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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

At the eX-service men unemploy-
ment office there are 1900 unemploy-
ed listed and the jobs come in so sell
dom that some Of the boys depend
on begging on the. streets for liv
ing, in some cases the charities al
low them So a week in groceries,
many an ex-soldier has existed and
supported his family on such all
winter and spring.
The ex-service men are waking up
and learn day by day that it does
not pay to fight for the boss and
they are beginning to realize that
they must fight or starve, out of
the above employment office rs
staged a demonstration and paraded
to see the mayor. They say they
they are going to demonstrate till
they get g job. The chamber of
commerce became furious at this and
notified the agent at the employ
ment office, if this will happen
again IuSy Will CIOSS CuS O1IlCe anu
put him also on the bum; but this
does not bluff the eX-soldiers, they
will join with the unemployed coun-
Gil and fight with the rest Of the
workers md change this damnable
system that causes unemployment
and the rest of the miseries that
we workers live under.
Portland also has her soup kit
chens, under the name of granma's
kitchen. The Home Of Truth and a
few more religious outfits are feed
ing about 1000 a day, one meal in
the form of stew.
A worker dropped dead here the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

100000 of whom suffer a double
burden of wage slavery and racial
oppression. 1t is what we do, not
what we say, that counts.
We must mobilize the whole work
ing class, white and Negro, against
lynching. 1t is of special import
ance in the South and must be con-
nected with the slogan of Self-De-
termination for the Negroes. The
rule of this white bourgeoisie main
tains itself only by lynching. We
must appeal to the Negro and white
workers as we'll to replace the rule
of the white bourgeoisie with the
self determination of the Negro
masses in those regions in which
they are a majority.
"There will be special report on
agricultural work." said Bedacht,
"and for that reason we will not
only touch on it." 1t, too, is con-
nected with Negro work. For lis
it is primarily problem of the ag-
ricultural wage workers"
! The Party must cease doing Negro
work by proxy, by RELOCATING it to
those comrades assigned to the Ne.
gro Department. 1t must be the
work of the whole Party. Similarly
with the work among women and
the youth. There has been resist
ance to making these tasks the gen,
eral work of all members.
The struggle against the right
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other day while eating in a restau-
rant the first meal he had had in
several days.
The I. w. w. and the rest of the
takers on the Skid Road are still
leading a slanderous attack on the
Communist Party and the Soviet
Union, these actions place them on
the side of the bosses, the A. F. of
L., the Salvation Army and the rest
of the fascists.
The way to show these takers up
is action, we must organize the
workers on the job and off the job,
we must hold more factory gates
meetings, we must build up the
Daily Worker, we must establish a
north west job news column N the
Daily" by writing in job news from
the camps and from the jobs in the
different towns, that we may work
in and when we are in Portland we
must look up the Workers Center
Hall at 312 Worcester Bldg, GO, 3rd
St., and join the Communist Party.
Portland, Ore.
F. J. JENKINS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
LABOR PARTY RULERS
OF INDIAN EMPIRE SET
UP CLASS LINES IN JAILS
Build Whole New Prison for Women Rebels;
Badly Worried by Revolt of Peasants
Send New Regiments to Kill Workers; Draft
Motor Trucks; Seize Arms in Gun Shops

The international office of the
Anti-Imperialist League, in Berlin,
has released information gathered
by its members, and much of it
struggled past the British govern
ment censors in India. Some of it is
as follows:
Glass in Indian Prisons
The government of India has
issued new order relating to the
classification of political prisoners.
The prisoners in future will be di-
vided into three classes: A, B and
C. A class will include those by rea-
son of their education, occupation
and superior mode of living are
clearly of high social status. B
class will constitute prisoners I'M
qualified for A class, but above the
ordinary Jail population, "due to
education and social status" C
class will constitute ordinary con-
victs. A class prisoners will have
separate exercise and suitable bath
ing arrangements. Their diet will
be superior to ordinary Jail diet.
They will be permitted to supple
ment it at their own expense, they
can wear their own clothes, have
own cooking utensils, and will be
allowed increased facilities for read
ing. B class prisoners will be given
the same diet as A class, but cannot
supplement it by private food. They
will have clothing, but of better
type than that Of ordinary convict.
The under-trials will receive SINH
lar treatment as that melted out to
classes A and B. The new rule con-
dennis the exploited class in India,
arrested for fighting for their eman-
cipation, to a life of torture in
prisons, while upper-class national
lists are to have an easy and COM
Portable life while undergoing their
terms in prisons.
First Women Jail in India
A presidency Jail for women, said
to be the first of its kind, was
opened at Vellore in the Madras
presidency on April Is, reports an
Associated Press of India telegram.
Similar jails for women have also
been proposed for various other cit
les all over India. This decision of
the Macdonald government is a sign
Of the increasing participation of
women in the fight against British
Imperialism and for national indie
pendence.
In the past four weeks a large
number of women were arrested.
Upon being brought to Jail the class
character was strongly emphasized
inasmuch as bourgeois women were
put into Class A while peasant
women were incarcerated in Class G
cells.
Revolt of Peasants
The "Indian Daily Mail" of April
states that the real danger of the
civil disobedience campaign started
by Gandhi is the fact that under the
guise of breaking the salt law, the
peasants are getting ready for the
non-payment of land taxes. Re-
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ers, l decided to drop this policy
and get back whatever money was
coming to me. But imagine my sur
prise when 1 saw that they offered
me only $535, thus beating me out
of $48640 hard-earned money. And
this representative, Marcus Jane
son, told me that they deduct only
80 per cent of the amount when you
decide to draw your policy. Besides
my policy was good for sickness and
accidents, and although during these
four years I was hurt and sick many
times, Mr. Jameson, to better serve
his masters, never told me of that.
This would be of interest to the
many other Greek workers of De-
troit who fell victims to this para
site and in due time give him the
right lesson.
Comrades, workers. all the high
hat, fat-bellied parasites of capital
list society, who live in luxury with
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danger is not the job only of the
Control Commission, but must be
found daily in practical work. Aux
iliary organizations must be real
united front organizations within
which the Communists are active
and give voice to the Communist
policies, winning the non-P Y
masses for these policies. Agitprop
work must develop classes and
schools particularly for new mem
bers. Literature must be distributed
not only among Party members, but
by Party members among the mass
es.
New Forces.
The question of new cadres
Though there are many good and
valuable elements which should be
promoted to leading positions, in
spite of all resolutions, these are not
advanced. This is an extremely
dangerous situation, which the CT.
has urged and emphasized that we
remedy. The CT. says "be bold" in
promoting new elements.
The decisive factor in the liquida-
tion of the crisis is the working class
and our Party. We can and do pro
pose only a revolutionary solution
In the war danger, we must cor
sciously develop the revolution. Al
depends on the revolutionary factor
and the Communist Party and is
revolutionary activities is a mos;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
WAGES Low
IN COFFEE MILL
Hire School Girls at
$1,000 Weekly
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Editor Daily WORKER
The Dannemiller Coffee Co. is
also another hot house that goes
one further. Firstly, it is a very
old fire trap building, and secondly,
it employs in their packing depart
ment continuation school girls, the
oldest girl there is 10 years old.
They pay the magnificent salary
of $1,000 to the continuation school
kids. $12 to start, 81 year raise
for the "adult'' workers.
I could go on and write pages
on many other food factories in
that neighborhood, but it will only
be repetition. They all have the
same miserable working conditions
with the low starvation wages; they
all hire and fire any time they feel
like it; they all employ young girls
and women who have to stand on
their feet the whole day-only a
half hour for lunch, and no rest
periods.
What is the cause of this stu
alton? The organ of the organized
bosses (Merchants Manufacturers
Association of Bush TerminaD, the
Bush Terminal Weekly Bulletin,
writes of the bosses good times at
outings, at 81 a ticket, the good
business in the Quaker Maid Co.,
the fact that the U. S. Bureau Of
Labor is cooperating with the
Manufacturers Association by sup
plying workers for SIP and $13 per
week,
On the other hand the workers
in the food and other industries are
totally unorganized and it is about
time we workers got wise to our
selves and organized too. Only then
can we expect to ever attain better
conditions. If we complain as indi-
viduals, we are fired and lose our
means of existence. But if we COM
plain as an organized group, with
our shop committees, then we can
fight properly. That is why we
workers have the Trade Union
Unity League, which, unlike the re-
dictionary A. F. of L. really organ
ICES the workers.
FOOD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
CHICAGO MEET
JULY 4 TO Build
BIG MOVEMENT
Census Admits 100000
Jobless in N. Y.

CONTINUED from Page UneJ
the final instructions on their ar.
rival in Chicago"
New York Conference.
The city conference of unemployed
held yesterday in T. U. U. L. head
quarters, 10 W. 18th St., had rep
resentation from many unions and
unemployed councils. 1t elected
four delegates to represent the con-
ference in the National Convention
in Chicago.
1t was announced that there was
q total of 81 delegates thus far as
sured from New York, representing
all the leading industries, and with
largest delegations from the most
important of them, food, needle,
shoe and leather, textile, etc.
The New York delegation will
start by auto and truck on June 20
from the Workers Center, 26 Union
Square.
Census Admits 100000.
Some indication of the extent of
unemployment in this city can be
gained from the report of census
enumerators, which, partial and pre-
JUDGED, and all tending to save the
Tammany administration as much
embarrassment as possible and to
back Hoover and the official gov
eminent position that unemploy-
ment is slight, still show 100000
without jobs. The figures relate
to the date of the census in April,
and do not take account of the great
increase in unemployment since
then. Of the districts mentioned,
the Twelfth Assembly District,
from 18th to 42nd St., east of Lex
ington Ave-, showed the highest per-
centage of jsbless-11 per cent.
According to Edward Corsi, census
supervisor of the district, the I'M
employment struck most heavily the
construction and clothing trades,
affecting in this order most Sc
verely: Italians, Jews and Porto
Ricans.
1t is significant that the New
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ferring to The situation in Raj
Bareilly, where the peasant move
ment is particularly strong, the edi-
tor of the Indian Daily Mall" who
is closely connected with govern
ment circles, writes: "The Workers
and Peasants Party is particularly
active in this district; the relations
that exist between the tenantry and
The landlord are particularly bad,
economic conditions have been poor
for some years, and it is no wonder
that there is an atmosphere ex-
tremely favorable to the kindling of
revolutionary fervor and to the
spread of dangerous ideas" The
organ of the textile capital in Bonn
bay continuesb "There are two or
three other places in the United
Provinces and in Bihar and Orissa
in which agrarian trouble can be
also anticipated"
Strengthening Army in India
The workers Weekly" Dom
bay) of April 26 reports that the
strength of the British army in In
dia has been augmented by the ar
rival of a new contingent of troops
from Britain which landed in Bonn
bay a few days earlier. The paper
understands that troops are being
concentrated in unreliable" dis
tricts, such as the district Of Surat
and others, where there are signs
of agrarian revolt.
Motor Trucks Drafted
The MUSLIN Outlook" (Lahore)
reports in its issue of May that
in Amritsar, Lahore, and other cit
les of north India, the police has in
formed owners of motor trucks to
keep the trucks and themselves in
readiness. The purposes for which
the trucks are required have been
disclosed neither to the owners, the
drivers, nor the public. 'In this
way" writes the Muslin Outlook,
"the government has requisitioned
the forced services of about 1000
trucks; in some cases, the protests
or inquisitiveness of the unfortunate
drivers having been answered with
kicks and police batons." 1t is be-
lieved that this requisition is con-
nected with the plan of transporting
troops from the hill stations to "the
plains" "The requisition of forced
labor from a large number of driv-
ers," comments the MUSLIN Out
look" "is in all truth most drastic
move of even questionable legality"
The authorities have set no time
limit to the period for which the
trucks will have to render forced
service.
Government acquisitions Arms
According to reports from India
the government is rapidly removing
all arms and ammunition in the pos
session of Indian dealers. An Asso-
ciated Press of India (semi-official
news agency report states that in
Karachi alone, Immediately follow
ing the arrest of Gandhi MAY 81,
about 120 pounds of gun powder
were taken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
SOUTH WORKERS
PROTEST TERROR
Alabama Law Shows
Fear of Movement

"The Negro and white workers
throughout the South are rallying to
the defense of the six organizers
who are facing the electric chair in
Atlanta for their labor activities"
declared Tom johnson, Southern
organizer, Communist Party, on his
arrival in New York City yesterday.
"The workers of Alabama,
Georgia and Tennessee are begin
ming to realize that the attempt to
electrocute the militant workers is a
move to stem all attempts on the
part of the workers to improve their
conditions. They have shown by
their action in recent weeks that
they will not allow the legal lynch
ing of the six to take place without
determined opposition on their
part.
New Suppression
Fearing the rising rehabilitation
of the workers in other parts of the
South, laws to suppress and terror
ize the workers are being brought
into play. In Birmingham, the city
commission p SIS d an ordinance
last Tuesday to more quickly jail
militant workers. While the state
criminal archy law of Alabama is
very effective to Jail working-class
organizers, the city ordinance can
send the workers to prison still more
quickly.
"The first move to tertorize the
workers took place recently when
the home of J. CYCLIC, organizer of
the Metal Trades Workers Indus
trial League was bombed. It is sus-
pected that the reactionary A. F. of
L. officials were the instigators.
"The answer of the workers to
the bosses terrorism has been the
rallying together of the Negro and
white workers. Thousands of work
ers in Birmingham and vicinity are
jobless and ara beginning to realize
that only by militant action will they
be able to achieve anything. Within
the last week 1900 workers have
been laid off by the coal and iron
companies, while hundreds more who
worked in the Pullman Company fac
tory in Bessemer City, find them
selves jobless. The same situation
can be found in all parts of the
South.
"a branch of the International
Labor Defense was organized in
Birmingham on Wednesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
SHALL We TELL
OF OUR ERRORS,
SHORTCOMINGS?
Worker Doubts Use of
Self-Criticism
Chicago, Ill.

Chicago, Ill.
Editor Daily Worker and the Gee.
of the Communist Party.
Comrades:-
In the Daily Worker of June 16,
on the back page there is an article
by Comrade Murdoch about the
N.T.W.U. 1t seems to me "a grave
mistake that such an article should
be printed in the Daily Worker, ex-
posing our great weaknesses to all
and sundry who may read the Daily
Worker.
1t is all too unfortunate that these
great mistakes exist without giving
the Lovestoneites and other enemies
of the workers a chance to publicly
expose the Bankruptcy" of the
N.TW.U. and the Communist Par
ty.
| think a much better method
would be to talk about these things
in our unit meetings and insist
upon a more correct policy in the
future from the comrades who are
lax in their duty.
In this way you will not create
so much pessimism in the non
Party workers nor give our enemies
chance to expose" from our own
official paper, the Daily Worker.
Yours for Communism,
JOHN E. KELLER.
Editorial Note:-Fundamental to
the Bolshevik growth of Commu-
mist Party enjoying the confidence
of the masses of workers, is a
searching analysis of our errors,
shortcomings, etc, for the purpose
of correcting them. Only in the
full light of the workingclass Ito
the fullest extent that we can reach
the workers) can we state our short
comings, grieveous in many respects
as Comrade Keller seems to think,
and know that the workers will fol-
low us closely in our efforts to cor
rect them.
The jubilant cries of the enemies
of the workers 81 told you so" is
soon drowned in our forward march
when we dare see our errors, point
them out to the workers, and direct
our energies to correct them.
Will some workers further tell
Comrade Keller of the important
role of self-criticism before the
masses?
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York Times, reporting this story
yesterday, said 100000 in its head
line instead of 100000.
$4,000 For 200 Jobs.
However, the terrific misery of
unemployment among citizens usu-
ally given civil service jobs is in
dicated by a statement from the
Municipal Building Saturday that
$4,000 applications for second grade
city clerkship jobs, of which 200
were advertised, had been received.
These jobs are for low paid ($100
month";, uninteresting work, for
which a competitive examination
must be taken.
NEW ORLEANS, La, June o.
Only a shadow of the harvest ar
mics of old which used to sweep
out of the mid-western cities into
Kansas in June to attack the golden
fields of wheat will be needed this
summer, announces the u. S. en-
ployment service. The Kansas de-
mand this year is for 27,500 work
ers from outside the state. The
permanent farm labor force, plus
recruits from Kansas towns, will ac-
count for the remaining 162,500.
The harvest is already under way
in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
The small force of migratory work
ers will work north from Texas
through Kansas into Nebraska and
the Dakotas by late summer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
Suggests Way
tOTY0iM TUUL
Organlz erS
Chicago, III.

Chicago, III.
Editor, Daily Worker:
The coming Party convention
must see to it that the T.U.U.L. in
general is put on a real up-to-date
shop delegate system with demo-
cratic control.
The dues should remain the same,
but the initiation should be raised
from $1.0O to $1.50 and so cents to
be given to the rank and file or
ganizer or delegate, so that he
would not have to depend wholly
upon charity.
In this way I think we could Sc
cure a thousand new organizers for
the TU.U.L. in the next few
months.
Hoping my previous article will
be published and this brief one will
at least be considered, I am
Yours for Communism,
JOHN E. KELLER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

out doing a days work, are the
enemies of the workers while we are
unemployed and starving. They live
in leisure and luxury at the expense
of our starvation and slavery. Only
when through Communist education
and organization we overthrow the
present blood dripping system, can
we establish a social order of the
workers and farmers that will do
away with these parasites.
H. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
TO WELCOME RETURNED
USSR DELEGATION

The Friends of the Soviet Union
membership meeting on Friday.
June 27, will welcome the delegation
of trade union members returning
from the Soviet Union. The dele
gates visited "Gigant"-the 100000
acre farm, the largest collective
farm ever attempted. They saw the
great Soviet industries-Traktor-
stroy - Selmashstroy - the electric
power stations. They talked with
workers in shop, mill, mine, factory
and will report on how the IL mil
lion trade union members of the in
dustrial unions of the U.S.S.R. are
the driving power behind the Five
Year Plan which will be realized in
four years or probably less.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

decisive factor. We must rally one
and all, men, women, youth, without
regard to age, color or sex, to go
forward under the banner of the
Communist International, forward
to the victory of the proletarian
revolution in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
DAILY WORKER,
DEAR COMRADES

We have felt HoOver prosperity in Portland by
employment the Skid hungry looking
there is work the job signs.
There between thirty thousand foury
unemployed the lumber
peedup and program
those who working can't enough families
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

Forward to Mass Conference
Against Unemployment, Chicago
July 4th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23

Demand the release of Eos.
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray.
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-23
I'D ROAD IN PORTL LAND FULL OF
HUNGRY men LOOKING FOR WORK
Jobless! Not Charity and Starvation But Fight
for "Work or Wages"

r.ss..' WISE i.'~.esE q
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-06
CORNER STONE TO BE LAID NEXT
SATURDAY

The committee on arrangements for
the laying OF the corner stone Of our
new Union high school report that on
next Saturday afternoon at three
o'clock appropriate ceremonies will
take place. A Mr.. Marsh, secretary OF
the Washington Teachers Association
will be the principal speaker. Other
special features have been arranged
for,
1t Is to be hoped that che weather
will behave itself properly end that a
large attendance Of patrons will be
possible.
While the laying Of the corner stone
is merely a ceremony 1t Is Dymbol Of
what the people Of vashon Island have
been willing to give their children.
The high school pupils will no doubt
be present In full, force, and IL Is only
fair that the parents should show by
their presence that they too have a
vital interest.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1930-03-06
Light Vote at School Election

The school election on Saturday
brought out only very light vote in
the districts where the office of school
director was uncontested.
In all districts the special levies
carried as well as the levies requested
for the new high school.
In the Cove district John Ober was
elected; Maury Island, Alfred johnson
was reelected; Southern Heights, Bert
Lewis; Burton, P. N. Smith was re-
elected; Center, Geo. Thompson; at
Lisabeula, j. j. Brink was reelected;
Vashon, c. G. Kimmel.
Organization Of the various boards
will take place by the end of March
Until this has been done the lineup
of the new high school board will not
be definitely known. G. E. Bragg