The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1930, Page 3

— ~\, ne DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930 | NEGRO WORKERS IN | NORFOLK GET FEW As $4 a Week for 12 Hours a Day || , On Norfolk Slave Market; Bosses Act As Loan) Sharks and Bleed the Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va.—The Negro Workers of Norfolk get 20 cents an hour for working in the fertilizer factories, 10 and 12 hours a day and live in houses with no flooring in them. They live like dogs and cats, haven't half enough to eat, speeded up by the bosses as if they were horses. Negro women get 4 a week, 10 and 12 hours a day in the lunch- rooms and factories. The Virginia Electric and Power Co., which ts the street car com- pany, 's their hammer workers and trackmen $12 a week, 10 and 12 hours a day. . There is real work for the Trade Union Unity League here. —NORFOLK WORKER. Wage Cuts After Wage Cut in Fisher Body (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Prosper- | all day. In the sewing department ity and profits for the auto bosses, | there has been a 35-cent wage- wage-cuts, speed-up for the auto cut. workers. Three weeks ago, in the The bailer gang received a 30 Sharks Dept. of Fisher Body, | per cent cut. Conditions in the welders were cut from 40 cents to | salvage department are growing 27 cents a hundred; at the same | from bad to worse. The depart- time polish finishers were cut | ment reduced its forces from 50 from $1 an hour to 75 cents an | to 10 men. In the trim shop only hour. ten of us are left out of 2,000 who Bench workers in the same de- | were in the trim shop a year ago partment had a 5 per cent cut. | and recently received a 3-4 cent Many jobs in the drill press de- {| cut on arm rests. partment were cut 10 per cent. We young workers of the Fisher Workers have to wait for stocks | Body are determined to put up a about two hours, frequently wait- | relentless fight against the auto ing until 9 a. m. without receiving | bosses. Join the Auto Workers’ a day’s work, and when we do | Union. work we only get about $4.50 for —YOUNG FISHER SLAVE. In the Norfolk, Va. Slave-Market (By a Worker Correspondent) NORFOLK, Va.—They have a slave market in Norfolk on Church and Olney Road where the bosses come and hire the Negro workers. The boss picks out the biggest and feels his muscles and if. they are hard enough he will hire them. After they work a day and ask for money, the bosses give them money and charges them 25 cents on the dollar they get from him till pay day. here. —W | These are the conditions for the Negro workers join the Trade Union Unity League. UTW Leads Phillipsburg Strike on the Rocks (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILLIPSBURG, N. J.—The strike in the Wallace Mill at Phil- lipsburg is still going on despite the sabotage of the U. T. W. fakers, who absolutely refuse to render any moral or financial support to their members involved in the strike. A great resentment amongst the rank and file is prevalent, which may culminate in an open revolt against the fakers within the U. T. W. lo- cals. They must ORKER. | rank and file, ization. The National Textile Workers’ —MILL WORKER. Carr’s Father for Son and Workers (Continued From Page One.) have voted myself for the same cause for which my son is now charged. Struggle Tradition. “My wife’s father was one of the) 3.4.5, staunchest supporters of labor that | iets the workers of England ever had His deeds are on record until this day, although he has been dead about seven years.” Powers Writes. | tivities. tional Miners Union have passe mediate release.” Resolutions demandin; the Fulton Tower jail in Atlanta,!ed by many workers’ organizations. Defense office yesterday. working class. | York committee). Powers is the Communist Party, | and Carr the Young Communist | League organizer in the Atlanta district. Workers in all parts of the country are mobilizfng under the banner of the I.L.D. to demand their liberation. From Minneapolis comes a resolu- tion by the Communist Party district committee demanding the release of Powers and Carr, and stating: mmrade Powers was for years @ members of the District Committee of the Minneapolis District. Numer- for unemployment insurance, Our own age, the sourgeols age, fm dintinguished by this—that tt simplithd class antagonism more, society litth into two grent hostile camps, Into two gre: id directly contra- poned classes: bourgeoisie and pro- letarint-—Marx. Spring Time Is the Best Time for Vacation! VIEW OF DINING ROOM IN NEW HOTEL CAMP NITGEDAIGET HOTEL NITGEDAIGET Price $17.00 per week Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. Camp Tel, BEACON 721—862 N. ¥, Phone ESTABROO: DIRECTIONS: From Grand Centrat or 125th St, Direct to Beacon, Taaina beame Mesper Mam, 1400 CENTS; WANT TUUL Negro Woman Workers There Getting As Low Union is carrying on a wide organ- izational campaign and has exposed the actions of these fakers to the} A May Day meeting was held in Allentown and Easton under the auspices of the N. T. W. |U., with many U. T. W. members present. A special leaflet issued by {the N. T. W. U. calls upon the | workers to fight the wage cuts and fakers by militant industrial organ- ous demands are being made by the | his “documents” is located? | workers of the district for the re- | lease of Powers and Carr. Especial- | ly the metal miners where Comrade | Powers has worked as organizer for | the National Miners Union, are pro- | testing against his being held in | prison for his working class ac- Numerous mass meetings | who are so highly inquisitive about are being arranged throughout the| Communists are even slightly in- The Trade Union Unity |terested in the truth, as they pre-| League, the Lumber Workers and tend to be, why do they not estab- | the metal mining section of the Na- lish who it was that actually wrote | resolutions demanding Powers’ im-/that took the forged letterheads | ig the release them, what Matthew Woll, who is-| A letter from Powers written in| of Powers and Carr have been pass- | also reached the International Labor | of which the latest are: Young Com- Powers munist League and Communist Par- states that he is eagerly awaiting | ty in Waino and Oube, Wis.; Scan- the day he will be released so he|dinavian Workers Club of James- van again take up the fight for the | town (also demands release of New Dp: Fig hting Sil Reports from India state, rather late to be sure, that for five |the British have had no control over the whole northern frontier area around Peshavar. It is asserted by the “labor” government that such control has now been ained with heavy airplane bombardment and troop occupation of all towns. Even a demonstration in Pesha- var would ordinarily be a serious matter for the British. That things reached a pass where the whole re- gion has been out of British control shows that the present revolution- ary movement in India is taking great proportions. The movement is now a wide- spread insurrectionary movement, to which the “labor” imperialist an- swer of machine guns and bombs can only add fuel. Peshavar is a city of vital im- portance to British imperialism, lo- cated as it is only a few miles from Afghanistan, being a center abso- ‘Many TUUL Meetings jstely necessary for military opera. to Protest Lynching | tions against both Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Hence the peril WHALEN'S REPLY 5 kee British imperialist plans by the | (Continued from Page One) kd a, ne ee Seat iS DEAD SILENCE |. conducted in conjunction with the Heshayer ESOS AUIS CLA anniversary of the birth of Tous- he ‘ sanit Louverture, the Haitian Ne-| It is significant that even in the (Continued from Page One) | gro revolutionist. The T. U. U. L. mountain summer capital of Simla, ezarist publication, the “Novoyejand all of its affiliated organiza- there has been fierce street fighting Russkoye Slovo.” tions are called upon to make the 2nd British women and children But since it is proven that Ralph| greatest preparations for these have been evacuated from Simla Easley, bosom friend of Matthew |niass meetings. and from Peshuwar. | Woll and Congressman Fish, hadj Action Now. Still more full of meaning is the these forgeries before Whalen’s| “Now is the time for action—or- decision of the Sikhs, who until re- j adroit undercover men “intercepted | ganize and fight, There is no other cently were the boasted bulwarks |them,” a question arises, and should| escape. The economic crisis is|of British rule, serving as soldiers jbe answered by those who pretend | broadening, the rising militancy of | to oppress the rest of India and to | such an exalted interest in discov-|the masses drives the bosses mad. use even in China against the Chi- jering the pure truth about Commu-|They are determined to beat back nese revolution. They are warriors nist activities as Whalen, the capi-|the resistance of the workers. Mol and by no means can be counted talist papers who fanfared his “doc- | violence and lynch law must cease, among China’s star-gazing salt |uments” as “fit to print,” the fed-|but it will only be stopped by the makers. In recent fighting in Cal- eral officials and U. S. congress broad masses of workers, both|cutta, the Sikhs were outstanding |which is going ahead with their/white and black, organizing their | among the revolutionists. |move to suppress the Communist | forces. |Party on the basis of these for-| “Fellow-workers! Increased lynch- geries, 4 |ings are not isolated. A revolu- These people have a question to |tionary upsurge grips the American answer, and that is: Why not Hee masses, vestigate these forgeries? Why| “The citadel of capitalist reac- | “f not trace the forgers through all|tion (the South) has been pene-|A"@nta, Houston, New Orleans. A . 4 4 veal |revolutionary upsurge grips the their work, from the menial white jtrated by the T. U. U. L., and Ne-/gouthern workers als trati guard Yozwa, through Easley to|gro and white workers are joining |. oe Whalen? j more and more into great sections Instead of Whalen sending his|that he “held no brief for the Am- | “une ter the ntng vey ot ene. “bomb squad” dicks to the Work-| toxg,” wi dp chy: the Ne Sole ee te are & . me | MORES ere made by the N. ings directed against Negro work- ers’ Center to “examine typewrit-|Times into “held no brief for the|ors and tomorrow will be used ers,” in an attempt to get some| Communist agitators of the Am-|.-ainct white workers.” more forgeries, why, for example,|torg.” An obviously malicious |" ee hands and to struggle against the s of the South. March 6 and May 1 were |facts in the South—at Chattanooga, showing determination ©: |Rush Them Past = I Burst Out Laughing’ REVOLT IN. IND NOT QUASHED DESPITE MW’ DONALD BLOODSHED... TA IS “Labor” Government Uses Bombing Planes to | Regain Towns ; Break Away from British, Look wnee at Gandhi Pe y That the movement is in a wide insurrectionary stage is shown by the fact that in practically every big city, and in some which American readers rarely hear of, there have} been age street fights which are still going on and increasing, in spite of the military, the army pat rols of streets, the armoured car: machine guns and airplanes. La- hore, Calcutta, Bombay, Chittagong, and Sholapur are among those pro- minent in the news. The fight at Sholapur even the little seeping through the cen- ip, deeply significant of the fight going on among the masses, with the bourgeoisie led by the Ghandites trying to steal lead ership of the mass revolt against British rule, and turn it into chan- nels to imperialism. Just why Ghandi should pick the moment of mass rising against British rule to set his followers to fighting alcohol, no one can explain other than as a way of sidetracking the masses into wasting their energy on inessentials. | The textile workers who struck at Sholapur on Tuesday, May 6, struck against the barbarous shoot- ing down of demonstrators at Bom- bay and other towns. The next day, the Ghandites tried to get attention by cutting down palm trees from | whic ttack no property which the police Sargent k Shop total worker: (Contin kers, the number « tory. The piece rz ( ) wha over beer een up s that 3 Lewis’ whole ceri es é : lowered the _ workers t¢ ( One.) In many me 1 ab the ang boys and Ha e only 26 or 30 cent hou or ereeks Fake Relief Talk. ‘ ata Governor Roosevelt's “unemploy ia ment board” will meet in the Co i mopolitan Club, New York, on May ? day to continue a usel Neem ; started in Buffalo, Ma f the con- Buffalo meeting the ae various manufacturer ry 7 ation nothing could be done « ; ypera~ and f ‘ good times and of Even the Y. neste " had, sadly ¢ I ¢ a week, annua € to be Forme encot aged | r Ne mer time, rking fc and little more, and away from regular ma This year the New York sent out circ bers that there are no j ons 2 and “Thousands of experienced seamer ttees are looking for work on the dock u m and in shipping agencies National ys the statement sigr M ( |Tinker, secretary 14. R ank and legiate Y.M.C f r sys liquor is made. This is an) pPyancis J, 1 answered with violence, The Ghan-| dites told the masses not to reply with violence, but the masses were not theirs, but the workers. Led by the workers they turned away from monkeying with palm trees and went after the British and their police, driving the whole lot from the city and, if press re- ports are correct, setting up “self-| government” in the city. This is said now to have been wiped out by |further heavy military occupation. | But only time will tell us whether or not the Sholapur “self-govern- ment” was a bourgeois led affair was attempt by the workers stablish a Soviet. | Nine-tenths of the press dispatch- es are trash, but the chief point of interest in them will be in the fu- jture the hints they bear of the | developing leadership of the Indian | workers and the exit of the bour- reoisie into the arms of the imperi- alist they pretend to be fighting. does not Whalen discover just!change, deliberately made. |where the typewriter which wrote| The Federated Press states that: “Now the ery is that Soviet trade with the United States be put on the defensive before a political com- mittee that dare not acquit the ac- cused. If the present drift con- tinues, the Amtorg buying agents may be driven from America. The effect on employment, in a depres: {sion already serious, can be fore: |seen.” It is noted also by the Federated | Press that: | “American foreign trade shrank $290,000,000 in the first three | months of this year. The only coun- | try whose trade with the United | States increased was the Soviet Union. All the rest reduced their | contribution to employment in American factories and mills,” | In such a situation, the workers who may be laid off as a result of 'Amtorg being forced to cancel or- ders that can be filled in England, can recall that the Federated Press | It is reliably said to be an Ameri- can typewriter (although the “docu- ments” were supposed to have been written in Moscow) of a style known as the Underwood No. 9, medium Roman type. If any of the U, S. congressmen i Vhalen’s “documents?” Who was it | from Yozwa, what they did with | sued attacks on the Amtorg, had to} do with these forgeries? How did | Ralph M. Easley get hold of them, and how did they get from Easley to Whalen? We have no illusions about the “fairness” of these capitalist scoun- drels and institutions. The N. Y. Camp Fire GRAND OPENING UNITY CAMP Decoration Day, May 31 Musical Program — Dancing — Boat Racing Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting |Times, for example, which gushed jall over two pages about Whalen’s “documents” when he gave them out, now that they are proven for- geries gave a hostile account of the exposure in a very short article which it “found space for” only on page 26 of its issue of July 13, an article in which it went out of its way deliberately to misquote Con- gressman LaGuardia, whose words, o: states also that “Chairman Snell of the house rules committee told the | Federated Press on May 13 that |Matthew Woll and Ralph Easley of the National Civic Federation had asked him to bring about such an investigation.” But why, we ask, all this profound silence, if not to cover the forcing through of the congress “inv gation of Communist activities? or Down Tow: DIRECTIO: 30 Union Square, Registration open. 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