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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
ABERLE HOSIERY
SLASHES AGAIN
Musteite Officials Aid
the Bosses
(By A Worker Correspondent.)

lBy A Worker C0rreSpOndent)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The work
ers of the Aberle Mill (hosiery) In
Philadelphia have mad another 1870
wege cut given them this week. This
Is the second wage cut since the re-
cent strike and affects practically
every one in the plant. The officials
Of the American Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers are advocating a
stagger plan Of lay-offs to take effect
in what few plants the union has
agreements. This policy of the labor
takers win lead to the breaking up Of
the workers organization as those
workers laid of will be replaced by
workers from mills not affected by
the union agreement and in this way
will the labor takers thoroughly CO.
operate with their masters, the bosses
to destroy what is left of the work.
ers' union.
out OF 5000 members at the last
meeting an announcement was made
that only 1000 had paid dues. This
means lack of faith on the part of
the workers in their leaders and the
necessity Of organization into the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union whose
leaders fight with the workers against
the bosses and under the leadership
Of the Trade Union Unity League to
which It is affiliated it will effectively
struggle against the present wage cut,
speed-up, such as the two machine
system, etc.
~. GRALICK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
OWE co. MONEY
AFTER WORKING
Seven Men Killed on
Construction Job
tBy a Worker Correspondent,


KANSAS CITY, Moon Nov. 3oth
another worker and I left Kansas
City for a job at Liberty Mo. Cook
OBryan had a track building con-
tract for the Chi. Milwaukee g. St
Paul Railroad.
We are supposed to have a day-rate
job: 8 hours and 35 cents per hour
which would come to $3.15 per day
40 cents per mea-s1.2o for board
per day. But the foreman told us the
day-rate jobs we're all filled but that
he could give us some digging jobs
Owe Company Money.
Now this was piece work at II cents
a foot; and we were to dig two
trenches Is feet long, 41a to feet
deep in a day, besides picking it all
loose, as the ground was all hard clay
On account Of rain we were not
called out before Monday noon, Dec
LIST. At about 3 p. m. my partner,
an old man, came to me complaining
about his leg and saying that he
could not make it, he was all in. So
we had supper and quit in the morn
ing, and came back to Kansas City
owing the Company money.
But as luck would have it for us.
We had been working in cuts with
Is to 80 feet embankment. The rain
loosened the embankment about IS
feet back on one side and killed seven
men; but this news was not published
in the capitalist papers. My partners
soon came back with the news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
HIGH TAXES, LOW
PRICES, BANKERS
RUIN TEX. TILLERS
Bankers Have All the
Farmers in Grip
(By q Farmer Correspondent)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The main
products of the farms in central Tex
as are peanuts, maize, cotton and
cattle. Prices on these products have
fallen disastrously in the last year.
Peanuts are now selling for about
sixty cents per bushel. With very
small crop. Maize is mostly con-
Sumed on the farm. Cotton prices
have fallen about fifty percent from
a year ago now being eight cents per
pound. Cattle prices are low. All
these severe price cuts are due to the
economic crisis.
Taxes Increase.
Most of the farmers in this section
own the land tho there are some rem
tiers. Rent is about fifty to seventy
cents per acre cash money and taxes
run near forty cents per acre. Taxes
are increasing on account of bonds
being voted Taxes are not charged
according to income. The farmer
just pays SO much per acre regardless
VI lllS iitCOlilC Sdoll lCllC 40 LllC oeilllC
regardless of what the renter makes
Some land is worked on the share
basis, the renter getting half of the
crop and the landlord getting half.
Bankers Rule AL.
The renters are exploited by the
bankers and landlords. The renters
usually borrow money from the banks
TO run them thru one season having
to pay interest in the fall. Very few
have borrowed money this year for the
simple reason that the banks won't
loan any more. The landowners in
turn are exploited by the banks and
the collectors.
The land is poor and OF a sandy
nature. The farms are run down
tools are run down. tools are old and
worn out, buildings are getting old
with the farmers not able to build
new ones.
The farmers should organize into
farmers committees of the United
Farmers League to better their con-
ditions. Only by doing this can they
put up solid fight against their
robbers, BY uniting with the city
workers they can strengthen their
struggles and succeed in improving
their conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
FEW MEN ON JOB
AT BROWN HOIST
AVERAGE S12 WK.
$50 of $50 Workers Are
Left in Plant

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Brown and
Hoist Co., manufacturers of steam
and electric cranes. Last year they
hired around $50 men for the day
shift and $50 men at night. They
were going pretty good, says one
worker who is there. They were able
to bring hoime a substantial pay
check, sometimes averaging $40 a
week.
Stagger Workers.
OF course Brown and Hoist was not
left out when the slump in the indus
tries came. And this company is one
of the many which is carrying out
the stagger plan.
There now instead of the $50 men
only $50 workers left in the plant.
Almost the entire plant is working
on the plan of one week work and
one week off. The week the worker
is on he does the work of his part
ner; in other words, one week he
does two jobs and the next week he
is off. That sounds pretty good,
doesn't it? A real good company
Must make lot of money! Oh
yeah?
$12 Week.
When the worker today does the
work Of two men he does not bring
home a check of $50 for the Job. No,
these men in Brown & Hoist average
$24 a week when they work a full
week. which is the pay for two jobs
and which has to last them two
weeks. This makes an average OF
$12 a week if they work every day
that one week.
There many of the men are work
ing only two or three days a week
And this means that they get even
less than $12 week. Saturday an
other bunch of men were laid off
No work till after the new year
maybe.
Talking of Conditions.
-Four months ago it was hard to
get the men to talk about conditions
during their lunch hour. Since the
laying off and reduction in pay, how
ever, every day there are discussions
on the hard times and how it is eff
fecting the men right in that shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Many Aged Postal Workers Lose All
in the United States Bank Crash

efforts Of the board Of directors.
The capital of the cafeteria,
amounting to $1,000, is lost in the
Bank Of U. S.
Many workers who have pawned
their jewelry in the saith st. branch
Of the Bank Of U. S., contemplat-
ing taking 1t out this Christmas,
will have to part with 1t.
When the headlines brought the
news Of the banks closing many
workers went TO the bank to find
out what was going to happen and
they were met by two policemen at
the front door and were told, "You
better move on. We are sent here
to quell riots. And any saying on
your part will bring this club down
on your head"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
YOUNG WORKERS
ON BREADLINElS
Oakland 30 sse S Still
Play With Jobless
fRx a Worker Correspondent

OAKLAND, Gait is tiresome to
keep proving the bosses are liars and
all their agents like the Chamber
of Commerce etc, and the bosses
papers are striving to keep the work
ers fooled with the impression the
bosses are making jobs. But as
hokum, we must blow the smoke
long as they keep up this barrage OF
screen away.
A very important item in this line
is the announcement by the State OF
California and by several counties
and cities that only citizens will be
given public works jobs. The bosses
hope to use these miserable days
Jobs to divide the native and foreign
born workers.
Lucky TO Starve.~
The city of San Francisco is "solV-
ing" the problem by throwing out
1000 men who have worked month
q days lweeD on public works, and
hiring 1000 new men. This makes
headlines 1000 more lucky men
given work. The politicians admit
they have no funds after January LIST.
Another clever scheme is to transfer
funds from each department to the
unemployment fund" This fund
exists only for the reason of news
paper publicity and is to give the i'm
preston additional funds have been
appropriated.
You must prove a years residence
in the city to get these existence lev
ell jobs.
Rush for Jobs.
In the Oakland Tribune of Dec 4th
hey have this headline Chamber
of Commerce Survey Index of Good
times"
But in the back part of the paper
IS the news that over 500 fought and
pushed each other through plate
glass windows in the City Hall, to be
one of the Is to be given temporary
jobs.
Meanwhile the breadlines are grow
ing. Many in the breadlines are
young workers. Over 600 we're fed
at a single meal" at the Goodwill
Veterans slop kitchen, $50 at the
Starvation Army and other hun
dreds at smaller places.
Must Fight.
What can we workers do who want
to fight the bosses and this starva-
ton system? We must spread the
Daily Worker, the only paper that
tells us the truth, to every worker
in Oakland. We must organize these
hundreds Of workers at the slop
houses and collect all over the city
thousands of signatures for the So
cial Insurance Bill for the Unem-
ployed. We must organize to become
strong enough to overcome the bosses
and their agents on every front.
Young Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20

AQOIQ6T IUu 10 OUU IncIL GOoS!D1y'
by spring, the only mines that will
be operating will be the Conglomerate
mines of the Calumet and Hecla,
which mines are in such conditions
that if they are closed down for any
length of time, they will cave-in.
This, bunch of mines employs few
hundred men. According to an ar
ticle in the Daily Mining Gazette a
few days ago the copper mines will
curtail production on large scale.
Soup Kitchen.
The copper country towns are hold
ing back on their unemployment pro-
gram. In the iron mining districts
of Upper Michigan the towns are
providing soup kitchens, where they
serve soup once day for two days
and then the unemployed worker
must get out of town. Negaunee
only provides sleping quarters for one
night on a nice soft concrete floor
in the city hall. AT O'Clock the
doors are opened and everybody must
get out and nobody can return for
another night of comfort on the con-
crete floor. Get out of town as fast
as you can, is what the workers are
told. In Hancock and Houghton the
police are driving the workers out Of
the city halls; no room here for
buns, is what the workers are told.
The Calumet and Hecla Mining
Co., who controls the whole of the
copper district of Michigan, is bent
on keeping the number of unem-
ployed down to the lowest level, and
that is why everybody that is not a
permanent resident of these copper
trust towns are told to get out and
stay out. The other day worker,
American-born by the way, was
found in a camp near Ontonagon,
where he had been for 18 days with
out food. The officials put him on
the bus and shipped him to Han
cock. Here the officials put him
back on the bus and nobody knows
where he is today. A very good ex-
ample of how they provide for a
worker 68 years old.
The Unemployed Council of the
Trade Union Unity League and the
Miners Union of the T. u. U. L. are
on the job demanding immediate re-
lief from the city governments and
support for the social insurance bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
IMPROVEMENTS"
HIT EMPLOYEES
All Brunt on Workers
None on Bosses
tBy a Worker Correspondent


STOCKTON, Cal.-The city bosses
have a new scheme. They are going
to pave the streets in Stockton at
the expense of the city employees
They have three hundred and fifty
eight employees. They are going to
take one days pay month from
each one.
That will amount to $2,048 This
will be turned over to the improve
ment committee and they will repair
the streets and sidewalks, to help the
unemployed as they say. They are
,lso going to discourage all the mar
ried women that work for the city.
This is hell of stagger. They
must have wise city manager to
think of stagger like this.
! wonder if these employees will
ever wake up and join the Trade
Union Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Faker Dan Tobin
Admits 5000, 900
JObIess Is Growing
tBy a Worker Correspondent.)

10y worker correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--Enclosed is
part of monthly magazine Gust
out) Of the International Brother
hood of Transfers, ETC., an organ
ization Of which I have been a menu
Der until a pie card artist organizer
left us stranded during strike with
the Deily News in Philadelphia.
In this A. F. of L. magazine. Of
which D. J. Tobin, general president,
is editor, practically says "Bill Green
is liar and don't know how many
are unemployed" That's funny, isn't
it? He also states 100000 or $780,
600 unemployed and also predicts
100000 more unemployed by Jan. Is.
Conditions must be terrible when
an A. F. of L. general president adj
mits the above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Don't miss full circula-
ton tables each Wednes-
day in the Daily Worker.
(By a Worker Correspondent)

(By Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The failure Of the
Bank of the United States has
eaten up the savings of the postal
workers. Many workers who are
due to retire after 30 years of labor,
who had all their savings in the
U. S. Bank, are lost. Now they
face their life withou: . job and
no savings.
A cafeteria, situated In the gath
st. Post Office Garage. which was
built up Of 81 shares from the
postal chauffeurs, which provides
good food at cost price to the
workers in the garage who have 10
work long and indefinite hours and
also brought In 100 per cent earn
ings. = saved only BY the heroic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Plant Looks Dead.

or tired worker and when two or
three of us make a gang" SO small
the foreman has to hide out.
We are convinced now, II we
weren't before that the company
doesn't give damn about us, but
cares only for its profits. Midnight
calls, firing us couple of weeks be-
fore our vacations are due and rot
ten treatment all around showed us
that.
Same AT Avon.
Up at Avon the Associated Oil
hasn't begun large-scale firing yet.
But when the Shell Co. stops the
contract for gas and oil with Asso-
ciated, then they'll get it too.
The Communist Party nucleus in
the Shell plant has been getting out
a splendid shop bulletin regularly and
most of the workers in the plant are
beginning to line up with the ideas
expressed in it.
But we must build up big local
OF the Mine, Oil and Smelter Work
ers' Industrial Union and break the
company loose from some OF their
huge profits. We must stop the OUT
RACES of not telling us in advance
they are going to dump us out at
midnight. or firing us just when va
cation is due. Operator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
$4,000 VICTOR RCA
RADIO WORKERS
WERE LAID OFF
TIL ose Working Get
S10-S12 Wage
tBy a worker Correspondentl


CAMDEN, N. IA few months
ago Victor's had a prosperity parade
where Camden was boosted as the
ado center of the world $4,000 work
ers were forced to take part in this
parade on threat of losing their jobs.
For the period of a few short months
after that there seemed to be plenty
Of work. There was plenty Of speed
up. All of Philadelphia and Camden
to be working in Victor's.
Where are the $4,000 workers shu-
maker Dragged SO much about aaylng
favored with jobs? About 1870 of
these have already formed a part of
the nine million unemployed walking
the streets in the u. S. A. begging
for f1ops.
BuiT"ng No. 10 Closed
Building No. 10, leader always in
new methods of speed-up, and first
building to get wage cuts, the scene
of several spontaneous walkouts and
strikes, is completely shut down.
Building No. 3 is also closed.
All other buildings are working
only few days a week, and on these
days only on an average of or
hours (time work.. This week many
of the workers were told to bring UP
some of their friends who had been
working there before the lay-offs. 1t
is evident that the bosses want them
to rush out the bulk of work in this
last week, and then completely close
the plant as is done usually every
year.
s1o-s12 Wage
Those workers still working, mostly
adult workers who had been making
$50 and more a week, speed up as
they will today, can bring in no more
than $40 to $12 week (this to feed
the familyD.
The Metal Workers, Industrial Lea
que attempted to conduct an organ
national campaign in this plant a
month or SO before the lay-off 1t
came into the field much too late to
have enough influence in winning the
workers into the union for a strug-
gle against the rotten conditions.
They failed as result to form
basis for an Unemployed Council to
lead the metal workers in a fight for
Unemployment Insurance. 1t is most
important that the problem of seas
onal jobs be tackled by the union
seriously and program of work be
drawn up that will win the workers
for struggle and hold them, even af-
ter the lay-offs. 90
TED r. VICTOR WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
(By a Worker Correspondent,


NEW YORK.--The other day
applied to Tammany's city employ
ment agency. The hall was packed
tightly with jobless men. Very
little elbow room here. The fat
fellow up in front announced only
four Jobs for the morning.
One Of these was for a farm Ia
borer in Harpersfield, N. Y, at $40
per month. A few Of us applied at
desk No. 2. The man in charge
said to us: mo Russian or African
for this job. You'll have to write
away first. No foreigners either"
Some men turned away in dis
gust. Three of us remained. Then
he said, intellectually, "Ameri-
cans only" The farmer owner evil
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20

overtime. Although the Speed-up is
timed to the utmost capacity the
Famous Fisher Boss" personally
come down here to speed-up the
place some more. The result was an
increase in the misery of the workers
and more profit for the bosses.
Jim Grow Place.
Every morning young girls come
down to this hell-hole to get a job
which does not exist. The girls who
are working were given the work
some men were doing before. Negro
workers are not even allowed to en-
ter the employment office.
The bosses are so cheap they will
not provide the workers with tool
boxes, hot water or lockers for their
clothing. There are a few lockers,
but two and three workers are in one
locker. The workers on the seat line
must breathe metal dust all day be-
cause no ventilating system has been
installed.
Force Rates Up.
The workers who are from Tarry-
town will learn that they must or
ganize into strong industrial union,
in the Auto Workers Union, in order
to better their conditions. Because
the bosses 'fgot wind" that a strike
was ordered by the strike committee
they Immediately began to tell the
workers they would soon make more
money. However, the workers were
wise to this kind of boloney; they
made the bosses increase the prices
on the seat backs and roof rails. The
seat finishers stopped the line two
different times until finally the fore
man told them the piece rate had
been increased.
Living Cost High.
Living conditions in Tarrytown are
very high. Wages have been reduced
about IS per cent in two years. Liv-
ing costs have remained the same as
they did in the times of prosperity. {"
The local millionaires have organ
lied a buy now" campaign. The
workers What what will I buy" the
working class live in old houses about
so or 10 years old and pay very high
rent, while the millionaires have big
mansions and large estates with four
or five big motor cars.
The Communist Party must spread
the Daily Worker and the Auto
Workers News among the workers of
the Fisher Body and Chevrolet
plants. This will do much to edu-
cate the workers and show them why
conditions are so bad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Tammany Job Agency Calls for an
american" at $1,000 Per Month

IDENTITY thinks that only an American
is fit to clean his dung heap, and
that all Negroes and Russians are
reds. The fellow who gets this job
will surely become a red. The Rus
sian worker has shown the way and
we Americans will follow likewise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
NOTICE

Workers are advised that the spy,
A. Rodriguez, who has been expelled
from the Communist Party, Is In no
way related to Comrade Armando
Rodrigues, who has the same mi
tials. and who is q loyal fighter in
the struggles Of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
TARRYTOWN FISHER BODY BOSSES
BACK DOWN WHEN METAL FINISHERS
SHOW FIGHT FOR BETTER RATES
Men in Detroit and Flint Strike Organize a
Strike Committee Against Long Hours
Forced to Work Overtime at Speedy Pace With
out Getting Paid for Work
(By a Worker Correspondent

TARRYTOWN, n Yin spite Of the fact that hundreds
of workers waiting for jobs of the workers here in
the Fisher Body plant leaving the place The militant
who took part in the strikes in Detroit and Flint
ganzed strike committee the metal finshers The
workers from out of town for going strike against
low wages and 10-11-14 hours work.
Many of the workers must slave until $3.50 10 o'clock
night We work all day Saturday and have worked all
daY occasional SUNDAYS. We paid extra time for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Cal. Loggers Get Pay
Reduced by so PC.

(By a Worker Correspondent
EUREKA, CaI.-Eureka is in one,
devil of a fix. The logging camps
are closed. know of about three
camps that are closed down. And
the average reduction of the wages
in the lumber mills has been about
so percent since the war. About
four months ago they reduced the
wages 10 percent and now are
planning for another 10 percent
wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
MICHIGAN COPPER MINES CLOSING
DOWN, THROWING THOUSANDS OUT
ON STREETS TO STARVE; PART TIME
Copper Bosses Fight Jobless Relief by Opening
Soup Kitchens for Miners
Unemployed Council and MOSWIU on Job to
Demand Real Relief for Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

HANCOCK, Mich-As to the working conditions and the
usual of things the copper country all is that
fast going to complete shutdown the copper mines
Calumet and Heca went four day week and the Seneca
Mining Co. closed down completely laying off about $50
Ruors which heard today in town. going around that
the Isle Royae going to close down completely That
that about 400 will be laid off the Isle Royae
mines. worker in the Quincy mines told today that he
heard that the Quincy mine is also going to shut down
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
RAISE WAGES OF FEW TO SPEED
REST
(By . Worker Correspondentl

tBy Worker CONSEQUENTLY
MARTINEZ, Cal. - At the Shell
Chemical plant building near Nj
chols the wages Of many Of the
skilled workers have been raisedl But
many workers both skilled and I'M
skilled are put out the gate and the
rest speeded upto do as much work
as the whole crew did before. Twen-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20
Layoffs Continue Unchecked at the
Shell Refinery Plant at Martinez, Cal
Must Organize Into Militant Union to Fight
All These and Similar Outrages
Labor Defender Photo Group
(By a Worker Correspondent

MARTINEZ, Cal.-Around Is more men have been laid
off at the Shell Refinery here That leaves hardly
so this plant where there used to be 1900 before
crisis began The company is letting fellow workers
in small bunches not to attract attention and we don't
know who goes next.
Plant Looks Dead.
But the plant looks like graveyard now it's so dead We
the Job know well the other workers getting it
especially when called out at midnight take the place
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-20

To allow for q widespread dis
tribution Of the Daily Worker con-
tanning the worker correspondence
on the b. M. T. speed-up is post
poned until next Saturday.