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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
liberal" PAPER
UNDERPAYS MEN
Venemous Against the
Workers
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Comrade:
Conditions in Philadelphia are I'M
bearable. Over 100000 unemployed,
many workers only work few hours
a day. The Philadelphia Record
which calls itself liberal and pro-
gressive newspaper, are writing lot
about that phoney priest, Father
Coughlin, the misleader of the
MurderOuS Sheet.
The Phila. Record called Serio on
Christmas morning poison in human
form" This same prostitute press
pays their drivers who work at night
time and use their own trucks $3.50
week. Out of this they have to buy
oil, gas, use of car, so that the driv-
ers only clear about $12 week for
seven days.
COerce Drivers.
The bosses force the drivers to take
a lot of papers on the truck. Then
they tell the drivers to force the pa
pers on the newsboys, on the corners,
50 that the newsboys will have to
stay out all night trying to get rid
of the paper, or else he will get fired
from the corner, as the paper people
control the corner. The neWsboys
are always complaining that they
can't sell the paper, but if they re-
fuse to take the paper they will lose
the corner.
They only make on an average Of
60 cents a night Capitalist papers
have decreased sales thousands of
copies in the last year.
These workers are ready for strug-
gle and are looking for TUUL lead
ership, which they will get. Drivers,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
EVICTED AS ABOUT
TO GIVE BIRTH
Bosses Do Not Care
About Workers
(Ry a JohIess NVorkerl

ST. LOUIS, Mo, (By MaiD A
family, 6 small children, on 22nd St
we're thrown out on the street to
freeze and starve. The mother hud-
died together the small children to
keep warm. She is to give birth to
the seventh child soon. She is sick,
was to go to the clinic today but in
stead she had to watch the furniture
and the children on the street.
Such thing does not bother the
bosses and the City officials They
believe if children can freeze and die
on the streets, they can also be born
on the streets.
The bosses finding out the Unem-
ployed Councils are coming to demon
strate and expose them, hurriedly
gave the father few dollars to pay a
deposit on another fiat and move the
furniture away.
Can't Hush 1t Up.
The bosses think they can hush the
misery of the worker by such covering
up. The workers know better. The
worker that was rushed from the spot
knows he cannot pay the rent He
knows he cannot get a job.
And then the City Board of Alder
men tell the workers delegation that
all will be taken care of, because they
have talked about the $4,000 appro-
priated to find jobs. (Not for relief)
Mayor Miller said the demands of
the unemployed, to feed and house
the jobless, is unreasonable. And so
the Mayors Unemployed Relief Com
uittee still talks about relief.
Join the Unemployed Councils and
light for Unemployment Insurance.
Join the Hunger March of the ST.
Louis jobless, Jan. 16.
Come to the Mass Meeting January
30. Hear Foster February 9,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
| With Our
|WORCORRS-


b M. G. of Denver, Colo, who has
l been a regular worker correspondent
for the past three months, writes in:
II would suggest that you suggest
that Worcorr group be organized in
Denver. :" We have suggested
that In the past but now to be more
ccncretely would suggest that M G..
himself try to get in contact with
such workers as would join and estab-
q. lish small group preliminary to
getting In more worcorrs. Well be
waiting for word from M. G. on this
6a Portland, Ore, workers who wish
Is to send in worker correspondence and
want advice and help should see Paul
Munter at 2271a Washington ST.,
Room 233. We look forward to the
organization of city group of wor-
corrs in Portland.
N. HONG, editor of Labor Unity and
former worker correspondence editor
of the Daily Worker, will be the in
sstructor Of the Worker Correspon-
dence class of the New York Workers
School to commence early in Feb
ruary. All workers wishing help in
learning to become worker correspon-
dents in their shops should register
Tor the class without delay.
P. B. of Philadelphia wants to
know why there isn't more worker
correspondents in that somnolent city
of brotherly love. He is of the opinion
that 1t would help in the many strug-
giles the workers there are now going
through. We would suggest that c.
Rabin try calling another meeting of
: the worcorrs and see what can be
done in this direction.
NJ Rose Clark, formerly of Dayton, O.,
= and now of Cleveland, and one of
the best known worker correspondents
in the country, is now serving term
in the Dayton workhouse for work
ing class activities. The New York
worcorrs have sent her greetings.
To supplement the appeal in the
Daily Worker some time ago we
L would again request that workers in
! the small industrial towns send us
worker correspondence, telling of con-
ditions. of the fight for unemploy-
-nent relief. what the workers are
sayine and doing etc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
TERRORIZE AND
EVICT JOBLESS
NEGRO FAMILY
Many Join Council of
Unemployed

BALTIMORE, NId.-Members OF tns
Unemployed Council notified the
headquarters that Negro family was
going to be evicted. A committee
went up to investigate and found that
a Negro worker, Robert Ellis, his wife
and three children ware all on the
verge of starvation and had to get
out Of the house for non-payment Of
rent. He was enthusiastic to learn
that the Unemployed Council would
come to his assistance in case of an
eviction.
A committee of six went out Tues
day morning and canvassed the
neighborhod thoroughly and found
the response was exceptionally favor
able A special leaflet was made and
passed around calling upon the work
ers to come to the scene of the
eviction.
Terrorize Workers.
However during the day something
developed the took the militancy out
of the family to be evicted. The land
lord had been there during the course
of the day and notified them tc get
out sure by o'clock. The mother
begged and pleaded together with her
3 children that they be allowed to
stay in the house and every effort
will be paid to pay some rent next
week, saying also that her husband
had been out of work more than 3
months. This did not touch the
money hungry" heart Of the land
lord, and this time he emphasized
his instructions: "get the he'll out of
here by three o'clock.
Demonstrate.
When the Unemployed Council and
the neighborhood modified around the
home of the, evicted family, the wife
Of Ellis pleaded that we should not
hold a demonstration against their
eviction.
The demonstration was held and
the workers were enthusiastic over
the Unemployed Council program of
action for fight against evictions
and the demands for immediate relief
and Unemployment Insurance. The
demonstration of January 18th is
looked on with favor and there is a
100 per cent response to the Coun-
Gil. Join the Unemployed Council of
the Trade Union Unity League, So.
Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
LEWIS GANG THUG
THREATS MURDER
Try Frame Up Orient
Militant Miner
Orient, Ill.


Dear Comrades
On August 10th 1 was arrested on
the street of West Frankfort, Ill. and
released the follwing day on bond of
$780, Shortly after that / was again
attacked on the street of the same
city by three policemen.
Again on November 30th County
Sheriff and deputies broke into my
room at Orient and confiscated my
books and arrested me. The follow
ing day I was again released by the
same sympathizers on 81 900 bond.
Frame Up.
Today January 9th) when / came
out from the mine the company CASH
Ter delivered to me written notice
providing that must go at once to
see the immigration inspector (Fed-
eraD who was waiting for me at the
City Hall at West Frankfort.
was questioned the whole of my
biography since childhood. There
were two takers of the UMWA tes-
flying against me. Their names are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
MARTINS FERRY
JOBLESS BREAK
INTO GROCERIES
Talk Revolt AS the
Crisis Hits Them
Martins Ferry, Ohio.

Martins Ferry, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
1 am not a Daily Worker cores
pendent or a Communist Party men,
Der, But as I never see anything i'll
the Daily Worker about this vicinity
thought would leave you know that
conditions are bad here as in any
capitalist controlled town.
On December 24-30 the capitalist
paper had big headlines alb the
prosperity trGt the steel work Z we're
to have the steel mill going on in full
Sunday night u o'clock, and the
Wheeling and Iron Sheet Mill.
Just Short Time.
What they really did was the sheet
mill worked three days. This mill
displaced about 10 Of their old rool-
ers. Some they fired and some they
put back to swapping That is when
they can catch turn, this pays them
$4.75 a day. Where they made 10 per
day for roofing, by some this is
thought to be a scheme to get out of
paying them old age pensions.
Bad Speed-up.
The Speed-up conditions in the mill
are said by the mill men to be very
bad. The workers are worse of than
the former) Negro slaves who had q
doctor and medicine and never had
to go to a soup line. that great Aneri-
can institution.
Soup Line Grows.
The soup line has been increasing
day by day. Some of the patrons"
tell me when it first started that the
soup was not so bad but it has got
weaker and weaker and it does not
pay you to go for it, But they give
away loaf of bread or so and that
keeps them from starving.
Most of the small stores are broken
or will be. Most of the workers talk
revolution except a few from the
American Legion and some that are
the children of foreign born. Find
that the descendants of the old pio-
neers of America are as radical as
anyone or more so, we will have them
with us before long. They are getting
educated thru the belly. The best
and only way to reach lots of people
&C Y,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Cutting Wages

up the Wage-cut, the leaders speed
themselves up to the limit and as a
result many lose are seriously injured
and some even lose their lives.
Fellow workers, it doesn't make any
difference where one is working. In
order to be able to exist we must
have one union and this is to or
ganize ourselves into industrial IN
ions. We must take up a fight against
speed-up and wage cuts.
by a Worker Correspondent
Moundsville, w. Va.
Paisley Gier Coal Co.
On the last day of the old year,
the boss announced to the miners
that everyone must work on New
Year. Due to the fact that the work
ers were afraid of losing their jobs,
they all came. They were met by
notices which announced that the
New Year would bring new prices
Car leaders were cut from 40 cents
to .39 cents per ton. And laborers
from $3.50 to $500 per day.
New Rules.
Another New Years present was
the announcement that all single men
must board in the company houses.
All the family men must buy all
their products in the company stores.
If they earn enough they can get
credit.
In February 1890, when the miners
went on strike and the company with
the helpSof the state militia put in
scabs, they installed radios in the
scabs houses in order to please them
and promised never to cut heir
wages. However it didn't turn out
So After the strike was broken the
company took back the radios. Now
they have plenty of music without
radios when hunger starts to play
on their CUTS.
Workers Will Fight.
The workers realize now that every
thing the company does is for its
own good. Now they are all speak
ing of going on strike. And the only
way they can be successful is by or
ganizing in the Mine, Oil and Smelter
Workers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
1NE ACCIDENTS INCREASE AS COAL DIGGERS ARE SPEEDED
Husband. Children
Starving, Tries to
Kill Self; Fails
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily Worker Editor:
Here are a few lines concerning
the bad conditions which the
workers of this city find them
selves in.
Mrs. Anna Wilman, 33s of East
Wishart ST., near Jasper, attempt
ed to commit suicide for the rea-
son that the whole family, COM
prised of three small children and
her husband were starving to
death.
This woman tried to take poison
and then jump from the Delaware
River bridge at 2 a. m. but a pO-
lceman saw her and followed her.
At the hospital she said that her
husband was out of work for a
long time and few days ago they
were evicted for being unable to
pay the rent. p. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

nave Deen running less UTAH
so per cent and the 40 inch and 46
inch break down mills that have been
running only 2 or 4 turns out of a
week can make a clear picture just
how much the other departments are
suffering.
The rail mill is only working a few
days week and on the days Of work,
only one heat of rail ingots are rolled.
The Hot Mills are running only "a to
Sc mills out of As mills and out on
full week basis. Just few ship yard
workers are kept while several hun
bred were laid off. The passing out OF
the pipe order put the death knell to
the Tube Mill Wire Mill workers are
only putting in 2 or 3 days a week.
In every department, the workers
work along a "stagger plan" 2 weeks
on l off. The earnings of the worker
for the last months have been at
it's lowest as a result of the direct
wage cuts and lay offs.
Oruer Spteu-up.
In a period of "so-called prosperity"
when there was plenty of orders in
sight, the Bethlehem Office that han
dies all orders before it is sent out to
the plants constantly set demands for
increased production and each week
would witness IAN increased tonnage
scheduled for the week" The depart
ments were getting quotas" to fill
that would at times be unreahzeable.
however with pressure on the workers,
introducing the speed-up schemes and
with a tonnage scale" that was so
low the workers we're compelled to
increase production to make enough
to live on.
For example the ITO inch plate
mill was running on turn basis-10
hours each turn, but with the in
increased orders the workers were
put on 3-8 hour turns. The hours
of the workers we're reduced but the
tonnage rate was not increased. This
was loss of 20 per cent in wages
which the worker was allowed to
make up if he produced the same ton
nage-8 hours for 10 hours. Now with
the decline of steel construction and
ETC.. the 10 inch mill has reverted
back to the 10 hour basis on the stag
ger system plan.
Raise Demands.
All the departments are affected by
the same schemes. The workers
must protect themselves against this
slavery and against more wage cuts,
speed-up and lay offs. Join the Metal
Workers Industrial League! Organize
Department Committees Fight for
the 6-hour day with 8-hours pay! The
5-day week! Part time insurance OF
$40 to be added to the wages when
only working 2 days a week. SIS for
one whole week lay of. SIS to be added
to wages when only working 3 days
a week.-Mrs. insurance to be paid by
the company and the state. Fight for
the right to live! Organized Join
the Metal Workers Industrial Leaguel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Courtesy for Crook
in San Quentin Pen

SAN QUENTIN, Calf, Jan. H.
Warden Holchan has announced that
Gilbert H. Bessemyer. the self con-
.essed crook who stole $4,000 from
building and loan association he
4 headed and bankrupted 100000 poor
families in Los Angeles, will be al
Owed to wander about the yard and
,rientate himself" and then will not
,e put in the jute mill but will "be
given such work as befits his business
experience"
Workers sent here, and particu-
larry the Imperial Valley organizers
with their AZ year sentences were
% "oriertated' suIssiv ~-~<rd the jute
viii
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
NOT ALLOWED TO
SEE DYING KIN
Boss Cruelty Knows
No Bounds
New York.
DAILY WORKER:

DAILY WORKER:
Such is the rotteness of the capital
list regime, such is the injuctice pre-
yailing in this sordid system, such is
the anti-human feeling existing in
the bosses government, that last Sat-
urday a fellow worker got a telegram
asking him to rush to the bed of his
dying brother but was incapable of
doing so. The fat boss saw him read
the telegram with tears coming down
his cheeks and would not even ask
him the cause of his sorrow.
When the fellow resumed work two
minutes after he was helpless Won
dering whether he should walk out or
not. He decided to stay for if he
would have walked out, the next week
would have seen him on the breadline.
Two hours later another messenger
brought him news that his brother
had passed away. He sobbed for a
while and his face became red wit
anger. But what could he do? He
was penniless and he is one of the
so many victims of the big hold up
staged in the Bank of the Unite
States by the very officials of that
institution.
Could we workers not better our
conditions? Certainly. The only
way is to join the Communist Party,
help to build a strong organization
which at a given moment will rise
like mighty wave and clean up the
country of that evil known as CAPT.
talism. "A. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
JObless Father and
Four Children Must
Live On Soup Alone

South Bend, Ind.
I witnessed an incident today that
I will never forget. An unemployed
worker walked into this soup house
with four small children who begged
some soup. Fortunately they were
served. Some of the bosses ought to
be made to go to some of these soup
houses and lap up some of their own
soup.
Now you workers had better get
busy here in South Bend or even
your soup will be taken away from
you.
Workers must keep quiet in these
soup houses. The bosses must have
got absolute control unless. every
worker comes to 1916 w. Colfax ST.
and ioins with us in this fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
MORE PAY CUTS
IN SIOUX CITY
That's Bosses Way of
Solution"
Sioux CITY. Ia.

Sioux City, Ia.
Dear Comrade:
Since the recent bank failures the
business men here rae not quite so
optimistic as they were. They are
waking up to the fact that they have
been sitting on an economic volcano
and didn't know it. But like the Ger
ards SO they have got together at
the Chamber of Commerce and the
retail association and solved the prob
lem to their way of thinking.
Wages Cut.
My how simple it was, simply wage
cuts and stagger plans. Davidson
Bros. department store was about the
first. The big noise called the en-
ployees together and say, ladies and
gentlemen: it is either a question OF
closing the store or cutting wages.
We have decided to cut wages. Quite
simple.
Monday morning the Kari Keen
plant announced that they would
hire bunch of men and 600 showed
up, and all they hired was three men
1t was too bad there was not some
one there to talk to them, as 1 hear
they sure were hostile. Daily Work
ers would have sold like hot cakes as
the Pioneers are now selling them on
the street.
The packing plants made another
cut of 7 cents on the meat cutters.
That is under the Bedoe system and
it is rumored that a drastic cut is
going to be made on the day rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Jobless Father Drops on Street
After Fruitless Search for Work

one say that Fisher Body was going
to take on men Dec. rs he arose at
a. m. and walked over to the
plant on the east side of town, 10
miles away.
Finding that former employees
only were being considered he start
ed to walk to town again. No
breakfast, no dinner. Well, he fell
exhausted to the curb and was
taken away by the police. The
children at home were found wear
ing only dress with M under-
cinthing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Tacoma Bosses Now Rule Workers
Must Pay to Even Lodge in Prison

The papers here and in Seattle
remark that this is a very good
idea since IL will cut out lot of
appeals that Shouldn't be made"
That is, it would make it almost
impossible for worker to appeal a
case unless he had a lot of money.
And il it were some worker whom
they wanted to keep from appeal
ing they could make the bail so high
he couldn't raise 1t, and then post
pone the case so long that he
couldn't pay board. This is what
they call Justice out here i'm the
wide, "free" (for capitalists) West.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

George Daltow and A. J. Potter. Also
the infamous deputy and GUNNER
Harry Weaver testified against me
He is also a member of the UMWA
The takers of the UMWA openly
declared if they do not succeed in
getting rid of me by this procedure
that they are going to kill me and
that the law is going to be on their
side.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

TACOMA, Wash.--Workers here
are not going to be given free board
here anywhere, 1t seems--not even
in jail. Recently a Chinese was
arrested and held for deportation,
and sentenced. He appealed the
case. Not being wealthy Tor he
probably never would have been ar
rested in the first place. he couldn't
afford to put up money for pail.
The court decided that he could
appeal the case, and could remain
in jail until it came up for trial,
only il he paid 60 cents a day for
board in advance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Rush Work There.

Rush Work There.
But the most significant feature of
this announcement is this: the COM
pany will give full-time employment
between Jan. 5 and Jan. 81" This
means that car locomotive repair and
building for 1881 will be mainly COM
pleted in a period of three weeks.
In past years the full crew has taken
a whole year for this work. Begin
ming the last of 1929, terrific speed
up in the Southern Pacific Shes was
begun and Increased constantly.
Large-sized lay-offs came frequently
up to July-then began mass firing
and the shops practically closed down.
A years repair work had been COM
pleted in six months, with a greatly
reduced crew. Now the large part
of the years work is to take three
weeks, with a small crew.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
INVENT NEW COTTON PICKERs

The new cotton pickers, which do
the work of forty pickers each, are
said to be a success, and this mean
that the cotton pickers, the cheapest
labor in the country must go, or at
least three-forths of them must.
Just where they are to go, and what
they will eat and wear while on their
way, is something that has not yet
been disclosed by the great minds
now managing thing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Southern Pacific to Rush Years
Work Thru in Period Of 3 Weeks
To Be Done at Expense of Workers Under
Speedup and With Reduced Forces
Oakland, Calf.
Ewing Galloway
zen around the seamen's Institute
Daily Worker:


The major item featured daily the press of the far West
show that prosperity returning is the fact that the
Southern Pacific Railroad has announced that it will put its
shop crews the whole system, to fulme work again
Under the headlines of IS P Returns 1900 Men to Work. etc.
the boss papers strive to give the impression that workers
rehred fact of the thousand laid off in July and
other thousands laid off during the first half of 1880 will
rehred The workers kept the payroll since July have
had long periods of ayo and weekly work cut to two
three days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
To Protest Mob Murder
This Sunday in Harlem

NEW YORK.-A mass meeting pro-
testing against the brutal lynching
of a Negro worker in Maryville, Mo,
on Monday, has been called by the
City Committee of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights for Sun
day afternoon at 8 o'clock at 308
Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
Cleveland, o.

Cleveland, o.
The Daily Worker:
In Cleveland a good many of the
families listed with the Associated
Charities are Catholic families,
since this church turns all such
cases over to Associated Charities.
Each family regardless of size re-
ceived IS per week for food.
One such family consisted of par
ent and 3 children. Father hasn't
worked for year. No money what
ever. - that wI,cr hn heard