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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
FISHER BODY CO.
SpEE)Up makes
f'ANy j0BL-ESs
Murder-h house; N e ed
Auto Workers. Union

(BY Worker Corrcspo}dent.)
CLEVELAND, Ohio.--Conditions ID.
in the Fisher Body plant of Cleve-
land are constantly growing worse.
The sewing and FASTING room de-
partment has become murder
house. Last April, 1929, the sew
ing room department employed
about 400 workers; 100 young boys
between the ages of II and 21; 2oO
young girls; about so women, be-
tween the age of rs and 80. This
April, 1890, we find around IS boys,
235 young girls, working 8 and
hours per day, producing even more
than last year.
The Fisher Body plant of Cleve-
land is supplying stock for Gonsil,
Oakland and many other
plants of the General Motors Co.
Before the auto show we were so
busy we had to slave IA to II hours
per day, days a week. At that
time we worked on the day rate sys-
tenn, which paid % to 40 cents per
hour. In order that we should not
kick the bosses steadily kept on
promising that we soon would be
put back on piece-work and again
be able to make 70 to rs cents per
hour. We fools listened and hoped
for these damnable hours to put US
on piece-work so that we could make
enough to live on. But these liars
did not mean to put us on piece
work at that time. This was just
a means to keep us satisfied and
prevent US from revolving against
this speed-up, low wages and the
long hours that we worked.
The Lay-off Begins.
After working two months with
this terrible speed-up, long hours,
low wages. and misery it slowed
down a little. AS soon as it slowed
down they Immediately laid off
around so young workers. Along
with this they produced the So
called piece-work that they kept
promising us for three months. This
bv no means was the piece-work we
had last year. 1t is something en-
tirely different. Group work sys-
TEN, and not being paid for how
much we get out, but paid for what
they ship. If we get out our work
before the schedule, about 2 or 3
o'clock in the afternoon, they won't
let us go home. 1t is explained that
it is necessary to begin to put up
the schedule for the next day. But
this next day results in working
only 8 days week and laid off
for the rest of the few days. Under
this system we are able to make
3 or 81 per day at the most.
This is clever and vicious
method of speed-up and wage-cuts.
Speed-up was bad enough, but this
is even worse.
Young workers, are we going to
permit the bosses to fool us and cut
our wages as they are doing? Our
answer is no. We must organize
into the Auto Workers Industrial
Union, the only militant union in
the auto industry that is affiliated
with the Trade Union Unity League.
FISHER BODY SLAVE.
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by q Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Cai.-As "a men,
her of the unemployed council of
Oakland and j. L. d. also l ira
veled all over California and never
saw it 50 hard before in Califor-
MIA for work. You can figure
when they are laying Off men
every day or. two by the hundreds
rs to why it is getting worse in
Stead of better.
The people Of /0akland are
learning more aboh5 Hoover pros
perity in California. j win tell
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you feliOw-workers that it is CON-
ing TO a showdown with the CAPT
talist class.
Fellow-wOrkers, can we eat any
Of the Hoover prosperity at pres
ent? No, we can't wait any longer
for it.
So what are we going to do?
This solves the problem right now;
Organize at once, build it up right
now, while the chances are good.
HE'LL FIGHT.
have a family myself to look
after. have gone 10 the COM
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VA. miners Are
STARVING Thru
UNEMPLOYMENT
Want to Organize IN
der NMU
(Bu.a Worker CorresDondeHf.)

(Ba a Worker Correspondent
BIG STONE GAP, Va-Once
more I wish to call your attention
to the awful conditions in the Vr-
ginia coal mines.
The miners here are on starva-
ton, working , and days week.
Some of the mines have shut down
and the poor miners are starving,
the children almost naked, under
nourished and a picture of hopeless
despair. Men walking the roads and
highways begging for work. Even
if they get job, what do they get .?
So day for days a week, total
SO. Out of that they must first pay
rent, coal and doctors, all compul-
sorry, while the mine owners back
in the, Florida sunshine care moth
ing for the poor starving men,
women and children.
Send Us Organizers!
Won't you please send organizers
here to help US. Don't let the damn
grating capitalists make you be-
lieve that the southerners won't
strike or fight. That is all propa-
ganda of the A. F. of L. They
have sold us out to the bosses twice
and we want no more of them. We
want the Communist Party and Ma
tional Miners Union to lead US.
They are the only ones that can or
will get out and fight for the work
ing man,
Come on, folks, give US a chance.
Don't think the southerner is no
good. We are damn good fighters
when we believe in a cause. We
have had enough of capitalist star
walton. We have been exploited too
long by them.
I would be glad to help organize
and fight to the bitter end for the
Virginia miners. Only l have little
money and could not hope to win
without the help of the Trade Union
Unity League and other militant
organizations, like the National
Miners Union and the Communist
Party.
So l say, come on Virginia min
ers, let's fight the damn capitalist
government of the Gland of the free
and home of the brave" Oh yes,
free for the rich to exploit the poor.
And the homes are all owned by
the grating rich.
Again we give three cheers for
Foster, Minor, Amter and others.
VIRGINIA MINER.
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" Day; HIS Family Is Starving; OygQ,

munity chest for help, and no help
as yet. That is what they call
charity for you, but / have an
other name for it, graft for the
capitalist class. 1t has me on the
verge of starvation right at pres
ent. 1t means for me to start
fighting for my rights and for
what rightly belongs to me, and
| am going to get it, too, don't
forget that. My children have
nothing TO eat right now.
THE GRAFTERS AFRAID.
AMI an ex-service man, too, at
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asked for an answer to our de-
mands, and they said they could
not do anything for us at the pres
ent time. So we workers started
to ask the mayor how he could
appropriate funds enough to go
TO Europe on pleasure trip at
that time. He had funds. lie said:
Shut up, you are liars.
Workers, come out on the
streets May First!
Yours very truly, .
FELLOW-WORKER FROM OAK.
LAND, CALIFORNIA.
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would not cover the cost of putting
them into operation and swell their
profits at the same time. Instead
they have heightened our hours of
work, cut out as many as sixteen
.two-car trains on many lines,
-spaededanp the running time, thus
throwing hundreds of carmen out
Of work.
Workers Score Union Takers.
rs.> These men and the others
thrown, out. of work attended the
last two meetings of our mionsana,
in very strong terms told the Of
ficials what they thought OF their
class collaboration activities. They
denounced the union heads for not
forcing rthe feight- hour day agitaz
ton, for. not demanding an increase
in wages and a guaranteed week
for the extra men.
To curb the agitation that the
situation is developing Dur tricky
financial secretary suddenly became
"revolutionist''-an old trick of
'his-by accusing the railway COM
pany of duplicity in not putting the
eight schedules into effect. He
suggested that the grievance COM
.mittee should meet the bosses and
ask them. for a guaranteed week for
the extra MEN. A motion to that
affect was, put through.
Workers Can Expect Nothing from
49,. These Takers.
The Trade Union Unity League
committee warns all carmen not to
expect anything from this "griev-
ance committee" which is headed by
the union officials. As they have
always. done, this committee will
simply call at the company's office,
smoke the open-shop cigars and
cigarettes handed them by the
bosses, exchange a few pleasantries
and then depart to tell us of the
terrific battle they had with the
railway executives. and how they al
most convinced them Of the Gus
tice Of the cause of organized Ia
bor." We also warn you that these
officials of ours will sell us out
every time they get the chance. The
cowardly sell-out by our interna-
tional officials of the striking New
Orleans street carmen when their
strike was actually won is pc1;tive
proof that these labor takers are
out to destroy the fighting spirit
and morals of us wage earners.
If we are to have work and wages
we, the rank and file, will have to
fight for it by agitating for the
seven-hour day, eighty cents per
hour, limit stretchout to nine hours,
two weeks vacation with full pay,
social insurance, abolition of all well
fare schemes, no compulsory dona-
tons to community fund.
Any carmen not acquainted with
the activities of the Trade Union
Unity League committee which is
active in Division 26S should call at
226 Superior West and ask for
Douglas Il. l.. d. office.
CARAVAN No. 2.
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that. 1t don't get me nothing. /
am doing the best | can at pres
ent and putting up a fight with
the rest of my fellow-workers in
this struggle for work or wages.
] have two girls to take care OF
besides fighting. I was in the
March 6 demonstration to pre-
sent our demands at the City Hall.
But we have no results as yet.
The last time we went up TO the
mayor why they ran from us
like a bunch Of wildcats. They
we're afraid to face US in the cOun-
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worse than dogs and pay them half
price for their work. So the condi-
lions in the constrNtiefsef the SUBJ
ways and tunnels of NewHYorka City
are hell. We have been sold out by
the A. F. L., especially the Blasters
Union of which l am a member.
: WoHa you come to 3our rescue
with the Trade Union Unity League
or some other organization and help
US subway and tunnel workers.
Come on, subway workers, join
the union that fights for you! To
hell with the government that lets
us starve and makes slaves Of us!
... .--.-. -BLASTER ::
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Gil chamber at the City Hall.
DOWN TOOLS MAY DAY!
/ will tell you fellow workers
that when the time comes to fight
don't lay down on the job. You
just join the fight with. the rest
of your fellow-workers and down
the capitalist class. In that March
S demonstration about 5000 pco-
pie were there. We have in our
ranks today, as close as I can fig
ure 1900 members in the unem-
ployed council. We put our de-
mands before the city council and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
A SHOE REBEL.
Young Communist Girl
Dies of Prison Hunger
Strike in Palestine

An eighteen-year-old girl mem
Der of the Communist Party Of Pal
estine died Wednesday in the Ha-
dassal, Hospital in Jerusalem, fol-
lowing a two weeks hunger strike
in prison. where she had been held
since last September, according TO
a Jewish Teleeraphic Agency dis
patch. While neither the name Of
the prisoner nor the reason for her
imprisonment was given, the vicious
persecution of the revolutionary
workers in this colony Of British
Imperialism by its "labor" imperial
list government is notorious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
MORE RoTHsTEIN SECRETS.

District Attorney Grain and
George A. McManus, who was tried
and acquitted for the murder Of
Rothstein, met yesterday in secret
conference over the Rothstein MUIR
der mystery, about which Grain,
Walker and other Tammany takers
know volumes more than they care
to tell.
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Pougl'keepsie Workers
and Jobless Protest
Unemployment S a t.

P0UGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, April
1S.-There will be a demonstration
against unemployment in this, the
city where state employment figures
show unemployment is worst. Work
ers and jobless will gather at Main
and Market SITS. Saturday at p.
m. The call is from the Trade
Union Unity League and the Coun-
ellis of the Unemployed.
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Speed Up Fierce.
4. 7. of j. Ignores Workers.


The leaders of the International
Association of Machinists, that are
part and parcel of the American
Federation of Labor leadership, are
doing nothing toward remedying the
miserable conditions of the workers
in the Western Electric plant, but,
instead, are working hand in hand
with the bosses to. force upon the
workers wage-cuts and speed-up.
The shop committee of the West
ern affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League is appealing to it's
fellow-workers to take immediate
steps toward organizing shop COM
mittees in every department, and
to participate in the New Jersey
Metal Conference on May Is in
Newark. This conference will estab-
fish a Metal Industrial Union, a
union that will organize and mob
ilize all the metal workers of New
Jersey in a fight against the pre-
vailing miserable conditions, for the
seven-hour, five day week; against
speed-up, for equal work equal pay,
for higher wages, against overtime,
for social insurance, sick and unem-
ployment insurance paid by the
bosses and state. Join the May l
political strike.
WESTERN ELECTRIC WORKER.
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MAKE WORKERS
PAY FOR SPIES
Shoe Shop Chairmen
Co. Stools
(Bu q Worker Correspondent)

(Bg q Worker spondent)
A few days ago / saw an article
in your paper about our shop, the
I. Miller shoe shop in Long Island
City. But the best part of our shop
this worker forgot to tell you. That
is that we pay for the spies that
watch us.
It's like this. l. Miller has a
company union, and everybody who
works there has to pay in $50 which
he will lose if he goes on strike.
Then we have to pay 10 cents every
week to pay the shop chairman.
And these shop chairmen are moth
ing but spies for the company. Of
course, there are lots of other spies,
too.
And that isn't all. We got a
lousy bunch of foremen all over this
shop, but one foreman is the worst
of all. That is the one called Frank
Vegesi. This Vegesi isn't satisfied
with driving his own men, filming
Tor every tiny damage and firing
for no excuse at all, but he butts
in on the other departments and
helps out the foremen there, too.
In fact, he acts like he thought he
was the grande seigneur of the
shop, like they used to have in
Europe | guess.
agree with the fellow that wrote
the other day that we should join
the independent Shoe Workers
Union. What we need to do is to
all get together in good fighting
union like that.
81 "A SHOE REBEL.
8
Other workers in l. Miller shoe
shop should write in to the Daily
Worker about their experiences in
the shop, so that your fellow
workers can see how conditions are
in all of the departments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-19
LeWls Delegates from
Non Existing Mines

by Worker Correspondent
AVELLA, Pa.The boony delegates the
Lewis Convention Indianapolis The following the
kind of delegates Lewis had that convention they from
Cherry Valley Git Cherry Valley
finished years Cherry Valley
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Our own age. the 0Ourgeofs age.
- distinguIshed by this-fhat Il
Inns simplifi>O class autasonisms.
More and more. sOciety In splitting
M into two great hOstlIe cnmps,
into two great and directly c0ntra-
pose1 cIasseSs bourgeofsie and BRO.
letarint-Marx.
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men work on farms but no more
coal mine in Cherry Valley,
The Lewis and Fegan henchmen,
John. P. Busarello and Robert
Gaitens, $40 a day paid disorganizer
for the dead and buried U. NJ. W.
of 4. in Western Pennsylvania, and
stool pigeons for the coal operators,
and any other boss agency, they
ask the men if they want to be
delegates to the Indianapolis con-
vention March 10. The men an
swered whom are we going to repre-,
sent? There is no mine in Cherry
Valley.
They Represented $40 a Day.
j. P. Busorello said makes no diff
ference If there IS any mine 81 Tot tot.
If you want to go we give you $40
IA day and expenses.
Oh, well, $40 day and expenses,
sure we go. Whom were they repre-
'senting in indianapolis T? The $40 a
day and expenses.
Busorello is notorious bosses
man, an enemy of the miners. He
is the man who sold all the proper
ty of L. U! 1855 u. NJ. w. A. in
Avella for him and the faker Pagan.
The. miners paid for it. He was a
delegate too. -.
He represented the coal company
and not the miners, because no coal
miner elected him. Toney Federoff,
from Bridgeville, Pa; he sold out
to Frank Lodovinga, Sub District
President in Bellaire, Ohio, U. NJ.
W. A. for flunkey job in 1925,
and fought against the Powhattan
Point, Ohio, Progressive l.. U.
Lodovinga stole over 500 from the
Bellaire miners, he had got out of
the union, and flunky Federoff
could not get the. job
John Clique gave the job to Rodol-
TO Pacifico, a good two faced man,
so Toney became P. T., a Pagan
flunky, he supported 100 per cent
the machine in the 1927 U. M. w.
convention against the Progressives
and the Communist Party.
James Flood was a delegate from
Atlasburg mine. This mine shut
down long time before the 1927
strike. He must represent the Car
negie Coal Company. And this
mine is about so miles away from
his home. Others like that were at
Indianapolis for Lewis.
The yellow dog Eowat, and Far
rington convention in Springfield,
H., was just the same kind of dele
cation, was not representing the
miners at all, but the coal COM
panies. Brophy and Hapgood were
delegates from Western Pennsyl-
vania. No miner ever elected
Brophy or Hapgood from Pa. Hap
good from Colorado is a Pennsyl-
vania delegate. This is funny. So
both are coal company union con-
ventions.
Forward to the National Miners
Union Convention June /, and Pitts
burgh District convention April o.
81 --AVELLA MINER.
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Cleveland Car Workers
See Thru AFL Fukers
(By a Worker Correspondent


the meetings Division 26S Street Garments
Railway
has dched because
schedules
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McGoueru Construction Co.
CribbJes and BIacklists
lBg Worker Correspopdeml o..

(Bg Worker CorYespoRdentl as ,!. a..
YORK kick against pay murderous
working conditions the Patrick NcGoyen Co.. e4 out
you go. .s'..." tar.s ~.....4 '..es.l.. :.
to These
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WEST'N ELECTRIC
L-hY-0FFS CROW;
SPEEDUp WORSE:
Don't Care; It's
Up to T.U.U.L.

KEARNEY, N. 1.-THE conditions
in the Western Electric plant are get
ting worse, daily. Many of US are
laid off daily. During the last lay-
off employees that worked for nine
months or two years or more were
fired for little or no reason. The
entire matter was wedding out
process to eliminate the better paid
workers and to- replace them with
new workers for half the price
Those that are still working are
being exploited and speeded up to
the limit. --.-.- .----.--
Speed Up Fierce.
The workers of the Wood Shop,
Dept. No. 393, are speeded up and
matched one to another to see who
wins the race. The workers in the
southwest corner building, q il. 8,
have to stand the strong acids of
the stain and varnish, which en-
dangers their health. These condi-
tons prevail in other departments,
and in the next leaflet we will cite
them,
The Washington times., 1930-08-20
Man, SOdn-TOsser,
Is Acquitted, Fined

Failure Of complaining wit
nesses to identify William Reed,
of Four Corners, Md, yesterday in
the Rockville Police Court, led to
his acquittal on two charges Of
highway robbery. The accusations
against Reed grew out Of the
hold-up and robbery of a cab
driver near Silver Springs, Md,
and another motorist on the road
near the Indian Springs Golf
Club.
Reed, however, was convicted of
an assault charge and fined $25.
This accusation originated at the
time of his arrest. Apprehended
by Policemen Charles Barnes and
Joseph Nolte in the Silver Springs
business section as he was slipping
O glass of soda water. Reed threw
the glass of soda in Notes face
and fled. He was captured after
a chase through the business sec
ton,
The Washington times., 1930-08-20
RESCUED LAUD
SHIP CREWS

PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN
SAMOA, Aug. 20 QN.S0 Pas
senRefs of the sunken steamer
Tahiti, brought here aboard the
Ventura, today told Of the expert
seamanship which permitted the
rescue Of passengers and crew in
q rough sea without a single
casualty.
Capt. w. r. Meyer kept his
ship close to the Tahiti while, the
252 persons were transferred in
small boats. The passengers
praised the skill of Capt. T. A.
Totem and his crew in keeping
the foundering ship afloat until
rescue arrived.
Working below decks and in
darkness, the engineers and mem.
bers of the stewards department
rigged up emergency pumps and
buckets and poured water from
holds three and four.
Captain Totem and the last of
the crew left the Tahiti at $40
p. m. Sunday and an hour later
the stern dipped beneath the
surface. The Tahiti's bow was
lifted a1oft In the plunge down
ward.
The Penybryn stood by during
ehe rescue and assisted with her
life boats in transferring the pas
gengerS and crew.
That the Ventura arrived just
aa time to avert catastrophe
rs indicated by the story of
@ptain Meyer. He said:
"The passengers were trying
to put on life jackets rs we
arrived alongside at 1880 a.
m. Life boats had been
launched and were lowering
about, and we Immediately
started to pick up the pas
sengerS and crew."
The Washington times., 1930-08-20

RULES
Rule l. Any child under eight years
of age eligible.
Rule z. Nominations must be ON off.
cial blanks secured from any authorized
Majestic dealer. If at time of nom-
ination a Majestic Radio set is pur-
chased nomination is increased to 5000
votes. Only one nominating blank
counts for each candidate.
Rule 3. Babies of Majestic Dealers,
their employees, Fox Theater employees
or Washington Times not eligible
Rule 4. Winners selected by popular
choice determined by number of votes
received.
(a) Votes must be>lesible and filled
out in FULL
(b) Votes must be secured either at
time of purchase from Majestic Dealers
or at Fox Theater.
(e) Only votes from authorized
sources will be counted.
The Washington times., 1930-08-20
Cycle Kills Farmer
As He Sits in SlUinq

THOMAS, w. Va, Aug. 40
art Keener, %. this place. is in
Jail at Morgantown. charged
with felonious assault, pending
investigation into the death Of
Henry II. Thorn. 70, retired
farmer. Keener's motorcycle
crashed into o swing in which
Thorn was sitting, in the side
yard Of the store premises Of
Tony Teso, at Everettsvi1le, seven
feet from the highway.
According to the authorities,
Keener could have passed be-
tween q parked ice truck and a
pleasure car, but he darted be-
tween the truck and the right
side Of the store building, crash
ing into the swing.
Thorn died of conclusion OF
the brain, shock and hemor'
rhageS.
The Washington times., 1930-08-20
Industrial Alcohol
Rules Made TiqhteT

Tightening of regulations gov
erning legitimate manufacture OF
industrial alcohol Is proposed In
notices sent to the industry by
James M. Doran, director of the
Industrial Alcohol Bureau, yes
terday Doran said:
There is nothing In the pro-
posed regulations which viii
hamper or restrict the indus
try, provided they are admin
istered with good sense"
The Washington times., 1930-08-20
Army Band Listed
For Six Concerts

The United States Army Band
has planned six concerts in five
days. beginning Monday of next
week. They are:
Monday, Fifth and Sheridan
SITS. N. W., 1880 p. M; Tuesday,
Walter Reed Hospital, $50 p. M;
Wednesday. Sylvan Theater. Mon
ument Grounds. 1880 p. m; Thurs.
day, tuberculosis Hospital, 3 p. m
and Army War College, z p. m,
and Friday, east steps Of the
Capitol, 1880 p. m.
The Washington times., 1930-08-20

church In Canada, still remained
critical today and physicians said
it was impossible to say he was
out of danger.
He was injured in an auto