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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
CONTINUATION OF DETECTIVES AND PLAN FOR THE
WORKERS UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL)

CO Each organization shall finance
its delegation from the sale Of these
stamps and from contributions re-
ceived through its own activity.
ID Special affairs OF a social and
educational nature should be ar
ranged, the proceeds to go toward
the financing of the campaign and
delegation. Distribution of funds:
a. Thirty-fiye per cent of all
funds raised through sale Of stamps.
contributions and affairs shall 90 to
the National Committee Of the I'm
employed Councils W defray the ma
tional expenses.
b. Thirty-five per cent shall 80 to
the state. district Or national organs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
Central Demand for Which
Ford Workers Were Murdered
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:

We the United
the following
IMMEDIATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
T. That system
Immediately established
ately effective guaranteeing full wholly
partly unemployed through
period of unemployment.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AT FULL WAGES
That paid every unemployed
and all other
elimination against political opinion.
worker shall
fua to take the of strikers
INSURANCE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE EMPLOYERS
AND THE GOVERNMENT
That the full funds
the government from funds for
by taxation the capital profits
sharply taxation upon
In any form whatsoever this
ADMINISTRATION BY THE WORKERS
That the unemployment
controlled by the workers through committees elected
themselves
FOR OTHER FORMS OF SOCIAL INSURANCE
That social
to compensate for loss of through sickness
maternity,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
THE FORD THUG AND SPY SYSTEM

The work Of bullying the workers and spying
on them is carried out by the so-called Ford Ser
vice Department which is pretty name to use
for police and spy agency! It is also described
IN Labor and Automobiles, as follows:
Perhaps one other Ford organization will be
missed by those who are acquainted with Ford
plants the servics Department This could
scarcely be classified - related in any way to
workers welfare. In spite Of its name this de-
partment in the opinion Of many Ford work.
ers, may perform some service for the COM
pany, BUT 1T CERTAINLY DOES NOT
SERVE THE MEN EXCEPT TO DRIVE
THEM AND, IN LIEU OF PIECE RATES, TO
SPEED THEM Up. One student-wOrker con-
tends that It is probably THE cause Of more ir
ritation and antagonism toward the company
than any other FORD institution. could
find no workmen,' he says, who would say a
word In its favor SERVICE DEPARTMENT
AGENTS ARE SCATTERED AT THE GATES
AND ABOUT THE PLANTS TO CHECK AND
CONTROL THE MOVEMENTS OF THE
WORKERS, WHO NATURALLY REFER TO
THEM AS SPOILERS AND HUNTING
DOGS. FOR THEY OFTEN POUNCE UPON
WORKERS WHEN THEY THINK THEY
THINK THEY ARE PERFORMING THEIR
TASKS IMPROPERLY. THEY MAY PUN
ISL THE WORKER BY REPRIMAND, BY
TRANSFER TO ANOTHER DEPARTMENT,
OH BY DISCHARGE. WHEN WORK is
SLACK AND THE COMPANY WANTS TO
GET RID OF WORKERS THE SERVICE
MEN ARE PARTICULARLY VIGILANT,
PICKING THEIR VICTIMS RIGHT AND
LEFT. Service Department men have also
interfered with newsbOys and newsgirls selling
workers papers, destroyed these papers and
had their sellers arrested by the Fordson pO-
lice. They have testified in court that they
were responsible for the arrest of persons dis
tributing workers leaflets in front of Ford
plants. Wherever Ford employees gather after
work these spies are on the job reporting acts
and conversations to the company. This sys-
tenn of spying and intimidation is continually
growing more ruthless"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
FORD POLICE BRUTALITY

The press report continues quoting eye wit
nesses:
ut so happened that one worker was slightly
out of line although he had been there since
five the night before. He was tired, hungry
and cold cop got nasty with him and tried
to pull him out of the line. The worker re-
fused TO get out of line. He said he had been
there for many nights and wasn't going TO get
out just because the cop told him to. The po-
Hceman raised his club and brought it down
kith smashing force behind the mans ear.
The man fell like log. He didn't make
move. The cop looked surprised and called for
q wagon. They threw the dead man in and
drove off while cops began breaking up the
line"
The same story stated that the cops had been
Sssiduously and brutally breaking up small
gatherings of men looking for jobs in the Ford
plant. Workers congregated inside the fence
around the employment Office, had been driven
out daily by hundreds of slick COPS armed with
guns and clubs. Even workers who had stood for
twelve hours or more are being shown no mercy
now"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
How the Delegation Shall Be
Financed.

The funds for financing the cam
paign and delegation shall be raised
in the same manner and in connec-
ton with the mobilization of mass
support.
az All committees that canvass
for signatures shall be supplied with
books of Fighting Fund Stamps.
These are TO be offered 10 workers
after they sign our lists.
b. When securing collective en-
dorsements in any organization, an
appeal shall be made for a financial
contribution toward the fighting
fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
A. 2it I & T. Ct $50 g
Resolution on Situation in the Marine
Industry and Strengthening M.W.LU.
adopted by the Bureau of the National Comm
PART l.

l. The effects of the world economic crisis the marine
transport industry of the USA becoming acutely
felt from day to day Already SO per cent of American ships
laid up throwing 100000 seaen ongshoremen and
harbor workers out of jobs This number being further
creased the months pass by
Besides unemployment the marine workers in other ways
vitality affected by the general attack their standard
of living In endeavor maintain dividends while meeting
the sharply increasing competon the American shpowners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
CHALLENGE TO THE CLEVELAND DISTRICT FROM
THE MINNEAPOLIS DISTRICT

TO THE CLEVELAND Or THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS
Dear COmrades9
district quotas
signature campaign by the National Committee individual
Unemployment endorsements
district
intensified drive in this direction.
therefore challenge
Get many individual signatures for
Get many collective endorsements.
Sell Fighting Fund Stamps" mad buttons.
And set block F.
employed committees during the week of
We that after the twentieth should exchange
results S experiences
With revolutionary greetings,
NJ KARSON, the District
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11

special week for the collection Of sig
natures from March 18th to goth.
They also have challenged the Cleye-
land district, The challenge follows;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11

natures this week and at a special
meeting of the District Committee
with Comrade Benjamin present
worked out a plan and assigned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
sPEED-UP SO FORD PLANTS

Labor Research Association recently made a
detailed study of Ford workers, showing the
amount Of work that has been squeezed out of
them during the hours that they have been on
the job, when they had any work at all But
perhaps the most typical example of the in
creased speed-up told in the workers aown
words, is given in report made by worker
in April 1881. He says in part:
Ford says that he has made no wage cuts.
In hourly rates that is probably correct. (Un-
til October, 1931--LR.A.) But am now doing
$4,000 pieces in three days for which receive
S24, was paid S32 In August my daily rate
Of work 1880 pieces, it's now 81 400 pieces
DAILY. Since last August my pay has been
cut rs per cent, my work increased 2S4 per
cent. am being forced to do just as much
work in three days now as formerly 1 did in
five The boss came to me last Wednesday and
told me that had done enough work to fill
the weeks requirement I'd have to stay home
till Monday"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
CORD OF ATTACKS ON WORKERS
FORD ALWAYS FOUGHT UNIONS

EOuO AhW "A . IOOuh1 OINlONC
Fords hatred for militant unions is we'll
known. AS discussed in Labor and Automobiles
International Publishers:
zone who worked closely with Ford for sew
eral years says: Ford does not tolerate unions
in his plants, and while he usually has the sup
port Of union labor "A. F. of L. he now re-
jOices every time the unions get blow.
He rejOices too when the courts decide against
labor, Another cOnfidant Of Ford says: IF
you ask him about labor unions he won't an
swer you. He's likely to reply by asking you
how you like the new Ford car And a Ford
personnel official has explained that mere
membership in a union would not be sufIi-
cinet cause for discrimination and discharge,
bpt that propagandizing' certainly would.
THIS IS THE CONVENTIONAL NON UNION
SHOP POSITION IDENTICAL WITH THAT
OF ALL AUTOMOBILE EMPLOYERS AS
WELL AS THE U. S. STEEL CORP, THE
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO, THE
STANDARD OIL CO, AND HUNDREDS OF
AMERICAN COMPANIES WHO CONTINU~
ALLY FIGHT ANY SENIBLANCE OF REAL
ORGANIZATION AMONG THEIR WORK
Frs. The same Ford personnel man boosted
openly that he had discovered nest of Boil
sheyikf propaganda in the plant and had
promptly fred the 'cOuspiratOrs' as he called
them, for having suggested organization to
their fellow workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
ATTACKS ON ORGANIZERS

Those who have attempted to organize the
workers have invariably been met with the
attacks of the Ford private police assisted by
the Dearborn police How one group Of organ
izers was treated is described in Labor and Auto
mobiles
when workers tried to sell copies of The
Ford Worker in front of the Ford plants the
distributors we're arrested and copies of the
paper seized and destroyed. At other times
when this paper was sold near, but not on, the
Ford property, the police of the town of Ford
son we're used to drive the newsboys from the
streets while the selling of the regular CAPT
talist papers went quite undisturbed. The
police told those selling the workers paper
that Ford did not approve of their activity!
Not only have the distributors of the shop
papers, interested in giving the workers their
first taste of union propaganda, been driven
away and arrested by the police of the COM
panies. Organizers for the Auto Workers I'm
ion have been similarly treated"
FORD POLICE TERROR
This is not the first time that Ford has used
his police to smash the heads of unemployed
workers after misleading announcements had
attracted large numbers of workers to his plants
On April 2, 1885, press dispatchc reported
that 10000 unemployed men gathered at the
gates Of the River Rouge plant looking for jobs
WHEN THEY REFUSED TO MOVE AWAY
THEY WE'RE BRUTALLY DISPERSED BY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11

Workers Correspondents b the
backbone Of the revolutionary srss..
Builo yoW rrees By writing Ger y
about yeT dsy-to-aay strrsgts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
FORD'S RUTHLESS UNEMPLOYMENT
POLICY

Throwing tens Of thousands of workers out of
jobs at a moments notice has long been the
practice Of the Ford Motor Co. The company
has been most ruthless and autocratic in this
respect.
The fluctuations in employment and lmem-
ployment are indicated in the figures given out
by the company from time to time. For ex-
ample, on November 1, 1925, some $4,000 workers
were reported employed at the Highland Park
and River Rouge plants Of the company near
Detroit. But in the first half of 1927 employ
ment at these plants averaged only $4,000, and
most Of the workers were on part-time. BY
September, 1927, the payrolLs had declined $1,000
below the 1927 figure.
In the early part of 1929 some 122,OOO were
again employed, but by January, 1881, the Off
cial figure gave only $4,000 on the payroll, and
by August, 1881, the figure had dropped to at
least $1,000 or more than $4,000 below the num-
Der employed in 1929. 1t is believed that these
figures for the low points are exaggerated and
that at least a hundred thousand Ford workers
have been unemployed in the vicinity of Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11

hear Cleveland already?
this challenge? How We call other districts
signatures have collected similar challenges
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11

POLICE WHO HURLED TEAR GAS BOMBS
AND LAID ABOUT THEM WITH CLUBS.
EYE WITNESSES REPORTED SCORES IN
JURED AND THREE ARRESTED. NOUN
TED POLICE" SAID OBSERVERS, RODE
RUTHLESSLY THROUGH THE RANKS OF
THE UNEMPLOYED, BEATING THEM WITH
THEIR CLUBS AND HURLING GAS BOMBS"
A few weeks later, on April "a, 1880, a press
dispatch reported that 10000 workers were on
the line waiting for jobs with armed cops walk
ing up and down the line Where they could
not find trouble they tried to start it, They dis
played their guns and clubs arrogantly and
abused the iobess without provocaton."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED

Henry Ford has refused to contribute a nickel
for unemployment relief and is a bitter enemy
OF any kind of governmental unemployment in
surance. Even the charity workers OF Detroit
have protested frequently against the hard
boiled attitude Of Ford towards the unemployed
This complaint of the Detroit charity workers
was caused by the fact that tens of thousands OF
Ford workers are residents of Detroit yet Ford
gave nothing to charity and of course, paid
a negligible amount in taxes. as his plants are
outside the city limits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
HOURS

Ford won great fame for his f1ve-day week
but this was nothing but scheme which ac-
tualy cut wages from $36 to $32 and $50 week
even in days of prosperity" AS Ford told the
reported of the Chicago Daily News at the time
"the five-day weeks is a cold business PROPOSE
ton with not the slightest pretence of phiIan-
throDyn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
WAGES

Wages were cut from minimum Of ST to
minimum of Sc day in october, 1881, SO they
were then back to the 1920 basis. Tens of thous-
andS of workers, employed at higher rates, were
gradually discharged, and later a few of them
rehired but all at the new rates. Wages have
thus been cut from 300 to 300 for the workers
depending upon what they were getting before
although the public was led to believe, time and
again by the Ford publicity agents that Ford
was opposed to wage cuts!
But even before these wages had dropped for
workers who had any pobs at all at Ford plants
Prof. S. M. Levin of the College of the City of
Detroit, recently estimated that wages of Ford
workers in December, 1890, had declined by an
amount equivalent to 1871 cents an hour below
even the pre-war year 1914.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
JAPAN HITS
AT SOVIET
& 5-YEAR PLAN

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-11
SUMMARY or SIGNATURES RECEIVED TO DATE
FROM DISTRICTS:

Again we ask that all collective en-
dorsements be rushed in to the Office
Immediately, SO that we can publish
them in our column next week, as
well as individual signatures.
WHAT ARE THE FRATERNAL Or
CARNATIONS & UNIONS DOING
IN THIS DRIVE?
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
How Gas From Volcanoes
 Produces Common Salt

The Manchester tEngland) Guardian is always digging up quaint and tn usual bits of information. For years, in fact from infancy, we have been going around asking who put salt into the sea. And now we find out. Says the Guardian:
 "The next tima we get mOuthful of unpalatable salt water while sea bathing we should lay the blame for our feeling sick on the worlds vol canoes-according to an interesting conclusion arrived at by pr. T. A, Jag gar, director of the Hawaiian Volcano observatory and volcanOlogist of in ternational eminence. Doctor Jaggar reckons that at least 4S5 active vol canoes are jetting forth in the course Of year more than 100.OOO.ON tons of hydrochloric acid, which rises as gas mingled with the steam. Merging with the wa, CT vapor forming clouds. 1t falls with the rains and unites with the sodium in the rivers to form sodium chloride. or common salt"
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
How Kangaroo Guards Young

Like the partridge that with droop- ing wing leads her pursuers merry chase in a direction away from the place in which her chicks are hiding among the grasses, the kangaroo mother practices strategy to protect her young when she Is being pursued by dogs. When the kangaroo Is car. rying baby in her pouch she cannot make as much speed as otherwise When she sees that the dogs are gain- ing on her she will drop her little one in the grass and start off in new direction to attract attention away from it, If she is successful in elud ing her pursuers she will return later by circuitous route to recover her baby.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
How Wood Is Fireproofed

Can you imagine wood that will not burn? As matter of fact there is no known wood that will not burn in the natural state. But pr. P. c. von Hildehrand, the we'll known chemist and former German citizen who hns ex- perimental laboratories at Spring. dale. near Pittsburgh. has discovered a way to treat any kind. of wood to make it 1reproof, as strong as steel and as light as aluminium. He can even take chips and other waste pieces of lumber and by process of cooking the wood into a pulp pro- duce materials which he claims can be used in the place of metals, bricks and asbestos. First he chips the wood into small pieces, cooks or grinds 1t Into fiber, then presses It back into lumber of the fireproof variety.-Ex- change.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

ing thereto 8 follows: Upon the application eff any State or Territory, the Secre- tary of Agriculture is author ized and directed to transfer to such State or Territory, without cost, all right, title, and interest of t h e United States in any agricultural ex- pertinent station located in such State or Territory, to- gether with all personal prop erty used in connection there with"
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

Three of Delegate Wicker sham's bills passed the House on April 26th. One authorizes the town of Petersburg to issue bonds in the sum of $100,000, for the purpose of enlarging the municipal light and power plant and the improvement of the water and sewer systems, and for the further purpose of retiring or purchasing bonds heretofore issued by the town and which bear 7% interest. Another bill proposes to allow Juneau to use a former bond issue for sewer purposes to be also used for constructing per- manent streets. The third bill authorizes the Secretary of War to make an estimate of amount needed for the proper maintenance of the Govern ment wharf at Juneau.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

A petition has been present ed to the government o f the Territory through the Alaska Road Commission by Steese highway residents for a tele- phone line between Sourdough Creek and the Berry plant on Eagle. This distance is approx imately 40 miles and at present has no modern communication facilities.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
Sunday, May 29.

500 Enna Jettick Melodies, NEG. 5:15 Album of Familiar Music, NEG. 5:45 Fisher Mills Program, NEG. 6:15 The Old Singing Master, NEG. 6:45 Sunday at Seth Parker's, NEG. 7:15 P. s. P. & L. Program, NEG. 7:30 Jesse Crawford, NEG. 500 Stoess Orchestra, NEG. S:15 Badly Homespun Melodies, S:30 Carnation Contented Hour, ST. 9:00 Readers Guide, NEG. 9:30 Wings of Music, NEG. 10:00 Richfield News Flashes. 10:15 University of Washington Edu-
 cational Hour. 11:00 Silent.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

Homesteaders of the Kasilof district are busily engaged in putting in their wood supply for the coming year, according to a report appearing in re- cent number of the Seldovia Herald. The district has a com munity woodsaw which is haul- ed about from place to place, most of the homesteaders aid ing in the work.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
ALASKA INTERESTS AT
 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Will. A. Steel

from one or more operating companies submitting competi- tive bids at the rate fixed in the lowest competitive bid or at such reasonable price as may be fixed and determined by said official" It is expected that this method will be agree able to the operating compan- ies as we'll as the Interior De- partment.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

The report of the Economy Committee that has been con- sidered by the House during the past week, if enacted into law, will permit the agricul- tural experiment stations in Alaska to be taken over by the Territory. The clause pertain
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
Monday, May 30.

$500 Doric Quartet.
 5:15 U. s. Rubber Co. Program.
 5;3O General Motors Program, NEG. 600 National Radio Forum, NEG. 6:30 Demi Tasse Review, (M. J. B. zoo Amos n Andy, NEG.
 7:15 Fisher Mills Go. Program.
 7:3O Voice of Firestone, NEG.
 S:0O Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. S:3O Best Foods Incorporated, NEG. S:45 Gilmore Oil Co.,, NEG.
 500 Gold Shield Symphony Hour. 10:00 Richfield News Flashes. 1915 Eva Gruninger, contralto, NEG. 10:30 Olympian Quartet, NEG. 1I:0O Globe Trotter Program. 11:10 St. Francis Dance Orchestra. 12:00 Fox Fifth Avenue Organ 12:30 Silent
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

;s; ,.,a; fish are more active at certain times and that these periods of activ. ity are followed by periods of repose. Such periods of inactivity. which are variable In degree. may he compara- ble to sleep in the sense of physiolog ical rest.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
How to Clean Pearls

One method of cleaning pearls Is to hang them for a couple of minutes in hot strong wine vinegar. then remove, and rinse them in water. If left too long in the vinegar they will be in jured.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
R ADJ O p R O c R A M k O M o

FISHERS BLEND STATION, INC.
 Metropolitan Center, Seattle Wn. lowing to poor reception during the earlier part of the day in Hyder, the programs printed below will include only such broadcasts as occur after 5 D. m. daily.)
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

Earl Beyers, operator of a taxi stand, died in the Ketch- ikan General hospital a few days ago. He had been in the hospital for a week.
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
How Fish Sleep

Fish cannot close their eyes and therefore they are unable to sleep In the ordinary sense of that term as applied to mammals, says Path finder Magazine. According to the bureau of fisheries, however, expert- ments with special apparatus indicate
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28

May z, 1902.
 The Postmaster at Napa- mute, Geo. w. Hoffman, re- gently died and h is widow, Mrs. Agnes Hoffman, has been appointed to the official posi- ton.
 The U. s. Marshal of the Second division has sought to interest the Department ot Justice in trying to get some concerted action between the Territory and the Federal gov ernment in the treatment of juvenile delinquency offenders, and if possible to have them cared for in the Territory.
 The nomination of Judge E. Coke Hill in his transfer from the Third or Valdez division to the Fourth or Fairbanks divi- sion was confirmed by the Sem ate on April 27. It is expected that the nomination of Judge Cecil H. Clegg, to the Third division, after having served over ten years in the Fairbanks division, will be sent to the Senate within a day or two.
 In order that two or more coal companies may be induced to continue operations i n the country adjacent to the Alaska Railroad, Delegate Wicker sham has introduced a bill that would give the General Manag- CT of the railroad some latitude in the awarding of contracts. The bill would authorize the the official named 'to par lchase coal for t h e railroad
Hyder weekly herald., 1932-05-28
ALASKA NOTES Culled From the Newspapers
 Of the Territory.

The U. s. s. Swallow, h a S been ordered to Cordova for Independence Day, according to Cordova news reports.