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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30
KELLOGG HAS
INCREASE IN
YEAR'SSALES

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Oct. 80.
tPl-With plant operations speeded
by n adoption Of the six-hour day,
lne kellogg company Is moving
through what its officials saw Il the
greatest year In its history while 20
per cent more vSkers have been
given employment than at the same
time a year ago.
Advertising Campaign.
The increase in employment has
been made possible through the Nv
hour day, plant projects UNDER
taken this fall to meet civic needs.
and strategic newspaper advertis-
ing which company executives saw
Is chiefly responsible for the record
OF the current year that has brought
the company the largest volume OF
business in its history.
Adopted nearly a year ago 10 meet
employment needs, the six-hour day
mas proved an economical invest
ment for the company as well as OF
benefit to the employees, II was stated.
With IT, shorter day, the number
OF shifts vas Increased from three
70 four and wages were adjusted SO
the majority OF workers can carr
the equivalent OF the scale Of the
eight hour shift. The reimbursement
involved an increase in the base rate
Of wages averaging IL l-2 per cent,
fixing the minimum wage at -four
dollars a day.
The plan. officials OF the company
say, has resulted IN an immediate
increase IN efficiency. Less fatigus
among the workers has eliminated a
tendency toward c~areleSsneSS and
waste toward the end O. the work.
ing shift and the elimination of the
meal periods and increased daily
production OF the plant as a unit
have contributed to the success o.
the experiment.
Newspapers Used.
or the importance OF newspaper
advertising in the company's policy
Of meeting the challenge OF thu
Times, w. X. kellogg, founder anc
president or the company said:
Last year demonstrated some o
VIZ GAAA-ldA IA hAL0 Va lACA 1DGHGl
advertising. We used newspaper
somewhat as shock troops to con
centrate our fire when and vherl
needed. The nobility OF this form 0
advertising has enabled us 70 NEE
the varying problems OF unsettled
conditions to excellent advantage.
This year the company is spending
even nor on newspaper advertising
than in 1880 in which the advertising
budget was the largest In the com
pany's history.
a few weeks ago when the de
velopment> was announced OF a neV
machine which would have displaceC
about 100 workers and effect a con
siderable saving in operating costs
kellogg refused 10 have II Installed
This Is no time to displace work
ers," he said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30
'Leggers Pay Law

DALLAS, Oct. 30-lFl-In addi-
ton TO ~confiscating 1000 pints OF
fancy liquor in a raid here last
night officers said they found in
the .leggers' tabulated weekly x
pense account an item which read
"for the law, $50"
They said the item was marked
'naid-r
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30

HOUSTON. Oct. 30ZPD- Belle
p. Tomlinson OF wallis was installed
as worthy grand matron OF the
Grand Chapter OF Texas Order Of
the Eastern star here last night
at the closing session OF the forty
ninth convention.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30

HATFIELD. Pa-If farming ever
gets 50 Improbable that j. Lyndale
Hileman can't make a living az it,
he'll turn baker. He recently won
several prizes az the Montgomery
County Fair for his cakes, buns
and biscuits.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30
HE'LL STICK


PRATT. Kan-Several plates OF
,pken glass Is nothing in the
aHy menu OF Jack Redcloud.
zrhival glass eater. But when 1t
cotnes to green apples, Redcloud IS
/ Stopped. He recently ate two Of
them between his meals OF glass
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30

Is your husband doing anything
to cure his deafneSs?"
mo. He has decided to wait until
the children have finished taking
music lessons."-Passing Show.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-30

Z M attackd with acute In
lie spent q few days In
a hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

After some diligent years as a womens ia
shion writer and an attempt to abolish all boot
leg liquor in Manhattan by the ancient but I'M
reliable means of drinking it, Alice Hughes was
sent to the Soviet Union by the World-Telegram,
which is trying to beat the Post and the Times
on stupidities about Bolshevism
All we can make out of the drivel is that the
lght-ninded lady thinks that revolutions are
just too awful for anything! How can anyone
get along without all those big electric signs like
Broadways, advertising Catchen & Skinnems
Hair OIL and thousand other evidences of
civilization?
Really, girls, perfume is terribly costly in Mos
COW And how can any woman live without 1t?
Alice went about pricing things in anazement.
And no seal-skin coats to be had at any price!
Terrible! The only thing she enthused over was
when, at the house of an American friend she
was surrounded by bottles of vodka and wines
That cheered her up for while so that caviar
was caviar, and not "blob of tar" on bread
that panied her soul. But she had a relapse.
She tried to enter shoe store just to see how
much shoes COST when she discovered in amaze
ment that zone is only admitted if he has card
from trade union"
This was too muchl There are limits to what
Alice can stand. So, bravely brushing aside her
tears, she fled back to New York, to write up
the horrible details Revolutions are not inter-
esting after all! They're simply awful!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Yes. Fatty. It's Different

Haywood Broun was surprised the other night.
He admits it. And fain would he have concealed
his surprise. In fact he tried to shoe it away
He was surprised by what occurred at the En-
bassy theatre in New York, when his socialist"
soul was astonisIled at the applause given by the
audience to the Red Army shown in the films
The devil of it was that lot of other armies
had their picture shown and got hardly rise
out Of the audience The italian and French
troops paraded across the screen while the audi
ence sat 'in bored silence" The parade of Fishs
and VOLTS pet fascists, the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, got just one guy to clap his hands.
Then" says Broun. "a moment later they
showed several views of the Red Square in Mos
cow with Stain reviewing the Red Army This
was received by the audience in a way which
surprised me- About half the people in the
theatre applauded Several Kissed very loudly
and definitely. The rest were silent. Some few
laughed"
So the Socialist" clown who performs for the
World-Telegram was surprised" But he tried
to whistle away the spectre of Communism. After
gabbling along about 500 worth at his salary
rate, he says of the audience: They look upon
Russia dispassionately. To them it is just an
other country with a different form of govern
ment than ours"
Pretty stupid. To admit being surprised at the
passion shown. and then say they look upon
Russia "dispassionately" That ought to get a
wage cut for Broun from any sharp capitalist
editor like Roy Howard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

BY attacking the revolutionary working class movement
in the United States-the Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League-which leads the fight
against the capitalist offensive the cleft" takers Music
and Co, are helping to put through the capitalist
scheme. The Lovestone and Cannon betrayers of the
revolutionary working class movement have merely be-
come the tools of the cleft" Music takers
BY of throwing out of employment thirteen
million workers, reducing about ten million to
part-tme and cutting Systematically the capt
talists of the United States have saved themselves in
wages the tremendous of twelve billion dol
$780, and three billion dollars in the first quar-
ter of 1881 These figures from the official
ports Of the American Federation of Labor whose lead
have conspred with Hoover and with the employers
to cut Therefore their reports not likely to
throw full light upon the actual amount of which the
American working class robbed by the capitalists
from January $780, to May, 1881; and this only by
of lay-offs and wage cutting This figure of
fifteen billion dollars does not include, of course, the
robbed from the employed workers in the pro-
of extracting profits
The majority of the working class in the United
tates-he richest" country in the world-are hungry
Millions of workers and their families dying slowly
of starvation Unemployment relief by the Federal and
State governments does not exist Unemployment in
does not exist. This is what the unemployed
and employed workers fighting for under the lead
ership of the Communist Party But what is the capt.
talist class doing? What is its government doing?
Making the workers pay for the crisis failing the
employed and their Communist leaders Tor demanding
adequate relief Answering these demands of the
with police clubs, bullets gas bombs and deportatons
Lynching Negroes legally in Scottsboro and Illegally
Robbing and numbering the Chinese and Latin Amer
leans. Waging economic and preparing military
intervention against the Soviet Union.
Wage cuts is another means of making the work
ing class pay for the crisis Hoover had it arranged
very nicely with the leaders of the American Fedora
ton of Labor Green, Vol & Co. The capitalists will
wages The leaders of the American Federation of
Labor will to it that strikes take place against
wage cuts Both sides have stuck to the bargain
scientiousy.
The full scope of the terrific wage cutting that took
place only with the beginning of the crisis with all the
misery that this enaied Is best known by the workers
themselves The official statistics do not tell part
of the tale few figures, however must cite here
We take them from the May Review of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics This shows that between March, $780,
and March, 1881 per capita weekly earnings of work
in manufacturing industries decreased 81 per cent
in Anthracite coal n1ining-92 in Btuminous-16.2
Metauiferous mining-168; non-metal mining-138 per
cent, and forth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

ployed on to higher political plane, the every
day struggle for satisfying the direct needs of
the starving unemployed should comprise the
basic content of all of their activity. The I'M
employed committees are obliged to thoroughly
control the work of their auxiliary committees,
besides the later must regularly report of their
work to the unemployed committees.
At regular and frequently convened meetings,
open for each and every unemployed worker,
the unemployed committees and their auxiliary
comittees must report of all of their work. on
all of its positive and negative results. The un-
employed have full right at any time to remove
from their posts different members of the COM
mttee auxiliary committee, and also to make
new elections of the committee or the auxiliary
committee
Revolutionary T. U. Organizations and the
Unemployed Movement
The movement of the unemployed must be-
come wide united front movement and be
built in such fashion that it acquires maxi
mum attractive force for the wide unemployed
asses regardless of the party or trade union
these masses belong to- Even this angle the
revolutionary T. u. organizations must inlrne-
diately develop their work among the unemploy-
ed All r. I. L. u. sections and affiliated organi-
cations must display uppermost initiative for
organizing ana IIOFeIIeLG VI JIlc
unemployed.
Therefore, it is necessary that the revolution
airy T. u. movement renders every possible sup
port to the movement of the unemployed and
leads the latter through its adherents. How
ever, such leadership must not be formal. The
movement of the unemployed must not be subor-
dinated to the revolutionary T. U. movement by
means of number of formal resolutions. In
actual fact, the revolutionary. T. U. movement
must lead the whole of the unemployed move
ment through its followers, who have to come
out boldly and actively in the leading commit
tees and their auxiliary committees for defend
ing the demands Of the unemployed.
On the other hand, it is necessary to start
wide recruiting activities among the unemployed
for drawing members into the revolutionary
trade union organization,sns, in order to win
over the more class-conscious sections Of the
unemployed and organize them in the ranks Of
the Red trade unions and T. u Opposition. In
order to direct the movement of the unemployed
into correct channels and guarantee a correct
class line, the supporters Of the revolutionary
trade unions movement must be firmly organ
lied.
The members of the revolutionary TU move
ment in the ranks of the unemployed movement
should be the chief political motive power, act
as the organizing factor throughout all cam
paigns and demonstrations Of the unemployed
in the struggle for their living interests.
The revolutionary T.U. movement must do
its level BEST in the process Of the everyday
systematic struggle for the interests Of the I'M
employed. to win the confidence of the unem-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

the profits Of the capitalists to the capitalist
system.
And what is the aim of the military intervention
that Hoover g. Co. preparing against the Soviet
Union? The aim Overthrow the Workers Gov
eminent Slice off the richest parts of the country
the Caucasus the Ukraine-for division among the lead
ing imperialst powers giving them fresh of
profit and in this way softening for while the fight
among them Latin America China Install into
power the reactonary corrupt gang Of monarchist
vagabonds landlords and capitalists and make them
squeeze the toiers of the Soviet Union to death to
profits for the international bankers and specu
lators In other words the aim of military interven
tion against the Soviet Union to make the toers
for the capitalist crisis to overthrow the fortress of
socialism and workers liberation, to the dying
capitalist system.
The same is the aim of the mperiaist offensive
upon the colonies. Why does the Hoover government
the government of the American capitalist class-sup
port the bloody gang of Chang Ka Shek in China with
money (Which cannot be found for unemployment
lief, ammunition marines and warShips? To crush
the ant-imperiais revolution of the workers and
peasants of China which has already established the
Soviet system of government large territory To
China for imperialst exploitation, To make the
Chinese toilers pay their of and blood for
the capitalist crisis. And why do u S. Marines ter
and kill workers and peasants in Nicaragua? Why
do u s. warships patrol the shores of Honduras and
all other Caribbean countries ready at moments
tice to land troops and marines to lombard those
countries! WndG are u D Marines QOlHg III f1d4G
against the expressed will of the overwhelming
jority of the population? Why does the u S. govern
ment support the bloody rule of Machado in Cuba?
Why does American imperialism carry through cam
paign Of terror against the in the Philippines?
It the story Make the colonial pay for
the crisis Force them to increase their tribute, to
starve than before to save capitalism in
the United States from destruction
Imperialist war military intervention against the
Soviet Union and the offensive upon the tong
of the capitalist and colonial counres-a go hand in
hand the capitalist way out of the crisis.
The Capitalist Offensive Upon the Working Class
The 1929 crash of the Wall Street specializing
precipated the economic crisis in the United States
and in the other capitalist and colonial countries In
dustry began to slow The fall in wholesale prices
became more precipitate Finding that production
the former scale could not be carried at the former
of profit, the capitalists curailed production still
further. The result today-tilrteen million fully I'M
employed, with unemployment on the increase. Not
profits but shall pay for the crSisthus decreed
the capitalists in collaboration with the leaders of the
American Federation of Labor, and the Socialist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
HOLLYWOOD Beggars

Beggars are getting to be so numerous they
give bad impression to visitors" says the "Ho1-
ywood News" out by the City of the Angels
and Aimee Semple Mcpherson.
The beggars are "congestng traffic in quest
of aims" So the Los Angeles City Council is
going to solve the problem of poverty by pass
ing a law--that "banishes beggars from ths
downtown streets"
The Hollywood News adds that many" are
not Los Angeles beggars anyhow. Those foreign
beggars who drift down from Sacramento
Should be rounded up and sent whence they
came, materially reducing the swarms now app
pealing for aid"
Altogether, capitalism is a fine thing. amt
it? Yes, it amt!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

of the every day struggle Of the unemployed in
defense of their immediate demands.
Forms of Organization
The thorough preparation and organization of
the struggle of the unemployed for their partial
demands on the basis of the broad united front
from below is therefore one of the basic tasks
confronting the revolutionary T. U. movement in
all capitalist countries and the linking up of this
struggle with the struggle of the workers in in
dustry is the prerequisite of the mass political
action of the proletarian against the bourgeoisie.
Particularly the center Of gravity in all our
work must be transferred to that strata of unem-
ployed who get no relief at all or who only get
Insignificant amounts
In order to organizatonally link up the unem-
p1oyed and warrant for them a solid leadership,
the R. l. L. u, adherents must take the initiative
of arranging for the election of unemployed COM
n1ittees committees or councs) on the basis of
the broad united front from below Elections of
such comittees are depending upon the situation
in the given country at the labor exchanges, in
the doss-houses, at the public kitchens or at
the workers living houses, by general meetings
of all unemployed, regardless Of race, nationality
or sex, and no matter to which party or trade
union these workers belong.
All committees of a town or CITY, elected at the
labor exchanges, the doss-houses, the public kit
chens or in the different districts of the city,
elect Local Unemployment Committee to lead
the struggle on local scale. The local commit
tees in their turn must elect Regional Unem-
pIoyed Committee to consolidate all local forces
regional scale and to increase the power of ac-
ton of the unemployed movement Such Unem-
ployed Committees must from top to bottom, be
comprised of representatives from the enter
prises.
Similarly, when setting up local or regional
unemployed committees, it is necessary to put
consistently into effect the principal of tactic OF
the united front from below. The local and re-
gional committees of the unemployed are res
ponsible for carrying on the struggle Of the I'M
employed on the territory they cover In those
countries where there are leading centers of the
unemployed movement, they must develop ener-
getic activity and become actual leading bodies
In those countries where there are no such
centres, Is is necessary to carefully consider the
expediency of organizing such on a national
scale.
In order to create firm base for the unem-
ployed committees, it is expedient to register the
unemployed by issuing membership cards. How
ever this does not make it obligatory for the I'M
employed to pay membership dues. Voluntary
dues paid in by the unemployed may frequently
be sufficient or collections among the unemploy-
ed and the employed workers, as well as among
the petty bourgeois elements. Besides, the re-
gistered unemployed should not be looked upon
as privileged members of the unemployed or
CARNATIONS, considered as such by the unenploy
ed committee when defending their interests, as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
R!1'~.A
sect the Money!"
By JORGE

Now that those ornery cusses in Europe who call
Uncle Sam Shylock are left aghast at Ameri-
can generosity" and the Bolsheviks who sheer
at American capitalists as "heartless creatures
who would sell their grandmother's false teeth
for profit" are thunderstruck at Hoover's mag
unanimous offer of moratorium on war debts
let us consider the opinion of Senator Fletcher
of Florida on the question of whether the mora
forum means step toward cancellation of the
war debts.
In the N Y Times of Tuesday, June 49, Sena-
tor Fletcher set forth the entire moral basis Of
capitalism thus:
Il do not believe that 1t is a step toward can
collation.. don't like to talk about not getting
our money. 1t is thoroughly immoral and dis
honest not to get the money"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

compared to the unregistered.
In those countries when other forms of organi-
zing the unemployed are already being applied
which have proved to be actually effective, that
may be preserved, inasfar as they do not hinder
the further extension of the united front, or
should be further developed in accordance with
our present instructions.
Task of the Unemployed and Auxiliary
Committees
The centre of gravity Of the whole work Of
the unemployed movement should be transferred
to the labor exchanges and other institutions
where the masses of unemployed gather. In
those countries where there is no possibility for
getting the masses of unemployed together at the
labor exchanges, ETC.. it is necessary to ,concen-
trate the work among the unemployed directly
in the localities where the unemployed live
The labor exchange conlittees, the town district
committees and councils, besides registering
members and accepting dues, are also responsible
for the general work carried at the given labor
exchange or in the given locality. This work,
besides everything else, includes: To issue bull
etins at the labor exchanges on labor demands
and also district and town papers, to convene
general meetings of the unemployed, elect dele
gates, to organize apti-fascist selfdefense corps,
to set up special committees and auxiliary COM
tees during strikes for attending to organiza
tional questions, to questions concerning the
trade union press, recruiting activities, legal
advice food for children, catering for women
and young workers, struggle against evictions,
control of overtime work at the enterprises, etc.
In view of the fact that the committees at the
labor exchanges or the town districts cannot at
tend wholly to this work, these committees and
auxiliary committees and councils are charged
with an extremely important task. All unem-
ployed deprived of relief, or whose relief has
been decreased, who have been refused municipal
help who are struck off the books of the labor
exchange for having refused to do certain work
offered to them or who clash with the police for
certain action connected with the unemployed
must get advice and support on all
these questions and difficulties from the legal
advice buro.
Evictions, Strikes and Overtime
The task of the committee for struggling
against evictions of unemployed for not having
paid their rents consists of mobilizing the unem-
ployed masses of organizing demonstrations and
preventing the unemployed from being thrown
out of their houses. The unemployed strike COM
mittee must work in close contact with the ge
neral strike committee during strikes, and mo-
bilze the unemployed for distributing leaflets
for taking their turn on the picket-line and for
carrying out all work connected with the strug-
gle, as well as keep all unemployed workers wide
ly informed on the progress of the strike
OF important significance for linking up the
struggle Of the unemployed with the struggle
Of the workers in industry are the unemployed
committees for controlling the amount Of w