The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1931, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDA aily Worker :— York. hy and votes of the citizens. ticides, Evictions, in Oakland, Calif. 16- Year- Old Girl in Suicide Attempt; Bosses ‘Optimistic’ ~~ @akland, Cal Daily Worker: The body of a man dangling from b moose tied to a tree in Lakeside Park, near Grand Ave., was found vy workers going to work, early this norning. ‘The suicide is an aged. man and vould not be identified. Coroner's iquad gave their report thet “suicide, was poorly clad, had no identifica- ‘ion marks and po money,” Their money gone, unable to pay tent, Fred Ihde, world war veteran, and his femily—a wife and five chil- iren, oldest 10 years and youngest \8 months were evicted from their home at 2727 Garden Ave., landlord. tharging that $90 back rent is due, Girl Attempts Suicide. Mary Gens, 16-year-old girl, at- lempted suicide by jumping in front ft Key Route train today. She was ulled out of the way by @ milk | “We have reached the bottom of depression level and an optimistic ttitude must be taken. With wiri- ys’ departure there will come addi-| Trade Union Unity League at 18 West| branch office that had 3 operators ‘ Fomal means of livelihood,” say our yoffs On Increase UBWAY CONSTRUCTION ORKERS EXPOSED TO ANGER OF ACCIDENTS s Try to Play Off Native Born Against the Foreign Born Workers ‘0 Protection for Workers on Jobs; Forced to Work Overtime With No Pay Brooklyn, N. Y. Only 3 few words about the rotten conditions of the Sub- construction workers of the Carleton Company, 62nd St., Here the bosses before election are starting to lay off all non-citizen workers for the purpose of getting the sympa- On election day we are supposed to get two hours off with y, but nobody gets it, and only a few get it from other com- panies, according to every capitalist paper. This seems like *% family affair, because all those who were the bosses’ relations and friends remained at work, although none of them was a citizen. No Overtime Paid. Some times they make us work get paid for it. Four months ago two workers had to work two hours overtime, but after a struggle with the bosses they got paid for one hour at single time. At the Jay Street Subway station there are the main holes, some about 6 feet deep, They are filled with water, there is no 4 protection at all from them, and there is no light, so everybody falls into them, Workers get hurt, and lose their jobs because while they are at home, sick, somebody else gets their Job, This company has another big job on Fulton Street. Over there the workers are paid less and those who get laid off from Jay Street, when | they go to ask for a job on Pulten Street, are paid 5 and 10 cents less per hour, It is hard to get anything it you don’t know some of the bosses: for example, some carpenter citizens were transferred from Jay Street to} Fulton Street but after a few weeks all were laid off with the excuse that | they were working too long, and 50| the bosses have to hire the unem-| ployed (on the stagger system). But| what do we find? The other day, a Norwegian by the name of Jehn Nel-| son, @ non-citizen, was laid off from} Jay Street and was rehired here on @ Pulton Street job. Why? Because this man works more than a mule, and speeds other workers and never kicks no matter how hard and dirty the job given to him is. overtime, but on pay day we do not} | the business. year, repair shops at Bueyrus, Ohio, and misleaders of the railroad brother! railroad men must turn to the revol | up system, Threat of Mass nih Hangs Giver Them A quarter million railroad workers have been laid off within one The New York Central proposes to close down permanently the throw hundreds out of work, The hood aid the bosses in thi The lutionary leadership of the 'T.U.U.L. Above photo shows shopmen repairing a locomotive under a speed- Daily Woker: Speed-ups and lay-offs are cago, I must add more. The c gaph. May I add the Western same and maybe more. Burden On Workers. Several months ago they let us vote on whether they should lay off the newest operators. or they rather urged us to each one take a day off every once in a while in order to keep the full force on, thus placing all the burden on the workers. The company officials weren’t worried about the poor operators who would lose their jobs—no, they were look- ing out for their own good so that during the holiday season when they are rushed they would have the ready trained speedy operators to handle @ Workers! white and Negro, citizens and foreign born, it is about time to! wake up and unite to fight the com-| mon enemy, the boss, by joining the | 21st Street! Form a powerful union) 7 fathers in their yellow. local | S0 as to be able to get what is coming | ant ress, yet suicides, evictions and lays| to us. ; =n ~ A Non-Boss Friend—Laid Off | ‘Vous Motors Closed; Contra Costa Off Help; General. Engin~ ng Working With Limited Force; he Clean Cleaners Staggering Work- A bing Baking Co. Closed; Rub-| ‘Mfg, Co. One-third Working, ‘Workers must organize more vig- relief, Join the militant in the struggle, ‘ A. As NEUMONIA GETS. A.CONN. JOBLESS hought Self Lucky to Be Cleaner New Haven, Conn, ‘Thomas Donnelly, an aged worker io has been so fortunete enough have a job as @ streetr cleaner, | luld be seen all winter, through the d and sleet, at his task faithfully al hours of the day...He could the great army trampling the Haosoptt tushy to have sny kind reniar pis “Prides fu ocala or wire are waiting to get the Our christian system isa great W, LL. looyer’s Building Program in 1937-—If? Shelbyville, me” e following significant news m is from the “Shelbyville ree eived information from. Walter-F, bwn of the postmaster general's tf at Washington that Shelbyville | have a new federal building in the 19th district in the near fy- e a replying to Mr, Adkins’ question Yo just what the allocation meant, Brown wrote: “While 10° apprd- ition has yet been made for any the six: places situated in your gressional district, your’ people rely with confidence on public (dings being constructed at all six ses during the life of the present Hie building program, which, a is : §, PHILA. JOBLESS iks all day long. He consid. |. | Less to feed each week. But that Worker. COUNCIL FIGHTING Wage Battle Against Evictions, Hunger PHILADELPHIA. — Mayor Mackey is going to Florida. His duties are done. Everything is rosy in Phila—| for Mackey and his crooked hench- | men. But what about the workers? Spring is here. . . sunny days, but not for the workers, The South Phila. Unemployed Council is intensifying its work among the unemployed workers. The misery of the workers is growing. They are responding in greater numbers to the | demand for Unemployment Insur- | ance. Today, some of the members of the Unemployed Council of South Phila. | went down to Menton St., the block | between 18th and 19th St. to or- ganize a block council. Starving Workers A large sign in an empty store on the corner of 19th and Manton Sts. announces that food will be served there every Thursday morning from Jl to 1p. m. to the hungry jobless. | Not a bad idea. Starve them out from one Thursday until the next. isn’t all. The workers of that ward who are supposed to come there to get relief are the’same ones that are being squeezed to the wall to support this soup kitehen. Do they Jike the idea? Look at the result of the at- tempt to build a block council. Gaunt Poyerty After a brief but determined can- vass of the above mentioned block, @ group of workers, Negro and white, gathered in one of the workers’ homes in that block, took the floor and proved the need of immediate organ- ization, Their short reports disclosed extreme cases of poverty. One work- er—a Negro woman—gaunt—starv- ing, told us that the $12 her son-in- Jaw received as pay on a city job, 4s the sole support for him, his six children, her and her three children. She had to pay $6 a week for her rent, He has to pay for his fare and meals, leaving $3 a week for 11 to starve on! ‘The council decided to elect a com- mittee to see the mayor (before he leaves for his vacation) and demand immediate cash relief for this woman, The committee is to see him this week, The Mayor had better think twice before denying them their de- mand. Their spirit is determined, their courage is strong. _ ected, will be completed calendar year 1937," ™ Smash the anti-labor laws of the | osses: | wasn’t enough, they took one oper- | work three did before, | at the main office. The new hund- They said they had 17 extra people on hand—but why? The newest operator is almost 2 years | in the service and some leaving all the time, Here — in every they put in the automatic machines | with only 2 operators. Then that ator out and now, one girl does the The same | Th Western Union Operators Made to Feel Burden of Crisis; New Machines Put In .: Soviet Telegraph Workers Get Full Month’s Vacation With Pay and 7 Hour Day Cleveland, Ohio, the order of the day. comrade mentioned Postal Tele- Union Telegraph is doing the red wire concentration unit instal- Jed and one girl takes vare of three or.more wires. They have enough work to keep them all working but instead they speed them up to 70 and 80 messages per hour and more if they can sweat it out of you. . No Extra Pay. On top of this speed-up you get one or two days off (no pay) doing this or for not doing that. Sunday timé and a half is give you a day off in the week for! After} reading the article signed “Telegraph Worker” sent from Chi-| gone and they | MARCH 28, 1931 DAVENPORT, IA. JOBLESS FORCED TO WORK GRATIS, Familv of Seven Gets) $3 Weekly Relief From Charity Davenport, Iowa. Daily Worl | In Davenport, Iowa, there is a| fund raised from the poor people for | the “Ladies’ Industrial Relief So- | This society was one of the charities that distributed food to un- employed workers. Of course they had their lady in- vestigators, who were paid a good way After they investigated they | would give you $3 or $4 for groceries to last for a whole week. 3 a Week for Seven. One family of seven was given $3 for groceries to last for a whole | week, and later the father was | given a job at 40 cents an hour. After working for five days he was fired and the charity society told him to buy groceries with the few | dollars that he had made. One old worker had his dole cut off, and, | when workers went to the so- | ciety asking why this was done, their dele was also taken a y poor in Daven- ee Workers are working for the Milwaukee Railroad for 30 cents an hour, filling the Davenport ice house. The work is very dangerous and one | worker got his smashed | port. | Yours for organizing SALVATIO g rei * Worker. ION ARMY BUNS SUPMONS iCaptain Installs Guns. for Jobless New York, N. Y. Daily Worker: I have some information that might enlighten the workers as to tho ways of the Salvation Army. The captain of the Brooklyn Salvation | last | week. ‘There is a general wage-cut- | going around here in Daven- Youngstown Steel had nt $16,000,000 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.—While| | huge numbers of its workers were being laid off and those left work- | ing suffered speed-up and wage-cuts, | | the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. spent $16,000,000 last year on new mills apd improvements, its annual report for 1930 shows. Plans for building a continuous | mill for sheets are under constdera- | tion. These plans contemplate pula. | ing a $10,000,000 continuous-strip mill at Brier Hill, SAY 100,000 CHI. WOMEN JOBLESS Women Made to Bear'| Crisis Brunt (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill,—Chicago Associa- | tion of Commierce announced yes- terday that 1930 estiinates based upon census figures show that the city’s population was made up of | 692,064 married women 15 years old and over and 501,150 single women. | Ot wives, 91975, or 13.3 per cent, were breadwinners, while the num- ber employed among the single wo- men totaled 817,420. No attempt has been made to publish the number of | jobless women, but we can now give |a rough estimate of 109,000 jobless women in Chieago 15 years and over. Under-Estimatfon. This is probably an under-estima- | tion of the total when we know that | | the tendency is to shift the burden | of the crisis to the shoulders of the | | women. The slogan of. the bosses in this crisis, when giving out char- ity, has been women and children first. What has really happened is, homes by the thousands have been broken up, husbands forced out to! the street or jail, wives and daugh- ters forced to look for jobs. | Charity crumbs have brought | forth reinforcements to the jobless) | army. The jobless women, from my | | experience in investigating condi- | tions at relief stations and charity | centers here, prove one thing—the| women are today the most militant | workers to be found at the charity centers. Negro and white women in| charity centers and in hospital clin- | @ common cause of working Sunday just so you don’t| Army doesn’t care much about the| iS are making \ get extra pay. no raises, No,more bonuses and All this is in very sharp contrast to the conditions of the telegraph workers in the Soviet Union with whom I correspond in Esperanto. have the 7-hour day, 1 month vacation with extra time for night work, regular rest periods and spe- cial privileges for working mothers. We need organization! Here’s to the Daily Worker which carries on | the struggle. — “Another Telegraph Worker.” Mulct Those Still Working in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa. Editor Daily Worker: Just some news from the “Man- ufacturing City.” The coroner was given a raise of $2,000. The Poor guy needs it, too, for he is getting a paltry $10,000 per year now. The Gulf Refining hired about 20 men out of 200, but this | does not mean things are getting better, for they laid off that many the previous week. A fellow that was laid off was there raising hell. Koppers Koke takes 3 days’ sal- ary from the employees for “un- employment relief.” Bell Tele- phone takes $4 per month from their employees, Even the 100 per cent Americans are getting sore, for their “pal (?)” Hoover sure has given them “prosperity.” There is a rumor that the Bourse build- ing is going to close. I’m glad Jorge got his radio, and the Phila- delphia page is damned good, —ROJ. Zoungstown School Ch ildren Fight for Free Luncheons Youngstown, Ohio. Dear Comrades: I am a pioneer writing to let you know what the Pioneers are doing in Youngstown. We are a happy group of 28 boys and girls. Our leader was telling us to ask for free luncheons in school. One of our Pioneers carried a leaflet with “We Want Free Luncheons In School.” We got it, too, and mean to get more from them. They asked us did we eat any break- fast, and our answer was “No.” We have been eating for about four weeks and hope to continue on, All of the Pioneers say we are glad we joined the Y. P. of A. —M. W. (13 Years Old). Collinsville, Ill. Shopgirls Treated Like Dogs Daily Worker: —_ Collinsville, IL. I'm a worker in the Forest City Manufacturing Co. a dress face tory, and I can say that the con- ditions in this shop can compare with the worst. It is not enough that the girls slave nine and a half hours and more a day, and are forced to work under the worst speed-up for star- vation wages of $5 and $6 a week, but the foremen and. foreladies treat the workers like dogs. One morning some of the girls came late, the boss shut the door and the girls had to go back home. 10,000 AMO AUTO WORKERS TELL OF PROGRESS Want American Auto Workers to Correspond Regularly With Them Moscow, U. 8. S. R. Dear Comrades:— The Workers’ Correspondents of the factory “Amo” greet you! Our factory has successfully completed its industrial and financial program for the second year of the Five- Year Plan, and for the “Special Quarter” (October-December 1930), We are considered the most efficient factory in the Soviet Union and we have received as a reward the All Union Central Council of Trade Unions Banner, We have entered the third decisive year of the Five- Year Pian knowing fully the tesks. | that stand before, us and aiming to | sinning of the year., Some of them had to walk miles, and when they came back in the afternoon one of the foremen grabbed hold of one of the girl's arms and said: “Where were you bums this morning?” And when the girls stop for a minute, to catch their breath, he comes along and says: “Come op, slow-poke, you're not doing enough work.” Only organization, under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will put a stop to such treatment. And the girls are learning this! —A WORKER. accomplish the third year as well as we haye for the past two years, In spite of all difficulties, in spite of the “wreckers” working in almest all branches of our industry, the second year of the Five-Year Plan and the “Special Quarter” have produced such resuits that no ca- pitalistic country in the world can rival it. These successful results make the capitalistic countries fear- ful and they are preparing a new world war against the Soviet Union. The new year must be the decis- ive fight between capital and labor. The Ruhr miners have started to poor. Tickets have been given out at} the Federation of Churches about a month, which are changed at the for supposed to be ex- | ation Army head- flop house bed tickets. 10 a. m. meet- jings are heid which last til 12:30, | In order to get a meal on Sunday | protesting from time to time. Hundreds of Evictions. } When the neighborhood councils | unite the protest of these workers | against the fake Emmerson’s reliet | commission, against the Cook County | bureau of public welfare and the | united charities, drawing in the) united support of the employed | morning until 7 | family. 3 CHILDRE |Forced to Work Long Mage bates fare + IN EGROWOMAN SERVANT PAY CUT TO $5 A WEEK; N TO RAISE Hours for the Rich As Her Children Live Alone Has Had Long Life of Toil Since Age of 12; Sees Needs Daily Worker: Iam a Negro s<¢ since I was a little when on my wa sisters had to make a living. ervant, Ha rl of 12. at that tin myself and sisters. Since father's family grev three babies of my own (my husba Sian was killed in an oil refinery). | tween births I have worked, eed to support my own family. But now widowed, it is almost impossible to exist. $10-S13 2 Week I have been working in Piedmont | (a suburb, where Oakland manufac- | turers and the cream of society live) for the last three years. Eked out living getting $10 to $13 a week for services, at times scrubbing, washing, cooking, serving at tables and) all other work connected with a house- hold. This gave me my own meals and somehow I was able to keep a home, 2 dinky rooms, where the chil- dren lived alone in the day time and I slept with them at night. My hours of work were long, from 6 in the and sometimes past 9 at night, with few hours off in the midday.. Jt was a broken shift suited to the needs of the rich house- hold. I used up the few free hours sewing and mending clothes for the Didn't complain because we | were always taught to fear God and pray for what we wanted. This week received a wage cut, | through the stagger system, which just makes me boil with resentment against everything. My rich madam boss came and said, “Dorothy, you will now work for 5 a week and earfare, three days a week. The times are hard and we will have to save. We feel sorry, but that is the best we can do for you now. You've been a good worker and hope you will stay. You will not have to serve on the table, as Mary will do that now (Mary, the cook alse given more work and she told me later, she got a cut of $10 per month), Of course, you will wash, iron, clean, mend garments as be- I was so dumbfounded and -could not speak, the while she was telling | we must attend these meetings. Af-| workers, then there can be but one; me this, and finally when my speech ter waiting on line for three hours, | answer—immediate cash relief at the| returned and jumping up to tell her we have to run to be on time for | these meetings. Gives Sermon Well, at the last meeting, the cap- | tain gave us what was supposed to| be a sermon. He chided these unem- | | picyed workers for not getting a job, | and for depending on charity or-| ganizations for food, He said that} | we had no right to have a meal if} we had no bed tickets. This was a fine Sunday morning service for the hungry unemployed. The captain is supposed to be sent from “god.” If this is what “god” sends, there is no credit to be given him. The captain has also installed three machine guns in case a riot starts. This is how the Salvation Army takes care of the needy, —Hungry Unemployed Worker. Redwood Lumberjacks Down to 28 Cents Hr.:; Are On Stagger Time! (By 2 Worker Correspondent.) EUREKA, Calif.—Loggers and saw- mill workers cf California have been handed additional “prosperity” pack- ages in Santa Claus Hoover's busi- ness revival campaign. Several out~ fits in the “pines” have issued no- tices that they will resume opera- tions after winter shut-downs. Lumberjacks in the “redwood belt” around Eureka, Calif, and Fort Bragg are already down to 28 cents an hour, 9-hour day and a 4-day week in some plants, in addition to being forced to trade in the “com- pany” stores or else lose their jobs. Bosses’ spy and terror systems jn these outfits are typical of California “justice.” Home-guards are the only ones wanted for the few jobs that | are to be had. Foreign-born workers are subject to special suppression against thejr sympathizing with “red” organizations, Lumber Worker. must be supported by the toilers of the whole world. The German workers will form a Red Soviet Ger- many in this way. Comrades, we are sure that your struggle against capitalism under the Communist Party will achieve much more than we have in the 18 years. - Comrades, the 10,000 workers of the “Amo” motor car factory would like to have regular correspondence with the workers of America, We are willing to tell you all about our life here and about the socialist construction that is being carried out by cur country. If you are in- \ terested in our proposals start by | Daily Worker: | He wishes to have the machine run expense of the bosses, or mass revolt, | Evictions are now teking place at the rate of 400 a dey. May 1should be a tremendous mass turnout for | immediate relief and social insur- ance. —C. J.T. 72-Hr. Run B’klyn Knitting Mills Formerly “Worked 84) Hours A Week New York, N. Y. I work in the Kamerin Knitting Mills here in Brooklyn, I am a night worker. I work a 12-hour stretch and do not even have an hour's rest. We slave more than 70 hours a week, yet the boss is not willing to let us have Sundays off. seven days a week and does so laying cff two men on certain da: of the week, Worked 84 Hours. Up to the middle of Februaty the night workers used to work 84 hours & week, until one of the grafters of the labor depattment told the boss to have a chart on the wall assign- ing the workets to their days off each week. Only in a free country lke the U. 8. A. does one heer of such outrages, The boss dors not stop here in his greed for money. He breuks in Negroes for $12 and when they are able to run a full set, consisting. of ten rayon knitting machines, ne pays them at most $22 a week, while a white worker gets $32 for the same thing. If working 7 or 8 hours in the Sov- jet Union is forced labor, what name can you give to this slavery? \ —A Worker, organising Workers Correspondence among the workers, sporting clubs, and in the organization of the youth and children. Every worker should be a correspondent so that they can prove that the capitalists are spreading lies about the Soviet Union, Long live the International Work- ers Correspondence movement! Long live the international soli- arity of the workers! Long live the Communist Inter- national—fortress of the revolution! We are awaiting a quick reply, with proletarian greetings, what I thought of it, she was gone. Grabbing a coat I ran out to a neigh- boring palace home to see what my chum servant would say; she told me she was also to work three days per| week, cook getting the balance of work the three days she will be out. Such a cut was handed out to many | ond perhaps all servants in Piedmont. Had to Stay Wen: to employment office asking calls were cofning in. Short time jobs were occasionally given. What else was there to do? I had to stay on, like many others, doing the work of a week in three days. Midday hours I pay $9 rent for the house. Will only have $11 a month left to feed work, I get my meals there). Cast off clothing are not given to servants any more, perhaps on rare occasions. They are sent to the Sal- vation Army. up my children. They are too young to work, Organize and Fight Pray—well, it’s all off now. see more clearly now, bunk handed out to make us keep quiet and meek. I felt it deep in my heart before, that those who were fighting for better conditions and So- cial Insurance, for which I am happy to say | signed, were doing good work ‘but was afraid to admit it. Now Tl shout it. Negro workers and white workers, especially the former domes- tie servants, who are most brutally exploited, should immediately organ- T can Saw KF. on my $4 per week we somehow made’ our existence, | some cast, off clothes once in a while and made them over for for servant's work, and was told no | unknown, as work has to be finished. | and clothe 3 children and eat myself | four days a week (the three which I} I can’t see how I cai live and bring | that it is the| for Struggle Oakland, Calif. ve been in the domestic service ard work and hard times, a family of 5 brothers and ather was ill, mother dead and I got ne, I have mez v rried and have (500 More Laid Off At Ford Motor Co.; Detroit Sheets Lie Murphy SaysThat’ Flop Houses Get Empty— Another Lie Detroit, Mich ne Dear Editor Just a few lines to let you know that last Friday March 13th, 900'men. were laid off at the Ford Motor Co. in the motor assembly department | with a promise of more to ‘gét the air pretty soon and it is tiséless for | anyone to go out there looking for work gecause they have moujjted cops to chase you away. And to look at the damn place one would thing it was a Camp ground. They had a piece of news in the papers here telling the people that | business was picking up and as for | proof they said that over 200 men | had left the flop joints to-go to work. But the real reason was the flop joints were so damned lousy that they | couldn’t stand it any longer. So you see dear Editor we, have some mayor here that can solye un- employment, So all he has to do is | to stir up all the lice or put’ more there and all the boys will leave and | the mayor will say the flop’ joints in Detrojt are empty and there is no unemployment. If anyone came here on a sight seeing tour they would see more empty stores than anything else. P. S. Editor, I noticed that when we have demonstrations here and owing to the large crowds in attend- ance it is impossible to, hear the speaker talk and lots of people leave without knowing what it is all about. And that should not be, at a time like this when people are willing to listen. So in order to let the people hear the speaker why wouldn’t it be a good idea to get a megaphone so as to throw the sound so all can hear plainly and the speaker wouldn't have | to shout and get hoarse. | —Your for Communism. Little Girls Sell — Flowers in Akron Parents Jobless and Families Starve (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, Ohio—On St. Patrick's Day, about 9:30 p. m., I was-waiting at the General Delivery window for | the Daily Worker bundle 2(ind we now have long waits because they are king short-handed through the Iny-offs making fewer workers speed up on the job) when two little girls between 8 and 10 years old came in carrying baskets of flowers.- One little girl rushed over to me atid said: “Mister, won't you buy a-flower to help my daddy!” I had to: :tell her that I had worked only thrée weeks since 1929, About two minutes later the other one approached: and said: - “My mother is out of work and my daddy is dead, and there are three of us in the family. Won't you please buy a flower.” Again I bis to give the same answer. | Still waiting on the Erediabed clerks to find my Daily Worker bun- die I saw a number of people come in and go out, and to each one the little girls would appeal'to buy their flowers. The majority of these peo~ ple were well dressed and smug looke ing but not one even stopped to ques- tion the little girls; only ‘looking at them as a master does 6. his cur dog. Still waiting for my papers, both these girls came over and said: “Gee, we can't even get home tonight: = haven't sold a single flower and we walked all the way from First: St, I questioned them and found that both went to school most of the time hengry. Don't they give you any- thing to eat at school, I asked, “No, no.” And about the Associated Chare ities they said, “Oh, they give us @ very little groceries but no” clothes.” My papers were then: tossed to me and I had to hurry alway fo deliver them to the news. stands and Red Builders. I told the little girls to tell their folks to join the Unem- ployed Council and fight against the rich that was stealing their food and clothes from them; and. thé only thing I had was our “Fighting Daily” so I gave them one to take home for their parents to read and learn how ize and fight against wage cuts! Domestic Servant, Cal. Packing Corp. Pays 20-30 Cents Forced to Slave Under Pace Setters Lash San Leandro, Calif. Daily Worker: The Cal. Packing Corp. in San Leandro opened up this week. The first job, was packing of spinach. Both day and night workers are be- ing so speeded up that we hardly have enough time for lunch. Pace setters are pointed out to those who grumble. The forelady stands at yeur heels and nags all day long. The pay is very low. The wage retes averege no more than 20 to 30 cents an hour. Long hours and unsanitary conditions are all we get. The floors are wet, drenching us and making our hands and feet sore. Workers are talking about organ- ization in the canning industry. What we need is action, and we can Workers of the Amo Motor Car | Factory, Moscow, 68, B- S. S. R. get it if we. had someone to organize us —Cannery Worker, to struggle against misery and starvae tion,