The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-09
HARTFORD WORKERS
RUSH MAYORS OFFICE
HOOVER VETOES
WAGNER'S BILL
Harvard De an Pro-
poses so PC. Cut

Events continue to show the abb
solute determination of the capital
lists and their government to use
this Unemployment crisis to starve
the workers into lower wages and
longer hours, and they continue to
show the rising resistance of the
jogiess and the workers to this pro-
gram.
For the second time within a
month, the Hartford municipal
workers have Stormed the mayors
office and demanded more wages.
TWo-hundred were fired recently.
and this was followed by a crowd
of 40 charging into Mayor Batter
sons office in spite of opposition
from the superintendent Of parks,
and others, and practically forcing
him to pledge so cents day and
free carfare on days when they were
not put to work.
Meanwhile. Hoover has vetoed, to
the accompaniment of an insolent
letter condenlning all such attempts,
the Wagner bill for insurance. The
bill was weak, fake scheme calling
for a series of employment agen-
cies, but Hoover makes it plain that
even this he will not stand for.
At the same time the capitalist
press features long extracts from q
new book written by Dean Wallace
Brett Donham, head of the Harvard
Graduate School Of Business Admin
istration, which proposes higher
tariffs, a practical arrangement not
to compete with bloc of Western
European capitalist nations against
the Soviet Union, and no insurance
for the jobless. Instead of unem-
ployment insurance, which rouses
his horror, Donham proposes that
the unemployed be put to work at
large scale building at wage rate
lin volume equal to a dole" namely
sc per cent of the regular wages.
This, of course, would throw those
who ordinarily do this work out of
their jobs, and would cut all wages,
a matter of great satisfaction to
Donham. His book is being circulated
in a. limited edition among business
men and politicians.
Donham admits the certain sue
cess of socialist industry for time"
in the Soviet Union, and makes this
the basis of his argument for Eu-
ropean bloc.
Shoot Crows For 25c
CINCINNATI, o., March 8.-Job-
less workers and starving farmers
are lying out all night at spots where
crows are reputed to roost. in the
hopes Of killing one or two and coll
lecting the 25 cent per crow bounty
the county pays. There are only
$500 left in the crow bounty fund.
Camping in Hopes
LAREDO, Tex, March s.-Severas
thousand jobless workers are report
ed camping in the open around the
site of a dam which it was reported
would be under construction near
here soon. Great distress prevails
in the camp, and work is not there
for those who in many cases, came
long distances to seek it.
Hungry Man Faints
NEW YORK.-Roy Thomas, aged
%, having come here from winston
Salem looking for work, collapsed
Saturday morning from starvation.
He tainted in the BMT. subway
station at Seventh Ave. and 57th st.
The Associated Press made sur
vey of apple selling here over the
week end and reports between 1000
and 5000 jobless selling about five
carloads of apples day. The As
ISOLATED Press found the profits
about cent an apple, and that an
apple seller might make as much as
81 cents a day of IL to IA hours
standing in the rain and snow.
Apple Fake Ends
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 8.-Iks
Friedman, head of the municipal
employment bureau here stated yes
terday that the profits on apple SELL
ing were SO low that practically all
who started at that substitute for
starvation and didn't get jobs have
quit it.
| Nothing In Golf
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, March 8.
THE Westchester County Park
Commissioners pricked another bub-
bic yesterday. Hearing that caddy-
ing was loudly touted as cure for
unemployment. they announced that
it would not help much to fire the
boys who now carry the fat mans
golf bag in order to substitute job
less adults.
The regular pay for carrying two
bags around the course Is sf75, and