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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
SINCLAIR LIES
TOSLASH WAGES
Gets More Profits Out
of Workers; Pleads
Poverty in Letter

President Sinclair of the Sinclair
Oil Co. personally signs letter post
ed in his refineries and sent to some
of his employees, announcing 10 per
cent reduction on salaries Of 500 a
month and under, and Is per cent cut
in salaries over 500 month. The
wage slash, in addition to all the
cuts so far put through, for the
workers who get hourly wages, that
is, the common everyday worker in
the industry. is not stated, but will be
ION a fair basis SO as to conform as
nearly as possible to the reductions
made in the case of salaried en-
ployes."
Sinclairs excuse for this is in his
letter: THE petroleum industry has
not only suffered from the general
depression it has had many
troubles of its own After reducing
expenses wherever possible, We find
that a reduction in pay is a necessity
that can no longer be postponed D.. E.
The dividends paid to our stock
holders January Is and April Is rep
resented reduction of so per cent
below the rate previously paid"
That excuse is lie! In the Phila-
delphia Ledger of three days later
than the letter from Sinclair, is a
report on the profits of the company
under a headline, Sinclair Oil Corp.
net of $22,214,002 shows big gain, y
and the facts as given there are
that in spite Of less income, the Sin
clair Oil was able to so cut down ex-
penses remember the wage cuts and
speed-up there has been already so
that it could make a profit of over
$22 million in 1880, which is 100000
more than it made in the prosperity
year of 1929. Dividends paid last
year totaled more than II million
dollars, and Sinclair. who signs the
wage cutting letter with plea of
poverty, was right there when the
mellon was cut, and made a nice
little speech.
Answer this cold blooded attack on
the workers by the wealthy Sinclair,
with organization into the Trade
Union Unity League and strike
against every wage cut!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
IMPERIALISTS IN
FRANCE PAID MR..
HITLER FOR AID
"Ravenous Appe tit e,
Slender Means"

PARIS.-"LE Echo de Paris pub
fishes biography Of Adolf Hitler and
adds the following comments con-
corning Hitler's relations to French
propaganda sources:
After the 1918 debacle, Hitler, to-
gether with other adventures Of the
same kidney, belonged to the general
clientele in the anterooms Of the al
lied ambassadors. Hitler showed par
ticular zeal in supplying the military
commission with information. For
us Hitler is a living reminder Of all
those tendencies in Germany which
we could have used to d 2stroy the
last relations between Berlin and
Vienna or in order to separate South
Germany from North Germany. Hit
Ter was received in audience by the
French High Commissioner in Cob
LEM. Whether he received money?
Probably. for Hitler always had a
ravenous appetite and slender means.
Later on also meetings took place in
Innsbruck and Linz at which two
French officers were present"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
StarVing Miners Vices Beg
Company for Jobs for Men

job for her husband, to save her
starving children from horrible death
by hunger.
Hunger Marches
This is only one of thousands of
similar cases. Immediate relief for
the unemployed miners is the de-
mand of the hour. Thousands are
starving. The Avella miners were
starving so much that within two
weeks they have organized several
hunger marches on the county seat.
These hunger marches have forded
the charity organizations to give some
food and clothing to'the starving fam
lilies. Every miner understands that
this is being done only to make an
attempt to quiet them and to pre-
vent further struggles and hunger
marches
The coming District Convention of
the National Miners Union in the
Metal Mining District, May 10, the
Ohio District, May II, and the Penn
sylvania District, May 1924, will be
the real beginning of a mass cam
paign, expressed in local demonstra-
tons, city and county munger march
es, to force the government and the
operators to give immediate relief to
the unemployed miners. In the course
of preparations of the Pennsylvania
District Convention, two hunger
marches will be held, one on Wash
ington, County Seat of Washington
County, and one on UniontoWn
county seat of Fayette County.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Milwaukee Workers 60 Out
May Day to Expose Socialists

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Many thous-
ands of steel workers and miners will
participate in the May First demon
STATIONS in Western Pennsylvania,
Vets Virginia and Eastern Ohio. The
feature of the demonstrations will be
the report of some of the 1913 dele
gates on the hunger march to Har-
risburg.
The Pittsburgh demonstration will
take place in East Park at 100 p. m.
The main speaker will be George
Powers. national secretary of the
Metal Workers Industrial League. In
the evening there will be mass
meeting at Pythian Temple, 20l1 Cen
ter Avenue. One of the speakers will
be Carl Price, district organizer of
the Communist Party.
The Pittsburgh demonstration will
also be protest against the whole
sale evictions scheduled for May LIST,
especially of Negro tenants.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.--The workers of
Milwaukee are enthusiastically pre-
pairing to make this May Day cele-
bration the largest, most militant, and
best organized that this city, run by
yellow socialist takers, has ever seen.
The turnout and response to the
Bassett Meeting was a splendid DEM
onstration of the workers determin-
alton to fight against the stagger
system. wage slashes, soup kitchens,
lousy flop houses, evictions, and pol
ice terror set loose upon the workers
by the bosses. using the socialists, .
and LaFollette "progressives" to get
the job well done.
Tens of thousands of leaflets are
being distributed by the Communist
Party, the Young Communist League,
the Pioneers. the Trade Union Unity
League, the Unemployed Councils, the
International Labor Defense, the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
and many other workers organiza-
tons.
Forty workers organizations came
to the May Day United Front con-
ference, April 10, and answered the
Communist Party call for downing
tools and demonstrating on May
First, with pledges for funds and &C.
tive participation both in the prepa-
rations for May Day and in the dem
onstration itself.
Phil LaFollette, the progressive
governor, has joined the Amer.
lean Legion, the K. X. K. the social
list party. and President Hoover in at.
tempting to stop the May Day dem.
onstrations, by declaring May car.
Dor Day." and calling the workers anc
workers children to plant trees In,
M
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
TERROR in ST.
LOUIS SHOPS

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April lion top
of wage-cuts, speed-up. unemploy-
nent and other evils forced by the
bosses upon the needle trades work.
ers OF st. Louis, comes now a vicious
terror in the shops.
The bosses started this campaign
because of the increased activities
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union,
In one shop the boss called to-
gether all the workers after a distri-
button of leaflets by the Industrial
Union and threatened to fire any
who went to any Of its meetings.
In most Of the shops the workers
are not allowed to speak to each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

Scripps- Howard newspapers, is now
in Havana. In a series of articles for
the United Press he tells of the ma
chine-gun rule of the bloody butcher,
Machado. All Cuba is like an armed
camp,
While Simnls gives a good picture
of surface conditions de does not
probe deeper. He does not see that
the main arm of this terror is di-
rected against the workers and par
ticularly against the Communists.
Writing of Machado's fear for his
life against the great majority of
the people, Simms says:
"On the roof of the President Die
tator's palace-the White House of
Havana-picked sentries mount
guard over ventilator shafts, Chin
neys and skylights, their bayonets
fishing in the sunlight. ~
"In the streets about the palace,
squads of soldiers in khaki, and spe-
cial police in blue, keep anxious
watch about the entrances and over
the approaches"
Simms knows that this terror rule
of Machado is carried on with the
approval and under the direction of
the American imperialists who rule
Cuba.
A state of civil war exists in Cuba
with the forces of Wall Street thrown
behind the bloody dictator Machado.
ct is martial law" writes Sinrns.
"The President himself has declared
state of war exists. Constitutional
guarantees, have been indefinitely
suspended. Freedom of speech and
of the press no longer exist"
Simms associated with the petty
bourgeois and even from them he
got a story of mass murder. The fol-
lowing incidents that he tells about
are magnified a thouSand-fold when
applied to the Communist ad mill
tant workers who lead the fight
against the Machado-murder regime
Beneath a smiling surface Cuba
the Pearl of the Antilles, is in the
grip of fear. The people live in feal
of arrest. prison, or worse. The die
tator lives in fear of revolution anc
in constant danger of his life. There
is dull, gnawing anxiety over what
may happen,
"'The people are afraid to talk,
well-to-do Cuban planter told mi
out in the country, a long way from
Havana. Talk too much and yol
may be taken for a ride. They ma!
find you hanging from tree. Anc
there may be some bullet hole
through you. But it'll be called sui
eide"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
MORE PACKING,
OIL WAGE CUTS
Phillips Co., Armour
Grind Their Workers

KANSAS CITY, Kan, April 29.-
The. Phillips Petroleum Corporation,
large oil company, has just an
nounced a 10 per cent wage cut for
all workers at their refinery here
who receive over 40 cents an hour.
This cut is to take effect on May l.
There is much grumbling among the
workers, as this is the second cut
which has taken place here recently
A wage cut has just taken place in
Armour & Co. packing house here,
By which some workers lose as much
as dollar a day. This is only one
of series of wage cuts which the
Armour workers have received. 1t has
also been stated that in the near flu
ture Armour is going to lay off the
majority of the workers who are
still employed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
MASS PICKETING
AT GREENWICH
Hold Carriers F olloW
Advice of TUUL

GREENWICH, Conn, April 20
Hod carriers and building laborers
here on strike against wage cuts have
been mass picketing. They not only
stopped three jobs being worked by
scabs brought in from Stamford, on
Monday, but they forced Mitchell to
stop all his jobs until today, when he
is supposed to decide whether he
will yield to the men or try to run
with scabs.
Mitchell is the biggest contractor
and head Of the bosses association.
The mass picketing is the result of
pressure from below on the AFI Of
ficials of the International Hold Car
riers, Building and Common Labprers
Union of North America. These Of
ficials we're horribly shocked when
Trade Union Unity League speakers
urged the strikers to mass picket, but
the rank and file strikers were en-
thusiastic about it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 29-Not
long ago it was impossible to see
miners wife and children at the
company union. Only men would
come to ask for job.
Things now are quite the opposite.
1t is hard to see a man at the COM
pany office. Instead, wives and chill
dren are there begging the foreman
for jobs for the husbands and fathers.
Scores of them can be seen there.
And the more they come the more
often they are turned down.
On the public highways scores of
miners wives can be seen, with their
children, going from one mine to
another in an attempt to get jobs
for their husbands. They walk in
rags and without shoes, hungry and
exhausted. Many a mother carries
her two or three months old baby
as far as Is miles. Again no job.
Again misery and starvation at
home" This continues day in and
day out.
Recently a young mother of four
children, the Oldest being only five
years, went dozen times from Rus
SETON to wildwood, distance of Is
miles, taking with her all four chill
dren. The foreman turned her down
each time. Finally, hungry and tired,
distracted by the cries of her hungry
children, the youngest only three
months old, in desperation, She gave
good beating to the foreman. Only
in this way she was able to get a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
So. Milwaukee Workers Get s7-sl5 Week

while the workers are in bed with
pain
The workers at the Line Material
Company are working two to three
days week in some departments,
getting 40 cents per hour. The line
Material Company intends to move
out workers at the Wisconsin Apple
ton Electric Company. The workers
there are speeded up and are getting
three cents a mold. Molders are
making only about SIS week. When
they pay their rent, they have moth
ing left. The coremakers are making
only 81 to SIS week on the core
machines.
So you see, workers, how prosperity
is around the corner with starvation
wages. Join the T.U.UL. or the IN
employed council and fight for real
relief, unemployment insurance, and
against wage-cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
other and are fire if they do.

other and are fire if they do.
The conditions in the shops are
worse than they were ever before:
are unlimited. they work just as long
SIS to 81 week; in some shops, hours
are unlimited, they work just as long
as the boss wants, while at the same
time thousands Of needle workers are
walking the streets.
About a week ago one of the big
gest dress shops, Ely Walker adver-
tised for help and nearly two thou
sand came to apply. None were hired.
it turned out to be a trick to force
those working for him to accept the
steady wagecutting.
In one of the cloak shops the boss
instructed the workers not to go on
the market when they go for lunch
because he doesn't want them to gel
any leaflets.
In spite of this terror the N. T. w
I. U. will intensity its activities and
is at this time engaged in a campaign
to organize shop commit tees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Demand Release of 9 F.
Negro Boys At May
LIST Demonstrations
CONTINUED FROM PAGE. ONE,

of workers and sympath1zers against
this outrageous frame-up and planned
mass massacre of nine innocent boys.
These conferences must include the
largest number Of working-class or
CARNATIONS, together with delegates
from the block and neighborhood
committees of both white and Negro
workers which must, be organized at
once.
Workers! All Out May Day In
Mighty Protest
A national leaflet is being prepared
by the LSNR and will be issued in
millions of copies. A pamphlet Civ
ing the history of the Scottsboro case
from the time the boys were arrested
to the present and thoroughly expos
ing the frame-up nature of the case
and the lynch justice of the CAPT.
talist court at Scottsboro, Alabama,
is being prepared and will be ready
before the end of May.
Negro and white workers! Only the
united mass protest and struggle Of
the workers and all sympathetic ele-
ments can save the lives of these
boys! Only quick, energetic action in
modifying mass protest and 6rgani-
rational strength can stop this legal
mass murder of innocent working
class youthsl Build Block and Neigh
borhood Committees for Scottsboro
Defense! Organize broad United
Front Conferences! Continue the
barrage of protest kilograms to the
governor of Alabama! Demonstrate
May First against the Scottsboro le-
gal lynch verdict, against starvation,
wage cuts, against imperialist war!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

ten in the manipulations of the ap-
pie racket. after they leave here.
Road Building Fake.
Press is stating that private con-
struction is picking up and the
charity agencies are beginning to
close. Portland voted 100000 for
road work and funds are being held
with exception of $4,000 until next
fall. The control of these bonds is in
the har of a committee of leading
citizens. Their word is law. 1t looks
like determined drive on all those
who have no homes, ETC., will be I'M
dertaken in the next few weeks.
A group of savings and loan banks
are springing up with various names
but all listed under one head as the
Guardian Group" 1t appears that
this is milking scheme of the estab-
lished banks to get the few dollars
left in the pockets of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Spokane Daily Worker Agent Makes Good"

start the Daily Worker myself. I
am getting papers from Green of the
Workinglnan's Club. 1 have to pay
him &c copy. The Skid Road is
good for IS or Is Dailies and I aver
age IS per day, but will pick up. I
have seven steady customers and I
have been selling four days including
to-day, which is Sunday.
I like this town and as l am the
only Daily Agent here I will marry
the town for the summer. I am do
ing my best for the Daily at present,
altho I am on the sick list with such
cold that I can hardly talk. Lets
hear from you out there
Comradely Yours,
I. A. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

u N@@NS
production.
Soviet Order Opens Factory.
Other industrial activity dependent
upon lumber shows no gain with ex-
ception of carriage company at
Dallas, Ore. This concern manufac-
lures stack carriers for lumber yards
End opened up on receipt of $780,
o0I order from the Soviet Union.
Town dependent upon this work and
has not seen any large orders for
year or more.
Farmers here are beginning to suf-
fer as result of large differences
between the growing cost and selling
price of wheat. Wheat raised in the
Inland Empire at cost of Csc to S6c
a bushel. Banks that control the
mills have been forcing sales to pay
debts at as low as SOC. Fruit farm
ers complain of the profits being got
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30

Spokane, Wash.
Daily Worker,
I wish to report that I am on the
job selling Daily Workers in Spokane
and as there is no one in the field
here and since this is an important
town, have decided to make myself
the regular Daily Worker Agent here.
The workers here are sure up
against it, worse than any place West
of the Mississippi, but the trend to-
wards communism and the new Red
Unions is good. AS soon as these
workers get to making few nickels,
I'll be making good here.
I am handicapped for money, so
will have to struggle along until I
get a short job to make money to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Marion, Ohio.

MarlOn, OHIO.
Daily Worker:
Some time ago stopped in town
in the southern part of Ohio where
Harrys brother used to keep a bank
You know Harry, who used to work
in Uncle Sans Kitchen. Well, as 1
walked around Hoover's Kitchen,
saw quite number of people lined up
in front of the MailsBank. In their
hands they had a little book.
Well, / decided that I too would
join the line; when came up to the
window the cashier noticed that 1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
WORKER TELLS ABOUT
SLACK OPERATIONS
IN OREGON MILLS
Lumber Production Still On Down Curve
Despite Bosses Optimistic Predictions
Road Building Plan to Relieve Jobless
Proves Fake

PORTLAND, OreIn the lumber industry decided gain
N mill operations type of mill camp opening is
generally offset by another closing The West Coast Lumber
mems Association report $40 mills shows operations at
1857 per cent of capacity with $3.50 per cent the figure for
last year. This the weekly figure and is keel
the month
Shipments Below Production.
Eghty-seven mills reporting to the Western Pine Manufac
Association show shipments ia per cent below produc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
tBy a Worker Correspondent

Milwaukee, Wise.
Daily Worker:
The South Milwaukee Hospital,
owned by DR.. Dempsey, has widow
working for it. She did not get paid
for six weeks, and she's sure of not
getting the money. There is also a
nurse who didn't getzpaid. These two
have two children to support. They
are afraid of being laid off without
pay.
The relief here is being cut so the
workers don't get enough to last them
for two weeks, and they tell him
that's all he's entitled to. The out
door relief doesn't want to furnish
milk. The county hospital doesn't
take care Of workers. The doctors
seem to take look at you once in a
while, and sometimes they do nothing
At an but just pass you with smile,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
KASSAY FREED BY
MASS PRESSURE
Syndicalist Law is
Declared Illegal
,CoNrINUEp FROM PAGE oNEp

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONED
Department of Justice agent and
charged under the Criminal Syndi
calist Act of Ohio with splitting on
the rivets in the steel frame" which
according to the Goodyear bosses
would weaken the steel Of that dir
igible
The International Labor Defense
immediately investigating the case
found that Kassay who was held to be
the best mechanic in the plant had
openly agitated amongst his fellow
workers against the wage cut that
had just taken place in the shop,
although his own wages had not been
reduced. There was talk in the plant
of strike and when the bosses dis
covered that Kassay was in Sympa
thy with the workers and was a
reader of the Hungarian Communist
paper vi Elore, they placed a spy
next to him in the shop who told
Kassay that he was an agent of the
Russian trading firm, Amtorg. Not
being able to get anything on Kassay,
the spy cleared out of the shop af-
ter few days. Immediately after
that Kassay was arrested on the
frame-up charge of sabotaging the
dirigible by splitting on it,"
The Cleveland district of the LID.
Immediately rallied the support of the
workers in Ohio and secured Kassay's
release on bail which was set at the
unusual figure of $4,000. The capt.
talist press in Ohio and throughout
the country broadcasted the usual
lies that Kassay was an agent of the
Russian government sent in to the
U. S. to carry on propaganda and
sabotage against American industry.
NEW YORK.-In a statement by
the national Office of the. Interna-
tional Labor Defense upon the receipt
of the wire from Cleveland telling
of the freeing of Kassay, it was poin-
ted out that through an immediate
militant mass campaign the task OF
freeing Kassay was achieved. In ex-
actly five weeks of vigorous activities
against the attempted railroading OF
this worker our ends we're accom-
plished. Instead of ten years in pri-
son, mass mass protests on part Of
workers set Kassay free. In the
Amnesty Campaign for the immediate
and unconditional release of the I'm.
perial Valley workers, Mooney anc
Billings, and the eighty other class
war prisoners, the International La.
Dor Defense is pursuing the exac
policy Of mass activities as in thu
KasSay case. Conferences of al
workers organization and tn e l.
sympathizers are being held in all sec
lions Of the U. S. and laying plans 70,
The Amnesty Campaign conducted b,
he /. l.. d. Mass activities of al
forms is the only effective method o
setting free the victims of the terro
set loose by the bosses against an,
and all workers who dare to organic
against low wages, unemployment
and the speed-up."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Southern Ohio Mail Bank Closes Down

hadn't any book; he asked me what
l wanted. reached for my pocket
and asked him for SOC change. Next
to me in line was. Negro worker
who also had one of those little
books. He stood in frontof the win
dow looking through the glass and
calls out whats the matter here?"
The cashier. called out, There is
nothing the matter; haven't you ever
heard of a bank busting?" The Ne
gro worker said, "Yes. I heard of
bank busting, but never before did 1
have bank busting right in my face"
J.H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-30
Hungry, Oakland Ex-serviceman Breaks Down

ment, which caused complete break
down.
City doctors $50 as to have the
least to do with HIM considered him
crazy and sent him to Santa Clara
County Hospital at Napa.,
Many other ex-service men here in
Oakland are on the verge of break
down and starvation. Ex-servicemen
should organize shoulder to shoulder
with other workers and fight this
system Of injustice.
Ex-service Man.