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

Page Two 5. eee a aaa ce a eapaaasiatiles.. AILY WORKER. NEW YORK, Ss ATUF RD AY, MAY 3, 1930 JOBLESS AT FORD AGAIN SHOW SPIRIT Resist Br vutality of Ford Cops >, (By a Worker DETROIT, Mich five thousand joble: xiously waiting at the Ford Bike| Plant for the gates of the large em- evening the crov had swelled to s' Then the everybody At four nit the company ‘ vice me began pushing us back as the workers were | flooding the field. All through the/ early morning I saw men coming in) — — o’cl WORKERS TELL OF PLANS TO Southern workers frequent- ly tell in the worker correspon- dence section of the way in which the Trade Union Unity League is welcomed by them. They like it because it leads white and Negro workers in common struggle against the bosses. Lynchings, like the lynching of Jimmy Levine at Ocola, Ga., can’t stop these workers from joining the T. U. U. L., they say. Building workers too are joining the TUUL. Photo at right illustrates the risks they take. | hungry stomachs, and hopes of get-} ting on. By that time the crowds had increased to over 11,000. Then the brutal Cossack Police and wild west cOwboys on motorcycles came to handle the job seekers like wild cattle. Two company “service men” drove | who told me of their long walks, x War Preparations As (By a Worker Correspondent) | r TRENTON, ‘The war preparations are clearly noticeable in| up in a Ford car, jumped out, and| the Bristol Keystone Aircraft Corporation. In Bristol and in Trenton | walked down the line, snatched men} thousands of workers are jobless, in search of work which cannot be! out of line with one hand while the) found—as most of the pottery industries, as well as the rubber plants other hand he'd the gun in his pocket.| are shut and these only working on part time. In the Keystone Aircraft Three big bulls walked behind him ———- >Corporation the work swinging cl The workers showed speed, because it fighting sp One company “fas- NEGRO WORKERS industry, manufacturing airplanes cist. service man” was kicked. We} for the coming war. were even driven from bonfires | Conditions Get Worse. when trying to get-warm. | c | Side by side with the war pr Suddenly two damn fascists on i ations we find that condit motorcycles came riding upon us, forcing us back, knocking us down, and calling us names. At. eight o’clock when the jobless| had increased to twenty thousand, we were told that there would be} no hiring this week and were brut-! ally driven away from the field. Then T yelled: this is one hundred| getting from bad to worse. fuselage department we work for $20 and $25 a week. The floors are | damp, many of the workers are that they cannot get a job anywhere. Raring to to Go Under The women workers in the cover- T.U.U.L. Leadership ing department work for 30 and 35 ents an hour under a speed-up that per cent Americanism! Hoover's (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘makes them physical wrecks. Fer} prosperity for the workers! Join the NORROLK, Vat. want.its 10, 12 and sometimes as long as 14| Communist Party. | Unemployed weit a b t th iti sof | hours do the women workers have} workers, join the Unemployed Coun- Se eee ee eae ie Oo Werk: vane ; the workers of Norfolk, Va. The‘ ; | cil! Wages Cut. Negro worker of Norfolk receives {20 cents an hour for working in the| In most of the departments, such fertilizer factories, works 10 and 12)88 the Tin Shop, the dope rooni. |hours a day and lives in houses with | jete., wages are being cut. Condi- | no flooring in them. They live like tions are unbearable under the! |dogs and cats, haven’t half enough, speed-up. |to eat, speeded up by the bosses as| Let us take the dope room, where \though they are horses. e I\the workers cannot help becoming lhave been in rfolk, Va., the dopey. The temperature is 95 de-| MORE LAY-OFFS jNegroes have asked me to publis hlgrees all the time, with the smell! ‘these conditions. Negro women get |of the nitrate poison and the 9% Goodyear : Cans Pits; \$4 a week, working for the bosses|hours a day. It is enough to kili |10 and 12 hours a day in the lunch-jenyone. The pay is 50 cents an} Men Militant rooms and factories of Norfolk, Va. |hour. (By a Worker Correspondent) Here Are Low Wages. Bee as ‘ ‘ The Virginia Railroad and Power | DUNCAN, Ohio—Men in the Company which is the Street Car Summer mine were formerly em- ployed in units of twelve. First —Jobless Worker. | Is This “Heaven?” Some of the workers were under| the impression that we had heave in compa shops but now we find that the speed-up Co,, pays their hammer workers and son with other | crippled with rheumatism so bad § Seen by Aircratt Workers = is being introduced more and more. ficials is to work out by-laws to raise ‘out of order. Sixteen seamen perished when this firetrap ship, the coastwise freighter Thames, burned off Stamford, Conn. The revolutionary Marine Workers’ Industrial League, formed by the marine workers at their convention April 26 and 27 in New York, fights this sor of murder of seamen on firetrap boats that bring soaring profits to the shipping bosses. Murder at sea. ‘Fake ‘‘Progressives’” Didn't Halt Carpenters May Day (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—At the last meeting, April 15, a comntunica-/ | tion was read at the A. | munist Party for the preliminary conference for May Day on April 20. of L. Carpenters Local 1073 from the Com: The rank and file carpenters enthusiasiically took up the proposition since 90 per cent are unemployed and the Brotherhood officials do nothing for the relief of the workers. @ The only thing done by these of-, agent and ruled the communication When the workers pro- wages. No relief for| tested and appealed to the chair, he file from the union’ gia not accept the appeal. He ig-| the officials’ the rank and tra vorkers § veek, working | they were cut to ten men and two |ack workers $12 oe ens weeks ago the unit was reduced to| oney There is aver 7,000 unem-| In the cafeteria, where you can seven men. The same amount of | 1 a 1 wake not buy a meal for less than 50 sf ; F ployed and no place to st The fi 7 ai work must be done, although the |} oeshoremen's Union is an A. F. of (cents; We find a stool-pigeon by the unit was cut and the pay was cut.|1'"tnion ‘They are now fightin |Rame of Pie. His job is, besides Men, when working full times|for better conditions. Green, the|4¥Ping us, to report to the bosses average $3 a day. However, the |pig fakir, has told the Negro work- |! any of us happen to talk about miners are seldom employed full time. It is common for them to| draw 8 and 10 dollars a week, to support families of 5 and 6. Join the National Miners Union, all miners! —A Miner Workers’ correspondence from shop, mine and mil] finds much space in the Daily Worker. It | must receive even more space and it will as soon as we can again increase the size of our paper to Bix pages every day. To increase the size of our paper necessitates the immediate development of mass suppert for the Daily Worker. Workers’ correspondence is a powerful fac-|]/ tor in developing mass support. It will only develop mass sup- port, however, if the workers in the shop, mine or mill you write about read what you write. You have a double task. First, Write about the conditions of the workers in your shop. Second, sell the Daily Worker to the workers in your shop so that they will read what you write. The situation becomes ridicu- lous if the worker correspondent who writes about his shop con- ditions is the only worker in the shop who reads what he writes. We therefore call upon all work- to join the er correspondents Daily Worker campaign for mass ‘circulation. Order a bundle of five‘or ten copies of the Daily Worker every day. Sell these to workers in your shop, After a week or two ask them to become mail subscribers. ‘Securing regular readers of the |]) Daily Worker in your shop will soon build around you a group of workers who will help you or- cee the shop for a fight |]; the speed-up, low wages ‘and miserable working conditions which you write about. 5) \working hard for the T.U.U. | crooks. ‘hire the Negro worker. \him till pay-day. ers that everything will he alright. Our bad conditions. The Chamber of Commerce has is- sued a statement, discharging Neg-| roes and hiring white workers. In the Slave Market. The Negroes of Norkolk, Va., are to) lead them. On Monday, Ap: |we called a meeting to open up and | ers expose the bosses, Green and his lout the biggest Negro and feels | muscles and if they are hard enough he will hire him. After the: a day and ask for money, the To give them money and charge them/ Kindly put this statement in your paper that it may | work! Then, the new- lest system introduced, in order to |speed us up more and more, is that |none of the workers are allowed to treasury or elsewhere, A “Progressive” Mask! The rank and filers of local 1073 participated in the discussion and 90 per cent of the membership was willing to accept this communication and demonstrate their solidarity with the working class on May Day | talk to each other and no one is al-'and also express their grievances }lowed to take a bite in between work.|against the present day starvation In order to%enforce the above rules | they hired an expert spotter and’ who worked there have been fired. The real reason for firing They have a slave market|them is that they could not keep jin Norfolk on Church and Olney ice he came on the job five work-| imposed upon them by the capitalist class. The workers realized the sig- nificance of the May Day Demon- stration at the present time. And while the workers discussed May Day the chairman of that local up with the speeed—and they can} (1073) calling himself a “progres- ‘up with the speed-up. Mos fand | more and more jand a shop bulletin, side by side! (with an organizational campaign. \streets where the bosses come and/and do hire young workers, 16 and sive” (really covered up with a black He picks}17 years of age, for nearly half, mask) and in reality helping the Te-, his |the price who can much better keep actionary machine and all the reac-! |tionary forces in local 1073, felt that} “Out Of Order”. He knew however that the reac- be sent to me and other workers|which will get the workers out for tionary distriet council of Philadel- Negro Worker. HOW THE STATE RED TAPES AND GYPS INJURED WORKERS (By a Wo Correspondent) CHERRY GROVE, Pa.—I in- jured myself on November 20, | 1929, while 1 was working for the Clawson Chemical Co, 1 went to the doctor for treatments and re- ported to the company for com- pensation. About four weeks the company was after me to go back to work. f told them that ft am not able to work yet aitd didn’t know when I would be able to work. But on January 10, one of the company men, by the name of Frank Muchesnick, came to me to go back to work. I told him that that they may know the conditions ja real fight against the speed-up ‘phia will back him up, even tho 90 of Norfolk, Va. system and for better working con-! per cent of the workers are against |ditions. —BRISTOL WORKER. ' him. He is the District Council’s of the workers are kicking the only solution was to rule it out} king hard because they are ‘of order, even tho this ruling was becoming slaves. | against the constitution of even the 5 cents on the dollar they get from|The time is ripe for organization’ reactionaries, nored the carpenters because he knew that the local would aecept the communication and participate in the May Day Demonstration, just as they did on March 6 when they marched in a body to the City Hall, demanding Work or Wages. This ac- tion of the officials of 1078, so-called progressives proves conclusively that these so-called progressives and their allies, the Lovestoneites in the union, are in reality agents of the reac- tionary machine of the A, F. of L. and real fascists. Ninety per cent of this local, pos+ sibly more participated in the May Day demonstration nevertheless, —Carpenter, DORIOT ARRESTED. Jacques Doriot, Communist Dep- uty, was arrested with seven munici- pal councillors of St. Denis, follow- ling the May Day demonstration there. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. | | organizations. H/he is too old to get any insurance | Industrial’ Unemployment Hits R. R. Enginee | Sargent Co., FIGHT SPEED-UP, UNEMPLOYMENT SOUTHERN WORKERS RESFOND TO TUUL; ALSO THE BUILDING ; WORKERS LAY OFF AFTER fd LAY OFF IN BIG PLANTS IN CONN, ny Rubber, Metal Workers: In All Plants Hit (By a Worker Correspondent) HAVEN, Conn.—I suppose in order wt is to let one another * | know the truth about unemploy- .. | ment conditions in this city, as Iv. suppose they are the same in every ~ city in the country. ord of the factories here. The Win- chester Arms Company, five days a | week, s low for men as 20 cents per hour. of all the “squeezed lemons,” book- | keepers working piece work. C. C. | Cowler Company, automobiles, hard- ware, four days a week, with two thirds of the help laid off. The New | Haven Clock Company, four days a | week, with half of the help laid off, cutting down wages. Lay-off After Lay-off. Here is a rec- ., laying off help, with wages ~ short time, getting rid . Seamless Rubber Company, one - third of help laid off, short time; seometrical Tool Company, four \days a week, laying off help. New- ton Dye Works, maximum number lof help 600, working with 75 hands. . \Eastern Screw Company, maximum vs; Fakers Gyp (By @ Worker YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio—The rail conservative union in the country. Correspondent) ilroad engineers are about the most We had two of the slickest labor fakers in the history of the American labor movement in W. S. Stone and William Printer (both being dead now), and they came within an inch of busting the B. of L. E. As it is, we were left $11 000, 000 in the hole. The | rank and file had to pay an assess-@-—————— ment of $100 to pull the organiza- tion through. There isn’t much use of recount- ing the other troubles, as every one femiliar with the labor movement is acquainted with them. We ave | going to have a convention in May, {and there is a great demand for | amalgamation with the firemen’s We are not gaining jany new members because a man jhas to fire an engine for 15 or 20 years now to get over to the right side permanently, and by that time in the engineers; he stays in the firemen’s organization. Ccn't Get Firemen’s Jobs It is impossible to obtain a job as a fireman on any railroad in the United States; most of the railroads have seven to ten-year men fur- loughed. Introduction of giant loco- motives has revolutionized the Amer- ican railroads. Paternalization The New York Central R. R., by which I am employed, has a policy of 100-car trains and 130 empties. We used to haul 6,500 tons; they boosted it to 8,500, and now we are hauling 10,000 tons and they want you to maintain speed of 35 miles per hour. Three Times as Much Work We have three times as much re- sponsibility on us as we had ten years ago. The railroad corporations are cutting off men at the rate of 25,000 a year, with no sign of let-up. The Rail Brotherhoods are in the doldrums, each pronouncing a policy of its own, and we face some bad times. The Youngstown district is @ great steel center. The mills have been operating at about 50 per cent since the stock market crash. The giant Ohio works of Carnegie Steel, I was told, was operating the plant on third trick with about 400 meén, where they used to émploy 8,000. The unemployment among the rail workers is about the same as in other industriés. We work on seni- ofity basis, and the youngest men get furloughed in slack periods. All jobs are advertised and the oldest man géts the first preference on the best runs or jobs. Amount of technical knowledge required of en- gineers and firemen is getting greater each year, with the applica- tion of new devices on locomotives, and our wages have not advanced in proportion to increase in tonnage | and responsibility. Our wages rin from $2,500 for yatd engineers to $4,000 maximum for passenger work. The freight men work first in, first out, with) exception of scheduled freight runs. Clawson Chemical Slave Tells How Law’s Delays Atd The Bosses To Detraud the Maimed Workers I got well, and that I wanted my | compensation since it was time, | since November 20, 1929, to get some compensation. On January | 15, the same man got my compen- sation check for $85.71, which is $15 per week, and brought a blank for me to sign, I told him that I would take the check, but would not sign my name as long as 1 wasn’t well. ‘Then he said: | I wouldn't go back to work before | | | | “7 | can give you no check if you do | not sign your name,” whieh check | was only Ull January 6, 1930, I told him he could have the check. Put Out'by the State Then I sent a report to the Bu- reau of Workmen’s Compensation. They wrote me a letter and a blank to be filled out and sworn before a compensation referee. I did that . | and demanded that they should give me @ hospital where I could get daily treatment and to pay my expense and compensation. They took me to the hospital and kept me there for one month. Then they put me out and I was ul gtly as bad as the day I came othe hospital, | Red Tape to Gyp Workers On four months time, I got eight weeks’ compensation. Then they offered me the same check, $85.71, which was made till Jan+ uary 6, and I had to sign for it. I looked at him and told him: “I might look dumb to you, but don’t think that I would sign as long I am not well, The comper should be paid every week.’ didn’t say a word, but ‘saliat away. Now I am just waiting for a | hearing. The company don’t want to pay even coripensation to an | injured man, and they tried to starve him and then beat him out if possible. Conditions Bad. The working conditions are very bad and I see the Hoover prosper- ity coming, deepening tho starva- tion for the wi The com- pany cut the wages from $2.20 a | cord of wood to $1.90. A man | could cut from one to one and a | half cords of wood y, and this isn’t every day. The rainy days he is not able to work, The most of this chemica) work is shut tenth i stent liniametsttblntiocein aan 9 DO WORK OF 72 IN ONE DEPT. OF FRANKLIN SUGAR Lack of Safety Maims| Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—The Sugar Refinery is one of the largest in Philadelphia and also one of the largest in the United States. It is gne of those typical capi- talist institutions where a man means nothing. A man is just like the sugar cane and beet sugar. Out of the cane and beets eatable sugar is ground out; out of the mem and women workers, profits are ground out. In fact, thé beets and cane, after the sugar is ground out, can be used in. making various other} products, the men and women are| cast off immediately, sometimes right in their prime, by accidents. No Safety—Kill Workers This is due to the fact that there are absolutely no safety precautions. A few months ago a man ‘ was caught on the belts and crushed to death. The cranes are handled with old rope instead of steel chains and due to the easily broken old ropes, one man was killed and several} wounded. In the department where | sugar cane is ground out, the intro- | duction of the speed-up and new| machinery has cut the force down to one-third of the former number, | who can now do all the work done before by three times as many. The} rest have been laid off. 9 Do Work of 72 In the power house 9 men do the} work of 72 men, piling up additional | dividends for the Franklin Sugar Refinery Company. Join the Trade League! —Philadelphia Sugar Worker. Union Unity Our divisions vaty in length, some run over 100 miles, some less. So the earnings on one division will vary from another division’s wages. The rates for firemen in the yatd are $5.81 upward for eight hours, and for freight work $6.41 and more, depending on the weight of the en- gine, for 100 miles or less. When will we all get wise and join the T,U.U.L, with one railroad in- dustrial union? Let’s go! —Railroad Engineer. down, and in the shops around here is very bad. It is about one third or one quarter that are work- ing, and some of the shops are | entirely shut down. It is growing from bad to worse. This is proof of Hoover's prosperity. The only way to better workers’ conditions | is to he organized in the T.U.U.L. and by joining the Communist Party, which is the only workers’ | Party, which can lead the workers to freedom. I wish that every worker should join the Communist Franklin |« number of hands 400, reduced to 150,. |four days‘a week. |hardware, three days a week, with half of the help laid off. Hendryx, | bird cage makers, four days a week, with half the help laid off. In this factory the latest thing in the form lof rationalization is introduced, a new machine for making bird cages. out the other end like “hot dogs.” Good-bye to the employees. Oh, What a Disappointment. I met one man the other day. He voted for Hoover and prosperity. Oh, what a disappointment. laid off months ago on account of jhis age. He told me that because jof his inability to find employment jand the wolf barking at the door, his wife has become so discouraged that she has made three attempts at suicide. His indeed is a sad case. On top of all this distress, with thousands of workers in want, the |New Haven Register, one of the most anti-Communist papers in this country, comes out with an editorial jsaying in this manner: Of coutse, we” are willing to admit there is ja little unemployment in this city. ‘ward and the charity organizations will take care of thern. So that is |very kind of the Register to inform the workers that they ean beg back wealth that they have created by. their labor. New Haven workers, Communist Party! —New Haven Toiler. FORD THUGS TO BEAT JOBLESS What Happened April 14? (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—The purpose of | this letter is to let you know what | was done at the Ford Motor Co. at | Detroit, Mich. on April 14. There were 1000 men standing in line all night for 15 hours. And the first hundred had been in line 20 hours. And these men slept on the ground. And the service rats put jout their fires Not Funny to Workers. And in the morning, when the em- ‘ployment manager came, he said theré was no hiring at this time, It |Was laughable to him, but I can’t ‘see anything in the misery of the workers that is funny, Can you? Thugs Beat Up Jobless. To get back to the subject of the Ford Motor Co. The crowd went \to the employment office and hegan to beg the manager. They have a join the ’/new method now to get rid of un- employed ‘workers. They hire a thug or fighter, and the thugs would |get some little fellow who was beg- ‘ging him for a job and give him a terrific beating, to scare the work- ers intd going home. Theh the cops laugh and say to this degerierate: “Give the bastard a good beating!” It won't do the workers any. good to beg for good treatment from their masters. The thing to do is to get together in the Communist Party, fight the master class, for the good things, nature and mother earth gave all people, but which their class says, belongs to their class only. —A Hater of the Boss Class TRIED FOR ANTI-MILITARISM. PARIS (IPS).—The trial of five soldiers and a civilian accused of |“anti-military conspiracy” has ¢om- |menced in Strassburg. The six ac- cused admit that they wete vespon- sible for the publication and distri- bution of the soldiers newspaper in the barracks, but deny the charge ‘of “conspiracy.” The evidence given by soldiers under pressure produced no facts of any moment against the Party, —Clawson Chemical Co. Slave. accused. The verdict will be an- nounced next week. H. B. Ives Co.» A big coil of wire is fed into the: machine on one end, bird cages come: He got: But let the worthy cases come for-.