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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
Stockton, CAL, Red Builders
NeqVS Club Increases Order;
Smaller Cities Slow Action

A real live force in the distribution
Of the Daily Worker is the Rebuild
ers News Club as indivated by this
communication from the Stockton
California club composed of Clarence
Coffee, chairman; Paterson; Weber,
Dean and Steiner:
Yesterday morning Comrade c..
Coffee and Comrade Paterson got
up at $50 o'clock and drove to Sacra-
mento to get the Daily Worker, as
our papers didn't arrive.
SO he went and got some from the
Sacramento Local. Then this morn
ing our Daily Workers arrived with
the increase from IS &c IS, daily for
which we thank you.
$50 Comrade G. Coffee and Com
rade Paterson took 30 copies each
out in the Persite District and then
on the return Of these comrades
from selling the Daily Worker, hav-
Ing sold all the copies, a big cop
took them over to the city jail for
selling the Daily Worker"
However, when we showed them the
U; S. mail entry on it, they had to
let the comrades loose. Comrades,
this morning the increase in the
Daily Worker was received and we
sure do need them, so be sure and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
Ruhr Strike Spreads:
Two Workers Killed
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police attacked a demonstration of
strikers, arresting eight
A conference of the reformist min
ers union was also held today in
Bochum. The proceedings were short
and private. The reformists decided
to break the revolutionary strike I'M
der any circumstances. An appeal is
sued by them to the miners ignore
revolutionary strike slogans. Tonor-
row, the strike struggle will be car
ried on on two fronts; the employers
and their police and their reformist
allies against the revolutionary
miners.
The strike was called following no
tees of discharge to the miners, ef-
fective as Of Jan. Is. After that date,
the notice said, the men would be re-
employed only at reduced wages.
Yesterday in an article inspired by
the mine owners, the Berliner Boer-
sen-Courier warned the government
against throwing the mine owners
into the anti-government front, as
serting that Chancellor Bruening
gave the mine owners assurances of
ample wage cuts"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
Capitalism in
Britain Faces
Black Future

Forecasts for the new year on the
economic crisis throughout Europe
and reviews of the past year, appear
ing in the capitalist press, show the
depths of the economic upheaval
throughout the world, which, in many
countries, is reaching the stage of
political and revolutionary crises.
A London dispatch to the New
York Times gives black picture Of
the past, and very gloomy one of
the future perspectives. The cable
starts out saying: Great Britain has
finished year of Illustration in poll
tics and gloom in trade and indus
try" The number of unemployed in
England is now over 100000, the
largest number ever recorded. The
story goes on to say:
"The prospect for 1881 is not much
brighter at the years beginning than
the retrospect of the last twelve
months. The breakers ahead seem
from a little distance as angry as
those just left behind"
The strike of 10000 miners and
the threatened walkout of 100000
Manchester textile workers portends
bitter class struggles on top of the
growing economic crisis.
The crisis in Great Britain, which
is part of the world crisis, takes place
within the scope of deep war crisis
that has hit Britain particularly hard.
Every industry, and particularly the
basic industries, on which the pillars
of British imperialism rest, have
undergone drastic decline.
News from France and Germany
show that both these countries face
severer difficulties in the coming
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
COPS CHASE VETS
TRYING TO MAKE
LIVING SELLING
Estimate 10000 L. A.
JObless Workers
(By a Worker Correspondvnt)

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-I want to
tell about conditions in Southern
California and what is being done to
help" the masses of unemployed.
The police terror here is great. There
are several bread lines in the city,
where the workers are made to listen
to hours of bible prayer and then
given ticket for bread.
There are at least a hundred and
fifty thousand unemployed here of
all races. The Salvation Army made
believe that it was going to relieve
unemployment by handing out char
ity in market bags that had the
Army crest on its sides so that the
workers could parade their misery
before the bosses. The Salvation
Army collected about two million dol
lars in cash besides the food they
handed out, but this they kept for
themselves.
Another drive to "help" the unem-
ployed was that of letting the War
veterans sell Christmas seals on the
streets. The veterans earned about
$3.50 a day selling these. Not being
able to get along on this starvation
earning many of the vets started to
sell holly. The florists here got wind
of this and paid each cop on the beat
to chase the vets off the street. The
cops did their bit and many of us
had to throw our holly away because
we weren't allowed to sell it on the
streets.
While the writer was selling the
Christmas seals big, pot-belly with
spats came along and handed the
Salvation Army lassie $40. When
asked to buy some seals and help the
war vets, he answered: ITO hell with
them. Let them take care of them
selves"
1t is about time that you World
War vets woke up to realize that you
cannot get anything from the Ameri-
can Legion and the government it
represents. Join the Unemployed
Councils if you are out of work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05

the more direct, if more secret, pay
ments, that Hague gets from the
really important exploiters.
Hague Prevents Strike.
When Peck and Hill, a New York
furniture house, moved to Jersey
City, the Jersey Transfers Union de-
cided to call its members who were
moving the companys furniture on
strike because Peck and Hill was an
open shop firm using nom union
transfers. When Peck and Hill
learned of the impending strike they
forthwith sent a representative to see
Mayor Hague. Hague was closeted
with the man for an hour. When the
conference was over, Hague irnmedi-
ately called Ted Brandle, czar Of the
A F. of L. unions in New Jersey, and
told him that there was to be no
strike called on Peck and Hill
Brandle assented, for wasn't Hague
an honorary member of the Team
ster's Union--and hadn't he prom
ised Brandle share of the "fee"
that Peck and Hill gladly paid to
prevent the strike?
This close relationship between
Hague and Brandle is touching
sight. When they both go to Palm
Beach 1t Is in Hague's private car.
When Brandle wants one of the mill
tant workers in the unions he con-
trolls shot at, it is Hague who sees
that the police suddenly become blind.
And when Hague wants some choice
liquor to warm the hearts of few
fellow-thieves, it comes straight and
fast from Brandle's Jersey City
speakeasy. one Of the largest in a
state Of many large speakeasies, a
goodly number Of them owned by
A, F. Of L. labor Leaders,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05

SKINS.
Conditions in all the steel towns,
while not yet so desperate as in the
adjoining mining regions, are fast
reaching the breaking point. In
many places the homeless workers
are sleeping in city halls, jails, rail-
road stations, garbage incinerators,
etc. just outside of town in Pitts
burgh there is 'iungles" in which
many hundreds of workers lead a
miserable and precarious existence
Everywhere the unemployed are
treated as criminals. Vagrancy laws
are used against them. In Wheeling
the unemployed workers are given the
alternative of accepting such jobs at
such wages as may be offered them
df by any chance there are jobs) or
else go on the chain gang. In these
towns, as in the mining districts, the
crime wave" is rapidly mounting, the
workers refusing to starve in the
midst Of plenty.
Must Speed Up Organization.
The situation is ripe for organiza-
ton and struggle. The workers arc
militant and responsive to our eff
forts. They have no one else but us
to look to for leadership. The bosses
are fully aware of this and wherever
we become active they at once coun-
ter us by their twin methods of ter
roriSm and extension of relief" In
Pittsburgh our fight against evictions,
although but poorly executed, has
been so effective that one of the
largest landlords in the city Che owns
LOO houses) actually came in per-
son to our Party office to urge that
we give up our fight against evic-
tions. He went out quicker than he
came in.
The Trade Union Unity League
holds as its major industrial task the
building of the union of metal work.
ers. Upon this it concentrates its
main forces. And one effective way
TO accomplish this vital goal will be
to carry through militantly our I'M
employed campaign in the steel towns.
Every steel center must have its hun
ger march, its mass collection of sig
natures. its delegate to Washington,
its demonstration in the great ma
tional unemployed demonstration on
Feb. 10 in the steel and coal towns
can we'll develop into great
mass political strike. The steel work.
ers are ready for us. Are we ready
for them? If we are we can best
show it by big unemployed struggles
in the steel centers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
COMING EVENTS IN
J0BLESS CAMPAIGN

Observation-Disclosures to state
legislature, Jan. 7. Foster mass
meeting, Danceland Auditorium,
Jan. II.
CLEVELAND - Second United
Front Conference, Jan. 9, South
Slav Hall, 56o7 st. Clair Ave.
PITTSBURGH-Hunger march
January 10th. United Front
Conference, January 4, Russian
Hall, 1345 Fifth Ave, 2 p. m, fol-
lowed same day by Foster mass
meeting at Carnegie Hall, Federal
and E. Ohio SITS.
Observation-Disclosures march
on state capitol, Jan. Z, Delega-
tons from all over state meet at
II a. m. on Second and K SITS.
CHICAGO. - Ratification mass
meeting Foster speaker, Jan. 8 at
Chicago Coliseum, 14th st. and
Wabash, 7:30 p. m. Second United
Front Conference, Jan. II. Hun
ger march on city hall, Jan. IL.
NEW YORK - Hunger marches
on Brooklyn and Bronx Boro
Halls, Jan. 8. Hunger march on
New York City Hall, Jan. 10.
Mass trial of Hoover, Green and
Walker, Jan. IL. Second meeting
N. Y. Campaign Committee, Jan.
u. Two hundred open-air meet
ings, Jan. 10, IA, Is. Indoor meet
ings Bronx, Harlem, Downtown,
Williamsburg, Boro Hall, Browns
vile, to elect delegates to Wash
ington. House to house canvass
for signatures to Unemployment
Bill, Jan. Is.
PHILADELPHIA - Foster mass
meeting at Broadway Arena,
Jan. Ia.
BOSTON--Hunger march, Jan.
B. on City Hall. Foster mass meet
ing at Ambassador Palace, Jan. Is.
NEWARK, N. J.-Hunger march
JAN, 16. Second United Front
Conference Jan. 18 at 2 p. m, in
Slovack Hall, 50 West st.
STANFORD, Conn. - United
Front Unemployment Conference,
Jan. &c.
RALEIGH, S. Gone hundred
delegates from all over state make
demands on state legislature,
Jan. s.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. State
Unemployment Conference and
hunger march on state capitol,
Feb. ] and 2.
WHEELING, w. Va.--Unite d
Front Conference, Feb. /, at 2 pm,
at Masonic Temple, 1407 Market
st.
LOS ANGELES--Second United
Front Conference, Jan. IS. -
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - United
Front Conference, Jan. ID, 2 pm,
at Workers Home, 1915 West Col.
fax st.
The Campaign Committees in
many towns have not sent in the
announcement of thei meetings
and hunger marches. They should
do so at the earliest possible date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
British Workers Form
Labor Defense Body
70 FicAt Govt Terror

LONDON.-The increasing terror
under the Macdonald government
and the terror raging in all capitalist
counties against the workers, led
the British workers to form a COM
n1ittee for Labor Defense, The COM
rades, A. Thomas, Helen Crawfurd.
r Dunstan, ]. T. Murphy and E.
Bennett, issued the following appeal:
"At the present moment scores Of
British workers are in prison for
fighting the battle of our class.
There are three from the Daily
Worker staff, % seamen Of South
Shields, serving long sentences nine
comrades Of Fifeshire serving SEN
fences for fighting against evictions,
a number Of other comrades are
serving sentences for giving the
working class messages to the SOL
dierS. There is Conlrade Swain, SEN
fenced to IL months hard labor on
a frame-up of Indictment" to steal.
There. are the prisoners Of Meerut,
who, for 20 months, have been on
trial"
Shall we remain silent, for ex-
ample, whilst the white terror of fas-
cism cruelty tortures the revolution
airy prisoners in Poland, Hungary,
Rumania, Italy and America? I'M
possible! We must have an organ
ization in this country giving un-
divided attention to this question Of
the prisoners of capitalism. We must
have here a national section of the
International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
Chevy Revival
BNewSbeedUb
fOyAMtO TOilet S
tBy a Worker CORRESPONDENCE

OAKLAND, Calif.-I am employed
in the Fisher Body Chevrolet plant in
Oakland. There is supposed to be a
revival of industry" at this slave
dump. Everything is going full blast.
We have reached as high as 300 units
a day in production. Everybody is
as busy as hell. They are speeding
us up to beat hell. Every day some
one is either quitting or being fired
because they cannot keep up with the
speed.
Piece Work Basis.
The plant is mainly on piece
work basis. In order to make any
thing like decent wages you have to
dam near break your back. Polish
ers are working from 7:3O in the
morning 1ntil $50 at night in order
to make about IS a day This is
considered pretty good wages. too.
At present we are working nights
and Sundays, too. The bosses are
pushing everything to load up the
dealers with the new models. Then
will come the crash. Well all be laid
off again. This is the way they have
been working us all year, off again,
on again.
Must Fight.
We must have a real union here to
fight the bosses. We must fight
against the speed-up and piece-work
system by which the bosses make us
work like hell to make a few misery
dollars. We had strike here year
and a half ago which was led by the
Trade Union Unity League. bill"
Spooner. local A. F. of L. leader.
helped the bosses all he could in that
strike. Auto Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
"STAGGER" PLAN AND GRADUAL
FIRING STEEL BOSSES WEAPON
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they are extending little or no relief
to their poverty-stricken workers
The situation in Youngstown is typical
Of the smaller steel towns. The city
government does nothing, leaving the
whole relief problem up to the COM
panies. The youngstown Sheet and
Tube Co. gives relief to desperate
cases, but only once. After one help
ing Of groceries the worker is left to
shift for himself. 1t is about the
same on the local soup line, but here
a worker can come every second day
for bowl of miserable, hard-times
soup. Where workers live in COM
pany houses they are given day or
two's work a month and then the
amount of the rent, light, etc, is de-
Quoted. The cost of even this mis-
cradle relief is shifted over onto the
workers, the latter being assessed
days wages now and then to pay
for It.
Wherever the steel companies are
giving such relief they do it very
strategically with strike breaking
purposes in mind. Thus, Americans
are favored at the expense of the
foreign-born. The Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Co., which expects a strike
sooner or later, is by means of giving
relief attempting to corrupt the Ne
gro workers. There, our organizers
report, the Negroes are told when
given relief that if they have any
thing to do with the Metal Workers
Industrial League the relief will be dis
continued at once. 1t is significant
that half of the workers who have so
far joined our Metal Union are Ne
groes. But the situation is one that
we must give urgent attention to.
Evictions Daily Occurrence.
In Pittsburgh the steel companies
leave the relief problem more to the
city. So far the local government
has voted for this purpose only a
beggarly 100000. Here evictions are
a daily occurrence. Even while the
Metal League Board was meeting the
local Unemployed Council stopped
several evictions. One was of Ne
gro woman with several children
The workers were mobilized to pre-
vent the eviction, and when the land
lord and the constable appeared to
put the widow out of her "home" the
workers made such a militant resis-
lance that these worthless not only
did not go through with the eviction,
but were lucky to escape with whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05

NOUNIIN L ED fhUM PAdE ONEb
might have had went UP in smoke
with the bankruptcy of the local bank
recently. The local Red Cross agent,
compelled to distribute the little food
allowed, had the gall to say that he
recognized some among the farmers
as imposters," but no such lie can
cover up the fact that the mass Of
farmers and their families are liter
ally starving.
Even the lawyer who tried to keep
them from forcibly confiscating the
food from the stores admitted that
they we're too hungry to listen to
speeches" But all he advocates is
that merchants move their goods to
other towns or mount machine guns
on their stores"
Moving goods to other towns. how
ever, is futile, as Charles l.. Thomp-
son of the Pulaski County Red Cross
and agent of the State Drought Re-
lief Committee, says he fears SIM
liar trouble in other sections of Ar
kansas"
The demonstration was notable as
the first instance in which MASSEY
af poor farmers have followed tbs
policies of the United Farmers
League, whose headquarters are at
New York Mills, Minnesota. Both
Negro and white farmers united for
action and used the power of mass
action to compel the granting OF
their demands.
The demonstration also exposes the
cynical hypocrisy of Hoover's admin
istration, in restricting farm relief"
to loans to rich farmers to buy seed
and feed for animals, and opposing
as a dangerous precedent" the CIV
ing Of food to human beings" Lo-
cal capitalists are panic stricken at
the prospect that the farmers will re-
turn when the miserable bit Of food
given them Saturday is exhausted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05

to distribute tho leaflets a the
bread-lineS in the morning tween
$50 and 8 a. m. because they are ali
out by that time"
Over 1000 men sleep at Monroe
and LooniS, and eat at 712 West
Monroe st. Also more than 1000
eat there so that make over 1000 at
one place. All are on line between
$50 and 8 a, m. because they are all
building. 1t is the same in Slow
Death House No. l.
81 don't know about the other slow
death houses. And at Monroe and
LOOMS. flop houses, about Is are
glad they get soup, the rest are all
Reds
At Wrigley's building about so
thank God for soup. The rest all
talk Red same in county jail and
Wacker Drive. All talking about bet
tering conditions and fighting bosses.
Hoping for biggest hunger march
ever held in Chicago.
But think very few of the unem-
ployed at bread-lines and flop houses
will be at William z. Fosters because
we have to be in flop houses before
9 a. m. if we don't, the dick takes
the card away from us and throws
us out"
Special leaflets to Negro workers
and jobless are being issued TO adver-
tise the great mass meeting at which
William z. Foster will speak Friday,
Jan. 9, at 7:30 p. m. at Chicago Coli
scum. Unemployed workers are ad-
mitted free, others pay 20 cents, to-
wards a fund for organizing the
jobless.
Another special leaflet is being is
sued to the rank and'file of the A. F.
L., calling on them to attend the Eos
ter meeting, and to resist the taxa
ton schemes of the A. L. officials
The second United Front Confer
ence of Chicago Workers Organiza-
tons will meet Sunday.
Week of Struggle
NEW YORK.-This is the opening
of week of intensive struggle by the
unemployed in many localities for
immediate relief from the cities and
state legislatures, and Of demonstra-
tons to help organize the jobless
into councils of the unemployed, to
collect signatures for the Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05
700 SILVER, WAIT,
FOR BACK ACHING
DELIVERY WORK
Only Is Tired for r.
Hour Day Job

BROOKLYN.-I saw an advertise
ment in the want ad section of to-
days World calling for strong mer
to deliver telephone books on a sal
airy and commission basis. For salary
they paid the magnificent sum OF
$3.50 per day and the sum of Id
cents for every old book brought
back. I came to the place. the name
of which is the Reuben H. Donnelly
Telephone Book CO., located at 172
Empire Blvd, about 5 O'Clock in the
morning. There were about SO fell
lows waiting in front of the place,
which was located on a dreary, wind
swept block
Huddle Tonight.
They were huddled around fire
which they had built to keep warm.
The topic Of their conversation was
as follows. One Of the workers who
had ben sent down by the fake city
unemployment agency in New York
told us that he had spent his last
dime for carfare to come here and
was about to be evicted from his home
if he did not pay his rent. He had
been to the fake mayors emergency
relief committee and told them about
his case and Of the fact that he had
a sick wife, but all that he got was a
promise of investigation.
100 Apply for Jobs.
After standing around and freezing
for two hours one of the doors were
opened and one of the foremen
started calling out the names of his
friends and those that had in some
way or other done him favor. BY
that time the crowd had grown to
about 700 men. The foreman went
through the, crowd, picking out those
that suited his fancy. Of the TOO
workers that were in front Of the
place about rs we're lucky enough to
be chosen to earn from 50 to 81 for
from to 10 hours of ck-breaking
work climbing stairs and Juggling tele-
phone books. While the foreman and
his straw bosses or inspectors. as they
call themselves, we're going through
the workers the latter were fighting
among themselves, pushing and shov-
ing one another. in their anxiety to
get near enough to one Of these we'll
fed bosses to beg him to hire him
at any sum as long as he could make
a few dollars" but in spite of all the
talk very few of them were hired,
showing clearly the meaning of the
extensive advertising of the bosses
there for 200 men and at the same
time sending for SO men from the
city employment agency and then
hiring only rs men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-05

primaries against Colgate for the re-
publican nomination for governor,
Hague, Edges democrat partner
called Edge on the telephone and told
him that Colgate was running far
ahead Of him in Hudson County and
would probably capture the primaries
If the ballot boxes weren't stuffed.
Edge, then in Newark, rushed to
Hague's office in Jersey City and
called in Billy Verdun, republican
boss Of the county, for a consultation.
The verdict, of course, was that new
ballot boxes be constructed immedi-
ately.
This was done by the six men who
are listed on the Jersey City payroll
all the year round as ballot box re-
pairers," and Edge, Hague and ver-
dun then stuffed SO many ballots into
the boxes that Colgate lost the state
by few thousand votes. 1t is Edges
ability as ballot box suffer, it is
said, that has evoked the sincere ad-
niration of President Hoover. In
any event, it is true that Edge is
.equent visitor at the White House
Although, as has been noted,
tIague's influence with his capitalist
BOSSES is somewhat on the wane, he
still exacts high tribute from them
for keeping the workers safe"-that
is, safe for capitalists. Most Of the
important firms in Hudson County
still contribute to Hague's Campaign"
fund. The amount varies with the
size Of the company. The National
Grocery Co., fair -middling sized
corporation, pays $4,000 yearly. and
other firms pay in proportion. These
graft payments, for they are nothing
but that must not be confused with