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The Washington times., 1931-11-25
Churches to Unite
In Thanks SerDice

A union Thanksgiving service
will be held at the Peoples Con.
gregational Church, M Street
near Seventh Street Northwest,
tomorrow at IL q. m.
The churches uniting in the
exercises are: Tabor PreSby.
terian, Lincoln, Temple, Plymouth
Congregational and the Fifteenth
Street Presbyterian Church. The
Rev. Herbert King, pastor Of
Plymouth Church, will preach.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
Drastic Charity Bid
To Arn1U UnLikeLu

Secretary Of War Hurley and
Admiral Bullard, commandant OF
the Coast Guard, will make no
attempt to follow in the steps Of
Secretary Of the Navy Adams by
appealing to the personnel Of the
Army and the Coast Guard to
aid local charities.
The War Secretary has declined
to act further, having sent a form
letter some weeks ago suggesting
charitable donations by military
units. Admiral Bullard, 1t was
stated, does not feel free to make
as sweeping an appeal as did Sec
retary Adams last week, without
specific instructions from the Sec
retary of Treasury.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
M-CEad Children Are
! Forced to. Play
Amid Refuse -

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G,ptteT OF international NeIns Ser.
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the Kentucky coat fields as seen
through Unprejudtced eyes.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25
ADvERTIsEMEMT
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The Washington times., 1931-11-25
ADVERTISEMENT
New Plan by Makers of Vicks
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Saves Money, Time and Health by
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Test Of Plan Offered by Wash.
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suits.
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

wastes Of refuse. Some Of the
camps are built with some
attempt at methodical planning
and in some of them you see a
brave flutter of washing on the
line, and smoke rising from the
chimneys. but most Of them lie
lifeless in the misery Of hopeless
and habitual dirt.
Each shack is the size Of q
The Washington times., 1931-11-25

City and Suburban homes for sale
all sections all prices d. Il. /.
are advertised for sale in today's Clas-
sified Section.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
Bosses Try to Stops
Meet, But Workers
Rally to Protest

layed to the last hour. Thus pub
Icity was prevented and thousands
Of workers did not know about the
demonstration.
Denounce War.
When time for the demonstration
arrived group of policemen was
placed at the entrance of the Sta
dunn grounds. Many workers who
are employed by the Bethlehem Steel
were kept away by these police. But
in spite of these terroristic tactics of
the bosses, many workers gathered
and we had a good protest meeting.
Comrade Woods and other speakers
told how the bosses were preparing
to attack the Soviet Union. The work
ers pledged to fight for the working
class in the next war
Must Organize.
The working class of Johnstown
will have to put up a real against
the discrimination the mayor and
using against the workers. We must
also shatter the terror and the in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
5000 Workers March to City Hall. Demand Re-
lease of Jailed Organizers; Cops Attack
March With Clubs and Gas

strike against starvation wages Of
twenty-five and thirty cents an hour
took the speakers stand after one of
the other strike leaders had been
pulled from the platform and ar
rested. In a dramatic appeal to the
thousands gathered in the square she
asked the workers to pledge them
selves to fight for the solidarity of
the union and the working class
struggle. With her hands out
stretched to the workers she said:
"You have seen them arrest our
speakers. You have seen the police
attack our men and women on pick
let duty. You have seen the flunkies
of the bosses drag your fellow work.
ers to the Jail over there for at
tempting to organize you into one
great union. Fellow workers, let us
show the bosses our strength, Let us
march to the Jail and demand our
men. But let us show the bosses
that workers can also be dignified
and orderly, but let us show them
by this vast demonstration our fight
ing strength. There are a great
number of us here How many of
you will march with Iss?" A tremen-
dous shout rose from the thousands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

of workers.
No sooner had she stepped from
the platform than police rushed her
and struck her with night stick
and threw tear bombs among the
workers, one of which struck the
girl leader in the face, seriously
burning her. Two strikers picked up
her crumpled body and rushed her
to hospital.
Strikers March.
The strikers, undaunted by the vi
cious attack of police, began their
march on the city hall, the strike
committee leading the procession.
Thousands of other workers and
working class sympathizers joined
the march. The line was several
miles long and by the time they had
reached the city hall the assemblage
had grown to five thousand. There
they found the police barricaded be-
hind doors of the Jail. In few min
utes hundreds of policemen newly re-
cruited from the fire department ar
rived with guns and fire engines.
More tear bombs were exploded, and
more workers were badly burned.
Powerful streams of water were
turned on the masses surrounding
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
BUCKLEY BAKING
co. SLASHES PAY
Many to Be Fired; A.
F. of L. OK's Move
New Britain. Conn.

New Britain, Conn.
Daily Worker:
The Parker and Buckley BAKING
Co., decided to cut the wages of the
workers 10 per cent. The workers
who are members of the A. F. Of L.
insisted that they would not accept
the cut, but the bosses went right
ahead With the cut. Now the COM
pany is going to put in new machin-
cry which will throw three -fourths
of the workers out of work.
What we must do is take an ex-
ample. from the coal miners, who
used to be affiliated with the A. F.
of l.. but who overthrow them after
they found out that they were not
the bosses. The miners Joined the
Trade Union Unity League and now
they are really fighting to better
their conditions
That's what the Parker Buckley
bakers should do Get into the
Food Workers Industrial Union, a
union that fights against speed-up,
wage cuts and for unemployment In
srance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

cents a week and every foreman gets
rs cents a week. This is Hooyer's
way of making money while he
starveS workers.
This COW ranger said you are hired
on one ranch to steal other owners
cattle. If you are caught you get
the penalty and not the ranch own
er. In Wyoming many are unem-
ployed and if you are caught the
government puts you. on the chain
gang. In Utah many workers hop
freights from state to state and when
they get a job it's washing dishes for
nothing. In Denver the government
makes a raid on the unemployed
once a week, throws everybody on a
freight train and warns them not to
return. Those that do are put in
Jail for months and more.
Starvation at Boulder Dam.
People that live near the Boulder
Dam are so hungry that they eat
out of cans or anything they get a
hold of in order to live in this rich
country.
The Boulder Dam employees 1000
workers for low wages and every
body lives in tents around the dam.
Forced Labor.
Let's see if there is forced labor in
the United States. Many workers
walk along the road trying to find
real work. One ranch owner passes
you in his wagon and asks you if
you want a lift. You say yes and he
drives distance and turns off the
road. When you ask him where he's
going he will tell you this is a short
cut to town. But you find yourself
in his ranch and you are fc-ccI to
work without pay. The ranch owner
gives you something to eat so you
can have strength to work the next
day. This is the way they trap the
unemployed workers out west.
When the ranger was given the
"Daily Worker" and the little pam
phlet, why Every Workers Should
Join the Communist Party" he saw
a new world. For hours he listened
to what the Communist Party is and
what the class struggle is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
1000 SAN JOSE CANNERY WORKERS SPREAD
STRIKE IN FACE OF BRUTAL POLICE TERROR

the Jail. Women and men were
swept unconscious to the ground.
The police fired shots at the crowt
and swept them away from the
doors of the station.
A striker stood up on the steps and
cried: I'VE do not want tear bombs
and bloodshed! We want our men!
We only want justiceW He with
others were seized by the army of
the police and thrown into Jail. They
were thrown into Jail to be held for
criminal syndicalism! They were
thrown into Jail that is recognized
statewide as being the foulest and
filthiest dungeon on the coast--the
Jail that has been the subject of in
vestigation upon investigation by
prison reformers and Iberals-the
Jail that has been the subject of ex-
pose upon expose-rat infested, dark
and lousy For two hours the bat
terry of police attacked the workers.
the thousands cat-calling hooting
and booing them.
Strike Just Begun.
The strike has just begun. Thou
sands Of workers revolted by the po-
lice atrocities are joining the strike
and the picket line. One cannery
has completely shut down, and two
others are making a sham at run
ming with squads Of police guarding
all entrances, and the forces Of the
remaining canneries have been so
badly crippled as to make continued
operation a financial loss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
PRIEST, RAPHT,
FREED; INNOCENT
BOYSFACE CHAIR
franciscan Shepherd
Attacks 2 of Flock,
Free on Fake Alibi
New York City.

new YORK City.
Comrades:
The Catholic Church has evident
~ extended its -birth-control OBJ
session to the members of its own
priesthood. The head Father OF the
Hungarian Catholic Church of the
Franciscan Fathers, at East 82nd
ST., has recently made his meta
phorical title realistic one by
bringing two more proletarians into
the world.
The mother of one is is years Of
age; the other is II. The parents of
the girls tried to sue the father"
presumably on a charge Of rape. A
jury, composed of church fathers
and business members, found the
father" innocent, declared that the
blood ran rashly to his head, in con-
sequence of an ailment he suffered
from, and thereupon sent him on a
few weeks vacation until the affair
blows over
Question: How come, that nine Ne
gro kids, framed up on charge of
raping two white girls "a charge for
which there is no evidence, are
doomed to be murdered in the fall
while Catholic priest gets away on
the same charge with a vacation,
and the superfluous comment that
his blood rushed to the wrong place?
IL. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
WOOD HAVEN 7. B.
HOSPITAL LIKE A
JAIL, SAYS GIRL
Patients Are Forced to
Work and Pray On
Scant Rations

Wood Haven, N. Y.
Daily Worker: e.
The st. Anthony Hospital in Woco
Haven is supposed to be place to
cure tuberculosis. What the pa
tients get here, however, is lot Of
religious humbug and very little
food!
The food is not in the least nour-
ishing. We get piece of salty
boloney, a glass of near milk and
some kind Of desert for supper No
bread for dinner, no sugar, no salt.
They don't even supply toilet paper.
We have to buy it from the holy sis
tiers and pay a bigger price than We
would in the stores outside of the
hospital.
Many of the patients, in order to
improve their health and keep from
dying, have food brought from home.
No one could improve on the food
they give us here.
fOEceu 10 Hrays
The patients are forced to pray,
whether they like it or not. Many
complain about backaches, from
Ilneeling and sore threats from pray
ing aloud. Besides praying before
each meal we are obliged to attend
all kinds Of masses and confess
every now and then to the holy
fatheresses.
If patient tries to get away she
is threatened with going to hell
when she dies. Several patients have
gotten away lately, however, in spite
of the fact that we are watched like
prisoners.
T. B. patients are supposed to re-
main in bed most of the time. IN
stead we are forced to wash dishes,
sweep the floors and make beds. So
you see there it little time left for
the patients to rest. No wonder 50
very few are cured here. If one gets
well, she does SO in spite of the hos
pital.
All patients are working women
and girls. They all tell the same
story of how they worked hard in
factories for little pay and were IN
able to take care Of themselves.
The workers here should demand
better food instead Of praying for it.
We must demand that the work Of
washing the dishes and cleaning the
floors be done by paid labor instead
of by sick patients. A Patient,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
A. T. OF |: MOVES
TO SMASH PHILA.
HOSIERY STRIKE
Cuts Off All Relief
To Force Workers To
Accept Wage Slash
(Bq a Worker Correspondent

(Bq a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The Hosiery
Union Federation has cut off all re-
lief for the striking hosiery workers
in Philadelphia. The Federation has
been giving $4.2o relief order to the
striking workers, but now when these
workers are starving and in distress
this union relief has been stopped.
Why?
This trick has been in the wind
for long time. The A. F. of L..
takers are working with the bosses
to put over big wage cut on the
hosiery workers. The members of
the union understand this. Many
of them say: THE stoppage of re-
lief to the strikers is trick on the
part Of the betraying officials Of the
A. F.. Of L. to drive the workers back
into the shops (by starvation) and
force them to accept the wage cut
that the bosses are trying to put
over" The bosses propose to put
into effect a so per cent cut, which
will put the wages below the rate
paid in the non-union shops.
I ask what kind of unionism is
this? A union that wants to make
us work for less wages than that
paid in the scab shops is no union
whatsoever.
We must get together and organ
ize rank and file committee in the
union and force the return of the re-
lief. We must carry on the strike
under the leadership of the rank and
file strike committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
SPEED DOUBLED
FOR McKEESPORT
STEEL WORKERS
III Work Part Time in
Tin Pate Pl;tnt:,
Must Organize
(BY a Worker Correspondent

AD4 a VOlhCI AOEICSpOIlQcnbJ
McKEESPORT, Pa.-During the
first six months of 1881 the McKees-
port Tin Plate Co. earned $4.24 per
share. There are 100000 outstanding
shares, so figure it up, and let's ask
ourselves how much are the tin mill
workers getting. Here is what the
tin mill workers are getting: speed
up. fast time work and plenty of
hell when the bosses see that the
hot weather weakens the workers.
The tin mill bosses are not putting
notices on boards and saying here is
a wage cut-but they do 1t secretly.
How do the workers get wage cuts?
Double Work
Today the mill is working half
time, while The other half Of the
workers get one week vacation with
out pay Another way is this: in
the tin house department the reck-
oners used to count the sheets Of
iron and pile it on cart. Now
they have to count 1t, box It, and
wire it which means double work
for the same wages. The same is
true in every department. Workers
doing double work for the same pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
{ BY a Worker Correspondent


SAN JOSE, Cal.-Two thousand
striking cannery workers and 5000
strike sympathizers marched on the
city hall today and demanded the re-
lease Of eight prisoners arrested for
attempting to further organize the
workers in the Agricultural and
Cannery Workers Industrial Union,
affiliated with the Trade Union
Unity League, which called the strike
here in four large canning facto-
ries. The eight workers with many
more arrested in today's demonstra-
ton will be charged, according to
the word of Chief Of Police Black,
with criminal syndicalism. At the
mass meeting of the cannery work.
ers held in st. James Park 1000
members Of the union pledged their
solidarity to the working class strug-
gle and fought successfully the at
tempt Of an especially recruited po-
lice force of over two hundred armed
men to break up the meeting.
Tear Gas.
Tear gas bombs night sticks and
fire hoses failed to disrupt the meet
ing though scores Of workers we're
brutally assaulted by the police and
though several speakers we're drag
ged from the platform and arrested.
Minnie Carson, strike organizer
and militant leader of the exploited
cannery workers who are out on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08


Sheridan County as well as all the
neighboring counties have seen in
addition to no crop this fall, most
of their money wiped out by the
failure Of the banks at Plentywood,
Flaxville, Medicine Lake, Scobey,
Opheim, etc. Some of these banks
reopened through an understanding
with the depositors that no money
was to be drawn out in five years,
only a certain percentage of it, leav-
ing most of the poorer farmers to
face the winter without any crop or
money at any rate.
Red Cross Fakery.
The Red Cross organization has
been completed in this county, but
at its organization meeting it was
a noticeable fact that most of the
persons congregated there were not
of the poor farmer type, but those
who have few dollars to take them
over for few years plus the bust
ness men of the town and the county
politicians. The United Farmers
League meetings had drawn in the
needy farmer, he no longer seemed
to have faith in capitahstic pallia-
tives. One of the committeeman
chosen at the Red Cross meeting
stated no family could expect much
more than $18 a month for help, no
matter how large it may be. The
Red Cross does not help the unem-
ployed at all, and at the meeting it
was stated the government would
loan to farmers on good security
money for feed for it's stock on the
basis of Is cents a head per month
for sheep and so on up the scale for
other stock. Out of this Is cents
month the freight to bring the feed
in would have to be paid. This loan
is expected not to make much of
ripple in lettering the condition of
the farmers, for the farmer who will
have the money has his land and
stock too tied up already in mort
cages that the government would
never consider his security.
In North Dakota the Red. Cross
organization is proving very unpopu-
lar with its work of charity. One
farmer reported the allowance of hay
as 500 pounds, which in order to get
one had to drive in some instances
80 or 40 miles, with the neighbours
truck perhaps, for in Sheridan Coun-
ty the Red Cross made it plain it
would not favor giving help to any
farmer driving a car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
GERMAN TOILERS'
HEROTSM LAIJDED
BY u. S. WORKER
Many Clashes With the
Police; Send Greet
ings tc Miners
Koblenz, Germany.

Koblenz, Germany.
Daily Worker:
arrived in Koblenz yesterday and
became acquainted with many work
ers that belong to the Party here
The town of Eoblenz, which has a
population of $4,000 has 5000 men,
bers in the Communist Party. The
first night I was here I stayed at
a comrades house and in the morn
ing r was awakened by the Party
band which was playing the Inter
national.
In my opinion it viii not be long
before the workers Of Germany seize
power. I never saw such downright
poverty as exists in Germany and
such heroism as displayed by the
workers in their fight against starva-
ton.
The night before last the work.
ers held a demonstration on the pub
lie square. The police clashed with
OtlCui dllu. Oh ACotCQ COs 1dSU IllBllb
the police put q heavy guard around
the working class district. AL the
police carried rifles. They stopped
workers on the street and went from
house to house looking for arms.
Greet U. s. Workers
For two nights in succession the
police have been breaking up meet
ings. firing their rifles and pistols in
the air. Nearly all the workers on
the street where am living are
members Of the Communist Party.
They all tell me to send greetings to
the American workers and especially
to the striking miners. The workers
in Germany are very well acquainted
with the conditions Of the workers
in the U.S.A. and the struggles Of the
American workers. despite the fact
that they are very busy with their
own great struggles against capital
ISM.
An American Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
(By a Worker Correspondent

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - There were
many difficulties and interferences
which we had to overcome to organ
ize our anti-war meeting here in
Johnstown. Our committee applied
for the use of the Point Stadium, a
city property, but the answer from
the city officials was delayed. Then
the Recreation Commission demand
ed a list of Is signatures, eight of
which to be those of citizens and tax
payers for the previous year. Besides
this they demanded security of $3.50.
Starvation
Jcihnstown is a city where the
working class lives under the most
appalling starvation conditions.
Thousands of workers cannot even
buy bread, let alone pay taxes. The
committee visited hundreds of work
ers and small storekeepers and could
hardly find eight who paid the tax.
The petition was then presented to
the discrimination" commission
with the $3.50 security signed DR..
Rhodes. The petition was pronounce
ed valid, but the security was reject
ed. Then we presented a draft check,
but the signatures were declared in
valid. New signatures had to be
gathered and the permit was de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08
Soviet Union Takes Greater Care of Lumber
Workers Than Any Other Country in World

years. About 100000 are studying in
these schools now and another 7OO,-
600 will be added to this number in
1881. The boys and girls educated
at these factory schools receive pay
ment for the work they do there.
Their wages are raised every year,
so that in 1929 they received from
40 to so per cent more than in 1926.
In the. third year of their studies
they receive full wages for the
amount Of work done. During the
first two years they receive approx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-08

ton of this fund came to S2s3, 81. SO.
To what uses Isis amount were put
is not stated, except for sl3.673 that
was used by legislative committee
not under the control Of the labor
bureau. In other words, this amount
was stolen. Coupled with the ANA
zing discrepancy between the num-
Der of workers in industry and those
receiving protection" in case Of ac-
cident Is the admission of the buro
that they collect only about 40 per
cent Of the claims filed by laborers."
Against this rotten deceit the work.
ers are called upon to organize for
militant struggle for unemployment
relief. Join the Unemployed Council
in your town