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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
OAKLAND .y0BT sESS
ATTEMPT SUICIDE
Militant FIGHT for Re-
lief Goes on

(H- Worker Cores 09eGeutl
OAKLAND, Cal - While the poll
ticians are taking about unemployed
relief, the charity organizations
Boosting about how many are being
fed each day; the city authorities
about the registration of the unem-
ployed and placement of SO many to
work the labor takers about organic
ing flop houses and soup kitchens -
the workers are committing suicides,
others dying of starvation, mothers
abandoning their babies.
Here are news picked at random
from one days local press;
Fred Bitter, SO, no address, was
taken to emergency hospital after he
collapsed from hunger and exposure
in park at 10th and Harrison SITS.
He is in semi coma and in critical
condition. Physicians declared his
collapse was due to exposure and lack
of food.
Richard Comes, II, 2138 East 18th
st. may have ended his life, his
mother told police He had been out
of work, despondent and threatened
to end it all
Mary. Dover, E. 14th st. rescued by
neighbors from dying of gas fumes,
when she and her years old son
were found unconscious Weak from
hunger and respondent she tried to
md her and child's life.
Ferd Haycock, 10. Utah farmer, out
of work and desperate stole pay
check for 500 from an automobile. He
is serving 80 day sentence in Oakland
city prison.
Mother abandons baby one hour
after its birth. She sends a pitiful
card to childrens hospital asking
them to care for her baby. She will
come to claim her Golden West, Nher
she is better off.
Stories like these appear daily ir
spite of covering up which the ca
pitalist sheets practice
Workers don't starve, but fight fol
work or wages. Sign the Social In
surance Bill and Join the Unemploy.
ed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27

The executive committee of the
Cultech Aid is composed Of two
committees. Five members of the
Technical Commute and five mem
bers of the Cultural Committee, to-
gether with the secretary Of the So
ciety.
The Technical Committee organ
ICES: D Technical conferences Of
all engineers and specialists in
regard to the production Of trac-
tors. (2) Investigates all causes,
irregularities and setbacks to pro-
duction. (3) Criticizes and offers
valuable suggestions to the admin
istration. az Organizes technical
lectures In shop and trade schools.
~ Has representation and connec-
tions with the All Soviet Techni-
clans and Engineers Bureau in
Moscow and the Inventors Society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
FARMERS FORCED
TO BURN FOODS
While Millions Starve
Under Rotten System
(By a Farmer Correspondent

(By Farmer correspondent
BOIL, Idaho, Dec. 25.-You should
all come to Idaho where we have
bread to burn and other foods not
worthy OF fire. Amt the capital
list system just grand?? Farmers
forced to burn their wheat for fuel
while millions in the cities suffer the
pangs Of starvation.
I farmed 40 acres of an irrigated
tract this year, raised 1000 lbs. OF
potatoes, 300 lbs. of beans, $50 bush
els of wheat, lots of apples, etc. And
out of this all I got is freedom -
freedom to work for wages this WIN
ter for living if I can get a job.
AS didn't raise any ready made
clothes I will have to try to find
some work to raise money to buy
clothes.
At this place we have every Satur-
day afternoon an auction sale (street
SaIe) where the farmers try to sell
their products. On December 10, l
sold four 100 ID. sacks of apples, for
20 cents per sack, less than one-fifth
of cent per pound. I stood around
in the cold begging mister buy an ap-
pie for three hours waiting for my
go cents. Mister buy an apple for
my landlord wants $40 an acre rent.
Mister, buy some beans (the quo
tation is $185 per 100 lb.), but no
body was buying today. Amt CAPT
talism just grand?!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
ONLY AS OF 5000
ON AT AMERICAN
SMELLING WORKS
And These Are Then
Staggered
(By a Worker Correspondent

PERTH ANdBOY, N. 1.-THE Amer
lean Smelling and Refining Co., 10
cal plant Of which the Guggenhei1ns
are owners Gone Guggenheim is Am
bassador to Cuba) in normal times
employs 5000 men, But now due to
constant improvements and introduc-
ton of new machinery, and because
of the crisis, only 425 workers are now
employed,
We work 8 hours a day; 5 and 6
days a week. Our wages range from
so to 55 cents per hour; average
weekly wages 5000 a week.
The company is constantly intro
ducing new machinery, resulting in
more and more workers being laid
off
Stagger System.
Somehow the men got wind Of the
fact that company is going to intro
ducs Hoover's famous "Stagger Sys-
tenn" putting the men on the and
Ody WIEN pdolct AIN OA3S ava 81 y
worried and frightened, anxiously
asking each other when are they
going to put in the 8 and 4 day
week basis. The men keenly feel and
realize that if the "Stagger System"
is introduced their weekly pay of 500
"a will actually be cut in half, and we
will fall deeper and deeper into debt.
We are not much better OFF than the
unemployed workers; we are working
and still on the verge of starvation.
Against these worsening conditions
we must organize into the Mine, Oil,
and Smelter Workers Industrial
Union, to fight the rstagger System"
and all, and to organize the $500
former workers of the "Guggies" into
Unemployed Councils to fight for
Unemployment Insurance, as pro-
posed by the Communist Party IN
employment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
Low WAGES IN N. Y.
WHITE GOODS SHOP
nv a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-On the 18th floor
On 33rd st. is a big white goods shop.
There are rs workers who do the
work of 200 workers, The wages are
very small, from $12 to $14 a week.
The hours are from 815 in the morn
ing until 5:45 in the afternoon.
We also have. to work overtime
until and o'clock in the evening.
The air in the shop is very bad be-
cause the windows are never opened,
and the floor only swept from Satur-
day to Saturday.
We are not allowed to talk to each
other during the working hours. We
can't go out for drink Of water.
In case you do go out the water is
in the washroom, which is so dirt
that it smells terrible.
When a worker comes only or 10
minutes late he is docked for one
half hours pay. When worker
gpoils garment or burns it they
take money from his or her pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
INJURED, IS NOT
GIVEN ARMY AID
Forced to Sleep on the
Subway Cars
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
NEW York; am victim of the
capitalists, I was working at the
Patrick McGovern city water tunnel,
No. 2, at Shaft No. Z, and while
working, my arm was crushed. Was
under care of company doctors or
butchers for two or three weeks and
after three weeks was o. KID to 60
back to work. My arm was worse
than when they started to take care
of it, so had to find a doctor of my
own who x-rayed it and treated it
and is still treating it.
Refused Lodgings.
Had no place to go, so went to
three Salvation Army homes and was
refused a nights lodging and any
thing to eat for the reason that I
am not a native of New York. Have
only been here five months. They
told me I should have been here a
year before they could do anything
for me. They would not give me a
place to eat or sleep and ! did not
have any money and also went to
six police stations and tried to get a
nights lodging and was told that
they could not do anything for me,
so I went to the Municipal Lodging
House, where they let me stay one
night Of each month.
Sleep On Subway.
So, therefore I have been sleeping
in subways and eating wherever
could find worker who took pity on
my broken arm. Throughout all this
suffering have learned what Or
ganizing means. Fight the bosses
and help the workers Of the Unem-
ployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
and M Subway Bosses Maintain Profits Workers Expense ORGANIZED
Bakery in Chicago
Burns Bread Instead
of Feeding JObless
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, Hl.-On Monday,
Dec. Is, a worker was hired by
the Imperial Bakery, 1923 N.
Damen Ave-, to burn up bread
which could not be sold, because
unemployed workers have not
money to buy it. In two and one
half hours this worker burned 400
lOaves of bread and 10 baskets of
cakes. In wages he was offered
for his toll the amount of rs cents!
Stale bread is being soaked
overnight, mixed with flour and
backed in delicious bread"
Farmers, Your grain is used for
fuel, not for feed! Workers and
or farmers! Don't starve! Or
ganize and fight for the right to
live. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
MEMBERSHIP GROWS.

The work Of the Cultural Com
mittee Is as follows. 1t organizes
excursions, discussions, movies, lee
lures, talks, various circles, eve
nings, social affairs, etc.
From u group of nine we grew
to membership of IA in three
months and we graw right along.
Our dues are one ruble Ter
month. Any engineer. technician,
specialist or worker can become a
member of this society who resides
in Stalingrad, U.S.S.R., and who
willingly assists the U. 5. s. r. by
giving technical assistance and
knowledge.
From the above, comrades, you
win see that our main task Is TO
produce tractors. I ask you In the
name Of the Culttech Aid Society
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
10000 JOBLESS IN
SOCIALIST" CITY
FREEZE, STARVE
Socialists Refuse to Aid
Children
(By a Worker Correspondent

CBy a Worker Correspondent
READING, Pa. - The unemployed
situation in Reading under the So
cialist party administration is becom-
ing more acute.
The relief station opened up at the
old city hall is being thronged by
thousands of disappointed unemploy-
ed seeking first aid relief. Little of
which has been given during the first
week of its existence.
Reading has. organized an Unem-
ployed Council but it ceased to func-
ton owing to lacks of forces and fl
nancial difficulties.
10000 Unemployed.
There are approximately 10000 I'M
employed. About $35,402 has been
collected during the four weeks drive
for unemployment relief. The city
administration (socialist) refuses con-
stantly to assist to alleviate the suf-
fering of small children. The saliva
ton army which heretofore has beer
supplying the needy with bread has
ceased to do so.
The workers are the ones who are
being solicited for most the funds
which is not being sponsored by the
socialist administration but by a To-
cal capitalist newspaper.
Many Sheriff Sales.
There have been about 1900 sheriff
sales besides a great many evictions.
Reading has just passed thru ar
era Of wholesale wage cuts nd lay
offs.
Reading comrades are not financi-
ally able to go ahead with the terrible
amount of work of organizing the
workers employed and unemployed
The socialist executive committee Of
the Reading capitalist class with
Mayor j. Henry Stump as chairman
are constantly losing favor with the
workers. The situation in Reading
Pa. is terrible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27

tney not only WANT US 10 40
the work of the men displaced
at no increase in wages, but
also ask us to donate a days
pay to the unemployed after
they themselves in cooperation with
other companies created this unem-
ployment.
Big Boss Profits.
Did not the BIN. T. the past year
have a larger net income than ever
before in their history? Did they not
have a clear profit of over seven mil
lion dollars? And did not the work
ers make it for them?
And what do we get for our pains?
More nerve-wrecking work, more re-
sponsibility. more spoilers and more
accidents.
It is only few weeks ago when
the general manager, Mr., Eagen. in
speaking to some of the workers in
timated that on account of bad bust
mess, less income" that maybe Che
was not sure YETI but maybe there
might" be a wage cut Like a feeler
you know.
Force Men To Pay.
First Mr.. Eagen must understand
that the workers will not give days
pay to the unemployed. The unem-
ployed together with the employed
workers must fight for unemployment
insurance.
And second it will be the worker;
who will decide, whether there viii
Of a wage cut We must demand al
be a wage cut next August. instead
increase in wages, decent workins
conditions and less hours.
However, to do this we must or
ganize. We must be under the lead,
ership OF the Trade Union UNITY
League, the only workers organiza
Jon which fights for all workers t.
organize them.
We Must Organize.
The A. F. of l.. will never agar
nislead us like they did in the past
only when we are organized will VIZ
DC able to enforce our demands ant
0 resist the attempts to reduce ON
conditions.
We must join together with the
workers of the I. R. T. and demand
first recognition Of our union, second
We must join together with the
workers of the I. r. T. and demand
first, recognition of our union, sec
ond, one man on each car, third
one dollar per hour, fourth, forty
hours per week. Long live the soil
darity of the I. r. T. and BIN. T
workers.
Two BIN. T. Button Pushers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
U. S. WORKERS AT STALINGRAD AID 5-YR. PLAN
Mechanics 7echncians Form "Cnech Aid HELP Achieve Program

to give us little publicity through
your columns and make an appeal
or a drive to all cIass-conscious
workers and those that are sympa-
thetic to the Soviet Union ia send
us technical literature, mechanical
suggestions, kinks, ideas, plans,
drawings, any thing that will i'm
prove or speed up production on
tractors, motors, machinery, etc.
All suggestions will be registered by
this society and published in the
newspapers here with the name of
the sender.
For the Four Year Plan.
r. G. HONEY,
Culttech Society,
American Colony.
stalingrad. o. 8. 8. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
REDUCE HOURS AND WAGES

WARREN. Ohio. - The Republic
Steel Company has installed the
8 hour day in the sheet and tin de-
partments Of their Warren plant
This, Of course, means wage re-
duction 1t is the second mill % put
the workers on the hour shift in the
last few months. rhe Granite City
Steel Company has put q similar
plan into effect in Granite City
Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27

dill QSIlldluSs
Another Strike.
The workers of the Buck Hosiery
Co., on Jasper St, in the heart of
the Kensington mill district, went out
on strike again. Three months ago
there was a strike at this mill and
the men won, but since then the firm
introduced the 2-machine system
with reduction in wages also for
good measure. The men have again
walked out and are now engaged in
a militant struggle.
Today dec. 49, the 400 knitters of
the Schletter and Zandar Full Fash
Toned Hosiery Co. located at Holiness
burgh on the outskirts of the city,
walked out in strike against the pre-
vailing intolerable conditions.
Picket Shop.
After having closed the shop down
the bosses reopened with open shop
conditions. All previous agreements
with the workers were broken and
wages cut.
Picket lines we're established i'm
mediately and four pickets were ar
rested today. The bosses are trying
the usual tactics of playing off one
nationality against another. The de-
termination of all the workers will
prevent this though.
Call For Mass Strike.
Strike conditions have now affected
the carpet, rug and tapestry workers
Last night Local 25 met to a packed
hall Of weavers. A vote was taken
for strike in 81 mills. The vote in
favor of calling strike January l
was almost unanimous for the strike
A maneuver was attempted to have
the entire situation in this industry
"arbitrated" by the So-caIled arbitra-
tors of the Aberle mill strike The
workers voted down the efforts to
"arbitrate" by certain elements by a
tremendous majority.
This means a mass strike of many
thousands of workers in the second
most important branch of the textile
industry in Philadelphia. The bosses
had decided upon a Is per cent wage
cut and strike will be the answer Of
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
SPFTFDUP KILLS A.:
L0NGSH0REMAN-
Bosses Coin Profits
From Deaths
(From the Southern Worker)


New Orleans, La.
Joseph Jackson, Negro dock work.
Y, paid with his life and Jim Riezes.
who was working with him suffered
a broken Ter on account Of the speedA
up on the steamboat dock here.
These workers were unloading the
steamboat Interstate" owned by the
Seeley transportation Co. and we're
carrying the goods from the boats TO
the wharf, But the boss, finding this
method too slow and requiring too
many men, rugged up makeshift
derrick for the purpose of hosting
the goods to the dock, which enabled
him to unload the boat in half the
time and with half the labor. :
So. these workers paid the supreme
penalty for the huge profits gained
by the boss when the rope parted ana
an overloaded sling of goods came
crashing down on the workers.
This sort of thing. fellow workers,
is what we must fight against. This
is the reason we must organize IN the
Marine Workers Industrial Union ~
a united front against these mmders-'
ing bosses. M
--OrgAnixoe e n. W. L y \.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
More Firing at the
Shell Chemical Plant
at Martinez, Calf
(By a Worker Correspondent

MARTINEZ, Cal-The Shell Chem
ical continues firing at the new plant
building near Nichols. Last Satur-
day 40 more got the gate. We work.
ers knew there was something funny
when the wages of the skilled work
ers were raised at the beginning of
the month. Now they are speeding
up those of us left to turn out twice
as much work.
The Communist Party shop bull
letins scare the bosses into making
some fake moves, but to get real,
lasting Improvement in our condi-
tons we must organize into the
chemical workers branch of the
Trade Union Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
WAGE CUT AT THE
RARITAN COPPER
IN PERTH AMB0Y
M u S t Organize Into
the MO SWUI
(By a Worker Correspondent

10Y d hOIhtI
PERTH ANIBoY, N. jim ths
Raritan Copper Works, owned by the
Anaconda Copper Trust of Montana,
1850 workers used to work, but now
only 300 or 900 workers are working.
We used to work hours a day,
51-2 days week, and used to make
S32-S34 a week. Now we work some
times 2-3-4-5 days a week, hours
a day. and because of a wage-cut
we got about months ago we only
make So, $12, SIT and S2155 a week.
Won BY Striking.
Through strike about four years
ago led by the Communists Of this
city, we won cents per hour increase
in wages, and two years ago, because
we threatened to strike when the
price Of copper was going up, if we
didn't get raise, the company gave
us a. three-cent raise in the form OF
a SO cents per hour bonus" as long
as the price of copper stays up,
Seven months ago the company
took this 3 cents bonus" away from
us. Up until the bonus" was taken
away from us the company used to
deduct 10 cents from each worker
every week for a Doctors Fund
with which the doctors expenses.
hospital and medicine expenses was
paid if a worker got hurt; but when
the bonus was taken away the
company since then has been taking
every. week off of each mans pay
not 10 cents but Is cents for the
Doctors Fund" although besides
the wage-cut We got We work part
time, too,
Drop In Production.
In good times about 100000 tons
Of copper was refined per month;
now 100000 tons are refined
monthly.
There is sort of a company union
in the plant; but the delegates in it
are mostly company men, and they
are afraid to say word in defense
of the workers interests against the
wage-cut, part time work, etc., for
fear of losing their jobs.
When we got our cents wage-cut
the forennen also got wage-cut, too,
and now they also have to work just
as We. even though they are foremen.
Sometime ago the Mine, Oil and
Smelter' Workers Industrial Union is
sued leaflet to us to organize. fight
for minimum wage and for shorter
hours and against the wage-cut.
To protect our interests we must
organize 'e''sSs.- ,a...st. "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27
JOBIESS HUNGER
IN FOOD TOWN
Low Wages for Those
Still Working
(By q Worker Correspondent

tASJ " tfOAhNA SOihCoHotAutAA1
BATTLE CREEK, Mich.-I'm IN
employed for fourteen months and
l don't have any hope to get a job
SO soon. Many workers are unem-
ployed, homeless, freezing, clotheless,
and starving. Some workers are
working only part time and for very
low wages, day rate is IS cents and
10 cents an hour, piece work is mis-
erably paid, some get s16 to $27 for
fifteen days and they have families
to support.
Food But Hunger.
Battle Greek Is the so-called food
city but many hundreds are starving
in this city of food. Workers here
don't know much about the Com
munist Party, the Trade Union Unity
League and the Daily Worker. Some
OF us workers understand our pro-
letarian duties but to be jobless and
penni,ess it is hard task. But our
bitter experience OF 1914-1al8 remind
us when the bosses told US we were
fighting for the so-called liberty and
kind of promises and now we are
enjoying this liberty" of unemploy-
ment, of no homes, etc.
The capitalist profiteers of war
prepare another and that is on the
Soviet Union the workers fatherland.
Workers are we going to be cannon
fodder for the bosses profits. No,
we are not going to fight our brother
workers of the Soviet Union, we are
going to defend them with all our
power that we have.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-27

Can't Ask for Raise
Two: They have people in Their
employ for 20 years and more and
for 20 years of service to these
leeches they receive the magnificent
sum of $50. week. A request for ar
increase means immediate discharge
Three: The shipping dept works in
one of the oldest buildings in Brook
lyn and it is known as the former
stables of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Rats Infected Place.
Tt is no great surprise to see rats
running through this great firms
dungeon anytime during the day.
The new buildings are occupied by
the brains of the business such as
the robbers of the efficiency depart
ment and the intelligent bosses who
administer plenty of holidays with
pay and starvation wages.
Four: Now they installed the five
day week and darn them that's the
dirtiest concession they could grant
The speedup is something fierce. You
are turning out twice as much work
as you turned cut before and not
only that they compel you to put in
the sixth day whenever they think
they could squeeze some more energy
from you without extra pay. There
are always some people working on
Saturday.
Rumor Layoff.
F. v. Nitardy issued a statement
to the press that all the employees
will have plenty of work all winter
That's lie because there are strong
rumors that load of girls who fill
bottles for the measly sum of $12
a week will be fired in the next week
or two.
Five: The only thing worker can
look forward to in his great concern
is to a gold watch for 10 years OF
service worth perhaps $40 which one
employee got.
Two weeks ago all the employees
were called up to the dining room
of this firm and were asked to donate
a days pay to the unemployed and
for fear of being blacklisted these
girls who in the factory earn from
40 - -
days pay which in total amounted
to a couple of thousand dollars.
Workers of E. R. Squibb, only mass
organization will better your condi-
tons. You are given plenty Of holi-
days with pay but you are being paid
starvation wages. And thru these
holidays you are being fooled that
you have conditions above reproach