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Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

The government will study drug store methods. Perhaps some day we will have a chief soda jerker in the cabinet.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

HELP the Street Light fund by at tending the benefit dance Oct. 31.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

JOnn U. hOcKelellef fOQe OV- CT a field in an airplane for the first time recently, but would not permit the pilot to leave the ground.
 The personnel of the French navy includes 4,000 officers and 58,00O men.
 Belgium will celebrate the Tooth anniversary of its free dom from Dutch rule this year. There were about 200 differ ent Indian tribes in the United States at the time of Americas s discovery by Columbus.
 About PTS million pennies were minted in the United States last year.
 There are 21 cables now strung across the Atlantic ocean.
 The largest gold nugget ever discovered came from Austral- ia in 1872 and was worth more, than $60,000.
 The .Trans-Siberian railway stretching over 10000 miles is the longest in the world. In per capita wealth Switzer- land leads the world with an average of $3,1 for every in- habitant.
 More than 227 million per- sons in the world are adherents of the Momammedan religion.
 Berlin, Germany, claims the largest electric plant, the larg- est department store and the largest airport in the world.
 It is proposed to plant a rose bush on the grave of every French soldier who fell in the World War.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

A new contraption measures thoughts. In some cases it would have to record almost infinitesimal dimensions.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

That Chicago traditions are to be upheld is indicated by the winning of a collegiate cup for shooting by that city's un- iveraity team.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

The New York Post says Car ol "has done nothing but bring royalty into disrepute." As most royalty has done before him.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25
INTERESTING NOTES

John D. Rockefeller rode ov- CT field in an airplane for the first time recently, but would not permit the pilot to leave the ground.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25
Just for Fun

Agitation against printing crime news continues. But crime ceased to be news long ago.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

Agitation against printing crime news continues. But crime ceased to be news long ago.
 The New York Post says Car ol "has done nothing but bring royalty into disrepute." As most royalty has done before him.
 A new contraption measures thoughts. In some cases it would have to record almost infinitesimal dimensions.
 Enthusiasm for that Californ- ia girl who won a dish-wash- ing contest is reserved until we learn if she had any competit- ion.
 That Chicago traditions are to be upheld is indicated by the winning of a collegiate cup for shooting by that city's un- iversity team.
 A life insurance company figures that boy reared to the age of IS has an economic value of $2S,645. But the company isn't in the market for any of them at that price.
 A press dispatch tells of a poor fellow who "died without the aid of a doctor" but, for tunately, few have to shuffle off without such assistance.
 The first communications merger was probably a wom- ems sewing circle. The exact center of the Great | Divide has been determined to be Reno.
 Henry Ford says woman's place is in the home. But her refusal to stay there has appre- ciably increased the demand for Henry's product.
 A pessimist is one who wor- ries when there is nothing to worry about.
 Reapportionment of Congress men is not causing any great public excitement. And if each state would lose two senators it would not be anything to worry about.
 
 The government will study
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

It is proposed to plant rose bush on the grave of every French soldier who fell in the World War.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

The personnel of the French navy includes 4,000 officers and 58,0OO men.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

A life insurance company figures that a boy reared to the age of IS has an economic value of $2S,645. But the company isn't in the market for any of them at that price.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

Berlin, Germany, claims the largest electric plant, the larg- est department store and the largest airport in the world.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

Reapportionment of Congress men is not causing any great public excitement. And if each state would lose two senators it would not be anything to worry about.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

Belgium will celebrate the Tooth anniversary of its free dom from Dutch rule this year.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

More than 227 million per sons in the world are adherents of the Momammedan religion.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

A press dispatch tells of poor fellow who "died without the aid of a doctor" but, for tunately, few have to shuffle off without such assistance.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

The first communications merger was probably a wom- ems sewing circle.
Hyder weekly herald., 1930-10-25

The exact center of the Great Divide has been determined to be Reno.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

Or those seeking employment for the
first time.
On April 1, the unemployment
registered with the Moscow labor
exchange numbered 10000, half of
whom either had never worked be-
fore or were never members of the
trade unions. A large proportion
consisted of unskilled women and
juvenile workers. There was not a
single qualified metal, chemical,
leather, food or construction worker
or any printer listed. Until recently
unemployment among office workers
and bookkeepers was considered
chronic and as late as January /,
1880 there were 1900 office work.
ers listed with the Moscow labor ex-
change. At the present time there
are no unemployed bookkeepers, &C.
countants, or stenographers regis
tered in MOSCOW.
A recent investigation of the I'M
employment situation revealed that
about 43 per cent Of all unemployed
are supported by other members
of their families who receive COM
paratively Ugh incomes. This ex-
plains why many unemployed are
rather particular about the nlnd of
work offered them. At the Moscow
labor exchange, for instance, a no.
tice was posted for a number of
months offering employment to men
and women as watchmen in ware.
houses, with a monthly wage of IS
rubles and working clothes fur
nished, but very few answered this
call. Some groups Of unemployed
refused to be sent out for garden.
ing or construction work or to the
Central Labor Institute where un.
skilled laborers are taught trades.
Meanwhile the demand for labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

the outcome of this election showed
that the working class of Germany
could be caught off guard by this
onslaught to establish a DICTATOR
ship of the capitalists in Germany.
Working Class AGAINST Bourgeois
Fascists.
But the working class of Ger
many was on its watch. This was
shown fully on the First of Aug
ust, which in linking it up with
the anti-war demonstration was the
general opening day of the cleo
ton campaign. The masses turned
out stronger than ever and swept
the bourgeoisie clear off their feet.
Not only individual workers. mem
bers of the party, are marching
in such demonstrations, but the
workers Of every shop, mill, fac
tory and mine are represented
there in a body and marching be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
By FRANZ LERCHE.

The Communist Party of Ger
many, in the recent election cam
paign, has just demonstrated in a
striking manner that it is a mass
party with following of more
than four and a half millions
among the workers, poor farmers
and nations poor. Berlin is now
Red Berlin, for the industrial pro-
letariat of this metropolis gave
the Communist Party three-quar-
tiers of million votes, putting it
in the lead Of all other parties in
Berlin.
There has never been an election
in Germany where the campaign
has been carried on with so much
enthusiasm by the workers, for
this time the German working
class realized clearly that the cleo
ton was a fight of life and death
for the existence not only of the
Communist Party of Germany, but
for the working class Of Germany
in general.
The dissolving of the Reichstag
by Hindenburg, and the threaten
ing open dictatorship with the help
of Paragraph AZ, the Hunger
Paragraph" made it clear to every
worker, and to the bourgeoisie as
well, what the election would be
held for. 1t was a we'll recognized
fact that the Communist Party of
Germany would he prohibited, if
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
Hnngr] Yorker Steals Crust
from Fat Pigeons in Boston

Bill Johnson, unable to find
work for over four months, with
empty pockets and an emptier
stomach, sat on bench in Bos-
ton Commons, envying the fat
pigeons the nuts and crusts of
bread being fed them by pass
ers-by.
Some country! thought Bill,
where they feed the pigeons but let
humans starve. Edging nearer. and
casting furtive, shamed look
around, he grabbed one of the
crusts in his hand and made off,
while a cop and middle-class oilers
started after him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

A Boston capitalist sheet gave
three lines to this story on an in
side page. We're willing to bet
that it received even this space not
because of the hungry worker, but
because of the over-fed pigeons
about which Boston's "ladies and
gentlemen" on Beacon Hill grow so
sentimental.
Workers like Bill are joining I'm
employed Councils of the revolu-
tionary MS, and entering the
fight for the Workers Social In
surance Bill, put forward by the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
BY MYRA PAGE

While twenty-five thousand
Ford workers tramp the streets
of Detroit looking for jobs to
keep them and their families
from starving, with more than
seven million others keeping up
the same vain search in cities
throughout the United States.
Henry Ford and his wife go on
a iaunt to Europe in search
for antique furniture.
This thin-lipped capitalist, who
is one of the three richest men
in the country and rightly
listed as one of the "fifty-nine"
who rule the government, does
not give a dam for the unem-
ployed, any more than he gives
for the slaves who drop from
exhaustion at the speed of the
belt in his factories.
None of the motor-king's mill
lions is to go to feed hungry
babies n d undernourished
children of the unemployed
that is, not if he can help it.
No sir, he needs the cash for
pleasure trips to Florida and
Europe, for trying out all sorts
of crank schemes of his to make
America more of a happy land
for the well-to-do, and for pur-
chasing such essentials of life
as High-boys and early six.
teenth century French furniture
and other foibles with which the
rich parasites indulge them
selves and keep boredom away.
Meanwhile the Morrows and
Vanderbilts amuse themselves
with yachts, and Dawes goes
cave-hunting in Spain.
ANOTHER NERO.
Ford began his pilgrimage"
in a peculiarly fitting manner.
On board ship going over, he
and his wife entertained the
entire ship by dancing maz-
urka to an audience of boot
licking hangers-on who yapped
and ah-ed. Too bad none of the
unemployed could have been
there. The sight might have
filled their empty bellies. Ford,
executing a dashing side-kick in
the dance and saying "Yes Pm
opposed to social insurance. Let
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
FORD DANCES AND CH4SES ANTIQUE BARGAINS
IN EUROPE WHILE JOBLESS WORKERS S7ARVEI

ica's thirty million workers to
take back some of the billions
wrung out of them while they
shaved on the belt, so that now
when the factory gates are
closed on them, they and their
children may have bread and
roof over their heads. "Charity"
-zah! Not charity, but ele-
ment3ry class justice! that the
toilers of this country demand
and are determined to win.
Fight for the Right to Live.
Workers, fight relentlessly for
your right to live. Put all your
combined power behind the strug-
gle for the Workers Social Insur-
ance Bill advanced by the Com
munist Party. This bill provides
that social insurance to the full
amount of wages be paid to all
workers unemployed, or unable to
work because of sickness, mater
nifty, or old age. In no case shall
amount received be less than
$25 with S. for each dependent.
Those incapacitated by accident or
occupational disease shall get an
additional compensation for their
disabilities. Ex-service men wholly
or in part incapacitated by their
time in the army or navy are en-
titled to full insurance. Part time
workers shall receive sufficient to
make up their full wage.
The bill calls for a fund of
five billion dollars to be provided
by transfer of all appropria-
lions for war purposes previously
voted by Congress, and by gra-
duated tax levy on all capital and
property accumulations in excess
of $4,000 and by a graduated in
come tax on all incomes in excess
of $4,000 a year.
This fund is to be administered
by Workers Social Insurance
Commission, which is to be elected
at a national conference of dele
gates, chosen by workers en-
ployed or unemployed, at election
meetings held in shops, factories,
mills, mines, trade unions, unem-
ployment councils, and other wor-
kers' organizations.
Workers, put your mass power
behind the demand for Workers
Social Insurance. Vote Communist
in the coming electionsl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

quite a small guerilla warfare, and
the fighting forces of both classes
are shifted about a section Of the
country where the enemy can be
met. The Red Cavalry goes ahead
sizing up the situation, sending
messengers around. Telephones are
ringing, and the class forces are
concentrating on the spot, flags
are lifted high and not seldom bull
lets are flying . =.
This shows that the situation in
Germany is most serious and the
recent election meant more than
just parliamentary election. The
Communist Party of Germany
stands prepared now for what will
come next. In tremendous letters
it was written all around the Neu-
Koelln Stadium, when the Red
Sport and Culture day was held
on August "a: Workers, fight for
a Soviet Germany" And the masses
there held up their fists and
pledged the oath, to be ready when
the party calls on them, to take
up their arms and fight for a
victorious proletarian revolution!
Follow the example of the Ger
man comrades! Mobilize for the
attack on U. S. capitalism and it's
parties-republican, democratic and
socialist" Agitate for the Com
munist campaign! On with the
Hammer and Sickle! Vote Commu-
MIST!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
Unemployment Dis
appearingin US.SR.

The second year of the Five-Year
Plan has brought about a radical
decrease in unemployment in the
Soviet Union. Between April l,
1929 and April /, 1880 the number
of unemployed declined from 1,741,-
600 to 1851, OO0-a drop of about
IS per cent. By June /, 1880 the
number had fallen to 100000 de-
cine OF nearly ore-third since the
beginning of the year.
There are at present practically
no skilled workers in the Soviet
Union without employment; in fact,
there is an acute shortage of skilled
labor. The great majority of the
unemployed registered with the labor
exchanges are persons without any
special trade or profession. who have
neXer been members of trade unions,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
Bosses Give 600 Cannery Workers Bum Checks;
Workers Must Organize

Enclosed find clipping from the
Oakland Post-Enquirer of yester-
day concerning a canning company
in Sacramento.
Rubber" Checks.
These 600 workers were paid
wi a rubber check, so to speak,
but the checks did not bounce back,
because the workers were unable to
cash them at all. Now the district
attorney and others are pretending
to investigate and the bosses are
passing the buck as to who is re-
sponsible for this outrage.
Workers in all California are
continually being confronted with
just such conditions as this and it's
time something was being done
Work Day and Night.
Today l talked with a young
worker from the American Can Co.
here in Oakland. He told me of the
tricks employed there to fool the
workers. Example: The employees
were told they would have holi-
day yesterday, the 9th, Admission"
Day in California. They got the
holiday alright, but they worked
all night the night before to get it..
Imagine working all day and all
the same night to get a holiday.
The workers were naturally too ex-
hausted to use the holiday for any
thing but much-needed sleep.
T. u. U. L. Must Get Busy.
If the T. U. U. L. could only get
busy at these slave shops and Or
ganize the workers the.' could
surely get some changes made for
the better and here's hoping they
organize soon.
Will close with greetings to the
Daily Worker and the militant
staff. R. U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

everyone but me and my wife
and my son work for a living.
Insurance would be charity"
Then turning to his wife, Now
a neat turn my dear Don't
worry, anybody, high tariff will
solve all problems" Ford, an
other Nero, fiddling while Rome
burns!
Like the simple minded hypo-
critic he is, Ford tries to hide
his unwilingness to part with
any of ''his" millions for any
purpose except to satisfy his
own personal whims, by saying
he is opposed to social insur-
ance for the unemployed as a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
''COMMUNISTS'E

jobs. Nothing helps. Bad. What
is going to happen when the
winter comes?
The comrades could not stay
too long, but the story was con-
tinued in other workers apart
ments. American-born, immi-
grants-the same story all over.
Not working, or still working.
Not a trace of the so-called pros
perity!
The conditions of some Of the
immigrant workers were abso~
lutely heart-rending, particularly
those of the Latin-American
workers. Families of three, four
five, hudled together in two tiny
"rooms", poorly lighted by gas
jets, with only one smaR win
dow coming out into the yard,
or against some dark wall. The
workers complained about the
hardship they are having paying
their rent. But the appear
ance" of the rooms, as we'll ss
the entire house, showed that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
Hoy German Workers Carried
Through Their Election CAM
baign TOR Communist Party

hind their flag. This demonstration
was militant and determined thru
out Germany, and it can be said
here, that in many instances the
police this time were not attack
ing the demonstrators for the sim
pie reason that it was better for
them not to do so. 1t was shown
again in results of the recent cleo
ton.
Throughout the Reich the slogan
was raised "Wir greifen AMI" eve
are attackingD and in this sense
the election campaign was carried
out. In all the principal cities there
exists a battalion of Red Cavalry,
consisting of comrades with motor
cycles, whose fighting capacity is
very great, for they can be rapidly
moved about. This battalion on
August First dared challenge the
very strict law, that in the most
exclusive section of Berlin, Inter
den Linden and Kurfuerstendamm
the hangout Of the upper 400, there
should not be any parading. The
Red Battalion even went into these
streets, with red flags flying, and
must have given some real sur
prises to the German ruling class
and touring American Rabbits. Dur
ing the election campaign the Red
Battalions were very active.
Demonstrations, though the most
effective form of campaigning, are
by far not the only means of pro-
paganda and agitation. New, ar
tistic methods were used all over
Germany to reach the working
class. There were speaking choruses
and the masses participating in
them, wherever there were parades
and meetings, very effective slog-
ans being spoken by the masses,
one of them running like this: The
leader questions "Workingmen,
whom are you voting for?" and
the masses answer: "For Commu-
nists, on ballot No. a."
Workers Make City "the Way
We Want It."
Then there were the agitprop
groups, the most popular and eff
fective form of campaigning. These
workers theatre groups of a uni
! que kind performed at large and
small meetings not plays" but
short sketches picturizing in a con-
else manner the life of the workers,
9atirizing the class enemies, and
putting the party program before
the workers by song and play!
Songs, flags, modernistic posters,
uniforms and streamers we're made
use of in most effective manner
The streets in working class dis
tricts were draped in red flags and
streamers ran across the streets.
AS comrade said in his speech
opening up the election campaign:
'The city must look the way we
want it to look, and wd cannot af-
ford to go into expenses for this"
Now, the party does not go into
too high expenses, yet the streets
look the way we like it. On almost
every wall one can read, painted
by unskilled workers hands in big,
red letters the words: "Vote Com
munist, Ballot No. al" Posters were
placed everywhere, and the oppon-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20

is growing rapidly, with many re-
quests for workers coming in daily
from construction jobs, mills, factor
les, and commercial enterprises. The
state and collective farms are also
large new emplo. ers of labor.
Conditions similar to those Of the
Moscow labor exchange prevail on
the Leningrad exchange. On De-
cember /, 1929, the number of I'M
emplAyed in Leningrad was 10000,
whereas on March l, 1880 it had
dropped to 24,5O0. In Leningrad
also, there are practically no unem-
ployed men, the bulk of the jobless
being unskilled women. The labor
exchange is placing from 500 to 600
women daily.
The number of unemployed juven-
lies at present registered with labor
exchanges in the U. S. S. R. is 200,-
900, but these will be absorbed by
the fall and spring enrolment into
factory schools, which calls for more
than 100000 students. In order to
draw more people into productive
labor, the Commissariat for Labor
has outlined a plan for extending
to a greater number of people the
privilege of registering with the
labor exchanges. According to this
project the following categories are
eligible to register: wives of indus
trial and office workers who have
not been employed during the past
few years; members of producers
srtels, whether they belong to pro-
ducers' cooperatives or not; individ-
ual handicraft wo ker5 in trades
which are declining; widows of in
dustrial and office workers; children
of industrial, office, and handicraft
workers, and their juveniles.
In order to meet the growing de-
mand for qualified labor the Su-
preme Economic Council issued a de-
cree recently providing for the en-
rollment in factory schools and
schools for the preparation of semi
skilled workers during September of
not less than $4,000 students. Of
this number the steel industry will
absorb 10000 workers, machine
building-9,000, te tile-S,50O, coal
- 5000, agriculture $500, etc.
Those trusts and enterprises were
to make application for the required
number of students with the local
labor exchanges not later than by
July Is.
The decree provides for the max
imum utilization of existing school
buildings, laboratories, ETC., by the
introduction of day and night classes.
Factory offices, club rooms and other
buildings are to be converted into
classes during the hours when they
are not occupied, and the engineers
and technical experts Of the factories
and mills will make =, p the teach
ing personnel. Short-term courses
for the preparation of teachers for
the newly-opened schools will be
organized Immediately, two million
rubles being allotted for scholarships
for those who take these short-term
courses.
The decree also states that the 81
million rubles (s26,0O0,0oO) appro-
priated for the construction of new
factory and mill schools and of
schools for semi-skilled workers are
to be fully expended during 1929-30,
and that the new schools are to be
completed by September /, 1880, the
! beginning of the school year.