The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1930, Page 4

_ Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATU RDAY, M ARCH i ak JOBLESS, THOSE WORKING, DEMONSTRATE MAR. 6; WORKERS’ CALL GAL, JOBLESS WOULDN'T SGAB ON FIELD STRIKE They Throng to TUU Meetings (By a Worker Correspondent) EL CENTRO, Calif. — In the strike of the agricultural workers in Imperial. Valley the skilled workers are the most fected in the lettuce industry this 42a Tr strike a few weeks ago the field workers were | bet ing connectes with the Mexican Mutual Aid As- sociation, a yellow outfit of class | eollaborato: who called for %elp from Tom Moonev’s jailers and in Sacramento as well as the Mexican Co at Calexico, a bird repre- the terrorist Wall Street government below the Rio Grande. The TUUL Talks to the Jobless The packers demanded a rai: pay and carried their demands thr “Most met the demands of the packers the El Centro Press, boss sheet | admitted. Now about the unemployed and ke. There are 50,000 idle s in Los, Well, the Trade Union Unity League spoke te ths mn every daw at well-attended ings in the slave market ofs tes | Angeles, rain or shine, and kent | well informed about the| e situation ir. the lettuce strike fields. No Scabbing by Jobless So the unemployed workers did rot sesb on the strikers. They'll show. the same militant spirit on} March 6 alone with the emnloyed workers when it comes to demon- stratine in Los Angeles. On Feb, 15, the fourth day of the sheds were na the union scale, $1 an hour for packers ‘satisfactory wage to other ” That a starva satisfactory for the the e in is, wage elece The Handy, Sunbright, erd another company are the four nnionized plants at Brawley. The Zaferis shed, El Centro, is using union help. and the Western Torporation. known as the Wi company, El Centro, also has been Bruno f | renorted “paying the equivalent union wages, although not avow- ‘lw umon.” The Malian shed of Heber has also been unionized. The Hrd: company, it was reported, changed from niece work: to hour werk efore the strike started. paying $1 an hour. Up to Feb. 15, “t, least, the scabby shippers at} Trawley ‘refused to deal with the strike committee. The operators at | ™I “Centro, however, have i ed the strikers to talk things over—| ‘Nut on the shippers’ own term. From Holtville, ancther strike area. yenorts of sheds operating “half shift” snd the possibility that “all! night be forced to close before midnight.’ Organization is 2 worderfu! syeapon through which the workers are able to force the slave-driving | masters to be good, the Agricul- tural Workers’ Union advocates The 4. -W. T. U. is growing in membership, strength and influence nmong the rank and file of the over-worked and underpaid toilers— not least amone the 26-certs-an- hour field. workers Such rock-bot- tom-low starvation wage as that is what the master class papers, with lying news and twisted facts, call “satisfactory.” Ye: satisfactory to special laborbaiting interests— but not for class-conscious mem- hers of the working class with stomachs to feel and bodies to clothe and shelter. —CAL. WORKER. CUNFO PRESS LAYS OFT 175 (Bu a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO —- ‘the Cuneo Press, ene of the largest printing esta- WMishments of the city of Chicago, has recently laid off 175 employees. ‘This is heanse of the lack of work, {so says the boss), but neverthe- less this concern still employs young workers, and at a lower wage than those previously em- vloyed. All Cuneo workers should Jlemonstrate Marck 6, Unemploy- “nent Day. —A WORKER. | 26 Years a Slave in Millin Tenn. $9 a Week Wage (By a Worker Correspondent) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—I am ‘a woman who has worked in the Chickamauza underwear factory for 26 years. The bosses have told me manv times that T am the best finisher they ever did have. And now. what thanks do I get for serving them for the beat part of my life. packers. | of the loca! packing sheds | TOGE1HER WITH EMPLOYED W ORKERS, THE Y DEMONSTRATE ON ‘Bitterly Exploited, Filipinoes Find All | Bosses Alike in Cal. | (By a Worker Correspondent) SALINAS, Cal—The Filipino workers in this country are bitterly | exploited. They are. mostly employed in agriculture, hotels and restaur- ants, ete., and are working under the most unbearable conditions. In the Imperial Valley, Salinas, Watsonville and other agricultural | centers we find the Filipino workers working long hours for low wages, | aS: for instance, the lettuce pickers in the Imperial Valley, who are mak- ing 26 cents an hour. We have some Filipino bosses, who, under the screen of “country- men,” mislead us and exploit us— in some instances even worse than |the American bosses. In Idaho Falls, for instance, 500 Filipino | workers—working under a Filipino contractor in the beet fields—are slaving 12 hours a day for from {$3.50 to $4. Fight Against Discrimination " WESTINGHOUSE LAYS OFF 4,000 IN FEW WEEKS { iThes and Workers! We Filipino workers, who are a O . | brought to this country under false Must Get Together! promises of “good conditions” and (fi Worker Coraaponiontl equality as American citizens, find that all this propaganda is only a way to mislead us. For example, the recent riots in Watsonville and Stockton show up American im- perialism and “Good Will.” These riots were organized by the Cham- BLOOMFIELD, N. J.—Four thou- sand workers ere laid off here in| the last few w from the W inghouse Electrie company’s wo: These were making light bulbs and radio materials. Aginne then 4 , eeeilled ber of Commerce together with the Among these are many sxuled) 4 merican Legion and misleaders of machinists, and, of cow a great F the A. F. of L. number of girls who work at assem- Another example is the recent » happening in Los Angeles, where a Filipino worker and a white working girl went to the city hall for a mar- riage license, and being refused this |bling and special operati “Don’t take your tool box ‘home,’ y the bosses to the mechanics. “Leave them here until things get better.” And-when asked “When ee are things going to get better?” the | license under the excuse that Fili- bosses reply, “Oh, we expert things | pinos are considered as belonging to the Monogolian race—and, there- fore, cannot associate with white gi will pick up in March. But theres | no use of you sticking around here | when we have nothing for you to s. We realize today, more than ever do. The Westinghouse company . can’t (!) pay “ before, that the only way to gain our Co. Made Millions in Speedup independence is through a united front with the American workers— have been working up to 14 hours a|@ll fighting together for the defeat day until they were laid off, and | of American imperialism. Thus that the company has been piling wu |will we be able to establish a} | millions in pro’ while they speed- Ww orkers and Farmers Government | led up the workers at long hours and | in the Philippines, jlow wages. Organize Into the C. P. and It is just at this time that the | T. U. UL. workers thrown out of their job must | not accept the bosses’ word as final jaay, more than’ever, that the way iability” of the company to |to better our conditions is through | pay wages. They should organize | organization. The last strike in the la committee, from all the vérkers | Imperial Valley proves that the of the plant, getting the aid and ad- | Filpino workers are willing to fight vice of the Trade Union Unity |for better conditions, A few hun- League. |dreds of us are already members of \the Agricultural Workers Industrial League—and this is only a start, M —siiliping Agta Agricultural moran A. F. L. Union Racket Gyps Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO.—Having no money to buy a job I turned to distribution of circulars, as papers advertised for distributors each morning. The distributors have to be at the headquarters before 6 o’clock every morning to wait for their chance, the laces has no benches and the men sit on the floor, when they get tired of standing providing there is more than standing room. The regular distributors seldom get more than three or four days la week, and often half a day. The maximum pay was $3.39 a day, some | places they only paid $2.80 a day. The union charges $2 a month and 25 cents a day from members and But the workers know that they jon the Get Together! They should go altogether to the factory gate and say: “You say that things will be bet- ter in March. You want us to come back in March, do you? Well, in order to come back, we must live, | pay rent, buy clothes and food. If you are so confident that it will be only such a short time out of work, then you should be willing— since you tell us to stick around and | yait—to pay us wages whil: we «re | waiting.” And they should demand } lof the city, state and national gov- ;ernment, relief at once, and insur- ance against unemploymert. | The committee should represent also the workers left on the job, and should also demand that the speed-up be abolished—so no more workers be fired while those left are overworked. They should demand the seven-hour day and the five-day | week with no reductions in wage totals. Demonstrate March 6! And under the guidance of the | Trade Union Unity League with which their committee should affili- | ate, they should rally all ‘he unerw- ployed on March 6, together vith the employed who all should stop work on that day, the whcle mass should demonstrate for tha demands | of both unemployed and employed. | —WESTINGHOUSE WORKER. as graft money to officials, this is another racket same as the Coal Yards Union. Rackets, that’s what the A.F.L. officials are in business for. In this case they gyp the unemployed. Let’s organize under the fighting, |square and honest Trade Union Unity League. I mean employed and unemployed workers. —E.H. Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” = . Big Lay-Offs For N. J. Zinc Miners We Filipino workers realize to-| 60 cents a day from non-members | These long lines of jobless workers before the factory gates each morning will be marching lines on March 6, when the employed and the unemployed demonstrate together under Communist leadership, against unemployment. And the jobless and homeless forced to take insults with handouts in the “charity” slop-house will demonstrate too. & ee “The zine miners in Franklin, N. J., have been victims of big | lay-offs,” writes a worker correspondent. “We have never been | organized in any union, and there is no one here to organize us. | AFL. won't, and it’s up to the Comn 8 to come here and do it, | Unemployed zine miners keep wondering is there no way to fight lay-offs; and I say yes, organize. A good National Miners Union organizer needed here.” Drill runner boring for ore at 750 foot leve the New Jersey Zine Mine at Franklin. .A worker correspondent tells of slaughter of a miner two weeks ago, due to speed-up and improper protection. “It was nothing but murder,” he writes. MANY JOBLESS PITT. STEEL CO, INLOGANFIELDS CUTTING WAGES These Miners Never Mill Working Only 1-3| Were Organized | Days a Week LOREWO, W. Va—I am ser (By a W sspondent) ing $2 for Daily Work They| MON Conditicns in| lay off the miners fierce here. We the steel mills here are bad. The | gh Steel Co. is cutting | Pittsbu work orly 2 or 8 da; in Western West Vir have never had all over the plant. mple boys in the rod mili were | RY ahh a2 ms Viewi ting the miserable wage of 42% | aentucky. : an hour, and now the com- | , pany fired all the old workers ani Conditions Terrible hired. new ones at 20 cents an We work here at low. wages.|!our. But that is just a stert in| We load 4ons of coal for 81 cents the Pittsburgh Steel Co. ‘They will mil] and a car and some places for 72 cents ‘ut wages all over the Boe Scie peed up the workers to the limit. | Mili on 1 to 8 day Week | It is awful here. Tf you only) Workers say just one word to the boss. working abou: 1 to 3d 4 he says pick up your tools and The rail mill works full get away from hers, if not we will}, 1 ofie week ‘and workers are pat you out of kere. | ied up so that the following Bosses’ Paner To Foo! Mi k they have to stay home and On Dec. 30, 1929 the bosses same old story from the bosses sued a paper in Logan, by name “No or this week, boys, | the “Logan Banner,” one full page | maybe next veek,” |from all the coal operators in the) So, the workers, when they do | Logan fields. k a they really do 2 Tt said “We keep our workers S erk Capea oes safe from union organization We) i. 1 yp hours ice: é pay our workers good wages. We) mic steel workers that are work- | don’t need any organization here. We pay un to $1.50 for a ton of ( i cael is ee! to goal Ne Rae te ene TG will layoffs and they should. all de- | | SSS aie | monstrate with the unemployed | ea |March 6. I've been in the Logan fields for |-~-MONASSEN STEEL WORKER. 2 years and it’s a lie, what the) bosses say, | MPALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily for I never saw any-| | thing good for the workingclass | out here. This is a real scab field.| Worker. Sell him a copy every All were unorganized in this field,! day for a week. Then ask him to and many Ku Kluxers. But the| become a regular subscriber. | National Miners Union has to come here anyway, Ku Klux or no Ku Klux. RITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become LOGAN MINER. a Worker Correspondent. PARES eae reas eae ee a Re Tne Women Electric Workers Suffer in Lay: ay | Women workers of the Westinghouse Electric. A worker corres- pondent tells how this company has thrown thousands of men and women workers on the streets, after specding them to the limit. Un- employed and employed men, women and young workers of the West- inghous will play a big part March 6, when jobless workers and em« ployed workers of all nations and industries demonstrate, under Com- | by the * munist leadership, against unemployment. Workers’ Solidarity Stone Wall Against California Packers ; (By a Worker Correspondent) BRAWLEY, Calif—On Tuesday, Feb. 11, a new strike by the agri- |” cultural workers started in Imperial Valley. boss sheet, reported on that date that “no walkout of packers has been | experienced at any shed in Brawley.” The paper had to admit, however, that 2 The next day the same sect admitted were out in the El Centro area. a valley-wide lettuce strike. The packers were hard hit, the boss press had to admit it. They were up against the real bard workers’ solidarity. Many of # employers had to meet the workers demands: cents a crate for piece work, $1 an hour for hour week, where the shippers’ ultimatum was 4 cents a crate for piece work, 70 cents an hour for hour work, Most Sheds Closed Practically all Brawley and Handy sheds and one or two small ones. Every shed in Calexico was closed. While the workers were meetng | in the workers’ section, the bosses | held their meeting at the court- house, ter class judges, police, sheriffs, American Legion thugs, stool- pig- jens and labor baiting “legal lights” |from the office of the district. At that meeting, the shippers voted to pay 4c a crate for piece work, 70c an hour for day work. |This was a small increase from 3 3-4 ate for piece work, and | to de a as low as 62 1-2c an hour for day work. Great Strikers’ Solidarity press does not deny the fact that the solidarity among the strikers is |good this time. They have undoubt- ‘edly learned a lesson or two from the last strike, when the workers were betrayed by the Mexican Mu- tual Aid Association, a reformist organization of class collaborators. At some plants trimmers and other workers were put on packing work—and “efforts were being made to get out complete shipments.” But they did not succeed. On the other hand trimmers, also, are de- manding wage advances. So prob- ably no more scabs from that di- rection. Extra rigid inspection standards lettuce growers’ clearing house, resulting in’ throwing out many cases, for repacking, are causing loss of wages to the work- ers. This was one cause in forcing the workers to kick back for a five- cent a crate rate or a wage of $1 jan_hour. The so-called unskilled field work- ers are getting only 26 cents an hour. But they. will oust their fake leaders and make a united front with the skilled workers in the agri- cultural industry. As was the case during the last jstrike of field workers in Imperial Valley, local papers almost ignore the fact that a strike ison. Fear- ing that the unrest may not only spread to this paradise of the open shoppers, but also to other soup- joint sections in “prosperous” Cali- fornia, the exploiting forces back of the press have decided to “kill” the | militancy of the workers by silence. They will not-succeed! Agricultural workers, join the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party. Be sure to at- tend the mass meeting’ of the unem- ployed and the employed workers alike at the Plaza on March 6. AGRICULTURAL WORKER, Stool Pigeons in Budd (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT — The Budd Wheel vonditions are very bad. and the water that we have to drink i3 very dirty, All over the floor and all around the aisies you will find o— TUUL TO LEAD | j sheds | Jobless Worker Knows | ployed and employed (because I |were closed, except the Gerrard and | in order to be near the mas-|Cctober, 1922. |League and heard the speaking at Some seabbing has been going on | in Pittsburgh Steel Co, |Sorry to say, but even the capitalist | “YOUNG AND OLD, =" | there is any way out for the work- ‘ALL RICHMOND a PLANTS LAYING OFF WORKERS |Correspondent Urges | All to Join TUUL (By a Worker Correspondent) RICHMOND. Va.—-Well now, I |want to bring some facts before \the workers on the suffering of the ever growing number of unem- | ployed workers in Richmond. Chesepeake and Ohio Railroad |had has laid off 1100 yard workers, | cngineers, machinists, ete. Many Plants Lay-off The Albermarle Paper Mfg. Co. (Brown’s Island Plant) is now only \cmploying 140-150 workers. Those | still working work only 3 or 4 days week, O’Brien’s Fertilizer Plant em- loying now but 45 to 50 workers. | American Tobacco Co. No, 4 |branch laid off more than 309 w y morning numbers of ers, 1 employed are sent heme for the day. Standard Paper Mfg. Co., Num- . i Gh the wonkers (Poo 2 2, and 8 mills are now work- eo <per EeDE Une q|ing at the most 5 days a weel: and many were laid off here also, * Railroad Lays off 1100 Richmond Foundry Co. works but + days a week. | Many of them were working as long as 20 to 25 years and now they’ve lost every chance of getting CHATTANOOGA "Sim No Jobs ‘So Be Got As much chance of getting a job |here as a snowball has in “hell.” So Richmond workers, unem- vor’ But the Brawley News, a ’ jter are being forced to do unem- It s the Real Thing ployed men’s work and may be eT Teas d off any. time) must organize (Bg a Worker Correspondent) | ito the class struggle Trade Union CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—I am a/Jnity Beague which believes im carpenter. I came to Chattanooga! cleur-out fight of workers against I started work at 854 posses, cents an hour, then I was cut to 65 | cents, then again to 50, then to 45, | and then the last job was 35. —RICHMOND WORKER. T can’t even get that now. I am out of a job. I can’t get a ieb any | MEN WISETO © place now. I am not the only one | that is out of a job. There is thou- OTIS SNOOPERS sands out of work in Chattanooga. What we need and have needed vor Conditions Gét Worse in Harrison Plant }a long time is a-real workers union, | and since I’ve talked to the organ- | izers of the Trade Union Unity | (Buy a Worker Correspondent) HARKISON, N. J.—I read last jweek in the Daily Worker a letter jaan by a fellow worker from the ie Blevator Co. in Harrison and right. ions and wages in the ma- shop are getting terrible. e bosses must have a lot of stool sardbne that come snooping around and trying to find out if you are satisfied or a “kicker.” Get Wise to Rats JOIN THE re So Says “Shattanooga company or the governmert but |we are wise to them and we can Worker, 68 Years Old pose as good, 100 percent loyal, ‘ that we love out our boss, (By a Worker Correspondent) | The few members that belong to CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — I'm 68 | the Mac s’ Union are afraid to years old and I have slayed all my |declare themselves. What we feel days, I have given the best part of |is the need of a militant organi- ray life to the bosses. I wonder if| zation and more nuclei in our chop, and spite of the vigilance of the boss Campbell the 100 percent patriot we can pass our literature to go tc the bank the other day and newspapers along. Now then, and borrow $80. I had to mort-|/I. am with you all the way and gage -all of my furniture and be-| we are only waiting for the proper sides, my wife had to mortgage her time to strike. Long live the Com- wages which is $8 and $9 a week) munist Party. -—OTIS SLAVE, (in the mill) and the bank charge: me 6 pemeel, mice aot #8201 | Poisonous Hood to Workers on Ellis Island bookkeeping which makes me pay | £148 in one year for $100, And the (By 2 Worker Correspondent) Recently I talked to a fellow Tennessee law allows this. That is worker, a class war prisoner enough to make one hot. Will fight with Young Workers If there is a Revolution I would shoulder my gun with the young) ones. The only way I can see for) the worker is to organize into this | ‘fii National Textile Union, ani all Teer at hag ahaha unions like it that takes in all the! | fascism and our conversation workers. If it is good enough for| | went Jike this: us old ones, it is good enough for Q.—Have you got enough to eat here? A.—Plenty, but the kind of food we got would ruin an horse's stomact:. Q.—What did you have for you young ones, so young and old sypper last? fet’s join the union. —CHATTANOOGA SLAVE FOR A—A kind of sausages. Q.—Were they any good? 68 YE: seraps. If you are not careful, you A.—Those that I ate, some vomited and some had to be are liable to break your necl:. taken to the hospital. There ar lots of borses’ stovl pigeons that hoid on to their jobs, And just to remind you, you are not permitted to bring in by paying tips to foremen. any food or fruit whatsoever. the mass meetings I am sure we have a real workers union in the} Trade Union Unity League that will | lead us unemployed and the men! that’s working alike. Sri gi hae WORKER. ers, and yes, there is I am a carpenter by trade I had Auto SUN SHIPYARD PUTTING GUN FOUNDATIONS ON BOATS FOR WAR Workers There Are Not Remaining Asleep; They'll Turn Guns on Bosses Let’s organize into the Workers Union! G Perhaps this is a lesson” in Americanism. -~A WORKER AT BUDD WHEEL Class conscious workers are being deported while more and more white guardists are being admitted in daily. 1 Vassports are not required by og, “We'll Know Where ‘Yo Turn Our Guns.” } lor War! We know that this is a dann lie and that the gun foundations | |those parasites and bloodhounds | On further investigation, this proved to be true. We found out (By'a Worker Correspondent) aere is the thanks I get. I slave 12 hours a day for the |while workers are being de- small sum of $9 a week. I can’t see how we are going to live, ly knows you can’t sipport js family on them wages and T sure do hope we get us a union here, The National Textile Work- ‘ers’ Union is staying here I hope. _ —CHICKAMAUGA WORKER. = ¢ CHESTER, Pa.—In my department of the Sun Shipyard, we pre- pare all of the steel that goes into the construction of the tankers and freighters. For the past eight months, we have been working on a new type of steel angles for every boat that goes out and the bosses are anxious that we are very careful when we work on this steel. Sev- eral of us inquired from the pusher just what this new type fabrication was used for and he told us that he did not know. Finally, a shipfitter told me that these angles are used to brace the aft decking underneath the “gun foundations,” ae eS that every ship that has been built or repaired Since last August has had a gun foundation installed on it. These foundations are being built ‘on all newly constructed boats to support six inch naval guns, similar | to the cruiser type armament. The shipfitters who measure and’ fit the fabricated material on the boats were told by the bosses that these gun foundations were being installed on deck because many of the tankers and freighters cruise in China waters and are liable to he attacked by “pirates,” ete., and they must protect themselves. 1 | | are being put on the boats in preparation for the final World War. At the same time that the bosses are sitting at round mahogany tables and signing “Peace Pacts” we are forced to slave under revolting con- ditions and get the guns ready for the attack against the Soviet Union. But we are not remaining asleep while all of this is going on. We © workers in the shipyard are organizing into the Metal Workers’ Indus- trial League and we are preparing to show the bosses that we will know the proper directions to turn these guns when the time comes. | —American Worker in Sun Shipyard. |ported to bloody lands of fas- \ cism. Soon the workers ‘will all learn their bitter lesson and will organize and have something to say about whether the bosses can deport any workers they want—N. Y. WORKER,