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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
(By a Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Calf. - Califor-
MIA has too much fruit, too much
fresh fruit, too much dried fruit, too
much canned Fruit 1t falls off the
trees, it rots on the ground, and the
warehouses are full of preserved fruit.
Can it be that some new fad has TAX
en- hold of the people and that they
have decided that peaches and april
cots and pears and berries are bad
for the health? So it would seem,
judging from the over-abundance in
the orchards and the number of hun
CRY workers in the cities of Califor-
MIA here.
Last year the apricot pack was
only half of what it was in 1929 This
year the pack was limited to even
less, thirty-five per cent of what it
was in 1929. Prices must be kept
up by all means. Now the apricot
pack is finished, but greater prob
lem comes with the ripening of the
peaches.
AS was true of the apricot pack,
the peach pack last year was only
about half of what it was in 1929.
Prices were not what the canneries
wanted them to be. The thousands
of cases of canned peaches did not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
(By a Worker Correspondent

SEATTLE, WaSh.-A decline of
fifteen and thirty-three hundredth
per cent in lumber mill production is
shown in comparison of the week
ending July 4th and the preceding
week. Roughly this comes about by
100000 feet less. Further figures
compiled by the West Coast Lumber
mems Assn show that contrary to
the reports of better sentiment" so
loudly bally-hooed show that mills
for the first 26 weeks of 1881 have
operated at 41.78 per cent of capacity
as against a 62.57 per cent for the
same period in 1880. Sales have
steadily dropped being 22,50o,O00 less
for this week than the proceeding
week.
More Misery.
A close study of the bosses own
figures viii show the underwriters
that this trust and faith" in the
mill boss is weak prop to expect to
feed his family on. While these fig
ures show the deepening of the cri-
sis, they also spell intensified misery
for the lumber workers.
The Weyerhouser interests which
control about half of the Washing
ton timber lands are rapidly central
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
Loggers' Misery Increases
AS Lumber Crisis DeebenS

izing the industry. They are driving
out the smaller companies and the
Shotgun" feed as the speed-up is
known locally is becoming more un-
bearable. No compilation of the log
ging and mill deaths this year has
been made but from casual readings
of the back issues of the press no.
ticeable increase will be seen.
Build Stockade.
Camp workers know that when the
mills stop selling they too are out of
a job. Weyerhouser has built a
stockade around some of their mills
and one worker reports seeing ma
chine guns stored in the Everett mill.
The bosses are preparing. What are
you going to do lumber workers? It's
starve or fight-Let's fight-Fight
against starvation, against the shot
gun feed, against an industrial death
list as big as the war casualty list
for the same period of time, against
the slow killing Of our children by
starvation. To fight we must be
organized as are the miners of the
east who are fighting. Build the Ma
tional Lumber Workers Union in your
shop or camp or mill. Write to the
NLWU at GA First Ave, Seattle,
Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
Fruit Left to Rot While Workers Starve

go into consumption in spite of all
the advertising that was done, and
so the Gamers decided that some
thing drastic must be done and done
quickly. That is why the gentlemen
on top put their heads together and
decided that the production of can
ned fruit must be adjusted to the
"country's normal demand for the
peaches" How could this be accom-
plished? In the first place, there was
too much fruit in the orchards, so
"one hundred per cent of the indus
try decided that 1900 acres Of
peach trees must be pulled UP and
destroyed so that 100000 tons Of
peaches at least would be out of
the way. Then it was decided that
the pack must be limited to 9,O0O,-
900 cases in 1881, which is more than
twenty-five per cent UNDER the av-
erage pack of the past five years, in
Guiding the crop failure of two years
ago.
The finest peaches are costing the
Gamers only twenty dollars ton,
and yet we workers pay fifteen cents
dozen for ordinary peaches at the
height of the season.
Such are conditions in sunny Cali
fornia where the flowers growl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
US. RUBBER CO.
CUTS PAY 10 PC.
Must Org an ize to
Force Co. to Terms
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Editor, Daily WORKER
Two years ago the workers at the
Detroit plant of the U. S. Rubber
Company went on strike. The whole
plant walked out and the shop was
closed down for week. The COM
pany came to our terms and we all
went back to work at the old rate.
Everything was fine until months
ago. We were to have new wage
system called flask and Bonus" and
they gave us their promise that the
wages wouldn't be cut or the wage
scale changed. But they couldn't
keep their promise as two weeks ago
the men in our department received
another cut.
The boss said that they had ell
minated a certain operation and
that they were going to deduct this
time from our efficiency which would
amount to only per cent on days
work. Well 3 per cent wouldn't be
so bad as that only amounted to 8
cents an hour but it turned out to
be 10 per cent.
We must get organized into the
Trade Union Unity League as the
rubber workers could lite up the
whole auto industry If they were
organized.
Sincerely,
"A Rubber Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
WORKERS KILLED
BY SPEED-UP IN
CRANE COMPANY
Wage Cut 80 to 40 Per
Cent; Must Organize
and Fight
C8y a Worker Correspondent
Chicago, IL.

ICY worker correspondent
Chicago, IL.
Editor
Crane Company is killing workers
by speed-up. In the last few days six
workers dropped dead in the shop
from inhuman speed-up. When the
worker drops dead in the shop the
body is taken to the medical depart
ment and then they call the patrol
wagon to take the body from the
shop The reason the workers are
dying in the shop is because one
workers must do the work of two
The workers can not stand it in this
hot weather.
The press machine molders must
do twice as much work now as
they did before they cut the piece
work of all molders' working day.
But the bosses tell them a certain
number of pieces have got to be
made. Some times it is impossible
to make that many. The worker is
afraid to lose that job and kills HIM
self working.
Piece work molders used to make
from 90 cents to dollar per hour,
day work wages are from so to 81
cents per hour in this case. Our
wages are cut from 80 to 40 per cent.
The shop runs from % to "a hours
per month. The workers cannot ex-
list any longer on this stagger system.
There is. an opportunity now for
the Metal Workers Industrial League
to organize the Crane workers. The
workers are getting ready for strug-
gle. We must take steps inlmedi-
ately to organize into the Trade
Union Unity League. -J.P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
LUMBER BOSSES
CUT PAY in CAL
Mill Closes Firing 500
Workers
Eureka, Cal.

GQIckd, Cdl.
Dear Editor:
The good old summer time" does
not look so good here this summer
Wages are being cut and men are
being laid off right and left. On
July 18th the Hammond Little River
Lumber Company cut wages 10 per
cent in all their mills. This cut af-
fected three mills and several lumber
camps.
The Pacific Lumber Company also
cut 10 per cent in their mills. The
Eureka Wooden Mill cut wages 10
per cent on July 1.
On July Is the Hammond Little
River Co. shut down two of its mills
and threw 500 men out of work. The
Northern Redwood Lumber Co. will
shut down in about week and that
will throw about 400 more out to
starve.
The only way the workers out here
can fight against this starvation is
to get together and organize. We
have an Unemployed Council and the
National Lumber Workers Union. The
workers in Eureka by organizing into
these fighting working class organ
izations can better their conditions.
Let's build these organizations and
force the bosses to take back the pay
cuts and pay the unemployed unem-
ployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
TEAMSTER TELLS
OF SLAVERY IN
PACKING PLANT
Made Do Double Work
At S13 a Week and
Starvation Board

Seattle, Wash
Dear Comrades
I work in Fryes packing plant
This is a local concern that have
their own stores, etc. They make lots
of money. I have only been here a
week but I know what the conditions
are and belive me they are rotten.
! am a teamster. I work 9 hours
day and work 6 IL days a week.
On Sunday morning. have to shovel
manure with the other four team
sters who work here. There are some
shove1ers and they work the same
hours. We all get $500 a week and
our board. That board is the rot
tenest thing about it. Just for ex-
ample I will give you the breakfast
that we had this morning. Hotcakes,
(flabby and tough without any de-
cent milk, etc.. Bacon butts. These
are the tough ends Of bacon that is
not sold. Coffee which was nothing
but rotten colored hot water. The
syrup for our cakes was water
thinned.
lido not have to be told much to
understand that this is not worth
begging to hold on to. am for fight
ing such conditions and I am going
to talk to the other workers here
about organizing. This week I am
going to join the LID. I heard one
of their speakers the other night and
I am supporting any organization
helping the fight for better condi-
tons for the workers. I read the
Daily Worker every day and sure
am glad to see it grow the way it is.
I forgot about the beds. If you
want to stay awake nights they GER
tainly help you out. I can pull a
sheet off of any so-called bed in here
and raise cloud of bed-bugs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
BY EDITH BERGMAN.

The National Textile Workers
Union is now leading one strike after
the other. Just like the National
Miners Union, it is now the recog-
nized, fighting union in America
The National Unions of the Trade
Union Unity League have proven to
the workers that they are fighting
unions Of the workers. The workers
know that and the mill owners know
it, too.
Good Leader.
The National Textile Workers
Union is a. god strike leader. Now
we must learn to be a good union
builder to keep the victories, of the
strike, after the strike is settled. We
must demand the recognition of the
National Textile Workers Union!
Among the mistakes made in the
Lawrence strike, in which 10000
workers were involved, was one for
which we are paying very dearly
now. The mistake of changing the
demand from recognition of the N.
T. w. U. to recognition of the Mill
Committee. When we done that we
gave in to the mill owners one of
the most important demands.
The N. T. w. U. will not be able
to keep a membership in the mills,
after the strike, if we don't educate
the workers to understand that they
must take the union with them in
the mill. The strike committee must
make it one of the most important
tasks t oeducate the workers during
the strike to become union members
and union builders-union organ
izers.
In Central Falls, in Pawtucket and
now in Providence we must put for
ward the demand of Recognition of
the N. T. w. u" If we don't do that,
after the strike will be over our
union will be known, just like in
Lawrence, as a good strike leader,
but the membership of the N. T. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

selves into the speed necessary to
run the six looms. These are being
fired gradually and a younger ele-
ment being given the jobs. Recently,
two shifts had their hours length
ened from 8 to hours, with 10 per
cent additionalfor the overtime. Many
departments of the regular shift had
their hours heightened from the reg
ular hours 40 minutes to hours
40 minutes. Most likely, if the b.
tany workers do not organize and
fight, the entire shift will have their
hours heightened. There are 10000
unemployed in this city. Instead of
dividing up the work with no reduc-
ton in wages, which the workers
can get only if they fight for it, the
bosses make At harder for the workers
to get jobs.
Killed BY Speed-up
- terrific speed-up brings i'll
health ~ early death to the work.
ers Yesterday, a worker dropped
dead by his machine. The speed-ur
causes heart disorders which greatly
shorten the lives of the workers. (And
then Of course, the company rector
can say that it is due to heat pros
tration" or anything like that
Young workers find themselves SC
exhausted that they cannot go out
for breath of air at night after
coming home from work, but must
stay in and rest till the next day
OF 5lovery That's not all Women
with families to take care of, have
to work nights, in the night shift
from to r. And there's supposed
to be a law against night work for
women in New Jersey.
Organize!
These conditions are so not only
in the Botany but in many other
mills around here. But they need
not remain so for long. The work.
ers got to get together. We've got
to join the only workers union in the
textile industry-the National Textile
Workers Union.
However, the workers can do some
thing right now. August First-the
International Red Day of Struggle
Against Bosses War and for the De-
tense of the Soviet Union will be
held in Passaic on Hope Ave. and
Monroe st. at 2 p m. All textile
workers must come to this demon
stration and begin once again the
effective struggle against the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30


right to life. liberty and happi-
ness.
Yet when one Alex Overture had
stolen something to eat land 1 hear
he has family of f1ye) he was sent
to the pen, and I, as we'll as others,
believe that he should be released
from prison as soon as possible.
Must Fight.
The innocent victims Of this ca
pitalist system are entitled to live.
They must fight to keep from starry
ing. Only a coward will stand quiet
ly and idly by and see his wife and
children starve. The desire is to
work for a living, rather than ac-
cept charity or steal. But when the
former is denied what Is there left
to do?
The public is awakening. What
few dollars they had in the banks,
few crooks divided among them
selves. That is what has happened
all over the ountry. At least I don't
see any bank president in the bread
line and his wife and children bare
footed. They still have plenty to
eat and a fine home to live in and
a high-powered auto to drive around
in And where and how is it all to
end?
The parasites tell us that unem-
ployment insurane to relieve the dis
tress is Communist and unamerican.
II is American to starve the people in
the midst of plenty? Or is it Amer
lean to make beggars and thieves of
them? How long then will the
workers stand these abuses is a ques-
ton. There is, however, an abun-
dance of evidence that there is a
turning point. And right at the pre-
sent time the workers here in many
ways show evidence of revolt against
the present system. j. f.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
WORKERS GET 10
CENTS PER HOUR
in Mich. FACTORY
Unemployed Council
Forces Boss Reduce
Sick Workers Rent
(By a Worker Correspondent

LANSING, Mich.-The Friedland
Iron and Metal Company here en-
ployes "A men and women at present
and is owned by David Friedland.
His son who is in charge is real
slave driver. For eight hours work
this amounts to 81 week-and they
are driven like dogs.
The men are getting from IS to So
cents an hour. One man in partic-
ular works 20 hours day to provide
for his family of nine. His work is
very hard and his hands. They are
in terrible condition, all festered
and poisoned. But when he refuses
to work and askes for help from the
Lansing Welfare Department, they
they send him to the city doctor who
pronounces him in shape to resume
work. The man said that he would
commit suicide before he would go
back to work in the shape he was
in for the starvation wages he was
receiving.
WAX Face" Friedlands SON
when faced by the Unemployed
Council that was working against
this cruelty, went to the home of
this man and, as he owned the
house the man lived in, lowered the
rent from $40 to SIS and agreed to
pay his light and water bill. There
are many cases like this in this same
company. This shows what the
Unemployed Council really can do.
The Council is still in its infancy
now, but if we build it into a real
big Council with all the unemployed
in Lansing drawn in we will be able
to force the government to pay real
unemployment insurance to the
jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
POLICE BRUTALLY
BEAT UP WAR VET;
HE MAY NOT LIVE
Fight Against N ex /
War; Demonstrate
August First
Omaha, Nebraska.

)IIkdlldy lNCpl doAus
Dear Comrades
AS result of being kicked in the
stomach. by railroad dick" Hor-
ace O'Neill, 81. wounded in the st.
Mihiel offensive in 1918, lies in the
st. Joseph Catholic Hospital here in
unconscious state and hemorrhage
may cause his death at any moment.
O'Neill was on his way to North
Platte where he expected to obtain
work so that he could support his two
motherIess daughters. The two rail-
road dicks ordered O'Neill to "un-
load" and while he was complying
with the order he received vicious
kick from one of the dicks and it
caught him right on the wound that
he had received in the war. Bleed
ing from the mouth, O'Neill was
picked up by two working men and
hurried to hospital where he was
put under influence of hypodermic
injections It was learned later that
ONeill had been discharged from a
veterans hospital in Illinois where he
had undergone over twenty opera
tons since the war. The kick re-
opened his wound.
George F. Woods and John L.
Lehman, the two railroad dicks, who
w1e on the same train, denied ever
seins ONeill. City and state author
titles willingly took the word of these
two fathead cops.
Ex-servicemen and all workers
should know that the capitalists
cops are free to club and murder the
working class-that the American
Legion fascists and the capitalist in
stitutions will back the cops in this
cowardly slaughter! Only when the
workers get IN power will these in
justices and outrages be done away
with! All out on the streets on Aug
ust LIST to demonstrate against the
capitalists and their imperialistic war
against the workers of the world
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
Negro Jailed for
Walking on Street
Calls to Build Up a
Strong L.S.N.R.
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pittsburgh, Pa.
Daily WORKER
While walking up Webster Avenue
in this city, it was about 10 p M
was stopped by cop, who asked me
where was going I answered that
was going home. The cop then
carried me to No. 2 police station.
At the trial the cop told the judge
that I would not tell him where
was going. The judge then asked
me where I was going. I told him
that I was going to my wife. The
Judge said $40 or 10 days in Jail.
This is the way the cops try to
terrorize the Negro workers in the
town of Pittsburgh. This must be
stopped. II anybody has the right
to walk on the streets it is the work.
ers. We are the ones who built
them, both white and Negro workers.
We must get together and put a stop
TO this kind of discrimination. The
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
is the organization that is fighting
against this kind Of terror. All the
Negroes, I think, should get behind
this good workers organization.
A Negro Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
Paid With Few Cents
and Groceries for
Long Hours Toll
(By a Worker Correspondent,

(By Worker Correspondent
MILWAUKEE,. Visit one wants
to see some real forced labor all he
needs to do is to come to the socialist
city of Milwaukee. Here the unem-
ployed workers are forced to work
for Milwaukee County and when pay
day comes around they are given a
few pennies.
Here is a pay statement and a
check for thirty cents, which the
county gave a fellow worker for
working 81 hours. Instead of giving
the workers cash payment they give
him what they called "relief." This
Is practically the same as slavery, as
~ vc.''er Is m1-e,7 wor'iing for his
food. And The relief The socialist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
WORKERS DRIVEN TO
DEATH BY SPEED-UP
IN PASSAIC MILLS
Botany Mill Lengthens Hours and Introduces
New Speed-Up; One Dies, Many Made I'll
Call Workers to Organize Into National Textile
Workers Union and Strike
(By a Worker Correspondent

PASSAIC N. 1.-The workers of this textile town famous
for their wor1nown struggle of 19261927 face situation
which must be answered effectively by and bigger
struggles.
The Botany biggest mill around here) after cutting
by 10 cent few months began introducing the auto
matte six loom system Efficiency experts brought into
the MILL who smpy turned the place into track Even
foremen forced push trucks around while hoerng at
their hurry The old workers could not get them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
Strikers Must Demand Recognition
of National Textile Workers Union

U. will drop down right after the
strike.
Some workers will say: 1.-THE boss
will not recognize the union" No,
fellow strikers, the boss will recog
nize our union if we will fight for
it. Of course, the mill owners will
gladly recognize the U. T. W., for
it is the union that does not fight
against speed-up, wage-cuts, etc, but
the workers must force the mill own
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

cents or nothing in money whatso-
ever.
We are calling demonstration be-
fore the County Board soon and will
demand that workers working on
these county jobs shall receive wages
in cash and not in kind
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

ers to recognize their union, the
Red Union'-the union that is the
only one in the textile industry now
fighting against the bad conditions
in the mills.
The lesson of the Lawrence
strike, to the workers on strike,
must be. We are on strike under
the leadership of the Red Union,
we will go back to work with our
fighting union recognized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
GIRL COLLAPSES FROM
STARVATION.

Editor
Near the point Of starvation and
exhausted by long search for en-
ployment. Johanna Lee, 202 North
Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, COL
lapsed on the street car on July II.
The girl revived after being given
nourishment at the Georgia Street
receiving hospital. Her last job was
with man as Office clerk. He for
got" to pay her 500 months wage,
she said. The name and address of
the employer is unkonwn at this
writing. -L.P.R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

bosses here are giving the workers is
sure lousy.
The Milwaukee bosses have her.
aided this so-called relief scheme far
and wide. But they did not say that
the workers had to wci'i. hard for it
and then receive as little es thirty
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
WORKERS RAGGED AND
HUNGRY IN BENTON AS
ONLY MINE CLOSES
Father Stole to Feed Starving Children, Sent
to Penitentiary
Three Bank Failures Wipe Out Savings of the
Workers
(By Worker Correspondent


Editor-During the year of 1880, three of Benton's
banks closed their DOORS The hard life savings of
many lost Next Bentons only mine which employed
500 men, shut down and failed to pay it's employees
months wages. This made beggars out of them. They
begged and still begging of those that only existing
the bitter cry for Bread every side hungry ragged
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
COPS SLUG WORKERS.
Hondo, Cal.

Daily WORKER
At meeting Of the unemployed
held on the Los Angeles slave mar
ket," 9Th Street and Towne Avenue,
July 18th, a young girl and at least
score of workers were beaten up
by members of the police Fred
Squad" Five cops are also reported
to be nursing bruises today. -L.P.R.
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