The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1931, Page 3

NAT’L ERIE FOUNDRY “BOSSES SLASH PAY OF METAL WORKERS Others Earning As Low As $i to $13 Per Week 15,000 Unemployed in Erie Are Determined to = Organize and Fight for Relief Chippers and Daily Worker: ' "Fhe National Erie Foundry ofwage cuts through the adoption of the group “tonnage” Chippers and others in this plant last week drew from has inaugurated a new system DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931 Chester Flops Serve “ard Bread, Vermin The conditions in the flophouse of the city of Chester, where Baker superintendent are terrible. No ts on cold nights When yeu bt get up in the morning, you get a cu vf water for coffee and two s of hard bread, for each man. you are present at eight p.m, you not admitted to sleep for the night. Another. thing I would like to state to you is the fact that we get dirty stinking rotten blankets and towels to wipe ourselves. No soap to wash with. The boss in charge of the cellar flop is lousy and Page Three WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Chicago Merchants Cheat with Scales CHICAGO, WL, April 22.—Food merchants in Chicago cheated their customers out of at least $54,456,355 through short weights during 1930, according to an of- ficial research. 537 out of the 1,415 stores visited by inspectors swindle their customers. That this short-weighting is not limited to food, is shown by the investiga- tors’ statement: “Instances are recorded where coal merchants cheated 2,960 pounds on @ 16-ton load of coal.” wage. ‘ $2: to $11 for a week’s work. The railroad sliops are laying off ‘many workers and speeding those who remain and trying to‘suppress the strike sentiment resulting by pointing out to the ‘shop workers that the switchmen and roadznen will aid the) dent tend dirty. He has no feeling for anybody but for the superinten- and himself. The superin- lent pockets all the money that. he gets from charging the work- For International Letters The Daily Worker has received BERKELEY HOTEL WORKERS GET from time to time numerous letters DAIRY TRU Poor Farmers Must Or Passage of milk ordinances This will mean an insp time, a uniform state board of And there is no doubt that already part and parcel of the Jersey Farmer Exposes Dairym Squeeze More Prof the metropolitan and shore market in New Jerse will surely be followed by larger boroughs in the rural area. hosses because of the sell out of the switchmen's strike. RUSSIAN TOILERS WANT TO HEAR FROM AMERICANS Bui ld International « Letter Exchange Ben Swerdiowsk, U. S. 5. R. Daily Worker: at Over two months have passed since we received your last letter in which yout’ promised us to get us in totch | with American workers either direct- ly*or through the Daily Worker. A couple of days later we noticed our letter from the Verk-Fsebsk metal WOYKs published in your paper. After that there came a dead silence. Later om We wrote you requesting a copy of your January issue of Worcorrs xctivities with the same result. “T6-tell you frankly, we are deeply disappointed, not to say "more, of not being able to establish a regular let- ter exchange between Ural and Amer- idaty workers at a moment when all} standstill. Last yar at this time| many boats were on the lakes but the shipping master has been forced to| ers fifteen cents apiece to flop upstairs. The flops here are no good. You are not allowed to talk while in the building. Workers in the flophquse! Fight against the miserable conditions confronting us! Join an organiza- tion that fights for your interests! Line up with the unemployed council at 120 West 3rd St. ~—Flophouse Boarder. Shipping in this town is at a admit that only a few boats will) leave this year and none of these until after the 15th of May. | Carpenters and athers who report | to the headquarters of the T. U. U. L.| state they are askei to work for as low as 25 cents an ‘hour and furnish from groups of workers in the Soviet Union, two of which are published on this page and many of which have been published in previous editions, calling upon the American workers to write about their conditions in the shops and about the progress of the revolutionary movement in America. The American workers, it appears, have been very Iax in complying with the request of our Soviet comrades, and the Soviet workers are very corrct in criticizing us for our laxity. This laxity of establishing International Correspondence Relations with the workers in the Soviet Union is due primarily to the fact that the American workers up to the present time have not succeeded in or- ganizing a special group to handle International Correspondence, SOVIET WORCORR GROUPS. ore WORCOR Over 15,000 are out of work in Erie | SOVIET R and men, women and children are being slowly starved or poisoned by | the rotten slop hantied out in Mul- ligan Hall. In spite of the fact that the workers who buy in the local stores drop eggs, butver, ham, sugar, | | TELLS OF LIFE IN steaks, fruit and other real food in { the “Muligan Hall” baskets, none of| | this food ever reaches the pat Asks for Exchange of ployed who eat in the bosses’ soup | bay ] kitchen which is sponsored by the| Letters With U.S. so-called “Uplift” Society. Workers Workers who own their homes or} be SB an equity in them have been forced | Sverdlovsk, USSR. to mortgage their holdings to such| To the staff of the Daily Worker: an extent that the banks will not| Heartiest greetings from the Urals. | advance any more money on either| I am deeply interested in the life| the real or personal property of the | and work of the correspondents and workers. And the bosses are rapidly | editors of the Communist Press of levying and selling out the workers | England and America and would therefore appreciate your answers to olf Feces are set to a successful | who cannot meet the exorbitant in- | carrying through of our 5 year plan, terest andthe principal payments | and when the danger of a new war,/demanded by the loan sharks of| itt the first place Against the Soviet | Utidh assumes daily more hideous and fealistic aspects. Besides, there |time much evidence of graft among an efficient staff in the future? is @ keen interest among our work- | the officials of the school board, the: of&. particulerly metalists, to learn | -rarters and hypocrites have just re- “|fused to allow any répairs or im-| Erie. Although there is at the present | se | What we want is not mere NeWS- | provements in the schools this year | paper news, but scenes of every d8Y| aitnough some of these schools are) life coming directly from factories pr grown since the Ural district z. with the great’ coal basin of will ina short time be- come. the second in importance in- disttiel basis of the Soviet Union. ‘During the comparatively short | Rachange af@d to establish regular connections with numerous factories, peasant, Such an interest has) sq outhouses. rotten and nothing more than barns | Workers, Determined To Struggle. At the open air meetings held by the CP and YCL, the workers are demonstrating their determination to organize and struggle against the bosses and their wage cuts, speed-up | and starvation. They are determined | of May in @ mighty demonstration to show the bosses that they will | fight before they will starve. They | Holland, ete., and therefore cannot|are determined to show their soli- | unéétstand your silence. Surely, at|darity on International Labor Day | #imoment when am ignominous cam- | With the revolutionary workers of the truth about whats going on bere) Berkeley Mother of 3. | wouldn't do harm and be of a great adsistance to smash up all sorts of wild polar bear stories about Russia. As to us we are eager to know some- thing about the alleged American “prosperity.” | about 35 years of age fainted on Well, dear comrades, we firmly hope that the matter will be straight- ened. out in the nearest future and world. Jobless; Denied Aid| (By a Worker Correspondent) BERKELEY, Cal—A woman of Shattuck Ave. Revived by passers- by, she told that she did not have a thing to eat for 3 days. She has 3) small children and she gave them the last crumbs to keep them alive. At the Free Employment Bureau on Grove St. she was promised a job by the clerk. She waited three days there and the job did not materialize. to come out en-masse on the First’) supplies us with lodging, electricity, Stans Road Workers the following questions: 1, What difficulties do you en- counter in your newspaper work? 2. What is being done to ensure 3. How do you lead your struggle against the reformists and reaction- aries? 4. What's the increase of the num- ber of worcorrs? Now a little about myself. T am | the son of a poor peasant, was forced | to earn my own living since 12. In} 1925 began to work as worcorr in the | Soviet press. Three months ago the | workers of the Lissva metallurgical plant sent me to the Communist uni- versity in Sverdlovsk. Our section | includes 30 students. The University water, etc., and besides we get 105 rubles monthly (over $50), which are paid by respective factories from where students have been delegated. | Moreover we enjoy many privileges, such as free entrance to theatres, | movies, etc. The large majority of students are of peasant and worker origin, only a very few are from the employee class. All our section wishes to establish with you a regular letter exchange and expresses its deep interests in the life and work of their English and American colleagues, Waiting to hear from you soon, Vassili Kochkin. ‘Student of the Ural Communist University, section for the training of editors and correspondents for the Soviet Press). The Russian workers, however, have organized in their shops, fac- | tories and districts in which they live active groups of worker correspon- | dents. These combined groups form a formidable press corps in the Soviet Union, and make up an important force for the building up of Socialism, the Five Year Plan and a classless Communist society. They are the voice of the great masses of Russian workers, freed from the yoke of capitalism and oppression, and besides being an important driving force in the building of a new society, they act as the chief critics and castigators of the old society and are the educators of the working masses all over the world. INTERNATIONAL GROUPS. For the purpose of telling the workers in t'se capitalist countries how they are running their industries and government, the Soviet workers have formed special International Correspondenc Groups. Such groups may also be formed in capitalist countries, in Europe, Latin-America and the Orient, thus advancing mutual working «lass relations and international solidarity. The Workers Correspondence Department of the Daily Worker wishes to aid in this international letter exchange, and will undertake to form a little group to work with it here in New York to translate and type (when necessary) letters sent to and from American workers to those in the Soviet Union and in the capitalist countries wherever we can locate | @ correspondent to receive and answer letters from America. Do you want to write to workers of other lands? Then we ask you to follow these simple directions: 1. Write a letter telling about the conditions of workers in your shop or trade, your ahions if any and what they are doing, what you eat, wear, how much you pay for rent compared to your wages, what bread, meat and milk cost, how the capitalists treat workers—everything about your lives; of course you need not write this all in one letter. 2, Get some other workers from your shop or your neithborhood to’ go over the letter, to agree on what it should say—and to put in any ques- tions you want answered by workers in other countries whom you want your letter to reach. 3. Send it to the Worker Correspondence Dept. of the Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St. New York City. If you are a coal miner and want your letter to reach the coal miners of the Soviet Union, or of Poland, just Say so, and we will send It on to someone who can directly place it in the hands of Soviet or Polish miners, 4 4. It is always better if you can get a group of workers interested, in your shop, in your union, or even the local union itself, no matter if it is an A. F. of L, union—wouldn’t it be fine to get a local union of Amer- ican carpenters, for example, to write a letter to Soviet Construction Workers asking any questions they like? Anyhow, try to get 2 number of workers to sign a letter that all agree upon. 5. When the Daily Worker gets letters from other countries written to American workers, they may be from, let us say, automobile workers, and we will send them on to you if you are listed with us 2s an Auto Worker, if you will ask us for them and will promise to do everything you can to call a group of auto workers together and read to them the letters written from, let us say, Soviet or German anid ‘workers. 6. Only one word of advice: Don’t make your le ters too long, try to keep them under 500 words. And please do not .writy just general things about all America, the world and other Planets, but about your lives, your own daily lives. Now, comrades, will you write? What we have said about industrial workers alsc applies to farmers. CAL. POLICE NAB |CAL. STEEL MILL JOBLESS FATHER) FIRES WORKERS benefit only the dealers. Clauses for the protection a gee | terests of the Jersey farmers are not i | represented by the farmers them- i Biles yc) cigars tay or eee arm oney | izations dominated by a few rich ide” dairymen. | the Side pace For those who want to stay in the Berkeley, Cal, | 78W milk production, these bills will Daily Worker: mean testing and very likely slaugh- 4 + ter of best cattle for which the state ‘Good times” have surely come to offers only a poor compensation | Berkeley hotel workers. Formerly How many average poor farmers j hotel _msids were getting $40 and/ win be able to stay in the milk busi- over per month and their food, but | ness? Even now more and more of now we have to work for $20 per| bse ide nae eed herds, because month, We are also forced to do| Dey scrape’ Ht does not pay to coaluls eye cauamlirenams pironn bimeaand Ws oy ROR Eo eee jpeeeec,, How. 2) Are. doing. the J>-'ers who will not mind. The Walker ge ibe cpr eee ae Gordon Farms, the Sheffield Farms, ate tae ae onthe to get| the, Forsgate Farms will not lose a toth se Sty ata ke ee ics cent. On the contrary, the business eer tien moe Our Foot. | TNGY | cat was before inthe hands of the make us understand very plainly that poor farmers will come to these we must earn money “on the side” large, modern farms, ow by rich jin order to get clothes*to cover our | dene “4 CS a i | bodies. mg Farm Board for Rich Farmers. Such are conditions here for us What are the existing farm organ- |slaves. Glad to see domestics and | izations, the Granges, the Farm | maids writing about conditions in the | Boards and the Department of Agri- |Daily. Hope we will soon be or-| culture? These organizations are at| | Zanized. ; | the service of the rich farmers and | | farm corporations. They are con- | Hotel Worker. be in the bills, because the real in- —_—- Her hunger weakened her so that she could not walk home the long dis- tance to her children. She went to the Welfare Associa- tion asking for assistance and they ents or seme relatives or some other friends and must get them to help told her, “That surely you have par- | roads, at 30 cents an hour. For these Must Spend Money in the Company Saloon Here in Albany, commissaries of labor are hiring workers for the state jobs, they must pay $6 commission, and $9 per week board, which con- Who Steals to BuyFood | Rubber and Chemical for Family Mills Closing (By = Worker Correspondent) By 8. B. PITTSBURG, Calif.—Steel mills, Pioneer Rubber Co. and other plants have been only run part time, many workers being laid off. Older men have no hopes of ever getting em- Ployment and the situation among Oakland Painters’ Pay “Cut $6 per Day . you. We cannot help everybody sists of filthy bunks and unspeakable here.” . grub. At the end of the week, count- Through organization and mass|ing tobacco money and a few cents p¥éssure and continued fighting only, | for clothes, a worker has hardly a the workers will be able to get better | dollar left. Even this he is compelled conditions. to spend in fhe company booze-joint, or he is fired! A. EVICT CALIF. FAMILIES One Aged Worker Refuses to Leave body and soul to employers these days, They cannot say anything in regard to wage-cuts, which in many Sacramento, Calif. militancy is that of an old and vases are pre-arranged in a cunning! pay worker: aged worker who refused to leave pan chse shae Nahe penalaaige Ue sng Here is some news on unemploy- | MS old tent although he was uhion in order “to alleviate starva- vin to. The poor, | threatened with pick, shovel and tlon-of. the union painters during the | ment i pepo 3 poor, | jail, These workers only needed crisis.” Jha Saag handgdtapregir ri organization and I’m sure all of =-It"is a violation of the painters'| OF other have been able to keep | 1.01,’ sient have resisted eviction, linloh rules to accept a wage under] Pedr and soul tonether inst winter | pat the district here elects people $8 asday, 0 they have been advised Sees ee cecreaanty | who Jabber too much about Karl Gor-rather a sentiment spread from| Scross ‘the ise: dave tice te | Marx but who fail to carry out his union ace) Hat toey must say ated wer ne Principles of organization. How- they ‘work for $9, to accept a 5 ever, we are trying to get them to Geek made out for $3 per day. This| These families had used all thelr | stop and do a little militant work. way Hours are not controlled and it| efforts in the building up of these As for shop conditions, they are séems that only $3 worth of labor| homes. They used pieces of card- |. yery pad. The 8. P. R. R. shops, wus performed. Therefore the bosses | board and old parts of autos, any- |" the canneries, are almost closed fre 96 to the good and no kick com-| thing, to be out of the weather. | down, working only part of the ing-that non-union labor is beinr| These were little dilapidated shacks, | time, at starvation wages, The Snployed. That 1s being practiced in] some were tents, yet the law gives | petty shopkeepers are beginning to many places and no need to saythe| them three days’ notice to get out. | wake up, they are becoming quite unton does not know. This is onc| If they refused they were threat- | clacs-conscious, They will be or- oftheir methods in “building ur | ened with jail sentences. ganized very soon. As for the rank union and wage scales.” Workers arc These men who were ordered by | and file of the A. F. of L., they 1 the bosses were asked what they | are very good, too. One of these got out of driving out these poor | was very sore at the conditions in workers from the only shelter they | his shop, which is an A. F. of L. had. The men answered that they | shop. He bought a Daily from me were working for very low wages " | and is becoming more attached to themeelves end just had to do. it. We". organiuayon is ‘necessary ia | Yolv Jungle. A good Capmple of i: us, Comradely yours, JK. S, the working strata of Pittsburg is in- tolerable. Fritz Biedirstrdt, 52, tried to Steal that his wife and two children might PITTSBURG, Calif—In this so- called western steel town workers are suffering from unemployment even more keenly than in other Places. Steel mills curtailed their produc- tion sometime ago, laying off gteat numbers of workers. The workers Were promised to be taken on as scon as the re-organization goes through, but it seems in the last three months none were taken on. ‘The Pioneer Rubber Mills in Pitts- vived he explained hopelessly: “What else can I do? I can’t support my family. If I were dead, there'd be one less mouth to feed and the county would have to take care of my wife and babies.” Three Comrades Aid Starving Worker From Brutal Police New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: While returning from an affair in m early Sunday morning, we noticed an unemployed worker, desti- tute, shiver and ill trying to slee;, On re the 174th St. station a well fed and dressed man sat down next to this worker and gave him a sharp knock in his ribs with hif el- bow, thinking that no one saw. Seeing this, we got up and told the fellow to get away. The man stood) 1p Grinning, and showed a gleaming) dulce badge, Stine, “TR look alier burg have been practically closed down. But now Papers advertise that “prosperity” is returning, as on May I & promise is given to employ 75 men (normally working over 200). Chemical plant which promised to start operations the first of the year has been working on tests only with @ skeleton crew of 480 and it is not known when it will resume full op- erations. According to the announce- ments, “Shell Chemical plant will start production of artificial fertilizer May 1. Operations commencing on that date, however, will be to de- termine whether all the machinery functions properly when thrown into unified action.” This is all that is Promised to those hopeful of em- ployment in this gigantic plant. Field Workers Get Cuts, Diablo Valley field work this year is at lowest ebb. Pea shipping is now in progress and the workers in the fields are getting 5 cents per hour less this year than they received on the same job last year. Cauliflower harvest is paying also 5 cents per hour less. This proves that the wages are reduced on all field work considerable, PaaS AAAS Rear eeee ETE 1 this fellow, I'll give him a nice bed.” He told us he was from Manila and had worked under the whip of plantation owners, and was later im- ported to the U. 8. on contract labo: at miserable wages. They have ne use for him any more, so they !2 hin starve. ats Mowe, VOURerS. 7 PRONX WORKERS LIVE IN MISERY Prepare to Organize Tenant League | territory of our unit. I started out | with another comrade tonight to vis- lit a certain house on Brook Avenue. And to say the least, I feel like a | criminal for having neglected as one | can imagine—-we found workers ready | to join us——happy to know that something was being done for them—- not only that—but ready to work with | us, Workers Live in Hovels. Tn one particular home (if that's What we went to call it) a Negro fam- lily lives. We didn’t ask how many | people lived in that fat—but fa igug | trom the number oi beds we saw, we pay safely asswne that it was a sarge family, The place Jocked like it hed not been painted for years. Tne walls were bloce with dirt. tis family was living in the flat for only fused to “decorate” the flat for them when they moved in. Yet, for these miserable 4 rooms—oh yes, the light had to be burned all day in the kitch- en, it was so dark—these people had to pay $35 a month! The head of the family we were told was out of work a6 often as he worked. And when he worked, he was earning $22. “And my husband works mighty hard too,” said this Negro woman to us. —L iH. BRONX, N. Y.—Being assigned to| |organize a Tenants’ League in the! eight months but the landlord re-|- | trolled by them, although they are | made up of the masses of middle | and poor farmers. | The poor farmers know that some- thing is wrong, but many of them | | still believe that the existing farm | organizations are working for their | benefit. | Must Form Committees. | There is only one way to keep from being utterly ruined. .We must or- ganize a committee of action in every locality of poor farmers to mobilize on the spot demanding: 1. Full compensation at value | set by their committee for cattle | Killed as a result of 'T. B: test. 2. A committee of poor farmers, | elected by poor farmers, to have complete control of methods of in- spection. | If these demands are refused—all | farmers are to be mobilized to resist inspection until demands are granted. | Other demands: | 1. Abolition of all fines’ placed | by the Dairymen’s League Co-op- | erative Association on members who | are unable to deliver milk to the | association as per order of the as- | sociation. } 2. Special tax on corporations of | state to supply loans. without in- terest to farmers needing same to improve premises in line with san- itary regulations and laws. The committee of action must ap- peal for aid in exposing the milk | trust, which robs both, by paying farmers less snd selling to workers at retail at a higher price. Aim to build a united front against the milk trust, to use boycott to force reduc- | tion in retail price and higher prices to the farmers. The United Farmers’ League, Box | 278, New York Mills, Minn., will give | the farmers aid in their struggles for better conditions, CHI. BOSSES Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker: As I have just finished reading my Dally Worker and have a day off, I'll try to tell my fellow-work- WAGE CUTS 15 TO 20%, The wages here have during the iF? ; i 3 Bre ue E 2 5 he is giving the workers some tips on how to live in order to prevent these diseases. One of the advices he gives ean really be followed’ by the workers, end that’s the one \ ‘ Bring Wages Down 20, Per Cent about drinking plenty of water, i CUT WAGES Besides this he advises the workers to eat sufficient wholesome food, avold excessive fatigue, avold worry and dress comfortably. I would like to learn from this highly educated quack how all of this is to be done. At least I would like to know how one of Petti- bine’s unskilled laborers, who is Supposed to pay rent and receives the large sum of 40 cents an hour and is employed only part time and has a family, can eat suffi- clent food and dress comfortably. Another point that is not clear to me is how a plece-worker will be able to avold excessive fatigue when he has to work like a fool all day in order to make anything at all, or how he can avold unnecessary worry. Indeed’it seems quite un- necessary that any worker able and willing to work should have to worry about how he is going to keep his home and get. food for himself and family. . A fellow-worker told me that some of the company unions in this town of big business, big Bill Thompson and Al Capone are hav- ing big celebrations on May Day, with dances and everything. This is only one of the bosses’ schemes | to keep the workors’ minds off the struggle for bread. They think that | we are a bunch of fools who will go to their affair to forget our troubles, But we won't. My idea is that in order to better our conditions we will have to join the T. U.-U. L. and fight for real unemployment velief and against the wage-fnts. —A WORKER, Ts FORCE NEW MILK BILLS. TO RUIN N. J. FARMERS en’s Moves to ganize in Action Com- mittees to. Fight (By a Farmer Correspondent) in many new -tauni¢ipalities of last year section service and, after some health ins this servi bills befor: ‘ts of it being embly, would nd help to only the dealers will IDLE RICH SON SHOOTS WORKER; IS LET GO FREE Jail Hungry Workers ete Who Shoot Muskrats to Feed Families Indianapolis, Ind Editor Deily Worker The other week a Bunch of youths were holding target practice in the north part of this ‘ity: On hearing their shots a poor -huckster, peddling in the neighbortood, took refuge in a shack on the river bank. Shoots Peddlar One of these crack shots, who, by the way were sons of. the idle. rich, took aim at the shack and in a spirit of bravado shot.’ His‘tnarksmanship being good, the poor” peddlar fell, mortally wounded: As these young men were sons of | Wealthy parents, one of them a son of Indiana's aristocratic governor, there was nothing done about it. The County prosecutor ordered the case dropped and the papers gave it but Scant notice, regarding it as a matter , of slight moment—just an episode in the gay life of the wealthy youth. Brilliant editorials appeared, however, from time to time in the dailies on the ruthless destruction of birds and wild animal life, but not a line has come from the peris of these editors | against the wanton murder of this poor worker. Workers Persecuted Shortly after this fatal shooting a few poor béys Were found shooting rifles on the shores of the White River. They were promptly arrested and remanded to the juvinal court. These boys were all.from poverty stricken homes and were hunting muskrats to supply their family lard- er. The poor families here have been eating their dogs, -but rabies has become so prevalent that they have had to look for other fdod, $0 they have taken to hunting muskrats. The different treatment accorded these two cases is only one of the many instances of infamous American class justice. oO. B. Cal. Bosses Break Own Eight Hour Work Day Law “Friend of Workers” Still Trusts Bosses To the Daily Worker; I happened to buy one of yom little papers this.-morning and on turning over to page three, column one, rgad an article by one of your worker correspondents, signed, Can- nery Worker. I would'like to make a correction if you will: allow me to. - The cannery worker states that she (presumably cannery ‘worker is a woman) worked from 8 a. m. until 830 at night. I'll give Cannery Worker the benefit of the doubt. But. here in the state of California there is a law by which employers can hire women to work only eight hours a day. May I ask her if Cannery Worker does not work broken hours? Doesn't she get time off for lunch and supper? If nbt, why not? And although.I’m not doubting Cannery Worker's statement I with she had inquuired about the laws af our state before she made her state- ment to your worker correspondent, where thousands .of, your people and mine read your little paper and will get the wrong impression that the workers in the Bay Cities won't get @ square deal. —A Friend of the Working Man. Editorial Note:—The “friend of the working man” who sent in the foregoing criticism is incorrect by inferring that’ because there is a law in the State of California re- quiring women. to work not over 8 hours in factories that women are not forced to work 12 and sometimes 13 and 14 hours a day. It is com- mon knowledge that the 8-hour law is violated daily -by the bosses whenever it is to their benefit to do so. The workers in the Bay Cities will not get a “square deal” from either the bosses or their govern- ment unless they organize the mili- tant révolutionary, unions and by mass action force the bosses to do away with the long hours and mise erable working conditions