The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1931, Page 3

il ’ T = TY LA SeR ____ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURD AY, FEBRUARY, 21, 1931 vage ‘Ihree FEED JOBLESS O+'FAL AT 1 HE HOTEL DEGINK | IN SPOKANE, WASH. Jobless Worker Suffered In Agony After Meal D CF MASS MISERY SEE Thousands In Brewery Basement Flophouse Workers Must Fight This Outright Poisoning, and Killing of Jobless! Spokane, Wash. To the Editor Daily Worker: When a fellow has spent his last red cent the world looks blue, you can bet. I was hungry and nearly starved- Misery likes company. I told my troubles to a stranger. He directed me over to the Hotel DeGink, a place in Spokane where nice warm meals were served free to the unemployed workers. Yes, sir, you are welcome, no questions asked. We:-were lined up outside in the cold weather a half hour shivering waiting for the dining room to open up. There was =<? about 600 workers in the breadline. BRE ADLINES IN ‘The table we sat down to eat off was COLORADO M | the slumgullion that they give in the | boarding house run by Spokane, Yau soaking wet just as they came out | | How they bite. Covatry Rave caused vide-s nuaber of cur eupl It 10 our hope to and food workers. Their present on the streets. The Food Workers Industrial food workers. ers can the restaurant workers call case of the Childs chain of restaurants. Such Notices Are Posted coast 70 coast Dedegber 29, 1930, ‘TO ALL OFFICERS AND BMPLOTRES OF CHILOS COMPANT AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES: Alsbough present busiaess conditions throurhost the pread unemployment, ve have not reduced or ‘the number of working days of such reductions ip At has deen decided by the or salaries of all officers fires full payroll period in By order of tbe Brocutive Committee, Ge. A. Barber CHALROAE Among the workers being attacked by the bosses are the restaurant low wages are being cut as in the Many have been thrown out Union is the fighting union of the Only determined strike struggle under the Food Work- ll a halt to wage-cuts. ‘Soviet Auto Workers Write Detroit set up with rusty old tin pie plates REGION GROWING | can’t sleep at night with the vermin. of the dirty dish water. Oh, it is strange how they live on | | Starvation In the Mine Fields Brodhead, Colo. Offal for Food. For supper we had hash made out of the offals of the slaughterhouse— hog’s liver, kidneys fat and scraps of meat, etc. The cook knows his To the Daily Worker Editor: | business. The hash was half raw Sometime I get disgusted when I| and not seasoned. Had it been brown Auto Workers of Construction Work Detroit Auto Workers Correspondent With | time setting anyo the Soviet Auto Workers; Write Them WORKED 29 YEARS, TAKES SICK, C0. TRIES T0 GYP HIM | A Danville Woman Striker Tells How the UTW Knifed ’em Danville, Va. We have lost our strike, waiting for the Red Cross to give us a can of soup. And whose fault is ® _ SLOWLY ST N BY WORKER CORRESPONDENTS “PEOPLE IN READING ARVING TO _ DEATH” WRITES ONE Another Worker Now| it? Sees the Light Naugatuck, Conn. Dear Editor: | At_one -time-a~rubber worker 1) happened to drop into the old town to see how things were. I met work- ers that are down to their last cent of savings and are worrying about) how they are going to live. One case was very interesting be- cause this worker was so stubborn when I used to give him a Daily he was very indignant at the idea that I was trying to make a Communist } out of him. Well, this same worker | |heard that I was in town and sent I went over to see him and is time it was a different way that he welcomed me. The Worker’s Story. He told me that he now realizes the facts that I had told him. I asked him what changed his mind. So this is what he told me: | “I have been working for the U. 8. | Rubber for 29 years and in one more year I would have been getting my Not the workers, for we are still 4,000 strong. We are willing to go without food and clothing to win our rights. But Gorman says we must not fight, for they will put you in jail, What if they did? Well, none of our leaders got in jail, Danville Woman Striker. JOBLESS GET BUT 35 P.C. COLLECTED 8. R. Machinist Shows! Up Charity Racket Chicago, Tl. | | | Daily Worker: | The Chicago Federation of Labor| | has issued a plan which was sent to the affiliated unions for approval. | This plan is in line with Governor , ; Emmerson’s Relief Committee, which ‘Socialists’ Long On Windy Promises and Short On Bread and Butter Relief Dear Editor: | Reading Jobless Now Have Militant Council.to Fight Their Demands Reading Pa I was out of work for three months and J have six little children and two dependents, m pay *30 a month rent. to get relief by every effort. any place. So we struggled along a month more. alf-starved to death they gave me a job working for the county on the Berks County prison h average of $8 a week when I’m work-® ing and I get no relief nowhere. And yet they expect me to liv eon $8 a week for the nine of us. -I have hardly any clothes or shoes to wear when I'm working and it is bitter cold up there and they don’t let you make any fire to warm yourself. If they catch you around a fire or mak- I was back in rent 2 months. | 5 |has very little sympathy with the j Pension. | unemployed workers. This was proven | “I have worked on this job for the | by the fact that the unemployed get | last ten years and it was a dangerous | only about 35 per cent out of the | one, as you know. They had a hard| finds collected. This is the same ne to work there! fake plan that the Ch. and N. W. | after the last accident, where a Shop Council recommends for ap- et read of the brutal treatment that the | workers take at the hands of the) police and then back out without resistance. How long are the work- | ers going to be satisfied with back- | ing out. Down to Starvation | The bosses have the workers down | to starvation wages. They have quit | paying anything for dead work. Pick | coal is 90 cents a ton but they make | you Ioad two ton cars and give the miner from as low as 22 up to 25 a hundred and the average turn in the mines is about 3 cars per day per man and from one to four days a) week, So you can see we have slow starvation. In this part of Colorado the miners | are not organized. The breadline in Trinidad is growing steadily. There fs a rumor going around that the company is © going to lay off all single men and ~ also_ all that don’t trade in the company store so we are expecting “to see things getting worse eke TROY ORGANIZERS ARRESTED AGAIN But Continue to Or- ganize Workers Troy, N. ¥. Editor Daily Worker: * ‘The bosses of Growning and King | (clothing. factory) of Troy, called the | police when Comrades J. Gladstone and M. Mones distributed leaflets near the factory calling the workers to @ mass protest against the in- junetion the N and S shirt factory got out festraining the Needle Trades Workers*Industrial Union from speak- ing and distributing leaflets. ‘The police came rushing and ar- rested these comrades. When brought | before ‘police court Judge Byron, he | -2cognized Gladstone, whom he sen- | senced to two days jail a few weeks | igo for distributing leaflets and after \ real fight on the part of the com- ‘ades, he was compelled to let them | Gladstone and Manes told the judge thet they are determined to arry on the work, lamestown, NY, Hit y Unemployment children Lack Food; Wages Cut % Jamestown, N. Y. ‘The lpboring class in Jamestown, s in alfvother cities, are suffering ‘om lay-offs, wage-cuts of from 10 » 20 per cent and working only 2 to days per week and several plants ‘e shut down entirely. ‘The bosses are cutting wages and ving off poor, starving men and) omen and causing the suffering of | * nocent little children, I am giving | wu the names of some of the main | etories who are guilty: | The Art Metal, the Jamestown mel, the Empire Worsted Mills, atson Mfg. Co., Metal Desk Co., arney Ball Bearings, Weber and EMPLOYMENT DROPS IN MARYLAND 3ALTIMORE, Md.—Employment in ryland manufacturing industries veased 4.1 per cent from Decem- . 1930, to January, 1931, and pay-/ 3 deercnsed 5.4 per cent, accord- | to J. Kon Tasley, Commissioner | Labor and Statistics, 4 and baked it would not have tasted so bad. I was awful hungry. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. It was the dearest meal I ever ate. It came nearly costing me that night my. life. I suffered in agony and pain from the effects of the food. Never again will I be a guest at the Hotel DeGink. A Terrible Place. I met a friend recently. He looks poor and nearly half starved. He said he was living at the Hotel De- Gink for the past three weeks and had lost 20 pounds of weight. cently a man was found dead there in his bed. Reader, I will venture to say it is a safe bet to make. A worker who has not the appetite, digestion and guts of a hog will not live over 30 days on the food given at the Hotel DeGink without dying. Think of it, Commissioner Dr. Hendricks boasting of the wonderful management and economy prevailing there that meals are seryed at a cost of 4 cents. i This is my true experience for one day at the Hotel-DeGink, —H. P. Entire Ky. Family Dies of Starvation Banker Evicts Work- ers In Grayson, K’y. Grayson, Ky. Editor Daily Worker: The conditions at Graysons grow worse. As I wrote before the com- mercial bank has mortgages on farms | and refuses to lend any more. Old Wicker, the bank president, is drunk every night and has ruined seven | girls in this town who worked in his | bank. He has evicted 20 families from their homes this winter. So many people are now living on bread and water, One family of five he evicted from their home died from starvation | the doctor announced at the fun- | eral. Lack of nutritious food had | caused their death. $3.50 WAGE FOR PHILA. WAITRESSES PHILADELPHIA.--Taking adyan- tage of the unemployment situation | the bosses of many restaurants in Philadelphia are paying girls as low as $3.50 per week and tips, if they can get them. Eight dollars is now considered good week's wages in the average Philadelphia restaurant. Night work consists of ten hours nightly and the highest wages paid per week for this work is $10 per week. Nijni-Novgorod, U. S. S. R. To the Ford Workers in Detroit: We, the workers of the U. S. S. R. engaged in the con- struction of the gigantic auto plant in Nijni-Novgorod, send Re- | you our proletarian greetings. in Europe, with an output of 140,000 autocars per year. The first corner stone of the Sov- jet Ford plant was laid May 1, 1930, and during the 8 months of work al- ready the main buildings of the plant | are already erected and roofed. The plant will be completed in August, 1931, American Workers Help. Fifteen thousand workers are en- | gaged on this construction work. Many American, Germen and Chi- | nese and workers of other nationali- ties are working with us. Two groups of American workers, together with their families, organ- ized the commune “Cement” and do “It Is Terrible Here”, Denver, Col. Fellow Workers:— I am dropping you a few lines, I have lived or stayed in Denver | for 7 years. It is terrible here, We have around 25,000 men out of work and 1 would say 10,000 women want work. Thousands of children on the verge of starving. We have an excellent council (Unemployed Couneil) here, good speakers, The other day we This plant will be the biggest us Russian workers and thus acceler- ate the tempo of the construction | work, | Dear comrades, we send you this | letter and hope to start regular | correspondence with you and wish | you to write us about your life and | work in the capitalist cpuntries. Let us unite for our mutual tasks to struggle against capitalism and for the Proletarian Revolution all over the world. —A, Sukhanov, —A. Jakavieff, —Golizin, —Suikanen (American worker). Writes Denver Jobless | marched on the capitol 6,000 strenz. I am speaking to soldiers and | sailors and National Guards for your little salary that is just hold- ing you, and you are Hable to be discharged, don't ever fight the know you are fighting your poor It will be only a question of time till you are out and down as the war vets. —J. MeN. Stanwood, Wash . Comrades :— In the Seattle Post Intelligencer of February 8, I read this headline “Ro- tary Egg Fight Prosperity Aid.” The members of the Rotary and Exchange Clubs are going to clad themselves in armor and throw eggs at each other until they have wasted 100 cases. Tie winning team will then for your rights, | Rotary Degenerates Waste Eggs As Jobless |p iiiaity. Starve challenge the service club in other towns, If in no other way find something harder than eggs to fight with. How much longer will we allow our chil- dren and ourselves to go hungry and helf clothed while parasites amuse themselves by throwing eggs at each other. Workers organize and fight —M. E. “Starvation Is Still On the Increase Here In Canton Canton, Ohio. Daily Worker: Starvation is still on the increase here in Canton, but the city bosses | have found a way out. They say we will give the kids in school free | lunches, but—here is the proposi- tion in the Sunday Repository: “School children to receive milk and crackers daily. Children’s Mis- sion acts to relieve suffering from lack of food.” They are supposed to distribute in 22 schools out of 36 in Canton a half pint of milk and two graham crackers once a day. But there seems to be a little graft connected with this, for the ) mission is supposed to donate this milk, but the teachers ask the kids in school to buy tickets and in most of the sehools only a few really get | this great relief. T know, for my kids go to one of the schools and they don't get milk or crackers. They would if | they paid the teacher a little graft or if they were some boss's child. —W. A. BUILDING TRADES GOES DOWN BOSTON.—Building in 55 Massa- chusetts cities fell from $152,655, 500 during 1929 to $107,353,000 during 1930, the State Labor Department re- ports. their best ot give their knowledge to} Communist Party for if you do you | fathers and mothers and brothers. | | worker was killed and another crip- pled for life. “I finally took the job and have | been working in smoke and grit for | the last ten years and it finally rot the best of me. I have heen sick | now for six weeks and the doctor | told me that there wasn’t much | hope of my recovery. | “I have been trying to get com- | pensation and this is what they tell me: ‘You never got that here | in this plant, you got it somewhere | else’ They are trying to steal what I'm depending on to feed my family and they are trying to tell me to accept my pension ahead of time, “So you see. big boy. that is why now that I believe in what you told me is correct. I wish you luck and hope you will drive home to others what you drove home to me, only much sooner.” —A. B. CALPOLICE THUGS PEAT UP WOMEN Feb. 25 Will See Aj Battle In Oakland | Daily Worker: Oakland cops are no exception to the rule of cops in the capitalist | | countries. Feb, 10th, when the un-| employed workers attempted to Pa-| rade and demand relief from the city, we had a fine example of police Several men were knocked unconscious, many had cuts and bruises, and even the women and children were attacked. | In one case a young woman re- marked upon seeing an unemployed worker beaten up, “What brutes the | police are.” Not daring to strike the woman in the presence of the large crowd, one officer followed. her for a block, where there were less | | onlookers and then proved to her} that her statement was true by club- hing her acr the head and her in the eve. Another girl, 16 years old, brutally across the neck and should The women of Oakland are not | afraid to attend demonstrations, though. When told to move on, one | Woman told the cop to go to hell, | and she remained on the corner, tell- | ing the crowd of the clubbing of | Starving workers when they attempt- | ed to demand relief. As there was a |large crowd around her, and the people were shielding the woman, the | officer dared not interfere. Feb, 25th will see a battle in Oak- | land. The workers will not stand) | idly by and starve and neither will | they stand idly by and let a bunch | of yellow cops beat them up. On| Feb. 25th the workers will show the cops how to fight. —Woman Worker. about beaten as | Layoff proval by the local union. Is that not a real example of fak- ery? The Chicago Federation en- dorses the bosses’ fake schemes to fool the workers into acepting star+ vation and misery, and that our offi- cials try to force it down our throats. Let’s smash these fakers! —Northwestern Machinist. CHARITY CRUMBS 'N ROCKFORD, ILL. To Demonstrate On February 25th Daily Worker: Rockford, Til. Some workers that hare been out of work for years, and for a long time have been depending on the erumbs of charity the Public Wel- fare gives out, were sent out to do. road work last week. The job is fixing up a read in Kishwaukee Vorest Preserve, § hours a day and 2 days a week and 49 cents an bour. Twenty cents a day do the city or county charge every worker for transportation. Nine dollars a week are ali those werkers get. One of those workers, who has a big family, was told that he would not get any more groceries from the Public Welfare, because now when he had a job they expected him to take care of himself and his family. He told them that he and the children needed some clothing. The answer he got was a sneer, Those workers will or- ganize and fight for real cash re- lief. Feb. 25 the demonstration in Rockford will start at L O. G. T. Hall, 1015 Third Ave., near Seventh St, at 1 p. m, and from there we will march to City Hall. —G, C. s and Wage Cuts In North Dakota De'w Worker: Fargo, N. D. A few words 2hout North Deketa conditions, esnecially around Farge. The grain elevator at West Fargo burned down recently and is being rebuilt at once. Common iabor is paid 30 cents an hour, if you are lucky enough to be hired. Nine hours a day with only 30 minutes for dinner. The workers are badly speeded up. At Armour’s packing plant work- ing conditions, never good, are as bad as ever, with lots of lay-offs re- cently and 37'3 cents an hour base pay. No signs of any union among the workers. Armour is terribly afraid of organization and any man in the least militant is blacklisted and can never work in his plants again. —wW. Ss. ing a fire they fire you—and you get no kind of relief at all. They tell you that you're too lazy to work. But if you quit you can get anything—if you beg for it. They promised us better times when the socialists get in—and we | sure have ‘em. We have no work | at all, and they won't feed us. They want us to beg for what little we get. And what we get ain't fit to eat or fit te wear. The clothings | that you get are moldy. Half the | eats you get are rotten. The dogs | wouldn’t eat it. Still they want you | to pay taxes. And they won't give | you decent wages when you are working. I think the socialists are a bunch of crooks. | They're trying to do the working people out of | what little they had. They have | no sympathy for the working class of people. | | | | I joined the Unemployed Council and I was along up at the demon- stration and I was surprised to see all the unemployed people there that jwas there. J thought they were afraid to speak for their rights and | | what's coming to them. And I think! that the Unemployment Council in Reading will be a success im about | three weeks’ time if the working class cf people will keep on doing what th are doing. Because they are etting tired of charity and begging, because they are starving for what they are getting. The people of | Reading are slowly starving to death. Tam willing to fight for everything | get and I don't want charity, | Through the Unemployed Council! fight for unemployment insurance. —A worker at the Berks County | Prison Farm. { Wilmington Bosses ‘Hit Foreign Born Part of Drive On All) Delaware Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) WILMINGTON, Del.—A bill was introduced at the State House (cap- itol) of Delaware, et Dover by Sen- | 2tor Downs. in which is provided 2 fine of $1,600 and imprisonment of six months for violation. The hill stipulates that in the con- stauction of the State Public Works oy public works of any political sub- | division of the State of Delaware, all mechanics, workmen or laborers employed thereon, must be natural- | ized citizens of the United States. | Further, that preference be given | to citizens of the State of Delaware. | And also, if workers who do not | happen to be citizens are used in this | kind of work, the contract is declared | null and void. | All contracts awarded must contain | | Clauses to the above effect, and all! contractors must file names and ad- dresses of all workers, certifying that | all workers are citizens of the State. | RE. | | y son and his wife, and I must I tried And they wouldn’t give it to me When they had us farm. I-make on the HEALTHY GIRLS AT MAJESTIC CO. SOON GET SICK Ten Hours A Day In Radio Slave Pen CHICAGO, Ill—Before the Majes- tic Radio Corporition hires a .girl, they, make sure that she is healthy - and strong enough for the hard work. | she has to do. ‘They-ask many ques- tions. For example: headaches often? Do you have Trouble with your stomach or heart? Did you have any operations? Any sickness during th» last few years? etc. The nurse looks at the hands, arms and then at the whole body, because they only want strong and healthy workers; but they | soon make them sick and tired dur- ing the work. At the time I called there for work they asked me if I mind dirty hands, but they should have asked me if I am afraid of wet and dirty clothes and hands, because the kind of work I got was men’s work. I heard that @ man was working on this big drill press before, but girls’ wages are low- er We girls got sped-up more and more every day. The machines were running day and night with the re- sult that some broke down and the . workers were laid off for a few weeks. The department where I worked later was equipped with big machines which made a jot of noise. The air was heavy ahd dusty, hot and smeky, This room had only a little daylight, electric light iNluminated it. ‘The space which we hed for werk waa too small and the werk very hot, sq we burned our hands. Our working time was ten hours a day, six days q week, and we often worked en Sun« days! —M. W. FORCE JOBLESS T0 CHOP WOOD This Is In Rich Town of Quakers (By a Worker Correspondent) HAVERFORD, Pa.—There is con: vict labor in Russia, is there? Tim- ber cut by convicts? We hear a lot of that boloney. Right here in Haverford, where live the rich and virtuous Quakes: in a ver high class” ‘Philadelphia Main Line Suburb, five jobless men and a jobless boy were sentenced by Magis- trate Blackburn to a sentence on the woodpile, to cut up into assorted sizes, wood for the owner of a big estate. ‘The “crime” committed by these 6 | men was that of trying to keep warm these cold days and nights—and try- ing to keep warm with a job is no easy thing. So they cut some timber from the. big estate of Wm. J. O'Brien, a. wealthy real estate operator. For this | they were sentenced to saw and split the trees they had felled, and which surely would not have been missed This is another glaring example of “justice” in capitalist~ America, of how jobless workers are “helped” by the rich, N. W. Lumber Workers Staggered As Debts Pile Up (By a Worker Corresponden) BELLINGHAM, Wash.—The Blo- | dell-Donovan company re-opened | one mill out of the three saw-milis | that this company owns. They opened up on the stagger system, They are working two five-hour shifts, employing about five hun- dred men. Formerly, the wages were four-twenty for eight hours. The workers are how receiving one dollars and 75 cents for five hours ‘work, This simply means that the workers here are not only unable to pay up their back grocery bills, but are also unable to pay this year's taxes on their hobes that they bought on the installment flan, These homes were built from lurbe> ent in Bellinghzm mills. The city officials voted them- and Evictions Grow selves recently an increase of sal- ary. Therefore, the city tax as- -sessments are still going upwards, Some of the workers’ tax pagers | are taking steps to refuse to pay their taxes. The only effective way in which the workers here will be able to fight against tax payments, evic- tions, turning off of water, light and gas, wage cuts and Hoover's “stagger system,” is to organize into the neighborhood unemploy- ment councils (affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League). There is already one real live ‘Unemployed Council functions in Bellingham, and several others are being formed. All information in regards to organizing unemployed councils can be reached at 831 State Stree', Bellingham, Wash, or Box — No, 347 Philadelphia, Pa, Dear Comrade:— Conditions are terrible in Philadel- phia. Over 300,000 out of work and |The workers are committing suicide here every day because they don’t understarid what it is all about; why they are starving in the “midst of plenty” and also going pretty near naked altho the warehouses are full of clothes. The bosses here intend to murder the workers by starvation if they do not organize and fight. tute newspapers here are trying to poison the workers’ minds about Russia, The bosses will make war on Russia soon if they can get away with it. T see workers eating out of slop | Cans. etc. Ten pages of sheriff sales in today’s capitalist press here. Thousands of war veterans are liv- ling in hell here. This munition state “Thousands of War Hell Here” |more getting laid off all the time.) The prosti- | Veterans Living In Never gave them a dime. Many work- | ers have been hiding out of sight as they are ashamed to be seen in their miserable plight. But they are ready row to follow the Communist Party | into struggle. TAKES FOOD LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Rather than starve an unemployed worker here ordered three dozen hot tamales from a vendor and then walked away with- out paying for them. VETS WANT BONUS, NO LOANS Allentown, Pa. Daily Worke: Tam an erviceman and am dis- satisfied with the bonus bill. Why should we pay interest on the money | that is coming to us.» Why should |we make the bankers richer at the! | expense of the ex-soldicy. EX SOLDIER. McKeesport Tin Bosses Get A Record | | Dividend As Workers Face Starvation McKeespert, Pa. Comrade Editor: Sending in the report of the Mc- Keésport Tin Plate Co. The work- ers are speeded up in every depart- ment. The girls are speeded up and many get sick and injured. There can be a thousand things fixed to make things safe for the workers, yet they say they repaired things for workers. —F. ie Aaae Y According to the report of the President of the McKeesport Tin Plate Co. the dividends are equal to $8.34 on each share of 300,000 shares of stock, a great profit for the bosses who own the stock at the expense of the workers. De- , Ployment relief out of their swollen | dividends on Febrnary 25th! Don't starve while the parasites pile up | their millions! MICH. JOBLESS ORGANIZE LINCOLN PARK. Mich.—I'm ‘a new recruit to the only workers’ Party, the Communist Party. We or- | | Banized an Unemployed Council, | Comrade Reynolds and Council, marched to city hall and demanded the city council to endorse our in- surance bill and send a telegram to Hooey Hoover. They sent their en- dorsement. The couneil chamber was packed with workers. ORGANIZE TO EBND| STARVATION; DEMAND) mand that the bosses pay unem- (RELIEF! Negro Woman, 50, Will Aid Fight to Set All Workers Free (From the “Southern Worker.”) Charlotte, N.C. I am a Negro working woman who has done all kinds of work, even pick sweeps in a cotton mill, where we hed to pick cll the white cotton out of the Km and «nit, But when times got so hard the bess told me I would have to hunt me a job. I wstked from house to house, begging for something to do, and could not even find washing ot scrubbing, When I heard of the Trade Union Unity League I went to two meet- ings and heard the speakers and saw what they were trying to do, I joined up. I am 50 years old and hope to live to see my people free and the Poor white people also. NEGRO WORKING WOMAN,