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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
Red Army Successes
Great Incentive to
Movement in China

SHANGHAI (IPS.).-The illegal
Communist newspaper, Shanghai
Pao," reports that the successes of
the revolutionary troops and in par
ticular the taking of Changsha has
been great incentive to the revo-
lutionary movement throughout
China. In the central and western
parts of the province of Human an
irregular army of peasants 10000
strong has been formed. Local
soviets have been set up in innum-
cradle districts. In the province of
Hupeh 10000 peasants irregulars
have occupied the town of Yansing.
A local soviet government has been
formed in the Lonan area along the
borders of the Fukien, Kwangtung
and Kiangsi provinces. The peas
ants are everywhere in ferment.
Irregular troops are springing into
being everywhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20

Oh, yes, if any unemployed pass
through here and need shoes, the
dead men in the morgue will let
you have them, if you come there
and ask for a pair. They are yours
for the asking. This place is To-
Gated just across from the city Jail.
Dead mems shoes here are like jobs,
one must die first so the other one
may get it. This is the great OPP
portunity under capitalism.
4
JEFFERSON CITY, Moths
town is kept alive only because it is
on the main line of the M. P. and
Mo. r. R., the capital of the state
and penitentiary city. The prison
here is more than hundred years
old, l am told. At present more
than 5000 prisoners occupy this
sinking hole. / was up close
enough to hear the hum Of ma
chimes turning out forced labor con-
yict goods. Just west of here at
Boonville is another Jail, and seven
miles east of here is a new one
being finished.
BAGNELL, Mo.-Three thousand
five hundred workers are now slav-
ing on mammoth power dam here
for the large sum of 35 cents an
hour. A policy is in force that if
you can stick long enough your
wages will be increased. Many are
hurt here from falling timbers. Six
were killed outright this summer.
You must pass a doctors examina-
ton to be employed. You must
weigh not less than $50 pounds. All
kinds of sickness have broken out
here this summer.
Nearby is another camp-of un-
employed workers with their fam
lilies starving. They came for hun
dreds of miles to get a job and did
not get it. They brought with them
everything they had-a Ford, the
kids, cats and dogs. Now they have
no money for gas to go back home
and no food.
Workers are being laid off now,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
Chicago JobIess Must Fight Hunger Sept. LIST!
Slave so Hours For
S16-S20 i'm N. Y.
Dress Shop
New York.

New YORK.
Dear Comrade:-
/ read in the Daily Worker how
workers are treated in factories in
different states. But now 1 would
like to describe the conditions of a
dress shop in the city of New York.
We are about 90 girls. We slave
Sc hours a week, piece-work, and
making from Sic to $40 week. We
are compelled to take 10 minutes
for lunch to make out our miser-
able wages. None of the girls are
pleased with these conditions and
are afraid to complain for fear of
losing our jobs.
The boss likes to hire only Span
ish girls, because we can't talk to-
gether and we cannot organize.
My only wish is that all workers
shall wake up and start to realize
their own conditions and support
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, which will help better
their conditions.
A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20

but more unemployed are arriving
daily in the vain hope of getting
work.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Large num-
bers of unemployed are seen on the
streets, like in Chicago. The streets
around the employment offices are
crowded with jobless, but there are
no jobs. The Western Union Tele-
graph Co. has cut the pay of the
messengers in half. They used to
pay 10 cents for the delivery of a
message, now they pay cents. The
messengers have to travel four
miles or more for the 5 cents.
Last Friday every unemployed
that could be found was locked up
overnight. Two were beaten up for
resisting the police. In the city jail
there was no food, hot water to
drink, hot, filthy air to breathe.
Crowded together like sheep. Sat
urday in court the Judge told every
unemployed: "Give me your promise
to get out of town and you IAN go.
If you come back you will get a
year." All were released except the
two who were beaten up. Eight
who were released were re-arrested
again the same day, because they
refused to leave town until they
collected some food to keep them
selves alive on the way.
That is the way capitalism solves
unemployment in Missouri.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
BOSSES ADMIT.
SOCIALISTS FAKE
But Are Boosting Them
High

Continued From Page One.)
that it is opposed to MARKHAM So
cialism, says that it "has no fear
of the -.mercerized' socialism of
Norman Thomas and Haywood
Broun." That "theirs is largely So
cialism in name only" which "can
be accepted as having a very real
value in that it furnishes an outlet
for the rapidly mounting public dis
trust of the two moribund major
parties."
With the u. S. labor department
admitting that in July alone nearly
per cent of the workers who were
still employed in June lost their
jobs, while the total wage payments
fell nearly 10 per cent, thus proving
that wage-euts were taking place
on a wide scale, the bosses see that
the workers are growing more dis
contented.
Hence this general approval of
the fake socialist" party as a
means to stop the workers from
voting Communist and rallying
around the campaign of the Com
munists and the revolutionary trade
unions of the Trade Union Unity
League for the Workers Social r.
surance Bill, which includes Unem-
ployment Insurance.
The bosses have no fear of the
socialist" party, but they dc fear
that the Communist Party w..l get
such masses behind it that the
bosses will have to pay unelnploy-
ment relief to the starving jobless,
the disabled and aged workers, as
provided IN the Workers Insurance
Bill of the Communist Party.
More than ever it is necessary to
expose the fake character of the
socialists" and to organize every
where in the shops to back up the
demand for Social Insurance as de-
manded by the Communists. And
it is a necessary part of this cam
paign to rally all workers, employed
and unemployed, to the September
first demonstration for using the
billions now being spent on war;
chips to establish Unemployment
Insurance.
Naturally, only Communist
congressman will fight for the bill
in the capitalist congress, which is
one more reason why workers
should vote Communist in Novem-
Der.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
by a Worker Correspondent.)

10y O WORKER C0rresD0ndent.)
acknowledgements attempts
are being made by the railroads to
maintain profits through this crisis
of American capitalism. Railroads
like the Illinois Central, B. & o.,
Big Four, Wabash and others, are
disregarding all safety rules when
they hurl freight trains over the
roads at the highly dangerous
speed of SO to 65 miles per hour
on many stretches of these roads.
This is a saving to the railroads
at the risk and expense of the work
ers. More speed-less man-power.
Railroad trainmen and yardmen, UNI
less they were employed for the
last ten years or more can get only
two days work a week. Five and
six-year men can get no work.
Thousands are due to be perrna-
nently unemployed.
Engineers and firemen are in
doubt about the same fix. In each
railway yard-Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City-and at division points,
base trackage is exposed for miles.
No business, no traffic. find rail-
road workers are in entire sympathy
with the unemployed. The railroads
must hire more and more special
police to put the workers off the
trains, as the railmen refuse to do
it. The specia. police find they are
up against something they never
met with before--the spirit of re-
sistance by the workers. Most Of
the workers on the roads are young
and have never been on the roads
before.
Being on the roads in every crisis
since 1907 and for five years a
railroad switchman, can say that
in all my experience / never saw
such desperate and serious COL
lection of unemployed workers as
now on the roads. Then there are
the Negro workers, mostly young.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
NOMINATE JAILED
TUUL ORGANIZER
Erickson Got AZ Years
For Imperial Valley

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 10.
The state nominating convention
of the Communist Party, met yes
terday with 63 delegates present
and adopted a platform calling for
repeal of the California criminal
syndicalism law, for abolition of
race discrimination, politically, So
cially and economically, and for the
Workers Social Insurance Bill, to
appropriate $5,O00,000,000 from the
national treasury, for unemploy-
ment and other social insurance.
Mexican, Negro, Oriental and other
colonial workers are driven hardest
on the job in California and paid
the lowest wages. Race riots
against Filipino workers have been
stimulated by employers within re-
cent months.
Nomination was made to state
offices, including those of lieutenant
governor and secretary of state.
Among those nominated was Oscar
Erickson, now confined in San
Quentin prison on SO to az years"
sentence because of his activity in
organizing Imperial Valley agricul-
tural workers.
Editors Note.-The telegram
giving news of the convention was
so garbled in transmission that it
is impossible to tell just who is
nominated for particular offices.)
Warden Bars Delegation.
A delegation of Is workers was
elected by the convention to notify
Erickson of his nomination. When
it arrived at San Quentin prison
today, Warden Holonan refused to
allow the notification to be given.
He was willing to allow the COM
mittee to make a social call" on
Erickson, if they would omit mott
fication of his nomination, but the
committee stood on its right to
formally notify Erickson and would
not compromise. They left without
seeing Erickson.
At the convention delegates from
the fruit and vegetable regions told
of the effects of the crisis there,
and the growing movement to or
ganize and strike against low
wages, bad conditions and unem-
ployment. Delegates from the
United States Steel Corporation
plant at Pittsburg, Cal, told of the
results and interest among the
workers of the August 1 demonstra-
tions.
Delegates from Los Angeles re-
ported on police terror, and Chief
of Police Steckles' declaration that
the Communist Party is outlawed.
This declaration of the police was
answered by a great response of
the workers to the Party, and by the
hung jury in the trial of the ten
charged with riot on account of the
Unemployed Demonstration, April
26
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
Bosses Speed Up Makes For Deaths and
Accidents

profits of fat-bellied contractors.
The boss hired only eight men where
many more were needed, and, with
the terrific speed-up, braces to hold
UP the sides were not Thought of
by the boss. Therefore the lives of
two men were sacrificed for speed
and profits.
KILL WORKERS.
Even after the cavern only five
men were working to remove the
mass of sand, which collapsed and
buried three men alive. Volunteers
had to be called and time was wasted
which was precious to the dying
men. j. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
Railroad Jobless in Chicago
District Grow By Leaps

Chased from place to place like
rats, easy prey for one to beat, kill
or mistreat. They are more and
more showing a spirit of resistance.
Negro and white workers are more
and more becoming conscious Of the
fact that capitalism can no longer
provide living for them.
Without jobs, they are starving
in the midst of plenty, while food
in the hands of spectators is rot
ting. As this is becoming clearer
to them they are growing a menace
to American capitalism. Vagrancy
laws that are now in force cannot
stop the movement of the unem-
plcyed, nor do they provide any food
for them. New laws that may be
made can only make the army of
unemployed more dangerous to cap
italism. Jails cannot be built fast
enough to care for the unemployed
if the vagrancy laws should be en-
forced even as they are now.
During summer part of The I'M
employed are Out of town on the
roads, seeking work in different
parts of the country and sleeping
in the open. With the coming of
winter and the cold they must re-
turn to the cities.
The farmers help to swell the
ranks of the unemployed. In In
diana, Illinois and Missouri the
damage to the crops and vegetables
is so great tat the very mainstay
of the life of the rural population
is gone. Thousands Of workers can
get no work because of the drought.
The destruction Of vegetables, the
principal food of the workers and
poor farmers, will compel them to
drift to the cities to avoid actual
starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20

Chicago, Ill.
Editor Daily WORKER
Unemployment is very severe in
Chicago. In the manufacturing dis
tricts factories are either completely
shut down or working with frac-
ton of their usual amount of men
part time. With this wholesale
lay-off of men come intense speed-up
and wage-cuts which cause injuries
and loss of life.
Today two laborers lost their
lives and another was seriously in
jured in cavern of ditch in sewer
construction works for the bloody
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
Pellagra, Disease of
Poor, On UPGRADE

DURHAM, N. C.-Because of
wage-cuts, speed-up and unemploy-
ment, resulting in undernourish-
ment and starvation, pellagra is
sharply on the upgrade among the
impoverished textile workers Of
North Carolina. Even the bourgeois
state board of health here admits
that more than 10000 workers of
North Carolina are afflicted with
this disease of capitalism.
Four hundred and fifty people
have died from it since the first of
the year and Lap new cases are
admitted by the bosses bureau.
Vote Com muniSft
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
Vote Communist!

of Windsor and Main SITS, 3 p. m.
A mass meeting is being held
under the auspices of the Trade
Union Unity League and Unem-
ployed Council of Hartford, to hear
the report of the National Unem-
ployment Convention held recently
in Chicago. This will take place at
the Ukrainian Hall, 81 Albany Ave-,
Tuesday, 8 p. m. This meeting will
also be occasion for protest against
the action of the bosses, who were
behind the fake arrest this morning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20

Likes Ccmrade
Nice arthy's Poem
New York.

New York.
Dear Comrade:
Will you please extend my hearty
congratulations to comrade Jack
Mccarthy for writing such a mag
nlficent poem, a salute to Young
Soviet China, published in the
Daily Worker, Saturday, August 8,
1880. 1 wish that comrade Nc
earthly would write some more of
his fine poems about our Soviet
Russia.
--.ss- j. G.. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
GROWING J0bLESS IN MISSOURI
SHOWS NEED TO FIGHT FOR BILL
Wages At IS Cents An Hour When There Is
Work At Bagnell Mo.

Especial Surrey By a Daily Worker Correspondent
ST. LOUIS Mo-UnemplOyment
know to avoid this The
City Everybody walks like they going The
the workers. black and white plain
bit of aggressive work Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-20
ADMITS MENACE OF BOSS
OWNED MACHINE

NEW YORK.-The president of
Brown University recently said in a
speech here that "the largest class
in one insane asylum was recently
shown to be made up of people en-
gagged in deadening, routine tasks"
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Support the Daily Worker Drive!
Get Dona tionsI Get SubsI
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Jdileu TOT Neduing Dill.
Nat Richards, organizer of the
Trade Union Unity League, in Hart
ford, Conn.,, and one of the leaders
of the recently formed Unemployed
Council, was picked up today by
state troopers, after speaking for
80 minutes to over a hundred job
less workers, who with hundreds of
others gather every morning at the
new state building in construction
on Capitol Ave. in the vain hopes of
landing jobs.
The Workers Social Insurance
Bill was read, and acclaimed by the
workers. Then Richards proceeded
to outline set of immediate de-
mands for action and called upon
the workers to elect broad COM
mittee to place these demands be-
fore the Board of City Aldermen.
1t was in the process of electing
such volunteer committee, that
the troopers arrived, grabbed Rich
ards and bundled him into a car,
having no warrant for his arrest.
Richards was detained more than an
hour at headquarters and then re-
leased. While being carried away
Richards shouted to the workers
not to forget to demonstrate on
September list for the Workers So
cial Insurance Bill-at the corner
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
Weddings
Carron-L -L.arivee

Miss Blanche Larivee and Francis Carron both Of Putnam were mar ried Monday morning by Father Bel lerose at o'clock in St. Mary's church.
 Arthur Flardie. half brother of the bride and brother-in-law of the groom, was witness.
 The brides costume was of peach color with imported full length veil and hat to match with slivery slippers and stockings to match. She carried bridal roses and lily of the valley.
 A reception was held at the groom's home for members of the family and friends The bride re- eeived many beautiful presents of silver and many useful things.
 The young couple left in the af- ternoon for New Bedford and New York. On their return they will make their home in Putnam in a newly furnished house.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
City News Notes

Mr. and Mrs. John Manner and child are in Putnam.
 Clarence Thompson of Providence was in Putnam on Thursday.
 Miss Agnes Wood Is entertaining 2 Mrs. Wells Partridge for several days.
 Miss Elaine Goodale. Southbridge, was the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Ray mond Wheaton on Tuesday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lewis T. Champlin and son Dana and Mir. and Mrs. E. B. Kent spent Sunday at Crescent beach.
 Charles C. V. B. Cushmsn has sold the May farm on the Pomfret road to Henry Stafford of South Wood stock
 Mrs. TourtclIotte, Madilene Tour. tellotte. Howard Tourtellotte, and Elizabeth Winslow spent Monday in ] Worcester.
 Wilfred Winslow. Frank Tourtei lotte. Howard Tourtellottee and Charlie Tourtellotte spent Sunday in Boston attending a ball game.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
MOTOR VEHICLES
 ARE OVER LENGTH
First Case of Kind to Be Tried in Putnam Where Arrest Oeurred

Niles Foster of Binghampton, N Y.. was arraigned at 6 special ses- sion of the city court, Wednesday afternoon. before Deputy Judge Macdonald. The case was the firest of it's kind ever to be heard in Put nam.
 Foster was charged with driving truck and trailer measuring fifty two feet seven inches in length. The maximum length allowed in this state is forty feet. While the elong- ated vehicle was passing through Putnam Sergeant George Gardner of the DanieIson barracks was also pas sing through. He noted the extra ordinary looking vehicle, stopped it and. with the assistance of Patrol man Wallen. measured 1t.
 In New York state the maximum is sixty feet. In view of this fact and the fact that it was the first trip of the truck and trailer into Connec- ticut a fine of S5 was imposed. It Is understood that a permit from the state department to operate the truck and trailer in this state had been applied for and was on the way. The outfit was loaded with furniture for delivery in Putnam and other Connecticut points.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
Obituaries
Mrs. James kearney

WITS. IAutFh nEafhCy
 Mrs. Katherine Kearney, wife of James Kearaey. died at her home in Pomfret Landing Friday afternoon about four o'clock. She had lived there most of her life and was wide ly known. Mrs. Kearney had been q sufferer from rheumatism and a semi-invalid for over twenty years.
 She was born in county Roscom- mon. Ireland. in April 1861, daugh- ter of Patrick and Bridget Noon. When she was a girl five or six years old the family came to America and located in Pomfret Landing where she attended school. She was mar ried to Mir. Kearney, who at that time lived in Philadelphia. in Pom fret. about thirty-seven years ago. Besides her husband she leaves two sons. James and Morley and daugh- ter Margaret.
 Following funeral at the home a solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated in St. Joseph's church, Dayville, Monday morning at nine o'clock. The officers of the mass were Rev. Ignatius Kost, pastor, Rev. J. A. Demers. NJ. S.. and Rev. F. x. Baldwin. M. s. The bearers were Hugh Kearney. John Lannon, Aug ustus Dick. Lawrence Mccormack, Thomas Mccormack, and Frank Noon Burial was in the family lot in Dayville.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
BOYS LEAVE Y CAMP
 GIRLS GO FRIDAY
Wcek-E End Pilgrimage to Rhode Island Arranged By Rotary
 Clubs
Scene at Black Pond Shifts To-
 morrow

Boys who have been in camp at Woodstock, the Y. N. C. A. camp on the shore of Black pond, have re- turned to their homes.
 Friday morning the girls camp will open, and there will be ninety of them there from various places in Windham. Hartford and Holland counties.
 The directress this year will be Miss Iris Brown of Carolina, R. l. Mrs. Lind O. Willimantic will be camp nurse. The councillors are Miss Mary Aaron of Talcottville, Miss Irene Generous of Plainfield. Miss Laura Norris of Hazardville, Miss Clementipe Bachelor of Talcotville, Miss Elizabeth Parmclee of Provi- dence. Miss Gladys Vansant of Ard more. Pa, Miss Corinne Wilson of Putnam. Miss Elizabeth Dunbar of Dan.elson. Miss Catherine Smith of Willimantic. Miss Eleanor Young of Putnam and Miss Yu of China.
 On to Newport
 Following Governors Day, the big day at the camp, the campers took trip to Newport. The trip was ar- ranged for last Thursday by the Rotary clubs of Putnam, Providence, Bristol and Newport. The boys came to Putnam and then went on to Providence where they visited histor- ie spots. Then on to Bristol to the Old Soldiers Home where they camp ed the first night The following morning they hiked to Newport to the camping place on the beach. They were then taken on drive to the U. s. Naval training station and Fort Adams. They left Newport about noon Saturday proceeding back to camp through Putnam.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31

Mrs Herbert Johnson was the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Var dale on Friday in Boston.
 Mr and Mrs Louis Law are spend ing two weeks at the cottage owned by Mrs. Marsh. at Black Point.
 Miss Blanche Theresa Eastman, formerly of Putnam, was married in Danielson Monday morning to Ar mand Kelly of plainield.
 The Putnam High School band joined the East Woodstock band in n concert at East Woodstock, Thurs day evening. Nelson l. Brink of Put nam directed ths consolidated bands.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
Jeremiah Hall

Funeral services for Jeremiah Hall, who died at his home in East Put nam last Thursday, were held from the home Saturday afternoon. Mir. Hall was born in Killingly Septem- Der IS, 1858 son of Jeremiah and Harriett Shippee Hall After his marriage he removed to East Put nam where he lived until his death. Besides his wife he leaves no near relatives. Burial was in the East Putnam cemetery.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
Mir. and Mrs. Eben Holden and Mir.

Mir. and Mrs. Eben Holden and Mir. and Mrs. l. II. Miron spent Sunday at Groton long Point.
 Postmaster Macdonald is having his vacation and will spend the two weeks with relatives in Nova Scotia.
 Mir. and Mrs. Arthur (. Morrison and Family. of the Patriot, is spend ing two weeks vacation in Ash hand. N. H.
 Mir. and Mrs. C. D. Sharpe. Mrs. Charity Wheaton and Miss Mary Wheaton are attending Mrs SaI- gents funeral in Worcester this after noon.
Putnam patriot., 1930-07-31
Social Stimulus Needed

The highest ideal q man might wis. ualize could only be put Into effect In personal environment. and the finest powers of his mind remain unreallzed apart from social stimulus.-Ex-