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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
RELIEF SLASHED
FOR JOBLESS AS
BOSSES CUT PAY
Pittsburgh F q miles
Refused Milk for
Hungry Children
tBy a Worker Correspondent

BY worker CorrespOhucnC
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Pittsbu g h
workers living on the South Side have
been meeting together this past week
to consider and act on their terrible
conditions. The bosses and their pol
iticians of this Mellon city are work
ing hard to force more starvation
onto the Negro and white workers
of the South Side.
The Pittsburgh charities, most OF
which have gathered together into
one vicious gang of starvation relief
racketeers is called the City Welfare.
The City welfare has slashed relief
at a faster rate than the bosses have
cut wages. .Unbearable misery and
starvation is the result.
Families Refused Milk
Committees of unemployed workers
have begun the registration OF the
unemployed. They have come across
families who have been refused any
thing, even milk for their babies.
Working class mothers are forced to
stay at home because they have no
shoes to wear, families can't send
their children to school-they have
no clothes for them. AT the South
Side Unemployed Workers meeting,
delegation was sent to the City
Welfare to demand relief. The dele
CATION placed their demands OF at
least $40 a week relief for every fam
lily and So g. week for every child
dependent and also for free coal and
medical attention, clothes and food
for the children.
Workers to Press Demands
The Welfare's answer was that 1t
will not do anything now and can't
promise when it will. The delegation
will report at a mass meeting in de-
tail what took place at the City We'll
fare. The workers are more deter
mined than ever to get all the work.
ers together here in Pittsburgh and
press forward their demands until
they win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
Four Mile, Kentucky.

-Four Mile, heuIuCkys
Dear Comrade:
Say, they sure are getting every
thing stirred up just right now up in
here. There are four places come
out over there on Straight Greek now
and they have got everything all over
the Harlan fields going just right too
and we are waiting for them TO come
out here most any day. They have
got a soup house at Straight Greek
now. / tell you hard times is facing
everybody, not just one, but every
body and 1t looks like we are going
to have to fight the battle to win it
too If 1t takes 1t or dying trying it.
They worked three days last week
here at one place and two at the
other one, and when these poor men
go in at seven, maybe they come out
at five or six and sometimes seven,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
Call Chicago Taxi
Men to Organize
tBy a Workers Correspondent

CHICAGO. nl.-The Daily Worker
has published many letters from cab
drivers, the one below appeared in a
capitalist newspapers open column:
II am taking the liberty Of giving
you few more facts about taxi
driving. We must have IS cents a
mile for the total miles driven. If
drivers do not get this amount, the
manager gives them lay-off Of from
one to two weeks. Thus driver
must get a fare back from wherever
he discharged a last fare. If he can't
find fare his mileage rate is cut
down to ten cents a mile. II he runs
up dead mileage, he is laid off. If
he has an accident, whether or not
it is his fault, he is laid Off"
Editorial Note-The Chicago taxi
men will have TO organize to fight
these conditions. Get in touch with
the Trade Union Unity League.
Organize committees in each Of the
taxi fleets. Discuss and draw mp
demands, strike against the rapidly
vorsening conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
Starves to Death in
Charity Flophouse
Pittsburgh. Pa
Dear Comrades:

A oe~s ~
Dear Comrades:
The terrible conditions the uneni-
ployed in this Mellon city are forced
to stand for is shown by the death
Of Frank Lehman in the Helping
Hand Stop and Flop House.
This fellow workers death was
caused by the terrible starvation re-
lief handed out to the toUiess Of this
city. Two plates Of weak soup with
couple Of pieces Of bread are the
meals fed day in and day out until
the jobless weaken and die like flies
from pneumonia and outright star
walton. t.atr
Pittsburgh Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

That's Justice for you in the
bosses courts.
All this is making better fighters Of
the working-class people.
would like very much to read a
lot Of the MARKHAM literature, but !
can't get hold Of any.
Stella and Nom took their SEN
fences bravely. but / can't get over
how they gave Nom such stiff sem
tence.
Dad is taking the sentence very
hard, but he'll get over 1t soon, I'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

(Note:-Mary Rasefske, 16-year-
~ high school student, was active
With her whole family on the picket
line during the Pennsylvania Ohio
coal strike, led by the National
lIiners' Union. Her sister, Stella,
and mother, Anna, were arrested
n the Cannonsburg case and SEN
fenced: Stella to two years and
Anna 70 one and . half years.
Since the arrest Of her sister and
npotAss. Mary has been the mother
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

nearly breaks my heart. I will give
the sentences pronounced on inno-
cent comrades by the bosses courts:
Stella. ......2 years In Workhouse
Adam Getto. q years In Workhouse
Tom Boich. Il ". 8 mo. Workhouse
Louis Fazzio l VI. mo. Workhouse
Harry Stark. I yr. 10 mo. Workhouse
w. Mcqueen, yr. 10 mo. Workhouse
Mike Sklorski 3 to 6 yrs. Workhouse
Andy Skraupe, 10 mo. Workhouse
Lewis Walczyk. 4. :. a months In jail
Arthur Danie&..-..... 4 mo. In jail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

trial for over a month. But when
they saw that we were going to get
Leo out they gave the decision i'm
mediately and gave Leo's sentence
as soon as possible and then shipped
him off to two years in Allegheny
County Work House.
A regular bosses frame-up! But
all along I knew we would get no
new trial.
The next Monday. which is today,
they gave the others their sentences,
which, every time I think of 1t, 1t
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

lQea ABOUT the mechanlzatlon OF pro-
duction, in order to facilitate the
working conditions of the workers.
Everything was done. and the stone
was quarried by Adams methods"
i. E., by hand, and the earnings Of
the workers amounted from 40 kopeks
to 100 per day. 1t goes without say
ing that there was no cultural work,
or any concern about our living con-
ditions. And what have we now?
First of all, the average earnings OF
a skilled worker (stone CUTTER is
about roubles per day, while a
fairly skilled worker (stone breaker)
earns about roubles for 8 hours
work. The workers are supplied by
the quarries gratis with the follow
ing articles of clothing-boots, suits,
sweaters, etc. In order to assist in
the completion of the Five-Year
Plan in four years, our workers have
submitted counter-plan whereby
they agree to produce 10 tons in
stead Of the planned 9.
New Homes.
INFLAMMATION has been intro
duced at the quarries. Of the five
quarries, In four the transporta-
tation of the stone has been me-
chanized as well as drilling. We
have IS stone crushers and stone
cutting hammers. New dormitories
for the workers have been built
which have nothing in common
with the old type of barracks. On
the contrary, each room provides
for four workers only. There are
six dining rooms for 500 men, and
soon another dining room accom-
modsting 800 persons will be built.
We have six clubs for 1000 men,
six radio-moving pictures, and red
corners in the dorniitories.
To comply with the slogan OF our
Party engineering art for the
masses" an engineering station has
been established with all the neces-
sary equipment.
New Schools
Six hundred and forty workers
have been prom Led to different ad-
ministrative offices, from foreman to
assistant director. We have six diff
ferent schools and workers faculty,
foremen's school, mining school, a
school for training of administrative
staff, and school for workers on
mechanical equipment, such as pneu-
matte drilling, cranes, elevators, etc.
Labor Shortage.
We are suffering very much from
the shortage of labor, as we have
only SO per cent of the required num-
Der of workers. All our efforts to get
workers are in vain, as, if there are
20 to 80 workers in the neighboring
village they are claimed by twenty
other jobs, also suffering from the
shortage Of labor.
We hope that the workers Of the
newly organized red labor unions will
follow our example and will send the
red revolutionary labor unions to
abolish the boss system, and, having
made an end of it, they will begin
to build up socialist construction In
their own country.
Group Committee Of the
Gniyan Granite Quarries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
Hundreds of Small
Children Die of
Hunger

from one evening to the next, the
operator keeping all they made for
cuts and carbide and mine expense.
My husband has worked for the
Castro Coal Co. three years in mud
and water, wet to his waist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
YOUNG WORKERS LEAD
IN LAWRENCE STRIKE
TO SMASH WAGE-CU L
80 to 40 Per Cent of $4,000 Strikers Are Young
Workers Who Show Great Militancy
A. F. of L. Ignores Youth in Order to Split the
Workers Ranks and Sell-Out Strike
By a Young Workerl

LAWRENCE, Mass Monday, Oct. 5th saw the begin,
ming of general strike of textile workers in Lawrence
bosses announced 10 per cent cut which go
effect Oct 18TH The workers realized that it abso
Lutte starvation for them and their families they allowed
bosses to cut their already miserab small earnings So they
answered this attack of the bosses by going strike
before the bosses could put their wage cut into prac
80 to 40 Per Cent Youth
1t began in two mills in the Wood and Aver mills of thu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
SUPPRESS SHAW'S SPEECH
IN FLORIDA
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By WORKER COrreSp0ndentJ
TAMPA, Fla. - When Shaw was
speaking over the radio OF the Soviet
Union the electric and power COM
panies here in Florida cut him off.
Many Of the farming people that re-
manned home on Sunday, were much
disappointed. The workers In Tampa
came to the Workers Center and read
the Daily Worker and looked at the
pictorials of the U. S. S. r. in Con-
struction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
SOVIET QUARRYMEN'S
PAY RAISED Z FOLD
SINCE REVOLUTION
Workers Who Received 1.20 Rubles per Day
Now Get RubIes for Hours Work
New Living Quarters, Dining Rooms, Clubs,
- Schools Built for Stone Workers
Gnivan, U. S. S. R.

Gnivan, Q. s 5. r.
Dear Comrades
We the workers of the Soviet Quarry located in the vii
age Gnvan in Soviet Ukraine heartest greetings
the American workers.
The ulflment of program by the workers is 105112
per cent the each workers production amounts to
100 per cent of the program.
Big Wage Increase
At the time of the Czarst regime there any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

h the Soviet Union wage in
sReases and the universal introduce
Nm u the seven-hour day. In cap
elallst America wage cuts and the
Gave staggcr plan. Attend the No
vsmbss Z celebration mass meet
h4A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

The only thing I can say for Wanda
Is that she says: MON and Stella
will be with Leo"
am closing with the heartiest
greeting from all comrades.
Comradely,
Mary Rasefske.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
'DOCKERS PARADE
IN HOUSTON, TEX.
800 March in Protest
Against Wage Cuts
ny . Worker Correspondent

10y . WORKER C0rreSpOndent)
HOUSTON, Tex. - Sax hundred
ongshoremen and their families, 355
whites and 245 Negroes, marched
hero in Q protest parade aaginst
wage-cuts on october 20.
The workers marched in fours
carrying signs that read: We want
work and not charity. Give MS the
necessities Of life. Don't laugh you
msy b next.
The nnarchers marched down Con-
gress Street to Carolina past the
headquarters Of the boss where the
scabs were being hired to take the
place Of the striking longshoremen.
The most impressive part Of the par
ade WAS the fact that the white and
Negro Iongshoremen marched to-
sether, uniting their forces and thus
increasing their power Of resistance.
Il showed that the white and black
workers Of the South are awaking to
he fact that all workers must unite
In order to solve the serious problems
that confront each alike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
FARMERS EXPOSE
THE RED CROSS
Red Cross Heads Flee
Farmers Queries
(By a Farmer Correspondent

(By a Farmer Correspondent
FLEETWOOD, Mont. - The in
creasing strength Of the United
Farmers League in Sheridan County
was manifest at a meeting Of the
County Organization here yesterday
when thousands Of farmers packed
the Farmer-Labor Temple to over
flowing. A parade after the after
noon speeches, to the Court House
to meet the representatives Of the
Red Cross was one of the most i'm
pressiye and effective events of the
day.
Red Cross F1ees
During the course OF the afternoon
the farmers asked representatives OF
the local Red Cross to appear before
the great crowd to answer some Of
the grievances the public had against
that organization. None Of the Red
Cross members showed up, claiming
they were too busy at business
mems meeting. After the speeches
we're over, the United Farmers de-
cided that since the Red Cross would
not come to them, they would go to
the Red Cross, but found after their
march to the court house that the
representatives had all fled; even
those who had said they would stay
overnight, had gone suddenly off on
the afternoon train.
The United Farmers League is
planning upon a school for the young
workers and farmers Of this district
to be held in Plentywood in the near
future at the Farmer-Labor Temple.
At this school, it is expected to give
training courses in Pioneer leader
ship, public speaking, theory and
practice Of working class economic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31

Workers. Correspondence is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for Il.
about your day-to-day struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
From Striking Miners Wife,
Straight Greek Section, Ky.)
Castro, KY, Oct. %, 1881.

Ot'NVHO y ~ > NT' -
Dear Comrades:
Just few lines in regard to our
struggle.
My husband and son had TO work
from to 16 hours making only one
dollar per day, then come out and
go to the scrip office and ask for
scrip to get food for breakfast, and
get denied. Then go in next day
and work without any nourishment
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
NJ LEAN KILLING
CHARGE NEAR
international Photos

CINCINNATI, Dec. 90 Q.N.SO.
A definite accusation against one
of the suspects held in the
Marian Mclean murder, charging
him with the attack that caused
the 6-year-old girls death, ap-
peared near today.
Three small girls identified one
of the men held as the same who
tried to entice them to accom-
pany him last June.
The same suspect was to be
taken today before Russell c..
Chump, %, who has told police
he saw a man standing in front
Of his home with a clothes basket
about which he appeared to be
very anxious on the morning Of
December %, the day on which
Marian's body was found. He
said:
"When the man saw me, he
appeared very excited"
A heavy rain was falling early
that morning, Chump related.
The man held an umbrella over
himself and the basket, and ap-
peared clustered" when Chump
approached.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
MALES WEAKER
BEFORE BIRTH

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 Q.N.S0
"The Stronger Sex" may be
mans title out in the wide world,
but before birth. the male is the
weaker of the two.
DR.. Sanford winston, North
Carolina State College Sociologist,
gave this dictum to the national
convention of the American ASSo.
citation for the advancement Of
science now in session here.
Lack of proper care Of the ex-
pectant mother is more apt to
affect male children adversely
than females, DR.. Winston told
the assembled scientists.
Strides in the conquest of
filaria, dreaded disease parasite
of the tropics, were described by
Prof. Richard P. Strong, head Of
the department of tropical medi-
cine at Harvard University.
In coffee growing regions OF
Central America, filaria parasites,
called threadworms, produce tu-
mors on the head. Another type
produced the disease known from
ancient times as elephantiasis,
characterized by swelling Of the
legs and other parts of the body.
It has been discovered that
these parasites are carried by GER
tain insects and war is now being
waged on these carriers Of the
tropical scourgeS, Professor Strong
declared.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
GANDH| RALLIES
H|SLEG|ON.S
international Photos

BOMBAY, Dec. 20 GNs). .
Mahatma Gandhi, just returned
from the ineffective Indian con-
ference in London to an India
still more unrestful than the one
he left, today was rallying his
followers for an aggressive fight
to the finish.
The aged nationalist leader on
his first day here broke his day
Of religious silence to advocate a
belligerent attitude fer India in
her fight for independence should
peaceful means fail. He said:
eff a fight becomes inevita-
BILE, 1 invite you to be ready
for it. I will not give up my
attempts to save the nation
from a fiery ordeal, but, il there
is no single ray Of hope, 1 will
not finch from inviting you to
undergo any amount of suf-
fering."
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
of Cosn1ic Rays
Viewed by Scientists

streets Of this city and the at
mosphere beyond it for several
hundred miles into space.
BOmbarding Gas Cells
Then, as the direction is raised
to vertical, the clicks increase in
rapidity until they reach a steady
Staccato about one second apart
when the counter is aimed direct
ly at the space above, where the
atmospheric interference is thin
nest.
The rays will register their
presence continuously in this po-
sition night and day until the
counters diSintegrate.
The clicks emitted by the loud
speaker are the direct result of
cosmic ray bombardfent on gas
particles in chambers of the
counters.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
|NED|CS WATT Gil.
RILEY CASE

The case of little Edith Riley.
the cupboard child" has aroused
the interest of physicians and sci
entific societies throughout the
country, according to DR.. Edgar
Bocock, superintendent of Calm
ger Hospital, where the child has
been since her rescue from her
cupboard prison.
DR.. Bocock has been beSeiged
by inquiries from members of his
profession for a detailed account
of the child's reaction to the
treatment she received at the
hands of her father and STEP
mother, Harry and Elsie Riley.
Recently DR.. Bocock received q
letter from a French mother liv-
ing in Paris, bitterly denouncing
the parents of the child and the
social system which permitted
such abuse of parental authority.
Edith is still being showered
with Christmas gifts from every
State in the union.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
BRIDGE MA Gil.
BID ACCEPTED

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Q.NSO.
The frequently discussed Anglo.
American contract bridge match
between a representative team
from England and an American
team composed of ranking players
was virtually assured today.
Ely Culbertson announced that
the match will take place in New
York, probably in April or May.
The invitation for the match
was extended by committee
formed in London, consisting Of
Col. j. j. G. Walshe, bridge editor
of the London Times; Capt. Jack
Dalton, Colonel Beasley and sew
eral other outstanding British
bridge stars.
Culbertson said his wife, Mrs.
Josephine Culbertson; Theodore
Lightner, his partner during
many rubbers of the present
tournament, and Baron Waldemar
Won Zedtwitz, who sat in for q
single session, already have been
selected for the American team.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
LEM ON A HUNT
.FORAPARTNER

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 d.N.S).
The contract bridge partnership
of Sidney Lenz and Oswald Ja-
coby was on the rocks today.
AS the climax to a quarrel, Ja-
coby pulled up stakes last night
and announced he was through.
He accused Lenz of unjust
criticism of his bidding, put his
top hat on his head, and marched
out of the. hotel, leaving LenI
with the task of choosing new
partner with whom to continue
his match against Ely Culbertson.
Lenz and Jacoby reduced the
Culbertson lead by $50 points.
When, the .combatants finally
called it a night, the CulbertsonS
had lead of 16,840 points.
Lenz declared Jacoby in all
probability would return to the
tournament at some later date,
but would not be on hand to-
night.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20
GN.SD The universe's greatest
present mystery, the cosmic rays,
were put on exhibition here to-
day as a series Of clicks in a
loudspeaker.
Photographs of the rays in the
act of destroying atomic struc-
lures were recently distributed in
New York by DR.. Robert A. Mil
likan, who believes they possibly
are produced in interstellar space
Dy the building up of matter out
of light radiationS.
AS feature of the conven-
ton here Of the Society for the
Of Science, two Gel
ger counters were set to work
recording the steady lombard
ment of the earth by the mys-
terious rays.
From Outer Space
The Geiger counters are mount
ed so they can be turned in
any direct II.
In this way, it is possible for
any visitor to the exhibit to de-
termine for himself tnat the
chief source of the rays is from
outer space.
None of the rays was recorded
as coming from the earth. Along
the line of the horizon fewer rays
penetrated through the added
atmosphere and buildings than
from directly above.
AS the direction Of the counters
is changed from above toward the
earth, they begin to click slowly at
the earth surface line. They then
are registering rays penetrating
through the buildings along the
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
CONVICT SLAIN,
8 WOUNDED
At PRISON
San Quentin viOlator Fired on
Fleeing Guards; Smoking
Rule at Mess Defied

SAN QUENTIN, Calf, Dec.
29 (I.N.S.). Violation of a
no smoking" rule was blamed
today for the shooting to death
of a fleeing convict and the
wounding of eight other per-
sons in the worst disorder San
Quentin prison, largest penal
institution in the United States,
has experienced in years.
More than 40 shots were fired
by gun tower marksmen, creating
havoc behind the walls and caus-
ing high excitement among the
PRISONS population Of approx
mately 5000.
Seven Are COnvicts
Seven of the wounded were con-
victs. The eighth was a guard.
All were characterized as limo
cent bystanders" struck by rico
chetting bullets.
Declaring the affray was Gin no
sense an attempted general out
break" Warden James B. Holo-
han announced the dead prisoner
was Hugh Adams. "a, Los Angeles
negro, serving 10 years for assault
with intent to commit murder.
Holohan said:
"He was a tough customer. He
ran amuck after defying q
guards order not to smoke in
the mess hall"
While being escorted to the
office of the yard captain. Adams
broke away from his guards and
ran across the garden beautiful"
in front of condemned row."
Amid the greatest confusion the
sharpshooterS in the gun towers
opened fire. Hundreds of milling
convicts, going to their cells from
supper, dashed for shelter.
Adams dropped just as he was
running between two cell blocks
behind condemned row." He
was riddled with bullets, two Of
them piercing his heart.
The Washington times., 1931-12-29
Truck DriUer Dies
In Crash at LUr0u

LURAY, Va, Dec. 29.-Swerv-
ing his truck to avoid crashing
into another machine on the
main street here today, Robert
Smith, 20, Of New Market, Va,
was instantly killed when his
truck overturned. Two small chill
dren riding with him escaped in
jury.
Smith was a student at Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute of
Blacksburg. He was driving the
truck during his Christmas vaca-
ton to earn money for school
expenses,