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GHT,” SAY WOR a ‘THOSE STILL WORKING UNEMPLOYMENT Ww! iLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1520 “WE WON'T STARVE! WELL FI ! “seems | -ealls on all unemplo; FORD WORKERS LICK ATTACKERS OF UNEMPLOYED “Sure Proud the Way We Stuck Together” (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa.—Since there are | so many rumors going around about the fight in front of the Ford gate I thought I would write the straight story about it, as I was present and saw the whole thing. . T had just come off the night shift, conditions in general. Overland plart. no- widdieit te ae ies Byes eel a | The company also reduced the ich is from midnight to eight in | I have not worked for four | tice where it S$ on up- Res eevee the morning, when a man, who was |months, and I have been around the | turn.” People don't work at| Bk se AS Hae eS oe "S: | Con a stranger to me, began talking to |factories quite a bit. I also know | Wilys-Ove Antop plants may |sincines ct the ane chinists. |that us about conditions in the factory, |that the workers here only need a | think that i bubs work thGes | ney cnc ote Whe Hpac of | figh and unemployment, when the chief | |good leadership to start the ball|/and I know a ig ibyab lenatethetie ee Ce ee ee ee | rolling. biggest Instead of getting yikes do here own, trick of the Ford Service Department, J. H. Davenport, who is a former Ches- ter police chief, attacked him, and| tried to pull him inside the gate, got some lovely souvenirs of the > | Police Brutality Cannot Stop Workers! INDIANAPOLIS JOBLESS READY ~ FOR STRUGGLES Almost Impossible to Get Work There (By.a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—I have |been reading The Daily Worker for | quite a while, and, as I have not no- cw | | | thought I would try to write about I tried to get a job at Hays Body Corp. and also at Marmon Automo- bile Corp. But it is impossible to jexisting in the National Laundry, 2! SUFFER IN OVERLAND waves neepn ty LAYOFFS; FIGHT BACK! ‘or Those Laid Off, Starvation; for Those Left Greater Speed-up and Wage-Cuts | Therefore Solidarity Between Employed and | | (By «a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio — I wish to call \ticed anything from Indianapolis I) {tention to .a clipping I am en-|answer is easy—the worl | ‘ing trom the Toledo Blade on better it seems to ¢ What |land mea worse. Willys-Over cut, reduced overhead is, Unemployed on March 6th! The |a month. any is savin: Who is the k Always was. the that anze into and we are working must join the unemployed then fired, like so many thousands ‘Worker Tel 0,000 ‘and the Inte The and ing and minor repairs. | Gg Auto | er: TO CLASS FIGHT Is Why He Joins T.U.U.L. NEWARK the T: €2 Defense Council an un the in Unemployed because I am where they could beat him up. | get a job in this town. | nothing than the wage m March 6 ‘and demon c, for |¢ : “ | eee . ie they into; eufact § mo on March 6 and demons e 16 a. Of course, we workers would not : ' Pe, ; ; I finally landed a,little job at my |‘hey put into eff DOME ee iat gather when Won acetate stand toe this) and ayhen one Inttle Scene in the demonstration last Saturday in protest against Tammany police brutality against the \trade and at least 75 men tried |2%0-, Some denartm ocr Zea sia fellow socked Davenport in the j unemployed demonstrators. Tammany police will not halt the huge demonstration in Union Square to- |to'get that three or four days’ work, | CU 4 Percent, 10 perce nt 101 SER SR Ee [number). the fight started, and we whipped| day at noon, by uncmplayed and employed workers, against unemployment. nat ete esate Cevue AID Pee are bee enk. more: —OVERLAND WORK | The workers on dressing, picking, him and some more of the rats who | ———————— se j eae ok Sis s | a and asked for a job and could not “ 7 We Wy ???__ ie ; sa nd e get $12 aciaibat Wn, mpatias, ont the rest BRI pul VERS | 11 Hour Day in 9 at T A Ma fi \ NY (Berea ca Na testel bs to niga | “SAPS Family a Ask Western Electric ba day anil some et 61 Ny u iy Th e 4 q A | slip for the Community Fund. He aves If y issed two minutes oke again, and invited us to join | Debneud. ae & on | National Laundry) g SEEKS | said it was the first time in his life i feigire Nie 1 5 ic ba 9 oy fhe union ae | | th srstand| (By « Worker Correspondent.) items of apparatus needed by the | mio. bee soe Ss) cents i z jthat he had to beg. I understand - | e ers shovld wake up end None of the workers nor |the Cian i | (Bya Worker Correspondent.) lthat there have been 63,000 appli-| KEARNEY, N. J.—Last Saturday | Bell Telephone System,” says the |... a eee speaker were hurt, but Davenport j i Paes | I want to describe the conditions cations to the Community Fund this Jand Sunday before I seen that West- Company, "Tho are See eat JOBLESS WORKER winter. That's a fake bosses’ !orn Electric workers in Chicago told | thon Fee : a — : scrap, and I was sure proud of the | way the workers stuck together. It | | West 141st St. We work nine hours Workers Strike) day, but we doa 12-hour day y work “charity” to fool workers. One steel worker, who I talked to \How Workers’ Foes |something about how it is with them. Well, here’s something from the of “Wekearnyans” have been. ‘Proud to vork under the Bell] 7, Four Japanese Toilers is certain that with this spi in nine. The bosses never stop} | thi i ii vas 1 among us, we will soon have a union | [ae ue: | Treat Unemployed bes morn ea he ve Soe Kearney plant. There’s 21,000 stem banner”’—yes, like hell, we Free on Appealed Case i ¥ v lactic: works: Pan Cie: i we jalways feel sick, take medicine, be- | By orker Correspondent) | man-Price Steel Co. who would do | 7 “We. | Electric will find itself surprised to |—Four Japane s convicted —A FORD WORKER. » v | cause of the chemicals, heat and un- | An experience which shows the! the same. pany ‘gives us a sappy name- kearnyans—a big happy family.” all the “Wel nyans” proud to |s | on a ¢ and | sanity conditions of the shop. Many | treatment of the unemployed work-| 4. i | 3 y ; t the Nordyke and Marmon Au-] “Wekes abe talig ‘aliv , er tlie rc rade |and s ced te 2 a he PT s a ‘. ES: | » th SNe 7 | ekearnyans are fully alive to | fight under the banner of the Trade or HAITI LIBERALS of oe sre ele a jof ee st ashes and we act the bosses and by Tammany |; mobile plants they reduced wages | thefr company’s great responsibility | Union Unity League |five days in jail ere freed : Sn tial dine A etic EL SSL Gees tee cate 10 per cent and are laying off the/as manufacturer of the countless _W. E. WORKER. dge Mac- MISLEAD MASSES Will Supplant Borno But Not Imperialism PORT AU PRID Haiti, Mar. s against the wor rs went on strike |are usually fired. eathoiie church| The bosses discriminate against which shows that | some of us. Some piece workers are ‘are determined | kept busy while others get no work, ONS | because they want to keep certain as well the dos: to buy uniforms every few wi When they wash ‘° |they put in such strong chemi our = uni planning to » |day because we do not feel well we | be wilting to fight the! machines working. They force us | Have been trying for weeks to get |a job. Tried in Bellevue Hospital. | |It employs about 1200, and the city |has a free employment office there | jin charge of a certain McKee, ex- | 4 ? | cop. tainly disgusted. Went to McKee many times, for} I have talked to at least a hun- I had no money for other employ-|dred men the last week and they all Had experience in hos- |said to try and get a union started \here. And I have also talked to them single men and hiring married men. In the Hays Body Shop the men are making from $1.75 to $3 per day, and believe me, they are cer- ment offi pital worl (By a Worker spondent) JACKSONVILLE, Fla—Reason I urges all Negro workers to join Trade Unicn Unity League is be- use it leads the ) | gro workers | Sherwin Williams Paint Co. Pays Negroes in Jacksonville $15 a Week |Paint Co., where they pay the Ne |pro workers $15 a week and you {work from 89. m. to 5 p.m. And | you lift heavy loads in shipping de- partment. That’s the conditions for 5 is believed that th a bearing on similar cases. WRITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw 5.—Admitting that the Haitian | non-union r le on the job. That! that they fall apart after the fir One day the nurse in the office |about an unemployment demonstri a y | ny fe n for) masses are seething with revolt |shows that even the A. F. L. offi-/ wash, and then we must buy new | Sid several men were nceded, but |tion and every one is ready for one. |and the white together against the | the Negroes in Jacksonville, so join) — Bia i : uf against American imperialism and |cials can’t halt them when they are | ones, McKee would not give me the job.| Hspecially all the colored workers |POsses which eyploit us. |the T.U.U.L. to fight it, Your Ad in The Daily Worker. bitter about conditions, and not| He said, no vacancies. It have talked to are ready for ac-| Now take in Sherwin-Williams | IERWIN WORKER... | —————————- the Borno Wall Street regime, backed. by dictator general John H. Russell, American high commis- sioner and marine commander, sev- | eral petty-bourgeois leaders ap- pealed to Hoover's banker-led‘com- mission to grant them an open gen- eral election. They warned the commission that if Borno’s council of state attempt- ed to elect a president on April 14, an armed uprising was unavoidable. 400 Jobless Building r | White girls are allowed to wear even the church could, do -it. The | their own. smocks. bricklayers should turn to the Tre de ‘not have to stay in line for the pay, Union Unity League which fights | while the rest of us push’and knock Jour time, when they could just as | well hand it to us at the place when | they take our signatures. | In order to clean out the left- over food from their cafeteria they Fund force a lunch time on us Saturda; |On.account of that we have to stay til 1 o’clock, The bosses get away with all that workers. —BRICKLAYER. Chicago Workers to . Hold Bazaar to Build Party A huge District-wide bazar for |™ the purvose of raising a five thous- | A d/because we are not organized and White girls do | boss and chureh and all who exploit each other over and have to waste | When I insisted, he said, “bring | tion. \ me a letter from the club where you | One worker asked for a job this vote.” Of course, I had no such | morning and he told me that his club, and I’m still looking for work. | three children. were in. starvation The Communist Party fights not! ang he said he was ready to fight, only such crooks but also fights for | ot to starve. ; ae jthe unemployed. All unemployed | . I see that governor Leslie sent and all workers in fact should dem- | Bane onstrate March 6. |the head of the militia to the Calu- —-UNEMPLOYED. | ™et district to look over the unem- ployment situation. I judge that he | WwriTE about your conditions is intending to feed something be- for the Daily Worker. Become |*ides bread to the unemployed a Worker Correspondent. | workers. Let’s organize employed jand unemployed, under the Trade an Industrial (Bu a Worker Correspondent) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Am a egro worker in Marshall and Spencer Cement Co. They treat the Negro workers badly. They pay from $18 to $20 a week, about $3 a \Exploit Negro Cement Workers in Jacksonville day. Work from 7 a. m. to F p.m All Negro workers should join the |Trade Union Unity League, that fights for both Negro and white workers. —JACKSONVILLE WORKER +PALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. - Sell him a copy every HOOVER SCRAPS YARD WORKERS. | BROOKLYN, N. Y.,—Announce- | ment was made at the local Navy Beware... «mz Bladder Catarrh—- “=” Burning Passages... Painful Elimination and Night Rising These warnings may indicate the presence of a serious ailment which may effect your entire bodily health. Take no chances. Correct it at once. Get Santal aay from your druggist. For nearly half a century it has een weverwre i i F rid dollar Build the Party Fun ‘ : e " Trade Workers Resolve 274 (lr Poe OL 4, 5 and_6, cannot make them do what we want. | Industrial League, 18 West 17th St. | Union Unity League. | day for’e week. ‘Then ask him to | Yard that 48 years of age 1s now > ascribed by doctors for rapid reliet to Fight; Elect Comm. it the Ukrainian Workers Hall in|But we have already made a begin-|which is organizing the laundry INDIANAPOLIS WORKER. | become a regular subscriber. ve adenine a ig ade 22 rs ing. ? 7 ittee. | workers. iS 2 i] * | leas’ per cent 0: e yard work- chit: |ning. We have a shop committee. | workers. Let us all together build arene ie: Santal Midy Over 400 unemployed building workers gathered in Manhattan Ly- ceum yesterday afternoon, and en- thusiastically approved of the Trade Union Unity League program for one industrial union in the industry. Fighty-nine of them joined the Council of Unemployed on the spot, and they elected an executive com- mittee of 25 rank and fil most | of them from A. F. L. unions. The meeting adopted a resolution endorsing the Union Square unem- ployment demonstration tomorrow. | The resolution also condemned the | officials of the A. F. L. unions, for | neither organizing the masses of} unorganized during the building |All laundry workers should join the All labor and fraternal organiza- Pas Cleaners and Laundry Workers tions are asked to refrain frcm ar- vanging affairs on the 4, 5 and 6.) and throw all port to this bazar. SWEIG’S “GRISCHA” OPENS AT GLOBE THEATRE FRIDAY. The premiere showing of Radio Pictures, “The Case of Sergeant Grischa, ve been completed. Her- bert Brenon’: ription intostalk- ng pictures of Arnold Zweig’s novel will take to the Globe Theatre screen early Friday morning, March 7. Performances will begin at 10:30 a, m. and he continues daily, fin- boom, nor taki=z any effort to se-| cure anything for the masses of | unemployed now. The resolution | yed to join the councils, and fight for the seven) ‘hour, five day week, immediate re-| lief from the city and state trea: uries, insurance funds to be con- trolled and administered by rank) and file committees, fight against | wage cuts, against speed-up, and for | equal division of work and the union scale of wages. TUUL Backs Education Conference Saturday School Banquet Sunday A city-wide educational confer- ence of all labor organizations to take place Saturday, April 19, has peen endorsed by the New York metropolitan area convention of the _ Trade Union Unity League, which has just been concluded. The pur- pose of this corfference will be to establish a permanent department of the T.U.U.L. for education, agita- tion and propaganda among all the affiliated trade-union organizations. The Workers’ School announces a banquet to be given by the students on Sunday evening, March 9, as ‘the opening of the $10,000 drive which the school is conducting. Among the features will be a Soviet comedy film and a Gastonia strike picture as well as a pantomjme and musical solos, Tickets are’ 50 cents, obtain- : able at the Workers’ School. Build the United Front of the Working Class From the Bottom Up—in the Industries! Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a ishing with a special midnight show at 12:30. The picture features Chester Mor- lris and Betty Compson in the chief roles. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE COLLECTION. Many workers’ fraternal organi- zations and militant unions are par- ticipating in the house-to-house col- lection to be held this Sunday morn- ing beginning at 9 a. m., in Phila- delphia, by the International Labor Defense. This collection is being held to help defend the many ‘workers held in the jails in all parts of the coun- try. 175 FIFTH AVENUB May 1-Moscow ! Sailing April 12 on the “BREMEN” Arriving at Moscow for the May First Celebrations. 5280 «<*340 The Red Army on the Red Square! The Marching Batallions of Workers! The Growth of the Five-Year Plan! SEE IT FOR YOURSELF! Write, Telephone, Call Personally: WORLD TOURISTS Telephone Algonquin 6656 Union of laundry | workers. | NEW NEW YORK CITY DAILY WORKER COSTUME BALL ROCKLAND PALACE 155TH STREET and.EIGHTH AVENUE To rench hall—Gth or Oth Ave, “L” to 155th St. Admission 50c in advance 75¢ at the door. READ and SUPPORT Saturday Eve. March 15th RED DANCERS Other Entertainment Class Struggle Group Costumes VERNON ANDRADE ORCHESTRA THE DAILY WORKER fe The newly built hotel IT FIGHTS FOR YOU! NEW HOTEL NITGEDAIGET, B ACTIVE PRESS, Inc. 26-28 UNION SQUARE YORK CITY WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET se Gc ie a eacon, N. Y. has 61 rooms—two in a room—hot and cold water in every room. Showers and baths on every floor. WINTER SPORTS—Skating and Sleighing to your heart’s content MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Price same as in summer—$17 a week. CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 131—862 NEW YORK TELEPHONE: ESTABROOK 1400, Shall It Be— BULLETS or TOOLS @ The Pope, The Bishops, The Rabbis, The “Socialists” Want to Send Bullets Against the Workers and Peasanty of the Soviet Union AMERICAN WORKERS, ANSWER THEIR “HOLY CRUSADE” BY SENDI FOR THE RUSSIAN TOOLS WORKERS AND PEASANTS. Aid the Five Year Plan of Socialist Construction by Donating to the SOLIDARITY TOOL CAMPAIGN of the | WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF Collect in Shops and Factories. Send Funds to W. I. R., 949 BROADWAY, Room 512, NEW YORK CITY COME TO THE Spring Term Banquet of the Workers School SUNDAY EVENING, MARCH 9 AT THE WORKERS CE) SOVKINO COMEDY MISICAL NUMBERS | hearty get-together of» 1 ER, 26 UNION SQUARE PROLETARIAN PANTOMINE RE and fries HMENTS of the schovi,

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