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Domestic News
December 9, 1930
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
In Cleveland, a family killed their dog for food due to extreme poverty and unpaid gas bill, as recounted by a church priest in a sermon, highlighting need for workers' social insurance amid a company wage cut attempt.
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Tell of Woman Who
Killed Dog to Get
Food to
Exist On
(By a Worker Correspondent)
CLEVELAND, Ohio.—We noticed the article in the Daily about the family in Indiana who had to kill their dog in order to keep from starving.
This unbelievable story proved itself to be true right here in Cleveland.
A story was told by the priest of the Boulevard Christian Church on the West Side in Cleveland in his Sunday morning sermon:
A man went to a woman's house to shut off the gas. She had not paid her bill for a long time and the Gas Company sent out the man to turn off the gas. She pleaded with the man not to turn off the gas. He said he was given orders to do it and he had to. Again she pleaded—just let it on a few minutes more.
I want to finish this meat.
There was a pot full of meat cooking on the stove.
However the man bent on fulfilling his task asked rather surprised: How come you have money for meat and you don't have money to pay your gas bill?
The woman turned half pathetically and told the bill collector that he could go in her back yard and he would find the skin of their dog!
They had killed their dog as a last resort and were going to have a square meal for a change!
Even the well fed priest could not refrain from telling this pitiful story.
It will make the priests pray louder; but it must make the workers fight harder for workers' social insurance.
pany that is now trying to fasten a wage cut on its workers.
All strength to the strikers.
Killed Dog to Get
Food to
Exist On
(By a Worker Correspondent)
CLEVELAND, Ohio.—We noticed the article in the Daily about the family in Indiana who had to kill their dog in order to keep from starving.
This unbelievable story proved itself to be true right here in Cleveland.
A story was told by the priest of the Boulevard Christian Church on the West Side in Cleveland in his Sunday morning sermon:
A man went to a woman's house to shut off the gas. She had not paid her bill for a long time and the Gas Company sent out the man to turn off the gas. She pleaded with the man not to turn off the gas. He said he was given orders to do it and he had to. Again she pleaded—just let it on a few minutes more.
I want to finish this meat.
There was a pot full of meat cooking on the stove.
However the man bent on fulfilling his task asked rather surprised: How come you have money for meat and you don't have money to pay your gas bill?
The woman turned half pathetically and told the bill collector that he could go in her back yard and he would find the skin of their dog!
They had killed their dog as a last resort and were going to have a square meal for a change!
Even the well fed priest could not refrain from telling this pitiful story.
It will make the priests pray louder; but it must make the workers fight harder for workers' social insurance.
pany that is now trying to fasten a wage cut on its workers.
All strength to the strikers.
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Cleveland Poverty
Dog Killed For Food
Gas Bill Cutoff
Social Insurance
Workers Strike
What entities or persons were involved?
Priest Of The Boulevard Christian Church
Where did it happen?
Cleveland, Ohio
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Cleveland, Ohio
Key Persons
Priest Of The Boulevard Christian Church
Outcome
family killed their dog for food due to inability to pay gas bill and starvation risk
Event Details
A gas company collector visited a woman's house to shut off gas for unpaid bill. She pleaded to keep it on to finish cooking meat from their killed dog, their last resort for a meal amid poverty. The story was told by the priest of Boulevard Christian Church in his Sunday sermon.