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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12
BRIDGE III HONORS
MISS MIDDLETON

Misses lone Thompson and Gym
eth Stugard were joint hcstesses nj
a surprise bridge party given in hon
or Of Miss Matte Merle Middleton
on her birthday, at the home Of Mrs
w. e. Trantham In McAilen. The
home was beautifully decorated with
autumn flowers. Miss Frances
Hooper was awarded the high score
favor for the ladies and Mr.. Jimmy
Hester for the men. The honoree
was presented with a lovely gift.
Delicious refreshments were serv-
ed 10 the following guests: Misses
Alice Johnson. Frances Hooper. Mat
tie Merle Middleton and Mrs. w. z.
Trantham and Messrs. Tom Hart
lev, Bryce Ferguson. Jimmy Hester,
john Vest. Max Maule and w. <.
Trantham.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12
Phone SEVEN ssr'H' SOCIETY 'H's SEVEN ss4'H' Vale" az

be held at the church ann-::s on
Halloween night.
On November IS. q bazaar viii
be held by the auxiliary. Fifteen
were present at this meeting.
FAREWELL AFFAIR
GIVEN BY GUILD
A farewell party was given By
the members OF the Episcopal Gaild
this week at the. parish house for
Mrs. II. G. Ralston OF Weslaco, one
of the Guild members, who Is
leaving 500 for an indefinite stay
in Florida.
The Bishops committee was also
present at this meeting. An enjoy
able afternoon was spent and {
refreshment course was served.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12
PERSONALS

Misses Emily Broughton and Lii
liam Rice were the dinner guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. L. Nj. Flowers Thurs
day evening.
Jim Johnson motored from Point
Isabel and spent a few days with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
johnson.
Mrs. Marvin Evans expects to de-
part the latter part Of this week for
San Antonio where she will be with
Mr.. Evans who Is In a hospital there.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12
THuRSDAY

Mrs. +. Owen Scott and Miss Cam
lie Block will be h~osteSses on Thurs
day at a m o'clock luncheon az the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12

clues, at the last clue the treasC-el
OF miniature household articles was
revealed. Miss Annie Laurie 71w-
ard received the high score favor
and the honoree was presented a
lovely handkerchief ease which
contained q beautiful handkerchief
from each guest.
A color scheme Of pink and white
was carried out effectively III the
decorations AMI the lovely refresh-
ments. The personnel incirded
Misses lone Thompson, Matte
Merle Middleton, Iris and Annie
Laurie Howard, Frances Hooper,
Jimmie Winters. Nadine, Robinson,
Gyneth Stugard. Lucille Copeland.
Mrs. ID. n. Dickey, and the honoree.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12
CLUB MEETS AT
LAUCK HOME

The Ace-High Bridge club met 40
the home OF Mrs. I'D. Lauck on
Thursday evening with Miss Cornelia
City as hostess. The home was
attractive with autumn flowers Miss
Mary Flowers received the high
score prize.
Delicious refreshments were served
to the following members and
guests: Misses Alice johnson, Made
line Gillespie, Elsie Rushing. Mary
Flowers. Lois Lowrie, Ethel Barbara
Young. Mary Ball and Mrs. Ber-
niece Kirkhart Of McAllen.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-10-12

Mrs. r. Bingley was hostess on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
CHICAGO Gar Marshall field III
MAKES MILLIONS OUT OF Low PAY,
: Bad CONDITIONS FOR SHOP GIRLS
woman Works 40 Years and Gets mo, Not a
ssF Raise or Less Hours) Her Picture Taken
lRu q Yorker CorresnondenN

CHCAGO-some big capitalists go not only by their
es but also by Roman figures attached their the
&ent store in Chicago Marshall Field
vainy looking Hoovcrized prosperity
employment office of this department store The employment
locked from bottom and if
worker. said "WelI o
'How much do pay?"
you will get $12 week. and have have $3.50
&kO0 for and so cents for locker key"
needed job badly but still could that
Ae arguing for while he finally agreed
not to tell will lose employment
tell applicant
FNarshan Field to
because the not adequate They
must have father husband sweetheart help them
An hour after started work waiting people lunch
department them taking pictures lady.
They told this anniversary
department for 40 They the
draw trade She earlier than the
tsa good slave She dishes
ayhng if they hungry because she claimed the food
Expensive for the workers We meals but the food
desire nothing at all when they busy Twice complained the
"msnager before got a or less decent meal
All the work S to hours and not allowed sit down
dnrng that tme 30 minutes for lunch Most girls afraid
Ito take the half hour allotted the usually
swollen feet Many of them religious and often hears
"Haye been this mornng?" They
ysa christian. eyes, chraned baby don't believe
4attlupH, Ihave learned it is all bunk" l replied
believe god If want soul to be saved and
gSsstssspd luck"
dont good lousy place for forty years
EMEshe al crippled up and be so ignorant"
Since that time the girls and foady
nuch. One day Spanish girl talked
sses teaching prejudice asked waitress why she
Hofects Negroes aren't they
ow help being colored help
that the getting their
workers in Chicago peasants
Communism alone will them from their ignorance
poverty, and slavery.
II An Hash Singer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
CHI, DISTRICT
BUILD "DAIL W
Call Upon Workers to
Aid Paper

The revolutionary labor movement
Chicago must have its press.
Sooner or later Chicago will have
paper Of its own. In the mean
ime the National Edition of the
billy Worker is also the fighting
II an Of the Chicago labor move
nnt- In order to make it more
Effective and influential in Chicago
nd District 8 it was decided to have
permanent section in the paper,
be printed in the Wednesday is
ue. In connection with this Sec
ion the worker correspondence
movement in our district will be de-
'eloped. Preliminary steps to or
,ani5e groups and classes for
worker correspondents in Chicago
nd Gary were already taken. Sim
lar steps will also be taken in other
arts of the district. In connection
With this section we also expect to
ave advertisements which will help
he Daily financially.
We call upon all units of the
Party, the Trads Union Unity
League, the international Labor De-
fense, the Women's Federation, la
Dor and fraternal organizations, the
Unemployed Councils, the Young
Communist League, the Negro La
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
CHICAGO BOSSES PULLING OFF FRANCHISE STE
Fakey ahou Pedde ltten Bunk to Car Mem Who Want Union

on account of ill-healtb and
stormy weather Mahon would re.
tire, on a mere pittance, this man
who has produced untold wealth
for the insult monopoly.
The present equipment of the
transit system consists of old
type cars, which in their operation
require one man to each car. The
new merger company is bound by
the new franchise to purchase
new, modern cars, which will in
troduce to us traction workers a
vicious system of mass lay-offs
and speed-up, because the modern
cars require only two men to a six
or eight-car train on the elevated
and two men to two or three
car train on the surface line. Such
trains are now operated in some
of the eastern cities. insult and
Mahon would have us traction
workers vote for this condition on
July i.
The sponsors of the new fran
chise are silent on the definite
rate of fare the new merger COM
pany will be allowed to collect.
The new franchise, in mild words,
proposes to allow the monopoly
"to charge reasonable sum-"
based on its Over-w atered stock,
which means 10-cent fare for
Chicago street car riders. Let us
recall that for some time the In
sull interest has insisted on a
franchise which gave them a mon
opoly of street car traffic. This
was effected by building up a
political machine with enough
votes to jam through the city
council the insult franchise. In
this they accepted the services of
the most corrupt ward heelers of
the Grove Thompson Swanson
and Mccormick factions. who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

would say to the unemployed
worker: vote for one of our Of
fice-s seekers and we will land you
a job on the street cars or ele-
waited lines
The insult traction monopoly,
having employed these political
slaves, demand that they use their
influence and vote for this polit-
ical machine, made up of crooks
and racketeers. l was once told
there was on file 1000 applica-
tons of men who were not hired
because they had no o. X. from
this political gang. Perhaps this
explains why you or your friend
did not get job with the trac-
ton company.
Let us traction workers fight
the insult pet franchise and ex-
pose our union chief, Mahon, who
has betrayed the traction work.
ers and became the supporter of
the insult gang. Let us accept
the guidance of the Communist
Party, the party of the working
class; they alone will fight for a
municipaly-owned traction sys-
TEN, scent fare, a full wage
old age pension and against the
speed-up and lay-off. May we
soon rid our ranks of this arch
betrayer, Mahon, the tool of In
sull, who has sold out the street
car workers in New Orleans and
Cleveland and has proved a good
natured, jolly pal of the grating
insult machine. Long live the new
industrial trade unions, led by the
Trade Union Unity League. Trac-
ton workers, fight the insult
franchise and let us support the
revolutionary Communist Party!
"A TRACTION WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
M a k e Lib by Men
Pay for Own
Insurance
Dear Editor Daily Worker:

At the Chicago stock yards,
famous for their smell and ex-
ploitation, the packing companies
force their workers to buy insur-
ance against sickness and injury.
The company l was working for,
Libby, Mcneil and Libby, made
me buy and pay for $4,000 insur-
ance. This insurance was sup
posed to cover injuries both at
work and at home. About
month ago l was injured at my
house so bad that l am unable to
walk without the support of
stick. When came back to work
they told me: Nothing doing, we
cannot use you any more"
went to the office to arrange
about collecting on my insurance
policy, but there they told me
there was nothing coming to me.
I attempted several times to find
out what kind of an insurance"
game it was and why they are
collecting money from US if we
are not aided when injured or
sick. The last time I was there
they told m to get out and stay
out and not to bother them.
Now I see that the rich swine
barons are skinning not only the
cattle, but also us-the workers.
Worker Correspondent.
Chicago, Ill.
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new franchise will not only give
Chicago the best traction system
in the country, but will do away
with Hoover's army of unem-
ployed.
We ask the insult monopoly why
they have not made the extensions
provided for in the franchise of
1907? AS a result OF this be-
trayal, thousands of toilers who
live in the congested sections of
the city (for instance, 44th and
NormaD are forced to walk long
distances to street cars. The ex.
tensions which have been made
are in the outlying sections which
were very sparsely settled. Here
the Traction Co., in partnership
with the local real estate dealers,
have sold to the unsuspecting pub
lie worthless lots at extortionate
figures. Niles Center and West
chester, on the elevated, and State
ST., on the surface lines, are glar-
ing examples OF this.
Looking over the extension
which the new franchise promises
us, we must conclude that the In
sull monopoly is far more inter-
ested in continuing the real estate
graft than in solving Chicago's
transportation problem.
Mahon and lis brother takers
would have us believe the new
merger company was going to dis
play an attitude of benevolence to-
ward its aged employees. Loudly
do they prattle about the old age
pension clause in the proposed
franchise, but already we traction
workers have heard of Mahon's
proposal that old age pensions
should be based on the last four
years of service. When a man,
because of his old age, is forced
to lay off almost half of the time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

Dor Congress, etc., to recruit COM
rades for the worker correspon-
dents groups and classes and to
send in news of their activities to
the Chicago District s Section of
the Daily Worker. Our aim is to
have a worker correspondent in
every shop or factory. 1t should be
understood that advertisements dis
guised as news" for affairs where
admission is charged will also be
charged for at the regular rates.
We call upon all loyal comrades
of the labor movement to help us
make the Chicago District 8 Sec
ton in the Daily Worker and the
paper in general a powerful instru-
ment in the class struggle in the
hands of the Chicago workers.
Get in touch with the Chicago
office of the Daily Worker. Solicit
ads for the paper. Get news for
the Chicago Section. Join the
worker correspondents movement.
Write as you fight!
Address all communications for
this section to the Chicago office of
the Daily Worker, 1413 w. 18th ST.,
Chicago, III.
CHICAGO DISTRICT s SEC
TION OF THE DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
Gary Steel Workers Greet
ttDaily" AS Their Fighter

Recognizing Daily Worker the collective propaganda and
organizer working class the militant leader the struggle
workers from the oppression of capitalism
group Gary steel workers. suffering undre the iron heel OF
the trust to build The Daily Worker
powerful weapon working We pledge ourselves to
the circulation of The Daily Worker in Gary and to organize
Correspondents who will help unmask the
trkery exploitation the Bosses We pledge ourselves to help
Gary strengthen its influence among the
become the leading party the workers
prove that these not merely empty words
hereby check $7 the first results of work for
This reply to the Red Investigators of
Washington the stool pigeons and kstes of the steel trust
in Washington, Gary and all over the country.
steel of Pittsburgh and other workers
country send in their replies to the red bae Show
them think of them
Long live DAILY WORKER!
Long live the Communist Party!
A Of Worker Of Gary nd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
SPEED-UP SUPER
AT VICTOR stove

Since the arrival two months ago
from New York of a new superin-
tendent, Mr.. Lucas, conditions at the
Victor Stove Co. are growing worse
and worse for the workers. Lucas
was brought over to the Cicero fac
tory especially for the purpose of
speeding up production and cutting
down the wages. This slave driver
is doing his very best to please the
bosses. Anyone who dares to open
his mouth to complain is canned,
because the workers are morgan
lied and therefore helpless.
For the last two months, since
Lucas took over the management
wages have been cut three different
times. Everyone of the three hun
bred men in the shop has been af-
fected by the wage cuts and they
are sore, but they don't know yet
how to fight back. The entire shop
is working on the piece work basis,
and the cuts are made first in one
department on one kind of work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
St0ckyards
Lousy With
Boss SPIES

In the various plants in the Stock
yards of Chicago the spy system in
the past few months has increased
These spies are called "white coats"
by the workers and instead of work
ing in one department, they go from
department to department, the
workers sometimes not seeing the
same one for weeks, they sneak up
ON you at all times and are always
hiding behind some thing watching
and listening to the workers. For
the least thing they are mighty
quick on bawling out the worker.
Several months ago, I was taking
truck of boxes into an elevator
and something dropped from the
truck, l went. to pick it up and one
of the white coats happened to come
along, he said "get out of the way,
niger" l started after him but
what was the use. l asked the fore
man who he was and the foreman
said that was the general super
intendent.
On June 3 a worker at Swifts
Strengthened up from his work and
made remark to his fellow work
er, a white coat happened to be
shopping around and told him to
get busy, this was not the place
to loaf, and when the worker made
a remark to him which the white
coat considered insulting, the worker
was fired at once. The workers in
this department as everywhere in
the yards are so terrorized by these
white coats and are constantly in
fear of losing their jobs that they
condemned this worker for talking
back to the spy, yet l have seen
these same workers go into a rage
when the Bado man (checker)
stands around too long taking their
standard.
What with the white coats, the
Bedo man, the foreman, there are
more spies than workers in the
yards. In many departments the
foreman works with the other work
ers and the workers do not know
he is a spy until they are reported
for something they say or do.
All over the yards the older men
are being layed off and fired, es-
pecially is this true of older Ne
gro workers.
Only last week 7 men were fired
in the Lard Refinery of Swifts, one
of them, Negro, had worked there
IL years. 1t was time for his vaca-
ton and a worker who works here
II years is entitled to two weeks
vacation with pay, instead of that
they are fired so they don't have
to give them vacations. They pro-
missed this particular man that he
would be sent for soon but the fore
man made remark the other day
that he would never come back to
Swifts as he was too old.
Only about one-third of the num-
Der of workers are working here
now that were working at the first
of the year and of these so per cent
are young workers. Most of those
still working are only working part
time and while the lay-offs haven't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

by a Worker Correspondent
On July the people of Chicago
will go to the polls to accept or
reject a traction franchise.
Briefly it provides for a new mer-
ger company to comprise of the
present surface and elevated lines
with extensions of certain surface
and elevated lines. The new mer-
ger company is allowed to further
capitalize it's already over-watered
stock.
The leading role of the city in
this new traction scheme is to
construct at it's own expense a
subway and grant to the traction
monopoly perpetual franchise.
1t lamely mentions an old age PEN
sion for aged employees. The chief
sponsors of the franchise are a
group of finance capitalists led
by Samuel insult, supported by
the Chicago Tribune and a ma
jority of the other daily papers,
who receive well-paid advertise
ments from the Insull-traction
monopoly. The political takers
of Mayor ThompsOn's crowd are
ardent supporters of the insult
pet franchise, as well as our union
chief, Mahon, a true 100 per cent
American. He does not look on
the street car transportation as
being a great industry. and ac-
cordingly refuses to organize it
on an industrial basis; instead he
is trying to peddle us workers the
Mitten plan. The bankers and the
real estate grafters will also be
found on the side of the new fran
chise.
Being a traction worker, l am
compelled to warn the working
class to beware of the shallow
promises of Insull and his polit-
ical henchmen They insist the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
! low PAY FOR
CANDY WORKERS
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
In the candy factory where l
work they constructed a conveyor
that replaced two mems work. They
used to have a man putting candy
boxes on a truck and taking them
over to the elevator. Another man
was running the elevator. But now
the empty boxes are put on the con-
veyor on the third floor and brought
down to the second floor, while the
full boxes are in a similar way
conveyed to the third floor.
For the bosses it means more
profits, but for the workers-more
unemployment. We are working
8 hours per day. The girls are
getting % cents per hour. Some are
working piece work, but don't make
much. To improve conditions the
workers in this shop must organize.
The Trade Union Unity League
should help US get human condi-
tons.
- Candy Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

Constant layOffs, speed-up and cut-'
ting TO wages took place.
Now, for example, at the wire
mill which is now busy, as it always
has been, vicious speed-up is put
into effect. Not long ago speed-up
machinery was installed. At the
beginning one man had hard time
operating one machine. Now since
the layoff took place, two men must
operate three of these machines.
It's so hard to follow up that one
can't even straighten his back and
whenever the boss sees that the
machine is not running the man is
called on the carpet. And of course
the worker is next to get out. Two
workers are now producing as much
as five did last year at this time.
Workers can not put up any re-
sistance Individually. We must or
ganize ourselves into shop commit
tees Of the Met, Trades Industrial
League, which has been in existence
in the Hawthorne plant for several
months.
The Metal Trades Industrial
League is the organization that is
going to lead us in fight against
the bosses of the Western Electric
and in the whole metal industry as
well.
Hawthorne Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

been mass lay-offs they have con-
tinually layed' off workers, every
day, every week. Just today they
were taking some more names and
addresses, that means tomorrow or
the end of the week we, that are
still on the Job, will have still
more work to do for the same pay
or less.
In the power room of Swifts there
is no one working but the engineer,
and he does every thing even the
sweeping.
For the Stockyards workers in
Chicago and elsewhere there is only
one thing to do and that is to Or
genize. The only organization that
fight for the working class, that
makes no distinction between race
and craft or skill is the Food and
Packinghouse Workers Industrial
League of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party.
"A Swift Negro Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
Protest Boss
Terror June %

CHICAGO.-A protest meeting
against the Imprisonment of the
unemployed delegation in New
York and the terror against the
organizers of the workers in the
South, especially in Georgia, will
be held at the Peoples Audito-
rum, cor. Chicago Avenue and
Campbell, Sunday, June %, at
2:3O p. m. Arranged by the Rus
sian and Ukrainian branches of
the LID. Speakers in Russian,
English and Ukrainian langu-
ages. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

and then in another, so it does not
take effect all at once. This helps
the bosses to keep the workers from
acting together. But at the same
time the workers are beginning to
see light, and if the Trade Union
Unity League would start an organ
ization drive in this shop I am sure
the men would be only too glad to
come along. .,...
Worker Correspondent.
Chicago, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
Needy War Vet
Slashes Wrists;
Got No Help

Daily WORKER
A war veteran of Burnside, N.
C., cut his wrists to commit sui
eide because he could get no help
from the Veterans Bureau.
But the Veterans Bureau loses
no time in paying $500 and $500
a month salaries to the four
flushing office holders whose
job is to settle the claims of ex-
soldiers and relieve their dis
tress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
Make $1,000 Do The WORK $4,000
DONE YEAR AGO At HAWTHORNE
Workers Must Organize Into Metal Trades
Industrial League for Struggle
Daily Worker:

While the ned of last the employed
this country
and Telegraph Last they made the biggest profit
in existence But did the workers profit by this last
Success?
While the last the
the Hawthorne pantoday there about 1000 being peeded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
STATISTICAL BUREAU TO
FIRE %

WASHINGTON. - According to
latest reports % workers in the
Statistical bureau at Washington
will be fired. These workers were
gathering figures on unemployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19

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