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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
FEED WORKERS SWILL
Cafeteria Workers SLAVE Turnout DQy

(By Worker Correspondent
Conditions of the cafeteria work
ars are hell. Workers in other in
lustries would say | exaggerate if
| tell of the conditions we have.
The cafeteria coolie goes to work
when it is still dark and the sun
cts while he is still working. Twelve
hours day, six and a half and
seven days a week in an atmosphere
If smells. The boss is forever at
our backs, demanding more speed.
There are few gray haired men in
he food cafeterias, they don't live
ong enough to get gray hair.
The pay is not enough to live on.
If a man is married, he cannot
seep his family and work in the
.afeterias. The dishwashers and bus
aoys are lucky to get Is to 20 cents
IN hour And this in an industry
where the profits are as high as
70 per cent.
Meals are supposed to be included
. the workers pay. They get the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
NASHUANA MILL !
BOSS ACTS LIKE
CAR TO SLAvE'
Loom Fixers Make Hin
Back Water
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By d Worker Correspondent /
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By Mail
After the strike of last SUNNI
Car Burton, the agent Of Nash
wana mills tine old fossil that game
notoriety by drawing his gun on I'll
girls for picketing his mill), has |
every means in his power tried
harrass and humiliate the worke'
First off the bat he issued a pr
lamation cutting the wash-up IL
of the fixers to five minutes instes
of the fifteen that prevailed in
other mills, but they rebelled ar
he had to take backwater. Next 1
gave the weavers Is looms instea
of IL. The weavers tried to ru
them but could make but from SO I
$13 per week, SO they called sma
strike.
AS result of that strike the CON
pany promised to give them a picl
out hand and guarantee them 50
per week. A week or two ago the
removed the pickout hand whic
resulted in another strike. Agai
the car took back-water. Last wee
he made trial to give the ,oor
fixers AZ looms, where they had ru
only 80 before, and succeeded in
compromise on "A.
He has recently decreed tina
there is too much talking be
tween fixers and changers and weav
ers which must be stopped. Now j
you try to ask some advice in regart
to the work or anything the weave
or fixer will put his fingers to hi
lips indicating to you that you ar
putting his and your job in jeopardy
Furthermore if you bring a luncl
to the mill you are warned that j
you attempt to start to eat it befoT
the speed stops you will be asked
look for another job. Our Distri
Secretary Eli Keller called mas
meeting last week of all the mil
workers, there was good sized re
Spouse, but there were two stool
pigeons there which had a tendene,
to cramp the workers. However, i
had the effect of making them more
determined to organize, under cover
where necessary.
Demonstrate Against Imperialis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
men Who MAKE
MACHINES Are
DOGS TO BOSS
Conditions Bad In Van
Dorm Coupler
by a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, (By Mail). - A ma
chinist, the producer of all the
speed-up machines and labor-saving
devices, has, as a rule, a steady job,
but that's all he gets if he does not
get fired or laid off. Nine or ten
hours a day; straight time for over
time; seventy cents an hour on the
averages, those are the usual work
ing conditions. Sometimes he is
lucky and gets time and a half for
overtime, but that's at the mercy of
the boss.
The working conditions are bad
and getting worse all over. A fore
mani would call him slave-driver
watches all day long and counts
every minute you are away. If he
sees you talking to another worker,
he comes right over and says, "What
in hell, is this a convention? If
you don't want to work get out. 7"
Now if you don't like you can hang
around for a while and stay on the
blacklist and, be laid off later. /
had those experiences.
l worked for the Van Dorm
Coupler Company, 1900 S. Paulina
st. Ten hours; seventy-five cents an
hour; a Swedish foreman, Weissman.
like a bloodhound, who hollers at
every man and if you tell him not
to holler at you like a dog, like l
did, he says, "If you don't like it
get out" So l did.
We tried to organize this shop
once, and everything was set, but
the boss got wind and told us as
soon as we organized he would lay
us all off. The International Ma
chinists Union is unable to do any,
thing. When they started organic
ing, the boss threatened with lay
Gifts, so the workers got scared and
dropped the matter. Another rea-
son is that the workers have no
faith in the union. SO then it isn't
a union for the workers. l asked a
fellow worker who is in the union
why we can't get job through the
union, and he answered shortly,
"The business agent of the union
has too many friends, and union
jobs are scarce"
1t is the same all over in this
darned imperialist state. The capt.
talist has the workers in his hands,
and the proletariat is by no means
united. Most of them are so in
toXicated with patriotism that they
cheer at their own misery. But
some day the United Proletariat of
America will establish U.S.S.A.
-MACHINIST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
DAIRY WORKERS
Win Their TWO
MAIN DEMANDS
Stool Pigeon Exposed
By Workers
~ a Worker Correspondent

FL a W 0r6er Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, (By MaiD The
Liberty Dairy Products Co., of Pitts
burgh, one of the largest milk and
ice cream plants in this section, is
noted for its ruthless exploitation of
its workers. The workers toll every
day in the week, have no rest peri
DDS, work from 10 to II hours per
day and receive the most miserable
wages. The Young Workers (Com-
munist) League has been conducting
a campaign in these plants to organ
ize the workers and improve the
present unbearable conditions.
Recently two workers were fired
and several replaced and transferred
to other plants in order to break the
fighting spirit of the men. There
was great discomfort among the
drivers because of this, and they
were determined to get the fired
workers back on the job. Under the
leadership of the Young Workers
(Communist) League, the rs drivers
came out on strike. The strike call,
issued by the young Communists, not
only demanded the reinstatement of
the fired and replaced workers but
also demanded an increase of wages
for both the drivers and inside
workers.
Expose Spy.
The company intended to break
the strike by hiring stool-pigeons
and placing them among the drivers,
but the Young Workers (Commu-
nist) League Immediately obtained
and distributed among the workers,
a photo of the labor spy, George
Myers. Thus through the efforts Of
the League this stool-pigeon was ex-
posed. After the strike he was
beaten up by the workers and fired.
In his pockets they found detec-
tive's badge as we'll as a number of
documents showing that he was also
employed by the Pittsburgh Coal Co.
as coal and iron policeman.
The bosses of the Liberty Dairy
Co. Immediately summoned dozen
policemen from the Central Station
and in this way tried to intimidate
the League members that were dis
tributing the strike call leaflet. But
they also failed in this, as all the
workers had already received the
laaflet when the police arrived.
Win Main Demands.
Some three hours later the drivers
went back to work, having won the
two main Observation-Disclosures
of the two fired workers and the re-
instatement of the men transferred
to the Shadyside plant. This was
the first strike lead by the young
Communists in this plant and it was
a successful one.
The Young Workers (Communist)
League will now continue with its
activities and attempt to organize
the workers of the Liberty Dairy
Co. so that the conditions can be
changed and shop committee of the
workers established.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
FRUIT PACKERS
MAKE A CAIN IN
STRIKE IN CALF
Starvation Wage Cause
of Walkout
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, (By Mail) "A
24-hour strike brought home a para
tial victory for the striking fruit
workers at the Upland Citrus Asso-
citation plant April II. The major
ity of the home-guard, at least,
went back to work after an increase
in pay was allowed for smaller
size oranges. The itinerant work
ers, however, proved themselves to
be more militant than the native
sons and daughters. The "settle-
ment" did not suit them, they went
picketing and clashed with claw and
order" cops.
"The strike declared by 100 work
ers, mostly women, who sought
higher pay, was believed settled
when the company agreed to a 2
cent wage increase per packed box
on 250-size and smaller oranges"
is the manner local morning open
shop sheet puts it.
The pickers also left the sunkist
orchards and demonstrated their
solidarity with the packers.
A. j. Nelson, manager of the Up
land plant, and managers of the
packing-houses of the Ontario-C Gu
camonga Fruit Exchange, of which
the local association is a member,
met and voted the 2-eent increase
on the 250's and an increase of l.
cent a box on 216's, which are or
anges of two and five-eighths inches
diameter. The workers have been
receiving cents a packed box on
216's and larger and cents on
250's and smaller. They will now
receive 10 cents a packed box for
the smaller sizes and 6 cents for
216's. No increase was allowed on
the larger size fruit.
Piece Work.
Fruit packing is piece work with
no limit to the speed-up necessary
in order to eat while working. The
most expert packers could not make
an average wage of 45 cents an
hour based on the pay scale in prac-
tice for the smaller fruit. And there
is a large crop of small oranges to
be handled this season, according
to Nelson, the manager. How, then,
is it possible for beginners to earn
enough to buy bread? /"
A number of itinerants have left
Upland. Some of the more militant
workers, however, are still there
trying to do something. Housing
conditions, etc., have not been set
tied at all, and starvation wages
and rates are still burning ques-
tons. Workers out of a job are all
under police surveillance-especial-
ly foreigners, automobile hoboes"
and tourists" of the side-door Pull
man type, etc. A. RINDAL.
Demonstrate for the defense of the
Soviet Union May First at Coliseum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Train USSR Workers
as Red Specialists

The Daily Worker today prints the first of letter from
Soviet worker who student of the Moscow Higher Technical
School in training Red specialist.
correspondents
their letters printed the Daily Worker
be able establish correspondence with American workers and
farmers They to here from Write them today.
your letters to the Daily Worker will forward them to the Soviet
Union workers.
Comrades:
question training specialists our most important
questions, and doubt interested to know about
The poetaan Revolution has summoned millions of toers
active State work.
Kept Workers Ignorant.
Before the
cuuray backward among poeara course few
hundreds who by accident
eray qualities czarist Russia en-
euraged and developed heavy legacy from the They
Tested even in days In particular the work of drawing the workers
into the building of the State and The of the industries
Right workingcass to assign
whole of people direct the work of State public and industrial
Soviet Union).
Many Difficulties.
all remember that our enemies thought that owing to our back
wadness and uncutud state they will be able after short time
return to and to "their own" factories and
Our difficulties aggravated because socialist
construction required number people engaged
manual labor Lenn in his "Wi the Boshevks Retain State
follows n September, 1917
We need organizers of the
ton of enterprises Tin this respect the capitalists have
with people ease greater
and greater than before numbers of engineers agrnOm nn
scientifically Thd n9s trained specialists of all kinds"
them have the side of the proeara among
the remainder there real
"shakhti case is still fresh in everybody's memory.
Red Specialists to Fore
The utilization of the old specialists
the ranks OF the technical staff factories higher
employees in institutions In the last years specialists"
people who have the
role comparatively small constantly
growing Only under conditions existing poan regime
possible for people special higher education
Every the graduation of
USSR is considered great step forward.
Tomorrow the second part from
worker training a Red specialist published This will con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Postal Workers Urged
to III clip Strik ers of
Cafeteria On Gath St.
(Bu q Worker Correspondentl

by a Worker Correspondent
Since last week a strike has been
going on in Penn Cafeteria, Eighth
Ave. and 34th st. Of course, any
worker should not patronize that
cafeteria until the strike is won.
This cafeteria is patronized, to a
great extent, by the employees of
the General Post Office nearby. /
think these post office workers
should boycott this cafeteria until
the strike is won.
After all postal workers are work
ers and not separate class. They
work at all times, day and night,
under unsanitary conditions. Their
scourge is the dust which often
causes tuberculosis. Then they are
thrown in the scrap heap by the
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

shortest day the food workers
know here. During these hours,
the workers must be standing up
even if there is no one to whom at
tention is TO be given. AS result,
about so per cent of the food
workers are flat-footed. Due to
Overwork, most of them are in the
first stage of tuberculosis.
Over half, or about so per cent
of the food workers here are
women. In the hotels there are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

about five women to one man.
In certain restaurants women
get as low as $3.50 a week. The
sO-called "better" restaurants pay
as low as Sc week.
The kitchen help usually is made
up of Negro workers. They put
in longer than II hours a day for
miserable wages.
The restaurants and hotels are
supposed to supply these workers
with meals during the time they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Communists Lead Strike Pittsburgh MIX Drve Says Correspondent


an appeal to join is being sent out
to all the women employed in the
industry.
Only thru organization of
fighting union can the rotten con-
ditions of the food workers be bet
tered.
All communications should be
addressed to Food Workers Organ
izing Committee, SO N. 10th ST.,
Philadelphia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

most millionaires. They keep the
child workers working on legal holi-
days, and gladly pay the small fine,
which is $25. Every worker who
does not come to work on the holi-
days is fired. Boys and girls of 10
and IA years of age are working
here from z a. m. to p. m. for
S6-$7 a week.
DON ALLEN.
May Day-the day which began
with n general strike for the s.
hour day in the U. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

SO that they have fresh food.
Walters, mattresses, cooks and
all ether workers in the food in
dustry in Philadelphia are thoroly
aroused over their miserable con-
ditions.
They have elected an organiza-
ton committee which is now ac-
lively drawing up plans for wide
organization drive.
A special effort is being made
to organize the Negro workers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

are working. But in reality, all
they get is the leavings. For in
stance, no employee of most of
these establishments is permitted
to get fresh meat to cat and the
chef is instructed by the proprietor
to use meat two or three days old
for the food Of the help.
Some workers will not eat in the
restaurants in which they are EN-
ployed. Altho they can i'll afford
it, they wait until they go home
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. (By MaiD.-
Conditions among the food work
ers in Philadelphia are rotten.
Swell looking dining rooms,
spick and span fronts Of thousands
of food shops, these cannot hide
the misery of the workers in this
important industry in PhiIa-
delphia.
Twelve hours a day is the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

Imperialism is at the same time
the most prostitute ana the ultimate
form of the state power which nns-
rent middIe-cIass society had COM
menced to elaborate as q means OF
its own emancipation from feudaI-
ism. and which fuIl-grown bourgeois
society had finally transformed into
n means for the enslavement of InbOr
by capitnI.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

Demonstrate on May Day your
solidarity with the oppressed
Negro race. Long live political,
social and racial equality for the
Negro masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
FIRE DRY CANNONEER.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The
treasury announced today tn a t
Boatswain James r. Ingram, who
ordered use of machine gun in the
Miami River during a recent coast
guard attempt to apprehend rum
runners, has been asked to resign.
Ingram made the mistake of hitting
some millionaire's houseboat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
The Adventures Of MAYA Is
Instructive, Enjoyable Film

ing are urged to visit the Fifty-fifth
Street Playhouse during the show
ing of "The Adventures of Maya"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

Make the May Day DemOnstra-
tion demonstration against the
rule of the injunctions of the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

Demonstrate for the defense of the
Soviet Union May First at Coliseum.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12

IF YOU RAVEN T TRIED FRYE BRUHN'S BABY BEEF, you are certainly missing something.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12
CONDITION OF FORMER
 SEWARD GIRL, SERIOUS

According to information re- ceived today Yuku Yago, who attended Seward high school a year or so ago andwho had been a resident of Seward several years previously, is very ill in hospital ID Yokohama. Yuku and her parents, MT. and Mrs Harry Yago, left Seward nearly a year ago on their way for visit to their old home in Japan, but her illness necessitated a long stay in Seattle.
 She has now been in Yokohama for several months, and doctors say her condition is very serious. Best wishes for her recovery are expressed by all her friends.
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PRECIOUS MINERALS
 FOUND IN COLORADO

BOHEMIAN, Col, Sept. II. (P- Discovery of new ore bodies in the Bonanza district of Colorado, apparently containing gold and silver, and basemetal sulphids, quartz and barite is disclosed by the Geological Survey of the De- partment of the Interior.
 The report states that recent mining developments in the Bon anza district have been sufficient ly encouraging to stimulate ex- ploratory work for new ore bodies
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12
MAKES STRIKE

A. J. Sprague, former Territorial Commissioner of Fisheries and J. Johnson left Juneau last week for Skagway. From Skagway they go down the Taku river, prospecting lat the headwaters of the Taku and Tulsequah rivers. It has been re- ported that Jack Laurie, and the Sprague Association, have already made good strikes in the Taku dis trict.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12
FACE THKEE

Mason Smith and John Serabia, arrested at Wrangell recently fol- lowing a shooting affray in which they were the chief participants, were indicted last week at Ktchi- kan on charges of assault with dangerous weapons
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12

The herring fishery in western Alaska is about normal this fall. At Dutch Harbor the fish were un- usually large and fat and an excel lent pack was expected.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12

Dr. D. w. Henry, of Endicott, Wn., one of the outstanding eye, ear, nose and throat specialists in east ern Washington, is on 10 day or two weeks hunting trip in the Taku and Tracy Arm district.
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Don't fail to try our brick ice cream. It's the only kind for parties. Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12

Al meat and nothing else in
 the -Bruhn Meat Market.
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trap line for the winter

Victor Crison, cook, trapper and prospector, arrived with his dogs and winters outfit. He is at the Hurricane high bridge re- zion where he will prospect till snow flies and then go trapping. Dick Tousley's tourist camp was closed down last month as failure. The tourists do not seem to care to do any fishing it is said Dicks camp was To- cated at Canyon, Mile 269.
 Dave Skarsted, with his extra crew and Bill Armstrong as cook put in a new boiler and also dug the we'll deeper at Honolulu station, in August From Honolu- lu Dave took his crew to Windy for the purpose of dismantling the pump station and move it to Cache, on the Fairbanks end of the Alaska Railroad. Al Blair and Charles Smith broke up their tourist camp last month and moved to Anchorage. The tourist fishing camp was a total failure and will not be started at Chulitna again. The boys had fine camp but lost a lot of money on their venture.
 Jack Hansen and his bridge crew were stationed at Chulitna during July taking up most o1 the decking from the low tres ties and bridges in advance o1 the steam shovel gang which is filling up all the bridges after concrete culvertS are down. The steam shovel is busy now fixing up the waSh-outs which took place during the recent higf water.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12

FRESH STOCK OF SHOT GUN SHELLS at Brown & Hawkins Corp.
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CRULITNA NOTES
lRy Special Correspondent

The Boedeker brothers, Roy and Elmer, are over at the head of Milky river about 35 miles northwest of Chulitna where they have found an encouraging prospect. They will stay until snow flies and return early next spring and test out the ground This winter they propose trapping on their old line on upper Por- tage creek
 Adolph Erickson, trapper and prospector of Chulitna, made a business trip outside last June and arrived back at Anchorage the following month where he is working for a grub-stake. He plans returning to his trap line west of Chulitna September 20.
 Emmer Enoch, trapper of Gnu litna, worked for the F. E. Co.,, at Fairbanks during the summer but is now on a hunting trip up the Panama river. He says he will be back at Chulitna by October l and remain on his
Seward daily gateway., 1929-09-12

Frank Kerns just put through Chulitna with his extra gang and ditcher bound for some slides blocking the track south of here.