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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
FRIDAY CONTRIBUTIONS LESS
THAN HALF OF THURSDAYS!

Fridays big tumble and dropped from more than 81
than half 1t dangerous drop coming
decided must be emeded at once! AT ast
1900 a day is keep the Daily Worker going.
District badly s434o Though District has
the drive because OF the response OF
districts the comrades of the New York District must
undated Double the quota by July l. must De
fell off badyony $500 This in contrast to
more than $500 the Topped to
mere not heard from at all When
totals $780, contribute only
something radically looks Ike pad case OF
hat disease: FALSE CONFIDENCE
showing little no action Only sl5o
struggle in the Pittsburgh
the for ntensyng efforts to save the Daily
10 ansas City, while minnesota IL
behind should be sendlng
action from these districts!
Thursday listed $3508 for District beside the naS
&C X This Royal s415 Mr. Rowe 3d. and
the Communist Party Unit B $685. BE-
$780, B14 $780, Az $685. Co. $40;
s2420 b. s27 AS s5415 Ais s5o6o AS
$685. B-14, 1888
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of the workers State. The Russian workers
therefore are free from capitalist exploitation.
No capitalists can live off their work. No cap
italist can refuse them work. The Russian
workers are not servants of a capitalist mas
ter-they are masters of all the available
means to sustain their lives. They use this
mastery to organize a socialist system of
economy
Under capitalism the labor necessary to
maintain society is distributed by the capital
lists They use this power to unload their share
of social labor on the shoulders of the workers.
For this Service" they collect profits from the
workers. Under socialism the labor necessary
to maintain society is distributed by the work
ers. All tolls and profits from labor are abol-
ished. Exemptions are no longer based on class
privileges but On physical disabilities.
Under capitalism every progress in the
methods of production serves the purpose of
increasing the share of the capitalist though
he does not contribute any useful labor. This
means wage-cuts, speed-up, longer hours, in
short-more intense exploitation. Under So
cialism every progress in the methods of pro-
douction serves to tighten the burden of the
workers; it serves to facilitate his work, to
shorten his working hours and to increase his
share in the social products. Labor under CAPT
talism serves the profit interests of the CAPT
talists Labor under socialism serves the
needs of scety.
But, say the capitalists, socialism kills that
motive power of all progress, it kills indvdu-
alism.
What is this capitalist individuaEsm? 1t is
the principle of everybody for himself and
the devil take the hindmost." Surely this is not
very inviting philosophy for the hindmost.
Yet it is fact that this philosophy is promul-
gated by the few that are racing ahead in
Rolls-Royces; they promulgate it for the mil
lions of workers who are chained all their lives
to the monotony of moving belt, or to the
darkess of a mine or to the hard toll in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16

make the world safe for democracy" he is al
lowed to cover his forced begging with make
believe pencil sale After a worker has helped
in 90 years of useful labor to build houses,
and when age prevents him from working he is
refused a chance to live in these houses ex-
cept if he can raise the rent by means of
charity. When the system of capitalist econ
omy forces millions out of their jobs and into
dire need because there is too much of every
thing, then these millions are referred to
charity. To add insult to injury, Herbert Hoo
yer makes speeches and writes messages about
the wonderful achievement of American capt.
talism this achievement is presented as the
successful lodging by the capitalists and the
government of all official responsibility for
the misery of the unemployed masses and as a
success in forcing these masses to take from
public charity whatever meager sustenance
they may wiring.
Free labor in capitalist America consists in
the right of the workers to be hired by the
capitalist at his price as long as the hiring
promises profit. If the prospects of profit are
absent, the capitalist has the right and the
power to refuse to hire workers. Just now the
American capitalists do not see any profit in
hiring labor. At present therefore the freedom
of labor in capitalist America means the free
dom of the American worker to starve or to
commit suicide although unsuccessful suicide
is forbidden by law; it means the freedom of
the American worker to be evicted for nom
payment of rent it means the freedom of the
American worker to see his children go hun
CRY because he cannot provide them with
enough food; it means the freedom of the
worker to be dubbed for demanding relief. In
fact it means that the American worker is so
free of everything that he has no means to
exist
In the Soviet Union on the other hand it is
the duty of everyone to perform some neces-
sary social labor. The sources of raw material
and the means of production are at the disposal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
California Restaurant Workers Slave Ii Hours
For Board and Room

him he had nothing coming and that
he had received meals and bed for
his shift.
Paid In Meals.
This is only one case. Some are
ever so much worse. Restaurants are
taking the advantage of the unen-
ployment situation by giving workers
three meals day for days slavery
others are still kindhearted enough
to pay the big sum Of 81 and meals.
Fellow workers, the only way to
eliminate this kind of slavery Is
through organization. Organize into
the Food Workers Industrial League.
affiliated with the Trade Union
Unity League, the only revolutionary
trade union controlled by the workers
themselves. Only when we food
workers join this organization and
stand side by side and fight can we
better our condition and wipe out
such systems that endorse slavery,
starvation and misery for the work
ing class. A Food Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
BY MAX BEDACHT.

But what about, forced labor in Russia?
Isn't there necessarily some fire where there is
80 much smoke?
Society cannot exist without labor except if
It goes back to the days of our anthropoid an
cestry. But the fundamentalists would never
permit that Therefore labor must remain the
only possible method of society to maintain it.
self and supply itself with all the necessities of
its life.
To answer the question of whether forced
labor exists or not, we must investigate how
the capitalists and the Soviet systems respec-
lively distribute the indispensable labor among
its members.
In capitalist America the means of produc-
ton needed by society are owned and operated
privately and for private profit.
In the Soviet Union the means of production
needed by society are owned and operated by
society and for the benefit of society.
In capitalist America the rich owners of the
means of production are exempting themselves
from the social service of labor.
In the Soviet Union, only the sick, the dis
abled and the children are exempt from this
service.
In capitalist America the many workers
work for the enrichment of the few capitalists
The capitalists live off the labor of the work
ers.
In the Soviet Union everybody works for the
benefit of everybody. The few remaining CAPT
talists must work too and cannot let others
work for them.
Private ownership Of all the sources of raw
material and the means of production enables
the capitalists to collect toll for their use.
Some time ago request was made to leading
capitalists in. the country to keep their fac
tories going full blast in spite Of the depres-
sion, so as to meet the problem Of unenploy-
ment. These gentlemen refused by declaring,
1--WE are not in business for charity" This il
Illustrates the position of labor under capital
ism. Society may need the operation of the
factories But if the needs of society run coun-
ter to the profit interests of the capitalists,
then charity remains the only method of salts
flying society's needs. When worker falls sick
and can no longer sell his labor power, he must
look for charity. When the forced service in
the war has robbed worker of leg or arm or
eye or any other vital member of his body he
must look for charity. After he has helped to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
Young Workers In Scott Paper Co. Toll II Hrs
A Day in 120 Degrees of Heat

ner, who was driving Headley's truck
and who was convicted Of killing a
fellow who failed to see the danger
signal on the truck and who was
killed because of his own negligence.
This Turner would still be In Jail
had it not been for the lid ata6
its prompt action. The fellows on
the job for Headley are working to
a point of exhaustion actually hav-
ing fainting spells due to the ter
rifle heat and speed.
Workers of Chester, how much
longer are we going to put up with
the Headley whip lash. Today you
get 40 cents an hour, tomorrow it
may be 80 cents or Is cents. You
can smash forever this brutal meth
Cd Of working you, only through or
ganization into trade unions Of the
Trade Union Unity League. The
headquarters is at 100 w. 3rd st.
Demand an hour day and twice
your present rate. You will then be
in a position to dictate TO Headley
when you are in strong organiza-
ton. Do it now, tie up the Job, let's
go, every worker in the union.
A Worker In SCOTS Paper.
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Chester, Pa.

Cn6SJ6T, ia.
Daily Worker.
While repairing some of the cleo
trical equipment in that sweat shop,
Scott Paper Co., I CHANGED to meet
a young worker, helping to tear down
an old paper machine, Looking at
this young kid carefully, I saw he
was working in merely q pair of
pants and shoes, the sweat oozing
from his young body and through
his matted hair and seeping in his
eyes that were b1eary and bloodshot.
I said, Son, you look tired" He
grinned, looking grimly at me and
said, Il am played out We are
working eleven and half hours
night shift in 100 degrees Of heat.
There are 80 men on this job and
they are hired to work for 40 cents
an hour. We are doing mans job
and maybe it amt tough work."
These youngsters are hired for
Headley's Hauling and Storing Co.,
who are tearing down this old ma
chinery for Scott Paper. This Head
ley is the same open shop faker, the
lousy skunk that refused to fight the
case Of a colored comrade, one Tur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
'ORCED LABOR AND "RUGGED INDIVIDUALLSM'

field. This philosophy proclaims the right of
the hindmost to aquire palace and Rolls
Royce. However, it proclairns this right in
social system in which the chances for such
an acquisition do not exist. All the capitalist
noise about preserving the right to acquire
wealth serves the purpose of covering up the
fact that capitalist economy denies the chance
for such an acquisition. The equal rights" UNI
der capitalism are at par with the equal duties.
To refrain from vagrancy is a sacred duty OF
every good American, rich and poor alike. The
rich of course, believe in claw and order and
therefore never steal a ride on freight train;
the rich never bum meal It is the poor mans
fault that he has so little respect for claw and
order" and goes cumming. Capitalism def
nitely and constitutionally guarantees his
equality with the rich before the law.
After having disposed of the forced labor ar
gument there remains the propaganda of slave
and prison labor. Countless, unbiased capitalist
writers have again and again eploded the myth
of prison lumber and other camps in the USSR.
AS far as slave labor is concerned this is in
separately connected with profit. It is not the
Soviet system that established and maintains
slave labor in the sugar plantations of Hawaii
and Cuba. It is not the Soviet system that
maintains slave labor in the rubber plantations
of Liberia, Sumatra or in the Congo territory.
1t is not the Soviet system that maintains pc
onage on the Mclean haciendas and on the fruit
plantations of the United Fruit Company in
Central and South America. 1t is not the So
Wet system that has invented and maintains
the chain-gang and contract prison labor for
greedy capitalists in the southern states of the
United States.
No matter from what side this propaganda
of forced Soviet labor may be considered, it
turns out to be nothing but lying and SLAM
dering crusade to create holy war myth.
1t is part of the war preparations of capitalist
J. America against the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16

ALBANY, N. Y.-Factory employ
ment in New York State dropped
nearly per cent from April to May,
the report of the State Department
of Labor just issued shows. This is
a heavy drop, meaning thousands
lost their Jobs in one month. Besides,
the drop in payrous which amounted
to over 8 per cent, shows heavy wage
cutting.
Practically every industrial divi-
sion on the Department of Labor's
list shared to some extent in these
losses, which lowered the index of
employment to ISL, only slightly
above the record low set in January
of this year." said the news release
of the Department Of Labor
The information is based on re-
ports from 1.T00 manufacturing con-
Germs located in all sections of the
state. The decrease in employment
in May, 1880, was 1.s per cent, and
drop IN payrollS was ~. InlS year
drop is greater showing that the I'M
employed army is growing at faster
pace.
More than twice as many workers
we're laid off in New York City as in
the remainder of the State, due to
the larger number Of clothing and
leather goods firms in the city and
the smaller number of brick and tex
tile mills.
Among the ther upstate cities,
Buffalo suffered a general recession
OF activity in practically all indus
trial lines which resulted in a drop
OF 4 per cent in employment from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
STATE TROOPERS,
COPS SURROUND
HUNGER MARCH
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

(CuNTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl
rf1archers. There we're 5000 present
at the Court House Square to greet
the mafchers. After the mass meet
ing a delegation was elected to ac-
company the march. Thousands
paraded through the streets with
the marchers after midnight, leading
them to a camp in the park. They
took up a collection TO support the
march. The white workers offered
rooms for Negro marchers from Chi
cago.
At camp park another mass meet
ing was held with hundreds Of work
ers staying with the rnarchers pre-
pared to defend them. At II in the
morning, two trucks we're offered to
the riarchers to replace their trucks
which broke down.
A branch of the Unemployed
Council was formed in Lincoln. Mass
meetings of miners greeted the East
st. Louis section in Granite City and
Edwardsville. In Wilsonville and
Gillespie, the marchers were greeted
officially by the local unions Of the
United Mine Workers. The local
authorities fed and lodged the mar
cheers. A mass meeting was held in
Staunton. The Staunton City Hall
was given to the marchers for lodg-
ing.
Fifty armed thugs prevented the
marchers from entering Rockford.
On the Rock Island section to Peoria
thousands of workers we're waiting
to greet the marchers Scores of
locals of the U.M.W.A. endorsed the
march and donated money. There's
was q tremendous sentiment created
throughout the state. A farming
delegation came from Casey.
The convention elected Schultz,
miner, local chairman of the UNI
WA, chairman Of the convention;
Mrs. Bey, Negro woman from Chi
cago, chairman; Nels Kjar Sec
rotary of the convention. The con-
vention will continue on Sunday in
Riverview Park. The marchers are
being fed and lodged by contribu-
tons of the Springfield working class
organizations The convention mass
nesting was addressed by Pennsyl-
vania striking miners who received
tremendous ovation. The dele
cation will present the demands Of
the unemployed to full session of
! the Legislature on Monday at pm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16

dren. No fire and the house was
cold.
The next door I went to the family
we're starving, the husband being out
of work over eight months. There
are thousands of cases here like this
and even worse.
The miners are getting their
wages slaShed right and left and are
talking strike.
Must Fight.
Housewives and working women.
wake up. We must refuse to stand
by any longer and see our children
crying for food. We have not one
piece of crust to give them. We
must fight side by side with our men
for unemployment relief and against
the starvation working conditions.
An Unemployed Workers Wife
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
Jobs in NY. State Drop 2 PC;
Pdyrolls Fall Over 3 p. G.

April to May. The Syracuse loss of
nearly three per cent was concen-
trated largely in the clothing indus
try and was accompanied by a 4 per
cent loss in payrolls Rochester fac
tories reported big payroll cuts to-
gether with l per cent loss in en-
ployment which was caused by re-
auctions in chemical concerns.
Changes in the metals were respon-
sible for both the / per cent loss in
employment and the l per cent gain
in payrolls in any-Schenectady-
Troy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
Miller Shoe Co. Closes One Shop, Threatens
Wage Cut in Another

until at night Out of our pay
we have to pay the shop chairman
10 cents and so cents for damaged
shoes, and sometimes an extra pair
Of shoes is charged to us for good
measure.
We are reading the Daily Worker
and want to join the Union. The
shoemakers do not want to scab on
the Hayerhill workers. Many girls
working here get no more than s12
a week. Mr.. Mike and Mr.. George
Miller have new cars row and We
workers will have to pay for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16

heads off. But they don't think about
the way We workers have to Ive-or
rather exist-after all the wage cuts
we have stood.
The other day a steel worker
showed me his pay envelope for one
weeks work. 1t amounted to only
S5.13.
Starvation,
When I was selling the Daily
Worker from house to house 7 came
to one house and asked the little
girl who came to the door If could
see her mother. She said her mother
was sick in bed. And then when I
asked for her father. she said he was
sick too. I asked If they had any
help and the little girl said mo"
They had only dry hard pieces of
crust in the house for six small chill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
WORKERS EXPOSE
NAACP LEADERS
Harlem Meet Won for
Fight for Nine Boys

NEW YORK.-With the 14th and
18th Amendments and other paper
guarantees of Negro rights lying use
less on the bosses statute books, the
N, A. A. G. P. leaders yesterday after
noon attempted to divert the Negro
masses Of Harlem from the mass
right to save the nine Scottsboro
boys into support of petition for
the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynch-
Ing Bill. The trick was tried at a
mass meeting held under the aus
pieces of the Women Stop Lynching
League, an adjunct of the N. A. A.
C. P. 1t did not succeed
Working class leaders, backed by
the workers present seized the floor
and exposed the attempts Of the
N. A. A. C. P. leaders to betray the
mass defense of the boys. Harold
williams, Mary Adams and Sadie
Van Veen pointed out that the mere
passage OF bill would not stop the
bosses lynch terror against the Ne
gro masses, and certainly such a bill
would have no effect on the Scots
boro and scores of similar cases
\ where Negro workers are being
Illegally lynched by the bosses state
under the cloak of legality.
A demand was then made that the
floor be given to Mrs Ada Wright,
mother Of two OF the Scottsboro boys.
Mrs. Wright then appealed to the
audience to support the International
Labor Defense and the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights and the
mass fight to save her sons and the
other seven boys Alderman Moore,
who some months ago told a delega-
ton of workers that since no one
would enter his office to lynch him
he had no concern in the fight
against lynching, jumped up and
shouted: MADAM. that cannot be
! done l know that there is bet
ter organization to defend your boys.
That organization is the N. A. A. c.
p" At this several workers booed
loudly.
Sadie Van Veen then made a mo-
ton to send telegram of protest
to the Governor Of Alabama. A
number OF workers seconded it and
Moore was forced to sit down Van
veen also called upon the meeting to
send telegram of protest to the
Governor of Georgia against the
legal lynching Of John Downey a
framed-up Negro worker sentenced to
die today
Before the working-class leaders
took the floor the reforniist speak
ers had completely ignored the
Ecottsboro case. Rev. Lawson, one
Of the speakers. whined that III the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
(By a Worker Correspondent

TRACY, Calif.-I believe the food
workers conditions here in Tracy
should interest every worker. The T.
and R. Restaurant keeps open day
and night and is operating two shifts
of 13 hours each. Mike Abad, who
has only accumulated $4,000 by rob-
bling the railroad workers, can not
afford to pay decent wages, and have
three shifts, as he must make $25, 900
more before we have revolution.
The dishwasher is paid the big sum
of 50 for u hours and besides this
job he must scrub the floors, carry
in the coal and help unload all sup
plies coming in to the T. and r.
Such slave drivers and blood-suckers
as this proprietor, who has been able
to pile up $4,000 in the past ten
years, are protected by the so-called
law and order of this great country.
A short time ago q worker shaved
IS hours for this thief and when he
asked for his pay this parasite told
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
To Open Training
School in Phila.
Train Leaders for Dis
trict Work

PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-The Phila-
delphia District Communist Party
District Training School will be for
mally opened on July 10. The school
will last for period of five weeks
and train party workers for the en-,
tire district which includes the An
thracite coal region and Southern
New Jersey and Maryland.
Units of the Communist Party and
workers organizations are engaged In
preparations for the school and the
selection of the students.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16

Dyer Anticipating Bill is not passed
Communism will sweep the South,
and that organization will overthrow
the government" The workers pres
ent did not share his concern for the
Jim-Crow government Of the boss
lynchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
Bosses Evict With Moving Vans-And Charge
For 1t!

abandoned glue factory for storage.
They said the cost was nothing,
but the rich landlord who owns many
houses also needs this one. After the
moving company moved the furniture
however. they gave Brown a bill for
$40 for moving.
His furniture is now held for rent.
The Unemployed Council which has
successfully fought so evictions Gala
on the workers TO Join in the fight
for the return OF this workers fur
niture. The Unemployed Council
warns all workers not to Let tbs
bosses move their furrit,Ss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
Wanamakers Threaten to Slash Carpenters
Wages
Wages

These Wanamaker carpenters
should organize a committee and de-
rland that Wananakers take back
the vage-cut. If the company re-
fuses to take back the cut they should
call strike and set up picket line
at the job. The Building Trades In
dustrial League Of the Trade Union
Unity League, 16 w. 2lst St, New
York City, will give the carpenters
leadership in their struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-16
tBy a Worker Correspondent

INDIANAPOLIS Ind. A new
method for evicting workers from
their homes is now under way here
william Brown and family, of 331
West 18th st. succeeded in stopping
an eviction two weeks ago by putting
the furniture back in the house after
the officers left. He was aided in
returning his furniture by the I'M
employed Council and the League OF
Struggle for Negro Rights.
Yesterday the officers swooped
down without notice and forced
Brown to accept moving van in
which they moved his furniture to an