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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
PRISONERS TREATED
WORSE THAN SWINE
IN IND. PRISON CAMP
Luesse Thrown in Dungeon for Protesting
Against RailrOading of Fellow Prisoner
Negro Prisoner Learns Meaning of Life
Through Associating with Communist

hospital where you are examined Gas
to how much work can be gotten
out Of you, not for your well being
and fumigated and then you are fin
gerprinted and your picture taken.
You are given a number and sent to
the dormitory until the next morning.
The Work Line
The next morning you are sent
into one Of the work lines" There
are 81 different lines on this farm.
After being there a few days I met
Theo. Luesse, one of the outstanding
Communists of Indiana He is kept
in enc Of the hardest lines there.
too, was put in hard line We work.
ed ten hours a day, rain, snow or
shine. After a days work in coal
or dirt, you have cold water to wash
with. The food is not fit for swine
and you do not get any solid food
at all
Wallis Sent to Asylum
While there they sent a Commu-
mist by the name of Wallis tps,the
criminal insane asylum. Luesse. and
protested against this and lsFsfe
thrown into the hole" for so doing.
The hole is jail on the farm used
for punishment purposes. Whenra
man is put in there he is chained
to the bars with your arms about
shoulder height and you stand in that
position IL hours a day. When let
down, you are given a cup of water
and a piece OF bread to eat and
blanket to lie on.
Called "Nigger"
The officials searched Luesse and
found letters of protest written by
me and him and called us into the
office. They asked me if I believed
that my opinion was considered worth
a damn by them. 1 told them no.
but that I felt it my duty to protest
the treatment of Wallis. They asked
me if I believed in Communism.
told them yes, with all my heart and
soul The warden asked me if 1
thought because my home was in
Boston, that a niger" could come
down there and tell them how to run
their institution I told him I "butted
in wherever any capitalist lackey
was mistreating workers.
Every line has runner, who is
convict stool-pigeon and favorite Of
the guards for he does their work
while they sit in the shade and loaf
A runner speeds up the workers and
has power to cause you to lose a
meal or be thrown into the hole.
Though my offense was not a poll
teal one, my meeting with Comrade
Luesse has shown me the meaning Of
life today and I am carrying on do
ing my bit in the class struggle.
NEGRO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
THE "GOLD DUST
LODGE, A HE'LL
HOLE OF CHARITY
.2,200 Exist Here on
Skinny Ration and
Religious Dope
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK-New York City is a
mint for the dispensers of charity
but poor pickings for the recipients
The Gold Dust Lodge" is horrible
example Of the institutions provided
for the housing of homeless workers
in this city 1t is a paradise" in
comparison with the municipal lodg-
ing house. Here is description of
this eden"
The lodge" occupies a six-story
warehouse at the East River and
there are twenty-five hundred men
existing in there from day to day.
They eat two meals" A dish of
prunes for the guest" with bread
and black coffee in the morning and
an equally rotten meal at night.
The discipline while rigid is not
harsh. However, ones self-respect is
injured wherever he turns Only those
who have no better place to go and
to keep from quick starvation go to
the lodge"
After he is given bed number and
listens to the address of welcome"
delivered by one of the Salvation
Army officers who run the place.
This is given after the religious
services and all are herded down
stairs where they remove their cloth
ing except the socks and shoes.
The garments are checked by bed
number, the guest" receiving a tag
which he hangs about his neck. He
does his share of the work, all be-
ing called at stated intervals.
Those working in the kitchen gang
receive compensation. Their coffee
is sugared and they eat an additional
meal! They go to work at five in the
morning.
Coffee, oatmeal, oleomargerine and
bread are provided by certain man
ufacturers, yet the portions provided
do not satisfy the hungry men. Those
who dropped to the mission-stiff level
defeated dispirited workers-Ed)
panhandle for the funds with which
to buy food and tobacco which all
classes of workers crave. Bumming
the butts of another's smoke is a
common practice and matches are
luxury.
95 Per Cent PenniIess
Ninety-five per cent of the workers
are penniless. They come from the
seamen, sales workers, restaurant
workers, mechanics actors, etc. Over
sixty per cent are over 60 years of
age, So per cent over fifty and the
rest under so.
The place is depressing; the dope
handled out by the colonel rightly
uninspiring and think most cruelty
facetious when visitors are present.
Evening services are small in attend
ance.
These represent the most unfor-
tunate victims of capitalism. For the
sake of argument, will admit, they
are better off than if they were in
jail. No one is really starving"
says Washington. Maybe not but
then thousands are dying of NAL
nutrition" One can see the am
bulance here daily carting them off
to the hospital for attention"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
We Will Send a Communist
to Senate, Says War Vet

"Mr. Lewis, you will go to hell
sooner than you expect, and we will
send a worker, Communist, to the
Senate"
On November 9Th, we ex-service-
men will vote Communist for our
own candidate, James w. Ford, for
president, who is an ex-service-
man, Leslie R. Hurt, and Pzcszel-
kowski, both of whom are ex-ser-
vicemen, and the candidate for gov
ernor of the State of Illinois, Ne
gro worker Mcdonald, who is also an
ex-serviceman and former National
Guardsman.
"A Worker Ex- Scrviccman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
GYP SHARK MADE
TO RETURN FUND
SIP. Member Assails
Workers. Committee
lBy a Workers Correspondent

BY Workers Correspondent
NEW YORK-The Helen Roth En-
ployment Agency at 45th and Sixth
Ave. sold worker a job for s11 that
paid S45 month. The worker, an
elderly Irish woman, took the Job
and paid 81 on account. She worked
five days from $50 a. m. to 8 p. m.
On Sunday she wanted an hour off
at 600 to 1880 in order to 20 to
church and the woman boss of the
laundry fired hcr She came to the
agency and asked for her money back
and the woman strung her along for
a week. Today she went to the IN
employed Council representative, the
Daily Worker seller at 46th st. and
asked for help.
A delegation of workers went with
her to the agency to demand three
fiths OF her money back. at the
agency another woman, well dressed,
Tood talk.rg to the boss. This wonl-
an asked the girl in charge of the
delegation why don't you Commu-
nists so out and fight capitalism in
stead Of getting heads broken; like
we Socialist Labor Partyites. the raal
reyolutionists do?" The delegation
informed her that they weren't out
to get any heads cracked" but to
set tG.s workers. mercy hack Tor her.
About dem women workers left
The agency with the delegation when
they got the morey They saw what
The Socialist Labor Party programme in
action means to the workers, in ad-.
notwithstanding a job shaIk-the
real rsvolutionists' bah
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Socialist In HoovervilIe Halls Hoover

unemployed can at least give them
some government assistance, while
the richest government on earth
cannot,
He then said he knew more about
it than l did because he was once
the editor of socialist paper. Then
l understood. A CLEAN of light had
suddenly burst upon me-.
Now understand the attitude of
the Communists and the Daily
Worker toward the socialists" l
had seen and spoken to one, a former
socialist" editor, and a more bitter
enemy Of the Soviet Union and of
socialism could not be found
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18

Daily Worker; Los Vegas, Nevada.
I had talk some time ago, with
an old man about seventy living in
Hoover City" How he lives, I don't
know. He has a goat and plenty of
grass roundabout for pasturing, so
perhaps he lives on milk alone. Any
how | found him vicious Soviet
hater and a real patriot who found
America the greatest, the finest, the
best government on earth and Hoover
a great man. asked him why the
greatest government on earth has the
most unemployed of any nation on
earth and treats them worse than
any other nation docs Even Eng
land. and Germany with much less
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Workers Beginning
to Talk Radical in
Council Bluffs, Neb.

Council Bluffs.
Daily WORKER
The workers are beginning to talk
radical here now. IS per cent Of the
workers on this onion job are under
the age of 81. Many of them high
school graduates. Many stores are
closing in Council Bluffs which is a
rail road center for the middle west.
The North Western Railroad laid
off another large group of men the
first of the week, some of whom had
been on the railroad for more than
Is years. HIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Secrecy Surrounds
US Troop Movement
to Pacific Coast
(By a Worker CorrespondenO

GLENDIVE, Mont, June Is. -
Three coaches loaded with SOL
diers passed through here this
evening on Northern Pacific train
No. 4 headed for the west coast.
Armed guards were posted at
each end of every car.
It is customary when transfer
ring troops from one post to an
other in peace time to let the
public know the destination. In
quiries among the soldiers and
the conductor brought the re-
Spouse that they could not impart
the information.
This movement was not unlike,
troop movements in 1917-18.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Lakewood Vet Evicted by
Charity Institute Heads

creasing. He grants an immediate
dispossess notice if they ask for it.
An ex-serviceman with four years
in the army couldn't Fay his rent.
The house belongs to Ocean Grove
Aged Home ca charitable institution
and he was evicted before he had
found place to move his family
It's about time the unemployed OF
Lakewood organize and fight for I'M
employment insurance and immedi-
ate relief from the township.
Lakewood Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
(By a Worker Correspondent

CHICAGO, Ill. - The democratic
Senator of Illinois, James Hamilton
Lewis, who was advocating that the
money spent for battleships be spent
for unemployment relief, shows his
true color. When the delegation of
the Chicago Ex-Servicemen ap-
preached him, demanding that he
will support and vote for the SOL
diers' bonus, his answer was;
Gentlemen, You can go to hell
I am going to the Senate"
This statement of Senator Lewis
we the ex-servicemen will remember
and do our utmost to reverse the
statement:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Vets Eat, Say Charge
It to Uncle Sam
(By a Worker Correspondent

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Monday
afternoon group ofs ex-servicemen
went into restaurant near one of
the big markets, ate, and then told
the restaurant keeper that they had
no money and to charge it to
Uncle Sam" Another group did the
same thing in a delicatessen down
the opposite side of the street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Indianapolis, Ind.

AALNA41eAleA lJN4Ao3 AA4eA
Daily Worker:
I spent one hundred and one days
on the Indiana State Farm and am
writing to tell you about conditions
there.
When you enter the farm you are
taken before one of the guards who
asks you your name, address, birth
place and place and name OF parents.
From him you are sent into a room
where your clothes are exchanged for
an overall suit, pair of work shoes
When you are dressed you go to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
(By a Worker Correspondent

LAKEWOOD, N. j. - You have
heard of Lakewood as a resort and
recreation town, but did you hear
of Laliewood's unemployed plight?
The city with population of ten
thousand has listed officially eight
hundred unemployed, What does the
township do for them?
The officials are cutting instead
OF increasing relief, We have a
judge who cannot bear the tears of
the landlords and evictions are in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Bank Took His Money,
Worker Kills Himself
(By a Worker Correspondentl


I wish to send in a little news in
regard to the Chicago Emerson Re-
lief Stations treatment. of workers.
A worker who was unemployed for
a year lost his money in the Second
Northwestern National Bank. Al
though ne applied for relief for three
weeks, he could not obtain any. He
committed suicide at his home.
The worker has a family of three
children and a wife The meme Of
the family is Andrew SzolanslSi, 1856
George Street, Chicago. II wasn't
until after the suicide that the char
ity worker first noticed. that the
family needed help
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
LIKE PRISONERS ON "RELIEF'
JOR
INV a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
CINCINNATI, Ohio. A worker
who is on relief work put in seven
hours for two days each week at
wages of $3.50 a day--total S.. He
has to furnish his own lunch each
day. When they get through, each
one is searched as he leaves the
workhouse of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
TO A MAINE STUDENT.

The author of the article on New
England farming which appeared in
the June 4th issue of the Daily
Worker" is requested to write to L. S.
A., Hillsdale Farm, Ashland, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
SEVENTY PER CENT OF
STUDENTS IN u. S. S. r.
SUBSIDIZED BY STATE
Receive So to $50 R0ubles Per Month"; Room
and Board Costs 80 Roubles
Socialist Competition Keynote of New Met
of Education
Moscow, U. S. S. R.
Dear Comrades:

Moscow U. S. S. R.
Dear Comrades:
You interested in general in the life and work of
schools and universities.
In the U. s. s. R. factory workers, collective farm workers.
poor peasants and their children mainly taught at
schools and universities Seventy cent of the total number
students spends from the Government amounting
from So 100 roube per month We live in dormitores.
In the majority of dormories and collective dining
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
PLASTER WALLS
WITH R0TTEN!
FOOD IN CHI.
Start Real Militant
Fight for Better Food
in Flop House
lBy a Worker oCrrespondentl

CHICAGO, Ill-On Sunday al
breakfast the unemployed workers in
the flop house at 1926 Newberry ST.
got liver and potatoes. Both the
liver and potatoes were sinking ter
ribly The liver was so rotten that
you could smell it blocks away; the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18
Hungry Workers Told
Not to Apply for Re-
lief in Hammond
(By Worker Correspondent

HAMMOND, Ind.-To show how
the relief situation is collapsing every
where, the following was printed in
the local press:
Needy persons who are not al
ready on the list need not apply for
assistance at the city administration
food relief commisary in the base
ment of the East Chicago City Hall,
unless some plan is worked out for
additional funds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-18

potatoes were black, and no one could
eat the garbage.
Because of the rotten food the
workers revolted. The walls were soon
plastered with the rotten liver and
potatoes, and the windows in the so
called dining room were smashed by
flying plates of liver and potatoes.
A real militant fight is being car
ried on by the flop house unemployed
for better food. and the workers ex-
pressed the opinion that the superin-
tendant will think it over before she
attempts to pass any more garbage
to them under the guise Of food.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Stage and Screen
SOVIET FILM MEN AND JOBS
OPENS SUNDAY AT CAMEO

The latest Soviet sound film, Men
and Jobs which opens at the Cameo
Theatre on Sunday, relates the eX-
periences of an American engineer
in charge of construction Of a sec
ton of the giant power plant, Dnie-
prostroi. The socialist competition
between the Russian shock brigader
and the American gives the spectator
an excellent opportunity to grasp the
psychology Of the Soviet mind and
the influence of the swear Plan on
the people.
Reports from Moscow and Berlin
indicate that in the new Soviet film,
the Soyuskino studios have made
their long awaited contribution to
the technique of the sound film The
Berliner Tageblatt in it's review.
says 1.-THE Russians remain pioneers
in the cinema. This film will no
doubt attract a great deal of atten-
ton in Germany, especially on the
part of the scenario writer's and the
motion picture directors"
The '"Tempo," another Berlin news
paper. writes: 1.-THE rhythmic con-
struction of film, which the Rus
slams have mastered to perfection in
their silent films, is here, too, achiev-
ed by the aid of sound in manner
worthy Of imits ton"
A. Macharet, director Of Men and
Jobs" is newcomer among the
Soviet directors and this film is his
first productions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Landlord Tries to
Evict Militant Worker
to Eyade Repairs

NEW YORK.-A direct blow at the
right Of workers to organize for relief
or for the improvement of housing
conditions was delivered by the
Tammany city government when
William Urban Of COG E. 18th st. was
given a dispossess notice and ordered
by the landlord and the court to
move out because he had been active
on the E. 18th st. Block Committee
Another reason for the landlords
action was that Urban was begin
ming to be active among the tenants
in the house at 6O6 E. 18th ST., point
ing out to them that by organized
action they could force the landlord
to make improvements that were
badly needed. The fire escapes had
been so neglected that they were
and the water pipes were
rusty. The landlord took out the
notice against Urban in
an attempt to break up any move
ment to have these repairs made.
The clerk Of the court signed the
notice at once, at the landlords re-
quest, in spite Of the fact that Urban
was ready to pay the rent. Many
workers Of the block, who have long
known Urban as fighter in their
interests, see in this eviction attempt
a blow at the rights of every worker,
and plans are already being made
for a struggle when the landlord
tries to throw Urban's furniture out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
FIGHTING SIXTH"
WINS $50 RETURN
Aids Worker to Get
Fee from Shark

NEW YORK.-The return of $50
is the latest victory to the credit of
the Sixth Avenue Job Agency Griev-
ance Committee, IS W. 3Sth St.
Fred Kress, of 667 232nd St., paid
$45 to the job shark, Reilly Brothers,
1883 9Th Ave, for a job as superin-
tendent at a salary of SIS a month,
at 70 West 182nd st. He worked
on that job for six weeks, and then
was fired by the boss because the
fireman was drunk.
Fred Kress then returned to the
Job shark and demanded the money
he had paid as a fee and which was
legally his The boss threw him out
of the Office and he came for aid to
the Job Agency Grievance Commit
tee.
A delegation was sent up to the job
shark by the committee. and the
boss after adopting a threatening
attitude. was forced by the workers
militancy to come across with $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Collier Hints Won't
Discuss Demands of
Marchers; Protest!

NEW YORK.-Chairman Collier
(DemOcrat) of the House of Re-
personalities Committee on Ways
and Means has notified the Ma
tional Committee of the Unem-
ployed Council here that his Ways
and Means Committee will "decide
whether new hearings are to be
held" on the demands for $50
winter relief and unemployment
insurance. These demands were
presented by 5000 National Hun
ger Marchers to Congress, on
Dec. 6.
Collier first stated that he did
not have the demands The
minutes of the House showed he
did. The National Committee Of
the Unemployed Councils charges
he is celebrating trying to avoid
discussion of the demands. 1t
calls on workers and workers
organizations to Immediately pass
resolutions demanding open hear
ings on these demands, and to send
the resolutions to Collier and to
Vice President Curtis, chairman of
the senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Smash Meet to Stop
Expose of Unity of
Police and Landlord

NEW YORK. Another meeting at
noon today will be held by rent strik-
ers at 50 Amboy st. and their neigh
bors. despite the action Of police in
breaking up by force a meeting Of
300 yesterday at the corner of Am
boy st. and Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn.
The police arrested the speakers
and attacked the listeners in a des-
pera.e attempt to prevent the COM
plete exposure of how the police and
landlord were working together
against the rent strikers. A permit
granted for yesterdays meeting did
not prevent the attack.
The strikers at 81 Amboy st. de-
mand 81 reduction in rent; recogni-
ton Of the house committee and no
evictionS. Tenants at No. 70 are
organizing a committee to support the
strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Labor Sports Program
in New York on Jan. Ia

NEW YORK.-Six years of labor
sports in the United States will be
celebrated January 14th at the Fin
niSh Progressive Hall, is West 126th
Street, with a giant athletic porgram
and affair. Featuring the program
will be the wen-known Kaytee tum-
blers, wrestling, bar work, dance
groups, drills, and music, besides q
dance which will make up the even
ing's entertainment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
Influenza, Pneumonia
Cases Increase; Many
Die From Exposure

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-New cases
Of influenza and pneumonia and the
resulting mortality continue to mount
at an alarming rate. While the city
continues to lay off nurses and other
hospital employees, reducing at the
same time appropriations for med
ical service. hundreds of homeless
and unemployed fall victims to these
deadly diseases, due to exposure,
hunger and lack of medical care.
For the week ending Dec. "a, sos
new cases of pneumonia and go
deaths have been reported by the
Health Commissioner of New York.
The number of pneumonia cases is
I'll greater than the week before.
During the same period there were
TIT new cases of influenza, an in
crease of 1872 over the preceding
week. During the first 3 and half
day period of this week, 256 new
cases have been reported, represent
ing an enormous increase. Deaths
from influenza for the week ending
Dec. "a totaled 90, an increase of Is
over the preceding week,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31

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. s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-31
LABOR UNION MEETINGS

OPEN FORUM on Sunday at II am, ct
l49 Suffer Ave, Brooklyn, on How the
shoe workers can struggle for immediate
relief for the unemployed" Adm. free.