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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
CRITICISM BY MINI.
SECTION ON WEEKLY
PAGE SUSTAINED

We're criticized justifiably BY
Minneapolis District on treatment OF
their weekly section page of Friday
April "a. I'VE had planned increas-
ing columns on basis of interest Gre
ated by printing special district
news" writes B. Siskind, acting dis
trict organizer, "but, on the con-
trary, find our news wedged in be-
tween Detroit and Cleveland, and the
most important stuff cut out. Com
rades do not feel it is a special
Minneapolis issue. The May Day
edition, 5000 of which were ordered
besides our regular bundles, did not
even contain the schedule of oui
meetings, let alone the May Day
news"
We admit Minneapolis received
inadequate handling in the last is
sue. and consultation with the edi-
toriaI department Melted a prom
Use of better treatment In the flu
ture. Hereafter, Minneapolis sec
ton page to be Saturday, because
Friday issue gets here Monday, too
late to enable us to SELL"
Evidence of willingness for wide
spread circulation in Minneapolis
District is shown by o. j. Arness
Daily Worker representative, who
drew up excellent leaflet enclosed in
sample copies for preliminary dis
tribution before canvassing for
routes, subs. Lreaflet explains, in
part, difference in news content be-
tween capitalist paper and Daily
Worker. stressing deliberate playing
down Of unemployment in boss press
I'VE ask you to read this sample
copy" the leafiet says. Read the
editorials ON the front page; read
Red Sparks on the back page;
read some of the news items, see
how different they are. You quickly
become class conscious of the class
character of this capitalist society;
that there is a working class; that
that class produces everything
while a small class, the capitalist
or boss class, takes the products.
-. Tomorrow we shall return with
the latest issue of the Daily Worker.
-. Be prepared to give your sub
scription for week, month, or
year. :. The unemployed workers
who know the Daily Worker as
their best friend will do most of
the work to acauaint you with it,
We hope you viii give them and
the Daily Worker good recep-
ton"
Although the 2-page leaflet should
be boiled down to one, the explans-
tory sub-heads do much, on the
whole, To make convincing reading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
FILIPINO PAPER
FOR ORGANIZING
Supports Agricultural
Workers Union

SALINAS, Calf. (By MaiD The
Salinas Valley Mail" a Filipino news
paper here is publishing a series of
articles calling on the Filipino agri-
cultural workers in California to join
and support the Agricultural Work
ers League, affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League
Because Of the wage controversy
existing between the Filipino field
workers and the private farmers of
Santa Clara Valley" writes Victor r.
Rapanan, a staff representative of
the Salinas Valley Mail" "the Fill
pinos, who wish to always vindieate
themselves from undue accusations
that they are the. cause of lowering
the American standard of living by
accepting lower wages, held a meet
ing to join the Agricultural Work
ers League in order to protect them
selves from possible racial entangle-
ments such as had been demon
strated to the bitter experience of
the Filipinos last year"
The program adopted at this meet
ing of the Filipino agricultural work
ers was: y Strike against wage cuts;
CD Spread Labor Unity; 90 Double
pay for overtime; 90 For higher
wages; 60 Equal pay for equal work;
go Against race discrimination
The meeting was well attended and
the Fillplno agricultural workers gave
the program their enthusiastic sup
port. SA.s~4A -&As-~ "a, ...>as Aaa.4---a......
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
BOSTON lid TO
TOUR CUBERSKI
In f i g h t Against
Deportation

BOSTON, May 4.-The Boston dis
trict of the International Labor De-
tense is sending Joseph Guberski
whom the bosses are trying to deport,
on tour to speak among the Polish
Russian and other language groups
Comrade Guberski will speak ir
the following cities:
Peabody, Mass, May 6 and Z.
Salem, Mass. May 8.
Maynard, Mass, May 9.
Worcester, Mass, May 10 and H.
Nashua, N. H., May II.
Manchester, N. H., May 10.
Lowell, Mass, May ID.
Lawrence, Mass, May Is and 16.
Haverhill, Mass, May II.
New Bedford, Mass, May "a.
Woonsocket, Mass, May Is.
Brockton, Mass, May IS.
Newton Upper Falls, Mass, May 27.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

the manager would be tipped off that
/ was to be fixed up with job, and
what kind of a job. My reports would
be made in private to the owner at
his house and I would use number
instead of my name.
He thought he had got hold of an
ignorant sap and that for the extra
pay and promise of steady work I
would be willing to betray my fellow
workers. I told him nothing doing. "
If he wanted a stool pigeon he would
have to find somebody who was low
enough, stupid enough to betray his
own class to the enemy.
Must Organize and Fight.
I have been fighter for the work.
ing class all my life. I know that the
only way the workers ever got any,
thing was by fighting for it. I fought
for the eight hour day and I know
that if we had not put up a stiff
militant fight for it we would still
be working ten and twelve hours in
my trade. Now we must fight against
wage cuts, speed up and unemploy-
nent. And We must fight against
these lice the bosses put in our
midst, these stool pigeons. And
while we are fighting for our day to
day needs-we must also organize to
overthrow the capitalist system be-
cause while this system exists We will
have wage cuts, unemployment and
exploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Northwest Bosses In
Frantic Effort to
Convict BolOff

PORTLAND, May 3.--The third
criminal syndicalist case to be tried
In Portland as a result of the ar
rest Of - workers during an unem-
ployment demonstration opened on
Monday, April 81, with John Moore,
secretary of the I. L. D. in Portland,
ON trial.
This trial gives signs of being an
even more intense battle than the
trials Of Ben Boloff, who was SEN
fenced TO 10 years in the penitentiary
and whose case is on appeal to the
State Supreme Court, and Fred Wal
ker, who was acquitted. The state
is trying desperately to get convic-
ton in the coming trial of John
Moore, an ex-serviceman and ma
chine-gunner in the Canadian army
during the last world war. While
on the witness stand as a defense
witness during the trial of Fred Wal
ker, in answer TO the question of
whether he had ever committed acts
of violence, he replied; Eyes, while
serving l was ordered to commit all
kinds of acts of violence. On COM
mand we moved down plenty of Ger
mans as they came over the top"
The force and violence that the capt.
talist class creates and makes the
workers undergo was thoroughly OK
posed by Boloff.
The international Labor Defense
calls upon the workers TO support
the campaign for the political pris-
oners. Only the organized power of
the working class can free them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
$4,000 of Woodwork and 10 Profits
Squandered Nightly in Gambling Dens

represents drop of life-blood
squeezed from tn eworking class,
Salesgirls Earn Under $40.
"a glimpse into the pay envelope
Of 5000 salesgirls in the 5 and 10
cent and other limited shops in 1S
different states" says a Department
of Labor report, Shows that one.
fourth of the girls earned less than
$40 for the week studied; one-half
received less than sl2 and 10 per
cent less than SIS"
Even the Department Of Labor
of the U. S. government asks the
question: How can a girl live ON
such a sum-" and replies, "She
can't; she can only exist"
But still this same government
stands by while thousands of sales
girls and other workers slave long
hours at starvation wages, and then
clubs them, jails them and even
murders them for fighting against
these conditions. While the bosses
mock the workers with their ex-
trayagant spending and gambling
sprees, like the Donahue orgies, the
whole capitalist state cries out
against higher wages, shorter hours
and unemployment insurance.
It's o. K, from a capitalist stand
point, for member of the leisure
class to throw away on the gambling
tables $7,500,000, which was robbed
from the workers, but it's wrong fol
the workers to organize and fight
against this robbery.
Such is the logic that the rotten
capitalist system is built on ans
which the Fish Committee is trying
to cram down the workers Threats
And this is the logic" that the Com.
munist Party is exposing and fight.
! ing against.
Workers! give the bloodsuckinl
bounders something to feel uneas,
about! Organize and smash thu
capitalist system with its starvation
and gambling parasites! Build 4;
Workers Government in America
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
kentucky Miners
Wage War With Company Gangs

pickets, and some one behind rock
shot back at Cox. The bullet hit
tWig, glanced and struck Cox in the
knee. Bloodhounds were sent by the
sheriff and placed on the trail. Ths
first miners house the dogs went *
was one of man who did not hava
a rifle, so the sheriff arrested NIL
Hard Lamb, a friend of that miner.
Warrants Out,
Two weeks ago a seab named Char
ley Carpenter at the Black Mountain
Co mine was seized by 100 men ans
given a flogging. Childrers, super
intendent of the company, swore out
warrants for six strikers for this
A large force OF armed deputies
went to arrest the men, and picked
up Negro miner at the Black Noun
tain camp whom they charged with
banding and confederating White
miners denounced the arrest, and an
exchange of shots took place in which
Deputy Sheriff Jess Pace was killed,
and other deputies shot a miner, Will
Burnett, wounding him and after
wards arresting him and charging
him with numbering Pace.
The mine guards deputy sheriffs)
continued to tour around the vicinity
for days. trying 10 iiitimidste the
miners.
Two Pitched Battles.
A gun battle with no known killed
and several wounded took place last
week
Then the most serious strugsls Of
all followed, Tuesday, in which thras
carloads Of deputies with machine
guns, hand grensdes, gas bombs,
rifles and automatic pistols tried TO
shoot out a group of armed pickets
on the roadside, and got the worst
of it.
The known killed are: Carl Rich
mond, striking miner; and Jim Dan
iels, otto Lee, and Howard Jcsies
company gunner. Shepard PwcitlI,
a mine guard, was shot seven ttmes
and may die. Estes Cox was wounasd
again.
w. M. Turnblazer, president Of the
Kentucky Tennessee district of the
U. M. W., is trying TO make the
fight a purely legal one, and holds
mass meetings at which resolutions
asking the governor to Investigate"
are passed. The company has =
drastic injunction against organiza-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

next phase Of the uhemplsyas
struggle.
The committee of Is consists OF.
LueSse, Burton, j. Campbell pickett
and Griffin from Indianapolis;
Clark and Owens from Terre Hauta;
Hancock from Clinton; Repett from
Brazil; Stewart "a farmer from
Danville; Perish from Marion;
Teresh, Stoker, Bucha and Lsnsferd
from the Calumet section,
Demands adopted and presented
to the governor, and around which
the local organizations will be built
up we're for:
l.--$25 cash relief monthly for all
unemployed
?. Payment of all gas, electric,
fuel, water, clothing, medical SER
vices and rent bills Of the unem-
ployed by the counties.
3. A minimum wage of SIS a day
on all government and charity work
4. Exemption from tax and mort
gage payments for the iobless,
5. No foreclosures on fsrpaS or
evictions of tenant farmers, and no
sheriff's sales because of unpaid
taxes.
6, A law for the seEen-hou day,
with $50 a week minimum wages.
7. Right of the unemployed to Or
ganize, assemble and voice their ds-
mands without police terror or prose-
cution
8. Unemployment insurance Law
for SIS week and SO more for each
dependent to be paid each unsm-
ployed worker.
0, All funds to be raised by tax
ing property worth $4,000 or over
and persons or corporations whese
annual revenue is over 5000.
10-All funds TO be administered
by the workers committees
50 Negro Delegates.
About so of the delegates we're Ne
groes and most of the delegates were
native born. They came from the
principal industrial towns of the
state.
On the way they we're received
with demonstrations of approval in
the places they passed through, an
instance being at Marion, where
they were met by brass band and
z nm workers assembled IN the t1Ilhlje
square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
IND. UNEMPLOYMENT
CONFERENCE.-The FOR
STATE WIDE STRUGGLE
1872 Delegates From All Industrial Cities Meet;
Present Demands to Governor
5000 Demonstrate at Park; 1000 Come to State
House, Militancy Gets Hearing
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (By MaiD >

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind (By MaiD.-
One hundred and eighty-two dele
gates, a fine cross section OF the
American working class, including
Negroes, whites, eX-SerVicemen, mem
bers of the Trade Union Unity
League, of the A. F, of l.. unions, of
the railroad hrotherhoods and from
all industries met here in an i'm
portant and successful state confer
ence on unemployment, May 4.
A delegation of Is forced the gov
ernor to listen to their demands for
unemployment insurance and others,
and extracted vague promises from
him.
Two Demonstrations.
The demonstration to back up the
delegation took place at two points,
About 1900 gathered in Military
Park, which the governor and local
capitalist press had announced was
the place, and about 1000 gathered
at the state house, as had been orr
ginally intended by the hunger
marchers.
The militancy of the workers, de-
spite the police terror, was great.
Three delegates were arrested and
placed ON bonds of $4,000 each. One
of the arrested men was Theodore
Luesse, the secretary of the. state
committee for unemployment in
surance, .....
Editors Note.-The capitalist
press news services in New York
speak of 5000 hunger marchers be-
ing driven from in front of the state
house by police and the state house
being occupied by militia. Our
correspondent says nothing about
this phase Of the demonstration ex-
cept what is printed above)
Set An Example.
The conference mobilised the dele
gates for further local struggles and
set an example by putting back the
furniture of an eyicted Indianapolis
worker on the very day it met.
The conference made plans for
circulating signature lists demanding
state insurance for the joblesS 1t
planned the building of strong Or
carnations in all Indiana cities
around the demands adopted. 1t
elected a state committee of IS and
a bureau of five to meet and take
up the practical direction of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Women's Wages in Neev York
Cut 40 to SO PC. Since 1929

NEW YORK.-E'rom many sources
facts of the drastic cut in wages
show how rapidly the standard of
living of the American workers is
being lowered. Women's wages in
New York state have decreased 40
to so per cent since 1929, at the be-
ginning Of the present economic
crisis. These facts are published in
reports of the New York state de-
partment of labor. The report says
that bookkeepers who drew $25 to
$50 in 1929 are now working for as
low as $l5 a week. Wages of typists
dropped from SIS to $22 week to
$12 to $2l, with the s12 offer far
more usual"
Later information shows that even
these wages have been lowered. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

We will reprint in fuller detail Ii
next weeks bulletin.
Kansas City On the Go.
Increase the bundle order from
125 to u.s." writes Clara S. for the
Daily Worker representative in
Kansas City, Mo. eve have
enough unemployed comrades will
ing to sell permanently. Besides,
have established neighborhood
routes obtaining within the last
month over 70 daily and steady
readers"
Birmingham, Ala, Unit II, calls
for 10 daily; Chicago Lakeview Work
ers' Club, 5. AL Mcbride, veteran
sea-dog, formerly of Galveston
Texas, now in Tampa, Fla, orders
10 day. Eve are opening Work
ers' Center here. Sentiment good
Many Americans interested and SYM
pathetic toward Communist Party
Camp Nitgedaiget meaning don't
worry'), Beacon, N. Y, boosts from
Is TO 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

house of the owner. This looked
fishy but-a jobs a job, so I went.
He questioned me, Did speak any
other languages? I told him I spoke
three other languages and under
stand many of the slavic languages.
Gould l work on any kind of ma
chine Or was l a specialized man?
told him I could work in any de-
partment, on any machine. He
seemed very pleased with my an
swers and told me he had a special
proposition for me-a very good one
that paid we'll.
Asked to Spy.
He would give me job-guaran-
teed steady. My work would be do
ing odd jobs in all and any depart
ment. l would get $40 week besides
my pay. All had to do to get this
was to get friendly with the work
ers, listen to them when they we're
talking among themselves, and re-
port to the owner everything that
happened or was said which might
harm the company" "You know"
nc said "bolshevik talk, strike talk
and so on" | was to report these
things to him and then take orders
as to what I was to do.
This means, sometimes you would
have to go to meetings, and SO on,
and report which workers go to these
meetings" was to go to the office
lust like any other worker looking
or work, fill out an application and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
South Bend Mills Cut Pay, Fire ShingIers;
City StOps Dole
South Bend, Indiana.

South Bend, Indiana.
Daily Worker:
In big mills, as Studebaker, wages
are being cut Systematically, so that
the workers are not able to resist to-
gether, The company cut the wages
not at once, but at different times,
In all departments. This prevents
automobile workers from protesting.
But they are ready for united action
to 90 ON strike. However, workers
are exchanged from one place to an
other, with a wage-eut following.
singlers and old workers are laid off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
UMWA Aid Cutting
Ohio Mine Wages
NMU Ohio Conference
On May II, Bellaire

PITTSBURGH, PA novel way
Of cutting wages has just been in
troduced in Eastern Ohio by the SUI
perintendent of the Shack mine, near
Bellaire, where sixteen gallant" U
M. w. A. men were used TO draw
enough scabs into the mine To
operate.
These "gallants" were known to
constantly parade up and down the
towns main street patting them
selves on the back as proud members
of the United Mine Workers OF
America who would never be any
thing else, and seeing that their mo
BILE" hero and leader, John L. Lewis
passes up no opportunities to dc
favors and break strikes for the
bosses, they decided that they toe
would do a good deed for the boss
Wage Cut Put Over.
Twas like this. The coal COM
pany paid for "tea party" which
the superintendent gave for the
blue-eyed boys. After a good time
was had by all, the Super treated
them to q speech, Well, knowing
that Lewis can shed tears when nee
essary for the operators, these proud
UMWA boys also decided to shed q
few tears when the super told them
that the company was in danger OF
going into a hole deeper than the
mine itself unless the loyal United
Mine Workers would come to the
eompany's assistance. This assistance
called for putting over a wage cut oil
80 per cent and more. The tonnage
rate was cut from SO cents to Is
cents and outside labor to as low as
Is cents an hour while all other
classes of labor were cut proportion
ately. The wage cutting job was
prepared by the super and the U. M
w. A. faithfuls each did his bit by
being prepared to pull in certain
number on the day the cut was an
nounced and under their boosted u
M. w. A. leadership, the mine con-
tinued at work under the reduced
wage rate.
More Wages Cut.
That wage cuts under the UMWA
guidance are not isolated cases or &C
cidental, we cite the wage agreement
signed by the UMWA at the C. A
Hughes Coal Company's mine at
Bennsbrook in central Penna., which
gives to those miners a rate of 10 per
cent less than any scab mine in CEN
trail Penna. These practices of the
UMWA takers and the operators are
being fought everywhere by the rank
and file under NMU leadership.
Mass meetings are being arranged
IN every district and organizations
work is progressing everywhere. The
NMU in the Ohio District is in full
swing getting ready for its conven.
ton at Bellaire on May 18th, and or
May % and "a the Pennsylvania Dis
trict will convene.
From both conventions the miners
will go forward prepared to battle the
greedy operators and their company
union, the UMWA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

The young workers and married
workers replace them, receiving lower
wages,
Charity" stopped.
The charity doles are stopped.
The Unemployed Committee only
gives so-called jobs to married men,
who are allowed to work only two
days a week for the miserable wages
of 35 cents an hour. In fact, they
really don't get wages. but a receipt
ticket, which allows them to select
the old clothes handed out and gives
them rotten food. "A Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Worker Tells of Trick Used By AFL Union
Shop
Shop
Bronx New York.

Bronx, New York.
DAILY Worker:
The firm ] stagser for was con-
sidered one of the biggest in the line
in this city. But in the last year it
seemed to shrink daily
Because of this the firm speeds up
the workers terribly. No matter how
much one does in day, they ask,
Finished" and ut takes you too
long"
There is no one to complain to,
for we have an A. F. of L. controlled
union, and the men know that the
officials do not care rap for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

Federated Press reports that en-
ployment agencies are offering
stenographic jobs at $40 week
and girls are taking them.
In Everett, Washington, workers in
the Robinson Manufacturing Co.
went on strike against a 10 per cent
Wage-cut, wages in most cases being
cut down to $18O a day. Last fall
the same company cut wages 20 per
cent.
The U. s. Department of Agricul-
ture, in its latest report, states that
farm wages have touched the lowest
level since 1916. The average farm
wage without board is $18O day.
In the Southern part of the country
wages amount to 95 cents a day
for a II Or 15-hour day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Unemployed Worker Lives In Empty Field

I suppose that if 1 should die I
might have to pay for being buried
and if they cannot get the money
they perhaps might take my bed and
sell it to a secondhand store. How
ever will organize and fight against
them before that.
Comradely,
j. X. Sylvia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Illustrated Lecture
On Soviet Union in
Detroit Saturday

DETROIT, Mich. = Daily Worker
readers cannot miss seeing and hear
ing the illustrated lecture on the
building of Socialism in the Soviet
Union which will be given by Marcel
Scherer, national secretary of the
Workers International Relief, who
has Just returned from an extensive
tour throughout the Union of So
cialist Soviet Republics The lecture
viii be given at the Womens FEEDER
alton Hall, corner Second and Han
cock Streets, on Saturday, May o,
at 8 PM, under the auspices of the
Workers International Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

OF Market Street. AS 1 am unem-
ployed and am not able to pay the
high rent they charge in other room
ing houses in st. Louis l refused
to got out. They then slugged me
and drove me away from that part
OF town, was forced TO spend the
rest OF The night walking the
strsets. AN Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
San Lesndro, Calf

ba4I LtdI4uIU, OdIII.
Because he could not find job
anywhere, and was unable to bear
slow starvation, G. j. Edward, SO, of
1853 Toler Ave, shot himself through
the head. He is survived by a wife
and daughter.
Before his suicide he complained
to neighhors that in his 50 years of
life he saw no misery compared to
this year, where labor is SO cheap,
employment to scarce and rent,
clothes and food prices SO high.
"A young man hasn't much chance
and dependency gets him, but an
I'D man might as we'll give up the