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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

NEW YORK.-The financial crisis
which grips Germany has spread to
England, and is rapidly reaching a
critical stage.
The British Labor Party, acting in
the interest Of British imperialism,
is preparing to institute a tariff,
which in effect, will be 10 per cent
wage cut for all the British workers
The New York Times states that
Macdonald has agreed to a tariff Of
10 per cent, and this, says the Times,
will be equivalent to a 10 per cent
wage cut as it will raise the price
of food 10 per cent.
Another attack being prepared by
the Macdonald government against
the workers is the cutting down Of
the unemployment insurance pay
ments of the government. Mac
Donald, and his cohorts, now de-
mand that the workers pay a greater
share of the unemployment insur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
MY Babies Need Milk
So Badly" Pleads
Miners Wife
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)


get few stamps, so that my letters
can be sent out, I'll send you reports
of the situation here more often.
please help me, for this is surely
my hour of need and that is why I
turn to you comrades"
All through the strike region, this
miners wife is known for her mill
fancy, and ability in organizing
womens auxilliaries. She has worked
in the face of tremendous difficult
ties and hardships, as thousands Of
other miners women are doing all
over the coal fields. She must have
a doctors care within a very short
time. The relief committee must
take care of this.
And thousands of others are ap-
pealing for milk for their babies,
clothes, shoes, and, what is most
important, bread.
A hard struggle against starvation
is being waged. Help support this
struggle by sending all the money you
can spare or collect to Room EOS,
Gil Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa, so
that the Penn Ohio-West Virginia.
Kentucky Striking Miners Relief
Committee will be able to send more
food to- hungry families of fighting
miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
REPUBLICAN SENATOR YATES OF
N ROBBED OLD AGE PENSION
AND JOBLESS FUNDS FOR ORGIES

years Of age or over" Yates, who
comes from Paterson where his fel-
low capitalist politicians beat up
strikers, was making good use of this
fund of over $1,000 000-not for UNI
employed or old age relief-but to
pay off his friends and political sup
porters. Though this expenditure was
not enough to handle even q few
hundred Of the thousands upon thou
sands of unemployed and aged work
ers, Yates was robbing this fund
right and left.
This Pension Bill, which allows
capitalist politicians like Yates to
take thousands for their private or
gies, was greeted by the American
Association for Old Age Security as
wonderful model, to be followed by
all capitalist legislatures. This or
ganization said regarding this bill
from which Yates took plenty:
"The administration Of the law
represents social contribution of
great Importance, as the provisions
are to be applied by county welfare
boards specially created for the
purpose"
This shows up how the capitalists.
when they do pass such bills, through
their politicians keep the workers
from getting any benefits, 1t stresses
more than ever, the demand for the
Unemployment Insurance Bill put
forward by the Communist Party, in
sisting that the workers control the
funds set aside by the capitalist state
for relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL PUT DAILY" ON
SOUND BASIS! MONTHLY SUBS 50 CENTS!
KENSINGTON READERS CLUB IN ACTION
Coupon Books and Funds Slow Coming In !!
Hold daily" Picnics to Boost Totals!

eral hundred dollars for the Daily.
Why not hold similar events in
Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo. Seattle,
Cleveland, Minneapolis, Kansas City.
leaves eleven districts still below the
70 per cent mark and about half Of
them below the so per cent mark.
Why aren't more affairs being held
etc. NOW is the time for It!
Kensington Daily Worker Readers
Club Report,
The Kensington, Pa, Readers Club
submits the following report OF
executive meeting held on Aug. 10.
Editorial department will shortly
answer all points mentioned in re-
port.
at executive meeting of the Ken
sington Club on Aug. 10 a plan of
action for four meetings was for
mulated. We pledged that within
two months we will have at least rs
workers in the club. In addition, a.
quota of so readers for the club. We
certainly drew up an interesting
program for our meetings. For next
week, in addition to the regular
business activity, we will have a dis
cussion on the clippings taken from
the Daily by the members of the
club. The following meeting will
discuss our experiences in building
up the club. Other gatherings will
include sketches drawn by an artist
member of the club, lectures, re-
freshments, etc.
'"Thfs plan of work Will be sub
mitted to the membership of the
club at its meeting of Aug. 20 for
discussion, approval, suggestions
and comments. At this meeting
we will also try to get at least two
worker correspondents especially
for the Thursday Philadelphia edi-
ton of the Daily. In preparation
for the coming meeting, we are is
suing n leaflet inviting the work.
ers to Join our club or attend our
meetings. The meeting will take
place at 2SO2 Kensington Ave.
AT one of our meetings sugees-
ton was made by a fellow worker
to have fiction column in the Daily
Worker, a continued story so that
the readers would also be given a
chance to read revolutionary fiction
alongside news Of the class struggle,
and maybe will feel the need of read
ing the Daily regularly. Can the
Daily act on such a suggestion?
What is your opinion? II accepted,
when may we expect such a story
to begin to run in the "Daily?"
This last point has also been re-
ferred to the editorial department.
We wish the Kensington Club the
best of luck. Its program sounds
mighty interesting! Other clubs in
process of formation should be able
to get a good deal Of profit out OF
this report
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

workers anything. Lodge 1075 knew
nothing of the sell-out until the
company issued the order to the
foremen not to raise the pay Of the
workers after one year Of service.
The extra gang foremen received
SITS a month, but lately the COM
pany is paying some of them $151.
What the Brotherhood has done
nobody knows. The foremen know
one, thing-that the supervisors offer
them extra gang jobs at $751; a
month.
Desert Fake Union.
Harlem Hudson Lodge 1075 had
$50 members last year. Now only a
dozen track workers remain in the
union. The Negro and white work
ers found out that the takers were
working hand in hand with the COM
pany and not for the protection of
the workers rights. They have
deserted the fake union and are
waiting for the T. U. U. L. to organ
ize them for struggle against the
worsening conditions.
j. Tonnich, secretary of the Har
lem Hudson Lodge, when he found
out that the Grand Lodge officials
were cheating the workers and TAX
ing their hard earned dollars, was
bl&cklistcd because be fought for the
ri~Nts of the workers against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

Tables for this week show a loss
Of 2,42S, due largely to deduction Of
temporary orders from Pittsburgh,
Chicago and California. The total
circulation Of 1858 shown in tables
is solid and does not include special
orders. This is an extremely en-
coura ging showing for the month Of
August. Usually August has proved
little weak on sales, but this year,
thanks to the splendid response of
the masses of workers, the situation
is different.
However, while sales are keep
ing up, subs are rather slow In
coming In. Only 90 new subs and
renewals were received during the
past week. Considering that subs
are the financial backbone of the
Daily Worker, this is not helping
much to strengthen it. District .,
Pittsburgh, sent in IL new subs
and renewals during the week;
District 4, Buffalo, turned I'm II;
District 2, New York, raised II,
and District IS Butte, Is credited
with eight new subs and renewals.
The other districts were not SO
good! Sales will help US attain
mass circulation, but subs viii en-
able us to reach financial stability.
Sales without subs will not get us
very far. Both should be taken
into consideration.
Coming back to the circulation
tables, District 2, New York, shows
the highest gain for the week, with
147. o fthis amount, New York City
is responsible for 121 and Newark
36. District IT, Birmingham, gained
81 on two new daily orders from
Caryville and Coal Creek, Tenn, of
70 and so, respectively. District g,
Minneapolis, shows an increase of "A.
District 10, Denver, is represented
with gain of SO, due to an increase
of rs in Denver and rs in Ogden,
Utah. Most of the minus signs in
the tables are due to further de-
duction of the Aug. special editions,
some of which had not been taken
off until now!
Coupon Books are still I'm the
field. What they are doing there
is beyond us. Call was sent out for
them weeks ago and yet little at
tentiOn has been paid to it! All
moneys collected on these books
must be turned in Immediately.
The financial campaign is making
very little progress towards it's goal
OF $4,000. Only about $3.50 was
turned in during the week. Only
three districts have fulfilled their
quotas.
Districts 6, g, Is and 18 are on the
verge of completing theirs. This
for the benefit of the Daily Worker
to help weak districts boost their
percentages? The Daily Worker
Picnic in New York City raised sew
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Special to the Daily Worker.l

Especial to the Daily W0rker.)
We, worker correspondents Of the
station Crasnoyarsk of the Tomsky
Railroad in Siberia, send you our
fraternal greetings.
Since May Is, 1881, we declared our
selves shock brigaders and pledged
ourselves to become actual partakerS
in the struggle for the dictatorship
of the proletariat. We send you
our first letter and hope that, upon
receiving the same, you will write us
the reply and be in connection with
us.
We are working in our transport
organizations at full speed and try
our best to fulfill the third year of
the Five-Year Plan.
We will soon put into action the
7-hour working day. We have shock
departments and shock brigades
which received premiums for good
work.
In our newspapers are writing not
only educated people, but also
workers who can hardly write. We
have now reconstructed the work of
the newspapers; articles are written
not by individual workers, but by
worker correspondents shock bri-
gades.
We use new methods in organiza-
ton Of production. For instance, in
an 8-hour working day four men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Socialists Helping British Bankers
Attack Workers LiVing Standard

their system. The significant para
graph in the Virgins statement
says:
"The time is short. The body of
the worlds commerce-whOse vital
ity is already low-has suffered a
severe shock in one of its chief
members. This has resulted in a
partial paralysis which can be
cured only by restoring the free
circulation of money and goods"
In this situation, the socialists Of
England and Germany are acting
with the bankers and other exploit
ers to put heavier burdens on the
backs of the working class.
In England the crisis has reached
such a severe extent that the unem-
ployed army has gone beyond all pre-
vious bounds, nearing the 100000
figure. In one week over $4,000 lost
their jobs; and during the past year
$4,000 British workers were thrown
out on the streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

lodge takers.
Camps Filthy.
The track workers who work in the
camps live in box cars. These cars
are filthy and full of bedbugs. The
food is so rotten that even the
starved out workers cannot eat it.
Many complaints were made without
any results. Men signed the COM
plants and sent them to the super
visor, but they were thrown in the
waste basket.
Working conditions of the track
workers of the Harlem Hudson divi-
sion are beyond description. Men
are driven at a terrific speed and if
anyone Stacks down for a second he
is fired on the spot. A foreman
calling worker a "son of bitch"
is common in the camps. When a
worker complains to the union he is
reprimanded because he is in the
eyes of the officials niger" or a
bum"
Welcome T. u. u. L.
The track workers of Harlem and
Hudson are ready to be organized
again-not by the Brotherhood, but
by real workers union They well
come the T. U. U. L. and will join
and bring in other workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Los Angeles Relief Scheme Fails

to be able to extend our present pro-
gram through the winter months. 1t
seems a hopeless task, but we are 60
ing to have to do 1t somehow as
conditions are not improving"
Equally hopeless was the attempted
solution of the unemployment prob
lem" made the sameSday that Wir-
chings statement was issued, when
Thomas Kennedy, 20 years old, I'M
employer cook at 1922 Keith Street,
Los Angeles, attempter suicide by
drinking poison. IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

while they drove the men on foot
every inch Of the way back along the
road to Bridgeville. A carload Of dep
uties and another carload of 'troopers
followed behind them, menacing
them with guns and keeping them
tramping along.
These men had to walk over eight
miles, with the jeering deputies, who
had met them with threats to shoot
the tires off your truck" tagging
them and prodding them to greater
speed.
The truck driver and his compan-
ion in arrest were railroaded through
a squire's court and fined s725 each
for hauling the pickets to Coverdale,
on the grounds they were driving
bus without a bus drivers license"
Also at Coverdals today, deputies
charged into the tent colony and
with threats, You won't get your
coffee here today" drove Sam Brown
and his brother, young Negro miners,
from the grounds. They sent other
deputies ahead to catch them off the
colony grounds, and arrest them. The
boys were told they would be Grip
pied by the time they got out of the
police station. White and Negro min
ers united to march down and de-
mand the release of the two Negro
boys, and their attitude was such
that both we're released
And toy had coffee in the tent
colony A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Young Worker Defends "Daily" in Phila

compared to any other newspaper.
BY this time there were about half
a dozen persons in the store and the
fact that they were in hurry to
make their purchases was quite for
gotten, as they asked each other,
where do you buy this paper?"
Can you get it around here?" and
other such questions.
Among other things, the young
worker had stated that every worker
should read the paper, that it was
the only paper giving any facts about
workers and the only paper that told
the truth about economic conditions
and how the workers can solve them.
He insisted that the paper be passed
on to other workers and not de-
stroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Child Slave Labor at Brentwood, Cal.

kept under strict surveillance by the
bosses
water is polluted. Workers have
protested and the assistant manager
Bankroft has denied the charges.
State examination Of conditions has
been appealed by the workers, but by
the time they get ready to investi-
gate the fruit season will be over
and so the bosses will profit without
interference.
Workers must take the situation
into their own hands and fight these
slave conditions in the fruit camps.
Organize into the Agricultural Work
ers Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The charge
that the Daily Worker" is an Or
binary newspaper was repudiated to-
day before a group of workers.
Our grocer's son, a young worker,
left his Daily" in the store when he
went out for an hour or so. On his
return he noticed that parts of the
paper were lying around torn His
father had used the paper to make
paper boats for customers child.
Rather vexed, the young worker
asked who had destroyed the DAILY
Worker" When the grocer replied
that it was just newspaper and
nothing to make fuss about, his
son delivered a talk on the virtues
and superiority Of the Daily" as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
SEARS PROFITS UP

CHICAGO, Ill.-The profits Of
Sears Roebuck and Company are
greater in 1881 than 1880, despite
the fact that the sales have de-
creased. Thus profits for the first
seven months of this year were
$650000 larger than last year,
whereas the sales were S13,0oO,O0O
less. No small part of this saving
was made at the expense of the en-
ployes Of tire company, ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Tariff in Crisis Is to
Become 10 PC.
Wage Cut

ance fund, thus further increasing
the wage slash.
The Macdonald Labor Government
is seeking to wiring $500,OoO,OoO to
$600,000,000 out of the impoverished
British workers to make up the de-
ficit of the British budget and to
save British capitalism from coll
lapse.
The growing severity of the finan-
cial crisis in Germany and England
was taken up by the Virgins Com
mittee Of the Bank of International
Settlements in Basic. This commit
tee, in its published statement, ad-
mitted that capitalism the world over
is faced with immediate danger and
that the capitalists must act to save
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By worker Corresponoent.)
BRENTWOOD, Cal. Balfour-
Guthrie Marsh fruit camp is opera
ted as prison camper rather the
same as one.
Minor children are employed The
children of 1915 years OF age are
working unlimited hours for their
food and sleeping space. They owe
the camp owners for transportation
and SO receive no pay, until they
earn that. They do not earn it for
a long time, Cor SO says the boss)
therefore receive no pay, working for
their food( If we can call 1t sol and
their shack space to sleep. They are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
tBy a Worker Correspondent

Wy % VVrhOF
LOS ANGELES, Gala fresh APP
peal has come from Commissioner Of
Public Works, Carl 3. Wirshing, ex-
planning lay-offs of those formerly
receiving relief here under the I'M
employment relief bond program.
Pointing out that they have $4,000
listed and $4,000 waiting have large
families to support, the Commissioner
comes out flatly and says there are
no jobs for single men.
wirshing goes on to say; "WA hope
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl

relief"
Yates himself was worth millions,
most of which he got in grating out
of state funds, in robbing workers,
and doing what the big capitalists
like Dwight w. Morrow of Morgan
and Co. asked him to. Yates was a
close friend of Morrow and a good
supporter of President Hoover and
his policy of starvation
The Yates case is not an isolated
instance. The Daily Worker has pub
ished facts showing that in Phila-
delphia out of $15o,O0o collected" for
relief for the unemployed, over $780,
900 was stolen by boss politicians;
in Detroit, one city official robbed
the "relief" fund Of over 100000.
The bill which Yates helped pass
providing for the Survey for Pen
sions and Relief Dependency" called
for $50 month, ito needy citizens IS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
ALL. AIDS NEW YORK
CENTRAL CUT WAGES
OF TRACK WORKERS
Hourly Wage Rate Under Old Brotherhood
Agreement Discontinued By Takers E
Camps Filthy Beyond Description; Workers
Desert Old Union, Look to T. u. u. L.
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, N. Yin agreement with the Brotherhood
of Maintenance of Way Employees affiliated with the A. F.
of L. the New York Central Railroad cut the wages of the
track workers and track foremen Under the old agreement
track worker after years employment received cent
pay This hourly increase has been discontinued
regardless of the time of employment This ruling went
into effect June 1881 The Grand Lodge and system takers
made this agreement with the company without telling the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
NEW YORK

Manhattan-In midtown Man
haitian a parade will start with a
meeting at 1890 at Bryant Park,
4Oth st. and Sixth Ave-, and
march to 4oth st. and Sixth Ave.
and march to Madison Square. In
downtown Manhattan a mass
meeting will be held at Seventh
st. and Ave. B at 2:So pm, with
parade of q blocks through the
working class sections, ending at
Rutgers Square at 4 o'clock with
demonstration.
Brownsville--A parade begin
ming with a meeting at Pennsyl-
vania and Suffer AYES. at 2:30
pm. and ending at Saratoga and
Pitkin AYES. at 4 o'clock.
South BrookIyn-A demonstra-
ton will take place at Court and
Carroll Sts., beginning at 2 pm.
NEW JERSEY
Newark-The demonstration will
take place in the Military Park
at 2 pm.
Paterson--A demonstration at
the City Hall at o'clock.
Passaic-Two demonstrations in
opposite sections of the town.
acknowledgements demonstra-
ton at City Hall Plaza at 1 pm.
VineIand-Indoor demonstration
Friday, Aug. 81, at 8 pm.
EIizabeth-N. J.-At front and
Livingston Sts., at 1880 pm.
PENNSYLVANIA
acknowledgement demon
stration at the City Hall Plaza on
Aug. % at 1 pm.
Erie-Perry Square.
CONNECTICUT
HartfOrd-Corner Windsor and
Main SITS. at z pm.
Springfield-At Post Office; al
so indoor mass meeting at 8 pm.
at 675 Dwight st.
Observation-Disclosures a n d
Bank SITS. at 1890 am.
New London-Williams Memo
rial Park at pm. Saturday.
New Britain-Aug. 25, corner
High and Broad Sts., 7 pm, Tues
day.
New Haven-Central Green,
near Band Stand at 8 pm.
Torrington-Aug. % at the
Lithuanian Hall Indoor meeting),
100 Central Ave.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston-Charles st. Mall, Bos-
ton Common.
Worcester, Mass.--SaIem Square,
2 p. m.
CIeveIand-Public Square at 2
p. m.
Akron Ohio-Perkins Square at
2 pm.
ToIedo-Jackson and Summit
SITS. at pm.
Warren--Coutr House Square.
Canton-Nimisilla Park at 7:30
pm.
Other meetings at Cincinnati,
Youngstown, Dennison, Alliance.
MICHIGAN
Ironwood-At pm. at North
western Park, corner Suffolk and
Dyer st.
Detroit-In front of City Hall
at 7 pm.
INDIANA
MISUNDERSTANDING Park at
3 p. m.
Anderson, Ind.-Court House at
pm.
Terre Haute-Court House at 8
pm.
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis-Bridge Square at
4;30 pm.
WASHINGTON
SeattIe-At pm. in Denny
Regarde District, Fifth and Blan-
chard.
Bellingham. Wash.-At r. r.
and Holly st. at 2:30 pm.
Everson, Wash.-At 8 pm.
CALIFORNIA
San Francisco-Front Of Ferry
Building at 1890.
RHODE ISLAND
Providence-Marke Square on
Saturday at 8 pm.
ILLINOIS
Rockford, ILL.,, at Broadway and
Eighth Sts., at 7.30 p. m.
Observation-Disclosures So, Clark
and Walton and Bird and Prairie.
Demonstrations also in st. Louis,
Waukegan, Rockford, Gary, Mil
waukee and Rock Island.
MARYLAND
BaItimore-Hopkins Square, Balti-
more and Liberty Sts., at 100 pm.
All districts of the International
Labor Defense should send in
complete information as to time.
place and speakers for all Sacco-
Vanzetti Day demonstrations.
SEARS PROFITS UP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. IT,
Scores of mass meetings of striking
miners and those previously forced
back to work are taking place all
over the coal fields of Western Penn
sylvania, West Virginia and Ohio as
this is written. Monday August II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

PRICEDALE, Pa, Aug. 19-Mine
pay slips turned over to the National
Miners Union here by men working
in the Pittsburgh Coal Company's
Sommers Mine show s12 credited for
two weeks work-and of course no
wages actually paid, but all checked
off for expenses to the company.