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The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07

Mr.. Appel, general man
ager of the firm is enjoying
a few weeks near the ocean
in California.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07

E. Griffin of Florence, an
old time Dakota friend of
Editor Hooper made the
the Examiner office a plea
SAINT call Tuesday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07

Mrs. T. E. Markham has
been i'll with stomache trou-
Bile the past week, but is
much improved and able to
be around again.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Liv,
ingston and family have
returned home to Coolidge
from Prescott where they
spent the past month visit
ing.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07

Mrs. E. L. Martin has been
i'll suffering from a carbun-
Gle on her forehead which
is very painful and huge
size.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-08-07

P. j. Horning and wife of
Los Angeles passed through
Coolidge, stopping Wednes-
day night at the San Carlos
Hotel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Ex>Seattle Seller Goes to
EVerett Sells 500 in Week;
Small Cities Boost Orders

Encouraging reports of Daily
Worker activity in the smaller cities
is contained in the following note
from T.. Scott, Daily Worker repre-
sentative in District IL, Seattle:
"Con1rade Ed Lange is official
Daily Worker representative in Ia
coma. I have given him the instruc-
tons and the program for Tacoma
Comrade LANCE was one of my best
newsboys in Seattle.
81 just came from Everett, Wash
ington. Max Major is Daily Worker
agent there now. He sold last week
500 DAILY Workers in this new
town. Now Everett wants 100 cop
les daily. Everett gives challenge
to Tacoma.
Tacoma is talking about getting
200 Daihes soon and also Everett
Tacoma is not going to get away
with that stuff says Everett. What
do you say, Tacoma2
1.-THE District IL Daily Worker
agents wants all district agents not
to look at the center only, but to
go cut into all the towns and vii
lagos in the district and get your
Daily Worker in the small town.
Stamp the local address in red ink
so that new readers know where
they can buy the paper in their
own town"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
DIN the Council of the there One Organize One
JOBLESS TO MARCH ON CALIFORNIA
CAPITAL; DETROIT MARCH JAN. z

doesn't even receive car-fare and
must walk miles to get to his work.
Less For Negroes.
A Negro family of 6, living on the
same block. The father has been out
of work for years. He gets only S.
per week and his children must pick
UP coal on the railroads.
In Highland Park, the father Of
two children works 10 hours at A0c
per hour for one day a week. The
city fathers show a little more con-
sheraton for a family of u. The
man gets l ID days work, shoyeling
ashes at 40c per hour.
The mother of a 17-year-old girl
was told by the Welfare Department
that she ought not to worry about
taking care of her, but should throw
her out into the street and let her
take care of herself. When the
mother refused, Murphys welfare
department refused further aid.
Thousands of families who are in
dire need receive no aid at all. AS
for single workers, only the lucky
ones receive the equivalent of 2Oc a
day for food and sometimes a miser-
able flop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01

Jan. IL, Two hundred open-air meet
ings, Jan. Is. ID, Is. Indoor meetings
Bronx, Harlem, Downtown, Williams
burg, Boro Hall, Brownsville, to elect
delegates to Washington. House to
house canvass for signatures to Un-
employment Bill, Jan. 16.
PHILADELPHIA 49, Foster IN a S s
meeting at Broadway Arena, Jan. IA
Special Red Sunday to collect sigma
lures, Jan 4, between 9 a. m. and
4 p. m.
BOSTON-Foster mass meeting at
Ambassador Palace, Jan. Is.
YOUNGSTOWN, N. il Hunger
march, Jan. 5 at Z p. m.
NEWARK, N. J.-Hunger march,
Jan. 16. Second United Front Con-
ference, Jan. 13, at Q p. M, in Slovack
Hall, So West st.
The Campaign Committees in many
towns have not sent in the announce
ment Of their meetings and hunger
marches. They should do so at the
earliest possible date.
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YOUNGSTOWN AND
NEWARK MARCHES
CONTINUED FROM PAGE

walls among thousands Of unemp
men and women and their child,
About 800 working men are COZ
PEELED to lodge in the incinerato.
sleeping in the garbage, feeding OF
the same. There are about 1000
men and children on the soup lines
daily existing on q bowl Of rotten
soup they get once in while.
Newark March Jan. 1S.
The hunger mach in Newark, N. j.
will be on Jan. l6.
The Newark Unemployed Council
is holding regular meetings at p. m.
Tuesdays and Fridays at SO Mercer
st.
The Newark Campaign COMMITTEES
for Unemployment Relief has sent
cut call for all workers organiEa-
lions to send two delegation5 eacA
to a united front conference on
unemployment, to meet Jan. ID at
Slovack Hall, So West ST., Newark
to speed collection of signatures for
the Workers Unemployment 1nsur-
ance Bill and make plans to choose
delegates to so to washington for
presentation of the bill to congress
on Feb. 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
COMING EVENTS IN
JOBLESS CAMP Align

DETROIT-Hunger March, Jan 2,
assemblies at Grand Circus Park, /
p. m. and proceeds to city hall. Dele
CATION to state legislature, Jan. T.
Foster mass meeting, Danceland Aud
itoriunl, Jan. II.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES march, Jan
S, assemblies in three places, 3Oth st.
and st. Clair, 3Oth st, and Central,
25th st. and Lorain at 6:l5 and
marches on city hall. Foster mass
meeting Jan. IL at 8 p. m. at Slo-
venian Hall, GAIT st. Clair. Second
United Front Conference, Jan. 8,
South Slav Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave.
Observation-Disclosures march in
Ambridge, Jan. 5. Hunger march in
Pittsburgh, Jan. 10.
Observation-Disclosures march on
state capitol, Jan. Z. Delegations
from all over state meet at II a. m.
on Second and K SITS.
Observation-Disclosures mass meet
AIS, ooeCA oPCohSl, odil' . az SAllSaSo
Coliseum, 18th st. and Wabash, 7:30
p. m. Second United Front Conger-
ence, Jan IL. Hunger march on city
hall, Jan. II.
NE WYORK-Hunger marches on
Brooklyn and Bronx Boro Halls, Jan.
8. Hunger march on New York City
Hall, Jan. 10. Mass trial of Hoover,
Green and Walker, Jan. IL. Second
meeting N. Y. Campaign COMMITTEE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
WORKERS STARVE, Die
WHILE PARASITES REVEL

Extra police amounting to 1000
were used to guard the jewelry of
the parasitic jewellers, was protec-
ton against theft Gala parties in
hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs,
greeted the New Year in rich drunken
orgies. While workers on the bowery
in line for place to flop. and
perhaps, hand out.
The Plaza, the Aston the Club st.
Regis, the Marquette Club, were
filled with the citys 400. Thousands
of dollars were spent in bringing
forth debutantes. Miss Bourne and
Miss de Camp were two of those
entering exclusive" society.
At the same time Michael Abate,
So, hungry, homeless, unnoticed and
out of work, discarded by the bosses
as too cold to work, leaped in front
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
1881 WILL BE A YEAR OF SHARPEnED CLASS STRUGGLES

armed invasion of the Soviet Union. This murderous
conspiracy defeated by the Soviet Union. But the
capitalist world, with American imperialism as its
strongest center is eagerly Selling every issue and
every situation to bring the moment when, in
attempt to liquidate its internal crisis and to
smash its great revolutionary enemy, it will launch
its armies against the Soviet government. In 1881
the working-cass must prepare by all revolutionary
means to smash the war plottings of the Bosses
Growing Tasks of the Future
The general situation is one that must inspire every
revolutionary worker to renewed efforts Capitalism
is rotng at the heart throughout the world Social
ism is fourishing in the Soviet Union. The workers
are awakening everywhere The best way to prepare
for the great revolutionary struggles looming ahead of
is nitantly to fulfil the every day tasks. We must
redouble efforts to build the revolutionary unions
of the Trade Union Unity League, to secure unem-
ployrnent by militant strikes and above all to build
revolutionary Communist Party!
War Preparations Increase.
Nineteen thirty-one finds the capitalist nations in
the midst of feverish program OF preparations
against each other and against the Soviet Union. 1t
this year that France had chosen to begin the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Condemned Meat Sold After GRAFT Payment;
Mayor "SaVes" Is Millions on $4,000 Salary

many saloons, and when night had
fallen and the cuspidors wer clean
and the customers were full, Frank
could always be depended on to
strong-arnl any obstreperous pals who
insisted on talking loudly, if not clev-
erly. 1t was in the caurse OF Hague's
wanderings as saloon porter that he
met the politicians who were to teach
him so much--and to whom he
taught so much in later years.
Hague's apprenticeship in politics
took place during the regime of Bob
Davis, one of the first of New Jer-
seys democratic bosses. There was
little to distinguish Davis from Jesse
James, and whatever differences
there were must accrue to the benefit
of James. For the latter never tried
to hide his banditries, whereas Davis
carried out his various deals in the
same manner that made Hague, his
pupil, famous that is as "a friend
OF the people"
Two of Davis transactions are of
particular interest to all class-con-
scious workers, inasmuch as they give
an inkling of the character (and the
friends) of the ignoble great. 1t was
Bob Davis who elected Woodrow Will
son governor of New Jersey and made
it possible for that greatest Of all
denagogues to become president and
draw us into capitalist war which
resulted in the death of more than
hundred thousand American work.
ers. In this war, incidentally, ex-
actly as many new American million
aires were created as American SOL
diers were killed. and it is therefore
not stretching the meaning of words
to say that millionaire was made
every time IN American soldier was
killed -----'---'' .'' ---->---~~
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/ job. AS we know, he was exaggerat-
ing slightly, but it is true that he be-
came constable soon after reaching
81 and has held political office ever
since. dis incumbency as a constable
was enlivened by several characters
tic incidents, as might be expected
when blackjack artist becomes an
"oficer of the law"
One Red Dugan was being tried in
Boston for passing a bad $1,000
check. Dugan was distinctly a third
rate gangster, for he was always get
ting in trouble with the police over
matters which any moderately shrewd
gunman could have avoided with
out difficulty. Perhaps it was
Hague's sympathy with Dugan's
stupidity that caused him TO travel
all the way to Boston to perjure him
self for the forger. 1t was more
than likely, however, that Hague was
motivated by some entirely different
reason, for sympathy with unfortu-
nate human beings is not one of his
outstanding qualities. In any event,
Hague testified that Dugan slept in
his home the night half dozen Bos-
ton cops chased Dugan just after the
forger had passed the check. The
perjury was too raw, and Hague was
fined 500 and told to leave town on
the next train.
That was the first time Hague Wis
tied Boston, The last time Hague
visited the city. it was as the hon
ored guest Of the American Legion,
then assembled in convention. The
Legion gave Hague the keys to the
city. Who is to say what Hague
would have done II the keys would
actually have fitted any of the locks
in Boston, or that the Legion would
not have been accomplices to the loot
ins1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
Meat Condemned In New York.

Meat Condemned In New York.
The other transaction of Davis also
has to do with the deliberate killing
of workers for the benefit of few
rich parasites. An enormous ship
ment of meat in the Bush Terminal
in New York had been condemned as
unfit for human consumption. The
meat wholesaler, of course, was not
discouraged, for after all he was a
meat wholesaler and was in the habit
OF selling meat, laws or no laws. The
refusal Of the New York authorities
to allow the meat to be sold is no
indication that they we're unwilling
to take graft: it simply was an in
dication that the meat was so bad
they didn't think it paid-especially
when there was always graft to be
had for permitting such harmless
things os watery milk to be okayed.
The wholesaler began making
the rounds Of nearby states. His
first try, in Jersey City, was I'M
mediateIy successful. Bob Davis
was willing, more than willing. and,
what is more, was extremely eff
cient about the entire matter, go
ing about IL as calmly as medieval
priest setting fire to a 'heretic."
First Davis summoned a man who
was employed by Jersey City
slaughter house as a meat expert,
He asked the expert to examine the
meat and tell him what 1t was
worth in its state of putrefaction.
The expert did so and reported
back to Davis, who told the whole
saIer that his price for permitting
the meat to be sold in Jersey City
would be $4,000. The money passed
hands that day.
Hague has often boosted that he
has never held other than a political
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
,JOBI.ESS SLEEP
IN CAR STATIONS
Join the Fight for Job
less Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

BRONX, N. UT was a very cold
three o'clock December morning, on
my way home frob down town
meeting. Having to change trains at
125th st. subway station. Walked the
platform back and forth in order to
keep warm. Got a chill instead.
The sight my eyes beheld could
bring the chill to anyone with red
blood in his or her veins. Men in
rags, worn out shoes, no socks, torn
coats (no overcoats), ripped pants,
caps pulled down over ears. White
and colored bundled together in a
sleeping posture on the benches of
the station.
A sweet little creature in a costly
fur coat wrapped tightly around her
form, glanced at these men and re-
marked to her gallant escort, PITY
on the poor men" What wanted to
say to the men on the benches was:
Men, wake up, do not lay here in
the cold to awaken pity. Stand up
like men, in line with your colored
brother side by side in the ranks of
the Communist Party, the only Party
fighting for your right as human be-
ingS, for your bread and shelter. Do
away with the cause Of all this mis-
ery-capitalisfn.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNED


with the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill to congress. They de-
mand from the state Of California
government that the vagrancy laws
shall be abolished, that laws against
organization of the workers, such as
the Criminal Syndicalism law shall
be abolished, that relief shall be adj
ninistered from state and city gov
ernments by taking the money now
used as payments TO bankers on
debts, etc, and turning it over to
committees of jobless and workers to
administer as regular weekly cash
relief, that there be no evictions Oh
shutting of water, gas, or light if
jobless workers can not pay for it,
that the job shark swindles end, etc.
Mayor Rolph of San Francisco
promised that the iobless would be
taken care of when the March
demonstration was held. Rolph has
now been elected state governor. He
has broken all his promises, and the
masses will call him to account.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

unemployed that unquestionaby the next few months
will see hunger riots in various American industrial
centers.
A Future of Struggle.
The perspective for capitalist society in America
in 1881 is one of sharpening and deepening class
struggles The holds true for the capitalist world
as a whole Nineteen thirty-one will bring a great
ntensfcation of the revolutionary struggles in China
India Latin-America and Europe. The developing mine
and textile strike in England the struggle symbol
of the coming year. Nineteen thirty-one may well see
disaster to the capitalist system in countries.
Advance of the Soviet Union.
While capitalism plunges deeper and deeper into
crisis, the Soviet Union bazes forward from victory
to victory in the building of Socialism. Its success
strikes terror to the heart of capitalism and is grow
ing inspiration to millions of hunger-stricken workers
in the capitalist world Every capitalist paper con-
tans articles and statements by leading employers and
politicians that the capitalist system in this crisis is
now on trial and fighting for its life. The openly
recognize that the real ISSUE growing sharper every
day, is-Communist Capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
BYgQdIines IN
D<]uth Mimi
OVTV VVUEC1 AVAItEEes
Grow Daily
by a Worker Correspondent


DULUTH, Minn,-Conditieps in our
city are miserable enough without
the city council bluffing the workers
with promises of work. From day to
day there are fake registrations Of
the jobless workers. The breadlines
are increasing here daily and now
number over 400 at the ethel Mission,
where the homeless men are sent.
There they are made to saw wood
for their board and lodging. They
saw wood for as much as three hours
for a bowl Of soup and three slices
of bread.
While the community fund was
making their drive happened to
work at the leading hotel where they
made their headquarters. They spent
$1,027.50 on luncheons and dinner
and $4,000 other expenses without
counting the other good times they
had at another leading hotel of this
city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
PELLAGRA HITS
CHILDREN OF THE
CALF. JOBLESS
Fool the Workers Into
Great Misery
tBy a Worker Correspondent

ADJ "0AACI NVALGSRuA0cutI
RICHMOND, Ca1-Several weeks
ago an agent came to the Social Ser
vice IN Richmond in order to help
out the unemployed In that city
where the unemployed situation is
intensified by the curtailnent Of the
oil production as Richmond is an oil
center. He offered to take workers
down to the cotton fields, where they
could earn lots of money picking cot
ton. He promised good, sanitary
housing, plenty of good food and Won
derful working conditions and that
their meals and transportation would
be provided. When one worker men
toned he had three children, the
agent said to take them with him
as they had a school where he could
send his children.
This worker fell for the story and
was taken to the fields. The par
ticular location OF the ranch was near
Chowchilla. which is over $50 miles
south of Richmond. They left at
O'Clock in the morning and did not
arrive until 8 at night. When they
asked for food as was promised them
they were told by the commissary il
they did not have any money they
would have to wait until they picked
before he could give them any food
The next day when the worker ask
ed about sending his children to
school he was told that there was nc
way to send them and that they had
better work if they wanted to make
any money. So the father and three
children were forced to work together
in order to make any money at all
For two days work the four of them
together made a total Of $4.36. A
glaring example Of high wages that
we hear SO much about but never
actually see.
AS to housing conditions: They
we're forced to sleep in drafty shacks
with almost no sanitation. A child
died and another is in the hospital
with pneumonia due to exposure. The
worker who told me the story had a
chance to come back and did So
Others are still working, trying to
get enough money to get out. The
store refuses to advance any more
credit, only giving them food and
supplies for the amount Of cotton
: picked. At this time of the year
there is heavy fog every morning
In this region which makes the cot
. ton unfit for picking until about noon
How will these families ever get
enough to get out? AS the season
progresses the crop gets thinner and
consequently the pickers make even
less money.
Pellagra Spreads
This situation is not confined to
Chowchilla District alone. The same
conditions prevail along the cotton
belt which extends from MERGED to
Imperial Valley. In every field are
whole families Shaving for just about
enough to exist on. Not enough to
buy clothes, nothing for medicine.
Where there are schools for children
in many cases they cannot attend
because they have no clothes and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
SCRAP IRON MEN
XKT0DK 10A LE0TTDQ
WUIGM luz EHUOAaO
FOR MEASLY S15.6O
Negro, White Workers
Must Unite
lBy a Worker CORRESPONDENT

10y WOrhbI NOEECSpUhCkcnV
DETROIT, Mich,-~Just few words
about the conditions here in the Bah
cock Iron Co, The work is hard, the
conditions are rotten, the hours are
long and the pay is very small.
We have to work 1o4 hours to get
$3.50. We got to work at $50 in
the afternoon and have to work until
7 o'clock in the morning and have
only 30 minutes for lunch. We make
IS cents per hour and work IS hours
per night and nights a week, and
still we look to get laid off at most
any time.
And when man gets hurt he has
to wait so long before he can get
first aid, as they have no medical
department at all.
Tally Organization.
I was talking to some of the work
ers about organizing and they say
that's the only way out of it. We
all are coIored workers, but there are
four white workers. We are given
the worst jobs and least pay. !
think It's time that we as workers
should wake up to the true facts of
life and stop fighting against our
fellow-workers and fight our oppres-
Sors. The only way to stop hunger,
the only way to get back some of the
things that we as workers have pro-
duced and we are really in need Of
is to bind ourselves together with a
solid bond of unity and by doing this
we will proceed on to progress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01

they are needed to work in the fields
in order that the families may exist.
The hunger, toll and exposure due to
the miserable conditions they are
forced to live under, make all the
workers an easy prey to all diseases.
Pellagra has made its appearance
here in Sunny California. When
sickness comes, the families have no
money for medicinal purposes and
can do nothing but to wait for death
to take it's toll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
WANTS TO SELL IN
CARLSBORG, WASH.

c. C. G. Of Carlsborg, Wash, writes:
81 want to start selling the Daily
Worker here in Carlsborg. You may
start sending me five every day. And
if can get you more subs will Or
der more later. Hope to hear from
you real soon"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-01
BOSSES WANT COssACKs.

HELENA. - The Montana Crime
Commission recommends that State
cossack system be established. Strike
breaking Pennsylvania cossacks are
held up as an example.