The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1930, Page 3

Page Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1930 SHOW MISERABLE STATE WACE CUTS, OF AUSTRIAN JOBLESS; MANY JOBLESS FACE SLOW STARVATION | gil. WORKERS ° CORRESPONDENCE ~- FROM THE SHOPS: Doesn’t Fear Starvation TIME COME TO FIGHT | Unemployed Council Fights For Increase in Jobless Insurance Bosses Want Unemployed and Families to Live on $3.00 Per Week Editorial Note—Even the mis- erable employment insurance given Austrian workers, described in the following article, is not given the 7,000,000 American un- employed. The Austrian workers, along with the American unem- ployed, will demonstrate on Feb- ruary 26 for a living-wage unem- ployment insurance. The Austrian schilling is equal to 14 cents in U.S. currency. * * * | B. Z. (Vienna). | The organ of the Bnentylsy saa which was founded in 1923 by the Central Council of Unemployed, has | now again appeared after a long interruption. It contains reports from the whole of Austria regarding | the appalling misery of the unem- | ployed, letters from unemployed | workers on the chicaneries to which they are exposed by the Labor Ex- | change officials, a description of | conditions in Steyr, where the whole | town is threatened with loss of work by the closing down of the big auto | factory. | In the leading article the question | is raised, what does an unemployed | family lve on? We publish below the figures in this connection. Ac- cording to the Federal Office of Statistics a Vienna workers’ family consists of an average of 4.65 per- sons. | The family breadwinner is en- titled to 21 schillings a week (three | Yellow Misleaders B BRUSSELS, Belgium (By inpre- | corr Mail Service)—The textile | workers strike in the Renaix dist-| riet is now definitely at an end. ‘ihe xeformist leaders have succeed | ed in breaking the strike and work | is resumed unconditionally. Noth- | ing has been gained. The shipyard workers in Ostede Wc-:er-Peasant Deputy Exposes Polish Social- Fascist WARSAW (By Inprecorr Mail Service).—On January 15 the depu- ty Gavrilyuk, of the West White- Russian Workers’ and Peasants’ Block made a revolutionary speech | in the Polish parliament. He ex-} posed the hypocrisy of the opposi- | tion which pretended to fight against the government and which now even pretended to have defeated the gov- ernment, although Bartels had de- clared that the regime remained un- altered. | The White-Russian people knew Bartels as the man who had flung hundreds of members of the Hro- | mada into prison and drowned White-Russian in blood. Exception- | al laws ruled West -White-Russia and the police refused to permit even meetings of the parliamentary deputies. Bartels, however, had not Madagascar Rebels MADAGASCAR (By Mail Service).—In connection with the bourgeois-nationalist demonstra- tions last summer in Madagascar, | which were turned into proletarian anti-imperialist manifestations, a trial of 16 white and native revolu- tionaries was organized by the French authorities. The Internation- Inprecorr Totaling 12 shillings. | day, per head, would run to 11.20 \chief accused, Planque and Vittori, | dollars) when drawing full benefit. If he has a flat, he has to pay week- | ly at least the following: For rent, etc, 4 shillings. spat For electricity and gas, 3 shillings. | For fuel (50 kg. coal), 3 shillings. For soap, etc., 1 shilling. For repair of clothes (of course, not for repair of shoes and similar “luxurious” expenditure), 1 shilling. Thus 12 shillings have been ex- pended without these four people having eaten a mouthful! The organ of the unemployed as- sumes that this family is living only on coffee. That would cost: Milk (1-4 liter per head per day), 3.78 schillings. Coffee (chiefly substitutes), 3.20 schillings. One kilogram of sugar, 90 pence, Totaling 7.88 schillings. This unemployed family cannot even afford dry bread in addition to substitute coffee, for half a loaf per schillings a week. Where is the un- employed father of a family to ob- tain the money for bread, if for the | above mentioned items 19,88 schil- lings have already been spent? What do the Austrian unemployed | live on? They are taking their last articles of clothing underlinen and other bits of property to the pawn- shop, and when these are all ex- hausted there is nothing for them but starvation. reak Belgium Strike have gone on strike for a 10 per cent wage increase. The workers in a foundry in Fer- est, near Brussels, have gone on rike against threatened wage cuts, in favor of wage increases, for bet- ter working conditions and for the dismissal of a slave-driving fore- man. dealt with the question of the minor- ities. He would continue his old policy of throttling the people and casting their leaders into prison. That was the program of the bour- geois government of Poland, not only-towards~ the national minor- ities, but also towards the Polish proletariat. “You talk to us of loyalty to Po= land. We are fighting for our ex- jstence, for land without the intol- erable weight of debt, for schooling in our mother tongue, for our eman- cipation from the yoke of capitalism and serfdom. It is true, we are not loyal to the fascist dictatorship in Poland, but we are absolutely loyal | to the Polish working masses. The fascist regime will remain in Po- land until the Polish masses over- throw it with force of arms.” Get Long Jail Term | al Red Aid sent the French Advocate Foissin to Antananarivo in order to defend the accused. This morning a telegram arrived in Paris from Antananarivo informing the French section of the I.R.A. that the two had been sentenced to five and one- half and three and one-half years | imprisonment, respectively. U. S., World Crisis Growing Deeper (Continued from Page One) tion. the general outlook dark... . Un favorable conditions in the manufac- turing industries also remain un- changed, and unemployment is in- creasing in all classes of occupa- tions, especially in Sao Paulo, where the situation is a,xravated by pa- ralysis of all construction activities.” “All sections of Canada, with the exception of the Maritime Provinces, show a decline in the numbers em- ployed on January 1, as compared with December 1 last,” cays the Department of Commerce. Many Jobless in Colombia. “There is a general recession in all lines of commercial activity throughout Colombia. Unemploy- ment is reaching serious propor- tions. During the past month 80 per cent of the employees on public works were discharged.. It is esti- mated that the total unem:* 77d throughout the country is about 30,000.” The same conditions are show. for El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, the Philippine Islands, Uruguay and Venizuela. Steel Cannot Hold Up. The New York Times (Feb. 7, 1980) while pointing out that steel production has shown some in- creases, improvement was not noted in Pittsburgh “where operations have leveled off because of curtail- ment in some automobile specifica- tions. Some (auto) producers have reduced output pending increased orders for new models.” Hoover Tries Coue Cure. : Evidently things are not going so well in the automobile industry, the main feeder for the steel industry end tha’ Hoover “Coueism” has not t Business continues dull and | helped production very materially, nor has it decreased the ranks of the mass unemployed army. The Federal Reserve Bank has | lowered its rediscount rate to 4 per | cent—which in itself is an indica- jtion of the chronic nature of the present crisis. They hope thereby to stimulate production. But the main editorial in the Wall Street organ, ‘the Journal of Commerce (Feb. 8, | 1930) becomes very sad over the fact that this move of the Federal Reserve Bank will not help matters any: Credit Slackening May Be Boomerang. “Reductions of discount rates do not help this fundamental difficulty at all, They may help to accelerate pure speculation but that must have some industrial basis in order to exist. Rate reductions may hurt rather than help such progress.” But the bosses themselves do not rest content with mere “optimism.” They are practical fellows and so proceed to cut wages further, to speed up more intensely the workers still employed, to gird themselves for a death struggle for the world markets, cut prices, increase com- petition nationally and internation- ally, and in general sharpen the class struggle and the war danger. 30 Workers’ Children Hurt in Brooklyn School by Explosion More than thirty workers’ chil- dren were injured yesterday as the result of an explosion across the street from Public School No. 83 in Brooklyn. The explosion shattered windows and wrecked parts of the — INLOS ANGELES TUUL Calls Unem-| ployment Meet (Continued from Page One) is in a slump. The Central Casting Company reports 9,000 unemployed “extras” out of 11,000 registered, bringing the total of jobless “ex- tras” up to 25,000. Hundreds of needle trades work. ers are without work, in spite of the much heralded approach of a good season in the industry. The seme picture holds trve in the meat racking industry where hundreds of unemployed are turned away daily from Swift & Company, The Cuda- hy, ete. The employment agencies around 5th and Towne Streets and around the Plaza, are overcrowded with thousands of jobless workers. The ms are swamped with unem- ployed and turn away hundreds daily, unable to shelter or feed even a small percentage of those apply- ing for relief. Marme Workers Unemployed. This mass unemployment is y no means confined to Los Angeles | but enlist throughout Southern Cal fornia, elsewhere in the U. S., particularly in the industrial and agricultural centers. More than 5,000 are unemployed in San Pedro, harbor of Los An- geles, mostly seamen and longshore- men. The Fink Halls (blacklisting employment agencies of the Pacific Steamship Owners Association) are packed day and night. Longshore- men are extremely fortunate io get cne day’s work a week. Unemployment for the marine work is not seasonal, but exists the year around and is made doubly acute with the deepening of the eco- nomie crisis which has gripped the marine, as well as every other in- dustry. * In the agricultural districts, both in Imperial Valley and in the orange fields around Sen Bernardino. ete., thousands of workers, mainly Mexi- cans, are unemployed. Bosses Offensive. With the growth of this mass un- \semployment, wage cuts, etc., are the order of the day. In the past few weeks, more than 10,000 laun- dry workers received a wage cut ex- ceeding 20 per cent. Experienced cil drillers and pipemen—$8 to $10 a day men—are now forced to work for as low as fifty cents an hour. Tire builders, for instance, in the Goodyear factory, have been speed- ed up, averaging $1.20 a day less than formerly. Thousands of skilled workers employed in the building trades are working for as low as two and three dollars a day helow the union scale. Recently thousands of agricultural workers in Imperial Valley received wage cuts ranging from 20 to 35 pet cent, lowering wages down on an average to 25 cents an hour. The offensive of the bosses, their attempts to shift the burden of the economic crisis upon the shoulders of the working class, is evidenced not only in wage-cuts, but in gen- eral speeding up of the workers still on the job Following the re- cent lay-offs in Ford, Goodyear, etc. new conveyors, ete., and speed-up | methods were introduced. Simultaneously with the develop- ing economic crisis has come an intensified attack upon all militant orkers. The local “Red Squad” has sharpened its attack on the Communist Party, the Trade Union Unity League and the unemployed. Communist Party and TUUL Lead Fight. In Los Angeles, ete., it is, as in every section of the country, the Communist Party and Trade Union Unity League that are mobiliziny all workers for a determined fight against unemployment. Factory- gate and street meetings, demon- strations, ¢ are being held. par- ticipated in by both unemployed and employed workers. On February 19th an unemploy- ment conference called by the TUUL at which delegates from groups of tnemployed workers, TUUL groups and affiliated locals A. F. of L. locals, ete., will partici- pate, will form an unemployment council to co-crdinate ard give di- rection to the struggles of the em- pleyed and unemployed in Los An- geles and vicinity, leading up to Feb. 26. a The Southern California secticn cf the TUUL at its District Con- vention in Los Angeles on February 28rd will give special attention to the question of broadening ard ex- tending its activities among the un- employed workers, The Daily Werker is the Party’s hest instrument to make contacts among the masses of workers, to build a mass Communist Party. Deposits made First day of the month. Last Quarterly Dividend Paid on All Amonuts from $5.00 to $7,500.00 at the rate of 434%. school building. The children were eut and bruised by flying glass. The police are trying to put the blame for the explosion on a Negro; worker who lived across the street, Mali [NOt AUTO UNEMPLOYMENT; CORRESPONDENTS SAY Jobless Used By Motors Bosses to Slash Was of Those At Work (By a Worker Correspondent) | DETROIT.—In the Fisher Body prices were slaughtered, and to add to the ranks of the unemployed, two-men operations were turned in- to one. Production workers used to receive 60 cents an hour, but now raceiv from 50 to 55. Only the stro: workers can stand the terrific 1 —the rest are di ded. And n’t yet been reached. The time, has come when work- In Plant No. 37, where 1,500 men | ers simply must fight ba were employed, now less than half /lay-offs, the murdero that number of men must turn out/and the starvation wages. the same work, —FISHER BODY WORKER. speed-up General Motors Using Jobless to Increase Speed-up (By a Worker Correspondent) | Sundays and after eight an DETROIT.—Fisher Body bosses | quarters is being taken aw! ave using the unemployed to whip | work is a thing 6f the past. up the rate of production even over | allowance is being made for the present record-breaking. The | time, wages are being paid at pi workers are forced to work long| work rates. and cut at t hours at breakneck speed, 11%| The Auto Work ion is the |hours a day and 12 hours at night. |only organization that will fight this. |Fisher Body is a General Motors | All G.M.C. workers should belong Concern. to it. Extra time of time and a half on | ree- at. M. SLAVE. Hoover “Prosperity” in Philadelphia (By a Worker Correspondent) |shops, mills, “No work until further PHILADELHIA, — Unemploy- | notice.” | ment is growing fast in Philadelphia | The metal trades are worse then land a job is impossible to find. fever. At North Bros., hardware | "Tile setters have had no work for|and foundry, some departmen seven months, that being their taste |ihat had continued working are of Hoover prosperity in the build-| shut down itely. Shops ing trades. still at work in this industry are Signs on yjon two days a week schedule ie of hosiery most the | Kenosha Workers Join Metal Industrial League (By a Worker Correspondent) |__A number of workers in the N KENOSHA, Wis.—Mass meeting | Motor Company who are w« of 400 workers of Simons Bed Co. | for 35 cents an hour also joined th of Kenosha answered the call of the | League. The Trade Union Uni shop committee to mobilize for| League and the Metal W orkers I struggle against the wege cuts | dustrial League will immed which have taken place recently. | tablish headquarters in Kenosha and About 100 workers signed applica-| continue its camp i tions to join the Metal Workers | tion of all the League. | FORMING COUNCIL No Jobs in Washington Liars’ Headquarters (Continued from Pace One) Soviet Union under the guise of re- ligious crusades. After agreeing with the attacks on the Soviet Union from every quarter they de- clare: “Anything that serves to check the cruelties of the Soviets is worth while.” (Continued from Page One) No mention is made about the insurance by the city, state and fed- | slaughter of Haitian peasants or the eral government. |lynching of Negro workers in the Unity of the Chamber of Com-| South by the bosses and religious merce and the churches will not af- | fenat nor about the wholesale fect the growing militancy of the | clubbings of unemployed workers. unemployed in their demand for} * work or wages. “Labor” Government For be Soviet Attacks. LONDON, Feb. 13.—Arthur Hen- derson, “labor” se: ary of foreign tary of the Department of Com- fairs, on the request of the Arch- merce Lamont, who when steel pro- | bishop of Canturbury, the Pope and duction declined to 38 per cent of | King George said he would “inves capacity, and automobile output had | tigate” the religious question in the dropped more than 80 per zent, an-|Soviet Union. This may be a con- Anti- Bie U. S. Government Lie: WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Secre- nounced {iat “business was normal,” | Venient pretext for breaking rela- \again repeated “There is nothing in| tions with the Soviet Union. Imme- the business situation to be disturbed | ‘tiately announce- about.” ment, the Cantur- | With Hoover fishing in Florida, | bury, speaking in the House of ised Henderson for his at- aying it was the view of right-minded man in Bri- Lamont, also of the firm of Morgan | Lor’ & Co., takes up the job of issuing titude the weekly blurbs of ‘optimism’ | every coming from the imperialist execu- | tain.” tive office. | of the large factories of the U.S.S.R.. run by and for the 5 respondents describe, the starvation they face—this has no place un- der the workers’ and peasants’ rule in the Soviet U cRISeO PONTIA | Preparations are being made for ta Be the mobilization of all the worker te JU, i Ul 6 in this for February 26th, to JOBLESS FIGHT Jail Sentences for Bos- ton Unemployed (Continued from Page One) stration on International Unemploy- ment Day, on February 26. aa nee | Fight For Right To Organize. PONTIAC, Mich.—Over 300 work- to Odd Fellows Hall for under the auspices of the Labor Defense dem- inst the vicious Crim- Law under which who are now facing 10 r orders of As- Gillottee Unemployed stant F preser open the hall. Over half of those assembled then went with the committee to Wayne | Hall, a distance of pretty near a mile, and held a. meeting. Harry Rumbler, assistant general manager of Fisher Body, was present to in- timidate the wo: The men in the factories were warned by the bosses and stool pigeons not to at- tend the meeting. Despite this reign of terror, workers are rally- ing’ for the organization to fight against unemployment and miser- able conditions in the factories. Thousands of Families Starving. About 3700 families in this 3 are now on the “poor relief lis receiving the meager income of a dollar per person per week. Even this is not given in cash. But after every thing is practically gone from the county market, the “poor relief list” are given inferior food at high prices. | The worke tanding in line for | this poor relie: ridiculed by the officers and “charity” i One woman was asked, “Why don’t you take out your gold teeth and buy some food with it? The workers of Pontiac ready shown their readines: struggle in the demonstration 3 City Hall and in the |the Criminal Syndicalist Law lall other attacks of the who | of | ‘Dicks,” the hall keeper refused to demonstrate fi at the city ha or Wages” Boston Judge Protects Bosses. BOSTON, Feb. 13.—The trial of the 10 wo: s arrested at the mass unemployed demonstration at the State House, held more than-a week |ago, came up in court today. League member, received a sentence of nine months in jail; M. Whittier, was given a six-months’ sentence; M. , unemployed worker, who was severely beaten by the police at the demonstration, received a ix-months’ sentence, and Karowo- received a three-months’ sen- arrested workers were charged with assault and battery including E. Ander- zer of the Trade Union Unity League, were fined $20. Daniels, because he w: strict or- ganizer of the Young Communist League, wes fined $40. The judge, who took the vole of prosecutor, questioned all the work- ers about the intention of the Un- employed Council, and wanted to know if further unemployed demon- strations were going to be held. He was told that the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party were going to mobilize the unemployed to demand unemploy- ment ir ‘ance or work, and that other demonstrations would be held. | The judg in his questions about Communism, and the intentions of the Commu- nists. Appeal Taken. Most are out on iastically out of hu n they came protest meeting is being Monday, February 17, at called for Join the TUUL to Fight the Agency < Sharks | (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Il!—I am one of the 3,000,000 who are jobless and I guess I will be in the future. Every morning I arise at 4 a. m, and go lcut seeking employment in restau- ts. I have to get up this early ecause they go to work at 6 o'clock and that’s when they take on—if | I make my rounds of the high class cestaurants then go to em- ployment agencies. Here is the problem of those of us who are out of work. You go | into one of these shark employment jagencies. You ask for a job. When | you get your job, whatever you work et, youre most generally charged $5 or $10 for your job, The shark |sends vou to the place after taking |the money. You work a day or two, | then something must occur. It’s | rally a layoff or business is slack. You are canned. The shark keeps your money. The shark sends another man to take your place, and the same thing is done to This is done day J The sharks work glove hand with the bosses. Only if we organize into the militant fighting trade union body, the TUUL, can we hope to fight these conditions, |fight the sharks and the bosses. | -—CHICAGO WORKER. Pitan Strikers | Win Hottest Battle (Continued from Page One) |til every scab cab had been driven |from the streets, and the Parmalee }company had announced that none would run tonight. Gunmen in Steel Helmets. The fighting took place all along a 30-block area in the East Liberty business section. It started when four Green cabs appeared at Ells- | worth and Center Ave. They were | filled with scab herders, armed, and |all wearing regulation U. S. army |steel helmets. Strikers fought with | sticks, stones, bricks and anything |they could get hold of. One of the j company gunmen was put in the ‘hospital, and the cabs retreated. Ten Clubhed Down. Similar fights raged up and down ‘the whole area for a couple of hours, | Police clubbed senseless ten of the pickets and arrested them. Several | police were injured, and time after time the police were defeated and driven from the scene. Rejected A.F.L. Treason, The Pittsburgh cab drivers struck for a 40 per cent commission, recog- nition of the union, and for aboli- tion of a lot of fines, deposits and |swindles practiced by the company |on them. |22 Harrison Ave., to mobilize for | the mass organization of the unem- | ployed to participate in the world- |wide demonstration on February |26, and to fight against the attempts of the capitalists to smother the growing movement by suppression. Unemployment, Wage Cuts, Speedu 7-Hour Day, 5-Day Week Up up, Mass Misery in U. building of Socialism in U, 8. $. Re GET THE FACTS! Learn What the Five-Year-Pls PAMPHLET No. 1: Continuous Workin PAMPHLE of Socialist Construction Means g Week in the Soviet Union. in the Soviet Union. al 1852 THE SAME ADDRESS: FOR 78 YEARS 1930 fer Interest Starts First of Each Month or before the THIRD business day of the month will draw interest from the Open Mondays (all day) untill 7 P.M. by Society Accounts Accepted The Washington Building Trades | Council issued a statement recently | declaring that “there are no jobs in| Washington,” and warning building trades workers to stay away. . Fake “Opposition” No Aid to Jobless. Senator Walsh, democrat, who is part of the fake opposition to the Hoover regime, has stated that the “administration has not shown any sympathy with the unemployment. and business depression problem.” Senator Gillett immediately rushed into the breach and charged Senator Walsh with trying to capitalize the | mass discontent for the democratic party. Gillett admitted “there is | unemployment.” | ete, a | Tulsa, Too! | TULSA, Okla. (F.P.).—There are | more than 4,000 unemployed in both | Oklahoma City and Tulsa, with the | charity organizations in the small | towns worked to the limit. Do your working rlass neighbors read the Daily Worker? Sell it to them every day ond make new Party members SOSSCOSSOSSSOHSSHE SEE SEHESEO WINTER VACATION FOR WORKERS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET The newly built hotel has 61 rooms—two in a room—hot and cold water in every room. Showers and baths on every floor. WINTER SPORTS—Skating and Sleighing : to your heart’s content MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS NOW! Price same as in summer—$1i7 a week. CAMP TELEPHONE: BEACON 731—862 NEW YORK TELEPHONE: ESTABROOK 1400. 998989 SSS0850800088608080 Li Just Issued—t0e Each—Order from FRIENDS OF SOVIET UNION T AVENUE (Room 511) NEW YORK CITY THE COMMUNIST Permanently Enlarged to 96 Pages (February Issue) JUST OFF THE PRESS | | Contents | Notes of the Month. 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