The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1930, Page 2

WORKER: VA. MINERS ARI STARVING. THE UNEMPL OYE Want to Organize | der NMU- BIG STONE GAP, V ¢ more I wish to call your to the awful cor i ginia coa The tion, Some of vie 3 mine wor in the, Florida ing fhe poor women and’ children. Send Us Organizers! Won't, you please send organ here to help us. Don’t let the grafting. capitalists make you lieve that the southerners won strike or fight. That.is all propa- ganda of the A. F. of L. They for have sold us out to the bosses twice We and we want no more of them. want the Communist Party and } tional Miners’ Union to lead They are the only ones that can or will get out and fight for the work- ing man, Come on, folks, give us a chance. Don’t think the southerner is no good, We are damn good fight when we believe in a cau: We have had enough of capitalist st: vation. We have been exploited too long by them. I would he glad to help org: and fight to the bitter end for the Virginia miners. Only I have little money and could not hope to win without the help of the Trade Union! Unity League and other ili organizations, like the al | Miners’ Union and the Communist Party. So I say, come on Virginia ne ers, let’s fight the damn capitalis government of the “land of the free | and home of the brave.” Oh yes, | free for the rich to exploit the poo: And the homes are all owned by| the grafting rich. Again we give three chee Foster, Minor, Amter and othe —VIRGINIA MINER. MAKE WORKERS s for q es Lewis Delegates from Non -Existing Mines| (By @:- Worker Cortespor AVELLA, Lewis Convent kind of delegat Cherry Valley, P: mine finished many No years ago. Wes ELECTRIC AY-OFFS GROW: ‘SPEEDUP WORSE LAY A. Fly Don’ +: Care; It’s Up to T.U.U.L ‘The conditio: plant-‘ate get worse, daily. laid off daily. During the last lay: off employes that worked for mine} months or two years or more were |sitre we go. Whom were they repre-! state law every hour of the 24 Cortespoiide nt) Pa.—The bolony, about Pennsylvania delegates to the ion in Indianapolis, March 10, s Lewis had at that convention: (it is Sub Distriet 1, 1930. The following is. the they got 2 men from N. M. U.). The Cherry Valley more miners in Cherry Valley, the *men work on farms—but:no more coal mine in Cherry Valley. The, Lewis and Fegan henchmen, , John P. Busarello and Robert} Gai $10 a day paid disorganizer fc e dead and buried W. Western Pennsylvania, and | pigeons for. the coal operators, | and any other boss agency, they the men if they want to be delegates to the Indianapolis con- | vention March 10, The. men. an-| swered whom are we going to. repre- 2..There is no mine in Cherry | t c They Represented $10 a Day. J. P. Busorello said makes no dif-| erenc® If theté ‘mifie’ 6 WOE. “Many of us are|If you want to go we give you $10/ cage. This is for the safety of uh day-and expenses. Oh, well, $10.a day and expenses, | a OR MAY FIRST STRIKES AND DEM Workers to Com Out May. Ist; A worker in the Western Electric Company plant at Kearney, N. J., tells of the intense speed-up there, and the lay-offs that oceur as a resuit of the speed-up., He calls on electric plant workers to jein the Metal Workers’ Indus- trial League, affiliated with the fighting Trade Union He urges all workers, unemployed or em- May Day. Unity League. loyed, to strike and demonstrate Electric workers, such as these in Western Electric plants, will help:to form the new, revolutionary Metal and Stee! Workers’ Industrial League at the Youngstown Con- vention June 14-15. i Subway Workers Slaughtered by Speedup Read the letter of one of these worker: T.U.UL, is the only organiz ation for me McGovern Construction Co. Brine and Blacklist: Correspondent) ick against low pay. and murderous, He says the teas conditions is.the order of. Patrick MeGovern Co,, Inc, or out | last two meetings of our unionaand, ‘< Struck Dec. 18 Against is company has a job:ef 17 «miles oth New York. This includes 17 shafts to be s down to a depth of 600 feet. The* law of New York State plainly sa; you cannot. go more than 150 feet without putting, in a, head--houge, or ; sand tunnels of Ne’ ;men. Did they do that? Hell, | They zo. BeUe anae ape ae the Union of which I am a member. DE ATLY: “WORK ER NEW y ORE 8 AT! URD AY, APRIL. 19 1930 sir! “| they ‘have’ lengthened our how worse than dogs and pay them half | ¢lass collaboration activities. price for their work. So. the condi-| denounced: the ‘union heads tiohs in the construttlon of the-sub" forcing tthe *Sight-hour' day “avita2+* “York City } | tion, for not demanding an’ inere hell. We have been sold out by/in wages: and a guaranteed week \ the A. F. L., especially the Blasters for the extra men. Rally tod. OF. -U, L. Cleveland Car Workers See Thru (By a Wo s of the labor f That the v alk } was evident du | would not cover the cost of putting’ | them into operation and sw. | profits at-the same time. fwork, cut out as many as sixteen | two-car -traims on many spéeded,.up{ithe running ‘time, thus “! throwing hundreds of carmen out of- work, Workers Score Union Fakers. “Phesezmen and the others | thrown:.out: ef work attended the ¢ is must go jin very strong terms told the -of- ficials what they thought of their They To curb the agitation that the 4 s ng the last two meetings of Di “tad | Union. The eight-hour day our local fakers said the Street Railway Com- |e pany would grant us if we voted for it has been ditched because the | cémpany discovered that the cut in w wages that t that the ei ight hour achedules | Instead of | lines, AFL Fakers Correspondent) ers are not alwa ‘IAMOND TOWEL WILL WORKERS - ,| between the FIGHT GAMELY 35 Pereent Wagecut (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The Dia ‘mand Towel Mills at Hancock and} thé schedtle for*the next: day. "B in Philadelphia, is this next day results in working the} only 3 days a week and laid off Somerset Sts. affected by a Tw (called sby h Towel Weavers Union, Lo- | for the rest of the few days. FISHER BODY 0. SPEEDUP MAKES PANY JOBLESS. Murder Shouse: Need | Auto Werkers Union (By a Worker Correspopdent.) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Conditions in the Fisher Body plant of Cleve- land are constantly growing worse. The sewing and pasting room de- partment has become a murder, house. Last April, 1929, the sew- ing room department employed about 400 ers; 100 young boys ges of 17 and 21; 250. young girls; about 50 women, be- tween the age of 25 and 30, This April, 1930, we find around 15 boys, 235 young girls, working 8 and 9 hours per day, producing even more ,than last Id, Oak! |plants of the General Motors Co. Before the auto show we were so busy we had to slave 14 to 17 hours |per day, 7 days a week. At that , time we worked on the day rate sys- tem, which paid 25 to 40 cents per 'hour. In order that we should not \k k the bosses steadily kept on | pe omising that we soon would be put back on’ piece-work and again be able to make 70 to 75 cents per hour. We fools listened and hoped 'for these damnable hours to put us on piece-work so that we could make enough to live on, But these liars {did not mean to put us on piece- |work at that time. T was just a means to keep us satisfied and vs strewn with roses| Prevent us from revolting. against. ision 268 Street Carmen's | this speed-up, low wages and the ag hgurs that we worked. The Lay-off Begins. After working two months with | this terrible speed-up, long hours, ‘low wages. and misery,# it slowed i down a little, As soon as it slowed down they immediately laid off \around 50 young workers. Along | with this they produced the so- | called piece-work thas they kept 'y romising us for three months. This. _by no means was the piece-work we ad last year. It is something en- tirely different. Group work sys- |tem, and not ‘being paid for how much we get out, but paid for what [they ship. If we get out our work |before the schedule, about 2 or 3 jo’clock in the afternoon, they won't let go home. It is explained that pit is necessary to begin to eae ut Under cad No, 1), which has. waged a strug- | this system we are able to make fired for ‘little or’ 10’ reason. "Phe -3 or $4 per day at the most. jentire matterwas a weeding out “senting in Indianapolis? The $10 eT day and expenses. Won -you-‘cotnt’ “to ~our yeScue | situation, is. developing: pur- tricky | D: lacklist. t Ceinnie, Silene biaekas to Witt the Tradé' Union ‘Unity Leagué’ financial secretary sudlenly’ became gle against a 35 per cent wage cut | process to eliminate the better paid} Busorello is a notorious bosses’ jis company has a contract jg OF Some other organization and help | a “‘revolutionjst”—an old trick of and lengthening of hours. 2 This is a clever and vicious rae and to’ replace them with) man, an enemy of the miners." Hel ie “of thew ee stuikebboning subway and tuinel workers. “his—by..accusing the railway com-|_ The owner of this mill, who claims) method of speed-up and wage-cuts. a ae new workers for half the price.’ is the man who gold al! the proper- | companies in the. state. ‘They. have, Come on, subway workers, join Pany of duplicity in not putting the he is a “socialist,” forces the slaves | Speed-up was bad enough, but this Sh ae 1 Those -that -are ‘still working |ared-ty of L. Ul 18 U. M. W. A. fin'fep pigeons all over their job to..the union that. fights for you! To eight-hour. schedules into effect. He Whom he exploits to work overtime | is even worse. 1 oe Shop Chairmen veing exploited and speeded up to Avella for him and the faker Fagan. 1 0.) the workers and if they hear ,hell with, the government that lets suggested, that the grievance com-{if a belt’ b without pay and| Young workers, are we going to tool the: limit. r iners paid for it. He was alo kick dee us starve and makes slaves of ust” }mittee,should meet the bosses and | Maile the toilets so the workers can-/ permit the bosses to fool us and cut 0. 001s Speed Up Fierce i goa Tach vont ii Hane ety Ai “task them. for a guarantedd aveok for snot use them. . The toilets and the} our wages as they are doing? Our I back-breaking slave-driving. bossés, —BLASTER iis ia cana repvevad swith filth: ahd tial (By a Worker ¢ Corresponde nt) | A few days ago I saw an Beste in your paper about our shop, the I. Miller shoe shop in Long Island City. But the best part of our shop | this worker forgot to tell you. That is that we pay for the spies that! watch us. It’s like this. I. Miller company union, and eve works there has to pay in he will lose if he goes has trike. ery week to pay the shop chairman. } And these shop chairmen are noth- ing but spies for the company. Of course, there are lots of other spies, too. And that isn’t all. We got lousy bunch’ of foremen all over this shop, but one foreman is the worst) of all.’ That is the one called Frank Vegesi, This Vegesi isn’t satisfied with driving his own men, fining for every tiny damage and firing for no excuse at all, but he butts in on the other departments and helps:‘out the foremen there, too. | In fact, he acts like he thought he | was the grande seigneur of the shop, ‘like they used to have in Europe I guess. on Then we have to pay 10 cents e' T agree with the fellow that wrote | ' the other day that we should Join the Independent Shoe Workers’ Union. all get together in a good fighting union like that. —A SHOE REBEL. Other workers ‘in 1p Miller shoe shop should write in to the Daily Worker about their experiences in the shop, so that your fellow- workers can see how conditions are in all, of the departments, Young Communist Girl) Dies. of Prison Hunger Strike in Palestine An eighteen-year-old girl mem- ber of the Communist Party of Pal- estine died Wi ednesday in the Ha-| dassali Hospital. in Jerusalem, fol-| lowing a two weeks’ hunger strike in prison. where she had been held | since Jast September, according to | a Jewish’ Telegraphic Agency dis-| patch: ‘While neither the name of} the prisoner nor the reasen for her } “imprisonment Was given, the vicious | persecution of the rveyolutionary workers in this colony of Bri imperialism by its “labor” impevial- ist government is notorious. What we need to do is to), The wor of the Wood Shop, Dept. No. 393, a ave speeded up and matched one to another to see who wins the race. The workers in the southw | have to ng acids of the stain a ish, which en- their health. These condi- prevail’ in other departments, the next leaflet we will cite Ignores Workers. The leaders of International Association of Machinists, that*are | part and parcel of the American Federation of Labor leadership, are doing nothing toward remedying the | miserable conditions of the workers | in the Western Electric plant, but, instead, are working hand in hand with the bosses to. force upon the workers wage-cuts and speed-up. The shop committee of the West- ern affiliated to the Trade U: Unity League is appealing to fellow-workers to tak immediate steps toward orga ng shop com- mittees in every department, and to participate. in the New Jersey Metal Conference on May 18 in Newark, This conference will estab- lish a Metal Industri ion that will orge anize and mob- rs of N F. of L. the iliz t , for the seven-hou a- day week; "against speed-up, for equal work equal pay, for higher wages, against overtime, for social insurance, sick and unem- | ployment insurance paid by the bosses and state. Join the May 1 political strike. | WESTERN ELECTRIC WORKER.’ | flunky, _ | panies the pre ne He represented the goal company | and -not the miners, because no coal } miner elected him. Toney Federoff, | from Bridgeville, Pa.; he sold out} to Frank Lodovinga, Sub District President in Bellaire, Ohio, U. M. W. A. for a flunkey job in 1925,! and fought against the Powhattan| Poitit, Ohio, Progressive © L- Lodovinga stole over $100 from the Bell miners, he h |the union, and flunky could not get the. job- John Cique gave the job to Rodol- fo Pacifico, a good two faced man, so Toney became P. T., a Fagan he supported 100 per cent |the machine in the 1927 U. convention against the eabaressivey and the Communist Party. | James Flood was a delegate from! Atiasburg mine. This mine shut down a long time before the 1927 strike. He must represent the Car- negie Coal Company. And _ this e is about 30 miles away from home. Others like that were at Indianapolis for Lewis. The yellow dog Howat, and Far- vington convention in Springfield, Ill., was just the same kind of dele- gation, was not representing the miners at all, but the coal com- had got out of Federoff laire hi Brophy and Hapgood delegates from Western Pennsyl- No miner ever elected or Hapgood from Pa. Hap- good from Colorado is a Pennsyl- vania delegate. This is funny. So both are coal company union con- ventions, Forward to the National Miners’ | Union Convention June 1, and Pitts- burgh District convention April 26- 27— —AVELLA MINER, | other | You must da the work of three men WW. Panies here that treat their he is soon called to one side and handed his -discharge papers. Do t stop at that? Like hell they do. You are blacklisted from all the openings of the company. They have killed and crippled more men than any company if the state. | They fire more men than any other, company of its kind in the state. and ’ Jobless | Unemployment ped haar PSIE, _N.- Y¥., There will he a demons! aga ies unemploymentyin thi city where state employment ment is wor Sat. April | or you will be discharged. They tell you that if you don’t want to do it, they have plenty of unemployed men igures ers and joble Sold Out by A. F. L. |m. The call is from the Trade I could mention many other com- Union Unity League and the Coun- men | cils of the Unemployed. This underground worker was murdered by specd-up. The A.F.L. dowt give a hang about such murders, says a subway blaster. He says the workers must join the T.U.U.L. t. Work- | Smoke the” open-s s will gather at Main j cigarettes clamouring at their gates for jobs. and Market Sts. Saturday at.3 aj Bosses, exchange a few plea , the extra, mien, * affect was. put through. Poughkeepsie Workers Workers Can Expect Nothing from Protest| These Fakers. The Trade Union Unity | committee war jexpect anything from this “griev ance committee” which is headed by | |the union: officials. As they have! always.“dote, this committee will} |simply call at the company’s office, and the antries and then depart to tell of the terrific battle they had with the | railway executives, and how they a most convinced them of the tice of the cause of organized |bor.” We also warn you that these j officials of ours will sell us out every time they get the chance. The |cowardly ‘séll-out by our interna- |tional officials of the striking New | Orleans street carmen when their |strike was actually won is pe jproof’ that these labor fakers are League handed and morals of us wage earners. If we are to have work and wages seven-hour day, eighty cents per hour, limit stretchout to nine hours, social insurance, ‘abolition of all wel- faye schemes, no compulsory dona- tions to community fund. Any carmen not acquainted with the activities of the Trade Union Unity League committee which is active in Division 268 should call at 226 Superior West and ask for Douglas (I. L. D. office). CARMAN No, 2. A motion ‘to: that s all carmen not to out to destroy the fighting spirit) we, the rank and file, will have to | fight for it by agitating for the) two weeks} vacation with full pay, | women who are forced to slave for | | are compelled | this yellow soe to use it with th Striking Since Dee. The most truck a men. 18. militant of the workers | against the rotten conditions and have been on strike since De- cember 18, A few slimy scabs, who were members of the union, one who is thought to be a stool-pi, went back to work. But t and file refused to se enemy of the workers and yellow cialist who owns the mill and e: ploits and robs those who are forced |to toil for him takes all back. Hell On the Workers. This shop is known to be hell on the workers and employs boys under the legal age, forcing them to do the work of men at children’s pay. And they are forced to work 12 and 15 hours a day. | The boss is willing to take back | militant workers out. _ This the rank and file refuse to do. {will in the future join forces with the Trade Union Unity League, un- der whose leadership it will win the strike by following its policy of or- }ganizing the unorganized and form- ing an industrial union and joining forces with the |Workers Union, which is in the strug- gle to organize the workers for bet- | ter working conditions, more wages and will in the future lead all the! workers in the textile industry. —A WORKER. Write About Your Conditions | for The Daily Worker. Become a ! Worker Correspondent. ‘ STARVING CALIFORNIA WORKER WHO'LL FIGHT BUT STARVE NO LONGER + » (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Ce her of the unemplo; Oakland and TL. veled all over Calife a meim- ed council of D. also I tra- and never saw itso hard before in Califor- figure men work. You are nia_ for when can laying off o by the hun getting worse in- they ad of better. the people . of /Oukland are learitig mere abous Hoover pros- perity in California. 1 wiii téli you fellow-workers that it iscom- ing to a showdown with the capi- talist. class. Fellow-workers, can we eat any of the Hoover prosperity at pres- ont? No, we can’t wait any longer rit. So what are we going to do? “This solves the problem right now: Organize at once, build it up right now, while the chances are good, HELL, FIGHT, A I have a. family myself to look after, I have gone to the ‘com. as yet. | charity for you, but I have an- munity chest for help, and no help That is what they call | am doing the best I can at pres- ent and putting up a fight with the rest of my fellow-workers in this struggle for work or wages. I have two girls to take care of hesides fighting. I was in the March 6 demonstration to pre- sent our demands at the City Hall. Hut we have no results as yet. ‘The last time we went up {o the mayor why. they ran from us like a bunch. of wildcats. “They © were afraid to face us in the coun- other name for it, graft for the capitalist el It has me on the verge of starvation right at pres- ent. It means for me to start fighting for my rights and for what rightly belongs to me, and Ll am going to get it, too, don’t forget that. My children have nothing to eat right now. THE GRAFTERS AFRALD. 1 ai an ex-service man, too, at ‘ | | en | Calls on All Workers to Down Tools on May Day; His Family Is Starving; Organize, that. It don't get me nothing. I | cil chamber at the City Hall. DOWN TOOLS MAY DAY! I will tell you fellow-workers | that when the time comes to fight don't lay down on the job. You just join the fight With, the rest of your fellow-workers and down the capitalist class. In that March | 6 demonstration about 8,000 peo- ple were there. We have in our ranks today, as close as I can fig- ure 1,200-members inthe unem- ployed council. We put our de- mands before the city council and / He Says | asked for an answer to our de- mands, and they said they could not do anything for us at the pres- ent time. So we workers started to ask the mayor how he. could appropriate funds eneugh to go to Europe on a pleasure trip at that time. He had funds, He said: Shut up, you are liars, Workers, come out streets May First! Yours very truly, BELLOW-WORKER FROM OAK- LAND, CALIFORNIA, on .the ° Je unless this | ‘tive | some of the men and leave the most The union National Textile | | | lanswer is no. We must organize into the Auto Workers’ Industrial | Union, the only militant union in | the auto industry that is affiliated | with the Trade Union Unity League. —FISHER BODY SLAVE. YOUTH WORST OFF "AT BETHLEHEM C0, 0- One Accident (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—As a young worker from the tin mills of Bethle- hem Steel Co., I will write on how we work. The young workers .are | given the hardest and most danger- ous work on the hot mills and the lowest pay. We find the young workers are | given such jobs as screw boy, single boy, doubler, and pair heater at which they must work hard for low pay. And besides this the workers lives are always in danger. ts in the morning, the rougher and. screw boy on mill 81, narrowly escaped death or injury when the spannel bar jumped off the screw. We find that besides such accidents there are hundreds of minor acci- dents such as burns. Most screw boys, for instance, are full of burns jfrom grease and oil. As young workers we should or- ganize and join the youth section of the Metal Workers Industrial | League and fight for a six-hour day, five-day week, $30 minimum wage, and real safety precautions, —A SCREW SOx. -_ MORE ROTHSTEIN SECRETS. _ District Attorney Crain and George A. McManus, who was tried - and acquitted for the murder of Rothstein, met yesterday in secret + conference over the Rothstein mur« der mystery, about which Crain, Walker and other Tammany fakers eh oes more than they care to tell. i coate society two great hos tuto two great und directs. ca tras iT Feit tata aresetae and ae: 31 Narrowly Escape in Only last Friday, about 4 o’clock -- ,