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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
WHITEWASH FOR
BOSSES IN FATAL
NY. BLDG. CRASH
Will the Bosses Be
Held; He'll No!
(Bv q Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The Daily News
gives the police great credit for the
way they kept the crowds of people
in order where the building crash oc-
Cured a few days ago at the corner
OF 51st and 18th Avenue. The build
ing collapsed, killing 2 --latest fig
ures are 3-Editor) and injuring Is
or 20 persons.
The district attorney and the new
police commissioner were on the job,
but no arrests were made.
1 should think that the engineers
of this White Construction Co. or
the responsible parties, should be ar
rested, and tried for murder. But
TO. They will get away with the
same old fake Investigations, as
they always do. will bet hat they
will not have any of the men who
were working on the job at the time,
on the jury.
Fellow workers, do not be afraid
to kick and fight against such rotten
conditions they are trying to force
on us at present. We must fight
the killing speed-up the bosses force
on us. The Building Trades Section
of the TUUL must take up this
fight. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

with the bosses, which is next to
nothing in wages. AS long as you
have your job and fat wages. For
your part let the. workers starve.
Have you done anything for the
workers, to better their conditions :?
Nothing at all. You sit there to get
wages, and you all are there as in a
gold mine. If there is a so-called
union shop working at time work,
you arrange with the boss to have
piece work. You takers are always
worried about the boss. The bosses
are not making enough money. Why
don't you worry for the poor work
ers? You don't care a bit for the
workers. The only thing we work
ers will gain, anything, forty hours,
double time for overtime, five-day
week, higher wages, is when we join
the Needle Trades Industrial Union,
131 West 2Sth St., New York City.
1t is a union for workers, not for
bosses. r. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
FOOL Detroit
men ABOUT JOBS
Worker Boosts Daily
There
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By q Worker Correspondent
- DETROIT.-A few days ago the
Detroit Times and other papers
printed an item that all the men
getting help from the Welfare
would get jobs in factories, those
that had families. More apple
sauce. Between 900 and 1000 men
were waiting to get something they
couldn't get.
I would have liked to tell them
about our movement, but ! knew
that the bulls would have been on
me before l got started. Anyway,
l limited to some of them what we
must do to fight this gnawing
crisis, l am a daily agent for the
DAILY" and I'm fighting hard for
its speedy growth.
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

in human manner to anybody.
One sits at the machine in con-
slant fear lest he be the next victim
to be set upon by the wild beast.
Next comes the foreman. In order
TO retain a well-paid job with such
bastardly boss, the hireling has to
act towards the Glands" in a man
ner that will meet with exploiter's
approval, He forces them to work
at top speed, to swell the profits of
our magnate.
We have a COMMITTEE" in the
shop, whose function it is to help
the boss maintain the czarist regime.
The committee consists of corrupted
rascals who do not halt at anything,
in order to further their personal
aims-to retain their privileged po-
sitions in the shop.
The committeeman work in sets.
They work with girls who receive
starvation wages. Under the whip
control of these set-leaders each girl
operator produces as much work as
a man operator. The minimum
wage of a man operator is supposed
to be Al dollars for 40 hour week,
while girl operator averages only
20 dollars a week The committee
helps the boss to carry out all the
naturalization schemes. A week does
not pass but that we are made to
work few extra hours without pay.
Now and then reductions in wages
are forced on us. Workers are laid
off for week or so, although there
is plenty work in shop. The lay
off is used as punishment for a
worker for his attempt at protest
ing against an injustice.
One of the means aiming at the
doping the minds of the workers in
the shop is the establishment of
sick fund in the shop. Needless to
say, the fund is under the control
of the committee. Now, one week
we were told to work an extra hour.
The proceeds Of that hour were sup
posed to cover the wages of a work
er who was sick. On the next week
we worked another hour on behalf
of the same worker. At a shop
meeting a worker asked a naive
question: The proceeds of one hours
work equals sum that can keep
up sick worker more than one
week even if he should get as sick
benefit the full amount of his wages
he receives in the shop land that is
not the case) so what became of the
money collected from the hours
work of the first week?
When an election of officers in
the union approaches, the committee
men get busy ordering each and
every worker in the shop, on the fine
of expulsion, to come to the meet
ing, where the workers of our shop
are being watched with seven eyes
how they vote. The entire ex-
istence of Zaritzky's clique is based
on the extortions that are rung
out from the worker in the form Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

let-up, no rest for a minute, on your
neck all the time. Faster and faster.
The building was supposed to be
a four-story building. No steel
frame work, no columns, reinforced
as they should be. And the speed
them-up bosses decided to take
down the, derrick boom in hurry,
using thin angle iron. 1t crash
ed and carried everything with
it, and the wonder is that more
workers weren't killed. Speed-up and
the Criminal negligence on the part
of the bosses are directly responsible
for this fatal accident. Now they're
getting their whitewash.
Already, several hurt workers
have been made to sign papers for
a hundred dollars or so. The car
penters that were sent home at $50
only got seven hours, and not the
eight hour pay they were supposed
to get.
Besides their murderous speed-up
the White Construction Co. uses the
trick of laying off at 10 A. M. and
starting at l P NJ. again, of laying
off some days and taking on
others, and things like that.
BUILDING TRADES WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

workers complaints but said
against the fveday this itself revouionas
al
hazardous hard laboratory
bookbndes workers the steel factories including
weeks vacation Once three
worker with he
SPECIAL workers he food UncmpIoy
nsuanceu when unemployed At there
in Moscow the who alb
sorbed More placed the industries.
The
exceptionally Switch street One
factory that ate when he applies the Ex
change him only
The exceptionally well treated
months giving BIRTH off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
BRITISH TOMMY
TELLSOF MUTINY
Conditions Bad for Men
in Jamaica

By a British Worker Correspondent
BRADFORD, England was a
Private in the 1st Battalion, the
West Yorkshire Regiment. We left
Belfast for Kingston, Jamaica, to
relieve the End Battalion, the Ar
gyle and Sutherland Highlanders,
and | was one of the picked men
to go on guard to relieve~the Pri-
Yates that were left behind.
After we had taken over there
were three men left behind in the
guard-room. | spoke to one of them
and he told me he and his two mates
had got five years for melting NUT
my. They had been out in the af-
ternoon and got drunk, the reason
being the bad food and the. way they
were treated (the conditions out
there are murder).
At night they went into the can
teen and were refused drinks. They
came out and went into the barrack
room, where they all joined in sing
ing the "Red Flag" The officer
came on the scene when they started
their tactics and he told some of the
men to fall in as escort, but they
refused point-blank. This showed
the spirit of the men.
When the officer saw this he got
the three men and had to shut them
in the suard-room himself. All
the way they were going into the
guard-room, the whole company
were singing the "Red Flag"
For this the soldiers got five
years penal servitude, and if there
was ever a living hell it was this
place.
Tommy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
MOSCOW SHOPS ON sEVENOR BASIS ALL WORKERS ARE EMPLOYED
Worker Visitor Writes That Health Workers the Consideration Workers


work. only works but receives full In the
seventh month she special allowance of MIX At BIRTH she
receives 80 rube chs clothing, months
thereafter ubes each month"; for the ch milk She stays the
hospital from six tend Free and the best attention IT, after
extension,
with
1t has beene found that the belt automatic machine
determin-
the spent certain movement possible to regulate
speed belt the health of the workers
not wonderful? Of this still experimental stage but
indicates how the interests of the workers are considered primarily
into six secns-ca Borough Each section has such
institution" N. Y. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
NE MAKES The
ROUNDS and Gets
REPLY: NO work
Unemployment Rife in
Jacksonville, Fla.
an q WorIer Corregpondent. J


JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-After
read in the capitalist press here how
good business was 1 went down to
the Mayor and asked him. if business
is so good, why can't | find anything
to do. He gave me list Of the most
prominent places and told me to see
them, And SO I did and the answer
of everyone of them you will find
below.
Jacksonville Terminal Co: 1--WE are
laying off now; Clyde Steamship
Co: mo work.; Merrill-Stev Co:
closed; McGiffin & Co., Stevedores,
mo work.; Municipal docks: "no
work.; all of the oil companies:
SLACK; Chevrolet Co.: mo bust
ness; same for Buick Co.; Southern
Railway Yards at Grand Crossing:
nothing; Foremost Diaries: "no
work for old hands; the Crane Co.,
mot for some months" and so on
all the way down the list.
| wonder how much longer the
workers will be fooled by the bosses :?
-e A. NJ. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
bREADLiNE:S ARE
LONG IN Detroit
Condition Of Jobless
Getting Worse
BIZ a Worker Correspondent

(By Worke, Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich. Il will write
just few lines about the true con-
dition here.
The other day around 28th and
Michigan SITS. I saw very long lines
bread lines about 4 blocks long.
was watching the crowd and saw
.one fellow worker go in twice So
after he came out he went straight
down 18th Street to the railroad
where he was living.
l asked him why he went into the
line twice. He ate the soup and the
2 sandwiches he took home to his
family. He showed me his living
quarters. One room, with hay and a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
CAL. GROWERS CUT
WAGES $50; WORKERS
ARE READY TO FIGHT
Must Get Drinking Water from Irrigation
bitches in Imperial Valley
(By a Worker Correspondent

COMPTON, Ca-Hundreds and thousands of Japanese Filipino
agricultural Angeles
and long hours
Yesterday (boss
that wages reduced from 40 80 hour.
We not enough to live such
We need the organizers of the Agricultural Workers Industrial
League. We ready fight. AGRICULTURAL WORKER.
a orker Correspondent
IMPERIAL VALLEY CaL-Fied workers here get So
20 25 Cond
tons bad here The workers here must their drinking
irrigation bitches And for housing conditions here
they poor shack and poor No
bath house.
The working the
they anywhere from o
Unless fight things will get So into the
cultural Workers League for coming struggles.
IMPERIAL VALLEY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
WORKER CORRES ONDENTS TELL OF FATAL BLDG CRA KILLED


Photo on left shows wreckage
after collapse of sidewalk Snoring in
building operations at Hudson and
DOminick SITS, Manhattan, in which
three IatOrers were injured. Build
ing laborers take great risks at low
wages under a killing speed-up sys-
TEN.
Severe unemployment for many,
and speed-up and great risks on the
job for those working, is today the
lot of the building trades workers.
But they are rallying for struggle
under the banner of the T.U.U.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

TOLEDO, Ohio. - The Overland
plant laid off indefinitely 1000
workers on the 18th and several
hundred Tuesday including foremen
The foremen have received an all
around wage-cut.
Electric Auto Lite commenced lay
ing off week ago and have con-
tinued to do so every day since.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
Here's A Frisco ''DaiIy" Booster
by a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO-Hres hoping yo Day Worker
gazing u.s. for Whle
single half sheet.
little sheet is better than a-Up with Daily
and down oith the Capitalists.
Some Vorers paper a1oa printed
top: Pass this another 0orke might be Of the sheet
Am sending dollar payday neat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
dues and taxes.

dues and taxes.
What concerns these high-paid
officials of the union that all our
union conditions were wiped out and
the situation of the capmakers has
been worsened manifolds. They
wrest from us dues and assessments,
they have treasury whence to draw
their salaries; that's sufficient for
them.
Cap Maker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

IUHUUWII
All other plants are doing the
same in Toledo in smaller numbers
and the army of unemployed is rap
idly increasing.
May the Daily Worker weather
the storm and continue publication,
for if ever it was needed it is right
now, and we are doing all we can
in Toledo to keep it going.
TOLEDO TOILER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
BaIto Sharks Try to Shanghai Negro Worl
by a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE MdOn the oaeont here the employment agents
calls Negro 0orer to EasUey w. to pick berries And the
sharks asked for fees, too.
Negro broke mp their homes sold things
But licked. ~,
The sharks called cho beat of the 0orerS make
them along A patroUagon and took them
We fight this saUy Negro a0orkes join
American Negro Labor Congress-
DCowyo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

little stove in the midle of the room.
l saw his three little children.
The workers cannot live under the
capitalist system.
An Ex-Soldier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
(By a Worker Correspondent

The following excerpts receiUed Jy
0orter correspondent from friend OStig the Soviet UnEditor
May 9, 1880 Moscow
Dear
ut is difficult begin. write first.
very lively city and dare say, years
York in activity
Il visited few factories
learned about how things here
the hour basis The
employment six workers have periods
two hours for ten minutes Typsts
and get ten minutes rest
che day rest 10 be successful popular. spoke
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
ZARITSKY'S UNION SHOP
A MODEL OF SPEED-UP:
LAYOFFS ARE FREQUENT
COMMITTEE" Works Hand in Glove With Boss
@'a' for efficiency"
T.U.U.L. Must Lead Fight Against This Com
pany Union
(Bn q Worker Corrcsnondentl

Nomnaly work union shop But what misuse
There mockery than
dom of representing the interests the
In the trade shop the largest New
working here for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31

Demand the release of Eos
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
tsswz
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
MURDEROUS SPEED-UP1
is RESPONSIBLE FOR
FATAL BLDG. CRASH
Bosses Use Thin Angle Iron to Dismantle
Derrick Boom
Frequent Short Time for Workers of the White
Construction Company
by a Worker Correspondent

YORK-Three wereled injured the White
Co job 18th Avenue and 55th Street when the derrick
and with all the columns "nvestga
on official whitewasngs under But what the
killing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
Heavy Layoffs in Toledo SwelIs Jobless Arm

by a Worker Correspondent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
NEW YORK CURB MARKED TRANSACTIONS The
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 20, 1880.

Total number Of share. sold 471a7OO 2l716s
Same neriod a wear n 20 . As67OOO 465. 20"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, December 20 (SpeciaD -
July wheat, without support from gov
ernmental agencies, broke sharply at
the start of trade today into new low
ground for the past 90 years.
Liquidation influenced by the bear
ish Government estimate on Winter
wheat acreage accounted for the slump.
Buying against bids checked the de-
cline. Old crop months held steady be-
cause of support accorded them by the
Farm Board.
Closing prices were unchanged to
cent lower and for the week 4 higher
TO 2% cents lower.
Grain prices were unable to with
stand the weight of bearish world de-
velopments this week and. except for
steadiness in the wheat futures receiv-
ing Government support prices sagged:
Corn was particularly weak because of
the absence of outside support. which
discouraged local longs.
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IAN 10% Comm Edison. 12N 1Oa4 11T4 - Il
Il 1875 Public Srv No H. Feb 17h 1874 1874 "
DIVIDEND rates in dollars based quarterly semi
able in cash stock Payable dividend
in stock Plus 10 Der cent
IN STOCK m Plus cent in stock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
NEW YORK COTTON
CE JACOBSEN

NEW YORK, December 20 P).-
Opening irregularity in cotton was fol-
lowed by advances today. Offerings were
light after the early selling had been
absorbed and prices advanced on mod
crate demand which was attributed
largely to week end covering. March
contracts sold up from 9.87 to 1905 and
closed at 1902, with the general market
closing steady at net advances of 8 to
IL points.
Cotton futures closed steady, 8 to IL
points higher; December, 9.74a9.75;
January, 968a9.70. New contracts: De-
cember. go: January, 9.75; March,
1002a1O.03; May, 1029a10.30; July,
105la1O.53; October. 10.67a10.69. Spot,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
CURB SHARESF|RM
AT SHORT SESSION
Many Leading Issues Close
Slightly Higher in Quiet
Trading-0iIs Featured.
BY JOHN L. COOLEY,

Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK, December 20.-Week
end profit-taking failed to make much
Of an impression on curb market prices
today. Trading was quiet during the
two-hour session and the leaders held
to narrow range. Numerous repre-
sentative shares closed slightly higher.
Utilities sluggishly followed the move
in that group on the big board. There
was some demand for. United Light A,
which has been heavy, and the stock
rallied point. Electric Bond 81 Share
was quiet, closing with nominal net
less. American &, Foreign Power war
rants gained moderately.
,.Oils struck squirt, led by Standard
of Indiana, which advanced points.
Cuffs early gain of point was con-
verted into a small decline toward the
close. but Vacuum was supported.
Cities Service closed unchanged.
1ndustrialS were firm.
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car began to buck.

complete-the car began to buck.
The inventor, Frank j. Sprague, i'm
med1ately ordered 1t stopped, and In a
loud voice told one of his assistants to
go back to the car barn and obtain some
instruments" with which to put the car
in condition. After the curious crowd,
tired OF waiting, had dispersed. the as
sistant returned with the instruments"
-four long-eared mules-and the car
was dragged back to it's starting point.
The flrst nickel paid for q ride on The
Richmond line Is on exhibition at d
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
RICHMOND HAD FIRST
REAL TRACTION LINE

According to a speaker during the
Halsey, Stuart & Co. radio hour re-
Gently, Richmond, Va, is usually given
the credit for having the first CONNER
cially successful traction system. A test
of the first car was made after dark
one night, early in 1888 Much to the
inventors relief, 1t climbed the test hill
successfully. But the victory was not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21

public institution in New York. Incl
dentally the precedent then established
OF the scent fare persisted for almost
40 years, and was finally the cause of
much Of the industry,s difficulties in
recent years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
BANKERS PAY BONUS.

NEW YORK, December 20 Especially.
ii. Henry Schroeder Banking Corpora
ton will pay the usual Christmas bonus
based upon period Of service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1880 TO DATE

w & CO. Washn D.
W, 1s
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PUBLIC UTILITIES.
MIsCELLANEOU

$500 Barber g. Ross, Inc, Gas, 1895 49,.
1l,So0 Columbia Country Club 5l7s, 1850 49,.
5000 District Of Col. Paper MfE. LIST IS, 1887
1000 Potomac Joint Stock Land Bank Sc, 1913
1000 washington Cons. Title IS, 1851.
1000 WASHINGTON Market IS, 1898. ..........
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10 PER GENT BONUS VOTED.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., December 20.
Directors of Hudson County Nation
al Bank of Jersey City have voted a
10 per cent bonus to all officers and
EMPLOYEES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-21
EARNINGS REPORTED.

NEW YORK, December 20 (P1.-Per
share earnings of corporations report
ing this week, with comparisons with
last year. include:
Putnam patriot., 1930-05-29
Abingdon

Mr. Warren is confined to his home by illness.
 Mr. and Mrs. James McKeon were visitors Saturday in Manchester.
 Mir. and Mrs. James Watson and Mrs. Ida Watson spent Sunday in Providence.
 Mrs. Rose Tetreault and daughter attended the wedding of relative in Putnam Tuesday.
 The little son of Mir. and Mrs. Paul Mondor is a patient at the Day Kim ball Hospital with mastoid trouble.
 Mrs. Leon Chovette, 64, died Sun day morning at her home here, after being in poor health for some time. She is survived by her husband and one daughter.
 About twenty young people held q social and dance in the barn of Will liam Yeomans on Monday evening. Refreshments were cookies and lemon ade. the music was furnished by Vie trola. During the evening Wilbur Cornell was surprised with hand some Maybasket.
 Memorial day exercises will be held at Pomfret this year at the memorial boulder Friday afternoon at 3.i5 d. g. {. Ice cream and cake will be serv- ed Co all the children that attend. at Allard's store. In case of rain ex- ercises will be at the Congregational church.