The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 4, 1932, Page 3

‘short walk. ‘and whisper something to their » even sought relief from the social DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1932 ane 3) Vhree JUSTICE BOUGHT AND SOLD AT THE RAYMOND ST. JAIL! (By a Prisoner) NEW YORK. — Raymond Street Jail, in Brooklyn, holds close to 300 prisoners awaiting trial. The prison guards are extremely severe to the prisoners in order to force bribes from them for some measly privil- eges. The prisoners are permitted to walk inside a prison corridors one and a half hours a day. The rest of the time they are lock- ed up in their small Cages, but for a little bribe of 50 cents or a dollar a week to the tier guard one can buy the privilege of walking around on the gallery a few hours more a day. One guard tried to raise the| price and he was faced with a boy- cott from the prisoners. There were a few well-to-do strike breakers who paid the price for the privilege of scabbing. Grafting Guards Many guards advertise their friendliness and openly ask the re- ward for their virtue. Woe to the one who does not pay for the small doses of humanitarian feeling exhi- bited by his guards, He will be made to toe the mark, and he will surely be made to lose the regular privilege of having visits and the Guards taking prisoners to court will not permit himto-turn around friends, but once the. consideration is paid they turn humanitarian and overlook the. petty tyranies of the regime. This is duplicated at every opportunity offered. Beat Yrisoners The ferociousness of the sadistic guards is unbelievable until witness- ed. Commuhication with relatives by phone or telegram is supposed to be the right of every prisoner when first arrested, but one prisoner who was calling for this too insistently was beaten by four guards and thrown into a dark, bare cell to sleep on the stone floor. This procedure is usually followed almost nightly with mentally deranged or sick prisoners, who call for the doctor or get up from a nightmare -with frightened sereems. Instead of help they get a slugging, a dark bare cell and a stone floor for a bed. This is done to men who as yet are supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty,” but who are to pose to provide bail. Imagine what is the fate of the convicted prisoners? Justice For Sale Justice for sale would be the pro- per sign over all the courts in this capitalist democracy. The rich cri- minal buys his way out, of anything, not excluding murder, by sharing the swag with the judge and politician. In order to cover up the record of this corruption they. visit all the sev- erity of the law upon the poor, un- fortunates, wlio can not pay. Pris- oners tell each other how they reach- ed this judge or that politician ané how much they haye to pay for their freedom. Class Justice The rich prisoners are treated with deference not only in jail but also in courts. A District Attorney who will be as hard as nails with a petty thief will see the light of justice on WOOLWORTH PAYS $8. A WEEK Girls Harassed by Spy System (By a Worker Correspondent.) PRINCETON, N. J. — The Wool- worth Co. opened up one of their stores in Princeton just recently. ‘They hired about fifteen girls as wage slaves at a salary of eight dollars a week. Before being hired,'the girls were questioned as follows::-Do you have anyone depending upon you for sup- | rejier scene port? Who supports:you when you are unemployed? etc. Ifishe had any dependents she was not given a job. If she had to work to support her- self she was not hired. If she had welfare stoolpigeons, she was not hired. ‘ Each girl was investigated through the social service spy bureau and un- less she was just a girl working for pin money, she does not get a job. Workers girls needing jobs cannot a rich no matter how ferocious crim- inal. A magistrate who will bluster against a Union picket or unemploy- As an example, Magistrate Hersh- field is holding 8 laundry workers on information given by a boss dur- ed worker forgets his wrath against |ing a strike for over 2 months, but the big criminal. Negro workers who are usually poor stay in jail and get longest sentences, because they cannot furnish high bail and hire politicians to get them out. @ lawyer friend of the Magistrate was ready to have the case disposed of for a Consideration. This is the way law and justice works in the United States, Bosses Hail “Prosperity”; Pay Workers 90c Per Day Westbury, Conn, [not Conn. Daily Worker Editor: 4 ‘The following item appeared in the Waterbury Democrat, a local paper: “The Depression is making way for Prosperity as local factory calls for Help! Good times will soon be here again,” Being on the unemployed list, we were told that this factory was .look- ing for buffers and five of us were sent to report for work there at 12:30. We thought it was rather odd for a shop to want men but we decided to give it a try. What did we find there? When we reported to the “super” of the Mattatuck Manufac- turing Company, we were told that the job was hand buffing and were to start in on a piece work basis right off. We of course could ‘not refuse because if we did, we could LUMBER CRISIS HITS NEW LOW LEVEL IN ORE. Signs on Mille Say They Are Closed for Summer (By a Worker Correspondent.) ABERDEEN, Wash., May 30.—The lumber industry is getting into a deeper state of dissolution than it was though possible for it to reach. On Grays Harbor the industry not operating to exceed 5 to 8 per cent of normal capacity. On Willapa Harbor where the towns of Raymond and South Bend are located, the shutdown is complete. Mills Close. It is in the town of Raymond that the Weyerheauser Timber Co. took over all ofthe mills some months ago, It was said by many that now the mills will operate continuously but they were doomed to disapoint- ment. The mils are now closed. A sign was placed on the mill gates telling workers that the mills would close for the summer and that they should go home put in their gardens and get in their winters’ fuel. As I write this, a news item is shoved under my eyes which says that the West Coast Lumber Asso- ciation is to be liquidated. This means that there will be a wild scramble for the few crumbs of or- ders that is passed out. With this will come further wage cuts for the workers. Further Decline Seen. The owners of lumber in fact all men of big business are mad at one another. The accuse each other of unfair tactics, and this is true. It was thought by many that the threat of war would have some effect on the lumber market, but lumber has ceased to be the important factor in war that it was in the last war. This is caused by the fact that it is not used so much in the building of air- oplanes, ships, box material, etc. With all of this confusion and the lumber industry down to 15 per cent I would not be surprised to see 100 per cent of the mills shut down in the next few weeks, eed ote comes confusion in crooks and eac! this respect. Call for Real Fight Against Pay-Cut in Pa. Metal Factory (By a Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa, — The Alumi- | (oS num Co, of America announced here on May 26 that they would cut the get a job here. They must go out with some rich student. ‘to get any money. Letter from Alabama Was Eyeopener, Says Worker from Capitol Washington, D. .C Dear Editor:— = When I picked up your paper of May 21 I was surprised to learn of the growth of Communism in the United States. The Leornard Wright leter from the little cross roads town of Notasulga, Alabama, was an eye opener. If the letter had come from a worker in a largecityit would not have been so strange. But how did Leonard Wright, living in that speck town, ever get in touch with the Daily Work- jer in New York City? And where did he learn of the Communist Party and the struggle for equality of the colored people? You are chp some. How do you do =A Reader. i iahap wea macnlany Worker.) wages of all the workers in the plant. ‘The bosses say that they are cutting the wages as part of the “economy” Program which they say must be put into effect. Aluminum workers! Let us put a stop to Ghis vicious wage-cutting. Let us organize into the Metal Workers ‘Industrial League, build committees in the mill and strike against the wage-cut. We workers cannot stand to have our wages forced down to starvation level. Princeton Fascists Open Drive Against The Negro Masses (By a Worker Correspondent) PRINCETON, N. J. — Princeton fascists are trying to scare Negroes in Princeton away from the League of Struggle for Negro Rights by la- belling it “red”. The L, 8. N. R. is organizing the workers on the basis of nine hundred Negro workers in Princeton who are discriminated against by the university bosses who are the main suppliers of jobs here; —Ed, Note, to fight for equal right to work and conditions with the white workers, not get nae on the unemployed list. “That is the rule” we were told. So we went in to work since we really had no choice. ‘We learned that six men had quit work in the morning. After working one week of 4 days, 8 hours a day, they had received $4 for 32 hours of work, At first we were not going to work, but since we were all experi- enced buffers, we decided to try. Well, one man, after finding that he had earned six cents for one hour's work, quit right then. After talking it over, the rest of us decided to work until the evening. At quitting time we each earned as follows: first man, 90 cents, second man, 40 cents; third man, 50 cents; and I earned 74 cents for 4 hours work. Three of us are married and have children. Another man and I went to the super and told him we could not work for this. He advised us to try again fof the next day on a day basis at 35 cents an hour. He agreed to give us the 40 cents an hour which we demanded; but later we learned that his word was not reliable because the other men quit when he failed to give them day work which he promised. I will try to stick it out because I see great opportunity here for organization work and I am go- ing to try to form a nucleus and is- Sue a shop paper. I am going to try to have shop gate meetings. There are 300 employed, which is about one-third of the reg- ular force: There are about 200 youth and 100 adult workers. The largest pay in the factory is $15 and very few get that. I will send you results of the activities that we carry on. The fight against starvation wages will be carried on in this factory, be- lieve me! Dole Cut Last week the city cut down on the unemployment dole. Married men with large families get two days work at $3 a day and a bag of groceries worth $1.50. No more wood or coal is given. Small families consisting of two childrén or less get one day’s work and a bag of groceries. men, no more work.” We have to pay rent out of these wages because the city stops paying rent when they give us work on the unemployed gang. WORKER HITS SCHWAB'S LIES Playthings of the Rich Cost Millions (By a Worker Correspondent) CAMDEN, N. J.—Charles Schwab said some time ago that there were no rich people in America. Well, that one can be spiked very easily. In the little ship yard in Camden there are no less than five yachts of the most palaitial type, which are owned by millionaires. ‘These yachts are all bound for New York and they will use the sea route instead of the canal for fear that they will be met along the way by demonstrations of hungry jobless in Trenton, Bayonne and New-Bruns- wick. The names of the boats and the Verusselle, owned by Hopkins Jr., (Listerine heir). Lanakila, owned by F. Lovejoy. Tobber and slot machine man). Chicago Alderman Has Jobless Man Arrested W. A. Stokes Workers Get Pay-Cut Threat (By a Worker Correspondent) PENNSBURG, Pa. — Workers of the W. A. Stokes company’s wood working plant were informed that they would get a 20 percent reduc- tion in wages. Let's get together, workers, build a tank and file committee and strike against the cut. “Single. HOOVERVILLE- Suburbs like this are in every vietiy in the United States, Here job- less workers, who have been evicted from their homes, are forced to starve or live on garbage collected at nearby dumps, Baltimore War Plants Working Full Speed On War Materials (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE.—Although the ma~ jority of the big industrial plants in the Baltimore industrial district are either shut down or working on a small per centage of their normal capacity, it is significant that the in- dustries engaged in the manufacture of chemicals, nitrates, phosphates, gelatins, and other case materials of munitions, are running full blast, The Curtis Bay Chemical Works, the Davison Chemical Corporation, the Silica and Gel Corp. (Swift sub- sidiary), and in fact all chemical plants engaged in the past almost en- tirely in the manufacture of fertilizer, are at the present time running in full blast manufacturing, in addition to their regular products, sulphuric acid, hydrocyanic acid, nitric acid and storing these acids in large crated carboys, packed specially for export. The Davison works and the other chemical works in the Curtis Bay dis- trict are storing vast quantities of sulphur, copper pyrates and refihed WORKERS FIRED WHOLESALE ON SOUTHERN R. R. -Negro Workers Hit Hardest in Birming- ham Shops (By a Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—In the store- room department of the Southern R. R. here they have cut down from about 100 Negro workers and 50 white workers to 39 Negroes and 19 or 20 white workers. About all the white workers are petty bosses of some lit~ tle job in the storeroom. When a few Negro workers unload some lumber, there is a white boss looking on. This is the same in the bolt and wheel departments. ‘There is a boss in the yard and where we cast the flat forms, Then we have @ general boss. Age of}a Negro worker or length of service to the company doesn’t mean a thing. A Negro worker is afraid to mention how long he has worked for the company. They start Negro workers in at 30 cents an hour if he is good and does everything the boss tells him, he gets a penny in- crease at the end of every year. Negro workers have to work in the rain when white workers are allowed | to stand in the shelter of the build- ore (imported from Spain), raw phos- | phates and saltpetre. Very little if any of the finisher products are sold|among the farm population. This is | Ing in anticipation on the domestic market as the rail-| road sidings are devoid of cars and tanks and no trucks take loads out of the plant. On the docks, however, it is different with barges loading ni- trates and acids for the Delaware | River where the Dupont Powder | Works are located and ships loading | the same materials for the Far East. | Ships Loaded With War Materials | Every ship sailing from this port! for the Far East in the past month | has loaded barbed wire, automobiles, | and unmarked large crates, The Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Spar- rows Point although working only 22 per cent of capacity and employing only about 5,000 men in place of the | regular force of 15,000, is still pur- chasing ore in large quantities to resume mass production at any time. ‘The finished product that is being | turned out at the Bethlehem Steel is almost entirely reinforcing steel, ar- mor plate and ignots. It is significant to note that al- though building construction is at the lowest ebb in the history of the United, that building material of the type that can be used for fortifica- | tions, trenches, gun bases, ets. is be | ing turned out dafly in the steel mills | and is exported to Japanese, Korean and South Manchurian ports where | normal building for commercial pur- poses is paralyzed due to war actiy- ities. The Bethlehem Steel is also train- ing a favored cadre of willing slaves | to ferrett out the most militant work- ers in the mill and in reward these stool-pigeons are being given straw boss and other favored jobs. British Ship Carries Pyrates Workers going to and from the docks and having to pass through the chemical works at Curtis Bay are no- tified by the ate watchman not to enter any of the buildings, loiter, or speak to any of the workers in the plant. The S.S. Tresillion flying the English flag and discharging copper pyrates, was dispatched to Spain to load this cargo while at seat enroute to Hamburg. This shows that emer- gency orders required this material and the Tressilion being closest to the loading port was notified by wire- Jess to change her course which al- most certainly involved the paying of a bonus for this cargo. A daily struggle against imperialist war is being carried on by the Marine Workers Industrial Union whose del- egates visit ships daily with anti-war leaflets and pamphlets in all lan- guages and speak to the crews calling upon them to aid in the prevention of the transportation of war materials | and explaining to them the collabor- ation of all capitalist nations in pre- paring a war against the Soviet ings. School Children Are Building Their _ Own Lives in the Soviet Union "Moscow, USSR. Dear Comrades: I am Alexandra Andrianovna Ka-| banova, I am a teacher of math- ematics in a factory school in Mos- cow. We have about 800 pupils in our school; the average age is 15% years, the majority of them are girls (85 per cent). They enter our school after graduating primary school, 50 per cent of the school term is de- voted to teoretical studies: (1) Rus- sian language; (2) Mathematics; (3) Social science; (4) Physics; (5) Chemistry; (6) Drawing; (7) Machine structure; (8) Study of materials; (9) Designs; (10) Biology; (11) Mili- tary science; (12) Physical culture; (13) Organization of production (bet- ter methods of production). The other 50 per cent of the school period is devoted to work. We have our owm small factory at the school where we make men’s and children’s mid-season coats, I wonder whether you have clothing factories in your city. The machines in our factory are run by electric power. Our clothing factories are special- ized; some produce women’s dresses, underwear, others padded men’s coats, still others padded women's coats, etc. The youngsters study two years and Union. ° Moscow Teacher Tells | How Children Help Build Socialism then go to work in the factories. While they attend school they get paid: The first 6 months, 25 roubles a month, the next 6 months 30 rou- bles, then 38 and then 45 roubles a month. 6 Hour Day After studying a year and a half the pupils became full-fledged work- ers and earn more according to their ability, understanding and diligence. The working day of the pupils is six hours; after four days of work they get one day of rest. The pupils work in two shifts alternately. Four days from 7:30 in the morning until 2:30 in the afternoon; and four days from three inthe afternoon until 9:50 in the evening—they have a half an hour for lunch and another ten min- utes intermission. Besides regular rest days the pupils have five workers’ holidays together with all the workers of the Soviet Union, and two months vacation with. full pay. The majority of the pupils THEY DON’T WANT TO GIVE US NOTHING WHEN WE WORK Editorial Note:—The letters were sent to the “Daily Worker” by Negro workers in the Black Belt of Alabama, They de- scribe in the language of the southern worker the horrible slave conditions existing throughout the | Black Belt area. We withhold the names of the workers and the town from which the letters came in order not to expose them to the southern lynch terror, see Daily Worker: ° I write you to notify you of! following , the conditions here. | They bread and lard gr We must take worse than dogs for fare hard days @ week and don’ want us to have anything but co’ And they not want us to have much of that, They don't t to give us noth- ing when we work, They want us to take our wages in milk that is half j Water and stale, rancy butter they | cannot eat, They mix a littl uiter with | the stale and want us to pay 30 cents a pound for it. Farm Board H elps to Ruin Potato Farmers in Maine (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, Me.—The readers of the Daily Worker will be interested to hear about conditions in the po- tato country of Maine where I live.| In Aroostook County more potatoes are produced than anywhere elese in| the U. S. Enough potatoes could be | produced here to feed the total pop- | ulation of the country as far as the | potato demand is concerned. Under these circumstances, it migltt | be thought that prosperity prevails not so and has not been the case |for a number of years, Conditions | GARY MAYOR IN HAMMOND MEET He Abkes for Votes; | | Workers Ask His Stand on Relief (By a Workers Correspondent) GARY, Ind.—The Mayor of Gary, |R. ©. Johnson, who refused the} streets to the workers for their May | |Day parade, was in Hammond cam- | |paigning for votes in order to go to |Congress. A group of workers from | the Hammond Unemployed Council | were at the meeting. During his| talk, when he stressed the prohibi- | tion issue, one worker shouted out: | |““How about some porterhouse steak?” | This gave an opening to other workers and a woman comrade, | |Leona Johnson, took the floor and| Gemanded that the vote getier state his stand on unemployment insur- ance. She denounced the so-called relief, the garbage that is handed out by the agencies. She asked how the Gary mayor could have the nerve to ask the working people of Ham- | mond to work for him when he re- fused the workers the right to use the streets in Gary. “Would you not do the same thing en a national basis if you were jelected to congress? If you are against the workers now as a mayor of a city what can we expect from you when you become a congress- man?” These were the questions , asked the ambitious politician. And | he could not answer them. This mayor takes a guard of gun thugs with him while he 1s cam- paigning, which proves that he is one of them. LJ. Ohio Railroad Shops Fire All But Bosses COLUMBUS, Ohio. — The local Pennsylvania Railroad Shops, known as the Panhandle Shops, which at one time hired as many as 5,000 men, is now practically shut dowm There was an indefinite layoff on | | May 23 when about 40 percent of the | remaining workers were fired. ‘There are about 400 workers now left in the shops. These are mostly foremen and straw bosses. Another layoff is expected soon. | | are children of workers and partly | children of peasants, kolkhosniks | (collective farm members). Before | entering a factory school, the chil-| dren are examined by specialist phys- | icians; they are measured, weighed, given mental tests and then, accord- ing to their condition of health and giftedness, sent to one or another school connected with one or another factory. Medical Care The pupils are all the time under | observation and care of physicians, we have our own medical center. Every year the pupils undergo a com- plete medical and sutropometrical | examination, Children not in perfect health are sent to houses of rest for two weeks or @ month; they are put on a diet | and sent to sanitariums. Last year) we sent to sanitariums and resi homes 120 pupils. Besides work and study the pupils are also engaged in| Social activities, they learn to gov-— ern their workers state. You see, in| the U.S.S.R. a worker at the lathe today is a director of a factory to- | morrow, The pupils themselves build their own life. | A. A. Kabanova, |yield to pay back WORKERS SCORE throughout the section are terrible. Farmers are losing their farms in de- fault of taxes and becoming. tenants. There is little or no help from the Farm Board as the farmers long ago have recognized this bunch of fakers as the same class of men who are driving them into bankruptcy Gyped By A and P Look at their tactics. The A and P loans the farmers seed and money, etc. to carry out their spring plant- of good crops, {and with the farms as security. Na- turally, the farmers must good a good the usurers. They have a good yield all right, but po- tatoes that cost one dollar and a quarter a barrel to raise have been | bringing from forty cents to one dol- Jar on the market. Those unable to pay back the big companies find their farms taken or threatened. The A and P buys the scarred, poor po- tatoes from the farmers for almost | |nothing on the plea that they are practically worthless. These are the potatces they sell in their stores all over the country. The good potatoes they sell at high prices in foreign and domestic markets for seed. Naturally they can afford to sell their potatoes at cheap prices and at the same time make a huge profit. Thus the farm- er is gyped both ways. . ‘When the farmers tried to get to- gether as a last resort to form a cooperative association the ers’ lawyer for a higher salary to work for them. Last summer the county was flooded with unfortunate | workers who were glad to do work for the companies for their board only. Hundreds of others were forced to steal their food, and even go out into the fields to kill cows and eat their meat. In the districts bordering the Maine | wilderness hundreds of families have only been able to keep from starva- | tion because they went into the woods and “jacked” deer for meat years ago, This is why Maine, the state that | has been “only lightly touched” by | the depression, is “getting along.” Meanwhile the Chamber of Com- merce and other fascist organizations are flooding the country with leaflets, | ™ | bonus. telling of the glories (but not the poverty) of the “Vacation State” and urging people to come here and spend their vacation (and incidentally their money) in the midst of this “opulent paradise.” Meanwhile farmers go broke, the bosses of the Central Main Power (Insull) pay their mill hands any- where from three to ten dollars a week, the paper and pulp factories work not at all or four days a week, and hundreds are laid off daily. There are only 11 firemen working on the Maine Central Railroad; the rest are former engineers, while the foremen they hed to push out are walking the streets. Naturally the whole state is controlled by the bosses (mainly Insull, some Mellon) ‘This is a little picture of the “Pine Tree State” that doesn’t get into the columns of the Portland Press Her- aki, —A Maine Student. ‘N.Y. SODA CLERKS TOIL 18 HOURS Are Fired If Profits _ Are Too Low (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—For the eigh- teen or twenty dollars a week that soda clerks get, we have to mop the fioors, scrub windows, polish silver and fountain, wash dishes, make sa- lads, syrups and wait on customers. We have to work 12 hours a day and 14 on Saturdays. The Silver Rod stores take inventory every two weeks | The soda clerk must show a fifty Percent profit or lose his job. In the summer we lost our jobs because the bosses hire schocl-boys and teach them the trade while paying them ten or twelve dollars a week. Fellow soda clerks! We must or- ganize and fight for an 8-hour day and five-day week with no reductioa in pay. Write to the Trad? Union Unity League at 5 E. 19th St. for in- formation. —M. FP, —.———_ GUARDS: iS ARM Anthony Alirie, a 21-year-old Na- tional Guardsman of the 105th Pisld Artillery Regiment, N. Y. C., | as three-inch gun ew ' Mgmorial Day ceremonies here. are wanting us to work} do “Blue | Goose” grafters bought off the farm-| Other | men are going back into the woods | to live Jike trappers of two ‘ong: lost his | arm when hit by a ram:od fired from ug the military) I have six family and woman I work Ss me to t 24 pound sack of fiour to last f a@ month. She has three in her fam- ily and this much flour wouldn't st her a month, My wife was supposed to get 75 cents for the washing, but the all she ever gets is promises. When we |do get paid we do not get it all at once. Sometimes we get a little mite, 25 cents or Sometimes I get as high-as two dollars, but I have to buy rations with this and the woman I work for makes me take the rations @ little bit at a time I must pay more for the goods than |she pays for them | She hired my father and myself |to saw wood for her the cord. When it was sawed she wanted to pay us by the day. She hasn't paid us yet I have to work my crop and her garden and potato patches and tend all her stock. I attend to them just hey were mine. Yet my wife and I are barefooted. We can’t go to church ess we borrow a pair! of shoes We have to shuck corn and take it to the store to trade it for rations. but + she charges us 10 per cent on doll Every time I ask her for money, she says she hasn't got afy, but she has a fine car. Whenever we go to her for money to buy shoes. and clothes she wants to put old rags off on us and charge us a big price for them. When we go to their house we must go to the back door. The women are holding regular meetings to decide on what to pay They generally y nothing. They give our wi water, stale butter, and rags for wages. half milk and old ham bone Daily Worker: | Say mister~what about this? My house rent is $3 a month and I have to work ior $8 a month. I work from sunup until sundown, I worked for Mr. in 1 made 13 bales of cotton an $108. The landlord took all my ton and a load of corn to Pay for what I owed, All last year I paid 18 egnts for lard. In other places lard was 11 and 12 cents. I don’t know: when I will be put off the land here h, and NY. SUBWAYMEN 10 GET NEW 10 PER CENT CU Call Transport Men to Build One Big Union (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y. Last fall the B. M, T. saw fit to cut the workers | down from a’seven day week to a six day week and causing the income of the workers to drop by 15 percent | Also they cut the rate of conductors | and trainmen in the subway two cents n hour, and entirely withdraw our On top of this they cut our | no-accident bonus in half. And now the company is going to | cut our wages by ten percent! First to be cut are the conductors and trainmen, then if the workers allow this, the rest of the workers will re- ceive a cut, Fellow workers, this means our liy- ing will be reduced to the miserable coolie standard. If the company feels like reducing, let them reduce the dividend and interest on shares ahd bonds. To hell with these bloodsuckers! Now is the time to organize to pre= vent this stealing of our wages! Or- @anize for the forty-hour week into a union under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. This | will be a union that will stick with us and not doublecross us as the Amalgamated and the A. F. of L. hhe.c done in the past. Send your application to the T. U. U. L. at 5 E. 19th St. Distribute them among your fellow-workers, Organize com- mittees in your department, shopé of the bosses to reduce us to starva- Get busy. Stop the dastardly plaxis tion. We must form a union which | will embrace the workers of the I. R: | T. as well as the B. M. T, and all | workers connected with the transit lines. Our moito—All transit works ers in one union! One union for ali | transit workers! Fight Against | cuts! | | Japanese Ship Loads. |\Mysterious Cargo at) | Philadelphia Docks) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — A Jap- anese ship was loading cases ai the Franklin Sugar docks on the Deleware River the other day, |” | | The cases were marked merchand- | ise, but I would like to know why a Japanese ship should come to)» Philedelphia for sugar when thy could get it at Manila. I tried to get on the dock, but wes stopped by a watchman and wes acked what my business was. told to get the hell off the The watchman said, “Don't jow that that is a Japanese AML this loots very. fiehy to me. | I think If we made a gocd inves- | | tigation we weld find that it is arms end no: sugar tat was loaded on this chip, --A Marine Worker. ee on