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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
New York.

new DIX.
Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades and Friends
Now is your chance to have some
thing in common with your boss.
l am a marine worker and have
mail box at the Seamen's Church
Institute and to my great surprise
found news coming from the Stude-
baker Corp. Of America, one of the
auto manufacturers in this country
since automobiles were made.
Used Car Market Glutted.
Their used cars have ben turned
back owing to the prosperity here
in the good old United States of
America. Now, as competition is
so great, these cars are up on sale,
all makes, for the price of $29.59
and $3.50.
1t is an old saying that a sailor
spends his money when he is full
of booze, so to beat the bootlegger
to that money they are putting
their fish-hooks out to see if there
are any fis'1 left in the sea. 1t is
known fact that at present here
on the waterfront that the sailors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

convention was:
Resolved:
1. That prohibition should be
abolished.
2. That the Soviet Union should
not be recognized.
8. That the government should
not pay unemployment insurance.
A. That companies should furnish
uniforms for employees where re-
CURED.
5. That mechanical music be boy
cotted to help the musicians.
6. That the A. F. Of L. should
have representation on the Board
of Regents of the University of
California.
Z. And a host of smoke-screen
resolutions like numbers one, four
and five that are intended to cover
up the fact that the A. F. of L. Off
Gals are not going to do a damn
thing to keep workers from starving
union or non-union.
The convention officially ignored
Tom Mooney rotting in Jail. They
called for statewide and nationwide
discrimination against our brothers.
the Filipino and Mexican workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
Boss Justice
Means No Wages
Daily Worker:


New York.
Sometimes ago worked for a
boss five days, and two days after
l went to get pay and the boss
said he could do nothing for me.
He said to me that l never worked
for him.
l went to a policeman and told
him all about it. The policeman
said to me he would not pay me.
But | saw that the cop always gets
free meals from the boss.
Then l went to court. | said |
want to sue that boss for my
wages. The judge told me, you
cannot sue your boss, you have not
got enough money to sue your boss.
1 asked the judge what should
do. The judge said look for an
other job.
l went to the labor department
and took one and a half years to
get my own money and two dollars
short. This is the way this gov
eminent protects workers.
N. NJ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
ROTTEN Grub; 0vERCR0WDING
ON ALL MORGAN LINE SHIPS
Nine-Hour Workday With Officers Trained
to Bully the Workers
New York.

New York.
Editor, Daily Worker:
Conditions on the Morgan line
ships are rotten. The stewards
department are closely confined
in small quarters over the en-
CINE and the fire room on the
Morgan liner I'm shaving on.
There is no ventilation and the
small toilet there is very in
sanitary and is right next to
the stewards department, often
overlooking making an insanita-
ry condition beyond imagination.
The desk department is the same.
Just imagine 10 sailors in a
focastle-16 by IA by II feet
high. And this Is where we have
to sleep and live all of the time
we aren't working.
Chow Terrible.
The mess room is filthy and
the chow terrible. The cook
sends you some soup with bugs
In it and declares he can't see
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

them when you take it back. The
food is the poorest money can
buy and to top it off is improper
ly prepared so much that at times
you can't even eat it as hungry
as you are.
There is great gap between
the officers and the men. They
are taught the same as a child
is taught its three RS at school
that the men are supposed to be
on a lower scale than the Off
GERS. All in all it is a tough
life a seaman has ahead of him
and he is one of the most ex-
plotted of all workers. On a good
many ships they work only eight
hours but on the Morgan line
nine hours is the days work
and few ships are so insanitary
as those on the Morgan line.
There is only one way to better
conditions and that is to get In
to a union with real miIitancy.
A MORGAN LINE SEAMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

Get Heavy Jack.
In having this contract the oper-
ators receive between $4,000 and
$4,000 per trip to help pay ex-
penses. On top of this the govern
ment is throwing in fat mail con-
tracts which is causing a large
growing deficit in the post office
department, which the American
people must pay for while the
operators and shipowners are max
ing a nice profit.
While thousands Of seamen are
on the beach, the operators are
helping to increase unemployment
and hunger among the ranks of
the seamen, by carrying smaller
crews since they have accepted
the lump sum" agreement.
Cut Down on Crews.
The American Republic Line, for
example, operated by C. H. Spra-
que, Inc, which is allowed $4,000
a trip, have already cut down on
the crew. These ships are carrying
two ABS and OS, two wipers, one
messman less. The Yankee Line
and American Hampton Roads Line
have also made a cut in the crew
and all other shipping board lines
will follow suit.
This will mean between 1900 tc
1000 less jobs on shipping boarc
ships. These operators will also cut
expenses down on wages, food
linen and ship equipment, etc
Which will bring discomforts anc
hardships to bear upon the work,
ers. 1t also will bring dangerous
working conditions through the use
of worn out gear.
There is still much work to be
done aboard these ships. Yet with
smaller crews the operators viii
expect just as much work done as
before which will mean more speed.
ing up.
Must Organize.
The only solution the seamen or
these hungry warehouses have is to
organize and support a militant
union.
That union is the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union which all sea-
men should join. To fight for high
er wages and betterment of con-
ditions, to fight against the black
ball list, unemployment, crew cut
ting and the fink halls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

, Where we are supposed to have
21-22 men in a gang we now have
II and IS and on some docks as
low as Is men in a gang. If any
man has the nerve to demand his
rights he is dropped out of the
gang. And not a stevedore boss
on the waterfront will give him
a job.
Jobless Must Pay Dues Too.
If we do not work we have TO
pay dues anyway, Just recently
lis men were kicked out of the
Locus Point local dim Crow To-
caD for non-payment of dues.
If we don't work the officials
don't care. With thousands of
dollars in the treasury (what they
tell us) we never see any of it.
They are doing nothing for the
unemployed. The work there is to
be had is not divided equally
among US. A, few favorites get all
the work and the ones that do
not cater to the gang carriers
and stevedore bosses, buying them
drinks, are left out in the cold.
The longshoremen in Baltimore
are waking up and preparing to
fight these conditions under the
leadership of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union, a real union
of the workers and not a few Of
ficials.
Hold Meeting.
At an open air meeting at
Locus Point, September IL, the
speakers from the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union were cheer
ed and the program for the con-
ference in Philadelphia Septem-
Der 20-21 approved of. And plans
made to call a mass meeting to
elect rank and file members to
the conference. In contrast with
the fake wage agreement now
going on in New York of the
1. L. A. where every delegate is
an official and not one actally
works on the docks.
Into NJ. w. |. u.
When the meeting was finished
the police tried to chase the speak
er away from the corner but the
longshoremen showed their solida-
rity by refusing to let the cops
drive the organizers away.
Fellow longshoremen, seamen and
harbor workers. The time has come
for us to unite and show a solid
front to the bosses. The time has
come when the workers must leave
the rotten fake A. F. of L. unions
and build real industrial unions,
controlled by the workers them
selves. The longshoremen's confer
ence in Philadelphia shows the
Wayi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

are the conditions the M. w. l. U.
are out to smash and change.
There is murmur of discomfort,
a murmur of revolt all along the
waterfront. Men are grumbling,
men are cursing, men are kicking.
This grumbling and this kicking is
about to manifest itself in an or
ganized struggle. An organized,
definite strike against the rotten
conditions, the graft, the syndi-
Gates, the takers and all that goes
with it. A strike under the leader
ship Of the M. w. l. u, a fight
to the end, a fight from which the
longshoremen and seamen of Phila-
delphia, Negro and white, shall
emerge triumphantly. This is a
fight that shall once and for all
sweep the waterfront clean and
establish the Philadelphia branch
of the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. JACK SODERBERG.
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walls, statues, churches, etc. This
work is done best, of course, in
the early morning hours, for rea-
sons of "health."
All strength to our Hamburg
comrades! They deserve d hand,
too, for the swell reception. They
gave our R. l. L. U. delegates, in
Guiding Thomas Ray and Mack
Toussaint, a real reception.
VOTE COMMUNIST!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
Shipowners Get
Boss Govt Sub
siidy and Help
But Seamen Get Wage Cuts, Speed-up on High
Seas and Bad Conditions Generally
Marine Workers Must Vote Communist to Fight
the Government Of the ShipoWners
(Bg q Worker Correspondent

MEDFORD Mass-The u S. Government is now playing
the role of Santa Claus to the operating managers show
of all u S. Shipping Board vessels by handing out large
of American taxpayers money to these shp-owner
This contract is known the operating agreement of $780,
Before the end of the year all shipping board vessels will be
under this dump sum- agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
POLLY BAKERS
new AGREEMENT
MEANS SLAVERY
Longshorenen Turn
to M.W.I.U.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily WORKER
The future of the Philadelphia
longshoremen looks very bad, due
to Polly Baker and his gang throw
ing US into another year of rotten
conditions and miserable wages by
signing the same old agreement
with the bosses. The longshoremen
are growing all over the water
front for we fully realize what an
other such agreement means for US.
Conditions Worseu.
During the last four years, under
the 1. l.. A, the conditions have
steadily grown worse and worse,
until today the longshoremen are at
the point of desperation.
Some of the longshoremen who
have worked on this waterfront for
thirty years have been out of work
for six and eight months, while the
men on the job are forced to do two
mems work. Many of them were
laid off because they could not
stand the intense speed-up caused
by the larger drafts and decreasing
size of the gangs, which has also
been the direct cause of many acct
dents. We have to pull so hard
with our hooks on the heavy loads
that our fingers become cramped in
one position so we can hardly let
go of the hook. And if we stop
long enough to work some circula-
ton in our fingers we get a growl
from the boss.
Legs Get Knotted.
Many of the men when they go
home at night have to walk the
floor most of the night to get the
knots out of their legs before they
can go to sleep. And they say
this is not slavery.
Agreement Enslayes.
This agreement that Polly Baker
has signed means only one thing
for US longshoremen. 1t means
that we will continue for another
year to have short gangs, large
drafts, graft and unemployment. 1t
means speed-up, misery and starva-
ton for us and our families.
There is but one bright star shin
ing for US longshoren1en and that is
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, which we longshoremen have
great confidence in. We are not
going to be fooled any longer by
Polly Baker and his drunken dele
gates, nor by the l. W. W., which
has just appeared on the water
front after being away for five
years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
LONCSHOREMEN WILL
FIGHT BOSSES, lila, IWW
FOR DECENT CONDITIONS
LOngshOremen In Baltimore, Philadelphia and
Other Ports Organizing Into M. w. I. U.
LILA. Company Union Gang Wants to Sell Out
Men for the Graft They Get -.
Baltimore, Md.
Editor, Daily Worker %

The longshoremens conditions in the port of Baltimore
have gone from bad to Instead of the officials of the
lila trying to enforce the rotten agreement given by the
shpowners they openly working for the BOSSES They
draw big salaries live fine homes and besides the big salaries
we pay them the graft they get by cutting down the gangs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

When the america" was slated
to leave at P. NJ. yesterday, there
were at least hundred of US hang
ing around in the hope that some
seamsn would get drunk on
shore and one of us would be taken
on.
Strike for Conditions.
The situation for longshoremen
here is also bad, there being about
ten thousand jobless, or working
one or two days week. The long
shoremen went on strike last week
(under the leadership of the Ger
man T.U.U.L.), and the strike is
spreading. They demand:
illumination of street hiring.
2-Restoration of strict number
system, whereby each worker gets
his term, with no playing favor
ties"
3-No discrimination against T.
U. U. L. and Party members.
The strike is spreading, and to-
morrow the seamen are to have
a meeting to decide on a solidarity
strike with their brother workers.
If the Hamburg seamen go out,
it will be up to us to show our
solidarity by sending funds and
expressions of solidarity.
With revolutionary greetings,
M. ALEXANDER.
P.S.-The International Seamen's
Club is very active one. They
have a bar and a big reading room
downstairs, with papers and ma
gaines from all countries. Up
stairs there are two meeting halls,
where the longshoremen party unit
(of seamen) holds meetings, etc.
There is also an evening each week
for rifle practice. One evening is
devoted to political discussions, gen.
orally led by a comrade from
Party headquarters. One evening is
devoted to school work on Com
munist subjects.
Defense Corps.
The seamen here have also
formed a defense corps whose bust
ness it is to accompany ship and
dock delegates in their propaganda
work along the waterfront. Right
now they are also very. busy get
ting election propaganda pasted
and painted up on all possible
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

FdgueSoabed after the manbing peedup got
then these longShoremen sleep during
their hour.
Up 1ong8horemen organising into the
Workers
September 2O They're mapped out fight
IiUing Uorbng l. A. W both
union outfits today the
the But the ngshoremen going Kick
them
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PHILADELPHIA PIER )
LONGSHOREMAN.

P. .S.-We have a good dock COM
mittee working here and any time
the Marine Workers Industrial
Union says so we will bring out the
whole dock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
Hamburg L0mgshoremen Go
On Strike; Seamem JobIesS
International Seamen's Club at Hamburg Very
Busy Seamen Have Defense Corps at All
Meets Along Waterfront Doing Fine Work
Hamburg, Germany.
Dear Comrades:

Comrade:
Have been the beach in Hamburg couple of weeks but
with 5000 idle
hanging for months
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27

Organize and strike against
wage-cuts!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-27
CREW ON BRITISH SHIP Refused
WASHING WATER; CHOW ROTTEN
Captain Refused to Pay Off Crew When Mer
Could Not Stand Conditions

pump was locked a few days out
of Baltimore and until the ship
arrived in the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi River.
The ship left Venezuela, also
Cuba without the captain buying
water. In Venezuela the captain
excused himself by the water be-
ing bad. But the water in Cuba
is as good as any, or better. The
ship arrived in New Orleans and
the crew wanted to be paid off.
Thecaptain refused opay the
crew off. They went to the Brit
ish Consul, but got no satisfac-
ton. The crew did not know
where to go to look for SYM
pathy. H. B. B.
Strike against wage-cuts; de-
mand social insurance!
Vote Communist!
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Vote Communist!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-05
OTHERS MAY SEE LIGHT.

Ex-Senator Joseph s. Frelinghuysen, Republican, who is seeking renomination for the United States Senate from New Jersey in recent statement an- nounced his recantation a Dry disciple and his conversion to the Wet cause It had been generally expected he would make his campaign a Dry since he noted for his Prohibition advocacy during his former tenure in the Senate Frankly, however, he has repudated that position and de- clared his intention of making his race on a wet platform.
 In announcing his change of viewpoint, MT. Frelinghuysen calls attention to the fact that a member of the Senate he voted in 1917 for the Eighteenth Amendment and two years later cast his vote for the Volstead Act. Ten years of ex perience and study have modified my views he declares The saloon has been eradicated from national life but greater evil has appeared in its place. T have therefore concluded that the policy of Prohibition must be modified" If elected, he declared, T will support all reasonable measures for enforcement" as long as the Dry Law remains in force but he will endeavor to aid repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, or substitute for Prohibi- ton some form of Government control of alcoholic beverages
 Whether not it is MT. Frelinghuysen's per- sonal experience and study of Prohibition and its effects, or his study of the Wet sentiment of New Jersey revealed in the Literary Digest and other current polls that led to his change of conviction is of no moment. What is of significance is that conditions such that his conversion the only local result. It need not be for astonishment if there are many other such switches between now and next November. More and more it is becoming evident that the sentiment of a great section of the people is for change from the present system of Prohibition and toward some kind of recognition of the right of Americans to the use of alcoholic liquor beverage if they desire to do so
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-05
CANADIAN INTERESTS LOOKING
 TOWARD TAKU.

A Victoria press despatch recently appearing in the Prince Rupert Daily Empire predicts "an i'm portant mineral rush. will take place up Taku River early this month. It told of many prospectors at Prince Rupert and Stewart and other Canadian towns awaiting the opening of the season of navi- gation on the river.
 To be on the conservative side, the Provincial Department of Mines has issued general warning to stampeders calling attention to the fact that oper ating companies in the district able to absorb only limited number of workers, and that those going into the district will need to be self f-sus- taining.
 Of some importance is the Departments an- nouncement that the Nippising Mining Company of Cobalt, Ont, will put exploration party into the Taku field this season and that American capital is showing an interest there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-05
The Oregon Centennial.
(NeW York World.)


 Heralded by a series of exercises in public schools and elsewhere, the mue-drawn prairie schooners which to the route the first emigrant party to use the Oregon Trail have begun their long trek. The plan is that in route and timing they are to keep accurately as possible just 100 years behind the pioneer adventurers So until the snows of Dec 29 have covered the noun tain passes there will be constant succession of greetings in town after town which have grown up along the way.
 Before 1880 wagon caravans had dared hunger thirst and hostile Indians far as Santa Fe but 1t was not until April 10 of that year that ten wagon train headed by Jedediah Smith, Dave Jack son of Jackson Hole" fame and w L. Subette of St. Louis set out on the longer journey upon which they were to be followed by numerous parties of actual settlers in the Oregon lands for whose DOS session we were then in dispute with Great Britain dispute which such settlers were to have voc mans share in deciding
 The Subette party used the Santa Fe trail well into what is now Kansas, then turned upon Q more northerly course to the South Pass in Wyoming and so persevered through to the garden lands or the Pacific slope. Of what hardships might be met by the way there have been descriptions in many books of the trail in a somewhat later period the movie directors art has given somewhat fanciful but not wholly unfaithful picture in "The Covered Wagon" It is well for the present generation to be reminded, in the centennial celebration of the part played by the trail in history, of the valor and devotion and stark strength of the men who first used it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-05
FOREST SIGNS MUTILATED BY
 THOUGHTLESS PUBLIC.

Because so many persons see the road and trail and boundary signs the National Forests as handy targets for display of markmanship, suitable places for carving their initials as objects for United States Department of Agriculture, is put to added expense in maintaining its signs and mark the National Forests for the benefit of the public
 A sign survey just completed the National Forests of the Eastern District showed high as 89 per cent. of the signs mutilated forest two years after they had been erected. For l3 Ma tona Forests in the district the percentage of signs found mutilated at the end of the second year averaged 26 per cent for road signs, IT per cent. for trail signs, 50 per cent for gibbet boundary signs, and Is per cent. for other signs.
 At the end of the first year l6 per cent. of the road signs were mutilated, per cent of the trail signs, AT per cent. of the gibbet boundary signs, and IA per cent. of the other signs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-05
Support Home Industries.
(Prlnce Rupert News.)


 The Daily News has been accused of support ing the monied interests because it believes in the policy of supporting home industries as against for eign Of supporting home merchants as against mall order houses, of keeping the wheels of indus try running instead of sending those we now have to the boneyard along with the hundreds that have gone before The north is too full of the skeletons of unWlse investments unsupported industries
 Let us try to forget this petty policy of pulling down and try to build up. There are over dozen meal and oil plants using the herring in Alaska yet we are told this north B. c. coast will not SUD- port one. Possibly a dozen is too many but shall we let the Alaskans have everything and not SUD- port one on this Canadian coast? We have very definite information that the herring run this year was very large one and that the taking of 5000 tons from it could hardly be noticed
 Usually our sympathies are with the fishermen but like other people they get off wrong sometimes They are a spelndd lot of people and we admire them very much but we think they are wrong in this and we have the courage of our opinion IT IS as reasonable to say must not make meal from herring as to say we must not make puln from timber, just because timber is used more rapidly there than in any other kind of mill