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EX-SERVICE MAN WHO FOUND THE LEGION A BOSS ORGANIZATION Fellow Workers, Unite Together, He Writes Thru the the Daily Worker Ma king 30 Cente an I an Hour, He Can’t Make Out;| City Shut His Water Off (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCKFORD, Il.—I am a mechanic and work in a machine shop. { haye heen working in this place for five years and make 30 cents an hour. children and the city together and fight. I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. shut off the water in the house. world war and joined the American Legion. asked for help, but they refused. I went to a welfare association and | they refused. My family conditions are poor. T have a family of five I was in the T went to the Legion and So, fellow-workers, unite Hell with the Legion, it’s a boss organization. —ROCKFORD WORKER. “Justice” for the Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) KEW GARDENS, L. I.—What I'll | le be telling here is nothing new for the working masses, but I think it is my duty to denounce one of the innumerable acts of capitalist injus- tice, so every worker should feel al- ways stronger his hate against the capitalist system. Few months ago with my last $5 | I have paid the employment shark for a job and my transportation. It was a bus-Boy job at $45 a month, room, board and tips in a first-cla hotel in Kew Gardens, L. I., the Ke Garden Inn. When I got on the} place one of the waiters, by order of | the manager, gave me a uniform, | told me which one was my room and put me to work, In giving me the uniform he told me that he used | the same black coat himself and that there wasn't any other. The rooms for the employes are in the base- ment, dirty and unhealthy. After a few days I found out that the waiter who gave me the black | not even comply coat that was used by himself was | fin occupational diseases. After wait- | sick of skin disease, boils and pimp- all over the body alize that it was easy to get an in- fection, Too tired to work twelve hours a day I quit the job after working eleven T had already a small boil under my right armpit. I was alarmed, but I tried to hope it was nothing. I found another job, |few days I had to quit. growing fast under pits. but after a Boils were both my arm- The result was that I suf- fered two weeks in the hospital and | that I wasn’t able to work for more than two months. 4 applied at the Bureau of Wo! men’s compensation for compen tion because the law provides for it | |ing for months I had the following janswer: “No accident within the | meaning of the law,’ It is the result that the workers | | know by experience. The bosses | with all their judges and courts do with their own FOOD WORKER. laws. “Out of: { Schools May 1 I didn’t re- | Shows That “Bandits” | | | | its Nanking correspondent with the Chiang Kai-shek's army. The imperialists and their tool, Chinese Communists “bandits.” on their land.” andlords rather than to eke out a could Working-class children march- | ing out of the schools, on strike, | _DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930 CHIN ESECOMMUNISTS | LEAD PEASANTS IN | STRUGGLE FOR LAND | Peasants | Peasants and Small Merchants Communist Troops A Chinese newspaper published in Hongkong, the Hongkong Shiao Jih Pao, recently (March 14) published a very interesting inter But, according to this officer, who had evidently been to the revolutionary area and had to admit the truth, | ‘bandit disturbances, which were prevalent in the mountainous districts in Southern and Eastern Kiangsi and Western Fukien since 1918 and 1919, were actually put down by the Communis . -. All bandits were induced by the Communists to go home and work The secret is that the bandits w ince the Communists led them to take land for themsel “induce” these bandits to abandon their “band Leeome productive peasants and good revolution’ GAS KILLS MINE: CREW DRIVEN TO WORK BY HUNGER Cri isis Worse; Figures Show 8,000,000 Out | (Continued trom Page On) 10,000 delegates in all are expectec The convention was called by a pre- liminary national conference held in New York March 29-30, attended by 215 delegates of unions and unem ployed councils. The Trade Union Unity League has set a goal of 50,000 new members to be obtained | by the time of the July 4 convention Figures Show Crisis Wor: Figures for business activ industrial production for made public, crisis is deepening still furthe the optimistic lies of Hooyer Are Landle Chinese | Support the jew by chief of staff of the 12th division of the Kuomintang politicians, call the March, disclose that the All Red Army Guerilla troops. ere bandits because they had no land. from the|ing last month are exposed. living by plundering, of course they | Annalist,” financial weekly, e g” career and|this in more polite words, s “The crude figures as given ts. last May Day. This year, also, “The revolutionary peasants are very well organized,” says the of-| out in Washington s iously mis- call is out for a mass polit- |ficer. “Most of them are Communists; the older ones belong to the| represent the actual significance ical strike in the schools as well | Communist Party and the younger ones belong to the Young Communist | of the change.” It declares of as in the factories. The Young | League. Aside from the Party organizations, there are also Soviet Goy-| the March records, that “it can- Pioneers «are leading the strike | ernment organizations. It is very hard for the government troops to| not be said that they bring much movement in the schools. | tackle such an enemy. cheerfulness into the business ee ee “The red soldiers are all mixed up with the peasants, Although the | outlook; on the contrary, the most | government troops know where these rebels are, we cannot pick them| significant of them are unfay- ARMS R ACE SPUR out individually among the seemingly peaceful peasants, What the gov-( orable.” PObeayE | ernment troops could do is simply to burn up the whole village and kill} Construction contracts, about enybody they could lay their hands IS MEET RESULT, whereabouts of Communists. “With the full sympathy and Want Unlimited Navy; | May Not Sign Treaty operate with the Communi: (Continued from Page One) ment troops. This is the r “The greatest difficulty lies in the fact that the poorer peasants are almost all mixing up with the Communis | hate the government troops and refuse to divulge secrets about the | the Communists appear and disappear like spirits. which Washington made such a joy- ful noise, “represent a shade less than the normal seasonal increase.” Increase in pig iron production was only three-fourths the normal in- crease for this month. Steel ingot production actually decreased by 2.7 on. s, and even small merchants close co-operation of the population, The population co- | s, but hinder the movements of the govern-| per cent instead of the normal sea- on why, despite all the expeditions against | sonal increase of 5.1 per cent. In ee ned: the Communists, Communist disturbances are spreading like wildfire.” the first four days of April, con- ean “last stand” on a a struction contracts show a daily “safeguarding” clause indicates that average of $7,000,000 below the the British imperialists have so far | gotten the worst end of the naval | “bargain.” This is not only implied | in Hoover’s statement of April 11 BERLIN (By Inprecorr Press Service.)—The results of the work- ers’ council elections in the Ruhr} Red Unions Win in Ruhr Council Elections same days last year, a decline of almost 30 per cent. Freight car loadings declined almost 4 per cent. Coal production went down 6 per jane 186 for the Christians, The ma- | | jovity of the workers in this factory are women who have thus voted for jon the results of the Naval Con- | ference, but also in a very signifi- | cant assertion by Edwin L. James, | NEW YORK CITY.—Another one of the right-wing substitutes for a| special correspondent of the New| union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers is coming into the open and | York Times at the conference showing its true face, that of being a bosses’ organization for betteriny | For the American imperialists the the conditions of the bosses. conference resulted in a navy on a 1 am employed in a custom clothing shop which is affiliated with the |“much more modern basis,” declares A.C.W. Tries to Organize Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) Ainalgamated. Up to the present time the affiliation has amounted to no James, “It was pointed out here | more than a mere paying of dues on the part of the workers. No organi-| today, he continues, “that if the zation, no betterment of conditions. With the new era of “goodwill” in | United Staves were to attain parity industry which the older organization, the I. L. G. W. U. ushered in, such | by 1936 she would nave to build a huge “success,” the Amalgamated has, it seems, become envious and is scme 400,009 tons at a cost esti- attempting to form bosses’ associations to “better conditions” for both mated by the American raval ex- employers and workers at the same time. A letter which my employers received from the Joint Board of the Amalgamated speaks for itself and shows the lowness to which this organ- ization has sunk. On February 6 my employers received the letter from the above-mentioned union which invited them to attend an organization meeting. Workers, this came from a “union.” Can an organization which seeks to unite exploiter and exploited be for the workers? NO! The needle- | five-power pact. trades workers, just as all other workers, need militant unions to fight Meanwhile, press dispatches from their battles. These have been created, and what is more, the recent dem- | Bisley, England, report that seeret onstrations of the Needle Trades Workers show that they are functioning trials of a new British army rifle well, Workers! Into the Industrial Unions! Against the bosses’ organi- | vever! that it can fire sixty bullets perts at about $1,000,000,000.” The “successful” three - power treaty which was intended to cover up the utter coll pewer conference, is thus exploded by the same fierce antagonisms and rivalries that blasted the original zations! | district show fine victories for the | of the five-| vevolutionary trade union opposi- tion. At 11 pits the revolutionary minority is now a majority and in |100 factories the revolutionary op- | position put forward lists for the |first time. Where the revolutionary opposition already had majorities it has now increased and consolidated them. The result of today’s election at the chocolate factory “Sarotti” was 907 votes for the revolutionary opposition, 597 for the reformists PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (By In- precorr Press Service)—Ten stu- dents and an engineering appren- tice have been arrested in Brody. They are accused of having climbed jup the side of the Holy Trinity | church in Brody and painted the in- scriptions, “Down with Rome! Long Students Arrested for Painting Church live the Soyiet Union!” in- flaring | —A TAILOR. Garage Workers Fiercely Exploited; a Fake, Union (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I always prefer the Daily Worker to the bourgeois newspapers. But I have never seen yet anything about the garage work- ers for whom it is very important to be organized into the Trade Union Unity League. This branch of workers is one of the most important in the city in- dustry. There are about 5,000 | | |hours and six days per week. Stablemen and Helpers,” but this union is only for his own busin He tried to raise the initiation from $5 to $10 and then to $20. The union admits negroes, but they have never got jobs for them. Last year I had a good job, eight The junion went on a strike without ap- garages in Greater New York and} vicinity, with not less than 50,000 probation of the member my job to join the strike. Mr. Cohen did not show himself and the strike had no leader just at and I left ‘a minute! | In America, the U. S. Army air |corps has set a new world’s record for altitude combat formation fly- | ing, nineteen planes of the 95th Pur- suit Squadron having reached a height of over five upd a aif miles. And in Now York “tate, the prep- aration of cannon fodder for the red paint over the whole front. At More Communist Press Service).—The town of Wuhu is being fortified by Nanking troops in expectation of an attack by revo- next imperialist war was advanced |lutionary troops under Communist by seven thousand volunters who | leadership. In the Lunai district, in will go to this summer’s Citizens’ | the west of the province of Fukien, Muitary Training Camps. Ths the | Soviet regime has been set up. imperia ‘st war preparations go on| The Evening Press writes: “It is feverishly at home and abroad clear that Kiukiang, in the north of —_—_—_—_—— Kiangsi, is enclosed by a series of Philadelphia Shoe districts in which power is in the | Workers Look to TUUL | towns of Suichau and Yaochau are jalso threatened by the revolution- hands of the Communis The SHANGHAI, China (By Inprecorr as 7 the end. One night, in the labor hands (without counting the | \yseKs, after six hours on the picket gas filling stations), workers, inte- |jine, Piven sto eenie “cats. Audet rior men, polishers and floormen. Mr. Cohen with a doze sses HeUsHgae Wane aeaiia iexololeeabUle found Mr. Cohen with a dozen bosses : lin good friendship, drinking coffee real slaves work for the miserable | 444 taking no interest in the strike. pay of $24 to $35. |Next day we were told the strike | In some garages a man has to be was over and lost. And some bosses an all-around man and do about six |that had paid $35 before paid only or seven jobs for $30 or $35, 12, 13/495 now. or even 14 hours the night, with one | I don't lose hope that the Trade | day off every two weeks, if it doesn’t rain, |thing for us. I will start’ with a More than a year ago Herman treats fighting news and with that | Cohen built a union, “The Garage |build a union. Washers and Polishers’ Local No. | munist newspaper is just the same | 72,” under the “International Broth- |as the rifle in the soldier’s hands. erhood of Teeamsters, Chauffeurs, GARAGE WORKER Dakota Tenant Farmer Looks to Communist Party (By «@ Farmer Correspondent) RYDER, N. D.—After working 22 years on a farm I have 44,400 in debts. I got tho land for 10 cents per acre from the government, so small in fact that it might be said the land was. “free,” yet I have been forced to give it to the Bank of North Dakota and am now leasing it for one-fourth of the crop. They only made this land “free” in the first place so they could better exploit us. Much of the land here, mine included, cost about $10 per acre to prove up, and now it can be had for less than this per acre, some land even as low as $1 per acre. Just to show how the capitalist system works I bought in the early homestead days—about 22 years ago—a team and harness for $460. The note I gave was renewed right along, because I wasn’t able to pay it, most of the time drawing 10 per cent interest, until the principal reached the sum of $1,950! Certainly I worked for somebody, but not for myself and my class. T look for the Communist ‘ty and the United Farmers League to pull us out of the hole we are in. I can see no hope in the capitalist parties and in such organizations as the Farmers, Union. TENANT FARMER, —- Fight Auto Boss Brutality—Organize! | Union Unity League will do some- \§ I believe the Com- | °'to Lead New Struggle | PHILADE: LPHIA, Pas April 13, Shoe workers in the Quaker City are ssoling to the leadership of the U. U. L. to unionize their indus- | ever have conditione been worse | than now. Cutters are earning $18 te $25 a week, where formerly they | got $40 to $50; fitters get $15 to against a previous scale of $40 |to $60; lasters, $20: to $80, against |a former scale of $70 to $80. Formerly wages averaged, year |around, about $32 a week for shoe | workers, but now they feel fortu- ‘nate to knock out an annual wage | equivalent to $20 a week. | | Even Prosecutor Hits Hartley’s “Parole” Lie SEATTLE, Wash. April 13.— While Governor Hartley declares he jis not empowered to free the Cen- tralia prisoners, Prosecutor Charles |W. Greenough of Spokane charges | that the state parole board acts “un- | der orders of Governor Hartley.” “Convicts are being paroled faster than they can be convicted because members of the board act under or- |ders of the governor,” the prosecu- tor is quoted in a press dispatch. Advocates of the release of the eight Centralia prisoners are glad to see Hartley’s alibi that the mat- ter is “entirely in the hands of the parole board” punctured. NEW 1. L. D. ORGANIZER. MINNEAPOLIS Minn.—H. San- kari will be the new district organ- izer of the International Labor De- |aries, whilst Nankang is in their jhands, In Suichau all the shops jare closed and the police fear to |leave the centre of the town. Train connection between Kiukiang and 1,000 Solonika ATHENS, Greece (By Inprecorr; Press Service).—In Salonika 1,000 | workers of the Spirer tobacco fac- tory and 600 workers of the Com-| mercial Tobacco Co. are on strike for the recognition of the revolu-| tionary union and wage demands. The workers of a tobacco factory The National City Bank of Porto Rico, which has its slimy octopus hold on the Island of Haiti, is mak- ing efforts to buy up the American Colonial Bank of Porto Rico. Native | exploiters who are shareholders in National City Bank Octopus in Porto Rico |the revolutionary opposition, in the |“Osram” electrical works the revo- | lutionary opposition received was j put forward in the Osram factory | by the opposition. The election at |the great German shipbuilding yard jof Blohm Voss resulted in a victory | for the revolutionary opposition which received 3,442 votes and 13 seats on the council whilst the re- |formists received 3,059 votes and 11 |seats, and the Chri: \votes and one seat, ‘present it is a mystery how they | managed it, and only one thing ce and that is that they must | have risked their necks to do it, It will cost a lot of money to efface the traces and special scaffolding | will have to be erected for the job. At the moment the inscriptions can he seen far and wide. Similar in- scriptions have been found on a num- [ber of other walls in Brody. Victories in China | Nanchang is interrupted, owing to the fact that many of the stations in between are occupied by Commu- nist troops. The class struggle in the village is increasing in severity and rich landowners are being killed by the poor peasants. Peasants have been arrested and executed in s, but on the other hand} masses of troops are deserting to | the Communists. Masses of young nts are joining the Commu- because the governmental s rob and plunder under the | ence of searching for Commu-| Confidence in the government | is rapidly disappearing, whilst the influence of the Communists is ris- ing. In the south of Kiangsi strong Communist forces are operating against the governmental troops. Workers Strike in Drama are also out. Members lof the yellow unions are taking part lin the strikes against the will of their leaders. The cobacco firms of Kavalla are | presenting a memorandum to the government demanding wage reduc- | tions of from 20 to 80 per cent and I the introduction of the 9-hour day. 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Its contents should be discussed at Unit meetings, at meetings of various fractions and in reading circles, PUBLISHED MONTHLY, and will continue to do so pro- viding the Party membership makes its appearance possible through regular purchase of bundle orders and secur- ing of subscriptions, Ten cents per Copy—Yearly Sub, $1.00 (By « Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio.—The foreman in Department K 22, Overland Auto, had a young truck driver, | 18 years old, gilt string of trail- ers for the department, and when he got there, that slave-driver told him he did not bring any and said | | | | he was a liar and hit him in the jaw and broke it. Now you see what the Over- land Company is doing to their workers, This young worker ne- ver showed up, ever since. This shows the brutality of the bosses in the Overland plant. —AUTO SLAVE. fense here, taking the place of C. Forsen. The change was made by the district executive committee, to- for One Year for Combination Offer with The Communist ORGANIZER only Two Dollars gether with the national executive |committee. The district office is actively circulating collection lists j for the March 6 defense and is gain- ing subscriptions for Labor De- \fender Send all orders and East 125th Street WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS subscriptions to the New York City consei | launch | pensive to the bosses like relief, in cent, automobiles six per cent, and so on. Preliminary announcements of the census of the unemployed show that the figure is running uniformly from 6 to 7 per cent of the total population. This shows that the estimate of the Daily Worker of about 7,000,000 unemployed was too ive, and that the total is actually closer to 8,000,000. The “Psychological Cure.” The capitalist press continues to fanciful schemes (not surance, or shorter work day) to} “cure unemployment.” The latest meeting of the New York branch of the American Psychological 4 sociation had the usual papers 1 d on “finding work for borderline cases,” and “age groupings” psy- chologically considered. The New York capitalist press seizes on these formal considerations of how to treat some dozens or hundreds of mental cases as “solutions of the problem of unemployment” for the, probably 8,000,000 now jobless! | tonia Pioneees Deionsteate in Chicago; Police Raid Offices; Arrests (Continued from Page One) employed, also repeal of criminal yndicalism and sedition laws. Turn from Socialists. In Milwaukee, where plans xeing hastened for May Day ae | onstrations and the political strike, numer workers indicate that March 6 and the “Red baiting” a! titude of the socialist party and press has dissillusioned them. The’ reaction to the present situation is grown in this to one ypical letter, one of sent of the workers d March 6. Reading the account of the un- | employment demonstration in the ‘Leader’ and seeing your name | and address as one of the arrested and being a red, I would like to ask you where I can get some Communist literature. I have been a socialist for thirty years, and it seems to have lost all the fire and foree of Debs’ time. “Not knowing whether this will reach you, I will close. i Bert Wells.” “Yours truly, _Page Three te PREPARE FOR HUGE MAY FIRST _ POLITICAL STRIKE Bosses Frantic Over Workers Unity (Continued from Page One) 000 jobless work- boss str fling is consi ng a pill the workers from the publie on May 1 and thereafter. This threat on the part of the to deny the workers the red their determina- for the streets and to of the blood- back into their rs on March 6 tion to figh the challen; mass protest meeting 40 joined the militant Metal Industrial League and for ten minutes when the stated that instead of work- a ers being forced to carry the bosses More Protests. flag, they would carry S he flag of telegram of protest against |the workers, the Red Flag, on May he jailing of the representatives of Day. . the unemployed in New York sent to Mayor Walker by the un-{ Klan Fights Workers. 7 employed workers demonstrating in| In the South, the success in mob- Washington Square, Rochester, N. | ilizing all workers, white and black, Y., on the day of the trial. The employed and unemployed, for the meeting was conducted by the coun-| May Day struggle s ed the cil of unemployed, with Ralph Carr,|ire of the boss.s and their fa speaking in English, and Luigi Ge-| bands. The Ku Klux Klan in Bir- novesse in Italian. mingham, Alabama, has established A telegram of protest, stating,|an alliance with the st buro- “We the workers of Jamestown, N.|crats of the American eration Y., demand the freedom of Foster,|of Labor in Bir ingham for this Minor, Amter, Lesten and Ra mond,” Associated Secretaries of Labor Or- ganizations in Jamestown. More Cases. There ave many more cases of capitalist vengeance being prepared. Today, Fred Beal i at Pontiac, Mich., for criminal syn- dicalism. He was arrested, others, during an unemployed dem- onst A week H. M. Power: munist organ bunch ed./ and that they is to go on trial} away from here or else meet such with | to lawfully giv purpose, and in a statement by the was sent to Walker by the | president of the Jefferson County |Klan Association has warned the “unwashed, fanatical, un-American that Klancraft in Birming- ham is intolerant of Russian Com- munism and of ‘nigger’ equality ... had better detour a hot time as Klankraft knows how ” answer to un- speed-up, But the workers’ a employment, starvation, in Atlanta, Ga.,| wage cuts and capitalist exploita- and Joe Carr, Com-| tion will be to turn out in masses rs, are scheduled for{on May First in a political strike trial on an ancient law of the state, against the entire capitalist system. charging them with attempted in-/ No threats of the bo se they spoke at|bings by meetings of Negro and white work- ers, and advised them to organize. Conviction s alty, unless the jury recommen “merey” in which case the senten is five to twenty year: The next day, April 22, the Gas- appeal comes up in court. On the sev: ci al workers come up for trial under the sedition law, which involves ten year sentences on con- ion. They were arrested Feb- 11, while meeting to plan the March 6 de ion. TALK to your fellow worker in shop about the Daily Worker. Sell him a copy every day for a week. Then ask him to become a regular subscriber. your RushFunds HundredsNeed Defense April is the Prosecution Month for the Capitalist Class LET APRIL BE A RED LETTER DAY OF WORKING CL Harry Eisman—-sentenced William Shifrin—charged ASS SOLIDARITY The Unemployed Delegation: Foster, Minor, Amter, Lesten and Raymond are being railroaded to jail in one of the most barefaced ‘class vengeance” 8, no club. their police, no fascist llynch gangs will feed the workers, will give them work or save them the death pen-| from wage cuts and the annihilat- ing speed-up. ame day, in Newark, N.| trial ever witnessed. | to five years in the reforma-| tory, the school of criminals. Food and shoe workers arrested in their fight for the | right to picket and organize. with murder—now on trial. Newark—7 unemployed workers charged with sedition— Negro, white and many others—deportations, persecutions. More Every Day!—Struggle Increases! Rush Funds! Thousands Needed in Cash! 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