The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1930, Page 5

is BEALE tM ay. Cre NEW ORE SATU RD ae, JANUARY. 18, 1930 Page Five ‘SHIP BONNIE BROOK SEAMEN IN SOCIALIST RIVALRY WITH U.S.S.R. PLEDGE TO FIGHT BEDFORD MILL WORKERS READY FOR STRUGGLE: SEAMEN ( OUT TO FIGHT, TOO WINSTON-SALEM CAPITALISMTO (NEGRO, WHITE | END, IN CONTRACT WORKERS WAKE | USSR Sailors Pledge Jegro Tobacco Hands Socialist Upbuilding (By a Seaman Correspondent.) The conditions on the S. S. Bon- nie Brook are terrible. In the first place, we had to endure terrible food, and what there was was abso- lutely poisonous. Several times dur- ing the trip we went to the captain and made a complaint in a mass. The result was more terrible food. The steward was allowed an ample amount to feed us with, plenty of fresh meat and vegetables, but in- stead of vegetables and meat for the crew there was plenty of booze for the officers. The focsle was lousy with bedbugs and roaches, and even the food -was full of roaches. Before the trip was over we were} eating weevils in the bread, and} every time that we broke open a} piece of bread we would find it full of worms, All ship's gear is supposed to be| rigged before the ship leaves port, | but while we were under way we had to go aloft and rig up the booms. This is very dangerous, as the ship rolls very much, and whoever is aloft is in great danger of falling | into the sea. When we reached Russia we com- | plained to the master, but as it did | no good, when we came aboard the | Soviet ship, Krim, we drew up an agreement with the crew of this ship, and I can say that our ship has lived up t> the regulations of this contract. We pledged to do our best to organize the seamen on the | capitalist ships. They pledged to do all to build up sociz When we c. me aboard the Krim the first impression that we re-/ ceived was as if you were coming from a madhouse to an orderly home, Everything was like one big family, which in reality they are. The above contract is a good example of what example the prole- | | | The line of march went into Fifth | tarian life has on young workers of this country. Our crew realized that the time has come when all of we workers must unite and present a solid front to the capitalist element of the world, and demand our rights. —SEAMAN. LEAGUE FOR MUTUAL AID GIVES DANCE. The League for Mutual Aid will hold a Rainbow Costume Ball, Fri- day, Jan. 25, at the New Webster Manor, 125 East 11th Sty Tickets in advance, which can be obtained from the League for Mutual Aid at 104 Fifth Avenue, $1.50. At the door, $2.00, Every Factory : a Communist + Fortress! Build Factory Nuclei. ON NEW BEDFORD FRONT : Organize Dartmouth Mill Local ? Things are getting ready to ri mill workers are preparing fo a fi wage cuts and speed-up. They'll b ers Union. A worker on thi | from 17 te 20 years for his mi | organized a mill for the N.T.V page tells how Fred Beal, it leadership of the Gastonia workers, in New Bedford. p on the New Bedford front, for the ight to the finish against increasing e led by the National Textile Work- railroaded to Photo at left, New | Bedford workers greeting Beal on New Bedford strike in 1927. A man tells of a contract b | his release from prison during the | tween the members of an American | slave-ship and a Soviet ship, under which the former are to do their utmost to help destroy the c papiteise system, and the latter to upbuild Socialist construction in the U.S.S, The seamen in capitalist countries are among the worst exploited. They'll settle scores with the bosses; they Workers League. Left, a ship’s crew was sacrificed to bosses’ when this freighter went down. are organizing in the Marine greed Right, a ship’s crew after the floating hell-hole on which they slaved had gone down, several seamen drowning. |Lolly-Pops and U.S. | Flagsin AFL Strike ‘Parade in Phila. (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By ea: |A parade was staged by the A. F. }of L. fakers in protest of the lock. | out by the Aberle Hosiery Mill. The fakers had speakers installed at the | {union headquarters and told of the |splendid co-operation of the police {heads who gave a permit for the parade and then gave each striker an American flag and a candy lolly | pop and advised the to be violent. | Then the parade started out Le- high ave. aviay from the mills into |the nice residential district, then to |22nd St., and as the ranks became larger, as hundreds of unemployed workers fell in line, thinking it was a demonstration for the unem ploy ed, |the fakers got scared, as paraders not | sands. St., again away from the mills, and passed but two mills on the line of | march, «f over six miles. And the} finale: A further supply of lolly pops—this is a god-damn fact, and | into Bristol St. and marched the thousands of workers onto a vacant dump a square away from a large graveyard, and the workers were dazed and were told to beat it, the car line was up the street. The parade never went within three miles of the Aberle Mill, as the A. F. of L. were afraid to offend their real mas- ters, the bosses. Aberle strikers, watch such lead- ers, elect mill committees, spread the strike, organize the un rganized | and join the T.U.U.L. which will! lead you to final victory. —wW.C. P. (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By Mail).—Fred E. Beal, our leader in the New Bedford strike in 1928 and whom the bosses in the South are trying to send to jail for 20 years for organizing the southern textile workers was at our meeting of the Dartmouth mill and formed js into a mill local. Many workers from other mills also came to hear our fellow worker, Beal. An executive committee of the mill was elected meeting and fellow worker Beal, explained to them there duties. members into our local and beat all the other locals and get the ban- ner. We are going to get out a mill or shop paper for the workers | in the Dartmouth mill and tell abou the rotten conditions. We are going to hold dances. We must build the National Textile Workers’ Union in all the mills. —Dartmouth Mill Worker. Use American Flag in Effort to Fool Miners, (By a Worker Correspondent.) WHELLING, W. Va., (By Mail)— Here is another example of the U.M.W.A. and their loyalty to the capitalist class. When the flunkeys of dictator G. L. Lewis decided on what he thought would be a good scheme to catch some of the miners off their guard against their old tricks, Lewis and his gang decided to fool the miners of Ohio and Northern West Virgina by hoisting the American flag above what once used to be the subdistrict five of district six Miners Temple for which the miners of this subdistrict paid something like $1,000,000 to erect. It was recently bought in from the receivers by Mr. G. L. Lewis for the sum of $21,000. The total cost of the building to con- the miners who payed for this building did not have a voice in regard to their share of it. So the miners who had been so duped from their hard earned money, failed to respond to the call of the old betrayers, President Cinque and Vice President Pacificco. A big our stand and we decided to severe our connection with such a cor- rupted organization as the U.M.W.A. So the smoke screen of the Ameri- can flag stunt proved a miserable flop. The N.M.U drive is going strong in this section. Hurrah for the struct was $365,000. The remaind- N.M.U. Fire Men; Cut Wages in Half At Eldorado, Il. (By « Worker Correspondent) ELDORADO, ILL. (By mail)—I am writing you a few lines to let you put in the Daily Worker. At Equality, Ill. there were 19 or 20 men working at the Pekin Mine, getting 871/2c per ton. Then the company told the men to clean up. Five men returned to work at the rate of 371/2c per ton. The Coto shoot the coal for them. The 1J.M.W.A. went to the company and gave them the right to operate. ‘The mine has ran for five weeks. | Also, all the mines around are pay- of wages is $6.10 per day. The U.M.W.A. officials don’t even try to get the mines to pay that scale. We are going to see what we can do in that locality. We have told the men, if we come and get them out they must come to the N.M.U. as we are the only union that will back the men in their struggles. We would not have known about these mines. But the men that worked there were in Eldorade look. boys sent them to our N.M.U. ing $2 to $3 a day. And the scale They did not know that they were in a N.M.U. Hall, So they les she | became larger, swelling into tod: iz there cot bs: misleaders | and they stayed back until after the | We are going to try and get more | er was never accounted for, and} meeting was called under the aus- | pices of the National Miners Union | where a vote was taken to reaffirm | ing for 2 U.M.W.A, local, and some | Hall. | LAY-OFFS, WAGE GUTS FOR wy | MINE, STEEL MEN iTr iadelphia_ 2 Miners Look to NMU (By a Worker rrespondent ) | YORKVILLE, Ohio (By Mail).— | The conditions in this section are | ng 1 the time. I ama orker myself, and have many filends who are wor in the mines. In the mills we e been getting a dirty deal. 1 two Or wor re a wee to cut their y with it. cut on New Y |Day. You know the Happy New That’s the d: w! | ev wishes everybody e¢ 1 some | Year, a: enough to believe that its | going to be one, 1930, Well on this veginning of 1930 the miners in} No. 3 Mine of Triadelphia felt the| beginning of their prosperity spread- ing over them. They were pleasantly informed, after they got in the mine to work, that they would receive a cut of 11 cents on the ton. They were getting the “great” price of 52 cents a ton. Now they will have to work 40 cents a ton. That’s a nice thing to bring in the New Year with, ain’t it? The men were furious at this information. They | walked out of that mine almost 100 | per cent! Only three men were left in the mine! They stayed out all day and were | eagerly waiting for an N.M.U. or- ganizer to come along. They said} they would wait until some one from | come to tell them what to do. nate. No one {ate mine next d ame from the N.M.U. went back to work the And the incident was reported to some org lof the union, The miners in this section have a Jgreat deal of confidence in the |N.M.U. They recognize them as }is the only union which can lead them. I ask you to publish this so |that the N.M.U. Eastern Ohio and West Vir; |ten conditions of the miners, and |get an organizer on the job who will put enthusiasm and spirit in| building the N.M.U. here. rs ny WORKER. or Misleaders. \Bar Int'l Defense from “ Furniture Frame Strike Max Perloff, president of the A. F. of L. furniture workers’ union which is conducting a strike at 9 {shop on Newport Ave., Brooklyn, | yesterday consulted by telephone the Lovestone headquarters and on in- structions received from the Love- stone gang made it impossible for Sam Nesin, New York District Sec- retary of the I.L.D. to address the strike committee. Nesin wanted to offer the services lof the LL.D, to strikers arreste | Perloff told Lovestone’s office Ne was there and asked what to do. He was informed to look at the story in the Daily Worker yesterday, which pointed to some of Perloff’s treachery, and told of the distribu- tion of a Trade Union Unity League leaflet advising the strikers to take control of the strike, and not be sold out. Perloff then conferred with the strike committee, and when Nesin appeared on the floor, the chairman Weinstein, said the I.L.D. represen- tative could not speak. Nesin de manded the floor and the question eat out of the sack for us to catch, and we will sure catch the cat or chase it to its den, as we have) some determined men. A Miner. ' nia will know of the rot-| Will J Join Agr oe Chinese workers, being imp slave on the huge farms ther vegetable growers. ‘The Mex 8,000 strong, under the leadership for a 20% increase and the end | Chinese and other Oyienta] agricultural workers wlil soon join them. icultural Strike | the |Negvo Farmers in Arkansas Being Cheated on Crops MARIANNA, FORCE WORKERS TO FIGHT MONT, FOREST FIRES. |Driven to ‘Slave at Low a Negro } Wages Correspondent) Ark, (By Mail) — rking man° here in a working man ar il t e aces. settle- i haven't r my crop. ship in I. had no (By a worker correspondent). TLE Wash. (By in Montana this sumn rest fires started. Two other | workers and myself had been work- |! tall. Us I beg to be your | | orted into the Imperial Valley to for the large open shop fruit and and Filippine workers haye struck, of the Trade Union Unity League, of the slave contract system. The | | Workers Ready for a | .By a Worker w n BRAWLEY, Cal. (By Mail).—The agricultural workers here, mostly |the National Miners Union would | Orientals and Mexicans, recently rebelled against intolerable conditions— tc The | \long hours, starvation wages, the forcing of women and children into the rest of the story is very unfortu-| fields alongside with the men, and the system of “seignorial rights” over the wives, daughters and swe: which the American ranch worker: In many cases this is the only , | condition on which an agricultural "| worker can obtain employment. | The sheriffs and deputi all recruited from the American Legion, |and are vicious and degenerated. They forced the striking workers ¢ |leaders, and know that the N.M.U.| back to their jobs at the point of ‘uns. The workers are seething with discontent and ripe for organization. In the Palo Verde Valley in River- | side County, hundreds of families | of poor whites from Texas are liv- | ing in tents and out of doors. Many |are only kept from sheer starva- tion by the miserable doles of corn- | meal and fatback which the county areas throw to them like to The need throughout this section | is for good organization. The ma- terial is here and we are ready. —AGRICULTURE WORKER. N.Y. MEMBERS, The New York District of the | Young Communist League has ar- ranged an inter-racial affair for Saturday, January 18, at the Im- perial Hall located at 160 W. 129th Street. This affair is to be a real wel- |come for all the comrades who are | coming directly from the district. Comrade Tetherow, youth organ- lard from the Illinois coal fields, as well as many other prominent mem- bers of the N.E.C, will be present. was raised why Ben Gitlow, a Love- stoneite was allowed to speak sev- eral days before. The defense was that Gitlow “representated no organ- ization in particular,” evidently not even the Lovestone group! One member of the committee, de- manded a vote on the motion to al- low Nesin to speak, but the chi man railroaded the matter through and permitted no vote. Previously the Lovestone and re- actionary leaders had agreed to use the Civil Liberties Union in the strike. California Agncultural | Widespread Rebellion Y.C.L. TO WELCOME N.E.C. | izer of the National Textile Work- | ers’ Union in the South, Jerry Al-| Correspondent) ethearts of the agricultural workers, | adopt. FORD ORDERS | FOREMEN TO SPEED ‘EM UP Few More Pennies As Bait For Speed-up (By a Worker Correspondent) KEARNEY, N. J., (By Mail). |In a cross section of the Ford Mo- tor Company at Kearne¥, N. J., you! can see the result of severe indus- | trial depression. The speed-up and __ stretch-out system of the motor industry is well illustrated by Superintendent Screm |giving a hot and heavy monologue |to a circle of foremen in his office | telling them how to get more work out of less men and do it efficiently. The superintendent also shows his executive abilities by hounding the porters who sweep, taking the broom out of their hands and . giv- ing an exhibition for a few seconds of quick and snappy sweeping. This superintendent has lay-off jhad about land some of us had to sit on the and oblige.—M. I ing on the railroad. We came to friend. |Great Falls, Montana, on August 8 siered labout 4 a.m. and had some hot ee ae Werman Shoe Co. very much money left after the rail- a [road got thru taking out for this Bosses Scared by and that (that is out of our check |cop walked up to us and said, are jive Wonks Ea re |, cone Worker Correspondent) Well come along with me, and he| mo voters of the factory are forced to work 10 hours Werman shoe cakes and coffee, as we had not had Mneay weaeetve eneriten aaute| VWOPREPS? Militancy 20 more workers up at the jail. When I got there the judge |!#*t* BGI ; gaid either fight fire or 80 days in|=, 087: We work piec: and td often forced to work overtime. fighting. jail, so I took the ‘fire Nee Pudge on They made us sign a contract that | 5 1 ‘Na hee Wei esl a oe they did not give us a chance to|*@ctory are young worke = # oganization ever tried to organize read. When they took us down to the station they loaded us in a can |this factory until the Young Com- munist League distributed a leaflet there were no seats left. We lling us how to fight the bosses and all and fight against the mi: floor, place rode the rest of that day le Or night until 10 o'clock the next day. | ditions that we foreed to wor When we got off at Belton, they | under. loaded us in a truck, and we rode| The boss was afraid of the work- in that truck which was an open ers reading these leaflets, When one, from 11 o'clock in the morning | the young workers distributed these until 1 o’clock the next afternoon, | leaflets the boss and his foreman when we got to the camp. We did|beat up the young workers. That not have anything to eat from the was about three ago. time we left Camp Falls until we) a9 xt got to the camp, that was 33 hours. 7 000) We hiked to the fire camp it peeney e i wae tae ths range? said—only |2"4 the foreman jumped on a young} no y worker who was giving out leaflets | 28 miles. and began beating him up when he One man’s feet were so sore that ‘saw, however, that there were more | jhe could not work at all. We went! workers with leaflets and that the | out to fight fire that morning, climb- | workers who were coming out of the | ing over logs and through bush. |factory were grabbing the leaflets, was not so hard for me as it was/he ran upstairs and called up the| for some of the boys because I was) police, raised in the mountains. A wind storm came up and the fire got so About twelve cops and detectives strong all we could do was to get;came and atrested three young out of there as fast we could. workers who were giving out leaf- For three days we had enough to lets. When the cops saw, however, eat to keep a cat standing up. We| that the leaflets were already dis- did not go to work the fourth day | tributed they told the workers, and I told the boss I wasn’t going | “Don’t come around any more or to work and to give me my time.) you will get your god damned head We were getting 35c per hour, and | usted.” and Tuesday an open air when they gave me a check they! meeting was held before the shoe took off $9.60 for fare and $1.50/ factory by the Young Communist for eats on the way up—that we|League where a representative of didn’t get. We had to sleep with-|the Independent Shoe Workers’ out blankets one night because the| Union spoke. The boss called the fire burned the camp up—grub and | cops again and about 12 cops and all. The boss sent us to fight fire |dicks came, but the meeting was jand he stayed in camp, he was too |held anyway. The workers across | yellow to go out, but when the camp the street came over to the meet-| | burned up the boss was out of luck jing in spite of the bosses standing too. in front of the factory and listened shis is what we have to take be-|to the speakers; the boss then rang cause we are not organized. Let’s the bell whistle for the workers to are weeks riday .members of the| me again with leaflets organize! Join the Communist | come back to work but they did not Party! Join the Trace Union Unity | respond but stayed out later than| League. the time allowed by the boss to stay —Young Worker Correspondent. juntil the end of the meeting. We workers of*the Werman shoe factory should now understand that} the boss will do nothing for us. We} | must organize ourselves into a shop | |committee and join the Independent | Shoe Workers’ Union, which is a |militant fighting union, All the |young workers of the factory should | |Join the Young Communist League | | which is helping the union to organ- | ize us and to fight for better condi- | tions. The workers must also write Write About Your Conditions for The Daily. Worker. Become a | Worker Correspondent. Dawes on the brain. Every once in a while he gets hold of a foreman to lay off so many men but he wants such | and such a job done. Meanwhile on the line we are well | sweated by pushers who want us to. earn our nickel raise and a great deal more. The same_ production with less men and the bait a nickel | an hour. —A Kearney Ford Worker. MONEY FOR MISSIONARIES. John D. Rockefeller, Sr., has an- nounced another gift of $800,000 to foreign missionary work of the | baptist church, These foreign mis- | sionaries act as agents of American | imperialism in China and elsewhere, jand it may be said that the Stand- jard Oil tankers follow the mission- aries. to the Young Communist League | about the conditions in our factory. | Write to 26-28 Union Square. Werman Shoe Worker. | Child Delinquancy | Increased in 1929. The number of cases of child de-| |linquency, brutal treatment of chil-| |dren, ete., has increased consider- ably during the past year and has been greater than at any time in history, records in New York show. | He is said to be interested in the | idee Trust, which exploits as well as the tremendous increase '« of workers. A letter |of crime among adults, reflects the | froma lovediee worker will ap- \decay of capitalist society and the| peur in a few days, developing crisi The increase in child delinquency, Md |waiting in vain v Betrayed by AFL (By a Worker Co ondent) Winston-Salem, N. C. (By Mail). —Hundreds of Negro and white workers wait in lines in front of offices here two or three number fired a few e they could not nt ile company emplo; replace the same s before becau merly tarm tenant r ning to lef the tenants back on the farms now that only by the organ ization together of the fi the factory workers blac 1 white, throw their ¢ off Jefferson Neal, a Negro, once helped the A. F. of L, to organize 8,000 Negro tobacco orkers who d from th es of the He is now ac- Negro Labor of tk Wir ton n Worker, : “EFFICIENCY” FOR » DETROIT JOBLESS © The Sort of Stuff That Makes Trem Militant (By a Worker Correspondent ) DETROIT, Mich (by Mail)—As a reader of the Daily Worker and one of the un emp! , I would like to draw your ntion to the so-called American ef cy exhibited in em- ploying workers to clean off the snow from the city’s streets since the last I One must stand s in order to get a ticket to go to work—then wait until the are ready perhaps 2 or more—then after all this get about 8 hours work if lucky —then in order to get another day’s work—must again get in line and repeat the same. In order to get 8 -hours’ work, one must stand in line from 11 till about 6 to 8 p. m, go home, get a bite to eat, sleep at the most 4 to 5 hours and be back if you want to work. And so y want to work that they stand in line 7 to 10 hours. Why the city could not avoid all this daily lining up for a chance to work, is beyond my comprehension. If some of the white collar officials had to trade places with these work- ers, they would, I think, plan out some better system. But what does the life or the health of a worker amount to them. So much for this, I am merely | writing this to draw your attention to the fact that it is with such con- ditions existing, that they are knock- ing out a lot of hot air about free- | dom, prosperity and a lot of other poison being handed out by the capi- talist dailies. Now, as a sober- minded worker, I ask you,’ why should any American worker have a worry? All they need do, if they | haven’t a penny to rub against an- other, is to take a glance at the headlines of the daily capitalistic papers: “Ford raises wages to $6.00 (N. B,—By laying off old hands andspeeding up the younger and more robust.) They talk of keeping the auto industries running 12 months a year. “Ford spending $30,000,000 for new factories in 1930. (And since his workers can’t buy back what they produce, he will send his agents to Mars and get new mar- kets). Lets organize in militant unions; let’s fight the system that exploits us workers! Join the Com- munist Party! —Detroit Worker. Geolabe Tannery Co. Workers Preparing Struggle in Buffalo (By a Worker Correspondent) BUFFALO, N. Y. (By Mail). — In Geolobe Tannery shop the work- ers are extremely exploited. They |work 10 hours a day for a weekly wage of $20 to $25. Just lately they have laid off the workers for Saturday and some of them are only working three days a week, About a week ago a fellow-worker by name Fields, has been injured and is now in a serious condition due to the increased speed up in the fac- | tory. The process of production is so changed now that where once five workers participated in a certain | process one worker now does the job. The Communist Party issued a shop bulletin which received favor- able response by the workers in the shop. Two new workers have joined the | Communist Party and with two old ers a shop nucleus was estab- which will carry on its agi- tational propaganda to organize the workers in that tannery. TANNERY WORKER.