The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1931, Page 3

—— Page Three 100,000 OIL WORKERS JOBLESS IN THE Mi. i) CONTINENTAL FIEiLi~ Thirty-Two Thousand Laid Off in California Alone; Trust Profits Big | Oil Workers! Demons trate May 1 With All Jobless for Unemployment Insurance! (By a Worker Correspondent) HONDO, Cal.—It is estimated, even in the capitalist press, 100,000 Oil that 100,000 oil workers are unemployed in the mid-continental field. In California alone, 32,000 have been laid off, making a total of 182,000. So 300,000 workers and their families can be said to be affected on account of Hooverizing the oil indus- try. Although hundreds of oil wells in the United States are} shut down and their employees put out of work, more than 700,000,000 gallons of gasoline were imported in 1930—at the When working forced to toil amid such hazards as oil fires, shown in photo above, work long hours at poor wages, oil workers now are actually face to face with starvation and all attendant miseries that unemployment froces upon the workers under the capitalist system. The oil kings, Rockefeller, Sinclair, Doherty, have piled up hundreds of mi illions of dollars gotten from the hard toil of these oil workers. Now when those who have produced have no means of live- lihood these profit-swollen ¢apitalists refuse to give unemployment insurance. The government of cost, to the oil monopoly, of 4 cents a gallon, in bulk. BS TS ES MURPHY FORCES JOBLESS TO DO “REGULAR” JOB Displaces D P W Men: Jobless Driven Hard: No Cash Payments Detroit, Mich, Dear Comrade: The unemployment “relief” in De- troit is the worst in the full sense of the word. How does it work? He who gets relief has to sign a slip that he swears that he will pay ‘back every penny that he owes to the city. If ‘the workers go after Oil Trust Prices. Oil prices of consumers have no relation whatever to the cost of pro- duction, according to figures sub- mitted to congress. Statistics show that consumers paid more for gaso- line when crude oil was $1.20 a bar- rel than they did when it was $2.04 | @ barrel. Crude oil prices have ranged from 93 cents to $4 a barrel over a series of years, but there has been no change in the prices of lubri- cating oil. The same monopoly that operates in the American oil industry also fixes prices in other countries, In Peru the cost of gasoline is 60 cents, in Persia 50 cents and in the East | Indies from 36 cents down, Wage Cut of 8714 Per Cent. An oil worker, who doesn’t want his name mentioned in the papers, was a driller up to 6 months ago. His pay was then $12 a day. Now Rockefeller and his fellow capitalists use the full force of their state power to make the jobless and working oil workers accept the bosses starvation and misery regime. Oil workers! Do not stand by and see your wives and children hunger before your eyes while the Rockefellers wallow in the fabulous profits your bloou and sweat created! Show your fighting de- termination to wrench cash relief from the oil trust government! Out on the streets May 1 to show the fist of your collective strength to the oil barons! DETROIT JOBLESS | FED ON 20c DAY Save Money on D P W! Cleaning Work | Detroit, Mich. Dear Comrades: If we were to believe the capitalist | sheets, than good times are here. A/ big headline in the front page of the Detroit Times says that the city has hired 1300 men for city cleaning. | They hired these 1300 men out of the | Crane Shops Lay Off 800 Workers In One Big Swoop CHICAGO, Wl.—On March 20 800 workers were laid off at the Crane shops. Most of them were old workers picked out from de- partment one. A Swedish worker worked there for 12 years. He is a molder. When the company took all his strength from him they threw him out into the street to starve. Now the shops are working on a Hoover's stagger system working ‘REFUSE AID FOR STARVED MINERS |County and Company Both Oppress Miners | | | (By a Worker Correspondent) | AVELLA, Pa—Some of the mines |here have shut down entirely, and some work one or two days a week. Besides this, the companies are forc- ing the miners to rent houses from NW PAPER MILL WORKERS GET A SLASHING CUT Conditions Worsen Steadily In All Big Plants Oregon City, Ore. Conditions in the paper mills here are steadily getting worse. Although the net profits of the company are five to six million dollars @ year, the wages of the workers have fallen from $19 and $22 to $16 and $19 re- spectively and have to work faster than ever. In the Fuet machine department the machines have been speeded up | to make the workers cut laps faster and a new invention removes the lap-cutter altogether. Increase Work In the grinder-room, one man now runs three machines instead of for- merly two and get only a few cents a day more. In the wood mill department the bosses get the utmost work out of| the slaves through a crafty torm of competition between the day and the night shifts as to who can cut the most cubic ft of logs. There is a bonus system in effect among the markers and wood-pullers. A meter, rigged on the machine tells how many blocks of wood barked a minute. Vicious Open Shop Town For each one barked above ten pieces 2 minute the worker gets one cent. In this way several men can | be laid off and still just as much | work will be done. Only about 650 | men are employed at the Crown Wil- |lamette Paper Co., where two and | three years ago there were 1,000 at | work. AMERICAN WORKER IN SOVIET UNION TELLS OF GOOD CONDITIONS Enthused With the Rapid Strides-of the Work- ers Fatherland in Building Socialism Writes to Union Carpenters That the Toilers Rule in the Soviet Union A former member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America, Local 2090, George Kerekes, who went to the. Soviet Union with a wood-working group, sent a letter to his local brothers describing some conditions in the Workers’ Republic, The letter is reprinted below! . . . Le rad, U.S. S. R. Well, we are here all right, and I tell you it is something that every worker in America must look forward to. From the start we have been received heartily. Everybody asks us how are the American workers, how are they organized, what about the fake unions, unemployment. You know there is a shortage We were able to answer all their questions. We told them that the American workers know that there is a Soviet Union here. They greeted this answer enthus cally. Is there food here? Well, these damned cap-@ — — italist liars! There is not too much | food, but plenty enough.. It isn’ 'HORN & HARDART like the food in America, so man: products packed up and rotting while | the workers starve. Nobody can| DOUBLE WORK IN starve here from hunger, because | everybody works and if you work you get all the food you need. PHILADELPHIA We receive our food in a co- to our homes every week. Our |Bogses Play Off the group has a communal kitchen, | The where there are two Russian cooks, White Workers On Negro Workers New Building Quarters, — The living quarter areas are all) newly built. A room for each per| Daily Worker: of men here. operative, where it is transported and who said they can’t cook, Philadelphia, Pa, son, There is one fallacy, and that} At the present time you can hear four day per week, One week Oregon City is purely a mill town them, and to buy groceries from their | is we have to make our own fire,| iot of complaining on the bosses in flophouses, for what they called “vol- | their grocery slip they are given a! work card for three days work. No Cash Payments ‘The work they have to do is clean- ing alleys and dumps and also streets. ‘They don’t get any cash money for it, not even street car tickets. That means that they have to walk to) work, some many miles. This is not| the worst of it. The Department of Public Works workers are put on a_ one, two and three days basis at} starvation wages instead of working | 6 days a wek. I know of a worker in the D, P. W. who has only two more years to serve | he is offered $1.50 a day. A six months’ search through every oilfield in Southern California has impressed on him the futility of looking for work, Having a family to support, | his small savings are gone. His auto- | mobile and other belongings have | also gone to get some necessities of | ife. So he was forced to go to work | at $1.50 a day, a wage-cut of 871% per cent. When pay day came, he was unable to collect a single cent. | Oil bosses argue that it is cheaper to import oil from foreign fields. | But how can a pay envelope con- tain less than nothing? The above unteer work.” And what do they get for this | “volunteer work?” No money, a slip of credit for a week’s wages, that | none of the banks will cash. For) food they get a lousy lunch, hardly | fit to eat, and one bowl of slop or) dishwater with a hunk of bread that a farmer wouldn’t give to his pigs, | for supper. No wonder the papers | are able to say that the city of De- troit has saved $40,000. This saving comes from the pockets of the D. work and the next week stay at home, This makes 2 days a week. Speed up in the Crane shops have increased by 50 per cent also accidents are increasing daily. If we workers organize and fight this by joining the Metal Workers Industrial League. —J. P. RED CROSS SAYS P. W. workers and of those 1300 they have hired. WAIT 10 HUNGRY stores. The company collects the | rent first, without asking about the school kids and women getting enough to eat. | In many of these mining towns, women line up and wait in front of the company office, until a telephone | call comes that her husband or boy | has dumped a car of coal. Then she ; can get something to feed her kids. A bunch of the P. and W. miners marched to the Washington County Court on April Ist to demand relief from the county. The authorities said that they are not concerned | and is about 12 miles from the “crim- | inal syndicalist” city of Portland, and | one of the most vicious open shop | towns in the country. —Mill Worker, CLOSE ALL RELIEF IN ROCKFORD, ILL. |'Since All Workers Can because gas has not yet been in-| stalled. It is true that to the bour- | geois American, who expects every- thing in Russia to be built up in a/ day, with the same conditions it is | not so good, but it is better than we | expected, it’s excellent! We are working in a wood-work- | ing shop, making doors and win- | i} dows. This is only a temporary | Position. We work four days and have one day off, 8 hours per day. The shop is beautiful and light. | work now. all the small and large restaurants. This is true of the Horn-Hardart Co. The workers work long hours and under a double speed-up. Where ten workers worked before, only five The work is increased, but the wages are decreased. Stir Up Hatred. The workers are of different na- tionalities, including Negroes. They hate each other so that the white and colored workers telk the bosses may be an extreme case, but what | about the millions of idle, free-born | merican workers who are free to starve—without even a pay-claim be- for a labor commissioner? —L. P. R. (and then retire). He works only one day a week and the boss hint: that he quit. But most of the DPW | workers are glad if they work three) days a week. Do More Work | That the workers on the “relief” | 18 Cents for a Day’s Food The Welfare Department of De- troit announces that it feeds the men in the flophouses at a cost of 19.8c. a day, even then poisoning them. Then what of the men in the McGregor Institute, who receive “Vidow and Children See Need to Fight (From the Southern Worker) Elizabethton, Tenn. Get Jobs, Says Mayor} Daily Worker: about those that work one day a} week, One of the Negro miners said | that he will not go back to see his| Rockford, Til. | kids starve, no matter what happen- | c | ed to him. But the authorities do| 1 had an income of two or three | not care what the miners say. ‘hundred dollars last year which I} Yes, our conditions and miseries! spent for travel looking for farm job have to work faster than the D.P.W. workers is a fact. While the workers of the D.P.W. have to load three trucks of dirt or ashes, the relief workers have to load four) trucks, and: if this is not done they | have to work overtime without credit | whatsoever. -The straw bosses and JAIL. 10 JOBLESS IN ALBANY, N. Y. While Seducers Go Off foremen are driving the men all day meal tickets for 15c. a day? On this, 1 am an unemployed widow woman food the men have to work 8 hours | with four ‘small kids to support: T in the open. He does not even get a cannot find any work, dime for tobaceo. Some of the men| 1 went to the Red Cross relief pen quit this volunteer work because they | ¢, see if 1 could get anything for my can’t stand it. starving children. After waiting all No forced labor is worse than that, day I managed to-get into the ques- the man in jail has better meals and | tionnaire department. After she had and when they raise hell the “relief” Seot Free worker must stand for it, or his —- relief gets cut off and every unem- Albany, N. Y. ployed worker knows what means. Workers, will you stand for this? | We expect your solidarity to our May first demonstration for Unemploy- ment Insurance. that qty By PUSH DELAWARE SEDITION LAW American Legion .In Attack on Toilers (By a Worker Correspondent) WILMINGTON, Del—A most vi-| eious anti-sedition bill, having al-| ready passed the house without a) single dessenting vote is now before | the state senate. This bill has been | declared unconstitutional, but despite | this there is now a new organiza- tion, composed of American Legion Men and ‘called the “Sojourners,” boasting that they have been formed for the purpose of combatting Com- munism. ‘These “Sojourners,” main sponsors of the bill, have issued a statement that such’ @ bill is not unconstitu- tional, and the passage of such a bill will not take away the rights of free speech. This, of course, is to reassure any doubtful elements, and just a blind to prevent any protest on the part of the workers. ‘The workers of Wilmington are now organizing a conference to protest against such a bill. All emergency committees, having supplied a few Jobs, have been cut off by the city, because no more con- tributions are coming in. Factories are closing down contin- uously, the latest being the big leath- er factories, which constitute one of ‘he most important industries here. Daily Worker: Ten workers, compelled to sleey in railroad coaches because the police stations were filled up, were arrest- ed for trespassing on railroad prop- erty. Before their case came up, another case was being tried; the workers | heard part of it, though the court | tried to quiet it down. It was about | four court-house men, who had se- duced four young girls, all “under | age,” and using the court-house for their filthy purposes. These four pol- iticians’ friends, were given a sus- pended sentence, being told to go to their respective churches and make amends for their sins, Now came the case of ten home-| less workers, turned from even the! police stations, with nowheres to rest | their weary carcasses. The Judge | turned to them. “Why don’t you) work?” One of the militant workers | spoke up. “The word ‘work’ has be- | come a joke with us; can’t be had.” | ‘Then answered the capitalist judge: | “Tt can’t be found, hey? Thirty days in the work house apiece for you; there you'll find plenty.” Jail for jobless workers, while the filthy lurches, bred of the corrupt capitalist system, are sent to church to “amend their ways.” Down with the lousy capitalist system! Fellow workers, the time is rotten ripe! For- ward to a workers’ and farmers’ So- viet here in U. S. A. —Electrical Worker. Workers Forced to Do 3 Men’s Work in Drop Forge Hammer Shop (By a Worker Correspond-nt) ROCKFORD, April 3.—I have been working on Drop Forge Hammer shop Rockford, Ill, for a long time. The work three men used to do be- fore, I had to do alone some days sig tie the last time I was working there. FRENCH BOSSES NERVOUS French imperialism is alarmed be- cause the British have called the Germans to London for a conference preliminary to'the meeting between representatives of England, France and Italy next Tuesday. Everything is supposed to be “friendly,” but France is suspcious of Britain ma- neuvering with Italy and Germany to isolate France, and with very good reasons. SOVIET TO MAKE DIRIGIBLES The Soviet government is experi- menting with dirigible aidships with | a vicw to establishing air lines be- | tween distant points in the Soviet Unioer March 18, I was laid off, because I couldn't keep up with the terrific speed-up system, 9 hours straight every day. ‘ Swanson, another worker will now do my job, he is probably bad up, and afraid of the bosses. The job is to pick up hot forging with thongs or fork, and it is hot like hell. I got only 40 cents an hour for doing three men’s job, but the headboss, Ben Rowley, and the straw boss, Roy Camel, were not satisfied anyhow. We workers must organize in the Metal Workers Industrial League | ond fight against speed-up, and wag? | cuts, for better working conditions. —"Worker” ‘ treatment than the producers of all) the wealth in the land. Workers, | demonstrate for Unemployment In- | surance and better living conditions | n May Ist! —A Worker. "_E. Suggestions Displace Toilers “heme to Get Ideas) from the Workers Schenectady, N. Y. Daily Worker: In the General Electric Co., a sug- gestion blank was given out to the workers as to how to improve their| products, the method of manufacture and how to reduce the cost or in- crease production—the safety of the workers, etc. That's how the bosses here release your ideas. “As secrets they buy you nothing, but when put to work they | earn rewards, can you suggest an improvement that should be put into effect right now?” “A good idea is always welcome,” that is how the General Electric Co. milks the workers’ ideas. They give us five and ten dollars for an idea and lay off fifty men, A friend put in an idea and got $25 for it. The next week he was Jaid off. There are hundreds of boxes in the shop for ideas, now there are only boxes left, since the men are laid off. —A Worker. asked me all sorts of fool questions could compare. with those of the Chinese miners, whose conditions the American bosses are crushing. —-L. N. MORE WAGE CUTS | human life, but the way it is handled | she told me to come back next week | and if my character and qualifications | IN JAMESTOWN Wor jate after I would be investigated. |Workers Must Resist; My children and myself have been Demonstrate May 1 without anything to eat for Two| y DAYS, slreadgy,., 60) Tam starving, (By a Worker Correspondent.) while they are eating and investigat- | FALCONER, N. Y., April 5—A ing. glaring example of the wage-cuts Workers, I thought the government | i | which are taking place in James- appropriated the money to preserve town and throughout the country, is the following notice placed in the it looks very much like it is to keep! pay envelopes of the workers of the some people from starving and bring| Jamestown Metal Equipment Co., misery and slow death by starvation.| Inc, notifying them of another I wish all hungry people were of the same notion. We would unite and go get something for our hungry kids. But if I go by myself they will put me in jail and throw my kids on the street, so I will just starve with them. 4 I hear lots about the Communists. I guess I am one too, I am ready to fight. —A Widow. FROM 5 IN MORNING TO 10 AT NIGHT DETROIT, Mich—I have a job now, in this apartment house, All I have to do is to get up at 5 in the morning and fire up and clean marble and brass and keep the halls and stairs clean for 50 apartments, keep the house warm and water hot, In other words, I have to be on duty from 5 in the morning until 9 or 10 at night, for which I receive the enormous sum of $25 a month and board. I have to buy and cook my own eats. That's Hoover prosperity and American standard of living for you. —C. H. wage-cut: “NOTICE “Due to keen competition existing in business today and the fact that | we have not been able to close any contracts since the first of the year, in order to meet this condition so | we will not run out of work, we are forced to make adjustments in wages and piece rates, and accordingly your day rate, effective March 30, | 1931, will be 35 cents an hour. “(Signed) “Jamestown Metal Equipment Co., Ine,” This is another example of boss “prosperity,” another instance of the determined attempt of the bosses to make the workers bear the full bur- den of the crisis. All workers, em- ployed and unemployed, native and foreign born, Negro and white, must unite in gigantic determined pro- test on May Day against wage-cuts, unemployment, persecution of Negro and foreign-born workers, and boss preparations for imperialist war. Fight wage-cuts and starvation! work, This naturally was not enough to | exist on so I decided I'd ask for re- lief, I went to the City Hall where I/ | was told to go to the Relief Commit- tee Office, There I found Mayor Hallstrom and 52 Relief Committee men. One | of them listened to me and then sent |me to the Rockford Welfare Associ- | ation, where they asked me a lot of | questions. They gave me $2.00 each | week for two weeks. Then they sent me instead to the Salvation Army “flop houses” and to @ soup line. Here they fed 50 jobless work- ers on coffee and stale bread, 2 times a day, between 6 and 7 in the morn- ing and four to five o’clock in the afternoon, The boarders began to complain which angered the sky-pilots very much. On account of this complaint. Mr. Lyons, sec'y of the Rockford Community fund and associate to the Salvation Army placed a note on the wall that since all the workers could get odd jobs now, no flop houses or bread lines would be necessary, and starting April 5 The Salvation Flop Houses on the West Side and the | soup line would be shut down. | We have no job, but they close ‘down this little bit of relief, the best | thing we can do is to organize into | unemployed councils and affiliate| ourselves with the Trade Union Unity League. We must put up a fight) and force these big bugs to give us Unemployment Insurance. Join the Unemployed Councils and help carry on the fight for real un- employment relief. “Unemployed Worker.” 16,000,000 IN SOVIET SCHOOLS A United Press report from Mossow shows that this year at least 16,000,- 000 children will be receiving public school education in the Soviet Union. About 7,000,000 attended schools be- fore the revolution. FRENCH COAL MINERS MILITANT, FIGHTING CUT Red Union Comes Out for General Strike, Reformists Treacherous Paris, France. @ Three miners unions exist among © for strike on March 30, The CGTU Daily Worker: The world economical crisis which until a few months ago was not so severe in France is now more and more acute. Already one half million work- ingmen and women are per- manently unemployed and over one million and one half are work- ing part time. The French capitalist class is engaged in a wage cut campaign in order to place the burden of the crisis upon the shoulders of the working masses. Le Comite des Houilleres coal operators association went on record for a general wage cut of from 2 franes 50 to 4 francs and a half a day starting April the first, ’ the coal miners. The Catholic Syndicate, the CGT reformist and the CGTU affiliated to the R.LL.U. The CGTU issued a manifesto to all French miners for a general strike March 30. This manifesto calling for a United Front of all miners over the head of the re- formist syndicates is taking en- thusiasticaf!y by the miners, The conditions of the coal min- ers are very bad and the at- tempted wage cut will mean misery for the miners and a sig- nal for more wage cuts through- out France. REFORMIST MANOEUVERS .. At first the CGTU took March the 16th for a general strike. The reformist Union in order to divide the miners sent an appeal seeing the treacherous plan of the Reformist Leaders against the date and postponed the strike to March 30, in order to keep the miners united, to strike at the same date, Since the new manifesto is is- sued the reformist and catholic leaders are constantly meeting with the bosses and Department of Labor in order to prevent a general walk out which will eventually spread in other industries, This latest manoeuver is well understood by the miners who are constantly deserting those fake leaders to join the Miners Union of the C. G. T. U. READY TO STRIKE From all mining centers of the Northern part of France reports arrive regarding the strike prepara- tion. Action committees of miners organized in the reformist and red syndicates together with unorgan- ized miners are organized in the pits. It is by thousands that revo- Tutionary papers and leaflets are | distributed in the field. Relief com- mittees are also being organized in order to help the miners in their strike. A big campaign of solidarity is already going on in every paper of the CGTU. and Communitst party preparing the French masses to actively support the miners. Enthusiasm for the strike in the mining center permit us to advance and on March 30 over 300,000 miners will strike against wage The salary we receive is 300 rubles | how much food the other workers per month, which is sufficient for | eat. Every worker has to work one hour longer, for which he is not paid, to build our factory from an aero- | polishing and cleaning .the tables. plane shop 600 feet long, 100 feet | The bosses have made a rule that wide, with an adjoining restaurant, | every worker has to buy a pair of drawing rooms and our homes | shoes of the kind they tell you. The near the factory—all on the Amer- | bosses of a shop who makes shoes ican system. Isn't that wonderful? | and stocking have an alliance with The shop will employ 300 men in | our company, by which the workers one shift. of our compaby,.nusi buy those ma- Free Theatre Tickets, terials, from the other company. In regard to the rest days. Well, | Mulct Workers. Tl tell you. First of all you don’t) When you start to work you have pay for the theatre tickets. The} to be examined by their doctor. Then building trade union is the one that! in the following few weeks you are a gets them for you free of charge.| member of their benefit association. a family to live on. We are going ‘You can sit in the orchestra or first balcony. Only the second balcony That means 15 cents every week for the association. Then there is a box you have to pay for. That is the| standing, in which you must put difference between the Soviet Union| money for the unemployed. From and America. We are the workers| the little money that you receive that rule here and the Soviet. Union | each week ‘you can be sure that you is taking care of us. have only an empty envelope left for In regard to the shop committees| all your hard work. The benefit is Well, they are functioning. The fac- | only good while you are working for tory has one. This is the way they | the company, but when we are sent act. They have a shop meeting,| home from work it expires. where the workers talk over the pro- | The bosses try to make good duction of the shop and all com-| pysiness by attracting the custom- plain. 3 | ers’ attention by telling the girls Have Shop Committee. | to wear their uniforms up to their They elect a shop committee, of| knees. And, of course, the rules which the head is the shop's red} are obeyed, because the workers director, to whiéh the Buildings Trust appoints one technician and | one business director, and they are the ones that take care of the shop. There is no hiring or firing without them. Well, they fire men, too, if} they get too drunk and do too much | damage. First they are called to at- tention. There is discipline, of course. The old workers are con- servative, but they listen just the same. | We have three different club- houses to go to. There are music, chess and billiards. This We are going through the lumber camps. Where is the convict labor? Oh! what lies! Please write to me what you want to know. Workers, form a United Front! Comradely yours, GEORGE KEREKES. Jobless Worker Gets Pneumonia in Chatta- nooga City Flophouse CHATTANOOGA, April 8.— The Chattanooga City Flophouse has al- ready claimed its eighth victim this year. Besides, several cases of small pox have broken out among the is the} workers’ wonderland. We are build- | ing the Five-Year Plan in four years. | C hi cago do not belong to any organization. The only way to abolish all these things is for all the colored and white workers to unite and fight together for their rights. But as long as they are separated the bosses will keep on exploiting the workers. —Horn-Hardart Worker. Cast Off Clothes for Jobless Women Women’s Breadline Closing Chicago, Tl. Daily Worker: The Chicago Tribune published lies about the Soviet ~ Union by saying that even a tailor did not have a button to sew his coat, but the Tribune does. not- publish° the fact that the American working class | conditions are such that the workers | have not got the clothes to sew the buttons on. Of course, there are | plenty of clothes in the warehouses, | but the workers who have produced these clothes have to wear old cast- off rags, which spread disease among the working class, homeless who sleep there. An unemployed worker, who regu- | There are many fake charity mis- | sions including this Gov, Emmerson larly slept on the concrete floor of| Relief, a branch on 59 Wabash Ave., the City Flophouse, was stricken with | for unemployed women. After one pneumonia while waiting at a soup line, and was taken to the hospital. Latest reports indicate that: there is no hope for him. On Saturday, two cases of small- pox were discovered contracted by two Negro workers. This bids fair to be the first signs of this horrible di- sease becoming widespread. Workers of Cattanooga, unemploy- ed, unite and wipe out this hell hole which breeds death under the cloak of charity. Form unemployed coun- cils! Demand adequate cash relief! Fight against evictions of workers! For full political and social rights cuts and demand & wage increase. yi * —tLeon Mabille, | and seif-determination for Negroes! Against imperialist wart! v makes out an application, permission is given to pick a pair of shoes, may- be if you are lucky, a dress too, if you wait a couple of hours. However their conditions, the W. Monroe St. breadline. for women | which has been on -since December is closing today (too many people | getting jobs, say they). The Volun- ters of America has at the head a | Miss Thomas, who stated that there are as many women on the breadlines | now as there were last winter, so | we see conditions are not getting | better, This is terrible in a country where there is too much of everything, yet people go ragged and hungry. —™. P. (Woman Worker). s