The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1930, Page 3

Page Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1930 z < SALMON SEINERS Increase in Hunger Pensions for GIVE BELLINGHAM Spanish-American War Vets Slow in | JOBLESS CATCH Coming; Fight for Real Relief! What the Bosses’ Election Promises Amount to CARPENTER, CRIPPLED FOR LIFE MUST FIGHT BOSSES AND STATE TO GET MISERABLE RECOMPENSE State Bureau, “Friends” of Carpenter Mislead- ers Is Bosses Weapon Building Trades Workers! Fight for Real Social Insurance for Disabled Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On November 1, 1929, I got injured while working as a carpenter for Meyer & Meyer Corp. on concrete construction job at Transit Road bridge near Buffalo, N. Y. The wheeler, 4x6 12 feet long, which fell from a distance of 95 feet high, struck me on the back and head, knocking me down unconscious, from which I sustained injuries to my back, abdomen, and head, scalp wound 2% inches long, which Business Men Grab for Jobless Ex-Soldiers Must Fight for Workers’ } the Fish Unemployment Insurance Bill (By a Worker Correspondent) BELLINGHAM, Wash.—Bellingham| Boss Gov’t Has No Money for Jobless Vets But icbless were given salmon by the| 10 Billions for Next War urse seiners operating in Puget| cund waters, | } The canneries cut the price of fish | so low that the seiners, most Austra- | ons held a meeting and decided to creas ve an entire day's catch away free | (By a Worker Correspondent) JIAGARA FALLS. N. Y.—TI filed my application for ine of pension June 28th. But as yet I’ve not received it. to the jobless befere the fshing sen-| 0°? thousands of us Spanish-American war veterans out \son closs November 5th. | of work and in need of the small increase granted by Congress. | Fish Menu Next Day. When our pension was automatically raised some time ago Not only jobless got the fi we received our increase at once. Why four months now? I how- | Japanese and other restaurant Bigger breadlines and_ sloppier —_ dizzy spells, passage of blood required stitches. I get frequent back, stomach and head aches, from the stomach and partial WORK WAITRESS BUT DON'T PAY: loss of memory. Ex-ray pictures and medical reports prove that I have a curved spine and fallen stomach. Is Now Crippled. I was told by the Compensation Bureau doctor to procure likht |work and not on elevations. Now slop, and charity for those “needy.” This is the Democratic Party's post election answer to the starving jobless in New York. The republicans, the democrats and the “socialists” all have the same “solution” in the cities they rule. Reams of fake promises and breadlines. Jobless! Swing into the fight of the Unemployed Councils to get a million signatures, to demon- ers went, or sent their help to the dock where th fish was being given away. Fried salmon, fish ‘akes and what not was on the bill of fares for the next few days. Doctors, lawyers, merchants, judges, the mayor, bankers police, justices of peace and preachers were at the dock to receive the fish as they were being | given away. The probation officer | and the manager of the city mission don’t believe it’s owing to shortage of man-power. My full record is on file at Washington, D. ©., and it speaks for itself. Vets Get No Consideration —* Now in writing the foregoing fact Mar NL AT I do not wish to ee Ss Shee, a BETH. STREET. 0. dc I expect to be patted on the back. But I do believe that I should be entitled to at “leas as much con- sideration as the parasite who is in- directly the cause of our wars. One who makes fortunes through them by exploiting both the U. S. Government % I have been sick again for a month $6 WEEK N) WAGE on account of the accident end not - | able to do any lifting or heavy work reame ete jin the building trades line, where 7 «| Wages were $13.20 per day, but I have | Fig! ht Such Lousy Con to work for pay on light work, which | ditions |means that I have lost 50 per cent | of my labor power and am crippled | .(By A Worker Correspondent)... | for life. > i i | I have been going to doctors, hos- NEW YORK,—Did you ever hear of | | A pitals and clinics for medical treat- @ place where you can work without |ment but nobody wants to have it pay? Of course, the law of this coun- | when they found out that this is a Why are they With the Shop Papers The Wright Propeller (Reviewed by A. PETERSON.) —@ strate, and force the bosses Con- | gress to provide relief as embodied in the Workers Unemployment In- surance Bul! Do not starve while the bosses who have piled up their fabulous wealth at the expense of | your sweat and blood, mock at your | miseries! Fight to tear down this system of breadlines and “charity”! |was supposed to see that the unem-| [en Staggering On 2 | ployed were given fish. But in a good TRIAS TSE many cases the business men who | were in a hurry did not have time to| get into the human fish line which formed on the gang plank leading) BETHLEHEM, Pa—For 15 years from the dock to the float, but were | have I been working in the blast fur- given special privelege to pass on |nace departments of the Bethlehem down the narrow gang plank and get | Steel Company, and now instead of |their fish. Some of the most lazy | finding work easier, I find that it is lof the business men or bankers paid/ getting worse all the time. In fact some boy a dime to carry a big{it is going ahead at a killing pace. and the people in general, An honorably discharged soldier is allowed 5 to 10 points in examination (By a Worker Correspondent) |for United States Civil Service pos- itions. Yes, but it doesn’t mean anything. I was turned down by the U. S. Civil Service Board for position as guard at penal and correctional institutions, on account of asthma, when in reality they could reject me on hernia or allow that, but we know the law is not for the workers, so the bosses can do anything they want right in this great, New York and if you would like to know I'll tell you how. try of liberty and prosperity don’t | compensation case. | afraid of this institution? There must | |be a reason! | July 1 I received notice from New | York State Compensation Bureau to | appear on hearing on July 31, 1930, |to discuss the settlement between | claimant and Federal Mutual Insur- This shop paper issue (October) has some real features of a shop paper—‘Shop News’—and the comrades issuing this shop paper have reacted on the life and condition of the shop in a real Communist man- ner, by giving editorial comment, telling the workers what will be the outcome, how they shall act on a certain event in the shop, etc. To be sure, Communists do see what the result will be and tell it to the workers and so we read on the first page of this paper an article BIG PROSPERITY’ BLARE IS BUNK salmon or two up to their big cars. | Does Not Solve Problem. It was a sight to behold old ladies, | showing signs of poverty lugging a| | big salmon up the gang plank and across the dock with their tals drag- jsure makes one stagger. Somewhere I read something about| organic heart diseases. Only I've the stagger system, well, I don’t know | never been rejected on that account just what the stagger system is, but | before. I’ve held a great many more young girls and boys, old men, all|the system under which the blast important positions and more stre- furnace workers are forced to work nuous jobs than that. Just figure | Merit Means Nothing this out. The fact is the commission of the More Unemployed Now In a restaurant which is patronized | mostly by Six Dollars A Week workers |“70¢ Co. I was there that date but | Less Men. jvarious boards learn our political faith, etc, etc. If not satisfactory to ging. In some cases dragging a about a worker who had an accident in the shop and became blind. SUHiG Cease. Chater @licch wimel| and even party members (and there are many others like this) after all the threats that they hang up on the wall for the waitresses to see it and read it, that times are hard, etc. We have a reduction of a dollar a week, that is six dollars a week for 12 hours a day, instead of seven dollars we were getting before. WORK, NO PAY We have a layoff one or two days @ week (no pay of course) but the funniest thing is that they make us go to work at 10:30 in the morning doing all the scrubbing work of the Place (side work they call it) and then by 12 noon or 12:30 they send from 2 to 4 of us home to rest I guess, without pay for that day or the hours at least, altho we were hired under agreement of six dollars (garbage I mean,, but anyway!) Now why we should work under such conditions right in this land of “prosperity” I don’t know but I think we are fools if we don’t wake up before it is to late. SKY PILOT CALLS Hand Out Slop and Yell Salvation (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal—Thousands of unemployed workers are looking for food around the several missions at Main Street. Preacher told the jobless that if they have no room for sleeping to go to the mission to read the bible and get food, (one piece of bread and coffee). Arrest Workers. Last night at the front of the downtown mission many people list- ened to Rev. Clarkson’s speech, then two young workers told him that he was a big liar. Rev. Clarkson promptly called the police station and five big policemen came and arrested the two young workers as rioters. Night court judge Miller sentenced them ten days each for disturbance of a religious street meeting. t _. When workers hold street meet- | ings the Chamber of Commerce or- ders the police to club and jail the workers. Every worker, fight against Police terror. Expose the mission charities, we want real unemployment insurance. LEARN STRIKE STRATEGY! _ GET PAMPHLET FOR 10c. | NEW YORK —“Thée economic crisis, unemployment, wage reduc- tion, the speed up, the attempt of the bosses to place the burden wf the crisis upon the shoulders of the working class, necessitates an im- mediate counter-offensive by the workers to resist this increasing ex- ploitation, misery and poverty,” says the Trade Union Unity League. “TThere will be many struggles and _ | Strikes by unemployed and employed | _ workers this winter and spring. © Correct strike strategy and tactics, organizational forms that must be "adhered to in order to fight against _ the bosses upon a class basis, about this we must inform and educate / thousands of workers. Therefore the new TUUL pamphlet, ‘Problems of _) Strike Strategy’ must be rushed into the field, must be sold at all shop gate and mass meetings, must be in the shops, mines and mills a week, 12 hours a day and meals | POLICE; ARREST 2 | the agent of the insurance company | did not show up and I lost another | orbaay, and that time I was told) by Mr. Reffery that I am not en-| | listed for disability, | Law For Bosses Only. | I was informed by the attorney | | that I can not sue the company for the reason that he did not have any | jwatchmen to watch for accidents, while the men were stripping and ;dumping the forms down from above | and if he holds the insurance policy jthen he is clear of all accident ; troubles and you can’t use the insur- | ance companies and state compensa- tion, so where is the rights and law for workingmen. I leave to the read- ers to decide. | AA. FORCE JOBLESS "THANK CHARITY: | Fight On for Real Job- less Relief | (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. — Governor Em- is | merson’s unemployment relief nothing but a fake. Charity is all | he has for the unemployed workers | in Chicago. The governor hearing about the five thousand workers that sleep under the Wacker drive bridge sent an unemployment agent to take “care” of them. | At 6 o'clock he had the city police come and hit our feet to wake us up. After that he made us stand in line and if we dared to get out of line the policemen came and shoved us back in line. Charity Bunk. He made a speech and told us that the rich capitalists don’t give a damn for us bums. That their men only were giving us charity for the sake of humanity and that whenever the charity women come and give us something we should say thanks or ; else they wouldn’t give us a damn thing. He also told us to keep away from the Communist Party. Unemployed workers, fight for un- employment insurance, to hell with charity! Granite Cutters Give Support to LL.D. (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, Ore. — The Granite Cutters Local in the A. F. of L. La- bor Temple gave the floor to an I. L. D. speaker Thursday night. The local gave a spontaneous col- lection and individually expressed a determination to be present at the | next meeting of the I. L. D. Two socialist fakers running for office in “Last week,” we read, in this article, “the bosses decided that they were not making enough profits out of this worker, therefore they fired . Now the company has thrown him out on the street just as we said they would (in the March issue of the Propeller).” him, etc. . . This article concludes by calling the workers to organize into the Metal Trade Industrial League, by Social Insurance Bill and to vote Communist. calling the workers to fight for the Than Ever Before (By a Worker Correspondent) | kind to take the fish away in. OAKLAND, Cal.—Last week the) Ten thousand or more fish were capitalist press in Oakland became given away altogether. About a year or two ago three men \ | barrow or some other thing of the were employed at every furnace to} coke from the ovens to the! At the beginning of the} haul furnaces. | This cannot | efficiency system one man was fired | figure. r j Teal enthusiastic over the return of |relieve the hunger of Bellingham’s|from every furnace leaving the two |even more corrupt, if possible. “prosperity” in this “industrial city unemployed, however, more than @/ men to struggle along by themselves. | of the West.” announced the fact that unemploy- | on. Screaming headlines day or two and the struggle must go| a few months later another man was fired leaving only one man to do| the “Despot” good night. Civil Service is a joke. Unless you've a pull. Merit alone cuts no And municipal and state is I've had plenty of evidence dis- played to me in past years to con- vince me of this fact. | shop events—very well and good. But this article was in a great need Further in the “Shop News,” we see on the bottom of each news item such slogans as “Demand clean waste instead of rags”; “We must demand clean floors!” .A discussion on one hour for lunch instead of a half an hour demand and a call to fight for it. A grievance against the lousy nerve of the foreman who keeps an eye on those who go to the toilet—and the proper slogans. We like this paper, but we could not overlook also some funda- mental defects in this paper. The political article on page 2, “Why every worker in Wright's should vote Communist,” starts with the first and second paragraph about the Communist Party in Germany, (??) he third para- graph is about the long hours and the speed-up in the shop, the fourth paragraph is about the failure of the capitalist parties to present a program for the abolition of the speed-up or a shorten- ing of the working day, etc... .the fifth and last paragraph tells | the workers that the Communist Party, however, proposes the | Workers’ Insurance Bill, and concludes, “Organize together under the leadership of the Communist Party. Workers! Fight for Work- ers’ Insurance Bill. And this is in a six page shop paper for workers who could digest a good full column article about the Communist Party, and also have a call to the workers in the shop that they should read our Communist election program (a 5-cent pamphlet). The article, “A warning to all workers in the Wright Shop,” exposes the role of the A. F. of L. fakers in their naked form on the basis of the of @ paragraph or two about the Boston conventions of the A. F. of L, and | the Legion convention, with a promise that in the next issue (Nov.) | there will be an article about this convention, And really the next issue shall not fail to have a good article on these conventions and the comrades should not omit the facts that in Boston and in Cleveland the great ‘executive agent of Wall Street, Mr. Hoover, has laid the foundation for a united front which leads to fascism ment would soon be a thing of the! past. They made a great hullaboo | over the reopening of the Fisher | Body Plant and mentioned that two thousand workers had been hired| there. Preelection Bunk. But wait a minute, fellow workers, Don’t be making for the freights, highways or byways for this town. This was only a fake, put out by the capitalist press to fool the workers. | The Communist Party's Unemployed | Insurance Bill is rallying thousands | of workers to the banner of the Com- munist Party and the bosses will do anything to keep the workers from supporting the Party of their class, the Communist Party. Two Thousand Men Hired? | Let us take the reopening of the| Fisher Body. True they did reopen but did they hire two thousand men as announced? Like hell. Only a few of the old workers were taken back |for the liberation of the oppressed Jobless must join the Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League and fight for unemployment insurance. Pledges Support to |inferiors to change the hours from! this time. \ Daily for Fighting for the Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, O.—I have been reading the Daily for some time and understand that it is a fighting paper | and exploited nationalities, for the abolition of all unequal treaties, for the stamping out of corrupt officials and false radicals, and for the com- plete downfall of capitalism and im- perialism. The Daily is also fighting against | unemployment. I am one of the} millions unemployed. So I pledge to! give you my full support. I will] | aL. J. A. eae to get rid of another man in} the work that three men did before.| I might go on almost indefinitely Still later Mr .Grace, who believes | exposing the brand of justice that’s in economizing in the manufacturing | handed out by our great self-pro- of steel, decided that it was neces- Claimed 100 per cent patriots. Fight for Relief But I believe this will suffice for And I shall inclose my eight to ten, in this way getting rid| photograph so the S. S. (Secret Ser- of the men on the third shift. But vice) of the United States and other right on the heels of that came Hoo- | stools can see the kind of a looking ver’s fake proposition of putting all|puy 1 am. steel workers on an eight hour shift | The letter from the Veterans’ Ad- so more workers could get-a job. ministration, Bureau of Pensions, fol- At the time of this notice I actually | lows in part: though that it meant a gain for the, “Dear Sir: workers, but in about a month I| In reply to your inquiry I have found this to be only a trick to fool|to advise you that over 125,000 appli- the workers again. Immediately the | cations for increase have been filed workers just put on an eight hour} under the act of June 2, 1930. These shift but at the same time each work- | are being taken up for action in the er was forced to tend to two fur- | order of their filing and it is not pos- naces, still excluding another worker. | sible to state just when any particular And now a just a few weeks later claim for increase under this act will we haye again been put on tHe ten) be granted and payment at the in- hour shift but we still work on two | creased rate made.” furnaces. This actually means that | each department, so he instructed his | —JAS. L. 8. and no new ones hired. Instead the work for the popularization of the oss gave them the old army gag, Daily among the Chinese workers. “Come back tomorrow, Thursday,|T have been discussing many topics next week, etc. Monday there were|in the Daily with my relatives and about a thousand men and boys look- | friends, who come to realize the class ing for jobs. The same old story,| struggle more and more. I am glad “Nothing doing today.” They herded| that your paper is such a good ef- the city were denied the floor by the and war preparations in the United States. Force Salesgirls to Pay Half Wages for Boss Welfare Drive (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The big welfare drive to raise $3,500,000 for “charity” is still on. Is. it the rich that contribute this money? Not at all. At the Lit Bros. department store girls making $12 per week were given the suggestion to put half, or $6 into the welfare fund. Of course, this is “voluntary.” But then Christmas will soon be here and girls that would retain their jobs had better heed sug- gestions. For after Christmas come mass layoffs. Mrs. Hoover, wife of the eminent engineer and president of the United States also contributed to the Phila- delphia Welfare Fund. She sent her best wishes for its success. —C. R. members of the local fifteen minutes earlier, Class-conscious workers of these unions are willing to support the In- ternational Labor Defense if they are only made acquainted with its work, NEW YORK.—I was going down- town in the subway when a man stepped in at the Grand Central station. He immediately attracted every- body’s attention. His gesticulation and talking to himself gave the impression of a drunkard and a calm smile on everybodys faces set- tled the matter. But was he muttering? I moved over. “A job, bread! My two chil- dren! Hungry!” Worcorr Tells of Fear-Crazed Jobless | Worker; Wife and Kids Are Starving No he was not drunk though he would try to but would not have enough cash to buy a drink. But he was losing his mental balance. I started to question him. A tall, greyhaired man of about 50, he was still strong enough to work as an ironworker (his trade) and he came from Passaic to New York to look for work. He left a wife and two kids home. Now he is wandering around in the streets of N. ¥. and no job in sight. He did not eat for two days. He ts going crazy! $2 FOR 13 HOURS TOIL IN SILK MILL Organize to Fight Such Miserable Conditions (By a Worker Correspondent) | BETHLEHEM, Pa.—I am employed | in the Bethlehem Silk Co. I work 13 hours night work and I could say! that I slaved here for the time I have been here. With no time to eat lunch, work all night long, and the next day I come to work they send me home and tell me to come tomorrow so I went home and paid another 15 cents and the third night they told me not to come any more. Must Organize. Yesterday I got the money coming to me, what you could call a pay for 13 hours of work, I received $2.08 and this is what I earned for the last five months. I wonder how much longer we are going to stand for this rotten condi- tion. We must fight and organize. Join the Communist Party and the | Tevolutionary trade unions of the T. UU. LL. —J. B. A.F.L. Vandal Orders the Daily Worker to | Be Destroyed in Hall (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash,--I am a member of Local No, 49 of the International Alliance of Bill Posters and Billers of the U.S. and Canada. I volunteered my services to dis- | tribute the Daily Worker, special election edition. One place in my territory, known as the Mutual Laun- dry, which is owned by the Seattle Central Labor Council Committee, | showed the true colors of the labor | fakers in the A. F. of L. I was given permission by two offi- cials of the laundry to leave my papers in the office with a sign, “Take one free,” I left 50 papers there be- | up the meeting by reopening the! |the necessity of all rank and file | us out of the grounds and closed | the gates on us. Gate Meeting Well Attended. | The Communist Party and the Y.} C.L. immediately started a factory gate meeting exposing the damned lies of the bosses and all their fake cures for unemployment, such as the Stagger system, The workers listen- | ed attentively to the speakers and| bought many copies of the Daily) Worker. The bosses tried to break gates. The workers did not fall for | | their game and stayed close to the, speakers, Fisher Body Here a Slave Shop. The Fisher Body here is sure one speed shop. Most of the workers are young workers as only the youngest and strongest can stand the strain. Last year they went out on strike under the leadership of the Com- munist Party and the Y.C.L. Their strike was marked by militant pick- eting and mass arrests. The local A. F. of L. burocrat, Bill Spooner, came out openly against the strikers | and in favor of the General Motors. Metal Workers Industrial Union. The Metal Workers Industrial Un- ‘work for tips only claiming bad busi- \affairs, a few blocks away from local ficient propaganda organ. With the Daily, our revolutionary movement will come to a victorious end. —A Chinese Worker. CUT OUT WAGES IN RESTAURANT (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Restaurant owner hires help refusing to ,pay wages, compelling those accepting job to ness. Employees having no means to analyse the truth of this statement | not being organized. Am married worker who worked there some time before received weekly wages, now only works on Sunday receiving two dollars out of courtesy because he refused to work the rest of the week without former wage which were refused by owner of restaurant who is taking advantage of the depressed times who could, no doubt, pay wages and not compel waiters to depend upon small gratui- ties, or doles only. Can you investigate this state of each worker is doing the work of | six men. | And they call this relieving un- employment. I can see that this simply points out to all workers no} matter how blind they are, the need for organization into a real militant | union, and under the leadership of Editorial Note: The interest of the Wall St. government in the workers who were forced into im- perialist wars begins and ends with throwing them a miserable sop known as a pension. At present when thousands of veterans are jobless the pension means slow this union to struggle for better con- | ditions for all workers Tells Why Speakers Should Dress Neatly As Aid to Influence (By @ Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. Y. — I sure hate to 5 one i ie ee en Feels, ut eenge 1) Strength grows. ‘The thousands of noticed many people make remarks) WT veterans who today are job- about how the speakers dress so poor- | 'ss or starving on the measly pen- ly and untidy. It is no sign if these | sions must get into the unemployed | speakers are poor working men that| Workers’ movement, for a million signatures, demonstrations, to force they should come and speak AIC | the hand of the government that a Se ake EE) rae Com. | 2s shown clearly that it will rather ly idea, and many other Com- : murder the workers than give them munist members is the same that if, relief from the swollen profits of the speakers would try at least to the bankers and manufacturers, to dress themselves a little more decent | give real bread and butter relief. and neatly then more of the people | that are employed would attend, as} starvation. The bosses government has mobilized its powerful machin- ery to fight the jobless millions who demand decent and real relief. Charity slop and endless fake pro- mises is the bosses’ “solution.” The unemployed movement under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party can force relief from the bosses and their government in the same proportion as its mass I know that lots of people are judged | thru their neatness, especially in this | capitalist country. Of course, we know that the Com- munist leaders are poor but it is no | Sign that if we are poor we must dress untidy we could, especially those ion is doing good work in organizing | No. 2. The business establishment is | that are. addressing the people. these workers on the industrial field. | The workers know the need of a| strong industrial union and are com- | ing in fast. They are standing fast | in support of the Communist Party and the Unemployment Insurance Bill. ——————$ $$ cause that was the number of work- ers employed, but soon.after I turned my back to distribute papers at an- other laundry, one of the officials of the Labor Temple ordered the janitor to destroy the ones I left there. The janitor was compelled to wrinkle the papers and tear them and throw them into the rubbish can, al- ‘hough he hated to do so. This is sufficient for us, rank and filers, to realize that what the Daily Worker says about these Labor Fakers is ab- solutely correct. I am now more convinced than ever and understand workers in the A. F. of L. to rid themselves of such parasites, owned by Mr, Bernstein at 146 Sum- ner Ave, Another place at Throop | On my part, it does not bother me hoy they dress, but for the benefit of and Lormier, Brooklyn.—B. B. our Communist Party. 2,000 RCA Radio Workers Off; Short Time Spreads in Phila. (By a Worker Correspondent) CAMDEN, N. J.—The big layoffs anticipated by the workers at the | Victor-RCA radio plant commenced Friday with a layoff of 2,000 work- ers for an indefinite period. Lening’s chemical plant put their force on 3 days a week instead of the previous full time, Michell and Pierson, one of the largest tanneries in Philadelphia are now working only part time again, 3 days in most departments. The big, enormously advertised “Buy Now” campaign of the Phila- delphia merchants has turned out | | to be a fizzle, nothing much came | of it, people didn’t buy despite the | allegedly lowest prices since 1913. | So early in November as it is, Strawbridge and Clothier and other large department stores have found it necessary to discharge packers, salesgirls and other employees. Sears, Roebuck and Co. dis- charged workers long in the “sec- | vice.” A few got their jobs back or other jobs at lower wages. When it comes to business, business is business with Rosenwald, Straw- bridge and other capitalist philan- thropists Thousands Tampa, Fla., Cigar Workers Are Now Jobless By A Worker Correspondent | TAMPA, Fla.—There are many thousands of the 15,000 Spanish speaking workers that are work- ing in the tobacco industry, that have been unemployed for years. In order to get a job in the cigar factories in this city the workers must belong to some of the bosses organization, he must | spend his wages in the foreman’s restaurant and besides he must have a “pull,” We have all kinds of reptiles that call themselves “radicals” but all they do among the workers is to interfere with the few Com- munists that are starting to or- ganize here. We have another group of “leaders” but #hey are well known for activity on behalf of the bosses. We are organizing the workers _into Communist organizations but we cannot go out publicly until we get a big number and then gather in a big parade, the first of this type ever seen in this capitalist town.