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4 — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930 Paye Thre 7000 OIL WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA ARE THROWN ON STREETS Come to Los Angeles Where Unemployment Is Soaring Rapidly Must Organize Into Unemployed Councils, Worker Correspondent Says (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Following the announcement that the leading oil companies in California had cut down production 45 per cent, due to “overproduction and lack of markets,” 7,000 workers in the oil fields of Southern California were laid off, and have flocked to Los Angeles to increase the already huge jobless army there. They should join Unemployed Councils. —S. F. WORKER. Slave'Drive Perfection Stove Hands (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND.—One of the worst departments in the Perfection Stove, Platt Ave. plant is Press B. The foreman, Otte Kisehell, who is a brute and a slave driver, treats us like slaves, and has our prices eut whenever he can so that he can make his hundred dollars a week bonus. We never see any daylight or get tny fresh air. Its hell for us work- ers here, all darkness except the rlare of the electric lights blinding; as so badly that we cannot see our work, There is a bald-headed stool- vigeon* named “Cigarettes,” who is iupposed to be an inspector. This stool-pigeon spies on us and reports us to the slave-driving foreman. Then the work starts. Of course, the whole factory is filled with these stool-pigeons who live on our labor and are part of the slave-driving system. There is only one way to answer this slave-driver, Otto Kischell, that is to join the Communist Party, the Party of the workers by the workers for the workers. If you workers want to better your: conditions and prices you can do it by forming a Communist Party nucleus in every department in Perfection Stove Company. --A PRESS HAND. Farmers Find Non-Partisan League a Fake (By a Farmer Correspondente MINOT, N. D. (By Mail).—The farmers are beginning to wake up to the fact that the Non-Partisan League is nothing but an office seeker’s organization. For a long time we have been fooled. It is plain that the League does not fight the bankers and the business interests, but co-operates with these capitalistic elements in robbing us farmers. We certainly must have a change and I think the only way we get any change is to get rid of the whole capitalist system. But we eannot do anything by supporting such men as Townley or Sinclair or Frazier, because they mislead us. They want to make us satisfied with the capitalist system, but it can't be done. Right now, when we farmers are having a tough time, Townley and other fakers bring up the fake issue of prohibition. I am glad to see that the farmers will put up their own eandidates in this election and fight for a real program. The Communists and the United Farm- ers’ League have the only program for the poor farmers. real struggle. I favor a —A FARMER. Fight Machinist Misleader Who Attacks Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N,. J.—At the regular meeting of the International Association of Machinists held in Franklin Hall, 41 Franklin St., two comrades distributed leaflets for the T.U.U.L.. These leaflets were dis- tributed before the meeting was called to order. Our president, Charles Nabbe, of Local 340, struck Comrade Albert Granelli, one of the com- rades distributing the leaflets. duration. A fight ensued which was of shori Comrade Granelli struck one blow in retaliation, that im- paired the speech of the president for the rest of the evening, al- though some of the members expressed a wish that it had been a per- manent disability. After the meeting wag called to order, under the heading of good and welfare, these leafleta as well as the movement in general were diseussed pro and con and one of the lacal membera, Thomas F. Fitz- simmons made a remark, “don't give these Communists a break, send | them back to Russia, they're nat white people.” dofended from the floor by the ealibre of men like Nabbe and Fitz- | This remark was simmons whe are nothing more than the scum of the earth, Nabbe is a@ mechanic in the police garage on Franklin Street, across from the union headquarters. ties there. No doubt he learns his labor tac- Thos. F. Fitzsimmons, is a sort of “push foreman” in a small novelty place, and I know that he personally was instrumental in hav- ing two of his ewn local brothera fired from the job. our fight for freedom. skunks of this type ave the ones that attempt to hinder us in | A MACHINIST. Unemployment Hits Electrical Workerg Hard (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN,—Here are the con- ditions as they exist in the Electri- | cians Union in New York. There are 3,000 men out of work. The In- ternational President Broach says, the reason they are out of work is because these men don’t know their business. Here is another dirty lie this labor or pie-card artist says; “Out of the dayroom, 85 per cent of the men out of work ara Jews, and 5 per cent of these Jews don’t know their business.” How is this for labor-faker dividing the work- ers? The men don’t say nothing in the meeting, they are afraid. No member gets up to talk. There is at present a great deal of rag chewing and shadow boxing and lawyers putting their fingers in the pot. Regarding the prevailing wage fight on the subway work. Two big s¢ab corporations have bid for | the work, and non-union labor at 90 cents per hour will no doubt get the work. The union rate is $1.65 per hour which is the prevailing rate, according to the New York law. Other trades are also affected. Only about 10 per cent of the sub- way work is union. The busin manager of this union is a democra- tie captain. Do you expect him to fight for the members? Never was there so much subway work as now, but it is low-paid labor. But Walker | and Whalen and the board of esti- mate do not want to put union men to work. They are interested in giv- ing orders to club the jobless and tell the horse cops to ride on the sidewalks full speed over men, wo- men and children. ELECTRICAL WORKER. Red Hendrix Calls Workers to Fight Hunger “Comrades and Fellow Workers: (By a Worker Correspondent) Chattanooge, Tenn, The time has come for the workers of the world to wake up to the fact that workers cannot continue to live under the capitalist system. We can see millions of goed and honest workers walking the streets starving. Our answer to the capitslint class must be that we won't starve; that we will unite we fall, as everyone knows. and live, United we stand, divided We workers can see very well that there is no justice for workers under capitalism. Take the Ella May case, for example: It was proved by honest and truthful workers she was killed by a thug of the Man- ville-Jencks Co., and his name was given, together with proofs that he did it, but he was freed by the capitalist courts. John Carpenter didn't get down on his knees and throwany hypocritical fits to the jury when he was making the appeal for the thug’s conviction es he did when we seven honest workers were heing tried for defending our lives, The answer of the working class to such capitalist justice must be that the seven Gastonia the memory of Ella May and all other working-class fighters who have fallen in the line of duty, will live in tha minds of the workers, spiring them to strive for what she died, long after the thugs, the Horace Wheelers and John Car- Penters are gone. RED HENDRIX. Gilbert Lewis, | | . ° Arrested at an open air meeting on March 5, mobilizing for the March 6 mass unemployed demonstration, Gilbert Lewis, after a class vengeance trial, was railroaded to the chain gang. Picture above | shows the 14-inch chain riveted to his legs. (Below left) On the rock pile, with the sadist guard in the rear. (Right) Picking a heavy rock which tears the hands. Penniless Negro Toiler |Boss Parliament in Commits Suicide After} France OK’s Young Being Refused A i d| Plan; Get Billions Waverly Burns, a Negro worker, | PARIS, Mar. 30.The Young Plan | who was apparently out of work and| was approved by the French Cham- | penniless, jxmped from a five story} roof to his death at 301 West 151st | 18 | Burns has been refused admit- | . |tence to the Harlem Hospital, where jlower house indicates that the he applied before he decided to com- | French capitalists are satisfied with |mit suicide. are trying to cover up this refusal. | working class. ‘Mass Political Strike uae Is May Day Slogan. “TALK to your fellow worke? in | your shop about the Daily (Continued from Page One) | Worker. Sell him a copy every of the Party, a demonstration direct-| 44¥ for a week. Then ask him to ed against the whole capitalist sys-| become a regular subscriber, tem, and taking the form of a politi- cal strike. In connection with this, against the Soviet Union. | two main tasks face the. Party. First, | May Day, which originated in the to link up the immediate demands of the American working class to-!for the eight-hour day, will be day with the traditional slogans and broadened this year on the basis of scope of the May Demonstration;! preparations for a mass political |and, second, the preparation and call-| strike and struggle for the demands ing of a politieal mass strike.” | The traditional slogan of May. ber tonight when it voted ratifica- | tion of Article I in the plan by 530/ |to 55. Approval of the Plan by the! Hospital authorities jit and look forward to the billions | | that are to be bled from the German | United States in 1886 as a struggle’ of “Work or Wages, unemployment! \Day, “Fight against militarism and! war,” will be made more concrete) with reference to the London race-| for-arms conference, and especially ‘on the basis ‘of the war preparations! insurance for Negro and white work- | ers; against wage cuts, speed-up and | rationalization, and for the 7-hour day and 5-day week and against the capitalist government—watchdog of the bosses.” THE “YOUNG WORKER” | will appear as a WEEKLY on May 1, 1930 Are you a Young Worker? Are there Young Workers in your House? Are there Young Workers in Your Shop? If so, are they reading the Only Working Class Youth Paper in the United ‘Young Worker”. Regular Price A YEARLY SUB TO THE ONE YEAR SUB TO TH PILL THE INC States — The “Young Worker”? Subscribe, Spread, Read the : $1.50 a year; 75¢ for 6 months. DAILY WORKER” AND IT am enelosing $ SPECIAL OFFER DURING MARCH, APRIL, MAY one sub to the “Daily” and one sub to the “Weekly”. to pay for the special offer of TUUL Organizer on Chain Gang STRUGGLE ON EXCESSES\QRGAN| WILL HELP ABOLITION OF KULAKS AS A CLASS Voluntary Members in Farm Collectives | Always Policy Says Pravda | ny “Idiots and Right Wingers Could Think Col- lectives Based on Compulsion Was MOSCOW, March 12 (By Inpre- dertakings against their will. corr Mail).—The “Pravda” declares that the main task of the Communist Party in the village is to consolidate the successes which have already been achieved with regard to the It would also represent no “retreat.” | Were the members of the collective undertakings reduced to the extent of those peasants who were made | members by “decree,” the collectives collectivization of agriculture, and| would not lose on the deal, such upon this basis to carry out the |members were worse than useless. spring sowings’ campaign so that| Only hopeless idiots, such as those the plan for the extension of the area| who filled the columns of the bour- under seed and the increase of the | geois press, could really believe that agricultural products sent to the|administrative compulsion was the | market is carried out to the full, | basis of the collectivization of agri- Only fools would see in this any|culture in the Soviet Union. The deviation from the policy of the | enormous majority of the peasants Party in the struggle for the aboli-|in the collective undertakings had tion of the kulaks as a class. Aj joined them perfectly voluntarily, determined stop to the irresponsible |and just for this reason the Party |measures against the middle peas-| would proceed severely against ai |ants would not interfere with the |those persons who tried to form col- collectivization, on the contrary, it | leetives on any other basis. Any at- ; Would facilitate it and thus speed|tempt to exploit individual exag- jup the process of the liquidation of | gerations, excesses and mistakes for {the kulaks as a class. The Party!a general attack on the policy of | would not suffer from the return of | collectiyization by the right-wing |cows and pigs to those peasants who | opportunists, would be mercilessly ‘had been forced into collective un-|deait with. . | | | | “Rote Fahne” Again Confiscated Today's “Rote Fahne” was again confiscated by the authorities. Mainly on account of the appeal to the Austrian workers to follow the example of the Fiat workers who went on strike temporarily against the so-called anti-terror law, which is in fact an anti trade union bill of the worst type. New Social Institutions in U.S.S.R. MOSCOW, March 8 (By Inpre- ! cor Mail)—On International Wo- | men’s Day numerous new social institutions were opened in vari- | ous parts of the Soviet Union, such as children’s homes and | ereches, institutions for maternity protection, public eating rooms and public wash houses with the most modern equipment, etc. In the Soviet Union women play a prominent role in public life and in all activities for the building up of socialism. Three million women workers are organized in the Iabor unions, 212,000 women are members of the Communist Party, or 14 per cent of the total | membership, and the number of women employed in industry has doubled during the last six years, and now totals about a million. The process of transferring women experienced in production to work in the Soviet administrative and | economic organs is making rapid | progress, | | Soldiers Demonstrated March 6 number of soldiers who arrived at the railway station at Brunn on leave joined in the demonstration on the square in front of the railway station there on March 6. They defied the police and declared that when they were demobilized they would also have to look for work. Despite all the efforts of the police the workers and soldiers remained on the square and continued to demonstrate. An Anti-Soviet Move in Holland AMSTERDAM, March 15 (By In-;£vain from: the Soviet Union. The precorr Mail).—The purchasing [Whole capitalist press of Tolland ee ., |weleomes this decision and uses it central organization of the agricul- |, hiesanus furious campaign ef tural co-operatives of Holland has hatred an Jer tyainst the So- decided not to purchase any more | viet Union, New Reichsbank Head Experienced Exploiter BERLIN, March 11 (By Inprecorr Mail).—In today’s session of the general council of the German Reichsbank, which was attended by a number of foreign bankers, including the Arierjean MacGarragh, the former prime minister of the German Reich, Dr. Hans Luther, was elected Reichsbank president, as the successor of Dr. Schacht. The election took place unanimously, the unanimity being the result of feverish Kuhhandel behind the scenes prioy to the election, Luther ig not @ financial expert, but his previous record (he is the father | of the present reactionary taxation system) guarantees that he will faithfully serve the interests of finance capitalism. As a reward for the activities on behalf of German capitalism Luther is already a director of nine companies and of the German Mortgage Bank and the Krupp concern. GET READY FOR THE: of the NEEDLE TRADES INDUSTRIAL UNION and NON PARTISAN WORKERS SCHOOLS PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia (By Inprecorr Mail).—A considerable | We Meet at the— COQPERATIVE CAFETERIA |} 26-28 UNION SQUARE Fresh Vegetables Our Specialty || GASTONIA STRIKE ANNIVERSARY Big Banquet Celebration, Tuesday, April 1 At 7 P.M. MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 E. 4th ST. Music : Dancing 75c Per Plate SPEAKERS: WM. Z. FOSTER, J. W. FORD, FRED E. BEAL, CLARENCE MILLER, DEWEY MARTIN AND OTHERS Movies of Strike SOLIDARITY DANCE: Edith Segal and Allison Burroughs. | ‘ SONGS: Chas, Burroughs, AUSPICES: National Textile Workers Union and National Negro Department T. U. U. L.- “SPREAD ORGANIZATION IN THE SOUTH” ! | | | THURSDAY FRIDAY APRIL 3rd, to be held at STAR CASINO 107th Street and Park Avenue MUSIC —— DANCING —— BARGAINS —— EVERY NIGHT ~ COME, SATURDAY 4th, 5th, 6th HEAR | SUNDAY) JOHN HARVEY Ni ——S———————————————————————————— Workers! Young Workers! Soldiers! Sailors! JOHN PORTER Just released after having served 20 months in Federal Prisons for his activities in the New Bedford textile strike. MASS MEETING TONIGHT AT 7:30 at the IRVING PLAZA HALL Fifteenth Street and Irving Place Admission 25 Cents Other Speakers Including: ALBERTA TATE Negro Women Organizer JOSEPH F, FOFRICH | CRIPPLED WAR VETERAN | || Secretary of the Young Communist League J, LOUIS ENGDAHL National Seérctary of the Inter- wre oft Keasby, N, Jy national Labor Defense ranch I, L. D Demand the Release of Harry Eisman! | AUSPICES: | INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE | 799 Broadway, Room 422 ZES THE “JOBLESS ON A NATIONAL SCALE Conference Prepares | for Convention July 4-5, | mes, (Continued from Page One) councils, for city committees of the | councils, on which the unions shall | have representation, andj for this | conference to elect an executive jeommittee of ‘ully representa- | tive, to remain in action after the} |delegates go back to their work: of organizing in the localities from | which they came, and to lead in} the preparations of the giant mass convention, July 4-5, in Chicago, | In all essentials, this program was adopted, It includes the de-| mands (published recently in the Daily Worker) for work or wages, | | unemployment relief at the expense of the} employers’! profits and in- heritances, for the seven-hour day and five-day week, for no discrimi- | nation either on the job or in dis- | tribution of relief, against Negroes, | | young workers or women workers. | | Mass Political Strike | The mass political strike is on the order of business for the unem- ployed. There must be greater | demonstrations than on March 6, to force the capitalists and their gov-| }ernment to grant relief and the ! other demands of the jobless. May 1, International Labor Day, is to be a day of conflict, the workers coming | out in masses, striking in the shops, | rallying from the slums and flop houses where the unemployed are forced, and claiming the right to |the use of the streets. | | When a representative of James | |Eads Howe’s “hobo brotherhood” lrose to speak, Delegate Turner of | Washington, D. C,, rose also, and exposed the Howite scheme of fool- | ing the workers and jobless with} promises of “coffee and” when) what they wanted was “work or full| wages” and a social system like that | jin the U, S. S. R. Following Schmies’ speech, all| district delegations put forward) | their speakers. | | Each told of the unemployment, | |eating into the workers’ lives in all |these localities, of the growing re- jsentment toward a system that creates such misery, and of the |heroic demonstrations that took | |place March 6. Against Police Brutality The terrific brutality of the police just before the Chicago demonstra- | tions was deseribed. 200 workers !and jobless were arrested in the | police attempt to smash the March | 6 preparations, an attempt that |failed, for 50,000 workers paraded | |that day. A telegram received by |the Chicago delegation stated that at the hearing Friday, 40 cases were | dropped, and trial of the rest post- | |poned to April 21. Tire delegates reporting from the| South told of the 112-day sentences | on the chain gang with which the | bosses’ government in Chattanooga | jtried to put an end to unemploy-| ment meetings and demonstrations. “But,” explained Lewis, “the chain |gang is a system in the South. | They throw the! workers,| particu- larly the Negro workers, out of their jobs, then arrest them for vagrancy, for not having a job, and put them |to work at no wages on the county | roads.” Demonstrations took place | veral Southern ci Other | ons made similar reports, | All reporters stated that organi- zation had lagged behind the oppor- | tunities which the demonstrations | |had proved existed. A speech by Robert Minor, editor } }of the Daily Worker, speaking in jthe name of the committee of un- employed workers of New York, and | presentation of a detailed plan for organization by Jack Johnstone, na- | tional organizer of the TUUL, took place yesterday. | “30,000 New Members” | Johnstone emphasized the neces- sity of building the revciutionary unions of the TUUL as part of the campaign—‘“50,000 new members before the July 4 convention.” He assailed the prayer campaign of the churches and the bosses against the |Soyiet Union, as preparation for war on the only country which shows the way to actually abolish unemploy- ment. The workers must be rallied Southern Cotton By Myra Page “Myra Page is well qualified workers, “. . . The author performed which discloses in detail the mi no ‘study’ by a social welfare and merciless, by a scalpel with 39 East 125th Street Discounts offered on or |for the workers, derstanding are there, but primarily it is an incisioi 40,000 Are Beachéd; No Food or Flops (Continued trom Page One) talist slave driving of the U. S, Steel Corporation, Standard Oil, Ford, and others, who sweat the land slaves, squeeze the men who go to sea in coffin ships. The drop in production in all basic industries hit shipping, Imports and exports went down. This in spite of efforts of the imperialists to in- crease foreign trade, pushing war preparations at the same time. There has been mass unemploy- ment in the shipping industry all over the world, In the United States, during the so-called “prosperity” of the past few years, about 25,000 out of 80,000 seamen have been out. of work. Now the figure is over 40,000, Trade Drops Further. Latest reports from the Dwpart- ment of Commerce show further de- clines in foreign trade for February with very little likelihood of things getting better soon, Exports have dropped from the high in 1929 of over 16,000,000 average daily value to a little over $12,000,000 in Febru- ary, 1929. Imports dropped from $13,500,000 to $9,000,000, The fundamental factor is the tre- mendous rationalization going on in the shipping industry. Those helped by the imperialist government as part of its drive for foreign markets and its hurried war preparations, “All the men say conditions have never been so rotten since 1922,” said Charles McCarthy, sec- retary of the Waterfront Unem- ployed Council. World-Wide Unemployment. Some of the men ship out to other ports, working without wages, But what do they find? Unemployment in the marine industry is world- wide. In Great Britain 32 per cent of all registered unemployed are marine workers, A seaman in Aus- tralia writing to the “Marine Work. ers Voice” (January, 1929) says: “Things are in a hell of a mess. If anybody told me two years ago that things could get as bad as this I would have told him he was mad. The streets are black with unemployed . . . There is more crime and suicide than ever be- fore.” Suicides among marine workers are growing. In New Orleans not long ago a seaman was pulled out of the rive by a ferry-boat. “I could find no work and was tired of sleep- ing on the levees,” he moaned. * * . Who is Joe? Read in tomorrow's Daily Worker about the U. S. Shipping Board and unemploy- ment and how the shipping bosses get fat mail subsidies and increase the hours of the seamen and rob dock workers of a few day’s wages. Find out who Joe is, to support the only party that stands the Communist Party, in the elections this year. He demanded stricter, more rigid or- ganizational forms, issuing of dues books and stamps (at very low price, of course, a cent a week dues, probably) to the members of the unemployed councils, to fix respon- sibility and give solidity to the or- ganizations. Winning over of the A. F. L. rank and file is possible now, Free the Delegation Foster, when elected to the presi- dium, and Minor, when he spoke, members of the New York demon- stration elected committee, were given tremendous ovations. The conference pledged to build a joint protest movement for the release of the whole committee and the hun- dreds of others arrested in connec- tion with the demonstrations; also to build workers defense eorps to pro- tect speakers and strikers in the coming struggles. The executive committee chosen at the conference was made up of mem- bers nominated by the delegations of which they were a part, and voted }on by the whole conference, They | Were members of unemployment leouncils: one from Buffalo; Kansas | City, 1; Minneapolis, 1; Seattle, 1; |Connecticut, 1; California, 2; Pitts- burgh, 2; Philadelphia, 2; Boston, 2. Detroit, 2; Cleveland, 2; Chicago, 3; the South, 4; New York, 6. In ad- | dition the following delegates were | elected: T,U.U.L,, 2 delegates: Metal | Trades League, 1; National Miners Union, 1 and National Textile Work- ers Union, 1. Mills and Labor 96 pp. 25 Cents. EARLY REVIEWS to write of Southern textile As a southern woman herself, she has lived and worked in mill villages and knows the situation at first hand, “SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS AND LABOR” should be read by every worker in order to understand what is back of the great struggles in the southern textile field.” --GRACH HUTCHINS, author of “Labor and Silk,” a surgical operation upon a portion of the body of American imperialism, an operation isery of the masses, This is worker, Sympathy and un- » sharp a Leninist edge.” —WILLIAM F, DUNNE. Order from- WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS New York City ‘ders in quantity lots