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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07

NORTH BERGEN, N. Friends
and comrades, here is some more of
Hoover's prosperity. l was over
in New York City today, talking
to one of the New York Central
Railroad policemen. He said the
marine department is practically
closed down and in one other de-
partment one man has to do three
mems work now. The men in this
department used to get overtime.
But not now anymore. The conf
pany makes the men work now for
straight time. He also stated that
every man in the force has to take
a six days. vacation every month
from now on. 1t is already in eff
feet. He also stated that one of
his tribe was in such bad circum-
stances that one of the fellows Of
fered this man his 6 days. work
to help him out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Starved in Chicago-Now Starves in New York
Worker Corresnoudeut)
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW York; am a machinist
nd came here to New York from
Chicago about eight months ago,
believing working conditions might
be better here than in the East.
Coming here, I did really succeed
in obtaining a job, but only to 5e
laid off after two months work.
After walking around December and
January, eating only one square
meal week, / again found work,
this time as handy man in hotel.
This lasted six weeks. Having some
money I went to an agency and
bought job. Ten per cent of the
monthly wages was the fee, so
paid down $40, being told l would
get $25 week and piece-work.
After having been cross-examined
about one hour I got the job and
have now turned in a whole week.
The boss takes care of the piece
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Negro Dye Workers Fight Discrimination

that this sign was another at
tempt to openly discriminate them.
This shop employs about rs
workers and about 80 Negroes.
Twenty-Five percent of these work
ers belong to the A. F. of L. The
boss of this shop, Green. who is
chairman of the Open Forums of
the socialist party in this city,
discriminates Negro workers.
When the sign was placed on
the wash room the Negro work.
ers rebelled against it and organ
lied strike which lasted for more
than three hours. They refused
to return to work until the sign
was taken off the wash room.
"A SHOP SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
WE WON'T FORGET THE
LUDLOW MASSACRES.

SILVER SPRINGS, Md, May A.
Mother Jones, 100 years old May
Day, is in the grip of her enemies
at last. Surrounded in her feeble
old age by none but the class col
laborationist liberals and A. F. L..
leaders, she has been led, according
to reports in the capitalist press, to
send the following telegram to
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.:
"Your good wishes and hopes for
continued long life on my one hun
dredth birthday was happy sur
prise and among those messages
most appreciated by me. Knowing
all the responsibilities on your
shoulders, it was a human act to
think kindly of me at this time and
your message was the expression
of Christian heart"
Does 1t Square Things?"
She is also reported as saying,
"He's a damn good SPORT" and
"this telegram (from Rockefeller)
rather squares things"
Workers who remember the
slaughter by bullets and by burning
to death of men, women and chill
dren in the Ludlow massacre, and
the strikebreaking by armed force
of the Rockefellers throughout their
career, will not follow the aged for
mer militant in her statement (if
she is correctly quoted) that few
good wishes squares things" for all
the workers blood that has been
shed. ---- ----Tr---
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
FAR EAST RISES /
AGAINST REGIME
OF IMPERIALISM
South African Negroes
Fight British Rule

Continued from Page One)
MED, indeed, the workers were de-
MED even the regular prison priv.
ileges.
Soviet Rule Spreads in China
In China dispatches tell of the
growing menace to Chang Kai-
Shek's Marking government" by
the increasing revolutionary move
ment in the interior, centered around
Kiangsi province, but with strong
hold in many others. Between thirty
and forty million people are now
living under Soviet rule and the
Communist Party of China is call.
ing a Soviet Conference for May 80.
Native Revolt in South AfricO.
The millions of Negro workers
and peasants of South Africa are
awakening to struggle against Brit
ish imperialism, as shown by the
uprising at Worcester, near Cape
Town on Sunday, in which five ma
tives were killed and three police
men injured, some seriously. Here
the trouble arose at the imperialist
order prohibiting "riotous assem-
blies"-which in the mind of the
British is any native assembly of
anti-imperialist character. Auto
cratic powers are given to the Min
lister of Justice and the vast ma
jority of the population, the Negroes
are forbidden even to meet.
There is no appeal from the Min
lister of Justices orders, and he has
declared that Communist agitators"
were stirring up the natives against
the government.
Outside Agitators" in Spain, Too.
With two dead and forty wounded
in a clash between rioting repub-
lican students and the police at
Madrid, General Brenguer, ruler Of
Spain under King Alfonso, charged
that the students "alone" were not
responsible for the disorder" say
inC that "outside political elements
posing as students" were committing
violence.
The students on Monday c1ashed
with police outside the University
of Madrid and were driven back,
they tore every tile from the roof,
and raised the red flag. Those stu
dents who as monarchists shouted
for the king were stoned by the
others. T he Communist Party,
which is forced to exist secretly, is
rallying the masses to fight fascisnl
and the monarchy, meanwhile the
socialists" are building an alliance
with the bourgeois republicans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
DARE H0WAT TO
PUBLIC DEBATE:
Thompson Will A S k
Peabody Man A Few

BICKNELL, Ind, May 6.-Alex-
ander Howat, the present head of
the Peabody Coal Co. section of the
United Mine Workers of America,
split off last December from the
parent union, is challenged to de-
bate here Sunday in the city park.
Freeman Thompson, president of
the National Miners Union, the only
union actually run by the miners,
is the opponent selected for Howat
by the executive board of District
II, of the N.M.U. which issues the
challenge. The debate is for 2 p. m.
Just Want to Know.
The challenge says: "Howat is ex-
pected to answer the following
questions:
"Why did you line up with the
self-confessed Peabody hireling,
Frank harrington?
Why did you line up with the
Fishwick- Nesbit Coal Operator con-
trolled UNIV. of A. official family
after it had been positively proven
to your satisfaction that they stole
the wage referendum for the coal
operators and thereby stealing mil
lions from the working coal miners?
"How will you get better condi-
tions for the Illinois coal miners
when you are associated and lined
up with the very coal operator tools
that gave away every condition the
Illinois coal miners fought, strug-
gled and died for?
Your Friends, the Bosses.
"Why is Peabody Coal Co. and
other big corporations so strongly
supporting your movement, while
they have their paid gunner arrest,
slug and throw in prison the leaders
of the National Miners Union on
sight?
"Why should you receive $4,000
per year salary and an unlimited
expense while the rank and file re-
ceive from $50, not to exceed $500
in wages per year with no expenses
added?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
New Britain Food Workers Getting Militant

1By Worker Correspondent)
NEW BRITAIN Conn-Latey city, the food
New Britain organized ourselves LID Greek
period will have food workers union Britain by
becoming members of the T. U. u. L.
Our bosses terrorize by telling
depo people, They especially young
ade who is and active among workers
Fowworers crooks
ho do because speak English
very WE'LL Many of have work 10 day, days week
and of fltfeeted suffering
Some barons especially this sucking going
to Greece Europe Florida little while
ask them to Of them in
cash. Some of them by month and cut three
month their bankrupt they
months which have coming they open again
their wives somebody else's
This suffering must be stopped only way can stop this
proiteers Forward to unon Join the Trade Unity
League - FOOD WORKER OF NEW BRITAIN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
700 Ohio Miners Kick
Out HOwat Misleaders
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
ton meeting and picnic on the same
grounds where the defeat of the
social fascists took place and where
the Lewis machine showed that its
following in the district consists
only of outright gangsters and other
fascist elements.
Police Protect U. NJ. w.
One very interesting feature Of
the N. M. U. victory today is the
fact that posters advertising the
mass meeting of the "reorganized
U. M. w. A." had been widely dis
tributed for more than ten days,
tackled to trolley poles, etc. They
were not torn down or otherwise
disturbed although the N. M. U.
posters are always destroyed by the
police and company guards.
Another feature was the almost
complete absence of the usual dis
order that generally accompanies
the clash of policies and forces in
the labor movement. The meeting
was overwhelmingly composed of
N. M. U. members and sympathizers
and they refused to be provoked.
The mass pressure on the enemies
of the miners was simply increased
until they broke under the strain.
On Saturday evening Bill Dunno,
representative of the National Com
mittee of the Trade Union Unity
League, and Secretary Guynn of the
N. M. U. met with the district ex-
ecutive board. A program of work
was outlined and adopted and Bob
Sivert elected as full-time district
organizer.
Convention June %.
The struggle against compulsory
company insurance, for which So per
month is checked off the pay of
married men and $3.50 from the pay
of single men, is becoming an issue
in the district-especially in the
Piney Fork mines, employing about
300 workers.
The new district executive, elected
at the recent convention, has made
distinct progress in organization
work and Ohio will have a strong
delegation at the national conven-
ton in Pittsburgh June 28.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
BIRMINGHAM NEGRO
AND WHITE METAL
WORKERS SPEEDED UP
Rock Bottom Wages in Plants Mentioned by
Worker Correspondent
Iay-Offs Too; Workers Ready to Fight Under
! Lead of the IT, u. u. L.
by Worker Correspondent

BIRMINGHAM, ACondions in the shops of the Birmingham
Whites at starvation of 50
to 450 Negroes whites
NJ Warnings Cast and Pipe Co. SIS Negroes
working 10 and IL hours the
Garden 1900 Negroes Whites for
Virginia Bridge and Whites hour At
Foundry 100 Negroes Whites
12 s1 week. At the Socom Pipe Fitting Co. 1900
Negroes at the of $15.S1 a week.
Socom Pipe Fitting the first
meeting o how many the meeting.
fired the McMurry Hard Wood Co. Thirty
the of 5c and 5c hour and work ten hours daily
Birmingham
struggle, joining the T. U. u. L.
BIRMINGHAM NEGRO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07

by a Worker Correspondent
NEWARK, N. J.-Tuesday,
April 5, at the Newark Cleaners
and Dyers, located in a Negro
F,eighborhood, strike was called
lat l o'clock, when a sign was
placed on the wash room recently
used by both Negro and white
workers, indicating that this par
ticular room was to be used only
by Negro workers, discriminating
them from the white workers.
These same Negro workers were
Disseminated two years ago by
the local union, when they were
not permitted to attend ball run
by the A. F. of L. They had not
forgotten this affair and realized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07

work, so we have no idea if we
make any extra or not. I got my
$25 the first week, or rather SIS, as
l paid $40 for the job. Now, last
Friday there was a sign TN the
time-card clock that "Trom now on
this plant will only operate three
days week. "Praise god from
whom all blessings flow. America
is putting the three-day week into
practice. I will "from now on"
make the enormous sum of $14 a
week, and I was not laid off, so l
guess the boss was right in telling
me that he was giving me a steady
job. And for all this prosperity /
only paid ten bucks.
Workers, join the Communist
Party, the only organization that
really fights for the oppressed and
unemployed worker.
$REBEL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Belgian Miners Call Protest Strike

BRUSSELS Belgium (PS)The miners in the Belgian section of
the sabotage of the employers and favor of higher
the strike the lesser evil There
foregbo miners this district and all those who have
ordered their
feared that they will be expelled from the country.
Yesterday police Belgian miners who bringing
edition the Knight of Labor into the district
mshanded by the police and $500 the
The Party and the Knights of
number of meetings rs of the
followed the strike CALL The police have drafted large forces into
district all eventuaities."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Polish Strikers Disarm Police

with a shower Of stones, and a num-
Der of policemen were disarmed.
Reinforcements arrived and fired
into the air. AS this did not fright
en- off the workers, the police fired
a volley into the packed masses and
many workers were shot down.
The happenings in Olkucsz have
caused excitement and indignation
all over the Dombrova Basin. The
authorities are holding troops in
readiness for all eventualities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
$500 PARADE
THRU TIMMINS
Great Crowd Gathers
at Four Meetings

TIMMINS, Ont. (By MaiD A
May Day parade of $500 workers,
led by the Young Pioneers in their
red kerchiefs, shouting slogans and
singing revolutionary songs, showed
the many spectators that the work
ing class moves forward here.
Large banners were carried, read
ing, "Class war against imperialist
war;" defend the Soviet Union,' -
Down with capitalism" "Join the
Communist Party"
Led By Band.
The workers assembled at the ball
grounds, where the Finnish band
started the march after Beckie b.
hay had made short speech. The
parade then formed in line and
m arc he d through the principal
streets of the town, increasing in
numbers as it went.
An enormous crowd assembled on
the ball grounds at the close of the
parade and listened to speeches by
Thatchuk and Beckie Buhay, who
explained the meaning of May Day,
Resolutions were passed amid en-
thusiasm greeting the workers of the
Soviet Union, a resolution of pro-
test against the conviction of Stein
berg for sedition and demanding the
release Of all class war prisoners,
resolution of Canadian, U. S. soil
darity, demanding the release of
Leonard Doherty and pledging the
revolutionary determination of the
Canadian workers to fight against
this developing into another Sacco-
Vanzetti case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Plumbers Suffer Layoffs; "Join TUUL"

not more than three days a week.
In order to better our conditions
we must get every worker to join
the T. U. U. L., which shows the
bosses that we are not going TO
starve. The T. U. U. 7. demands
shorter hours and more wages. The
bosses will then not be able to fire
the workers without the union st p
ping in.
The T. U. U. L. will organize all
plumbers and helpers into a mill
tant fighting union which will bet
ter the conditions Of the plumbers
and helpers. PLUMBER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
by Worker Correspondent

Well, / myself hope that these
police don't help him out. Because
the quicker the company kicks him
around and breaks him and puts
him on the bum like us he will act
like one of his class. Well, it's rot
ten to be hungry and out of work.
I want to tell you it was the former
policeman above mentioned who
some time ago made this statement.
| asked him: What about the Reds =?
"The Reds have got dynamite and
bombs," he said, sand they are 60
ing to blow up bridges, ETC." ! told
him the Reds amt got dynamite or
bombs, as they don't believe in these
methods. But the police do. They
are the only ones who know where
these bombs, etc., are to be found.
You will hear from me again
some time.
"A JOBLESS WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
AUTO WORKERS
DRIVE is ON
National In d ustria !
Auto Union Coming
(Continned from Pnca Onel

(Continued from Pace One)
the bosses to augment their already
large army Of stool pigeons and
spies. This was especially wit
messed prior to May Day. In every
factory workers We're threatened
and told not to go to the demon
stration and at times even forcibly
kept away by the thugs of the
bosses. In some plants lunch rooms
and even radios were installed as
inducements" to keep the workers
from going out and listening to the
organizers of the Auto Workers
Union and Trade Union Unity
League.
That these methods were not at
all successful was seen in many
cases. At the Briggs Highland
Park plant the workers hindered the
cops from arresting the speakers,
and it was only the bringing out of
the reserves that made it possible
to break up the shop gate meeting.
That conditions of the workers in
auto plants are increasingly getting
worse was shown only this week
by a 20 per cent wage cut at the
Briggs Mack Ave. plant, which is
considered one of the worst hell
holes in the industry. Ford is con-
stantly cutting wages through all
sorts of schemes. Men are trans
ferred from one department to an
other and find that their wages are
lower.
Thousands of workers are be-
ginning to realize that they must
build a strong organization to fight
against these brutal conditions and
to gain their demands. The Amer
lean Federation of Labor stands dis
credited and is again preparing for
further betrayals. This is being
done through the "organizing' CAM
paign of the Machinists' Union,
which has the approval of the auto
barons. The so-called progressives
have also shown their color. In the
Nash plant they have more than
once sold out the workers.
The May II convention will be
milestone in the campaign to or
ganize the workers in the auto in
dustry, and all workers are called
to support the campaign to build
mass National Industrial Automo-
tive Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Today in History of
the Workers

May 7, 1696-Coal miners in
Westphalia, Germany, struck. 1924
-Blagojev, Bulgarian Communist
leader, died. 1925-One hundred
and twenty-five thousand Danish
workers on strike. 1925-All-Rus-
sian Soviet Congress opened at Mos
COW.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Czech Iron Workers Strike

PRAGUE, cho-Slovakia II. P.
S,).-As already reported, a few
days ago the iron workers of the
KarIshuette iron works carried out
a demonstration strike against the
closing down Of the factory. AS the
employers insisted on giving the
men notice the workers went on
strike on April Ia and assembled
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07

WARSAW, Poland II. P. Son
the 9th of April the workers of the
enamel goods factory in Olkusz in
the Dombrova Basin assembled in
front of the companies offices and
demanded the withdrawal of the no
tees introducing wage reductions.
The workers went into the offices
and demanded to see the director.
He was not present, so they went
to his private dwelling and fetched
him. A force of police was received
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
APPEAL OF MILWAUKEE,
MARCH 6 FIGHTERS ON

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May g.
The trial on the appeal of the first
group of workers who were arrested
during the March 6 demonstration
opened here today. They are Fred
Basset, Leo Fisher, Max Kergan, Ed.
Nehmer, J. Perlich who were sem
fenced to six months each by the
lower court, and fl. Kalkofen, Rob-
ert Richards, Sonia Mason, Isabelle
Chudkins, Mike Powlick, E. Walch,
Oscar Bobby, Henry Pick, who were
sentenced to three months each By
the lower court.
After selection of the jury Dis
trict Attorney Bowman opened the
argument by slandering the Commu-
mist demonstration and misrepre-
senting it's purpose. Attorney Gold
man of the International Labor De-
Tense showed that it was a workers
demonstration for Work or Wages
who are on the point of starvation
Chief of Police Laubenheimer and
his henchmen's Testimony" was
web of perjury and lies with the OBJ
vious attempt to railroad the work
ers for their militancy. The state
has rs witnesses, almost exclusively
police officers and stool-pigeons.
This case is arousing great in
terest and Indignation among the
workers of Milwaukee. A protest
meeting in Haymarket Square has
been called for Saturday afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07

in the courtyard of the works before
the offices. Wives and children of
the workers also came into the
works. When the employers tried
to close the gates collisions oc-
Cured. The workers remained iii
command of the situation for two
hours and formed committee of
action for the struggle against the
dismissals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
by q Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-As you know,
thousands of plumbers have been
laid off and are walking the streets
looking for work. This means star
walton for their families.
The conditions in the shops are
getting worse. The speed-up sys-
tenn, lead poisoning and the rheu-
matism shortens our lives. The
bosses are laying off helpers and
the mechanics have to do the same
work that they formerly did with
the helpers. Unemployment is so
great in many shops that they work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07
Fort Worth, Texas, Dam Job Dangerous
by a Worker Correspondent

II q
FORT WORTH Tenas-Tsoo dams being built by
Worth nunpaly Day labor being paid
outside Worth being hired especially
Negroes Workers right from the COB told
labor hour. This likely
Fourteen asked be paid off, stating they
sonal danger they stayed the Job. These oorke of
splendid opening for Communist Party work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-07

Demand the release of Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
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Demand the release of Eos
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
moEd, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
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Continued from Page One)
MED, indeed, the workers were de-
MED even the regular prison priv.