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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Cigar Workers Send :
Tenth Weekly Check
to Starving Miners

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept s0.--Tns
cigar factory workers, VINO have
faithfully contributed for minery re-
lief every week since the end Of
July, today sent their tenth weekly
check. this time totalling $1,000. This
time the collections came from the
Sidelo Santsclls factory, the King
Bee, Sama, Morgan, Ell Paraiso,
Garcia y Vega, Philadelphia, lie Cir
lila, Berrimann, Gradiaz, Regens-
burgh, Corral Cuests y Rey, Guerra
Diaz
Altogether, the cigar workers do
mated s835.o5 to help feed tbs fam
lilies of striking miners. The Spanish
Bakers Union Of Tampa donated s15
through the local committee. During
this period, 400 tobacco workers were
organized into the League.
Bulletins sent out by the relief COM
mittee as well as letters from the coal
fields have been translated into Span
ish and turned over to the readers"
in each factory, who read them to
the workers.
Other factories that have contrib
uted nj former weeks include the
Santa Ella, Integridad, Arrange y
Arrange, and the Ora Diaz factory.
Workers in the cigar factories are
facing conditions little better than
workers in other industries. Women
are earning from SO to $40 a week
The mems pay averages from SIS
to SIT. Very few workers earn over
$40. Both men and women work
from 9 to 10 hours a day. In addi-
ton the workers have heard runbl-
ings of coming ten per cent wage
cut. The TUUL is calling upon the
cigar workers to organize, build a
strong union, and strike against all
wage cuts!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

three weeks this last spasm. The
other has run for three or four
months.
$1.75 A Day
The Wilson Bros. Lumber Co.
started up their mill which had been
down for the last months. Here
the wages we're cut again; this
brings the common labor down to
SITS a day. Just how they can get
anything out of these slaves for the
charity fund is puzzle to almost
everyone. This mill has orders
enough to keep 1t running for about
two weeks, then why they keep closed
no one knows.
The Unemployed Council will con-
tinue to grow in spite of the bosses
efforts to destroy it.
The workers show considerable
militancy but are still confused
And 1t is the task of the Com
munist Party with all Of the revo-
lutionary groups to point the way
out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Cal. Welfare Helps Bosses Slash Wages

ton (the nearest field is rs miles
from here).
In California the average adult cot
ton picker under the most favorable
conditions will not average over $50
pounds day. With the coming Of
the rainy and fog season this will be
greatly reduced. Last season even at
81 per cwt. workers were not making
enough to live on. They had to 60
out on "foraging expeditions" in Or
der to get enough to live on. Forced
labor in the Soviet Union cries the
headlines in the capitalist press.
Forced labor in United States and
not even enough money to buy food
with In return is the true story.
We are forcing some relief now.
We will force more and more, keep
organizing. fight for and get unem-
ployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Bridgeport Workers
Elect Delegate to
Visit Soviet Union

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Sept. 28.--
This important New England indus
trial city has gotten the jump on
many larger cities in the matter Of
electing delegate to the American
Workers Delegation TO Russia. At
a conference Of representatives of
various workers organizations. called
by the local Friends of the Soviet
Union, a native-born worker employ
ed in local plant as a die-maker
was elected to the delegation. tThe
workers name is withheld in. order
to protect his job.
The delegate will be ratified at a
mass meeting to be held Monday
evening, September 20, at Red Mems
Hall, 81 Madison Ave, at which Mar
eel Scherer, member Of the National
Committee o fthe F.S.U. will speak.
The American Workers Delegation,
which will sail about the middle Of
October and attend the celebration
Of the 18th Anniversary Of the Rus
sian Revolution, is being organized
by the Friends Of the Soviet Union,
80 East 18th Street, Room 22l, New
York City. There will be is dele
gates, elected by shops, trade unions
and conferences of workers organ
izations throughout the country,
The delegates will take with them
thousands Of greetings from Amer
lean workers and friends of the US.
SIR. to the Soviet workers and pea
SAINTS. Greeting lists are now being
circulated by the F.S.U. throughout
the country. the price per individual
greeting being rs cents 90 cents for
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
SOUTH CAROLINA
MILL CUTS PAY;
Is One of Series of
Pay Slashes

GRENVILLE, s. c., Sept. 30-The
Brandon Mill here, has just cut wa
ges 10 per cent. 1t is interesting that
this cut comes soon after the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union organ
izer, Clara Holden, was kidnapped by
five men just as she was leaving the
Brandon Mil village, where she had
been talking to some workers.
This 10 per cent at Brandon is the
latest in a series of cuts that have
taken place in the Greenville mills
in the last three months-Woodsi
Judson, Monaghan, Duncan and the
Piedmont Plush Mills have all been
cut from 5 per cent to is per cent.
Further cuts will undoubtedly take
place in the next few months.
The mill owners in collaboration
with the A. F. Of L. are trying to
keep the workers fooled, and keep
them from joining the National Tex
tile Workers Union. At the very time
that National Textile Workers Union
organizers are kidnapped and their
lives threatened, A. F. Of L. organic
ers are conducting a campaign OF
speech-making at the different mills
apparently with the consent Of the
mill owners. The Rev. Paul Fuller,
well-known for his famous disappear
ing and sell-out acts, has even been
brought in by the A. F. of L. So far
they have had no success, as the
workers are wise to them, from past
experience.
The mill workers Of Greenville be-
lieve In the policy Of the National
Textile Workers Union---the policy
Of struggle. They also are convinced
that all the mills should strike at
once - not, as in the past, where
several mills struck in and near
Greenville, but each one separately.
Brandon workers and other mill
workers of the south, have been driv-
en- Just about as far as they are 60
ing to let themselves be driven. The
bosses will soon crack the whip once
too often. Greenville workers. and
other mill workers of the south will
come out on strike under the leader
ship OF the National Textile Workers
Union. They will put another real
fight, as they have done before--in
Gastonia, Marion, Elizabethton,
Greenville and Ware Shoals. South
ern workers are fighters. This time
they will winl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
GERMAN BOSSES IN
WAGE CUT DRIVE
Miners, Dock Workers,
Postal Workers Hit
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIN, Sept. 30.-The arbitration
court appointed by the Emergency
Decree to settle the Ruhr mining
wage dispute yesterday ordered a
seven per cent wage cut. The social
list member of the court, Bergman,
voted in favor of the cuts. The
revolutionary Ruhr committee called
upon the workers TO strike. In part
strikes have already begun. Spe-
cial police forces have been drafted
in the Ruhr district. The police
oppression is increasing against the
miners and meetings are beng dis
persed.
The state railways gave notice of
its intention to end the agreements
in view of introducing wage cuts.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
men are affected. Postal authori-
ties have also given notice that wage
agreements would be terminated,
100000. A total of 100000 state
CIilplOyCGO die llOW blll CdJCllCu Will
wage cuts. The Danzig lockers de-
cided, with an overwhelming ma
jority, to strike against the threat
Thursday.
Yesterday the Social Democratic
Party expelled the leaders Of the left
wing opposition, Seydwitz and Rosen-
field. Today it expelled the Breslap
district committee which declared
solidarity with the left wingers.
The Communist leader, Walter Ul-
BRIGHT, was sentenced to two years in
the fortress charged with high trea-
son by the German Supreme Court.
Con1rade Ulbrich is a member of the
Central Committee of the Commun-
ist Party of Germany and a mem
Der of the Reichstag. The social
lists voted the withdrawal Of immun-
lily, making the sentence possible.
The editor of the Communist daily,
"Ruhr Echo" was sentenced to a
year in the fortress on the same
charge.
The police suppressed the Commun-
list Hamburger Daily Volks1eitung.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Japanese Bankers Hope to
Make Colony of Manchuria

NEW YORK.---Japanese imperial
ism, as part Of its war in Manchuria,
Is increasing activities for the "auton-
omy" Of tbs part Of China, as the
first step for making Msnchuria an
outright colony of Japan.
Three groups have been Organ
ized," cabled Hallet Abend, New York
Times correspondent from Shang-
hal. Among the Organizers" are the
most reactionary, parasitic forces,
such as Monaghan and Manchu
princes, as well as other lackeys of
Japanese imperialism.
RED Star" organ of the Red Army
In the Soviet Union, in a social ar
ticle entitled 1.-THE Second Stage Of
the Japanese intervention" gives the
details of Japanese constant en-
croachment in Manchuia, Accord
ing to a report by Walter Duranty
from Moscow, to the New York
Times, Red Star" states:
Final consolidation of the South
Manchuria Railway in Japanese
hands.
Completion Of the Kirin- Tunhua
Railroad over to Huinin.
"The prOlongation of the line
from Changchun 10 TaOnan to So
lun and further nOrtheastwsrd.
1.-THE construction of a branch
line from Changchun into Inner
Mongolia through TaIun TO JehOI
and Chohar.
Control by Japan Of all the Chi-9
nese railroads I'm Msnchuria, in
Guiding the Taonan- Tsitsihar Sec
tor and the ports Of HuIuto and
Yingkow, competing with the South
Manchuria Railway and DaireD-
THE removal of every obstacle
TO the export to Japan from Man
churia of COAL iron and other prod
ucts, with similar freedom for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Omaha Jobless Committee Passes the Buck
a buck passing program.

a buck passing program.
The American Legion representa-
tive on the mayors relief committee
is Sam w. Reynolds. This individual
is nationally known for his recent
agitation against further payment Of
the grave yard bonus. Reynolds has
been one of the national committee
men of the Legion for some time. He
has a "cushy", yes-man job here with
N. B. Updike, grain capitalist, and
has acted as liaison between Wall St.
and the Legion for over 10 years. Me-
braska and Iowa workers should
know this gay deceiver for what he
is. He is a personal friend Of Ham
Fish and an enemy of the workers
and ex-servicemen.
A Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Buffalo, N. Y.

Buffalo, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
I want to tell you how in the Sene-
C. Iron and Steel Mill of Buffalo, in
which 1 am working, the bosses have
been able to reduce our wages, throw
many of us out of work and speed us
up.
New machinery and new speed up
methods we're introduced in our mill
and the result was that 1900 men
were thrown out of WORKSHOP used
to work in that mill before.
How was this done? Two men used
to work on mill splitting the earn
ings between the two 1--WE work piece
work.. Recently the company decided
to place a third man to work with
the two, without extra work given us.
This means that what two made be-
fore he's to be split among three. The
overhead expenses. ETC., are the same
for the company, but our earnings are
less. The company tries to make us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
New Strike Looms
in Mines Near
StraightCreek,K Ky.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED
1t costs considerably less in stores
owned by anybody but the coal COM
panies.
The company knows that National
Miners Union locals are meeting. They
know that groups are actually meet
ing inside many camps. That is
why they are clamping down now
worse, than ever. Well equipped
armed thugs are spreading their &C
tivities outside of Harlan County,
raiding miners homes.
From Cawood, KY, some distance
away, where strike is in progress,
the secretary of local II writes to the
Penn-Ohio-W. va.-Ky Striking Min
ers Relief Committee, Am writing
you in regard to our conditions here
at Cawood. Our local has received
very little aid except what we've gone
out to collect. We can't collect bread
or neat-only greens. You can
readily see that we've had hard
time of it. We would be very glad
Of you could send whatever you can
spare for Cawood to help us. But
we assure you that we will do all in
our power to win this strike at any
cost.
Eve have went for days here in
Cawood without anything to eat at
all. But the time has come when
we have to have some help from
somewhere, yet we are doing all in
our power to help ourselves. Still we
are striving to do all we can to
organize, that is all there is for us
to do"
To send food into Cawood, the re-
lief committee needs funds. 1t calls
upon all sympathetic workers to con-
tribute what they can so that more
bread can be sent into kentucky.
Already five relief kitchens are feed
ing large number of flux-ridden
children, men, women. But there are
other camps like Cawood that need
help desperately. Go among your
shopmates, among your friends-col-
lect money and food and clothing
and, together with every penny you
yourself can spare, rush it to the
Room 2O5, Gil Penn Ave-, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Kansas City JObless
Tag Day Permit Denied
So Charity Can Graft

KANSAS CITY, Sept. so.-The city
manager has refused a permit for a
tag day to raise funds for the Mis-
souri, state hunger march. His
grounds for denying the permit, as
given to committee of the unem-
ployed, are that it would interfere
with the Allied Charities Tag Day on
october 49," The chief mover of the
Allied Charities is the chamber of
commerce, which is made up Of the
very business men who are increas-
ing unemployment by lay-offs and
speed up practices for those who still
work.
The Allied Charity graft is also a
wage cut for all workers have been
informed they must donate weeks
wages to it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

AAloAO az OA4C A0JAAS Va VAAS NSAAASA
stone Of the new post office. 1.-THE
people Of this harbor must not allow
the Unemployed Council to gain q
foothold here, they make too much
trouble"
JObIeSs Council Grows
Not TO be out-done by johnson,
John Troup. County charity officer,
is using all the methods that he has
at hand TO break up the Unemployed
Council. He is trying stunt to put
the members of the Council to work
in the mills where the wages are well
below SO per day. Even though the
mill men have the members on the
blacklist he sends them there and
they are put to work. But the men
that are displaced by this method
are coming into the Council, while
those that are sent to the mills are
not dropping out.
Two Mills Closing
Two more mills are closing down
this week. The Hurlburt mill and
the Bay City Mill. The Bay City
mill has been running but about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

Omaha, Neb.
Dear Conrades:--Mayor Metcalfe's
unemployment "renef' campaign is
being ridiculed not only by the work
ers, but it furnishes much amuse-
ment in various quarters here.
A statement by a local writer here
says: Lost, missing or mislead: The
mayors committee on unemployment.
When last heard from its members
were talking about organizing"
The latest statement from Metcalfe
says: 1--WE are not going to promise
to put individuals on jobs. That is
not our aim. We are going to make a
survey, and locate all the available
jobs that we can, and then let the
state and private employment agen-
cies take care of placing the individ-
uals." 1t is just paving the way for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

Wisconsin spoke and the workers ap-
plauded wildly as the comrade ex-
planned the program of the Com
munist Party in this election.
Comrade Early Of Chicago was the
main speaker and explained the
whole economic background of the
capitalist system and showing how
the socialists the world over have
betrayed the struggles of the work
ers and called upon the workers to
join into the Communist Party. ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
tBy a Worker Correspondent

STOCKTON. Cal--"Our" Welfare
Board is out to do its bit in helping
the bosses as are all the other rotten
relief and so-called charity organiza-
lions. They are trying to use their
office as recruiting center for star
vstion jobs. During the peach season
they forced workers to work for a
dollar a day (no board on a yelled
threat Of disseminating relief.
Now that the cotton picking season
, is on they are again active recruiting
flor this work. The regular wages for
picking cotton is rs gents a hundred
furnish your own grub and bed).
They are attempting to send men,
women and children down at SOC
ct. The workers must furnish not
only their own board but transporta-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Miners on Strike at
OGara No. 3, Illinois

ELDORADO, ILL.,, Sept. pa ne
gotiations committee of miners at
O'Gara No. 8 mine at Harrisburg,
Ill, was fired few days ago when
II went to the boss. The men struck,
and have been out ever since. They
are trying to get the O'Gara No. !
and O'Gara No. 10 miners to join
the strike. Further details are pro-
missed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

importation Of japanese goods to
Manchuria.
"The establishment Of the right Of
unhampered immigration for the
Japanese and Koreans to Inner
Mongolia.
"The establishment Of ths right
of renting land to KoreanS-whO are
Japanese citizens-in ManchuriH
and Inner Mongolia"
Red Star" adds that as q result
antagonisms are being
sharply intensified.
The virtual seizure Of Mancharia
increases the danger Of irnperialigt
attack against the Soviet UnJon,
which borders right on Manchuris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Worker Does Work of s in Ford Plant

stopped production of the Dodge
models and few thousand men were
placed on the streets. The produc-
ton Of the Plymouth plant is going
down grade daily and work is very
irregular, some weeks only one day
and some two or three days. Speak
ing to the workers of these plants
discloses them to be very FESTIVE and
eager to know how things are run in
the Soviet Union.
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Daily Worker:
The Detroit Times congratulates
Henry Ford because he did not cut
the wages of his workers, while over
looking the fact that the workers in
the different departments of the
Rouge plant are crying for their lost
jobs and one man is doing the work
Of eight men now
The Chevrolet plant is shut tight
and no one knows when 1t is going
to open up again. The Dodge plant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
SOVIET INVENTS BOOKKEEPING
MACHINE

The Soviet Precision Instrument
Trust has begun the construction of
new machine which will mechan-
ize many Office operations, this ma
chine will also do manifolding. One
machine is expected to do the work
Of tweny clerks. This holds no fear
for the clerks, they will be immedi-
ately absorbed in some other depart
ments, and as industry developes
further in the Soviet Union such in
ventions will mean reduced working
hours. In capitalist country a new
machine means less workers and
more profits for the bosses.
Soviet Forced Labor"-Bedacht'
series in pamphlet form at 10 cents
per copy. Read it-Spread it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
] en0sha. Wis. Workers
J car Sikat Speak on
Communist Program

KENOSHA, Wisc.--A Mass Elec-
ton Campaign Rally was held Sep
TENDER 26 at the Danish Brother
hood Hall. SO and 22nd Avenue, at
which more t,an 200 workers parti-
cipsted Con AIDE John Sikat, the
Communist { ndidate for congress
IN the First Congressional District Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
Mother Forced to
Abandon Four Day
Old Infant in Cal.
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Gala 4-day old baby
was abandoned by mother in the
driveway of home on B Street.
This mother was seen wheeling her
baby carriage up and down the street
for several hours before leaving it.
The baby was wrapped in a pink
blanket and two worn coats, mans
and woman's. There was no fur
Their comment to this story in the
yellow capitalist sheet.
But workers know why the baby
was abandoned. Mother out Of con-
finement only days, when she
should have been in bed GONZALES
cling. She was walking the streets,
wheeling the carriage for hours be-
fore she could tear herself away from
her baby. The baby was wrapped in
worn coats.
Unemployment and starvation
caused this - Hoovers "good-timeS
and health" year - was responsible
for this pitiful story.
Workers fight for relief and the lives
of your children. Prepare for the state
hunger march soon at the opening
of the special session Of legislature.
-
Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01
UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS
GROW IN WASHINGTON
LUMBER MILL REGION
Gain Support of Workers in Mills; Two More
Mills Close, Firing All
Wilson Bros Slash Pay Down to SITS Per Day;
Bosses Fear Organization
(By a Worker Correspondent

ABERDEEN, WASH-With the crisis growing more acute
in this lumber producing center the bosses growing frantic
their efforts place all of the burden the workers
who are left on the job
Congressman Albert Johnson said in speech that he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

One way to help the Soviet
Union is to spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents Per copy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-01

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for It
about your day-to-day struggle.