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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
gr ! WORKER Corresponaentl

ley 2 Worker Correspondent
SIOUX CITY-With the ranks of
the unemployed constantly swelling
ard mass suffering increasing, the
Sioux City Unemployed Council is in
creasing its activity.
On numerous occasions destitute
workers have been taken by the
Council to Lebeck, overseer of the
poor, and relief has been received.
But during the last week the strug-
gle has developed around deeper is
sues.
Demonstrate In Court
One worker was arrested for con-
Meeting up the electric wires in his
house. At first he was charged with
grand larceny. But when the city
officials learned that the workers
were being modified in protest, they
quickly changed the charge to mis-
demeanor. When the worker came
up for hearing, the Judge found the
courtroom packed with aroused
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Sporting Rich to
Fete Race Horses:
Deny JObless Aid

NEW YORK. Race horses recent
ly were wined and dined in lux
urious banquet at Hotel Biltmore by
Joseph P. Widener of Philadelphia.
In addition four hundred members
of the idle rich will banquet in hon.
age to the luxury sports of the rul-
ing class, horse racing and polo.
Joseph Widener is a grandson Of
Peter Widener, street railway buc-
anneer of Philadelphia in the. late
eighties, and at present large owner
of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Co., now cutting wages and laying
off workers.
While tens of thousands Of dollars
were spent at this banquet for
horse-racing the same parasites OPP
pose any but the most miserable
charity relief to the quarter million
unemployed in Philadelphia alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
SUICIDES GAIN
AMONG JOBLESS
More Cases Reported
in Oakland, Cal.
(By a Worker Correspondent,

OAKLAND, Calf. = With more
wage cuts and lay offs in Oakland,
the list of suicides and dependency
is growing. The reports herein are
taken from local capitalist press for
the week, and give only little in
sight of the misery of the workers.
Charles Evenette, 81, salesman, Of
672 Jean Street, not being able to
support himself any longer, and get
ting weak from lack of proper nou-
rishment, committed suicide by TAX
ing poison.
Mrs. Lavigne, rs, was being search
ed in bay. Believed to have jump
ed overheard the ferry, when her
coat was found on railing. She
was respondent because she was a
burden to unemployed relatives.
Mike Inner, San Pablo Ave-, drank
poison and succumbed soon after be-
cause he was out of work and I'M
able to support wife and three chill
dren who were starving.
Rose Moore, and several months
old child lived in dump for several
days, but being unable to procure
food for the baby, started on foot
to Richmond thinking Of landing a
job in Ford's plant. because he was
good mechanic. On the way up
Broadway, the wife who wore shoes
much too large, which were slipping
off her feet, and from burden of
carrying the wee, blue from MANU-
triton almost lifeless baby-faint-
ed. Revived and fed by sympathetic
Storekeepers they went on - to live
on the dump again.
Hungry and meagerly clad, Ida
Hollingworth, II, of Los Angeles, was
brought to the police station because
she accosted men on the street ask
ing for something to eat.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

kept the Philadelphia union mem
bers Scabbing throughout the strike.
Abolish Mass Picketing.
When the troopers appeared, Edel-
nan of the Full Fashioned issued
decree abolishing mass picketing and
forcing a return to only rs on the
picket line.
This treacherous action dampened
the strike spirit and the employers
Immediately made use of it to an
nounce the strike was over.
Those Berkshire workers who did
respond to the call are now blacklist
ed victims Of the breaking Full
Fashioned officials, repeating the ex-
perience of last year. Unless the
workers in the mill and those outside
follow the program urged upon them
from the first by the National Textile
workers Union, to carry on their own
struggle to a victory with their own
leadership.
Call Mass Meetings.
When the latest treachery of Edel-
man and Holderman, officials of the
Full Fashioned, was announced, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
GERMAN MINERS FIGHT POLICE
INWAGE SLASH STRUGGLE

last Saturday. This is the only path
Of sincere opponents Of the policy Of
}he socialist" party. The formation
nf~new left wing parties means fur
ther betrayal of the working class in
ats Of the German capital
list system.
The Bruening government is de-
termined to put through the attack
on the working masses by open fascist
methods il it is unable to get the
6eicllstag to agree to the attack. The
Times reports this as follows:
Should he Cabinet fail to obtain
sufficient majority before the
Reichstag, it was asserted the Con-
stitution was elastic enough to per-
NIT temporary suspension Of Par
liamentary government. Chancel-
lor Bruening found himself con-
fronted last Spring with the same
necessity to impose his will upon
the Socialists and emerged tri-
umphantly after a prolonged bat
tie"
Bruening is prepared to make "con-
cessions' to the Socialists" in order
to facilitate their traitor role.
These concessions" according to
the Times are the following:
",That Chancellor Bruening in
tends to make concessions to the
Socialists is indicated by the fact
that provisions concerning wage
reductions will be omitted from the
coming emergency decree, which
will be confined to budgetary econ
omies."
The wage cut decree has already
been puHinto effect and so the gov
eminent will not have to include It in
the next emergency decree which will
be further attack on the workers.
This Is the concession the traitor
socialists" have won for the workers
The government itself has made a
concession" to the workers in "com-
pensation" for the wage slash. The
miners will not have to continue
their payments to the unemployment
relief fund and neither will the coal
operators. The government will make
these payments out of the terrific
taxes It is pressing out Of teh entire
working class Of Germany. This
concession" means that the coal OPP
orators in addition to getting the
wages of the miners slashed will not
have to pay the unemployment re-
lief contributions. The miners will
get their wages slashed and the en-
tire working class will have to pay
for the entire relief fund.
The actions of the German govern
ment at this time are almost actions
Of desperation. Rumors are wide
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Farmers Demand Full Payment for Cattle
Killed in Test

are the farmers struggling against?
The march of scientific progress? No.
The eradication of T.B.? No. The
farmers are demanding that the
state pay in full for all cattle con-
demnde and not so per cent of the
value that is now offered
Many farmers have had their en-
tire herds condemned. With milk
bringing the farmers 4 and cents
a quart, how are the farmers going
to get money to buy more cattle?
Tie United Farmers League, Box
"a, Superior, Wis, supports the strug-
gle OF the farmers in their fight for
full payment for cattle killed in the
test and calls on all farmers to join
its ranks to carry on the fight to
victory. "A Farmer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
(By a Worker Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Gallon Sep.
TENDER IA Mayor Rossi and his fell
low grafters gave the Hunger March,
ers clubs and horses hoofs in reply
to the demands that the workers
drew up. Today we find the city adj
ministration again preparing it's
next answer for the unemployed. The
next answer will be in true fascist
style-even worst than September ID.
While passing the armory GER
tain comrade noticed several hun
bred thugs and a group of dicks
practicing on row Of dummies
painted red marked Communists"
and Reds The dicks were busy
instructing these men how to swing
a club and rifle upon the red painted
heads OF these dummies. These men
wore American Legion buttons. AS
this was secret meeting no one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.
Daily Worker:
The recent demonstration Of poor
farmers in Kansas against the states
system of graduating TB. in cattle
was greatly distorted by the capital
list press. The issue in Kansas is a
vital nationwide issue CT all the poor
dairy farmers. Briefly the situation
is as follows:
Science tells us that in order to
eradicate T.B. in humans we must
eradicate it in the milk supply of the
COW. Tests that are fairly reliable
for werlirg out T.B. cattle have been
devised. The tests are made under
state supervision and the cattle re-
acting to it are killed.
Now for the important point. What
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
soOxr1NuED FROM PAGE ONE,

and local police has resulted in in
Jury of scores of workers. A hundred
and fifty miners have been arrested.
The strike has now spread through
all the Glen Alden collieries,
Vice President Phil Murray, Sec
rotary Kennedy, and District Presi-
dent John Boylan, together with the
operators and the government APP
paratus are moblizing organized
scabbery.
A sharp distinction has to be made
between the national leaders Of this
strike and the strikers. The strikers
are fighting terrible conditions, low
wages and unemployment. The gen.
eral grievance committee in the Glen
Alden mines is controlled by a group
headed by Maloney and Tornichek,
who merely wish to get Boylan out
and take the good graft for them
selves. Because International Pres
ident Lewis lines up with Boylan,
they make at times a pretense Of
fighting Lewis and his officials, Muir
ray and Kennedy.
Maloney Selling
But the Maloney camp is intim-
idated now. At the last grievance
committee meeting they showed a
willingness to talk over strike prob
lens with Lewis, and this is GER
tainly first step to selling out the
strike. They did sell out the last
Glen Alden strike in exactly this way.
The National Miners Union, a lead
ing factor in the National Unity
Committee of Action set up by ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
LEWIS GANG ASKS PINCHOT
TOSMASH GLEN ALDEN STRIKE

tionaI conference Of miners in Pitts
burgh, July 16, has a program in
the anthracite of building local rank
and file unity committees of action
in all locals of the UMWA and at
all mines
Good results are following. Com
mittees are being formed, and mass
meetings for rank and file control of
the strike and for the organization
of broad rank and file strike COM
mittee to lead the struggle are taking
place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
MINI. Communists
Call Mass Meetings to
Fight Against Cut

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Sept. 30
The Communist Party, District No. 9,
has arranged the following meetings
against the wage cut offensive of the
bosses:
Oct. minneapolis.
Oct. 12-Duluth.
Oct. 13-Superior
Oct. 14-St. Paul.
Special efforts will be made in Du-
luth and Minneapolis, where steel
plants are located, to mobilize the
steel workers for struggle against
wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Chicago, III.

Chicago, III.
Daily Worker:
The majority of the veterans have
used up their bonus, many Of them
having lost their money in the Chi
cago bank crashed. Every day hun
dreds Of ex-servicemer are lined up
at the county building begging for
relief, where they are asked to deliver
receipts to show how thep spent their
bonus.
If the veteran puts up q good
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
SICK KY. WOMAN SELISDAMY;
LONG ISLAND D. ". CLUB
STARTS IMPORTANT WORK

In Kentucky, where the class
struggle has assumed the character
of actual civil war, the miners anxi-
ously wait at the Post Office to get
the Daily Worker, as it is the only
paper which fights their battle.
A letter from Uniontown, Ken
lucky, shows the fighting spirit of
the workers that will not be killed
by the sickness and starvation loosed
on the workers by the bosses. Com
rade L. writes from Uniontown:
81 have been dangerously i'll for
the past week and did not get to
sell my papers, but as 1 am inn
proving think I will be able to
get out. will do my best to sell
10 Daily Workers this week. / have
to work so hard, without proper
food. The doctor says that was
the cause of my sickness"
News from Long Island
News from Long Island offers big
possibilities for Daily Worker sales
there. The Long Island Workers
Club writes in to tell us that it has
adopted its constitution, that it has
rented. permanent headquarters at
Ill Fourth Street, Long Island City,
and that its next membership meet
ing will be held this Thursday at
pm. The members of the club have
pledged themselves to do all in their
power ito propagate our only daily
in English, the Daily Worker, and to
help it become the organ of the mas
ses of workers living in Long Island
City" The club also offers its head
quarters for the use of the Daily
Worker.
We welcome the aid of the Long
Island Workers Club. Daily Work
er sales are very important in that
section because many big plants
are located there. This affords the
club an excellent opportunity to
sell the Daily at factory gates. Day
by day sales and subscription
drives can best be organized thru
the establishment of Daily Worker
Readers clubs, and it would be a
good idea for the Long Island or
ganization to start right in and or
ganize, such clubs. Not only would
ii help to sell the Daily Worker,
but 1t would also provide an eX-
cellent opportunity to activize the
members and make the meetings Of
absorbing interest.
News of individual activity thru
out the country in selling the Daily
is also very encouraging. For about
three months now Comrade E. c. has
been selling so copies a day in Johns
town, Pa, by herself, under the most
difficult conditions. She has four
children, her husband is busy every
day doing organizing work for the
National Miners Union, she works
all day, and she has to do all the
housework, but. she writes, she. is
willing to do all she can ''to help our
Daily, the only paper that is fight
ing to free the workers"
Contributes To Sustaining Fund
Donations also keep coming in
from workers to keep the paper 60
ing that fights for them. Comrade
H. J. F., of Boise, Idaho, sends us a
check of 81 twice month for the
sustaining fund. This is another i'm
pOrtant part of the activity Of Daily
Worker Clubs, and others selling the
Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Veterans Get Four Cents Day Relief"

enough story he is given relief" that
amounts to $3.50 worth of groceries
for a family of three. This means
$1.20 month for each person or
four cents a day for each member of
the family to live on. This is not
even enough to buy bread with. For
such democracy we fought.
Ex-servicemen must get organized.
Get into the Workers Ex-servicemens
League. Demand the immediate pay
ment of the bonus in full.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
(By a Worker Correspondent

PITTSBURG, Kansas. = Farmers
here are not any better off than in
other parts of the country.
Taxes on farms are one dollar an
acre. Spectators are making them
selves rich buying tax titles. Milk
sold by farmers brings 10 cents a
gallon. Cows which three years ago
sold for 500 and $3.50 now can be
had for s25. Spring chickens that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Sioux City Jobless Stop Eviction

workers. The judge Immediately
postponed the case.
Friday night an open air meeting
was held to protest against the at
tempt of the bosses to railroad the
worker. Over 800 workers were
present. At this meeting the case of
an evicted worker by the name of
Sigmund was taken up. A huge
majority of the crowd voted to back
up Sigmund in getting back into his
house.
Eviction Stopped
Saturday morning over rs workers
gathered at the Workers Center and
marched over to where the furniture
was lying on the sidewalk. The door
was forced open and the workers be-
longings moved in.
AS a result of this action the work
ers all over the town are talking
favorably of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil. Also many are joining up!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Kansas Farmers Stirring Into Action

were 40 cents are now 10 cents.
Wheat, corn and oats are the prin-
cipal products raised. This is also
a dairy section; 60 per cent of the
farmers are tenants. In this county
(Crawford $50 farms and $500
homes are for sale for taxes. The
farmers are very sore at the state
officials who are drawing big salaries.
There will be something stirring here
soon in an organized way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Concerted Attack
Upon Workers
Pay Yesterday
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEJ


completely by the open statement OF
the railroad attorneys that: "If rates
are not raised, we will have to apply
for a cut irf wages"
Granville Clark, chief counsel for
a group of insurance companies and
banks, implicated in railroad finance,
made as part of his argument to the
Interstate Commerce Commission, the
following statement: Every one
knows that denial of the rate in
crease will accelerate and force a
wage controversy"
The Trade Union Unity League
calls for organization and strike
against all wage cuts" The A. F.
of L. is accepting the cuts. Every
where the masses of workers are rest
less and indignant and frightened
at the prospect of starvation-mil-
lions Of them are half-starved now
on the horribly low wages, stagger
system, part time work and continued
unemployment.
Strikes are raging in the textile and
mining industries against cuts: strikes
will break out soon in steel and ma
rine transport industries.
BOSTON, Mass, Oct. IA Trade
Union Unity League leaflet issued
here calls all workers in the Beth
lehem Steel Co. plant at Fore River
to get in touch with the TUUL at
ISL Washington ST., Boston, to organ
ize for struggle.
A mass meeting against all wage
cuts in all industries will take place
Sunday, oct. 4, at p. m. at Parkman
Bandstand, on Boston Common.
Speakers will be: Nat Kaplan, dis
trict organizer of the Boston Com
munist Party; Robert Minor, for the
Central Committee of the Communist
Party; Harry j. Canter, district sec
rotary of the international Labor De-
tense; Edith Berkman, organizer OF
the Lawrence textile strike; j. Daw-
son, organizer of the League of Strug-
file for Negro Rights and L. Keith,
district organizer of the Young Com
munist League. The mass meeting
is called by the Communist Party and
the Young Communist League.
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct.1.-A Strike
of longshoremen was expected here
and in Galveston today when the
IS cent scale goes into effect. Long
shoremen in New orleans and other
Gulf ports have been cut already,
due to the betrayal of their strike
recently by the international Long
shoremen's Association.
MANCHESTER, N. H, Oct. l.
The ten per cent wage cut in all
departments of the Amoskeag mills
here went into effect today, with
the workers very resentful but lack
ing organization.
MILWAUKEE,, Wise, Oct. 1.-The
Phoenix Hosiery Co., where the
workers have been striking since
Monday against wage cut made a
public statement defending their
cut, and offering as a main reason
that:
1.-THE Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers, recognizing that
union labor was rapidly becoming I'M
employed, due to the closing of many
mills, voted to work for lower
wage"
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. Ill
H. Bean, of the Bureau Of Agricul-
tural Economics, today stated further
cuts must come in farm labor wages.
He stated that they have already
fallen A points since 1929, but that
this is not the bottom.
ready to fight against Sears skin
games by organizing broad depart
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

spread throughout Germany about
the approaching collapse of the en-
tire financial structure of the coun-
try and repetition of the initiation
period OF 1923 in a tremendously &C
centuated form.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
STEEL WORKER CALLS
FOR STRIKE AGAINST
BETHLEHEM WAGE-CUT
Wages Already SIashed 20 to so Per Cent; 10
Per Cent Cut Would Mean Starvation
Workers Must Organize and Demand S. a Day
Minimum for Cold Rollers
(By a Worker Correspondent

SPARROWS POINT, Md, Sept. 3O.-We are to get a
cut in department of the Bethlehem Steel plant We
received indirect cut of 20 per SO per
when hours cut from 10 hours to hours when
went "a mills Also the sagger system introduced
Stagger System.
For the last year have been working part
time that bunch work two days week and the other
work three days week. That makes eight days
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

ready to fight against Sears skin
games by organizing broad depart
ment committees.
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23

field of Lynchburg, Va, is helping
Rev. Jackson in these meetings.
They are having good attendance,
special singing. The church is get
ting back to the old routine again
after the summer slump There were
1S2 in the Bible school last Sunday
and the collection amounting to
$110S. Come to these revival serv-
ices, everybody welcome.
There will be a chicken supper
held in the Christian church hall,
November Z. Do not forget it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Evans, Mr.. and
Mrs. Royal Daisey, mOtored to Mil
ford Sunday afternoon and called
on Mr. and Mrs. ElwoOd Mills. Mrs.
Mills taught the Muddy Neck school
% years ago. She was then Miss
Minnie Beardsley.
The Ladies Aid of the Christian
Church will hold a bazaar and old
fashioned chicken pot pie supper in
the Church Hall on Saturday eve
ming, November 7. Everybody well
come. Come and join in the. services
at Christian Church this week. Sure
ly you will receive a blessing from
God
Milford chronicle., 1931-10-23
BETHEL

DR.. Habbart, District Superintend-
ent, will preach on Sunday, October
25, which will be observed as Home
Coming day and other speakers for
the day with special music.
| Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. II. Williams had
as their Sunday guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Phillips and daughters,
Margaret and Mary Ellen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl James and son Marvin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris WOotten of
Philadelphia.
The Ushers Union was entertained
on Saturday night at the home of
Rev. and Mrs. j. r. Jester. All
spent very pleasant evening.
Miss Anna Lee Smith spent Sat
urday with Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Taylor
in Salisbury, Md.
We are glad to welcome Capt. and
Mrs. w. J. Quillin back to our home
town, after living in Laurel for sew
eral years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Garret, John
Garrett of Wilmington, were week
end guests of their parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Garrett.
On Saturday night the following
guests. were invited at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eskridge, in
honor of Mrs. Sarah e. Eskridge's
90th birthday: Mr.. and Mrs. John
Eskridge and daugher Ann of Sea-
ford, Mrs. Rhoda Garrett and son
Clarence, Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Gar
rett, John Garrett, of Wilmington.
Ice cream and cake were served.
Misses Flossie Sirman and Grace
Messick, and Vinol Lynch, John
Brittingham of Laurel, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Wright, of
TOnanO, Va, also attended the Ses-
at Yorktown, Va.
Mrs. Harry Wright also mother,
Mrs. olivia Riggin, visited relatives
in SharptOwn on Sunday.
Miss Frances Smith spent Sunday
with Miss Ruth Eskridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph E. Beers en-
friends from Trenton, n.
j., over the weekend.
Len Riggin, Warren Riggin of
spent the weekend
here
Mr.. and Mrs. Uric Smith and
laughter Anna Lee visited Mr.. and
Mrs. ElwoOd Sirman on Sunday.