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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Rotten Conditions
For Los Angeles
Hotel Workers
Los Angeles. Calf.
Daily Worker:

Los Angeles, Calf.
Daily Worker:
The conditions in the hotel indus
try here in Los Angeles are simply
rotten. Some time ago I was visit
ing my son, Richard Drake, who
is one of the March 6 defendants,
now out on $1,000 bail awaiting a
decision on the LIDS appeal
against the 6 months and $500 fine
sentences, | met an old lady who
was there visiting her grandson. He
was held under a so days sentence
on a trumped up vagrancy charge.
Through talking with her I found
she was a housekeeper in moderate
sized hotel. She worked hard from
Z o'clock in the morning till $50 or
7 at night. For all this she received
the pitiful sum of $40 month and
her room, rather her cubby-hole.
The chambermaids working under
her received Sc a month for the
same number of hours. s Once in a
while, about once a month, the hotel
mnaager would get generous and
give them half day off. The meals
they received were the left-overs
from the dining room. I couldn't
believe such things We're true until
| visited this hotel. The same is
true of the greater majority of
hotels in Los Angeles. I have work
ed in several and | know of the ter
rible conditions prevailing through
out this line all over the country.
We must organize into the fight
ing T.U.U.L. unions alongside of
our brothers and fight against such
slavery not only here in Golden
California, but all over this marcel
ous country.
For an American Soviet,
CLARA DRAKE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Tells Of the Company. Tools
Part in the Fisher Body Strike

ers know the union of their class.
Comstock didn't belong at the head
of the auto workers he betrayed. He
belonged with the A. F. of L., with
the rest of the labor takers. He
would get up to address the work
ers with an army suit or uniform
and looked proud of it. But l think
the boys all know that suit as well
as the yellow carcass that it cover
ed well represented our enemy, the
capitalist class.
Sold DaiIies.
And ! want to say comrades,
sud Daily Workers there and the
crowd bought them with better fai.h
than they woHid take free handful
before March 6.
read in our Worker today about
the boys tax n for ride and beaten
by things of the bosses. But FROM
the locks of things we will be able
to ieturn their tricks. But will thew
be man en- ugh to stand one half
of what they gave US or will they
turn yellow as they did in Flint and
let the parade go on when they see
they ale outnnnbered.
received . letter from frien J
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
MEXICAN AND NEGRO SALMON BOAT
CREWS ROBBED BY BOSSES, STATE
Mem Terribly Exploited by Contract System
and Robbed of the Miserable Wages They Get

err, the "gents" furnisher, who in
turn subjects the contract to some
Chinese compradore. These workers
before they are allowed to ship are
forced to buy cor or Ter" in Mayors
store at least $50 worth of shoddy
goods.
Robbed by Bosses.
On the boat and throughout the
whole season, which may last three
months, the men are piled with
booze, kept drunk and systematical-
ly robbed by gamblers and dope
peddlers working under the protec-
ton of the packers ard un Ter the
Supervision" of the packers gov
eminent agency-the State Bureau
If Labor Statistics.
Unmentionable vices flourish on
the ships and under indescribahle
conditions of filth and misery the
workers toll while there is fish and
while there is daylight. 1t is well to
mention at this point that the AL
aska night is very short--there be-
ing perhaps Fl or % hours of day
light out of the "a.
The biennial report of the govern
ment gives as the latest figures
these for the year 1926. Seven ships
with 6S6 men had $7,350.00 adj
vanced before sailing and had $42,-
1928 other reductions leaving a
balance of $S5,57h07 due on return
out of total earnings" of $685.
r 30. Tbs gives the avera re wage
as $124.74 which average includes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
ACW WORKS WITH
'NT'L. TAIL ORING
AGAINST TOILERS
Tailors Must Join the
NTWIU for Struggle
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Daily Worker

DEUOhlyiJ IN L.
Daily Worker:
From time to time committees are
selling the Daily Worker at, the In
ternational Tailoring building, The
toilers buy the Daily because they
are interested in reading a real
workers press which exposes the
betrayals of he bosses and corrupt
leaders of the reactionary unions.
These mentioned leaders of the
Amalgamated machine fear the tall
ors will know the truth about their
misleading the workers.
Workers Are Aroused.
The clothing workers are aware
of the fact that the paid officials
are helping the bosses to exploit the
workers, instead of helping the
workers fight against the bosses.
During the Easter week the tail
ors of the above mentioned shop had
been working overtime three hours
every day, Sunday until 5 o'clock
in the evening. These workers were
paid for single time, .
Thin Pay Envelopes.
One of the tailors showed his pay
envelope of the meagre earnings
w'r'o'7 p'7,o'-~tod to $25 for II hours
of hard work.
Sunday, tae manager came into
the shop and treated the workers
with drinks and expressed his APP
probation of the tailors hecanse they
are working under sweat shop con-
ditions and for starvation wages.
A.C.W. Boss Ally.
In 1925 the tailors fought the
International Tailoring for a better
union, in order to attain better con-
ditions. Today, five years later, the
bosses are very content and like the
Amaigamated and URGES it's workers
to pay dues to the union, or they
can not work for this firm.
The bosses know who their friends
are and are ready to use them
AGAINST the workers on all occasions
in order to squeeze out more profits.
Must Join N.T.W.IU.
The workers will never be able
to rid themselves of their misleaders
unless they viii realize that these
union agents are collaborating with
Tho bosses against the workers in
order to keep them enslaved for the
most miserable conditions
The Needle Trades Industrial
Union of the T.U.U.L. is the only
militant organization for the work
ers and against the masters, which
FIGHTS for short hours and for
decent living.
The tailors should not hesitate to
join the NT.WI.U.
CLOTHING WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
RED TUESDAY FOR
ALLENT. j0bLESS
Organize to Fight for
Relief
Allentown, Pa.

AliGHtOWI, d.
Daily Worker:
August IL, 1880, will be remem-
bered by the workers of Allentown
as Red Tuesday. For the first
time in the history of Allentown
did 1925 unemployed workers, young
and adult, march down o'clock, IN
the morning through the main
streets of Allentown, to the Work
ers Centre, 337 Hamilton St. They
organized an unemployed council
with about rs workers signing up.
and pledging themselves to organic
not only the unemployed, put also
the employed workers of AllentoW II.
At 7 p. m. the same day the
Communist Party and Young Con-
munist League held an open air
election campaign meeting, at 5th
and Gordon SITS. Over 800 workers,
about one-third of whom were
women and approximately the same
amount were young workers, an
swered the cali of the Party. At
7 p. M, the square waiting for the
meeting to start.
Workers Cheer Speaker.
The workers cheered and ap-
plauded as she described the mis-
cradle conditions of the workers
here, and compared them with the
conditions of the workers in the
Soviet Union, They applauded when
the speaker explained the election
program of the Communist Party
sarcastically referred to h e
Hoover prosperity" After the
meeting when the speaker asked for
questions, a priest who happened to
be in the crowd asked dramatically,
"are you telling the truth woman.
read the bible, that's the TRUTH
There was no need for the speaker
to answer this. The whole crowd
burst out laughing and began
booing.
This lasted for about minutes.
Even the two cops, who were out
there guarding the peace, had to
turn aside and laugh. Many more
questions were asked. When the
chairman called for collection
the crowd which consisted mainly
of unemployed workers, responded
splendidly. They also bought up al
the campaign literature that we has
on hand.
This meeting proved that the
workers of Allentown are ready to
be organized. They are ready tc
support the Communist Party, il
its campaign, and are ready to fight
under the leadership of the Com
munist Party and Young Commu
mist League.
ROSE SOKOLOV.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Counternan Tells Of A, F. T..
"Union'' Being Boss Agency

OF them belong to the union, Also,
buss boys are working behind the
counter, taking countermen's places.
All this with the conniyaneeS and
knowledge Of Brother Epstein, who
is the ''tsar" Of Local 3l2.a
F. w |. U. Must Lead.
Oh, yes, the executive board has
about Is members, of which Il are
delicatessen clerks and only two
cafeteria men, and they are the "old
guard" Brother Goldstein Of the
executive board made a motion at
meeting two months ago that
there should be no election held
for organizer in place of Epstein,
whose term has expired; but the
executive board shall appoint an or
ganizer. President Flore {? and
General Organizer McDerwitt (O
were at the meeting, % ..
In view of the good work Pincus
and Epstein have accomplished, he
recommended that they be appointed
by the executive board. So they
are still in Office. You can't ask
them a question. The men are ct
work and are gambling every day,
including the organizers. Besid 5,
they are drunk most of the time.
So you see, fellow workers, it is
up to you to lead us, for we can't
expect anything from grating or
ganization who has no intentions of
organizing the workers.
COUNTERMAN,
Member Local 302.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
San Francisco, Cal.
Daily Workers

Daily Workers
The Biennial Report (1927-192s)
of the California State Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports progress
in its work of Supervising" the
paying off of Alaska salmon boat
crews, which Supervision" was be-
gun in 1918 in accordance with act
of legislation that year.
Section 8 of Act reads in part:
"The commissioner shall allow
or reject any deductions made from
wages provided, however, that he
shall reject all deductions made for
gambling debts and for liquor
sold to the employee during such
employment"
Contract Workers.
These are the facts: Most of the
workers sent to Alaska are Chinese,
Mexican, Filipinos or Negroes. They
are recruited" by private employ
ment agencies" whose services are
engaged by Mayer Bros, owners of
"gents" furnishing business on
Grant Ave-, San Francisco. And the
workers are paid off on their re-
turn-that is those who do return
in the offices of Mr.. Mayer and in
the presence of deputy from the
State Bureau of Labor Statistics.
These workers, five or six hun.
dred Of them, are contract labor
supplied to the GLASGOW Packing
Co., s 'iary Of the Ca'"9-nia
Packing Corporation, by Mr.. May
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
II. H.. Evicted Worker.
NEW YORK. N Y.

NEW YORK, N. Y.
Editor Daily WORKER
| am writing this letter specially
TO the food workers. am a mem
Der of the A. F. of L. Local 301, To-
Gated at 107 W. 10th st.
Fellow workers! 1t is now three
months since | was misled. left
your union. | am sorry | did. How
ever, not in vain. | am here and
| will stay and expose this fake
racketeering organization. This is
the union which at the beginning
of our big success, year ago
scabbed on us, gave the bosses signs
that their cafeterias were union
houses, which was lie a year age
and is a greater lie today.
Takers Rake In Coin.
Brother Epstein and Brother Pin.
Gus are drawing SOS per week, be.
sides plenty of graft. There are nc
union conditions in any shop they
have signed, the 12-hour day still
exists, the boss fires the help when
ever he feels like it.
The bosses put signs in the win
dow or else they get the help from
the agency. The CHI ham Cafe
terra, right across the s,lset from
the union, gets the help from the
agency. l got the job from the
agency and after working three
days found out it was so-called
union house. The Strand Cafci eria
on Sivth Ave and 49th st. has three
girls behind the counter and none
.-a7z-sa so srstlg aassssszlsisSsssa %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

of min who lived in Flint near me
he said. "Please send me the ad-
dress of the Daily Worker This
damned Appena payer is too dry
for me after | read the naner of onr
class" AnG ] am sending him the
address with a few copies to pep
him 10 bat and Pm sure you will
hear from BIN soon.
The Worker said today that the
leaders in iail in Flint are on hunger
strike. But ! think that is a small
r-istake. Il they feed them what
they fed me they sure could not
bear the smell of it. Just IMAGINE
putting il to your mouth and eat it
Well, / Close hoping to see this IN
our paper.
clyde DEMPSEY,
An old Fisher worker.
P. S. I also demanded the release
4 Foster, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Song of Freedom

lTune: "La Marsiellaise."
Ye men who work for rich mems
pleasures
Lay down your tools and strike
today.
Your gain will be the future free
dom,
Your gain will the future reign.
Be not afraid to fight for the right,
Ye have been slaves for them long
enough
And now it's time to start fighting
hard;
For work or wages We will fight,
The cry for justice ever spreading.
Come on and join us now!
We need you in the fight!
Right now! So fight, and you will
see
That VICTORY can be ours.
MARGARET RICHARDS
Strike against wage-cuts; de.
mand social insurance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Sacramento, Cal.

sacramento, Gal.
o the Daily Worker Editor.
We just arrived from Viola, Cal,
where we were shaving on the state
Highway for weeks. The condi-
ions there are simply rotten.
The construction of the highway
5 supposed to be a state job. In
-eality it's worse than Shaving for
,riyate corporations. The job is
old to a contractor by the govern
nent AMI this contractor does his
best to exploit the workers.
There are 30 workers Shaving on
he road, working II hours from
amp to camp. The laborers are
aid S4 a day. Three shifts are ir
one Quits ard the other
arts, in the steam shovel crew and
he truck drivers crew. Steam
Aovel engineers are quitting every
ay because Of the murderous
Eaeed-up and the low wages paid.
he wages for steam shovel en-
sneers went down to Sc from the
no they were getting last year.
The truck drivers are paid as low
Is SIS daily.
Kitchen Help Underpaid.
The conditions in the kitchen
amp are even worse. There you
ind the kitchen help being paid as
ow as $40 a month. The cook is
aid 500 monthly instead of the
$50 he used to get last year.
The meals supplied by the con-
tractor are very poor and in small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

DtCIOlC years dSU anu was pIOIII~
ised a job upon my arrival. After
going to the different offices, final
ly they gave me a job last April,
after being out of job II months.
Naturally l was in debt and every
thing l saved during the three
months went to pay up part of my
debts. On July 10th we were laid
off and they told us that this lay
off viii be only for weeks, and
I was charged SIS to hold my badge.
On Aug. 4th the plant started to
work again and / went to get my
job, but instead of getting my job,
my badge was taken away from me.
The same thing happened to thou
sands of Ford workers. When |
tried to explain my circumstances
that | had a court notice to move
and that | had to support six in
the family, the employment man.
ager told me that he hadn't as
much sympathy for me and for my
children than for dogs.
Evicted From Home.
The next day on Aug. 9Th, l went
to the main office to see the gen.
eral manager and when | told him
that | had been out of work II
months, that / had to support a
family of six and that my landlady
had served a court notice to evict
me within 8 days, he told me I was
in bad shape and he would do some
thing to help me. He told me to
go home and to stay home, be-
cause they would send some man to
investigate and find out if every
thing | was telling him was true.
Being under condition to be evicted
within 8 days and having not
enough money to buy food for my
children | waited two days for the
Ford representative to come. But
nobody showed up. -, The next day
| was. eYicted, my furniture was
thrown on the street, was with
out home, without job, without
money and no place to take my
childl en-. That's what the bosses
are doing with thouso"dg If To-'
slaves. Finally a friend took me
in his house.
Evict Other Families.
I am still waiting for the For,I
investigator to come, although | am
sure that nobody will show up.
Two months ago Mr.. Ford made
a s atement that he wouldn't lay
off any married men. The capital-
ist rress of Detroit had headlines
that Ford would employ 100000 but
that's all lies. Only a few thou
and have been taken in, and many
thousands who have been working
a long time in the Ford factory are
laid off for good The conditions
are getting worse, AMI nobody
seems to care for US so | think
that's about time for all the work
ers to see that the only way left
for US is to fight! Yesterday they
evicted me, today | learned that
hey evicted other families The
same thing will happen for many
other Ford slaves. As workers we
have to stop starving and we have
got to organize in the Trade Union
Unity League and the Communist
Party, the only workers organiza-
tions that are fighting for the work
ers' interests.
Yours Comradely,
II. H.. Evictad Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
AUTO PRODUCTION DECLINES

DETROIT, Mich.-During the first
six months of 1880 this country and
Canada produced 3,413,000 trucks,
cabs and passenger cars. Tor
similar period of this year 100000
were produced, showing a decline of
80 per cent. The June, 1880. out
put, compared to that of June, 1929,
has fallen off 80 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

The socialists" work hand in
glove with the Tammany Judges.
The CRATER, Ewald, has sent bum
dreds of left-wing furriers to
prison at the instigation of the
socialist" company union---yOte
Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Communists Boycott
Bruning Tax Demand
Wireless BH inprec0rr)

BERLIN, Aug. 21.-The Commu-
mist municipal functionaries of Weis-
senfelg, Eisleben Mansfield and Lei
cholz, decided to boycott the emer-
gency taxes promulgated by the
Bruening government under Article
AZ of the Weimar constitution,
without the approval Of the Reich
stag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

Tammany grafters go free
the Unemployed Delegation is in
nrison--vote Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
HORSE CREEK VALLEY, 5. C.,
TEXTILE WORKERS CHATTING
UNDER A. F. l., WANT FIGHT
A. T. of L. Takers Organize for Increase i'm
Bosses Profits and Against Workers
Mill Hands Ready for Struggle and Want the
National Textile Workers Union
EDITOR Daily Worker:

For the cotton mill slaves of Bath Langley and Clear
been living mouth existence Now the
mill slaves the South have begun wake and the Trade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
EVict JObless
Worker with
Kids and Wife
Unemployed Workers Must Push Fight for tht
Workers Insurance Bill
Conditions of Jobless Growing Worse Daily
and Winter Will Be Bitter One
Detroit, Mich.
the Editor of the Daily Worker:

To the Editor of the Daily Worker:
Dear
tell how the Ford Slaves thrown jobs
starved to death and evctcd from their houses.
working the Mines years,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

The Communist Party fights
lynching-v0te Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

Strike against wage-cuts; de-
mand social insurance.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-10
LIVESTOCK

Chicago. June 1O.-(AP)-(U. S. D.
A.)-Hogs $4,000, including 1000 di-
rect: mostly 10 lower than yesterdays
average or about steady with the
close; top 1915 paid freely for $50 to
Butchers. medium to choice ESQ to
500 lbs. 9.65 to 1905; 200 to $50 lbs.
9.75 to 1915: 100 to 200 lbs. 9.75 to
1915: $50 to 160 lbs. $50 to 1915:
packin gsows go to 80; PIGS, m {
Cattle 5000: calves 5000; steers
trade generally steady but very slow
at Mondays 50-cent downturn. Trade
mostly $50 under a week & with
she stock weak to % lower today and
mostly 1000 to 1.25 under early. last
week. Best weighty steers 1925.
Bulk 11.50 down to 1000.
Slaughter classes. steers good and
choice 1900 to 1900 lbs. 11.50 to 1915;
100 to 1900 lbs. 100 to 1925: $50 to
medium $50 lbs. up 500 to 1850; fed
yearlings. good and choice $50 lbs.
100 to 1900; heifers, good and choice
$50 lbs. down $50 to 11.50; common
and medium 5.25 to 1926; low cutter
and cutter $.75 to $50: bulls. good
to medium SIS to $50; vealers milk
fed) good and choice 1850 TO 1900;
medium 900 to 1880: Gull and COM
mon 700 to 800: stocker and feeder
steers, good and choice all weights
1e;oo to 1918: common and medium
sheep 5000: steady; native lambs
1925 to 1850: some held higher;
1dahoes held around 1900; fat ewes
mostly 400 down.
Lambs. good and choice, % lbs.
1900: common 500 to 1000; ewes,
medium to choice $50 lbs. down 500
to $50: Gull and Common 100 to 3.25.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-10
king CAROL MOVES Z
TO PUNISH ENEMIES
Forgives Old Offenders but
Prosecutes Liberals Who Do
Not Agree With Him

Bucharest, Rumania, June 10.-(R)
King Carol protested today to have
forgotten the activities of political
enemies, against him while he was in
French exile. but he moved quickly
to punish those of his enemies who
committed new ~offenses.
Upon learning DR.. D. A~ngelescu
who was minister of education in the
last liberal cabinet of M. v. and j
Bratianu, had spoken d~isrespectfully
of him at a liberal meeting yesterday
he ordered him prosecuted immedi-
ately.
DR.. Kostinescu, mayor Of Bucharest
and DR.. Demetrescu Braila, former
minister Of health. were ordered
prosecuted likewise for similar Of
lenses. Their party was said to have
voted yesterday not to support the
monarchy. although not suggesting
revolution.
In contrast to the moves to sup
press Objectionable. political enmity
King Carol ordered that all charges
of a pardonable nature-both political
and growing out Of temper caused by
extreme distress-against 10000 per-
sons still accountable for military Of
lenses during the World war, be
quashed. All acts and ordinances
promulgated during the reign Of the
boy liking, Michael, Carols son. were
confirmed.
Meanwhile the new sovereign was
enaged in forming a cabinet to re-
place that of M. Mironescu. which
resigned. Carol summoned Juliu
MANU-. resigned peasant premier.
After a two : hour conference M.
Manu- told the press that while he
was not yet entrusted with the for
nation of the government, he felt he
could find colleagues within "a hours
among his own party. His words
were considered significant that he
would head the new regime.
It is still mooted whether the
Princess mother, Helen. will become
reconciled with Carol-which the
king desires very much-or remain
apart from him. Latest reports say
that Carol will be crowned In October
at Alba Julia, without the queen at
his side, but attended by his little
son, Michael. Al Prince of Alba Julia.
It was believed today Princess
Helen will choose a home away from
the capital but near enough to watch
the education Of their SON..