The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930 Page lass (CAPITALISM THROWS OUR OLD MOTHERS OUT WHEN THEY CAN'T PaY there amidst her furniture. He Phere are thousands of such cas for it toda | & “No cviction for unemployed workers.” Worker's mother kicked out on the street by the landlord, sitting ry son has been long unemployed. s. One of the May Day demands Strike and demonstrate as they may. ‘| i RAILWAY The 1700-mile Turkestan-Sibe Railroad, a monumental ment of Socialist construction in the Soviet Union, will be formally opened on May Day with elaborat ceremony and amidst great rejoic- jing. throughout the land of the work- ers’ republic. This fact, of cour jadds great significance to t | year’s May Day and ade Ganable, | gives great inspiration and encour |agement to the hundreds of million: of proletarians and colonial masses who will occupy the s s on the |same day and demonsirate agai capitalist oppression all over the world, Aside from it revolutionary s cance the - road with cost $100,000,000 and was constructed entirely by Soviet !z and equipments without for | technical or financial as: | | will greatly strengthen the ecc | position of the Soviet Union. Con- | necting the present Central Asiz | Railroad at Aris, Uzbekistan, with || the great Trans-Siberian Railway at | Novosibirsk, it will enable the So- | viet Government to supply the un: | developed region in Turkest ‘large ‘quantities of wheat ana tim- + at low prices from Sil i | this free the present wheat f jot Turkestan for cotton-growing. |which Turkestan is best fitted for. | This will greatly enlarge the cot- | ton-growing area in the Soviet | Union and free the workers’ repub- lie from depending upon capitalist countries, chiefly America an t politic: achieve-t OPENS ON | MAY Ist IN THE USSR uge Celebration to Greet This Event in the | Five-Year Plan the past the Soviet Union has spen’ more than $70,000,000 annually for cotton. The railroad will also facilitat port of wheat and, even enable the Soviet Union to ex. port cotton. An Associated aracteri; Iroad a e of Middle Press s the influence of thi “changing the whol a and transform: republic rung into “Turksib’ 1, with schools, hospi tals Acai rani kieehtiies displac ing the nomadic squatters and sup: dy ith modern Commu nist form ernment.” of for the supply of cotton. In| later on, the development of the cotton fields made possible by the railroad may | dispatch an, which is the largest au- witlsn the So- lispatch also re- scores of new A life Red Army in the morning on'May (Tarkestan-Sibe- ng the old patriarchal life of will not merely IN HUGE STRIKES “ON MAY FIRST \$16 Dinner to Fete Misleader Halkett While This is your prosperity! Mother and child sleeping in hallway after being dispossessed. Without a job and without relief of any kind of insurance, American capitalism uses its employes like work- ing catile and turns them out on the highways and byways to live Will you stand for it? Sweet charity! of them absolutely penniless. to the feet of the bosses’ god. flop house, waiting patiently for to. sleep. Eight millions of men out of These try to eke coffee and doughnuts handed them by religious fakers, advantage of their misery to humiliate them and make them crawl ae a i CRIES, Be Sa worl, and many out a livingson the a inan who demanded unemployme lief (aa aunt answer to the 8,090,000 unemployed is i : ; ey parade their grie ces the answer ¢ and Here you see them sitting ina mission | 1 they 7 Bae the bunk to stop and let them go jails. Workers, can yo. ud for t ‘ ate | today. TURKESTAN-SIBERIAN — WORLD WORKERS 50 PERCENT OF N. Y. CARPENTERS JOBLESS ' A. F. L. FAKERS FEAST ‘From Shanghai to/Members Wonder Where Next Is Coming From Capetown to N. Y. . soa (Continued from Page One) t e \the demonstration, in an attempt to weo*en_ it. eh * * * May Day in Moscow. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) MOSCOW, ie e the first and second of May. A huge workers’ sport celebration i; planned for Lenin Hills, near Mo: cow. There will be a parade of the first in Red Square. 3 ried | * a 600 Arrested in Balkans. ie BERLIN, April 30. — Reports reaching here state that over 669 Communists have been arrested in various Balkan states in an attempt to stop the May Day demonstrations. As a great - ovement in the Soviet | They will not be stopped. f is an act of great tee . revolu nee. But it Call Strike in Spain, as even 3 more direct ‘connection |) MADRID, April 80.—Leaflets have to the Chi volution. With the teen distributed widely among the line 13 s parallel to the workers, Chin “the Turke sta ‘orm Central A hi Ready to Strike in All Cities the Troquois Tdi tribe, reservation. These first eans know all right what i jism means. With him on i form will appear many | dians. * * * [ In Paterson. ATERSON, N. J., April 30.—In ition to the call of the Commu- nist Party to strike and demonstrate May Day the National Textile Workers’ Union and the Trade Union Unity League have issued a special proclamation. All workers are urged to down tools and dem- onstrate at City Hall Plaza at 12, || noon, with a parade after the dem- | onstration. Thousands of leaflets | being distributed say: | “The dye houses of Paterson have | become actual hell-holes for the dy | workers. Forced to work under the | most dreadful disease-breeding con ditions, young and women workers are being speeded up to the break- ing point. The health, the very limb and life of the workers is be- ing sacrifice on the altar of prof- it-making for the bosses. “The 8-hour day has been almost completely wiped out. The textile workers of this city, under the las! of unemployment and_ starvation, aF forced to work 10, 12 and, in n iny cases, 14 hours a day for the nm jst miserable wages. Women ar> foreed to work long hours of night shifts and not even a pretense of sanitary and health measures is being made.” * Allentown Mass Meeting. ALLENTOWN, Pa., April 30.— A May Day demonstration, under the | auspices of the Communist Party and National Textile Worker: Union, will be held at Barrones | Gymnasium, 435 Linden St., at 8| p. m. Thousands of leaflets, in prepartion for the demonstration, have been distributed to the silk mills, Mack Truck Co., General Cigar Co. and other important fac-! big employing hundreds of work- e i otis, wage-cuts and further ied speed-up methods have en "plea here recently on a much wider scale. The Post & Sheldon, Maxwell, Arcadia and other im-) portant silk mills have recently di charged a good percentage of thei working force, The Mack Truck Co. laid off 300 workers last week. These wholesale lay-offs have in- creased the army of 16,000 unem- ployed in this city. A special dis- tribution, calling upon the unem-. ployed to attend the demonstration, has been carried on in the past few | days. The May Day demonstration {s expected to be much larger than the March 6 demonstration, which was! by, far the largest labor gathering in this city. i similar Committee of aebon for Greater | POW sone | (Wireless B. PRAGUE, Inprecorr.) cho-Slovakia, Apri 30.—The authorities have prohibited the May Day demon Karlsbad. The demonstration wil take place nevertheless. ier, it cannot bat ee d will contriLute not only to ja but also to tion in! calling for a general strike At Bilbao several workers sted. Three were charge:i tributing leaflets urging an | uprising and seizure of the Casa Dei Pueblo. This is a frame-up by the | police. here. vaarah * Fight Ban in Portugal. LISBON, Portugal, April 30.- The government has ordered a ban on all demonstrations May Day. The ban will be disregarded by the re volutionary workingelass organiza 1 1 1 Call General Strik sa meni nei (Wireless By Inprecor BAER cies JANGHAI, China, April. 30.--; ATHENS, Greece, April 30.—Ma; made kets leatiets have beer Day demunstrations will take place taken trolled Kuomintang is issuing coun-| ter-leafiets, but ye any effect. place, The imper Li ONDON, April 30. — Hundreds authorities are mobil of unemployed workers, who start- ed on a hunger in Lanarkshire, tile mills of Lancashire, in the mammoth May Day demon- stration planned by the Communist Party and the Minority Trade Union | Movement. . Cave sear | A cable from the National Un. nployed Councils of the U. S. A., ned by Pat Devine, national sec. retary, has been sent to the hunger | /marchers declaring: “Revolutionary | greetings on May Day to the heroic! British hunger marchers. Carry on! the fight for work or wages against the treacherous MacDonald govern- ment. The National Unemployed Councils of the U. S. A. are solidly behind you in the fight.” s 8 * 22 Paris Workers Jailed for May Day Leaflets PARIS, April 80,—Chiape, the Fascist police chief here, has or- dered the arrest of 22 workers, who are held for deportation because | they distributed leaflets calling for | a May Day political mass strike. | Many were arrested for distributing leaflets to the soldiers calling on them not to shoot their fellow work- ers but to take part in the struggle | on May Day against their enemies— thé bosses. RS he May Day in Hsthonia REVEL, Esthonia, April 30.—The Esthonian minister of the interior has deprived all the labor members of parliament of their seats, as a! blow to the huge May Day prepara- | tions going on here. * * * OSTRAU, Czecho-Slovakia (IPS) —Reeently a meeting of 6,000 work- ers and their wives took place in ;Ostrau, A resolution was unani- | mously adopted to take part in the , Communist demonstration on May Tirst, A meeting of the workers of | the Freistadt iron works adopted a decision, The proletarian march to London! ‘from various parts of Great Britain, ne coming from the coal mines Fife, from the tex- miners om Wales, arrive here May First} - weeks of tramping in protest F nst the MacDonald government and its policy against the unem- ployed workers. They will take part despite the order of prohibiting meetings. the government sc Handreds of arrests have eek Wed | list-con- Police Aid Social-Fascists in Poland. | WARSAW, Poland, April 30.— punenle to stop the huge demonstra- tion planned here for May Day, the | ing their po- Hiee and soldiers to aid the social-| fascists who are planning clashes) with the demonstrations organized} under the leadership of the Com- munist Party. | Prague, the women’s committee, the working youth committee, the un- employed workers’ committee and the metal workers’ committee of ac- tion have issued a joint appeal call- | ing on the workers to demonstrate on the streets on May First under+ the banner of the revolutionary class struggle. | that individuals will be cut off from | April 20.—Street de-| monstrations will take plaée here on | ! i | mind. {was hit by a chip of hammer had|this worker will most likely lose to be taken to the main hospital in} hand and he will be rewarded by By a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y.—While 50 per cent of the union carpenters of New York City are out of work, according to a statement of the District Council, A. F. of L. officials make enough money on the dues of the unemployed to be able to spend $16 for a dinner at Hotel Commodore, New York. The $16 dinner, including one pint of whisky, was given in Hotel Commodore under the auspices of the New York Building Trades Coun- cil in honor of John Halkett, who is the successor of the notorious grafter Brindell. All the fakers were present at the feast. of the Carpenters’ District Council Here are some of the items on the menu: Coupe of Fruit Sultane, Potage Dauphine, Aiguillette of Sole Polignac, Braised Ox Tongue Florentine, Raost Squab Chicken a la Broche, Salad Verte a !’Estragon, Pave Glace Vintimille, Apollinaris, Demi-Tasse, etc. Alexander Kelso, secretary-treasurer of the District Council, who was on the: guest committee, issued in the April number of The penter a statement saying that the New York District has a me: bership of 30,000 and that “it is safe to say that 50 per cent of them are walking the streets looking for woe.” The unemployed starving carpenters receive no support from the union, but must continue to pay dues so that their officers may be able to feast.—A. D. Lost His Eye for (By a Worker Correspondent) JERSEY CITY, N. J.—I worked on a caustic soda tane in the Kear- ney Ford plant, when another worker broke a piece of it that went right into my eye. You may well guess what I suffered. For nine w, weeks I was almost out of my I went back to work and 1 go a place io work in the daylight. About a month later I was called down to the department of labo and my case was cailed and thes gave me $20 a week for 80 weeks For 75 cents I lost my right ce. and at this time s no better. Gn November 22 the plant sh:; down and since then I have hec> out of ‘work. Two weeks ago I got a placc, which keeps my head above the What’s a Worker's s Hand to the Boss? (By @ Worker In the Lincoln Plant a worker who River Rouge. table his hand was cut up and they |against these conditions and show couldn’t find anything. During the lunch hour he was left lying in a bleeding condition because After being put on the operating of children. A OUR EXCURSION TO THB Soviet Union Sailing May 24 by the Inrgest steamer tn the world S.S. LEVIATHAN Popular prices for the tour from New York to New York. ine are official agents and are sel_ ing steamship tickeets to any part or ‘the world at the company rates All legal travel documents prepared free of charg | For particulars inquin Gustave Eisner ‘itivial Steamship Tieket Agont 1133 BROADWAY Cor, 26th Street, Room NEW YORK, N.Y. Phone Chetsen 5080 ing another .¢ Will sail May 28, A great opportunity 175 Fifth Ave. New York. STEAMSHIP BE OBTAID TO ALL IDEAL. HOME FOR CHILDREN Mrs. Yanpolsky, a nurse, with many years experience in taking care Motherly care, excellent food. One block from the Modern School, five blocks from Public School. Wonderful play- ground. Address Mrs. Yanpolsky, Stelton, N. J, Phone New Bruns- wick 178-J-1. fron Moscow Moscow, April 28. Arrived. All Well. Preparing for May! They will be marching on Red Square today—-the 180 that sailed April 12th and 16th with the World Tourists The WortD Tourists is now organi:- group to the U.S.S.R. and for a study of the Soviet Union. THE, WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. THROUGH THE WORLD Slave-Driver Ford | water, as I have a family. \ the Ford Co. will not give me work at all. The compensation bureau have asked them to give me work as I got my injury while working for them. But Mr. McGowan tola them I could get no work from him from November 22. Till about two weeks ago my only incene was the $20 a week. I could not get work anywhere, as I could not But I gave my right eye working for the Great Henry. Now he don't want me because I am ot so good a man as when I went to work for him. I wrote to him about it, but got no answer I wish you and your paper the hest of luck as I get it each weeh. And e Mr. Ford a few “kind words” in your paper. —FORD'S VICTIM. Correspondent) yeve yone went out for dinner. Nov being kicked out of his job. Lets demonstrate on May 1st) the bosses that we will fight and organize, —A LINCOLN WORKER. Radio WORLD TOURISTS GROUP. for a rare vacation Algonquin 6656 PAY OF ‘THE WORLD CAY TOURISTS |The Reds Are GALL SOLDIER: Marching By By a Cotton Mill Slave, Atlanta, Ga. Fellow workers, drop your tools, Raise the Red Flag high, Show the tyrants who shall rule— The Reds are marching by. I he Daily Hip, hurrah! the First of May, ‘ ee a And victory is nigh, Communists se Damn the kings; ten million sing Dem: aaa ae The Reds are marching by. | (Continued froi oP refuse to drill or ex and if the bo: ou to brea This is our day and who shall stay Our wrath and purpose high? Let tyrants roar—their day is o'er: The Reds are marching by. workers. { th é Neeson the right, we'll sure LY eNO ar ON Gina tonne maiecGtenel Miners a We'll do and dare and die, Vien aeatnsticvorcers im sndust 4 Until we win let's fight again— —_| disputes. ° The Reds are marching by. 2, Servicemen to have the rigt Sick Bladder to vote and hold office. 1,8 8. Base pay of $21 per month Gt. Charges More Graft be raised to $40 per month. Ailspe ANG TREGHCYS are cialist ratings to be increased 2 of Tammany Fakers per cent Dangerous I mum duty period of « Don’t heglee low Charges, of graft in contracts let) daily, including guar ; nee 7 for all branches of the service | by the New York city government) 5 Servicemen to have the rig! were made yesterday by Alderman to resign from the service at an) at on John C. Hawkins. He offered a re- solution calling for an investigation! § come after enlistment. Daily ration allowance to he time s. Doctors century }for 5 eek Phe creased 50 per cent. ie! y fe tee he are ae ae The 7, Fight agpinst _ imp rislist wa tal M ae t. otal sum of alleged graft was not) Turn imper il wa &: Dak e A % mentioned, lof the work the <a He By contributing to the $200,000 “ICOR” Campaign to help build “BIRO-BIDJAN” as a Jewish Soviet Socialis y lic, you di- rectly partake in the work of the Fi Ple f the Soviet Union. “ICOR” CONCERT or the Benefit of Jewish Celonization in Bi MAX ROSEN CARNEGIE HA! o7th Street and Seventh Avenue “ICOR” TAG D AYS FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUN) MAY 23, 24 & 25th 1930 VOLUNTEER FOR THE TAG DAYS Send Your Contribution Join the “ear” “ICOR,” 799 Broadway, New York, N. APPLICATION FOR } t IT hereby to the peitPack ire Bidian, ICOR So. ; : with its aim 6 (check) (cash) for 8 on behalf of t a ( Soviet Union. vith its aie Name hip Dues. Address. YEARLY MEMBERSHIY DUES St.9 RENT; FIGHT ITM TAY DAY!