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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
San Francisco, Cal.

San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Comrade Editor:
We have just returned from the
annual maneuvers held by the 2bOth
Coast Artillery of the California
National Guard in Capitola, Calf.
At the camp there were $50 men
and among them big majority OF
Young workers. The first day OF
camp, young worker named
Learned was killed when he fell I'M
der the wheels of a big military
truck. He leaves wife and child
without any means of support.
Many Young Workers.
Most Of the workers, because I'M
employed, were lured by the fairy
tales of the petty officers that for
two weeks they would have good
time. But upon arrival at the camp
they discover the real kind of q
vacation it was. We had to rise at
$50 a. m. to be ready for work at
$3.50 a. m. after which we were sent
to the cannons (big guns 155 nm.
for instruction, firing every day at
the targets out on the sea. And Dig
ging bitches and trenches for ma
chine guns, etc. In some batteries
the food was very badly prepared
and the big majority Of workers
had to either eat it or starve.
Realize Meaning of Training.
Some of the workers in our bat
terry to which we tried to explain
the real meaning of the maneuvers,
understood finally that these ma
neuvers are only part of the pre-
parations now going on for the next
imperialist slaughter for which we
are expected to lay down our lives.
We are sure that the majority
of the workers will not respond to
the next call Of the 250th Coast
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A Salute to Young
Soviet China
By JACK MCCARTHY.

The Heather" Chinese is awaken
ing,
And is taking his place in the sun.
Your unequal treaties he's breaking
You taught him the use of the gun.
He can shoot just as straight as a
christian"
And his bullet will drill Just as
clean,
He's getting his share of attention
Since he gave up the use of NOR
phine.
He's been robbed and exploited and
beaten,
Insulted as coolie and slave;
Then doped at the missionaries
meetin'
About happiness" beyond the
grave.
But the masses of China are rev.
Citing,
Fighting for the right to be free,
From parasites foreign and native,
Including their own bourgeoisie.
The masses of China are advancing,
From the center along to the sea,
lmperialist bandits they're bouncing
From the cities along the Yangtze.
We hail thee, Young Soviet China,
Wish thee success and good speed
In ousting the apostles of profit,
And defeating the disciples of grees
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the Welfare Insurance Co. which
is provided for the workers and
paid for by the concern. Every
pregnant woman receives a leave
of four weeks before and weeks
after she gives birth to a child.
If the child is living, she receives
from the Insurance Co. some
money (Sl0-S15) and for nine
months about S. extra for better
food.
Slack times and lay offs do not
exist in our neighborhood, we are
always short of workers. Com
paratively the wages are low,
however, we have enough to live
on because for room and board
one person pays $15-S17 a month
and those who live and eat collec-
tively--in cOmmunes--spend only
$3.50 a month (receiving from
S33 over $50 a month";.
Workers have a club where they
play chess, checkers, read news
papers, magazines, find musical
instruments and sport accessories.
Visitors do not pay anything. The
musical, theatrical, sport, polite
al, self-instructive, atheist and Es-
peranto circles are functioning in
the club. You find there library
of 1000 books.
We also have our own news
paper which is typewriter. A
large number of workers cores
pond in Esperanto with workers
of other countries. l also cor
respond lot but until now we
did not have any connection with
the American workers. Therefore
| am asking the editor of the
Daily Worker to help us to get
in touch with TIE workers of New
York for collective correspondence.
We shall have to use Esperanto,
since no one here knows English.
n. S. Pagachevskii.
(Received and translated by the
Workers Esperanto Group.
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'pAGE CUT And
LAY-OFF IS Gift
OF MODEL MGR
Workers to Organize
and Fight Cuts
DAYTON, Ohio.

DAYTON, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
Dear comrade-At the Nationa
Cash Register Co. in the factory de.
partments notices were placed ir
which they let the workers know
that their wages from now on will
be cut 10 per cent.
At the same time, on Friday
July 18, 1900 workers were laid off
The workers of Dayton will mo-
limit themselves by simply com
planning chat times are bad" but
they will join the T.U.U.L. and the
Unemployed Councils and they will
struggle for better conditions.
New Machines Installed.
The administration of the N. C. R
Co., boasts very much about the i'm.
provements in their machinery
which they say brings about better
working conditions.
In the enameling dept. conveyo1
chains of 1000 feet are saving the
company (not the workers) $4,000
year.
New drill presses that automatic.
ally drill 100 holes at time have re,
duced very much the number of mer
who were required for the old drill
machines that used to drill only one
hole at time.
Screw machines now run automa.
tically and operated by only one
man.
Make Old Workers Set Pace.
The new machines which the
bosses of the MGR. are trying to
make us believe are for our benefit
making our work easier, are bring
ing more profits for the bosses.
The head of the indicator dept
is very proud of workers whose
average length of service is DO years
and their production record is very
good.
While the workers were produc-
ing wealth and luxuries for the
bosses after forty years of toll they
are still forced to slave for the
bosses and keep up their production
record, so they should not lose their
jobs.
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paign of agitation. The start should
be made in vicinities where the
Party already has some base among
the industrial workers and from
these points spread out as rapidly
as possible. There should be wide
distribution of special issues of the
Daily Worker, the United Farmer
and such pamphlets as "Modern
Farming, Soviet Style"
Leading cadres and Daily Worker
correspondents must be developed,
etc. Plenty of tasks for all. But in
my opinion if the Party has the
ability to carry out these tasks it
will meet with certain success. In
conclusion however let me warn any
who might be afflicted with the
romanticism of John Pepper,
against holding any illusions about
the farmers becoming revolutionists
en- masse. They won't. Not yet.
The fact remains nevertheless that
thousands will accept the Party's
leadership, if only it is able to reach
them with the right kind of propa-
ganda. This the Party must do.
&C. G. B. w.
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SOVIET LUMBER WORKER SPIKES WOLLS LIES
Lumber Workers ZedlOMSZy GMarde(

err correspondent should write
about the things that he is well
acquainted. Therefore / am writ
ing to you now about the life of
lumber workers where | live and
wOrk-Nachtache, situated on the
North shore of the Japanese Sea.
The general situation in our
region does not permit payment
of high wages, and therefore we
the workers of Nachtache do not
live in a paradise. However we
have our Soviet Government, our
Soviet power, and therefore we
pass laws which aim TO improve
our conditions and to defend our
interests.
The first organization which
defends our interests and enforces
the labor laws is the Workers
Committee (RabochkOmD. This
committee consists of a few (from
SD syndicate representatives,
who are elected from our enter
prises. The election is free and
every group or an individual can
nominate candidates:
The tasks of this committee are:
l. To defend the material well
fare of the workers.
2. To raise the professional skill
of the workers.
3. To explain the labor laws and
the contracts.
4. To lead general cultural
work.
5. To develop in the workers
the international spirit of class
consciousness.
In order to carry out these
tasks, the Workers Committee or
ganizes different subcommittee.
The first task Is taken care of by
the Tariff Conflict-Committee.
How does the Tarif-Conflict-
Committee work? To understand
the situation you should know
that besides the labor laws there
also are labor contracts - co!lec-
tive and individual which are made
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der. Further it means that there
will be an increasing number of
commercial and bank failures in CEN
trail and southern Illinois, this year,
and it is no secret that many others
are in a tight situation.
Also as necessary complement
it means that there will be an in
creasing number of news items like
the following:
'PITTSFIELD, ILL.,, July 3d.
The heat wave which has been
raging through the middle west
for more than two weeks today,
indirectly was responsible for the
death of E. N. Woods, So, a pro-
minent Pike county farmer of the
Atlas neighborhood and also one
of the largest growers of corn in
this county.
Mr.. Woods took his own life ear
ly today by hanging as a result
of the destruction of his corn crop
by the heat. Financial worries
caused by the loss of the corn are
believed to have temporarily up
set his mind"
From all this, it can readily be
seen that discomfort is bound to
grow nightly during the coming
months.
But let a farmer state his own
case, the following is from letter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
Boss Pulls Off Eyesight
Swindle On Textile Girls

Newton Upper Falls, Mass.
Daily Worker Editor:
I am writing to the workers thru
the Daily Worker, how they treat
the workers in the New England
Spin Silk.
There were many rooms shut
down three months ago, and the
rooms that are still running, they
laid off a lot of girls and men. and
the rest that were left work three
and one-half days for 8 dollars q
week.
The Picking Room
work in the picking room. We
have to pick 80 pounds Of silk ev-
cry day. If you can't pick so much,
they don't bother keeping you there
The boss thought he was not max
ing enough money, so he thought
of a plan to pull some money from
the workers.
He got some kind of an eye doc
tor to examine the eyes of the
Il
workers and the worker had to buy
glasses from that fake doctor. There
were more with glasses than with.
out.
And when the girls would put
the glasses on it made them like
drunk. They got dizzy, and wher
they take the glasses off the fore.
man came running along to tell them
to stick them on or they would be
fired.
Collect Money
Well, the doctor collected from
each worker ten dollars, and natur.
ally split it with the boss whom we
call Frenchman. And the French.
man with the workers blood ant
sweat took a trip to Switzerland.
The doctor told the workers that
he would come once week to the
mill and the workers could see hiu
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if anything were wrong. Don't
worry, they never saw him after ne
collected his ten dollars.
There were mary girls who
thought they had good eye sight, 80
some of them went to an uye and
ear infirmary in Boston to tiod out
if they really needed glasses.
Eyesight Good
Many doctors there examined
their eyes and gave them a paper
written by the doctor that they do
not need glasses.
One worker showed the doctor the
glasses she got from the mill. He
looked at the glasses and told her
the frames are not bad, but he said
the glasses did not fit anyhody's
eyes; that they are plain glass.
Well, the girls got proof that they
had no need for glasses. and started
to look for the return of their
money. Two girls went up to see
him and argued in his office for
two hours, finally getting five dol
lars a piece to keep still and net to
tell the rest, and promised to give
the other five at the end Of the
month, that is, maybe.
The rest of the girls ought to do
the same, but they are so afraid
of being fired, that they do not
know any day they will find them
selves out of work. They are wait
ing for better times. I'm not, be-
cause l know they won't come; the
days are growing worse. When you
come in late three minutes they
dock you off for twenty minutes.
I hope some day | will see
strike in our mill that's what we
need. But the e:s a" aid,
with such dumb people it IS nard
for the other workers to live.
"A. S.
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Editors Note: The letter that
follows Uas received a gear ago By
the Workers Esperanto Group. The
great Advance that has taken place
in wages, 1uorking conditions of the
Soviet qcorkers 10ithin the last gear
includes the far-off lumber a0ort-
ers. Besides a brief insight IL the
conditions of the Siberian lumber
centres of the Soviet Union, this let
ter helps shoao ap the lies of the
Fish Committee and Matthew Vol
in their poisonous propaganda about
"convict" and "conscripted" labor in
lumber camps.
Dear editor:
Ever since the Fish investigation
the attack against the Soviet Union
has assumed greater proportions.
Now every enemy of the working
class is coming out in the open and
tries to do everything within his
power in order to stop the trade
between U.S.A. and Soviet Russia.
The last attack was on the lumber
products which have been exported
to U.S.A. According to the rumors
the lumber is being produced by the
convict labor. We correspond with
workers from all over the world.
We have also Esperanto correspon-
dents in Vladivostock. We offer the
following letter received from the
vicinity of Vladivostock from lum-
Der camp as a proof that no convict
labor is being employed in the lum-
Der camps, and that the workers in
Russia do not work as convicts--ac-
cording to Mathew Woll's state
ments.
We hope that this letter will show
to American workers the necessity
to correspond and develop the
workers correspondence.
Nachtache, vladivost. Okr.
Soviet Union.
Pargachevskij.
It seems to me that every work.
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which recently appeared in the St
Louis Post-Dispatch. 1t shows clear.
ly why the farmers are dissatis.
fled.
"The farmer is on the rocks
with his 1880 crops. Compared
with year ago poultry products
are down 81 points. Cattle grow
ers are taking a loss of from $40
on fat steers; meat animals are
down % points. Cotton is down
81 points. Dairy products are
down II points. The plight of the
wheat grower is too well known
to reiterate here. Wheat, selling
for from IS to 80 cents a bushel
at country mills in Missouri, cost
more than a dollar a bushel to
produce.
"Now that is the immediate ST.
tuation. Farm specialists from
Secretary Hyde down to the most
obscure county agent are advising
curtailment of production for next
year; continuation of low process
is now candidIy predicted"
Socialist Fake Schemes.
And what have the capitalist par
ties to offer these discontinued
farmers? The Republicans have q
very much discredited Federal Farm
Board. The Democrats have nothing
but criticism of the Farm Board
The socialists have nothing at all
officially, but Mr.. Norman Thomas
has made six proposals the value
Of which he timidly admits he is not
certain of. However, it is plain that
the socialist party is becoming in
creasing aware of the seriousness of
the farmers situation. Without
doubt they will try to gain ideol-
ogical control over the farmers in
order to lead them into blind alley
Party Must Lead Farmers.
Thus it is quite clear that stu
alton is rapidly developing which is
quite favorable to the growth OF
Communism, a situation which the
Party must first analyze carefully
Then a concrete program must be
formulated to lay before the farm
ers. Then plans should be laid out
for an extensive prediction cam
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looking IN vain Tor any KIND OF
work.
The "lucky" ones who are work
ing, slave under inhuman conditions.
Union conditions gained by the iron
and bronze workers through their
union by years of struggle, espe-
cially during the last strike, are
entirely wiped out. Wages are cut
to the utmost. Workers are laid off
and some rehired at helpers prices.
Slash in Wages.
The General Bronze Co. and the
Atlas Iron Works can serve as an
example for this. Workers who were
getting $4,000 a week a few weeks
ago were laid off and rehired for
$500 a week. In many shops the
working hours were heightened.
The speed-up is unbearahle. The
present officials of the so-called
Architectural Iron and Bronze
Workers Union as we'll as the Off
Gals Of the international are not
making the slightest attempt to or
ganize the iron AM bronze workers
in order to resist the attack of the
bosses.
Union Wrecked.
The present administration with
their expulsion policy have ruined
the union. The members ran away
from them and out of a member
ship of over 1000 which the previ-
Gus left wing administration left
over only a handful of about rs
remained with them.
Fellow iron and bronze workers:
Never before has the need for or
ganization and solidarity among us
been so urgent as now. We must Or
ganize our forces under the new
militant trade union centre, the
Trade Union Unity League and
fight for better conditions.
"A. ROSENFELD,
Iron Worker.
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A month ago the prospects were
for a bumper crop, today the stu
alton is reversed and one Of the
smallest crops in many years is now
expected.
All Farmers Hit.
Here in Central Illinois in many
fields the corn yield will be SO to
500 per cent less than previous
years. In some fields the damage
is even more extensive, while in
southern Illinois the. damage is much
worse. 1t is reported than 20 per
cent of the fields are completely
destroyed and that in some local
tiles the farmers are even cutting
the corn for fodder.
The pastures also are in a very
bad condition and are daily causing
the farmers losses through reduc-
ton in milk and kindred products
and forcing premature use of hay
and forage stored up for next win
ter's use. Some farmers have in
addition lost livestock and horses
because of the terrific heat.
More Bankruptcies.
What this means is that hundreds
of farmers in the cornbelt, who a
month ago were on the border line
between solvency and insolvency are
now insolvent and thousands are
brought dangerously near the bor-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-09
Is Hours a Day
For Kitchen Help
At Atlantic City
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily Worker:
While the rich parasites gambol
on the beach at Atlantic City, rem
rezvous of the exploiters of many
cities in the north, south and middle
west, kitchen "help" is working 1871
hours per day, z days a week, in
the swell restaurants of the Board
walk section, for the munificent sum
of $40 per week. And these work
ers have to pay their own fare to
Atlantic City from Philadelphia and
have to pay their return fare after
three weeks work, when, their
strength gone, they can no longer
stand on their feet.
The only solution to this infamous
capitalist outrage is that all the
food workers at Atlantic City join
the Trade Union Unity League and
go out on strike for the 7-hour
5-day week. &C. RABIN.
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CAL. 'CMTC REBEL
Make SOL DIERS
SIT Up And Think
Train Cannonfodder
For Imperialist War
San Francisco, Cal.

San Francisco, Cal.
Daily Worker:
The State of California has its
place in the sun in the role played
by American imperialism. In Cali
fornia three C.M.T.C.'s were held.
Each camp was filled to capacity.
The recruits were given a full
course in militarism and were also
given a good lesson in American
citizenship. The camp did not only
teach the young workers how to
shoot but we were also given a lot
of propaganda about the Commu-
nists. In all the citizenship lessons
the instructor took special pains to
remind the boys what a wonderful
government the United Statse has.
He also took special pains to tell
US how terrible the government of
the Soviet Union was.
Young Students.
The majority of the boys were
young high school students that
have been filled with the same pro-
paganda in the American schools.
They all have ambitions of being
generals in the next war.
The bulletins issued by the Young
Communist League and the Com
munist Party, were received by the
candidates in the camp and many
of the boys realized that the camps
were not held just to make lot of
generals. The boys realized that
the camp was held only to drill
more youth to be slaughtered in the
next war.
Communist Party Points Way.
The Communist Party and the
Young Communist League are point
ing out to the workers that there
will always be unemployment and
wars as long as the bosses rule.
The bosses will always have mill
tary training camps to train the
youth to fight the bosses battles
in the struggle for markets.
Workers, join the ranks of the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League.
Only unde the leadership of the
Communist Party can the capitalist
system be overthrown. When cap
italism is eliminated then war can
be eliminated.
A YOUNG WORKER FROM
FORT WINFIELD SCOTT.
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Letters From
Steel Workers
Next Saturday

Our Saturday, August Is issue,
will contain special letters from the
steel plants thruout the country ex-
posing conditions, unemployment,
etc, in the mills of the Steel Trust.
Letters from workers in the Spar
rows Point, Md, Bethlehem Steel
and tin mills, from East Chicago,
Ind. steel workers and letter from
west coast steel plant.
Arrangements should be made for
special distribution at all steel CEN
tres to acquaint the steel workers of
the fight for organization into the
revolutionary trade unions, for social
insurance, etc.
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MUST Toll "A HRS.
FOR DON NELLY
CORP. TO Get 81
Scab Outfit Treats Men
Like Thieves
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brooklyn, N. 7.
Dear Editor
l hope you will print the follow
ing: While millions of workers are
unemployed and are starving, ready
to do anything for the price of a
meal, there is at the present time
corporation known as the r. H.
Donnelley Corp, located at % E.
18th ST., which handles the dis
tribution Of the telephone books fer
the telephone company.
This firm pays men $3.50 a day
and cent for each old book they
bring back, the average being about
Sd day for fourteen-hour day,
and sometimes it is even necessary
to work a few hours more.
This is not steady work, but when
ever you are needed then you work.
The men are treated like q bunch
of cattle thieves by the supervisors
and sometimes worse.
The work is very hard and o man
must be physically fit in order to
do this disgusting work, as you are
required to carry from so pounds
to $50 pounds on your back each
and every trip.
The average number of trips a
day you make amounts to eighteen.
They also have a blacklist, which
contains the names of the men who
have done such things as eating on
trip. The men found it necessary
to do this as there is no lunch hour
and all hustle and hustle from early
morning until nightfall.
In order to work for this firm
you must report every morning at
$50 o'clock, sometimes being greeted
with such remarks as these: "Sorry
boys, there's no work today" When
there is work to be done the hours
are from $50 a. m. to 8 or 10 p. M,
without any lunch hour.
l ask you is this justice? Hoover's
prosperity. Bah.
ONE OF THE SLAVES.