The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930 Rally to Defense ot the Workers’ atherland, the Soviet Union O n May First = PANAMA CITY WORKERS , DEMONSi RATE AGAINST _ YANKEE IM IF old Mass Meeting in PANAMA CITY, Panama, (By Mail)—Nearly a thousand workers joined in a demonstration here on April 14th, under Communist lead- ership, against American imperial. ism and the Fascist Ortiz Rubio Wall Street government in Mexico. A mass open air meeting was held in Santa Ana plaza. Speakers de- nounced American imperialism and the fascist terror in Mexico against t r revolutionary workers’ organ- PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia (I. P. S.).—The attack of the employers on the workers is proceeding accord- ing to the principle, divide and con- quer. This plan succeeded admir- ably in the glass industry, where the strongholds of the revolutionary Glassworkers’ Union in Unterrei- chenaus and Bleistadt were first subdued, and the attack then ex- tended to the other districts, for the most part in the hands of the reformists. The metallurgical em ployers are now trying the same trick. The largest steel works, Karlshuette, near M. Ostrau, ha: now announced that its 2,000 work ers will be dismissed. This is a stronghold of the revolutionary Then March on Bank Call for Unity of Workers to Overthrow the Imperialist Rule Bosses Try to Divide Czech Workers PERIALISM Santa Anna Plaza and izations, Then the workers marched to the National City Bank of New York on Central Avenue, with ban- ners bearing slogans “Down with American Imperialism,” “Fight U . Rule in Haiti, Nicaragua, Mex- 0!” “Workers! Unite for the loverthrow of imperialism!” “Long | Live the Soviet Union, Fatherland of the Workers and Peasants of the World!” “Only by their own Power Can Workers Destroy their Misery. Let us Fight for This Power!” union, and the aim of the employ- ers is to comb out the rebels. The | workers have now gone on strike as |a protest against this measure. At the Hedwig pit, in the M. Os- tran district, where dismissals were carried out, the miners carried ous |a demonstration strike of one hour. Demonstrations also took place at | other pits. | The strike of the formers in the | Vitkovitz iron works has now ex- ‘tended from the steel departments to the formers in the foundries. Three hundred and thirty workers of the leather glove factory Hering in Asch have gone on strike against {dismissals and against the attempt to cut wages by 10 per cent. 'TRACTION WORKER OF ~ BOSTON CALLS FOR STRIKE ON MAY DAY Beaten By Police Workers on Elevated Railroad There Suffer From Layoffs; 400 Mechanics Fired Worker Calls Those Laid Off to Join Unem ployed Council and Demonstrate May Day (By a Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Mass.—Since the first of the New Year the Boston Ele- vated has discharged four hundred mechanics and street car operators and are preparing for further layoffs by the changing of cars which now necessitate a crew of two to one-man cars. Edward Dana, General Manager of the company, is on a local committee to help Hoover solve the unemployment problem. This is his method of doing it. Unemployed workers, join the T.U.U.L. Unemployed Council. Come out May 1 for work or wages! —J. Worker Correspondent. Sam Don, member of the Chicago District Committee of the Commu- nist Party showing the effects of the beating he received at the hands of the “bomb” squad. Hupp Now Pays $3 a Day (By a Worker Correspondent) Workers who think that the auto industry will pick up again are fool- ing themselves. The auto industry has seen its peak. From now on it will be stabilized at a low figure— thousands of workers now out of work will always be out of work! The only way in which workers can answer is by organizing themselves into a strong union—-the Auto Work- ers’ Union. M. R. 10 Cents an Hour in Furniture Factories » (By a Worker Correspondent) Editor Daily Worker: ' | Iam writing this letter to let the | auto wor of Detroit and vicinity | know what is going on at the Hup- mobile plant. This company is now hiring workers at 35 cents an hour, nine hours 2 day. Workers on piece 950,000 JOBLESS WALK STREETS [avers shle toll © M8 _—_—_— workers are working only three or 30,000 Took Part in the} f°" “9% Per week: “Work or Wage” Fight By EDWARD SOLWAY. Unemployment in Philadelphia is as critical as it is throughout the | We workers in the furniture fac-|ing for 10c. an hour. This is going tories are just as bad off as some|to keep up as long as we are unor- country. Over 250,000 workers are |of the slaves in the South. A work-| ganized. Our only way out is to already walking the streets for/er that was fitting draws got 50c. join the Furniture Workers Indus- months with no prospect for work. | for five hours work and another man trial League which is affiliated with |The Textile and Metal workers in | |Kensington, the Longshoremen and | |the building trades are especially | suffering from this eri: This ex- jplains the successful March 6th | jdemonstration in Philadelphia inj | which 30,000 workers participated |for the demand “work or wages.” Bosses and A.F.L.-Fascists Attempt to Fool Workers. Only after March 6th the bosses and their agents were compelled to, ‘recognize the existence of unem- {ployment and to make a gesture in| 52 Annamite Rebels Fight Death Sentence PARIS (LP.S.)—The Supreme]the world to save the lives of these Council of the Protectorate of An-| condemned men by speedy and en- nam has just refused to revise the | ergetic protests to the French gov- death sentences passed on 52 Anna-! ernment. mite revolutionaries in connectior.| In the meantime the reign of ter- with the recent revolt agains:/ror in Indo-China is being contin French iraperialism in Indo-China ued. Punitive columns and aero-! The reasons given by the supreme! planes are at work and many cas-| ourt are not yet known. In any ualties are reported. Resistance ase, the lives of the Annamite rev-/ and strike movements are also re- got $1.75 for seven hours of work. A worker complaining to the fore- man about these conditions was told to get out if he don’t like it ‘cause there are many others that can take his place. One might just as well | be unemployed and starving as work- TOILER’S LOT !S | the Trade Union Unity League. Let’s prepare for an even larger demonstration on May First then we had on March 6th and show the | bosses that we really mean b 8, —A FURNITURE WORKER. CONDITIONS BAD c jolutionaries are in urgent danger. ported. Bloody collisions between The official organ of the French /native landowners and French im. Communist Party, I’Humanite, is-|perialist colonists have taken place sues an appeal to the workers of|in a number of districts. 8,000 Paris Building Workers Strike PARIS (I.P.S.).—There are now|and, indeed, yesterday the bvilding about 8,000 building workers on|workers in Chateau Roux and strike in Paris, The strikers are Bourges went on strike. The strik- mostly bricklayers, laborers and|ers demand wage increases. The 1 order to fool the workers. The po- lice ordered a registration of the unemployed. The A.F.L.-fascists | began to talk about misery of the jobless while at the same time cir- culating petitions demanding that preference for jobs be given first to the citizens thus attempting to (By a Worker Correspondent) divide the workers, PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The work- | T.U.U.L. Unites the Jobless With cys of Budd’s are now in a worse the Employed. \condition than ever before. ‘Now, WORSE IN BUDD'S Speed-Up Hits All the Workers IN BIBEBMAN'S for Better Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) factory at 15th and Mount Vernon plasterers. The strike, which is un- der revolutionary leadership, is ex- pected to extend in the next few master builders are trying to carry on with strike-breakers and have the (full support of the police. A stub- The Trade Union Unity League especially you workers in Budd’s began immediately the organization who have been working there for of the jobless workers. Under its the last 5 years have noticed the have been working in this place over three years, but things were never as bad as they are now. days, particularly in the provinces,i born struggle is expected. leadership eight councils of unem-| conditions in the plant. Where, for ployed were organized and have, |been functioning since. Hundreds} lof members in those councils par- ticipated daily in the struggles of the workers, in the fight against | evictions, for the demand of work | ‘or wages through unemployment in- surance and others. The Unem- |ployed Councils are mobilizing now | | those thousands of jobless for May- day demonstrations and we are sure that this May Day will be the sec- | ond important step for the mobiliza- | tion for the July 4th convention to be held in Chicago. Wall Street Angles for Brazil Control American imperialism is very ac-| industry, which is suffering from a severe crisis. tive against British i iali i eas een PEALE Ie) the Ue). Steel Gee ppration ib Brazil, and a loan of $100,000,000 is |taking up the investment of $250,- now being floated in Wall Street by | 000,000 in the rich iron ore deposits Speyer & Co. to stabilize the coffee | in Brazil. about how to get rich and indepen- | dent—and to avoid advise from the! Reds, | The contents of this booklet shows | Pa ; ‘TELLS OF CONDITIONS IN THE GENERAL ELECTRIC |Party and the Trede Union Unity (By a Worker Correspondent) ASKS FOR JOB BUT GETS BOOKLET Can't Eat Boss Lies (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa—La.st Monday I went to the Midvale Steel | Co. in search of a job. At the em-|Strength by organizing into the ployment office I was told to regis-| Trade Union Unity League and ter my name and address and I was | Joining the Communist Party of the also told that should my “services”! United States of America, fighting A : be requitéd I would be sent for. for our rights against the Midvale Worker from the General Electric But instead of being given a job| Steel Co. and the so-called Daugh- | Company’s plant in Philadelphia, before leaving I was given a 54-page | ters of the American Revolution. |Where thousands of workers are booklet issued by the Daughters of —A METAL WORKER. League. The workers can show their | The General Electric is now in- itroducing the newest methods of |speed-up and wage cuts, resulting jin lay-offs, hundreds of men being laid off and nobody seems to care! jas to how they are going to live! | without having a job. | The speed-up causes many acci- jdents which occur often. A few} months two of the hookmen were | forced to do the work of four hook- | men, They could not catch up with | the cranes. FIGHT WAY TO MEETING After a Young Communist League th American Revolution. This! booklet gives free information to immigrants as to how they should| behave in this land of the “tree” | meeting at Clinton St. and East wage slaves and home of the “brave” ; Broadway last night, the young Al Capones. joznets marched to Tenth where Especially in all the immigrant! another meeting was going on. workers’ difficulties they advisehim|They had to fight the whole way to seek advise first from the|against police and their allies who preacher and second from the school |attacked, tore at the signs, and tried teacher. A whole lot more bunk!to stop them. One of the cranes fell | on one of. the men and broke both! of his legs. The company wrote in| their bulletin that the workers! should be more careful as though it were the fault of the hookmen. | Before the men from the Work-/ Workers! Read Your Paper! PHILADELPHIA, Pa—I_ am a p instance, 5 years ago on the Dodge jobs it took 2 to 3 men for 1 opera- tion and now 1 man does 2 or 3 operations. Five years ago the Dodge departments employed a force of 1,500 to 2,600 men. Now two additional models have been added and 5 times as much work is done with a force of 600 to 1,000 men. Organization only of all Budd workers can change this terrible speed-up. Organize shop commit- tees to join the Metal Workers In- dustrial League under the leadership of the militant Trade Union Unity League. The workers at Budd's will show their solidarity with the worker: throughout the world by downing tools for the demands of the work- and for the fight for a Workers farmers Government on May e and —A BUDD WORKER. IN ROEBLING’S Speed-Up Makes Jobless (By a Workex Correspondent.) TRENTON, N. J.—Roebling’s Sons wire mill, one of the largest in the United States, where over six thousand workers are employed hands the speed-up system to ux workers in many different ways Where I work, in Department 129, wages have heen cut from 55 cents for a hundred pounds of screen wire to 51 cents. And wire No, 38 has been cut from “42 cents to 38 cents. Our wages’ were cut even more than the figures show. from 10 to 15 a week for 48 hour: Finishers do not get more than $12. Many cannot make more than $5 or $6 a week. A small number of “better paid workers” can make $16 Must Form Shop Com.) The Biberman Bros. cotton dress | Streets employs over 500 people. I} The wages of the operators range | to $18 by getting “favors” from the | foreladies. The majority of the workers are | married women who have peen forced to go to work because their husbands are out of work or young girls for whom,,the boss thinks, this starvation wage is enough. The prices are cut every week and every day, and the workers changing all the time. now that the only way rove them is by joining the rea! to imp: union. The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union of this city has sued many leaflets calling the work- | | | are | The condi- tions are so rotten that many are || ers to join, and they are responding | fast. Of course the bosses are furious. The foreladies are setting spies to toiling under miserable conditions. | RACE "EM RAGGED | Watch the girls who go to the union | meetings, or even talk about the Junion, As a result of this two girls ‘were fired on the fifth floor. But |the workers don’t get scared. We | jal! feel that we have to stick to- | gether and fight for better prices and against the low tricks of the bosses, against the discharge of the union girls; We are learning fast that only by joining the union, by forming a shop committee, as the | | union tells us to do, will we be able }to get better prices, shorter hours and make a living wage. FREE CALIF. WORKERS ON, Subscribe for the Daily Worker! Have it come to your home by mail every day. The Daily Worker fights for you every day. Read it every day and join us in the fight against low wages, speed-up, unemployment. | WRITS OF HABEUS CORPUS LOS ANGELES, April | Writs of habeas corpus have been granted the International Labor De- ers Compensation Bureau came over; The checkman who weighs the to inspect the place all the workers wire is used to deducting as much were made to clean up the whole weight for the truck and driver as place to make it appear as if Safety the company sees fit, and, of course, was given the first place at the| we have to speed like hell to make General Electric. Because they!some form of living, as many of jers of the Imperial Valley workers were cleaning and did not produce any articles, the men were not paid for their time, A new machine installed some months ago does a day and a half’s work in one hour. The pay used to be $7.50 before, now it is 30c. for each piece, a difference of $7.20 for the same value produced. In this way the General Electric is making additional millions of profit. But the workers are now awaken- ing and it won’t be long before they organize and build a strong union which will abolish the misery and speed-up. —GENERAL ELEC. SLAVE. li Send the Daily Worker 50c and we will send this Paper to your home FOR ONE MONTH. (Manhattan and Bronx, 75 cents a month.) USE THIS BLANK AND SEND YOUR 50 CENTS NOW! DAILY WORKER, 26 Union Square, New York City I want to subscribe to the Datly Worker for one month. Enclosed find the sum of.... centa. NAME ADDRESS crry. oo Me Vases STATE, , Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. us only have work for two and three days a week. Some men are forced to speed like hell to fnake their wages, and what do the bosses care, for they only want us when we can speed, Z Old workers who slaved most of their lives in Roebling’s are given the worst kind of work; many of them cannot work on it and, of course, out they must go. Instead of getting a pension they get a long vacation without pay. The sentiment in the shop is al! against the bosses and for the In- dustrial Union, the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. The men are starting to realize that only through organization can we change condi- tions. —ROEBLING WIRE WORKER. arrested April 14 in El Centre and | 'Brawley and indicted under jcriminal syndicalism law. the trict Court of Appeals and is signea Judge Charles R. Bernard who | this time the bail was $40,900 each, |A hearing will be held May 6 in (San Diego. The I. L. D. of the Los Angeles ence, the end of May, Frank Spec- tor, organizer, announced today. It is also arranging a series of indoor and outdoor street and factory gate meetings, he added, Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. t the bail at $1,000 each, Up until | |section will hold a district confer- | 29 | fense for the release of the 11 lead- | The writ was granted by the Dis- | Anthracite Miners! Down Tools May Fir | Conference, SELL-OUT PLAN Call to Action ses that the miners dis National Miners Union Conference May 18 ng demands in the hout the WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 28. —Fight against the new sell- out agreement of the officials of the United Mine Workers and the coal companies! Fight the betray- ers! Prepare for strikes on Sep- tember 1! Fight for one national agreement for soft and hard coal | Pit comm fields!” says a leaflet issued for | °'S’ Union and the anthracite coal miners by the It pro cuss the in AILINGS me nthracit ers and labore: for outside men week; abolition of t for unem surance and old age pension, aboli- tion of the conciliation board and all class coll dis nation again: Negro workers; equal wo! iid enforcement of ty la recognition of ittees of the Na d full mine contro] and ution by the rank and file ees; no child labor in the m, nd 300 work- nday evening, the were unanim- nd aboration schemes; no young and ers of ( follo Tale Thomp- se admin- s have | job dis | eommi and jailed, National Miners’ Union, calline a N. M. U. tri-district conference on, PCS: ss d i n end be put May 18 | The leaflet warns against Lewis ; " i ta ORe cae hae enauteouineh fakers, the Pabody-Howat- |e ; raidine of s convention is being Fishwick gang in Illinois. working class organizations, arrest ree fOr cote at first trou; |FIVE-YEAR PLAN EXHIBITION pnd wan phd MND they could sell the anthracite min-| The e-Year Plan, what it is | mediately nan submitted Conditions Bad Wages have been reduced in the| dead work, very few get a full) week’s work, loading machines are | | throwing thousands out, unemploy- anthracite, few miners are paid for | — the drive for 40 t for t ers into a new slave contract with-| and how it works, every aspect of {4 yoy } 6th b: Council out any convention. The contract this stupendous socialization scheme | o¢ Unemy expires August 31. will be graphically presented at the | ie peivonere) RGus Fear of the rank and file forced first Five-Year Exhibition ever held I and Ray- the Lewis - Boylan - Hartneady - Mc-|in this country, to open in New York ied thar ONG air Real Andrew clique in the U. M. W. to|City some time in May. This ex-) 0 ©" ° es i pretend to hold another convention, hibition is being arranged by the hanieeducecrkere aioe which, with the rank and file stifled, | Friends of the Soviet Union, in co- we dail © cesaniteel |will make fake decisions in their operation with the Workers Inter- Tatent cee name. jnational Relief, in connection with aa talivaee to you as s rking class eetings from the FRIENDS of NOR : SHKAR| UKRAINIAN YOUTH CLUB 715 N } ment grows by leaps and bounds. 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