The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1929, Page 3

| Trem an WAR SITUATION RIPENING IN AUSTRIA AS WORKERS CLASH Fascists Mobilizing; Communists Workers’ Councils and Armed Defense Obey and Bject Fascists from Shops (Wireless by Imprecorr.) flict between workers and the fi engaged three fascists without con- itistruction. ting the factory council as pre-| The situation is most grave. provoked, refused to work with the| Austria are concentrating at Stok fascists, who refused to leave the | crdu. ers and these leaders sent an ulti-| pare] fascist attack, hand) to the factory owners that! lead the struggle. the fascists must be heinstated. | Communists Call For Fight. The workers stood firm for no} Later:—The police the “Home Defense.” The mobiliza-, proclaim a political mass hand, fascists arriving from all) ci arm themselves quarters, even from the Czech fron-| workers’ councils. tier. The fascists occupied the town works. Socialist Strikebreakers. The socialist “Republican Defense call a general strike: worl order. The social democrats even’ tory. ¢ W.L OFFICE =UNEMPLOYMENT One in San Francisco (Continued from Page One) received by the national secretary, | George Mink, show that a very large representation of seamen and | W; lohgshoremen will participate. : A. F. L. Arrest. | News was received yesterday at othe M. W. L. headquarters here of the arrest of M. Murphy, in San Francisco, for distributing the call) for the West Coast Conference, by} police directly appointed by the In- ternational Seamen’s Union officials. Seamen will titiderstand, the League members point out, that this ig the | way the I. S. U. deferids them | gagainst the bosses ard their black- list office, by appointing the agents of the “Fink Hall” to be politemen, then using these police to try and | as Stocks Collapse (Continued jrom Page One) but particularly the luxury trades, ‘all St. panic. disconcerting numbers. of stock values, Wall St. with union funds.’ Seriously questioning whether pays to gamble. It is also a fact in San Francisco; | that the local central labor body, A. F. L has representatives on it of the “blue card” local of longshore- men, the company unjon organized in 1920. come,” he insists. Active Organization. with eight delegates, daily visits the | pression.” ships and docks of the Matson, Luck- | enback, Pacific Coast, companies. The national secretary states that | trial recession.” ships’ delegates are coming in with hundreds of new members. On $88 Leviathan’s recent voyage, the Leagtie delegate lined up sixteén new thembets. Die to the gtowth of the M. W. L., a National Conven- tion is not far off, at which the launching of a new fighting Marine Workers’ Union will take place. ment and a drive to lower wages. there, Chicago. ‘RED’ HENDRYX GALLS ON WORKERS TO RUSH ‘DAILY’ TO THE SOUTH i Facing Long Prison Tetii, He Tells of Need for Fighting Paper (Continued from Page One) the whole world when they kept the Daily away from us. ‘ Daily Worker was the only paper which gave us the true facts about out dwn ease. “The prison authorities used to Hold it out oh us most of the timé. Well, we had it smuggled in. We woilin’t be without it, aiid had to get it some way. “They tried to keep the Daily from us both in Gaston and Char- lotte jails, “They didn’t hold the capitalist papers back from us. Oh, ho! Théy re particular pains to see that we got the boss papers, free of chal = “Here we were hufgering for thé Daily, and getting the boss which called for our lynching. y, and getting the boss papers “So you can imagine how the mill workers of the South feel, being flooded with the boss papers, and needing the Daily Worker. “Tt again ask every militant American worker to send money to the ‘Drive to Rush the Daily South.” * 6@ 6 Daily Worker, » 26 Union Square, New York City. Pe Here's my reply to Red Hendryx's appéal for the Daily Worker. NAME ....ceeeeecsecseesesebis WITH FASCISTS IN BIG FACTORY : Call For Socialists Advise Seabbiig; Workers Don’t | ltry to restrain the workers from VIENNA, Nov. 3.—Setistis con-| self defense, and tell the workers of -|the Haid shops and other factories t “Home Defense League” is| not to stop work: But to the credit reaking ott at Stokefau near) of the workers—tkey are not obey. Jienna. The Haid machine works|ing this strike-breaking “socialist” The seribed in the collective agreement. | military garrison is in readiness for The workers thus being sharply | action and police from the whole of The Communist Party is ap-| STRIKE BATTLE factory and were forcibly ejected.|pealing to the workers for deter- These fascists informed their lead-| mined resistance against this pre- telling the matum (probably as agreed before-| working to form workers’ councils to have confis-| | reinstatement and the Stokerau fas-|cated the Communist paper “Rote cists applied to their lower Austrian| Fahne,” charging it with high trea- national leaders, who mobilized all|son for appealing to the workers to strike tion was obviously prepared before-| against fascism, to disarm the fas- s and form Fascists are threatening to occupy and all togds leading to the Haid! the Haid factory. A conference of r | rs of all factories is called to decide whether to resume work or Faetoty own- League” refused to interfere, say-|ers have iysued an ultimatum that ing that it was the duty of the gov-| either the thtee fascists be accepted ernment (which is fascist) to keep|or the owners will close the fac- ~ INNEW ORLEANS FOLLOWS CRASH 1 : | fe vi i id fe i ii i Ss. Gulf Conference After Banks, Factories Close jirfow m 1990 ee ee ee eb will feel the baneful influence of the Orders for million dollar yachts, $10,000 motor cars, $100,000 town apartments and coun- | {try homes, are being cancelled in Nerve-racking to A. F. L. union] find out whon, if cer, they can get treasurers, is the sudden’ shrinking] part of their money back. Union officials, in many instances, have been playing Those who did not know when or how to get out of the game in time are now | it} The illusion that the stock mar- ket has nothing whatever to do with! ‘industry suffers a rude shock. Ben-| stifle thé conference. \ jamin Baker, economist for the An-; nalist, financial weekly of the New York Times, pricks that bubble. The heavy losses, most severe for the middle class but still serious enough even for/multimillionaites, mean an by the bosses during the Interna-|“appreciable difference in consump-| tional Longshoremen’s Union strike|tion of goods for some months to The stock defla- tion, he coneludes, is “likely to be In San Francisco, the port organ- succeeded by a considerable period ization committee of the M. W. L.,|of business moderation, if not de- | The collapse of stock prices has and other | convinced many factory owners that |the signal has struck for an “indus- The working class, of course, is) the sufferer and faces unemploy- From Chicago comes tews of the failure of one of the largést banks The state auditor Saturday ofdered closed the City Bank of The bank is connected both with endous Wave of Strikes and Mass DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY. ' echo Stvakia Mine 4 DEAD, 3 DYING Land Despite Police IN PRISON HELL OF HORTHY RULE (Wireless to Inprecorr.) PRAGUE, Nov. 1.—More arrests Berlin Stones Fly in Protest at Hungry are being made in the North Bo- BERLIN; Nov. 3.—Hunidreds of demonstrators sutrdtnded the Hun- |garian legatioh here last night aiid hurled stonés through the windows, a@ number landing of the corisul’s |desk, in protest at the ill treathient of Commuiist workers on hunger strike in the prisons of Hungary under the fascist rule of Horthy. Meanwhile reports from Budapest | state that four more of the hunger |strikers have died ahd three others are dying; whether from the self- inflicted hunger or from the torture practiced upon them by forcible feed- ing through the nose and other bru- talities ordered by the government. One Communist, Alexander Lowe, |died Oct. 28. One of the four re- | : . |ported dying since is said to be ‘Reason for Pilstidski| Alexander Sstaron, sentenced to 12 : | years’ imprisonment on a fictitious Sabre Battling ‘yae."" i Another prisoner, Franz Litzmann, _ (Wireless By Tnprecorr) | held ih the Oedenburg jail, is | WARSAW, Nov. 3.—Poland is the| ported fatally ill from pneumoni |scene of continued industrial con-|havitig been dretiched with water in \fliets. At Kattovitz a meeting of | 186 iron workers’ delegates rejectéd| of the spire in the prison and re- |the arbitration award on the wage|fused to comé down until the de- question. The employers are trying) mands of the pdlitical piisoriers for |to gain time and prevent joint action| peter food and treatinent had been |of the metal workers and the miners. | granted. He held on all night The delegates proposed to join the) despite the diéfching until exhaust- jminers’ strike due to take place!ed by cold. | Although the fascist regime of hemia miners’ strike, including mem- ers of the strike committee. A miners’ mass meeting at Lodovitz has resolved on solidarity strike, Supporting the striking Bruex min- ers. The Emeran mine, the largest in the Dux district is already struck, and others will follow. Later:—The Briesen and Ladovitz | Strikers continue. Matiy leaders are |under arrest. Réd Trade Union) stéwdids aré prohibited from ap- proathing the mines. The manage- ment anfotinces all miners striking | are discharged. Great forces of po-| lice are concentrated in the Dux and) > | Bilin distticts. | “OPENS UP BIG Novembet 5, | |inahded a wage ificréase, pensions|thtoughout the world, Huigarian | for aged workers and a return to the| socialists are collaborating with jfull working week. The employers|Horthy to advertise Hungary as be- | will refuse and a conflict is expected. coming “democratic.” a the Governor Small party machine, ; market brokers cdhti nue to issue and with socialist bureaucrats. Its | reports intended to stimulate buy- president is Colonel Cornelius R,| ing. Both state that a considerable Miller, director of public works in | number of small purchasers, skilled dent and trust officer is Seymour | willing to gamble the life time sav- Stedman, socialist party candidate | ings on a tise in the market, are A new crop of “investors” has been unearthed, in ‘The bark had evidently relied on |Prépatation for the next crash, and the “continuous prosperity” and |the brokers seein satisfied. “Hoover prosperity” myths, and| The New York stock exchange frozen up in unreachable fashion too | and curb market held sessions yes- much of its assets. Then came the terday, Sunday, without buying or ptices crash of last week, and it | selling, to catch up with the techni- [was caught. Now it has fio cash |cdl work. It was teported that in | reserve. |the enthusiasm of the moment, A long line of poor depositors fat allie ra sold out ee i : that should not have been sold out, will be ‘of and today, trying t land vetdingd any EMAL afbuld have been slaughtered. All these latter will be attended to by Monday, The New York 4nd Chicago stock ; brokers stated, ; Will you to hear the 75 cénts, $1.00 the cold wheti le climbed to the top | The textile trade union has de-|Horthy is thus given prominence | Small’s cabinet, and its viee prési- Workers and smiall business then | at the office of FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION 176 Fifth Avenue, Room 511 egro, White Laiindry Girls Are Exploited Brutally in Brooklyn (By a Work: lent) la ont of met with rt of the their desite to organize it committee and into the Trade Union Unity L At this meeting, just as at anoth- er meeting held a short time ago at the same place, the police of Brownsville tried to stop the meet- ing. However, they could not stop ;the meeting because of the deter- ‘mination of the young workers to hear the speakers. The action of the workers shows clearly the readi- ness of the Negro young workers to unite with the white workers ‘a order to defend and fight for the rgiht to or ize and to speak in the strest, The A. F. of L. at one tite start- éd to organize these young worket: but as soon as the young workers went out on strike the A. F. of L. as is their usual practice betrayed these young workers by running away and leaving them at the mercy of the bosses. As a result of the betrayal of the A. F. of L. the work- ers have since been subjected to-a vicious campaign of lowered wages, speed-up, and have today the most rable conditions. The condi- tions of the young workers in this industry as in all other industries are even worse than the conditions of the adult workers. This is so because the bosses dre taking ad- vantage of improved machinery to replace the adult workers with young workers at much lower wages and worse conditions. In this the bosses are helped very actively by the F. of L. Who do not watit to organize the young workers. The girls of the Indepentlent Latindry have already learned thru bitter experience what the A. F. of | L, is. They see that the A. F. of |L. refuses to organize the young workers. The A. F. of L. splits the ranks of the young workers by te- |fusing to organize the Negro and |white wotkers together, Wherever |the workers shows signs of mili- |tancy, especially when Negro and | white Workers are ready to otganite \the A. F. of L. step8 in &nd splits their ranks. The only organization the young | Negro workers are now tutning to jis the Trade Union Unity League |” esry time the stock was changed | | because the T. U, U. L. is the only |militant organization which organ- izes all the workers, Negto and white, young and old, to fight to- gether aganist the bosses for better conditions. The Trade Union Unity League fights for a seven hour day ‘and a five day week for all young be in the OLO GROUNDS aturday, Nov. at 6:30 p. m. Fliers speak @ to the American workers If 60 be sure to get your tickets early! and $1.50 each OVEMBER 4, 1929 — Political F: ights ung Ne- | Ea a ie ee Rising Thruout Europe Hi eat | Page Three NORHE SHOPS Lite Time o (By a Worker Correspondent) CHARLOTTE, N. C. (By Mail).— I went to wort the lumber camps when I was 10 years old, doing work with men for half as much pay as the I worked for four or five years at this rate and all the time I was thinking about the rest of my salary. I have often won- dered how the boss could pay me 75 cents a day and a man by my side working for $3.00.a day for the same work, Tlien I bewan to study for a better job and in a few moriths I thought I had my chance. I tried bossing for a wh but found that a boss can’t treat workers as he wants and quit a $6.00 a day job and went to the farm. On the farm I found out that a tnah doesn’t have anything to say about what he will grow or buy. He eah sell his produce to the tarket atid le has to take just what they Watt to give ih retuth. When he wants to buy afiything he has to pay just what they ask. | After being robbed for about a yeat I let a mai lie me into the tex- tile mills by the promise of high wages and light work. ... When I statted in thé mills I never could get enough ahead to leavé the hell holes of the teztile mills... . Per- sonally I always had it pretty good, but believe me I have seen people sweat blood ih the mill and receive almost nothing in return, but dis- chaige and notice to leave the com- pany house. The Loray mill is the worst place I ever worked in. I worked there for séven years, and we sure had a hard time the first four years. We had to work 60 hours regular time end then so back at twelve on Sat- urday and work till 12 midnight. Then Ret up at midnight Sunday and ed like hell all day Monday until 6 p. ni. If you did not work this lextra titie you were laid off to starve for a week. Then for three years we sure did have something to worry about with the stretch-out plan and changing of stock in the mills. ; Some one was cut off the payroll jand others had to run two and three workers, no discrimination between Negto and white workers, equal pay for edtial work for all workers old and young, Negro and white. F Mill Slavery Made Dewey Martin a Rebel BRINGS REVOLT |jols to hold their place, witha cut in wages. For the last year I never saw so much trouble with new help coming in from the mountains and havihg to stay ahd take just what the bogses handed out. Some of them wouldh’t get any pay for two or three weeks, and when they did it ofteh wasn’t more than $3.00 to $5.00 a week. When I was section man I asked for more money for sdite of the men that were working for me and the answer I would get was “why should you worry; they ate not,’ ahd “ff our rating don’t suit you you can get out.” I was waiting for something to come intd the mill to show us how to get better conditions. ... I ha seen the U. T. W. by past experience in Rockhill, S. C., atid in Lancaster, S. C., and knew that they would only make conditions worse in Gas- tonia as they did there. I was not looking for the U, T, W. . I was waiting in the Loray to help make conditions better because I knew {something better would come to the | South, and now I know what it is, \It ig the National Textile Workers’ |Union. ... We workers seo the N. T. W. U. and its leadership as the right and only léadetship to follow | for a real militant unich, and most |of the workers see the need for | uniting all workers together, North and South. After the beatings we got we saw that the city police force and State | Militia, with the hited thugs of the | company, had joitted hands to smash our union and terrorize our leaders. | Our conference on the 12th and 18th of October proved that the ‘union can’t be smashed that way. With the delegates we had from the | textile mills we sure can do some {great work towards organizing the ‘South. With our conference we laid the foundation for real organization in the South, a foundation that will not rock. We join hands with the workers in the North in a mig Na- ‘tional Union + fthe textile industry and will fight harder than ever to get better conditions for all textile workers, DEWEY MARTIN, The working Claas cannot simply lay hold, of. the, rengy-made state machinery, aaa wield ft for Ite own | purpos.....Thia ne~ Commune (Paris yumung) breaks the modern state pot-er.—Marz. | Soviet Workers Wages Going Up! | Amerienn Workers Wages Going ) Down! the They have been Gaston on All Workers Districts to Ra Detroit District All loans, contribu hours before we will be The Gastonia Prisoners Must Be Freed on Bail! Workers! You Must Free six months! They have been sen- tenced to as much as twenty years! They must be out on bail helping to raise mass protest enough to free them at the appeal! The International Labor Defense Calls to Free thé Gastonia Strikers “% Cleveland District—$2,500 to Free McLaughlin Pittsburgh District—$2,500 to Free McGinnis New England District—$5,000 to Free Beal Philadelphia District—$5,000 to Free Harrison —$5,000 to Free New York District—$5,000 to Free Miller be used! Send at once! Every worker of friend of the workers can help. Clarence Miller, sentenced to a term of 17 to 20 years, writes: “The last two weeks were worse than the whole period prviously. There is no mail as everybody seems to think that it is a matter of that we will be out soon.” What Is Your Answer to That Letter? Which district will be the first to raise the bail? Then go to work at ofce—TODAY—and raise the necessary securities. INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 80 BAST 11TH STREET, Room 402, NEW YORK OfTY BRUTAL SPEEDUP INL, MACY'S I iShort Strike Is Sign of Militancy (By @ Worker Correspondent) The tremendous speed-up exi \in R. H. Macy’s department stor \the worst speed-up imaginable. The workers are forced to work under the most terrible conditions in stock |rooms with hardly any ventilation at all. There are at least ten bosses jto every department and everyone |bosses You around and orders you | what to do. You keep right at work loading shelves without a minute’s rest even with all the fake schemes that Macy has to make the workers {feel “contented” 1+ is of no use | whatsoever. They have the fake company as- sociation known as the Mutual Aid | Society, which is supposed to teach | you how to be content with yout job land how to be “good and wwillittg” slaves for the company that made | ninety million dollars in 1928. We, |the workers of a certain department employed in the handling of stock in one of the departments of this com- pany, revolted aga the inhunian speed-up that is existing and against the intolerable conditions that we, the stock clerks, have to work under, The food that is handed to us is rote ten. We went out on strike but were forced to go back on account of the stool pigeons employed by Macy, but we are organizing in the name of the Trade Union Unity League, that fights in the interests of the workers and teaches how to fight the bosses, Fellow workers, it’s about time \that we, the workers in R. H. Maty’s, organized into one strong union under the leadership of the |Trade Union Unity League and against company associations. MACY SLAVE. The Five Year Plan of Soviet Industry is a Weapon of the In- ternational Workingclass. Cele- brate the 12th Anniversary at Madi- son Square Garden! Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! ' Every Worker at Madison Square §oviet Anniversary Meet Nov. 3 at a ia Strikers! in prison nearly in the Following ise Enough Bail , Carter tions atid bonds can released, Here is hoping a