The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 3

fage Three u BRITISH ‘SORE | | U, S, FIGURES | Bs NEW DAWES PLA ‘Reductions for All But Gets All Luxuries for Himself mo ee = DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 9 | BILL FEDERALS SMASH TRY TO DEPORT" JALISCO ‘REBELS’ ITALIAN WORKER: US. Troops Withdrawn LL.D. Fights Frameup;| as Outbreak Dies Urges Aid MEXICO CITY, May 8 (UP)—)}_ Another = J Tr 4 pe e Preaches “Simple Life” Bunk; yy Copyright, 1929, by [elernatiawe!| Publishers Co., Ine. << HAYWOOD'S BOOK All rights rese,ved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. Italian worker is being} An engagement in which 119 cler- ical reactionaries fell was reported framed up in an effort to deport him back to fascist Italy. John Pic- “Uncle Shylock” | | today in dispatches from Guadala-|collelli was arrested in his home GENEVA, May 8.—While appar- * * . Bet, req] |iata. in Hoboken and charged with illegal aE aomeat ha ached The Prison As A University of Crime; Starved |v. ...01 troops defeated a force ently. He is also accused of having the reparations memorandum pre- i of 1,600 reactionaries at Colotla had a fight with fascists on Colum-| sented by Owen D. Young, it became ; _ Inmates Revolt; Guards Send Thugs to (70 r jens are ae Golotlan. ins Day, 1926, ail sean iar satis ae | Beat Up Mutineers With Clubs tempted to take the town five dey, Pending another hearing. ‘The New | Sea ction di the. claims canal i reviouslyrand lone o1-dced, York district of the International countries except the U. S. t Whensthiy sattackel Moniay the Labor Defense, thru its attorney, The are also. still disemts Faywoot has totd many vivid incidents of the class struggle in insurgents penetrated the town and &¢ Short, is fighting the efforts isfied. The American claim of about | America and his personal participation in scores of hard fought | established themselves in the church *° S°M4 him back to certain torture 1,400,000,000 marks remains intact. battles during 25 years as a unionist. He has told of great strikes he led, of the violence of the bosses, and many human incidents that accompanied the battles. Now he is telling about his life in prison after the trial and conviction of about 100 I.W.W. members arrested in a nation-wide raid during the World War. Continue below, oe © By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD PART 106. 1B! the department with me was a life timer known as “Red” Spain. His work was to store the clothes and other effects of incoming prisoners. Spain had been a soldier in the regular army and fought in the Philippines. He told me how proud he had been of his soldier’s uniform. When he first put it on he took a walk down the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, where he had enlisted. He passed a Salvation Army barracks, outside of which there was a sign “Dogs and Soldiers NOT ALLOWED.” He said his idea of a soldier began to dwindle from that time on. This penitentiary was a little different from others. Here the prisoners did not wear the usual black and white convicts’ stripes, and the terrible silent system was enforced only at certain hours and places. But like all prisons, it was a vicious place. Prisons have been called “The Universities of Crime.” This was such a university with many post-graduates. There were men who were 2, 3 and 4 time “losers.” “Blacky” had been in the Ohio State Penitentiary where he knew Bill Porter, who afterwards was known as O. Henry, the famous short story writer. There were times when two or three trusties would gather in our work room and relate their past experiences. I heard “Whitey” tell of a time when he and some others blew a safe in some town near Pittsburgh. He said to Townes: “You boosted me up on the dry goods boxes that we piled in a pyramid under the second story window.” Townes said: “I don’t remember that.” I looked at him in sur- prise. Here was a man who had blown open so many safes that there was one instance he had entirely forgotten. es ae 3 NE night Lossieff and I both got a court call. We were not cer- tain, but felt that for some reason or other we had been “shot.” The next morning we went to the Deputy Warden’s office, and he told me that I was reported for talking in the dining room, that this time sentence would be suspended, but that the offense called for a loss of “good” time or time in the hole. Lossieff got the same reprimand. One day the gang that was doing roustabout work were ordered to unload a couple of car loads of coal. They had just had their baths that morning, and to shovel coal would mean that they would get grimy and have to stay that way for a week, They made a kick and demanded that they be taken to the Deputy Warden. He imme- diately put them in their cells and told them they would either shovel coal or stay there on bread and water and be chained to the bars during working hours. The dining room was the principal place where the silent system was in force. There, when a man wanted a crust of bread he would hold up his clenched fist. If one wanted the salt he shook his palm down; pepper, he wiggled his fingers. One day the dining hall was the scene of a near riot. The pris- oners’ band was furnishing us music. But from the kitchen, for the third day in succession, they sent in baked parsnips. The cry went up from many prisoners: “Take that damn music out of here and give us something to eat!” Some one had dared to speak out loud in the dining room! The sound of angry voices caused some commotion among the guards. There was a clatter of broken plates as they were flung on the floor. The Deputy Warden came in and some plates and cups were shied at his head. He ordered the Negro prisoners, who were seated in front, to their cells. They did not obey his first command, then got up and marched out, followed in turn by the rest of us. The next morning there were many court calls. Some were sen- tenced to isolation. That night two Negroes, who were protected with baseball masks and armed with clubs, were told to go into the isola- tion cells and “beat hell out of those rowdies.” There was no one killed, no bones broken, but the boys were roughly handled. Manuel Rey told me afterwards that it was a bloody night. Two white pris- oners, defaulting bankers from South Dakota, took a hand in the affair, and afterwards said that the I.W.W.’s got just what was com- ing to them. The dining hall in the winter months was converted into a school every evening. Twenty-four members of the I.W.W. were teachers of yarious classes which ranged from running a motor car to the study of foreign languages. at She OURT calls were not unusual, as there were daily violations of the rules of the in&titution. But there were many things that were done by the prisoners that the guard did not see or hear, though there were “snitches” everywhere. The office workers and those employed in the dining room and hospital all wore white jackets. These were called “snitch jackets” by the mass of prisoners, though by no means all who wore them were informers. Stills for making whisky were operated in different parts of the penitentiary. From the large amount of supplies used in an institu- tion of this kind, it was easy enough to get potatoes, rye, or corn, and many times raisins, in quantities enough to make a good supply of moonshine whisky. A still in full operation was one day discov- ered up in the unused smokestack, which carried off the tell-tale smell. How long this bootlegging joint had been running no one knew. ‘| The town of Leavenworth was found to be flooded with counter- feit coin one time. When the Department of Justice got on the job, they traced the counterfeit money to trusty prisoners in the peni- tentiary. Two counterfeiting plants were discovered within the walls. One of them was down in a sewer tunnel. Here some prisoners had heen melting all the nickel, copper and babbitt metal that they could get hold of from the printing shop, making it into money. The trusties who were working outside had a chance to spend their counterfeit money and brought their purchases into the prison every day after work, ‘A visit to the bakeshop was unusual for a prisoner not employed there, but I had occasion to go there one day. Charlie Lambert was a , baker and working at his job. He said to me: “Bill, do you want a pie?” I said: “There’s nothing that would suit me better.” “How can you carry it?” he asked, holding out a big juicy apple q pie, baked for the prison officers. “Give it to me, I’ll carry it.” I lifted my coat tails and slipped it under my suspenders, buttoned up, and started out. When I got to the clothing department, the pie was there, but the juice had run all down my legs. The boys who got a piece thought the pie was good, but said it would have been better if I hadn’t lost all the juice. ° * * si In the next issue Haywood tells of the planting of revolvers in his locker in prison. Get Bill Haywood’s Book free with one yearly subscription to the Daily Worker, . a eeeeeSeSeSeSSSSSSSSSF . Struggle for the Protection of The Amsterdam International is Female Labor! Fight for Mater- | Splitting the Trades Union Move- nity Welfare! For an 8 Weeks’ | ment. Long Live a Single Mili- Vacation on Full Pay Prior to and | tant Class ‘Trade Union Interna- After Confinement. tional! of San Nicolas, while the federal troops cccupied the municipal build- ing. Agrarians, co-operating with the | government troops, dislodged the re- jactionaries from the church and |drove them to the cemetery, Four \hundred additional agrarians at- | tacked them in the rear, forcing |them to disperse. j * * * Troops No Longer Needed. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 8.— |United States troops on the Mex- jican border, which were threatening to intervene against the clerical- landowners’ reaction when the latter |uppeared menacing to United States \imperialism’s interests, are begin- | ning to withdraw. The Seventh Cavalry, Eighty-second Field Artil- lery, and observation squadron of the Second Division have been or- dered home. The Twentieth In- fantry remains stationed at Nogales and Douglas, Arizona. GOPS ARREST 23 | IN SHOE STRIKE Boston Mass Picketing Worries Employers BOSTON, May 8.—Police made 29 arrests here today and attacked a crowd of shoe strikers who began picketing at the Greene Shoe Fac- | tory on Harrison Ave. The 29 strik- jers were charged with “sauntering j and loitering.” | The picketing before the Greene factory is part of a general mass | picketing demonstration, engaged in| by several thousand workers to force the bosses to grant demands for more reasonable conditions, abolish the speed-up system, and stop the drive for lower wages. | New Union Gives Lead. The strike is a spontaneous walk- out in most shops, but the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers Union of Greater New York has offered com- plete solidarity, and the Boston, | Chelsea, and Haverhill shoe workers are beginning to organize. Several of the employers have ap- plied for an injunction. Arabian, Jewish Labor in Rockefeller Museum Construction Walk Out JERUSALEM, May 8.—The Jew- ish Telegraph Agency reports that Arab and Jewish workers employed in building the Rockefeller Museum here struck on May 3 against the |wage and hours under which they work, | Of the 100 strikers, 75 are Arabs and the rest Jews. They receive 3 shillings a day and work 9 and one- half hours. “A Visit to Soviet | Russia” to Be Shown _ in California Cities The Workers International Relief ‘has arranged for the showing of the 10-reel motion picture, “A Visit To Soviet Russia,” in the following |cities in California: Los Angeles, Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Sacra- mento, San Jose, San Francisco. They will be showy in the California | district beginning May 23. The exact date of each showing will be announced later. Those wishing the film to be shown in their city should com- municate with the W. I. R., Room 604, 1 Union Square, or the Daily Workers, 28 Union Square, New York City. Lottery Scandals May Start Again in Albany | ALBANY, May 8.—‘Check up on: | the reported revival” was the only) | advice offered by District Attorney John T. Delaney when he received | | reports that seven baseball lotteries | jhad started in Albany and the! ‘neighborhood. The “check-up” has | been delegated to city and court au-| | thorities. | High state officials have been im-_ | plicated in previous lottery scan- | |dals, and six pool operators, con-| victed last summer for lottery con-| ducting, are serving terms in the Atlanta Federal. Prison, - | No Wavering, no Hesitancy, no Deviation From the Policy Laid Down by the Red International of Labor Unions, Which Will Lead the Workers in the Coming Class Struggles, Will Lead Them to Vic- tory! near Among alt the classes that con- front the bourgeoisie today, the proleturint alone ja really revolu- Uonary—Mara, |to individual peasants, and three|Ployers’ organization have proved and possible death. Hand of Fascisti. Germany has tentatively agreed to the nent of half a billion marks It is believed that the Italian fas-| annually. cists in this country, who act as| New Payments Proposed. direct agents of the Mussolini re-| | athe divisten of the Germanhgnes gime, are behind the efforts to de- port Piccollelli. ments among the allied {total of which will be per te ae mh ee ee a who, as part of the religious fool the workers, preaches that the workers must |marks ($492,000,000) : Shae MTIREEHE SEA eo one: athe and, therefore remain content their condition of servitude, has all the luxuries |a period of 37 years, will be a In a statement issued last night| ™morey can buy for himself. Abcve he is shown with a new motor car he has bought out of the sweat |lows, if the German reservations the New York I. L. D. appeals to| of thousands of Itatian workers. mudke’ uo event change is Youmee *s - a 1 . sapien eect ae — |'proposa all class-conscious workers to aid = ® Pe eae Lc ae oe sai will pay it in its struggle against these de- h Si Str / t} 4G 5 boncli 270,000,000 portation, when are pat ot ine LE O€VI0US Struggle in the 446 eerie government’s attack on the foreign- i! arti % penses, 61,000,000; Ur born, The statement, signed | by cupation costs and reparations, 70,- Rose Baron, secretary, decla: SH T iN CHICAGO 000,000; France, 435,000,000; Bel- wanes Fight Departanons. 4 gium, 64,000,000; Great Britain, ANC RSE eCORSIIOUS Yon ers aus By KARL TOMANN. influence of the Communist inci- 5 |nothing; Italy, 60,000,000; Serbia, get, behind the fight of the Interna- | i netal| t 0 also ime, a ee eee 55,000,000. boise ieaeaenr aaa ete Bier vie tniulsetacereatning at sued th strike slogan vight ae for Booze Profits each get about 15,000,000 marks, \s : vorkine | the conclusion of a long term agree- the beginning. . It is they who —— | oe terror regime, suceeed in sending, binding clause, according to which,| strikes which have broken out be- ne of Scarface Al Capone were} LONDO: y 8.—The British these workers back to fascist Italy,| during the period of the agreement, ‘ore pe dscinoniia Wey one to ae in a pen oot in press is considerably agitated over no worker of foreign birth will be 2® Wage movement of the workers Whilst the Working class is pre- Bemmond, aah od ay he dead! Young's : proposed discrimination safe, This is an attack on the en-| fa factory or a branch may be car-| pared to conduct the struggle with ‘gangsters, victims in the war for| against England, which they claim ites miltantew onan e cake. ried out. In return the employers determination, the 1 democratic booze profits in which local poli- would mean greater losses for her “There are two ways of aiding the | Would be willing to grant a wage trade union leaders are attempting, Uclans are oneterted are John than for any other country. The fight of the I. L. D.: the contribu- | increase of a few groschen. behind the ba of the workers, to 2 a pend 4 aber Anselmi, and the | London mes says editorially: tion of immediate generous funds to| The trade union leaders exerted come to te svavhi the) employers. New, Lorber, Joseph Giunta: | “No British government of what- cover the heavy expenses involved, all their efforts to get the proposals DEOP: 5 The broken “truce” in the gang ever political | complexion would fa- and the building and strengthening of the employers accepted in the in- grant a war is believed to have nm moti- y revision of this character. e, but to hold it in last sentence undoubtedly, refers to the Labor Party, which is supporting the claims made by the vated as revenge for the deaths of the police-aided rival, “Bugs” Moran gang, seven of whom were killed on St. Valentine’s Day. It was charged British bankers. Some British pa- at the trial that the Moran gang- pers go so far as to call the pro- “Why does the social democracy |sters were brazenly killed by uni-j|posals an “unfriendly act.” grant to the employers the right {formed policemen who lined them Oe tea, to retain a portion of the workers’ |against the wall of a garage. France Still Dissatisfied. ‘ s a wage deposit? So far | ‘The police department, however,|_ PARIS, May 8—Even tho the as we know the employers have denied the charge and sought to|French reductions are less than the not demanded such a thing and do steer public interest away from po-| British, they are still unsatisfactory not intend to retain a portion of Jice implication in the killing by de-| to the capitalists whose press asks the workers’ wages. Does the so- |claring a new “war on crime and| Why U. S. doesn’t set an example in cial democracy consider the work- gangland.” | accepting reductions, if she expects per cent pack the mone those weeks whez The “Reichspost” cial democrat of the I, L. D. In this latter con- terest of cap _ economic poz nection the formation of I, L. D.. but the workers rejected this policy. branches in the shops and factories! Under the pressure of the work- is particularly important. Send all| ers the trade union leaders had to funds to 799 Broadway, room 422.”| bring forward a number of demands pee ee | taken from the program of action of AGRICULTURE IN the opposition, such as payment for holidays, increase of wages of the lowest paid workers, increase oi piece-work rates, 15 per cent all- round wage increase, employment of the labor exchanges at which work- ers and employers are gqually rep- resented. Only Fascists Used ing, class to be incapable of ra- ice and Anselmi had previcus-| the other countries to take them. 116,000,000 Acres Now RRC ET RHEE Aaa aaiaee ee tionally expending their wages |1y faced trial three times for the| The French insist that the German aoe rae mm scarey eek themselves whemthey suggest that irder of two policemen, Through "¢Presentatives clearly formulate jected by the employers’ organiza-' the employers should be made the : | their stand, and put in in writing especially their attitude toward the new proposals of Young. Being Cultivated pressure from friendly politicians they were acquitted in both case: At the time they were working for the renowned Genna gang, which ie monopolized the local liquor! British Boilermakers Vote Down Sellout Evidence that the Genna men at} the time enjoyed the protection of States Attorney Crowe was brought} LONDON, (By Mail)—For the fourth time the rank and file boiler- makers have overwhelmingly reject- Jout during the circulation of a photograph showing Crowe at a \racketeer’s banquet, surrounded by ed the shipyard procedure agree- {prominent Genna gunmen. ment, which the misleaders of the Boilermakers Society have recom- mended for acceptance. Only 5,000 out of a membership of 60,000 voted, showing the apathy to which the boilermakers have been reduced by the reactionary officials, tions because the Austrian capital- MOSCOW, U. ., (By Mail).—. ists wish to compel the proletarians “The Agricultural Gazette” pub-| to enter the fascist home-defense or- lishes a number of figures charac- ganizations. Only such workers are terizing the condition of agricul-' t° be employed who can show the ture in the U.S.S.R. In 1928 the en-} ticket of the fascist trade union la- tire cultivated area in the country bor exchange. amounted to 116 million hectares, of The negotiations between the which 113 million hectares belonged ™metal workers’ union and the em- administrators of a portion of their wages?” Extend Struggle. | The Committee of Action of the metal workers’ opposition has is- sued a leaflet in which it points to the necessity of extending the strug- gle of all automobile factories, and states that the employers will go over to the offensive if the workers do not take up the fight for the improvement of their standard or living. | ‘ On March 30th the workers of the|Italian and Yugoslav two remaining Vienna automobile ae A factories were loéked out in accord-| Fascists Again Swap ance with a decision of the Indus-| Mutual Compliments trialists’ Federation. A further 2,-| | 500 metal workers have been locked ROME, May 8.—Mutual compli- ments are again being exc anged | out in Graz; because the workers of | a big metal works beat up 12 fas-| between the Italian and’ Yugoslav ts who are employed in this works | fase The Giornale d’Italia prints from a Yugoslav patriotic and refused to allow them to enter) s the works any more, because these} organ, supported financially by the government, which casts slurs upon million hectares were controlled by abortive. At a conference of the Soviet and collective farms. factory council leaders of the auto- Compared with 1913 the area mobile industry the opposition sub- under grain in 1928 diminished by mitted a motion for the immediate 7.5 per cent while that under indus- Proclamation of a strike in the five trial plants increased by 33.9 per Vienna automobile factories, which cent. employ 7,000 workers. The metal In 1928 the U.S.S.R. had 32 mil-! Workers’ union” made the counter- lion horses and 67 million cows com- Proposal to continue the negotia- pared with ss 2-d 60 tions. The motion of the opposition million cows 2 Compared obtained 13 votes, whilst that of the with 1913 however the number of metal workers’ union received 16 horses amounts to only 84 per cent votes. while the number of cows is equal _ The secretaries who were conduct- to 109.5 per cent. ing -the negotiations, then dropped The principal funds of agriculiure all the other demands and concen- U.S. S. R. TO BUILD BRIDGE MOSCOW, (By Mail).—Dnieper hydro-electrical works (Dniepros- troy), returning from a journey abroad, declared that an order for the construction of a bridge across fascists had, along with their col- (this includes cattle, machinery, im- trated upon the demand for the pay- !e#gues, destroyed the workers’ club the role of the Italian military in the Dnieper has been place with the plements and buildings) wera valued ment of seven holidays a year. premises in Andritz, near Graz. The| the world war, stating that they did| Witkowitz firm of Czechoslovakia. “milliard roubles in 1927-28 | would mean a wage incre employers federation demanded the| not win a single victory in the war,| The Dnieprostroy purchasing com- . unconditional readmission of the fas- and that Mussolini is a windbag. mission will place an order for gen- d with 24.7 rilliard roubles | per cent. 26. The sales of agricultural machines | to the peasantry are 2.5 times the pre-war level and are equal to 207.5 million roubles annually. The num- ber of tractors employed on the farms of the U.S.S.R. in 1928 amounted to 36 thousand. The gross agricultural output in 1927-28 was estimated at 16.5 mil- liard roubles. MINER KILLED. ASHINGTON, Eng., (By Mail).— A ton of stone fell on James Black, a miner at Linton Pit, and killed him, Spontaneous Strike. The employers declared that they would not, on principle, pay for any free time. This declaration led to the immediate cessation of work in three automobile factories employing 4,500 workers, before even the metal workers’ union had adopted a de- cision. This spontaneous action is attributable ‘to the influence and agitation of the opposition. The of- ficial government organ, the Vienna “Reichspost” expresses this fact when it writes: “It seems that the social demo-, cratic leadership of the metal | workers’ union is again under the Train College Students for Coming Slaughter Photo shows procession of college charter day, led by studen Street war-makers do not neglect in the colleges which they owm wy - te aside City College students, celebrating its in military training. The Wall to bring into the line the students | lation of the metal workers’ secre- ‘a to victory, p. e cists, which demand was rejected by | the workers. |b (In the meantime this struggle also has been throttled by the capitu- taries in Styria, and the workers have resumed work despite the fact that the fascists are being kept on in the works.—Ed.) The Industrialists’ Federation has | officially declared that, in the event| of the workers in the automobile in- dustry insisting upon their demands and a strike breaking out, the work- ers in the Vienna big metal industry will be locked out ten days after the commencement of the struggle in the automobile industry, Forty thou- sand workers would be affected by | this measure. As a second stage the | workers of the big metal works of | the whole of Austria will be locked out. This would involve in all more} | than 100,000 workers. | The Seipel government has al-} ready intervened in the interest of | the ‘capitalists. The following of- ficial government declaration was | published: | “With regard to the wage con- flict in the metal industry the as- | sertion was made that in the event | of a lock-out in this industry, in | which a collective agreement is still in force, the locked out work- | | ers are entitled to receive unem- | | ployment benefit. In order to pre- | vent any misapprehensions arising it must be called to mind that ac- cording to paragraph 4 of the un- | employment benefit law there ex- | | ists no claim to benefit if unem- | | ployment is the result of cessation | of work caused by a strike or lockout, and that during the whole term of cessation of work.” | This shows clearly how completely united is the front against the strug- gling Austrian metal workers. In the great disputes which are now taking place beteen the metal work- ers and the employers of Austria, the Communist Party is the only Party which clearly shows to the struggling workers the correct way » w d of the Balkans thereby receives new sparks. no excuse for being out of work. We will pay $4.50 a cord for all the wood fr and a strong arm, buy land, small payment down and Over 900 workers are affected. easy monthly payments.” pares reer an ad in the capitalist press here, workers. erators with the General Electrical Company of the U.S. A. The value of this order is $1,450,000. A further | order for turbines to the value of $1,018,000 has been placed with an- other American firm. The Italian fascist paper responds latantly, and the powder magazine PREY ON JOBLESS SEATTLE (By Mail).—There is BUILDING WORKERS GAIN. ‘d for STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, (By We give you! Mail)—A five-day week has been All you need is 2 saw/gained by all organized building But you must | workers in the Steubenville district. ood you can cut. So reads Struggle Against Imperialist to prey on unemployed| War! Get Ready to Turn an Im- perialist War Into a Class War! lesigned We Have Just Received from Great Britain a Very Limited Number of the Report of the Sixth World Congress of the .. Communist International Contains a complete stenographic report of the most important Congress since 1920. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 EAST 125TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY