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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Strike Against Wage-Cuts.
Demand Unemployment Insurance
Sounds of Revolt

Murmuring sounds, rumbling sounds,
menacing sounds!
Slowly the slaves are awakening,
And long have they sslept in their
slavery.
The masters have laughed at their
misery and dreams
No more do they laugh.
Murmuring sounds, rumbling sounds,
menacing sounds!
Why don't you laugh, All pious
Master!
'Tis strange that your inherent eco
nomic laws
And your mighty God of old
No longer hide the chains of slavery
Or still those awful sounds.
Murmuring sounds, rumbling sounds
menacing sounds!
The masters are troubled and fear.
full
Lest the chains that are hidden
from sight
Be seen and be burst asunder.
Hide them better, Oh treacherous
masters!
Strengthen the chains that bind the
slaves!
Murmuring sounds, rumbling sounds
menacing sounds!
You laugh no more, Oh masters,
The Spectre haunts you now:
The workers blood that you have
Shed chokes you.
'Tis well that it does!
Murmuring sounds, rumbling sounds
menacing sounds!
Continue and grow ever louder.
Shoulder to shoulder they are march.
ing:
Black, white, yellow and brown,
The toilers. irresistibly advancing.
Murmuring sounds, rumbling sounds,
REVOLUTIONARY sounds!
Up! Courageous fighters!
Toilers, brothers all!
Win the product of your labors!
Fight! The right is with the mighty
B. E. D..
fetal Worker,
Los Angeles, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
WALL ST. CLUB
STARvES HELP
Workers Must J O i n
Food Workers Union

New York.
To the Editor of the Daily Worker:
am waiter working in one of
the richest clubs in Wall Street. We
get $3.50 for four hours work. In
case we get sick they dock us for
three days. That means we lose
$3.50 for staying out one day. In
case we stay out two days they
won't let US work for the rest of
the week.
Get Rotten Food.
The food that they give us to eat
is terrible. They mix up scraps of
beef, lamb, pork, wings and necks
of chicken, skins of ham, in one pot
with potatoes and brown gravey.
But, no matter how hungry we are,
we can't eat that kind of food.
Once in while we get toothpicks
in the food. We serve the best of
food to the members, but they give
US the worst.
In case some food is left over
from the members they don't allow
us to keep it in some place so we
can eat it when we get finished.
Must Work Elsewhere, Too.
Of course we can't exist with
what we get in this place. Have to
work (extra) for dinner 4:30 to 8
o'clock in one of the best restau-
rants in Brooklyn. Food and work.
ing conditions are the same here.
The boss compels US to pay sos
year for uniforms that belong to
the house. Never needed so much
money for uniforms in one year.
Now we pay that much and the
uniforms don't belong to US.
Hoping that you will publish my
letter, but not my name.
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT
WAITER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
SOVIET WORKERS
Increase DAILY
Unemployed Train e d
for Industry
Bronx, N. Y.

Bronx, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
To the Editor:
This question arose during a dis
cussion on unemployment in Soviet
Russia. We couldn't reach salts
factory conclusion and are there
fore forced to go to a more informed
authority.
The Question
Why should there be unemploy-
ment in Russia? Why cannot the
government reduce the number of
working hours so that more men
will have to be taken on the en-
ployed list? The wages of Others
can be cut proportionately to pay the
new workers. Since the unemployed
get unemployment insurance the
amount of TIE reduction of the
wages cannot be very much.
We hope you will have the indul-
gence to give an answer.
Yours truly,
Jack Brooks.
Editorial Note: A concise survey
of this question was made in an
article in the Daily Worker of Sat-
urday, July 10, 1880, page 4, called
Unemployment in the U.S.S.R. But
a brief resume would be in place
here.
Building basic machine-metallur-
gic chemical and electrical giant in
dustries, there is an acute shortage
of skilled workers, technologically
trained, ir the Soviet Union. Week
ly AMI yearly tie industrial and ur-
ban workingclass shows an absolute
increase as such workers are trained
and nlaced into socialist industry.
Thousands of peasants are at
tracted to the cities. They must
pass through a definite period of
training to even handle machinery,
etc. Women workers and young
workers likewise. The unemployed
(the majority of whom are women)
are precisely those, who while they
get insurance, rent, cultural privi-
leges, etc. are training or waiting to
be absorbed as technologically fit for
the great industries now in con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
ND0W WASHER HEADS
pei WITHOUT TRIAL

HICAGO. H., Aug. From
II "a of the Window Washers,
Ink Wilbur, an active worker,
expelled. Wilson, the national
Anizer, was present at the meet
when Wilbur voted against the
ease in dues for the local union.
membership all voted against
proposition, but Wilbur was the
landing spokesman, and he was
bediately thrown out. When he
10 to the place of his work, he
met by Wilson and Monkey
b" Taylor. They told him that
have gotten rid of the rest
he Reds" and they will now get
of him and have peace" in the
! n. Wilbur, is not a Communist,
he is a militant worker who
tht against the reactionary
ks and bureaucrats, He fought
union-wrecking policies.
Ast about 21a years ago, the
How washers had about thou
members in Chicago, now
e is only about 200 members
The large number Of them are
lhployed and the bureaucrats are
Ig to squeeze out from the few
! remained all they can.
ilber was expelled without a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
ATTLE LABOR DEFENSE
S TRICT CONVENTION

EATTLE, Wash. Aug. 1.-The
'ict conference of the northwest
'ict of the International Labor
anse was held at 10 Cherry
Seattle, July 10 and 20. There
; SIS delegates present from the
lches throughout the district,
Communist Party and the Young
munist League, unions and frat
al organizations. The district
.lnizer, Yetta Stromberg, re-
led on her tours throughout the
rict, which were used to build
strengthen the already estab-
rd branches as we'll as to or
lie new branches. The big
\ aigns, the Centralia cases, the
] Mooney and Billings cases
I discussed.
elegates from the different
ches reported for their branch
A healthy spirit of self-criti-
prevailed. Delegates pointed
The shortcomings of the district
branches, the local problems,
gave practical suggestions for
coming these shortcomings.
district committee of Is was
ed with an executive committee
Even, which meets every week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
II Years in the Army, Is Now
Starving in Park Row Park
New York City.

New York City.
Dear Editor
hope and wish you would print
this in your paper, the Daily
Worker. | wrote my story to the
New York newspapers, and so far
they have not printed my story in
their editorial columns.
Veterans Story.
Now this is my story. I was in
the seth Regiment, Infantry, for
twelve (12) years up till about two
years ago, when | resigned. l even
fought with the 69th, which was the
165th Infantry in the world war.
Today l am out of work for over
three months. Does Uncle Sam look
after me? The hell he does. And
there are thousands of world war
vaterans in New York City who
can say the same thing as do, "The
hell with this country and the flag"
Now, would fight for the Rus
sian army tomorrow, because !
would love to see the United States
army get beat. II would take the
swell head out of them and at the
same time would make them look
out for the boys who fought in the
world war.
! am no foreigner. ! was born
and raised on the East Side, New
York. / always loved my country
and its flag, but today just hate it.
Here ! am starving in Park Row
Park, world war veteran who
fought for Uncle Sam. and today
Uncle Sam can't find work for me.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Sees GROWING
RISIS IN ALL
SECTIONS u.S.A.
Organize and Strik e
Against Lay-Offs
Somewhere in the States.

Somewhere in the States.
Daily Worker:
Facts gathered on a trip across
the country:
Oil fields in Bakersfield, Cal. shut
down. s+s...
Oil fields in Long Beach. 0--
working on half time.
Ford plant in Long Beach, Ca1.
working on two-thirds time.
Wages of the copper miners in
Arizona, Nevada, and Montana, cut
ten per cent.
Farmers in Nebraska can't har-
vest wheat because they have no
money with which to pay wages to
the workers.
Cut Engineers Wages.
An engineer who installs sound
apparatus for the Western Electric
Company told the following story:
Each engineer was given days to
install an apparatus and seven days
to instruct the operators. Now they
are given 2 days to install and 4
days to instruct. At the same time
1872 men have been laid off since
March. Men were paid between SO
and go dollars week. Now they
are being paid 80 dollars.
Hundreds of families have left
their homes in northern Michigan
and are following the highway to
wherever it will take them.
The oil fields in northen Pennsyl-
vania are working at. half time.
The coal mines in the same ter
ritory are practically shut down
A large glass factory in northern
Pennsylvania has cut its force.
The railroad shops in Marshall
town, Iowa, employ workers for 8
days a week.
The railroad shops and steel
mills in Gary and Hammond, Ind,
have cut down and laid off thou
sands of workers. i3-"1fs "a
. The workers are feeling the crisis
and are seeking relief. Many of
those to whom I spoke showed q
desire to organize and struggle.
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
GANDHI ORGANIZATION
WON'T STOP SELL OUT

BOMBAY, India, Aug. 1.-The
Indian National Congress (Gandhi's
organization) has working COM
mittee which is in session now. 1t
refuses to say whether it will con-
slider and pass on the negotiations
for sell-out of the independence
movement by Gandhi. The negotia-
tors, Jayakar and Sir Tel BAHIA
Bahadur Sapru are now again on
their way to Gandhi, with a note
from Nehru, suggesting some modi-
fications of the plan. They were
sent by that creature of British i'm
perialism, the Indian National leg
islature.
The only decision announced so
far by the congress is a plea to
boycott the elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
TRY to Revive "Non Partisan"
Corpse; Farmers Want Fight

have rolled up their sleeves and
show a new "glint" in their eyes.
Paid workers are to be used in
"reorganizing" this dead corpse. The
Progressive" La Follette's paper,
published at Madison, Wise, will be
distributed among the farmers
There will be precinct organizations
and county committees. The time,
we are told by the League state
ments, is now here for some "real
fight"
Farmers Not Fooled
No farmers must be fooled by this
maneuver Of the League politicians,
In 1928, in 1926 and in 1924, at.
tempts were made to "reorganize'
the League, but these fell flat be-
cause of lack of support from the
farmers. The present move of ere
organization" will be just as inef-
fective.
No Program
Why can't the League be reorgan-
lied? Because it has no program
for the farmers. It's program is
merely a capitalist program and the
farmers have long ago lost faith in
this kind of a program. Because the
League has no program, many
farmers think they might just as
we'll support the Iva. ticket, the
big business candidates.
Farmers! Support Communist
Party!
The farmers want to know what
they can do about high taxes, inter-
est and debts and monopoly prices.
They are ready for a real struggle,
not harmless capitalist programs.
The nited Farmers League has the
only program for the poor farmers.
This program calls for taxpayers
strikes, tenants strikes, cancellation
of debts for poor farmers, fight
on monopolist prices, etc. Farmers
must cease depending upon the
legislatures and the Congress to give
any relief. They must fight on
their own battlefields with their own
weapons, aided by the workers.
FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

Why don't you. when you have
your big unemployment day, have
big parade from the Battery Park
to Union Square? Say the parade
would start at 8 o'clock and would
reach Union Square at 8. Show
New York brokers and rich men all
the men that are out of work. Carry
banners and signs. Say join in SOL
dlers and sailors, men of the world
war who are out of work.
/ bet if you had this parade from
Battery Park right up Broadway to
Union Square it would be crowded
with thousands of men who are out
of work.
Gee, l wish you would have this
parade. Show The downtown Off
GERS all the men who are out of
work.
A Goth Regiment soldier, gassed
and shell-shocked in the world war,
now starving in Park Row Park.
"A VETERAN OF THE
WORLD WAR.
Editorial Note:--Workers and ex-
soldiers who are beginning to see
that the capitalist system is one of
mass starvation, of unemployment,
of war, must be on the watch against
moods of individual vengeance. The
United States army today is the tool
of the government of the bankers
and big bosses-Wall Street. But
it is composed of men who were
workers and farmers. The bulk of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
UPSTATE N. Y.
JOBL.ESS STARvE
IN THOUSANDS
Workers Must Fight
Bosses for Bread
Albany, N. Y.

Albany, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
l went to look for a job and found
the following:
My first stop was in Albany,
where l got the Press and found
out that $3.50 (official and not re-
liable) workers are jobless around
here, walking around looking for
work. A man who lived in Albany
for 1920 years and with whom
| became acquainted told me
conditions were terrible.
Before one of the factory gates
here some jobless workers got into
discussion and here is what they
said: (D What the hell do the
bosses want to do, starve them to
hell, ~ it looks like the bosses
are doing it, (3) like hell they will
starve. If they are to die they will
die with fight on their hands and
not quietly.
Workers Are Starving.
A few days later l went to a
town called Ravena and stopped in
a delicatessen store. After me
there came in a worker foot tall
and about $50 lbs. in weight and
asks for something to eat. He said
he went out looking for work yes
terday morning and walked so miles
and came back without job. While
this worker was telling his story
about 5 others came in with hungry
looks asking for something to eat.
The storekeepers start running
around wild. The workers have no
money and buy on credit and the
bills keep piling up. what is it
coming to-" the store-keepers say.
But the workers have no work and
have no food.
WIN. SHIFRIN,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
urn GAS OFF
IN UNEMPLOYED
in CANTON, OHIO
bnditions Worsen Day
By Day for Workers
Canton, O..

canton, ".
1.-THE Daily Worker:
am a worker from Canton, Ohio
n have been interested in the
8lmunist Party for some time but
Ter Joined the Party till last
PIX, joined the United Metal
#rkers' Union. Shortly after May
I was laid off with a lot of
ser workers from my job and
e been out of work ever since.
am a married man with three
dren and my landlord says pay
your rent by the Goth of this
nth or l will throw you out. |
e never seen anything mentioned
PIT the conditions here in Canton
wondered if you would publish
|.
Many Lay-0ffs.
they are laying men off here
At and left, but some they say
y will leave them work if they
work for about half the wages
Il are getting. There are thou
ds of workers here, are in worse
Epe than ] am. Hundreds of
IN have had their gas turned off
ause they could not pay and
! must cook their food. What
e they have over open fires in
back lot, or any way they can
by of them are beginning to see
the Communist Party is for all
kers and are giving their sup
I. | have not been member
b, but | say Hurrah for the
hmunist Party and Soviet Rus
A CANTON WORKER.
S. hope to write more about
conditions here later if l may.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
NMU MUST FIGHT
UMWA MD. THUGS
Barton Toiler Defies
Cowardly Gangsters
Barton, Nd.
Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades.


Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades:
went to the United Mine Work
ers meeting Sunday to distribute
about 80 Daily Workers, and expose
the takers who were holding the
meeting, if got a chance to speak.
But saw that they had the meeting
sewed up tight. 1t was held at the
Homecoming ball park.
The speaker was an organizer
sent in by the U.M.W.A. to reor-
ganize the miners. So / started -
give out Daily Workers. When two
fellows told me if I didn't cut it out
| would get hell knocked out of me.
| said, "Oh, yes! You and who else
is going to do that" With that I
continued to hand Daily Workers
right and left. There were about
ESQ at the meeting.
had just given them all out when
ten thugs went through the crowd
forcing those that had gotten the
Daily Worker to destroy them. When
they wouldn't do it the paper was
torn from their hands and Destroy
ed. Some of the workers put their
paper in their pockets. When they
saw what was taking place one thug
asked me to take a walk with him
and l said sure.
White iyaraI Tkuc<,
When we started, four others
started with US. l asked him how
many were going. Hee said five.
Imagine five big men TO lick one
little man. only weigh 1870 pounds.
None of them were under 1870.
told them they were a bunch of
yellow ours and / invited them to
come one at time, but they would
not do that. So when all the people
saw what towards they were they
had to content themselves with fore
ing me by weight of numbers 10
leave the meeting.
| The speaker tried his best to in
cite movement for my destruction,
but I left in peace. Most of these
miners hate the U.M.WA., so I
don't know how successful the meet
ing was. But know that thew are
doing their best to get all the miners
back to the U.M.W.A. So / am go
ing to give them all the opposition
| can. F,t.Gm9n
AS ever your comrade,1
PAINE j. CULP.4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

conscripted armies are composed of
workers.
Part of the revolutionary struggle
of the workers means the winning
Of decisive sections of the bosses
army (the proletarian elements) to
the side Of the revolution, to aid in
the establishment Of revolution
airy workers and poor farmers gov
eminent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Potash Resources ig
Discovered in U.S.S.R.

MOSCOW QP.S.) - An irpor-
tant discovery has been made in
usbekistan. An extended field of
potash has been discovered. 3 Tests
show that the matter has 20% po-
tassium chloride and almost no mag
nesium addition. Powerful veins lie
almost on the surfaces This find
will no doubt spur on the German
r"'Nsh kin" Arre'd Rechberg to new
frenzies of anti-soviet fury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Glass Workers
Have Their Vol Too
Cincinnati, o.

CINCINNATI, y.
Daily Worker,
Comrades:
Enclosed find some clippings from
the capitalist papers. In your issue
of Friday, July 25, you. expose
Matthew Woll, who is as you stated
one of the miserable Shiny creatures
that regularly crawl into the work
ingclass organizations for the pur-
pose of disruption OF betrayal.
/ belong to the American Flint
Glass Workers Union and VIM.
Clark is the president. He is a bed
fellow of Woll and Green.
GLASS WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Resume with
the Shop Papers"
Column Next Week

The SHOP PAPERS column
will reappear weekly starting with
Saturday, August Z on the Letters
from the Shops page.
All districts, sections and shop
nuclei issuing shop papers are
urged to send copies for critical
review in the With the Shop
Papers Column. Send to Workers
Correspondents Dept, Daily Work
er, 26-2S Union So, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
T.U.U.L. Active in
Indianapolis, Ind,
As Is cd ally"

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
Editor, the Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades:
You will find enclosed a few
clippings out of one of our local
bosses paper that may be of in
terest to you. Things are grow
ing worse here daily regarding
employment
Our Trade Union Unity League
is making wonderful progress
thanks to the Daily Workers for
it's part.
Your cOmrade,
X. Fl. Fl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
ARCH ON ERIE
POLICE STATION
| rt of Preparations
For Demonstration

RE, Pa, Aug. AFTER a very
sessful mass meeting here in
oaration for the anti-war and
fnd the Soviet Union demonstra-
tomorrow. the workers marched
the police station.
hey were determined to make it
.r that the demonstration will be
tomorrow.
light were arrested in today's af-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Workers Relief
Committee Arrested
(Wireless By InDrecorr)

(Wireless By lnprecorr)
BUCHAREST, Aug. 1. - The
Workers Relief Committee at Klaus
enberg was arrested and tortured !,
nrison. The police declared that re-
lief work is Communist propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Garrison, N. D.

NdII IoUIII IN d
Daily Worker:
Some of the politicians of the now
defunct Non-Partisan League are
talking about "reorganizing" the
League in the state. Press reports
state that the League members"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

Demand the release of Eos.
ter, Minor. Amter and Ray.
mond. in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Cut Wages of Hospital Help
With Tammany O. K. and Aid
New York City.
Editor the Daily Worker:

Editor the Daily Worker:
Dear conditions in the
New York City hospitals.
Salaries during the last reduced po dere
and also attendants ETC. The first two got $5 month
sac MONTH board and while the latter had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

midse, was arrested at Bern. Switz-
erland. Germans are seeking for his
extradition under the Swiss-German
extradition treaty,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
Williamsport
Lunch Workers
Get Wage Cut

Williamsport, Pa.
Daily Worker:
Another sample of Hoover pros
perity.
'NOTICE
TO ALL EMPLOYEES:
Effective on our next pay day,
July 21st, 1880, there will be a
reduction of $500 on your regular
salary.
Business conditions make it i'm
perative to make this reduction at
this time. We sincerely hope con-
ditions make this only temporary.
"Alco Lunch"
FOOD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02
ChervOnetz FOrger
Arrested in Bern
Wireless BIZ Ipprecorr)

FWWeIeSS OF INDrecOfrJ
RASl'E, Aug, !, The ch>rvon-
etz (ten ruble note) forger, Karu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

P. S.-The "Chief," civil serv-
ice newspaper published in Beck
man St.. N, Y. C. wrote some time
ago that all N. Y. City employees
would have to be citizens and that
the "Chief" would publish in the
following weeks issue the salaries
Of N. Y. c. hospital employees, 1t
was never published. / wonder why?