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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
STRIKES IN MANY
CALF. CCC CAMPS
48 Hr. WorkWeek, Bad
Food Cause Protests
Throughout State
by a Labor Camp Correspondent

by a Labor Camp Correspondent
YUCAIPA, Calf. - California has
the largest number Of G. c. G. camps
of any state in the Union. These
camps as a whole are built comfort
ably Modern camp mess halls have
been built and tents have wooden
floors in them. However there are
some predominating grievances among
the men that have brought out some
striking examples Of organization and
unity.
The fellows are willing to do their
share Of work and comply with reg
ulations, but any action on the part
of officers or rangers in charge to
impose on their rights meets with
resistance on the part of the ma ority
of the men.
Immediate Reaction to Infringement
of Rights
AT the beginning of the camps, an
effort was made to make the men
work on Saturday in violation of the
contracts, which call for a 5-day
week. There was an instantaneous
reaction TO strike, and groups of men
went TO the officers protesting and
refusing to work on Saturday. In
Company 511 the fellows were forced
to work and their complaints ignored.
In Company $50 the officers at
tempted to fool the men into work
| ing by saying it was temporary and
that the more they worked the sooner
the camp could be completed and
would be a better place to live in.
Can't Fool the Workers
This, however, did not fool the
fellows and they were insistent on a
40-hour week. AS a result the COM
pany commander compromised and
the men who wanted to worked on
Saturday and Sunday, but got an
extra day leave for every hours
of work put in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Safe Rewards Come Only Through Honest Work. Roosevelt
Tells Undebaid Labor Camp Recruits Over Radio
"They Picked Out Some AS Foremen-All Elk
Pugs or Strong Arm Men" for Discipline
in Camps
Military Training At
Spectator, n. Y. Camps

tBy Labor Camp Correspondent
SPECULATOR, N. Y.-When we
got up here there was an advance
guard of 25 who were already here.
These 25 had been given military
training for eleven weeks previous.
They were a picked bunch from a
gang of about 1000, All are bunch
of bruiSers.
Bullied by Bruisers
They bossed us around, and one
day when we lined up for eats they
smacked one of the bunch of fellows
was in. We were going to rush
them, but they flashed guns. We
went to the captain, and as result
they have to get in line for eats.
Work Is Very Hard
They work us like hell for about
six hours a day. You must be in
bed by 10 pm. The boys are sore
and inaSmuch as we are getting our
pay Friday, bunch of boys are
quitting. I tried to get them to
stay, but I couldn't.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Thugs Beat Workers
in Forced Labor Camp

tBy a Labor Camp Correspondent
", N. Y-The conditions
here are very bad, disgraceful. The
food is bad and not sufficient. Since
we boarded the train, we have been
eating canned corned beef and hard
biscuits. On Wednesday one group
eve are divided into groups of about
fifty when we go to work. refused to
eat the stuff and returned it in a
body to the captain.
Anyway, today we had no corned
beef, but the food was insufficient
and bad. With our leaders gone, not
openly but secretly, we can do
nothing right now.
Strong Arm Guys
The captain and the major con-
stantly threaten us with blows. They
have picked out about 10 or is fell
lows to be the leaders and foremen.
They are all ex-pugs or strong-arm
men. Some of them carry knives or
clubs. About one fellow a day gets
beating from them.
Serious Accidents Daily
Accidents are frequent, one serious
one each day. The worst SO far is
the toe completely chopped of
Unsanitary Camp
The place is very unsanitary, dirty
and freezing at night. Your blankets
and heavy overcoat are insufficient.
During the day 1t is very hot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Better Food Won
By Camp Protest
(By Labor Camp Correspondent

(By a Labor Camp Correspondent
Our camp is still very far from
perfect, being crude in structure and
lacking in sanitary necessities We
are still without showers, and we have
been here over a month Our toilet
is very crude and does not have a
drainage system Lime is used for
disease prevention.
Meeting Results In Better Food.
A week ago we had a meeting in
our camp, due to the meals we had
been getting In my estimation,
there is much graft going on, which
is taking the food out of our mouths.
During that meeting we refused to
work unless we got better treatment
The captain threatened us with
Imprisonment, as this was federal
offense. He said if we have any
grievances, we should consult him in
a pleasant manner. If anybody did
consult him, he would order him to
leave. But he promised better treat
ment in the future. The result was
we are getting much better food than
| previous.
Three Sandwiches for Dinner
The men that work far away from
the camp are only given three sand
witches for dinner One is imitation
jelly, one is peanut butter, and the
other is boloney. What do you think
of that for Woodworking mans
dinner?
We have had quite few rain
storms recently. which makes living
here rather hardship. But still 1
am determined to stick it out.
have served one-fourth of my time. I
was informed that the government
spends 1928 on each man per day,
| this includes salaries and all other
expenses. All of our clothes are Sec
| onds. We must make 40 working
hours a week, regardless of weather
conditions. 1 term these camps as
modern slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
COURIER" LAUDS
ALABAMA HONOR,
IGNORES 9 BOYS
Repeal More Import
ant to Negro Betrayers
Than Scottsboro

PITTSBURGH, July 18.-An ex-
ample Of the sort of services for
which President Roosevelt made Rob-
ert L. Vann, editor and publisher of
the Pittsburgh Courier special as
sistant attorney general in the De-
partment of Justice is contained on
the editorial page of the Courier this
week
A headline on this page reads in
bold type, spread over two columns;
Alabama to Get Another Chance to
Redeem Honor"
Called Scottsboro a blot"
Previously the Courier, in company
with other Negro reformist papers,
has called the Scottsboro case "a blot
on the hcnor of Alabama" in order
to hide its character as part of the
entire system of oppression of Ne
gross in the country by the white
ruling class.
Does this headline refer to the
Scottsboro case? If not that, then
does it refer to a lynching? To the
present attempt to legally lynch Will
lie Peterson? To the appeal in the
Dadeville frame-ups? You'd be sur
prised.
"Alabama's Honor"
In the eyes of the Pittsburgh Cour-
Ter the 'honor" of Alabama rests on
its vote on repeal of the 18th amend
ment. Once that is settled, Alabama's
honor is washed clean, in the eyes Of
the Pittsburgh Courier, unofficial or
gan of the NAACP and official organ
of the Democratic lynch party among
the Negroes.
The article is from the pen OF H.
Councile Trenholm, president OF the
state Teachers College of Alabama,
1t deals also with a coming vote on
extending the income tax downward
to put more Of the burden on the
lower middle class, which is put for
ward on the excuse that it will help
pay the salaries of school-teachers
which the state has defaulted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
A CORRECTION

In the paragraph dealing with
the Communist Party leaders who
are members of the ARRANGEMENTS
Committee for the q. s. Congress
Against War. the names of Earl
Browder, general secretary of the
Communist Party, and Charles
Kruulbein. New York District or
sa,iiz4-, should not have been in
GUIDED. They are not members of
the committee except insofar as
Trey act as substitutes in accord
arce with the agreement reached.
At lis last meeting, however. the
Arrangements Committee voted to
invite the following Communist
leaders: william Y. Foster, chair
man of the Communist Party, Jack
Stachel, acting secretary of the T.
u. u. L.: Clarence Hathaway, editor
Of the Daily Worker; A. Wagon
knecht. Of the National Committee
To Aid Victims of German Fascism,
ard Gil Green, national secretary
of the Young Communist League, to
serve on the Arrangements Com
mittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
CLOAkMAkERS
NAME DELEGATES
TO CODE HEARING

NEW YORK-A mass meeting Of
eloakmakers, held yesterday at Bry-
ant Hall, And st. and Sixth Ave, at
the call of the cloakmakers' rank and
file action committee, elected COM
mittee of six, of whom five are to go
to Washington tomorrow to present
the workers demands. These de-
mands which include week work,
adoption of minimum wage at union
local meetings, a 35-hour week and
unemployment insurance at the
bosses expense, will be presented in
opposition to the cloak manufactur-
ers' code.
This code of the manufacturers, as
reported in Saturdays Daily Worker,
received the secret consent of the
leaders of the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union, who pre-
tend to oppose it only in order to
head off a cloakmakers' strike
through fake stoppage.
NT.WI.U. Sending Committee
A committee representing the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union will also appear at the hear
ng on the cloak CODE to put for
ward the aforementioned demands
on a national scale. as well as other
demands which include a minimum
Of 26 weeks guarantee Of work, the
abolition Of the check-off system, a
complete statement in the code to
the effect that workers shall have
the right to strike and to belong to
a trade union of their own choice,
regular adjustment Of wages to ris-
ing cost Of living, and full respon-
sibility by jobbers and manufactur-
ers for the conditions Of the workers
which their contractors employ.
Louis Hyinan, president Of the N.
T. w. I. u; L. j. Cohen and Joseph
Boruchowitch are on this commit
tee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
10y ear-Old Negro Boy
Killed by Policeman;
Shot in Back of Head

WICKLIFFE, Ohio, July 1S.-Albert
Dawson, 15-year old Negro boy. was
shot in the back of the head and
fatally wounded by Policeman Harry
Truax, here, when Truax said he saw
him take watermelon from truck
The cop insisted he had not aimed
at the boy, but in the air at a As
degree angle, "just to scare him." The
Lake County prosecutor pondered
this alibi and announced that Daw-
son must have been hit by the bullet
as it fell.
No action was taken against the
murderer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
BETTER FOOD WON
IN CAMP REVOLT
Demolish Tent, Soak
Officer in Food Pro-
test at Windy River
lBy a Labor Camp Correspondentl

10y LaDOr lamp COrTespOHueutJ
CAMP HEMLCCK, Stabler, Wash.
This place is seventy miles from
Portland, Oregon. 1t is almost on
the Columbia River.
We aren't planting any trees as
the popular belief happens to be.
had better explain about this coun-
try before I go further. We are in
the Wind River Valley, and this
vicinity is about the most dry spot
in the state. The forest fires start in
this valley and spread to all the tim
Der land throughout the state. We
are here to save whatever timber is
left, by telling giant snags and by
fighting forest fires.
We had riot in camp Thurs
day. The cause was the rotten meals
the mess sergeant tried to give US
When we got here, the mess sergeant
acted very hard-boiled, but though
we resented his actions, we didn't dc
anything about .it--at first. He gave
us excellent meals, so we ignored
him. Somehow, because we are from
Chicago, he got the idea that we
were nothing but riff-raff or con-
victs who would not dare to speak
UP.
The lunch came. Imagine the crust
of the mess sergeant. He sent up Two
corned beef sandwiches, nothing else,
with the warning not to waste any
food! The beef was old and stale
and the bread hard. There were
fifty of us, and half of our squad
started to bawl the officer out, and
since he didn't seem to be inter-
ested, we chopped our axes and
walked over to the lunch and said
Boys, it's about time we stood up
for our rights and put the mess SER
geant in his place"
When we got to camp, we got the
rest of the camp to join us and all
of us took our food, walked over to
the kitchen and threw the food in
the mess sergeant's face. We knocked
the kitchen apart. pulled the tent
down and took the sergeant and
soaked him in the Wind River. When
we got through with him, we said
you had better give us good sup
per and feed us good from now on,
or there won't be any mess ser
geant!" a,o..,. +
The king pins did the apologizing
and they let us have Saturday and
Sunday off, with the right to stay in
town over the weekend, and prom
ised better food
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Natl ScOttsborO Day
Set for Anniversary
of Sacco, Vanzetti

NEW YORK.-August n, anniver-
sary Of the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti, has been set aside as National
ScottSboro Day, it was announced to-
day by william l.. Patterson, national
secretary of the International Labor
Defense
Scottsboro demonstrations will be
held in dozens of cities throughout
the country, and Scottshoro meetings
in hundreds more. to demand the i'm
mediate unconditional. and safe re-
lease of the nine innocent Scottsboro
boys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Il Term These Camps AS Modern Slavery
Writes A Recruit from Roosevet's
Forced Labor Army
SO Leave in Week At
FOxbOro, Mass. Camp

by a Labor Camp Correspondent
FOxBORO, MaSs.-Just a line to
let you know what the conditions are
in the vets reforestation camp here.
Conditions and the food are so lousy
that 80 men have left camp in the
last eight days. After they tell the
officer they want to quit, he makes
them wait in camp for Transports
ton and puts guards at meal time
to see that they don't eat meal
before they leave. AS a rule they pay
a fine of So to So for quitting.
Most all the men are dissatisfied
and waiting to see what the next
few weeks will be, as most Of the
men have given up the idea Of stick
ing it out six months, as 1t is too
much like a workhouse here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
VAN-DYE-WAY FUR
DRESSERS STRIKE

PATTERSON, N. j., July 1s.-The
workers of the Van-Dye-Way Fur
Dressing and Dyeing shop are out on
strike for a reduction in hours and
an increase in wages. The strike is
under the leadership of the Fur De-
paftment of the Needle Trade Work
ers Industrial Union. The workers
are out 100 per cent, and every de-
psrtment is shut down tight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19

What price discipline writes a
youth in New York. "The captain
and the major constantly threaten
us with blows. They have picked
out 10 or Is fellows to be the lead
ers and foremen. They are all ex-
pugs and strong arm men,"
To assure that they work long
and hard enough a letter from
Yucaipa, California, states:
eat the beginning of the camps,
an effort was made to make the
men work on Saturday in viola
ton of the contracts, which call
for 5-day week"
There is no danger that the men
will "get something for nothing.
As a letter from Oregon states,
First when he (Roosevelt-Ed.)
took these young workers, he gave
direct cut in the amount of re-
lief given their families. Second
he has given them military train
ing, and so he prepared another
standing army"
Roosevelt concludes with call for
"a new spirit. Such spirit is
developing in the camps, but not tc
the liking of the president and the
whole bosses government, as the
letters show. In Camp Preston the
Negro youths resisted the jim-crow
policy of the officials. Many of the
letters from the camps show the ris-
ing mood for struggle against the
rotten conditions. AS one of them
points out, "in many cases the work
ers have revolted and thus been able
to gain few concessions" This ic
the kind Of militant spirit which is
developing in the camps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
$50 STRIKE IN STEEL
PLANT IN MARTINS FERRY

MARTINS FERRY, O., July 49,
One hundred and fifty workers at
the Martins Ferry plant of the
Wheeling Structural Steel Co. went
on strike today demanding that the
minimum wage of 40 cents an hour
supposed to be granted by the steel
code be put into effect. The work
ers are now receiving % cents an
houp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Heavy Camp Work
Causes Rupture

(By a Labor Camp Correspondent
DETROIT, Mich.-There were food
strikes carried on by Company 662 at
Kenton City, in the Ottawa National
Forest of the Upper Michigan re-
Gently. But the boys will have to
struggle on and put demands before
the camp authorities to force them
to provide adequate treatment and
more proper medical care and atten-
ton to all boys who became disabled
from the hard work imposed upon
them. We must compel the govern
ment to retire these boys on regu-
lar army pension or disability COM
pensation, because the reforestation
project of faker Roosevelt has made
them useless for life.
A young man who recently passed
his 21st birthday at the camp is going
home to his parents next Sunday,
finished product from the Ottawa
National Forest, at Kenton City. A
healthy boy, so pronounced by the
doctor who examined him at Fort
Wayne, in Detroit, he was sent to
Camp Custer for two week, from
which he was transferred to the
forests Today he is a victim OF
Rooseyelt's reforestation work. He is
ruptured from lifting heavy logs at
the camp and other hard work that
has strained him. When he was rup-
tured, he was sent TO Sault st.
Marie, to the hospital theme, and
then he was brought back to Kenton
City. This lad was ruptured before
and was operated on, and was well
when he was sent to the camp by
the welfare Department.
At the hospital he was given such
humanitarian treatment that an ami
NAL would have received better care
at the hands of veterinarian.
When the hospital tents were filled
with sick youth, he was forced to
spend three weeks sleeping on blan-
kets on the hospital porch, after
spending one week In the camp hos
pital tent. Later he was brought
back to Kenton City, because the
porches became overcrowded.
Three More Ruptures
Three other fellows also are rup-
tured. One has heart rupture,
and the other two boys have abdo-
minal ruptures similar to what this
boy has This boy has done every
job in the forest camp. Lifting logs,
chopping trees, and finally ended UP
with planting trees.
Compelled by Welfare To Go
To Camp
The welfare compelled him to go
to the forest camps. His family was
on the welfare for six months. His
father at the present time has re-
sumed work in the automobile fac
tory and is off the welfare rolls. The
family, before they were stricken off
the welfare rolls, were receiving $12,
80 quarts Of milk, half ton of coal
and one sack of -four every two
weeks.
Solving" the Unemployment Problem
When their boy was taken to camp,
they were supposed to live on $25
month, below the budget the welfare
department allowed to this family
monthly, which amounted to about
$40 a month. This is Solving" the
unemployment situation. Cutting OF
relief, on one hand, and conscripting
you indirectly, to undergo military
preliminary training of six months,
under the guise of peaceful civilian
reforestation work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
Roosevelt's Speech Contrasted
with Forest Workers Opinions

his disposal President Roosevelt
time
through the country The president fol-
secretary o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19

These are the answers, made by
recruits in the forced labor camps
How the government intends TO
look after its citizens" is described
by a recruit in company 662 at
Kenton City in Upper Michigan
where numerous accidents have
taken place because of the hard
work. This youth says, 1--WE must
compel the government to retire
these boys on a regular army PEN
sion or a disability compensation,
because the demonstration project
of faker Roosevelt has made them
useless for life.
1--WE are getting away from the
soup kitchens" says Roosevelt.
Yes, says one Of the boys in COM
pany 53S In California. He writes,
"the fellows didn't mind eating
spaghetti and beans for while.
But when they got the same stuff
daily for mere than week they
organized themselves"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19

ut Is time for each and every
ONE Of US to cast away self-destroy-
ing, nation destroying efforts to
get something for nothing and to
appreciate that satisfying reward
and safe reward come only thru
honest work.
"That must be the new spirit of
the American future.
You are the vanguard Of that
new spirit"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19

The full text of Roosevelt's speech
follows:
"In speaking to you men of the
Civilian Conservation Corps,
think of you as visible token of
encouragement TO the whole coun-
try. You--nearly 100000 strong
are evidence that the nation is
still strong enough and broad
enough to look after it's citizens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19
WHAT'S ON
Thursday

DR. SIDNEY LEROY on INDUSTRIAL
RECOVERY BILL. q pm. so W, 161st st.
Auspices washington Heights Br, F.s.u.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-19

"You are evidence that we are
seeking to get away as fast as we
possibly can from soup kitchens
and free rations, because the gov
eminent is paying you wages and
maintaining you for actual work
work which is needed now and
for the future and will bring
definite return TO the people of the
nation.
Through you the nation will
graduate a fine group of strong
young men, clean living, trained to
self discipline and, above all, will
ling and proud TO work for the JOY
of working.
"Too much in recent years, large
numbers of our population have
lught out success as an opportu-
nifty to gain money with the least
possible work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-10

HAVANA, Oct. The wave OF
government terror is spreading
throughout the island of Cuba Hun
dreds of workers have been arrested
and interned in the Principe and
Cabana fortresses.
The Grau San Martin government
has issued a declaration that ut Is
going to eradicate the Communist
Menace In Cuba" Part of this cam
paign are the mass arrests the clos
ing of all workers centers and the
outlawing of the National Confedera-
ton Of Labor.
Batista Leads Attack on Workers
The government is now definitely a
regime Of armed and ruthless force
President Grau San Martin is not
the ruling figure any more, but Col.
Batists, the Chief of the Army Gem
eral Staff.
The attack on the workers is being
carried out under Batista's leadership
"Grau and de Cespedes were too easy
in the Communists, we must shoot
them,' he is reported to have said.
The massacre of Friday Sept. 90,
has. produced a deep revulsion among
the masses of workers and students.
But, since the Communist Party and
the National Confederation Of Labor
we're crippled and unable to issue
any manifesto or statement until two
days later, the government used the
intervening time to lay the blame on
Communists, stating that ut is not
against the workers; the Communists
were to blame since they carried red
flags"
Certain sections of Havana's work
ers we're affected by this propaganda,