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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
! ", CANNERY
/ WORKERS Get
POOR WAGES
Hours Work and Work
Hard
Bellingham, Wash.

baily Worker:
W. H. Pride and Company is the
anne of a large fruit and vegetable
annery situated here. They enn-
10y about 500 women during the
usy season, which is just at its
eight.
They are at present running two
Ihifts, 11H hours or more. with
othing short of ten hours. The
komen and girls, married and single.
those ages range from is to 70
ears, work these long hours.
Low Wages.
/ A few do day work at 27H cents
er hour, straight time for overtime,
ut most of the work is piece work,
hich averages less.
Those who are peeling pears at z
ents per box make very small wages
Inless they are very fast.
Few Men For Heavy Work.
Only d lew iueu dlC CiiPioyOo w
% the lifting of heavy boxes, truck
Ilg car, loading, etc.
Apples are the last thing to can
nd will be coming in soon by the
ar loads from Eastern Washington
where they have the biggest crop
II apples this year in many years..
Need Union.
Apple canning lasts until about
december LIST, although the night
hift will be taken off when the
cans and pears are canned.
These cannery workers should
ave strong industrial union for
/ heir protection, which we here in
1 ellingham are attempting to point
tut to them through shop gate meet
llgs, leaflets and street meetings,
yhich are held several nights a
l-eek at the corner Of Railroad and
Jolly SITS.
L. ]. ADY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

any help anywhere. For these
same bosses had the power in
their hands.
The women were compelled to
do work which was above their
strength. They were roughly
treated. When pregnant. they
had no vacations, and there were
no vacations for anybody. If a
worker took sick he would get
nothing at all. No workers
clothes were handed out.
NOW WORKERS RULE.
Now our working day amounts
to s hours, and in the near future
we intend TO work Z hrs, overtime
is paid for the first two hours at
the rate of one-and- half times,
and more than two hours--double.
At the fishery we have differ
ent committees; Labor Protection,
Industrial Conflict, etc, COM
prised of workers elected by us.
Should a worker take sick, he
gets vacation which is paid for
by the insurance office. In case
of unemployment, he gets relief.
After we had worked for 81
months, we are entitled to get a
two-week paid vacation.
We also get a place in the rest
houses at the expense of the trade
union organization. If a worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
SOVIET FISHERMEN ENJOY SOCIAL PRIVILEGES
American Fsheen Write Your Brother Fishermen Soviet Union
American Fishermen!

We, workers of the Astrahan
Fisheries, No. 10S Government
Fish Trust, in sending you this
letter wish to inform you the
conditions were like prior to the
October revolution.
Being aware of the fact that
the press in the capitalist coun-
tries is doing its best to Willy
the Soviet Union and spread all
sorts of lies about the life of the
workers, we wish to write you
about the real conditions in which
we live and work today.
Below we give comparison of
the living conditions of the work
ers employed at the fisheries
prior to the October revolution
and at the present time.
AS WE LIVED FORMERLY.
Our conditions were much
worse. The working day lasted
% hours and during the season
much longer. We had no priyil-
eyes whatever. There was no
one TO whom we could complain
tb0ut the poor treatment of the
losses. In answer to our urgent
demands put up TO the bosses. we
were unceremoniously thrown out
onto the street to the mercy of
the winds. and il was absolutely
hopeless for us to try and get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
Shanghai Worker Tells of
Growing Power of Soviets
Shanghai, June, Is.

! DNdilSlidi, OuiSs TO-
bear Contradict
Yesterday have sent you copy
f the newspaper "a Light on the
ga" in which your article appeared.
revolutionary workers and peasants
ertainly do need the utmost help
nd support of American comrades.
would like to thank you in their
anne for your valuable comradely
correspondence. Alas, they them
elves cannot correspond with you
irectly, because in our country
yorkers and peasants work every
ay from IL to 16 hours and not
bnly have no chance Of learning
wen the simplest language--The
Esperanto,--but do not even have
chance to learn their own mother
ongue.
Red Unions Lead.
At present in this country there
eigns wave of terror--except the
laces where the Soviets are estab-
shed. But the counter-attack of the
korkers is growing ever stronger.
The majority Of workers in Shang-
1 al are under the leadership of the
led Trade Unions. and they are
III class conscious. They are always
,ersecuted and threatened by the
elbow labor leaders. But their rev.
autionary idea is so deeply rooted
hat their revolutionary courage is
lever down.
Tomorrow on June 16, great DEM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

The wheels burst forth the Jumps
of dirt,
Upon the endless stretch of earth.
The virgin soil is plowed deep,
By the tractors metal cold,
1t also plows just as deep
The virgin remnants of the old.
Beneath the tractors clatter,
The insects too stop their chatter,
The hare is scared, it runs to steal
Away from the clatter of the steel.
The old man crosses himself with
his fist
Here comes the Antichrist'
But the driver has no fear,
He sings a song and gives a cheer.
New time, new deed,
The science wins and does not heed.
II shall liberate the humanity,
From the chains of old.
Let the pope go to extremity,
Lying thousandfold.
He shall be answered by the steel
Of the sharp destructive metal reel.
On the boundless plains
begins new life.
The blowing tractor aims
At new collective life"
E. MICHALSKY.
Translated from Esperanto,
By Michael Friedman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

couldn't run the factory on scao
basis.
Girls of the H. D. Bob factory de-
mand more wages and less hours
and join the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union and the Commu-
mist Party Send in your name and
address to the Daily Worker, 1928
Union So, New York and join the
union that will fight for your in
terests. JINGLES.
Ed'tOr1ot Note-Organtzation IN
the shirt factory IN Frocksuille
should begin by the building of shop
committees IN every department
and O. request made to the national
office OF the Needle Trades Indus
trial Union, fS1 W. 2Sth ST., Netc
York N Y, ID send in an organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

one. Grain stored on the farm is
not VISIBLE supply. Another
thing: the price of wheat is not
determined by its STORAGE here and
there, but by the world volume Of
production.
JOIN UNITED FARMERS
LEAGUE.
Farmers, it is about time re got
away from all this fakery, and did
some real fighting ourselves. by
refusing TO pay mortgages. inter
est and taxes, and by demanding
that a heavy tax be placed upon
the rich to provide a fund of al
least $l,OOO,OOO,OOO, TO be set
aside for some real relief. We
must all join the militant United
Farmers League, spread its Off
cial organ, the United Farmer,
and fight for this program.
FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
DOPE STEERS AID
BOSSES FIG ut
AGAINST JOBLESS
Press Forward in
Fight for Bill!
Detroit, Mich.
Dear Edition.:

Dear Editor
Bishop Michael Gallagher re-
ceived plenty Of publicity in the De-
troit Free Press recently, when he
had the audacity to say that the
cause of the present tide of unem-
ployment was due to lack of con-
fidence" In his talk he also stated
that "Henry Ford was not to blame"
for bringing starving men from all
parts of the U. S. due to his adj
vertisements in newspapers an
nouncing that Ford would start hir-
ing.
Bosses Dope Dispenser.
"Birds of feather flock together
is certainly a true statement when
the capitalists and the praying, god
fearing popes, bishops and ministers
defend each other, in an effort to
deIule the working masses in think
ing that starving, being evicted
from homes by reactionary A. F. of
L. labor takers. and waiting in
bread line for the scraps handed out
by capitalist charity is merely a
mental state.
Red Baiters, Too.
This bishop, with a yellow streak
of cowardice in his religious make
up does not fear Detroit Reds" in
his announcement, yet. at the same
time be and Father Couglin make
annual attacks on the Detroit Com
munists whose growth has alarmed
both the church and its capitalist
brethren.
Detroit workers should consider
this attack as an insult to their in
telligence.
Join the Auto Workers Union, be-
come an active member and give it
your support.
H. NJ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
Plan Demonstration

onstrations will take place through
out China against civil war. The
workers are preparing to fight with
the police and the soldiers. | shall
report to you the results--if | can.
| am very anxious to receive
some proletarion cultural magazines
and newspapers. ! shall report to
you every week on our serious
events.
Yours Comradely,
j. G. HSU.
(Received and translated by the
Esperanto CORES pondence Group).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

protest. We feel that if we don't
do something they will soon be
demanding that we work with
out wages altogether.
Would it be possible to get
some propaganda across in the
way of leaflets? These workers
l feel sure would be glad to listen
to organization.
ROSE MARION.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
FRENCH EXCLUDED FROM
GERMAN WAR-DRILI,

BERLIN, Sept. 5.--The French
Foreign Office is showing official
resentment over the fact that The
French military attache was not in
vited to attend important maneuvers
of he German army which were re-
certify held at Washington. The
British military attache was the
only foreign group present. Prep
arations for the coming imperialist
war are as frantic in Europe as
they are in the United States and,
on the eve of turning the world into
a slaughter house, the military IA
chimes of the bosses are jealousy
watching each other.
Fight For Social insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
The Tractor

"On the boundless plains
Joyfully begins new life.
The blowing tractor aims
At new collective life.
Here you find norge,
Trembling as it fears
Shining brightly and with force
Whirl by the noisy gears.
And just youngster leads it on,
Turning back and turning forth,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

was SollSN Ny WV oSsRSA
visor of nurses and twenty nurses
We're laid eff without notice. Inc
remaining nurses were carefully in
structed not tc discuss their salaries
with new help which will be hired
at a wage, much below the standard,
namely $50 per month.
The standard salary in this insti-
tuition varies from $40 to $50 for
undergraduates and from $500 to
S105 for graduates. The nurses
who remain are forced to work at
a break-neck speed from 7 a. m. to
7 p. m.
This hospital. not unlike fact'ries,
is shining example of layoffs,
speed-up and wage-cuts. These
methods, however, are not only ap-
piled to nurses but in much more
inhumane degree. to porters, maids
and housekeepers who are Shaving
from z to Z for a starvation wage
of $50 a month plus maintenance =
three uneatal lie meals AM heplor-
able living quarters where there is
not the slightest bit of privacy.
Each housekeeper is now forced
to take care of two houses for the
same amount as previously for one.
For instance, the woman who took
care of the nurses house in which
1 lived, was getting $50 month
for cleaning IL rooms. Now she is
forced to care for the adjoining
house of which the housekeeper had
been discharged-twelve additional
rooms for thu same miserable $50.
The portars' wages have been re-
duced $40 to $40 a month.
In the midst of these intolerable
conditions, the superintendents and
other overpaid officials are enjoy
ing unreduced high salaries, long va
cations and choice meals.
Discharged Nurse.
Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
AS a worker in the Jewish Hos
.pital, / want to expose the con-
ditions under which we work.
They are almost intOlerable.
Just recently our wages were
cut IL per cent. We have been
working for $50 per month,
eleven to twelve hours night
seven days a week all the year
around with one week vacation.
This week the superintendent an
nOunced the new wage-cut.
Formerly we had two workers
to do the same work that one
must do now. So that we are
now going to receive a wage-cut
while doing twice as much work
as before.
While attending the patients
one of my cO-wOrkers took sick.
She is the mother of seven small
children, and her husband is an
invalid out of work for four
years. When she asked for help
she was refused regardless of the
fact that she has been employed
here for the last ten years. Her
health is shattered, so we COM
rades collected some money
among ourselves to save her
children from starvation while
the mother was confined to bed.
After taking up the matter
with other workers in the hos
pital, we came to the conclusion
that it is time to wake up and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
Ark. Farmers
Starving; Fight
Fake Schemes
Bosses Incite Farmers Against Negro Workers
Real Enemies Are the Bankers
United Farmers League, Bismarck, N. d. Is the
Organization of Struggle
North Little Rock, Ark.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades-I am sending you clipping of a local
capitalist paper The conditions among the farmers is below
human endurance They stealing potatoes and chick
from another and if something not done in the
future to relieve the situation will require than the
constable and sheriff to hold them D ZINI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
Iedical Workers Must
Organize for Fight

All hospital workers, nurses,
dental workers, optical workers
and wholesale drug workers are
urged to get in touch with ]. l..
hi Santes, secretary of the Med
Iical and Chemical Workers In
dustrial League, to prepare the
ground for an organization drive
among medical workers.
Address the secretary, care of
the Trade Union Unity League,
Room Ala, 2 West 18th ST., New
York.
Tammany grafters go free
The Unemployed Delegation IS in
lprison-vote Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
Frocksville Shirt Girls
Get Wage Cut; Must Form
Shop Committee For Fight
Bosses Fear Daily Worker and Drive Off the
Workers Distributing It to Girls
Frocksville, Pa.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Only yesterday the reduced from
the shirt factory 1t said that eleven walked
This factory employs $50 girls and so All these
girls working working for the fun of it 1t is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

Editorial Note:-The clipping en-
closed contains the story of the in
element of the farmers in Lonoke
County, Arkansas, who are virtually
ruined and are destitute, against
Negro highway laborers. The fas-
cist elements who melted the farm
ers want to direct the great discon-
tent and fight of the poor farmers
away from their real enemies-the
bankers and their government, and
seek to divert it against the Negro
workers.
Now more than any other time
the poor farmers, who faced starva-
ton in all sections of the country,
must fight for the Farmers Relief
and Insurance Bill that will guar
antee real relief, as proposed by the
United Farmers League.
The fight of the poor farmers
must be extended to the polls, in
defeating the candidates of the
bankers, who ar even now fore
closing on thousands of farm house
holds, and driving thousands of i'm
poverished farmers into the cities
to starve with the unemployed
workers. Build the United Farm
ers' League.)
Jamestown, n. u.
To the Daily Worker:-
As the crisis in agriculture
worsens the capitalist "saviors"
are busy promulgating their pet
remedies"
Here we have. for instance,
Legge and Thatcher (the latter
of the Farmers Union), telling
the farmers that now, when the
price of wheat is so low they
should feed it to livestock, thus
increasing tn value" of the cat
tie Ito make up for what the
farmers lose on wheat, SUPPOSE,
and this scheme will also remove
supplies" of wheat, which will
have a tendency to raise" its
price.
MUST SELL WHEAT.
The poor farmer, who is broke,
is going to sell his wheat at any
price, in order to get the where
withall to exist. Very little wheat
will be fed to livestock, certainly
not enough to deplete its supply
to any appreciate extent. Fur
Their, despite Legge and Thatcher.
the poor farmer will sell his cat
tie, also at any price, if he must
and has to.
Speaking of feeding wheat TO
livestock, imagine this being done
when millions of human beings in
the United States are starving!
Some system,
HOOVER'S FARM RELIEF"
The bankruptcy of these farm
relief plans" are on a par with the
move to cut the acreage (reduce
production), so as to give the
farmers 'better" prices. We don't
need to cut production as 'ong as
millions of workers and poor
farmers do not have enough to
eat.
Thatcher says in the Herald"
of August 25: "The storage of
grain on farms prevents that
grain from showing up in visible
supply figures and further de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06
HOSPITAL BOSSES START
, LAY-0FFS OF WORKERS.;
CUT WAGES HEAVILY
Nurses and Hospital Workers Must Join Medi-
cal Workers and Chemical Industrial League
Discharge Nurses Without Warning; Speed Up
Housekeepers, Porters, Etc
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Wrece mild describe the employees condition in
Hospital 49 St and 10th Ave. Brooklyn have
institution since 1929 On August 2Sth sudden
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-06

Fight For Social Insurance!
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-25
Sailors Of a New Type

The recent visit Of the United States feet 70 New
York harbo- arouses certain reflections concerning
the change that has come over the salorman.
All things mus. change. ~ this unstable world. and
no institution or profession is today what il was a
generation. or a century. ago: BIT it seems that the
subsequently, the navy man-has undergone q
greater change than fails ~ the lr u most.
Consider it, nov. fr a minute. The great fleet
anchored II the Hudson river and poured 10000 sail
ors into New YORK The sailors had been On duty to-
several months. and they we're achlnF fo- a Eo1d time
ashore. Furthermore. the average COB had z Ezea1le
pay cheek coming 10 him when the liberty can sound
&C.
Now there was e day. not Sc many years ago. when
this would have meant that New York was ~ tor q
very rocky time ot IL. OR grandfather would have
blenched e. the thought az 10000 navy tars coming
ashore from a tour q sea duty with q fat pay day
just behind them. There would have been riots and
wild revelry. wars and runors Of wars The shore
patrol and the police would have worked overtime
the bars would have coined money and the emergency
wards Of the hospitals would have been TANNED 70
the doors.
But what hap2eael2 Nothing 81 al. Instead q
rushing for The epaakaasiez. to- 1890 sailors made
for the movies. the parks. the SODA fountains and the
dance halls-not, Be & noticed, tie rovdv dance halls
Of the old B1rbarv Coast tradition Tho shore patrol
broke Up 2 few fights. but they were the conradely,
good-natu-ed fights that healthy young men always
indulge II. NOT tire b1.-le-thrcvl-E FTl-E1lElE ar
fairs O. the CID Gays.
In other words these 10000 sailors were as we'll
behaved. essentially decent group q young Americans
as you could ssk fcr. They were 0u tr 2 good
time. but thsir notion * a good time was rather sur
prisinelv mild The rov1gsl q c1 vas very con-
spicuolSy missing.
Now the point Of { al is that e was 70. always
thus. In the DAYS q wooder-uausc s1lare--r7ed
naviHs the sailor was an the bottom Ct the scale so-
ciarv and otherwise. r. had q bac name ard-maE-
Ing allowances fo- the tremendous hanc--aps under
which he hved-he fairy deserved IT,
Indeed. ms rouEhress a. r-oughnass we're long
lived. Men still living can easily recall days when 4
liberty party ~ sailors YVES ap- la descend Cr a sea-
port like the curse q Egypt Many q naval re-rl-t
II World War days heard great tales from some q the
old-timers among his sh-pmates
But times have chanEed The navy Is NOT what it
was Its enlisted personnel ~ a decided crHll- Ca the
country. the man I'D the picturesque blue uniform
has become a pretty reliable ana admirable sort q
citizen
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-25

in a theatrical and radio hroadcasting center to cover
and area in midtown Manhattan.
Standard Oh kings and radio n~agnates have joined
hands. the Rockefeller interests viii finance the new
architectural development, and four theatres. %
broadcasting studios and numerous office buildings,
che Of them 60 stories high, are included in the con-
structlon plan.
This gigantic enterprise Will be erected on ground
bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and 18th and
51st streets. acquired by Rockefeller in the not re-
mote past.
Construction work VIII start this fan, and COM
pletlon .s promised by the fail Of 1888. New York
4 the wonder city a the world. There Is money
N oil There Is money in the playhouse. There Is
money in the radio and the Standard millions are be-
hind al three.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-25
The Once Over
Ey H. L


NEK ARD IN "A NlLL1DN AMkhl1AN nOAiL>
~o-y~tvh. 7eso IL The Associated NewspapersD
Ne wen 7 see Helen is SIN holdin' out.
she Helen vho2
Hs. Heller. tie wife M that Rumanian king.
she oh Mrs. Carroll, you mean
Re. Not Mrs. Carol Carol is only MS first name.
she Wei, anyhow, hope she don't weaken and
take that bird back.
He. why not9
she He ran of with another woman, didn't he?
He deserted her and her baby, the big ol-canl
He. There's two SIDES 70 every Story.
she. OF course you'd find some excuse for Carol
Bur i YOU ask me hes no good and i she takes him
back sl6 should have her head examined.
He Hes . Eing. don't forget and she'll be 2 queen
II she says the wC-d.
she He NAV a king By roval decree but he's Just
y shrek by instinct. ! wouldn't give him house--oon.
" Helen takes MIN back without him giving up that
Naslsco woman she's nuts.
He TIE name Amt Nabisco.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-25
TIE NAN STEM
Intimate Glimpses OF the Valleys Alley
BY J. r.

club. suggested that the turning
basin. w any portion III the rnan-
mel that needed q name, ne named
after Congressman Garner. Check
and double check After the work
that ne has done. Garner deserves
something that rlll be permanent,
as y reward. The naming o. the
basin after him viii be an excellent
method Of showing II appreciation
Here's for Garner Basin.
5000 .0O0.DO Can't e Wrong
Sixty million dollars can't he
wrong
And that Is how much money the
Valley has invested n citrus, az
ccrclnF 10 q rough estimate made
Tuesday. III the blE boys who have
millions to invest sink X IL citrus
there must De q reason. And sure
enough. as Mr.. Postum says. There
is a Reason
The reason Is o5Tious-there's big
money In the citrus industry And
the Valley. with almost 5000. 900
citrus trees growing. viii soon be
raking ia the money hand over
heels. Which is satisfactory 70 al
concerned
Add another $4,000. 900 To the co.
000.0 GOO. and we have better than a
hundred million dollars. The sixty
million is citrus. the forty-six nil
hon Is Developments 10Y under way.
including the port, paving and
other projects.
The BilAor-D Dollar Paraclse-that
Is the Valley.
Getting an EyefuI
We sincerely hope that the Wis
consin delegates get a. eve full Of
the Valley before they depart. All
they have 10 DO * drive over the
sections excellent paved highways
and absorb a lot Of scenery. Doing
this. We wager anything within or
without reason that they viii alter
their opinions q the Magic Valley.
and. upon returning home, tell the
real estate beard where to park
their bodies.
Dan Moody. the states governor.
accompanied them and did q lot Of
explaining.
And u rs reported that Dan
Moo1v went 70 MatamoroS. attend
&C 9 luncheon and refused 70 touch
his beer. Re is dry. not only IN
theory. bu. Ia practice. Which Is
very cOmmendabie.