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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

average OF - week Wflen L m work
ing and get no relief nowhere And
yet they expect me to hv con So a
week for the nine of us. I have
hardly any clothes or shoes to wear
when I'm working and it is bitter
cold up there and they don't let you
make any fire to warm yourself. If
they catch you around fire or max
ing a fire they fire you--and you
get no kind of relief at all. They tell
you that you're too lazy to work. But
if you quit you can get anything-if
you beg for it.
They promised us better times
when the socialists get in-and we
sure have 'em. We have no work
at all, and they won't feed us. They
want us to beg for what little we
get. And what we get amt fit to
eat or fit to wear. The clothings
that you get are moldy. Half the
eats you get are rotten. The dogs
wouldn't eat it. Still they want you
to pay taxes. And they won't give
you decent wages when you are
working. / think the socialists are
bunch of crooks. They're trying
to do the working people out of
what little they had. They have
no sympathy for the working class
Of people.
I joined the Unemployed Council
and was along up at the demon
stration and I was surprised to see
all the unemployed people there that
was there. ! thought they were
afraid to speak for their rights and
what's coming to them. And I think
that the Unemployment Council in
Reading will be a success in about
three weeks time if the working class
CT people will keep on doing what
they are doing Because they are
citing tired Of charity and begging,
because they are starving for what
they are getting. The people Of
Reading are Slowly starving to death.
I am willing to fight for everything
I get and ! don't want charity.
Through the Unemployed Council
fight for unemployment insurance.
"A worker at the Berks County
Prison Farm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
HEALTHY GIRLS
AT MAJESTIC CO.
SOON GET SICK
Ten Hours A Day In
Radio Slave Pen

CHICAGO. Ill.-Before the Males.
tic Radio Corporl tion hires a girl.
they make sure that she is healthy
and strong enough for the hard work
she has to do. They ask many ques-.
tons. For example: Do you have
headaches often? Trouble with your
stomach or heart? Did you have any
operations? Any sickness during the
last few years? etc. The nurse looks
at the hands, arms and then at the
whole body, because they only want
strong and healthy workers; but they
soon make them sick and tired dur
ing the work.
At the time I called there for work
they asked me if mind dirty hands,
but they should have asked me if
am afraid of wet and dirty clothes
and hands. because the kind of work
l got was mems work. heard that
g man was working on this big drill
press before, but girls wages are low
Ell We girls got sped-up more and
more every day. The machines were
running day and night with the re-
suit that some broke down and the
workers were laid off for few weeks.
The department where I worked
later was equipped with big machines
which made lot Of noise The air
was heavy and dusty, hot and smoky.
This room had only q little daylight,
electric light illuminated it. The
space which we had for work wax
too small and the work very hot, 50
we burned our hands. Our wsrkins
time was ten hours a day. SIX days a
week, and we often worked on suns
days! M. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
CAL.F0TICE THUGS
BEAT Up WOVEN
Feb. rs Will See A
Battle In Oakland

Daily Worker:
Oakland cops are no exception to
the rule of cops in the capitalist
countries. Feb 10th, when the I'M
employed workers attempted to pa
rade and demand relief from the
city, we had a fine example of police
brutality. Several men were knocked
unconscious, many had cuts and
bruises, and even the women and
children were attacked
In one case young woman re-
marked upon seeing an unemployed
worker beaten up, What brutes the
police are" Not daring to strike
the woman in the presence of the
large crowd, one officer followed her
for block. where there were less
onlookers and then proved to her
that her statement was true by club
bling her across the head and striking
her in the eye. Another girl. about
IL years old. was brutally beaten
across the neck and shoulders.
The women of Oakland are not
afraid to attend demonstrations,
though. When told to move on, one
woman told the cop to go to he'll
and she remained on the corner, tell
ing the crowd of the clubbing of
starving workers when they attempt
ed to demand relief. AS there was a
large crowd around her, and the
people were shielding the woman, the
officer dared not interfere.
Feb 25th will see a battle in Oak
land. The workers will not stand
idly by and starve and neither will
they stand idly by and let a bunch
of yellow cops beat them up. On
Feb 25th the workers will show the
cops how to fight.
Woman Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
CHARITY CRUMBS
IN ROCKFORD, I'LL,
} Demonstrate On
February 18th

Daily Worker: Rockford, III.
Some workers that hare been out
of work for years. and for q long
time have been depending on the
crumbs Of charity the Public Wei
fare gives out. were sent ont to de
road work last week. The job is
fixing NJ a road in Kisbwaukee
Forest Preserve. s beurs q day and
days week and 10 cents an heur.
Twenty cents day do the city or
county charge every worker for
transportation. Nine dollars a week
are all those workers get.
One of those workers, who has a
big family, was told that he would
not get any more groceries from
the Public Welfare, because now
when he had job they expected
him to take care of himself and
his family. He told them that he
and the children needed some
clothing. The answer he got was
a sneer. Those workers will or
game and fight for real cash re-
lief.
Feb. rs the demonstration in
Rockford will start at l. O. G. T.
Hall, lois Third Ave, near Seventh
St. at l p. m. and from there we
will march to City Hall. &c. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Negro Woman, so, ~
VIII Aid Fight to Set
All Workers Free

(From the Southern Worker.")
Charlotte, n. c.
am Negro working woman
who has done all kinds of work,
even pick sweeps i'm a cotton mill,
where we had to pick all the white
cotton out OF the Er. and Snit, But
when times got so hard tho boss
told me I would have to hunt me
job.
walked from house to house.
begging for something to do. and
could not even find washing or
scrubbing.
When heard OF the Trade Union
Unity League went to two meet
ings and heard the speakers and
saw what they were trying to do.
/ joined up.
! am so years old and hope 10
live TO see my people free and the
poor white people also.
NEGRO WORKING WOMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
TROY ORGANIZERS
ARRESTED AGAIN
But Continue to Or
ganize Workers
Troy, N. Y.

Hwy, IN. T.
Editor Daily Worker;
) The bosses of Growing and King
clothing. factory of Troy, called the
police when Comrades j. Gladstone
and M. Mones distributed leaflets
near the factory calling the workers
to a mass protest against the in
junction the N and S shirt factory
got out restraining the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union from speak
Ing and distributing leaflets.
The police came rushing and ar
rested these comrades. When brought
before police court Judge Byron. he
acognized Gladstone, whom he SEN
enced to two days Jail few weeks
lgo for distributing leaflets and after
real fight on the part of the COM
AIDES, he was compelled to let them
rec. Gladstone and Names told the
Judge that they are determined to
AIRY on the work.
MN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
JOBLESS GET BUT
IS PC. COLLECTED
z. r. Machinist Shows
Up Charity Racket
Chicago, Ill.

SEllCdSO, Ill.
Daily Worker:
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has issued a plan which was sent to
the affiliated unions for approval
This plan is in line with Governor
Emmerson'S Relief Committee, which
has very little sympathy with the
unemployed workers. This was proven
by the fact that the unemployed get
only about IS per cent out Of the
funds collected. This is the same
fake plan that the Oh. and N. w.
Shop Council recommends for APP
prevail by the local union.
Is that not a real example of fax
cry? The Chicago Federation en-
dorses the bosses fake schemes to
fool the workers into accepting STAR
yation and misery, and that our Off
Gals try to force it down our threats.
Let's smash these takers!
Northwestern Machinist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
WORKED 20 YEARS.
TAKES SICK, CO..
TRIES TO GYP HIM.
Another Worker Now
Sees the Light
Naugatuck, Conn.

Naugatuck, Conn.
Dear Editor:
At tone time a rubber worker I
happened to drop into the old town
to see how things we're. met work
ers that are down to their last cent
of savings and are worrying about
how they are going to live.
One case was very interesting be-
cause this worker was so stubborn
when I used to give him a Daily he
was very indignant at the idea that
/ was trying to make a Communist
out of him. Well, this same worker
heard that l was in town and sent
for me, I went over to see him and
this time it was a different way that
he welcomed me-
The Workers Story.
He told me that he now realizes
the facts that I had told him. /
asked him what changed his mind.
So this is what he told me:
II have been working for the U. S.
Rubber for 20 years and in one more
year would have been getting nv
pension.
Il have worked on this job for the
last ten years and it was a dangerous
one, as you know They had hard
time getting anyone to work there
after the last accident, where a
worker was killed and another Grip
pied for life.
Il finally took the job and have
been working in smoke and grit for
TIE last ten years and it finally got
the best of me. I have been sick
now for six weeks and the doctor
told me that there wasn't much
hope of my recovery.
81 have been trying to get COM
pensatiOn and this is what they
tell me: You never got that here
in this plant, you got it somewhere
else They are trying to cteaI
what I'm depending on to feed my
family and they are trying to tell
me to accept my pension ahead of
time.
so you see, big boy, that is why
now that believe in what you told
me is correct. I wish you luck and
hope you will drive home to others
what You drove home to me, only
much sooner A. d,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
BELLINGHAM, Wash.-Tbe Bio
dell Donovan company re-opened
one mill out of the three saw-mills
that this company owns. They
opened up on the stagger system.
They are working two five-hour
shifts, employing about five hun
dred men. Formerly. the wages
were four-twenty for eight hours.
The workers are now receiving one
dollars and rs cents for five hours
work.
This simply means that the
workers here are not only unable
to pay up their back grocery bills,
but are also unable TO pay this
years taxes on their hobes that
they bought on the installment
Plan. These homes were built from
lumber crt in Tellinshsm mills.
The city officials voted them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
N. W. Lumber Workers Staggered As
Debts Pile Up and Evictions Grow

selves recently an increase Of SAL
airy. Therefore, the city tax as
sessments are still going upwards.
Some Of the workers tax pagers
are taking steps to refuse to pay
their taxes.
The only effective way in which
the workers here will be able to
fight against tax payments, evic-
tions, turning off Of water, light
and gas, wage cuts and Hoover's
"stagger system" is 70 organize
into the neighborhood unemploy-
ment councils affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League.
There is already one real live
Unemployed Council functions in
BeIlingham, and several others are
being formed. All informat ton In
regards to organizing unemployed
councils can be reached at 1871 State
stree. Bcllinglam. Wash, Or Box
No. 37I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Wilmington Bosses.
Hit Foreign Born
Part of Drive On All
Delaware Bosses
{By a Worker Correspondent,

IBy a Worker Correspondent
WILMINGTON, Del-A bill was
introduced at the State House (cap-
itoD of Delaware, at Dover by Sen
ato" Downs. in which is provided
fine of $1,000 and imprisonment of
six months for violation.
The bill stipulates that in the con-
sta uction of the State Public Works
on public works of any political sub
division of the State of Delaware.
all mechanics. workmen or laborers
employed thereon, must be natural
lied citizens of the United States.
Further. that preference be given
to citizens Of the State of Delaware.
And also, if workers who do not
happen to be citizens are used in this
kind of work the contract is declared
null and void.
All contracts awarded must contain
clauses to the above effect, and all
contractors must file names and ad-
dresses of all workers, certifying that
all workers are citizens of the State.
r.. E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Layoffs and Wage
Cuts In Norti, Dakota
Day Worker:

De-. Worker: Fargo, n. ID.
A few words 2bost North Dakota
conditions. cspecislly around Fargo.
The grain elevator at West Fargo
burned down recently and is being
rebuilt at once. Common labor is
paid 80 cents an hour, II you arc
lucky enough to be hired. Nine
hours a day with only 80 minutes
for dinner.
The workers are badly speeded
up.
At Armour's packing plant work
ing conditions, never good, are as
bad as ever, with lots Of lay offs re-
Gently and 37,a cents an hour base
pay. No signs Of any union among
the workers. Armour is terribly
afraid Of organization and any man
in the least militant is blackiisted
and can never work in his plants
again. w, S,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

in Europe, with an output Of 100000
autocars per year.
The first corner stone of the Sow
let Ford plant was laid May 1, 1880,
and during the months of work al
ready the main buildings of the plant
are already erected and rooted. The
plant will be completed in August,
1881.
American Workers Help.
Fifteen thousand workers are en-
gagged on this construction work.
Many American, German and Chi
nese and workers Of other nationali-
ties are working with us.
Two groups of American workers,
together with their families. organ
tied the commune Cement" and do
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
BREADLINES IN
COLORADO Mine
REGION GROWING
Starvation In the Mine
Fields
Brodhead, Colo.

To the Daily Worker Editor:
Sometime I get disguised when I
read of the brutal treatment that the
workers take at the hands of the
police and then back out without
resistance. How long are the work
ers going to be satisfied with back
ing out
Down to Starvation
The bosses have the workers down
to starvation wages. They have quit
paying anything for dead work. Pick
coal is 80 cents ton but they make
you load two ton cars and give the
miner from as low as % up to Is a
hundred and the average turn in the
mines is about 8 cars per day per
man and from one to four days a
week. So you can see we have slow
starvation.
In this part Of Colorado the miners
are not organized.
The breadline in Trinidad is
growing steadily. There is a rumor
going around that the company is
going to lay off all single men and
- also all that don't trade in the
company store so we are expecting
= to see things getting worse here.
--J. n.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Entire KY. Family
Dies of Starvation
Banker Evicts Work
ers In Grayson, KY.

Grayson, KY.
Editor Daily Worker:
The conditions at Graysons grow
worse. AS I wrote before the COM
mercial bank has mortgages on farms
and refuses to lend any more. Old
Wicker, the bank president, is drunk
every night and has ruined seven
girls in this town who worked in his
bank.
He has evicted 20 families from
their homes this winter. So many
people are now living on bread and
water. One family of five he evicted
from their home died from starvation
1.-The doctor announced at the fun
erai. Lack Of nutritious food had
caused their death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
$3.50 WAGE FOR PHILA.
MATTRESSES

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. adyan-
tage of the unemployment situation
the bosses of many restaurants in
Philadelphia are paying girls as low
as $3.50 per week and tips, II they
can get them.
Eight dollars is now considered
good weeks wages in the average
Philadelphia restaurant. Night work
consists of ten hours nightly and the
highest wages paid per week for this
work Is $40 per week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

Canton, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
Starvation is still on the increase
here in Canton, but the city bosses
have found a way out. They say
we will give the kids in school free
lunches, but--here is the PROPOSE
ton in the Sunday Repository:
school children to receive milk
and crackers daily. Children's Mis-
sion acts TO relieve suffering from
lack Of food" They are supposed
to distribute I'm % schools out Of
IS in Canton . half pint Of milk
and two graham crackers once a
day.
But there seems to be a little
graft connected with this, for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

A Danville Woman
Striker Tells How
the UTW knitted 'em

Danville, Va.
We have lost our strike, waiting
for the Red Cross to give us .
can of soup. And whose fault Is
it? Not the workers, for We are
still 1000 strong. We are willing
to go without food and clothing
to win our rights.
But German says we must not
fight. for they will put yea In jail.
What IL they did? Wen, none Of
our leaders got in Jail.
-Danville Woman Striker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Con1rade:-

Phllaoelpnla, Ia.
Dear Comrade:--
Conditions are terrible in Philadel-
phia. Over 100000 out of work and
more getting laid off all the time
The workers are committing suicide
here every day because they don't
understand what it is all about; why
they are starving in the midst of
plenty" and also going pretty near
naked altho the warehouses are full
Of clothes
The bosses here intend to murder
the workers by starvation If they do
not organize and fight. The prosti-
tute newspapers here are trying to
poison the workers minds about
Russia. The bosses will make war on
Russia soon If they can get away with
1t.
I see workers eating out Of slop
cans. etc. Ten pages of sheriff sales
in today's capitalist press here.
Thousands of war veterans are liv-
ing in hell here. This munition state
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
st Is Terrible Here, Writes Denver Jobless

marched on the capitol 5000 strong.
am speaking TO soldiers and
sailors and National Guards for
your little salary that Is just hold
ing you, and you are liable TO be
discharged, don't ever fight the
Communist Party for If you do you
know you are fighting your poor
fathers and mothers and brothers.
1t will be only question Of time
till you are out and down as the
war vets. j. Men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

their best OF give their knowledge to
us Russian workers and thus acceler-
ate the tempo of the construction
work.
Dear comrades, we send you this
letter and hope to start regular
correspondence with you and wish
you to write us about your life and
work in the capitalist countries.
Let us unite for our mutual tasks
to struggle against capitalism and
for the Proletarian Revolution all
over the world.
"A. Sukhanov,
"A. Jakavleff.
--Golizin,
-Suikanen american worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

about 900 workers in the breadline.
The table we sat down to eat off was
set up with rusty old tin pie plates
soaking wet just as they came out
of the dirty dish water.
oh, it is strange how they live on
the slumgullion that they give in the
boarding house run by Spokane. You
can't sleep at night with the vermin.
How they bite.
0ffal for Food.
For supper we had hash made out
of the offals of the slaughterhouse-
hogs liver, kidneys fat and scraps
Of meat, etc. The cook knows his
business. The hash was half raw
and not seasoned. Had it been brown
and baked it would not have tasted
so bad. I was awful hungry. The
proof of the pudding is in the eating.
1t was the dearest meal ever ate.
1t came nearly costing me that night
my life, I suffered in agony and
pain from the effects of the food.
Never again will I be guest at
the Hotel DeGink.
A Terrible Place.
7 met friend recently. He looks
poor and nearly half starved. He
said he was living at the Hotel De-
Gink for the past three weeks and
had lost 20 pounds OF weight. Re-
Gently man was found dead there
in his bed.
Reader, I will venture to say it is
a safe bet to make A worker who
has not the appetite, digestion and
CUTS of hog will not live over 80
days on the food given at the Hotel
DeGink without dying.
Think of 1t. Commissioner DR..
Hendricks boasting of the wonderful
management and economy prevailing
there that meals are served at a cost
OF cents.
This is my true experience for one
day at the Hotel DeGink. -H.P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN
MARYLAND

BALTIMORE, Md.--Employment In
ryland manufacturing industries
reased Al per cent from Decem-
F.. 1890, to January, 1881, and pay
decreased 50 per cent. accord
70 j. K1o@ Insley, Commissioner
Labor and Statistics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Jamestown, ny, Hit
BY Unemployment
Children Lack Food;
Wages Cut
jamestown, N. Y.

JdiliCoJOWll, IN. -
The iaboring class In jamestown,
! in all other cities, are suffering
ON lay-offs, wage-cuts of from 10
, 20 per cent and working only 2 to
days per week and several plants
Re shut down entirely.
The bosses are cutting wages and
wing off poor, starving men and
cmen and causing the suffering of
nocent little children. I am giving
III the names of some of the main
ctories who are guilty:
The Art Metal. the jamestown
mel, the Empire Worsted Mills,
atson Mfg. Co., Metal Desk Co..
irney Ball Bearings. Weber and
lapp, Robson Fur Co.
Unemployed Council
Of jamestown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
MICH. yoBLEss ORGANIZE

LINCOLN PARK. Mich.-I'm a
new recruit to the only workers
Party. the Communist Party. We or
ganized an Unemployed Council,
Comrade Reynolds and Council
marched to city hall and demanded
the city council to endorse our in
surance bill and send telegram to
Hooey Hoover. They sent their en-
dorsement. The council chamber was
packed with workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
starvation Is Still On the Increase Here
In Canton
In Canton

mission Is supposed to donate this
milk, but the teachers ask the kids
in school to buy tickets and in most
Of the schools only few really get
this great relief.
I know, for my kids go to one
OF the schools and they don't get
milk or crackers. They would if
they paid the teacher a little graft
or IL they were some boss's child.
w. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21

Denver, Col.
Fellow Workers.
am dropping you a few lines,
I have lived or stayed in Denver
for : years. II is terrible here. We
have around $4,000 men out of work
and l would say 10000 women want
work. Thousands of children on
the verge Of starving.
We have an excellent council
Unemployed CouneiI here, good
speakers. The other day we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Thousands of War Veterans Living In
He'll Here

never gave them dime. Many work.
ers have been hiding out of sight as
they are ashamed to be seen in their
miserable plight. But they are ready
1ow to follow the Communist Party
into struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-21
Rotary Degenerates Waste Eggs AS Job!ess
Starye

challenge the service club in other
towns.
If in no other way find something
harder than eggs to fight with. How
much longer will we allow our chill
dren and ourselves to go hungry and
helf clothed while parasites amuse
themselves by throwing eggs at each
other. Workers organize and fight
for your rights. M. E.