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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
By MARTIN SAILOR.

W.
THE chief slugger of Chicago workers and
head of the notorious Detective Bureau,
Captain Siege, is deposed. His place was
taken by Lieut.. John Morton. The place of
Police Commissioner Russell is filled by John
Alcock, former assistant to the chief.
Will this change make any difference to the
workers of Chicago?
In the first statement issued by the acting
police commissioner, Alcock, he says that "a
plan to enforce the vagrancy laws will be
worked out" The vagrancy laws are used in
the South to force unemployed workers into
the chain gang In Chicago these laws can
and probably will be used to imprison unem-
ployed workers, strikers, or anybody whom
the bosses have reason to fear.
After the protest demonstration in Grant
Park against the Imprisonment of the Gas
tonia fighters the Chicago Chamber of Com
merce held a secret meeting where a secret
committee of six was elected for the purpose
of fighting crime" A fund of million dol
lars for this purpose was created. Col. Robert
lsham Randolph, chairman of the Association
OF Commerce and chairman of the secret COM
mittee of six, issued statements to the capital
ist press to the effect that Criminals will be
driven out of Chicago" The fund was used
to hire stool pigeons to work in the labor or
CARNATIONS. Later came the raids without
warrants on the offices of the Trade Union
Unity League, the International Labor De-
Tense, the Communist Party, workers clubs,
etc. When the unemployed began to organize,
the stool pigeons and detectives again became
busy. Murderous attacks took place against
the unarmed workers. Never before did the
police department so openly trample under
their hoofs the capitalist laws which they de-
mand the workers to respect 1t was plainly
seen the police had nothing to fear for smash
ing the heads of the workers, and incidentally
also the laws. The powerful influence of the
money bags was felt behind hem. Never be-
for was such fiendish mass brutality practiced
even by the Chicago police. Some of the
rested workers beaten into insensibility
in the police stations and the torture cham
bers of the detective bureau Some had to
spend weeks in the hospitals afterwards. The
e"ritalist press made joke of it. 1t was
funny to see the Reds getting terrific beat
ing in the hands of well armed sluggers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
Hoyne, the Hero Of 1920

ployed), again it was Lieut.. Mike Mills who
gave statement to the press that the Chicago
police know all about it and have the situa-
ton well in hand. Leave it to Mike and there
won't be any revolution in America. In fact,
if Mike had been here before 1776 there would
have been no revolution in America at all.
Chief assistant to Maclay Hoyne was gent
by the name of Berger. He was killed in an
accident some months ago. AS special prose-
cutor in the case was hired a lingo "labor"
lawyer, or lawyer for the labor takers, Frank
Comerford. By flag waving and sklful
manipulations "a shot was fired into the house
of the states attorney during the trial, the
judge received threatening letters, etc.,, he
succeeded in getting guilty verdicts and SEN
fences of from one year to ten. Poor Frank
is also dead now. And he had aspirations of
becoming a member of the cabinet in Wash
ington some day.
Just one day before the Palmer raids were
staged, Maclay Hoyne started his raids in
Chicago. While those arrested by the Palmer
raiders were held under 1000 bail on depor-
tation charges, those arrested by Maclay
Hoyne were held under $4,000 and $4,000
under the neutrality-suspicious. law passed in
Illinois during the war hysteria. After the
prisoners were brought over to the Criminal
Court Building to the offices Of Maclay Hoyne,
they were abused and many of them beaten up
there. After they were taken over to the
county Jail they were attacked by mob of
war "heros," soldiers and sailors of whom the
Jail was full in those days. Many workers
were deported, many were jailed
And now, the hero who saved the country in
1920, the great Maclay Hoyne, faces disbar-
ment as a plain cheap CRATER. He, who in
the name of "the people of the state of I'LL
nois" sent workers to Jail for their opinions,
is now being accused of taking money that be-
longed to the people of the state of Illinois
While the leaders of the prosecution lie in
dust dead or disgraced, the Communist move
ment which they were trying to kill is now
stronger than ever before. The Communists
are now leading hundreds of thousands of
workers. And when all traces of the servants
of capitalism will be long forgotten, Commu-
nism will be marching on to the triumphant
march of the liberated world.
"A JAIL BIRD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
ALL WORKERS AROUSED BY THE MURDER
OF HERZEL WEIZENBERG

workers of Chicago feel and realize and under
stand that unless they will be organized in
progressive groups under the leadership of
the Trade Union Unity League, unless they
will carry on heroic struggle struggle
where they will have to sacrifice even their
lives, their interest will be betrayed and they
will remain victims of gangsterism, of police
brutality and of fascist reaction
The capitalist press and the police depart
ment failed to uncover the guilty and the real
causes of the cold blooded murder of Herzel
Weizenberg. The guilty ones are known not
only to the progressive group of the painters
locals and the Trade Union Unity League, but
also to the police. They did make turmoil
over the murder of the so-called Tribune re-
porter Lingle, who in reality was go-between
the police and the underworld. But even the
socialist fascist paper, the Forward, in its Chi
cago edition Monday, June &c. wrote first
page story that justifies the murder of Herzel
Weizenberg, which proves again to the workers
that the burocrats of the A. F. of L., the gang
sters, the police department, the capitalist
press, together with the socialist fascist carry
on a united struggle against the revolutionary
activities and class struggle of the workers
for a workers leadership in the union for the
organization of the corrupted unions and I'M
employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
Rockford, Ill.

Rockford, Ill.
Editor, The Daily Worker.
At the National Lock Co., one of
the very largest plants here, the
conditions are becoming more and
more unbearable for the workers.
In addition to the continuous, sys-
tematic reductions in wages, the
most vicious speed-up systems as
are particularly now being applied,
are reaching far beyond human en-
durance. In all departments, with
the exception of two or three, every
thing is produced through the rot
tenest kind~of piece-work systems
forcing the very last ounce of en-
ergy out of the workers. Older
workers, who have been Shaving for
the company for several years are,
when not able to keep up with the
terrific speed-up, informed that they
are no longer needed and in due
time replaced by younger ones.
A year ago the company employed
around 1900 workers, but since the
great lay-offs which started with
the beginning of the economic crisis
there now remain only about 500.
of whom one-half at least are wom-
en- workers. 1t is especially young
girls the greedy parasites who own
this lucrative slave institution find
to be the most profitable in their
merciless exploitation, and those are
forced to accept all the way up to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
More TObIess
in IIIi WOiS
Mine Regions
Shelbyville, Ill.

OuclDJ NltlCs Akl'
Editor Daily WORKER
Census Supervisor j. w. Knapp,
Jr., of Springfield has just released
figures which show 2,457 unem-
ployed in Macoupin and Montgom-
cry Counties. The figures show
how bad the crisis in the coal min
ing industry really is. 1t must be
remembered, too, that the census
was taken in April, before many
of the mines were shut down, and
so of course the situation is con-
siderably worse than the figures
show.
At Staunton, city of about 5000
people, there are 523 out of work,
one-sixth of the population and over
half of the working people. At
other places the situation is not so
bad, but bad enough. The figures
are as follows, for cities of 5000
to 5000: Litchfield, 262; Gillespie,
III; Mt. Olive, 159; Hillsboro, 1923;
Gainesville, 104; Nakomis, SO. For
cities and villages of less than
5000: Virden, 1872; Witt, 1876; Benld,
&c; Sawyerville, So; Girard, 81;
Coalition, 20.
Yours for Communism,
&C. S. B. W.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02

Also at Local 521, where Albert Green is
car, the membership refused to participate
in the elections They knew very well what
would result if they dared to vote for Charles
Walters. Albert Green always carried his cleo
tons with guns. He is known in Chicago as
one that is the owner of paint factories where
the painters must buy their merchandise as
a means of graft to the business agents of the
locals.
Why Weizenberg Was Murdered
Herzel Weizenberg was killed because he
and his comrade David Mahanna, the same as
all the other comrades that distributed leaflets
for the progressive slate dared to threaten the
czaristic rule of Wallace and his fellow buro-
Gratis of the A. F. of L. He died because of
the wonderful struggle that the progressives
carried on among the members of the painters
local unions for new workers leadership, for
a new class struggle unionism, under the lead
ership of the Trade Union Unity League
All workers of Chicago are greatly aroused
against the cold blooded murder of Herzel
Weizenberg because they all know that he died
for the cause of the class struggle of the
workers of Chicago against reactionary buro-
cratic leadership of the A. F. of L. that is
serving the interests of the capitalists, and for
the workers as whole
Herzel Weizenberg did not die in vain. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
National Lock Workers
Must Fight 10 PC. Pay Cut

so per cent lower wages than the
male workers, although they have
to produce just as much.
But the bosses are not yet sat-
isfied with what they have accom-
plished in the field of brutal slave
driving and robbing of the workers.
Oh mol Notices have been placed
in various parts of the plant an
nouncing that on July / an addi-
tional 10 per cent wage cut will take
place! Ten per cent cut on wages
ranging now all the way down to
20 cents an hour!
The bosses, in preparing for this
wage cut, are very cautious. A
most contemptuous spy system is
being developed that is on the keen
est outlook for workers who express
their discomfort openly and when
such are found they are to be fired
Immediately. These conditions mi
tiate very indignant and rebellious
atmosphere among the workers
throughout the whole plant and
without doubt great struggles loom
in the near future. The Metal Work.
ers Industrial League is organizing
a shop committee in the plant that
will place itself at the forefront in
the struggle of the workers against
these miserable conditions. Forward
to intense fight against the exploit
ers for better conditions.
ROCKFORD WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
FIGHT HUNGER
CALLS SECRET'RY
BALTIC. J0BLESS.
Prepare for July 18th
Convention
Baltimore, Maryland.

Dear Editor
There are from 1000 to 5000
men, all along the waterfront on.
Pratt st. and Light St., starving
homeless and ragged; out Of jobs
walking around day in, day out
but nothing doing. Every day the
police boats are taking bodies out
Of the harbor around the docks.
z g same old story--out of job,
GsSble to find it, not knowing what
to do about it, they end it all. When
they go to the shysters in the en-
ployment offices the syster will
ask: "Have you So to pay for your
job?" If they haven't got it he
calls the police and puts the unem-
ployed worker out. And, more than
that, these unemployed workers
more often than not are taken to
court and sent to the house of cor
rection for vagrancy, where they
are made to slave in building an
other wing to the house of correc-
ton Ito be filled with other work.
ers out of job, probably and on
the state roads for three months
and sometimes more.
On Wednesday, June 20, a couple
of fellows went into the employ
ment office and paid So apiece to
go out on a job to a farm, milking
cows. They waited al lday until
the office was ready to close ant
then they asked for their none,
back, as they were not sent or
taken to the work they paid for.
Instead of giving them their money
back the shyster had them locked
up! The next morning the judge
gave them IL days apiece in the
Baltimore city Jail, where they will
have to slave shoveling coal or
work in a rat-trap and live on Stops
that pass for soup among the bugs
and filth of that Jail. They couldn't
show receipts to the JUDI = for the
money that they had paid to the
employment office and the judgd
took the shyster's word for it thai
they had tried to assault him.
Down with this rotten shyste
system, fellow-workers! Fight TO
work or wages! Join the union o
your class, the Trade Union Unit
League. If you are out of worl
join the Unemployed Councils.
Don't starve, but fight!
The unemployed in Baltimore a
beginning to find out that the on
way to stop these rotten condition
and win better conditions is to jo
the only working class union, IL
T. U. U. L., and fight! They a
coming to the office every d; !
here, five and six at time.
Fraternally yours, 1
GEORGE KELLY,
Secretary of the Unemployed Cou
ellis of Baltimore. III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
LAUNDRY T0ILERS
DRIVEN HARD FOR
MISERABLE PAY
Buffalo Laundry Men
Must Organize
Editor Daily Worker:-

Editor Daily WORKER
The laundry workers of Buffalo
are unorganized, work for low
wages, irregular hours and with
speed-up all along the line. For
example, drivers get $10-$12 a
week, and about 10 per cent with
plenty of trusting and standoff GUS
toners, whom we find are suffer-
ing themselves from the layoffs in
the shops. Men work two and three
days week or are out of work alto
gether. The drivers must try to
keep the customers, but we cannot
finance all the unfortunate victims
Of the speed-up, where machines
are taking the place of workers and
the remaining workers get wage
cuts when the boss looks at the
employment offices. and finds them
full, with mobs outside, hungry and
waiting for jobs at cut prices. These
workers should not try to get jobs
from factory employment offices or
from labor sharks, but should or
ganize in mass organizations and
demand relief fro mthe government,
city, state and national.
One at a time, we will starve, or
ganized, we will win. We who are
working must help the outof-work,
the unemployed, with some little
money every week. With this
money they must build unemployed
councils, not use the money for
charity. The unemployed must not
come to the shop and factory gates
and work for less money. We, who
are working, must organize and
fight for more pay and less hours,
so the unemployed can find work.
Unemployed workers, men and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
ROCHESTER IN
COLLECTION FOR
JOBLESSCONvEN,
Are Sending Delegates
to National Meet
Rochester, N. Y.
Dear Comrade:-

hOCneSGeT, M L.
Dear Comrade:-
The Unemployed Council of
Rochester is busy with house-to-
house collection for the Chicago
Unemployment Convention, which
will take place July A and 5.
We are also looking forward to
big meeting of all labor organtaa-
tons for the election of delegates
on June 20 at 9 o'clock Sunday
morning.
Here is some of capitalism's
tricks yesterday.
I went to a collector who | owe
bill for the last seven months of
which never worked day. When
I got there he expected me to pay
up at once. l told him couldn't
get a job, and he said that condi-
tions were going to be better and
that business was going upgrade.
I asked him that if conditions were
getting better why don't he get me
a job, and he didn't know what to
say, so he made it a little easier
for me now.
So, on with the Chicago Unem-
ployment Convention on July A and
5. On to Union Park. Forward,
march.
A. ANDREASSI,
Secretary Unemployed Council of
Rochester.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02

Pail the delegates, that have come IN
since, to Chicago.
w. Va. miners are ready for any
revolutionary work under the lead
ership of the TUUL and the Nation
al Miners Union, because they have
learned from experience that the
promises of prosperity that they had
heard so often from the bosses and
their puppets, the A. F. of L., and
the U. M. W. of A. were nothing but
a pack of lies. All the prosperity
that the w. Va. miners are now en-
joying is in the form of more wage
cuts, longer hours, unemployment
and starvation. Also many mines
are shut down without any of the
miners receiving back pay due them
from one to three months. When
asked to account for the money they
(bosses) claimed that they have no
money with which to pay the miners.
Yet they continue to operate their
mines. The miners here, are help
less to do anything as these bosses
are protected by law. The coal COM
pany's stores are also closed to the
miners; so that they not only do they
not get their pay but they are also
not given any food.
The U. M. w. A. in w. Va. does
not ask the miners to strike for
better conditions for the workers,
but instead asks them to join the
U. M. w. A., so that the coal bosses
will be able to make bigger profits
at the expense of the workers. The
only ones enjoying real prosperity
in w. Va. are Bittner and the rest
of the labor takers of the U. M. w.
A. of w. Va. The miners are starv-
ing and suffering, but they are
finally awakening from their long
sleep and it won't be long now until
the U. M. w. A. will have lost all
of it's wealth and prosperity.
The N. M. U. will rise in its
place and lead the miners, both en-
ployed and unemployed, to real
prosperity.
The fighting spirit of the North
ern W. Va. delegation was proven
at the local unemployed conference
by
~ Electing William z. Foster
as honorary chairman of the con-
ference and demanding his release.
(2) Voting to send greetings to
the Party and all class prisoners.
~ Electing Unemployed Coun-
ellis to demand work or wages for
the unemployed.
(4) Electing a delegation to the
National Unemployment Convention
on July A and 5.
Fraternally yours,
CHAS. S. CLOSE,
Board Member of N. M. u, w. Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
Today in History of
the Workers

July 2, 1s47-Meeting Of mech
anics and laborers Ut Albany,
N. Y, voted to continue agitation
for eight-hour day. 1S94-Presi-
dent Cleveland sent federal troops
to Chicago over protest of Gov
ernor Altgeld to break American
Railway Union strike. 1893
Chicago stereotypers struck, news
papers suspended for four days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
Ill, MATTRESSES
MUST ORGANIZE
TO FIGHT Low PAY
Work Long Hours for
Miserable Wages
Ye Olde Harmony Tavern,
Jamaica, L. /.


Dear Sir:
The girls who work in this tea
room must start at 10 o'clock IN the
morning and work until $50 at
night, or IL until $50 every day.
On Sunday from 10 to 10. They re-
ceive but So week. Also they have
never been examined by the health
doctors.
Can you see if this can be fixed?
In New York we only work 8 hours
every day and get more money. The
tips here are no good.
We thank you,
THE MATTRESSES.
Editorial note: Working condi-
lions, wages, hours of work are not
"fixed." Only by organization and
struggle can workers win better con-
ditions of work, more wages and
fight the long hours of work. This
has been confirmed by the expert
ence of the working class.
The bosses have but one interest,
to get as much work out of their
workers as they possibly can for the
lowest possible living wage. This
means more profits for them. In
organization and in the strike the
workers have a weapon that forces
the bosses, who, fearing the loss of
their profits for any period of time,
an thus he forced to give conces-
sions to the workers in conditions,
hours Of work, wages, etc.
The mattresses who sent the above
letter have shown up vicious prac.
tice of the restaurant owners in
making the workers get their wages
out of the tips they collect. This
means more profit for the bosses.
There is but one way to fight
against the long hours, low wages
and poor conditions. And that is
organization into the Food Work
ers Industrial Union, organization
of the mattresses and all help in
the place and a determined fight
against existing conditions.
The mattresses should get in touch
with the organizer of the Food
Workers Industrial Union immedi
ately at 13 w. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02

women, old and young, boys al
girls, children, workers all, orgal
izel Demand the five-day wee
seven hours day! Demand VOL
or full wages! And don't think ytl
can't get it. We must stand ii
gether, the employed and unen
ployed, shoulder to shoulder, all fc
one and one for all, workers of tt
world, unite!
What happens when the worke
gets cut down from full time an
is working only two or three days
The wife tells the laundry man no
to call for wash any more. Sh
says she will do the wash nome
She also looks for a. job herself
sometimes gets mans job at halt
a mans pay, then tries to do her
housework also. This is wrong
housewives. Don't be the goat. d.
not let your husband push the bur-
den on you. Tell him to organize
and fight. Stand with him in his
fight for more pay and unemploy-
ment insurance. Housewives, do
not quarrel with your husband and
think it's his fault. No! He is
not to blame that he doesn't find q
job. It's the capitalist system that
is to blame. How? Well, I'll tell
you. The workers don't own the
tools of wealth-production any
more. The tools our forefathers
owned are now great machines
owned by the rich capitalist class.
They are getting more wealth day
by day. Money makes money, the
rich are getting richer, the po,r
are getting children and no money
to feed them.
Let us show the world that the
workers OF Buffalo, of New York
state, of the United States of Amer
lea, are just as smart, just as good
as the workers of Russia. We will
stand together and build sur own
Soviet Union. We will be loyal to
our comrades all over the world.
We will fight no wars for the CAPT.
talists. We will fight for our class,
the working classl
JACK WATTS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
DETROIT WORKERS STARvE.

DETROIT WORKERS STARVE.
DETROIT.-The past week shows
no change in trade outlook here.
There is no relief from sales con-
ditions or the unemployment situa-
ton. Workers are expected to
starve until bosses get markets for
surplus commodities which fill ware
houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
". VIRGINIA MINERS ELECT THEIR
DELEGATES TO JOBLSS CONVENTION
Jobless Miners Ready to Fight for work or
Wages" and for Their Union N M. u.
Morgantown, w. Va.
Daily Worker,

Dear Comrades:-
Well Northern w. revolutionary
The held
IS credena delegates number of
38 delegates the floor picked for the National Conen
July in CHICAGO meetings will be held elect
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-28

NAlOW OuE dxACy
Population $4,000.
$4,000 cash for each
man, woman and child
is on deposit in Valley
banks.
More paved roads
than any section of SINH
lar size devoted to agri-
culture in the world.
Fewer financial fail
ures than any place in
the United States.
Largest air transpor-
tation center for num-
Der of miles covered in
the world.
Best labor conditions
in the United States.
Most strategic point
in America.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-28

What does Browns
vile mean to you?
Have you ever taken
stock of what is offered
you here?
What are you doing
to help?
Did you ever stop to
think that GOD helps
them who help them
selves?
Do you know that
Brownsville will be a
city of $4,000 in the
next 5 years?
Do you know that
you c a t stop a
BOOM?
Are you fair with
yourself,' your neigh
Dor and your city?