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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07


ComradeS:--
The crisis Of capitalism and the
despair of the workers is greatly re-
Elected in the amount of workers ap-
plying for civil service examinations.
1t used to be a sign of waning self
confidence for anyone to accept a
government job. However, due to the
alternative of either finding a master
or starving to death, and due to the
loss of faith (Which may never have
existed between the workers and thu
bosses, the city finds abundant wage
slaves at its disposal. Sixteen thou
sand people passed the examination
for Clerk, Grade 2, recently giver
However, there are exactly % such
positions to be filled. 1t is antici-
pated that the list will be sufficient
for the next four years. This is one
of the clever ways the city is trying
to solve the unemployment situation!
L. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
Mayor Hague Boasts of Biggest Riot Squad
in i. s. to Crush 10000 Jobless Workers

becomes a nightmare, a bad dream
whose bitter portents are often re-
allied in evictions, furniture dumped
helter-skelter on the sidewalks, homes
broken up, naked misery parading
like ghoul
Sl.OO0,O00 For Paradcs, Nothing
For Unemployed.
A few weeks ago Jersey City chat
is, Mayor Hague) celebrated the three
hundredtll anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the city. Forty thousand
jcbless workers. facing grim starva-
ton, were called upon to commemo-
rate the memory of Peter Stuyvesant,
a ferocious reactionary whose fame
largely rests on his passing of a pro-
hibition law to increase his own liquor
business.
The main streets of the city we're
decorated with flags. bunting and
electric lights, oil paid for out of the
city treasury. Monster parades were
held, in which gaily bedecked and
costly floats depicted the generosity
of the Statue Of Liberty, the demo-
cratic party and Mayor Hague him
self All in all the celebration cost
100000. Before that and since
Hague has refused to set aside dol
lar for unemployment relief, confin-
ing his relief activities to arranging
football game between two local
high school teams. On the day that
Standard Oil, Dixon Graphite and
American Railway Express laid off
several thousand more workers,
Hague staged a pageant costing
100000. CircuseS without the bread
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
Workers Unemployment Insurance

The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes
lUnemplOyment insurance at the
unemployed worker and IS additional
2The creation Unemployment Insurance Fund 70
be raised by a
b levy all capital
all incomes $500 year
3That the Unemployment
be administered by Workers
and unemployed workers.
al who sign the lists being Workers
hona Campaign Committee for
sldary organizations demand that
final form possibly
and elect the delegation
sby) amended by the delegation itself
bill will follow the points printed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

At cost of many millions of dol
lars, Hague has constructed a city
hospital which he never fails to point
to as indicating his interest in and
love for the people" Actually the
hospital has been a means of enrich
ing himself and his friends with lu-
crative contracts. Moreover, worker
in need of medical treatment has as
much chance Of finding a bed in the
Jersey City Hospital as America has
OF returning to pre-1929 prosperity"
The hospital has become virtually a
private sanatorium where friends of
Hague may go for a prolonged rest
cure
Whenever a demand is raised that
some of Jersey Citys rutty streets be
paved, or that the tax-rate, highest
in America, be lowered, Hagues re-
ply is to build an addition to the City
Hospital. The priests, of whom there
are so many that a stone thrown in
the air would fall on forty of them,
and the newspapers never fail to
point with pride" at these bones
thrown to a hungry populace.
Building Repaired Before Completed
The most recent addition to the
hospital cost several million dollars,
al 1.-The contracts being awarded to
firms who had previously guaranteed
to return part of the contract price
to Hague. Before the hospital was
finished, the city was called upon to
repair the plaster in this building
which had never been used. The
foundations of the structure are
cracking already and the power house
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

working class laws to crush the rising
revolt of the masses against the sys-
tenn which sentences millions of un-
employed workers to death by starVa-
ton.
There is need fer strengthening
the law relative to the deportation
of those aliens who are affiliated
with organizations which advocate
the overthrow of the Government
of the United States" Doak told
the Senate i'll his letter.
The campaign against the foreign
born, then, is not a campaign against
alien racketeers and criminals as the
bosses and their press have tried to
make 1t appear. 1t is, as the Com
munist Party has repeatedly pointed
out, a campaign against those foreign
born workers showing the least sign
of militancy, against those who dare
to participate in the struggles Of the
American masses against the capital
list starvation policy. 1t is directed
against the entire working class and
must be resisted as such.
Further exposing tn boss class
character of the campaign was the
action of executive committee Of the
Chamber Of Commerce Of New York
State in demanding of their servants
in Congress passage of "a measure
for the compulsory fingerprinting
all aliens in this country as a means
of strengthening the deportation
laws"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
$500 FACE RAIN
IN CLEVELAND
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)a

between 1900 and 1000, the number
varying as the bitter cold and sleet
drove many to seek shelter.
Gathering outside factories, where
they had been seeking work, in halls
and at other neighborhood centers
early in the day, hundreds of Cleve-
lands jobless besides those who were
hardly enough to brave the weather
and march to the City Hall, listened
to the message of the Councils of
the Unemployed Already in the
morning, hundreds of jobseekers who
had gathered at the Fisher Body
plant were on the march to hall
halfway downtown shouting their
demands for immediate relief.
300 Police.
First to arrive at the city hall were
the East Side hunger marchers, who
we're greeted by q solid wall of 800
police, lined up three deep on the
steps and along the street. The
cheering as each succeeding parade
arrived in good order made many
well-fed agent of the bosses in the
City Council squirm uneasily in his
seat. A delegation of Is was imme-
diately elected by the demonstration
to carry the demands of the unern-
ployed for immediate establishment
OF an emergency fund to provide ST.
week for single jobless workers and
$25 week for those with dependents
and other demands.
Leaders of the unemployed councils
addressed the demonstrations waiting
outside the city hall, telling how the
city is paying $25, 1000 to city man
ager, is maintaing a golf department
and has money without end to waste
in graft and serving the bosses in
terests.
Finally the delegation returned and
reported that the Council, true to
the masters it serves, would rather
see the unemployed starve than &C
cede to their demands.
Conference Friday.
There was no miStaking the mil
liant spirit of the workers. This
hunger march is the forerunner of
bigger and more militant demonstra-
tons for unemployment insurance
and genuine relief, for which the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
SUB DRIVE MUST BE
MORE PRODUCTIVE

In spite of the steady increases the subscrip-
ton campaign has never been as productive as
1t should have BEEN Expirations have not been
thoroughly followed up by the Party units. Ex-
cepuonal premiums offered by the Daily Worker
are not being sufficiently used to obtain long
term subscriptions.
Every worker is interested in the deyeIop-
ment of socialism in the Soviet Union "The
Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union" by Greg
DRY L. Grinko, is given free with one years
subscription or renewal. The 1881 Daily Work
or calendar is given free with a months
subscription or renewal to the Daily Worker.
More intense efforts must be put into the drive
Tor subscriptions until the close of the campaign
There is no reason why there cannot be
Red Builders News Club composed of unemployed
workers in every city where the Party has a unit
Jobless workers receive the paper for cent and
sell 1T for cents. The Party must be held re-
sponsible for the formation of these clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

which is to supply the electricity has
not yet been built although the hos
pital proper has ben ready for sew
eral months. A new nurses home
was built to supplement the hospital.
Very deliberately, the architect, at
Hague'S orders, forgot" to draw I'D
plans for sewer One is now being
built at a cost of 100000, about a
third Of which will find it's way into
Mayor Hagues capacious pocket.
"Reformers" Await Opportunity.
Hague cannot last much longer, de-
spite the fact that he boasts that the
jersey City police department has
the largest riot squad in America to
handle" the city's 10000 jobless, and
force of police auxilaries that sports
steel helmets. But who will take his
place? Will it be the reform" poll
ticians in Jersey who are swapping at
his heels and foaming at the mouth
in expectation of the juicy graft that
is theirs to command once they enter
the city hall? An incident that &C.
CURED a couple OF days ago in North
Bergen, a small township controlled
by Hague, may reveal the answer
When the mayor Hauge puppet,
tried to railroad 46 additional ward
heelers onto the city payroll, TOO en-
ragged workers swept 20 cops aside,
broke through the council room doors,
and cried: Lynch the mayor Tar
and feather the rebber," Ride him
out of town" There are no theories
of relatively that can qualify tho Law
of economic determinisn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
Model FACTORY
SaShes Wages,
Cuts Forces

NEW HAVEN, Common Dec. 4
the New Haven Register, one of the
greatest defenders of the capitalist
class that there is in this country,
came out with an editorial in regards
to the New Haven Clock Co. In the
editorial it said, above all of the fac
tories in our city we must take off
our hats to the clock shop. They have
come out of the present crisis I'M
scathed. This factory is to be recon-
mended, with good wages, plenty of
orders ahead and full time.
Prosperous Indeed.
They are indeed a prosperous con-
Germ, That was on Thursday, Dec. 4.
Right on Friday, the day following
this editorial, the bosses went through
the factory. They laid off one-fifth
of the help, the remainder was noti-
fled that they would have to submit
to a and 10 per cent cut. Which
they did without a murmur. Since
then there has been another cut with
a drop in help again. Now the whole
factory is closed up tight for three
weeks. 1t is improbable if they start
then.
Fooled Workers.
The whole affair is this: The clock
factory had several little orders in
October They started them all to-
gether, right before election, to make
the administration look good.
was talking to an old clock shop
hand the other day. He told me that
there have been nine different wage
cuts these last 10 years in the factory.
Sc you can see, felloW-workers, how
the capitalist papers are trying to
deceive the workers. w. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
600 japanese
Students on Strike

TOKIO.-For the purpose of in
vestigating the radical activities o.
college students in Japan, the Del
partment of Education has set aside
Yen $1,000 (s19,599 for next year.
At the present time $4,000 student,
of three universities, universities
for men and ! for women, have been
out on strike for demands of free
speech, right to join political parties,
registration of present presidents OF
the universities, and a cut in tuition
fees. Every day students are demon
strating at the universities grounds
and singing revolutionary songs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
COMING EVENTS In
JOBLESS CAMPAIGN

DETROIT-Foster mass meet
ing, Danceland Auditorium, Jan.
II.
CLEVELAND - Second United
Front Conference, Jan. 9, South
Slav Hall, 56O7 st. Clair Ave.
Observation-Disclosures march
Jan. IA. Jan. 10, Foster mass
meeting at Carnegie Hall, Federal
and E. Ohio SITS.
CHICAGO. - Ratification mass
meeting Foster speaker, Jan. 8 at
Chicago Coliseum, 14th st. and
Wabash, 7;30 p. m. Second United
Front Conference, Jan. II. Hun
ger march on city hall, Jan. IL.
NEW YORK-Hunger march on
Brooklyn Boro Hall, demonStra-
tions in Bronx, Harlem and Down.
town, Jan. 8. Hunger march on
New York City Hall, Jan. 10.
Mass trial of Hoover, Green and
Walker, Jan. II. Second meeting
N. Y. Campaign Committee, Jan.
II, Irving Plaza Hall, 7:30 p. m,
Two hundred open-air meet
ings, Jan. 10, IA, Is. Indoor meet
ings Bronx, Harlem, Downtown,
Williamsburg, Boro Hall, Browns
vile, to elect delegates to Wash
ington, Jan. Is. House to house
canvass for signatures to Unem-
ployment Bill, Jan. Is.
PHILADELPHIA 49, Foster mass
meeting at Broadway Arena,
Jan IA.
BOSTON--Hunger march, Jan.
%, on City Hall. Foster mass meet
ing at Ambassador Palace, Jan. Is.
NEWARK, N. demonstration
before City Hall, Jan. 7, ii a. m.
Hunger march, Jan. %. Second
United Front Conference, Jan. 10
at p. m, in Slovack Hall, So
West st.
STANFORD, Conn. United
Front Unemployment Conference,
Jan. 20.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - sta tie
Unemployment Conference and
hunger march on state capitol.
Feb. and 2.
WHEELING, w. Va.-U mite d
Front Conference. Feb. l, at pm,
at Masonic Temple, 1407 Market
st.
LOS ANGELES-Second, United
Front Conference, Jan. Is.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - United
Front Conference, Jan. Is, 2 pm,
at Workers Home, 1916 West Col
fax st.
ST. PAUL, Minn.-Hunger march
in st. Paul and Minneapolis and
demonstration before state CAPT
tol, Jan. 7. Simultaneous demon
STATIONS in Duluth and other
towns.
PASSA1C, N. J.-United Front
Conference, Jan. 16, at p. m, at
Union Hall, 2o5 Paterson st.
CANTON, INSTRUMENTATION
before city hall, Jan. IL, at 7 p. m.
The Campaign Committees in
many towns have not sent in the
announcement Of thei meetings
and hunger marches. They should
do so at the earliest possible date
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
Doak Demands Deportation
For Foreign Born Militants
Secretary of Labor Wants Sharper Laws, New
York Chamber of Commerce Demands
Compulsory Fingerprinting

WASHINGTON, Jan. Giving up
to the expectations of the boss gov
eminent to which he was appointed
by President Hoover, Secretary Of
Labor Doak has taken up the hue
and cry against the foreign born
workers.
In letter TO the Senate yesterday,
Doak called for more stringent anti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
$50 FIGHT WAGE
CUT AT JAFFE'S
Amalgamated Officials
in Dirty Deals

NEW YORK. hundred men
at the j. Friedman clothing shop on
Lafayette ST., got wage cut a week
ago, and the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers officials forced them to &C
cept it.
But when $50 workers at the Jaffe,
Cohen and Lang shop we're given a
cut of 26 cents garment, Dec. 20,
they refused to go on working, and
the shop is tied up. They all belong
to the Amalgamated, and the Anal
gamavd refuses to recognize this as
strike, but the shop is shut down.
Jaffe is head of the employers or
ganization.
The Rank and File Committee to
Fight the Check-off, Wage-Cuts and
Reorganization calls on these workers
to form their shop committees and
fight
The Forwards Answer
A bunch of tailors from various
shops who belong to the socialist
party went recently to the Forward
to ask it to speak out against the
terrible conditions in Amalgamated
shops and expose the treacheries of
the Amalgamated officials.
The answer Of the Forward gang
vas that it would under no circum-
stances attack the leaders of the
Amalganated because the "Conmu-
nists would take advantage of it,
Furthermore, the tsilors we're advised
to swallow all the mistreatment, for
the same reason.
A little sample of official skull
dugery in the Amalgamated is the
case of one Italian worker who, be-
cause of the speed-up at the shop at
125 Blocker ST., got his finger caught
in a press and has lost the use of
finger. When he was able to work
again, he went back and found that
his place has been taken by a favorite
Of Bartoni, the italian business agent
Of that district OF the Amalgamated
And this worker is unemployed, as
well as injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
"RITFSH ARPFST
RED CANITlFn AT7FQ
In Jerusalem Election
Campaign

JERUSALEM, Jan. SIN a brazen
attempt to deprive the workers and
Door farmers of representation in the
coming elections to the Jewish-elect-
ed Assembly, British police today ar
rested II Communists running on the
Jewish proletarian ticket. They were
charged with belonging to an illegal
organization.
In this way, the British imperial
lists hope to crush the only force unit
ing the Jewish and Arab workers and
poor peasants for struggle against
Imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
ST. GEORGE HOTEL
WATERS GYPPED
Refuse Men the Pay
Coming to Them

NEW YORK. - The city's news
papers had much praise for the blow
cut the st. George Hotel gave its
guests on December %. However,
when the walters tried to collect their
wages, Carl Letch, the manager, re-
fused saying that if there was only
twelve or SO of them he would pay
but as there we're 81 men it took
much money to pay out.
Cheap Millionaire Corp.
This is the second time this has
occurred in short period. At sup
per and dance last month asked
Meyer, the headwaiter about my
wages for this days work. He SAID,
Bing and Bling, the owners of the
hotel couldn't afford to pay out any
money. This millionaire concern is
one of the worst oppressors Of labor
in town.
The set wage for extra hotel wait
ers is $6 for meals. Bing and BinC
pay SIS. The walters must pay so
cents day for a white uniform Goa
and at the end of the month they
assess the 60 walters 10 cents a piece
to pay the porters wage. The porter
is hotel employee.
Threaten Militants.
A notice was recently circulated
amongst the hotel employees to this
effect Any employee who is not
satisfied with conditions here viii
soon find himself on the outside with
the thousands of others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

our work. If The Daily Worker is u
live. The collection and income FROM
the celebrations must give the cam
paign for funds decided push for
ward. All funds from these celebra-
tiOns must be rushed Immediately to
the Daily Worker.
Make the Seventh Anniversary .
fighting answer to American imper-
ialism. Make the Seventh Anniver-
sary the starting point for increased
donations and contributions which
will push forward the liquidation of
the Emergency Fund into its final
stages. Rush all funds to the Daily
Worker, so E. 18th Street, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
Celebrate the 9TH Anniversary of the Daily
Worker; Rush All Contributions at Once

The Seventh Anniversary of the
Daily Worker, with an almost 100
per cent increase in circulation over
last year, is the fighting answer that
the working class is giving American
imperialism. The Daily Worker, par
ticuIarly in the last year, has been
used as the fighting organizer of the
masses of workers in their struggles
against unemployment, wage cuts,
etc. The Daily Worker was reeog-
nized internationally as very i'm
portant factor in mobilizing the mil
lien and a quarter workers around
the unemployment demonstrations of
March 6.
Today it is our chief weapon and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

organizer for the Hunger Marches of
the unemployed.
All through the year the workers
in shops, in mills, in the South,
throughout the country, have looked
forward to the Daily Worker as their
chief weapon in their every day
struggles.
In New York City the Seventh An
niversary of the Daily Worker will
be celebrated on Saturday evening,
January 10th at the st. Nicholas
Rink, SO West Goth st. At this ceIe-
bratiOn the workers will mobilize and
there again determine to carry on the
work of the Daily Worker, to sup
port it as the weapon of the workiisN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

class, TO sell it, to distribute it and
to make it reach every worker-in
shop, factory and home. The same
holds true for all of the celebrations
through the United States.
Although the Seventh Anniversary
finds the Daily Worker growing in
strength and in power as weapon of
the working class, however, the fin
ancial condition, due to the deficit
of the Naily Worker is endangering
its actual existence. The response TO
the campaign has been too slow and
the campaign has been extended for
another month. There is still $4,000
to be collected. This deficit must
be Iiquidated if we are to carry on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

In spite of the increasing need for mass cir
culation for the Daily Worker in organizing the
unemployed in hunger marches, this weeks re-
port shows there has been a slackening in the
campaign for 10000 readers.
Figures in today's tables show a gain of only
228 during the week. Some districts evidently
have called off the campaign with the first
of the year. This in spite of the need for the
Daily Worker and despite the failure of the
districts to attain their quotas. The continual
ton Of the drive until February Is has been
decided upon by the Central Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
Increase of Only 288 in Week Shows Inbermis>
sable Slackening in Campaign for 10000 Readers
NEWS CLUBS AND SUB
GROWTH BEST FEATURES

The most encouraging features of the cam
paign are two: the steady growth in the sub
scription list and the formation of a string of
Red Builders News Clubs. The biggest weak
ness of the drive has been the inability of the
districts to get every Party member behind the
campaign and their failure to perfect machin-
cry of distribution.
During the past month the following changes
have taken place in the substitution list.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07

mixed commission" for the engine
ering industry met on December 90
in order to examine the demands of
the employers. There is no doubt
that the reformist leaders will do
here as they did in The foundry in
dustry, that is. accept wage-cuts on
the ground that the economic crisis
demands them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
WHEREVER ERS
MEET, SIGN UP FOR IN
SURANCE!

Cleveland unemployed will prepare at
the United Front Conference on Jan.
9, at South Slav Hall, 5607 ST. Clair
Ave, and at the mass meeting to be
addressed by William z. Foster on
Jan. IL at the Slovenian Auditorium,
GAIT st. Clair Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-07
SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE
MAINTAINS TEMPO

The tempo Of the campaign has Kept up in The
drive for subscriptions but bundle orders are
erratic. The whole gain for the week has been
due to the gain in subscriptions The increases
and decreases in bundle orders have balanced
each other.
The best gain during the past week was in
district 10 which put ON 219 due to the use of
the Daily Worker in building up hunger
marches. This, however, will be lost in next
weeks tables.
District IL. Seattle, put on a daily increase OF
1874. An increase OF 162 is shown in tables for
the new district Is, Butte, Montana. However,
there is corresponding loss in District H. Agri-
cultural, from which this territory was sliced.