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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21

going to come in. We textile work
ers are being tried out to see what
we can barely exist on. The test
will last two months more and if we
will have starved ourselves and chill
dren to death, not to mention the
men and women, and won our bosses
good rich market for their goods,
we will then go back to work on
full time with a 20 per cent of 80
per cent reduction in wages.
/ have worked iii cotton mills a
long time and will say that things
are getting the hardest l ever saw
around here. People are facing
starvation, no stuff to that. A loom
fixer is responsible for every yard
of cotton made on his job. If it is
not good you lose your job, or, if
you are seen with a copy of the
Daily Worker, you get worse than
lose your job. you are blacklisted
and can't get a job anywhere.
You may walk out on the street
and ask any working man you see
and you will find no one contented.
All will say something must be done.
/ have asked number of workers
and all say the same thing. Well,
here is what l say: "Who do you
to do anything for yOu?" l
don't know, is the answer. re-
piled: "You will be forced to or
game in a militant union and fight
for your rights"
No one else can do it for you. l
have seen so much of the A. F. of
L. swill, and no more for me.
Yes, | am a textile worker and
of the Communist Party.
Greenville, S. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21

am a World War Vet, and feel
that l should have something to say
in regard to living conditions, as the
poor workers played such an i'm
portant part in the war for the capt.
talists. | sincerely feel that if we
were worth while considering then,
We still are now. l will tell you
readers of the Daily Worker about
the inside bank robbery of the Texas
National Bank here in the city of
TT. Worth. In the latter part of
January the bank doors were closed,
and the life savings of 1900 poor
working people were gone, and there
has been not one dollar returned.
The great laws of our country have
not yet done anything with these
educated robbers.
A New Reader.
Fort Worth, Texas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
LAY Off 600 Mexican WORKERS At
ONE time IN ILLINOIS Steel co.
Bosses Call Police When Workers Demand
Work or Return Fare to Mexico
Layoffs in Wisconsin Steel and Federal
Furnace Co.; Those Working Speeded Up
To the Daily Worker:

To the Daily Worker:
COmrade:-The Illinois Mill Co. laid off 600 Mexican
workers besides the other workers that laid off The 600
Mexican the Illinois Steel employment office to demand
railroad fare Mexico because such promise
Illinois when imported them from Mexico that
fare back to Mexico
When they the office the called police forces and
promptly beating workers. drove them
arrested IS.
The Wisconsin Steel also closed down No mill and don't know
they will And No. No work just
week. Just before they shut down the mills the
made the workers buy shares SIS each and then drove the
workers out of a job.
The Federal Furnace Co. reduced workers. 40 out the 800 laid
off Before they had this naturalization
produce 200 and in hours.
This HOovers prosperity. Yes prosperity for the BOSSES but
the workers Workers. the Trade Union
Unity League.
The Pullman shops laid off about 5000 workers The
Steel Co. shut completely There that
laid off in Interstate Steel since last November.
STEEL WORKER.
South Chicago ILL.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
LOREITE KILLS
BAKERS Local.
Now A Sick and Death
Benefit Outfit
To the Daily Worker:

10 JH6 Ddlly w OrKer.
There is a bakers local No. l of
the Amalgamated Food Workers
and you don't hear much about.
Years ago this was pretty pow
erful OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES left of It
today is only a few sick and death
benefit members. Who is to blame?
Reactionary officials who are keep
ing this local in the most degener-
ating manner in their control. Who
are they? There is Gund for one
it is not necessary to go into details
of his activities here as everyone
is fully aware of them. Next B..
Argo who became boss and owns
his own bakery; right after he quit
as organizer.
The present genefal-organizer of
this outfit is Gerbert, who is a
superintendent of an apartment
building in the Bronx and drawing
a salary of $65 a week from the
blood money contributed by the
slaves. This by the way is the hero
of whom one reads so much about
in the Volks-Zeitung that is Lore
& Co., two in one.
Baker workers of local No. 1 are
joining the Food Workers Industrial
Union of the T.U.U.L.
"A Baker.
New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
GYPPED BY BOSS
COMPENSATION
Lost His Finger in Ac-
cident on Job
Editor of Daily Worker:
Dear Comrade:

Lear COnlIdQes
Capitalist law and order and the
worker. This is just little incident
of workers life quite common in
recent history. I lost a piece of
finger seven months ago while at
my work in a Connecticut town.
The insurance adjustor with the
help of the compensation commits
sion robbed me of my compensation
for the loss of my finger (even ac-
cording to capitalist law which will
handicap me for the rest of my life.
The commissioner "a part of cap
italist justice) called me to a hear
ing to Bridgeport twice from New
York, thinking to tire me out so
that 1 would give up the case. To
the second hearing l brought a law
yer who misrepresented me at a
third hearing. At the third hearing
an award was made Of 1920 and
the lawyer sent me releases to sign
and a copy of the award with a
letter promising to send me the
award as soon as he received the
releases. l sent them Immediately
and he has ignored my every letter
since. I belong to the A. F. of L..
Brotherhood of Carpenters, so l ap-
pealed to the Bldg. Trades Comp.
Ser. Bur. maintained by the Bldg.
Trades of New York They sent a
few polite letters to the lawyer,
and he ignored them.
When a hungry worker steals a
nickels worth Of bread from a
store, the whole police force is at
the disposal Of the capitalist. When
the worker is robbed of his life
blood, there is no one to defend him.
The politicians will not bother with
workers grievances because he can
not bride them as insurance com.
panies bride compensation comms.
| have been out of work five
months in the last seven since my
injury, but realize the Importance
Of the Daily Worker in the struggle
Of the working-class. l am there
fore enclosing a days wages $50.
Carry on the class war!
Yours for a better world,
A. Walters.
Bronx, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21

Daily WORKER
Hoover's prosperity" is still
flowing abundantly through the
South. One Of the mills owned by
the Carolina Cotton and Wooden
Mills Co. is closing down indefin-
itely, throwing these workers out
of any jobs. Some of the workers
have been there all their lives piling
up profits for the boss and now he
is done with them.
Some of the workers were talking
Of having union and the boss said
he had spent 100000 to learn the
workers to operate-meaning how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
DICKS TRY Ride
job. ESS WORKER
Daily Worker:

| am letting you know how l was
recently treated by the Police in
Chicago. l was searching for work
in one of Chicago's large new build
ings and had just left the employ
ment office where I was told that
the employment manager had gone
out. / happen to be interested in
machinery as l work on making and
repairing machinery when employ
ed; so seeing the door of the motor
room open, l stepped inside for a
moment to look at the latest kind
Of elevator machinery. AS soon as
[ come out of the room, a detective
Of the building stopped me, asking
, lot of personal and unnecessary
-suestions. He took me to the en-
,,Ioyment office Of the building for
further investigation and there took
me to q desk at which sat the chief
detective.
The cur that brought ne in told
the most outrageous lies about me,
saying that he had timed me and
found that / was in the building
an hour and half, whereas l had
scarcely been in the building 10
minutes. He further reported that
ne had seen me trying the doors
Of the stores Though all the stores
were open and many were emptyD
md that | had attempted to put
emery in the bearings Of the mach
merry! I was bullied and brow beat
on and searched. When they found
some Communist literature on me
they became enraged and threatened
me with violence and death.
When / said that | had recently
become student Of political econn-
my they said that was already a
Communist then, and that they
would see to it that they would
have me deported. Next, they called
the manager of the building and
old him that they had caught a
rec hot Communist who was trying
to get job in the building in or
der to disrupt the whole organiza-
ion and that / had been caught in
he act Of putting emery in the
aachinery.
AN Unemployed Worker.
Chicago. Illinois.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Texas War Vet Finds ''Daily"
Fights for Workers Always

Daily Workef:
l am writing these few remarks
to let the world know | am down
here in Texas striving under the
same slavery l read so much about
in the Daily Worker.
First of all, want to try to ex-
press my appreciation of having a
paper like the Daily Worker to read.
l have not been taking the paper for
more than a short time. In fact did
not know there was a paper printed
which was making such a plendid
fight for the wealth producers of
the wealthiest country in the world.
l am very sorry to say that the
many workers I work with know
nothing of the paper, but | have
given each copy l have received to
some of my comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21

that your Lord Jesus was divine?
Yet "the country" existed just the
same and the class struggle went
on just the same, with Taft break
ing strikes just the same as under
Hoover, whose "belief" is in the
Quaker church, but who violates, in
the interests of the capitalists, all
the strict pacifist "beliefs" of the
Quakers, travelling on battleships,
preparing war on the Soviet Union
and England, and shooting Near
aguans who don't understand the
blessings of being robbed by the
Christian bankers of Wall Street.
1t is all matter of fact, not of
"belief," and the fact is that So
ciety, "the country" as you put it,
is composed of economic classes,
whose economic relationship to one
another, and not their "beliefs" or
lack of "beliefs," determines whe-
Their they work hard and yet stay
poor, or do nothing yet are rich.
If one class exploits the other,
the exploiters fet fat and the ex-
plotted get thin, and they can "be-
lieve" in Lord Jesus, or Buddha, or
Henry Ford. Nothing helps them
until they organize as class and
fight to overthrow their exploiters.
Not just to change places, but to
stop exploitation.
And remember that the fight
against capital is not fight
against England but against
American bosses, right here. Let
the British workers, led by British
Communists, take care of British
capitalists.
Well, HIS, you see we Com
munists don't believe" in any
Savior but the working class. You
believe in Lord Jesus, who we are
quite certain don't exist. But you
say you are 10000 for the working
class"
We ask you to prove it by join
ing IN the struggle with US, to help
win strikes against wage cuts, to
force capitalists to help the unem-
ployed, to organize the workers to
overthrow capitalism and establish
socialism.
If your belief in Lord Jesus pre-
vents you from doing your part in
thus struggle, your belief in a
Savior don't save you. On the con-
trary, it starves you, as an obstacle
in the way of the only Savior there
is for you and all of us workers,
the revolutionary action of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Legion in
on City Graft
Daily WORKER

Daily WORKER
The American Legion office and
assembly hall in this city is located
right in the City Hall, next to the
council room and police headquar-
ters.
This council has eight or nine
members all told and four or five
are legion members. Last summer
the council had given contract to
the American Legion Band to play
season in the city park at $1,000,
while the A. F. of l.. Band existing
here had lost the contract, although
bidding $3.50. Of course, the city
council is interested to promote the
legion. AS a result the workers
here had to pay higher taxes.
We need the Communist Party
here very badly to expose these fax
ers and robbers.
WORKER n
Waukesha, Wisconsin. IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Law Off Workers to Starve
After Grinding Out Profits

to be good slaves-and that he will
spend millions before he will let a
union man work for him.
Only three people own and con-
troll all the wealth in these two
places, Mrs. Meahen, L. w. Clark
and Pritcher. Will the masses con-
tinually allow few people and their
government to keep them in slavery
the rest of their lives, or will they
rise up in revolt and put a stop to
the misery that such as Hoovers
and MELONS prosperity" brings?
DEWEY MARTIN.
Draper and Spray, N. G.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
TERRIFIC Speed
Up AT sun ship
IN CHESTER, PA.
Building Boats for Use
in Imperialist Wars
Dear Comrade Editor:

Dear Comrade Editor:
The Sun Shipyard here has adver-
tisements for men all over the coun-
try. Although there are thousands
of men out of work right here, work
ers are coming here from all over
the country. Most of the work here
is piece-work, and it is hard to make
over three dollars a day. The cheap
est room in Chester costs a dollar.
Thousands of workers don't even
start to work when they find out
about the terrible speed-up system.
Some work a day and quit. This
is the cheapest Shipyard in the
country for wages. The Shipyard
keeps new men coming all the time,
so that they can keep the wages as
low as possible. There are also
numerous unemployed in Marcus
Hook, Pa.
The working-class must join the
Communist Party and Trade Union
Unity League and smash the rob-
Der class. The Daily Worker is the
best instrument of the working
class. Wall Street and the Pope are
mobilizing for war on the Soviet
Union.
P.S. The capitalist class and their
hirelings, Pope, Rabbi, Minister ETC.,
intend to solve unemployment by
war on the Soviet Union within ten
months time if possible. Let US be
prepared to turn it into a class war
by having organization!
J. 0.
Chnrtn,. Do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Red Picnic Rallies
For Many Demands

This years election campaign
will center itself around the cam
paign for work or wages, defense
of the Soviet Union and all issues
that are of concern to the working
class. On June 20 the annual Red
Election Campaign Picnic, to be held
in Pleasant Bay Park, will serve as
means of rallying thousands of
workers in demonstration for our
Party. Everything is being done to
make the day an eventful one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
AMBASSADOR EDGE TRIES
SOFT SOAP

PARIS.-U. S. Ambassador Edge,
tried to persuade the French cap
italists that the tariff really didn't
mean anything to them, and that
everything would be all right. Their
reaction to this hoakum is shown
by the demands of retaliation on
the part of the leading capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Speed Up
Car Washers

by Worker Correspondent
MILWAUKEE, Wis.-Speed up
system is here IN the TIMER.
and L. Co. A aUorker asked for q
COB to nash cars. The employment
manager said: "Not much chance,
1Oe previously had given 19 hours
to aOdsh one car and nolO each car
is a0aShed IN II hours.
-J.P.R 3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Cut Window
Cleaners Wages
(By a Worker Correspondent

(Bv Worker C01vespondentJ
NEW YORK.-The A. F. of L
Window Cleaners Union is working
hand in hand with the bosses t.
reduce the wages of window clean9
ers from S4S to $40. per week.
The Trade Union Unity Leagul
Building Maintenance Workers
should get busy and work on this.
Window Cleaner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
CUT S8.4O 4 week WAGES TO
S42O IN GREENVILLE, S, c.
Thousands of Textile Workers on Verge of
Actual Starvation; Will Fight
Daily WORKER


Greenvie the
chamber calls facing the things
that has about in
We textile workers have had exactly in half Think
making $40 week before
that SO live house rather don't have
envelope
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
Chester, Pa.
TOILERS MUST Be.
OWN "SAvIOURS"
Vet Must Not Become
Confused on Issue
South Bend, Ind.

Sir: | have been reading your
paper for over a year, and | will
say that it is the best paper for
the workers. For foreign news it
is excellent.
l don't believe in strikes, but
/ do believe in good wages.
The only thing that keeps me
from being a so-called Red is that
Russia doesn't believe in religion
and l try to be a true follower
of my Savior the Lord Jesus
Christ, Savior of Mankind. A
country without the Lord cannot
exist very long, sayest the Lord.
/ am Veteran of Foreign
Wars, 1918. But / am 1000 for
the working class. Last winter
was the most terrible for work
that l ever saw. But before next
winter there will be a change by
Soviet Russia. 1t cannot be any
verse than under Wall Street and
the Hoover administration.
But us ex-service men have to
be quiet in public. But when the
right time comes, nine-tenths of
all overseas Vets will go against
capital. | know the sentiment of
all Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the common class.-H.L.S.
Editorial Note: If HIS. will
think over matters a bit more deep
ly, he will see some things about
his letter-which on the whole is
a good letter, that are not consist
ent with even his own logic. Fol-
instance:
He don't "believe" in strikes, but
he does "believe" in good wages,
Comrade HIS, don't you see. that
neither strikes nor wages is mat
ter of belief? Why do strikes
occur? Not because anyone, not
even we Communists, believes" in
strikes, just to strike. But the only
way to get those good wages,
eve to save bad wages from getting
worse, is to strike.
Thus it is about Soviet Russia
and this country and the conditions
for the workers in both. There are
millions of working people, parti-
cularly the peasants, in Soviet Rus
STA, who "believe" in the "Savior."
For centuries they sprinkled holy
water on their fields and prayed for
good crops. But believing" didn't
help them.
So long as the landlords robbed
them, the Czar-who was head of
the Church, taxed them to DEATH
and the priests kept them ignorant
so long as they used wooden plows
and poor seed, their "Savior" didn't
do a thing to "save" them.
Then they followed the leadership
of the Communists and overthrow
the Gear, drove off the landlords
and the Bolsheviks gave them trac-
tors and selected seed, help of all
kinds; and didn't ask them whether
they believed" in the Lord Jesus
or not.
So millions are learning that
science, knowledge, not "belief,
counts; and their conditions are i'm
proving, while here, in Christian
America, the farmers and workers
are getting worse conditions all the
time. The Lord Jesus can't deliver
the goods, but the Bolsheviks can!
Incidentally, do you know, HIS.
that this country was ruled by a
man, Injunction Bill" Taft, from
1908 to 1912, who did not believe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21

Demand the release of Eos.
ter, Minor. Amter and Ray.
mond. in prison for fighting
FOR unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-21
TO RUN NICARAGUA ELECTION

WASHINGTON.-A n O her of
Hoover's so-called personal repre-
sentatives has gone to Latin Amer
lea to aid Wall Street. This time
Captain A. w. Johnson set sail for
Nicaragua to determine who shall
be who in the next election.
Write as you fight! Become a
worker correspondent.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-09-04
HUNDREDS ENJOY
SANDSTONE PICNIC

The Sandstone farmers and mer-
chants picnic which took place al
Grindstone lake last Thursday, was
attended by several hundred people
who thoroughly enjoyed the excellent
program which kept them entertained
from the time they arrived until leav-
ing for home.
Gust E. Johnson, master of cere-
monies for the day, humorously in
troduced the speakers, H. r. Berg OF
Rush City, director of Land OIakes
Creameries, Inc; Senator Adolph S.
Larson, Sandstone; and J. H. Hay
deputy commissioner of agriculture
The latter being the principal speaker
on the program.
A full program of sports such as
various forms of races and other
physical contests were engaged in
Before the afternoon program, how
ever, a picnic lunch was enjoyed in
the shade along the lake shore.
The Askov band furnished music
during the afternoon and dancing was
enjoyed in the pavilion both afternoon
and evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-09-04

Washington, September st is
natural that the beating of drums in
the political parade should bring in
quiries from thinking men and women
as to the stage setting. What mystic
power or newly discovered righteous
ness gives President Hoover's OPP
ponent such foothold with the pub
lie? This is the trend of question
from the rank and file that worries
party leaders. Is it possible, they ask,
that Herbert Hoover created a public
figure abroad and at home by fast
moving publicity machine is to fall
from the pinnacle by the reverse ac-
ton of the same mechanism?
Probing deeply, an impartial OBJ
server would find that whatever sue
cess attends the efforts of the Demo-
Gratis to point out the weaknesses, the
present Administration has been
helped along by the plumbers of the
over-zealous personal and political adj
visers. A fair estimate would state
that Hoover is more the victim of in
direct influences that circle him than
any particularly effective strategy of
organized minorities.
The tables of newspaper offices
groan under the weight of propaganda
from all parties. The apologists
would have you believed that Calvin
Coolidge was sufficiently canny to
quit at the high tide of prosperity and
bequeathed legacy of heart-burning
to his successor. Others will tell you
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-09-04
rWdSf)h9tonLette
By " pDaley

that Mr.. Hoover erred g ievously when
describing certain newspapers and
persons as his mental hair-shirts'
and thus clinching the suspicion that
he had a dread of censure. Apparent
ly, study shows, this gave the Dem
ocrats their cue for a carefully or
ganized drive in which they seized
every psychological advantage to
plead for a change of party control at
Washington.
Inquiry reveals the Democrats were
clever in arousing fore-bodings OF
change. Their experts thumbed files
Of other days for data which would
add a drop of gall to the Republican
defenders cup. The Democratic pub
licists on the warpath were probably
guilty Of petty articles to make a
ceeded in forcing the opposition to
what is regarded as a clustering de-
fensive. 1t is noteworthy that their
barefaced charges against the major
ity have not scored the hit with the
public as has the broad hints dis
creetly dropped and assisted by the
imagination. Senator Fess, chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee, and Representative Tilson, the
House Leader, accepted the minority
bait, hook, line and sinker, and
grabbed the radio and the Monograph
Of the publicity department to offici-
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