The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1930, Page 3

| vn RAILROAD, 1 Worker correspondents, the for it. Read the letters from work- ers, become a worker correspond- Daily Worker is your paper; write | ent. A worker in the Standard Oil plant in Whiting, Indiana, tells of the response of the oil workers treme left illustrates the hazards of the ill-paid oil refinery workers. Many workers lose their lives in these refinery blazes which origi- there to the TUUL. Photo at ex- | nate from the speedup and from Second photo shows part of the huge Whiting Standard Oil refin- ery, where Rockefeller bitterly ex- ploits thousands of oil workers. Next photo, a Ford worker slav- | improper safety protection for the | workers. Photo shows flaming oi! | geyser shooting 100 feet into the air from one of the huge crude oil tankers at a Standard refinery. pce ing at the belt. A Ford worker in Kearney, N. J., tells of the fakery | tell how the A. F. of L. fakers of the $1 raise at Ford’s, under | betray them, and how “prosperity” which less workers do many times | hits them. Photo at right, a Bos- more work. ton and Maine train wreck in Railroad workers on this page | Botner SAS snree which several track workers were killed. | Enlist Your Shop Mate in the | Drive for 5,000 New Members. CHAMBER FOR ALL WHO SLAVE THERE “We've Got to Form Shop Committees” | (By a Worker Correspondent) HARTFORD, Conn. (By Mail).— | am nineteen years old, and have | vorked at the Colt Repeating Arms Co. plant for over a year. Every morning I find it harder | and harder to get up. I drag my-| self. to, the factory restaurant, get | bite.and stumble across the broken street, to the factory gates. An awesome fear clutches my heart as,I near the grim soot-soaked walls. The funera! silence of the bulding | is héavy and oppressive. I feel as though I were entering a torture chamber; the giant machines being the implements of torture. The warming up of the monsters sends | a shiver up my spine at the thought of going through another day of at aes Voices of the Auto Workers DARITY, bat 57 a Succa se \ The Hudson. t Worker tbc by Wa Ca WOMEN FAINT. IN. HUDSON The ie Durant Hayes-Hune Ra orker Set ei i fs Wh (mate) Py oy UNETE we won Wonnens oF THE ato =e TELEPHONE. GIRLS Gaston on Worker Who JOBLESS STORM es ork SLAVERY DOUBLE Never Will Again am a cotton mill worker who was T. W. pulled the strike here back in! | Hour of Day |ing the Worker when I could get it| the U. S. long distance office in| sion) Textile Workers Union are tions for them to fill. They are held atidibietter Holnes' to live sa: the places of the old girls. ever drew was $19 and that was ing indefintely. High school gradu-| party—t'm hoping it won't be long ja new girl filling these require- get our rights. (often with children or aged parents | { (By a Worker Correspondent) BY § P L | T GASTONIA, N. C. (By Mail).—I | | eel | fool enough to listen to the bosses ! . |and kept on working when the N.! '\Called to Work at Any Ly e the Spring. Ever since then I have been read- | (By a Worker Correspondent) iS land I finally woke up to the fact | LOS ANGELES (By Mail)-—At/ tot the Daily Worker and the Na- Los Angeles many new girls are | is only A ly ones that have any real employed when there are no Posi-| ich to get us workers more pay in reserve on the pretext of train- Taave bi rapes . * een working in the cotton ing them thoroughly, to throw into| nite for 13 years and the most 1 | This reserve force is paid only| hack during the war. two dollars a day and kept in train-| J] want to join the Communist ates between the ages of eighteen | until the mills here will really be and twenty-five are prefered. When | organized and we working folks can ments is available, an excuse is ia’ 2 2 found to discharge an older woman GASTONIA MILL HAND. dependent upon her). |Hyde Shoe Bosses Numbers of girls do not even| the City Hall. told to wait another four days to| get their pay. ‘fourth day for their pay, which w on a Saturday, they were met by | “° el Bad n Concord, N.C.; NT W "Ts Wanted (By a Worker Correspondent) CITY HALL TO GET THEIR PAY CONCORD, N. C. (By Mail.) Labor conditions are very bad all through this _section—Concord, . = ae ie , North Carolina. They work from Snow Shovellers SHOW chenas Reuse “cad Hon tie wnie Militaney Wins ile for 55 hours. They tell you if ens j you are not satisfied with it you (By a Worker Correspondent) can get your time and quit. BUFFALO, N. Y. (By Mail)—In| Wages range anywhere from Buffalo, Saturday, December 28, | a $ to $22.50 a week. Some | of the piece-workers make about about 1,000 unemployed stormed | °, te Mee eeeeees Sara These workers were ‘ ig dren at night and then a 12 hour engaged in cleaning up the snow | night shift! off the streets of the bourgeois sec-| The general run of the houses tions so that the bourgeois could! are not fit to live in—no water park their many cars near the curb| and no sewage. sua wae | getting into) thems Te they catch you talkie’ Union would not get their perfumed feet ze they are ready to run you out of wetted up. | town and borrow from all other After these werkers had worked| wills, Here is the bosses record: from four to five days they were a week are the wages solid time—Free House Rent.—Water and Sewage——-A Week Free Vaca- tion.—Stage Pay a Week in August. | And a Christmas Present of fifty Returning on the COLT REPEATING ARMS CO. KILLING YOUNG WORKERS IN SPEED-UP PLANT ATORTURE STANDARD OIL WORKERS IN IND. ARE WAKING UF Whiting Toilers To Be Led by TUUL (By a Worker Correspondent) WHITING, Ind. (By Mail).—A fellow-comrade here has given me several copies of the Daily Worker to read and I see you invite workers from all industries to write. I was an oil worker here in the Standard Oil Co. until they fired me for my Trade Union Unity League !work. The oil industry is like ali | others in speeding up production by installing new and modern stills and other equipment to do away with labor. In the past three months the Standard has laid off several hun- dred men, some of them old timers, Some departments are working part | time. We are building an oil workers | TUUL group here—OIL WORKER, Z| e “Big Boss” and told in a loud cam BRD, WORKER " selves by degrees so that their wives superficially swept. Hence when) you enter the factory a stale, stink- ng odor assails your nostrils, mak- ing you cough repeatedly until you get used to it. In every worker you meet you see your own reflection; drawn face, hollows under the cheek bones, rings under the eyes; and what eyes! Dull, staring, dumb. I sit down at my bench and start to work. Presently the foreman comes .over and tells me to |take some 25’s down to the polishing | voom. On the way down I stop/ at the shooting gallery and speak to some of the men who are shoot- ing off the guns to see if they are 0. K. All the men have cotton in| their ears, but that helps but little. If they work any length of time they are bound to get deaf. They try | to joke it off half-heartedly, but it | is a pity. Some of these men are barely kids in age. Next I go to the revolver assem- bly room. Here some of the men | have: been sitting on one chair for fifty or ‘sixty years, and don’t get more than the limit—$30 a week. Many have TB but don’t even know it. Next is the grinding room, where “men sit all day for years, all their lives, breathing particles of | steel and dust. They entered broad- | shouldéred, robust young men; after five or ten years they are fired, pale and shrunken and _ invalids. They do not speak unless spoken to. Their faces are stern and set. They know they are\kinning them- and kids will have bread to eat, but they think they have no other way. These are some of the things we put up with at Colt’s, We’ve got to organize into a union that won't sell us out. We've got to start form- ing that union by forming shop committees, — Young Colt Worker. YOUR ORGANIZATION. Go to its next meeting and pro- pose that it: yreets The Daily ‘Worker upon the occasion of its Sixth Anniversary. * (By a Worker Correspondent) ~ SACRAMENTO, Calif. (By Mail). Three thousand workers in the South- etn Pacific Railway shops in this "city were handed a “Christmas pres- ent” by-being laid off, and will join the thousands of other Sacramento workers who are tramping the streets without work: The lay-off! means almost a complete shut-dow™ in the Commupist shop nuclei and shop committees in the various auto plants. Auto workers, form your shop committees in every plant, and then issue papers like these, which serve as the voices of the workers in the shops in their struggles against speed up, wage euts and slave conditions. Rail Union Misleaders toWine and Dine B.& O. Slave-Driver, Willard (By « Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md., (By Mail).—Arrangements are being made by jus we are going to present him with the Standard Railroad Labor Unions to give a big | la little token of our esteem. Each testimonial feast to Daniel Willard, the president of the Baltimore and | operator is expected to give at least Ohio Railroad, the union fakers’ pal who runs the railroad on a compepy| | fifty cents, the supervisors three | basis, with the connivance of © the misleaders of union the railway union officials. The oceasion for the big dinner to | old slave-driver Willard will be his twentieth aniversary as head slave- driver of the B. and O. workers. Tavitations have been sent out thru all local unions and to the officers of the road. The “I love you and you love me dinner” of the union offi cials and the B. and O. bosses is to be held January 13. The swell Lord Baltimore Hotel, far beyond the reach of, say, the average shop craft worker or track layer, is the scene of the big class- collaboration blow-out. Four speakers, “representative of labor, railway management, railway investors and public” are scheduled to speak, advising the workers to be satisfied with their rotten lot on the B. and 0. and tell them of the great public benefit the B. and 0.) with its millions of profits is render- ing. Then, as the bang-up wind-up, old Willard, the object of hatred on the part’ of the shopcraft men and the “lower grades” of labor on the B. and 0., will be presented with a “testimonial from his employees.” A brick is what many B. and O. work- ers think a fitting testimonial to Willard. —B. AND 0. SHOP WORKER. “PROSPERITY” ON S. P. 3,000 California R. R. Slaves Laid Off of the S. P. shops, as only a hand- ful of employees are not affected by the lay-off order. The unem- ployment situation in Sacramento is very serious this winter, as it is else- where thruout the state and the en- tire country. The Trade Union Unity League is planning an organization cam- paign among the Sacramento worl: lira: —wW. WORKERS’ BLOOD PAYS FOR RAISE IN KEARNEY FORD Do More Work (By a Worker Correspondent) KEARNEY, N. J. (By Mail). — The Ford plant at Kearney is open again, but what are the workers’ conditions? Very bad, We started to work last week. I work in the body trim department, the job being as follows: The cars run on the trim line and men work on both sides, Each one has his own | job. So we start to werk every fourth car and in the first four hours we make 33 cars. Now this week, on Monday, the bosses reduced the number of work- ers so that last Saturday we worked every second car. Thus we make in the first four hours 45 cars. As you can see, with half the num- ber of workers we make more cars. | Why? I tell you why. The bosses | and pushers look like madmen, they | come around to the workers and cry like at dogs, come on you stupid dollar a day raise for? If someone dares to say some- thing he is fired. The word fire is on the point of every bosses’ lips here, and here are some examples. The workers conditions are get- ting from bad to worse at the Ford) plant in Kearney, At 4 p. m. the day shift comes out from the plant. I take a seat inside of the trolley car. The car is full of Ford workers. One asks an- other, how is the job going in your department? An angry voice an- swers, lousy, And then he asks, how Half the | Workers to) beast, what do you think you get a) thourough system of stool-pigeons in the Hyde Shoe Factory. besides | having a good many members of the Hyde family work around at |premises eleven or twelve hours. It | jis not at all unusual to come to |work at 6:30 a. m. work a few jhours, and be told to go out for a |the Mayor was out of town, then| they went to the Commis Public Works and from there to the | | Department of Streets. came the first time and they watk- ed out and left us,—and then the scale of wages of the colored race ran down from $7.00 to $11.50 ioner of Finally, we | = hell. Aalst sa) eee key |have regular hours but are tele-| Try to Make Girl vole, C6: Home, Foul eet no pay | TOUAt® every year That’s the ‘| (Ohi LES BARE EES In the department where I work, exer anp ew é phoned each morning and told their | : today, we will pay you Monday.” ¢ U Prev | J oo the seit ae not allowed to smoke,| == Qakland-Por Pontiac W Wor 14 lhours for the day. The California Slaves P t t t This did not satisfy the Siary | I think that the National Textile eee 2. he t all | pore | 1 iy cigub huweas dail YOSTULULES ? mor Bay ady | Worke ion would make a! In desperation because his wife so they chew tobacco and spit all Anothes Worker = —— = yea allo only ie Nee y much suffering workers so they im-| °F! ection if good| chided him for being unemployed s e | v . e compan} i 5. otha aq | great si sectic r chide! 5 Sandee take det ave acer) ABONTIAC SPEED-UP AND LOW WAS [splits all the shifts so that most of| (By @ Worker Correspondent) mediately got toxether and devided | visti. people take hold. ‘This see- |S. Fulfiter, jobless worker, threw been washed in the century that | eae __|the operators on actual duty only | ogame Mass. (By Mail.) | paraded to the City Hall. Uponj tion has been chloroformed up by acid Ste chee face and badstp the Colts has been in existence and only Some of the fighting shop papers gotten out by auto workers in - |eight hours are on their employer’s| —The bosses have installed a) > oching the City Hall, they found| the American Federation. They) rest of the poison in a suicide a tempt. The number of suicides among the unemployed is growing at a rapid rate. The capitalist papers are suppressing news of the jobl while and return to finish the shift | easy jobs in the different depart- | |received an answer, “Maybe you’ll| Week. | who kill themselves because of their at aS late an hour as 10:30 p. m | ments and keep a close watch on| be paid on Monday.” ‘This, the A Concord Worker, | hopeless quest for work. Everyone is supposed to have one| what the workers are doing and try | workers did not swallow and an- > day in seven off, but all too often, to find out what they are thinking |<wered, “We demand our money Write: About Your Conditious’ | Workers! Answer the Boss: |the operator on her day off will be| about, Some of the male relatives | now.” "| for The Daily Worker. Become a |¢S’ Attack by Joining the Com- | called to work, perhaps while she} are wide awake when it comes to Sey cea ‘Warker Carresnandent. 'munist Party. jis entertaining friends at dinner or| jin the middle of the family wash- jing. spotting the good looking girls who get jobs there and use the threat of | discharge to make them come In view of all this not long ago! through. If they want to keep their ee girls were called out one at a| jobs they have to obey these fellows e by the chief, and told that, | so that they will not get in bad itn appreciation of the many lovely | with the powers that be. They not |things our manager has done for) only have to ruin their good looks | by the rotten conditions of w and the long hours but the also | | have to give up their virginity. The Hyde factory is the dirtiest | place I ever worked in. The work- ers have to do all the sweeping | themselves but do not have time to attend to it. The drinking fountain | in the lasting room reached such a} stage of filth that some the workers put it out of commission | and now they have to use the hy-| | drant which is ir a sink, covered | with a quarter inch of black dirt and is on the opposite side of a partial partition separating it from (the toiiet. This latter place is so | foul from neglect that no one ven- tures in it, unless from the most extreme necessity. One toilet is out of order prac- tically all the time and the other has no cover at all. This place is so bad that it fills the entire last- | ing room with the damnedest smell | | you can imagine. | dollars, and the wire men more. Girls and men, who were in doubt of their rent and street car fare | stretching out until pay day were pressed into giving a high salaried manager a platinum watch and | knife set with diamons. A Recent U. S. Long Distance Operator. * 6:8 Editors Note.—The above letter from a telephone operator shows what complete unorganization has brought about for these bitterly exploited workers. Telephone operators and ther telephone company workers are urged to write to the Daily Worker from all cities. In this way organization of a militant union may be start- ed. Names will not be published | unless requested by the writer. ae |" This Hyde shop, where 12 end 1: Boston A.F.L. Fakers | years old girls slave, must be or, Are Fighting for Fat | ganized into the Independent Shoe | Convention Plums) "ers Union. Hyde workers, its) the only union that won't sell out, | (By a Worker Correspondent) | for it’s not an A. F. L. fakers or- | | BOSTON, (By Mail.)—The mis-| Saniztion. | leaders of the Beston A. F. of L, as} well as all other _ misleaders | throughout the United States get active every time there is some mo-| ney in it or else when they are to betray the workers in their strug- gles, otherwise they do their work | incognito. | strength of more loyalty to the bos-| At the last A. F. of L. conven-| ses. The question revolves around | | tion held in Toronto, the Boston) who should have tke upper hand of | delegation of the misleaders with | the convention arrangments. The ihe help of manufacturers building | fakers of the building trades are | trades association, and the recently] the stronger faction and they want elected Mayor Curley, succeeded to| to have the upper hand over the bring the A. F. of L. convention to| Central Labor Union clique con- Boston. What a victory! trolled by Jennings and Flyrn Co. So now for the last two meetings| The reason is that there is going to the Central Labor Union with its| be quite a few thousand of dollars. | many factions picked a fight of| All the manufacturers and the City | - have already made arrangements about yours? A sad voice answers,| to contribute big sums of money for couldn’t be worse, believe me. the purpose, and the second point, We have to get a shop commit-| there are going to be awarded some | tee working in this plant, and organ-| jobs to the “best” boys. So, the) ize under the Trade Union Unity) fight has started. Watch these fak- League. The only way to beat the; ers! Join the T.U.U.L., the mili- bosses is by fight. tant, fiehtine organization! Hyde Shoe Worker. GREET YOUR PAPER. | Sixth Anniversary of The Daily Worker. Send greetings from workers and organizations. | EVE 8:30 SAT. CONDUCTORLESS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Among Other Numbers Will Play Symphonic Poem—STENKA RAZIN ALEXANDER GLAZOUNOW ARIEL RUESTEIN A. 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