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order, stories of Battys itching pain
much parliamentary skulduggedy,
etc, was that the resolution was
lost.
The convention, held in a comfort
able bourgeois hotel in New York,
far from the gunner of the Southern
mill owners, adopted plan by
which they hope to destroy the
workers organization, the National
Textile Workers Union in the Caro-
linas.
Much of the convention was taken
up by the explanations of Emile
REEVE, president of the Full Fash
Toned Hosiery section of the U.T.W..
as to how his organization took the
lead in cutting the wages of hosiery
workers in Pennsylvania.
The fake delegates here were
easily satisfied, but the problem is
how to present this excuse to the
hosiery workers. Mayor Stump, head
of the socialist party administration
in Reading with about 35 per cent
OF the hosiery is manufactured, has
been secured to address commu-
nifty mass meeting in Reading and
try to put it over. The argument
will be that the kages had to be cut
in Reading because they are now in
the South.
The National Textile Workers
Union, on the contrary, has a policy
of organizing and striking against
wage cuts everywhere, and of rails
ing the southern wage rates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-15
STREETCLEANERS
TOLL LONG HOURS.
Foremen Speed Up the
Men; Hard Work

New York City.
Editor Daily Worker
l am working for the City of
New York in the street cleaning
department, and want to tell you
of some of the conditions we have
to put up with.
9-Hour Day.
We have to work nine hours a
day, seven days a week, and no pay
for overtime. We have to make
six loads of rubbish a day and
sometimes we are working two or
three hours a day overtime with
out time off or overtime. We have
foremen who speed us up and who
chase from morning until night.
Hard In Winter.
It is not soft job in the winter
time. We have to work in the
snow, rain, wind or heat and we
are exposed to all kinds of sickness.
Sometime ago one Of the men fell
dead from the heat and he was
working overtime when this hap
pened. He was the sole support
of his wife and four children.
l will keep you posted on events
in this department. 1 wish you
would withhold my name as I would
get fired if they found out about
this. SWEEPER.
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Children of the Neev Day
"A Story of Soviet Youth
A Written Version Of the Russian Movie For
American Working Class Children

front of the doorway they halted a
moment while Nick declared in a
clear ringing voice that the play
room was now ready to be opened.
This belonged to the children of the
Lenin house, for them to prize and
use. 1t was just one sample of the
New Day which the Russian revolu-
ton was bringing to workers child
rem throughout the Soviet Union.
and" he ended, 1--WE Pioneers hope
that you here will also organize a
Pioneer troop" At this the children
cheered.
fash opened the door and all
walked in. Each Pioneer wiped his
or her feet on the door mat as they
entered, but the others, not under
standing this ceremony, just walked
in with dirt and mud clinging to
their bare feet.
"Comrade citizens" said fash
sternly, ''your feet" So one by one
Ghey carefully wiped the mud on the
nat and entered.
What a room it was! Everyone
exclaimed at once. Fatima's eyes
grew round with wonder. Windows,
walls, even the doorknob shone with
cleanliness. The walls were tinted
light cream-color, and the small
chairs and tables were painted
green, to match the curtains at the
window. Picture books, crayons
and paper, balls, blocks, games and
toys were placed around. On the
walls were red banners and Lenin's
picture. In one corner was a small
library, with fash in charge. The
children moved happily about, ex-
aiming everything, while the Pho
neers and committee followed along,
explaining and all the while broadly
grinning and trying not to look too
proud over what they had done.
After all their hard work it was
good to have the children so pleased.
Ito be continued.)
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Sees Finnish
Group Tagging Behind

Daicytown, Pa.
Dear Comrade Editor
/ moved here and was surprised
that no words were mentioned about
the Mine, Oil and Smelter Work
ers' Industrial Union in the Fin
nish working papers.
In this mining town we have
so-called Finnish cooperative hall
which could be used for any pur-
pose, but is not used for Commu-
mist purposes.
1t seems to me that the Finnish
fractions are not over their right
tendencies, and yet they should be
over them by now and getting down
to brass tacks.
Any Communist that does not do
Party and union work daily is a
very poor Communist. j. J.
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BY MYRA PAGE.
Continued

Going home the next day Alex
spied Fatima and pointed her out
to his companions. She was stand
ing in her old place, near the marble
lion, begging. When the Pioneers
reacher her side they found a mem
Der of the Society for Protection
of Children already questioning
her.
Vanya took Fatima by the hand.
Hello, Fatima, we've been hoping
to find you; won't you come to the
playroom's opening tomorrow"
"And why are you here, begging ?"
the comrade from the society ques-
toned her gently. Fatima, hang
ing her head, began to cry. 81
didn't want to; my aunt made me-"
Don't cry, Fatima, no one blames
you. We're your friends and will
help you."
The inspector looked stern, but
his voice was kind. $50 that's how
it is, Ell. Well look into this, right
away" Jotting down Fatima's adj
dress in his notebook he went off
in search of the aunt.
The PlayrOom Opens.
Early the next morning every
thing in the courtyard and nearby
was in great excitemet. Get up,
get up" the children called. "To-
day the playroom opens" Doors
opened, heads popped out and chill
dren came running from every
where, tumbling down the stairs
over one another in their hurry.
Even the cats and dogs came
bouncing out to see the fun. This
time, Fatima also was on hand.
The Pioneers came marching in,
two by two, banners flying and
singing their Pioneer march song.
The rhildren's committee joined
them and the rest fell in behind. In
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STARvE J0BLESS
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antilles are in actual starvation.
ramsay Macdonald is mentioning
with the King and the Duke of
Sutherland in their great castles.
This is the socialist" party in
actionl This is how it always
acts.
The story of its activities in Ger
many, and other countries shows
a similar future. What the Bri-
fish Socialist" Macdonald is doing,
list" Norman Thomas would do if
that is what the American Social
given the power. Have we not, in
fact, already had taste of'sociaI-
list" treatment of the unemployed in
Reading and Milwaukee, where
their actions in clubbing the dem
onstrators on March 9th, in evict-
ing unemployed workers, ETC., are
indistinguishable from the usual
brutal treatment of the unemployed
in other cities? The promises of
the socialist" party to the unem-
paper they are written onl
ployed are worth less than the
Unemployment Solved in the Soviet
Union.
of the Socialists" in action on the
Compare this treacherous record
question of unemployment with the
way the Communists have handled
it where they control, in the Soviet
Union. There the problem of I'm
employment is solved. The army of
the unemployed is practically liqui-
dated, in fact, millions of new in
dustrial workers are being trained
to fill the Unsuitable demands of
the flourishing new industries and
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WINTER HE'LL
FOR JoBLESS
Must Speed Fight For Job.
less Insurance

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Christian Science, with a dash of
lurid witchcraft, the boss medicine
men hope to expel the crisis devils
from the body Of capitalism. Their
lies, their extortions, their acting
and lamentations will have no more
effect on the crisis than the beating
Of tom-toms has in curing disease.
Why They Do It.
The $50" rich rulers of the coun.
try, who are back Of it all, know
this. But they also know that the
workers are not going to starve to
death quietly or continue to swa!-
low Green's advice that they accept
wage cuts, speed-up and worsened
conditions. Capitalism is facing the
bitterest winter in its history in the
United States. The bosses demand
of their preacher, their press, their
economists, their fascist union lead
ers, For Gods sake, do anything,
but prevent workers from acting in
their own interests"
Facts About the Crisis.
Fundamentally the crisis. which is
is over one year old, is getting worse.
The bosses are counting on slight
seasonal upturn, but even this which
occurs in the worst crisis years, this
time has fallen flatter than a pan.
cake.
The New York Times (Sept. 13)
admits that the only thing that has
improved is business morale, and
adds that while "busiess statistics
continued to present a confusing pic
ture," encouraging statements is
sued by economists and bushes lead.
ers," were increasing. The business
statistics are not confusing at all
to workers, even IL thy do confound
the bosses who begin to believe their
own witchcraft and find facts do not
At In with them.
The basic industries are decreasing
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AETTE n -
d&s aS - HOP - 49,
SPEED UP OTHERS
MINERS STARvE;
Big Tell of Workers
Accidents Keep On Taking
Westville, Ill.

Westville, Ill.
Daily Worker
When l Joined the Party l was
asked to keep in touch with you
and inform you about the workers
activities in this community. l am
enclosing a clipping of our labor
day" celebration to give you an
idea of what kind of bull was
thrown here.
Pass Around Daily"
l have passed my Daily Worker
on to my friends and when they
have read it a couple of times | will
ask them to subscribe, as l know
there is only the truth about labor
conditions in it, so whoever reads
it soon realizes it's the paper for
every worker to have.
<-Ddy WOEk w eehs
The miners here are working two
days a week in the U. S. Steel Co.
mines and here of late the one Pea
body Coal Co. mine has been work
ing every day since they have in
stalled modern loading machinery
and laid off half of the miners.
They force the special speed-up
system and work their men under
the most hazardous conditions, espe-
cially loose roof.
Many Injured.
This company has kept the hos
pitai full Of injured miners since
their operation by machinery.
The U. S. Steel mines are hand
loading and every system of safety
is practiced, but they expect plenty
c: work for their money, as do all
other greedy corporations.
Lewis Gang Here.
The miners here have not heard
anything of the Communist Party
and hardly know what it is, does
or fights for. The Lewis gang has
them in their claws just now.
1 will boost our Party and be-
lieve others here will join.
j. F. S.
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NORTHWESTERN
LAY Off 5000 MEN
Refused 10 Accept a Wage
Cut

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can Federation of Labor fell into
line with the companys plan of
dividing work and cutting wages,
thus forcing the men to slave at a
starvation wage, "left-wing" mill
tants led the fight to compel the
company to live up to it's agree
ments.
That the agreements the takers
made with the officials of the North
Western road were not worth the
paper they were written on is
proven by this mass lay-off, which
is in direct violation of contracts
now in force.
The lay-off also proves the dupli-
city of the business agents in sign
ing the union-company management
cooperation scheme, which through
it's increased sped-up, has "cooperat-
ed" in showing over three thousands
out of their jobs.
No Savings.
The low wages paid both mechan-
les and helpers have made it impos-
sible for the workers to set aside
anything out of their pay for such
an emergency as this and it is GER
tain there will be much suffering
if the shutdown lasts long. Under
the fake fve-day week mechanics
have ben receiving but thirty dollars
per week, while helpers have tried
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workers who have reached starva-
ton level and are girding for a fight
to demand unemployment insurance,
as well as to organize and strike
against wage cuts.
BY the A. F. OF l.. figures we are
told that SO per cent of the building
trades workers have been unem.
ployed for the entire year. There
won't be any building in winter.
These men haven't got any money
to live on. The auto workers have
been only half employed. The tex
tile mills have been practically shut
down for months. The steel work.
ers have been given wage cuts and
most Of them have worked part
time.
When winter comes the tens Of
thousands OF jobless who now sleep
In the streets will be faced with the
question OF protecting themselves
from being frozen to death ~ we1l
as from starving to death. Evic.
tons will mean going out into the
snow and ice for the workers fam.
lilies.
Lies won't feed the unemployed
They are not meant to. The bosses
want to raise the workers hopes
to keep them from hghting. But
only by organizing and fighting as
4 class, demanding unemployment
insurance. will the workers be able
TO stave off dlsasi
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Int'l Harvester
Lays Off More Men
Moline, Ill.

Moline, Ill.
Daily Worker:
Dear Editor:--I read in the Mo-
line Daily Dispatch the other night
that the Rock Island Railroad
workers, 1,400 men, will be taken
back to work the 18th of this month
after a two months unpaid vaca-
ton. But only for ten days will
they get work, unless things pick
up on the road.
And l heard from someone that
the International Harvester Co. in
Rock Island have laid off 500 more
men--so the capitalist system is
the best we can wish for? I think
we better organize and vote Com
munist on top Of it.
-SYMPATHIZER.
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Polish Workers
Feel BYMnt OF
Fascist I error

WARSAW IP.S.).-From every
part of Poland come news of a sys-
tematic campaign of SANDER against
all left elements and Communists,
preparing the way for pogroms in
West Ukraine, and for unheard of
repressive measures. Every rail
way accident or forest fire is laid
at the door of "Ukrainian terror
lists and saboteurs."
In Lemberg the police searched
the premises of the legal Ukrainian
Workers and Peasants Party "Sel-
rob-" Evidence has been found
against" the organization - CORE
spondence with the Red Aid in Ber-
lin and Paris. Preparations are OBJ
viously being made to prohibit this
mass party of the Ukrainian work
ers and peasants.
In Warsaw the premises of the
House Servants Union have been
searched, SIS members were ar
rested, the union dissolved by the
police. At the same time the police
broke up a meeting of the Left
Metal Workers Union and arrested
50 trade union members.
The Seym deputy of the White
Russian Workers and Peasants
Party, Dvorezanik, arrested at a
public meeting in the Grodin district,
is charged under a paragraph pen
aIizing with four to fifteen years
hard labor. Twenty-one peasants
are being charged at the same time.
They are all in prison.
In Warsaw the left socialists
called a public protest meeting
against the execution of the three
young workers of Lemberg. The
meeting was prohibited by the po-
lice and the place where it was to
have been held cut off by police
cordons.
AS reported a few weeks ago, a
sensational scene took place in the
court of justice at LODI. A young
worker, sentenced for membership
of the Y. C. L., shouted, after the
sentence was pronounced: eve are
beaten in prison." Since then con-
ditions in LODI prison have not
changed. On Aug. % three young
people were again charged with
"anti-state activities" All three
shouted in court, first to the judges
and then to the public: eve are
beaten in prison" On the orders
of the presiding judge, the prison
ers were taken out of court.
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candidate at the parliamentary
election. Last week another center,
Tillery, was expelled and the ex-
pulsion of others is expected.
Cook and the other leaders make
great speeches on the resistance
which the union would make against
any reduction of wages: "The min
ers must resist any attempt to re-
duce wages" But in the same
speech Cook shows himself to be
the apostle of industrial peace"
The coal mining law =. lays down
the means and possibilities for
collaboration of the representatives
of the mine owners, Of the miners,
and of the government, as this
should be carried on in order to
bring peace and a certain degree
of prosperity to the industry"
The Communist Party and the
Minority Movement, with their
campaign for the labor charta,"
are devoting special attention to
mining, as an attack on the already
low standard of living of the min
ers is on the way.
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strike and succeeded in getting a
fake statement in favor of your
skilled machinists and the I'M
skilled workers, beginning the first
days of the settlement kicked out
by the company and why? You
, know its policy, that all that work.
ers who are in the front in strike
time must be kicked out after the
strike is sold out.
Known Agent of Bosses.
And why are you angry about the
South so much, when you know that
you are the one who helped the
bosses to move to the South from
Pawtucket, R. l., and you were the
one who supplied them with all
the skilled workers that the bosses
needed, also securing a good num-
Der of experienced weavers to go
and teach the learners at the rate
of $45 a week to Cleveland, Ohio,
mills.
Fooled Women Workers.
And you are the one who put the
dirty trick in the 1929 Pawtucket
Valley election campaign that by
fooling the women voters in order
to secure them a job. The bill
passed and the young girls and old
women began to work IL hours a
night in your locality. And you
are the one who supported the cock
roach bosses at the time of the Pat
erson strike to come to your town,
where there is no higher wages
and shorter hours. Then you be-
gan to organize a settlement with
the bosses in 1929-men and women
5-54-60 hours day and night and
cents a yard and a charter of the
U. T. w.
You are the one who threw a
monkey wrench in the Wilkes
Barre strike by letting the day
weavers scab on the night weavers
and the night loom fixers never
walked out because they belonged
to a skilled craft, but they are a
bunch of shoemakers, anyhow.
Join N. T. W. U. for Fight.
And there are many more betray-
ais that you pulled off. And
man like you dare have nerve to
be the spokesman for the millions
Of starving textile workers!
And what kind of a union are
you selling when a labor traitor
like you is the vice-president?
We, tbs mill slaves, don't need
your dope any more, and you know
it very well. We belong to the only
union where there are no takers
like you, workers from the shops
are the vice-presidents and every
thing, and American, foreign-born,
Negro and white workers, men and
women. have the same equal DEM
ocracy. Long live the National
Textile Workers Union. Down
with the U. T. W. takers!
j. GREGORY.
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to exist on twenty-five dollars. La
borers, unorganized, are paid fifteen
dollars per week.
Open revolt against the double
dealing business agents and their A.
F. of L. fascist unions has broken
out among the workers and even
some of those who formerly shouted
their devotion to the "Fakeration"
are deserving its banners. The Ma
tional Railroad Industrial League
and the National Unemployed Coun-
ellis are concentrating on winning
over the disconnected workers for
united struggle against the bosses.
Open Air Meets.
Open-air meetings on the day the
shutdown goes into effect are
planned for three of the main gates
leading into the shops at which
prominent speakers will address the
workers. Leaflets are to be dis
tributed daily calling upon tha uu-
employed to fight against lay-of5 and
wage-cuts and against the 5Q9ei-up
system. The Daily Worker and La
Dor Unity are to be sold and dis
tributed at the open-air dsnrnnstra-
ton Wednesday, September 17th.
Rally to Struggle.
The National Railroad Industrial
League is rallying the workers for
struggle to obtain the five-day
week, six-hour day with a substan
tiaI increase in pay for all employ
ees. The company will also be met
with a demand to compensate every
worker it lays off, such compensa-
ton to be not less than twenty-five
dollars per week. The management,
it is pointed out, increased its earn.
ings in 1929 by twenty-five million
dollars over the previous year, 1928,
and will be asked to use this gigantic
sum to pay unemployment compensa-
ton when the shutdown takes place.
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production. More workers are being
unemployed; more wages are being
cut. Proof? There is loads of it,
which the capitalist press hides in
the corners of it's financial pages.
The very same New York Times,
(Sept. 49, which oozes with the new
optimistic and magical spirit in it's
cold figures as contained in its week
ly business index Is forced to concede
that "The weekly inde1 Of business
activities shoes a further slight de-
cline" What's confusing about this,
except to the boss magicians?
Worse still. The latest issue Of
Business Week." whose workers all
undoubtedly wear buttons with the
Hoover lie, Business is Good" tells
us that the general business inder
for the geek noD ending (last Sat
urday) stands at s3.5 per cent Of
normal, neio 1880 lotC, and a de-
cline of 3.S per cent from last tceeb's
figure OF S6.S per cent"
Instead of an upturn we have a
drop to new low! 1t takes more
than the drowning of effigies to over
come a fundamental, deep-going
crisis of the rotten capitalist system,
with its 100000 Of unemployed.
What about this seasonal pickup
which the New York Times financial
writer says came In the fall of the
crisis Of 1921, though it was followed
by a sharper downturn. It's not
panning out at all, though it could
take place and still not affect the con-
tinued deepening Of the crisis itself.
Again the Times ballyhoo gives way
to this admission: This years fall
pickup in business lacks vitality"
In short, it's weak, anemic, lifeless
and means nothing at all to the mill
lions Of unemployed, nor will 1t stop
the increase in the unemployed army.
Some Details.
So numerous are the facts of the
worsening crisis that we have space
for only few OF the more important
items. Steel orders have dropped to
the lowest point since 1923. Build
if contracts, according to the F.
W. Dodge Corporation, for the first
four days Of September showed a
daily average Of sl0.96O,000. com.
pared to . daily average of s19,650,-
800. drop OF nearly so per cent!
And we must remember, too, that In
September, 1929, the crisis had al
ready begun
Bank clearings fell to 3S.7 per cent
below the level OF the correspond.
ing week last year. Ford is curtail
ing production sharply, and Chevro-
let has already cut its low produc-
ton in half Business failures con.
tinue way above normal.
Some Retail Lies.
Knowing that the basic industries
in the fall and winter will cut their
production still further, the boss
press Is yelling about increases in
retail trade. What is the truth
about this? Sears Roebuck & Co.,
tho largest mail order house in the
United States. showed a drop Of IA
per cent for the week ended Sept.
10. Sears Roebuck usually keeps UP
It's retail sales when all other re-
tail stores lose business. There's
not much backbone to their fairy
story about improving retail trade.
Starving workers can't buy food, let
alone winter overcoats or shoes for
their bare and aching feet.
1t Is evident from these facts that
the entire campaign OF the boss
press Is lot OF baloney to fool the
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what fe where are out of work
consist mostly of peasants freshly
from the country, functionaries
from the old regime, etc.
Workers, support the Communist
Party. Vote its election ticket.
Demand the enaction of its Unem-
ployment Bill. Repudiate the
treacherous social-fascists.