The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1930, Page 3

% * 4. t DAILY CHESTER, PA., PLANTS “JOBLESS, Oil, Chemical, Congoleum Floor Covering, Eddy- stone Print Mills Lay Workers Off Jobless Must Join Unemployed Councils and Demonstrate May Day, Says Correspondent (By a@ Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—Unemployment town to get stranded in. The big companies are laying off. The Congoleum Floor Covering Co. at Co. are not hiring anybody. Marcus Hook are laying off every da: This is the answer you receive when yo uapply for a job at these companies for work: “Nothing doing.’ The Eddystone Print Works has Unemployed workers of Chester should join the unemployment council of the Trade Union Unity League and demonstrate on May Day. Tulip Mill Workers Strike Second Time Correspondent) (By a Wor! PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The stril =| ers of the Tulip Hosiery Mills, hav-| ing been promised “arbitration” to result in bettering their conditions, returned to work last week. came of the “arbitration,” the en- tire mill went out again, 100 per cent of the workers responding and establishing picket lines. The bosses claimed that the strike (the new one) was caused by illog- ical demands of the wor had not completed a four years’ “ap- prenticeship.” Previously the bosses were willing to negotiate. Some of \t shortening of the 13-hour day pre- vailing in this factory. No doubt Sun Ship Has Agencies in Many Cities (By @ Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—I am writing | something on the conditions in | Sun Shipyard. | The Sun Shipyard is maintain- | ing employment agencies in vari- | ous cities in order to fool the workers about the miserable wages and conditions under which they are compelled to work. The A. F, of L. representative here | has been asked by letter if the Sun Shipyard has a strike on be- cause of the fact that they have an agency in Newark, N. J. The situation warrants a strike, but the A. F, of L. has not tried Phila. Seamen, Marine Convention and May Day (By a Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The long- shoremen here held a mass meeting last week in the Marine, Workers’ League Hall, at 117 Walnut St., Sec- retary McGrath presiding. Over 50 longshoremen put in application to joil the M. W. L. | “Foul-ball” Baker’s International Longshoremen’s Association (A. F. of L.) racket is coming to an end rapidly. “Yellow” Baker beat up a} little seaman who weighed 110 pounds. cials of the Carpet Weavers’ Union This week, seeing that nothing | calling all the workers out on strike | against a 30 per cent wage cut at the Hardwick and Magee Carpet) 'Co., here, only 12 workers, those | directly affected by the cut, were ‘called out on strike. | not want to work piece-work or | and small pay. | council, and demonstrate on May | Communist banner. Correspondent) “UNEMPLOYMENT, WAGE-CUTS BIEE IN LUMBER FIELD Skidroad Full of Idle Men; Bosses Push Speed-Up Show Up IWW Fakers lA Logger Writes of Rotten Conditions (By a Worker Correspondent) The lumber situation today with its constantly dwindling market is the best barometer of unemployment today. At the same ti dwindling market the troduced new and more eff chinery, the piece work s3 ORGANIZE!” is bad in Chester. It is a bad The Texas Oil and the Chemical Ys | ” nearly shut down. been in- nt ma. stem in S. M. operated about 5% months a year. Remember the workers have to live 12 months and should they breax into some other job they displace other workers who are on part time work, The skidroad in Portland is now full of idle men. All day from morning to night there is a constant This is a ypical tactic of the A. F. of L. s who misleaders and is an example of parade of men looking for work. The how not to win a strike and win|few jobs coming up look like there | demands. Tulip Hosiery and Hardwick and the “illogical” demands was the | Magee should join thg National Tex- | tile Workers’ Union for real gains. | The workers of both the | si “little doing.” Conditions are so bad, speedup so keen and piece work money so small that men can’t stay and there are only the same jo coming up again. You miss a man from the skid road two or three days and then see him again and he will say either speed-up was too much or he could not make anything |on piece work, | The camps near Portland have been running about 60 per cent capacity for about two months. Last | —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. | to Snare Cheap Labor to organize the workers. The T. U. U. L. is trying to. Th r A . Christmas there was alre an} + F duaghae ae kee i Be overproduction. Soon they will be} Toe Want tov otk. when te <2 shutting down indefinitely. Though | operating in the hope of a market without regard. to the overproduc \ion they have speeded up the work. evs to the limit. If they can’t stand it they replace them from the un- cd, overtime. Workers from all ovr th country come and many do n stay long, because of speed- o Sun Ship workers must join the | T. U. U. L. and those who have ° been laid off, the unemployed ew union, the National Lum- ber Workers Union is the Lumber Workers’ section of the T.U.U.L., which is the American section of the R.I.L.U, an@is composed of the most militant class conscious workers rep- resenting unions from every country | in the world. Day under the T. U. U. L. and —CHESTER WORKER. | Workers Prepare for the LW.W. | cannot stay in town any longer, men who have been working in the woods for years are now “hitting the road,” hiking about the country, riding freight cars, with all their years’ gatherings in a pack-sack on their back living in the “jungles.” Organize the unemployed, Work or Wages, Fight or Starve, is the only Secretary McGrath and the dele- gates here are holding numerous meetings, outdoor and indoor, and are accomplishing wonders. H We’re ready for the National Con- vention of the M. W. L. in New York on April 26 and 27 and will have a big delegation. Ready for May | Day, too, All marine workers are | asked to come to the hall at 117) ‘ < Walnut St., open from 10 to 10, | tem can be changed. Join the Na- : P | tional Lumber Workers Union and hilly. Wah Mey are in FLU Awan, |fight for better conditions on the job. A LOGGER. Aberle Men Feel Result of UTW Betrayal (By a Worker PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The ho- siery workers of Philadelphia are now seeing plainly what the “arbi- tration” of the U, T. W. Musteite | officials at the H. C. Aberle hosiery | strike means. | The scabs are still working at the H. C. Aberle Co. But very few, comparatively, of the 1,400 strikers have been taken back to work, Dur- ing the first few days fifty work- ers were taken back each day. Aberle claims the machinery has to be fixed before all the 1,400 strik- ers can return. But the scabs con- HOOVER ATTACKS WAR! ARGUE 131 ERRORS IN VETERANS’ PENSION BILL. WASHINGTON, April 24.—Hoov- | er’s letter about a deficit in the; treasury is being used, not only against the 7,000,000 unemployed workers, but against the World War Neterans. The letter was read today in the House against the Johnson bill which provides for an extension | of relief for veterans at an addition- al cost of $90,000,000 to $200,000,000. Hoover very quickly granted the big corporations a present of $160,000,- 000 in tax refunds. Many of the veterans who were wounded in Wall Street’s war are suffering the most miserable conditions, walking the streets facing starvation, It is these men that the bosses want to use against their fellow workers on May Day to smash up demonstrations. | Cop Beat Workers, | Now Wants More Pay) SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.—A policeman, injured when workers broke up a recent mass meeting ad-| dressed by the notorious enemy of the Soviet Union, Victor Chernov, is suing the International Labor De- fense, Communist Party and individ- ual members of those organizations for $50,000, Warrants have been is- sued against leaders of the Commu- nist Party and LL.D. on the com- Correspondent) (RAILROAD DAUGHERTY repairs to be made—if they ever} BOSTON, April 24.—Leonard Do- will be made—for the rank and file | herty, organizer of the Marine Wor! workers, lers League, who is charged with Hosiery workers, both organized | murder in Canada five years ago, | and unorganized, are frankly du- | was today convicted of assault in the bious. Even the former staunch ad- | Superior Court and sentenced to two herents of the American Federation | months in prison. Doherty was of Full Fashioned Hosiery Makers | tried for his active participation in of America are beginning to talk of | the recent strike of the needle trades a “sell-out.” The National Textile workers. Workers’ Union must organize the| The International Labor Defense mill workers here. announced after the trial that they —PHILADELPHIA WORKER. | will appeal the two months sentence |and will fight the attempt to extra- )dite him to Canada where the bosses jwould frame him and send him to the electric chair. tinue working, while hundreds of the strikers are waiting, pending with the * |tance for Soviet SW: | tion of Siberia and Central It cannot mislead us| like the fakirs and disrupters of Many of the lumber workers who | LY WORKER, NEW YORK, FACT( 25, Page Three ~ oa = FRIDAY, APRIL /RIES, RATLROADS. JPEN UNDER FIVE-YEAR PLAN IN SOVIET UNION | Tremendous Strides Made in Building Up of Socialism Suilt New Industries Up from Ukraine to Yaroslav (IPS)—A ‘new fact for the production of large piping has just been opened Mariopol in the Ukraine. A tractor smithy has just been opened at the Red Putilov works in| Leningrad. The department is sup-; plied with the most modern equip- ment and represents an important link in the tractorization of Soviet riculture, In Stalingrad the building works { the main department of the giant actor work which is being erected MOSCOW, in the cuttine of the timber and even there, have been concluded. The in the building of the g rail. “cuipment is now being installed C ondent) uc, |Hoade, In 1086, '26, '27 the cary int meeting the engincers alt batts Le pared a pean in Washington and Oregon oper- °"d workers decided to have th workers Te © lated about 7% to eight months vee SEDI NN, vt 15th Hes . teeta » present they have long before the time originally Instead of the A. F. of L, offi- From 1927 tq the present they have [OPE On the 28th of April the northern and southern section of the Turkes. tan-Siberian line will meet in Aina- Bulak where a short celebration will take place. The solemn opening of the great line for traffic will take place in Alma-Ata on May Ist in the presence of delegations from all parts gf the country. Thanks to the socialist competitive scheme and the enthusiasm of the workers, the line, which is the longest in the world and of tremendous impor- will be the original The economic unifica- Asia will be realized by this line. Sur- plus Siberian grain will be poured into Central Asia and will release completed a year befo: date fixed. immense tracts of land at present | an be grown on a mass scale. cheme will make the Soviet | Union independent of the capitalist { countries for raw material for the textile industry. | Great new boring and building} operations are being conducted on| the Soviet section of the island of| Sakhalin, The building of a raf} way line has been commenced and| a petroleum pipeline is being laid. | In Moscow the fat products trust | has erected a new high pressure ‘ectrical power station which is al- endy operating. | In Yaroslav a great electrical rks has been completed and put to operation by the Swedish elec- vical concession ASEA. In rview with journalists, the cha’ nan of the concessions committee of the R. S. F. S. R., Comrade Sk belev, declared that the new wor presented the last word in technical | progress. The concessionaries had invested about 14 million roubles in the undertaking, which was com- pleted considerably before the term laid down in the contract. The ASEA works was a decisive answer to the slanderous allegations ap-| pearing in the capitalist press and | a living proof of the fact that a| solid concession undertaking with the necessary financial basis was well able to operate normally in the Soviet Union. In accordance with the agreement the concession had built a club for its workers, a can- teen and other rooms to satisfy the cultural needs of the workers. The seven-hour day was introduced from used for growing grain so that cot-|the beginning. Write About Communist Advance in China PEKING, China (LP.S.).—The Peking Leader reports that insuree- | by tionaries, under Communist leader- ship, have captured the important town of Kanchow, in the province of Kiangsi, a little distance from | the frontier of Kwangtung. . The in- surrectionary army, which is re- ported to be several thousand strong, is pressing forward into Kwangtung, with a view to effect- ing a junction with the Communist detachments operating there. There is considerable excitement Belgian Miners Fight Wage-Cuts BRUSSELS, Belgium (I.P.S.).— The Belgian coal owners nounced price reductions to come into operation on April 1, This of- ficial announcement is the first ‘warning of a campaign against mining wage standards. The wages of the miners are calculated partly according to the official cost of liv- an- | | Austrian Workers | VIENNA (LP.S.).—During a pa- ‘vade of the Heimwehr fascists re- ‘cently in Triestinthal, in Lower | Austria, serious collisions occurred between the fascists and workers. The Heimwehr parade and. routs | march was guarded not only by ‘armed police but also by Infantry Regiment No. 1, which is stationed i ,ment and partly according to the ‘price of coal. ‘dex fell by 11 points and now coal in Wuhan, as the town is threatened insurrectionary troops. The Communist forces in the adjoining provinces of Hupeh and Hunan are | estimated at 30,000 men. The Chinese newspaper Wanpao reports that the government repre- sentative in Haifeng has informed the authorities in Canton that a lo- cal Soviet Government has been formed in the Humeng district in the province of Kwangtung, at the same time appealing for military tance against the Red troops. Last month the in- | prices are also falling. The mine | owners refuse to renew the agree- ment and call for wage “revisions” | in view of the prevailing crisis and foreign competition. The reformist | leaders will undoubtedly do their) utmost to meet the owners and pre- | hope of the workers, until this sys-|in¢ index published by the govern-|vent any struggle. | than that in any other large prison.’ Clash with Fascists jin Vienna-Neustadt. Smaller colli- | sions occurred in Woellersdorf and | St. Veit and the collisions assumed | }serious dimensions in Hirtendorf, | where the Heimwehr fascists fired | at the demonstrating workers. Col- lisions whereby shots were fired also occurred in Kapfenstein and/| Gunstramsdorf. A number of per- | sons were seriously wounded. | prisoners are thrown together, be- SS WORKERS STRIKE a Led By T.U.U.L.; Want Dollar a Day More DETROI innel anck and are on s i hip of the Le Trade y number om rike is 200, but 00 more may come out Joseph Kowalsk man- ager of the Worker ne, spoke to the men Tuesday, in the name of the League, and they voted to walk or a dol threat out at once f he ra day raise. boss men with aie » hatred and divide the When the workers of Detroit 1 for work or wages the bosses replied by sicking their 7 4 hem. ture 2 is dist ting leaf- shows police clubbing workers down Woodward Ave. Workers! z on the workers to fight Your fight against uncmployment, your fight for the seven-haur or a seven-hour day 1 of 12, and five-day week, your fight against wege-cuts and speed-up must no over , no speed-up or piece- become a fight against the tire capitalist system, against the k, no discrimination for race, bosses and their state! On with the struggle of March 6! Out on color, youth or nationality; safety to the streets in a mass political str devic reemnnis, on May 1. more wages, committees, ial insurance. KILL 350 MEN IN OHIO DEATH PEN feo 9 U PREPARE MAY 1 go Conference Today to Pre- are for Part in Great Demon- 355 stration Demand Release of the Workers Demand for aT eee Worker Prisoners heir Freedom Grows f Working Women’s Or- aan | es alled a conference COLUMBUS, Ohio, pril 24.— e release of th aders of the men to prepare for Over 2,000 of the imprisoned men, March 6 unemployed dem- tion in the May dl demon- squeezed into small, filthy cells s , William Z. Foster, Robert} stration in Chicago. This confer- after the fire which burned todeath Minor, Israel Amter, Harry Ray-| ence is to be held at the People’s 350 of their fellow prisoners, are mond and Joseph Leste Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., protesting against their mistreat-|ing prison terms is demanded in| tomorrow at 8 P.M. Their slogan H f | is “More women in the May 1st dem- onstration this year than in the M h 6th demonstration”. ror against resolutions 2 od by hund il authori- | working class organizations in all of the sections of the country. Among the latest organizations to ment and the reign of te them instituted by the j ties to cover their murder 350 dead. | i atest « to 40, 1.0.G.T., Rockford, Ill.; Comrades The men are demanding better Send copjes of their demands for! GAorus, Rockford, Tll.; and Metal the liberation of the jobless spokes- men to the Labor Defense, 80 E. treatment, food and stoppage of the Workers Industrial League, Rock- sadi torture they are subjected . : ; ford, Ill. to. They also demand that John’ 11th St.. New York City, are Lodge) the Bureau of Correction, in Richardson, one of the men saved 416, ( f Work-' charge of the prisoners on Welfare from the fire, who is condemned to 18m ck, Benevolent and Edu- | y.1.nq where Foster, Minor, Amter cational Federation, McKeesport, be legally murdered tomorrow : ane **> and Raymond are confined, stated night, be reprieved and sentenced Pa.; 8. T. Yhdistys, Maringo, Wis.3| today that each prisoner can only to a life-term imprisonment instead. | Northside Scandinavian Workers have two visitors a month and that The prisoners are incensed agains: Clb. Chicago, IIl.; Local 272 Paint- two weeks must elapse between each 350 tS Union, Monterey, Cal.; Journey-| (19, the guards who joked while prisoners burned to death. ae men Ta Union, Local 322, Wash-| “Workers who desire té write te ington, Pa; Young Communist! them should address mail care of League, Rockford, Ill.; Vega Lodge! Prison, Welfare Island, New York. “The wiping out of 350 lives in the disastrous fire that swept the Ohio State Prison at Columbus will bring to the attention of all wo ers the vicious conditions th in these veritable hell-hol of the capitalist social system, that only rivalled by the barbarous chain gang system in the South,” said 2 statement issued by the Interna- tional Labor Defense today. “‘The Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatories,’ issued | by the National Society of Penal In- formation, declares that ‘the ancient plant of the state penitentiary in| Columbus, Ohio, one of the largest prisons in the country, suffers fron a condition of overcrowding wot Spring Time Is the Best Time for Vacation! at exist are “It is into this inferno that polit- ical offenders are thrown with those against whom social crimes are) charged, the United States being one of the few countries where all! ing subjected to the same brutal) conditions. “The International Labor De- fense has just learned that the three | coal ‘miners, whom it has been tak- ing care of, Steve Jacobs, Teddy Jackoski and Dominic Venturato, VIEW CAMP NITGEDAIGET HOTEL NITGEDAIGET Price $17.00 per week OF DINING ROOM IN NEW HOTEL 5,000 Czech Workers Meet Despite Cops PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia (I. P., theless the square was full with jframed-up on charges against them, | But they are being sent back to the S.).—In connection with the worker lcouncil elections the Communist |Party called a meeting of the Skoda |workers in Pilsen, The authorities prohibited the meeting, but never- SHANGHAI, China (IPS).—The Communists Gain in Hupeh, China about 5,000 workers, who were .ad- dressed by three Communist depu- jties who were afterwards arrested. | They were accompanied to the po- |lice station by thousands of demon- | | Strating workers. j years because the slogans of the in- |living tomb which blotted out in a) Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Y. during the strike struggles in East-} ern Ohio, are not among the dead.} Phone ESTABROON 1400 St. Direct to Bencon, Trains Leave Every Hour. 7 Special Offer! few moments the lives of more than 300. “These conditions will not be im proved. In fact they will become increasingly worse, that large num- bers of the workers, especially the unemployed, are caught in the meshes of the capitalist law. Yet) this very fact will drive the whole |working class to struggle all the | GASTONIA CASE TRIAL RALEIGH, N. C., April 24—At- torneys representing the seven Gas- tonia defendants sentenced to pris- on terms ranging up to 20 years and represcntatives of the attorney gen- eral’s office appeared before the North Carolina supreme court for three hours and 15 minutes, Wednes- day, and argued the question of a new trial. Briefs filed by the lawyers for the strike leaders listed 131 errors in the trial conducted before Judge Barnhill in Charlotte. They includ- ed the calling off of the first trial by Barnhill, when he personally de- cided that one of the jurors was in- sane, without making any investiga- tion of the question, The appeal also points out that religious ques tions were brought into the trial anc used to prejudice the jury. Attorney Hardwick of Georgia and J. F. Flowers were retained by the International Labor Defense to ar- gue the appeal. The decision on a new trial is now expected May 1, FOR ANTI-U. S. S. R. WAR SENTIMENT. NEW YORK.—A pursuit and at tack detail of the United States army Air Corps will demonstrate how a hypotaetical enemy will stage an aerial attack on the city on May 3. Our own age, the vonrgeots age, shed by thin—that tt mplificd class antagonisms. More and more, society is splitting up into two grent hostile camps, {nto two great and directiy contra- poaed classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letnrint-—Mare. hurt when he was protecting the | counter revolutionists from the, wrath of the militant workers who know that Chernov was attempting to mobilize white guardists for the overthrow of the workers republic. 48 Kost 125th Street Tell the Advertiser—“I Saw »laint of the policeman who was Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” MAY DAY BUTTONS o WITH OUR SLOGANS | WORK OR WAGES | DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION Are Hendy and Should Re Ordered trom the DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE PARTY Prices: 106 per button to individuals Te wer bution to units and organizations COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. CENTRAL insurrectionary movement in the | surrectionaries have met with enor- province of Hupeh is developing ra- | |pidly. Thirteen districts of the | MOUS TeSPonse- | province are in the hands of the reb- | els. Government troops sent against | them have been overpowered and| disarmed. In addition there is a! j constant stream of deserters from | the government troops over to the rebels. The food problem in those districts where the government has| defeated the rebels is acute on ac- count of the fact that the peasants "= have stopped sending supplies into the towns. The correspondent of the | Times reckons that the province of Hupeh is lost for at’ least three war prisoners.” RM VACATIONS FOR CHILDREN ROOMS FOR ADULTS WANTED: Several children for the summer. Good care, Individual attention. Excellent food. Per week, $12 and $ Rooms for Adults for the summer season. Write for information. Allison Farm, R. D. 2, Bethel, Connecticut. THE PARTY ORGANIZER An _ indispensable hand book which must be used by every functionary of the Party and every member who must be trained for leading work in the Party. 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