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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
Conditions in Armour
Packing Co. Bad and
Pay Low, Hours Long
(By a Worker Correspondent


CHICAGO, Ill.--Just a few words
on the conditions in the Armour
Packing Co. The departments are
badly equipped and insanitary. The
company doesn't care under what
conditions we work as long as 1t gets
the profits.
And our wages are nothing to boast
about. The highest pay we get is AZ
cents an hour, working hours. We
have to work real hard for this. The
straw bosses get 60 and 10 dollars a
week. They drive the workers at full
speed. We have to work for these
parasites like this because we are
unorganized If only workers would
get class conscious and throw these
bosses and parasites off their backs.
We will never accomplish anything
unless we organize and fight against
such conditions. The Food Workers
Industrial League is carrying on a
campaign to organize the stock yards
workers. All workers employed at
the stock yards must join this mill
tant organization and carry on the
struggle for higher wages and cleaner
work rooms.
A Stockyard Work.
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20 lingo Societies in
Conference Hear Vol

Continued from Page One)
U. S. S. R. workers for taking from
the landlords and capitalist of Rus
STA, the land and factories
1.-THE danger is not that the Sow
let will have any considerable sue
cess in any direction, but that, if
we permit her, she will contaminate
us by her economic disease. said
Vol, and urging an embargo stated:
why should we not quarantine all
of our workers from the COMPETE
ton of Soviet slave labor?"
Continue Embargo Plan.
At the time Vol made his state
ments, the U. S. Treasury depart
ment was announcing further pro-
gress in its plan for an order to stop
imports from U. S. S. r. on the re-
quest of any private citizen, who
charges they are Convict made" AS
finally modified, the order allows the
treasury department to keep them
out entirely by claiming it is mot
satisfied with the proof"
Secretary of Treasury Mellon yes
terday signed the order, throwing
all burden of proof in case of a
charge of convict origin on the U. S.
S. r. The National Lumber Manu-
facturers Association, the American
Manganese Producers Association
and the A. F. of L. have been negoti-
ating with the treasury department
to have the plans drawn up.
VOL and the treasury department
seem only to be stimulated to fresh
attacks on Soviet trade by reports
of the U. S. department of commerce
that for the first six months of 1880
the Soviet purchases in U. S. were
148 per cent greater than in the same
six months of 1929. Cutting off this
trade would of course throw more
American workers out of their jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
Store IQiZOYs
Get WageSlash
Longer Hours
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW York; think it's time for
the readers of the Daily Worker to
know about this trade also.
Up till now the Needle Trades In
dustrial Union tried to organize all
of its branches into the union except
one which although is not in the line
OF mass production yet 1t has
thousands of workers in it's ranks.
This trade is the pressers and tail
ors working in stores all over the city.
Cut Wages.
In this trade a few years ago we
worked about hours a day, days
week, and received from IS to 40
dollars for it. But now since the
general crisis of business and since
the dress operators have a short
season, this line is flooded with work
ers so much that when there is an
advertisement for one man, you find
Is in line; some Of them getting
there as early as $50 q. m. thinking
that if they get there early they viii
have more chance of getting the job.
OF course when the boss sees the mob
he takes advantage of this (such as
pitting one against the other) and
now instead of $35 to $40 we get $25
to $50 for a weeks work.
If you don't work half hour over
time without pay) or if you don't
get m o'clock sharp they make you
feel that there is someone outside
waiting to take yeur job. In other
words they are doing you favor in
letting you work under such rotten
conditions.
Yet not one of the unions ever
thought about organizing these
workers. Why? I don't know. 1
know that whenever there is talk of
a union most of them express the
idea that they would be only too
willing to join.
Some of them have gone so far as
starting to organize but they had no
one to lead them. And now they are
waiting to see when the labor move
ment will begin to think of them.
"A Presser.
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Many Wage-Cuts.
Wage-cuts and lay-offs occur al
most every day here in the stores
factories and offices where girls
work. Sears Roebuck has announced
cuts up to 165 in the retail depart
ment alone as soon as Christmas is
over. This will leave almost a skele-
ton force doing the work. American
Can, Bemis Bag and several other
factories employing girls have laid
off in the last week, and the can
neries, one of which is still running
night shift, are either down or
will soon be practically closed.
Office Workers Hit.
Wages are very rarely above the
minimum" for factory work. Some
department stores are paying their
girls only $40 in certain departments,
In the garment factories, of course,
wages are lower yet for beginners. I
talked to one waitress who had two
babies to support and was getting
So for 10 hours, with a split shift
which forced her to sleep four hours
in the early morning and four in
the afternoon. Even the office work.
ers are very hard hit, many expert
enced and capable bookkeepers and
stenographers being out Of work.
Trained but inexperienced stenos are
asked to work for S. or $40 a week
to learn, and even at that must have
many qualifications, even the color
of eyes and the height being speci-
fled.
Even domestic work, usually con-
sidered last resort by most girls,
is now hard to get and pays less.
Girls that used to get $50 month
now have to take $50 or $40. And
most jobs are under $50, board and
room, down to $40 and SIS a month.
Sometimes, even, they ask a girl to
work for nothing but her board and
room. And usually the less you get
the harder you work, making the
girl do the cooking, washing and
everything.
A great deal of propaganda is be-
ing put out blaming unemployment
on girls and women, especially mar
RED women, who work. Working
women, working girls, we must unite
to expose these lies and get decent
wages and fight unemployment!
An Unemployed Girl Worker.
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Defend Sabotagers in
USSR and Macdonald

Continued from Page One)
munists to clean house." said Hill
quit in his speech in defense of the
sabotage ring whose leaders have
just confessed that they were part OF
an international war plot against the
Soviet Union.
Hillquit had to remark that in his
attack on the U. S. S. r. he found
himself strange bed-fellow to
certain gentlemen in Washington. /"
His speech, as also that of Alger-
non Lee, chairman, and Panken,
reeked with wild accusations that the
Soviet Government is betrayal OF
democracy" and maintains bloody
rule" Most Of the sentamentalism
Of the socialists was lavished on the
heroic victims of the G. P. IT," that
is, the sabotagers, and the "unfor-
tunate peasants who have a little
property which is being taken away"
that is, the kulaks on whom social
lists and capitalists alike founded
their hopes for a revival of capital
ism. The kulaks are vanishing be-
fore the sweep of the farm collec-
Invitation movement and their Amer
lean friends are wild about it.
Menshevik Campaign.
This melting was arranged as part
of worldwide campaign ordered by
the menshevik exiles in Berlin when
the first batch of sabotagers was
arrested some time ago. The social
list party and the white guard Rus
slams in New York secretly arranged
to hold it on Nov. o. The socialist
party attempted to keep the arrange
ment secret during the election
campaign. but it was stupidity ex-
posed In an article in the Russian
monarchist paper, Novoe Russkoe
Slovo. The socialist leaders did not
deny the report, but kept still, and
the meeting was postponed from Nov.
8 to Nov %. tsa
The socialist leaders attempt a bit
of demagogy by declaring they pre-
fer Communism to fascism or car
ism and are against an embargo on
Soviet trade. At the same time they
provide all possible propaganda help
to the war plotters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
BELGIAN BOSSES
SPEND Big SUMS
FOR COMING WAR
Increase Army; Reds
Fight War Moves

BRUSSELS-Despite its financial
difficulties the Belgian government
intends to float a loan of 2 billion
Francs for ornaments. The gen.
darmerie is to be increased in
strength from 1000 to 10000. In adj
dition it is supplied with machine
guns and artillery so that it can be
incorporated irr the standing army at
a moments notice.
The Belgian cabinet intends to.
bring in a bill providing severe pun
ishments for persons Insulting the
national flag" Further it is intended
to bring in a bill regulating the alien
question and directed chiefly against
revolutionary foreign-born workers.
The Communist arty and the Bel
gian section of the International Red
Aid are conducting a campaign
against these drafts and against the
increased armament proposals of the
government.
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STAIN BLASTS
REVOLT RUMOR
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One)
building up Socialism under the
Five-Year Plan. The capitalists
everywhere, fearful Of the success Of
the Five-Year Plan, were increasing
their war maneuvers.
Exposing the purpose OF the ru-
mors about assassinations and ire
VOLTS" Stain said that there "is an
organized campaign by certain
groups conferred in Riga and Berlin
for the purpose of DETECTING atten-
ton from interventionist schemes
which we exposed"
Trial Starts Today.
The trial of the counter revolu-
tionists begins today. 1t will be COW
cred by four staff members of the
Daily Worker. Mike Gold and A. B..
Magill will cover the proceedings,
while Fred Ellis and Bill Chopper,
famous labor artists, will send us
many drawings of the event.
Stain, in his interview, went on
to point out some of the other rea-
sons for the rumors.
They want to make the world
think the Soviets started this
counter revolution trial as smoke
screen to hide our supposed star
walton, unrest and SO forth. The
lions are arising simultaneously
fact that these imaginative inven-
in various cities proves to me it is
a deliberate plan to mislead the
worlds public opinion"
When Lyons asked Stain about
the prospects of the world revolution
Stain answered that it would be diff
ficult to answer briefly, but If he
had to put his answer into two words
he would say: Prospects good!" Re-
garding the United States and the
question of recognition, Stain said:
"If it cannot establish political ties
with the United States, the Soviet
Union at least desires to strengthen
its economic ties with America"
Workers! Defend the Soviet Union!
1t should be clear to every worker
that the lies which are now COM
pletely blasted were circulated for
definite reasons. The war prepara-
tons are growing precisely because
the EiuoVeor Dian lie advancing of
tremendous pace. The workers in
the Soviet Union are working for
peace, they make every proposal to
maintain peace. But every action OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
Briefs from
All Lands

OTTOWA. - Fine meetings and
demonstrations were held on the
7th of November in the industrial
towns in Canada. In Hamilton the
police arrested Conrade George An
drews the leader of the local Com
munist Party with a view to prevent
ing the demonstration. The demon
stration in Hamilton was the strong
est seen for years.
SYDNEY-The police in Sydney
prohibited all open air meetings and
demonstrations for the 7th of No
vember. Meetings and denonstra-
tons we're held in defiance of this
prohibition. The police arrested 10
of the speakers and attacked the
demonstrators who resisted their at
tempts to break up the demonstra-
tions. In the end the police were
withdrawn and the meetings pro-
ceeded in peace.
STAMBOUL.-The Bulgarian from
tier guards have arrested Petkc
Napetov and a companion who at
tempted to cross the Turko-B ulgar-
ian frontier into Turkey in the Svil-
engrad district According to the
police report the two were on theil
way to the Soviet Union. The pc.
lice promptly arrested the entire loca
organization of the Workers Party II
Svilengrad for alleged completely il
the attempt to cross the frontier IL
legally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
BASLE COMMUNISTS
EXPOSE GENEVA MEET

BASLE.-The Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Switzer-
land has issued an appeal to the
working masses and caused it to be
posted up in Geneva, the seat of the
League of Nations, and throughout
the country. The appeal points out
that the assassination of Comrade
Vorovski has never been avenged, and
that the National League" has now
issued what is practically an appeal
for the murder Of Comrade Litvinov.
The Communist appeal calls on the
workers to organize a powerful cam
paign in support of the Soviet Union
and for the protection of the Soviet
delegates. The workers will hold fac
tory meetings and take measures for
the protection of the Russian COM
rades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
TIMES" SPREADS
LIES ON CRISIS
Workers Being Laid
Off Every Day
Continued from Page One)

NSOIlGllluCu 1IOLl rage OllcJ
point in the history of American
capitalist economy. What does this
mean for the worker? More workers
were thrown out of work last week
More plants closed, output dropped
to the lowest point of the whole
crisis.
The Federal Reserve Board, in a
release from Washington, dated Nov.
% says:
Industrial production both at
mines and factories decreased
per cent in Oct.
This decline reflected chiefly a
further decrease in the output of
steel ingots, contrary to the usual
seasonal movement, and a larger
than seasonal decline in the out
put of automobiles" ~
From all cities reports pour in to
the Daily Worker of plants closing,
thousands more layoffs, wage cuts.
Even the Wall Street organ, the
Journal of Commerce on its front
page Monday prints story from
Chicago, with the headline "Busi-
ness in Chicago Found Unfavorable.
Mercantile Sales Slump During
Week-Employment Declines"
The details of this story are
gloomy. More workers fired. More
added to the breadlines. Stores and
factories laying off big shares of
their already sharply cut forces.
Jules. I. Bogen, one of the editors
Of the Journal of Commerce in the
same issue goes on to point out the
worsening economic conditions. He
reports that so far this year TAO
banks have closed, involving aggre-
gate deposits OF s312,4l9,oOO. He says
this will make business worse. The
agrarian situation is getting worse
all the time. He says:
The steel industry is operating
at only slightly above 40 per cent
of capacity. Building activity re-
mains at low ebb for the country
as a whole. The volume of retail
trade continues disappointing for
the mo st part"
And so on all along the line.
For the workers this means more
hunger, more jobless, more wage cuts
Do not believe the lies in the capt.
talist press which are printed for
the express purpose to keep the
workers starving few months long
err in the hope conditions will better.
The facts point the reverse. They
will get worse.
Don't Be Fooled.
The Daily Worker and the other
Communist papers have been the
only papers in the United States
that have told the truth of the crisis
to the workers, for a whole year
pointing out the real trend Of events
and predicting the increase In I'M
employment. The fact is that I'M
employment, despite the capitalist
lies, is mounting all the time.
Fight, don't starvel Collect sigma
lures for the Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill! Don't be fooled by the
lies in the capitalist press!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
CHICAGO SENDS IN
INCREASE OF 81 DAILY

E. Thomas, district Daily Worker
representative in Chicago writes:
1--WE started the campaign for Co.
900 readers later than we should
but we can see results already"
He incloses new orders amounting
to 81 daily.
I'm the city itself am sure that
not only will we be able to fulfil our
quota but our objective in this cam
paign is to establish a permanent
apparatus for the Daily Worker"
Chicago! Take a look at that 1000
Detroit order! There's thought
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
16 AUTO WORKERS
DO WORK OF 20.
While Boss Rides in a
Rolls-Royce
(By a Worker Correspondent


SOUTH BEND, Ind-The slave
driving system in Studebaker's is on
the order of the day. The bosses are
devising every means and ways to
speed up the workers so as to pile
up more profits for themselves and
their flunkeys.
The Studebaker factory is divided
into many departments. In one de-
partment there were 70 workers en-
ployed year ago, now there are
only Is, doing the same amount OF
work as previously. In other words,
che man is doing the work of S.
Espionage System.
The company keeps a strict watch
over the activities of its employees
outside the shop. Every day the
bosses call certain picked workers in
the main office and question them
as to their activities in the revolu-
tionary unions. The bosses are espe-
cially hard on the Ukrainian and
Russian workers. They accuse the
workers Of being members in the
Communist Party and the Young
Communist League, so as to have a
good reason to discharge them.
The workers have such miserable
conditions that they don't even
know how much wages they are get
ting. For instance, every department
is on piece-work basis. The workers
all work piece-work in group. That
is all production in one department
is done by that one particular group
of workers on piece-work basis. The
more they produce together the more
they make individually.
Prshers Speed Men.
The assistant foreman gets GER
tain rate, the women workers an
other and the regular men workers
still another rate. Of course the as
Sistant foreman does not work, he is
the pusher and therefore speeds up
the workers. After all nobody knows
how much he gets till the end OF
the week and then the timekeepers
will change and twist these figures
SO much that each worker will only
get a few dollars per week.
The pushers always get the biggest
share out of this piece-work produc-
ton. The plant is working only 2
or 8 days per week and the company
prefers to hire Polish workers only
Can't Get Drink.
The workers are not even allowed
to drink water and they are COM
PEELED to stay on the Job until the
whistle blows. In the morning every
man must be on the job, ready to
start working even before the whistle
blows.
These are some OF the damnable
conditions under which the workers
In Studebaker must slave.
While these rotten conditions pre-
vail in his factory, young Stude-
baker rides around town in a $4,000
Rolls Royce. His summer home on
the northeast side and his palace on
West Washington st. which costs a
half million dollars, all robbed from
the workers wages, stand as damn
able monuments of exploitation I'M
der the capitalist system.
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Sabotagers in War
Plot on Soviet Union

Continued from Page One)
opment of the national economy of
Russia.
go The abolition of the national
ization of land and the introduction
of private ownership of land.
"a The Standardization of in
dustrial undertakings.
go The abolition Of the monop-
oily Of foreign trade.
(6) The recognition of the car
list debts for the purpose of receiv-
ing future credits, etc.
The Tactical Line of the w. p. p.
ID The w. P. P. recognized that
its chief support consists of the
peasants, /. e., the kulak sections and
the well-to-do sections of the middle
peasants, without whom the kulaks
cannot be a sufficiently practical
force to cope with the tasks set by
the w. P. P. For this purpose the
G. G. of the w. P. P. planned to make
use of a peasant (kulak) rebellion
under the leadership of the w. P. p,
as the necessary means of struggle
against the Soviet Government.
ca At the same time the leaders
Of the w. P. P. set themselves the
task Of consolidating all other ele-
ments who were hostile to the Soviet
Government (the remnants of the Ole
governing classes for the purpose
Of utilizing them in the struggle
against the Soviet Government.
(3) The G. c. of the w. p. P
considered 1t necessary to carry on
sabotage as a means of damaging
socialist construction and supporting
the capitalist and kulak sector Of thu
national economy.
"a The leaders Of the w. p. P
utilized their position as responsible
workers In government institutions in
the U. S. S. r. in order to try anc
destroy the policy Of the Soviet Gov
eminent, and to direct the work OF
the state apparatus in the spirit Of
the bourgeois program Of the w. p. P
(5) In this work for distorting the
revolutionary line Of the Soviet Gov
eminent the w. p. P. systematically
relied on the right elements in the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, considering that the views Of
the right deviators In the G. p. s. u
In general conceded with the polit-
ical program Of the w. p. p.
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The following is taken from their
report:
"All organizations will be visited
and asked to elect a labor press
agent. Party units will elect party
press agents. These will constitute
the district Daily Worker machin-
cry. This committee will meet reg
ularly one a week. The first press
conference will be held Wednesday.
Three Red Sundays will be or
ganized during the campaign"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25

I could get the
Daily Worker on,
The first day 1 got
2 stands. Today !
have five stands,
The first day the
stands sold 2 and 3.
Today Wells and
Bird Street sold 10.
"Te way I approach
them is / pick out
some rotten thing
about the bosses ir
the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25

SHANGHAI--On the 7th OF No
vember Chinese workers and students
organized street demonstrations in
various parts Of Shanghai in honor
of the Russian Revolution and in
support Of the Soviet Union. Large
forces of police dispersed the DEM
onstrations. Much revolutionary lit
erature was distributed.
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the capitalists is driving toward war.
Only the workers, who are suffering
from unemployment, starvation and
wage-cuts, can call halt to the
bosses war maneuvers. Demand that
instead of spending billions for war
preparations they turn this money
over to the unemployed for unem-
ployment insurance. Defend the
Soviet Union!
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and ask them if Chas. w. Cheer
any of the capitalist papers have this.
They say of course no. Then I tell
them they make one cent. take
back all unsold."
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2 Oil Trusts Plan
to Attack Soviet Oil

Continued from Page One)
their hands en- and to deprive the
Soviet Union of their use.
Not long ago the Standard Oil and
the Dutch Shell carried on a severe
battle over Russian oil. Defending
has financed the Czarist white-guards
and every counter-revolutionary force
working against the Soviet Union. He
is one of the hackers of the counter
revolutionary specialists who plotted
to overthrow the Soviet government
with the help of the imperialists, and
whose trial begins today in Moscow.
According to the latest London dis
patches, these two antagonistic Fore
es have temporarily buried their diff
ferences for a common attack against
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-25
Washington Bosses Court Says Women's
Minimum Wage Law Unconstitutional
Opens Wedge for Drive on Women ToiIers
Wages for Women and Girls Hits New Low;
Layoffs Now Daily Occurrence
(By a Worker Correspondent

WashThe Federal Washington
Gently
impa
they wish by specifying that they shall receive
$3.50
high for the store and factory in this state pay But this law
always
holes that
rotten they would possible