The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1930, Page 2

Sele. Sdn APMP, WORKER CORRESPONDENT EXPOSES A F L. eal. LW. W. TREACHERY MORE LAYOFFS IN BIG PLANTS IN SYRACUSE Show. Up “Prosperity” Bunk of Hoover Correspondent) The (By a W SYRACUSE, y 420. workers y e Smith Pre Works, both men about equal nu which had been 2350 typewr cut cent, rations fact that th sent between. (approximately) one- third to one-half of the total x to 18 The degree al forces of the factory, where the drop in production represent only 21.3%. The, indications are off will be followed v greater. layo: stocks are sufficient to lers for-some time t at. the L. C, » part of monopoly in been take care Works writer workers: have changed four-day week basis with prospects of another change to a three-day to a U.T.W. Completes Aberle “ Hosiery Sell-Out in Phila. (By a Work a Worker ae cosas Eerenudant) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The A. F. of L. leaders of he Hosiery work- ers have completed a sell-out of the Aberle strike, and the union which at one time was the strongest in Philadelphia is well on the road to hell, or basis. worse: a company union. Conditions in basic 4: The Full Fashioned Hosiery _workers have been engaged in several show no agreement with Hoover ag kes lately and have been sold out talk of “ir 1 recover The by their leaders. The Federal Mill Crucible Steel. Co. is completely LW. W. W. COMES OUT was a betrayal, as picketing was shut down. The Lamson Co., who} prohibited and the unskilled workers Jast year employed 600. workers is} were refused membership in the now operating with a staff of about} union. The Ajax Mill strike was a 60, The large gear companies in the ellout and in the past President | city, branches of General Motors, ij ger and the Hos have shown’ a spasmodic and slight have endorsed, sponsored increase of night workers, who are forced to work 18 hours to fill an immediate order and then laid off again in a week or so. The unem- ployed of Syracuse must join the Unemployed Council and fight to- gether with those working, under| the leadership of the Trade Union Unity Lea “SYRACUSE WORKER: This Worker’s Proud Being a Communist! (By ti Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich—I am a truck driver and just started to work after | being out of work 7 months. Work at the tate of 50 cents an hour. am abotft to lose my house. My and do employer sees a Communist button 470 ¢ on my coat and asks mé what is that | I-W.W. Openly buttom.” I said that is what all the Y eae ne sociation will not even hire workers! should wear. He said, do |openly advocates company Unlon-) 4 worker who belongs to an A. F. you belévg to the Communist Party. |ism, ends ‘ are hoe company | o¢ 1. fake union. I said yes, He told me go back fo|Unions? Chamber o: ommerce, 3 m Russia” T said I don’t ahve to, we |Lumbermen’s Association, Loyal] Sell-Out Brings Big Reductions. | Legion Lumbermea and Loggers.| The terms of the sell-out are as are goitig to have the same as the| Russian workers have, here. So he says, neVer. He tries to poison my/ mind, says I’m not a good American, ete, He Says only thing to do is 0 : hope for better times. I said the|the company unions is to make more | All others to get a big slash and the workers caf’t live on hopes, that is {profits for the bo To the work- | scabs to remain at work. The union only bluff: I was appointed to go to the A. F. L. to gét 2°delegates to the United | Front May Day conference. I was | very welcome but when the’ officials | found out who we are they said they are going to let us know in the morn- | ing. So then I try to get in some} other meetings and they said I have | to see Martell] ‘labor faker head here.) I said he’s the last one on earth I want to'see. Because he is | no good for the workers, he’s a traitor. —""__Detroit Truck ‘Driver Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. An Atlanta Mill Worker Writes on the Soviet Union, (By a Worker Correspondent) ATLANTA, Ga.—I read the Daily Worker you gave out the other day @md read about the women textile workers in the Soviet Union, where they get three months off with pay when they give birth to a child, how they are always taken back to work, given extra wages for the child, and see how different it is in the mills in the capitalist country and in the Workers’ country. I work in the Fulton Cotton Bag Mill of Atlanta, Ga. I work 10 hours and 40 minutes a day and my husband works at night 12 hours, although he only gets paid for 11, With bath of us working we cannot even buy enough to get along with. Last year, when I was going to have a child, they laid me off three months before and wouldn't give me work for nine months afterwards. They gave me 4 vacation for one year, free from work and free to starve. They didn’t care if I starved., We want to see more of the Daily Worker,,as this is the only paper that tells us how to organize and what we.must do in order to better our condition and get what the work- ers did in the Soviet Union. ¢r-A WOMAN WORKER. > | . Support the Daily Worker Drive! feet Donations! Get Subs! f {Il W. piss 6 jhave nothing to gain by taking part lin demo! U C0 Hl N | 0 N | § Mi t advocated Mitten’s company i ‘ inion and the leadership of the Central Labor Council have en-| dorsed the labor-hater Judge M Devitt who is a stock-holder in sev- eral mills and a republican gang politician and issues these corpora- tion ‘ses’ injunctions. Workers Lost Spirit (By « Worker Corres SEATTLE, under some w. the so-cal April 5 in its “Wage ganization spirit fails It goes on to say this: “If we have lost the fighting sp let’s unite under some compa union. Any kind of lorganization would have prevented wage-cut. So let’s get busy, decide what should be done it nov Say Have Any worker who at this time can not see that this latest is a sell-out again and the ending of the union, es to see it. The Aberle mill is the most important and biggest | of the hosiery mills in Philadelphia. Unless the workers refuse to accept the sell-out and elect mill commit- tees to control and settle their ‘own strikes and refuse to accept the de-| cision of the Board of Arbitration which is composed of professional politicians and an official of the Metal Manufacturers Association, an enemy of labor, this fink and busi- pr Worker of lump as or- pr Ce gutt mpany Unions snipe now es? This bo: follows: 25 percent reduction for double leggers, 50 percent reduction | for legger helpers, one third reduc- tion for footers and footers helpers. At the last convention the bosses’ jagents set a scale of $3.20 a day, |wheré others were paying up to $4 a-day. The principle and rule of ers’ the company union means; men to be taken when needed, at speed-up, gyp system, wage-cuts, present they are not. | clearing house and blacklist. Aberle made a secret arrange-} A Record of Scabbery ment with the fakers who head the} Not only do the I. W. W. leade F. of L. union. He promised a lie and sneer on the only Workers’ | double shift later, when at present Government and true revolutionary |he is laying off due to speed-up.| Communist International, but they | But in spite of the betrayal the mi become actual scabs. In 1920 they | itant workers will continue to strug-| scabbed on: the longshoremen’s| gle and fight to affiliate with the istrike in Portland, Ore.; in 1927 they | TUUL to which the NTWU is affil- betrayed the strike in Colorado; in | lated whose policy is struggle 1929 ‘they scabbed on the National | @gainst the bosses, as the NTWU} Miners’ Union in Collinsville, IL, \is an industrial union which or- also on the Canadian Lumber Work- | @nizes all the textile workers and ers’ Union at Shebaqua, Ont. They | iS based on shop and mill commit- sabotage the relief and defense or-|tees who control and settle their ganizations, such as the Interna-|own strikes and the leaders of the tional Labor Defense and Workers’! wpwu are fighters who fight | International Relief, also the unem- inst the b d feared ployed demonstrations of February |*@#inst the bosses and are feare |26 and March 6 by shouting “Don’t/@nd hated by the bosses and their jgo out, for you will get a police-| tools, the A. F. of L. labor fakers. man’s club rapped over your head —W. C. P. and blacklisted in the soup-line; you | miners in Illinois, the agricultural ¢ | worl in the Imperial Valley in | California and the unemployed dem- |onstrations on March 6? This does | not show that the workers have lost | their fighting spirit. . rations, for that is poli-| tics; your place is on the point o production.” The funny part about those fak- ers is that they wouldn’t recognize the point of production with a high- powered telescope. They started to| But all this means nothing to the organize the world in 1905 with| yellow socialists and the scabby about 50,000 members, and now they | Wobbly fakers, and why? Because are down to a few professional an-|the bosses don’t like it, for they | archist stew bummers and fakers.| know that by strikes and demon- “The workers have lost their |Strations the workers will develop | fighting spirit,” says the fake “In-| militant class-consciousness and | dustrial Wo The wor class-leadership, and this means the | have not lost their fighting sp tt} end of the bosses. This is why they They ave fighting harder now than | are howling against the strikes and | they ever did. How about the tex-|demonstyations, But the workers | tile strikes in Gastonia, N, C.;|cannot lose their fighting spirit to Elizabethtown, New Orleans street |fight the bosses, their company carmen’s strike, the food workers |¥nions and the labor fakers, and shoe workers in New York, the —EX-WOBBLY. ‘WITH THE SHOP PAPERS! The Auto Workers Union con- vention takes place today in De- troit. The auto workers will be-. come part of a fighting Metal Workers Industrial Union. Photo at left shows a worker in a metal plant, making material to go into auto parts. A fisherman working between Alaska and the state of Wash- ington tells of the dangers these workers are forced to undergo at rockbottom wages. The ‘Trade Union Unity League, thru the Marine Workers Industrial Union will organize the fisherman. Right, this capsized boat tells the tale of one of those tragedies so common in the slavery of the fish- ermen, Seventeen fishermen drowned in this boat off the Bri- tish coast. { With the Trade Union Unity League drive for 50,000 new members under way, the central task of our shop papers is to bring the drive into the factories, mills and shops. An excellent example of consistent shop paper work that resulted in definite gains for the Trade Union Unity League is shown in the work of the Work- ers Dreadnought issued in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. From its first issue, the Dreadnought exposed the role of the A. F. of L. company-union at the Yard, its blood ties with the navy bosses, ||! and its use as a weapon against the workers. The program of the Metal Trades League of the TUUL was consistently hammered at, month in and month out, with each issue of the shop paper, The Dreadnought clarified the Yard workers’ experience with the A. F. of L. fakers, the navy bosses and brought the issue of building a revolutionary union clearly to them. The groundwork thus pain- fully built by the untiring work of the Dreadnought and the Party nuclei issuing it, is bringing results in the building of the Metal Trades League, in preparing the complete smashing of the A. F. of* (By a Worker Pacific American Fisheries, a con-* |eern that operates canneries inj Alaska, about 25 in number from Ketchacan, South Eastern Alaska, all the way up the coast around the Aleutian Islands and way up in the Arctic Ocean, Men go North to L. union, and of rallying the navy yard workers to the banner of ||| Work in the canneries and on the the Trade Union Unity League. |fish traps, fishing boats, cannery jtenders, pile drivers, etc. each ——— EE! spring This is seasonable work about 5| or 6 months of the year, average wages being about $100 per month, perhaps less, as they contract lots lof Chinese labor from Portland, Oregon and San Francisco. They lalso’ contract cheap Mexican and southern Negroes for the canneries But now the office workers are organizing, a de facto-recognitiom that !in Alaska, they are part of the working class, .The rélative iniportance of office Goon Dip, the millionaire china- workers in the capitalist industrial system is gaining wider acquaintance.| wan who contracts malty” Chinese | Office work, bookkeeping, accountancy, are essentially control. And the| | laborers for so ach Sinan Ghee rite higher the technological processes of industry the more need for definite \as little as possible. The difference control over these processes. Bookkeeping control plays an important part | lis how Goon Dip hacamé gimillons in the building of socialist industry in the Soviet Union. But to get back aife. Of course, he is the most de- to the organization of the office workers. eodernbe, The pace wothed ie used The Office Workers Union affiliated to the TUUL, issues a monthly | with the Mexicans and Negroes. bulletin, THE OFFICE WORKER. | When this concern was first or- According to the OFFICE WORKER there are about 4,000,000 office ganized, it was known as the North workers in the United States, with 450,000 of them in New York. Boss American Fisheries, and stock was rationalization, especially the introduction of new and improved machinery, | Sold to thousands of workers, some has hit the office workers hard. Today fully one-third of them in New | having from $500 to perhaps $5,000 York city are looking for work. worth of stock. They were, of| The last issue of the OFFICE WORKER is quite comprehensive, with | Cour scna oj out and it Just cost well written agitational articles, a foreign news and several feature sec- | ‘ i “i : * i that time, to see the word “North” Hem. i eee make-up it compares with the best mimeoed bulletins | changed to “Pacific,” or an N changed to a P (N.A.F., P.A.F.). * Fish 25 or 30 years ago were ~ " q ' plentiful. They were caught in the FACE TOWARDS THE COTTON SHOPS! traps by the hundreds of thousands, A sign of the times of the ggowing seriousness of the Party is the turn ™ore than the canneries could pos- (yet hesitant and partial) to the cotton dress shops in our needle trades | Sibly handle. Then only the choice work, It is in the cotton dress shops that we find he majority of severely | jred salmon were canned (the Sock- exploited young and women workers in the needle trades industry. $9 a/eye). Hundreds of thousands of| week in such a shop is considered princely, | Humpback and other pink salmon} | h t The first indication of the new turn is the BIBERMAN WORKER, a) ee mite AAS oe mar ae ne shop paper issued by the Party nucleus in the Biberman cotton dress shop | every kind of fish, as they are in Philadelphia and one of the biggest shops of its kind in the city. att scarce now, and getting less every THE BIBERMAN WORKER is a four page mimeoed bulletin. In its| year. Only a few hours each day, initial issue it takes up cudgels against the bosses, and for organization jor a few hours every other day, of the shop into the Needle Trade Workers Industrial Union. with only a small part of the big 7 es 5 | cannery operating at that any more. The growth of the BIBERMAN WORKER should be watched with great And this ie the way the fish that interest. were put here for the people have been destroyed, to build up individ- ual fortunes for Deming, Gould and Co. The question many are asking now is, will it be possible to save the fishing industry by making daws now to stop fishing for a time and) give the fish a chance to get up the rivers to their spawning grounds. In the early days of fish- ing sites were taken much the same as homesteads. ers were forced to take up a site and later sell it to the company, be- cause they could never have enough | | money to drive and maintain a trap} DISCOVERING THE OFFICE WORKERS. Those of an impeachable proletarian strain are apt to look askance upon office ‘kers. This is a reaction to the superciliousness of the petty- | bourgeois minded $18. a week clerk. To the latter the white collar vaguely suggests a possibility of getting into the bos$ class, That it only remains a pipe dream does not matter to our clerk. * TO BE REVIEWED NEXT WEEK. The CIGAR WORKER and the ROEBLING HOT WIRE from Trenton, N. J. The HOOK from Baltimore, Md. The AUTO WOKER from the Auto Workers Union. As yet nothing from Cleveland or points west. * * Horley Machine—Real Hell on Earth for Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) which is 45c pr. hour, and the day | The Horley Machine Co. is a | rate is cut down five cents an real hell for the workers. This | hour now. Company has moved from Wauke- _ The workers are short in wages gan, Ill. to Chicago, in Sept. most of the time but can’t demand In the foundry Dept. there is a | it under fear to be fired. They Moulders Union and this is only | have cut the time and half for group organized. The moulders | overtime work. | are charged for all the scrap, for | The moulders helpers have to | which the Company is to blame at | work for 4 years to get the rights | all times, and not the workers. | of joining the A. F. of L. union of This is the benefit the workers | the moulders. This is not the are getting. The moulders are | union that the workers need, but speeded-up, that no older worker | areal union that will embrace all could stand it. the workers in the given industry, The workers in the grinding | and that is under Trade Union Dept. are working on piece work | Unity League. Workers join the basis, with unbearable speed-up. | Communist Party and the T. U. The price is so low that they could | U. L, not make even the day-rate, jobs unless they did just as they were told. Many women are employed in the | can making factory, labeling and in} the cannery, canning fish. Much] child labor is also employed. Written by a worker who has worked in almost every department of the Pacific American Fisheries, can factory, ship yard, on traps, boats and in the canneries here in Bellingham, We want to be organized under the Trade Union Unity League. Hope it gets here soon. —FISHERMAN. Horley Machine Slave Salmon Fishermen Get Low Wages, Hard Work A number of work- | anyway, and they would lose their) “INCREASE” WAS A WAGE CUT IN FORD'S CHESTER Spotters and Speedup Make It Hell (By « Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Penn.—It is interest- ing for every worker to know the real truth about our ever prosper- ing Henry. One often heard or read in the capitalist press how good Henry, Ford treats his work- ers. CF Well, for all Ford workers it is a different proposition. The only thing we know of Ford is that his fac- tories are slav plants, j where every worker is being ex- Vnleited: where speed-up is so great that to go for a drink is almost a |luxury, where the service men or spotters are after you every single minute, watching the workers and rushing us like mad dogs, and, of Correspondent) ection, the PLENTY JOBLESS; 50 FORD DON'T CARE FOR LIVES” “Slaves Must Join the! Auto Workers Union” (By « Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—I want to} write a few lines regarding the blood-thirsty system of Ford’s. Not very long ago in Department 195 four men were working on the press. They were adjusting dies on the press. Now, it is sane for any one to know that without blocking or jacking up the press, it is very dangerous to try and work on the dies. Nevertheless the foreman of the die fitters did not give a damn. He ‘hollered at the men: ep on it,” jand, shoving a temporary pine 4x4 ‘under the open press, just as much as to say: we care for one or ten men when there are thousands of them wait- ing for a ghost of a chance of get- ting a job.” | Well, when the die fitters started to grind the die, the press slipped and fell with a tremendous crash, splitting the die and hurting the four workers that were working on | the dies very seriously, and injur- ing a few others who were working nearby. I was working on a press jabout 20 to 25 feet from the press that split the die. | Now, you see, comrades that the \capitalist class don’t give a damn about us workers. To them death is cheaper than safety, and they use all means possible to make it as unbearable as posible, because they | know that the workers are not or- | ganized. If the workers were only organized in the Auto Workers Union the bosses would take more | notice of the workers and treat them {ite humans, The stretch-out system, cutting wages, unemployment, etc., must be} fought against by the workers -of all color, creed, sex and nationality, The bosses use prejudice against the colored workers. There is only one | party that gives all the workers of all colors an equal chance. It makes no difference on sex either and that party is the Communist Party to hich party all workers of all color, |ages should belong. —FORD SLAVE. M. W. L. GROWING FAST. The Marine Workers League, 140 |South St. reports that within the jlast few days it has gained mem- bership as follows: Philadelphia, 410 new members, Houston 95, New York 85, and New Orleans 65. Gains have been made in all other ports, but the figures have not arrived. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. “YOU MIGHT AS WELL DIE FIGHTING TO DEATH AS STARVING” Working Woman Calls for Fight Against Wage Cuts, Hunger and Whole Boss System L have four children, a husband | working in a factory for 50 cents — an hour. Tell me, after I have | paid $35 for rent a month and lights and gas bill, please tell me, what are we to eat? He some- (By a Worker Correspondent) | DETROIT, Mich.—I am a wo- man. But I am a union woman. In other words they call me Red. I believe in having our rights. Why shouldn’t we? All we ask is for an honest living for us all, times draws $40, sometimes $30 | and why can’t we have it. It is a week. We live one week and | high time we all wake up. | slarve the next, What mother’s | Believe me, I am ready to go and do my share. Death don't scare me anymore. You might as well die fighting to death as starv- ing to death. We are from the coal mines, and we know what union work means. I only hope, sisters and brothers, that everything gets and father’s heart won't break when their children ask for some- thing to eat nad there is nothing to give them. I think it is time that all wo- | moving. My blood is boiling to see it this way. Come on, let’s all get together and pull together and then we are sure to win. It’s got to come sooner or later, and the quicker the better. I sure enjoy reading the Daily Worker, But I can't afford to send for subscrip- tion, so 1 get it first from one men and men wake up. I only hope today that I will see Amer- ica like Russia. The rich are driv- ing us to do like in Russia, —| {en from another who pass it on. But you will he: from me soon again. Three cheers for our Daily Worker and all that is wide awake and we pray for the rest to wake vp soon. —A Working Woman Who Knows What It’s All About. ~~ | plant. “Well, what the hell do| creed, sex, nationality and of all} course, if a worker, as it often hap- pens, can’t keep the pace, he is fired. Workers in the yard are working in every kind of weather, winter, sum- mer, rain or shine, and as the sup- {ply of raincoats is short, you see SEATTLE, Wash.—A true fish story, how the fishing industries) many of them working in. pouting | have destroyed the Silver Hord in the pale blue waters of Puget § Sound | rain without a raincoat. | and stole the fish nature gave to the people. Fishing is perhaps one of the leading industries of this | largest salmon cannery in the world ia being located located in Bellingham, the | | In the Chester plant, where about |2,000 workers are employed, there is not a single shower bath in the Workers who are working at the oil belt, axle job or paint {reer must go home in their work- | cloth, as there are no lockers or er And to make it worse, only a few days ago a rule was put [into effect that every worker shall be out of the plant ten quitting time. An “Increase” That Was a Cut. Our wages were increased from | $5 to $6 a day. But in my opinion and that of the.majority of the » | workers in the plant, our wages |were not only cut but slashed to |pieces. The Chester plant is only |an assembling plant. During the $5 ‘a day period, the production sche- dule was up to 800 automobiles daily. When the wages were in- creased the production schedule was |also increased from 300 to 500, with the same number of workers. We workers didn’t receive a college edu- cetion, but we are wise enough to know that our wages were cut, as we have to produce almost twice as much for one dollar’s raise. Workers are being fired daily for not being able to keep the pace, and the ones who are working are ex- ploited to such an extent that after | two or three year’s work they sure+ ly wil go to the junk-pile like a worn-out machine, Shop Nucleus Grows. But the workers know that a shop nucleus was formed and its num- ber increases day by day. Our shop bulletin is also being welcomed by | the workers. It is about time that every single worker joined the Trade Union Unity League, the only trade union fighting for the inter- ests of the workers and which de- {mands the seven-hour day, five-day week, vacation with pay and insur- ance for the unemployed. —FORD WORKER. Wage Cut After Wage Cut (By « Worker Correspondent) VAN VOORHIS, W. Va.—Wage- cuts after wage-cuts for the miners. They are now paying in northern West Virginia as low as 31 cents a ton for loading coal and out of this taking out expenses for light, powder, doctor, house rent. There is never anything left for the mi ers after the company store gets through with the wages. So I have to move on the farm with my nine children as a tenant farmer, and we all work to pay the vent and have something to eat next winter. The farmers must organize into the National Miners’ Union. We held our district conference in Mor- gantown on May 11. —wW. VA. MINER. Correspondents Must Join in Big Drive for Daily minutes large army of Worker Our correspondents deserve = much credit for making the Daily Worker a paper of interest to all workers. By their correspondence all readers of the Daily Worker learn about working conditions in all industries; learn about unem- ployment, lowering of wages, speed-up and headway made in organizing the unorganized work- ers. But—more workers in the in- dustries must read what you write. We do not only want our present small circle of readers to read your shop news. We want tens of thousands of workers in all the in- dustries to read what you write. Worker correspondents! Join our big campaign for new read- ers, for mass circulation in all the industries! Get Donations! Get Subs! i Wsehy the Dally Worker Drivel re rae Beara CK pe 8 PSP ans pss. inst shiy mer Jul will edu gyn wel Woi iten for ing $50. | Mi Ls wear ing parc shou nip Dp