The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1930, Page 3

fy DAILY WORKER, N CIGAR | PROTECT YOUNG PHILA. WORKERS SPEAKERS AT T.U.U.L.! Cops Try to Smash Up Shop Gate Meet at Consolidated, But Toilers Show Fighting Spirit $3 to $12 a Week Is Slave Wage in Big Plant; to Organize Under the T.U.U.L. (By a Worker Correspondent) The other day at 12 noon an open air factory gate meeting was held under the auspices of the youth department of the Trade Union Unity League and supported by members of the Young Communist League, at the Consolidated Cigar factory at Randolph and Jefferson Sts. At this factory 12 young workers have been arrested for trying to organize the young tobacco workers. At this meeting leaflets were distributed, and immediately 6 dicks jumped on Comrade Shaw, black-jacking him till he was unconscious, The young workers then started to protest with cries of “leave him alone,” “damn shame 6 on one,” “get those dirty rats.” | As soon as they had taken the beaten comrade away a comrade | started to speak, the dicks grabbed hold of him, and were about to | beat him up but the shouts and protests of the 200 to 300 young workers present at the meeting completely demoralized them and they were at a loss as. to what to do; they then took him away amid the protests of the crowd of workers. At this point another comrade started to speak and the dicks wouldn’t dare touch him after he said, “Is that the way you let those dirty rats get your fellow young workers, where is our fighting blood | that we young American workers boast of?” “Get in it, fight the dicks, show them where to get off at.” The young workers responded | by cheering and drawing a close circle around the comrade that was speaking. Then they proceeded. The dicks at this time were mad as dogs, but they could bark, they were “yellow” to bite, At this time a motorcycle cop was seen coming up the street, and a few shy young workers yelled “beat it, a cop.” The speaker said, “To hell with the cops, we mean to organize the young workers, cops or no cops, beatings or no beatings, we’re here and we mean to stick.” The crowd started to cheer and yell and the cops stood in the background. This meeting was arranged for the organization of tobacco work- ers against the lousy conditions which exist in the factories. The young workers in the Consolidated get from 3 to 12 dollars a week, under the highest form of speed-up in the cigar industry; they slave | from 8% to 12 hours a day. They are spied on and bossed about by | the floor ladies who are the stool-pigeons of the bosses, | We can see by the response of the young workers at this meeting | that quick organization of the tobacco workers is due. | Forward to a tobacco union under the T.U.U.L.! Organize shop committees and delegates for the city-wide confer- ence of all tobacco workers, on or about June First! —A CIGAR WORKER. ' Pervert Sea Master A Slave Driver (By a Worker Correspondent) jto satisfy some foul cancer of the NEW ORLEANS, La.—There is|mind. The resenting of his filthy a certain human monstrosity by the | epithets to him means opposition to name of Bluhm that sails as mas-|his authority and prestige and calls | ter out of Gulf ports. He is at the |forth a campaign of petty spiteful- | present master of the West Camak. |ness of which he knows every dirty | He amuses himself by torment- |trick of a dirty trade. H ing, insulting and harrassing per-| Ashore he can act the part of sons under him,-in some cases to | elderly benevolence to perfection. A| the point of desperation. . casual ‘per i . op, ae een person would hardly believe The writer has followed his his- it possible that he is such a person tory for over a year, and with every jat sea, This notorious freak, for | crew it is the same story. jall of his hard-boiled voice and size | Curious Anties of a Slave-Driver. | ang threatening gestures, when try- This man is in a class by himself. | \ing to intimidate a man, is a cow-| In ten years’ experience I’ve never |ardly snake, and has many woman- | encountered anything remotely ap- |ish traits, including the wearing of proaching him. His character is a/a kimona-like gown over his under- feverish mess of perverted egotism, | wear and his uniform cap, and his filth and sadism, and the stunts he |room decorated with cute little faney pulls are so childish that it would |curtains and flowers and womanish | hardly be believable. For instance, | gadgets hanging around as decora- | in one case all that occupied his im- | tions. agination was getting rid of all the| He is also much given to massag- white hats worn by members of his |ing and powdering his elderly, beaty crew, Believe it or not, he eventu-|face and thick neck, then with the ally accomplished exactly this, by |kimona dressing gown wrapped having the hats stolen and thrown | around ais large abdomen, a uni- overboard, one by one. |form cap on his head and slippers | I have seen him come out of his on his feet, his heavy fists clenched, room, walk up to a sailor painting |a wild, maniacal light in his eye, or working on deck and apply a lot | Captain Bluhm is ready for any of | of obscene and filthy comments on his little diversions, This may sound | anything from the way the man was | exaggerated, but there are many performing his work down to the|who will bear me ovt. He is cun- man’s physical appearance, for no | ning. reason at all, apparently,” except | —A MARINE WORKER. One Man Does Work of Two (By a Worker Correspondent) JACKSONVILLE, Fla—I have ,made $2.88 a day. The longest a| been working for the Jacksonville|man can last on this job is six| Terminal Co. for six years and hea teas they don’t want you. | had to do two men’s work and only 8 time we Negro workers done ; something. Th i got one man’s pay, and it run from | ey ee MENA Fase, é should be down here. 7 o'clock on to 8 o'clock. I only —JAX NEGRO WORKER. Starving As a Tenant Farmer in Ohio (By a Worker BELLAIRE, Ohio.—Here is the lot of the poor farmer—the peas- ant of the United States. I ama | farm tenant, as poor as the pea- | sants in Europe. I am doing my work on this hill farm with horse power and man power, like the peasants in Europe. There are many thousands starving like Correspondent) me this way. We own a second hand auto but are too poor to keep it in repair. when younger and starved then. Am 58 now. Starve young as a worker; starve old as a farm worker; that’s capitalism. .Lets make a strong Communist Party and gverthrow that rotten system. Ohio Valley Farmer Workers Laid Off by Thousands in Ohio Valley (By a Worker Correspondent) BELLAIRE, Ohio.—The coal industry in this neighborhood is pars alyzed. Wages, once $6.80 a day are now in many cases $3.60. The Bellaire Steel Mill was dismantled; it employed 3,000 men. Factories everywhere are putting in rationalization. In this part of the Ohio Valley is a plant that employed 140 men; at present with erie vealed machinery it employs 28 men, who have to double the Workers should join the Communist Par' and the Trade Uni Unity League.. Then this business will stop. Hd ¥ at bia BELLAIRE WORKER. The “classification board” has re- peatedly put off deciding which ex- BAIL FOR MURDER NOT FOR WORKER Workers’ Leaders Held in Jail; Bishop's Son Out Easily. Capitalist judges and wardens in and around New York are simply falling all over each other to show favors to criminals of their own class, while the workers’ leaders, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond are driven to hard labor under strict discipline in prison, or, as in the Queensborough grafter, former pres- ident of the borough. So far he is lolling at ease, The chief magistrate denied the workers’ leaders bail when first ar- rested. They are still denied bail, in spite of all usage to the con- trary, while their cases are on ap- peal, But James Maxon, under ar- rest and charged with murdering in a most brutal fashion an aged worker, is out on only $15,000 bail, ACW CONVENTION | mittee, put this Philadelphia action [AsaGe. We | a cut that necessitated eight stiches. I was a coal miner | tra soft job they will give to the big | —mngnemmn——__ Page Three ™ W YORK, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1930 “7 800 Miners in Scranton Demand Release of Thei * OFFICES TO Al) BOSSES, (Continued from Page One) Philadelphia market, This “achieve- ment” was ‘a joint action with the bosses to drive out the left-wing union, which had launched a suc- cessful organization drive in a field where the A. C. W. had alway failed; after the left-wing Indus Union has the frightened by its success the Amal- BURNED Part of Bosses’ Attempt to Stop Union Campaign to Free Seven. GASTONIA, N. —The quarters of the National T Workers’ Union here has been com- pletely destroyed by fire, It was located on North Loray St. and the center of the union activities. Previous headquarters of the union and Workers’ International Relief have also been destroyed. ee chy {| One of the reasons that the agents bosses thoroughly | 4+ the milf\owners attempt to dis- gamated came in and made a bar- | organize the union work is the cam- gain with the b ie io enach the | Paign being conducted here for the left-wing union in return for “rec-|Telease of the seven workers as ognition.” well as all other class-war prison- | 4 ers. The North Carolina Supreme Blumberg, for the executive com-|Gourt at Releigh heard the appeal eS for a new trial for the union lead- as the keynote of the A. C. W. Pol-|ers several weeks ago, but as y icy, saying: “Now we must carry rest carry have not given out their verdict. If such work of organization into other a new trial is not granted the wor cities. Baltimore needs organiza-| oy. must surrender and start se tion now just as much as Phila- | ving their sentences ranging up to delphia did. loo years. “The union policy is to assist! They are Fred E. Beal, Clarence | ‘manvfacturers,” was (ho slogan for| Miller. Louis McLaughlin, K._ Y. jthe convention as expressed by Ro-| Hendricks, Joseph Harrison, George senblum. |Carter and W. M. McGinnis. Manages Plant. No action has been taken by the In Milwaukee the A. C. W. is/ local authorities to find out who openly managing a plant for Hart, |started the fire. Schaffner and Marx of Chicago. | ——————_ A principal speaker at the con- 5 a 4 vention was Professor MacMillan of MarineUnion Endorses the University of Toronto, who said: Communist Convention “The chief distinction of the Am: gamated is that there is a common interest between the employer and the worker.” Telegrams of greeting from ous employers and co ons were read to thé convention. The whole convention is something like a cross between a chamber of com- merce, an efficiency engineers’ so- ciety and a fascist council. ne aa (Continued from Page One) |ties are permitted to hold open-2 meetings, but the Communist Party, the only real working-class party ruled off the streets. | Van Dusen is a toal of the Gen- eral Electric, and the whole of Schenectady is controlled by it. | The workers will not... stand |meekiy by. In spite of the com- missioner and the General Electric the Communist Party will hold street meeti: at Red Man’s Hall, | 123 S. Ferry St., May 25. Preparations for the Communist state convention are going full bls The sourrounding cities are being mobilfzed. Comrade Ross is mak- ing a tour of these cities, He wi be in Amsterdam, Wednesday, May 21; Troy, Thursday, May 22, Albany, Friday, May 23. These are impo! tant industrial cites with the mass: of workers yet to be reached with the Communist platform. Scotia Mass Meet. vari- t A Real Convention. The Needle Trades Workers’ In- dustrial Union yesterday issued a statement branding the Toronto convention as a company union gathering and calling upon all needle trades workers to participate in the Second Rank and File Con- vention, which will take place June 6, 7 and 8 in the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., New York. The statement s: “While the convention is composed of the agents of the bosses and their henchmen, the convention of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Industrial] A mass meeting of the Finnish Union will be made up of the work-| workers of Scotia has been called ers in the needle industry, directly |for Friday, May 23, with Comrade from the shops.” |Siro as speaker, Other langua ae groups are being mobilized to s DICK ASSAULTS WORKER. delegates to the convention. Andrew Grafenberg, a militant; Comrade Riven, who was arrested worker who worked as kitchenman|while distributing leaflets on Ma nd at the Rocky Restaurant at 213 FE. Day, charged with vagrancy and 188th Street and always openly pro-| sentenced to 60 days in the coun claimed his class-conscious jail, calls upon the workers of enectady to rally to the election convention of the Communist Party. was assaulted by dick Thomas W in the dressing room and hit over) the head with a bottle, resulting in The dick was, of couse, dismissed | in court, claiming that Grafenberg | had attacked him, BAYLO BECK—WRITE TO BOX 75 DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIBE FOR The UNITED FARMER Official Organ of the United Farmers League (Affiliated with Farmers’ International) THE ONLY MILITANT FARM PAPER IN AMERICA It Fights for You and Your Class! $1.00 Per Year; 50c¢ for Six Months; | 5 Cents Per Copy; in Bundles of 50 or More 2 Cents Per Copy. The UNITED FARMER Address: BISMARCK, N. D. case of Minor, confined to the prison | granted without question, Y; bespital as a result of lack of care. ‘A Belen h oc Maxon isn’t a worker, GASTONIA N.T.W.U. 0 B Ei ray Dey Seeter BANEUROPE c & (Continued From Page One.) | and other more important develop- | ments occupy the center of the | Mussolini | sibl ENGLAND’S NEW TRADE PACT WIVH SOVIET TO AID WORKERS OF BOTH “Moscow Letter” Cautions Against Renewed | C:mpaign of Seviet Enemies Against It | MOVE IS AIMED AT THE USS Upsets the Apple-Carts “Unity” (Continued From Page One.) sses of capitalist Europe given| y the existence of the Workers’ and | sants’ republic is “the most seri- | us obstacle” of the political power re , satan Ree ne the |tween the British and Soviet gov- The Driving Out of Soviet Trade From America Too, Aim of Hasley and Whalen Forgeri SCOW.--The provisional gning of the;campaign ij red by this cla be- |2betted by the labor government and jis taken as evidence that the agree- |ment just si; i no means trade agreement oD a : capitalist class of the toiling masses, ;}ernments was greeted here with sat-|jnmune from the fate of previous A big crowd of miners and other workers meting in Scranton Square, Scranton, Pa., May 1, were vhich Briand gives as essential to|isfaction. Caution is dictated by | agreements. attacked by the police, and Phil Frankfeld, their speaker, seized and rushed to jail. But that did “namely capitalist peace. |the experience that agreements,| A couple of days after the sign- not stop the demonstration. The wo followed in swarms to the police station and demanded the var is further re eee notwithstanding the “sanctity” jing of the Anglo-Soviet trade agree- release of the speaker. What is more, he was released, though on bail. in the next paragraph, where Brianc which capitalist governments are|/ment w announced the Soviet says that such capitalist solidarity ary. . alleged to ascribe to them, are not|press reprinted an article from the by any means a safeguard against |“Independance Roumain,” the offi- hostile attacks against the Soviet /cial organ of the Roumanian gc Union. jernment, concerning the cor solicitude for the “joint It is recalled that the existence | tion of a naval pene on he ion” of the capitalist nations |! @ trade agreement did not pre- |manian coast eee ack Be ope, a “civilization” respon-|Vent the British government from Paper stetes that the naval for the World War with its|¢@tTying out their raid on the Arcos |9f the Roumanian governme ; 10,000,000 killed in battle and 30,-| Premises, and the belief is expressed |clude the construction of the nava ; this happened once it can|base, the building of small ve 600,000 in disease, famine and | ‘hat if | , ee iat s fully appreci-|and the mounting long-rang wounds is a touching prelude to the|happen again. It is fully appreci ; sien rae ds i Do fz {ated here that the signing of the |coastal artillery. As Roumania will s ne e guarantees against which are a source of cal and social instability.” i dahon! c Rou- . This Bri civ of 8 st Fae est en Pe pera road Wars kee agreement was brought about to a|not be in a position to conduct big Vee eee ree ee eee URE, WEUR | oe ainneathar naw: a i very large extent by the pressure |naval operations in the open sea, situation on the northwest fron- bathe Seay Ga eae in|of the British workers, and consid-|Says this paper, such operations Se itepateleseatrom ePaaus| the Gouiee Unione: erable importance is attached to this | must be left to the allied powers. Further dispatches fro! sh- Povey g awar and other northern points tell of agitators wearing hammer and | thus to tal sickle badges circulating among the | anti-Soviet drive from the British- hill tribes, who have never been de-| ruled League of Nations, is artfully prived of their weapons in spite of many attempts by British punitive expeditions, and of their message be- ing gladly ree and sickle” the romantic ster wa drifts jin K istan, ved. The “hammer stories are couched in forms which British s of “Russian influence” al- have, and are not to be taken |too literally, but it is beyond doubt that Communist influence is grow- | ing. The British air force is raculenaty | piling up a heritage of hatred here | posals show distinctly how grave is by bombing villages, killing men,|the danger of imperialist attack! }women and children in a gigantic) terror c Very little news enough to show that been brought down yber s, the road to Afghan- in which country the British r financed a counter-revolu- movement and were de- out, ated. “Perished Among Friends.” — | The report, as it goes through the censorship, says: “Both officers of | aft perished after being tended by friendly tribesmen.” But the same report carries admis garr’ alone the hill people are not so very | ous hostility. frien A meeting of the “all-parties’ con- | titude at the London “disarmament” | ilizing its membership to {Ferenc betwe semble ment ish police stations and isolated | atte or not. ips | wide-scale raids on out! ng are continuing, and this | bears eloquent evidence that ons ly. ’ in Bombay, to make peace the government and it s failed flatly. Even the | n of liberals that did as- failed to reach any agree- except that they did not have ufficient forces represented no r whether they said anything | Most of even the liberal yeotted the meeting. | Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- | mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. | tion.” as being one of the strongest guar-| It must be presumed, therefore, antees of its durability. |that the naval b s intended for It is pointed out, however, that | the use of foreign fleets from which there is an influential section of the |to conduct naval operations in the capitalist class in Great Britain, as|Black Sea. Now the only power in other countries, which sees in|against which such operations are the success of the Socialist Con-|likely to be directed is the Soviet struction in the Soviet Union a|Union. The Soviet press signifi |menace to the existence of world|cantly points out that the negotia- capitalism, that this powerful sec-|tions for the construction of the tion of the capitalist class is exert-}Roumanian naval base in the Black ling every effort to prevent the|Sea are being carried out betweeen Bi 4 » mpiac,| establishment of normal relations |the government of Roumania and aimed at the United States.” These} vith and to provoke war against| Admiral Henderson of the British are diplomatic boloney no statesman | the Workers’ State. The virulent 'navy. takes seriously. | ‘ocs tetacieane Sheed Funds, Save ‘Daily’ in this attack suffers from the in-| It takes $500 every day to pub-, This is getting into action. Still herent antagonisms between the im-| lish the Daily Worker. Add to this, more action is needed, however, to perialist powers, as shown by the| the thousands of dollars we owe the | secure regular publication. speech of Mussolini, made at Flor-| printer, the engraver, the press ser- | Contributions for First Five Days. ence on Saturday. Here, Mussolini| vices, payments upon notes, etc., and | or openly voiced a war cry against) you will realize our present financial | District, France, reported as follo | difficulties. Payments of pressing “Mussolini shouted a warning to/ bills are so long overdue that we |{; France that he intended to build | now face a stone wall. We can not/J. Martin, New ship for ship, ton for ton, as many | move. We must pay or stop print-| ferei, Bee x, N warships as France built, and he! ing the Daily Worker. [Bertha Olsken, served notice on all of Fascismo’s| We sent telegrams to all Party| "~ The effort of French imperialism e the leadership in the idden behind proposals to aid the League in the carrying out of its decisions, just as the checkmating | of American imperialism’s ambitions to lead this drive through the “peace” maneuver of the Kellogg Pact is concealed behind “assurance” that the Briand proposals are “not against the Soviet Union, the French | plan to gain hegemony for France| » New Yo rk City York Ci orge Warre) Martin, New York City . enemies that Fascist Italy is ready | districts yesterday, asking them to |". Lomazoroft for all comers. ‘Fascist Italy, whiei | each raise $200 immediately to keep | Len Arm. Monroe, Bridie is now powerfully armed, can now | going. 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