The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1930, Page 3

UNEMPLOYED MINERS, ‘MILL WORKERS WILD G0Y, . AUTO WORKERS UNION LOCAL GROWS \S HUDSON LAYS MANY TOILERS OFF ‘ Frorherss tay. in Plant Against Foreign-Born | orkers; Lay Off, Remainder Work Like Hell [wo and a Half Days a Week Average Work for Those Still Employed in Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT.—On Wednesday, March 19, workers in the Hudson | slants were notified that they were laid off until Monday. Previous to} | | | his the men had only been working from two and a half to four days na week. The bosses have been promising the men five days’ work ‘or a long time but so far the average has been two and a half days a 7 ®week. On several occasions the fore- a jmen have come around on psy day SA INE MIN land told the men that the pay was |small because there were too many | fabense Suffering for fae bre akes time to develop anything that | drivers may be. en of them running in Saline hot and thirsty and had to have a men in the gang. So. in order to Jobless Diggers The bosses have been telling the | $ good for the working class. No Water During Working Hours. founty. ‘Two mines just went down | ‘tink, the foreman replied that if| pa; Diss Foreign- make it possible for the men to earn some bonus he would lay some of f them off. The result would be that the remainder would have to) | work like hell turning out as much} | work as before the lay-off,-while the would be even smaller. imination Against od |men that all those without citizen- | (By a Worker Correspondent) |ship papers would be laid off. And | ELDORADO, Ill.—The prospect is | that was being done in order to give | doking better. every day in Saline|work to citizens. Many workers founty for the. National Miners jhave already been fired. However, Inion. Some of our comrades get| this does not apply to foremen, Evi- lue in Saline County, I guess the|dently the company doesn’t give a} ame as n other sections. But it/damn what nationality their slave-| Cemiat ee recswe In the cowl ‘department several The workers themselves | must! workers who had gone 20 steps to| tave patience and get ready for pet a drink of water were bawled | he struggle. “Saline County is hg | out by the foreman and told that in| fe hs itd eta halt: future they must wait until the noon | Pee eng aout Tiare (nour to'get a drink of water. When | Perabhae te patting and ‘only about |the men told them that they were \they didn't like it they could gct| kere moines fee aioe Five men were fired because | ore |they insisted on demanding this hu- | he rest to go down. In White County there is one mine E || hich failed to pay off about two Hudson Local Growing. veeks back. In Galliton County! On Wednesday night there was 1! @ree mines are down and two another meeting of’ the Hudson lo- hers running on a scab «bas' cal. The members succeeded in 1} Which is just about half scale. All; bringihg several Negro workers to ese mines are in an hour from) the nieeting, and promise that at the | Tldorado. inext meeting they're going to bring ‘The miners are waking up mote| Women workers down also. This lo- | ivery day to these facts, for we|Cal is determined to make its chal- {| how them what is in frent of their |lenge that it will bring in more] | (yes. I am sure the miners will members than the Chrysler iocal. itruggle in Saline County this sum-| Nominate Candidates-for Red Inter- ner, Comrade Gwaltney and I put | national of Labor Unions Congress. | jut the leaflet, “Out of a Job” to Hudson Local Driving Ahead. Yo, 12 O’Gara Mine, which was clos-|_ Members of the Hudson local are ng down and asked them out and to| displaying gieat activity. They are | || tet into our denonstration on March | distributing leaflets inside and out: | 4, They all took them. We sure |side of the shops, visiting the homes vill win and lead these men before|of prospects and bringing in new} he summer is gone. members every day. —ELDORADO MINER. —HUDSON AUTO SLAVE, In the Field of Sports 6 Basketball Games; Junior Baseball Now \man right. Pian Baseball League for the Workers One year’ has passed since the| The Labor Sports Union is devel- Zastern District Junior Section of | oping a campaign for a national he Labor Sports Union was born. | baseball tournament to be composed { basketball conference ushered in| of worker baseball players. L.S.U. he T.U.U.L.-basketball cup tourna- | | baseball leagues are now being built | hent, in which 17° teams played over | in the various dist: , and city and | ‘6 games, |distriet conferences will be held in} _ Preparations are now rapidly go-|every important industrial section | ng forward to build a tremendous of the country for the purpose of | vaseball tournament. By April 25,| giving these leagues and the base- | vhea the first convention of the) ball connections final organizational | astern District Juniors will be|form, for working out the plans for | leld, it is expected that several ju-|the baseball activities, schedules, | tior leagues will already be func-|inter-city and inter-district competi- | ioning in the metropolitan area, tions, ete. Build the Labor Sports Union The labor sportemen are organizing to fight the athletic ae in- stitution of capitalism. Join the Labor Sports Union. , ” These who wait by the thousands before the Ford plant at River Rouge, De- for non-existent were workers, troit, jobs, early this week when they found themselves again deluded, with a handful of jobs for 000 = workers. fought and routed pos lice whu tried to di perse them, and storm- ed the Ford , employ- ment office. Note w angered They en, and extremely young workers shiver- ing in line. These workers will fight wn- der the leadership unemployed councils. 0) \ & ‘WITH THE SHOP ‘PAPERS AVELLA COAL Ee DAY, 1930, will be a momentous day for iv ame | American workingclass. Today, when a dying capitalist system condemns millions of producers and their families to slow starvation, and saps the very life-blood of those at work, the fighting traditions of May 1 will be the inspiration for greater battles against capitalism. The great slogan of the 8-hour day rallied hundreds of thousands of workers for battle in the ’80s. Today, the slogan for the 7-hour, 5- day week, Work or Wages for the Unemployed, will be the rallying battle cry for millions of the workingclass. The test of the party will be in the mobilization of the workers in the shops for a mass political strike. Upon our shop nuclei and shop papers depends the organization of this great event. The extent of the influence of our shop papers will be shown in this great mobilization test as never before. MOBILIZING THE STEEL WORKERS Already, in the March issue of the “Sparrows Point Worker”, is- sued in the Bethlehem Steel plants of Baltimore, the slogan for a mass political strike has been raised. That the steel workers are ready for | struggle is clearly reflected in the many letters in the “Sparrows | Point Worker. The Vicious Circle. (Written by a Bethlehem Steel Worker) ‘Thousands of steel workers working in the mills who are in debt to the company may often wonder why they can never emerge from debt. The company gives us just enough wages to buy food, clothing and shelter in order to restore energy in our bodies for the next day’s work. Even this is exaggerated; many workers don’t even get this. Thus we find ourselves in debt for bare necessities of life. * * Demand Lifters! While the Bethlehem Steel Corpération is spending millions of dollars on more plants and new machinery to create additional profits, there still exist back-breaking burdens for the workers in the Tin Mill, especially from Mills No. 13.to 35 where the furnaces are not equipped with lifters. We should demand this equipment and refuse to squeeze out more energy in order to satisfy the greed of the bosses. We have had enough of lifting 72 pound packs in the intense heat. Workers! Guard your health and backs. Organize and fight for your demands! * —A MILL WORKER. * * * Capitalist economists of all shades and stripes grow lyrical in singing praises of the “industrial democracy” of employes represen- tation (company unionism). The workers in the Sparrow Points plants know something about this instrument of boss efficiency. Read what took place" when a worker on the employe representation committee dared ask for a wage increase, * * * Employes Representative Fired. To the “Sparrows Point Worker”: Just recently an employes representative was fired from the Pipe Fitters Department in the Tin Mill because he demanded for the work- ers an increase in wages when the working hours were reduced from nine and a half to nine hours. Surely the workers can and must see the hypocricy on the part of the company. The workers must organ- ize into the Metal Workers Industrial Union, which fights for the workers to secure better condttions. —A PIPE FITTER. Sometime ago a Professor Carver laid claim to the stupendous discovery that the workers were buying up control of industry by buy- ing stock. A new era was dawning! We are to be in the same class with Charlie Schwab, and maybe share his millions with him. Then came the dawn! But read what a worker in the Sparrows Point plant writes about it: * A Letter from a Negro Worker. F To the “Sparows Point Worker”: This month all Negro workers were ordered to go to the office to sign up for Bethlehem stocks. We don’t want no stocks, but there is so much gossip going around that men are fired or made to feel sorry if they don’t buy none. When we go into the office, we have to take our hats off and act just like slaves, otherwise Mr. Schrock is made very angry. But that ain't all. He insults us workers, as if we were like so much scrap. “Well, how much shares you're going to take out,” he says in a sneering way, He knows we are made to buy them. They got us bluffed, If we buy one share it means $4.00 out of our pay, for one year. But he says: “Take two out—you got it for the same money,” and he don’t say it takes two years to pay, because if you buy two they take out $2.00 for each share from every pay. Many of us are paying our stocks from last year, or two years ago, but still we have to take out new stocks. A list of the workers that don’t buy is turned into the office to keep the workers in fear and say ‘that they aren’t loyal to the company. Tell the workers what to do about that. $ —A NEGRO WORKER. * « a §. Labor Sportsmen|~ ‘Attend World Meet The Labor Sports Union of ha ‘ea has been invited to participate. in the ational track and field neet which will take place this com- tig June in Berlin, under the aus- wicon of the Red Sports Interna- fonal together with the opposition ind the expelled groups of the social- tascist Lucerne Sports International Plans are now being worked out for the raising of finance to send at east four track and field athletes vo Berlin for participation. Siren aa Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent, (By a Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N. J.—Fellow Slaves, I attended the unemployed meet- ing in Military Park, Newark, but~ could not get near enough to hear the speeches. But what I did no- tice was a bunch of sleek insur- ance employees on the roof of the American Insurance Building jeering and yelling at the hungry, the siarving masses who were trying to use their only weapons, | Somebody asked him if he was a MINERS FIGHT UNEMPLOYMENT | Are Being L Led by the (By a Worker Correspondent) AVEL: Pa.—In Avell | mines work one to two di |sometimes three | Grove (Studa) Mine of the Ic ‘oal Company last week we |five hours. And when we do v jwe do not make anything 7 weight of the cars, which 55 to 65, has now been ed at & jto 45. It is the same cars and t} jsame coal, only the weight of th jears suddenly changed. No more work is allowed fer, or very litt | I recently cleaned 5 cuts of coal |and slate (rock), 10 yards of neck room and had 4 feet of slate cn toy \of the coak I worked on that place !11 days, 6 days on coal and 5 d |on slate and got $24 for the co: | N.M.U. | MEY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, , UNEMPLOYED WORKERS POUCH a |$4.80 for the slate. The ¢ |worked on the slate I got 96¢ |day and the expenses on top, and |worked like a mule. There is slate lin this mine in practi |room or entry, and the loader to clean it up almost nothing. erage wage of the coal load 2 to $4 a day when the min: t our local union h ational Miners’ Unic brothers who ‘ive in company hc report that some of the famili jall over the camp hunting for sor \thing to eat, One woman lmy house just at supper t asked for something to eat |self and her family. She sa jnever had anything to eat since th |day before, and I can’t get anything |from the company store, becav jmine does not work this wee! company does not care if you and |your family starve.” At the Duquesne Cal Compan Aurora mine the starvation is just the ‘same as at the Studa Carnegi Coal Company mine. can get something to eat in the ¢ pany store, he has got to go into the mine and load two or th cars {coal and then come out and something to eat. Last week “1 solini” the superintendent, put ou a new rule: Those who le: company house will get no work. is there any work for single m whether they live in the company house or not. There is no work for them. They had already been worl ing two or three days a week on At the Pittsburgh Mine No. 9 they pay no more yards in the ent nd no more for slate. They were get- ting 45 cents per car about th months ia but now they get iioth- ing. The Avelta Coal Company Peno wa Mine was working every d til last week. I do not know they y are working at all now, or only a jfew days a week. We are building many local unions of the Nationa! Miners’ Union in this Avella Section, to get ready to fight for better wages and working conditicns. The N M. U. and the The Before a man fight for the miners ard for th: working class in general. All min ers should be members of the Na- tional Miners’ Union. —Avella Worker ¢ pordent. their voices, in protest against hunger, slavery and unemploy- ment. { just had to go away, be- cause if I had stayed I would have created a riot on my own. I heard a voice behind me saying, “Only a couple of Russian Kikes.” that I have been in Newark 7 years and the only square deal that U ever had was. from these “Russian Kikes,” as you call them. You are one of those birds who, after having sucked their blood, their strength, their manhood and their lives from them, say “If you don’t like it why don’t you go back?” You are like that bunch of skunks on that roof; you have. got a fat job, so have they. You capitalist. He showed his ‘ands and said, “Does my hands 'ook as if 1 was a capitalist?” 1 turned and said “Yes.” Let me tell you | { jeer at the hidgry, the underpaid, the starved. An Ex-Service Man J saw service in the Philippines din China, in Nicaragua, and also as a lieutenant under the French flag. I was in Russia as a young man; I saw men in | Odessa beaten with the flat of | swords, but believe me, I have | s worse here in these United Stgtes. When a man asks for a T. U. U. L, are the only unions that | | of FROM. A STARVING WORKER, WHO DEMONSTRATED Saw Red When Sleek Insurance Office Men Teered fobless Who Were Demonstrating | | 1939 Page Three =a ener POLICE JOBLESS eROW;, “MILLS LAY OFFI | _LEHIGH VALLT for Organizi: Under TUUL Ripe (By a Worker Correspondent ALLENTOWN, Pa.—New tr » being used here by the mill o order to improve their pro expense of the workers. rs in the Edna Mill w jrecently laid off. The‘ bosses’ + | plained that the mill was att !down because of slack b the workers at the the we lowing v e following we the old work« new ‘staff s. These workers’ were hi 10 per cent reduction in wag ly paid to the old work Struck Against W: A few m¢ ago in this mill struck against imposed upon The mill o these workers ag: laid them of cut SLEYS ie fight cut, would the new and’ hired’ n ‘hands, thereby putting through th ag back Ww. New York. ce in the use sue you a the first year and $2 for re- | wage cut and new efficier schemes. Lay-Offs in Arcadia t ‘ f th . In the Arcadia Mill, the bos: ethan forced the knitters to operate 1] I I machines instead of the 8 operat the [by them in the past. As a res the |of this speed-up and increase of p duction, the entire night shift w laid off. Many of the day work e of |were also laid off this week, t you | bosses stating that the mill was ct tailing its production for a wee . {It is quite evident that this is not ing but = new scheme to further i troduce speed-up methods and wa; reductions. The resentment of the workers ! both of these mills is becomi aroused kgainst the mill owners, ar they are taking militant steps Talk About Speed aborer ition one the company t con- “hat is ing done by the | Inc. 7 ob 10,000, and Mr. This company nis city, ind t all. companies of thé |fight back against this latest a lL to pay their men |tack. Hundreds of leaflets we nize the union. | distributed to both of these ar npany and I| many other mills, calling upon tl wi ri bout. They | workers to fight back against thes L r refu the men new speed-up methods, wage cut wealt 1 ‘ :’ | ete. by rallying to the organization: forge for one day’ 's | conference, which s held by th k speed-up. This | N. T. W U.. March 30, at 411 Hamil more anization of ton street. This conference was the beginning: of a wide organizational campaign to organize and prepare the mill workers of the Lehigh Valley for a struggle against the bosses. A good {representation of delegates are ex- pected to attend this conference. All | mill workers are urged to attend in and cripples to do— rty and + WORKER. Wat . Vayno W 1 |person, and elect their del Vi/7 une W person, and elect their delegates. y¥ bere ‘ UNG WOVRETS | ALLENTOWN MILL WORKER, Wns of Harry Hisman must ki Ags F; : to the American |SOldier Writes Praise Learn L! you who still believe in for Red Pamphlets The Young Communist League has | received the following letter, from ; a United States soldier stationed at Fort Adams, R. I. Only his’ first name is printed, for obvious reasons: “Dear friend: I ra ced bei in behalf of the workers in gle ale - Harry Bisman | use of his mili- | inst unemploy- is a blow di- the working class. am sitting on my n le to a growing ter- | foot locker and writing on my suit- aim the de- |case for a desk, so my writing is t ot the Communtit-move- to be hard to read. se. Of course, I can’t find xcuse for my bad spelling ex- cept that I couldn't go to school youth and adult. Demand the | u iditional release of Harry | since I was 11 because my father man and the other March 6 vie- | died and I had to sell papers to help tims! Protest and demonstrate |", soa Se i 1 i anit ¢ : “T would have written before, but ‘ against the boss class and the |1 guess I'm too tited. growing white terror!” | ers f me ecco Them for War o on SSH That pamphlet, To ,Hell With Harry E 1 to the rete for ntil employed d tion ¢ rch 6, is un of the Ar 1 Not even i chil senten result in 1 5 Photo eh 1 Ww ows Wall Street army officers protest for his r Phe | y Cor inspecting the Reserve Of- s of New Utrecht High School in New. Yorks ’ Trainin | War, has been read by a lot-of my friends and we mostly agree with it. Send some more of them about other | things. “T will write again about what is | going on in this post after a while, 404} RICH DAMES WANT Military WAR, training for all high schools in Queens will be demanded at the next meeting of the board of governors, Mrs. William Look at the week graft at so from every em- oa sneers at starving lowest things that said placed their slimy pa ny Bo : i ‘ in f te a Fullerton, president of the Queens- my body 1 I y than detectives. Good luck |p rouch Feder: M , at test Scone | to sou ally Youre for thenights {borough Federation of Mothers panies collect om A STARVING MAN, | Clubs at a meeting Tuesday. The the rate of until I get Jaid an |only mothers in the Federation of | Mothers’ Clubs are rich-dames who | mother poodle hounds, gel hired | Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw Your Ad in The Daily Worker,” uninsured