The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1930, Page 2

__Page ‘Iw p ___DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930 a a a STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATE ON MAY DAY IS CALL OF WORKERS MAY DAY WILL POSTAL, BIRMINGHAM STEEL TOILERS CALL WORKERS TO STRIKE MAY 1 UNEMPLOYMENT BREAK ICE FOR IN CHATTANOOGA POSTAL TOILERS I$ LEAPING FAST A Fellow - Slave Calls “Demonstrate May 1!” *Them to Strike | Calls ‘Worker (By a Work (By « Worker Correspondent) NEW Y ORK.—To strike, for a CHATTA O0GA, Tenn. Es The ry, means Imprisonment. | working conditions in the South are the coming _ politi very deplorable, and at the present strike means sacrifice. The ice writing worse than I have ever to be broken The postal worker known them to be. fe 2 cannot look upon himself any I have lived in Atlanta, Georgia; as the personal p Macon, Georgia, and Chattanoogat Br own, pe Tenn,, for the past 18 years, and I eosin y ‘}know the working class has | no the angen chanee to compete with the capital- | Collins Plush Cuts Wages; | Dahole Varncts. Rouben by dik os street_ | National Carbon Slaves, Others Paes ot eg rerersrwnee rin nee L@y-Off; “Out on May Ist!” 2 : The workers in Chattanooga who fascism. American Legion in Frisco Ready for May First Ane in mills and plants, such as ane Enamelware Co., the Ca- s of the po work- Read the letters of the workers on this page today, calling on the workers in their industries to take part in the political mass strike on May Day, and to demonstrate side by side with the unemployed workers. Birmingham steel work ers, (left) and postal office wor ers (right), victims of intense speedup, are called on to strike hy workers in these industries. pest Hees Co. and the Interna- pondent) tional Harvester Co. are forced to article “San Francisco Pros-| work from 9 to 12 hours a day and * \in some cases 7 days a week. One Ste celina Netipasl CorbeasCampangonl Thialeamipany Ucdit employ lie eipehdeal vei SMUT aha anv GEE 600 men producing carbon paper. Prest-O-Lite and acetylene torch pre-| pelied-to do the work of two or three paration and also carbon powder for cal purposes. Now they are’ jnen and then earning only a mere jworking only part time with less) pittance for his labor, Sweating jthan one-third of the force. BR, blood just enough wages to bare- | Solidarity with Unemployed. ly exis t on, with $18 a weck con- sidered excellent wages, and many | The Pnemployed Council held a |noon day factory gate meeting and If men with families to support age not q ' ‘earning more than $10 to $12 a | the workers present there were vi week. enthusiastic. They responded to our “Charitable” Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) , Pa—At the Collins and Aikman Plush Mi! iladelphia, the introduction of new. machinery | nt cut of the force of weavers. since last year. | nes and the latest kind of looms ane worker | hree. ave mo piece work is now done | Zach weaver | ing 8 pieces of | previously a worker | 1 loom producing 2 pieces | from the ran! PHILADELPH!E d Viola Sts., in W in a 25 p se new i the place of ers are getting the same ra work done. rid. We wi ‘; hil loyed | worl v t The lolter from a poor farmer in White Earth, North Dakota, fen Sate Mesa vi meeeareraderd| +A M Living conditions are so high here ets. “vou ‘one end’ of the: alley| tells how these farmers are robbed by Wall Street bankers, Squeezed |) Senne ce: cone ie oie that it is almost impossible for an e of no strike preache » by the bankers and suffeting hardships of weather, their lot is one | my ig « “wor eS (Through their own experience in| RID Gs Ri eee TL the factory they fully realize the} DOM AE ARO De omy, neve con necessity of organizing to oppore|4 Crews Must Do Work versed with men from all vieinities ‘ons 1 et n Federation onger. The Steel We orker: 3 of starvation. Photo shows ruins «f a small farmer's holdings in North Dakota after @ severe wind-storm. 1en and at various hard wo? | of the South hunting Oe work and nak { thee Tationaiization system of the} cannot iX Yr VS Y % Q t > worker he ni | number of them into th my of : A NEL a Aisa . sete Oy git Sa Sauce Winston-Salem Worker Calls (etic qe' Simi) ovum foramina hae ter tie Stniggie | -ENDEANA: HARBOE je 6b, 0F solidarity by inviting us| NEW YORKonditions on the| Fe Ged “pay, the erate Pie Gidi Unit of Amer- |long are we t order is $40 per! Fe Hy SI] O t M ki if over and taking a picture of the/railroads are se than rotten, | aN hice rica lee tocmerte lanl fire. ba jece is spoiled the| etou aves UU ay PUySl. unemployed council committee with|they are putrid. Some of the em-| though are very Sacral stn Sate EB ae waritten ine wholes 4a! }a group of factory workers. Every] pioyes belong to the Brotherhood | t# of P e honest worker to sleep on the bare conerete floor of the City Hall. POSTAL WORK n material or broken | ondent) \industry in San Francisco is in the|of Railroad Tvainmen, whieh are | : | same category. We are concentrat- | the worst organized scabs that ever | WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.—In the R. J; Reynolds cigarette factory, |ing_all our efforts to turn out 100 | exis: sted in any laboring class in the Unemployment Grows Fast (By a Worker Corr bine r eS so divided that few Ex-S Soldier He Is factory at the| Oe of the largest plants in the city and one of the worst strike-breaking | Ber cent on May Day, | world, The bosses have preached better ey , he working. cc } ne yarn breaks | Yellow dog companies, they work thousands ef employes; including Negro | "The unemployed cou Wie dues are seiou ues aan ions for the workingman, but , tions t ann for |; ; : id white. Some of them work for $6. per week, some ‘get as much. ag’ now with street and gyre a eive | condi daily s > ie ‘oO 4 Us jons may % t ki yny akes’ 8 to 12 hours to }2™ 2 ek, SOM iS’ now with street and lus $2 for a: ments, .to receive | cond itions are getting worse daily Wi se 10 kel figi 0 t » is nan Y . on the‘ worker’s-time. $18. They have their plant full of slavedriving and stool- They hold metings in the slave |2, 4 Pik benefit, I aebae diq | and not better. The unemployment D ae. PEO and. if: a: worker asks fox uae : ao ap iehee situation at: the present writing is the biggest problem that the work- used as an” axe sirable pds dirs teas haga tek oP eg Ripy neal know that a dead man needed r . Collins and} Deena taser Spey es to thie obet pees om an Gheep street Col! money, . The st president, W. G. | 7 other factories, and | i n he is told to go to the office ners, e unemployed wor 1 tTee, told the E s| ers who —— ‘wait orf \ers of the United States have ever TANEON Seer cree eae Be A fy ; or board. that they | (By « We respondent) they Seok A and get his pay, as they want “loy-| being thrown into jails daily for) “190. puacinag npritien 4 pcre d pel inila gh a kaon See eens al” men, or employes that will sub-|vagraney and told to leave town |e een ee se eof |, 1 Went from plant to factory for re United | ane tin palic Baines owingly seab a oelayens oh can makes F., with the 0..R. C., are not | the past eight months, seeking em- the war ted Stat I was ployment, but there ain’t no such t 4 ; $ : janimal,, The bosses say times will , Some of s for’ a’ luge May- Day demon. | We are trying to increase our | soon change for the better, but I for and estates costing | stration. jmembership of the National Rail-/ one know that is boloney and propa- Tatllgna: Still they rob and ex-| UNEMPLOYED WORKER. | ad Industrial League, which in-| ganda to keep the working class 2 record will show t alswof this and vice ver. sas : the addresses of thed of who are'fired or laid) What One in sae? D. times back to replace! i ie Thinks of Capitalism much better: ise them for the screw gassed in Fr i k a force years in the hospita vee My father was a Methodist min- | Why?” Other ed must organize and . (By a Farmer Correspondent.) ploit the poor workers. Ke 2 slike ye vas les all vai ~ mon, ail oc from organizing and fighting for sweep the ai ’ Missfe | , ¢ ‘ rat) Whi N y 3 the Youngstoy | are more sav- farmers of this great wheat-pr ght ep 0 MADE SG ARR! Ne: oe erent batons ties ac gia ne aug Negro Worker Together lthat?. “Stk . These aye pro! ducing state are getting iheir share from coming,’ se i Workers, white and Negro, young told to stop orga Pi ng, other- well as very patriotic ntendent. $s ‘ni y don’t want any ig and old, men and women, we must of the Wall Street watchdog Hoo- int employment * and. if , the “day> boss, | ver “prosperity.” crop last | compe they Join a § ! ER T r e apart ioe me Sion waver organize and fight for our rights. I went to work when I was 16,|complain there are a in snooping in the, middle year was very small, owing to control all the pol AGENTS Rk By iT: et, got to'do four men’s | We Must join the T.U.U.L. and or- Have done many kinds of v on |Place them. = : : of the night. drought and other things that come hey have things m pene Ee Also locomotives are | £27iz¢ into a militant fighting body. the farm, on the railroad and in Prdcact the unemploy Pre Nene The speed-up is terrific, so that, in; which made the total wheat crop ling and ro laid oft ata: four ‘eee ase rie The white and Negro workers fight- the factory a anler {he | the wo cannot as much as stop | to come far below the average. And their “Show Solidarity with | tive faints wiorde!! dat thie ta thot sae, boulder to shoulder for their agra “ vi Meal Wor & section! to take breath or say a word to| when it comes to selling the farmers Hon v ae sauuee Uae it runs right alongs) Tn the (ene ach other. They ho, fights anes sett iat: interest swithout The T.U.U.L, has sent militant or- ganizing soldiers into the South to organize the working class, and | through their guidance the white and Negro slayes will be freed from 1ust keep on the|find the prices still farther below ate ¥ the normal. In spite of the grain ers of Colling'fand Aik: Storage law that this state passed e s ago, and thegraft- shacks unf orkers are treated worse Moundsville Strikers traci department they are working | thelr ouiaiovee Lin PRETGE corer pate | five days per week, and ten men iorlive Is Uke eae By 4 Worker Correspondent) jmust do twelve men’s work and rush, E AVELLA, Pa.—At the last Sub rush all the time. I hope we are! istrict Committee meeting, Sub;not far from seeing the workers the only The wor man live ‘in shanties, “company /® couple of yea must buy in company ’ Union, the feed crop} Negro nation,. “The heat of the Bethiechem jplant at Baltimore, Md.,. demand w spankeieh in e s admired and re BS i eae Ga AGGAE (Gabe Snmnaca have a Stores. Every bit goes back to the |} also very small and |than dogs or cattle District No. 1, of the N.M.U. the |as the rulers, We are the producers | tHe Cheat pundie oe bondage: Phe spected the Com: : Wee t you? Don't you | Compa jin fact more than half of the farm-| I hope to see th Sub District Committee that |and we must be the rulers to have +L. is the only real working Spare Oo iy ane RAM eT Un Oe aes Be MEE Weeceatan Gani) eek part °rS had not enough feéd for their workers of Winston feat cai chstiee . sce; otherwise we will have fights css SreRY Bie ‘and teaches us Dain i Me aellghie ae OF Y. S. & T e big May Day demonstration Rand Gene ieee nee Sg ee eee ae dann Moundsyille, W. Va with the capitalists right along. In| 8! men tight and cowards starve, were led to believe that the gov- alists of t town and all ernment would loan us money to of the U.S.A. Wake up, buy some feed and seed this spring | Winston-Salem workers, fight for | > e a blow for your iusion TM hevism. Worker | onstraté May Da: Long live Bol- strike and dem- | pal miners to b in the Moundsv (: stop of these two and I for one will be damned if I starve. i Union sade is going on in all f roughou of religion t the onl —A PLUSH WE. Unio he coun- | Chattanooga workers, strike May h ee motive of as the faker, jyour leade ve been arrested) 0° 0" a : ions First and, unewployed and employed, t the S j | of conditions that w | Easy For the Rich; Squeeze | and jailed j ise they tried to 2s et geen aed frees ay With future success I am your! demonstrate! try that the intelligent workers al aboard, i Farmers. |help you get a living wage. Don’t) a" "som Avella, Pa. The Elders. | one” | —R. H., Chattanooga Worker. ere deal tae Cer: Bee eee MATES TRIKY * A Madhouse Ship. The government at the same time sit back and wait for the other fel- Mies from Avella, Pa. ; A RAILROAD WORKER. they draw strength and inspiration Two of the sailors told me that gives back to the big blood-sucking |low to do it. Do your part. Dem- 2 genie y for their own emancipation, with nate made agreements . with! grafters the little item of $160,000,-| onstrate in the streets, defend your FP re ee Lrvaraey shop —Local Un ion 136 of the National | Calls W orkers the hope of destroying it and! them that there would be two|000,” because they have paid that|speakers and leaders. Don’t be a intiing to aheppon ible picks. mage Union. { . . theret aving the otaying and Seaman Calls Marine watches until they got to sea and | “too much” in taxes iast year. leave for the bosses any longer. You! ..i4 Seiko givers UW a axe icoting | The Miners Are Fighters Here. | of Birmingham dying system for the few owners hen there would be three and the! Now, is that a government for know how they have treated you all ‘ | The next da y were i | ras ne Ns , d coal "s, We hav he next day they were in Racoon, ‘ of the earth. Slaves Out on May Day food would be much better. |the poor?. And, take the taxes for| your life. You know how they will sor Some #oce Gow! minews We NAVs pa (about 15 miles from Avella),| to’ Strike May 1 Workers Must Think! (ha te Giveoncaend) ' ik The mate told bh Aerial not [the roe ee keep on aie reat ae children. Paget mand | per ton, good boarding house, plenty | looking for coal miners. We also} par i, A ‘ ‘A reacties y veer Correspondent) to mention it around the docks, as|bigger and bigger every year and |by and see your wife and children} ’ if " |have a local in Racoon, Local 123, (By a Worker The pope, with the pishops, eae PHILADELPHIA, a.—New tricks ly good many have not been able|starve while the bosses make mil-| jfasonst ine verry nice Laake) aris) ; i ud r Correspondent) he didn’t want the company agent are being played on us seamen here to hear tell of it. This is the tac-|to pay their taxes for some years,{lions. You must join the militant | g 4 in Philadelphia. Yesterday I tics this mate used on the couple | and then we have to pay 9 per centjunions and the Communist Party, thing which they are surely trying | |shipped out of the United States|of unconscious slaves. On my way |interest on our back taxes, when | the only Party that goes out and Miners -Chase Seah Scekers. their best to fin This is a very! Shipping Board on the S Santa | back to the shipping office with my | we are able to pay them. lfights for you that doesn’t sell out: serious matter confronting the Veronica, going to Haw: This | clothes I came in contact with one| But if a railroad company thinks |to the bosses. Working class of the world. Ttmust|j. what the blackboard contained: | of the sailors who made the last! they get assessed too high any time | Workers, you must not lose your pe oe a aa Say mice Three able-bodied seamen at $55 a| trip on this madhouse. | they protest to the county commis- | chance to join the Communist Party. | j ed. ‘Then ‘thé OF the OVE month. I inquired of the clerk) He told me the mate gave the|sioners and generally get away by | Show them that you are with them, | 9g¢nt answer en the miners) inp, . of this venture of the pope means] tout the watches. It was bad|last erew the same line about thres| paying only one-fourth; or, if they |Stand, by your "Tenders, don’t let | said, “you son of bitch, you} you j78" Bit somebody must have told yoy en aes eben Wes a wound for religion which will| enough that I had to take a job|watches and better food when he |pay the half of what they are sup-|them railroad them to jail. Come| Want to bring us to break the strike . eo DER wee ‘i ‘ |are members of the N.M.U. arm itjers right h never be heale mi be ee the | for $55. I hated like hell to go|shipped on there. He fell for the| posed to pay, that is in any case |out on May First, demonstrate, de- in Moundsville, eh?” |would be pretty dangerous “eo ook the ee fix. What oe eee same condition with the whole of| aboard and fire two watches. I in-} line. But when they got to sea |the most they pay, but we, as|mand the 7-hour day and 5-day! One of the miners got a pick and | for strikebreakers in this part of|to do, fellow workers? capitalism, which will die together. | quired about the watches to the|there were two watches and no/ farmers, got to pay, otherwise we | week. Deana the release of all the ran after these two coal company the country y | * These capitalists certainly have a| clerk and he told me the mate didn’t | change in the chow. There are all|lose the land. No wonder that we leaders now in jail. Demand un- | agents. The. superintendent of that| back ae Ms ae ee srs Dn ale pe oP Be a hunch they're mone to fall Wi mention about the watches to him.|kinds of stunts like this being|poor farmers want to get rid of {employment insurance. Defend the| mine saw the agents run and he|any more. They could not take any Industrial Lea ue tell ate can they help it? Ever since the | My opinion of the mate is he was pulled off here in Philly. I hope | such a government and get a Work- | Soviet Union, the only government|came to the rescue of the two/|miner from here to break the strike | ganize Together to fi ht. eee victory of the workers and Peasants | ashamed to mention $55-two watches | seamen ashore make May Day a/ers’ and Farmers’ Government in jin the world, ruled by and for the| agents, bringing them into his office|in Moundsville because we have a ‘ Lid in the boarding house and all kinds|N.M.U. They went into one house | ‘'NGHAM, ~~ Ala. — Fellow of good times you men wish.” |to see if they could get any miners. I work in a foundry here «|The men were working that day and|in Birmingham where I have lived the woman said to them to come] all my live and I get paid 25 cents | One miners asked, “where the hell back at night when the man comes|an hour. Lately we have been on is that damn place?” | home. The woman and man were] short time. Now I can only get in . 3 - waiting for them to come back so! three or four days a week and I got “At Moundsville, W. Va.,” the | they could give them a good beat-'a wife and kids to keep. I can't and the rest, at the command of higher authority, have started some- | ; of the Soviet Union they have tried] a+ one time. I took m | tt c] J ii ii yiehs recat feht alone, It"we k my clothes | red-letter day. its place. working class. Demonstrate May|and nobody ever saw them anymore|local of the N.M.U. at this mine. try it the same th every Ble harihiarve ys _estory aboard and inquired about the kind —SEAMAN. | —WHITE EARTH FARMER. |! Day! --SOUTHERNER. — there. We have a local at this mine | —AVELLA MINER. _ | like veces arheae gra te ue faileti "Now they have. the best a | N in Georgia, who was lynched See," DANVILLE WORKERS GETTING BELLY-FULL OF U.T.W. FAKERS; TOILER SAYS fuchzs eet ie a tricks, trying to save capitalism | nee + Hee fee our rights, and can protect while no one else seems to be able ourselves, Deas tk “What are they going to do This Mill Hand Picked Up a Daily Worker in the Sirect. and Heve's. s the Result; It Opened His Eyes On May Day we will have“ hig ; demonstration in Capital Pav! i “igen bar ie, ee psuenis pi bea (By a Worker Correspondent) | In Danville, Gorman of the U. | the workers than any place yet | shown, no effort made to make | time or two, probably to find out | Someone passed through here | in Birmington Poe Ms ry se rs DR feutusint Demonstrote Mog DANVILLE, Ya.—Danyille is | T, W. has been spreading some of | where the U. T. W. and its fak- | the workers feel like part of the | how much money Harry Fitzger- | and left a Daily Worker in the |should come. let us all go to the Day 4 hetes 4° then’ Shietat where workers have been led into | the most outrageous lies that a | ers have been. Conditions here | working class, ald would give him: to keep the | street and I found in it some |demonstration and show the boss ay for defense o le Soviet! one of the American Federation | Union, fellow-workers! —E. F. are thousands of of Labor Unions, known as the workers here .that Fred Beal | Gorman goes off on an Easter | man spoke and said the first steps | and keep them from striking. The | which sure opened my eyes. Some- | Workers in mingtham who are INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL in, United Textile Workers of Amer- | wanted to organize for the U. T. | thing about the trial of Beal and id to fight for their rights, YORKVILLE. | ica, The workers thought that it | W.) After that he had a man the others. \ ‘Twill stand by the Commun’s! Party was the right union because they | from Elizabeth, Tenn., to come (which fights for all workers, no An international Festival, includ-| have heen raised on the name of | here and speak, saying that this matter what happens, and I will be ing the satirical revue, “Street| America, with all the prejudices | was a different union from theirs, in Capital Park on May Day, i man can spread, He has told the | are growing worse every day and On the day of the march Gor- | workers blowed upon promises | news about the Gastonia strike, | men that th | { Free! Shooting!” will be held by) possible against all other, coun- | and also say. that Marion was | trip to enjoy some of the money | of his would ke to find out why he has collected. the workers were fired and have Two weeks ago they had adem- | them put back to work, and no onstration, which, from all stand- | one else would be fired. There points, looked more like a min- | he lied again for workers have slogan has neyer been raised about the cut the workers got some time ago. | . Workers of all industries, be- ware of the A. F. of L. for it is We of the working class must save these fellows, for we need such mei to show us how to get | ‘ ‘our worst enemy. I am a mem- i A Negro G i oe German Proletarian Theatre, tries and the Negro, although he | different. All the difference that. | ‘trél funeral than a workers’dem- | been fired every: day since. Six bie now, but won't he by the | Hatthe emer, sta bee them: _ alleen ol 3 turday, 8:30 p. m., at Labor Tem-| is as much American as anyone can he seen, is that in Danville | onstration, or an organized body | workers were fired Thursday from | time this goes to the press, which FROM A WORKER IN Tell the Advertises—“I Saw ae E, 84th St. ra else. } they have bolder schemes to rob | of oe -No demands were | one mill. Green has been here a | I hope it does. SCHOOLFIELD MILL. Your Ad in The Daily Worker.” 4 ‘ t : Senet rss ig #6 any pute not