The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1930, Page 3

DAT LY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1930 9000 MILL WORKERS DO WORK OF 15,000 IN AMOSKEAG PLANTS Huge Manchester, N.H. Exploits Rayon, Cotton, Worsted Workers in Mills Along Merrimack Workers There Will Have No Truck with UTW; Chance for National Textile Workers Union (By a Worker Correspondent) MANCHESTER, N. H.—For a mile along both sides of the Mer- rimack River at Manchester, N. H., range the many plants that go to make up the Amoskeag Co. Cotton, rayon and worsted are made here. At present hardly 9,000 workers are doing the work of 15,000. This speed-up, or stretch-out or whatever you may call it, spells unemploy- ment and tough times for 6,000 workers. This town was involved in the big cotton strike of 1922 which also involved the Pawtuxet and Blackstone Valleys of R. I. The U.T.W. conducted this strike and served the bosses well. They'll never handle another strike here, for the workers will have nothing more to do with them. There is another struggle at hand, as our spirit shows. The company union and the U. T. W. are both discredited. The workers are also wise to the bonus system as a means of putting over 10, 20 and 30 per cent wage cuts. Only a fighting union will do here. The National Textile Workers’ Union has a fine opportunity if it will only take advantage of it. —A Coolidge Coolie. (Coolidge is the name of the Rayon plant of the Amoskeag chain.) Layoffs on N. Y. C. RR in North Jersey (By a Worker Correspondent) NORTH BERGEN, N. J.—You know, the first of May, the great engineer over in Washington stated that the storm fury of de- pression was over. Well, on the very same day that he made the statement the N. Y. C. R. R. over here in the Granton roundhouse laid off 17 men. And I also un- derstand from one of the men that more are to be laid off. On Friday the marine shop in Weehawken on the Erie R. R. laid off 15 men. This looks like the un- employment is on the decrease, doesn’t it? Yes, parasites like Hoover and company have got | easy shouting about good times. It’s always good with them, but not with us. Here is one of the good times signs that Hoover forgets to men- tion. He did not say that the cop- per industry was declining so fast that unless a large block of copper was sold the mine would shut down. Well, what do these para- sites care? They don’t have to live in the Butte flats, like the miners do there and elsewhere. I have seen conditions both in Butte and Bingham Canyon, Utah, in 1912, and they were rotten then. What must they be now? Comrades, I want to tell you, I use my Daily Worker every day. After I am done reading it I al- ways go down where a bunch of workers are. I draw the paper out and then draw their attention to | one or two articles that I have read. In that way you get them to read and think. I always give my paper away every day, but always to read it, not to burn it up. And tell them, after they are done reading it, to give it to some- one else. I also tell them, if they like it, to subscribe for it, and where to get it. My Hoover prosperity has be- gun since last November. I have worked two and a half days this year so far. I guess I'll get a | full week in by the time the new | year gets around, to shout “A | Happy New Year” and be merry. | How merry myself and millions | more will be, I can’t say. —JOBLESS. Move Penna. Silk Mills to South (By a Worker Correspondent) BREWTON, Ala.—A big silk company is moving 3 of its Penn- sylvania mills here. There is a silk mill in Mobile, 78 miles from here, where the girls get paid 1 cent per 1,000 picks that makes for 1 yard of goods of 64 nick. In Paterson 2% cents is given for the same work. They are getting 6% to 7 cents per yard, and the girls here know that they are not getting enough. There is a lumber factory here that makes boxes for strawberries and vegetables, and starts to work in the moring at 4 o'clock and the silk mill runs from 7 in the morning to 6 o’clock at night. .Sometimes the girls work during the lunch period to try to make a little more wages at the end of the week, SILK WORK7R. Lay Off Night Shift in Midland Steel (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Conditions in Cleveland are getting worse every day. The Midland Steel Co. laid off their night-workers and are cut- ting wages. Slavery for the last few months. Position advertised in a local newspaper: Room and board, no sal- ter months come around Cleveland, well, the workers will either fight or starve. Maybe we will learn then that with such men like Hoover in the White House and the rest of the murderers in Washington the time will come when we will have a clean house and the best country ary. Truckdriver wanted, $10 ajin the world. week and room. Workers, keep| Shame on Ohio, A starving away from Cleveland. Labor|mother with 12 children was forced to kill seven of them. She had no | way to keep going. Elections are coming and it’s time for the workers in America to clean out the rotten republicans and demo- crats in office and put in workers and their friends. One more year wanted, 18 cents.an hour. It is not enough for single men, this Cleveland system of hiring men for two or three days and then lay them off and send dishonest reports out of all men going back to work here in Cleveland. Thousands of home ~ INATLANTA, 6A, Arrest Leaders Found) at Negro Meeting (Continued From Page One.) }employment, and the determination to struggle shown by the exploited workers, has frightened the master ere, mill owners and so ‘ whe Peigets and their govern- | $556.25. This was a slight drop but ment officials into the most out-| We did not think it dangerous. jTageous savagery. Particularly are} When our receipts, however, they aroused at the smashing down of the barriers they have erected | | through generations between Negro jand white workers. The National Textile Workers Union, the Inter- national Labor Defense, and the|er finds itself in, too lightly. |Communist Party unite Negro and|our Daily Worker readers have o' i white workers on a basis of absolute | subscription and collection lists in jequality for a common struggle against the employing class, Organization has been penetrat- ing further and further into the We will let you judge. When ot | receipts mounted to $579.11 two da ago we were sure that our support- ers were in action, that the remit- crease steadily until our financial difficulties were solved. | are not at all on safe ground. well. | tances received each day would in- |G. Karash Yesterday | Rox we reported contributions totalling | pr. J to $88.00 as you will see by today’s | ,, oes N report, then you will agree that we | Siegiriea We | Pete Kue must caution all our supporters not | A group o to take the situation the Daily Work- | All hand, and all Party members as} Use these lists; go to your shop | mates, your neighbors, your organ- | SIXMORE FACE Big Drop in Contributions ELECTROCUTION to ‘Dazly’ Emergency Fund |At This Rate Our Paper Is Not Being Saved and Strengthened for the Fight Get same time. the earliest y new readers at Rush in a remittance at ible date. » Liniocher, New tish’ "Cru, echold, dt, Pittsburgh, work Wm. A group of Pryo: Julius T er ; Plainfield. N Taunton, M H, Holt workers, New Bed- ford, Mass., by Maria C. Carvein 5 N. Routhier, Detroit group of workers, Wichers, White Plains, N.Y, | George Zerbato, Detroit, Mich, 1.00 10,00 2.00 5.00 ce still needed DETROIT JOBLESS PUSH DELEGATION |Negro and white masses. The Gas- |tonia sentences, the snipping of or- ganizers on framed-up “bad check” and petty charges of all sorts, and the illegal lynching of Negro work- fers on an unprecedented scale have all failed to stop organization and} determination for struggle. Legalized Murder. In the Powers and Carr case, which goes to trial May 27, and in the arrests yesterday, the ruthless capitalist and landlord government of Georgia throws off all masks, and will directly through its courts “le- gally” murder those who organize | Negro and white workers who strug- gle for their own interests, Only the power of an awakened and militant working class can} save not two but eight new Saccos|_ ‘ and Vanzettis. The bosses of the | ing jobs, about two weeks ago at |South propose to kill them, not by| Ford’s they quit hiring and mobilized subterfuge, not by frame-up as the! police to drive workers away, so that ibosses of Massachhusetts killed) when workers gather at the present | Saeco and Vanzetti, but directly and time they are mercilessly beaten by |openly for daring to organize. |ganization of workers is called “i ‘surrection” in Georgia, and for “in- smashing his skull with a black-jack. surrection” they burn you in the | Despite this, workers gather at the electric chair. Ford gates at midnight and thou- Be Lee sands wait throughout the night un- I. L. D. Call to Action. |til the arrival of the police who The International Labor Defense,|commence their attacks to drive through its general secretary, J.|them away. Louis Engdahl, yesterday stated: | Over 75 per cent of the building | “The South’s industrial despotism | trades workers are out of work with jhas again shown its fangs. no prospects of work for this sum- “The Civil War laws charging ‘an | mer. As a result the bosses are attempt to incite insurrection’ and ey ‘distributing insurrectionary litera-/0f thousands of building trades | ture’ are now being used to send to| Workers vainly search for work. The death active spokesmen of the Na-| American Federation of Labor tional Textile Workers’ Union, the |fakers are worrying on account of Who Ask for Work (Continued From Page One.) laid off its night force recently, are finishing its years work for 1930 and are planning huge lay-offs. Police Kill Jobless. While the workers gather in grow- ing numbers at the shop gates seck- FLAIANI FACES Or- the police, who only a short time ago | - | killed an unemployed workers by} lashing wages everywhere and tens | 15 YEARS IN JAIL Police Smash Those Defendant Makes Fine Speech on Stand (Continued from Page One) jury was a militant presentation of working class issues and a call for the working class to unite for a struggle against unemployment. “In my speech on February 7,” Flaiani told the court and jury, “I stated that America is now facing a most acute economic crisis. When Hoover campaigned for president he spoke about prosperity, yet there are 8,- 000,000 workers unemployed in the United States.” He said that he also told the work- ers at the mass meeting that the Unemployed Council favored the payment of $20 a week to all unem- ployed workers with an additio $5 weekly for,each dependent, th money to be raised by a tax on the employers profits. At this time Fisch objected to Flaiani continuing on the grounds that he was “looking for publicity” | while actually the true version of the speech was breaking down the frame up that the state had attempt- ed to build against the Communist Party organizer. “Organize and Fight”. “The wage cuts must be met,” Flaiani continued, “by the organiza- conscien- | the| a@nted for Forgery! Perhaps the world’s leading political forger is Sir Henry Det- erding, British oil imperialist, whose mysterious 1 to any country produce a crop of anti- Soviet forgeries in his wake. He was in America last December, and not long afterwards, Ralph M. Easley and Matthew Woll n to talk about and show mysterious | “Comintern letters.” Finally Wha- len published them. One idea was to knock U. S. trade to help British trade. Question: Find out how much Woll’s and Easley’s “patriotism” was worth. New Split in United | M pisits -Sovie ine Workers Union (Continued fram Page Une) tion of the National Miners’ Union, was when those officials controlled |by the Peabody Coal Co. split off to form the Disgrict 12, Mlinois “Reorganized U.M. A” The present meeting was named by its leaders “the Rank and File| of the U. M. W. A.” Now they have voted to call another Convention convention. When delegates from the National Miners’ Union committees of action appeared and demanded seats, they were rejected by the misleaders. Freeman Thompson, Louis Joyce, Bill Lugge, L. Rice and Roy Groves took the floor time after time, ex- the Howat “soreheads” who called the posing the Howat gang, and conference, also the Lewis agents who were present to try and swing it to the arch faker in Indianapolis. rolling by which the small fakers here tried They denounced the steam {to control the “convention.” | A motion was passed by majority vote to allow the N. M. U. repre- sentatives to speak. Norman Rag- land, a disgruntled Lewis henchman from West Frankfort, got the chair, and refused to hear the N. M. U. | A hot debate followed, delegates. {during which seven delegates voted for Andy Young, of O'Fallon, vice International Labor Defense and | the falling off of dues payments and tion of the workers and by strikes chairman of the convention. the American Negro Labor Con-j 4Te Spreading the Hoover “prosper-| for better conditions. | gress. jity’ bunk, in the hope of getting “The crime was attempting to/| big initiation fees from the unorgan- hold a meeting of the American Ne-| ized workers, in order to draw their ‘gro Labor Congress. | big salaries. Workers, however, see Another Victim. | through this “racket” more clearly “At the same time that this vi-| every day with the disastrous re- jcious attack was being made on sults for the plans of the fakers. [workers in Georgia, the employing! — Misleaders’ Meeting Fails. elass police was arresting Stephen | A [Graham st Portsmouth, Virginia,| .,The A: F. of L. Brotherhood of |for distributing a leaflet against | C@"Penters an aes llynching issued by the International called a meeting here at the instance [Labor Defense. He is charged with °f dictator Plumback, g misleader distributing literature calculated to) Mmbobed DHA ae Li incite a riot. The Virginia perse- | *esinst their will after the interna- cutors place their charge directly on| ishat Al Gaels ue reat x a oe that part of the leaflet mentioning ("0 District Council. Only a hand: Powers and Carr and calling for| {came B their release. | though they had a brass band to at- | “This attack on militant workers’) ct attention. ee ‘organizations goes forward at the| Carpenters and other building |very moment that the North Caro- trades workers affiliated with the lina Supreme Court has before it the Building and Construction Workers appeal against the vicious verdict Industrial League’ of the T.U.U.L., and sentence returned against the distributing leaflets at the meetin; | seven strikers and organizers of the exposing the role of the labor fakers Textile Workers’ Union in the strike 8 tools of the bosses, carrying out at Gastonia. jthe Hoover “big business” policy, fa- “The International Labor Defense | Voring wage-cuts and more speed-up calls on all workers and poor farm-| instead of serving the interests of ers to mobilize as they did in the| the workers. These leaflets called owners are losing their homes, be- cause they cannot pay interest on their mortgages. Railroads are not hiring any men. State roads are not doing anything as yet. Men over 40 years of age are not wanted and when next win- of Hoover prosperity and the coun- ' Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, in the try will be ripe for the workers struggle for the lives of the Gas- either to fight or starve. By all tonia prisoners, to save the lives of means, every worker, build up the | Powers and Carr, and the other six Daily Worker and prepare 5,000,000 | workers who are now facing a judi- for 1931. Let’s get busy. cial lynching in Atlanta.” —CLEVELAND WORKER. Fight for the seven-hour day, | for the carpenters to attend a meet- | ing of the League on Sunday, May | 18. | Several of the officials tried to stop the distribution of the literature but did not succeed as the workers eagerly took handfulls from the dis- tributors into the meeting and re- | was attacked | result of his own attack. | pointed out that a worker was the | first one shot when the colony was “TI also refered,” the worker con- tinued, “to the Gastonia strike and the resistance the workers there met on the pickez line, the bayonets and tear gas bombs of the mill owners, also how the relief store of the strikers Was destroyed and told of the eviction of the workers from the company owned houses. June 7 the tent colony of: the strikers 4 by Chief of Police Aderholt was shot as a I also Aderholt. raided, Flaiani also pointed out, he said, that the Communist Party is the only organization fighting for the interests of the workers, leading the struggles of the miners, workers and needle trades workers Attorney Abraham Isserman of the International Labor Defense ad- dressed the jury for the defense and pointed out that Flaiani does not deny speaking about the chief of po- lice of Gastonia. “Flaiani,” he continued, “would | rather go to jail tigan deny the prin- | ciples made in his speech.” The at- torney also stressed that the two} contradicted themselves many times ! policemen who testified for the state! Then on) textile | Call All To Support N. M. U. Young took the floor and de- clared openly for the National Min- ers’ Union, advising all miners who really wanted to improve their con- ditions to join it. James Haines of | Pana, in a half hour speech showed how both the Lewis and Howat | Fishwick factions of the U. M. W are bosses’ agents against the min- ers, and declared that the present leaders of the “Rank and File” Con- vention, would sell this new move- }ment to the highest bidder, either Lewis or Howat. Haines called on all to vote to | join the N. M. U. The socialist labor party man, L. Lamb of Springfield, fakers by a confused statement of the problems of the working class. | This conference finally decided to call another convention, The meet- ing will see a struggle in its second session of all N. M. U. delegates to give Thompson an hour to explain the situation from the point of view of the miners themselves. Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent. when on the stand. helped the | | YZ | WHALEN’S FORGERIES: SHOW UP DETERDING Is Attempt to Smash Growing Trade of Soviets with U. York Cossack’s Move Completely Fell Through, They Show MOSCOW (L.P.S.).—Referring tothe red |the alleged Communist Intern 1 2 published by the York police, the I that the state: dep lous other been compelled to re that there is no basis gestion that the Soviet trade sion in the United S \connection with th American the serious regarded the forge skepticism and_ reserve. eral, the tactical move York police might ed without tia from factors of polities the usual viet ments have had a in the game of frightening the bourg with |¢ document New does not His tated by t the e pow- As tm Soviet tates of the took place. »jective Am that i, { rican competitor. intries, the an United mis- in the newspapers with ext In f the ame gen- actior New id to have that an r t assumes apart internal Deterding ntinu- y of Ac ve activ uld dam Defeat Social-Fa BERLIN (LP.S.).—In the metal works Bergmann Rosenthal here the list of the revolutionary oppo- sition received 1,437 votes in the workers’ council election yester- day, whilst the social democratic list received only 725 yotes and the fascist list received 217 votes. In the former workers’ council the social democrats had 6 seats and ‘ist in Shop Vote the revolutionary opposition 9. In the present council the social democrats will have 4 members and the revolutionary opposition 8 members. The importance of this victory is increased by the fact that since the last elections 1,600 dismissals have taken place whereby the revolutionary work- ers suffered most. | French General Prepares War on U.S.S. R. WARSAW (LP.S.).—The French |able visit was of some considerable general, Asan, one of the clostest | duration in 1920, when he acted as co-operators of General Wey the chief military adviser of the the chief of the French general staff, |POlish general staff during the war OTSAy the Brench genera’ statt, between Poland and Soviet Russia. is in Poland as the guest of the! Qn May 3, the Polish national holi- Polish general staff. This is by no/ day, ( an was officially re- means the first! visit of General ceived by Pilsudski. Comment is un- Asan to Poland. His most memor-' necessary. workers, after cale, they were told by the boss CITY PAINTERS LOCAL 377 sity woe the che wane * they could quit their job. The | JERSEY CITY, N. J, May 22,-|Union scale is $13.20 per day. A leaflet distributed to members of | “A complaint was given over to Painters Local 377 by the Trade |the district council by these work- Union Unity League group exposes | ers, and they were told that a strike the system of graft and corruption | Would be called on Monday, May 12. {practiced by the union officials. | “This stri e was not called. In- stead of that the officias of our union have placed other men to take the jobs from the strikers, The silaros at Pier K, Jersey C strikers were informed that they |The boss pajd the initiation fees|could get their jobs back if they for his men to the union, with the|agree to go back to work for the knowledge of our officials that these | old scale. All this is done with the men remain working $8 per|aid and approval of our officials.” n example as to how our offi- work hand in hand with the es took place on a job for John for GRAND OPENING OF UNITY CAMP Decoration Day, May 31 Musical Program — Dancing — Boat Racing Camp Fire i—: Other Attractions THESIS and 200 More St. Louis Car Men Laid Off (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Two hundred more conductors and motormen were laid off by the St. Louis Public Service Co. Recently sent you a story about the lay-off of about 100 car men in ‘St. Louis. After that the same for 200 more. The unemployed should join into the Unemployed Council. —ST. LOUIS WORKER. Samples of Speedup in Chicago (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—The Lake Shore Driving Park Rug Cleaning Co. de- mands two men to clean two rugs every 7 minutes or get fired. For this work they pay 35 cents per hour, A labor shark sent me to the Chi- cago branch of the Coca Cola Co. The boss said two men must unload 200-pound bags of sugar, truck it into the building, pile it up six feet high, and they must unload a car | every three hours or be fired. I have been out of work for six months and undernourished to such an extent that my strength would not stand the speed-up. We must all join the Trade Union Unity League. —A WORKER. NEWARK Sixth Anniversary of WOMEN’S COUNCIL OF NEWARK Concert and Banquet Saturday Evening, May the 24th Workers Center, 93 Mercer St., Newark DANCING — MUSIC — ENTERTAINERS 50% of the Proceeds to Help Build the Daily Worker five-day week. sponded to the T.U.U,L. meeting. Spring Time Is the Best Time for Vacation! VIEW OF DINING ROOM,IN NEW HOTEL CAMP NITGEDAIGET HOTEL NITGEDAIGET Price $17.00 per week Address: CAMP NITGEDAIGET | BEACON, N. Y. | Camp Tel. BEACON 1731—s62 DIRECTIONS: Fro: N. ¥. 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