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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
KINGANS' PACKING
HOUSE CUTS PAY
Must Organize Against
Further Reductions
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Kingan's
Packing House has been working two
and three days week, some of the
workers working only a few hours a
day, which makes 1t very miserable
for them.
Besides the short week and short
days and the terrible speed-up and
the miserable wages that the workers
have been receiving, the company
forced a 21a cent an hour wage-cut
on the workers, which they accepted
because they were not organized.
But still the workers In the shop
are beginning to think. They say
that the Reds who speak to them
at the shop gate are perfectly right
when they say, organize and fight
against wage cuts. Still the Reds
say that there are going to be more
wage cuts If the workers do not or
ganize and fight gainst them.
Never too late to organize in the
Trade Union Unity League which is
the only affiliated union body that
Is fighting for the interests of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Poteet Admits Legion Will
Support Fascist Policies

units strong enough to prevent such
outrages.
Commander Poteet made great
gesture when he stated: THE Legion
constitutional provision that the or
ganization is nop-political and will
not be used to back candidates for
public offices has been used to keep
Legion men out of politics" Such
bunk! Today the American Legion
has as its leaders, and supporters,
ambassadors, senators, congressman,
governors, mayors, judges, big bust
ness men, lawyers and politicians.
These persons organized the Legion
(under the guise of "comradeship)
to promote their own class interests.
1t is another move by the bosses
to try to fool the workers into be-
lieving that capitalism only needs to
do little superficial recognizing in
order to bring back prosperity to-
everyone. If the bosses succeed in
fooling the workers this way it will
not be long until every American
worker will find himself in worse
position than citizen of Italy!
Workersl don't support the Ameri-
can Legion! 1t is machine of the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Bosses Drive On
Mexican Workers
Deport 1900 Workers
From Los Angeles
(By a Worker Correspondent.)

(By Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Cal--On Aug. II
the freight yard Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad was filled with over
1000 foreign-born workers to watch
and say goodbye to their friends
and relatives, 1900 of whom are be-
ing voluntarily" deported to Mex
leo.
How voluntarily they are being
deported can be judged by the fact
that most of those who are being
deported were workers poorly dressed,
with emaciated families with little
bundles in their hands, surrounded
by Gordon of police and immigra-
ton officials with full bellies and
guns bullying from their sides.
The capitalist press announces that
more are to be deported las soon as
the funds are available"
We are organizing the workers
here against these deportations. We
called a conference on Aug. to Or
ganize the unemployed to fight for
real relief Red" Hynes and his
prize bulls smashed our meeting, but
the work of organizing the unem-
ployed is going on in spite of the red
squads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Rockbottom Wages
In Ind. Packing Co:
S w lift Poor Standard
Still Lower
(By a Worker Corresondent)


EVANSVILLE, Ind.-The Evans
vile Packing Co. which was headed
by the Minhimers lowered the liv-
ing conditions SO far that the work.
ers came out on strike in 1921 for a
living wage and better working con-
ditions. Minhimer sent to New York
and other places and got organized
strikebreakers and the workers went
down in defeat.
Now this company is run by Swift
and conditions are even more rotten
than they were before. The standard
of wages are so poor that the workers
can hardly exist.
What we must do in this plant is
to get together and organize COM
mittees in the different departments.
This is the first step to make if we
hope to fight in an organized man
ner against these bosses for an in
crease in wages and better conditions
in the plant. The Trade Union Unity
League, which is leading the miners
and textile workers In their struggles
for better conditions will give us the
same real working class leadership.
Let us get with the Food and Pack
ing-house Workers Industrial Union
and fight against thees starvation
conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
" ilkes-Barre Preacher Helps
Bosses Starve Mine Workers

dentials were not signed by local
men, etc. One minute after this the
police appeared and arrested two of
the miners who were collecting.
This minister lives on Blackman
st. and the name plate on the door
was Rev. Stroud. He is the man who
Is responsible for the arrest and is
stool-pigeon working hand in hand
with the bosses to help starve the
miners back to work under these
rotten conditions.
Comrades Ben and Peters, the two
arrested, were released but told not
to collect unless the United Mine
Workers seal was stamped on the
credentials. This proves the fact
that the police and state, minister
and church and the strike-b breaking
United Mine Workers are together
as one in trying to starve the miners
Of the soft coal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Miners Worse Off Than in
1878, Says Old w. Va. Miner

$12 month for house rent. Before
the UMWA came in with their fake
agreement we got ~ cents an hour
and paid $3.50 for house rent. So we
miners make $3.50 a day when we
work and we don't work every day.
AS for myself I only got one days
work last week or two days from the
10th to the 22d of the month.
Worse Than 1878
So it is plain to be seen that the
miners are worse off than they were
as far back as 1878. And then we
hear all kinds of talk about how the
worker in American industries are
getting more and more for their work
as the years go by. Amy worker
knows that this is plain bunk. The
bosses are driving us to the wall more
and more every day to squeeze more
profits out of our hides.
Must Build N.M.U.
There is only one thing for us to
do and that is to get into the Ma
tional Miners Union and build strong
committees In the mines, and with a
good organized relief movement like
the Workers International Relief be-
hind us, we can come out on strike
and win what we are after
A Mines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
TEXAS FARMERS
FLAY FARMBOARD
Say Why Plough Up
Useful Crop
(By a Farmer Correspondent

(By q Farmer Correspondent
LUFKIN, Tex-Bankers and mer-
chants here are wandering around in
confusion over the cotton situation.
They make themselves ridiculous.
The farm board says plough up
every third row of cotton. Governor
Long is sure that not bit Of cot
ton must be raised in 1882. Then,
he says, the price Of cotton will go
up.
The farmers here, who talk on this
subject, frankly do not see the point
For one thing they do not think
that the price of cotton will be much
effected, and even if prices would
go up, the bankers, merchants and
capitalists generally will benefit most,
the farmers are sure.
Some farmers also view the situa-
ton in this light: Why destroy cot
ton when so many millions of farm
ers and workers in the USA do not
have sufficient clothes?
Not until the farmers and workers
get together and organize and take
a hand in their own affairs will there
be real change in the cotton sit
uation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
PUT J0BLESS In
ARMY, SAYS FAT
N. Y. POLITICIAN
U.HarveyWould Put
Single Unemployed in
Army at $40 a Month
tBy a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-One of the
latest plans to relieve" the unem-
ployed and which, by the way ex-
presses very clearly that the bosses
are more interested in preparing for
war than relieving the unemployed.
appeared in the Detroit Times Of
Aug. 20.
1 quote from the Times:
NEW YORK. Aug. 29.-The
federal government should recruit
100000 single men, between the
ages of Is and 30, into the army for
year at S10 month salary and
maintenance, to relieve unemplOy-
ment, Borough President George
U. Harvey has announced. This
plan, he explained, would provide
for single men who otherwise
would be overlooked In relief plans.
Moreover, it would decrease unem-
ployment and provide a large re-
serve army"
Now, you single guys can holler
horray for the U. S. A. and the red,
white and blue! One could not
really call this forced labor in Rus
STA. No, this is proposed by a fat
politician right in New York, q. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Vaudeville, w. Va.

Vaudeville, w. Va.
Hello, Dear Comrades:
Just few words from an old min
er. 1 have been working in the coal
mines since 1878 and I never saw
conditions in the mines as bad as
they were today.
When I was IA years old was
driving mule and hauling coal in
the mine. My wages then was $3.50
day. My father was also an old
miner and served in the Civil War.
One Man Unions.
have seen these one-man unions,
how they organized the workers
against each other for the benefit of
the bosses and then on election days
the union leaders came out and told
us to vote for the bosses. The bosses
became capitalists and millionaires
and multi-millionaires. Now these
millionaires are driving us working
people to starvation.
Now it is plain that we have got
to get together in one big solid union,
the National Miners Union, and fight
or we will starve to death.
Here in Northern West Virginia we
came out on strike and the UMWA
gave us cheap yellow dog contract:
80 cents a ton for digging coal and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
(By a Worker Correspondent

OMAHA, Neb-Marcus L. Poteet,
Department Commander of the
American Legion in Nebraska, openly
admitted that this fascist organiza-
ton is in the political ring when he
stated in a speech at Griswold, Iowa,
"That since both old parties con-
tinue to have the same platforms,
the American Legion, with its huge
voting power, should formulate a
sound foreign and domestic policy
and see that it is included in the
platforms"
American Fascist.
ANY person knows, or should know,
that this American branch of the
fascist is faction that threatens
to be Just as dangerous as the Mus
solini clique in Italy. For over IL
years the American Legion with g.
large per cent of It's officers holding
reserve commissions in the army
has fostered capitalist patriotism in
the schools and colleges. 1t has on
numerous occasions, stopped free
speech cit pretends to uphold free
speech) with the worst kind of vio-
lence and even murder (Centralia,
Washington The American Legion
has constantly backed every imper-
ialist move of the United States and
it is responsible for the organization
of the g. M. r. c., military training
In the universities, liberalization of
the national guard and every other
move to build up the bosses often
sive against the Soviet Union. The
American Legion has acted as a
breaker and it willingly allows
the lynchings of white and Negro
workers in communities where it has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
(By a Miner.)

WILKES BARRE, Pa.--The relief
committee went on the Job today to
collect food, money and clothing for
the starving miners in the soft coal
region. We had just started to can
vas Blackman st. from house to
house and a comrade and entered
a house where a minister OF the
church sat doing nothing. We ap-
pealed to him for money, food or
clothing, telling him the mbearable
conditions that exist in the soft coal
rgion. He insisted on seeing our
credentials. He took our credentials
and said excuse me a minute until
I telephone.
In fifteen minutes he returned and
refused us, not giving us one cent,
but told us to go to the Red Cross.
We told him the Red Cross refused
to help the miners in Pittsburgh. He
saAd " would - AxxAstad Nar Gre
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
N. Y. POLICE SLUG
STARVED WORKER
Beat Up Unconscious
Worker With Club
Fellow Worker:

Fellow Worker:
Children are shot down on the
Sidewalks of New York" innocent
women are mal-treated by the police
and railroaded by our corrupt police
judges, while white slavers and gang
sters fatten the bank roll of the
Tammany cops. These thugs of
Tammany are always on the job,
however, when an unemployed work.
er is in need of their gentle" at
tenticn.
Last night, having to carry the
banner / witnessed a case Of police
brutality Of Walkers cossacks.
A worker dragged himself along
Fourteenth street and at the corner
of Irving Place collapsed from NAL
nutrition. A cop standing near re-
cognizing an unemployed worker ad-
ministered first aid by kicking the
PROSTATE form in the ribs, snarling
the while, "C'mon git up you drunk
en- bum" Workers present showed
their resentment and the cop turned
around threateningly and attempted
to clear the street. This tool Of the
boss class now thoroughly agitated
dragged the unconscious worker to
his feet and drove his club with cruel
force in his face. The poor fellow
in pitfl shape and bleeding pro-
fusely was dragged to the station
house where 1t was necessary TO bring
in the services of a doctor.
I was not a bolshevik, but this has
made one out Of me.
Yours truly, j. o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
PAYS GIRLS S. A
WEEK in PHILA.
DRESS FACTORY
Must Build Committees
In Shops to Fight
Starvation Scale
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Daily Worker:
work in Settlers dress factory at
Tenth and Race SITS, Philadelphia
I can hardly tell you how miserable
conditions are in this shop. Wages
have been cut and cut and cut. Now
I am working on skirts. They are
very hard to make and for making
the whole skirt, except the hem, we
get five cents, 80 cents a dozen.
These skirts are so hard to make
that after working like crazy all day
long I can only get IS, at the most,
done. So you can see how much
wages I make. Some weeks I can't
make S.. Often on pay day I've got
ten in my envelope SO. Imagine IS
for shaving all week.
All the girls in the place are dis
gusted. When we talk together we
say: "I wish something would hap
pen, I can't stand this much longer.
It's no use quitting, because some of
my friends who work in other shops
say that things are even worse there.
I hope something happens soon. I
wish there was revolution.
A Girl Worker.
Editorial Note.-The girls in
the Settler shops should get in
touch with the Needle Trades In
dustriaI Union at once at 929 Arch
st. Shop committees must be
built in the shops, demands must
be drawn up and the workers or
ganize for struggle against the
starvation wage scaIe.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
so PER CENT OF
FIELD WORKERS
JOBLESS IN CAL.
Agricultural Workers
Hungry in Midst of
Big Harvest
Stockton, Cal.

Stockton, Cal.
Editor Daily Worker:
This is the prosperous" season in
California. This is the golden har-
vest time when the luscious fruit for
which California is famous is picked
and prepared for market. This is
the time of the year when all Of the
workers should be working or would
be under sane system.
But over half the agricultural
workers cannot find jobs. They are
only going to harvest about so per
cent of the peach crop. All the rest
of the fruit harvest is similarly cur
tailed. OF course there are some
workers who are working. But from
the list below you can see how little
they. will be able to make:
Picking fruit (top wages per 10
hour day ....................S $3.50
Average piece-work .......... LIS
Hop picking, average picker at 81
per cwt. top. ............... 200
Topping sugar beets. .... Its
Picking cotton, average at 75c.
per cWt. ................... $l.5O
During the cotton picking season
there is usually a heavy fog in the
morning and the workers cannot
pick. Consequently even the above,
figure will be reduced.
Child Labor.
Wages show a similar downward
trend in every harvest AS a result
little children are working in far
greater numbers than ever before
because their parents cannot make
enough to support them. Workers
are not saving anything and will
start the winter with no Stakes" to
help them pull through. Many Of the
comrades say, This summer we can
not do much now. But wait until
next winter. Well give the bosses
hell then"
There is absolutely no foundation
for such a theory. Now is the time
to work even harder, Workers are
hungry right now even to the point
of starvation. We cannot relax our
efforts for a single moment. Work.
ers, after two years Of famine rations,
will not submit to starvation. Build
neighborhood branches of Unem-
ployed Councils nowl A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
DURANTY HELPS
BOSSES ATTACK
SOVIET UNION
Worker Nails Vicious
Anti-Soviet Lies Of
Times Correspondent
New York, N. Y.

New York, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
Here Is more concrete evidence Of
irsidious capitalist propaganda pre-
pairing the American masses for war
and to stir up hate among the work
erS to shoot their fellow-w workers in
the Soviet Union.
In a dispatch to the New York
Times of Aug. 80, Walter Duranty,
the Moscow correspondent, says:
Russian murders, of course, there
are-more fiendish, ingenious, tragic
and strange, indeed, than in most
countries, but with rare exceptions
they are no longer a matter of public
knowledge
But could Mr.. Duranty, with all
his SNUG superiority, match the fol-
lowing, clipped from the New York
World Telegram of Aug. 80:
HARRISBURG, w. Va, Aug. 20.
"A gallows as efficient as that of
the state penitentiary was discov-
cred in a sub-basement of a garage
owned by Harry F. Powers, As, one
man matrimonial bureau, who has
admitted the Staying of a rich
widow and her three children.
"a trap door with a rope suspended
from a rafter overhead was found in
the unused garage.
Police also revealed that the
screams of a child were heard on
July 6.
1.-THE mother, Mrs. Aste Buick
Eicher, and her two daughters,
Greta, IA, and Annabel. 9, of Park
Ridge, III, were found in shallow
trench near the garage. They had
been starved and garroted. The
body of the boy, Harry, IL, indicated
that he had been beaten to death,
probably with a hammer"
Rotting, shrinking capitalism in its
dotage unwittingly exposes itself.
The American workers are seeing
through the lies of the bourgeois
press. If they do rise and fight, it
will be real fight-against the war
makers. Linotype Operator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Red Builders Build
Daily in Tampa, Fla.
Tampa, Fla.

AuAaPu, TAus
Dear Comrade:
For the first time in the history
Of Communism in Tampa I have
seen natural born Floridian come
and ask for Daily Worker and
Southern Worker. He came and
asked for the papers from one of
our most active agents in the party.
He and another man came into town
just for the purpose of getting the
papers. Things sure are getting hot
here In Tampa. Our Red Builders
here consist of one Communist or
ganizer, two colored and two white
Pioneers and one new member. Our
paper order is so Daily Workers and
100 Southern Workers weekly.
Pioneer Red Builders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Strike Movement
Gain i'm DenbO, Pa.
BY q Miner.

DENBO, Pa.-The picket line is
getting bigger here In spite Of the
yellow dogs-the state police. We
got more people interested In our
strike every day.
They say they will throw us in
jail If we keep on striking, but
they haven't got room enough in
the jail for all of us. We expect
more mines to come out on strike
soon. We will win IL we stick to
the National Miners Union, but we
need relief TO carry on. We are
thankful for the relief the workers
sent and hope they send more so
we can win sooner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
JOBLESS, WORKER rs
THREATENED

CHICAGO, I'LL am an unem-
ployed worker and because / owed
two months rent which I could not
possibly pay, was made to move
from my flat. Now after being out
have received letters from lawyers
asking for $40. or they will garnish
my wages. This is one time when
maybe I am lucky, that I have no
job so the takers can't rob me of
What kttle I might earn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Texas Farmers,
Fight Poverty!
(By a Farmer Correspondent

by Farmer Correspondent
AMMONIA, TRANSFORMATIONS Of
the farmers is such as never ex-
perienced before. Truck farmers
are hauling off their crops, vir-
tually giving them away. Cotton
Is not going to be worth gathering.
There is no work to be found any
where.
No one seems to have money
except those who have public jobs,
the big bosses and the bootleggers.
The farmers and workers will have
TO get together and fight for some
real relief or we will starve to
death this winter. The Unem-
pIoyed Councils and the United
Farmers League are the organiza-
tons that will lead the struggles
down here this winter. Organize
and fight poverty!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
Hungry Workers
Fed on Garbage
Unemployed Councils
Must Be Strengthened
Stockton Gait.

stockton, CAM.
Daily Worker: a..
went out to find Job. could
not find work, but I met young
woman, dressed in overalls. She had
Just come to town and had just got
out of an automobile coming in from
the highway. She asked me for rs
cents to get something to eat with.
told her that I was broke and told
her that she ought to get In touch
with the Unemployed Council, as all
workers should stick together and
fight for relief. e.- ~~-a~
I then went to the circus (Sells
Floto). Some unemployed workers
put the bum on the cook for some
thing to eat. He gave them first
pick out of the garbage bucket
Some of these workers we're eating
from this bucket. This food was
only fit for hogs, dogs, capitalists and
politicians to eat 1t was not fit for
workers. I told the necessity OF or
ganization in the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, where we could force unemploy-
ment insurance and leave the swiu
for hogs, etc. 1t is pretty hard when
workers are forced to cheat the pigs
out of their dinners. A Worker.