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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
GIRLS LURED TO
PROSTITUTIONBY
CHI. JOB SHARKS
Sales Girl Job Turns
Out to Be Place in
Disorderly House

Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
While was searching the city for
Job I saw an ad stating that 100
sales ladies were wanted to sell house
to house. So went and applied for
q Job, but found that instead of sales
ladies, they were looking for women
to work in disorderly house on what
they call $3.50 basis.
I told the man there that I was
looking for a decent Job to make a
decent living. He told me that he
didn't care because he could easily
get hundred girls a day for these
houses on account of the hard times.
He said that most girls were glad
now to become prostitutes for a cup
Of coffee and little something to
eat. Girls should consider them
selves lucky, he said, to be allowed
10 go into these houses and sell them
selves for IS and $40 a day.
When I told him that I would
report him he said he would slug
me or have somebody else do 1t if
I ever dared to do such a thing.
I try to organize and talw to as
many workers as can. got many
to join the Unemployed Council. I
try to sell the Daily Worker to these
workers. but as most of them are
broke I have to give the paper to
them. I try to do all can. I have
to pick green's in empty lots. I don't
know how I will live this winter.
Working Woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Miners Never Saw
Green's Billions
Striking Miner Writes
of UNIV Scab Role
Beading, Pa.

Beading, Pa.
Daily Worker:
Since 1927 the United Mine Work
ers Of America has done absolutely
nothing to help us miners. Maybe
Mr.. Green gave three billion dol
lars, but us miners amt seen none
Of them dollars. Green says that
many helped keep up our wages and
conditions-sure, we get regular
UNIV conditions-starvation! Pat
Fagan's home cost about $4,000.
And the other organizers of the
UNIV has been sitting on hotel
porches and smoking fat cigars and
doing what the bosses told them.
Shouldn't be surprised If more than
the AFL money is lining their pock-
cts. And eight weeks ago, Pat Pagan
refused to do anything for the min
erA
Not a Cent for Miners.
A member Of the UNIV from Co.
verdale No. Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal 90. went to ask Pagan to do
something to stop the wage cuts in
the mines, Pagan refused to do any,
thing. He said that absolutely
nothing could be done. Two weeks
later the National Miners Union
called strike in Coverdale mine
No. 8. Pittsburgh Terminal. Two
days later Pat Pagan started to work
with the coal operator making agree
nsuts and contracts with the oper-
ators. We were getting $3.50 day
for dirt cleaning Gust a few of us
on day time) and loading coal
brought 80 to IS cents a ton. But
cars Weighing from $500 to 1900 lbs
were only getting marked 1900 to
$500 lbs. House rent was Sl4.50 for
rooms, but we did get that reduced
to SO. We had to pay $4.76 for run
Of mine" coal. Striking Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

All furnishings to a club, red corner
(Krasni Ugolok) radio, etc, are given
by them. The schools either for the
children or for the grown ups, are
under the supervision of the trade
unions. If you are sent out of the
factory you even get paid to learn.
Also the Trade Schools are under
their control. Imagine the difference
OF system. There are so many
applicants that they haven't enough
dues books for them. Imagine, only
workers can join the unions. Kulaks
and Nepmen cannot be initiated.
What comparison to a Trade Union
in your U.S.A.!
All Have Jobs
We haven't such a thing as I'M
employment. Why, the place where
we are working is short at least of
700 men. I have so many theatres
and lectures to go that I don't know
where to go first. You can see the
best of everything and you can crit
icise as much as you want, if you
are a worker.
No such thing here as looking for
a job Everybody works, and let me
tell you, this is no country for 1oafers
If you would see Leningrad and
Moscow with their new factories and
buildings, you would know what So
cialist construction means. Every
factory is working day and night
The Swear Plan in years will be
done, comrades. Tell the comrades
that the Russian workers are asking
for their solidarity. Don't let them
be fooled. There are not capitalist
slaves here. The workers here are
free to enjoy their labor Imagine,
every hour you are allowed 10 min
utes for a smoke in the smoking
room and 10 minutes before quitting
time for cleaning the clothes.
forgot to mention about the sys-
tenn of sick benefit. The highest
amount Of sick benefit is 100 rubles.
Anybody receiving wages equal to
that amount receives benefit in full
Those that receive above that amount
get only up to 1870 and not more,
even the specialists can't get more.
Beside the benefit there is free doc
tors and medicine, which counts a
lot.
Well, that's all at present. When
you write next time tell me what
you want to know and I will answer
gladly Best regards to all members
of Local 2090. Fight with the real
leadership, follow the only line and
that's the Trade Union Unity League.
With comradely greetings,
George Kerekes.
Comrade Kerekes is the former
Rec. Secretary of Carpenters Local
2090. He left for the Soviet Union
with the First Carpenters Group.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Textile Bosses Call
zoe an Hour Giving
the Workers a Break

Dear sir: Elmwood, Pa.
Here in Elmwood there is the Bur-
kark Manufacturing Company, where
the workers manufacture cotton
goods for big rich capitalist. There
is tremendous speed-up in this fac
tory and the workers work at the
rate of 20 cents in most cases, only a
few get 25, 30, IS and 40 cents an
hour.
The workers work only two and
three hours some days-and then
they have to pay trolley car fare to
go to work What are these two or
three hours a day? The manager
calls this giving the workers a
break"
A Fellow Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Meadowlands. Pa.

Daily WORKER =
The wives Of the striking miners
are today fighting in the great strike
against starvation The women in
the mine fields suffer even more
than the men do. They have to wor-
ny about feeding the kids. They,
who must stay in the homes, have to
listen to the hungry kids cry for
food and they have nothing to give
them.
Many of the children during the
school season could not go to school
because they had nothing to wear
Many Of the women could not go out
Of the house because they had no
dresses.
Last winter many Of the miners
families in Pennsylvania had to
freeze in the cold because they were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
State Cop Beats Up
Child Who Carried
American Flag

not able to buy the same coal that
they dug with their own hands, with
their own picks and shovels.
Beat Children
Us women have been on the picket
lines since the beginning Of the
strike, where the yellow dogs dep
uty sheriffs) beat up many of us and
also the small children. One morn
ing went on the picket line at
West Land where I saw state po-
liceman take an American flag out
of nine year old boys hand and
beat him with the flag stick Just the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS
WIN IN BRONX OVER LANDLORDS
SCHEME TO CUT JANITORS' PAY
Rally Tenants to Support Fight; Stop Landlord
From Firing Worker
A r of L Supplies Scabs to Help Break Main
tenance Strike

NEW YORK, N Y.-The superintendent and ianitors
IN the apartment houses in this city working under the
most deplorabe conditions long hours low wages living
quarters in the Easements the rule The Building Service
Employees international Union has organized several locals in
New York City, For instance Local 81 in Brooklyn Local 81
Manhattan Local II in the Bronx all superintendent craft
unions None of these locals have developed any struggles
IN the past have been cut in many places
the antors ected when their time up the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
10 WiertOn Steel
Workers Collapse
tBy a Worker Correspondent

WEIRTON, w. Va.-At the Weir
ton Steel Mills, in West Virginia, we
are not allowed to quit no matter
how sick, until we fall down. The
result is that in the last two days
no less than 45 men have been car
ried out of the mill on stretchers.
From the tin mill alone rs were car
ried out within IS hours, so you can
see how conservative the figure of As
is for the entire works in days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Bosses Reap Huge
Profits from Sardines
(By q Worker Correspondent

PILLAGEK, Minn.-A local mer-
chant was wondering how sardines
could be put on the market to retail
at 5 cents for ounce can. A young
seaman who had been fishing on the
west coast last year figured 1t out
for him.
This Is what he found At 5 cents
for 5 ounces, they cost the consum-
ers l6 cents pound. This means
$3.50 cents per ton. The fishermen
received 81 to $l1.oo a ton last year.
This leaves $3.50 ton for profit and
packing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
DAYTON CASTING COMPANY
SLASHES PAY

Daily Worker: Dayton, Ohio
On July 8, the Dayton Casting Co.,
announced a TO 10 percent wage
cut, for all the workers employed
there. Even, up to now, the workers
have been struggling hard to make
a living, and with this awge cut TAX
ing place, they will be working for
practically nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
LETTER FROM USSR
SPIKES BOSS CLASS
FORCED LABOR LIES
Factory Workers Allowed 10 Minutes Rest
Every Hour in Smoking Room
Sick Benefit of 100 Rubles a Month for All
Who Work
Leningrad, U. S. S. R.
Dear Comrades

Dear Comrades:
In your last letter you have asked information
gardng the functions Of the shop committees here the u S.
R. Well will tell you. The shop committee is the repre-
sentative of the trade union The shop committee abcom)
not only handling trade problems but also social sport
angles Here the trade unions not trade unions word
only Hospitals and doctors supplied by them They have
the privilege of getting free theatre tickets for the members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11
Miners Child Starves toDeath
Gardale, Penn.

Gardae
the mining town of Allison a
the Honorable W. Rainy practically all his
for dirty coal few days young
est daughter girl of about eight
forced to have her buried
get enough forwarded him
They the starvation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-11

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
War Debts.

Prompt payment Of war debts, not
alone as a matter Of economy, but also
as a necessity of national defense, was
urged by Representative c. w. Ram
sever Of Iowa before the War Policies
Commission yesterday. Mr.. Ramseyer
declared It to be illogical and bordering
on the ridiculous TO take the position
that in the next war in which the
United States Is involved all the ma
tertal resources Of the country should
be drafted and the war fought without
debt and at the same time to urge that
the debt growing out Of the World War
should not be paid by the generation
that made that war.
ITO say that the last war was fought
for future generations and that they
should help pay the war debt ignores
the fact that future generations will
have obligations OF their own, possibly
war Obligations included. to pay of, -
said Mr.. Ramseyer. "The obligations
we contracted by the late war should
not be heaped upon their shoulders as
an additional burden"
From the point Of view OF national
defense 1t seems impossible to ind fault
with the argument advanced by the
Iowa Representative. It is obvious that
country heavily IN debt from an old
war cannot finance q new war as readily
as 1t could IL the country were debt
free. The United States had wiped out
the debt growing out Of the Civil War
long before 1t entered the World War
indeed within twenty-three years after
the earlier conflict ended. The cost Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

than $40 when new, but they fetched
$25, on which he was able to live until
he could get away In British ship.
Farming Situation I'm
Porto Rico Almost Desperate.
Fl Progreso, San Juan: Porto Rico
Is primarily an agricultural country
with q distinct and unequivocal Span
iSh background, despite the fact that
it Is politically bound up with the
United States. Latin traditions and the
Spanish language are deep rooted in
our souls and form the foundation
upon which all our culture is based
We are proud Of our lineage and an
cestry and we are very sensitive to
criticism, especially when it is inspired
by prejudice or any spirit Of racial
superiority.
Politically we are . part of the
United States; economically we are a
vassai colony of America. II this status
Is Objectionable in certain respects, II
Is compensated for in part by being
inside the American tariff WALL; and
by various privileges extended by Con-
gress in the local retention of our GUS
toms duties, income taxes, internal
revenues, etc, which together amount
to nearly half the sum needed to bal
ance our budget.
Agriculture is practically our only
source of wealth, and our typical
jibaro pack bearer, though lover
Of romance and music, Is pre-eminently
tiller of the soil. The success OF
agricultural enterprises is the very
backbone Of our economic health, but
in recent years coffee, sugar and to-
bacco prices have declined and pro-
longed droughts have brought an un-
precedented crisis upon these industries
Our farming situation at the present
time is only little less than desperate
Efforts are being directed under the
present administration of Gov. Roose-
welt to alleviate conditions and to
bring agriculture back to its pristine
state Of normal and profitable de-
velopment
Sugar cane Is now our basic crop;
under the Spanish regime coffee was
the chief cultivation. In recent years
however, 80 per cent of our best land
lOO,o hectares (247,100 acres), has
been planted to sugar. tobacco being
our second largest crop, with the fruit
industry being the next largest de-
velopment for export under the Stars
and Stripes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
The Old Arithmetic.

The Old Arithmetic.
had a lot of trouble
With that old arithmetic.
It kept me bending double
Over problems long and thick.
Addition and subtraction
Used to rob me Of repose,
And when I hit fraction,
I was rendered comatoSe.
When at last I quit my schooling.
Sweet relief hoped to see.
I would shout for Golden Ruling
And I'd quit the Rule Of Three.
But my hopes proved sadly futile,
For the numbers wore a look
Even more abruptly brutal
Than the figures in the book.
With offensive ostentation
Figures dominate each plan
From the latest legislation
To the wheeze, How Old Is Ann?'
They will roar and romp and rattle
Till your soul grows sore and sick
And your life seems one long battle
With that old arithmetic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21

the Spanish-American War was met
promptly. when the United States
entered the World War it was in a posi-
ton to raise Rs much money as it
needed, not alone to pay the expenses of
Its armies and the Navy, but also to help
finance Its associates in that war.
Mr.. Ranseyer called attention also
to the vast economy to the American
people in interest on the World War
debt which had been saved to them
simply by the expedient of wiping out
more than one-third of the huge
see. 900, 000, 900 debt which the country
owed at the close of the war. He said
that proposals have been made to ex-
tend the payment of the war debt over
period of sixty-two years instead Of
completing the payment in twenty or
twenty-five years, as originally pro-
posed. He pointed out that if $1,000
100000 is paid at the end of twenty
years the cost to the taxpayers of the
country in principal and interest will
total 81 $50, 600, 600, but if the payment
is extended over sixty-two years the
cost becomes the staggering amount Of
$685., 100000.
In the coming Congress it is expected
that proposals will be advanced seri-
ouSly that the payment of the war debt
be extended over long period Of years:
AS a means of meeting the present
Treasury situation with a prospective
deficit of almost billion dollars. The
country is to be congratulated, however,
on having gone forward as rapidly as
1t has with the payment of the war
debt A failure to pay the debt would
In no wise have prevented or postponed
the depression In business which Is
worldwide today. That depression
arises from economic causes, growing
out of the war, it Is true. But in this
country overexpansion and overproduc-
ton have been largely responsible for
the situation which now confronts the
Nation, not to Mention q period of
frenzied speculation. Had the war debt
not been reduced as it has the interest
charges upon billions of dollars would
now be added to the burden already
rtsting upon the shoulders Of the tax
payers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

even of one of these curious human
beings who hates cats" as such says,
| to have seen the CLEAN in the cats
! eyes, as he dashed home bearing a
chicken almost as large as himself.
! He had it by the wing; and that it
the fowl gave ample evidence at every
stride.
Squawkl You never heard such a
! squawking in all your life.
r X X
"Lcok at me-" Master Smudge seemed
| to say, as he ran up with his prize.
Let go, let go!" roared the Diamond
| chicken.
The appeal of the biped led to hu-
man aid, which extracted the fowl from
the jaws of the cat.
Chickens are silly things, at best No
| sooner was this one released than 1t
gave such a flutter that it few away,
or attempted to ny away.
Master Smudge was on 1t at
bound.
Prom all the squawking and fiutter-
| ing a spectator might have thougnt
that nothing but fried chicken would
ever have come out of the gathering.
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We have said, however, and We re-
@'sN@oO@--~
creature, an automaton. as 1t were,
without conscious realization of hurt or
offenSc.
Surely nothing on four legs could
handle a frightened chicken with neater
dispatch or less harml
Taken from the jaws a second time
| the chicken was restored uDhurt to It's
owner, and the exeitment OF the DAY
was over.
L. ~
But there were more days, Of course.
In the country districts the qoes-
ton of cats VS.. chickens often becomes
acute.
One of the best ways to break cats
of chicken stealing is to take baby
chick, place 1t en- the back OF the
cat and at the same time jab pin
in the latter.
This somewhat drastic treatment is
said to do the work, for the cat thinks
the chick gave him the vicious JAP.
+ 4 4
! A day or so later q great hubbub
arose.
"Smudge has the chicken again!"
| Sure enough, Smudge had.
| Here he came, his long legs Looping
over the ground, his head raised high,
/ his large wide-Set eyes shining.
Look what / got!" these eyes said,
or seemed to say, at any rate permit
us an extravaganza, now and them.
| This time Master Smudge was wise.
He made for the sun porch and sunk
his legs q trifie in order to carry his
prize beneath 1t, where the lattice came
a bit high.
4 \
1t was at this point that the chicken,
Squawking bloody murder, which was
an exaggeration, Of course, but you
couldn't blame 1t, managed to get
loose
Under the porch 1t dashed.
It started to preen its rufaed feath-
ers, then 1t saw Smudge advancing.
With q great roar, 1t ran into waiting
arms. Aside from outraged dignity, it
was little the worse for its second ex-
perience.
Smudge, the cat, seemed nightly
pleased with himself. somehow. After
all, this was being a cat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21

! making the hop. This young man, as
the phrase goes, beat them to it. Some
thirty three hours later, on the twenty
first Of May, 1927, Charles Lindbergh
landed at lie Bourget Field, near Paris,
the first to make nonstop solo flight
across the Atlantic. He made history.
His performance thrilled the world. 1t
vita:ized aviation enterprise.
As Lindbergh slipped OF In the nurk
Of the damp morning. with his little
packet Of sandwiches, millions began
to watch. They could not see him
physically; they could only sense his
progress. Hours elaped before there
was any report. and then from Ireland
came the FIST s1dings, and more hours
passed, with conflicting reports and
alterations of doubt and hope. The
darkness came In France. 1t was still
light over here, and then, after a long
period of uncertainty-it seemed an
eternity to those who were waiting
came the flash that the Lone Eagle
had arrived and the world exploded
with JOY.
Four yearsl A little time, just a
brief span. Nothing at all in world
history. And yet in that four years
so much has been done. great advance
has been scored in aviation, and today
thousands of Americans are flying
about on business errands. Commercial
air lines are maintaining regular safe
services and out in the Middle West
the air is dark with a great aerial
armada, the country;s air defense, in
maneuvers.
There will never be quite the same
thrill again as that which was felt
when Lindbergh landed. 1t is well to
remember the days when that historic
flight began and ended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-21
The Red Cross Jubilee.

Washington is entitled to take mere
interest in the Golden Jubilee of the
American Red Cross than any other
community in the country because ii
was within the Capitol's shadow that
: the Nations great league of mercy was
| born.
Fifty years ago this day, on May 81
| 1881, at the home CT Clara Barton, in
neighboring Glen Echo, q meeting OF
Washington citizens was held for the
purpose of organizing an American
branch of the International Red Cross
Society. Six weeks later, on July /,
1881, THE American Association of the
Red Cross" was duly incorporated I'M
der District of Columbia laws.
Nine months afterward, the emer-
gency Of food in the Mississippi VAL
ley gave the young organization Its
first chance to clear for action in its
chosen field of humanitarianism. The
American Red Cross first appeal for
funds on behalf CT flood relief was dated
at Washington on March %, 1882, ex-
actly one week after President Chester
A. Arthur and the United States Senate
had jointly taken action clothing the
society with high Federal sanction.
The rest is history. And what a
glorious chapter Of history In war and
peace, in pestilence and famine, in dis
aster and catastrophe of almost every
description, at home and abroad, the
American Red Cross has spread its
merciful wings promptly, effectively
and unreservedly. It has become def
nitely established as Americas almoner
Deriving its resources exclusively from
the pockets Of the people, and adhering
consistently to the principle Of volun-
tary contributions the Red Cross has
unfailingly INDICATED the purpose Of its
founders that IT should at all times be
the expression Of the Nations innate
philanthropic impulse.
Events Of the past year, in connection
with the blight Of drought in many
States Of the Union, afforded the Red
Cross a classic opportunity once again
to demonstrate that an appeal to the
American heart is more ef6cacious than
a draft upon the American Treasury.
The ideals Of neighborliness have not
taken wings from this altruistic land of
ours. despite the evidences of Grass
materialism that surround us on every
side.
It VIII be in that sense that Presi-
dent Hoover and Chief Justice Hughes
at tonight's Golden Jubilee feast In
Washington will acclaim the past and
present and rededicate the future of
the American Red Cross. The organi-
cation was fortunate in the caliber Of
the far-visioned men and women, like
Clara Barton and her associates, who
gave 1t birth. 1t is no less favored In
the character of leaders like John Bar
ton Payne, who today are holding aloft,
despite the snipings Of politicians, the
old standards under which the Red
Cross marches from year to year, and
from decade to decade, to ever more
fruitful victories in the campaign against
human misery.