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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
BOOSTER FOR THE
$4,000 DAILY GOAL
Tells of Speed-Up In
Sugar Mill

BERKELEY, Call am a prole-
tartan booster for our great weapon,
the Daily Worker. When I read my
copy I am so enthused, that want
to throw my hat in the air, and
carry on like a jubilant youth again.
am 81 now, and it takes something
powerful to affect me.
Every issue of "our paper" is a
power for good to the working class.
The Daily Worker luirches forward
like a powerful steed, the kind, you
know, that is exhibited and can't be
still for minute. as 1t is so full of
life.
Brothers Killed
I travelled 100 miles to make con-
tact with class conscious worker on
an outpost of the American Sugar
Refining Co., where the workers are
miserably exploited and done to
death through long hours, speed-up,
accident and slow starvation, life
and hope nearly gone from their
poor bodies. 1 know, because 1
worked there. Two of my brothers
were killed there, by accidents that
could have been prevented. 1 am
soliciting subs, putting the paper into
the hands of the workers on the job
and off. When they get on their
fighting mits production will be
a blessing instead of a nightmare,
as they will have substantial base
to begin the new society on.
On with the good work. Here's
the money to extend my sub!
r. B. w.
On to the $4,000 goal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
JOB SHARK LIARS
TANGLE CAL. CASE
Try to Convict Jobless
Leaders in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Nov. IT,
Another one Of those brazen frame
ups by which the boss class hopes to
rob the workers of their leaders be-
gan badly here wednesday when
Mike Daniels, Communist organizer,
and seven comrades were placed on
trial for having forced employment
agencies here to refund money coll
lected from jobless workers for jobs
which did not exist The charges are
the usual ones employed in such
cases-"disturbing the peace"
A crowded court room of sympa-
thizers witnessed the amusing spec
tacle of the prosecution calling in
sufficiently coached witnesses to JUS
tify their attack upon unemployed
workers.
While the complaints against the
defendants contain charges of eight
ing" witnesses for the employment
agency sharks failed to substantiate
previous assertions and were greatly
confused by the cross-examination of
Philip M. Ziverin, attorney of the In
ternational Labor Defense, who is de-
Tending the group.
Prosecution Tangled Up.
j. Nicely, witness for one of the
outraged" employment agencies, de-
MED on the stand that any fighting
occurred in his shop. Charles Leh-
man, another unemployment shark,
failed to remember" from whom he
mulcted money for mythical jobs, but
his memory was quite clear on the
point that Charles Bell, one of the
defendants, had stated there would
"be something doing" if the sharks
didn't refund the money.
The defendants in addition to Com
rades Daniels and Bell include Will
liam Malone, Emmett Lachley, Tom
Roy, James Black, Paddy McGill and
Francis Henderson. They are being
tried before Judge l.. M. Shelly, of
police court, and a jury of nine men
and three women.
The trial will be continued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Stockton Workers
Building Movement
CBy a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
STOCKTON, Cal.-Here in Stock
ton we had demonstrations August
LIST and September LIST and many
meetings of the unemployed, and
many workers proposed to join the
Party, the revolutionary unions and
the unemployed councils. Five hun
dred copies of the Pacific Coast edi-
ton of the Daily Worker was dis
tributed and the Daily Worker sold
every day.
Though there are few big factories
here, Stockton is one of the agricul-
tural centers of California and here
many Mexican and Filipino workers
gather.
The conditions of the agricultural
workers are worse rhan that of last
year. Many more unemployed.
1t is our task to organize these
workers into organizations and to
start big mass movement of I'M
employed as well as that of the en-
ployed against the rotten conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
BEDOE SPEEDUP
AT MANHATTAN
RUBBER PLANT
Layoffs For the Last
Four Months
I'm a. Worker CorysspondenD

(By Worker Correspondent
PASSAIC, N. j. - What are our
conditions today at the Manhattan
Rubber Coz We know that all over
the U. s. workers are starving and
living under the most miserable con-
ditions. But are we the Manhattan
Rubber workers any better off?
The bosses are always thinking up
clever idea for their own benefit, SO
they introduced the Bedoe system.
This Bedoe system has made slaves
out of us. Our bosses put in this
vicious scheme to make us work
faster and faster
Terrific Speedup
Under this Bedoe system we must
slave under terrific speed up in order
to make go BIS, which is called a
days work. And if we make over
so Bs the bosses reward us with a
measly few cents extra.
And what happens to us workers
who can make the so Bs in spite of
HDrking like hi? Well, if we don't
we get a red mark at the end of the
day next to OUR name. And oh boy!
A red mark means the unfortunate
pne gets bawled out by the foremen
"a gang of them and is heckled to
work faster And a few red marks
means getting fired. The foreman
sornes and politely tells you that you
are not needed any more.
Layoffs are taking place daily for
The past four months. And we who
are working here today may be out
pf job tomorrow. We are really
thivering for our jobs
Organize Against This
The women here get even smaller
wages. for the same work the men
10. Why should the women get less
Tor the same work? It's to the bosses
benefit because wherever possible he
tres the men, and hires women to
work much cheaper (for less than
half in many cases..
1 and many other workers are get
hing sick of working under this rot
zen Bedoe system and bonus scheme
tnd getting such low wages. Why
loesn't anyone aome down and or
ganize us in the Trade Union Unity
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
POOR FARMERS
READY TO FIGHT
Realize United Farmer
Is Their Paper
tBy Farmer Correspondent

10y FARMER correspondent
LITTLE FALLS, MINI. tt e
United Farmer" is being distributed
here among the farmers and pre-
parations made - organize a United
Farmers League a little later. Two
meetings will be held, one west of
town and one east
Farmers are hard up. A canvass
shows that they want to subscribe
for the United Farmer, but not
many of them have even enough
money for this. The plan here is to
get taxpayers league going to
fight for lower taxes. Conditions
make the farmer radical. He will
now listen to what a revolutionist
has to say.
Some farmers believe in the farm
er-labor party here in Minnesota, but
when they begin to see this party is
no better than the other old parties.
they VIII then turn to the left and
fight good deal harder than they
are now doing.
-Earr,,er
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18

The club increased its order from
HOO to 1400 at its roll call.
A series of open air meetings will
be held this week, the central point
of which will be the promotion of
the Daily Worker. The meetings
will be held at 10th st. and Second
Ave. each evening during the pres
ent week. The role of the Daily
Worker will be explained to the
workers and headlines and excerpts
read from the platform. Subscrip-
tions will be taken and papers sold.
The Red Builders News Club sends
a challenge to the Daily Worker
Boosters Club of Chicago to sell
twice as many papers as the latter
club during the first week of Deem
ber
The N. Y. club intends to double
its membership during the coming
week, through each member obtain
ing one new member. New members
are expected to be added during the
street meetings. Ten new members
joined the club Sunday making a
membership of 80.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18

laws of private property in order to
give her little sister a day of hap
piness.
The story of Olympia, now lying
in Coney Island Hospital, is not diff
ferent from that of many other work.
ing girls. Out of work for several
months, with all hope gone of find
ing a job, and unable to face her
needy parents, she attempted suicide
by taking poison. Olympia is barely
sixteen years old. But what years of
restitution and worry have been
crowded into this short span!
The difference between the posi-
ton and interests of the Doris Dukes
and Barbara Huttons and the Flea
nor Berdnacs and Olympia Scalonis
is the difference between two classes
and their opposing interests
These differences are an inevitable
part of the capitalist system, whereby
one class, the bosses or capitalists,
own all of the means of production
and are therefore able to exploit the
working class, who own nothing but
its labor power and therefore must
hire out to them in order to make a
living. The capitalists keep all OF
the wealth which labor has created
and the wage-earners are allowed on
ly enough of their product to enable
them and their children to go or
producing wealth for the masters. Ir
this way, millions are accumulated
by such exploiters as Duke and Wool
worth, while the class of which Flea
nor Berdnac and Olympia Scaloni
are struggling against long hours. the
speed-up, wage cuts and widespread
unemployment.
Working men and women, organize
to fight for better conditions, and to
carry on the struggle until capitalism
is overthrown and a socialist society
set up in the United States, like that
of the Soviet Union. Where land
and all means of production will be
owned collectively by the toiling pop
ulation, and the new government,
composed of councils, or soviets, of
working men and women, and poor
farmers, will represent the interests
not Of private property and the ex-
plotting class, but of the laboring
masses Of the people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
BOARD TRIES TO
JUGGLE MARKET

Yesterday rumors spread over all
the wheat exchanges that the Farm
Board through its Grain Stabiliza-
ton" Corporation had sold for flu
ture delivery to foreign countries its
60,000,000 bushels of wheat. There
was a counter rumor that the Farm
Board was again buying wheat, and
some indication that it had placed an
order for 100000 bushels of De-
cenber wheat.
The result was extraordinary chaos,
wild excitement among the gamblers
and fluctuations of wheat ranging
from SO to 70 cents. The net result
seems to be to leave wheat about
where it was a few days ago, in price.
and the farmers as badly off as ever.
Meanwhile the premiers Of four
Canadian provinces are comforting as
to what to do about the price there,
which is around go cents. When wheat
fell to a dollar, in February, the sit
uation was deemed serious enough
for the provincial governments to is
sue a statement that the whole back
ing of the prairie provinces is behind
the wheat pools" Bankers 'exorbit-
ant demands for interest and pay
ments on money loaned wheat pools
has now forced these pools OF liqui-
date, mad with a disastrous fall in
prices. The provincial premiers do
not seem to have any remedy.
The United Farmers League, head
quarters in New York Mills, Mimi.
denounces all this juggling with the
market as swindle on the farmers.
and calls for the farmers themselves
to organize for their own advantage,
to refuse to pay rents and mortgare
payments, and to force the reduction
in price of agricultural machinery.
fertilizers, and other necessities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18

dress themselves. They have maids to
fix their hair and lay out their
clothes for them. Not that we envy
these girls. Not one bit. Such an idle
and parasitic existence as theirs is
demoralizing, and one that no self
respecting person could endure. The
point is the rank uselessness of the
arrangement.
Wealth and Ease
Barbara Hutton is the grand
daughter of James Woolworth, of five
and ten cent fame. From this sire she
has inherited $60,OOO,0o0 which he
amassed primarily by sweating it out
of adolescents who went to work even
below the minimum age allowed by
law for six, eight and ten dollars a
week. Along with Barbara Hutton
Doris Duke is coming out" in society
this fall.
AS you have probably guessed, Dor
is is the daughter of James Duke, the
man who made" that is took, close
to a hundred million dollars out OF
the labor of Negro, Poor White and
foreign-born workers in tobacco fac
tories and on tabocco farms in the
southern and other states. Labor con-
ditions in Dukes southern tobacco
plats aren glorious, and the work
more despised even than that in the
cotton mills. Deaths from the dread
consumption are high.
Doris Duke first received publicity
when, five years ago. girl of thir-
teen, she inherited from her father
this vast fortune. While she has not
done one thing to create this wealth
the law and courts of the land which
men like Duke control, say it is hers
"by virtue of the rights of private
property"
High-priced lawyers have been re-
investing this hundred million for
her in factories and railroads. So
that now additional thousands of
workers unknowingly are pouring
extra millions of wealth into her cof-
fers.
Miss Duke lives in Fifth Avenue
house worth over one and a half mil
Iona sum which would house 1000
evicted families for one year. In adj
dition, she owns little 1000 acre
estate In New Jersey, another estate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
BOSS PAINTERS
USE TRICK TO
GET MORE WORK
Only Organization Can
Fight This
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-It is worth men
tioning some of the many tricks used
by bosses in extracting few minutes
extra work from a workman, that
really belong to the worker. A few
minutes do not seem much, but take
a few minutes each day for three
hundred and sixty-five days and you
will find it means a not.
For instance, worked for a boss,
painter, my hours we're eight till
twelve, half hour lunch, quit four
thirty. About twenty-minutes past
four my boss would come sneaking
around the Job. In smiling manner
he would say Finish that stretch of
wall, or cut in those two sash before
quitting" Now that stretch Of wall
or those two could not be done in
less than half hour, no matter
how hard 1 worked but to hold my
job I had to finish it. Now that boss
got twenty minutes from me that did
not appear in my weekly stipend.
Give a Hand" Bunk
A job is near completion, scaffold
is packed up, ready after for the ex-
press wagon to take it back to the
shop. The boss comes around on the
dot of four thirty with the wagon
with an excuse something like this
II am sorry I could not get here
sooner, give us hand to load this
scaffolding" Which means another
twenty minutes, that benefits the
boss in coin and labor.
1t is such underhand methods
that are practiced by bosses, large
and small, against the workers today.
The A. F. of L. does not interfere for
our betterment but play into the
hands of the bosses. The T'yade
Union Unity League are just as in
terested in small matters as we'll as
the larger issues for the workers
benefit regardless of what line Of
livelihood he follows from laborer to
past master mechanic, also disre-
regarding color or nationality If you
are looking to better your conditions,
also your relative and working COM
rades conditions who are to come
after you, unite under the Trade
Union Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Heiresses Gel brat e
While Working Girls
In Jail and Starved
BY MYRA PAGE

America today is a land of sharp
contrasts. At no time in history has
a society presented more drastic ex-
treemes.
Yesterday the papers carried news
of happenings in the lives of four
girls: Eleanor Berdnac, Olympia Sea-
lonia, Barbara Hutton and Doris
Duke. All four are young-not yet in
the twenties, members of "this great
democracy" and, according to poll
teal leaders" school texts, and sky
pilots, free and equal before the law
Hoover recently stated: I'm America
we give every one an equal chance
and he added, those who have the
most ability get to the top
But take the stories of these foui
girls. The America that two of the
girls know is the exact opposite OF
that in which the other two live
For Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke
we're born with gold spoons in theil
mouths, as the saying goes, while
Olympia Scaloni and Eleanor Berd-
nae came into the world as daughters
of impoverished and hardworkine
parents.
This accidental fact of birth into
two different classes of society has
determined the whole course of their
lives. Glass differences alone. and
not any differences in native intel
ligence, beauty, disposition or any
other characteristic of the four girls
are responsible.
Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke
have been surrounded from birth
with luxury and ease and every adj
vantage which wealth can supply
They have never known what 1t is
to do one days labor in their lives
True, they are still young, altogether
too young to have worked. 1t is safe
to say that they never will do any
work. so long as capitalism continues
The other two girls. however, have
worked since early youth. Doris Duke
and Barbara Hutton do not ever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
EXPOSE LABOR
OFFICE FAKERY
Pravda Scores League
Of Nations

MOSCOW--Referring to the re-
port of the International Labor Of
flee of the League of Nations on
world unemployment in which the
French socialist" Albert Thomas, is
compelled to admit at least that
unemployment in the Soviet Union
has greatly decreased" the "Pravda"
writes:
There are some facts which are so
obvious that not even the social
democrats can deny them. The arch
traitor, Thomas, cannot conceal from
the masses that all capitalist coun-
tries are suffering from acute unem-
ployment and he therefore tries to
conceal the fact that in the Soviet
Union unemployment has not only
greatly decreased" but actually been
iquidated altogether. The social
fascists dare not admit that the liqui-
dalton of unemployment is not the
result of passing boom, but the
logical organizational result of the
Soviet system. This would represent
their greatest defeat. Instead they
do their best to persuade the work.
ers that the Soviet government is re-
fusing to pay support to unemployed
workers, concealing the fact that no
unemployment support is being paid
out in the Soviet Union because there
is no one to receive it. The report
of the International Labor Office
follows the policy of the "Vorwaerts'
and 'le Populaire" in their attempts
to prevent their readers from learn
ing of the great successes of social
ism in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
JObless Women
Tell Of Miseries
(By a Worker Correspondent

SACRAMENTO, Cal. - Here are
some interviews of unemployed wo-
men workers:
my name Is Mrs. Perry. I am a
widow and have two children. am
out of work and live with my sis
ter and we are almost starving. My
second husband is in New Bedford,
Mass, almost dying in a hospital.
Mrs. Balshor a widow, age CO.
Have a nephew, we are out of work
and starving. I am Portuguese
j. K. SYLVIA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Expects Increase In
Grand Rapids Order

VIII. j. Conn, section organizer in
Grand Rapids says: "The number
of copies sent to Grand Rapids will
increase, I am sure, as result OF
house to house distribution we are
undertaking now"
He also sends in the following
original thought:
"Also we will begin to send some
more money for the Daily"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Strike Against 1919
Wage-Cut In New
Haven Pants Shop
(By A Worker Correspondent

(By A Worker Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Fifty
workers mostly girls went out on
strike this morning against a 10
per cent wage cut In the Fenichels
pants factory, so East Street. We
work on the piece work system and
we can only make from $12 to Is
week, now we are not going to
stand for any lower rates. We are
going to form picket lines and win
our strike.
Woman Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Seven Members of
Club Get Prizes

Seven members of the club were
awarded prizes of Red Cartoons"
for having sold more than $50
papers during the week. The honor
members of the club we're Shoholm,
Stevens, Marine, Barnes, Gomez,
Voss and Reese. Comrades Gomez
and Barnes sold over 400 papers
during the week.
During the coming week a plaque
of Lenin will be awarded to all who
sell over $50 copies during the week.
Any unemployed worker who comes
to the office of the Daily Worker can
enter this competition.
During the past week there were
$500 papers actually sold by club
members in New York.
The Red Builders News Club also
is entering the campaign for paid
subscriptions. All members now
have subscription blanks. Regular
customers will be asked to subscribe.
Club members will receive 10 cents a
month commission for subscriptions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18

Out of job? Got spare time?
You can earn . little money and
take a crack at the system by sell
ling Daily Workers. Come up and
we will explain. IS East 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18

All notices for this column can
he run only for three days includ-
ing the date Of the affair, due to
the enormous amount of notices
handed in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Charts to Show
PhiIly Progress

NJ. Silver, Daily Worker repre-
sentative in Philadelphia sends in
copies of charts with blank spaces
to show gains in subs and bundles
for every unit and section in the
district. Silver promises to fill in
the spaces with figures soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
NY. Neevs Club Boosts Order
to 400 Copies Daily and
Sends Challenge to Chicago

The Red Builders News Club joe who live
the sale of the Daily still kicking
second hot dog iamoree at q West 4h SUNDAY night
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18

Organize Unemployed Councils to
fight for unemployment insurance!
The Washington times., 1930-03-20
Delman Features
"Camden"

ILLUSTRATED is the Camden.
l. one of Delman's finest and
foremost models, created to add
charm and daintinesS to Mad.
ame's many afternoon frocks
Conceived in patent kid inlaid
with green kid, also Mandalay
brown inlaid with beige kid. Most
attractively priced at $3.50. 1921
Connecticut Avenue.
Spring raincoatS are light in
weight and follow the style trend
in fabrics and fashion.
There Is a growing new style
fancy with results that are both
sensible and smart. Discretion is
going to balance this dressed up"
idea that has created such diver
SION in the fashion world. The
modern woman does not accept
fashions that become conspicuous,
but rather those that give a smart
ly groomed appearance. There
fore, the return Of black in pop,-
larity and other dark colorS. Dis.
Greet details in sleeve lengths and
hemlineS, and the revival Of pleats
and simpler lines are also new
fashion notes.
The Washington times., 1930-03-20

Blue in navy and bright navy
appears to be fashions favorite
color. The Sunny Southlands are
forecasting baby blue and tur-
quoise blue because the sun.
tanned love it.
A Chauffeur-D Driven Car for
Madame'S Convenience at
$1.1O an Hour
THE CITY CAB COMPANY an
i nounce that they have COM
Portable new touring cars With
courteous chauffeurs at Madame's
command. Meaning that you
can call Decatur 6100 and leave
q request for a car at an ap-
pointed time and be assured Of
a car and chauffeur service
while you shop or call at the
nominal cost Of $1.10 an hour.
This Is little more than the cost
Of operating your own car plus
the parking fee, but minus the
effort and responsibility Of park.
ing. Just enjoy the comfort Of
new cars and dependable chaut.
feurs for the shopping tour or
relax and ride through the parks
these delightful spring days-ocly
$1.10 the hour. An idea!
A smart creation Is Of crepe
roma with a circular skirt set on
a yoke that is nodded to a high
waiSt-line.