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Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-21
PRELIMINARY REPORT

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Seward daily gateway., 1931-09-21

Seattle P. l., Times, Star, Frisco Examiner and other papers; latest complete line of magazines in every mail. ALASKA SHOP.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Employed Must Help Struggles of Jobless

the treasury of the Council must be
Utilized to help starving families.
Employed Must Unite with Jobless
am writing this to give the
workers who are still employed a
picture of the difficulties and sacri-
fees gone through in doing work in
state of affairs is a clear indication
OF how little interest there as yet
exists on the part Of the still EN-
ployed workers for the relief of the
unemployed. Employed workers ex-
'pect the solidarity of the unemployed
In time Of strike and in many cases
The unemployed workers fight side by
side. with the strikers on the picket
line. but the employed workers re-
spond to the struggle for relief for
the jebless who are starving and ex-
pect every day to be thrown out OF
their homes. Relief for the unem-
,ployed committees should be Or
ganized in the shops and factories.
The. employed must work hand in
hand in the fight against hunger and
epictions, wage-cuts, speed-up sys-
TENS end for unemployment in
surance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Unemployed Council
on West Side, Chi,
Fighting Evictions

CHICAGO. Ill-The Unemployed
Branch at 1855 W. 18th St. has
fought against many evics!ons, SO
much so that workers on the West
Side lock to the Unemployed Branch
as their leader in the fight for bet
ter conditions. Tcgether with the
fight against evicGons. the branch
has also demanded food for families
from the LEGAL charities. The branch
has put up such fights at the chart
ties, that now when the committee
and the workers from the branch
come to the charity demanding rent
or food. they are taken care Of i'm
medietely.
This shows that If workers come
determined and in an organized
manner, their demands will be
granted. This winter there will be
fights for food and homes. therefore
workers should begin to prepare by
organizing in the Block Committees
Of the Unemployed Branch and have
every family organized.
Member of Branch Nc. 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
DAILY WORKER CLUB GETS
ALL MEMBERS OUT FOR SUBS.

ganizational work TO housewives
Some Of them are deeply interested
in Communism. There are some Of
them that say / don't dare for any
and when l talk TO them, then they
get interested and say they viii
take one. / am also gaining mora
sympathizers for the movement
This is encouraging devotion TO the
Daily Worker It is difficult thing
to tramp all day from house to house
with nothing under your belt but an
occasional cup Of coffee and q
doughnut When such CUTS are wide
spread, the Daily won't have q thing
TO worry about
a lot of comrades would be Cup
prised-and pleasantly II they
should go from house to house,
and find how many elements that
are expected to be 400 per cent
Americans" are very interested and
quickly sympathetic workers.
1t so buoys one up that one is
scarcely tired after arduous tranping
Marx once said that the working man
has no country. This, the working
class everywhere is beginning to
realize. They are becoming disil-
lusioned about the boss lies and no
longer swallow spread-eagle pa
triotic bunk quite so easily.
Comrade A. S. writes in from san
Francisco that our advice concerning
the combining Of Red Builders Club
and Readers Clubs was o. K. with
San Francisco Red Builders Club
Formerly to this advice, the Daily
Worker agent was scratching his
brains over the problem Of organizing
TWO clubs; this way out simplified
matters very much
We hope that all the Daily
Worker Clubs will write TO US about
their problems. Their problems are
our problems and we are more
than anxious TO help. We also
want to keep abreast of everything
that IS happening all over the
country. It benefits us as much
as our advice benefits any com
rades In the field. 1t makes the
Daily to reflect the needs of hte
workers from day to day. We don't
want to be static.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
.MON(ESSEN Mill
WORKERS PUT UP
THEIR DEMANDS
Organizing Aroun d
Fight On Wage Cuts

MONNESSON, Pa, Sept. 16.-The
American Sheet and Tin Plate group
Of the Metal Workers Industrial
League has put q leaflet in the hot
mill calling upon the workers to Or
genize and fight for the following
demands;
ID The withdrawal of the recent
waga-cut 1929 per cent?.
(2) Straight e-hoT shifts for all
hot mill workers,
go No penalty for accidents on
account OF the speed-up.
90 ANY worker injured in the mill
shall be allowed to stay home with
full pay,
90 Ten per cent extra for all
work done on part system.
(6) Pay for tonnage rolled instead
of finished. =,
The lesflet concludes, "Fellow
workers! The only way for us to win
these demands is to join the Metal
Workers Industrial League, Join now
Don't wait for your fellow worker
He is waiting for you. For further
information, come to the local head
quarters of the NJ. w. 1. L., 618 9Th St,
NfonnezSon."
The workers in the hot mill at Mon
nesson have other grievances, but
these demands hit at the most OUT
standing ones.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Organized Benwood

BENWOOD, w. Va, Sept, .16,-For
the second time in three weeks the
local capitalist press announced the
reopening this week of the Benwood
works OF the Wheeling Steel Company
with about 500 workers to be hired.
Steel workers here are skeptical as
to the general reopening, but espe-
cially doubtful as to the number that
will be taken back even if the works
are opened up.
A steel worker from Benwood at
the weekly Organizers Training
School conducted by the Metal
Workers Industrial League to train
rank and file organizers for the fight
against wage cuts in the steel mills,
and the building of the Steel Work
ers Industrial Union. told how it
used to be considered a good nights
work to bundle 5000 one-half inch
pipe there. Today Is times as many
are done and they're not enough.
Years back the company used to
give box of stogies to the crew
putting out the most production.
Sometimes it was even key of beer.
Later on the stosies. were stopped
and prohibition came along and the
company introduced the bonus sys-
tenn, under which the men keyed to
more and more feverish pace with
the profits of the company con-
stantly rising. The bonus, of course,
was cut. and later on done away
with altogether. Today there is a
killing speed-up, NO bonus, and a
little while back general 10 per cent
wage cut was introduced in this as
we'll as all Wheeling Steel Co mills.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League is doing work here. Workers
from the Benwood plant should get
in touch with the MWIL headquar-
tiers at Room 4, Giles Building
Bridgeport, o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
EVERYDAY NEW IMPROVEMENT
FOR THE RUSSIAN WORKER

Improvements in the living condi-
tons of the Russian worker goes on
constantly. Following a survey of
Leningrad, many improvements are
noted since the overthrow of capt.
talism. The length Of the water sup
ply system has been increased from
AIT miles to 534 miles, the sweage
system from SOL miles to over $50
miles, There are 1000 more street
cars than under the Gear, running
on tracks increased in area they
cover from TIA miles 10 255 miles.
The streets are brighter, illumina-
ton having been expended 10 per
cent. They are now entirely lighted
by electricity, whereas before the
revolution only 10 per cent of the
streets we're lighted by electricity.
Only the business streets and the
streets of the rich had electricity.
The Russian workers like baths, so
by the end Of the first Five Year
Plan Leningrad will have 35 bath
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
RELIEF SHOWERS TO GET
FOOD FOR HUNGRY MINERS

bosses. At these meetings it is being
emphasized that on the tag days,
Sept. 26 and 27. collectors will visit
the homes and shop gates in all parts
Of the cities, to collect.
In many of the A. F. of L. organ
izations left wing members are put
ting UP battle against the reaction
airy leadership, demanding that the
organization back the solidarity tag
days. In many cases, while this does
not bring the organization over as
body, it develops strong sympathetic
factions who will support the soli-
darity demonstrations despite the
leadership.
All funds will be forwarded to the
Penn Ohio-W va.-Ky. Striking Min
ers Relief Committee, room EOS, Gil
Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa. from
where food is sent to the strike camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

-tflesHneed of assessment because 1t
would be good cause assuring him
Of wakes, "Just think, you (rneaning
those opposed are squeahng for a
mere soc. We need money to fight
wage cuts for culinary workers. AS
long. as I have a drop of red blood IN
my veins, L pledge to fight the wage
cuts. The next place we will call
unfair will be the Oakland Hotel ,
etc" This was given to make things
look. big. Oakland Hotel has been
a ,non-urlion house for a while and,
what is more, the National Assoscia-
ton of Letter Carriers affiliated
with A. F. of Id who were having a
convention in this city patronized
this same hotel and Spooner and the
rest not saying a word about its
unfairness. This long speech Of
Spooners was an effort by him to
make the lies stick and he was
sweating all over-but this sweat we
noticed did not look red-but very
much yellow Nail the lie! How
about a week previous to'this meet
ing, when the walters slashed their
wages Is per cent or Sc per week?
Spooner himself was chairman of
that meeting and never opened his
mouth to oppose of putting this wage
cut through. Did you have red
blood then, Mr.. Spooner?
Spooner for Snydicalist Law
Our Local 81 refuses to enter into
the Criminal Syndicalist Repeal
Campaign. A committee was sent
to the meeting to take up the ques-
ton: Here again Spooner takes it upon
himself to ridicule the committee with
a result of rejection to enter the
campaign, though many unions of
the A. F. of L. in Oakland are work
ing for this campaign.
Spooner has been throwing bull
long enough and we cooks, together
with the class conscious walters and
mattresses are getting disguised with
such leadership. We are bidding
time and will in the meantime expose
more of the leadership and draw the
class conscious members in a united
front
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
tBy a Worker Correspondent

tBy a Worker Correspondent
BRIDGEPORT, COMM This,
town there is an organization GROWN
as the Bridgeport Protective Assoeia.
ton, which is supposed to protect
young and hayward girls between the
ages of IL and 10. The girisaare
brought to this home through the
court and are made to thinl-that
the people of the home are their
friends and are there to help them.
They first teach the girls to go to
church. Then after while when
they think the girls are properly
doped with religious hokun. they
send them out to work for rich peoe
pie who pay them for their labor in
cast off clothes or 81 a week, which
the home generally gets the girls TO
contribute to the church. ,sas an
Sold Into Slavery. Z, 49,
The girls who are thus sold into
slavery has to do all the houseWorkc
washing, ironing, scrubbings and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Bonuses for Bankers. Hot Air for War Vets

: the banks being thus permitted TO
borrow from the public at a small
cost of engraving and moderate
, tax, receiving several hundred mil
; lions of dollars without paying In
terest,-an indirect bonus"
= He failed to reveal that the banks
after getting their money back, minus
the cost of printing, still own the
bonds and collected the interest from
them; that it was this same money
that they used to buy the bonds
with and which they lent out and
collected interest on a second time.
He does not call this graft-but
hnnns=-a present. Perhaps this is the
goysi1ifnent's way of telling the ex-
serWee1nen what it thinks of them
that those who went into the army
were only suckers Organize and de-
inand the immediate payment of the
bonus in full.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Bridgeport Protective Association Sells Young
Girls Into Slavery

sometimes cooking. They have to
get up at 6 in the morning and stay
up until the next morning until
her mistress comes home.
:. After being on these jobs short
time the girls are SO overworked that
they want to leave. When they ask,
they are refused permission. Some
times the girls take 1t upon them
selves to leave and for this they
are sent to the Long Lane Farm as
being unreliable. Here they have to
work in gardens and milk COWS until
they are twenty years old and then
they are placed out at work again
for a year. But generally before the
year is up they are framed to the
Women's State Farm, where they
must serve five or six years. When
the girls leave this place they are so
-eveEworked that their health is
ruined and they are not able to work
any more.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
tBy a Worker Correspondent

10y WOthcI CVIIcsPoiiuCuIJ
NEW YORK, N. VI was recently
admitted to meeting Of the execu--
tive committee OF the Unemployed
Council. The last point on the order
of business was Assistance totfinca'
tionaries. e "'
When the chairman called out the
last order of business one off the
active functionaries stood up5G and
complained that from the SO cents a.
day that he receives he cannot afford
to have steady place to sleep and
that many nights he Is compelled
to sleep on park bench. He:also'
told how physically exhausted he Is
in the morning. He said thatdt there
was plenty Of work in the Council-ro
every day an indoor meeting, cases of
eviction to be attended to; nevery
evening a street meeting to be, attn
tended to and other activities He.
urged that ways and means be found
to provide the functionaries aoplaee-
TO sleep. no
other functionaries In the same
posi- lion objected TO proposition to.
lay out money for funcsionarieseeHheX
arsued that what little moneYris III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
ALA. BOSS COURT CONTINUES TO
HOLD ROY WRIGHT WITHOUT TRIAL

Of this working-class child Demand
the unconditional release Of 14-year-
old Royl Rally to the mass cam
paign to free the nine Scottsboro
boysl Support the demonstrations
called by the International Labor
Defense in scores OF cities for the
release Of Tom Mooney and Billings.
of the Harlan, Kentucky, Negro and
white miners who are facing the
death sentence In the nurderous
campaign Of the coal operators to
break the strike, OF the Imperial VAL
ley prisoners, Of the Scottsboro nine. 4
Raise n1ilitantly the demand for
amnesty for all class-war prisoners,
for all the victims Of capitalistic JUS
tice now rotting in the bosses
dungeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

Last week Houston, Texas In
creased their bundle order from
fifty to seventy-five copies; but
their street sales have increased so
much that seventy five copies are
Inadequate to meet the demand.
They now want their bundle order
increased to one hundred copies
daily with fifty extra fer special
editions.
They have formed a Daily Work
err Cub which meets on Friday
night at the Workers Center. They
are going to start a subscription
drive with club members soliciting
subscriptions,
Make Things Happen with Those
Subs.
Go to it, Houston. This is the kind
OF news we like TO hear. When every
member OF a Daily Worker Club gets
on the move for subs and new mem
bers things begin to happen
The Whole country Is now a very
fertile field to SOW the seeds of
Communism and organization and
very great and far-reaching
yield is to be had with a minimum
amount of effort. All that a great
many people need is some one to
start them going and to organize
them.
A Fertile Field Awaits the Diggers
We received the following letter
from Western comrade:
When L was in MI sold II copies
Of the Daily Worker the first day,
the next day 8, the third day 5, then
4, the drop being due to the large
increase of unemployment. The chief
Of police threatened to scare me,
when he failed to do so he went from
house to house and cautioned with
fear or arrest every house wife that
would buy or have any radical paper
in their possession. Just then I
could not sell but two copies a day,
not enough commission to get coffee
and dougt1nuts. Just now am
selling Al copies.
work hard selling from house
to house from 8 a. m. to 8 D. m.
l also put in at least an hour or
an hour and half talking or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

Union officials claim that at one
Of the best attended meetings in the
history of the local. it was emphatf-
cally decided to continue the present
campaign against certain concerns
until they concede to give their eln-
ployees the standard wages" etc. &c
This is the propaganda that fooled
about 100 present at the meeting ef06
out of about 700 members in the
union. Many we're working on that
day and could not come to the
meeting). ~
Fawn and Wilson restaurants are
stationed with dummy. There was
time when the whole Central Labor
Council used to do picket duty at
some concentrated nom union houses
but now q human dummy replaces
the pickets and he is paid for So
many hours for holding a paper in
front of him. What a fightl sit is
unlawful for many to picket" -, says,
Spooner and other officials. That is,
why mass picketing is taboo and such
a method of fight has no results.
Only these two restaurants are; being
fought now Hence cry for as
sessment to carry on the work.. but,
the real fact remaining, which they
cannot hide from us is this: This
union pays the most per capita tag,
to the Central Labor Council. Other
unions are even in a worse shape, as
far as membership and employment
of workers are concerned. Spooner
who is the chief leader in the assess
ment campaign, being the secretary
of the Central Labor Council and also
being the president of our union
worried that if this per capita went
down with the unemployment. and
loss of membership. he may not. get
his salary (Which by the way he. does
not offer to have CUT, .---
Spocner Sweats Blood . e
Spooner bulldozed those opposed
to assessment and scared others INTO
voting for it. In his masterfur
speech Cno doubt practiced beforey'
he pointed out what HE has done
for the organization and stressing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
CITY EMPLOYED IN FORCED
LABOR

ATLANTA, Ga.-Mayor James l..
Key, first making an empty gesture
of equality by asking city officials to
serve month without pay, issued
an order that the city employees are
to work month without pay in re-
lief of city's financial bankruptcy.
The city officials don't depend on pay
they serve for graft and now the en-
ployees have to pay with their wages
for the graft that depleted the city
treasury. These employees will have
something to say hereafter TO capital
list lies about forced labor" in the
Soviet Union.
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get enough soldiers to protect
him." Solicitor General Bailey
called for a postponement Of the
case until the December session of
the court.
In the meantime, this child is
pining away in jail, vainly trying to
figure out what it's all about and
why there are people in the world
who are seeking his life. Too young
and inexperienced to understand the
class and national basis of his per-
secution he is totally at a loss to
explain his terrible predicament.
Negro and white workers! Smash
this brutal torture and persecution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
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WV ~ - IN hOh WEI
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interest the membership Of labor
unions and working class social or
CARNATIONS, and to f1et their men,
bers to act as collectors for the tag
days.
Every working class section of the
cities is to be covered by the COL
lectorS, and the doors of restaurants,
theatres, small stores, especially CO.
operatives, are to be scenes of tag
day activity TO collect for the strikers.
Meetings at factory gates and
street corner meetings in workers
districts are being planned to an
nounce the coming tax days, to inn
press on the minds of the workers
the need Of a great display of soli-
darity in backing the striking miners
against the brutal oppression of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
(By a Worker Correspondent


SAY FRANCISCO, Calf. = Pfesir
dent Eoover's unemployment CONF
missioners are beginning to strut
their stuff. Quoting from Carl E.
Grunsky of San Francisco, president
of the American Engineering Council
and a member of Hoover's commits
sion, the San Francisco News" of
Sept. says: .----
When the Panama Canal was
constructed, bonds for nearly $780,
100000 were issued. These bonds
went into the hands of the bankers
who deposited them in the United
States Treasury for the privilege of {
issuing bank notes secured by the
bonds. The bank notes which have
Appropriated 80 per cent of the
amount of the outstanding bonds
went into circulation as currency, =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

houses each with 500 baths. To re-
lieve the women workers from
drudgery twenty-five huge mechan-
ical laundries are being installed.
And so it goes on and on. more and
more Improvements for the working
class, no parasites to work for, every
ounce of energy the Russian worker
expends in common with his fellow
worker means greater benefits, bet
ter, steamer, healthier life for all
around him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
A. F. of [. INCREASES
TAX ON WATERS AND
COOKS IN OAKLAND
Takers Hoodwink Workers to Vote for New
so Cents Special Assessment
Advise Workers Against Mass Picketing and
Militant Action
Nv a Worker CORRESPONDENT

OAKLAND Cal-The' Cooks, Walters and Mattresses
Local 81 after about months previous propaganda by the
officials voted special assessment of SO cents monthly for
year. In other words they raised their dues the face of
stagger systems and unemployment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17

Soviet Forced Labor"-Bedacht'
series in pamphlet form at 10 cents
per copy. Eead it--Spread III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
Their Parents Denied
Relief. Babies of In
employed Are Starving
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to feed hooey to the starving unem-
ployed workers, quotes the labor be-
trayer, William Green, to the effect
that Business at last realizes high
wages are an investment in the sta
bilization Of prosperity" The "pros-
perity" that is starving to death over
100000 unemployed and their
families and additional millions of
workers on part time jobs and
slashed wages.
Jobless Worker Inhales Gas.
BROCKTON, Mass, Sept. 16.-The
Brockton Enterprise, boss paper,
published the following dispatch from
North Abingdon of the suicide OF
destitute worker:
''NORTH Abingdon, Sept. IA
Despondent over lack of employ
ment, Edward T. Boryce of Har-
rison Ave, took his own life Sat-
urday night by gas. Boyce, who
was 48 years of age, had been en-
gagged for many years as shoe
cutter, but for the past several
months had been out of work"
The boss paper further admits
that the wife of this worker, MUIR
dered by the capitalist system, has
been seriously i'll in the hospital for
several weeks-no doubt as a result
of starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
$4,000 Steel Work
erS to Get Pay Cut

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