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The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-03

Everything else having failed how would it do to try laughing off the depression?-C Cincinnati EnquirerD
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-03

England may be said to be in the doledrums. 7-,Ohio State JoiirnaD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
UNITY HAS
SPECIAL ISSUE
Comes Out On Feb. Is,
Int'l Hunger Day

A 100000 issue of Labor Unity for
the Feb. 25th preparations, Inter
national Fighting Day Against IN
employment!
The International Unemployment
Day issue of Labor Unity will come
off the press Wednesday or Thursday,
Feb. Is or 10. 1t will contain i'm
portant material dealing with the
Washington Delegation and the next
steps in the struggle for unemploy-
ment insurance. 1t will tell of the
coming strikes, and will call on the
workers to rally to the defense of
the Soviet Union.
1t will contain important infor1na-
ton on the struggles of the workers
in other countries, against unemploy-
ment and against wake cuts.
A special offer is being made on
bundles of 1000 or more, at the rate
of $40 a thousand. Orders of 100 or
more, up to 1000, will be at the rate
of $3.50 a 100.
These special rates will apply for
the International Unemployment Day
issue only.
Orders should be placed thru Labor
Unity, Room Ala, West 18th ST.,
New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
TUUL Organizer to
Broadcast on Eco
nOmic Crisis Monday

CHESTER, Pa, Feb. 15.-Tfe regu-
lar meeting of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil was attended by over 100 workers
today. Ninety per cent of them were
Negroes. An intensive organization
al campaign is especially up daily.
Steps are now being taken to form
block councils.
Despite the intense cold, over 500
workers demonstrated on Feb. TO- A
systematic campaign is being carried
on to bring out thousands Of work
ers at the next demonstration which
takes place Feb. 25. Following this
demonstration a general unemployed
conference. will be held in this city
on March 7. Speakers are being sent
to Negro churches and fraternal Or
CARNATIONS, ALL. locals and many
other organizations. A broad con-
ference is expected.
The next meeting Of the Council
takes place Monday. Feb. 15, II am.
at 100 West Third st. During the
meeting there will be a broadcast
from the local radio station, WVX,
between IL noon and / p. m. Mac
Harris, organizer of the Trade Union
Unity League will speak on the
World Economic Crisis and Unem-
ployment Insurance" This is a short
wave broadcast and can be picked
up by ordinary sets. The wava
length is $40 kilocycles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
FIGHT BALTIMORE
JOB SHARK STEAL
SWindled Negro Girl
Out of $500

BALTIMORE, Mr., Feb. 15.-Ethel
Kennedy, a young Negro girl, had
applied for many weeks in vain for
a job. At the employment agency
called the Maryland Help Associa-
ton, 1903 Clay ST, near Liberty st.,
a driedout man ordered her roughly
to sit down and wait for something
to show up. She was finally called
over and told to go to ZIG Ridgewood
Rd., Roland Park and there she
would be taken Oil as a maid. First.
in order to get the job, she was COM
PEELED to sign a contract with the
Maryland Help Assn, that gave them
the right of taking 1920 from her
first weeks pay.
Ethel Kennedy worked there 8
days, including Sunday and found
that the job was everything but a
maid. She had to scrub, wash
clothes, and host of other drudge
jobs. She had to get up at 5 am.
every morning in order to get to
the house 7 a. m. in the morning,
and then work II and Ia hours a
day. Out of the supposed SO a week,
she had to pay $1.40 every week car
fare. The lady of the house was a
tyrant, and especially because she
was a Negro was she subject to most
brutal discipline.
She found that when she quit at
the end of the eighth day she re-
ceived only $3.50 and the 1920 was
turned over to the employment
agency. She got cheated out of one
days pay. She then went to the
agency to demand her 1920, but the
little slave sellers" ignored her COM
pletely, and told her to go home, and
if they had another job for her, they
would give it to her for nothing.
Everyone acquainted with the en-
ployment agencies knows that the job
will never be given under these con-
ditions. She then appealed to the
Unemployed Council of the TUUL at
9 South Greene ST., and there the
unemployed workers elected a COM
mittee to present the demand for
the $500. The committee was reject
ed. The boss of the agency got yell
low and said the boss wasn't in when
the committee arrived, but it was
revealed later that he was thc boss.
Workers and unemployed of Balti-
more are asked to come down to 108
Clay ST., IL noon, Feb. 16 and pro-
test against the employment agen-
cies that rob the workers of their
pay and fool them with the jobs
that they give out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16

the labor taxing American Federation
of Labor, a union whose chief ac-
tivity is sending flowers to deceased
members.
A Militant Strike
But in spite of the A. F. of L.
leadership the cabbies themselves
show militant spirit equal to that
of our own red unions. BY the spirit
shown by the cabbies in the speeches
at the meetings in the faithfulness
with which they do their picketing
and attend their meeting every day
and cause people are refusing to ride
in scab cabs the bosses Of the N. Ell.
and P. Co. have got to realize that
they will have to meet the demands
OF As cents an hour and reinstate-
ment of discharged drivers if they
want to operate cabs in Providence.
r. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16

CeeueQ WlCn Cne alQ OF crooked State
officials here to buy up all cabs who
would sell out and have the licenses
revoked of those who wouldn't.
Bosses Cut Wages
The first act of the power trust
was to raise the fare practically
double and cut the wages in half SO
that including measly bonus of 10
per cent make $3.50 to $2.95 a day
for 10 to IL hours and ON rainy nights
Is hours work. Out of this they are
forced to pay $S5 for uniform and
a cap, $3.50 for hack license and
deposit 81 hard cash for lousy 10
cent badge. In case of accident the
driver has to pay for the damage.
The drivers organized in November
against these capitalist slave drivers
but being unfamiliar with labor Or,
CARNATIONS Joined the AmaIgamated
Street Garments Union, a branch Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
WORKERS STARVE
AFTER SELLOUT
Takers Wash Hands
Of Strikers
CONTINUED FROM PAGE

ing and trying to fool the workers
into thinking, everything will be all
right, as German himself said at a
union meeting last week.
Families of strikers who have moth
ing in their homes but, maybe, a
little flour and lard, are wondering
what happened to the $4,000 and
more that the U. T. w. chiefs got
from the workers in Danville.
Looted the Strikers.
A dollar week initiation fee be-
fore the strike, and SO after the strike
began, was paid into the union treas
ury by 4,500 members. They also
paid 25 cents a week dues. The maj
GRITTY of them joined up last February
or March. The U. T. ". announced
donations amounting to $15O,O0O from
outside sources-and also announced
that $150000 had been spent.
Leaders of the American Federation
of Labor during the strike pledged
full financial support" and said
they would, if necessary, empty the
treasury for the Danville strikers
Not one cent did they give, however.
Press Lies for U. T. w.
Danville papers refuse to print
statement issued by the National Of
flee of the National Textile Workers
Union, on the Danville strike, because
it exposed the role of the United Tex
tile Workers Union, The Danville
Register, a paper controlled by the
mill interests, which before and dur
ing the strike, was consistently
against the U. T. w, now fearing
that the strikers may rally to the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, has
become the open champion of the
United Textile Workers Union.
In the issue of Feb. 5th, it states:
"a prepared statement by the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union was
issued on the termination Of the
strike, but it is so inflammatory in
terms, and so teeming with libelous
accusations directed toward the
United Textile Workers Union, that
it cannot be printed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
AFL Journal Raves
When Jorge EXPOSES
Pope i'm Big Oil Deal

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb. 15-The
Philadelphia Labor Record" weekly
tabloid of the A. F. of l.. officials here,
which endorses the sell out in Dan
vile and KenSington by the United
Textile Workers and fights against
unemployment councils, is trying TO
start holy crusade against the mil
liant workers organizations and par
ticularly against the Communist Par
ty. Evidently the A. F. of l.. chiefs
think something must be done to stop
the workers from thinking about
Danyille and Kensington.
The only article on the front page
Of the Labor Record" of Feb. 10 is
a wild howl against the Daily Wo8ker
columnist Jorge, for exposing the fact
that the pope recently bought. lot of
Deterding's Dutch Shell Oil stock,
since when he has been calling down
curses on the Soviet Union, and since
when the blessing of autos by priests
has been a flourishing business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
J, 900 JOBLESS ANSWER PORTLAND
TERROR BY DEMONSTRATION

those who considered themselves
Communists-this was an answer to
the terroristic tactics of police agents
proving around.
McKEESPORT, Pa, (By MaiD -
Three thousand demonstrated here
Feb. 10, and pledged another demon
stration on Feb. Is. Fifty police beat
up the speakers and arrested two of
the demonstrators. The crowd hung
around and the unemployed council
rented a room in Danders Hotel and
spoke from the window to the masses
outside. Three cops ran up, broke
down the door to the room and beat
up Michael Sparks, who was speak
ing. The crowd shouted angrily, "Let
him speak,"
Those arrested on the street were
Anna Swetlet and Frank Kovach.
The National Tube Co. held back
the workers five minutes at quitting
time to try and interfere with the
meeting.
Workers jammed the court room
next day at the trial of those ar
rested, and Chief Whalen had them
driven out. But Martin, chief of
police from the McKeesport Tin
Plate Co. and the big superintendent
from the Tin mill were allowed in to
see If any of their men were there.
so they could fire them. The three
arrested were fined $25 each, and
when they refused to pay, given 80
day sentences by Judge Lundie.
page 5 Feb. Is
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. (By MaiD
The hunger marchers formed here on
Feb. 10 at 1.-THE Markethouse" and
paraded to the city hall. On the way.
detachment of the marchers was
attacked and their ranks brol,,n by
Mexican stool pigeons, instigated by
the Mexican consulate.
However, crowd of about 1000
gathered in front of the city hall,
and IA local demands for relief.
against evictions, against the vag-
rancy laws, ETC., were read by a COM
mittee on which were George Pap
Gun. Sarah Levine, and Tom Rea-
gan.
The mayor rejected them all. For
all he cares, the jobless of Texas can
go right on starving to death.
But 1000 Of the crowd marched
for two miles back through the city
TO the unemployed council head
quarters at 4o4 IL Nebraska Street.
The hall which holds only 200 was
1ammed and while Reagan addressed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16

j. /. Whidden. field organizer; Albert
Grinnell, district organizer OF the Y.
Gil; and Frank Pierce, of the exec
utive committee of the tenants
league, and one more.
Negroes Speak.
The unemployed council holds
meetings at the soup lines, and meet
ings are held at the court house. On
August 1, they captured the court
house and held a meeting inside.
When Negro workers speak, says
Pierce, 1t shocks the business men of
this Jir1-Crow town considerably.
Last Labor Day, 5000 marched on
the state capitol. Arrests we're made,
but the militancy of the crowd forced
their release.
When Secretary of War Pat Hurley
came and was dined by the chamber
OF commerce, the jobless came down
and heckled him on his way out. They
demanded to know what U. S. gun
boats were doing in China, and ac-
cused him of not having courage
enough to answer the question when
he drove off in silence.
The unemployed gather, to the
Number of 500 or 600 under the via
duct on the river bottom. They have
no blankets, and build fires to keep
warm. The place is called "Hotel
Hoover"
The unemployed council had a hot
fight here to force the local hospital
to take in farmers wife who gave
birth to a baby In "Hotel Hoover"
She had been forced off the land by
starvation.
Pierce made his way from Okla
horna City to Washington in six days.
hitch hiking.
Damn right, he said, "Im going
back the same way and go on or.
ganizing."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
CONTINUED FROM PAGE

WV Nv Ell hoNA dNrE syl
Party and while talking he intro
duced the pamphlet Of Fosters tes-
timony answering the Fish commit
tee. Luka Skako, who is under 5000
bail for his membership in the Com
munist Party, was arrested by a
police agent for selling the pamphlet.
HeNwas taken to the police station
and it was through the militant de-
mand of the crowd when they
marched to the city hall to support
delegation of Is working men and
women, in presenting the local de-
mands to-the city council, that forced
his release in a few hours on no
charges and with the literature in
his possession intact except for one
copy which the police thought the
immigration authorities might want.
Smoke Gu 1.-THE Mayor.
Fred Walker led the delegation of
workers to the mayors office, but
"hizzonor" was not in. Commas
soirer Pier ives there and expressed
sympathy, but stated that nothing
could be done.
Walker and the committee re-
ported to the crowd and while they
were taking vote either to go to
the hotel, where the mayor and a
group of gTafters we're gorging them
selves while workers were starving.
or to wait on his return, "hizzonor,"
no doubt called by his frightened
subordinates, came strolling up. The
speaker did not know "Our George"
and then when he identified himself
and then when he identified the
mayor he voiced the local demands.
After he finished the mayor wanted
the soap box and the workers ridi-
culed his appeal for soap box at
their meeting. He told the workers
that it was illegal to feed the star
wing and that he could not cut his
salary or those of other officials. The
mayor threatened the crowd with
men "who would defend the flag and
that this was still America" 1t dis
not work and the crowd stood firm
and voiced their entire approval of
the U. G.
Reporters and Spies.
Reporters o fthe capitalist press
took their story from the stool
pigeon, Bacon, who turned over to
tn epolice a score of workers last
September. When Walker saw him
in a window and pointed him out
TO the crowd, Bacon fled.
Thee thousand raised their hands
when Walker called for a vote OF all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
Lower Workers Living
Standard in Uruguay
AS Peso Drops 80 PC.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay.-The
value of the peso has decreased more
than SO per cent. AS was foreseen,
prices have shown a marked rise,
especially for the necessities of life.
This is because imports must be paid
for in gold and not with the face
value of the peso. If the peso loses
part OF its value in gold more pesos
are required in the commercial ex-
change to buy foreign merchandise.
The fact that prices did not rise
Immediately following the decline in
the exchange value of the peso,
caused many workers to believe that
the decrease would have no effect on
the cost Of the necessities of life.
However, as soon as the warehouses
had exhausted their reserve supply
of merchandise, while hoping that
the peso would regain its value, mer-
chants were forced to buy new sup
plies at higher prices.
The bourgeois press has accepted
as natural that workers be charged
higher prices, in order to stabilize
the peso. Suggestions for a proper
Tomato raise in the salary of the
workers are met with advice ito be
patient, everything will be all right,
the peso will soon regain it's value"
etc. In the meantime, the burden of
the loss of value of the peso falls
on the workers, whose miserable wages
are in reality cut 38 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
RIOT PAGES
OPEN FOR MONDAY,
TUESDAY, FRIDAY

The Chicago district has already
received its first district page in the
Feb. Is issue. The edition includes
articles protesting attacks on the Ne
gro candidate on the Communist bal
lot in the coming elections, evictions
of Chicago workers, a story of an ex-
serviceman's family starving on hun
ger rations, the Chicago workers an
swer' to police terror in the Polish
district, the Red Election Rally Feb.
Is and q worker correspondence on
the speed-up ip the Postal Telegraph
Co.
Philadelphia, the second to respond
to the drive for district pages, is
cooperating to the fullest extent with
the national office in order that
ample Sime is given to prepare the
issue for Thursday, Feb. 10. These
editions will be continued provided
our comrades in the units will feel
the Thursday Daily Worker is some
what different, and specifically Phil
adelphia so that we can mobilize
them every Thursday for the sale
of the Daily" writes M. Silver, Daily
Worker representative. The Phila-
delphia issue will be frightened con-
siderably by good cartoon on the
Pennsylvania coal and iron police.
Once a week, district edition
with four columns of space devoted
exclusively to news items of local
interest goes long way toward
winning workers over to the Daily
They'll look forward to the day of
the special issue. They'll write for
it. Other districts may choose any
day except Wednesday, Thursday
and Saturday. The cost, IS per
1000 for at least 1000 copies of that
issue, must be paid in advance.
Who's next?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
GERMAN FASCIST
LEADER JAILED
Striking Dockers Build
Revolutionary Union
Gable By InprecOrrl

BERLIN.-The leader of the fascist
illegal organization who assisted the
fugitive murderers, Captain Maltitz,
was arrested in Innsbruck. Maltitz
admitted assisting murderer Becker,
one of the three facist murderers who
killed two workers on New Years Day
in Berlin.
The temporary result of the eX-
animation material captured in yes
terdays raid on the Facist headquar-
tiers shows that the Facist had con-
nections with officers of the War
Ministry who supplied fascists with
important material. The material
alos reveals the military nature Of
the Fascist shock groups. It is I'M
likely that the government will pro-
hibit the Fascist shock groups.
Following the Fascist meeting in
Mainz last evening, collisions occur
red and policeman shot a worker,
Mueller, dead
During collisions following a fas-
clst demonstration in Koenigsberg a
young worker was stabbed in the
back.
The Socialist Minister of the Inter
ior, Grzesinski, prohibited the planned
anti-Fascist demonstration on Sunday
in Lustgarten.
Striking Hamburg lockers decided
to found a revolutionary union as
the reformist union fails to represent
the workers interests. Today police
beat and slugged the strikers on sew
eral occasion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
Big WOMENI'S MEET
IN PITTSBURGH
Prepare international
Women's Day

PITTSBURGH, Feb 11.-At the
call of the Communist Party in Pitts
burgh representatives from shops and
fraternal organizations attended a
conference for International Women'S
Day. Comrade Anna Damon of the
Women's Department Central Com
nlittee, Communist Party of U. S. A,
was the main speaker. Comrade
Mary Smith, women's work director
Of Pittsburgh District, outlined the
tasks and plans for International
Women's Day campaign of the dis
trict. After this a good discussion
followed. The delegates present
pointed out the need of carrying on
activities in the shops, coal fields and
steel towns among the working
women and wives of workers. Upon
a motion of one of the delegates a
final mobilization conference will be
held on March /, in the afternoon,
and mass meeting in the evening.
A committee of 10 was elected TO
help the Communist Party carry
through the campaign. The commit
tee will meet Feb. Is.
The plan of work calls for the
holding of factory gate meeting at
the westinghouse factory on March
2 and demonstration on the 9th.
Holding of preparatory meetings in
mining towns and in the Hill Sec
ton. An intensive campaign against
the high cost of living, high rents
and evictions. The organization of
women into councils of unemployed
and the building of women's auxil-
iaries in the coal fields and mining
towns.
Meetinps on March 8 will be held
in the following cities under the
ausrices of the Communist Party:
Pittsburgh, McKeesport, New Ken
sington, Johnstown, Ambridge, York
vile, Canonsburg, Wheeling, w. Va;
Neffs, Ohio; Bellaire, Ohio, and Mon
nesen.
Ae resolution calling on the work.
ine women TO fight against U. S. war
preparations and for the defense of
the Soviet Union, denouncing the
Fish Committee report and pledging
full support to the Communist Party
and the struggles it is conducting
against unemployment and in the
general interests of the working class
was unanimously adopted by the con-
ference. Support was pledged TO the
striking miners. The Working Woman
was endorsed as the only revolution
airy women's paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
Miss. Worker
Loses His Savings
OXFORD, Miss

OXFORD, Miss
Dear Workers:
know you wonder why I don't
write more often. There Is a reasor
or two. have no work and haven't
had any since don't remember
when. The bank in which had saved
up few dollars for a rainy day has
closed and in spite of all the sweet
promises of re-opening it stays closed
Bilbo, our honorable (?) governor
refused to grant us any time in pay
ing our taxes and has warned us
we'll be deprived of the pleasure of
re-electing the gang of political
criminals in Office should we fail to
pay our taxes in time.
My last months grocery bill for
four of us was $3.50. not much but
just where the $3.50 is going TO come
from 4 don't know yet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-16
FIGHT EVICTIONS
In SACRAMENTO
Many Families With
No Food, Fuel

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-The case of
Mr. Hicks of 2O3 Ell Canine ST.. at
Sacramento, was recently brought to
the attention of the Eviction Com
mittee of the Unemployed. Mr..
Hicks, with a wife sick in bed and a
widowed daughter and three chill
dren dependent ON him, had been I'M
able to find work for some months
past. His rent became two months
overdue and he was given orders to
move. The Eviction Committee in
vestigated and found the family with
out food, fuel, or medical care. All
three were secured for the family
and also mo pay-no rent" guar
antee.
The Committees are very active
here and are doing good work. The
results of this work are being shown
In the growing interest and support
Of the working class who are getting
behind us with militant solidaritJ
more and more.
Eviction Committee of NC.