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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Bosses Hail prosperity;
Pay Workers 9Oc Per Day

not get back on the unemployed list.
THAT is the rule" we were told. So
we went in to work since we really
had no choice.
We learned that six men had quit
work in the morning. After working
one week of days, hours a day,
they had received 81 for 80 hours of
work. at first we were not going to
work, but since we were all expert
enced buffers, we decided to try. Well,
one man, after finding that he had
earned six cents for one hours work,
quit right then.
After talking 1t over, the rest of
us decided to work until the evening.
At quitting time we each earned as
follows: first man, 80 cents, second
man, 40 cents; third man, so cents;
and I earned IA cents for 4 hours
work. Three Of us are married and
have children.
Another man and I went to the
super and told him we could not work
for this. He advised US to try again
for the next day on day basis at
IS cents an hour. He agreed to give
us the 40 cents an hour which we
demanded; but later we learned that
his word was not reliable because
the other men quit when he failed
to give them day work which he
promised. will try to stick it out
because see great opportunity here
for organization work and I am go
ing to try to form a nucleus and is
sue shop paper.
I am going to try to have shop gate
meetings. There are 800 employed,
which is about one-third of the reg
ular force. There are about 200 youth
and 100 adult workers. The largest
pay in the factory is SIS and very
few get that. I will send you results
of the activities that we carry on.
The fight against starvation wages
will be carried on in this factory, be-
lieve mel
Dole Cut
Last week the city cut down on
the unemployment dole. Married men
with large families get two days work
at 50 a day and q. bag of groceries
worth $1.50. No more wood or coal
is given. Small families consisting
Of two children or less get one days
work and a bag Of groceries. Single
men, no more work" We have to pay
rent out OF these wages because the
city stops paying rent when they give
us work on the unemployed gang.
G. B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
School Children Are Building Their
Own Lives in the Soviet Union

are children of workers and partly
children Of peasants, kolkhosniks
collective farm members. Before
entering factory school, the chill
dren are examined by specialist phys
icians; they are measured, weighed,
given mental tests and then, accord
ing TO their condition Of health and
gfftednesS, sent to one or another
school connected with one or another
factory
Medical Care
The pupils are all the time under
observation and care Of physicians,
we have our own medical center.
Every year the pupils undergo a COM
plete medical and sutropometrical
examination.
Children not in perfect health are
sent to houses of rest for two weeks
or month; they are put on a diet
and sent to sanitariums. Last year
we sent to sanitariums and rest
homes 100 pupils. Besides work and
study the pupils are also engaged in
social activities. they learn to gov
ern their workers state. You see, in
the U.S.S.R. worker at the lathe
today is a director Of a factory to-
morrow. The pupils themselves build
their own life.
A. A. kabanova,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Moscow Teacher Tells
How Children Help
Build Socialism

then go to work in the factories.
While they attend school they get
paid: The first months, Is roubles
month, the next months 80 rou-
bles, then 38 and then IS roubles a
month.
Hour Day
After studying a year and half
the pupils became full-fledged work
ers and earn more according to their
ability, understanding and diligence.
The working day of the pupils is six
hours; after four days of work they
get one day of rest. The pupils work
in two shifts alternately. -Four days
from 1880 in the morning until 2:3o
in the afternoon; and four days from
three in the afternoon until $50 in
the eyening-they have a half an
hour for lunch and another ten min
utes intermission.
Besides regular rest days tho pupils
have five workers holidays together
with all the workers OF the Soviet
Union, and two months vacation with
full pay. The majority Of the pupils
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Moscow, U.s.s.R.

MOSCOW, U.S.S.H.
Dear Comrades:
I am Alexandra Andrianovna Ka-
banova. 1 am a teacher of math-
ematics in factory school In Mos
COW. We have about 300 pupils in
our school; the average age is 15h
years, the majority of them are girls
(85 per cent?. They enter our school
after graduating primary school, so
per cent of the school term is de-
voted to teoretical studies: % Rus
sian language; CD Mathematics; 80
Social science; a. Physics; 90
Chemistry; go Drawing; Cd Machine
structure; 90 Study of materials;
t9) Designs; (1o) Biology; I'D Mill
tary science; u2) Physical culture;
Q3) Organization of production (bet-
ter methods of production).
The other so per cent of the school
period is devoted to work. We have
our own small factory at the school
where we make mems and children's
mid-season coats. / wonder whether
you have clothing factories in your
city. The machines in our factory
are run by electric power.
Our clothing factories are special
lied; some produce womens dresses,
underwear, others padded mems coats,
still others padded womens coats, etc.
The youngsters study two years and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
LUMBER CRISIS
HITS NEW Low
LEVEL in ORE.
Signs on Mills Say
They Are Closed
for Summer
tBy a Worker Correspondent

10y d VtONACk SVkAGoPVhA0CbeSy
ABERDEEN, Wash, May 3o.--The
lumber industry is getting into a
deeper state of dissolution than 1t
was though possible for it to reach.
On Grays Harbor the industry not
operating to exceed to 8 per cent
of normal capacity. On Willapa
Harbor where the towns Of Raymond
and South Bend are located, the
shutdown is complete.
Mills Close.
1t is in the town of Raymond that
the Weyerheauser Timber Co. took
over all Of the mills some months
ago. 1t was said by many that now
the mills will operate continuously
but they were doomed to disapoint-
ment. The mills are now closed. A
sign was placed on the mill gates
telling workers that the mills would
close for the summer and that they
should go home put in their gardens
and get in their winters fuel.
AS write this, a news item is
showed under my eyes which says
that the West Coast Lumber Asso-
citation is to be nquidated. This
means that there will be a wild
scramble for the few crumbs Of or
ders that Is passed out. With this
will come further wage cuts for the
workers.
Further Decline Seen.
The owners OF lumber in fact all
men Of big business are mad at one
another. The accuse each other Of
unfair tactics, and this is true. 1t
was thought by many that the threat
of war would have some effect on the
lumber market, but lumber has
ceased to be the important factor in
war that it was in the last war. This
is caused by the fact that 1t is not
used so much in the building of air.
oplanes, ships, box material, etc.
With all of this confusion and the
lumber industry down to Is per cent
I would not be surprised to see 100
per cent of the mills shut down in
the next few weeks. Along with this
comes confusion in the giving out Of
relief agencies. All calling each other
crooks and each telling the truth in
this respect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Letter from Alabama
Was Eyeopener, Says
Worker from Capitol
Washington, ID. C

washington, ~. ~
Dear EditOr:--
When 1 picked up your paper Of
May 81 was surprised to learn
of the growth Of Communism In
the United States. The Leonard
Wright Letter from the little cross
roads town Of Notasulga, Alabama,
was an eye opener. II the letter
had come from a worker In q
largecityit would not have been SO
strange.
But how did Leonard Wright,
living in that speck town, ever
get in touch with the Daily Work
er i'll New York City? And where
did he learn of the Communist
Party and the struggle for equality
Of the colored people? You are
spreading some. How do you do
it? A Reader.
They read the Daily Worker.)
Ed. Note.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Call for Real Fight
Against Pay-Cut in
Pa. Metal Factory
(By = Worker Correspondent

tBy Worker Correspondent)
PITTSBURGH, Pa. The ALUMNI
mum Co. of America announced here
on May rs that they would cut the
wages of all the workers in the plant.
The bosses say that they are cutting
the wages as part Of the economy"
program which they say must be put
into effect.
Aluminium workers. Let us put a
stop to this vicious wage-cutting.
Let us organize into the Metal
Workers Industrial League, build
committees in the mill and strike
against the wage-cut. We workers
cannot stand to have our wages
forced down to starvation level.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
JUSTICE BOUGHT AND SOLD
AT THE RAYMOND ST. JAIL

rich no matter how ferocious GRIM
inal. A magistrate who will bluster
against Union picket or unemploy-
ed worker forgets his wrath against
the big criminal.
Negro workers who are usually poor
stay in Jail and get longest sentences,
because they cannot furnish high bail
and hire politicians to get them out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Baltimore War Plants
Working Full Speed
On War Materials

ore Imported from SPAIN raw phoS-
pilates and saltpetre. Very little if
any of the finisher products are sold
on the domestic market as the rail-
road sidingS are devoid of cars and
tanks and no trucks take loads out OF
the plant. On the docks, however,
it is different with barges loading nj
trates and acids for the Delaware
River where the Dupont Powder
Works are located and ships loading
the same materials for the Far East.
Ships Loaded With War Materials
Every ship sailing from this port
for the Far East in the past month
has loaded barbed wire, automobiles,
and unmarked large crates. The
Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Spar
rows Point although working only %
per cent Of capacity and employing
only about 5000 men in place of the
regular force of $1,000, is still pur-
chasing ore in large quantities to
ANoNtAAAS Ai'ooo PAOOllCIAO41 oO ally OllllS.
The finished product that is being
turned out at the Bethlehem Steel is
almost entirely reinforcing steel, ar
NOR plate and ignots.
1t is significant to note that al
though building construction is at the
lowest ebb in the history of the
United, that building material Of the
type that can be used for fortifica-
lions, trenches, gun bases, cts. is be-
ing turned out daily in the steel mills
and is exported to Japanese, Korean
and South Manchurian ports where
normal building for commercial pur-
poses is paralyzed due to war activ-
tiles.
The Bethlehem Steel is also train
ing a favored cadre of willing slaves
to ferret out the most militant work.
ers in the mill and in reward these
stool-pigeons are being given straw
boss and other favored jobs
British Ship Carries Pirates
Workers going to and from the
docks and having to pass through the
chemical works at Curtis Bay are no.
titled by the gate Waterman not to
enter any Of the buildings, loiter, or
speak to any of the workers in the
plant. The SIS. TTesillion flying the
English flag and discharging copper
pyrates, was dispatched to Spain to
load this cargo while at seat enroute
to Hamburg. This shows that emer-
gency orders required this material
and the Tressilion being closest to
the loading port was notified by wire
less to change her course which al
most certainly involved the paying of
a bonus for this cargo.
A daily struggle against imperialist
war is being carried on by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union whose del
egates visit ships daily with anti-war
leaflets and pamphlets in all Ian
guages and speak to the crews calling
upon them to aid in the prevention
of the transportation of war materials
and explaining to them the collabor-
alton of all capitalist nations in pre-
pairing war against the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Westbury, Conn.

Westbury, Conn.
Daily Worker Editor:
The following item appeared in the
Waterbury Democrat, a local paper:
1.-THE Depression is making way for
Prosperity as local factory calls for
Help! Good times will soon be here
again"
Being on the unemployed list, we
were told that this factory was look
ing for buffers and five of us were
sent to report for work there at 1890.
We thought it was rather odd for a
shop to want men but we decided
to give it try. What did we find
there? When we reported to the
super" of the Mattatuck Manufac-
turing Company, we were told that
the job was hand buffing and were
to start in on piece work basis
right off. We of course could not
refuse because if we did, we could
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Japanese Ship Loads
Mysterious Cargo att
Philadelphia Docks

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - A Jap
anese ship was loading cases a.
the Franklin Sugar docks on the
Delaware River the other day.
The cases were marked merchand-
ise, but would like to know why
japanese ship should come to
Philadelphia for sugar when tho
could ge: 1t at Manila.
tried to gel on the dock, but
YVES stopped by a wa.chman and
WIS asked what my business was.
] was told to get the hell off the
dock. THE Waterman said, Don't
You know that that is japanese
ship"
Al this leaks very Gshy to ne.
] tainh If we made coed inyes-
tsaticn VIC weHli find that IL i,
arms End nos sugar that was
loaded on this ship.
IA Marine Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
(By a Worker Correspondent

PORTLAND, Me.-The readers Of
the Daily Worker will be interested
to hear about conditions in the po-
tato country of Maine where I live.
In Aroostook County more potatoes
are produced than anywhere elese in
the U. S. Enough potatoes could be
produced here to feed the total pop
ulation of the country as far as the
potato demand is concerned.
Under these circumstances, it might
be thought that prosperity prevails
among the farm population. This is
not so and has not been the case
for a number of years. Conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
N. Y. SODA CLERKS
TOLL IS HOURS.
Are Fired If Profits
Are Too Low
(By a Worker Correspondent

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-For the eigh-
teen or twenty dollars a week that
soda clerks get, we have to mop the
floors, scrub windows, polish silver
and fountain, wash dishes, make sa-
lads, syrupS and wait on customers.
We have to work IL hours a day
and IA on Saturdays. The Silver Pod
stores take inventory every two weeks
The soda clerk must show fifty
percent profit or lose his job. In the
summer we lost our jobs because the
bosses hire school-boys and teach
them the trade while paying them
ten or twelve dollars a week.
Fellow soda clerks We must or
ganize and fight for an S-hom day
and five-day week with no reduction
in pay. Write to the Trade Union
Unity League at ) E. 10th st. for in
formation M. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

the conditions here. We must
take worse than dogs for fare.
They are wanting US to work
hard six days q week and don't
want us to have anything but corn
bread and lard gravy. And they DO
not want us to have much of that.
They don't want to give us moth
ing when We work. They want US to
take our wages in milk that is half
water and stale, rancy butter they
cannot eat.
They mix a little fresh butter with
the stale and want us to pay 80 cents
a pound for it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Ohio Railroad Shops
Fire All But Bosses

COLUMBUS, Ohio. - The local
Pennsylvania Railroad Shops, known
as the Panhandle Shops, which at
one time hired as many as 5000 men,
is now practically shut down
There was an indefinite layoT on
May % when about 40 percent OF the
remaining workers were fired. There
are about 400 workers now left in the
shops. These are mostly foremen
and straw bosses. Another layoff is
expected soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

AS an example, Magistrate Hersh-
field is holding 8 laundry workers
on information given by a boss dur
ing strike for over 2 months, but
a lawyer friend of the Magistrate
was ready to have the case disposed
Of for q Consideration.
This is the way law and justice
works In the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
(By a Prisoner)

NEW YORK. - Raymond Street
Jail, in Brooklyn, holds close to 300
prisoners awaiting trial. The prison
guards are extremely severe to the
prisoners in order to force brides
from them for some measly privil
eyes. The prisoners are permitted to
walk inside a prison corridors one
and a half hours a day.
The rest of the time they are lock-
ed up in their small cages, but for
a little bride of so cents or a dollar
a week to the tier guard one can
buy the privilege of walking around
on the gallery few hours more a
day. One guard tried to raise the
price and he was faced with boy
colt from the prisoners. There we're
d few well-to-do strike breakers who
paid the price for the privilege of
scabbing.
Grating Guards
Many guards advertise their
friendliness and openly ask the re-
ward for their virtue. Woe to the
one who does not pay for the small
doses Of humanitarian feeling exhi-
bited by his guards. He will be
made to toe the mark, and he will
surely be made to lose the regular
privilege of having visits and the
short walk.
! Guards taking prisoners to court
will not permit him to turn around
and whisper something to their
friends, but once the consideration
is paid they turn humanitarian and
overlook the petty tyranies of the
regime. This is duplicated at every
opportunity offered.
Beat PRISONERS
The foreclosures of the sadistic
guards is unbelievable until witness
ed. Communication with relatives by
phone or telegram is supposed to be
the right of every prisoner when first
arrested, but one prisoner who was
calling for this too insistently was
beaten by four guards and thrown
into dark, bare cell to sleep on
the stone floor This procedure is
usually followed almost nightly with
mentally deranged or sick prisoners,
who call for the doctor or get up
from a nightmare with frightened
screams. Instead of help they get
a smuggling, a dark bare cell and
stone floor for bed.
This is done to men who as yet
are supposed to be innocent until
proven guilty" but who are to pose
to provide bail. Imagine what is the
fate of the convicted prisoners?
Justice For Sale
Justice for sale would be the pro-
per sign over all the courts in this
capitalist democracy. The rich cri-
minal buys his way out, of anything,
rot excluding murder, by sharing the
swag with the judge and politician.
In order to cover up the record of
this corruption they visit all the sew
Gritty of the law upon the poor, I'M
fortunates, who can not pay. Pris-
oners tell each other how they reach
cd this judge or that politician and
how much they have to pay for
their freedom.
Glass Justice
The rich prisoners are treated with
Difference not only in jail but also
in courts. A District Attorney who
will be as hard as nails with a petty
thief will see the light of justice on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Farm Board Helps to Ruin
Potato Farmers in Maine

throughout the section are terrible.
Farmers are losing their farms in de-
fault of taxes and becoming tenants,
There is little or no help from the
Farm Board as the farmers long ago
have recognized this bunch of takers
as the same class of men who are
driving them into bankruptcy.
Gyped BY A and p
Look at their tactics. The A and P
loans the farmers seed and money,
ETC., to carry out their spring plant
ing in anticipation of good crops,
and with the farms as security. Ma
turally, the farmers must good a good
yield to pay back the usurers. They
have a good yield all right, but po-
tatoeS that cost one dollar and a
quarter a barrel to raise have been
bringing from forty cents to one dol
lar on the market. Those unable
to pay back the big companies find
SAASAA AtNA AkAO bdAACAA Vi JILL dJEllCOs IlC
A and P buys the SCARED, poor po-
tatoes from the farmers for almost
nothing on the plea that they are
practically worthless. These are the
potatoes they sell in their stores all
over the country. The good potatoes
they sell at high prices in foreign and
domestic markets for seed. Naturally
they can afford to sell their potatoes
at cheap prices and at the same time
make huge profit. Thus the farm
er is gyped both ways.
When the farmers tried to get to-
gether as a last resort to form a
cooperative association the Blue
Goose" grafters bought off the farm
ers' lawyer for a higher salary to
work for them. Last summer the
county was flooded with unfortunate
workers who we're glad to do work for
the companies for their board only.
Hundreds Of others were forced to
steal their food, and even go out into
the fields to kill COWS and eat their
meat.
In the districts bordering the Maine
wilderness hundreds Of families have
only been able to keep from starya-
ton because they went into the woods
and lacked deer for meat. Other
men are going back into the woods
to live like trappcrs of two hundred
years ago.
This is why Maine, the state that
has been only lightly touched" by
the depression, is getting along
Meanwhile the Chamber of Com
merce and other fascist organizations
are flooding the country with leaflets,
telling Of the glories (but not the
poverty of the Vacation State and
urging people to come here and spend
their vacation land incidentally their
money in the midst Of this "opulent
paradise"
Meanwhile farmers go broke, the
posses OF the Central Main Power
QnsulD pay their mill hands any
where from three to ten dollars
week, the paper and pulp factories
work not at all or four days a week,
and hundreds are laid off daily. There
are only II firemen working on the
Maine Central Railroad; the rest are
former engineers, while the foremen
they had to push out are walking
the streets, Naturally the whole
state is controlled by the bosses
(mainly insult, some Mellon.
This is a little picture of the Pine
Tree State" that doesn't get into the
columns of the Portland Press Her
aid. "A Maine Student.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04

Editorial NOte:-The following
letters we're sent to the Daily
Worker" by Negro workers in the
Black Belt of Alabama. They de-
scribe in the language of the
southern worker the horrible slave
conditions existing throughout the
Black Belt area. We withhold the
names of the workers and the
town from which the letters came
in order not TO expose them TO
the southern lynch terror.
Daily Worker:
l write you to notify you of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
Princeton Fascists
Open Drive Against
The Negro Masses
(By a Worker Correspondent

PRINCETON, N. j. Princeton
fascists are trying to scare Negroes
in Princeton away from the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights by la
belling 1t red. The l.. S. N. r. is
organizing the workers on the basis
of nine hundred Negro workers In
Princeton who are Disseminated
against by the university bosses who
are the main suppliers Of Jobs here;
to fight for equal right to work and
conditions with the white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
GUARDsMSN LOSES Arm

Anthony Attire. a 2l-year-old Ma
tional Guardsmsn OF the l05th Field
Artillery Regiment, N. Y. c., lost his
arm when hit by a ram.od fired from
a sthree-inch gun curing the military
Memorial Day ceremonies here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-04
w. A. Stokes Workers
Get Pay-Cut Threat
(By = Worker Correspondent)

tBy . Worker COrrespOndent)
PENNSBURG, Pa. Workers of
the w. A. Stokes company's wood
working plant were informed that
they would get a 20 percent reduc-
ton in wages.
Let's get together, workers, build
rank and file committee and strike
against the cut.