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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
10000 Apply for A
Few Jobs Advertised
By Chi. Dept. Store
tBy a Worker Correspondent

Wy WOHhcT SoETCSpOuucHtJ
CHICAGO, Ill.-There is a cap
italist slogan which claims that
many workers would not work if
they could get job" This pet theory
has surely been exploded during this
crisis.
The Fair" very large depart
ment store at State and Adams SITS
called for clerks for various depart
ments about week ago. This store
has had a very difficult time for
more than year. One year ago
they demanded that their clerks sell
hose, toilet articles and other things
to their personal friends after work.
ing hours on their way home.
This present advertisement brought
about 10000 applicants and mounted
police had to hold them in line until
most of them were turned down, be-
cause only a few positions we're open
and these positions are only tenn
porary.
The workers continue to suffer in
Chicago. Hc7l long can these con-
ditions last?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
STARVED YOUTH
BEGS FOR MEAL
Young Workers Must
Fight for Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy q VvONhCL
NEW YORK.-It was on Thursday
afternoon, Dec. 4, that was plodding
my way down the city's longest street
in search of that essential but elu-
sive job. At my side was my friend,
who is Of a less flexible character
than myself and not yet absolutely
respondent.
We were passing comments on our
own sordid experiences when youth
of about "a years sided up between
us and not only asked but demanded
that we give him 10 cents for some
thing warm to eat. could see by
his appearance that he was suffering
horribly from starvation and I did
not hesitate to give him 10 cents,
which, as am very poor myself, was
half of my monetary possessions. We
asked him how long he had been out
done, if he had family, etc. He
answered these queries thus: I had
been a hat salesman in hat COM
rany. About nine months ago the
boss found his profits diminished and
fired the majority of the statesmen,
including me. have no home. Oc-
casionally get chance to sleep in
some strangers home. I have been
tramping the streets like this for
Zine months, begging for something
to eat and occasionally lucky to get
bite. But who the hell wants char
ity anyway. 1t makes an honest
working man feel so low.
I then gave him the address of the
Downtown Unemployed Council, to-
gether with Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
SEES MASSES FOR
SOVIET DEFENSE
Stagger Lumber Men
In Bloomfield, N. J.
(By a Worker Correspondent

tby worker Correspondent
BLOOMFIELD, N. il work for
Weyerhauser, one of the "59' and of
lumber fame. This week this poor"
parasite has shortened our working
hours from q "A hour week to a 81
hour week, and a reduction in wages
is promised us because you see the
high standard of the bloodsuckers'
profits must be kept up.
But comrades the day is fast COM
ing when we the workers shall decide
for ourselves the hours of labors and
the standard of our living. We are
also watching the war preparations
against our fatherland the Soviet
Union.
To Defend Soviet Union.
Woe betide them for the strength
of our movement cannot be meas
ured by the actual membership of
the Communist Party for with every
member of the Party there are at
least a thousand sympathizers who
for reasons capitahstic are temper
arily prevented from becoming mem
bers but who when the time comes
are ready with their lives, if neces-
sary, to defend the first workers
and peasants government and for
the establishment of workers and
peasants governments all over the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
ORGANIZE STOCKTON
JOBLESS IN COUNCIL

(By a Worker Correspondent
STOCKTON, Call came to Stock
ton week ago from Sacramento
with a committee OF three to start
organizing an Unemployed Council
in the outlying districts
We rented a hall and on the 4th
of December held our grand OPEN
ing enrolling 81 members in the I'm
employed Council. We elected a
committee of four for the Daily
Worker drive. Street meetings were
held every evening and getting
along good for the short time we've
been here. Will 60 on organizing and
spreading light to the workers, on
the present crisis.
Ninety per cent of the workers here
are in the hancs of the bankers and
Hoover's Farm Board.
1t is up to the workers to push the
Unemployment Insurance Bill. We
will force the government officials to
pass real relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
SHEEP HERDERS
GET SIS A MONTH
PAY REDUCTION
Work Long Hours and
Suffer Much
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By worker Correspondent
LEWISTOWN, Idaho.-I have from
time to time read letters in your
paper from other workers, they have
all tended to confirm what I have
in recent years begun to suspect,
namely that their problem is a world
wide and world old one, that of re-
sisting the selfish ambitions of a de-
PRAYED ruling class. Their charities
are but narcotic to dull and Supply
our senses.
Everywhere in this part of the
great West, the question is asked,
when are times going to get bet
ter" The capitalist press comforts
us by telling us that Santa Claus is
just around the corner. I would not
be writing this letter now unless I
was one of the many unemployed. I
wouldn't have time.
Was Sheep Herder.
I had a job herding sheep, but the
boss sold out to a bank that held
mortgage, the band was consolidated
and was let out. The harvest hands
took a dollar a day wage reduction
this year and we sheepherders were
cut SIS per month, thanks to Hoover
prosperity.
If there was a worker in the first
place who was paid starvation
wage, it was the sheep-herder. There
was never chance in the world for
him to support a family on his earn
ings, not even on the lowest standard
of living. He is on the job twenty
four hours day, sleeps out at night
in the rain and snow, in the sum-
mer out with the rattle snakes, cooks
his own food, has to run off the bears
and wolves, wears out pair of shoes
a week, trailing bands up and down
rocky hillsides.
The boys all got pretty blue when
they had to take the wage cut. Since
the wage cut and unemployment,
many of them are beginning to see
little Red. They know that as re-
ward for their loyalty to the bosses
interest, they have been stabbed in
the back. The seasonal migratory
worker is in an even more pitiful con-
dition, they won't even let him in the
bread lines. The city authorities say
a man must be resident of the city
a year before he is entitled to any
consideration, that, of course, leaves
the harvest and farm hands out.
They are like the wharf rats, they
can crawl under the warehouse and
die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
$4,000 VA. JOBIESS
is BOSSES FIGURE
Thousands On Verge
of Starvation
(By q Worker Correspondent


CHARLESTON, w. Va. - I am
sending you a. clipping from the
Charleston Gazette and I do not tell
the story.
Thousands of people in West Vir-
GINA today are in acute actual want.
Many of our comrades, their wives
and children, their orphans, face
tomorrow without knowing whether
they will have single meal to sus-
tain life. Men and women and chill
dren will starve to death this winter
unless those of us who are a little
more fortunate help them. These
facts are not exaggerated They can
be verified right in your own section
of West Virginia"
And see by the same paper that
there are $4,000 out of work in the
state. That is not one fifth though
these figures were given out by the
Governor.
We have all sorts of charity takers,
the Red Cross, the double cross and
all sorts of hymn singers and Bible
Founders.
I have talked with hundreds of
workers and unless I misunderstood
them it only needs spark to set
off the whole works. Six more
months of this and hell will break
loose in this country. Probably now
if they were organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
CAL. PACKING co.
WORKS MEN 9 HRS.
ADAY;; WAGESLOW
Pay Only Once In A
Month Here
(By a Worker Correspondent

PLANDA, Call am working for
the California Packing Corp. near
MERGED, Calf; after not being sue
cessful in obtaining Job in Oakland
came down to MERGED, as I had
worked here before, and I find that
things on the ranch is about as
usual; we are working nine hours
per day, six days week if it doesn't
rain, the days are short in the winter
so we can't get in but nine hours, but
in the spring when the days get long
the company adds another hour to
the day without adding anything to
the pay, the wages are $3.50 per day,
and $1.10 per day for board, is let
out to the Andersons boarding house
Co: and of course they are trying to
economic with the cost of produc-
ton and for labor as they are en-
ploying Chinese cooks and help ex-
clusively. They can get Chinese
cook for much less than they can
get white cook for, and they don't
have to be experts to hold down the
job, the bunk houses are kept pretty
well, but every one has to furnish
their own blanket, towels and soap
and linen if you have any.
They only pay once month, the
state law says that to pay twice a
month, but they get away with it by
letting any one draw a little money
once or twice but if he thinks he is
going to make practice of it he
will find himself out of job.
They just started pruning the trees
a few days ago and they haven't
started to speed the boys up so much
yet but after they get started they
will.
They are employing approximately
100 workers at present on the four
thousand acres, supposed to be the
largest peach orchard in the world
MERGED has quite number of
unemployed, more than I have ever
seen here before, the cotton picking
is still going ON here but there isn't
anything in it, only rs cents per hun
dred and if a person isn't experienced
he could only pick from one to two
hundred pounds per day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
TENANTS DEMAND
HEAT IN ROOMS
Scare Landlord Int O
Working Up Steam
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-We tenants of $40
Suburban Place, Bronx have to suffer
without steam heat for some time.
The landlord tried to bring all kinds
of excuses.
! Finally I thought that if we called
up the department of health they
would take action on it. We called
them on the telephone, also went
to the Office personally. One of the
clerks took the complaint and ! think
that as soon as I left the Office. he
threw it in the waste basket.
Scare Landlord.
But on Sunday, December 7 I made
a form of petition that read: We
the tenants of this address call to
your attention the fact that we
have no steam heat. took the paper
and went from door to door for
natures. There is a landlord friend
here Mrs. Morris. When she heard
the discussion that we had she called
the landlord in. He arrived breath
less and asked where is the trouble
maker but as soon as he saw that
the whole house was organized he
sacked down..
To my opinion this is the only
remedy to organize not only tenn
porary committees but permanent
house committees and fight for things
that belong to us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
IRISH WORKERS
SUFFER NJ U CHI
Will Figh t Against
Their Bosses
From the Irish Workers Voice.)
workers Correspondence.l

lWOrkeTS COrreSpOnuenCe.)
. BELFAST, Ireland-The working
class districts in Belfast present
poverty stricken appearance. The
barefooted children; the ill-clad men
and women; the shops laden with
cheap, trashy foodstuffs. This indi-
Gates rapid decline in the purchas-
ing power of the working class.
Shipworkers' Plight.
The shipyard workers position is
hopeless one, so far as finding a
job is concerned. He has no longer
access to the machines, and when he
is deprived of working at the ma
chine he is deprived of his means OF
livelihood. The Newtownards Road
district is populated by shipyard
workers, and when one takes a walk
from Queens Bridge to Dee st. all
the evidence Of class struggle is
staring you in the face. Marrow
streets, jerry houses, cheap picture
houses, dishing out all the Buffalo
Bill tripe; pubs and pawnshops in
abundance; five churches, all preach
ing the application of Christian prin-
ciples to industrial problems. just
before coming to Dee st: stables con-
verified into dwellings, brain wave
to solve the housing problem. What
a legacy to leave the workers! OF
course, they pay rent to the tune Of
about 6 shillings week. Year in
end year out the workers lived under
those conditions, and instead of any
Improvement they are becoming
worse,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
MANY HOMELESS
CHILDREN NOW
ROAM THE CITY
Jobless! Fight to Save
Your Children!
,6y a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. - Four Negro chill
dren ranging in age from eight to
twelve years of age were sleeping
all Thursday night on the subway.
They were So sound asleep that it
was impossible to get them to say
anything about themselves.
In answer to questions, the oldest
said he had no home, that his father
was dead, and that he did not know
where his mother was. He said that
they had been evicted and had no
place to go. The conductor said that
they would ride up and down till the
morning, and then go around forag-
ing for food.
Workers in the train east Side
subway shook their heads and said
that things are getting worse and
more worsel
Many Homeless Children
No one had any idea what would
happen to the homeless children. Per-
haps by this time they have been
picked up and transferred to the po-
lice station. On the other hand, it
is so customary to see ragged and
half-starved workers and children in
the city that it is possible that they
will keep on travelling until they be-
gin to drop from exhaustion and also
starvation.
On Third Avenue and Thirteenth
Street a man dropped from starva-
ton and exposure at about seven p.
m. last night. Needless to say he
had no coat and his clothes were
ready to fall to pieces. In most of
these cases the reason is given as
booze. Sometimes a starving unem-
ployed worker gets hold of quarter
and spends it on poison bootleg that
is known on the Bowery as "Smoke.
A shot of this on an empty stomach
is enough to put man out of COM
mission and even to kill him. The
smoke" is to help him forget the
hunger and cold.
These sights, together with the
evicted workers and their furniture
on the sidewalk, are becoming daily
occurrences in New York City, the
richest city of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
Displace Workers
by JObless With
No Wages Paid

((By a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA.-The jobless
workers wishing to flop and get
coffee and" at the city flop
house must work from four to
eight hours per day without any
wages.
Many are already working at
street cleaning, white washing
police cellars, and many other
jobs.
This results in the lay-off of
many workers in these trades
getting wages, and replacing.
them with men working without
pay.
This is supposed to settle the
unemployment question in Phila-
delphia as proposed by the city
council.
j. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13

unguarded gear. N. Goodwin was sent
up ladder all alone, near a revolv-
ing shaft. He was found later on
the ground badly hurt with nothing
on but his shoes. AS it costs money
to stop paper machine, his rags
revolved up there for the rest of the
week. The irony of the thing was
a booklet on safety in one of his
pockets, which is put out by the COM
pany in the pay envelope to make it
look fatter.
The paper mill where the writer
worked in Elizabeth, N. j., having
shut down, he took trip throughout
New England. He found many plants
shut down and practically all the
rest on part time. In some places
the plant runs for a few days and
then shuts down for over week; in
other places only part capacity of
the plant is utilized and the workers
are staggered in their working time.
is shown to certain ones,
this being another way to divide the
workers and keep them from uniting
and fighting for better conditions.
Conditions Worsened
In Monroe Bridge, Mass, where
the management promised ITO share
its prosperity with its loyal en-
ployees" after breaking a strike
against wage cuts and speed-up, it
is not known from day to day if
the place will run or shut down.
While in the company store no credit
is extended, and full rent is collected
from much diminished envelopes.
Hiring and firing goes on indiscrimi-
hammering down the stand
ard of working conditions continu-
ously. The so-called privileged kind
of work, like that in the office or
foreman, is not better treated in the
attempts to reduce cost.
1t can be summed up that over all
workers alike, unemployment hangs
like pail. Uncertainty and doubt
of things as they are is taking hold
of all. 1t is very necessary to be
able to direct this trend in the proper
channels of working class struggle.
And one of the best mediums to do
this is the Daily Worker.
Il. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13

him the job in exchange for some
graft.
Investigations Bunk
The state labor bureau in New
York City is now Investigating"
my case. After two weeks of Gin
vestigation" l am now told that the
contractor is willing to pay at the
rate of fifty per cent. AS my wages
were only forty cents an hour, you
can see how much l will receive.
let them know that 1 will not be sat
isfied with twenty cents an hour for
months of back-breaking labor - it
was the toughest road job / have
ever known in my life.
Now in addition to stealing my
wages the. are trying to
throw me out of my nou I received
an eviction notice the other day for
of rent. l do not know
the landlords name, but the agent
is Chas. j. F. Bohlen, who reported
to the landlord and got the dispos-
sess from him. The bosses courts
who let crooked contractors, en-
ployment agencies, and politicians go
free, are always ready to throw a
penniless victim of their robber sys-
tenn into the cold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
NURSES SEEN ON
NY. BREADLINES
Must Fight for Real
Jobless Relief
CBy a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK. = The other day I
went past a bread line at 4th Street
near Bird Avenue and what did I see
but a woman standing there for
something to eat. I spoke to hear
and asked her what she was doing
on the breadlines. She told me her
story that she is nurse and it is
already four months since she had
worked and don't know what to do
about it.
She goes from one agency to an
other and they can't do anything
for her. No place to work, no place
to sleep, after working in a place for
four years.
In that hospital particularly there
were 200 nurses and now many were
laid off.
Join Union.
Who will care for the nurses when
they don't need them and lay them
off. We let them get away with it
or will we organize to fight this? The
Medical Workers League is for all
workers in the medical profession
Organize and join and write to Is
West 21st st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
JOBLESS MISERY,
WORK But No PAY
IS "SELF-RESPECT"
Fight This Boss Trick
to Make Jobless Pay
by a Worker Correspondent
Spokane, Wash.

Spokane, Wash.
We have seen a whole lot of bo-
logna and bunk in the newspapers
lately and we are by now getting
used to the hokum they peddle, but
of all the bunk that has been print
ed so far, what l saw in the Spokes-
man Review of Dec. is Surely the
prize story of them all. Listen to
this and be convinced:
"Jobless Keep Self-Respect. Plenty
of Work at Coordination Home Helps
Men Hold Heads Up"
And then follows long TRADE
of how nicely the men at the home
are treated and so forth. You all
have been reading that kind of bunk
so let's forget it.
No Pay Slavery
But doesn't it seem kind of funny
that the Coordination Home has lots
of work = and brags about it in
the papers, when a fellow looking
for job can't find a days work
in the whole darn town. Is it be-
cause the. Coordination Home sends
the men out to do the work for al
most nothing?
Well anyhow, according to the
Spokesman Review, the Coordination
Home has plenty of work. But here
is another story from the same arti-
Gle in the same paper:
Sick Man Begs for Aid
The race preservation trait is con-
spicuous in the group, any sick man
getting liberal attention from his
fellows. Many of the residents are
IN need of doctor. Now, get this:
Last Saturday morning former
taxpayer and voter appealed for a
poison. He could stand the torture
of pain no longer. He was given an
order for medicine on a county Of
ficer. After waiting in the Off
GERS office for, two hours he was
told that he would be Seen on Mon
day.
Sent Him on Chase
Then the home official sent him
to the Sacred Heart hospital with
instructions to stay there. He was
sent from there to the Salvation
Army home, where he remained.
That is the way a poor homeless
and jobless worker is treated here
IN Spokane. Being sick he was chas-
ed all over town from one place to
another, one party passing the buck
to another. And then these same Of
ficials have the nerve to talk and
write of character building and of
self-respect and so forth.
Fight This Misery!
How in hell can worker keep his
self-respect and build up his char
acter when he is compelled to work
for his board and a flop only, and
be satisfied with the cast-off cloth
ing the home will sell him, provid-
ing that he has enough working
hours to his credit to pay for the
lame, is more than l can under
,tand.
ANOTHER WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
Perth Amboy Tile Factory Shuts
Down and Don't Pay Back Wages

/ am ex-soldier and see no
reason for patriotism. I only know
one country that I would lay my
life for and that is not the Am
erican capitalist country, and il the
USSR needed my help I am
Johnny on the spot.
have left the farm in Ken
lucky to come east with my wife
and T. kiddies, now all learning
Communist fundamentals. And
again I say three cheers for the
u. s. $. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
Poison Fumes Kill
Cattle In Stevens
County, Washington
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBy a Worker Correspondent
NORTHPORT, Wash. - If I may
express myself I am getting sick Of
this grand old U. S.
The Canadian capitalists, the
British ColumbiN Smelling Co. are
spreading poison fumes over Stevens
County and hit the 5000 farmers
at Northport, Wash
have heard no protest from the
U. S. government against such fumes
being dumped in the center of one OF
the worlds fairest beauty spot.
One farmer lost 16 horses, one
dairy farm 80 cattle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
Speedup Follows LayoffS at the
Hegler Zinc Co. at WeStville, I'll.

little mistake means hell from the
slave driver boss with threats Of
discharge.
Some day hope all these ex-
plotted workers will wake up from
their long sleep and join the Mine,
OIL and Smelter Workers Industrial
Union.
The workers have built their
homes on leased SO year lots and
the boss uses this against them
in organizing. The Negroes are
given the worst jobs and rottenest
treatment. Next time IN write -
the mining industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
.l6 BREADLINES IN
CHICAGO; "RE' IEF'
Radio Co. On Short
Time Now

CHICAGO, Ill--If you want to see
bread lines just come to Chicago.
I know of 16 lines were 500 to 5000
men stand in line to get bowl of
slop or piece of bread that is 2
and days old. Ninety nine per
cent of the workers have no CUTS to
fight for their rights Or job.
The Majestic Radio Co. went Oh
8 day week December Q and the
Rock Island railroad shops close
down December is for a month or
longer at Silvis, ILL., And the West
ern Electric is on 4 day week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-13
Capt. Makes No Move
to Save Seamen Who
Is Washed Overheard
(By a Worker Correspondent,

IBy a WOrker CONSEQUENTLY
GALVESTON, Texas.-Comrade N.
De Jesus. a Porto Rican seaman
while working as workaway on the
American steamship Stella Lykes,
shifting some drums from the after
deck up to after castle was taken
out by rough wave, into the sea
where he got drowned.
The ship did not make any sign to
stop and give any help. Some of the
other boys got injured and didn't get
any assistance from the captain.
This happened on the Thanks
giving day at LIS p. N.