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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
BANK us. OUT
LOOK VERY BAD
State Examiner Tries
to Cover Up Mess

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
cent. 1t is clear from the above
that the depositors will have to or
ganize and carry on a fight so that
the worker depositors will be paid
first and in full. The date of the
mass meeting will be announced
later.
Fifteen more banks crashed Mon
day, most of them in the South and
West. In North Carolina, near Char
lotte and astonia, eleven banks closed
their doors. Sums running into the
millions were involved. The num-
Der closed SO far this year is we'll
over 800 with over half a billion de-
posits. Two banks closed in Holly
wood within the last few days.
Joseph A. Broderick, Tammany
bank examiner. who is deep in the
bank scandal mess, which led to the
closing of the Bank of the United
States, is attempting to answer some
of the embarrassing questions that
are being asked of him in connection
with the Tammany grafters' COM
plicity in this bank failure.
He absolutely refuses to state what
the outlook is for the depositors. He
denies that h eever said that they
would get back 100 cents ON the doll
lar of their deposits. The fact is
this Tammany faker knows pretty
well how conditions are but refuses
to divulge them as there will be con-
sternation among the 100000 depos-
itors.
He fails to answer why the Walker
administration puts $2,5oO,ooO in the
bank in an attempt to bolster it up
and save the scandal for the Tam
many administration that would fol-
low printing of the inside dope.
From Broderick's lame attempt to
cover up the rottenness of the bank
situation it should be plain to every
worker that they will not get their
deposits returned in full unless they
organize in hundreds Of thousands
and take effective action to gain their
demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
TENANTS UNITE
WITH STRIKERS
Building Maintenance
Men Resist Lay-Off

NEW YORK.-The Building Main
tenance Workers Union on Monday
called a strike at 1900 Seventh Ave.
formerly known as the Unity Co
operative" to enforce existing agree
ments between the leasee of the
building and the union.
The shop chairman was notified by
the boss that they were laying off
80 per cent of the workers and that
if the shop committee did. not agree
they would lock them out. The shop
committee rejected the proposal and
the bosses locked the workers out and
refused to pay the wages that are
due.
Tenants Join Struggle.
The Tenants League Of 1900 Sew
enth Ave. has protested against the
lockout.
The bosses, seeing the united front
of the tenants and the strikers, have
stated that they will go into bank
ruptcy. The union is preparing to
meet any situation.
The proprietors at 1900 7th Ave.
after having collected 80 per cent Of
the rent, have given up responsibility
in the care of the houses, thereby
exposing some $50 to 200 tenants to
extreme cold and unsanitary condi-
tons At meeting on Sunday eve
ming the tenants organized into a
tenants league and elected a COM
nittee to draw up demands which
include sanitary conditions, against
discrimination in rentals, to maintain
the full staff Of workers, etc.
The demands were rejected but the
proprietors proposed that the COM
mittee work hand in hand with them
to realize sum of $500 accrued
rental due from months ago to date
and thereby maintain service until
to the original owners. the Park Es-
the house is definitely handed over
tates Corporation, 485 Madison Ave.
The proprietors proposed the COM
the restaurant at 1900 Seventh Ave.
mittee help pay $500 to the owner of
The committee fatty refused, The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

metropolitan territory Is afforded
by the city of Berlin. The perfect
distribution of the paper by the
revolutionary news vendors has
raised the circulation of Welt Am
Abend' Evening World, published
by the Communist Party in Berlin,
to the position of Berlin's leading
evening paper and to the envy of
the bourgeois press.
"The fascist, in attempting to irni7
a. M; from there we are sent to diff
Party, are meeting the organized re-
sistance of Berlin's working class
They are forced to sneak out under
heavy protection. These enemies OF
the workers are finding their sup
port only among the petty-b our-
geoisie."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
BUFFALO JOBLESS
COUNCIL ACTIVE
Fighting for Real job
less Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

BUFFALO, N. Y.-The members OF
the Unemployed Council are busily
engaged in collecting signatures for
the endorsement Of the Social Insur-
ance Bill. They are circulating the
lists among the unemployed workers
at the Broadway Auditorium, in the
Erie County Lodging House and other
places where the unemployed gather.
Every one Of them is signing the
petition willingly for they are sick
and tired of the charity they receive
in form Of soup" at the municipal
SOUP kitchens. They are rallying in
ever larger numbers the leadership
of the Unemployed Council to fight
for $25 a week, for decent lodging
houses, for free gas, electric and rent
for the unemployed, for work on
union wages. for an appropriation OF
a $lo0oo,ooo fund to aid the unen,-
ployed, for free hot lunch and new
Clothing for the children Of the I'M
employed and the other demands put
forward by the Unemployed Council.
The council meets every Monday,
wednesday and Friday at 2 p. m. at
the workers Center SO Clinton st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Pay Cut Looms
at the Federal
Knitting Mills
(By a Worker Correspondentl


CLEVELAND, o. - The Federal
Knitting Mills Go. of Cleveland en-
ploys about 500 women. 1t is located
on West 29th and Detroit AYES. A
woman working in this factory tells
of some OF the plans being used to
cut the wages and how the conditions
are growing unbearable.
Last year she says. when they
worked a full week they were able
to make around $4,000 a week. Plenty
of orders we're coming in so there
was plenty OF work for all. Now If
they get full weeks work that is
if sufficient orders come in; they con-
slider themselves lucky to make $l4.00
week and they work twice as fast
Sometimes they don't make that
much.
Must Wait for Work.
There is no guaranteed wage. All
is counted on piece work and if or
ders do not come in then yeu don't
get anything. And in order to make
sure that you will make something
the women come in everyday and sit
around eagerly waiting to be called
on to work. This worker went to the
shop last week every day. She spent
carefare and took the lunches along
and stayed in the shop with the hope
something might turn up for her to
do. The week passed. She got her
pay check, And the envelope con-
tanned s1.6l.
The workers at Federal Knitting
have been informed that they are
going to get another wage cut after
the first of the year. Last year the
women of this factory went on strike
for about an hour. The company
was going to introduce a new meth
cd of speed-up and the women
walked out. They were out about al,
hour and then were told that they
could work on the old method. Since
then however wage cuts have beer
taking place till the workers cannot
even make so percent Of what they
did before.
They are expecting a 10 percent
wage cut, and one working woman
says she does not think the workers
will stand for it. This is job TO
us in Cleveland--What are we goinE
to do about it?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
CLASHES BETWEEN WORKERS AND
FASCISTS INCREASE IN GERMANY
Young Worker Murdered in Cologne by Fas-
cists; Fascist Confesses Killing
Reformists Try to Betray Striking Milk Com
pany Workers in Berlin

Collisions took place in Berlin be-
tween Reichsbanner and Communists
Two Reichsbannermen were injured
and IT Communists were arrested.
Reformist trade union leaders are
negotiating to call off the dairy
workers -trike in the Bolle firm, as
the ballot on the revised arbitration
decision providing for a three per
cent wage cut on January 18th in
stead of the former decision OF six
per cent, allegedly failed to yield the
necessary two-thirds majority to con-
tinue the strike. The revolutionary
opposition is organizing the strikers
against the reformist treachery.
Yesterdays shop committee cleo
lions in the Berlin post offices gave
the revolutionary list 965; reformistS
585; fascists, 118; Christian unions
IL votes.
The results represent great revolu'
tionary gains at the expense of the
reformists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
JOBS WITH NO PAY
OFFERED IN CALF.
Breadlines for the Job
less Also
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy VOtANA iva SSPONNNsN~ND
OAKLAND, Calif.-For the benefit
of workers in the East who do not
know anything about California, ex-
cept what they read in the daily
papers and magazines and perhaps
are under the impression that this
State flows with milk and honey,
want to call your attention to
another of our glorious institutions,
namely the Free Employment Office.
This morning two jobs were placed
on the blackboard as follows: Elderly
man, for ctaorwork, steady. S. per
month and board. Man to do porter
work, run elevator, room only. won
der II they think that Free employ
ment once means that they can get
workers to work free" (without pay).
We are blessed with two breadlines
here. Food CD supplied by Mer-
chants Association. and served by
Salvation Army. After indulging in
singing "Our Land Of Liberty % and
little prayer two nice policemen
protect you while eating so you see
we are well fed here, one meal a
day yardfull Of boxcars and. lest
we forget, promises from Mayor
Davies that Oakland will spend two
million dollars in 1885.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
JOBLESS CONFERENCES RALLY
ADDITIONAL FORCES IN MINNESOTA
1900 Signatures on Demands for National I'm
employment Insurance in Minneapolis;
Organization of Councils Proceeds

the city situation and expects to take
over the district Labor Unity work
also. John Hetry. a railroad worker.
is our newly elected city T. u. U. l..
organizer. We have set up strong
city committee under whose direc-
ton the various organizing commit
tees and leagues will work.
1--WE have called together sympa-
thetic organizations here in Mime
apolis and have formed a United
Front Conference for the purpose OF
aiding the T.. U. U. L. financially
This conference has arranged an af-
fair for Saturday, Jan. "a, at Hum
boldt Hall, corner of Humboldt and
Glenwood. The tickets, publicity,
ETC., connect with the Unemployment
Insurance Bill and Immediate Re-
lief Campaign.
Swedish, Polish Workers.
1.-THE Swedish and Polish workers
form a big section of the working
class here. We are now beginning
to reach these groups in the present
campaign. I am scheduled to speak
at the, Swedish Workers Educatiena,
Club | 10.
with gard to the denlonstra-
tons we ave had during the past
few days, we are emphasizing the
necessity for immediate organisa.
tional results from this activity.
by-product of this activity in Mime,
apolis is the result of our exposure
of rotten conditions at the missions
and other Charity organization
places.
"City inspectors have been running
around to these places the last few
days, and a number of the unem
| ployed came up and told us that the.
now receive card emitting then
to 81 meals and bed for seven night
at the cheap hotels"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Lists in Circulation for
2 Million Jobless Names

tional Campaign Committee for Un-
employment Relief show new sections
of the country drawn into the strug-
gle.
Rochester is organizing its sigma
ture drive. ~
Metal workers in Chicago Heights
have undertaken campaign for sig
natures,
A letter from Reno. New, informs
the National Campaign Committee
that railroad workers and section
hands are being astivized by an in
terested sympathizer.
Rockford, Ill, intends carrying on
a city-wide drive and cities in Ala
barna, North Carolina, Virginia, Loui-
siana, have written for directives and
lists.
Riesel, Tex; Phoenix, Ariz.: Ashby
Mimi, and many other small indus
trial centers in the West have desig-
mated their willingness to help ir
the demand for the passage of the
proposed unemployment insurance
bill by Congress. From the latter
city, small farming community, 6
letter states:
"Let me know what I can do tt
help carry forward the fight for un.
employment insurance? This is the
greatest need at this hour. I am the
only reader of the Daily Worker here
in Ashby, Mimi, and am one of foul
Communist votes cast here in the
elections. am woman of 60 years
living on land; pass out all m!
Daily Workers to neighbors and an
getting new subscribers. Will helI
all can to get signatures for thu
bill"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Dec. To-
Conferences to establish city COM
mittees to carry on the campaign OF
the unorganized for relief and insur-
ance and against evietions are taking
place in this district this week. There
is intensive organizational work and
plans for hunger marches on the city
halls are under way. There is a
drive for collection of signatures for
the Workers Unemployed Insurance
Bill, to take over the war funds OF
the national government and addt-
tional sums and establish an unem-
ployment insurance fund of $5,o00,-
100000 to give each jobless worker
$25 a week insurance.
The Minneapolis City Conference
united front of many workers or
CARNATIONS. was held Bee. IA. A sim
liar conference will be held in Duluth
635 w. Superior Ave, on Dec. 81. St
Paul workers and jobless are arrang-
lIlS tllelI CO1llCl C14CC.
The unemployment organization
and signature drive connects directly
with the organization work of the
Trade Union Unity League.
1000 Signatures.
George Powers, T. U. U. l.. secre.
tary at Minneapolis, reports that
1000 signatures have already beer
collected and that 10000 minimum
will be collected in another two
weeks. He states;
"Our unemployed work in connec'
ton with both the campaign for i'm
mediate relief and the enactment o
the bill is now on a much better
basis than previously. We now hav'
functioning councils in Minneapolis
st. Paul and Duluth. In each O.
these cities our demands are befor,
the city authorities and we are carry
ing on 'follow-up' policy, being
present at each committee and sub
committee meeting of the city coun
Gil to which the demands are re
ferred. During the past week W
gained 40 new members for the coun
ellis Of unemployed in st. Paul and S
in Minneapolis. The reports from
Duluth are not yet in"
"We have taken immediate step
to draw these elements into the worl
of building the shop and factory com
n,ittees in the selected plants in &C
cord with the plan of action of TIL
T.. U. U. l.. We find that there wa
much confusion about the difference
between league, organizing commit
tees, shop committees and shop 10
Gals. We have set up three organ
izing committees in Minneapolis. TO
the 500. Milwaukee r. r. shops an
Gold Medal Flour, respectively. A
we 60 further we will establish sim
liar committees for textile and needl
industries at selected points. TIL
same line is being developed in othe
cities. We are driving hard at tn
A. F. Of L., hammering away at tn
local meetings, where in several case
our delegations received very cor
dial welcome. despite the attempt
of the takers to keep us out.
New Forces.
"We are drawing in new forces
Charles Frazer, active on the Unen1
ployed Council, is our new Labc
Unity agent, address 244 Third Ave
South. Comrade Frazer is handlir
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
AKRON TO ORGANIZE
DAILY WORKER CLUE

An Akron Daily Worker Club will
be organized this Monday, Dec. %
at 7:3O p. m, at the Workers Unity
Center, 9 West Bartges, Akron, Ohio.
All readers of the Daily Worker are
urged to attend.
The main task will be to con-
slider methods of how to strength
en- the Daily Worker so that it will
be a better organizer for the rub
her workers in Akron as well as
other shops. The building of a
Workers correspondence movement
in the shops will also be a major
task.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
aid" IS ADVICE
TO LIVE CHEAPER
Tammany Drives on
Living Standards
(By a Worker Correspondents

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Just TO show
the workers of the United States
that unemployment and evictions are
not confined to the slums Of the vari-
Gus cities, but are also seen in the
healthful resorts of the cities. Who
would ever think that Brighton
Beach, with all its marvellous apart
ment houses where rents vary from
$50 to $3.50 for three rooms, would
have evictions and misery? When
people come to Brighton Beach. to
it's beautiful boardwalk, they do not
see what is going on among the
workers Just two blocks away from
the boardwalk.
Injured, Is Jobless.
A worker, a steel worker by trade
found himself unable to work because
of an injury he received on the job
Many months have passed and this
worker, Berger by name, who has 8
children to support, is still without
WOIk, dltllOuSli itc 10 PAiJ0iSNAJ WV
to work.
Like many other cases the renl
falls due. Had it not been for the
measly wages his wife earns the fam.
lily would have been evicted long ago
But this time there was no money
for rent.
He went to the mayors committee
(so-called) for help. After inquirins
for the proper person to interview, h
finally was seated before an Irish
politician, to whom he had to tel
his troubles, which he did. The poll
tician asked the question: "Hov
much rent do you pay9"
"Forty-six dollars month"
'Well, you don't have to live II
such expensive rooms"
alright" said the worker, "if yot
give me $50 I'll move into cheaper
rooms
Then the politician said: "Oh, no
1; you get flat for $40 it is still
little high"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

roller, S--r0ller helper.
This crew got crew wage that
was divided amongst the crew. Out
side of this there was a polisher and
q piler, who we're paid extra by the
company. The first change thar was
made was to add the polisher to the
crew and the crew price was raised
only with the wages of the doubler
at the expense of the rest OF the
workers.
Against this change the workers
protested by spontaneous strike in
January, 1929. But the leaders OF
the American Federation OF Labor
convinced the men to go back to
work under the old system while ne
getiations were carried on. The
workers went back and in two weeks
the change was introduced with the
sanction Of the A. F. Of l..
The New System.
But the bosses of the Seneca Steel
Mill were not satisfied with this
wage-cut that was put over. They
wanted more and more profits.
So they introduced the so-called
Double Mill System" According to
this, one crew is roughing and the
other is finishing all the time. In
stead OF one crew of eight men two
crews we're organized-the roughing
crew with 5 men and the finishing
crew with 6 men. These eleven men
with the introduction Of the packed
furnace instead of the open furnace
produced twice as much as 8 mer
before.
This naturalization is the reason
why 500 men were laid off alto
gether and the rest of the workers
are working two or three days
week.
One can paint picture for him
self of the terrible speed-up intro.
duced if we take, for instance, the
knilling department, where before
workers made 6 boxes in one day ant
at the present time 4 workers arr
making 10 boxes day.
| Workers Must Organize.
The workers Of the Seneca Stee
Mill, due to the agitation Of the en-
lightened workers in the mill, star
to realize that they have to do some
thing to stop the constantly worsen
ing conditions, to get better condi
tons. They start to realize that the.
have to organize themselves into ;
! strong shop committee, into a fight
ing union. They know, by bitter ex
perience. that the American Fedora
ton of Labor is not their organiza
ton, that it does not represent them
This is the reason why they listel
with open ears to the message Of tn
Metal Workers Industrial League
which is section Of the Trade Uniol
Unity League.
A Shop Committee is actively en-
gagged in organizing the workers o
the Seneca Steel Mill to fight fo
higher wages, against the speed-ur
for the recognition Of the Shop Com
mittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
COUNCIL TO FOIL
EVICTION OF 8
Worcorr Finds Rooms
Inhabitable
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-At 222 First Ave-, a
man and wife by the name OF HAM
ilton Leggett with six children, the
youngest six months old, the Oldest
II years has been out Of work for
five months. The father is a push
cart peddler, also out of work for
six months. The family is behind
two months in rent, and the bosses
court has issued an order for their
eviction.
The Downtown Unemployed Coun-
Gil and also representative of the
Worcorrs investigated the case.
The family lives on the first floor.
Climbing the rickety stairs, they
found the place in terribly insanitary
condition on account Of lack Of re-
pairs and neglect by the landlord,
and not fit for human habitatjon.
They interviewed the workers fam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
NEW SUBS WON IN
SUPERIOR DRIVE

Superior, Wise, Is ramming a
breach in its 10000 drive quota by
using a leaflet inserted in old copies
OF the Daily Worker to explain the
role of the boss press and the Daily
Worker.
o. j. Arness writes;
I'm this distribution I secured 5
subs for one week, one monthly
sub and the promise of another sub
tomorrow. Another comrade sold
So copies of the special issue at the
T. U. U. L. Hail."
The leaflet points out that the
bosses press fights and lies in the
interests of the bosses. The Daily
Worker fights in the interests Of thu
workers and puts them wise 20 the
tricks Of the bosses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Young Workers Club
Gives "Daily" SLIGO

NEW YORK. - The Ostrolenko
Young Workers Club of New York,
which was dissolved recently decided
to turn its funds over to the Daily
Worker and the Morning Freiheit.
The Daily Worker was given s11 as
part Of the drive to save the Daily
and the remainder Of the funds was
given to the Morning Freiheit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
DESCRIBES GERMAN
CIRCULATION METHODS

Franz Lerche, gives an account OF
few methods used by the revolu-
tionary German workers to give the
Party press mass circulation.
Selling Party papers before shops
and factories has become an estab-
lished practice in Germany" he
says. 1.-THE workers have permanent
stations and regular trade. Papers
are delivered to readers and regular
routes established by comrades.
"a typical example of the effec-
tiyeness of Red Builders routes in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Gable by Inprecorr.)

BERLIN, Dec. is. Fascists at
tackled workers yesterday night at
a fascist meeting. They had prom
Used there would be discussion, but
when the workers came to discuss
they were refused permission. The
workers were outnumbered. -Four
were seriously injured. The police
sided with the fascistS.
The murder of the Young Com
munist, Craemer, of Cologne on the
7th Of December has been cleared
up. The fascist murderer who was
arrested yesterday, confessed.
Yesterday evening a. fascist seri-
ously injured Vonwinckle in a
collision between workers and fas-
cists.
Fifty-one fascists were arrested at
Frankfort yesterday night attempt
ing to hold a prohibited demonstra-
ton
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
DOUBLE MILL" SPEEDUP AT THE
SENECA STEEL CO. CUTS DOWN ON
WORKERS BUT INCREASES PROFITS
Shop Committee of the M.W.LL Organizing
the Workers for Struggle
(By a Worker Correspondent

BUFFALO N. VI think it will be interesting to the
readers of the Daily Worker know what changes took place
factory where in normal times 1000 workers used to
be employed 1t is interesting how methods OF produc
ton introduced in the steel industry to the
dons the workers and increase the profits of the BOSSES
The Old System.
Under the DID, so-caled Single Mill System in crew the
following workers working: HEATER 2par heater,
3-heaters helper thatcher, 5-doubler, 6catcher, T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

Every Party member.
every Young Communist
must sell 25 copies of the
Daily Worker before fac
tory gates each week to be
i'm GOOD standing.