The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1930, Page 2

Page Two DAILY. WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1930 UNEMPLOYED AUTO, TOLEDO TOILERS GROWING MILITANT FOOD WORKERS TELL NEED TO ORGANIZE } Farm ‘Workers, Food. Toilers Su fer trom Un emplovment THOUSANDS OF PHILA, FOOD TOILERS AS AUTO PLANTS LAY OFF MANY 5 al eget a WALK STREETS IN SEARCH FOR WORK Overland Cuts Wages of Workers; Hundreds’ Wait for Jobs at Factory Gates | Jobless Looking to TUUL Councils for Fight Against Unemployment (By a Worker Correspondent) | TOLEDO, Ohio (by mail)—The Overland Automobile Plant of Toledo cut the wages of all workers in building No. 13 by 50c. The Unemployed Council received this report from a dues paying member of the T.U.U.L. and Unemployed Council, working at the Overland Plant and the council is at once getting busy to take care of it. SLAVE WAGE FOR MICHIGAN TEXTILE WOMEN TOILERS Fierce Speed-Up in Is-) pheming, Negaunee —Toledo Worker. | "ene (By a Worker Correspondent.) | TOLEDO, Ohio (by mail) — The} ployed Council poured out 1200} of the Daily Worker at the| Overland Plant, where a 40 per cent! w LAY MANY OFF THRUOUT STATE among these workers from growii U were also about 1500 waiting at the gates for a job. Chevrolet are displaying a sign! No Help Wanted, and about 500 men{ are waiting outside. | The workers are showing distinct} signs of revolt and the unemployed} organizing the employed and unemployed of both industries. at left, uncleared land which the poor farmers near Olympia, Wash., are forced to try to eke a bare living from. Right, the unemployed Letters from food and farm workers tell of the great suffering ng unemployment, The TUUL is Photo food workers are organizing in co gether with the employed workers will fight unemployment under TUUL leadership. Photo shows a in the great cafeteria workers’ strike last year in New York. They Slave in Fields, Children Slave in | Needle Sweat Shop : | Horn and Hardart, Big | Discriminates | Bosses Cut Wages Du | dustry is the worst that Philadelph ever for a job. jevery morning there are hundreds of wkers, men and women, waiting in line to get a job of any kind at the miserable wages that this food But the man in charge! uncils of the unemployed, and to- \trust pays. lof employment comes out around 11 o'clock, looks the crowd over and} 'selects two or three of the healthier} |looking slaves and announces “This| jis all for today.” Race Segregation. | Negro help is being hired in aj different hall‘than the white work- Jers.. The division of the workers not only exists in the Automats where they work, but also in the hall scene from a mass demonstration UNEMPLOYMENT GROWING AMONG Chain of Restaurants, Against Negroes e to Unemployment; Workers Must Organize Into Jobless Councils (By a Worker Correspondent) i PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (by mail)—The unemployment in the food in- ia has ever known. Thousands of | workers, white and Negro are walking the streets with no prospects what- | At Horn & Hardart’s employment office at 10th and Locust streets __eeencanneistncnnneaspnamatndte ACW MAN ORDERS INDIANA SPEEDUP OF WORKERS Goes Straight to the Bosses’ Office é DAKOTA FARMERS ster the workers offer to sell their! ypTANOPLIS, Ind—-On Febru- (By a Worker Correspondent) | ‘council anticipates a busy time in| | | labor. lary 13th one of our general officers has she nea ees | a | The unemployment among food) (of the Amalgamated Clothing has yj 7 yr | . | —Unemployed Worker. | Great Suffering of the} parts t Michigan, so it is time we ttle look into what is going | workers is great not only among | cafeteria workers. It also prevails} lamong the other departments, such | Workers Are Als oj Hard Hit Workers) Frank Rosenbloom, came to Indianapolis and instead of him going to the Union office, he went Pa aa {th -a | ey as hotels, restaurants and Junch to the company’s office and had a onin tals pps of the Suey | (By a Worker Correspondent) | (By a Worker Correspondent) |rooms. At the Penn Athletic Club,| conference with the company’s of- NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.| ! | (By Mail).—While the churches are! {busy giving plays, holding card/ parties to raise funds for more dope, } only recently some preacher by the tories with almost nothing as their | pay. For instance, in the Necaunee glove factory and Ishpeming corset In Upper. Michigan there are thousands of women working. Tae | BUNK | BLA majority of'them are working ir fac- | a 7 js the Bellevue Stratford, Ritz Carlton MID , N. D.—U loyment is sascd Lae etal De fea che and the Benjamin Franklin Hotel a, merely. This little prairie city of a|line of workers can be found out- population of 18,000 has now 700 |Side, waiting near the back-door for aianmaloved workers, and the|@ Chance to see the head-waiter or “spring boom” is not yet here. Only |Chef. But even this chance is not) not ficials, ‘ After the conference he visited |the shop with the superintendent and the foreman, going from section to section and investigating the ‘work. i] | | |last week the International Harves- |8iven them. The time-keeper tells! Some of the girl workers went to | . name of Anderson, styled as hailing | fact 1} ty th ies i ne AFL from California, conducted a revival ‘actory —I_ know personally the con- * Jitions of the Negaunee glove aes Wor “S t for a week, ending with a parade z tie Ch I ie ch =! Sund: March 9, called me and tory, for T have been working there. p igh t The factory employs about 90 young| (24,% Wrorner Corvespenden’) at | bible. men and. gvonien, ages averegin€ | so membership by ‘the Union Label |of heaven after you die, thousands In the midst of all this campaign from sixteen to forty-five years. | Teele dong ck axe oe i, {clubs was read at one of our union |of |workers are actually on slow spo point soWors are sae i Frou | meetings of local 8 of the United | starvation all over Arkansas, a fact rich cost -1.25. | YOu Hatters of North America. After|which can not be denied. The capi- A rah 2 ae ee {it was read, our president also ap-|talists and all their big guns are pools Deeaemees = ere tae Live wee ¢(Pealed to us to join and told us of | busy telling the workers how well| Suites “SEPP BOTS {[U? 493 NOL te importance of those clubs and| they arebeing a -aeii/h og ctaet | nine hours. a day. \how cheap the dues are. And as | they are doing, prosperity is around | ARES Oe jen added attraction he said they | the corner. ; 3 ses ab ae bere jour have fine “blow outs” very often. | Ninety per cent of the industries machine sewi the wi 1 | 7 A }are working part time. The rail- four. If the machine goes out of| When you listen to those appeals | rie ers in San Francisco Chinatown if “ A worker correspondent tells of the slavery of young women work- | needle trades sweatshops. These Chinese workers slave in the fields in California; their children slave in the sweatshops. organize them. The Needle Trades Industrial Union must and wlll Worst Needle Slavery laid off some men|them “We don’t need anybody.” which indicates that farm machinery | Cut Wages. i is not moving very fast. Due to the unemployment in oe a Sibel : Could they make Ej y-five families are getting|industries which has thrown thou-|their living on that? raid teens meen from the city |aands of workers out of work injA. C. W. Faker, Orders Speed-ap. authorities. This is the worst year |the last few months, the hotels and) He went on to other sections, ask- we have gone through here, and the |restaurants have been solicited for, ing how long it took for the various workers tell one another that some-| jobs by many of these workers, be-/ operations. Finally he went to the thing must be done about it. The|cause there is nothing to be gotten| inspectors and told them to yet ae Russian solution looks good to them. jin their own trades. So the bosses| Work out faster. Some of Veer tol Workers who are approached, |decided to cut wages and they are) him ba ed percent Lilt out readily listen to the revolutionary jthreatening to fire the workers if the| faster, ia you don’t air an solution of their problems. The|*ut is not accepted. They take un-| 50 NB Le relay to oe ey Daily Worker and the United Farm-|employed workers from different|"ot be very pleasant” he said. \him and showed him their envélopeés. ter Compan: | 1 amine as ‘They were only making from 5 to 7 er are being distributed here and a/trades and pay them less and make| 1 wonder for how long we are go- ing to support such parasites? It in Frisco Chinatow order this i the workers’ hard luck,|¥OU think those people are almost |road shops ave laying off the work- meeting will be held soon to get a|dishwashers or kitchen men out of Weoeude*tt’ tainly isn't fined on serious in believing and trying to | ers wholesale. At the Missouri the boasee”? vie. Oh, NO. It is the |™ake us believe too that the union worker who pays fon that: -Sortae label will remedy all our sufferings. times a®“tudh &s an hour is spent. It Sticks—That’s All. in repaiting the n:achine. But what the hell good is the Few Get $3.50 a Day union label anyway? We have a Only a few average $3.50 a day. union label in our industry and we All work is: examined in different | Stick one in every hat and it sticks— departments. If work is not just | Il, Tt does not show that ti ns in the union shops are in | Pacific, 500 are out, the remaining 1,600 workers are on a 5 day week. |The Rock Island R. R. Co. layed off |125 out of 300, The Cotton Belt R. | |R. Co. at Pine Bluf, Ark. layed off, 125 out of 400. The Missouri Pa-| cific shops have a production man who fires the workers if they can’t stand the speed. satisfactory,it is sent back time and age = | Qn March 9, the Arkansas Demo- | tgain and the workers goes on re- | 8nY bok alan en ables is en jcrat carried a front page feature of | pairing i+, Tf workers stop to wipe | The truth is, they are just as rotten. | 2), 40) building to be erected at the Of course, the bosses do make | cost of $1,000,000, the work to begin |at once and that 200 workers would | be employed. The following morn- sweat for a ‘few minutes, the floor , lady is at their peels with her |S°me use of it for themselves to ad- hurry vp. vertise their hats in working class In these. industrial and manufac- Neighborhoods. They try to cover turing centers, the Communist Party UP with it the inhuman conditions —-A HATTER. (By a Worker SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (By Mail).—In the Chinatown section of | the city 2,300 girls work in dress-making establishments. They are almost | without exception Chinese girls. Many of these establishments are run by the so-called straw bosses. | They get work from bigger establishments. - E | if 12-13 Hours a Day. On gingham dresses girls work piece work 12 to 13 hours daily. There is no lunch hour, the fore- lady telephones to the lunch room to bring sandwiches. The earnings are $2 to $3 a day for these long hours. Mothers often bring their young daughters of 12 years to help trim, fold ete. Electric lights have to be used throughout the day, “sunny” |California), because the shops are long dark rooms. No sani- tion or adequate ventilation. In winter these places are cold like ice-boxes in spite of much warmer weather outside. Pressers can not go home eve- |nings until the last sewed garments are pressed, $8 to $10 a Week. The real or the first-hand bosses exploit the girls just as badly. They work from 8 to 10 hours in many in- stances. Pay is only $2.50 per day. Many work for $8 to $10 per week. Often the girls are forced to work on Sundays during rush season for straight pay. Besides working a long day, many take work home evenings to earn more. Some are forced to take work home, in order to finish rush orders. Because these girls make more than Getting Ready for Future Struggle Under NTW bosses say they would gladly hire (and this is} Correspondent) the others, the main boss in looking over the pay-rolls gets nervous, and} the result is a cut in wages. Chinese | girls accept the cuts meekly, thus seabbing on other workers. Race Discrimination. | Outside of Chinatown it is hard} for Chinese girls to get work. Race discrimination is very bad here. The | these girls, bus are afraid the white girls will not work with them.- This | is to the advantage of the bosses end therefore the white girls are taught to hate these girls of the yellow race. Therefore the bosses offer these girls work to take home, paying them even less than the rate in the shops. Under such conditions the girls work in the state boasting of diffet- ent labor protective laws, among them a minimum wage law of $16 per wee: The A. F. of L. union had no time or desire to organize them. The Chinese girls will only be able to better their conditions by joining with their white fellow-workers in the militant Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union under the leader- ship of the Trade Union Unity League and together demanding shorter hour and higher wages. —FRISCO NEEDLE SLAVE. | Communist unit started in Minot. —AGRICULTURAL WORKER. MERGENTHALER | them. | Those workers that are still on |the job, have to do double work in | many cases, as is the case in Ruben’s | restaurant. This place does not pay the waiters any wages. The waiters |have to depend entirely on tips. And out of what they make they have | {to give 10 per cent to the bus boy,| is time for us clothing workers to wake up and organize under the T. U. U. L. to get rid of these labor fakers and build a real union. ~—CLOTHING WORKER. FISHWICK COAL as the boss pays the bus boy only} ‘Linotype Plant Slaves |young workers inside and outside ithe shop. EXPLOITS YOUTH $8.00 a week. Recently they fired | most of the bus boys and the waiters jhave to do their work also, and | Ruben does not pay them any wages Speeded to Limit (2 Torieer. rea The unemployed as well as the (Bye ui pe! Gotrompondee) | employed food workers in Philadel- NEW YORK CIT¥.—I worked for| shia are joining the food workers the Mergenthaler Linotype Co, in} mployed council, to demand work Brooklyn until Mr, Hanson the gen-|oy wages, eral manager came back from his —Philadelphia Food Worker. two and a half months vacation in Florida. I guess Mr. Hanson spent | aaa opr eee is too much money on his vacation,| TLD Plans Gastonia Defense Week Fight For April 6th to 13th so he decided to lay off men and “Gastonia Protest Week’—April cut expenses. I was one of those laid off. The working conditions in Mer- genthalers are no cinch. We had to work nine hours a day for 20 to StS hie heen eed eaide’ by he 80 dollars a week, and if you are | rnternational Labor Defense as & good machinist they give you | seven days of tremendous protest on more than one machine to work to hehalé of ithe ‘textile’ strike fl make sure that you are busy all | i he e, veneee Perenene ~~ ayesha: also for the unemployed workers ar rae Work ‘rested March 6, especially the New Speedup Young Workers. York delegation, it was announced The young workers in the matrix today. department work for 15 to 20 ¢ol-| The appeal on the conviction of lars a week and are compelled tol the Gastonia strikers sentenced to work .as fast as hell to make a bonus. But the young workers will also organize into the Metal Workers Industrial League and become mem- bers of its youth section to fight for the special demands of the | Raleigh, N. C. | This case comes up almost simul- jtaneously with the trial of the New York unemployed delegation of | Minor, Foster, Amter, Lesten and |Raymond. It has been decided to flood the Carolina and New York courts with resolutions and demands But we workers employed and un- |1i7 years will be heard April 22 in| G0, UNION HEAD /Wasson Miners Getting Start Big Campaign (By a Worker Correspondent.) WASSON, Ill. — Some more of the wonderful conditions that the Fish- wick company union forces the min- ers to work under. In Wasson No, 7 a motorman lost an empty on the ;main road. The trapper phoned the motorman to watch for the empty as he came out with his trip of loads on the road he had a hill to | go down. He had so many loads hung on the motor he couldn’t hold them down the hill so he ran into the empty at jthe foot ofthe hill antl smashed a headlight on the motor. The company fined him $18 for the headlight and took the money thru the wonderful check-off system. Talk about the check-off, they sure have got some. Pay averaged $12 per man for the last two weeks. We are going to stop paying Fish- wick and his fakers. O'Gara No. 10 has already quit. We think we jhave scabbed long enough. The N. M. U. men told us that the bossés would come before the first of April with still worse conditions and lsure are right as I have always |found them to be. The miners out Mail).—Bloody collisions; This is a sample of the reward a | worker gets for risking, losing, or |ruining his life to fight the boss- made wars. My case ought to teach workers what role they ought to employed are organizing to protect ourselves against lay-offs and the} conditions we must work under, We must organize shop committees | of all workers and affiliate with the to free the workers. The addresses of the Courts are “North Carolina State Supreme Court, Raleigh, | North Carolina,” and “Special Ses- | here are getting stronger for the N. M. U. every day. —WASSON MINER. play in the next war. I have joined one of the unemployed councils and advise all workers to do so. One Worker Who better our conditions? Blah. There | are against any struggle by the! at St. Nazaire, France, while in ser- [Union Unity League, under the | after September, 1929, ies ant over the counte¥: This | 2e8 fight to better the conditions! a U hospital, but not a cent o! Fi P li | sickly. % ight olice} Repeated requests for the compen- to four months a year. Two big do something. I.am sure, your mem- | the payment of compensation for the —NEGRO EX-SERVICE MAN. HILLSBORO WORKER. two and wounding 15 seriously. Six |ing a crowd of at least one thous- as Ps +. (and was on hand. Arkansas work- and Young Communist League, as |¢xisting in these so-called union ers, its the T. U. U. L, for us, the leaders..of.jali struggles of the | Shops. a . —ARKANSAS SLAVE. workers, shonld direct their attenti f Labels? —Blah: organize these exploited ~vorkers | We may have union labels sixty | —WOMAN WORKER. 'six times in our industry and in any | ha iaTaeey ‘other industry. Do you think it will} Won't Fight For is only one way to better our con- Bosses Next Time Ps \ditions. This is to fight for it—j jmilitant struggle. | (By a Worker Correspondent) The leadership of our union who} NEW YORK CITY. — I’ve been follow the big fakers who are inj unable to work since November, 15, the leadership of the A. F, of L.} 1929. I was injured May 8th, 1919,| rae workers against the bosses, and do| vice. I had been in France for four- Ball Glass Mill To Bejtheir best to hinder any militancy | teen months and had been in active Closed Down shown by the workers and to create | fighting. After returning I received ¥ illusions in the minds of the work- | compensation until I was able to (By a Worker Correspondent) |@t that there are other ways to| work in 1927. My injury made it HILLSBORO, ILL (By mail) — improve our conditions. The Trade ; impossible for Be ee cations eit leadership of the Communist Party | I’ve been receiving treatments at he workers. | i vas forthcoming for little town of 5,000 is more than half | cea pele ia ken age and anilly. alive cut of work. There are two big} T now face eviction for non-pay- mines here that have been closed! é I mend ioe’ rent go Hatgry’ anid’ cai't for several years. And a big plant| Textile Workers | provide for my wife sho is also owned by Ball Bros. Glass Co. is} shut down. It only runs from three! i y AEs SA | sation which I am supposed to get smelters are doing nothing. And) SHANGHAI, China (March 6, In-|have been met by evasive excuses. you have to pass a physical exami-) precorr { nation to get a job. | occurred in the French concession I sure think it is time for the | petween the police and the workers working ‘class to get together and | of a textile factory who demanded bership would grow, if you could) sudden closing down of the factory only get some of your literature in| and the dismissal of all the workers, here, to get@hefore the public. I) An offer of 15 Chinese dollars a want to loprn pure nee . party, | head’ was rejected. Annamite po- vo please send me all you have. lice guarding the factory then itetee ‘ Yours for success, ‘opened fire on the workers, killing | Jobless Trial of 200 police were injured by flying stones | in Chicago Postponed ie RA | CHICAGO, March 27.—The trial of the 200 workers who were ar- | rested in connection with the prepa- rations for the March 6 mass un- Buildiié= Maintenance Meet for Organization Two mass. meetings will be held on Sun March 30, 1930, One| your shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a weck. Then ask him to post poned until April 21. Gastonia mill workers. of the” gs will be held at the | —-—---— Ukranian fabdy ‘Club, 635 East 13th | St, at 3 p.m, will takes place at the Hungarian Labor # 980 East 8lst St., at 4p. mide ell: The Building Maintenance Work- ers Uniow appeals to all class-con- | scious workers twho realize the ex- istenee of the class struggle and if Ge gonditions existing in | the building “maintenance industry 14 y Eiso come. . about your conditions i (By a Worker Correspondent.) GASTONIA, N. C.—Well, what do you think of that guy Clark ; of Charlotte, that answered Frank | P. Graham’s letter. That guy needs some poor hard working man to cut his freedom of speech off in his throat. 1 don’t know why Prof. Graham didn’t give him | one of those fellows that says nothing when he hears nothing. Clark wanted to know when free- | dom of speech had been denied in North Carolina: It has never been denied by the majority of the people. It was denied by the hired thugs of the bosses, that call them- selves the Black Hundreds, that | + an answer, but I guess Graham is | | w. ate for the Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent, % ee A GASTONIA TEXTILE MILL shot down defenseless workers and couldn't be prosecuted for it be- cause the prosecution was control- led by tho boss class, such fellows as Clark himself, I suppose. Why the A.F.L. Has No “Trouble” And as for organizing labor being denied. It has been denied in the same way. Clark says, the i But | A. F. of L. have no -trouble, | | Read the letter from a Gastonia mill jemployment demonstration has been| worker published today. These workers are preparing for new strug- gles under National Textile Workers Union leadership. \ WORKER TELLS OF “FREEDOM Incidentally He Tells Why A. F. of L’ Fakers Never Have Any Trouble On that Score ) I think that they have had more | trouble with the wholesale murder | in Marion than they can ever take care of and furthermore they are of the boss class. So why should | they have any trouble in organiza- | ‘tion? x | ( Fellow-workers, brand such fel- lows as Clark as a one-sided guy all for the capitalist class. Pay Metal Workers Industrial League. --YOUNG METAL WORKESR FRENCH WORKERS’ DANCE, As part of the movement to or: ganize French speaking workers in New York, the French Workers’ Club {announces a dance and concert Sat- urday night, at Unity Co-operative, A good program of instrumental and vocal music is promised. Tickets can be obtained at the club offices, 400 West 43d St. Prices 50 cents. All workers are asked to help out. no attention to his lies, If he doesn’t believe freedom of speech has been denied, just let him come | to Gastonia and take the stand and speak in favor of the workers of Gaston County and see how long it will be until he will be in the capitalist jail. Join Communist Party. Fellow-workers, join the Com- sions Court, New York City.” Prosperity — As Seen on Boards in Cal. Slave Market By a Worker Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.,—The fol- lowing jobs were listed on the black board ,at the BIG FOUR employ- ment agency, 514 Stanford Avenue. Dishwasher and porter week, Combination Fry cook and waiter 22, OF SPEECH” munist Party. Make the Commun- ist Party strong, because it is a Worker and find out about it, if | you don’t know. Come and join | the Party. f party for the working class. Send f in the application from the Daily | —Another Gastonia Communist, | a eeninernimcetlll $21 week. Dishwasher and waite? $1 a day. Must hold down 2 jobs, but draw one pay with 100 per cent rationalle zation, and plenty speed up for good measure. Join the Trade Unity League. Big Cases in April! ILD Calls for Funds April will be a month of big class war cases! The Gastonia appeal; the trial of the New York Unemployed Delegation; the Beal criminal syndicalist case in Pontiac, Mich; Geo, Saul in Charlotte, North Carolina; erim- inal syndicalist cases in Ole; Powers and Carr in Atlanta, Georgia; Potash and Winograd+ sky, Shifrin cases! The International Labor De- fense, defending all these work- ers, and many others, is in ur- gent need of funds. It calle on all workers ‘and friends of the working class to rush funds to the national office of the 1.L.D., | | York, - 80 East 11th St., Room 480, New} ~