The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1931, Page 4

oan. ¥ WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1931 800 Bay City, Mich. Families Must Live On Hunger Charity |) BAY CITY, Mich.—As I have a ittle spare time I thought I would sive you the conditions in Bay | 4 ., |p City. This is a town of about |Legion Breaks Marchi] 40.000 population. We have over 800 families that are receiving At Port Arthur county aid. The Salvation Army | ees has a fiophouse here which ac- (By a Worker Correspondent.) commodates about 40 men nightiy. ONTARIO, Can.-Here are some of |] The Defoe Boat Works has a the conditions along the St. Lawrence |] handful of men working. The com- | River: In Toronto the “Holy Flop|[ mon laborers receive 35 cents per | House Brigade” (Starvation Army)|{ hour for an eight hour day and are getting $10,000 a year from the|| the ship carpenters receive 50 city for use of their flop house. This |] cents per hourf house is packed with ex-soldiers. They are not given anything to eat ene eae FORCE ; CUT MIEN SPEEDED UP UP AS "NEVER BEFORE AS THE CRAFT UNION — FAWERS AID BOSS FIGHT ON R.R. MEN Bankers, Government, Misleaders United to | Make Workers Bear ( Cri s Brunt | Railroad Workers Lanai « of T.U,U.L. Alone Can Lead Fight on This Attack | (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio.—The railroad workers are now experienc- jing what workers in other industries have experienced for the W orkers’ Uneublordent Insuratice Bill The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes: 1.—Unemployment insurance at the rate of $25 a week for each anemployed worker and $5 additional for each dependant. 2.—The creation of a National Unemployment Insurance Fund to ve raised by: (a) using all war funds for unemployment insurance; (b) @ levy on all capital and property tn excess of $25,000; (c) a tax yn all incomes of $5,00 a year. 3.—That the Unemployment Insurance Fund thus created shall be administered by a Workers’ Commission elected solely by employed and unemployed workers, All who sign the lits now being circulated by the Workers Na- tional Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance or its sub- sidiary organizations, demand that congress shall pass the bill, in its final form as (possibly) amended by the mass meetings which ratify it and elect the mass delegation to present it to congress, or as (pos- sibly) amended by the mass delegation itself. The final form of the bit will follow the general line of the three points printed above. PLAN SERIES OF MASS MARCHES AND 50,000 SIGNATURES AS THE GOAL; MASS LAYOFFS STILL GO ON: Many in iididaanea Ind. Suffering From Starvation Diseases Two Banks Failed Within Twenty-Four Hours; Conditions Are Terrible CANADIAN FLOP “fw | HOUSES JAMMED | WITH JOBTESS) | Indianapolis, Ind. sSomrades We, the Unemployed Council, are making a drive for sig-| Motor Corp. is natures. Our goal is 50,000 for this county and we expect to! and are thrown out at 6 a. m. to find |j Practically closed down; those that |past year or more, namely speed-up, and reduction in time. fet them. We have arranged a series of mass demonstrations | iM. r L A g | f h | Chi Id work. There are 100,000 out of work || 2% Working are getting 40 cents }/ Although we have not as yet received a cut in our rates, that Ses oer te held a UARY LOS Angeles School Laudren OE lee ork eenes ace. cee lis yet to come, and the crying shame is that workers are not All they require is J)” ? F | properly organized during the month of January. the state house, January 6th, all day session in Thomibson Hall. The way we organize this demonstration is by calling on| factories in the morning when the jobless are out there looking | here, so you can imagine what chance they have of getting anything to do. Open “Louse House.” At Oshawa, a few miles south of here, they opened a “Louse House” last week. This joint is in charge of a paid social worker. Forty ex- soldiers camped at this place. The breakfast which was handed out at six in the morning consisted of mush and black coffee. After this great handout the workers were rushed out to the woodyard to earn their meal. Any worker who isn’t of this town. is chased out and left to starve. At Port Arthur, north of here, there was a “riot” of unemployed last week. The old reliable “Strikebreaking Legion” was called out and quickly ‘did their stuff. In Saskatchewan there are 600 un- militant here. a leader. Say if you would send me about 200° or 300 Daily Workers I would distribute them gratis as I know f they bad a sample paper that would land a lot of subs. JOBLESS IN OKLA. CITY STARVIN Farmers Will Lose | Their Farms to combat the bosses’ drive against them, |split up as they are into some 30 different craft unions, the | situation is impossible of effective fighting. | Forces aré cut to the minimum, workers are required to speed to the greatest extent, time is | —-—— Sapa ERNOTENRLUNEEaEACate 22a being reduced to five days a week| "i | where possible, and the same emouny of work musi be done in that peri od | as was done in six, contracts and Ny agreements are being violated, and| WaRK ARS 70 PAY ‘all on the pretext that the poor (?)| ~ railroads are going to financial ruin. } FOR MADE’ JOBS duction in working time in order that mies it would be unnecessary to furlough men, “what a fluke”. Immediately }And Bosses 1 Dare Call cutting of forces was started, and they are not through yet. The néxt on the} It Relief! program, fellow railroaders, is an Are Undernourished; Lack Even Milk Ala to Nervous Child Is Working for) Rich at Low Wages Los Angeles, es acher’s Editor, Daily Worker: A neighbor of mine told me her hard luck story: One of her girls attends high school, a very nervous child, and under- nourished. So she had her examined by the school doctor; and was told that the child must have milk at her school hours. So while the father of the child was working, part of the time, the mother would scrape together a few cents, and manage to supply milk for the child and also for her little boy that needed it just as badly. “In fact, my neighbor told me that all her four | The workers were asked to take a re-| for work w ‘hich they don’t get. We have made up committees mie to go to these factories and bring CAL JOBE RS § SHOT: them to the state house. There we 1 mat then to the hall. 7T | We are also going to parade to GAME TO FEED 1 EER,| jail to protest the brutality of the TAN D! we will form a committee to see the at iBubJ | governor for relief. The governor, ‘ | on this day, has called- together all | Other Toilers Aroused the state to hold a convention how | they are going to raise money to be to Protest used against us, by them collecting | are going to parade around town | police and the bosses courts. Then y, HUNGRY: IS LVUEER Ey Bp | the heads of different charities in money to support‘the YMCA, Girl (By a Worker Correspondent) | scouts, Camp fire girls, YWCA, Boy | )* ‘ employed hemmed in for the winter. Oklahoma City, Okla. | sctual cut in your wage rates, in| (BY 2 Worker Cortespondent) . a8 children are very undernourished. Dear Editor:— ; ae REDDING, Cal. — Unemployed) Scouts and other such organizations. BLEEK Seek eens: Sanaa aes But now the father is not working They have plenty of woodchopping : eas 5 spite of the fact the class 1 rail-| STATEN ISLAND, N. ¥.—United workers being destitute and getting] We are going to have a city confer- and the mother cannot supply milk|t© do and are rewarded with some Workers’ conditions are getting | yoads in the first nine months of|Dry Dock of Staten Island is serving desperate because of hunger, got| ence January 18 when we will or- ES \.the cd told her teach- | ot Soup, from bad to worse every day. Win-| 1939 made a net profit of over $378,-| Hoover well in regards to the stagger guns and .went out in the woods ground here and in Shasta county shooting deer to feed their families Shooting of big game is out of sea-| son now. Therefore 4 were arrested and sentenced to $100 fine or 30 days ify jail. They told the court they are glad to go to jail for they will get their food and shelter there, while their families by skimping can live on vension they have provided. When they come out they will shoot again. This aroused the workers in Red- ding. About 150 ment sent word of protest on the arrest, telling the authorities that they are going to do| the same unless work is provided for | hem immediately. “While California | has abundance of game we will re- fitse ‘to starve and will shoot any live | game that is fit for food and feed sur famished families.” .That is the spirit of militancy that workers are entering into. “Fight do| not starve” slogan is reaching more and more workers every day. These| and other workers must be organized for co-ordinated struggle under ban-| ner of the Communist Party and the revolutionary T.U.U.L. W Workers de Angry at) Hunger Wage Chicago, Ill. Editor Daily Worker: days ago an official or Radio Co. announced to waiting unemployed workers that some of them may get a job for | the amount of 25 cents an hour. On question of “how you expect to love | on such wages” he pronounced the | wise words “you aren’t hungry yet.” It is worth while to mention that | this chap took the “stand” on the, roo; of the building during the above seid conversation, being afraid to} come close to the workers and not to feel their hungry fists. Here is another one as a new yeer’s gift and “best” wishes with| many returns” in the form of a 20| per cent wage cut give to the ladies} shoe factory ~workers. Add to it deduction of. wages for | “unemployed relief’ and you will | thave the picture of well being or| American workers, —A. A. \s TIC RADIO | AGES 25, HOUR: Ue | in the —A. §. Communist Is Name | For Workers With | the Guts to Fight. (By a Worker Correspondent.) ‘NEW YORK CITY.—On the corner of Broadway and Cortlandt St. there | were standing two unemployed work- ers selling apples. The traffic cop who is stationed at that corner came over to one of the workers and started ‘his conversation: Cop—Move over to the other side! ‘Worker—I won't. I'm going to stand here, < Cop—The other guy was here be- ‘ore you. Worker—I don't care. make a living and I'm going to stand here. I pay you every day and you can’t make mhe move! Meanwhile a crowd had gathered, with the two, worker and grafter, in the center, At the worker's last state- ment, everybody looked at the cop, expecting either a denial or a blow of a fist. But the cop was upset at ‘he worker's straightforward talk and was a bit afraid of the gathering crowd. So he answered: You don’t think that you are doing me a favor, flo ye? You must be one of those Cpmmunists. (With the emphasis on I have to| ganize committees in all labor or- ganizations to collect signatures for) the unemployment insurance bill. | On the 3ist of January we are cal-| ling a state convention of the unem- | ployed and also have a mass demon- stration and mass meeting on the} first of February. | Now the conditions are terrible, in this city. The other day I was up to a charity institution and there the workers were fainting from starva- tion and sickness. There are about 40,000 that live on charity of beans, mush and biead. Some diet! Starvation Diseases Bife. I went out to the city hospital. There were about: 3000 people wait- ing in line to see the doctors for a treatment for spinal meginitis and other diseases, caused by starvation. They are looked after by students. | The children are ill clad and a lot of them are cooking their pet dogs to be able to live. The charities are giving loaves of punk bread for immediate relief | After an investigation of a couple ot weeks, they are not allowed to own an | auto, piano or radio or any other surplus furniture. They are told to sell it of hock it before they are giv- n this punk bread. | Huge Layoffs. The factory workers are laid off) | 2 three weeks for the holidays but | it really means indefinite unemploy- ment. The Real Silk (hosiery) bosses stock that they were going to pay them in full. They work piece work. They cut the hours from 50 to 40 hours a week after they got the $10.00 and $15.00 a piece. 10.00 and 15.00 a piece. The Diamond Chain had a layoff | and workers leit are only working 2 days a week. Kingans Packing Co. are going to | lay off 500 workers next week. The | whole canning dept. is laid off en-! tirely. The wages are being slashed | on every occasion, the speed up is! more intensified. Over 300 died of this slow starva- tion (of spinal meginitis) in this city alone withi~ the ‘ast year. —Sec’y U. C. P, S. Two more banks failed here | in the last 24 hours. We are going| to have a mass protest meeting for this. | Veterans Finding Daily Worker Fights for Their Interests NATIONAL MILITARY HOME, Wis—Reading your Daily a worker can learn more truth and gain more and more knowledge in a short time | | than reading any other labor news~- paper for a long period. I wish I had | the pricé to help you financially I would be glad to do it. It is the duty of all who can spare any amount of money to help the Daily going. The workers Daily is the only pure nourishment for the workers brain in the hard struggle to unite the unemployed and employed workers as a class to fight for better conditions against ctarvation and miserable charity and for shorter hours with .® living wage for those on the job. The capitalist principles are to exploit the workers, accumulate more and more wealth. They don't care| for the workers when there is no profits to make. a damn for the workers’ families. Miserable charity is their answer to the starying unemployed. FORM JOBLESS COUN- CILS; FIGHT FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE: fix him.” ‘Worker—You can go to the Muni- | ss oral building and see my citizen the “mu.”) ‘d to the crowd he laughed ner- said: “He says that he bet he's a foreigner. I'll pape! The. worker remained where he one F "LOR SCRAPERS |; day’s work, And so we are forged | told there workers to turn in all their, | can scrape for a day and he hires | League and fight. | I. 0. They don't give! DRIVEN TO SPEED, “Union” te | Silent On This Point Brooklyn, N. Y. As: a parquet floor machine scraper, I want to tell you under) what terrible speed up system we are working. I know that no other paper in the United States will print | this. When the whistle blows at 8 o'clock, we have to hook ourselves} into the electric scraping machine with a belt around our bodies, just’ like a horse is hitched to a wagon. We pull the machine around for 8 hours and no matter how much we produce the boss is mever satisfied. He always keeps on telling us thay the next fellow gives him a better to work at top speed The dust from the floor gets into your lungs and the noise of the machine makes you} deaf. When the day’s work is Tin- ished we are knocked out men. Wages Being Cut. At every new job our. wages are being cut. The boss says that these are bad times and he can’t afford | to pay union wages and, therefore, | we must work for any amount he! offers us. That's how onr wages get smaller at every new job. Every | boss knows how many feet each man the one who can do the most. Our “union” has never taken any action against these bosses. Accord- | ing to the union rule those bosses are nothing but “Lumpers.” But the delegate keeps mum about it, as long as he is well greased with graft ana | we are exploited. My opinion is that the only way | we will ever better our conditions 1s for all parquet floor machine work- | ers to join the Trade Union Unity | ‘Spill thé Beans On “Democracy” NE WYORK—Oh! what a joke. The capitalist World spilled the beans. It unintentionally told how the choice of the people is picked by our democratic leaders in the board of aldermen. a On Dec, 31, 1930, the World told how “Boss” Curry is going to name |somebody to succfed Miller as bor- |ough president., The paper reported that many aldermen frankly admit- | ted that they'll vote for whoever the “Boss” tells them. We know our- selves that Curry and the capitalist jelass are the only rulers, but this added information should open the | she was. | Macy er that she cannot buy ey milk be-| cause “er father is : er _loyed. So| the teacher 1 lo~ lec-| ture tk-t sh- drink milk for] her own he he s “nt a note to the mother telling her not to wor- ty about the money part, everything will be O K. And whenever father be- gins to work she will make it good. Want Exploit Child. One day the teacher called the girl to her desk and asked her how old Fifteen, was the girl’s an- swer. “How would you like to go to work and earn a little money?” The girl answered with joy. “I certainly would like to, if ¥ could find work.” “Tl try to find some for you,” said the teacher. And so she did, and found a place for the girl to care for children in some rich home, from 6 p. m. till 10.30 p. m, the wages to be $3 for seven evenings. The girl, mind you, goes to bed at 8 p. m. sharp so that she can do her school work, be fit for the following day's school. The girl told the teacher she never went out that late from home at night, and she would be afraid to go home alone, and therefore she couldn't take the job. The teacher was very much worked up about it, and told the girl that she was a fool if she,is afraia and all her efforts were for nothing. And so this is the advice that the teachers of our capitalist schools give the children.. And my advice is to all mothers: Against these, miserable: conditions, organize and fight! Macy’s Salesgirls Are Fired After the Christmas Rush (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK.—Tuesday evening, Christmas Eve, a large number of employees were discharged without @ moment's notice. This | would not be surprising had it af- fected largely people who had been | hired for the holiday rush. The in- teresting and new thing about this affair is that Macy has discharged old employees en masse. Section man- agers informed these older employees that they may be reinstated in the near future. Thus, woman who had worked their heads off during the holiday rush, staying later than usu- ally to arrange stock without any compensation for this overtime work, are deprived of their salaries during the time the store fs less active. No reasons were given for the dis- charge. The lunchroom, the largest place available, was used to pay off throngs of saleswomen, As is generally known, saleswomen | are not organized. As things are, Macy's rules supreme, and dictates every damn thing to us. TAKE A LIST 10 WORK eyes of some democrats who still have faith in Beata DL. SVERLOVSK, U. S. S We are workers of he sheet irgn Section of the Verk-Tsetsk metal plant. We would like to Hear from our American brothers. Something of your every day's life, and in re- turn we will give you an idea how things stand in Sverdlovsk. ‘We repeatedly observe from the papers of the numerous strikes in the state, due to wage reductions, ill treatment of workers and so forth. | There's nothing of that sort here. Manager, foreman and rank and file workers are all one, are all friends. They are just our senior comrades, that’s all, Building Huge Center, We are busy at the paramount WITH YOU FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE! five years plan is being rushed in four years. To begin with, let’s take Sverlovsk. Many huge factories have been built recently as well as a thorough street car system, water works, sew- erage, etc. New works, including a large machinery constructing plant, one about to be completed. Our recent October celebrations have been attended by a 33 men strong delegation of German Red Front Fighters. They left Sverdlovsk con- vinced that socialism has really been put into life by the Ural workers. But dear friends, our enemies are doing their utmost to put spikes in our wheels. You know that in Mos- cow a number of persons, whose task of forming in the Ural district huge metallurgical center, Our bosses’ sit int Paris, and they | signs telling them that “Jesus Loves | ra so that they hold on to their Hamilton's Holy Flop Houses are packed to the walls. And the walls themselves are plastered alt over with Them.” Every night the Carollers| come around and sing “Good Rest You Merry’ Gentlemen.” Can you imagine how merry these unemployed are and how restful they can be lous- ing themselves? UNEMP. TEACHERS) TOLD TO STARVE J oblessness Their Own Problem (By a Worker Correspondent.) PORTLAND, Jan. 6-—-The “prob- lem of more teachers than jobs i: the concern of teachers only and they must solve it,” the bosses told aymeet~ ing of teachers here. This is in linc with the bosses’ attitude on the ex- istence of nearly 90,000,000 unem- Ployed workers. The problem of more workers than jobs is the problem oi the workers only, they say, and the unemployed can starve for all they ig profits. In the meantime, the unemployec teachers are protesting against the platoon system, which -is a polite term for the speed-up. Under this system, a teacher who formerly taught 30 children is now forced tc handle 65 children or more. Other problems, such as hours and pay, alsc reflect the exploitation of the teach- ers. Thinking teachers who realize that they are being used to mislead workers’ children will now under- stand that the bosses give them the same treatment as other workers. Unemployed teachers must rally tc the struggle for unemployed insur- ance, must help organize the signa- ture drive to make the bosses dis- gorge their war funds for relief pur- poseS; White collared and blue col- lared workers have the same enemy A fighting class union is the only answer to speed-ups, wage-cuts anc lay-offs. Join the Trade Union Unity League and help build a fighting teachers’ union! Woman Ruptured by Botany Mills Speedup PASSAIC, N. J.—A woman worker in the Botany Mills was ruptured about 13 weeks ago. The received $10 a week compensation and got it for 13 weeks. Out of this $130 she had to pay her own doctor bills, which amounted to over $100. The company ‘did not give her anything and-she was fired. ‘This and many other accidents are caused by the speed-up in He mills here. URAL WORKERS BUILD. ‘HUGE METAL CENTER Tell of ot Invincible March ot Socialism in in. Soviet Union us in order to nut their greedy paws on the Soviet Unior. riches. We Ural workers declare: “We don't want any war, but if the bourgeoisie and its lackeys will dare to strike out on us, they get a mighty blow. We are ready at any moment to put aside hammer and take up rifle. And; we know that our western comrades will turn thejr guns upon their bosses. oe ‘ New Elections On, At the present moment our fac- tory sections are busy re-electing deputies to our city and district Soviets. New deputies are being elected among the workers, members of the collective farming organiza- |in Oklahoma City. The workers are ter is here and the poor farmers and unemployed workers will face a hard} winter with starvation and misery. A large per cent of the farmers in Oklahoma will lose thelr farms and| the rental farmers will lose their crops because they won't be able to) pay the mortgages on them, forcing them to leave ‘the farm for the city, | where there is already mass unem-| ployment. Bad Housing. The housing conditions are terrible forced to live in tents and shackg made of old boards and tar paper on the river bottoms. ‘There is one place the workers call the Hoover Hotel under the viaduct. There are between 25 and 50 unem- ployed that sleep there every night. And yet there are hundreds of va~ cant houses. Make Demands. So we workers must organize to- gether and demand that all vacant houses and buildings be turned over to the unemployed workers and their families. And down with evictions and support the unemployment in- surance bill. —k. P. CHURCH TRIES TO HIDE A SOUPLINE Many ignine Up for Jobless Relief Cleveland, Ohio. Daily Worker: The Catholic church here in Cleve- land which has a soup line ciosed its doors on New Year's eve at 1:30 in| the afternoon because there was no more soup for the hungry men who had been waiting line since early in the morning. They only let in a few men at a time and then when they are finished a few others are ad-| mitted. A big crowd was left hun- gry. We were told that there would be no soup distribution on, New Year's | day. Why? The men were very much put out about it. We know that the reason is that the chureh officials dont want to have a bunch of hun- gry men around on a holiday to de- tract attention of the prosperous who attend the church. They are afraid it will spoil the holiday spirit of the bosses. The men waiting on the line signed the petition for unemployment insur- ance without hesitation. In fact they seemed to be very anxious to do so. We collected over 50 signatures in a few minutes. A lot of the men could| not sign their address on the blanks because they didn’t have any place to stay. a ‘Orgenicer, Unemployed Council 2... place in the Soviets for kulaks, caarist officers and priests and prof- iteers. Now about our life: in our section wages range from 100 to 160 roubles per month, For our quarter we pay 35 kopecks per square metre monthly. We feel proud of every new factory. Dear,comrades we are far from one another but we are brothers of one class and our task with*you is to overthrow capitalism and hoist the red banner of Communism high over the world, Awaiting an early answer with, Communist greetings. 000,000 as compared with a net pro- fit of $306,000,000 in the same period of 1929, the best year the railroads the dropping of the volume of busi- ness done. The railroad workers must act, by uniting into real fighting unions, the Railroad Workers League under fight unctasingly .o better our con- ditions and force the bosses to dis- gorge their “ill-gotten gains, by forc- ing a greater distribution ‘of working time to absorb the unemployed work- ers, and no reduction in our present wages, in fact we must demand more. —A Railroad Worker. MORE LAYOFFS IN GALVESTON, TEX. Hits Lies of Bosses on “Recovery” Galveston, Texas. Dear Comrades:— Here comes news from Galveston, Texas, down here in the bible city. The Southern Pacific Railroad has | been laying off more men every week since Dec. 15, 1930, cutting. the ward crews smaller all the time. No freight leaving Galveston for the interior, trains of six and seven cars pulling off Island daily. No long trains leave here with even empties. The Kresge’s 5 and 10 cent store has laid off 14 of their girl clerks of the regular force besides 16 extra girls for the holidays. Also, I am sorry to say that Kresge store is the only store in Galveston that are not |giving their employes a holiday on New Year's Day. 5 Cent Sale All Day Long (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The pretzel sellers of Fourteenth Street no longer cry their wares out loud, but stand silent and shivering as the crowds hurry by. Their day is from early morn- ing till late at night. Feeling hun- gry while passing three of them bunched close together on one cor- nersof Union Square, I fished up one of my few nickels and handed it ove: to the last of the three, a woman in a ragged brown sweater and a cheap coat. She held the nickel up in her hand and uttered a loud “pooh,” spitting on it. I stared av her... what’s the matter? She smiled, half-ashamed: “It’s for luck. This is the first money I took in today.” I looked up at the big clock in the square. It showed half-past twelve. —B. kr. Sacramento Dicks ‘Try Stop Daily Agent zSacramento, Cal. Dear Comrade: While selling the Daily Worker I who asked. me where I was going, where I lived, why I was going house | to house, mooching? (I was trying, to establish a carrier route). Also, they asked me how long I lived in| Sacramento and how old I was. answered| all their yords with as much equanimity I could summon. } they caught me around the particular neighborhood again. A Christmas eve supper consisting of one apple, one or two doughnuts ‘line for several hours, —Workers of the Sheet Iron Section of the Verk-Tsetsk | Metal Plant. \ Worcorrs are ib eyes of the | workers’ press. Join vour local Worcorr group and help fight the bosses. \ had ever experienced, this in face of | the leadership of the T. U. U. L. and} was accosted by two dicks in a car! They threatened to pick me up if| and a cup of coffee after waiting in) system. This company used to em- ploy about 100 men. This company is so generous that last week it gave an order to form an unemployment committee. Now | this committee has been formed, com- | posed of all foremen and bosses. | Foxy Trick. The bosses’ committee decided to give out some jobs at 55 cents an hour, 3 days a week, but you must know that the money to pay these people must be raised. Two-thirds must be contributed by those men that still have jobs and one-third will be paid by the company, like this company will get 3 days of work and will pay for one day. These extra men supposed to do the yard cleaning jobs, but are given painting jobs that before the com- pany was paying 65 cents to 75 cents an hour, so those who used to do this painting job before are laid off and their places taken by these extra men at 55 cents an hour. For Boss Profits. So you will understand this com- mittee will do four jobs, first help a@ few unemployed, second lay off those at 75 cents an hour, third triple the profit for the company, fourth make big propaganda and spread alf kinds of confusion among the starvs ing people. Workers, see through this trick and organize for real und jemployment insurance to keep alive. Get a 1931 Daily Worker calendar free with a six months’ subscription or re- newal. TRY SPLIT NEGRO, "| WHITE MUSICIANS Canavan ‘in New Trick on Musicians (By a Worker Correspondent! NEW YORK.—Just a line to let i | know what's happening in the Jew= ish theatres and the Musicians Union Local 802, A. F. of L, When the Jewish theatres closed the Public Theatre owed the musi- cians $35 apiece and when they opened they paid out the $35 on the installment plan. On Sunday the manager brought down $100 for ten} men and.on Monday $10 for one week's work. The steward (ay ted by the union) called up Eddy Cana- Yan, the appointed chairman of 802, and asked him what to do. Canavan told fim to take as much’ as they gave. On the eve of the last © election we had in Local 802 (they call it an election) the old board ‘ gave a dinner to all Negro musicians. | He told them that there was an un- dercurrent trying to destroy the union and pleaded with them to save thé” union (that is his job). On election day about 600 Negro’ musicians came down with cars that ‘ made trips from Harlem to 86th St.’ and they had tickets printed and told’ to vote for every name that’s on the ™ ticket, The names of the old board |members were on the ticket, Eddy Canavan is appointed by Joe « | Webber, president of the Ameri t | Federation of Musicians. There thirteen men on the governing y/ and we are only allowed to vote for Trou, the rest being appointed, xv | At the last meeting one membét ‘asked Canavan to resign because hé?* was appointed by Webber. yt | have stool-pigeons hired that rat jeround the floor and report evety thing they hear. E THE BEACHES ~-dobless workers §} NEW YOR! ‘hours shaking sand on the, Teen ae urighton Beach to find a dime bf’ i two which h&s been dropped by some |’ | non-worker disporting himself in the '” summer time, x oe ? , ad eae ene