIZE.

The corrupt city officials are trying their last card in the game to stop the workers from organizing, to play one nationality against the other, the American against the foreign-born, the white against the Negro, etc. Especially they are tricky when they see that the Negro workers are joining the revolutionary workers' organizations, which is enough to prove the correct step of the Negro workers. On this point there developed a curious situation: The socialist labor party in Gary, "the most revolutionary party of the world," takes the bourgeois standpoint that socially the Negroes must be segregated.

Naturally that they are a pure sect and on this question and help the reaction as "theoreticians."

Gary STEEL