The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1930, Page 3

'W. VIRGINIA MINERS | f DAILY ELECT COMM: i TEES OF ACTION FOR BIG DRIVE . fifty-Eight Delegates to West Virginia District Conference in Fighting Mood WORKER, NEW ¥ORK, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1930 Day ENTIRE INDO- CHINA SEETHING WITH REBELLION Revolt Spreads and| Grows Despite Terror) Youngstown Workers Marched on May = = eae ee Page Three CROAT NATIONALISTS TELL OF TORTURES BEFORE THEIR TRIAL tion Methods to Get Them to “Confessions” \Use Inquis ign ; | Are Charged With Working for Freedom ee Unemployment, More Wage Cuts (Continued from Page One) ey of ee iaiing : ane Increase Misery in Coalfields [pew Geen coe Lite | i : “i ree 'China. Following the 13 condemna- ZAGREB, Jugo-Slavia (1. VAN VOORHIS, W. Va.—The West Virginia District conference of the National Miners Union was held May 11, 1930, with 58 delegates present, including 14 Negro delegates and 5 young miners. The con- | tions to death, one sentenced to |hard labor for life and another one |to fifteen years in jail by the crim- —,tures to which he h |On the third day of the trial of the | Croatian jected. He is the president « ationalists the defense |association of Croat academic you ference got under way pledged to recruit 500 new members, build 20 inal commission at the recent strik 2 a, e. Depeastad te re eaten ay cused of being f rder Dette Aten ee ant sena LOD isl eke 0 ene Nor eal Convent (eres trials che cornmaiation (haste Part of the 5,000 who took part in the May Day demonstration in Youngstown, Ohio. A march | awaiting trial. They were retused|clared that Ae Seasons oe of the NMU in Pittsburgh. Five delegates were elected to the RIL, |cently sentenced 39 more coolies to} the city with a band leading the parade took part in the demonstration. Over one thousand i hey | at at U. Convention. To spur our xembers to action in the recruitment drive 23 com-- mittees of action were elected, and plans were made for broadening out the committees of action in all the mines in the northern West Virginia District. Many miners are only working from one to three days a week, hundreds are unemployed and those that are working five and six days are getting their wages cut to the extend that they don’t get the money that they earn loading coal during the day, trading it in the company’s store the same evening. Coal loaders are now receiving 32 cents a ton for loading machine coal. And the company’s ton is from 2,500 to 3,500 younds. Time was, at Scott’s Run, we would get 4 and 5 tons of coal in the ears that now are holding 2,5 to 3 tons. Time was when coal loaders could make from $2.50 to $3.50 a car and now it’s 80 cents to $1.10 a car and as low as 70 cents a car; but if you go to the same coal com- pany store you must pay more for groceries now. This is the reason we have no pay-days, and if it wouldn't be for this condition we could have 156 at the West Virginia district conference instead of 56. Starvation and misery is now the lot of the West Virginia miners. But in the National Miners Union we see hope of a fighting union that will take up the struggle against these conditions. Miners! Unite under the banner of the NMU to break the yoke of slavery of the coal bosses. —W. VA. COAL MINER. Slavery in the Titman Egg Company (By a Worker Correspondent) {death, 33 to life imprisonment, 9 to | 20 years’ imprisonment and 4 to be, ;deported. Among the pntenced | |there are 44 former soldiers. The | commission is now again preparing | to inflict heavy penalties to 300 Indo-Chinese arrested at Phu Tha wounded. Airplane machine guns |were used to mow down countless numbers when the population fled jthrough the rice fields. All houses! 9 revolution. jin the vicinity left standing by the|” 4 troop of mounted “rural airplanes were systematically de-| guards” rode into the crowd with Coe | “machetes” swinging (the machete But despite the great cruelty of| js a huge knife used ordinarily in the white terrorist measures of the| cutting sugar cane), and firing be- French authorities against the rev-| gan, one report saying the first shots olutionists, the revolution does not} Game from the belfry of a nearby only show no signs of being weak-| church. When the battle was over, ened, but it develops and bounces| Vicutenant Silva and Captain Aroz- forward with increased intensity arema were among the four reported and extends to larger areas.. This dead, and 20 others were wounded. fact further demonstrates the} yt’ is stated that the clash hal (Continued from Page One) strength and vitality of the revolt JERSEY CITY, N. J—I am go- ing to state the working condi- tions which exist at the Titman Egg, Inc., located at First and Warren Sts., Jersey City and a subsidiary of the Borden’s Milk Company. I was working at taking away raw eggs after the women work- ers had cracked them open and emptied the contents in pails at their sides. There is about an average of ten tons of eggs op- ened daily. Between four of us and work till 5:30 with an hour off for lunch, The work they do | is also very tedious and mono- workers, carrying sixteen pounds | apiece we make quite a few trips a day. For this tiresome, mono- tonous toil we receive $20 a week consisting of 53 hours. After the women workers get through at 5:30 it is our job to clean the floor and equipment in the room spotless. By the time we get through it is 6:30. We start work at 7:30 a. m. Now in regards to the women workers. They are more exploited then the men in this spotless slave shop. They begin work at 8 a, m. tonous. There are about thirty women working here and they open about twelve tons of eggs a day. For this they receive the handsome wage of $10 to $12 a week. There is the usual quota of foremen and foreladies, not counting the big exploiter him- self wo is always around. All of the above workers are contingent help. They are laid off from September to January. The steady hands are mainly friends and handshakers of the bosses. The Tabor turnover for contingent | help is high, one seldom puts up with this speed-up long. As this is the busy season I think it would be a good time for some organ- izing to be done. The steady help I referred to constitute about 25 per cent of the workers. Alto- gether there are about 80 to 90 working here. Your for solidarity, in Indo-China and installs much fear and worry in the hearts of the French imperialists. Newark Judge Begins Railroading Case of 9 (Continued From Page One.) room was crowded with Negro and been predicted by “Nationalist” lead- ers, one of them, Dr. Roberto Men |dez Penate having written a letter to the chief of staff of the army. saying that the “Nationalists” had been informed that the troops wi ordered to suppress the meeting “re- gardless of costs or losses.” White Terror. Machado who has ruled with blood and terror since 1925, with the sup- e —A Former Titman Egg Slave. One Does Work of 100 in Cannery (By a Worker Correspondent) | SEATTLE, Wash—The largest annery in the world, the Pacific American Fisheries, has a big ma- chine shop, a tin ean factory, s for shipping, required 100 workers where one is used today. One hun- dred salmon used to work the can- nery night and day. Two hundred big ocean going steamships, hun-; thousand could be canned in a day dreds of small steam tugs and gas boats, hundreds of barges, hundreds of pile drivers, a shipyard on a small island here and others up in Alaska. Chinese work in the local can- nery and the tin can factory, as well as in Alaska. Many women and children are employed. Twenty-five years ago fish were cleaned and canned by hand and the process of taking care of the fish till they were in the cans, ready now, with the “Iron Chink,” a gut- ting machine and the filling ma- chine, which took the place of hun- dreds of women, and the other up- to-date machinery on down the line. One spring, about 12 years ago, the writer heard a Chinese remark, when he looked over the new machinery that had been installed during the winter: “Amelica too damn smart. Pretty soon they won’t even need Chinaman.” —A FISHERMAN. A. C. W. Busy at Treachery in Indianapolis (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—-About the middle of March the business agent of Local 145 of the A. C. W. of Indianapolis, by the orders of Frank Rosebloom, chose one of his best friends and went to Cin- cinatti to investigate production and quality. Upon their return to Indianapolis Mr. Rosebloom came also, After a good dinner with the superintendent he called a meeting of one particular section in which he prop0sed more produc- tion. On the arguments with the workers, Roseblcom said he can’t Greet | help it. He has to help the com- pany upon this crisis (hell with workers). As the argument went on, the workers objected to the increase of production and then he said: “You have to do it, and, if you don’t ¢o it, there are many others to do it.” That is what we get, threats, | speed-up and reduction in wages, | as long as we are not organized in the T. U. U. Our general offi agents. —A CLOTHING als are scab WORKER. The Chinese Soviet Congress BE itt FB Re MEI SUK through the Special Soviet Congress Issue of the CHINESE VANGUARD 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY RATES: 4 inches $10.00 2 inches $6.00 1 inch $4.00 Individual names SOc white workers. The labor jury, | port of American imperialism, ha which includes four Negro workers, | }een shaken by the growing crisis jwere also in court. They will lis-! which has produced, in the fight ten to the testimony and issue @/ between American beet sugar in- verdict from a working-class point! terests and those investing in Cuban of view. | cane sugar, a conflict within Amer- The only question that the judge| ican imperialism itself, which the ruled should be answered was in/ “Nationalist” bourgeois opposition what building the meeting washeld| jas been capitalizing to get into at the time the arrests were made. in Machado’s place. The questions on which Judge) {Yo discredit Machado, these bour- Van Riper ruled the defense “were | geois “Nationalists” have pretended {not entitled to a declaration” were | to be “friends of the workers” and concerned with what time of the | have used Machado’s savage but- day the meeting was held, how long| cheries of Communists and other) the speeches were for which the ar-| workers as capital for themselves, rests were made; were they writ-|their agent in the United States, ten or oral; where were the leaflets | Octavio Siegle, getting both the distributed and were the alleged “farm bloc” beet sugar interests and seditious speeches part of a longer the fascist A. F. of L. to spread talk? their propaganda. But far from op- Judge With Prosecution. posing American imperialism, the As Isserman read his questions | “Nationalists” demand U. S. inter- from the bill of particulars, the! yention under the infamous “Platt judge quickly ruled against them.| Amendment” under which the U. S. ;The prosecuting attorney did not| has the right to intervene “to en- jeven speak against answering them | sure democratic government,” ete. | as he evidently knew how Fisch | The U. S. Minister to Cuba, Gug-| would rule, | genheim, who is really the boss, has The statement issued by the In-| informed Hoover of the revolution- ternational Labor Defense reads, in! ary ferment among the masses of part, as follows: | Cuba who are turning to the Com- “At today’s session Judge Van| munist Party of Cuba. Riper acted not only as judge, but} Undoubtedly American imperial-| also as prosecutor, The class char-|jsm is making preparations to acter of the trial is seen even be-| “pacify” the masses by bringing up fore the trial actually opens.” | the “Nationalists” to supplant Ma- Last night the International La-| chado when the masses reach the bor Defense held a meeting at 93) point of revolutionary outbreaks. Mercer St. to rally the workers of | This makes the “Nationalists” the this city for the defense of the! worst foes of real independence and workers. The speakers included J.|the genuine interests of the toiling Louis Engdahl, general secretary of | masses of Cuba, hupdreds of thou- the I. L. D.; D. W. Graham, Negro | sands of whom are really starving, | worker, one of the defendants and! even when they have work, due to! Communist Party candidate for|the miserably low wages and high United States Senator; Sam Nesin, | costs. | district organizer, I. L. D., and Charles Dixon, Negro worker. The workers on trial are Dom- inick Flaiani, Communist Party or- ganizer; David Rousen, John Pado, Samuel D. Levine, Joseph Lepsevi- cius, Morris Langer, D. W. Graham, Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent. French Workers Get Heavy Sentence. (Wireless by Inprecorr.) Negro workef and candidate fprthe| PARIS, May 19.—Eleven young Senate; Edward Childs and Albert |workers were sentenced to two Heder. If convicted they may get |years each at Steteinne for distrib- 15 years each, uting anti-militarist leaflets. The Court of Appeals rejected the application ordering Marty's sen- j|tences to run concurrently. Marty [must serve fiye years. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. GRAND OPENING UNITY CAMP Decoration Day, May 31 Musical Program — Dancing — Boat Racing Camp Fire Other Attractions Registration open. Call at 1800 Seventh Ave. Tel. Monument 0111 or Down Town: 30 Union Square, Barber Shop, Tel. Stuyvesant 8774 DIRECTIONS: By Bus from 1800 Seventh Ave. By train from 125th St. or Grand Central Station, direct to Wingdale. FOUR DEAD © |This Is An Emergency | | deep revolt of the masses who want | participated in the parade. and 60 arrested at Kien. | The French imperialists are alt) | | N F i! B A W (Z Need $25, 000 Now q jmaking much use of the airplane | | , jagainst the Indo-Chinese, Fiit three bombs, weighing 1,400 wos . i ee on ges AL |were dropped in Inde-China and 28|CYisis Leading to Mass! Present Rate of Contributions Would Take Six natives were killed . and many Revolt Months to Get Sum Needed Within One Month! Get donations. (2) In credentialed committees ce visit all workers’ or- Yesterday we informed you that subscriber |up to noon Saturday, May 17, a|every itotal of about $700 had been sent! must at in to help the Daily Worker. Yes-|ganizations for contributions. (3) terday’s list of contributions printed | Every city must mobilize its Party in this column totalled $492.25. We| members and other workers for a are today listing the balance of last | mass collection, tag days, house-to- week’s contributions. Accordingly it|house collections. (4) Every will be seen that our comrades and| must hold a Daily Worker picnic supporters, up to noon Saturday, |within a month_DAILY WORKER, sent in a total of $690.25. Roatribatious U ‘ 16 Our aim was to raise the $25,000 |ComtTibutions Up to Noon May 16. Emergency Fund in one month. This means that we should receive in contributions about $1,000 a day. ted Yesterday rkers, N permission to read newspapers, they received only bread and water as food and were compelled to sleep on cement floors. The accused show signs of their ill-treatment and are pale and exhausted. The examina- tion of Bernarditch was then con- tinued and three protocols were read. Bernarditch declared that they were all signed at the same time under pressure of frightful tor- ture and ill-treatment. He had not read any of them. In prison he had prepared his defense and made copious notes, but the authorities had deprived him of them. The accused Badshiya was then examined. Badshiya is a physical wreck in consequence of the tor- against him for high trea KILL NEGRO AND Texas Toiler {conducting its proceed BURN HIS BODY Joppressed and persecuted and that the court was an e eptional oi gs more or less in secret. As with B t the authorities had deprived him of his material for the defense and compelled him to sign protocols un- der torture. For a few da his life had been in In con- clusion, Badshiya d the crimes of the r jtatorship and ¢ n- {dence for the Cr president of the court ¢ to stop and a number of pol 1 themselves upon him and forcibly prevented him from cc A |new indictment will now be filed 1a spirited defense until he was rid- |dled with bullets, Honeygrove is only 50 mile of Sherman, where, on y lynch gang, acting with the pa aid of the Texas rangers and police, killed George Hughes, a Negro and a prisoner on trial, by burning down Defends) the court house in which he was |locked in a vault and afterward At the rate of $690.25 a week, it would take us over half a year to aise the amount immediately nee Raising $25,000 in half a year has no aspects of emergency action. This 000 must be raised jimmediately, within a month, and |the greater part of it is needed] within ten da, Until there is more action, we shall be insistent upon pressing our program of action: (1) Every Party member and reader of the Daily Worker must use the Daily Worker campaign list immediately. Get New Auto Union Adopts Constitution (Continued From Page One.) ican Federation of Labor and de- cared for the revolutionary lead- ership of the Trade Union Unity League. In the afternoon session the con-| tional of Labor Unions, Fifth Con-| 5 rs Angeles n, Bronx, a H Himself Desperately ; {terms in the dark. hanging his body in Negro sec- , < tion of the town. he erman ‘ontinued from Page One iy (Cc Heo 9 ome liempneve thenepustied three ROME than courage, were waiting until|of Negro homes. alas do we eh ey eee | A general orgy of lynching Ne- to avoid a fight on somewhat equal | 5.9 workers has swept over the . |South within recent weeks, due to = |fear of the white rulers that their Kill and Burn. \slaves are organizing and likely to vate ks, Chas. Moshel, Cincinnati, O... 0) ‘Total - 3690.25 nd needed_. s to May 17.. 00.00 iWD.2T | nergency Balance needed |the factories and to carry out the | great task of helping organize the! ; workers in the- union they had just formed. | The convention pledged a mass delegation to the metal and steel} workers conference in Youngstown | soon. A delegate to the Red Interna- HONEYGROVE, Texas (By Mail). |rebel against unemployment and —A crowd of 3,000, recruited from | starvation. ing territory dragged the body of through the streets at the end of a chain fastened to an automobile, then burned it in the middle of the section of the town where Negroes are forced by Jim Crow rules to ‘segregate themselves. Johnson had been murdered May 15 by a lynch mob, led by deputy sheri: after he had killed E. F. Fortenbury, a white landlord, in a quarrel over his pay. f the struggle with the landlord among the white landlords and busi- | |nessmen of this city and surround- | ——|George Johnson, a Negro worker, | {demonstrations in other camps. The details} | French Soldiers Demonstrate | PARIS (1P.S.).—Following upon the anti-militarist demonstrations of |the reservists of cla: and 23, the younger reservists of class 24 have also demonstrated. A dem- onstration occurred in Mourmelon camp and was followed by two other In Angers the reservists sang the “In- ternationale.” The demonstration in stitution and program of action, of | tess was elected with a big ovation.| ae not known, but it is common|the Sourges camp was particularly organization on a national scale, was The convention closed after adopt- | practice with land owners here to violent and threatening and took proposed and discussion. After full| ing a resolution against the impris- ' diseussion, both were adopted. (More \cheat the Negro tenant farmers or | Place as the result of the death of |a comrade who reported sick but | onment of Foster, Minor, Amter and | employes out of their money and on the auto workers constitution and| Raymond, the New York delegation | (hon pull a gun on them if they | Who was ordered to do normal duty program will be printed in later is-| of the unemployed. Foster is general | sues of the Daily Worker). secretary of the T.U.U.L., to which At the evening session yesterday | the new union affiliates. The reso- Gerlach was elected president of| lution also demands freedom of all di jare to protest. Died Fighting. The sheriffs and their followers the new Auto Workers Industrial| class war prisoners, and denounces |chased Johnson to his home, where Union; Woods was chosen general | the attempt to railroad Powers and secretary; Wm. Noels, a Negro| Carr to the electric chair. worker, was elected vice president | and Philip Raymond was elected|SIX KILLED IN by the regimental major. In conse- quence the man died on duty. The demonstration lasted several hours. Support the Daily Worker Drive! ive barricaded himself and put up’ Get Donations! Get Subs! editor of the Auto Workers News | and general organizer of the union. The delegates then pledged them- selves to go back to the shops and i | | W. VA. EXPLOSION. | UNION, W. 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