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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
RUSSIAN Mill WORKERS
LIFE HE'LL UNDER Gar

Hludow even in czarist Russia was
very well known for their cruelty
to the workers. Old workers (who
are now heroes of toll who receive
a pension from the insurance fund.-
say the owner was always drunk.
The day of his marriage Michael
Hludow wanted to reward" the
workers.
Near his private home, in the gar
den, he put a post s feet high, and
on top of it put boots, clothes, etc.
He had the post creased with soap,
and told the workers to climb up
the CREASED post to get the pres
ents."
In 1907 the factory owner, aMa-
dame Hludova, spent half of her
money in casino, sold the factory
to Prokhorov and left part of the
stock for herself. There was little
difference under the new owner. 1t
was very hard for the workers in
our factory. The working day was
8 to IL hours and more.
The workers got rouble and 10
copecks (55 cents) up to 3 rubles,
8 copecks (about $1.55) a week.
This small wage was reduced to
nothing by a system of filming. Pay
day the worker drew nothing. Even
now old workers remember the "spe-
cialist," a director Perelov. This
director, noticing worker who did
not bow low enough, would say to
him as if the worker were dog,
Ego to the office, where you will be
fined"
Every day this gave the owner
200 to 300 rubles profit. The other
bosses were no different; they
forced women workers to live with
them. There was no protection of
workers. Women workers often
gave birth to a child near the ma
chine.
Very young children worked in
the factory. There were many ac-
cidents; machines had no guards.
The houses were insanitary. The
workers houses looked like jails.
The children were not considered.
Factory owners lived in private,
luxurious home. and received wages
20 to so times more than workers.
Many r." s'Vck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
u. T. ". SOLD OUT.
BROOKS|DE MEN.
THEY Want N.T.W.
3 Times as Much Work
5Under Stretchout
by a Worker Correspondent


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mail) i.
They have got the stretchout in
the Brookside Mill, and that means
why you're doing over three times
as much work as before. AS doffer
in the Brookside mill l can tell you
that the stretchout is enough to kill
a man, let alone woman worker.
About 5000 work in the Brookside
Mill Of them about 1000 at least
are women, working on both night
and day shift. We work a 55-hour
week, 10 hours day, 51a days a
week.
Ny average wage has been $40
and s.$11 a week. Now that amt
enough to live on, is it? No, it amt.
Weavers in Brookside have been
averaging $14 week, and they sure
have to do well to get that much.
They have to run % looms to do
that.
Here's how the stretchout crept
up on US, like. You take when l
started in the Brookside. That was
four years ago. Then it was 10 and
12ji looms for a man. Now it's %
looms.
That's why the Brookside workers
are willing to listen to the National
Textile Workers Union and join it.
It's not like what the United Textile
Workers Union is that sold out here
ing Brookside in 1921, and this year
i'm Elizabethton. So join the N.T.W
Brookside workers.
"A Good National Union Man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

10000 men already kicked out. Will
this extra money come out of Ford's
pocket? No.
The men who remain will be given
a raise and unless they keep produc-
ton to par and show they deserve"
the extra money they will be de-
NOTED to second or third class and
transferred out into the street.
At time like this when workers
are begging for a job, Ford hopes
to get the last ounce of energy from
those who are lucky enough to have
a job, holding the incentive of a
raise and the alternative of being
fired over them as whip. In this
manner Ford hopes to get "his"
padded nineteen and a half million
dollars back with interest.
But as long as the workers are
unorganized they must tolerate such
humiliation and abuse. Into the
Auto Workers Union!
x. Y. ".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

said that the firm was right in most
cases.
The International Tailoring has
the preference to hire and fire the
tailors whenever it desires, because
this was granted to them by the mis-
leaders of the Amalgamated before
and after the last strike. The firm
is, therefore, taking the privilege of
reducing wages at any time.
The tailors will rid themselves
from these enemies only when they
realize that the present administra-
ton of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers is serving the interests of
the bosses, not the workers. One
union of the whole needle industry
and that's the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, will solve the
present evils of the right to fire,
wage cuts, piece work, etc. 1t will
eliminate company unionism.-S. W..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
FROM 4LOOMS
TO 70 IN THE
cherokee Mill
That's How Stretchout
Works in Knoxville
(By a Worker Correspondent

DU u w Oth6I SC'CopO'tUO"Sf
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mai).
I'm proud to say | am member
of the National Textile Workers
Union, and I sure was glad to be
a delegate to the National Conven-
ton in Paterson. I'm also being a
delegate to the International Labor
Defense Convention in Pittsburgh.
I'm a read Red if ever there was
one.
I want to tell about conditions in
the Cherokee Cotton Mill here in
Knoxville. The workers are real
slaves in the Cherokee.
The weavers average S18 week.
The frame hands average about S12
week. We work a 10-hour day
and a 55-hour week.
They put the stretchout system in
the Cherokee to make the bosses
richer and us mill hands poorer.
When | went to work in the Chero-
kee mill they had about 200 looms.
Then they put zoo Draper looms
and then later 200 more Diapers.
First I had to run four looms,
and they increased it to six looms.
When they put in the first 200 extra
Diapers they increased each mans
work to eight looms. When they put
in the second lot of Diapers they
made each man take care of IL
looms.
Now they're up to 20 Draper looms
for man, and IL COMPARTMENTS
looms. Well, I told them that ]
couldn't see what was happening
way over the end of the room, and
they'd have to give man pair
of roller skates OF a motorcycle tc
get around with all the looms he
had to take care Of.
Well the National Textile Workers
Union is now in Knoxville, and its
the same union that led the Caro-
lima workers. Knoxville workers
must not mix it up with the United
Textile Workers, which we're all
got no use for, as it sold out enough
strikes in Tennessee, like at Eliza
bethton and at the Brookside Mill
in Knoxville.
CHEROKEE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
KNOXVILLE TENN MILL WORKERS LOOK TO NTW 10 LEAD Then
Lumbeyton, NC.
Needs the NTW
Too, Says Worker
by a Worker Correspondent

LUMBERTON, N. C. (By MaiD .
for the workers are
very bad at present for the Lumber
ton mill workers.
"The Dreslen Spinning" "The
Old Lumberton Spinning" "The
Manifold Weaving Mill" and the
Jennings" Spinning and Weaving"
are owned by Jennings. All mills
are shut down for two weeks and
when they open up the bosses plan
to take the workers back for less
pay with more stretchout.
But the workers are darned sore
about it. The biggest percent of
them have been averaging only
about $3.50 per week anyhow. The
weavers have been running II to
"a looms and though they have been
getting from $12 to SIG per week
if the bosses plans are carried out
they will only make from Sc to $40
per week. The National Textile
Workers Union has got to lead the
fight here.-Mill Hand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
AMALGAMATED NOTHING BUT
COMPANY UNION.
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
A worker who toiled for the ex-
plotting firm, the International
Tailoring Co., was known as good
operator in the garment line. But
he was discharged for no apparent
reason after seven years of work in
that place.
He then appeared before the ex-
ecutive board demanding to be rein
stated on the job. The board unan-
imously decided that this brother be
put back to work. A committee was
appointed to see Manager Becker
man for the reinstatement of that
discharged worker, but Beckerman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
MT. ". Convention As Seen
By 2 Bows from Knoxville
each run 40 sides.

each run 40 sides.
This is the first time / was at
such convention. | had never heard
of union before, but l do know we
need one in Knoxville. And when |
return l am gonna take circulars
and application cards and get in lots
of union members. | liked this con-
vention fine. | wish more delegates
could have come from Knoxville and
learned as much as / did. And we
hope that the seven Gastonia boys
are loose. We heard them speak
and we know that they are good
union members and should keep on
organizing in the South.
That's all we can say now. When
we return to Knoxville we will write
more for your paper. Ri
2 Young Knoxville Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
CUT The WAGES,
DOUBLE WORK, IN
CHEROKEE Mill.
Stretchout Enslaving
1900 in That Plant
by a Worker Correspondent


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By Mail).
There's about 1900 workers slav-
ing hard in the Cherokee Mill, and
about 1000 of them are women.
Most of the women in Cherokee are
weavers or work in spinning.
They have the 10-hour day in
Cherokee and SIS hours a week. The
wages are about an average of So
a week in the mill. I was getting
$1240 a week as a doffer
The workers in the Cherokee mill
never have had any union. But
they heard plenty about the takers
U.T.W. organization, because many
of them worked at the Brookside
mill when the U.T.W. left them flat
and pulled out of town in the middle
of a strike.
The stretchout system is one of
the worst things the workers in
Cherokee mill complain of. When I
started I was on % frames, then
they made it 40 frames, so you can
see how the stretchout works. Near
ly twice as much work. Do we get
more money for it?
Why, they even cut the wages. l
came on at $15.09 a week. They cut
that to S12.4G a week. That's how
the stretchout works.
Fellow workers in Cherokee Mill,
join the National Textile Workers
Union. was at the National Union
convention in Paterson, and fellow
workers, the workers from mills run
that convention. And they run the
union too, the workers themselves.
Mill Worker and Union Mem
Der, too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Bethlehem Steel
i'm Baltimore Lays
Off Over 10000
by q Worker Correspondent

10y u w OFhef CoffeSPOftueftc/
BALTIMORE, Md. (By MaiD.-
The Bethlehem Steel Mills at Spar
rows Point, Md, are at the present
time working slack. All 48 tin mills
closed up Friday, December 20, 7
a. M, and may reopen Sunday, Dec.
20, II p. M, a period of at least
ten days. The reason, according to
Ray Horton, a shift foreman and
Jack Davis, one of Horizons assist
ant, is lack of orders. The rolls
prepared for ten days from ten days
from now are mostly small, which
means more work and less pay for
the workers when they return. The
twelve sheet-iron mills closed on
Saturday, Dec. 81 at 7 a. m. They
also will be down until at least Sun
day, Dec. 20, at II p. M, also be-
cause of lack of orders. This will
effect 5000 workers.
The closing of the tin and sheet
mills have an immediate effect on
the open hearth furnaces, and the
plate mills, which produce the iron
for the tin and sheet mills. This will
effect at least 5000 workers. In
addition to this it is expected that the
wire mills and the pipe mills where
1000 workers slave for ten hours
a day, will also be effected by the
slack.
This Christmas gift, coming after
many months of slack, will unques-
tionably work havoc among the
thousands of steel workers at Spar
rows Point. Cases are known of
workers, who after shaving for
months and receiving no cash pay,
are now being refused credit in the
company store. This means that
they and their families have no food
another gift from Charlie Schwab.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League of the Trade Union Unity
League is faced with a task of or
ganizing these workers in struggle
against piece work, against the long
hours and low wages and against
naturalization. The workers will
eventually, if properly led, struggle
against these conditions and for
the program of the T.U.U.L.
BALTIC WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
b q Worker Correspondent

ATTLE, Wash. (By MaiD.-
Fov. 9th, the Union of Russian
Immigrants arranged what they
called Celebration of the 18th An
niyersary of the Russian Revolution.
Realizing that the workers of Seattle
were very sympathetic to the work.
efst of Soviet Russia this anarchist
organization utilized the anniversary
OF, 1.-THE Russian revolution to spread
liestand SANDER against the workers
government Of Russia.
when this so-called celebration
opened, Mr.. Ivanov, the leader of
thes organization announced that the
Russian workers were still in need
ofsfinancial assistance after twelve
years of Soviet power. He stated
thatAall the proceeds of this affair
would go to help the "poor victims
of.the flood in Siberia"
The workers of Seattle know that
jrlsthe IL years since the overthrow
of athe car and the bosses the Rus
sian workers have succeeded in
bidding up their country and i'm.
proving the conditions of the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
(Bu q Worker rvespondent)

>(By Worker Correspondent
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (By MaiD-
In Knoxville there are eight cot
ton mills. Working about 5000 in
each. We work 10 hours a day and
sometimes the super wants us to
work overtime, but for that we don't
get extra pay. Our wages are $40
week.
Most of the workers in our mill
are young. From 10 up. The boss
man always wants young folks in
stead of old because they can work
md do work faster and for less
wages.
We both worked as doffers. When
we got into the mill we only had to
run IA and Is Sides. To 40 frames
in the spinning room we had two
Golfers and side hand. Now we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Terror Must Not
Stop ViscOse Company
" RayOn Mill Hands

4fsfBg Worker Correspondent
EGHESTER, Pa. o. (By MaiD.-The
Company town police seized
Leaflets that textile workers were
distributing to the Viscose slaves as
tlteyiwere leaving the mill after a
haTd days work. The leaflets were
issued, by the N.T.W.U. and called
upbnathe workers to attend meet
ing abeing held here. This meeting
was Ycalled for the purpose of reor-
gahMing the Chester local of the
and to elect delegates to
aft6id the Paterson convention.
kIAes officers as they seized the
Is8nsts savagely threatened to ar
rfsf,the workers who were distribut-
iiK THEM, and when they did not
fast enough to suit him
caASf out, paddy, come and take
thkI fellow along with you." Paddy
diHssnot appear on the scene as
promptly as a company does not
want; to arrest these men when the
Workers are looking on if it can be
aNo&led. The Viscose Co. does not
have it's workers see the
leaflets and it is rumored
tflat4s anyone caught distributing
leAMets will be dealt" with and run
oytpf, Marcus Hook.
'ssIfe Viscose Company always has
Treated class conscious workers
ssv4ely and now that the company
isl pianning to reduce the standards
ofAke workers in Marcus Hook until
thST are as miserably paid as the
southern workers, the rayon work
efs scan expect reign of terror
when they attempt to organize. But
The workers must fight to the end.
ga%t,g &C. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Yartzeva Textile Factory
YartzeVa. WeStern Region.

Yartzeva Textile Factory
Yartzeva, Western Region.
Comrades, workers of America
We workers and clerks, worker
correspondents of the Yartzeva fac
tory send this letter to you thru the
workers paper, the Daily Worker,
because up to this time you have
heard really little about our country
and may have a wrong idea of how
we live, thru the capitalist press.
We will tell you of the past and
the present of our factory.
A Time Which Never Will Return.
Our factory was built in 1869. 1t
took a years to build it. Up to 1907
the owner of our factory was a rich
merchant, Hludow. The family Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

n AS fnr ns ! am concerned. can't
clSfhi to have discovered the ex-
u 6GAce Of classes in modern society
6t4;thcir strife against one another.
MlddIe-class HISTORIANS long ago
dsStribet1 the evolution Of the class
stf1Exles. and political economists
sbOBed the economic psychology Of
tRA teihsses. ! have added a. u new
cghtflbutiOD the following PROPOSE
tf3anai - that the existence of
GHnes 10 bovnd mp with certain
EAes Of material production, -
&1C the cInss struggle Iends neces-
AMY TO the Dictatorship Of the
S4Gt4tnrfnt: - that this dictatorship
IN hut the transition 20 the abOli-
tlpN JOf all classes and 20 the cre-
nA4n' Of society Of free md euual.
MARX.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Today We publish the first part
of a letter from Soviet textile
worker, in the Yartzeva Mill. He
wants American mill workers, par
ticularly from the South, to answer
his letter thru the Daily Worker by
writing and telling how they live.
The first part deals with times
before the Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Build the United Front of the
Working Class From the Bottom
Up--in the Industries!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
celebrate
in your city

Organize a mass meeting, hold
a concert, an affair of some
kind to celebrate the Sixth
Anniversary of the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Enlist Your Shop Mate in the
Drive for 5000 New Members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28

Ask your fellow workers in
your shop to subscribe. Visit
workers who live next door to
you for subscriptions. Subscrip-
ton blanks have been sent to
every party unit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-28
Elect Your
Daily Worker
Representative

Every party unit, section, dis
trict must have a Daily Work
err representative. Every city
where the party has member
ship must name a representa-
tive.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-05
NEW r RULES
FOR n CROP

WINTER HAVEN. Fla, Sept. s.
New rules and regulations govern
ing the marketing OF the 1929 citrIrs
crop, as outlined by the state de-
partment OF agriculture. Nerc an
proved, in the main. at q meeting
mere last week OF the ~operating
committee OF the Florida citr,,s
Growers Clearing House assoc,s-
tlon and Nathan Mavo. com,nss
sioner OF agriculture.
a provision approved BY the opsr-
atlng committee would permit fr.,,t
inspectors TO make inspections If
a. any time from the moment
y Is taken from the tree un.iI II ~
ters the car for shipment. Another
change would proviie tina. esrh,
separate lot OF fruit shan b rYr-
oered and the inspector s,,nnli. :
with a list and advised when earh
part OF the carlot is re sdy tc rove
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-05
Flashes of Life
CBy The Associated Press

- @AN< AA1o0@ALA&4 AAIHCF
LAKEWOOD. N. J.-Thomas j.
Farley is a 10O-year-old bachelor
who plays solitaire nightly with a
midnight repast at stake. IL he
wins he eats two crackers; Il he
loses he has only one. He works
eight hours a day as handy man on
an estate and always has been as
enthusiastic about his vocation of
volunteer fireman as he has been
adverse TO matrimony.
NEW HAGEN-How 10 rate bas-
ketball players: Take the average
Of five jumps straight into the air,
multiply by the weight and divide
by time It takes the individual TO
respond to a command. Such Is
the index Of efficiency described
TO scientists here by DR.. Coleman
Z. Griffith OF the University Of Il
linois.
NEW YORK.-Mighty and clever
r the Vikings when 1t comes to
salt water. Eight huskies from the
Norwegian ship Sub Americana won
an international lifeboat race In
the harbor. at the finish II was
discovered the bottom Of their boat
had been creased. Loud were the
protests, but IL was not forbidden
an the rules. II will be taboo here
after.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-05
MEXICAN SAVIOR
FOOD DEMAND
Herald Cooking School Ex-
pert Will Stress Pop
ular Seasoning

Mrs. Myra Olive Dougan. who VIII
conduct one of her nationally IA
nous cooking schools In Browns
vile for five days. September % to
September ~. under auspices Of
The Herald, stresses In advance no
tees from her, the importance
which she attaches TO the proper
use OF flavoring.
More and more are Mexican fla
voring practices being accepted by
the American housewife" de -lares
Mrs. Dougan. The intriguing sea-
soning Of well prepared chill, ia
males and enchiladas cannot be de-
MED and I shall deal al quite some
length with the proper handling Of
Mexican flavorings in my lecture
courses in Brownsville"
A lecturer OF gifted personality.
with the background Df years Of
home economic experience, accept
ed as a leader in her line by the
greatest food manufacturers Of the
country. she brings 70 eager Valley
housewives the subtle secrets of the
culinary ais, which every woman
is SO DESTROYS Of obtaining.
Present indications are that the
Queen theater viii be filled TO over
flowing at each Of her five appear
ances. and it is the desire OK The
Herald that every woman reader Of
this paper keep herself posted on
the data which will appear from
day TO day regarding the for.hcOm-
ing school.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-05
INVESTIGATION
SHAPES IN Florida

SANFORD, Fla. Sept. s.-Mar-
keting organizations representing
virtually every farming industry in
this section have needed the call
o. g. M. Berry. president Of ~
Sanford Farmers exchange. TO d.
versify their crops this winner. SO as
n enable the movement Of ct least
20 ears OF mixed vegetables each
day during the season.
"A conference OF representatives
from various growers associations
was held under the auspices of tie
agricultural branch OF the school
system last week. Plans were ont
lined for q system OF Uniform pack
Ing and for the use OF standard VA
rleties Of containers ana seeds in
planting. Tentative plans were dis
cuSsed for a central packing plant
where washing and packing WouIn
be directed A survey to determine
the conference represented Chase
a. Co. Sanford-O viedo Truck Grow
ers. F. +. Dutton. Florida Vegetable
association. American Fruit Grow-
ers. Inc. and the Sanford Farm
ers' exchange.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-05
RUBIO ASSERTS
PEOPLE GOVERN
Mexico Candidate For Pres
ident- Says Militarism
Passe;

GOMEZ PALACIO. DURANGO,
Mexico. Sept. 5.-P1-Caudillos, or
military rulers are o thing Of the
past 50 FAR as Mexico L. concerned
and it Is the people who now gov
ern the country. Pascual Ortiz Ru-
bio, national revolutionary party
nominee for the presidency In the
Nov. IL election, declared IN a
speech here.
Ortiz Rubio made this statement
exactly a year from the date on
which Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales,
then president, told congress the
time had come to do away with the
military rulers In Mexico and sub
stitute in their stead a government
of institutions"
At the same time Ortiz Rubio
was speaking here. Provisional Pres
ident Portes Gil, In his annual mes
sage TO congress at Mexico City,
denied rum0rs he would seek to
pr0long his term Of office which
ends in February and added The
statement he did not possess the
proportions OF a caudillo." The
president said It had been his priv
ilege TO initiate the era of "institu-
tional government" prescribed BIZ
General Gales. and promised tina.
the federal authorities would guar
antee impartial elections in Novem-
Der.
Ortiz Rubio Is the standard bear
er OF a party created by Gales. He
Is touring northern Mexico In cp-
position TO Jose Vasconcelos, nom
inee Of the entire electionist party.