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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13

formed . company union whic IN
he named Southwest Miners OF
America and he got several hun
dred men to go back to work I'M
der the 1917 scale.
Lewis on Scene.
The Iowa Southern Utilities
20. owns one mine here (the Ster-
ling mine) and they offered to
pay Sl.75 for pickwOrk and Sc a
day for day labor. But John Lewis
said no. He said there shall be
no backward step, but ) or &
months later he and his cohorts
formed a new scale for the Iowa
miners that were still mernbers Of
the U. M. w. A.; this scale wa.
Sl.6O for pickwork and $3.50 for
day labor. so it seems that John
Lewis is worse than the I.L.U. Co.
Banks Go Broke.
Last winter or to be more exact
the 25th of January three banks
owned by Will Bradley closed its
banker last winter have not been
workers and farmers lost nearly
everything they had. One of these
banks was located in South Cen
treville, one in Promise City and
one in Mystics
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Centreville, Iowa.

Centreville, Iowa.
Daily Worker:
We do not very often see any
letters from Iowa ia The Daily
Worker and / can not understand
the reason for this.
My occupation has been coal
mining for the last 20 years. In
1917, 1918 and 1920 we had what
would call prosperity for the
coal operators here. In 1918
they dumped their coal in the ears
and received from 6 to 7 dollars
a ton and paid the miners S1.4S
for digging it out or as a miner
would say for piclSwork and they
paid SO cents a ton for loading
after a Sullivan machine.
Scale Down Prices.
Sometime during the year 1920
they raised the "pickwork" prize
to 2 dollars Son and S1.31 for
loading and this scale continued
until the 31st of March 1927.
Then the operators began to
holler and telling people they were
headed for the poorhouse and they
served notice on the miners that
they would have to work under
the 1917 scale. 60 --' -''''''1 have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13

working for the same old reason
that there is no room for them in
the Union. Because they are I'M
skilled workers. These above-men
toned workers are the most ex-
plotted, they earn from ten to fiji
teen dollars a week.
May be it is opportune but would
not you answer these few questions.
What should worker do in such d
case as the one mentioned?
What should a worker do regard
ing the organization controlled by
the agents of the bosses of which
he is member?
How should union be organized
in order to eliminate the above men,
toned shortcomings in the hotel and
restaurant industry?
A Member of the vatel Club.
Editorial Note: The Cleveland
hotel workers strike is typical of
A. F. of L. craft narrowness ami
betrayal. Forced into the strike
against their own wishes, because
of the pressure of the skilled work
ers, the A. F. of L. cook misleaders
left the unskilled and organized
workers stranded and at the tender
mercies of the bosses, and done
more yoeman services in help break
ing the strike than the bosses could
do.
What is the answer? Clearly the
organization of all food workers,
skilled and unskilled, Negro and
white, into an industrial union. Such
today is the Food and clearinghouse
Workers Industrial Union, based up
on a clear cut program of class
struggle and able to lead the food
workers in determined fight against
the bosses.
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The miners that worked for this
bankers last winter have not been
paid yet. Most of the mines
around here are working open
shop now. Two of them, the
Center and STERLING" have
signed up with the Fishwick out
fit.
Farmers Plight Terrible.
The conditions of the most of
the farmers around here is pitt
able. According to the local news
paper there will be 20 foreclosures
on farmhouses in Appanoose
County this fall, but it is even
worse in Wayne county west of
here.
There the sheriff will have to
make 36 trips. What the condi-
ton is in the rest of the state is
easy to guess.
The farmers are just getting a
few cents pound for their cattle
and hogs and beef and bacon are
30 and IS cents a pound in the
city market places.
Miners and farmers and all
workers. vote the workers party
ticket, the Communist ticket.
"A BOLSHEVIK MINER.
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to close their mines dow n.
Ranker Is Rose

TO close their mines down.
Banker Is Boss.
In the town where | live Gen
treville) is banker by the name
VIII. Bradley; he had some mort
cages on some of the mines here
IN AppanOOse County a few years
ago. 1t happened that two miners
got killed III two of these mines.
The widows brought damage suits
and were awarded q substantial
>um OF money. isIt quick as a
tiger was this sounded viii.
Bradley, and foreclosed an bot.,
these mines and the miners wi
dows never got a red cent.
Hires Scabs.
In the early summer of 1927
VIII Bradley hired a bunch of
scabs to work in one of his mines
dhe Garfield mine) near Mystic.
Iowa. Some of the miners went
out there to picket but big Bill
had hired the local sheriff to 20
out there with poison gas and
machine gun and he drove them
off one or two times with the tear
gas.
While this was going on a faher
by the name of Pete Agneson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
CONN. WORKERS
RALLY TO THE C.P.
ELECTION DRIVE
Turn From Three Boss
Parties to Communists
Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades:

Daily Worker,
Dear Comrades:
For the first time in the history
of Norwalk, Conn, the Communist
Party held an election rally. The
response of the workers was enthu-
siastic, resulting in a meeting that
surpassed our most optimistic ex-
pectations. There were about 300
workers present, of whom a great
many were unemployed, nevertheless
we sold so Daily Workers, and four
dollars worth of additional litera-
IRE such as Working Glass Against
Capitalist Glass, etc. A collection Of
three dollars was realized towards
the election campaign. Eight work
ers signed applications to join the
Party. 1t is noteworthy fact that
the workers were so interested in
our speakers that they stayed
through the entire meeting which
lasted for two and half hours.
We realize that a direct cause of
the. interest on the part of the
workers is the steadily increasing
unemployment and wage cutting
which is becoming daily fare here.
Norwalk has many nationally known
factories, which vie with each other
in exploiting the workers. For in
stance the Cluett & Peabody main
tanned a large shirt factory here
for over twenty-five years, employ
ing about 800 people. Within the
past few weeks the workers have
been reduced to half and now comes
official notice that the other four
hundred are to be discharged, the
plant discontinued. In The Crofut
& Knapp hat factory, otherwise
known as the Dobbs people, or the
million dollar hat factory, there is
only shameful pretense of activity.
The workers are beginning to
realize that the crooked republican
machine in Connecticut is not in
terested in them as human beings.
but as tools through which they can
make more money. That the workers
are awakening is evidenced by their
response to our program. One more
fact of interest is that local press
refuses us every bit of publicity
and yet the workers come.
MIRIAM ASH.
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BLDG. SERVICE
WORKERS BULLIED
Vicious Gang Runs the
Union"
Chicago III.

Cnlcdgo, Ill.
Daily WORKER
The Public Safety Mag. I'VE pub
lished by the BC:lding c>rvice EN-
ployes International Union, July,
1880 issue, gives a good birds-eye
view of the so-called higher strategy
of labor. One-man dictatorship for
the international. One-man dicta-
torship for each local union. In
creased per capt. tax. Part two:
Reward for the rank and file men,
bership from this higher strategy:
attend meetings or be fined.
Expulsions Rife.
Expelled if voice is raised against
dictator. Pay dues whether en-
ployed or unemployed. Work at
own trade, if there is any work; pay
dues anyway and keep their mouths
shut.
Those who transgress on this pro-
gram are first met with fines, sus-
pensions from work, threats of be-
ing taken for a ride, beatings, death.
Then sluggers are put to work.
Failing in all this the gunner are
called on.
Frame-Up Used.
If the militant worker who strug-
giles against this higher strategy is
still able to talk a charge is framed,
framed trial or no trial at all, but
out he goes. expelled.
Many tricks are used. Today the
most popular is to call the expelled
worker a stool-pigeon, a scab or a
Communist.
Fortunately the workers now have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
CALL FOR
sept. % IN CHI.
t. y. U.L. Membership
Meet Friday, Sept. II

CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-THE I'M
employment Councils Of Chicago, in
conjunction with the Trade Union
Unity League, has already sent out
it call for the Sept. 2Sth confer
ence to hundreds of workers organ
izations. The Sept. 18th conference
will be held in the Peoples Auditor
ium Sunday, Sept. 28th, at 10 a. m.
sharp
The Unemployment Conference
will help to mobilize greater num-
bers of employed and unemployed
workers behind the Unemployment
Bill, and for unemployment relief.
All workers organizations are urged
to elect delegates. Send in creden-
tials to the T.U.U.L, 20 So. Lin
coin st.
Membership Meet Sept. II.
The Trade Union Unity League
of Chicago is arranging a general
membership meeting for Friday,
Sept. 18th, at the Peoples Audit
orium, 2457 w. Chicago Ave, at
8 p. m,
The membership meeting will deal
with the problem of building up the
T.U.U.L. in the city of Chicago.
Comrade Wagenknecht, National
Organizer Of the T.U.U.L., will
speak on the "Organize and Strike
Fund" of 100000. He will deal
with the purposes of the fund, the
role of the T.U.U.L., and ways and
means of carrying through the cam.
paign successfully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
ANLC RAPS CITY
DISCRIMINATION
Prevents Eviction of
Jobless Worker
by Worker Correspondent
VOI1NrCTnUJNT Soxo+ 10 TLo,,

by Worker Correspondent
YOUNGSTOWN, Sept. 12.-Thous-
ands of Negro steel workers have
been thrown out of the mills in
Youngstown in the last year. The
majority of them have not had a
dsy's work since the beginning of
tie economic crisis. Some report
From eight to ten days employment
tol ths last year. Misery and star
Walton prevails amongst the Negro
po32latioD N the slums OF this city.
Ret entity job opened OH the City
water lrcgect. About 500 workers
are employed at this job, but not a
sinzis Negro worker is being hired.
Org DAY Negro worker who looked
more like white than Negro was
put to work by mistake of the en-
ployrnert agent, but the same wor-
ker was kicked out the next day
when The management happened to
identity this worker as Negro.
The A.N,L.C. branch of Youngs-
town took this question up at the
last meeting and decided to put up
= fight against this discrimination.
a committee was elected to appear
before the city council at its next
meeting. Notice of this was pub
iished in the City Press and Negro
workers jammed the City Hall last
Monday night when the City Council
met.
Comrade Dixon the president of
The answer of the bosses council
was that they can do nothing to
'elp the unemployed.
All the workers left the city hall
soon as this question was closed
nd marched to the Workers Center,
lere meeting was held, exposing
~ city government as ten agency
the bosses. All the workers in
% hall who were not members of
A.N.L.C. Joined the organization.
Amongst the workers was one
who ha dnotice of eviction served
upon him for non-payment of rent
This question was taken up and %
workers volunteered to guard the
workers house and stop eviction of
this worker.
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SId1LeiS VINO are fullng II, THIS
organization is the Vatel Club, 349
w. 48th Street, N. Y. City, COM
posed of French workers.
To illustrate my contention | will
give you one of their (the clique)
last tricks in which I was involved
together with a bunch of five other
workers. On August the fifth we
were given jobs as cooks for a
Cleveland s Hotel, and on the same
day shipped to Cleveland through
the care of the chef of the Pennsyl-
vania Hotel who had all sorts of
kindness" for US! Minute steaks,
Pullman car all fare paid, one way
only! This was not all, when we
got to Cleveland, somebody was
there waiting for US, took US into
his car and headed straight for the
Hotel where rooms were given to
US, guests rooms, if you please.
Besides lots of advices of which the
most important was that we should
use the main entrance if we had to
go out.
Used as Scabs.
Why all these attentions? for we
are not used to it. The workers
are roughly handled usually. Well,
we soon found out. Next morning
we were set to work and began to
talk to the other workers about what
kind of place it was, to be so
kindly treated, they told US that the
cooks and walters were out on a
strike and that we were hired to
break the strike, here was the rea-
son of our kind handling" Some
of us wanted to quit right away but
an obstacle arose, we were broke,
having been out of work for a long
time, | had two dollars left and the
others had even less. So l stayed
there one week to get enough money
for my fare back.
Typical A. f. of l.. Strike.
Now | will tell you a little of
what | saw during these few days.
| learned first that the strike was
under the leadership of the A. F.
OF l.. saw there working two
French vegetable girls whose hus-
bands are out on strike from the
same hotel. / saw some Negro
cooks still working because there
is no room for them in the Union.
Busboys, Dishwashers, Kitchen
helpers, Salad Girls, Vegetable girls
and many other workers are still
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hlJ by drought.
On account of the drought there
are very few good potatoes and no
one will have hay enough to keep
the cows milking all winter.
Two out of every five empty
houses have signs eve Use DelavaI
Separators" sticking on a post in
front.
Last year Mr.. Reigle paid $35
per month and board for men to
make hay and harvest. This year
three families came from Flint and
lived in the empty house and worked
for Reigle for their groceries.
Gyp Workers.
My 20-year-old boy went to
Ohio and worked 9 days in
B. & o. graders camp. He got
a slip saying the company owed
him $l.27 and they took out three
weekly payments of $3.50 on an
old secondhand watch worth SIS
that they got him to agree to
pay S45 for. Then they laid off
the crew.
Can't Pay For Machine.
Dan Ross of Mellin Township
Altoona County, could not hire a
machine to do his threshing, so he
resurrected an old Nickolds & Shep-
ard 22x26 handled separator that
Mr.. Tom McGregor says he used
to run with horsepower so years
ago.
They hooked on an old Ford en-
CINE with the belt wheel on the shaft
right back of the engine and Mrs.
Ross stands by the engine to throt-
tie it down if it goes too fast for
the old eparator-she had to stand
there all day while they were
threshing for fear it would tear to
pieces the old separator.
Some stock men are realizing
$4.25 to $3.50 for their fat steers
and yearlings by trucking them to
Detroit, 230 miles.
But if you want a cut or chunk
of fresh beef it is IS to % cents
pound. Sugar is w cents for
brown and cents for white. The
Hoover-Green- Woodruff ticket will
be "swelled with alum this year"
S. w. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
4LS PRES. FOR
TOILERS HELPING
CUT OWN WAGES
But Workers Will
Answer by Fight
(By a Worker Correspondent

y " ~ ~ wv wv NSf(N'b~N''S/
TACOMA, Wash.-W. C. Rueg.
nitz, President of the Loyal Legion
of Loggers and Lumbermen, which
is a company union known through
out the Northwest as the Ais, spoke
here at Wheeler, Osgood Co., door
manufacturer, for Is minutes dur
ing the noon hour.
He stated that conditions are bad,
and thousands of workers are I'M
employed and thousands are work
ing only part time; but "times will
be better in six months, one year,
or three years." if the workers will
only cooperate with their employers,
and then the employers will coop
crate with the workers. perhaps
you are!" he said, "but you don't
show it, and you must come up to
our Ais meetings to discuss present
conditions" He said that Soviet
Russia sends lumber, and pulpwood
here to this country, and that's the
reason for the present business de-
preston and therefore unemploy-
ment.
He said nothing about Soviet
Russia in regards to the Five Year
Plan, or that big business is con-
cerned only with profits they can
squeeze out of the workers.
In regards to the employers CO.
operating with the workers -
Wheeler, Osgood has shown in the
time, they fire the older workers
who have families to support and
hire school boys Ia to 16 years of
age for two dollars a day to take
the jobs of older workers who were
receiving three-forty per day at a
terrific speed-up, for the same hours
of labor.
Ruegnitz said nothing about get
ting a living wage for the workers,
who cannot support family decent
ly on So or S3.40 day.
1t is this same Ruegnitz who
wrote the letter, recently exposed in
the Daily Worker, offering the SER
vices of the Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen to the mill
owners to combat the militant work
ers who are fighting for better
wages and conditions. All lumber
workers must join the National
lumber Workers Union which is
eading the workers in their fight
against wage cuts, and expose the
betrayal of the Company Unions
ike the Ais.
UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
FRUITS ROT IN
ORCHARDS AS The
jOBLESS STARvE
City and Farm Toilers,
Unite!
Huntington, L. l., N. Y.
nailv Worker

ASultOlS Odlly WOIheEs
Comrade: I work out in the
country. At this time of the year
The trees are loaded It'll fruit
apples, peaches, pears and so on.
But there are very few attempts
oeing made to pick this fruit and
30 it is LIT rotting on the ground.
The farmers and rich estate owners
say that with the present market
prices they receive, there is no
profit i'll having the fruit picked.
It is ~uch the same with garden
produc only the best, fancy vege-
tables are selected to go on the
tables of the rich. The rest-the
culls that formerly went to the
workers but are now a drug on the
market-are discarded or fed to
farm animals.
While Jobless Starve.
In the meantime hundreds of
thousands of jobless, hungry work
ers walking the streets in the big
cities, would be only too glad 10
have those tons of wasted farm
produce to feed their starving fami-
lies, but of course, as they are broke,
there would be no profit in sending
it to them. l wonder if the monkeys
would allow themselves to starve in
a land of plenty?
The daily capitalist papers are
printing many letters from their
readers containing fanciful and fan
tastic solutions" of the unemploy-
lent problem. AS for myself can
ee only one solution: for the agri-
ultural and city workers to unite
mder the leadership of the Com
munist Party and establish Work
ers Socialist Soviet Republic.
f AGRICULTURAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
Mich. Farmers
Hard Hit By
Growing Crisis
Have No Hay to Keep the Cows Milking All
This Coming Winter-Debts Heavy
Arrest Young Farmers Fer Daring Catch Fish
to Exc Out Living
Barton City, Michigan.


To the Daily WORKER
The of farming is fast getting squeezed out of
North Michigan farmers.
Their and nephews and nces relations that have
been in the factories keeping them in clothes and guns and
ammunition to hunt with coming home live off of pa
and and the old a-to find the old farm up with
back taxes and the wardens keeping them from fishing
their trout streams.
Several country boys have laid in jail to 80 days for
catching few fish to put the otherwise empty table
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
SPEED UP AGRICULTURAL
WORKERS.
Clovis. n. Me,

Clovis, n. Mex.
1t is not uncommon for one
man to work 1000 acres here in
row crop. Corn, maize cafir, and
sudan grass are safe crops. One
man is hired. Tractor, two row
cultivators and combine are used.
Trucks cary this grain to the
elevators right from the combine.
10 to Is men were formerly
needed to work 1000 acres and
harvest the yield.
A WORKER CORRESPONDENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
Suggests Strike
Fund Stamp

New York.
Comrade Editor:-
In building our T. U. U. L.
revolutionary strike fund of $780,
900 ! think we should have a so
cents strike fund stamp to be sold
to all workers.
If such a stamp should be is
sued, suggest that we employed
workers, each one of us buy a
stamp for one unemployed worker.
l believe every class-conscious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
.RCA-VICTOR TO LAY OFF
$4,000 WORKERS If new
MODEL RADIO DOESN'T SELL
Terrific Speedup to Rush Through New Model;
Hire and Fire Right and Left
Brutal Straw Bosses Bully and Fire Groups of
Young Workers
Camden, N. J.

Daily WORKER
Conditions in R. c. A-Vctor Camden plant are bad The
very low for the hours you have put n especially
the night shfe, where you have work hours night
and nights week, for low Sc hour If vol
take night off you're fired.
Firing Right and Left
The bosses have policy of firing to make show of m
ing" help.
On the main belt line between departments Is and is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-13
EX-SOL-DIER RAPS
FISH and WHOLE
FASCIST CREW
Urges Vets to Join the
Workers Fight

New ork.
Daily Worker:
Hamilton j. Fish, Jr., writes a
lot Of bunk in the September issue
Of the Foreign Service" a magazine
Of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The stinky fish was likely one of
those Paris parasites during the war
and never heard a gun fire. He
says:
Anti-SOviet Bunk.
Conditions in Russia prove Com.
munism holds no hope for the I'M
employed" But quite naturally he
fails to state that there is very
little unemployment in Russia and
that the masses are being educated
and have made more progress in
the last ten years under Communism
than they made in a century under
the former rulers.
The Smelly Fish.
The stinky Fish speaks of the
high standards of living in the U.
5. but there are thousands upon
thousands of honest workers in the
U. S. who are starving and many
of them are eX-soldiers of which
he says nothing.
Right on the A. F. of L. Burocrats.
He says the American Fedora
ton of Labor is the most consistent
and bitterest opponent of Commun-
ism.
But he fails to state that the
workers rule in Soviet Russia and
that there are eleven million or
more union members in the us,
SIR.
He speaks of free speech in the
U. 5. but he means for the rich. ,
A Budding Fascist.
He delivered the main address at
the Cun) Americanization rally by
the Veterans of Foreign Wars in
Union Square on May LIST, a counter
attraction to the Communist DEM
onstration. He says the American
people are not blind to the facts.
Sure not and all the Fish in the
u 5. cannot fool all the people of
the U. S. When they know that SO
men rule the country.
Many Suicides.
There have been los suicides in
Cleveland and suburbs from Janu-
airy LIST to July LIST, 1880. The prin-
elpal cause of which can be laid at
the doors of the SO rulers of the
U. S. and the likes of Fish.
But the ex-soldiers that were
fooled once by the kind of lies that
Fish hands out are not going to
get bit again, or commit suicide but
stand up like real men and espose
such rats as Fish, Vol and Green
and fight with the workers and for
the workers.
Join the W.E.S.M.L.
Three cheers for the Ex-Service-
mems League. The ex-soldiers must
not and cannot forget the world
war and fight against another war
LUZ Uhe posses. Inc next war must
be for the workers when war will
come.
Workers and ex-soldiers, winter
is near, let's join hands and demand
unemployment insurance and sup
port the only party that fights for
the workers. nd oppressed in all
countries-the Communist Party.
Fight for Life.
EX-sol~ic--, let me urge you as a
buddy and one who served in the
trenches and also in No Mans Land
and other militant organizations.
We must have living and chance
to join the EX-Servicemen League
and other militant organizations.
We must have a living and chance
to live as humans and not like rats
or dogs.