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The Washington times., 1932-04-26
Rhode Island AUe.
Citizens to Gather

April meeting of the Rhode
Island Avenue Citizens Associa-
ton will be held tomorrow at 8
p. m. in Sherwood Presbyterian
Church hall, Twenty-second ST.
and Rhode Island Ave. N. E., it
was announced by E. G. Sievers,
president.
The Washington times., 1932-04-26
Hawaii Trial
Broadcast
Refused

HONOLULU, T. H., April
26 GN.SO.-A proposed direct
radio broadcast of the final
arguments in the Fortescue-
Massie honor Staying" trial
was refused today by Judge
Charles S. Davis.
Judge Davis ordered the
Honolulu newspaper sponsoring
the broadcast to place its
microphone in an empty court
room now used as press head
quarters. The addresses will be
read there as soon as delivered.
The Washington times., 1932-04-26
Smith "GratefuL"
For Connecticut

NEW YORK, April 26 GNSD,
In telegram made public today,
former Gov. Alfred E. Smith ex-
pressed his gratitude to Thomas
j. Spellacy, of Hartford, Conn.,,
for assurance that Connect
cuts Is presidential votes in the
Democratic Convention go to
Smith.
The Washington times., 1932-04-26
Episcopal Bishops
Discuss 1882 Budget

NEW YORK. April 26 Q.N,SO.
Members of the house of bishops
of the Protestant Episc copa
Church today met in an emer-
gency three-day meeting in con-
junction with a joint conference
with the national council of the
church.
The meeting was called by the
Most Rev. James de Wolf Perry,
presiding bishop of the church
and bishop of Rhode Island, TO
discuss the need for $979000 70
balance the 1882 budget of the
church.
The Washington times., 1932-04-26
GiIIigdn Is Backed
For School Board

Reappointment of Henry Gilli-
gan to the Board of Education
was advocated last night by the
North Capitol Citizens Associa-
tion, meeting at Mckinley High
School. His term will expire
June 80. A resolution urging an
amendment to the law to give all
municipal contracts to local con
Germs employing residents of the
city was adopted unanimously.
viii p, Kennedy presided.
The Washington times., 1932-04-26

MRS. JOHN G. PRATT
WHO IS regarded as the
likely choice for president of
the Junior Leagues of America
at the convention next month
in Los Angeles. She is from
New Orleans. Photo by Inter
national News Photographic
Service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
PAY CUTS RAGE
In AUTO PLANTS
Chevrolet Began New
Year With Cuts
CBy a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-Very little ap-
pears in the Daily about the condi-
tions in the shops. The writer is out
of work for a long time now, but the
news that come from workers still or
the job in the various shops are in
deed shocking to ones sense.
A worker from the Chevrolet tells
me that right after New Years the
whole shop departments got cut in
their wages running up to 20 per cent
but not less than IL per cent In the
lowest paid rates.
Another worker from the Murray
Body plants tells me that men in the
metal finishing division are receiving
between SO to $12 at the most for
sixty hours of work and when they
went to complain to the plant super
intendent, they were told that that is
all the company can afford to pay
their men. And after they came back
from the managers office their de-
partment foreman told them that
soon the"n have to work for the lash
ing that the company is going to adj
minister its workers.
This apparently was an outburst
Of disgust Of the foreman because the
foremen also were getting their dose
lately. Namely they we're put on the
hourly rates in place Of their monthly
salaries.
The Plymouth Car Company is CIV
ing its workers one vacation after the
other. So every one Of them is invest
ing his last few cents in small brew
cry or Joint. And the girls go to the
street in very much INDIVIDUAL"
fashion and sell their bodies for q
quarter-that buys them their stock
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
Mini Novgorod.

MINI NoVgOroo.
Dear Comrades:
This morning we read your letter.
1t was very pleasant to read that
you sent us greetings for the ami
versary of the October Revolution
and that you look on the U.S.SR.
as your socialist fatherland. We saw
from your letter how you live under
hard conditions. Capitalism is turn
ing and twisting in the grips Of the
imperialist crisis. Capitalism is try
ing to throw all the burdens from
its own shoulders on to yours.
But things are different here. We
are young fighters and have not
been long In the army. We came
from the factories, mills and collec-
tive farms. Socialist economy is
growing and spreading here, and new
industrial giants are coming into
operation, while collectivization Is
increasing in the country districts.
Not long ago we finished building
our Mini automobile works. In the
villages Of our province 48 per cent
of the farms are collectivized.
In the Red Army.
At the present moment we are not
engaged in factory work. We have
joined the army to learn to defend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
kEUFFER, ESSER
SLASHES WAGES
Must Build Up Shop
Committees

,HOBOKEN, N. 1.-THE bosses OF
he Reuter- and Esser Company re-
3elltly cut the wages OF It's remaining
part time workers from to Is per
cent in the entire plant. This cut
took place about two weeks ago.
About 400 workers are affected, in
GLIDING some women workers,
During the past year and half
the workers have been cut from five
to two days work week.
The vast majority of the workers
are Germans and are talking about
the bad conditions and the terrible
speed-up they are forced to endure.
they say. after each cut they must
tighten up on their belts.
Here in the cleaning department
is q brute slave-driver called Mr..
Fuegh, the straw boss, who with the
other bosses OF various departments
are conducting weekly meetings on
Mondays with their superintendent,
Mr.. Ferber at these meetings and
they discuss the future wage cuts.
1t is high time FOR the workers
here to think and discuss plans for
organizing into shop committees to
fight against wage cuts and speed-up,
bad conditions, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09

Soldier Tells How Red Army Helps to
Build Socialism in the Soviet Union

and quiet. We are ytgilantly stand
ing on guard. When We Joined the
army, we did not lose all connection
with the great work which is being
carried on In the country.
Not long ago we took part In a
"subbotni." at the construction Of
the auto work. Our Red Army COM
radeS carried on a "VoroshiloY sub
botnik" to gather the harvest.
During our service In the Red
Army we shall not only learn mill
tary matters. During the period Of
service all the ilDterate and semi
literate comrades will learn to read
and write. We shall all become poht-
ically educated, and when we are de-
modified there will be a stream Of
people coming to the factories and
collective farms who will start work
on construction work With still
greater enthusiasm.
In concluding our letter, We ex-
press the hope that the letter which
we received from you will not be the
last. We want to get from you a
lot OF letters and establish real
good contact with you as comrades.
Write to us at the following adj
dress: Mini Noygoroo, care Editor Of
Mini Novgorod Kommuna."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
CRASHED BANKS
GET Big LOOT
State Carries On
Hokum Trial
(By a Worker Correspondent

10y nOrhcI CUrftspOnucut
TOLEDO, Ohio.-The president OF
the Security Home Trust Co. and
five other heads of this bank were
indicted after 1t crashed. Seven true
bills containing forty-eight counts
we're returned against them. Their
trial is still going on, but their con-
nections are powerful and nothing is
expected 10 come of it.
The heads OF these banks that
crashed are also among the worst
exploiters of labor in Toledo. Among
them is G. o. Miniger mot indicated
president Of the Electric Auto Lite
Co., a director of the crashed Ohio
Savings Bank and Trust Co. and a
heavy stakeholder In the crashed
Security Home Trust Co. bank. These
exploiters rob the workers at both
ends Of the scale. First they make
millions through merciless exploita-
ton at the factories; then they steal
the small sums that the workers
saved by defrauding them of their
deposits.
Rumors have it that the Toledo
banks are paying back nearly 80 per
cent of the total deposits to the de-
positors. This is an out-and-out lie.
The Security Home Trust Co. which
had several thousand working-clas
depositors, Is paying back only 10
per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
DIGGENS LUMBER
MILLS CUT PAY
TEN PER CENT
Is Per Cent Slash Hits
Mich. Foundry
Workers
(By a Worker Correspondent

CADILLAC, Mich.-As a devoted
reader of the Daily Worker saw
piece in the paper that you would
like to know of evictions, pay cuts,
and things done against the laboring
class, SO I am letting you know Of
pay cuts In this city, as you probably
haven't heard of them yet.
Here in Commers Diggins Planning
Mill Cor us workers here have a
',etter name for it-Cone and Dig
ms Mild I used to work there
but they fired me because 1 wouldn't
handle three sixteen inch boards at
once,
At this mill Bill Saunders who
owns it gave the hard working boys
who work there a present Of a 10
per cent wage cuts. If you were
getting 1928 for 8 hours the first OF
the year you would get $2.O5. One
fellow is getting $1.95 for 8 hours.
The cut Is to effect all Commers
Diggins mills, number yards and log
ging camps. And at that most of
the men are only getting one and
two days in a week, some of them
not any.
at Proter'S foundry works, the boys
got a cut OF Is cents on the dollar,
which has already taken effect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
3 Central Pa. Mines
Close; 500 Fired
(By a Worker Correspondent


JOHNSTOWN, Pa. While the
bosses and their lackeys are talking
about solving unemployment, more
miners are losing their jobs in cen
trail Pennsylvania.
The road work here, which is SO
politely called "relief work." in some
cases has not paid the workers for 2
months. The workers were near
starved when the pay finally came.
laid off so. This happened on New
Years day.
Number I, Q and mine In Blough,
near here, shut down completely on
Jan. I. Five hundred miners lost their
Jobs in this layoff. The workers here
are saying that the Hoover-Pinchot
program is all the bunk.
Now is the time for the workers to
organize into the National Miners
Union and the Unemployed Council.
Let us march to Somerset and show
teh bosses THAT we will not starye-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
Michigan Poor House
Inmates Threatened
By a Worker Correspondent

CBy Worker Correspondent
ELOISE, Mich.--Conditions In the
Wayne County Hospital and the Poor
House at Eloise are incredible.
Mayor Murphy's election officials
are doing their best to hide evils a
little better than heretofore
Inmates are threatened with con-
finement in the state madhouse, If
they dare write to newspaper or
anyone regarding the conditions.
There Is in the Eloise institutions
every evidence Of professional and
political hook-up with the dope and
booze rings. The writer, because of
many attempts to call public atten-
ton to the criminal side of affairs
here, has been constantly under slls-
picion and is in danger of being
maltreated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
EXPOSE FORCED
LABOR IN OHIO
.JOBLESS MEET
Unemployed Council in
Toronto Gains in
Strength
tBy a Worker Correspondent

TORONTO, Ohio.-It seems that
in the past the public of this city,
with the exception of the workers,
were satisfied with the forced labor
and grating system that has been
used to dole out relief to the needy.
A number OF meetings have been
held here by the Unemployed Coun-
Gil without much support from the
public. On Tuesday, December 90
8 mass meeting was held in our hall
here. The hall was packed to the
door and a number Of local business
men were in attendance. A repre-
sentative of the Toronto Relief
League was there by request.
The speakers of the Unemployed
Council showed the public where and
how the So-called Relief League was
cheating and lying to the public and
when the relief representative denied
it we proved our charges and then
called him a liar and made him like
it. In trying to redeem himself with
the public he contradicted the word
of his cohorts and finally retired
from the platform showing the pub
lie what kind Of a betraying, lying
sneak he really was.
Since this meeting vs havs lots
more sympathizers and our Council
is much stronger.
We are holding q big mass meet
ing on the steps Of the city hall
and will demand no forced labor in
the city and better and more relief.
We have invited the new city council
to announce what they intend 10 do
for the unemployed of this city in
1892.
The relief representative that We
mentioned above was MIR. George
Haney, cub reporter Of the Toronto
Handful or the Toronto Tribune as
some call it. / might add that there
is one man in our city that says
business is picking up" and that is
the rag man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
Jewish Aid Threatens to
Jail Unemployed Worker

At 'Mumpson's Hotel" the House
of Correction we served ten days
during which time we we're forced 10
eat three filthy meals per day. I say
filthy because the most wonderful
meal of the year-"Chrlstmas dinner"
which was composed Of nice chicken
(green with mould and SO rotten that
1t stunk) bit the workers were not
fooled, for over three quarters Of IL
was left on their plates, on and under
the tables.
Coffee was rotten as the milk was
diluted with water. A dog would turn
up his nose to the slop which the
workers there were forced to eat.
Those who did not or do not eat all
that is on their plates, are subject to
the Hole" which is dark, damp
dirty cell in the basement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09

going to be-. And of course the
dredgemen says, It's thirty dollars
month, that's what l signed up for"
Then the captain answers back with
dirty look on his face, We'll / don't
think III pay you $50 =. I'm going to
pay you twenty dollars a month, and
II you don't like it . well, there s
always a guy on hand to let you
know what the consequences are, if
you don't like it,
Out OF our miserable pay we
have to pay $40 for oil skins, the
board bill is s. a week for real rot
ten grub. Anything that gets broke
is charged to us and deducted from
our pa. We are simply left without
wages. .t.
When dredging. if you happen to
get sick and ask for hospital aid from
the captain, he will say: You don't
get no hospital ships aboard here,
and to strengthen his argument he
will draw a shot gun. They put sick
men in a skiff without any money
send them ashore to get rid of them.
Shipping Sharks Profit.
If captain happened to employ you
from the shipping Office, then the
shipping master received $3.50 out Of
your wages. If you complain to the
shipping master, they will tell some
framed up story to the captain
against you.
If you happen to have 500 on the
pay roll-dont ever look for reaching
port as usually the man is thrown
over board, or perhaps shot If he is
in the clear where nobody will ever
know anything about it.
The old bygone days are still in
existence when brutal tnhunan meth
DDS were regular thing on ships.
Nov the captain gets away with any
thing and with any kind Of crime
so long as we are not organized.
They just deliberately get away with
murder. Us Negro workers are tor
aured beyond belief. Some of the
white captains look upon the murder
Of 8 Negro worker as nothing unusual.
In fact they get a kick out of 1t. We
must stop this by organizing all the
oyster dredgemen TO really abolish all
these damnable crimes and inhuman
conditions in the CHESAPEAKE Bay
now.
We demand $3.50 month wages.
We demand Hours a dayl
We demand better food!
We demand human living condi-
lions on board!
We demand free boots and oil
skins!
-Organizationa1 Committee Of oy-
ster Dredgemen, 1880 East BALTIC. st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
NEGRO PATIENT
.JIM-CROWED IN
Mich. HOSPITAL
Negro Baby Killed
Through Nurses
Carelessness
tBy a Worker Correspondent

SAGINAW, Mich.--A colored wo-
man was taken to the city hospital
December 81 being very sick. The
doctor did not examine her or tell
her what was wrong. They put med
icine on little table but did not
tell her when she was to take it.
They gave the white patients all they
wanted to eat, but the colored did
not have enough and what they did
get to eat was half cooked.
On Sunday the white had chicken
but the Negroes had dumplings that
was not fit to feed a dog.
The colored did not get a bath
when they we're taken to the hospi-
tai. One colored woman was in the
hospital two weeks and they only
changed her bed once. When the
patients ask for a bed pan they have
10 wait until the nurse gets ready
to bring il. The woman said she
would rather be in Jail.
About q month ago, q colored wo-
man, Mrs. Sanders, had baby born
and it was scalded to death through
plain carelessness. People told the
nurse the hot water bottle leaked.
Then they tried to keep people quiet
by telling them the baby was in the
cottage. Mrs. Clark told the nurse
they killed the baby. They told her
to keep still.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09

cutting treadmlll.
Floor panellers used to make Sill
a hundred. They now get 78c. Me-
tai finishers on job 558 have slaShed
from II 1-2c piece to 10c.
The wage-cutting on lock pillars
was put over in q more underhand
manner. There we're 25 men working
at SITS hundred, with the assist
ance of four men on day rate. A
time study man was put on the job,
as result of which three of the day
workers we're fired and the remaining
day worker put on the group.
In an effort to placate the workers
the rate was raised to S7.84 a hun
dred-but when pay day came around
they found that their pay for nine
hours was now s6.48 where before 1t
had been $744.
Commenting on this, Spark Plug
shop paper of Fisher Body, says,
"Fisher Body was able to put this
over because these workers are not
organized in militant union. In
order to stop this continual wage
cutting and layoffs We must get into
the Auto Workers Union and fight
back. Join the Auto Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
Workers Demand Relief in
Wis.,; Socialists Jail Them

listed here. Had a very hard time.
Have not been working a long time.
Applied to the United Jewish Aid,
1895 Myrtle Ave-, Brooklyn and was
told they could do nothing for me-
On three different times 1 sat and
watched what kind Of help given to
others. Everybody was sent away
without receiving any help. When I
talked to the others about what they
were doing to us, policeman was
called to put me out.
I have a sick mother who needs
my help. My rent is due and I
don't know whatI'1l do.
Where is the charity that we hear
and see advertised so much? The
charity offices are making a mockery
Of the word charity. Nobody at that
office received any help. They lie
when they show records that they
help. 1t Is nothing but q fake
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
ny a Worker Correspondent

MILWAUKEE, Wis.-The socialist
fLthers dakers and their flunkies OF
Milwaukee, showed to the starving
unemployed workers of this city their
true way Of helping the workers
especially In the cases Of Grace
Brown, Forrest jackson, Jack Saun-
ders and Leo Marsh when as a COM
nlittee elected from the central
branch Of the unemployed councils to
demand relief from the county out
door reelief station No. l for food
and more food for starving families
we're arrested and sent to Jail for
disorderly conduct.
Disorderly conduct means that we
demanded food for these families
and fought for 1t rather than wait on
promises which never materiaHze.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
UNION MINERS
DENIED RELIEF
"Relief" Only for Open
Shoppers
(By a Worker Correspondent


BUTTE, Mon.-Condition in the
towns are as follows: A large part OF
Butte miners are totally unen1-
ployed; the local relief organization,
organized originally as independent
relief bureau for relief of unemployed
miners was recently turned over to
the Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany, which Immediately started to
discriminate against those trying to
organize in the National Miners
Union.
The churches are doing all If
their power to keep the workers from
organizing.
1t Is rumored by miners that the
Thamway Mine. employing 5000
workers, which has been using the
stagger plan to date Is to shut down
completely. The other mines are
going under a system of 2 weeks on
and Q wekes off.
1t Is also rumored that the city
merchants will cease to extend
credits to unemployed miners after
the first OF the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
Proctor Shoe Workers
Gets Two Wage Cuts
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK; am a shoe filter
employed in the Proctor Shoe Com
pany. In August when the plant was
fairly busy, we earned from $25 to
$50 a week-the week consisting OF
10 TO rs hours.
But soon the firm began to slash
the miserably low wages left and
right. First they gave us a cut a
cut of 10 per cent. Two weeks were
hardly past until we get another cut
OF is per cent. Thus we are making
now actually Is to 20 cents an hour.
When we argued with the boss
telling him that we could not live on
such wages and work, he answered
US with scorn and said that IL did
not concern him how we lived.
And let 1t be known that we are
making high grade ladies shoes. If
a worker makes the least mistake, he
is liable to be charged So which is
taken out Of his nay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
LAWRENCE MILL
GETS NEW CUT
IN PAY JAN. |
5000 Haven't Worked
A Day in Three
Months
(By a Worker Correspondent

LAWRENCE, Mass.-O one
half Of the workers who went on
strike are back In the mills at pre-
sent. Those who are employed were
really hired again by their own boss.
They were given blue passes to go
inside the mills.
Unemployment Grows.
Some 5000 workers here haven't
worked a day In months. Others
work days and their passes are
taken way from them They must
then go down TO the mill gates
morning and noon to try to get an
other pass, While we, the unem-
ployed, stand outside the mills and
freeze, the bosses are killing the
workers inside with the new speed
I'D system since the strike. Unem-
ployment Is greater here than sver
before. We are having an Unem-
ployed Council meeting next week.
The Aver Mill (American Wooden
Co. Mid has officially announced d
Is per cent wage cut effective Janu-
airy /.
Two Banks Close.
Last week the Lawrence Trust Co.
and the Arlington Trust Co., two Of
LaWrence's best known banks, closed
their doors. The people rushed to
the banks waiting for them to open.
The scene was similar to the ones
we see down at the mill gates. The
banks and big stores had hooking
signs In their windows merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to
All" To whom may we ask2 To the
capitalist, not the workers.
Greet Miners.
The miners who have organized
and Joined the. National Miners
Union have shown their solidarity
and courage by voting TO strike jan
uary / and by refusing TO give up
their revolutionary union. They have
set an example for every Lawrence
worker. The National Textile Work
ers Union Is here In Lawrence. Let
us organize and Join this fighting
union and prepare for greater strug-
giles.