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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
SIP. RAILROAD co.
KEEPSLAYING OFF
Boss Papers Call 1t
Better Times"
Sacramento, Cal.

sacramento, Cdl.
Daily Worker:
The boss papers say times are get
ting better in California. The South
ern Pacific railroad are working three
days a week through January, don't
know what they will do in February.
They laid off ten boilermakers and
helpers permanently last week. And
they asked the boss when they would
get back to work; he told them to
stay home until they were called and
that might be never.
Some of these men have worked for
the S. P. Co. thirteen years, scabbed
in 1922, helped them out during the
strike with the promise of a lifetime
job. Now they are turning them out
to starve SO they will not have to cut
in on their big profits. 1t seems to
me like people would get wise some
time and not listen to these lying
capitalists bosses. When they ask
them to scab on their fellow work.
men a scab cuts his own throat as
well as every other working mans
throat.
Unemployed Shop Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
TRIMMING FIREf
TRIMS DOWN PAY
Started to Cut Wages
Long Ago

chicago, LII.
To the Daily Worker
All the horrors of capitalist speed
up, wage cuts and oppression are at
work here in the Phoenix Trimming
Company of 200 N. Racine Avenue.
Eight months ago this firm started
on a wage slashing campaign to be-
gin with. The silk winders had a
weekly wage on day work of $24 for
so hours, This firm put them on
piece rates and now they don't earn
any more than $l2. They have to
work great deal harder to earn this
miserable wage.
Along with it ten per cent re-
duction was imposed on the rest of
the workers. Twisters who made S18,
steam box workers who had the same
wages were reduced to $500
Workers of this shop, can you bear
it any longer. We have the strength,
the courage, the power to fight back.
We can't stand this any longer. 1t
means either slow murder by star
walton or else fight and strike.-J.K.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

allotted to many of the workers in
several departments. Some weeks one
day, some weeks two days. The work.
ers cannot live on such a basis.
At the Henry Disston Co., steel tool
plant, normally employing 5000 work.
ers, most departments are working an
average of 2 days per week. A cut
was effected last week throughout the
plant of 10 per cent.
Years ago they paid $40 per day
for five and a half week, or total
of $55, A couple of years ago they
still worked three days, so the men
made 80 per week.
Lately they worked two or three
days week.
Now the wages have been slashed
in half, or SIS per day, with only one
days work week.
Imagine it if you can. Try to be
strong on SIS wages per week if you
have a family to feed, or even if a
man is single.
The misery throughout Kensington
and Port Richmond is growing in in
tensity. &C. r..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
OREGON DAIRY
FARMERS HIT BY
DROP IN PRICES
Need to Fight Greedy
Bankers
Myrtle Point, Ore.

Myrtle Point, Ore.
Dear Comrades:
Dairying is the third largest indus
try in the state Of Oregon and is the
chief industry in two counties.
Butterfat is usually about 40 cents
at this time of year. and cheese at
the factory about 80 cents. The
prices are now IS cents for butterfat
and II cents for cheese,
These prices mean that the dairy
men are lucky if they can break even
tributions in the cities are holding
Many are going broke. The milk dis
their prices fairly well, but there are
so many unemployed and part time
workers that their sales have dropped
from one quarter to one half.
With grain being burned in the
growing districts instead of coal one
would suppose that dairy feed would
be cheaper but it is not, It has come
down some, but the feed companies
and railroads add most of the grain
growers losses to thei rprofts.
Taxes in the principal dairy centers
are unusually high, being as much as
twice what they are in other parts of
the state. Rents are correspondingly
high.
Dairy prices are closely connected
with the conditions of the industrial
workers, as they are the chief con-
sumers When they have wage cuts
and unemployment they change to
oleomargarine. This movement was
large before the crisis but it now is
reaching unprecedented proportions.
With the lumber industry at 80 per
cent capacity many workers cannot
buy even this poor substitute if they
have any bread to put it on.
A strong Lumber Workers Indus
trial Union and United Farmers
League would help conditions greatly
but we well know that for fundamen-
tai and permanent improvement we
must have a Workers and Farmers
Government, a Soviet America. May
it soon come. --M.W.S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
BUFFALO JOBLESS
COUNCIL FIGHTS
EVICTION JUDGE
Judge Says Workers
Have No Rights
Buffalo, N. Y,


Daily Worker
The Unemployed Council at Buff
falo, N. Y is organizing House and
Block committees to rouse and organ
ize workers for the necessity of
struggling against and resisting evic-
tons which are becoming more num-
erous each day.
William Leach, 139 Cedar Street a
Buffalo Negro worker, with a family,
received an eviction order from the
court. The Unemployed Council or
ganized the neighborhood to defend
the worker against eviction.
AT the trial, cara Alderman, a
member of the U, c. acted as witness,
interpreting the unemployment stu
alton in Buffalo, such as the Mayors
fake "Man-a-block" drive, the $1,000
600 appropriation for a bigger and
more brutal police force, the swelling
floods of workers turned into the
streets to starve, etc.
The witness describes what took
Place in the courtroom.
Protest Eviction.
eve came to court at $50 a. m.
Two workers from the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights were also
present The Judge came and ran
cold eye thru the list of eviction or
der5 and began to dispense Justice"
This was done like so much piece
work and speed-up was we'll in e7i-
dence. After granting many avic-
tons Gall in the same hurried nan
ner) and telling the landlords 20 go
to the city clerk and sue tie unen,-
plcyed workers for rent, the J4Sgc
asked if there were any other cases.
This time there were only a few
swered. We'll you should have coma
We were here all the time since
$50 sitting in the front row and did
not hear the name called" / an
swered. 'Wel l,you should have come
up before this" he barked back.
Il represent the Unemployed Coun-
Gil of Buffalo and we protest the evic-
ton of his worker, who as always
paid his rent when able to get work.
who has steadily appealed to the city
employment agencies for work, with
out success, who has been refused help
by the organized charities and who,
in addition has a sick wife to take
care of. To turn them out into the
cold and the streets would be dire
cruelty
"A worker has no rights unless he
pays rent" said the Judge and with
that final thrust postponed The evic-
ton for a bare week.
But the Unemployed Council of
Buffalo is more than ever determined
to carry on the fight, to organize the
unemployed, to resist eviction with
mass action" e. $.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

ron County took the lead in the
United States for dairy and now you
might say we are all on the rocks.
Men are losing farms, So many
have sold their good milk cows off
just because of hard times. Me and
my husband owned 100 acres of land
once, Now We only own one COW,
We have no job.
My husband and boys are without
underwear, footwear. 1t is so freez-
ingly cold tonight, SO below zero. My
children go to school with barely
nothing for their dinners. This is
what we have to do.
Farmers and Workers, Unite.
We go in the cities and see rich
men and women with fur coats on
and big, rich automobiles, and you
hear and read in the papers about the
movie stars Of Hollywood and how
much money they spend and so much
of everything, while we, the farmers
that feed them all, have to starve and
freeze. Yes, we need to join hands
and fight. If we don't the rich will
be out killing us off because we are
so poor. Mr.. and Mrs. A. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
WORKING CLASS
WOMEN SUFFER
MUCH IN CRISIS
Must Fight Side By
Side With Men
Denver, Col.

NA'NA1 WV
Daily Worker
We read a lot in the capitalist press
about the good work the charitable
organizations are doing among the
poor. But the workers out OF Jobs
and hungry who apply to these or
CARNATIONS for help have a different
story to tell,
Here in Denver widow out OF a
job, with no money to buy food and
clothing for herself and five children
the youngest of whom is two years
old, applied to the welfare depart
ment for help, and was told to come
back in week and they would see
what they could do for her. At the
end of week she went back; but
was told that she would have to wait
another week. After waiting two
weeks she was given q dollar and a
half. Eight days later, they gave
her two dollars and half, but when
she went back a week later she was
told they could do no more for her,
that the welfare department could
only help her one month, and she
would have to wait six months be-
fore she could get any more help
from them.
Worked For Low Pay.
All last summer this woman and
her ten year old boy worked on a
farm, but the wages we're so low that
she could not save any money, now
she can not find work, is unable to
pay her rent, or buy fuel, and has to
pick up coal on the railroad track.
All the food they have is the little
their friends are able to give them.
And because this mother is unable to
provide for her children the welfare
department threatens to take them
from her.
We women of the working class are
suffering more from unemployment.
And we must join our men in the un.
employment demonstrations an
hunger marches that are taking place
all over the country And we must
fight for the Workers Social InSur-
ance Bill, which the unemployed
councils of the Trade Union Unity
League will present to Congress, Feb
ruary 10. ID. e. E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Ford Opens for Three
Days Then Closes
Again Indefinitely
(By a Worcorr)

PORTLAND, Jan. 20.-The local
Ford plant opened after its "inven-
tory period" for full time produc-
ton" and now is closed. 1t ran two
days. The local press made 1t ap-
pear as if the Portland unemployed
situation was helped by this "open-
ing" This is part of the national
Ford procedure to help delude the
workers.
The local relief fund of 100000
only figures up to $4,000 spent
Somebody received nice pay check
to help relieve" unemployment.
The Portland workers were relieved
alright. There have been five sui
cides in Portland this month already
end the press is admitting that the
prospects of getting job are becom-
ing scarcer,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Profits of Jail
Labor Goes to the
Bosses, Not Workers
Philadelphia, Pa.

Pnlladelpnia, Pa.
Daily Worker:
I have just come out of the Holmes
burg County Prison of Philadelphia
after a long term served because
was active in the picket line in a
strike about nine months ago.
At this prison new machinery has
been installed for shoe making, weav-
ing and tailoring. All the profits
made from these products manufac-
tured at this jail will go to the NUM-
cipality of Philadelphia, while the
prisoners are dressed in rags and
shoes that weigh three pounds a pair.
And in addition the prisoners suffer
from malnutrition because of poor
food.
And yet the capitalists have the
nerve to talk about Russian forced
convict labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
TEXTILE STRIKES
IN PHILADELPHIA
Battle Wage Cuts i'm
Many Mills
(By a Worker Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. 2l.-
Strikes in the hosiery and other tex
tile plants of Philadelphia are break
ing out regularly. In addition to the
shops already out as previously re-
ported in the Daily Worker the fol-
lowing shops are now tied up by
strikes declared this week.
The Lucille Mills. American and
Bristol Streets paid the workers
stockings instead of money Saturday.
Not being able TO eat the stockings
or buy food with them all the work
ers Of this shop went on strike Mon
day.
All Out at Spurtex Mills.
The Franklin shop. better known
as the Spurtex Mills, near Kensing-
ton Avenue, is now closed and $50
workers including all the girls at this
plant having declared a strike.
Today the biggest hosiery strike oil
all was declared by an unanimous
vote of the 1900 workers OF the -four
shops of the United States Hosiery Co
Three Of the shops are located In
Philadelphia and one in Langhorne
Pa
The hosiery knitters OF both the
Franklin and the U. S, mill had their
wages cut.
Wcavers Strike.
AT the Erben- Harding WOODEN Co.
the weavers were compelled TO worl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
BOY SCOUT PLAN
HITS AT JOBLESS
Starving Workers in
Southern Cal.

The Daily Worer: Stocton, Cal.
The latest capitalist insult to the
worers is the sending of Boy Scouts
around from house to house, can
wasting for jobs for the unemployed.
The rotten part is the fact that the
Scouts are telling how the starving
worker is willing to work for IS cents
an hour. That's lie, but many Of
us have to do so.
This scheme hurts us worers who
are holding odd jobs, We are bad
enough off now. How the hell can
we live decent if we are compelled to
work for such wages.
The city pays SO a day and less,
according to the work, starving a
married man and working him at the
same time is an insult as well as a
crime.
Some Of the swells have arrived
home from Governor Rolph's spree or
reception. We have prohibition, but
they didn't have it at this swell af-
fair.
Mr. Rolph not only refused to talk
to the unemployed delegates, but he
insulted them by his cowardly man.
ner. He had the state buildings sur
rounded by police and militia.
Funny how afraid they are of the
unarmed unemployed. They would
shae worse if we were a marching
army of well-equipped troops pre-
pared for war. Der Tag, that's the
day when all must be paid. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

(By a Farmer Correspondent
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-A CORES
pendent for the Chicago Tribune
came to England, Ark, and tried to
compare conditions among farmers
here to the conditions prevailing
among the farmers in "old" Eng
land.
This fellow was not merely funny,
he also lied deliberately. The poor
farmer in southern United States is
far worse off than the English
farmer.
Terrible Housin~.
Glance at the house" Of the poor
farmer at England, Ark, for in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Charity Salesw0man
Gets Graft" Exposes
Worker i'm Knit Shop
by a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-Your columns have
been exposing the graft in the vari-
Gus charitable unemployment organ
izations Frankly, I have been rather
doubtful. However, today an impor-
tant example of this sort of thing
came to my attention.
work for a firm which manufac-
lures sweaters. A woman represent
ing herself as member of an I'M
employed committee, headed by in
fluential and wealthy people, includ-
ing a Judge, came in and purchased
several dozen sweaters for the unem-
ployed. After giving her a price for
the merchandise, she requested per
cent commission, saying we could
higher the price if necessary
Here is an example of where some
of the funds go to. Starting from
the very lowest ranks as buyers, 5
per cent is chopped off Immediately.
I can just imagine how the percen-
tage of graft increases at each sue
cessive step, before the clothing
finally reaches the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Two Hungry Workers
Shot in Fruit Grove

Ell CENTRIC. Calif.-Fred Smith.
46. died in the County Hospital here
today of gunshot wounds suffered on
January It'll, while helping himself to
some fruit in rich farmers orchard
A. Q. Smith, owner of the orchard,
told police that he shot the worker
when he caught him taking "his
fruit"
The worker explained before his
death that he was starving and went
into the grove for enough fruit for
meal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

Spanish workers are the hardest hit
as they are Disseminated against and
thousands come in for the winter
from the beet fields.
Bessemer City, the proletarian sec
ton, home of the steel workers, has
a breadline. Starvation was so RAM
pant that the city was forced to do
something. At the So-called work
mems relief station over 200 families
receive two quarts of milk and two
loaves of bread daily for an average
size family. But to even get this
crumb one must be a citizen of Pu-
eblo, without work or food, give the
names of the former employers and
get a card from your city grocer en-
titling you to relief.
The capitalist paper even states
further that more relief stations will
be opened. All money is raised by
donations to carry ON this work.
The committee in charge states that
81 will feed family of four for 16
days. This is not living, but slow
starvation.
Workers of Pueblo organize and
fight. Fight for the Unemployment
Insurance Bill, where every worker
gets $25 per week from the govern
ment war funds. Make the G. Fl.
come across with the millions of dol
lars that we have produced.
Workers, don't starve, but fight like
hell. %. j. @.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Bosses Try to Hide Spread of Influenza
Among Jobless Workers of Philadelphia

jump i'm mild cases bronchial and
CASTRO intestinal flu.
The Record claims that few cases
have turned into pneumonia or re-
suited in death, but admits that
exact figures on the number strick-
en- are not available. A further ad-
mission is that physicians inter-
viewed were unanimous in saying
that thousands Of homes and hun
dreds Of offices and factories have
been swept by the highly contagious
disease.
These conditions have been pre-
valent for more than three weeks
and are worscning daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Ark. Farmers Live in
Worst Kind Of ShackS for Houses

stance. A small one wall rough
shack, papered inside in any old
way. Scores Of cracks letting in the
sunlight, the cold and the rain. No
furniture to speak of. Absolute pow
erty reigns supreme. This is the
rule. not the exception here. A de-
mand for better housing conditions
is very much in order.
There are thousands Of farm
communities in the South even
worse off.
The building Of the United Farm
ers League and the distribution OF
Communist literature is . blessing
for us farmers here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Philadelphia Pa.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
Although efforts are being made
to hide the epidemic Of disease now
prevalent in Philadelphia these e.
forts are not successful.
In fact, after nearly everybody
conscious knew about II the astute
Philadelphia Record sent its report
ers 10 interview prominent physi-
clans yesterday.
Even this organ Of bigger and
better advertising had to admit that
the prominent" physicians agreed
that this year there was N unusual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
WISCONSIN DAIRY FARMERS LOSING COWS AND FARMS
Miners Families in
Butte. Montana Are
On Hunger Level

Butte, Montana.
My Dear Comrades:
With 5000 miners here there is
starvation and misery. About 5000
or 1000 miners are working and
they are working two weeks on
and one week off. So that ali
workers are starving. And those
1900 produced more for the capt.
talists than when 10000 were work
ing years ago.
Many poor families are starving
here. %. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Unemployed Steel Workers
Families Starve Slowly in
ROckefellers' Rich Domain
"Relief" Is ST for Family of Four for
Sixteen Days
Steel Workers, Organize an Unemployed Coun-
Gil for Real Fight
(By a Worker Correspondent

PUEBLO, ColoHere in the "Stee City of the Vest the
economic crisis has hit and hit hard The Mnnequa Steel plant
the backbone of the industry here which thousands of work
ers depend for living is working at very low point of pro-
duction
Of the steel workers the first to feel the crisis
unemployment At the best only few days per month to
give other worker chance for shift two. In other
words the stagger system used throughout the plant Thou
sands have been thrown out permanently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
THOMPSON GIVES
Big WAGE SLASH
And Many Lay-offs in
Restaurants

Chicago, Ill.
Daily Worker:
am an experienced short order
cook and lunch counter man out of
work through the greed of John r.
Thompson Co. who rob the people
and the workers all the time. They
have laid off hundreds of us who
need work to keep our families from
starvation.
They cut wages 25 per cent for the
remainder of the workers, who work
harder than ever. Please advise work
ers to boycott these slave drivers who
have not contributed one cent for the
relief OF the poor starving workers
they have laid off.
On the Soup Line.
A number of us including myself
are compelled to walk three miles or
more and stand in line one to three
hours to get lousy meal ticket from
those lying fat masters of graft and
corruption, the Volunteers of Amer
lea. Walk back three or more miles
and wait in line for hours, sometimes
until next day to get lousy bowl OF
burnt soup, stale bread and rotten
slice of meat SO thin you can see
through it and not fit to feed even a
dog and cup half full OF coffee,
so weak Zone pound to 20 gallons OF
water it tasted like dishwater.
Thousands Hungry.
Everyday there are thousands
turned away hungry, who start all
over again the next day. There are
thousands who are out of work and
starving, at least 100000 in Chicago
area and what has the boosted gov
ernor's relief commission done?
Headed by the arch robber of the
people, George F. Getz, who got his
in the coal business, they just dilly
daily and mark time and fritter away
the fund to relieve The starving UNI
employed workers and we get no re-
lief.
! am firm Communist but they
have no one to organize us or sign up
members in this part Of town, 1t
seems. &C. r.
Editorial Note: Boycott, at best,
is an auxiliary and passive weapon
In fighting the bosses. Orsaniza-
ton and struggle on the job under
revolutionary union leadership, or
ganization and fight for unemploy-
ment relief under the Unemployed
Council leadership, these two are
the main weapons in fighting for
better conditions, hours, wages and
unemployment insurance. And II is
in these channels primarily, and
not that Of boycott. that the work
ers' struggle must be led.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24

two days a week at very low wages
with a new wage cut of is per cent
for this week walked out Monday.
Additional strikes are expected
daily at various hosiery mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
Those Who Produce Starve
and Freeze, While the Idle
Rich Revel in Luxuries
What Was the Richest Dairy Center Now the
Scene of Bankruptcy and Misery
Unity of City Workers and Farmers Can Force
Relief, Aid From Bankers Govt
Rice Lake, Wiscon.

Dear Sir
AS in the city of Superior and while was waiting
tor my train happened to notice of your papers that
mean page of the paper and from what have read in
that page think must be good paper So am asking you
send sample of the paper Also would you to send
few samples out in part of the country feel confident
there are lots OF people think would be very interested init
We live in the richest dairy state in the world and our Bar