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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
8 DO WORK OF z
IN ONE DEPT. OF
FRANKLIN SUGAR
Lack of Safety Mains
Workers

by q Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA.-The Franklin
Sugar Refinery is one of the largest
in Philadelphia and also one Of the
largest in the United States.
1t is one of those typical CAPT
talist institutions where man
means nothing. A man is just like
the sugar cane and beet sugar. Out
of the cane and beets eatable sugar
is ground out; out of the men and
women workers, profits are ground
out. In fact, the beets and cane,
after the sugar is ground out, can
be used in making various other
products, the men and women are
cast off Immediately, sometimes
right in their prime, by accidents.
No Safety-kill Workers
This is due to the fact that there
are absolutely no safety precautions.
A few months ago man was
caught on the belts and crushed to
death. The cranes are handled with
old rope instead of steel chains and
due to the easily broken old ropes,
one man was killed and several
wounded. In the department where
sugar cane is ground out, the intro
duction of the speed-up and new
machinery has cut the force down
to one third of the former number,
who can now do all the work done
before by three times as many. The
rest have been laid off.
9 Do Work of II
In the power house 8 men do the
work of 72 men, piling up additional
dividends for the Franklin Sugar
Refinery Company.
Join the Trade Union Unity
League!
Philadelphia Sugar Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
NEGRO WORKERS
OF NORFOLK GET
The WORST DEAL
Raring to Go Under
T.U.U.L. Leadership
(BH q Worker CONSEQUENTLY

(By q w 0fBef CofreSp0ndentJ
NORFOLK, Val want to
write you about the conditions OF
the workers Of Norfolk, Va. The
Negro worker of Norfolk receives
20 cents an hour for working in the
fertilizer factories, works 10 and IL
hours day and lives in houses with
no flooring in them. They live like
dogs and cats, haven't half enough
to eat, speeded up by the bosses as
though they are horses. Since I
have been in Norfolk, Va, the
Negroes have asked me to publish
these conditions. Negro women get
Sd a week, working for the bosses
10 and II hours a day in the lunch
rooms and factories Of Norfolk, Va.
Here Are Low Wages.
The Virginia Railroad and Power
Company which is the Street Car
Co., pays their hammer workers and
track workers $12 week, working
10 and IL hours a day for this
money. There is over 1000 unem-
ployed and no place to stay. The
Longshoremen's Union is an A. F. OF
L. union. They are now fighting
for better conditions. Green, the
big fakir, has told the Negro work
ers that everything will be alright.
The Chamber of Commerce has is
sued statement, discharging Neg
roes and hiring white workers.
In the Slave Market.
The Negroes of Norfolk, Va, are
working hard for the T.U.U.L. to
lead them. On Monday, April IS
we called meeting to open up and
expose the bosses, Green and his
crooks. They have a slave market
| in Norfolk on Church and Olney
streets where the bosses come anc
hire the Negro worker. He picks
out the biggest Negro and feels his
muscles and if they are hard enough
he will hire him. After they worl
day and ask for money, the bosses
give them money and charge them
% cents on the dollar they get from
him till payday. Kindly put this
statement in your paper that it may
be sent to me and other workers
that they may know the conditions
Of Norfolk, Va.
Negro Worker.
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to pay even compensation to an
injured man. and they tried TO
starve him and then beat him out
II possible.
Conditions Bad.
The working conditions are very
bad and ! see the Hoover prosper
ity coming, deepening tho starva-
ton for the workers. The CON-
pany cut the wages from 1920 a
cord Of wood to S1.90. A man
could cut from one to one and a
half cords of wood day, and this
isn't every day. The rainy days
he IL not able to work. The most
Of this chemicai work ID shut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03

down, and in the shops around
here is very bad. It is about one
third or one quarter that are work.
ing, and some of the shops are
entirely shut down. 1t is growing
from bad to worse. This is proof
Of Hoover's prosperity. The only
way to better workers conditions
is to be organized in the T.U.U.L.
and by joining the Communist
Party, which is the only workers
Party, which can lead the workers
to freedom. ] wish that every
worker should join the Communist
Party.
-Clawson Chemical co. Slave.
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Tor the fellef OF the workers.
The only thing done by these Of
ficials is to work out bylaws to raise
the officials wages. No relief for
the rank and file from the union
treasury or elsewhere.
A Progressive" Mask!
The rank and filters of local 1913
participated in the discussion and
80 per cent of the membership was
willing to accept this communication
and demonstrate their solidarity
with the working class on May Day
and also express their grievances
against the present day starvation
imposed upon them by the capitalist
class. The workers realized the sig
nificance of the May Day Demon
stration at the present time. And
while the workers discussed May
Day the chairman of that local
(1073) calling himself progress
sive" (really covered up with black
mask) and in reality helping the re-
dictionary machine and all the reac-
tionary forces in local 1913, felt that
the only solution was to rule it out
of order, even tho this ruling was
against the constitution of even the
reactionaries.
"Out OF Order.
He knew however that the reac-
tionary district council of Philadel-
phia will back him up, even tho so
per cent of the workers are against
him. He is the District Councils
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} Corporation the work is at full
speed, because it is a direct war
industry, manufacturing airplanes
for the coming war.
Conditions Get Worse.
Side by side with the war prepa-
rations we find that conditions are
getting from bad to worse. In the
fuselage department we work for
500 and S25 week. The floors are
damp, many of the workers are
crippled with rheumatism so bad
that they cannot get job anywhere.
The women workers in the cover
ing department work for 80 and 35
cents an hour under a speed-up that
makes them physical wrecks. Fer
10, II and sometimes as long as II
hours do the women workers have
10 work.
Wages Cut.
In most of the departments, such
as the Tin Shop, the dope room.
etc, wages are being cut. Condi-
lions are unbearable under the
speed-up.
Let us take the dope room, where
the workers cannot help becoming
dopey. The temperature is 95 de-
grees all the time, with the smell
of the nitrate poison and the 91@
hours a day. 1t is enough to kill
enyone. The pay is so cents an
hour.
Is This Heaven"
Some of the workers were unde,
the impression that we had heaven
in comparison with other shops,
but now we find that the speed-up
is being introduced more and more
In the cafeteria, where you car
not buy a meal for less than sc
cents, we find a stool-pigeon by the
name of Pie. His job is, besides
jyping US, to report to the bosses
if any of us happen to talk about
our bad conditions. Then, the new
est system introduced, in order tt
speed us up more and more, is that
none of the workers are allowed to
talk to each other and no one is al
lowed to take bite in between work
In order to 'enforce the above rules
they hired an expert spotter and
since he came on the job five work
ers who worked there have bee,
fired. The real reason for firing
them is that they could not KEEP
up with the speeed-and they car
and do hire young workers, 16 and
II years of age, for nearly hall
the price who can much better keer
up with the speed-up.
Most of the workers are kicking
and kicking hard because they arc
more and more becoming slaves
The time is ripe for organization
and shop bulletip, side by side
with an organizational campaign
which will get the workers out for
a real fight against the speed-up
system and for better working con-
ditions. BRISTOL WORKER.
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rank ana lille naQ TO pay an ASSESS
ment of 500 to pull the organiza-
ton through.
There isn't much use Of recount
ing the other troubles, as every one
familiar with the labor movement
is acquainted with them. We are
going to have a convention in May,
and there is a great demand for
amalgamation with the firemen's
organizations. We are not gaining
any new members because a man
has to fire an engine for Is or 20
years now to get over to the right
side permanently, and by that time
he is too old to get any insurance
in the engineers; he stays in the
firemens organization.
CENT Get Firemen's Jobs
1t is impossible to obtain a job
as a fireman on any railroad in the
United States; most of the railroads
have seven to ten-year men fur
Laughed. Introduction of giant loco
motives has revolutionized the Amer
lean railroads.
LIBERALIZATION
The New York Central R. R., by
which / am employed, has a policy
of 100-car trains and 100 empties.
We used to haul $500 tons; they
boosted it to $500, and now we are
hauling 10000 tons and they want
you to maintain speed of 35 miles
per hour.
Three Times as Much Work
We have three times as much re-
sponsibility on us as we had ten
years ago. The railroad corporations
are cutting off men at the rate of
$4,000 a year, with no sign of let-up.
The Rail Brotherhoods are in the
doldrums, each pronouncing a policy
of its own, and we face some bad
times. The Youngstown district is
great steel center. The mills have
been operating at about 80 per cent
since the stock market crash.
The giant Ohio works of Carnegie
Steel, l was told, was operating the
plant on third trick with about 400
men, where they used to employ
5000.
The unemployment among the rail
workers is about the same as in
other industries. We work on SEMI
ofity basis, and the youngest men
get fufloughed in slack periods. All
/ jobs are advertised and the Oldest
man gets the first preference on
the best runs or jobs. Amount of
technical knowledge required of en-
gineers and firemen is getting
greater each year, with the applica-
ton of new devices on locomotives,
and our wages have not advanced in
proportion to increase in tonnage
and responsibility.
Our wages run from $4,000 for
yard engineers to $4,000 maximum
for passenger work. The freight
men work first in, first out, with
exception of scheduled freight runs.
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agent and ruled the communication
out Of order. When the workers pro-
tested and appealed to the chair, he
did not accept the appeal. He ig-
nored the carpenters because he
knew that the local would accept
the communication and participate in
the May Day Demonstration, just as
they did on March 6 when they
marched in a body to the City Hall,
demanding Work or Wages. This ac-
ton of the officials of 1913, so-called
progressives proves conclusively that
these so-called progressives and their
allies, the Lovestoneites in the union,
are in reality agents of the reac-
tionary machine of the A. F. of L.
and real fascists.
Ninety per cent of this local, pos
sibly more participated in the May
Day demonstration nevertheless.
Carpenter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03

Our divisions vary in length, some
run over 100 miles, some less. Sc
the earnings on one division will
vary from another divisions wages.
The rates for firemen in the yard
are S5.S1 upward for eight hours
and for freight work $6.41 and more
depending on the weight Of the en-
CINE, for 100 miles or less.
When will we all get wise and join
the T.U.UL, with one railroad in
dustrial union? Let's go!
Railroad Engineer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
MORE LAY-OFFS
IN DUNCAN Mine
Goodyear Owns Pits;
Men Militant
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBy q w orHer CoTTesp0n0entJ
DUNCAN, Ohio.-Men in the
Summer mine were formerly en-
ployed in units of twelve. First
they were cut to ten men and two
weeks ago the unit was reduced to
seven men. The same amount of
work must be done, although the
unit was cut and the pay was cut.
Men, when working full time,
average So a day. However, the
miners are seldom employed full
time. 1t is common for them to
draw s and 10 dollars a week, to
support families of 5 and 6.
Join the National Miners Union
all miners!
A Miner
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
Put Out by the State

Then / sent a report to the Bu-
reau of Workmen's Compensation.
They wrote me a letter and q blank
to be filled out and sworn before
a compensation referee. / did that
and demanded that they should
give mo Z hospital where I could
get daily treatment and to pay
my expense and compensation.
They took me to the hospital and
kept me there for one month.
Then they put me out and | was
nessly as bad as the day I came
tot.he hospital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
Red Tape TO Gyp Workers


On four months time, l got
eight weeks compensation. Then
they offered me the same check,
sS5.71, which was made till Jan.
uary 8, and I had to sign for It.
I looked at him and told him: II
might look dumb to you, but don't
think that l would sign as long a.
| am not well. The compensation
should be paid every week." He
didn't say a word, but walked
away.
Now I am just waiting for 4
hearing. The company don't want
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
TRIED FOR ANfI.MILITARIsM.

PARIS (IPS).--The trial Of five
soldiers and a civilian accused of
"ahti-military conspiracy" has COM
menced in Strassburg. The six ac-
cused admit that they were respon-
sible for the publication and distri-
button of the soldiers newspaper in
the barracks, but deny the charge
Of Conspiracy" The evidence given
by soldiers under pressure produced
no facts of any moment against the
accused. The verdict will b an
nounced next week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
War Preparations As
Seen by Aircraft Workers
by a Worker Correspondent

TRENTON, N 1.-The preparations clearly noticeable in
the Bristol Keystone Aircraft Corporation In Bristol in Trenton
thousands of workers jobes search of which
the pottery industries well the rubber plants
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
DORIOT ARRESTED.

Jacques Doriot, Communist Dep.
uty, was arrested with seven munich
pal councillors of st. Denis, follow.
ing the May Day demonstration
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
Fake 'Pyogyesslves" Didn't
Halt Carpenters May Day
(Bu O Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA Pat the last meeting, April 5 communica.
A. of L. Carpenters Local 1913 from the COM
preliminary May Day April 20
file enthusiastically took the proposition
and the brotherhood officials do nothing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-03
Unemployment Hits K. r.
Engineers; FakerS Gyb

YOUNGSTOWN OhoThe railroad engineers about the most
the We had two of the sek labor
history labor W. S. Stone and
they within inch of
left in the hole The
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Worker Correspondent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
NEGLECT OF MOTOR
EQUIPMENT CITED
J. N. McComb Holds No Other
Machinery Is Abused to
Same Extent.

No other machinery is neglected to
the extent of automobile motors and
parts, and no other investment made
by the average car owner is allowed
to deteriorate so rapidly in the opinion
of j. M McComb, president of the Mo-
tor and Equipment Association, who
advocates adoption of a program of
preventive maintenance. by all automo-
bile owners.
THE highest degree of mechanical
efficiency is necessary and desirable for
the safe and economical transportation
of human beings" said Mr.. McComb.
"In other fields of transportation main
tenance of such efficiency is required by
law, either State or Federal. Railroads,
both steam and electric, must submit to
rigid and regular inspection. The same
is true OF airplanes and steamships.
THE application of principles of pre-
ventive maintenance is recognized in
these fields as being good business in
addition to being mere compliance with
the laws" he added. 1T is just as good
business for a car owner to keep his
automobile in good operating condition
because in that way he protects his in
vestment by holding depreciation down
to minimum.
Preventive maintenance, as we advo-
cate it, however, goes farther than
keeping up the cars operating effici-
ency. The cars appearance and COM
fort also can be maintained through
proper care and these factors are just
as important in consideration Of cars
value
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
IMPORTANCE OF STEERING GEAR
CARE IS DESCRIBED BY EXPERT
Mechanical Principle of Operation and
Limitation of Stress Is Ezplair:d
for Motorists
for Motorists.

set parallel--this un lerga her would
cause too much wear on the tires. To
avoid this needless wear, the wheels are
given what Is called foregather, which
means that they are bit closer to-
gether at the front edge than at the
rear This difference may be only
about three-eighths of an inch, but 1t
is very important that the front wheels
toe-in that much. The same does not
apply to the rear wheels, which usually
are exactly parallel to each other.
Besides this foregather and under
gather, the steering knuckle pins are
given a slight rake so as to produce
castor effect to the front wheels. This
rake consists in placing the steering
knuckle pins in such way that they
lean backward. The result of this. when
steering, is that the center of turning
of the steering knuckle is little ahead
of the point of contact where the tire
touches the road. This is done so that
the drag, incident to pushing the
wheel along the road, is back OF the
center of turning. In this way the
wheels will always point directly for
ward unless interfered with. Should
control rod become looSened the car
will go straight ahead. This Is all to
the good and often prevents accidents.
The importance of keeping the steer
ing apparatus well fabricated should
be remembered by the owner of an
automobile. A regular inspection to see
that the pins are kept tight and that
the wheels are not too much out of
alignment also should be given. With
this small amount of care and some
knowledge of the fundamentals of this
part of an automobile, a motorist
should experience very little trouble
with his steering device.
Mr.. Brokaw will be glad to write on
any subject pertaining to the automo-
bile that reader may suggest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
BEST ROUTES TO WINCHESTER
FOR FESTIVAL ARE ANNOUNCED

under construction one near Harrison
burg, one near Mount Jackson and one
near Strasburg, but traffic will be taken
care of over the regular road and con-
struction work in each case. These
sections are rough in places for mile
or two, but are entirely passable.
Traffic coming up from North Caro-
lima points around Winston Salem and
Greensboro will find u S. Route 311 to
Roanoke and u. S. Route IL through
the valley to Winchester good. There
are no detours and the only construc-
ton is between Stanton and Win
chester, already described. On u. S.
Route ITO, from Danville to Lynchburg,
several jobs are under construction from
Danville to Chatham, and this route is
quite rough in places. A good detour is
provided around the construction, leav-
ing Route ITO 2 miles north of Dan
vile and coming back to Route ITO at
Chatham
From Lynchburg to the valley pike
at Staunton, via Route 18 to Alton, 81
miles, the road is in good condition, the
only construction being just north of
Lynchburg, where traffic is going over
the regular road. Between Lynchburg
and the valley pike at Natural Bridge.
80 miles. there is construction near
Natural Bridge and about miles of
the road is rough, but traffic will be
able to get over this without trouble.
The distance from Lynchburg to Win
chester is practically the same over
either the Natural Bridge or Alton
route.
Traffic from around Covington or
coming in from West Virginia points
over Route 60, and wishing to go by
Hot Springs, will find this road in good
condition all the way with the eXcep-
| ton of section of oiling work between
Goshen and Warm Springs.
Traffic from GAINESVILLE, Va, and
! North Carolina points south of that
point will find u. S. Route Is to Orange,
Routes l6 and % by Madison Court
House to Culpeper and thence over No.
| 81 to Winchester the shortest route.
| The distance over this route from
| GAINESVILLE to Winchester is 246 miles,
and it is hard surfaced all the way
! except about z miles just north of Pal
myra Between Orange and Culpeper
on Route Is considerable work is going
| on and traffic is advised to go by way
of Madison Court House"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
MILADY'S MOTORING
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL

cams on the camshaft strike the valve
stem direct, thus lifting it to open the
port and allow gas to enter the cylinder
or exit from it. But intermediary
mechanism is inserted to provide for
adjustments. Since the valves heat,
their stems expand. There also is wear
on the various parts and changes in
the seating of the valve head.
The picture of the conventional valve
is complete when we insert a coil
spring around the stem to provide a
means of returning it to the closed
position after each opening.
From the foregoing sketch of valves
it should be apparent to any woman
who will give it moments thought
that while it is possible to have the
tappetS frightened until the engine runs
extremely quietly, the expansion of the
valve stems when things start heating
up will prevent the valve head from
seating tightly, thus causing loss of
power and burning the valve in the
bargain.
Copyright by the Russell Service)