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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
CHI. BOSSES CUT WAGES
Bring Wages DoaVn 20 Per Cent

Besides this he advises the workers
to eat sufficient wholesome food,
avoid excessive fatigue, avoid worry
and dress comfortably.
would like TO learn from this
highly educated quack how all of
this Is to be done. At least I would
like to know how one of Petit
bincs unskilied laborers, who is
supposed 10 pay rent and receives
the large sum Of 40 cents an hour
and Is employed only part time
and has family. can eat suffi-
ctcnt food and dress comfortably,
Another point that Is not clear to
me Is how q piece-worker will be
able to avoid excessive fatigue when
he has TO work like q fool all day
In order to make anything at all,
or how he can avoid unnecessary
worry. Indeed'it seems quite un-
necessary that any worker able and
willing to work should have to
worry about how he is going to
keep his home and get food for
himself and family.
A fellow-worker told me that
some Of the company unions In
this town Of big business, big Bill
Thompson and AL Capone are hav-
ing big celebrations on May Day,
with dances and everything. This
Is only one Of the bosses schemes
to keep the workers minds off the
struggle for bread. They think that
We arc a bunch Of fools who will 70
to their affair to forget our troubles.
But We won't. MY idea is that in
order to better our conditions We
Will have to join the T. U. u. L.
and fight for real unemployment
relief and against the cuts.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
Cal. Bosses Break
Own Eight Hour
Work Day Law
Friend Of Workers"
Still Trusts Bosses
To the Daily Worker

To the Daily Worker:
I happened to buy one of yom
little papers this, morning and on
turning over to page three, column
one, read an article by one of your
worker correspondents. signed, Cam
merry Worker. would like to make a
correction if you will allow me to.
The cannery worker states that she
presumably cannery worker is a
woman worked from a. m. until
$50 at night. I'll give Cannery
Worker the benefit, Of the doubt. But
here in the state Of California there
is a law by which employers can
hire women to work only eight hours
a day. May ask her if Cannery
Worker does not work broken hours?
Doesn't she get time off for lunch
and supper? If not, why not2
And although I'M not doubling
Cannery Workers statement 1 wirh
she had inquired about the laws Of
our state before she made her state
ment to your worker correspondent,
where thousands of your people and
mine read your little paper and will
get the wrong impression that the
workers in the Bay Cities won't get
q square deal
"A Friend Of the Working Man.
Editorial Eote:-The friend of
the working man" who sent In the
foregoing criticism Is incorrect by
inferring that because there Is
law In the State of California re-
quiring women to work not over
hours in factories that women are
not forced to work IL and sometimes
13 and IA hours a day. II Is COM
mon knowledge that the 8-hour law
is violated daily by the bosses
whenever 1t is TO their benefit TO do
so. The workers In the Bay Cities
will not get a square DEAF from
either the bosses or their govern
ment unless they organize the mill
tant revolutionary. unions and by
mass action force the bosses to do
away with the long hours and mis-
cradle working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
Chicago Merchants
Cheat with Scales

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 22.-Food
merchants In Chicago cheated
their customers out Of at least
s54,456,355 through short weights
during 1880, according to an Of
fetal research. 537 cut Nf the
l,415 stores visited by inspectors
swindIe their customers. That this
short-weighting is not limited to
food, is shown by the investiga-
tors statement: Instances are
recorded where coal merchants
cheated 1850 pounds on . l0-ton
load Of coal"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02

SAhASSHVt
Daily Worker:
A I have just finished reading
my Daily Worker and have . day
off. III try to tell my fellow-work
srs around the country about the
conditions In my shop" the Pet
tibone Mulliken Co.
WAGE CUTS is TO 20x.
The wages here have during the
winter, In some departments, been
cut down to level Of Is per cent
lower than they were last fall, while
in other departments, where the
more skilled workers are employed,
wages were cut 20 per cent. Some
Of the work Is done on . piece
work basis and the workers used
to be allowed an hours wages for
work combined with their Job, but
not included In the wages paid for
piece-work. Now the company re-
fuses to pay extra wages for time
spent In this way, which means
Just another cut In addition to the
Is per cent they sliced off our
wages during the winter, and Is .
result we have to work harder and
faster in order to keep from star
wing to death.
QUACK ADVISES WORKERS.
Some time ago . plAcard was put
up in the shop by the company
physician, DR.. Degon. This physician
has found out that two and . half
days are lost yearly on account Of
common colds and influenza, and
he Is giving the workers some tips
on how to live in order to prevent
these diseases. One Of the advices
he gives can really be followed BY
the workers, end that's the one
about drinking plenty OF water.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02

Shipping in this town is at a
standstiH. Last year at this time
many boats were on the lakes but the
shipping master has been forced to
admit that only a. few boats will
leave this year and none of these
until after the 18th of May.
Carpenters and others who report
to the headquarters of the T. U. q. L.
state they are asked to work for as
low as Is cents an hour and furnish
tolls etc.
Over $4,000 are out of work in Erie
and men, women and children are
being slowly starved or poisoned by
the rotten slop handled out in Null
ligan Hall. In spite of the fact that
the workers who bury in the loca.
stores drop eggs. butter, ham, sugar
steaks, fruit and other real food in
the 'Muligan HalP' baskets. none Of
this food ever reaches the unem-
ployed who eat in the bosses sour
kitchen which is sponsored by the
so-called "Uplift" Society.
Workers who own their homes Oh
an equity in them have been forced
to mortgage their holdings to such
an extent that the banks will not
advance any more money on either
the real or personal property of the
workers. And the bosses are rapidly
levying and selling out the workers
who cannot meet the exorbitant in
terest and the principal payments
demanded by the loan sharks OF
Erie.
Although there is at the present
time much evidence of graft among
the officials of the school board, these
grafters and hypocrites have Just re-
fused to allow any repairs or i'm
provements in the schools this year
although some of these schools are
rotten and nothing more than barns
and outhouses.
Workers. Determined To Struggle.
At the open air meetings held by
the CP and YCL, the workers are
demonstrating their. determination to
organize and struggle against the
bosses and their wage cuts, speed-up
and starvation They are determined
to come out en-masse on the First
OF May in a mighty demonstration
to show the bosses that they will
fight before they will starve. They
are determined to show their soil
darity on International Labor Day
with the revolutionary workers Of the
world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
BERKELEY HOTEL
WORKERS GET
$40 WAGE CUT
Bosses Tell Maids to
Earn Money "On
the Side"
Berkeley, Cal.

Berkeley, Cal.
Daily Worker:
Good times" have surely come to
Berkeley hotel workers. Formerly
hotel ms Ids were getting $40 and
over per month and their food, but
now we have to work for $40 per
month. We are also forced to do
more work. Where formerly girls
worked, now 2 are doing the job.
Similar proportionate reduction in
help is practiced in all houses.
Twenty dollars per month to get
clothes with and our room. They
make us understand very plainly that
we must earn money ION the side"
in order to get clothes to cover our
bodies.
Such are conditions here for us
slaves Glad to see domestics and
maids writing about conditions in the
Daily. Hope we will soon be or
IaniSed.
Hotel Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
IDLE RICH SON
SHOOTS WOR KER::
IS LET GO FREE
Jail Hungry Workers
Who Shoot Muskrats
to Feed Families
indianapolis, Ind.

Indianapolis, Ind.
Editor Daily Worker
The other week bunch of youths
were holding target practice in the
north part Of this city. On hearing
their shots poor huckster, peddling
in the neighbor1ood, took refuge in a
shack on the river bank.
Shoots PeddIar
One of these crack shots. who, BY
the way were sons of the idle rich.
took aim at the Shack and in a spirit
of bravado shot. His craftsmanship
being good. the poor peddlar fell,
nlortally wounded. 10 -
AS these young men were sons of
wealthy parents, one of them a son
OF Indiana's aristocratic governor,
there was nothing done about it. The
County prosecutor ordered the case
dropped and the papers gave it but
scant notice, regarding it as matter
OF slight moment-just an episode in
the gay life of the wealthy youth.
Brilliant editorials appeared, however,
from time to time in the dailies on
the ruthless destruction OF birds and
wild animal life, but not a line has
come from the pens of these editors
against the wanton murder of this
poor worker.
~ Workers Prosecuted
Shortly after this fatal shooting
few poor boys we're found shooting
rifles on the shores of the White
River. They were promptly arrested
and remanded to the juyinal court.
These boys were all from poverty
stricken homes and were hunting
rnuskrats to supply their family lard
er. The poor families here have been
eating their dogs, but rabies has
become so prevalent that they have
had to look for other food, so they
have taken to hunting muskrats.
The different treatment accorded
these two cases is only one of the
many instances Of infamous American
class justice.
n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
Albany Road Workers
Must Spend Money in
the Company Saloon

Here in Albany, commissaries of
labor are hiring workers for the state
roads, at 80 cents an hour. For these
jobs, they must pay S. commission,
and 50 per week board, which con-
sists of filthy hunks and unspeakable
grub. At the end of the week, count
ing tobacco money and few cents
for clothes, a worker has hardly
dollar left. Even this he is compelled
to spend in the company booze joint,
or he is fired!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
Three Comrades Aid
Starving Worker
From Brutal Police
New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:

New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
While returning from an affair in
Harlem early Sunday morning. we
noticed an unemployed worker. desti-
tute, shivering and i'll trying to sleep
On reaching the l74th st. station a
well fed and dressed man sat down
next to this worker and gave him a
sharp knock in his ribs with his ell
bow. thinking that no one saw.
Seeing this, we got up and told the
fellow to get away The man stood
Up trimming. and showed a sleoming
.'ol'Ce badge, sasiill, TN lool, alter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
RUSSIAN TOILERS
WANT TO HEAR
FROM n AMERICANS
Build international
* Letter Exchange
swerdIowsk, U. S. s. R.

- So SwerdlowSk, o. s. 5. X.
Daily worker:
over two months have passed since
we received your last letter in which
yoh promised us to get us in touch
With American workers either direct
lyior through the Daily Worker. A
couple of days later we noticed our
letter from the Verk-Fsebsk metal
works published in your paper After
that there came dead silence. Later
on we wrote you requesting copy
Of your January issue of Worcorrs
activities with the same result.
70 tell you frankly, we are deeply
riisappointed, not to say more, of not
being able to establish regular let
ter exchange between Ural and Amer
icHti workers at a moment when all
otir forces are set to a successful
carrying through Of our 5 year plan,
and when the danger of a new war,
in the first place against the Soviet
Union assumes daily more hideous
and realistic aspects. Besides, there
is keen interest among our work
ers, particularly metahsts, to learn
about American conditions and life.
what We want is not mere news
psper news, but scenes of every day
life coming directly from factories
ard plants. Such an interest has
IArreiy grown since the Ural district
coupled with the great coal basin Of
Kousnetsk will in a short time be-
come the second in Importance in
dststrial basis Of the Soviet Union.
During the comparatively short
existence of our International Letter
Exchange Department, We have man
aged to establish regular connections
With Z numerous factories. peasant,
Women and pioneer organizations in
Germany, France, Checkoslovaha,
Holland, etc, and therefore cannot
understand your silence. Surely. at
T. moment when an ignoninous CAM
paien OF crazy lies about the Soviet
Onion is beating its strongest, a little
truth about what's going on here
wouldn't do harm and be Of great
assistance to smash up all sorts Of
Wild polar bear stories about Russia.
AS to us we are eager to know some
thing about the alleged American
prosperity"
Well, dear comrades, we firmly
hope that the matter win be straight
ened out in the nearest future and
TIE closer our connections will be,
the more It will serve to our mutual
cause. We enclose you several let
tsrs. 10 be handed over to proper
places. but then leave it wholly to
your initiative to get us in touch with
metal, steel, building and textile
workers and jobless.
Awaiting an earliest possible an
ever,
with Communist greetings,
The Ural Workers International
Letter Exchange.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02

pc IN the bills, because the real in
terests of the Jersey farmers are not
represented by the farmers them
selves, but by politicians and organ
izations dominated by a few rich
dairymen.
For those who want to stay in the
raw milk production, these bills will
mean testing and very likely slaugh-
ter of best cattle for which the state
offers only a poor compensation.
How many average poor farmers
viii be able to stay in the milk bust
ness? Even now more and more of
them are selling their herds, because
they feel that it does not pay t.
produce milk.
To be sure, there will be some farm
ers who will not mind. The Walker
Gordon Farms, the Sheffield Farms,
the ForSgate Farms will not lose a
cent On the contrary, the business
that was before in the hands of the
poor farmers will come to these
large, modern farms, owned by rich
farmers.
Farm Board for Rich Farmers.
What are the existing farm organ
izations, the Oranges. the Farm
Boards and the Department of Agri-
culture? These organizations are at
the service of the rich farmers and
farm corporations. They are con-
trolled by them, although they are
made up Of the masses of middle
and poor farmers.
The poor farmers know that some
thing is wrong, but many of them
still believe that the existing farm
organizations are working for their
benefit.
Must Form Committees.
There is only one way to keep from
being utterly ruined. we must or
ganize committee of action in every
locality of poor farmers to mobilize
on the spot demanding:
/. Full compensation at value
set by their committee for cattle
killed as result OF T. B. test.
2. A committee of poor farmers,
elected by poor farmers, to have
complete control of methods of in
spection.
If these demands are refused-all
farmers are to be modified to resist
inspection until demands are granted.
Other demands:
!. Abolition OF all fines placed
by the Dairymen's League Coop
erative Association on members who
are unable to deliver milk to the
association as per order Of the as
ISOLATION.
2. Special tax on corporations of
state to supply loans. without in
terest to farmers needing same to
improve premises in line with san
itary regulations and laws.
The committee Of action must ap-
peal for aid in exposing the milk
trust, which robs both, by paying
farmers less End selling to workers
at retail at higher price. Aim to
build a united front against the milk
trust. to use boycott to force reduc-
ton in retail price and higher prices
to the farmers.
The United Farmers League, Box
27S, New York Mills, Mimi, will give
the farmers aid in their struggles for
better conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
DAIRY TRUSTS FORCE
NEW MILK BILLS. TO
RUIN n. J. FARMERS
Jersey Farmer Exposes Dairymen's Moves to
Squeeze More Profits
Poor Farmers Must Organize in Action Com
mittees to Fight
(By a Farmer Correspondent

Passage of milk ordinances in many municipalities O.
the metropolitan and shore market in New Jersey year
will surely be followed by larger boroughs in the
This will mean an inspection service and after some
time, uniform state board of health inspection
And there is doubt that this service parts of it being
already part and parcel of the bills before Assembly would
benefit only the dealers
Clauses for the protection and only the dealers will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
ERIE FOUNDRY
BOSSES SLASH PAY
OF METAL WORKERS
Clippers and Others Earning AS Low AS 81
to S13 Per Week
$4,000 Unemployed in Erie Are Determined to
Organize and Fight for Relief
Daily Worker:

D1llY
The National Erie Foundry has naugurated system
Of wage cuts through the adoption of the group tonnage
wage Clippers and others this plant last week drew from
So to &11 weeks work The railroad shops laying
off many workers and speeding those who remain and trying
tosuppress the strike sentiment resulting by pointing
the shop workers that the whmen and roadanen will aid
bosses because of the sell out of the switchmeEs strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
BRONX WORKERS
LIVE In MISERY
Prepare to Organize
Tenant League

BRONX. N. Y.-Being assigned to
organize Tenants League in the
territory Of our unit. / started out
with another conrade tonight to vis-
it a certain house on Brook Avenue.
And TO say The least, / feel like a
criminal for having neglected rs one
can imagine--we found workers ready
to join us-happy to know that
something was being done for them
not only that--but ready to work with
us.
VIEWERS Lice in Hoyels.
In one particular home df that's
what we want to call it, a Negro fam
lily lives We didn't ask how m iny
people lived in that f&t--but ia ;5tng
from the number OF beds we saS, We
gay safely ass.J1'e that it was large
family. 7s.e place locked like II had
not been patntsd for wears. Inc
walls were blacE with dirt. ciis
family was living in the fiat for only
eight months but the landlord re-
fused to decorate" the fiat for them
when they moved in. Yet, for these
miserable 4 roonis--oh yes. the light
had to be burned all day in the kitch-
en-, it was so dark-tfese people had
to pay s35 a MONTH The head Of
the family we were told was out of
work as often as he worked. And
when he worked, he was earning $40.
And my husband works mighty hard
too" said this Negro woman to us.
II. III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02

this fellow, I'll give him a nice bed
He told us he was from Manila
and had worked under the whip O.
plantation owners. and was later i'm
ported to the U. S. OH contract labo.
at miserable wages. They have nc
use for him any more, so they y.
him starve.
--..... Icu1 Noixers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02

J. X. S.
The Washington times., 1931-04-07
Maryland's Blue Laws and a
Senator's Dramatic Ride

Maryland people, particularly those of Baltimore pras
ing the dramatic ride Of State Senator Atkinson from Bal
tmore hospital the senate chamber in Annapolis to cast
his the exemption of Baltimore from the blue laws Of
Maryland
Against the advice of his physician and family this State
insisted taking chances his life that he might
leave doubt the of the legislation that gives
Baltimore the right adopt ordinances permitting Sunday
movie pictures, baseball and other amusements.
Atnsons perilous ride is compared to those Of Tench
Tghman from Yorktown Philadelphia; Paul Reveres to
Lexington and Concord the heroic journey of Caesar Rodney
from bed Delaware Philadelphia to vote for the
Declaration of Independence and the trip of Senator George
Vcer from Maryland Washington the vote that
defeated the impeachment Andrew Johnson President
Strong of duty is most admirable characteristic in
many and history full of instances Of unusual devotion
public service We these in Con-
gres frequent intervals although they do not become pub
icly known.
Baltimore people decide, in referendum, whether
they wish prohibited by old blue laws but
there to be little doubt the outcome Many
citizens of Baltimore have been arrested for trivial ofense
against blue laws and there is strong current of oppos
tion to them.
In Delaware blue law problem before the State legs
ature the house having adopted by close vote bill giving
municipalities the right to ordinances permitting or pro-
Mbting Sunday amusements or entertainments
Cities and Of the country in which aged blue laws
still in effect trying obtain the right to do their
people wish in these matters and antblue law campaign
seems to be on in many directions.
In this city Congress still has before it several bills that
would impose Sunday blue laws Washington people. So
far the nations statesmen do not appear inclined to put such
legislation through.
The Washington times., 1931-04-07
Recommends Curb for High
Pressure Real Estate Deals

The District Grand Jury strongly condemns high pressure
real estate transactions in this city and recommends corrective
legislation preferably the establishment Of supervisory
real estate board
This recommendation in line with the findings Of the
Senate committee that Investigated real estate methods That
committee declared that there excessive number Of
real estate brokers and sesmen operating in the District
"ithout legal regulation supervision of any kind The
result the committee declared had been perpetraton Of
frauds, with consequent large financial losses.
The Senate passed legislation that intended to be
rectiv but objection in the House District Committee in the
last few days Of the session of Congress held up passage
that body.
Legislation is certain in the Congress and if it is
fair will be welcomed by soundy built and honorable real
estate mortgage and security establishments of Washington
Public protection is needed Elimination of frauds and
impostions be obtained Inscriptions real estate
operators desired here Legitimate honest realtors
want them put out of business