The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1930, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, New Yul SMALL FRY Organized to Demand Fail from Petty Exploiters Worker Tells How Contractor Closes Up Owing Workers Hundreds of Dollars (By a Worker NEW YORK.—I have been working all summer in Middletown, about iles from this city, on a state road job, for which I paid five dollars tighty to the Commercial Labor Agency at the contractor closed up and did not pay off the men. The company, Home- stead Paving, of 72 Fulton Street, Homestead, Long Island, owes me $150, and some of the men are as much as $400 short. I waited three weeks in Middletown while the contractor was in court. The town paper made a lot of noise say a word), but we got nothing but starvation. the contractor, and nobody will pun JOBLESS MISERY, WORK BUT NO PAY IS “SELF-RESPECT” Fight This Boss Trick to Make Jahless Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) Spokane, Wash. We have seen a whole lot of bo- logna and bunk in the newspapers lately and we are by now getting used to the hokum they peddle, but of all the bunk that has been print- ed so far, what I saw in the Spokes- man Review of Dec. 1.is surely the prize story of them all. Listen to this and be convinced: “Jobless Keep Self-Respect. Plenty of Work at Coordination Home Helps Men Hold Heads Up.” And then follows a long tirade of how nicely the men at, the home are treated and so forth. You all haye been reading that kind of bunk so let’s forget it. No Pay Slavery But doesn’t it seem kind of funny that the Coordination Home has lots of work — and brags about it in the papers, when a fellow looking for a job can’t find a day’s work in the whole darn town. Is it be- cause the. Coordination Home sends the men out to do the work for al- most “nothing”? Well anyhow, according to the Spokesman Review, the Coordination Home has plenty of work. But here is another story from the same arti- cle in the same paper: BOSSES HOLD BACK PAY | ON WORKERS AND THEN GO BROKE: BOSS GOV'T JEERS AT MEN'S MISERY Weekly Wages Without Correspondent) 171 Bowery. Now I am penniless, as about it (the New York papers didn’t Nothing will be done to ish the crooked politicians who gave him the job in exchange for some graft. Investigations Bunk The state labor bureau in New York City is now “investigating” my ease. After two weeks of “in- vestigation” I am now told that the |contractor is willing to pay-at the rate of fifty per cent. As my wages were only forty cents an hour, you ean see how much I will receive. I let them know that I will not be sat- isfied with twenty cents an hour for months of back-breaking labor — it was the toughest road job I have ever known in my life. Now in addition to stealing my miserable wages the. are trying to throw me vut of my hou . I received an eviction notice the other day for non-payment of rent. I do not know the landlord’s name, but the agent is Chas, J. F. Bohlen, who reported to the landlord and got the dispos- sess from him. The boSses’ courts who let crooked contractors, em- ployment agencies, and politicians go free, are always ready to throw a penniless victim of their robber sys- 34-1022 30-B, Ask For __ ‘Your Request for. Directions Tammany Fools Hundreds FEE CHARGED TO EMPLOYER OR EMPLOvEE 4 CITY OF NEW YORK No. om * DEPARTMENT OF PuBLic WELFARE—EMPLOYMENT AGENCY 54-60 LAFAYETTE STREET KER 8230 This Introduces... "Ben ae se EB TIOLIE resis ss ec oy ws LURDAY, DeiContowit PW. 216 TeLepyone:~ Sent to Fill agency. EMPLOYER PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN HIRED CnecK YES on NO Do you wish us to send other applicants ?_ This is a reproduction of a card given to more than a thousand unem- ployed workers that have applied for a jgb at the fake city employment The workers are sent to the Police Hack Bureau to apply for taxi | driver's license and wait weeks before getting it. And this at a time when 40,000 regular taxi men are working 2 or 3 days a week, No FJ ~"Bignature of Employer” the wall of a cave. raped and killed by Negro. possible. emigrated from the county. They left behind all their belongings and the LANDLORDS TERRORIZE AND SEIZE NEGRO FARMERS’ CROPS IN OKLA. United Farmers League Out to Expose This Brutal Crime Against Tenants (By a Farmer Correspondent) , BLANCHARD, Okla.—There has been very little, if anything, at all said in the capitalist press about the terrible act which took place at Erick, Beckham county, in the early fall of this year. A white woman was found with her head crushed and stuck into Immediately the word went out that she had been A general lynching terror was instituted, and though no individual Negro was accused, the black population be- came frightened and made haste to leave the section as rapidly as It is estimated that from two hundred to three hundred families crops which were appropriated by the landlords without compensation. T have talked with some of the refu- STARVED YOUTH tem into the cold. 3,000 VA. JOBLESS IS BOSSES FIGURE Thousands On Verge of Starvation (By 2 Worker Correspondent) CHARLESTON, W. Va. — I am sending you a clipping from the| Charleston Gazette and I do not tell the story, “Thousands of people in West Vir- Moody, in an address here recently ginia today are in acute actual want. Called attention to the situation in gees and they told me the story, The United Farmers League is now here to expose all such misdeeds and is organizing the Negroes to fight for their rights as well as for the rights of all farmers. —FARMER. Texan Governor Threatens Jobless With Boss Brutality (By a Worker Correspondent) Sick Man Begs for Aid The race preservation trait is con- spicuous in the group, any sick man getting liberal attention from his fellows. Many of the residents are in need of a doctor, Now, get this: Last Saturday morning a former taxpayer and voter appealed for a poison. He could stand the tortute of pain no longer. He was given an . order for medicine on a county of- ficer. After waiting in the offi- cer’s office for two hours he was told that he would be seen on Mon- day. Sent Him on Chase Then the home official sent him to the Sacred Heart hospital with instructions to stay there. He was sent from there to the Salvation Army home, where he remained. That is the way a pocr homeless and jobless worker is treated here im Spokane. Being sick he was chas- ed all over town from one place to another, one party passing the buck to another. And then these same of- ficials have the nerve to talk and write of character building and of self-respect and so forth. Fight This Misery! How in hell can a worker keep his self-respect and build up his char- acter when he is compelled to work for his board and a flop only, and be satisfied with the cast-off cloth- ing the home will sell him, provid- img that he has enough working urs to his credit to pay for the game, is more than I can under- vtand. —ANOTHER WORKER, Poison Fumes Kill Cattle In Stevens County, Washington (By a Worker Correspondent.) NORTHPORT, Wash. — If I may express myself I am getting sick of this grand old U. 8. The Canadian capitelists, the British Columbis Smelting Co. are spreading sotson fumes over Stevens County and hit the 3,000 farmers at Northport, Wask I have heard no protest from the U. S. government against such fumes being dumped in the center of one ot the world’s fairest beauty spot. One farmer lost 16 horses, one dairy farm 80 cattle. SHELL OIL STILL FIRING MEN (By a Worker Correspondent) MARTINEZ, Calif—The Shell Co. 4s firing hundreds of refinery work- ers who made $4.25 or more a day. A few of these hundreds are re- hired to build the new Shell Chem- ical plant 13 miles away. Here they get $3.60 a day. New idea for cutting wages—build two plants nearby. If the Shell re- finery should need some more slaves at a future date they can get them for $3.60 a day or less. But the Shell Co. will find us organized to fight time ‘ Many of our comrades, their wives Chicago, which has a reputation as and children, their orphans, face the haven of thugs. He compared tomorrow without knowing whether Texas with Chicago and said that in they will have a single meal to sus- his state vagrants would not get away tain life. Men and women and chil- With as much as they do in Packing- dren will starve to death this winter “own under the “Public Eenemies” unless those of us who are a little “Ct @ “vagrant” gets 6 months, the more fortunate help them. These Vagrants usually being the jobless. facts are not exaggerated. They can He said that they would be treated be verified right in your own section Very severely in his state, Like all of West Virginia.” other goyernors and executives And I see by the same paper that throughout the U. S., he points to there are 43,000 out of work in the Some other states to show how bad state, That is not one fifth though that one is and how good his own is. these figures were given out by the However, he does not mention how Governor, “severely” he treats lynchers in We have all sorts of charity fakers, Texas. It is a known fact that they the Red Cross, the double cross and get away with a lot more than do all sorts of hymn singers and Bible , the jobless ‘n Chicago. pounders. \ Workers should know of this hypo- I have talked: with hundreds of crisy of capitalism. They should workers and unless I misunderstand i iiebramadinatey calla pan them it only needs a spark to set bing i Be sre off |the whole works. Six more ear Ree es Papa ghee it. to; the months of this and hell will break ; Pitter end. loose in this country. Probably now —A Negro Young Worker. if they were organized, Cafeteria Bosses Get Extra Work Out of Men Without Wages (By 2 Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—A worker of the Get a 1931 Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- newal. 16 BREADEINES IN CHICAGO; “REURP Radio Co. On Short Time Now an article to the.Daily Worker about conditions that exist now in that cafeteria. - We have to work twice as hard as we used to work because many of the help were fired. And we who remain have to do their work for miserable wages that we get. CHICAGO, Ill—If you want to see Also it’s about six weeks that we bread lines just come to Chicago. have to work for the company 1 to I know of 16 lines were 500 to 3,000 1 1-2 hours for nothing. I am work- men stand in line to get a bowl of ing 9 1-2 hours but getting paid~for slop or a piece of bread that is 2 eight. and 3 days old. Ninety nine per; I hope that some one comes here cent of the workers have no guts to and organizes the slaves for a fight for their rights or a job. | struggle to better our conditions, The Majestic Radio Co. went on| a 3 day week December 2 and the Rock Island railroad shops close} Changes in Daily Worker circula- down December 15 for a month or/tion in every district in the Party longer at Silvis, Ill. And the West-|show in tables published each Wed- ern Electric is on a 4 day week. |nesday. * Speedup Follows Layoffs at the : Hegler Zinc Co. at Westville, Ill. (By a Worker Correspondent) little mistake means hell from the WESTVILLE, Ill.—I wish to | slave driver boss with threats of write about the conditions in the | discharge. sweat shop of the Hegler Zinc Co. Some day I hope all these ex- here. Layoffs have been on from | ploited workers will wake up from time to time all year due to the | their long sleep and join the Mine, shutting down of furnaces and | Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial kilns. Practically half have been | Union. laid off and every other man ex- The workers have built their pects it any day. 3 homes on leased 99 year lots and. Wages are low $1.90 to $3.20 = | the boss uses this against them day before the hottest fire of | in organizing. The Negroes are. hell. Plenty speedup here. We given the worst jobs and rottenest are not organized and do not have | treatment. Next time I'll write om any work im our factory, Any | the mining industry, AUSTIN, Texas.—Governor Dan than myself and not yet absolutely Automat Cafeteria asked me to write |. BEGS FOR MEAL Young Workers Must Fight for Relief (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK.—It was on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 4, that I was plodding my way down the city’s longest street in search of that essential but elu- sive job. At my side was my friend, who is of a@ less flexible character despondent, We were passing comments on our own sordid experiences when a youth of about 24 years sidled up between us and not only asked but demanded that we give him 10 cents for some- thing warm to eat. I could see by his appearence that he was suffering horribly from starvation and I did, not hesitate to give him 10 cents,) which, as I am very poor myself, was half of my monetary possessions. We asked him how long he had been out done, if he had a family, etc. He answered these queries thus: I had been a hat salesman in a hat com- pany. About nine months ago the boss found his profits diminished and fired the majority of the salesmen, including me. I have no home. Oc- casionally I get a chance to sleep in some stranger’s home. I have been tramping the streets like this for nine months, begging for something to eat and occasionally lucky to get a bite. But who the hell wants char- ity anyway. It makes an honest working man feel so low. I then gave him the address of the Downtown Unemployed Council, to- gether with a Daily Worker, ORGANIZE STOCKTON JOBLESS IN COUNCIL (By a Worker Correspondent) STOCKTON, Cal.—I came to Stock- ton a week ago from Sacramento with a committee of three to start organizing an Unemployed Council in the outlying districts ‘We rented a hall and on the 4th of December held our grand open- ing enrolling 21 members in the Un- employed Council. We elected a committee of four for the Daily Worker drive. Sticet meetings were held. every evening and Betting | along good for the short time we've; been here. Will go on organizing and spreading light to the workers, on the present crisis, Ninety per cent of the workers here are in the hancs of the bankers and Hoover's Farm Board. It is up to the workers to push the Unemployment Insurance Bill. MANY HOMELESS CHILDREN NOW ROAM THE CITY Jobless! Fight to Save Your Children! \By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK. — Four Negro chil- dren ranging in age from eight to twelve years of age were sleeping all Thursday night on the subway. They were So sound asleep that it was impossible to get them to say anything about themselves. In answer to questions, the oldest said he had no home, that his father was dead, and that he did not know where his mother was. He said that they had been evicted and had no place to go. The conducter said that they would ride up and down till the morning, and then go around forag- ing for food. Workers in the train (East Side subway) shook their heads and said that things are getting worse and more worse! Many Homel: Children No one had any idea what would happen to the homeless children. Per- haps by this time they have been picked up and transferred to the po- lice station. On the other hand, it is so customary to see ragged and half-starved workers and children in the city tha‘! ic is possible that they will kee) on traveling until they be- gin to drop from exhaustion and also staryation. On Third Avenue and.Thirteenth Street a man dropped from starva- tion and exposure at about seven p. m. last night. Needless to say he had no coat and his clothes were ready to fall to pieces. In most of these caseS the reason is given as booze. Sometimes a starving unem- ployed worker gets hold of a quarter and spends it on poison bootleg that is known on the Bowery as “Smoke.” A shot of this on an empty stomach is enough to put a man out of com- mission and even to kill him. The “smoke” is to help him forget the hunger and cold. These sights, together with the evicted workers and their furniture on the sidewalk, are becoming daily occurrences in New York City, the richest city of the country, SEES MASSES FOR SOVIET DEFENSE Stagger Lumber Men In Bloomfield, N. J. (By a Worker Correspondent) BLOOMFIELD, N. J.—I work for Weyerhauser, one of the “59” and of lumber fame. This week this “poor” parasite has shortened our working hours from « 44 hour week to a 37 hour week, and a reduction in wages | WORKS MEN 9 HRS. 12, ldo0 Displace Workers y Jobless With No Wages Paid ((By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—The jobless workers wishing to flop and get “coffee and” at the city flop house must work from four to eight hours per day without any wages. Many are already working at street cleaning, white washing police cellars, and many other jobs. This results in the lay-off of many workers in these trades getting wages, and replacin;; them with men working without pay. This is supposec to settle the unemployment question in Phila- delphia as proposed by the city council. —J. Ss. CAL. PACKING C0. A DAY; WAGES LOW Pay Only Once In A Month Here (By a Worker Correspondent) PLANDA, Cal.—I am working for the California Packing Corp. near Merced, Calif.; after not being suc- cessful in obtaining a job in Oakland I came dowri to Merced, as I had worked here before, and I find that things on the ranch is about as usual; we are working nine hours per day, six days a week if jt doesn’t rain, the days are short in the winter so we can't get in but nine hours, but in the spring when the days get long the company adds another hour to the day without adding anything to the pay, the wages are $3.60 per day, and $1.10 per day for board, is let out: to the Andersons boarding house Co: and of course they are trying to economize with the cost of produc- tjon and for labor as they are em- ploying Chinese cooks and help ex- clusively. They can get a Chinese cook for much less than they can get a white cook for, and they don’t have to be experts to hold down the job, the bunk houses are kept pretty well, but every one has to furnish their own blanket, towels and soap and linen if you have any. They only pay once a month, the state law says that to pay twice a month, but they get away with it by letting any one draw a little money once or twice but jf he thinks he is going to make a practice of it he will find himself out of a job. They just started pruning the trees a few days ago and they haven't started to speed the boys up so much yet but after they get started they will. They are employing approximately 400 workers at present on the four thousand acres, supposed to be the largest peach orchard in the world. Merced has quite a number of PALL OF UNEMPLOYMENT HANGS OVER PAPER MILL WORKERS OF NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY Charity Means Slow Starvation; Fight for the $25 a Week Jobless Relief! (By a Worker MOUNT VERNON, N. industry are rapidly getting worse. Correspondent) Y.—Conditions for the workers in the paper The workers were forced to accept more or less willingly all sorts of schemes to make possible the meeting of more and more competition amon, g the paper bosses. But in spite of all, unemployment is overtaking them more and more. The big paper mill at Milford, Ni a already and part time was in force for a long while. been low, around forty cents an hour. two machines, like winders, or helpi ew Jersey has been down for a week Wages have always In many places one man is running ing on two calendars. No Safeguards Many accidents occur. unguarded gear. N. Godcwn was sent up a ladder all alone, near a revolv- ing shaft. He was found later on the ground badly hurt with nothing on but his shoes. As it costs money to stop a paper machine, his rags revolved up there for the rest of the week, The irony of the thing was a booklet on safety in one of his pockets, which is put out by the com- pany in the pay envelope to make it look fatter. The paper mill where the writer worked in Elizabeth, N. J., having shut down, he took a trip throughout New England. He found many plants shut down and practically all the rest on part time. In some places the plant runs for a few days and then shuts down for over a week; in other places only part capacity of Last week Alec Bobrosky lost his hand in an SHEEP HERDERS GET $15 A MONTH PAY REDUCTION Work Long Hours and Suffer Much (By a Worker Correspondent) LEWISTOWN, Idaho—tI have from time to time read letters in your paper from other workers, they have all tended to confirm what I have in recent years begun to suspect, namely that their problem is a world- the plant is utilized and the workers are staggered in their working time. Preference is shown to certain ones, this being another way to divide the workers and keep them from uniting and fighting for better conditions. Conditions Worsened In Monroe Bridge, Mass. where wide and world old one, that of re sisting the selfish ambitions of a de- praved ruling class. Their charities are but a narcotic to dull and stupify our senses. Everywhere in this part of the great West, the question is asked, “When are times going to get bet- the management promised “to sharelter.” The capitalist press comforts its prosperity with its loyal em~)ys py telling us that Santa Claus is ployees” after breaking a strike| just around the corner. I would not against wage cuts and speed-up, it} be writing this letter now unless I is not known from day to day if|was one of the many unemployed. I the place will run or shut down.| wouldn't have time. While in the company store no credit Was Sheep Herder. is extended, and full rent is collected) hag a job herding sheep, but the from much diminished envelopes. poss sold out to a bank that held a Hiring and firing goes on indiscrimi-| mortgage, the band was consolidated nately, hammering down the stand-| and I was let out. The harvest hands ard of working conditions continu-| took @ dollar a day wage reduction ously, Th® so-called privileged kind] this year and we -sheepherders were of work, like that in the office or| cyt $15 per month, thanks to Hoover foreman, is not better treated in the} prosperity. desperate attempts to reduce cost. If there was a worker in the first It can be summed up that over all] 300 who was paid ® starvation workers alike, unemployment hangs ‘wage, it was the sheep-herder. There like a pall. Uncertainty and doubt! vas never a chance in the world for of things as they are is taking hold} )i,, to support a family on his earn- of all, It is very necessary to belings not even on the lowest standard able to direct this trend in the proper | o¢ living. He is on the job twenty- channels of working class struggle. four hours a day, sleeps out at night And one of the best mediums to dolin the rain and snow, in the sum- this is the Daily Wcrker, mer out with the rattle snakes, cooks his own food, has to run off the bears and wolves, wears out’a pair of shoes a week, trailing bands up and down rocky hillsides, e boys all got pretty blue when they had to take the wage cut. Since the wage cut and unemployment, many of them are beginning to see a —L. A. TENANTS DEMA HEAT IN ROOM is promised us because you see the unemployed, more than I have ever high standard of the bloodsuckers’ seen here before, the cotton picking Profits must be kept up. is still going on here but there isn't But comrades the day is. fast com- | anything in it, only 75 cents per hun- Union. To Defend Soviet Union, least a thousand sympathizers wno| Must Fight for Real for reasons capitalistic are tempor- Jobless Relief the establishment of workers’ and jyt » woman standing there for Peasants’ governments all over the something to eat. I spoke to hear 20,000 Apply for A Few Jobs Advertised |‘ok4 ' She goes from one agency to an- they could gét a job.” This pet theory were 200 nurses and now many were has surely been exploded during this | laid off. has had a very difficult time for Medical Workers feague is for all more than a year. One year ago} workers in the medical profession. ing when we the workers shall decide qred and if a person isn’t experienced for ourselves the hours of labors and he could only pick from one to two the standard of our living. We are | hundred pounds per day. . also watching the war preparations PS Ete ako against our fatherland the Soviet NURSES SEEN ON Woe betide them for the strength of our movement cannot be meas- N. y BRE ADLINES ured by the actual membership of bs Sl the Communist Party for with every —- member of the Party there are at arily prevented from becoming mem- bers but who when the time comes (By a Worker Correspondent) are ready with their lives, if neces- NEW YORK.—The other day I sary, to defend the first workers’ went past a bread line at 4th Street and peasants’ government and for near 3rd Avenue and what did I see Moth and asked her what she was doing on the breadlines. She told me her story that she is a nurse and it is already four months since she had worked and don’t know what to do By Chi. Dept. Store other and they can’t do anything (By a Worker Correspondent) for her. No place to work, no place | CHICAGO, Ill—There is a cap-' to sleep, after working in a place for italist slogan which claims “that four years. many workers would not Work if, In that hospital particularly there crisis. Join Union. The “Fair" a very large depart- ‘Who will care for the nurses when ment store at State and Adams Sts, they don’t need them and lay them called for clerks for various depart-| off. We let them get away with it ments about a week ago. This store|or will we organize to fight this? The ‘the discussion that we had she called “acked down. | porary committees but permanent ‘We| they demanded that their clerks sell} Organize and join and write to 16 Will force the government officials to| hose, toilet articles and other things] West 2ist St. pass real relief, Capt. Makes No Move: to Save Seamen Who Is Washed 0 Overboard (By a Worker Correspondent) GALVESTON, Texas—Comrade N. De Jesus, a Porto Rican seaman while working as a workaway on the American steamship Stella Lykes, shifting some drums from the after deck up to after castle was taken out by a rough wave, into the sea where he got drowned. ‘The ship did not make any sign to stop and give any helf. Some of the other boys got injured and didn't get any assistance from the captain. This happened on the Thanks- Giving day at 115 p. m to their personal friends after work- ing hours on their way home. This present advertisement brought about 20,000 applicants and mounted police had to hold them in ling until most of them were turned down, be- cause only a few positions were open and these positions are only tem- porary. The “workers continue to suffer in Chicago. Hz long can these con- ditions last? 4 XN THROW VETS OUT FROM HOME. NATIONAL MILITARY HOME, Kans.—I learned that 150 men were put out of the home in the last three days. They say 375 are to go. I hear of 400 and 500 put out of other homes, There are eleven such homes as this. Most states have them. Looks as at least six thousand thrown out at once, e Perth Amboy Tile Factory Shuts Down and Don’t Pay Back Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) PERTH AMBOY, N. Y.— In Perth Amboy the tile factory on Sayer Avenue just closed its doors leaving salaries and wages due workers unpaid for six weeks. And in Sarosville the Service. Laundry closed also leaving the workers the bag for 6 to 8 weeks pay. And where I have been r Perth Amboy I have a $348 I. O. U. So I am looking for work as I can’t sive an J. 0. U. to the landlord for rent, little Red. They know that as a re- ward for their loyalty to the bosses’ : interest, they have been stabbed in Working Up Steam |the back. ‘Te seasonal “migratory worker is in an even more pitiful con- (By a Worker Corréspondent) dition, they won’t even let him in the NEW YORK.—We tenants of 810) bread lines. The city authorities say Suburban Place, Bronx have to suffer) a man must be a resident of the city without steam heat for some time./a year before he is entitled to any The landlord tried to bring all kinds | consideration, that, of course, leaves of excuses. the harvest and farm hands out. Finally I thought that if we called|They are like the wharf rats, they up the department of health they|can crawl under the warehouse and would take action on it. We called | die, them on the telephone, also I went to the office personally. One of the clerks took the complaint and I think TRISH WORKERS 3 that as soon as I left the office, he threw it in the waste basket. SUFFER M U ( H But on Sunday, December 7 I made a form of petition that read: We —— the tenants of this address call to 7 ; f “ your attention the fact that we Will Figh t Against have no steam heat. I took the paper Their Bosses and went from door to door for . - here Mrs. Morris. When she heard (Workers’ Correspondence.) BELFAST, Ireland—The working class districts in Belfast present a poverty stricken appearance. The barefooted children; the ill-clad men jand women; the shops laden with cates a rapid decline in the purchas- ing power of the working class, Shipworkers’ Plight. house committees and fight for things} The shipyard worker’s position is that belong to us. f a hopeless one, so far as finding a job is concerned. He has no longer (By a Worker Correspondent) is deprived of working at the ma- CHICAGO, Tll—Of the 130,000 that | Chine he is deprived of his means ot registered for unemployment “relief” | livelihood. The Newtownards Road in Chicago recently all are turning| “istrict is populated by shipyard out to be emergency cases according workers, and when one takes a walk to the capitalist papers. Most of the| {tom Queen's Bridge to Dee St. all unemployed did not register at that| the evidence of a class struggle is time. staring you in the face. Narrew streets, jerry houses, cheap ure Buffalo Seare Landlord Into the landlord in. He arrived breath- less and asked where is the trouble maker but as soon as he saw that the whole house was organized he To my opinion this is the only remedy to organize not only tem- Scare Landlord, snatures. There is a landlord friend} (From the Irish Workers’ Voice.) cheap, trashy foodstuffs. This indi- 130,000 REGISTERED JOBLESS. | access to the machines, and when he houses, dishing out all the Bill tripe; pubs and pawnshgps in abundance; five churches, all preach- ing the application of Christian prin- ciples to industrial problems. Just before coming to Dee St: stables con- verted into dwellings—a brain wave to solve the housing problem. What @ legacy to leave the workers! Ot course, they pay rent to the tune of about 6 shillings a week. Year in snd year out the workers lived under I am ex-soldier and I see no reason for patriotism. I only know one country that I would lay my Sarosville | life for and that is not the Am- erlcan capitalist country, and if the | USSR needed my help I am | Johnny on the spot. | I have left the farm in Ken- those conditions, and instead of any improvement they are becoming worse, 1931 CALENDAR FREE! grocer or | sain I say three cheers for the Unpublished photos of the class straggle in the Daily Worker 1931 Calendar. 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