The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1930, Page 3

_ like that. He made his way on foot, “hungry and weary. He kept going DAILY WORKER, NEW INSULT S. BEND, JOBLESS BY OFFER OF 20 CENTS AN BR. “Not Charity But Real Relief” Toilers Cry (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH BEND, Ind.—The workers in South Bend are very indignant over the offer to work for 20 cents an hour. Last Friday a well dressed lady in a big sedan drove around the proletarian district, offering the un- employed workers jobs at 20 cents an hour. .A bunch of workers gathered around her car and none accepted her charitable offer. They showed a good fighting spirit, when a worker told her, “We want work or real} wages, not charity.” Another said, | “You are insulting us by your 20) cents an hour jobs.” The lady left! in a hurry, with deep disappointment | on her face. Start Organizing. A few minutes later Comrade Burja arrived on the scene andyheld a talk to those workers, eplaining them the program of the rade Union Unity League and calling on them to join their fellow workers in the revolu- tionary movement. At the Unemployed CouncilT meet- | ing another worker had this to say. | He went to Milwaukee and he got a/| job there at 50 cents an hour. He} worked 3 weeks and one day he asked | the boss how long is the job going to last. he boss said it would be a steady job. The worker in question had accumulated $200 in the bank. The cost of moving his family to Milwaukee was $100. He then pro- ceeded to move his family there. | After he arrived in Milwaukee with | his family he only worked 3 days and | got laid off for good. Now what little | more money he had he used it all up| on his living and now he has no money, no job and no food. This worker is a member of the Unem- ployed Council in outh Bend. Forced to Steal. “Says he stole auto, needing eal pital aid.” | ‘The above is a quotation from the | “South Bend Tribune.” This is what} a hungry and sick worker had to say in Judge Thos, W. Slick’s Federal | Court on October 29: “I could get no} work and I needed medical attention. | I can’t live much longer withoit it. I bummed my way to Rochester, Minn. in hopes that the Mayos would help me. In Lafayette I was stand- | ing near a Ford coupe and I knew | that if I drove this car across the| state line, I would be violating a) Federal law and that is just what I) did. They arrested me. But I am| told that there is an excellent hos- | pital in Leavenworth and I am ask-| ing you, judge, to send me there 80 | that I can get the treatment for my ailment. I cannot borrow the money to pay for it on the outside.” Gets Year Jail. The judge gave him a year and a day in the Federal prison. The capitalists are sending work- ers tb jail for years, while the work- ers are sick and hungry and no jobs. ‘The workers must join the Commu-| nist Party and fight for Unemploy- | ment Insurance. They must demand free medical attention, free rent and free coal this winter or perish. —J. B. SHOWS HIS SPLEE TO CONN. JOBLESS Jails is Boss Answer to Unemlpoyed | (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn.—How any so- | ¢lety calling itself civilized can settle! the unemployment problem by the, following tactics, is beyound any per- | son’s understanding. On or about the first of this month, | ® poor ragged unemployed worker straggeled into New Haven. He Le no sooner arrived than a policeman | spied him. Not liking his needy ap- pearance, he arrested him. He was presented before the judge in the morning on a charge of vagrancy. A Vicious Judge. The judge looked him over. “Would you like to go to jail for thirty days,” said the judge. “No sir,” said the poor worker, “Alright,” said the judge, “I will give you just thirty minutes to get out of New Haven. Now, don’t stop, if you come before me again I will send you to jail.” Forced Out. | The poor worker started to get out of the city with all possible haste. Now there was not anyone to give him a lift in an auto or any thing until he came to a little hamlet called Toxon, about two miles from New Haven. When he was going through there | on the state road, the town con-/ stable spied him. He didn’t like his looks either. He placed him under arrest immediately. He was brought to the city to serve thirty days in the hoosegow. His time will be up by now. Sent Up After All I suppose when he comes out they will send him up again. This is in- deed a fine way to settle the un-| employment problem. It is all well enough for them with the’ aries, They don’t feel the unemploy- ment and little do ey © They have now appointcu « 1 mittee to “help” to improve condi- tions here. You ought to see the names on the committee. A more rep. Dogs Are Better Cared For This is today the lot of thousands of jobless workers, in Hoover's | “equal chance” democracy. Not even cold nights. This terrible degradation of the will grow. The fight for real unemployment relief must rise higher and We workers and jobless workers can wrench relief from the higher. a shelter to sleep under during these useful members of society workers, bosses and their government if we fight hard enough under the leadership of the Communist Party. Above photo shows jobless workers asleep in an alley on the East Side, New York. (In the bourgeois sections the bosses live in palatial mansions). | 'TO LAY OFF MANY CITY EMPLOYEES Philadelphia Mayor Off) for More Booze (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Mayor Mac- key, the honorable mayor of Phila- delphia, has made the statement that one-third of the city employes of Philadelphia are to be laid off the first of the new year. In other words} he has come to the conclusion that the small men in the City Hall are| getting too much of the city’s money, | making it less for him and his croo-| nies to divide between them. | While he is making that statement] he failed to say anything about his) third trip to Europe, that he is plan- | ning. Having made two trips across) this year, he says that he is not look-| ing at it from the social side on this trip, he is going over to try to make the City of Philadelphia one of the leading sea ports in the East, which is a very good excuse for using the money of the workers for a good vacation. If Mr. Mackey really had the good of the working class at heart, then he would start in by cutting down on his own salary, and do without his trips to Canada and Europe, for they are not recessary anyway, for he can get all the good booze that he wants from his private bootlegger. But that would never do, for he knows that when he loses the soft | job that he has now, and has to go | out and carn a living, he will never} | be able to make engugh money, to) even take a trip to New York City,) | so he is making the most of it while he has a chance. —BEN JAY. Seattle Chest Funds Go for “Character Building” Not Needy | (By Worker Correspondent.) | SEATTLE, Wash.—Every now and then one of the rah-rah boys of the bosses pulls a boner, spills the beans so to speak. Dr. Mark A. Matthews, | defender of all that is holy and fun-, damental in Seattle, profiting not by the recent folly of ex-Ambassador | Girard, lets a cot out of the prover-| bial bag. And i. the following fash- ion does he do it: by suggesting that ten per cent of all moneys collected | by the Community Chest be used for the “bodily comforts of Seattle peo- ple who need food, clothing and housing.” Upon inquiry we discover that the hungry, shelterless and sick, in whose | name the thousands of dollars were) begged are not to be used for food, clothing, etc., but for character build- ing! To the end that this character be supplied the following organiza- tions are being provided with differ- ent sums. « $95,000 14,000 7,800 49,000 Camp Fire Girls Council of Jewish Women.. Y. W. CG. A. Girl Scout Council 7,500 Deaconess Settlement 1,300 Wash. Soc, for Mental Hygiene . 4,000 Y. M. and Y. W. H. A..... 2,500 The Daily Worker melts a million steel wills into one battering ram to smash the boss system. On to 60,000. Be a Daily Worker worker daily. Don’t miss full circula- tion tables each Wednes- day in the Daily Worker. esentative crowd of Shylocks could not be found. We can guess what is coming. —W. L. 50 Workers Laid Off at One Shot in Lack- awanna Steel Plant (By A Worker Correspondent). BUFFALO, N. Y.—Today again fifty workers were laid off in the Bridge Department of the Beth- Jehem Steel Co., in Lackawanna, N.Y. In spite of all promises of the bosses, that “prosperity is return- ing.” Yes prosperity of the bosses is returning. The bosses of the Bethlehem Steel Co. made $3,783,- 425 for the third quarter of the year as clear profit. Meantime more and more workers are laid | the E. J. workers are beginning to} | wake up. EJ. SHOE CO. BUNK’ ON “DEMOCRACY” MEANS$10-12 WAGE JOBLESS TOILERS, Shoe Workers Greeted | Only Playing With the} Foster Oct. 27th (By A Worker Correspondent.) ENDICOTT, N. Y¥.—Enclosed you will find a page known as the En- dicott Johnson Workers’ Daily Page.| partment of Industrial Relations re-| This page is a propaganda sheet for | the E. J. Corporation. | They tell us all kinds of flowery) stories how they treat their work- | ers. $10—12 Wage. The workers here in Endicott,| Johnson City and Binghamton, are working under the most miserable conditions. Some of the workers, are working one or two days a week, | making from $10 to $12 a week.| Some of these workers have large | families to support, they cannot even pay their rent and they are still getting cuts in their small wages. Most of these workers live in com- | pany-owned houses. If the workers | would protest against wage-cutting,| we were trying to get a small loan} | they would be fired from their job| and evicted from their homes but} Overflow Foster Meeting. On Monday, October 37, when-Com- rade Wm. Z. Foster spoke at the) Lithuanian Hall, in Binghamton eal hall was so packed that workers had to stop in the streets because they could not get in. The workers of Endicott, Johnson City will answer the E. J. Corporation’s propaganda with a large vote for the Communist Party. A. K. USE ART TO MAKE HUNGER SEEM 0.K. Fight the Bosses for Real Relief! (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Being unem- ployed for quite a while, I took an off, the rest are speeded up to do the same amount of work as twice as wany before, The dissatisfaction amongst the Bethlehem Steel workers in Lackawanna is growing, their mil- itancy is increasing and they re- alize the necessity of organiza- tion. They are orzanizing them- selves into the Metal Workers In- dustrial League, that is affiliated to the Trade Union Unity Lea- MURPHY’S FAKERY NOW CLEAR TO ALL Bosses’ Man Shows His Real Colors (Bu Worker Corresnondent) DETROIT, Mich. — Enclosed will find Detroit News clipping of October | 20th and note what the faker Murphy says about help from the bosses to feed the jobless, and admitting a famine here this winter, etc., all of which shows a complete flop of his noise about helping the jobless. “The major outlines of the City’s) labor policy during the coming winter were laid by Mayor Murphy today) | at a meeting with the Council. “The Mayor Announced:” “1. No laborer will be laid off who odd job in a Brooklyn art school. While working in one of the class rooms a woman who said she repre- sented a large advertising company in New York came in and informed the students about a contest which! is being conducted in the New York art schools. A poster, which should serve the twofold purpose (1) of creating a feeling of brotherliness between the employer and the unemployed work- er and (2) “Keep the morale of the unemployed worker up” is the object of this contest. This poster, she ex- plained would be broadcast through- out the city during the critical peri- od which is facing the workers this coming winter. To Starve Workers Any intelligent worker can readily see the real purposes of this poster. Not only are the capitalists starving us but they also want to make us| like it, and starve peacefully. As I sat and listened to this glib adver- tising woman grinding out the di- rections of how the poster should be drawn, I smiled to myself, realizing what a waste all their damned poster | will be. Because if the bosses think that they are going to starve us in a feeling of “brotherliness” they have got another guess coming. We won't starve quietly—we'll fight! —An Unemployed Young Worker. Oakland Office Help is now working for the City. “2. Money now being spent for) welfare doles will be paid out for| jobs which will be created as jobs: were created in 1921 by Mayor Cou- zens. “3. The Mayor is conferring with industrial leaders in an effort to make the industries take care of their own| welfare work, by supporting the fam- ilies of men they lay off jobs.” —F. 8S. MORE SLOP FOR JOBLESS. NEW YORK (FP). — The Salva- tion Army, through 12 food depots, handed out in the week ended Oct. 31, 63,583 portions of stew, 53,549 piec- es of bread and 32,073 cups of cof- fee, according to officials. Urbain Ledoux, known as “Mr. Zero”, and the nuns at St. Vincent's hospital also maintain breadlines. Get Wage Cuts; Hire New Workers Also (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal—Wage cuts is) Oakland’s most popular indoor sport. | In some offices there is a general | wage cut of 10 per cent. In other} offices the game is played a little better. Rather than to have a gen- eral wage cut of ten per cent, the employers fire the highest price of- fice worker, and hire new ones at lower prices. The former way would create discontent, and that would never do in this day and age. It is to laugh. The Daily Worker swings the angry masses into the red ranks. Join the 60,000 drive. Send subs! Bundle orders! Page Three YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1930 FAKE PROMISES ARE GIVEN OHI0 Workers’ Miseries (By a Worker Correspondent) LYNCHBURG, O.—Fred C. Crox- ton, special assistant in the Ohio de- turned from Washington to prepare for two conferences on unemploy- ment situation in Ohio. Chief Bunk redler Gov. Meyers Cooper in his speech in Youngstown said ‘No one will go hungry if there is anything | the state can do to help.” Starvation Near, But as a matter of fact the state has no intention of doing anything for the starving unemployed. And to prove my contention I enclose a} letter from the Department of Public Welfare of the State of Ohio. I told them how long I was out of employ- ment and that our savings are ex- | hausted and starvation is staring us in the face unless we get relief. We owned a little home here and on this prosperity and we tried every bank and loan company in the county and we could not get a cent. “We Regret” Bunk. In reply to our appeal to the Pub- lic Welfare Dept. we received the fol- lowing: “Dear Sir:—We regret exceedingly that neither this department nor any other state department administers financial aid. We can only suggest that you apply to the Township Trustees of the township of your resi- dence. Very truly yours, Dept. of Public Welfare,, \ Executive Secretary.” The joke of this is that the trustees of the township are eking out a mere | existence by working on the county from the higher-ups. Jobless Must Fight. In the summer they put on 3 to |4 men to do the hard work for 25 cents an hour and then have to wait for this lousy pay until New Years, when the tax money comes in. So we had to offer our home for sale for what ever we were offered and consequently it was sold for a song. All this bunk about the unemployed “relief” which these politicians and grafters are spreading out over the | country over the radio and through the capitalist newspapers is nothing but campaign propaganda in order to catch votes. Jobless workers! Make a living East 13th St, N. ¥. C., for details. “FREE” ADS BUNK IN SAN DIEGO, CAL. Real Relief Is What Is Wanted Not Ads (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN DIEGO, Calif—Local news- papers are imitating Chicago’s big- | business press in the matter of doz- ing workers with Doctor (Hokum) Hoover's Quack Unemployment Tonic | for a capitalistic colic. | Col. “Utility” Copley’s morning | Union setting the example by throw- | ing open its “Situation Wanted” col- | umns for the free listing of ads. The | same day Roy Howard’s afternoon | Sun that “Give (s) Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way” (but there isn’t a hot chance for a worker to see light through the blackness of its liberal-capitalistic lies, announced that its “Help Wanted Ads” would be free to every employer and business man in San Diego for an indefinite time. | Few Ads In. In this morning’s Union there was nearly a full page of “Situation Wanted Ads.” In this afternoon's | Sun there were exactly 13 “Help Wanted Ads” of which 9 desired, workers to work in schools where the workers pay for working, and one was for carrier-boys to deliver the Sun| into the bourgeois homes of Mission | Hills, It looks like San Diego's work- ers without work will have to eat ice-cream this ,winter, unless they | unite with workers all over the coun- | try to fight for the Communist Party's Unemployment. Tusuranoe | Bill. ~/OAKLAND POLICE JNTING JOBUESS FOR “VAGRANCY” iThousands of Migra- | torv Workers Jobless Worcorr Shows Up “Chest” Fake Mr. Jeniins? We are referring to you the vearer, | Jeckeon B.Brady, @ World Wer man, who ie teaporarily disabled by reason ot an integted root. as hie is not & service disability, he doeprfot come ander our Joriediction. Says he has bedn unable to get reltez Yrom Salvation Army. Is ’ at City Clinic. Family in Denver- IE SERVICE SECTION G AMERICAN REO CROSS SACRAMENT®, CALIF, (pee # Ptcanal OAKLAND, Cal.—Oakland, the “in- dustrial city of the West” as the Booster Clubs call it is also a center | point for agricultural workers. This year. due to the agrarian crisis thousands, of agricultural workers were unable to make a stake in the fields. They are now drifting back | to the cities looking in vain for a | job. Workers Are Jailed The police use every method that they can to terrorize these migratory workers. They are picking them up every day and jailing them for vag- % rancy. They are trying to chase them out of town. They are in short treat= MILITANT SACRAMENTO JOBLESS Ss x's "nt. OE | system of canitalism is so bankrupt TO MARCH AGAIN ON THE CITY HALL ‘'sce"‘erton soccer st ‘These workers. however. refuse to e without making a fight. They Jon the First Round in Fighting the Bosses’, Soup Kitchen Project | J. K. Sylvia a worker correspondent of Sacremento, Cal. tells in the | story below, how the Community Chest fakers refuse relief to workers and war veterans. The Sacramento jobless are very militant and have got the bosses scared stiff. Read the story below. are fighting back. The other day about a dozen of these workers pooled their money, and bought some | stuff to make a mulligan out of. Be- | ing homeless they went down to the jungles to jungle up. (By a Worker Correspondent) Police Thugs in Raid SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The above note shows clearly the! when the stew was about ready counter-revolutionary role of the Community Chest. The Un-| four police thugs attacked these employed Council in connection with the Trade Union Unity | workers, kicked over the stew and | League won the first victory from the Community Chest and_ ordered them out of town. The pol- | the Salvation Army in the taking over of the recreation center | ice here hate the workers so much roads and the little graft they get | selling the Daily Worker. Write 50 | FIRE DANGER 1S MENACE AT RCA Workers Here | (By a Worker Correspondent) lives of the thousands of workers in| | their employ. I'm working in this! |every second of the day to make! | money out of us but they wouldn’t | take a few minutes every month for | fire drill to protect our lives in case } of a fire. Fires Frequent, | On another floor in our building ja real fire broke out and here’s what | happened. One of the pitch pots on | a table burst into flames. The girls! working around that table all sprang up in terror for the sparks were fiy- | |ing all around. Nobody told them | what to do so they all ran around | and fled to different parts of the! room—some started for the door, but! one of the guards ran to the door, locked it and shouted that everyone | stand still, Of course everyone on the floor got excited and wanted to know what it was all about, but the | foreladies and bosses rushed around like mad hollering for them to go} back to work. At last the flames were | put out and the girls were sent back to their places to work. No Protection. In case of a fire, nobody in this hell-hole knows just what to do. in the confusion thousands could be | burned to death, but it isn’t the pro- | tection of our lives that’s worrying the millionaires that own this slave joint but its the thousands of dollars out of every single minute of speed- up that they're after. To prevent our own lives, to im- prove our working conditions, to do away with the speed-up, the long hours, fake bonus system—we must eet together and put up a fight! Workers in every single department must get together and organize into shop groups .. . under the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and make their demands to the bosses. In union there is strength! Through organization is the only way that we'll gain better conditions .. and lick the bosses! New York Editor Daily Worker: .-Enclosed find some lines that came to me at the Madison Square meet- ing. “What is this thing that will not fall beneath our blows? We batter its head, we fume our gall, We chain it up in cell and wall We curse, admonish, threaten, flail With press and pulpit, court and jail It seems of flesh and yet, and yet With every blow it stronger gets.” i i MUST FIGHT SHORTCOMINGS TO BUILD UNIONS Worker Correspondent Series On T.U.U.L. Starts Today Bureaucratic hang-overs and tendencies, slow adaptation to new conditions, a critical lack of func- tionary forces, poor methods of shop work are among the many shortcomings that must be met and overcome in the building of the revolutionary trdae unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Self-criticsm of all the enum- erated shortcomings can become a great force in correcting them, when it is made in the day to day work of the unions and leagues, Such is the attempt of the work- er correspgndent in beginning a serles of practical criticism of these shortcomings as he sees it from day to day. The worker is an active member of the Trade Union Unity League, a shop chairman in @ large shop, and one that comes in daily contact with the workers, Worker correspondence along the same Jines from other workers will aid‘in the building of the revolu- tionary unions.—Editor. + (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—In the present situation the Trade Union Unity League must have more serious at- tention from every revolutionary worker, As the workers are be- coming radicalized’ at such a rapid pace the Trade Union Unity League is lagging behind. The T.U.U.L. lost positions in the needle trades, in the shoe workers union, and in many other fields here in New York. If the Trade Union Unity League is to develop the lead the workers in the revolutionary trade unions it must be developed in such a way as to get the co-operation of all the active elements that it enrolls. | The T.U.U.L, at present is not get- ting the co-operation of all active forces of the organizations, is not gathering around itself the active elements. Why? Because all com- mittees set up by the T.U.U.L. are | too mechanically set up, all activi- ties are done in a hit or miss man- ner. WEAK APPARATUS. | The whole apparatus of the T.U.U.L, is functioning very weakly. The fact that all unions and leagues in New York must look to the city organizer for policies and Programs of section show the nar- rowing and not the broadening of higher and lower leadership, show no development of the forces of the unions and leagues. Even to the extent of working out details in arranging a meeting. This state of affairs in the daily work of the T.U.U.L. is a result of the unsatisfactory development of new cadres. In every league and union affiliated to the T.U.U.L. there are many workers that could be developed to take different functionary positions in active trade union work if only the Trade Union Unity Council would be reorganized so as to be able to take a more careful interest in each and every trade separately. (To be Continued) purpose of starting a soup house to fool the unemployed. | This morning (October 28) we are going to hold a mass meeting and also one at 1:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. We are week for the unemployed and $5.00 | for each dependent, free house rent, | free lights and water, free use of recreation center for the purpose of | CAMDEN, N. J.—The bosses of having two educational meetings per| guts to attack them. Victor's RCA don’t give a rap for the | Week and furnish free literature to) unemployed insurance such as put the workers. We initiated 36 new members last are all unemployed. J. K. Sylvia. CREW ORGANIZS; FIGHT 14 HR. DAY, See Good Conditions on Soviet Ships (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — During the past) few years it had been my desire to | see the conditions of the seamen on Soviet ships, so I shipped out on the | S. S. City of Fairbury of the Moore McCormack line, The skipper of this ship is a notorious slave driver | as well as the mate. The name of | the captain is O’Brien and the mate's | name is Rasmussen, together these two wring extra profit for the ship- | owners by working the crew all hours of the night and day with the aver- age of 14 hours a day. An organizer of the Marine Work- | ers Industrial Union soon had the crew organized enough so that they refused to work over 8 hours s day. Things went along fine until the ship made the small ports in the Bal- tic where the mate again tried to work the deck crew overtime and he! found he was bucking a 100 percent | organized opposition on the part of the crew. | The mate was going to log a man | for refusing to work over time, this) amounted to 20 days pay. However | this was quickly taken up by the ships committee and the skipper was | informed that if the man was log- | ged that the ship would stay along- | side of the dock. The skipper was quick to settle the affair and even | gave the mate hell for making such | statements to the crew. This however did not fool the crew who knew that the skipper was only trying to cover himself up. See Soviet Ships. Upon our arrival in Leningrad the members of the crew were in- vited to the International Sea- man’s Club to be provided with en- tertainment for the time that the ship was in port. Many members of the crew visited the club and they also visited the Soviet ships where they found that the crews of the Soviet ships had 100 per- cent better conditions than on the American ships. We found that the officers and the crew eat the same food, the accommodations are the same for everyone and that the crew and the officers sit down and talk things over in a friendly manner and enjoy them- selves. | Men Fight Back. In one of the ports on the way back the skipper wanted the crew to work overtime, and this they re- fused to do, so the skipper was go- ing to log everyone ten days pay, for refusing to work overtime. He said that it was mutiny and that he would put them all in irons. How- ever after the ships committee had paid him a visit he decided that he would not log anyone and that the crew need not work overtime, Seamen Join M.W.LU. The rest of the voyage was made without any trouble with the excep- tion that the whole crew got fired upon the ship's arrival in port. Seamen, this shows what can be done when the crew of any ship is | from the “city fathers” for the that they cannot even bear to see them eat. In this they are only re- flecting the attitude of their masters, the boss class. We Must Organize Workers, the reason that the pol- ice succeeded in destroying the food | marching to the city chambers with | of the workers and chasing them 'No Protection for the | other demands which are: $25 per | was because they were not organized. Had these workers been organized into a real militant fighting union such as the Trade Union Unity Lea- gue, the cops would never had the Had we real forward by the Communist Party, these workers would not have had slave joint and I can tell you just | night. In our march will be 249 or- | to go down to the jungles to eat. how they put it over on us. They use| ganized and 250 unorganized. They | So let’s go, form our own militant industrial unions, support the Com- munist Party and the Unemployed Insurance Bill. Migratory Worker. Philco Bosses Are Scared of Daily; Threaten Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The bosses at Philco are afraid that their slaves will learn too much if they allow them to read the Daily Worker and have issued a warning to any one that would dare to buy this paper will be instantly discharged. They have also gone to the trouble of plac- ing their stool pigeons and plain clothes men in the neighborhood of the factory at closing time to check up on this. We still take the paper there and will continue to keep in contact with these workers even if we have to board the trolley and sell it. Wake up workers of Philco and don't let anyone keep you in ignorance. The Communist Party is your party. The party of the working class. Your job is only temporary no matter how sure you might be of it. Down with ignorance. Down with the bosses. FORD WORKERS JEER FORD'S ROSY PROMISE DETROIT, Mich., Nov. some more o' Hank's balone: comment of Ford workers on Henry Ford's recent statement to the effect that the average daily wage in 1950 will be $27. “To hell with 1950,” ejaculated one lean worker, “I wish I could make 27 bucks a week now. All I have been workin’s been three days a week for \ the last couple o’ months. I make $7.50 a day but that’s only $22.20 when you're on short time—and Ford's on short time a helluva lot.” It was pointed out to this worker that Ford said that the average hourly wage in his plant at present is $1 an hour. This would give him $8 a day instead of his $7.40, “Don't you know any better than t’believe that hokum,” he demanded. “Why there ain't a man around here makin’ $8 a day.” Inquiry among six Ford workers who were standing jaround confirmed this. Very few workers are making $8 a day now, I was told—and those few are mostly skilled workers, “Of course he don’t cut wages,” a grinder said, “he just transfers you jto some other department and when | you get there you find you're gettin’ | 40c or 80c less a day.” This has long been common knowledge among auto workers here. The Daily Worker melts a million steel wills into one battering ram to smash the boss system. On to 60,000. Be a Daily Worker worker daily. Get your organization be- hind the Daily Worker Drive for 60,000! organized and what can be accom= plished by the seamen themselves by taking the union to sea with them. Join the Marine Workers Industrial Union and fight against the speedup on the ships.