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a: picasa ils sks ciapaalll DAILY WORKER NEW YORK , FRID AY, JUNE 13, 1930 7 7 “tv t V \ Worker Mass Circula- tion Drive and $25, 000 Emergency Fund HIS report plainly shows that the Party, ex- organizations, Daily Worker readers, workers cepting in a few instances, did not mobilize from the shops, workers correspondents into energetically for the ly Worker campaign. powerful supporting groups. The Daily Work- | The campaign began April 1 and was to end er, the central organ of our Par will be- June Ist. Up to May 16th only 1,000 new mail come the agitator and collective organizer subscribers were obtair or t per cent of of the working class upon the basis of or- the quota. An increase of 4. papers in ganized mass support. This has been much hundle orders was achieved or 22% of the nce exceed a of 10,000 r under estimated in the npaign so far, i quota. From April 1 to May 12 only $45 er: ember s Challenges to revolutionary competition have can ¢ remained a gesture to now. Detroit district had been contributed to the Emergenc and only after the Daily Worker stressed the need for immediate fiancial help did the Party get into action. Up to May $8,965.31, or 86 per cent of the quota was raised. ti The Daily Worker did | done we will never new subsi ons, we accepted used e and we challenged New York. New York has not yet and neither district has with the challenge. Chi- 1 the challe the membe cago challenged Detroit and Detroit has not yet replied to the challenge and the members = soe Gaston Mill Workers Starving campaign program succeed in placing before the Party members will fail to roc uy tus deep- | know nothing about it. Cleveland and Phila- the important role of the central organ of the | ses of workers in | delphia challenged each other, but only on NOT SUICIDE BUT ree Out YOUNG AND OLD BE -GGING Far WORK Party, its value in securing contacts and lead- paper. The other districts forgot about insti- | ership for the Party among the masses of s our gains will | tuting revolutionary competition altogether, do A ‘workers, the imperative need for immediate not even have a gesture to their credit. FITE SAYS MASS, Now Worse mass circulation in this period of intensifyiny The Daily Worker campaign is only in its class struggles, new forms of circulation and = 1 &. wills have 7G Hestal the necessity of building our own distributing : SUAR Ge And: Step 8) Wi Deve Soe ue ex 1 apparatus. However, acceptance of the pro- gram was not followed, generally, with an ap- plication to the tasks which would make it a living program, restult in concrete achieve- ments. Firstly, the program in most Party to carry it forward for another period of time. The tables below show that a beginning has been made, but the actual increase in new readers, both mail and sales at shops, that we have increased circulation, house to house, etc. PAPER WORKER Paper Man Took Iodine (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C.—The wage- cuts, speed-up and stretch-out in the Rex Mill are still going on. AT LOWEST STARVATION WAGES | | Misery So Great That Mill Workers Must Again Rise in Gastonia Cola I wish to call GASTONI oeNe your attention to the districts was not concretely applied. Secondly, can be estimated at only ten per cent of the | $3 in instances where attempts were made to | quota. This necessitates a warning to all dis- When Fired |More now than ever. One hayd in| heinous conditions of the workers in the textile mills of Gaston County apply it, these attempts were sporadic and not m- | tricts that are lagging behind. More organized Soe, |the Rex mill runs four slubWers for | and also surrounding counties. methodical. Thirdly, in the few instances | paign to lding permanent | activity, steadier application to securing new | Daily Worker:— |$16 per week of 60 hours; one hand The mill workers are starving, working two and three days per where the work or securing new readers and | and concrete or further work. | sabseribers, permanent house to house carrier runs 15 combers for $15.85 per| week. Some of the mills have shut down and the poor workers of these finances received detailed attention, methodical | The Party ly base for | routes, shop sales, street sales, meeting sales, | The enclosed marked clipping may | week of 60 hours; one hand runs 16| mills are starving, their children have no clothes and they present a 4 consideration, practical application, achieve- | Daily Worker e m and support in | must be established. Much more attention must |be of interest to Daily Worker | draw frames for $15.10 per week of | picture of despair. Young and old of both sexes crowd the highways ments were recorded beyond the expectatio' city by organi > Worker Build- | be given to raising the $52,000 Emergency | readers, particularly if explanations | 60 hours. | begging for any kind of work knowing full well that any kind of work omitted in it are considered: of the comrades engaged in the work. ences, together workers’ | Fund. What do you think of this for|they may get will not pay them® -- essays “Cyril Chapman, 29, a young mar- speed- -up, stretch-out and wage-|more than $1.50 a day for three | ied family man, gwallowed the con. jeuts? Here, the Rex mill is known|days, totalling $4.50. Who could| |Gastonia Workers TABLES OF ACH: EVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS New Daily We erker Bundle |Income for $25,000 Daily Work- |tents of a bottle of iodine. He was taken to the Curran Clinic, where ‘his stomach was pumped out, and he was then taken to the police sta- tion, where he recovered during the |to pay good, but I think it is damn | cheap, considermg the acres of |frames you have to run and the slave-driving bosses we have to |work for here. They are terrible. live on such starvation wages? | Out of tais money, besides cloth- ing and feeding themselves, they | must also pay rent, fuel bills, doc-| | tor bills’ and other miscellaneous | Must Join the N.T.W.U. GASTONIA, —The bosses New Daily Worker Subscribers) uli |night. Chapman refused to discuss |By printing this, maybe some of| expenses. While the workers are | of the Smyre mills are still on Secured Orders er Emergency Fund his case with the police other than |the workers will wake up to the rot- | living on these inconceivable wages || the job as wage-cutters and are April Ist to May 16th | April 1st to M April Ist to May 29th. 2 a that he a token rig decane ‘ten conten ond lowe aes they ae bats bosses ate Horde spat just as good at speed-up and | ollowing ble s or the purpose of ending his lite. receive in e Rex mi ding je money a he workers || stretch-out. The: can always ie eben cry anni the oamber ge Dey | The following table indie Listed below will be found all contributions | Chaoman has been working at Mon- REX MILL WORKER. |hbave earned for them with their | |find more work for you te a mail subscribers secured in the Daily Worker | obtained thr: received from every district for the ee Bridee t Gineruadt 3 litfesblood: Basket Sele aH y ‘0 do, j campaign. It does not include renewals. All | and news Emergency Fund. It includes remittances ee a Sb. aa ie ee Beeen ees Be - eee ‘ ae Re and they sure as hell know how } new subscribers, whether monthly at 50 cents, | routes, me | came from Party units, sections and districts MG) te se yy ee oat eho cup ny, uanesied ands ie to pay the hands to: keep them | or yearly at $6.00 are included. is paid for as well as contributions made by Daily Worker eee ee aan ne ao al FORD . | rote workers, What the hell is the) | starving. One hand here in the | District Quota Subs Per- | mar readers, sympathizers, workers’ organizations was fired. Fired because he could \ natter with the workers of Gaston Smyre mill runs two draw frames, } | me : Sie ones ? not keep pace with theyspeeding up | | County? Will you ever realize the vo h i | procured centage] z | in each district. The quota for each Party | 04 sottonalizati ‘ : wful conditions th - two hap machines and ten com- J Boston ....... 600 37 6% | Saintclet nas been increased vecatuedtie Centrale ene au euenucn eume Coen Re ge ela that you are living | bers, ‘This is just only a small 2 New York 1500 287 19% centage | Committee decided to increase the national paper mill st this company town. pa aa start fighting the bosses? | hit of the dirty bosses rebound- | 3 Philadelphia .. 800 96 12% 1000 Ba | quota deont $15,000 colsee(l0drouk tle peeier gt | one woumne cepuntiat crisis) bosses) ont Jet the damn capitalists make | ing intrigue to fill their pockets | 4 Buffalo ...... 400 20 5% 2 ‘ 7000 25%, | the immediate needs of the Daily Worker, |heTe aS elsewhere, are forcing the | you believe that the southern worl-| with profits by the sweat and | ‘i pM 9% a wae ns ‘ Se rere _ | Workers lo more for less in every er ick together and fight. | blood of the workers. It is 3 een ‘ 4 eu shee i Pa phia .. 4 Be es District Quota Sree anes department. Beginning this week, But Toilers me Will Dump They don’t believe it themselves. | enough to make any worker want | 7 Detroit .. 1400 124 9% 5 (8 Decrease) $2200. (Seadoide: “dap Cue Back: tender. (tolper)) bas | Arch-Exploiter We southern workers will whip |to fight. I am asking every | 8 Chicago . 1500 151 11% 41% 2 5 6,700 5,671.56 85% |keep two calenders going, where, = them in more ways that a country lneorber in the Smyre mills to join | Sg Minneapolis .. 600 31 5% 3 Philadelphia 1/500 255.85 17% formerly, he worked on one only. | (By a Worker Correspondent.) man can ride a mule to town. Join | the N. T. W. U. Raise its ban- i 10 Kansas City .. 200 19 914% TP BAHIO’ o. 800 95.10 3% | While notices are posted threaten-| as ¢ : the N.T.W.U, Tell the boss to go to! | ner high. Let’s fight for better 11, Agricultural .. 120 5 4% 1s, | 5 Pittsburgh .. 1,000 5698 6% | Me operators with discharge if they) NEW YORK.—A statement, on hell. Fight for your own class not! | conditions for our own class. | ~*45 Settle Se 280 11 4% "7 if i Cleveland me 1 350 249,41 18% fail to run anything but good paper, | Ford production in his Detroit plant for the boss, To hell with the bosses Arn ROW aTOnRenhe | "YS California 700 67 © -9%46% | 11 Agricult eRe | Peer. seo? ated tee | Deedoction zetorda: ate aldo, ep} | (New York Thies fon Jans 3) Ne! | —they aia starving as. | THE SMYRE MILLS, —| SS Gaei Connecticut... 500 7? 44% | Fosete. io Bae i Ghicagh oe gauge dpa. | based on “stop-watch” efficiency,|very clearly that Mr. Peaceship = GASTONIA“ WORKER, |g ce ere eee} € 46 South . 50 8 16% 13 Cali a 369 . fats 9 Minneapolis * 1400 "39.00 3% |and one worker is pitted against an- |Henry fired 11,110 workers and sim- | Pee Sam 17 South 50 8 12% | 15 Connecticut .. ‘76 Decrease) | 10 Kansas City .. 500 22.50 «5% _| other trying to keep up his record. | ultaneously, inarenred Bis daly oa E : : ee é 16 South .... 41 4ig) | 11 Agricultural .. 300 2688 9%. | Talks are given by the management | put from 7,500 cars a day to 9,2 Ml E Mi P H | " FIRM & A 10,000 5000 10% ay Sih 168 163% fot Sedition...) 800 8.00 1%% |in the office, trying to explain this | cars daily. a 4 } ae 18 California 3,100 688.19 22% | Py claiming it is necessary to meet | The capitalist Times does | The New Yor!: district holds first place in ie Aeaens a 20.000 336 21.6 6) Goreckout 650 36.10 6% | the competition of other mills. print the staan tye ate conte FOR SEEING DEAL | mew mail subscribers obtained, although the | 1.1 aatiy preceaine the Daily Work 16 South + 125 16.00 13% | But the other mills are doing the |tH™, Cunohe but tacks it away on | | Rees tor erreulntmg, a. thts district | meciaics adnemer th ee. earaiine 17 South . pe 128 same thing! It is time we workers | 4. eeaacial sheet to act as a guide | news stand saies. Detroit challenged New Yo eae Pele aircnd les <a vicae jwoke up and instead of trying to} (7 ” a rive, Detroit increased its shop, house a UP, a oh te lto other “philanthropic” American Pane Afr aid of An but lags ten per cent behind in new readers.| to house and street sales and distribu- ~ | peehig ee beea 7 ee comme ec a ee job we ought | acstrial wizards on how to make GUATdS Beat Him Up x The New Jersey field in the New York district, tion by nearly 2,000 copies. It is still see- | (, en Nor ae Chicago second, ee i Be ans ae the workers pay for capitalism's in-| Tf He Tries to Quit Exposure of Selves i H i md to the New York district in amount LEG SE Ete cee eet CONES | Rar ee | cart : ;.. | competency. | et ; a Renee ones of papers sold and distributed every day. | cusable drop, in contributions secured for the |us. We must do this by organiza. Just remember, Mr. New York | (By « Worker Correspondent.) |_|) New York in gaining a muc larger per- | ‘Duting the period of tke Daily Worker | $25,000 Daily Worker Emergency Fund. Ac- | tion. Oorganization on the job and | rimes, that though you print your| MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 12.—Of BOSTON.—Just recently in the |/| pentane: campaign the increase in the Detroit | tually, the quota for California is proportion. struggle against the whole eapital-| sat, instructions on the financial | ‘he four auto Plants which have J. | painters’ Distriet Council 41 they | | ‘ | Relay 1 ied . ately far in excess of the other districts when | ist system. , | cated in Memphis since the war the |. ae “ : Philadelphia has beaten Cleveland by two | district w although in Detroit orate ' sheet, the workers of America are Mas ". framed up a militant’worker, James me | city an actual drop occured in the daily | Telated to the Party membership in the dis- | —A PAPER WORKER. |also deriving the benefits of your | Murray Wood Products Co. pays | Robinson of Local 11. per cent. But the ten per cent of the quota bundle order trict. Upon a more equalized basis Califor- | 2 \«Jessons in capitalism” and thus the lowest wages and employs armed ‘ ‘ obtained in the larger districts, and the aver- : | nia would have 40 per cent of its quota col- | Monroe Bridge. — swell the ranks of the Trade Union guards, which it obtains from a pri-| The sin of James Robinson was | The Party cannot pride itself with this in- | lected. \Unity League and the Communist |Vate detective agency. There have | that in 1927 he caught two agents aper ae been repeated flareups at the plant, of District Council 41 by the “lock.” age of five per cent obtained in the smaller districts prove that the Party has only been active by ten and five per cent. The southern districts are doing better than the northern districts. The Connecticu: dis- | trict, close to New York where our paper is published, reached by the Daily Worker every morning on the date of publication, this vast industrial area needs immediate attention. ings. many are being sold re are still being dis ginnings in this form been made, have not lished. There is one x ributed free and meet- es is, how How many to all egularly? of paid circ yet actual ly been The New, York district, with 85 per cent of its quota collected, stands out as an example other districts. Every district should have collected 85 per cent of its quota by now. Detroit’s revolutionary challenge to New York ' | seems to have been answered very effectively | by New York, if not in words, then in deeds. | Detroit has also lost out to Chicago in revo- lutionary competition to collect for the Daily Worker fighting fund. MISTREAT L. A, YOUNG WORKER Only Crime To Be Job- les sand Homeless i | Party of America to fight your |slimy methods of exploitation. —A NEW YORK WORKER. | convicrs DEFY PRISON OFFICIALS. ISLAND OF OLERON, France.— Because of the bad food and harsh | treatment, 49 military prisoners | barricaded themselves in their cells They were given a $400 check pres- ent for selling out union sign writ- ing to a non-union contractor who walked off their jobs. It is re- employed non-union men when the | ported that they were not allowed | union sign writers were walking the |to leave the plant, in accordance bricks. The officialdom, being afraid with the company’s rule that no one of further exposure, preferred |may leave the plant during work-|charges on Robinson that he de- | ing hours. | famed the business agents’ charac- They fined him $500, which which the management has sedu- lously hushed up. A month ago the band sawers | Connecticut only secured seven new sub- | with more than 100 customer fs coe 6 « 9” it i ; being carried by ne ad The | . What is outstanding in the above table is | ‘What happened to them?” in- | ters. ree «tee ators ata talie a Shere Bike bttics ven | that the New York district has collected fai Wee Sonn Sul cctied ane a ee ee we |quired the reporter. \he could not pay, and then expelled ick 5 Fy i : n ED fechinat 5 7 aatri rf 'y Vor Correspondent. ial “Oh, th dg bi him, —S. W. Our official campaign list, containing spaces | is another in Oklahoma City, Okla, of 103 | SON Gap aad en oe cues ciate Sone | NEW YORK —I came from Los | were finally starved into submis- put ‘thin Pee oe meee | a si for ten new readers, have been in the hands of Party members for many weeks. It is not too great a task to request a Party member to get ten new subscribers for one month each each at 50 cents each, and then to visit these subscribers again when the month is up and | of factory gates. workers at least 500 customers that is being carried. We must again stress steady sales in front In front of a factory of 5,000 | every day; a factory of 1,000 workers should | result in a minimum steady daily sale of 100 Daily Party papers should be sold | collected only $3,293.75. This proves what we have been telling you on page one of the Worker every: day, namely, that our districts outside of New York have not mobilized their forces for mass collections, collections not activized every Party member to collect | in workers’ organizations; have Angeles, stayed here a week, being down and out. Went to a police station for a place to stay, and they | put me in on a vagrancy charge. | I went to the court and they put me under a $500 bond. Couldn’t pay Lat sion, LONG HOURS ON MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The workers on the Ford dam, a federal GOVERNMENT JOB. ply. Forward to Mass Conference 20 Cents An Hour. Word has repeatedly been re-| ceived to the effect that guards are Meg in the habit of beating up colored | workers who “make trouble.” Mean- emai Young g Pioneer Against Unemployment, Chicago - collect another 50 cents from each for the be ;, |it because I’m broke. That goes to| joh, work long hours. They work | while the company is pushing its papers. Carrier routes of 100 customers and following month. Every Party member should be able to get | jone yearly subscriber, or several half yearly, neighborhoods. up must be established in all working class Party members must tralize their forces to establish such routes, and theh employ a comrade or an unemployed contribution lists. cen- a minimum of $5 upon the subscription and The Seattle district, with its one per cent, Minneapolis 3 per cent, Kansag City 5 per | show you the justice we workers get | nowadays. | Last night there were two boys ulled in and because they came from 9 to 14 hours a day and many | times they work seven days a week. | Even though the government is | starting a “Red Scare” by their “in- low wage policy to the limit. Cer- tain nightworkers have recently had their wages cut to 20 cents an hour for 12 hours. Sees Homeless Workers’ Misery Dear Comrade Editor: cent, Connecticut 6 per cent, Pittsburgh 6 per cent, Buffalo 3 per cent—these districts have helped very little to keep the Daily Worker going and growing. In these districts as well as in the larger ones, a quick mobilization of ferces must occur if the Daily Worker is to overcome its financial difficulties; if we are to win our fight against suspension on the _one hand and suppression by the bosses’ busi- ness agents in the White House on the other. or four quarter yearly. Application to this work is all that is needed and that is what ‘the Party is demanding. We expect all Party ¥ “members to make up for lost time during the ‘ remainder of the campaign. We expect the ict bureaus to actually take this whole aign in hand without further delay, and a marked increase in subs and achieve- generally by the time we publish the report. |from a rich and respectable family | vestigations” to hush up the unem- | they let them off. ployment question, they have con- I wrote this article to show folks | tracts given to companies who how things stand. speed-up and make their workers —A YOUNG WORKER. work long hours. Another Wave of Lay Offs Hits Oakland, Cal. Hard “I did have a wife,” said one col- | | ored worker, “but she left me. I couldn’t support her on that. It’s all I can do to support myself.” This is the city which threatened sedition warrants against Tom Johnson and two others for an- nouncing a street meeting to or-| | ganize Negro and white workers. |The American Legion publicly stated that it would smash the meeting if held and lynch the speakers. The Communist Party plans to tun a Negro worker for governor of Tennessee, SPUR FLECTIONS TO worker to carry it as the source of his wages. ‘The sun was gradually descend- ing in the west and whistles were | blowing, telling the slaves to stop work and go to their homes, if you could call them that, and rest up for another day’s slav- ing. On American St., where the railroad runs, mills and factories crowd the space. Many children play on the railroad banks, un- able to play elsewhere. As I was walking along this street I came to an abrupt stop. There, noi many feet away, lying against the wall, I could distin- gyish a huddled figure, fast asleep. As I stepped closer I could see that he was well pzet : Outside of the achievements in the two southern districts, Boston holds first place, with Cleveland and California second and third. Why Pittsburgh and Connecticut have suffered decreases in this form of circulation” should be explained by the Party in these “If Poison Fails, Try Briggs”, Detroit Saying ALADELPHIA. A fi ‘ 4 r (By a Worker Correspondent) epson com: |the girls produce more tor, 4 cheap | DETROIT.—"If poison fails try, ‘The same conditions that resulted Comrade Editor:— On Morday).dane.9; seven, men have been formed in oe of candy. The scheme will not |piisee This is a popul HRA prs a aE ee | Oakland once more has been hit| were killed by being blown to pieces lidated and the committee is| work, because it was exposed at) "8% is is a popular saying | in the Briggs fire several years 80.) Vit wage-cuts and lay-offs, The|in the Hetch Hetchy project at ing leaflets regularly. exposing | once by the Youth department of | among auto workers, for very good | where over 26 workers lost their juilding industry is away below the | Livermore. The bosses are so en- rotten conditions on the inside. the TUUL. reasons, some of which follow. | lives, still exists in the Briggs | level of last year. Workers are be- | grossed in making money that they ‘Young Cigar Workers Organize for Fight (By a Worker Corr: espondent) girls are slaving nine and, The campaign for organization is | While there is a state law prohibit- |plants. Laws that are supposed to ing speeded-up to take the place of |do not give a damn for the safety 5 ‘ quarter hours per day and also making good headway in Tren- |ing the working of women more than | protect the spraying department | those who are laid off. The Hall|of the workers. The dead are: G. JOBLESS CONVENTION hala! eda peat ig 9 to 11 dollars a week for ton. Several shop gate mectings|ten hours in one day, many women |workers are constantly violated | Scott Motor Co. played a rotten | Paizes, 36, single, 1254 Leavenworth ime class in nature. ie shoes | St., San Francisco; Fred Flader, 28, single, of Colorado; P. J. Peck, 41, single, 1232 Ellis St., San Francisco; C. Brood, 39, single, 939 Mission St., ‘San Francisco; Carl Cook, single, 1619 Camble St., Oakland; D. P. Hampton, 32, married, 848 South New Hampshire St., Los Angeles; C. G. Cloet, 43, single, 315 Fifth St., San Francisco. Workers, don’t starve, but fight back; only fools starve. The Un-} A city-wide drive for finances will employed Council are going to send | be instituted on June 27, 28 and 29, delegates to the convention. Will | part of which will take the form of) looked half worn, his trousers were patched and his coat and shirt worn. I stood intently watching him and I noticed that he began to stir. Suddenly he raised him- self up on an elbow, making an effort to rise, but instead fell back, perhaps from lack of food, into another slumber. 1 quietly stole away, thinking that when }| the American working class arise against their oppressors and establish a system of their own PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The final stage of preparation for the Na- tional Convention of Unemployed in Chicago June 4 and 5 will start Thursday, June 12, with a confer- ence to be held at 39 North Tenth This will be followed up by aj larger conference to take place on Thursday, June 26, at which all delegates to the National Convention will be present. when they interfere with more rapid trick on the workers. They told the production. Neither the police, nor workers that they were going to fire departments, nor the “labor” put in new machinery. First they commissioner interfere except to laid off 25 men for a few days, then insure the bosses’ profits. Only | all of a sudden 400 men. Only last when the workers attempt to or-| week they took them all back at 18 ganize into the union to protect | per cent reduction in wages. The themselves against the terrific | Byron Jackson laid off their entire speed-up, increasing wage-cuts, rot- } help. |ten conditions, that the police are} Only last week in a pool hall at on the job. Then they rush to (and) Tenth and Franklin Sts. a worker | club and arrest the speakers and or- was taken to the hospital. He could ganizers of the Auto Workers’ Union | not walk from starvation. Workers, who dare to call upon the Briggs’ | are we going to stand for starvation at Briggs are compelled to toil 12 ‘hours a night. In the Briggs Mack | Ave, plant metal finishers were re- cently hired at 68 cents an hour and “bonus”; after working three weeks they were paid off at 42 cents an hour, with no bonus, Girls have been hired at 28 cents an hour and forced to pay $1.50 for a cheap smock not worth more than 65 cents, and also 69 cents for a pair of scis- | sors not worth more than 25 cents. After working three days these girls were laid off and when they were held and over a_ thou young cigar workers participated in the meetings. At two of the meet- ings, the, speakers were arrested. The Trenton workers are showing good respohse to the campaign. A shop bulletin at the Consoli- from $11 to $9 per week. A | dated will be given out this week, was issued immediately by | by the Young Communist League shop committee calling for a | exposing the rotten conditions ex- organization to. resist these | isting in the plant and showing the of the bosses. | workers how to organize and fight. scheme has been intro-; The bosses are becoming frantic by the bosses. ,Eath girl who | because of the growing success of speed piece work. Many of are carried out unconscious | from the intense speed-up and fumes. Young Negro girls | foreed to slave at even worse ions. Last week, the time received a two dollar wage | 5,000 a day, will receive a the activity of the Youth department {asked when to come around for their workars.:to dott ly. thi hich | iM SO prosperous a country as the | write more in a few days. | “tag days.” | h thi G ” . h i vil 5 e tly told: “It ain’ th Ke seeped i rad aa i" 2 ; hi | : i on | | Sue things will be of the past. Fagard from, the company | of the TUL but they will not be (pay, ar ee or the deductions (¢&% Improve thelr eonditions—to or-| atom Unity aaa. “The only or-| ORGANIZER OF THE UNEM- |, “Tats demonstration’ of unem:|| —IEAN GRALICK, amount of labor. This} organizing. for the smock and scissors the Ihara and fight back. ganization that is putting up a fight PLOYED COUNCILS. ployed will take place at the City Philadelphi ei Pioneer. —CIGAR WORKER. | would hardly have carfare left. —BRIGGS WORKER. ‘for the workers is the T. U. U. L.| Oakland, Cal. Hall Plaza. eee ee means another wage cut, as

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