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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Unorganized Drug
Clerks Starving
Trained Men Compete
for Unskilled Jobs

NEW YORK.-The condition of
the professional man in the drug
stores is very bad. These workers,
belonging to the white collar element,
have been nnisled in the belief that
professional ethics would help main
tain for them their standard of
wages. This belief, foStered by drug
store owners as we'll as the large
chain stores, has been instrumental
in breaking up previous protests
among the workers.
What the dignity of the profess
sional ethics amounts to is plainly
illustrated in the present crisis.
During the wartime boom a drug
clerk could command an average of
fifty or sixty dollars a week, with
hours from eight to six or six to
midnight. Today the graduate with
Q years apprenticeship may receive
anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five
dollars week if he could find the
job.
The older members of the trade, with
families to support, who had once
owned little stores, have joined the
recent graduates in competing for a
job that is non-existent. They hang
around offices, or the counters of
friendly business acquaintance, beg
ging for a lunch or a bite to eat for
their families. There are thousands
Of them.
For the SIS or s25 a week, a
drug clerk will be expected to mop
floors, clean shelves, serve behind
the soda fountain and put in hours
dependant solely on the good nature
of his employer. Organization Is
badly needed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
ORGANIZATION
IS ONLY ANSWER
TO WAGE CUTS
Shoe Workers Call on
Shop Mates to Fight
Bosses

NEW YORK workers in Fl.
Jacobs & Sons Stitchdown Factory
are finding it impossible to earn a
decent livelihood since the bosses are
using many vicious schemes to ex-
plot us to the limit. Besides getting
wage-cuts we are forced to work I'M
der actual prison conditions.
The bosses have installed an up
to-date spying system which makes
it impossible for us to speak to each
other in the factory, especially since
they cut the lunch hour to half
an hour. No leaflets can reach us,
explaining no VITO organize against
speed-up and long hours. They ter
rorize us whenever we protest against
the bad conditions and remind us
that there are many unemployed
waiting outside anxious to get work
Some of us realize that the only
way to fight wage-cuts and speed-up
is to organize groups in the shop and
getting more workers to support our
fight.
The young workers especially feel
the exploitation because of the lew
wages we get on piece-work rates.
Sometimes we make as low as $3.50
to So a week after putting in 10 to
IL hours day.
Another profit making scheme is
the charge system, which robs us
weekly from so cents to So for dam
aged shoes that can be fixed, and
for lost shoes that fall off the broken
racks.
On top of these conditions we ex-
pect to be laid off shortly, since the
slack period is approaching and the
workers who remain can expect
more wage-cuts and more terror.
Fellow workers of Jacob'sl We
must organize now and show the
bosses that we are ready to defend
our interests despite the spy sys-
tenn and terrorization. Organize
into groups and join the Shoe and
Leather Workers Industrial Union,
which is the only union that will
help us improve our conditions!
"A Worker From H. Jacob.
Note: The Shoe and Leather
Workers Union is located at Sc Fifth
Ave, New York City. Telephone AL
gonquin 4-9641.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
COMMISSIONER
TAKEN TO TASK
300 Duluth Jobless
Hale Him to Meeting

DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 27-Three
hundred workers damned Oddfellows
Hall in West Duluth to hear the an
swer given their demands by Com
missioner Newman. They had pre-
viously marched, 300 strong, in sub
zero weather to see Newman, but the
commissioner wasn't at home.' They
then elected a committee to hunt him
up, and report to them in the hall
The committee brought Newman
along to answer. Newman is chair
man of the county board and is head
of the Emergency Relief Committee
Caught Lying
Newman said that the cost of wood
for fuel had never been deducted
from the relief payments. The work
ers proved it had. He promised free
fuel in the future.
He first refused to do anything
about having Red Cross flour deliver
ed in w. Duluth, because I haven't
any control over the Red Cross" but
later in the meeting one of his bench
men promised this.
He pleaded the need of the special
grocers assigned to cash relief checks
in answer to the demand of the I'M
employed for cash relief and the right
TO buy food anywhere.
He refused the demand that there
be no waiting in line for relief orders,
and refused to have them made out
before hand. He evaded the demands
for tax exemption or relief to single
men.
use Lamps"
When workers denounced cutting
off of light, water and gas, Newman
gave them advise to use kerosene
lamps, borrow the use of kitchen,
and take up individually the question
of water"
Workers freely accused Newman of
making difficulties for them to break
their morale and keep them from
asking for more. One said, "They want
us to starve to death so we won't
bother them.'
Workers present who had voted
Newman into office left declaring
they had made big mistake. The
meeting voted to elect a permanent
committee for the neighborhood to
press the demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Machine Displaces
48 Fisher Body Girls

CLEVELAND, DIN the Fisher
Body here, the girls in the Upholster-
ing Department will be acutely af-
fected by the installation of a
new machine in the salvage room
in the basement. This machine I'M
roofs, marks, stamps, cuts, folds, and
sews upholstering materials, all in
one operation. Two girls run this
machine.
The bosses tell us the machine
costs the company n LOT of money,
but anybody can figure out why the
machine was installed. Forty to
fifty girls used to do the work that
this machine does--so Fisher Body
is saving the wages OF 38 to 48 girls
each day, and 38 to 48 girls who
used to work here will never come
back-they have received permanent
vacations without pay.
"A Fisher Body Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
STRUGGLE AGAINST
PROVOCATION

BY action of the respective Dis
trict Organizations of the Conlmu
mist Party, all workers and all
working class organizations are
publicly warned against the follow
ing individuals:
Frank Note of Houston, Pa. (near
Cannonsburg), known among the
miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia, until lately leading
member of the National Miners
Union-has been exposed as com
pletely demoralized and degenerated
element, who spent his life in booze
joints with bootleggers and other
rscketeers, and finally became a stool
pigeon, traitor to the working class
His complete exposure came about
through an investigation Of his rec
ord Of rank white chauvinism
and of disruptive activities Cagitat-
ing against Jewish leadership.").
scription-Native- born of Italian
parents; five foot seven inches tan,
dark complexioned, very hairy, has
a thin and soft speaking voice.
Walter Smorag Of Avella, Pa,
miner, who joined the UNWA in
1918 and the National Miners Union
in 1923, has been exposed as a dis
ruptive and totally unreliable element
who has associated himself with
known company stool pigeons, Nick
Bardyn and John Bardyn.
Upon repeated complaints from
Party members against Smerag's bu-
reaucratic, disruptive and non-Com-
munist actions and conduct, it was
found that his activities in the Party
and in other working class organiza-
lions were very bad, and that he was
very friendly with Nick Bardyn,
self-admitted stool pigeon, who was
working for several industrial agen-
cies headed by the Pittsburgh Coal
Co. Smorag also knew that Nick
Bsrdyn's brother, John, who lives at
Pa, and works in the At
lasburg mine, was a stool pigeon, but
he never reported this either TO the
Party or to the National Miners
Union.
He is OF Polish birth, about 40
years Of age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
GERMAN WOMEN USE NEW
TACTICS TO OBTAIN
WINTER RELIEF

SALZUNGEN, Dec. 2. (By MaiD -
This morning 20 women marched to
the Town Hall with their children to
demand special winter relief. The
Mayor refused all their demands,
Whereupon the women lsft their
children in the Town Hall and
marched home. This stratagem was
so successful that the authorities
Immediately agreed to the issue Of
100 loaves of bread and 100 quarts
OF milk.
In their battle for winter relief the
unemployed must exhibit the great
est resourcefulnesS to compel the
unwilling authorities to do something
for them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Smooth Talk by UNIV Agent
Breaks Nanty-GlO MineStrike
Not Warned of Wage Cut; Took Real Actor

NANTY- CLIO, Pa, Dec, 27.-Here
is an example of how the United
Mine Workers does its strike break
ing. Three hundred miners at
Springfield No. mine of the Peal
Peacock &, Kerr Co., had their
wages cut without notice They
knew nothing Of it until the night
shift went to work, Dec. Is.
The result was spontaneous strike
with picketing on the roads to the
mine, Dec. IS.
A meeting was called, and 1000
miners from this mine and from
HeiSley Coal Co., 300 men; Lincoln
Coal Co., 200 men; Webster Mine,
$50 men and other mines. There
was every indication of a strike
throughout the whole district Even
Ex-burgeSs Carnahan admitted that.
But then International organizer
Ghizzoni of the U. M. w. got up.
The miners asked him: will the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28

U. M. w. A. give us rehef?"
He launched into a speech on their
chances TO help themselves, told them
that the state government and the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
would give them help, and so on.
Ghizzoni is an agent Of Governor
Pinchot.
Then Ghizzoni talked them into
delaying action, sending a small COM
mittee of 8 to go to the company,
and when this was agreed 10, the
meeting ended without the committee
being given a single demand to take
to the company.
That ended the strike.
The National Miners Union in
Johnstown did not learn of the
struggle in time to be of any effect
in it, which shows they were not in
very good contact with the situa-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
BAD CONDITIONS
ON A. F. L. JOBS
Worker Cites Victory
by Left Wing
by a Worker Correspondent

10y d
NEW YORK-The other day a
call came in to our shop about 10
am, for a repairman and we sent
out carpenter who had been wait
ing for two hours on the chance that
something would turn up. When he
returned after three in the afternoon
the boss looked up from his news
paper and asked him his time. Well,
said the man, after hesitating for a
few seconds sit was a rotten job
and I had a lot of trouble with it.
really worked three hours, but
make 1t one" Write down one
hour" said the boss, returning to his
newspaper.
That afternoon I sent out bill
for 81, but when Saturday came
around the man was handed a pay
envelope containing eighty-one cents.
Taking off carfare lunches are not
considered because the men are eco
nonizing on them now this nets
him seventy one cents for five hours
of his time.
Later that day I heard the bosses
discussing plans for new wage cut.
Though this is an A. F. of L. shop,
calling for an $11.20 wage, one man
of the four gets $3.50 and the others
$3.50 a day. We've got to cut down
to &c." said the boss, nobody gets
more now" Suppose they won't
take it, his partner remarked. Then
we'll throw them out" answered the
brains of the organization, there
are plenty of men come around here
begging for work at 81 g. day"
1t is with the greatest difficulty
that you get the men to talk Of their
grievances though it is plain to see
that they are pretty nearly desperate.
Each one is afraid of the other and
the competition for the small guam
tity of work that comes in increases
the hostility, The men tell me that
if onyone tries to protest at q meet
ing, there are two husky gorillas at
his side yelling to him to sit down.
If he don't sit down, he is laid down,
none too gently, ON the pavement
outside.
The constant pressure from the
bosses and the betrayal of the union
has taken a lot of fight out of the
men. What can you do about it,"
they ask, "the workingnnan always
gets the dirty end"
The Daily Worker recently carried
the answer in the announcement OF
the victory won by the left wing
union at the Garfinkel 81 Steinberg
shop. know the history of these
workers. They were exactly in the
same boat that our men are floun-
dering in now. They decided to
fight, and in this fight they found
militant leadership and won. Their
stubborn battle has shown the work.
ing class the road to victory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
What Price Rugged
Indiyidualism?

ANDERSON, Ind.-Workers in the
Guide-Lamp, one of the units OF
General Motors, are. treated worse
than slaves by the boss flunkies
They are denied even the privilege
of getting drink of water during
work hours. The foremen tell them
to stick right on the job or get the
hell out.
Workers of Guide Lamps, how does
this kind of treatment appeal to
your rugged individualisna Your
only way out of such miserable
slavery is to join the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union.
y. A. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
SENATOR CALLS
FOR INITIATION
Calls 1t Farm Relief"
Means More Hunger

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 81
An open call for initiation of the cur
rency, with no word of what it means
in the form of higher prices of food,
clothing and rent for the workers,
and to the farmers was the measure
of so-called "farm-relef" proposed to
the Senate in a speech Dec. % by
Bailey of North Carolina. He was
Immediately congratulated and sup
ported, by a group of republican and
democratic senators including: Cap
per, Borah, Swanson, Watson, Bark
ley and George. The democrats
among them had just come from a
conference of Senators and Repre-
sentatives with personal representa-
tives Of President elect Roosevelt.
Farmers Against Initiation
The National Farm Relief Con-
ference in Washington, representing
the wishes Of the actual farmers, did
not call for any initiation. 1t called
for farm relief and moratorium on
farm debts and taxes. Bailey and his
group saw fit to ignore these de-
rnands.
Bailey did make some admissions:
"Amerian Standard"
"Our boasted American standard
Of living and wages has disappeared
with the civilization which created
It," Bailey said. "It no longer ex-
lists. Our farmers owe $1l, 600, 000, 900
and have no money with which to
clothe their families. We cannot call
civilization condition such as this,
in which there is no security against
the loss OF their homes and their
employment by the people. No gov
eminent can tolerate this sort Of
thing and expect to last. This is de-
generation" he admitted.
THE haryests of 1881 and 1882
have been reaped in tears and des-
pair"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Telephone Girls
Must Sell Service
on Own Time, No Pay

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The operators
Of the N. Y. Telephone Co. are forced
to become saleswomen after hours on
their own time, without pay. They
receive frequent lectures on increas-
ing their sales on other items, besides
the installation of extra public tele-
phone booths in the stores, exchange
Of present type phones for French"
phones, which adds Is cents to the
phone bills, and increased advertis-
ing in one or more places in the
Donellys Red Book. Girls are being
laid off right along and many are
working only three and four days
a week. e: F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
COLOMBIA GUN
BOATS AT LETICIA
u. S. Arms Used in
Bosses War

Colombian gunboatS Cordoba and
Mosquera are reported at Para, Bra
lillian port on the Amazon River. On
the arrival of two other Colombian
warships, the squadron of four YES
sells will proceed up the Amazon, to
Leticia, scene of the undeclared war
between Colombia and Peru. They
are awaited by a Peruvian squadron
already at Leticia.
Five additional Colombian naval
Ships, including two transports carry
Ing troops, are also reported on their
way to Para.
$4,000 Bolivian Troops in Chaco.
The Bolivian government is mobil-
izi1g 10000 additional troops for the
undeclared war between Bolivia and
Paraguay, making a total of 10000
men modified in Bolivia and sent to
the Gran Chaca war front. The b.
ivian troops are plentifully supplied
with arms and munitions recently re-
ceived from the United States. With
this aid from the u. S. imperiaIists.
the Bolivians have seized the often
slve and are now advancing in the
Gran Chaca. The government has
declared its intentions to seize not
only the disputed Gran Chaca terri
tory but to push its offensive beyond
the Paraguay River into the heart of
Paraguay
Civilians Bombarded
The civilian population OF the
Paraguayan town of Bahia Neara has
been under constant aerial lombard
ment for the past five days. Large
numbers have been killed and wound
ed.
The war is threatening to spread
rapidly to include Argentina. Brazil
and other South American states. The
Paraguayan Foreign Office yesterday
charged the Brazilian Government
with aiding Bolivia by facilitating the
operation of Bolivian planes which
were permitted to cross Brazilian ter
ritory to reach Puerto Suarez. A
South American dispatch to the New
York Times comments significantly:
This development is being closely
watched here in view of the more or
less persistent reports for some time
that Brazil is inclined to favor Be-
| livia."
The two undeclared wars In South
America reflect the fierce rivalry be-
tween U. S. and British imperialists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
Hunger March Film Ready
CELEBRATE CANTON CoMUNB

MEXICO CTTY.-ThouSands OF
workers here attended meetings all
over the city in celebration of the
Canton Commune, under the leader
ship of the Soccorro Rojo Interna-
tionale, sister organization of the
International Labor Defense. Work
ers painted protests against imper-
ialist war, the wars now going on in
South America and Manchuris, and
the imprisonment, murder and tor
lures of Japanese and Chinese work
ers on the walls of the American,
Chinese and Japanese embassies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
LYNCH PRESS IN
PRAISE OF JUDAS
proud Of Reformist
Negro Leaders"

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 81
The Southern lynch bosses and their
press are unanimous in heaping
praise upon the Judas heads of Tus-
kegee Institute for their vicious at
tacks on the struggles of the Negro
troopers in Tallapoosa County and
the turning over to the police of
Cliff James and another wounded
cropper who sought medical aid at
the Tuskegee Hospital
The Montgomery Advertiser IL I'M
ted the following headline a few days
ago:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
No Overtime Pay
for Counter Girls

STANFORD, Conn. - Girls at
Montgomery Ward 81 Co. are work
ing overtime for chocolates and
grapes They have some slave
driver there Most of the girls are
near a nervous breakdown.
There is not one girl in the city
of Stamford in department store
that gets paid for overtime. She
may get pair of stockings or a
pair of pajamas, or make good marks
Cor promotion.
q C..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
International
Notes
BIZ ROBERT HAMILTON

A little Sdelight on the Socialists
opposition" to imperialist war.
A toast by Baron, the French So
cialist leader, at a banquet of the
French National Automobile Cham
Der Of Commerce: II drink to i'm
mortal France, which rules us all, to
its glory and it's progressl" Prom
the Official de PAutomobile," Of
Nov IS, 1922
When talking before workers, So
ciallsts protest against chauvinism,
and talk of their international SYM
pathies. But in the inner circles OF
capitalism, at the same table with
Renault. Citroen, Peugeot, Cabinet
ministers and generals of the French
Army, they drop the mask and dis
close their true loves-country and
patriotism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28
UTAH HUNGER
MARCH, JAN. 10
Unemployed of More
States Plan Struggle
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE

NOO@f a AAf - LIZ a %eOAFA - AWE NANA1(
ditions.
The marchers will present the fol-
lowing demands:
Demands.
1. The appropriation of sufficient
funds out of the state budget to give
every unemployed worker and i'm
poverished farmer $50 and $40 to
each dependent for cash winter re-
lief.
2. That the State Social Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill presented by
the State Hunger March Committee
be passed by the Legislature inrne-
diately.
3. That the present policy Of evic-
tons, gas water, and electric shut
offs due to non-payment of bills by
unemployed workers be abolished.
4. That all forced labor camps in
California for unemployed workers be
abolished and that the union scale
of wages be paid on all state, coun-
tv and MUNICIPAL relief work.
5. That all funds raised by Com
munity Chest drives and bond issues
and being handled by so-called re-
lief associations be given over to the
unemployed and employed workers TO
administer through their own elected
committees.
6. That all arTnorieS, war memorial
buildings and barracks be adequately
equipped for sleeping quarters and
turned over for the use Of unem-
ployed single veterans and workers.
Z. AN immediate moratorium on all
farm mortgages and taxes held
against the small farmers.
8. That all vagrsncy laws and the
Criminal Syndicalist Law be imme-
diately repealed.
9. That Tom Mooney and Warren
K. Billings be given an immediate
and unconditional pardon.
10. The establishment Of State
Children's Relief Stations to furnish
adequate food, clothing and shelter
for homeless children and children
of unemployed and part-tine work
ers. These stations to be admin
istered by committees elected by the
workers and small farmers.
H. That no discrimination be used
because of race, color, creed, age, ma
tionality, sex, length of residence or
political beliefs in the adninistra-
ton of the above demands, and that
no discrimination be used against any
worker who owns a home or automo-
bile.
Colorado March Jan. Is.
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 81. - The
Colorado State Hunger March has
been definitely set for Jan. %. That
is the date the delegations from all
over the state will come before the
Legislature in Denver. Organization
of the march was given a great I'M
petus by the return here Of the Ma
tional Hunger Marchers. They are
scattering to all localities Of the state,
and mobilizing the workers and
farmers for the march on Denver.
The United Front Conference OF
Denver, which has affiliated with 1t
now 80 workers organizations, in
Guiding local unions, is issuing 2S,ooo
copies Of a call for organization OF
the march and for local struggles
for relief, throughout the state.
Another Victim
The National Committee of the
Unemployed Councils has just re-
ceived notice that Joe Potcheko, a
National Hunger Marcher and mill
tant fighter from Denver, Colorado,
has died in Columbus, Ohio.
When Virginia, Maryland n d
Pennsylvania state police attacked
the returning columns and scattered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-28

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Get greetings from your friends
and sympathetic organizations for
the special Ninth Anniversary
Lenin Memorial edition Of the
Daily Worker January IA. All
greetings must be in by Jan. 8.