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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Dye Slaves Toll
Il Hours a Day
Wages Slashed to SIS
a Week
Paterson, N, J.

Paterson, N. j.
In Paterson the Indian Dye work
ers are suffering from racial discri-
mination, wage cuts, long hours of
work and lay-offs.
We begin work as early as in the
morning and in some cases work as
much as IL to II hours at stretch
In the Star Price Dye Works, the
workers are facing wage cut that
will bring the pay down to as low as
SIS week. Here the boss is doing
away with hour pay" and tells lis
we must work time without limit for
these low wages. If we refuse we are
laid off.
In the Radience Dye Works the
workers work from 8 in the morning
till 8 and 10 at night In the Getty
Works it is the same thing. In the
Columbia Dive Works We work Il
hours a day. Nest of the workers,
however. are out of work and are
Walking the streets hungry. we
must organize into the National Tex
lie Workers Union and the unem-
,oyed councils and fight these con-
iitions. "A Dye Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

(By a Worker Correspondent
SYCAMORE, Pa.-There are 900
miners Of the D. C. Coal Company on
strike here now. They came out of
mines No. 10, II and Is.
Last month we got a 20 per cent
wage cut but on account OF lack Of
leadership the men stayed in the
mine. At last the National Miners
Union came and gave us the re-
quired leadership and the strike was
on.
The day Of the strike the miners
were promised a hotel where they
could hold meeting and when they
went to hold it they we're refused.
Were the miners through then? They
were not. They walked five miles
out Of town and held the meeting.
The police did everything in their
power to try to scare tn eminers and
force the people who owned the lot
not to let the miners use it.
When the picket line was formed
the police tried to frighten the miners
by saying that they would shut the
mine and never start it again.
The bosses promised to withdraw
the wage-cut and give us our check
weighman, but we said, I'VE want
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

owns everything in town, even the
post office, and the miners say they
are trying to own the highways.
YOUNG MINERS LEAD
The majority of the strikers are
young workers between the ages Of
IA and rs. Thirty of these young
miners asked to be organizers so
they could be sent to get the other
mines out.
The bosses are trying to spread ter
ror among the Negro miners. But
one old Negro miner, who was coaxed
to go to work, shouted as he came up
to the picket line: Brothers, ]
can't stand it. I refuse to work. y
And he turned his dinner pail Ap
to show the pickets that he was
taking water to work. He sure did
get good hand when he asked for
a place in the picket line.
The women are sure doing their
bit in this strike. Women between
the ages of IL and 65 are on the
picket line. The miners say that
they will stand In line for years
to win this strike under the lead
ership of the National Miners
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
New Wage Cut For
7. Clothing Cutters
Must Organize And
Fight It
fBy a Worker Correspondent


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind-In tn e
clothing industry we are not only
worked at neckbreaking speed, but
we have suffered one wage-cut after
another. a-
A few weeks ago, the well-known
leach, Frank RosenbluIn, came to this
city and without showing himself to
the workers went TO the company
office. After a long conference with
the superintendent, John Smith, he
called board meeting and the re-
suit was 10 per cent wage-cut for
the workers making Culver uniforms.
Cutters Get Cut.
About two weeks later the foreman
OF the cutters announced that the
cutters would get cents less per
pair on extra trousers. When a
worker from a different department
protested this cut the blood-sucker,
Rosenblooni, sent him word through
his tool, the business agent, that 1t
would cost him ais Job if he would
not stop talking.
This is the way the bosses terror
lie the workers and keep them under
the union heel. But despite the ter
ror, the workers here are talking or
SANITATION to fight against these
Whce conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
BROOKLYN DYE
WORKS FORCES
new WAGE CUT
Company Union Tells
Workers To Be
Satisfied
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-Six months ago the
boss of the American Dye Works, at
40o6 Utreich Ave, B rooklyn, eloped
with a chorus girl and the very next
day after the incident his wife took
over the management of the factory
The first thing she did was to an
nounce wage-cut and the workers
had $40 less in their pay envelopes
on the next pay day. The next thing
she did was to keep back the pay
of couple Of the workers.
Second Cut
But Mr.. Goldberg-that's the boss
name-soon got tired OF his chorus
girl wife and came back to the fac
tory-and he was hardly back until
he announced another cut.
The workers this tarns thought that
they should take some action against
the wage-cut and went down to the
union Of which they are members
and complained This Is the an
swer they got from the company I'M
ion, which gets its instructions from
the A. F. of L.: Thank god and be
satisfied that you have a job"
We workers. however, cannot
stand for such an answer. We
must organize under the leader
ship of the National Textile Work
ers Union and force the boss TO
take back the cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
MINERS FAMILY
LIVES ON GRASS
Unemployed Council
Gets Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

ioS Q "OihCI SOIICSpU1AucllJ
NEAHONOY, Pa.-The mines IN
this city have been closed for over
year. The miners are walking the
streets starving. They are pleading
for jobs in the mills and factories
to make a few cents for their starv-
ing families, but nowhere can they
find a job. Everywhere the answer
is mo help wanted" and 1--WE have
too many" The miners and their
families were never so destitute here.
The children faint from hunger in
the schools. Many of the children
cannot go to school because they
they have no clothes and shoes.
Eats Grass
A miners family of eleven in Buck
Mountain is actually starving to
death. The father has been out of
work for ten months. The children
are crying and asking the poor
father to give them bread. But he
is starving himself and can't get a
job and can get food nowhere. He
goes out into the fields and picks
grass and the mother cooks it for
the children. The children look like
skeletons.
Legion Refuses to Help
On May % this father went to
the American Legion and asked for
food and they told him to come back
on June 10. This means that first
he should die and then come for
food.
He found the unemployed coun-
Gil in Mohanoy, however, and told
his story to them on June 2. Our
council at once rushed and collected
food for him.
Over 300 families in this city have
applied for food, but the city Off
Gals and the other bosses agents do
not pay any attention to the starv-
ing workers.
The churches and other Of the
bosses institutions are trying to
make the workers starve quisty.
They tell them to keep away from
the unemployed council because they
are red" and Bolshevik. They
think they can confuse the workers
this way. But they can't get away
with it. The workers will not die OF
starvation. They will organize and
fight the coal operators and their
agents for the right to live. We
must organize the same as they did
in other towns and force the bosses
to give the starving WORKERS real
relief. We must not die starving
We must fight!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

thing IN the morning when the min
ers go to work.
The next day we went to the mine
at o'clock in the morning. We dis
cussed with the miners about strik-
ing and showed them how important
it was to spread the strike.
Little by little we stopped those
who went to work early. By O'Clock
we had all of them stopped and
many of them stopped and many OF
them said that they expected the
National Miners Union would come
and give the starving miners lead
ership.
100 Per Cent Strike Vote. 49,
The next thing we did was to get
a private lot where we held meet
ing. The vote for strike was 1OC
per cent. The strikers elected a
strike committee of 26 miners.
135 Join Union.
Why did us miners strike? We
were getting paid 20 cents ton anc
then we had many other grievances
IL this meeting half the miners
joined the National Miners Union
We then called a meeting of our To-
cal and all the miners joined the
Union. 1875 of these miners payec
their dues out of their last pay. 49,.
At the hall there was U.M.W.A
charter on the wall. The young
miners took it. down and put up a
N.M.U. charter instead.
Young Miners Active.
The young miners are playing ar
active part in this strike. The min
ers picket the mine on eight houl
shifts. We have elected our relief
committee, which is active collecting
relief. One miner was arestred In
McKeesport for collecting relief. We
are all happy to belong to the new
union and are determined to win the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
MINER TELLS OF STRIKERS WILL TO
WIN STRIKE AGAINST STARVATION

company houses and are afraid to
strike for fear of being thrown out
of their homes They say they are
with us 100 per cent and will come
out of we can get them a place to
stay. Most of these miners are Ne
groes and the police are using all
kinds of terror against them to keep
them from striking with us. If it is
the last thing we do we will fetch
these Negro miners out on strike
with us.
200 Join n. Nj. U.
Out of AGO miners we have 200
members in the National Miners
Union. We are happy to belong to
the N. NJ. u, because we know that
it is our union-a union in which the
miners lead themselves during
strikes. I do wish that other miners
would write about their experiences
during the strike.
"A Striking Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
5 WASH. LUMBER
MILLS TO CLOSE
Thousands Jobless in
Lumber Towns
by a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
HOQUIAM. Wash.--In the Gray's
Harbor district the mills are to soon
close for an indefinite period of
time. The Bay City, Donovan No. o,
Anderson Middleton, Michigan and
the Hurlburst Mill All of these are
in Aberdeen, Wash.
The NJ. r. Smith mill and logging
company at Moclips have already
closed. 1t was in this plant that the
single weavers fought so hard a
year ago.
The Hobi Logging Co., in the same
vicinity as the Smith Co., has also
closed, with no time set for resump-
ton of work.
Thousands Jobless.
The Poison Logging Co. of Ho-
GUAM has laid off its cutters and
this means that they are going to
close down as they get what logs
down there are yarded out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Over $4,000 Without Food in Los Angeles
County

houses
The figure 10000 is only a small
amount of the down-and-outers in
Los Angeles-and the Soviet Union
gets the blame for this. too, of
course.
Anyhow, fearing the worst, the rep
resentatives of the dear people" not
the workers. finally came through
with an appropriation of $4,000
$4.16 apiece. Not much to live on
for a month, even if all of it went
to the right address. which it does
not.
What is the cure for economic ills?
Well Calvin Coolidge looks to God;
AL Smith wants more and better
booze. Yours truly believes that both
of them are full of fermented
prunes. What we need is a Soviet
America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
FOOD RATION CUT
ON CHAS. SCEEWAB
STEAMSHIP LINE
Marine Workers In
dustrial Union Calls
Seamen To Organize
(By a seaman)


SEATTLE, Wash.-While hundreds
of ship stewards and cooks are on
the beach starving, the S. S. Flomar
Of the Calnar Lines, a belly robbing
company owned by Charles M
Schwab, prefers a coal burning fire
man for steward rather than COM
petent man.
Reduces Allowance.
While this company's food allow.
ance per day is one Of the lowest in
the country, this fireman steward
has reduced the allowance still fur
ther-so far in fact that the crew
can barely exist on it. Not only is
this company satisfied with starving
the crew, but the prices charged for
goods that we must buy from the
slop chest are Is per cent higher
than on other ships. The captain
allows this steward to sell booze on
the ship and rob the crew by chare-
ing So for bottle Of rum that the
captain pays 81 for.
Just last week wiper was in
jured due to lack Of men to help
close the doors on the flue boxes.
The only assistance the first .assis-
tant engineer gave the injured work
err was to call him vile names and
say that he wished that he had fell
overheard.
Organize.
Marine workers, are you going to
stand for such conditions? Organ
ize ship committee on your ship.
Join the Marine Workers industrial
Union. Strike for better conditions.
Force the rich ship owners to in
crease the food allowance, to reduce
the slop chest prices and to increase
the pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Young Miners Lead
Butler Go. Strike
Will Fight Till They
Win
by a Work,r Correspondent

NDy d AOllCSPOAuCItUeJ
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Eere is the
reason the miners of the Butler Con-
solidated Coal Company went on
strike. The majority of these min
ers are young workers. In the mines
the men had to load to 8 cars of
coal and yet the bosses wanted one
man to do it alone.
The exploitation was so great that
if one would stop for a rest he would
get laid off. Every pay day the min
ers would get 10 per cent taken off
Of their pay. Those that worked
outside of the mine did not have
time to get a drink of water; yet
the mine bosses say the miners are
lazy.
Strike 100 Per Cent.
The strike was SO successful that
the miners went out 100 per cent,
led by the young miners. All joined
the National Miners Union. The po-
lice can't keep the women off the
picket line, SO they put tacks on the
road and blame the women for it.
Many Of the miners got very little
money on pay day, yet they were
forced to pay from $40 to $50 rent.
Pagan, of the United Mine Work
ers, tried to hold an open-air meet
ing and all he could rally was three
miners. He told those present that
the National Miners Union was a
Red Union and that it das danger
GUS to belong to it. The miners an
swered that if the N. M. U. was Red
they we're Red, too.
These miners are good fighters and
they will keep on fighting until they
win-because they are striking
against starvation. )
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Bethlehem Steel Corp. Increases
Sbeed>ub; Fires More Workers

paying us regular visits. They GO
around and terrorize the foreign-bo
workers by asking them all kinds OF
questions. Already they have taken
six workers out of here and deported
them. BY this method the bosses
hope to frighten the workers from
organizing against the rotten condi-
tons in the mills. Most of the Ne
gro workers are lucky if they get one
days work in Is.
The workers in this mill are ready
to fight against these bad conditions
They are ready to strike agains
starvation like the coal miners. Ever,
day the steel workers are coming [
the call of the Metal Workers In
dustrial League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Pittsburgh, Pa,

t0lGJoDUl gil, L d.
Dear Editor:
A few lines to let you know how
our strike Is getting along. We have
400 miners out at the Pittsburgh
Coal Co. Mine; 100 are still in the
mine. The company is bringing
scabs in, in an attempt to break the
strike, but scabe or no scabs, this
strike is not going to be broken-We
will win this strike. At our picket
line, men, women and children stand
with grim determination ready to
stop anyone.
Starving.
We are starving SO bad here In
Pricedale that all the merchants are
going to stage a demonstration to
demand tina tive get relief. We are
holding benefit show at the Verdi
Theater at Vernon, Pa, for the
benefit of the striking miners.
Why are some of the miners still
working? They are living in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

RAISE Ii 1893 ne QlSCIlIIllIldGSQ III bIle
raise by giving some men one
cent, others two and others three
cents raise. But what happened
at the same time that we got the
raise?
Speed-Up.
MN. Bray made the operators run
five machines instead Of the foul
they had previously run. So the in
crease that we got amounted tc
nothing plus nothing.
The average wages paid, at the
present time, to the slaves in the Tu-
buIar Rivet is from thirteen to
fourteen dollars a week for the
men while the women get from
seven to nine dollars. In the ma
chine shop the wages average
eighteen to twenty dollars.
Now, fellow workers, there is
only one way out of this and that
Is to organize into strong union
like the Trade Union Unity
League. This is the only union
that fights for our rights and for
better conditions. Joining the
Trade Union Unity League you will
have the support of the whole
working class of the world because
it Is an international association
of unions.
Resist Wage Cut!
Resist the wage cuts Of M. N. Bray
and refuse to be q slave for the rest
Of your life. Let the bosses know
that we have a right to live and re-
ceive wages that will maintain us or
good standard OF living.
You know that when the bosses
tell you to go to war and fight to
help them rob other countries you
go. Yet when your wife and chill
dren tell you to fight for better
conditions you turn yellow. Do you
want to see your family starve and
freeze and suffer all sorts of abuse?
If not, join the Trade Union Unity
League now and put In your de-
mands, fight for them and you'll
get them.
"A Tubular Rivet Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

by Worker Correspondent.I
HONDO, Collaborating to an Of
fetal report, $4,000 persons-all de-
pendent on Los Angeles County for
bread-had nothing to eat the other
day. w. H. Holland, county super
intendent of charities, announced
that his department had ceased all
welfare work for lack Of funds.
Instead of appropriating s45o,OoO
to carry OH until July I, the well-fed,
$12,000-a-year supervisors cut the
amount down to 100000. And, as
most of the sum went into payment
Of back bills, of which Holland
claimed he knew nothing about, the
funds were exhausted over night
without giving the hungry masses a
chance to get a smell of the food
stuffs in the nations overfilled ware
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
Miners Vices Display Great
Militancy On the Picket Line

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - At our mine,
the Warden Mine of the Pittsburgh
Coal Co., the standard of living is
terrible and we have many of griev-
ances. We have a good picket line
with 100 women and girls. Many OF
us girls don't have much clothes to
use and are ashamed to step out,
but we must in order to be on the
picket line.
Every morning at we have a
picket march ON the Warden Mine
Majority Of the miners at work are
Negroes and the bosses terrorize the
Negroes SO they won't go out on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
FORD SPEED-UP
! DOUBLED SINCE
Is; MORE FIRED
Many Workers Suffer
From Accidents
and Diseases
lfBy a Worker Correspondent

: fftuNDy a tlOIbSs OOTEESpOECS-IL)
- DETROIT, Mich.-Ford workers In
department 401, Job 1880, have been
forced to undergo more speed-up
Production has jumped per worker
from IS to $50 pieces in eight hours
In the foundry B-34 there we're So
operation in all in 1925, with 300
men turning out 290o cylinder blocks
In eight hours. Now we are in for
double speed-up. Around 500 men
turn out 1000 cylinder blocks in a
day.
70, o- Disease Spreads.
worked on this Job for one day
as loan-out man. The boss called
one man all kinds Of vulgar names
and said if he didn't work faster he
would fire him. This is very hard
work and dangerous to the health
of the workers-diseases such as
scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid,
eczema and tuberculosis being COM
mon among the workers families
here. The Ford failure to safeguard
the workers is responsible for many
injuries: loss of arms, fingers, toes,
eyes and ears.
One sees new faces every day.
Only the very youngest can stand
the pace and they are soon elirni-
mated, completely worn out by tile
terrific speed.
Production Increased Is Times.
In the Ford plants the produc-
ton of each man has increased Is
times in Is years. The result Is that
tens of thousands Of workers are
being thrown out of work to actually
starve while those who are working
are worked to death.
In department 401 two thirds OF
the workers were fired. One Of the
workers, with tears in his eyes, told
the foreman that he lost his home
weeks ago and now that his jot
was gone he. would go out and xii
himself.
81, The Ford system, workers, Is home
breaking and man killing. Organ
lie, into the Auto Workers industrial
Union and fight against these condi'
tons
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27

BALTIMORE, Md. - The Bethle-
hem Steel Corporation at sparrows
Point is doing everything in its power
to keep up its profits in face of the
declining production. They are
speeding up the workers more and
more each day and at the same time
they are laying more workers of.
They are also using bad steel in many
Of the departments where tin and
sheet iron is made.
The Tin Mill has been running
part time for over a month and the
workers working on piece work aver
age around s12 to SIS a week.
Terorize Foreign Born.
The immigration officials are also
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-27
SLAVE LABOR
IN NEW YORK
Maids Work 9 Hours
Daily in Exchange
For So Room
New York.

:
Dear Worker:
In view that your paper Is the
only one that is willing to expose the
slavery imposed upon the workers
and help the masses in the class
struggle to free themselves from the
yoke of the bosses, am submitting
the following statement to call the
attention of the workers and readers
of your paper, to the fact that slave
labor is used right here in the great
metropolis of N. Y. c..
Last January, I took a super1rlten-
dent job at THE Marlboro" 518 w.
151st ST., with the understanding OF
working twelve hours per DAY includ-
ing Sundays, and that may wife
should work also, running the ele-
vator, scrubbing halls, and stairs and
other domestic tasks. directed by the
boss at any time he may see fit.
I took the job, and to my surprise.
instead Of II hours I was compelled
to work from 5 am. to 10 pm, or
the equivalent Of IT hours per day.
and receive the payment OF $50 per
month, plus four filthy basement
rooms.
Maids Get No Pay.
Three chambermaids worked at
this place from z am. to pm, ana
recei,',d no wages nor food for theis
work, but instead the big hearted
MIR. Hauer (the boss) let each one OF
these women occupy So a week
room in exchange of their services.
A middle aged man running the
elevator from pm. to midnight. 10
ceived free rent on 81 week room
as recompense for his work; during
the day, he sold apples.
wonder if this wouldn't be an
ideal spot for the Fish COMMITTEES
to investigate and put an enbaru
on such places.
Yours truly,
-