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

Da TLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY N THE, } } HIT LACKAWANNA|Not a Cent as a Rule on SHOP CRAFT MEN FOR “CHARITIES” Men Are Hog-Tied in| Company Union | (By a Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. Y. (By Mail).—| Shopmen working on the Delaware, | Lackawanna and Western Railroad are getting sick and tired of hav- ing to stand for long hours and bum s-ages. They aer in a company} | @hion, being forced to join it | | And they realize | ed Shop Crafts i Federation of Labor is nothing much different than a company union, The men in the D., L. and W. shops are being steadily bled for payments to many different kinds of funds proomted by the company tools and stools who run the com-} pany union, The workers in the shops of the Lackawanna are never consulted about these payments. When the bosses want a payment made, the men that hold out are canned pronto, The aLckawanna bosses have a} particular pet reliigous “charity” | organization, so the shoperaft men | have to shell out their hard earned dough to that. It amount to $3, a measly amount, eh,, but not so for a Lackawanna shoperaft worker. We'll have to pay to this bunch every year from this year on, whether we get anything cut of that | institution or not, or out we go. Some of the men complained, and | the foreman asked them if they | wanted to lose their jobs, | They recently packed up the in- | surance payments from $1 to $1.50 « month, Like being in the com- | \pany union, pavink this insurance compusory. | What with the 12-hour day for) aany, and no pay raise for five rs, working on the Lackawanna not sw For the day when the | railroad workers are amalgemated | in one strong fighting ca | Lackawanna Shopman. rer | _Labor Defender Drive | (Continued from Page One) Jarge gold embossed silk banner for} ‘the I. L. D. District obtaining most “subscriptions, which District will have the privilege of electing a) member from that district to tour} the country for the Labor Defender ‘with expenses paid; an embossed silk banner for the I. L, D.- Branch ‘obtaining the most subscriptions and a silk banner for every district ob- taining the quota of new subs as-| signed to it. A gold I. L. D. medal, ounted as a pin or on a lapel but- ‘on as is desired, will be presented o the persons coming in second nd third respectively in this com-j petition. In addition, a bound volume of the Labor Defender for the years 1928-} 1929—a story in pictures of the struggles of labor throughout the world for a period of two years— will be given to every individual ob- taining 25 subscriptions or over, A volume of Ralph Chaplin’s poetry, written while the workingclass poet] was still behind bars, will be pre- sented for every 10 subs obtained) by one person. | Holding up the November Special} ‘Soviet Anniversary number of the ‘Labor Defender, a 40-page labor ictorial, as an example of what the! “Labor Defender will be like in onths to;come, there is great con- fidence felt in the attainment of the “goal set for March 18, 1930. The subscription quotas have been _ assigned as follow: District 1, 1,000 subs; District 2, 2,500; District 3, 2,500; District 4, 500; District 5, 2,000; District 6, * 2,000; District 7, 2,500; District 8, » 2,500; District 9, 1,000; District 10, | 500; District 12, 1,000; District 13, | 1,000; District 14, 1,000; District 15, ~ 500; District 17 (Dakotas and West- | ern Farm Region), 500; South Caro- nas, Florida, Texas, etc.) 2,500; District 16 (Anthracite) 1,500. lahecslliotiaherne Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! | LEAKSVILLE MILL and village in the South! rush the Daily South, Well, we've not forgotten that; Daily Worker, ‘\'} 26 Union Square, New York City. Here's my answer to the Leaksville strikers’ demands for the Daily Worker. NOME .ccscceoceereccesersveceees Amount $....scseresecevees LAUNCH HUCE | Odessa, Vladivostok, and in scores |sary was turned int oa pledge by | |been seen at Moscow celebrations of | | the union truck b yaccident, proved | Peoples Commissars, referred to the HAVE GOT TO HAVE “DAIY” (Continued from Page One) against the Leaksville strikers is growing daily. , - Rush the Daily Worker to Leaksvil! We said the other day we'd print a groups who came to the aid of the southern mill workers by helping to | But meanwhile get busy, workers, and workers’ groups, and send your contributions to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South.” * * SHOPS Pay Dav torW. Va. Miners (By a Worker Correspondent) | MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (By Mail).—Conditions for the miners in this section are so bad that the | miners don't draw anything on pay | day, because the little they earn is} spent in the company stores, If they don’t spend the money | in the company stores they won’t| get any work in the mines. If the boss don’t discharge you at once, he puts you in a working place where | the miner cannot earn $1 a day and | must leave the job to make room) for a miner that will spend all he! earns in the company store. | There are miner in northern West | Virginia, District 31, that have not | drawn money so long that they’ve forgot what money looks like. One Scotts Sun miner got pay of $2.80 after the checkoff by the company | store was $42.12. | He decided to go to Morgantown | to purchase some meat, and after the city butcher gave him the meat he started to pay him, in local com- pany brass money, forgetting all about his money. Butcher says to | SOVIET WORKS Industrial Pro gress | Marks 12th Year | (Continued from Page One) | held in every part of the Soviet | Union. | In Leningrad, Kharkov, Kiev, of great industrial centers of the Donetz and Kuznetz Basins, the celebration of the Twelfth Anniver- millions of workers and peasants to accomplish results in Socialist | industrial upbuilding which would far exceed the plans of the Five Year Plan. In Moscow, following the great parade, which started from the Red Sduare after being addressed hy} Stalin, Rykov, Kalining Voroshiloff, | Mikoyan and other leaders of the Soviet Union, thousands atended the Twelfth Anniversary Festival at the Moscow Great Theatre. Representa- tives, not only of Moscow nidustries, but also workers and peasants rep- resenting the national republics, the tows and the villages, from Com-| munist Party and Youth League or- ganizations, and from the Trade Unions, again and again pledged that their organizations would work unitedly for socialist construction under the Five Year Plan. Greater enthusiasm has seldom workers. Amidst great applause, Michael Kalinin, Chairman of the Council of | graet achievements during the first year of the five year plan. He promsied unexpected speed in Socialist reconstruction, especially in! the collectivization of agriculture. Large anniversary meetings were held in every factory and workers’ institution in Moscow. Foreign workers’ delegations were fraternal-| ly welcomed, Leningrad reported | the arrival of English, Irish and} French workers’ delegations. Among the great industrial under- | takings launched on the Anniversary Day under the Five Year Plan, were six textile factories, many sugar,! leather, brick, glass, furniture| plants, and sawmills. A total of 80 new industrial units were started. Eight great power stations were launched in the Urals, Donetz, and the Ukraine. Many railways, tram- ways, hospitals, schools, and shops weer opened. One of the most inspiring features of the occasion was the opening of hundreds of new collective farms, and the organization of Red grain | transports everywhere. | The greatest of Soviet Union radio | stations, the Trade Union Central Council’s station broadcasting on 100 kilowatts, was opened on 12th Anniversary Day, as a further mark fo the great progress of the Five Year Plan: The Soviet workers displayed great interest in the welfare of the Red Army on the Manchurian bor- STRIKERS s well as to every mill town jist of the more recent workers’ look for the list in our next issue, | Seen ee ee een e arenes rene seennens him, I can’t use this stuff. Miner | ays, I been working in Scotts Run ‘ht months and this is my first pay. I forgot all about real money; using the company brass money so long I vegan to think it was real money. This is the kind of thing we are putting up with in northern West Virginia. This District 51 was once ll organized under the United Mine Workers, and the members put up a good fight to save their union and working conditions, but the little the labor fakers did not destroy in the past they are doing now. Lewis sent his chief, Van Bittner, to northern West Virginia and in the first speech I heard thé same remarks as he made to the miners of Alabama and Tennessee, He said, “eBefore I leave Weest ginia I'll have the miners here or- ganized 100 per cent,” and 100 per cent was correct—100 per cent scab --same as Alabama and Tennessee. (To eB Continued) W. VA. MINER. STOP ELLA MAY PROBE; HOLD 1 Case Ends, Workers Identify Juror (Continued from Page One) blu enecktie,” answered Lingerfelt, | looking at the defendants. Although there were five members of the mob |there with blue neckties, Troy Jons, | wearing a tan and blue tie, stumbled to his feet as if to admit he was the man Lingerfelt meant. The Loray counsel, taken aback by the stupidity of their man, Jones, mumbled their displeasure audibly and decided to force union witnesses to identify mobsters by touching them. Jones lost his wife during the Loray strike. “I refuse to live | with a scab,” said Viola Jones, 19, her black eyes flashing. Instigated by Bulwinkle, Jones sued the Na- tional Textile Workers Union for $100,000 for alienating Viola’s af- fections, Wasn’t Asked. Major Bulwin'le got another jolt from Lingerfelt, who answering in detail to state questions. “Why didn’t you tell all this to the coron- er’s jury,” thundered Bulwinkle. “I wasn’t asked,” responded the union man quietly, looking toward County Solicitor John G. Carpenter, under whose direction the grand jury re- fused to indict anyone for the mur- der of Ella May. D. L. Case, who says he was on to be a star witness. Asked to identify the man who shot and killed Ella May, he walked straight up to Horace Wheeler, under $5,000 bonds, and touched him. “He fired with a blue steel, medium-sized pistol from the left side of the road,” tes- tified Case. “As Ella May toppled over, she ried: ‘Oh, Lordy, he’s killed me’.” The attorneys put Case on the pan. “How do you know he’s the man who fired,” h ewas asked, “He had a funny-looking left hand— |three fingers were gone.” Wheeler had kept his hand concealed under his hat but while Case was testi- fying he nervously shifted his posi- tion and newspaper men saw the deformed hand. der, on the Twelfth Tnniversary. Presents innumerable were sent to the men guarding the Soviet Union from imperialist attack, Leningrad ad Moscow workers alone presented thirty tanks to the Red Army, with funds collected by the Ossoaviakhim, the Soviet Society for Defense of the Soviet Union. ai hae (Wireless By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Nov. 8.—A great work- ers’ demonstration at the Lustgarten was the Berlin toilers’ way of show- ing their solidarity with the workers of the Soviet Union on the Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revo- lution. Tens of thousands of work- ers took part in a procession, carry- ing batiners and transparents, pledg- ing the German workers’ defense of the Soviet Union. The presence of large forces of police failed to awe the workers, Hamburg workers defied a police prohibition to hold a huge Twelfth Anniversary demonstration. Three workers were arrested and many in- jured when fired on by police. The Young Communist, Werner Schroe- der, shot by social democratic police at a prohibition proletarian youth demonstration on Nov. 1, died yes- terday. Cee ae (Wireless by Inprecorr) PRAGUE, Nov. 8—Six great demonstrations by Prague workers/| marked the celebration here of the| Twelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution, A general strike pro- claimed for Nov. 7 by the Czecho- slovak miners was halted by terror- ism methods. Meetings thruout the country were brutally attacked by police and troops. * e * (Wireless by. Inprecorr) BRUSSELS, Nov, 8.—Arrests of | scores of Belgian workers, here and in Antwerp, accompanied by police | brutalities, occurred at the workers’ Twelfth Anniversary celebration. TRIAL UP SOON Seven Fur Workers! Involved in Frameup (Continued from Page One) prison sentences of five years as a result of this case. They are Morris) Malkin and Leo Franklin, who have been 10 months to date at Sing Sing. The case drew wide attention be- cause of the bitter antagonism of| the court—which permitted the at- torneys to drag in issues of Com- munism, of the defendants’ beliefs, and accusations of “You are an enemy to this country, to law and to order.” | The atmosphere was greatly sim- ilar to the more recent Gastonia case. The needle trade workers have formed Mineola Gastonia com- mittees, in the various shops, and a meeting held last Wednesday at Irving Plaza, was splendidly at- tended “Save the Mineola and Gastonia strikers” was the cry at the confer- ence. ~The workers present were urged to raise funds, and to inten- sify the drive to have the union members pay up the 50 cent assess- ments agreed to for the Gastonia strikers, Began in 1926. | The case grew out of an alleged} assault on a certain small fur shop in Mineola, the Barnett Fur Com- pany, in 1926. Barnett was unable to identify the strikers as his as- sailants in court. A scab, a right winger by the name of Sarcus, named the defendants on trial as having been present on the scene. Case Heresy-Hunt. { The case rapidly grew into a! heresy hunt. The scab also named Ben Gold and I. Shapiro as having been present at the alleged attack. Gold and Shapiro were declared in- nocent. | The other nine workers, including Malkin and Franklin, were found “guilty.” Their case was appealed. The judge confirmed the verdict on Malkin and Franklin, and ordered a new trial for the remaining seven. Beal Eager To Return South. | (Continued from Page One) worker who tho..zht I was from the U, 7, W.” “The Southerner glared at me. Get out of here, he said, You're from the U. T. W. and they come down here to cheat us out of money and then run away.” Beal insisted that he was from the National Textile Workers Union. The worker was suspicious. He or- dered Beal from the door at the point of a shot-gun. “Several weeks afterward, during a picnic held at Gastonia, I ran across this worker,” Beal said. “He came up to me frankly, and put out his hand, ‘I was all wrong’ the work- er told Beal. ‘I see now the National Textile Workers Union is altogether different from the United.’” No Trust in A. F. L. Beal states that throughout the South the American Federation of attitude of the workers was gen- erally that of the one metioned above. Occasionally bursting into a hacking ecugh which he and Y. Hendrix suffer from, Beal declared, “If it was not for the workers of the land and the world, we would be electrocuted by now. I exject Tl have to serve the stretch, unless the workers continue and increase their protest, The International Labor Defense, in its appeals for mass protest saved ou: lives, and ! want to give them credit,” he de- clared. Goes to Boston. Beal w:'l leave here Sunday for Boston, where he will be greeted at South Static at 1:55 p. m. by hundreds of workers eager to meet him. He will then leave for Law- rence, his home town, arriving there at 4:20 o'clock for another demon- tration. The entire seven strikers will be greeted at a mass welcome Novem- ber 15, at Star Casino, New York City. Calls come constantly from seores of workers’ organizations, liberal clubs, ete, asking for Beal ne the defendants to speak before them. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! Labor is very little trusted. The|° Monster Reception and Concert to the 4 Soviet Fliers to be held at POLO ROUND 155th Street, at Eighth Avenue HOW TO REACH POLO GROUNDS: Sixth or Ninth Avenue * to 155th Street; Broadway Subway to 157th Street; Jerome Avenue Stbway to 167th Street—change for Sixth or Ninth Avenue “L” to 155th Street TODAY at 6:30 p. m. 100-PIECE ORCHESTRA ARNOLD VOLPE, (Conductor IVAN STESCHENKO Celebrated Russian Basso of the Chicago Grand Opera FREIHEIT GESANGS VEREIN-—300 VOICES LABOR SPORTS UNION-——600 OTHER EXCELLENT FEAT Each Flier Will Greet the American Workers A A SOP REN TECTIA NERS All Seats Protected from Rain Get Your Tickets in Advance (All 75¢ tickets have been sold.) $1.00 and $1.50 each Tickets to be obtained at the office of the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave., Room 511; Cooperative Restaurant, 28 Union Sq.; Russky Golos, 64 E. Seventh St.; St. Marks Theatre, 133 Second Avenue Page Three