The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 5

EE ee _DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURD/ AY, MARCH & 8, 4980 LANSING JOBLESS AUTO WORKERS DEMONSTRATION SCARES BOSSES Storm Durant Plant; Men Were Fired, Women Hired at 15 Cents An Hour Auto Workers Union Fighting For Employed and Unemployed; AFL Stool-Pigeon Role (By a Worker Correspondent) LANSING, Mich.—Over a hundred infuriated unemployed auto work- ers recently stormed the Durant plant here, tore open the locked doors and demanded their jobs back from the amazed and terrified auto bosses. When the workers were attacked by the company police and thugs, as- sisted by the employment office staff, they fought back, giving a good FLINT BOSSES SLANDER AUTO UNEMPLOYED And Continue to Lay Off Steadily (By a Worker Correspondent.) FLINT, Mich.—To keep the work- ers from participating in the dem- onstration on International Wemen’s Day in this General Motors con- irolled city, the city government tried to connect the Communist Party with the underworld. Workers Expose Lies The workers themselves expose? these lies of the General Mctoys city administration by showing that hugs and all underworld hoodlums eine deputized in anticipation f demonstration. These statements and preparations came on the heels of a demonstration of over 50C workers unemployed on y, Feb. 27, coming frem the plant in this city. The police dept. immediately is- tements spread all over the hat gangsters led unemployed Hal! for work or wages and t they were going to “bomb” vrolet, that the children in the ool adjoining the Chevvy plant y home the following 4: The conditions in the Flint Gen- eral Motors factories are growing ly worse. Last week Buick laid cif 16 departments and cut the ges of those remaining, discrim-{/ inating against the Negro workers with a larger cut. Fisher Body has this week laid off a mass of workers after taking ‘nvertory of those who have families und homes to pay off yet. 1 AR, SCAB HEADS, UNEMPLOYMENT. Want the Younger Men| Laid Off (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHIT. u ICOTHE, Ill., Chillicethe is n di n town on the open shop} Sar » Railroad. T was here dur- ing the shopmen’s strike in 1922 and the shops were manned by students from the Santa Fe scab preparing school at its general headquarters at Topeke, K The trains and en- gines were as usual manned by mem- bers of the strikebreaking brother- hoods, as has always been the case. Crews Cut from 51 to 17 Today instead of 51 train crews at this point as in 1922, the new meth- ods of operations and big engines have reduced the force to 17 crews. The Brotherhood scabby misleaders } the older men so under their scabby influence, that these older nen are sending committees to the company te ask that younger men jn service be laid off so that the clder nien can make 3800 miles or the equivalent of 26 days a month, Yossiz, these are the results of the sued ste w account of themselves, ~ defending ~ | themselves so well that a number of their assailants were compelled to | spend several days at home recup- erating. When the Durant plant opened up a few weeks ago, after being closed down for several months, worien, most of them the wives of the unem- work on the “belt,” starting at 15¢ an hour and getting at most 25 cents an hour, 9 hours a day in place of the men who formerly received $1 per hovr. Hundreds of men formerly employed at Durant’s formed in line cach morning in the hope of being rehired, but the company refused tc put them to work meanwhile con- tinuing to take in rrore women work- ers at the miserable wages men- tioned. When the Durant bosses re- fused to heed the demand of the into their own hands. As a result of this incident, the company discharged the women workers, taking the men back, but at greatly reduced wages, cutting them from $1 to 65 and even 40 cents en hour. The Auto Workers’ Union tant industrial union, under the ban- ner of the Trade Union Unity League, they could have forecd the bosses tc take back all the workers, with increased wages and sho-ter sours, which would surely cut down the unemp!oyment considerably. A. F. L. Fakers up to Old Tricks Another example of the schemes of the hosses to cut the wages of *|the auto workers, is shown by the | fact that recently, when a worker applied for a joh at “The Motor Wheel” plant, he was told he could get a job, provided he would. work (for 16¢ an hour, which-on the 55 hour weekly workirig schedule pre- vailing in Lansing amounts to $3.35 per week. The company officials how this worker was going to provide for himself and family on. this won- derful American scale of wages, of- |where the governor, Fred Green sends forth statements that while (wy emplcyment is increasing, nobody ‘ should talk ahout it, or the struggle | of the unemployed workers for “Work or Wages.’ ” The A. F. of L. ofticialdom is filling its characteristic role in this situation, attempting to mislead the | \of bunk peddled by Green, the gov: | emor, trying to discourage the workers from mass activity, and as- | suring them, with the typical oily “applesauce,” that all they should do is to let these pot-bellied “Messiahs fix things up yvith the employers” and then everything will be “all right.” Everybody knows how they fixed the auto workers of Detroit. The auto workers, more than amost any other ¢1oup of workers in the United States, have had their fingers burned by these A. F. of L. agents of the bosses, and it is sufficient to remind the workers to check up or the shady records of this gang of treach- erous enemies, who are stool-pigeons, reporting the active, militant work- ers 00 the bosses for their blacklis‘. ‘Yhe bosses in this instance, are de- liberately using the labor fakers to prevent ‘the workers from carrying on a militant struggle against the speed-up wage cuts, long hours and unemployment. The Auto Workers’ Union, affi- ployed auto workers, were put to) unemploved for return of theit obs | the workers decided to take matters | is pointing out to the workers, that | had they been organized in a rili- | were not interested in figuring out | |gveat unemployment here, the boss’ | | fered in the capital city of Michigan, | | workers, telling them the same line | craft ‘union policy of the A. F. L.|jiated with the Trade Union Unity fakers. The younger men and the League, is carrying on a militant older men who have not the scab|campaign to organize the auto work- jdea must organize under the Tradé| evs to carry on this struggle, to Union Unity League which never|Luild @ powerful, revolutionary in- sells out, And the unemployed rail- roaders must do so too. —H. W. Negroes Totlingon Land in Bennes- ville, Real Slaves (By a Worker Correspondent.) BENNESVILLE, S. C.—Tull Madison and his two brothers own most of the land here. The Negro workers are slaves, and the little money given to the Negro workers cannot be spent at any store except those owned by him or his sons. On Saturdays all the Negro work- ers must bring their work pans to his store to get lard in, and when all the slaves have been supplied none of them dare to ask what their pill is. “If any should ask,” he re- plies, “That’s not for you, that is for me to know.” Every Negro worker should join the Trade Union Unity League. : —S. C. SLAVE, dustrial union which wilt be able to challenge the. power of: the auto bosses, to carry on a determined fight for better conditions, hours and wages and for full wages for \he nemployed. —DURANT AUTO SLAVE. MINE EXPLOSION IN BELGIUM. CHARLEROI, Belgium.—An ex- plosion of fire-damp in a mine near here resulted in the death of 10 Eleven were injured. miners, RUMANIAN OIL WORKERS KILLED. BUCHAREST, Rumania. — Six’ workers killed and eight seriously | injured is the reported casualty in a fire at an oil well near Bacau. “TALK to your fellow worker in your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to become a regular sulgcriber. peti heh | Build the Uiited Front of the Working Class From the Bottom Up—in the Industries! i A workers were but a foretaste of t | Stir Race Hatred | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. j workers of Chattenooga are ‘ great suffering from unemplo; andthey are joining the Trade U | Unity League in ovder to fight lay- cffs_as well as bad conditions. Many Laid Off The Ross Meehan Foundries on Carter St., one of the largest manu- \facturing concerns of this city eff more than half the wor definitely. Those that do work sti jare on an average of two days a | week, Workers who used to get $5 a day at the Buster Brown Hosi2ry Mills ere now only making $2 « day. Most of the workers who apply there for | | work each day are young girls arid) | married women. “No help wanted,” they learn. International Harvester is work- ing on 4 days a week and laid o workers. jeff great numbers of workers Militancy Scares Bosses Because the workers are getting militant, especially on account of the s ii papers play up the race question more than ever. For instance, the | | Chattanooga News one day has the charge of murder, “Reward offered for Negro slayers of white gir!.” \“Albama farmer shot to death py | Negro.” On Page 4 of this issue it | Says “Nah Negroes, Sox Sardines. | By these headlines the bosses hope ers, but the workers here are learning through the Trade Union U. L. is organizing here unemployed | and employed worl crs of both races jin its ranks, so fellow worker |the Communist Pavty and T. U. and if working in a textile mill, join the National Textile Union. PeRATIANOORS : WORKER. JOBLESS FAINT IN FORD LINE Few Are Picked at Cut Rates (By a Worker Correspondent) jcrisis the capitalist papers here in | Detroit tell us workers in big head- | |lines that employnient will start in workers the same at Christmas time that at the beginning of the New ; Year employment will start full | force, But has it? I should say not. As a weman worker I know because | T lcok for work and I hear what the working women of the neighbor: hood in which I live say abovt this | “prosperity.” This weck a fellow worker went to Ford's for a job tells me he got here Morday morning at 7.30 and there were about’ 500 workers laready there. Ahout 9 p. m. the work- ers were packed inside of the fence | leading to the employment office. |The workers were compelled to wait a long time and those who were at the front could not go to the toilet because their places would be gonc. Many of the workers fainted. Al! 'the workers had to answer the fol- lowing questions How long out of work? How much were vou getting, | before you were laid off? Let’s see your hands and if your hands are not blistered that means that you |have been out of work for a long | period. If your rate was $1 an hour |you are told that you will be given another j@ at less pay. The only wav to stop such rott vonditions is to organize. All wor ‘ers should join the Communist Par! the partv that fights for the i terests of the working class. yes iu Thursday’s demonstrations by the employed BIG CHATTANOOGA LAY-OFFS; TUL 1S ORGANIZING | Boss Press Is Trying to| — The | laid | jheadline “Knoxville Negro held on} | to divide the white and Negro work- | and unemployed he great struggles to come, against The speedup of the street car men in Cleveland grows s work hand in hand with the Bo: daily, while the union mislead against the workers. Result of s burgh, a crash which injured the drivers of the cars. men thruout the country have been betrayed by the Amalgamated of- they should join the Trade pondentt a street car wor | the capitalist system and the unemployment and rat produces. Photos show workers 0: Canada (right) in demonstrations Cleveland eras Must Fight eeeerue eding up of street carmen in Pitt The street car Union Unity League, says @ works ker. v1 Cleveland Street Car (By « Worke a Wor CLEVELAND, Ohio. | now going ahead, full blast a | Cleveland Railway Compan directing it from the background. Our union leaders and the of the company’s “Personal De ment” are operating with the company’s in putting into ‘effect International President Ma- hon’s injunction to the Street Car- men’s Convention which was held at Seattle, Wash., last September, “goo t- bos: | Workers See Union | Become Co. Union: Cor conte nt) ion 268 of the Street Carmen’s Union is} a company union, with the officials, of the a subsidiary of the Van Swerigin’ octopus, od union men” on the committees of WOMEN WORKERS AT AUTOLITE CO. to “bring about the proper labor d economic conditions” through {U. L. why they do this, for the T. U | . tons,” 80 days. They, the bosses, told us| that | nv “cooperative organization” by har- nessing “Jabor and capital into a | united team of ind ial democracy + « with the provisions of arbitra- or putting it in plain lan- guage “convert your local unions {into company unions and help the employers of labor to cut the men’s wages by the introduction of tricky welfare scheme: Our local fakers have carried Ma- |hon’s injunction out to the letter ‘by maneuvering the carmen into | voting for a supposedly eight-hour day, which turns out to be a cut in} Pega and a speedup. Fakers Help Company. They also came to the help of |the company on New Year's day |when our employers handed thei patrons a New Year's gift in the) form of an increase in carfare. Many | DETROIT—In this unemployment |nasty epithets were thrown at the| conductors when they tried to col-| lect the new fare. Through the columns of the Cleveland Citizen, a fake labor sheet, our fakers coun- | selled uus to be “diplomats,” to “explain” to the shorn ones how much more comfortable it is to hang |from a strap in a crowded trolly than to ride in an automobile. To | their help also came Manager Cay Jan of East Cleveland, a sub through which the Cleveland Rail- | way Company operates, and asked | |the car riders through the columns of the Cleveland Press to report! every street carman who is not a docile and efficient little lickspittle. | The T.U.U.L. at Work. The Trade Union Unity League group in the union is carrying on been distributed. -The exposures printed in these papers were treated with a policy of silence by the labor |faker until a member tried to dis- cuss the matter at our last business meeting. order by the chairman; but the mat- ter is being discussed at every sta- tion as the men are now beginning | to see that the “newspaper spies in | the union” as the fakers daubed us, were correct when they exposed the |class collaboration activities of our | | union leaders, The men now realize | , that they have been tricked, not by their employers, but by their own union leaders who got them a wage an energetic campaign at all the car | barns of the company, Copies of the | Daily Worker and Labor Unity have | He was promptly ruled out of) READY TO STRIKE | Toledo Workers S ca. With Rebellion Spirit (By a Worker Correspondent.) TOLEDO, Ohio.—At the Autolite Company s being cut to 20¢ an hour, ja week. Women in new 4 ‘plant ready to strike. The workers here, unemployed and} {employed alike are getting so mili- tant that they are ready to follow tho militant organizations, like the Trad: Union Unity League, to militant ac- tion. Unemployment Grows Many lay-offs here. The unem-| ployment situation is getting worse jevery day. Overland Kuto Co. laid off hundreds of regular men last Monday, attempting to reopen at 17% cents an hour. All other auto, workers cut 50 per cent. Only 150. | men went to work at 17% cents. The|“———S— unemployed were so militant they | were ready to atack labor agent at the plant. This shows they need the ;TUUL to lead them in right direc- er . L. Menniger, head of Overland, estes by escort of eight police left town, Police reserves were called out to |the Chevrolet Auto factory. At) | Toledo Shipbuliding Co. out of a big) line. 38 were hired. Empleyment agent told those waiting in line to “get hell out of here, you bums.” | A worker gave him a sound thrash- ing. Toledo is seething with spirit of rebellion on part of workers, em- | ployed and unemployed. Communist Party & Trade Union Unity League must lead us. —TOLEDO WORKER. cut wivzout the company even hav- ing to come directly on the scene. Fellow carmen, to gain what we have lost we must build up a mili- tant union. To accomplish that you | must join the. only fighting labor union that exists in this country today, the Trade Unon Unity Lea- gue. Call at 2046 East Fourth (be- tween Euclid and® Prospect), third floor, for literature and informa- tion, —CARMAN NO, 2. |Militaney of Warkors Rises; Le 0k to Railroad | Industrial League and Communist Party \Local 915 Aids Gastonia Defendants, Demands | Negroes Be Admitted to Railroad Unions er Corre faa t) and rai! ar. In (By a Wo | CHICAGO.—Seventy-two thoi the ranks of the unemployed each y | lowing the great shopmen's strike of 1922 over men have been driven from the industry corrupt, reactionary International of! | goes alorg with the manage |their campaign to further working forces. In each lickspittles y out the plans of Los Angeles (left) and Montreal, eee eee f Los Angeles (left) an | In the Chicago shops of th re thrown into t period of time fol- hundred thousand these facts the ay craft union thr: In spite Chi Jeago and North Western Railroad \the results of the traitorous policy |can be seen in ell its nakedness. against unemployment, | Sell-out after sell-out has been the PAPER MILL. ie of the shopmen employed on this | road. They were betra That Shows They Need to Join T.U.U.L. |ness Agent R. C. JOBLESS RISE Hest weze negotiations when, Busi AT FAST RATE Follow! accepted a 3c to 5c per hour They are again being betray Gaeth, O’Connor and Company in the } matter cf working force redu |ach week the management abolishes | a veral jobs worke ions. Shut e owns ~ You ¢ see the slimy hard: things | Wage Cuts |r. S. Carter, compar | See |stool pigeon in Local 91 (By a Worker Correspondent) Lukas, who functions in the sa J. — Unemploy-| capacity in Machinis among the paper| Andr New Jersey and of} §' | MILFORD, N. ational Guard and Conditions are gri ow-| Carter Local 915. , | The of this group con- Shut, Wages Cut of ferreting ont militant work- per mills of the Peter J./¢ r the bosses, writing letters to Inc. plant are down, ie International officers warning anding cuts on already low| them of “the Red menace.” Hour, Gs five Lag poae Despite the numerous obstacles e on g. Co. are down. Their | placed in their paths the N but he dept. a special » explained to girls turn [remaining plant at Milford, N. J.4| Ww |elosed down the converting depart-| ment, laying many workers off. Wages being already on a bare ex- demands on the work- are more exacting than ever. | Other local industries are about on ‘a par with this. The West Conshohocken (Penna.) Right estern Shop workers are moving : supery jforward. The unemployment question is being discussed at every m Already Local 915 has go jrecord demanding the five “ay week, six hous day. This lodge ticks |by the Gastonia strike nding a donation and resolutions ou more 1 we so sure | Paper Co. is running three to four| solidarity For this A. days a week and conditions accord-| International President of the I. jing. We paper workers can expect |M. severely reprimanded the lod bout it? lat best the same “prosperity” we| but no attention s been paid Union te in 1928 — a week of work and| censure, Local 951, lay off two weeks, | annual convent‘on, niza- The paper mill workers need an| Negro workers the right to join the ng class organization to fight for them —| railroad unions. inst the |that’s the Trade Union Unityl —N. can we | League. th. A. Every Worker in the United States knows of the | thousands of arrests on International Unemploy- ment Day! Every worker must rush—today— now—to the aid of his fellow workers. Hold Mass Protest DEMONSTRATIONS against these arrests and police brutalities! — FOSTER MINOR AMTER WALDRON eT OCHECHTER free the hundreds of other workers behind bars for demonstrating against starvation! WM. Z, FOSTER | NEW YORK .............. DETROIT . 387 arrested—130 injured seeeeeese 45 arrested—25 injured | LOS ANGELES . -60 arrested—20 injured SEATTLE ,..12 arrested—16 injured WASHINGTON ...............11 arrested— 6 injured #3... ROBERT MINOR 7 RUSH FUNDS to the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE On the Job in Every City for All Workers! MAIL FUNDS to the NATIONAL OFFICE OF THE I. L. D. 80 East Eleventh Street, Room 402 NEW YORK CITY I. AMTER