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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
PENN WO0DME:N
Slave DAyBREAK
TILL. DAYBREAK
Freeze in Camps; Low
Wages
by q Worker Corresp2>dept)

(By O Worker Corres23SdeRt)
CHERRY GROVE, Warren Coun-
ty, Pa.-You didn't hear anything
yet from this part of the country
so am writing.
The conditions here in the shops
is going from bad to worse. Every
day there is more unemployment.
I'm working in the. woods, chem
ical work. We are getting 1920 for
cord of wood. A cord of wood is
eight feet long, four feet high and
four feet long. But we got to cut
four feet, four inches long and we
got to pile four feet, four inches
high and it's got to be over eight
feet long if we want to get paid for
a cord.
One man could cut one to one
and-one-half cords a day; it takes
very hard work to cut two cords
a day, working from daybreak to
late in the evening.
When we work by the day we get
$2.75 day and board, but we sure
slave for that.
We got to be at work at a. M,
and waiting for the 'daybreak on
the snow when it comes to Is or
20 below zero, instead of waiting
in the camp for daybreak. We got
to work until dark at evening.
When we are in the camps the
wind blows the snow on the beds,
and for this we got to pay 81 a
month for rent to the company,
which means $14 to SIC month
for this rotten camp. that we got
to freeze in,
I'm reading the Daily Worker
and when I'm through with it give
it to my friends to read it.
Brothers, fellow workers, call the
Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League to. help you.
Join the Communist Party. They
will lead us to freedom
CHEMICAL WOOD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
.bUDD wheel IS
DOWN TO 3 DAYS
Prices Slashed; Only
Half Days Work
(By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-The worl ers
of the Budd Auto Wheel Co. here
are facing very bad times. Condi~
tions are gettirg terrible.
| work in Department 1. Just a
year ago we were getting $3.50 for
piece of work. Three months ago
they cut prices on enc piece from
$3.50 to S1.75, but this Monday cut
down or production Ia pieces day.
We work 4 hours day and 8 days
a week now If we even dare speak
about this the bosses want to throw
us ont.
I think it is best for the working
people to Join the Communist Par
ty. That is the only Party for the
working class and that is the only
Party that can fight the bloody
bosses. Also, Join the Auto Work
crs Union.
The employed and unemployed
workers must make the February
demonstrations the biggest of its
kind under the leadership of the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
J0inedCowaNqunlsts
Because They Fight
DlSCYam nation"
(Bg q Worker Correspondent

(BU WorkeT correspondent
am a Negro young worker. 1
used to be seaman, but was laid
off and could find no work at sea.
My latest job was running a hyC ra-
tic machine in the Paris Hat Works
(Halskin Hat Coy, at At West 33th
st.
They paid me the wonderful wa ges
of $18 week. Had to work from
8 a. m. to 8 p. m. All the work ers
there are young, IL Spanish girls,
three colored boys.
l want to get the colored boys in
terested in Communism, show tt EN-
how it's for equality between all
workers, no matter what race.
We must knock it into their heads
that there is no discrimination in
the Communist Party and the Young
Communist League. Now, that's
hard, because they've been fooled
so many times by white organiza-
lions. But we have to show them
we're fighting for them by doing
things for them.
[ joined because there is no race
discrimination among the Commu-
INSISTS for all the workers.
Once you can get the young Ne
gro workers to fighting, they'll fight
for the working class till they die.
L. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
Slavery ON
ship MADE him
A COMMUNIST
Jobless Negro Young
Seaman a Rebel
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
l been not working for the last
six months. Was an able seaman on
the Clyde Line for the small sum of
$55 a month. Worked on the Chero-
kee and the Oneida.
The work is sure hard. They have
two. watches-12 hours a day. Then
they keep you shaving when the
ship comes into port.
I been in the hospital for couple
months due to an injury I got when
working on the Furniss-Prince Line,
on the S. S. Eastern Prince.
/ was an A. B. on that ship for
the poor wages of S45 month, and
rotten conditions. After making one
trip 1 had to go to a hospital. Due
to lifting heavy weights I was in
iured. They had the machinery to
lift it, but made the men do it in
stead.
They wouldn't pay for hospital
expenses either. Since then l have
not been able to work.
l think l have found my way out
of being just a dumb slave by en-
tering the Young Communist Lea
que.
1t fights for the Negro. workers,
and for all the workers.-W. H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
FWIUFmt Ny
Cuts" Into the
Class STRUGGLE

by q Worker Correspondent
I am young seaman, 10 years
old. 1 just joined the Young Com
munist League, because it fights for
all young workers-Negro as well
as white.
l was a mess boy on the Clyde
Line, till l was laid off. l worked
on the Modena, Mohawk, Seminole
and Cherokee.
They paid $45 a month, slave
wages for what l had to do. Had
to get up 6 a. m. to go to work.
Then work till 10, and get an hours
rest. Come back at II, after II
work to 2 p. m. Then off till 4
p. M, and at had to draw stores
to feed.
After 4 off till 7:30 p. m. After
working hard then, they let you go
to sleep, only to wake up next morn
ing and the same old slavery again
I joined the Communists because
l really think we can better our con-
ditions by action. Action is what
we unemployed need.
think its a good movement for
everyone who works, everyone in
the League should stick together to
organize the workers and build up
the League.
I am going to try my level best
to do as much as | can for the work
ing class, Negro and white workers,
and will put all my CUTS into it.
y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

Workingmen and workingwomen
solicit in town councils to close this
or that church and say that it is
better to turn churches either into
nurseries for children or schools.
Everywhere workers adopted re-
solutions about taking down all the
church bells to deliver them 10
works for the more rapid develop
ment of our industry. For this
reason our clergymen rage very
much, for they see that their income
goes away and the christian flock
disperses.
Comrades, if you are interested
in anything, that concerns the life
in the Soviet Union, write us, and
we will answer you. Write also
about your life and work.
Our address is as follows: U.S.S.
R., Jaroslavl, the factory "Krasny
Perekop," the club of Stains name,
the third story, the room of worker
correspondents.
"A Worker Correspondent,
BRITVIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
NEW ORLEANS
SUGAR LAY-OFFS
Speed Machine Throws
Many on Streets
(By q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
NEW ORLEANS, LA new
system of conveyors has been in
stallol in the New Orleans branch
of the American Sugar Refining,
largest in the world Eight hund-
red workers are now employed
there, 200 having been thrown out
Of work since the conveyers have
been installed.
The wages for tie highest skilled
mechanics is only 90 cents PEI hour,
while the average ate is 80 cents to
40 cents. However owing to ma
chimes that have been installed in
every department, even this meager
wage scale is not paid full time,
the average wage being only $500
per day.
The workers here are welcoming
the militant T.U.U.L. program and
the hlord-Sucllng refinery owners
will soon have a struggle on their
hands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
WANTS TO LEARN
FIGHT FOR
ALL WORKERS
Clyde Line Throws Its
Seannen on Streets
by d Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
I am a seaman of the Clyde Line.
l have no job, and I got no home.
l joined the Young Communist
League after hearing their speaker
and reading their leaflets on the
Clyde Line pier on the North River.
I'm a Negro, 10 years old.
| was an able seaman on the
Clyde liner Mohawk. I was getting
only $45 month. Worked IL hours
a day.
Worked on the Merchant Line, on
the Fairfax, before that. That goes
from Philadelphia to Jacksonville,
Fla. They paid only $35 for an or
binary seaman, $40 for an able sea-
man.
was not working, and started
to think. When I heard the Com
munist speaker, and read their leaf
lets, l joined the Young Communist
League, because I want to learn
and understand how to fight to
make our conditions better, to make
us workers RULE. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
"C0INC TO SPREAD
co MN u NI;SM TO
ALL the DOCKS
Will Bring It to the
Negroes in South
(By q Worker Correspondent

fBy Worker Correspondent
am Negro seaman. just
Joined the Young Communist League
after reading a Communist leaflet
I'picked up on the Clyde Line pier,
North River. / want to tell why l
Joined the Communists and what l
am going to do for the cause l now
believe in.
A half-hour before the Clyde liner
Seminole sailed | was laid off with
IA others. | was a pantryman on
that boat. 1t was a hell hole to
work on.
They had no system whatever
that is they did not care what hap
pened to the seamen. Whenever
the passenger list was less than $50
"a lot of us were laid off.
We never would know until a
short time before the ship sailed
if we'd have a job or not.
We We're paid every other trip.
The way they treated US when we
tried to get our pay--that was like
dogs are treated.
You'd have to wait around to get
a voucher.
Then you'd have to wait and wait
to get the captain to sign it.
Suppose you couldn't find the
captain. Well, the ship would most
likely go away-and you'd have to
wait till the ship came to port again
to get your pay. Why, you'd starve
for weeks without penny, without
a place to stay.
Then they had system between
the head waiter and the glory-hole
steward, and all those bosses
that's what you might call them. A
boy had to gamble to keep his job,
and he'd lose every cent all the time.
Got to give them tips, too. A regu-
lar syndicate TO skin the seamen.
Those bosses were Negroes, too.
Skinning their own Negro bothers.
Well, that showed me that the Ne
gro and the white bosses are all to-
gether against the Negro and the
white workers.
In Jacksonville the immigration
officers would come on the ship and
take some poor seaman off and de-
port him to Jamaica, or elsewhere.
l tell you that was cruel.
How did I hear of the Communist
Party? I didn't have no place to
go, being unemployed. l was in
poolroom opposite the Clyde Line.
l looked down on the floor and there
l saw copy Of paper called the
"Liberator," for Negro workers, it
said. I read something about Haiti.
. l got interested, and wanted to
learn more about an organization
that welcomes Negro as well as
white workers. |, found out there
was no discrimination, / thought it
was wonderful. So l joined.
will do all / can to spread Com
munism in all the ports and docks
1 go to, especially to the NEGRO
dock workers in Charleston, Jack
sonville and the rest of the South.
H. V.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
"Charity"- Throwing
Workers Out Of
RESCUE" Mission
By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA. - While the
charity" institutions sof Philadel-
phia as in other cities are doing
their utmost to hide the extent of
unemployment, pretending to light
en- the sufferings of the jobless
through campaigns for huge relief
funds, the unemployed are thrown
out of the soup kitchens run by rhe
money raised in their behalf by the
Charity institutions.
Thursday, February It'll, Patrick
Ryan, 30-yea1-old unemployed
worker, who lives at 246 South OH
Street, was thrown out of the So
called "Rescue Workers" mission
hall where he had gone to ask for
something to eat. While the "Rescue
Workers" are themselves being ex-
posed by rival charity" rackcts as
raising funds that go to making
their leaders rich but not for relief
RYAN starving and asking for some
thing to eat was told, of you don't
get out of here in a hurry I'll kick
you out on the street,"
PHILA. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

COMMUNISTS FIGHT FOR u.s. NEGRO SEAMEN SAY JOIN PARTY

Photo at left, unemployed Neg
no seamen at Clyde Line pier on
North River. Hearing of the
militant program of the COmmun-
ist Party, and that it fights for :
race equality, scores of them are
joining the Communist Party
At right, mass meeting of Fall
River textile workers. Read let
tiers on this section from unem-
pInged Negro seamen and from
Fall River mill workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

LENIN SAID :-"The mere func-
tons of distributing newspaper
will help TO establish real contacts
1t would blow every spark of
class struggle and popular indig-
nation into general conflagration
-. Around it an army of warriors
would Systematically gather aud re-
eeive their training" All of which
means-reach the masses of work.
ers in the industries with the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

strikes, the U.T.W. takers sold
them out and ran off with the mo-
ney, as usual.
Now they have the nerve to try
to organize the workers in the
South again. OF course we know
all about the agreement between
Hoover and Green, for no. increase
in wages and no strike. But the
southern workers will not join the
u.T.W, They want a union that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
EVERY HIGHLAND PARK MILL WORKER AN ORGANIZER FOR n
Are

consider it their duty to become
an organizer of the National Tex
tile Workers Union. Every worker
must bear in mind that this union
belongs to them, and not to the
bosses, as the union that affili-
ates to the A.F.L. does.
The U.T.W. was here in 1922
and organized all of the workers
in most of the mills here and just
as they were about to win the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

Then they put us out and ar
rested three. They were put I'M
der 500 bond each for disorder
ly conduct"
The next morning at the trial
the states witnesses were so rot
ten that the judge had to acquit
the three.
-R.B.M., MILL WORK Err.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

(By Worker Correspondent
CHARLOTTE, N. C.-Every
worker in the Highland Park Mill
No. l knows that their living con-
ditions are very bad, their wages
entirely too low, and their hours
too long. The only remedy for
such conditions is through organ
ization.
In order TO organize the work
ers in this mill, every worker must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
Lay Off Zine Miners
Kill Men by Speedily

(By q Worker Correspondent
FRANKLIN, N. 1.-THE zinc
workers OF this part of New Jersey
are feeling unemployment pretty Sc
we're. The miners and the refinery
hands both. They are all morgan
lzed. Iney should organize, unoer
the Communists. But there are no
Communists here. There's room for
such fighters as them.
The speed-up is terrible, and is
killing us off one by one. The other
day, Michael 10th, who worked in
the New Jersey Zinc company shoa,
was killed when his clothing got
tangled in a machine shaft, when he
was trying to replace wheel belt.
That worker was murdered by the
zinc, bosses.
Come out here and organize US
zinc slaves, miners and men in the
plants both.
ZINC WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

Dewey Martin asked for the
floor for just two minutes and
when he arose some mill owner
or banker from the back jumped
up and said, don't let him speak,
he belongs to the N.T.W.U."
About this time some big fat
policeman jumped up and said to
the chairman, II will put them out
If you say SO"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

will fight for them to the bitter
end-and that's the National Tex
tile Workers Union.
The U.T.W. OF. the AT. of l..
had meeting here Sunday, Jan.
26. 1t was announced as an open
mass meeting, and some of the
workers that attended had been
members of it for five or ten years
but were refused the floor to
speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
COMP ARE this
With U.s.S.R,
Slavery in Fall River
Mills

by Worker Correspondent
FALL RIVER, Mass.-The condi-
tions ir the Fall River mills have
gone beyond the endurance point
of the workers,
The Davis Mill seems to he the
only one with three shifts and even
here the workers do not stop to ca.
lunch but work eight hours straight
without stopping. In the rest OF
the mills the workers go in right
sfter six in the morning and stav
until $50 p. m.
The night shift works all the rest
of the time.
The top wages are SIT week and
the average is $12 to S14 for adults,
while the young workers get less
than $40.
A girl worker in one of the de.
partmel.ts never made more than
$4.20 a week for 8 hours day and
she has to stand all the time.
The mills arc overheated and the
..ir is filled with lint and dust. Be-
sides this the light is artificial and
the workers in some departments
have to work under an awful glare
from the blue lights.
In the card and weaving roms the
eoise is so great that it is irpos-
.ible to talk. There are no safety
devises and the workers are getting
their hands injured. The foremer
and second hands use tyranny over
the workers like g. beast in the jun
gle would use. Practically every
thing is done by piece work.
The workers are organizing into
the National Textile Workers Union,
that grew out of the Textile Mill
Committees, and that will lead us
in the Eight that's coming against
speed-up and low wages and unem-
ployment.
YOUNG TEXTILE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

TALK to your fellow worker in
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him copy every
day for week. Then ask him to
become regular subscriber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
No Unemployment IN
Z. S. S. r. Mills: Letter
to CASTOR Workers

a Highland Park
this Here letter
Sovetm MILL to the southern mill workers:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

WRITE about your conditions
for the Daily Worker. Become
a Worker Correspondent.
Nogales international., 1930-04-25
A Secret OF Happiness

eff you don't care for the things you can't OBJ
tain you will be fairly happy.
On the surface it is not an inspiring message. Not
to care for the things can't obtain is to resign give
up be supine. And when we quit in lfes struggle we
pay dear price, indeed, for our meagre mete of hap
piness Most of us perhaps, would rather keep on
fighting There is joy in the fight joy at least to
know there is fight in us.
Let us reverse the formula.
"If you care enough for the things you have OBJ
tanned, you will be supremey happy"
The humble farmer, on his little farm-if he loves
that far1n-may be happy beyond compare II he low
es it WE'LL he will till it WE'LL inteigenty thorough
ly and it will yield him rich store The widowed moth
er, the little cottage, has her children and if she
loves them well they will be her life The clerk at the
desk if he loves his work. will be happy in it, Or the
motorman in his cab of Steel may find in the easy
sponse of the throbbing motors and his rolling palace
sense of responsibility for the passing multitude that
will bring him pride and joy.
To be truly happy in our lot we need not be con-
tented Indeed, happiness and contentment, while we
keep moving life's highway not to be reconcl
ed If we love the work do shall be thrilled not
alone to do it we'll, but to do it better.
Far away fields are always green to too many OF
us. Only after many frtless pgrimages is the simple
truth borne home that if the field at door is not
attractive and verdant ii is because do not water
it's shrubs and grasses. If we love our field will
tend it. And, more important, if We tend it we will
come to love it.
And this to them in whom ambitions burns Only
by the degree to which you prove yourself true to the
modest task of today you fit yourself for, in
spre others to entrust you WITH greater duties to-
morrow.
Nogales international., 1930-04-25
SAME PRESCRIPTION
HE WROTE IN 1892
~OA~o~O~o~oeDoss~oS&2

When DR.. Caldwell started to practice
medicine, back in 1875, the needs for 9
laxative were not as great as today
People lived normal lives, ate plain
wholesome food, and got plenty of fresl
3ir. But even that early there were
lrastic physics and purges for the relic.
# constipation which Dr. Caldwell die
lot believe were good for human beings
The prescription for constipation thal
e used early in his practice, and which
le put in drug stores in 1892 under th'
lamc of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
liquid vegetable remedy, intended
or women, children and elderly people
md they need just such mild. saf
,owel stimulant.
This prescription has proven its WORT
nd is now the largest selling liquid
axative. It has won the confidence OF
'eople who needed it to get relief from
leadaches, biliousness, fiatulence, indi
lestion, loss of appetite and sleep, bad
reath, dyspepsia, colds, fevers. At your
lruggist, or write "Syrup Pepsin," !"
Dept. BIB, Monticello. Illinois. for free
rial bottle.
Nogales international., 1930-04-25
Editorials &dit0tg
Baseball At Night

League baseball will be played in Des Meines, 10
wa at night, this season. beginning May G. and all
home games except those Sunday will be played
under artificial light
Flood lighting Of the ball park will be accomp-
shed by the 148 lights of each mounted on
9Ofoot steel towers These will be distributed around
the field in such way that there will be neither glare
nor shadows and it is declared that the highest flies
will be clearly illuminated for the benefit of players
and spectators
For some time night games such as football, ten
MIS- golf and others have been played under artificial
light but the Des Moines field will be the first to be
equipped for night baseball playing of regular league
games
Much interest in the innovation is being shown by
followers of the national game throughout the coun
try and distinguished gathering of league officials
and sports writers will attend the opening game.
-O-0-O-
Nogales international., 1930-04-25
When You Can't Go
inPerson = Telephone

If you have message for some one
out -of-town, telephone, It's complete
discussion at one cost and there is no
need for several messages back and
forth.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-22
Jacob and His Sentence

Jacob Berman. a former Julian Petroleum official,
was sentenced to serve from three to AZ years in
prison for forgery Of over-issued Julian oil stock.
Jacob will serve the sentence after completion Of a
seven-year term for using the mails to defraud.
Jacob had a defense. He said he journeved down
to Los Angeles. fell among thieves. was stripped of his
possessions and now he will be compelled 10 exchange
costly wearing apparel for the garb of a convict.
From ocean to ocean and from Canada to Lower
Mexico the wrecks and the wreckage Of the greatest
gambling craze In history are in evidence. And yet
se-nsgambanians are locked up for crap shooting and
1t is looked upon as criminal to bet two bits on a
horse race.
This is a gaudy old world at best and those who
strain at gnats and swallow camels constitute a Wig
orous and most v~ociferous army.