davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

ers well remember the strike break
ing b and and wouldn't tie them
selves up with them any more.
Immediately the Protective of
HayerhilI. the other bosses agency
was called LpCn by the bosses and
also their campaign netted no re-
suits, with the exception of Chel-
sea where, with the help Of local
labor takers, they succeeded for a
moment to mislead a few workers
and some cutters In Boston.
Revolutionary Union
at last the shoe workers realize
that in order to be able to win bet
ter conditions, militant fighting
union must be organized. The Shoe
and Leather Workers Organization
Committee of the Trade Union Unity
League carries on an energetic Or
ganizational campaign for a shoe
and leather workers industrial union
for Boston and vicinity. The treach-
erous maneuvers of the bosses and
their agents, the B and S and PRO
tectiye" are being exposed to the
shoe workers. In some shops in Bos-
ton price cuttings were partially de-
feated, with our members taking the
lead in rallying the workers.
Our membership has increased, we
have two locals in Boston and in
Chelsea meeting regularly. With
more activity on the part OF every
one of our members, in leading the
fight in the shop, and recruiting
members, we will very soon have a
militant industrial union that will
take up the necessary fight for bet
ter conditions.
M. KIarfeld.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
Poverty Increasing
Daily in Black Rock
Section of Buffalo"
LayOffs and Speed-up
in the Metal Plants
Buffalo, N. Y.

DAAAAAO, ~ =
Daily Worker
Poverty is increasing daily in the
Buffalo BLACK Rock Section" Fac
tories are laying off men daily and
cutting the wages of these impover-
iShed workers.
Evidence of the fact is this: One
day was passing the Feddlers Man
ufacturing Company, where three
men were loading a box car with auto
radiators. The foreman came into
the car yelling to these workman.
Come on you bastards, what the hell
are you doing here" which at this
moment two men were struggling to
lift heavy radiator to the top Of
the pile. The foreman further re-
marked, what you guys haven't
enough Sausages." An unemployed
worker happened to be standing near
by and he shouted to the workmen
chit him on the head with ham
nler." This shows you plainly the
tyrannical methods the bosses use
against the workers in every factory
in this section.
% Cents an Hour.
The steel casting clippers of the
Pratt LetchEorth Company some
time ago walked out because they
received less than S17 for working
over sixty hours q week. The ma
jority OF the workers received about
22 cents an hour for shaving for the
bosses.
In the Acme Malleablc Company
another foundry. the bosses pay the
workers 20 cents an hour. but the
average hourly rate for the rest Of
the workers does not reach 2s cents.
.an hour, yet the factory is on the
stagger system.
The conditions are so terrible in
these factories and the speed up is
so great that the workers quit the
job before they finish the day.
j. w.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

the papers on the street and he quit
US and we are unable to find anyone
else to take his place. We are going
to do our best to try and find some
one to sell on the street, but until
we can, we will have to reduce our
bundle to 10 copies"
The comrades in Sioux City
should have no difficulty in getting
unemployed workers land there
are plenty there, as well as else
where) to sell the Daily Worker,
and should have made a real at
tempt to do so by issuing leaflets
calling them TO meeting, before
they cut their bundle. When one
comrade who quits causes a cut of
so, there's all the more reason why
the comrades should have recruit
ed number of jobless workers in
stead Of just one.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
APPLE SELLING ON
IN AKRON, OHIO
Misery in Rubber City
Grows Daily

AKRON, O.-This "City of oppor-
tlInity' is giving the unemployed its
chance to die Honestly" by selling
apples to folks who don't want them.
These merchants are given permits
from the city to sell at certain points
and if anyone of them sells SO much
as one apple at any other place he
loses his ticket. Then they must buy
their apples from certain store and
pay the price per box agreed upon
by the city's inspector, and this makes
it possible for another little graft on
the side In addition to the "legiti-
mate" profit Of the store in unload
ing apples on to those serfs, who
cannot leave their corner.
Some Of these apple sellers make
as much as ninety cents q day ir
IL to IA hours, while others are m.
able to make ninety cents a week
These unfortunates pay $2.25 to $25t
for a box Of 80 apples and sell them
at S cents each, making a net OF
$1.50. However. the best corners car
not sell a full box in one day.
Many of these apple sellers ars
men over 40 years old who realize
that it is practically impossible fol
them to get any kind Of a Job even
in good times, and now 1t is utterl,
impossible. But the capitalists and
their grating city officials permit
these cast offs from industry to pa.
rade their misery before the public
and thus put another burden upor
the sympathies of the working class
Down with the insults, misery anc
starvation of the capitalists and theiu
grating city officials. Organize into
unemployed councils and fight 70,
immediate cash relief and Workers
Social Insurance to protect the un-
employed. old aged and disabled
workers.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
Prepare Tear Gas Attacks On Oakland
'-s-~ Workers
Workers

ness of tear gas; explained the use
Of tear gas in grenades and small
bombs He also demonstrated am
nlunition which is fired from pis-
tolls, shot guns and riot guns.
No amount of terroristic methods
clubbing, arresting and raiding
homes or this tear gas will stop the
growing militancy of the workers in
Oakland.
Let's answer the Probe Committee
by more powerful organization Of
the Unemployed Councils and the
political vanguard, the Communist
Party. Let's organize on May 1 for
a real powerful workers mass DEM
onstration. Reactionary forces will
be powerless against the mass turn
out of the workers. Let's organize!
"A. A.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

attempts to provide defense, tells
you that in order to understand their
seditious teachings, you must know
the materialist conception Of his
tory. You do not ned to know that,
very few people dol"
The workers in the crowded court
room roared as they all would be
willing to testify as to their ac-
quaintance with this basic social
theory. "All you need to know is
plain English, and read the docu-
ments that we have here and which
they acknowledge as theirs" He re-
ferred to the various exhibits of
Communist literature which they
had introduced, reading broken sem
tences, ETC., and which the defense
exposed by complete reading of ex-
cerpts.
"Comrade Moore" referring TO
John Moore, defense witness and on
bail for the same charges, "has ad-
mitted from this stand that they
agitated among the soldiers, and, in
time Of national emergency, would
ask the soldiers to turn on their own
government; that Is mutiny whether
they call it that or not. It is true
that we have deplorable times, but
they have not shown that the peo-
pie cannot gain their aims without
the ballot"
Trial In Fourth Day.
With such inane statements as
this Dillard concluded for the state
The trial has taken four days and
the real facts Of the class struggle
have been presented before the
packed courtroom daily on a scale
that might make the state we'll re-
gret the fact Of ever bringing any of
these workers to "trial" on the tes-
timony Of stool-pigeon.
The Judge will give his irlstruc-
tions tomorrow and the Jury will &c
out. The labor Jury has not COM
piled their report and verdict, but
have given the information that they
find the defendant NOT GUILTY.
The capitalist press calls the labor
jury a "red" jury, but they are bring
ing in a verdict based ON the con-
tradicting evidepce Of the states
witnesses that will expose them
thoroughly. One Of the local papers.
the News, In It's article today, states
that "the defendant throughout the
TRIAL funiahsd direct and alsar an
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

in all the mines Of the company.
The Sheriff's Chief deputy, Alex
WIlGams appeared at the meeting.
walked up to the President, and told
him that he was sent there by the
sheriff to see that there was no
trouble started. There was an omin-
Gus silence when he appeared. The
Local president told him that If he
was looking for trouble, he would
get all that he was looking for. He
promptly left the hall.
A front page Of the Daily Worker
was posted on a wall Of the hall all
day long on the day Of the meeting.
It had the report Of the struggle at
mine No. Is at Pershing. The min
ers read the report eagerly. After
the meeting some Of them said, "Be
sure and get a report Of the expul-
sion in the Daily Worker" The
DIV. is making new friends every
day. Conditions are nearing q point
which cannot b passed without q
dfspeTste struet1A
.<essn-npN0sunh - "a -
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
Oakland, Calf.

Oakland, Calf.
Daily Worker:
Recently Oakland City Council
voted $1,000 for probe of Comnu-
snistic activities"
The Oakland police are known
well for the brutality in clubbing the
workers in all demonstrations. Now
preparations are under way to ter
rorize the workers more.
The Oakland police force has been
equipped with tear gas in several
forms. According to Police Sergeant
Reedy, "the gas may only be used
in emergencies under rigid super
vision" We know to what emer-
gencies they are referring to.
Reedy gave lecture and demon
,tration of the immediate effective
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
TELLS OF DRIVE
-.i..l.- -
ON FOREIGN BORN
Arrest Without Any
Formalities
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNr3

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
ton Post of March 90 in reference to
Lowell, Mass;
"U. 5. immigration inspectors
today began questioning all en-
ployees of the Merrimac Manufac-
turing Co. to determine whether
they are citizens or aliens. Their
object, they indicated, was to de-
termine if there were Communists
or Communist sympathizers among
the employees. There has been no
trouble in the textile plant, which
is the largest now operating in
Lowell, and it was indicated that
the questioning would be continued
in other factories in the city, The
Merrimac Mill is now employing
about 1900 workers, but at full
capacity would employ many more
New England seems to be the CEN
tral point of this drive just now, al
though the raid upon the Finnish
dance in New York and the deporta-
tion of many workers in California
shows its nationwide character.
THE agents of the Department of
Labor are just plain stool-pigeons, as
evidenced by the action of MIR. Chase,
special investigator for the depart
ment, who was active in Lawrence
during the recent strike. Chase pre-
sented a card to the stenographer of
the N. I. w. u, showing he was a
special Washington representative Of
the Railroad Brotherhood anxious to
get information from the union
about the amalgamation movement, ;
Many other under-cover men were
around the union hall posing as
newspaper men, some of them even
being special reporters with cards.
while in the immigration sta
ton at East Boston was shown a
sheaf OF warrants for workers 'sus-
pected Of being aliens who were
against the government The rec
ommendation of the Fish Commit.
tee that arrests can be made on tele-
graphic warrants has been adopted
by the government. This Is ser1-
GUS attack against the labor move
ment. Citizens and American born
workers who may be leaders or ac-
tive In strike struggles can be ar
rested on these warrants without the
slightest evidence and taken from
the scene OF struggle forthwith. BY
this method future strikes can be
crippled by the wholesale arrests of
the leaders without any reason
whatsoever other than their working
class activity.
FUnless q powerful agitation ID
carried on against this vicious anti
working class drive. the next thing
we will find is that the finger print
ing and registration bills will be-
! come law
"The demonstrations all over the
country on March 2S against the at
tacks Of the foreign born must bs
mads isrge and powerful Eyory
working GLASS organization n1rSt rails
] b their support
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
DIST. 2 Y.C.L.
BEHIND DRIVE

In the Young Communist League,
the first real plan of work for Daily
Worker activity was drawn up at a
recent meeting of the Y.CL. Secret
ariat Of District 2, New York. Fol-
lowing are some of the steps which
the League will take, according to a
report received from j. r. of the
Daily Worker staff, from which we
quote:
District agents Of the Young
Worker to be on the District Daily
Worker committee. Y.C.L. units
will sell the Daily every day in
front Of factories, and the Young
Worker once a week. on pay day.
The Party is to sell the Young
Worker once a week at factories
where young workers are employed,
or at any other youth concentra-
ton point Sections of the League
Will do work in the Red Builders
News Club and unemployed coun-
cils, and where no sections exist,
the district will use unemployed
Y.C.L. members, Joint readers
conferences Of the Daily Worker
and Young Worker will be ar
ranged, as well as joint affairs"
District Q sets a fine example OF
coordinating the work of the League
and Communist Party in spreading
the Daily Worker throughout New
York, and other districts should fol-
low with a similar program Of work
which is as concrete and effective as
thiS
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
Kansas Unemployed Worker Dies in Hospital
Kansas City. Mo.

Kansas City. Mo.
Daily Worker:
I am writing you to notify you
about a worker who died some
days ago here in Kansas City.
Some days ago a worker of Mex
lean nationality died in the County
Hospital. One evening I went to
= pool hall and I saw man sit
Sng on n bench. He had a very
BAD cold. I went and sat right
sear him. He told me that he had
Aeen cut Of work for six months
and sometimes staying out nights.
Soon another worker sat next to
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
NIAGARA FALLS
INCREASES ORDER

"The Unemployed Council decided
to start selling the Daily Worker at
the shops, ;house-to-house, meetings,
ETC., and therefore increase the
bundle from 10 to IS copies a day.
Through the open air meetings
which we started holding now, we
viii be able to increase the sale of
the Daily Worker" Peter s., Niagara
Falls, N. Y
Short open air meetings at which
the Daily Worker is discussed have
proved very effective in acquainting
workers: with the paper and sales
have increased as a result of these
talks. Keep UP the good work, Nj
agara.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

Long Hours of Work
For so to 70 hour week skilled
cutter or laster gets 80 to 35 dollars
a week, a fairly good stitcher earns
from $50 to $50. The majority of the
workers earn between s12 and $40 a
week. Women, girls and children who
work as table girls and in the finish
ing and packing rooms, earn from
$12 down to IS week.
The Massachusetts Labor Law
restricting the hours of work for
women or children under is, "A
and 10 hours is ignored and they
are forced to work these long hours
or are thrown out.
Starvation Wages
For more than year after the
Boston and Chelsea shoe strike of
1899, the shoe workers were complete
ly demoralized. Betrayed, they re-
turned to the factories with the ma
jority remaining on the streets. Then
with the deepening of the economic
crisis and the swelling of the ranks
Of the unemployed, those who were
lucky to have the job had to accept
starvation wage.
As the conditions became unbear-
able the shoe workers began to or
sanize. The shoe manufacturers
realized that il they let them or
ssniSe into rank and file union
the bosses will have a tough job
on their hands. Therefore they
called on the Boot and Shoe TO
start a campaign and Organize"
the shoe workers. The organiza-
sionaI campaign conducted by the
Boot and Shoe for two months
brcught no results. The shoe work
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

MAI NIOrLner general secretary
of the Spanish Buro, Communist
Party, U.S.A), Felipe Gutierrez and
Jos Gutierrez Valdez, when they were
found in the LID. office. Police
confiscated office equipment also.
Two of Porra's men went to the
Havana Workers Center. When the
workers demanded that they show
cards before they come in, and as
they could not do so, they were ejec-
ted. Later the workers that de-
manded union cars, were brutaIly at
tackled by Porra's men. One Of them,
Mario Palma, was arrested.
On March II the police arrested
a boy of IL years because he was
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

thorough investigation in this matter
and will most certainly support the
defense Of Paul Kassay If cur present
opinion that he is the victim of the
Infamous frame-up system is substan-
tiated by further results of our in
vestigation.
we call upon all workers to reject
the sensation reports now being
spread over the capitalist newspapers,
to hold themselves in readiness to de-
fend The worker Paul Kassay against
the frsme-up which is apparently
being prepared. At the same time we
warn the workers that these attempts
to link the Communist Party with
bombings and sensational stories of
conspiracies is only another means
for preparing justification for vicious
attacks upon their political Party
and militant trade union organiza-
tions. We must oppose with all vigor
the Criminal Syndicalist Laws and
the vicious Anti-Labor measures of
the Fish Committee, whose one pur-
pose is to prevent the organization
and effective resistance by the work.
ers to wage cuts, the hunger policy Of
the bosses and other preparations for
a new imperialist world butchering.
ing"
Fish Again.
Immediately after the arrest of
Kassay, Ham Fish issued a statement
using the occasion for an attack on
the Communist Party and the foreign
born workers. He pointed out that
there should be more arrests and
greater terror.
Not only are the capitalists and
their agtrts using the Kassay frame
UP against the American workers, but
they are using it to further the at
tacks on the Soviet Union. The
Cleveland Press said that the prose-
cutor in Akron, Hargreaves was con-
vinced that the Soviet government at
Moscow was behind the attempt to
cause a repetition Of the R-1o1 dis
aster."
Every worker must rally to the pre-
paraaons for huge demonstrations on
March 28th to answer the attacks of
the bosses on foreign-born and Me-
gro workers: to expose the frame up
and war preparations against the So
Wet Union.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
SOVIET RED ARMY ENTERS ITS 14TH
YEAR, IS WORKING FOR PEACE But IS
READY TO DEFEND WORKERS LAND
Voroshilov Issues Army Order On 18th Ami
versary; Danger of Intervention Demands
Watchfulness of All Workers

MOSCOW-The Peoples Commissar for the Red Army
and Navy Comrade Voroshlov has issued the following Army
Order on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of the formation
of the Red Army
The Red Army enters the fourteenth year of its life
united and constantly prepared defend the Soviet Union and
1u OF confidence in its strength International mper
asm which is torn by nnumerabe internal and external
tradcons and suffering from tremendous political convusons
result of the economic crisis approaching RAPIDLY
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

towards new world war which will
be more bloody than. the last.
. Above all preparations for an inter-
vention against the Soviet Union are
being made. The great victories of
the socialist constructive work, the
carrying out Of the Five-Year Plan
in four years, and even in three years
In the most important branches of in
dustry, guarantee the laying of the
basis Of socialism this year. This fact
causes anxiety to the imperialists and
aggravates their bitter hatred of the
Soviet Union, a hatred which is ex-
pressing itself in an increasingly open
and insolent fashion. The bourgeois
general StaffS are making their plans
for an attack on the Soviet Union
under cover of a cloud of ISLANDERS
concerning alleged dumping" and al
legged forced labor" In face of these
preparations we declare again: The
policy Of the Soviet Union was, is
and will be a policy of peace. We
shall continue to do everything in our
power to prevent war and to guar
antee peace to the workers and peas
ants who are building up socialism.
The Soviet Union desires no con-
quests, but it will not permit any one
to violate its frontiers with impunity.
The toiling masses of the Soviet
Union are unanimously in agreement
with Stains words: 1--WE do not de-
sire one foot of foreign soil, but we
are equally determined not to sur
render one foot of our ownl"
The danger Of new Intervention
by imperialism demands that the
workers and peasants in the Red
Army and all the toilers show even
greater watchfulness, pay even great
er attention to the question of de-
Tense and increase the speed of the
defensive preparations.
This task demands from the Red
Army that 1t raise still further the
technical qualifications of all its
units. A storm tempo must be de-
veloped on all fields of army work.
The Revolutionary War Council of
the Soviet Union congratulates all
soldiers, commanders and political
commissars Of the Red Army on the
thirteenth anniversary of the fornla-
ton Of the army and expresses the
unshakable conviction that both in
peace and ii war the Red Army will
do its duty side by side with the
toiling masses under the feminist
leadership Of the Communist Party
Of the Soviet Union and with the
support Of the workers of the world
The Revolutionary War Council OF
the Soviet Union sends, its greetings
to all workers, .conectiYist peasants
and to all the toifers In the Soviet
Union, to all working masses and tc
all oppressed peoples who are fight
ing for their freedom from capital
ism! =,
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
Foster to Speak i'm
Phila. Tuesday at
the Strike Meeting

PHILADELPHIA. Foster will
speak Tuesday, March "a, 8 pm, at
the Kensington Labor Lyceum at
Second and Combun Street. He will
speak on the methods used in the
Lawrence strike, contrasted to those
OF the Upholstery and Full Fashion
ed strike.
This Is Fosters first appearance
in Philadelphia after the successful
Unemployment Demonstration on
February 10. The admission is 1oc.
Unemployed workers and strikers get
in free.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
MANY WORKERS KILLED BY MACHADO
in TERROR REIGN; CUBAN BUTCHER
uses MACHINE GUNS TO END MEETING
Boy of II Beaten for Selling Workers Papers;
Woman Threatened; Worker Found Hang
ing After Being Mutilated

HAVANA, Cuba.-Butcher Machados reign of terror
sharpen daily On February 9th the international Labor De-
Tense of Cuba organized demonstration The police who
the place OF meeting took the place by armed force They
centraed than 500 detectives to kill anyone who took
part in the demonstration Porras with machine guns in
automobiles stood in the streets ready for the attack
On March 18th series of arrests made. Among
those jailed Cesar Var Flomeno R. Abasca Carlos
The daily worker., 1931-03-24

selling a workers paper. The police
beat up the young lad because he re-
fused to tell who gave him the pa
pers. A woman who protested the
attack was herself threatened with
a cop armed with a revolver.
A few days ago a worker was found
dead hanging in the Spanish consul
ate building. He was previously ar
rested and held in the Havana Jail
on the charge Of terrorism. His body
vas severely bruised and showed
signs Of extreme torture. Many
workers have disappeared" during
the past few days. Many others face
deportation.
The daily worker., 1931-03-24
LONG HOURS, PAY CUTS
LOT OF BOSTON SHOE
WORKERS; ORGANIZING
Nj; ,ohusetts Shoe Bosses Ignore Own Law
q For Women and Child Workers
Shoe Workers Remember B and S Sellout; Now
Organizing Into Militant Union
Boston. Mass.

The conditions shoe shop today identical with the
conditions of needle trade sweat shop of 25 With
the difference that in the shoe present have short lived
When this rush along for weeks
are forced to work in the morning until at
night including Saturdays and in shops Sundays
The wages have been 80 to 60 per cent the last
In many shops workers forced to sign yellow dog
buy shares shoe manufacturers taking these
outio