The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-12
The SORDID SCENE
IN CHICAGO, u. S A.
FCentury of Progress" Symbolizes Depths Of
Corruption Of Capitalism

in the West line the L-shaped
street and cowboy performers twirl
their lassos or shoot at balls in the
air for the visitors amusement.
A funeral establishment with a
dead dummy lying on the floor,
dance halls, bar rooms and a gam
bling joint occupy these frame
buildings.
Aren't you working here any
more2" a cowboy asks a Mexican
girl walking the street in the min
ing village. NO" she answers, 81
can't work for nothing"
We enter the home industrial
arts group, one of the free ex-
hibits at the Fair. At some of
these free exhibits, high pressure
statesmen are at hand to take Or
ders for the products displayed, or
efforts are made to obtain your
name and address.
millions Of unemployed VINO
sleep under bridges, in parks, in
Hoovervilles, or close to the gar
bage dumps sleep on piles Of
filthy rags, old springs and mat
tresses, stacks Of newspapers, and
cook cut Of tin cans or kettles
scuttled out of the dumps.)
General Motors, Chrysler and
Nash have their own buildings
wherein are exhibited the latest
types of motor cars and photo
graphic exhibits of the first auto
motive cars made. showing prog
ress in motor and body construc-
ton from earlier days.
Farmers IN Kansas and other
states are Harvesting teams to
their 1925 models, being unable to
purchase gasoline.)
In the Travel and Transport
Building progress in rail. motor and
air TRANSPORTATION form the bulk of
the exhibit
(AI the railroad workers i'm the
U. S. are facing % per cent
reduction in wages. Thousands
rpcn Thousands of workers ride
freight trains al over the coun-
try. seeking employment that
does not exist. And almost a
million homeless youth hitch hike
on all the transeontinental high
WAYS Of the nation unable to find
work.
In the Social Science Building is
on artists Interpretation of PreSi-
dent RoeseVelt's New Deal.
Seventeen million unemployed
walk the streets and highways Of
America. Numerous strikes of
workers against low wages and
tutelerabie working conditions.
Rebellion in the labor Camps
cart cf Rooseveit's New Deal
agairet pcor food, rnsanitary
conditions and serni-mil-tar dis
cioline.)
At the exhibit of the Interna-
tional Harvester Company. the verv
latest types Of moving machines,
tractors, combines and other aeri-
cultural equipment is on display.
(At the International Haryes-
ter Cemranv community gsrdens,
located in the $3.50 West section
on Irvine Patk Blvd. Chicago.
emp,cyees Of the Harvester trust
and their wives and children work
in small PATCHES CT garden with
their bands, hoes, rakes or hand
ct,ltivatcrs.)
In the Electrical Building. the
most modern and up-to-tha-m minute
electrical equipment is exhibited
for home. office, institution or fac
tory. MANY workers have lost
their homes because many factories
are closed. In the hardware stores
of Chicago kerosene lamps are ON
display and sold to unemployed or
part-tine workers who have had
their electricity or gas turned off
being unable to paw the high
prices charged by the utilities
trust.)
Florida. Georgia, Alabama and
ether states of the Sunny South.
'eoated in the Court Of States. have
n exhibit such products of the
South as sugar cane, cotton and
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