The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1930, Page 3

BIRMINGHAM NEGRO AND WHITE METAL WORKERS SPEEDED UP ‘¢ Rock Bottom Wages in Plants Mentioned by rr Worker Correspondent ay-Offs Too; Workers Ready to Fight Under Lead of the T. U. U. L. (By a Worker Correspondent) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Conditions in the shops of the Birmingham Carnegie Steel Co, 200 Negroes and Whites at starvation wages of $9 to $10 a week. At the Cartirenel Gen. Co. 450 Negroes and whites at | starvation wages. At the M. C. Warings it and Pipe Co. 575 Negroes and Whites at starvation wages, working 10 and 11 hours at the rate of $2.50 a day. At Jubom Garden 1600 Negroes and Whites for 30c an hour, At Virginia Bridge 400 Negroes and Whites at 28c¢ an hour. At the Birmingham Stove and Range Foundry 100 Negroes and Whites at the rate of $12 and $13 a week. At the Slocom Pipe Fitting Co. 1600 Negroes at the rate of $15.81 a week. One of the workers at Slocom Pipe Fitting Co. went to the first meeting to see how many went to the meeting. A lot of men were fired at the McMurry Hard Wood Co. Thirty ,'workers at the rate of 14.5c and 15c an hour and work ten hours daily, The workers in Birmingham are ready to take part in carrying on the truggle, and are joining the T. U. U. L. —BIRMINGHAM NEGRO WORKER. f \ The R. R. Police Get Kicked by Their Masters (By a Worker NORTH BERGEN, N. J.—Friends and comrades, here is some more of Hoover’s prosperity. I was over in New York City today, talking Correspondent) Well, I myself hope that these police don’t help him out. Because the quicker the company kicks him around and breaks him and puts Y 7, 1930 Page Three DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MA THRU TIMMINS Great Crowd Gathers at Four Meetings 2,500 PARADE | Today i History of | AUTO WORKERS. the Workers May 7, 1896—Coal miners Westphalia, Germany, struck. 14 in 2 —Blagojey, Bulgarian Communist | on leader, died. 1925—One hundred! Notional Industrial) and twenty-five thousand Danish |~~" . workers on strike. 1925—All-Rus-| Auto Union Coming to one of the New York Central Railroad policemen. He said the marine department is practically closed down and in one other de- partment one man has to do three men’s work now. The men in this department used to get overtime. But not now anymore. The com- pany makes the men work now for straight time. He also stated that every man in the force has to take a@ six days’ vacation every month from now on, It is already in ef- fect. He also stated that one of his tribe was in such bad circum- stances that one of the fellows of- fered this man his 6 days’ work to help him out. him on the bum like us he will act like one of his class. Well, it’s rot- ten to be hungry and out of work. I want to tell you it was the former policeman above mentioned who some time ago made this statement. Iasked him: What about the Reds? “The Reds have got dynamite and jbombs,” he said, “and they are go- ing to blow up bridges, etc.” I told him the Reds ain’t got dynamite or bombs, as they don’t believe in these methods. But the police do, They are the only ones who know where these bombs, etc., are to be found. You will hear from me again some time. A JOBLESS WORKER. Fort Worth, Texas, Dam Job Dangerous (By a Worker Correspondent) FORT WORTH, Texas.—Two dams are being built by the Fort Worth municipality. Day labor is being paid 20 cents an hour and workers outside Fort Worth are being hired, especially Mexicans and Negroes. Workers right from the job told me that the scale for day labor was 20 cents an hour. This is likely correct. Fourteen men asked to be paid off, stating that they feared per- sonal danger if they stayed on the job. town men. These workers weer out of There is a splendid opening here for Communist Party work. Negro Dye Workers Fight Discrimination (By a Worker Correspondent) NEWARK, N. J,—Tuesday, April 8, at the Newark Cleaners and Dyers, located in a Negro * aes a strike called t 1 o'clock, when a sign was laced on the wash room recently used by both Negro and white workers, indicating that this par- ticular room was to be used only by Negro workers, discriminating them from the white workers. These same Negro workers were discriminated two years ago by the local union, when they were not permitted to attend a ball run by the A. F. of L. They had not forgotten this affair and realized that this sign was another at- tempt to openly discriminate them. This shop employs about 75 workers and about 30 Negroes. Twenty-five percent of these work- ers belong to the A. F. of L. The boss of this shop, Green, who is chairman of the Open Forums of the socialist party in this city, discriminates Negro workers, When the sign was placed on the wash room the Negro work- ers rebelled against it and organ- ized a strike which lasted for more than three hours. They refused to return to work until the sign was taken off the wash room, —A SHOP SLAVE. New Britain Food Workers Getting Militant (By a Worker Correspondent) |sian Soviet Congress opened at Mos- CZECH POLI Atrocious Crime by ) Lie onstration was to have taken place lin Radotin, near Prague, at Easter The police prohibited all open- meetings and demonstrations, How ever, following on a short indoor meeting near Radotin a procession of youths and children, aecompamed |by adult workers, formed and marched to Radotin. The proces- |sion was headed vy the Young Pio- \neers. A body of police stationed cn the road before Radotin began to fire |immediately the procession came in sight. No attempt was made to disperse the pro jon in any other |way and no warning was given. At the first volley five children fel! |to the ground with serious bullet wernds. ‘News Delayed by Official Blockade and Pres: State the Police Were “Attacked” Three of the wounde'l are | boys and two girly. Two children | lare not expected to recover. Other ‘children received less serious | wounds, A force of police then broke up the procession and made a number CE FIR “Socialist” Government Press Attempts to Hide Censorship and Lies Rude Pravo,” Com who hurried to the he wounded children, i arrested, The postal |Prague refused to forward a tel gram dealing with th which was addressed to tl corr” telegraph agency. |news of the frightful h: | delayed. | The sec publishes police crime hence the fficial “Prager Pi ne incident without comment. TI port declares that the police we attacked by the demonstrator stones were thrown an a shot was fired again “Hard pressed, one policeman the |fired a single shot at the feet |his assailants, Inquiries show tha five females were injured.” police report n This shameless report gives itself the lie. One shot aimed at the feet wounds “five females!” Demon- jstrating children in the demoerati republic of Czecho-Slovakia are persed with rifle fire! E ON FAREAST RISES WORKERS’ CHILDREN ON Ss + AGAINST REGIME | OF IMPERIALISM South African Negroes Fight British Rule (Cor ied, ntinued from Page One) the the re deed, de- ied e | ileges. Soviet Rule Spreads in China In China patches te f growing to son ven gu the ir ment in the , centered arou , but with stre Betwe y mil ole under So’ Party of Soviet Conference fo: an China ist Africa are b Cape iprising at Worcester, near i five na- Town on Sunda hick tives were killed men injure the trouble a prohibiting which in h is any nti-imperial ar A power 2 given to the Min- of and the vas’ of the population, the Ne; are forbidden even to meet. cratic ister Justice NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Lately in our city, we the food workers in New Britain, organized ourselves in an ILD Greek branch. Within a short period we will have a food workers union in New Britain by becoming members of the T. U. U. L. Our bosses try to terrorize us by telling us: “We are going to deport some of you people.” They terrorize especially one young com- rade who is very young and very active among the food workers, Fellow-workers, don’t pay any attention to the degenerated crooks, ‘ho do not pay our wages, because some of us do not speak English ery well. Many of us have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and most of us are flat-feeted and suffering from many sicknesse8. Some of our barons, especially in this city, are sucking our life, going to Greece, Europe and Florida every little while. But when the work- ers ask them to pay us, some of them say, “I paid you already in cash.” Some of them pay us by month and cut three or four days out of every month. To pay some of their bankrupt places they keep our month’s pays which we have coming to us and then they open again on their wives’ or somebody else’s name. This suffering must be stopped. The only way we can stop this, is by organizing ourselves into a union. Forward to a union! —A FOOD WORKER OF NEW BRITAIN. our profiteers. League. Don’t pay any attention to Join the Trade Union Unity Starved in Chicago—Now Starves in New York (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—I am a machinist id came here to New York from vhicago about eight months ago, believing working conditions might be better here than in the East. Coming here, I did really succeed in obtaining a job, but only to be laid off after two months’ work, After walking around December and January, eating only one square meal a week, I again found work, this time as a handy man in a hotel. This lasted six weeks, Having some money I went to an agency and bought a job. Ten per cent of the monthly wages was the fee, so I paid down $10, being told I would get $25 a week and _piece-work, After having been cross-examined about one hour I got the job and have now turned in a whole week. The boss takes care of the piece- work, #0 we have no idea if we make any extra or not. I got my $25 the first week, or rather $15, as I paid $10 for the job. Now, last Friday there was a sign cn the time-card clock that “From now on this plant will only operate three days a week. “Praise god from whom all blessings flow. America is putting the three-day week into Practice. I will “from now on” make the enormous sum of $14 a week, and I was not laid off, so I guess the boss was right in telling me that he was giving me a steady: job. And for all this prosperity I only paid ten bucks, Workers, join the Communist Party, the only organization that really fights for the oppressed and unemployed worker, is REBEL WORKER. for unemployment insurance. TIMMINS, Ont. (By Mail).—A |May Day parade of 2,600 workers, | \led by the Young Pioneers in their red kerchiefs, shouting slogans and singing revolutionary songs, showed | the many spectators that the work- ing class moves forward here. | Large banners were carried, read- ing, “Class war against imperia war,” “Defend the Soviet Union, “Down with capitalism,” “Join the Communist Party.” Led By Band. The workers assembled at the ball grounds, where the Finnish band] started the march after Beckie Bu- hay had made a short speech. The parade then formed jn line and) marched through the principal streets of the town, increasing in numbers as it went. An enormous crowd assembled on | the ball grounds at the close of the! parade and listened to speeches by| Thatchuk and Beckie Buhay, who, explained the meaning of May Day.) Resolutions were passed amid en- thusiasm greeting the workers of the | Soviet Union, a resolution of pro- test against the conviction of Stein berg for sedition and demanding the release of all class war prisoners, | a resolution of Canadian, U. S, soli-| darity, demanding the release of | Leonard Doherty and pledging the! revolutionary determination of the | Canadian workers to fight against | this developing into another Sacco- | | Vanzetti case. | questions: Support the Daily Worker Drive! | Get Donations! Get Subs! | |700 Ohio Miners Kick | Out Howat Misleader (Continued from Page One) tion meeting and picnic on the same grounds where the defeat of the social fascists took place and where the Lewis machine showed that its | following in the district consists only of outright gangsters and other fascist elements. Police Protect U. M. W. One very interesting feature of the N, M, U, victory today is the} fact that postems advertising the | mass meeting of the “reorganized | U. M. W. A.” had been widely dis- tributed for more than ten days, tacked to trolley poles, ete. They were not torn down or otherwise | ‘disturbed although the N. M. U. posters are always destroyed by the police and company guards. | Another feature was the almost complete absence of the usual dis- order that generally accompanies | the clash of policies and forces in| ithe labor movement. The meeting was overwhelmingly composed of N. M. U. members and sympathizers | and they refused to be provoked. | The mass pressure on the enemies | of the miners was simply increased until they broke under the strain. | On Saturday evening Bill Dunne, representative of the National Com- mittee of the Trade Union Unity League, and Secretary Guynn of the N. M. U. met with the district ex- ecutive board. A program of work was outlined and adopted and Bob Sivert elected as full-time district organizer, Convention June 28. The struggle against compulsory company insurance, for which $3 per | month is checked off the pay of | married men and $1.50 from the pay of single men, is becoming an issue in the district—especially in the Piney Fork mines, employing about 800 workers, The new district executive, elected at the recent convention, has made distinct progress in organization work and Ohio will have a strong | delegation at the national conven- tion in Pittsburgh June 28, 3} Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting WE WONT cow. bosses. (Continued from Pace One) the bosses to augment their already my of stool pigeons and \nessed prior to May Day, In every factory workers were threatened and told not to go to the demon- 5 stration and at times even forcibly kept away by the thugs of the ae In some plants lunch rooms Thompson Will oN s k and even radios were installed “inducements” to keep the workers Peabody Man A Few trom going out and listening to the organizers of the Auto Workers’ BICKNELL, Ind., May 6.—Alex-|Union and Trade ander Howat, the present head of | League. the Peabody Coal Co. section of the; That these methods were not at United Mine Workers of America,|all successful was seen in many split off last December from the ca: At the Briggs Highland parent union, is challenged to de-|Park plant the workers hindered tne bate here Sunday in the city park. cops from arresting the speakers, Freeman Thompson, president of |2nd it was only the bringing out of the National Miners Union, the only |the reserves that made it possible union actually run by the miners, |t0 break up the shop gate meeting. is the opponent selected for Howat| That conditions of the workers in by the executive board of District auto plants are increasingly getting 11, of the N.M.U. which issues the Worse wag shown only this week challenge. The debate is for 2 p. m.|by a 20 per cent wage cut at the J Want to K | Bri 's’ Mack Ave. plant, which is ust Want to Know. — [considered one of the worst hell- The challenge says: “Howat is ex- holes in the industry. Ford is con- pected to answer the following | stantly cutting wages through all jsorts of schemes. Men are trans- “Why did you line up with the ferred from one department to an- self-confessed Peabody _hireling, other and find that their wages are Frank Farrington? | lower, Why did you line up with the| Thousands of workers are be- Fishwick-Nesbit Coal Operator con-|ginning to realize that they must trolled U.M.W. of A. official family build a strong organization to fight after it had been positively proven |against these brutal conditions and to your satisfaction that they stole |to gain their demands. The Amer- the wage referendum for the coal ican Federation of Labor stands di operators and thereby stealing mil- | credited and is again preparing for lions from the working coal miners? further betrayals. This is being “How. will you get better condi- done through the “organizing” cam- |tions for the Illinois coal miners Paign of the Machinists’ Union, The workers went into the offices | when you are associated and lined Which has the approval of the auto up with the very coal operator tools baro: The so-called progressives that gave away every condition the have also shown their color. In the Illinois coal miners fought, strug-| Nash plant they have more than gled and died for? once sold out the workers. Your Friends, the Bosses. The May 17 convention will be a “Why is Peabody Coal Co. and|Milestone in the campaign to or- 5 * ranize e ‘ork 3 i in- other big corporations so strongly S8%ize the workers in the auto in dustry, and all workers are called supporting your movement, while ‘ they have their paid gunmen arrest, |° Support the campaign to build a slug and throw in prison the leaders |™25S_National Industrial Automo- tive Workers’ Union, of the National Miners Union on sight? “Why should you receive $5,000) per year salary and an unlimited xpense while the rank and file re- ceive from $59, not to exceed $1,500 in wages per year with no expenses | ‘rorcer tue, FOR LABOR UNITY LUDLOW MASSACRES pyive for 50,000 New Subscribers Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. Support the Daily Worker Drive! SILVER SPRINGS, Md., May 4.— Mother Jones, 100 years old May | Day, is in the grip of her enemies | at last. Surrounded in her feeble port and shop in the United States old age by none but the class col- of America. laborationist liberals and A. F, L.| This is the aim to be reached leaders, she has been led, according | within the next two months--by to reports in the capitalist press, to June 30. It is part of the drive for send the following telegram to/50,000 new members of the T@ade | John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: Union Unity League. “Your good wishes and hopes for | In order to help reach this goal continued long life on my one hun- Joseph North, business manager of dredth birthday was a happy sur- Labor Unity, will go on a tour of prise and among those messages the leading industrial centers of the most appreciated by me. Knowing | East and Middle West, all the responsibilities on your, He will visit these cities to in- shoulders, it was a human act to crease the subscriptions and bundle think kindly of me at this time and/orders of Labor Unity. Most of the your message was the expression /industrial centers are making prep- of a Christian heart.” larations for Labor Unity meetings, Does It “Square Things?” which will take up the means of. She is also reported as saying, | raising the circulation. “He's a damn good sport,” and| The tour will include the follow- “this telegram (from Rockefeller) |ing cities: New Bedford, May 12 and rather squares things.” |13; Boston, May 14; Hartford, May Workers who remember the! 15; New Haven, May 16; New York, slaughter by bullets and by burning |May 17; Buffalo, May 20; Pitts- to death of men, women and chil- burgh, May 21, 22 and 23; Cleve- dren in the Ludlow massacre, and jland, May 24, 25 and 26; Detroit, the strikebreaking by armed force Pontiac, Grand Rapids, May 27, 28, of the Rockefellers throughout their |29 and 80; Chicago, West Frank- career, will not follow the aged for-|ford, May 31, June 1 and 3; Wheel- mer militant in her statement (if|ing, . Va., June 4; Baltimore, Wash- she is correctly quoted) that a few jington, June 5 and 7; Wilmington, good wishes “squares things” for all| Chester, June 8 and 9; Philadelphia, the workers’ blood that has been June 10 and 12; Wilkesbarre, June hed, ao 1 13 and 14; Trenton, June 15, Union Unity | Belgian Miners Call Protest Strike | BRUSSELS, Belgium (IPS).—The miners in the Belgian section of the Limburg mining district carried out a 24 hours protest strike today against the sabotage of the employers and in favor of higher wages. The reformist leaders accepted the strike as the lesser evil. There | were many foreign-born miners in this district and all those who have | spoken at meetings have been ordered to give up their papers, and it is feared that they will be expelled from the country. Yesterday the police arrested 4 Belgian miners who were bringing .the Flemish edition of the Knight of Labor organ into the district. The four workers were mishandled by the police and 4,500 copies of the newspaper confiscated. The Communist Party and the Knights of Labor have held a number of protest meetings. 75 percent of the min- ers followed the strike call. The police have drafted large forces into the district “for all eventualities.” Plumbers Suffer Layoffs; “Join TUUL” (By a Worker Correspondent) t more than three days a week. NEW YORK.—As you know, In order to better our conditions |thousands of plumbers have been |We must get every worker to join \laid off and are walking the streets |the T. U. U. L., which shows the looking for work. This means star- | bosses that we are not going to vation for their families. starve. The T. U. U. lomands The conditions in the shops are {shorter hours and more wages. The getting worse. The speed-up sys- |bosses will then not be able to fire \tem, lead poisoning and the rheu-|the workers without the union stp |matism shortens our lives. The | Ping In. bosses are laying off helpers and} The T. U. U. L. will organize all |the mechanics have to do the same jplumbers and helpers into a_mili- |work that they formerly did with | tant fighting union which will bet- the helpers. Unemployment is so|ter the conditions of the plumbers great in many shops that they work and helpers. —PLUMBER. P T Polish Strikers Disarm Police WARSAW, Poland (I. P. S.)—On|with a shower of stones, and a num- the 9th of April the workers of the | ber of policemen were disarmed, lenamel goods factory in Olkusz in|Reinforcements arrived and fired the. Dombrova Basin assembled in As this did not fright- into the air. front of the companies’ offices and |€M off the workers, the police fired demanded the withdrawal of the no-|# Volley into the packed masses and tices introducing wage reductions. |™@nY workers were shot down. have The happenings in Olku and demanded to see the director. | caused excitement and in tion |He was not present, so they went /all over the Dombrova Basin. The |to his private dwelling and fetched | authorities are holding troops in him. A force of police was received |readiness for all eventualities. Czech Iron Workers Strike PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia (I. P.|in the courtyard of the wor S.).—As already reported, a few | the offices, Wives and ch | the before dren of 5 is yorkers also came into the lays the iron workers of the WOrKS Korlsthactte icon works canried out| OTS: When the employers tried Karlshuette iron works carried out/t) close the gates collisions oc- a demonstration strike against closing down of the factory. As the | curred. The workers remained in| There is no appeal from the Min- ister of J ’s orders, and he has declared that “Communist a were stirring up the natives the government. itators” ainst “Outside Agitators” in Spain, Too. With two dead and forty wounded in a clash between rioting repub- lican students and the. police Madrid, General Berenguer, r Spain under King Alfonso, charged that the students “alone” were responsible for the “disorder,” ing: that “outside political eleme posing as students” were committing | violence. The students on Monday clashed with police outside the University of Madrid and were driven be they tore every tile from the roof, and raised the red flag. Tho: dents who as mon: ists. she for the king were stoned by oth The Communist Pa which is forced to exist secretly, rallying the masses to fight fascisra and the monarchy, meanwhile the “socialists” are building an alliance | with the bourgeois republicans. the y, Postpone Fowers and Carr Case; May 27th | | | (Continued from Page One) another delay and in the meantime seeks to hold at least one of the prisoners in a death cell.” Another demand would be made immediately for release of Powers and Carr on bail, and that all phases of the vicious persecution of these two workers would be raised more energetically than ever be- fore the whole working class in the | South. Issue In Elections. Preparations are being made by the Communist Party to launch its jcongressional election campaign throughout the South, ig the r issues in the Powers-Carr and the Gastonia persecution | In the Gastonia ¢: seven tex- |tile strike leaders were given sen- tences up to 20 years in a rail- roaded trial at Charlotte, N. C., be- cause the strike: them- selves against a murd raid on their tent colony led by the chief of police, who was killed while at- the the |command of the situation for two|tacking them. The decision of employers insisted on giving the hours and a formed commiftee of North Carolina supreme court men notice the workers went on action for the ‘struggle against the| the demand for a new trial is strike on April 14 and assembled! dismissals. pected daily. on ex- Labor Unity into every city, mine, | "APPEAL OF MILWAUKEE. | MARCH 6 FIGHTERS ON MILWAUKEE, Wis. May | The trial on the appeal of the first | group of workers who were arrested JUST OFF during the March 6 demonstration ) | CON opened here today. They are Fred) NOTES OF THE MONTH Basset, Leo Fisher, Max Kergan, Ed. MAY FIRST, 1930 Nehmer, J. Perlich who were sen- |tenced to six months each by the | lower court, and H. Kalkofen, Rob- ert Richards, Sonia Mason, Isabelle Chudkins, Mike Powlick, E. Walch, Oscar Bobby, Henry Pick, who were sentenced to three months each by the lower court. After selection of the jury Dis- trict Attorney Bowman opened the argument by slandering the Commu- nist demonstration and misrepre- senting its purpose. Attorney Gold- man of the International Labor De- fense showed that it was a workers’ demonstration for Work or Wages) who are on the point of starvation. | Chief of Police Laubenheimer and} his henchmen’s “testimony” was a | | web of perjury and lies with the ob-| | vious attempt to railroad the work- lers for their militancy. The state has 75 witnesses, almost exclusively police officers and stool-pigeons, This case is arousing great in-| terest and indignation among the | workers of Milwaukee. A protest) |meeting in Haymarket Square has| been called for Saturday afternoon. | ALE MOISSAY LABOR MOVEMENT BILL LOUIS MAY DAY—1886 AND SI SAM CONVENTION MEXICO THE PROFINTERN | A.B BOOK REVIEWS 25 cents per copy Write as you fight! Become a 39 East 125th St. worker correspondent, worker correspondent =a. | vacua cumini ac aime, __ lime it MAY DAY AND SOCIAL-! ORDE! | WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS May Issue of the | COMMUNIST THE PRESS TENTS Cc, A. 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