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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
WALL ST. MIL.KSi
DAKOTA FARMERS.
What One in N. D.
Thinks Of Capitalism
(By a Farmer Correspondent

WHITE EARTH, N. D.-The
farmers Of this great wheat-pro-
ducing state are getting their share
Of the Wall Street watchdog Hoo
yer prosperity" The crop last
year was very small, owing to
drought and other things that come
in, which made the total wheat crop
to come far below the average. And
when it comes to selling the farmers
find the prices still farther below
the normal. In spite of the grain
storage law that this state passed
couple Of years ago, and the graft
ing Farmers Union, the feed crop
last year was also very small and
in fact more than half of the farm
ers had not enough feed for their
horses and other stock. But we
were led to believe that the gov
eminent would loan us money to
buy some feed and seed this spring
as the faker,
Easy For the Rich; Squeeze
Farmers.
The government at the same time
gives back to the big blood-sucking
grafters the little item of S160,000,-
000," because they have paid that
"too much" in taxes last year.
Now, is that a government for
the poor?. And, take the taxes for
the farmers; they keep on getting
bigger and bigger every year and
good many have not been able
to pay their taxes for some years,
and then we have to pay per cent
interest on our back taxes, when
we are able to pay them.
But if railroad company thinks
they get assessed too high any time
they protest to the county commits
sioners and generally get away by
paying only one-fourth, or, if they
pay the half of what they are sup
posed to pay, that is in any case
the most they pay, but we, as
farmers, got to pay, otherwise we
lose the land. No wonder that we
poor farmers want to get rid of
such a government and get a Work
ers' and Farmers Government in
it's place.
WHITE EARTH FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
j0DLESS u S 6 D
As TYRE At BY
y0UN9ST'N Steel
Steel Workers, JobIess
or Not, Unite!

by q Worker Correspondent
INDIANA HARBOR, Md.-How
long are we going to stand the hire
and fire business? Can't we see
the policy of the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube bosses? They hire all
the men they can get for the hot
mill department. Why? Simply to
keep the workers quiet. It doesn't
matter how bad the working condi-
tiens may be, you cannot kick for
there is a man ready 70 take your
place and those unfortunate work.
ers who take turn are forced to
wait four or five months before
they get job.
Protect the Unemployedw
The tin palte workers. are, engaged
by the Youngstown sheet and, Tuhs
to make tin plates, are they not?
But now they use them for sweep
ers. They force the screw boys
and catchers to sweep the floor.
Why? Other companies have labor
to sweep the floors. Why should
the Youngstown Sheet. and Tube Go
that? Simply because. there is. uu7
employment and if the workers
complain there are plenty to re-
place them.
Protect the unemployed Protect
yourself by organizing under the
Metal Workers. League, section
of the Trade Union Unity League,
the only organization who fights
for the workers interest without
discrimination. .-
The heaters of the Bethlehem
plant at Baltimore, Md, demand
that each furnace shall have a
litter; what about you? Don't you
need any?
STEEL SLAVE OF Y. S. & T..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

working only part time with less
than one-third of the force.
Solidarity with Unemployed.
The Unemployed Council held
noon day factory gate meeting and
the workers present there were very
enthusiastic. They responded to our
call to join with the unemployed
in our struggle for better conditions
by demanding work or wages"
Through their own experience in
the factory they fully realize the
necessity of organizing to oppose
the naturalization system Of the
bosses which throws an increasing
number of them into the army of
unemployed. They showed their
feeling of solidarity by inviting us
over and taking picture of the
unemployed council committee with
a group of factory workers. Every
industry in San Francisco is in the
same category We are concentrat-
ing all our efforts to turn out 100
per cent on May Day.
The unemployed councils are busy
now with street and factory meet
ings. They hold meetings. in the slave
market daily in front of employment
agencies and different street cor
ners. The unemployed workers are
being thrown into jails daily for
vagrancy and told to leave town
which only makes them more mill
tant. They are joining the council
daily. We Therefore have good pros
poets for a huge May Day demon.
stration.
UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
MAY DAY Will
BREAK ICE FOR
POSTAL TOILERS
A Fellow Slave Calls
Them to Strike
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORk.-To strike, for a
postal worker, means Imprisonment.
Therefore, the coming political
strike means sacrifice. The ice has
to be broken. The postal worker
cannot look upon himself any more
as the personal property of Mr..
Brown, postmaster general. The
rostal worker must win at least
the independence of every American
worker, the right Of laying down
his tools.
4 Turning Point.
The postal worker is the prey OF
fascism. The American Legion
takes for granted the recruiting
from the ranks Of the postal work
ers. The National Guard recruits
its membership from the postal
workers. The postal worker sub
mits to all this as means of keep
ing his Job. Keeping his job will
speed up a siX-day week and Will
be bossed by foremen and super
visors.
On May /, 1885, new venture
has to be started. The postal
worker win rise and throw aside
all his hardships, together with the
toilers of the world. We will march
into the streets.
The doctrine Of no strike preached
by the company unions and sup
ported by the American Federation
of Labor can hold no longer. The
United States government cannot
make a slave of the postal workers.
We are facing May l with brave
spirit and we are turning down ali
gloomy thoughts. In the struggle
for Soviet United States Of Amer
lea we are ready not only to go to
Jail, but to ley down cur lives.
POSTAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

in the entire plant. Each weaver
runs / looms producing 8 pieces of
work, where previously a worker
had only loom producing pieces
of work.
The workers are getting the same
money for all this extra work done.
The looms are separated at quite a
distance which keeps the weavers
jumping from one end of the alley
to the other.
A large number of women and
girls are working at various hard
jobs in this plant.
The night shift does the heavy
work, The workers on the night
shift have to put in II hours nigh
and all they make when the looms
are in the best order is $40 per
week. When piece is spoiled the
workers pay a fine whether it is
due to the rotten material or broken
loom.
Shifts are so divided that few
workers leave the factory at the
same time. When the yarn breaks
it sometimes takes s TO 12 hours to
pick. This is on the workers. time.
Unemployment is used as an axe
over those working. Collins and
Altman have 7 other factories, and
when there is strike in one Of its
Mills in the South, the workers of
Philadelphia unknowingly scab and
make their work and vice versa.
The boss keeps the addresses of the.
many workers who are fired or laid
off and calls them back to replace
the more newly fired. Employed
and unemployed must organize and
not scab on each other.
Some Of the bosses are more saw
age than the others. These are pro-
NOTED. The superintendent is now
boss. Mr.. Murphy, the day boss,
comes in shopping in the, middle
of the night.
The speed-up is terrific, so that
the workers cannot as much as stop
to take breath or say word to
each other. They must keep on the
go every, minute.
The workers of Collins and Ak
man live in shanties, company
houses, and must buy in company
stores. Every bit goes back to the
company.
Mill workers of Philly, take part
in the big May Day demonstration
Strike blow for your class,
A PLUSH WEAVER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

pigeons, and If a worker asks for
more money or kicks about condi-
tons, he is told to go to the office
and get his pay, as they want ''loy-
al" men, or employees that will sub
nit to slavery.
1.-THE record will .show that all the
of4icials..ef this company are many
times millionaires, some of then,
owning homes and estates costing
millions. Still they rob and ex-
plot the poor workers.
This company and the Haynes
Knitting Company fight TO keep out
all other companies from coming
into the city as they don't want any
competition, and as they own most
of the city and control all the police
and judges. They have things all
their own way, willing and rohbine
their employees, paying them starva-
ton wages. Nine out of every ten
are undernourished. Their living
conditions are the worst in the state.
Thousands Ct their employees live in
shacks unfit to live in. The poor
Negro workers are treated worse
than dogs or cattle.
| hope to see the day that the
workers of Winston Salem will rise
up in arms and crush the damn
capitalists of that town and all
others of the U.SA. Wake up,
Winston Salem workers, fight for
your leaders that have been arrested
and Jailed just because they tried to
help you get living wage. Don't
sit back and wait for the other fell
low to do it. Do your part. Dem
onstrate in the streets, defend your
speakers and leaders. Don't be q
slave for the bosses any longer. You
know how they have treated you all
your life. You know how they will
treat your children. Will you stand
by and see your wife and children
starve while the bosses make mil
lions. You must join the militant
unions and the Communist Party,
the only Party that goes out and
fights for you that doesn't sell out
to the bosses.
Workers, you must not lose your
chance to join the Communist Party.
Show them that you are with them.
Stand. by your leaders, don't let
them railroad them to jail. Come
out on May First, demonstrate, de-
mand the 7-hour day and 5-day
week. Demand the release of all the
leaders now in Jail. Demand I'M
employment insurance. Defend the
Soviet Union, the only government
in the world, ruled by and for the
working class. Demonstrate Nav
Day. --SOUTHERNER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
MADE SCABb!Nc
AGENTS BEAT IT
Show Solidarity with
Moundsville Strikers
(By a Worker Correspondent


AVELLA, Pa.-At the last Sub
District Committee meeting. Sub
District No. /, of the N.M.U. the
Sub District Committee reports that
two coal company agents from
Moundsville, w. Va, were looking
TO. coal miners to bring them as
scabs in the Moundsville strike zone.
The first stop of these two agents
was at Eldersville, Pa. (near West
Virginia) coal mine,. about seven
miles from Avella, Pa. The Elders
vile works but few days week.
They went to the blacksmith shop
where seven or eight miners were
waiting to sharpen their picks. They
said to the miners: eve are looking
for some good coal miners, we have
very good mines, good coal, as cents
per ton, good boarding house, plenty
moonshine, very nice looking girls
in the boarding house and all kinds
of good times you men wish"
Miners Chase Scab Seekers.
One miners asked, "where the hell
is that damn place."
"At Moundsville, W. Va.," the
agent answered. Then the miners
said, "you son Of bitch, you; you
want to bring US to break the strike
in Moundsville, eh?"
One of the miners got a pick and
ran after these two coal company
agents. The superintendent of that
mine saw the agents run and he
came to the rescue of the two
agents, bringing them into his office
and nobody ever saw them anymore
there. We have local at this mine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

shown, no effort made to make
the workers feel like part of the
working class.
On the day of the march Cor
man spoke and said the first steps
of his would be to find out why
the workers were fired and have
them put back to work, and no
one else would be fired. There
he lied again for workers have
been fired every day since. Six
workers were fired Thursday from
enc mill. Green has been here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

the workers than any place yet
where the U. T. w. and its fax
ers have been. Conditions here
arc growing worse every day and
German goes off on an Easter
trip to enjoy some of the money
he has collected.
Two weeks ago they had a dem
onstration, which, from all stand
points, looked more like a min
strel funeral than a workers. dem
onstration, or an organized body
of workers. No demands were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

time or two, probably to find out
how much money Harry Fitzger-
aid would give him to keep the
workers bIowed up on promises
and keep them from striking. The
slogan has never been raised
about the cut the workers got
some time ago.
Workers of all industries, be-
ware of the A. +. of l.. for it is
your worst enemy. am a mem
Der now, but won't be by the
time this goes to the press, which
! hope it does.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
DANvIE WORKERS GETTING BEIYFULL

(By q Worker Correspondent
DANVILLE, Va.--DanyilIe is
where workers have been led into
one of the American Federation
of Labor Unions, known as the
United Textile Workers of Amer
lea. The workers thought that il
was the right union because they
have been raised on the name Of
America, with all the prejudices
possible against all other coun-
tries and the Negro, although he
is as much American as anyone
else.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATE ON MAY DAY Is CAL
WORKERS TO STRIKE

Read the letters of the workers
on this page today, calling on the
workers in their industries to take
part in the political mass strike
on May Day, and to demonstrate
side by side with the unemployed
workers. Birmingham steel work
ers, (lefD and postal office work
ers (right), victims of intense
speedup, are called on to strike by
workers in these industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
Calls Workers
0Blynimgham
to- Strike Nav ]
(By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
Bil,-@ NGHAM, Ala. - Fellow
workers, | work in a foundry here
in Birmingham where I have lived
all my live and l get paid rs cents
an hour. Lately we have been on
short time. Now l can only get in
three or four days a week and got
wife and kids to keep. l can't
keep my family on such money. And
there are plenty more colored work
ers right here in Birmingham in
the same fix. What are we going
to do, fellow workers?
/ say we must do like the Com
munist Farty and the Metal Workers
Industrial League tell us and or.
ganize together to fight the boss
men. We can't fight alone. If we
try it the same thing happens to us
like happened to Wilkins, colored
man in Georgia, who was lynched
few weeks back. We have all get
to organize together, white and
colored, and then we can begin TO
fight for our rights, and can protect
ourselves.
On May Day we will have a big
demonstration in Capital Park here
in Bennington and every WORKER
should come. Let US all go to the
demonstration and show the boss
men that there are thousands of
workers in birmingham who are
not afraid to fight for their rights.
| will stanl by the Commun' s. Party
which fights for all workers, no
matter what happens, and | will be
in Capital Park on May Day.
A Negro Communist.
Tell the Advcrtiscr--'I Saw
Your Ad in The Daily Worker" /;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

In Danville, German of the U.
T. w. has been spreading some of
the most outrageous lies that q
man can spread. He has told the
workers here that Fred BeaI
wanted to organize for the u. r.
w. After that he had a man
from Elizabeth, Tenn, to come
here and speak, saying that this
was a different union from theirs,
and also say that Marion was
different. All the difference that
can be seen is that in Danville
they have holder schemes to rob
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26

Someone passed through here
and left Daily Worker in the
street and l found in it some
news about the Gastonia strike,
which sure opened my eyes. Some
thing about the trial of Beal and
the others.
We OF the working class must
save these fellows, for we need
such men to show us how to get
better wages and keep them.
FROM A WORKER IN
SCHOOLFIELD MILL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL IN
YORkVILLE.

An International Festival, includ-
ing the satirical revue, "Street
Free! Shooting!" will be held by
the German Proletarian Theatre,
Saturday, $50 p. NJ, at Labor Tenn
pie, 247 E. S4th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
.UNEMPL -0YMENT !.
IN CHATTANOOGA
IS LEAPING FAST
Demonstrate May j."
Calls'Worker
(By q Worker Correspondent

wy u W Offttf wv fSSISV'eNS'N'/
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - TIL e
working conditions in the South are
very deplorable, and at the present
writing worse than l have ever
known them to be.
| have lived in Atlanta, Georgia;
Macon, Georgia, and Chattanooga;
Tenn, for the past Is years, and
know the working class has no
chance to compete with the capital
list class until they are organized.
Long Hours of Slavery
The workers in Chattanooga who
work in mills and plants, such as
the Crane Enamelware Co., the Ca
Hedges Co. and the Interna-
tional Harvester Co. are forced to
work from 8 to II hours day and
in some cases 7 days week. One
man speeded up until he is COM
pelled>to do the work of two or three
men and then earning only mere
pittance for his labor. Sweating
blood for just enough wages to bare
ly exist on, with $18 a week con-
sidered excellent wages, and many
men with families to support are not
earning more than $40 to S12 a
week.
Charitable" Bosses
Living conditions are so high here
that it is almost impossible for an
ordinary wage Garner to support
himself and his family. have con-
versed with men from all vicinities
of the South hunting for work and
unable to find employment. Many
Of these workers having been e.icted
from their homes because of their
inability to pay their rent. The
bosses here in Chattanooga, Tenn,
though are very liberal and chart
table to the extent Of permitting the
honest worker to sleep on the bare
concrete floor of the City Hall.
Unemployment Grows Fast
The bosses have preached better
conditions for the workingman, but
conditions are getting worse daily
and not better. The unemployment
situation at the present writing is
the biggest problem that the work
ers of the United States have ever
faced.
l went from plant to factory for
the past eight months, seeking en-
ployment, but there amt no such
ANIMAL. The bosses say times will
soon change for the better, but l for
one know that is boloney and propa-
ganda to keep the working class
from organizing and fighting for
their rights.
White and Negro Worker Together
Workers, white and Negro, young
and old, men and women, we must
organize and fight for our rights.
We must join the T.U.U.L. and or
ganize into a militant fighting body.
The white and Negro workers fight
ing shoulder to shoulder for their
rights.
The T.U.U.L. has sent militant or
ganizing soldiers into the South to
organize the working class, and
through their guidance the white
and Negro slaves will be freed from
the capitalist chains of bondage. The
T.U.U.L. is the only real working
class organization and teaches us
that men fight and towards starve,
and for one will be damned if |
starve.
Chattanooga workers, strike May
First and, unemployed and employed,
demonstrate!
R. H., Chattanooga Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
Ex-S0Idie,r, He Is
Wise 10 Religious
Attacks on USSR
(By a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK; am world war
veteran. enlisted in the United
States army next day after the war
was declared by the United States
on Germany, April Z. 1917. was
gassed in France and spent many
years in the hospitals. ..
Ny father was a Methodist min
lister for 20 years and died a min
lister at the age of AZ, when | was
II. I am now SO. l have been very
religious as well as very patriotic
all my life.
| went to work when | was 16.
Have done many kinds of work, on
the farm, on the railroad and il!
the factory.
l became interested in the Com
munists during. the Sacco and Van
zetti case..a.,.. ...
The Religious Crusade Decided Him.
While religion and patriotism had
somewhat been weakened in me,
and while ! always admired and re-
spected the Communists, | was in
doubt as to my inclination until the
religious crusade against the Soviet
Union started. The religious cru
SADIE is now going OH in all forms
of religion throughout the world,
with the motive of melting war
against the Soviet Union, the coun-
Try that the intelligent workers of
the world call their own, from which
they draw strength and Inspiration
for their own emancipation, with
the hope Of destroying it and
thereby saving the dscaying and
dying system for the few owners
of the earth.
Workers Must Think.
The pope, with the bishops, rabbis
and the rest, at the command OF
higher authority, have started some
thing which they are surely trying
their best to finish. This is a very
serious matter confronting the
working class of the world. 1t must
be in the mind of every worker and
friend Of the Soviet Union. Defeat
of this venture of the pope means
wound for religion which will
never be healed, but be put in the
same condition with the whole of
capitalism, which will die together.
These capitalists certainly have a
bunch they're going to fall. How
can they help it? Ever since the
victory Of the workers and peasants
Of the Soviet Union they have tried
everything they could to destroy
the same, but so far they have
failed. Now they have the best
argument they ever had. The
''holy" man of Rome, the "succes-
sor" of Christ on earth, is using his
tricks, trying to save capitalism
while no one else seems to be able
to do it. What are they going to do
when all their arguments are ex-
hausted and the workers are too
wise for them? Demonstrate May
Day for defense of the Soviet
Union, feilow-workers! e. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
Winston Salem Worker Calls
Felton, Slaves Out Nav First!
by q Worker Correspondent

WNSTON-SALEM n. Cn the r. j. Reynolds factory
one OF the largest plants the city of the
yellow they work thousands Of including Negro
and white Some of them
s18 They plant ave-drng
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
Collins Plush Cuts Wages:
LQy-Of;; "Out ON May 1st.l"
by Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.At the Collins Altman Plush
Viola Sts West Philadelphia. the introduction
With these machines the
take the money
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-26
National Carbon SLAVES, Others
IN Frisco Ready for May First
by a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
article Francisco Pros
perity." Here is example of it.
National Company. company employ
acetylene
chemical Now they
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-01-15
Helpful Advice to Girls
BY ANNIE LAURIE
nEAR ANNIE LAURIE:

nEAR ANNIE LAURIE:
~ Do boys OF today appreciate
girls who r raised in strict
homes to live Christian lives7
c. w.
~ W: / am sure that more than
ever, the worthwhile young man
admires and takes TO wife a girl who
has been brought up to live a decent.
upright life. But there are many
girls who take such u~pbringing too
seriously. and seem TO be conscious
Of II all the while 70 the exclusion OF
healthy fun and pleasant good times.
Such girls wonder why young men
pass them over in favor Of some girl
Copyright, 1850. Nswrns