The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 4

é Page Four DAILY * WORKBR, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1933 3 Workers and Poor Against Milk Trus BULLETIN ALBANY, N. Y., April 14.—The new State Milk Control Board meet ing yesterday set a bottom price for milk for consumers. An agreement following a hearing, between the big dairy farmers, the dealers and Board members resulted in the de cision that milk delivered to homes must sell for no less than 10 cents and bottled store milk for no less than 8 cents. Grade A milk is to be fixed at 13 cents as the lowest No limitation was placed on price inc By MOE BE Govern : sat “pro- gressive” h: ed Pitcher Bill which fixe e of milk to the farmer and the » the consumer. His first step opointment of a rich f rd mem- ber of the { board. The other two members are Charles Bald- Raises Price for | the Milk Trust Should Unite t and Rich Farmers Farmers are the small dairy farmers. Cows now going out to pasture and hening and farmers will be stuck as a result, with surplus milk. Many of them will have to sell or kill their milkers. Farmers, depending on milk as their main crop, will find them- selves caught on the barbed wire fence once again. Many will have to give up their farms. Great Power To Milk Trust This stabilization will be brought about by licensing milk dealers. No new dealers will be licensed in locali- ties where the milk business is al- ready overcrowded. This will give the milk trusts greater power in localities where they are well en- trenched. They will be able very easily to “persuade” the three mem- bers of board that such localities are overcrowded, Where the farmer had before as a weapon his freedom of bargaining, now he will be totally at the mercy of the milk trusts back- win, of Agriculture, ed more strongly by the state. To and Dr. T. Pa Health Com-| fool the farmers into believing that missioner. the third|the board really intends helping member, will a salary of them, the board will exempt store- $7,500 while keepers and peddlers from taking out cent and a q e who handle less than 3,000 ‘There is not of milk a month or who of the dirt fa operate in communities with a popu- this board lation less than 1,000. There are many tive of the grea n s ers who peddle more than of the large cities three men’ & hundred pounds of milk a day. are interested ir ers in the| The license means a greater expense same way that a hey in a flock! f them already when they are of hens. c t in the yoke of poverty. It is This milk be has already issued | ¢ that all these measures, in- four orders. 1 of these will| cluding the Pitcher Bill, are well- stabilize th to farmers Oiled grinders for the purpose of by limiting th nm of milk crushing the small farmer and driv- to dealers who in the| ing those who are still holding on business. 1 2 heavy blow! by the skin of their teeth into the MINERS READIN Scene at recent Iowa Farm in Sioux City, Ia, In inset is © Farmers League. road, Prices of Milk Will Go Up The Pitcher Bill, at the same time, holds a sharp axe over the head of the masses of city workers, Limiting the milk supply will lead to a boost in the retail pr of milk. The price per quart will shoot up two or three cents in a city like New York. But the distributors will lose nothing. On the contrary, the bill will give them a better market. They will continue getting a “fair return on their in- vestment.” The railroads will receive the same freight rates. In this way the politicians of New foll the lead of Roosevelt who in his “Farm Relief’ scheme includes a scheme whereby the processer is al- lowed to pass on his tax to the con- sumer. ‘The milk frusts will shove additional expenses resulting from the workings of the bill on the city masses. And this holds true not only of New York State but other states. New Jersey politicians are also talking of a price-fixing milk bill. The Pitcher Bill has been enacted “in the exercises of the police power of the State and its purposes gener- ally are to protect the public health and the public welfare.” It is dif- ficult to imderstand how the public health will be protected by a bill which will increase the price of milk when hundreds of thousands of chil- dren are suffering from malnutrition because they get none or little milk. York State - arles Taylor, leader of the United , These are the usual vicious lies slop- ped out by the politicians. What is clear is that this bill has been passed for the “public welfare,” which means to the politicians the stopping of the} farmers’ struggles. Burdens On Workers Affects Farmers The farmer must realize that all price-fixing schemes which put the burden on the worker will cut his market and hurt him immediately. What must be done is to compel the milk trusts to shell out part of their huge profits, nine million dollars net profit by cut- ting the farmers and its employees. pressure on the trusts can be rted by the combined forces workers and farmers. The farmers had an excellent opportunity of di this near Rochester during their milk strike when the milk driv- ers were threatening a strike against of the a@ wage cut of fifteen per cent. They} have caught the dealers be-| could tween thumb and long finger and won an immediate victory. tunately, the farmers led by business men and bankers at a meeting of the legislature a few weeks back gave the drivers’ spokesmen the horse laugh when th explained that drivers were only getting $35 a week. They cried, “We farmers aren’t making anything.” Now they can clearly see that the drivers are caught in the same door that they are. Working together, under rank and file con- trol, they can force thru their de- mands and dictate their own terms, ESS TO UNITE FOR STRUGGLE In 1932 Bordens made} Unfor-| FRAME ORGANIZER OF FOOD UNION TO LONG JAIL TERM |Wave of "Frame-Ups | Part of Boss Plan | to Smash Strikes NEW YORK.—Pedro Martinez, or-| ganizer of the Cafeteria Department) | of the Food Workers’ Industrial | Union was sentenced Wednesday to} the penitentiary for 6 months to 3} years on a framed-up charge of mali- | clous mischief. This case arose as a | result of the strike at the Adele Ca- | feteria at 7th Street and 2nd Avenue where the boss had taken out an in- junction against the union and the | strikers. Although two witnesses testified | that Martinez was asleep in bed in| | his home at the time that the so-| called “malicious mischief” was done, | their testimony was not considered) by the three judges sitting in special | | sessions. The witnesses brought by | the boss testified that they saw Mar- tinez commit the act. They are all| relatives of the boss. { In connection with the same case, | another worker, John Mirabel, was| given the same sentence on a framed | charge of third degree assault, Al-| ready two workers, George Ruby and| | H. Sanchez, have served 30 days each | |in the same case. Three more work-| |ers arrested on similar charges will come up for trial next week. They are Harrington, Mishnaetz, and Bur- gas. | | These frame-ups are not isolated | events. The bosses of the cafeterias | | and the Bosses’ Association, having | ers Industrial Union recently in de- | feating the Foltis-Fischer contempt | | of court order and the Foltis-Fischer | This is forced labor, too, Embarkin £ men for Roosevelt's Reforestation Camps. factory, making chairs and other fur- niture. This prison, located on a injunction, are now using the tactics | | Jarge county farm on the northwest} om bread and water. | of framing workers and their leaders | 48¢ Of Milwaukee, holds six political | | strike. However, both the strikers) | and the Food Workers Industrial! | Union have expressed determination | to fight to the end. DOLLAR DROPS 14 | prisoners who were arrested in 1932.| course, get the best jobs. These are in order to try to break the Foltis A Milwaukee furniture company, | mostly on the prison farm whose pro- headed by Frank Klode, owns the! duce is used partly for the prisoners, | machinery and the materials in the| but mostly by Wm. J. Momsen, the} | workshop and markets the manufac-| warden, and his family. | tures. Although the House of Cor-| knows just how the surplus is dis- rection is under the jurisdiction of) posed of. | the 20 members of the County Board) over $5,000 a year, and a palatial | of Supervisors—nine of whom are residence and living expenses pro- socialists—Klode is reputed to be the| vided by the county. Women prison- | real boss of the workshop. That his ers act as servants for him and his Exploited Prison Labo Milwaukee Cuts Pay Outside Of the 1,500 prisoners in the Mil-) punished. | seen the victories of the Food Work- | Waukee County House of Correction,| finement—awaits these as well as some 600 are employed in the prison| others who incur the displeasure of The “hole”—solitary con- the prison officials, Being placed in the hole means from five to ten days Stool pigeons and favorites, of No one Momsen nets a salary of rin | inmates were entirely without a pris- oner-doctor when such @ one was re~ leased. Should it serve. the doctor's whim not to bother with a prisoner, the latter may be punished for “shirking work”. Persecute Political Prisoners. Carl Lester, Ben Fifer and four other leaders of the South Side Un- employed Council are. the political prisoners who were sentenced to serve a total of 41 months in the Milwaukee County House of Correction, Though it was denied by socialists and others thaé they are political, prisoners, the fact remains that their. sole crime was resistance to police terror against the demonstration which had been called to win food and relief for families | who had been refused. assistance. But the deputies and guards recog- |mize them as politicals, Thus, while no papers are allowed in.prison, every Sunday capitalist papers, are sold. company is raking in large profits, is| family. seen by the fact that while thousands| Jim-Crow the Negroes. of Wisconsin furniture workers are) . Negroes are jim-crowed in a sep- completely jobless or working part-| arate dormitory where Mexicans, | time, the workhouse has been operat-| foreign-born workers and political | ing at top speed, prisoners are sometimes held for Cuts Wages Outside. slight infractions of the rules. These SHOWN IN REPORTS TO UNITED FRONT MEET 0N jypy MARKET in it is liable to go off and this brings forcibly to our mind that there is k| great need for struggle on the first day of April in this mine in parti- inches. You ask— how much you, this scrip situation. That meant that onna give me for this? “3 cents an/ the men had to deal in the compa: “Where is your ruler or tape?” | store and the prices during that we he say he fashion’s come|end had raised anywhere from At Conference on March 1 Mii determina- United Front in Pittsburgh the Commodity Prices Rise | Wheat Makes High k t we "t have to carry them no/| to 60 per cent since they issued s cular. This system is being developed : ue 5 i irtiest jobs,/ At the same time the “Daily Worker” wages and unemplo: Be ee bene | Concise eee Ape sit lave. | eial MALaeserID waRe Tes i nthe state all over Eastern Ohio,| The value of the dollar in terms of The effect of the prison labor oh Te te cee Gin ulema is barred from these prisoners. Trash solved to fight for wage increases. sight insn’t bad.”—No,” he says, “it| company store. it means this, that every day these | piher currencies fell to the lowest) Outside workers is seen in the 10-/cnoited by the prison authorities who| stich as “True Stories" and the like They pledged to go back to the mines isn’t bad, but it’s just the way we-ve| This mine belongs to the Pitts-) 900,men in Powhatten mines, goes | level in years yesterday. At the pres- | Cents an hour wage now being pa: | place their favorites over the others| is allowed in the prison, but not the | burgh Terminal Coal Co. and in the o. past two weeks they have put condi- | tions on the men, extra conditions, | which the men is fighting against, into this mine they are in danger | ent levels it is profitable for the banks | furniture factories of Fox River val- of being blowed up and coal dust is| to ship gold to Europe. Since an| Jey, Wisconsin. The Fair, Hess Bros.) the most dangerous gas we encounter. | embargo exists on the export of gold| im Chicago and Bullock’s in Los obese | except for “proper purposes” it is not| Angeles are among the department gotta do it. If we give you the right inches on that slate we get kicked.” ‘kick or not, damn it, I de- “Labor Defender”, “The and other working class journals. Despite these conditions, we have | heard no protest by the socialist of- Since then d Ohio have © and are carrying and develop st mines in Penns come out on str gle as bosses; foster divisions between native and foreign-born, and between | Negroes and whites. a valiant fight in the face of] serve every cent of my ‘work. If I Ff! | | mong | ; Ons 6h tis canite a aheiber iol quant Cade, Here are few of the re-| work like a damn mule every day.”| but cannot come out due to the terror | Flora Misomich (Bentleyville Wom-| Known how much gold will be Ba Pp al oso ‘hich (ie Socialist County Committee. Yet! ficials who help to supervise this ports of rank and file miners to the) There is 5 or 6 of us committees been| that is in the mines, they cannot! en’s Auxiliary N, M. U.). So far there ported. The New York Federal Re-| yee Oddly House of Eueessind (neither he nor the nine socialist| prison, nor by the socialist guard. conferenc running around at the camp there | come out in the open, but despite the |»... i serve Bank announced that a license | ‘hich | Supervisors have been known to pro-| Four of these socialist, supervisors bam : 2 . has been nothing said about women,| hag been ted for thi These facts, and the others which| tninent A. OF L. members and see what the men would do about | terror and everything else they come | _ t 4 toe the | en granted for the shipment) ¢oiiow, go along in bearing out the | test against this discrimination. are prominent of ike Johnis (Studa Mine). I ain't coming out, about 50 per cent is|out in the open and fought against | 8° it is up to me ring up the/ of gold to Holland. The amount of| facts, revealed. in. ..Walter . Wilson’ Medical “Facilities”. in Milwaukee. Neither the many — much of a des, but I| ready to come out. | the scrip. This is a great issue and| women and what they help to do| the shipment has not yet been an-| cont book Forced Labor in the|, One doctor is now supposed to be| solutions against Dries labor by have come this, that a age. © | the men are ready to fight on it. And | with the men. I represent the ladies nounced. | United Sthtee: Ginternadional: Publish: | taking care of the 1,500 prisoners,| A. F. ot t nor their HAE ae w- bunch cf us men are w over) Waters (employed from Powhat-|in my opinion still ready to fight | auxilary We have a membership of| Despite the fact that certain tech-| ers), from.which a few excerpts ran|@!though he spends only part of his can ae i Or eekaciione by there at S! mine, we're working] ton Mine, Ohio).—“I’m representing | when it comes April Ist with issues | 25 and also 20 good standing mmbers. | nical factors made it possible for the | serially in the Daily Worker recently.| time there. At other times doctors th Sy ito the in water and e. I guess that| the miners from Powhattan mine in| bigger than merely scrip. : | The penn ete eer Meer line dollar to drop so sharply, neverthe- | $15 for Any Number of Years. [ee spacpen 0 Baie Pa ahier thee men ewho ee the pete t that ° ster i y | x S nes out Kt i | F Galt . brary. A is about the only e that has tern Ohio, It employs about 900! The Powhatton Coal Mining Co See ar Ls ee ha nis the less, the drop in the dollar is tied up! For the labor of the prisoners in this is part of the “ of men at the present time. Last week| was the first company to make the giving the prisoners what passes as system of throwing coal dust bog} hors‘ ocness with the steady growth of the forces| the Milwaukee County House of Cor-| in the} the mining officials women are good fot collecting relief which they boast in Milwaukee. he, comes up taking a meas- look up at down the the slate a rk way he’s he's rking them| took scrip, down for t f it’s about! take it. It looked like a strike, at 5 foot n 15 or 16/ least the men felt we'd strike against | GAINS WON BY MINE STRIKERS SPUR STRUGGLE Relief Necessary to Win In Pa.—Ohio Mines Still Out coal fields of Pennsylvania and Ohio since the preparations for strike struggles started, according to reports from the Nationa! Miners Union. Many of these workers have returned to work with definite gains registered. ‘The fight of the 2,000 Terminal Coal miners against pay in scrip which was initiated by the N.M.U. was vic- torious. In the Powhattan mine a strike involving 1,500 workers resuit- ed in installing a miner checkweigh man elected by the men gain, sentiment was created and a movement started for a checkweigh- men elected by the miners in other mines in this region with successful results. These struggles were car- tied on around the slogan of the April 1 united front strike struggles. In the Terminal mines where the U.M.W.A. leadership succeeded in preventing the miners from joining the struggle, the miners are now re- acting against the leadership, and their proposals and a good opposition movement is developing. In Avella where over 2,000 workers are still out on strike for wage increases and other’ local demands, and in other sections where the strikers are still out the miners ranks are sciid. The immediate tasks are the winning of the strikes which depends on the Solidarity of all workers’ organiza- tions. Funds for relief should be sent immediately to the N.M.U., 1425 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, LETTERS FROM WORKERS Transportation Workers—Railroad, marine, waterfront, subway, street~ car, cab drivers, expressmen — every Monday. ‘Steel, Metal and Auto—every Tues- very Thursday, Textile, Friday Mining—every Saturday. Specicl articles on the industry will appear on the same page, mak- ing special distribution more effec- tives s By this | counterfeited | some money at least that’s what we| into gob. You know this is a dan- claim. They made a new system of gerous condition. The condition of| scrip due to the banking holiday they | the coal dust in the mine means that said. © ut of these 900 miners, 4| all the rest refused to| cribed by the U. S. Bureau of Mining, lin trying to avert an explosion, it means that the mine with 900 men| without taking precautions as pres- on the Hunger March and every- where, and I don’t know why they keep the women out so far. And also | the women know more than the men what they need for collecting relief for the children and what they need in the house, United Mine Workers Locals Recognize Unemployed Council (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) SHENANDOAH, Pa—The Unem- ployed Council has been functioning now for about eight months, and they| It is the talk of | won many demand: STRIKING MINERS DETERMINED TO CONTINUE DESPITE COMPANY TRICKS (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) AVELLA, Pa On April 1 over 100 miners struck at the Burgetts- town Coal Company’s mine in Avella the anthracite. The youth participate| for the demands that were adopted ; the same as the adults, and recently| by the United Front Conference on | there were four youth delegates elect-| March 19, and additional local de- ed to the Unemployed Council con-| mands. These were presented to the ference held April 4 to prepare for @ county hunger march to Pottsville. The Relief Bi 1 in its di tien of shees, clo and the Unemployed Council first, and asks them to send down the people who need such things the most. The young fellows are just as in-| | terested in the meeting that the | Council holds every Tuesday at 7:30 |pm., as the adults, and participate in fighting for the cases. | The locals of the United Mine | Workers recognize the Shenandoah | Unemployed Council. The U.M.W.A. | sub-district recognizes and partici- | Pates in the Unemployed Council meetings and its activity. The Unemployed Council has two delegates present at the sub-district of the U.M.W.A,, and the sub-district sends two delegates to be present at the Unemployed Council meee 'Miners Get Raise— On Store Prices (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) | EAST BECKLEY, W. Va.—I have | been a miner for 18 years. I am a | Sprague slave. It is hard to subscribe for the Daily Worker here because | the post office is in the company | store, and the super might see or read | | it. I have been trying to build the | National Miners Union for the last | | 3 months and have a group started of white and colored. Those who live in the company | house pour in $12 a month rent, | | lights from $1.50 up to $4, water $1 per month, coal $2 a load, about half a ton, supposed to be 1 ton. Those who own their own homes have to trade in the company store. Each man in camp must whitewash his fence on both sides, and all trees and telephone poles close by. About 30 to 40 hours work every summer, keep the lawn mowed, or it will be mowed for you and charged against you. Prices in the company store are high | and we are cheated even on our low | Priees for tonnage. | This is the New River Coal Co.; ee Cranberry Fuel Co, 14 big mines at different camps. The workers company on April 6. The company ar not grant the de: and would close the mine. Tt ike is con- tinuing to force the company to grant the demands. Rumors have it that they could | this mine has leased the Bulger Block | Mine in Bulger, Pa., which in turn recently bought the Bertha Mine of the Bertha Consumers Coal Co. On April 1, 250 miners of the Bul- ger Block Mine struck 100 per cent, and presented their demands to the super on April 7. His answer was that the men were asking too much and it was impossible even now to pay bills and operate the mine. To prove this he showed the commit- tee, elected by the miners, an elec- demands are granted. The commit- tee went back to notify the super who told us to get our tools as he INEMPLOYED MINERS ON SCANTY RELIEF (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) BONANZA, Ark—In this mining community the unemployed do road work for relief. Single men get one day per week at $2.00 per day, and a man with a family gets 2 days per week. Those that do not work get direct relief of $5.00 per month and 48 pounds of Red Cross Flour. The flour will be all gone the first of May. ‘The miners are constantly talking of how sick they are of the John L. Lewis Union. I believe if the Na- tional Miners Union would send an organizer here, that the majority of the miners would join. thought there would be a big raise on tonnage—back to 474,c. a ton on April 1. They thought Roosevelt would make the company pay our back time. But we got an April fool raise—it was a reise in the company store on grub. The United Mine Workers is rais- ing hell around here. They claim they have several mines signed up solid. I know all about its being & company umion. I ama Red from the heart. I get so damn mad, I can’t hardly keep from fighting every day at the capitalists, was going to close the mine. This tric bill which he cl: d he was unable to pay. He instructed the committee to report back to the men that they go back under the con- Gitions they came out or he’d junk the mine. When asked about grant- ing a checkweighman, he said he could not do this as the other oper- ators would raise hell. The miners, on hearing the report, veted to continue to mans that the strike has been turn: ed into a lockout. The miners im- mediately elected a committee to de- mand relief from the Washington County officials. The miners at the Bertha Mine of the Bertha Consumer Coal Co., which has recently been sold or leas- ed by the Bulger Block Coal Co., came out on strike 2 or 3 weeks ago for back pay and a checkweighman. Books Will Teach Miners To Fight (By a Mine Worker Correspondent) PREMIER, W. Va.—Working con- ditions are very bad here, Every- body owes the company, some as high as $240, They just toil and try to get out of the hole they are.in, but instead they are going in de€per. The mine runs 3 days a week. A loader makes 50c a car for littie cars and 8c for the big ones. Some load 6 big cars a day, and very few load as high as 9 little ones a day. I never loaded over 7 yet, so that makes 33.50 a day, But some men can load only 3, 4 or 5, and what do they make? Day men get $8, $2.80, and $2.40, and how can they put up with it I don't see. But they continue to catty their buckets to work. Some of these places around here are far worse than here at the Premier. The Salvation Army has control of these peoples through the Red Cross flour it distributes. Every house be- longs to the company and there is no place to meet, and the workers can never talk of their troubles. So it is hard to organize them, and hard to pull them out on strike. Some of them know what goes on in the cities, but they are afraid to try to do that way here. I think we will have to print little books like the “Fight for Bread” and pass them out amongst these W. Va. people in McDowell County. If they read it then it will upset their stomachs to work under these kind of conditions, strike till the | demand for inflation is increasing| in Congress..-Premier Bennet of Ca-| nada will offer a plan to Roosevelt | which will raise world prices more| than 30 percent. The Roosevelt ad- | ministration is gradually showing | that it intends to inflate credit thru | various bond exchange schemes, Large buying developed on the} wheat markets sending wheat to the highests price it has reached this| Season, 71¥ cents per bushel. Com- | modity prices all along the line | showed gains fn price. Commodity prices have been advancing since the middle of March. ASSEMBEYMEN CUT WORKERS’ PAY, NOT THEIR OWN | ALBANY, N. Y., April 14—Twenty New York Assemblymen who have voted pay cuts to reduce State expen- ditures for state employees, left for their homes today, refusing to take a voluntary pay cut voted by the Legis- | lature. They received full pay of | $2,500, : The Work WHY MINERS wage cuts, and if unemployed how to top of the continuous cuts comes the administration that a dollar a day is American worker. The answer is: Bi are now doing as shown in the prepar: revolutionary oppositions in the U. M. Union stand foremost. Who are the represents the interests of the miners of the crisis. Communist Party. territory. e county 50 cents per person per day but at.the.same time receives a sub- sidy from the county. The prison workers who are serving less than a year, however get no wages. Those serving for a year or longer, get a fixed sum of $15 for the entire period. On entering the factory, a prisoner is “asked” to sign a statement assum- ing responsibility for whatever may happen. No compensation can be collected for injuries; the workshop does not come under the jurisdiction of the Wisconsin Industrial Commis- sion. Should a prisoner refuse to sign the statement, he is denied such “privileges” as visitors and writing and is held in a cell alone. Prison Tyranny. Within the prison walls, the author- ities exert supreme power. ing is allowed during work time. There are a host of unwritten rules which a prisoner may infringe. For refusing to work at a dangerous ma- chine, for being too slow or too care- ful, or for even looking around at the wrong time, a prisoner may be ers and the’ Communist Party SHOULD JOIN The question every miner faces now is: What can I do to fight against get enough relief to keep alive? On Official recognition by the Roosevelt set as the standard of wages for the uild united front movements to de- feat the bosses’ attacks. This the miners in many sections of the country ations for April Ist. But who is leading this struggle? The National Miners’ Union, the W. of A. and the Progressive Miners’ most active members in the unions and in these oppositions—they are the members of the Communist Party. The Communist Party in the mining fields participates in the daily struggles of the miners, to fight against the attacks of the coal operators who are supported by the labor betrayers, because the Communist Party as well as the whole working class. By supporting the fight for the immediate demands—the Communist Party develops the whole struggle against the capitalist system which is the cause All militannt workers should therefore join the ranks of their Party—the * Get in touch withthe headquarters nearest you or write directly to: Central Office, Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y. Miners write us your experiences, Tell us your opinions of the Communist Party activity in your Communist Party, U. S. A. P. O. Box 81, Station D, New York City: OCCUPATION ..... Workers, Join the Party of Your Class! Please send me more information on the Communist Party. Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, U. 8. A. P. O. Box 87, Station D., New York City hes gh deadier AGB vesivs: No talk-| that are making for inflation. The| rection Klode’s company pays the| Medical attention. } | At one time, the NEW ORLEANS JOBLESS FACE NEW ato CUT MAY FIRST ON RELIEF JOBS Only Mass Action Will Block Big Reductions Announced by Mayor _ . (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, La.—About 80,000 are unemployed fare sives relief to only 10,000. f one has to fill out ich you wa't all day cascs a worker stays there a'l day and Then you ar history agoin, and then they send you out to get a recommendation from every ploce where you ever worked. In some cases the worker's wife also has to get recommendations from whatever place she worked. A committee is sent to investigate the worker's economic conditions, generally two or three months after the application is made. If the com- mittee thinks you need relief, they give you a work card about a month or six weeks after they investigate. Single and young workers are de- nied all relief. Relief Cut Workers on relief were getting $2.50 a day, and Negro workers were get- ting two and three days work, and some, very few, four days a week. The white workers were getting three, four, and, in a few cases, five days a week. A while back the Welfare officials moved to reduce the pay of the work- ers, in which case the workers threat- ened to strike. This movement, how- here, but the wel- an application blank with your life until your name is called. In some his name is not called. brought into a room where you have to recite your life ever, was headed by Pocine, Moon and Dester, who paved the way for a reduction in the days and also a 50 cents cut. And now the mayor has announced he will put over a 50 cent cut to start May-1.:. Workers, welfare workers, you all know that we looked. to Messrs. Po- cine & Co. to lead us, and they put over wage cuts. We can.expect the same thing again if we rely on them, because they work hand in glove with the Welfare officials and, have pro- mised them not to use the only effec- tive weapon held by the workers to put a stop to relief reduction. Workers, to defeat the cut, we must take the leadership. ourselves, we must elect committees.on each job and prepare to take -action on May First. Such a demonstration, a strike, or mass action is the only way to defeat the coming wage cut. Workers, Negro and white, demand no reduction in pay, join the Unem- ployed Council of the Union Unity League. GET “NEW PIONEER” MAGAZINE FOR A CHILD ON ITS 2nd ANNIVERSARY May First Means Two Years of Publication; Is 10th Anniversary of Young Pionéers NEW YORK —May 1 is the tenth, anniversary of the Young Pioneers of America, and the second birthday | of the New Pioneer Magazine. The National Pioneer Bureau takes the occasion of this double festival to! point out that “the support of the workers’ children for their magazine has been tremendous | But many chiidren whose fathers are unemployed cannot send 50 cents, for a subscription. Shall these chil- dren be deprived of the New Pioneer? The Bureau's statement continues: “The greatest shortcoming is lack of support from adult workers. On the second birthday of the New Pioneer we call on all adult workers to help spread the magazine. We call on them, and upon all workers’ clubs, to send greetings, and to send sub- scriptions for these children. Rates are 50 cents a year, 30 cents a half year. The address of the New Pio- neer is Post Office Box 28, Station D, New York City WORKERS’ CALENDAR BALTIMORE, MD. sp DANCE AND CONCERT: at “Tom Mooney’ Hall, 20 8. Lloyd St., April 15. at 8 p.m. ‘W.LR. Orchestra, Hot music. Auspices of] W. . 6g ine ae BOSTON, MASS. ene LECTURE — “ RECOLUTIONARY . Lecturer, Phil Bard. Also ijlustration of his lecture with chalk drawings, mass drat Auspices John Reed Club,’ 835° il 15. so. PITTSBURGH, PA, “3 UNITED FRONT May Day being called by the Commimist Party te ‘Hall, 220 Stanwyx St. oe PHILADELPHIA, PA, BAZAAR! APRIL 14 AND trict Bazaar at Girard Manor’ Mall, Girard Ave. Sheaahe. MILWAUKEE, WIS.