davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
CANTON COMMUNE
ANNIVERSARY PUT
FEAR INTO BOSSES
Declare Martial Law
Against Workers

Reports from all parts Of China
tell of the advance Of the Communist
forces. An Associated Press dispatch
from Hankow declares that the Red
Army forces Friday were besieging
Llchow, city of Human province, after
capturing Tsingshih, another inn
portant center in Human.
Tsingshi is located 125 miles north
Of Changsha and Lichow is few
miles southwest Of Tsingshih.
Chang Kai Shek is now in Han
kow, where he is mobilizing his forces
in an effort ito crush the Comlnu-
mist forces" The first act of this
Wall STREET tool was to order the exc
cution Of five workers on the charge
of attempting to assassinate him.
The Chinese landlords and rich eX-
ploiters in Hankow are very nervous.
The clustering of Chang Kai Shek
is not reassuring them as 10000 Of
his troops were nearly annihilated by
az equal number of poorly armed
Red soldiers,
From Canton comes the news that
on the day OF the third anniversary
Of the Canton Commune martial law
was declared as the result of Red
disorders in the northern part of the
Kwangtung province and as a pre-
caution against possible violence"
This shows that the working masses
in this city are again taking up an
open revolutionary struggle, and that
the masters are fearful of their die
tatorship, The Associated Press
story from Canton goes on to say:
Dispatches from Hoikow, Hainan
Island, off southern KWangtung, said
widespread disorders were occurring
in the northern part of the island.
At the request of Hoikow authorities
the Kwangtung government ordered
three gunboats bearing marines to
the island city"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
us. ADMITS TOTAL
OF JOBLESS FALSE
Census Figures Faxed,
3 Million In April

WASHINGTON D. c., Dec. IA
Yesterday the Bureau of the Census
admitted that its statement during
the summer that there we're only.
2,50S,151 unemployed by census fig
ures, was false, and it now states
that the figures showed 3,397,863 un-
employed when the census was taken
last April.
At the time it was freely charged
that the census bureau was DELHI
erately falsifying the returns in order
to help out the Hoover election cam
paign and to keep the jobless quiet
and prevent their fighting for work
or wages.
The admission now that the census
bureau report lied (or as the Off
Gals put it, was miStaken") to the
extent of million does not make
il any less likely that they were really
lying to the extent of about five mil
lion. At the time the 2,5o8,l5l figure
was announced. the calculations of
the Daily Worker showed about
100000 cut Of work. Since then
there have been a couple of more
millions added Two months ago the
director of the census himself admit
ted, in an unguarded moment, that
there were about 100000 out of
work. The A. F. of l.. reports, strain
ing every nerve to keep the numbers
down, and estimating the jobless UNI
organized on the basis of the jobleSs
organized, show nearly 100000 I'M
employed.
1t was revealed yesterday that one
of tie tricks used by the census bu-
reau to keep the numbers apparently
small was to tabulate the unem-
ployed reported in non-industrial re-
gions, then, instead of tabulating
those in the industrial centers, the
bureau estimated these latter on the
basis Of the non-industrial reports.
Even this was too high total to suit
them, and they just Topped off about
a million, by mistake"
Definition OF an unemployed
worker, so made as to exclude half
OF the jobless, and the deliberate
evasion of areas where unemployed
are thickest. accounts for other mill
lions. Some of the chief census TAX
ers resigned in disgust over the trick
cry.
Evidently the forthcoming second
census Of unemployed just ordered is
worrying the bureau heads and the
administration, and they are revis-
ing their figures upward, knowing
that they can not keep the fake 60
ing on such low basis and win have
to be more reasonable in their lying
The national government does
nothing for the jobless, aside from
the bill to give hundred million for
public construction, very little of
which money will ever reach the I'M
employed. The fight goes on for real
unemployment insurance through
establishment Of 5000 900 900 fund
out OF national war appropriations
and taxes on huge incomes, and pay
ment through workers and unem-
ployed committees OF s25 a week Inv
surance to each jobless worker. City
and district unemployment confer
ences are being held at the call of
the National Committee for Unem-
ployment Insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
COPS SLUG WOMEN AT NY.
DEMONSTRATION FOR DEFENSE
OF SOVIETS AGAINST IMP 1REA LISTS

Continued from Page One)
tically the entire hour. Traffic was
blocked.
The parasite Christmas shoppers
who flooded Fifth Avenue were ter
of the International and "Solidar-
rified when they heard the strains
Ivy Forever They urged the cops
on. The millionaire members of the
MON League Club on seth St and
Fifth Ave. stared out Of the club
windows amazed at the militancy of
The workers in resisting the cops.
In front of Constables department
store on 40th st. and Fifth Ave. the
cops made a ferocious attack on a
group of five women workers. Two
we're knocked to the pavement and
stamped on. But when the rest of
Inc demonstrators closed in the cops
backed up and waited for reinforce
mcnts.
One big fat detective who arrived
on the scene early kept at a safe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15

distance all the time. One of the
women workers who was hit over the
head with blackjack was bleeding
profusely, but when she was taken to
Kadish's Drug Store at 9th Ave. and
10th St, the owner of the store re-
fused TO treat her and she was taken
home
The N Y. Telegram, in the first
story of the demonstration that APP
peared in that paper late Saturday
afternoon, carried the headline: Cops
beat women ON Fifth Avenue" AS
this was the truth, it was corrected
in later editions to read: Cops beat
Communists on Fifth Avenue"
Sarah Geifind. who was arrested at
the demonstration charged with
pushing IN officer, had her case post
poned TO December 22nd at 2 p. M,
before Magistrate Stern.
Hundreds CT copies of the Daily
Worker were sold Gu Fifth Avenue
and adjoining streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
L. A. Building
Workers Forced to
Work Below Scale
by Worker Correspondent

Los ANGELES, Calif.-On the
southeast corner of Beverly Blvd. and
Hayworth Ave. the wages paid on the
building under construction is as
follows:
Bricklayers, SIS; carpenters. 81; la
borers, 1920 for an 8-hour day, The
union scale here is $ll, So and IS,
respectively
1t is difficult to find out what is
being paid on many jobs, because the
wages are so low that the workers
are ashamed to let anyone know that
they work for 1t. All are deeply in
debt, with no prospect of being able
to pay while conditions remain what
they arc now
On many buildings they have In.
treduced the piecs-work system
Carpenters underbid each other set
ting Jams, hanging doors, etc. until
the wages for an 8-hour day at top
speed on many Jobs is lower than
that received by Mexican laborers
whom everybody thinks are working
too cheap. Here is a conversation
between two carpenters.
What's the matter; did you lose
Your job?"
mot exactly; quit. The boss cut
my wages to 81 day and I told him
I could not work for that. The boss
told me one of the men came and
offered to work for 81 because he
was broke and had a family to sup
port. But he only worked two days
before he was laid of. / guess the
boss didn't like his work or some
thing. They still owe me some
money; in the morning I am going
to try to collect IT,"
II any worker wants to fully enjoy
the bosses freedom come to Los An
geles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15

place in Raleigh, N. G. As a result OF
a whole series of bank crashes in
that city, there is now g. crisis in the
city government.
Boss Press Kills News.
While the capitalist newspapers
have Systematically killed important
news on the condition of the banks,
the .Annalist, leading Wall Street
organ, admits that the fear of further
bank failures is worrying the bosses
"A. Mob writing under the head of
Financial Markets" in the Dec. 18th
ies'le Of the Annalist says:
The dominant market influence
this week has unquestionably been
fear over the possibility Of further
bank failures"
Many clothing firms, in the gar
nlent district, who had accounts in
the Bank of the United States are
refusing to pay their workers wages,
on account of the fact that they cam
not get at their funds. One firm
went bankrupt and the Irving Trust
Co. has been appointed its receiver.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
low COST OF PRODUC-
ton is MORE MISERY
FOR WORKERS
(By a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA, Neb.--The bosses of the
packing plants in omaha do not
know or care what the working con-
ditions in these plants are. 1t is well
therefore that we call their attention
to the conditions in the freezer in
one OF the packing plants in South
Omaha. These men work in the
freezer at 10 degrees below zero for
two and a half hours at time,
spreading iivers on trays. After the
frozen ivers are taken from the trays
these men are compelled to take the
trays to a room wrere the temper
allure is about 10 degrees above zero,
to be washed in hot water. During
this work the men get wrjnging wet
with sweat and steam and must then
go back to the freezer to spread
more livers.
All men over so years of age must
take o physical examination once a
year. and If the companys' doctor
decides that there is anything wrong
with him. he is discharged.
They also hire young boys is years
old to tend doors for Is cents per
hour. These men should organize
and fight against these conditions.
Join the Communist Party and help
free the working masses from these
working conditions.
II p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15

VIENNA.-The fascist minister of
the interior, Prince Starhemberg,
said during the course of recent
speech: THE great decision will not
be taken in parliament. Our mill
tary formations will take it, 1t is
therefore absolutely necessary that
our militant activity should be con-
tinued with all possible energy. The
Hitler movement lin Germany is
our strong ally and sooner or later
we shall unite with it,"
BERLIN.--The Communist daily
newspaper, "Ruhr Echo" has been
suppressed by the police for 5 days
in connection with an article on the
slapping administered to ex-police
chief of Berlin, zoergiebel, by young
unemployed worker.
PRAGUE.-The revolutionary list
won advances in the shop council
election at Trinetch Iron Works. Out
OF 4095 votes, the revolutionary list
got 2,465, and II seats, as compared
with 300 votes and l seat at the last
election.
PARIS.-Six Hungarian emigrants
have been deported from France be-
cause they joined the Students So
ciety.
The French police provokes daily
new clashes between anti-fascists
and fascists, in order to hasten the
explosions of anti-fascists from
France, At church in Toulouse
fascists demonstrated under the lead
ership Of the consul and shouted
Long live italy," Workers who pro-
tested against it we're arrested by the
police and the consul was safely
brought home by the police.
The Communist Parties. of France
and Italy issued a joint manifesto,
pointing out that a reactionary Of
fensive has begun against the Ital-
ian immigrant workers. The mani
festo appeals to the workers to form
anti-fascist groups in the factories to
combat the growing fascist danger,
and for the protection of the immi-
grant foreign born workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
RED UNION OPPOSITION
In GERMANY HOLDS MEET

BERLIN.-The national conferences
of the revolutionary trade union OPP
position took place on Nov. Is and
is and was attended by numerous
delegates from all parts of the
Reich. Apart from the speeches OF
Comrades Dahlem and Emmerich,
already reported, Comrade Kirschey
reported on the situation Of ths
working class youth in industry. The
representative of the Revolutionary
International of Labor Unions then
spoke and was welcomed with TIRE
mendous enthusiasm. He declared,
inter ALA, that the r. I. L. q. vel
coined the formation of the revolu-
ticnary Metal Workers Union in
Berlin.
In thorough discussion the con-
ference stressed the great Importance
of a fighting alliance between the
workers in the factories and the I'M
employed workers and special mea-
sures were adopted to further this
alliance.
The various resolutions were
unanimously adopted The organ
ization basis for a permanent trade
union movement was laid and
weekly contributions fixed. The ma
tional committee of the revolutionary
trade union opposition was supple
mented by the election of further
members, mostly working men and
women from the factories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
BOSSES RELIEF"
INCREASES ARMY
OF UNEMPLOYED
Not Slow Starvation
But Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

tby worker correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--The local
bosses use a rat-infested building at
18th and Hamilton SITS. as flop
house for the unemployed here.
After he waits in the starvation line
for quite a while the worker is taken
before white-collar stiff, a college
student, who does the work of clerk
ing for the flop house, and asked a
lot of insulting questions. He is then
ordered by a cop to take his clothes
off and put them into the delousing
can, after which he is given a bowl
of rotten stew and a cup of Stop
called coffee. After this princely
meal the worker is ordered to a cot.
The heat in this foul-smelling build
ing is furnished by a few sinking
oil stoves. After the worker takes
a bath he gets under the horse blan-
kets supplied with the bed.
Work But No Pay.
In the morning he has his clothes
returned to him and if they had any
resemblance to clothes before they
surely have none now, because the
delousing process ruins them. After
dressing the workers are lined up
and given jobs to scab on the street
cleaners and painters who receive
from so to 10 cents an hour. These
jobless have to work for the miser-
able slop and the cot that they have
been given. The regular workers are
laid off and the money saved goes
into the pockets of the grating poll
ticians.
The bosses relief plans increase
unemployment. 1t is only by build
ing up the Unemployed Councils and
by fighting for real relief that the
workers will be able to do away with
the evils of unemployment and the
capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
COMMUNISTS URGE SMALL
i. s. BANK DEPOSITORS TO
ORGANIZE FOR FIGH I

Tt is now reported that Andrew
Mellon, secretary of the treasury of
the United States was present in
Wall Street at the time efforts were
being made by the leading bankers
Of this country to save the Bank of
the United States, and that even he,
with whatever resources of the gov
eminent were at hand, was unable
to stop this gigantic crash. This is a
good indication of the rotten con-
dition this bank was in, and the
shaking of the financial structure as
a whole.
The talk of other banks that they
will not be affected is pure lies. No
bank crash of this magnitude can
take place without having some effeeS
on nearly every financial institution
in the country.
Worker depositors, Organize!
The effect on geenral business is
now openly admitted. This will
sharpen the bosses offensive against
the workers. There will be more
wage cuts, more unemployment, more
layoffs. Thousands Of those who lost
their savings in bank crashes will
now be showed out of jobs and will be
Worker depositors Of the Bank of
the United States, organize to pro-
tect your interestsl Demand the re-
turn of your deposits in full!
The promise of 26 other New York
banks to give "loans" up to so per
cent OF deposits in the Bank of the
U. S., has proved to be a fake. Not
a single loan has been made, and
the unemployed workers who de-
pended for their food on the few
pennies left in the bank are forced
to go to the breadiines or starve to
death.
Stockholders Say More Coming.
Wall Street stockholders have been
telling their clients that they expect
othr bank failures. The New York
CUoNh IiASlidit6C 40 Suli Jlii6 VII I'LL
investigation" to find out which of
its members has been giving out this
information. The New York Times
dec, 49, says on this:
obviously TO determine whether
brokers or brokerage houses have
circulated distributing reports re-
Iating TO the condition Of any
financial institution, the New York
Stock Exchange called upon It's
members yesterday to submit
members yesterday to submit by
noon today copies Of all Geographic
communications Of such character
that may have been issuer or re-
ceived yesterday of the day before"
Other bank failures did take place
after the crash Of the Bank of the
U. s. On Dec 10, the Commercial
deposits OF 100000 closed its doors
after run had been started on the
bank.
More bank failures have taken
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
Jewish Boss Press In
Lies About Crash

Continued from Page One)
had promised every one of the de-
positors that his money would be re-
funded in full.
The Days headline said: "Depos-
itorS in the Bank of u. S. Will Be
Repaid Dollar for Dollar, Superin-
tendant Says" the socialist" For
ward declared. "Depositors of Closed
Bank will Get Full Amount of Money
If They Do Not Go to Court to press
Their Claims" and the Day said
One Hundred Per Cent for Deposit
ors o. Bank of United States"
What Broderick had actually said
was that he hoped by Monday or
Tuesday that the complicated ma
chinery' necessary to permit depos-
itors to borrow up to fifty per cent
of their deposits in the Bank of U. S.
would be ready. He refused to say
whether the depositors in the closed
bank could expect more than fifty
per cent of their money, adding
When the time comes ! will make a
complete report until then I have
nothing to say on the matter"
The stories carried by the three
Jewish papers were SO similar that it
is evident that they were discussed
beforehand at conference. They
all went on to say that there was no
danger of any other banks failing,
directly contradicting the Wall. St.
financial newspapers, which state the
situation in other banks is precarious,
The Federal Reserve Bank. the
editor of the Day continues, has
promised to lend the Public National
Bank and the Manufacturers Trust
Co., both in danger of failing, "as
much money as they need" This
is apparently as true as the rest of
the story. because it would be abso-
sluely impossible because of the deep
going character of the financial crisis,
for the Federal Reserve Board to
lend "as much money as was needed"
to anyone.
The frantic efforts OF the three
Jewish papers, as well as the English
papers, to hide the importance of the
Bank of U. S. failure, is sure proof
that the bank situation is extremely
bad with many other powerful banks
on the point of failing,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
Packing House Toilers
Suffer Under Speedup,
Spies Experts Mingle
tBy a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
KANSAS CITY. - The working
conditions in the packing house
plants in Kansas City should be ex-
posed to all workers. Everything
that makes work unbearable, is being
practiced in these hell-holes of in
dustry. The speed-up system is being
practiced in all departments, but es-
pecially in the beef, hog and sheep
killing departments. If any of these
workers dare to talk about organizing
they are very promptly fired.
In every department there are eff
ficiency experts whose chief duty is
to watch that all workers are driven
to the limit of their physical strength
and when they are no longer able to
keep up with the speed-up system
they are fired.
In all departments are stool pig
cons who are elected by the fake
company union and really represent
the bosses instead of the workers.
They report to the bosses whatever
the works. say about this fake union.
In some of the packing house
plants the forty hour weekly guar
antee has been abolisheasa and as
soon as this has been accomplished
they will start slaslling the wages.
(. All workers must organize against
speed-ups, wage cutting and this is
best done by joining q militant Or
ganization like The Trade Union
Unity League. Join the Communist
Party and read the Daily Work..
An Armour Employee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
IN |
HAMBURG CLASH
WITH THE POLICE
1900 Go Out on Strike
in Berlin
wireless BY Inp-ecorr.)

BERLIN, Dec. 14.-Yesterday eve
ming forbidden unemployed demon
STATIONS took place in Hamburg. Po-
lice attacked the demonstrations, fir
ing over fifty shots into the masses.
An 1S-year-old worker was killed and
many we're wounded
Yesterday evening unemployed
demonstrations also took place in
Dusseldorf. They were broken up
by police clubs. One hundred and
sixty-five workers were arrested.
Today 1900 employees of the larg-
est Berlin Dairy Co. Bolle went out
on strike. The reformists tried to
prevent the strike, but the revolu-
tionary opposition was too strong.
The workers are fighting against an
arbitration decision of per cent
wage-cut. The reformists reckon
that the decision will be declared
binding when the strike will be called
off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-15
UPHOLSTERERS
FAKERS LEAVE
LOCAL 81 FLAT
Strike Left in Lurch
in Boston
(By A Worker Correspondent

BOSTON, Mass.-Local 81 Of the
Upholsterers' International Union OF
North America is no longer in ex-
istence. Its charter has been revoked
by the international of which Mr..
Cohn is president and Mr.. Hatch
vice. president.
These two manicured parasites are
interested only in retaining their
lucrative positions and not in or
ganizing the workers.
Boston and its environs have for
years been ripe for organization
have begged for it, but the central
body has made no more effort than
was necessary to save its face.
Refuse Strike Report.
On Sept. Q, 1880, Local 81 called
a strike in Boston and several up
holsterers responded.
The international fatty refused to
support the strike. Instead, after the
strike, it revoked the charter because
the local was unable to pay debt
of q few hundred dollars. This act
instigated by Messrs. Cohn and
Hatch, nullified all existing agree
ments between the firms and workers,
caused drastic reduction of wages and
increase in working hours and pro-
duction and automatically suspended
from the International all members
of the local.
Must Join T. u. u. /.
These suspended men have not dis
banded and do not intend to. But
they are at loss as to what their
next step should be. They realize
that without q central organization