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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
FORD CLEANUP
MEANS MORE
KILLING SPEEDUP
Men Must Organize for
Struggle!
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Editor Daily Worker:
A general cleaning was begun in
the River Rouge plant of the Ford
Motor Co. the beginning -rof July.
The bourgeois press saysthat Ford
intends to clean Dearborn of boot
leggers and his plant of drunkards.
Mass Discharges.
All of Ford's brutal bosses, fore
men, spies, pushers all went to
work. The first to find themselves
out of the plant were those "caught"
in the lavatory with towels wiping
their faces. Hundreds were dis
charged for this "crime." We were
not previously warned that such
methods would be used.
Notices were put up in the lava
tories threatening discharge if
workers had towels with them. Also
workers not in their place every
minute of the day will be dis
charged. Talking to work mates
means discharge.
These damn straw bosses worked
themselves into a fury, foaming at
the mouth in carrying through
these dirty Ford tricks.
Mad Speedily.
We are told at the beginning of
work that we can expect to put out
such and such amount of produc-
ton. Some of the machines are
pretty worn and broken and with
the mad speed-up lots of defective
work gets through. The blame falls
upon the worker, and often dis
charged.
The pushers drive us like horses,
with shouts, curses, and threats. If
we dare say a few words in our de-
tense we are discharged.
Discharges Ready.
| saw how the pusher cursed
sweeper, who working hard, and
sweating, when the sweeper ans
wered back. The pusher went to
the super. Then the super running
to the time clock, which meant
that the sweeper was fired.
When one begins to work the
pusher comes up and says, "How
do you do today. Full speed ahead.
Shake a Leg" And all day the
pusher watches the clock and US
and shouts "Snap into it." At the
end of the day the pushes comes
end of the day the pusher comes
that machine, goddam you'll"
Must Buy Fords.
Another thing. You must buy a
Ford if you expect to pile up money
for Henry. And you got to boost
the tin can too.
At all times of the day you can
see long lines before the discharge
desk.
About 10000 workers were dis
charged when the plant closed from
July IL to July %.
Vacation With Pay?
The boss press was shouting that
Ford would give his workers two
weeks vacation with pay. VIII
give, to whom? The auto workers
here need organization. More than
ever it is necessary to organize and
join the Auto Workers Union of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
J0BLESS! NOT SUICIDE BUT BITTER
FIGHT AGAINST THE HUNGER SYSTEA
Under the Leadership of the TUUL and tn,
G. P. the Masses Will Fight for Bread!

carpenter, blew the top of his
head off with shotgun at his
home two miles west of here.
From Decatur, iii.
Frank Collins, Respondent be-
cause he could find no work to
support his wife and four child
rem, Saturday night hung himself
In the basement, at 1913 East
Johns Ave-, where he had found
shelter for his family since he
lost his job.
Meanwhile a bloodthirsty cap
italist world plots and plans to
smash the Soviet Union, the first
Workers Republic.
The Soviet Union, where the
state relieves the workers from
the fear of old age, unemploy-
ment, sickness, accident and death
by social insurance must bs
crushed, the capitalists say, other
wise we are doomed.
The gentlemen are right. The
workers of the world cannot h
kept in bondage forever unlesf
the Soviet is shattered they say
The attempt is even now beini
prepared. Comrades we must
prepare too.
Yours for the defense of the
U.S.S.R
---C.S.B.W.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
Negro Workers
Visit Soviet Union

LENINGRAD (IPS).--A group
Of Negro workers who attended the
international conference of Negro
workers in Hamburg has just ar
rived in Leningrad. The group con-
sists of twelve comrades, ten from
the United States of America, one
from West Africa and one from
South Africa. The leader of the
group is Ford (U.S.A.) who de-
clared that the delegates had come
to the Soviet Union to study the
solution of the racial and national
question within the territory of the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01

10000 and $4,000 tons growth in
the Sacramento valley will be de-
stroyed out of the 111,00O tons
which must be dropped to hold the
state pack down to the market
able limit of 100000 cases.
Farmers will be paid S13 a ton
for unharvested fruit. The entire
output of 600 or 700 peach
orchards in this district will be
knocked from the trees.
The s13 ton price for unhar-
vested fruit is declared equivalent
to the $50 ton which will be paid
for peaches which are packed,
graded and hauled to the Gamers
receiving stations. The crop con-
troll committee will collect $3.50
from the Gamers for each ton
canned to raise S1,750,O00 neces-
sary to buy the surplus.
A WORKER CORRESPONDENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01

he is a professional patriot who has been
shouting Red scares for many years and
collecting salary for it and that Mr. Easley
is closely associated with Russian monarch
lists.
Easley was a friend of Boris Brasol
Brasol was one of the heads of the Russian
Black Hundreds and came to the United
States to enlist support for the restoration
of the car. Brazol paid $1,000 for a lot
of forged documents for the use of Henry
Ford's lawyers in his defense of the damage
suit brought by Aaron Shapiro some years
ago. Brasol was involved in the Orloff for
geries exposed in Berlin the correspondent
of the New York Evening Post.
This is sufficient to give an idea of Mr..
Easley's monarchist sympathies and connec-
tons. Easley is also on excellent terms with
Djamgaroff, the secret monarchist agent in
the United States, judging by the rapidity
with which Easley telephoned to Djamgaroff
of my appearance at his office.
Easley's professional patriotic work is concen-
trated in the activities of body known as the
National Civic Federation of which he is Sec
rotary. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the
A. F. of L., is vice-president of the National
Civic Federation.
Both Mr.. Woll and Mr.. Easley, particularly
Mr.. Easley, have been trying to get just such
an investigation as this for many years. For
the committees information, if it has not al
ready got it, / should like to read into the
record statement made by Easley, the sig
nificance of which will be apparent before
conclude this testimony. This statement is but
one of many along the same line which Easey
issued to the press. 1t is sufficient in this par
ticular case to mention one. On Sept. /, 1923,
he issued statement which among other things
said:
Statement of Easley
Strange as it may seem, one of the reasons
why the A. F. of L. has so much trouble with
the Communists in this country today, is that
under our Federal laws the U. S. government
at Washington is without power either to in
vestigate or check the venomous propaganda
of the Communists and other subversve forces
which are striking viciously at the vitals of
our national life and attempting to undermine
the American labor movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
CONN. new PART
M T: MbER CALI
FOR MORE ACTI(
Want New Proletari
Elements
Naugatuck, Com
Dear Comrades:

Naugatuck, Com
Dear Comrades:
am writing these facts to
Daily Worker because it is WI
ers' paper and it's the workers
should know that Hoover's pl
perity is the bunk.
| am only a Party member
three months and it makes my he
beat with joy when we had a
meetings here a week ago to
over our future activity. / bel
to a very small unit of old Pa
members which to suit me is not
tive enough, and ] am doing
best to put the young proletar
element into the work, so that /
some other comrade will put
Communist brand into the state
Connecticut, which is sure full
police terror and my aim is to W
it out and on to the proletarian g
eminent.
A Rubber Worker.
I used to work in the Rubber
generating Co. of Naugatuck
one time and that plant is sure
plant for workers who are able
step on the gas because if you ca
why, they don't want you. Ell,
hours a day and three days a w.
is The Hoover prosperity here in t
plant and the worst of conditio
Why, you can't even go to a to;
any more because if you %,
you will get the gate for letting ,
stock go on the floor. And the 7
is damn small and the workers ca
even pay their rent. But I ca
understand why they are afraid
d the only thing that will h
them in lettering their conditic
and I'm sure the. have heard pie,
about it and that is the T.U.U
an3 the Communist Party!
Terrific Speedily.
One man does sixteen mems VIC
now since | left and that was OF
four months ago and it's worse
some departments. Here is hopi
that with my help that the Comm
mist brand will be put in this pls
with the Daily Worker and Lat
Unity.
"A WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
Old Workers Must
Toll Despite
Sickness, Age

New York, N. Y.
Editor of Letters from the Shops,
Daily Worker,
Comrade:
I am not working in a shop, but
I am a nurse and occupied either
in hospital or in a doctors office.
Yesterday a man of sixty came
to the physician.
Tall, but bent and very wrinkled.
Suffering from an advanced form of
progressive reforming joint disease,
with bad prognosis, that is there
was no hope of cure. He is en-
ployed in a meat store. Always
standing on his feet. Very tired,
very sore. The doctor said he
should discontinue all work, but he
is too poor to do that.
Must Continue to Work.
"Have you always been engaged
in this occupation?" he was asked.
"Who, me? No, doctor! Only
since ! am in America. In Russia
l was working in a factory. Thirty
five years in the same place. Now
that factory has become bigger and
two of my friends who used to work
with me are writing me that they
are happy. AS soon as they felt
ired and weak, they were sent by
rest up. Ach, why am / here and
not there? l came to this country
in 1918, one year before the war,
and now I must stay here. But
| have to go to work to the butcher
store or I'll lose the job and starve.
Doctor, you should make me
1ealthy. If you fix me up, I'll make
t right for you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
A.F.L. SELLS OUT
CLEvE. CARMEN
Only Strike Will Win
Better Conditions
Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland, ONO.
Daily Worker:
That the A. F. of l.. misleaders
are constantly selling out the work
ers is nothing new. However, each
instance wakes up more workers
to the betraying role played by
these agents of the bosses.
Here in Cleveland we witnessed
the rawest kind of deal handed the
street car men, only few days
ago. The street railway system
has recently passed into the hands
of the Sweringen interests and
continuing the union smashing tao
tics of the previous owners, but
more openly, they Immediately
caused a raise in the surface lines
from 7c to &c a ride with a penny
for transfer and followed that up
with an increase of the Rapid
Transit lines from 10c to 15c. On
top of that they cut the mems
wages 10 per cent.
The rank and file Immediately
called for a strike vote, but the
self satisfied misleaders thwarted
each motion for a strike and merely
allowed a vote of censure of the
railway bosses.
Furthermore the union is no Ion
ger recognized and if more militancy
is not Forthcoming in the near
future there will be no organiza-
ton left at all.
Comradely,
NJ %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
pR0F|TEERS DESTROY 10000 TONS OF
PEACHES AS MILLIONS co HUNGRY
Jobless! Organize to Wrest Social Insurance
From the Hunger Bosses and Their Govt!
Oakland, Cal.

Oakland, Cal.
Dear Comrades, Daily Worker:
The enclosed item appeared in
an Oakland paper yesterday.
Marysville is in the upper Sacra-
mento Valley. 1t was in Marys-
vile that these arrested in the
wheatland riots were tried.
peaches WILL BE
DESTROYED TO KEEP
UP PRICE"
M RYSVI LILLE, July 10
PCNS).-An office was opened
here today at which more than
10000 tons of first grade cling
peaches will be bought for ap-
proximately $1,000, 0O0-and de-
stroyed.
As more than half of the
worlds supply of cling peaches
comes from this district, between
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01

they have to say reflects the first
red rays of a revolutionary con-
seriousness. Conditions are rJrcing
them to tear the cobwebs and wreck
age of bourgeois ideology from their
minds.
The workers of the United States
are waking up and soon their
mighty hands will be ready for the
torch of Leninism! On August list,
although declared illegal, we shall
rally to our anti-imperialist war
demonstration here.
"A FOOD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
STRUGGLE, NOT
RELIGIOUS DOPE
WORKERS NEED
More and More Masses
Must Be Organized!
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Daily Worker:
Enclosed articles from the Detroit
Peoples News, a religious colored
organ. With all these takers and
preachers telling us to be thankful
for our great burden and cares.
If you wish you may print some
in your paper the Daily Worker,
with your statement attached. Let
the Negro workers see the bluff.
The article follows:
"WHY WORRY?"
By Rev. Huel ]. Jackson, BID.
"There should be no worry lines
in the Christian face. If you need
job, see and ye shall find, ask
and it shall be given. We read in
the book of Philippians, 4:19 My
God shall supply all your need ac-
cording to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.
"Worry does not accomplish any
thing. 1t dishonors the one who
has promised to care for US. 1t
hinders the growth of our Christian
life. Prayer with thanksgiving will
certainly kill worry. We can be
thankful when there are great bur-
dens upon us because we have one
who knows all about our sorrows
and cares and is willing to help US
with them"
A NEGRO WORKER.
Editorial Note: off you need a
job, see and ye shall find, ask and
it shall be given" is the kind of
religious dope handed out to Negro
and white workers, millions of
whom are now jobless and on the
verge of starvation. Such dope
supplements the widespread bosses
terror in clubbing, shooting and
falling the workers who dare or
ganize and demand the right to
live.
At this time when the bosses are
telling the workers that they 1.-THE
workers) must accept the burdens
and cares of the great crisis, more
organization, more demonstrations,
more masses to fight to force the
bosses to come across with relief
in the form of unemployment in
surance, no evictions, old age insur-
ance, sick and disability insurance,
organization into the Trade Union
Unity League, etc., is necessary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
WORK 12-YR.-OL. Is
IN CAL.CANNERIES
Pioneers to Organize
Child Workers
Daily Worker:

Helmet, Cal.
Daily Worker:
The two packing and canning
companies here are now operating
double shifts to take care Of the
rapidly ripening fruit. Each can
merry employs about four hundred
workers. Many are children only
twelve and thirteen years of age.
State Labor laws that are supposed
to regulate the hours of labor of
women and children are totally ig-
nored. Gamers are only paid three
cents per tray. A tray c3ntains
twenty-four cans. Cutters are paid
twenty cents per box and it is i'm
possible for worker to cut more
than twenty boxes in ten hours. The
average wage for women and girls
being one dollar and forty cents
per shift.
Poor Housing
Hundreds of workers live crowd
ed on the companies property in
dirty little tents or shacks made
of drying trays. Housing provisions
have only been made for about two
hundred workers and as a result the
others are without any semblance
of sanitation. Half naked children
play among the ramshackle auto
mobiles as there is no one to take
care of them while their parents
work.
The majority of these workers
follow the seasonal crops from Ari-
iona to the Canadian border. They
are among the most exploited work
ers in America. They are ready
and willing to organize and fight
for better conditions. Being that
there are thousands of these migra-
tory cannery and orchard workers
in California, every effort should
be made to organize them under the
leadership of the Trade Union
Unity League.
While many of these workers are
Mexir"1s who are given the ha~dest
and dirtiest jobs, the majority are
American workers.
California Cannery Worker.
Strike Against Wage Cuts.
Demand Unemployment INSURANCE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
Tammany Cuts Pay
of City Hospital
Orderlies, Porter

Brooklyn, N. Y.
To the Editor, Daily Worker,
Dear Editor:
The richest and biggest city in t
world has recently reduced the wag
of the orderlies and porters in
city hospitals. They formerly
ceived $4,000 per month. Those
tering the service now receive $40.
per month. They reduced the slav
and gave increases to the swiv
chair men, the men that do no 8
tual work.
Fraternally yours,
John H. Sheehan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01

Metal Trades Workers Industrial
League, and the councils of the un-
employed and under the leadership
of the Communist Party struggle
against the life-sapping working
conditions at Ford's.
FORD WORKER.
P. S. All out on the streets on
Anti-War Day, August LIST. Cass
Park, at s p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01
Legion Fascists
Guard Chi. Oil
Plants, Aug. l
TUUL Organizer Got to Show Himself More
Often to Speed Organization of Oil Men
Oil Workers Ready to Fight After Hit Hard
By Speed-Up and Lay-Offs
Chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker:


Standard, Empire Shell and Sinclair
Oil workers at Whiting and East Chicago
resulted in hundreds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-01

Ford has started another drivo
upom the tens of thousands of auto
soorkers. Layoffs, qVage-cuts, and
new methods of speed-up to burn
the gerry life out of the q0orkers is
Ford's program.
The auto q0orkers must ansqOer
this murderous attack by organiza-
ton into the Auto Workers Union
and preparation for strike struggle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26

some with yellow and others with blue
lenses. The shaft, visible for 90 miles
in the daytime, VIII be visible to av1a-
tors q hundred miles away at night,
for an 100000 candlepower revolving
beacon and a directional beacon viii
be mounted atop the structure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26
EEHsEE24EIsAEEs. .I gEsT Es1gHEess FOE

A Masshchusetts concern Of q decades
etandtng introduced, several years back, a
wholly new and non-competttive product
allied With electrical apparatus.
Today. the installation of systems and
products Of this company's origin are pre-
ecribed BY legislation in municipalities
&hrou9hout the country.
These products sell at a price range OF
from $3.50 TO several hundred dollars. They
are endorsed and used by Public Service
Companies. Power Companies, Public Utili-
ties Corporations and Prominent Electrical
Manufactufers. The Cooperation which
%00.00 IN research on this problem. as o
consequence of which 1t Is today fegafded
as the pioneer and leader Of a vast Industry
without remote competitor.
To establish territorial distribution over
already paying districts in this fundamental
business, the Corporation is seeking man
OF pToysn business and sales ability, who
would be competent to maintain general
tory, and who might be enabled, through
previous contacts in the field of electrical
apparatus selling, to maintain and build up
button.
Suficient capital will be required to main4
eain suitable headquarters and handle
volume OF sales, since all distribution would
ortginate from this point. To avoid am
niguity it should be stated that an estimate
based upon present conditions places the
amount OF this capital at about $4,000.
generous return on this investment is already
*hdicated even on the basis of present sales
In this practically unexpected territory
Address Box S25-R, star once.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26
MEXICAN c. OF c.
PROTESTS QUOTA
American Body Says Immi-
grafton Bill Passage
"UnWise."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 26.-The execu-
tive committee of the American Cham.
Der of Commerce yesterday made pub
lie the text of q telegram sent to Presi-
dent Hoover describing the Harris bin
to put Mexican Immigration under
quota laws as most unwise at this
time"
The telegram said: .....-
"In view of the present cordial and
friendly reIatioY1s between the United
States and Mexico, it is the opinion OF
the executive committee of the An1erl-
can Chamber of Commerce OF Mexico
City, eradeavoring to represent Amer
can business interests and to IuIL..eA
these friendly relations, that the pIo-
posed legislation restricting 1mmlgi atioi,
from Mexico would not do actuai soou
and would be most unwise at Inns Cnie.
Nothing should be done 10 aHect
adversely this ainicable feelng, ana
such legislation will also pc nimlcai 70
trade and the friendly reiatiofs OF the
The Committee thought that $50 pick
ont Mexico as the only country of the
western World for putting into effect
such restrictions will inevitably produce
most unsatisfactory results. We sin
cerely. hope that our legislative body
VIII carefully consider the situation
from every standpoint.
permit us to express the hope that
the prospects of the restrictive pro-
posals being enacted into law are re-
mote, but in the event the measure
should be passed and reaches you for
signature, we respectfully and with
deep interest recommend your thought
full consideration to its Veto"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26
WESTERN LUMBER
PRODUCTION IS CUT
Companies in Douglas Fir
Region Reduce Production
Schedules.

PORTLAND, Ore, May 2e.-Col.
w. B. Greeley, secretary and manager
of the West Coast Lumbermen's Asso-
citation, has announced that many
lumber mills in the Douglas fir region
of the Pacific Northwest have curtailed
production for an extended period.
Several mills that normally operate
two shifts, the statement said, are plan
ming to operate on one-shift basis
Others, he said, will reduce cutting
schedules to four and five days a week.
while many single-shift mills are
operating on a five-day week basis.
Large inventories, decreased demand
from nearly all important markets." he
said, "plus operating losses under pres
ent conditions are the causes"
Since January / the industry has
operated on an average somewhat less
than 20 per cent of normal, Col. Greeley
said. The association estimated that
the further reductions would place the
average output at less than so per
cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported to
the Health Department In the last % hours:
Charles Birch, SO, GEORGETOWN Hospital.
Elizabeth Cuddleback, IS, Gallinger Hos
pital.
Clara M. With, 30, Providence Hospital
Frederick Z. woodward, 70, 200 East Cliff
" Nssa zsfin, 70, 1888 princeton pi.
Michael J. Conner, 40. 2227 LIST st.
pofa i. Meyers, 81, $50 Van Buren, st.
Gertrude DekelbauEn, SO, 4405 18th st.
Georke Peter. SO, 1407 18th st..z..
Mary Marshall, IS, Columbia Hospital.
walter cranhoinn, d, st. EIiEabeths Hose.
frank G. Tutwiler. %, Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Thomas Hall, 81, Gallinser Hospital
Infirm.
Lucy E. Holmes, II, Ills srd ct. s,w.
Rita Marshall, IS, Gallinger Hospital
James Roster, IS, st. Elizabeths Hospital.
William Hodge, SO, GEORGETOWN Hospital.