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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

And only five or SIX OF these each
day to replace those who dropped
out because they could not stand
the stretch-out. These Negro women
are among the worst exploited
workers in the South. They work
in the stemming department, among
the filthy tobacco dust, for wages
as low as five and six dollars a
week.
Since 1927 the Reynolds Company
has built four of its largest cigar
cite factories, and their output to-
day is larger than ever before. In
1929 the dividends paid by the COM
pany were over S32,00O,O0O or four
times the amount paid the wage
slaves. Notwithstanding the great
increase in production they employ
5000 less hands than in 1927 due to
naturalization.
Up to October, 1928, the cigarette
machines in use made SO packs of
cigarettes per minute. In October
November, 1928, they installed new
and improved machinery which pro-
duced 72 packs of cigarettes per
minute, thus doubling the output
with the same labor. And in January
of 1880 these machines have been
speeded up to SO packs per minute.
Two years ago five workers pro-
duced $50 packs of cigarettes per
minute; today two workers produce
176 packs per minute,
These tobacco workers receive an
average wage of less than S11.00
per week. They are merely servile
slaves slowly starving to death.
Twice the A. F. of L. has sold
them out. Once in 1920 when the
International Tobacco Workers
Union, affiliated with the A. F. of
L., boosted a 5000 membership
among the tobacco workers. Again
in 1927. Neither time were any
strikes called. Neither time did the
ITWU make any serious demands
on the company for wage increases
or shorter hours. When the workers
began to ask for something to be
done the officials sold out and left.
Today the tobacco workers. condi-
tons are miserable.
The workers have done away with
the fake A. F. of L. Their only hope
is the Trade Union Unity League.
Under the leadership of the T.U.U.
l.. we will march forward to shorter
work days, increased pay and better
living conditions. We must build a
strong T.U.U.L. among the tobacco
workers. Workers, support the T.U.
I'LL, it is your union.
w. B.-TOBACCO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

/ put in the Communist movement,
life would not be worth living.
The system in vogue in Canada ID
something like this: The Canadian
government locates a man on 800
acres of land. He has to get credit
from the start. After he has COM
pleted his three-year Homestead
duties and paid SO an acre, he is
given title to the land. But here's
the joker: The farmer has no funds.
He goes to his local bank manager
and is asked what collateral he has.
His land is valued at say $4,000,
his stock at $4,000, making total as
sets of $4,000. On this amount the
banker will lend providing you are
hard worker) 800. If anything
happens to your crop for two years
in succession, you have developed
into tenant farmer, and will SO re-
main to the end of your life. As .
result of these conditions approx
imately 81 per cent of the land is
not really owned by the men who
farm it. Yours for the national
ization of land. &C. E. 7.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
TENANT FARM SLAVERY
Twenty Years at It. And Peuniless
(By a Farmer Correspondent

(By q Farmer Correspondent
CLIMAX, S SASKATCHEWAN,
Canada. Comrades: AS member
of the Communist Party of Canada,
/ would like to greet my brother
slaves through the columns of The
Daily Worker, so here goes:
/ have been farming for 20 years
in Canada. Had nothing to start with
and if sold out would have nothing
now. During the last 10 years l
have raised close to 10000 bushels
of grain, and today l cannot rustic
the price of sub to the Daily.
The only difference between the
workers in the city and those on the
farm is that our masters see that
the latter get three squares a day
to keep them healthy, strong and
able to work 16 hours a day for
eight months in the year, in order
to swell the profits of the machine
companies, banks and grain trusts.
When one has done nothing else
for 20 years but one job, one simply
cannot break away. Am deeply
greeved for my comrades in the in
dustrial trades, and but for the hope
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

Union has gone over the top above
ali expected figures.
Our aim is to reach the level of
fully developed industrially capital
ist countries and above it.
We seamen and workers go with
great enthusiasm the way shown to
US, by our great teacher Comrade
Lenin and have victories on all
fronts in the construction of Social
ism. A short time ago we celebrated
the twelfth year of our November
Revolution.
In other countries class conscious
workers had the same celebrations.
1. is true, you have not such oppor-
tunities as we, because there is still
the rule Of capitalists in your coun-
tries.
We have heard from American
comrades, who come here from
abroad, how hard life is under the
yoke Of capitalism, how you strug-
gle against capitalism. We know
of the cruelty of capitalist state
practiced upon Gastonia textile
strikes. We condemn the deeds of
the hired hangmea of the capitalists
against the working class of U. s.
A. and all over the owrld. We ex-
press our contempt for the social
traitors, the Socialist Party of u.
S. A. and AFL--the hirelings OF
American imperialism.
We send our greetings Of solidar-
ity, sympathy and admiration to the
Gastonia strikers.
We fully understand how hard and
great are your struggles. Further,
you know, that world imperialism,
including that of America is rap
idly preparing a new imperialist war
against the Soviet Union, the only
workers republic in the world.
World Imperialism sends the
bloody Chinese generals to attack
the U.S.S.R. They provoke wal
Continued vi Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

he turned out to really be for the
workers would get fired right off.
In the 1928 Tidewater Oil strike
the Workers Council sold the men
out. That's what the company
unions always do.
Seemingly not satisfied with one
company union outfit alone the
Standard starts athletic clubs, social
and benevolent outfits, etc. Then
they feed US bull in the summer at
the picnics they give US.
Now the latest thing l want to
warn the Standard Oil workers
against is the new club formed by
company men in the cracking coils
department at Constable Hook STAN
dard plant. Why, the fact that the
slave driver foreman Frank Sher-
wood at the dinner at the Y.M.C.A.
said the club would be of "great
benefit to the men," don't that show
that the club is for the company.
Then there's that reception planned
by that phony company outfit-the
Social, Athletic and Beneficial As
ISOLATION of the Bayonne Standard
Oil Plant. That's part of Rockefel-
ler's game too.
Those are what makes the Rock
efellers, Teagle and all the rest get
away with the big lay-offs after
speeding US up; get away with wage
cuts, long hours and no safety pro-
lection.
No company phony outfits, men,
we want a real, fighting union, and
not the A. F. of l.. either, that got
paid time and again by Rockefeller
to keep out of Constable Hook.
CASE & CAN SLAVE
of Rockefeller.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

WILL | AY OFF
40 P. c. IN DEPT.
OF STANDARD OIL
Men Growing Militant
and Are for Strike
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
WHITING, Ind.-Let's look at
production end of the Standard Oil
Co. refinery here in Whiting. What
is happening to the shift workers,
such as firemen, stillmen and pump
ers?
In the past six years they have
built two rows of stills Of % units
that have taken the place of several
old rows of stills. This has cut the
number of shift workers needed, as
they don't need as many firemen on
the new stills.
Neither do they need the ash
gangs anymore as the new stills are
fired by oil instead of coal. And
now on the paraffine side they are
building one unit of stills that will
do away with whole row of old
stills.
Now there will be some more still
men, firemen and helpers that will
have to push wheel barrow for SO
cents per hour.
They are also building an addition
on the new boiler house which will
shut down the other boiler house so
some more of the steam department,
old timers, will be denoted or laid
off. In the acid works, when the
new acid plant is done, it will cut
the force about 40 per cent.
We of the local T.U.U.L. group
have heard the grumbling for some
time among the workers, and it is
getting louder all the time. Some
of the old timers are talking strike,
and, so let us have one, an organized
strike to fight against the coming
wage cuts which have been started
by the steel bosses and which will
be in oil industry pretty soon.
Let US fight layoffs and unem-
ployment. Let US prepare to fight
for the seven-hour five-day week,
for unemployment insurance, for
equal division of work, against
speed-up. Why should we producers
of all have none and those who pro-
duce nothing have all. We've got
to fight the Rockefeller interests
along side of all other workers. We
must fight the whole capitalist sys-
tenn for it gives us workers nothing
but low wages, unemployment, STAR
walton and wars.
AN OIL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
THOSE WORKING
" Q R K 0 MI Y A
PA R T OF D AY
Sent Home; Speed-Up
Growing
(By q Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
WHITING, Ind.-In the past few
months there have been several hun
drcd layoffs, and the men that are
working are forced to produce just
as much as they did with a full
force working, at the Standard Oil
Refinery, here.
The bosses are doing this by differ
ent methods, such as overtime,
which they are putting over in the
boiler shop now, Why not recall
some of the men that were laid off
and give them a chance to live?
By working overtime we keep other
men on the street.
In the barrel house the men come
to work and probably will work I'M
til noon, then they are sent home.
Maybe they viii get to work four
days week.
In the candle factory, where there
is a bonus system, the workers are
speeded up to make a few extra
cents maybe, and by Increasing
their production some of them get
sent home at noon.
AS one man was saying who has
worked there about 20 years in the
tin shop, they have bonus and they
work like creased lightning and do
not make enough bonus to really
pay for their increased production.
If you stop to breathe for a
couple of minutes the 2 by fore
man wants to know if the whistle
has blown or makes some wise
crack like that.
And in the paint department the
second painters go like they were
working piece-work pushed along
by small time pushers like Vernon
Perry and Pete Stomberg, men who
got their jobs by being suckers.
They are backed up by the weak
backboned foreman, Bill Whiting,
and slaver-driver Myers, the super.
The Trade Union Unity League
will organize US here and then
things will change.
S. 0. SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
FROM "RED" HENDRIX
Workers Defend Knoxville Organizer

rBy q Worker Correspondent
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. = I am
sending in a few lines to let you
nd tba workers of the country know
ABOUT the struggles we are having
down here in trying to organize the
workers in the South. OF course,
you know all about what happened
in Gastonia and you also know that
seven of us are marked by the boss
es to spend living death in the
cells of the North Carolina peniten-
tiary for our part in trying to or
ganize the textile workers Of Cas-
tonia.
There the workers, like the work
ers all over the country, were not
making enough to live on, were ac-
tually starving. And because we, I'M
de- sc leadership of the Trade
vi. Nnity League and the Ma
ton Vile Workers Union, which
organ Rll workers, regardless of
race q Nor, tried to organize to
hotter fonditions we were SEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

fenced to long years in prison.
And today, as / see the workers
going around and begging the boss
es to let them slave in their sweat
shops, | look and wonder if they
will be doing the same next year or
if they will join hands in millions
strong and demand better wages
and better living conditions, and
that they may say to hell with the
Carpenters and BulwinsIes, the tools
Of the mill bosses.
We are still going on with the
work in the South. But the bosses
amt asleep. They are doing all their
might to stop US. The other day in
Knoxville, '-enn., they formed mob
and tried to lynch one of our organ
izers, but when they saw that the
workers were prepared. to defend
themselves and the organizer with
their lives, they got cold feet and
changed their minds.
RED" Hendrix.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
Police Close Halls to
Meetings Called for
Fight on Mexico Terror

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 6.-The
Buffalo bosses and their city gov
eminent, which last week sentenced
II workers to a month in Jail be-
cause they took part in an unem-
ployed demonstration, are frantical-
ly trying to break up or prevent
meetings called to protest against
the terror in Mexico and Wall Street
Ortiz Rubio attack on the SoviAt
Union.
Louis Fernandez, Latin American
organizer of the International La
Dor Defense, is being barred from
one meeting after another he ar
ranges. The police intimidate the
hall owners, and cause them to can
eel contracts made to use halls. The
meetings are being held, however,
in private houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
TAXI BOSSES IN
SCHEMES, AVOID
PAYING THE men
Exploitation Is Worse
With New Year
by q Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
The taxi drivers or as they are
called 'hack" drivers are more ex-
plotted in 1880 than they ever were
before, due to increase in taxicabs
by the fleet owners and more I'M
employed men who take a job for
q day or two as hackman.
The Bon-Tor and Mayflower
Tsxi Corporation which is located at
150th st. aud Gerard Ave. which
employs over 400 drivers is con-
stantly schemirg ways and means of
avoiding hiring extra help which is
absolutely needed. For instance, the
night driver when he pulls in after
ID hours labor cannot leave the car
before he gasses her up and some
times has to wait one hour or two
in line before his turn. The very
same applies to our day men, as
before the company had three Oh
four men employed to gas the cars
The second scheme to avoid pay
ing their men is that the cars must
be inspected every four months and
the drivers must spend their own
time having them inspected.
Fellow Workers, it is because we
are not organized that we tolerate
such conditions. With a militant
Union led and controlled by our own
drivers under the leadership of the
T.U.UI., the bosses would not dane
to threaten US with bawling out for
low booking. Let us build garage
committees in every garage and
then we will get our demands.
TAYT DRIVERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
d. " R.R. SLAVES
SEEING Sham OF
HOOVER COUNCIL
Got Wage Cuts Despite
Bosses Promise"
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
HOBOKEN, N. 1.-THE Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western R. R. is
controlled by the Van Sweringen
brothers who also control the Erie
R. R., the Baltimore & Ohio, the
Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hooking
Valley, the Nickel Plate lines, the
Lehigh Valley R. R., etc.
The Van Sweringens were leaders
at Hoover's fascist business council
where they promised" Hoover mo
wage cuts" True the wage scale
was not altered but all BRIDESMAIDS
helpers had been getting over five
dollars day were reduced to the
status of laborers which pays the
starvation wage of $3.50 per day.
Other workers were gyped on
overtime work, Identification cons
truction workers were fired educ to
cold weather." the bosses said; short
time clerical and engineering work
ers were laid off, etc.
This occurred Immediately after
the cessation of Hoover's council.
The Van Sweringens knew they
were lying when they chimed in
with Hoover's cheerio chorus but
they held Green to his bootlicking
promise of "no strikes" when they
sent 5000 striking freight trainmen
back to work on the Van Sweringen
owned Erie R. r. through the boss
controlled U. S. Meditation Board.
The Van Sweringen's labor policy
is one of ruthless exploitation; few
safety helps are provided but the
tool shacks, hand cars, etc., are
plastered with "anti-carelessness'
posters. No respirators were pro-
vided all last summer for the pneu-
matte hammer operators-the men
lay awake all night coughing with
their lungs full of concrete dust
This stone dust is fatal if a worker
is subjected to it for any length of
time, as statistics on quarry and
subway workers show. Track work
ers, car cleaners, window washers
freight handlers, construction work.
ers, are all pushed to the limit ant
paid the lowest wages possible.
The Lackawanna as well as al
railroad workers have got to organ.
ize under the Trade Union Unity
League. The old craft unions have
shown they help the bosses. Besides
they have left hundreds of thous.
ands Of ,unskilled railroad workers
unorganized. So it's the T.U.U.L
for the railroad workers.
ID. L. & w. SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
SIMMONS PLANT
A JOB FOR TUUL
Wages Cut There Is to
so Per Cent
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q W0rke7 Correspondent
KENOSHA, Nis.-I work at the
Simmons Co. bed and furniture fac
tory.
The conditions here are getting
worse every day. They have cut
wages from Is per cent to so per
cent in many departments.
All the bosses seem to think of
is how to produce cheaper at the
expense CT the workers.
Last wear the Trade Union Unit
League sent aroand 'eafle: and
Rad one meeting and then we never
heard from them again until last
week. They should not wait so long
because the time is about ripe for
organization. You should have seen
and heard the excitement over last
weeks leaflet. The workers were
eager to get hold of one and they
passed it on to the next fellow.
The grainers had a little strike
here Morday, jar. 27. The men
came in and found a new price list
with a good cut of course. They
refused to go to work. Then the
Super came and gave them line
which they would not take. Abou.
II o'clock the Super gave in and
they went to work under the old
prices. They did good but they must
get all the departments to unite
with them; elect committee in
each department and when one goes
out, all go out. Here's a job for
The Trade Union Unity League.
A SIMMONS WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
Rail Magnates Make
Millions While Rail
TOilers Are Strapped


ST. PAUL, Feb. 6.--The net in
come of the Burlington Railroad in
1929 was about $29,27S, 900 accord
ing to a preliminary report of F.
H. Williamson, president of the
road. This was approximately 3d.
100000 more than the previous year.
While the railroad magnates pile
up enormous profits, the rail work
ers are steadily being thrown out
of work by "labor-saving" machin-
cry.
Meanwhile, those still at work are
finding themselves speeded up and
forced to surrender even the eight
hour day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

Dear Comrades American Seamen:
In the name of 100000 seamen
and port workers of the ports Of
Batum, Poti and Sukum BLACK
Sea- we send our proletarian,
brotherly greetings to all seamen
and pore workers Of U.S.A. as well
as to the whole working class of
America.
Dear Comrades: Today we have
had with us here your representa-
tive, Comrade who is
seaman. His greetings delivered in
the name of the American seamen
were received by us with great
enthusiasm. II is transferred to
all port workers and life boats
crews of the ports.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

You are interested in our life,
achievements and activities? You
want to know how the work started
by workers and peasants IL years
ago goes on? 1t goes ahead with
full speed and steady!
We, long ago, smashed ali CAPT
talists and counter-revolutionists in
the Soviet Union, end now in bund-
my the Socialist state we clean out
all remnants of the capitalist sys-
tenn.
We entered here on the great task
the five year Of the industrial
ization U.S.S.R.
One year of this plan has been
accomplished with great success.
The working class of the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
LAY OFF MONT.
COPPER WORKERS
Miners, Shelter Hands
Suffer
(By q Worker Correspondent

tDB U VOTheF CofItSpofNeftt(
GREAT FALLS, Mont.-The
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
is reducing forces here in the smelt-
er by large numbers, throwing hun
Irods of mer onto the streets.
1t IS expected that when the re-
adjustment is completed there will
be only twenty-five per cent Of the
original working force employed.
The same percentage Of reduction
is being applied to the Butte mines.
Already thousands of miners have
been laid off in these copper mine
hel,-hoIes.
The copper miners must be or
ganized into The Nationa; Miners
Union, which has got to reach here
soon. The workers in the copper
plants have to organize into the
Trade Union Unity League, thru the
Metal Trades Industrial League.
Ard as for the unemployed workers
being thrown on the street by the
copper POSSES, they have to form
into unemployed councils, organizing
themselves, under the TUUL.
A SHOVEL. STIFF.
Build The Daily Worker-Send
In Your Share of the $4,000 New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
Helllsh Slavery tor
NC. Tobacco Slaves--
Negroes and Whites
ing at strikers in Bayonne, 1915. The
(Bu g. Worker Correspondent)

by Worker Correspondent
WINSTON-SALEM N. CHundreds workers. and women
Negroes whites front of the
Reynolds Tobacco employment office awaiting their beg for
job They They Often with harsh and
bitter employing Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
No Phoney Outfits But
A Real Union Says A
B0yOume Standard Slave
(BN q Worker Corresasadentl

q CoTTes4Sadent)
BA1ONNE, n. JHere in the Standard Oil rener
old unonWOrker Council which always
came to test We supposed the Workers Counciexpt
the company-bu
picks all the because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08
Greetings from A
Soviet Seaman to
us. Marine Workers

go into the organizations of the working class is the
of Soviet to the exploited of the USA
Marine workers. the Marine Workers League fighting
organization Join it. Reply this Soviet thru the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

Build the United Front of the
Working Class From the Bottom
Up--in the Industries!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-08

Build The Daily Worker-Send
in Your Share of the $4,000 New
Subs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia and Virginia
Local thundershowers tonight and to-
morrow somewhat cooler tomorrow;
increasing southerly winds, shifting to
west or northwest tomorrow.
Maryland - Showers and thunder
storms tonight and tomorrow; some
what cooler tomorrow: increasing
southerly winds, shifting to westerly
tomorrow.
West Virginia-Showers and thunder
storms tonight and probably tomorrow
cooler tomorrow.
Record for rs Hours.
Thermometsr-(Sa Saturday pm. S3;
pm, IS: IL midnight, 70; Sunday
am. 10; 8 am, IA; noon. 80: 2 pm
OF; Z pm, 8s; 8 pm, 81: IL midnight
II; am. 10; am, 10; noon, 80.
Barometer Saturday pm, 1882;
pm, 1888; IL midnight, 29.S9; (Sun-
day) am, 1888: s am, 1890: noon,
29sS: 2 pm, 1895; 4 pm, 29.S1; 3
pm, 1884; IL midnight, 1888; 4 am,
29.81: 8 am, 1913 noon, 298l.
Highest temperature, 90. occurred at
$50 pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature, IL, occurred at 7
am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, n; lowest, 81,
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey0
Today-Low tide, T:24 am. and 7
pm; high tide, 1928 am. and 1880
pm
Tomorrow-Low tide. 1881 am. and
s:07 pm; high tide, ;28 am. and 1853
pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose SAB am; sun sets
6:l8 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises SAC am; sun
sets GIT pm.
Moon rises 1880 pm; sets 1928 pm
Condition of the Water.
Potomac, clear; Shenandoah, very
cloudy.
Weather in Various Cities.