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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
MINERS PREPARE
TO HIT TEMPLE
COAL CO. CUTS
Bosses Try to Make.
Miners Work Day and
a Half Without Pay
CBy worker Correspondentl

tBy a worker correspondent
JESSUP, Pa.-The Temple Coal Co.
having few collieries around here, is
now trying to enforce a new scheme
in cutting the wages of the miners.
The Temple Coal Co. is now under
the receivership of Mr.. Dorrance, the
big boss of the Pennsylvania Anth-
racite. The Pennsylvania Anthracite
has been leading the wage cutting
drive Of the mine owners in this, ter
ritory. Recently all the collieries Of
the Temple Coal have been shut
down. Mr.. Dorrance together with
the District officials started a tcam-
paign to make the miners bsAeye
that the Temple Coal Co. has hsen
losing money while in operation and
The miners will have to take a reduc-
tion in wages if they want to work.
When the mine workers refusedoto
take reduction in wages, the COM
pany adopted a new scheme and
proposed to the miners to give the
company shift and a half free
which means no less than serfdom,
you have to work for the company
the first day and a half free and
then they will let you work in the
mine if they needed more coal for
the market.
The ditrsict officials Of the U. M.
w. Of A, do ri raise any objections
and permitted one colnery in Jessup
to go to work under this condition.
This, they say is not a violation OF
the agreement.
The miners Of the Temple Coal Co.
will not accept those slave conditions
and are actively preparing to strike
all the collieries of the Temple Coal
Co. Most Of the locals Of this com
pany are affiliated with the rank
and file movement here and are
active in spreading the movement to
other collieries. The mine workers Of
the Anthracite will fight against the
attempts to bring slave conditions
in the Anthracite.
A Miner of the Temple Coal Co,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Charity Refuses Helm

Charity Refuses Help
The Social Charity which is supos-
ed to take care Of the needy is refus-
ing to help the starving families. A
man with wife and eight children
was completely turned out into the
street.-The has no house and no food.
Many Of such cases are report / to
the local Unemployed Council; the
local Social Service had turned them
down completely.
Forced Labor
The Community Chest is not used
for the benefit of the workers who
are unemployed, but for the benefit
Of the city grafters. The Community
Chest has forced labor scheme
whereby the workers are forced to
work two days a week for few
pounds of split beans, grit and SOW
belly, while the money goes to the
city officials.
Every day more and more workers
are being put into the peonage class
out we are not going to stand for it
any longer. Some of the workers are
living in shacks not fit for pigs to
live in. In this city which handles
over two million bales of cotton thru
the compressers working people have
hardly any clothes to wear.
Workers Must Organize
We working people are goinr to or
ganize and fight against this rotten
system Of things,
There is only one way to arise out
of this, and that is by rallying around
the only workingclass political party
which is organizing the masses to
fight starvation -- the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

this year VIII increase 70 the aver
age Of the last four months Of 1881,
an assumption for which there is no
basis except the propaganda Of the
railroad companies and Brotherhood
officials when they were putting over
the recent wage-cut.
Employment Drops
The press estimates that the 10 per
cent wage-cut will take &3.643, ITO out
Of the 1882 pay-checks Of the rail-
road workers In the Cleveland dis
trtct.
The huge decline In employment Is
shown by the fact that the number
Of railroad workers employed drop
ped by lo,34o, or 34,a per cent, be-
tween January ], 1899, and FEB. /,
1881. There we're $4,000 employees On
the payroils In the Cleveland district
In 1929, and only 1880 in January.
1882. The extent Of short-tirne, mile
age reduction and temporary layoffs.
which have also reduced incomes Of
the railroad workers are not revealed
In the figures quoted.
Reopening of some railroad shops
Is being played up by the capitalist
press as II 1t were q sign Of return
Ing prosperity. Actually the railroads
postponed all the shop and rnainte-
nance work they could, as q wage
cutting argument and to get It dsne
cheaper until after the wage-cut was
assured. Equipment was getting into
such condition that work would have
had to be resumed even II the work
ers had refused to take the cut.
As It Is, the amount Of work result
ing from the opening Of the shops
amounts TO hardly anything. The
Nickel Plate, for instance, reopened
it's shops in Conneaut and Lima, O.,
and Frankfort, Ind, with much pub
Hcity. But the officials admitted
that the order provided for only ten
days work. after which the $50 shop
men involved win be out Of luck
again
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
tBy a worker Correspondent

LOS ANGLES, Call spoke to a
45-year old railroad worker and he
described the chances for advance
ment under the capitalist system. He
had been working in the railroad
yards and the shops of the Southern
Pacific for Is years.
His wages have been cut time and
time again until now he is expected
to support his wife and five children
and himself on SIS a week. In order
to get these wages he must work ten
to twelve hours a day.
Now he is threatened with a lay-off
which has thrown thousands of his
fellow workers and their families. His
job now is cleaning refrigerator cars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
New Correspondence
Group in Chicago
tBy a Worker Correspondent,

(By a Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO, IlL--The worker corre-
spondents are establishing a South
Side branch of worker corresponds rs.
The headquarters of the branch will
be at 3ll6 S. Halstead St., Chicago.
The purpose of the branch will be
to expose the bosses in their attempt
to crush the militant workers move
ment in Chicago and TO rally through
the workers press more workers into
the struggle against capitalism.
We propose to expose boss terror
wherever 1t exists and to rally the
workers in the shops and factories t.
write for the workers pra--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Workers Must Fight
Miss Spokane Dress
Factory Speed-up
by a Worker Correspondent

tby worker correspondent
SPOKANE, Wash.-There is a dress
factory here known as The Miss Spo-
kane Dress factory. They have gotten
the speed-up system down perfect and
to the point where they are killing
off the girls by driving them to the
point of nervous prostration.
They have q system of piecework
whereby they find out the top notch
Of production and fire any worker
who comes under that point. And
many of these woman workers have
dependents in the form Of mothers
and children which throws them on
the doubtful mercy of the local bosses
charity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
MINER EXPOSES
AGENTS OF BOSS
Warns Miners Against
Lovestone Group
WilkSberre, Pa,

WlLkcSp&rrcs Fws
Fellow Mine Workers:
wRs one Of the miners here mis-
led by the Vratartch-Iovestone anti
working class group. Not long ago I
signed an application to their menu
oership. I attended the meeting in
wiikesbsrre where Lovestone spoke
and his speech was enough for me to
realize that 1t is no place for miners
10 belong to them.
I repudiated them and made an
application to the Communist Party,
the real leader Of the working masses
IN this country. have attended the
first meeting OF the Communist Party
unit and clearly see the difference.
urge every mine worker nnisled by
the Vratarich group to repudiate
them and follow my example.
also want to state that the slow
ness Of the Party members to sp-
proach workers in mass organizations
to join the Party is the cause for my
connection with the Lovestonites. !
Joined the LID. first and In my talks
with leading Party members in the
LID. have showed more Than once
that am interested in the Party, but
the comrades failed to ask me to Join
the Party. while vratarich paid quite
bit Of attention to get me to sign
up with them. So want to ask the
comrades to be more bold In asking
the miners to join the Party and not
leave them to Vratarich who will
spread lies about the Patry Of the
working class.
A Mine Worker.
The Section Committee calls
sharply to the attention Of all Party
members in this section 10 take the
advice Of this new comrade rs .
means in reaching the quota set by
this section in the membership
Section Committee,
Section No. 8, Anthracite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

Please read this letter to the mem
bers Of 159 Machinist Union and to
the District and IT'S and other lodges
II you can.
From Ben Thomas, Rostselmach,
Rostov on Don, House, No. 8. Apt. Il,
o, s. s. r.
Dear Friend:
Well after a month journey have
the old tool box set up under the
Red Flag. I am working in farm
machinery establishment. was sup
posed to go to the heart Of Siberia,
but when arrived here they found
that things were not ready there and
they sent me to the south Of Russia.
Rostov is on the Don River in the
very heart Of old Russia. The cli-
mate is about like that Of Phi1adel-
pi1ia.
am working in the tool depart
nent. work z hours per day, and
I work days and every fifth day
I am off from work. There are no
bosses here in the scene that we
know them in the States. There are
no worries about unemployment. The
shop conditions generally are very
good as compared with the American
shop conditions. The spirit under
which we work is ideal, every one
wants to help you. There is real
comradely spirit. If there is any dis
satisfaction about wages or anything
else we go to the trade union COM
mittee.
Workers Rule
The working class under the lead
ership of the Communist Party rule
the whole works in this great land.
e times bigger than the U. 81 II
one is not an actual worker in this
country he does not amount to much.
His conditions Of living are also
harder. The worker here is the lead
ing citizen. and not merely on paper,
but in fact and practice. You don't
see worker even an unskilled ap-
preach any OF the higher UP. man
ayers or directors OF the enterprise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
UNITE!
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS.

by HENRY GEORGE WEISS.
You workers in fields and in orchards
You toilers in factory and mill
You makers of wealth piling fortunes
With your brain and your Drawn and your 81
Do you love so the shackles that bind you,
That you kiss the letters that bind?
DO You hate so the sunlight of freedom
That you'd rather wear blinlers walk blind?
Now by the mills that grind slowly
The grinding has ground up the meal,
The sacks are filled TO oerflOwing-
And yet you still sweat at the wheel
For what? that your masters may rule you
For what? that they tread you in scorn
For what? that your children may hunger
And curse the dark day they born
For your sake awake and arouse You!
Lenin is walking the land
with the scythe of the field and the hammer
of labor aloft in his hand
The day and the hour approaches
For the slaves to arise in their might;
Farmers and workers Join forces
Down with starvation UNITE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
100000 JOBLESS IN
HOUSTON, TEX; CITY,
OFFERS FORCED LABOR
Workers Eyicted from Homes; Social Takers
Refuse Aid; Dump Milk in Sewer
Jobless Must Mobilize Behind Unemployed
Council for Real Relief
(By a Worker Correspondent

HOUSTON Textile crisis here in Houston is sharpen
ing. Unemployment is increasing. 1t is estimated that ap-
proximately forty thousand out of work.
Workers children starving to death while the
houses full of food and milk being dumped in the cutters
as price between producers and distributors
1t is pitifu sight to those poor, i'll clad starving
children standing around the cutters while thousands of gallons
of milk being dumped in the before their very eyes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

Spread Daily Worker fund
,rive into every working class
,eighborhood to save workers
paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
RAILROAD WORKERS
TO RECEIVE 81 PER
CENT LESS WAGES
The 10 Per Cent Cut Put Over by the r. r
Brotherhood Is Only Starter
Employment in Cleveland District Drops from
$4,000 to 1860
(By a Worker Correspondent)

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Addng to the recent 10 per cent
taken their pockets by the Brotherhood officials rail
road employees Cleveland and Cuyahoga County will receive
37 per less wages in 1882 than in 1929 it is estimated
by the Cleveland Press As against total payroll of
$520000 in 1929 the estimated total for 1882 will be only
$S2672,760
This is undoubtedly exaggerated estimate for 1892
based the assumption that railroad employment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

Set quotas, start revolution
sry competition, in fight to
save Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
RAILROAD WORKERS! ORGANIZE AGAINST ATTACK ON WAGES!

atlss Slsil
DO prohibited Bic Rail
suad Commission would
sags 81 sspri of truck
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Where You Count

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24

most potent factor in bringing about the panic from which we are suffering, and until that fact Is realized and remedied there Is no hope for the restoration of perma- nent prosperity"
 Bureaucracy: Throughout the length and breadth of the land re- sentiment is evident against the constantly increasing bureaucratic powers of federal government"
 Prohibition: My personal views on the subject of prohibition are. take 1t, fairly we'll known. Be- cause of the conditions that have grown up since the passage of the eighteenth amendment I feel that the eighteenth amendment must give way to some other plan. |. would. as soon as congress can | be induced to pass it, submit to the states for ratification some alt ernative scheme that would permit the different states to take over the question of liquor control if, after a referendum of the people of each state, such demand was clearly evi- denced by a majority vote"
 The Democratic House: There is being unfolded now from day to day the picture of what may be ex- pected at the hands of the demo- crats if they are vested with power
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24

demands these qualities of candi- dates. It demands them of political parties. It has a right so to de- mand. and am hopeful that the demand may be vocal enough and influential enough to compel both of the parties in the platforms to be written this year preliminary to the presidential election to state concretely their stand upon the questions of the day"
 Unemployment: 'I do not hesi- tate to predict that the democratic party will carry through the Wag- ner (unempIoyment) program and further assert that if placed in control of the government 1t will exercise the same assiduity in at- tempting to find sane and reason able preventives for the course of unemployment as it did when laDt in power in creating through the federal reserve act the machinery necessary to avoid mere monetary panics."
 Tariff: "The republican policy of protection gone mad, carried tO it's logical extreme of an embargo tariff. has destroyed our foreigr trade. The Hoover-Grundy tariff bill. first in its threats and latei . in it's actualities, has been the one
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24

the supply Of water for the reser- voirs are both natural and artifi- ciai. Much of the watershed area of the state is in the latter class. having been made available for drainage purposes by the hand of man. Through the means of difIi- cult construction work, the state's water supply public utilities have often diverted the course of rivers and streams from their natural beds. so that their drainage areas might be utilized in flooding the reservoirs. In building it's recent North Branford development at Lake GaiIlard, the New Haven Wa ter company constructed large tunnel by which the drainage Of many additional square miles was carried into the supply basin.
 All watersheds are scrupulously guarded both by the utilities and by state and local health depart ments. Habitations in the drain age area must be equipped for sewage and garbage disposal and such means of sanitation that all
 chance of polluting the supply is eliminated. The water sheds are posted and patrolled to prevent
 chance pollution by picnickers hunters, campers and others and to prevent bathing both in the res
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 i93z

as a result of next November's election. Two months ago one of the most skilled and accomplished legislators who has ever served in the congress was made speaker of the house of representatives. {. With a bare majority of five or six of his party. the compelling lead ership of John Garner is such that he Is putting through with expedi- tion and vigor and intelligence a legislative program of far-reachine value. The democratic house has not played cheap partisan politics. What 1t has accomplished. what fl will accomplish. represents to the American people the constructive program and the intelligent admin istration of affairs that may be confidently anticipated at the hands of a democratic executive and a democratic congress following the election of 1892"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24

he said of the forthcoming cam pagn:
 The organization will be ready. the democratic story has been told to the people and they are fin a receptive mood to show preference to democratic candidates"
 Some of the salient points made by Chairman Shouse on the various topics he discussed are set forth in the following brief extracts from his speech:
 Platform: "The youth of the land demands courage and character. Il
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24
WATERSHEDS ARE
 BIG STATE ASSET
Spacious Drainage Areas Provide Insurance of
 Ample Water Supply
 4,956 Square Miles

Among Connecticut's manifold and valuable natural resources are the spacious watersheds spread widely throughout the state, which provide drainage for the numerous public water supply reservoirs and storage supply basins. Approxi- mately I45 square miles of Con- necticut's area is water, either in lakes or rivers, but nearly a quar- ter of the total area of 4,956 square miles is classed as watershed pro- viding drainage for public water supplies, so that the reservoirs are well fed.
 The watersheds which furnish
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24
Shouse Reviews
 Party Prospects
Presents Survey Bearing Upon Forthcoming Cam
 paign Before West Virginia Democrats

Washington, Feb. - What of Democratic Prospect?" was the title of a speech by Jouett shouse, chairman democratic national executive committee. at a dinner under the joint auspices of the democratic state committee of West Virginia and the Kanawha County Democratic Women's club at Charleston, w. Va, recently, in which he made a comprehensive review of events that have q bear ting upon party prospects.
 After citing the work of demo- cratic national headquarters and the unprecedented victory of 1880,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24

Pittsburg--Pilot Russell Moss man, flying a Lockheed passenger plane from Chicago to Washington. has set a new record of 41 minutes for the Pittsburg to. Washington leg of the flight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24
AFRICAN FROG sHUNs WATER

Boston.-A frog that never goes near the water Is one of the curl osities noted by Arthur Loveridge of Harvard's Museum of Compara- tive Zoology during a trip through East Africa. He found this type of frog in an exceedingly dry and sandy region. 'r
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-24

ervoirs and their tributary strea ms Periodic inspection Is made by the state department of health.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-19
BOXING BOARD
SAYS SCHMELINC
HAS LOST TITLE
By GEORGE KIRKSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Jan. l9.-Recognition
of Max Schmeling of Germany as
worlds heavyweight boxing champ
ion virtually was withdrawn today
by the National Boxing association
because of his failure to defend his
title within six months, leaving him
in the position of king without
a country.
Schmeling won recognition as
champion by winning on a foul
from Jack Sharkey in New York,
June IL, 1890. The German de-
Tended his title against w. l..
CYoung) Stribling at Cleveland,
July 3, 1881, winning on a tech
nical knockout in the 18th round.
Thus in l8 months he has de-
Tended his title only once.
Schmeling never has been recog-
nized as champion by the New
YORK state athletic commission.
Irasmuch as the N.BA. is the gov
erning body in 90 states and affil-
lated with the boxing commissions
OF Quebec, Montreal, Porto Rico,
Cuba and Mexico, and the British
board of boxing control and the
international Boxing union. gov
erning body in continental Europe,
Schmeling is now no more champ
ion than Jack Dempsey retired
titleholder preparing for a come
back.
Gen. John v. Clinnin, president
OF the NB.A., today mailed back
to Joe Jacobs, manager of Schmel-
ing, a check for $500 posted with
the MIA. as forfeit binding a
match with Mickey Walker at
Miami, Fla, February 25.
This Schmeling Walker match
has been abandoned, and Schmel-
ing gets his $500 back because
Walker never had up a forfeit
Jack Kearns, Walkers manager
gave General Clinnin a check for
$500 but told him not to cash it.
The N.B.A, accepts only certified
checks.
In the regular weekly bulletin
OF the N.B.A. issued every Friday,
the formal question of vacating
Schmeling's title will be submitted
for vote. This is merely a matter
of form and under the N.B.A.s
six months rule, Schmeling has de-
prived himself of recognition as
titleholder by refusal to fight.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-19
TWO CHARGES
FILED AGAINST
RECKLESS DRIVER.

Because someone had not ex-
plained to Eugene w. Russell the
customary procedure in such cases,
he stands today charged with driv-
ing while under the influence of
intoxicating liquor, and also with
reckless driving.
The first charge is a felony, ne
cessitating a superior court trial
and carrying a penitentiary sem
tence, while the second is mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine or
Imprisonment in the county jail.
1t is usual, except in aggravated
cases, to reduce a charge of drunk
driving to one of reckless driving,
if the defendant wishes to plead
guilty.
Appearing before Judge I. May
field yesterday afternoon, Russell
was informed Of a charge of reck-
less driving against him. He i'm
mediately pleaded not guilty. Jack
Lee, arresting officer, then refused
to dismiss the felony charge, and
Russell found himself charged both
with a misdemeanor and a felony.
The reckless driving charge was
held open, and Russell was ar
raigned on the charge of driving
while drunk. Bond was fixed at
$500, with a preliminary hearing
January 81. Russell was unable
to post bond and was committed
to jail to await the date of his
hearing.