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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
LEAVES VILLAGE
TO STUDY

In 1928 l was sent to Tagaurog
to study to be chairman of a vii
Iage soviet. AS soon as I left the
villagers began to sneer at my nus
band because I had left my work
and the children on his hands.
On my return I was very soon
made vice-chairman of the village
soviet. We had elections week
, later and everybody shouted eve
want Chepurnayap So was
elected chairman Of our soviet.
It was difficult work at first.
Many a time I cried over my
papers; they were SO hard to IN
derstand that my head acaed and
7 could not think of the right
things to do. So I went to the
chairman of the Regional Exec
utive Committee and asked for adj
vice.
The comrades told me what
was to do and wrote it all down
for me in large letters on piece
OF paper, in case I should forget
anything.
It became easier afterwards, for
I understood thu there was no
need for me to do Ill the work
alone and that the whole village
soviet presidium was there TO help.
] used to go to the Regional Exec
utive Committee for instructions
and they would inform me sbouli
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
A GRIEVANCE
COMMITTEE ELECTED.

When the knitter told me abouS
it, we decided to take this Quesa
ton up with the whole departa
ment at noon. In the meantime
word was passed around that ali
meet outside at - O'Clock. When
we met, everyone was against
the bosses scheme. We each had
our say. And we agreed on the
following: a. A committee Of S
to go to the boss with our de-
mands or grievances. b AL go
back in the mill, but don't work
until the committee tells them
10. If the demands are not grant
ed we go no strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-06
LABOR LAWS VIOLATED

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women are not permitted to work
over 10 hours a day and not more
than 50 hours per week. But We
worked so and some times more
hours per week, and still did not
earn more than 81 or So per week.
Sometimes We got even as low as
4 cents per hour-sometimes 10
cents. We never knew what we
were going to get. The efficiency
man had that all figured out.
Then there Is another law which
says that women are not permitted
to work at night. But my mother
is working on a night shift with
dozens OF other women. This, too,
the efficiency man had all figured
out. But now since we had the
strike, under the leadership of the
Auto Workers Union, we won the
demands and we get d minimum
of 80 cents per hour and things
are a lot better"
We talked to this girl and other
women about the union. They
promised to help arrange a women's
meeting to bring more women into
the union and to build Women's
auXiliarieS.
ME go to the Mack Ave. Briggs
" Plant. Here over 5000 workers
are still on Strike; 1000 of them
women. For the last six weeks,
the workers have waged a bitter
fight to improve their living con-
ditions--a fight for the right to
live, in face Of the organized joint
reactionary forces Of the auto lords,
the liberal city government of
Mayor Murphy, the treachery of
the Detroit Federation of Labor,
the I. W. w. and the Socialist
Party officials.
WORK BUT NO PAY
We talked to an Italian woman
of 40 on the picket line. We asked
her why she was on strike. She
told us: Il worked here for 10
years. My husband and children
worked here. Now I am the only
one working and am working part
time. I come here every day, hang
around for 10 to Il hours for 5
hours work, and I wait and wait
for the job.
81 never know what I get for my
work. They make us sign & paper
the price for jobs is subject to
change I make sometimes So q
week-sometimes Sc. I never know.
We have no shoes. I go to the Of
flee and ask them to get me and
the kids some clothes. They say
OK. And give me slip Of paper
and make me sign. Now, l have
worked six weeks and have re-
ceived three 2-week pay checks;
one for cents, one for 5 cents
and the other for z cents. They
ssy they take it out for the shoes"
She cries out: '"That is why 1
strike. That is why I picket, They
cheat us, I tell you; they take
away all we makes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
Police Fail to Halt
JobleSS Meeting
Move to Another Hall;
Meet Again Dec. %

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. 26.-Po-
lice tried to break up the united front
Unemployment Conference here Fri
day night, but after the delegates
moved to another hall the conference
was held. Seven delegates were elect
ed to the National Convention Against
Unemployment, to be held in Wash
ington, d. c., Jan. 10.
When the delegates came to the
conference Friday, they were con-
fronted with a whole array of police
and detectives, who tried to break
up Sfe conference. The police we're
told it was not a public gathering and
they had no business to be present
Despite the protest Of the delegates
the police forced their way into the
conference and refused to leave. The
delegates then left and went to the
Workers Center, Harrison ST., where
the conference was held. The con-
ference was called by the Unemployed
Council.
Demands for the unemployed and
the C.W.A. workers were adopted. A
program Of action to make the city
government, led by the Democratic
mayor, Mahoney, come across with
cash relief was adopted.
A mass meeting will be held Friday
night, Dec. %, at the Workers Center,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
CWA Workers Told
To Buy Own Tools
Fired for Organizing;
Replaced by Kluxers
By a worker Correspondens)

MIDDLESBORO, KY, Dec. 26 -On
Nov. n, President Roosevelt started
his C.W.A. labor project in Bell county
Kentucky, in Middlesboro, with one
hundred men the first day and one
hundred men added each day until
there are now SIT men working. This
leaves over 1000 men still unemployed.
The men that are working receive
45c per hour and 80 hours per week.
which is $3.50 per week, provided
they do not lose any time on account
of snow or rain or sickness. OF those
that are still unemployed, some get
$1.20 per week direct relief, some get
more and the big majority Of them
get nothing.
Those that get more than $3.50 are
some coal company stools or some
of the Snitchers who go around among
the workers and find out all they can
about the organizational work of the
workers and report It to J. n. Nc
Gibbony, who Is the works manager
Of the C.w.A. here in Bell county.
and also a stool and henchman for
the coal companies.
Bought Own Tools
The men were hand-picked and put
on the C.W-A. work by McGibbony
and the enemies Of organized labor.
They have three walking bosses, such
men as DR.. Van Kirk, who owns about
$4,000 worth OF property In Middle$
boro, KY. Besides the three walking,
bosses they have about 20 straw
bosses who stand around and tell the
men to put on little more speed.
The C.W.A. furnished 400 wheelbar-
rows, but forced the men to buy pick
and shovel, which cost the men $l.o0
each. These tools we're bought BY
the management Of the C.w.A. and
sold to the men for ioc profit on
each tool.
A few days ago J. II. McGihbony
fired several men because he was told
that they belonged to the '.reds." This
is the work of the stools to find out
all they can and report to McGibbony
One worker was fired for holding q
conversation with member Of the
revolutionary organization.
The men that were fred were re-
placed by men that have known for
years, and who never did an honest
days work in all their lives. One
was an automobile salesman, the
other was e coal operator who went
broke some years ago and used the
bankrupt law to keep the workers
from taking his property to pay them
their back wages. Another man wa
replaced by an old sky pilot who never
worked and don't ever aim to work
as long SIS he is not forced to. These
men were all chosen for bosses or
the C.W-A. and nearly all are ex-
xxx. members, so it is easy to Sc
the condition Of the workers in tht
South. It Is time we were waking ut
and organizing against this rotten
system. Unite both back and wfite
workers and show these rotten bosses
that we DO not have to tolerate these
conditions any longer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27

they dragged me out OF the car onto
the bridge, where the automobile
lights made it like daytime.
Freddie Moore was hanging from
an overhead girder Of the bridge. He
was already dead. Els clothes were
all covered with blood. His toes were
all burned where they had put red
hot irons to them. His hands were
hanging free. They told me-and
found out later it was true-that the
first thing they had done to him
when they took him out of jail was
to cut off his testicles.
Later on they took pictures OF
Freddie, with a sign hanging to his
feet, saying:
"Niggers Let This Be An Example.
Do Not Touch for "a Hours. Mean
IT,
Before they took this picture, they
tore off his shirt and tied his hands,
to make it look more horrible. They
peddled this picture all over New
Orleans and everywhere around.
When they dragged me out Of the
Car, they started to hit me. I guess
about sixty or seventy took turns at
hitting me- I knew some of them.
One was the District Attorney. I
didn't know him then, but later on
I'll tell you how I came to see him
again.
There were two brothers named
Emil among those beating me.
There was the man who owns the
drug store In Labadieyille. I don't
know his name, but there's only one
drug store there.
They hit me everywhere except on
the soles of my feet. The only reason
they didn't hit me there was because
/ was standing on them.
They tried to make me say my
name was Norman Jackson. I told
them no, my name was Norman
Thibodeaux, so they started to beat
me again.
The reason they wantd me to say
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
A. Workers Answer WageC Discrimination by Forming Job Committee
Demands of C. w. A. Workers

A,
maximum number Of workers
working
of C. w. A.
dtOns forward the Unemployed Councils ncude IA job
of
diheenaS
minimum skilled
5The recognition committee;
belong any choosing
eaegoes with
discrimination mo determination citizens
Stree clothes transportation work
clothing
control registration.
W.
A
National Convention Against Unemployment in Washington
an. Is.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
Demand 40 Pc. Pay
Rise in Rayon Plant
U.T.W. Head and Boss
Attempt To Sidetrack
Demand Thru MIRA

PARKERSBURG, w. Va, Dec. 20
TO sidetrack the demand Of the
rayon workers in the Viscose Co.
plant here for 40 per cent increase
in wages, william F. Kelly, vice-pres-
ident of the United Textile Workers
and representative of the National
Rayon Workers Council has agreed
with the employers to take the mat
ter up with the National Labor Board
in Washington.
The move to shift the discussion
on wages to Washington is aimed to
calm down the high feeling among the
workers for struggle to force through
their demands.
A meeting was held last Tuesday
with the employers when the demand
for wage increase and union recog-
milton was put.
Henry Johnson. managing director
Of the company, said that a 40 per
cent increase was out of the ques-
tion." Mr.. johnson, at the same time,
knew that the workers would not
rest content with the action, SO he
Proposed the matter be taken up with
she strikebresking National Labor
Board.
1T is the intention of one or more
OF the officials OF the company" he
stated, ito go to Washington to con-
%er with the National Labor Board
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
Foreign Born Fired
From C. W. A. Jobs
e.
As Xmas Presenl.
Kenosha C.W.A. Cuts
Number of Jobs; No
Notice Given
(By a C.W.A. Worker Correspondent

(By C.W.A. Worker Correspondent
RENOSHA, Wis Dec. 26.--All c.
w. A. workers suspected of being non
citizens have been discharged without
notice from C.W.A. projects in this
city. The order was worded as fol-
lows ~
Name. ........, Address. ..,.....
You ar reported as an alien and as
such under C.W.A. rules, your se.Tices
in conjunction with Civil Works
Projects terminate tonight, Thursday,
Dec. 81, 1888. You are notified 10
bring your citizenship papers to this
office, and ii found to be in good
standing, you will be allowed to go
back on the job. However, in case
you do not report Immediately, you
will be dropped from the payroll"
The order was signed by W. +.
Lindbloom, complaint office, Room
304, third floor, Courthouse, Kenosha,
Wis.
The native-born workers are voic-
ing their disgust at such methods
which are obviously for the purpose
Of cutting down the number Of @. ".
A. jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
Omaha Workers On
.CWA Jobs Organize
Against Pay Cuts
Demand SIS Minimum
Pay and UnionWa
for C.W.A. Workers

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 2e.-Civil
Works Administration workers on
Lincoln Highway, between Eakhorn
and Waterloo, Neb., received g. wage
cut of 20 per cent last week, when
their wages were cut from 50 cents
to 40 cents per hour.
Sixty workers, representing five
gangs OF these workers, held an or
ganization meeting on Dec. 20, and
after sending kilograms to Harry L.
Hopkins, national C.WA. Admins
traitor. and to II. w. Smith OF Lin
coin, Neb., demanding that this wage
cut be restored, formed a C.w.A
workers Protective Union.
Elect Committee
An organizational committee OF fivf
was elected to work out q program
and bylaws, and to arrange for !
mass meeting of all C.W.A. workers
A program of demands has beer
/ worked out calling for a job or SIS
weekly cash relief for all workers. 2
minimum of $i5 for C.WA. work with
union wages for all skilled workers
free transportation and pay for Tina
spent while going to and from work
and the right to organize on the iot
in unions Of the workers choice.
IS Join Councils
Sixty-fiye workers Joined the I'm.
employed Council at a meeting O,
C.W.A. workers of Sarpy County. or
Dec. 81.
A county committee of representa-,
tatives from each township was SCI
up. Practically the same demand,
adopted at Omaha were made at thi;
meeting and will be presented to tbs
Sarpy County C.W.A. administrator
A Sarpy and Douglas County Con.
ference Against Unemployment viii
be held on Dec. 81. Local demand,
viii be taken up, and struggle
planned to win these demands. Del.
egateS to the National Convention
Against Unemployment to be he'll
in Washington, D. c., Jan. 13, IA
and Is will be elected,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
ION
Anniversary
Rl'!!e.igl!YkSIo:. ..l !. Z.
CELEB

DISTRICT I
LOWELL, Nass.--Jsn. at 5s8 Central st.
Dance Concert and Speakers. Adm. 1Sc.
LAWRENCE, Mason Jan. st Loom
rfxers Kali, IS Margin st. Entertain
ment and Dance. Adm. CSC.
PROVIDENCE, r. lon jan 1T swedish
Hall, 50 Chestnut st.
MAYNARD. Mass.--on Jan. . At ~ Pow.
dermill Road.
DISTRICT .
NEW YORK CrrY.--on Dec 70 al Brons
Coliseum, 3. 177th 81. Concert and
Dance.
DISTRACT
DETROIT, Mich-on Jan. "a At Finnish
Hall, ss6e--i4th st. A. W. Markon,
from New York, will be the main
speaker. Musical program arranged
Dance vii follow.
DISTRICT
SUPERrOR, Wis.-On Jan. 7 Ak workers
Center. 1908 n. gth g. Musical pre-
gram and dance.
DISTRICT 10
OMAHA, Melon Jan. in So. Omaha.
DISTRICT IA
NEWARK, N Jon Jan. at the Y.A
R.A- Auditorium. Robert Minor main
speaker. Excellent program Arssnxsd
Adm. Ne, IN adyencs 3ss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
C.W.A. Jim Crows Negroes il,
La. Savambs; Holds Ub Pay

NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. 26-
Those Negroes who have been given
Civil Works Jobs here are discrim-
mated against in every way, and are
forced to work Ia the disease ridden
Louisiana swamps digging drainage
canals and clearing the heavy under
growth. After putting In weeks OF
back-breaking toll. their pay was held
up. Still, so destitute are the unem-
ployed Negroes here, that every day
long lines are waiting at the C.W.A.
Offices in the vain hope of getting
Jobs.
In the town Of Gretna, a suburb
OF New Orleans, all C.W.A. workers
are forced to pay for the shovels,
picks and other tools used on the Job.
Yet every day long lines Of workers
wait before the C.W.A. Offices, hoping
to get jobs.
Although these jobs have been given
to Negro men, and although some
white women have been given white
collar" C.W.A. Jobs, nothing whatso-
ever has been done for the Negro
women here. Many Negro men and
women who had registered eight to
ten weeks ago for relief, and who
registered for C.W.A. at the very
start, have received neither Jobs nor
relief.
In Gretna, the whites receive cloth
ing and bedding from the relief
agency, but none is given to the
Negroes. The landlords demand cash
payment Of rent from the Negroes
under the threat Of eviction.
Government salt pork of such in
ferior grade that it cannot even be
rendered into lard is given out by the
relief agencies.
Payment for work done on C.W.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
LOCO Dairy Workers in
Los Angeles Organize
For Pay Raise, Union

LOS ANGELES. Calif.-One thou
sand mixers are being drawn into a
struggle for increased wages and bet
ter working conditions by the milk
section, Food Workers Industrial
Union.
The program which was adopted as
a result of three meetings represent
ing 81 different diaries in Los Angeles
County provides for sos per month
for single men, sS5 per month for
married men, recognition Of union,
and one day of rest.
OF the 81 diaries represented. "a,
including some Of the largest diaries
In the county have signed up 100 per
cent with the union, with the remain
ing 81 diaries having signed as high
as rs per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
Ohio CWA Foreman
Frames Negro Lad
LID. Rallies Workers
to His Defense

WELLSVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 2S.-Facine
framed charge of rape" Robert
Harris, 18-year-old Negro worker,
locked up in the county Jail at Lisbon,
will be defended by the International
Labor Defense, it was announced TO-
day.
Young Harris, the oldest son and
only support Of his family, was re-
Gently put on C.WA. Job as water
boy, and his family taken on relief.
As he was going to the spring eight
days ago, he passed three young girls
on their way to school.
Suddenly a foreman on the Job
grabbed him and accused him Of as
saultin one of them, nine years old.
The foreman took him TO the mayors
office, where farcical hearing" was
held, without the presence even of the
child he was accused Of "assaulting. ("
In spite of terror and torture, the
boy pleaded not guilty.
This is the second framed charge
which has been placed against Harris.
On the first he served IA months fl,
Mansfield reformatory for running
away from home" charge his
mother, Mrs. Emma Harris, character
lied as ridiculous.
Masses of workers, especially on
C.W.A. jobs, are being modified by
the LID, for the defense Of Harris.
His defense will be an important
feature of the Ecottsboro protest
meeting called In Wellsville, Dec. 28.
Protests against his arrest, and the
demand for his release should be sent
to Sheriff Frank Ballantine, Lisbon,
Ohio, and to Mayor w. H. Daugherty,
Wellsville, Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
Newark JObleSS
Hold Conference
To Have Mass Demon
stration Jan. IL

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 26.-Fifty-
three delegates, representing IS work
ers' organizations with a total mem
bership of 4,55e, attended the first
conference on unemployment and So
cial insurance called by the I'M
employed Councils of Newark.
The conference fully endorsed the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill, and set up City
Unemployed Council with the yari-
Gus organizations represented.
1t was decided at this conference
to hold outdoor mass denonstra-
tons at Military Park on Jan. 10 at
2 pm. in preparation for Jan. IS
when workers delegates viii present
their demands to the City Commits
Sioners.
The conference issued a call fol-
another such meeting to embrace the
broadest possible representation OF
workers organizations. This con-
ference will be held at Sokol Hall.
356 Morris Ave, on Jan. 6 at Q pm,
Delegates to the National Conyen-
ton Against Unemployment in
Washington viii be elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-27
BY NORMAN THIBODEAUA
las Told to Louis Colman)

On Oct. IL I left New Orleans n
the morning and arrived at Labadle-
vile, La, about 4:30 in the afternoon
of the next day. came there te
visit my grandmother.
After 1 got to my grandmother
house, / heard that white girl
named Anna Mae LaroSe, had beer
found killed In the cane-field, ane
they had q Negro boy, Freddie Moore
in jail.
Freddie Moore's mother went tt
see him that day. They wouldn't lei
her see him.
IT heard him crying and weeping,
she told me. IT said: Is that my
boy crying and weeping7' And they
told me: Never mind, yoE can't see
him.
ct heard him say: Mama, get me
out of here, Mamap But they
wouldn't even let me see him"
Thursday morning, about one OF
two o'clock, about six or seven men
came into my house. They woke me
up and stood by my bed. The one
at the head Of them was Ferdinand
Pichard, the Labadieville deputy
sheriff.
He said to me: Niger, get up and
put your clothes on"
They all had guns, and when
didn't put my clothes on fast enough
to.-suit them, Richards hit me with
the butt end of his gun on the fore
head. There's big scar there yet
I put ON my pants and my shirt, but
they wouldn't let me put on my
shoes or my cap.
They rushed me into a car. They'd
been hitting me some over the head
I have big scars from that, too-and
my head was all bleeding.
They stopped in front OF the jail
ct Napoleonville for minute. One
Of them said:
Where will we put this nigger?'
PUT him In jail and keep him
there safe where nobody can touch
him." somebody said.
SO they all laughed. They had
got Freddie Moore out Of that Jail a
while before.
We're going to take you to La
badieville, and show you where your
pal is strung up" they said to me.
When We got to Labadieville, they
stopped at the bridge. There were
about 600 men there, every one with
a gun. They had every kind Of q
gun and pistol except q machine
gun The car stopped there, and