The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1932, Page 3

vA Wino, NisW YO, SAGURDAL, AUUUss 6, 1 202 Vage in.c2 SES = Wages Practically Zero at Minnesota Steel & Wire Co. Workers’ Meagre Pay Sliced by System of Deductions ‘By a Worker Correspondent.) ULUTH, Minn.—Conditions among @ workers of the American Steel & Wire Co, (formerly Minnesota Steel Co.) are unbearable... The majority of the workers are totally unem- ployed. Those still fortunate enough to work in the mill get only two days @ week, Since the last 15 per cent cut, the wages are practically noth- ing, as the enclosed check will tes- tify. Besides working under terrific speed-up and brutal wage-cuts, the lworkers in the plant, are subjected to all sorts of deductions, which further reduce their standard of living. The following are the de- ductions imposed upon the steel workers: Deductions. Doctor, $1 per month; insurance, $2 per month; Good Fellowship Fund, 75 cents permonth, and then ithe greatest part of the remainder of the check is deducted -by~ the company and applied onto the store bill. At the same time further credit is cut off at the company store, The Good Fellowship Fund is supposed to be used for the benefit of the employes. Since the big lay- off last spring, when only 200 men were left on the job out of 3,000, the |ma‘iagement began to hand out re- lief out of the fund for the work- ers, about $1 worth of oatmeal, salt pork, flour and beans, with a pound of coffee now and then, Insurance Robbery. The insurance for which the work- ers are forced to pay, is absolutely no good, $1,000 in the insurance fund, can’t cash in on a nickel. The workers of the American Steel & Wire Co. are beginning to see that only through organizing will they get anywhere. We are begin- but Council and into the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. From A Worker in US.SR. MOSCOW, U. 8S. S. R.—A _letter from J, Kwashenko, worker of the “May First” Mechanical Works, Mos- bow: (Class Brothers, Members of the Re- formist Trade Unions, Members of the Social Demorratic Party, and Workers of Other Parties! ‘The bourgeoisie is doing everything n its power in order to vilify the let Union. I want to tell you something about my life in the U. . §: R., in order that on the ex- ple of my life you see also just ow other workers ini the U. S. 8. R. ve. ‘The civil war found me a five-year- Id child. When I Was 8 years old, uring the period of’ ruin and fam- ne in the U. S. S..R,, I lost my ts and remained all alone, ithout any support}at all When still small I had to werk in the har- and help the loaders. But when country grew stronger I was iven the chance to study. R Continued Studies. After graduation from the work- prs’ school I became @ helper in a thy of the Central, Workers’ Co- erative; afterwards T wept over to io building work and after a short veriod became a real carpenter. dowever, while working I continued io study and the government not gave me the possibility to study ree of charge, but even gave me ma- erjal support. At the present time, after having peen given a special training and échnical education Iam working as constructor and earn up to about 00 rubles 2 month. I am not in heed of anything, just as all other orkers in the US.S.R. True, we we some difficulties, but these Hifficulties grow less from day to y, The overwhelming majority of uur working youth study in the high ichools and universities, Eight Questions Class brothers, social-democratic orkers and workers of other parties: I should like to put a few questions ‘Iso to you and hope to geb an an- wer from you. If you reply tothem the affirmative, then I go over fo your side. In tne. USSR. each ind /every worker when asked these luestions without any hesitation will Inswer briefly: “Yes, we have all of Here are these questions: -~- 1, Do the workers of-your. coun- y have the 7-hour working day? 2, Are workers in your country 1d to leading positions? 3. Dous your union send you to he different schools and universities, ind do the companies pay you for e time you spend in studying? 4. Do the companies send: work- to the health resorts at their 5. Are workers’ children’ accepted ly the universities in the first turn? 6. Do women workers when preg- nt get 4 months’ vacation with pay? 7, Do'wages go up in. your coun- ‘Jpuntry increase or decrease? ‘| ‘With proletarian greetings, J. KWASHENKO. ‘My address: Moscow, 26. Warshav- caya Shosse 9, “May First”. Me- nanical Works. J. Kwashenko. STATE GETS RELIEF TWO LETTERS ‘From A Worker in U. S. A. (By a Railway Worker) CLEVELAND, O.—Greetings to our comrades on the railways of the U. S. S. R. from the comrades of the U. S. A., and, believe me, conditions are bad here on our rails for the | workers, They have been pruning our forces until we have but 60 per cent of the working force of three years ago, and the few of us left don’t know how long we will hold our jobs before the knife gets us. In numbers, and estimated from this district, a million men of the rail are on the breadlines, and those who are working earn but 70 per cent of the wages of 1928. To top that off, our government has started inflation of our money, which puts up com- modity prices that we must meet with our lowered wage value. Road or engine crews have suffer- ed lay-offs for ten years on account of bigger engines that can haul 140 loads over one division of 130 miles in from three to five hours. The shops for car and engine repair have been closed 50 per cent of the time since 1929, and when open operate with but 50 per cent of their force. Road Beds Unsafe ~ Our track gangs are cut from 12 men to two men, and work but four days a week, so our road beds are in need of repair. It’s hardly safe to run over them, and each day they get worse. Our clerks are getting the axe. | Merging headquarters of general ac- ; counting in New York City put 370 on the breadline here, and compelled those working to suffer a two-day delay in getting our pay checks, Clerks now are speeded up to a mad- house pace. Signalmen Cut Our signal tower department suf- fered cuts wtih closing of towers. We can afford nothing for recreation or sports or/culture. That makes it a dreary life for all of us. Just “eat, sleep and work.” Our “Captains of Industry” and the “Best Minds” of our “easy” years are frantically trying to patch up our economic system so as to pro- long the power of their imperialism; and here's hoping the peoplé get sick of their blundering and take over which generally amounted to} Some workers have over | ning to organize into the Unemployed | MOST FLORIDA CITRUS FARMERS ARE BANKRUPT Work from Dawn to Night to Squeeze Through (By a Worker Correspondent) ARCADIA, Fla.—Of the thousands of citrus growers and farmers here, most are bankrupt. As usual, the citrus fruits are picked by the Citrus Exchange or the Packinghouse Cor- poration. After packing and selling, nothing is left for the middle-size and small farmers. On the con- trary, sometimes they are short. The exchanges or banks give bind- ing credits for fertilizer and some- times a little for cultivation. To get food to eat, the farmer has to work a garden or to raise some cattle or chickens, Continual Work. We work from early sunrise till late at night, in order to squeeze through till next harvest. It is 14 miles from our farm to Arcadia. All the farms here are widely distrib- uted. To have a car means money for gas and oil, and whoever has no car depends upon his neighbors to} get to Arcadia at least once a week| to get the necessary things. In spite of their liking for pro- gressive literature and their inclina- tion towards radicalism, the people are fanatically religious. They have | not a cent to spare, and yet they| visit the church picnics to study the| “beyond.” Terror Against Negroes. The Negroes here are especially watched. The well-known lynch agents look out carefully for all con- | nections with the white race, and for all signs of “unruliness.” One thing is sure, Florida cannot go on like this for long; new taxes, | dispossessing of farms by the ser-| vants of the government, and so on, only drive the people on ‘the road of | struggle. Nearby lives a vet. He has a wife and three children and depends upon | his disability allowance, which is go- |ing to be taken away from him, ac- cording to latest official announce- ments, He uses crutches to walk with. A good deal of the farmers already sold their cattle, because they don't have the money for feed. Business in Arcadia is bad, 13 stores have closed already, others are supposed to follow. And yet the price for feed is as high as ever. My comrade (owner of the farm) lives here with his wife and family. I work for board and lodging. KID McCOY (By a Worker Correspondent.)' Kid McCoy, the convicted mur- derer, once a millionaire sportsman with a French villa and an Italian estate, acquired by the sportsmanlike use of his fists in battering pugs and mugs, was released on parole from the Big House of San Quentin, where he served eight years of a twenty- year sentence for the slaying of his common law wife while drunk, It is not our task to attack the individual release of this victim of the system under which we live, but were not his release from San Quen- tin and his appointment to a posi- tion with the Ford Motor Co. in De- troit synonymous to the labor trouble they anticipate, this article would probably go unwritten. War On Foreign Born. We were treated to a news item last week that the Doak Department of Justice “discovered” some 600 for- eigners working in Ford’s plant who had illegally. entered the United States. As reported by the Associ- ated Press it would appear that Henry not only oppressed American workers with his speed-up system and part-time operation of his plants, but he also discriminated against them by widespread employment of “foreigners” and only when his work« ers developed a militant union or- ganization, to Henry's surprise and chagrin, he was forced to plot their the job themselves, the same as the people of the USSR. Even Spoiled Fish Kept Away from Hungry Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—In the lower East Side, and precisely in the neighbor- hood of Fulton and Front Street, are located the wholesale fish markets. The spoiled fish, unfit for sale, is Placed on the truck landings await- ing to be carted to the dumps. It is an everyday occurrence to see hundreds of ragged, bony, deseased and starving unemployed, picking out the foul smelling fish, They are subjected to all kinds of abuse by the private guards and superintend- ents of the freezing plants. At times buckets of icy water are thrown at them from the upper stories. I sup- pose this is another method by means of which they are trying to keep fish prices up, by preventing unemployed workers from eating rot- ten fish. ‘This morning, peering out from downfall and reveal his employment of “foreigners” in such large num- bers. MoCoy’s Job. We do not expect Kid McCoy to restrain his pupils or restrict them to merely “physical training” and the study of working-class economics, bue we do expect that once a bruiser, always bruiser, and that his pupils will concentrate on the militant workers building up the Auto Work- ers’ Union in Henry's plant that Brother Doak can’t reach with his Department of “Justice.” Tom Mooney will continue to re- main a prisoner of the capitalistic class; like the martyr he is, he will win more workers to the cause of the working class movement than all the Kid McCoys even can intimi- date in the name of capitalism with murderous weapons or strong-arm methods. W. Ty New Orleans, La, fy myself with going from worker to worker in my plant and arouse their indignation by reporting what T had seen, Of course well do I un- derstand that this is not sufficient to where one lives or works is a good method of agitation which, by arous- \the price was 35c a dozen. ing the workers’ indignation, awak- ens their sense of solidarity and thus makes it possible to approach them svayag! Historic, Boston Common is home meaning to then COAL ROBBERS TRY TO CASH IN VICTIMS’ MISERY CHAS © TAYLOR. Manasee Ennah Re eerie ‘and Colorado, order to please. We have spocial propositions on school coal, and tate, with fae low prices we can offer, means not only the best coal now but the lowest prices. Call us collect, or write us before placing your You will be well paid. orders. Yours very truly, @. C, Taylor, Western’ Yanager, High Grade Steamt Domestio€oal General ifice, Memphis on. Gallas, Fenas ay 1, 931. Te Fm. Gott dus Rorutet hx Something to Think About The preparation and quality of these coals will be better than ever, we belicve, as the minors are usiz; extreme care in producing the coal in nth OF, Wilburton (Cklaho SOUTHERN COAL COMPANY, R. Be Berkshire, Asst. Managers QUITS U.S. SCRAP HEAP FOR JOB 60-Year-Old Toiler Gets New Life By ANDREW NELSON LENINGRAD, U,S.S.R.—I came to California as a pioneer 45 years ago, when the capitalists had their slogans, Go West, young man, to the gold coast of Sunny California. I Jabored there for 45 years, till I was 60, and then I could get no work. ‘They said, No work for an old man. I therefore came to the Soviet Union, to the land of opportunity for workers. There the wrokers and farmers rule through their elected Soviets. I met an American in Leningrad who helped me look around. I ap- plied for work at the Red Hirnich in U..3. 8. R. ‘plant. At the employment office I |met the manager, He said, can you talk Russian? I said No, So he talked in English. He saked, what can you do? I said, Carpentry. So he introduced me to the plant man- jager, who also spoke English. I felt at home, They never asked me how old 1} was. It is not like in the United | States, Here if a man can work he | gets work to do. If the work gets too hard they give him easier work, or @ pension, In the United States the | only opportunity I had was to go to @ poorhouse, or the land of the Sal- | vation Army, where you get pie when | you die. RACKET EXPLOITS “POP* SELLERS Worked All Day and Lost Money (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The other day I started out to sell ice cream on the streets. I discovered that this is just another racket for robbing unemploy- ed workers of their last few pennies. A big sign outside read, “Men and boys wanted to sell ice cream--Make $4 to $7 a day—Buy a dozen pops for 30c and sell them for 60c.” That sounded well. Inside, a different story was re- lated, After adding on a few penies for “magic ice” and other things, Then you must buy at least two dozen, That made 70c, Then comes the deposit for the container, $1. Before starting I must hand the racketeer $1.70. I scrapped it together and started. ‘JOBS AND PAY CUT ‘IN BUFFALO PORT |“Relief” ‘Also. Being Reduced In City (By a Worker Correspondsnt) BUFFALO, N. Y¥.—Twelve thousand families are on “relief in this city, and even this is being cut down, with Negro families the first to be cut off. On boats owned by the U. S. Steel and Bethlehem trusts, wages of sea~ men have been reduced from $105 to |$50 a month. Only two watches are maintaineq on these boats, meaning a 12-hour day. A new rule forces the seamen to pay for their own meals when the ship lays over for a few days. About 800 shipped from this port this season, as compared with 8,000 a season ago. No local relief is given to seamen, as city officials claim this is a Federal matter. Freight handlers have been cut from 45 to 60 cents an hour last season to 25 cents an hour. BOSTON (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass.—The continued impoverishment of the workers in Boston is evident everywhere. Statis- tics prove it, and various individual tragedies are taking place daily to give spice and flavor to bare facts. Take the average rooming house section. Here the transient workers stay—workers who have left their families in other cities, or who have come off the farms. For instance, look at Jimmy El- strom, three years ago, a husky six- foot Swede. He worked full time, ‘was robust, happy and energetic. Month after month, the change was wrought. A year ago he was work- ing only two days’ a week. Now he doesn’t work at all, He has become seedy-looking. His face is the color of a dried-up. potato. He has lost his manly assurance. He stands hours outside of mission flops wait- ing for a feed. Then there is Billy Hall, an ex- marine. He couldn't find work and, his girl chided him. He held up a store, lost his nerve during the prd- cess and the storekeeper slit his guts open with a banana-knife. Then his girl was arrested for living with him unwed. The ex-marine moaned on his hospital cot “not to hurt her. ‘We wanted to get marred, but we didn’t have any money.” War Vet. L, Henderson was a crippled war veteran, He was a physical wreck, and when his wife left him he drank himself to death, Everywhere prostitutes ply their trade, only now the age limit is be- coming lower and lower. It is not unusual for men to be picked up by 12-year-old children who are anxious to sell themselves. Only two doors away from L. Hen- derson three men live on the weekly city relief. One of them gets $3 a week. , Their meals consist of boiled potatoes and more boiled potatoes. ‘Boston Common to thousands of workers, many of |them professional end white-collar workers, At all hours of the day un- til one and two o'clock in the morn- ing, groups of workers gather to dis- | cuss their condition, The Catholic | Truth Guild has sent its propagand- ists to work among these discontented unemployed, to do all possible to keep | revolutionary ideas from taking root in the minds of these men. These propagandists are well paid. The po- lice are beginning to watch these im- promptu group discussions among the unemployed. In the midst of these miserable un- employed workers rises the Grand Stand of Boston Common, where band concerts used to be occasionally given, and where civic ceremonies sometimes take place. Now a library Was been established ‘here, where the unempjoyed may borrow books to oc- cupy their minds. Empty bellies may harbor dangerous thoughts, so give them pink-tea magazines to read and cast-off magazines. All literature of- fered to the library is censored; nev- ertheless some class-war literature has been smuggled in, * I wonder if any of these unemploy- ed workers heard the speech of Carl P. Dennet on the radio the other night. This gent is vice-president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of Hunger Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation in this district,. His speech from be- ginning to end was an exhortation for financiers, industrialists and prop- erty owners to present a united front against the taxation of wealth, and to place the burden on the masses of people, He spoke at a banquet given by the World Radio Corp., and work- ers huddled on park benches could listen to it from the Grand Stand Radio, f ‘Yes, the workers employed and un- employed, are beginning to under- stand the demands raised by the Communist Party. These demands jated by the south th | “inherent characteristic” of the black | myself in my.own work. NEGRO NURSE 90% in Poorhouse of FINDS HER PLACE IN CLASS FIGHT Sight of Scottsboro Demonstration Shows Path (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK—I had been a Negro nurse at the L— Hospital in Har- lem, a hospital for Negroes, but staf- fed almost entirely by whites. In spite of the general impression cre- t raping is an hace and that Negro wom: “naturally” immoral, I was greatly annoyed by the unwelcome atten which one of the white doctor: sisted on paying me—so unwelcome that I let him know in no uncertain terms. You can imagine my horror and terror for the future when I was summarilly dismissed from my position. Work through the Nurses Registr: was so hard to get that I found 1 self tramping the streets. I cant felt at that time for the “moral” and turns right around and drives Negro women on the streets. Demonstration Points New Life As I was standing miserably on Lenox Avenue one Saturday after- noon, I suddenly heard a tremendous roar. Down the street came an as- |tounding sight which opened up a |new life for me—black and white, jhand in hand, defiant, shouting for |bread, for justice, for the Scottsboro jboys. I was witnessing my first Red demonstration. It was not untiJ I joined the Med- ical Workers through a Daily Worker which was thrust into my hands that day that I learned something about I had taken it for granted that the twelve-hour deed in the interests of “humanitq;” capitalism, patching up and curing to their machines and make more profit for their bosses. It was thru the Medical Workers League that I learned of the Soviet Union where nurses really “work for the workers and where they are given a human- length day. I write this letter for any of my colored sisters who may be driven on the street as I was. Prostitution and suicide are the ways of that the cap- italist bosses want us to take; but we must be strong and show that that OUR way out is through organ- ized struggle, hand in hand with our fellow white workers. Raymond St. Jail (By a Worker Correspondent) Raymond Street Prison is a build- ing of iron and stone; some floors in the building have 16 little rooms, and some have more. Each room is the size of a chicken-coop. Each room has a tiny little sink where the prisoner can hardly wash one hand Yes, also a little toilet which stinks under your nose. A bed full of bugs stands on one side of the wall. Two sheets, one pillow and one blanket full of lice make the complete out- fit. All prisoners are numbered accord- ing to the floor and the number of the cell room, I was in Raymoni Street Prison only five days. _My cell number was 3-So. 2. The bed in my cell on which I spent five restless nights stamped out on my body all its steel designs. I got to- gether my revolutionary spirit and demanded a matress for my bed. Force Extra Blankets All the women prisoners on my floor supported my demand, and we all got extra blankets to sleep on, but no mattress. The fat police matron yelled, “This is no hotel. This is Raymond Street Prison. You must sleep on the bare springs; if not, you'll all go down to the cellar and there we'll put you to sleep on the floor.” ‘The crime for which I was put in prison was that I helped the workers of 1305 Pitkin Ave., Browns- ville, to protest against the eviction of an unemployed worker, a painter by trade, who was put out of his room on June 2 for not being able to pay his rent for one month. More Automat Wage * Cuts and Speed Up (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA.—One man has to do the work that five men did last year at the Horn & Hardat resaur- ants here. Last week we got another cut and some girls and men are making $12 to $15 a week for the same hours. ‘They have stool-pigeons who spy on us and if we are not working hard enough to suit them, they turn us in and we get fire. The boss picks on Negro workers especially. He also told us that we must go on “a diet,” and this evidently is preparing a way to reduce our miserable allowance for eats, They allow us a ticket for meals which says, $1.20, but the food we get wouldn't cost them more than 22 cents, and is stale food that’s left over. If nothing is left over we get nothing. ‘We must organize and fight against wage-cuts. Join the Food Workers Industrial Union at 230 South 9th St. } Since this has been written another 10 per cent has been put over, - FIND NO RELIE begin to tell you of the hatred I) white race which lynches Negro men | day which nurses spent was a noble | now I realize I had been slaving for | workers so that they could go back| /6,000 Workers Who 50 Years of Capitalism (By a Worker - Yonkers Worked for Carpet Millionaire Helped Build Fortune Now Starving Creates 50,000 Beggars, 10 Multi-Millionaires Correspondent) YONKERS, N. ¥.—The Carpet shop here isi the largest corporation in the city of Yonkers, as the owners, The group of workers F ON FARMS FROM INo Place for Michigan Workers Thrown Out of Mills (By a Worker Corresponden’ | GLENNIE, Mich.—Life hi ys |been pretty hard the farm, Dur- jing “good times” the children of the jpoor farmers flocked to the large cities in tens of thousands. Detroit, |Lansing, Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw and other cities flourished on their fer- |tile blod and sweat. They filled the |machine shops, the assembly plan’ |the foundries, the furniture factori they ran the trucks and trains; they slaved as teachers, cooks, waitresses, housemaids. Life on the stump |farms full of marl and sand was so t) slavery in the city to going back to the weeds and the outhouse. Now, however, they are faced with jstarvation in the cities. Many re- {turn to the old farm, to their gaunt fork teeth, The few who are left work three or four half days for one-fourth of their former wages. | If they are school teachers, their miserable salaries are held up. |Teaching in villages and country schools, they make on the average $800 a year. Waitresses, driven from early morning to midnight seven days @ week, are given the princely wages of $5 a week, Housemaids are lucky |to get $4 @ week, And then they jhave to put up with the nerves of their employers much the same as the serfs who used to keep the bull- frogs quiet in the pond while the master snored in his big house. Many girls are so set against going back to the miserable farms that they will work just for meals and lodging. |The workers, driven by unemploy- ment froru the big cities, find little to do on the old farms that are heavily mortgaged and rum down. Their strong hance idle, they sit brooding, envying the stable flies in the heaped manure. Talk to them, and you find as a |rule that the hooded cobras of the hed newspapers have filled them with |all sorts of poison. Mention the war |danger; they look at you unbeliev- ingly. Beneath their good nature and desire to do the right thing, you |will always find an explosive anger. They'll be damned if they'll fight in ;any war. <A fellow, who’ wants to |can wrestle with. T>rre is something {men and women. It is up to us to mold the steel barrels through which their anger will take the right di- rection, Praise for Heroic (By a Miner's Wife) has been used. to get the Illinois miners to accept the yellow dog agreement, and yet the miners have voted it down three to one. To get the miners to vote yes, the operators have not only used the UMWA mis- leaders, but also have utilized the radio over which the faker Walker and the priest, Father Maguire, urged the miners to accept the yellow dog agreement, The revolting miners have stood firm against the pulpit, the yellow press and on down to the merchants. Of 700 Coello miners, where want is supreme, only 34 voted for the wage cut. Cheers to the miners and all the workers, and long live the Commu- nist Party, Mary Salvetti, STARVATION : work, should be given all the work he | square and fit about all these young | Miners of Illinois) COELLO, Ill.—Every known method | It had a humble start with Alexander Smith & Son, at that time were very small in num- | ber, mostly Scotch and Irish. The average wage in those days beinig from are just | os es 90 cents to $1 a day. the only strike that ce in the Carpet shop. t took part in that strike were | fired, and as emigration |from Europe at that time was at its height, the Carpet mills reorganized with a new group of workers, moste Poles, Slovaks, and Russians. | Profits Pile Up The Americans would not mix with the foreign workers, who had to live They had their own and churches, and kept on wo for Mr. Smith, pil- |ing up profits thing to imr conditions of the workers. When he died the mills were taken over by Mr. Coch- ran, a man who had never done a useful day’s work in his life. By this time the mills were getting larger, the workers more numerous and the profits more gigantic. hard that they preferred any sort of | fathers and mothers bent like pitch- | | When Cochran turned up his toes | the mills as you see them today were taken. over by Mr. Ewing. Today | the family of Ewing is worth $100,- 000,000. That means the fortune | started by Smith has been giving | these parasites $3,000,000 a year. | If the carpet mills closed down to- |day, and Ewing invested his fortune |at 4 per cent, he would receive an | annual salary of $4,000,000 a year. | Over the Mill to the Poorhouse. Ninety per cent of the inmates of the poor house for the last 50 years at one time in their life worked in | the carpet shop. | Today 6,000 workers whohelped to |make this fortune are starving to | death in the city of Yonkers. | Today there are about 100 old | workers drawing a pension of $15 a | month. These workers were in the | mills before Ewing was born, and | Slaved faithfully for 30 years. So }you can figure out Ewing's salary for one hour is equal to a month's salary for the 100 who are on the | pension list. To make it more clear, Ewing says, 100 of you work 30 years for me, ; and I will work one hour for you. Something Wrong. A system that gives Ewing more in jone week (doing nothing) than I receive in 50 years (doing useful work) has something wrong with it. Today Ewing owns 200 homes on Neppernhan Avenue and Moquette Row. Today I own no home, but owe 6 months’ rent. The Yonkers stateman calls Ewing “our most prominent citizen”. He gained that title when he headed the recent block aid flop. He also allowed his name to be used in the charity drive last January when $100,000 was raised. But no record of any of this money being distributed has been recorded. Three Families. ‘The assessed property of Yonkers is $30,000,000 and we have three families here whose combined wealth could buy the entire city: Thompson, Andrus and Ewing. Workers of Yonkers, if you are Satisfied to stand in line at the relief stations or get down on your knees at 64 Main St. and beg for a Job, that is your funeral, but if you are interested in knowing what it is all about, read the Daily Worker, and come to 27 Hudson Street. ELGIN, Ill. — Apperently Elzin’s “secret six", which was organized to “combat Communism,” finds itself unable to function. Since the Daily Worker articles on the “secret six” have been written, another organi- zation has sprung into existence, the “Circle 12,” laying the ground for the “square 18” possibly. . i This “organization” has* hopes of expanding nationally on a basis of “fightinig the inroads of Commun- ism” and a lot of minor demands made to fool prospective members, Tam sure they did not like it when the novelty case workers of the Iilin- ois Watch Co. struck last week, ‘CIRCLE 1” NEW RACKET New Elgin Menace Follows “Secret Six” 4 (By a Worker Correspondent) : The workers walked out in demand |for a month's settlement of pay due them. The big bosses’ figured it out | at $1.60 a piece for a month's work and wrote out checks to mail them, The boss, Ridges, called it a “dis- | Srace,” meaning the walkout, not the amount they had worked a whole month for, Machinists “2t Llgin’s say they © |have been tearing up machinery to |meke way fer installation of some |mew machinery, just for what they ~ are not sure. Elgin needs some Communist akers to help organize the , as the time is ripe,