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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
CLEVE. JOBLESS
MISERY GROWS
Wait Overnight for ]
Weeks Job
by Worker Correspondent
Cleveland, Ohio.

tDy W VFh6T COFT6SpOBdeHCJ
Cleveland, Ohio.
In this city "the industrial CAPT
tai of America" as the city bureau
Gratis describe it over the radio,
thousands of workers are in actual
starvation. Today thousands of
these starving workers stormed the
city hall looking for jobs when it
became known that the city was GO
ing to spend 100000 improving city
owned property. Yesterday at noon
the starving workers began gather
ing at the hall. At midnight the
writer counted one thousand seven
hundred lined up at the rear and
front entrances.
The city officials refused to open
the hall until the regular time, fore
ing these starving people to remain
out all night in downpour of rain
and an icy lake wind. Dozens of
these Hoover prosperity" victims
slept on door steps, window sills and
the lawns at the rear of the hall.
The writer counted twenty asleep
in trench to the west of the build
ing.
Only five hundred of these men
will be hired, and only for a week.
They will then get the air and
another bunch will be taken on to
meet the same fate. Those without
a permanent address in this city
i'll most likely get the buns rush
nut of town if they fill out the ap-
1lication blanks as city official
has announced that "only those most
worthy" will get a job. These are
the men whose voices the Cleveland
police and gunner failed to pre-
vent reaching the ears of Wall
Street office boy Hoover on his re-
cent visit here.
CARAVAN No. 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
M'CRORY PAYS s12
FORKILLlNG WORK
S ample of Hoover's
High Standard"

New York.
Editor, Daily Worker:
Last Tuesday 1 got job in Nc
Crory's 5 and 10 cent store. 1 had
to wash dishes at the lunch counter
10 hours every day and Saturday l
worked ID hours.
They are making about $500 bust
ness on this and for all this work
they want one man to do all the
washing by hand Every day I had
to speed up faster than a machine
and for all this hard work which
almost killed me after the week was
over they handed me ~ dollars for
5 days work and told me if I want
ed to work next week I will have
to get one dollar less, and it goes
for everybody that works in the
store.
Every Saturday they get a few
extra girls to work at the rate of
$3.50 for IA hours. Some high
standard Of living. Long live "pros-
perity."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
Speed Up Blind
Workers in Orleans
New Orleans, La.

New Orleans, La.
Daily Worker:
Find enclosed clipping from the
New Orleans "Item."
Please note that the blind
workers are being speeded up and
without any increase in wages.
The enclosed clipping shows
several photos of blind workers
working at broom making ma
chimes and the statement that
they are producing more brooms
than ever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
OAKLAND JUDGE
LEERS AT MISERY
OF THE JOBLESS
Vote Com m unist to
Fight This Tool
by q Worker Correspondent

ny ~ W bCI CO5F 60 pOtDLCIt/
OAKLAND, Calif.-Judge Bason,
local municipal judge who has gain
ed an unsavory reputation among
workers here for his anti-labor de-
cisions showed his attitude towards
the miserable conditions capitalism
has forced the workers into, in his
court last week. An old man, about
55 years of age was brought into
court charged with breaking a win
dow. Bason, who by the way has
just returned from a vacation at
the workers expense sentenced the
worker to months with the follow
ing remark: "You seem to be dead
set on going to Jail. Well, we'll
accommodate you. Six months"
After the worker had been led
sway by the attendants, Bacon be-
came real jovial, and passed few
jokes or what he considered jokes,
over the workers plight. He then
went on to say: "He only got out
of Jail last week and seems anxious
to get back in. Well, anything to
oblige." Of course, the ambulance
chasers and the court hanker-ons all
laughed at the head flupkey's "bril-
liant" remarks. .e
Tried For May l Demonstration.
Not everyone present joined in the
laugh, however. In the court room
were two workers who were charged
with speaking at the May / demon
stration awaiting their trial. Ac-
companying them was large group
of workers who came down to show
their solidarity with the workers,
who were to be given an example
of capitalist justice. The Judge very
clearly showed by his cheap cow
ardly attack just what his position
was.
Later on when the two members
OF the Communist Party were called
their case was postponed. This is
IN line with the policy of the CAPT.
tallst courts here. They keep post
poning workers cases in order to
keep the bail money tied up and
discourage the workers witnesses
from appearing in court. There are
20 cases in Oakland all over six
months old being held up by the
capitalist courts here.
Workers RalIying to c. P.
The workers of Oakland are re-
spending to the call of the Commun-
list Party and the Unemployment
Insurance Bill. The worker who was
given six months because he was
starving, is but one of thousands
who are in the same position. lay
offs are taking place daily. The
Fisher Body-chevrolet is practical
ly closed down. SP shops are reduc-
ing their force every day.
Workers, realize that by individual
action such as breaking windows
and the like, they will not better their
conditions. Only by organizing into
strong militant unions and the Com
munist Party can they remove the
cause of the miserable conditions,
the system of exploitation and greed,
capitalism and establish in its place
the workers system such as they
have in the Soviet Union.
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were lucky if the little road
stake would bring them back
to town, to the old round of
living off the stem and rust
! ling odd jobs on the side.
Slave Driving in Fields.
But the worst off Of any were
the pickers. Mainly women and
children and not used to standing
up for themselves "a thing the
bosses knew their lot was nothing
else but day to day tragedy. From
five in the morning until seven at
night they were in the fields try
ing to force that cent and a half
pound up to something like a
living wage. In the cold fog Of
early morning to the killing heat
of noon, and those never ending
hours till the stars come out, were
all the same. Kids could cry and
fight, yet nothing must interiors
with that driving urge for more
and more pounds, for was not win
ter coming with its "no work." mo
money"
Talk Organization.
The few class conscious ones were
active up and down the line spread
ing the spirit of revolt and to make
stand for better conditions. The
Padgham Bros. came up from the
city with supply Of leaflets and
old workers" and were helped by
the "Larsons" in getting them
around. This had a good effect, q
more militant feeling was in the
air. Leading in this were couple
Of hundred Japanese who had been
brought in by John Haas and Co.
for just the opposite purpose. They
decided to hold a meeting one night
(before starting the lighter hops)
and finally decide on action. We
were to hold one right after in the
"White" camp, also to choose repre-
sentatives to go together to the
company to demand a cent pound
raise in all the new fields. While
this was going on "mouthy"
type of worker started to rave in
front of the office, what we would
do, this gave the C. Nerves.
A bit later and not knowing of
this, Comrade Fillmore and a boy
named Smith who knew some of
the young Japs, came back from
their camp and visited all the
shacks who were thought to be
favorable, to prepare for the eve
ming. In spite of care being taken
someone must have overheard and
ran to the boss. Fillmore was run
out of camp and escorted from the
district by two Company cars.
Many who were in the camp at the
time were hot against this but had
no one to give them lead. The
japs not having acted yet care was
taken not to spill their plans to
the company. Next morning their
demands were presented, but being
greatly in the minority, claw and
Order" were brought in from the
nearest town and prevailed, the de-
mands were refused, when all but
a few of the Japs and a great
many others quit in a body.
Learning from mistakes and
preparing ahead, for we know an
other year is coming, and with or
gained plans in advance, some
thing definite can be accomplished
to raise the standard of living of
these needy workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
ARREST OIL WORKERS.

MARTINEZ, Calf. (F.P.).-Ar-
rested in car registered to Anita
Whitney, two Oakland Communists
are held in Martinez, charged with
vagrancy. They were distributing
Communist literature at a factory
when taken into custody. They are
John Mutigli and Joseph G. Endino.
Martinez is an oil and Industrial
town, just north Of Alameda County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
(By a Worker Correspondent

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-The Pacific
Coast LABOR Bcroau at 1914 Second
st. is a gyp pace. The so-called
H. L. Manning comr,issary clerk
gets orders from the Southern Pa
cific to send Mexican laborers to the
railroad camps free, but he puts the
order in the Pei. bureau and
George LeSos, manager charges them
So office fee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

Alliance, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
Only two shops in Alliance are
working good. These are Alliance
Machine Co. and Morgan Engineer
ing Co. All the rest working only
days a week.
We have some workers in our city
that haven't worked for 8 months
and some for over year and some
of these have to support Z children
which altogether mother and father,
makes 9 people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

PITS FRIEND ON LIST,
please find enclosed check for
So, one dollar for donation and
one dollar to put M. R. back on
your list for the Daily Worker
at my expense" Aniuse Schlem-
mer. Chicago City, MINI. BOOST
MASS CIRCULATION.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
FraserValley Hop PickersI
Learn from Past Mistakes
andPrebarefor Fight
Bosses Work Women and Children at Killing
Pace in Cold and Heat of Fields
Japanese and White Workers Know Need for
Unity in Fight Against Bosses
lBx a Worker Correspondents

VANCOUVER, B. C-Each fall from 1000 to 5000 workers
drift into the Hop fields Of the Fraser Valley to gather the
seasons crop Each conditions get and the
just past bad that militant group well linked up the
different fields would have had 80 per cent of the workers
with them practical proposals forward that offered
a chance of Tightening the immediate burden
The day workers got from SEQ to S275 for ten hours
working about half time and after they through pay
ing runou prices charged at the for foodstufs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
HOTEL WORKERS
MADE TO FEEL
CRISIS BRUNT
Steady Work Among
Them Will Build
Chicago, III.

Dear Editor
1 am working in one of the big
gest hotels and want to tell about
conditions there. The pay never
was very high, but job in hotel
was considered, and still is, better
than many others. It was a steady
job and no time was lost on account
of weather. Besides the pay, tips
were counted on and that the man.
agement figured would make up for
the low wages.
Less Workers, More Work.
In a years time the force has
been cut in half. Where there used
to be two for a certain amount of
work, one has to do it all, and the
working conditions ave been get
ting worse all the time. The bosses
say that it is necessary to give bet
ter service now than before, less the
guest will move out.
No Tips, Either.
AS to the guests: They have cut
tips almost entirely. But instead
1 get few tips on inside stories.
Here is one: swell, talk about Ford!
Such dirty man. There is one of
his old dealers unable to sell the
cars on hand while Ford comes out
with new car. Then the dealer
says he can't put in new stock and
Ford simply enters into contract
with new man who opens sales
room a few miles away from the
first dealer. Shouldn't man like
that be shot?" When l get outside
l laugh it off.
Get Vacations"
But the maids will have to take
the brunt of the guests ill-feelings,
and almost everyone is getting to
feel bad from stock crashes, etc. If
the housekeepers decide that an
apartment is not kept clean, the
maid gets two weeks or a months
vacation without pay. The same
punishment is melted out if one
comes late more than once month.
Being late once means loss of the
monthly bonus, S. If one has to
stay home from work one day the
81 day pay, plus a months bonus,
SIS, or, together, 81. is lost.
JIM.CROwISM.
The discri nation against Ne
gro workers is open and the white
workers have nothing to do with
the colored. The Negroes are
given the dirtiest work, lowest
pay (colored maids get S12
week for seven days. and are
kept in separate dressing rooms,
and have their own toilets, etc.
The fear among the workers of
being laid off and losing even the
present small wage are the main
causes for the hotels not being or
ganized. The conditions certainly
are rotten enough. I have tried to
talk to the workers, Negroes and
whites, about the T. U. U. L., which
I belong to. One colored girl be-
longs to an Unemployed Council,
which she Joined when out of work.
A white man worker goes to Party
doings now and then and gives
money to Party activity. Three
who I know are readers of Wins
and have participated in several
demonstrations. But I have failed
to get them to join the T. U. U. L.
Then I started to talk to them
about the I. L. D., but with the same
outcome. Changing methods, / de-
cided to go to their homes, which
proved to be the best way to talk to
them. What would you do in my
place since you know these facts?
HOTEL WORKER.
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P. 81 went to bed agitating
and got up agitating but six were
in favor and the rest out of % were
against me. did not get one ap-
plication but am going to continue
to carry on the fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
A TOUGH HOME GUARD.

TORONTO.-"Knock down any,
body whom you hear starting off
any Of this talk the Reds are so
fond off," General William Hughes
advised a meeting of war veterans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

days pay from the father for the
Community fund. If he did not pay
he would lose his job.
--COMRADE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18

the job. Go to work and come from
work on your own time.
J. X. SYLVIA,
UNEMPLOYED Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-18
Short Time in
Alliance, O., Shops

Alliance, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
i'm Explorers Death in the Congo

come true, 1t must be evident that IL was al
most impossible for me 10 write Of the remain
ing events Of our Kongo expedition: Of how we
laid his mortal body away in O tomb Of solid
volcanic rock I'M the midst Of the country he
loved; of how we both had felt ON the entire
expedition that life for only Mt the
beginning; and OF how, TO me, life now seemed
10 have come TO an abrupt ending; Of how I
found strength TO 60 on alone, to complete TO
the best of my ability his unfinished work.
can only add here an extract from q letter
that wrote from our Mikeno camp:
"T1e seemed always eager to push on 10 his
goal-the Gorilla Sanctuary-remarking at al
most every camp. This is beautiful spot, but
In the Kivu the beauties of forest and noun
tain surpass all this tenfold.' sometimes felt
he was torn between the physical desires 10
rest and the great urge Of reaching the Kfvu
goal
"The day we came up to this camp, as I
walked beside him. he would say, Mary, this
Is the Kivu at last Here the fairies play!' or,
Isn't this forest the most beautiful the most
ancient in all the world?
"Raddatz helped me wonderfully at the end.
We were able to make vault feet deep In
the lava gravel and rock. We made O comm
Of solid native mahogany. i covered It and up
holStered 1t with our soft camping blankets.
We had lined the vault with closely set wooden
beams. Raddatz subsequently covered the grave
with a slab Of cement 10 by ~ feet and
inches In thickness, bearing the name Carl
Akeley,' and the date, November IT. 1895
Surrounding the plot we built an 8-foot stock
ade against the encroachments of the jungle
and the herds of buffalo and elephant. Der
seheid Raddatz, Bin and worked hve days and
five nights TO give him the best home we could
huild, and he was buried think he would
like, with a simple reading service and prayer.
He often said he wished to die in the har-
ness and to be buried in Africa He had done
more IN the nine months of his last expedi-
tion than he had previously done on two
years expedition.
"F7is going was the one thing we never
dreamed could happen on this trip Every
act and thought was vital, like that OF man
in his early prime and he worked without rest
ing. Now I have what many lonely women
lack-the memory Of our great love and the
Inspiration Of his noble effective life work. his
genius and his high ideals And so feel he
has not really left me. but that his spirit Is
here to help me II it were not for that
could not carry on
tCopyright 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01

the papers. ! just been reading q
N weekly paper. They give their own
slant on what has happened
Mr. Ford issues a statement last
week that this new tariff bill If passed will
be the worst thing In the world for all Of u.s.
You see lot of manufacturing establishments
try TO cover up their own business ability by
having the Government protect them against
somebody that handles their business better
than they do. They can always holler Cheap
labor!" But the cost of transportation to this
country more than makes up for that. So
every little Industry that cant make big
profit hollers for protection.
We wont see the real effects of this till we
have all these other Countries passing re-
strictive tariffs against You cant stop
the other fellow from shipping his goods to
US without him doing something to get even.
Some of the smartest and most conscientious
men in our National life have been divided
on the tariff question. It's not all Politics,
lot of 1t is a matter of real opinion, based ON
O long study. All Democrats don't agree on
it, and no two Republicans have exactly the
same opinion it. So let's give the old boys
back there the benefit of the breaks. They
are just up against something that is above
them.
Argueing Tariff is Sorter like argueing religion.
There just amt any answer. II q business
thrives under q protective tariff, that don't
mean that it has been q good thing. 1t may
have thrived because it made the people OF
America pay more for the object than they
should have, so a few have got rich at the
cost of the many. There Is never any way
of estimating the damage done by tariff,
that Is how much other countries retaliate In
different ways. Mr.. Grundy might be making
Pennsylvania rich, but at the cost of the
friendship Of all our foreign friends.
You got to sorter give and take in this old
world. We get mighty RICH but we
haven't got any friends, we viii find we are
poorer than anybody.
Nations are just like individuals They get
mad and fight just like Individuals. Their
feelings are hurt even quicker than Individuals.
They do everything just like one person. So
that's the way it Is with wealth and position.
We might be the wealthiest Nation that ever
existed, we might dominate the world in lots
Of things, but as Nations are individuals, why
we are just an Individual, and because we are
richer than all our Neighbors or than anybody
else that don't necessarily mean that we are
happier or really better OF. We don't all envy
our Town or States most wealthy man. We
see lots of reasons why we wouldent trade
places with him. We not only look at his
wealth, but we look at all the other sides
TO him. We may know how he is all wet
I'm lots of ways. So we may say, Eyes he has
rot money but what else?"
Well now that Is the way we are liable to
become. We are known as the wealthiest
Nation Of all time. Wen in the first place we
are not The difference between our rich and
POOR grows greater every year. Cur distribu-
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down upon us from Mikeno. He walked the
last 2 miles into camp. cold rain fell dur
ing the entire trip
A r camp Derscheid and Raddatz awaited US.
= We all sat down under the ny Of the work
tent which looked out on Karisimbi Knowing
how exhausted Carl was Raddatz and urged
him to 90 into q tent which was warmed by
charcoal stove But Carl said mo, want to
sit outside" He ordered the boys to bring
stove, over which We warmed ourselves, and
then we had hot soup and biscuits. He talked
theoretically TO Derscheid and me about how
and where he had found the gorillas in 1921,
and when the question of locating our tents
came up he walked down into the forest and
picked out site protected from the wind.
IT want you to be far away from the camp
noise so you can get your rest" he said to me.
Then, las soon as they can put your tent up.
well go down and sit by your stove"
This we did but the FIRE was too small TO
warm the tent and the day grew increasingly
cold and stormy. Soon he began to shake with
O chill, and as his tent was set adjoining mine.
put him to bed and rubbed his cold hands
and feet Two hot-water bottles gradually
warmed him. Then came the inevitable fever.
A little after dark his temperature was normal
and he said he thought he could sleep.
/ did not undress, but went to him frequently
I'm the night He rested but did not sleep
the next morning he was again nauseated.
That day i kept Carl warm in his tent bat
he could take little nourishment. Every one in
carap was busy Raddatz sorted supplies and
Leigh and Derscheid with Mguru went out to
hunt for the site On which the old male of
Karasimbi had been killed and which Carl had
decided was the point from which the study
for the background of the gorilla group was to
he painted
Fer the next two days and nights Raddatz
and remained constantly with Carl Bill was
always with us, only leaving for few brief
minutes 10 eat his food. On November II the
unexpected end cams. A half hour before he
and / had talked q nttle together. and he had
teld me that he was resting quietly and had NO
pain. had NO warning.
To the casual stranger who never knew Carl
Akeley, to those who knew and loved him as a
loyal and understanding companion 10 our
friends who knew that this expedition was for
my husband and me the sum of all our dreams
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01

MANUFACTURES of remedies which do not
AVA live up to their promises is dangerous at
the beSt but becomes downright foolishness
when the manufacturer fails to understand the
physiology Of the subject to be treated.
Take the case Of the producer of an internal
remedy to be added to drinking water to elimi
nate poultry lice in fiocks of birds infected by
the pests.
This product, which recently felt the heavy
hand of Uncle Sans pure food and drug
administration. was composed of mixture of
lime and sulphur, The theory under which the
remedy was to operate was that the sulphur
would exude through the pores of the fowls
skin and, reaching the surface. drive OF the
lice
Unfortunately for the manufacturer, two
factors worked against his remedy For one
thing the sulphur was changed into hydrogen
salphiae during the digestive process and never
reached the skin. Even II this were not 50. the
chicken has no sweat glands ana does not
eliminate through the skin.