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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
WON'T TELL HOW
MUCH WAGE CUT
Hillman Clique Just
Lets Boss Steal

NEW YORK.-When a 5 per cent
wage-cut was declared by the owners
of Howard Clothing Co., known also
as Kopel g. Marx, at lie Nestel.
Brooklyn, the workers, belonging TO
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
appealed to Hillman and so did the
boss. Hillman and the impartial
chairman granted bigger cut, but
are afraid to tell the workers how
much it is. Neither does the boss.
When the workers drew their pay
they found amounts missing as high
as 81 and $13. 1t is not an even cut,
and nobody can figure out the
amount Of the slash.
The workers went to the manager
Of the trade department Jackson, OF
the Amalgamated, and he told them
this was preferential shop and
no busine5s agent could come in un-
less he got the OK. of the impartial
chairman Jackson sent them 10
Blumberg, general manager of the
Amalgamated in New York.
Blumberg tried to pacify them and
postpone his answer a week went
by and the workers, still being in
sistent, Blumberg told them that all
he could do was TO tell the boss TO
show the price lists, but he refu5es
to say how much thsswage-cut reaIl5
Is -,ay s B jl n = sz.---4--A--.---3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Finger Printing Bill Is Now Law; Governor Brucker
Couples Signature With Declaration for
Campaign of DepOrtatiOns
Hunger Marchers Gather With Working and
Jobless Masses. Workers Camp, Detroit
June 9TH Meeting Will Hear Report Of Marchers Whom
the Governor Ordered Arrested When They
Demanded Insurance; Plan More Struggle

DETROIT Mich, May 31.-Arrest for the
of thousands in Michigan, and law to regis
ter, finger print, blacklist and deport foreign
born workers-that is Governor Brucker's an
swer to the demand of Michigan workers for
the right to live.
Some $50 hunger marchers who went to
Lansing from every important industrial town
in the state to urge the passage of a bill for
state unemployment insurance carrying back to those who
sent them the long mach the insulting and caous
the state government These thousands of unemployed
the auto and furniture manufacturing ceners of the country
will answer by might ge to build their organizations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

has been able to make the statement
utterly false in its implications, that
hourly wages have not been
slashed.'
Cost of Living High
Moody's Investors Service in a de-
tailed study of wage and price
changes in the economic crisis of
1887, 1907-8, i920-21, and l929-30
with little on 1880 recognizes the
general tendency to cut wages now"
and states that investors should be-
ware, for lit is mistake to assume
that wages can be slashed right and
left" without disaster Moody's also
recognizes that retail prices in this
depression have kept up with the
fall in wholesale prices. 1t states
that in all four crises, the fall in
the prices of manufactured goods is
between go and 10 per cent of raw
materials have fallen 3l.6 per cent
and manufactured goods prices have
fallen 20 per cent. the ratio being
500 per cent. ~-r-7 r. wxs-..
A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01


omary his capitalist palate carefully dressed by his personal
military forces to Valley Forge
President Hoover on Saturday spoke as noted above in an effort de-
the American working
suffering the praon and miseres endured by the rank and file OF
the Revolutionary Army under Washington Valley Forge neither
signs of similarity to the hungry patriots of Valley Forge
Very likely Hoover special of anxiety But what
imagine Certainly the hell
ety workers of this country
additional
cus-how pay landlord wife
babies how live through the dark encouragement of endless poverty
anxiety" that anxiety
the mouhpiece Their anxiety
and his that the hungry patriots today shall remain both patriotic
and hungry while they the capitalist class who have piled up eno
fortunes from the toll of the workers. shall
the declares for the
good of the naton'-namely, the capitalist class.
This the deam" which the unemployed
nue Eliminates the theory advanced by
straw that everybody collectively each of us individually
Nngbu he does in defense of the handful of multi millionaire
parasites who suck the blood out of millions of workers
decms against the claim of second that
the representatives
class has vast of the hired representatives of that to
by police and military armed violence and the
people from taking control of their daily hfe
At the painting
Gettysburg
despcabe
millions of American with deportation they show initiative
for a revolutionary solution the capitalist crisis.
President Hoover said that the should not anything
for dvduals" but his administration handed the ndi
duai capitalists hundreds millions taxes
make the Billion Dollar government deficit by heavier
the rich but by taxing worker and farmer
this
preparation while demand backed millions
the tpcany absdiy beed
individual
paon suffering" working
-as'th symbol the triumph of the American SOUL!
The American working class will not b. ed by odgy capital
list hpocrie mounting hey suffer
something better than maintain
o many luxury Of
uionary To
Hoovers
lessons to the widest masses should the special anxiety of every re-
evolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
TAMMAM MOVES
TO CUT LITTLE
RELIEF" GIVEN
Money Mulcted Never
Seen By Jobless

NEW YORK-Forced to give more
than one million dollars to Jimmy
Walkers so-called Relief Fund for
the Unemployed, the city employees
are now compelled to make their
final contribution of 1 per cent of
their wages today. What became of
this million and the million origin
ally voted by the Board of Estimate
when the Unemployed Delegation to
the City Hall forced the issue and
made the gangsters part with some
of their loot, the starving jobless of
New York certainly received next to
nothing.
The Board of Estimate is supposed
to have voted one million dollars
also to provide "jobs for 1926 men
during June. But it appears the city
employees will be forced to take this
out of their own pockets. while the
additional million from the city
treasury will go into the pockets of
the Tammany racketeers. This goes
on while one million unemployed
workers of New York starve.
In the meantime the first meeting
of the Commission for the Study of
Unemployment was held at the N. Y.
State Department of Labor at 80
Center st. This is Gov. Roosevelts
solution.
Now comes the announcement that
even the little will be cut off, on
June 19 when the Tammany gang
have decided to stop the food pack
ages. After this date only such cases
as ere reported by the police will be
entitled to help. The Unemployed
Council is expected to take the cue
and mobilize its forces for cam
paign- against this cutting down of
even the crumbs of municipal
charity.
Since this committee was organ
lied by Tan1many Hall in October,
it claims to have handled 3o,s4o
cases Of ev4cticns,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Strike Against Wage Cuts!
Capitalists Admit Slashes

The Trade Union Unity League
calls for strikes against wage cuts,
and wage cuts are multiplying at
tremendous rate. In spite Of every
attempt of the capitalist organs from
Hoover down to conceal this fact,
two responsible capitalist informa-
ton sources, writing for their own
people and not for workers to read,
have admitted that the income of
the workers is collapsing, and by
implication, admit the situation is
worse than they date to put in plain
words.
Weekly Wages Fall
The National Industrial Confer
ence Board has issued a long report
on wage changes from 1924 to and
including 1890, but not 1881 1t adj
mits frankly that the reduction in
weekly earnings in 1880 was very
great, but by excluding any part of
the present year, during which most
of the open, general wage cuts in
hourly and daily earnings were made,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
US. GOVT ADMITS
RENTS ARE HIGH
Warn Landlords To
Head Off Movement

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Forced to
admit that the rents built upon the
speculative boom profits of land
lords and contractors are exorbitant
and daily getting beyond the means
millions of more tenants, a govern
ment department sent out cautious
warning advising landlords to head
off the movement for lower rents by
giving few concenssions.
What is feared by the landlords
and their government is the growing
smoldering anger at the sky-high
rents forced from workers and that
now eat up the bigger part of the
weekly wage-when there is a wage.
The moment is opportune for the
Tenants Leagues to become active in
organizing and leading worker-ten-
ants in militant struggle for lower
rents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

volunteer delegates. The nine
Scottsboro boys, Mooney, Bill
ings, the Patterson five and
Imperial Valley prisoners were
elected honorary members of
the conference committee. G. Burton
Of Birmingham, a Negro worker, was
elected chairman.
The delegates arrived via hitch
hike, freight car and motor truck.
Three New Orleans marine work
ers arrived in a 1918 model
White truck. The car in which the
mothers of the nine Scottsboro boys
came. broke down, but was repaired
and they arrived only 20 minutes
ne, their entrance being wildly ap-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

the unemployed council and the In
oustrial unions and leagues of the
Trade Union Unity League, will carry
on in redoubled intensity the fight
for relief for the jobless, the campaign
to strike against wage cuts, and the
country wide struggle against the fin
ger printing bill
Attacks Labor
Brucker signed the registration bill
Friday, and issued furious anti-la-
Dor proclamation at the same time
in which he said Eve should support
any gesture in the direction OF purg-
ing our state and our country Of these
men who carry on this subversive
activity"
Auto Company Bill
This vicious bill to finger print
the foreign born workers, emanated
from the Union League of Michigan,
which sponsored it in it's final form
as introduced by Labislator Cheney,
April 10, and campaigned for it as it
was rushed through both houses of
the legislature while they we're hurry
ing to adjourn so as not to be in
Lansing when the hunger marchers
got there
The vice chairman of the Union
Leagues Committee on Subversive
Activities" is none other than the
notorious stool pigeon and "Paytriot-
eer," Jacob Spolansky. He is the man
CONTINUED ON FACE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
METAL LEAGUE IN
new YORK GROWS
VIM. Z. Foster To
Speak

NEW YORK.-More than a hun
dred metal workers joined the New
York local of the Metal Workers In
duStrial League, since January. In
addition four shop groups were
formed, in some of the largest metal
factories, A youth section of the
local was formed and the young
metal workers are beginning to de-
velop activity in youth metal fac
tories. The local is continuing to
grow and develop, fifteen new work
ers Joined the local at the last mem
bership meeting. Also seventy dol
lars was collected at this meeting,
for the organization fund.
The Executive Board prepared an
extensive plan of work for the sum-
mer months. The plan was enthu-
siastically approved by the member
ship. The most important task as
contained in the plan is the build
ing of 20 shop groups in the most
important factories in the city of
New York. Preparations are being
made for a district convention of
the metal workers, the tentative date
set for the convention is July 30.
The drive will officially start with
a mass meeting on Friday, June S,
3 pm. at Stuyvesant Casino, 142
Second Avenue, corner 9th Street.
Workers from all trades in the metal
industry are urged to come to this
meeting William z. Foster will be
the main speaker. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
JOBLESS! DEMAND
NOON MEAL TODAY
AT FLOP HOUSE,!
Parade With Demands
To Taylor, Tomorrow

NEW YORK.-Today at noon the
municipal flop house discontinues its
noon ay meal, which, bad as it has
been, is all that has stood between
them and starvation for thousands
of New York unemployed. The job
less are called by the Madison So
Branch of the Lower Manhattan
Council of the Unemployed to come
in masses, and emand their food as
usual, today, at noon.
Tomorrow. at noon, a mass meet
ing before the flop house will start
a parade to the city welfare depart
ment" at Leonard and Lafayette ST.,
where demands will be presented to
Commissioner Taylor for:
- Three nourishing meals.
% Sleeping accommodations every
night in the month without dis
elimination against Negro, foreign
born or out-of-town workers.
- Sanitary equipment with laun-
dry and dryer.
~ No work without pay-no forced
labor.
81 Free medical attention for sick
workers.
g. Free clothing for unemployed.
y That the South Ferry lodging
house be reopened.
The Downtown Branch of the Low
err Manhattan Unemployed Council
held a big mass meeting at Univer-
sity and 18th st. Saturday evening,
in spite of the attempt of the police
to work the Old where's your writ
ten permit?" gag. The workers told
the cops they didn't need permit
and went on with the meeting.
In honor of decoration day" evil
IDENTIFY. some fascist minded individ-
ual threw board out Of pool hall
window above the crowd and in
iured worker in the audience Even
this however, did not stop the meet
liza
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

plauded The nearest relatives Of all
the boys were present at the confer
ence. One other Birmingham car
failed to arrive due to breakdown.
One delegate and speaker was y Ne
gro worker aged rs, slave by the
name of Elder Carter who walks
on crutches and had to be car
ried to the speakers platform.
Carter is leading preacher. and
CONTINUED oN PAGE THREE,
Fight lynching. Fight deporta-
tion Of foreign born. Elect dele.
gates to your city conference for
protection Of foreign born. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
200 Negro, White Delegates Open
All Southern Scottsboro Conference
Fighting Enthusiasm Marks Assembly Deter
mined To Free Negro Boys
NEWS FLASH

CHATTANOOGA Tenn, 31.-Robert B. Aamis
conference hall following the close of highly successful All Southern
Scotsboro Conference
Am, Johnson Haywood the other
unable the time stopped to talk
a they they
by Chattanooga The Daily
Worker expects further details by tomorrOws issue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Battle Cops in Youngstown

here for National Youth Day, steel
trust police descended down upon
them and started an onslaught that
for sovagery was not witnessed since
the steel strike of 1919.
The Police thugs, many mounted,
rode into the crowd of young workers
and with savage abandon began
swinging clubs Shot guns, tear gas
and machine guns were in evidence
everywhere.
Though taken by surprise by the
fierce attack upon them, the young
workers did not retreat. They put up
resistance that was so militant and
stiff that ten policemen we're reported
as injured casualties.
Twenty-Five young workers we're
injured it was reported.
Still continuing their resistance,
the young workers reorganized several
hundred and marched to the Central
Square.
A young worker knocked a cossack
from his horse and calling on all
to march led the parade.
Despite the bloody attack upon
them the spirit of the young workers
in town was running high.
FRENSO Cal-The State Conven-
ton for the repeal of the criminal
syndicalism law was opened here Sat-
urday with an enthusiastic parade of
over 500 adult workers and young
workers who gathered in this city TO
celebrate National Youth Day.
One hundred and thirty delegates
composed of Negro Filipino, Mexican
and American workers representing
political, fraternal and labor organ
izations greeted the speakers of the
convention with applause.
Samuel Darcy, organizer for the
Communist Party who delivered the
report on the California Criminal
Syndicalism law, was given an ova-
ton by the delegates Ida Rothstein,
International Labor Defense Organ
izer delivered the report on the or
ganizational proposals for the repeal
of the vicious anti-labor laws.
Benjamin Ellisburg, president of
the Ornamental Plasterers Union of
San Francisco was elected chairman
of the convention. Lillian Goodman,
LID organizer was elected convention
secretary.
The discussion was lively and show
ed real determination to carry out
the proposals to repeal this law
Resolutions swere adopted on the
Scottsboro case, on the Imperial VAL
ley prisoners, Mooney and Billings
and other class war cases.
Three thousand young workers
marched through the city of Passaic
for two hours in parade and dem
onstration against bosses wars. Sing
ing cheering, and shouting slogans
they we're watched by workers in the
streets, from windows, many of whom
Joined In the march to the First
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
BULLETIN


CHATTANOOGA 31In spite of the carefully planned
the delegates
Scottboro being
the conference The against the Sotboro
ference by the N the biggest that
the police.
Reverend of the Chattanooga Ministers Alliance
A. A.
with of assistants conducted systematic campaign visiting
all churches Masns and other lodges prevent the election of
delegates
Bowen personally threatened would
arrested they Chattanooga The the Vet
Foreign similarly active Unknown
truck who minute refused
failing
The Scottsboro Conference espte all obstacles
considered
times greater all delegates
to begin the organization millions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Especial to The Dali Worker.)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 31.-The All Southern
Conference defense of the nine Negro boys framed Scots
boro opened in the Negro district at 80 today with 200
wildly enthusiastic Negro and white delegates from all
the country attending One hundred of these delegates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
POLICE SHOOT WORKERS in YOUTH DAY DEMONSTR RATION
Memorial Day Hypocrisy

The American people going through another Valley Forge
this time To each and hour of
trial special anxiety
L"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
YOUNGSTOWN
COPS ATTACK
MARCHERS
Bloody Onslaught Is
Ordered BY Steel
Trust Officials
BULLETIN

YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, May 81.
Police shot into the National
Youth Day demonstration here to
prevent parade. They were as
sisted by the National Guard and
American Legion hoodlums who
attacked the 1000 delegates. Two
workers, one of them a Negro,
were wounded by bullets and are
now in the hospital. Many were
seriously injured. The police are
amongst the casualties. 20 work
ers have been jailed.
The workers fought militantIy.
The Negroes in the front ranks
we're singled out for special attack.
A militant demonstration was then
held in the square. A fine spirit
was shown and the Pioneers were
prominent. However, tear gas,
clubs and bullets finally prevailed.
The State Troops were also called
in and reign of terror is going
on. Workers are still being ar
rested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

Marked by high-spirited parades
and mass meetings; by militant re-
sistance to the steel trust ,cossacks in
Youngstown; by laundering pledges
of renewed struggle against imperial
list war plots, against the worsening
lot of the young workers, the first
annual National Youth Day come to
a close Sunday evening in all sections
of the country
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-27
n. Y. Woman Lost
IA Pounds of Fat
One IS Cent Bottle of
KruSChen Salts Did 1t

81 am starting on my second bottle
of Kruschen Salts and am real
pleased with results. l take it for
reducing and so far have lost IA
pounds and think it is doing won
ders for me. / do not feel so tired
evenings when get home from
work"
A generous bottle of KruSchen
Salts that lasts weeks costs but SO
cents at any drugstore in America
take one half teaspoon in a glass
of hot water every morning before
breakfast-cut out pastry and fatty
meats-go light on potatoes, butter,
cream and sugar-that will help
Kruschen take off your fat.
Before the bottle is empty surplus
fat is leaving you-indolence changes
to activity-you'n feel younger
eyes will brighten-step grows spry.
Millions know this-you ought to
know il. Kruschen Salts is the ideal
treatment for constipation, indiges-
tion. headaches, nervousness and
acidity.
Take Kruschen every morning
it's the little daily dose that does it
if not joyfully satisfied after the
first bottle-money back.-Adv.
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-27
Bought Talking Doll for Sister
The Weekly Short story-By CORONA REMINGTON

cents apiece. See, you lean 'em this
way and they say mamma and
papa"
A tiny two-syllabled squeak came
from the brunette.
"Oh, I'll take her." said Nancy
breathleSsly.
"All right, Miss. Now you want
me to wrap your dress or will
you wear it?"
"No, | reckon I'd better keep il
fresh" said Nancy in a trance.
AS GwendOlyn handed her her
packages she gave her a friendly
pat.
Thank you, honey, come back
again" And Nancy hurried out
into the busy street and started to-
ward the depot, her heart almost
bursting with JOY.
When Ed saw the girl all dressed
up in the pink dress he was quite
overcome by her beauty.
Come on, hon, let's slip off and
get married." he coaxed. II got the
license right here"
Emma took her doll to the picnic
and hugged it until she nearly
squeezed the sawdust out of it, and
enjoyed the distinction of being the
only little girl in the community
who had a doll that could talk.
In the busy city Gwendolyn slept
the next Sunday morning until
eleven o'clock, then rose and ate
a quiet dinner with her mother.
Thought you and Hattie Will
liams was goin' out to Montvale
Springs today?" her mother re-
marked.
I'VE was, but | didn't have the
money" said Gwendolyn lazily. Il
blew in three dollars Tuesday,"
"What for?' asked her mother,
stopping on her way from table to
gas stove.
Fun" answered Gwendolyn
graphically.
C0 1881. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
WNU Service
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-27

teau hats were of the back-bandeau
type just as many had their wee
brims lifted at the side or at the
front, and it is the latter effects
which are proving inspirational to
our contemporary milliners.
Straws of every description play
a part In first spring millinery. For
practical hats straw braid is used
in quantities in excess of anything
known for years. Lots of rough
shiny straw is employed and straw
banding is particularly good in Gel
lOphane effects. Not that felts have
been ignored on the new program,
for French modists are sending
over many fetching felts along with
the new straws.
The stunning hat posed on the
figure in the picture is felt. 1t has
a bandeau made of the same pique
as that which fashions the modish
collar-and-cuff set which adds such
finesse to the frock of pin-stripe
serge. A swanky costume this, and
it would be as smart in navy and
white as in black and white.
The other hats of straw, as you
see, have ribbon bandeaux.
(e). 1881. Western Newspaper Unlon.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-02-27

a BOUT the most interesting
"A event which has taken place
in the realm of millinery in recent
years is the revival of the ban
deau" hat There have been indi-
cations that this innovation might
take place but not until the mid
season and early spring displays
were presented was their vogue
made definite.
The fact that the new crowns
are so shallow accounts to some
degree for the general movement of
brims which is to raise the face,
thus exposing all the forehead and
quite a little hair. One thing leads
to another and in this instance the
upward pushedrb trend of brims
suggest the bandeau, with the re-
suit that the early spring styles
make a feature of bandeau types.
In connection with this flair for
bandeaux we are hearing frequent
mention made of Watteau, whose
paintings portray charmingly
gowned women with cunning chap
eauX which because of their wee
bandeaux were jauntily posed at
this angle and that on the head.
While some of the picturesque Wat