The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1930, Page 3

OIL FIELDS LAYING OFF | MEN AND SWELLING OKLA. UNEMPLOYMENT {\Worker Warns Foreign Workers of Scheme to Gyp Them by Settling Them on Farm Land egroes Hard Hit by Unemployment; Workers; Are Joining Trade Union Unity League (By a Worker Correspondent) OKLAHOMA City, Okla—I enjoy reading the Daily Worker and will send in some news. Concerning unemployment here I will say 15,000 will hardly do. The South Oklahoma City oil fields are closing down. This is throwing about 10,000 men out of work, plus 15,000 already idle, making a total of 25,000 unemployed among a population of 170,000. South Robinson St., from Grand Ave. to Capital Hill, nearly two miles, literally swarms with jobless men. The police pick up dozens every day, charging them with vagrancy, and put them to work some- where, always loosely guarded, as they want them to leave town. A movement is on foot to get a great crowd of foreigners from the East to form a big colony in Eastern Oklahoma on the land. I know nothing about it, except what I read in the big capitalist da’ here. But if you New York or Pennsylvania foreigners get alluring letters, | you had better investigate, to find out what it all means. About all the business men of small means are broke. I doubt if 10 per cent of the -olored people here have employment. And their population is 18,000. ill say that a large number have joined the T. U. U. L. The T. U. | | J. L. is picking up in great numbers. The Workers’ Center here is at 302 E. Grand Ave., where all workers are welcome. T look for about 5,000 more idle men here inside of 20 days, at least 10,000 more before June Ist, as no one is hiring, but everybody is fir- ing. You can buy a good second- hand Ford, worth $300, for $50 or $40, if that is all the money you have. But who has $40? While Jobless Starve Capitalists Rob (By a Worker Correspondent) MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Md.—| there U have read in the newspapers of |coun your efforts to help the unemployed | , We read that there are two hun- in New York City ont I here soa ted new millionaires in the coun- ree oes eee under Hoover's first year in of- secure work or wages for eve fice. But we do not read of* the one of the unemployed in New York two million paupers made at the | City, and every other city for that same time Hoover and his crowd in matter. The poor people of the Washington are engaged in the very | country are being robbed, cheated pleasant part-time to them of in- and lied to by Hoover and his en- is with conditions in this —BROKE AND JOBLESS. | |Writes on Religion; lly Worker creasing the cost of living for all tire capitalistic crew, not only in the poor people by adding under Washington, but all over the United | guise of tariff increased taxes | States. They think with the aid of ;on everything they eat and wear. | the courts they can force the peo- Tt time for a new deal all around. ple of this country to accept any- |For a Workers’ and Farmers’ Gov- thing, never. sensing the immense | ernment. amount of unrest and dissatisfaction |—ONE OF THE UNEMPLOYED. | NEW YORK—Am a plumber, Have no ute for the A. F. of L. Wha? Wos injured an a building job on 9¢nd St. Told the union local delegate. He said, see the local executive bourd, meets Monday might. Saw them. Laughed at me, said I’m too late, I had no doctor's certificate, etc. Me for the Trade Union Unity League—PLUMBER. This Plumber Has No Use for AFL | (By a Worker Correspondent) \\was knocked off by the plank of | join the Trade Union Unity League. Taylor Construction Speed-up Maims Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK.—The J. H. Taylor;speed-up and fell down to the fi Co., which is doing the building jab | floor on his head and was badl on 68th St. and Second Ave.,-has| hurt. The speed-up is so terrible ‘safety first” signs stuck all over. they won’t let you take a drink. The other day an iron worker worl y ie ing on the beams on the fifth floor |The A. F. of L. don’t care. Let's prnother worker on account of the | —BUILDING WORKER. | In the Chicago Slave Market (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—Walking down Madison St., the working men are so thick looking for work they block the walk. In the 600 block a slave market has up a sign, “Laborers, foundry work, $3 « day, board $* «@ week.” Another sign, “Farmhands, $15 per month.” There's Hoover prosperity. Workers join the Communist Party. | | Join Communist Party; Knock Capitalists Over (By a Worker Correspondent) everything, are too gentle with the capitalists; we must organize with the Communist Party and knock them over. —JOBLESS WORKER. NEW YORK.—The capitalists ; are starving us and it’s impos- | sible to get work. When they of- | fer work it’s at 20 cents an hour. | We, the workers who produce | Boss Terror on Ships (Continued from Page One) and only once on the way to Balti- Re 12 Hour Day. Capitalists Vindictive On arriving in port, the four to) sight and twelve to four watches | Against Cop Strikers work 12 hours a day. The food on} the line is slop. The ship carries a mess boy, who actually functioins as fourth cook, and never comes farther than the pigeon hole through . 4 " ‘ which the food is passed, The bosses | are still being denied the right to in Baltimore are thoroughly or-| take civil service examinations for gnnized, and promise to spend ever | lice positions anywhere in the aollar they have to keep the work- | state. ers from organizing. A system of In a few more years, the last of terror exists on the Merchant and | them will have passed the maximum Miners and other lines, with threats | age limit, but at every police qual- of discharge and blacklist for every | ification examination so far some man who dares to join a real work-|-have applied and been turned down. ers’ organization. One was permitted to become a Jani Nevertheless, Welsh states that tor in a Boston municipal bui MAY DAY « BUTTONS Wirt oun sLogans WORK OR WAGES DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION Are Ready and Shonld He Ordered from the DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE PARTY Prices: 10¢ per button tg individuals Te ver button te mnits and organizations COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. CENTRAL OFFICE 48 Enst 125th Street ; the Marine Workers League will con | tinue its activities, and that rebel- lion will rise against such inhuman | conditions. | BOSTON, Mass, J April 8—After 11 years, police ousted from the Boston force following their str which made Cal Coolidge famous, New York City | corpo} |that Russia has made and is mak- | Moscow (“Deaf-Mute | ce | mute proletarians of all lands, and | would be thankful to know from you | workers’ | them of our wish to exchange news- papers with them. | Laber Defense Rallies jamong the mi |to Save Lives of Two | Saul district orgar | national Labor Defense, Workers’ Union organizers in Green. | Gastonia pr "The ‘Darling of Briti Imperialism Decreasing As Ind We i | \} MOSC! ‘OW (By Inprecorr Pre: There is a steady flow of the peasants who have joined the collective undertakings into the Communist Pa In the village of Volnovka alone 125 peasants from the collective farms have joined the 'Communist Party. Similar applica- in the of | from many other sections |Don District. The increase | members+ from jantry coincides with the spring sow- lings. Rapid Industrial Development. Ramsay MacDonald, murderer of the Indian and Arab masses is arguing for more cruisers at the race-for-arms mevt so that British imperialism can better suppress ndustr 1 the mass uprisings of colonial | In the first four months of the peoples, and prepare for war ent economic year (1929-30), agaiust the. Gociel Union. m October to January inclusive, of indus per cent. months of 1928 ing figure was 20.9 per cent, and in {the first four months of 19 jonly 18.2 per cent. The develop- (Continued from Page One) | mont of heavy industry was particu- history religion has been used by larly rapid and totalled 2 per the master class to keep the work-| 2° @P ! . f5 t. ers in subjection, and we propagan- |" Not only has the production in- | dize the scientific view which is ion of Deaf Workers Paper; Bosses Admit Things Bis creased but the costs of production contrary to religion.) ha See ’ ; ty of lab I Sophie Gross writes us, first, |e Productivity of labor rose by 188 per cent. In January of this apologizing for not reading the Dai- more often, and then pioyed in industry w quoting from an article in the }i}e. than last year, amber of Commeree magazine, | “Nation's Business,” written by the | corporation lawyer Knollenberg. The s 7.8 per cent article is not for the consumption of the masses but for the eyes of| PRAGUE (By Inprecorr Press | the same business men who are stir-|Service)—Hach country has the | lies best calculated to interest it. In Tcheckoslovakia the latest lie is |that the Soviet Union is concentrat- | ring up war-hatred against the workers -republie. “The economic conditions of the peasants has improved,” admits the | tion lawyer Knollenberg. , ..|tier. But, as the same newspapers “Our antipathy . .. should not blind | point out, “Rumania is prepared.” us to the immense economic strides Of course, Rumania is prepared, but not for defense, but aggression and | Rumania’s military preparations are ' going on feverishly. In this connec- tion it must not be forgotten that secret military agreements exist be- ing.” Tt is precisely the success of the Five-Year Plan which the bosses are forced to admit which is hasten- ing their war preparation against | tween Rumania and Tcheckoslova- the Soviet Union. kia. is 40 i The war industries of Tchecko- From the deaf-mute proletarian | paper “Zhizn Glukhonemykh” in Life”), we re. ve the following letter: | “The editor of “Deaf-Mute Life” desires to establish relations and exchange information with the deaf- BERLIN (by Inprecorr Press S giebel and Byng in London and Zo the Berlin, London and Paris police 0 with a view to combating whether there are in your country organizations and unions of the deaf-mute workers, and also wheth- er they are publishing their own newspapers and journals. Please give us addresses. Also tell officers in London and British and in for a deal of attention as a resul has already nominated its represent Scotland Yard and Alexander Platz “With proletarian greetings, “Pp, GABUNSBERG, “Zhizn Glukhonemykh, “Moscow, U.S.S.R.” this reveals the Southern ist class, fear of the growing {influence of the Communist Part; land the revolutionary trade .union s of the workers, who are rallying for coming strug- gles. The capitalist class of the South decided to make an effort to (Continued from Page One) jexterminate the re ry lead- South. ers of oe workers from the South. “Our Gastonia appeal comes up |In_ this the capitali April 22, Dewey Mar district Phosses fi of the Am on of the National Textile | ican Federation of Labor not only Workers’ Union, is facing seven j actively helping, but in m months on the chain gi George ing the fase er of the Ini is doomed months’ sentence on | National Textile | The rues) through their mili- tancy and mass protest, saved the ‘oners from the elec- The protest meetings and to serve a ville, S. ©. were kidnapped last | tric chair, qa Great Event! A Remarkable 4 Program! A Great Holiday! JUBILEE 4 CELEBRATION OF THR MORNING FREIHEI7 Sun., April 13, 2 p. m. AT THE BRONX COLISEUM EAST 177TH STREET SUBWAY STATION, BRONX RIVER EXCELLENT PROGRAM Comrades Foster and Olgin Will Speak A program worthy to be remembered. No worker should miss this great event! NL Tickets in advance 75 cents and $1,00., On April 13 the tickets | will be $1.00 and $1.25.. A ticket in advance will assure you of | a better place.. Tickets to he obtained tm the office of the Morning Freiheit, ..........30 Union Square, New York City. jtiogs for membership are reported | amongst the peas- | four | -29 the correspond- | 3 and other vegetables. year the number of workers em-| DAILY WwW ORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1980 " EVERYTHING BOOMS AS PLENUM MARKS SOVIET UNION PUSHES | SOCIALIST INDUSTRY PosdanisdeinCommunistfasie: Unemployment ustry Is Developed ants to Make Cement; Canned Peceiatlos:| Ural Blast Furnace Finished Before Time | The total increase of employment in the first four months of the cur- rent economic year for the whole economic system was 10.11 per cent and unemployment has considerably | decreased. The foreign trade balance of the Soviet Union was considerably larger and showed an increased ex- port of 27.1 per cent and an in- ereased import of 24,2, with an ac- tive balance of 23,000,000 rubles. New Industries Opened. Building has commenced in Obi- dimo, in the central industrial area, for the construction of a great ce- ment works with an annual capacity | of 3,000,000 barrels. The largest canning factory in the Soviet Union has just been fin- ished in Stalingrad. for the first year of production is 6.5 million dozen tins of tomatoes The facto: was built by the Central Co-opera- tive Society of the Soviet Union. | The workers of Tagil, in the U; \3 celebrated the twelfth annive: ine y of the foundation of the Red Army by firing a new blast fur- jhave fallen by 4.6 per cent, whilst |nace, the largest in the Urals, and | |naming it “Red Army.” The fur- | |nace should have been finished only at the end of March, but intensive |work completed it on the 23rd of | | February. Czechs Prepare War on Soviet Union [slovakia are very busy working not | only for themselves, but also for | |the Balkan States. Negtiations be- | |tween the Tcheckish Skoda works land the Yugoslavian govefnment ing troops on the Rumanian fron- |have just been concluded, according | |to which the Skoda company will build a munition factory and a dock- yard in Yugoslavia. The Teheckish Bohemian Kolben company has now concluded its ne- gotiations with an Italian firm for the purchase of patents for the con- struction of aeroplane motors, It | will now commence with the produc- | tion of such motors for the Tcheck- ish army. An Anti-Communist Police Trinity ‘ervice).—The police organ “Tempo” reports that as a result of the negotiations conducted between Zoer- oergiebel and Chiappe in Paris last summer (at the time an official denial of such negotiations was issued) will co-operate closely in the future “international crime” more effectively. Liaison officers will be permanently stationed at the various police headquarters, British and French officers in Berlin, German and French German officers in Paris. It is clear that the international Communist movement will come it of this police international. Paris atives for Berlin and London, whilst are about to do so. demonstrations being held this week must be turned into even greater demonstrations of solidarity for the unconditional of the Gas- tonia and all other class war pris- oners, release The program | ® ples to all districts of the | of how to approach the ac- as exa Part complishment of their tasks In connection with the review of e the liquidation | t opportunis ional din Lok dis I ct rad eld and Cline. These com- ping a whole es of the di t lead- gainst Many Problems Are sition which they them- Discussed compelled to denounce = ‘when it was exposed, yet continued | (Continued from Page Ore) ‘and inte ee attacker atten The problems considered in the’ cach “confession of error” in a con- conferences prior to the Plenum! stant search for “new issues.” In e: (1) Preparing the May Da 2) Work among « the unanimous de- ago district lead- with Demonstration k n case defended an op-/ Workers Against Murder by Cop Page Three © ANTLEASCISTS. PROTEST SUNDAY AGAINST MURDER “Demonstrate (Continued from Page One) st to the attitude of the Italian Chamber of Labor and the various liberal organizations. The Cham- er of Labor appeals to Representa- the foreign language groups; (3) ership and the Central Control Com-| tive La Guardia on the grounds Shop Nuclei and Factory Work Nontathiey removed from | that the immigration inspector, Party F A and warned | Piaggio, should have waited until tions; (5) Keeping New Membe ion of their line Borghi got off the stage before ar- and Continuation of the Recruit- towards the | Testing him, and thus “precipitating ment Drive; (6) Building the Revo- camp of the renegades. trouble.” In this it _ agrees with Iutionary Trade Unions; (7) Re- | ‘The discussion on the work in the | Police Commissioner Whalen, whose cruitment of 50,000 vy Members | South constituted the smpre- | bosses have recently scolded him to the TUUL; (8) Strike Strategy. hensive consideration given by the while beating up or about too much grand stand play arresting the On April 3, after the conferences Party to t abject, analyzing the had ended, the Plenum itself opened! general problems, as well as those SGliia | eke with presentation of the draft of daily work. The} | 1 Liberties Union writes theses prepared in February by the Plenum emphasized that the organ-| 5 of Labor Davie, demand- Politburo for the comir ‘ty |ization of the Negro workers must | ing that Piaggio be disciplined for Convention. After a discu the very center of| “Precipitating a riot,” also asking vated in by about 50 com- suth, on the basis | Tight of political asylum for Borghi. the Plenum unanime Tt Nuove Mundo, the Italian so- ed a resolution: ¢ t paper says it will “file suit “To approve the line of the the sl an precipitating a riot. i Theses, adopt them as a base, and |The resolution on Work in the| The “riot” was when Italian instruct the Politburo, on the South, presented to the Plenum, workers courageously defended Bor- basis of the Plenum discussion, to Which was the joint work of south-| Shi from arrest“at the meeting. edit and publish the draft for the €rn organizers and the national of- sae approved unanimo hasis upon the nec Convention.” On the question of the coming)“ i ‘ VII Convention of the P the e eee Fees te South Plenum adopted the motion aod Waining new cadres for the “That the VII National Con- “°?* vention shall be called at a date | The Plenum was unanimous in between May 30 and June 20, to all its decisions, and demonstrated be fixed by the Politburo. The | in the di ions as well the de- | Agenda, which shall be definitely | velopment of the highest degree of formulated by the Politburo, shall | Political unification. Tt was a include the Theses, the Agrarian Working gathering of the most ac- | Program, and Negro Work. A tive leaders from all over the coun- broad pre-convention discussion | tty, who have been engaging in the | shall be organized, and opened t movements of the past with the publication of the Theses, solving the common prob- under the direction of the Polit. |lems of the movement in the spirit | buro.” of a common political line, and In the discussion upon the Theses, energetically combatting all ene-| the Plenum had to combat the v mies of that political line. With the most relentless self-criticism it ATC out all weaknesses and) mistakes in the work, and took measures to remedy them. In a few days will be published documents of this Plenum, h the foundation for the coming convention of the Party, nd which mark the entrance of our Party into a period of mass poli- al struggles, the building of the mass revolutionary trade unions in the Trade Union Unity League, and the consolidation of our Party as |the leader of this mass movement | of the American working class, of some comr: who did not ré |ognize the effects of jin driving down the living standards lof the employed wo but these effects only in the da ment of workers by machine consequent unemployment, Some comrades active in the Workers In- ternational Relief defended the pro- posal that this organization should | begin a campaign of popular collec- |tions for feeding the unemployed, |limited to the three categories of “families of eight, those unemployed for more than a year, and expec- tant mothers.” These proposals were rejected by the Plenum as con- : stituting an opportunist diversion| | BUILDING WAGES CUT. | ed of the unemployed movement from! ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 8.—/ lits struggle slogans of unemploy-| All Rochester building unions (A. |s ment insurance, 7-hour day, etc., F. of L.), with the exception of plumbers, have posal of the M and degradation of the movement |to the level of the soup-kitchens of the bourgeoisie. These were the only instances of open expression or defense of opportunism in pra jtice, showing themselves in Theses discussion. April 4th was devoted to detailed examination and discussion on Work in the South, and the Situation in accepted the pro- | ster Builders’ Asso- | ciation for a five-day week with | five days’ pay, pending the settle- | ment of negotiations for an increase in wages. The men, claiming the | Rochester wage scale is low in com-| parison with other cities of its class an equivalent of the If day week scale for the the Chicago District. Detailed reso- | the 5-c week, lutions on both — subjec' were ———— adopted, as guides to the p) Write About Your Conditions | work and political dev croptiert of | these sections of our movement, and! for The Daily Worker. Become a | Worker Correspendent. | workers have New Member Shows How to Build “Daily” (Continued from Page One) dicted failure. I kept quiet all the way to our route. “We were entering the first house. Quite nervous I felt the first moment. But we had to say some- thing. I opened my mouth, And thus our work began. “The first two families didn’t subscribe, but bought a Daily, a pamphlet. “There is an opinion among our comrades and workers in general that it is hard to organize the Ne- gro workers. The third house we entered was a Negro house, A young Negro woman opened the | door of the dark, shabby basement |“apartment.” She was the first subscriber. She showed an unusual interest. She subscribed for a month. We got 11 papers left and we got 11 subscribers in about two or three hours. My partner became so enthusiastic that I could not stop him from talking to the work- ers we came in contact wih, “T, myself, was very much thrilled, excited and overwhelmed by the unusual response the Negro own to our slogans and the hospitality to us of most of them. They spoke only of full nfidence and possibility and de- to work hand in hand with the white worker. “They are anxiously looking for guidance. The main question is: Where to get the organizers. The | workers are ready. That is how I and my partner, rank and filers, felt it. Give the organizers guidance, ‘and you'll have them organized in ‘no time. “A DAILY WORKER AGENT, “Ozone Park, N. Y.” * * * “P.S.—I have so much to tell about the life of the Negro workers, what they think and say, but I must hurry to work. Next time.” e aaaalOr All Occasions! 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