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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
.Hoove, tPnosbeyity,-
the Boards of the
Frisco SLAVE Market
(ey Worker Correspondent /.

(ey a Worker Correspondent Z,
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-on the
slave market boards there are very
few jobs. Here is what appeared
one day: z
international Employment Agen-
-, ..rwaEc --t.--2-: Mex;can track
laborers, 1910, 10 hours. Have own
blankets. Board 81 day..
Factory laborer-Long job, $3.50.
Nine hours, city,.
Here is good one at Ticket Office
Employment Agency, Howard st.
Husky, experienced hand, trackman,
weight, 100 pounds, about 5 feet II
inches or 6 feet; 81 5 hours, factory
work.
Another one--Husky young man
to help on pipe, $3.50, 5 hours, city.
These are some fine examples Of
Hoover prosperity" in Frisco. They
show one reason why the San Franz
cisco workers are growing militant.
EDYeNra xxr<Ax1 = n 49,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
RHODE ISLAND
jODLESS SET
FOR STRUGGLE
10000 Demonstrated in
Providence March 6
an q Worker Correspondent.l

(By a Yorker Correspondent.)
PROVIDENCE, R. 1.-The unem-
ployed demonstration that took place
Thursday March in Providence,
R. l., in which 10000 unemployed
workers demonstrated, show the cap
italists and the administrations in
the State of Rhode Island that they
are organized and are ready to fight.
The Trade Union Unity League
called a meeting of the unemployed
councils to take organizational steps
to lay out the plans for another de-
monstration which is to be bigger
and stronger than the last one.
The plans are made to spread our
unemployed councils to Pawtucket,
Central Falls, Woonsocket and the
Pawtucket Valley and other parts of
Rhode Island. The unemployed
workers are ready to move all their
forces to the State House to make
the department of the bosses give
immediate relief to the sufferings
of the unemployed.
. The workers are registering in the
unemployed councils everyday, even
the members of the A. F. Of L. are
also joining the unemployed coun-
ellis. The movement Of Rhode Island
grows day by day in every way.
A. J.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
10000 JOBLESS
IN TULSA, OKLA,
Ford Packers Lay Off;
1--WE Must Organize"

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.-About
two weeks ago you printed a small
dispatch with an Oklahoma City date
line stating that there were 5000
unemployed here and in Tulsa.
Whoever sent in that report told an
untruth. There are nearly $4,000
unemployed here and very near that
number in Tulsa, a little over a
hundred miles away. :
A worker had $5S to his credit
here in savings and tried to buy, a
steady job for the above amount,
and it was refused. About the only
way, it appears, for a worker to get
some money anywhere in Oklahoma
now is to knock somebody down and
steal his money.
Ford here don't hire, he lays off.
The packing houses the same.
The unemployed workers of Okla
homa must organize and demand
work or wages, as workers by the
million are doing turnout the coun-
try under the Trade Union Unity
League. The employed and the un-
employed of Oklahoma must be to-
gether in this fight.
j. p, Okla. Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

them give me piece of their lunch.
One of them says, well, that's the
way it is at Ford's; Ford, he is not
interested in our lunch, or our
clothes, but we are all responsible
to him for piece Of felt. Suppose
We lose It, we are charged rs cents
for it, and it costs only one cent.
Speedup on job; Millions Jobless.
The discussion followed on. For
example we are often working over
time 10 and even II hours on the
night shift and days week while
there are millions of men looking
for jobs. While we get killed on
the job many others have to starve
because they can't find no job.
Well, another man says, it would
be alright for everybody to work
6 hours day and a or days a
week. Another says it is the only
way to eliminate unemployment.
Never Mind Dream"
Never mind dream, says one, right
now in one country they work Z
hours and even 6 hours day. Boil
shevism, do you mean, says another
This country is a republic and not
Bolshevik.
Let Bolsheyism Come"
Another young worker says, I don't
know what Bolshevism means, but
| ask only one thing, who can give
US workers better conditions and a
better life. Well, another says, for
US workers it is better Bolshevism
than capitalism. Then says the first
one, let Bolshevism come.
Tell Us About Bolshevism.
One Of them asked me, what do
you know about Bolshevism, tell US
about it. / showed them copy of
the Daily Worker, and after they
see it and explain some things, one
says, | was months in France, but
this time they won't get me. An
other says if they get me, the first
time | can I'll join the Bolshevik
army. The bell rings, and we had
to go back. This is real CONVEX
sation we had in the Ford plant.
Ford slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
HOW us. RUBBER
co. PREPARES
FOR BIG LAY-0FF
Stocks Up Tires and
Then Fires Many
(Bp a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.--I will write in
this letter few things in regards
to the conditions of the workers ct
the United States Rubber Co. In
December, 1929, when things were
getting slow, the foreman Of Dept.
80, Higgs, said, the company viii
probably have to work five days
week in order to keep the men
from being laid off, that is, the men,
who were working there for quite
while.
In the meantime they were wap-'
ping all the stock tires and putting
them back in stock. That is before
the tires or castings, as you may
call them, were brought directly
from the press and out into stock
rooms, and when they had an order
or so they had men truck these
tires and bring them to the packing
room where the tires are being
wrapped and baled realv for ship
ping. But now they bring these
tires direct from the presses to tte
packing room, after -hey are
wrapped, the tires are being put
back into the stock room.
Produce Much. They Lay Off.
That means, in case a slack time
comes, that is if they have few
orders they can send the men home,
lay them eff and run on basis Of
half the crew.
Well, as The days rolled by, this
system grew and grew until one
nice Monday evening we came to
get our pay, The foreman said, sorry
boys, / have to lay 20 of you off.
One worker came to get his clear
ance and stopped to talk with the
foreman. Well, he talked t. him for
little while, finally he said to
him, "You haven't told me why you
laid me off" He looked at the
worker a while and grinned like a
tiger grins and said, "You worked
here for six years and are a good
worker, but last night you stopped
and talked to your buddy"
4 We rubber workers must organize
into the Trade Union Unity League.
whether we are working right now
or are unemployed.
u. S. RUBBER WORKER. +,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
The Steel Bosses Scared.

EAST CHICAGO, Ind.-The East
Chicago police went over to Indiana
Harbor on March 6, where the steel
bosses asked for protection" Camp
Dodge during the. war didn't have
anything on Indiana Harbor for arms
March 6.
The regular harbor police with re-
Inducements from East Chicago and
the state police and dozens of
sheriffs and special police at the
Inland Steel mill gate at Guthrie
and Michigan Ave Our plans called
for a meeting at the plant gates
for 5 p. m. We didn't get any eats
but our comrades sent us in a big
bag of eats.
There was 8 or 4 thousand work
ers gathered at 5 p. M, and by that
time all of US was in Jail. But the
interest was there. Now the police
was not out to keep US from "blow-
ing anything up" but keep us from
talking to our fellow workers.
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

1t reads:
Norwegian Sailors Home,
440 Clinton st.
Brooklyn.
To Olaf Nelson: i.
We are enclosing a copy Of let
ter received from the Shipowners
Association of Norway.
On the last meeting of the West
India groups executives it glad
dened the executives to learn that
they have made excellent agree
ments with the shipping masters
and that fine economy had been
effected.
We hope that soon it may be
possible to bring the Norwegian
wage scale more in use and it is
a duty for all of us to bring this
about.
We also hope that the usual
wage scale reduction in the win
ter time has taken place on the
Atlantic Coast. We will appreci-
ate it very much if you will send
us a few lines every month on
the conditions of the crews and on
unemployment.
So far about the shipOwners'
association letter. Will you kind
ly send us information about how
far you have been able to cut
wages up to date and what they
usually are during the summer.
Also send us information on ships
that use or only partly use our
employment office. Hope it's pos
sible to bring down the wages to
the usual winter scale, now when
so many seamen are out of work.
Please try to give the seamen
that live in our home preference
in employment.
F. IVARSON Cor the Home.).
Worker Correspondents Comment
on This Letter.
This completely exposes to all the
Norwegian seamen that this home
is a bosses agency for use against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
WOMEN SUFFER
FROM SPEED-up
IN METAL PLANT
They Are Paid Wage
That Is Lowest
(Bg a Worker Correspondent

tDy u w OfheT correspondents
CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Nail j.
A woman worker of National
Acme, a metal products manufac-
turing concern, a few months ago
said to her shopmate There must
be: another war coming; the com
pany is hiring so many women. They
did that before the last war" Not
only at National Acme, but there is
Thompson Products; Briggs, Md
land Steel and numerous otherNsteel
manufacturing companies in Cleve-
land and neighborhood towns where
more women are being hired. The
General Electric Company which
has, several plants hires women al
most exclusively.
Exploited in Electric Plants
A radio bulb manufacturing COM
pany has 1900 working; the regular
mazda lamp factories hire thousands
of women. The General Electric has
the worst efficiency schemes to keep
their workers speeded up. There
are conferences with the employees
and the bosses at which conference
there are booster" talks. The wo-
men are told that they each have
investments in the company by hav
ing a job there. And it is up to them
to reap the benefits from their in
vestments, etc. In the Rayon knit
ting and clothing factories rs per
cent women workers are found. Out
side of Cleveland, in the rubber in
dustry (Akron), steel workers in
Warren and Youngstown.
The supposed labor laws in re-
gard to the women for their protec-
ton and health are posted up in
most of the factories, but that is
as far as they go. Girls under 81
are not permitted to stand all day
at work.
The Law Is for the Bosses
AT Thompson Products, at Ma
tional Acme, Cleveland Hardware
and other places, the girls can tell
whether this OF not law is enforced.
They know because they are the
ones who cannot sit down and work
at jobs they have, for instance: in
specting metal products, or working
on certain grinding machines, or the
girls on the milling machines.
Another law that women workers
must have an hours lunch, if the
factory has no lunch room, and 80
minutes at least if the company has
a lunch room. In the Industrial
Rayon of Cleveland, certain depart
ments, the women eat their lunch
right at the machine and start work
Immediately when they are through.
In other factories the machines are
sept running and the girls go back
20 work after gulping down their
sandwich and coffee.
Celebrate Women's Day,
The Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League are the
organizations for the working wo-
men because they are fighting for
The women workers and are the
,nly organizations fighting for
equal wages for equal work, no
hight work for women, against
peed-up, etc.
Women workers, today is Interna-
sional Women's Day. Celebrate it..
WOMAN WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
WATSON MINERS
HAVE LEARNED
Co. Makes Men Pay for
Broken Machinery
by a Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
WATSON, IlI.-The WATSON Coal
Company has just made ruling
that miners shall pay for damaged
machinery, etc. To show it meant
business it charged miner at
WATSON No 1 mine $16 for a
broken lit Of machinery. The
miner must first pay the. $1,000
kefore ne can buy food Tt looks
like WATSON will soon be making
the Miners buy the machinery too.
Miners in Debt to Bosses
The WATSON mine is an example
of UMWA controlled mine today.
Checkoff is so great that miners
don't see red cent from one
years end to the other. Every
miner is in debt TO the company
store for several hundred dollars.
Living conditions are of the worst
imaginable. Miners live in filth
and poverty and go to work hun.
cry to toll under The speed-uI; and
rotten conditions of work.
Women must Der. at the doors of
the company store for food. Chill
drcn feed on rotten fruits which
they find in dumps behind the
stores.
uMWA with Bosses
And when the miners went on
strike the UMWA worked hand in
hand with the bosses to smash the
picket line. Thirty-six men were
victimized and evicted from thei,
homes for fighting against tile
conditions existing there. tn min
crs in WATSON have learned to
know that the interests of the
UNIV and the coal operators are
one and the same and that these
interests are directly opposed to
the interests of the miners. They're
for the National Miners Union.
WATSON MINER.
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the seamen. 1t is seamen's board
ing house that cooperates with the
shipping masters, the shipowners,
and the Lutheran Chuch against the
seamen. Note how in this letter
they aid in bringing about wage
cuts.
In Permanent Debt.
A seaman comes back from a trip
with about $50 wages. If he goes in
the home to live for a month, he
must pay month in advance. He
has about $50, a months wages.
He can't get a job on a Norwegian
or chartered ship except if he lives
in the home.
SO he is helpless. After staying
here a while, he owes the home
money. Before signing on ship
again he must get the captain to
advance him what the sailor owes
the home. So he is always in debt
to the home.
Home Helps to Cut Wages.
Wages are supposed to be $3.50
month for firemen american
wage scale), for ships on the coast
$55 for A. BIS. Unemployment
is so great. for the seamen that they
are forced to sign on at Norwegian
wages, $50 crowns or about $35 a
month.
In this way it is planned by the
ship owners to cut the American
scale to the Norwegian scale.
Seamen, get wise to this scabby
home.
Join the Marine Workers League,
% South ST., New York, and in
many other ports. 1t fights for you
against slavery on sea, and against
cheating by the shipowners agents
on land.
q Norwegian Seaman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
ROB ORLEANS
DoCKERS PAY
Negroes Forced Take
Loans Get Fired

(By Worker Co1respondent.)
NEW ORLEANS, La. - Today
there appeared an advertisement
in one of the local papers stating
that d certain party had money to
loan at legal rates of interest ia
employed white persons" will
tell you how the Negro longshore-
men are enabled to borrow money,
though it is doubtful if the rate is
legal % or if legality enters into
the question at all.
Robbed Of Thousands.
Any "employed' Negro long
shoremen on the coast-wise docks
can borrow money from the head
stevedore, at the rate of 25c on the
dollar. Let us compute this over
a period of year for a gang of
Is men.
The average loan is $40 per man
per wee{-, of which the interest per
iran foi' week is $3.50, or $45 per
the gang Of Is men per week. Over
a year this gang would pay out in
interest alone s2.840.
There are at least 1000 coast
wise longshoremen. paying in the
neighborhood of $4,000 per year
TO the boss stevedores, directly
stolen from the workers.
One might ask why do these men
have 20 borrow money at such
rates? Simply because otherwise
they are fired and not allowed t.
work at all.
Organize.
Unless the workers want their
standards iarthec lowered, unless
they want more unemplc, mont and
added wage cuts. they must desert
The fake l. L. a. WI ich has made
no kick against this system, and
join the Marine Workers League
and fight the bosses and their
tools, (the boss stevedors) be they
White or Negro. /.
--LOEGSHOREMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

police into the Standard Oil plant.
They'll Fight Despite Oil Bosses and
Police.
The police of Whiting didn't used
to bother us until of late. Since
Boyle is mayor they have begun to
modest our mass meetings and raid
our regular meeting which shows
to the workers that the policy of
either of the old parties is against
the workers.
But we will carry on in spite of
Boyle. the Standard Oil, and their
tools, the police.
Withing, Ind. Oil Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

When you start to work for the
IR.T. the brotherhood will call
you before it after three or four
weeks and you are then forced to
pay dues for the whole year--1O
cents a month. Then after a few
weeks many are fired, and you
don't get the money back.
You don't get the insurance
money back when you are fired or
quit either.
IL Won complain about hnYthine. !.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

by a Worker Correspondent
I'm worker on the Interboro
Rapid Transit in New York. Am
a trackman, repairing and putting
new ties and rails in, cleaning the
tracks, etc.
We work a nine-hour day. from
7 a. m. to 5 p. IN. We get an hour
for dinner, but we have nine
hours work not counting that
hour.
The wages they pay is $3S .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

at a Brotherhood meeting you are
fired right away. Ask the work
ers, chow about the Brotherhood"
Its = crooked organization"
they'll tell you.
The company makes thousands
from the workers. For insurance
alone, rs cents a month from.
10000 people.
The speed-uH is fierce. The
men in the repair gangs have
fqremen drive them, each foreman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
GYPS WORKERS THRU BROTHERHOOD THEM
a 7,ckR

week, but you work every day in
the week, six hours on Saturday,
Sunday eight hours. ~ s.4
They cheat you when you get
hurt. One trackman was hit By
train. He was badly hurt and
had to lie in hospital. DR.. Green,
the I.R.T. head doctor, put him
down as getting So week, in
order to pay him less compensa-
ton.
We must pay IS cents month
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

TALK to your fellow worker in
your shop about the Daily
Worker. Sell him a copy every
day for week. Then ask him to
become regular subscriber,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
Ford Workers Are
Eager to Learn
About BOZSheUlszu
(By a Worker Correspondea,t)

(By Worker Correspondent) sr, -as-
bout
the Bolsheks the bell lunch period
alcohol hardly
find it, somebody
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

Do your working rlass neighbors
read the Daily Worker? Sell it to
them every day nd make new
Party members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22
WORKERS SCARED HELL OUT OF The
STANDARD OIL, IN WHITING, STEEL
BOSSES IN CHICAGO ON MARCH s.
Huge Lot of Ammunition at Gate
We'll Carry On Despite the Standard Oil and
Their Tools, the Police"
by a Worker Corresnondentl

WHITING, IndAbOut the
Writing The bosses and police made the Calumet camp
vent back to Whiting from Chicago the first thing
walking around with looking
Oil all
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Norwegian Sailors,
Home AIDS Cutting
! sastyo -s5 $3.50,
J ...... OF Sean1eus, Wages
(Bg O. Worker Correspondent

-~e-.r- - 9 (Bg alFOrker Correspondent
that the Norwegian Sailors Home in Brooklyn
it. First, letter from
shipping which picked by sailor in
Chipping office the basket
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-22

trying to make his gang do more
than the other foreman's gang.
When we have our own union.
a Trade Union Unity League
union--we'll fight the I.R.T.
bosses to the finish and win.
-I.R.T. SLAVE.
Build The Daily Worker--Send
in Your Share of the $4,000 New
Subs.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-16

Mr.. and Mrs. o. Clyde Push are
visiting relatives in Danville, Va.
Mrs. Pugh's nephew, Edgar Mobley,
who has been attending school Eere
in the sixth grade, has returned to
his home in Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred w. Long are
enjoying a new tudor sedan.
Frankford people are glad that
they shall again be represented by
Edwin G. Crocker when the News
Journal Company of Wilmington
takes it's crowd of hustlers to New
York City in June. This enterprising
youth was one of the fortunate boys
who won the two-day trip to the big
city last year.
First honors in a statewide es-
say contest open to high school stu
dents have been awarded to James
Hail Bennett, sixteen year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Bennett. His
topic was washington and the
Constitution" He represented
Frankford in the County Declama-
ton Contest this year. Young Ben
nett will attend Augusta Military
Academy, in Virginia, next year.
Milford chronicle., 1930-05-16
FRANKFORT

All pupils of the sixth and seventh
grades, having completed their du-
ties in the Modern Health Crusade,
have received their awards from the
Delaware Anti-tuberculOsis League.
The boys and girls of the sixth
grade qualified as Knights, and those
of the seventh grade as knight
Bannerets.
The Junior class play is scheduled
for Friday evening, May 16.
On Friday evening the sophomUres
enjoyed "doggie roast" at Bethany
Beach, chaperoned by State High
way Policeman Horace Hickman
and Mrs. Hickman.
The freshmen have planned a
"weenie roast" beach party for We'd
nesday evening.
Over a score of pupils who have
missed less than two days of school
this year will participate in the an
nual State Attendance Day festivi-
ties at Dover, on Saturday, May "a.
Eighth grade pupils are busily
planning their class day exercises
with the assistance of Mrs. Martha
Pugh and Mrs. Eunice CTocker. The
class honOrs have been awarded to
Catherine Davis, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. G. R. Davis, and c. David
CrOcker, son of Professor and Mrs.
C. G. CrOcker. Miss Davis will take
the class motto Keep the the Goal
in View" for the topic for her vale
dictory. The salutatorlan's theme
will be Success" Albert Farley,
Rural Supervisor for Southeastern
Sussex, will made the address to the
eighth grade graduates and award
the promotion certificates.
Omar Grange No. Sc, held its reg
ular meeting Monday evening. Plans
ewere laid for an open meeting on
Monday night, June 9. Games, stunts,
a short program and a box social
will be the order of the day.
C. G. Crocker is enjoying a visit
with his sister in East Hampton,
Connecticut, and other relatives and
friends in the Nutmeg State. This
being his first trip north since ar
irving in Sunny Sussex about eight
years ago he is without doubt sell
ing Sussex sand to those Yankees
by his warm praise of our section.
Miss Mary Sheppard, art supe"vis-
or, is assisting the grade pupils in
making some very attractive book
ends and letter holders this week.
y Several pupils of the grade school
are confined to their homes with the
measles.