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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Health Day" Hoover
and A. F. of [.

meaning, Of all nintancy. And
now, when each year the question
Of demonstrating on May First arr
ses, the American Federation of
Labor complacently Says-we have
our own Labor Day in America.
May First is not our Labor DayI
And what has even this Labor
Day become2 1t is the last day OF
the summer tourist season. Labor
Day closes many summer resorts,
where few workers can go in any
case. 1t is the signal to all hot
dog stands along the highways to
close down, for the season is over.
The move now going on by traders
profitting from summer excursions,
to postpone Labor Day two weeks
in order that they may continue
their profit-making two weeks
more each year, is an eloquent CO.
mentary on what Labor Day"
meansi
mowers Heaith Day
Now comes q new game. A game
Of hypocrisy, Of sham, Of cynical
gloating over the misery Of the
poor. May Day is to be Child's
Health Day! Our children should
be healthy, says the government.
Therefore the President issues a
special proclamation designating
the First Of May to start to make
our children more healthy. How
do they intend to do that? BY re-
moving the conditions which make
our children sickly and ridden with
disease? Danish the thought We
must teach the mothers how to
care for their children under the
capitalist system so that the dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
HeaVy Attack on Wages of RR
Workers NOqV Is Carried Out
Bankers With Support of Hoover and Doak
Secretary of Labor, Plan Nationwide
Wage Cuts for Railway Industry

One of the heaviest attacks on
wages is now going on in the rail-
road industry The plans for wage
slashes for railroad workers have be-
come SO notorious that the railroad
miSleaders and Doak, Secretary of
Labor, were forced to come out ana
deny they had any part in them.
From their past lying, every worker
knows that they are lying now.
There Is a definite wage cut plan
worked out by the railroad bosses.
The takers in the railroad unions
know about it and are helping it
along.
The first Wall Street spokesman to
come out with the fact that pay
slaShes are being prepared in the
railroad industry was the CONNER
cial and Financial Chronicle.
They yelped about the necessity of
keeping up profits. How can this
be done, they asked? Their answer
was:
There appears TO be only one
alternative left, AND THAT Is
THE REDUCTION IN WAGE
SCHEDULES~
Not satisfied with proposing pay
SlasheS for railroad workers, they
urged the extension of the campaign
to cover all workers. They proposed:
What is here said regarding
railroad labor applies with equal
force to labor in general"
Later Doak tried to deny there
were pay cut plans in the railroad
industry. He admitted that the bank
ers wanted to cut wages, but he
said there was nothing to it." The
fact is well known that Doak was
made secretary OF labor because he
was connected with the Brotherhood
Of Railway Trainmen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

accepts many orders at less than
cost to keep you employed"
The men don't believe this. but
some Of them were fooled by the Tat
statements In Letters ] and 2 that
they were assured Of Q steady Job II
they only speeded up. They were
quickly undeceived, for two days after
Letter 5, q general cleaning out"
started, and many white collared men
and many shop workers we're paid
off. That is how much Loughry's
promises are worth. AS soon as Bliss
Co. sees one man can do two mems
work, they fire one man. On May !,
another bunch will be given the air.
And If the workers will only follow
Loughrys advice and speed up some
more, still more of them can be fired.
Ready For War
A war preparations angle is seen
In the Bliss speed up. The Bliss COM
pany is just now manufacturing press
es and other machine-shop equip
ment. But they have manufactured,
and can still make: airplane engines,
field artillery, barrels, large shells,
torpedo castings, aerial bomb castings,
and a lot of other things like that.
Two Fake Communists"
All sorts Of funny things are hap
pening at Bliss Co. A few days ago
the bourgeois press reported $780,
900 hold up and one man shot" ,Ac-
tually, $40 only was taken, and q man
was slightly wounded. The hold up
was obviously an amateur affair, and
President Willard Of the B. 81 o. had
recently announcde, II would rather
steal than starye."
The Coot brothers, Sam and Max,
are foremen, and fierce slave drivers.
They have spread the runor that
they are Communists, and are "driv-
ing the workers to make them dis
contented." This crazy idea is GER
tainly not Communist tactics, and the
Communist Party declares, Sam and
Max Coot are not members Of it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
BY GERTRUDE HAEssLER


MAY DAY as a day Of celebration
wi has a history full Of militant
strength, full Of joyous spirit, full
of black betrayal, and full Of re-
evolutionary determination.
This tradition was preserved and
politicalized by the vanguard Of
he modern working class, the pro-
letariat This was begun in the
United States on May l, 1886, when
100000 workers throughout the
country went on strike for the
eight-hour day. An economic bat
tie, turning swiftly into a political
battle when the Hayrnarket Frame
up became the bloody sequel Of this
first proletarian May Day demon
stration.
Ever since then, the workers &C.
lebrate May First as their own spe-
cial holiday.
Now what Is the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor doing when 1t
endorses the official Labor Day
proclaimed each year by the cap
italist government Of the United
States on the first Monday Of Sep
TENDER?
Role Of A. r. Of l..
Nothing can illustrate better the
role of the American Federation as
a brake on the revolutionary move
ment Of the workers than this SUBJ
raissive compliance with the at
tempt to replace a militant day Of
demonstration. determined by the
workers themselves. by govern
nent-dictated celebration. under
conditions which rob the day OF all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

eases arising from slum conditions
are kept down as much as pos
sible.
Abolish the sluns? Impossible
under capitalism, for capitalism is
built on slurns. So wide drive
is on to educate the Stun mother.
Starving Children
President Hoover, in his address
to the White House Conference on
Children Health and Protection on
November 10 admitted that there
are 100000 deficient children in
the United States, 80 per cent of
whom are not receiving the neces-
sary attention. But, says he, the
ill-nourished child is in our com-
try not the product Of poverty. !"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

Think of it--six million children
improperly nouirEhed-but this is
not the product of poverty!
Current History, a capitalist or
gan, of course. says the following
in its October, 1880. number:
TN 1911-13, 27.3 infants out of
every 100 died. In 1924 only PIT
out of a hundred died, and in 1926
the mortality dropped to 187... :"
Wherein the United States? No,
Current History is talking about
Russia. And it goes on to say:
THE Soviet child is now physically
superior to the child of the czariSt
regime. His weight has risen 10
per cent his chest measurement
has expanded 8 per cent, and his
height has grown per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

cause we have no orders to build
presses"
This is an insidious attempt to
make one group Of workers compete
with another. Naturally the other
shop will also then insist on the
pieces being done in, perhaps, 80
hours, and so on, back and forth.
Letter No. 3, received by the men
on April 10, was threatening and
right to the point. AL pretense was
laid aside. What Bliss wanted was
explained in no uncertain terms, Bliss
wanted speed-up. OF course they
used the regular line Of every fore
man when he is trying to rush the
job, they accused the workers OF
"loafing." You're always loafing in
the opinion of the boss if an ounce
more work can be squeezed out Of
you. And the old familiar, You're
working slower than you used to-" is
in this letter. This one isn't polite,
IF you do not want to be laid off
you should take less number of
hours to finish your parts than you
did year ago-help reduce the cost
of our presses so we can get more
ORDERS" says -Loughry, MUST those
words.
A photograph OF this letter appears
in this issue Of the Daily Worker.
After the hard smash right between
the eyes, Loughry pulled the velvet
glove on again, and began to argue
Letter No. I is almost the same as
Letter No. 2: "Speed-up, compete
with the men in other Shops" SO
Bliss Co. can carry through It's $500
a year real loafers, and can pay big
profits to It's stockholders who don't
even pretend to work. This letter
the men got on April 16.
After that came Letter No. S, on
April 81; still the same old argument
Of trying to work so hard you scab
the workers in other shops out of
their jobs, and alleging that Bliss Co
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

Doak made a statement on April
22nd denying there we're pay cuts I'M
pending in the railroad industry. But
very few workers believed hin-be-
cause wages we're Systematically be-
ing cut on the railroads by speed-up,
layoffs and determinations against
workers who refused to accept con-
ditions of speed-up.
When Doak failed to put over the
lies about no wage cuts, another liar
came out with the same statement.
Secretary of Commerce Robert P.
Lamont on April oath denied that
widespread reductions Of wage levels
we're being made throughout the
country as result Of the continued
depression"
Robert P Lamont is associated with
j. P. Morgan g. Co., he is associated
with the leading railroad bosses who
own $25, 600, 100000 In railroad securi-
ties; he is associated with the samss
individuals who voice the demand for
wage cuts in the Commercial g. Fl
nancial Chronicle and other Wall
Street sheets. His purpose of denying
wage cuts is the same as Doak's,
Green's and Wolls-to disarm the
workers for struggle against wage
cuts.
On Saturday, April %, 1891, the
New York Evening Post came out
with further proof of the wage cut
drive against the railroad workers.
In special article written by Glen
G. Mum entitled Wage Cuts and
Wage Boosts Urged to End Rail
Slump" the proposition is made to
keep up profits by wage readjust-
ments." The idea of asking for in
creases in freight rates is an attempt
to get the farmers lined up behind
the wage cut drive on the railroads
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Bliss Co. in Shiny Campaign
For Lay Offs and Speed Up
Starts Firing in Violation of Promises in Series
&c Letters to Employees; Scheme to Make
Men Work Faster and Drop Some

first one, received by the men on
April 7, hardly did more than point
out that if one factory closes down 1t
will be injurious to the others, be-
cause there will not be enough work.
ers drawing wages to buy the product.
That is true, but laying off men
because others are speeded up will do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

nauseating campaign Of letter-Writ-
ing.
The letters are sent out by J. c.
Laughry, who explains in the first
one that he is sitting up nights" to
write these letters and explain things
to the men for their own benefit. Ac-
tually, this Laugllry left about two
weeks ago and has been gone on a
six weeks pleasure trip to California.
Soft-Pedai At First
The first two letters approached the
matter Of speed-up rather softly. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

NEW YORK.--The Bliss Foundry
is not only speeding up and firing its
workers SO as to keep profits high
enough to carry number of relatives
and friends of the president and vice
president on the payroll at $500 or so
a week, but it is accompanying the
drive against it's workers with really
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
|RAYON BOSSES TO TOLEDO TEACHERS
ORDER 7-DAY WK. FACE WAGE CUTS
Must Join With Rest
of Working-Class

TOLEDO. O., April 2s.-Nearly 1000
school teachers, facing wage cut Of
rs per cent took part in q meeting
here at which exposures were made Of
a huge waste Of public funds, Of pay
ment OF excessive salaries in county
office and failure Of the grand jury
to investigate tax assessments favor
ing the rich.
City officials who attended the
meeting which was held In Scott high
school auditorium, were put through
severe quiz by the angry teachers
and forced to contradict themselves
many times.
The teachers here are beginning TO
realize that they are workers and
must unite with the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Following Swee pin G
Wage-Cuts
(By a Worker Correspondent

Notices have been posted in the
mills Of the Bemberg -Ganzstoff
Rayon Corporation that beginning
May I, all departments will work
seven days a week.
Sunday as rest day for the work.
ers is to be abolished because the
bosses complain that too much ma
terial and fuel Is used when the plant
has to get started on Mondays after
being shut down on Sundays. Fuel
and material cost money, while work
ers today can be kicked out easily and
replaced So the bosses now plan to
save OH fuel and material and take
it out of the workers hides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

the same thing as closing factories,
only Loughry carefully failed to point
that out.
Workers TO Compete
The second letter received on April
8. was also little careful, its point
is in the next to last paragraph, which
says; IF you take 100 hours to finish
some pieces and a man in another
shop does the same number of pieces
in so hours, that shop gets the next
order for presses-he continues to
have work while you will be idle be-
Evening star., 1931-12-22
VIRGINIA TO PROVIDE
FOR 1900 RING FANS
Expects Crowds at Boxing Meets
This Winter-Three Veterans
on Cavalier Team.

UNIVERSITY, Va, December az
Virginia's athletic authorities are not
expecting to find boxing crowds cut
down by the depression this Winter.
In fact they are preparing for larger,
not smaller crowds for the Cavaliers
home ring meets.
Space for 1000 spectators. with seats
for $500 and standing room for the
others, will be provided for the meets
in the Memorial Gymnasium against
Virginia Military Institute North Caro-
lima and Yale. And. if possible, therell
be room for even more during the sixth
annual Southern Conference tourna-
ment.
Virginia has had accommodations for
about 5000 spectators for boxing
matches in the past. Last Winter the
team that won the conference title
packed the gymnasium TO overfiowing
and James @. Driver. athletic director,
has procured seats for an additional
1000 men and women.
Virginia has three veteran title
holders who will be in the ring again
this Winter. Fenton Gentry of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, captain and light-heavy-
weight champion of the conference;
Douglas Myers of Petersburg. Va,
midGleweight champion, and Bobbis
Goldstein Of Washington, D. c.. feather-
weight champion. Other weights prob
ably will be divided between veterans
and new men.
Evening star., 1931-12-22
Ye Rollers Unawed BY Hason 646 Synthetic Fighters Mar New 70

1ney came from the gutter, as the saw
ing goes. Their parents we're of for
elgn birth, with enormous families. 8
or 10 children to every family.
The parents had little or no time
to plan for the future of their children.
Ihey were busy trying to make a living
Ihe youngsters roamed the streets day
and night.
Had to Learn TO Fight.
"A boy learned to fight through ne
cesSity. He had to fight or be bullied
out Of everything he wanted. Usually
the boxer was kid who had whipped
all the other kids of his neighborhood.
He fought because he had got SO he
liked it.
To-day 1t is different. Many boxers
come from high schools or colleges.
They are not fighters at heart Whey
do not love their profession, because
they did not start out to become fight
ers. Circumstances, such as the need
u money, forced them INTO the busi-
ness. They wanted some quick money.
Flghtlng was means to that end
The present-day fighter, especially
the Jewish boy, comes from American
born parents or from thoroughly Amer
icanized fore-gn-born parents. The
father has smaller family, two or
three children. He tries to bring them
up to be professional men-doctors,
lawyers, engineers and the like. Box
ing is lar from their minds"
Evening star., 1931-12-22
INTERCITY RIVALRY
PEPS BOXING SHOW
Weiner of Baltimore to Meet Barry
of Washington in Main Bout
at Alexandria.

Bristling intercity rivalry will bring
Washington and Baltimore into the
limelight next Tuesday night when
Alexandria Elks launch their leather
festival at Portner's Arena, Alexandria.
Showing in the scheduled eight round
event of an attractive lineup Herman
Weiner, Baltimore sluggng heavyweight,
is to mix dukes with Reds" Barry,
Southeast Washington standout.
Featuring this performance should
be another of those time-honored duels,
that of the boxer and walloper.
The Southeast "Redhead, famed fol
his cleverness, opposes In Wsiner one Of
the stiffest two-t1sted clouters in the
South Atlantic area. Shooting hay
makers" with both hands. Weiner will
be bidding for "slumberland special
from the opening gong.
Herman punched out two we'll known
fighters at Mid-City Stadium last Sum-
mer, dropping Mike Sullivan. sensational
Philadelphia heavy. in short time, and
also polishing off Paul Berlenbach, ex-
Evening star., 1931-12-22
HEARTS Of BOXERS
NOT IN SPORT NOW
Few Earnest Pugs as Quick
Money Becomes Big Lure,
Declares AtteII.
BY WILBUR WOOD.

n yEW YORK, December 22.-
I'M Something is wrong with
l Y boxing. Something is
wrong with almost every
thing, in fact. Last Friday night
a fight between Tommy Loughran,
rated the third best heavyweight
in the world, and King Levinsky,
a hard-punching slugger from
Chicago, attracted a net gate of
less than $4,000 in Madison
Square Garden. 1t was a good
fight. 1t figured in advance to be
a good fight. Yet less than 5000
cash customers turned out.
The proximity of Christmas was
partly to blame for the low gate. That S
admitted. About this time every year
the customers put their surplus cash,
if any, into Christmas presents. That S
one reason why there will be no show
in the Garden this week. But there
are other reasons for the slump of the
last two years.
The question was put to little Johnny
Attell, who still manages to show a
profit at the RidgeWood Grove Sporting
Club. Any one who can make a small
club pay dividends in these days must
know his way around. That's why At
tells opinion was solicited. Read what
he has to say and see If you agree with
him. He GRATED about as follows
Local Color Lacking.
Whats wrong with boxing?" mused
Attell. Il say the main reason for box
ings slump in New York is lack of local
attractions.
This year and last year were the
first since the Walker law went into
effect that New York City did not have
youngsters come along who would pack
EN- in at the neighborhood clubs
This Is especially true of the Jewish
boys. Since Leonard was champion
New York was never, until recently
without Terris, Goldstein, a Singer
or somebody like them.
The Jewish boys seem to have for
saken boxing. In the past three
fourths of the members of every anna
teur team representing New York were
Jewish boys. Today you may find one
in ten. Look at the calendar of bouts
scheduled at the local clubs. You will
find mostly Italian youngsters listed.
Il lay this to the changing of gen.
erations. Great fighters of the past
were products of the poorer classes.
Evening star., 1931-12-22
'Barna Golf Title
Play in Florida
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, A'a., December
4'1 patrons-the 1882 Alabama
amateur golf tournament will be
played In Florida.
The Pensacola Country Club,
member Of the Alabama Amateur
Coli Association through its geo
graphical relationship, was awarded
the 1882 tournament.
1t will force Gordon Smith, long
driving Mobile star, to leave his
State to defend his title as Ala
bama amateur champion.
Evening star., 1931-12-22

heavyweight champion of the world
More recently Weiner was outpointed
by Sam Weiss in a thrilling go in BaIti-
more, but not until an early round left
had sent AL Lippes boy down for a
count OF nine and all but finished him
An unusually promising six-round
Evening star., 1931-12-22
- Basket Ball Tips

One big problem in basket ball IS
to work floor plays that will get the
ball downcourt for a closeup shot.
Coach Hogan's Carnegie team uses
the scheme shown here most
effectively.
The play opens as RECEIVERS the
ball from the blackboard. H passes
to cutting across court in front
of him. No then dribbles down
Evening star., 1931-12-22

semi-windup finds Sam Bernstein. vet
eran welterWeight, who last night
measured out Benny Toothman on the
Day Nursery's card, stacked up against
Harry cKid"D Groves, Mohawk Club
ace. Other prelims are nearing COM
nletinn
Evening star., 1931-12-22

appearance will help. On the other hand,
the slightest growth of stubble is handicap.
Today Gillette offers a blade that makes
close and frequent shaving easy and com.
Portable. 1t never roughens or irri-
tates tender skin--shears away stubborn
beard quickly and smoothly. Try this
Gillette on our guarantee. You risk
nothing. Buy package and use two
blades. If every shave isn't clean and
pleasant-return the package to your dealer
and he'll refund the entire purchase price.
Evening star., 1931-12-22

TIED counted on landing the job-but he
i L missed out. Again he'll have to STALL
the landlord, the grocer and all the rest. One
thing stood between him and weekly pay
check. His wife is somewhat reluctant to tell
him. He doesn't realize that fresh, close shave
is important in getting and holding job.
Far too many men share, without being
clean shaven. The blade you choose and
the way you use it makes the difference.
OF course you can't shave your way to
independence, but a fresh, Immaculate
Evening star., 1931-12-22

NWo lOIlSly SLdIS Ol IIle
mapleWayS pierced a SEEM
i ingly impenetrable cloak
of odds and numbers last
night to shine brilliantly as The
Stars big Yuletide singles tour
nament opened at the Lucky
Strike, but their glory is likely
to be shortlive
Notwithstanding young Paul
Harrison's score of 646 and Bill
lie Williams 3l6, the consensus
among bowling's sages today is
that the goose still hangs high
and to get i'm the ultimate cham
pions, man and girl, will have to
shoot higher than 646 and 316.
Surrounded on all sides by scores of
near stars, mediocre and dub bowlers,
any one of whom was expected 10 put
on hot hand" Harrison Snickered at
the law of averages and pinned strings
OF las, 1913, 1913, 116 and 119 for a 646
total which followed 639 rolled on
the same alleys, Nos IS and as. few
minutes before by an unknown, AL Glea-
son OF the Southern Railway Clerks
League
Yet Harrisons 646 which beat by
one stick the score which won the title
for Clem Weidman last year, today Is
being regarded as nothing more than a
safe bet to finish in the money
1T won't stand up" came from all
sides.
And those who make that prediction
bark back to 1923 when Clarence Taft
rose from obscurity to shoot 654 and
win-back in 1928 when cutters weren't
raised and only 1893 competed.
Evening star., 1931-12-22

court Meantime, center % and
left forward (2) circle as shown
with right forward (3) breaking for
the basket and then swinging back
to the foul line.
No. ends his dribble by quick
pass to 2, who Immediately relays
the ball to 3 at the foul line. While
all this Is going on 4 swings around
to the left side of the court and
thsn cuts for the basket, taking a
quick pass from for closeup
shot
Evening star., 1931-12-22

OLLIE WILLIAMS and Merceda
- Isemann, members of the first
woman's duckpin team organized
in Washington, haven't changed an iota
either in bowling ability or appearance
in Is years, according to a gallant
veteran who watched the pair perform
last night.
Evening star., 1931-12-22

Hiser's Bethesda All-Stars and Wash
ington Original Juniors will meet in the
first block of games in 10-game to-
tai pin match tonight at the Arcadia
son. Lindstron. Davidson, Harris, Hoff-
man and Henry H;ser, and for the
Juniors Espey, J. Wolstenholme, Smith,
J. Anderson ard P Harrison.