The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1929, Page 4

Page Four “3” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929 IMPRISON NEGRO WORK (By a Worker Correspondent.) GAIN VILLE, Ga. (By Mail).—In order that the white land- owners in th tate might have their nice, graded roads to ride over in their high powered automobiles, Negro workers and farm-hands in this section of Georgia are forced to enter into peonage. As a matter of fact, whenever a road is built, the Negro workers are simply drafted, and made to work for nothing at all. IMAGINARY “CRIMES” When a stretch of road needs a new topping, the county officials go out and capture many Negro workers as needed for the job, pick- ing them up on “suspicion of being criminals” and inventing all sorts of “crimes” which are charged against the Negroes, which the workers never committed. The Negro workers are sentenced to an “indefinite term,” and are forced to slave on the chain gang, building the roads for the rich to ride over. They picked up a Negro worker the other day for being “drunk and disorderly.” They sentenced him for 90 da Ninety days for bumping into a white man was another sentence here. The worst sufferers are the unemployed Negro workers, and there are many of them. The Negro workers are called “vagrants” when they ate unemployed, and this is considered a “crime” when a road is to be built for the rich. The jailer, who is in charge of the road gang, gets 70 cents for each prisoner each day to feed the prisoners. These jailers ride around in fine automobiles. If you look at the prisoners, lean and starving, you ! Negro workers forcibly thrown into chain-gangs are given quar- ters like the above old box-car; over a dozen workers are thrown into such a pen, into which little air can seep. Over a Dozen Negro Workers Thrown Into These Pens on Chain Gangs : Negro work } j no crime but because slave needed for road-building are thrown into the above box-car. The tar- paulin is pulled down against rain. were understand why the jailers ride in autos. than a dim a day out of the 70 cents they get to feed each prisoner. For they do not spend more The meals given me when I was on a road gang for 30 days (the repair job only lasted that long) consisted of coffee (dishwater), corn- ERS ; FORCE THEM BUILD ROADS FOR RICH IN GEORGIA; SLAVES REBEL bread, syrup, and beans. There were only two meals a day—breakfast and supper. You have to work in between these two meals from 6 a. m. to 8 p. m, without a meal, without a stop. They bring out the snake-whip if you stop or don’t work fast enough. Once in a while they add a delicacy to the meals in the Georgia chain gangs—salt pork, full of worms. After a month of this you are emaciated, and can’t do any work for months afterwards. They used to shackle the prisoners with ball and chain, but it didn’t look good to visitors from the North, so they did away with that. Besides, the Negro prisoners couldn’t pull the ball and chains around on the food they got. Another trick of the jailer is to bring in liquor, and sell it on credit. Then the prisoner gets in debt and it takes sometimes 's to get out of this debt and he stays on the chain gang all the while, THE SLAVES REBEL The other day, just outside Atlanta, the chain gang slaves rebelled. They hadn’t even been fed breakfast, and refused to go out on the road, The jailer shot one Negro worker dead, and a force of police and sherrifg forced the men to work 30 minutes later at the point of guns. And how they slaved that day “as an object lesson!” The quarter given the Negro prisoners in the road camps are no@® even what a farmer gives his pigs. In an old freight car, from a dozen to 20 men are thrown into a freight car. There are no windows at all in many of these cars, the only form of ventilation being a plank under the eaves, which has to be raised to let air in—EX-CONVICT. Deduct ages Low; MEN ARE SOAKED WITH THE S FOR BOARD, USE. : OF EQUIPMENT worker correspondents, it looks permanent. The result of the week, and of our appeal for shop come as the flowers of May. HOP PAPERS A.F,L.GOES ON [WHITEWASH IS * * Judging by the response this department has gotten from as if this column is going to be first column, which appeared last paper committees to send us their shop papers, brought a shower of shop papers which was as wel- We expect that this department will soon appear more fre- quently than once a week; meanwhile help us built it by sending Charge More, Company Orders Foremen (By a Worker Correspondent) | WHITNEY, Ontario, (By Mail). —Conditions for the lumber workers of the Hawk Lake and also the Fes- serton Timber Companies here are rotten. The wages paid the work- ers of these companies are from 32 to 35 cents an hour. To make 35 cents an hour you have to do some slaving. The lum-! ber companies in this section get to-| gether and set the wages for the men, and whatever wages they de- cide to pay, the men either take or get out of camp. Put Clock Back. The hours are long and the work erton Co. Camp No. 2 sleigh haul is from 5:30 a, m. 7. The foreman here pushed the till clock nearly an hour to fool the workers into slaving an hour’s ex- tra time for the company. Deduct from Wages. A time check of a worker at Fes- serton camps shows that he is charged $1 for carrying his pack sack into camp, $3 for the use of an axe and saw, and they deduct 10 per cent of a man’s logs which he cut for six cents. The board bills are very stiff, con- sidering the kind of stuff served, the lousy quarters, and the low| wages paid. Board is $1 a day, $2} is deducted for the use of a horse, and if yow buy any clothes or such things at the camp you are soaked double what you pay outside. For amstace, a paid of rubbers worth $4 4 paid $8 for. The workers are mostly unorgan- ized at these camps. All spring the men were out of work. . Check Up. The company headquarters sends inspectors down to see that no man is being paid too much, to make sure that men are being docked for all equipment, and letters are frequent- | ly sent to the straw bosses here| stating that on the last visit here} the inspectors found that too much wa sbeing paid, etc. Recently a letter sent to the fore- men of the camps told the latter that after a conversation with the} officials of the Hawk Lake Co., they found that the latter company was) only paying $1 a day for unsteady men, and therefore the Fesserton foremen would have to pay these men only $40 a month. Then a let-| ter was sent to one of the Fesserton camps saying that they were not deducting from the men’s wages as uch as the other camps of the com- yany, and that the foremen should see to it that as much as possible is collected from the men. | Never charge less than $1 if a man uses more than an axe, is the sompany’s order. Charge at least $2 ov more for the use of saws, the sompany orders. What the lumber workers need is a fighting union. —LUMBERJACK. in your shop papers. eee nccc eee e eee en UTE EEE! THE EAGLE PENCIL WORKER The workers of the Eagle Pencil Company in New York are mak- ing good use of the pencils they slave to produce—they are writing in to their shop paper, the Eagle Pencil Worker, published by the Eagle Pencil nucleus of the Communist Party and the Communist Youth League. The Eagle Pencil Worker has been appearing nearly a year now. The Eagle Pencil workers have a lot to put up with, and the lead depart- men is one of the worst hell holes in the place. Let a worker in this department describe it, as he wrote to his fighting shop paper: Here is one employe of the Eagle Pencil Company who is glad to see the Eagle Pencil Worker every time it appears, telling our griev- ances and urging the workers to organize and to fight for better condi- tions, I hope that my fellow workers will soon wake up and organize into a union that the company: will have to reckon with. I am employed in the lead department. This department covers five floors. Here the lead is delivered in raw form, and it’s our job to clean and purify it. When we are done, the pure graphite is ready for the pencil departments. I am sure this work does no good to our health. We are always in the midst of lead dust. Our bodies and our clothes are just black with this dust and of course we inhale it into our lungs. This lead dust in the lungs in the long run can bring tuberculosis to many of us. But do we at least get a decent wage? Do we perhaps get a vaca- tion with pay for a week or two? Not on your life! We get about $20.00 for a long 50-hour week. It is about time that something should be done to improve our conditions. I am one who is willing to help to the best of my ability to start organizing the workers of the Eagle Pencil factory, and I am sure that there are many others who feel the same way.—A LEAD WORKER, * 8 # Send in your shop paper so we can review it. Help build up the shop paper department of the Daily Worker. * * * WELCOME TO OUR CITY! ‘Another new member in the growing family of shop papers is the Crofut-Knapp Worker, published by the Communist Party unit in this hat shop. The Crofut Worker first sees the light of day with its June number, It will go a long way in leading the workers in the Crofut and Knapp shops in South Norwalk, Conn., and in New York, in their fight for decent conditions. The main article in the first issue is an expose of the cap union czar and faker, Zaritsky, and his gangster tac- tics. Some interesting and spicy details in the career of this expert in selling out the workers are revealed. How Zaritsky broke up a strike of capmakers in Chicago after a heroic struggle of 16 weeks is told. One thing the first number of this new shop paper lacks is worker correspondence. We hope to see the paper packed full of this in its next issue. * e. 8 EXPOSING THE “SAVINGS” SCHEME For over a year now, Nabisco boasts a Pay Day Savings Fund, established together with the Greenwich Village Bank. Strange w it may seem to intelligent workers, some workers really believe that this scheme is only for the workers’ benefit. Can you imagine bosses doing anything that does not benefit them? Nabisco gets a juicy commission from the bank, the fund keeps workers tied to the factory (the workers, not wanting to lose the money they have put in, cannot leave the plant), and most important, the bosses don’t have to pay sickness compensation to the workers, because the workers have a savings fund. Beware of bosses’ welfare schemes! They are only welfare schemes for the bosses. Our demands must be: MORE PAY and let us do what we want with it!—From the Uneeda Worker, published by the Com- munist Party Nucleus in the National Biscuit Co, plant, New York. _ 8 * A TIN PLATE SLAVE WRITES A tin plate slave welcomes the Tin Plate Worker, the paper that scared the Steel Trust in McKeesport, Pa., the latter arresting workers who gave the paper out: Editor of Tin Plate Worker:— I surely enjoyed reading the first two issues of the Tin Plate Work- er. That’s the stuff! We surely need a paper like this and all the men of my department like it very much. Here is a dollar to help pay the expenses and a couple of lines which you may use in the next issue. The man who was laid off has a wife and a baby, too. Keep it up, boys!—MIKE. Girls Local 43, of KNEES TO MAIL SEEN FOR COAL Ze Diary of a Trip to for Everything in Canadian Lumber Camps, Worker Writes ORDER BOSSES POLICE KILLERS But Never Cared to Guns, Clubs to Over- Organize Slaves | awe Miners | (By a Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, (By Mail), — The} PITTSBURGH, Pa., (By Mail).—| thousands of young workers of the The trial of the three coal and iron | Sears-Roebuck mail order houses police murderers who brutally mur-| average $12 a week, and many get /dered John Barcoski, after having even less, They have a 9 to 11 hour first savagely beaten and tortured | day of slavery. him, last February, has been set for The Sears-Roebuck Co. issues a June 10, according to an announce- thick mail order catalogue every ment from the district attorney’s year, which contains several thou- office. A whitewash is expected. sands of pages. It is the biggest| The three murderers, former Lieu- | printing job in the world. It is a| tenant W. J. Lyster, and Privates | job that costs hundreds of thou-|Harold Watts and Frank Slapakis, | sands of dollars. |are in the county jail here, wher they were committed by a coroner’ | (This is the first instaliment of a vivid account by a Russian ; Worker in one of the government | offices in Moscow of a vacation he took last year in the Caucasus, The account shows the unusual op- portunities for travel afforded workers in the Soviet Union dur- ing their vacation periods, oppor- tunities which in capitalist coun- tries are reserved only for wealthy exploiters. The Russian worker who writes this record of a mem- orable yacation wrote it directly in English, having learned the language during a few years’ resi- dence in London before the Revo- lution.) + Oe August 5, 1928. On Train to the Caucasus. T last I am definitely on leave, going to cross the military Ose- ‘A Soviet Worker’s Vacation ‘1 T0 14 HOURS A DAY FOR TEXAS journey something happened to the engine and we had to wait some the Caucasus u |Men Are Unorganized; | Julius Rosenwald, the multi-mil- |lionaire and “philanthropist,” is the |boss of Sears-Roebuck Co. He is| such a hater of union labor, and says | is so determined to fight organ- |ized labor, that he will absolutely | |not under any circumstances give | \the huge job of printing the cata- \logue of Sears-Roebuck to a union \firm. This, he says, would mean | giving jobs to hundreds of union! | printers. He says he does not want | union workers of any kind to have jobs. This is class solidarity—of the | bosses; the open shoppers aid the} open shoppers. The contract went/ to the huge open shop firm of| Reuben H. Donnelly, printers of | classified telephone books, ete. The | Montgomery Ward Co., also a big} | mail order house, followed the lead | of Sears-Roebuck, | | Now what do the A. F. L. of- \ficials do. They are trying to get junion workers to send protests to | Rosenwald and the Montgomery | Ward Co, They are begging the big | open shoppers in the mail order line | to give at least a part of their print- |ing work to closed shops. But, did the A. F. L. ever care a} hang about the slaves in the mail| order houses? They never attempted to organize these young workers} who get $12 a week for a 10-hour| |day. If these workers were organ- | ized, and if the A. F, L. was honest, | jand not corrupt, the mail order bosses would not give any printing |jobs to open shop printers, if the| mail order workers did not want it.) For the organized mail order work- ers would be a strong weapon against the Rosenwalds and other open shoppers; they would take mili- tant action to prevent thousands of union printers from being thrown out of work, as they are being now that the Sears-Roebuck job has gone to Donnelly, the open shop firm, But such militancy could never happen under a rotten, craft-ridden A. F. of L., with its crooked officials. Printers, fight for one industrial union of the printing trades. Shake loose from the craft unionism of the A. F. of L., which ties you hand and foot. And think over the fact that the A. F, L. never cared to organize the mail order slaves, Railway Union Fakers Halt Strike of Irish Southern R.R. Workers | him. | Company at Imperial, where they |jury February 19, eight days after |tanian road, They say this road is | the murder, }more beautiful than the Georgian. Brutally Murdered. | ek Barcoski, who was a coal miner, August 6, Rostov-on-Don. was sitting on his porch, when the | ine 4 i coal and iron police entered his home, ghis “ror eee gen operant of | drunk to the gills, and brutally beat | "> Short stop to introduce you to Then they took him to the po- jue company. First is Maraosia, a lice barracks of the Pittsburgh Coal | yoo ye oo mmunist | Youth League) girl, intelligent, not - very strong, but willing to rough it. continued the torture. After Bar- | <<°9 i oii Tex of 63 coski was completely unconscious, fey sah bsp ee Maks Sich ae these brave defenders of the law | *@27essive. | Then. is Simochka, a stamped his ribs in one by one with | woung, “Haptac Cyctlers Bay) their’ eavy boots, and enjoyed'the |S) Woo, wants to become’ « high x : ri lass ilroad engineer. She should crunching as the ribs caved in. They p re He i 3 rorki = then kicked his face until it was $0 jug eC go one eg Onn Very mutilated as to be unrecognizable, Police Get More Power. In spite of this, however, the Coal | jis a friend, Tamara, very pleasant, about 25. One more woman, Na- and Iron Police remain and are be- |t2Sh. Last, but not least—as she ing given more power by the capi-| 1, rater ee Poe ac SUC eas talist, strikebreaking Fisher govern- |i t'inx® Sh¢ Will stand it. | She is ment of the state of Pennsylvania. | .., Sot pice adie nt eetaat url The case of Barcoski is but one in-| “?°* : cident in the reign of terror that | Now I a going to enumerate the exists in the coal fields of Western |™e™ in spite of the train beginning Pennsylvania. The Coal and Iron |‘? ™ove and trying to upset say im- Police respect neither life nor limb |P¥0vised table. First comes our of the miners, and many a miner jleader, Sasha, rather too young for has felt the weight of their clubs SUCh @ Tole, but a keen excursionist and guns. It is quite probable that |24 good climber. Next comes Cy- these three murderers will get off |°™ 2 journalist, who intends to with a very light sentence, or will| Publish his impressions. The first be pardoned after the furore raised |!™P* ion he will have to write is by this murder has blows oven | What it’s like being left behind the The National Miners Union, which |‘"i, because I am just told that defends the interests of the miners, |R¢ missed it at Rostov. Then comes is fighting for the abolition of Fi eee He has traveled across Coal and Iron Police and also of the jall Ene ave sian specs hae, the Osetenian and will prove very use- state constabulary. It is interesting} Py a to note that Lieutenant Lyster of | il Gs Te also Ie econ Bec re Diller and alpinist. Next comes Grisha, hours before we could proceed fur- ther. So Niciferoff and I decided that we could reach Alagir on foot sooner than Kukushka would begin to “cuckoo” again. So we walked the distance, about 16 versts, in two and a quarter hours. I am mighty glad we did, as the train came one and a half hours later than we did. I have used this time to interview the local Communist Farty women’s organizer. She is a | Osetenian woman, quite young and full of energy. She told me a great deal about the local peopie and their customs. I made my acquaintance with her when one of these customs was violated. I was waiting next to her on a street chair near the station. Next to her sat another woman, a Russian. A group of lo- cal women happened to pass by and my neighbor exchanged a couple of words with them in their own tongue. When they passed by, she |began to complain to the Russian woman about the dictatorship of cus- toms, which she called a curse, I interfered and asked her whether she could not explain to me what was the trouble. I learned from her that she was to get up when these ladies passed, in accordance with the local customs. But she de- fied that custom and expressed fear that they might feel offended by her act. She also told me what difficulties gians. The latter were mostly shop- keepers and wealthy, and naturally supported the Mensheviks. The Ose- tenians, poor, but proud and alert people, favored the Soviets. They kad their reasons for it. Finally the Georgians were driven out of the place. She also told me some other interesting stories, including one about horse stealing, (Concluded Tomorrow.) they had during the struggles be- | tween the Osetenians and the Geor- | Get $4.05 a Day (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES (By Mail).—I wish to tell of the conditions in the | Texas oil fields for the workers ‘there. It impossible for an un- jemployed oil worker to get a job jin these fields. Those who are work- ing must be prepared to slave up to |14 hours a day. The regular rate |of pay is paid up to 12 houra, after that, time and a half is paid—some- times, when the bosses feel like it. | There is no owganization to take jeare of the men. There is no stan- | dard wage scale. The pay for “bull- gang” work is generally $4.05 for a |day from nine to 11 hours. The workers are forced to pay back $2 |a day out of their wages for board | and lodging. : A medical examination is required before you can get a job in the oil |fields. The age limit in most com- panies is 45 years. Older workers have no business to live, according to the way the bosses figure. “Charity,” starvation, or suicide for them. I was on the road for three weeks jand landed in the Midnight Mission | here, broke. I am heading for Bakersfield, Cali- |fornia, but there’s no chance there |for an oil worker either, I hear. | Well, the “prosperity” is here, and here to stay, it seems, until the workers wake up, organize and take matters into their own hands. I went thru Imperial Valley. Thou- sands of workers are idle there, too, all waiting for the melon season, etc. | to open. Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring | death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletarians.— Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). [-AMUSEMENTS>| THIRD AND FINAL WEEK! “Among the best achieved so far by the motion picture the Coal and Iron Police, who is re- sponsible for the murder, was dis- charged from the state constabulary for killing a man. The close connec- tion between the two is obvious, and the National Miners Union fights against both and demands their abo- lition, CAN’T HIDE POVERTY. TOPEKA, KAN., June 5.—‘“Be- cause Flint Hill is suggestive of poverty,” ranch owners in that grazing land of Kansas have decided to call that district the Blue Stein Belt. This will not succeed in dis- guising the poverty of the ranch hands, Women Workers and Young Workers! Join the Ranks of the Struggling Workers! HAVE NO USE FOR U.T.W. Misleaders Stole Money of Workers ame. The policemen tell the chil- (By a Worker Correspondent) GASTONIA, N. C., (By Mail).— ‘Ve want to tell all of our fellow workers in the United States a little of our experiences in the strike in che Loray mill. We have had quite ome struggling to do and we sure wave got some more to do yet. The law in Gaston county does not care anything about the strik- .vs. The bosses’ thugs, and police- ‘ten beat us up on the picket line .ut we continue to picket just the oven they will kick them off the treet if they do not get off the picket line. ‘The bosses of the other mills are -are scared of a strike and that will »9on take place in these mills most say day. The mill workers are al- solid union members and they are all rarin’ to go. The bosses have had the workers thinking every- thing is going nice and “rosy” but the bosses have taken away the “roses” from the workers and the workers in all the mills are ready to strike. The United Textile Workers Union is mighty sore about our union, the National Textile Workers Union, leading the strike. They wanted to get in on this strike so that they could sell us out to the bosses like they have done in other mills. They don’t dare show their faces around this strike section. The wouldn’t stay here long if they did show themselves. We sure don’t want to mix with them any more like we did in 1919 when they ran away with $15,000 of our money. —LORAY WORKER. Milliners, Arrange an Outing to‘Nitgedaiget’ The fighting, girls of Local 43, of the Millinery Hand Workers Union, who have shown their fighting spirit and courage in their encounters with the corrupt Zaritsky machine in the International, is, for the moment turning to lighter things. The organization has just ar- ranged a two-day outing at Camp Nitgedaiget, the beautiful prole- tarian rest home at Beacon, N. Y., for Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15. Busses will bring the ex- cursionists to and from the camp where they will participate in all the activities which make Camp Nitgedaiget a haven for the militant workers seeking a brief respite from the struggle. Workers eager to join in the out- ing are urged to make their reserva- tions at once at the office of Local 43, 4 West 37th St., or at 640 Broad- bike hls ser i DUBLIN, June 5.—A strike of Southern railway employes was averted when P. McGilligan, Irish Be Happy This Summer very silent and shy, He plays a good game of chess. The last is your humble servant, myself. Na- tasha says dinner is ready, so I must finish. * * * 4 a .m.—Darg-Kokh. At last we are at the end of our train journey, in the heart of the Caucasus, with Kasbek’s’ white caps glittering and bathing in the sun. A wonderful sight. Natasha has not returned yet and our breakfast is poor, We are leaving today for Alagir. * * Aug. 7, Alagir, 8 p. m. After an adventurous journey from Darg-Kokh we have safely ar- rived at the first excursion base. We started from Darg-Kokh about 1:30 (on a narrow-gauge train called Free State Minister of Industry, called a conference of union officials and bosses at which it was agreed to “continue wage negotiations.” The officials have thus aided the bosses in staving off the strike, de- manded by the workers because a 10 per cent wage cut was made by the bosses. WALL STREET FLYERS IN MEXICO, MEXICO CITY, June 5.—Carlos Martinez De Pinillos and naval Lieutenant Carlos Zegarra, Peru- vian “goodwill” fliers on a publicity flight for the Wall Street puppet government of Peru will be received by President Emilio Portes Gil dur- ing their stay here enroute from Washington to Lima. Their de- parture for Guatemala City, continu- ing their flight, was set tentatively for tomorrow or Friday, Mt he Os, Gh at ee CAMP WOCOLONA ON LAKE WALTON, MONROE, N. Y. only 50 miles from the city. 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