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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
WOMAN .T0ILERS
POISONED. AT THE
MAJESTIC. METAL
Mothers Are
~ Driven Hard
(By a Worker .Correspondentl

,'lBy a. worker correspondent
NEW YoRK.-The Majestic Metal
speciaities Co. is metal shop that
needs organization very, badly. The.
conditions there are so unhealthy
that the doctor told me I have to
leave before. my. entire system be-
comes poisoned. Most of the workers
are girls and they do the same mon
otonous work from 8 in the morning
till $50. at might. Then they are
practically forced to work overtime,
Upon asking whether we are forced
to work If we. are too tired, I was
very politely told that I didn't haye
to, but that I would lose the job if
7 didn't, ,
Terrible Stink. -
The ,laequering and painting rooms
airs the Worst in the entire factory.
The stink in the LACQUER room brings
tears in ones eyes, and the girls
have. to sit in. there. the whole day.
The place is So filthy that layers of
lacquer tthat have spilled have be-
come hardened to the floor, The
windows cannot be opened because
the slightest breeze spoils the work.
During those terrible hot summer
months the water was. even shut off
because they we're afraid the girls
would get UP to get water too often,
j., Drive Workers.
The workers are kept just like
animals. on chains. If one gets i'll
and is. forced to go home, every min
ute is taken off the payroll. Some
OF the workers are. mothers of three
or more children and they earn the
large sum of $13 a. week Of they do
not get sick that week.. 1 remember
a particular. onez-she- was forced by
circumstances to. work until about. 3
days before the. birth. of her child,
lifting heavy boxes and, breathing the
unhealthy stink into her future chila
Contrast these conditions with thoA
IN. the, U.Ss.R. where the workers
rule. Comrades, organize the shops
and fight for a. workers, governments
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
Lower. Standards
for Working Class
Is Bosses Plan
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

BRONX, N. Y.-Those who have
reached the lowest level of poverty
are in a sense better off than the
ones. who suffer in silence. The first
may not get enough bread in the
bread line" but there is the chance
to. have their pictures in the papers,
and often side by side with national
personalities.
The second ones are not problem
yet, that is, they try to solve their
own in this manner. A worker who
lived in a $50 apartment moves into
a $40 one. He does not save the diff
ference, his earning power is cut in
half if not. more.
Lose Many Things.
Another worker used to think that
he was driving his own car, but he
rides in the subway now. He failed
to pay the installment when it was
due. Another worker was deprived
of listening in" for the same reason
Of prosperity" u,
Many surrender their insurance
policies and in this way drive the
wolf from the door for a while, in
the hope that the war and postwar
prosperity will soon return.
Fight This Misery. -
Workers children will not find
their milk at the door tomorrow.
Father does not work and mother
stopped off the milkman. She. finds
1t hard to pay the dollar on, collec-
ton day.
Worker will you let the richest gov
eminent In the world bring you ITO
the level Of starvation2 Do not fall
in the bread lines, fall in the line
OF the Communist Party, demand and
fight for Social Insurance. VI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
CUT BREADLTNES
IN FIIEMlSS::ORDER
Movies to Wallow in
Uptrend Bunk
(By a Worker. Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. 1Pa.=-That the
big bluff about prosperity being
around the corner or in the next
block or somewhere will be carried
on as usual in Philadelphia can be
gathered by the fact that the War
ner Bros. Stanley co. of America,
IND, has placed on its bulletin board
the following notice to managers of
these houses:
Delete from all news films scenes
of breadiines or other scenes due to
the depression Tread crisis. THIS
IS .IMPERAITvE!"
.. More Fakery. :
: Another phase of this big bluff is
propagated in the local press and
consists Of figures. conclusively show
ing that Christmas funds bank de-
ppsits are the larqest on record in
the Philadelphia district. but what
class Of people are the depositors?
That's another matter, not conclu-
sively. proved one way or other.
These, tales of enormous bank de-
pQslts, also help, simultaneously to
bolster, up confidence" in the banks,
some of which in this city are very
shaky. There was a run" on one
of them a few weeks ago and only
a quick merger with stronger. IN
stitution saved them, This hank was
located in the section of the city
bearing the brunt oE'the crisis. Ken
sington. C. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06

hall he is given his card and num-
Der, which entities him to get q job
at the City Free Employment Office
and then, after, waiting for 10 to II
days for his turn to come. he is!givep
three days work for the measly wage
Of 50 (Where the wages of city and
county work was $3.50 and 81 before),
not alone that the wages of those
workers are. slashed nearly in half,
they also have to take orders for half
of their wages. Now, if worker I'M
der this system gets, let us say, 6
days work in a month, he. is. damn
lucky, and that will give him, So in
cash and SO in orders good for food
and clothing in his neighborhood'
store for himself and his family.
How in. the world a working man
and his family can, live on that is
more than can understand.
Maybe, President Hoover can give
the workers Of this country some in
SIDE information of how this can be
done. He should be an expert on
such things and know how to do it,
because during the war he worked
for the government as food admin
istrator for 81 year and got fat and
rich doing it.
Must Organize Council.
Well, workers Of Spokane md the
rest Of this country, 1t is time for
you to get your eyes open and to get
together and form an unemployed
council and go in a body and demand
mot beg) either work or wages. De-
mand at least $25 a week for every
unemployed worker. both man and
woman, and an. additional SIS for
each dependent. Don't stand by and
see your children starve and be Grip
pied and stunted for the rest of
your life. F. S..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
GIVE SHOVELL.EPS
IN DENVER, Col. S.
Mere Pittance Is Called
Relief
by a Worker Correspondent,

" ~ correspondent
DENVER, Colo.-When the. Street
Department of the City Of Denver
announced that it would hire several
hundred men to clean streets during
the recent snowstorm.. several times
the number OF men needed turned
out in the snow ad asked for the
johns. The oes who we're fortunate
enough to get on the STRENGTHENING
crew had to work for eight .hours in
a binding storm.
Many Of the workers mad no car
fare, and SO had to walk several miles
to the city barns. and after working
elgh thours. had 10 walk back home
again. Many workers, IN the one
hour allowed for luRch, just had to
sit and wait, for they didn't have the
price OF coffee and.
When the workers came again the
next evening, they were told that
there were so many tseeding the Jobs
that they couldn't be given another
nights work. And so the few hun
dred workers, cut of the 10000 I'M
employed IN Denver got IS, which is
supposed to solve the unemployment
question in Denver.
Unemployed workers of Denver,
join the Unemployed Council! Fight
for immediate relief Come to the
Unemployed Council headquarters,
room IS, 1913 Lawrence st. and take
your part in. the struggle of unem-
ployed workers for Work or Wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
CADILLAC MOTOR
TOILERS AVERAGE
$40 WEEKLY WAGE
Fight Slow Starvation,
Organize!
tBy . Worker Correspondent.l


DETROIT, Mich am working
aaad shaving three days week at the
Infamous for its slavery Cadillac
Motor Co. for $l0.S5 a week. Three
years ago for the same amount of
work ] could make here $22 a week.
New, while my wife and children are
starving and am going overcoat-
less, my bosses are enjoying warm
weather In Florida, and. while we
starve, they i've i11errily on our blood
tnd sweat. Indeed, we make IL and
le-eylinder lifnousines, we lose our
fingers end even life on the jobs, and
Aey live on our ignorance. So, I
tan TO all you Cadillac workers and
Waves: Refuse to 5tarye. Revolt
against this exploitation. Join the
Communist Party and under the
leadership Of the Communist Party
let US fight shoulder to shoulder for
The human shop conditions and de-
cent wages. Read the Daily Worker
and tell your fellow workers about
1t At least, we have nothing to lose,
but a lot to gain. The Communist
Party lis waiting for US, let's then all
toin it.
Speed-Up Kills Worker.
Last Wednesday Ray Guier was
killed at the Cadillac Motor Co. The
company took the statements from
the workers WHO had witnessed the
fatal accident by intimidation in or
der 10 put the whole blame on the
dead worker and to cheat the family
OF The worker of some compensation.
How long are we going to stand this,
! ask you fellow workers? II we do
not act We get nowhere. Our big
parasite, Lawrence Fisher, will con-
time 10 exploit and murder us be-
cause we are not organized. Come
On and wake up.
LET Man Be Free"
In front of the Lincoln Motor CO.
stands a statue OF Able Lincoln with
the phony inscription: "Let Man Be
Erse." I wonder what is the signifi-
canoe OF this inscription when in the
shop Henry Ford enslaves hundreds
II men? The answer is this that we
workers are meek like sheep and they
do with us what they please. But it
won't be long.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
WAGE
SLASHES RAGE
i'm CHESTER, PA.
Organize to Fight This
Attack!
CBy a Worker Correspondent


PHILADELPHIA, Pa. The Sun
Ship Of Chester, Pa, has laid off 1900
workers in the past two weeks and
the lay-offs are continuing
The Viscose works, largest textile
plant in the city (of Chester has
laid oft over 800 workers and with
more being laid off regularly seem
ing a complete shutdown will soon be
the result here.
Cut Wages Too.
The Allison Steel Co. Of Chester
has cut wages 40 per cent. The Bald
win Locomotive Works laid off the
men who were working for 40 and so
cents AN hour, then rehired some of
them for 80 cents an hour.
At Irving Worsted mill a 10 per
cent wage cut was given the workers.
This series Of wage cuts and lay
offs at Chester, one of the most inn
pertant industrial cities in the Del
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
Yale Collage Cuts /.
WomaG Cooks Pay

(Bya Worker CorrespOhdent.)
NEW HAVEN, COnn.-fhis
posses college takes advaRtage-6f
The poverty of the workers ip the
iame way. as the bosses do in the
factory. The cooks in the Yale
dining hall were lined up one
morning and. told that If they
wanted to continue to work there.
he wages would be s12 a week.
We are getting SIS a week. Many
refused to work any longer. as
The work is hard. and the job is
1ow one of the worst in this city.
Only those women whose men are
put of work stayed on the job.
The forelady is a mean old slave
iriver.' She is always scherning to
speed us up and watches us all the
lime. WOMAN WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
(By a Worker Correspondents

by a Worker Correspondent
VALLEJO, Calif.--Measures to Gre
lieve' the unemployment situation In
the navy yard was announced this
week. -
ITO distribute new work over a
larger number Of men employees, the
Mare Island navy yard will put on
five-sixths time working week."
o. KID BY HOOVER.
! Rear-AdmiraI G. w. Laws, COM
mandant at Mare Island, thought
this stagger system ideal to solve I'M
employment problem, SO with the con-
sent (nost naturally sol Of Secretary
of Navy Adams it is being introduced
here.
This Is a deliberate attack upon the
working. class, 1t Is lowering the
standard Of living for $3.50 navy yard
workers on this island. This Is an
other proof that capitalists are put
ting the burden Of this crisis on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
S14.4O for a Few = >.
Jobless Is Called
Relief" i'm Chicago
tBy a worker Correspondentl

(By a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, In.-Just little expose
to let you know how the bosses are
relieving" unemployed men with
families in Chicago, In all there have
been 70 men placed: 3 days per week,
60 cents per hour, a grand total of
si4.4o per week, if you endure the
bosses racket.
The work is non-essential, shovel
ling sand on the lake front. You
shovel a pile over there and then
shovel it back again. And what
mean you shovel too.
The tinekeeper at seth st. takes
your name and then you walk
through the sand to 10th st. on your
own time and back at night Con your
own time) to check out again. And
if anybody. thinks the bosses amt
there invite them to come down on
the lake front and listen to their
(the bosses) racket.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
Stretchout. in the
Southern Mills
Grow Worse Daily
(From the Southern Worker

CHARLOTTE, N. C.--The
stretchout in the Louise mill is
getting worse. Since about two
weeks ago the company invented
a new scheme whereby they can
make the hands work harder and
make more profit. They have
raised by stretchout to 46 looms.
This cuts down the wages of many
of the workers where VIC people
could hardly make living. The
work was SO damn hard where the
company was forced to cut down
loom per man. So, now we are
unning So looms, which is about
20 looms too many,
Seine of us kick and think they
i'll get somewhere, but others are
joining the National Textile Work
ers Union and getting ready to
fight back.
"A MILL WORKER,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
SCOTT PAPER co.
NbNES PROFITS
FROM SPElE,DUP
WAGES Cut to Hunger
Level in Chester
By a Worker Correspondents

by a Worker Correspondent
CHESTER, Pa--Thc report OF the
Scott Paper Co here shows a net
profit OF $753525 for the first nine
months CT 1890. This profit breaks
all records of the company, being 3
9 per cent increase over the same
period of 1929.
The sales we're also a record break,
totaling S6,439,723, as compared with
35,582,0O7 in 1929. The increase is
10 per cent.
Skill Of Management
Say the published accounts in the
financial and business section of the
daily bourgeois press of Philadelphia
aItd Chester; ability of Scott to ex~
pand its business in what has been
an off year for business generally is
further evidence Of. the skill of its
management" etc.
The skill Of the management? To
get a job in one of the three shifts
working daily every worker must pay
a rake-off to a fellow named Nor
gan. Otherwise no job.
Terrific Speed-Up.
Longshoremen at Chester receive
so cents on hour at back breaking
toll Of unloading pulpwood or other
cargoes coming off the Delaware
breakwater at Chester,
IJovr-at-nr CT
of pulpwood arrives, men from the
mills are taken out and paid so cents
an hour on the docks. A little more
than half longshoreman's wage. THE
skill of the management"
In addition to this, other methods
of ferocious exploitation unexoelled
even in Chester, are used. Thus, OH
a recent ship arrived with 9 cargo
of pulpwood, one of the big guys for
the company known as Bill made q
speech to the workers. In the course
of his speech he said: This is q
mans job and if you get sick it's
your own fault" Then this slave
driver succeeded in unloading the
boat in three and a half days. It
ordinarily takes 7 days, or double
the time, for this boats cargo to be
unloaded by experienced longshore-
men.
Fight This Misery.
1t can be readily seen what Skill
of the management" means. Moth
ing else than reduced wages and the
testing of human endurance in the
speed-up.
Not until the workers at SCOTS
organize into the Trade Union Unity
League will the profits go down.
wages up and the work made toler-
able for a human being.
y. S. C. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
EYICTEONS GROW
IN DETROIT, MICH.
Apple Selling Bunk Is
Here Too
(By a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT. Nfich.-The great faker,
Mayor Murphy of Detroit, has not
only opened saloons and blind pigs
to his election bosses and supporters,
but he had also placed a few hun
dreds of; his Irish-CathQlic support
ers to sell apples on, the street cor
ners. The poor Pats. and Toms be-
lieve that Mayor Murphy is trying to
place them on the job. THE. Briggs
Mfg. Co. and the Packard Motor CO.
are doing much to promote this fax
cry for Mayor Murphy. Many men
who do not own homes .(those. who
own homes know by now they do
not own them anyhow were. dis
charged by these two companies be.
cause they were earning Sc. a day
and their places were taken by Mayor
Murphy's unemployed men lat $500
a day. Now the workers know what
friend of the working. class is Frank
Murphy. The capitalist News and
Times advertise this fakery while
poor workers :starve. =. :.
Eviction of Workers, I.
Due to the Hoover prosperity thexe
is ON the average 90 foreclosure suits
handled in the local capitalist courts
week. About the same number OF
workers families. are put out on the
streets by the Murphy. police for be-
ing unable to find work and pay the
rent. The radio station WAIBC, with
it's head faker, Gedge, broadcasts
each evening good news for the
workers." that so many jabs were
created, that Hudson, Murray, 'Eu::
reka. Cleaners and Fisher Body. hire
men BY thousands. Bus this is. all
bunk. I know worker who for the
last four weeks had worked only from
one-half to a day and a. half a. week
in the Murray Body. And station
WNIBC still broadcasts that the MUIR
ray Body is working full. time. T..
American Legion. :.
This fascist organization conducts
a campaign for new members among
veterans of the great capitalist war
The workers won't be, fooled again.
Again when they took YOU in 1897
and 1918 they promised you jobs and
everything, but when you came, back
what did you get? The answer is,
nothing. You got nothing because
the American Legion is not your orr
ganization, but your bosses, and
your organization is the Communist
Party, because you are a member OF
the working class. If you would
latter the great WARP come. home
with a gun on your. shoulder and
with your gun went out to get your
lob, whether it was in the Fisher
Body or Fords, you would get it, But
helpless as you were and with the
fascist American Legion you get no
where, as you know it by now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06

NEW YORK. Workers on ladies'
neckwear are shaving at starvation
wages. An average of SIS per week
is an exaggeration.
But on the face Of this, certain
neckwear concerns have arranged a
certain moral agreement between
themselves as to the employees. 1t is
considered immoral for one of these
houses to take the workers away
from the other The consequence is
that many workers, discontinued
with the place they are in and try
ing to locate elsewhere, are just out
Of luck.
For when they repeat to the pros
pective boss the names of. the car
Germs they have worked for. and they
mention any firm that happens to
be in the agreement" they are told
- follows. We are sorry. but we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06

perienced and have great defects.
We are waiting for your practical ad-
vices and we hope that the workers
of Detroit, being good practical work
ers, will teach us by writing.
Our chief tasks of the day are as
follows:
Socialist competition; shock work
in factories and works; class strugs
gle ON the front of collectivization,
which ends in complete liquidation OF
kulaks as a class; close connection
with you by means of letters and
delegations.
The workers of the 18th division,
Answer us, please. as soon as pos
sible.
This letter was read on the gen.
eral meeting of workers Of the
foundry.
Following workers we're authorized
by the general meeting to sign this
letter.
pc l. Keller-Brigadier.
2. Soubkoya--Work- woman,
3. Galkova.-work- woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
Ladies' Neckwear Workers Average
SIS a Week; Bosses Use a Blacklist

have promised So and So Co. that
we would not take their help away
from them if they didn't take ours.
After being turned away in such.wise
from number of'firms the distracted
worker is compelled to return to the
place she left, perhaps at reduced
wages, certainly under no improved
circumstances. A. Back g Co. and
Sampson are among the neckWeaf
houses at. present employing this
fneaps of exploitation. 49,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06

arranged.
Bankers Rob Farmers:
Farmers here say it is high time
something was done. Landlords and
bankers have their claws on the farm
ers' Threats. One of the exploiters
here compelled a tenant. who owed
him money, to sell hay to him at $12
a ton and later when the tenant
needed hay the landlord sold him
the tenants hay back at $50 ton!
At another time the landlord sold 43
lbs. bales for so and rs lbs. bales
thus cheating on the weight.
The United Farmers League is ex-
posing all, the robbers of the farmers
and a drive is made in Oklahoma to
organize farmers committees of &C
ton in many townships and to dis
tribute the United Farmer over wide
areas. The workers Of Oklahoma City
are assisting the poor farmers in this
tight.--FARMER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
Dress Finishers 81
Average SIG Per
Week I'M New York
Abe . Worker Correspondentl

NEW YORK.--Like artists, dress
finishers are expected to live on
fancy. The average wages of fin
ishers, including those employed in
exclusive" concerns, is about l6 per
week.
The hours at which they are hired
are usually from $50 to $50 and !
o'clock on Saturday. But these hours
are just a blind for the workers. who
believe they are therefore only work
ig the lawful eight hours. However,
they are requested to work overtime.
They don't have to do this, and if
they refuse, they have the privilege
of looking elsewhere for work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
& MASS PROPAGANDA
BY CHARLES BLANK
Yorker Correspondent)


In the month of November we had
two important mass meetings in New
York, one in the coliseum to cele-
brate the thirteenth anniversary OF
the Soviet Union, and the other in
Madison Square Garden to celebrate
the seventy-tifth birthday Of the re-
volutionary writer of Jewish littera-
ture. Comrade Morris winchevsky.
AT both meetings, pageants were pre-
ssnted.
While these were both very inter-
estlng and dealt with revolutionary
subjects. they were not we'll carried
out as they should have been. How
ever. they show the possibilities or
such methods Of propaganda In
bringing our message - ths AmAxj-
can worksr& ss$MTsvsSsssyelss, ,ssl,-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
BIG SPRING co. LAYoFF.
fI3y q Worker CORRESPONDENT

NEW YoRK.-Miller van Wrinkle,
the largest steel spring concern in
the east and the makers Of the
springs which were used on Lind
bergh's aeroplane, have reduced their
working force from approximately
800 workers down to 49, The rest
have been laid OFF. These remain
Lag ones have to alternate their
working days, working only three
days al Time. Il. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-06
STALINGRAD TRACTOR FOUNDERS
TELL HOW THEY WILL HELP MAKE
FTVE-YEAR PLAN IN -FOUR YEARS
Repudiate the Right-Wing Opportunists and
Pledge Best Workers for the Party
Ask Detroit Auto and Metal Workers to Write
Them and Aid Them Technically
Stalingrad, U, S. S. r.
0 the Workers Of America !:

To the Workers of America
During the first two years our 5-year plan we havs
many giant works equipped according to the last word Of
technics; many districts electrified etc.
Today We founders of the Stalngrad Tractor Works. give
solemn promise to do away completely with the ileracy in
Our ranks and to political development of backward
comrades Our slogan in this year will be- give casting
$4,000 tractors and give the best members of shock br
gades to the ranks of Communist Party.