The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-21

| glance turning occasionally toward
the rooms where his wife and five
children prepared for bed.
How to Live Next Winter
Thirty years ago there were over
| 100 vessels owned in Provincetown,"
he said. To-day there's exactly one,
the Mary P. Goulart, that pretty
four-masted schooner anchored down
by the main wharf. Twenty-seven
men had the Mary P. Goulart last
year, and in the twelve months they
earned, altogether, $780,"
"How did they live?"
"Well, how did they live?" Vassos
countered. That's what we're all
wondering. And we're wondering how
we're gonna live next winter.
1.-THE factories make money,
though: the Cape Cod Storage Com
pany amt paid no taxes in three
years"
How do they get by with it?"
"Well, you know, when you got
money, you can do anything. The
Cape Cod is owned by Robbins and
Robbins, in New York. For us Prov
incetown fellows things've got worse
and worse. When my father came
to this country, they could go in
rowboats to fish. They'd go along the
Cape to Truro, spring and fall, and
fish with pole Today I've got to go
out forty or fifty miles If want to
make a dollar, and it's damn danger
GUS"
Course of the Fishing"
For since VasSos' father fished in
sight of his little cottage, the Cape
Cod, the Consolidated Cold Storage,
the Provincetown and the Fisher
mems Cold Storage companies have
taken over the industry. Worse, they
have introduced hulking, tremen-
dous new kind of vessel, the beam
trauler.
Them beam-traulers is the curse
of the fishing" Vassos explained
Ripley says there's 1900 kinds OF
fish and reckon at least half of 'em
you can find right around the Cape,
here But them beam-traulers go
along as near shore as possible, and
they don't leave nothing behind.
They scoop the bottom, spawn and
all. Little fish and big. The little ones
the men throw back, dead I've seen
'em throw away 10000 pounds of fish
to save 4,000."
And when the machinery of mass
| production Injuries the exploited
fisherman, when he gets finger
mashed or goes down with pneu-
MONA from exposure?
Compensation, But"
'They got compensation laws in
this state, but we don't get much of
! it. We don't put in for it because
we're fearful of our jobs. There
mighty little difference between one
factory and another, but Frank Rowe,
the manager at the Cape Cod, is a
mighty hard boss. The other day a
couple of the boys were coming in,
wet and cold and shivering. Rowe saw
'em and laid 'em off-said they were
drunk"
On the table in the fisherman's
living room, full of crucifixeS and
religious pictures, a newspaper lay,
spread open, showing photograph
of the yachts that rode at anchor in
the bay. The newspaper held glow
ing, romantic account of the trim
squadron with its flagship carrying
Junius S. Morgan, son of the head
OF the house that epitomizes finance
capitalism. The newspaper reported
how Harold Vanderbilt, Sailing" the
yacht Weetamoe, led the squadron
in their Cape Cod run.
Jose Vassos gave 1t glance of
pure disgust and said, Them fellows
know about sailing, all right: they
got Scandinavians aboard. Wander
bilt don't sail his boat all the time.
oh, he takes it once in a while, but
each Of them big boats ships cap
tain. I amt got much education, but
| can handle a boat a damn sight
better than that crowd.~