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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Fire Married Women
in Portland R.R. But
Is Fake Relief Move
(By a Worker Correspondent

tDS d. WUIhCE SUIICSPuiAuCutl
PORTLAND, Ore.-Married women
have been Disseminated against by
the Spokane and Portland and
Seattle Railroad. The company an
nounces a "Ieave Of absence" to all
married women employees until the
employment crisis" has passed.
This is just another form that the
bosses have Of supporting the lies Of
the office boy, Hoover, that they are
not laying OFF any employees. There
will be no announcement in the pa
pers of any workers being hired to
replace these women workers. They
have been used by the bosses as long
as they were necessary and at lower
wages than they gave men. Economic
conditions make 1t necessary for wonl-
en- to work and they must Join the
T.U.UL. and fight side by side with
the men workers for better condi-
tons.
Two suicides and one accident"
is the casualty list of workers Tor
the new year so far. Workers must
fight for the light to live and not let
the boss rule weaken them. The I'M
employment insurance bill is being
circulated in Portland and every
worker should help to get the Port
land quota Workers will have to
fight for the right to live.
Join the T.U.U.L. and fight for the
class rights OF workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
WOMEN DEFEND NEGRO
SELLING DAILY IN SUBWAY.
Laurinzo Stokes member OF the Rex

Builders News Club has been selling
the Daily Worker TO the crowds of
workers in the subway on their way
to and from work The capitalist
news agents are much opposed to the
sale of the Daily Worker in the sub
way since they have seen how eager
these workers are to get the paper
which is telling them the truth about
the rotten mess Of capitalist condi-
tons, in this land of prosperity, and
Laurinzo got into a scrap with one
of the guards who insisted that he
get off the train with his "Bolshevik
paper Some women comrades on
their way home we're in the train.
One of them sprang up to his de-
Tense and insisted that the guard let
him stay on the train. Other work
ers sprang up to his defense and
Laurinzo continued selling the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Rnccr7c' RT ANNT TcT'
nncTnNl CTDFHFDG
With Aid Of Unholster-
ers international
icy a Worker Correspondent

KY II tV1hNt NUAltSpOhNEhSI
BOSTON. Mass Since the loss OF
The recent strike and the smashing
of the local upllolsterers' union the
Soaton furniture manufacturers have
been conducting city-wide campaign
to BILE 3kiist those who were active in
the strike
During the strike the bosses hired
gangsters. secured injunctions and
spent thousands upon thousands to
break the strike and the union.
Success in this respect has not sat-
isfied these swine. They also want
to remove every possibility of a flu
ture strike against the rotten condi-
tons and low wages in the shops.
And they are being aided by the
treachery Of the Upholsterers' Inter
national Union Of N. A., who has
helped the bosses on at least three
counts; |, by refusing financial aid
to Local No. 81 ana its several hun
dred strikers; 2, by revoking its char
ter because Of few hundred dollars
involved, thus helping the bosses to
destroy the local; 8, by helping the
bosses to prosecute the strikers by
refusing to transfer che blacklisted
workers to another local to help them
to get employment in other cities.
Finally the International is making
not the slightest effort to reorganize
Boston. The full treachery of these
actions are now realized by the be-
trayed workers, who see no hope in
the situation except through the
Trade Union Unity League. t. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Prada Gives
A nalyStS OF
Revolt

MOSCOW-Referring to the events
in Spain, the "Pravda" writes that
the recent insurectionary movement
took place under such circumstances
that it cannot be identified with the
previous officers instructions. First
of all, the Instructions have taken
place under the slogan of the over
throw of the monarchy and the in
PRODUCTION Of republican regime,
whereby the republican strivings Of
broad sections of the urban and rural
petty bourgeoisie, supported by sec
tons of the industrial bourgeoisie
particularly in Catalonia) have en-
tered on the stage of armed strug-
giles; and, secondly, and still more i'm
portant, the military instructions
took place parallel with strike move
ments on an unparalleled scale.
Many signs have indicated that the
Spanish proletariat is rapidly recov-
ering from six years Of fascist die
tatorship, and that it is adopting
more and more the slogans Of the
Spanish Communist Party, at the
same time freeing itself from social
list and neutrality-suspicious. influ-
ences.
Further, events have shown that
the Spanish proletariat is by no
means prepared to play the role of an
instrument in the hands Of the re-
publican industrialists, the officers
and the petty bourgeoisie, but that it
is growing increasingly conscious of
its historic role in the revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
TO FINISH 5-YEAR
PLAN IN ; u, YRS.
Preparing New Plan;
Collectives Gain

The Walter Duranty articles to the
New York Times quote the Moscow
Izvestia authoritative government
publication as follows:
ut is now obvious that the
Five Year Plan will be completed in
four years. The coming All Union
Soviet CongreSS-the sixth-wiu meet
later this year, the decisive and con-
elusive year of the Five-Y Year Plan,
which in many branches will be COM
pleted in three or three and halt
years. The subsequent Congress-the
seventh-scheduled for 1888, will meet
when the next Five-Year plan is al
ready under way"
Duranty comments that this dec
laration that the Five-Year Plan is
to be finished so far ahead of time
and that further planned work will
follow is evidence of the confidence
of the Soviet Government in the new
year. This confidence he says is
due not only to overcoming The diff
ficulties and shortcomings of the late
Summer and Fall" and realization
that Communism penetrates the
masses, but to the fact that:
The Fall sowing campaign and
the renewed drive for farm collect
ivization, which caused much trouble
and friction year ago, have been
carried out this year within frac-
ton of the program and almost
wholly without difficulties
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
JERSEY FARMERS
ARE BEING DRIVEN
TO BANKRUPTCY
Bankers Profiting By
This Crisis
New Brunswick, N. ].

New Brunswick, N. j.
Daily Worker
The unusually low prices Of farm
products are affecting\ particularly
the small and middle farmers. They
are unable to cut down their produc-
ton costs and face annihilating COM
petition with large producers. A
Monmouth County poultrylnan told
me today that with eggs selling at
~ cents and costs of taxes, insurance
and interests and building costs being
as high as they are another drop in
egg prices or raise in prices Of feed
will finish him.
MiddIeman's Profits.
According to him the large volume
of Western white eggs produced on
big unit system with large capitaliza-
ton is taking away the metropolitan
market from the small farmer. Yet
he can't sell his farm and join the
other unemployed. mot even the
country bank will take my place over
The banker just laughed at me-" Our
cost of production is two or three
times that of the mammoth western
farms And the Glow prices we are
getting are not passed on to the con-
sulner.
Even the optimistic report of W. F.
knowles, government economist at
the New Jersey agricultural station,
contains the statement that New
Jersey farmers are getting low prices
and that these are still declining for
most products.
Reduced Incomes.
Incomes of farmers were greatly
reduced in 1880 In August many
farm products sold at pre-war prices
and the combined New Jersey farm
prices for that month we're II per
cent above prices from 1910 to 1914.
The purchasing power of the great
bulk of farmers is destroyed.
There is an increased interest in
direct selling methods, and farmers
co-operatives selling and purchasing,
are getting more attention.
I noticed a decided dissatisfaction
with the old parties. Last night a
small farmers family kept me until
2 O'Clock i'll the morning asking ques-
tons about the Five-Year Plan and
the agricultural program of the Com
munist Party. Perhaps the sections
located on the border of the metro
politan farming district could find
place for lot of activity in their
rural neighborhood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill

The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes:
1Unempoyment insurance the rate of
unemployed and SIS additional dependant
2The creation Of National Unemployment
raised by (a) using
(b) all capital property $4,000;
alF'ncomes OF $500 year.
S-That Unemployment
be administered by Workers solely
unemployed
All Sign being by
onal Campaign Committee for
sdy organizations demand that shall its
final form possibly amended meetings
elect the delegation pos
sb amended by the delegation itself The final of the
bill will follow the line of the printed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
HOSIERY WOR KERS
VOTE DOWN End
PAY CUT DEM
Bosses and Officials
Against Men
Philadelphia, Pa.


Daily worker
The membership meeting of the
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Fed
Grafton. held Friday night here
unanimously rejected and voted down
further additional wage-cut Of IS
per cent in the industry located prin-
cipally in Northeast Philadelphia
(Kensington) and vicinity.
The Committee Of Negotiations
consisted Of unicn officials and
bosses The workers of Kensington
have militant tradition and will no
longer be fooled by the labor mis-
leaders of the A. p. of L.
VIII Fight This.
Organized resistance can be ex-
pected now in many additional no.
siery mills for this % per cent wage
bcut which means a total of so percent
Wage-cut together with the IA per
Gent wage-cut against Weavers in the
upholstery trade, has put the work.
ers Of Kensingston into a struggling
mood against the bosses.
In the metal trades, many thou
sands Of workers are unemployed
(also in this district. Those who are
employed have suffered wage-cuts
There has been no organized resist
ance as yet and workers Of the steel.
bronze and other Industries of Ken
sington should prepare for strike
struggle, which is sure to come. Con-
ditiorlS are inuolerable. c. Rabin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Masses Gather Before Tammany Agency;
March to Hall: Beaten Up As They Leave

From two points the hunger march
es converged on the Welfare Depart
ment offices at Leonard and Lafay-
cite SITS, down town in New York.
The Madison Square Council Of the
Unemployed led hundreds from the
various breadlines to the demonstra-
ton in front of the municipal lodging
house at First Ave. and 25th st. Po-
lice tried to interfere with the meet
ing, questioning Robert Lealess, the
chairman, as to whether there were
Communists n the crowd. Lealess
told them that all workers and unem-
ployed could take part in this demon
stration, without regard to political
opoiinns. The $50 cops stationed
there finally withdrew.
This crowd marched singing and
shouting for work or relief to the
Lafayette st. demonstration. 1t is es-
timated that some 5000 were gather
ed in front of the Tammany agency
there. The doors of the agency were
thrown open, and hundreds forced
in, and locked in by the Tammany
agents to reduce the size of the dem
onstration.
The crowd from the municipal flop
house sent its delegation, Lealess,
johnson, O'Boyle, Corbin, Sabel, in
to see Taylor, in charge of the We'll
fare offices, at the same time the
Down Town Council sent in Its dele
cation, Ball, Foulke, Rosenberg,
Lemke, Stevens and Nelson
Taylor met them, surrounded by
strong arm men. and insisted he
could do nothing. A worker said,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Only Half Prosser Fund to
Jobless; No Jobs from Cit,
Prosser Gang Proposes to Use $4,320,00O to
Hire $4,000 for II Weeks; Doesn't Say
What Rest of S8,000,000 Is For

NEW YORK. -Rybicki, head of the
city employment agency, called on
the mayor and related what every
body knows already, that 5000 job
less jam into and around the agency
daily, and that there are no jobs
there. Rybicki added detail. He
told how when a clerk announced
lust one hours labor, at SIS cents an
hour, for only two men," such a mad
rush for this little job took place that
it was like a football scrinmage.
The Prosser committee also called
on walker, and asked for $l0,o00,000
city funds to keep the emergency
work going. Capitalist press reports
state that their spokesman said,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Milwaukee JobIess
i'm Hunger March
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEn


of the police headed by Sergeant
Dieden to break up the demonstra-
ton 1t was only the active support
of the speakers. by cheers and APP
plause and refusal to move along, as
the police commander, that thwarteo
the plans to smash the demonstrs-
ton. Six patrol wagons were wait
ing for the arrests but the niHtalcy
of the workers prevented the cops
from carrying out their plans.
The Common Council refused on
act on the demands of the Unem-
ployed and yet adopted new budges
q93D allocating thousands of dollars
for bird-houses in the Washington
Park Zoo, thousands for the Memo
rial DaJ fund, museum collectors
fund, etc, The NC. delegation showed
the aldermen, especially the social
lists" how thousands of dollars could
be gotten by cutting out some Of the
useless items of the new budget. But
the socialist alderman, Dietz, led the
attack against the unemployed, main
tanning enough was being done by
lighthouses. soup-kitchens and char
ity at the Outdoor Relief.
On the following day, Dec. 80, 300
workers attended mass meeting at
Miller Hall to hear the report of the
workers committee and greet the
leaders Of the unemployed, Burke ana
Clark, released from jail that same
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09

"If there was war on you could find
some way, couldn't you, to keep us
alive until we got TO the battlefield"
And Taylor said, Yes"
March to Manhattan Lyceum
Observation-Disclosures eta Sh ct
After the report of the committees,
the combined crowd started march
ing up to Manhattan Lyceum, on
Fourth st. On the way a couple OF
cops attacked them, and the resist
ance of the masses was reused. One
cop went to the hospital. Police re-
serves were called out, and by the
time Manhattan Lyceum was filled
with jobless and the meeting was
going on, the street was full Of po-
lice, with wagons and all.
Arrest Five Workers
Police Charged in and arbitrarily
arrested five workers from the crowd.
One of these was Herman Turkowitz,
they let him out, "for questioning,
the next thing his friends knew of
him, an hour later, he was in Bellevue
Hospital.
Cops Make Brutal Assault
AS the Manhattan Lyceum crowd
started to leave, a signal was given
with a flash light, and a brutal as
sault by club swinging police took
place. Mrs. Constantine, the pregnant
woman recently thrown out of the
municipal lodging house was knocked
down by cops club. Her husband,
Jack Constantine, was beaten un-
conscious by police. Eight others were
beaten up, several lying unconscious
on the sidewalk.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Less Milk for Phila.
Babies AS Milk Boss
Cut Down Production

Philadelphia, Pa.
The babies of unemployed families
in Philadelphia have to get along
with less milk. On account of the
unemployment situation Phila milk
consumption was cut 10 per cent says
President Abbot of the Interstate
Milk Producers Assn. To save the
profits of the milk trust farmers in
Pennsylvania nilk-sheds wer cut
down 40 per cent a hundredweight
on basic milk and warned to further
decrease production. If they do not
obey and reduce their milk produc-
ton, Pres. Abbot threatens that
another cut will take effect as the
companies can't sell under present
labor conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
DANBURY FUR STRIKERS WIN
SHOP, PICKETING STILL GOES ON!

The editor, Wilson, explained that
his paper had policy against print
ing news OF the strike because it
would spread the strike and bring
more trouble"
Use Daily Worker.
The strikers decided to circulate
1000 copies of the Daily Worker Fri
day night at the 8 p. m. mass meet
ing In Polish Hall, Ives st. All are
urged to attend.
Strike headquarters have been
opened at hall at 1853 Main st. and
many are Joining the union there.
shop meetings and mass meetings
are being held every morning and
afternoon. Mass picketing takes
place at a. NJ. every morning. Com
mittees of strikers are patrolling the
highways on the watch against trucks
carrying bales Of fur5 at night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09

Something must be done, Or" and
the sentence was left unfinished
Evidently the Prosser gang knows of
the rising determination of the job
less not to starve. That scares them
into asking more money.
1t does not scare them into giving
what they have (much of it black
mailed out Of employed workers
wages to the jobless. The commit
tee told Walker it had 100000 with
which it intended to keep $4,000 men
working at SIS week until April
That would be $4,320,ooO. Where is
the other $3,70o,0oo? Used for over
head? Turned over to capitalists for
materials? Just grated?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Thousands Demonstrate at BROOKLYN
Boro Hall; Then March on SaIlies

The Brooklyn hunger march and
demonstration was the largest.
After invading the Amalgamated
Temple at Broadway and Myrtle and
calling all jobless there swarming out
into the street, they paraded four
abreast with banners Haunting their
demands for immediate relief to
Boro Hall, Police we're strung out
along the lines of march in groups
Of two and three, but did not dare
to attack here. These hunger march
SIS Joined a great crowd already be-
fore Boro Hall about noon.
Two mass meetings in the Red
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
FROM PAGE ONE,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE>
ers' Industrial Union as "Bolshevik"
and against June Croll, N. T. w. I. U.
organizer as a "jail bird" The work
ers championed the union, and Croll,
who was arrested in the New Haven
strike.
The N. T. w. I. U. executive issued
statement to the press explaining
the withdrawal of the hall from the
strikers.
The strikers meeting last night re-
pudiated the club and condemned 1t
for its trike-breaking action. They
rejected the offer of the club to lead
the strike"
Hundreds demonstrated today be-
fore the Danbury Times and de-
rianded that this newspapers CEN
soring OF the strike news should end.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
WILL SELL IN FRONT OF
FLINT SHOPS EACH DAY"

John Werner, Flint, Mich writes:
I'VE will sell the Daily Worker in
front of the shop gates every day.
Our present order is fifty day,
which we hope to increase to one
hundred in a short time. We started
a house to house route which we hope
we will increase Will write soon to
the Daily about conditions in Flint.
E. M writes from Gardner, Mass. ::
1.-THE little boys have sold o. K. Sat-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Robbing Nets
OF Issue>O
Clothes, Etc.
Soldiers Home,
Dayton, Ohio,

10y Will OA4LO'
Mr. Editor.
My Dear Sir;-Kindly allow me a
little space in your most valuable
paper.
Boss parasites are robbing pension
ers of clothes and their monthly issue
of tobacco,
Boss Economy.
Now that this great and noble hero
of the war, General Frank Hines, who
conducted an $8o0,000,000 enterprise
on a salary of $4,000 a year. is going
to save $10,00o,00O on the disabled
soldiers home for the coming year
He and the rest of the parasites have
decided that the men who have had
the privileges of drawing clothes and
tobacco from the quartermaSter'S de-
partment be deprived of this privi-
lege The whole system is operated
under the capitalistic idea Of soup
and hash for the disabled veterans
and steak and automobiles for the
nobility of those homes.
Rob the Vets.
The great and noble engineer, Her
bert Hoover and the rest of the para
sites have an idea to economic, but
do not even think of cutting down
their own salaries with all the money
they control Now that this great
appropriation Of Sl16,o00,000 for the
relief of unemployment is passed I
like to ask this question. There are
100000 unemployed men in the U.
S. How many days work would it
give to each man and what benefit,
as my way of thinking is the $l16,-
100000 appropriation is for lot Of
President Hoover's friends of the re-
publican party.
Editorial Note :-The $1l6000000
was appropriated for public con-
struction, road work, etc, which,
taking the promises of the boss
politicians at their face value, will
not. start for quite some time And
once started the greater amount of
the, money will find its way into
the pockets of the contractors, poll
ticianS and the usual run Of CAPT
taliSt hanger-on and for use to
build up the political machine of
the bosses. The number of mem-
ployed workers in the United States
now stands at 100000 as shown
conclusively in the Daily Worker Of
Jan. a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09

Hook section of Brooklyn, where thou
sands Of longshoremen and other job
less live miserably, combined and
marched up Carroll streets, with the
gangs of police following and police
lining the corners. The two parades,
one starting from Columbia and
Hamilton and the other at Column
bia and President, marched side by
side, each parade four abreast. to
join the Boro Hall demonstration
about 1910.
Elect Delegation.
The crowd listened to speeches
from leaders OF the Councils of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09

Bronx demonstration was the only
one not attacked by the police. A
whole series OF open-air meetings
were addressed by the speakers Of
the Council of the Unemployed, who
called on them to fight for relief and
to gather signatures for the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance Bill.
These crowds combined and about
1000 of them started marching to the
Bronx B0ro Hall, Third Ave, and E.
172nd st. They found a great crowd
waiting them, and as their delegation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
1000 Hunger March in Brooklyn;
Many Demonstrate in Bronx, Manhattan

cut off all but the front ranks. led
by the Council of the Unemployed.
Then, when these tried to speak,
the police attacked both Negro and
white workers, but since the crowd
was largely Negro, the white workers
were more conspicuous and were most
severely beaten. There were three
arrests here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09
Shoes for Big Faker
Murphy But Not for
UNEMPLOYED Workers
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Editor Daily Worker:
Enclosed shows photo and COM
ments in News of the faker Mayor
Murphy and new Governor Elect
Brucker of Michigan, each receiving
IL pairs of shoes from the Shoe deal
erS Association.
1t is too bad they need them so
much, while the thousands of jobless
here go shoeless, foodless in this land
of plenty produced by the workers.
Down with capitalism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-09

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
demonstration was attacked in the
beginning, but the most savage bru-
tally was vented on the others at
their close. The Harlem demonstra-
ton had only about 400 in it, but was
growing rapidly. Police attacked it
before it went a block and half and