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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

of all the voters"
The bosses then breadcasted the
news" that the strike committee"
had conducted a ballot" which had
decided to call off the strike. All
church bells in the city were rung
the mill whites blew, criers we're
sent over the city.
Then the mill officials announced
that back wages, usually paid at
night, would be paid Friday morning
Several hundred hungry workers
went to the mills to get their wages,
and about three thousand others, de-
ceived by the elaborate staging and
seeing workers going to the mills,
weakened and returned to work.
1t was at this point that the Ma
tional Textile Workers stsrike COM
nittee, meeting Friday night, de-
cided to return to work on the basis
of the partial victory. On the ques-
ton of extra pay for overtime, the
committee decided not to work over
time as the best way o fdealing with
this question for the time. These
decisions were ratified by great
mass meeting Friday night, Monday
morning the workers are returning
en- masSe.
The strike was organized and led
by several small department locals
OF the National Textile Workers
Union. In the first days of the stsrike
it extended to cover the three big
gest mills, and embraced the entire
working force of more than 10000
workers. OF these about one thou
sand have joined the NTWU, while
the remainder, not yet individual
members of the union. have been
represented in the strike committee
which was built up of delegates from
all departments in the mills.
As Edith Berkman, Pat Devine.
anc VIM. Murdoch were being taken
to Boston by the Federal immigra-
ton police for deportation, they is
sued a statement declaring that the
union will remain in Lawrence and
organize the entire body of textile
workers into strong union which
will safeguard their victory. and pre-
pare for new struggles for better
conditions. The strike committee
has declared its full solidarity with
the arrested leaders, and has filed
a formal demand with the govern
ment for their immediate release.
Workers organizations are adopting
resolutions of protest against the
outrageous governmental attacks and
demanding the release of the arrest
ed workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Sunshine Club Is Name of Seattle Breadlint

profits from the food that is sent
to them to give to the workers. AS
the best of it is used to obtain prof.
it's from. This is the way the workers
are taken advantage of in their mis-
cry and unemployment, and fellow
workers, if We are to gain our object,
and get a better standard of living, we
must organize into a strong unem-
ployed council and put up fight
for the right to live. We must go
to the bread lines and get the work
ers to demonstrate in the hunger
marches, as this makes the bosses
see that there is misery and unem-
ploylalent in the United States. We
must go to the mines, mills and fac
tories and get the workers to organ
iSe and demonstrate in the hunger
march, and this way we will become
strong enough to take the relief, if
the bosses do not give it to us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

weak to go out and look for help.
When found, an infant in the the
group was rushed to the hospital
I'm the hopes Of saving her life. But
i'm vain. Long endured hunger had
6one its work.
I am told by one who saw her after
kind death had ended her suffering
that her drawn face and emaciated
form bore mute testimony of the
truth that she was a victim of star
walton. And 'ChriStian America"
looks complacently on while the ter
rible drama is acted.
But / must make an exception to
this, for I have heard that but for the
charity of Negro church this entire
family might have starved to death.
When applied to for aid the author
tiles always plead lack of funds. But
they readily turned over fifty tlaous-
and dollars of the peoples money to
the governor to fix up his already law
ishly furnished mansion. -OOP.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Force Bosses To Withdraw Efficiency
Experts; Strikers Return to the Mills
CONTINUED FROM FACE oNE)

visited us month ago, and I'm
sorry the commission on public
safety did not give the ma ticket
to hell and back again. If they
were not here Tuesday everything
would have been all right. There
is where the breeze and wind of
Russia came in"
Father Mcdonald carried ON an
energetic campaign under the slo-
American Wooden Company is hon.
est" Labor an dcapital must get
gans: GO back to work" 1.-THE
together"
Then came the organization of a
Citizens committee" to negotiate
with the strikers. This committee on
Thursday came to the strike head
quarters, where the strike committee
was meeting, accompanied by city Off
cials and police. They began their
negotiations" by physically seizing
the leaders of the Textile Workers
Union, and beating up the other
members of the strike committee and
driving them out of thei rheadquar-
tiers. They jailed Berkman, Devine,
Murdoch, Danilezich, and Czarnecki,
on a charge of "conspiracy"--the
same charge that has been used to
fight trade unions since the beginning
Of the 18th century. The bail deman-
ded for them totalled more than
100000.
Enter the Fish Committee
Lawrence strikers and sympa-
thizers quickly raised the bail for
the arrested leaders, but no sooner
were they released than Federal inn
migration officers appeared, with
1T Geographic instructions" from
Washington, to arrest the three Of
ficials of the union and hold them
for deportation warrants. This was
the first use of the new deportation
regulations proposed by the Fish
Committee and adopted by Congress
only six days before.
The Fake Ballot
The bosses then made a desperate
effort to break the ranks of the
strikers, by gathering a few score
corrupted workers, active reaction
airy elements of the American Legion,
baptizing them as strike COM
mittee," and holding a ballot" UNI
der the direct supervision of-sthe
police. About 300 workers took part
in the ballot" but the bosses bra
zenly announced 1000 votes, but
even these shameless liars were
ashamed to claim unanimous"
vote, and conceded 400 votes to con-
tinue the strike. more than the total
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
BURDEN PLACED
ON CARPENTER
ALL. Officials Levy
Tax "For Relief"
(By a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md, March lon
March End all union carpenters are
being called to a special meeting I'M
der the penalty of being fined two
dollars. This meeting is going to take
up the question of assessing the en-
ployed carpenters to feed the unem-
ployed union carpenters.
The average union carpenter is only
making at the best for the year about
81 900 to $1,000 a year if he is FORUM
ate enough to make Is weeks work
for the year, and out of this amount
they must shell out SITS month as
dues and every months an addi-
tional 81 for working card.
The union never did allow exempt
or unemployed stamps for unemployed
carpenters, but have deliberately
thrown out the unemployed carpen-
tiers who were unable to pay
the exhorbitant dues every month.
The officials are ever ready to cut
the small income of the workers but
at the same time the bureaucrats
hold all easy jobs at big pay. For the
one local they have business agents
getting only SO bucks apiece and they
could get along elegantly with 2 bus
mess agents. On the payroll there
are financial secretary, a recording
secretary getting around so bucks and
on top Of that host of officers draw
ing a salary from $4,000 to $1,000 a
year. This large payroll is kept up
through the extraction process" from
the blood and toll of the workers who
have to pay IS bucks to get into the
union
Fellow workers of the carpenters
union--rarlk and file workers, fight
against this tax This is nothing but
an attempt to put the burden of I'M
employment on the back of the work.
ers instead of making the bosses pay
from the huge super profits they have
made from the workers. Force the
A. F. OF l.. to demand Unemployment
insurance from the City administra-
ton for the unemployed workers.
Make the bosses pay!
Demand no dues payment for un-
employed carpenters! Demand that
the officials salary be reduced! De-
mand that the number of business
agents be cut down to two instead of
four! Demand lower initiation fee
of ten dollars for entrance into the
Mon! Rank and file workers fight
against this lowering of your stand
ard of living! Take the control of the
union out Of the hands Of the bureau
Gratis!
Join the Trade Union Unity Learuc,
at 3 South Green ST., Baltimore, Md.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

Seattle, Wash.
Dear Comrade:
1 am writing about the miserable
soup lines. The Sunshine Club in
particular In the first place it should
be called the gloomy club. As the
armory is the place where the soup
line is situated, the light is poor and
The air is foul, which makes it a most
miserable place for the hungry I'M
employed to find a. mere existence
In the way of bosses charity. The
food Is the most Inadequate to main
tain health standards.
As I was coming from the bread
line, there were two young fellows
who asked me for a dime or two, as
they had been on the bread line for
weeks. They wanted to get some
thing more substantial than the slop
they received at the bread line.
The Sunshine Club Is making large
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
REIGN OF TERROR RACES IN CUBA; i,
MACHADO SAYS HE HAS BEEN
TOO EASY; MANY ARE KILLED
Forced Labor Recruitment Continues; Young
Worker Killed for Refusing

HAVANA, Cuba, March 1.-The reign of terror instituted
by Machado against the workers growing shaper Feb
ra 23rd Machado despe the fact that hundreds
jailed murdered stated speech that ur error was not
so much violence but weakness in applying it,"
On FEBRUARY II among 30 reported jailed for their political
opposition to Machado the following Sivio Caseneda
Francisco Jenez ncene Lpz Mario Fabra gnacio Cacere
Sererno Lopez Joaquin Ado Venanco Touran Evangesta
Garcia Jose Gutan Vera Maria Seijo Martinez Enrou Bullion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
JAIL 6 PEASANTS
IN BUCHAREST
Collisions Continue in
Germany
Wire BY Inprecorrs

BERLIN.-YeSterday evening the
R"'ahshanner attacked workers in the
gallery at the meeting in the Berlin
Borough Council They used steel
rnds and clubs, etc. Afterwards, COL
hsions again occurred before the
Town Hall. where the fascists shot a
Reichsbannernan, A fascist was ar
rested.
Last evening collisions between
workers and fascists occurred in
Weissensee. Three fascists were seri-
ously injured. Two arrests were
made.
A collision occurred in the hall OF
a fascist meeting i'll FienSburg, when
the fascist guards tried to eject Com
munist workers. A fascist was seri-
ously injured. ~
At the Leipzig trial where thirty
workers are accused the following
occurred:
The accused Wagner, as described
by the Reichswehr employee, Pestner,
came to the Communist PARTY Of
fices and offered great arms dump
administered by the Reichswehr for
the fascists. Communists thought
Pestner spy, and decided to expose
him, When Wagner referred to the
origin of the dump the court excluded
the general public, and conducted a
four-hour secret session. IS
The judge obviously strived to clear
Petner at the cost of the accused.
The trial was adiudged until Thurs
day.
BUDAPEST. - Six peasants were
seized and sentenced to various terms
charged with distributing Communist
literature.
PARIS.-Dockers of La Pailice were
locked out today because they refused
to unload a ship from HaYre where a
strike is in process. ~ 8~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Oranges Rot As Jobless Starve In Florida

chickens. Slow starvation is what I
get every day.
Nearly all Of the orangers and
grapefruit are rotting under the trees
here. No market they say. The poor
children up north would be glad to
get some oranges.
When I get through reading the
Eaily l take them to Fort Pierce and
give them away. Hope the workers
Will soon be in the white horse and
rule this country. III. w. q.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
nJIIED nITWU TO
KEEP VICTOR 7
Strike Com mite e
Issues Statement
ocoNrINr,,a r.oM PAGE ONE.

CCoNTINI''a FnoM PAGE oNE)
the bosses did not dare, even in
their- lying Statements. to claim that
more thah 1000 out of 1000 strikers
participated in their vote. And even
of these so-called 1000 they admit
400 voted against the bosses pro-
posal
Strikers Win-But Not 1907
The boss and police terror pre-
vented us on Thursday from form
ulating our, answer to the bosses pro-
pcsals. We now declare that the
company has granted all our de-
mandS Except time and a half for
overtime. We won the strike but
We did not win hundred per cent
vistory. We repeat what we have
stataed before, that we prefer not
to work overtime. Although this de-
mand remains unsettled, the workers
can as last resort refuse to work
overtime on the old basis.
With this declaration we go back
to work in an organized manner
on Monday, March 2. This means
that we ~lnust have our committee
in every department. Every depart
ment must send representatives to a
mill committee. The mill owners
must deal with this mill committee
OH all grievances which the workers
have. We must not allow the COM
pany to play one department and
one craft against another. We must
stick together on the job, just like
We did in our splendid strike
Join the NTWU
The policy of the National Tex
tile Workers Union is to unite all
the workers. Therefore the depart
ment and mill committees are COM
posed of union members and work
ers who are not yet in the union.
At the same time more of us are
joining the National Textile Work
ers' Union. The bosses refuse to
recognize the union but the work
ers recognize it. And the bosses will
be forced to deal with the organized
power Of the workers led by the Ma
tionaI Textile Workers Union.
Everybody stand united for bet
ter conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

and piece work has been cut so they
can't make a daily wage.
Also the other furniture factories
are having the same trouble and
very few are operating over two and
three days per week while conditions
in general look very dark.
Unemployed Council Of
Jamestown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
ANAEORTES. WASH.
PUT ON THE MAP

From George K. we receive an en-
couraging letter and a few facts on
train time:
II have received the $4,000 Cir
Cusation Campaign bulletins regu-
larry, and the last one at hand is
Bulletin No. IL. Sorry to see that
all the other places are doing bet
ter than AnaeOrtes, but hope that
we soon Will be ale tob do better
as a COmrade from Bellingham
was here organizing the Unempioy-
ed Councils, and we will ehOOS
Daily Worker agent as soon as we
can"
Following this he reports that
Anacortes receives the Daily Worker
four days after the dete of issue, at
. p. M, residential mall
We hope Ccm~ede e whites us
regularly. especially res 3 the ac-
tivity of the Council in the Daily
Worker sales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
WAGE CUTS INCREASE
(By a Worker Correspondent

BRUVEVILLE., Ind.--The Brown
Shoe Company Vincennes plant gave
their workers . wage cut also who
were already working at starvation
wages. Their women workers some
Of them receiving as low as cents
per hour according to the reports
Of these same workers.
The Holland Cook Wholesale Co.
cent wage cut, their truck drivers
also gave their employees Is per
were only receiving $50 per week
before this cut. now S17.00
If this keeps up vincennes will
be making history again pretty
soon. ID. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
RED CROSS ENDS
FAKE FEEDING

WASHIN GTON, Feb. 25.-On
March ! the Red Cross will stop even
pretending to feed the starving farm
ers In the Southern plantation states.
The national headquarters announced
this fact recently. In Louisiana and
adjacent plantation states March
has ben set to stop handing out the
misery slop that the starving farm
ers have been getting, but which did
not keep hundreds OF them from
dying of hnge..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
SELLS IN DECATUR

This is William TuttIe of De-
catur, ILL.,, who is handling the
Daily Worker in that territory. He
says:
''The paper business is very slack
at present, but has begun to pick
up. / am new on the job and have
just begun to learn the trade. Got
two new subscribers. F. T. b. has
a job at present and has turned
his paper business over to me. Pa
pers get here a day after the date
of issue, somewhere between 8 a.
m. and ! p. M
William T, seems to have enter
prise and We anticipate some lively
sales. Keep in touch with us. reg
ularly. Sellers, send photos.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

OF all countries in its provisions for
the welfare of working women.
The Women's Department of the
Communist Party calls on all work.
ingwomen in the United States to
demonstrate at the hundreds of mass
meetings which will be in this coun-
try on March 8. to unite and or
ganize for the fight that must be
waged to win the demands that are
the right of every workingwomen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
INDIANAPOLIS BOSSES
HAVE NEAR-PEONAGE
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
Children of Jobless Going Around With Little
Clothes and Lack Good Food
Family of Ten Found Starving; Baby Shriveled
Up By Hunger, Dies
Indianapolis, Ind.

Dear Sr:- Indianapolis Ind.
thought perhaps your readers would be interested to hear
of of the things that happening in this midwest
captaistrdden city, At times here this winter the suffering
among the poor has been acute There has been little work
The Chamber of which has charge of all of the
c work paying the workers two dollars and twenty cents
and basket Of grub If refuses to work for this
meager salary he is hailed into municipal court before Judge
Wetter who has about much feeling for poor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

Daily WORKER
To let you know that I am still
,ere yet.
This crisis is giving me hell. Don't
now if I will be able to live over it
II not.
have no job and no money at all.
III / got is just few chickens, no
rice for eggs. feed high. Will try
nd get some hens for fryers Don't
now how l will get feed for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Gov. Olson of Minnesota Toilers' Enemy

His visit to the National Military
Training Camp at Ripley, his visit to
Lindberg's home a ten acre farm
place.
While the farmers are going bank
rupt and not able to pay taxes and
the city feeding the unemployed. That
is the situation in this country.-A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Bosses Burn Bread Rather Than Feed
Starving

(By . Worker Correspondent
Chicago, iii.
Daily WORKER
Fellow workers and comrades. Do
not let your families or friends pat
roniDe the following bakeries: Aber-
Geen. has w. Madison, Bernhardt's,
1877 w. Madison, "Our Bakery"
1871 W. Madison. They burn bread
vather than let the hungry and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Toledo, o.

Toledo, O.
Daily Worker:
! see In the Daily Worker Of Feb.
10 that the steel industry is dis
charging the old men with long
service record.
I don't work in the steel industry.
l work on the railroad. / am per-
sonally familiar with 8 or 4 cases
of the M. G. Ry. and the Nye at
Toledo. Bill Lee switchman and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
DAILY" GROWING
AMONG PEOPLE

II conferr to you | hardly can
sell rs copies because the pean'e
are absolutely going broke; the
workers have been exploited by the
Standard Steel Car So. so feroci-
Ously. But this was not enough
SO the bank closed its doors and
robbed the working people of every
thing they had. But / will sell
the Daily Worker at penny
copy to keep the Daily Worker
growing among the people"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Railroads Talk of Cutting Out Pensions

Holl and an inspector were retired
without pension.
Bill Lee seabbed in the strike of
the ARU in 1894, but went out with
the men in 1920 but went back to
work 3 days before the strike was
over at Toledo.
I overheard Nye official talking
today and he said the company vas
going to get away from the pension.
&C. A,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

needy workers have 1t.
They refused to let us have stale
bread and cakes for needy people
here at the house but turned
around and burned about 200 loaves
OF bread each and so cakes and COT
fee rings each recently. Three
workers were paid 20 cents each for
two hours work. Can you beat it!
CIR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
KEEP DAILY
AT ALL COSTS

II will try to send shortly funds
to cover what now owe ard also
for advance sub" writes c. H .Tn--NT
OF Washington, D. c. ~ '
out for work for so lone. b.
we must keep the Daily We
ing at all COSTS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
jamestown Furniture Factories Slash Pay
Jamestown, N. Y.

Jamestown, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
The Union Furniture Co. has had
three wage cuts in eighteen months,
the first, 10 cents per hour. the sec
ond six months later 10 cents per
hour and the third, 10 per cent:
This last cut took effect Feb. %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
BUTTE, MONT.
SENDS REPORT

From Willis L. Wright we received
q report indicating that out of 800
copies received, 143 we're sold on the
street, and 70 from house,
by j. K, agent.
Il can't make a report on the Great
Falls sales until I return there after
the Foster meeting" says Wright.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Little Falls, MINI.

%kVViC 6IIc, Whit,
Daily WORKER
Hardly had Governor Floyd B. Oh
son, farrner-laborite, stepped into the
breeches left by Gov. Christensen
that he began to show himself as a
real class enemy of the laboring class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
DAILY" POPULAR
IN TOLEDO. q.

please raise the Daily Worker
bundle to 100 daily as soon as yeu
cen for the Toledo workers like
the Daily Worker" A BURY,
Toledo, Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Four Die, Sixteen Poisoned On Tacoma
Breadline
Daily Worker:
Tacoma, Wash.


Thursday 18TH sixteen poisoned from eating filthy
Volunteers America uures of Amer
-Four already
This the kind of bosses
charity we an forced accept here In Tacoma.
"A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
COUNTRY BOARD.

%92iDsPe0ks FOOD .h stH
only: references exchanged. Mrs. David n.
Walton. "Bide-A-wee" Inn.
ssrase Phone Fails Church s42-F-s:
%aI care. p. SGaTS 8 per TR
farm near Brookeyiile. Nd; excellent care
and food; swimming, nshins; terms mod
E ds51sd MTs Arch A'Ff ln.1 EnoT
Montg. Co, Md. Phone Ashton l15-F-2l.
CHILDREN boarded on farm; reasonable
rates 1.stor Mrs Mrs. sSoeorss F. Brown. Ednor' Nd.
CHILDREN boarded on large farm; plenty
good. fresh food; mothers care; reasonable.
Phone Ashton lls-F-3. Mrs. c. W. Benson
REA pac gsoS on top
bus bus line S.w wIits g. phone Mrs. nO More
BABIES AND CHILDREN BOARDED. coUN-
church: bu; Exeellent care .nd TODD.
Mrs., Guy Brown, Brighton. Nd. Phone
HAZELHURST POULTRY FARM-Summer
bosrders. four men or two business COUPLES.
Rates reasonable IS minutes drive TO
on aSe setomae sa7w
wANTED-city children for Summer
tiful surroundings. Mrs. John Barrett,
Manassas. Va. 40
BEAUTIFUL Estate on Grain Hishway
sl2 per week Phone Marlboro lis. l9'
PROSPECT HILLovernlsht and weekly weekly
33s-J. Mrs. Roy l. Hyndman, Frederick; No.
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TABLE BOARD.

FOR GOOD MEALS by day. week or month,
call Adams $50. Near c. H. school.
2soo 18th ST. Hillcrest-Plenty to eat:
balanced meals. hot bread; SIS month or
$3.50 per week as
SUBURBAN ROOMS AND BOARD.
PRIVATE HOME. cool rooms: modern con-
veniences; good board convenient to trolley
and bus; reasonable. Phone Falls Church
i25.
LARGE. cool ROOMS; shade: city con-
veniences: 10 minutes to Wash; continuous
hot water; good board. Phi. Clarendon 1886.
2Ss
COOL QUIET ROOM; private family; ami.
pioyed adults. Fails Church sos-F-53