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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

Examine the Preparations
for September [!

TN unemployed worker the shirt
sell few cents with which
food policeman who in the small crowd which gath
this worker local hospital Reports today
live; he is dying victim of starvation Such
becoming matters CITY, Each day
approach to winter such will increase
1t on background preparations make Sptem
unemployment insurance
being carried through
First few days We faced with
the immediate task of checking all preparatory work.
examining all leading committees of the Party
fractions auxiliary organizations must mind
Central Committee representatives which well
weekly organzaiona bulletin follows:
keep mind first and foremost that concrete
accomplishments must be achieved The
building T. L. the Unemployed Councils and the
Party campaign will determine the failure
Of September 1st"
With such direcve as the
action guide their activities for three
realizing the action
weeowee calendar plan to have been worked out in
district.
checup determine the which these plans
through that district
instituted such planned activity and the steps which must be
shortcomings brought light by the examination
The conditions being rapid
the development gigantic struggles for the Work
Bill Prior September First real start must
creation of what organizations of
the unemployed workers The u u L. must be strengthened
approaching struggles of
be drawn into active participation the Par election
campaign
up every phase of preparatory
September First!
all the the Party the solution
organzaiona weaknesses!
Rally the masses on September
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
MEET AGAIN AT
FAKE JOB OFFICE
Police Tactics Cannot
Break Gathering

With several thousand jobless
workers again in line yesterday for
several blocks along Leonard and
Lafayette streets waiting on the
fake free" city employment agency
to furnish nonresident jobs, the
Unemployed Councils again met
with favorable mass response in de-
livering its message for social in
surance and the September First
Demonstrations, at Leonard and
Lafayette Streets,
Speakers of the Unemployed
Council held a large section of the
jobless thousands in the face of the
latest rotten tactics of the police
which consisted of first an attempt
to scare the speakers away, and this
failing, deliberate diversion of
heavy traffic into the block where
the meeting was being held and
which was previously closed to traf-
fic. Before this social fascist ally
of the bosses had taken his stand
on the other side of the street in an
attempt to detract the unemployed
from the message of struggle which
the speakers of the Unemployed
Council were delivering. This diver
sion failed miserably, and it was
after this that the police diverted
traffic into the block. This also
failed, however. because the jobless
workers sensing the persecution of
the state rallied the more solidly
around the Unemployed Councils
speakers; subsequently marching
off in large numbers to an organ
ization meeting at Manhattan Ly-
ceum, 66 f.. 4th st., where they
packed the hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Wage Cuts as Aid to Business
Recovery

WYE repeatedly emphasized during weeks that the bosses
w at the beginning of nationwide sashng
The bossconed daily the other hand have
mphaticay asserted that the only basis for the return of
prosperity continued "hgh"
Now the Journal of Commerce. which really lays down the policy
dictated by Americas 59 rulers this of the
propaganda sheets of the BOSSES
"Wage cuts" they do have effect
business business generally strikes bottom
before For instance 1921 business reached bottom April
the weekly of employees New York State
did not hit its low point until the following November
This the of the big bosses the solution of the
of the workers Here they plainly declare their nten
ton of continuing and broadening the cutting And
perspective
further other
mined to take their pound flesh while the jobess the
tory gates provides them with favorable opportunity.
United and organized action by the employed unemployed
workers the Shop committees of the Trade Union
workers the only Shop committees the Trade Union
through Councils the unemployed
affiliated the T. u U. L. be established support
strike struggles and to fight unemployment
be the of the T. u u L. money
finance the organization of these fights
September First must be made raying
develop the workers greatly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Wealth and Power in.
Hands Of Few While
Millions Starve
Rich Pay Little Tax
Social Insurance Bill to
Tax Big Incomes

NEW YORK-In spite of the eff
forts of the capitalist press to deny
the statement of Ex-Ambassador
Gerard that SO men rule America,
efforts to prove" that they are not
so rich as they are supposed to be,
the cold figures of the government
statistics, though made up purpose
ly to conceal the amazing inequality
between the rich and the poor, re-
veal that, whether the exact SO men
named or any varied list be reck-
oned, wealth and power are concen-
trated in the hands Of a few, while
millions live below the standard OF
healthful living.
According to the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue, for example, there
were even less than SO, or just "a
persons, to be exact, who in 1929
received incomes of $5,000,000 or
more each" The average was over
S10,000,000 each, or in round fig
ures these "a persons" as the gov
eminent calls these parasite CAPT
talists who never toll, got $240,000,-
900, which is more for these two
dozen people than was received by
100000 average families, or approx
imately the 100000 men, women
anu children they represent,
A Few Rich-MiIliOns StaryP
That wealth is concentrating more
and more in the hands of a few, is
shown by the fact that only the
year before, 1927, there were only
IL people who got J5,00O,OO0 or
more each, in other words, the num-
Der Of enormously wealthy people
more than doubled in ore year, from
1927 to 1928-the last year for
which figures are available.
Only lately was it exposed how
Eugene C. Grace, president of the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
FAKE REPORT OF
foster RELEASE
Boss Press Lies About
Court Action

NEW YORK.-A fake story is
being circulated in the capitalist
press, particularly the New York
World, stating that Foster, Minor,
Amter and Raymond have been re-
leased. This is an outright lie,
manufactured to help cover up the
Tammany railroading of this dele
CATION of March 6 to Jail for a term
of three years.
The basis of the lie is the dis
missing of the felonious assault
charges against the Delegation of
the Unemployed on Monday by
Magistrate Gottlieb at the Fourth
District Magistrates Court.
After dragging the case through
the courts for over four months,
while the Tammany judges, on in
structions from the bosses, had al
ready sent the delegation to jail,
the case was dropped, showing the
whole baselessness of all the charges
against the Delegation of the I'm
employed.
Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond are serving sentences today
on railroaded conviction of a
charge of unlawful assembly.
To-day, after five months delay
and nine postpOnements, the dismis-
sal of the assault charges against
these men, proves that the charges
were too fragrant even for the hos
tile courts to press" declares a
statement of the International La
Dor Defense.
The International Labor Defense,
which has through resolutions,
mass meetings and demands for the
immediate release of the Unem-
ployed Delegation exerted mass
pressure for the freedom of these
working-class leaders, is not relax
ing its efforts to win their freedom
Immediately, together with their
complete exoneration of the out
rageous charges of unlawful assem-
bly, which capitalist justice was able
to fasten upon them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Build the Chinese Vanguard ;!
To All Party Members and Sympathizers:

To All Party Members and Sympathzers:
The Central Committee calls help
pagn of the "Chinese Vanguard"
The Chinese Vanguard continuously issued as
weekly for five months the Chinese
America Since its agaona
popagandt organztiona
million Chinese workers throughout continent away from the in
fuence of the semfeuda and bourgeois organizations such as family
and Kuomintang for revolutionary
Imperialism and for the defense of the Chinese Revolution
The Chinese workers launched
selfacrfng spirit and gradually gain
ing influence the Chinese However it is now faced
with financial crisis not Forthcoming
may have to suspend publication At Chinese
Revolution making such gigantic Roadway with more
bloody mperalt intervention the
coming sharper this revolutionary maintained and
enlarged All class conscious workers
the responsibility to help to keep the Chinese Vanguard going
regularly. a
All workers must realize that building revolutionary
Chinese for the Chinese workers
OF fighting against u Intervention defending the
growing Soviet Power of Workers and Peasants China
Strike blow at Imperialism!
Show your solidarity with the Chinese workers!
Support the campaign Build the Chinese Vanguard"
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
COMMUNIST PARTY, u. s. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
STEEL BOSSES TO.
SLASH WAGES OF
100000 WORKE RS
TUUL Organizes Drive
to Strike Against
Wage Cuts
Calls For 100000 Fund
Bosses Admit Many
Cuts Already Made

NEW YORK.-The huge wage
cutting campaign, which is now de-
scending on the workers in full
force, received added momentum
from an announcement of the lead
ing steel bosses published few
days ago in Iron Age, organ of the
steel industry. Speaking mainly
for the United States Steel Cor
poration, the Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co. and the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Iron Age says:
eve are in for wage reductions.
How sweeping they will be is an
other story. The doctrine of the
consuming power of high wages is
losing ground. There is too much
rehiring at reduced rates, following
recent shutdowns, to prevent a
spread of the wage revising prac-
tice. What has occurred is largely
outside the Woodworking fields,
but the prolongation of the depres-
sion provides the sentiment that
fosters all sorts of cost cutting"
This is straight from the Shout
der. 1t will be followed with dras-
tic action of at least 100000 steel
workers. Thousands upon thou
sands have already had their wages
cut, as admitted by this boss sheet.
But millions more will soon get
wage slashes. The A. F. of L. is
in the forefront, aiding the bosses
in this campaign.
Under the slogan of "Organize
and strike against wage-cuts and
speed-up," the Trade Union Unity
Continued or Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Jobless Jailed As 'Vagrants"
Used to Build Houses for Boss
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Calif.-California
has been pictured as land of per-
petual sunshine. Let me paint a
true picture from the workers
standpoint.
The city of Oakland is now bank
rupt and cannot even pay ats pro-
fessional jurors who are so eager to
convict militant workers.
Now new scandal breaks out.
1t now develops that Sheriff Veale
of Contra Costa County, which in
cludes the city of Richmond, has
broken the eleventh commandment
of politicians: "Thou shalt not get
caught"
He has been using prisoners,
many of whom are convicted under
the damnable lagrancy law, to build
houses for hic own use. Ca,pen-
tiers, paint 5, plumbers and other
skilled workers, as well Us labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Indianapolis B o S S e S
Prepare to Fight
Sept. | Meets
Bitter Winter Ahead
Wage Cuts Go With
More Unemployment

More proof that the bosses are
increasing their attacks against the
Workers Social Insurance Bill is
contained in a release issued to the
leading Indiana eXploiters by "The
Associated Employers Of Indianap-
oils" This sheet informs the bosses
that Labor Day, Sept. 1, has been
designated as National Unemploy-
ment Day by the Communist Party,
U. S. A, and street demonstrations
and parades are being arranged in
many cities, including Indianapolis,
where the meeting is to be held on
the State House steps"
1t then calls on the bosses to
fight the unemployed demands for
social insurance, and to attack the
standard of living of the employed
workers, through wage-cuts and
union smashing.
There is a firm link between the
bosses, the A. F. of l.. and the
Socialists" against the real de-
mands of the unemployed, as ex-
pressed in the Workers Social
Insurance Bill. Every worker must
unite to fight against this front of
the bosses. Smash it, Organize
and strike against wage-cuts! De-
mand the passage of the Workers
Social Insurance Bill! Demonstrate
Sept. l against unemployment!
Fall and Winter Worse.
Fall and winter is approaching,
with 100000 unemployed workers
closer to starvation than ever be-
fore. Thousands have been evicted,
and many thousands more will be
turned out to starve and suffer on
the streets. There is no let-up to
the growing ranks of the jobless.
In fact, despite all the lies of the
capitalists, their government and
the A. F, of L., unemployment has
been growing worse during the past
few months. 1t will be still worse
in the fall and winter. The auto
plants will be completely closed
then. The steel plants are cutting
production. For the employed work
ers, conditions are being made
worse. Iron age, organ of the steel
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
PART or French
STRIKERS RETURN
$4,000 Are Still Out; to
Continue Fight
(WireLcss bN Lnprecorrl

PARIS, Aug. PA conference
of 165 delegates from 116 factories
on strike recognized the necessity
of resuming work in Lille and to
carry the fight into the factories
against compromise and against
the yellow trade union betrayers.
Comrades Bournetop, Thoquez,
the main speakers, appealed to the
strikers in other towns to remain
firm. There are still $4,000 work
ers out on strike in Roubaix, Tour
Going, Halluin, Armentieres.
BERLIN, Aug. 25.-During the
Sunday election agitation of the
Communist Party, the police made
1913 arrests, mostly of Communists.
Police provocation was evident in
the whole of Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

ers, have been used to enrich the
already prosperous sheriff.
The bosses continue their drives
against the living standards of the
workers. A cut of Is per cent was
put into effect in the lumber camps
and mills of Northern California.
Industries are reducing their forces
daily.
Around Marysville they are pick
ing peaches, but at what price?
Seven cents a box and the peaches
graded so high that an experienced
picker can only make about SIPS a
day. Living conditions are Filthy.
The workers in Marysville organ
lied a spontaneous strike and sent
for the Communist Party to lead
them, as they said: "The Commu-
mist Party is the only Party we
can trust, the only organization
that has never betrayed the work
ing class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Jobless Worker and Family
Lived 3 Weeks ON Stale Bread

by u Worker Correspondent
MOLINE, Ill.-The other day a
man told me this, that at the Deere
Harvester Co., East Moline there
came in a man asking for job at
the employment office.
They told him they had all they
needed. He said that that didn't
help him and that he needed job
and right away for his wife and
children were starving.
They finally put him to work at
8 O'Clock in the morning, and at
10 a. m. he reeled over unconscious.
They tried to revive him and could
not do it. The doctor was called
and they took him to the hospital
where at last he came too.
In the meantime they had found
his coat and his wrapped up lunch
consisting of 2 pieces Of dry bread
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
PREPARE BIG UNEMPLOYED
DEMONSTRATIONS ON SEPTEMBER |;
DEMAND TAX ON RICH AID JOBLESS!
STARVING, TRIES TO
SELL SHIRT; WILL Die

NEW Notwithstanding and
cast out of work because of his
age, Frank Murphy, aged so
tried to sell the shirt off his back
Sunday to get bite to eat. This
was all he had left to sell. A
crowd gathered around him, as
he frantically tried to get a few
pennies for food. PatrOfman
William Schooner arrested him
and took him to the st. Vincent's
Hospital. The doctors who eX-
amined him said he was dying of
starvation. He is not expected
to live. He had been so long
without food, they stated, that
they could not save him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

and in between them were some
potato Feelings.
They asked him what he was GO
ing to do with that. He answered,
eat it, of course. There were only
3 potatoes and few pieces of stale
bread in the house, so he took the
potato Feelings and 2 pieces of
bread and left the potatoes and the
rest of the bread for the children
and his wife.
That's the kind of food we have
been living on for the last 3 weeks"
he said.
The doctor said he had been
simply starving to death and prom
ised to take care of his family until
he was well enough to go to work
for them. But what will they pay
him?
--~- @-----'~-~N a ---CAROTJrS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
RILU CONGRESS
SHOWS need FOR
MORE STRUGGLE
Resolution Approves
Line of Council
Wireless By Inprecorr)


MOSCOW, Aug. 25.-Resolutions
were today submitted to the R.I.L.U,
Congress, which is still in session
here. The political line and activ-
tiles of the General Council of the
R.LL.U. were approved. The reso-
luton on this subject notes with
satisfaction the consolidation of the
revolutionary international ira e
union movement. The Congress
finds, however, that the most i'm
portant task of the R.I.LU. of in
ternational strike struggles was in
sufficiently realized. The R.I.L.U.
sections need closer contact with the
Central Council. enabling immed-
late class struggles. An interna-
tional fighting solidarity fund is
necessary.
The Congress stresses the growing
Importance of women and youth in
the revolutionary struggles. Par
ticipation of Negro workers, the
abolition of white chauvinism is im-
perative. The Congress approved
the Central Council suggestion that
an international trade union school
be established. The development OF
trade union forces and recruiting OF
new R.I.L.U. members is necessary
The resolution appeals to the inter
national revolutionary trade union
movement to utilize the growing ac-
tivity of the masses.
(Note: The head on yesterday 5
report of the R.LL.U. wireless in
correctly stated that the Congress
had closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Urge Shops to Elect
Delegates for Defense
of USSR Conference

Shop chairmen are urged to elect
delegates to the city wide Friends
of the Soviet Union conference, to
be held Thursday, Sept. 4, at 1880
p. M, at Manhattan Lyceum, &C E.
Fourth ST., which will mobilize for
the defense of the U.S.S.R. and
against the attacks of the Fish
Committee.
Credentials from industrial and
trade unions, fraternal organiza-
tions, workers clubs, Negro organ
izations are being received at the
district office of the W.I.R., 799
Broadway, Harriet Silverman, Sec
rotary, announced yesterday. Those
who have not as yet selected dele
gates are urged TO do so at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Census Worker Gives Inside
DOPE on How Figures Were
Faxed on Number OF J0bless
Were Given Instructions to "Cut Down All
Along the Line; Few Were Included
by q Worker Correspondent
Washington, D. c.


Washington, D. C.
Editor, Daily Worker:
The prostitute capitalist sheets
have just printed figures released
by the Census Bureau claiming the
total jobless in the United States to
be only 100000. This is an out
right lie. AS worker in the Census
Bureau, l know a little of the
checking" of the amount of unem-
ployed. Everybody in the bureau
has orders to cut down as much as
possible the amount of jobless.
Here are a few examples of the
instruction we received:
do not count part-time work
ers as unemployed. If a worker
works one day a week, he is con-
sidered to be steadily employed"
2-Do not count young workers
just out of school and looking for
work as unemployed.
3-Do not count housewives look
ing for work because their hus-
bands can't make enough to feed the
family as unemployed.
4-Besides the above, the enumer-
ators also had instructions to "cut
down."
By the way, the Census Bureau
took on 5000 workers to do this
noble" work of taking and insult
ing the jobless. The bureau claimed
that the work would take year.
When the year was up 5000 more
were added to the breadlines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
COMMUNISTS CLASH WITH
FASCJSTS

BERLIN, Aug. 25.-Communists
FLASHED with the bosses police and
fascists here last night. Two po-
licemen and one fascist were seri-
ously injured. One hundred and
fifty were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

comrades in the various districts
must prepare to rally great masses
of workers to the meetings where
Comrade Engdahl will speak and to
be prepared with literature, cam
paign buttons and application cards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
THOUSANDS IN
SACC0-vANzETTI
DEMONSTRATION
Demand Release of All
Class War Prisoners

Thousands of workers partici-
pated in the nationwide memorial
meetings arranged on August 22nd
to commemorate the murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti by the bosses of
Massachusetts, and to demand the
release of all class war prisoners.
In Chicago, many street demonstra-
tions were held. Over 60 workers
were arrested. Three thousands
demonstrated in Philadelphia. Over
three thousand met at the Court
House Square in Milwaukee. In
Old Forge, Pa, 600 workers met.
Thousands met in many other cities
already reported in the Daily Work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
Fight Terror in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Thousands
of workers throughout Chicago lis
tened to the speakers of the l. L. D.
at the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial
meetings. In the Italian Park on
Polk Street, over six hundred work
ers were present. There were hun
Continued on Pnae Threel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26

The efforts of the Indianapolis Association Of
Manufacturers to rally its membership against
the Workers Social Insurance Bill as pro-
posed by the Communist Party must
arouse the masses to fight still harder
for its adoption on September LIST and
in the election campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-11

For time the two rode through the deep night,
both silently absorbed in their reflections The
girl thinking Of god-like figure in leopard
skin, who came nimby through the trees. Behind
him, shaggy and powerful, swung huge anthrapoid
ape, while she, Meriem, laughing and shouting her
welcome, swung from swayng limb before her
sylvan bower. All, the happiness of those sunny
daysl The freedom! And, best of all, Korak!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-11

Morrison Baynes' thoughts certainly upsetting
him. This lovely creature riding by his side-he
had seen climbing and swinging through trees and
actually conversing with grotesqoe balloons! Beau
did he really know OF her? Before he realized
it he had blurted out: Il saw you in the trees with
the baboons!" "Yes?" laughed Meriem, "the balloons
are among my very best friends"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-11

And then, because she saw the horror that the man
felt at her answer reflected in his face, Meriem
rather enjoyed shocking him further. YES" she
said. Il lived among the great apes for many
years. I dwelt among the tree branches and hunted
the lesser beasts. Korak brought me fruits and
flesh. He fought for and was kind to me-"
There was a wistful note in her voice. She had
not thought of Korak great deal of late