THE MILITANT Saturday, February 15, 1930 Umemployment Stalks The Middle West Taxi Maintenance Men Join Strikers 32 BIRMINGHAM WAGES MISERLY PITTSBURG This city embattled taxi By RAWLINGS Charity organizations and welfare deBIRMINGHAM, Ala (FP) In this work in the pit where work. We pick drivers are standing firm in the fourth week steel city a worker is lucky to have any partments in middle western cities face a miners still get a small share but it does of their strike for union and better wages.
Job at all in January, and doubly lucky it situation in February, 1930 which is with not cheer us much to know why. Anywhere Maintenance crews in the scab Parmalee he is making enough to keep out of debt.
out parallel except for the winter of 1921 that a machine can safely go we have no garages have joined the strikers.
Common labor, mostly colored, is getting Tens of thousands of unemployed men and chance. But if it is dangerous for the Although care that venture on the as low as 20 cents an hour; carpenters, as women walk the streets looking for work, machine, the boss sends us in, streets carry large signs that interference low as 35 cents, bricklayers are being with rent overdue and food credit ex In some places a fall of rock might with their operation is a violation of a offered 50 cents and machinists 45 cents, hausted.
smash the machine and that would be strikebreaking injunction, the order 18 Young men and women in offices are getThe Chicago slave market is thronged loss of 4, 000 to 5, 000. But if we get kiled cheerfully ignored. Deputies, privately ting to 10 week. The cost of living with men. All day long they crowd the the maximum compensation under Penn paid 10 per day, accompany the cabs though in Birmingham, Is as high as anysidewalks in West Madison St. spilling over sylvania is only 3, 000. So the company in their occasional sorties on downtown where else in the country, into the side streets and alleys and gather Baves at least 1, 000 by taking a chance on streets.
Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce is no tng in mobs in front of any employment a miner life instead of on its expensive An interesting sidelight is thrown on different than similar bodies elsewhere.
odice that advertises for help. Most of the machinery.
the character of these deputies by the At any rate they can tell you where John employment office windows have chalked up arrest of one who relieved a friend of the Smith moved when he left his previous adthe sign No Shipment Today.
change from a 50 bill after he had pala 35 000 Jobless in New Jersey dress (for the benefit of the credit houses Only 44 Work in Toledo for the guard dinner. Strikebreakers and loan sharks. where he works and how imported from Philadelphia and New OrIndustrial Center nsus of emplo taken in Tolmuch the various open shop firms pay.
leans are involved in arrests for traffic edo shows that for every hundred men But on constructive information concern.
TRENTON, Investigation of apal law violations and figuring in smashups ing economic conditions in the district the working in February, 1929 there were 44 ling unemployemnt in New Jersey is procaused by their ignorance of Pittsburg trat Chamber is mum as an oyster.
men working in February, 1930. Some of posed in a bill introduced in the state fic.
the more important plants are practically legislature. Estimates of unemployment in No easy going organizing methods will catch on here. Real fire will be needed to closed down and there is no chance for this state run into the six figures, with fight back at the long unchallenged sway work outside of an occasional snow shov 35, 000 40, 000 jobless in Newark and surCLEVELAND Five hundred taxi drivof the iron and steel, coal and textile barelling Job.
rounding cities. The situation 18 most se ers have signed up and affiliated with the Estimates place the number of unemons who shaped this Alabama into a hea vere in Camden, Newark and Jersey City.
Cleveland Federation of Labor, ven for profiteers and a purgatory for ployed in Detroit somewhere between 100, In Saldwell, a Newark suburb, hundreds labor.
000 and 125, 000. Day after day they gather of colored workers are jobless and almost REPORTS BODE ILL FOR AUTO SLAVES before employement offices in lines four starving DETROIT TWO reports, appearing deep that extend tor blocks. An ad for Both the Johnson Johnson medical WEAVERS WALK OUT IN CAROLINA here over the week end, bode 111 for emMILL one man will bring a thousand applicants. supplies plant at New Brunswick and the ployment prospects of Detroit auto workCleveland has faced hard times for the Metals Refining Co. At Carteret WILMINGTON, Forty weavers ers. One from Chicago, states that the last three years. Unemployment there are reported to have laid off hundreds Chicago Automobile Show drew a record of the Delgado cotton mill in Wilmington have walked out in protest against the 1s as severe as it is in other neighboring attendance, but available data on sales stretchout system, cities, but since it is of longer duration indicate sharp decline in comparision many of the out of works have drifted Where to Buy The Militant with last year.
The strikers refused to accept their pay checks after they had read a bulletin to other places, looking for jobs.
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whom about one in eight received assis BOSTON, Mass. Shapiro s, Beach St tance. In addition to the charity distrib Dear Washington, Andelman s, 291 Treuted by this public organization, the usual mont St. Newsstand, 38 Causeway St.
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The Militant is no exception to this rule. It must depend entirely upon readers Bands of desperate workers know to their ST. LOUIS, MO. Foster BC Store, 410 and supporters for its existence and growth.
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The Militant was founded because it fills a special and urgent need in the porters of the Republican machine. Most PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Newstands at 19th labor and revolutionary movements. It has been maintained by a group of deof the balance voted for Al Smith in 1928.
And Market, Cor. 15th and Market, voted workers, who understand the value of adherence to the fundamental teachEmpty stomachs and eviction notices pro Cor. 13th and Market, cor. ings of the great leaders of our movement, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
vide the basis for disillusionment.
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English and Hungarian Branches Help Us to Sustain The Militant DANCE THE MILIITANT, Vol. III, No. February 15, 1930. Published weekly by the Communist League of America (Opposition) at 25 Third Avenue, New York, Y, Subeription rate: 00 per year: foreign 50. Five cents per copy. Bundle rates, centaper copy. Editorial Board: Martin Abern, James Cannon, Max Shachtman, MauIce Spector, Arne Swabeck. Entered class mail matter November 28, 1928, at the Post Office at New York, under the act of March 1879. Total No. 32.