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The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Junkers Make
$1-$1.5O a Day
Dayton, Ohio.

LAY lOllJ OIl4Os
Daily Worker:
If the man who says that junkers
make big money in gathering up
newspapers, rags and books, scrap
paper etc, he tells a big lie. For
they don't. If they make s1.10 or
s1.5o day they are doing awful good.
The junk shops are only paying:
so cents per 100 pounds rags.
so cents per 100 pounds books,
80 cents per 100 pounds newspa-
pers,
20 cents per 100 pounds scrap
papers,
20 cents per 100 pounds mixed iron.
When the junk peddler, who pushes
a cart all day long, a poor man, and
has family to support, he can hardly
do 1t even If he works far into the
mite. Today prices on junk are lower
than they have been for over fifteen
years.
You can see these junkers through
out Dayton. Old men, women and
even children are seen with big cart
which they strain every muscle in
their body to push when full. Many
children of unemployed workers "bor-
row. some junk mans cart one day
SO that they can make a little money
to buy their supplies or shoes for the
winter.
FROM A JUNKER.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Continued

Now a huge silo reared its head
over the horizon. This was at the
rail head and one of the clearing
houses for the grain which even then
was beginning to pour In. Now a
group of buildings hove into sight,
increasing in size as we rapidly ap-
preached them. The car finally
pulled up with jerk in the center
of-well, the most adequate descrip-
ton l can think of is to say that 1t
resembled the center of a colossal ant
hill. The town, scarcely two years
old, was literally springing up on all
sides and here one could notice the
difference between the old and the
new order of things. In the distance
a few scattered miserable novels the
peasants formerly existed in. Here in
the town modern, up to date cottages
lined the streets. Many finished and
occupied, some still in the course of
construction. Cool, sun shaded
porches around the houses and radios
in every house. A trim little park
with girls hoeing and raking in their
spare Clule anu every yWHeE0 dCllNlIy'
Cars, American as well as other
makes, coming and going. Huge
trucks, all Russian made, arriving Ia
den and returning empt~. The rest
of our party arrived about this time,
so after adjourning for refreshments
we were introduced to two English
speaking interpreters who had jour
neyed down from Rostov-the nearest
large city-to help make things cas-
Ter for us. All hands embarked
aboard a powerful truck and we COM
menced our formal tour of the farm.
AS we sped along our guides ex-
planned to us the system by which
the 100000 acres to be harvested this
year was being worked. There were
$500 workers employed split up into
IL brigades. The land was divided
into II units, one brigade to a unit.
We could see for ourselves that the
brigades were operating efficiently.
The original time estimate for the
harvest had been "a days, but the
workers, as always, striving to bet
ter the calculation of the experts, had
set themselves the task of doing it in
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
American Sailors Story of
His Trip In Soviet Union
Have Interesting and Surprising Experiences,
and Get Many New Ideas of Workers
and Peasants State

20 days. 1t is a fact that the Gov
ernment had to step in and curtail
the hours of labor to ensure the
workers receiving the necessary
amount of time required for social
and educational pursuits. The seven
hour day is now in force in most of
the major industries and this also
applies to agriculture. Our inter-
prefers proved to be of invaluable as
sistance, translating the answers to
the many questions we were bound
to ask.
Soon we were on the scene of the
actual harvesting. Holt combines
| drawn by powerful 60 horsepower
caterpillar tractors, some of them
driven by smiling, sun tanned girls,
were cutting wide swathes through
the wheat.
AS soon as the truck stopped it was
surrounded by a group of cheering
Russians eager to greet the first
American workers they had ever
seen. They had been notified by tele-
phone of our coming and gave us a
right royal welcome.
"Gigant"
| On our return to Gigant we met
the assistant director of the Czerno-
trest. The State Grain Trust. After
partaking of an excellent dinner in
the Coop, we adjourned to his office,
where he made US acquainted with
| the facts and figures relating to the
farm. A clean-cut, powerfully built
man on the right side of forty and
obvious of peasant extraction, yet he
seemed fully capable of handling sue
| cessfully his many responsibilities.
Possessed of high degree of intel
| ligence, his good humored eounten-
ance just radiated force and person.
ality. He was a typical representa-
tive of the new type one meets in
Russia today. Gone is the sluggish
Russian peasant of yesterday. No
where could we locate those bushy-
! whiskered Bolsheviks that the car
| toonists love to portray! Education is
making great strides. The university
at Gigant, recently opened, already
has 900 of the farm workers enrolled
and more coming from the surround
(To be continued)
ing country.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
TRICK JOBLESS
To SEEK WORK
At CRUC|BLE
''Will We Starve? Like
He'll" TOiler Says
Lisbon, Ohio.

LISBON, ONO.
Editor Daily Worker:
I read an article last week in a
Pittsburgh paper to the effect that
the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Co. at
Middleton, Pa, was going to put on
500 men in the next few days. so my
brother, a friend and myself went
down there to see what we could see.
When we got there we saw men idling
in groups all along the streets. We
knew before we even saw the foundry
that it was just another trick of the
bosses and transportation company.
No Hiring at All
When we got to the employment
office of the foundry we asked the
watchman (there was no one else
around) about work. Boys" he said,
'if they hired man I'd drop dead,
for they haven't put man on in four
months, and from the looks of things
they won't need that employment Of
fee for four more months"
Jobless Thirteen Months
I've been out of work for over thir-
teen months and l can't see anything
ahead yet.
Comrades, are we going to lay down
and starve quietly in the wealthiest
country in the world, wealth which
rightfully belongs to the working
class of people? Like hell we are.
We're going to tear apart this rotten,
grating system of the bosses and
build up for ourselves real workers
and farmers government.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Union MisIeaderS and Bosses
Unite Against Workers;
For Imperialism

Beginning today there will be
held the British Imperial Conference,
under the guidance of the Labor
Government" This is a meeting of
the representatives of the British
Dominions and the leading imperial
lists in the homeland. With war
preparations being speeded up
throughout the world, and the capi-
talist lands in the grip Of the worst
economic crisis in their history, the
present Imperial Conference will be
the most important ever held. 1t will
take place in the midst of the sharp
ening difficulties between Great Brit
ain and the United States. 1t will
get the full support in its war prepa-
rations of the Macdonald outfit.
To hide from the working class
both in England and the Dominions
what goes on between their masters
and the British Labor Party, Mac
Donald has ordered the conference to
be held in the strictest secrecy. The
London Naval Conference was held
behind closed doors. But even here,
with the bosses preparing for a world
war, several open sessions were held
to fool the masses. Nothing of the
kind will be done at the Imperial
Conference. Macdonald will maneu-
yer for war and against the foremost
British rival, United States imperial
ism, in the darkest secrecy. J. H.
Thomas, another Shiny labor premier,
has stated that he will issue COM
muniques to the press from time to
time. But the real negotiations will
not be let out.
Yet we know very well what will
happen here. The Labor Government
as we'll as the British Trade Union
bureaucracy has already given its
full support to the Beaverbrook EN-
pire Free Trade" scheme-a scheme
which adds oceans of fuel to the fires
Of the world-war danger. The main
facts which present themselves to
this conference is the Anglo-U. S.
struggle for world markets in all
parts of the world. In Latin America,
Great Britain and Wall Street are at
death grips. In China the fight for
markets is fast approaching bloody
struggles. Even in the British do
minions, American capitalism has
been winning away markets. To aid
the British imperialists against their
American rivals, will be the first task
of the Macdonald government.
The General Council of the Trades
Union Congress has already declared
its support Of the struggle of British
Imperialism in it's war preparations
The daily worker., 1930-09-30

extremely shrewd individual. He has
committed more crimes Che is still
going strong) than Eastman's entire
1000, yet he has achieved high place
in the community. Newspapers praise
him editorially and he has been the
subject of feature stories in Sunday
magazine sections. The New York
Times has called him "Mr." in a
headline, and a recent picnic that he
conducted received a double column
headline.
Strikebreaker Extraordinary
Why all the honors? Vaccarelli is
strikebreaker extraordinary. And
If respectable" strikebreakers like
Bill Green are loaded down with hon
ors, why not Vaccarelli, who, al
though he is a little rough, is ex-
tremely efficient. Vaccarelli was once
rendered a testimonial dinner be
cause he refused to lie up British
supplies and prevented the New York
long shoremen from striking"
The following 'personages" attend
ed the strikebreakers' dinner: Justice
Freschi, of Special Sessions (com-
monty called the Slaughter house"
by workers.; Magistrate Corrigan
Zone of the three honest" judges,
so-called, in New York;; Municipal
Court Justice Levy Can accomplished
crook and now elevated to the Su-
preme Court: Municipal Court JUS
tees Snitkin and Prince; Congress-
man George Loft; State Senator
Downing and Koenig; Asst. District
Attorneys Cardone and Mancuso
(Mancuso was later made a Judge
and helped to loot the City Trust
Bank); Sheriff Riegelman of Queens;
Public Works Commr Folks; Alder
man Charles McGillick, and Commr.
Roberts Of the strikebreaking Depart
ment of Cancellation of tho Depart
ment Of Labor. in Washington.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
BY ALLAN JOHNSON

From its inception, in 1883. Tam
many has allied itself with every
movement that has added to the
burden of exploited workers. 1t has
always been on the side of "law and
order" when the law was made by
capitalist lawyers and disorder was
defined as any struggle by workers
against their exploiters.
In every one of the many "depres-
sions," which are an inevitable result
of capitalist production, Tammany
cops have always been ready to club
and shoot those workers who have
been militant enough to fight back
And when workers have refused to be
cowed by the murderous attacks of
these hired gunmen, Tammany has
always taken upon itself the role of
the "pacifier."
"Pacifiers" Of the Working Class
Very much like the socialist" party
today, which offers a gallon Of milk
and some crackers to the eight
million unemployed, Tammany has
distributed a half dozen baskets Of
food on the East Side when hundreds
of thousands were starving there. In
the depression of 1887, when a group
Of hungry workers broke open flour
warehouse. Tammany politicians
made haste to distribute bags full Of
food to the crowd, and promised more
to come. 1t did come--in the form of
clubbings. AS it comes today in $50
cialist' Milwaukee, in Democratic
New York. and in Republican Chi
cago.
With the formation of unions under
reformist leadership, the task of
controlling" tho workers was made
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
CENSUS NEVER TRIED
TO COUNT MICRATORIES

BUTTE. Mont, Sept. 26.-Butte
has jungle that is known from
coast to coast among tramps and
knights Of the side-door pullman. It
is a trestle on the Milwaukee rail-
road, not the trestle where a score
of 101 per cent Americans-some of
them born in Ireland and other for
eign parts-hanged Frank Little in
the dead Of night during the midst
of the war frenzy. The jungle trestle
is near the freight yards. Day or
night from a dozen to five dozen
hoboes can be found at this trestle
cooking mulligan, washing ragged
underwear and exchanging news Of
hoboland while waiting for, a freight
train.
OF fifty men interviewed, but one
had been listed by a census enumer-
ator.
do you believe that one man in
ten among 'boes has been listed in
April census?' was asked. Hell,
moi" was the answer from a half
dozen tramps. mot one in a hun
dred."
OF the 50 men interviewed, Is were
dyed-in- -the-wool tramps and 35 were
workmen looking for any kind of
Job. Most of them expressed the
opinion that at least one million men
tramping the country seeking work
were not listed In the Federal census.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Denver ShopgirLs
Get $3.50 Pay; Boss
Is a Tricky One
Denver, Colo.

Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades-I am enclosing a
letter, sent by the president of the
Denver Dry Goods Company to the
workers of the store. 1t starts, Dear
Fellow Worker" But don't take
that literally! He isn't a wobbly.
Franz A. Cramer, who addresses his
workers as fellow workers and who
speaks of cooperation and service to
the company, is well known as the
worst slave driver in the business.
Under his able management the force
of salesgirls, ETC., has been cut almost
in half, and the wages of the workers
who had been with the concern for
years was reduced in every case.
81 to SO a Week
The girls in the office, and the cash
girls get from 81 to SO a week. The
salesgirls get about $12. There is an
rado, but the girls in the bargain
basement" often work nine hours
without overtime. When the quitting
bell rings, they have to start folding
covering up and cleaning up, and
often don't get away for three quar-
ters OF an hour.
All Speed-u Tricks Used
In order to spur the salespeople
into greater efforts, "armies" are or
ganized, headed by some of the straw
bosses, and bonuses are given for
heavy sales. There isn't a single trick
of slave driving that this benevolent
fellow worker" Franz Cramer doesn't
know. The workers are afraid to
make a protest in any way, because
they know that the great number of
unemployed in Denver would enable
fellow worker Cramer to replace them
Immediately.
What is needed is a militant union,
to take in all the workers in dry
goods stores, etc, to force upward
the scale of wages, instead of-having
the whole scale forced downward as
now. A WORKER.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
MACDONALD PREPARES FOR WAR
At BRITISH IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

against its foremost rival. A Lo
don dispatch to the New York Tim
on the eve of the British Imperi
Conference stated:
''For the first time in British hi
tory, labor Joined with capital t
day in presenting to the governme
a joint memorandum recomme endir
better economic organization Of Il
Empire"
The General Council Of the Trad
Union Congress, which betrayed t
general strike in 1925, takes
logical step and unites with the Fe
Grafton of British Industries, t
leading bosses organization in En-
land, and demands sharper metho
in the struggle for world marke
Not only does the General Coun
approve of speeding up Of Britt
workers by the bosses, but they c;
on the workers to help the maste
in their war preparations. The ne
step of the General Council will
to call on the workers to take
arms in the next world war in
interest of British capitalism.
Even the New York Times d
patch declares that 'in the eyes
most Laborites such expressions =,
thought were the mark OF the 'hiC.
bound imperialist.' But now
Laborites mouth such expressions
the hide bound imperialigt' M
glibly than the bosses.
The joint statement OF the bos.
and the trade union misleaders poiI
out that within the British Commo
wealth are to be found "both m,
power, vast resources in raw m
terials and food and large territori
capable of development" In sho
the union leaders want the Britt
impertalists to push further the
ploitation of the Indian and 9th
masses In the colonies Of British in
perialism.
The Imperial Conference, whit
meets for two months, will bring Il
next world war closer. It will be ri
with antagonisms. There is I
unanimity within the Dominion
about the policy of British imperial
ism. 1t is the task of the MacDonal
government to bring about thi
unanimity. Bennett, Premier {
Canada, as well as Hertzog of Sout
Africa, have announced they are OF
for the interest of their own bou
geoisie, regardless of whether
helps or aids British Imperialism.
The Empire Free Trade" schem
Is complicating the differences i
Latin America between British an
American imperialism. It wi
sharpen the fight with the Unite
States everywhere. Macdonald pre-
pared for war at the London Navs
Conference. At the Imperial Confer
ence he will speed up these prepare
tions.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
FRENCH PAPERS BLAME
U. S. FOR DEPRESSION

PARIS, France, Sept. 17.-Prof.
Gini, writing in Information, says
the world crisis is psychological and
caused by the inordinate love of work
shown by the Americans. LIE Temps
editorially agrees that the United
States is responsible for the crisis,
but that the Americans are not par
ticularly fond of work. The Temps
writer says: THE American over
works to overproduce and thereby
over enrich himself. Homo Ameri-
canus has simply inherited from
Homo Europeus that love of do
minion which we call imperialism"
Both of these takers recognize the
imperialist competition of the United
States as worsening the crisis. Both,
of course, fail to point out that the
"overproduction" is simply due to
the speed-up and naturalization in
the United States and in capitalist
Europe, leading to war for markets
because the workers are not allowed
to consume what they most involun-
tarily "overproduce."
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Youngstown Tube
Discharges Militant
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind.

INDIANA HARBOR, Ind.
Daily Worker:
Comrade Kish, a tin mill worker
of this city, who was arrested and
fined SO and costs for distributing
pamphlets during the Labor Day
demonstration here, has been dis
charged by the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company. Kish, an active
party worker, has been working as
an extra man, "feater" for some
time. Recently he was given a
steady job.
After he was arrested the boss
suddenly remembered that there were
older men than Kish who were still
working as extras. Desiring to show
no partiality and to recognize
seniority for one, and when con-
venient he discharged Kish and
marked his slip: Reason, too many
men.
Had Kish been a Republican,
Democrat, or even Chicago hood
lum, I'm sure he would still be work.
ing, and happen to know that he
is an excellent worker.
JACK WALSH.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Labor Racketeers Linked
With Bosses Government

much easier for the capitalists. By
controlling the unions leaders the
unions could themselves be controlled.
The Gomperses and the Greens were
bought easily. This meant that
workers who were fighting capitalist
exploiters were being led by rene
gades in the pay of the capitalists.
The crooked labor leaders in the
A. F. of L. are exceedingly clever in
misleading workers But the more
intelligent and courageous of the
working class are beginning to
realize that the corruption of their
leaders is evidence of their class
treason. When workers protest, the
ca apitalists have a stock answer
clubs and bullets. When union MEM
bers protest, the same methods are
invoked by the racketeer bureaucrats.
A. r. Of L. Hires Gangsters
The fascist officials in A. f. of L.
unions hire gangsters to keep the
membership in line. The practice is
widespread. A few examples will
illustrate this practice.
Paul Vaccarelli. alias Paul Kelly, is
convicted gunman. He has been a
prizefighter and saloonkeeper, and
he earns a very, very comfortable liv-
ing today by labor racketeering,
strikebreaking. supplying gunmen to
officers in A. F. Of L. locals. and rum
running on garbage scows owned by
New York City.
More than twenty years ago, Vac
carelli, then known as Kelly, led his
gunmen in a battle with Monk East
mans gang of 1900 over a quarter
mile area near the Bowery. Monk
was later sent to Jail because he con-
tracted the habit Of embarrassing
Tammany. He was a bit too un-
couth.
Vaccarelli, on the other hand, is an
The daily worker., 1930-09-30

Strikebreakers, labor r-haters and ex-
ploiters all.
Soon after this memorable dinner,
Vaccarelli was honored by the u. S.
Government itself. He was appointed
a member of the Federal Commission
of Cancellation and had as a CO. mem
Der Red Nike" then Mayor of New
York.
In 1914, Vaccarelli was formally
thanked by the American Federation
of Labor for organizing garbage
workers, hod carriers, and building
workers unions into one group" For
many years Vaccarelli has been presi-
dent of the Waste Material Sorters
and Trimmers' Union, an A. F. Of L.
organization.
Soon after he was so signally hon
ored by the A. F. of L., Vaccarell
was struck by brilliant idea. Work
ers were organized; why not strike
breakers? The result was the Loyal
Labor Legion. which now has a
clubhouse" at 3427 White Plains
avenue, near Gun Hill road, appro-
priately enough.
LUIS ASoydi LdpOt LeSiOIl, NlCCd- :
rclli declared, was to be a deathblow
to all Bolsheviks and other trouble
makers" In the working class. Ac-
tually the Legion is private army
of Vaccarelli's gunmen which can be
and is--used to intinlidate strikers
and other militant workers.
A new clubhouse, the one near Gun
Hill road, was opened in April, 1880.
Among the gunner, politicians. labor
misleaders and professional strike
breakers who accepted invitations to
the Legion's "housewarming" banquet
were Governor Roosevelt and Mayor
Walker.
(The next installment of Labor
Racketeers will be continued tomor-
row.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Minneapolis Police
Break Up YCL Shop
Gate Meetings

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22. - The
third shop gate meeting has been
broken up by the police with the ar
rest Of the speakers. The Young
Communist League is concentrating
on this factory employing only Young
Workers of which the bosses have
great fear.
These shop gate meetings broken
up by the police in Minneapolis sets
a good precedent for this city, where
the Farmer Laborites and the A. F. l..
have so much to say. Its quite evil
dent that this move to silence espe-
cially the Young Communist League
as well as the Communist Party now
at the height of the Election Cam
paign, is being supported by all the
bosses forces such as the A. F. L.
and the Farmer Labor takers.
Jack Anderson, a shock trooper,
sent by the National Committee of
the Young Communist League, and
J. Braybear, an Indian League mem
ber, were arrested and are now held
on charges of disorderly conduct.
The daily worker., 1930-09-30
Socialist" City
Workers Also Jobless
MILWAUKEE, Wis.

MlLW "A NEE, WIS.
Daily Worker:
The same story-but little bit
different-involving "city" workers.
At meeting of the Park Workers
Union it was learned that the park
workers were also unemployed. When
asked whether their season had al
ready ended, workers correspond
ent was advised 1t had not, that the
unemployment they were suffering
was due to "city budget, for that
line of work running short. Until a
new budget is established at the be-
ginning of 1881 this condition most
likely will last.
This is general with city workers.
The School Board carpenters and
painters usually, annually, suffer a
stage of unemployment due to the
lack of budget"
1t was quite timely occasion to
acquaint the Park Workers Union
with the Workers Social Insurance
BILL" which advocates that the war
budget and income tax fund be
turned over to the workers out of
work fund. C. MORTIMER.