The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1930, Page 3

. AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, @ MAY 22, 1930 “> HOOD, AKRON RUBBER LAY OFF ADULTS AND HIRE YOUNG WORKERS Hundreds of Workers Old at 45 Laid Off Every Saturday at Watertown Hood Plant Cambridge Rubber and Apsley Rubber Also| Laying Off and Speeding Up (By a Worker Correspondent) WATERTOWN, Mass.—The bosses of the Hood Rubber Co. here are throwing out of employment men and women who have been em- ployed for the past 30, 25, 20 and 10 years. In the places of these adult workers they are hiring young boys and girls from 17 years of age to 25 years, Every Saturday, dozens of men, old at 45 years, after years spent under the roof of the Hood Rubber Company plant, find themselves out on the sidewalks, jobless and disheartened, ORGERS FREE: FOSTER JAILED! nti-Soviet Forgers Yet Unmolested! With Grover Whalen retiring into more obscure strike-breaking, the question arises: What about the forged “Comintern letters?” The Federated Press correspon- dent at Washington states that: “The republican and democratic members of the house immigration committee, apparently convinced jthat the Whalen ‘red plot? documents were crude forgeries, have lost «all interest in having Representative LaGuardia prove to the committee |that Whalen ‘bought a gold brick.’ ” The Daily Worker is unconvinced that Whalen was “taken in” or mis- The factory at Akron, Ohio, is being stripped of work and their work is being sent to us here. The Goodyear Rubber Company will soon close the Akron factory as far as shoes are concerned and will manufacture only the larger rubber products there. They intend to drive out of employment hundreds of men and women and increase the jobless army. Another place doing the same thing is the Cambridge Rubber Co. at Cambridge, Mass. Still another is the Apsley Rubber Co. of Hudson, Mass. —RUBBER WORKER. Women Toil Long Hours in Coast Shoe Shop (By a Worker Correspondent) els nor soap. The floor in this room is rough, unpainted wood; by its very structure, incapable of cleanli- ness. The whole building should be condemned. There is no place provided for eating lunches. The nearest restau- rant is some distance away, making it difficult for workers to go out in| the short lunch period. Girls and men eat at their-benches and ma- chines, amid dirt and filth; ill- smelling leathers and dyes; with the \nauseating scent of ether (used for cleaning) ever present. Precautions are taken that none/ shall earn a decent wage. Thus we} see fast workers at the bench, lacers and inspectors paid by the hour only jat the height of the season 25 cents land up. Out of such miserable sums assessments are made for The workers at the Johns-Tilt Shoe Co. on Dayton Ave. in Los Angeles work under’ the worst con- ditions. Men toil ten or more hours a day on piece-work. In accordance with the California law, there is a notice on the wall in the stitching room to the effect that no female may work more than eight hours per day. However, the forelady in this department is blind, in as much as she will not see, and women stitch- ers come early and leave late dur- ing the busy season. The doors are open and the power is on long be- fore the required starting time. The stitchers, in order to make a living at the low rate paid for piece-work, actually put in much more than the the 48-hour work-week stipulated by law for women. \led. The scandal sheet Graphic, which published the exposure of the \forgeries and gave a chance to the |fascist congressman, LaGuardia to ‘get a bit of publicity by presenting |them in congress, itself has dropped ithe case after a belly-crawling edi- torial stating that “Mr. Whalen’s honesty of purpose is not to be ques- tioned.” The Daily Worker, nevertheless, questions not only Whalen’s “hon- esty,” but demands to know why, when there are forgers and plot- ters who are responsible for this particular outrage, they are allowed to run loose and remain free even from the glare of public exposure? What influence is it that is pre- jingo fascist organization known as |the National Civic Federation from) being forced to tell how it happens | that he, Easley, had the Whalen} forgeries six weeks before Whalen published them? Who is protect- ing this scoundrel Easlep? And his side-kick, Matthew Woll, as well? In 1927, Norman Hapgood, the bourgeois journali published a book on “Professional Patriots,” which revealed Easley’s professional | counter-revolutionary practices. In| part, it says: “Soviet Russia is, of course, Mr. After the busy season slackens sme the majority of the workers seldom even the drinking water. | have enough work for even 30 or| Just before Easter the workers | 40 hours’ labor, Needless to say,| Were driven even more furiously, the pay check at such times is piti- Producing for Eastern markets, to, fully inadequate, despite the inten-|defeat the courageous shoe strikers sive speed which all must attain. in the East. Sanitary conditions are unfit for! Organization into the Shoe Work- animals. People on the ground floor | €TS’ Industrial Union is the only an- wash under a dripping tap, over |Swer to these miserable conditions. | an old meal wash tub. Even in the | Organization and fight. | women’s lavatory there are no tow- —SHOE WORKER. How Providence Gave “Relief” to Unemployed (By a Worker PROVIDENCE, R. I.—How Prov- vidence gave ‘relief’ to the unem- ployed. There was $75,000 appro- priated, $50,000 going to the street department and $25,000 to public) man to count his men, also the shov- works, els and picks going out and coming The mayor signed the bill on Mon-|back. He says he can’t; he gets day, but previously was very care-| mixed up. Righto. Some ability, is ful to send out letters to chosen/it not? Still he holds his job. No ones covering all street jobs and one should suspect graft, as the su- more. The aldermen gave out let-| perintendent of parks is a wonder- ters for park jobs. The superinten-| fully sarcastic and swell-headed gen- dent of parks put foremen on the tleman and cannot be reasoned with Correspondent) The same was true on Pleasant Valley Parkway job, with one ex- |ception. He only wants “his kind” on the job. He has to get another jobs and told them to be so mean'and seems to be in pain if spoken) and overbearing only a few could|to. That’s how the capitalist sys- stand their gaff. Therefore they left|tem “aids” the unemployed. left for the golf links in droves. —AMERICAN BORN. Tyranny and Low Wages in Atlas Tack (By a Worker Correspondent) FAIRHAVEN, Mass.—I can’t help writing to the Daily Worker of the conditions of absolute slavery that exist for the workers of the Atlas Tack plant here. If the word union is even spoken in a whisper the man or woman is discharged without further notice. Tyrants run the place. I have read the Daily Worker and am glad to find it is not afraid to come out with the thoughts that are in the minds of thousands of workers who are working for starvation wages. A great majority of the workers in this factory are slaving away their lives on jobs paying as low as $11 and $12 a week. The superintendent of this plant, whose name is Farwell, once said $15 is enough for any working man, Dear editor, you can tear this letter up or look into conditions, just as you see fit, but I thought I must write anyway. —ATLAS TACK WORKER. * Editor's note:—It is not the custom of the Daily Worker to tear up letters from workers who describe the slavery in the plants in which they work. The Daily Worker welcomes and is eager for worker correspondence from workers. Write for your fighting paper! The Bosses Tout Their Tool Whalen (By a Worker Correspondent) * * I happened to visit a friend last) cessfully protected our lives and night and listened through his radio | property in the best possible man- how the leaders of the New York ner.” When I heard of that remark bosses were praising Whalen. I/I thought of Katovis, I understand heard a very interesting remark| now why Whalen killed Katovis and made by Philip LeBoutillier, pres- | why, in all our struggles with the ident of the New York Retail Dry! bosses, in strikes and lockouts, the Goods Association, which brought) police always stand on the side of out the full significance of the the bosses! It is because the police meeting. He said, “We laud Com-|is theirs (bosses). Now I under- missioner Whalen . . . because in|stand why we say that the police dealing with strikes, lockouts, and|is the instrument of the capitalist the picket lines, he has shown great| class for the suppression of the wisdom and firmness and has suc-| workers. Whitewash for A. F. of L. in School Texts x (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The Board of Education has come out with a new syllabus in history. We now teach to children in the elementary school (8B Grade) that the A. F. of L. is a great institution, that Samuel Gompers was another Washington. fairy tales about his activities, TheA, F. of L. has accomplished perfect working conditions, child labor laws, regulations for women, factory inspection, working papers for children and general protective legislation—this is the A. F. of L. to be taught workers’ children, What more arrogance on the part of the capitalist cl: expect, flaunting their labor lieutenants in our fabba, Witout ass? Some teachers have answered this order to lie further for the capitalist hypocrites and made a collection for the Daily Worker. =A GROUP OF MILITANT TEACHERS. We shall probably have many |Easley’s chief abomination, He has | freely sponsored the cause of the} ezarists, with Mr. Boris Brasol as| his chief advisor. Mr. Brasol, one} of the heads of the old Russian} |Black Hundred, came to the United/a)) denied that Fla States as a refugee from the Tevo- | lution, to enlist support for the res-} toration of the czar. “In the National Civic Federation |Review, in 1920, he advocated rec- jognizing ‘the Omsk government of |Admiral Kolchak.’ He supported the claims of the Grand Duke Cyril, | |whom he represented in the United | States, and officiated at a royalist {gathering in 1924 at the Hotel (Plaza, attended by ‘the reigning \czarina, the Grand Duchess Cyril.’” | The Daily Worker asks any |worker if such characters as Easley ‘should not be brought into the light {of day and asked just what, pre- lcisely, he was doing with the forged \“Comintern letters” which Hugh! {Kerwin of the United States labor | department says Easley had six| weeks before Whalen gave them out? And while the scoundrel Easley is being dragged out of silence by| the nape of his worthless neck, why Matthew Woll, also, should not be asked what, he, too, knows about \these forgeries? | And why, with all this badly ismelling business, is the congress lof the United States silently wait- ing until the forgeries are forgot- ten, to go on wi’ tion of Red ac ties’—that is— the attack on the Communist Party. Not only the Communists, but millions of workers, 8,000,000 them unemployed, who rallied round jthe Unemployed Committee of Fos- ‘ter, Minor, Amter, Raymond and | Lesten, demand to know if this out- |vageous falsification was given a burst of publicity at the very mo- ment when such a “red hysteria” was profitable to cover the railroad- ing to prison of Foster, Minor and the rest? Are forgers of such documents to be let go unpunished because they are anti-Soviet? JAIL RAYMOND AND POWERS DETROIT, May 21.—Six mem- bers of the Young Communist League were found guilty today for {holding a school meeting May Day. | Sentence will be passed tomorrow. Powers, Raymond and Cojerean were arrested today at a Briggs factory gate meeting. Cojerean is out on appeal. Together with five others they were sentenced to ninety days for May Day factory gate meetings at the same plant. of | The} t | 2 h It NEWARK JOBLESS LEADERS ON TRIAL Flaiani Tells of Work or Wage Speech | (Continued from Page One) venting Ralph M. Easley of the/amining the two Negro defense wit- | Press. nesses. One of them was D. W.! another case after the present trial is ended. Graham is the Communist Senator from New Jersey. Facts Are Told. The nine witnesses told the jury what Flaiani actually said at the meeting of the unemployed Negro and white workers for which he is now on trial, They pointed out} that the Communist Party organ- izer in his speech had urged the job- | less workers to fight against unem- ployment by organizing into the Un- ! employed Council affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League. They ani had stated that the workers of Newark should “beat up the police” or “take away their clubs.” Fisch Is For A. F. of L. Prosecutor Fisch, when cross-ex- amining the witnesses, stressed that ithe Unemployed Council and the | Trade Union Unity League are not connected with the American Fed-| eration of Labor and that the Com- munist Party supports the program to organize the jobless. In the morning session, Judge |Van Riper admitted the testimony ‘of Frank Fisher and other defense witnesses, after he had affirmed | that he was telling the truth, | The first witness to take the stand this morning was Ben Cook, a Ne- gro worker. Answering questions put to him by Attorney Leon Jo-| sephson of the International Labor | on which the arrest was made took place. The witnesses for the pros ‘cution had stated yesterday that |Flaiani was the first speaker. Cook said that Flaiani was the third speaker, being preceded by Leonard Paterson, a Negro speaker from New York, and a girl member of the Young Communist League. When Fisch ‘cross-examined the Negro worker he sneeringly asked }him how much education he had. When Cook told him that he had left school in the first grade, as he| had to go to work, Fisch called the | attention of the jury to the fact that such a witness is not very depend- able in remembering what happened three months ago. He also sarcas- | tically grilled Cook when he said that he is now jobless. Rebecca Palter was the next wit-} ness, She testified along the same line as Cook, giving a digest of the speech made at the jobless meet- ing. She told the true version of what Flaiani had said in reference to Gastonia. “The Gastonia work- ers had been attacked,” she said, “and defended themselves.” The next witness, David Lapin, was also questioned at great length about Gastonia after he had given a synopsis of the speech in ques- tion. Albert Grineli was then called to the stand. He was chairman of the February meeting. The police wit- nesses had testified yesterday that it was Albert Heder. Samuel Nesin, district organizer of the International Labor Defens told of how he had been at the meet- jing. “I was in Newark,” he said, “to defend a worker arrested for distributing leaflets.” He also gave a digest of Plaiani’s speech. Others who testified for the de- fense were 0. W. Graham, Mrs. bosses’ terror is increasing against |the auto union which is now start- ling a big campaign to organize fol- | lowing its conventions, DANCING — MUSIC — ENTERTAINERS 50% of the Proceeds to Help Build the Daily Workex | | | | Workers Center, 93 NEWARK | Sixth Anniversary of ' WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF NEWARK Concert and Banquet Saturday Evening, May the 24th Sarah Silverman, a novelist, and Morris Langer. The case is expected to go to the jury tomorrow. Mercer St., Newark Graham, also under indictment with | tremendous prog: Flaiani and seven other workers, /the collectivization of Soviet agri-| ®2"® aod Srow ne shes conen who are scheduled to go on trial in|culture under the Five Year Plan| achievements in funds secured must} of Socialist Construction. New) show a steady increase. Every day Party candidate for United States |tories of the Five Year Plan at a |big m Brooklyn, on Satur May 31— Defend the Soviet Union Day. The celebration is under the auspices of| Contributions for May 21 the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Workers’ sale at the F. 175 Fifth Ave., Room 511; F. S Local, 799 Broadw: L GANDHI “CONFERS WITH B Defense, he told how the meeting |’ are Dang Van Luong, DOUM DEATH RULING FOR 4 [NDO-CHINA REBELS 39 Others Face Execution for Part in Yen-bei Revolt Algerian Communist Party Hits Doumergue Celebration PARIS (I.P.S.).—The lent of {fore Doumergue for consideration. he French republic, Doumergue, has| At the moment Doumergue is in Al- four of hi t 13 death | geria taking part in the celebra- sentences passed on Indo-Chinese | tions in the centenary of the French national revolutionaries in connec-| occupation. No doubt he is deliv- |tion with the Yen-bei revolt. Thejering oily speeches concerning the maining nine death sentences have een remitted to sentences of hard labor for life. The four facing death a peasant; nthuyet, a non-commis- benefits heaped by French imperial- ism on the natives, whilst in Indo- China 89 natives are awaiting death or life-long hard labor at his hands. The Communist Party in Algeria has , in a rifle cor ng organized a strong campaign Tich, a tradesman, and Ngo| against the celebrations which have The others will be transported to gocch coy wip ee ered Py ene a —— ee the fearful prison camp: Lao-Bas eee SccUpe Hon soonest De. Es ean casitcGor E has issued an appeal to all the na- CELEBRATE GROWING £6 th] Ther 39 other death|tive toilers to raise their heads and ALL entences which will be placed be- resist the imperialist oppresson. USSR SOCIALISM MAY 31) Despite the fact that they con- stitute two-thirds of the total pea- sant population, private peasants have sown less wheat than the col lective farms in the Soviet Union. according to an announcement just issued by the Commissariat of Ag- riculture and reported by the United MUST GROW Necessary to Build Mass Daily Worker Comrades of the Party--what is the matter today? When we begin a campaign to keep the Daily Worker | This is another indication of the s being made in must be better than the day before m should be to speed k would York workers will hail these vic- s celebration at Ulmer Park, which International Relief. 50 cents and are on S. U. national office, workers—by A Tickets are Seecciwe) Age Detroit, Mit. n xroup of d, Tabs ie . R. Local, 10 30 Union Square, and at othe tions, Oakland, 1 Moun tai ac 4: N RITISH Carl Noah 4 4.00 | M0) Plans to Stab Revolt". of Masses ‘eveland. O. Ronce, Pa. y W. Nukal 1.00 (Continued From Page One.) with weighted bamboos and ki them, Mrs. Sarojini rested with other lead Imam Sahib, was one of Sloe 1.00 6.50} But in reporting this the United} Press states that the dispatch has been mutilated “presumably by British authorities’ and one whole ction suppressed. Another sec- tion was cut from 91 to 46 words. Beat Up Constables. More than 100, according to this same story, were arrested in an at- tack by 300 police on the National Congress House in Bombay, accord- ing to capitalist press reports, and when police broke up another raid on the Wa dala salt works on Bom- bay Island. Sixty were x the attack on the congr Balance still needed Ad No. 17A Don’t Let % Kidneys and Bladder 2m, ling e Indian and after the fight 5 caught a couple of British con-. Ruin Your Entire stables and beat them up. There are undoubtedly many c Bodily Health of mass resistance throughout India news of which does not leak through the censorship. Heavy troop move- ments are going on. h authorities in Pesha ported as being in a s anxiety and much w You'll be sorry af oH don’t act at once to curb kidney and bladder troubles. A serious break-downin your health may occur. Take action at once. Get Santal Midy from your Sroamiet It has been prescribed for half a century by doctors throughout the world. | Santal Midy are re ate of great ied over the loyalty of troops sent there, THESIS and RESOLUTIOCNS for the SEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION of the Communist Party of U.S. A. 25 Cents By CENTRAL COMMITTEE PLENUM MRCH 31—APRIL 4, 1930 EVERY PARTY MEMBER AND EVERY WORKER ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT READ AND STUDY THIS IM- NT DOCUMENTARY PAMPULET Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 9 The Bagdad correspondent of “la|Meshmed. Republique” ; toa | Lawrence of ill-fame is living in|the viet Azerbaidjan’s Tenth Birthday MOSCOW (IP, Ament of the —Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the es- Soviet power in Aserbaidjan, and the Central Ex- e Committee of the Soviet Union has decided to grant th peas= ants of Aserbaidjan certain extra priviliges in celebration of the first decade of iet rule. tabl ab The agriculture tax and the compulsory insur= in arrears will be remitted, as also will the pay- in arrears in connection with the agricultural loans for 1925+ 25 and 26. ence contributions Economic Crisis in Czecho-Slovakia PRAGUE, (IPS).—Although at this time the unemployment fig- ures usually commence to fall, they are still showing an upward trend, for instance the statistical office in Maehren shows that there are 27,000 unemployed there at present as compared with 22,000 in January. This example may be taken as typical for the whole country. The situation in the mines in particular is steadily deteriorating. The mineowners in the Kladno district have decided to close down the mines for two days a week, The general custom at the moment is four Dismissals are being carried out in days’ work in all the mine fields. addition. The situation in the iron industry also shows no improvement and the employers are considering further dismissals. The crisis is also severe in the textile and paper industry and dismissals and the closing down of factories are common everywhere. The crisis in Slovakia is particularly severe. Almost all factories are dismissing workers and many have been closed down altogether. The fact that the national districts in particular are suffering from the economic crisis causes a considerable intensification of the national question and as a result the Slovakian People’s Party has introduced a number of pseudo-radical motions in parliament lately. Provocateur Lawrence at Work * CONSTANTINOPLE (I. P. S.).—) Bagdad nder the name of Hadshi He lives in the imme- diate neighborhood of the British that Colonel mission and s said to work amongst Kurds on the Turkish frontier. reports Police Died ‘for Better World’ Says ‘Socialist’ BERLIN, (IPS).—Although the authorities had given the Com- munist Party and the Red Aid permission to receive the corpse of the murdered young worker, Dyba, for burial, they themselves secretly buried the body. This secret burial of workers murdered by the po- lice in order to prevent protest demonstrations against the murderers has become very frequent in Germany. Numerous social democrats and the Reichsbanner attended the burial of the two policemen killed by the infuriated workers after the murder of Comrade Dyba. In a speech at the graveside a social demo- cratic leader declared that the police had died “for the establishment of a better future.” 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. Greet The Chinese Soviet Congress a a AEA CA through the Special Soviet Congress Issue of the CHINESE VANGUARD 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY RATES: 89 East 125th Street, New York City Individual names B0e es $10.00 2 inches $6.00 1 inch $4.00