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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
TO MARCH AGAIN
IN SACRAMENTO
Build the Unemployed
Councils in City

(By a Worker Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Cal-The Unem-
ployed Council here held a general
business membership meeting last
night. The hall was packed up to the
limit. Comrade Daniels acting for
Comrade Bell, who is in jail, gave a
report on the organizational problems
and tasks before the U. c. The whole
plan of struggle against unemploy-
ment proposed by the District Coun-
Gil of the Trade Union Unity League
was accepted after hours of discus
sion.
Practical Work
Practical plans were proposed and
committees elected to carry on the
organizational drive and establish
more Unemployed Councils. The plan
provides for the organization of in
dustrial Unemployed Councils in the
following basic industries agriculture,
railroad and canneries. Practical
steps were taken to establish resi-
Dental Unemployed Council in north
Sacramento. In connection with
reaching the Negro, Mexican and Fill
pino workers the membership voted
unanimously for holding outdoor and
indoor meetings in their territories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29

9f1nd out where he lives. So the de-
livery man and the policeman fol-
lowed the man for blocks, and blocks.
Finally they came to an old worn
house. The man with the loaves OF
bread went in and then the police
man and the driver followed. When
they entered the house they witness
ed terrible sight. The house was
cold, the children had barely any
clothes on.
By the stove stood woman. She
was the wife of this man. She was
cooking some soup. The cop wanted
to know what she was cooking. She
did not say a word and ony kept ST.
lent. The second he asked her, What
are you cooking"
She answered him and said; "You
would be surprised" Altho she did
not tell him what she was cooking.
So the cop went to the cettle and
opened the lid and there sure enough
was a cat boiling which the woman
was making soup for the children.
This was an awful sight and the
man nearly tainted. Conditions are
very poor when it comes to eating
and feeding cats to the children.
This was not published in the ca
pitalist paper
I ask, can we stand for all this
suffering that is going on in the Uni
ted States? No, we will not stand for
this. We will unite together and fight
for our rights.
Rockford Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
BOSSES "AID" IS
MORE WAGE CUTS
Stagger System in Pitt
Steel Co.
(By a Worker Correspondent


LOS ANGELES-Here are some Of
the wonderful projects to help" I'M
employment in California:
At the new Western Pacific link
from California to oregon highly
skilled workers get so to SIS cents an
hour, and the work requires the best
workmanship. Tractor drivers on the
mountain sides get SO cents. Semi
skilled and unskilled workers get As
cents and less. The company takes
out $3.50 day for the rottenest slop
ever handed hogs or workers. They
also deduct 10 days for hospital and
crumny bed fees each. Altogether
$1.90 day is deducted from the low
est wages yet recorded in this period
of prosperity for Hoover and the
bosses for this region. The winter
clothes required to work here cost
500 to $3.50, so we are lucky if we
break even when we quit.
$1.50 for Road Work.
The state of California is another
outfit that is planning to gets its
work done for only board for the
workers. The great" roadbuilding
program trumpeted by the papers will
hire about 200 men to work at $3.50
a day.
At Boulder Dam, the Saviour of
the unemployed army" $50 are
working.
Another great project" heralded
by the capitalist papers as being al
ready under way is new plant of
the Associated Oil Company at Mar
tinez, California. The plant has not
started even three weeks after the
above announcement. The bosses
themselves pretend to know nothing
OF the planned work The oil COM
panieS are maintaining their enor-
nous profits even during the present
crisis, so there is a good chance the
plant will not be built.
Stagver System.
The Superintendent of the U. 8.
Steel works at Pittsburgh, California
has announced that he will keep "all
1000 men at work and toward the
end of the feature article he says
IF possible" The stagger system has
been started in, the mill, the men
work 3 days every other week and 4
to 5 days some weeks. At at the end
of the same article the suDer is re-
ported as saying the stagser system
will not be regular schedule.
We know. however. that this rumor
OF mill super ewho is better rat
than SUPER can not overcome the
crisis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
500 Sigmund Fisher
Clothing w Orkers
Get 10 PC. Pay Cut

(By a Worker Correspondent
RED BANK, N. IA 10 per
cent wage-cut goes into effect at
Sigmund Eisner Co. here, though
The firm has orders enough on
hand. Boy scouts uniforms,
Western Union and state police
uniforms are made by this COM
pany.
About 500 workers are employed
now, most of them women and
Soung workers. Low wages were
Always a feature here.
The recent wage-cut goes into
effect after a conference a few
selected workers had with the
owner and affects all, with few
exceptions.
When one of the workers, a cut
ter, entered unlimited the above
meeting to protest against the
proposed wage-cut he was threat
ened with arrest by the owner.
However, before he was forced to
leave he fearIessly exposed the
owners policy. This branch of S.
Eisner's firm is one of many To-
Gated outside metropolitan area to
escape union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29

thing.
The fact that so many thousands
of workers have been laid off at
the International Harvester gives
him a chance to force the men to
work hard so as not to lose their
jobs. He is always threatening to
have a worker laid off unless he
does just at this boss tells him.
We are working only three days
a week now and we don't know how
things will be this winter. If Mr..
Hoover's "Stagger System" goes
through at this shop it will only
make our already miserable condi-
tions worse.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League will have to get on the job
and organize these workers.
A HARVESTER WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
Decatur Machine
Shop Pays Low Wages
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBy a Worker Correspondent
DECATUR, I'LL have been doing
all I can with the Daily Worker.
They hold 1t up in the post office or
some place, SO I cannot do much. I
have not got enough to pay for it, so
I will send it in a few days. AS soon
as we get organized I think we can
do better.
I have been giving about all OF
them away. I gave them at the G.
B. I. machine shop and the bumper
factory, the cheapest place in town.
A young fellow got fired there last
week. He had worked there three
weeks and when he went to the Of
flee to get his money the superin-
tendent told him he owed the COM
pany 81 and few cents besides
what he had coming for using the
company's tools. I think 1t is about
time to stop some of this. We will
have a large organization here, I
am sure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
Csc A WK. PAY FOR
.S.A. KITCHEN HELP
Contemplate Graft"
Worker Calls It
tBy a Worker Correspondent


NEW YORK.-As we all know the
Salvation Army is now in the midst
of a drive to obtain 100000 donation
in cash, also large amount of cloth
ing, shoes, etc. with which to relieve"
(?) the suffering and misery Of a part
of the army of the unemployed wor-
kers. Let us take few minutes and
see how it is done.
Work Long Hours.
On October 90 this winter, I to-
gether with other victims of the
rotten capitalist system were forced
to apply at 535 West 48th st. for shell
ter and also overcoats. We had to
work hard from IL noon until $50
p. m. at a dirty job which ruined
the clothes we wore. At p. m.
we were asked if we wanted to work
steady nights in the kitchen. Cir
cumstances forced us to accept.
$1.50 and $500 in Pay.
We worked II hours a night cook
ing soup and coffee for about 5000
people, $50 gallons of soup and $50
gallons of coffee. The work is heavy
and we were working in the base
ment on a wet cement floor. After
working two weeks the Salvation
Army gave us $500 and $3.50 a week.
Needless to say our shoes and cloth
ing became rags. If however we
asked for anything we were told they
haven't anything or we were given
some very old and shabby clothes
which do not fit us.
The Salvation Army collects mill
ions of dollars saying they help the
needy but If someone comes for help
he must work for anything and then
is given something old and unfit to
wear. The good clothes are held and
sold only for cash.
95 cents Week Wage.
In this building they have some
men working for as low as e5 and
even As cents week, IL hours day.
Five cents is deducted for burial ex-
penses in the event the man dies
while here. And these are so-called
friends of the poor. I hope you will
find room in the Daily Worker in
order to expose this contemplate
grating of the Salvation Army and
to warn all workers not to contrib
ute to an organization which takes
everything but gives nothing without
receiving double in return.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29

>duStrieS of this city are working only
Is per cent. This factor has thrown
5000 out of work here, a figure ad-
mitted by the capitalist sheet of this
industrial centre.
Bosses Spy on Workers.
The masses were called upon to
parade, but the presence of nearly
every boss and employment agent in
town with notebooks in their hands
jotting down the names of those who
showed the least inclination to
march, caused the workers as a
whole to look about uneasily and re-
frain from marching.
Two hundred, however paraded
and large number accompanied
them on the Sidewalkes but not actu-
ally joining in the march. The
bosses and employment agents will
not succeed in restraining the masses
from militant action with their note
books and spying activities as the
workers will speedily see as Old Man
Winter approaches that there is no
use in being afraid of the blacklist
as there are no Jobs anyway.
Demands Made on City.
In the evening six hundred or so
workers damned the city hall cham
bers and corridors to the utmost,
lending their mass support to the
workers committee which presented
the unemployment relief petition.
Applause was given the spokesman of
the committee as he exposed the
City Council for not taking proper
recognition of the jobless workers
demands. He was arrested but the
militancy Of the crowd, which massed
in the police headquarters demand
ing his release, secured his freedom
within an hour. The police chief,
with perplexed look was forced to
admit that "the crowd Is with that
red"
To Fight On!
Comrades, the fact that 1000 will
assemble at a demonstration in a
little town like Granite City should
prove once and for all, the great ap-
peal of the Unemployed Councils to
the jobless masses. Let us redouble
our efforts.
H. v,
p. SELECTION returns for Madi-
son County, Ill. Eighty-three votes
for Freeman Thompson as State
Senator. No election campaign was
carried on. This vote is 300 per
cent increase over 1928 elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
Jobless, He Begs to
Sleep i'm a Jail in
jamestown, n. Y.
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. am send
ing you clipping from our daily
newspaper, the. Morning Post.
Don't you think it's getting pretty
bad when husky men beg to be
Put in prison for a place to sleep
and something to eat. / buy the
Daily Worker regularly from the
news stands and think it's fine.
There are lots of people out of
work here and getting more dis
satisfied every day. No place in
this town of about $4,000 people
for a man out of work to get a
place to sleep nights unless he
goes to the dirty, lousy police sta
ton.
There were a few men who
tried to sleep in a brickyard oven
on the outskirts of the town and
were arrested for vagrancy.
There are lots of guys here and
all are ready, just waiting for
something to start SO we can clean
up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
10000 PORTLAND
FAMILIES STARVE
Mayor in Bombastic
Hokum Minus Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent)

(By a Worker Correspondent
PORTLAND, Ore.-This head on
the morning papers front page is the
synopsis of the brilliant idea advanced
by Mayor Baker from his weekend
home to the paper by phone.
"I will wreck the town if it will
give employment" says this politi-
clan of the bosses.
Live in Shacks.
The Oldest buildings in this town
provide profit for robbing landlords
and are unfair true enough for
people" to sleep and live in, but
workers by the thousands have lived
in them and will continue to live in
them as long as they are profitable
which is as long as capitalism stands.
Hizzonor calls upon the conscience
of the building owners to wreck and
rebuild. Sort of a quaker substitute
for christian science upon the bosses
it would seem.
Talk Only.
Our chief problem is the employ
ment of common labor he further
says and this kind of activity viii
put them to work.
Those $4,000 lumberjacks who have
spent their lives in dangerous work
and skilled work of the severest kind
are to be so lightly dismissed by the
bosses as common"
The 40 per cent of industrial en-
ployees that have been laid off per-
manently also are common labor.
The women workers in the stores
who have been laid off are also dying
for chance to become employed as
common labor at the rate of 80 cents
an hour.
10000 Families Starving.
Thirty thousand workers and their
families are starving and there is
only one answer to their problems
and that is in a militant Trade Union
Unity League unemployment council
that will fight for their demands and
make the bosses give not ask them to
become conscious ftheir inner
light" and feed us for further slavery
Workers destroy this class collabora-
ton at which you are not even repre-
serted and make the boss politicians
lose their graft.
Join the Trade Union Unity League.
Join the Communist Party and
bring on the workers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
MCKE,EESPORT TIN
FIRES A HEATER
FOR SHOP PAPER
More Stools Taken on
to Fight Men
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

tBy worker correspondent
McKEESPORT, Pa.-Enraged by
the shop bulletin distributed through
out the mill during the month OF
October the bosses of the McKeesport
Tin Plate Co. tried their utmost to
intimidate us workers. Sampon, the
superintendent of the mill, screamed:
eve must fire somebody" and it did
not miss our eardrums
And although the company did fire
John Rhodes we workers are not
bluffed. We workers know that
John Rhodes was one of the best
heaters in the mill, especially after
having worked with us for seven
years. And that he got fired on Oc-
tober IS, because his work was "un-
satisfactory is a lot of hooey.
More Spies Hired.
We workers are also aware that
the company is employing additional
forces of stool pigeons which in
cludes Nifty Voelker, Bob Rankin.
Punk" Surgeon, "Dumbbeu' Nc
Mutt, George Dodds and Mr.. Lamb
and his brothers and others unknown
yet.
Meanwhile It has created enough
interest to intensity organization OF
the McKeesport Tin Plate Co.
workers into Joining the Metal
Workers Industrial League.
Fellow workers, fight against the
wage-cuts. Fight against the ex-
pulsion of workers. Smash the speed
up and rotten system of the Nc
Keesport Tin Plate straw bosses.
The only way we can do that is by
organizing. F. I'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
CIGAR BOSSES IN
TAMPAPLAN CUT
Militants to Fl g h t
Looming Slash
(By a Worker Correspondent

NDy d FUThtE COEfeSpOIlue1kI
TAMPA, Fla.-We are getting to
the end of 1880 and within a few
more weeks the cigar factories here
will close their doors as usual for a
month or longer. When the bosses
reopen again, wage cut will go into
effect according to rumor. The
bosses menace the workers by threat
ening to move out from the city.
In the meantime they are holding
meetings with the city mayors COM
mission that was named for that
purpose. Another committee formed
by the bosses and a special committee
that also work in behalf of the bosses
and belong to the yellow organization
is known among the workers as the
Leveller committee.
Postpone Conferences.
They could not reach any agree
ment because the workers represent
tatives" failed to request from the
workers their will before attending
that meeting but the conference was
postponed for another day.
The rumor is that the bosses and
the mayors commission are holding
conferences to reach an agreement
letting the bosses have free hand
in cutting wages Although the
majority of workers do not belong to
any organization we expect to fight
against the bosses plan.
Just now we are starting to fight
by calling all the workers to meet
ing to organize them in the Trade
Union Unity League. We are also
organizing the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
49, Communist Votes
in Rock Island, I'll.
County, Votes Stolen
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
MOLINE, I'LL have been holding
back writing about the result of the
election because I wanted to get more
definite results. The only thing that
showed up in the Moline Dispatch Cor
Moline Disgrace as I call it, was 40
Communist votes cast in the entire
Rock Island country.
In the precinct where I voted, I
could swear to it that 4 votes were
cast for Freeman Thompson for US.
Senator Che was the only one we had
on our ticket in this distric) but
in the report from this precinct
nothing was shown for the Commun-
lists in the paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
JOBLESS COOK
LIVES ON COFFEE,
STALE DOUGHNUT
Cooks Must Now Toll
for Keep Only
(By a Worker Correspondent

tby WORKER correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-While walk
Ing the streets OF Pittsburgh and
another unemployed worker got in a
conversation. Here is the story he
gave me.
He has worked for is years as a
first class cook. Made between $35
ana $50 a week. Saved 5000, in the
bank, and now is unemployed for 8
months and the $500 is gone.
Work for Board.
He said most of the cooks now
work for their board, If not it's their
eats they are working for. The dish
washers get between $i2 and $18 a
week and they have to give the
money back to pay their board, If
not it's their eats, etc.
Told me he hasn't slept for three
days, and another unemployed
worker asked him to come and sleep
with him in the unemployment
house in Pittsburgh. So they went
and the house has three floors and
the rooms are empty. The men have
10 sleep on the floors, with rage,
coats or papers to lay on.
Cops Mistreat Men.
At 6 o'clock three cops come in
and wake all the men up and If they
don't like the looks of you they will
mistreat you and force you to beat
1t out of town. .... .-.-. '....
Told me he spent his 5000 in six
months for board, eats and his
clothes. Said that the shirt he has
On for three months. just imagine
what it would look like. You know
how I got this secondhand SUITE /
said no. A friend Of mine hit on a
lucky number for nickel and he
gave me $3.50 of the winning money
and said go buy yourself suit. I
hate to see you in these old rags.
Real Starvation.
Do you know how I get my eats
every day? It's this way. A friend
Of mine works In restaurant and
he gives me a cup Of coffe and stale
doughnuts once a day without the
owner knowing 1t. At the cash reg
lster he rings mo sale"
Readers Of the Daily Worker, don't
only read the paper. If you don't
belong to an organization join one
and fight, fight before 1t is too late.
Don't wait fer the last minute or
say there is lots of time, but get in
touch with the nearest organization
and join it; fight against wage-cuts,
layoffs and for social insurance.
Unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
Int1 Harvester Bosses Use Crisis
to Make Workers Speedup; Staggered
tBy a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, Ill. We see that
workers are being layed off from
the shops and factories and the
misery Of the unemployed is reach
ing stage where workers are COM
hitting suicide in order to escape
from this misery. But what about
the worker in the shop? His lot is
not much better than that of the
unemployed.
will give you an example of the
way workers are treated at the In
ternational Harvester. In depart
ment 81 there is boss by the name
of Dan and he is the worst sort
Of sneak ever saw. He is never
satisfied with the work and raises
hell with the men for every little
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
(By a Worker Correspondent

10y worker correspondent
ORIENT, Ill.--The local union
of the U. Nj. w. A. here is one of
the biggest in the state, consisting
of about 1890 members. The mine
workers got too tired of the UNI
bearable conditions and at the
meeting tonight NOV. 1877 ignored
the proposal of election in the U.
nj. w. A.
When the correspondence from
John L. Lewis and his district pro-
visional president, Frank Hefferly,
was read, instructing how to pro-
coed with the election of union Of
ficers, the mine workers simply ig-
nored the proposal with a motion
to table the correspondence. Also
at the same time miners voted to
stop to pay dues to every branch
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
ANXIOUS TO ROB
CARTERET MEN
Legion's Idea to Cash
in On Misery
(By a Worker Correspondent

NDy d NtUIhtE NUTTHSDOnuenLI
CARTERET, N. 1.-THE local group
of the American Legion recently
thought up brilliant idea that would
be pie for them at the expense of
many workers in this district.
Hundreds of workers are out of Jobs
here and while dozens of the capital
list class and their hirelings talk
about relief, nothing is done to put
bread and butter in the mouths of
the unemployed. They go on slowly
starving.
Want to Cash
The Legion parasites had the bril-
liant idea of raising a large cash
fund in the district with the idea
they claim of assisting those out of
work. Let's see how this money is to
be raised.
Easy, they thought all they had to
do was to go to the owners and bosses
of each plant and have them post a
notice notifying all employees now al
work for small wages, that one days
page each month would be deducted
from their envelopes and turned over
to the Legion to do with as they like
Workers ,,ck
Every thing went along nicely
every one seemed to be for the plar
but one group and that was the work
ers themselves. They rebelled claim
ing they hardly made enough to live
on now let alone give money TO the
Legion who might use it for purposes
other than intended. Result, blooey
went nice plan of the bosses anc
the Legion officers.
A. B. B,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29

Terrific Speed-Up.
They speed us to death and if the
production is piling up in front of
you the first thing the boss will say
is, you don't want to work, Ell!
There are lots of good men waiting
for your job"
The next thing you know you are
fired.
They also catalogue our record
cards. A for good workers. B not
so good. c, lazy. So when they
fire they know which one to fire.
Little Wages.
We work only two and some of
us three days week, just enough
for board for one only. How about
those families? Just enough for
rent and live on garbage.
The Detroit newspapers headlines
with lots of buncome about Hudson
Co. rehiring IS thousand workers
This is one of the biggest lies ever
heardd. They try to keep the workers
blind, but they can't do it. The
workers see it for themselves there
are no factories hiring, they all are
firing and cutting wages, so nobody
can live on working wages.
Are we going to stand this rotten
system? say no! We will organize
and fight to establish a workers
government. N. S. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-29
NOT FOR LONG.

MOLINE, Ill.-The 200 shopmen
hired back by the Rock Island R. r.
at nine points, won't be workil<
long. Possibly part of December, If
conditions warrant" the company
says. The Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific R. R. workers are forced to
give part of their wages, instead of
the company doing so, to the 5000
this road laid off.-R. r. Worker.
The Y.CL. is feverishly preparing for
a second demonstrc lion before City
Hall and also a bigger one before the
State Capitol.
i K Sylvia.