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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Carpenters Local
Assesses Members
to Pay Officials
Rank and File Urged
to Gust Misleaders
and Consolidate
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-In the Carpenters
Local Union 2725 (New York City
which formerly had a membership of
1000. the recent exodus caused by the
inability of the membership to pay
dues brought the membership down
to 260.
The finances can no longer cover
the per capita expense and the To-
cal expense, which includes a $66
week salary to the finance secre-
tary, a 500 week salary to the bust
ness agent and salaries to the presi-
dent, recording secretary, etc.
What should be done in such a
case? The most sensible thing to do
is to dissolve local 2725 and transfer
the good standing union members to
a neighborhood local union-consoli-
date the two local unions into one.
This, however, would mean that all
the salaried officials would lose their
permanent soft jobs, To safeguard
their soft places they have played up
another scheme.
They mustered at a regular meet
ing about seventy votes from their
henchcmen and passed a motion to
assess all employed members Is cents
a week to keep up the expenses Of
the local. When member of the
union made motion to cut the SAL
aries Of the officials in half the pres
ident stopped him and advised him
that he could not entertain such a
notion Now the members of Local
2725 have in addition to their dues
book white book spaced for past
ing stamps to secure the salaries for
the officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
JOBLESS SEAMEN
EXPOSE CHARITY
SCHEME NPHILA.
Break Through Terror
onWater Front: Score
Church Institute
tBy a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA weeks ago
Farmer, of the Seamen's Unemployed
Council was caused to be arrested by
the infamous Seamens Church In
stitute Waterfront Graftopolis) on
ridiculous and trumped-up charges.
Last week Farmer and Wood, of
the City Unemployed Councils con-
Quoted a similar meeting during
which the role of this chamber of
horrors and scab-shipping agency was
revealed to the seamen and public in
general. Samples Of the meager por-
lions Of half-cooked slop which the
SCI has dished out, by other panic
victims, without wages, were exhibit
ed.
Seanen were urged TO stop this
promiscuous going South with funds
panhandled in their name by salaried
gre tiers.
The effect was immense. A colored
minister greeted, complimented the
speakers and agreed to join the On
employed Council. One of the SCI
thugs and Information stink
ed away under the barrage of truth
directed at him.
A wholesaler who operates In the
SCI building became so enraged al
the amazing revelation that he do
mated food to a contemporary insti-
tuition on South ST.. fully well realiz-
ing that according to facts laid down
seanen were suffering starvation ano
exposure regardless ofs'the fact thai
hundreds Of thousands of dollars are
chiseled in their name.
These Unemployed Councils are oul
only mediums of obtaining substan-
tial and immediate relief. We can
rot, however, assume the eLet George
do it" attitude, but every man of us
must shoulder our own portion Ct
the load. -
Now for a large membership, pow
erful organization and RESULTS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
WORKERS CORRESPONDENCE %H
Food and Clothing Furnished Free of Charge
to Workers School Children in the Soviet Union

in the school Is the Scholars Com
mittee, eletced by the children.
Every member OF the committee di-
reefs a definite part Of the work. The
birgades in the classes have also def
mite tasks given them-quahty Of
study, discipline, habits Of life, teach
ing illiterates to read, general educa-
ton, patr mage and the Struggle for
industrial training in schools.
Scholars may write Of the successes
or weaknesses Of school work In the
school wall newspaper.
On the 14th anniversary Of the
October Revolution we had DEM
onstration with placards showing our
tasks and achievements.
On November 9th, there was an
entertainment for the anniversary of
the revolution, and all the classes and
organizations in the school sang the
International In German, and gave
reports of the work performed. On
the anniversary, the LID branch is
sued wall newspaper and bulletin.
The active children received free
tickets to the pictures. Twelve of
the best Pioneers were passed into
the YCL.
Comrades, will you send us an ans
wer as soon as you can, as we are
very interested TO know your life and
work.
Signatures: Rudakova. Sutirina, S.
Makarov, Guseva, Sveshnikova and
the Committee Of the lid branch.
Write to us at the following address,
USSR, Nijni-Novgorod. Office OF Nil
Kommuna, for the school "Pamyat
Dekabristov."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
ASKED FOR FOOD,
CHILD REBUKED
City Fathers Deny
Relief
Danbury, Conn.

DanDury, conn.
Daily Worker
I am child Of one Of thee many
employed families of Danbury. MY
father has been out Of work for eight
months. have five sisters and one
brother. I had two brothers, but one
died Of infantile paralysis three
months ago. -Four months we have
been living on bread and potatoes
which we get from City Hall. we
got sick and tired Of eating the same
old thing for eight months, so I fin
ally went to the City Hall and asked
for some meat TO eat with the bread
and potatoes. City Hall told me
that should be thankful that We get
help at all.
I left the City Hall feeling very
angry, and as I was walking home to
tell my mother we could not get any
meat, met a member Of the Dan
bury Workers Club who told me
about the National Hunger March OF
the unemployed to Washington. Al
so I learned about the Unemployed
Council Of Danbury.
I made up my mind right away to
help all could When went to the
club, Kate, who organizes the people
here, told us such fine story about
going to the Capitol, and the White
House for unemployment insurance.
She knows what she is talking about,
as she was there as a delegate. And
we are glad she is back to help us
organize-not for potatoes, rice and
beans, but for money to buy every
thing we need, so as we will be
healthier kids. And we too are ready
to fight.
am a kid Of an unemployed hat
ter. Ia years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
SHOE SHOPS CUT
PAY IN NEWPORT
Mass Lay-offs in All
Factories in City
(By a Worker Correspondent


NEWPORT, N. H.-The Internal
tional Shoe Shop, largest shoe shop
in this locality, was closed down for
two weeks, all the office help and
petty bosses being laid off also. Then
the workers were called back to work
to find that their wages had been
cut 10 to so per cent. The workers
have to wait for material and only
put in three or four days week
They are now earning from so cents
to IS per week.
Brampton Workers Staggered
The Brampton Wollen Mill is en-
ploying only part of the workers at a
time. The Hoover stagger system
has been put into operation in this
factory, thereby throwing more of the
burden of the crisis in the backs of
the workers.
The Richards Mill has also been
laying off workers, not giving any
definite date for their return. Prom
Uses are made for more work. of
course, for the purpose of keeping
the workers patient and away from
organization.
Women Speeded Up
The Curtain Shop employing only
women. is taking those who can work
very rapidly, forcing them to- do the
work Of two or three. The less ex-
perienced ones are laid off for an
indefinite time.
1t is plain to be seen that the
workers in Newport must organize to
bring about better living and work.
ing conditions. Let us not wait until
we are driven to further desperation.
Let us organize now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
A. +. [. FAKERS
FOR OPEN'SHOP
ON us. DAM JOB
SABOTAGE All. Moves of
Local Unions. to Or
ganize Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent


LAS VEGAS, Nev.-The Daily
Worker has persistently claimed
that the A. F. of L. is making no eff
fort to organize the masses of unor-
ganized workers. What I have just
learned from conversation with un-
ion officials here proves beyond a
doubt this claim and should convince
any rank and file worker of the A.
F. of L.
was talking the other day with an
official Of a local building trades un-
ion local. During the conversation
he mentioned the fact that ever since
the start of the work on the dam,
his union was pleading with the in
ternational for funds to organize the
Boulder Dam workers. 1t has per-
sistently been refused.
On drawing him out found that
the other locals have likewise pleaded
with their Internationals and have
likewise been turned down.
Not only have the locals been re-
fused funds, but all organizational
work among Boulder Dam workers
has been discouraged by the big off,
Gals.
The local unions certainly feel
puzzled over the action Of the Off
Gals. The wonder why organiza-
tional work is actually being sabo-
tagged. The tie-up between the A.
F. of L. officials and the company is
now quite obvious TO the workers.
They are feeling very bitter over the
actions of Green, Vol and Co. and
have developed decided left bias.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

stories and found no work, and in
some cases the industries mentioned
as picking up" are closed alto
gether.
In Denver and San Francisco 1
found the unemployed councils very
busy and doing good work in de-
manding more and better relief for
the unemployed and starving masses.
Working conditions in Southern
California are terrible, which also
shows up the lying capitalist press.
For instance, cotton-picker receives
one-half cent per pound for pick
ing cotton. An experienced man can
pick about ITO pounds a day, which
makes him IS cents for full, hard
days work. The orange-pickers re-
ceive cents per crate for picking Or
anges.
Jailed In California.
l was picked up in this wealthy
city of Los Angeles, in the land of
the free and justice for all, because
1 happened to be unemployed. I was
thrown in jail and along with 200
more workers was taken before a
woman judge, a petty politician, a
lackey of the idle rich, who has such
a warped view of affairs and condi-
tons that she told us that there was
plenty Of work if we wanted to find
it. AS result, we drew from to 20
days in Jail for being unemployed.
While railroaded to jail it was my
good fortune to find comrades there
who were awaiting trial and doing
time for passing leaflets favoring the
repeal of the anti-labor criminal syn
dicalism law. Regular meetings were
held in the Jail, with good results,
showing that the working class in
Los Angeles is ready, providing we
lead the way.
Conditions in Jail are terrible. All
the jails are overcrowded. Two hun
bred to three hundred men go
bAlOu6li bLiC iluiilnll oOOOhy al 10 CNCLy
day. In our cell IS men lived and
slept, cell rs feet by so feet. The
stencil in these cells is terrible, as a
bath is out Of the question only on
the day you come in, and there is no
examination Of these men to find
out what diseases they have.
The food is rotten, weak, watered
coffee and potato hash for break
fast, half cooked or else burnt twice
day as rule.
Petty graft is the order of the day
Prisoners who have fruits, tobacco
magazines, ETC., sent to them find the
packages torn open and articles taken
by TRUSTEES and officials, who sell
these same articles back to the pris-
oners at exorbitant prices-cigarettes
20 to Is cents per package; Bull Dur
ham, 10 cents; Q boxes small matches
cents; 2-cent stamp, 5 cents; scent
bar of candy, 10 cents, etc.
| We are ready, fellow workers, to
smash such conditions, both in and
outside Of penal institutions, so let's
fight the criminal syndicalism law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
San Joaquin Builds
Unemployed Council

SAN JOAQUIN, Cal.-We have the
hungry unemployed and grating
relief just the same as in all towns
The citizens have been begged to
death by the relief" outfits and now
the town is being begged by those
whom the "relief" outfits were sup
posed to relieve. Everybody is be-
ginning to ask what has become of all
the money collected.
We have established an Unem-
ployed Council, have 70 MEMBERS and
will soon have hall. We have held
some meetings in the Court House
Square and are gaining more and
more support daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Negro Worker Writes from
Southern Chain Gang Camp
Charlotte, N. c.


Dear Comrades:
Although here with the cold steel around leg and can't do
much watching the struggles that carrying
the National
Washington that
and shelter
victim system starvation slavery
and pledge myself that will fight against this system
best of here take place
the fight.
know what these chain not getting
What get hardly fit hogs We must work
all with Now good fight
under the leadership the Communist from this misery
greetings all the class prisoners like myself
Washington they will busy
lot organizing build stronger unemployed councils that
win unemployment insurance.
Forward a strong Communist Party the
white
freedom of the Scottsboro boys Death to all lynchers
WALTER NELSON
Bggers Chain Gang Camp No. /,
Charlotte, N C, r. F. d. l..
Editorial NoeComrades urged write to Comrade Nelson
telling about their struggles The nights the chain
and Very little struggle
reaches the prisoners Let keep the prisoners in touch with the
movement by writing to them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
SHERIFF SALES
DRIVE WORKERS
INTO STREETS
Phila. Real F s t a t e
orks Profit on
Cheap Buys"
(By q Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Real estate
shark seeking cheap buys" mort1ags
owners getting their pound OF flesh
the sheriff and his coterrie Of Ware
gang politicians, as we'll as the capt.
talist newspaper owners who receive
tremendous sums of money out OF the
city treasury for advertising, were the
four groups Of parasites who benefit
ted from the largest sheriff sale on
record in the city Of Philadelphia.
This "sale" was held on Monday
Dec. 7. and 1000 properties. chiefly
small homes Of workers made des-
titute by the crisis and who can nc
longer pay taxes or interest on the
mortgage, were sold. This kind OF
selling really meant the transfer fol
q $50 fee to the sheriff. from the
workers to the owner Of the mort
gage or to a real estate shark.
Sales Held Monthly
Each month a similar sale Is held
and each month the. number Of work
ers evicted from their homes in the
manner described, increases.
Now the Ware gang proposes the tai
rate 351a cents per hundred dollars.
This new tax rate means virtua
confiscation of small homes Of work.
ers, as the economic situation o.
growing unemployment and new wage
cuts for those yet employed gets more
acute.
Workers. Do not be misled by thu
opportunity seeking lawyers, the bust
nessmens association and certain po.
litical demagogues who are trying Il
cash in on your misery by organizing
torchlight parades, big mass meeting
at the swanky Bellevue Stratford Ho
tel bathrooms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Indian Children
Starve to Death
in Santee, Neb,

OMAHA, Neb.-Two Santee Sioux
Indian children starved to death, on
the reservation in the northern part
of this state, and hundreds Of others
will soon suffer the same fate. There
are over thousand Indians on this
reservation and every single one OF
them is In dire circumstances.
Over a year ago the government
appropriated the measly sum of $4,000
for road work on this reservation
promising employment for the In
dams. But an Indian could not get
one OF these jobs unless he had a
team. Only one out Of ten Of these
Indians have teans-and soon none
will have team as the live stock Is
starving as we'll as the humans
Besides this, a man with a team Is
only allowed to work two days week
at $3.50 per day.
Red Cross Fails
The Red Cross has made, as usual
q flat failure Of their "relief" work
among these Indians. The govern
ment has turned deaf ear to the
plea Of the Indians.
The same conditions exist on other
Indian reservations. eSw '-,rfri
Certain individuals have tried to
claim that the Indians are not suf-
fering from want; that there is some
kind Of an epidemic spreading among
them. All Of the doctors attending
Indian cases say that the indians are
all suffering from tindernomish-
naent due to lack Of food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

place is Spuds, parSnipS, carrots,
beans, bread and mush. They have
about 400 hogs, 1000 chickens and 30
head of milk COWS, but the biggest
part of the patients never see any
milk, pork, meat or eggs. And on
top of all this whenever the insane
complain about not feeling well or
being sick they fill them UP with
EPSON salts, which makes them so
weak they can't hardly stand up.
Heavy Death Toll.
The patients die on an average OF
about two a day and they bring new
ones in just as fast as they die. The
patients do all the work taking care
of the COWS, hogs and chickens. They
get up at four o'clock in the morn
ing and go to bed about nine al
night after they are through working
They also do all the farm and gar
den work. This consists of cultivat-
ing and harvesting the crop on zoe
acres of ground on a vegetable anc
EPSON salts diet. And DR.. Ruge,. the
superintendent, goes around Dragging
about how he has got them all busy
working. He gives them their choice
of working or going without tobacco
If they don't want to work they
don't don't get any tobacco and those
that are working don't get enough
tobacco in a week to keep an ordinary
tobacco user going two days.
The conditions at the Northern
State Hospital are twice as bad nov
as they were two years ago. Here
conditions get worse just the sam'
as the workers conditions get worst
and are going to keep getting worst
until the workers overthrow this dirty
rotten system of belly-robbing cap
| italisn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
FARMERS RUINED
BY FARM BOARD,
FRUIT DEALERS
= obts Drive Florida
Fruit Growers Off
of Land
(By a Farmer Correspondent

SEFFNER, Fla.-We note in our
capitalistic press all kinds of stories
about slave labor in Soviet Russia.
But nothing is said about the slave
labor of the farmers and growers
in the U.S-A.
AS grower and farmer In Florida
I will give few high lights on how
we are swindled by the dealers, who
are backed by our Washington gov
eminent. 1t cost the growers at least
one dollar box of Is o., to produce
oranges. The fruit is sent to so-called
cooperative" packing houses to be
packed and shipped to the northern
markets, and is sold at auction to
commission men up north at any
price this gang of cut-throats are
willing to pay; and in most cases it
doesn't bring freight and charges, and
charges, and a bill is sent the grow
ers for expenses. This system has
been going on for over 20 years.
The U. S. farm board is furnish
ing this cooperative" association
with money to lend to the farmers
then takes a mortgage on the farm,
altogether with an ironclad contract
to market the growers fruit. Now
as the grower can get nothing for
his fruit to pay his note this con-
tract is in force indefinitely and the
growers eventually loses his farm.
This same fruit for which the grow
ers get nothing is generally sold for
60 to 30 cents a dozen or about ten
to twelve dollars box retail. The
dealers take it all. The growers and
farmers in the U. S. are absolutely
slaves to the dealers. OF course that
is in the U. S. A. and not in Soviet
Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

ployed Council.
This has been especially true
among the colored workers and those
of Danish nationality, of which there
are many in the city. The Italian
workers are also threatened with be-
ing taken for ride.
In answer to this we say, smash
the dirty rats and and stool pigeons.
Form a language branch in your own
fraternity or organization. Fight for
the demands of the Unemployed
Councils In your own organizations.
Let the slogan be UNITE ALL
WORKERS, COLORED and WHITE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
More Factory News
Needed for Daily

NEW YORK.--Although our work.
er correspondents are supplying the
Daily Worker with considerable good
news Of the class struggle, we stu lag
somewhat in actual factory and shop
correspondence. The bulk Of CORE
spondence at present is coming from
the unemployed. Let's hear more
from the employed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Racine Socialists Launch
Campaign Against Negroes
Threaten Foreign Born with Deportation for
Joining Unemployed Council
(By a Worker Correspondent

RACINE, Wis.-We have more So
cial demagogy in this town than in
any place have ever been. This is
due to the fact that we have So
cialist mayor. chief of police and fire
chief. And along with this clique we
have the "progressives" to fight, too.
The whole socialist city leadership
is carrying on a secret campaign of
terror against foreign-b born and Negro
workers. In fact the socialists are
using the police officials Of foreign
birth to privately approach their own
countrymen, threatening them with
deportation if they join the Unem-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Plenty of Good Food
In Red Army Barracks
tBy a Worker Correspondent

tBy Worker Correspondent
MOSCOW, USSR.-The Red Army
barracks that visited here look like
big hotel. The soldiers are given
the best of food and eat in nice
clean dining room, four at table.
The meals come in three courses
with plenty Of meats. / never I'M
agined that the Red soldiers were
treated SO well. I have seen the con-
ditions in the American barracks.
led soldiers are treated The besk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
LOS ANGELES JUDGE
JAILED 200 BECAUSE
THEY WERE JOBLESS
45 Men Forced to Sleep in Prison Pen 25x5O Fl:
Denied Baths
Meetings Held Regularly in JAIL Terror
Arouses Western Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

tunatethat is without workand forced to drift from
place to place working at odd jobs for livelihood,
have made two complete trips rich" America,
and everywhere went found the working cassn poverty
and want although every city boasts of it's relief which
consists of waey soup lines and lousy flop houses While the
lying capitalist papers tell the workers that conditions get
ting better ETC. This writer has followed some these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Letter from Niini-Novgorad School Spikes
Lies in American Press About School
Life in Soviet Union

each other, class completes with class
and the whole school completes with
another school, The points Of the
competition are:
ID Attendance, % Success in
7tudies, 90 Discipline, "a The largest
number of shock brigades, Pioneers
md members of voluntary societies.
The chief organ of self government