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The daily worker., 1931-06-13

a whooping cough epidemic is raging.
This epidemic has spread until now
a considerable portion of the school
children are affected.
Contrast,
When watching the crowds one is
Immediately struck by the two dis
tinct categories into which they fall
The first are the familiar, overalled
and shabbily dressed figures of the
unemployed, The next are the we'll
tailored, inclined to be stout gentle
men. The latter are the concession
hunters. The government, as you
know, is about to build town here
at the dam site (private contract, of
course), and, rather than sell at a
minimum to the workers, they will
lease the shirt, grocery, etc. conces-
sions to these concessioners, who will
sell at a maximum. Another inter-
esting phase of capitalism.
cannot help comparing condi-
tions here with conditions as they
would be in a similar project in the
Soviet Union. First of all, the gov
ernment engineers would be on the
job with the preliminary surveys
Then the more detailed projections
would be laid out. The detailed
plans would be drawn up. The press
notices would come from the engi-
neers on the job. The necessary
workers put through the recognized
channels. But here in Las Vegas We
see confusion, starvation and despair
with the continual rush of workers tC
the dam site. Workers who spenc
their last few dollars to get there.
wish that the capitalists at Wash.
ington and in Wall Street could heal
the radical talk that goes around il
all the campfires here. Their hail
would turn gray overnight. These
parasites will have to go to Mars
pretty soon, because things are get
ting pretty hot, much too hot.
An Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13

A. F. of L. takers. They we're thus
able to receive their demands. Then,
following the Empire Steel strike, an
other strike in the Martin Steel was
won by the workers. A whole shop
of rs workers went out on strike after
a 10 per cent wage-cut was effected.
They went on strike Thursday, May
81, and they won their demands the
next day. This strike ended so vic
toriously for the workers that the
local capitalist papers were afraid to
publish this victory for fear that it
would be spread to the other fac
tories who also received wage-cuts.
Now the Mansfield Public Schools
are squawking over the hard times.
They complain that they are run
ming short of money and that they
will be either forced to cut the school
term or the teachers wages.
Child Labor.
Then there is child labor here in
Mansfield. Small school children try
to sell the capitalist dope for few
more pennies day. These children
stay on the corners for sometimes ten
hours, and one can see many of them
falling asleep on their job, picked up
by policeman and brought home,
tired and hungry.
Business is SO good" here that
when the local contractor asked for
one laborer 500 workers came the
next morning for the job.
Organizing.
In Mansfield we have organized an
Unemployed Council and at every
we gain many new members.
A unit of the Y. G. L.. was organized
and they sent Is delegates to
the N. Y. D. Mansfield is a good
field for organizational work. This
has been due in many respects to
the last hunger march. This hunger
march has awakened most of the
workers. '
Yet with the prevailing miseries in
the capitalists still bark
that prosperity is around the corner.
Yours for the revolution. --J.W.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
Wash. Lumber Mill
Threatens Closing
Unemployment Grows
in North West
tBy a Worker Correspondent

HOQUIAM, Wash.-With Hoover,
Doak, Green, Vol and all the other
high officials of the government, and
the A. F. of L. saying that there is
Improvement in unemployment, here
in the Gray's Harbor country just
the opposite is the truth.
In Aberdeen, the Bay City. Lumber
mill served notice on the workers
that most Of the lumber mills were
contemplating close down.
Here is real task for the Unem-
ployed Council to show their leader
ship, and point out to the workers
the danger Of such a move.
In Hoquiam the conditions of the
unemployed is growing noticably
worse. Only one saw-mill and a few
small factories are running; the pup
mill gives work on the stagger plan
TO few workers.
One worker reporting to this writer
from Shelton, which is about forty
miles from the Harbor, said 1--WE need
you and the T.U.U.L. down In that
town." The Reed sawmill will close
down for the summer on the third of
June, and on the 18th all of the log
ging camps Of this company will also
r'~-,. There is pulp mill there but
1t runs SO little that it is about as
/ Us nothing so far as work is
C...ccrnec
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
FIND BAKER AND
FAMILY STARVED
Downtown Council Get
Food For Them
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The Downtown Un-
employed Council, through its can
vassing on its concentration block.
found that Louis Fletcher of 646 E.
Sixth st. unemployed baker and a
member of Local /. has four children
and has been ordered by the court to
move out from his room and the
family is starving.
The Downtown Council brought
foor fod the family and the council
is organizing the tenants to stop the
landlord from throwing the family
out in the streets. The council also
secured food for the family of Mrs.
Ushercky of 81 Ave. B.
The Downtown Council held "a
meeting last night at University Pl.
and 14th st. Policemen tried to
break up the meeting several times
when the speaker made appeals for
Labor Unity, but did not succeed
very we'll Sixty copies of Labor
Unity were sold.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
PA. MINERS WILL
WALK MILES FOR
ORGANIZATION
Suffering Appalling;
Miners Solid For
Strike
Pittsburgh, Pa.

FlGJSourgn, Pa,
Daily Worker:
1 heard so much about the rotten
conditions of the miners that 1 de-
sired to find out things for myself.
1 went to Export, Herminie, Etna,
etc, and suffering is terrible. All
miners know that the coal compa-
nies are robbing them. The miners
wives that I talked to said that this
strike is going to be a different
struggle than the previous strikes.
They say this is going to be fight
against starvation.
Chased Trooper With Sickle
In one home that, I went to I was
told that during the last strike a
miner chased a state trooper with a
sickle. When asked what he was
going to do with it, he said
that he intended to cut the troopers
head off with the sickle in case the
trooper attacked him.
All Of the miners are talking about
the National Miners Union They
say this union is not yellow and will
striEe against starvation to finish.
The miners wives say they are glad
school is over. They had to dress
and fed the children then; now Tie
children play and sometimes they
forget about food.
1t seems that the miners are ex-
perts in finding out who the stool
pigeons are who are working for the
bosses trying to keep the miners from
joining the National Miners Union.
For organization these miners would
walk miles and give their last cent.
Every night they get together and
discuss what is going to happen
next. These workers are ready for
a strike a hundred per cent. I am
from a steel town where the steel
workers are sure suffering, but the
miners are in the lead when it comes
to suffering and starvation.
"A Steel Worker.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
MAJESTIC RADIO
WORKERS DRIVEN
AT LONG HOURS
Common Sight to See
Men Putting in 16
and II Hour Day"
(By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, HIT is quite num-
Der of years that I have made my
living as an industrial worker, and
have worked at all types of jobs, ex-
periencing exploitation of all kinds.
But the Majestic Radio Co. went far
beyond all that I have ever expert
enced.
We often cite the exploitation of
Negroes in the South. We almost
find the same conditions here in
Chicago at the Majestic Co. Here
are a few samples:
The work day is 10 hours and only
a worker working over 40 hours gets
paid time and a half for overtime,
but there are only few day workers
in the factory. The rest all work on
the piece system. The average
worker is getting from 80 to 40 cents
per hour. One worker happened
to get acquainted with works at a
large punch press machine, working
piece work for II hours work. In
one week he earned the total of
2733. Another worker who was
working on the same type of ma
chine boasted that he averages 40
cents per hour at piece-work in the
refrigerator shop. Another worker,
working in the radio department,
during lunch hour told me that he
was an experienced cabinet maker,
and while working at piece system
made from so to SIS cents an hour,
and, If it so happens that the worker
produces more. the company does not
pay more than so cents per hour.
1911 Hours Work.
While working nights it was a
common sight to see workers that
have started to work at 7 a. m. and
work until 10 and IL p. m, making
the work day 16 to II hours. I was
told that one worker that week
worked SO hours. These long hours
and overtime does not happen so
often, only when rush orders arrive,
then the worker is driven to a frenzy.
Soon. the orders are filled and then
the lay-offs.
The worker has to go through a
half dozen agencies, doctors and all
kinds Of red tape before he can Sc
cure the slave job, thinking that at
last he has found work. The results
are that he is driven for a week or
two at inhuman speed then laid off.
Although there is great discomfort
among the workers, the necessary
steps are not taken towards organ
ization Seems like it is high time
to do something to emerge from this
slavery. The only road lies in or
ganizing into fighting unions under
the leadership of the t. U. U. L.,
and only then can we force the en-
pioyers to give us a decent wage.
A Laid Off Worker.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
HARD HIT, CALF.
FARMERS PLOUGH
UP VEGETABLES
Children Made tOWOrk
In Orchards With :.
Parents
Sacramento, Cal.

Sacramento, Cal.
Comrade Editor:
Conditions in the agricultural
region here are becoming worse from
day to day. The cherry growers can
find no market for their products,
because the workers have no money
to buy with.
Food Destroyed.
Just out of Sacramento the other
day I noticed Japanese farmer
ploughing up field or. turnips while
there are thousands of workers in
the United States starving. Between
Sacramento and Davis they have
ploughed up lettuce, for which there
was no market Last fall and winter
tons upon tons of onions were
dumped into the Joaquin River.
The way things look the farmers
will be in the bread lines this COM
ing winter.
Child Labor.
1 had a talk with a workers wife
and she told me that her husband
was looking for apricot picking for
the last two weeks and when he
thought that he had master he was
told that he would have to bring his
whole family. In order for a man
to make a living picking fruit bis
wife and children must also work.
Instead of inducing the children to
go to school and get an education the
bosses want them to work in the
orchards and fields from morning
until night. j. S.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
Sioux City Workers
Form Worcorr Group

SIOUX Guy, Iowa.
Dear Comrades:
We have organized correspon-
dence group here composed of four
comrades, Each member is to write
articles on the conditions of the
workers, their struggles, ETC., and
turn them over to me as chairman
of the group
q In this way we can always have
something Of interest to our local
workers appearing IN the Daily
Worker. This will not only reflect
our struggles here, but will help TO
increase the circulation of the Daily
in Sioux City. C. S.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
Worker in Murray
Plant Earns $3.50
A Week

he is not going to starve working.
This 45c for 4 hours work means; even
more than actual starvation.
S2.25 a Week!
This is not only an individual case.
but this has been shown by another
workers experience at the Murray
Body plant. This fellow WORKER al
the Murray Body has worked the
first day, 8 hours and made SLIPS. on
piecework bonus basis, and was also
told by the foreman to buy himself
the necessary tools. The tools re-
quired cost him $l5o. And when he
came to work the next day, having
the tools and everything ready to
proceed to work, there were some
small wooden blocks about 1-2x
2 1-2x8 inches that he could not get
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
Czarist Flag and SOEd Glory" Side by Side

square in the parade, in the center
of which was the Tsarist flag along
side of the American flag.
If we can judge by the associates
of the Star Spangled Banner in this
parade then we can say that the
Star Spangled Banner is getting
very degenerate. The cops are bad
enough. the dumb brutes, but the
White Guards of the Tsar, together
with the cops, made splendid dem
onstration of degeneracy.
Factory Worker.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
(By a Worker Correspondent J

NEW BRITAIN, Conn.-One hun
dred members of the Russian
Brotherhood who came to this city
for a state convention, celebrated the
25th anniversary of their organiza-
ton by parading behind the Tsarist
flag. When the Russian workers
learned that the New Britain Rus
sian priest had ordered the Tsarist
flag to be carried in the parade they
did not take part in the parade.
Thirteen cops on foot and on motor
cycles and as many dicks formed
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
AMERICAN TINPLATE FIRES AND
STAGGERS WORKERS
(By a Worker Correspondept,

ELWOOD, Ind.-The American
Sheet and Tinplate Co. of this city,
in an effort to increase their profits
at the expense of the workers, laid
off several workers in both the plant
and in the office during the past
week. The working schedule has
been reduced to three days week.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
Workers Have No Fuel
Texas Bosses Burn 1t
at Overflow Outlets
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

tby a worker COrreSpOndent.)
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas.-In the
midst of this petroleum field where
there is plenty of natural gas to serve
all the people in the town, many
workers families must do without
this fuel because they haven't the
money to pay for it.
Detroy Gas.
Instead of letting the workers have
gas, overflow outlets are burned up;
big flame is kept going night and
day just outside of the city.
Crops are good here--a fine yield
Of oats, especially. But farmers face
ruin with the prospect Of 15-cent
oats and 30-cent wheat.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13

1 was asked by the prisoners in the
first camp to go to the governor and
tell how they were treated. Istarted
to go but building contractor told
me it was useless as they would not
let me in the capitol.
"A Farmer From Arkansas.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13

day, out of which was taken 81 day
for board, which would leave me 80
cents for clothes and other things.
I took the job, but after working only
ten minutes the man was working
with got fired and followed him off
the job.
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
.AANSFIELD WORKERS
VICTORIOUS IN TWO
WAGE CUTS STRIKES
Unemployed Council Gains in Membership;
YCL Unit Sends Is Delegates to Youth Meet
Mansfield Charity Cuts Relief; City Plans to
Cut Public School Teachers Pay
Mansfield, Ohio.
Editor Daily Worker,

The capitalists in Mansfield trying to make the work
believe that employment gaining ground They prove
this by sashng wages laying off workers and to add
the prevailing misery they shut down charity However, the
workers in Mansfield determined for better organization
They prove this by the victories in the recent strikes like
the Empire Steel strike where the workers organized them
selves under the leadership Of the T. u u l. exposed
The daily worker., 1931-06-13
UNEMPLOYED WORKER
TELLS OF MISERY AT
LAS VEGAS DAM SITE
Workers Pouring in, Hoping for Job; Single
Workers Sleep At City Dumps
Whooping Cough Epidemic Raging; Workers
Showing Militancy; Ready for Organization
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Editor, Daily Worker:

Las Vegas, Nevada.
Editor, Daily Worker
Conditions here in Las Vegas speak eOquenty than
words of the confusion caosness and cruelty of the present
system concerns the working Through misleading
statements in the press the workers have been pouring in
The single workers sleeping behind bboard in al
eys and the city dump Their lot terrible to the nth
degree.
At the present time due the bad conditions and food
The daily worker., 1931-06-13

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
vER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER.
WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION,
The daily worker., 1931-06-13

I was on my way back and had
gone only a few miles when / was
offered a job in another camp where
most of the work was done by peni-
tentiary labor. I was offered $l.80 a
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
SKIPPY

KID: when you go into dream do you take houses
an trees an people, dogs an cats an everything with
you,or do they have special houses an things made
for your dreams? l was wonderin, too if somebody
writes your dream out for va you'll know what
to do?"
SKIPPY: well, why don't you take with you
to bed tonight an photograph what va see?"
KID: "Thats funny thing that you should bring that
up cause the night before last that's the very thing
did, an what happens? All the houses an trees an
cats an dogs an lots of people around all inside
the camera an there was nothin outside so where
are ya?"
The Washington times., 1931-04-25
BY p. L. Crosby

SKIPPY Seems to me like your head was the camera
All that stuff was inside your head BY the way.
don't want to be personal but do va take often any
church,"
KID: "Never so much as been inside of one. The way
look at life is here today and gone tomorrow"
SKIPPY: "Do va believe in tattoon'?"
KID: "Tattooin'-you betcha! That sticks to va as
long as va live"
SKIPPY "Well, that's all religion is It's inside tat
toong, an when friends all leave va an va lose all
your money va can turn to that inside tattooing
cause it's real You'll be happy when you know
it'll never leave you forever an ever.'
The Washington times., 1931-04-25

SKIPPY: "Ya remember the dream, huh?"
KID: "Just as if l was lookn' at it now'
SKIPPY: "Was,it very lovely?"
KID: "The elegantest dream ever had Unjust say it
was vcrv beautiful"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-13
OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
BY IJNDERSHERIFF

Calexico in 1910, when it was
composed of not more than two
dozen frame and brick buildings,
and when Mexicali had three sa-
looms. was recalled to Undersheriff
Rodney Clarke last night when he
dug out two old panorama photo
graphs taken then.
The photographs were taken two
years after Clarke started serving
the Customs Patrol in Calexico. One
shows the main streets and build
ings of the border town, with three
horse drawn rigs and not one au-
.tomobile in evidence.
Noticing the signs of life pic
tured in the photograph, Clarke
commented that it must have been
taken on Sunday. Varney Brothers
Cash Store, of which George N.
Varney, now county treasurer, was
proprietor, is shown in the picture.
The other photograph shows the
Calexico railroad station, with a
convention gathering about it.
Eight automobiles of the old fash
ioned style and seven horse drawn
vehicles are in evidence. Clarke
pointed out a figure he said was
Bill Best. now supervisor. from the
Calexico district.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-13
Party HonOrs
Bride-To-Be

Honoring their daughter, Miss
Dorothy Weir whose engagement to
Louis McManus recently was an
nounced, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c..
Weir entertained at a dinner re-
Gently at their home at 1866 Adams
street.
The bridal motif was carried out
in all the table decorations, a dain-
ty pink and green color scheme pro-
viding an attractive setting for the
meal Tiny bride and bridegrooms
appeared on the place cards and
clever pink and green nut baskets
added to the charm of the decor
ationS.
Those present we're: the honoree;
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Ferris and two
children, Forrest and Bobby; Miss
Anna McManus; M iss Mildred
Giles; Louis McManus an dthe host
and hostess.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-13
Seeley Resident
Dies Suddenly

Mrs. Nettie " Hayes, so, resident
of Imperial Valley for the last II
Years. was found dead at her home
south of Seeley by her husband
Henry Haynes, when he returned
from work in the fields shortly after
noon yesterday.
She had been suffering as re-
suit of a heart ailment for some
time and apparently died after she
laid down to rest when she felt an
attack impending.
A coroner's investigation was con-
Quoted by Coroner Bert Underwood
Yesterday afternoon at which time
it was discovered heart disease was
the cause of death.
Funeral services for Mrs. Haynes
were conducted from Lemons
chapel this afternoon at a O'Clock
with Rev. j. c. Spencer, pastor OF
Seeley Community church, officiat-
ing. Interment took place at Ever
green cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-13

Bob Cats They had sharp claws
and sharper teeth. One little Bob
Cat saw Uncle Wiggily come TO the
door of his bungalow with a basket
OF clothes in his paws, for it was
wash day
Hes going to hang them out for
his wife or Nurse jane mewed the
little Bob Cat. I'VE can sneak up
on him when he's doing that and
the seven Of US ought easily to
catch him, even if we are little
"Sure!" said a Fox boy.
Softly the seven drew near the
bungalow Uncle Wiggily, surely
enough, was kindly helping his wife
and Nurse Jane by hanging up the
clothes for them 1t was an extra
bit of wash and the regular clothes
cat, who always came on Monday,
wasn't there on Saturday. So Mr..
Longears said he would put up the
line and hang the clothes on it.
Now is our chancel" whispered
one of the little Bob Cats as Uncle
Wiggily stopped over the basket OF
wash to pick up some Of the clothes
and fasten them on the line with
wooden pins. "All rush at him at
once and well have him J"
"Surel" barked Fox boy
With a sudden rush the seven lit
tie Bad Chaps started toward Uncle
Wiggily. For a moment the rab-
bit gentleman was so surprised that
he didn't know what to do. Then
he took a big pillow case, like a
bag, out of the basket of clothes
and held it with the open end to-
ward the three little Foxes and the
seven little Bob Cats.
Before the savage little animals
knew what was happening they had
rushed into the pillow case bag.
Uncle Wiggily quickly shut it and
there he had all seven of them
caught fast.
"Hal Haio laughed the rabbit as
he tied the pillow case with one OF
mis- wife's long stockings and tossed
it over into the woods. Il fooled
you" so the bunny wasn't caught
and if the egg beater will stop turn
ing around to see if the bread knife
is chasing it, III tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and the wash cat.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-13
FOULDS STATES
PRICE OF HAY
BELOW NORMAL

In view of severe drought con-
ditions prevailing in other parts of
California, hay would undoubtedly
be selling for $40 per ton here, if
economic conditions were normal, "
stated Scott B. Foulds, manager of
the farm bureau today. "Condi-
tions on the ranges are the worst
in very many years.
1.-The June report of the Cali
fornia Cooperative Crop Service
has this to say on pastures and
ranges"
The condition of California pas
lures and ranges on June l was SO
per cent, which compares with 81 a
year ago and with 83, the 10-year
June average. Grazing conditions
now and the outlook for summer
grazing in California are unsatis-
factory, and in some areas bad.
Natural feed and water supplies are
deficient generally. May rainfall
was beneficial to the high noun
tain ranges, but seriously injured
natural feeds at low elevations. Pas
turage is good in only few areas.
With many small streams and
springs dry, together with limited
feed supplies. many stockmen find
it. necessary to frequently move
stock to feed. Movements for the
most part are of a local nature
Some stocks are being sold because
of insufficient supplies of feed and
water Frequent summer rains will
be needed TO maintain feed condi-
ton in the high mountains.
1t would seem probable that the
demand for hay and feed this fall
and winter will be quite active
particularly if economic conditions
improve. With hay now selling be-
low the cost OF production the
chances appear good for those who
hold their hay over to make a gooc
profit"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-13

motorist leaned out to shout their
car was on fire. Colon stopped.
BY the time the family was out
OF the coupe the rear end was in
flames. Efforts to extinguish the
blaze were futile.
Colon and his wife and two child
ren watched the fire consume
practically everything they owned.
Household effects and personal be-
longings in the car could not be
saved.
When Edward r. Nett arrived
from the sheriffs office the auto
mobile and its contents were des-
troyed. Colon still had the Sc, said
Nett. The cause OF the fire could
not be determined.