The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1934, Page 5

By SENDER GARLIN (Batting for Michael Gold) OM CASSIDY, special staff correspondent, sent by the New York Daily News to cover the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party, woke up in his hotel room in Cleveland shortly after 2 P.M. the other day. I imagine he had a hang-over. He rubbed his bleary eyes, drew the shades to keep the bright rays of the sun from flooding his room (Southern exposure), donned his dressing gown and rang for the bell-hop. He ordered orange juice and black coffee, and while he waited for his breakfast, he took the cover off his portable type- writer and pounded out a story for his paper. Words came rapidly to him as he nimbly typed the following dis- patch to the New York Daily News: By TOM CASSIDY (Special Correspondent of The News) CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 3.—Instructions to the faithful for their work back home during the ensuing year were begun by Earl Browder, Red Dictator of the 27,000 Communist Party members in the United States, at a secret session of the Eighth Annual Communist Convention here today. Such instructions, coupled with exhortations and reports of multitudinous committees, will occupy a major portion of the re- maining sessions of the 350 delegates in the closely-guarded Prospect Meeting House, where they now gather. Some will be given “boring from within” assignments in the various industries and unions, others will draw bids for mass action im the agrarian belts, and still others will enter prisons to spread ‘the gospels of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Browder, “Don’t hesitate,” Robert Minor, New York leader and perennial Gotham candidate for office, harangued. “Don’t forget the 19-year old colored boy who just got himself sentenced to twenty months* im a chain-gang for us so that he can spread the word of the pro- letarian revolution.” Seven commissions, political, organization, school, literature, colored race-work, agrarian and credentials, were appointed today to handle the work of the convention which began with a mass meet- ing in the Municipal Auditorinm last night and will conclude im the tiny private Prospect House next Sunday, * They Thought Tom Was In Good Form Majority of Plays In Chieago Festival | Written by Workers CHICAGO —At the National Theatre Festival, to be held here on April 18, 14 and 15, when fifteen | of the country’s best workers’ thes- tres will meet in competition, the great majority of the plays pre- sented will be the products of work-| ers’ pens. A recent playwriting! contest held by the League of Workers Theatres brought to light | the fact that hundreds of plays are| being written by workers: through- out the country for production by | their own theatre groups. These| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUBSDAY, APRIL 10, 1934 For Bread SEVENTY THOUSAND SILK WORKERS STRIKE FOR BREAD AND UNITY. By John J. Ballam. 63 pages. Workers’ Library Publishers, 50 E. 13th St., N. ¥. Price 10 cents. Reviewed by CARL REEVE. | IN Aug, 31, 1933, in Paterson, New } Jersey, the walk-out of the silk workers began, a strike which quickly involved 70,000 strikers, along a far-flung front which in-| cluded sections of New England,| 70,000 Silk Workers Fight plays deal with the workers’ own|New Jersey, New York and Penn-} experiences in mines, sweatshops sylvania silk centers. and breadlines, and are invariably| This 63-page pamphlet records | filled with the will and determina-j|the history, causes and lessons of | tion to struggle. | the great three months’ struggle of | | the silk workers. It was written by | | Pamphlet Geis Hote of |one.of the active ‘organizers in the strike, John J. Ballam, national | i le cay | silk organizer of the National Tex- | Rockefeller in Decay site oeganistr of the | a ee | and Unity | of the sik and dye workers’ strike was the great militancy displayed by the strikers, beginning with the first rapid outpouring, the strike spreading like wildfire in spite of lack of preparations and organiza- tion. Reflected in the pages of this pamphlet is the great force and sweep of the struggle—the mass picket lines, the resistance on the picket lines against tear gas, and drawn and smoking gums of the police, climaxed by the pulling out on strike of the great, Lodi dye house of the U. S. Piece Dye Works, the largest dye house in the world, after an all day battle. ers fought heroically and stubborn- ly. Nevertheless, the strike was lost, with only a small part of the ob- jectives won. The pamphlet tells why the strike was defeated (al- though not entirely so). All of the important documents in the strike are quoted in the pam- The strik- | National Labor Board, the A. F. of | @ L. misleaders, the socialist party leaders, such as Panken, the Loye- stonites, Keller and Rubinstein, drove the strikers back to work. Thé A. F. of L., working with Wagner and the National Labor Board, split up the ranks of the strikers, section by section and craft by craft, confused and demoralized the ranks, and smashed the strike. The strike in Paterson, the sell out of the dye there, was ended on the basis of a strikebreaking agreement which outlawed future strikes, and gave in on the wage demands and demands against t! speedup. In this great silk strike the Na-| word | tional Textile Workers Union and the Communist Party played an in- fluential and in some sections a |leading role. In Easton, Pa., in the | dye strike in Paterson, in some Al-| lentown mills, either agreements granting substantial concessions were won or the strikers beat an jorderly retreat, returning to work in a body, in many cases with their elected shop committees. HAT were some of the mistakes Page Pive Homes’ of Migratory Workers in California By JOHN L. SPIVAK FRESNO, Cal.—I had al- ways thought that the shacks in which Negro and hey seldom wash or themselves, because r is ex- pensive. They have learned from long and bitter experience that fill- ing the barrel or milk can with white water from a stream or a brook is a a as ; not always safe. Too many have share croppers live in the| Gea “trom polluted water so they deep South were the last|take their water containers to the in squalor. nearest village to fill. This means gradation. I shall never think that | Using gas for the car, gas and ofl again, for I have seen the “homes” | Which is expensive and ‘needed to misery and de- in which migratory workers live in| Carry them to the next stopping California. Place in their ceaseless round of It ts simply incredible that human | W@ndering from field to field. So beings live in these filthy, disease- | Water i jous—to be used only generating shacks while ving in | for cook id ing; and when the flelds for a few cents a day you are in e fields in the I can understand why Commu su nt a lot for drinking. organizers are making head That is they do not use s0 among them. “You have nothing |™much of it to eS OT to lose but your chains” is more | their clothes or than merely a slogan here. They| In an like this, the of Educational System) The silk workers, writes Ballam, | xz | “were striking not only against the coolie wages of the cotton code and the proposed silk code (18 a week) but also against the speed-up sys- tem and the starvation wages forced upon them by the bosses dur- ing four years of crisis. After all the |‘ ballyhoo about the NRA and the Blue Eagle, after the con- stant rise in the cost of living; after all the promises of the ‘New Deal,’ they were faved with the stark reality—silk workers wages were being forced down under the NRA codes to the level of the low- est paid section of the textile in- dustry.” One of the outstanding features ‘There's an intimate connection be- | | tween the collapse of capitalist “ed- | | ucation”—expressed so brutally in| the payless pay-day for teachers) and in widespread distress among | pupils—and the Morgan-Rockefeller interests which whip into line Cham- | | bers of Commerce and Boards of | Education, Rex David proves in “Schools and the Crisis,” No. 39 of International Pamphlets, just off the press. “The destruction of our educa-| tional system is being planned, or- ganized and carried out by the very men into whose hands the advance- ment of education was entrusted,” David states. The pamphlet (price | 10 cents) can be obtained at work- ers’ bookshops or from Internation~ al Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New) York. SCHOOL NEWS TOMORROW! The regular weekly feature,| “What's Doing in the. Workers’ Schools of the U. 8.2" will appear | on this page tomorrow. Stage and Screen Well, that’s that, said Cassidy as he drew the paper from his | Hepburn Film “Spitfire” typewriter, buzzed for the Western Union boy and gulped down the orange juice which had been brought up by the bell-hop while he was composing his story for his paper. On the copy desk of the Dafly News in New York, the boys thought Tom had sent in a sprightly story. They fixed up the punctuation, broke in a half-column picture of Bob Minor (taken in the polite line- up on March 6, 1931, following Minor’s arrest for leading an unem- ployed demonstration), and put a two-column headline on the story. The headline read: REDS GET SECRET ORDERS FOR YEAR’S WORK IN U. 8. When. the paper came out, no less than 1,480,000 readers of The At the Center Theatre | “Spitfire,” in which Katherine Hepburn | and Ralph Bellamy are featured, is now showing at the Center Theatre, ‘The Palace is featuring “Good Dame,” this week. Frederick March and Sylvie Sydney play the leading roles. The stage show is headed by the Keller Sisters and Lynch. The Trans-Lum program includes a Bing Orosby comedy, “Please” with Vernon Dent and Mary Kornman; ‘Winter Thrills,” = sports reel; a Walt Disney Silly Symphony and the newsreels Frank Buck's new film “Wild Cargo” | remains for s second week at the Radio | ity Muste Hall. Frank Buck appeers in | person with the showing of the film. “You're Telling Me” with W. 0. Fields, inlet, and among these is the rec- Bnd lemons of this strike? |ord of the betrayal of the strike |Comrade Bellam correctly lists as | by the AF. of L. leaders, the Mac- | *he foremost mistake the failure of |Mahons and the Schweitzers, and|the NTWU and our Party to work \the chief of these A. F. of L, be-| inside the ranks of the A. F. of trayers, Eli Keller, the Lovestonite, |/. locals; the failure to build an |For three months the strikers in| @fective opposition against the sell the A. F. of L. voted down and/0U inside the ranks of the United | defeated one betrayal agreement| Textile Workers Union. Secondly, after another. For three months |the hesitation of the NTWU and | the strikers defied one strikebreak-|the Party in Paterson at the begin- ing order after another of the lead- | ing in taking the initiative in the ers of the A. F. of L. union. For | Struggle, waiting until the A. F. of three months, the strikers defied|L. union (the Associated Silk) | the orders of the A. F. of L. lead-|called the strike, a hesitation which jers and formed the united front | at first amounted to a feeling that with the dye workers and NTWU |the silk workers were not ready for |members on the picket lines, |such a struggle. The watchful | Finally, the combined forces of the | waiting tendency also affected the |fight against the NRA in the be- | ginning, instead of at once opening up an exposure of the Blue Eagle, and Rooseyelt’s whole program. | literally have nothing else to lose— | migratory worker and his family not even their lives. And they feel | lives. The family consists of five it tf they do not know it, and once |or more. Children swarm about the they get a little power into their | outhouses, which stand im rows on hands, as when they are organized the edges of the fields, any number jin a strike, it goes to their heads.|of them, depending upon the size All the misery of their lives, all|of the farm. They know nothing those years of back-breaking toil,|about birth control, so the women of hunger and sickness—it is hard | just go on having babies year after to keep your heed when you feel year until they die. that you have a union, that you've| They are dressed in the cast-off got strength and the man who has | clothes given them by charity. They crushed you is helpless in your | walk about in threadbare dresses or jeombined strength. That ts why | overalls, worn shoes or barefooted ee greatest difficulty Communist The real outhouses for the camp organizers have with them is to are built near-by and rarely changed keep them from acts of violence— jor moved, so the whole area smells |especially the Mexicans. Once these |to high heaven. Flies feed in them jorganized Mexican migratory work-|and buzz around the camps, the jers feel their strength, their whole | food, the children ... jtendency is to battle forward with| why the death rate is not higher | bitter opposition to any kind of|than it is, I do not know, unless so |compromise which Convention Honors Memory of Those Who Fell in Struggle The Communist Party of the U.| year sentence for criminal syndi- 8.A. assembled in its Eighth Na-| calism n their leaders | many of them have adapted them- |Also the united front policies were | might suggest selves to the conditions, the sus- |not carried through with sufficient | I visited seven migratory workers’ | ceptible have died off and these | Persistence and energy, and were|camps in the San Joaquin Valley| are left; or perhaps the open air |not concretized into organizational|and they vary slightly, chiefly in| and sunshine acts as a disinfectant, forms, Thus, the NTWU and the|the number of “homes.” So dread-/| Sickness is quite common. And no Party succeeded in taking the ini-| ful are they that the white worker, |one cares anything about a worker |tlative in the dye strike, leading the recent addition to the migratory | who is sick, especially if he is a |the dye strikers until almost the |Class since the depression, avoids | Mexican. A sick person is entitled tional Convention, and facing grow- | Comrades Rayford and Jackson, Ne- | ay ing class battles, facing tremendous| groes, killed in an eviction case by sat sie strap Spree di i a revolutionary struggle against fas-| Cleveland police in 1930 silk strike, the UTW (Associated | cism and imperialist war, pays tri-| Comrade Camp, railroad worker| sik) in Paterson, the A. F. of L, bute to those comrades of our Party} from Michigan t Teartra " Aeape not seriously. chal- | who have given their lives to our| Carl Schultz, Juneau, Alaska, Killed | tenged inside of the A. F Pry L. | | class, whether in open battle or as-| in gold mine accident iitica id Tee di | sassinated by enemy class thugs and| J. B. Charloy, killed Oct. 31, 1933, | 5 police, or who perished because of We honor the memory of our since our Seventh Party Convention. fallen fighters, to whose sacrifices | our Party in no small measure owes its growing strength. Lows J. Engdahl, national secretary ILD. died while on Scottsboro case OP.U.S.A. Clara Cabin, needle worker Dr. L. Meslick, old C.P. member tour for! Rose Pastor Stokes, charter member | in strike of agricultural workers sacrifice of health to Party duty,| Joe Piasecki, died as a result of club-| "OTe Serious shortcomings of the | bing by Milwaukee police in anti- | | fascist demonstration against visit | of Ambassador Luther, first Amer- | | ican fighter to die in struggle | against fascism. | Comrade Barlow, Texas, kidnapped | from jail and killed | Joe Pacheko, Colorado beet worker | and leading C.P. member, who | died of exposure in Columbus, Ohio on Hunger March to Wash- | ington, December, 1932 | Comrade Edwards, member of Y.C.L. It seems to this writer that two | | strike might well be mentioned: | 1) Whereas there were gains made | by the Party (some 70 new mem-| them whenever possible. If the | to county attention if he is a county white worker can possibly scrape up | resident, but this wandering, lost enough money for a tent for him-| people are not residents of any self and his family before he takes | place. They follow the rich, pro- to the road, he does so and thus| ductive earth. They enter hos. avoids the “homes” farmers built to | pital only in extreme cases. They house them. have a horror of going to hospitals, s > = | for it usually means death, because TALKED with workers who start- | only extremely sick eases can some- ed out like that, but they have|times get into hospitals, been on the road now for two years. | (Po Re Continued) Their tents are worn out. Some sis are gone and they never earned | bers in Paterson) there was insuffi- |clent Party recruiting based on a| more systematic bringing forward | jof the role of the Party, Through- | jout the strike, for example, the | Daily Worker was poorly dis- | tributed, with only several hundred | |Daily Workers a day going over to} | these 70,000 silk strikers. 2) Our| | lack of preparation, and later, some | enough to buy new ones. They were driven into camp life and it | is only a matter of time before | all migratory workers who still have | a semblance of self respect and de- | sire of cleanliness, will be lost with | the rest of the hundred thousand | who wander the California Valleys | —unless through organization they can change them. | TUNING IN TONIGHT'S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke, 18—Billy Batchelor—Sketch Morris Langer, killed furrier leader | rita May Wiggins, Gastonia striker |of our amateurish methods of or- | ganization, our organizational weak- | The “home” is an outhouse. That | 7:00 P, M.—Mary Small, News saw this vicious, stupid “report” on the Eighth Convention of | narry Crabbe and Joan Marsh ts now the Communist Party—a convention which heard reports on hunger, strikes and militant organization, from the lips of rank and file dele- gates from” mills, mines. and factories; from Negro share-croppers in | the South who came to the Convention at the risk of their Hves if | their identity became known to the Southern landlords. * * * Otherwise, the Story Is Accurate! |ASSIDY, the News reporter, makes a point of the fact that the Party convention was held in “secret.” By that he means nothing more nor less than that credentials were required for entrance into the con- vention hall, But his purpose is something different: it is to create the impression that there was something sinister about this earnest meeting of some 500 worker delegates from every part of the United States. He talks about “Barl Browder; the Red Dictator” in order to create a picture of the General Secretary of the Communist Party which would resemble the vicious fantasies of Communist leaders painted by the poison-pen artists of “Liberty” who do Red Napoleon series at three cents a word. He tells of the “closely guarded Prospect Meeting House where they now gather” for the purpose of conveying the impression that a gang of desperadoes of the Dillinger type have barricaded themselves | in the building. He \implies that some of the delegates have received “orders” to “enter prisons to spread the gospels of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Brow- der.” As if Communists sought prison sentences in the hell-holes of American capitalism! They don’t have to get “orders” to go to jail, the capitalist class takes care of that. This irresponsible scribbler (whose work is sanctioned and paid for by responsible newspaper owners) crudely twists Bob Minor’s speech and makes the Communist leader say, “Don’t forget the 19-year-old colored boy who just got himself sentenced to twenty months in a ohain-gang for us so that he can spread the word of the proletarian revolution.” 1—Minor obviously did not refer to Angelo Herndon as a “colored boy,” the patronizing form used by the Southern landlords who describe a 60-year-old Negro as a “colored boy.” 2—Minor most certainly did not say that Herndon “got himself sentenced” when everyone knows of the boki and energetic defense of the International Labor Defense and of the two Negro lawyers in Atlanta who have been fighting to free him from Fulton Towers Prison. *3—Herndon was sentenced not to twenty months on the chain- gang but to 18-20 years! * * * Has Had Varied Experience ‘ASSIDY had come to Cleveland fresh from the taxi drivers’ strike in New York where he had concocted the same type of “news” stories about the strike. . “A truckload of hoodlume spread terror on upper Broadway shortly after 8 o'clock,” he wrote in one issue. “Let's give it to the cop,” he quotes one striker. On another day he discovered a “bomb plot” against the Grand Central Terminal, the Pennsylvania Station and various public buildings. Several months earlier Cassidy had been sent by The News to De- catur, Ala., to cover the trial of the Scottsboro boys, and while his stories were somewhat less lurid than those of the taxi strike and the Communist convention they nevertheless had the same “imagina~ tive” quality that has always distinguished his work, since he was al- ways armed with a bottle of corn liquor in Decatur. * * * AH Sisters Under the Skin [Nex pest tahini dl Heed on heparan sien More sensational because it is cooked up for the tabloids, its only differ- ence from the rest of the “respectable” press is that is that, it 1s some- what less subtle in its poison. Monday’s New York Times, for example, carries the headline: ‘TAXI STRIKE LEADERS RENOUNCED BY UNION. One therefore looks for the news that the rank and file members of the Union had taken this action. But you find instead a resolution signed by the leaders of the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens locals, namely Samuel Smith head of the Bronx local; Herman Goldstein, head of the Brooklyn local, and the chief of the Queens local. Just who the latter is is unknown, for Newman, the erstwhile president of the Queens local, was wicked out by the rank and file at a recent membership meeting. Moral: You can always trust the capitalist press to be accurate on minor details. In reporting a tenement fire, for example, you always get the exact location and the number of hose attached to the hydrant —but you seldom are told that the building is a fire-trap and that the fire inspectors hes for years winked an eye at the violations of the fire regulations! showing at the Paramount Theatre. 8. L. (Roxy) Rothafel and his gang is the stage bill feature. Roxy Theatre is now showing ‘The Cen- | stant Nymph’ directed by Basil Dean from Margaret Kennedy's . Brian Aherne, Victoria Hopper and Lyn Harding head the cast. Chicago Opera Com; Present “Tosca,” The Chicago Opera Company, now housed at the Broadway Opera House, is inaugurating a new policy. Performances will only be given from Wednesday to Sunday inclusive. Monday and Tuesday the company will present operas on the road. Operas this week are: “Tosca” with Keltie and Granda; on Wednesday eve- ning; “Lucle,” ‘Thursday night; “Caval- lerin” and “Pagliacei” on Friday evening; “Forza del Destino,” Saturday matinee; “Rigoletto,” Saturday night and “La Gio- conda” on Sunday evening. Leonard Shure, pianist, will give his re- cital on Friday evening at Town Hall. The program include the Schubert “Wan- derer Fantasy,” seven Oapricei and Inter- meszi, Opus 116, by Brahms and the Schu- mann Sonata i F minor. i : : ; i gee glk [ : E i i “Weill,” says the buteher who shares my seat,” for one thing, the government's cutting down on its orders for the relief.” , pop, ice cream, ete., etc, So one gets constipation from overeating even this fifth year of the crisis! But nenbie le eeatiog at “Bi “Bright god-damned funny,” ? say. “I don't mean the The fellows at the top are getting it alright. The New Deal’s piling up plenty of profits for y To | ednesday | Fanny Roth, millinery worker Comrade Weisenberg, killed in strike in Chicago Comrade Gonsales and Comrade Levi, Negro, killed in a New York demonstration. Steve Katovis, killed on picket Ite, New York. Comrades Grey, Clifford James, John Willis, Milio Bently, Jim Mc- Millen, sharecropper leaders, killed by sheriffs and landlords in Ala- bama. Comrade Nagura, Japanese comrade, killed while leading strike of Jap- anese printers in California Joe York, George Bustle, Curtis Williams, Joe DiBlazio, George Marchik, Peter Miller, Archie Woodruff, killed by starvation. Charles Reynolds, killed in accident on way to organize lumber work- ers Herbert Osborne, died from starva- tion and effects of World War Ben Boloff, died from T.B. con- tracted while in jail, serving 10 | _ killed by thugs | Comrade A. J. Jakira, LL.D. leader Joe Sposof, killed in an unemployed |Messes were felt by many of the workers who for this reason, feeling | | that our union was organizationally 7:30—Johnny Russell and Carolyn Rien. Songs 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Reisman Orch.; Phil Dueg is the only word to describe it. It is from six to eight times the size of the common outhouse, built of Beritone demonstration in Chicago, Octo-| weak inclined toward the A. F. of | Plain boards. Sometimes there is | ber, 1932 ., altho i ~|@ Wooden floor and just as often | Fred ‘Bell, killed by train Sen Ogee ene | there is nothing bit the bare | | Comrade Pace, killed in accident 80-| ‘The next tasks of the Party and|STound. The outhouse is old. The | ing to miners conference |the NT'WU in the textile. industry | boards are dried by years of semi- | Comrade Simon, Y.C.L. killed on|are summed up in the concluding | ‘Topical sun. Inside, it is some- |. Picket line |chapter, particularly in the resolu- | ‘mes divided in two by = wooden | Nathan Green, killed in aceident | tion of the Paterson opposition on | Partition extending across part of | | , “hile on organizational work the unity of all silk workers for the |{2€ om. Over this partition is a |formation of one united silk work- | l0ne electric light and in every | J. Minken, killed in accident. 8:30-—Wayne King Orch. 9:00—Bernie Orch. 9:30-—-Ed Wynn, Comsdian 19:00—Operetta—The Stucent Princes, with Gladys Swarthout, Meszo Soprano. Paul Oliver, Baritone; Prank McIn- tyre, Actor and Others 11:00-——-Talk—J. B. Kennedy WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Sports Resume 7:15—Comedy; Music 7:30-——Footlight Echoes 8:00—Grofe Orch.; Prank Parker, Tenor: Betty Barthel, Contralto 8:30—Borrah Minnevitch Harmonion Ban¢ ment inspired us to pledge that we too will never falter in carrying forward the Red Banner of Prole- tarian Revolution to a Soviet United | States. tion stood in silence for one min- ute, followed national, by siging of Inter- Comrade Sanders, editor of Empros | org: union. camp I've been this bulb was thick- Ryan Walker, cartoonist for Daily | i SAS SOMES SURES \ly covered with dust. It is rarely Worker | 7 > used, for the farmer charges the and other heroes of our Party whose | W HAT S ON worker 25 cents a week for the light loyalty to the revolutionary move-| Tuesday and workers do not earn enough OPEN MEETING of Unit 37, Section 15 at 3230 Bainbridge Ave, Bronx, 8 p. m. |W. Ghriich wit speak on “Present War Developments.” VOLUNTEER ENTERTAINERS wanted | immediately for Red Builders Affair, April a5 B. 12th St | | 1. S. U. LECTURE on “Sport and the) | working Class,” at 1418 Boston Rd., 8:30) p.m. Auspices ¥. W, O. Youth Br. ¥-8. | | Unanimously adopted. Conyen- | 21. Communicate City Office, Daily Worker,| harvesting the crop, the outhouse! 7:15—s: | | 9:00—Morros Musicale 9:30—Success—Harry Balkin 9:45—Book Play 10:00—Eddy Brown, Violtm to be able to afford the 25 cents 10:18—Ourrent Events expenditure. So they live in dark- | 5): 9 10:30—Johnston Or; ness when the day's work is done. | 11:00—Moonbeams Trio When a migratory worker comes | WIZ—760 Ke. upon the scene where he is to work} 4.99 p. .—Amos ‘n’ ‘Andy and Local Government |tn the Control of the Liquor Traffic—Albert L. Scott, Engineer; Professor Yandell Henderson, Yale University; Professor Luther Gulick, Columbia Untverstty is bare. Nothing is supplied, not even a wood burning stove. so the worker can cook his meals. The |family that wants to eat anything| 7:45—cavaliers Quartet |hot must carry its own stove, if it | can pick one up somewhere. Noth- 8:00—The Absentee Killer—Sketch 8:30—Conrad Thibault, Baritone; Beis them. Just keep your eye on the financial pages.” The butcher says, “I got six kids} and the old woman at home. The kids can't find jobs and two of them are married and got kids of their own. Used to be so I could make ends meet on what I made. But not any more. Things perked up a little when one of the boys was workin’ on the C.W:A. But he got fired a month ago, an’ they won't give him any relief.” “How about your job?” I ask. “Making any dough these days?” “Hell No! We work a damned sight harder and make a damned sight less. And we're not sure of our jobs these days either. Every day they hire and fire. Right now they're firing more than they're o come?” The butcher shrugs. son for one thing,” he says. speedup.” I nod. We stand at the foot of the steps leading to the station plat- form. We are about to part, the butcher to his work, I to mine, “Any “Slack sea- “and strike talk in the yards?” I ask.) hy The glance my chance companion} 0M," he says. give me is full of suspicion, He shuts up like a clam, and his grow- ing hostility 1s actually a visible process. I know he thinks me @ stool pigeon and I hasten to tell him who I am, He laughs. And with his parting, “Haven’t much time now; have to get going. But, buddy, there’s always that kind ot talk,” he leaves me. ra hae 1 AM walking about the yards. At the employment office at Armours is i a gang of men. I join . One of the men says, “Christ! ley won't even talk to you. Let’s out of here.” I watch him. He stands hesitant a moment and de- cides to remain. There is no hope in his face but he remains. When from an inner office a man appears, all eyes turn expectantly toward him. So far as we can see he doesn’t know we are present. “Anyone hired yet this morning?” I ask of a worker beside me. “A few,” he says. “They won't be hirin’ any more today.” agF A Morning in the Chicago Stockyards ; “Its.always that way.” | “Then why stick around?” “There's always a chance.” “Yeh, fat chance,” says another. And with that there is a rising murmur of conversation in the room, * eee | 1 WANDER about. I am just look- ing around. A Negro worker, hands in pockets, is leaning up against a factory wall. He might be able to give me a story, I think and I approach him. I can’t ask cold turkey, “Mister, what's your story? I want it for the Daily Worker.” And then again perhaps I can. I am taking no chances, however, and stop be- side him to ask for a light. “Got an extra cigarette, bud?” he asks. “Sure,” I say. I hand him Camel. I had borrowed a buck the night before, and I am flush, “Thanks,” he says. “Working here?” I ask. “No. No. Wish I was. Wish I was workin’ anyplace. Say, boy, I'd do anything for a job right now.” “Been out long?” T ask. He nods. “I was workin’ for Wil- three months, They laid off about. 20 per cent. TI come down today because I hear they got a 30-hour week in the canning department at Armours. They say maybe they might put in the same in the other departments too.” “Thirty hours,” wages?” “Boy, are you crazy?” “How was the job at Wilson's?” I ask. The Negro shrugs. “Same as everywhere else,” he says. “They work you till your can’s draggin’ on the ground an’ then they throw you out.” “Yes,” I say, “I know. How do you Manage now?” | “T got on the relief last week,” | I say. “Same he says. “I don’t know what I'm goin’ to do. They're goin’ to evict me I guess.” I speak of the Unemployed Coun- cils. The Negro hears me through. ‘T know about ‘em,’ he says. ‘You goin’ to be in the march?” “In the pickle de-| particularly when they observe the partment. Been outta work about| speed of the girls wrapping Premium | | “The Hunger March on the 31st.” | “Sure.” “Till see you. Got another cigar- | |ette? I ain't smoked for so long| | that first one was just like a taste. An’ it sure tasted good.” | aera | \JT IS ten am. I am again at| Swift's. A sign says, “visitor’s en- trance.” I enter. A white clad ele- vator man bows politely, and I step into his cab, cursing his sham ser- | vility. Four, five floors... it is hard to say. 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