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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
BY VERN SMITH

r EWIS j. BROWN, president of the Kellogg
Co, manufacturers of corn flakes, etc, at
Battle Greek, Mich, is bombarding newspapers
with arguments for the six hour day. his style
which includes wage cut. The propaganda is
handled by N. w. Aver & Son. professional adj
yertsers of Philadelphia.
Kellogg represents that group of capitalists
who, seeing underconsumption and a steady
drive by the toiling masses for the shorter work
day, seeks to cut the ground from beneath the
feet of the revolutionary movement by insti-
tuting part-time disguised as concessions"
This group is far from being in the majority
among employers. Most of them simply lay off
the whole force a certain number of days
week. The difference seems to be that in KEEL
logg's industry there is still chance to run the
plant to capacity and Kellogg considers that if
a man has little enough money to live on, but
each man has some he is more likely to spend
it on breakfast food than anything else.
Plenty of Food
Kellogg makes certain interesting admissions
in his press releases. He points out that during
the past II years. the world population has in
creased 10 per cent and productive capacity for
food products has increased Is per cent In the
U. S. population has increased 25 per cent. and
production of food products has increased so
per cent The 100000 jobless who don't eat
much will like to hear that!
Kellogg's president says: st believe the time
has come to admit to ourselves that we cannot
expect consumption of manufactured products
to equal the production capacity of our indus
tries"
So, to increase If possible the consumption of
corn flakes and making little pretense of
friendship to the working class, Kellogg puts on
four six-hour shifts instead of the former eight
hour shifts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
Moscow Radio Program

We haven't the least radio technical knoWi-
edge, so we don't know if you can pick up Mos
COW or not but the new powerful station of the
Central Trade Union Council of the u. S. S. r.,
which began operation May Day, offers the
following program in English for the remainer
of the month All English broadcasting at mid
night (Moscow time) or S O'Clock in the after
noon STANDARD tirne) in New York. Wave
lenght 1904 m frequency 23o kilocycles Here's
the list:
May 4, Misunderstanding of the Moscow News.
May T. Thursday-Review of the Week.
May TO- Sunday-Sport and Tourism In the
Vi S. S. r. and English Radio Post-Box.
May H. Misunderstanding of Moscow News.
May IA, Thursday-Review Of the Week.
May II, Stmday-Moscow News and Radio
Post-Box.
May Is, Monday-Moscow News.
May 81 Thursday-Review of the Week.
May "a, Sunday-Radio Post-Box.
May 25, Monday-"Moscow News"
May 28, Thursday-Re Review of the Week.
May 81, Sunday, the Red Army.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
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From Among One
Hundred Thousand
BY JORGE
"Child Health Day'-said Hoover.

Slllu f1ealeH Lay SAID Hoover.
international Labor Day" said the Commu.
mist Party, "a day of struggle against CAPITAL
ism, that starves the children of the workers
wrecks their bodies and ruins their minds"
And, there at Union Square, marching SOL
EMMY with the grown-ups, into whose ranks
they had entered as the parade passed down the
tenement district of Eighth Ave, were four ex-
amples.
girl about 10 years DID, with a boy of TO-
marching with two smaller children Of perhaps
six and eight one Juggling at her coat. torn
and ragged coat it was, expressing the poverty
of the torn and ragged lives of workers chill
dren; all of the four children had ragged clothes
and dirty faces, as tenement children often have.
But-they were serious faces, the faces of these
childrenl They were not tagging along after
people "just for fun" They marched alongside
grown ups, beside Communists holding banners
calling Down with Hunger! Food for Workers
Children"
They understood vaguely, no doubt but they
understood that they belonged! That here was
something for them Something that meant
food, clean and warm clothing, chance to play
and grow healthy-a chance which capitalism
and Hoover's Health Day denies!
So there they were marching, these four tene-
ment children of the imperial city" of New
York, marching into Union Square, packed with
tens of thousands of people, surrounded by
throng of a hundred thousand, with the police
bluecoats ahorse and afoot threatening.
There they were, four little children march
ing, marching with the masses, marching under
the Red Flag marching in the struggle for
a world where workers children will be free!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
Talk About Convict Labor!

to sunset for a mere pittance. They have seen
thousands of Mexican workers, brought in from
Mexico and Texas, like cattle and sold into
bondage by the American Sugar Refining Com
pany They have seen these families destitute
when the winter came in, and made the shan
ties unbearaby cold. These families then drift
to the cities and must pay their own fare, there
to starve and join the army of the unemployed.
In Southern Minnesota, the state that boasts
of its liberalism where the Farmer Labor"
party is the ruling party, and INDUCES in lot
Of talk about the workers, there are two rows
of counties that live off the slave labor of the
Mexican beet workers.
Sugar beet labor is gotten in the following
manner: The American Sugar Refining Com
pany, with agencies in Mexico and Texas con-
tracts the Mexican workers for work in the beet
fields. When the carloads of these workers ar
rive, the company phones the farmers to come
and get your Mexicans" The season usually
begins June list. The contract commences then
The families are given a shanty with cots and
no other furniture, and groceries enough to last
them until they "get" their first check. When
the grocery debt is deducted, two weeks usually
is held back for security. These two weeks
wages bind the workers to the SOIL to the starva-
ton diet, to the unsanitary and disease breath
ing atmosphere of the community
During 1890, the wages were $23 an acre. Each
acre contains 10 tons Of product. 1t takes four
operations to complete the product The farm
er receives from the sugar company the sum of
1852 per acre This figure was given me by a
worker who slaves in the beet fields The farm
er he worked for got from the company So per
ton, which amounts to $152 per acre. While the
Mexican workers, who have their entire fami-
lies working from sunset to shutdown only get
$23 an acre. out Of which two weeks Is held for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
Six Hour Day on Corn Flakes : A
Refined Type of Slavery

And in cold blooded fashion he lists the adj
vantages of this kind of a six-hour day to the
employers The most important is direct wage
cut, the hourly wages being reduced 1872 per
cent, under the guise of employers and workers
splitting the Is per cent that would otherwise
have been lost to Labor by changing from eight
to six hours.
In return for this added 1872 per cent which
the employer pays, he gets 25 per cent more
customers 1t is safe to say that a welfare work,
sami-company union scheme can be built on
this basis perhaps with stock sales, too.
Then Brown points out that the speed up
can be increased The speed in this factory had
reached its limit on the eight-hour shift, and
speed actually had to be decreased a little in
ahe last two hours because the workers got so
tired they spoiled machinery and material.
And in addition, you get rid of the lunch hour.
Any loss hates to see the worker eating and the
machinery running idle Instead of working four
hours and resting half an hour, they now work
six hours straight
Elimination of extra pay on the previously
long night shift is another point. More shifts
means more chance to exploit special talents
better.
It's Campaign.
And Kellogg winds up this description Of his
PAO6A"i WIN eei oPpCoA w oUlicA puoiAlCooOo W
adopt it, His group thinks that this pretended
concession to the workers will stop the demand
for the workers, sort of six-hour day.
We want six-hour day too. But we want
one without wage cuts, instead with wage in
crease. We want one without new speed up.
We want one with rest periods. Kellogg's six
hour day is just new sort of slave driving. And
still cruder methods are used by most employ
ers to speed and cut and lay off the workers.
Join the militant unions of the Trade Union
Unity League, join the unemployed councils and
fight for real six-hour day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
Glad to Hear 1t

We are informed that there is another sec
ton of the International Workers Order that
is truly international, that is the Youth Section,
with some twelve English-speaking branches In
New York City alone"
And they sent a young Negro worker delegate
from Chicago to the May Day celebration in the
Soviet Union, too! See D. Greene, 80 Union
Square, if interested, you of New York
While we are about it, let us jump over to the
Workers Laboratory Theatre, which wants us 10
de-jinx it from the misprint OF their address
given recently 1t is at 131 w. 18th ST. ana
long may it wave 1t wants more members to
take part in the work Go to it, boys and girls!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04

security.
Let us see what happens to these workers dur
ing the winter, when the season OF slavery has
expired and the worker must seek shelter from
the severe weather. After paying all the deptS
to the company and the stores, they are square
with the world, and face dire need. In the city
of Minneapolis many of these families live. We
have contact with typical one of these families
through the work of the Unemployed Councils
of the Trade Union Unity League in this city
Seven persons in this family live in four holes
(rooms) with two beds. The rooms do not con-
tain the minimum necessities. No heat. no
light not even gas, no water, the windows are
screened with dirt, and the walls are mouldy.
The father of the family has been unemployed
for about one year, and the family is actually
starving The landlord has forced many hard
DAYS work from this worker to pay rent for the
filthy place that should be condemned as uT-
livable This family went to the Welfare Board
for Relief and were refused They were told
point blank that they were under the jursdic-
ton of the sugar company, slaves of the sugar
company. The sugar company agent, in order TO
bind this worker to the beet fields, was willing
to advance some money on his future wages.
The worker argued that as it is, after a sum-
mer's work he is penniless and If he lives two
months on his future wages, his family will
The unemployed council of the Trade Union
Unity League modified the neighbors for fight
for this worker and forced the Welfare Board
to give them relief.
What do you think of that Mr.. Olson, Mr..
Shipstead and your colleagues, MIR. Fish and
company9 Before you spread any more fan
tastc tales about convict labor in the Soviet
Union go and look at your beet fields go and
investigate the condition of the $4,000 unena-
ployed in the city of Minneapolis alone. Be
sure, though. to go next summer when the best
field slaves are organizing into the Agricultural
Workers Industrial Union and smashing your
forced starvation labor to pieces.
The Mexican workers are ready and clamoring
for organization. In 1884, the conditions threat
en- to be worse than ever before. It was al
ready announced that the introduction Of ma
chinery will result in reduction Of wages TO
SIG an acre. The workers who have shaved year
in and year out, and in the winter starved IN
the cities, are up in arms against this reduction.
This summer will see tremendous struggles N
the beet fielda
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04

the Party itself In 1925 and 1926, when the Party
was re-crganized and comrades were longer
allowed to hold their Party membership through
the language federations but instead only
through shop and street nuclei. At first the
foreign language speaking comrades insisted
they could not speak understand English,
refused to attend nuclei meetings or take part
in them, insisted on talking in foreign Ian
guages at the meetings, but after while when
it became clear that the Party would give these
comrades all possible help but would not make
any concessions this point, they began to
learn English very quickly, and some even found
that they could already talk and understand
English much better than they bad thought
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
BY BEATRICE sIsKIND.

CAPITALIST hypocrites have been barking
" about forced labor in the Soviet Union They
have shed crocodile tears about the poor Czarist
generals, and the counter Revolutionary scoun-
drels who are for the first time in their lives
doing little useful work
1t is ridiculous to imagine that this propa-
ganda can blindfold the working class into war
and hatred for the Soviet Union. The news of
the ever improving standard of living, of the
elimination of unemployment in the Soviet
Union the success of the Five Year Plan, build
ing Socialism at an unheard of rate has come
through Even the capitalist sheets cannot sup
press the gigantic achievements of the Soviet
proletariat
You may be fooling yourself, Mr.. FISH and
your war making colleagues, but you cannot fool
the workers who border the beet fields of Col
orado, Mason City and East in Iowa and South
ern Minnesota. The workers and farmers there
have seen and felt forced labor. They have seen
year in and year out thousands of human beings,
men, women and children, toiling from sunrise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-04
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party q. 8. A.
p. O. Box 81 Station d.
New York City.
Please send ma more information on the COM
munist Party.
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Occupation Age ......
Mail this to the Central Once. Communist
Party p. o. Box 81 Station D. New York City,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
ARMY ORDERS

Col. Howard G. Price, Infantry, at
Fort Douglas, Utah, has been ordered TO
the Philippines; Lieut.. Col. John A.
Barry, Cavalry, from the Militia Bureau,
War Department, to Los Angeles, Calf. !;
Lieut.. Col. Lucian B. Moody, Inspector
Generals Department, from the Pan
anna Canal Zone to Boston; Maj. Harley
c. Dagley, Cavalry, from the High
Schools, Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the
city for duty with Organized Reserves;
Mai. Eugene A. Lehman, Air Corps,
from Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to the
Panama Canal Zone; Lieut.. Col. James
A. Mars, Air Corps, from the Panama
Canal Zone to Rantoul, H.; Capt. Roy
D. Burdick, Engineers, at Philadelphia
and First Lieut.. William c. HUT,
Quartermaster Corps at the Army IN
dustrial School, to the Office of the As
sistant Secretary of War; Capt. Neil
B. Sims, Quartermaster Corps in this
city, to examination for retirement;
Capt George A. King, Cavalry, from
Fort Des Moines, Iowa. to Front Royal,
Va; Capt. Joseph A. Nichols. Infantry,
from Fort Riley, Kans., to Fort Benntng,
Ca; Lieut.. Col. j. B. Woolnough and
Mai. Vernon Evans, at Panama, Maj.
E. J. Lyman at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas; Capt. B. l.. Lucas at Madison
Barracks, N. Y; Capt. G.. M. Bloom
quist at Princeton University and Capt.
j. w. Blue at Fort Riley, Kans., are
ordered to the Infantry School, Fort
Benning Ga.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
Tried Everything, Without
Results - ACIDINE
Ends Trouble.

''I am go years of age and had been
bothered with acid indigestion, fer
mentation and gas in stomach and
bowels for many years." writes Mr.. M.
A. Funk of Riverton, N. j. Tried
everything without result until I heard
of ACIDINE 1t gave me relief at
once. Now feel great"
Just one of thousands who have
been astonished and delighted at the
way ACIDINE succeeds where other
remedies fail. The reason is that it
is entirely different from other known
medicines. Contains the marvellous
digestant called Japtase. In laboratory
experiments Japtase has been tested
on certain starchy foods which cause
so much stomach distress. It digested
300 times its weight of such foods In
| 80 minutes!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
WOMAN MAY TALK
IN SCHROEDER CASE
State Plans to Call Compan-
ion of Suspect Whose Car
Had Blazing Body.
Rr the Associatcd Press.

by the ASSOClatGu fIeSS.
INDIANAPOLIS, March An an at
tempt to present to the jury hearing
Harold Herbert Schroeder's first-degree
murder trial more detailed account of
his actions during his stay in Indian
apolis last May, the State today plan
ned to call Miss Gene Carson, who, &C
cording to testimony yesterday, went out
with the Mobile, Ala, garageman three
nights before the charred body CT an
unidentified man was found in his burn
ing automobile.
Miss Carson was brought into the
case by Miss Ethel M. Schubert of In
dianapolis, who testified she met
Schroeder through Miss Carson here
May %, 1880, and that Schroeder and
Miss Carson drove her home. Miss
Schubert also testified that when she
stepped into the back of Schroeder'S au-
tomobile, she stumbled over large can
Schroeder is alleged to have poured oil
on the body and then set it afire.
Schroeder's version CT the affair was
related yesterday through testimony OF
John E. Vaudeville, secretary to the
solicitor of Mobile County, who said
he took a statement from the accused
man shortly after his capture in Mobile
last June. Schroeder said, according to
Vaudeville, that the victim was hitch
l1iker he picked up who suffered brok-
en- neck when the Schroeder automo-
bile ran into a ditch. Vaudeville de-
cl2red the Mobile man told him he set
fire to the car and the body because
he feared he would be accused OF STAY
ing the man.
Gertrude Kittrell, alleged by the
prosecution to have been close friend
of Schroeder in Mobile, also was men
toned in questioning of Mandeville:
The solicitors secretary said he talked
with Miss Kittrell just before coming
to Indianapolis.
Judge Frank Baker sustained de-
tense objection when State counsel
asked Vaudeville whether she was COM
ing to indianapolis to testify in the
trial. Dispatches from Mobile quoted
the woman as saying she would not
come unlesa forced legally to do 80.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

day and his father-in- James T..
Barbee, is in jail charged with murder.
Cannon, a 22-year-old bicycle re-
pairman of Macon, Ca, yesterday came
to the home of his parents-in-law here
at Barbee's urgent invitation, accord
ing to the police. After the shooting
Barbee gave himself up and admitted,
officials said, firing five shots at the
youth, two of which took effect.
The marriage of Cannon and Miss
Maude .Barbee, co. took place here a
week ago, the couple going to the
groon's home in Macon. Barbee OPP
posed the union for reasons he has not
divulged, but Monday he telegraphed
his daughter to come home" Can
non accompanied her, telling his moth
err "I'll be back tonight"
Upon arriving here, police say, Bar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
ALIMONY CLUB OF JAIL
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
Treasurer of Exclusive Chicago
Group Is $1,000 Behind in Pay
ments to Former Wife.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 4.-The Alimony
Club in the county jail had a new set
of officers today, elected following the
retirement of its 77-year-old president,
william Hudson Donald, who was ousted
from Office because his six-month sent
ence had expired.
With due solemnity the oath of Office.
"I'l never pay though in Jail stay"
was administered by the seventy-odd
members to the new president, Nathan
Bulmash, 81. who is $500 behind in his
payments to his former wife.
William Dobrocke of Chicago Heights,
whose wife said he was 81, 500 in ar
rears, was selected as treasurer, much
to his own astonishment
Not that don't think myself fitted
for the Office" he explained but
where's there any money to handler"
Deaths from street accidents in Lon
don have doubled in the last 10 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

bee sent an invitation to Cannon to
come to lunch. The youth hesitated,
then left his bride on the porch of a
neighboring home and Knocked at the
door of the Barbee house as she
looked on.
Barbee came to the door with a
pistol. The first shot fired struck Can
non in the face and he turned to run.
A second shot lodged in his back.
"Tell mamma I'm gone" he cried,
dying a few minutes later.
Barbee, A, was a cotton mill night
Waterman. Maude is his only child.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

mer secretary, as expected to begin
here today.
One juror and two alternates were
still to be selected, but attorneys indi-
Gated these might be chosen with little
delay. The two alternates will sit with
the regular jury.
Bowles and Miss Loucks are accused
Of the murder of BowleS' wife, Leone.
When the jury is completed the State
is expected to ask that it be taken to
Miss Loucks' apartment, where Mrs.
Bowles died last November from a knife
wound in her breast. The defense con-
tends Mrs. BowleS stabbed herself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

At last science has solved one OF
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
GEORGIAN IS SLAIN
BY BRIDES FATHER
Father in.L law Faces Charge
of Murder for EntiCing and
Shooting Youth.

BY the Associated Press.
EAWKINSVILLE, Ga, March A.
Shot first in the face and then in the
back as he entered the home of his
brides father to seek approval of his
romance, Delmar Cannon is dead to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

Storks and all long-legged birds sleep
standing on one leg, and most birds
when asleep tuck their heads down be-
tween the body and one wing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
BOWLES AND WOMAN
WILL BE TRIED TODAY
Jury Panel in Oregon Murder Case
Expected to Be Filled With
out Delay.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HILLSBORO, Greg, March Am
PRODUCTION of testimony in the murder
trial of Nelson c. Bowles, Portland
capitalist, and Irna G. Loucks, his for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

In Italy asbestos is found high in the
Alps-some of the mines being 10000
feet up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04

Deaths from street accidents in Lon
don have doubled in the last 10 years.