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leducts 5 per cent every two weeks
but of the workers pay and buys
.hares for the workers. This helps
o create willing slaves for the COM
bany, as they are told time and
gain that they (workers) are part
5wners of the mill. The lowest paid
workers get 35 to 40 cents per hour
ind two or three days per week.
Starvation and want is all around
here.
Youngstown Slave Drivers.
The Youngstown Sheet and Tube
20. is the other steel mill here.
'rhey have two employment men
Who take money from the workers
FOR jobs. But as it happens, these
workers only work a few days and
hen they are fired. The names of
he two employment crooks are
Steve" and Bruce barrow" who
work. hand in glove with police and
he city administration of East Chi
ago. The one named B. barrow
IS known as red batter and he is
always on the heels of our most ac-
i've comrades, blacklisting them and
falling them with the help of the
|ity police, thugs and private agents
bf the bosses.
The other day we had a gate
meeting at Empire Oil Co. and
many many hundred workers list
med to our speakers. Two speakers
we're arrested but released the next
lay. This company hires men for
lew days work and then fire them.
But just the same the Metal Work
RS Industrial League is growing
Ind the Unemployed Council meet
Ings are swelling.
We asked for permit to hold Au-
rust First demonstration but the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
U. S. Steel Spies Track Men
in Pittsburgh, Cal, Plant

Antioch, Calf.
Dear Comrades:
A few months ago the U. S. Steel
ook over the Columbia Steel Corp.
here in this Pacific Coast center of
teel, chemical and rubber industry.
About the same time the u. S. Steel
'lucleus was formed, and now we
aave a nucleus in the rubber mill.
This is in Pittsburg, Calf. The
own is completely company owned,
! % you see we are working under il
Iegal conditions. U. S. Steel has a
back Of trained stools after us, and
;ome of US have been exposed.
Low Wages.
In the steel mills, the eight-hour
lay has been started in departments
where it was not in effect. In the
nail mill feeders formerly made
around $6.25 for a 12-hour day; now
they make around $500; SIG for the
week. Helpers make less.
Short Time.
The sheet mill frequently has a
Ihree-day week.
The wire netting department has
shut down since U. S. Steel came
in. The Tin Mill had a four-day
week two weeks ago, and most of
The steel rolled was light. 1t prob
hbly wont be long before they run
this department on a three-day
week. Men go and come from the
Eastern mills all the time, from
which the railroads profit and the
;ompany profits, while the worker
bays back the fare. Recently a
yorker was killed in the foundry
khen a dilapidated platform for
carrying TASKS collapsed, and let
Ihe flash slide onto the worker and
'rush him to death. The company
sually can find way to excuse
/. Il accidents calling them the work.
| RS fault, but it tried to keep this
| uiet. The nucleus exposed the
'oss negligence of this company
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which plasters the walls with safety
slogans-in the shop bulletin.
The workers in this town are be-
ing rapidly radicalized. In two Red
Sundays only two houses visited did
not give a favorable response. And
this includes the Italians and Mex
leans, as we'll as the native-born
Negroes and whites. We are in
urgent need of more Mexican and
Italian language literature.
The steel mills, the rubber mills,
and three chemical plants producing
nitrates and poison gases give US a
big task. And now Shell is build
ing a $7,000,00O nitrate plant here.
Yours for more intensified work,
J, III,
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were able by speeding up to make
from So to 81 bonus per day in
addition to the measly 81 they
received as wages. The bosses
thought this was too much money
for the workers, so they took
away the Tie Plate Tonnage, in
other words, this had to be loaded
just the same, but they were not
to receive the bonus rate on this
amount. This cut in bonus
amounted to 81 to SO or better
per day.
Now that the production of
steel has fallen off so much that
it is impossible to make any
bonus whatsoever, 81 is the aver
age wage per day and that about
three or four days and less for
most workers.
Another thing to call to the at
tentiou Of the workers is the box
car loading machines. A few
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
New Machinery, More
Slavery For the Tin
Workers, McKeesport
McKeesport, Pa.

McKeesport, Pa.
Daily WORKER
The bosses in the McKeesport Tin
Plate Co. brag about the new pat
tern double machines they have in
the mill. They say no worker
didn't lose his job with this new
machine, but, boy, they sure get
more work to do now.
With this new machine the catch
ers, roughers, sccrew boys and pair
beaters get more work to do new.
These workers get more work and
yet they get between a five and
ten per cent wage-cut. The beat
ers, single boys, doubles and rollers
that didn't get more work to do,
get a bigger cut than the rest of
the workers that have more work
to 90.
Workers of the McKeesport Tin
Plate Co., join the Metal Workers
Industrial League, the League that
fights all rotten conditions in mills.
This goes for the young and older
alike.
YOUNG HOT MILL WORKER.
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SLAVE DRIVING
IN BOSS HOTEL
Collegiates With Scab
Outlook
Hurleyville, N. Y.
Dear Comrades of the
Daily Worker:

AANAAS ~ flllSJ ~ L
Dear Comrades of the
Daily Worker:
want to tell some of the hap
penings that take place at one of
the hotels in the Catskill Mts. 1t
is supposed to be a highclass hotel
at Luzon Station called the Morn
ingside.
There are about $50 workers,
white and Negro, foreign-born and
native. Hiring and firing is a daily
occurrence. To me this large estate
looks like the old time southern
slave plantations.
The other day dishwasher
came in five minutes late and the
gorilla manager, Mr.. Bergman,
thought that it is a good reason
to fire him as he had too many on
hand, but the other five pearl-divers
would not stand for it and they left
the slave plantation.
Rah-rah Boys Walters.
am a waitress and spread the
news in the dining room. All the
busboys are college students and a
few mattresses go to Hunter Col
lege and follow the goose step.
told them we ought to follow the
footsteps of the dishwashers and de-
mand human working conditions.
The goosesteppers told me they
don't intend to follow in this line
of work so why should they become
Bolsheviks and in the second place
they thought they had nothing in
common with dishwashers. Fellow
workers, the future belongs to the
working men and women and not
to the intellectuals. 1t proves that
the dishwashers have more fighting
spirit and more intelligence thar
the future doctor or lawyer.
-Waitres.
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Steel Co.
East Chicago, Ind.
Indiana Harbor, Ind.

(Indlana harDor, ina.
Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
I just want to tell you a few
things about Inland Steel Co. here
in Indiana Harbor, Indiana.
This company is so hungry for
profits that now the workers must
work till the last minute, if they
wish to retain their job. Some time
ago, the company maintained GER
tain rules for washing up before the
time is up, but now if a worker
stops to breath for a second he is
fired.
Vicious Speed Up.
The bosses are on the heels of
as workers every minute of the day,
for he is told to speed US up to the
limit. The workers are sore as hell,
and it is no surprise that so many
Of the workers turned out to de-
monstrate against war, speed up
and wage cuts last Friday night.
You could hear for hours after the
police beat up about dozen workers
at the demonstration, how the work
ers were swearing and gritting their
teeth against police brutality.
Want Action From Shop
Committee.
Take for instance those fellow
workers engaged on the cold rolls
They are told openly that if they
can not roll 10000 pounds of sheet
steel in 8 hours to get the hell out
Before they used to put out about
10000 pounds of steel in eight hour.
and for more money. Now twice
as much work, and half as mucl
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eral cups empty and went over to
the Negro oiler and began to rain
abuses and insults on him which fin
ally eliminated in the white worker
telling the Negro worker that he
is going to report him to the boss.
The Negro worker told him that he
didn't give a d.. Whereupon the
white worker took offense at this
and beat the Negro worker down to
the floor, then reported him to the
boss, who fired the Negro worker.
This Negro worker had been in
the employ of the Bethlehem Steel
Co. for six years and never missed
one day in all that time and this
was his reward. The company forced
him to use an insufficient amount
of oil to keep the cups filled in
order to increase the profits Of the
bosses.
Workers Must Unite.
The greed of the bosses causes
confusion between the workers and
this white worker who had been
trained from childhood to hate Ne
groes thought that Negro worker
was his enemy. The fight Of the
workers is not between themselves
but against our real enemy the bos-
ses who force us to work under such
conditions.
Every eight hours Of the twenty
four new hundred Of workers enter
the Plate Mills Of the Bethlehem
Steel Co. Just as in trenches of
war new regiments of soldiers re-
lieve the wounded and tired, so it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
Chicago Section
Steel Plants Now
On 2, 3 Day Basis
Chicago, III.

Chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker,
Dear Sir:
The steel mills around South Chi
cago and Indiana Harbor are work
ing two and three days a week.
Chicago is still full of men and
women out of work. Sixty-three
cents wheat in Kansas.
I have clipping sent to me from
Ireland. 1t says Henry Ford is
turning out 300 tractors day or
about 10000 year. Ford moved
his tractor plant to Cork, ireland,
2 or 3 years ago, so he could get
cheap labor.
Ford is one of our dry hypocrites
that fires anyone that works for
him who takes a drink.
This winter will be a tough one
in America, a smany farmers will
be broke, crops burned out.
AN EX-SERvICEMAN.
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CARY STEEL TOILERS REPLACED BY
MACHINES AS BOSSES LOWER WAGE
Gary, Ind.

Gary, Ind.
Daily Worker:
Dear Comrade:
will point out some of the
wage cuts and speed-up that have
taken place in my section of the
steel plant here in Gary. l am
working in the Merchant Mills
and the Merchant Mill Warehouse.
The workers here are working
ten hours where they work steady
days or where the two shift sys-
TEN is applied. Where the three
shift is in effect, eight hours.
The ten hour men receive $40
per day, while the eight hour men
get 81 with the bonus rate for
speed-up.
About a year ago, before the
Wall st. crash was really felt, all
hookers, leaders, carmen, and
cranemen, working in the ware
house under the bonus system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16

is in the Plate Mills, fresh workers
come to take the place of the ex-
hausted sweaty workers who have
acquired a slow unc dy step after
being sped up to the highest for
eight hours producing profits for
the Schwabs and bonuses of millions
for the president Grace.
From the first of the year the
eight-hour turn replaced the
twelve-hour turn that we Plate
Mill workers formerly had. Twelve
hours work had left a terrible
mark on the faces and bodies of
the workers but even so the eight
hours was received with displea-
sure because we were just able to
exist on the tonnage rate that we
made for the twelve hours and it
was impossible for us to under
stand how we were going to live
on the tonnage for eight hours.
Before we used to make go tons
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speeding up and cutting down ex-
penses. For a long time the Negro
worker that was oiling and greasing
up the manipulation and the mill was
allowed two barrels of oil to do the
work, then it was cut down to one
barrel, then it was cut down to half
barrel, then to tenty gallons, and
now it is five gallon and it became
a very serious problem for this Ne
gro worker to economic on oil to
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such an extent and at the same time
keep all the cups well filled because
this type Of mill consumes an I'M
usual amount of oil because of it's
heavy duty of breaking down in
gots and rolling slabs and rail
blooms.
Assault On Negro Worker.
The story goes on in the mill
that the manipulation, a skilled white
worker inspecting the mill saw sew
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mayor and chief of police refused
US. We announced that permit or no
permit we are going to hold the
demonstration anyway and we are.
We have had some factory gate
meetings and one or two street
corner meetings and they were very
successful. The workers are ready
to join US and fight for our de-
mands. There are still few work
ers here which are very disillusioned,
due to the A. F. of L. betraying the
steel strike in 1919. But this is
easily combatted when we tell the
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here.
The other day 5 Negro workers
md one white worker were taken
10 the hospital because they were
forced to work in the heat of $50
o 200 degrees at such terrific speed
hat they all "played out" dropping
Unconscious on the floor. This hap
bened particularly in the Sheet Mills
Ind the Open Hearths. When these
workers returned back for their jobs
hey all were fired. This company
las a saving system for workers
Employed 10 months. The company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16

years ago it took from fifty to
sixty workers to load these cars
in the old way. Now with the
aid of this mechanical robot, it
takes three men. One operator
and two hookers. The operator
receives $3.50 and the two hook
ers receive $40 each for ten
hours. Compare this with the
cost of fifty or sixty men at the
usual rate of $40. The new 2S
mill just completed rolled over
five hundred and sixty tons in one
shift. Nothing has been over
looked in efficiency. The rough
ing and finishing courses are on
one direct line instead of running
the hot billet back and forth as is
done on the older type mills,
through the different sets of rolls.
All the smaller roller lines oper-
ate on high duty roller bearings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
R ED FLAG

Carry the Red Flag high
Under its color upon the sky
Dare to live.
Fight the capitalist gain
Watch our Cause through its pain
Of birth.
We bow no more to the cruel
Lash of the parasite rule
We rise
In one body, stand and acclaim
in one voice the awaited name
OF SOvietism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
INLAND STEEL WORKERS
DROP TO FLOOR; HEAT
And SPEED-UP TERRIFIC
With Speed-up, Wage Cuts and Unemployment
Rife Among Steel Workers, Strike Needed
Oil Workers Too Are Ready For Fight and Are
Organizing Into Trade Union Unity League
East Chicago, Ind.
Daily Worker:


twos mills reneres
Inland Steel Co. of the most powerful independent steel
introducing
hethouands backs the active
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workers that our T.U.UL., Com
munist Party and Young Commun-
list League are not the organizations
of the A. F. of L. They look to Is
with hope and respect and they are
ready to fight for better working
conditions.
STEEL WORKER.
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If the mill runs for the eight
hours without mishaps, and if there
is not much loss on plate steel on
account of defects, and if the order
that the mill is running on for the
eight-hours is on heavy gauge and
weighty plates-if-well we might
make two hundred tons. Two hun
dred tons represent the most ton
mage that can be made for the turn
and like a bone hung before a dog
the "bone of two hundred tons" is
hung before us workers to goad us
into speedier movements in order to
get that two hundred tons that every
plate mill worker aspires for each
day which means just "a little more
bread"
Life to the Plate Mill worker
means Just two hundred tons and
his whole thought before going to
work is | hope we make two hum
dred tons today, while on the job
he thinks and acts towards get
ting that two hundred tons and
when he goes home; he wonders
if he made that two hundred tens.
Two hundred tons reacts on his
whole disposition. If he doesn't
make two hundred tons there will
be disappointment Wr.,.en all over
hfc fan e-,s' e La r. mos -,.,'o t.vn
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for the twelve-hOur turn, which
for the average man who earned
from S2.65 to S3.15 for the hum
bred tons meant about $3.50 to
$3.50 for the twelve-hours work,
but on the eight-hours the tonnage
rate was not increased for the
hundred tons which makes about
S3.75 to $3.50 for eight-hOurs work
which in reality makes a reduc-
ton of approximately twenty-five
per cent in wages. For the two
weeks pay it is a familiar sight
to see pay envelopes ranging from
80 to $55 dollars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-16
SparrowsPoint Stee' Men Burn
Out Life in Naddening Speedup
As Schwab Piles Up Millions
Committee the Metal Trades Workers Industrial
Prepare Strike Struggle
Must Unite in Fighting
Bosses
Sparrows Point, Md.
Editor, Daily WORKER


lay off
the the develops the results that such nhum
steel mills become batIefeLs
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in the forty-six inch mill that causes
strange misunderstanding between
workers who are c azed in orgy of
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mills listed the hospitals of Baltimore
waiting Bethlehem Steel Co ban
daged
46-INCH MILL.
The reaction IS felt
n h rtv-SXin inch mill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

enchantment But he didn't care He had
come halfway across the world to get the woman
he wanted, and besides there was to be another
ceremony few minutes later, anyway.
After the state official had done his best to tie
the knot, the royal couple journeyed out to
Woking where stands the first Moslem mosque
erected in England. Now Mrs. Wilson started
to feel that she was getting into something diff
ferent
Her husband l.. or half husband, since one
ceremony was over and one was to come
slipped his arm through hers and together they
walked into the dim receSSes of the MOSQUE.
They sat down side by side and the Imam Abdul
Hadi read the Koran from the Arabic text and
then translated it very carefully for the benefit
of the bride.
After the confession "I believe in Allah" the
Sultan said the few wolds which made him q
married man again. Then the Imam continued:
"Oh, you people, be careful Of your duties to
Allah! Oh. you people, say the right thing and
do the right thingl :"
The SuItans bride wore two magnificent
ropes Of pearls, which set on her wine-colored
cloth coat which was trimmed with black cara
cul. She also wore q gorgeous diamond of
magnificent price, which was one Of the bride
groom's gifts to her and which is supposed to
bring Its possesSor good luck.
or course the former Mrs. Wilson isn't the
Sultana. The mere fact that she is mar
ried to the Sultan does not give her that rank.
Before this honor Is conferred upon her it will
have to be conferred by the Council of State in
Malaysia and also by Sir Ibrahim's British adj
wiser.
But since the Sultan is a powerful ruler in
his own right and has always been a good friend
of Great Britain's the British will probably all
agree that his wife can be the Sultana If he
wants her to be.
One thing is certain, the former Mrs. Wilson
who has to be known just as the wife of Sir
Ibrahim until she gets a title of her owns not
likely ever to be bored with her husband
He can tell her of the rule which the British
authorities in Singapore had for him in his
youth, which demanded that he leave the island
before nightfal It amuses him now to think
that they made him go home at the ringing Of
the curfew, but he says It was for his own good.
He freely admits that he used 10 raise hell"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28
Drought and Nutrition.

ONE effect Of the drought, which Is feared
by Department of Agriculture experts and
which is receiving serious consideration is the
possibility Of undernutrition because of the
decreased family finances.
In order to guide householders in the affected
areas the department.. with the cooperation
Of the Public Health Service and American
Red Cross, Is preparing to inform the heads
of families as to the proper foods to buy to
give balanced diet at the lowest cost.
Among the recommendations is one that
potatoes be served at least five times week.
Tomatoes, raw cabbage and fresh or canned
green vegetables should appear on the table
at least twice week, and lean meat, fish or
eggs at least three times, II possible. -"
1t is estimated that at least 200 600 persons
suffered FROM pellagra last year, and to COM
bat this the experts urge the addition of one
ounce of dried yeast q day to the diet Of
those so af1icted
Advice on proper feeding of live stock, utiliE-
ing cheaper feeds where they may be salts
factorily substituted, and other correlated mat
ter is also being given to farmers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

Not only tOere the SultGn's teeth Of gold,
but he had each one set Nth stable
diamond. Later he had the jesOels re-
naOOed, but the gold remains.
Nov and then, as he travelled through the
world, the sultan met her and her husband.
Then Mrs. Wilson obtained a divorce. After a
while the sultan heard about it. He was q
widower now. So he wrote to her. He cabled
her. And he decided TO would 60 to Europe
and see IL she was as attractive as she used
to be. She was
He showered her with attentions and she
found his gold plate smile as fascinating as ever
The diamonds had been removed meantime.
But the king had to go back TO Malaysia on
business.
One day he made up his mind He said to
one Of his aides-de-camp:
Dash 1t ALI I do not see why shouldn't
go to London and propose to her."
He took a ship to England He kept the
wireless and the cables buzzing with expensive
messages
Every day florists and fruit dealers brought
gifts to the lady's room, lavish gifts which the
sultan had ordered by cable.
He didn't waste any time when the boat
locked. He dashed around to her hotel asked
her If she would marry him and was accepted.
A double wedding ceremony followed quickly.
It had to be done twice so they would be sure
they were oficially welded.
FIRST the Sultan Of Johore and Mrs. Wilson
went to the dingy room Of o london regis
ter. The setting wasn't bit liEc the palatial
background with It's bowling servants to which
the ruler was used. It lacked spice, romance,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

That doesn't mean that he can't raise it now
when he wants to, but he does it in more
princely fashion. He can Outwalk, outswim,
outride outshoot, and i. outdrink most
men mere half of his age.
The Sulatn has one or two fairly amusing
habits. He will never have more than one drink
from the same glass. He doesn't care about
having any other lips touch the glass, either, so
he always smashes it against the wall.
When this remarkable monarch goes hunting
he really faces danger. Sometimes Eastern po-
tentates and their white guests hunt tigers
by having q regular theatrical display. Several
hundred men start into the jungle beating TOM
toms, firing of guns, uttering earthly yells and
driving the frightened tiger to the place where
the monarch and his party take a pot shot or
two at the animal
But that isn't the Sultans way
He takes one personal servant to act as
gun bearer and goes stalking after the striped
master of the jungle on foot. He has probably
killed more wild cats than any man alive. He
has hunted wild elephants in the same way.