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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

which is 45c pr. hour, and the day
rate is cut down five cents an
hour now.
The workers are short in wages
most of the time but can't demand
it under fear to be fired. They
have cut the time and half for
overtime work.
The mOulders helpers have to
work for years to get the rights
of joining the A. F. of L. union of
the moulders. This is not the
union that the workers need, but
a real union that will embrace all
the workers in the given industry,
and that is under Trade Union
Unity League. Workers join the
Communist Party and the T. U.
U. L.
Horley Machine Slave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
PLENTY jObLESS;
so FORD DON'T
CARE FOR LIVES
"Slaves Must Join the
Auto Workers Union"
(By Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-I want to
write a few lines regarding the
blood-thirsty system of Ford's. Not
very long ago in Department 1876
four men were working on the press.
They were adjusting dies on the
press. Now, it is sane for any one
to know that without blocking or
jacking up the press, it is very
dangerous to try and work on the
dies.
Nevertheless the foreman of the
die filters did not give damn. He
hollered at the men: "step on it,"
and, showing q temporary pine AKA
under the open press, just as much
as to say: "Well, what the hell do
we care for one or ten men when
there are thousands of them wait
ing for a ghost of chance of get
ting a job"
Well, when the die filters started
to grind the die, the press slipped
and fell with a tremendous crash,
splitting the die and hurting the
four workers that were working on
the dies very seriously, and injur-
ing a few others who were working
nearby. I was working on a press
about 20 to 25 feet from the press
that split the die.
Now, you see, comrades that the
capitalist class don't give damn
about us workers. To them death is
cheaper than safety, and they use
all means possible to make it as
unbearable as possible, because they
know that the workers are not or
ganized. l. the workers were only
organized in the Auto Workers
Union the bosses would take more
notice of the workers and treat them
like humans.
The stretch-out system, cutting
wages, unemployment, ETC., must be
fought against by the workers sof
all color, creed, sex and nationality.
The bosses use prejudice against the
colored workers. There is only one
party that gives all the workers of
all colors an equal chance. 1t makes
no difference on sex either and that
party is the Communist Party to
which party all workers of all color,
creed, sex, nationality and of all
ages should belong.
FORD SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
MORE LAYOFFS
IN BIG PLANTS
Sft
IN SYRACUSE
Show Up Prosperity"
Bunk of Hoover
(Bn a Worker Correspondent)


SYRACUSE, N. Y.-The other
day 420 workers were laid off at
the Smith Premier Typewriter
Works, both men and women in
about equal numbers. Production
which had been averaging about
1850 typewriters per week has been
cut to 1850, drop of over 20 per
cent. The degree of speed up and
naturalization can be seen in the
fact that these APO workers repre-
sent between approximately one
third to one-half of the total manu-
al forces of the factory, whereas
the drop in production represents
only 2L3So. ---..
The. indications are that this lay
off will be followed very shortly by
greater layoffs, as the present
stocks are sufficient to take care of
orders for some time to come. AL
ready at. the L. C. Smith Typewriter
Works, part of the, Smith type
writer monopoly in this city, the
workers have been changed to a
four-day week basis with prospects
of another change to. three-day
basis. - t
Conditions IN the basic industries
show no agreement with Hoover's
talk of industrial recovery" The
Crucible Steel Co. is completely
shut down. The Lamson Co., who
last year employed 600 workers is
now operating with staff of about
60. The large gear companies in the
city, branches of. General Motors,
have shown a spasmodic and slight
increase Of night workers, who are
forced to work IS hours to fill an
immediate order and then laid off
again in a week or so, The unem-
ployed of Syracuse must join the
Unemployed Council and fight to-
gether with those working, under
the leadership of the Trade Union
Unity League.
SYRACUSE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
INCREASE" WAS
A WAGE CUT IN
FORD'S CHESTER
Spoilers and Speedup
Make It He'll
(Bu II Worker Correspondent

by II Worker Correspondent
CHESTER, Penn.-It is interest
ing for every worker to know the
real truth about our ever prosper
ing Henry. One often heard or
read in the capitalist press how
good Henry Ford treats his work.
ers. g.
Well, for all Ford workers it is
different proposition. The only thing
we know of Ford is that his fac
tories are slave-d driving plants,
where every worker is being ex-
plotted, where speed-up is so great
that to go for a drink is almost
luxury, where the service men or
spoilers are after you every single
minute, watching the workers and
rushing us like mad dogs, and, of
course, if worker, as it often hap
pens, can't keep the pace, he is fired.
Workers in the yard are working in
every kind of weather, winter, sum-
mer, rain or shine, and as the sup
ply of raincoats is short, you see
many of them working in pouring
rain without raincoat.
In the Chester plant, where about
1000 workers are employed, there
is not single shower bath in the
plant. Workers who are working
at the oil belt, axle job or paint
shop must go home in their work
ing cloth, as there are no lockers
or closets. And to make it worse,
only few days ago a rule was put
into effect that every worker shall
be out of the plant ten minutes
after quitting time.
An Increase" That Was Cut.
Our wages were increased from
S. to Sc day. But in my opinion
and that of the majority of the
workers in the plant, our wages
were not only cut but slashed to
pieces. The Chester plant is only
an assembling plant. During the SIS
a day period, the production sche-
dule was up to 500 automobiles
daily. When the wages were in
creased the production schedule was
also increased from 800 to 500, with
the same number of workers. We
workers didn't receive a college edu-
cation, but we are wise enough to
know that our wages were cut, as
we have to produce almost twice
as much for one dollars raise.
Workers are being fired daily for
not being able to keep the pace, and
the ones who are working are ex-
plotted to such an extent that after
two or three years worl; they surei
ly viii go to the junk-pile like
WORKOUT machine.
Shop Nucleus Grows.
But the workers know that a shop
nucleus was formed and its num-
Der increases day by day. Our shop
bulletin is also being welcomed by
the workers. 1t is about time that
every single worker joined the
Trade Union Unity League, the only
trade union fighting for the inter-
ests of the workers and which de-
mands the seven-hour day, five-day
week, vacation with pay and insur-
ance for the unemployed.
FORD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
Wage Cut After
Wage Cut

(By q Worker Correspondent
VAN VOORHIS, w. Va-Wage-
cuts after wage-cuts for the miners.
They are now paying in northern
West Virginia as low as 81 cents
a ton for loading coal and out of
this taking out expenses for light,
powder, doctor, house rent. There
is never anything left for the min
ers after the company store gets
through with tn. wages.
So l have to move on the farm
with my nine children as a tenant
farmer, and we all work to pay the
rent and have something to eat
next winter.
The farmers must organize into
the National Miners Union. We
held our district conference in Nor
gantown on May II.
w. VA. MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

Metal Auto Workers to Fight Side By Sde Fsheens Lot Hard

The Auto Workers Union con-
vention takes place today in De-
troit. The auto workers will be-.
come part of a fighting Metal
Workers Industrial Union. Photo
at left shows worker in metal
plant, making material to go into
auto parts.
A fisherman working between
Alaska and the state of Wash
ington tells of the dangers these
workers are forced to undergo at
rockbottom wages. The Trade
Union Unity League, thru the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
will organize the fisherman.
Right, this capsized boat tells the
tale of one of those tragedies so
common in the slavery of the fish
ermen. Seventeen fishermen
drowned in this boat off the Bri-
tish coast.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

and fathers heart won't break
when their children ask for some
thing to eat mad there is nothing
to give them.
] think it is time that all wo-
men and men wake up. ! only
hope today that l will see Amer
lea like Russia. The rich are driv-
ing rs to do like in Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
Horley Machine-Real He'll on Earth for
Workers
Workers

by q Worker Correspondent
The Horley Machine Co. is a
real hell for the workers. This
Company has moved from Wauke-
gan, Ill. to Chicago, in Sept.
In the foundry Dept. there is
Moulders Union and this is only
group organized. The moulders
are charged for all the scrap, for
which the Company is to blame at
all times, and not the workers.
This is the benefit the workers
are getting. The moulders are
speeded-up, that no older worker
could stand it.
The workers in the grinding
Dept. are working on piece work
basis, with unbearable speed-up.
The price is so low that they could
not make even the day-rate,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

ten from another who pass ii on.
But you will hci. from me soon
again.
Three cheers for our Daily
Worker and all that is wide awake
and we pray for the rest to wake
Up soon.
A Working Woman Who
Knows What It's All About.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

largest salmon cannery in the wOr
Pacific American Fisheries, a con-
Germ that operates canneries in
Alaska, about rs in number from
Ketchacan, South Eastern Alaska,
all the way up the coast around the
Aleutian Islands and way up in the
Arctic Ocean. Men go North to
work in the canneries and on the
fish traps fishing boats, cannery
tenders, pile drivers, etc, each
spring.
This is seasonable work about
or 6 months of the year, average
wages being about 500 per month,
perhaps less, as they contract lots
of Chinese labor from Portland,
Oregon and San Francisco. They
also contract cheap Mexican and
southern Negroes for the canneries
in Alaska.
+ Coon Dip, the millionaire china
man who contracts many Chinese
laborers for so much hires them for
as little as possible. The difference
is how Coon Dip became million
aire. Of course, he is the most de-
generate. The same method is used
with the Mexicans and Negroes.
When this concern was first or
gained, it was known as the North
American Fisheries, and stock was
sold to thousands of workers, some
having from $500 to perhaps $4,000
worth of stock. They were, of
course, frozen out, and it just cost
each one what they had invested at
that time, to see the word North"
changed to Pacific" or an N
changed to P (N.A.F., P.AF).
Fish % or 80 years ago were
plentiful. They were caught in the
traps by the hundreds of thousands,
more than the canneries could pos
sibly handle. Then only the choice
red salmon were canned (the Sock
eye). Hundreds of thousands of
Humpback and other pink salmon
were pitched into the water for the
sharks. Now they are canning
every kind of fish, as they are
scarce now, and getting less every
year. Only few hours each day,
or few hours every other day,
with only small part of the big
cannery operating at that any more.
And this is the way the fish that
were put here for the people have
been destroyed, to build up individ-
ual fortunes for Deming, Gould and
Co.
The question many are asking
now is, will it be possible to save
the fishing industry by making Jaws
now to stop fishing for a time and
give the fish a chance to get up
the rivers to their spawning
grounds. In the early days of fish
ing sites were taken much the same
as homesteads. A number of work
ers were forced to take up a site
ohb idCCl oSll ~ " Cut CO1Hpdfly Dc-
cause they could never have enough
money to drive and maintain trap
anyway, and they would lose their
jobs unless they did just as they
were told.
Many women are employed in the
can making factory, labelling and in
the cannery, canning fish. Much
child labor is also employed.
Written by worker who has
worked in almost every department
Of the Pacific American Fisheries,
can factory, ship yard, on traps,
boats and in the canneries here in
Bellingham.
We want to be organized under
the Trade Union Unity League.
Hope it gets here soon.
FISHERMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
An ATLANTA MIL
Worker Whites on
the Soviet Union
by a Worker Correspondent

=
ATLANTA, Cal read the Daily
Worker you gave out the other day
ohd read about the women textile
workers in the Soviet Union, where
they get three months off with pay
when they give birth to a child,
how they are always taken back to
work, given extra wages for the
child, and see how different it is in
the mills in the capitalist country
and in the Workers country.
work in the Fulton Cotton Bag
Mill of Atlanta, Ga. work 10
hours and 40 minutes a day and my
husband works at night IL hours,
although he only gets paid for IL.
With both of us working we cannot
even buy enough to get along with.
Last year, WHEN ! was going to
have child, they laid me off three
months before and wouldn't give me
work for nine months afterwards.
They gave me a vacation for one
year, free from work and free to
starve. They didn't care if
starved.
We want to see more of the Daily
Worker as this is the only paper
that tells us how to organize and
what we must do in order to better
our condition and get what the work
ers did in the Soviet Union.
v7A WOMAN WORKER.
Il ------------------ "a,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

by Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.--I am a wo-
man. But ] am union woman.
In other words they call me Red.
] believe in having our rights.
Why shouldn't we? All we ask is
for an honest living for us all,
and why can't we have it. 1t is
high time we all wake up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
you MIGHT AS WE'LL DIE FIGHTING TO DEATH AS STARVN
Working Woman Calls Whole

moving. My blood is boiling to see
it this way. Come on, let's all
get together and pull together and
then we are sure to win. It's got
to come sooner or later, and the
quicker the better. I sure enjoy
reading the Daily Worker, But l
can't afford to send for subscrip-
ton. so 1 get 1t first from one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

l have four children, husband
working in a factory for so cents
an hour. Tell me, after have
paid S35 for rent a month and
lights and gas bill, please tell me,
what are we to eat? He some
times draws $40, sometimes $50
week. We live one week and
starve the next. What mothers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

Believe me, I am ready to 60
and do my share. Death don't
scare me anymore. You might as
well die fighting to death as starv-
ing to death.
We are from the coal mines,
and we know what union work
means. l only hope, sisters and
brothers, that everything gets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
M. w. L. GROWING FAST.

The Marine Workers League, 140
South ST., reports that within the
last few days it has gained men,
bership as follows: Philadelphia, 40
new members, Houston 95, New
York IS, and New Orleans 65. Gains
have been made in all other ports,
but the figures have not arrived.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
FACE TOWARDS THE COTTON SHOPS!

sign of the times of the growing the
hesant and PARTIAL the cotton dress shops needle
exploited workers the needle
week in such shop is considered princely ~
The first indication of the is BIBERNIAN
Philadelphia and of the biggest shops of its kind the city,
BBERMAN WORKER a FOUR page mimeoed bulletin In its
initial issue it takes cudges the
of the shop into the Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union
growth great
interest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
UT.W. Completes Abeyle
Hosiery SeU-Out IN Phila.
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA PaThe A. F. of L. leaders of he Hosiery work
the Abere strike the which
time the Philadelphia well the road to hell
union.
The Full Fashioned Hosiery several
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17
Salmon Fishermen Get
Lou Wages, Hard Work
by G. Worker Correspondent

SEATTLE WashA fish how the fishing
have destroyed the Silver Hord the pale blue Sound
and stole the fish nature the people.
Fishing perhaps of the leading industries this the
in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-17

Demand the release of Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
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Correspondents
Must Join in Bic
Drive for DAILY

Our large army Of Worker
correspondents deserve much
credit for making the Daily
Worker a paper of interest to all
workers. By their correspondence
all readers of the Daily Worker
learn about working conditions in
all industries; learn about unem-
ployment, lowering of wages,
speed-up and Roadway made in
organizing the unorgsnized work.
ers.
But--more workers in the in
dustries must read what you write.
We do not only want our present
small circle of readers to read
your shop news. We want tens of
thousands of workers in all the in
dustries to read what you write.
Worker correspondents! Join
our big campaign for new read
ers, for mass circulation in all the
industries!
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Demand the release of Fos-
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for unemployment insurance.
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TO BE REVIEWED NEXT WEEK.

To BE REVIEWED NEXT WEEK.
The CIGAR ROEBLNG HOT WIRE from Trenton
n. j.
The HOOK Baltimore, The AUTO Auto
nothing points
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NEWEN6U
The same old th1rl8.

There are at least four mistakes in the above picture. they may per-
tain TO grammar. history. etiquette. drawing or whatnot. See ~ you cars
find them Then look at the scrambled word below-a-d unscrambse r.
By switching the letters around. Grade yourself 20 for each or the mis-
takes yCu find, and 20 for the word II you unscramSls e.
La gaceta., 1930-01-16
LA HUELGA DE LOS ESTI-
BADORES EN- BUENOS AL
RES

Buenos Aires, Enero 16. -
I'm estibador result6 muerto y
tres heridos en- un encuentro
habido entire miembros de dos
uniones rivales que trabajan
IN differences muelles de la ciu-
dad, siendo este ell resultado de
la huelga que Sc declare ante
aver y que habfa de durar 48
horas.
Una rina tumultuaria result
8 del encuentro de ambos ban
dos, disparandose armas de fue
go y cruzandose como 30 pro-
yectiles entire los contendien-
tes.
Como resuItado de este en-
cuentro Sc teme que otra huel-
ga Sc declare tambiGn con re-
sultados funestos para la ciu-
dad.
La gaceta., 1930-01-16
Ell DECIMO ANIVERSARIO
DE LA PROHIBITION

Washington, Enero 10 La
ley de prohibition celebr6 hoy
81 decimo aniversario, sin que
haya podido, hasta ell presen-
te, finalizar la agria disputa ia
miliar que provocara.
En- ell Capitolio el cumplea-
nos de la ley americana que
mas controversies despertara,
encuentra a sus sostenedores
afanadOs buscando nuevos me-
todos para hacer su obediencia
mas rigurosa, y a sus enemigos
proveyendose de todas las ar
mas para derrocarla.
Los comites del congreso ac-
tualmente estan redactando
distintas proposiciones de le-
yes a petici6n del presidente
Hoover, todas tendencies a la
reduction de los violadores de
la ley.
La gaceta., 1930-01-16

Madrid, Enero 16.-Antes
de salir para Barcelona acom-
panando al Rey, ell Oral. Prl-
mo de Rivera asisti0 a la Asam
blea para informar en- la Sec
ci6n Sexta de la misma, que
preside ell Presidente de la
Union Patri6tica, Gabilan, y Sc
dedica a estudiar las futuras
leyes politicas del pals. Guam
do entr6, habia estado antes o.
cupandose de la reorganiza-
ci6n de la Union Patri6tica en-
to3a Espana, segdn dijo a los
per':odistas, estudiando la re :
forma del censo de las uniones
patri6ticas, tanto de Madrid
como de provincias, con ell OBJ
jatC de que esten capacitadas
para efectuar dentro de elias
m!smas las elecciones de sus
juntas lirectivas y mas tarde,
La gaceta., 1930-01-16
LA LIGA DE NACIONES
CLAUSURA SUS SESIONES

Ginebra, Enero 16.-La quin-
cuageslma octava session del
Consejo de la Liga de Nacio-
mes clausur6 sus debates hoy,
despues de la reunion de los
Delegates en- la session de la
manana. Cast todos los presen-
ties Sc apresuraron a abando :
mar Ginebra para dirigirse a
Londres con objeto de hallar-
Sc p%resentes en- las sesiones de
la Cuarta Conferencia Naval.
Durante la reunion de esta
manana, que fue una de las Sc
stones mas cortas celebradas,
Sc notaba que los representan-
ties de las distintas naciones Sc
h%allaban preocupados con la
Conferencia Naval de Londres,
tratando toIos de esquivaF la
discussion de temas de impor-
tancia que pudieran ser objeto
de controversial demorando por
tanto la clausura de las sesio-
mes.
La gaceta., 1930-01-16
AVOCADO QUE NECESITA
DEFENSA

Por es.afa de varias cantida-
des que indebidamente exigia a
sus clientes para defensas quo
no efec uaba eel abogado de esta
ciudad, V. Boiling Jones, fut
procesado en- la Corte del Circui
TO aver, acusado por la Asocia-
ci6n de Abogados del Condado
de Hillsborough.
Ell abogado Jones, segGn So
supo por las autoridades, habia
abandonado la ciudad hacfa va
rios meses.
Las cantidades cue Sc llev6 de
encuentro fueron $738 de la
Tampa Shipbuilding, y 1923 del
Grand Rapid Store. De estos
dos casos Sc tiene conocimiento
pero Sc dej6 alberta la lista de-
reclamaciones para que Sc va
yam presentando los que hayan
sido burlados.
La gaceta., 1930-01-16

Habana, Enero lila lie
gada a la Habana de las cent
zas de Arquimedes Pous, ell ar
tista cubano que muriera EN-
Puerto Rico cuando Sc hallaba
de tourn6e por aquella Isla, ha
proVocado una sentida demos
TRACTION de simpatia hacia ell
genial "negrito' que diera dias
de gloria a nuestra patria, mos
trando en- ell extranjero las ex-
celencias del teatro bufo.
Las cenizas de Arquimedes
Pous, d~evueltas a la patria por
gestiones del diario "El Mum
do" fueron traidaS en- aeropla-
no desde Santiago de Cuba por
ell editor de "Ei Mundo," Sr.
Gerardo Ramos, enviado a Ma
yaguez, Puerto Rico, con csc
objeto.
La gaceta., 1930-01-16
Los ~RESCATADORES EN-
CUENTRAN Los CADAVE
RES

Dixon, KY, Enero 16.- Los
dos mineros que quedaron Sc
%pultados en- una de las gale
rias de la NINA de carbon de
Carl Melton encontraron la
muerte al dia siguiente de ha-
Der sido sepultados por causa
de la falta de aire.
Los esfuerzos desesperados
que Sc hIcieron en- ell dia &c n
por familiares y vecinos por
rescatarlos, en- la esperanto de
encontrarlos con vida, resulta-
ron faQidas, cuando anoche Sc
encontraron los cadavercs.
Tn grupo de cinco hombres
con caretas contra ell gas, Y de-
safiando ell hume, penetraron
en- la galeria donde Sc hallaban
los cadaveres, subi6ndolos a la
s~uperficie.
Los mineros, que Sc nombra-
ban Aaron Bridwell, de 81
amos y Doris Woods, de 40,
eran casados y tenian hijos.