The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1931, Page 3

L Daily Worker:— Conditions in the mines are are receiving cuts in wages for the last 20 months. The bosses have stopped paying for dead work. We used to ewis Gang in Anthracite Help Bosses Reduce Living, VW orking Standards of Miners Conditions in Those Mines Still Working Are Getting Worse Every Day Need for Revolutionary Miners Union Is Now Greater Than Ever Carbondale, Pa. worsening every day. Miners Worcorrs, Write for Special Number of ‘Trud’ | “Trud” organ of the Central Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union will issue a special number within several weeks dealing with the unemployment situation abroad. The Soviet workers are anxious to read first hand accounts of the unemployment situation in the United States as written by worker cor- respondents. Such worker correspondence should deal with: local conditions, evic- tions, struggle for unemployment relief, signature campaign, hunger marches and demonstrations, wage cuts, mass layoffs, Worcorrs should give a complete picture of a given town, the state of mind of the workers, what they are thinking, of their attitude to the Party, TUUL, etc. Also a description of how unemployed married women and single women live. Names, places and dates must be specified. Worcorrs will have their photos company small photos with their correspondence. ceive first consideration, published in the “Trud” if they ac- Group letters will re- MCKEESPORT TIN “BOSS FIRES A RED |But That Won’t Stop} get between $5.75 and 6.50 for that work and now must do it for nothing and if the miner does not produce coal for one of three days (doing other necessary work) he works for nothing. Contract Work, A couple of months ago the bosses told the workers to work | Address all correspondence to; Worker Correspondence Editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St, New York. Write immediately. Klein’s Store Fives $16. Week’ YOUNG WORKERS OF MICH, ORGANIZE, WORCORR GROUP Flint Workers Refuse toStarve | © contract work. After 14 days the boss came around and gas as much pay as he wanted. I heard one miner) who worked 6 days received $1.51. When the miner complained to the committee (the Lewis committee) the | next day his place was vacant and he has not worked for 2 and a half months. The Lewis leaders always take sides with the company. My local has over 1,400 members and at a meeting we never see more than 15 to 20 men. Miners are afraid to come because if they say anything the next day the union officials report to the boss. Payment of union dues is falling Flint, Mich, Daily Worker: We organized a Worcorr group here in Flint of five young wofkers and soon will correspond to the Daily Worker. We also want to hear from ether Worcerr groups from other cities and from the Y, ¢. L, We have no League here yet, byt hope | to have one soon, The young workers will organize | here, in spite of all the terror, and | no A. F. of L. will stop them, The Weekly Review, official organ of the Flint A, F, of L,, in its last issue de- clared it will be a long time befere Moscow-directed agents will get a foothold fh Flint, A. F. of L. Fights Militants, The A. F. of L. can devote a full- page of its organ about Moscow | agents and praise rats like Djamga- | roff as a good American citizen, but not a single word about the speed-up and wage-cuts in the city ef Flint. | aye balking against the Lewis gang every month, Need Revolutionary Union. At our meeting last week the fin- ancial secretary reported a faling off | of from $100 to $150 in dues. A year| ago we had $1500 in dues fop Janu-) ary. Now we have $800. The miners} and John Boyland (distriet president of the UMWA). Now it is up to the progressive miners and the National Miners Union to get busy and organ- ize N.M.U, militant miners’ organiza~ tions. —B. BOSSES PUT OVER) 10 P. C, WAGE CUT. Slick Work on Part of Misleaders “New York City. Buick recently intredyeed the bonus system, which means more speed-up and wage-cuts and more workers will be thrown on the streets | Comrades: to starve with the rest, Three hundred workers employed Yes, we can tell the A, F. of L, | %t the Max Schwartg cigar factory | that the workers here in Flint will | at 54th St. and Second Ave. have not starve silently, that they are gor ing to fight and follow the leader- ship of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party. —J. W. GARBAGE MEN ARE NOT PAID N. Y, Workers Facing Starvation NEW YORK.—Garbage collectors have not been paid since the first of the year, A driver of a truck in the Bronx told a worker that there were three men on his truck and that two of them had not eaten anything al] day. The workers have no money, sre behind in their rent and every- thing else, When the workers asked their fore- man when*they would be paid, he answered them by saying “He couldn't tell them.” When the called the municipal building and asked when pay day was coming around, they were answered in the’ same manner, The workeers must organize and fight against such gross cheating of their pay. With Our WORCORRS- At a meeting held last Sunday fourteen workers joined the Phila~ delphia Worcorr Club. According to C. Rabin, veteran Worcorr and the initiator of the club, Philly is going to get on the worker corre- spondence map. In one of the letters on E “KICKS” FORCE page @ young worker of Mich., tells how he organized a Worcorr group. Regular worker correspondence from Flint help a good deal in ganize for further struggles of the auto worker) y . Z 33 ° . Chicago now has a class in worker correspondence and we trest that it will grow into a defi- nite Worcorr group. We wish to hear frem Chicago worker corre- spondents, woe A nationel conference of worker and peasants’ cerrespondents in the Sovict Union is now under way, The National Worker Correspon- dents’ Committee of the U. S. A. has sent the greetings of Ameri-— oan worker and farmer correspon. donis. ‘fhe anuaty fasue of “WORKER CORRESPONDEN’ BULLETIN” is now out and has been mailed to some 350 Worcorrs. Write if you have rocelved your cony, rebi just got a sample of union treach- ery, by being forced to accept a 10 per cent wage-cut. The factory is- sued notice of a 12 per cent reduc- tion, wheréat the union committee of the International Cigar Makers’ Union consulted with the bosses in “the name of the workers. The com- mittee accepted a 2 per cent mitiga- tion and the workers are conse- quently getting a cut of 10 per cent. It is clear that 10 per cent was probably decided upon by the em- ployers and the union representa- tives. Fearing that the workers | might see into the union’s double | playing if no modification of the re- | | duction was obtained, they therefore pretended a+12 per cent cut. The | union then attempts to save its face by getting the cut lowered to the de- sired 10 per cent. a <a IMPROVEMENTS Show What Can Be Done by Protests Spokane, Wash. Daily Worker:— Well here in Spokane we can sure see the results of exposing the mis- erabel conditions and the exploita~ tion of the unemployed by a few past masters in the art of grafting on unfortunate unemployed and home- less workers. Those who visit the Hotel DeGink now wil] sure be surprised to see the big change for the better. Where before the men at the home were charged for every little thing they got on their credit cards, things are different now. Forced Improvements. ‘They even fixed up shower baths with four , two big boilers in the basement to give them plenty of hot water to wash their clothes and take baths any time during the day or night. The credit system as it existed before is entirely done way with. According to their books they served from January Ist up te. the 13th, 23,073 meals at the home. Well workers, that will show you that with & little kick and exposure you can Girls and Takes on at $12. Rate New York. To the Editory Daily Worker: It is over two years since Istartea to work at Klein's Store on 14th St. I worked there from 48 to 50 hours | per week. Work was always plenty I worked hard and not only I but all the girls in the store. For that job which made me feel tired every night I received only $16 a week. Lately Mr. Klein decided that it is too much money for the girls. The first step which he took to! remedy this situation was to fire the old help and hire cheaper ones for $12 per week, ‘The workers started to realize that they cannot depend any more on} | the bosses’ good nature to help them, | | but it is time to start to organize | and start to fight against the boss. | It is up to the girls to help them- selves. What we need is to organize in | an organization which, will stand by | the workers when another incident | like this will come. All the girls be- | | lieve in that, but the only thing which we need right now is a good TOILER FROM JOB Organization McKeesport, Pa. Comrade Editor: Just a few lines to let you know} how the McKeesport Tin Plate Co. | treats Communists in their plant. 1, Frank Hill, was fired on January | 21 out of the mill. The super Samp- | son of the hot mij] dept. called me | in his office and said, Frank how long have you worked in the mill. I) told him six years. He tried to get my history but} failed. He didn't come out openly and tell me “you are fired for being a Communist and because you be-| Jong to the Metal Workers Industrial League.” But he said this: “You are | fired, your services are no longer wanted in this mill.” Hill Wouldn't Cringe. When he was ready to leave the of- | fice he said “You can come the next day and get your money.” I told him and demanded my money the day I was fired. He looked at me and said alright. He also asked me if I had| anything to say before I left the | factory. I teld him that/I wish I could stay ——— dlives Dick Kills Jobless Negro Worker Who Took 10 Cent Pie (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA.—D riven to desperation by hunger a jobless Negro worker tried to relieve his distress by taking two pies from a bread wagon, He was shot by a city detective and died a few hours afterwards. This death of Jack Chew, 19, of | 2020 Master St. shows how for the city will go in protecting 10 cents worth of private property and ap+ propriating next to nothing for the relief of the unemployed” workers suffering from starvation. Incidentally, police refuse to discuss the case yntil completion of “investigation” though there is nothing to investigate except the brutality committed upon work- ers. Cleve. Charities Retuse Aid to Family in Need Cleveland, Ohio. Daily Worker: I have been refused help a number of times in many ways by the Asso- | ciated Charities. I am trying to sup- “Unspeakable Conditions Among Casuals” Admits the “Railway Clerk” Magazine “Worse Than Lumber Camps” Writes in One Stewart to the Magazine | Brotherhood Officials Busy Helping Bosses to Put Over New Speed-up Schemes Daily Worker: — New York. The following taken from the “Railway Clerk” gives an idea of the situation among the railway expressmen: “Unspeakable Conditions Among Casuals. Sanitary conditions are of the worst, the witness said. Reading another steward’s written report, he described a situation that is no longer per- mitted to exist even in the worst lumber camps. The men ‘lie | around picking bugs and other insects off their person and numr |‘go in there to hire them for fear of | in the mill long enough to organize | port my children by keeping a room- | the workers into the Metal Workers |ing house, but now as conditions are Industrial League. Boy, he did look.| so terrible and have been for a year, He expected me to beg for my job|1 cannot even feed my family as 1| | organizer, but where shall we take him? Fired Worker of Klein’s Store. but he got fooled, | I may be out of the mill but there | are other workers in the mill that will SLAVERY AT NEW FALLS LAUNDRY Girls Driven at a Ter- rifie Pace Little Falls, N. J. Daily Worker: Although Abraham Lincoln was supposed to free all the slaves, the Vander May Brothers of Little Falls, N. J., do not seem to fealize this, for the conditions in the Little Falls Laundry, of which they are the own- ers, are almost as bad as the slaves had to put up with before the Civil War. ‘The highest paid men, except the truck drivers, who are also the bosses’ stool pigeons, get from twenty | to twenty-two dollars per week, and although they have only enough work to keep them for two or three days a week they are made to come in every day and do jobs that would cost the owners about twice as much as they get if they had to hire some- one to do it, and there is no extra compensation for it. Girls Most Exploited. ‘The girls who work here are really the most exploited of all, for they work piece work (peace bosses but none for themselves) so much a hundred pounds, but when | it comes time for the weights for the day to be marked down they are only given credit for about half of what they did, and if they put up ahy fight abbut it they are fired. ‘The owners are continually reducing the rates per hundred pounds and they tell us if we do not like it then we can get out and they will get some- one in our place, The highest that | they can make is from $8 to $10 per week. They have to report in on Monday at 7 a. m. and work till 7 p. m., on Tuesday, 7 a. m. to 6:30 p. m., Wednesday fram 7 a. m. to 5:30 3, m. and then about two or three hours | on Thursday. More than once we have tried to organize among ourselves, to put up a fight against these conditions, but there is always some stool pigeon in the crowd who rins right to the bosses and tells them who is trying to get things started and they are fired on the spot, and the rest of us are warned that if we try anything like that we will get the same, so the only way this can be worked out is for someone from the Trade Union Unity League to come around and try to organize from the outside, and that is just what we are waiting for, —B. 8. A BRUTAL TRICK MATTOWAN, N. J.-rIn order to keep the homeless and transients from asking shelter in a jail cell, lo- cal police force all who ask to he locked up to take a bath in ice cold water, better the condtions no matter where you are, I see by the papers the other day that the authorities of Spokane are considering the question of opening up a home for the unemployed women here in town, but will tell about this later. —F. 8. eet '|Virgin'a Miners S'arving, Averaging ree Days Work at Reduced Wages (From the Southern Worker.) Wise County, Va. I was reading your paper which a friend gave me and I like it fine, It is the only paper I have ever seen that writes the truth on all things. T will give you @ hint of condi- tions here. We work a three-day week, which means 14 days work out of a month. We get from 85c to $1 per car, which holds throe tons of coal Icvel full, ‘Tre bosses make us loaders heap up all that will lay on the car for the same price, x I want the public to know what is going on up here. Us poor min- ers are starving, We are not go- ing to put up with this any longer. We mean to organize or die try- ing. There is but one way. Fight or Starve! LL. C. & C. Co, MINER. LONDON—A canal boat is to be turned into a school with accommo- dation for 40 pupils, carry out the work and also issue a| shop paper in the factory. | I also can do work outside and I) am sure going to do plenty ef it and! the McKeesport Tin Plate Co, will! feel it and they will curse this Frank Hill for being a Communist.—F, 1. SCARE JOBLESS COOLIE WAGES IN DALLAS, TEXAS |Even Skilled Workers Hit By This should by any means. When I went to the A. C. for help they told me to dispose of my furni- tyre first, I haven’t been able to get. any help only when I have taken | drastic action to get it ! Baby Gets Sick, | Finaily they made me take two | tenants and pay me $6 a week for a | room that I always got $10 for and | told me if I would not let them stay | for $6 they would send them some- | where else. A few days aga I told them that I did not have any coal | Dear Editor: Dallas, ‘Texas. In Dallas there are some pecan shelling factories. One located on Payne §t. and one on Commerce St. | | One Mexican girl woyked five days | on Payne St. and was paid $2.05. She | quit and went to the Commerce St. | place and worked three days for 65) cents, | jand that my baby was down with | | PReumonja and told them that if | | they would send me some coal they | could deduct $1 or so a week from | the rent they send for the tenant. | But they didn't send me any coal anyway. In order to get clothes for my chil- dren to go to school, I simply had te refuse to allow my children to go | ‘AGAINST DEMANDS Good Citizen Makes No Demands Says Boss Kane, Pa. Dear Comrades:— There is a place on Lamar St.| The condtions around here is very where contracts are let for sewing | bad, About three miles from here | aprons 65 cents per dozen. | chemical wood cutters get $1.25 for A skilled carpenter got a day's | @ cord of wood. There is a glass work thru the Federal employment) Works which shut down a year ago, agency. He dug up two trees by the| there has been employed over 500 yoots, chopped them into firewood|men. The James Brothers Company for the | and leveled the ground putting in a full day and received $1.50. Another carpenter did a few hours work of the same kind fo r25 cents. Workers, wake up and unite and put up a stop to this. Organize in the Trade Union Unity League and | the Communist Party. —A Worker. /OMAN KILLS DOG 10 FEED 8 KIDS ‘Worker Tells of Dire Misery of Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) | owns the water, gas and most of the houses. Now E. B. James told these men to go and cut some chemical wood for him to pay the water bill. Collect Signatures. I went from house to house to col- lect names for unemployment insur- ance. The city of Kane is building! a dam to help the unemployed with about 13 or 14 workers working. I eame to them and told them, boys I want your name for unemployment insurance and explained to them what it is for. Sure they say. Meantime one of the city officals was looking while the workers were signing. He looked at the list and said, how could you dare demand from the government? Do you know what demand means? I do, I said. Then he went on, demand means if you don’t get what you asked for, MC KEESPORT, Pa.—While going out for Unemployment signatures, I had plenty of chances to see the real misery of the jobless workers, On Shaw Avenue, a gas man came up to shut a woman’s gas off, He came into the. kitchen and asked the woman what smelled so bad. She lifted up the lid of a pot and told then you get it with arms. And he| | scared seme of them because he told them, good citizens should not de- mand anything from the government. TIS. ey “000 APPLY FOR ROBS THE JOBLESS him to look. “I killed my shepard | dog to feed my eight children, My} id hasn’t had any work for Ss.” After that the gas man cried like} a baby and said: “Lady, I won't turn off your gas even if I lose my job.” I went to another house and a woman told me this: “the landlord came one day and swore he'd take my furniture if I didn’t pay the rent. The next day my husband, father, and myself took all the furniture out of the house, and left it empty, when the landlord came, I told him that the furniture was being kept at my father’s house, until my husband finds a job,” We have no Unemployed Council here, and we sure need one. Pt. Pleasant Refuses Relief to Unemployed Point Pleasant, N. J. Daily Worker: Overseer of the poor, H. Chadwick, was removed from office in a polit- ical “charity war” between the local Welfare Association and the Boro Council, The council refused funds for re- lef of starving families on the ground of illegality. The situation caused great indig- nation. Emergency relief for chil- dren was supplied meanwhile by the County Welfare Association, 125,000 TEXTILE WORKERS JOBLESS IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA.—Screams of a young mother aroused the Kensing- ton district when her 9-year-old son collapsed in the street, A doctor perscribed food, Hesaid that he had treated a dozen such cases in the neighborhood, and told the unem- ployed textile workers ‘that they “should do something about it.” There are 125,000 textile workers un+ JOBS; NOT HIRED Policemen Keep Men in “Order” (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—I got up while it was still dark yesterday morning and started for Hog Island, that barren waste of land that stretches out into the Delaware, be- cause I heard that men were to be employed in the making of an air- rt. After leaving the trolley I walked two miles. They will employ six hundred men. There were 6,000 shiv- ering there in the cold, many with- out coats, while an icy wind blew up from the river. We waited more than three hours. ‘There were po- licemen, of course, to keep us in order, We tried to start a fire to warm ourselves, but the policemen stopped us. A burly fellow in front of me pointed derisively at a crowd of Italians and Negroes. He ad- dressed the crowd. “Those dagoes and niggers, they steal the jobs from the Americans.” TI am a South-American. My blood was boiling, “You are an American,” I asked, “Yes.” “Were you born in this country?” He stuck out his chest, “Yes. I was born in the United States.” “Well, what have you got for being an Ameri- can?” I inquired. “Nothing,” he an- swered. A little later, I asked him the time, “f don't know,” he replied, “I have no watch.” “Oh,” I laughed. “No watch, Not even a dollar one, An American, born in the United States, but he has nothing and no watch,” The crowd laughed with me. As to the job, they said there would be nothing until next week and then only men with families would be em- employed in this district, They face absolute destitution. ployed, which means one has to go through a lot of red tape to school barefooted, and kept them | home until the trugnt officer came | two or three times. He finally re- | ported to the school board and they | | sent me a notice to appear and give | reason for not sending my children to school. And then and there I| made known that the Associated | Charities had refused to help me. | So the head of the department called up and told them that something had to be done, No Coal In House, ‘They finally came and gave me a small order on their clothing branch for clothes, but we are out again, and I suppose I will have to apply the Same method I used before. As conditions are today, we have no coal, not much to eat and no shoes for four of the family. The baby hasn't anything else to wear either, INDIANA WELFARE Cheap Workers on Pay for Work Indianapolis, Ind. Daily Worker:— The Welfare Society of this city) robs the hungry workers of their pay. | This welfare society gave jobs to| the unemployed workers for $7.20 a| week and when the politicians change | places then they decide to rob the) poor workers, Instead of $7.20 a week now given them of groceries which are not worth more than two dollars and they charge them 5 dollars and $2.20 cash which they want the workers to pay the rent with. Such are the conditions in Indian- apolis, but the workers during work aye talking about the Communist Party, which is the only party to give One of many unemployed workers. MANY JOBLESS IN MANSFIELD, OHIO, Mansfield, Ohio. Dear Comrades: Unemployed ranks here are grow- ing (1,500 workers have registered for work here), We must all or- ganize together and stick together and demand relief. Ww. Elect delegates to N, ¥, Confer- ence for Protection of Foreign Born, Feb. 8, at the Irving Plaza, erous cases are known where regular employes became infected Bo with bugs, cooties, etc.” Many of these workers have neither homes| hor money with which to provide de-| cent sheltey. The company to meet | | this situation, at one depot supplied | | 4 shanty for them, to serve as wait-| ing room and eating room, and which | is now also used as sleeping quarters. | “Aboyt twenty men were sleeping} in there during the period of two weeks,” reports the steward, “and the place became so filthy and dirty that the general foreman would not vermin. They were stealing. There} were several packages missing, and also empty boxes were found under the building. The police department raided the shanty several times and| took in 15 or 20 men.” WIRE OPERATORS HIT BY THE CRISIS Many Would Like to) ; ae Go to U.S.S.R. New York. Editor Daily Worker: Hundreds of telegraph operators, | from all over the United States, dis-| regard the lies spread daily by the capitalist press about the Soviet} Union and aio ready to go to the U.S.S.R. to work. A rumor spread amongst telegraph men that the Soviet Union desires the services of 500 operators for work in the U.S.8.R. has created a sensa- tion among operators of the Western) Union and Postal Telegraph. Several hundred are willing to sign up. Op- erators from outside of New York such as Baltimore, Washington, Bir- mingham, Chicago and even Canada are eager to get more information about the proposition, All express readiness to go in spite of poisonous propaganda of the Fish Committee and the labor lackeys about the So- viet Union. The workers are begin- ning to realize the tremendous im- portance of the five year plan and the successes already achieved. Have Good Working Conditions. The telegraph worker ef the So, viet Union works six hours a day, 4 days a week, he gets one months va- cation, If he is sick he gets free Medicine and if necessary he is sent to a sanitarium free of charge, ‘The telegraph worker in the United States, especially the Morse opera- tors who have been working for the THREAT TO STOP CHARITY RELIEF EVEN IN DAYTON 6,000 Families Are on a Charity Diet Dayton, Obje. To the Daily Worker: Dayten is one of the cities noted for its many fake reliefs. It is deing its best te keep the unempleyed quiet. But just as ether places they can only da it for @ while. For the past year the Welfare As- sociation has been giving out tickets worth $3.60 to the unemployed. At present there are about 6,000 workers going there for help, The amount spént for food is estimated to be $10,000 a week. Discriminate Against Single Men. The Commynity Chest has been giving out so many tickets that they cannot give any longer. Byt ab the same time they aye afraid tg say that they will yefuse to help as they did last year. The workers will not stand for it because they are getting to leayn more and more that the bosses are theiy enemy and wil] not help them when they aye in need. Jf the city refuses ta feed the un- employed and thejr families they are ready to fight and will not starve. ‘The single men were refused help because the expenses were getting too high. When they were refused they started off to the City Hall. Assoon as the .Director of the Community Chest heard of this he ordered them to the Salvation Army and told them they would receive their tickets and everything would be alright. —™M. J. CRISIS BREAKS UP WORKER FAMILIEG Bosses Undermine the Home, Not “Reds” “portland, Ore, Dajly Worker :— According to figures published in re- the local capitalist pyess 5,319 Western Union or Postal Telegraph) gistered for work on the Or bos- Company for periods ranging between | ses’ fake highway employment pro- 5 and 40 years, are at present putting | gram. It was announced that 1,750 in only 3 days a week. The autor|men would be hired. When they matic operators are not much better| found how many were registering off. Those under 5 years of service, (and they haye undoybtedly lied on work 3 or 4 hours a day and 5 days’ the figures) they fired 3,300. However per week, This means one half or they are working on a stagger system, less the regular pay per week. The, seven-eighths of them working 3 days speed of work is terrific, After sev-| eral years of work in a telegraph of- fice, one is a candidate for an asylum. No wonder then that the men are so eager to leave the land of Hoover's “prosperity” and go to the only work- ers’. republic, —Ss.T, Inspector Blind to Bad Sanitary Con- ditions in Danbury Danbury, Conn, To the Workers’ Correspondence Editor: I work in a fur shop in Danbury. ‘Ths sanitary conditions are awful and most dangerous for the health ofthe workers. But when the inspector fer the Board of Health comes around he goes into the bosses’ office and never looks around the dirty places in the shop. And then he goes back and reports that everything is ale right, If he would go into the tojlet he could never go back and report any more, —A Fur Worker. ‘lass Kunger for Both Farmers and Ther Cattle In Arkansas (By A Farmer Correspondent.) BAUCUM, Ark. — The question of getting feed for the cattle in the drouth areas is very serious. There was no hay in this section last year. A “government man” came to the district to look into things and found that several cattle had died from starvation, Starvation of humans and ani- mals is covered up by the press, so people do not get to know the truth about conditions. Facts how- ever are stubborn and will out. The cattle try to live on a little grass found in the cotton fields and along the roadside. They are Jean looking, the ribs potruding prominently from their bodies, They are skinny and what butcher wants them anyhow? Farmers here are anxious te do something about this as well as to get food for themselves, A farmer here said 70 in this community a week, They are receiving $3.00 a day and in some cases have to furnish their | own transportation, so it is easy to see how much relief they are getting. Most of them are married men and they and their families are slowly starving on $30.00 to $40.00 4 mopth. A very important admission made by ©. H. Gram, state labor commis- sioner, After pretending Oregen un- employment is now solved he says: "In times such as these families be- come separated. The men get the wanderlust and sometimes the wreck- age they leave behind in the way of | disrupted families is crormoug.” As theye are around 70,000 unemployed in Oregon jt is plain to see that, it 1g the | boss starvation system that breaks up | the family without any need of help from the “reds” (who are for the keeping together of the working class family), Fire Workers, But Insull Profits Grow $2,000,000 In 1930 (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—~The Peoples Gas Co,, an Insull Corporation, pe- purts an increase in profits of $3,- 000,000 in 1930 over 1929, although consumption of gas in this city was considerably Jess in 1930, Many workers in Chicago have had their gas shut off for non-payment, but how do they make $2,000,000 more profits? It is'very simple, The rub always goes to the worker, The Peo- ples Gas Co, has fired all workers in their employment who heve not worked for the company for seven years. ‘They started to eliminate those who worked for one year, ang then jumped to two years, and now they have reached those below seven. They keep their stockholders’ poal- ets full of gold at the expense of the would join the United Farmers’ League, workers. Lea