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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEp
on fight to regain our savings which
have been robbed from us.
In this present crisis when hun
dreds of thousands of us are unem-
ployed and when the conditions of
the workers are getting ever worse,
the loss of our savings takes away
our last norsel. The rich anC the
officials who are responsible for the
closing of the bank, are trying to
make us, worker, depositors, bear the
burden. We declare that the Off
Gals responsible and the rich should
bear the burden and that we should
get the full amounts. We also de-
clare that the criminal action of the
officials who accepted money, know
ing that the bank would close down,
acted as criminals and should be pun
ished as such.
We resolve to fight for the follow
ing:
/. Immediate full pay to all work.
ors depositors, and small business
men.
2. Bank should be open evenings
and with adequate help to accommo-
date the worker depositors.
3. A State loan should be raised
at once to be able to pay the worker
depositors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
National J0bless Committee
Stresses Forming of Councils

be worked out by the T. o. q. l..
leagues and unions so that industrial
councils can be established.
Too little attention is still being
given to sending committees from the
unemployed councils to the bread
lines, flop houses, points where CAPT.
talist charity is being distributed, to
job agencies, in order to expose the
fake relief programs of the bosses
and their government and to win
these workers for our councils and
our immediate demands. 1t should
be an immediate task of all our city
campaign committees to secure dele
gates from the workers on the bread
lines, in the sleeping places, ETC., as
an integral part of our city campaign
committees. Upon the basis of win
ming these workers for our immedi-
ate local demands we can activize
thousands of them in the signature
drive.
Mobilize to Collect Signatures.
Signature lists must be given, not
only to workers we know, but to
every new worker we can reach. At
mass meetings of any kind sigma
ture blanks must be on hand, sigma
lures obtained and all workers asked
to take list and help collect sigma
lures. We must press into all shops
and mills with the lists. We must
request every workers organization,
whether mutual aid, fraternal, sports,
Negro. A. F. of L. to elect signature
collection committees which must ac-
tivize all members in the organiza-
ton in collections. Whenever a
worker signs a list in endorsement
of our proposed Unemployment In
surance Bill, we must request him to
take list and collect among other
workers.
Only by activizing many thousands
of workers in this campaign for sig
natures, strengthened by sustained
struggles for immediate local relief
can we hope to create a real mass
demand for unemployment insurance
Workers organizations that are not
yet active in this campaign should
write for signature lists Immediately
addressing the National Campaign
Committee for Unemployed 1nsur-
ance, 2 w. 18th ST, Room Ala, New
York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
us 1T WORTH WHILE TO
SELL A FEW DAILIES?"

Some comrades say that it is not
worth while bothering to go to the
factory gates to sell a few Daily
Workers for 10, Is and SO cents. It
does not pay to waste away hours
says Bessie Saltzman.
"Thesc comrades fail to see that
II is not only the money we arc
after, but making the workers un-
derstand that the Daily Worker is
their champion, that 1t participates
in their daily struggles against the
bosses and they must read IL regu-
larry.
ITO sell the Daily Worker Is one
of the most important duties Of the
Communist Party. Our Party suf-
fers Immensely from a shortage Of
industrial workers in its ranks and
they are really supposed to be the
very life Of the Party.
"Thc Daily Worker is ono Of our
best instruments TO reach these
workers. Our best organizer, our
best agitator. Shop and factory
gates arc the best places TO meet
the Industrial workers. Therefore
70 sell the Daily Worker there d
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23

The National Campaign Committee
reports increased activity in all quar-
tiers in organizing the signature drive
for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill which proposes to take
the national governments billions
appropriated for the next war, to tax
the incomes of millionaires, and to
use the $4,000, 100000 fund thus Gre
ated to pay through workers and I'M
employed workers committees at
least $25 a week to each of the job
less.
More conferences of delegates from
all workers organizations are being
held to formulate local demands and
arrange for demonstrations and
hunger marches to force granting OF
local relief by the city governments.
A series of mass meetings in all
industrial cities, the most important
to be addressed by William z. F'os-
ter, general secretary of the Trade
Union Unity League, is being rapidly
prepared. These meetings will elect
the delegates TO 60 in February to
Washington and present to congress
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, together with the great roll
of signatures demanding its passage.
Arrest Collector.
The communication from Seattle
tells OF the arrest and confiseation OF
signature lists in Everett. The police
in that big sawmill town and lumber
port hate to see the jobless organ
izing.
A report from San Francisco en-
closes 5000 signatures collected and
tells Of AZ delegates from workers
organizations, including two locals OF
the A. F.. Of L. at the united front
conference held there on the 18TH
The conference planned hunger
march on the state capitol to take
place about the time the new gov
ernor is inaugurated.
Cleveland Hunger March.
The Cleveland Campaign Commit
tee for Unemployment Insurance
voted at its Dec. is meeting to or
ganize a hunger march on the city
hall on Jan. S. The jobless and
workers will concentrate at three
points in working-class districts and
converge on the hall, hold meeting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
SCHWAB'S STOOLS
HOUND WORKERS
tBy q worker Correspondent,


READING, Pa.--The Bethlehem
police are on the warpath. The
Bethlehem Steel spy system is work
ing overtime to weed out militant
workers, such as firing the most
militant workers, off the job. Dur
ing the Thanksgiving one worker
working in the blast furnace was told
by the foreman that he was fired
This worker questioned the foreman
as to the reason. The foreman
would give him none; he was told to
go to see the bib boss" This he
did. The super told him that he
spoke to his fellow workers about
organization and that this is not
Tolerated in the Bethlehem Steel by
the bosses (such as Schwab Grace,
etc). and, furthermore that there arc
zU0 more like him who are going to
get the same dose of medicine
Recently Hungarian worker was
forced to leave town, because the
steel rolice and dicks We're hound
ing this comrade. The editor of the
bethlehem Harold who is a fas-
cist as well as "a stool pigeon, set
these bInoc ~ Uniform (cops) on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
HUNGER Marches Prepared in
California, Cleveland, Chicago

there, send in delegate with the
demands and continue the meeting.
Great collections of signatures are
reported from Akron, Canton and
Toledo.
The Cleveland conference to elect
delegates to carry the bill to WASH
tngton is set for Friday, Jan 9, at
8 p. m, at SCOT st. Clair Ave. The
Foster mass meeting is Jan. IL, at
8 p. m. A demand for 1000 more
signature lists accompanies this news
from Cleveland.
Terror Fails In Chicago.
Chicago plans combination hun
ger march and demonstration on the
city hall on Jan. IL. The Foster
meeting is Jan. 8. The united front
conference is Jan. II.
The Trade Union Unity League
secretary in Chicago reports:
Our actual steps for this demon
stration will have to proceed on diff
ferent lines than in other places, due
to the open reign of terror setting
in once more. Mathewson and three
others were arrested Monday; Gar
dos was arrested Tuesday: our South
Side headquarters was threatened by
the police on Wednesday, who said
they would close it down.
Detroit Demonstrations.
In Detroit, yesterday, a delnonstra-
ton was planned to take place be-
fore the Hamtramck municipal "res-
taurant" for three real meals a day
If the city does not yield, the jobless
will get the meals where they can
and charge them to the city. There
will be a hunger march and demon
stration Jan. 2. A tag day is to BIZ
held to raise funds.
Wheeling Asks For Lists.
! From Wheeling, West Va, a cal
comes in: Send signature lists to my
address at once and also let me know
what our tasks are in all the unem.
ployed work we are to undertake
We will do our share in mobilizinf
the unemployed for a fight for in.
surance."
From Cambridge, Ohio, there is an.
other call: 1--WE need more signature
lists. We will work hard to get many
of these lists filled. There are many
unemployed here"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
SAN LEANDRO,CAL
JOBLESS LIVE In
IMPROVISED HUTS
Factories Closing and
JObless Starve
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Cal.-San Leandro, ad-
joining Oakland, is considered a
beauty spot where no slums do exist.
Here the air is better, the fog less
frequent and more sunshine. But
here the unemployment is just as bad.
The canneries are closed, factories
running with reduced forces, others
on short time.
Sleep Everywhere.
Many homeless unemployed work
ers are roaming the town and fields.
The bay shore is dotted with such
homeless. Some stay on the sand in
improvised tents of sacks and rags,
others sleep in their old machines.
These wanderers do not stay long
in one place, but are ever seeking
for something to do, necessatating
moving to different parts each night.
But there are many others. In the
back of the great Caterpillar Tractor
factory which is working with greatly
reduced forces now, since the con-
tract with the Soviet Union has ex-
pired, in the gully, near the rail-
road tracks, overgrown with trees and
shrubs is a colony of the unemployed.
This is an established colony for a
longer duration. Here some have
built little shacks. They are window
less, yet are llomes-a shelter from
rainy season which is on in Califor-
MIA now. Some are built of old tins,
others of boards and boxes picked in
the dump. Picture shows an attempt
to make the place homelike, by flat
ening the ground around and clear
ing tin cans and rubbish away. 9th
ers have only dug out in the edge of
the gully, with little dried grass for
a bed.
This gully is damp. The sunshine
does not penetrate the growth. Smell
is mouldy. Water trickles in the mid
die, where water rats suffle by. One
of the men has fire, where in a
rusty pot some potatoes are boiling.
On the branch of near by tree his
washing is drying-a shirt and a pair
of socks.
Where from stranger, he was
asked? From Dakota. Lost my farm
to the bank there. Looking for work
in these parts. 1t seems it is worss
here than back in the Dakotas. Food
is scarce, he said with wan smile.
When he lifted his face, it was hard
to look, one eye was gone--a gaping
red running sore. 1t made me shiver.
A man moulding and rotting in this
damp gully he who has created
wealth for some one.
Up out of the gully is sunshine.
These unemployed must hide like rats
away from sunshine. They are not
permitted to dot sunshine spots with
their presence.
In a clearing just little way off
6 caterpillar tractors are being tested
A beautiful sight to see those giant
machines turning the soil-machines
made to help the soil produce food
stuffs, yet workers are starving and
rotting.
How long will the workers let the
rich have their farms and tools of
production? We must get together
and fight for our rights under the
guidance of the vanguard of the
working class the Communist Party.
for the establishment of a workers
and farmers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
Indian Mass Will
Fight on in Spite of
Betrayals and Takers
tBy a Worker Correspondent


The so-called Labor Government
of England though admitting the
grave situation in India is unwilling
and is unable to solve the problem
1t is trying its best to fool the masses
of India by promises and commits
sions. and recently through the So
called Round Table Conference, and
thus wins favor with it's imperialist
masters.
Through experience of long deal
ings the Indian people are fully aware
of the treacherouS and oppressive
nature of British imperialism. In
the present Round Table discussion
the Labor Party is using the famous
formula of imperialism to divide and
rule" Instead of doing any good for
India, Mac Donald and Company are
attempting to Great new differences
among the people of India. All the
conferences and commissions stress
and bring forth the Importance of
different religions, castles, Sects, races
and other factions. British imperial
ism and the socialist agents play one
against the other thru their paid Of
ficials, and hence excuse themselves
of all the trouble putting all the
| blame on India. The Round Table
Conference shows clearly the inten-
ton of British imperialism, which is
to bind the Indian masses into more
stronger chains. The aim of British
imperialism is not to cede anything
to the Indian people in the authority
of governing themselves, but to JUS
tify its exploitation, murder and OPP
preston of the peoples of India. The
representatives of India in no way
represent the life and blood of India
but instead they are the native ex-
ploiterS of India. None of them de-
mand anything in the nature OF
transferring the political authority tc
the hands of the masses of India
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
To Fight Eviction
of Jobless Brooklyn
Worker, Dec. oath
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The ten
ants of 544 Dumont Ave. and
neighborhood will hold a mass
demonstration on Wednesday, Dec.
"a, at o'clock sharp, at the build
ing.
This demonstration is to stop
the eviction of a worker whom the
court ordered to move. This house
is owned by a bank corporation.
The worker, laundry driver, is
out of work 8 months. He and his
family are starving. They haven't
got the means to buy bread and
milk for the children.
Last Tuesday the case came up
In one Of the Brooklyn courts and
the judge ordered them to move
on Dec. rs. We call upon all
workers clubs, women's councils,
Party and League members TO take
part in this demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
Mass Pressure Forces McGrady
To Propose Fake Insurance Bill

The bowling down of any sugges-
ton of insurance at the convention
silenced the New York gang for a
time, but mass pressure, and the
spectacle of whole A. F. L. locals,
especially in the carpenters union,
endorsing the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill convinced Ryan
and his clique that they had to go
back to the original scheme, and two
weeks ago they again proposed it,
with some modification, and sent a
committee to lobby for it at Albany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23

one of the most important of our
Party activities.
READERS OF DAILY MUST
LAND IN OUR CAMP"
"Only in this way can we make
the workers read the Daily Worker
regularly, selling it to them daily. A
reader of the Daily Worker sooner
or later must land in our camp.
Some comrades complain that
they cannot sell the Daily Worker.
Others sell it easily. The comrades
that make out poorly are the ones
that stand holding the paper with
out attracting the workers attention
to it. This is wrong. Most workers
do not know the Daily Worker ex-
lists. Why should they grab paper
they have neyN heard Of?
"The successful sellers Of the
Daily Worker tell the workers what
this paper stands for. that it fights
for the social insurance bill, a
seven-hour day, five-day week,
higher wages, better conditions, etc.
They do a great deal of personal
agitation.
They awaken the workers inter-
est. The worker buys the paper and
becomes a friend of the one selling
it. Upon being asked he will submit
his name and address in order to be
called upon, to inquire about condi-
tons"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
Don't miss full circula-
lion tables each Wednes-
day in the Daily Worker.

but instead they pledge to remain in
the British Empire.
The masses of India know full well
the value of these imperialist moves
and declarations, and do not waste
their time in specializing for the out
come of these conferences. The mas
ses of India are going ahead in their
struggle for freedom, under the
leadership of the revolutionary work
ers. The masses of India are fully
aware of the fact that their fate
will be determined not on the tables
and chairs but on the battle fields,
like that of Russia. TARA SINGH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23

NEW YORK.-The drive to or
ganize the jobless for relief and in
surance, to get signatures for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, to organize local united front
conferences of workers organizations,
which will formulate the demands
of the jobless and fight for local re-
lief, was described at a recent meet
ing of the National Committee for
Unemployment Insurance by its sec
rotary, Alfred Wagenknecht. He said,
in part:
1.-THE workers mass delegation is
scheduled to go to Washington, D. c.,
about the first week in February, to
place before Congress the million or
more signatures collected and the
thousands of endorsements of the
bill by national and local workers
organizations. This mass delegation
will be constituted by having city
campaign committees propose nom
nations and then having the dele
gates elected at the immense mass
meetings to be held throughout the
country during the last two weeks in
January. The number of delegates
to be elected by each large city will
be decided by the National Campaign
Committee. Smaller cities in the
East and all cities in the West should
elect a delegate if funds can be pro-
vided to send him.
Organize Unemployed Councils.
Industrial and neighborhood un-
employed councils have increased in
number during the recent period
Generally speaking, the number OF
unemployed workers organized into
councils is much too small, the com
mittee found. The work of organ
izing councils must proceed more
rapidly and especially in the factory
towns, mining camps, smaller indus
trial centers. With a steady and sus-
tanned struggle for immediate local
relief closely connected with the cam
paign for signatures for the bill, I'M
employed councils will be strength
ened and many new councils can be
built. Fighting against high prices,
evictions, for free meals and clothes
for school children, ETC., strong neigh
borhood councils can be established.
Concrete immediate demands must
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
JOBLESS laid" Is
GOTTEN FROM MEN
GIVEN AS LOAN
S P Bosses In Rank
Robbery
tBy a Worker Correspondent

OAKLAND, Calm line with all
kinds of fake schemes to relieve I'M
employment, the Southern Pacific
Railroad Co., which has been con-
tinually laying off workers and put
ting others on part time work, will
do something to aid" fellow en-
ployeS. Fellow employees who have
been laid off, or who have only a
few days work a month, as result
Of reductions, employees of the South
ern Pacific Co. (Sic, do you get that
employees, oh yes, for the speed-up
and underpaid employees, the first
burden falls) with the cooperation
of the company officials, have estab-
hShed relief loan fund available
for emergency use. Under the plan
employees may contribute l per cent
OF their wages tnay contribute means
must, if you want to retain your job
as is now to the fund, which will be
administered under the direction and
control of committees from each
division. Glow democratic! But this
actually means foremen and 100 per-
centers for the company Then the
Southern Pacific Co. promises to
double the amount subscribed by en-
ployes.
Joker TN Relief
Now for the relief. Who and when
will they get it? Listen to this
hokum. "Thc money will be collected
over a period of six months, begin
ming Jan. l and loaned (only that
to men laid off after year or more
employment. or who have suffered
such reductions on earnings that they
are unable to meet their expenses
The loans are to be repaid without
interest chow kind when the cir
cumstances permit
1t is the wise company who will
enjoy the benefit of these schemes,
while the workers are taxed. The
old employees must not fool them
selves, for they will be fired before
the fund is actually able, according
to the bosses, to pay. You have to
stay at least year on the Job to be
eligible fer a loan. Well. I'll wager
nickel of the unemployed that not
many will stay that long AS long
as they can collect money without
need to loan you some you may be
an employe, Oh, this scheme is won
derful when you think it over. New
workers will be hired at lower wages,
taxed and then fired again. You
may also get chance to be rel1ired
again, but as q new worker at lower
wages
VIII the workers control this
money, as per plan? Not on your
life 1t will be controlled by the
bosses ard what relief will be given
will be known to the boss and his
lackeys.
Glass conscious workers must ex-
plain to their fellow-wcrkers what
these schemes mean. Refuse to LOAD
yourselves with dues Organize shop
committees to fight against lay-cffs,
against speed-up and against wage
cuts.
All the employed and unemployed
worl;c9s must get together under the
guidance Of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis and fight for immediate relief
for the unemployed ct the expense
Of tNH stota and the bosses.
S. P. workers write more news on
s'7oo cc,tIiticrs3 to Worcorr, 1913
Franklin ST, Oakland, Cal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23

CONFINED FROM PAGE oNE)
other similar conferences in other
cities, and large ninorities for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill in locals that do not send dele
cations.
The A. F.. L. central bodies even
are affected. Before the Boston con-
vention of the A. F. L. the New York
Central Trades and Labor Council
came out for fake unemployment
insurance plan sponsored by Cover
nor Roosevelt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-23
Portland, Oregon, Will Form
Red Builders NeaVs Club Soon;
Sundays for 10000 Campaign

The following extract from the
joint report Of Comrade L. Mitseff
unit organizer. and Comrade Minnie
Levitt, Daily Worker agent in Port
land, Ore, shows just what can be
done in spite of great odds:
In Portland we are at disadvan-
tage. Most of our leading comrades
are in Jail. This does not mean that
we will not do all we can to help
the drive.
"The following decisions have
been made: First, the district
Daily Worker representative has
been instructed to make every eff
fort to secure additional places to
sell the Daily Worker. In spite of
the police terrorization of the news
stands which are carrying the Daily
Worker we have four stands. Sec
ondly, every member will be made
responsible for two Dailies every
day. Thirdly, we decided to have a
Daily Worker affair. We have also
decided to organize Red Builders
Club. We are trying to ret nom
Party workers to sell the Daily
Worker.
1.-THE next three consecutive Sun
days are to be Red Sundays. Every
Party member is to be on the Job for
house to house canvassing. This is
the first time that this has been done
in Portland. We made many good
contacts and hope to do better next
time. Finally, we used the copies OF
the Daily Worker which the post Of
flee had failed to deliver for sever
days for distribution so that in spite
of their attempts the papers reached
the workers"
EXPECT INCREASE IN
SYRACUSE DAILY SALES
j. Schwartz, Daily Worker agent
in Syracuse, sends the following
note:
please send fifty copies every
day to Syracuse. You may rest as
sured that they will be sold. Things
in Syracuse are picking up and you
can expect an increase shortly"