The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 3

} * DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1930 900 ONCE WORKED STRIKE IN U INN, Y, BARRED 300 WORKING NOW FROM UNION $0, This Is Typical of Hoover “Prosperity” in San| Francisco; Wages Are Way Down 195,000 March Against Production More Than Doubled Owing To Capitalist System Terrific Speed-up; “Join the T.U.U.L.” (Continued from Page One) 86 to move. Workers’ children, led by the Young Pioneers, picketed the By a Worker Correspondent) 4 : 4 FRANCISCO, Cal-A shop committee visited the Union Tron Fee AeA Eel ed iacigecl ad Works today and the following conditions prevailed: it zs all re “3 tight re ate At one time 18,000 men were employed here. Today we find less pals ti ee Cee ae ne 210 Be than 30) employed and none of these working steadily. Owing to the |‘5™ OUt- terrific pace of the speed-up system, the production is more than doubled than in previous times. Where 322 Were Burned to Capitalism j J e € J COMMUNIST PARTY OF DENMARK LEADS IN MANY CLASS BATTLES) 3,000 Working Women Go On Strike; Reject ‘ Reformist Leaders Detroit Rank 1 File Getting Sie I Severe Crisis Grips Denmark; Many Firms Go Bankrupt Soldiers stationed to shoot down|into the prison several days ago as the im COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The|the leading role in printers conducted an_ energetic st the employers and the re- campaign for the 7-hour day. The|formist bureaucrats. Numerous reformist leaders succeeded by a|demonstrations in all parts of the| hair’s breadth in rushing through a| country expressed the sympathy of| new tariff which grants a portion| the masses of the workers with the| of the workers the 71-2-hour day/| striking women. | the struggle) ‘oned men who were saved|an answer to the imprisoned men’s rom the flames. Armed guards shot demands for better conditions, fat boy Congo Workers Fight Imperialism By noon over sixty thousand work- ers were gathered around and in BRUSSELS, Belgium (IPS).—As authorities raided the hous« ee Most of them now realize the necessity of organization and ex- eet cea BUEN ICE anton and insignificant wage increases. The Communist Party in Denmark| ay answer to the ‘security measures’ |treasurer and confiscated q pressed willingness to cooperate with us. Join the Trade Union Unity | | “octon ater Berton oF militant |The reformist proposal was adopted |is busy adapting its policy to the) | 1 lei ‘ties (Francs which they found about 1 ; | League! —FRISCO WORKER. |W0rkers’ organizations came up,| with 1,500 against 1,450 votes. \changed economic situation (in con-|*#ken by the Belgian authorities 3 : ; banners streaming, red flags flying} In the sugar producing industry |sequence of the fall in the price of against native demonstrations in FOR IRE A a ji a4 d sl displayed. * : A ae years imprisonment to be followed a } Y ;, m \and slogans displayed. and in the cement industry the /grain, Denmark has suffered a se-|Leopoldville, a great demonstration |hy 10 years banishment, and the or- : Woman Worker Tells of Slavery at Briggs Down With the Forwards. {new tariffs concluded by the re-|vere crisis and many prominent|of natives took place lect Wotnea | ome tts : ganization has been suppressed. demonstration of 1,000 sembled before the Town Hall jefforts to storm the buildi | As they came by the yellow so- cialist Forward building they booed. The fakers and gang-leaders dodged formist leaders with the emplo: were adopted with small majoriti firms have gone bankrupt). The . | open letter of the executive commit- The policy of the reformists suf- tee of the Communist International |day in Brazzaville in the French | Congo on the other side of the river Congo opposite Leopoldville. (By a Worker Correspondent) Dear Editor: she returned to her machine and re- ] i fitting ti around the upper windows and|fered a collapse where the 3,000 which severely criticized the pre- 1 g : yas told 4 friend | mained unti! quitting time. i pse 2 9,0 h s ly criticized P A Negro name ve Grenaed'| view ito veleasing foun piitcher a af eae Delage ele See scowled. The doorstep of the For-|working women in the metallurgical vious policy of the party produced neq orecnized ay “Ava ciae ene |View to. releasing four prisone E 5 * The bosses are so greedy, that not| ward was occupied by “Little Aug-| industry ‘were concerned. ‘These ganized a sociation for|The police were driven of I a lively discussion women workers stood the reformist’ assi evasions and sabotage for some time and then they broke off the negotiations on their own and went on strike, This strike is of very great importance, first of all be- and was of great|utual Aid” which. |Mutual A ich po ance to the party. The re-!199999 Francs in its tr cruiting campaign of the party in| March won several hundred new | members. Over a thousand work. ers took part in the demonstration| Increase Cultural Activities In U.S. S. R. of the party in Copenhagen on the Sieh “) Ai cause it is the largest strike that 6th of March. A fine demonstration | pe cOw Ber en oo, | eceecete tee ate culcunal has taken place in Denmark for a/was also held on the anniversary of | {\ccutive Committee of the Soviet’ keep pace with the revolu number of years, and secondly be-|the Paris Commune on the 18th of}, 0" Nas issued an appeal to all) progress being made in the econ toilers and to all labor unions, co-| constructive work for the building cause it gives the working women March. a ( : }operatives and other organizations | up of socialism. In accordance with | let ¢ have been working even when my husband had a job in order to make nds meet. Now he is out of work | since last Ocotber, and don’t ask how we get along on my miserable earnings. We used to work ten hours a day. Then the bosses cut the day to 8 hours, and we had to produce just | as much work as in 10 hours to keep ‘ up our few pennies. Lately we have | been cut at different times to as low oan gie’s” gang of professional gun- ny’s worth of work out of us, they;men and sluvgers, criminals, fre- give us dirty machines to work on.|quently hired by the reactionary so- | They will not spend the money tojcjalist and A. F. of L. leaders to {have them cleaned. The foreman | attack workers picketing for better |gave us strict orders to oil the ma-|wages and conditions. Solid ranks, chines every hour. As the machines ithree deep, of police protected the are so dirty, the oil leaks right out, |Hocses? agents who run the Forward. getting all over our clothes, even to < ¥ t pl da; 20 our stockings and underclothes. Any ti ane Of placards, or méfe, women knows whet oil does ¢6 faced the socialist party gang from the iron fence on ‘Seward Park, ed over |troops had to be used against jury ; Satisfied with getting the last pen- The |natives. work | did f; lothes. When we complained to |ealling upon them to render in-|the demands of broad masses of|the 1 ¢ as five and six hours and still pro- |; : “|The Forward Is the Ally of the aed a nies him, the foreman’s reply was: “I fe = Trade Union Unity League, actin eae | creased support to the mass cultural; workers and peasants, the Central eri 7 r 4 A . ’ , ie LY 4 | A ™ is rs ‘, 1 ae yeat GORY oni of file Gatien, Gree= oa belp It, We Bavent any, tieat| Bodsee and) Waits Guatde, in place of Willian Z. Foster, gem,| Linperialism’s Friend | and enlightenment work, The ap-| Executive Committee has now. de-|received the cold « Jeers For Whalen. Police Commissioner Whalen drove up, fresh from the little meet- ing of 2,600 held by the jingo socie- ties at noon in Union Square, “Vet- erans of Foreign Wars” and “World War Veterans,” mostly city em- ployes forced to take part and given a day’s pay and a day off to go. With the jingoes, making up a third of the crowd, were the Russian White Guards, some of them having come from as far away as the Si- korski factory in Connecticut. This |gang was planning to attack the | workers, but evidently lost its nerve. | When Whalen’s car reached Rut- gers Square he was recognized and rode along in a storm of jeers and hisses. Many of the organizations found the space allotted them, based on estimates of te numbers they would muster for the gruelling long march to Union Square, altogether too small, The food workers, led by the In- to clean the machines.” But this did not stop the machines from leaking. We are not even allowed a rag to wipe the machines. —A WOMAN WORKER. |peal registers the undeniable suc-| cided to extend the Five Year Plan | cesses achieved in the work to satis-| of cultural work in order that it fy the cultural demands of the toil-| may not lag behind the ing masses and to develop the cul-| Plan of economic construction. ture of the various formerly op-| particular the introduction of pressed nationalities in the Soviet|pulsory schooling in the Union, and declares that it is now’ Union will be accelerated. Somethi Members of e exee eral secretary, now serving three | years with the rest of the commit- tee of the March 6 demonstration. | Many times, as the workers. marched, | they broke out in yells, “We want} Foster,” “We want Minor” (also in| jail with the March 6 committee for | three years), “We want Harry Eis- man,” shouted in a great chorus of the Young Communist and Young Pioneers marching in their place in} line—which was at the head of the procession. Dwarf the Jingoes. | One single section of the proces- | sion, the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, with nearly 4,000 strikers and unemployed in line, nearly doubled tne entire parade of the fascists and city employes forced to go with the fascists. Most of the marchers carried arm bands of the Communist Party or | of the unions they belonged to. Most of them carried Red pennants of the Communist Party. Occa- come by the terrific speed, caught her finger under the needle. The finger tip was split in two, but she evidently could not afford to go home, for after having it bandaged, ive Year Inji organization wh com-| Soviet From A Moscow Woman Factory Worker Dear comrades! 1 vie We have heard that in your | | | there |labor Start Irish Workers Paper DUBLIN, Ireland (IPS).—Several We beg you to inform us about conditions of life of your women- workers. Are they equal to men as regards wages? Here, in Soviet Union men and women get the same wages. We have organized at our factory a bureau for help and advice for some villages, and 200 people joined it from Ist of January till the 1st of February. Our bureau is attached to the cen- tral bureau in Bucharin park. Up | to now, the work has been going on rather slow. We sent only 3 people to a collective farm and some money, that is all. Irish proletariat is a workers’ ri \weeks ago the first number of The|PUblic, complete independence fro’ | Worker’s Voi ced here. ‘Th all imperialist robber states’ and. the orker'§ voice appeared here. The| unity of Ireland under the rule of the aim of the new fighting organ of the! toilers. country mills and factories are be- ing closed down and the workers turned out. In the U.S.S.R. we have quite a different phenomenon, the industry is rapidly growing and the number of men and women workers is being increased. There is a new bread-factory, N3, built in Moscow. The machin- ery was sent from abroad and your engineers told us that the ) output of bread would equal 164,- * 000 kilos a day (that is for 21 . We produce more than the American engineers told . The daily output is 170,000- | d complained for Ia on the par riber of Da’ for the last 5 yee —By a st jalong, hoping for a chance to kill some worker | IDEAL HOME FOR CHILDREN The procession marched around Union Square and filled the space|{ Mrs. Yanpolsky, a nurse, with many years experience in takin at the North End. Only those in line | of children. Motherly care, excellent food. One block ; Modern School, five blocks from Public School. Wonderful play- were allowed in, but the workers, held back by solid lines of police, ground. Address Mrs. Yanpolsky, Stelton, N. J, Phone New Bruns- wick 178-J-1. Mahatma Gandhi, whose chief task in India is to put a brake on the revolutionary movement. Despite his} cries for “non-violence” the armed} uprising of the masses against the MacDonald “Labor” government and | cheered and shouted to them. its associates, the British imperial-; They marched past a reviewing ists, is growing. |stand with Max Bedacht, represent. | sionally they yelled at the tens of -|\ing the central committee of the the I hope, comrades, to hear from you soon, and meanwhile am send- dustvial Union were hunting a big- A < ‘ | ‘ 177,000 kilos, cuz | ing you my best proletarian |ger strect and marching around the | thousands watching them from the telling of the formation of their new | Communist Party, on it, and delega t The factory has reilly withes: Block looking’ f6r. i sidewalks, the hundreds of thou- | industrial union, They were sing |tions from unions. | May Issue of the = | Gs-sol shock batt sat tha. ate A Worker of the Bread Fae. |_ The needle workers, the matine|sands leaning from tenement house ing "Wave Seatlet Banner’ at this) ES ae | pi tieny tory N3, Klavdia Kondratieva. workers, led by the banners of the |Windows: “Come to Union Square.” | point. Placards scored Burkhard,| Sam Darcy was chairman of the Many. did come, but were stopped | Pollack and Yellin, food fakers. by the police blockade. Over the Young Communists and! Pioneers were cartoons, drawn by! members of the John Reed Club, enormous figures representing cap- italist liberty—a hag with a social- ist party torch in one hand; the church, a bag of dollars with crosses on it; the capitalist press, a reptile. Back of the youth came the La- bor Sports Union, in uniform; the Union Square meeting, which lasted A whole swarm of workers’ clubs|till 5 p. m, Speakers were Eng- came afterwards—Bronx, Lomzer,|4ahl, Biedenkapp of the shoe work- Downtown, Williamsburg, Browns-|¢TS; Schoen, Moore, Negro organ- | ville, Spanish, Hungarian, Finnish,|izer; Hyman, Fred Beal, Gastonia | Ukrainian, and many others. With|@efendant Benjamin, Doon Ping, them were the Independent Work-|Harvey of the Marine Workers men’s Order and the left wing|Union Wagenknecht of the Daily MAY FIRST, 1930 branches of the Independent Work.| Worker Schmies, John Williamson, : CA Menta cieclea, |Rose Wortis of the N. T. W. I. U.: “Bias the Prisoners!” | Alexander, the Negro organizer; The International Labor Defense | YOUng Pioneer, Potash of the N. T. had a strong delegation, with Otto|W- I. U.; Pat Devine, national sec- Marine Workers’ Industrial Union; the office workers, led by the dele- gation from the Office Workers’ Union, left their assigned post and extended themselves for three blocks or more down Rutgers St. The Workers’ Clubs, Workers’ Interna- tional Relief and International La- bor Defense and other organizations on Hester St. north of the park, had to extend repeatedly to the eastward to find room. Great Enthusiasm. COMMUNIST N. Y. Central Sends Out Of Town For JUST OFF THE PRESS Cheaper Labor (By a Worker Correspondent.) SYRACUSE, N. Y.—The New York Central Railroad has been planning for the last year the build- ing of a néw elevation in Syracuse, N.Y. CONTENTS secretly importing labor from vari- NOTES OF THE MONTH ous cities to work for 25 and 30 cents an hour. They know that they can get them without the Syracuse unemployed knowing. There are hundreds of unemployed HATHAWAY MAY FIRST—THE TRADITIONAL DAY OF PROLETARIAN POLITICAL ACTION ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG There are over 25,000 unemployed, some of whom have been looking for- ward to this opportunity to obtain work. The contractors who now have the tight of hiring laborers are supposed to pay the city em- begging for jobs every day but they will hire no men of this city. Evéry day the police are there to break up the workers who are seeking for em- ployment and send them away cold and starving. That’s the rotten sys- Hungarian Workers’ Club, with a banner showing Whalen, marked “Bargains.” Then came the ex-} service men, with their placar pledging no war on the workers} and no war on the Soviet Union. ! The crowd was extremely enthu- siastic. Loud cheers greeted each newly arriving delegation, each ban- ner draped truck. Revolutionary and strike songs swept through the marching at the head. Hall, Negro organizer, and J. Louis |'¢taty of the Councils of the Unem- Engdahl, the National Secretary, | Ployed; George Siskind, Trade Union | Their slo.| Unity Councils; Sam Weisman of | gans on placatds and banners de.|the Food Workers Industrial Union, manded the release of* class war| MOISSAYE J LABOR MOVEMENT and C. Hathaway, speaking for the | OLG BILL DUNNE MAY DAY AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY FROM MARCH SIXTH TO MAY FIRST MAY FIRST AND THE AMBERICAN prisoners, called on the workers to| Central Committee of the Com-| carry on the militant struggle. Then | ™unist Party. came the Friends of the Soviet | Enthusiastically cheering, the great | Union, with their call to workers|towd adopted a resolution demand everywhere to defend the Workers’, ing the release of the March 6 del- Fatherland, and then more workers’ | ©&4tion, and the other class war clubs and more banners and pla-|Pti8oners. It adopted and sent to This section was led by a United | States naval sailor in uniform. He} was arrested and beaten up by po-| lice when the procession entered | Union Square. 6,000 More For N. T. W. I. U Then came the Anti-fascist or- tem of the bosses. tanks. —Jobless Worker. ployes 45 and 50 cents an hour for their work. But the bosses are LOUIS KOVESS MAY DAY—1886 AND SINCE SAM DAF PREPARING FOR THE SE CONVENTION EARL BROWDER PROBLEMS OF THE COMMU? Speaking Begins. Speaking started from a truck in front of the Forward building. Her- bert Benjamin, acting district or- ganizer of District 2 of the Com- munist Party, opened the me Zz, TH PARTY Says A.F.ofL. Misleaders Won’t Pay Him (By a Worker Correspondent) although he has a pretty good pro- i ded | _ a | NEW YORK CITY.—I have been perty, and he chased me out of his working for a certain Anthony}place when I was there to collect Auells, president of the Local Hod! my credit and calls me “Bolsheviki.”|immediate demands, for relief and L., the N. T, W. I. U., marching at jnext: Independent Shoe Workers, its own name and the name of the THE PROFINTERN Carrier Union of Montclair, N. J.,| Now, I don’t have any proves out-jinsurance for the unemployed, and salute with. tlenched fists and a National Textile Workers, Office hundreds of thousands - who were TOWARD SOCIAL. SCISM—THE “RE for the iast 12 months and he owes|side of having worked for him and|struggle against the capitalist sys-|) Workers, Councils of the Unem-|Prevented from entering Union TION” OF THE AST me $440 on wages plus $124.93 loaned~him out of my pocket. Now this gentleman refuses to pay me, where to go and to collect my money. Now I am penniless. —Building Worker. Stand. Oil Plant Spraying System Lays-off Men (By a Worker Correspondent) | BOSTON, Mass.--At the Cam- bridge res‘eienance shops of the | Standard Ol} Co. where its trucks | and tanke are repaired and painted. sixty painters were laid aff within the Inst two weeks. The | company tsvailed the spraying | xeetem with fcur operstors taking | the place of the sixty men. i hose is connected to the drum in addition to the spraying attach- ment and four men displace sixty including the stockroom workers and paint mixers, One of the victims is a man sixty years old who had worked in this place for fifteen years, He promised to help to make the May Day Demonstration on Boston Common a success. -~Boston Worker. ‘itums from the factory, an air Bosses Are Organized; Workers Must Organize To Fight Them (By a Worker Correspondent) PROVIDENCE, R. I—A molder,|list of the strikers at Stuvesant cattying a card, dropped into the| plant with their addresses and the adquarters of District 8 National | number of children they had. Point- ‘Textile Workers’ Union. Said he |ing to his name he said: “That's you, wags sivracted by the Daily eas) don’t want you here. Get your in the window. Was directed to|money.” He looked on the wall and noiders’ union address. Came back.|saw the charter of the “Foundry- An unemployed member of our|men’s Association,” the bosses’ unton directed him to an open shop.|union. He came back to our hall, He suceseded in getting a job. Gave |talked some more and went on his his right name, After working a/way promising that he was convert- few days he was called into the of-|ed to revolutionary unionism. fice and the super showed him a —Tex. T. announcing the purpose and mean- ing of May 1, 9 doy of stpagele for ganizations, the Building and Metal Workers’ Leagues of the T, U. U. banner pledging 6,000 new members | by June. Many needle workers | marched behind them under the ban- ners of their shop committees, A sign read, “The socialist party is the third party of the bosses.” Another read, “Free the Workers Leaders.” “The marine workers marched next. with the big banner of the new union, and another for the Seamen’s Clubs. With them came a_ great cartoon of an A. F. L. fat boy smok ing a cigar. The Food Workers Industrial Union had the largest sign of all, | tem and all its works. Benjamin introduced John Harvey, representing the Young Communist League, who told of the struggle of the young workers and their grow- ing detes~ination not to be used in the coming imperialist war, either against their fellow wage slaves of othe* countries or against the free workers of the Soviet Union. The youth are organizing under the Communist and Trade Union Unity League banners to not be used against their fellow-workers on the jobs, either. National Negro Organizer Ford of the T. U. U. L. spoke on the ris- is \line, | Laundry | T.U.U.L., the Barbers dressers’ League, the Paper Work- Jers League, the John Reed Club and) the Red Dancers, the Anti-Imperial-. cards, A series of militant unions were the Wor! t League. Building ‘kers and ployed marching with them. United Council of Working Women were in| Pledge to fight on for the workers, | Maintenance |2"¢ to fight against any attack on | Workers Union, the Cleaners and|*he Soviet Union. League of the »= - Hair At the rear of the procession was ling tide of colonial revolts, particu- larly of the Chinese, Indian and Ne- gro colonies. Louis Hyman, president of the Needle Workers’ Industrial Union, spoke in Jewish, telling of the mean- ing of May Day, of the revolt of workers the world over against the terrific exploitation, the 25-cent an hour wage with a 60-hour week, which the bosses inflict in many basic industries, and declared that the workers rise against these con- ditions, not only in Europe, Asia, and Africa, but also in America, The procession began shortly be- | fore 1:30, And, what a procession? | 25,000 March. A close check-up indicated 25,000 in line. 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