The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1930, Page 3

) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930 > Page Three | CONNECTICUT CiTIES SCHEME TO FOUL THE JOBLESS WHO STARVE Give Them Week’s Work at 40c an Hour and Then They Starve All Over Again Murphy, Labor Misleader, Delivers A. F. of L. Unions Into Hands of the Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The New Haven City Council will try to fool the unemployed. The plan is to be patterned after the scheme used in Waterbury, New Britain and Bridgeport. Unemployed workers in these cities get a week’s work at 40 cents an hour and starve for a few months until their turn comes Alderman John W. Murphy, the notorious labor faker, also presi- | dent of the New Haven Trades Cow over to the Chamber of Commerce. about getting Yale College to use Yale building program. around again, maybe. neil, tries to deliver the trade unions The bait he uses is a lot of hot air only New Haven union men for the Murphy wants the Chamber of Commerce and the Trades Council to confer with a committee from t will preside. Now, all this in face of the f. the committee of the unemployed the City Council at which the mayor ‘act that the mayor refused to meet on March 6. Slimy Murphy is a useful servant of the master class, also a treacherous misleader of labor. Workers, build the Trade May Day. Union Unity League! Demonstrate —R. W. “Socialists” in Service of Luggage Bosses (By a Worker NEW YORK CITY.—Quite a number of former labor fakers are | in the open service of the New York luggage bosses. Among them is Osip Wolinsky, former man- ager of the Fancy Leather Goods Workers’ Union, now boss in the White Luggage Co. One other well-known labor faker, Garfin- kel, ex-“socialist* assemblyman and former organizer of the Suit- case and Bagmakers’ Union, is new manager in the Metropolitan Suitcase Co. There are others in other shops. These traitors have gone so far as to deny that a worker is hu- man, and are helping the bosses all they can against the workers. After a complete lay-off after Correspondent) | Thanksgiving for almost two months the workers are given work for mostly two days and sometimes three days. They are watched like slaves and speeded to the limit. Especially that little Mussolini, Garfinkel, in the Met ropolitan, a regular fascisi tramples on the workers’ right: Wage cuts, speed-up, to get ric of the older workers, this is wha he offers us. The luggage work- ers must not be indifferent to this moye of the bosses, with the hel) of the “soci ” traitors. They should join the Trade Union U League and under its leadership organize to fight wage cuis and speed-up and for better conditions. And all out on strike May Day —LUGGAGE WORKER. Starve While Jobless; Bosses Would Starve Them While Working (By a Worker | PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Interest-|eents an hour to the workers, To | © of this | kward section, reply they cannot | £ ing news not featured in the local press, but placed in obscure corners of some of these sheets, comes from the central part of the feudal barony of Mellon, Grundy and company. Correspondent) which the workers, even |live on. And it is a fact. Twe jcents an hour, even at the prev jing 10-hour, 6-day week, means la week for back-breaking worl Orders Bloody Machado of Cuba gets instructions from Wall Street on what to do in the May Day gen- eral strike, voted by the Cuban work Today in History of the Workers | April 24, 1792—Rouget de I’Isle, | French reyolutionary poet, composed | the “Marseillaise.” 1916 — Second | war-time conference of radical So- cialist groups opened at Kienthal, | Switzerland. 1920—Street car work- ers struck at Trenton, N. J. 1922— Minnie Kolnin and Tina Jurson con- vieted in New York on charges of distributing Communist leaflets, 1922—Mining company thugs who dered Sid Hatfield and Ed Cham- bers, miners’ friends, acquitted in West Virginia. 1922—Trials of over 500 miners opened at Charlestown, » Va., for armed march to Logan County in 1921. “DEMAND RELEASE OF COMMITTEE” Shifrin Issues Statement For Wide Campaign. | “All workers should participate in the campaign for the release of the five leaders of the New York March 6 unemployed demonstration and all clo y prisoners,” Wil- liam Shifrin, just acquitted of i ing an armed thug of the right- Ww |wing Heb Butchers’ Union, ated ye Shifrin, who y s atta¢ked by a ng of about » ican Fed- n of Labor gangsters on Sep- 10, 1929, because he was or. r of the left-wing butche: It union, was on trial from April 11 {t appears that the county au- means starvation for the families to April 21 in the Bronx, on aj thorities of Center County, at Belle-|of these workers and virtual serf-| charge of second degree murder. fonte, Pa. are about. to start a “plan for unemployment relief.” One million dollars is to he spent to build new roads in this thinly populated, mountainous section of the state. Through the building of | which isn’t likely to any great ex-| International these roads all unemployed workers will be taken care of, say the au- thorities. the truly regal sums of 20 and 22 dom. | Although the right-wing officials The workers here ean better spend and the Tammay Hall politicians of their time by fishing and hunting | Bronx County attempted their ut-} | rabbits, providing there is yet left; most to convict Shifrin the strong |public lands in Center ‘tent. But the workers will organ- ize under the Trade Union Unity —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. Kanne and Besant—Slave Pen for Metal Workers - (By a Worker NEW YORK CITY.—I have worked for three years for Kanne & Bessant, 460 W. 34th St. I have have had plenty of time to see how the life-blood of the young and old workers is transformed into fat profits for the bosses. Wages are low, time workers, to $30 for first-class mechanies; metal work- ers, $: helpers, $21; iron orna- ment workers, $30 to 3 black- smiths, $38; welders, $39, but these were fired and replaced by new ones for $30; nickel platers get $40; fix- ing fixtures with » $18 to $25: painters, $18 to $28; in store room, $22 to $25; carpenters, $35; spin- ners,, $28 and $25; in shipping room, $22 to $25; polishers, $32. Women get even less. On shades, $12 to Correspondent) $18. Office workers the same and change often. And all this with '471-2 hours’ working week. | The speed-up in the factory is jterrible, though it works only four |months a year. What in the hell re- |mains for the workers to do? This ‘is the one and only way: Organize jin the Trade Union Unity League. | There is no other workers’ or- ganization in the United States joining which the workers get lead- ership and support for struggle against capitalist exploitation but {the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party. The A. F. of L. and other unions are nothing jelse but catch-nets of the capital- ists for diverting the workers from |the class struggle. ' —METAL WORKER. The A,F.L. Union Label—for Sale to Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Calif—-The Concealo| vice—that he put 16 of his men into Fixture Co, with branch offices in|the A. F. of L. and pay their initia- New York aud Chicago and a place; tion fees and dues to start them in here in East Oakland. This concern|the organization, in order to get is putting over a lot of fakery in conjunction with the A. F. of L. here in order to get rid of their goods. This capitalist met an official of the A. F, of L., to whom he con- fided that three carloads of his goods were being turned back on account of not having union labor and for not having the union stamp on goods. Fink gave him this ad- |the stamp on his goods so that he lcould sell them. has told his boss that he can make more profits by laying these men off and hiring boys to do the work for less money and that he would teach them the work. Now, the boss still uses the stamp, but uses unorganized labor, That’s how the A. F. of L. works. —OAKLAND WORKER. Speedup Maims J. H. Taylor Construction Workers (By a Worker NEW YORK CITY.—A worker's letter the other day in the Daily Worker about accidents due to the speed-up on the Taylor Con- struction Co. job on the big build- ing at Second Ave, and 68th St. I don’t know who wrote it, but he’s giving correct dope. Another example a few days ago. The J. H. Taylor Construction Co. | Lea; got signs stuck all over: “Safety Correspondent) first,” “co-operate with us,” ete, A plank fell from one of the upper floors being constructed, hit a la- borer on the forehead and split: it. Speed-up caused it. Things often drop and hit workers, because of speed-up, The A. F. of L, don't care; don’t even bother about union seale being paid. Building workevs should join the Trade Union Unit: gue, —BUILDING WORKER. Holeproof Hosiery (By @ Worker MILWAUKEE, Wis,—Please pub- lish one more blow to the Hoover Cuts Force Down Correspondent) Holeproof Hosiery Co, cut the wor. ing force from 2,150 to 1,900, due to “lack of orders.” lie about American prosperity. The MILWAUKEE WORKER. They will pay, they say, | league and be heard from May Day. | in Now the foreman) ghoyld be reduced as a permanent | County, | working-class support rallied by the Labor Defense sulted in his discharge. “I will be more active than ever the working-class struggle,” Shifrin continued, | The New York District of the In- {ternational Labor Defense is ar- | ranging an affair to celebrate Shif- |vin’s acquittal, which is hailed as a victory of the militant workers ral- |lied around the banner of the I. L. |D. These affairs will be used to build the I. L. D, into a mass or- ganization. re- Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspendent. \MORE FAKE RELIEF Just a Matter of Salesmanship. Capitalists continue to issue fake Jemployment cures but some of the jlatter ones are not even pretenses |to care for the jobless; they are just insults and threats. “Unemployment isn’t so compli- cated after all, It is mostly a pro- duction and sales problem and is due largely to lack of attention by management,” explained Sam A. |Lewisohn, copper magnate, addres- |sing the National Metal Trades As- sociation, rabid anti-unionists. Vice-Pres. George E. Roberts of (BOOTLICKING PRES. OF COLOMBIA HERE FOR WALL St. INSTRUCTIONS Wanis American Imperialists to Fili Their Pockets in Colombia apitalist Press Oozes Praize for Him and His Policy In a banquet given by the presi-|deed? But how many Latin-Amer- dent of the capitalist United Press | ican statesmen have there been who Monday night the willing tool of|could see such a relationship with- Yankee imperialism in Colombia, | out prejudice? ... He deserves a | Enrique Olaya Herrera, who has | sincere welcome!” just bei: “elected” president in that| Yes, Dr. Olaya is certainly a “ country, most shamelessly an-/sible”? and model tool that |nounced his slave policy toward for- serves a sincere welcome.” jeign capitalists and said that “the| According to the United States officials of the country respect the geological survey Colombia is the jvights of capital in a generally fa-| greatest potential oil producing | vorable atmosphere.” area in the world. Rockefeller, by | Such a willing tool! So docile putting Olaya on the presidential and outspoken! No wonder the seat of Colombia, attempts to in- | Wall Street organ, the New York sure for himself the monopoly of Herald Tribune, printed a special this important oil reserve and to ‘editorial “praising” and “welcom-| maintain his position as the ex- jing” Dr. Olaya. The editorial ploiter in Colombia, | openly says: But the workers of Colombia will “He favored votes for women and not endure this misery long. ‘The |frankly urged the extension of fa-! social revolution in Colombia, to- |vors to the United States. He sees gether with the developing revolu- is country with vast undeveloped | wealth and the United States with |great supplies of capital seeking |fields for investment. | sensible or more proper than ‘| bring them together? What in-| ploiters. Renegades Steal Party Organ | PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia (.P.S.)—The right-wing renegades | in Reichenberg have obtained possession of the party organ “Vor- | waerts” and of the party printing works. The renegades Neurath Kreutz, Ulbrich, Botchek and Runge were the formal owners of the newspaper and printing works in trust for the party. They now | refuse to give the property over to its rightful owner, the party. In consequence the Vorwaerts will not be able to appear as a party organ. At the moment it is suppressed for a period of one month by the authorities. The party will now issue a new organ entitled The Red Forward. There is great indignation amongst the work- ing masses at the theft of the party organ by the renegades, | Workers Fight German Dictatorship Threat BERLIN (IPS).—Following the,to the districts. The only incident appeal of the Communist Party to| Which occurred was due to a de- | demonstrate against the new goy-| liberate provaction of the police who | is block. tele a procession ef Reiehsbanner ernment of the bourgeois bloc! past the headquarters of the |of thousands of workers marched munist Party, Karl L |from various points to the Lust-| House. The workers in the squ garten where a mass meeting in| before the K. L. House protested the open air was held. Speeches | energetically and minor collisions were made at various points in tne | occurred during which the police great square and the meeting broke| made violent attacks with their up end marched in processioz back | batons, Paint Churches with Revolutionary Slogans VIENNA (1L.P.S.)—On Sunday services of intercession tool: place in the churches of Innsbruck on behalf of the religious “mar tyrs? in the Soviet Union. The churches were found to be placarded ‘h inscriptions such as, “Religion is Opium for the People!” “Pope Pius ig Morgan’s Debtor!” “Long Live the Soviet Union!” Leaf- lets exposing the real nature of the religious campaign against the Soviet Union were distributed before the churches. The f and Catholic newspapers in Innsbruck are outraged and publish long and foaming articles calling for government intervention against he irreligious criminals. | Bulgarian Fascism’s New Crime SOFIA (By IPS). — The former , also “amnestied,” but when he re. | secretary of the Bulgarian Young turned he was immediately arresied Communist League, Comrade Jack |Nathan Primo has “disappeared | without trace”. Primo was sentenced | to 8 years hard labor but succeeded in making his escape. He was one of the “fortunate” revolutionar | who came under the pseudo amnest: | last year and trusting to this he re- |turned quite legally to Bulg a only too good reason to believe that little while ago, like many other | another gallant comrade has fallen “amnestied” revolutionaries who re-} victim to the ruthless bestiali turned to Bulgaria (Keresoff was! Bulgarian fascism, sentence which the “amnesty” abol- ished). Primo was arrested and charged with having studied at a Russian university. He has now “di. appeared without trace,” a phrase in Bulgaria which represents a variant of “shot whilst attempting to escape.” Unfortunately there is Greek Metal Workers Strike ATHENS, Greece (1.P.S.).—One hundred and fifty metal wo cvs of the Metallurgical Association ave on strike in Athens for wage increases. In Piraeus 100 metal worke of the factory are also on strike for the 8-hour day and the re-employment of a number of dismissed workers, nopolous “ROBBING ESKIMOS. ‘tionary movements in other parts | of the world, will eventually sweep | Olaya and his kind off their seats What more | of power and seal the doomed fate of Rockefeller and his fellow ex- | Confere: JOBLESS ARM aed Thousands Called. to | Oklahoma; No Jobs OKLAHOMA CITY, too much ave state press, thousands of workers have been induced to come to Oklahoma City for employment. The majority are disappointed. | Now and then a few are given employment in the oil fields here. The bosses want a large army of unemployed here, so they can select the youngest and most able- bedied for their employes, A system of exploiting the able- bodied worker against the | robust is in vogue and also by a large number of unemployed. They can hire them at a cheaper wage scale, and there is not much sign of a brighter outlook for the future. | —OKLAHOMA JOBLESS WORK NADA DEFENSE MEET | ,For May 1; Defense of Daugherty. | HAMILTON, Ontario, April 23.— Saturday and Sunday there will be held here an Emergency Defense e of the provinces of On- tario and Quebec. There will be |about 150 worker delegates there. There will be a ban Satur- day, April 25, at 7 p. m. and a ret |mass demonstration of United States in and Canadian workers’ solidarit; defense of Leonard Daugherty (facing a frame-up trial for mur- der in Boston) will be held Sunday, April 27. ‘Push Tractor and Truck Fund for soviet Union Aid | The Tractor and Truck Campaign that the Friends of the Soviet Union is conducting in cooperation with the Workers International Relief is now in full swing. In shops and factories and workingclass organ- iz: throughout the country funds are being raised io buy 40 tractors and trucks to help the Rus- sian wo' and peasanis fulfill the requireme of the great Five-Year Plan of Socialist Construction. Collection li nd certificates ns have been issued for raising funds | The varying for the tractors and tru: \certificates are for sums from 50 cents to $100, |are urged to secure these lists and | certificates from the Friends of the Soviet Union, 175 Fifth Ave., room 511, New York City, and to collect among their shopmates and friends and in their organization BLUFF. | CHURCH KEEPS UP | The Catholic church has again claimed 20,000,000 members in U. S., the figure they have been claim- ing for the last 10 y the priests The way work it is to count every the same. and is now serving the ten year, Ad No. 174 Don’t Let Ailing Kidneys and Bladder 21 90 You'll be sorry if you don’t act at once to curb kidney and bladder troubles. A serious break-downin yourhealth may oceur. Take action at once. Get Santal Midy from your druggist. It has been preseribed for half a century by doctors throughout the world. , Santal Midy ’ | All workers | News of the Daily Worker Campaign been fired from the Pi t y reading the Da 4 PERCENT LESS ANTHRACITE JOBS Wage Cuts Also Hit Workers can’t get a job. tale Matip admits in yest ond wr a worker from I fea dees od 98 per : ae sruary to March. Their . f ased on a report of the 2 est is } Sor a ry es anne ith) Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank. sels Be AM S$ al) Not only has er ent fallen heady PnEge new 23 per cent, but payrolls have fallen A during the same ¢ per cent, Six se Wy ten he is nae oe pave crate the) showing wage cuts and partial em- pally Worker, claiming that they ployment for those who remain at nave noe received Daily Worker! work, ‘The payroll is 18 per cent campaign lists. We are receiving jower than it was in March last letters from comrades in cities lo- ie cated within ce’ tory well, informi e no campaign li terri- NEGROES DIE OF Tes RESULT OF STARV n imme v where th AND embership. i mbership. OVERWORK | * * Section 8, New York eredit the establishme: has to its the first 0 April 23 id consequent t< der- carrier route of 100 Daily Worker e is largely responsible customers. for the fact that in 29 the tuber- | At gee culosis death rate g St. Louis | A successful Daily Worker con-| Negroes reached its est peak in rence was organized by Section 10 chariti and bourgeois , leagues admit in annual reports. food, bad housing conditions and e strain of trying to exist without a job, contribute to an alarming mortality rate among N A sharp increase in Negro from heart disease and pneu- to the nerve strain of povert ed bodies and lowered powers of resistance to disease. Twent ns were Party units and 1 ganizations. 1 orkers or- e or- de- cipate in the Red Sun- n the section; a quota Lack of prop dle order w ference; each org to elect a Daily Wo tive; over 200 camy tak as accepted by the con- ided de Ss were The eed to mob- {il members for the New | York May 9, 10 and 1ith. | * 2 £ John Porter, just released after Section 5, Bronx, New York, will having served 20 months in Federal hold its Daily Worker conference | prisons for his activities in the New the first week in May. This .| Bedford textile strike, will speak in od of securing the coope: the following towns: all workers’ organizations Thurs bor, Ind., Saturda; Turner Hall, John Porter Speaks in Indiana, Wise. -Indiana Har- 3809 Main St. April Gary, Ind, 14th and Washington i in ;campaign and building them into the | supporting to all Party groups, is recommended stvicts and sections of the uesday, April 29—Racine, Wis., Rujldi: | Union Hall, 428 Wisconsin St. Building Work Is | John Porter will expose in detail Down: Lamont Lies _ the role of the United States Army. Z ; He will show how the capitalist gov- and Says It’s Up ernment poisons the minds of the a soldiers and sailors against the WASHINGTO workers. Every worker and service the ey man should attend this meeting. come thie Porter will show how the interests and the Cabinet. Secretary of Com-| of the workers receiving starvation {merce Lamont glowingly reports | wages in the army and navy lie with that publie works during the first | their brothers in the factories, mills three months of the year are greater jthan for the past five years. This a deliberate attempt to hide th and mines. that all building construction is To Hold Affair For ly below 1929, which in Harry Eisman Release ne of the lowest years) inl construction during the} CHICAGO, April 23.—An affair eriod. Most of the pub-| to raise funds for the struggle to program referred to by release Har Eisman, Young m and will! Pioneer, who has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for his part in the March 6th unemployed dem- 23 April s becomes worse the ies from the White House 1 out for yea jmember a Catholic if he has ever) been baptised. You can cast out} the religious dope, refuse to go to | chur priest down the jha ly makes you a They count Build The Daily Worker—Send | onstration, will be held by the Pioneers here Saturday, 37 W. Roosevelt Road. their Utmost to r Plan a Success Make WHAT 4 the to the \cqa)) FSU FIVE-YEAR PLAN SOLIDARITY DRIVE For 40 More Tractors and Trucks \ we CONG sour shons, fro i th For the Five-Year Plan bors and Office, 5, New Yor! 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