The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1931, Page 3

Ua bs NORBEN: NEW CUNARD PIER BOSS| IN HUGE GRAFT RACKET WITH SUPPORT OF LL.A. Force Longshoremen Money to Get Hundreds of Longshoremen, Their Families Face Dire Need, Starvation NEW YORK.—A story of a huge graft racket run by a boss stevedore with the tacit support of the International Longshoremen’s Ass’n. was toll dore who has worked on the w: years and is now unemployed. John Horn, boss stevedore 54 and 56 at West 14th Str tribute from the five hundred in the form of graft money to Years Ts ago Horn was content to force $ ———* months from each and every steve- FORE RIVER YARDWORKERS ON (UT WAGE BASIS YardWorker Sees Need To Organize, Fight Back the Bosses Quincy, Mass. Editor of the Daily Worker: Wage cuts and speed-up are tak- ing effect in Fore River Ship Yard more consistently day by day. Hard- ly a day goes by without something new either in speed up or wage cuts. How much longer are we going to stand this without making a united resistance against the bosses? Rehired at Cut. For an example of this speed up and wage cuts here are the facts. The men that were laid off last fall and winter on being hired back this spring faced a cut of 20 per- cent or more. For the same work that paid anywhere from $21 to $30 a week then only pays from $18 to $24 a week now. We have heard a great deal about this bunk of workers having a stand- ard of living that borders on extra~ vagance, which has caused this crisis: (as some of the bosses say) that in order to stabilize the conditions, wag- es. must be cut in order to place pro- duction on a firm basis. Workers Face Hunger. While the “stabilizing” goes on, the workers unemployed are facing starv- ation. And the ones employed are burdened with harder tasks to do on. slave scale wages. We realize that this promise of coming prosper- ity is a deliberate lie to hoodwink the magses so they would remain faithful to the bosses. The most effective way to fight against this bosses’ outrage is to unite into the militant Trade Union Unity League which will lead and show the way to struggle against worsening conditions, ‘The workers of the Fore River Ship Yard and elsewhere are invited to| Join the Trade Union Unity League. —Fore Ship Yard Worke HUNGER “RELIEF” IN SANDUSKY, 0. 400 Apply for Jobs in Lake Town Sandusky, O. Daily Worker: Sandusky is a city of about 25,000 population on the south shore of Lake Erie and has facilities for a fine har- bor. Most visitors when visiting here are greatly surprised that the town doesn’t grow. It is older than Cleve- land, O. Under a Soviet form of government this town with its location on the Jakes would be a thriving industrial city with probably 1,000,000 popula- tion. But under capitalism the town does not keep pace with its own na- tural possibilities, 400 Wait for Job. ‘The public employment bureau has on the waiting list over 400 appli- ' | conducting, to Pay Heavy Graft and Keep Jobs id the Daily Worker by a steve- aterfront for more than twenty of the Cunard Line at Piers 53, eet, North River, levies heavy stevedores working under him, get and to keep the job. 25 every three dore for the right to work and to hold the job. Now taking full ad- vantage of the unemployment situ- ation Horn demands as much as $100 and even $200 to get and to hold the job. His greed knows no limits and more and more he presses the five hundred stevedores working on the pier to compete with each other to pay him more graft. One thousand dollars a week is a conservative esti- mate of the amount of (graft he squeezes out of the longshoremen. So absolute is his power that now he has taken a vicious turn in his racket and now fires those who have already paid and gets new workers to in- crease his graft. He has agents rounding up new men all the time promising them good jobs if they come across with the “initiation” fee. Beg for Work. Hundreds of experienced and vet- eran stevedores who plead for work are brutally told if they cannot pay the big graft they can’t work. Thompson, the delegate of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Associ- ation aids this boss racket by threat- ening those who dare complain about it. The extent to which he and Ry- an haye their fingers in the graft pie is not known, but their tacit support of the racket leaves no doubt that they are in it Meanwhile hundreds of longshore- men go around unemployed, begging for a day's work or two to keep alive. They see their wives and children Slowly starving, lacking clothes and other necessities. SOCIALISTS JAIL JOBLESS WORKERS “vessure Forces Their Prompt Release | (By a Worker Correspondent) | READING, Pa.—Four workers were jailed in Socialist Reading for the first the Unemployed Council was organized. The charges against the workers was inciting to riot for daring to protect a workers’ family from being sheriffed out. Hoffmsater, Quire, Woodburn and | Eckert were the ones arrested after the Unemployed Council resisted the attack of the “socialist police.” Ac- cording to the reports of the capital- | ist press every cop, including all the clerks and the socialist chief of po- lice, Sherer, were present to protect | the interest of the rich landlord and real estate man, Davies. They were called by oCnstable Waidner who was time since As soon as the Unemployed Coun- | cil members were arrested the unem- | ployed mobilized a committee of 100 | to see Mayor Stump and demand the | fake unemployment relief. iSky Pilots _ Longshoremen Victimized By Graft Racket a Read the story of these stevedores being made victims of a graft ring elsewhere on this page. YORK, sal RDAY APRIL 4, 1931 Sexe These Three FIRE 150 GIRLS IN PHILA. STORE Jobless Comm. Head) ¢ Executes Lay-Off (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Horatio | Gates Lloyd, the chairman of May- or Mackey’s Employment (?) Com- mittee is not only a partner to Drux- el ‘and Compal (a Morgan, firm) but also a member of the Board of Directors of the Wane ker store in Philadelphia. In this store he oc- cupies a very responsible position in the management and employment departments. About two weeks ago on a Thurs- day seventy-five girls were laid off and notice was given to 75 other girls that they too will be laid off on Saturday, in spite of |the |fact that it is only a few weeks before the Easter holidays. Beg for Jobs. Particularly one girl from Camden came up to Mr. Lloyd's store office to beg him to leave her on the job, because she has no mother or father, and on account of the measley wag- es she earned in the store, she was unable to save anything for a rainy day, so the loss of the job would | drive her to desperation. Mr. Horatio Gates Lloyd re- fused to leave the girl on the job, with the excuse that she is not the only unfortunate one. The chair- man of Mayor Mackey’s Employ- ment committee fires young girls and gives few days work to mar- ried or widowed women. Of course this is one of the schemes of the bosses to stir up the employ- ed against the unemployed, and the | unemployed against the employed The bosses aim with these commit- | tees and schemes to divide, fool, and | mislead the workers. | There is another chief Liberal (?) | faker to be exposed in this game: Mr. Pinchot, the governor of Penn- sylvania. He is closely co-operating with the mayor's committee on the The state hunger marchers to Har- | risburg next month will surely throw these and other facts into the faces of Governor Pinchot and the whole | state legislature, and expose their fake gesture of helping the unem- ployment insurance to the workers. —B. G. PREACHERS HELP SLAVE WORKERS Promise} Heaven Denver, Colo. Daily Worker :— Denver is as bad as ever. The news here has sent a reporter to spy on the working men. They are writ- ing up a story telling the workers how good the people are to the poor. This story is to make money for the poor. The Denver Post always comes out immediate release of these workers. | The socialist mayor was in “confer- | ence and refused to see the dele-| gation.” The Committee after a brief | meeting outside City Hall went to} the constable who was forced under | mass pressure to withdraw charges after about one half hour of picketing in front of the house by the unem- ployed committee. He had to call up City Hall after which the four work- ers were relaesed. An enthusiastic meeting was held after the release of the comrades in the hall of the | workers in slavery. They are working and says that they are the workers’ friend, but if you were here, you would think differently, they are the enemies of the workers. The preachers here are working along with the bosses to keep the now. together with Hooyer to get the workers killed in a war for their pro- fits. In the World War the churches turned their chapels into recruiting stations. They will do so in the next war. Meanwhile they preach about going to heaven, if you fight for your ccants for jobs. The city officials, to ry elieve unemployment (so they say) aie having some dock improvements (sty the yacht and speed boat owners will have better accommodations for tneir boats). The reason is they ad- mit that they can get the workers to work for very low wages. The men are building cribs and cutting timber. Some work but three days in three weeks. Some relief. —c. L. Pittston Lay Off Is Trick to Drive Miners Still Worse|: PITTSTON, Pa., April 1.—Closing down of Butler and No. 14 collieries of the Pittston Coal Co., throwing 2,500 men out of work to starve i now seen as a wage cutting trick on the part of the company. The Wilkes- Barre Evening News lays the basis tor the cut by an editorial which pre- tends to be sorry for these starving miners, and proposes that they do what the Hudson Coal Co, men at Larksville did, that is, agree to a minimum production per man, The miners are invited to do extra hard work, to take all manner of risks of accidents, to work themselves to death, in order to be able to put in two or three days work a week. Unemployed Council, 526 Cherry St. LIVE ON DULUTH DUMPS Astack Fo Raeign- Born. Workers DULUTH, Minn,—Scores of un- employed workers, ever since the shipping closed, have been living on the waste dumps from the trucks of the local wholesale houses. They have dug holes in the ground to live in, and gather their fuel and everything else they need from the neighborhood. Across the bay, in Superior, in the state of the “progressive” La- Follette, workers have moved into abandoned coke-ovens and live on the waste material When these workers are asked if they get any help from the city charities, they reply: “We prefer to cat the same food as is given at the flop houses from our own hands, Then we have the chance of picking it out. At the flop house they do not select the waste material, but throw in the eatables with the rotten parts. At the dug-outs we can take just the best part and leave the others.” With the shipping season about country. —A Comrade. to open, the Steel Trust City gov- ernment is preparing to force the workers to slave for any wage. Just two days ago they posted a sign outside the City Employment Agency that everyone asking for a job must bring his registration card to prove that he is a registered voter, This is a direct attack on the foreign born and migratory workers who have no right to vote and have no registration cards, Thousands upon thousands of workers in this territory work in the Iumber camps in winter, at the docks and harvesting In sum- mer and therefore are disfran- chised from voting and even from any kind of\ relief or jobs. On March 28th, thousands of workers demonstrated in front of the City Court House protesting the dis- crimination against the foreign- born and migratory workers and demanded immediate relief for all workers, | stores here and that is Schlesinger’s. | The first gong sounds at 5:30 as a ss Gov't Admits 223,500 Jobless in Detroit; Actual Cei | Dear Comrade :— Finally Detroit was given employed. ‘The Detroit News s were counted here in January © is not all; right after the count plaints in the same Detroit News bye people who were overlooked by the enumerators. Now, the Detroit News reports that some 20,000 went to work since th but again it overlooks the fact that even that number does not take up| the ones that were not counted and | those that since have lost their jobs. | The local newspapers have adopted | new schemes in reporting the gains, or rather drops in auto productio: In former years they used to give| out the exact number of cars put out | by month, but now only percentage | is being used in pri It works like Two More Suicide New Orleans, La. Daily Worker: Local koss papers report the fol- lowing two cases of suicide: “Louise Jones, 24 a Negro resid ing at Annette and Alien Street Bespondent because of unempl ment, drowned himself in the In- dustrial Canal. “Maurice Brunet, 69, white, of U8 Toledano St., cut his throat with a razor and died last night in a charity hospital. He had been out of work for over 2 year.” Many people here are literally living out of garbage cans. Every Oakland Department Store Girls Driven Hard Oakland, Cal. { Daily Worker: I would like to give you some in-} formation concerning the conditions in one of the high class department | The store opens to the public at 9} a, m. and closes at 5:30 p. m., but such is not the case for the employ- ees. They are expected to come to} the store at least 8:30 to line up the counters, displays and straigthen out in readiness for the day’s business. signal of closing, but should there be many customers or stragglers the} gong sounds some 10 or 14 minutes later. The counters can not be covered | until after the second gong. Merch- | andise must be straightened and put away before sales-people can leave their departments. After large sales, i the clerks may have to remain an hour or even longer after store closes. Time clocks are not punched at night to indicate time put in. This of course is done purposely so that there would not be any comeback on the} company. Mornings and noons we! | | t Is More bed t Press CF ies aaa Suh rer Returned | to W ork in Fe actories | eo | Detroit, Mich.| “officially” the number of un- | tates that 3,500 unemployed} f 19. ut this, my comrade was taken, there appears con th C | production mpany so and so speed-up | cent in the last son with the same month of last year; and when one| Ig0ks back to the month of last’ year, one finds that that Company did not do anything at all at that time. So one must take what he is told, that is, believe that report and say, well they are running only at 30 per cent city t I do notice but month in ec ‘that people are kening. The Comntunist Pa is doing great work. Keep it up, we'll get there!—That where Russia is today! sloy sur s in New Orleans morning in almost every block there are both white and colored men, women and children, going | through garbage cans for bits of food and pieces of cast-off cloth- Fellow work: fight! Don’t don’t starve — yourself because in the boss won't give you a job. Fight the bosses and make them feed you. Join the Unemployed Council and x fight for real relief. held at 308 Chartres Tuesday ursday at 7 m, m. cetings are St, every and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p. 7 punch time. , Small Wages. | Wages are pitiful small. Most girls receiving only $17 per week or $62.50 per month, and what with Adress reg- ulations, it is impossible to live within | wage: ‘The employees charge and | budget accounts are needed in this case thus making double profits for the firm. Should employee make in- adequate payment on account, one- third to one half of pay is withheld and applied on account. Rest rooms are small and dark. No windows and only 2 single bulb lights. The slogan, “the customer is always right” is rigidly enforced, and should the clerk in some measure displease an irate or trying customer or spotter, she is at once reported, reprimanded, and in most cases fired, | This store caters mostly to the bour- | geoisie. Workers in department stores must be organized. Exploitation is cruel in unorganized institutions, espeti- ally where young girls and women are employed. Organize! Join in the Trade Union Unity League. —Exploited Worker. CONVICT LABOR IN| PORTLAND. 0. Working Girl Passes Out from Hunger (By a Worker Correspondent) Portland, Oregon. Daily Worker:— Two accounts of actual misery of unemployed workers in Oregon came in this week through widely different channels. The Portland News carried an edi- | torial on L. T. Carter, a worker of Kirkland, Washington, who begged the county authorities to imprison him as they paid more to prisoners in the stockades than he could make | outside, forty five dollars a month. $5 paid to convict labor in America while free laborers cannot support their families on their earnings, one for Mr. Fish to answer. From Yanhill, Oregon, a woman worker writes of some residents find- ing a young working girl uncenscious on the highway. They took her to the doctor and seemed visibly dis- appointed when they found out she | had not been maltreated and thrown from her car. She recovered con- sciousness and told them the simple fact of being without work and walk- ing from a little town above, Forrest Grove, to the town looking for a job and passing out from hunger. Forrest Grove is the town that the press speaks of as an “agricultural eden.” JOBLESS, TRIES SUICIDE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Jobless and penniless, John Gaffney cut his throat in a San Francisco park and walked the streets, dripping blood, until the horrified passersby had him taken to a hospital | at the Citizen's Committee. CONN. WORKER IS REFUSED RELIEF On Grounds. He Is A Single Man New Haven, Conn, Daily Worker :— I would like you to publish this letter, to give the New Haven public an idea of some particulars regarding the unemployed when inquiry is made I called upon said committee at about 9:15 a.m, March 24 seeking em- ployment and was told that. work would be started next week, but that only married men would be put to work and that for single workers there were no jobs. I then called upen a religious so- ciety and asked for work, for help, and then finally for something to eat. I was showered with questions as to whether I was married or single, where I lived, where I was born, what state I came from. Itold them every- thing including the fact that T came from Waterbury, Conn. I was told to go back to my home town for relief. This makes it so that any person who is single cannot expect any relief of any kind. We want work and they refuse to give us any. They expect us to live on one meal every five months. They spend all their money trying to capture criminals. No wonder we become criminals, we have ne right to work for a living, so we steal to live. The City says they are giving out jobs. That is not true, I have inquired for a position and they have refused aid. | columns of his paper, the Oregonian. FORCE WAGE CUTS Northwest Lumber Workers Get 40 P.C. Wage Cut in 1 Yr, Besses Meeting Plans Yet More Pay Cuts for Lumberjacks (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, Oregon. — To add to the worries of the Lumber Industries, comes along a gent by the name of Charles W. Meyers. Mr. Meyers is a gentleman of doubtful morals who masquerades as a newspaper writer. Mr. Meyers’ contribution to the wor- ries of the workers is through the On March 23, he favers us with an article revealing the vital statis- ties of the lumber industry for 1930. Wages in this industry have dropped to $75,775,000, about 49 per cent, Yet, Mr. Meyers a res Us that the “area is secure”. He re- fers to Washington and Oregon. We wonder if he means there has been no earthquake or cyclones. How- ever we will discuss Mr. Meyers as another one of those things and | see what his figures [mean to us, whether he tells the figures or the figures tell him. In 1929 the payroll of the lumber industry was $187,800,000 eight mil- lion of which was in Oregon and the rest in Washington. ington had a payroll of $80,075,000 and Oregon of thirty-two million, a drop in total of the above figures, revealing his statistics which tells the workers why and wherefore they are starving, he summarizes, “With the general ‘conditions as they are in the “lumber industry” no one can expect it to get over its present low production schedule for sixty days at least.” He seems to still have an at- tack of Hooveritis. What is the present ‘low sched- ule’ of which he speaks — 39 per- cent of “normal” production. That means normal amount of workers used but the actual lumber pro- duced is almost on par with the elimination of over sixty percent of the workers, due to speed-up, gyp scaling, etc, as with the mis- sing percentage of at work. He announces that the 29th na- tional meeting of the lumber bosses will work out their plans to “handle this huge army of labor that they want to get off their hands.” They are laying plans for more intensified activity against militant loggers, en- large the blacklist, deportation and criminal syndicalism prosecutions. Answer them, lumber workers! Show them if their “area is secure”, by making a militant national lum- ber workers union. If the union is not, big enough for you, make it so. Headquarters: 106 Columbia Street, Seattle. QAKLAND ELEC. Militants in Fight Against This Oakland, Cal. Daily Worker:— The electrical department, machine shop, air department, are having wage cuts, and how! Not outright, but the workers getting 53 cents an hour are transferred from 60 cents an hour jobs to 53 cents an hour jobs. “Better Times Are Here,” we are told, but 60 workers were laid off in the electrical machine shop and others were laid off in other shop departments during this month, What is the A. F. of L. union doing? Of course, nothing! These fakers do not believe in fighting for better conditions and in striking against wage cuts. Workers should organize the militant National Railroad Work- ers Industrial League. Information at 1020 Broadway. The Key Route bulletin was en- thusiastically received by the workers. The workers gathered and talked about the truth told in it. They see that the militant workers are organ- ized for a real struggle and the ar- rests which occurred in connection with the distribution of the bulletin have not stopped militant activity. More bulletins have appeared and the work is carried on. In 1930 Wash- | | one and two days every 15 day pay |over a week. ILLINOIS MINERS WATCH ANTHRACITE COAL STRIKE; THINGS WORSEN Mines Shut Down Out by Profit-M Dear Comrades: The bad conditions here in very rapid rate of speed now, a fast from now on. No. 10 O'gar veyors) which have already af of about forty miners. These r for the conveyors last Saturdz which will put some more mine pany aims to split time with the two days a week now and when the split comes they will give the mine! More Shut Downs. The Dering mine has not run for The Dering company had the mine leased to another coal company. Their lease ran out and didn’t renew the’ lease on account of | not getting enough profits. The Der- ing mine also has run just one and| two days a week all winter Many of the miners are on starva- | tion now. But they dont come out and show themselves, as they should | at present. But if they don’t show up soon we will hear of someone} starving to death or going to jail for taking something to eat. We are| telling the miners each and every day that they can’t win disorganized. If they go out single-handed they will be caught and be sent to the Pen. Several men have already been put where the dogs won't bite them for a while for taking things here disorganized. The Daily Worker papers that are coming to Eldorado are being dis- tributed among the miners. But we can't collect for them now. Pennies now look larger than dollars did some time back. The thieves and grafters of the land and country have just about taken everything away from the workers. No one here has any money but tightwads who are not thinking anything of freedom but of how they will have to manage to keep the working class as their slaves and servants. We are facing the same kind of struggle as the Pennsylvania min- ers are. The miners will be forced to rebel against the U. M. W. A. traitors. The Daily Worker is the only paper that comes out with the facts of the Penna. strike. Just only a few lines ever showed up in the local papers. The miners here who are class conscious sure look at the Pennsyl- vania strike as a very important one. Plenty of the other miners who never have joined the N. M. U. here are also interested. The min- ers there must not give up their strike until they win their de- mands. —W. G. Fire Negro Workers After Slaving Half , Century in Mines (By a Worker Correspondent.) BLAINE, Ohio.—In the year 1884, or just 47 years ago, Samuel Grant, then a young, strong Negro, went to work in a small mine owned by the Johnston Brothers. Since this time this company has taken ‘control of numerous mines and is now known as the Lorain Coal and Dock Co. But the Negro worker who slaved for 47 years for this same company and helped to open their first mine finds himself today penniless and without a job. Just last week Wil- liam Slater, superintendent of the Blaine Mine of this company, told him that he was too old and was no longer needed. What has happened to Sam Grant has also happened to a number of | white miners who worked for this| company while the U. M. W. A. were still in existence in this Wheeling Creek Mine. Negro and white miners must an- swer this attack by building a pow- erful National Miners’ Union that will not only protect miners on the job, but will carry on the struggle for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill, which protects unemployed —Key Route Worker. HUNGERIN COLLINWOOD Build Unemployed Council Here (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—At one of the meetings of the unemployed branch of Collinwood a case was reported of a woman and children who were without food and money in their section. Immediately a committee was elected to investi- gate this case. The committee came back with the report that the wom- an was in bed and the children were crying for something to eat. In Collinwood besides the charity organization there is a certain fund which {s controlled by the police. The committee from:the unemploy- ed branch went to the police and told them of the case, giving details, and demanded immediate relief for this family, The police promised to go there and see what could be done. The committee then went back to where the woman and her children —Single Unemployed Worker. lived and much to their surprise the police had sent out their in- sick and old workers, vestigators, They had gone up to the family and taken the woman to the hospital and the children to the store to buy them food and gave them some clothing. The ,Collinswood branch of the unemployed has great possibilities. It is made up of militant unem- ployed workers and is situated in a section which is made up of indus- trial workers. The Fisher Body Company is in the section, New York Centrai Railroad workers, and many large factories. Plans are being macs to organize a neighbor- hood branch 2nd factory branches of the unemploye’ and then form the Unemployed Cvuncil which will be a powerful force in that sec- tion in demanding immediate re- lief for the unemployed starving workers of the Collinwood section, —R. CO Smash the anti-labor laws of the Many Miners in ‘Macvition Basis More Conveyors Install led and Miners | paper, As More In South Illinois Thrown ad Coal Bosses Lidorado, Illinois. So. Illinois are increasing at a nd will continue getting worse ‘a has nine Scotch Pianos (con- ffected the working conditions miners skinned up their places More conveyors are to come rs out on the gr The com- > men. The mine runs one and STEEL COMPANY — IN CLEVELAND CUTS PAY 30 PC. | Company Ts | Preparing for Another. Slash, Spread Rumors (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The Corrigaz. McKenny Steel’ Company has giver some of the workers a 30 per cen, wage cut, some a 25 per cent cut, and others a 10 per cent and 4 per cent cut. But the bosses” wages did not get cut. Why? ‘Because the company pays them well so’téy can whip the workers better and harder. The company does not even tell the work- ers what wages they will work for. They tell the workers if they want to work, all right’, but if ‘they don’t want to work without knowing if they will get pay, that’s all right too. The Corrigan McKenny Steel Co. is ready to cut our rhiberable wages again. We find this out because: 1, The company did not cut the wages equally, making some workers get more money that the others, thus trying to divide them. 2. The company has laid off many of the men, and has given more, work to those that are left. Force Cut On Workers 3. Some of the workers work only or 9 days a week, the company thus making them hungry before the second wage cut takes! place, so they will be forced to accept the cut. 4. The bosses have ‘etrculated all kinds of rumors and propaganda, such as that the company does not make any profit, it has too much expenses. The discipline is stricter and stricter every day, so that the workers can not rest during work, they cannot talk to each other, they.cannot read any kind of literature or papers. The bosses go around timing the workers. how much time they, lose, and how 2 ; many can be laid off from a certain job. These are the company’s prepara- tions for another wage-cut. We workers can’ not let it take place, so we shall get busy to organize our- selves in the Mine Workers Industrial Union. FORCED TO. WORK AND GETS NO PAY Hoboken Court Aids Boss, Not Worker .Hoboken, N. J. Daily Worker:— I am writing to the workers’ only so they may read, how the bosses in Hoboken, New Jersey are treating their employes. I have worked for 2'3 days as a painter for a boss in Hoboken and when pay day came around they did not pay me for my labor. I went to a recorder who sent me to a court stenographer, he demanded $4.80 from me. I told him I didn’t have any money. The stenographer then said they couldn't do!ahything for me and told me to go where they give free service. ” I went to a Leheid Society at New- ark Street, Hoboken, A lady in charge wanted to know how much the boss owed me, I told her $20, She told me she-would get a lawyer for me and to come the next day., the lawyer told me to see him in six days. They told’me that they had written a little after I had seen the lawyer and I was told not to come around until L hear from them. I waited 8 months, when disgusted, another painter and I went to the Labor De- partment where a man asked me how much the boss owéd me, I told him. After waiting a couple of months in vain, no, money came to me. I have been unable to pay mv rent tor four months, I have beerr working on and off. Now I am un- employed. This is capitalist justice. —Unemployed Worker. P. S. The bosses'*name is Jack Goldstein, 58 Washington St., Ho- boken, N. J,, MAKING CENSUS OF HORSES BINGHAMTON, N.’ Y,—The war department is conducting a census of all the horses available in Broome County for use in the next war. The ob ject of th war preparation is to prevent such unorganized recruiting of howses ae took place in the World bosses! (Was,