The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 193( 0 Weeping Willow Perkins CONN. JOBLESS DEMAND “WORK OR WAGES”; GET THREAT OF AIR BOMBS Committee Elected by Unemployed Brutally Beaten Up by Police Bosses Suddenly Discover Air Patrols Fulfill) “Long-Felt Need” (By a Worker Correspondent) New Haven unemployed workers receive an answer from the city administration, to their demand of work or wages. The nature of this reply would indicate that more demonstrations are expected. On March 6 the unemployed marched on the city hall led by a com- mittee elected by themselves. The police brutally beat up this com- mittee (however, the cops got a few souvenirs for their zeal). The full police force was mobilized to break up the demonstration, the night cops were called in, also all forces from the outlying stations were called into the central stations, airplanes were circling overhead. ‘ “Ah,” sighs Miss Frances Per- At that time it could not be ascertained who they were, but their kins, New York State Commission- presence was regarded as hostile to the demonstration. |. en’ of Lhbor, “wnemployment. is An editorial in a New Haven daily paper dated March 30, says an worse than at any time since 1914. air patrol was started yesterday, and that previous work of New Haven But what can we do about it?” A police in rented airplanes indicated that the air patrol will fill a long typical sob-sister social worker, felt want. | Miss Perkins wants the bosses to It looks like Mayor Tully intends to give us gas bombs from air- | be good and start another war ix Planes operated by so-called guardians of the peace, and we have to | the struggle for world markets to relieve unemployment. The work- ers know what to do about it. ers from the acighboring town of Fight for “Work or Wages!” SENECA MILL TO BE ORGANIZED |approached the strikers and offered | Kidnapping Won’t Stop the full co-operation of the N.T.W.U. Textile Union in N. (Oe (By a Worker Correspondent) SLATINGTON, Pa.— Twent y- eight weavers, constituting the day and night shift of the A. F. Bittner Silk Co. walked out on a spontane- ous strike against a wage cut of 10 | approached by the strikers who ex- | plained to them that they were hired to scab. Upon being informed of this all the workers walked out of i oe the. plant. The owner of the mill informed the workers that he had decided to cut their wages 1 cent on every yard|+, the strike. He explained that it woven. The plant erated on | was necessary for the workers to| piece-work basis, and this cut} C., April 6.-- RED UNIONISTS WIN WORKER COUNCIL VOTE IN BIG ANILINE WORKS Also Get 289 Votes in Askania Workers to Social-Democrats 129 166 Large Factories With 365,000 Workers Put Up Red Lists BERLIN (By Inprecorr Service). reformist 129 votes. The reformists —The result of the workers’ council |had the majority on the workers’ election in the Aniline Wo: of |council here previously. the I. G. Farben Trust, in Bitter-/ In numerous other factories and feld, is.a victory for the list of works the revolutionary trade union | the revolutionary trade union oppo- sition which received 969 votes and seven seats, whilst the reformist |trade union list received 857 votes and six seats. Similar successes aie reported from other parts of the Reich. The jelection in the Askania works jn! and six factories with a total Berlin gave the revolutionary trade |of 65,000 workers have put up red union opposition 289 votes and the !lists this year. opposition has succeeded in winning from one-third to the half of the seats in the councils, although it was not previously represented at fall. as many red lists were put forward this year as last year. One hundred Woodworkers Strike in Basle BASLE (By Inprecorr Mail Service.)—Both the workers and the employes have rejected the mediation proposals of the court of ar bitration here and last night the carpenters and joiners voted with 950 against 150 votes to go on strike in support of their demand for wage increases. The employers demand wage-cuts. The struggle is likely to be protracted. A strike of the building workers is also possible. The existing | tariff expires at the end of March and the building workers have put forward wage demands which will almost certainly be rejected by | the employers even if the latter do not put forward demands for wage- ‘uts, | cuts, | Budapest Shipworkers Go On Strike VIENNA (By Inprecorr Service). |ment because it falls on the eve of In the Ruhr district four times | amdunted to approximately 10 per cent loss the weekly wage. The day shift walked out immediately The night when r- ‘ified of the cut. picket daily and organize themselves into a union in order to win their demands. A meeting was arranged with the leading committee of the | strikers, whereby the N.T.W.U. will | GREENVILLE, N. The safety of Ann Burlack and Jack Dorn, two organizers of the Nationa! Textile Workers Industrial Union assured, after attack by a fas ‘ mob led by a deputy sheriff at Sen- take over the leadership and conduct leca, C., who Linea oee Dorn and ‘harassed Ann Burlack when the two were making an attempt to organize the workers of the Seneca Mill at \that place. | The Seneca Mill, a cotton mill, re- cently installed the stretch-out tem of speed-up, and the N.T.W.1. jof the strike. Strikers demand res- Workers Refuse to Scab. |toration of the old wage scale and The mill owners tried to break| recognition of the shop committee. | the strike by importing other work- —SILK WORKER. What the Miners Fight, Led by N.M.U. (By a Worker Correspondent) arranged an open air meeting for TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (By Mail).—The following is what is happening Thursday at 6.30 p. m. at these mines. At number 58 mine, Taylorville, a motorman was laid off| Comrade Jack Dorn, his job and put to riding trips, because he missed one day, because of a|uting leaflets in the mill village, was very sick son. The man has only two fingers on either hand and is about |threatened with arrest by a deputy 58 years old. sheriff, but kept on with his work. A man was fired at number 9 mine, Langleyville, because he stopped|The deputy gathered up a gang of for dinner and would not work overtime and because he did not shoot |boss’ men in a car, seized Dorn and down enough coal. took him to the backwoods about 10 Freeman Thompson, Jack Stewart and Arthur Hershey were ar-|miles from Seneca where they took rested as they were coming out of a miner’s home, and their lives were| him Sue GE the cas oa ecee: au threatened. Freeman was beaten up. He was twice hit over the head|ttied to drown him. He escaped, | with a black-jack. The charges against Staurt and Hershey are con-|however, and walked to Clemson, spiracy against the interests of the Peabody Coal Co. The charges|bitch-hiked to Greenville, 35 miles against Thompson are threatening to kill within three days the two\®WaY, Where other comrades joined Peabody deputies and inciting to riot. The warrant was sworn out on|him to return to Seneca where Com- December 10, and Freeman was in jail at that time. jrade Burtack was due to speak at They are out on bail now. |6.80 that evening. —ILLINOIS MINER. |_ Arriving in Seneca at 6 o'clock, Comrade Burlack was warned by two {boss men to get out of town, but she stuck and when a crowd gathered pay for this service in taxes—R.W. Slatington, Pa., Silk Weavers’ Strike Northampton. These workers were shift also struck when notified of | the cut. Fe Eldorado Miners Being Forced to Act (By a Worker Correspondent) jbegan speaking. The fascist gang ir ELDORADO, Ill.—No. 10, O'Gara} The mine worked today. The five cars prevented her speaking by mine, went on strike two eocka leciirety put up a notice for two |honking their auto horns and yelling. ago on account of the company not | days’ skin-up while the men were |So she distributed N.T.W.LU. liter- sending a dollar assessment to|in the mines. The miners will have |ature and promised to keep in touch Peoria strikers. O’Gara Coal Co./to quit following yellow socialists |With the workers, who listened very wanted the miners to send dues to | and stool pigeons. sympathetically, Fishwick, which the miners refused) Some of the miners were so dis- The incident has aroused great to send dues either to Lewis or Fish- | gusted they did not work today. We |Sentiment among the workers and wick. The men were influenced to | will have good news for The Daily |farmers of Seneca, in favor of the go back by a bunch of parasites on| Worker in less than three months |N-T.W.L.U., and none of the boss one side and yellow socialists on the |if things keep going on like it has |men and their violence will prevent other. This is what they did, voted |in the last three months. For men |the workers of the Seneca Mill from to go back after two weeks’ strike, | will be forced to act. N.M.U. is the °T#@nizing in the union, and went back to get only three!only miners union. } days’ work, « —ILLINOIS MINER. 8 | Favorable Result while distrit- | Budapest reports state that yester- day 1000 workers of the “Danubius” shipyard went on strike against a * newly introduced system of ration- alization, which means the dismissal of many workers and the increase of the intensivity of labor by about 30 per cent, according to the state- ments of the firm. This strike disturbs the govern-| the anniversary of the proclamation of Soviet Hungary. Workers dem- onstrations are expected in favor of the Soviets and the authorities have made great preparations to crush all attempts at demonstrations in the bud. The police have received in. structions to take the sharpest meas- ures against any attempts on the part of workers to demonstrate. Don Basin City Named “Comintern” | the Don Basin the coal field Nesv be turned into a socialist town entitlde “Comintern.” MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Service).—In the Schachty district of |¢mPloyed workers in the United vetai which is extremely rich, eill Building has already been commenced and from 55 million to 60 million Roubles will be provided for the work. | living combinations will be built. The first buildings will house from |government is now computed at $51,- 1,500 to 2,000 people and will be completed this year. Twenty such | A : | Cabinet Unity a | BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail Ser- | | vice).—The complete capitulation of | the social-democratic ministers to |the demands of the German Peoples |Party, the party of heavy industry, in order to maintain the present cabinet in which the social demo- \crats play the leading role (numer-! Antwerp Workers Win BRUSSELS (By Inprecorr Serv- | ice). —The Communist agitation amongst the unemployed workers in Antwerp is bearing fruit. The mu- jnicipal authorities have granted an | increase of the unemployment sup- port for unemployed workers with Workers Against t Workers’ Cost ically only), sealed when the cabinet came to an agreement on the basis | of the proposals of the Finance Min- ister Moldenhauer (German Peoples Party). First of all the contribu- tions to the unemployment insurance scheme will be increased by %%, in other words an increased load of 35 millions annually for the workers. Jobless Relief Increase | ‘children. The unemployed workers demand an all-around increase of 2} francs a day. With this partial granting of the unemployed demands the authorities hope to split the united front of the unemployed workers behind the Communists, Anti-Soviet Drive AMSTERDAM (By Inprecorr | building in which the dignitaries of Mail Service).—A demonstration of | various churches were holding a several hundred revolutionary work- | joint meeting against “the religious ers took place here in front of a| persecutions in the Soviet Union,” tit Gypped by Employment Sharks: “Wipe Them Out!” (By @ Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—I write to let my fellow workers know what kind of sharks these employment agencies are. I write from my own experience. Three dames keep such a place at 125 Court St., Brooklyn. 1 asked for a job, After few days they had painters’ helper job. Charge was 10 per cent of month’s pay. balance was to pay later. Went to the place. To my surprise another man was there al- ready. Went back and the three women admitted they had sent the other man just as I left for the job. This fellow he paid them $8 what Piet have, and they told him to take a taxi so he'd be there ahead of me. Didn't have $8 so paid $6.50 and | in Paris Suburb PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Serv- ice).—Despite a furious campaign of slander and incitement, the Commu- nist list topped the poll in the mu- |nicipal election in St. Denis, the [famous working-class suburb of |Paris. The Communis received {6,187 votes, the reactionaries 5,327, the opportunist renegades 1,641 and | the socialists 1,083 votes. A second leliminating election is necessary, ‘but here the Communist victory is \certain. Demonstrations took place \in St. Denis until late in the night, land frequent collisions with the po- & BERLIN (By Inprecorr perviee) | —In view of the fact that the fre-| quent demonstrations and open-air | meetings of the workers under ‘the | leadership of the Communist Party | have rendered the prohibition of Grzesinski ineffective, and in view | \of the fact that May 1 is approach- | jing, the new Prussian Minister of |the Interior, the social-democrat | Waentig, has decided to withdraw the prohibition. The social-demo- crats know perfectly well that the | Force Withdrawal of Berlin Demonstration Ban lowed on Zoergiebel’s May Day slaughter, and made the Communist Party the second strongest party in Prussia. “RED PRISONERS” NIGHT Now fellow workers I am only two weeks in this glorious city but soon got to know of these rotten conditions, The private employment agencies should be wiped out and dumped into the river, that’s proper Place for them. Communist Party is only party that can and for the emancipation of the workers. munist rank and file soon. |lice occurred. The whole municipal- ity has been put under a state of | siege, Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspendent. will do something Tam going over to the Com- —UNEMPLOYED WORKER. workers will demonstrate on May 3 on the streets with or without pe mission. A further blood bath would be extremely unfavorable for the 4} }. ers have not forgotten the result o! the municipal election whi | | | Police Brutality and a 60-Year-Old Worker (Bu a Worker Correspondent) ‘ment. But the next day when 1 I wish to tell you about one ex- |went to work, three police officers | ample of police brutality. I and my/¢@me and frightened my wife and my kids, one of them two, the other | wife have been housekeepers for a six years old. The police told us to! urnished rooming house of Mrs.!zet out of the house, They said it } en working for the new Mrs. on|was orders from the station house. | rendt a charity worker. We have|So 1 ask you whether Mr. Whalen | een working for the news Mrs, onjand his captains got nothing else} Southern Cotton By Myra Page workers. EARLY REVIEWS “Myra Page is well qualified 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 Mills and Labor "96 pp. 25 Cents. ROCKLAN Hear the Report of Arrested tnemployment Delegation on the Second Day of the Trial. Saturday Evening, April 12 AT 155th Street and Eighth Avenue she same condition as before, one nonth’s notice. But to our horror, it the end of the month, she told us 10 get out. I insisted on our agree- to look about, I am 60 years old and never was in any court reom yet. —60-YEAR-OLD WORKER. . The author performed read by every worker in order to understand what is back ‘ of the great struggles in the southern textile field.” GRACE MUTCHINS, thor of “Labor and Sith. a surgical operation upon a aot 'XCELLENT MUSIC .. DANCING i PD which no ‘stuid, derstan So Many Jobless, Cut Snow Shovellers’ Wage (By @ Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—The Chicago and Northwestern R.R. Co. which is the head of the finance committee which loaned the city of Chicago fifty million at a big rate of interest in January, now on March 26 the N.W. RR. station was blocked with snow. They called a Madison St. slave market for snow shovellers, 75 cents an hour. They got so many they cut the wages to 30 cents an hour next morning. One man said he had nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. He had.no overeout and no nnder- wear. Unemployed men, we got to do something; let’s join the Unem- ployed Council —E.W. | | 39 East 125th Street rtion of the body of American imperialism, loses in detail the misery of the masses. by a social welfare worker. ing are there, but primarily it is an incision, sharp and merciless, by a scalpel with a Leninist edge,” Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS Discounts’ offered on orders in quantity lots an operation oe This is Sympathy and un- Wi M OF. DUNNE. Obtain New York City yourselves friends @ memorable evening! ‘Tickets: 65 cents in advance, PARTY OF AMERICA, DISTRICT TWO 26 Union Square, New York City INDIAN RAIL STRIKERS IN in Railway Strike (Continued from Page One) their leaders, Following the shooting of 30 strikers at the Bombay railway station on Friday, the tactie of pr venting movement of train jing themselves on the has | | been adopted by the strikers, 7,000 | having volunteered this form of | | “picketing,” according to reports. | But that there are still more mili-| tant tactics in use is reported by | the British gove:nment police who | say that the strikers are adopting | the slogan “brick for batons | j(elvbs).” It is clear that the strike is taking forms of open physical | conflict. | Gandhi, mcanwhiie, all attention to his fi violating the law against marufac-| ture and sale of salt. He aims to make 1 little salt from sea water, and though 1 is nov fit for , to sell it, thus courting arr st year he likewise burned Engli cloth in a public park, and was ar- rested and fined one rupee (about | 38 cents). I is this sort of fake “fight” agamst British imperialism which the capital st press chooses | |to give more svece to than tke real | |struggle led by the revolutionary | workers. | 66 P. C. of Government /Expense Is Used for! ‘Preparing N e w War) WASHINGTON, April 6.—War expenditures and preparations for the next imperialist war eat up 66} per cent of the entire government | expenditure, admitted the Treasury Department in figures just compiled. | While spending $1,262,000,000 for war purposes each year the impec- ialist government cannot find funds for a full-wage unemployment insur- lance demanded by the 7,000,000 un- ies to wean program of | States. | The total expenditure of the World War by the United States | 400,000,000. Most of this money | reached its way into the pockets of the big bosses who profited heavily |from the last war and now seek janother one. ‘15 Summer Camps Are Planned for Workers’ Children | Fifteen summer camps, where the children of the workers can spend a vacation, building their bodies and learning the lessons of the class | struggle—this is the goal of a drive that has been launched by the Work- ers International Relief. The Workers International Relief points out that the maintenance of {13 camps last year was made pos- |sible by the contributions of work- ers’ organizations and_ individual | | workers. | The W. I. R. is now issuing coupon | books containing coupons to sell for | ten and 25 cents, in order to raise | the necessary funds for the camps. They may be obtained from the Werkers International Relief, 949 Broadway, Room 512, New York |City. “HOOVER PROSPERITY.” Overhead in the editorial office of a San Francisco capitalist news-| | paper: Reporter on phone to City editor “Do you want a cheesy little suicide | for the final?” City Editor: “Oh, Hell, give it a paragraph.” D PALACE Program of Entertainment ins mock trial by the Workers Laboratory Theatre. cluding and your mi 75 cents at door. {f! able at HOT STRUSGIE Sharper Clashes Ahead : War and the Sea; Rapid Arming of the Merchant Ships (Continued from Page One) now going on, the question of hant ships as part of the war maments of the imperialists wa 0 the fore, tut was quickly in the newspar be- evealed too much active war preparations. The Hoover Committee Report says that “One argument for gov- ernment aid to our merchant ma~- hips under cur y in of WORKS MEN 180 HRS. IN 2 WEEKS squele One Reason for 125,000 Jobless in Cleveland (Bu a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—We have at the present time 125,000 unemployed here and yet some of the industries out case wa : 4 ‘ yy, | are working 12 and 14 or 16 hours In these war preparations on the Bd Wille! Ueere axe. buadeods oe seas, the im alist exploiters get by those same shops, beg- the help of Furuseth « ging for work, every day. of tne yellow Inte I know a shop that used to work men’s ion,” said George Mink,| i. ten all winter, not only this secretary of the Marine Workers | \inter but. always. This shop is on League, ; West 106, Cleveland. It is called “The Sevy Departinent looks on/ winton Engine Company. I spoke tevse fakers as +:al lieutenants in to a man one morning just before for the International s with the big s against the sailors g ont in active- for war amongst the nd on the Soviet organizing the sailors bosses’ war. The Seamen’s Union w ship compac snd with th ly prepar imperialist ne Unricn, “The war and the questior. of organizing the 123,900 sailors to fight against it and for the defense of the Soviet Union will be one of Christmas about unemployment con- ‘ditions. Slave 180 Hours in Two Weeks This man was telling me that his friends in Winton Engine Company are working 180 hours in two weeks. At about the same time city employ- ment oner B, C. Seiple called on Cleveland manufactu to cut down the working hours the shops and men tavyer commis: in hire more to the most important questions before | Wark. srs, Fu He our national Marine Workers’|_ But so far thi ee Be npany, League Convention April 26-27. We | Winton Engine works its men o time, as it alway I wrote to will fight for organization of all seamen against rationalization, for better working conditions, higher wages, and against using them as tools for the bosses’ wars. Many American sailors have visited the Soviet Union and have seen the tre- mendous progress of building cialism under the Five-Year We will organize them for t the city employment commission to investigate that shop. I don’t know if it ever did or not. Why He Writes to Daily. About two weeks ago I wrote an article on this same shop to the s Cleveland Press. But so far it was so- Plan, not put into the Press. That is why ‘| I write about it to the Daily Wor » de- fense of the workers’ repu I. W. W. in Bosses’ I wish those workers that read this letter in the Daily Worker and are looking for a job and go to the | Winton Engine Works ask for a job, and if the boss tells them he | ins} Front Ag ATMS Tt [has no job, just tell him that he is Marine Workers a damn liar and investigate it bet- ter if they are still working 180 hours a day. To write about it to {the Daily Worker or Labor Unity and also write to the city council to |investigate these industries that HOUSTON, Te: (By Mail).— The latest recruit in the campaign of the ship owners, the chamber of commerce and the Seamen’s Mi: sion against the Marine Workers’) work so many hours. League, which is doing successful} Your duty is to join the Trade work among the seamen and long- | Union Unity League and the un- shoremen in the port here, is the | employment council. local ILW.W. With the special con- —Cleveland Jobless sent of the “Seamen’s Mission” they have posted a sheet on the latter’s Workers Resist Attack bulletin board, in which they let free Ns ra = course to their rage about their ex-/JOin the Party, Y. C. L. posure .by the Marine Wor | League. They try to discredit the! BUFFALO, N. Y.—Police and revolutionary trade*unions and the American Legion hoodlums were un- Communist Party in the eyes of the ‘able to break up an open-air meet- workers with the lie that “the Com- ing of the Young Communist munist Party cannot point out one League and the Young Pioneers, ex- instance where it has been active in| posing the legion’s militarist cam- any strike and show that the w paign in the schools of Buffalo and ers gained one iota either in wages | Erie County. After the arrest of or_condtions.” | Murray Melvin, of the Young Com- The Texas marine workers’ answer | munist League,District Organizer J. to this will be a strong delegation |Donald immediately continued the of Negro and white longshoremen | meeting. The workers rallied around and seamen to the naticnal conven-|the pJatform, thus frustrating the tion of the Marine Workers’ League | attempt of the cops and legionnaires in New York on Apri |to break up the meeting, which was —____ brought to a successful end, a num- Every new Daily Worker reader |ber of workers joining the Young you get is a potential Party mem-| Communist League and Communist ber. ‘Party. Worker. Come—Bring Your Friends to the Workers School Banquet Opening the Working Class Education Conference See all the Municipal Celebrities in the RED REVUE A Political Satire by the JOHN REED CLUB Friday, April 18, at 7 p. m. MANHATTAN LYCEUM, 66 East Fourth St. Good Food. Good Program. ADMISSION $1.00 GET YOUR TICKETS AT WORKERS SCHOOL, 26 UNION SQUARE ae A Great Event! A Remarkable Program! A Great Holiday! JUBILEE oF THE MORNING FREIHEIT Sun., April 13, 2 p. m. 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