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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
READY TO FIGHT
BUTCHER GANGS
Hebrew Trades In Big
Sign Selling Rampage

NEW YORK-Calling on the
butcher workers to resist the hired
gangs of the United Hebrew Trades
to fight with the Food Workers In
dustrial Union for real gains for the
workers and for the six-day week, the
F. w. I. U. has issued a leaflet on
the proposed organization strike of
the Hebrew Butcher Workers, which
says:
THE Ivy Leffs and the Sussmans,
who had themselves laterly reelected,
are now preparing another Of their
famous organization strikes, whereby
they will be able to make few dol
lars by taxing the members heavily,
and not giving any financial reports,
as usual.
These takers are not at all inter
ested to better the conditions of the
workers. Left and Susslnan are still
carrying around full pockets of in
functions against the members of the
militant Food Workers Industrial
Union, and this is what they need
your money for. It's about time for
the butcher workers to wake up and
put stop to these damnable condi-
tons.
The strike is directed primarily at
shops where union conditions have al
ready been established by the F. w.
I. U. The Hebrew Butcher Workers
of the U. H T, propose to take away
these conditions and give sign and
an injunction instead Workers Wis
tied by the thugs of the reactionaries
should not be terrorized, but call up
the Food Workers Industrial Union
downtown at Chelsea 2274 or in the
Bronx at Mott Haven 70i4.
To the butchers hitherto forced into
the United Hebrew Trades, the Food
Workers Industrial Union calls:
"Refuse to pay taxes which are be-
ing forced upon you for fake strikes
Not a cent should be paid to these
takers and injunctionistsl
workers, take things into your own
hands, over the heads of the mislead-
ersl
Prepare to turn the fake strike into
a real strike!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
COP ADVISES STARVING
MAN TO STARVE LONGER

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Jan. S.-The
big bosses of California are spending
$4,000 on the Inauguration of Mayor
Rolph, but not one cent for the
starving unemployed.
Almost every day in each big Cal
ifornia city they pick up men who
have dropped on the street from hun
recently, told the cop he had moth
ing to eat for six days, and very
little before that. The policeman
jeered at him, and said, eff you stood
it six days without food, you ought
to be able to make it through to
Spring alright"
ger. The police are absolutely cynical
to them. The man I saw picked up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
FINE SPEECHES
AND WAGE CUTS
Program at De Garoy
Underwear Shop
(By Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YCpr--I am worker in
silk underwee- and neglegee house,
De Carey Underwear Company, 1876
Madison Avenue.
Our shop is ruled by a father and
three sons. Our boss is very liberal
man In his last speech he s., i,
"I have been very good to you"
(meaning the coffee we get lunch time
at a cent cup). But he forgetS to
mention the Is cents he takes off
from our pay every time. we forget to
punch the time clock when we go
home
1t seems that he has the knack
o. speech-making. Every time he
starts to cut wages or speed up his
shop he comes up with nice speech
all made up. He always tells us that
he keeps the shop running for our
welfare and we must help turn out
more work so that he will be able to
keep the shop going. But the way
we have already reached the 44-hour
week and the Is dollar a week I
suppose that is also for our welfare.
Lately the old kiln is not seen
around the shop often. His Oldest
son is taking over the speech-making.
Just to prove that the son is just as
liberal as his father little while
ago he gave us a beautiful speech
about the business depression and
the crisis now at hand and subtracted
$500 from our wages.
Our manager has also learned the
art Of speech making. He is always
dressed in black suit like an UNDER
taker and struts around the shop
like a peacock.
! also want to mention that the pins
that the girls get to pin the garments
are Of he cheapest quality. They are
always rusty and the girls are always
in danger Of getting blood poison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
SAN ANTONIO WORKERS
GREET TUUL PROGRAM

SAN ANTONIO, Texas.-Workers
in San Antonio, Texas, are very en-
thusiastic about the program Of the
Trade Union Unity League.
In the Negro neighborhood a per-
manent headquarters has already
been secured, where an open forum
will be conducted, library opened
and study classes held.
The hall will also be used as a
headquarters for the unemployed
council, which has outlined plan of
work for the future that will include
hunger marches and demonstrations
before the city hall and county build
ings.
The first of series OF mass meet
ings will be held on Jan. Is at the
new headquarters, Hubert Hall, 4o41a
Nebraska st. Speakers will be I. G.
Craft, Ethel Craft, Negro workers;
B. H. Cogdall and Alma Polkoff. AL
workers are invited to be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
Y0NkERS .JOBLESS
MOBILIZE TODAY
Demonstration Jan. 10
Attacked; 2 Jailed
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
go without food much longer the
mayor is probably right, lot of them
will be dead.
This $l50,OOO is being raised by tax
ing the already poorly paid workers.
The Yonkers Electric Light and
Power Co. has raised $4,325,86 of it
by such a tax and other Big COM
panies do the same. Many carpet
mill workers get from Sc to So per
week.
Half the Yonkers workers are UNI
employed. The Yonkers Herald itself
recently admitted that hundreds of
children go around in the midst Of
winter without underwear.
Yonkers jobless demand half the
city budget of $15,000,000 for relief,
and more from the reduction of Fog
arty and his officials to $4,000 year.
They demand $40 week for each
jobless worker and SIS for families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
WOODS ALSO
ADMITS CAUSE
is CAPITALISM

Colonel Arthur Woods. head Of
President Hooyer's Committee on
Unemployment. admitted Satur-
day that the misery Of jobless is
due directly to capitalism. His
statement. couched In demagogic
language, says:
1T Is not the fault Of the people
who are out OF work that they are
out Of work. II the arrangement
Of an economic system, which they
are not responsible for, puss them
in a position where they cannot
earn an honest living, the system
Of which they are . part must as
sumo It's share Of responsibility IN
mitigating the distress"
n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
MORGAN LEAVES FOR TROPIC CRUISE
AS JOBLESS STARVE AND FREEZE
Hungry Negro Sailor Collapses on Water Front;
Suicides of Unemployed Grow; Bosses
Press SURPRISING News

8, unemployed and in i'll health from
malnutrition hanged himself in the
basement of his home.
In Tacoma, Wash, Harry Derketch,
40, an ex-service man, spent his last
% cents to operate gas meter in his
room so he could commit suicide.
The Tacoma suicide story is sent
the Daily Worker by an eX-service-
man, who enclosed the following note:
II am sending little news item
from Tacoma which wish you would
publish.
Even eX-Servicemen must Starye
here in Tacoma. That is the reward
they get for fighting for the bosses.
When the bosses want us to fight
for them the next time, we workers
must reach our sober sense and turn
the guns against the bosses, that is,
to establish a workers and farmers
government. Comradely yours,
An Unemployed Worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
JUST WAKING UP

The American Civil Liberties Union
announces that it is preparing ma
terial for campaign against labor
injunctions" but it shows that it has
not the slightest notion of what the
injunction is.
The ACLU. makes this redicu-
lous statement: There is very little
material on the subject. Nobody
seems to know why injunctions are
so much feared and why their eff
forts are so much more disastrous or
strikes than troops or police?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12

out the whole meeting. They con-
stantly begged the delegates to be
calm.
A great mass meeting is being ar
ranged here in which William 2.
Foster, general secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League, viii be
the main speaker The meeting will
be January 10, at 8 pm, in Slovenian
Auditorium, GAIT st. Clair Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12

NEW Observation-Disclosures
and cold weather have given New
Orleans its biggest prison population
in many years." said Eugene Staley,
district attorney. Thousands are out
Of work, and these homeless workers
are looking for nightly shelter in the
jaiis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
Needle Workers Out
Early This Morning!

NEW YORK.-All active members
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union are called to meet this
morning at 7:30 a. m in the union
headquarters, 1871 West 18th st. They
will go from there for active picket
ing OF struck chops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
VOLUNTEERS WANTED

for Lenin Memorial pageant. Re-
hearsals every Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday at 1871 West 18th
ST., at 8 o'clock sharp. All COM
rades willing to participate come
tonight.
Workers Laboratory Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-12
Party Activities.

MONDAY
F.S.U. Stain Brapd aud LID. Ella
May Virgins Branch
Lecture by Lem Harris on US.S.E
In Construction at 730 at Manhattan
Lyceum. &C Il. Fourth St. n. Y.
English Speaking Section
OF the Bronx Workers CLUB. newly
Headquarters. AZ oBtson.Rd.
joint Meetfpe
Al Brownsville and E.E,Y. LID.
TnohAs At lis Bristol ~ nnnsklv1,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
Trades

six days of eight hours and elimina-
ton of work between 10 p. m. and
6 a. m.
At the opening session, Gov. Pin
chot advocated uniform labor codes to
aid in the stabilization of industry.
He told the conference that the coun-
try is hardly past the pioneer stage
in the enactment of labor legislation
and that much remains to be done.
More Uniform Standards Urged
The governor said the migration of
industry from one state to another
where labor standards are lower "is a
serious factor in the general instabil-
ity of many of our industries"
The only major point in which there
is anything like uniformity is in the
compensation laws, he said, and that
is in the waiting period in disability
cases. The amount of compensation
and the inclusion of occupational dis
eases under compensation are mat.
ters in which the states vary radi-
cally.
II think we will agree that none OF
our states has completely satisfactory
labor legislation" he continued. 1.-THE
states some of you represent have
particularly good compensation laws
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
TEXTILE UNION
TO PUSH PROGRAM
FOR HOURS CUT
Emergency Committee to
Formulate Plans for Es-
tablishment of National
Maximum 48-HOur Week.

New York City ILNS)-Meeting
here, the executive council of the
United Textile Workers of America
discussed plans for the establishment
of maximum 48-hour working week
in the textile industry and instructed
the emergency committee of the or
ganization to formulate a national
program to bring the shorter week.
One days session was devoted to
the 48-hour week proposal. President
Thomas F. Mcmahon stated that it
was the unanimous opinion of the
executive council that the industry, as
a whole, would be benefited by the
acceptance of this principle and, with
the abolition of night work for wom-
en- and minors, the industry could be
regulated and the workers assured of
more continues employment.
Workers Must Act
President Mcmahon declared that
the ruinous practice of some employ
ers, in refusing to comply with the
regulation of the Cotton Textile Insti-
tute is responsible, in large meas
ure, for the deplorable state of the
industry and the workers, as a matter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03

STATE TROOPERS
Round Up Thugs Seeking to
Intimidate Strikers
New Stunt

Allentown, Ia. (ILNS)-Allentown
silk strikers have been treated to a
spectacle new to labor situations in
Pennsylvania. State troopers sum
marily bundled so-claled guards es-
corting strikebreakers into the Pyra-
mid mills out of their cars into the
street in front Of the plant and frisk-
ed them all for concealed weapons in
the sight of a couple of hundred glee-
full strikers. A piece of taped lead
pipe was found on one of the thugs,
whereupon the state troopers bun
died the four dicks off to the city
lookup.
The Allentown cops, evidently feel
ing these ugly looking outsiders bit
out of their line, had the troopers
come in and handle this matter for
them. Fourteen in all of these "hard
guys" most of whom drive in high
powered cars with Connecticut IL
censes, have now been rounded up as
a result of the initiative taken by the
strikers following an attempt last
week, when a gang of the guards" +"
attacked three strikers, seriously in
juring two. The governor then acted
and the city cops and Sheriff Kellow
Of Lehigh then went along.
Nine of the IA operatives have been
identified by the strikers who were
victims of their attack or who saw the
fight, as having been among those
who tried the murder and strong arm
tactics. The rest of the IA are being
held on concealed weapon or other
charges and all are in the county jail
until the agency that sent them in
comes through with bail All of the
men arrested admit being hired by
the Manning agency of Newark and
give addresses in and around that
city.
The sheriff claims that only two OF
the local manufacturers, the Pyramid
and the Majestic, are importing plug
uglies to intimidate strikers; the
strikers, on the other hand, are not
convinced and suspect that all the EN-
ployers are party to this little ex-
plot. 1t is thought the experiment Of
Pyramid and Majestic in trying tx
run with help brought in from out.
lying places under guard of plug ug
lies is simply a try-out for all the
manufacturers.
Consistent efforts to reach settle
ment are being made by the workers
many unofficial attempts to have tn,
workers come back to work and tall
terms later are being made. 1t i!
hoped that the exposure of the meth
DDS of strikebreaking or private de
tective agencies in this situation may
stimulate interest in the often repeat
ed demand of organized labor for in
terstate regulation of these vicious
parasites.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03

ment and American skill, as shall
produce and make available for every
American worker livelihood, home,
a leisure and a level of intelligence
which shall reflect the mechanical pos
sibilities of this era, in the making of
which they have all shared
"It is recognized throughout the
civilized world that Americas wage
and salary earners have attained the
highest standard of living ever at
tanned by any people in all history
And we measure their standards in
the character of homes and dwellings,
enjoyed by the masses. 1t is further
recognized that this enviable position
of the masses has been acquired by
our higher wage standards. Were the
reverse true, then China and India
should excel in providing their people
with better homes and dwelling places.
1t is an indisputable fact that the
American building industry has made
for its rapid and remarkable growth
because of the higher wage and salary
of Americas workers as compared
with the worker of any other nation.
1t must therefore be apparent that
your program must have for its OBJ
jective. not alone the retention of
present wage and salary income of
the masses, but its constant increase
at is likewise evident that any one
advocating a wage reduction in the
building trades, is but aiding and
abettng in a movement for wage re-
ductions in all trades and occupations
And IN so doing he is tearing down
the very structure upon which the
building industry must count for re-
turn OF normalcy and it's constant fu-
ture growth and prosperity
at is not necessary to go to Rus
Sia to find a seller who will cut prices,
in order to get the cash The seller
who can sell little cheaper, and still
make safe profit, by reason of a
lower cost on his commodity, is al
ways a force to be reckoned with, in
any market"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
FAKE UNION LABEL
DRAWS BIG FINE

New York City (ILNS)-You can't
use a faxed union label in this big
town and get away with it--not for
very long, anyway.
Samuel Weiser, printer, was tried
in special sessions court and fined
$1O0.
During the past six months Secre-
tary William Robinson, of the Allied
Printing Trades Council, has been
campaigning against the use of faxed
labels This is the second conviction
in Brooklyn. Secretary Robinson is
carrying on the campaign in other
boroughs against those charged with
using faxed labels and representing
their shops as union
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
New York Walters Beat
Proposed Cut in Wages

Cincinnati, 0. GLNS)-Interna-
tional headquarters of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees and Beverage
Dispensers International Alliance an
nounces a complete victory of New
York City Walters Local Union No.
/. A strike was called on June 13
against proposed drastic cut in
wages. Two thousand members were
affected An agreement was reached
at the end of six days, the walters
maintaining their conditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
NEGRO IN INDUSTRY
SHOWS LARGE GAINS

Washington.-A marked increase of
negroes to northern industrial centers
is disclosed in figures compiled by the
census bureau
The shift has been largely from
rural sections to urban centers. Many
industrial centers in the South show
a marked gain in negro population
from 1920 to 1880, the chief loss being
in rural communities.
In Delaware Maryland, Michigan
and Missouri the negro population in
creased faster than did the white.
This is also true in such industrial
cities as Philadelphia, Akron, Cincin-
nat, Indianapolis, Detroit, Kansas
City, ST. Louis, Baltimore and Flint,
Mich.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
World Slump, Not Tariff
Cut U. S. Foreign Trade
Government Figures Confound Attackers of New Tariff
Schedules By Revealing Fall in Commerce With
Other Nations Began Before Imposts Went Into
Effect

There is the picture. The tumult-er
says: Look at that drop in exports
from 1929 to 1880 per cent! And
we point to the little table, and say:
True enough! And look at the drop
from 1929 to 1930-20 per cent. And
that was before the new tariff ever
got in sight
And now we say: Look at that
drop in imports-50 per cent And
that began in 1880, too. And it was
for about the same rate.
First trade fell off-and then it
kept on falling, in this country, and
all over the world We are about 80
points below normal-which accounts
for large part of the millions of
dollars difference in trade in both
directions. Then allow for the drop in
prices all over the world as we'll as
here, and you have the balance of the
account
We used less raw silk from Japan,
and we paid cheaper price for what
we got. And the same applied to rub
Der, and coffee, and manganese, and
pulp wood.
One of the considerable items that
dropped out this year was the Rus
sian machinery trade And just what
did the tariff have to do with that?
The fact is, that when we try to pin
these tumult-ers down with a brass
tack or thumb-screw, we find that
they will have to admit that they have
been talking largely through their
American-made hats.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
UNIFORM LABOR
LAWS ADVOCATED
BY CONFERENCE
Representatives of 10 States
Recommend Standar d
Codes Covering Work
mems Compensation, Job
Agencies, Etc.

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)-Repre-
sentatives of ten states recommended
adoption of uniform labor laws at a
conference called here by Gov. Pin
chot to consider the subject. Penn
sylvania, New York, Maryland, Mas
sachusetts, Ohio, West Virginia and
Rhode Island were represented. Uni
form legislation urged covered work
mems compensation, industrial health,
employment offices and employment
of women and minors.
The conference endorsed a recon-
mendation for women's minimum
wages, a 48-hour working week of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03

The employer who lays off his men
and allows them to depend on relief
from charity and become public
charge is shirking his responsibility.
He is adding to business depression.
Workers have lost approximately
three and half billion dollars from
unemployment alone this first halt
year, we estimate. Adding the losses
from part-time work and wage cuts
workers buying power in the first
half of 1881 is below 1929 by more
than five billion dollars.
"In the half year ahead we face an
other similar loss in workers in
comes. But if lay-of are avoided and
workers given part-time employment
when full work is not possible, some
of this loss can be prevented"
Job Losses General
The A. F. of L. report for different
industries shows that the increase in
unemployment has been general. Only
three trade groups have escaped. The
water transport trades, longshoremen
and seamen, have a few more at work
with the summer busy season, but
even now, less than half their mem
bers have full work, and "a per cent
are fully unemployed.
The A. F. of L. figures are as fol-
lows:
ALL TRADE-Per Cent Unemployed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-03
Reduction in Building Wages
Blow at All Pay, Woll Warns
Labor Executive Urges Wage Standards Be Maintained
For Benefit of Entire Building Industry-Critcizes
Governmental SlOwness i'm Construction Program.

New York City (ILNS) Warning
that blow at wages in construction
work would be blow at standards all
along the line, Matthew Woll, vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor, in an address to the Invest
ing and Contracting Builders Asso-
citation here, criticized governmental
slowness in getting it's building pro-
gram under way, and urged private
employers to hold their wage stand
ards up for the benefit of the whole
industry.
"Mass consumption, he said, "has
failed to keep up with mass produc-
ton. During the entire period of So
called prosperity dividends and sur
plus were increasing many times
faster than wages. During the ten
year period ending in 1929, produc-
tivity increased 48.5 per cent, while
real wages increased only 24.3 per
cent. During the 30-year period end
ing in 1929, the cost of living in
creased 2475 per cent, while real
wages in manufacturing enterprise in
creased but 1899 per cent.
The combined loss in purchasing
power due to unemployment, under
employment and sproportionately
small wage increases is colossal and
has been estimated as a total decrease
in wage payments from 1929 to 1880
of approximately 100000 And
it should be remembered that our fac
tory industries were not going back
ward during the period of 1929 to
1880.
Facts Are Challenged
"These facts are challenge to
every American who takes pride in
what are called American standards.
Every right-thinking person should
meet every call for wage reductions
with enthusiastic opposition. Instead
of centering attention on wage reduc-
tions, we should direct our attention
to a program for such utilization of
American resources, American equip