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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

arrive regarding the strike prepare
ton. Action committees Of miners
organized in the reformist and red
syndicates together with morgan
lied miners are organized In the
pits. 1t Is by thousands that revo-
lutionary papers and leaflets are
distributed In the field. Relief COM
mittees are also being organized
in order to help the miners In
their strike.
A big campaign Of solidarity Is
already going on in every paper Of
the CGTU. and Communist
party preparing the French masses
to actively support the miners.
Enthusiasm for the strike In the
mining center permit ms to advance
and on March 30 over 100000
miners will strike against wage
cuts and demand 4 wage increase.
Leon Mabille.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

Oil Trust Prices.
Oil prices of consumers have no
relation whatever to the cost of pro-
duction, according to figures sub
mitted to congress. Statistics show
that consumers paid more for gaso-
line when crude oil was $1.20 a bar
rel than they did when it was $2.o4
a barrel. Crude oil prices have
ranged from SO cents to 81 barrel
over a series of years, but there has
been no change in the prices of lubri-
eating oil.
The same monopoly that operates
in the American oil industry also
fixes prices in other countries. In
Peru the cost of gasoline is so cents,
in Persia SO cents and in the East
Indies from SO cents down.
Wage Cut of S715 Per Cent.
An oil worker, who doesn't want
his name mentioned in the papers,
was driller up to months ago.
His pay was then $12 a day. Now
he is offered $3.50 day. A six
months search through every oilfield
in Southern California has impressed
on him the futility of looking for
work. Having a family to support,
his small savings are gone. His auto
mobile and other belongings have
also gone to get some necessities of
life. So he was forced to go to work
at $3.50 a day, wage-cut of 871a
per cent. When pay day came, he
was unable to collect single cent.
Oil bosses argue that it is cheaper
to import oil from foreign fields.
But how can pay envelope con-
tain less than nothing? The above
may be an extreme case, but what
about the millions Of idle, free born
American workers who are free to
starve-without even a pay-claim be-
for labor commissioner?
Il. P. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
:. E. Suggestions
Displace ToiIers
: heme to Get Ideas
from the Workers

schenectady, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
In the General Electric Co., a sug-
gestion blank was given out to the
workers as to how to improve their
products, the method of manufacture
and how to reduce the cost or in
crease production-the safety of the
workers, etc.
That's how the bosses here release
your ideas. las secrets they buy you
nothing, but when put to work they
earn rewards, can you suggest an
improvement that should be put into
effect right now?"
"a good idea is always welcome"
that is how the General Electric Co.
milks the workers ideas. They give
us five and ten dollars for an idea
and lay off fifty men.
A friend put in an idea and got
$25 for it. The next week he was
laid off. There are hundreds of boxes
in the shop for ideas, now there are
only boxes left, since the men are
laid off.
A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
FROM IN MORNING TO 10
AT NIGHT

DETROIT, Mich.--I have a job
now, in this apartment house. All
have to do is to get up at in the
morning and fire up and clean
marble and brass and keep the halls
and stairs clean for so apartments,
keep the house warm and water hot.
In other words, I have to be on duty
from 5 in the morning until 9 or 10
at night, for which I receive the
enormous sum of $25 a month and
board. have to buy and cook my
own eats. That's Hoover prosperity
and American standard of living for
you. &C. III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Paris, France.

farlS, france.
Daily Worker:
The world economical crisis
which until a few months ago was
not SO severe in France Is now more
and more acute.
Already one half million work
ingmen and women are per-
manently unemployed and over
one million and one half are work.
ing part time
The French capitalist class Is
engaged in a wage cut campaign
In ore Ter to pla ce the
burden Of the crisis upon the
shoulders of the working masses.
LIE Comite des Houillercs coal
operators association went on
record for a general wage cut Of
from 2 francs so to francs and
a half day starting April the
first.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
FRENCH BOSSES NERVOUS

French Imperialism is alarmed be-
cause the British have called the
Germans to London for a conference
preliminary to the meeting between
representatives of England, France
and Italy next Tuesday. Everything
is supposed to be friendly" but
France is suspicious of Britain ma
neuvering with Italy and Germany
to isolate France, and with very good
reasons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

lou HeTef WE'LL UQeSe canned cap
italist iarsl There is not too much
food, but plenty enough. 1t isn't
like the food in America, so many
products packed up and rotting while
the workers starve. Nobody can
starve here from hunger, because
everybody works and if you work
you get all the food you need.
We receive our food in a CO.
operative, where it is transported
to our homes every week. Our
group has a communal kitchen,
where there are two Russian cooks,
and who said they can't cook.
New Building Quarters.
The living quarter areas are all
newly built. A room for each per
son. There is one fallacy, and that
Is we have to make our own fire,
because gas has not yet been in
stalled. 1t is true that to the bour-
geois American, who expects every
thing in Russia to be built up in a
day, with the same conditions it is
not so good, but it is better than we
expected, it's excellent!
We are working in a wood work
ing shop, making doors and win
dows. This Is only temporary
position. We work four days and
have one day off, s hours per day.
The shop is beautiful and light.
The salary we receive is 300 rubIes
per month, which is sufficient for
a family to live on. We are going
to build our factory from an aero
plane shop 500 feet long, 100 feet
wide, with an adjoining restaurant,
drawing rooms and our homes
near the faetory-aIT on the Amer
lean system. Isn't that wonderful?
The shop will employ 300 men in
one shift. . .'.a II *'rs
Free Theatre Tickets.
In regard to the rest days. Well,
Ill tell you. First of all you don't
pay for the theatre tickets. The
building trade union is the one that
gets them for you free of charge.
You can sit in the orchestra or first
balcony. Only the second balcony
you have to pay for. That is the
difference between the Soviet Union
and America. We are the workers
that rule here and the Soviet Union
is taking care Of US. --.-...
In regard to the shop committees
Well, they are functioning. The fac
tory has one. This is the way they
act. They have a shop meeting,
where the workers talk over the pro-
duction of the shop and all COM
plain.
Have Shop Committee.
They elect a shop committee, of
which the head is the shops red
director, to which the Buildings
Trust appoints one technician and
one business director, and they are
the ones that take care of the shop.
There is no hiring or firing without
them. Well, they fire men, too. if
they get too drunk and do too much
damage. First they are called to at
tention. There is discipline, OF
course. The old workers are con-
sentative, but they listen just the
same.
We have three different club
houses to go to. There are music
chess and billiards. This is the
workers wonderland. We are build
ing the Five-Year Plan in four years
We are going through the lumber
camps. Where is the convict labor
oh! what liesl Please write to me
what you want to know. Workers
form United Front!
Comradely yours,
cEOpcE KEpuKEC
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
100000 OIL WORKERS
JOBLESS IN THE MIL
CONTINENTAL FIELL. .
Thirty-Two Thousand Laid Off in California
Alone: Trust Profits Big
Oil Workers. Demonstrate May With All
Jobless for Unemployment insurance.
(By a Worker Correspondent

HONDO Gait is estimated in the capitalist press
that 100000 oil workers unemployed in the mdconnental
field In California alone $4,000 have been laid off making
total of $4,000 So 100000 workers and their families
be said be affected account of Hooverzng the oil indus
try Although hundreds of oil wells the United States
shut down and their employees put out of work. than
700000000 gallons of gasoline imported in 1930t the
cost to the oil monopoly of 4 cents gallon, in bulk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
100000 IN SOVIET SCHOOLS

A United Press report from MOSCOW
shows that this year at least 10000
600 children will be receiving public
school education in the Soviet Union.
About 100000 attended schools be-
fore the revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

WE'LL we are here all right and tell you it is something
that every worker in America must look forward the
start we have been received heartily Everybody asks how
the American workers. how they organized what about
of men here.
We were able to all their questions. We told them
that the American workers know that there Soviet Union
here They greeted this answer enthusiastically Is there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
SOVIET TO MAKE DIRIG1BLEs

The Soviet government is expert
menting with dirigible aidships with
a view TO establishing air lines be-
tween distant points in the Soviet
Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
AMERICAN WORKER IN
SOVIET UNION TELLS
OF GOOD CONDITIONS
Enthused With the Rapid Strides of the Work
ers Fatherland in Building Socialism
Writes to Union Carpenters That the Toiers
Rule in the Soviet Union

member of the
Of America Local 2O9 the
with woodworking letter his brothers
reprinted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
MORE WAGE CUTS
IN JAMESTOWN
Workers Must Resist;
Demonstrate May |
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
FALCONER, N. Y, April 5.-A
glazing example of the wage-cuts
which are taking place in James
town and throughout the country, is
the following notice placed in the
pay envelopes of the workers of the
jamestown Metal Equipment Co.,
Inc, notifying them of another
wage-cut:
NOTICE
"Due to keen competition existing
in business today and the fact that
we have not been able to close any
contracts since the first of the year,
in order to meet this condition so
we will not run out of work, we are
forced to make adjustments in wages
and piece rates, and accordingly
your day rate, effective March 30,
1881, will be IS cents an hour.
"(SignedD
Jamestown Metal Equipment
Co., Inc"
This is another example of boss
prosperity" another instance of the
determined attempt of the bosses to
make the workers bear the full bur-
den of the crisis. All workers, EN-
ployed and unemployed, native and
foreign born, Negro and white, must
unite in gigantic determined pro-
test on May Day against wage-cuts
unemployment, persecution of Negro
and foreign-born workers, and boss
preparations for imperialist war
Fight wage-cuts and starvation!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

For full political and social rights
and self determination for Negroes!
Against imperialist warl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-10-13
Last Nights Fights

At New York-Jack Sharkey,
Boston heavyweight, defeated
Primo Camera, Italy, IS round.
Yale Okum, New York heavy
weight, defeated Pavese Preside,
Italy, five rounds. Jack Nc
Carthy, Boston heavyweight, and
Petra CORR. Australia, drew, five
rounds. Walter Cobb, Kansas City
heavyweight, knocked out Lester
Rose, California, one round. Pete
Susky, Scranton middleweight,
defeated Sergt. Sammy Baker,
New York, five rounds.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bar
nard, Flint, Mich, defeated Bat
Battalino, worlds featherweight
champion (non-title), 10 rounds.
At Trenton, N. J.-Kid Choco-
late, Cuban featherweight, de-
feated Steve Smith, Bridgeport,
Conn, 10 rounds.
At Cleveland-Paul Pirrone,
Cleveland middleweight, scored
technical kayo over Jimmy Tay-
lor, Cleveland, five rounds.
At Albany, N. Y-Bucky Law
less, Syracuse >welterweight, de-
feated Young Harry Wills, Cali
fornia, 10 rounds. .,.
At PittSburgh-Mose Butch,
Pittsburgh 122-pounder, defeated
Johnny Datto, Cleveland. 10
rounds.
At Perth Amboy, N. J.-Roscoe
Manning, Newark middleweight,
defeated Joe German, New York,
six rounds.
At MISUNDERSTANDING O'Brien,
Bridgeport, Conn.,, middleweight,
scored technical knockout over
Angel Cliville, Porto Rico, nine
rounds. Pete Firpo, Newcastle,
Pa, middleweight, knocked out
Gary Leach, Gary, Ind, two
rounds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-10-13
PREL|MS
FOR MAT SHOW

Promoter Joe Turner has COM
pleted his wrestling program for
his opening indoor show at the
Washington Auditorium on Fri
day night with the announce
ment of three preliminary
matches.
doc" Wilson. who still reigns
a favorite with local fans, will
engage Bruce H anSon. Mike
Romano, the Chicago Italian, will
tackle Abe Kasley while that ruff
fian, "Tigah" Nelson, will mix
with George Hagen.
TherelI be dynamite pop
ping when these six wreStlers
get together, but thereW also
be action in the two headline
events which will be to the
finish.
Topping the evenings card
will be that important affair be-
tween Dick Shikat and Ray
Steele. Shikat is the former
holder of the world heavyweight
crown which he lost to Jimmy
Lcndos in the summer OF 1880.
Steele is considered one Of the
strongest grapplers found any
where.
Sander Szabo, the Hungarian
wrestling gem, will face John
Katan, Canadian strongboy, in
the supporting feature. Szabo
captured 50 straight matches in
this country before meeting de-
feat at the hands of Karl Pojello.
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GEO. P|NMEN
SCORE WIN
,HHHH W" s--.

The Georgetown Recreation
bowling team won thriller from
the Kings All Stars Of Baltimore
in a match at Baltimore, 2,S1S
to 2,81O.
The thrilling part of it cams
during the last game. The George.
towners trailed by 40 pins as
this game got under way.
CorcOran High Man ,
Rolling steadily, the George
towners slowly but surely cams
from behind to finally win the
match by 5 pins. Henry Brons
ley spared in the last box and
made seven-pin count to decid0
things. =
Sam Corcoran was high man
Of the match, having high game
of 149 and high set of 625. His
high game barely nosed out Dave
Burrows, teammate, who rolled
148 in his last game. This 14&
game, by the way, helped to de-
eide the issue for the winners.
Ruark, of Baltimore, was he
best roller for his team. He col.
lected 1875 for high game and
sos for high set.
George Bradt, of Georgetown.
rolled throughout the match
with Sprained wrist, which was
wrapped very tightly. Tho
match:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-10-13
ITALIAN SCALPS:
BILLY LANDERS

A rally in the closing rounds
earned frankie De Angelo, South.
east Italian, a clean-cut decision
over Sailor Billy Landers, Of Nor.
folk, Va, in their 1O-round melee
before 2,4O0 fans at Fort Wash
ington, Md, last night.
Up until the start Of the seventh
round, Landers was coasting ahead
under a comfortable lead. Then
De Angelo went to work and came
along like cyclone.
He sent Landers to his knees
with q punch in the ninth and
was failing the Norfolk boy
with hard punches in the final
round.
Referee Charley Short and Pat
O'Connor, judge, voted for De An
gelo. George King, the other
Judge, declared it was a draw.
Joe Finazzo, Baltimore light
weight, proved too experienced for
Henry Irving, the Rosedale terror.
Irving couldn't avoid Finazzo's
left hand and the Baltimorean
won the eight-round verdict.
Billy Hoe, Of the Mohawk Club,
was adjudged the victor over Jack
Cody, Fort Myer veteran, in four
rounds, but the fans didn't like
the decision. Nor did the custom
ers approve when Willie ESchinger
was given the four-round decision
over Marion Marini, Of Uniontown,
Pa. frankie Vance, of George
town University. pounded out a
four-round decision over Harry
Messick, while Soldier Smith
easily defeated Fred Shafer.
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Alexander defeated Joseph Tay-
lor, 3 and 2, in the first round,
but yielded to John Scott, 3 and
2. in the second round. Happy
walters, runner-up for the medal,
was an easy victor over James
Brown and Richard Harris, by
the scores Of and g..
Walters opposes Bernard Tur-
ner in the semifinals Sunday
morning while James Williams.
defending champion, engages
John Scott. Summaries:
First Round-Roeert Alexander qe-
teated Joseph Taylor. ana .; John
Scott defeated Bernard sartOA 9 and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-10-13

s: Montrose Walters defeated Rueben
Brooks, / up. in 10 holes; James Will
liams defeated DIR. George W. Adams
ard Wright. and .; Benson Marris
defeated william Carter, and 8;
Richard Harris defeated Francis
White. up in - holes; ''Happy" Wall
ters defeated James Brown, s and 8.
Second Round--Scott defeated Alex
ander, and 2; Williams defeated Mon
trose Walters and 4; Turner de.
feated Benson Harris, l up; Happy"
walters defeated Richard Harris, s
and 3.
Sundays PaiFinEs
Semifinals-John Scott VS.. James
Williams; Bernard Turner vs, Happy"
Walters. Consultations: Joseph Taylor.
vs. DR.. George W. Adams; William
Carter ~. James BtOVz
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Continued from rage -
And I'd be on my way after that
ball.
During 1923, while was
with 0. G. and E., we had that
bad flood down in Oklahoma
City, which washed away the
Western League ball park. My
boss on the o. G. and E. sent
q boat out there and told me to
guard it, because If some emer.
gency might arise where we
might need it to 90 places and
make repairs. While was
guarding the boat q policeman
came along and tried to rush
off with it. He seemed to want
it for emergency police work.
The o. G. and E. had told me
to protect that boat and that's
what I meant to do. So I grab
bed it back. The cop grabbed
and I grabbed and we were
scuffling around plenty. But it
didn't last an awful long time.
The law was against me, SO was
the cops club, and I landed in
Jail charged with being too rough.
The O. G. and E. people ex-
planned everything the next day
and that saved me.
I'm old enough now to know
that you have to convince your
self that you're good enough to
advance before you can advance
but that is something I didn't
know years ago. I just didn't
have the push" Friends really
got me those sports with the
Kelly, Brooks, National Guard
and o. G. and E. clubs. Harold
Lee, who always call Burr"
and who is 10 years older than
me, has been my pal since was
Is and he always put good
word in for me that got me
places on teams.
Lacked Confidence
Along in March, 1924, I met
with Cliff Campbell, who was also
my friend. and Of course I got
right down to talking baseball
with him. I never did talk any
thing much except baseball. I
kept saying to Cliff that I wished
1 could get on a real professional
club and Cliff said:
Trouble with you is that you
are q better player than you
think you are. But you're
afraid to go around and ask
for q job. So I'll do the asking
for you, after that you do tho
playing and if you don't play
as good as I'll tell this fellow
you can play I'll rattle your
ears right off your head"
Later on Cliff rounded me up
and said:
1--WE got q job for you with
Guthrie and your pay Is to be
SIPS q month, and you'll play
: anywhere they tell you"
So in the spring of 1924 re-
ported to Manager M. H. Robert
son at Guthrie, in the Oklahoms
State League. and my profeS
sional career got started with me
as a pitcher.
Copyright 1881. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
Chapter 3 will appear in to-
mOrrow'S Washington Times.)
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Football Briefs

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. Is.
Coach HEARTILY C'HunkD Ander-
son today began teaching his
Notre Dame team method Of
defense calculated to stop his
town type Of plays. Drake Col
lege, whose team collides with
the Fighting Irish here next
Saturday, uses the Notre Dame
system.
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-The Uni
versity of Chicago Maroons were
today launched on an intensive
three-day drill designed to break
up the expected aerial attack of
Yale when the Eastern team
meets the local eleven here Sat
urday. Coach A1onzo Stagg be-
lieves the presence Of Benny
Friedman on the Bulldogs coach
ing staff, will produce number
Of passing attacks.
EVANSTON, ILL.,, Oct. 10.
Oliver Olson, whose expert kick
ing in last Saturdays scoreless
game with Notre Dame was an
outstanding factor, today ap-
peared to have won a regular
place on NorthweStern'S varsity.
ANN ARBOR, Mich, Oct. IL.
The Michigan gridmen took the
practice field today with their
captain, Roy Hudson, on the
bench on Coach Harry Kipke'S
orders. Kipke has threatened
to replace every veteran with a
substitute for next Saturdays
game with Ohio State, unless
the veterans exhibit more de-
termination.
NEW HAVEN, Oct. 13.-Yale
may face Chicago on Saturday
without Tommy Taylor and AL
Strange, two regulars. They are
injured, it was learned today,
and probably won't be in shape
this week.
PRINCETON, Oct. 13.-Capt.
Bill Yeckley, of Princeton, is still
nursing an injured ankle, but it
was announced today he would
start Saturday against Cornell.
WEST POINT, Oct. 49,
Army will scrimmage today,
getting ready for Harvard.
Army scouts will reveal what
they know of the CrimsOn's
attack.
SYRACUSE, Oct. 13.-Prepar-
ing for its game against Florida
this weekend, Syracuse will
Scrimmage today. The game will
mark the first in 10 years that
Syracuse has played a Rockne.
coached eleven.
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PIGS PRACTICE

Gates Dixie Pigs will drill to-
night at 8 o'clock on the Seat
Pleasant gridiron. All players
are urged to report promptly.