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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
Greetings from
French Worker
Correspondents

Paris, July 1.
Workers Correspondents Con-
ference, New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
The French workers correspond
ents are greeting you on the occa-
sion of your greater New York City
Conference and we wish that this
conference will lay the basis for a
strong organized movement of Amer
can workers correspondents.
The French bourgeoisie has once
more let loose it's press, judges, po-
lice and stool pigeons against our
Rabcor movement (worker CORE
spondents) in an attempt to crush
it. The old cry of spying was raised
again, and seven comrades, amongst
them our Comrade Philip, respon-
sible leader of the French Rabcors,
were arrested and charged with SPY
ing and plotting against the Father
land!
The fury of the left government is
that our movement, which is planted
inside the factories, exposes every
day the war preparations against the
Soviet Union. This new attack,
which is directly launched against
our paper "LHumanite" will not
succeed in Gripping our movement,
but ON the contrary, we will expose
ever more the war preparations Of
French Imperialism and continue our
exposurec of the miserable conditions
of the French working class.
The worker correspondents move
ment is of the utmost importance
for all our Party press. 1t is the clos
est contact of the Party and Party
press with the masses inside the
shops. There can be no serious Party
paper without well organized move
ment of worker correspondents.
The duty of a worker correspond
ent is not mainly the sending of in
formation to his. paper, but he must
also be an organizer amongst his
fellow workers.
A we'll organized movement OF
workers correspondents means bet
ter paper, increase of the papers cir
culation-and an army from which
we recruit the best proletarian writ
ers for the editorial staff of our
Party press.
We wish you success and we are
convinced that you will succeed in
this important task.
For the French Rabcors,
L. M.
Editor Of LHumanite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
FARMER ANSWERS FORD

MIR. Ford expect poor family from
the industrial centers to 60 out and
make enough in one corner to live
on? And where is this family to get
material to build house to have
protection from the bitter cold, and
who is to feed that family while it
produces food for next winter? Yes.
and where is the family TO live while
the father works ON the corner OF the
field? Yes, and what is the family
to work with while 1t produces
enough to keep it from want next
winter?
Il live on a farm, and while I feel
kindly toward the workers in the
industrial center, I should hate to
have a family of such, move onto
corner of my field. Honestly, Mr..
Ford, that family would starve to
death. All could furnish that FAM
lily to work with would be knife
and fork, for our old cultivater Is all
run down, and with cream at eight
cents pound and eggs hve cents
dozen, don't know when we can
buy a new cultivater. You see, II
those industrial workers could stay
where they are and make cars and
cultivaters. they ought to be able to
buy our cream and eggs at good
price. They know more about maxi
ing cars and cultiyaters than they do
about making living cultivating
land with knife and fork.
1--WE don't need to go out farming
with crooked sticks and knives ana
forks. Our system is broken down.
Or rather your system is broken, for
! have very little ownership in this
business saS6s'n. Yours,
--"P. A, OLIVER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16

AKINS, Okla. July 1S<-A sharp
and searching attacking on Henry
Ford's widely heralded back to the
land" scheme is made by a farmer
in letter sent to the Oklahoma
Farmer" local paper Part of the
letter is reproduced below;
"I was certainly disappointed in
Henry Ford's article on Self Help,
I am surprised that you published it.
He belongs back in the Dark Ages,
so far as mental progress is con-
cerned. Every suggestion he makes
is puerile Why should men be
forced out into the corner Of some
mans field to cultivate a patch Of
land with knife and fork? We are
living in the machine age. Commodi-
ties can be produced by machinery
too cheaply for any such plans as
Ford suggests. This world should
not be considered the private prop
erty of few lords, as Henry Ford
thinks it is. If you read carefully
between the lines, you can see a
deeper meaning in what Henry Ford
says.
Ono unemployment insurance can
be compared to an alliance between
man and patch of land Bosh.
People are not going back to cul-
tivating plot of land, as they did
under Feudalism. The whole page
is shot full of holes with such nom
sense.
There are farmers who would be
glad to give decent INDECENT fam
lily a corner of field on which TO
live and provide against next win
ter Ye gods! If that farmer with
the entire field cannot make a liv-
ing, how in the kingdom come doe'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
Red Gross Flour
Is the Only Pay at
Fork Ridge Mines
Operators Give No Wages in Forced Labor
Scheme
IN Thugs Terrorize Town to Put Plan Over

to the workers in order to keep the
mines still running. The men that
live in Reliance and Mingo camp
have to walk to Middlesboro, KY, and
get their own sack of flour, but the
men in Fork Ridge camp get their
free flour at Kork Ridges office.
Fork Ridge is planning to put up
a sub Red Cross station in their Of
flee, and run their mines altogether
on Red Cross groceries. They are
giving out late potatoes, sweet potato
plants, tomato plants and few other
seeds now.
Gun Thugs
This company has got two hired
gun thugs and about 10 sub deputies.
The deputies led by the gun thugs
go around and terrorize citizens.
When they are on a road they all
carry high power rifles, pistols, and
sawed-off shotguns and breastplates
from their toes to their eyes.
The Sterling Coal and Coke Co,
after running wage cuts and stealing
coal at the scales, finally shut down.
They ran their mines on Red Cross
charities for the last few weeks.
The company hauls water to drink
from Midlesboro, while they force
water in the camp from an old mine
named Clondyke for the workers to
drink, but the officials of the com.
pany say the water is not fit to put
in the radiator of their car, but coal
diggers can drink anything.
Bryson, Tenn, has not got any gun
thugs. But they have got old Solo,
mon Marsee, sky pilot. He acts az
gun thug, stool pigeon, coal operators
tool, and any other fake work against
the workers. Solomon is right on the
spot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16

walls, carvings made out of ply wood,
trains with children, children's dem
onstrations.
Music and Drawing.
For children of school age there is
a special room. Here the children
receive instruction in music and
drawing and carry on conversations
with the instructors. They are also
taken out for hikes and outdoor
games. After dinner, from l to 8,
the children lie down on folding beds
to srest.
These mother and child" rooms
are a great relief for the parents.
Their children are well taken care
of and they do not have to worry
about their little ones when they
have to go away. There is shower
bath for the children, q place to
wash diaers, an electric drier, and
electric iron. The children can get
haircuts at very low prices, 20
kopecks. Children whose parents do
not earn much get haircuts and also
dinner free of charge. The price of
dinner consisting of two dishes is
not more than 20 to 40 kopecks.
If for any reason travellers are de-
tanned for few days they are pro-
vided with a comfortable place to
sleep in these rooms. All these SER
vices they get free of charge. We
get train tickets promptly.
Working women of the capitalist
countries, please, write to us about
your life. How are the working
mothers and children of workers
taken care of in your countries by the
state? Do you have special chill
dren's rooms at your railroad sta
tons, and who makes use of them?
Write to the following address;
Moscow, Tverskaya 48, Room is.
The letters will be forwarded to us
when we come to our destinations
Kosenko-peasant woman from
Ukrainia going to Samara; Scheg-
lova-wife of a worker--from Voro-
nezh to Jaroslavl; Khominskaya--
wife of worker-from Crimea to
Semipalatinsk; Kotova-wife of an
employee of the Kursk- Railroad sta
tion-to IrkutSk; Gooseva--a work.
er's wife--from Kerch to Kostroma;
Parizhiva, workers wife-from
vozlligi to Moscow; Kosinetz--wife OF
an employee--from Ukraine to the
Far East, and others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
To the Working Women
of Capitalist Countries

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.-We working
women of the Soviet Union want to
tell you how we were greeted on our
arrival to Moscow.
We stopped at the Northern Rail-
way station in Moscow on our way
from different cities to different
points in the U.S.SR. Here we
found out that for passengers travel
ing with children and going to far
destinations there are special rest
rooms. Here the children were ex-
amined by a nurse and doctor.
The mothers with nursing babies
went to the nursery. The nursery
room is large and light, with cribs
for infants. At the windows are
flowers.
The children of pre-school age
were taken to another room, where
there are attractive looking and
strong small tables and chairs, all
kinds of toys and a piano. On the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
Unemployed Council
Movement Grows in
Anthracite Mine Area
Repel Police Attempts to Break Up De-
monstration
80 Workers Join at Single Meeting in
Archibald, Penna.

Gil and pledged to come to the next
meeting, where the workers will Or
gani5e various committees.
The two speakers, Sacco and
Daugher explained why the biggest
majority of them will never go back
to work because of the speed-up and
the labor-saving devices that the coal
companies are installing.
The local police did not attempt to
break the meeting because of the
mass of workers present.
Many part time workers reported
that the company was holding back
money coming to them.
The workers agreed with the speak
ers when they exposed the role of
Maloney and Schuster, who misled
the miners. Especially in the two
major demands endorsed by Mayoney
and the fake General Body by assess
ing parttime workers and equaliza-
ton of working time.
Councils Organized.
In the anthracite over 100000 mine
workers are unemployed permanently.
In the last three weeks several I'M
employed councils have been organ
lied.
The unemployed workers at the
meeting contributed $1.36 to arrange
mass meetings in the other towns
Eynon and Larksyille are scheduled
to form unemployed councils soon
and later affiliate with a county
executive council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
IRISH WORKERS
DENIED SUMMONS
AGAINST THUGS
No Warrants Against
Sluggers When
They're Cops
(By an Irish Worker

NEW YORK.-They were dubbed,
they were kicked, they were black
lacked, they were foully abused-but
still they cannot get a summons
against the policeman who led the
cowardly attack on them.
John Mutually, Hugh McKiernan,
John Rooney and Martin Moriarty,
of the Irish Workers Club, had re-
sisted an eviction in E. 147th St.,
Bronx. Arrested and beaten fero-
ciously, they were charged with dis
orderly conduct. Next day, Magis-
trate Harris, publicly regretting that
Policeman Kane had not broken his
nightstick over every one of their
heads, obligingly raised the charge
t ofelonious assault. Countercharges
against the police? Impossiblel
Released on $1,000 bail, the four
workers again demanded a summons
when their case was heard by Magis-
trate Mckinney. "Take that up
Wednesday" the magistrate said
"the case is adjourned till then"
wen Consider"
And on Wednesday he said "We'll
consider the request on Friday"
(The prosecution had asked for post
ponement.)
Meanwhile the four defendants
were secretly indicted by grand jury
and were served with bench warrants
just as their case was called. Still
they pressed for charges, through Al
Ian Taub, attorney for the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. ooh, no, nor
Magistrate Mckinney smiled archly.
The whole matters out of my
hands. Go to the District Attorney"
What complaint can the men
have?" Assistant District Attorney
Sylvester Ryan wanted to know
What complaint can they have?" he
asked Indignantly. eff the men are
innocent they will be tried by jury
what complaint can they have?"
Another, Different Court.
And yesterday they were told: Go
back to the magistrates court.
Smilingly the district attorneys wo-
man assistant assured them Of full
cooperation"
Their ribs still ache, the welts still
show blue on their bodies-but they
cannot get summons. They were
only workers, fighting the brutal
wrecking of an unemployed workers
home. But, in mass demonstrations
throughout the Bronx they will carry
their case before the courts of the
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
An Ex~Soldier
Collects
tBy a Worker Correspondent

I met them on the road up in New
Hampshire. They we're just returning
from futile job-hunting tour of
northern New England. They told
me, among other matters, the story
of an ex-serviceman.
On June 9th this ex-soldier had
landed in Bellows Falls, VT, dirty and
exhausted. His feet were blistered,
but he had to go on, since the town
did not want to keep persons in
his condition. He liInped into small
store and asked for pair of socks.
The owner refused. This ex-Soldier
insisted. He could not walk other
wise. The owner became frightened
and ran out of the store to call cop.
The ex-soldier took a couple of pairs
of socks and walked out of the store.
Two days later he was in Lebanon,
N. H. He asked a housewife for food.
FRIGHTENED by the reports of "des-
perado'' Of similar description who
was said by the police to be abroad,
she called the police. Six of them
came, and bounced upon this one
man. They beat him into insensi-
bility and threw him into a cell at
the Jail.
In saving the world for democracy,
this man had been shell-shocked. The
effect of the beating was such that
when he regained consciousness, he
slit his wrists. Why live in the face
Of such brutal slavery?
The cops discovered his plight i'm
mediately, and called a doctor. When
the latter had come, all gathered at
the door Of the cell to rush this one
man. He waved his bloody hands
and moved them. The shower of
blood was too much for these brave
cops. They did not dare to enter.
The doctor, however, was diplo-
mat. He pleaded with the soldier to
come out. He was a friend. They
would not touch him. The ex-sol-
der finally took him at his word.
No sooner had he come out of the
cell, however, than these officers OF
the law jumped upon him again. They
forced him into a straight jacket,
and then the doctor gave him an
aneSthetic.
After the sewing job had been COM
pleted, handouts were clapped onto
the victims wrists, and shackles to
his feet, in addition to the straight
jacket. He was rushed to the State
Hospital at Concord. Here they dis
covered that he was an ex-serviceman
and that he had been shell-shocked.
They became heightened and tried
to shut him up. He refused. In
order to quiet the case he was rushed
into the State Insane Asylum.
Another ex-soldier had collected on
the promise Of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
AWAKENING OF
PHOTO WORKERS
Strike Marks First
Organization Step
By II. r.

By IL. X.
The recent strike of the 80 photo
graphic workers Of the Kaiden-K az-
anjiau studio, 724 Fifth Avenue
marked the awakening of the pho.
tographic worker.
The struggle Of the Kaiden-Kaz-
anjiau workers death a deathblow
to the old conception that the pho
tographic worker is an "artist." hav-
ing nothing in common with the
working class.
Three Wage Cuts.
TIL e Kaiden- Kazanjiau workers
were subjected to three wage cuts in
a few months. The final cut, robbing
an additional $50 from the already
meager earnings, brought about the
strike. Wages Of most of the work
ers were cut to $18 and $40 week
There was no alternative. They
struck, from the operators. printers
retouchers down to errand boys Pro-
duction was tied up completely. The
strike lasted a week.
Why was the strike lost?
First, it must be pointed out that
the Photographic worker on the
whole does not yet realize the i'm
portance of organization All at
tenpts to organize the trade in the
past resulted in failure.
The Photographic Workers League,
organized a little more than a year
ago, is doing all it can to organize
the trade, but it is as yet small and
ineffective. OF all the strikers, only
three are members of the League.
Strikers Isolated.
Under the cry, eve want no out
siders," some of the strikers, especial
ly the most skilled, were instrument
tai in isolating the League from the
strike This was the first blow at the
success of the strike. The other fac
tors that promoted the loss of the
strike were looseness on the ques-
tons of check-up, picketing and dis
ciphne.
Awakening.
The League, however, saw to it that
the strikers returned to work in an
organized fashion. AS a result, the
workers are treated better by the
boss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
Vet With 7 Children
Is Refused Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent


ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 81 am
World War Veteran, but I have not
been working for a long time, and I
have no bread, no clothes. There are
seven members in my family, and all
under age.
The War Relief Agency used to
give me IS weekly for groceries for
about a year and seven months; but
on May 10, 1882, this allowance was
discontinued. The social worker who
came to investigate cher name is
Mrs. Burns positively refused to give
me any help. Then few weeks ago
1 went to Commissioner McSweeney
in order to receive help from his de-
partnent. He told me that he had
nothing to do with the War Relief
Agency.
In 1917 was sent to France and I
served in the Saith Regiment In
fantry. There I broke my leg. I did
not fight for myself but for the rich
people of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
STANDARD OIL Z
HIRES SOLDIERS
Forces Workers to
War on Arabs
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy VVihCE corresponding
NEW YORK.-A few days ago
answered an advertisement for wead-
ers to work in the Far East. I ap-
piled at the address given, 26 Broad
way, where I met a Mr.. Cox, who
represented the Standard Oil Co. and
who was recruiting men to work in
Iraq for the Near East Development
Co. I was given QUESTIONABLE to
fill out which asked, among many
other things, for full details as to
military experience.
A short time ago received a letter
from brother member of my union
who wrote me from Iraq that after
going out to work as a welder on the
oil concession of the Near East De-
velopment Co. he found himself COM
PEELED by the company to take part
in military expeditions against the
Arab natives.
And in connection with this, the
readers Of the Daily Worker might
be interested in the following news
items that appeared in the World
Telegram recently:
British bombing machines have
been dispatched from the Croydon
Airdrome. London, carrying $50
troops, who will be supplied with ma
chine guns to put down reprisals of
the rebels (Arab) at Iraq.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
D0ak's Thugs Try to
Stop New Orleans
Literature Agent
tBy a Worker Correspondent

NEW ORLEANS, July IS. A
squad of immigration officers has
been put on the job here to curb
the activities of the reds.
The Section Literature agent of
New Orleans was trailed the other
day by immigration officers and then
third-degreed and warned that I'M
less he stops selling the red papers
he viii be thrown in Jail. This liter
allure agent is a militant native-bo
worker.
He is now selling so Daily Work
ers every day and so Liberators
every week, and we may expect an
increase in Daily Worker bundle or
ders soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
FACTS WANTED ON
WAR PREPARATIONS

Worker correspondents during the past
sending the struggles of the
country and of the increasing misery by
There the
neglected however
More Stories comrades about cuts speed strikes
played by labor miseaders etc.
AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, WE MUST HAVE STORIES
ABOUT THE BOSSES PREPARATIONS. had hardly
anything that from worker
Especially it important since the worker
to make the August anwar which
issued, smashing blow against plots.
Send facts at the following phases
l. Propaganda and conspiracies against the
shipping,
plies
Activities the pacis liberals socialists
misleaders in helping the put the
WOrkingcass preparations the
monstratons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
Wage-Cuts, Lay-Offs
at Atlas Underwear
tBy . Worker Correspondenr)

RICHMOND, Ind, July Is. = The
Atlas Underwear Co. plant of this
city has let of all girls but one on
each operation, and gives the others
no assurance as to when they will
be ready to resume even the little
work they had been getting. At the
time I worked there (sone years
ago. the speed-up was almost un-
bearable, and all the operators since
then have received at least six cuts.
All the girls are employed at piece
work, with serious deductions for
spoiled work. One worker says she
drew IS for the last full week Of
work, and has $3.50 coming for the
part Of this week that she worked.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
THREE TO BE DEPORTED FROM
CANADA

MONTREAL, Canada. - Infor1na-
ton received here points out that
three workers now being held at
Amos are to be exported.
These workers were arrested as a
result of the May Day demonstration
in Rouyn. They are gAnselm Lukkila,
Nula So,lnon, Veikla Heikkila.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
(By a Worker Correspondent

ARCHIBALD, Pa, July 15.-Over
500 workers who were formerly en-
ployed in the various collieries lis
tened to speakers who spoke about
the necessity for unemployed work
ers to organize into the unemployed
councils and demand relief from the
local relief organizations. Over 80
workers joined the unemployed coun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
N. Y. OIL FIELD SHUT DOWN

BOLIVAR, N. Y.-The Tidewater
Oil Co. has notified the small we'll
owners here that it will buy no more
oil from them. 1t will cause num-
Der of oil workers to be added to the
army Of unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
AUTO. PRODUCTION DECLINES
a. PER CENT

During the first half of 1892,
912,353 units of passenger cars and
trucks in the U. S. Canada we're pro-
duced as compared with 1,639,o27 in
the first six months year ago. This
is a decline of Al per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
EDUCATION NOT FOR WORKERS

MADISON, Wis, July 13-Educa-
ton is not for workers. Unless you
have enough money to live year,
don't come to the University of Wis
consin, warns Alice v. King, super
intendent of the student employment
office. There aren't any jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
CBy a Worker Correspondentl

FORK RIDGE, Tenn, July Is
Fork Ridge mines have been cutting
wages until they have got the mines
cut down to ore and two days a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
THE CHILDREN MARCH

them, in union with all the oppressed
and toiling peoples OF the earth.
The fourth winter Of the crisis will
bring the workers to higher form