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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
WIRE OPERATORS
HIT BY THE CRISIS
Many Would Like to
Go to U.S.S,R.
New York.

New York.
Editor Daily Worker
Hundreds of telegraph operators
from all over the United States, dis
regard the lies spread daily by the
capitalist press about the Soviet
Union and arc ready to 60 to the
U.S.S.R. to work.
A rurner spread amungsJ telegraph
men that the Soviet Union desires
the services of 500 operators for work
in the U.S.S.R. has created a sensa-
ton among operators of the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph. Several
hundred are willing to sign up. OPP
orators from outside of New York
such as Baltimore, Washington, Biz
mingham, Chicago and even Canada
are eager to get more information
about the proposition. All express
readiness to go in spite of poisonous
propaganda of the Fish Committee
and the labor lackeys about the So
Wet Union. The workers are begin
ming to realize the tremendous i'm
portance of the five year plan and the
successes already achieved.
Have Good Working Conditions.
The telegraph worker of the Sor
Wet Union works six hours a day,
days a week, he gets ons months va
cation. If he is sick he gets free
medicine and if necessary he is sent
to sanitariun free of charge.
The telegraph worker III the United
States. especially the Morse opera
tors who have been working for the
Western Unien or Postal Telegraph
Company for periods ranging between
5 and 40 years, are at present putting
in only 3 days a week. The aute-
matte operators are not much better
of. Those under 5 years of service.
work 8 or 4 hours day and days
per week. This means one half or
less the regular pay per week. The
speed of work is terrific. After sew
eral years of work in telegraph Of
flee, one is a candidate for an asylum.
No wonder then that the men are
so eager to leave the land of Hoover's
prosperity" and go to the only work
ers' republic. ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
THREAT TO STOP
CHARITY RELIEF
EVEN IN DAYTON
5000 Families Are on a
Charity Diet
Dayton, Ohio.
To the Daily Worker


To the Daily Worker:
Dayton is one OF the cities noted
for its many fake relieis. 1t is doing
its best TO keep the unemployed
quiet. But just as ether places thsy
can only da it for a while.
For the past year the Welfare AS
ISOLATION has been giving out tickets
worth $3.50 to the unemployed.
At present there are about 5000
workers going there for help, The
amount spent for toed 10 estimated
to be $4,000 q week.
Discriminate Against Single Men,
The Community Chest has been
giving out SO many tickets that they
cannot give any lengeF, But as the
same time they are afraid to say
that they will refuse to help as they
did last year. The workers will not
stand for it because they are setting
to learn more and more that tbs
bosses are theiF enemy and viii not
help them when they are In need.
II the city refuses to feed the un-
employed and their families they are
ready to fight and will not starve.
The single men were refused help
because the expenses were getting too
high, When they we're refused ttey
started of to the City Hall. AS soon
as the Director Of the Community
Chest heard Of this he ordered them
to the Salvation Army and told them
they would receive their tickets and
everything would be alright.
I'M. J.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Pt. Pleasant Refuses
Relief to Unemployed

Point Pleasant, N. j.
Daily Worker;
Overseer of the poor, H. Chadwick
was removed from office in polit-
ical charity war" between the local
Welfare Association and the Bore
Council.
The council refused funds for re-
lief of starving families on the
ground of illegality.
The situation caused great indig-
nation Emergency relief for chill
dren was supplied meanwhile by the
County Welfare Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Dick Kills JObless
Negro Worker Who
Took 10 Cent Pie
(By a Worker Correspondent.l

(By a Worker COrrespondent.)
PHHADELPHIA.--D riven to
desperation by hunger a jobless
Negro worker tried to relieve his
distress by taking two pies from
a bread wagon.
He was shot by a city detective
and died a few hours afterwards.
This death of Jack Chew, 10, of
2O20 Master st. shows how for the
city will go in protecting 10 cents
worth of private property and ap-
prOpriating next to nothing for
the relief of the unemployed
workers suffering from starvation.
incidentally, police refuse to
discuss the case until completion
of Investigation" though there is
nothing to investigate except the
brutality committed upon work
erS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Fire Workers. But
insult Profits Grow
S2,000,000 In 1880
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy WptASi SOti~aPViiupitbJ
CHICAGO, Jan. 6.--The PeoplsA
Gas Co., an insult Corporation, re-
ports an increase In profits Of s2,-
100000 in 1880 over 1929, although
consumption of gas In this city was
considerably less In 1880. Many
workers in Chicago have had their
gas shut off for non-payment, but
how do they make 100000 more
profits2 It is very simple. The rub
always goes TO the worker, The Pee
Piles Gas Co, has fired all workers
In their employment who have net
worked for the company for seven
years. They started To eliluinate
those who worked for one year, ane
then jumped to two years, and now
they have reached those below sever.
They keep their stockholders' poSk-
cts full Of gold at the expense Of ths
workers.
&C. Z. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
New York,

New York.
To the Editory Daily Worker:
1t is over two years since startea
to work at Klein's Store on 14th ST.
! worked there from 48 to SO hours
per week. Work was always plenty
worked hard and not only I but
all the girls in the store. For that
job which made me feel tired every
night / received only SIG week.
Lately Mr.. Klein decided that it
is too much money for the girls
The first step which he took to
remedy this situation was to fire the
old help and hire cheaper ones for
$12 per week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
YOUNG WORKERS
OF Mich. ORGANIZE
WORCORR GROUP
Flint Workers Refuse
toStarVe
Flint, Mich.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
We organized a Worcorr group
here in Flint of five young workers
and soon will correspond to the Daily
Worker. We also want to hear from
either Woreerr groups from other
cities and from the Y. G. l.. We
have no League here yet, but hope
to have one soon.
The young workers will organize
here, in spite of all the terror, and
no A. +. of l., will stop them. The
Weekly Review, official organ Of the
Flint A. +. of L., in its last issue de-
elared it will be a long time before
Moscow directed agents will get a
foethold In Flint,
A. r. of l., Fights Militants.
The A. F, of l.. can devote a full
page of its organ about Moscow
agents and praise rats like pjamga-
rolf as a good American citizen, but
not single word about the speed-up
and wage-euts i'll the city of Flint.
Buick recently introduced the
bonus system, which means more
speee-up and wage-cuts and more
workers will be thrown on the streets
to starve with the rest.
Yes, we can tell the A. F. of l..
that the workers here in Flint will
not starve silently, that they are go
ing to fight and follow the leader
ship of the Trade Union Unity
League and the Communist Party.
u. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
SCARE JOBLESS
AGAINST DEMANDS
Good Citizen Makes No
Demands Says Boss
Dear Comrades


Dear Comrades
The conditions around here is very
bad. About three miles from here
chemical wood cutters get $l.25 for
a cord of wood. There is a glass
works which shut down year ago
there has been employed over 500
men. The James Brothers Company
owns the water, gas and most of the
houses. Now E. B. James told these
men to go and cut some chemical
wood for him to pay the water bill
Collect Signatures.
went from house to house to col
lect names for unemployment insur-
ance. The city of Kane is building
a dam to help the unemployed with
about 10 or IA workers working.
came to them and told them, boys
want your name for unemployment
insurance and explained to them
what it is for. Sure they say.
Meantime one of the city officials
was looking while the workers were
signing. He looked at the list and
said, how could you dare demand
from the government? Do you know
what demand means? / do, I said.
Then he went on, demand means if
you don't get what you asked for,
then you get it with arms. And he
scared some of them because he told
them, good citizens should not de-
mand anything from the government
tbs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Inspector Blind to
Bad Sanitary Con-
ditions i'm Danbury
Danbury, Conn,

Danbury, Conn,
To the Workers Correspondence
Editor;
! work in a fur shop in Danbury.
The sanitary conditions are awful
and most dangerous for the health
ofthe workers.
But when the inspector for the
Board of Health comes around he
goes into the bosses office and
never looks around the dirty places
in the shop. And then he goes back
and reports that everything is alr
right,
II he would go into the toilet he
could never go back and report any
more. A Fur Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
125,000 TEXTILE WORKERS
JOBLESS IN PHILADELPHIA

Observation-Disclosures OF a
young mother aroused the Kensing-
ton district when her 9-year-old son
collapsed in the street. A doctor
prescribed food. Hesaid that he had
treated dozen such cases in the
neighhorhood, and told the urem-
ployed textile workers that they
should do something about it,"
There are 125,00o textile workers UNI
employed in this district. They face
absolute restitution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Dlass Hunger for Both Farmers
and Their Cattle In Arkansas

ever are stubborn and will out.
The cattle try to live on a little
grass found in the cotton fields
and along the roadside. They are
lean looking, the ribs potruding
prominently from their bodies. They
are skinny and what butcher wants
them anyhow:
Farmers here are anxious to do
something about this as well as TO
get food for themselves. A farmer
here said 10 In this community
would join the United Farmers
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Klein'S Store Fires $50. Week
Girls and Takes on at $12. Rate

The workers started to realize that
they cannot depend any more on
the bosses good nature to help them,
but it is time to start to organize
and start to fight against the boss.
1t is up to the girls to help them
selves.
What we need is to organize in
an organization which. will stand by
the workers when another incident
like this will come. ALI the girls be-
ieve in that, but the only thing
which we need right now is a good
organizer, but where shall we take
him?
Fired Worker of Klein's Store.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
INDIANA WELFARE
ROBS THE JOBLESS
Cheap Workers on Pay
for Work
Indianapolis, Ind,

Indianapolis, Ind,
Daily Worker
The Welfare Society of this city
rebs the hungry workers of their pay.
This welfare society gave jobs to
the unemployed workers for $3.50 a
week and when the politicians change
places then they decide to rob the
poor workers.
Instead of $7,20 a week now given
them of groceries which are not worth
more than two dollars and they
charge them 5 dollars and $220 cash
which they want the workers to pay
the rent with.
Such are the conditions in Indian
apolis, but the workers during work
are talking about the Communist
Party, which is the only party to give
One of many unemployed workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
tBy A Farmer Correspondence

tBy A Farmer Correspondent
BAUCUM, Ark. - The question
of getting feed for the cattle i'm the
drouth areas is very serious. There
was no hay in this section last
year.
a government man" came to
the district to look into things and
found that several cattle had died
from starvation.
Starvation of humans and ami
mails is covered up by the press.
SO people do not get to know the
truth ABOUT conditions. Facts how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Virginia Miners Starving, Averaging
Three Days Work at Reduced Wages
From the Southern worker.)

from the Southern Worker.)
Wise County, Va.
l was reading your paper which a
friend gave me and l like il fine.
1t is the only paper ! have ever
seen that writes the truth on all
things.
will give you hint Of condi-
tions here. We work a three day
week. which means IA days work
out OF = month. We get from S5c
to 81 per car, which holds three
tons Of coal level full. The bosses
make us leaders heap up all that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
A BRUTAL TRICK

NfATTOWAN, N. jim order to
keep the homeless and transients
from asking shelter in a Jail cell, To-
cal police force all who ask to be
locked up to take a bath in ice cold
water.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
"Unspeakable Conditions
Among Casuals" Admits the
Railway Clerk" Magazine
''WOrse Than Lumber Camps" Writes in One
Stewart to the Magazine
Brotherhood Officials Busy Helping Bosses to
Put Over New Speed-up Schemes
New York.
Daily Worker: w.

Daily WORKER
The following taken from the Railway Clerk gives an idea
of the situation among the railway expressmeA:
Indispensable Conditions Among Casua Sanitary conditions
of the worst the witness said Reading another stewards
written report he described situation that is longer per-
mtted to exist the worst lumber camps The men lie
around picking bugs and other insects off their person and
known where regular employees became infected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Lewis Gang in Anthracite
Help Bosses Reduce Living,
" Orking Standards OF Miners
Conditions in Those Mines Still Working Are
Getting Worse Every Day
Need for Revolutionary Miners Union Is Now
Greater Than Ever
Carbonate, Pa.

Daily WORKER
Conditions in the mines worsening every day. Miners
are receiving cuts in wages for the last 20 months
The bosses have stopped paying for dead work We used
get between $55 and 650 for that work and must do it
for nothing and the miner does not produce coal for of
three days doing other necessary wo he works for nothing
Contract Work
couple of months ago the bosses told the workers work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
With Our
WORCORRS-

At a meeting held last Sunday
fourteen workers joined the Phila-
delphia Worcorr Club. According
to C. Rabin, veteran Worcorr and
the initiator Of the club. PhilIy is
going to get on the worker CORE
spondence map.
In one of the letters ON this
page a young worker of Flint,
Mich, tells how he organized q
Worcorr group. Regular worker
correspondence from Flint can
help a good deal in helping or
garlize for further struggles Of the
auto workcrl
Chicago now has class in
worker correspondence and we
trust that it viii grow into defi-
mite SVorcOrr group. We wish to
hear frorn Chicago worker corre-
spondents.
A national conference Of worker
ard peasants correspondents in
the Soviet Union is now under way.
The National Worker Correspon-
dents Committee of the U. S. A.
has sent the greetings Of Ameri-
can worker and farmer corrcspon-
dents.
The January issue Of the
WoRKER CORRESPONDENT
BULLETIN" is now out and has
been mailed to some $50 Worcorrs.
Write IL you have not received
your cony.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

better the conditions no matter where
you are.
I see by the papers the other day
that the authorities of Spokane are
considering the question of opening
up home for the unemployed women
here in town, but will tell about this
later. F. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
MANY JOBLEss IN
MANSFIELD, OHIO.
Mansfield coi,in

@FNH1IEtFEFHI OFFlV'
Dear Comrades,
Unemployed ranks here are grow
ing Q,5oo workers have registered
for work here). We must all Or
ganize together and stick together
and demand relief. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

Elect delegates to N. Y. Confer
ence for Protection of Foreign
Born, Feb. 8, at the Irving Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

will lay on the car for the same
price.
want the public TO know what
Is going on up here. Us poor min
crs are starving. We are not GO
ing to put UP with this any longer.
We mean to organize or die try
ing. There is but one way. Fight
or Starye.
IL. G. a. G. Co. MINER.
LONDON.---A canal boat is to be
turned into a school with accommo-
dalton for 40 pupils,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-30
Business Psychology

President Hoover's proposal for mora torium in war debts is said to have produced the good business effect it did because it came at the psychological time" That is the obvious truth. It produced an effect apparent ly SO much out of proportion to the cause that the President himself was astonished. He had simply made natural and logical proposal to ease an international crisis. and the business world responded as to powerful stimulant. Yet the same solemn economists who main- tained all along that there was nothing "psy- chological' about the depression will probably argue, likewise, that there is nothing psycho- logical about the revival. In which they will be at least consistent.
 It is curious how many professed eeono- mists seem to regard economic laws as If they were natural laws, as inflexible and be- yond human influences as the force of gravity and the speed of light. Economic or business principles are not laws operating mechanically in vacuum. They are merely statements of the ways that human beings behave in their business relations. In all these relations we are still men and women. subject to the same mental influences and emotional forces as in our other human relations. We are never entirely logical. We feel more than We think. Our imagination is stronger than our reason. We are swayed by fears and hopes. So to a very large extent, sngly and collectively, our fortunes depend on our own states of mind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-30
Tax On LiaHor

The most recent bulletin of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment should be of interest to all people who are concerned over the future welfare of the nation. Every one of us should be alarmed at present con- ditons. Rather than becoming better we recognize certain spirit rampant throughout the country that spells only disaster for us In this crisis it is time to recognize facts as they really exist. It is not fair for cer- tain group to state one thing when the con- trary is quite evident. It is no more right for another group to counter with as exag- gerated statements.
 In the conflict between vets and drys there is common focal point. Even the most out and out wet adherent is not fighting for the return of the saloon. He or she is a believer, nine times out of ten. in temperance. But we do believe that the beliefs of some should not be imposed on all by force, by law. That IS the condition which exists today. There are many of us fighting for repeal of the Eth Amendment who probably would not touch a drop of liquor were the present situation to be reversed. But we believe in the idea of personal freedom as preached by the founders of our republic. And we realize that 1t IS transgressed today as 1t never was.
 
 At this point in the diseord, that character izes prohibition disputes, word about this latest pamphlet of the Association Against Prohibition. It contends that repeal of the amendment and legalization of the sale of liquors in certain states would provide enough revenue to wipe out the present government deficit. Now we enter the realm of probabil- ities. The association classes v states in the list of those who would legalize the sale of liquor. Connecticut being included among them. Upon the basis of federal revenue in 1918 the seventeen states would pay Uncle Sam slightly over So00,000.0o0 which is little more than the present national deficit
 Now prohibitionsts may argue that the list of seventeen states is wrong. Perhaps it is They might also maintain that the revenue in fo32. lo33 or whenever the new order went into effect would not be the same as Il was in 1918 Again perfectly correct. We . are acting upon assumption entirely. But we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-30

can't deny these figures. Nineteen per cent of Great Britain's tax revenue comes from legal and controlled sale of alcoholic bever- ages: in Canada this figure is l7 per cent: Sweden. IS per cent: Norway l4 per cent. Denmark. l9 per cent; and Australia. lS per cent. Every one of these countries shows a decrease in liquor consumption and in in- temperance since the World War.
 As the report shows The experience of other countries since the World War amply demonstrates that it is possible to collect large revenues from the manufacture, importation and sales of alcoholic beverages and at the same time to reduce liquor consumption and to improve temperance conditions generally. Our estimate of the revenue which would be derived from alcoholic beverages, if the Eigh- teenth Amendment were repealed, appears conservative when compared with the revenues actually eollected in foreign countries. :" That's safe and sane attitude which ought to appeal to both prohibitionist and wet. We are seeking for new sources of revenue. We are striving for temperance. We haven't suc- ceeded in either quest. Why not combine both and change the present rotten condition of the country with wholesale bribery and corruption raising havoc with good citizen ship Let's face the facts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-30

there was a fine plan to have her go to sea once more under canvas. But the naval au- thorities in Washington decided otherwise. There are no men left in the Navy who can sail a frigate. Which fact moves Chicago poet to sing, in emulation of Oliver Wendell Holmes:
 Ay. roll her unused mainsail down!
 Long has it swelled on high.
 And many an eye has danced to see
 It belly in the sky.
 But sailor men are scarce. it seems,
 And it has come to pass
 That modern gobs can't move yon ship
 Without shot of gas. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke has also stated that unless lowed the Constitution could not keep up to the arranged exhibition schedule On such an occasion as Old lron- sides putting to sea again time is but relative. A day more or less doesn't make much dif- ference.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-30
GREAT BENEFACTOR
(Hartford Times)

(Hartford Times)
 Humphrey O'Sullivan, one of the really important men of his time, has died, at the age of IT, in Lowell, Massachusetts. The distinguishing thing about him was that he invent ed the rubber heel, now practically universal in footwear of civilized peoples, an innovation which has softened every walk of life and eased the steps of millions. MT O'Sullivan's memory should be ranked in the gratitude of our peo- pie even above the man who invent ed the mechanical egg-beater or the perforated mixing spoon. But who were those men? Who was it who invented the filtrating lemon-squeez- CT, "hooks and eyes," elastic sus- penders. button hooks. link cuff buttons. or travel-trunks which are portable dress-hangers? They go down in history. as the rule, lost and forgotten. yet were of epochal citi- zenly service. We trust that the association of the name of O'Sulli- van with rubber heels may have juster preservation.