The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 20, 1929, Page 2

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929 a | ae et \ Coal Miners, Ready to Rebel, Against Slavery, Find Daily Page Two DAILY WEST VIRGINIA ‘Basky Lies, Uses Boss Court; FARMER CHEATED Correspondent LARGEST PICKET Presses His Criminal Charges OUT OF LAND BY Contest Will LINE ANSWER TO WORKER, ae sore RENNER. | VINERS TO FIGHT IMU. TERROR, Union Plans to Hold Meets New Miners been wit United Mine W ent in break it un. The “National Miners Union in- | tends to hold further mee i West Virginia, and if _ necessary, | take a cavalcade of 50 automobiles from adj districts to insure adequate protecti m the Lewis gangstérs. | DRY LAW WISCONSDD MADISON April 18.—The Wisconsin s bly today by : of | abolished ail prohibition statutes, This in accordance with a popular refer- cndum carried a short time ago. Don't Forget at the Coliseum. May First Cannon-Trotsky Renegade Plans Frame-up of Revolutionary Workers red ¢ e of their Trots whose editor is wned four pages t they are chi ech, and claiming court is not our word is w pag bout to the capi recourse however, d to next !and that of the capitalist court mag- signature | istrate. <2 BY Seo Ra sak “he ite at the depen aad eke Sas PHYA! 302 REE Le and aaa sf Hee ssid Ranclont has De pEeReaie! aad Goa sean The second photograph is the | hospital in a serious condition. De- depositicn of Basky’s father, Lucas, | spite the fact that he is a comrade against the other militant worker,|of Lustig and Kiss, both of whom icholas Kiss, on the same charge. | were also beaten, the renegades are The worker Mathew Holzbauer,|trying the old capitalist stunt of stabbed by the Cannon-Basky gang-|charging that his friends stabbed sters at the meeting, is still in the ‘him, Negro Workers for Bosses and Landlords « (Continued from Page One) 7 pernicious profiteering scheme in| the city. Segregated into a “dump- ing ground” which has been set aside for them, they are made ‘to pay the highest rents. == “Lose Prejudice. There are worst tenement districts in New York City than Harlem. e-traps in Harlem, un- ease-breeding conditions, but by far the greatest burden |is in the Negro Workingclass dis- tricts can be seen from a compari-| son of health statistics. | The Hospital Information Bureau | the United Hospital Fund pub- lishes the following information: the r 100, f ulation | are employed. In the group reported | Fag eee ea Nees a is | by the Urban League, 463 out of | §7 go» the whites in New York City. total of .1225 women, are employed | The New York City Health De- as domestic servants, and 420 .88/ partment reports that the rate of | factory workers. This is indicative illness among Negroes in New York | of the trend in industry for it ShOWS | City is 10. per cent higher than | that of this group more women are among whites. employed in factories than men. Un- infant Mortalite: skilled women labor is even taking The infant mortality vate for the| the place of unskilled man labor be- city as a whole is 76 per 1,000 | cause it is cheaper. births, while for Negro children it| In addition, nearly every family | j, 43 per 1,000 births, Must Slave thrust on the backs of the Negro| must take in lodgers to pay the rent. workers is the mountain of rent. Even in the group examined by the Segregation, leading to overcrowd- | Urban League, which was somewhat ing which reached its peak about|higher placed, there was found to 1923 with the great demand for| be an average of one lodger to each apartments caused by the influx of | Negro workers after the war, led many realtors to see the light. They suddenly became liberal, lost their racial prejudice, and made money. Negro Exploiters. In;1920, many of the buildings, which had been abandoned, were again put into use. Every available | dwelling space was rented at enor- mous rates. In many cases rents rose 100 per cent in 1925 and 1926 over just a few years back. The rent raising is still going on. It is as much an institution in Harlem as are the tenements themselves. Not only whitelands, but Negro businessmen say the golden oppor- tunity. Today it is estimated that 75. per cent of the real estate in Harlem is under the control of Negro | landlords. They are ju:i as vicious | as the white landlords. A business-| South Carolina, his wife and nine| we can only repeat the solution that | family. “Hit Reds.” In some sections of Harlem, over- | crowding is so bad, as a result of | the high rents, that the “repeating” or “hot-bed system” is in vogue. The “Hot-bed system” keeps the bed always occupied. The same room is rented to a day worker and a night worker. One tumbles out to go to work as the other tumbles in from a day’s work. We saw this overcrowding when we visited the Williams family on East 134th Street, where 10 people lived in 4 rooms, We saw the same thing on Seventh Avenue, where rents are much higher, and where every available bit of space is sub- rented to lodgers, This case is reported by a social worker: “A recent migrant from The Health Bureau estimates that while deaths from consumption have declined in the last 10 years, the rate of decrease among Negroes is very low and the deaths from that cause still remain about three times |as great as among whites. | of the houses in which Negro work- |ers are forced to live, the fact that | they have been made the special prey | of boss and landlord. ee This condition is due to the state | MUNITIONS TRUST _\Ex-Senator Is Leader in Swindle e deceit, lies ion pr: ers on ind) York. an incidental | only control growth r the in the i -every petty ows to the will For More Explosives. | The hunger for land sawing at the Ensign Company | officialdom ever since the increased demand for explosives following the world For the manufacture of lexplosives the Du Pont technicians | required more water. Possibilities | lof a dam are offered by a small stream which runs through land on which small farmers eke out a} |meagre living with the consent of | the town’s rulers. The farmer | therefore be forced off, the master: ng declare, Buy or Break. “I worked as a steamfitter in fiv jobs in the towns,” declares Kelle- | nurses at the clinic. | away. her. “I weuldn’t bargain with Mc- Morris Ernst, defense counsel, “There are serious lynching said that the clinic, in giving con- Lean, whose job just now is to buy | off or break every man who refuses jan alleged bird sanctuary. easy for McLean to get: me fired | from every job I worked at.” | "Tactics used by the company when | politely suggestive letters fail are | |illuminating. “I received 11 letters | lat one time—every one of them from an agent of McLean,” says Kelleher. “One came from Thomas Garrity, a brother of McLean’s | servant girl. Case, the local tax col- | |lector, wrote another. I ignored the letters. Then a worse campaign of persecution started. Five men came to the house, alleging they were sent to take me away to the lunatic asylum. I asked for a warrant. They had none, and got out. Burned Timber. | Some one burned the timber in the | farm. They wrecked the furniture | in the house—and then I got more | letters, asking what I would take | for the land. They have stole thousands of acres of land in this| way for this so-called “bird sanc- | tuary”—(that sounds harmless) for an extension of an explosive plant | —for years. And on this piece of | land McLean recently entertained ex-President Coolidge on a fishing tr ip. The pettiest sabotage is used | | against those who refuse to get out, Kelleher says, “The official of the New Haven Railroad refused to sell Kelleher’s child a ticket to enable her to get to school at the reduced Do It Ourselves. we have already told yo : how little is to be expected from capitalist sources in the relieving of this sit- uation. Since 1842 there have been | special state commissions, and the |laws which have been passed were \foreed by mass pressure. Even the little that these laws prescribe in the way of fire-proof houses and sanitary conditions, have been en- tirely ignored by the state and the | landlords. In closing our series on Harlem, |children’s rate. “I had to complain ‘to the Secretary of the State Board lof Education before they conde- |scended to allow my girl the redited | fare.” POYNTZ ASSAILS _ MILL “FASCISM” maniis a businessman, no matter | children are living in 2 rooms with| we have explained more than once.| Defense Secretary Hits what his color. His aim in life is to| an elderly woman who is ill. The) that js for tenants in all parts of make money, and to make money he | wife by looking after this old woman | | is given credit for half the rent, All| m hands. |of the children are under 12 years | °™” sage That is why there was so much of age. Two beds were in the apart-| must be an exploiter. A Bourgeois Mecca. talk after 1920 of the Negro Mecca. | ment. Seven of the children slept the city to take matters into their House Committees. This can only be done by organi- zation. . Just as workers in the mills It was a Mecca for profiteers and | on pallets on the floor. It happened) must organize, first shop commit- speculators, It was a Mecca for that one of the smaller children de- | tees, then union locals, before put- the Negro bourgeois. But it was a veloped pneumonia which WS ting up a fight for better conditions hell for the Negro worker. | quickly transmitted to other mem-| that will be effective, so the tenants Even the State Board of Housing bers of the family. The father was could not help but comment that it | employed as a laborer, but was in- “cannot state too emphatically the | jured shortly after coming to New fact, that any housing problem that | exists in the white community, exists | in exaggerated form in Harlem, The present problem is not the increase | that the Negro like the white tenant | is forced to pay, from year to year, but the enormous premium he has to pay in competition with white tenants.” Workers Nightmares. Not only are the Negro workers! forced to live in segregated districts, especially designed for them by the ruling class, but they must pay for it in the form of high rents, which mean long hours of work, overcrowd- ing in apartments not fit to live in. Rent raises and dispossession are the nightmares of a worker's life in| Harlem. In some cases we found that where there is only one work- er in the family, he must work at two jobs. He may work at night as a porter. He gets a few hours sleep and in the morning goes rustling for a job on the waterfront. His life belongs to the landlord. Every Ounce of Labor Power. In most cases all the labor power family is used to meet the dlord’s demands. Sixty per cent women in Harlem, which I to be a conservative estim York. month.” The rent was $34 per AES Wages and Rent. GOcTAL workers for the capi- talist state say that no more than 20 per cent of the wages should be spent for dwelling. That remains so only on paper. Among the 2,326 apartments re- ported by the Urban League it was found that 21 per cent of the ten- ants give away between 20 and 30 per cent of their total wages for rent; 26 per cent are forced to give between 30 and 40 per cent of their total wages, and 48 per cent give {+> landlord more than 40 per cent of their total earnings. These figures, although low be- cause they do not include a totally representative group, illuminate the robbery of the landlord system on one hand, and the extreme slavery of Harlem tenants, on the other. * * . ROWDING, unsanitary houses, and the slavery of the workers to capitalists in the factories and} in the tenements, take | landlords their toll in the health of the work- ers. How much worse this condition | must organize their house commit- into block committees and then into | a large union of tenants. The only way to avoid rent raises \is to refuse to pay them. The only way to avoid evictions is to refuse to move. If a whole tenement, or a whole block, should go on rent strike, when any tenants, even one, are threatened with raises or evic- tions, then we will have the land- lords in our power. But «rganization is necessary for this. There should be a house com- mittee for every tenement in New York City. Petitions to Albany will not help, nor will the lobbying poli- ticians, who themselves own tene- ments. When the landlord talks raise, make him talk it to the house com- mittee, Then, instead of him dic- tating raises to us, we will be able to dictate Fent-cuts to him. *o* On Monday, will apear the first article on housing conditions in Latin-American Harlem. To make this series a success, more sub- scribers must he gotten to the Daily Worker, more Daily Work- ers must appear on the news- stands, bundles of the Daily must be distributed in the sections de- scribed, UMLCHECIe VasuntuaaueN 'oncowre Ted tees, which will eventually be united | Mass Terrorism (Continued from Page One) ideology of the southern semi-feudal bourgeois society. “The mill slaves, white and black, are outcasts, outside the pale, out- Jaws whom anyone may persecute and kill with impunity, especially when they revolt against their in- tolerable conditions. Defense is therefore a very basic necessity for the union advance. “Shield of Union.” must go forward hand in hand with the National Textile Union as the shield of the workers against the capitalists, their thugs and hire- lings, the ku kluxers and the lynch- ers. The task of the I. L. D, is not |merely raising bail and providing legal defense for the workers. Far more, it is the building of a nation- wide, broad mass movement of the working class for mass action as in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Arouse the Masses. “Mass demonstrations, parades, mass movements of an aroused working class—these are the best weapons against the white terror, fascism and lynch law. “The I, L. D. has entered the South to protect. the workers and defend the union; to arouse the workers all over the country to use their mass force against the black reaction of the South, “Workers! Join the I. L, D, in masses! Recruit thousands of new members; affiliate all your workers’ organizations; build a broad mass defense army of the working class to fight capitalist reaction! Build and glefend the new unions!” perme | Be Continued encouraging has the worke - Connect Boss and Gang sponse been that the contest will be ; = continued for seve: to come. (Continued from Page One) The wini eek’s_con- AST sank dg Made olien and test will be announced in the Daily | demanded the right to enter the Worker ips order cu tore and distribute relief. He fi-| Will. beige anaa aeass ve ally conceded that 20 might enter For the best worker cor eR eGmattoe ae Ge | ence—Bill Haywood’s Bool TGitned aheleenenthe n Bickford Com- | bor and Automobil tributed provisions. Part for profit has, Dunn; for the third b e was assigned temporar- since Du Pont- d Silk,” by ily for a union headquarters, and LIED TO TRAP has been} | t off the land to be used for |licewoman, had complied with the poe Se . se It was |law which states that such informa- GASTONIA THUGS. The worker correspondents have responded with some of their best letters in the v er correspondence . ats " contest which began on Monday. So Relief Store Re-onens; For the second b from the store, re-stocked it, the strike committee met there. “At yesterday’s mass meeting, held on the ruins of the totally in the contest this we: wrecked strike headquarters, I told) trying. the strikers the miil owners’ mob could not drive the W. J. R. cut of G ia, and that we would dis- tribute food if we had to do it from The i iviti a truck. mediate resumption of relief and the prompt |functioning of the strike committee ceeply impressed the strikers and the community. Many mill workers cre joining the National Textile Workers Union, The mob incident jenormously strengthened the union. | SANGER CLINI , |Police Took Records in| «te are establishing the identity Raid |of the monsters of officials of the | company, overseers, scabs, an army | (Continued from Page One) | urganized by the mill owners, plus contraceptive information only after| deputies and perhaps soldiers, along a careful examination by licensed ;ijth the fascist elements of the Me ses rete etic d Dr. town, annah M,. Stone, medical director) = i : of the clinie, and Dr. Elizabeth Pes-|_At_ Sesterday’s mass meeting, soont, chief assistant, are two of the| #{ter Ellen Dawson spoke, a federal five defendants in the trial. The|™arshall appeared to arrest her on other three, Marcella Sideri, Sigrid)a federal frame-up charge. The restwell and Antoinette Field, are| crowd was furious as she was taken \ threats against the organizers, es- | pecially against Organizers Beal jand Pershing, Secretary Truett, and tion is to be given only to cure or| Martin, the relief store guard. prevent disease. The fictitious tale| Martin was badly beaten up in jail. | told to the clinic doctors by Police- oat Ue irartiee woman McNamara indicated it Need Funds for Food. Poth te bees ously Anjured her! The Workers International Relief | ny Z * | headquarters here announced today When Tart erated all doe. | hat sR aR Alen sprang: SHORE So keep the re-established relief sta- | tors to the stand to testify, he was|. * ‘ | cut short by Magistrate Abraham | 1" in Gastonia stocked with food, | Rosenbluth, who said he was too nd that money is badly needed for busy “hearing strike cases” (cases|this purpose. Funds should be of arrested cafeteria pickets), and| rushed to Workers International Re- | adjourned the trial till Wednesday. lief, 1 Union Square, New York. | Mrs, Margaret Sanger, founder of] International Labor Defense na-| the clinic and for years a fighter] ,; ewes i rt Has tional office is defending the strik- for birth control for the masses, ex-| org and relief direction arrested in pressed great indignation that the} igatocans ands walla Gal wracere police had seized confidential ree. | ords and papers. She said she was| CVerywhere to send money for their | organizing defense committees in| d¢fense to International Labor De- New York and New Jersey. | fense, 799 Broadway, New York. MOBILIZE FOR MAY DAY| traceptive information to the po- | | one following is a partial list of International May Day meetings arranged by the Communist Party and sympathetic organizations. The | | various districts are urged to send in immediately for listing the dates, | | cities, halls, and speakers of their May Day meetings. | otherwise noted, meetings are on May 1. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 8 p. m., Eagle Hall, 273 Golden Gate Ave. Speakers: E. Gardos, A. Whitney, D. Ettlinger, Negro, Mexican and YWL speakers. Oakland, April 30, Fraternity Hall, 708 Peralta St. Speakers: E. Gardos, A. Whitney, Chaplick, M. Martin. Eureka, April 27. Speaker: E. Gardos. Fort Bragg, April 28. Speaker: E. Gardos. Sacramento, May 5, Open-air (Park). Speakers: Gard Los Angeles. Except where | M. Daniels, E. Details to be announced. CONNECTICUT. Hartford, 8 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 2003 Main St. Port Chester, 8 p. m., Finnish Workers Home, 42 N. Water St. DELAWARE. Speakers: F. Mozer, L. Meldin. ILLINOIS. Chicago, 7:30 p. m., Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren & Marshfield Ave. Speakers: J, L. Engdahl and others. Open-air demonstration at 6 p. m. at Union Park, Ashland & WaShington; then parade to Auditorium. Also 20 noon-day factory gate meetings. MARYLAND. Baltimore, 8 p. m. Speakers: W. Murdoch, YWCL speaker. MASSACHUSETTS, Wilmington, 8 p, m. Boston, 8 p. m. New Bedford, 7:30 p. m., Bristol Arena, Purchase St. Weisbord, E. Keller, and Southern textile striker. Gardner, May 5, 1 p. m. Speakers, AY MICHIGAN. Detroit, 7:30 p. m., Danceland Auditorium, Woodward near Forest. Speakers: N. Tallentire, others, Worker All Workers’ Friend| ' written by a miner in Klein, Montana. \ N idea of what the Daily Worker means to the coal miners of Montana may be gotten from the) following, Ai “The bosses here are installing machinery in the coaw mine and are speeding the miners up to such an extent that | they are ready to rebel, if they get the proper leadership. dq A “Last week an J. W. W. speaker named James P, ' Thompson was here and was greatly disliked by the miners because he was.very mild towards John L. Lewis and the A. F. of L. official family. “The workers here believe that Bill Haywood was hon- est and a sincere leader of all the workers, and therefore I know it will accomplish much good if the miners could get the Daily Worker, and Bill Haywood’s Book. : “Thru Bill Haywood’s Book I believe I can get many subscribers for the Daily Worker.” as their leader. The workers of Montana learned to love Bill Haywoow# They have eagerly read his story, which is still being published serially in the Daily. The miner who wrote the above letter is one of the thousands of class-conscious workers who have found that the Daily Worker is always in the lead in their struggles for a living wage and decent conditions. Therefore, he has determined to spread the “Daily” among his fel‘ow-miners. follow his example. Daily Worker! All class-conscious workers of the United States should Double the number of readers of the tack dM J ele dala j Pasar: oe EPELEEL ELE EEE PEEP EP PEEP PEPE PPP PP a Pb ey Pontiac, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: A. Goetz. “The International Labor Defense | Flint, 7:30 p. m. Speaker, A. Gerlach. Saginaw, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: A. Ziegler. Grand Rapids, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: J, Schmies. Muskegon, 7:30 p. m. Speaker, P. Raymond. NEW JERSEY. Newark, 8 p. m., Progressive Labor Center, 83 Mercer St. Jersey City, 8 p. m., Ukrainian Workers Home, 116 Mercer St. New Brunswick, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 11 Plum St. Paterson, 8 p. m., Carpenters Hall, 54-6 Van Houten St. Passaic, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 25 Dayton Ave. Union City, 8:30 p. m., Nepivoda’s Hall, 418 21st St. , Perth Amboy, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 308 Elm St, Elizabeth, May 5, 8 p. m., Liberty Hall, E. 2nd St. Trenton, 8 p. m. Speakers: W. Lawrence, and YWCL speaker. NEW YORK. New York, 7:30 p. m., N. ‘YY. Coliseum, E. 177th St. and Bronx River Ave. Yonkers, May 5, 8 p. m., Workers Cooperative Center. May 4, 8 p. m., street meeting, Manor House Sq. OHIO. Cleveland, 7:30 p. m., Public Hall (Ball Room). PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburgh, 7:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Philadelphia, 8 p. m. Speakers: R. Minor, H. Benjamin, and a Negro speaker. Chester, 8 p. m, Speakers: Ben Thomas and a YWCL speaker. Allentown, 8 p.m. Speakers, L. P. Lemley and a YWCL speaker. Wilkes-Barre, 8 p. m. Scranton, 8 p. m. Minersville, 8 p. m. Easton and Bethlehem, 8 p. m. RHODE ISLAND, Providence, 8 p. m. Speakers: J. R. Reid, L. Nardella. There will also be May Day meetings in the following cities, the full details of which have not yet been received: New Haven, Waterbury (May 5), Bridgeport, and other citi, - = = z [Serteereee ... Spring ts here with its beauty... 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