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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29

to come two minutes late the COM
pany takes off for fifteen minutes.
Each girl has to do work for two or
she looses her job.
Wages Cut Three Times
During the last two years our
wages were cut three times. The
first cut was 10 per cent cut,
then came another 10 per cent
slash and not long ago they cut
us per cent. Now the boss tells
us that if we want to work during
the summer months we will have
to take another 10 per cent cut,
otherwise he will close the place
up altogether.
And Mr.. Doak says there are no
wage cuts! Why that's all that's been
going on down here for the last two
years.
Terrific Speed-up
And the way we are speeded up.
We are being rushed like a lot of
wild dogs. Each night the manager
goes around to find, out how many
dozen each man made, and when he
found out that one laster lasted "a
dozen, then right away he came over
and said, "You fellows claim you
can't make a living, but look at
that fellow-he lasted "a dozen"
The boss, however, failed to mention
that this fellow rushed himself to
death and worked IL hours.
In the cutting roo mwe have a
foreman. Mr.. Pomerant, who is
known to all the workers as the
meanest man in the shoe line. He
calls the workers damned fools
and all the vile names he can
think of.
When the boss wants to cut
the wages he calls the man tOge-
Their and calls them children. I'm
the father and you're the children"
he says, land as a family, each
one of the children doing some
thing for the father to keep the
family from being ruined And
the very next day the little faith
or" throws the children" out into
the street like dogs.
Now / want to ask the workers
in the Progress Shoe Co. as well
as all other shoe workers, how much
longer can We stand for these con-
ditions-these wage cuts, these in
suits. 1 guess we've stood for them
long enough, and it's about time for
us to get together into the Shoe
Workers Industrial Union and fight
this.
"A Shoe Slave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
CBy a Worker Correspondent

WATERBURY, Conn.-Some time
ago noticed in Red Sparks" of the
Daily Worker that one of the Com.
munist speakers in certain district
went to a certain town to speak or
to attend a Party meeting, but as he
did not have the address of the Party
headquarters he promptly went to
the police headquarters for informa-
ton, where he got himself arrested
and kept in Jail over night.
On May 81, in District Is, in Con-
necticut, a speaker used the same
method to find out the location of
the open-air meeting in Waterbury
that was organized to protest against
the sentencir> of the nine Scottsboro
boys to the electric chair.
Comrade Jackson came to speak
at the meeting and did not have the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
Fire Iowa Worker
Who Dares to Ask
80 for Injury Payment

Davenport, Iowa.
Daily Worker:
I worked at thu diversion Egg Co.
last season and while working there
/ was hurt by an egg case that fell
on the back of my neck and head. l
was forced to remain away for a
whole week, for which I made the
company pay compensation and the
doctor bills. For this reason they
did not hire me this season, so I
was told by the forelady, who does
not hesitate to tell the other girls
why I was fired.
Slave for - Cents an Hour.
The girls are only getting 20 cents
an hour under the most slave driving
conditions. Therefore want to pass
some papers around to the girls who
are working there, for think they
should be organized. am mem
Der Of the Unemployed Council.
An Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
French Workers
Victorious in 10
Strikes in Month
Mass Movements Hit
Bosses Efforts to
Force More Slashes
tBy A French Worker)

AZ strikes. including 79,7l5 workers
took place in France in one month.
OF these struggles, over SO percent
we're against wage-cuts, and Is per
cent demanded wage-increase. This
thows clearly that the French workers
refuse to support the consequences
OF the present crisis.
10 strikes won a victory for tive
workers. The most important strike
was the miners strike. Altho the
miners of the Nord and Pas de Ca
lais went back to work due to the
treachery of the reformist. leaders,
the fought valiantly against the
fascist forces and at most occasions
we're the masters of the streets DUR
ing the fights.
Unemployed Workers Militant.
The unemployed movement is
very active also. The mass unem-
ployed demonstrations took place. in
'rury. Saint QUEEN, Montpelier, Be-
biouy, Bezons, Nice, Montreuil, Oul-
ney-sous- Bois, Clermont-Ferrant,
etc. In the demonstrations at the
Olcan factory in Bobique and in
front of the Torp Plan in Montrueil
a real good united front took place
between the employed and unem-
ployed workers.
Unemployment is getting worse
every day. There are 10000 more
workers out of a job weekly. France,
which was able to enter the crisis
later, is now coming fast to the stu
alton of other capitalist countries.
In order to get out of it, the French
capitalists resort to wage-cutting
which in many cases goes as high
as 20 percent, even though the
wages are already very low. The
French workers have organized mass
movements against these conditions
and are fighting the attacks of the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
MAID OFFERED
TWO MAN JOB
FOR &c AN HOUR
Must Slave 10 Hours
A Day: Take Care of.
Home and 3 Children.
indianapolis. Ind.

AAANe4oAAS
Daily Worker
have been looking for work since
1880 Today I found an ad in an
indianapolis paper which calls for
a maid to work at 1887 North Penn
st. In desperate need for work, l
answered this ad. s.%-,
1917 Hours Daily-s3 Week.
This is what I learned. There
we're three children in the family
two the maid must dress, cook the
meals and send them to school. The
maid is supposed to come to work at
6 o'clock in the morning and work
until four in the ev<Sning, for which
she would receive the sum OF So a
week. The maid must take care OF
the baby all day. Not only that, but
she must do all the housework, in
Guiding the ironing. I guess this
work was fit for more than TWO
maids.
Two Cents an Hour.
Well it turns out that all the maid
gets is 5 cents an hour and she must
work for 1912 hours a day. Then
the maid is supposed to live else
where, for which she has to pay $l.5O
carfare a week, In other words, she
must work SIS hours a week for $3.50,
which pays her only cents an hour.
This is what capitalism pays the
worker A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
LEGION IN MINI.
ACTS AS CENSOR
Poor Farmers Have No
Money to Buy Seed

Daily Worker:
I am sorry we cannot send more
to the Daily but 1t is costing us so
much for seed we feel lucky to pay
1t at all.
Many farmers cannot get seed
enough and horse buyer says he
could sell all kinds of horses but
the farmers have no money to pay
for them.
We are trying hard to make new
contacts for the Daily here.
The Legion and Khan are strong
here and all parcels and bundles we
receive are opened.
We could stand it ourselves but
there are three families depending
on us and it means several babies
would be turned out to Starve.
So far we can find no dependable
person to recommend TO you, but
will do all we can TO spread the
Daily ourselves.
Farmers Wife
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
Chisholm Mine Co. :.
Staggers Firemen
Chisholm. MINI,

Chisholm. MINI.
Dear Comrode:
l have the correct information on
the wage scale of the Oliver Iron
Mining Co. The firemen of locomo-
tiveS are working six hours per day
and one week on and one week off.
They get $3.42 per day, which makes
$41O4 per month. And anyone with
a family, paying rent, fuel and other
living expenses will not lay away
more than few thousand a year on
those wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
School Children
Replace Parents
In Chicago Firm
Chicago, Ill.

chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker:
Today / overheard a few words
of conversation between school
children at Evergreen Avenue and
Hoyne Avenue. One boy asked an
other if he is going TO work for
GOldbergs Dry Goods Chain Store
Co. Since 1 am unemployed /
became interested, and wanted to
find out what kind of work or
wages there might be. This is
what 1 found out.
Kids at the age Of ten and
twelve are hired by Goldberg
Brothers to do some work in con-
nection with advertising. This
boy said that he and 4 or ) others
were promised soc for half day
work. They put in to hours
each and got zoe for it. They were
gyped 30c or 6Oc of the promised
wages.
Do not let your children work
on jobs that you can take for
higher wages. Fight against this
sIovery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
More Proof on
Mooney and Billings
Innocence
Hondo, Calf.

HOnQO, Jail.
Daily Worker:
According to copyrighted article
in the Los Angeles Record of May 20,
1881, German war agent, grand
nephew of Field Marshal Won Moltke,
confesses that German spy perpe-
trated the bomb outrage at Sar
Francisco for which Tom Moone.
ana Warren Billings have been i'm
pris med for Is years. Il. r. n.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
Poor Farmers
Duped By Loan
Sharks in MINI.
Banks Re fuse Short
Loans to Farmers

Plllager, MINI,
Dear Comrades:
In Minnesota we have free" pub
lie roads They are free to the ex-
tent that we have to pay a car Ii
cense as well as a gas tax to use
them.
This tax is due at the same time
the personal property tax is due,
which makes it doubly hard to pay
and if it is not paved on time you
are fined up to S..
Robbed by Loan Sharks.
A poor farmer was unable to pay
this tax, and as the last resort he
had to borrow from q loan shark
in Brianerd as the banks have cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
Soviet Worker Wants.
to Correspond With.
Ford Motor Workers

Moscow, u S. S. r.
To the Workers and Employees of the
Ford Works
! should like to correspond with
any Of the workers or employees of
the Ford Works about their life and
work in the U. S. A.
viii describe my life and work
and what is happening in the Soviet
Union.
Write to me: Nikolas Checherine,
Street of Decabristoi, 30, Leningrad,
U. S. S. r. Yours sincerely,
--Checherine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
Chi. Dam Workers
Paid 35c. an Hour
By the u. S. Gov;
Reeve Half Wages in
Script
Chicago, III.
Dear Worker :

Dear Worker:
Here are the conditions of the
workers on a government job near
Morris, Ill. The Dresden Heights
Lock and Dam are being built by
the Congress Construction Co. under
government contract. They see it
fit to pay carpenters SOC an hour
and builders CSC an hour. These work
eight-hours day.
There is camp on the job site
where workers can obtain room and
board for SO per week. If the work.
ers should loose a few days because
OF bad weather, his next weeks wages
are mortgaged to pay for his board
A worker must also loose six con
secutive meals before he is entitle,
to any reduction.
A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
PROGRESS SHOE co.
CUTS WAGES THREE
TIMES IN TWO YRS.
Packing Room Girls Slave Under Vicious
Speed-Up for AS Low AS $40 Per Week
Boss Calls Workers my Children" Then Sub
jects Them to Most Brutal Treatment
New York, N. Y.

Daily WORKER
shoe worker in the Progress Shoe Company, where
there about $50 workers Shaving from 730 till $50
p every day in the week for almost nothing
Most of piece workers. except the packing girls
who have to slave AZ hours week at wages low $40
week Besides having to take the insults of the BOSSES these
girls speeded up most numerically and must work
time at single wages But when of these girls happens
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
NEW YORK HOSPITALS
SLASH NURSES WAGES,
CUT NURSING STAFF s
100000 Nurses Unemployed Throughout U.S.A.
Wages In Hospitals Down 20 to 30 Per Cent.
Medical Workers League Calls Mass Meeting
In New York Tonight to Organize Struggle
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The nurses of today not in the po
ston they yesterday Nurses few years ago made
little better than living This however is out of the
u S. A.
Nurses who spent three and half years in training
unable get jobs chamber maids mattresses
We find many trained nurses in shops factories and
office buildings working scrub for barely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29

Cut Hospital Staffs
The hospitals, which used to have
l2 nurses on the floor in a ward ac-
commodatin from 80 to IS patients,
today have the number OF patients,
but less help. AS for wages, the cuts
range from 20 to 80 per cent. The
nurses who worked before for 800
a month are getting from $50 to $55
per month now. And they are lucky
to get a job at that rate.
When a nurse comes to a registry
looking for private duty the answer
is: I'VE did not get call for weeks. >"
On Sixth Avenue thousands of nurses
are looking for work and actually
starving on the streets.
Duped BY Agencies
Some of the unemployment"
agencies take away money from the
nurses and promise them a job and
when they get to the job they find
as high as twenty more waiting for
the same job. Here are slaves with
strong arms and brains, without
money in their pockets, willing still
to work u hours day for six days
a week. They are looking for slave
masters in the markets and can't
find any.
Must Organize
The nurses, in order to better
their conditions, will have to organ
ize and fight for the shorter work
day and work week without a re-
duction in pay. They must organize
strikes against the wage cuts. They
must demand better food and better
places to live. The Medical Workers
League will give the nurses leader
ship in their struggles. Forget about
your diplomas. The bosses do not
recognize you as professionals, but
as slaves.
Attend the mass meeting of the
Medical Workers League, Friday,
May 20, at s p. m, 16 West 21st
Street, New York City. Organize
and fight for the right to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29

Fight lynching. Fight deporta.
ton OF foreign born. Elect dele
gates TO yonr city conference 70,
protection Of foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29

Workers Correspondence IS the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for it
about your day to day struggles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13
SHOALS BIDS ASKED
OF 1856 ENTERPRISES
Ford Company Heads List of In.
dustTial and Power Con-
Germs Named.

One hundred and thirty-flve leading
chemical, farm industrial and power
enterprises were invited yesterday by
the Muscle Shoals Commission to bid
on the private leasing and operating OF
Muscle Shoals The bids are TO be
submitted by September
The Ford Motor Co. Allied Chemical
e. Dye Co., General Electric Co. and
three farm organizations, including the
National Grange, the Farmers Educa-
ton and Cooperative Union Of America
and the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton we're among those from whom
offers were asked
Col Joseph / McAGullen, one OF the
three Army officers appointed by Presi-
dent Hoover on the commission. said
any bid which promised to devote the
Muscle Shosls project 10 agriculture in
the mcst effective way would be the
most acceptable to the commission,
McMullen indicated that in event
none Of the bids was satisfactory for
recommendation to President Hoover
and ultimately to Congress. an effort
would be made by the commission to
effect a compromise In this way. he
said, a satisfactory arrangement might
be worked out for disposing Of the
project.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13
KILLING OF RODENTS
BLAMED FOR BUG EVIL
Hopkins Professor Warns Against
Removal Of Insect
Enemies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Prof. A. Brazier Howell of Johns
Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, to-
day charged in public letter to SEN
ator McNary of Oregon that the grass
hopper menace in the Middle West
was result of the Government policy
of determination of rodents.
Ground squirrels and other small
animals, Howell said, constitute the
chief check on the increase of insects
on the Western plains, where there
are few insect-eating birds. Such ami
mails eat large quantities OF Rrasshop-
pers. he explained. and dig up and
ievour egg cases of the insects.
The Department of Agriculture Is
practically DISCRIMINATING rodents by
poison over thousands of square miles.
Howell said, with resulting terrible
scourges of insects"
He requested Senator McNary, vino
is chairman of the Senate Agriculture
Committee. to use his influence for
control, rather than determination Of
rodents.
Practically all scientific societies hav-
ing to do with vertebrate zoology,
Howell said, have petitioned that this
dangerous policy Of eradication Of
animal life by poison be abandoned.
Howell is q member OF the Society
of American Mammalogists and for
merly was on the stan Of the Smith
sonian Institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
YORKTOWN, Va, August 13.-Corn-
wallis will surrender at Yorktown again
In October
After weeks of controversy over
whether the capituiation of the British
Revolutionary War commander should
be depicted this Fall at the 150th ami
verSary celebration, the United States
Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission
announces the surrender scene will be
re-enacted.
A tentative plan to delete 1t from the
pageant program brought vigorous
protest from Representative Sol Bloom
of New York, associate director of the
Washington BicSntennial Commission,
and others who declared the commission
would make the pageant meaningless.
A variety of reasons was given for
the proposed deletion: That the scene
might be offensive to British visitors,
that difficulties would be encountered in
training large body Of troops in eight
zenith CENTURY tactics that it was
against the tradition of the Army to re-
enact the surrender of a foreign foe.
and that the scope of the pageant might
be limited by its depletion
Announcement of the Sesquicenten-
NAL Commissions final decision was
made by Representative s. Otis Bland OF
Virginia, secretary of the commission.
It followed previous decision of the
Executive Committee of the Yorktown
Sesquicentennial Association not to
submit the question to the associations
trustees. Tlaa committee said the mat
ter was one for the Federal commission
to decide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band
this evening at the United States Capt.
toll at 7:30 o'clock: Taylor Branson,
leader; Arthur Witcomb, second leader.
March of the Toys" from Babes in
ToYlaDu Observation-Disclosures, HERBERT
Overture, Russian and Ludmilla,"
Glinka
Sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor. Z"
DoniZetti
Second Leader Arthur S. witcomb,
Musicians John p White. Robert E.
Clark, Herbert EriSman, Peter Hazes
and William F. Santelmann.
Quartet from ''Rigoletto" $500. Verdi
Second Leader Arthur S. Witcomh,
Musicians John p. White. Robert e.
Clark and Peter Hazes
Grand Scenes from Andrea Chenier, !"
Giordano
Trombone solo, Celeste Aida Verdi
Musician Robert e. Clark.
Intermezzo sinfonico, from "Cavalieria
HuStlcana -~.,,........ .MaScag NJ
Gavctte, from 'M.gnona Thomas
Cornet solo, "Cavatina," from Robert,
the Devil ........... MeveTbeer
Musician John P. White.
Prelude and "Undine's Dance" from
1,.I Lorelei ..-:,...:.-... Catalani
Marines Hymn. The Halls of Monte
aThs Sur spaupd BannaEr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13

Continued From First Page)
the American Telephone g. Telegraph
Co. The meeting was regarded as of
unusual significance, since Gffford's
company Is one OF the largest In the
world and its fact-flnding organization
is regarded by President Hoover as
extremely efficient
Others who have conferred recently
with the President on unemployment
are Silas Strawn. president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
and Senator Hebert OF Rhode Island,
chairman of the special Senate COM
mittee appointed to investigate unem-
ployment Insurance.
Senator Fess, Republican. of Ohio.
said yesterday the President would
have definite and comprehensive pro-
gram OF legislation to lay before Con-
greSS in December on the subject of
the business depression and its result
ant unemployment.
Meanwhile another plan to provide
food for the unemployed this Winter
by encouraging the canning OF surplus
fruits and vegetables was announced
by Fred c. CroXton. acting chairman
OF the Presidents Emergency Commit
tee for Employment.
The committee. it was explained. has
recommended that local emergency or
CARNATIONS and other relief agencies
help the unemployed put up canned
goods, OF that these agencies them
selves put them up and distribute
them to the unemployed Croxton said
the program. which is intended 10 be
Nationwide, already has made an APP
preciable start
Primarily the campaign is based on
the existence of large quantities If
vegetables and the surplus Of fruit in
many sections.
There is no shortage of food in the
country, as a whole. but many families
will not have sufficient funds next
Winter to buy fruit and vegetables to
maintain health" IL was explained in a
letter sent to assisting groups The
children who become undernouriShed in
consequence will pay the penalty in
years to come, Evers possible means to
avert such disastrous results of the
present economic situation deserves the
serious consideration of all who can
help"
The statement covering the plan ex-
planned that many of the UNEMPLOYED
who lack equipment or a proper knowl-
edge of the canning methods may be
aided IN obtaining these under compe-
tent leadership. Where the unemployed
themselves are not to can the fruits
or vegetables, 1t was pointed out that
or0anfza tons and individuals may put
IN extra amounts for distribution.
Croxton emphasized that the effort Is
not to produce food for sale that might
compete on an already oversupplied
commercial market, but only to rro-
vide an emergency supply for those
without income to buy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13

Continued From First Page.)
IS vars. He came into public notice
after the senatorial election Of 1926 in
which william S. Ware was elected to
the United States Senate, only to be re-
fused seat in that body because Of
alleged excessive campaign expenses.
Cunningham refused to tell the SEM
ate Special Committee investigating
campaign expenses the source of $50,000
he contributed to Wares campaign fund.
He was held in contempt by the Senate
and indicted in the District Of Column
bia for contempt of the Senate, but
courts here and in Washington. At
present. the case is in the Supreme Court
of the United States on appeal
Cunningham was a leader IN the
tenth werd and was a staunch support
er of Boise PenroSe when the latter was
the dominant political leader OF Penn
sylvania. After Penrose's death he be-
come identified with the Ware organiza-
ton. He was a member of Wares war
board" which had the last say on all
political matters within the party in
this city.
Recently he was close to break with
Ware because he came out for George
H. Biles for mayor of Philadelphia.
ware was opposed to Biles and support
ed j. Hampton Moore. Biles finally
withdrew in the interests of harmony,
and Moore became the choice of the
leaders for mayor. The primary is to be
held next month.
Cunningham was stricken suddenly
about 10 Gays ago. Taken to hospital
in Atlantic City, he showed improve.
ment until yesterday when he suffered
a collapse.