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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

punch time.
Small Wages.
Wages are pitiful small. Most girls
receiving only SIT per week or $62 so
per month, and what with ireSS reg
ulations, it is impossible to live within
wages. The employees charge and
budget accounts are needed in this
case thus making double profits for
the firm. Should employee make in
adequate payment on account, one
third to one half of pay is withheld
and applied on account.
Rest rooms are small and dark.
No windows and only 2 single bulb
lights. The slogan, "the customer is
always right" is rigidly enforced, and
should the clerk in some measure
diSpleaSe an irate or trying customer
or spotter, she is at once reported,
reprimanded, and in most cases fired,
This store caters mostly to the bour-
geoisie.
Workers in department stores must
be organized. Exploitation is cruel
in unorganized institutions, especi-
ally where young girls and women are
employed. ORGANIZED Join in the
Trade Union Unity League.
Exploited Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
NOrthWeStLumber
Workers Get 40 PC.
Wage Cut in | Yr,
Bosses Meeting Plans
Yet More Pay Cuts
for Lumberiacks
by a Worker Correspondent

Wy q" NfOAhC
PORTLAND, Oregon. - To add to
the worries of the Lumber Industries,
comes along a gent by the name of
Charles w. Meyers. Mr.. Meyers is
a gentleman of doubtful morals who
maSquerades as a newspaper writer
Mr.. Meyers contribution to the wor-
ries of the workers is through the
columns of his paper, the Oregonian.
On March 23. he favOrs us with
an article revealing the vital Stats
tics of the lumber industry for
1880. Wages in this industry have
dropped to S75,775,OOO, about 40 per
cent. Yet, Mr.. Meyers assures us
that the "area is secure. He re-
ferS to Washington and Oregon. We
wonder if he means there has been
no earthquake or cyclones. How
ever we will discuss Mr.. Meyers as
another one of those things and
see what his figures mean to us,
whether he tells the figures or the
figures tell him.
In 1929 the payroll of the lumber
industry was $187 100000 eight mil
lion of which was in oregon and the
rest in Washington. In 1880 Wash
ington had a payroll of S80,075, 0o0
and oregon of thirty-two million, a
drop in total of the above figures
revealing his statistics which tells
the workers why and wherefore they
are starving, he summarizes, With
the general conditions as they are
in the lumber industry" no one can
expect it to get over its present low
production schedule for sixty days at
least" He seems to still have an at
tack of Hooveritis.
What is the present low sched-
ule' of which he speaks - SO per-
cent of normal production. That
means normal amount of workers
used but the actual lumber pro-
duced is almost on par with the
elimination of over sixty percent
of the workers, due to speed-up,
gyp scaling, etc. as with the mis-
sing percentage Of at york.
He announces that the 29th ma
tional meeting of the lumber bosses
will work out their plans to handle
this huge army of labor that they
want to get off their hands They,
are laying plans for more intensified
activity against militant loggers, en-
large the blacklist, deportation and
criminal syndicalism prosecutions.
Answer them. lumber workers |!
Show them if their AREA is secure,
by making militant national lum-
Der workers union. If the union is
not big enough for you, make it so.
Headquarters: LOG Columbia Street,
Seattle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
CONVICT LABOR IN
P OR I'll AND, @.
Working Girl Passes
Out from Hunger
(By a Worker Correspondent
Portland oregon.

Wy htthtI SUlICSpUltuCihD
Portland, oregon.
Daily Worker
Two accounts Of actual misery of
unemployed workers in oregon came
in this week through widely different
channels.
The Portland News carried an edi-
torial on L. T. Carter, a worker of
Kirkland, Washington, who begged
the county authorities to imprison
him as they paid more to prisoners in
the stockades than he could make
outside, forty five dollars month.
IS paid to convict labor in America
while free laborers cannot support
their families on their earnings, one
for Mr.. Fish to answer.
From Yanhill, Oregon, a woman
worker writes of some residents find
ing a young working girl unconscious
on the highway They took her to
the doctor and seemed visibly dis
appointed when they found out she
had not been maltreated and thrown
from her car. She recovered con-
seriousness and told them the simple
fact of being without work and walk
ing from little town above, Forrest
Grove, to the town looking for a job
and passing out from hunger. Forrest
Grove is the town that the press
speaks of as an agricultural eden
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
SOCIALISTS JAIL
.JOBLESS WORKERS
PRESSURE Forces Their
Prompt Release
tBy a Worker Correspondent


READING, Pa.-Four workers were
Jailed in Socialist Reading for the
first time since the Unemployed
Council was organized. The charges
against the workers was melting to
riot for daring to protect a workers
family from being sheriffed out.
Hoffmsater Quire, WOODBURY. and
Eckert were the ones arrested after
the Unemployed Council resisted the
attack of the socialist police" Ac-
cording to the reports of the capital
ist press every cop, including all the
clerks and the socialist chief of po-
lice, Sherer, were present to protect
the interest of the rich landlord and
real estate man, Davies. They were
called by constable Waidner who was
conducting.
AS soon as the Unemployed Coun-
Gil members were arrested the unem-
ployed modified a committee of 100
to see Mayor Stump and demand the
immediate release of these workers.
The socialist mayor was in confer
ence and refused to see the dele
CATION" The Committee after brief
meeting outside City Hall went to
the constable who was forced under
mass pressure to withdraw charges
after about one half hour of picketing
in front of the house by the unem-
ployed committee. He had to call up
City Hall after which the four work.
ers we're released. An enthusiastic
meeting was held after the release
of the comrades in the hall of the
Unemployed Council, SIG Cherry st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
PREACHERS HELP
SLAVE WORKERS
Sky Pilots Promise
Heaven
Denver, Colo.

Daily Worker
Denver is as bad as ever. The
news here has sent a reporter to spy
on the working men. They are writ
ing up a story telling the workers how
good the people are to the poor. This
story is to make money for the poor
The Denver Post always comes out
and says that they are the workers
friend, but if you we're here, you
would think differently, they are the
enemies of the workers.
The preachers here are working
along with the bosses to keep the
workers in slavery. They are working
now together with Hoover to get the
workers killed in war for their pro-
fits. In the World War the churches
turned their chapels into recruiting
stations. They will do so in the next
war Meanwhile they preach about
going to heaven, if you fight for your
country. A Comrade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

plants in the same Detroit News by
people who we're overlooked by the
enumeratorS.
Now, the Detroit News reports that
some 10000 went to work since then,
but again it oVerlooks the fact that
even that number does not take up
the ones that were not counted and
those that since have lost their jobs.
The local newspapers have adopted
new schemes in reporting the gains,
or rather drops in auto production.
In former years they used to give
out the exact number of cars put out
by month, but now only percentage
is being used in print. 1t works like
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
FORE RIVER SHIP
YARDWORKERS ON
CUT WAGE BASIS.
YardWorker Sees Need
To Organize, Fight
Back the Bosses

Quincy, Mass.
Editor of the Daily Worker:
Wage cuts and speed-up are TAX
ing effect in Fore River Ship Yard
more consistently day by day. Hard
ly day goes by without something
new either in speed up or wage cuts.
How much longer are we going
to stand this without making a
united resistance against the bosses?
Retired at Cut.
For an example of this speed up
and wage cuts here are the facts.
The men that were laid off last
fall and winter on being hired back
this spring faced a cut of 20 per-
cent or more. For the same work
that paid anywhere from S21 to
$50 a week then only pays from
S1S to S24 a week now.
We have heard great deal about
this bunk of workers having stand
ard of living that borders on extra
vagance, which has caused this crisis
(as some of the bosses say that in.
order to stabilize the conditions, wag-
es. must be cut in order to place pro-
duction on firm basis.
Workers Face Hunger.
While the "stabilizing" goes on, the
workers unemployed are facing starv-
alton. And the ones employed are
burdened with harder tasks to do
on slave scale wages. We realize
that this promise of coming prosper
ity is a deliberate lie to hoodwink the
masses so they would remain faithful
TO the bosses.
The most effective way to fight
against this bosses outrage is to
unite into the militant Trade Union
Unity League which will lead and
show the way to struggle against
worsening conditions
The workers of the Fore River Ship
Yard and elsewhere are invited to
Ioin the Trade Union Unity League.
Fore Ship Yard Workc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

DULUTH, Minn.-Scores of I'M
employed workers, ever since the
shipping closed. have been living on
the waste dumps from the trucks
of the local wholesale houses. They
have dug holes in the ground to
live in. and gather their fuel and
everything else they need from the
neighborhood.
Across the bay, in Superior, in
the state of the progressive" La
Toilette, workers have moved into
abandoned coke-ovens and live on
the waste material When these
workers are asked if they get any
help from the city charities, they
reply: 1--WE prefer to cat the same
food as is given at the flop houses
from our own hands. Then we
have the chance of picking IL out.
At the flop house they do not select
the waste material, but throw i'm
the eatables with the rotten parts.
At the dug outs we can take just
the best part and leave the Others"
With the shipping season about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
OAKLAND ELEC
FORCE WAGE CUTS
Militants in F i G. h t
Against This
Oakland, Cal.


Daily WORKER
The electrical department, machine
shop, air department, are having
wage cuts, and how! Not outright,
but the workers getting SO cents an
hour are transferred from go cents an
hour jobs to SO cents an hour jobs.
Better Times Are Here" we are
told, but 60 workers were laid off in
the electrical machine shop and
others were laid off in other shop
departments during this month.
What is the A. F. of L. union doing?
Of course. nothing! These takers
do not believe in fighting for better
conditions and in striking against
wage cuts. Workers should organize
the militant National Railroad Work
ers Industrial League. Information
at 1920 Broadway.
The Key Route bulletin was en-
Enthusiastically received by the workers.
The workers gathered and talked
about the truth told in it. They see
that the militant workers are organ
lied for a real struggle and the ar
rests which occurred in connection
with the distribution of the bulletin
have not stopped militant activity
More bulletins have appeared and the
work is carried on.
Key Route Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
PittstOn Lay Off
Is Trick to Drive
Miners Still Worse

PITTSTON, Pa, April 1.-Closing
down of Butler and No. IA collieries
OF the Pittston Coal Co., throwing
$500 men out Of work to starve
now seen as a wage cutting trick on
the part of the company. The Wilkes
Barre Evening News lays the basis
for the cut by an editorial which pre-
tends to be sorry for these starving
miners, and proposes that they do
what the Hudson Coal Co. men at
Larksville did, that is, agree to a
minimum production per man. The
miners are invited to do extra hard
work. to take all manner Of risks of
accidents. to work themselves to
death, in order to be able to put in
two or three days work week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
STEEL COMPANY
IN CLEVELAND
CUTS PAY 30 Pc,
Company Is Preparing
for Another Slash,
Spread Rumors
CBy a Worker Correspondent


CLEVELAND, Ohio-The Colrigal
McKenny Steel Company has giver
some of the workers a 80 per cen,
wage cut. some a Is per cent cut, and
others a 10 per cent and per cent
cut. But the bosses wages did not
get cut. Why? Because the company
pays them we'll so they can whip the
workers better and harder. The
company does not even tell the work
ers what wages they will work for.
They tell the workers if they want to
work, all right, but if they don't want
to work without knowing if they will
get pay, that's all right too.
The Corrigan McKenny Steel Co.
is ready to cut our miserable wages
again. We find this out because:
l. The company did not cut the
wages equally, making some workers
get more money that the others, thus
trying to divide them.
2. The company has laid off many
of the men, and has given more, work
to those that are left. =
Force Cut On Workers
3. Some of the workers work only
2 or 9 days week, the company
thus making them hungry before the
second wage cut takes place, SO they
will be forced to accept the cut.
4. The bosses have circulated all
kinds of rumors and propaganda, such
as that the company does not make
any profit, it has too much expenses.
The discipline is stricter and stricter
every day, SO that the workers can
not rest during work.. they cannot
talk to each other, they cannot read
any kind of literature or papers. The
bosses go around timing the workers
how much time they, lose, and how
many can be laid of from certain
job.
These are the companys prepara-
tons for another wage-cut. We
workers can not let it take place, so
we shall get busy to organize our
selves in the Mine Workers Industrial
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

vestigatOrs. They had gone up to
the family and taken the woman
to the hospital and the children TO
the store to buy them food and gave
them some clothing.
The ColIinswood branch of the
unemployed has great possibilities.
1t is made up of militant unem-
ployed workers and is situated in a
section which is made up Of indus
trial workers. The Fisher Body
Company is in the section, New
York Central Railroad workers, and
many large factories. Plans are
being mac TO organize neighbor-
hood branch end factory branches
of the unemployed and then form
the Unemployed Council which will
be powerful force i'm that sec
ton in demanding immediate re-
lief for the unemployed starving
workers of the Collinwood section.
r. G
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
CONN. WORKER Is
REFUSED RELIEF
On Grounds He Is A
Single Man
New Haven, Conn.

New Haven, Conn.
Daily WORKER
would like you to publish this
letter, to give the New Haven public
an idea Of some particulars regarding
the unemployed when inquiry is made
at the Citizens Committee.
I called upon said committee at
about 9:15 am, March "a seeking en-
ployment and was told that work
would be started next week, but that
only married men would be put to
work and that for single workers
there were no jobs
l then called upon a religious So
ciety and asked for work, for help,
and then finally for something to
eat. l was showered with questions as
to whether l was married or single,
where lived, where I was born, what
state came from. I told them every
thing including the fact that I came
from Waterbury, Conn. I was told
to so back to my home town for relief.
This makes it so that any person who
is single cannot expect any relief of
any kind. We want work and they
refuse to give us any. They expect
us to live on one meal every five
months.
They spend all their money trying
to capture criminals. No wonder we
become criminals, we have no right
to work for a living, SO we steal to
live. The City says they are giving
out jobs That is not true, I have
inquired for position and they have
refused aid.
Single Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
FIRE $50 GIRLS
IN PHILA. STORE
Jobless Comm. Head
Executes Lay-Off
lBy a Worker CorrespOndentl

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Horatlo
Gates Lloyd, the chairman Of May
or Mackeys Employment CD Com
mittee is not only partner to DruX-
ell and Company Ca Morgan. tlrm)
but also a member of the Board OF
Directors of the Wanamaker store in
Philadelphia. In this store he oc-
cupies a very responsible position in
the management and employment
departments.
About two weeks ago on Thurs
day seventy-five girls were laid
off and notice was given to rs other
girls that they too will be laid of
on Saturday, in spite of the fact
that it is only few weeks before
the Easter holidays.
Beg for Jobs.
Particularly one girl from Camden
came up to Mr.. Lloyd's store office
to beg him to leave her on the job,
because she has no mother or father,
and on account Of the meaSley wag-
es she earned in the store, she was
unable to save anything for rainy
day, so the loss of the job would
drive her to desperation.
Mr.. HoratiO Gates Lloyd re-
fused to leave the girl on the job.
with the excuse that she is not the
only unfortunate one. The chair
man of Mayor Mackey's Employ
ment committee fires young girls
and gives few days work to mar
ried or widowed women.
OF course this is one of the schemes
of the bosses to stir up the employ
ed against the unemployed, and the
unemployed against the employed.
The bosses aim with these commit
tees and schemes to divide, fool, and
mislead the workers.
There is another chief Liberal CD
faker to be exposed in this game:
Mr.. Pinchot, the governor of Penn
sylvania. He is closely cooperating
with the mayors committee on the
fake unemployment relief.
The state hunger marchers to Har-
risburg next month will surely throw
these and other facts into the faces
of Governor Pinchot and the whole
state legislature, and expose their
fake gesture of helping the mem-
ployment insurance to the workers.
B. G..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
New Orleans La.

New Orleans, La.
Daily Worker:
Local boss papers report the fol-
lowing two cases of suicide:
Louise Jones, "a Negro resid-
ing at Annette and Allen Street.
Respondent because of unempIcy-
ment, drowned himself in the In
dustriaI Canal.
Maurice Brunei, SO, white, of
71S Toledano ST., cut his throat
with razor and died last night in
charity hospital. He had been
out of work for over a year"
Many people here are literally
living out OF garbage cans. Every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
Two More Suicides in New Orleans

morning in almost every block
there are both white and colored
men, women and children, going
through garbage cans for bits of
food and pieces of cast-off cloth
ing.
Fellow workers, don't starve -
fight! Don't kill yourself because
the boss won't give you a job. Fight
the bosses and make them feed you.
Join the Unemployed Council and
fight for real relief. Meetings are
held at 3OS Charities ST, every
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
at 1880 }. m. and Sunday at 2 p.
m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

months from each and every steve
dore for the right to work and to
hold the job Now taking full ad-
vantage of the unemployment stu
alton Horn demands as much as 500
and even 5000 to get and to hold the
job. His greed knows no limits and
more and more he presses the five
hundred stevedores working on the
pier to compete with each other to
pay him more graft. One thousand
dollars a week is a conservative esti-
mate of the amount of graft he
squeezes out of the longshoremen. So
absolute is his power that now he
has taken a vicious turn in his racket
and now fires those who have already
paid and gets new workers to in
crease his graft. He has agents
rounding up new men all the time
promising them good jobs if they
come across with the initiation fee.
Beg for Work.
Hundreds of experienced and vet
eran stevedores who plead for work
are brutally told if they cannot pay
the big graft they can't work.
Thompson, the delegate of the In
ternational Longshoremen's Associ-
alton aids this boss racket by threat
ening those who dare complain about
it. The extent to which he and Ry-
an have their fingers in the graft
pie is not known, but their tacit
support of the racket leaves no doubt
that they are in it
Meanwhile hundreds of longshore-
men go around unemployed, begging
for a days work Or two to keep alive.
They see their wives and children
slowly starving, lacking clothes and
other necessities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
CUNARD PIER BOSS
IN HUGE GRAFT RACKET
WITH SUPPORT OF LILA.
Force LOngshoremen to Pay Heavy Craft
Money to Get and Keep Jobs
Hundreds of Longshoremen, Their Families
Face Dire Need, Starvation

NEW YORK.-A story of huge graft racket run by a
boss sevedore with the tac support of the international
Longshoremens Assn told the Daily Worker by steve
dore who has worked the waterfront for than twenty
years and is unemployed.
John Horn boss sevedore of the Cunard Line at Piers 3d.
Sd and Sc at West 14th Street. North River eves heavy
tribute from the five hundred sevedores working under him.
the form of graft money to get and to keep the job
Years ago Horn content to force S25 every three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

hiS:-CCmpany so and so Speed-up
production 30 per cent in the last
month in comparison with the same
month of last year; and when one
looks back to the month of last year,
one finds that that Company did not
do anything at all at that time. So
one must take what he is told, that
is, believe that report and say, we'll
they are running only at so per cent
capacity.
What 1 do notice, is, that people
slowly but surely are awakening. The
Communist Party is doing great work
Keep it up, We'll get there That
is, where Russia is today -F.S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
JoBLEss. TRIES SUICIDE

SAN FRANCISCO, Catholics
and penniless, John Gaffney cut his
throat in a San Francisco park and
walked the streets, dripping blood
until the Mortified passersby had
him taken To hospital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
ILLINOIS MINERS WATCH
A n CITE COAL
STRIKE; THINGS WORSEN
Many Miners On Starvation Basis AS More
Mines Shut Down In South Illinois
More COnveyors Installed and Miners Thrown
Out by Profit-Mad Coal Bosses
Eldorado, Illinois.
Dear Comrades:


The bad conditions here in So Illinois are increasing at
very rapid rate of speed and will continue getting worse
fast from No 10 Ogaa has nine Scotch Pianos
veyors which have already affected the working conditions
of about forty miners These miners skinned up their places
the conveyors last Saturday. More conveyos are to come
which will put miners out the grass The
pany aims split time with the The mine runs one and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
MAKING CENSUS OF HORSES

BINGHAMTON, ~ Y.-The war
department is conducting census
of all the horses available in Broome
County for use in the next war. The
OBJ ject of this war preparation is to
prevent such unorganized recruiting
OF hoses ~ took place In the World
War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04
Boss Govt Admits 223,5OO Jobless
Detroit; Actual Count Is More
Capitalist Press Lies About Number Returned
to Work in Factories
Detroit, Mich.
Dear COmrade:-

Dear COmrade- Detroit, Mich
Finally Detroit given 'offcay' the number of un-
employed The Detroit News states that 223500 unemployed
counted here in January Of 1881 But this my comrade
is not all right after the count taken there appears
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-04

Smash the anti-labor laws of the
bosses!