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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
STARVE OR FIGHT!
A Challenge to'the Unemployed

personnel man stood with device in his hand
for counting heads-like sheep herder in the
stockyards. He even encouraged some Of Us
to come back by such phrases as May neeo
men of your ability tomorrow To be told
definitely, as was, to return at z o'clock the
next morning, and then to be unrecognized
and sent away, is experience which beats
down the jobless mans self-respect. He begins
to realize by how thin thread he holds any
job
The following descriptions of conditions
throughout the country in the winter of 1929-30
are given by workers;
Philadelphia, Pa: "The other day one of
the theatres of Philadelphia advertised for
man and the next morning not less than
5000 workers responded to the ad."
Newark, N. j.: "Three thousand unem-
ployed storned the gates of the Ford Motor
Company, Kearney, N. j., and the police were
called forcibly to maintain order. The city
employment bureau has TOO to 1000 appli-
cants daily"
Chicago, H.: "Ten thousand workers
stormed the Letter Stores at Van Buren, and
State Streets seeking work during the firms
recent liquidation sale. Police reserves were
called in twice against the workers.
Job seeking as it must be carried on in the
United States today is costly, wasteful, brutal
and except for the more fortunate few, hope
less. The entire system of inadequate and
corrupt public employment offices, fee charg-
ing unregulated private agencies, uncontrolled
newspaper advertising, operates to assist the
employer and to victimize the worker. A ma
tionally operated system of free public en-
ployment offices, controlled by the workers,
cannot make jobs where there are no jobs. 1t
can, however, stop the strike breaking service
of agencies which flourish by sending scab la
Dor to jobs where strikes are going on, it can
cut out fee charging, fee splitting and similar
grating, give accurate information regarding
available jobs and put an end to the employ
ment markets used as whip over the work
ers at every factory gate. e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
The significance of a Communist
Weekly Newspaper in the South

crisis, presents to every American worker the
great revolutionary task of giving his utmost
support to the organization campaign in the
South.
The struggle of the southern workers has
disproved all the right wing and opportunistic
theories that the workers in the South will
not struggle and will not follow revolutionary
leadership against their enemies. For the
first time in the history of the American
class struggle, the southern workers showed
to the entire American working class how to
defend themselves from the vicious attacks
and the terror of the bosses and the capitalist
state
In this struggle of the southern workers,
which is the struggle of every working man
and woman in the United States, a weekly
Communist paper is of utmost Importance
Fight For Ultimate Aim.
The Communist Party in the South has be-
fore itself the task not only of awakening and
organizing the southern workers in the strug-
gle for their immediate demands, but also
modifying the masses in the struggle against
the entire capitalist system and for the estab-
lishment of a Workers and Farmers Govern
ment.
weekly paper in the present situation of
the South WILL therefore, serve as the collec-
tive organizer, agitator and propaganda in
the work in the South.
In entering the South, the Communist Party
and the revolutionary trade unions also under
took the tremendous historical task of mobil-
izing the exploited Negro masses in the strug-
gle against our common enemy. The Commu-
mist Party has proven that through revolu-
tionary class struggle against capitalism and
the state we can succeed in breaking the ira
ditions of race prejudice fostered upon the
workers by American capitalism.
From the work in the South we can see
that the Negro masses are also ready to strug-
gle and to fight for better living conditions.
In this particular case weekly newspaper
in the South would serve as the best weapon
in the struggle against race prejudice, against
lynchings and jim-crowism, and mobilize the
Negro workers and farmers in joint strug-
gle for our common interests.
weekly newspaper in the South would
therefore be of tremendous revolutionary sig
nificance 1t would be the greatest blow to
capitalism and the capitalist state; for the or
ganization of the workers and the complete
emancipation from capitalist exploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Win the Negro Miners in Illinois

ruthless Boshevik manner in this period of
sharp class battles.
Workers Admit Error. So
In addressing one of the meetings of the
N.M.U. in Eldorado when l brought this to
the attention of the workers, the following
morning most of them admitted to me, while
on the picket line at the WATSON Coal Co., a
Jim Crow mine, that was correct and that it
was mistake on their part This only goes
to show that in spite of the theological back
wardness of some of the members of the N.
M. u, yet they are willing to accept and cor
rect the old theological background of the
white mperiasts.
The National Miners Union, which is grow
ing and becoming factor among the workers
in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana, have not
been able as a revolutionary trade union to
attract Negro workers in Illinois. This is one
of the greatest shortcomings which must be
overcome by raising the theological level Of our
membership and especially of our organizers.
Special emphasis should be placed in not merely
speaking about the unions fighting for the
interest of all workers black and white but
in actually raising the question of discrirnina-
ton in the mines and in those counties where
Negro workers are not allowed to live.
Our revolutionary trade unions must come
forward in open resistance to these manifes-
tations of the capitalist system not in a pro-
paganda form alone, but in direct struggle Of
our Party and revolutionary trade union against
the capitalist state and capitalist theology.
In my opinion we have just started work in
the coal fields which must be extended to
higher level organizationally as we'll as politi-
cally. AS result, the immediate tasks in the
coal fields and especially in Saline County as
l have experienced should be as follows:
/. To organize strong Party apparatus as
we'll as a strong fraction within the N.M.U.
with strong political direction from the Cen
ter.
2. That well prepared campaign should
be carried on in merciless fight against
white chauvinism.
8. The sending of leading Negro comrades
and especially Negro miners to work among
the Negro and white miners.
4. Organize inter-racial defense committees
around the N.M.U.
5. The Pioneer movement of Eldorado must
extend its activities among the Negro miners
children in Harrisburg as well as in Muddy.
6. The Party must pay closer attention to
our Negro work in the coal fields than pre-
vously, since there has been gross underesti-
nation and negligence on the part Of our or
ganizers in forgetting the Negro coal miners
as factor in the coal fields,
z. In those counties where Negroes are not
permitted to live or work, our. Party fraction
in the NMU. must be prepared to openly boy
colt restaurants and theatres in the Jim-Crow
towns and at the same time should fight for
laws that the Negroes are not allowed to be
there as in Eldorado, in the State Of Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19

THE past struggles in the South particularly
the Gastonia struggle under the leader
ship of the revolutionary National Textile
Workers Union and the Communist Party,
definitely demonstrated that the only forces
in the labor movement today which take SER
TO- =. - 4~o' &C o~raniZing the most ex-
plotted section of the American working class,
,.p ~, ,olhers, the Communist
Party and the Trade Union Unity League
Past experience also proved that the role of
the A. f. of L. and the Music leadership of
the u. T. W A. not only does not undertake
any campaign of organization, but sets for it
self the main task of acting as a strikebreaker
and preventing the southern textile workers,
as well as the workers of other industries,
from organizing into militant industrial trade
unions in the struggle against capitalism
under the leadership of the Communist Party
Fight the Bosses Poison Press.
The developing campaign Of organization in
the South, initiated by the Communist Party.
could best be initiated by the establishment
of a weekly newspaper in the South. The
significance of this paper cannot be over
estimated.
The poisonous propaganda started by the
capitalist press and the A. F. of L. could most
effectively be combatted through a weekly
Party organ. This Party paper will also most
effectively bring to the masses of southern
workers the tasks of organization and expose
the role of its enemies, the mill bosses, the A.
F. of L. and the socialist party.
The task of organizing the southern work
ing class in the struggle for better economic
conditions, against capitalist exploitation, must
receive the support of the entire American
working class. The present economic crisis,
the sharpening contradictions within capital
ism, and the growing capitalist offensive
against the working class making the work.
ers share the main burden of the economic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Food For Worms

The Salvation Army thumps its drums
And Signs:
"Come to Jesus!"
Some men get religion
When they can not get bread
To put in their bellies
With the hope that bye and bye
They will be filled with pie.
They do not like to think
That in little while
They will only fill the bellies Of worms
Live now!
Live now!
Take the world
And shape it to your own desire.
Great deeds are possible! si5
But things will never be done
If you wait for god to do them.
-zELL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
BY GRACE NJ. BURNHAM,
Labor Research Association.
(Continued)


Hiring at the Gate
EMPLOYERS deliberately advertise for more
workers than they actually need. By this
means they keep steady stream of applicants
at the gate from among whom they are able
to choose the youngest, strongest, and cheap
est labor. The employment manager of an
electric light and power company stated frank
" that he wanted to have just as many men
coming to him as possible. eve interview
every one that comes" he said, land if we
haven't a job we encourage him to keep at US
until we do have something"
Probably the most extreme examples of mile
long lines of men in search of jobs come from
the automobile centers in Michigan. Robert
Dunn draws many striking pictures of the
plight of these workers in his Labor and Auto
mobiles. ."In February, 1928, when unemploy-
ment prevailed among General Motors workers
in Flint, but loads of almost penniless workers.
bound from Missouri and the South in answer
to advertisements, were brought to the city.
Ten men said they had read advertisements for
help in farm and weekly papers exhorting them
to come to Flint and earn $40 day.
"At one factory, notorious for its cheap labor
policy" writes A. J. Steiger, of the University
Of Chicago, in The Nation. May 2, 1928, "men
in search of work collect about the door in
dense mass through which a policeman must
forse lane so that the foreman may come
out and select some friend or acquaintance and
obtain for him an interview ahead of the rest.
Although was among the first three hundred
applicants interviewed on my first day and
succeeded in worming my way the second day
to the head of the line, I was turned away
from the employment office with curt nod
TWerty-five hundred other men tUere turned
dtcay on that first day. (Italcs mine). The
CALLING part. of this experience was that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19

Fight the Right Danger. A
Hundred Proletarians for
Every Petty Bourgeois Rene.
gade!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-19
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
AZ East 125th Street.
-.--- 9Sra City.
|. the undersigned, want to join the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information
Name ..............."....
Address ..............-..... City.
Occupation Observation-Disclosures. Age. .....
Party. az East 125th St. New York. N. Y.
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-27

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Red or green tops OF fabrikoid.
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A very special underpriced pur-
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Second Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
Braths.

voEEGKNER VIRGINIA ZSgd ELIZABETH "a Erd.n on
vfRoiINai11A EL GziiETf yoEtfcKNER.
daughter of Elise and. the late Kurt r.
Voelckner and sister of Ernest G. Voelck-
ner and Mrs. Frank E. ZubeS Funeral
from Eysong'S funeral home. 1900 N 81.
NV, Monday, April 49, at pm. Friends
invited. Interment tprivate) Prospect Hin
Cemetery. AZ
WILLIAMS. JOHN d. Departed this life
on THURSDAY, April "a, 1880, at his resi-
dence, 325 H st. s.w., JOHN D. WILLIAMS.
He leaves to mourn their loss two daugh-
ters. Mrs. Gertrude Roberts and Mrs: Clara
Williams. two grandchildren, Clara Will
Hams and Catherine Williams, and host
of friends. Funeral from st. Vincent de
PaulS Church, South Capitol and NJ sts.,
on Monday, April 2S, at 9 am.
WILSON, LILLIAN GOODSON. On Friday,
ffILIAN GooDsoN wilson saoHP Of AS 'i Irv
ing st. NV. She is survived by one daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Roe Goodson. and three
sons. Allen, Irwin and Andrew Goodson.
Funeral services at Hysongs funeral home,
1900 N st. NV. Monday, April 20, at IL
am Interment Prospect Hill Cemetery.
YATES. DOROTHY, $. Departed this life
ave. NV. DOROTHY s. YATES, aged 20.
She leaves to mourn their loss devoted
and Abe Albert 9. Yates; and a host Of other
April 30. at $50 pm, from Ebenezer NJ
E. Church. 4th and D SITS. Sc. Remains
resting at w. Ernest Jarvis funeral church,
1882 y st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
PLAN TO COORDINATE.
IN BUSINESS DEALS
Report Prepared for Associated Con-
tractors Embraces Program for
Builders and Dealers.

Plans for co-ordinating the policies
Of contractors, surety companies, public
works officials, engineers, architects and
sellers of material and equipment to
promote sound credit practices and
correct conditions which have made for
responsibility in construction will be
embodied in a report to be submitted
to the executive board meeting of the
Associated General Contractors of
America here tomorrow at the Wash
ington Hotel.
The program, to be presented by A. E.
Horst, president of the association, is
based on general utilization of the serv-
ices of the Bureau of Contract Informa-
ton, Inc, a cooperative enterprise
launched as result of representations
made to the industry by the Associated
General Contractors.
Although less than year old, this
bureau already has compiled the past
performance records of more than $500
contractors. It's purpose, 1t Is explained,
is to gather facts concerning records of
every contractor in the United States
and to make these facts available with
out comment or recommendation to
those awarding construction contracts,
writing surety bonds or extending credit
on construction materials and equip
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
HIT Mrntnrtatit.

BRIAN. JOHN X
Oh, what pleasure, pride, Joy,
N Mnen al n p ios y 1ofbing little Tnn boy
only sorrow for my only son.
CLARE {; WILLIAM WI Sacred to the mem;
ago today, April 81. 1922 away e''"' years
Rest gsst in - peace, thy cares are ended.
You are gone. where those who love you
soon f HIS SQ WIPE AND AM q SG Eli
FIRTH. LAURA ". In fond remembrance
of our devoted sister, LAURA v. FIRTH,
Tf sss left US four years ago today A AgTl a.
GURLEY, FRANK, In sad and loving re-
msmbrance Of Of, our dear husband and
a. ~ 1925 u.s. TWO years ago To-Day April
Life to us is sad and dreary,
In that land that's S far SGin away az meet you
ana with you, our darling,
ana win God we ais ffs s sAB f PA iMtafKEx
& SuI fiovas iead aEskiRfRz
ond wa ago. ASr e g. sh lsa Great Be-
DEVOTED FRIENDS, p. and E. BELL.
HEUMANN. CLARA. A tribute of love to the
ago today, April 81, 1918.
miss you no less as, the time passes on
FOR absence can never close the door Of
HER BSN laying DAUGHTER, ALICE 'O TER:
MAkTIN. MARY A.. A tribute of love to the
MARY A. MARTIN. who entered into rest
one year ago today April rlz2 e. = 1929 ss2,
McGRATH. MARY A. Sacred to the MEM
o MSo 81 dsI my mother .l MARY A. McGRATH.
Wn s;, departed this life is years ago today,
g. st. Joseph,s cathedrals colgmbss, OHIO;
ara 81 Monastery, Brookland, D. c.
HER DA6d sff q RosA lie f s. McaRArH
6rsasc 81 Lac desr a In oyRs
MORAN Ami, WIG % dsPsrted this life one year
His WIFE, HELEN.
SNYDER. ALBERT +. In loving memory of
SIs5endon Va, who, left US 10 81 years ears ago %
God needed you, Albert,
IN His home above;
So He gathered YOU tenderly
MoT a14s; DAD. dRAN6MA M1DDLEs-
STEVENSON, PERCY. A tribute of love and
and brother, PERCY STEVENSON, who de-
parted this life four years ago today,
sweetiy. tender, kind and true.
There is not day: dear son and brother,
THE FAMILY.
THOMAS, HELEN E. In loving remem.
brance Of our dear mother, HELEN e,
THOMAS, who departed this life i've years
ago today.
In our hearts your memory fingers,
Sweet tender, kind and true.
There is not day, dear mother,
We ~ "0' ''i"f By 2 Her Her CHILDREN.
ZIMMERMAN. GEORGE H.; BURN, BESSIE
n mn
dear beloved son, GEORGE H. zIMMER-
MAN, who entered INTO eternal rest three
years ago, April rs, 1927, and our dear.
beloved daughter, BESSIE E. BURN, who
~, 1925.
Night by night and day by day
We watched their loving hands grow
And saw them slowly fade away.
Surrounded by friends, we are lonesome.
In the midst Of all pleasures we are blue.
Smiles on our faces but our hearts ache,
Longing, dear children, for you.
MOTHER AND DAD. .
As we loved them, so we miss them.
In our memories they are always near.
Loved remembered, longed for always,
Bringing many a silent tear.
BROTHERS JAMES AND WILLIAM.
What wouldn't we give to hold their hands,
Their loving smiles, their welcome voices,
1n"' H''"'' % mug SISTER LILLIAN.
How sad our lonely life today.
How dim our eyes with tears.
For death has robbed us OF our brother
We thought were ours for years.
GLADYS AND MILES.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
CHEMISTRY OF LEAF
GROWTH TO BE TOLD
Connecticut Man Will Deliver Ad-
dress at Carnegie Institution
Wednesday Evening.

The chemistry by which leaf grows
will be explained by Hubert B. Vickery,
biocher1ist in charge of the biochemical
laboratory of the Connecticut Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, Wednesday
evening at $3.50 o'clock in a lecture in
the assembly room of the Carnegie In
stitution, Sixteenth and P streets.
The lecture, Some Aspects of the
Chemistry of Green Leaf Cells" is free
to the public, but, due to the small size
of the auditorium, admittance will be
by tickets only, which may be obtained
from the Office of the institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

Miss HELEN IRENE
BACON and Mr.. DONALD MARLIN
WERLICH announce their marriage on
Tuesday, April %, 1890, at F-edericks-
burg, Va. 27S
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500 VOLUNTEERS AID
IN WORK OF RED CROSS
Report Recently Issued Shows Rec
ord for March in the Promo
ton of Activities.
FOUND.

An American concern is popularizing
vacuum cleaners in Dublin, Ireland.
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EYEGLASSES, tortoise shell rim. 1853 Ash
mead pl. Phone North 1922. Reward
GERMAN POLICE PUPPY-About 4 months
old; lost in neighborhood of 10th and La
mont Reward. 3l44 10th NV. Phone Co
lumbia l0203
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MADISON. GEORGIANNA. Passed away on
am, at the residence of her parents, Al
bert and Carrie Madison. GEoRG1AANN MA
MADISON Remains are resting at James
w Winslow's chapel. 1902 18th st. NV;
Funeral services Tuesday, April 20, at
O'Clock. Relatives and friends invited to
attend. 26S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

HAMILTON: MARTHA: Departed this life
on Saturday. April 49, 1880. at her rert-
dence, 2Oo7 2nd St. NV, MARTHA HAM
ILTON, devoted wife of Richard Hugh
Jones (nee Hamilton) and devoted grand
mother of Beatrice and Dorothy Warrick
Services at o'clock Tuesday, April 29, at
McGuire'S funeral home. 1920 9th st. NV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

FOUND.
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MOSS. ROBERT $. On Friday April IS,
1880. ROBERT s., son of Mr.. and Mrs.
David H. Moss (nee Lee). in his seventh
year. Services at his late home. 203 Wash;
ington ave, Belleville, N j., Monday, April
IS, at 2 pm. daylight saving time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

OH Wednesdos Hp4 49, 1885, at
at her residence. 1919 1st st. s.w., RO-
their loss a loving friend, Thomas Tate:
one brother, four, sisters and a host OF
day. April %. at pm. from Eugene
Ford's funeral parlor, 1900 South Capitol
st Interment PayneS Cemetery.