The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1930, Page 4

Page Four SPEEDUP BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE MEN WITH FORCES GUT 1200 Must Do Work of 7000 Workers (By a Worker Cor CHE a. employte < * Correspondent) the Baldwin Lo tive Wor er of years, working ator on a machin! work her ine to oper- an hou five e of a part of this work And we thus speeded up on the jcb, regardless of the fact that | we seldom get in three days work a wer Las I started here, there were epproximately 7,000 workers em-| ployed. while today, there are only | about tweive hundred, and we are| expected to turn as much work | as the 7,000 did formerly. The Baldwi must join the de Union Unity League, an| organization that will fight for us | and sell-us out. We should build up shop committees of our| own thst will be the basis of a} strong, fighting union for the Bald- | in workers LDWIN WORKER. SLAVE IN CHESTER Men Building New Plan Face Misery (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—The blond money squeezed out of the in the Sun Shipyard is| heing put into the Sun Oil Com-/; pany at Marevs Hook. Old Pugh} has made a big pile at the yard and now that the yard is getting b due to the preparations for war the | future Jooks rosy.. For Pugh, I nean. Of cours he workers’ con- | ditions ‘will be rotten as usual. Wages are low and working con- ditions very poor in the refineries. Often men are burned with acids or suffecated while clearing tanks. | Workmen are driven like the slaves | ef cld, and are helpless while they | i The compan: | constru uction | ng conditions. | are doing the 5 Chicago Bri Sun Oil] and the Baker Construction. The| other day three men were injured. | One was hit or the head with aj falling plank and two others had their toes crushec when a pipe} weighing about one-half ton fell on | toes. They receive ek and sho ng skilled 45 cents fe cents for | who them- nit +80 cents. i the wind, rain and sn etimes they are forced to wi en Sunday: One worker was sus- vended ‘for a week for not’ coming | into work on Sunday\ Mid is another thing that makes | ‘or misery. Often a worker gets | eovered and soaked | about rk rom head to} foot whole laying in a ditch to straighten a pire and hé carries nis | wet clothes about all d: Anothe nuisance is drinking w: Negro workers are more or less discrimin- ated against and often are refuse the right to drink from water buch ets about the job and have to walk! WORKERS | _ HAITI WORKERS ROBBED; SHOP N I have been an| mo- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1936 | A worker of Haiti describes the slavery of the Haitian workers, and the robbery | of their meager pay by U. S, government taxes. | New Haven R.R., After \WITH THE SHOP PAPERS Big Lay-Offs, Is Driving + : Roundhouse, Roadmen (By a@ Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass.—Since the loss of the shopmen’s strike in 1922 the | speed-up on the New York, New. Haven and Hartford R. R. has become | intense. The Northampton St. roundhouse which has employed a total of fourteen hundred mechanics before the -strike, had hired more than | two thousand scabs to bteak the strike, is now maintaining the shop with | eight hundred odd mechanics keep- | | ing the same number of locomotives POLICE DRIVE OFF ©." unions to organize the men again. When the *fakirs told the workers | at a meeting at Belvston Hall that they hai given up strikes as “im- | SAN " — ‘Over | : Za erie aaeseny ro eret | take out cards. These men are in ae a Rae ke eyes of the |® Militant mood and should be ap- Cag eri eer proached by the T. U. U. L. | seit the net Aes | conditions were worse due to ration- over eae eee ae jalization then those of the shopmen. strations a . | 92 ; : Since one thousand workers were |! Be ie is Custer ed at ety The men were organized into a} 1000 UNEMPLOYED practical” but would refer all ma ters to the Federal Railway Boar: company union but the attendance was so small that it was given up | ke Ad Called for “2 Men) j jthe men denounced them as “com. pany unionists” and walked out in They had come in answer to a cai! |and brakemen outside of those who | for “two a - Ford plant, the remaining ag hundred and twenty and ninety re- are working nine and ten hours a |spectively. Due to this seventy ner as a bad job. The company gave Wanted |a body. Only the former officiais ala “announised heceatiek mien sould) noone ween were: On; Hie spare day, seven days a week, and are be-| permission to the A. F. of L. craft (By a Worker Correspondent) | ¥ Men | z | of the company union remaining to} | | y board” have not been layed off their be hired | cent of the men are on three to four ing speeded up more and more every day. : Bread lines in San Francisco are ithe largest ever seen here, due to| the unemployment crisis. The Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party are con- ducting daily street meetings among the unemployed workers. On Feb. 26, the Frisco unemployed will give good account of themselves... —FRISCO WORKER. all the way that is over to a brick plant s the wad from the job a long trek down to the engine Negroes are usually given the dirtiest jobs in the dit d generally speuking are given lot of tough jobs. .Not so long ago ed. a fireplace was built for the work- | € and for a couple of days both Negroes and whites were allowed in but now the Negroes are jin crowed and have to go out-doors and build themselves a fire or else s headquarters on the job. morning @ fruck calls for the slaves onva street corner in Mar- Hook. On crowd the men, black und white, to face the cold biting wind and risk being shoved off be. cause sometimes the truck ge overcrowded. The workers on this job must learn that they should organize into | a union. They must be taught that race discrimination is wrong and that workers can hetter their condi- tions orly when race discrimination ‘has heen done sway with. Let us try to build a real move~ \ ment among the oil workers and put lan end to the slavery existing | there. —CHESTER WORKER. SLAVERY ‘GAY Govt. Takes IN HAITI 75 P. C. of Wage (By « Worker Correspondent) PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti—t wish to write cf conditions for the Maitian wo and peasants, en- slaved by the big American ira- periglist firms. First I would like to state that there is going to be an election in March, for president. The marines intend to put in their own president, Chevalier. The Haitian workers * will not accept him as their presi- dent. The workers want their own gov- ernment, und will put up thei: own candidate. We went oo murines here. The average wage forthe Haitian workers is 40 to 60 cents a day. The Mac Donald Co. which owns all the railroads, pays the railroad workers $3 a day in Haitian money -—vhich is 60 cents a day in Ameri- money. The workers dive in tumbling down huts, under condi- tints of disease The Colombian Line and the Pan- oma Line are also brutal expoiters | of the Haitian work the longshoremen 60 to 10 hour day. The workers have no union, The conditions of the peasants and the workers of the big plantetions ure terrible also | sugar, coffee and cotton plantations. The Tipinoir Co exploits thous- S. ‘They pay |tions. In the city of Saint Mare the Reginier-Pinard Co. expoits the plantation workers most brutally ‘The workers are supposed to get $1 2 day, from which the U. 3. |Government takes 75 cents before the pay reaches the worker, and gives the workers but 25 cents a day. | This 75 cents is taken as a tax. Ic lis collected daily. The workers and peasants of Hai- [ny much longer ‘They recently re- jvolted, and they will soon revolt | against. | Party starting in Haiti and this wii! be our leader. HAITIAN WORKER, N. C. ;| Brothernood “chiefs” > *, | stay in a cold room in the old house cats for a o| They work on the! jands on its sugar and coffee planta- | |ti are not going to stand this tyran- | There is a Communist | | days a week, | The officials of the ‘Brotherhoods’ are doing nothing except telling the {men to stand pat land wait until their lobbying bring?-legislative ac- tion. i Were it not for the insurance which | these crganizations give their mem- \bers they weuld drop out wholesale |as they have completely lost con- |fidence in the fifteen to twentv {thousand dollar-a-year officials. | A militant organizational drive |for a five day, . thirty-five-hour | week, double time fcr overtime over seven hceurs and job control would | | smash the whole of these grafting and lay the) foundation for a militant class Rail- jvoad Workers Industriai Union. —J. H. FEW JOBS IN VA, SHIPYARDS Colonna Workers Make| | $1.50 -- $3 a Week (By « Worker Correspondent) PORTSMOUTH, Va (By Mail).— | Conditions in Collonna Shipyard are | bad, Hard to get steady work. | Men will hang around for ¢ boat | to ‘come in every day, which the} hoss wi'l tell the men he will expect | lone todsy, one tomorrow, and the | | same old story every day. | Seventy-five to 100 would be put |to ~vork to paint and scrape these lusts in case any comes and which lis finished § less than a day The workérs here are averaging from $1.50 to $3 a week and most j time he will not get one week in a | month, Scme of the ships on the way to Le worked on ave low and the men | wil have to get on their backs to | serepe and paint the bottoms, which | three men will get four or five ; hours at the most, often Jess. Ships would come in to have their cilburners to be cleaned out, which is a nasty job. Some of the men in the hold of the ship will put the oil in the buckets and the men on top will haul it up which the men have {oil on them from head to foot. These workers who paint get 50 cents an hour. cleaning oil burners, 55 cents: helpers 42 cents an hour. Men with trades will get 75 cents an hour. Starvation wages for the men who work in this shipyard. The only way the shipyard workers will be able to get seven hours a day. sani- | tary conditions and minimum wages of $20 a weck is by organizing into. a real‘union under the leadership ef the Trade Union Unity League. —Colenna Shipyard Worker. | ‘ALK to your fellow worker in | your shop about the Daily Worker. Sel! him a copy every | day for a week. Then ask him to Lecome a retular subseriber. THROUGHOUT U.S. TELL OF BIG LAY-OFFS, SPE ED-UF os ! Se = “ Photo at left shows plantation overseer driving Haiti workers in sugar fields. Photos at right illustrate the slavery of the Edison Electric workers as described in the fighting shop papers issued by ERE’S “WITH THE SHOP PAPERS” back agaih. And it comes back at a time when the number of shop papers is growing fast. Will the Daily keep this department up? That de- pends on the comrades in charge of the shop papers; they’ve got to send their shop papers in regularly. This department will ap- pear once a week at first, and later on more frequently, Send your shop papers in to the worker correspondence department of the Daily Worker, so that we can review them and let the workers throughout the country know about themy Dow’t Only Shock Em, But Sock ’Em! Last December, the bosses of the U. S$. Metals Refining Company, in Carteret, N. J., exploiters of 2,500 workers in that plant alone, and many more thousands in plants throughout the country, received the biggest scare they ever got in their lives. | The cause? The distribution of about 2,000 copies of the Daily Worker to the workers of the plant—copies of the Daily packed with worker correspondence from U. S. Metals workers. All the “respectable” people of Carteret were alarmed. The rev- olution had come! The Bolsheviks were trying to incite the U. S. Metals workers to rebellion against their enslavement and horrors!—The U. S. Metals workers seemed willing to be incited to rebellion. The bosses had a worker distributing the papers arrested and tried to scare him into telling on his comrades, but of course, nothing doing. Since that time the U. S. Metals bosses have been sitting on a voleano, which will soon erypt. For a Communist Party shop nucleus was being farmed in the U. S. Metals, and it has now issued a shop paper: The “U. S. Metals Workers” is the latest thorn in the side of the bosses in that plant. The February issue is its first. It’s a buncing baby, because it’s full of letters from U. S. Metals workers, the sort of stuff that indicates that the U. S. Metals workers are getting ready to knock the props from under the U. S. Metals bosses. They struck last year, in an unorganized, spontaneous strike. But this time they'll strike under the Trade Union Unity League’s leader- ship. And if the letters in the “U. S. Metals Worker” mean anything —shocked is not the only thing the “respectable people” of Carteret— the straw bosses, the big bosses, and their flunkies are going to be. Shocked? No, socked! The Hudson Worker lt te Met (om Ph al Po = = The Fascist Foreman, Let a letter in the “U. S. Metals Worker,” from a worker in the plant, speak for itself: “ The wages of the U. S. Metals are such that workers are not able to buy their every day needs. . I ameworking in this plant for the last few years, and I find my- self always in debts) The pay I receive is not enough to feed and clothe my children. I am working in the smelter department. Here we have Campbell as a straw boss, who is a slave driver “par excellence.” We are speeded to the last bit of our energy. Each week we are forced to produce more and more pieces of square cakes of brass. Campbell’s lackey, Mr. Adam Wunenberg, a reactionary leader of the American (fascist) Legion (he comes from Port Amboy) boasts about being able to make us work harder and faster every minute of the hour. ; What we need is to organize. Then these lickspittle straw bosses slave drivers could not make the: U. S. Metals a hell hole for workers. A. WORKER. Send in Your Shop Paper. Let All the Workers Hear About It! eS oe Twin Battlers Against Edison, The “Edison Dynamo” has been doing the battling against Thomas A. Edison and the head whip-holder over scores of thousands of Edison slaves, and his countless lesser slave drivers, practically single-handed for quite some time. But now the “Dynamo” has a twin brother in the fight for the slaves of the capitalist papers’ darling pet Edison. The new battler for the Edison workers is the “Edison Cable Worker.” It first saw the light with the January issue. It runs a smack of an exposé of Edison’s fake accident records, which the capitalist press so highly touts. The spy system maintained by the Edison bosses in the Edison Cable yards is also shown up- Edison, the shop paper shows, has a blacklisting system par excellence. The worker is forced to fill in a card, which is sent to every Edison branch for the purpose of keeping out any worker known to be militant. Edison workers are made acquainted with the great fight of the Gastonia workers in “The Story of Gastonia,” one of the features of the “Edsion Gable Worker.” . More Truth Than Poetry! (From the Edison Dynamo, shop paper issued by a group of Communists in the Edison shops of New York.) The boss is a great big hearted man. He’s a democrat and republican; He’s the boy who runs the political crew. He ryns the socialist party, too; Money talks in this land of the free, That’s why Congress ca:3‘; hear me; Who is listened to? Who is heard? The boss’ money has the last word. When there’s a strike he wants to stop He calls in the soldier and the cop; The boss buys up political brains To keep the workingmen in chains, So what are we going to do about it? Reveal the truth, tell it, shout it! ‘The worker must learn to breek his chains, The worker must have political breiits; Battling for better hours and wages, ‘ ELECTRIC PLANTS ng the the workers in the New York plants. Center photo, w Z Right, stator of a large generator in a General Electric plant. workers testing motor generator sets in an Edison plant. ‘Nash Motors ‘Workers Militant; A. F. of L. Is Stabbing Them in Back | (By a Worker Correspondent) | KENOSHA, Wis.—Approximately a year ago in the Daily Worker a | letter was printed telling of hard working conditions in the Nash Motor | Co. here. | It was pointed out that this company has made huge profits through | exploitation through the gang work system. “ What has happened in the =" 50,000 TEX TOILERS JOBLESS eee IN FALL RIVER {rast and what has the New Year} This system permits the elimina-/ Compare This with the | treacherous A.F.L. noticing the mil- | in store for the Nash workers? Through rationalization methods | half of the workers were thrown | info the street permanently and th | rest were only given part time work jless than 6 months. The above men- | tioned gang system was introduced |tion of the foremen. The workers | |are compelled the drive each other. | In every department where this} system was introduced the wages were reduced about 20 to 30 per cent. |. It happered that one is working | into all departments except a few | where the workers struck against it half a month without knowing just how much one made. (By « Worker Cor | FALL RIVER, Ma: are |uearly 50,000 textile workers unem- ployed in Fall River. There is a | big crowd of unemployed workers | around the mills gates each morning |and then later these workers tramp is . : the streets. There always jitant sentiment of the workers and |jarge number hanging around the |the appearance ‘of appeals to the | city hall. workers in the Daily Worker to or- ganize into the militant Auto Work- ers Union, immediately started its ; Basta Seis here unemployed. The mill | freacherous work, | Noonday meet: | vorkers in Fall River, that. étruck he Paste aie The workers |i 1928 when they could no long: fo é b, ts | stand the slavery, will surely show jwere being frightened with » Com. |their strength and take part in » jhuge unemployed demonstration on ij Feb. 26. Becauze of the doubling of work | ers ;munist “hogy” and promised that under the A.F.L. there will be para- dise on earth for them. Due to the militant. sentiment of the workers the traitors have suc- ceeded to capture about 300 of them and promising that they will work out a plan of organization. A plau lis being worked out by the traitors jeven now... a plan how to sell {out the workers, : | The company was not asleep, using the unemployment situation |and knowing well it has nothing to fear from the yellow fakers, it con- |tmued its drive against the work- ers. | During this drive the AJF.L. kept! silent. They heve not ‘issued a single leaflet or arranged a single meeting. . What is the way out of this situa- tion fer the workers? What must | these workers do who are betrayed |by the A.F.L.? The way out is | tell the treitcrs of the A.F.L. to go to hell. Let’s organiz2 ourselves |into factory committees and join the fighting Auto Workers Union. Do not believe a single werd of the | traitors, for we must krcw that the yellow fakers are always on the | spot to sell us out. —NASH WORKER, K. EF. I. —MILL HAND. ‘Laundry Workers of- Norfolk Slave — It’s Worst for Negroes (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va—The conditions in the general run of laundries in worse. Hours are irregular, suc: as from 8 a. m, to 5.30 p.m. This means 9 1-2 to 10 hours a day and more at times. They have employed whites re- cently whjch seem to have the better privilege at present. The wazes of workers generally run from $8 to -10 a week. y The white men workers get from $30 to $35 a week. The colored men workers get from $18 to $20 a week. Our colcred women ges generally $8 to $10 a week. The only thing for us to do is to |organize into a real workers unicn, |under leadership of the Trade Union Unity feague and win the 7 hours a day and at least $20 a week. -—Just a laundry Worker of Nerfolk. The worker must organize his rages; Battling for freedom and for light The worker must organize his fight; . The mighty proletariat towers— The boss has his parties—we have ours; So let us join, with three cheers hearty— The workers’ party, the Communist Party} ah ee OD What the Wind Blew in from Detroit. All of the Communist shop papers gotten out by the Communist Party shop nuclei are scrappers, but avhen the wind blows a packet of shop papers in from, Detroit, we know we're getting the acme, apex, or whatever you call it of workingclass scrappiness. The latest batch of shop papers sent us from Detroit incluied the Fisher Body Worker, the Chevrolet Worker, the*Hudson Worker, The Murray Body Worker, The Pontiac General Motors Worker, The Ternstedt Worker, and The Timken Axle Worker. These are some of the fighting shop papers that have drawn so many unergvloyed workers into the Councils of Unemployed led by the Trade Union Unity League and the Auto Workers Union in the Detroit area. That’s where the unemployed are putting up onc. of the greatest fights in American workingclass history: The clarion call of each of the Detroit auto shop papers is for the unemployed auto workers to join the Unemployed Council of the T.U.U.L. and Auto Workers Union. " 4 The doubling and tripling of speed-up in order that the bosses might lay off tens of thousands more auto workers, all this, as re- ported by workers in the fighting Detroit and Pontiac shop papers shows you why the Detroit auto workers gre turning to the T.U.U.L. in the fight against rationalization and unemployment. ‘ * * Lay Off 30 Per Cent in One Department. (From Chevrolet Worker) Department No, 25.—Speed on the conveyor is so great that you have: no time to go to the toilet or to take a chew. Thirty per cent cut in the working force as a result of the introduction of new Bullard machines and the new conveyor systems. ” * * . “The Best Is No Damn Good.” (From Pontiac G. M. Worker) In the export department the speed is so terrific that a man hav- | ing a family of five recently was called back to work after being out for four months and. had to quit because he could not stand it. When told by the boss to hurry, he said that he was doing his best; the answer was, “the best is no damn good.” ‘ ra USSR Weorker’s Letter | ki there is at least half the mill work- | Noifolk are getting from bad to} HUGE LAY-OFFS 0 WORKERS IN UTA WINES, SMELTER: ‘Salt Lake City Toiler Are Hit Hard Too (By a Worker Correspondent) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah,—Ther jis estimated that there is about 10 {000 unemployed in this city. Abou 50 per cent of the organized and € |per cent of the unorganized worker |are unemployed. The building in \dustry is practically at a standsti land no construction work going o in or around the city to absorb th | unskilled labor. At*the Utah Copper Co. mines i Bingham about 500 workers wer laid off early this month and othe mines both in Bingham and Pa City cut their forces with seven |hundred. The Utah Copper have r ‘employed some on part time worl {so now they work two shifts and la |off one. | The streets down town are line with idle workers, walking back an forth looking for an opportunity t {earn their bread. And the winter i |not over yet. The A. F. of L. does not make th least effort to organize the unorgan ized. They are not interested in or ganizing the workers as a class fo the overthrow of the profit-syster Consequently they are satisfied t sit idle watching the interests of th crafts that goes under the name o organized labor. It’s about time the workers wak up and organize in militant union of the Trade Union Unity League. —UTAH WORKER. | NEGRO STEEL ~ HANDS MILITANN “Tell NegroWorkers of | Struggle”, Says One | (By a Worker Correspondent) WARREN, Ohio—This is th tasks that the men in the shear: Jin the tin mill of the Republic Stee | and Iron have to do. Get up at 3:3( jor 4 a.m. and vo to work. Yor |tave to shear a ton of steel for < ‘miserable sum of $1.75, averaging \3 and $5 for 10 and 11 hours. | The boss owelks around and in spects the steel. The boss gives 1n¢ the same old line ali the time, “) |give vou a better job as soon as } | get an opening for you.” * I am a Negro worker. Comrades you think that it is a hard matter io recruit colored workers into the | Communist Party. | Tell the colored. workers of you: i struggle that you are endeavoring |io carry on, that they are admitted jon a free economic, political and so- cial basis that we are all born free ind equal. ‘the short time that I have been |in the League I have been telling |my ‘ellow workers about the Com- munist Party and they are interest- ed in the movement. FELLOW COMRADE, FERTILIZER PLANTS HELL Filthy Places; Low Wages; Foul Odors (By a Worker Correspondent) SOUTH NORFOLK, Va.—Just & few lines on the conditions of the workers in the F. F. Royster Guano Co., South Norfolk. The following conditions ‘also apply to all other fertilizer plants ir this section. Well, here goes. The men are paid 80 cents an hour. The only cnes getting 40 cents, 45 cents or more an hour are foremen and other company agents. The work is very nasty, dirty and ihe workers get sick in a shor: time |from ‘the awful smell. Every day the foreman comes over to you and will bet you $1 or more that you won’t stand working all day. This of course applies only ta new workers. The boss man in able through this way to get a few dimes from the worker's wages. We all work 60 hours a week. At times there’s plenty of overtime bug on straight wages. Ninety-five per cent or more of u: ave Nevro werkers in the fertiliz rlants. Workers here don’t make out with the few dollars that we ‘get each week so at dinner time we got to wait J5 or 20 minutes to gobble our few sandwiches that we eat at the company lunch room. Only way poor working people will be able to get better working conditions and more wages is by ore waniziog iato a workers’ union—the Trade Unien Unity League ‘and Conimurist Party must send more organizers here. United we stand. divided we fall. —Royster Fertilizer Worker, gp se WRITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker havea 7“