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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

liuuSCly VI luS DONlSI oHloil' w
ployees. Our factory turns out diff
ferent kinds Of clothing, from un-
derwear and coats to the wholesale
production of peasants dresses, rain
coats and so on. Our factory works
with electrical motors arranged for
the new conveyor system.
1 shall tell you only about the
trousers department, which occupies
a large section of the factory. There
work 300 men in two shifts day and
night. Group completes against
group and department against de-
partment for greater speed up of
production and turning out of bet.
ter quality. The most important
thing is the labor discipline. We
have no drunkards at our factory
and we are striving for a better
attendance at work and more pune
tuality. Previously one shift of our
department turned out S12 pairs of
trousers, but now, competing we
turn out from $50 to 1000 pairs.
The workers are interested in do
ing the work better.
At our factory we have no bluff
ing. The masters of our depart
ment and the economic administra-
tors are on an equal footing with
us, they strive to regulate the pass
ing of the materials that there
would be no interruption of the work
and that the cut is accurate.
By means of criticism and self
criticism we are able to overcome
all defects in our conditions of life.
We are striving for the aim to reach
and to outrun all capitalist coun-
tries. The proletariat has taken up
the task to fulfill the 5-year plan
in A years. Our factory also takes
an active part in this work. In Feb
ruary we fulfilled our monthly task
more than 100 per cent. In our
department a great deal of youth
are members of the Communists
Youth and many old Party men,
bers.
The workers of our department
wait with great eagerness for your
reply. Please, write us in particu-
lar about your everyday life and
especially about the sewing meth
DDS. Write us please about unem-
ployment, about your struggles and
the economic and political rights of
your workers.
With fraternal revolutionary
greetings,
The workers of the trousers de-
partment of the factory.
"TINJAKOFF."
30 signatures).
Address: Kharkov, Kazar k
street factory of the name of "Tin-
jakoff," the editorial board of the
"Stalnaja Igla" (Steel Needle).
My address: Feurbach Square,
apartment IS. Nehamkin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
New Tariff Will Raise
Workers Rent

Passage of the Smoot- Hawley
tariff bill will result in higher rents,
according to New York construction
bosses, as reported in the capitalist
press. The tariff will raise con-
struction costs in every part of the
country, especially by placing a duty
on cement, which at present is i'm
ported free, and the tenants will
have to pay for it, the real estate
men admit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
KICK OUT UTN TAKERS CALLS VA. TEXTILE WORKER
(By q Worker Coyrespondeut)

(By Worker Correspondent
SCHOOLFlELD, Vain the Scheduled mill subber
frames for SIS 55h0ur week. R0win hauer
work for % hour
mems work for mans
Now want to know if let this continue. The U.
leaders, German Miss Lindsay
don't do something the fire all
Several have already fired added
of work.
say to the workers of Schooed that
and file committee to take charge kick
that they will settle all troubles peaceful
w. I'LL A SCHOOLFIELD WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Overheard i'm the Plate Mills.

Speedy peedup rushing hours producing
profits mills. New installed
with helpers Charging
working heat pulling slabs high fuel
that the Schwab profits Working like hell
production getting laid off
mill workers getting gyppd after working bad steel
Accidents daily Negro workers
getting the their lives besides getting
burned pushing hot plates around under ruthless human peedup
system failure taking
the whether they should
off because of slack in the shop.
Workers, awake Organize better condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
THOUSANDS OF
ST. LOUIS ARE
STARVING NOW
Huge Lay-Offs in All
Industries
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Working condi-
lions in st. Louis are no better than
in any other city in this prosper
Gus" country. According to the most
conservative estimates, there are
about sixty thousand people unem-
ployed here. Market Street, the
regular hangout Of the most unfor-
tunate victims of this capitalist mis-
rule and wholesale robbery, the un-
employed men without families or
homes, is about five times as popu-
lated now.
Thousands Starve.
But those without families are no
exceptions. In every industry there
are thousands and thousands of men
with families laid off.
Printing Trades.
The print shop where / am en-
ployed, just like hundreds and hun
dreds of others, is daily visited by
men begging for work or for few
cents for food. And the boss, like
his fellow exploiters, is taking ad-
vantage of the cituation. At work,
average about ten hours day on
the linotype, and my salary is $50
week. But the pressman, an old
man, is no better off. He makes
$40 a week, sometimes less. Of
course we are not union members,
but not from choice. 1t is not SO
easy to join the reactionary unions
here if one does not have influence
and money.
And there is no way out of the
situation. Under the present econ
omic system, labor conditions will
grow worse all the time. The unions
will not be able to give work to
their members, and the non-union
workers will be exploited more
shamefully.
The present unemployment situa-
ton and its consequences are MAX
ing the way clear to the full devel-
opment of the class struggle and it's
ultimate end: the Communist United
States.
ST. LOUIS PRINTER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Two Socks At Ford!

Two cousins of the big Ford Worker Detroit have reached
The Worker of Chester Pa and the Ford Worker of Keane
n. J.
front of the Chester Ford plant that Petz and Holmes
edion later sentenced to 20
the fight of organizing
the workers in this speed-up inferno.
Ford Worker takes the work of fighting the
arch-exploiter Ford's speed-up.
both shop papers fair in content must point out
again that unless they gbe the workers cannot read them
What about your shop Cleveland and Detroit? And
them the Workers Correspondence
partment for review.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
"MOST UNBEATABLE BOSS STRETCHOUT HERE"
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
SCHOOLFIELD, Val want to just few words through
tell
the
unearab stretch effect here We start
before time to wash night
of till o'clock night hold jobs
orders the boss job till the whistle blows
and are NJ allowed talk other workers in the MILL
things
which Cardinals about SIT
hundred hanks "A SCHOOLFIELD WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

Wall Street Relief Urges Farmers Overthrow Capitalist System

rented it ont, and during the five
or sir years the land did not pdy
him enough to meet the to1es and
hij living expenses so he had to
take loan on it. .4
And you can never loan any
more than one third of the udlae
of the land. NoW this spring
the loan company forectosed on tie
farm. The old man toas destitute.
50 he had to be taken care of BY
the county and he Was sent 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
STRAIN KILLING
ON Phone GIRLS
Never Get Over $40 a
Week
(By q TVorko,, Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Mo.--A fertile and
virgin field for organization lies
open to Communist unions, namely
the telephone companies. Why it
has never been invaded before is a
puzzle. However, these workers are
dreadfully underpaid, considering
the intensity and nerve shattering
qualities of the work. The condi-
tons, i. e., pleasant rest rooms and
clean surroundings, are passable,
but mean little when young girl
must support herself or help sup
port family on a sum that affords
only bare subsistence.
The student telephone girl, that
is the novice, receives S14 per week,
and later as an operator her salary,
no matter how long her term of
service, never exceeds $50.
Great Strain Killing.
The work rneeessitates the con-
slant use of the voice and ear for
every minute of seven and half
hours, and in many cases is the
cause Of throat troubles and loss Of
hearing. "se ~ '.'""
The nervous strain under which
the operator is forced to work is no
less than cruel. In the first place
she is required to keep her voice at
a certain tone, and her manner and
personality at certain point. When
they vary, her livelihood is at stake.
Her job consists not. only in doing
the work needed by the patron, but
in using. her voice to wheedle the
subscriber into being overcharged
for more calls. While at her "posi-
ton" at the "board," her head must
move neither to the right nor to the
left, and her eyes must never waver
from the green and red lights d.
rectly before her. No word must
pass her lips other than that which
pertains to business. Many Tele-
phone Co. employees develop lung
and muscle troubles from sitting in
positions all day..
Most of the operators realize the
need for organization among them.
ST. LOUIS WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

dozen. Pork we get about 12 cents
per pound, that is dressed, and
beef the same price, also dressed
butter fat and butter is around So
cents q pound.
SO you gust can sit down and
fi0ure out If soe need any farm re-
lief or not. But do not belieue
IL begging Wall Street for it.
We simply got to organize under
our oion banner, that is the Red
one aDith the hammer and sickle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

schemes that ever the capitalists
invented.
For the benefit of some of the
city Workers l a0ill here relate
some prices as aUe farmers get for
our products. You can then com.
pare the prices you haze to pay
aohen you get your big pay checks.
Wheat is now so cents a bushet
and it takes about en- to produce
o1e hundred pounds of flour, and
it leaves so pounds of shorts and
Gran. Eggs we sell for II cents a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
UNEMpL. OYNENT
HITS KANSAS
MINERS HARD
Tired of Lewis and
Fishwick; Want NMU
(By d Worker Correspondent

(B3 q Worker Correspondent
MULBERRY, Kansas. - Please
give me short space in the Daily
Worker Just few lines, concern
ing Kansas. The coal miners in
this state are sure in a deplorable
condition, not much work and just
a company union. The operators,
through w. L. A. johnson, commit
sioner of the Southwest Inter
State Coal Operators Association
have notified the miners that they
will not recognize any one but
Lewis. Then the Howat faction
through their lawyer forbid the
companies to take any checkoff
from the miners pay.
Tired of Big Bull Fight.
l am sure the miners are ready
to stop paying dues for the big bull
fight. For just as long as the
miners will pay the bills, the bulls
will fight and when it is all over,
the bulls will eat in the same pas
ture, Just like it was when Howat
crawled back to the old company
U. NJ. w. The U. NJ. W. was crowd
ing Skoyhan and Bur when they
told j. L, Lewis to get Howat with
his influence to save their union or
the old u. NJ. ". was lost. The
miners supposed Howat wouldn't
go back to Lewis. But Lewis
claimed Alex had stolen $4,000
from the old U. NJ. ". But when
the U. NJ. W. got behind him that
Alex paid the bill, so we will
make him pay off again by. going
back to Jonny.
But the miners are not crazy and
can't pay their bills that easy.
Lewis will make the little fellow
obey the U. M. W. And if the rank
and file is easy enough to pay the
bills, Jonny and Alex will go back
together and kiss just the salary,
and the sky is clear with both of
our blathersllites. We want the
National Miners Union here!
j. T. Wakefield
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

by Farmer Correspondent ~
WHITE EARTH, N. d.
rant to mention one case of hoV
the farmers are created 1Uhen they
get old and not able to care for
themselves. A neighboy of mine
aoho took up q homestead here
about Twenty-Five gears ago, aoork-
ed his land as long as mp to flee
or siT gears ago.
He Vas then getting too old to
handle the land by himself, so he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
WITH THE SHOP PAPERS

REPORTS coming in of the results of the May Day shop
IA In the Sparrows Point Nd Bethlehem Steel and ship
building plants May Day the subject that to all
the far reaches of the steel shops 1t only the lack
of definite crysazaon of the good sentiment in the mills that
May First strike In the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
shops birthplace of the infamous B. o. bOssefciency pan
sentiment May Day good result of the May Day issue
of the B. o. Worker. Similarly wherever shop
issued regularly and May First issue gotten out international
Labor discussed by the workers. of whom waited
leadership inside the May First strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

on and take our right, zoe don't
need to beg When ace knoW our
strength. May noe be the first
land to follow IN the footsteps of
our Russian comrades. Get the
capitalist dope ont of your brain
and dump the parasites off your
back. ForqUdrd to Workers and
Farmers Government, not IN
hundred gears from now, but to-
morroW.
dakota FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
The Shop Paper of the Steel Workers.

THE SarrOws Point Worker mature shop The steel
workers at the Point look for month Its influence has
And it settle the of coming with
faing regularity it must widespread and careful drbu
ton Then the the Communist Party nuclei in the shops
will make extending the influence of the Party
the steel workers. organizing the revolutionary
The April is the best Eight full of work
correspondence workers. plentiful cartoons
and fair in makeup, it is attractive shop
Here good wreup that gives striking picture of helhoe
in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

some old peoples home, aOhere the
rest of the poor taxpayers haze
to pay for him, and the loan conf
pony gets the land for less than
half the Vatue of 1t, and acilL sell
the same land at its full Volue to
some other land hungry fool, and
and same story will be repeated IN
q fen gears. This is 5ust one case,
and there are thousands like it
eUeryaohere. Little or nothing has
been said about the free homestead
act, but this is one of the slickcst
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Kill TOilers to End
Poverty, Says Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, clown and
critic of capitalism in his younger
days, is now writing his own satire
in his old age. Shaw, who was one
Of the founders of the reformist
Fabian Society has now altogether
lost all sense Of reality and is
spending his days amusing the
degenerate British bourgeoisie with
worthless nonsense. One Of his
quirps is his cure for poverty which
consists in killing off every one
earning less than $4,000 year or
wanting more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
He FOUND THE
REAL SHOE union
Independent Figh is
for Workers
(By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

(By a Worker Correspondent.)
NEW YORK.-For the last II
years I have been shaving in the
shoe industry. I have been men,
Der of all the different unions which
formed in the city Of New York,
from the United Shoe Workers to
the Protective Shoe Workers Union.
Neither one meant anything for the
workers, but one was worse than
the other.
Finally, after the general office
expelled the joint council and all
the locals affiliated with the joint
council, we were at last organized
into an organization which really
fights for us, the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, which fights for
the workers and against the bosses.
No Puzzle.
After joining the Independent
Shoe Union it was no puzzle to me
why the bosses fight SO much more
against this union than against all
of the other unions. The reason
is that the Independent is a union
which fights for us and cannot
be bought off by the bosses.
At the time I joined the indie
pendent Union I was working in
the Progress Shoe Co., located at
$50 E. 102nd st. From that day
the bosses were trying to break the
union more than ever. But know
ing that the rank and file were to-
gether the bosses tried more and
more to break US.
Finally, they decided to starve
the workers. For months and
months we worked only two and
three days week. When the work.
ers asked the cause of the slack the
boss answered that if he had an
open shop he could compete with
the other firms, and we should have
more work.
At the end of 1928 the shop moved
to Brooklyn and the boss told all
the workers who were foolish
enough to be stung that if they
went out of TIE union he would have
plenty of work. He also said that
in the slack season he would have
plenty of work. He said he would
have plenty Of work the year
around. Like a bunch of fools we
listened and dropped from the union.
Wake Up!
The boss is already asking work.
ers to allow decrease in wages so
that he will get some work for the
future. I am more than sure that
the boss will get the cut in wages
unless the workers wake up. Let us
wake up from those poisoned dreams
and build a strong organization
which will do away with all the
rotten scab company unions, such
as the Boot and Shoe, the Protec-
tive. ETC., who never did anything
for the workers and never. will. Let
us do away with the wage reduc-
tons, long hours and rotten condi-
tions. Only this can we do by build
ing the union which will fight for
us.
UNWILLING SHOE SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
FORCE MORE TO BUY sHODDY

NEW YORK.-An increase of
1914 per cent for April, 1880, over
the $22,062,080 April, 1929, sales is
reported by the F. w. Woolworth
Co., indicating the increase of con-
sumers of the cheap, shoddy 5 and
10-cent products.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
ILLINOIS SETS As AGE LIMIT.

SPRINGFIELD, H., May g.
Placing the employment age limit at
As years, inaugurated by big bust
ness, is the latest project of the
state government. Gov. Louis En-
merson has issued an order pro-
hibiting department heads from en-
ploying attendants who have passed
the ripe old age of two score and
five.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Soviet Workers Want to
Hear from q. S. TOlleHs

KHARKOV, US.S.R-I the the of
of the Tjakof With this
shall naugurate future connection with you.
factory of the biggest establishments the sewing
of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10
Ford Mains Workers IN
Rouge, Must SLAVE On
by a Worker Correspondent

MicI sending lines to let know
getting along the Ford Rouge plant As all hear
his Sc for hours of work. yet
the being treated in his shops bet
erS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

Forward TO Mass Conference
Against Unemployment, Chicago
July 4th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-10

Demand the release of Eos.
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02
BUTTER AND EGGS
AT CHEAPER PRICES
Marine Products Also More
Reasonable at D. c. Mar
ket-Receipts Large.

An easing of the butter and egg
market, cheaper prices of several
varieties Of fruits and vegetables and
appearance Of shad and herring at
both wholesale and retail dealers in
marine products were the high spots in
the local market this morning
Shad and herring, received from
Florida shippers, presented the appear
ance of having just been taken from
the water.
And prices are right" observed a
dealer this morning, roe shad selling
at so cents and bucks at 40 cents a
pound. Herring are is cents pound"
Other Fish Prices.
Dealers also had supplies of jumping
mullets, product of North Carolina
waters; Spanish mackerel from Froidra
and fresh croakers from the South.
Mullets and Spanish mackerel were
quoted at IS cents, the croakers selling
at Is cents a pound.
Potomac River METERS supplied carp
at 20 cents, yellow perch at Is cents
and pike at As cents a pound. Frozen
fish from the North and crabmeat from
the South met a fairly good demand.
Oysters continued in good demand.
Strawberry receipts this morning
were heavy enough to suggest that the
fruit came from nearby. The berries
were exceptionally large and in splendid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02

baskets, hot house, medium size, ESQ;
small size, $50; repacked, IS, ripes
wrapped fancy and choice count, 500
a3.50; IS, ripes, wrapped fancy, count,
600; choice count, 500.
Spinach-Supplies moderate; demand
light. market firm; Texas. bushel bas-
kets, Savoy type. good quality and con-
dition, 100; followers, fair condition.
lao.
aulif1ower-Supplies moderate; de-
mand light, market steady: California,
pony crates, 2.OOa2.25; mostly 2.15.
Peas-Supplies moderate; demand
light, market dull; Mexico, 4S-pound
crates, 400a4.5O.
Carrots-Supplies light; demand
light, market steady; Texas, Western
lettuce crates, punched, long, 3.O0a3 IS,
Beets-Supplies light; demand light,
market steady; Texas, Western lettuce
crates, punched, 3.00a3.25.
Strawberries-Supplies moderate: de-
mand slow, market weaker; Florida.
pony refrigerators and 32-uuart crates
Missionarys, 30a40 per quart.
Oranges-Supplies moderate; demand
light, market firm; Florida, boxes
No. /, medium size, 4.25a4.5O: few
higher: No. 2, medium size, 3,75a4 Is:
large size, 3.25a3.50.
rapefruit-Supplies light: demand
light. market steady; Florida, boxes,
No. l, medium size, 400a4. so; few fine
quality, 500; large size, 3.75a4.OO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-02

Pittsburgh district, the Ohio valley and
the Central Western and Southern terri
tory actually expect 1929 freight trafhc
volume to be exceeded by the 1880 flrst
quarter performance. The balance Of
the country expects decline: but all Of
us have been impressed with the fact
that the country'S business looks TO be
on q most stable base"
Julius H. Barnes, who Is serving Is
chairman Of the National Business Sur
vey Conference set UP by President
Hoover last Fall, made q flying trip to
Washington this week and tentatively
arranged to assemble the executive
committee Of that organization about
January 8. There are 40 of the coun-
try's most notable business and financial
leaders enumerated on the conference
executive list and the session contem-
plated will be the first at which they
have been brought together since the
formation Of the business sterilization
group.
1t Is promised that Chairman Barnes
will have a good deal Of data to lay be-
fore the committee on business progress
since the setting UP of the conference
early In December. The most interest,"
ing and important branch of this deals
with the employment situation In the
country, about which all authorities.
both governmental and Industrial, feel
there Is now too little information.