The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1930, Page 3

i I DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, , SATURD AY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930 Page ‘Three 5 GRANITE CITY, ILL, UNEMPLOYED COUNCEL RALLIES THOUSANDS AND MAKES DEMANDS ON CITY COUNCIL Bosses and Empleyment Sharks in This Small Industrial City Spy on Workers Crowd Demands Release of Council Spokesman When Police Arrest Him (By a Worker GRANITE CITY, Ill—A Correspondent) demonstration called by the Unemployed Council of Granite City, an industrial center a few miles north of St. Louis, attracted an amazingly large | crowd. At least 2,000 persons assembled to hear speeches made by B. Stevens, district organizer, Yetta Baker, Y.C.L. member, and Harry Vartanian, secretary of the Unemployed Council. The population of Granite City is only 25,000, hence the amazement of the speakers and the bourgeoisie itself upon witnessing the huge mass of workers. The presence of the huge mass can be attributed directly to the fact that the in- JOBLESS COOK LIVES ON COFFEE, STALE DOUGHNUT Cooks Must Now Toil for Keep Only (By a Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa.—While walk- Ing the streets of Pittsburgh I and another unemployed worker got in a conversation. Here is the story he gave me. He has worked for 16 years as @ first class cook. Made between $35 sud $50 a week. Saved $200, in the bank, and now is unemployed for 8 months and the $200 is gone. Work for Board, He said most of the cooks now work for their board, if not it’s their eats they are working for. The dish- washers get between $12 and $i8 a week and they have to give the money back to pay their board, if not it’s their eats, etc. ‘Told me he hesn’t slept for three days, and another unemployed worker asked him to come and sleep with him in the unemployment house in Pittsburgh. So they went and the house has three floors and the rooms are empty. The men have to sleep on the floors, with rage, | coats or papers to lay on. Cops Mistreat Men. At 6 o’clock three cops come in and wake all the men up and if they don’t like: the looks of you they will mistreat you and force you to beat it out of town. Told me he spent his $200 in six months for board, eats and his clothes. Said that the shirt he has on for three months. Just imagine what it would look like. You know how I got this second-hand suit? I said no. A friend of mine hit on a lucky number for a nickel and he gave me $12.50 of the winning money and said go buy yourself a suit. I hate to see you in these old rags. Real Starvation. Do you know how I get my eats every day? It’s this way. of mine works in a restaurant and he gives me a cup of coffe and stale doughnuts once a day without the owner knowing it. At the cash reg- ister he rings “No sale.” Readers of the Daily Worker, don’t only read the paper. If you don’t belong to an organization join one and fight, fight before it is too late. Don’t wait for the lest minute or say there is lots of time, but get in touch with the nearest organization and join it; fight against wage-cuts, layoffs and for social insurance. —Unemployed. SPEEDUP HURLS HIM FROM ROOF Organize This Fight Against Accidents (By a Worker Correspondent.) MARTINEZ, Calif—The speed-up at the Shell refinery in Martinez, Calif, has become so terrific that the workers are in ever greater dan- ger of injury or death. James Cenova, a young worker, slipped off the top of a tank car in the rush to loed it with oil. His shoulder is broken and he is suffer- ing from shock and possible internal injuries. This latest accident to a worker is a direct result of the new onslaught on the workers which has fired over 250 workers in the last three weeks. ‘These are the methods Shell and the other companies use to main- tain their huge profits in spite of the deepening economic crisis. They mean death from starvation for the workers fired and death from speed- up and bad living and working con- ditions for the workers left on the job. The only thing we workers can do to save ourselves from being driven to death by the company is to or- ganize ourselves into the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Industriel Union and get ready to strike. —Oil Worker. IMPERIALISTS EXECUTE FIVE. PARIS.—President Doumergue re- cently approved of the death sen- tence of five natives of Indo China. They are “guilty” of taking part in an “anti-imperiallst battle some time ago. A friend) dustries of this city are working only 25 per cent. This factor has thrown 5,000 out of work here, a figure ad- mitted by the capitalist sheet of this industrial centre. Bosses Spy on Workers. The masses were called upon to parade, but the presence of nearly showed the least inclination to march, caused the workers as a whole to look about uneasily and re- frain from marching. Two hundred, and a large number accompanied them on the sidewalkes but not actu- ally joining in the march. The not succeed in restraining the masses workers will speedily see as Old Man Winter approaches that there is no use in being afraid of the blacklist as there are no jobs anyway. Demands Made on City. In the evening six hundred or so workers jammed the city hall cham- bers and corridors to the utmost, | lending their mass support to the workers’ committee which presented the unemployment relief petition. Applause was given the spokesman of the committee as he exposed the City Council for not taking proper; recognition of the jobless workers’ demands. He was arrested but the militancy of the crowd, which massed lin the police headquarters demand- |ing his release, secured his freedom {within an hour. The police chief, with a perplexed look was forced to admit that “the crowd is with that To Fight On! Comrades, the fact that 2,000 will assemble at a demonstration in a little town like Granite City should prove once and for all, the great ap- peal of the Unemployed Councils to the jobless masses. Let us redouble our efforts. —H. Vv. P. §.—Election returns for Madi- son County, Ill. Eighty-three votes for Freeman Thompson as State Senator. No election campaign was |carried on. This vote is a 300 per |cent increase over 1928 elections. LINSEED PRESSERS WORK IS DOUBLED Want to Organize; Ask for Speaker (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Il.—About the rotten conditions here in the Spencer-Kel- ogg plant, The men here work in tights as it is so hot inside. The j company will not let us workers wear gloves even though the hot stuff we must handle ruins our hands. Last year they speeded us up. Two men used to work on one press and make six presses. Now one man works on one press and he put up four for the same wages. Want to Organize. I work on number two press. Y have talked to the men on Number one, four and five. I believe the chance is good to organize them in the Trade Union Unity League should an organizer or speaker go out and talk to them. The plant is at 22nd and Lumber St. a linseed oil plant. Please print this in the Daily Worker and send someone to organize us. I will do my part. (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill. — We see that workers are being layed off from the shops and factories and the misery of the unemployed is reach- ing a stage where workers are com- mitting suicide in order to escape from this misery. But what about the worker in the shop? His lot is not much better than that of the unemployed. I will give you an example of the way workers are treated at the In- ternational Harvester. In depart- ment 52 there is a boss by the name of Dan and he is the worst sort of sneak I ever saw. He is never satisfied with the work and raises hell with the men for every little every boss and employment agent in | town with notebooks in their hands | ; jotting down the names of those who | however paraded | bosses and employment agents will | from militant action with their note- | books and spying activities as the | sal Hervester Bosses Use Crisis 0 Make Workers Sneedun; Staggered The breadlines are growing. cast-off clothes are also growing. The politicians. lines of jobless workers waiting to get Above photo shows one of the many lines formed to get second-hand clothes. This condescending mockery is called “relief” by the Tammany | cast-off clothing do not neglect to strengthen your Unemployed Councils. | back of Proper Winter = ser Adds to Miseries of Jobless Workers for $25 and 5 additional for each dependent of unemployed, disabled or sick, would insure real relief for the millions of jobless workers. Jobless workers! When you take the miserable handouts of slop avd The provisions of the Workers’ lor oyment Insurance Bill, calling | bosses’ congress to force through real and immediate bread and butter relief! | Jobless, He Begs to Sleep in a Jail in Jamestown, N. Y. (By a Worker Correspondent.) JAMESTOWN, N.Y.—I am send- ing you a clipping from our daily newspaper, the, Morning Post. Don’t you think it’s getting pretty || bad when husky men beg to be |] ¢ut in prison for a place to sleep and something to eat. I buy the Daily Worker regularly from the news stands and think it’s fine. There are lots of people out of |) work here and getting more dis- || satisfied every day. No place in this town of about 50,000 people |] for a man out of work to get a place to sleep nights unless he goes to the dirty, lousy police sta- tion. There were a few men who || tried to sleep in a brickyard oven on the outskirts of the town and were arrested for vagrancy. | There are lots of guys here and || all are ready, just waiting for something to start so we can clean up. 30,000 PORTLAND FAMILIES STARVE Mayor in Bombastic! Hokum Minus Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, Ore—This head on the morning paper’s front page 1s the synopsis of the brilliant idea advanced by Mayor Baker from his week-end home to the paper by phone. “I will wreck the town if it will give employment,” says this politi- cian of the bosses. Live in Shacks. ‘The oldest buildings in this town provide profit for robbing landlords and are unfair true enough for “people” to sleep and live in, but workers by the thousands have lived in them ‘and will continue to live in them as long as they are profitable which is as long as capitalism stands. Hizzonor calls upon the conscience of the building owners to wreck and rebuild. Sort of a quaker substitute for christian science upon the bosses it would seem. Talk Only. Our chief problem is the employ- ment of common labor he further says and this kind of activitiy wil put them to work. ‘Those 50,000 lumberjacks who have spent their lives in dangerous work and skilled work of the severest kind are to be so lightly dismissed by the bosses as “common.” The 40 per cent of industrial em- ployees that have been laid off per- manently also are common labor. The women workers in the stores who have been laid off are also dying for a chance to become employed as common labor at the rate of 30 cents an hour. 30,000 Families Starving. Thirty thousand workers and their families are starving and there is only one answer to their problems and that is in a militant Trade Union Unity League unemployment council that will fight for their demands and make the bosses give not ask them to become conscious o ftheir “inner light” and feed us for further slavery. Workers destroy this class collabora- tion at which you are not even repre- served and make the boss politicians lose their pratt. Join the Trade Union Unity League. Join the Communist Party and bring on the workers’ government, | thing. The fact that so many thousands of workers have been Iaid off at the International Harvester gives him a chance to force the men to work hard so as not to lose their jobs. He is always threatening to have a worker laid off unless he does just at this boss tells him. We are working only three days a week now and we don’t know how things will be this winter. If Mr. Hoover’s “Stagger System” goes through at this shop it will only make our already miserable condi- tions worse. The Metal Workers’ Industrial League will have to get on the job Cat to Make Soup Fight This Barbarity! (By a Worker the man really was hungry. When the driver of the tri about the man coming up and | wanted to find out if this man was really starving. On the corner he met a policeman and asked him to follow the man and ©find out where he lives. 95c A WK. PAY FOR) S.A. KITCHEN HELP “Contemptible Graft” Worker Calls It (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—As we all know the Salvation Army is now in the midst) of a drive to obtain $500,000 donation in cash, also a large amount of cloth- ing, shoes, etc. with which to “relieve” (2) the suffering and misery of a part of the army of the unemployed wor- | kers. Let us take a few minutes and see how it is done. Work Long Hours. On October 29 this winter, I to- gether with 7 other victims of the rotten capitalist system were forced to apply at 535 West 48th St. for shel- ter and also overcoats. We had to work hard from 12 noon until 5:30 p. m. at a dirty job which ruined the clothes we wore. At 6 p. m. we were asked if we wanted to work steady nights in the kitchen. Cir- cumstances forced us to accept. $1.50 and $3.00 in Pay. We worked 12 hours a night cook- ing soup and coffee for about 8,000} people, 750 gallons of soup and 450/ gallons of coffee. The work is heavy| and we were working in the base-; ment on a wet cement floor. After) working two weeks the Salvation Army gave us $3.00 and $1.50 a week. Needless to say our shoes and cloth- ing became rags. If however we asked for anything we were told they haven't anything or we were given some very old and shabby clothes which do not fit us. ‘The Salvation Army collects mill- ions of dollars saying they help the needy but if someone comes for help he must work for anything and then) is given something old and unfit to| wear. The good clothes are held and sold only for cash. 95 cents a Week Wage. In this building they have some men working for as low as 95 and even 45 cents a week, 12 hours a day. Five cents is deducted for burial ex-.| penses in the event the man dies while here. And these are so-called friends of the poor. I hope you will find room in the Daily Worker in order to expose this contemptible grafting of the Salvation Army and to warn all workers not to contrib- ute to an organization which takes| everything but gives nothing without receiving double in return. Decatur Machine Shop Pays Low Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) DECATUR, Ill.—I have been doing | all I can with the Daily Worker. They hold it up in the post office or some place, so I cannot do much. I have not got enough to pay for it, so| I will send it in a few days. As soon | as we get orgenized I think we can} do better. I have been giving about all of them away. I gave them at the C. B. I. machine shop and the bumper factory, the cheapest place in town. A young fellow got fired there last week, He had worked there three weeks and when he went to the of-! fice to get his money the superin- tendent told him he owed the com- pany $7 and a few cents besides) what he had coming for using the company’s tools. I think it is about time to stop some of this. We will have a large organization here, I am sure. STAGGER AT KODAK. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Two thou- sand workers at the Eastman Kodak Co, plant here are put on a five-day week, the stagger system, and the | and organize these workers. —A HARVESTER WORKER. wages paid for the same period.— Rockford, Til, Jobless Family Kills Unemployment Relief! Demonstrate! jted States? No, we will not stand for |for our rights. | the country, where the T. U. U. L. 1s for Hungry Children Fight for Immediate Correspondent) ROCKFORD, Ill.—There was a man who was delivering | |bread. He came to a certain house to take some bread in. | When he went in the house, a man came along and took three loaves of bread which were on the truck. There was a boy on this truck and he didn’t say anything. The boy thought uck came out the boy told him taking the bread. The driver So the de- livery man and the policeman fol- lowed the man for blocks, and blocks. Finally they came to an old worn |house. The man with the loaves of | bread went in and then the police- man and the driver followed. When | they entered the house they witness- | ed a terrible sight. The house was cold, the children had barely any clothes on. By the stove stood a woman. She was the wife of this man. She was cooking some soup. The cop wanted to know what she was cooking. She did not say a word and ony kept si- lent. The second he asked her, “What are you cooking.” She answered him and said; “You would be suprised.” Altho she did not tell him what she was cooking. So the cop went to the cettle and opened the lid and there sure enough was a‘cat boiling which the woman was making soup for the children. This was an awful sight and the man nearly fainted. Conditions are very poor when it comes to eating and feeding cats to the children. This was not published in the ca- Pitalist paper. I ask, can we stand for all this suffering that is going on in the Uni- this. We will unite together and fight Rockford Worker. NXIOUS TO ROB CARTERET MEN Legion’s Idea to Cash in On Misery (By a Worker Correspondent) CARTERET, N. J.—The local group of the American Legion recently thought up a brilliant idea that would be pie for them at the expense of many workers in this district. Hundreds of workers are out of jobs here and while dozens of the capital- ist class and their hirelings talk about relief, nothing is done to put |bread and butter in the mouths of the unemployed. They go on slowly starving. Want to Cash The Legion parasites had the bril- liant idea of raising a large cash fund in the district with the idea they claim of assisting those out of work. Let's see how this money is to be raised. Easy, they thought all they had to do was to go to the owners and bosses of each plant and have them post a notice notifying all employees now at work for small wages, that one day's page each month would be deducted from their envelopes and turned over to the Legion to do with as they like. Workers “!ck 500 Sigmund Fisher || Clothing Workers Get 10 p.c. Pay Cut (By a Worker Correspondent.) RED BANK, N. J.—A 10 per vent wage-cut goes into effect at || Sigmund Eisner Co. here, though }| the firm has orders enough on || hand. .Boy scouts’ uniforms, Western Union and state police uniforms are made by this com- pany. About 500 workers are employed now, most of them women and young workers. Low wages were always a feature here. The recent wage-cut goes into effect after a conference a few selected workers had with the owner and affects all, with few exceptions. When one of the workers, a cut- ter, entered uninvited the above meeting to protest against the proposed wage-cut he was threat- ened with arrest by the owner. However, before he was forced to leave he fearlessly exposed the owner’s policy. This branch of S. Eisner’s firm is one of many lo- cated outside metropolitan area to escape union conditions. 49 Communist Votes in Rock Island, Ill. County, Votes Stolen (By a Worker Correspondent) MOLINE, Ill.—I have been holding back writing about the result of the election because I wanted to get more definite results. The only thing that showed up in the Moline Dispatch (or Moline Disgrace as I call it) was 49 Communist votes cast in the-entire Rock Island country. In the precinct where I voted, I} could swear to it that 4 votes were cast for Freeman Thompson for U.S. Senator (he was the only one we had on our ticket in this district) but in the report from this precinct) nothing was shown for the Commun-| ists in the paper. | TO MARCH AGAIN IN SACRAMENTO Build the Unemployed) Councils in City (By a Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal—The Unem- ployed Council here held a general business membership meeting last night. The hall was packed up to the limit. Comrade Daniels acting for} Comrade Bell, who is in jail, gave a} report on the organizational problems and tasks before the U. C. The whole} plan ‘of struggle against mEemDoy =| ment proposed by the District Coun- } cil of the Trade Union Unity League was accepted after 2 hours of discus- sion. Practical Work Practical plans were proposed and committees elected to carry on the| organizational drive and establish | more Unemployed Councils. The plan provides for the organization of in- dustrial Unemployed Councils in the | following basic industries: agriculture, railroad and canneries. Practical steps were taken to establish a resi- dential Unemployed Council in north | Sacramento, In connection with} reaching the Negro, Mexican and Fili- | pino workers the membership voted *|unanimously for holding outdoor and Every thing went along nicely, | every one seemed to be for the plan | but one group and that was the work- ers themselves. They rebelled claim- sng they hardly made enough to live | on now let alone give money io the Legion who might use it for purposes | other than intended. Result, blooey went a nice plan of the bosses and the Legion officers. A. B. B. ZINC MINES CLOSE. ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The Federal Min- ing Co. has closed down its two re- maining zins mines. The lead and zine miners of the tri-states are all unorganized. Biggest zins center in needed.—G. L, HAND IT OVER OR YOU'RE FIRED DURHAM, N. C.—Workers of the Golden Belt Mill had to contribute | $250 for relief of the poor or get fired. | Bosses gave nothing. Golden Belt) Kodak Worker, pays about $8 a week on the average. | indoor meetings in their territories. | cards. FORD LAYS OFF THOUS ANDS AND GETS NEW MACHIN ERY FOR GREATER SPEEDUP OF THOSE STILE WORKING Much Heralded Improvement Mez ans Less Jobs and More. Profits for Exploiter Ford Part Time Work Means Cutting Down on Food Clothing and Other Necessities (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—The Ford Motor Co. laid off about ten | | thousand workers this week. The number of workers that are { | working now are about 20 thousand or less. The production we produce now is the same amount when | there were 60 to 80 thousand workers. The capitalist papers’ headlines with lots of bunk like “Ford Will Spend Millions of Dollars for Improving the Plant” Prepare for biger demonstrations. Push the march of signatures on the and “Thousands Will Get Work.” Yes, he spent money but only for machinery. Where one |machine takes the place of half a dozen old machines and 5 to 20 men’s jobs. Terrific Speed-Up. They speed us to death and if the| production is piling up in front | |you the first thing the boss will si is, “you don’t want to work, cnt | There are lots of good men waiting | |for your job.” The next thing you know you are fired. They also catalogue our record A for good workers. B not ;so good. C, lazy. |fire they know which one to fire. | Little Wages. We work only two and some of us three days a week, just enough for board for one only. How about those families? |rent and live on garbage. | ‘MCKEESPORT TIN FIRES A HEATER FOR SHOP PAPER So when they More Stools Taken on to Fisht Men (By a Worker Correspondent.) McKEESPORT, Pa.—Enraged by Just enough for the shop bulletin distributed through- {out the mill during the month of The Detroit newspapers headlines October the bosses of the McKeesport | with lots of buncome about Hudson | Tin Plate Co. tried their utmost to |Co. rehiring 35 thousand workers. | intimidate us workers. Sampon, the | This is one of the biggest lies I ever | superintendent of the mill, screamed: |heardd. They try to keep the workers | |blind, but they can’t do it. | workers see it for themselves there can live on working wages. system? I say no! —N. S. S. CIGAR BOSSES IN TAMPA PLAN CUT Militants to Fight Looming Slash (By a Worker Correspondent) TAMPA, Fla.—We are getting to the end of 1930 and within a few more weeks the cigar factories here will close their doors as usual for a month or longer. When the bosses reopen again, a wage cut will go into effect according to a rumor. The bosses menace the workers by threat- ening to move out from the city. In the meantime they are holding meetings with the city mayor’s com- purpose. Another committee formed by the bosses and a special committee that also work in behalf of the bosses and belong to the yellow organization is known among the workers as the Leveller committee. Postpone Conferences. They could not reach any agree- ment because the “workers’ represen- tatives” failed to request from the workers their will before attending that meeting. but the conference was postponed for another day. The rumor is that the bosses and the mayor's commission are holding conferences to reach an agreement letting the bosses have a free hand in cutting wages. Although the majority of workers do not belong to any organization we expect to fight against the bosses plan. Just now we are starting to fight ing to organize them in the Trade Union Unity League. We are also/ organizing the unemployed. NOT FOR LONG. at nine points, won't be workii~ long. “Possibly part of December, if conditions warrant,” the company says. The Chicago, Rock Island and give’ part of their wages, this road laid off—R. R. Worker. a second demonstrs‘ion before City} | State Capitol. —J. K. diicsattaas Crient, Ill, U.MLW.A. Local Votes to mission that was named for that} and fight to establish a workers’ | years. | government. | | by calling all the workers to a meet- | MOLINE, Ill—The 2100 shopmen | hired back by the Rock Island R. R. | a | The Y.C.L. is feverishly preparing for | Hall and also a bigger one before the} Sten Dues Payments to Lewis Gang (By a Worker Corespondent.) ORIENT, Ul—The local union of the U. M. W. A, here is one of the biggest in the state, consisting of about 1,200 members. The mine workers got too tired of the un- bearable conditions and at the meeting tonight (Nov. 19) ignored the proposal of election in the U. M. W. A. When the correspondence from John L, Lewis and his district pro- visional president, Frank Hefferly, was read, instructing how to pro- ceed with the election of union of- ficers, the mine workers simply ig- nored the proposal with a motion to table the correspondence. Also at the same time miners voted to of the organization. It is significant that the motions were carried unanimously except an individual faker, A. J. Potter, who voted and fought against the motions. The mine workers thru- out the country must remember this faker and traitor, A. J. Potter. He is one who will never be cured and who signed the John L. Lewis injunction with an only hope of getting something from his mas- ters. tion in every district in the Party show in tables published each Wed- stop to pay dues to every branch nesday. “We must fire somebody,” and it did ‘The | not miss our eardrums. And although the company did fire are no factories hiring, they all are| John Rhodes we workers are not firing and cutting wages, so nobody | bluffed. We workers know that | John Rhodes was one of the best Are we going to stand this rotten| heaters in the mill, especially after We will organize | having worked with us for seven And that he got fired on Oc- tober 15, because his work was “un- satisfactory” is a lot of hooey. More Spies Hired. ‘We workers are also aware that the company is employing additional forces of stool pigeons which in- cludes “Nifty” Voelker, Bob Rankin, “Punk” Surgeon, “Dumbbell” Mc- Nutt, George Dodds and Mr. Lamb’ and his brothers and others unknown yet. Meanwhile it has created enough interest to intensify organization of the McKeesport Tin Plate Co, workers into joining the Metal ) Workers’ Industrial League. wage-cuts. Fight against the ex- | pulsion of workers. Smash the speed- up and rotten system of the Mce Keesport Tin Plate straw bosses. The only way we can do that ts by organizing. —F. H. BOSSES “AID” IS MORE WAGE CUTS Stagger System in Pitt Steel Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES—Here are some of. the wonderful projects to “help” un- employment in California: At the new Western Pacific link | from California to Oregon highly skilled workers get 50 to 55 cents an hour, and the work requires the best workmanship. Tractor drivers on the mountain sides get 50 cents. Semi- skilled and unskilled workers get 45 cents and less. The company takes | out $1.50 a day for the rottenest slop ever handed hogs or workers. They also deduct 10 days for hospital and crummy bed fees each. Altogether $1.90 a day is deducted from the low- | est wages yet recorded in this period \of prosperity for Hoover and the bosses for this region. The winter clothes required to work here cost $100 to $150, so we are lucky if we break even when we quit. $1.50 for Road Work. The state of California is another } outfit that is planning to gets its Pacific R. R. workers are forced to|work done for only board for the instead of workers. the company doing so, to the 6,000/ program trumpeted by the papers will The “great” roadbuilding hire about 200 men to work at $1.50 day. At Boulder Dam, the “saviour of the unemployed army” 150 are working. Another “great project” heralded by the capitalist papers as being al- ready under way is a new plant of the Associated Oil Company at Mare tinez, California. The plant has not started even three weeks after the above announcement. The bosses themselves pretend to know nothing |of the planned work. The oil come |panies are maintaining their enore mous profits even during the present crisis, so there is a good chance the [pint will not be built. Stagrer System. The Superintendent of the U. $, Steel works at. Pittsburgh, California |has announced that he will keep “all | 4,000” men at work and toward the end of the feature article he says “if possible.” The stagger system has ‘been started in: the” mill, the men work 3 days every other week and 4 |to 5 days some weeks. At at the end |of the same: article the suver is re= ported as saying ‘the stagcer system Changes in Daily Worker circula- ie not be regular schedule. We know, however, that this rumor of a mill supér (who is a better rat than a super) can not overcome the crisis Fellow workers, fight against the