The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1930, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1930 Page Three = SPOKANE BOSSES INTRODUCE NEW FORM OF FEUDAL SLAVERY; MEN MUST WORK BUT RECEIVE NO PAY New System of Bondage All But Legalized; Welfare Groups in on This Scheme Jobless! Fight This Rotten System of Slavery! Organize to Get Unemployed Insurance! (By a Worker Correspondent) SPOKANE, Wash.—The Hotel De Ginks which is located Bosses Create New Slave Institution RULES OF THE HOME ow. _ , This home is for working men only. Those who are sick, infirm or incapacitated are provided for elsewhere. Working men are welcomed on entering the home— welcome to come, and welcome to gol if not satisfied. Sur- plus credits can be taken up in commissary at any time. The management reserves the right to refuse. to issue a credit card to any man. Men are required to bathe and wash their clothes be- fore sleeping in the home and after that must bathe at least once a week, in the basement of the old Shade Brewery, now has opposition. The new “Workers Home” is located at 908 N. Howard Street, in a three story brick building owned by Warren Lathom, a plumber. Everyone has to register and as it states in their rules of the home which everyone has to sign on entering: (Rule 5) “On entering the Home men agree to work for credits and in no case to ask or accept money for their services. Credits are good in exchange for meals, beds, baths, and commissary. Credits are non-transferable.” PHILA. NEGROES So there you have it, you agree to work for your board and flop 4 hours. And you can use your credits for tobacco and cast-off clothing, provid- ing that you have enough working- FORCED TO LIVE ON DUMP LANDS 2,000 Jobless Seek Shel- ter Nightly (By 3 Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Sixty-eight unemployed workers, all Negroes and including three women, found shelter in the dumps of that section of Phila- delphia known as the “neck’”—the extreme southern portion of the city. The police raided the dumps and @rrested all 68 of the workers who were given “terms” at the House of Correction. Although winter has not yet arrived with its sleet and snow storms, north- west gales and blizzards, 2,000 work- ers are now “housed” in the police stations every night. The number of unemployed workers increase nightly, though at this time of the year thou- sands still find “shelter” in doorways, corridors, airways and secluded nooks. Suicides Increase Suicides are increasing at a rapid rate in Philadelphia. The Bureau of Health reports 10 suicides last week. No reasons are given in the report. But gleanings from even the “kept press” make it certain that nearly all, if not all, were a direct result of un- employment or disease due to the ills of unemployment. Unemployment and strikes due to wage cuts are the order of the day in nearly all of the diversified industries of Philadelphia. PAY MEN TO GO TO NATIONAL GUARD. Union Pacific Hot for Strikebreaking (By = Worker Correspondent) Portland, Oregon. The employees of the shops of the Union Pacific here are beginning to wonder at the reason for the com- pany paying them their “salary” dur- ing their vacation time if they spend it in the National Guard camp. This procedure receives as much endorsement from the U. P. as does their company union. Now we all know that the company union is not meant for our benefit, and a little closer study will reveal that this sum- mer training is no good to us, but fine for the U, P. Strikebreaking Training The company is sure that the most of us are real patriots and will obey the orders to break strikes. We have not given this much thought, but the facts in the Daily Worker about the plans for quick mobilization of the National Guard make it clear what we are being trained for. The best thing that can be done here is for the Trade Union Unity League to come in and teach the real union of militant class struggle to those workers who are being misled by the bosses, and warn them against the fake tactics of the American Fed- eration of Labor union which is try- ing to organize us illegally. ‘This union will be accepted by the U. P. after it succeeds in locating all of us who are inclined to be class conscious, and maybe “radical.” That is the only reason for seeming to organize illegally. I am sure. If the Trade Union Unity League is agitated and taught to the workers here, they will become a iting group. : ore of the workers here will Join immediately if it is brought to them. Yours for a class fighting union in the shops. —A Young Worker in the U. P. Charge Outrageous Prices at Seaman’s Institute in N. Y. C. (By = Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK (Seamen's Institute).— ‘As a seaman I would like to point out some of the prices which the out of work seaman has to pay in the above institution for a flop in the dormi- tory. For a very small room 65 cents is charged, and up to a dollar. In the restaurant, notwithstanding that it is rent-free, he has to pay outside Prices, and sometimes more. At the cigar counter he is charged laours to your credit to pay for the same. I was told that at present the “Home has 75 men working at the Aviation Field for 8 hours a day, and another crew splitting wood for the “home.” On November the 4th I also saw some men at work who belong to the “home” on a lot on Cataldo Ave,, 10 or 12 of them Welfare Birds Exploit Jobless. And who is behind this sham charity? The “Social Welfare Society” in connection with the “Sal- vation Army” and other such opium peddlers, because no other outfit would have the brazen nerve to call this “charity.” If I remember right in the year of 1861 to 1865 our fore- fathers fought the Civil War to free the colored slaves in the south. (Any- how that is as we learned in school). But alas in the year of 1930 the bosses are doing their damnest to bring us right back to the point of chattel slavedom again. But we must remember before the Civil War the chattel slaves in the south and their families were well taken care of, because they represented wealth, where the white and the black slave of today has to work for his board | and a flop. And i he happens to have a family depending on him, what of them? So you see, working- men and women the master class with all their “charity” will soon have us working people down lower than the chattel slaves were before the Civil War. ‘Now you may ask: “Why are they doing all this for us starving and homeless hungry workers?” In the first place the politicians wanted to make political propaganda out: of your misfortune by making the work- ing class believe, that they are really doing something for you, trying as they always did to fool you to vate dor them again and after election as usual forget all about you and your misery. Second they wanted to put the so-called Hotel De Ginks out of business. According to newspapers of Octo- ber 24th at the meeting of the pub- licity committee of the Spokane County Co-ordination Bureau over which a C. Carpenter, president a John F. Davis at the opening of the meeting let the cat out of the bag by saying: “One problem of the Co- ordination Bureau is the “Hotel De Ginks.” He( Davis) said further: “When the Salvation Army began feeding men at their home, some ate and refused to work. These were quickly convinced that Spokane was a “no work no eat town,” adding: “the Vagrant class left the city.” Now there you have it; if you are out of work and unable to find work, you are a vagrant, in the eyes of the bosses. But if you are satisfied with what “organized charity” will give you, work eight hours for your slum- golfon and a flop you are a nice, doggy. And, oh my! how this bunch of organized hypocrites are trying their damnest to put the “Hotel De Ginks” out of business, they even stopped so low as to suggest to ask the City Commissioners to condemn the old “Shade Brewery” building thus forcing the unemployed out and out and into the new organization, on the north side, and to give the re- ligious dope peddlers a chance to ex- ploit and rob them. No Jobs For Money... ‘We have here in Spokane thou- sands of so-called “Homeguards” who are p#operty owners and tax-payers out of work, lots of them with big families, many of them living on the north side and near the Aviation Field who would welcome any chance to work and earn a few dollars to feed and cloth their hungry and starving ones, why not give tltose men a chance to work and earn the $4 or $4.50 a day in wages the city or county calls for? Instead of send- ing a lot of men to do the work jus# for slop and a flop without pay? Robbing women and little children of their food. I am sure if the truth were known someone or some click has their fingers in the pie some- where and gets a good rake-off of this new workers home, And this they call “Organized Charity” where in fact it is nothing but the dirtiest, foulest and filthtest kind of a graft. —An Unemployed Worker. buy outside for 12 cents. For a piece of Lifebuoy soap which he can buy outside for 5 cents, 10 cents is charged, and so the poor seaman is fleeced right in the institu- 15 cents for cigarettes, which he can tion, are good in exchange for meals, s ; beds, baths, and commissary. Credits are not transferable. Credit cards must be left each night with the clerk for checking. Every man accepted agrees to cooperate with the man- agement in keeping the place clean, sanitary and orderly. Profanity and loud talking are. strictly forbidden. The entrance door will be locked at 8 p. m. No admit- tance later without permission. The management reserves the right for cause to take up any man’s credit card, pay him off in commissary and thereby cause his privileges at the home to cease. The undersigned hereby accepts and agrees to abide - by the above rules and conditions and to work while here for the best interests of the Home for credits only. Signed: The above rules of the Spokane “Worker’s Home” sent in by a Worcorr shows the length to which the bosses have gone to enslave the workers and reduce them to the status of chattel slaves, when not starving them. Jobless workers! Get into the Unemployed Councils and fight like all hell for immediate relief and for the Workers Unemployment Insur- ance Bill! Fight against this new slavery disguised as “relief.” Catholic Priests Are Spies for South Bend Auto Bosses; Hound Workers Worker Who Loses Both Eyes in Accident Gets No Compensation Thanks to the Priests (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH BEND, Ind.—The Catholic priests here are the chief stool pigeons of the Studebaker bosses. Every Catholic church member employed in Studebaker spies on his fellow workers and reports to his priest, who in turn reports to the Studebaker bosses. Of course, the worker then is fired be- cause he (the worker) merely goes around the Hungarian Workers Home, which is the workers center of South Bend. The fired workers are not even members of the revolutionary movement, nor sympathizers but just simply spectators. a 2 MEN ¢ ANG CUT T0 Nick Malnar, worked in Studebaker’s for nine years. But when he started 1 AT U. S. RUBBER Stagger System Here Means Low Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT.—At the Detroit plant of the U. S. Rubber Co. three weeks ago a new idea went into effect. A one man gang on the shapping box in- stead of two. Where two men turned out 26 heats a day, one man has to turn out 21 heats. The rate for two men was 45 cents an hour end 90 cents a hundred tires. The rate for one man is 44 cens @ hundred and 45 cents an hour. Cut Pay Too Now they are putting into effect a system of working 8 hours and only 14 hours pay. This week our department went on four 6-hour shifts so they wouldn't layoff any men. That’s swell but we got a slap in the face besides a cut from 44 cents a hundred to 39 cents a hundred. On the walls in the washrooms are written these words: When will the spirit of Russia invade this country and underneath, It Won’t Be Long Now! STILL AT IT NEW HAVEN, Nov. 18.—The N. Y. N. H. & H. R.R. Co. continues to lay off men by introducing new efficiency systems. ‘The latest one cuts out five train announcers at the New Haven depot. Why not lay off some of the dicks? The New Haven depot and freight yards are lousy with them.. The shock of a lay-off start their brains to function. —Brakeman. Organize Unemployed Councils to fight for unemployment insurance! One Hungarian worker, namely visiting the Hungarian Workers’ Home he was laid off. While in Studebaker he had an accident in- surance which was good anywhere in the country, meaning, of course, that the accident insurance was good for outside accidents too. Loses Both Eyes, Shortly after he was laid off from Studebaker Nick got a job in Oliver Plow Co., where after a few months’ work he lost both eyes in an accident. While Nick was under the impres- sion that his insurance was still good the lousy Catholic priests even had that cancelled with the insurance company. This worker did not get @ cent from anybody and today he faces starvation. This is, in brief, the story of a worker and a church member at that. Vicious Spies, The Catholic priests not only had him discharged from Studebaker be- cause Nick made it a pdint to go around the Workers’ Home once in a while, but even had his accident insurance policy cancelled with the insurance company and they also blocked every effort on Nick's part to get any state compensation. Where are the capitalist laws? The capitalist laws ere made for the bosses and for their tools, the preach- ers, and not for the workers, Fight For Sociat Insurance! Where is the state compensation law or the state industrial insurance of Indiana? They are in the books only for the bosses and the preach- ers. Workers! Join the Communist Party of South Bend and fight for social insurance for all workers alike, full social equality for the Negro masses and protection of foreign- born workers. Demand state insur- ance from the government for all in- dustrial accidents as in the case of Nick Molnar. Join the Unemployed Council. —J. B. NO PAY FOR DEAD WORK IN PANAMA WEST VA. MINE Miners Can’t Make a| Living Here (By a Worker Correspondent) MOUNDSVILLE, W. V2.—Here at Panama mines where I am working,| 50 men are employed. Forty of them | are coal loaders, and two-day men | for the whole mine. And the remain-| der do this and thet in and eround | the mine. The company doesn’t employ motor- men, nor horses and drivers, the) loaders themselves must do the work by pushing loads and empties in and out of their place of work. They also must do the work of a motorman by hauling loads out and empties in. No Pay For Deadwork “Falls” in the main entry and place of work must be “cleaned up” by the loaders themselyes. Rock and slate must be thrown aside. All the work! mentioned above is done by us and we don't receive any pay for it. Safety measures are forgotten here. | The places of workings are 90 feet | wide. Three tracks and two men per | track. Each track receives four and| five cars a day. Mine workers 4 and! 5 days a week. How can a man make | a living at only 58 cents a ton? The | weight isn’t bad but worse than bad, Three ton cars only give 1% tons. A miner can’t make his expenses for mining the coal. Not only here are such conditions prevalent but all over the coal min- ing area. Miners, we must organize and strike against starvation wages and rotten conditions. Under the leadership of the Mine, Oil and Smelter Industrial Union. —A FELLOW-MINER. UNORGANIZED; GET CUT AND LAYOFF) Bosses Use Jobless As a Club Over Men (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—The workers of the Steinfleld and Garfinkel Store Fixture Co., of 138 St. and 3rd Ave., | have come up against a fact which| disproves that it is not all it is crack- ed up to be to be left to the tender mercies of the boss. These workers were exceptionally specialized; and were made to work an average of 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. In addition to working 60 Mours a week, they were sped up to the highest degree. No Overtime Either The bosses were convinced that they had a crew that was ideal; they de- cided to work them 70-80 hours a week (on the straight time basis). Then, seeing the great amount of job- Jess knocking at doors willing to work at any price, and hearing no viord of protest coming from their own workers, Steinfield and Garfinkel took @ different turn. They handed the workers a hard luck story and handed with it a two dollar wage cut off every day's wages. “Better times are com- ing,” was the tune they sang. The workers, being _umorganized, were forced to take the drastic wage cut. But it didn’t stop there, As soon as the ruch was over, they were all laid off, with the exception of three favored. These workers must realize that the bosses are their enemies, ifot their friends; that the only way to hit back 4s to join the Building and Construc- tion Workers Industrial Union, 16 W. 2ist Street, New York. Organize and fight! Los Angeles Boss Terror Continues Against Workingclass (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal—The appeal of the March 6th demonstration case was rejected # that 15 workers in- cluding 3 militant Japanese workers will go to serve their six months prison terms this week. The first trial of the March 6th case was hung by the jury and the second trial brought the sentences and several hundred dollars fine. Police terror in Los Angeles is increasing as never before. Now seventeen workers on trial in Divi- sion No. 14 before notorious Judge Parker Wood, 330 N. Broadway, 4th Phila. Greek Toilers Organize Spartacus Workers Club Here (By A Worker Correspondent). | PHILAUELYHIA, va. ‘he | Greek workers, who less than two) | months dgo formed a workers club, | | have been sin, ly successful in| rallying the us Greek | workers in the food, marine, build- ing trades and other industries. » | Alrezdy close to 100 workers have joined making this one of the| largest workers’ clubs in the city.) The club is known as the Spar- tacus Workers Club and adds to the virility of the entire left wing| | movement in the city here. | CANTON, 0., JOBLESS LOSING HOMES, | KIDS 60 HUNGRY; WHOLE MASILLON JOBLESS AND FAMILIES GO HUNGRY |Morgan Engineering Co. of Alliance, 0., Work- _ ing on War Department Contracts Jobless! Demand the City Boss Gov't Pay Im- mediate Relief for Your Families (By a Worker Correspondent) : CANTON, Ohio.—The girls in Timken’s roller bearing A fine headquarters at which all workers are always welcome, has shape by the Greek comrades. N. Y. MUNICIPAL LODGING IS HELL |No Blankets Or Bed-| ding Given been fitted up and is kept in good | worked 14 hours last week and the men abaout the same if any better. At the Tambrinus shops the men are sped up to such |an extent that they protest to the straw-bosses, who answer that “if you don’t like it I can get 10,000 others for your job.” It is true. He can, but he shows how they use the unemployed as a club over those working, also necessity of funity between unemployed and employed workers. Small grocers and merchants here freely predict that un- less conditions better before January 1st they will be forced to close up. They are organizing to¢— FACE THE WINTER cies are springing up. Thece par sites are told to make in any manner, attachments, teking furniture and| | until twelve o'clock, and then spread | By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—It should be made clear to those workers who may be looking to municipal bounty to re- lieve their desperate situation just what they can expect from one of | the agencies dealing with the “prob- Jem of unemployment.” | At the municipal lodging house, | even if it is a cold, rainy night and | | your shoes and clothes are wet, you | |must get a place in the line about | five o'clock and wait till seven, when the doors open. Else you are told that the beds are all taken. No Blankets Or Bedding. If you come late, you sit at a table @ newspaper on the floor, roll up your coat for a pillow, and, if you can, sleep for a while. No blankets or bedding are provided. At three-thirty, the lights in the kitchen are turned on, steam hisses in the kettles and urns, pots are banged, and everybody wakes up. At four a watchman comes along and calls, “All up!” Breakfast consists of half a bowl} of oatmeal, two pieces of bread, and @ small cup of weak coffee. Then out you go on the street before five in the morning. This is called a night’s lodging. RECALLS HORRORS OF WORLD WAR "14 Yet Will Now Fight for Workers Rule (By a Worker Correspondent} MILWAUKEE, Wiscon.—November the 11th, 1918 armistice was declared. At 11 o'clock sharp firing stopped and the air cleared of the smoke of cannon powder. Only thirteen years past since the world was set aflame by the bosses and millions of work- ers and wealth destroyed. I remember all the misery of trench life, the fear for airplanes ‘that car- ried machire guns and high explos- ives. I remember the German shells whistling in the air, passing over us and exploding pretty close. Now Hunger For Vets. Those that “honor” the dead heroes are preparing right now to kill twice as many in the near future war. Since the world war was over a new struggle faced the heroes of yester- day. Broken down in health, nerves shattered and a Veterans’ Bureau with miles of red tape and discrim- ination. For those able to work they faced unemployment, and plenty of | poverty. Must Fight Bosses. No more sweet promises from the bosses, nothing about “nothing will be too good for you boys when you come back.” In fact the heroes of yesterday are the “bums” of today begging for a meal and lucky to get a flop in cold weather. ‘The past thirteen years taught me a lesson and I believe hundreds of thousands like myself experienced the same as I did. War is hell. But it is more than hell to fight somebody's battle. Workers and ex-soldiers! use your past experiences to fight your own battle in the future war not for the bosses but for the workers and work- ers only. Long live the Soviet Union. | floor. —Ex-Serviceman. TERROR RAGES AGAINST GARY FOREIGN BORN Steel Workers Answer By Organizing Into Metal Trades Industrial Union (By a Worker Correspondent.) GARY, Ind.—For twenty years I have been working in the Gary mills of the U .S. Steel Corp. For the last eight years I ran a crane. Up to Nov. 1 I was working 8 hours a day, two or three days a week, getting 53 cents an hour. I have a family of 7 to support. From Nov. 1 this year they made me work 10 hours a day while there is work, paying me 53 cents for the first eight hours and 21 cents for the remaining hours. The foreman told me if I wanted to work that way it is alright, if not I can quit. This is a new way to cut wages. CUTTING WAGES. They cut the wages in the Gary steel mills right and left. The workers are waking up, although slowly. I atetnded the celebration of the thirteenth anniyersary of the Rus- sian Revolution on Nov. 7 in the Rumanian Hall. The hall was packed. The speakers told how the workers in the Soviet Union are happy and are bettering their ma- terial, cultural and sanitary condi- tions daily while the workers in the United States are forced to \un- dergo the miseries and sufferings of the unemployed who are walking the streets. BOSS TERROR. On Nov. 14, Friday night, the Bulgarian and Macedonian workers in Gary were celebrating the thir- teenth anniversary of the Russian Revolution in a hall on 14th and Adams Sts, When the meting was over uni- formed officer No. 70 came into the hall and pointed a gun and to- gether with two plain clothesmen held up the entire audience of 130 people, terrorized them for 20 min- utes and after they searched them one by one arrested three workers and took them to the police sta- tion. Two were released after two hours and the third after 24 hours. Officer No. 70 was drunk and smelled of moonshine and many workers were afraid that his shak- ing hand would discharge the gun. There is a mad hunt for foreign- born workers in Gary by uniformed officers, plain clothesmen and im- migration officers. They search the houses of the workers without war- rants, arrest them and deport them by tens and hundreds. BUT WORKERS ORGANIZZE. ‘The corrupt city offictals are try- ing their last card in the game to stop the workers from organizing, to play one nationality against the other, the American against the foreign-born, the white against the Negro, etc. Especially they are tricky when they see that the Negro workers are joining the revolution- ary workers’ organizations, which is enough to prove the correct step \solve unemployment (and incidentally, what not. So the workers face more misery this winter. Many Sheriff’s Sales. Sheriff's sales are increasing, work- ers losing their home daily in this| Jand of “equal opportunity” and} private property. i} It is imossible to find out how) many families have had their gas| turned off but in June of this year} 602 families have already suffered this loss. Children are forced to go to school with insufficient clothing and food. Last week one of the teachers here told of one incident. She was eating her lunch in the school when one of her little “children” came in crying and asked “why can’t I eat like other children?” Children Suffering. Such things as this should make every workers’ blood boil and it would be a victory for all of us if we could only insure this little girl a decent living all her life. Every worker with children must consider the future and what faces his children and if I can do a little bit before I get knocked off to make my children happier through life when I am then I am having a hell of a good time doing it and death will be easy. Over in Massilon west of here, charity collected $29,000 to take care of the needy this winter. Imagine in a town of 25,000 where no one is/ working except a few hundred work- ers on part time and of course the parasites. To decently take care of all the needy families there for one week would exhaust this fund. I wonder if they think the working- class would eat their rotten bologney. Prepare For War. At Alliance, O., east of here, the} Morgan Engineering Co. who manu- factured munitions during the last world slaughter, is building houses of army material near town and reports are current that army officials are | going to occupy them. For what?| Well, I don’t suppose to pick daisies | in the fields. The Union Metal shop on Navarre Road, S.W. has the workers coming in every morning, not knowing how Jong they will work. They are sent home anywhere from 10 a. m. to 2 2 p.m. This represents a wage cut. ‘The workers say they have no orders. MOVIE BOSSES , EXPLOIT JOBLESS), Another Fake Solution of Crisis (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.—The scab the- atre owners of Seattle are going to| a problem of their own) by allowing unemployed workers to sell admis- sion tickets to their scab houses, | They assure the public that their in- | terest is purely a humanitarian one. | This is clearly indicated by the fact | that they want the greatest number of people to benefit so they turn the Proposition over to an employment shark who negotiates this scheme with the workers at fifty cents a} head. After the fifty cents is paid, they sell the tickets at 13 cents a piece and instruct the worker to sell them for 25 cents. All very nice isn’t it? To whom they might be sold is of course but a minor consideration. Suffice to say few workers are so gullible as to fall for such a ridicu- lous proposition, I doubt if the own- | ers themselves expect any workers to) do so, but by so doing the scab own- ers pose themselves in their adver- tising as doing something for the un- employed and on that basis appeal | for patronage that has dropped! somewhat since their lock-out of union operators and their attempt to pass off a fake union onto the work~- ers. —W. H. B. L'AIGLON CUTS WAGES. NEW YORK.—L’Aiglon Restaurant | at 13 East 53rd St., has managed WITH NO MONEY Many Farmers Will be Driven From Farms (By a Worker Correspondent) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Jobs are sure hard to get in Oklahoma. | The cotton harvest is about over and that is about the only place there is jobs for the workers, and when it is | over, times will be worse. All pickers can make {s about seventy five cents to a dollar a day, however, that is all \farmers can pay them for he gets starvation prices for his cotton. Ninety percent of the farms are morte |gaged and the rentil markers have |there crops and stocks—mortgaged. | A large percent of them will be un- | able to pay the mortgages, which will force them to leave the farm for the city where there is already mass un- employment. The Oklahoma politiclans have | been planning on relief for unem- |ployed for the last ten months but | we haven’t got any yet. ‘The bosses are fearing a hard wine | ter so they are putting on a big com- |munity fund drive and the most of this drive will come from the sweat of the workers. It ain’t going over as big as they planned. The workers are gradually waking up to this fakery, they are dissatis- fied with this rotten system.and know there has got to be something done. »So we have got to reach the work- ers with our propaganda for the Communist program—the only pro- gram that stands for the working class. I am going to appeal to workers of Oklahoma to organize themselves with the Communist Party and its revolutionary trade unions. To hell with the bosses and their fake prosperity. SPEEDUP ON BLDG. KILLS AND MAIMS Bosses Growing More and More Murderous (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa—The aondi- ‘ions in the building industry here are miserable for the workers that they have to work as low as 30 or 35 cents per hour and the conditions are bad, the speed-up is terrible. Besides there are no safety devices and the men are forced to work in the most dan- gerous places and often get killed. Here is one of many instances: J, J. Simmons, Negro, 23, of 3126 Sums mer St., was killed, and Thomas James, Negro, 40, of 2011 Ontario St. and Martin Regan, 44, of 1715 Vine St., had their legs broken and are now in the hospital in a dangerous condition, They were caught when forced to work under a huge stone which gave way when its foundation was weaken- ed. Fight for better conditions on the Jobs, for safety and against speed- up, for a revolutionary building trades workers union! Conditions in Kane, Pa., Minefields Are Getting Worse Daily (By a Worker Correspondent) KANE, Pa.—I read in the Daily Worker of stolen Communist votes, I am sure that the Communists got more workers on their side then they think they have. When I’m through with the Daily I give it to other workers and I urged the workers before election to vote Communist, But they said they did not have the right to vote. They don't make enough to feed their families and most of them are out of work. They couldn't pay their tax so this is why they didn’t vote Comes of the Negro workers. On this point there developed a curious situation: The socialist labor party in Gary, “the mést ‘revolutionary party of the world,” takes the bourgeois standpoint that socially the Negroes must be segregated. Naturally that they are a pure sect and on this question and help the reaction as “theoriticians.” GARY STEEL WORKER. the time. within the last several months to re- duce its force from over 50 to about 35, and Monday gave these a wage cut of from 10 to 20 per cent. The place is open shop; the workers are forced to eat food that gets worse all Don’t miss full circula- tion tables each Wednes- munist, I myself didn’t have the right to vote because I didn’t pay a sum of over $6 for taxes and do not own property. I know that some did vote Communist because they told me but I don’t know if these votes were counted or not. Conditions around here are very bad. Those that make from $35 to day in the Daily Worker. $45 a month, are very lucky.