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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-16

Many miles of railways in Brit aln are to be electrified this wins ter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-16

Courts in the Irish i'ree state are sentencing boy thieves to birch whippinDs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-16
Briefs

Mae Villa BabIn of Walert0wn avenmc was the soloist at the fu- neral of Mary keefe at Sc Francis church yesterday morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-16
(NIl YAftl

The social committee Of Ply. mouth grange will hold card pa~.y ln tho grange hall on Sat ufday night. t.l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-16

New York, Dec 16.-(UP)--stocks advanced fractions to ? points to-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
CALF. WORKERS
PADIN SCRIPT
Get Three to Six Days
Work in Month
BY C.. G..

by y. u.
SAN DIEGO, Cal-During the re-
cent election campaign here between
the two capitalist political gangs, it
was revealed that tens of thousands
OF the taxpayers money was wasted
for Unnecessary political jobs and
otherwise by the supervisors of this
county.
While the grafters are filing their
pockets and thousands of dollars are
Eaid to high salaried county and
welfare workers" and other officials.
the tens of thousands of unemployed
workers here are barely existing.
Hundreds of jobless workers have lost
their homes because they could not
pay taxes, The jobless workers pack
the county welfare Offices every day,
many of them without a penny to
their names and hungry and in need
of immediate help, but the female
autocrat in charge of the place for
ces them to wait hours and often
tells them to come back some other
day.
Some of the single men who have
lived here for years are given three
days work a month in the park and
are paid. off in script-s4 worth OF
groceries for each days work.
Married men with families get six
days work month at 81 a day in
groceries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Moscow Workers
Build Free Land
FormStudy Circles and
Shock Brigades
Dear comrades !:

Dear comrades.
We have just received your letter
We are struggling for socialism and
are very sorry to hear such news
from our foreign comrades. Our
young socialist country does not want
any war. We want t oshow to in
transitional proletariat the road which
Is leading to the happy life, i.e., to
the life that is free and joyful. We
are surrounded by enemies, who are
ready 10 crush the U.S.S.R. every
minute, but we believe in the con-
struction OF socialism and we are
building for the first time in history
a New Country with enthusiasm. We
know, that inside the countries, ruled
by our enemies there are our fellow
working men, who are going to pro-
tect us and would not allow to rise
the bloody hand and smash down
the U.S..R. and we do believe in it
The building up of socialism is neces-
stating many hardships of its way
No Unemployment
Such construction as Dneprostroy
Cuzneztroy, numerous factories, works
and railroads CTurk- Sib") show that
workers of the U.S.S,R. are able to
build everything themselves. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Shop Letters Are the Real
Pr0letdrian Literature
(By a Prisoner in San Quentin)

find the letters from the
Ing acting orceu Of
There will find the these
letters They full grammer the hell cares
Arc we guide our lives forever by the expressing
cross T or dot an P? We in the field
and accept their literature their rituals
O literature capitalism done with
it,
II will be of
by and proetariat
rant She knows how to
the Dishes the the
bckbreang toll the long tips she
gets and she wrote about what
and would know that written
polite bourgeois read it
other industries dynamic
moving proletaran literature Writing
Upton Sinclair did
do working
several years packing house?
with industry and withmine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Cut Wages lOP.C.
In Furniture Co.
Worker Gets So Cents
for SIR. Work
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
ROCKFORD, Ill.-Mr Hoover may
be hasn't heard about wage cuts.
But at the Rockford Furniture Com
pany, which is now working on gov
eminent orders, IL hours a day, the
wages were cut 10 per cent on May
l. Skilled cabinet makers can't aver
age even 25 cents an hour. The COM
pany is putting out these orders so
cheaply that further government Or
ders are expected. We don't expect
Hoover to do anything about it but
we DO expect to build real organ
ization inside of the Rockford Fur
niture Company and force living
wage out Of the company.
Spoke to one worker from the Scan
dia Furniture Company who got sixty
three cents ono exegeration) for s
hours work one day this week ano
got 80 cents for one day last week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
YOUNG WORKER
TELLS OF OHIO
HUNGER MARCH
70 I'm g est Marcher;
Member of Family
of 7; All Are Reds
Columbus, Ohio.

NUluIHDuS, OIuOt
Daily Worker:
1 am writing you a few lines to
let you know about the trip to Co.
lun1bus and the experiences have
had all along the march.
At Hamilton we had a meeting of
$4,000 unemployed and employed
workers, which was the best we had.
However, it was at Hamilton where
we had the worst beds. We built
them on rough boards, but there
were SO many skunks that we had to
build fire to keep them away. In
order to have some fun, or perhaps
it was on purpose, they tied a skunk
with a string and dragged it all
around. l was the youngest men,
Der of the delegation to Columbus.
We have seven in our family and all
of us are class-conscious workers and
Bolsheviks. We are very proud of it,
too.
I was working at garage for the
measly sum of ST a week I shaved
from IL to IA hours day. I de-
cided to quit this speed-up place My
father is in debt heavily, because we
are not working and we have to live.
"A. D. IA Years Old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
10 Pc. WAGE CUT
HITS POMERETTE
GARMENT SLAVES
Piece Workers Earn
from $40 to SIS
Per Week
BY L. NEUwHoNER.

NEW YORK, N. "a 10 per cent
wage-cut was effected among the
week workers at the Pomerette Dress
Co., $40 w. 4oth st. This piece OF
bad news was particularly shocking
to a girl who boasted Of being a
friend of the boss. She packed up
and left the place for good when her
wages were cut from $35 to $3l.
The piece workers in this shop do
not easn more than $40 to SIS a
week and the speed-up is the most
vicious imaginable.
Attacks Worker.
This place is conducted by Louis
Cornman, who got himself we'll
deserved slap in the face. from one
working woman. Max Cornman, the
brother to the boss, played the "hero"
in defense of his brother by kicking
the girl. Such brutality is common
in the New York dress shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

longer required" He is and always
was a quiet and faithful worker, so
for no other reason than to save
their lousy odd age" pension and
the fact that Stensatter is getting
old he is discharged, like score of
other workers at Armours during
these few last months
Must Be Evicted from Co.
House.
/ mention his case specifically be-
cause of his high standing in this
community and because it seemed
he would be among the last to be
laid off. Discharge from the plant
here means virtual eviction from the
company owned houses, with the
somewhat better advantages they Of
fer over houses owned by other land
lords. So Stensatter has to move
within 80 days, from the home he
has occupied for many years and
with very poor chances of getting
other work These capitalists like
Armour can wreck workers homes
over night.
Aged Women Must Work for 81
A Week.
Work has started on the new paw
ing on No. 10 highway. Every morn
ing there are masses of workers vain
ly and eagerly waiting to be hired
at both ends of the work, here and
in Fargo. A friend of the writer,
jobless for months, finally went in
to the country and was allowed the
privilege of working for his board
by a farmer. He is a good hand,
20 years old. His aged mother sec
ured work in a house after much
searching for So a week Such are
the things capitalism has to offer our
best workers in the year 1881!
FARGO WORCORR,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Norfolk Bakers
Slave in Shops
For SIS a Week
II Hr Day, 7 aDy Wk.
In Va, Bakeries
lRY a Seaman.l

NORFOLK, Va.-The Model Bak-
cry called up the Seaman's Bethel
Institute commonly known as the
Prostitute) a couple Of days ago for
a baker. The ysaid they wanted a
first class man. etc.
There are quite few men on the
beach here, including a few ship
bakers. One of them went down
after the job,
Sure" the boss said, start right
away" But, as it is always good to
look before you step, the seagoing
baker asked how about the hours
and pay. He was advised that if he
would work IL hours a day, days a
week, he would be rewarded at the
end of each week with the large sum
of SIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

sister VINO SWeaCS away her youth IN
bosses hell hole. For this I thank
you, Glorious America" for this and
many others. For Mooney and Bill
lings, Sacco and Vanzetti, Imperial
Valley, Gastonia, for Katovis, Levy
and Gonzales. Thank you, oh lords
and masters for your evictions and
breadlines, for the bullets and club
bling, for Imprisonment and for
Scottsboro and Paterson
Head Toward War.
Imperialist powers must conflict in
the race for foreign markets. The
result is war, since war slaughters
of the unemployed, creates a tenn
porary labor shortage, and piles up
wealth for the bosses. Soon the
drums will be beating; the bugles
calling; the flags waving. The glib
tongue orators will be stirring up
patriotism and sending us to our
death. And too will be called upon
to make my country" safe for god
and Wall Street. What will I do
then: Says Einstein, the pacifist and
the socialist party" Refuse to fight,
fill the jails."
Fill the jails hell Well enlist and
get our hands on the guns and then
war is going to be hell. He'll for the
bosses, the grafters and exploiters :"
Yes, we the youth will not forget that
we were up against in times of CAPT
talist prosperity. We won't fill jails,
Mr.. Yellow Socialists and pink tea
liberals; and neither will we use our
weapons against workers. of another
land. But we will follow the exam
pie of workers and farmers of a diff
ferent country. Well use those
weapons to bring about a BolShevik
uprising in America and set up a
U.S.S.R. right here in the U.S.A.
And swallow that and see how you
like it, Mr.. Ham FeeSh!
Young Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

Jne cauSeWay Wnere dredglng is be-
ing done. 1 first thought that they
were workers cars. soon learned
my error.
In those machines came the Ku
Kluxers, dressed in their official re-
gala, the priestly white robes. With
their covered faces they exercised
their American god-given right to
teach their colored brothers the
Christian spirit of "humbleness."
These colored brothers and sisters
are employed in the hotels and rest
aurants, where their white MEIhers
come during winter months to bask
in the sun. These Negro workers are
poorly paid They live in the Miami
novels and shacks unsuitable for
beasts, They go to work at the beach
hotels.
Force Negro Workers 10 Occupy
Rear Seats
They have to cross the Biscayne
Bay on the causeway in street car
that charges them 20 cents a day.
These Negro workers are forced to
occupy the rear seats only. 1t seems
that some Negro family occupied the
wrong seats only and the anointed
Kluxers could not forbear such in
fringements.
xxx. Threatens Negro Workers
So at the entrance or exit to the
"causeway' the Kluxers held up the
street cars and lectured the Negro
passengers, telling them to be humble
and to know their place. Other
wise the transgressors might be found
drowned in the bay punctured by
bullet holes. Thus the jim Grow
law must remain inviolate and holy.
These fascists are American Mus
solinis. They are a self-constituted
government disregarding the laws of
the constitutional capitalist govern
Inent.
Negro Workers Organize
The twelve millions of Negro work
ers in this nation should use their
energy and power to enforce their
human and constitutional rights.
This will be accomplished by joining
the white workers in the Communist
Party and its affiliated organizations
and work until capitalism is de-
throned and a Government of Work
ers and Farmers is established
A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Homeless Child
Army Increases
(By Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Calif.--We read
lot of lies in the capitalist press
about homeless children in the
Soviet Union after the world war.
But what about the hobo children
who are coming to Los Angeles
every year? A higher total is ex-
pected this year. According to an
official report, the number rose
$50 in 1880.
Who knows the actual number
of travelling and homeless children
in the entire country? In Los
Angeles. alone, 1900 under the age
OF 16 were arrested last year. Such
are conditions in the richest,
land in the world.
Young workers, smash these con-
ditions by building a strong Com
munist League, Force the rich
government to feed and clothe
these children. Fight this falling
of homeless children!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
WORCORR-
BRIEFS
WORCORR PHOTOS

WORCORR PHOTOS
The Workers Correspondence
Dept. needs more pictures. 1t is
not only necessary that we reflect
conditions and struggles of the
workers in writing alone, but we
must become more active with the
camera. When we organize our
correspondence groups in the
shops, neighborhoods. unions, etc,
we should at once take steps to
get a camera for the group and
detail one of the comrades as the
official group photographer.
We know that itfis almost inpos,
sible for workers at this time to buy
an expensive camera, but it is pos.
sible for a group to raise enough
money for an inexpensive camera
that will take good clear pictures.
Now let's get our groups together
Get a camera and elect an official
photographer. Take pictures of the
factory conditions, of the workers
demonstrations and of the way
workers are forced to live in CAPT
talist America Illustrate your
stories. Often a good. picture is a
story in itself. The camera is an
excellent vehicle for agitation and
propaganda. Send your photos to
the Workers Correspondence Editor
Daily Worker ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
ELEVEN WORKERS
HURT IN BLAST
Two Dying AS Result
of Dam Explosion
tBy Worker Correspondent


HONDO. Calif-The bosses are
Hooverizing on wages, etc. but not
on workers flesh and blood, at the
S165 100000 Boulder (Hoover) Dam
site, judging from Las Vegas,
New. report.
Two Near Death.
Two workers we're near death and
nine others were badly injured as a
result of an explosion of dynamite,
May 9Th. The blast was even "un-
expected, they tell us.
Tons Of rock showered down upon
the crew of workers of Six Rivers
Co. at the Colorado River camp when
the blast was set off without warn
ing. No explanation of the sudden
charge was given by the company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
SCRAP MEN AT
40 IN GENERAL
MOTORS,PONTIAC
Mich, Hunger March
Arouses Interest;
Many to Join
Pontiac, Michigan.

TO1lJldI, MlCIllE dill
Daily Worker
The conditions in Pontiac are
worse than they ever were. Although
I am not one of your family as yet,
intend to join you when you march
9th I have a lot of faith in your
organization and I think you are
right.
General Motors Rule.
The General Motors Corporation of
this city rule the city. They make
the laws here and the men in the
factories are poorly paid. This COM
pany bears down on the working
man cruelty and rules with an iron
hand. worked on the chassis as
sembly line at the Oakland Motor
Company and the speed-up was Kill
ling. 1 got so cents an hour and the
promise of bonus, but all we got
was promises; we never got the
bonus. I went back there for job
recently and they told me that I am
too old. / am 40
To Join Hunger March.
will be sure glad to see the Hun
ger March when it comes through
here, expect to see it good and
strong, as everyone out of job here
is getting restless and 1 am sure
many of them will drift into the line
of march. This is the only way to
force the bosses into submission and
make them either give us work or
wages, one or the other
Auto Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
DENVER WAR VET
LEFT TO STARVE
ON CITY STREETS
Denver Post Offers to
Help" Providing
Veteran Pays Cash
Denver, Colo.

Denver, Colo.
Daily Worker:
The other day I met very shah
billy dressed man begging on the
street. His name is Neil Davis. He
is almost blind, is 81 years old and
is a world war veteran who was
gassed.
He has applied for a pension ever
since the war, but he never got any,
and, the way it looks now, he never
will. His parents went broke by
spending $1,000 on his eyes.
I told him to go to the Denver
Post and advertise the government
rats, like other soldiers had done.
He did this, and the Post told him
to come back in 10 days, which he
did. Then he was told that the only
way that the Post could help him
was for him to pay 10 cents word
for an advertisement that they would
run for him. This is the paper that
is supposed to be the peoples friend
the paper that has a heart"
Editorial ote:-This is just one
of the thousands of cases of ex-
servicemen being reduced to star
walton in capitalist America. Many
of the ex-service men who have
waited until now TO apply for
their bonuses are told by the gov
eminent that they can draw no
money for two years. These ex-
service men need this money to
buy food and clothes. We can
force the government to pay these
bonuses in full and at once by
militant mass action of all the vet
Grams. The ex-service men every
where should organize into the
Ex-Servicemen's League and fight
for the payment of the bonus in
full.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
FARGO WORKERS WHO
REACHED PENSION
AGE ARE FIRED BY co.
Armour and Company Fires Workers in Order
to Avoid Paying Pensions .
Aged Woman Forced to Work for So a, Week;
Son Slaves On Farm for Board
Fargo, North Dakota

Daily Worker:
After working for Armour Co.. ever SINCE this plant
opened here i'll 1925 and for under its former
ment the Farmers Cooperative Equity Co. as Waterman
H. Stensatter aid-of
Lay-off Worker to Avoid Paying Pension
few months more he would have been eligible for
pension from Armours No given for his dis
charge except notification that his Services would be no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
III. s. Worker Hits
Anti Soviet Lies
Elgin, Ill.

Elgin, Ill.
Daily Worker:
have a cousin In Soviet Rus
STA, Moscow, getting 300 rubIes per
month, with room. He writes me
that he is treated fine and that
his foreman has lots of patience
with him. He has invited his
mother. father and sister to come
over. II things were like the So
cialists and their masters, the
Wall Street robbers, say they are,
i am sure he would never invite
his people to come over. Would
working class son ask his folks TO
so where it is so terrible?'
wonder IL John Keidcr, the
labor faker here in Elgin who Is
attacking the Soviet Union. would
say the above is not 4 statement
Of facts.
Yours truly,
III. e. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
NAVY YARD LAYS
OPP 80 WORKERS
Phila Slave Mart Of
fers Fake Jobs
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker CORRESPONDENT
In going around looking for work
find that for every two who find
temporary work twelve are laid off.
met machinist at the Phila-
delphia Navy Yard who told me that
after the big lay-off two months
back there was also wage-cut and
that last week 80 more were laid off,
which included himself
While down at the city slave mar
ket the other day noticed that the
blackboard was filled with "jobs" for
the Navy Yard. I know from ex-
perience that this is done to make
it look like there are plenty of jobs
while they are actually laying men
off in the Navy Yard They give
you application blanks and tell you
to fill them out and qualify for the
Jobs which they promise to send
you to. But they never send you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
685 Workers Fired
BY Tacoma Bosses
(By a Worker Correspondent

TACOMA, Wash - 685 workers
we're added to the ranks of the un-
employed. The st. Paul and Ia
coma Lumber Company layed off IS
workers on the first Of the month
and the St Regis Pulp Mill shut
down, 300 workers loosing their Jobs.
The Milwaukee r r. shops layed
off 300 workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Worker Halls Stand
of TheO Dresser On
Workers. Struggles


Daily Worker:
Theodore Dresser, in recent is
sue of the Daily Worker, is the
real laundering voice of the van
guard of the American intelligen-
tia mountaineering from its long
sIumber.
1t is just the beginning of this
awakening. More and more Drei-
sers will find their voices and will
blash forth Indignantly the hor-
rors, brutality and hypocrisy of
rotting and decaying American
capitalism and its numerous props,
including the socialist party and
the A. F. of L.
Dresser again proves himself to
be the American Emile lola, not
only in literature but in social con-
seriousness as well. His blast now
reminds one of Zola's 81 accuse"
in the Dreyfus case. Now for more
DreiserS in the U. S. A.
N. s. II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Unemployment
Gaining in Spring
Valley. Ill.

Spring Valley, Ill
Daily Worker:
The army of the unemployed is
growing daily. Many workers here
are out of jobs for long time and
more are released from jobs as the
days roll by. They don't know what
to do-how to get living.
1 lost my job long ago. There
are six persons in our family who
have to live on my wifes wages 49,
four or five dollars week. Even
my wife's job is not steady. I don't
knox how l will be able to keep my
kids In school.
Send literature. I will talk to the
workers about the class struggle.
A. K.
"Hc who has the youth has the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23
Young Workers Slave
10 Hours Daily In
Bogota Mills
(By a Worker Correspondent

BOGOTA, N. J.--There is a paper
milf in Bogota, N. j. by the name of
Smiths Paper and Cardboard Fac
tory where they enslsve workers for
10 hours a day. They have to work
night and day for starvation wNgcs.
The yorn" workers receive oniI IS
cents per hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-23

enormous growth of socialism, liquid
ated entirely the unemployment, we
have even a shortage OF skilled work
ers. At the present our slogan is:
The Communists must get hold of
technical knowledge"
Cultural Circles
At the enterprises we organize all
kinds of circles where we. study in
order to reach higher qualifications.
We send the best shock brigaders
I othe colleges. We are building up
many colleges, high schools and pub
lie schools In our shop, which was
organized In 1880, we declared our
selves shock brigaders and we carry
on social competition in order to
speed up the output OF machinery.
Our living conditions are being
steadily improved and we have now
7-hour day. After work we go to
moving pictures or are doing some
public work.
From tho Shock Brigades of the
Shop. THE First of May" Moscow,
u.s.sR. ss,.,4
20 SIGNATURES.
Editorial Note: The workers in
the Soviet Union are. anxious to
receive letters from groups of work
ers In America telling about their
conditions and struggles. Get t
little group together in your factory,
your shop, your neighborhood, to
correspond with the workers in the
Soviet Union The Soviet workers
will be glad to answer you. Send
your letters to the Workers Cor
rsspondence Dept, Daily Worker,
50 e. 18th st, New York, N. Y.
Learn the real truth about the So
Wet Union. The workers themselves
viii tell the story.