The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1930 Page ES eet T.U.U.L. ORGANIZING TO FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT THRU U.S. A FRANKLIN CO, | ILLINOIS MINES. | SHUTTING DOWN Those Running Are On 2-3. Days (By a Wy arkes Correspondent) BENTON, Ill—The mines Franklin pipe started shutti down one month earlier tl Those that are operating run any 2 or 8 days a week. Strike Threat Scares Bosses. in Photos show scenes in the March sixth demonstration of over 5,000 workers of Denver, Colorado. Denver is the cen- ter of a campaign by the Trade Union Unity League to organ- ize the beet-field and other agricultural workers, most of whom are Mexican workers. The Mexican workers took part in the demonstration on Inter- MORE LAY-OFFS IN CHATTANOOG/ TUUL 1S ACTIV |Become Popular Wit the Workers There (By a Worker Correspondent. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.— In Only a strike or the threat of strike stops the boss from laying off some of the miners and working! the others. This trick was tried out| a while back by the Franklin Co. Mine, Suddenly the eat jump: out of ‘the box, then the mani id, he would work everybody ; Sa eee The wild eat is some convenience, (7Y 4 Werke Comeeene nacre) He each his- appearance when the GREENVILLE, S. C.—When . U. was organized and refuses ed here a few to fees met by mem- at , one Two big shows are in progr present. One at Indianapotis was at Springfield. Join the National Miners Union, under ‘the banner of the T. U.L, and work: ‘with those who have the} onlysprogram for the workers. Read r of Com- ie of the A. F. id was taken out to see nders around the of the south, One Worker Got So They showed Green through the Judson mill, one of the biggest, and showed him what a fine place it was for workers to spend their time. In fact none of the workers were al- lowed to do any work while Faker Green was in the mill. Had To Shine Up For Fakerss. The workers say they had to double up on their work several Disgusted that He Hit a, B. oF L. mail heads in the floor looked like silver and all section on and small boses had to dress up and put on collars and ties and all the workers were made to get in the back alleys acd be stting down. playing and pretending to be with no work to do. | hours before the appointed time | | for the visitors who numbered about 20 people, all bosses of | some kind, mill and labor fakers | all helped got orders to clean up | | at 1 o’clock and worked up to | | the time the visitors entered the | | happy At other times the workers are not al without |stopping ever worked through the dinner hours and the workers say that even the lowed to stop for anythi If the Daily oe and the Coal Dig- ger. ILLINOIS MINER. HONOR GASTONIA STRIKERS, APRIL 1 AnniversaryBanquet to Build Organizaton On Tuesday evening, April 1, the National Textile’ Workers Union. will celebrate” the" anniversary of the Loray, Gastonia, N. C. mill strike with a banquet to be held at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., jen York... The. program will in- (By a Worker D. | that ordered the police to club the per year. Of « op e it with Henry ¢ of a million a day, but never tell what another 0 will do, since the re so prompt to re- rendered, through 1 tool Mayor Bowles, know what Hoover means by prosperity. And don’t think there is any fool- about chief clubber E e is just as good a c our nice Mr. Whalen vy York, The jobless have » to the conclusion that he is st as good a ruling class protector ev ordered a hickery club, to to Ford’s quart still, one ¢ {clubbing or ec clude a play, “White Trash” pe formed by the Workers Laboratory | Theatre.. The “Solidarity Dance” by chase Alison Boroughs and Edith Segal) > of the Red Dancers Group, and Ne- gto folk songs by Charles Boroughs. |, Also movies of the strike will be shown. The speakers are Wm. Z. Foster, Fred Beal, who was sen tenced to twenty years in the North anes he Carolina Penitentiary,for his leader- frie 7 ere sah ‘ tH Ae ship in the Gastonia strike; Clarence | ifore pe There is atablately Miller, national secretary of the | to expect a recurrence of union and J. W. Ford. events,” but the jobless The Loray. mill strike was the first | “he ain’t seen nothing yet.” called by thé National Textile Work-| —DETROIT JOBLESS WORKER. ers Union in the South. Under this| dE Ee ERS leadership 1700 workers voted to) (By « Worker Correspondent) come out. on April 1,-1929. They| DETROIT, Mich—Most of you were immediately evicted from the; have heard of the unemployment | ill houses ‘and the union head-|“emonstration in Detroit and how ;no rea: quarters were raided and destroyed | We were ridden down, beaten and | by masked men, police badges,|Clubbed when we answered the call dropped by. the raiders, were later | to demonstrate against our miser- found. = The ‘union. tesponded by| ble and worsening conditions. building its own headquarters and| ,. Many Ex-Service Men. They we over 100,000 of us setting up a tent colony. On June 7 men organized by the Man-} Te Sentles Bon enc’ of the Police attacked us. Many fo them Loray mill, were led by police against myself were unemployed: ex* the workers colony.» However, a de e-men who were anxious to let | fense guard had already been or- the world know that we were willing | ganized and the strikers defended to work and wanted either “rork or] themselves ‘when their hall and the| read. We had fought for “cemo- tents were fired on. nd now we were demon- fet in Gastonia‘ lata the ng with the rest for the right sis for uniting the Ne-| gto and white workers in the South, | where a very strong race prejud exists, for struggle against their comnion enemy—the bosses. around Campus Martius when the | w with my own eyes some of | that “democracy,” also how and by hom these “Red Riots” are started. Men, women, and children were rid- |den over, clubbed and beaten by The Negro department of the|these thugs—called police— who Trade, Union “Unity League is col-| soomed to enjoy Si joy this chance to show Iaborating with the N.T.W.U. in the) off and gain the favor of the bosses. anniversary’ ‘banquet. |How I did wish for the ofd equip- INTERNATIONAL At the very minute we “hungry »le were being clubbed by orders Local 38 Refuses To Be Ruled | by. Graft ayor Bowles, the bosses’ mayor, |we were ng for bread, Mr. ponies as being escorted by a} ard to the Stater Hotel American Legion” had a stimptuous dinner waiting for him. Ex-service men, don’t let those| and agents of the bosses | ‘ertain of these organiza- At an eiToriadtic. meeting Wed- ng: “Join us and fight | nesday evening in Brooklyn the rank and file of Local 38 of the Lathers International Union (A.F.L.) de- cided to severe all connections with the international and to establish an fadependent union. A delegation had been in Cleve- land twice, demanding that the char- ter of Local 38 (Kings County) be st to li \for the bonus!” Buddies, they really mean fight your hungry ‘neighbor. Don’t bite on that old bonus gag 's only a bait. Stick by the Unemployed Coun- cils, with your neighbor for bread for us all and against the coming capitalist war. Join the working class party, the Communist Party and fight with and for your class. not much, if you?- Two Workers Talk On March 6th in Detroit Correspondent) TROIT, Mich.—Police Commissioner Harold H. Emmons, the guy jobless when they demonstrated for “work or wages” on March 6, has just been given a $2,000 raise in salary, handed him by Mayor C. Bowles, which brings his salary up to $10,000 NEW STRIKE BY PHILA. TEXTILE MILL WORKERS Aberle Strike (Bu a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Addition- al hosiery knitters |went jout on strike in the Kensington section, when the workers at the Artcraft Silk Hosiery Mills, M. Street and Erie Avenue went out. strike, the H. C. Aberle, the Rodg- ers, the Quaker City and the Art- craft. At the Arteraft mills, knitters had been working as much as 60 hours a week, and the girls here had been working 54 hours, The man- agement of the mill claimed willing- ness to “arbitrate” on all points ex- cept recognition of the Union, and also claimed only 20 per cent of the workers had struck, The U. T. W. officials claim all| the workers have struck and that the Artcraft executives have “broken faith” with them, bringing in seabs from Reading. The Aberle strike was “arbi- trated,” and the workers sold out jand ordered back. The N. T. W. never sells out! ..—PHILADELPHIA WORKER. SPECIAL MARINE ARTICLE MONDAY ‘To Be Illustrated With Many Photographs On Monday the first of a seties of special articles on the shipping industry will be published. These articles, to be illustrated with ori- ginal photographs and drawings, |will expose the war preparations of |the bosses in the marine industry; the tremendous drives for world markets; mass unemployment along the waterfronts; speed-up on the seas and on the docks, and the mis- erable conditions of the sailors. These special features are the re- sult of a first hand investigation made by Harry Gannes, in co-opera- tion with the Marine Workers’ League. Be sure to obtain The Daily Worker and follow this inter- : feestored. This charter had been re- i ; fwoked. by the international, vith AN EX-CORP. _|esting series. Dictator McSorley at its head, in|; > {ho local, “to Keep you windbags order to force the members of Lo- 88 to join Local 244, so that his tools, Ed. Anglin, William Cohen, Frank Ingrassio and Spiegel should | be able to draw theri $125 weekly wages and more from the union ury, as the dues in Local 244 are $5, while in Local 38 they are only $3. The delegation was told by McSor- ley in Cleveland that they must take orders from him and ask no ques- tions; he said: “I have you in a bag quiet.” rve You.” t will not join Local eSorley, “I’ll whip in line by the use of the District Coun- cil, and some that I can’t, I'll put up a fire against and keep them out jfor good. I'll starve them into it’ “ai |The delegation left, informing him that as long as he took the attitude of a dictator, he would have to face a long struggle for control of Kings County, which may mean the de- and I am going to squeeze you,| struction of the A. F. of L. power whether you like it or not.” When|ir Brooklyn, as all other trades are told that the rank and file of Local |i me straits. kick them out of Brooklyn and eventually from the whole metro- politan area, An organization committee to gov- ern the affairs of the Local, was U.T.W. Sellout of the! That makes the fourth hosiery mill | mill, which was about 3 o'clock, Southern ‘Mill Workers thes’ re Wise to AFL national Fighting Day Unemployment. HE world shook to the teak oe i millions of unemploy id striking workers on March 6! Under the leadership of ate Communist Parties and revolutionary trade unions in all capitalist countries millions of masses showed their determination to fight starvation and misery, to which a dying capitalist system has con- demned them. In the work of organizing these great demonstra- ||} tions, especially strikes of workers still on the job, shop papers played no incensiderable role. In the auto plants of Detroit, the electric plants of Pittsburgh, in the industrial shops of Philadelphia, wherever our Party nuclei publish shop papers the workers in the shops were mobilized for March 6! But the fight has but started! To mobilize the workers in the shops for the National Unemploy- ment Convention is the central agitational task of all shop papers. WITH THE SHOP PAPERS ™" * * * WORRYING FORD HENRY FORD, arch exploiter, and much-quoted authority on every subject under the sun, may not have many worries. But can wager that one of his pet worries is that virile shop paper, “Ford Worker.” Ford often raises a hundred and one fake issues to draw attention away from the terrific life-sapping speed-up in his plants. But the “Ford Worker” lays bare the methods this exploiter of thousands of workers use in extracting ever greater profits. The philanthrophies of the Fords are shown up for just what they are. coe * SOME MORE “GOOD WILL” A letter from a Ford Worker in a recent issue of the “Ford Work- er” gives a good insight in some of the workings of the Ford plants. inn a Dear Comrades: In Department N711A the men on the midnight shift were told to come without fail to work, the fact that Thanksgiving day is supposed to be a legal holiday made no difference. After travelling to the Rouge plant at the grave yard hour all men were told to go home. First they told to come in and then chased home despite the fact that many had a long way to go and street car service is not very good at the zero hour. elected. The left wing points out that the members of Local 38 have now heard and convinced themselves through their own delegation of the rotten, grafty character of the A. F. of L. misleaders against which the left wing had already warned them. They have decided to get rid of those suckers: They have severed all connections with the whole gang of bureaucrats and gunmen. But they cannot stop here. In order to 38 wouldn't submit to the gangster) The mombership signed all_ the and grafter officials of Local 244,| resolution condemning the A. F. of | he said it was good to have gunmen|L. burcaucrats and promised to| consolidate and keep the gains they made they must join the Tims) Union Unity League, Such is the wonderful thing called the “Ford Spirit.” It makes sure that we workers feel like slaves, we are kicked about from pillar to post. The star men, the foremen, the straw bosses, all of them have but one reason to keep their jobs and that is more slave driving, more speed-up. We can only stop this when we put up a united resi T for one say let’s organize! —Y MAN. IN MELLON’S DOMAIN THE Westinghouse Workers Bulletin, issued in Pittsburgh, Pa., fine little shop papers. In this domain of Mellon and Grundy the bosses profits have soared sky-high at the expense of workers’ health and life. Speed-up is rampant in Czar Mellon’s duchy. Low wages and lay-offs are its accompaniments. But with the Westinghouse Work- ers Bulletin on the scene, the workers have a fighting chance to expose all this, and organize for a determined fight against such conditions. Read how the Westinghouse Workers Bulletin shows up the profits of Mellon and his boss friends, and how they get. it, “Our” Company Doubles Its Profits. The bosses of the company, Mellon and his boy friends, are not in favor of a workers and farmers government in the United States. They br oes satisfied with the present order of things. Why shouldn't they The company has just announced that in the first six months of is a 1929, their profits were $13,131,811 after depreciation, interest, taxes, | advertising and the salaries of flunky officials had been deducted, as compared to $7,860,755 made in the first six months of 1928. Orders received in the six month period ending June 30, 1929, amounted to $121,184,546 as against $94,394,717 in the first half of 1928. Every man, woman and child working for the company has on an average presented the stockholders $314 in the last six months. $313 was given by every worker to those who did not do a minute's work. When will we get these conditions? The only answer is when you fight for it. effective! Join the Communist Party and fight the bosses! ae Rate Man—The Real Boss. The rate man is the uncrowned king in the shop and most of them are contemptible, He sets the rates, later cuts them and does pretty much as he pleases. If the foreman wants a job out he must await the pleasure of the rate-man. The foreman is only an appendage and starts where the rate mar Joavas off. tance. | We must organize our shop committees in order to be | Against fired : WILLIAM GREEN SHOWN ALL THRU GREENVILLE MILL BY THE BOSSE Faker with a Bobbin | | er was fired at once to please previous letter mention more I have mentior veral firms that have cut th In this letter I v firms. Clemans Bros., furniture dealc \have reduced their working for Sterchi Bros. & Fowler reduced t | wages of the workers 25 per ce: {Columbian Iron Works reduced th« working time from four to thr days a week. Men are continuous jbeing laid off for good. U. S. Pipe Works reduced 14 | working from 5 1-2 days to>5 ide 1 to the big faker, but was put back per week. Worker i peg a to work later. | Miller Bros., the largest depa ee Lhe ae Well, after they made the |ment store in Chattanooga c ; nus rounds of thé show places and workers’ wages 20 per cent. Me Green’s outfit was being hown the mills they had supper at a | workers were laid off permanent 1 the nill, One \ Jeo hotel, bosses, fakers and all. | Meanwhile the workers, Ne; pOUD EHO eye The bosses love the fakers, |and White, are growing restles: pa aoe Join the W. I. W. \ are looking for aid. The T, U. U. eck, The wo \ —JUDSON MILL HAND. Blawnox Steel Men’s | Lungs Are Eaten Up (By a W. robbs vikan Corpenenitent) SPRINGDALE, Pa., (By Mail).—I happened to take part in the! demonstration in Pittsburgh and got my head cracked and was also arrested, but the LL.D. was right on the job and got us out on bail, I was unemployed then, MONT, FARMERS WERE WITH THE _ WORKERS MAR. 6 at a Detroit Worker Thinks of It (By a Farmer Correspondent) | RAYMOND, Mont.—The farmers out here have been waiting to hear | lof the success of your unemployed demonstrations’ March 6th. | Tonly get the Daily Worker about twice a week so'I have not heard about the demonstration as yet. It seems strange that there are so many workers that can not catch on |to the game of the capitalist class. | There is no reason why us work-| of capit: $ here all sm—Editor). | e have to do} what belongs to us (which is le only after | overthrowing the capitalist system | and the establisment of a Wanker | and Far i eight good crops of wheat Avail 1921 up to 1928 and 1929 was a failure. , We lost it by dry weather. In good) years we grow from 2,000 bushels to} |1,500 bushels of wheat. | I never used a farm machine, but | I always think of how much money the capitalists have made out of] jus farmers and workers. FARMER. a7 Wy tie (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich. (By mail).—The {demonstration here on March 6 was annot have plenty (except the | |the most wonderful I ever saw. More | | than 100,000 |around City Hall. | The demonstrators certainly had the spirit. And now, to make things wor! workers crowded have raised the street car —Unemployed Auto Worker. W. LR. CLOTHING STORE 542 BROOK AVENUR Telephone Ludlow 3098 Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing Class Work Done led for and Delivered All profits go towards strikers and their families, YOUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS! sHOow This Sunday Between 2 p. m. and Midnight TICK Zz for the unemployed, the city | 2 50 cents Im adv: ja ventilating but recently I got a job in the Blawnox ynox, Pa. I work in the galvanizing department and get ©40 cents per hour. The air is full of acid fumes where the steel is first dipped to eat all the rust ind dirt | off before it is galvanized. Lungs Eaten Up. It also eats up your lun and |after a couple of years, you inight as well call yourself a dead man. We work from 7:30 till 5 p. m. and get 45 minutes for lunch, which we can’t eat on account of breathing the sickening fumes all morning. But if you don’t like it, there are hundreds of workers outside the fac- tory gates who would be delighted to have your job. All this for the wonderful wage | of 40 cents an hour. These workers must be organized in the T, U. U. L. for a better wage, shorter hours and system which will carry the fumes away from the | workers, —STEEL SLAVE. Circle 1699 Saxophone fpowne Sulte RED HOT MUSIC by DAN BAKER “THE CHEF OF HOT TUNES” and his ORCHESTRA 1658 Broadway Roseland Bldg. jal Rates to Daily Worker Readers. is going right ahead with its w« here and is becoming very popu ——!among all workers. —A Chattanooga Worker. FIGHT PIONEER’S SCHOOL OUSTIN Show Up Fakery (ae Sup’t O’Shea School authorities aré taking’ stey > to expel Bernard Kaplan, a membc * of the Young Pioneers of Americ: , as part of the bosses’ terror agains workers’ children who stayed out «/ school on March 6 to demonstrat. with the thousands of adult workers against unemployment and for fre> food, clothing and medical care fev the children of workers, After being suspended for..tw» weeks by Mr. Maguire, principal ¢° Junior H. S. 61, a hearing was ha’ with Dr. Wade, district. superintenc- ent of schools, After making threats of expelling Kaplan, Dr. Wade said he would be very lenient with him and transfer him to another school. When Kap- lan applied for his transfer he was refused it. Wade is at present recommending O’Shea, superintend- ent of schools that Kaplan be ex- pelled from school. _O’Shea made a statement “That no principal shall suspend or persecute children for taking part in Commu- | nist activities.” Just the opposite is happening. . On St. Patrick’s day the catholic children were allowed to take part in their religious demonstration, but on March 6 workers’ children were ‘not permitted to take part in the |working-class demonstration. The Young Pioneers and the LL.D. are \ fighting this persecution and for the right of workers’ children to take 'part in working-class activity. 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