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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
LAYOFFS FOLLOW
PAY CUT AT THE
PHILA. NAVY YARD
Need to Organize Into
Militant Union
Philadelphia, Pa.


Daily Worker:
Hoover and the Navy Department
have enacted wage cut in the ma
chine department Of the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard. About 100 mechan-
les and 20 helpers were affected by
the cut
OF the 100 mechanics a number Of
first class mechanics we're cut to Sec
ord class, 8S to SO cents per hour
A number Of second class were cut
10 third class mechanics 80 to 7e
cents per hour. A number OF third
class mechanics were reduced to
helpers. Among these were many
apprentice graduates who served
their time in the Philadelphia Navy
yard. They were cut from Is cents
b 81 cents per hour. At these re-
duced rates they are doing evens the
many of them were cut to helpers. the
foremost work. They are also being
sped UP just the same.
MANY Ady-ultss
Eighteen helpers were laid off al
together to make room for the third
class men. This is just a start and
Ia the first department. to get the
cut. Others will follow.
Iaais is the same policy as adopted
this country are adopting: reduction
cs the standard OF living Of the work
ers and increase of appropriations
for the War Department for prepa-
ration for another war.
This is the sraae policy as adopted
on an international scale by all cap
italist countries of the world,
Navy yard worker, the only man-
ner in which to fight these wage
cuts, unemployment, and for better
conditions, is TO organize into real
revolutionary fighting trade union
and fight. That Union is the Metal
Workers industrial League affiliated
to the Trade Union Unity League.
IN. Y. Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Coin MillInetS'
Youth, Health
In to Profits
New York

New YORK.
To the Editor of the Daily Worker:
We read about Speed-up in the
Daily but sometimes I wonder whe-
ther those who describe it and call
on the workers to fight it really know
what it is. In the millinery shop
where I work there is a speed up the
like of which I have never seen. 1t
is indescribable. Can you imagine a
movie reel that is run off about ten
times the regular rate of speed. That
almost describes it.
One girl, cutter, has developed
the st. Vitus dance. Another girl
who used to be very pretty a few
years ago is pale and haggard and
has lost every vestige of her good
looks She is not the only one. All
the girls look pale and weary a. the
end of the day. Capitalism robs the
working girl of youth and beauty.
The bosses convert the energy and
beauty of workingclass youth into
cash.
Victims of Speed-up.
The girls have to hide the ravages
of the speed up with paint and
powder.
Fellow workers, victims of the
speed up, the pace which we are
forced to work is killing us. 1t not
only robs us of what is our natural
rights but makes it more impossible
to make a decent living. The milli-
pers who are unemployed are used
against us. The dog of a forewoman
is always reminding us that if we're
not satisfied there are others who
will be. We must organize into the
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union and fight under the
slogan of the 7-hour 5-day week.
-Milliner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
~ ~>::;~12r Factory Towns viii
See Feb. 10 Demonstrations

ming, ziegler reported as to what had
taken place at the meeting with the
city commission. Hypocritically the
commission agreed with the demands
lin principle" and that sit would be
a good thing to give unemployment
insurance" and that it would con-
slider the paying OF cash for city re-
lief labor instead of script" but that
it didn't see how it could raise the
funds" 1t is clear, that the city
commission got scared by the mass
demonstration outside, and probably
it really will be forced to come
across with some of our demands.
The demonstration followed a very
enthusiastic unemployed meeting held
here on Tuesday where a delegate
was elected to go to Washington to
present the petitions of the Grand
Rapids workers for the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill. Over 400
workers were present at the meeting.
One Of the outstanding features of
both the meeting and the demon
stration was the participation of
many young workers who also signed
up for the unemployed councils.
Demands of the Grand Rapids
demonstrators include transfer to an
unemployment relief fund of the ST.
100000 bond issue now meant for
building a new city hall, payment Of
$40 week unemployment relief, pay
ment Of some relief to part-time
workers, the 35-hour week and 81 an
hour minimum wage for employed
workers, and the usual demands
against eyictions, for free light and
heat, free fare for unemployed work.
ers' school children, no evictions or
foreclosures, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

MOSCOW, Jan. 31.-While the
American bosses are cutting down
the food supply of the workers, as
shown particularly in the II per cent
drop in the meat consumption in the
U. S. during December, here in the
Soviet Union, the food industry is
being rapidly expanded tc raise the
standard of living of the workers.
This is particularly true of the sugar,
canned food, and other industries.
Before the Revolution there existed
a small sugar industry in the terri
tory which is now the Soviet Union.
However, its equipment was very
primitive and out of date. Such
branches of the foodstuffs industry
as canned products, pastrymaking,
starch and syrup production we're re-
presented only by small undertakings,
Since the Revolution the situation
has changed fundamentally and par
ticularly rapid progress has been
made since the beginning of 1880.
The raw materials of the sugar in
dustry in 1880 were two-thirds pro-
vided by the State farms and collec-
tive agricultural undertakings. IS
million cwts. of sugar were produced
as against million cwts. in 1929. In
1891 the production of sugar is to
reach 27 million cwts,, or one million
higher than the production originally
laid down in the Five-Year Plan for
the last year of the plan.
The canned products industry
has made even greater progress. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

The comrades in Los Angeles, Cal.
are evidently Indifferent to the Daily
Worker, the present $4,000 circulation
campaign, and the connection be-
tween the paper and the masses
Bobbie> Hall, section Daily Worker
representative, writes about the al
most complete inactivity of the Par
ty members in the Daily Worker
drive:
"Things are In mess right now.
There was so much to be done and
not so many that would do it.
There was a Daily Worker COM
mittee organized. think it will
function. 1t is the last thing
thought of in this section - the
Daily. can't get a Party member
to take the Daily to the factory
gates to SELL
Leading fullctionaries In the Cali
fornia district have failed to GRASP
the Importance of day-to-day factory
sales of the Daily Worker; of house
toulouse canvassing for subscrip-
lions; of a functioning Red Builders
News Club on the streets of Los An
geles. In the Unemployment cam
paign, in the Lenin Recruitment
drive, in hunger marches and de-
monstrations, when the Daily Worker
should flood the factories and work
ingclass neighborhoods, Los Angeles
shows a glaring lack of understand
ing by its failure to strengthen the
machinery in the sections and units
for Daily Worker sales.
This letter from Bobbie Hall
comes one month after a previous
report on a general membership
meeting called for the Unemployed
and the Daily Worker. at which the
national representative of the
DAILY" Comrade Feldman. was
refused the floor by both the chair
man and section organizer. Only
by taking ten minutes of the Daily
Worker representatives time was
she allowed to speak. At another
meeting, when funds for the Daily
were collected, the Organizer Sec
rotary demanded the money to pay
for musicians Of a Trade Union
Unity League dance which the po-
lice broke up,
Leading comrades In Los Angeles
should check up, down to the units
on the looseness toward the Daily
Worker campaign, and give direct
assistance and cooperation to the
Daily Worker Committee just orga-
nized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
FORD TO TOUR
OHIO FOR lid

CLEVELAND, Feb, III. o. Ford,
member of the Communist Party and
other militant labor organizations,
including the International Labor
Defense, will tour the Cleveland Dis
trict for the !. L. D.
Comrade Ford has recently been
found guilty on RED Flag case" in
Newark, O.. and faces long prison
term. He was arrested while speak
ing at Communist Party mass
meeting in that city, and for having
said among other things that, II pre-
fer the workers flag to the capt.
: talist flag"
While on his tour, Ford will speak
to hundreds of steel, rubber and
either workers In the heavy industries
in this district, about the class ma
ture Of his case and that of many
hundreds of workers now facing the
same charges. He will try to mobilize
the workers to fight for the repeal
of the criminal syndicalist law and
for the immediate release of all
working class prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Gary Steel Workers Resist Police
Attack on Jobless Demonstration

alton and the other is pregnant.
Every effort to get them bailed out
or even get them doctors care has
resulted in flat refusal.
Those arrested were Stella, Dora,
May and Sam chappa, Ora Thomas,
John Rusek, John Gusby, Igi Re-
braca, and Sam Langford. The In
ternational Labor Defense is prepar-
ing a mass protest meeting for next
week and rallying workers to demand
their release.
All efforts are now being made To
bold successful demonstration Fep-
ruary 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

'tle main shops WOrk only 20 hours d
week. Those still working hours
have only three days week.
Only Beginning of More.
The workers of the American Bridge
Co. know that this wage cut is only
the beginning of a series of wage cuts
already prepared for us by the greedy
profit makers, the American Bridge
bosses,
The workers of the American Bridge
were always told by the bosses that
the Bridge works is an outstanding
example of prosperity in Ambridge.
Yes, 1T is an example Of prosperity,
but prosperity for whom? For the
workers the American Bridge Co. is
an example of utter misery and
starvation. Just like the rest Of the
steel companies the American Bridge
Co. is utilizing the starvation of the
Ambridge unemployed to cut the
wages of those still employed.
Organize Now!
But we thesworkers of the American
Bridge know well enough that if we
accept this wage cut row it means
that another one will inevitably fol-
low, We must begin a determined
fight against lowering our wages now.
Organized in the Metal Workers In
dustrial League we will be able to
smash the wage cuts.
The M. w. I. L. is carrying on a
big campaign among the steel work
ers here to smash the wage cuts. A
shop local of the League has already
been established in the American
Bridge Co. The workers must join
the M. w, I. L. Onl:' thru militant
union of the steel workers will the
workers be able to demand an imme-
date wage increase and other de-
mards Of the steel workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

mortgaged to the hilt, Small farm
ers owe more than they can pay,
even IL they get a crop this year"
In the meantime, admits the same
1ispatoh, with or without the seed
loan, they starve unless the Red Cross
or some other agency feeds them"
The boss press is, of course, opposed
to any form Of decent, self-respect-
ing relief by means of payment of
adequate relief by the government, on
the lines demanded by the Commu-
mist Party and the revolutionary trade
unions, and puts the whole question
of saving these starving poor farm
ers and share troopers and their FAM
lilies on the basis of charity hand
outs by the Red Cross or other char
ity takers whose relief consists in
serving scrimpy meals at a layout
of 8 cents a meal.
Fear Bloodshed.
In many sections conditions are so
bad that the bosses are fearing food
riots if the Red Gross does not come
in with it's Scent meal "relief" and
its lying promises. Bankers in the
three counties OF st. Francis, Crit
tenden and Gross, where more than
two-thirds of the population are
forced to exist on Red Cross starva-
ton rations, admit that "there would
have been bloodshed here if the Red
Cross had not interviewed"
These same bosses are forced to
admit that the families receiving Red
Cross laid" are still starving:
Not that families are geeting a
ration which would be looked upon
in normal times as sufficient"
Many families are existing ON
hickory nuts. Children are kept from
school because they have no shoes
or clothing. This is particularly true
Of Negro children, many of whom
have to stay indoors in an effort to
keep warm.
Even the feed for the animals
government refuses food for human
beings-has been limited and horses
and mules are daily dropping dead.
This is a terrible misfortune to the
poor farmers and share troopers who
are dependent upon their mules and
horses for ploughing. Many large
corporations own land upon which
live stock is dying. They let their
tenants assume the entire burden.
Open admission that the Negroes
and many whites are living in actual
slavery is made by the Times dis
patch:
"The share croppcr made moth
ing last year, owes the planter for
his food and clothing and must
work II out this year. The share
cropper can't move TO another
plantation unles his debts are as
sumed by the new planter"
This, as pointed out frequently by
the Daily Worker, means nothing
less than selling the worker, and Is
slavery. This Is admitted by the
Times dispatch, which further says:
'What the share cropper. tenant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
FATAL PRE-WAR COMPETITION IS
BEGINNING AGAIN." ADMITS LORD
IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT DEBATE
Tries to Justify Air Armament by Fact That
All Capitalist Powers Rush to War

Debates in the House of Lords in England Thursday con-
corning preparations showed how rapidly the mperast
preparing to plunge the workers into another
slaughter The for the discussion the Forthcoming
disarmament conference of the League of Nations How
much disarmament this conference will discuss already
Indicated by the action of the London Naval Conference which
rushed naval building and by the work of the preliminary
conference of the League of Nations disarmament meetings
when the proposals of Lvnn Soviet delegate for immediate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
WORKERS SUB
FUND NEEDED

Mrs. H. j., of Pearson, Wash, some
time ago sent in monthly subscrip-
tons. Now she writes:
II have asked for a renewal.
They cannot subscribe. They still
get the Daily and they all read 1t,
but cannot subscribe TO II, so II is
up to you whether you wish 10 send
the paper to them or not"
We want to continue sending them
the Daily. Seven Daily Worke,
readers in town like Pearson are
valuable. But we will be forced t.
drop them from the list unless some
workers, who can afford to contri-
butte toward the Workers SUI Iund
will keep them on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Smash Gary Demonstration.

Smash Gary Demonstration.
GARY, Ind, Feb. by full
mobilization of all city police in adj
dition to the special police of the
steel companies, the demonstration OF
unemployed workers, held here Jan
%, was finally broken up after nine
arrests.
Singing out the leaders Of the I'M
employed for arrest, the steel trust
thugs jumped upon and brutally beat
up two women workers and three
others who came to their defense.
Both of the women are now in a
very serious condition due to the fact
that one has just had a major oper-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
INDUSTRIAL DISEASES

1t is estimated that 100000 per-
sons in the United States die from
starvation every year. This death
toll comes mostly fro mthe ranks OF
the working class, a great many OF
those who succumb being children
who have to work in the factories
or whose parents are impoverished
by exploitation.
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disarmament. were rejected fatty by
the imperialiSt powers.
Viscount Cecil, one of the speak
ers in the debate said that the fatal
pre-war competition was beginning
again" He justified the air anna-
mentS of Britain, saying:
Every increased expenditure is
justified by the air minister by COM
parison with the expenditure by
other countries on their air forces
So long as that state of things con-
tinues, it cannot be said that peace
is secured"
All the imperialist powers try to
justify their rapid war preparations
by the action of their leading compc-
titors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
THANKS DAILY FOR
CONTINUING SUB

1t took one month for MSS, Of
Detroit, Mich, to get his bank to re-
new his lost check for Daily Work
er subscription. He writes:
Il can hardly describe how thank
full 1 am that you didn't stop the
Daily Worker because in all this time
it would mean to me as if 1 were
without eyes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
$500 Demonstrate,

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. L.
Over $500 jobless workers Of this city
demonstrated at the city hall Jan %
demanding $40 a week cash relief for
the jobless, and the abolition Of pay
ment for work with script to work.
ers hired by the city. The Demon
stration was preceded by Hunger
Marches from various parts of the
city, organized by the Unemployed
Councils in those sections. Many
who saw the demonstration estimate
the numbers at 5000 to 5000. Grand
Rapids is a furniture manufacturing
city of about 100000 inhabitants.
Conn acted as chairman of the
demonstration; other speakers were
Ramp for the T. U. U. L., Mary
Himoff, who presente dand took the
vote on the demands, Brown and
ziegler. Faulkner spoke, represent
ing the poor farmers in the vicinity
of the city. A mighty faye" greeted
the proposals of the unemployed
councils. The workers elected COM
mittee, headed by ziegler, to present
the demands to the city commission.
At mass meeting the same eve
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Hours and Wages Of Ambridge Steel
Workers Cut to the Bone; Men Start
Organizing to Fight Back Attacks
Metal Trades Workers Industrial League Now
Active in Organizing Steel Workers
Ambridge, Pa.

The Ambridge Steel corporations cutting the of
the steel workers right and left Just the other day series of
sashng wage cuts took place the American Bridge Co. which
belongs to the United Steel Corp of Andrew Mellon.
In the period of months three cuts took place here
First when the hours cut from 10 to g. then from to
and the hours cut again to g. While they cut the
hours in half the wages were increased which
SO percent cut wages More than half of the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Form Tarrytown Jobless Council
In Spite Of Police Terrorism

TfRRYTOWN, N. Y, Feb. 1.-The
cl;ief of police of North Tarrytown,
vicious bully named Murphy. tried
to terrorize the foreign born workers
from attending the first meeting,
Friday, of the Unemployed Council,
by der'onding to know their nation
atty, etc. His bluste ing failed to
daunt the workers, who remained
seated
Murphy then threatened the hall
owner. and insisted that q permit be
g)c before the meeting could open.
The organizer for the Trade Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

and small farmer have been living
under for years, Is nothing less
than slavery"
WASHINGTON. - Oscar DePriest
from Chicago, Negro Congressman
attended q White House reception
the night Of Jan. 20. Next day he
spoke four minutes In the House In
support Of the Hoover machines pro-
gram Of killing the s25.ooo.ooo fed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

eral appropriation for food "relief''
for starving farm families and the
unemployed.
He boosted OF the efficiency OF
charity this winter in Chicago, said
he was mot for the dole in America"
although he represented more poor
people than anyone here" and hypo-
critically advised every city and state
to take care Of its own poor. 4.
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UONTINtED FROM PAGE ONEp
The mass meeting was addressed by
the secretary of the Metal Workers
Industrial League and the result is
formation of shop and departmental
groups of the employed, as we'll as
councils of the unemployed, to join
in struggle not only for unemploy-
ment relief, but against wage cuts
and bad conditions of the employed.
In every industrial center this COM
bined front of the employed and I'M
employed must be built up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Los Angeles Functiona1ies
Shoav Gross egligence Toward
10000 Circulation Campaign

Calendars just received and was
the closing argument in getting a
6 months sub instead of one
month SUBJ"
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Unity League then went to the VII
laGe Hall, to see whether such per-
nit was necessary. A few minutes
later, Murphy came in the village
hall, and seeing his chance, struck
the organizer across the face, and
Murphy ard another bull then threw
him out the door.
Murphy did not dare do this In the
presence Of the workers. In fact
while the organizer was away, he
begged tn eaudience to put their
knives away" (they didn't have any,
but he was afraid. And he prom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
DAILY" CALENDAR
SWINGS ARGUMENT

Neil OBJ, section Daily Worker
representative of Milwaukee, Wis.
writes:
Enclosed find money order for
six months sub. This subscriber
was given one Of the new Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02
Council Bluffs, la.
Organizes Council
Council Bluffs Council.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Feb. L.
About 125 workers turned out to a
meeting here last Tuesday to discuss
the question of unemployment. The
meeting was called by some local
workers who had banded together
in an organizat ton called the Workers
Defense League against Unemploy-
ment.
John Dawson, Omaha organizer OF
the Communist Party, took the floor,
and outlined the Trade Union Unity
League program for unemployment
relief activity and for national un-
employment insurance The workers
responded with such tremendous en-
thuSiasm that the few local takers
present did not dar" to open up, but
sat there quietly without making any
counter-proposals.
1t was decided to hold an organ-
ization meeting tomorrow to estab-
fish local unemployed council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02

Protect the foreign born. Elect
delegates to N. Y. Conference Feb.
at the Irving Plaza.
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SENDS 8 SUBS;
WANTS MORE LISTS

Enclosed find check for 81 for a
half year sub for myself and month
each for s. and r. If you send me
another list ! think I can get a few
more readers"
Il. H., Detroit, Mich.
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