The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1930, Page 2

: z Page Two Two INDIANA MARCH 6 DEMONSTRATORS MADE MAGNATES TREMBLE WORKERS SCARED HELL OUT OF THE STANDARD OIL, IN WHITING, STEEL BOSSES IN CHICAGO ON MARCH 6 Bosses Had Adm) of Police, Sheriffs, Deputies, Huge Lot of Ammunition at Gate “We'll Carry On Denpite the Standard Oil and Their Tools (By a Worker WHITING, Ind.—About the unemployment demonstrations March 6 in Writirg. The bosses and police made the Calumet an armed I went back to Whiting from Chicago the first thing I saw was a policema:t| walking around with a shotgun looking for Reds. Oil Co. was no’ WOMEN SUFFER FROM SPEED-UP IN METAL PLANT They £ Th: at Is Lowest (By a Worker Corresponde CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Ma A. woman worker of National Acme, a metal products manufac- turing concern,'a few months ago said-to her shopmate “There must be:-another war coming; the com- pany is hiring so many women. They did that before the last war.” Not only at National Acme, but there is Thompson Products; Briggs, Mid- land Steel and numerous other,steel manufacturing companies in Cleve- Jand and neighborhood towns where more women are being hired. The General Electric Company which has: several plants hires women al- most exclusively. Exploited in Electric Plants A radio bulb manufacturing com- pany has 1,800 working; the regular raid, so all they done. was just to call all the Whiting Are » Paid Wage :; tmazda lamp factories hire thousands | ofavomen. The General Electric has the worst efficiency schemes to keep ; talking to our fellow worke: their workers speeded up. There are conferences with the employes | ROB ORLEANS andi the bosses at which conference there are “booster” talks. The wo- men-are-told that- they each have investments in the company by hav. ing a job there. And it is up to them to reap the benefits from. their in. vestments, etc. In the Rayon knit- | ting and clothing factories 75 per cent women workers are found. Out. side of Cleveland, in the rubber in dustry (Akron), steel workers | i Warren and Youngstown. The supposed labor laws in re- gard to the women for their protec- tion and health are posted up in most of the factories, but that i as far as they go. Girls under 21 are not permitted to stand all day at work. The Law Is for the Bosses At Thompson Products, tional Acme, They know because they ones who cannot sit down and at jobs they have, for ins specting metal products, c on certain grinding machines, or the | girls on the. milling machin Another law that women w factory has no lunch room, and 30 minutes at least if the company has } In the Industrial jar an for a week is $2.50, or $44 a lunch “room. Rayon of Cleveland, certain depart- ments, the women eat their lunch|a year this gang would pay out in right at the machine and start work interest alone #2.340. immediately when they are through, | {n other factories the machines are «ept running and the girls go back neighborhood of $2: to work after gulping down their |to the sandwich and coffee, Celebrate Women’s Day! The (Sommunist Party and the, Trade Union Unity League are the ,1ates? organizations for the working wo- | ‘they ave fired and not allowed t« nen because they are fighting for | Work at all. the women workers and are the mly organizations fighting for squal wages for equal work, no| right work for wonfen, against mpeed-up, etc. Women workers, today is Interna- ional Women’s Day. Celebrate it. WOMAN WORKER. Southern Facific Ry. Workers Are _ = Ready to Fight oF YN By Special Jorrespondence) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,—Hoover ‘px'o¥perity.” za The Southern Pacific ny, on March 8 laid off 31 coach yard. Passenger traffic is id coaches are being stored é yard. f ‘Approaching the inspectors and cepgirmen in the yard I find tiey | mre, Yery hostile to conditions and | are*tipe for organization, bus will | aot accept any A. F. of L., 1.W.Y. | or speial-fascist bunk. I gave them | the,,program of the National Rail- | way Industrial League and they aked upon it with great favor. An) ive program of organization es {followed up by mass meetings vill ; aon the ee workers into othe ri RATEWAY WORKER. at Na-|men are enabled to borrow mon Cleveland Hardware | though it is and other places, the girls can tell |legal (?) or if lezality enters into whether this or not law is enforced.|the question at all. are the | ers{a period of a year for a gang of must have an hour’s lunch, if the | 1S men. | jadded wage ents. gud five inspectors in the: i \ |jcin the the Police” ‘orregpondent) ap. When | Of course the Standard e into the Standard Oil plant. y'll Fight Despite Oil Bosses and Police. The police of Whiting didn’t used - bother us until of late. Since ie is mayor they have begun to molest our m: eetix raid our regular. meeting vy shows to the workers that the policy of either of the old parties is agains the workers. But we will carry on spite of le, the Standard Oil, and their » the police, =Withing, Ind..Oil Worker. * The Steel--Bosses Scared. EAST CHICAGO, Ind.—The East Chicago. police went: over to Indiana Harbor .on-March 6, where the. steel) bosses askéd for “protection.” Camp) Dodge ‘during. the. war didn’t have! anything on Indiana Harbor for arms” March 6. The regular harbor police with re- inforcements from East Chicago and the state police and dozens of sheriffs and special police at the. Inland Steel mill gate at Guthrie and Michigan Ave. Our plans called for a meeting at the plant gates for 5 p.m. We didn’t get any eats but our comrades sent us’ in a big hag of eats. There was 3 or 4 thousand. work- ers gathered at 5 p. m., and by that time all of us was in jail. But the R.R. tools, Worker cory Rock Island Railroads. those joining Unemployed Counc 3 which is also organizing the work risks of railway trackmen in maze of tracks. DAILY. WORKER, NEW. YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, ‘1930 t pondents tell of lay-offs on the Southern Pacifie and The unemployed-5 ilroad workers are among rade Union Unity League, Photo illustrates f the ng reilwaymen, interest was there. Now the police was not out to keep us from “blow- ing anything up,” but keep us from —Worker, DOCKERS PAY egroes Forced Take Loans’—Or Get Fired (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW ORLEANS, La. — Today 1 ed an adver ment local papers stating | hat a, in narty had money to Joan at legal rates of interest + ‘employed “white persons.” will tell you haw the Negro longshore- (By a Worker J.—Here is what At 11:30 the bell KEARNEY, N. the Bolsheviks. have no locker. 1 was with’a big ys, well, that’s the way it is at Ford Ford, he is not interested in our lunch, or our felothes, but we are all responsible ‘to him for a piece of felt. Suppose we lose il, we are charged 25 cents} \for it, and it costs only one cent. Speedup on Job; Millions Jobless. The discussion followed on. For ‘example we are often working over- time 10 and even 12 hours on the | night shift and 6 days a week while | ili men looking | e get killed on| have to starve nd no job. h ys, it would} be alright for everybody to wo a day and 4 or 5 days a Another says it is tHe only _ to eliminate unemployment.) “Never, Mind Dream.” Never mind dream, says one, right now in one country they work 17 One of them re one of doubtful if the rate is Robbed of Thousands. y “employed” Negro coa: 1 long- the e docks us compute this over The av er Wer ge loan is $10 per man » of which the interest per per fey the gang of 18 men per week. hours and even 6 hours a day. Bol-! There are at least 2,000 coast-/shevism, do you mean, says another. wise longshoremen. paying in the | This country is a republic and not 5,000 per year directly Bolshevik. “Let Bolshevism Come.” Another young worker says, I don’t know what Bolshevism means, but} I only one thing, who can give} us workers better conditions and a better life. us workers it is better Bolshevism than capitalism. Then says the first Unless the wi want their | one, let Bolshevism come. tandards jJarthes lowered, ur Tell Us About Bolshevism. they want more unemployment and One of them asked me, what do they must d t you know about Bolshevism, tell us about it. I showed them a copy of the Daily Worker, and after they! see it and I explain some things, one and fight the bosses and their says, I was 6 months in France, but tools, (the boss stevedors) be they |this.time they won't get me. An- White or Negro. other says if they get me, the first -—LONGSHOREMAN, ‘time I ean I'll join the Bolshevik —_— army. The bell rings, and we had WRITE about your conditions {to go back. This is a real conver- for the Daily Worker. Become | sation we had in the Ford plant. a Worker Correspondent. —Ford slave. hoss _ stevedore stolen from the work One might ask why do these men have to borrow money at such! Simply because otherwise Organize! the fake I. L. no kiek against this s; Marine Workers League | Well, another says, for} Ford Workers Are Eager to Learn About Bolshevism Correspondent ). the Ford workers are thinking about | rings for lunch period. In the pain} and alcohol dept. the fumes spread all over and we can hardly breathe. I look for my lunch ‘and U don’t find it; somebody took it, because sl bunch of young fellers and some of | them give me a piece of their lunch.® RHODE ISLAND JOBLESS SET FOR STRUGGLE |10,000 Demonstrated { in. Providence March 6 (By a Wor Sorrespondent.) PROVIDENCE, R. I.—The unem- | | ployed demonstration that took place. | Thursday March 6 in Providence, IR, L, in which 10,000 unemployed workers demonstrated, show the cap- litalists and the administrations in | |the State of Rhode Island that they ;/are organized and are ready to fight. ‘The Trade Union Unity League alled a meeting of the unemployed councils to take organizational steps to lay out the plans for another de- |monstration which is to be bigger \and stronger than the last one., The plans are made to spread our | |unemployed counéils to Pawtucket, |Central Falls, Woonsocket and the Pawtucket Valley and other parts of |Rhode Island. The unemployed workers are ready to move all, their \forees to the State House to make \the department of the bosses give immediate relief to the sufferings of the unemployed. The workers are registering in the unemployed councils everyday, even the members of the A. F, of L. are also joining the unemployed coun- icils. The movement of Rhode Island {grows day by day in every way. —A. J. | W7RITE about your conditions for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. The San Francisco Workers Male Bosses Tcide-Varch The San Francisco work- ers demonstrated, 15,000 strong on March 6th. Unem- ployed and employed work- ers marched side by side to City Hall, Then, a few days later, the workers of San Francisco again marched to City Hall in a demonstration against unemployment. Worker correspondents to- day describe the growing un- employment in San Franc co and vicinity. One tells of the Hoover “prosperity” as evidenced on the boards in the slave-market of Frisco. From the slave market dis- trict came thousands to dem- onstrate March 6. Photo shows part of the San Francisco demonstration on March 6, 4 MINE LAYS OFF. BY THOUSANDS. Were Only “Working Days Before (By a Worker Correspondent.) TAMAQUA, Pa, — The mines of} the Panther Creek Valley were only | working three days a week and shut down for the whole of this month. The company claims that there is no +demand for coal, but we know there aze many larger cities that have no| coal. The coal companies, by shutting | down their big collieries are-putting. | many hundreds of thousands of coal | |miners out of jobs. We must or- ;ganize into the fighting union, the | | National. Miners Union, and we | must fight for these demands: For uhermployment reli¢f, full! |wages for all unemployed miners, | for the six hour day, 5 day week, | against discharge of our militant | members, and against speedup. —C..M., a miner: ‘| WASSON MINERS HAVE LEARNED Co. Makes Men Pay for Broken Machinery (By a Worker Correspondent) | WASSON, Tl—The Wasson Coal | beans has just. made a ruling} that miners shall pay for damaged ppehinery, ete. To show it meant ‘ charged a miner at { | s it lwa son No 1 mine $16 for a jbroken tit of machinery. ‘The j} | mir ner must first pay the. £16.00) |Lefore he can buy food* Tt looks | jlike Wasson will soon be making} the miners buy the machinery too, Miners in Debt to Bosses ..The Wasson mine is an-example jof a UMWA controlled mine today. |Checkoff is so great that. miners don’t see a red cent from ore jvear’s end to the other. Every! ininer is in debt fo the company store for several hundred dollars. Living zonditions are of the worst imaginable. Miners live in. filth land poverty and go to work hun- gry to toil under the speqd-iys and | rotten conditions of work., Women must bes; at the doors of ithe company store for food. Chil- dren feed on rotten fruits which they find in dumps behind ‘the stores. UMWA vith Bosses And when the miners wént on strike the UMWA ‘worked hand in hard with the losses to smash the picket line. Thirty-six men “were victimized and evicted from their komes for fighting against: the \corditions existing there. Th min- ers in Wasson have learned to know that the interests of the |UMW and the coal operators ate ‘one and the same and that these | interests are directly opposed . to |the interests of the miners. They're for the National Miners Union. —-WASSON MINER. Seared Stiff Was Rockefeller on March 6! Police guarding a Standa‘d Oil refinery during a March 6 de- -“monstration. The workers of Elizabeth, N. J. and Whiting, Ind., both Standard Oil domains came out that day. Standard Oil bosses. were seared to hell and got ‘armies of cops to stay around their refineries. Norwegian Sailors’ Home Aids Cutting ~~ of Seamens’ Wages aed “(Bu «@ Worker Correspondent) It is about time that the Norwegian Sailors’ ‘was shown up and here goes to do it. Home in Brooklyn xipping Master Neilson’s. office on Front St. in the waste bask : © as stage |the seamen. It is a seamen’s board- Norwegian Sailors’ Home, | ing house that cooperates with the 440 Clinton St. shipping masters, the shipowners, Brooklyn. ‘and the Lutheran Chuch against the To Olaf Neilson: seamen. Note how in this letter We are enclosing a copy of let- | they aid in bringing about wage | ter received from the Shipowners | cuts. Association of Norway. Qn the last meeting of the West India’ groups executives it glad- dened the executives to learn that they have made excellent agree- ments with the shipping masters and that fine economy had been effected. We liope that soon it may be possiblé to bring the Norwegian wage'scale more in use and it is a duty for all of us to bring this about. We also hope that the usual In Pevekuede Debt. A seaman comes back from a tri iy with about $80 wages. If he goes in jthe home to live for a month, he | ;must pay a month in advance. He | |has about $50, a month’s wages. ‘He can’t get a job on a Norwegian jor chartered ship except if he lives | {in the home. | So he is helpless. After staying |here a while, he owes the home money. Before signing on ship vf “4 . advance him what the sailor owes wage’ scale reduction in the win- | the home. So he is always in debt ter time has taken place on the | {4 the home. Atlantic Coast. We will appreci- ate it very much if you will send us a few lines every month on the conditions of the crews and on unemployment. So far about the shipowners’ association letter. Will you kind- ly send us information about how far you have been able to cut wages up to date and what they usually are during the summer. Also send us information on ships that use or only partly use our employment office. Hope it’s pos- sible to bring down the wages to the usual winter scale, now when sO many seamen are out of work. Please try to give the seamen that live in our home preference in employment. F. IVARSON (For ae Home.). Worker Girslapondants Comment on This Letter. " This completely exposes to all the Norwegian seamen that this home is a bosses’ agency for use against Home Helps to Cut Wages. Wages are supposed to be $57.50 a month for firemen (American ‘wage scale), for ships on the coast | $55 for A. B.'s. jis so great for the seamen that they are forced to sign on at Norwegian | wages, 150 crowns or about $385 a month, In this way it is planned by the |ship owners to cut the American | , scale to the ‘Norwegian scale. Seamen, get wise to’ this scabby | ‘home. | Join the Marine Workers League, |28 South St; New York, and in| | many other ports. It fights for you | against slavery, on sea, and against {cheating by the shipowners agents on land. —Norwegian Seaman. Do your working rlass neighbors read the Daily Worker? Sell it to them every day -nd make new Party members. 4 L.R.T. GYPS WORKERS THRU BROTHERHOOD; ROBS THEM OF COMPENSATION Comyany Union Crooked (By a Worker Correspondent.) I'm a worker: on the Interboro | Rapide'Transit-in New York. Am | a trackman, repairing and putting new ties and rails in, cleaning the tracks, ete. We work a nine-hour day, from 7 a.m. to5 p.m. We get an hour for dinner, but we have nine hours work not counting — that hour. The wages they pay is $38 a the week, six hours on Sat Sunday eight hours, hurt, One trackman was hit by a train. He was badly hurt and had to lie in a hospital. Dr, Green, the LR.T. head doctor, put him down as getting $2 a week, in order to pay him Jess compensa- tion, _ We must pay "5 cents” | week, but you work every: day in | They cheat you when you det | Organ, for insurance. . Then if you are hurt they give you but $15 a month. Brotherhood—Company Union. One of the worst curses is that you have to belong to the company union, thé Brotherhod, of which Pat Conolly is the head. Of course, the Brotherhood is nothing * boss reigns es to. keep yea Nene rans Las When you start to work for the LR.T. the Brotherhood will call you before it after three or four weeks and you are then forced to pay dues for the whole year—1 cents a month. Then after a few weeks many are fired, and you don't get the moncy back. You don't get the it mone ‘back when vation; Men Work V4 Days a. Week on Track Rebair Gangs at a Brotherhood meeting you are fired right away. Ask the work- ers, “how about the Brotherhood?” ij .& crooked organization,” they'll tell you, The company makes thousands from the workers. For insurance alone, 75 cents a month from, trying to make his gang do more than the other foreman’s gang. When we have our own tnion, a Trade Union» Unity League union—we'll fight the LRT. bosses to the finish and win. —LR.T. SLAVE. ‘Buita The Daity Work “fn Your Share of the 15,0 | New © First, a copy of a letter from | oe Home to a shipping master, which was picked up by a sailor in i again he must get the captain to! steal his money, Unemployment. ‘HOWU.S. RUBBER C0. PREPARES | FOR BIG LAY-OFF ) \Stocks Up." Tires and Then Fires Many (By «a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—I will write in this letter a few things in regards |to the conditions of the workers cf {the United States Rubber Co, In |December, 1929, when things ‘vere aes slow, the foreman of Dept. Higgs, said, the company will Pb have to work five days a week in order to keep the men |from being laid off, that is, the men, iwho were working there for quite a while. | In the meantime they were wap- |ping all the stock tires and putting them back in stock, That is before the tires or casings, as you may leall them, were ‘brought directly from the press and out into stock rooms, and when they had an order lor so they had men truck tnese | and bring tiem to the packi room where tires are be wrapped and hiled reacy for ship- ping. But now they bring th tires direct from the presses to +] patking room, after <hey are wrapped, the tires are being puc 9 back into the ‘stock room. Produce Much, They Lay Off. That means, in case a slack time comes, that is if they have a tew orders they ean send the men home, jlay them cff and run on a basis of half the crew, Well, as the days rolled’ hy, this system grew and grew unti! one nice Monday evening we came to | get our pay, the forenian said, sorry boys, I have to lay 20 of you off. One worker came to get his clear- ance and stopped to talk with the lforeman. Weil, he talked t) him for a little while, finally he said te jhim, “You haven't told me why you Haid me off.” “He looked at the |worker a while and grinned like a |tiger grins and said, “You worked ‘here for six years and are a good worker, but last night you stopped jand talked to your buddy, 43 We rubber workers must organize into the Trade Union Unity League, whether we are working right now ‘or are unetiployed, —U. S. RUBBER WORKER. 30,000 JOBLESS. IN TULSA, OKLA, Ford Packers Lay Off ‘| “We Must Organize” Ly, | | CKLAHOMA CITY, Okla—About two weeks ago you printed a small |dispatch with an Oklahoma City date iline’ stating that~there were 3,000 |unemployed here ‘and in Tulsa: ‘Whoever sent in that report ‘told ‘an juntruth. There are nearly 156,000 | unemploy: ed here and very near that number in Tulsa, a little over a hundred miles away. A worker had $58 to his credit here in savings and tried to buy. a ‘steady job for the above amount, |and it was refused. About the only’ | way, it appears, for a worker to get* |some money anywhere in Oklahoma’ ‘now is to knock somebody down and’ Ford ‘there don’t hire, he lays off. |The packing. houses the same, © | The unemployed workers ‘of Okla- |homa must organize and demand work or wages, as workers by’ the’ million are doing thruout the coun- |try under the Trade Union Unity |League. The employed and the un-. employed of Oklahoma must be to- {gether in this fight. —J, P., Okla, Worker. | “ALK 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 subscriber, Hoover ‘Prosperity’- the Boards of the ‘Frisco Slave Market (By a Worker Garrnaponitent) » SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—On the slave market boards there are very few jobs. Here is what mppaaten: one day: International Employment Agen- seward «t—-2s3 Mexican track laborers, $3.70, 10 hours. Have own | blankets. Board $1 a day.” Factory laborer—Long. job, $3: 60. | Nine hours, city. Here is a good one at Ticket Office Employment Agency, Howard St. Husky, experienced hand, trackmans weight, 180 pounds, about 5 feet 11 inches or 6 feet; $4 8 hours, factory work, Another one—Husky- young man” to help on pipe, $4.80, 8 hours, cil oy, These are some tin cisco workers are