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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Cleveland ALL Member Kills Self
to Get Insurance" for His Family

CLEVELAND, GA member of
Electrical Workers Local Union No.
SO, of Cleveland, who had been out
of work for over year and who
had made hundreds of trips to the
union headquarters to ask the Sec
rotary and business agent for work
and received the same reply, mo
jobs" This worker became discour-
aged, and on his last trip to the
union office, asked the secretary
if the union paid insurance for
member who commits suicide. The
secretary replied, yes. This work
err, thinking of his family and the
hopelessness of being able to pro-
vide for them, having nothing at
home to eat, decided to give up
the struggle. On his return home
from the union headquarters he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Property of 100000 Small Householders Sold
For Taxes

ers. In the past three years no less
than $4,000 pieces of property have
been sold for taxes in Cook County.
Poor workers and farmers of Cook
County are the ones who have lost
their property, a small home or a
farm.
Not satisfied with this, the govern
ments in the State of Illinois have
denied more than 100000 workers
their right to work, denied real re-
lief, and at the same time through
Governor Emmerson, relief commits
sion, Red Cross and Charity organ
iSations have sent their agents into
the homes of starving workers, not
to feed them, but to advise them as to
what part of their furniture they
(the workers. should sell so as to
help the Relief Commission, Red
Cross, charities and the bosses.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Chicago, Ill.

Chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker:
When tax assessment for the year
1928 was levied, more than $4,000
pieces of property were sold for taxes.
That figures represents roughly one
fourth of the 100000 parcels of real
property in Cook County. If the
same ratio of sales for the taxes
or, as some have described it gov
ernment confiscation by taxation"
continued for five years there would
not be one privately owned piece of
real estate in Cook County.
The property owners are enraged.
They point out through the Chicago
Real Estate Board that tax relief is
needed, and a considerable group of
people are advocating a general tax
strike.
We know that the years 1e29-l90
were worse years for property own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Portland Jobless Worker With Eight
Children Gets 81 A Week Charity Dole

Two days prior. In answer to their
query: why are you here" he said:
ITO get food for my children He
got 81. and they say the demands
Of the Unemployed Council are il
legal. This worker Joined the I'm
employed Council.
Another worker, with a fifteen
day old baby on his hands, had
their water turned of by the city.
Another demand of the U. G. is that
the parasite power trust and the
city dare not cut Off those neces-
sary services Of heat light and
water.
More stories Of like nature are
coming In. Real relief can be gained
BY further struggle and every un-
employed worker must Join the I'm
employed Council. Make the bosses
pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

entered the garage and started the
motor, dying of mOnOxide gas.
The welI-paid bell-wethers who
are misleading and betraying the
members of the A. r. of l.. and
forcing them to accept worse con-
ditions, starvation and suicide don't
give damn how many die as long
as they get their salary and brides.
Organize militant minorities in
the A. F. of L. unions and kick out
the takers and traitors. Not star
walton and suicide but immediate
relief and unemployment insurance.
Don't starve, Fight! Join the I'M
employed Councils and revolution
airy unions iof the Trade Union
Unity League. Fight both the boss
es and the traitors in the old
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
CHARITY NJ Fans
SLOW STARVATION
Denver Jobless Live
On 81 Weekly
Denver, Colo.

Denver, Colo.
Editor Daily Worker:
At the Feb. 25 demonstration I
talked with women who told me Of
their experiences with the charitable
organizations in this city.
They all agree that having to de-
pend on these organizations means
slow starvation. One woman told me
she and her husband and little boy
are trying to live on the two dollars
worth of groceries they get from the
welfare department each week She
said the groceries are always gone
before the week is over, and we have
to go without food until we get the
next weeks allowance. Because the
welfare department found out my
husband belongs to the Unemployed
Council they won't give us any more
groceries.
In another case mother and
daughter worked IL hours for SITS
worth of groceries from a charitable
organization. ID. E. e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
,l2BACK-BREAKING
HOURS AT HOTEL
BLACKSTONE, CHI.
Fashionable P | a c e (;
Parasites Dine Here
In Luxury
Chicago. III.

Daily Worker
The Blackstone hotel, one Of the
richest and the most fashionable in
Chicago like all the others has a
'estaurant service for its "disting
hshed" guests and patrons. To look
vt that restaurant and observe how
he patrons enjoy their tasty two dol
ar meals, one would never imagine
hat everything which is placed on
he tables before them is drenched
n the blood of the workers in the
;itchen.
The women i'm the kitchen work
IL hours day at a killing speed-up
ind besides preparing the meals
hey have to lift and carry heavy
,arrels and sacks of -four, vegeta-
1les and other stuffs. The wages
for this hard work, were until re-
Gently SIS a week with meals. But
the women were strictly instructed
not to dare take anything home for
the hungry children, not even the
left overs" because there Is dan
ger that the women may steal
grapefruit or an orange or the like
and put 1t in the 'Ieft overs"
These Ineagre wages the manage
isn't Of the Blackstone Hotel decided
0 cut to IL dollars and declared the
ase cut in a manner that the women
orkers had either to "take it or leave
=" IL. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

around like wild bulls shouting them
selves iloarse "cone on there you
bastards, speed up or get the hell of
the job" Those are the words ring
ing in your ears long after getting
up from those i'll smelling death
traps. ....
Get No Compensation.
One worker, after Shaving there for
six months is a cripple for life, his
body twisted with rheumatism, and
has had two operations. Not being
able to work or receive cent COM
pensation he is doomed to miser-
able life. A physician at the hospital
where this worker has to go said
that 80 out of 100 get rheumatism
and tuberculosis after six months.
Here are some bright points given
out In a pamphlet by the company
so as to be able to squeeze the last
drop Of blood out of the worker and
make bigger profits.
"One OF these days, as the work
progresses, fewer workers will be
employed. It is natural to keep
the best men. Make yourself a
good man and hold on to your job.
Keep at work by doing good work
taking care Of your job. Employ
ees losing their badges will not get
paid
One Negro was badly beaten by
one OF the bosses. Overtime is not
paid for Sundays. Anyone refusing
to work for straight time gets fired.
No time is taken for dinner. These
are the conditions at the Patrick
McGovern slave driving company, a
million dollar concern.-M. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
PORTLAND, Ore.-The answer
Of the Portland bosses representa-
tive to the eight thousand unem-
ployed on the 25th. that they in
formed him of the needs OF anybody
and "he would take care Of them"
that Is, through the welfare bureau,
so-called; Is bringing many workers
to the Unemployed Council, with
the accounts Of just what does hap
pen up here.
One worker told how, prior to the
demonstration. he was getting - .
week for himself, wife and eight
children. Scare" at forty cents q
week per person. After the demon
stration he went up there. There
was no cursing or inscfence from
the officials. He had dr-~n his "a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Hundreds of Mems Tailors Walk Streets
In New York

work.
The bosses demand the best quality
Of work regardless of the cheap ptices
they pay to the workers. No matter
how fast a worker could be he can
not make more than from three to
four dollars per day by long hours
of hard toiling.
As the masters are aware of the
present decentralization and chaos
In the Amalgamated company
union they are taking full advan-
tage In exploiting the workers.
Recently a number of unemploy-
ed tailors applied to the mayors
committee for work and they were
told that they are getting SIS week.
ly unemployment insurance by the
ACW and that there are no Jobs
for Them.
The generals Of the Amalgamated
instead Of installing union cotnrol,
40 hour week work and a S hour
day without overtime. that the job
less tailors should have work during
the present Erisis is helping the
bosses to betray the workers.
The new system in registering the
tailors to wait for their next to get
a job is an old Of and is nothing
but scheme to keep these hundreds
Of unemployed away from tine labor
bureau No schemes will help the
workers in the present misery. The
tailors themselves must act against
their present cheaters by helping to
build the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union
A Tailor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Baltimore, Md.

Baltimore, Md.
Dear Comrades:
During 1926 the Bethlehem Steel
Co. forced the workers to buy shares
for (sports) field in Duntock and
promised to pay per cent interest.
Many workers were fooled by this
and at the same time trying to have
some field to play games on when
they had some time they bought S
and other 10 shares.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
TONS OF FOOD
ROT IN TEXAS
While Workers North
Face Hunger

(By Worker Correspondent
SAN BENITO, Texas.-Every map
business conditions has been show
ig the lower Rio Grande valley as
BOD. If conditions in the valley are
BOD they must be worse than hell
sewhere.
There are no industries here. Grow
g vegetables and oranges and grape
nit are the principal activities.
Iexicans do most of the common
ork at from 81 to $1.50 a day. This
inter farmers are getting 81 to SIS
ton for cabbage, spinach &c to 10c
.r bushel, beets &c a dozen punches,
Lrrots, lettuce and other things in
.oportion. Ask your grocer what the
tail prices are. Thousands of tons
good food are going to waste, be-
use prices do not pay cost of pick
g, while millions starve up north.
Land here has been selling at from
50 to $500 per acre. Most farms
e nlotrgaged for half or more than
If Of their cost. Judge whether
rniers can pay their debts on prices
uoted. Most people come here be-
ewing that there was a fortune in
inter vegetables. For two years cot
N has not paid, nor vegetables.
any are suffering for the necessi-
IS Of life. You can publish the fact
at things are rotten in the most
osperous part Of America, the low
Rio Grande valley. -W.B.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
More Wage Cuts In
Rhode Island Town

PaScoag, r. I.
Daily Worker;
The Premium Worsted Co. in
Bridgeton have just handed out an
other cut of 10 per cent to all their
straw bosses. This is the second
cut in the space of a few weeks.
The previous cut only affected the
weavers who were given cut of
As per cent and two more looms.
We can't reach these people thru
the head, so the boss is going to
try to reach their stomach.
A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Armed Police Attack
Oklahoma Unemployed

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, March
3.-Police attacked demonstration
of 500 workers here Feb. Is, when
they started to march, in protest
against hunger. Seven were jailed.
After all the vicious stories in the
capitalist press stating that the po-
lice force would be doubled and pre-
pared to smash all demonstrations,
500 came out and held a demonstra-
ton in proletarian district of the
city. Fifty armed police were in the
attack on the march which started
after the meeting. Some farm work
ers were injured.
In spite Of this, about 100 spon-
taneously marched to the Workers
Center for the indoor meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Bethlehem Steel Chases Workers from Field
They Paid For

Now, after five years, the company
not only has not given any interest
to these workers, but a few weeks
ago when they went to play football
they were threatened by the man
ager, who wanted to throw them out.
ALI the workers that day protested
and many of them went to break
their locks. Seem gthis, the man
ager, who is dentist, got scared
and he let the workers play,
p. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
TEXAS FARMER LIKES DAILY

Lorraine. TExAS.--I am one OF
the busted farmers Of the South so
money is scarce with me and hard to
get but like the paper because it
gives the workman's side of the aw-
full economic condition that US work
ing people are having to put up With
here in the land OF plenty. So keep
up the good fight for the workin~-''en.
~. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
PITTSBURGH HOOP.
FIRES AND SPEEDS
UP THE WORKERS
Negro Worker Killed;
Poor Lights Cause

GlaSSpOrL, IA.
Daily Worker:
In the Pittsburgh Steel Hoop Co.
workers are fred daily. More speed
up occurs than ever before. Work
ers are injured. Roll bosses, the
highest paid workers tell the workers
to hurry up, since we're not getting
day pay but tonnage, which means
that we are to sweat more for less
pay. If the workers wish to get a
drink or go to the toilet, a special
time clock, taken care of by the fore
man Of the shop, sees that we don't
take longer than two minutes. If
we do we get fired. If a worker is
sick, he is not allowed to go home
he must finish his work, if he stays
out the next day he is fired. PreH-
ously the company had a spell hand
which needed the use of ten work
ers, now they're all fired.
Long Hours.
The men are at work from ten to
twelve hours day and are not even
allowed a half hour for lunch.
Men are injured here because Of
the poor safety equipment. Re-
Gently Negro worker was killed
because the company didn't have
any lights in the yard, where
freight train passes.
Workers of Pittsburgh Steel Hoop
Corp. don't stand for the speed
up and Iay-offs but join the Metal
Workers Industrial League which
fights for better conditions.
"A Hoop Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION WORKERS RISK THEIR LIVES Dali
Layoff 1000 Phone
Girls In d e trOit
AS Dials Are Put In
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Daily Worker:
Another big Iay-Off Of 2,500 tele-
phone girls, operators who will join
the other thousands of jobIess
here. The Telephone Company
has installed the dial system which
rids them of the use of the many
thousands Of people they have now
in their employ. They have started
the lay-offs and will continue to
do SO as soon as the dial system
has been installed in all OF the
homes. Thus placing thousands of
workers on system Of starvation.
Workers! Organize and end this
capitalist system. F. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

can be eliminated, and to speed-up
the men.
The Sheet Mill department has
men who work two or three out of
Is days, now they are working five
out of every Is days because the COM
pany got a big order from the Ford
Motor Co. Some of this order is
single line, small and narrow, and
some double line 20 and 81, the
doublers and metallers have a hard
time on account of the low scale and
the bad condition of the hot mill
oven. They only make three or four
dollars a day. The hot mill laborers
only get 81 cents an hour for which
they have to work fast in order to
keep in time with the piece workers.
In the floor department there were
from 20 to 80 laborers who worked
chopping stickers, now there are only
from three to four workers.
Openers where all Negroes work
have a stagger system of 20 openers
waiting on four mills. Many of these
are threatened with evictions because
OF their low wages which make it
impossible for them to pay their rent.
The workers are just about tired of
the conditions here, they receive leaf
lets from us and are very sympa-
thetic with the Communist Party and
the MWIL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
They subject us walters to tip
ping. Why? Because the bosses
refuse to give us salary to which
we are entitled. Walters depend on
tips to support their families. not
OH wages and hours.
i think Mr.. Franklin p. Adams
Liberty Magazine) busters on his
criticism on the average waiter.
Walters are overworked. treated
rudely by many of the patrons.
Would waiter who depends en-
tirely upon tips for living treat
his customers poorly? Of course
not!
I would like TO know where Mr..
Adams got his information? II is
not true that walters receive as
much as 500 weekly. except, may
be In speakeasys and hash houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

New Orleans.
Editor Daily Worker:
Travelled through the States of
Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee and
Mississippi and found conditions bad
everywhere. Jails are full with I'M
employed. Red Cross pulling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Nearly 10000 JObless
In Houston, Texas
Houston. Tex,

Houston, Tex.
Family responsibilities prevent i'm
mediate activity in the workers
movement but I can contribute, agi-
tate, and spread these papers among
the unemployed. Soon as my Job
gives out Il suppose it will be soon)
I'll be active in some sort of DEM
onstrations in the neck of the woods.
Until then, III scatter these sheets
and try to recruit few militants
who should start something in Hous-
ton. It's too quiet here, as there
are nearly 10000 unemployed. ought
to liven EN- up a bit with a few
hundred papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
BETHLEHEM STEEL co.
TRIES COMPANY UNION
TRICK TO FOOL TOILERS
, wo and Three Days Work In Many Depart.
ments Is The General Average
Speed-up Another Notch Up; Wages So Low
Workers Can't Meet Rent
Baltimore, Md.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Every day the bosses of the Bethlehem Steel Corp,
Sparrows Point try to hand schemes to fool the workers
Two weeks the company asked the workers buy
This week they put bulletin calling the workers to elect
the socaed representatives of the workers. making the work
think they of the company yet if anybody
old fails to speedp out he goes Everywhere every
apartment conditions get committee of experts go
round each department looking at the to how many
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Boss ColumniSt ISLANDERS 0yerWQrked.
Underpaid Walters In Liberty W'kly

Then - to waiter cheating on
prices for food.
II Is easy to criticize poor
worker, but where is the just crit
icism? Haven't you read the papers
lately? Where thousands and thou
sands of dollars have been swim
died by the boss class, but you
don't turn to that, instead you
waste your time slandering those
people who work in crowded rest
aurants, who are hurried, scolded
continually and who wait anxious
ly for few generous people to
give them tips so that they may
earn a decent wage.
r, M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Police Try Scab Herding In New Orleans

phoney stunt in Fort Payne, Ala.
They are giving the workers a dollar
a month, but making big fuss over
it. Cops in New Orleans offered me
a job to help break strike but re-
fused to accept the job.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
ollar A Day Is
Pay for Workers
Planting Trees
Galveston, Texas. !

A'~o"oAi, ASAoo.
lily Worker:
Galveston County hires men off
,ly Joe's slop line to work for a
Liar q day planting trees to beauti-
the county highway between Cal
ston and Houston.
Many taxpayers can't pay their
yes and many workers are living
70 In novels. Still the country
lls this work. paying these men
1t come south here every winter
do the work for q dollar a day and
" call this helping the unem-
yed-
lake the government give you TN
piounent insurance.--A,, Mob.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
Bronx, N. Y.

Bronx, N. Z.
Daily Worker:
Hundreds of tailors are filling up
the labor bureau day by day waiting
from 8 in the morning till ~ noon
to get a Job. The more fortunate
ones who are sent to git half or
days work can not accept these jobs
due to the present system of piece
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
NINE MEN KILLED IN
ONE DAY ALONE SAYS
WORKER ON THIS JOB
Terrible Speedup and No Safety Precautions
Brings On Many Accidents, Death
Slave-Driving Company Threatens Big Lay
Off Soon, Wants Good" Workers
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Editor Daily Worker:

Imagine yourself working with pick shovel one thou
sand feet below the ground standing water and mud from
morning to night Cold water dripping down overhead
Big chunks of rock and mud falling down all the time
On this particular job patrick McGovern tunnel work.
there are thirty working Out of those thirty from three
five gets hurt killed every week Nine men were killed in
day alone because Of the terrible speedup Bosses running
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
CHILD LABoRERs IN N. J.

CHILD LABORERS IN N. J.
Trenton, N. j.
Migrating child laborers for New
Jersey farm work for sl.16 day and
a fifty-hour week is the present sys-
tenn in this state. The highest earn
ing for a whole family is thirteen
dollars, while the average family
earning in a year is S645.
A Wnrker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day On your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07
ANOTHER YEAR OF DROUGHT

New Brunswick, N. j.
The State Department Of Agricul-
ture is warning the farmers that an
other year of drought can he reason
ably expected. What do they ex-
pect these farmers to dop
A Farmer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-07

naaxh the anti-Iabor laws Of the
~
The Washington times., 1931-11-05
Long Island MatrOn Reduces
from 100 to 126 Pounds
"Never Felt Better In My Life" She Writes,
"My Friends Say It's Marvellous"
Looks Years Younger.

Embarrassing fat starts to
rapidly vanish-week by week
your scales show a gratifying loss
until you achieve the normal and
healthy figure Nature intended
each and every woman to have!
writes: "a year ago weighed IsO lbs.
! started 3D.. to take Kruschen ss and and now '
life. and what's more. I look more like
90 yrs. old than the mother Of chill
one Of my friends say it's marvellous the
way 1 reduced"
Use Kruschen not only because
it's more economical, but because
it's safe-more efficient and more
healthful-and remember this-if
Kruschen doesn't give you COM
plete satisfaction money back.
The Washington times., 1931-11-05
1 Heard Today

John M. Stahl and Roxanne
Ray pulled a surprise on their
friends. They left Sunday night
for the East, accompanied by the
bride-to-be's mother and father.
The wedding will take place in
Chicago or in New York. Patsy
Ruth Miller is up and around
now. She is trying to get the
doctor to allow her to return to
work. Herbert Brenon is wonder.
ing who left a gold watch at his
house Sunday George Hill got
back from Reno Monday, a free
man. He and Francis Marion
were married about year and a
half :.
Both Walter Huston and his ex.
wife are living in the same Bev.
erly Hills apartment hotel. Have
g card from Lilyan Tashman and
Ed Lowe. They were in Potsdam
and headed for Budapest. The
public stares at the stars but you
should have seen the film celebri.
ties peer at the Hilton Sisters,
Siamese twins, when they made
their first appearance in the
M-G-M commisSary. Jackie Coo
gan'S mama has lost 35 pounds
on a diet.