The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-14
WAGE CUTS,
MANY JOBL.ESS
IN Los ANGELES
TUUL Calls Unem-
ployment Meet

It in slump. The Central Casting
Company reports 5000 unemployed
"extras" out of 1900 registered,
bringing the total Of jobless Eek
tras" up to $4,000.
Hundreds of needle trades work
ers are without work, in spite of
the much heralded approach of a
good season in the industry. The
same picture holds true in the meat
racking industry where hundreds of
unemployed are turned away daily
from Swift g. Company, The Cuda-
by, etc.
The employment agencies around
18th and Towne Streets and around
the Plaza, are oveIcrowded with
thousands of jobless workers. The
missions are swanlped with unem-
ployed and turn away hundreds
daily, unable to shelter or feed even
a small percentage of those apply
ing for relief
Marine Workers Unemployed.
This mass unemployment is by
no means confined to Los Angeles
but enlist throughout Southern Cali
fornia, as elsewhere in the U. S.,
particularly in the industrial and
agricultural centers.
More than 5000 are unemployed
in San Pedro, harbor of Los An
geles, mostly seamen and longshore-
men. The Fink Halls tblacklisting
employment agencies of the Pacific
Steamship Owners Association) are
packed day and night. Longshore-
men are extremely fortunate to get
ere days work a week.
Unemployment for the marine
workers is not seasonal, but exists
the year around and is made doubly
acute with the deepening of the eco
nomic crisis which has gripped the
marine, as well rs every other in
dustry.
In the agricultural districts. both
in Imperial Valley and in the orange
fields around San Bernardino. etc,
thousands of workers, mainly Mexi-
cans, are unemployed.
Bosses Offensive.
With the growth of this mass I'M
Unemployment, wage cuts, etc., are
the order of the day. In the past
few weeks, more than 10000 laun-
dry workers received wage cut ex-
ceeding 20 per cent. Experienced
Gil drillers and p;pemen-S8 to $tO
a day men-are now forced to work
for as low as fifty cents an hour.
Tire builders, for instance, in the
Goodyear factory, have been speed
ed up, averaging $1.20 day less
than formerly. Thousands Of
skilled workers employed in the
building trades are working for as
low as two and three dollars a day
below the union scale. Recently
thousands of agricultural workers
in Imperial Valley received wage
cuts ranging from 20 to 81 pc:
cent, lowering wages down on an
average TO 25 cents an hour.
The offensive of the bosses, their
attempts to shift the burden of the
economic crisis upon the shoulders
of the working class, is evidenced
not only in wage-cuts, but in gen
eral speeding up of the workers
still on the Job Following the re-
cent lay-offs in Ford, Goodyear, etc.
new conveyors, ETC., and speed-up
methods were introduced.
Simultaneously with the develop
ing economic crisis has come ar
intensified attack upon all militant
workers. Tie local "Red Squad
has sharpened its attack on the
Communist Party, the Trade Unior
Unity League and the unemployed
Communist Party and TUUL Lear
Fight.
In Los Angeles, etc, it is, as ir
every section of the country, the
Communist Party and Trade Unior
Unity League that are MODELLING
all workers for determined fight
against unemployment. Factory.
gate and street meetings, demon
strations, etc, are being held. par
ticipated in by both unemployed anC
employed workers.
On February 10th an unemploy.
ment conference called by ths
ITUUL at which delegates from
groups of unemployed workers
TUUL groups and affiliated locals
A. F. Of L. locals, etc, will partici
pate, will form an unemployment
council to coordinate ard give di.
rection to The struggles of the EN-
ployed and unemployed in Los An
geles and vicinity, leading up tt
Feb. 26.
The Southern California sect;cl
Ct the TUUL at its District Con
vention in Los Angeles on February
23rd will give special attention t.
the question of broadening ard ex
tending its activities among the ur
employed workers.