The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1930, Page 4

¢ : BIG INCREASE IN CALIF. AUTO JOBLESS NUMBER Willys-Knight Slashe Wages (By a Worker Correspondent.) SS ANGELES, Cal. (By Mail.) Over a month ago, the writer, and other workers, went 3 or 4 times to night auto factory in to come back in a few days; and it cost 20 cents one way for care fare to the plant. Work Rates Cut 40 Percent. Piece work rates have been cut 40 percent, and you have te speed up like hell,to make from $3 to $4 a day of 8, or more long hours. At the local Ford plant something like 1700 men were laid off about 2 months ago. Now a few are taken back and the boys say that the speed | mp is beyond belief. Hundreds of | wage slaves, who worked at this| plant before, are waiting to get their hs back, and thousands of other workers — thrown out from other shops to live on California “sun- | shine” in this cold, rainy weather— ar secking employment at the Ford pl cers, .waiting in .the .show) vo'\. for jobs, are chased out into th »verflooded streets by the slave- dr * bosses, who are saying: “It! is nst the company rules to stay ancce:" Organize! idle, starving, cold and wet workers are beginning to open our eyes and see that we cannot feed promises and lies about prosperity. nize! Unite in the s Branch of the Trade Union Unity League! --AUTO BODY TRIMMER. BOSTON NEEDLE UNION RALLY 19 Organizations for Active Campaign BOSTON, Mas —Fifty- five delegates, representing nineteen labor organizations and twenty large shops, constituted the mobilization conference called by Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union held Sun- day at 1922 Harrison Ave., to launch am organization campaign for union demands and recognition. M. Carter was elected chairman. After a report rendered by Herman Koretz, manager, and Boruchowitz of the General Expenditure Board, analyzing the different struggles confrnoting needle workers, wide discussion developed. It was a real rank and file con- Serence of delegates, understanding fully the requirements of present- day struggles. The resolution adopted unanimous- ly calls for creation of permanent organization. A Committee for De- fense of Industrial Union of eleven was elected. A Defense Squad was recruited from all sympathetic organizations for the purpose of helping the in- dustrial union on picket lines and combatting terror employed by Bosses and their agents. February aside all organizations to arrange affairs, lectures, etc., and tv 1 se wands for the Industrial Un- ion. The executive was also instructed to immediate! ue appeals to such labor organizations as were not rep- resented at the conference, for the surpose of drawing them into this ev; and to initiate a campaign of agitation among needle workers of aese organizations to join the in- dustrial union. With this support assured, the Industrial Union will imnjediately plunge into active cam- paign of organizing the unorgan- ized, securing union conditions and recognition. Through these strug- gles it aims to smash conspiracies of right wing and prepare for gen- era! struggle. Phila. T ade Union Unity Meet to Map Plans for Big Drive PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— The approaching District Conven- tion of the Trade Union Unity Veague. to be held at 39 North 10th St., Philadelphia, will reflect the “struggles taking place in the dis- “trict today. The convention will be held Saturday, Jan. 25, at 3 p. m., an dSunday, Jan. 26, at 10 a. m. There is a rapidly developing strike’ movement and struggle for organization in industrial Kensing- ton, from, which delegates from: the , ietal and tetile plants will be pres- ent. The growing movement for o1 ganization in industrial Chester wi die represented by more than thirty delegates form the heavy steel and “meta! industries centered there. Bal- ‘imore, ‘irenton and Lehigh Valley ‘will send in deleBates to report on he developing struggles and organ- | a work in these centers, one. food workers, repre- uonafide locals of the Food stria! Union, which ganized on an indus- nd has greatly increased is week, will be present. n are Negro, Youth, and | sates from the largé food fac- ies in town. There will be del- s from Wilmington, Del., also. Each time they told us| Auto | D. LY: WORKER, NEW YORK. \TURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1930 DEMONSTRATE AGAINST MEXICAN TERROR AND POLICE BRUTALITY ! WORKERS MUS MUST 4 | Demonsi. ns by militant nd aga workers, led by the ommunist United States aif continue, and Paryt, such as the two above, | will be attended by more and more against the reign of terror by the | thousands of workers. i Wall Street government in Mexico LYNCH GANGS Phe demonstrations of the Amer- Mass ‘Trial of 825 Workers in Japan HARRY JOBLESS one oe trial of 825 workers in an, overs adowing many of the a 5 trials in th cist countries of | |Winston-Salem Charity kurope; wilt ome time this| a SN gy Ve ists onth, Byatt cacy MOPR (the in- Head Fir es Unionists ternational or, n of the In- ternational Labor Defense) an- WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Jan. 23.—Another Negro workers has just been arrested and lynch gangs | are in preparation. Sol Harper, representative of the T. U. U. L. Negro section, has issued state- ments condemning the lynching campaign now in preparation in North Carolina as a scheme of the nounes to all its branhes throughout the world, urging immediate. tre= mendous protest to save hundreds of these workers from death.’ The Japanese government is about to crown its policy of terror and persecution st the working lass movement. These workers vere arrested and kept in prison employers to occupy the thou- (during the yeer 1928-1929, Some sands of unemployed with race war them are in prison now, almost and keep them from uniting B pursed et as against the bosses. h means death or nt WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Jan been sen: 23.—R. M. Hanes, mill boss, is head | tenced, Ee Dein Beek, of the Community Chest campaign here. He has recently discharged begun the fight and is ue y Hh lating thousani of leaflets in Jap- twenty National Textile Workers |anese on the case, among the Jap- Union members. For militant work-! anese workers of this country, es- ers this charity shark has no use. pe y on the West Coast. Dem- Negro and white workers are | onstrations and protest meetings are starving in this city, while gangs | being planned over the country. are seeking Negroes to lynch. During the first half-year of 1928 Reidsville, G, Negro workers’|in Japan, 493 strikes took place, in homes have been broken into by |w ) workers participated. lynch gangs during the past week, | } me time, in 1929, the Thirty Negroes Arrested. nereased to 634, with 95,986 More than thirty Negro workers have been arrested last week by of- ficers “trying to find the right one.” | The last man arrested Saturday was Sam Garland, “because he stopped wearing a cap.” A gang from Reidsville invaded rginia and called at the Martins- | ville jail, because “they heard a strange Negro had been arrested there.” Working class Negroes are form- ing defense units with their fellow white workers. Wallace, N. C., is having its lynching thrill.” Workhouse for Jobless. Two Negroes have been a here, and another was ‘beaten into CHIGAGO STEEL WORKERS READY Metal League Meeting Rapidly Preparing CHICAGO, a neat Il, Jan. 20.—Active prepara’ 3 ave going on to organ- ize the first of a series of metal workers regional conferences to be héld throughout the steel districts, confessing that he committed a specially. This first one is sche crime while being held in Wilming- wled for Chicago, Feb. 2, at 25 ton, } He was unemployed. | West Chicago Ave. It will draw on The Southern District of the In-| he great stee! mil! section of South ternational Labor Defense has just Chicago, Gary, Hammond and Indi- issued a statement which will be re- Ma Harbor. Here are whole cities, tilled with steel mills, with tns of | thousands of steel workers, speak- ing every language under the sun, owned by the great steel trust and the lesser giants of steel that hang on its flan At the Trade Union Unity League National C sometime this broadcasted from its fice in New York week. Employers here what to do with the unemployed workers they have displayed with machines and speedup and have ad- are wondering vised calling for a workhouse for| District Convention here a short girls and women, white and black. . a steel worker from Gary, At present the workers are confined na, where no less than 15,000 | 1 work are at persent unem- called for the organizing of | all the unemployed. “If the bosses | know that eyery the gates waiting on a jeh\ewrries a eard, they won't be so free. wtih the | men irside,” he s; United Fight Miners, steel, needle trades, jeod and building trades wo: | got up and told of the speedup, the unemployment, ete., in their indus- try. Oil anc steel workers told of the | barring of all halls to their meet- ings in Indiana Harbor, and of their fight to hold the meetings right out in the streets. T. U. U. L. Leads. The conferences are catied by the cMtal Trades Committee of ihe Trade Union Unity eLague, which is active organizing shop committees, locals of th T. U. U. L, eMtal Trad: League, preparing for one indsutrial | union in the metal industry and for truggle against the giant of gian the steel trust. After the Chicago conferences in er | Cleveland, Feb, 6; sburgh, Feb. Philadelphia, Feh, 12; New York, Rich Oil Robbers ». 16; New Haven, Feb. 18; Bo: Pay Big For Favors _. ion, Feb. 28, and Buffalo, Feb. 25. And after that comes a national While Serving Terms | confereiee WASHING TON, Jan. 24. ita) | . . F. Sinclair, and Henry Mason Day, |“ 40,000 Chicago City Workers Are Unpaid; | See Worsening Crisis two oil*robbers and grafters, were | CHICAGO, Jan, 23,—With the fi- in the county jail, which is filled. Agricultural Workers Union of USSR Greets Imperial Valley Strike The Daily Worke: orker has received | the following radiogram from M cow: “The plenum (f:'! session) of the Central Committee of the agricul-| tural and Forest Workers Union of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- | lies asks you to transmit fraternal | greetings to the striking agricul-| ; tfiral workers of California. The ag-} ricultural. workers of the United States will only be’ able to resist the ; attempts of the landlords to trans- | \fer to them the burden of the agri-| jcultural vrisis by organizing in a} powerful union. All wishes for suc- | \cess to the strikers agd 2 complete | realization of their demands, “On behalf of the Plenum, Antsel- | evitch, Vinnichenko.” |charged with carrying their graft Charges that Albert E. Kling, stu- |dent dentist at the District of Co- | lumbia Jail, received a $150 watch nancial crisis of the city growing from Henry mn Day while the | still unpaid. William H. Malone, two oil bandits were ing sen-|head of the State Tax Commission, tences there last Fall, are being “in- | told the heads of railroads, utilities Public Welfare. In return for these | they bought $50,000,000 worth of tax | littie ‘gifts’ the two oil crooks re-| anticipation warrants that the se- | ceived, special treatment while in| vere economic crisis, with its mass man standing at} "\roubles (equivalent to 30 billion in} unless |try and agriculture are faced with Mexico have cheered the ror in Mexican workers onward in their | struggle against Wall Street im- | perialism, As a result of this: | Helpin: This is the typical, staunch Soviet peasant. him are taking | to speedily complete the 5-year pla | Soviet Union. workers the Wall Street govern- ment has become frightened. Has | thrown the Mexican puppet gov- ernment into the block gf imper- over the Five-Year Plan part in the collectivization of farming and thus helping Socialist construction in the Scores of millions like ialist ernments for Soviet Union. Today before City Hall in New York City the Communist Party | Workers s and their puppet gov- the attack on the pow Int'l Relief Pushes Drive for day, All —Ray vested Labor ferences. be held Sunday, Feb. delphia conference Monday, Feb. 10, and the one in New York on Satur- Feb. 15. Il Sé., local at 799 Br ! CHARGED WITH _— SEDITION IN PA, ‘Distr ibuted | Leaflets to PHILADELPH ting leafle'’ ployed worl ss Tetitile Mil: in y were held in jail fer 26 hours, | communicado, Striking TH. Miners campaign of the Workers In- The ternationsd Relief to raise relief funds for the striking and victim- ized Illinois mine: gathering mo- mentum, Three more cties, Bos- ton, Philadelphia and New York, have arranged mi relief con-| conference will 2, the Phila- The’ Bos workers’ organizaticns in these cities are asked to elect dele-| gates at. once and dentials to the local offices. ton local of the W. send in their cre- the 10th St.. and the eNw York way, Room 221. Jobless Pertz ard Holmes y several days ago for distribu- to a mass of unem- in front of the V Chester, Pa. The International! Defense forced the. police magistrate to give them a trial at 7 o'clock this evening. They were uhetged with sedision and held on $500 bailgeach. The I. L. D. is now| war, fighting the ¢. e. Workers! This Is Your Paper. i | Write Among Your Fellow Workers! for It. Distribute It jonly 500 million short of the pro- By I. AMDUR. 1 MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. (By | The remarkable achievement of So-|a 1928) of the Five Year 21 per cent anticipated in the Plan; | the number of workers engaged in} lindustrial enterprises increased 8 | |per cent; capital investments in large industry (including electri-| city) reached 2 billion roubles (one rouble half a dollar), ‘arid for the , fo Mail).—| come in 19: | viet economy in the first year (1928-|bles and in Plan of control figures fe | industrial development are now tgofyear, calls for known to need lengthy recapi-|i..c., a sum r tion. In industrial products anjthe fgiure increase of 24 per cent as against | (193 ized g Enormous Quota for Second Year of USSR 5 - Year Plan” Construction Originally. Initemded for Fourth | ‘tine: | . Year To Be Finished in in 1930- 31 ig to P set Capital investments in the social- sector f r this year will reach the colossal sum of 11,361 roubles. 1930- ) of the Plan. ;posed s* 4 Plo) for investment in 1930-31. | We find, in a number of instances [that the goal set for 1929-30 almost | Périalists who dep i eualizes that which is anticipated| by the Plan in 193 Capital investments in industry— 3 per cent of the Plan, 1931-32 fig-| -32, as follows jure; production of agricultural ma- | Plan ple, the national in- | under 30 should have been, | tive 1 on rou- n, 31.1 billion rou grain 3 billion, the | the second | billion roubles, |», ching 85 per cent of |" for the 5rd year! farms 32.5 The in the entire Socialized sector (in- still billion | reach in transport—86 per per cent cluding cast-ir ‘y—82 per cent; capital placed cent of* the 1931-32 ‘figure; ‘freight will reach in 1929-1930 91 | per cent of the 1931- mark; area grain of the state and collec- | farms—73 pev cent, the total, production «* thé&e gigantic| Il reach 64 per cent and 87| { the Plan 1931-32 figure, -32 National Income, investments industry), tractor supply, ‘on, oil and anthracite coal ar other elements in 1929-30 90-100 per cent of This is 3 billion more than| that anticipated by the Plan for is anticipated in the Plan, and is | 1930- )-31. entire national economy 8.6 _ billion} roubles; the area under sowing of state and collective farms has swelled to 3.7 billion hectares (ong hectare ;2%% acres) with a corres- ponding nerease in agricultural products," while railway freight has grown by 21 per cent (11 per cent, in plan). The national income in | 1927-28 was 25 billion roubles (based on -27 prices), The Plan set the mark for 1928-29 at 27.9 billion—it reached 28.1 billion 1928-29 prices) After considering this amazingly successful fulfilment of the 1st year one turns with a sense of active curiosjty to find out what “sky- high” perspectives are destined for \the second-year of the Plan (1929- 30). And, iffideed, if 1928-29 could be regarded as an extremely excep- tional year then I search my mind in vain to \express, justly, the un- heard of (I thought of the word “fantastic” but my observations and experiences have taught me that it has long been eliminated from the Russian vocabulary) ambitious tasks set for 1929-30. The control figures (covering a period of 1 year) for this year show that a number of sections in indus- the task of accomplishing in 1929- 30 what is normally anticipated for only in the 4th and final year of while in the Columbia Jail. from Sinclair and an automobile | worse, over 40,000 city workers are vestigated” today by the Board of | and manufacturing plants, jail. | unemployment, would be worsened. 1 the Plan. EVERY GERMAN SPEAKING WORKHR IN AMERICA 26 Union Square DER ARBEITER GERMAN COMMUNIST WEEKLY A READER OF THIS $2.00 for one year. Literature Department of the “ARBEITER” CENTER FOR MARXIAN-LENINIST “LITERATURE IN GERMAN FOR AMERICA i} Inprekorr \ Kommunistische Internationale Unter dem Banner des Marxistische Bibliothek Lenins Werke Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung Proletarian Novels of the New Russia x “Linkskurve,” Monthly Proletarian-Revolutionary Writers in Germany, PAPER! | $1.00 for six months: Marxismis Review of the f | more t The | T. R. is at 5| Philadelphia local at | +\ gives the lie to General Smw transport || which — will} ~ BE ROBOTS. IN’ PITT STEEL 00, Keep UpWith Machine, Never MindYourNeeds By « Worker Correspondent) | ‘ | MONESSEN, Pa—tI. thought 1 f * 1 write a few lines of the rot- tl ten conditions we have to work 4 under here, in Monessen, 4 The Pittsburgh Steel Company ‘aid off-hundreds of men in Septem- ber and October of 1929, The men have to go down twice a day in the norning at 7 o’clock and evenings t 6 o'clock. Sometimes they get to two days a week and some ; they go down and don’t get wee! any work at all. Th labor wages here are 40 cents ; will lead a gigantic demonstration of workers against the police brut- | ality which murderously struck down Steve Katovis on the food workers’ picket line. NEGRO WORKERS MOST OPPRESSED TRS an hour. A worker gets $4.00 for an eleven-hour day, with 45 minutes | off for lunch. They also have. the piece-work system here in the Pitts- burgh Steel Company and the speed- up is terrific. A worker has to keep up with a machine, and if he wants | to get a drink or go.to the lavatory, | they stop all the machines and all ihe other workers tell him to “hurry up back” so they can make a little han $4 a day, which very seldom goes over $6.00. The night shift goes on at 6 o'clock in the evening and works. until 7 o’clock the next morning with half- hou rlunch period from 12 until 12:30 o’clock. The company has 2 spies all over the plant, old men, who will report to the bosses, every- thing they see and hear, such as workers talking about strikes and unions, and if these old men don’t report someone so. often, they stand This conference will discuss the @ good chance of losing their own problems confronting the Negro job: toilers the world over, and cails Every stee lworker must wake up upon Negro trade unions and wor and end these conditions by joining ing.elass organizations as well as the Metal Trades Workers Indus- Learning feabns ot Organization The Internation’! Trade Union Committee of Negro Worker West 15th St., yesterday issued a statement through its chairman, J Ford, on the International Confer- ence of Negro Workers, to be held in London, July 1, fraternal working class organiza-' trial League—Steel Worker. iions of all races to begin prep: lions for sending delegates. ' | The ‘committee says: KILLERS OF FLLA | “The Dur . the incre némber of the develop: of the native trade unions wu Communist influence, — the ‘trikes of native and white mat ot MAY TRIAL SOON ——e’ without 2» Tyaitor Jimison Wants an 1 joint cers, Diigaue: Diretove doubt that we are on the verge of } | great national and class battles and Congress. Job. Reward struggles in South Africa, This | ?re- GASTONIA, N. C. Jan. 28.—The marks about the South Africans whitewash is rapidly being mixed being as patient as “as for the “trial” of the mill thugs in- } ‘urther answer will be given te ed for murdering Ella May. So- | | General Smuts, war monger and j agent of British imperialism, whe long service as a member of ! League of Nations places him in a licitor Carpenter, master of cere- , and himself recognized by one victim-as.a-leader in a gang AH which kidnapped. three organizers favorable position to carry out the and flogged N. T. W. Organizer Ben plans of preparing for war. He w some time ago, says that the has served British Imperialism by <yai will go to court in the week of giving ‘African soldiers to the last jreh 24, Included in the same two This time eGneral Smuts will: \ocks term of court are two more not be so successful. The African \ der cases and a case’ of the “atees are aabaeles, sention iq theft of doe: |. “What- is the real si ion in} ried. South Africa? Shuth Africa is on Only Small Fry ¥ ‘ vert 1 economic None of the really important in- the verge cf real economic cha z | Unemployment is growing i y | Stigators of the murder of Ella May, N. T. W. organizer killed by a vol- larger propor hort lo y | ne ae pe ee npace, ti ley shot into a truck load of: mill tions of the Boer bourg farmers Workers going from a smashed mass jare being worsened, the miniyg im-| meeting, are even charged with the d upon foreign crime. There is a vague possibility ciiport for profits are struggling for that some of the ordinary, gunmen cheap native labor power. The ris- on trial roxt week will be-convieted, for the politieal effect. ing netive movement is » direct con- sequence of this situation. Attorney Tom Jimison, who be- “The London Conference will co-|trayed the Gastonia defendants by ordinate the struggles of the South | tying up their bail money, and gen- African workers into a movement erally sold out to the mill interests, ement the forees is now tryfng to collect his price by m, \ the Native renning for democratic nominee for Bourgeoisie, and all their agency, | Congr He has left to tour the and wiil establish trade | hill dit s, and expects the back- powerful unions of ¢! str ‘ing of the men with money. MASS I. L. D. TAG DAYS TODAY AND TOMORROW | Collect Funds for Defense of | WM. SHIFRIN, THE MINEOLA AND GASTONIA ° } DEFENDANTS Workers! Volunicer for Collections! rd Workers Organizations! Mobilize for the Tag Days! at the following stations: Workers Conte ' Workers Cente Shoe Workers Millinery Werierk Window c. Mt 2ixt Street. 4 Went 37th Street, ant, Sail Street, ant 4th Street , 13k West Sin Streefe Usthenian Workers BONN x) Wiring Avenue, » Park East. ‘Third Avenue, n Hond. , Workers Center, United te sPartinay Schools 1400" Be RRO inavian Workers Chr 'T. Hall, 65th Stroh Lithaauinn Workers Ciw dyek Street, Finnish Workers Cinh, 764 Forti Street. : WILLIAMSBUR Workers Center, 6S Wh Street, f CONKY ISLAND ’ i Workers Center, 201 Mermaid Avenue, ves BATH BEACH Workers Center, 48 Bay 28th Street. BROWNSVILLE Workers Center, 29 Chexter Street, ‘ OROUGH PARC Workers Worker Workers ¢ rsa oe ND pene , ulevard, Mariners Harbor Auspices: New York District INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE 799 Broadway, Room 422 Workers Center. 110 New York City Stuyvesant 3752