The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1930, Page 2

S teeetidnenalgena teins Pa ge Two WORKER ZARITSKY’S UNION SHOP A MODEL OF SPEED-UP: LAYOFFS AREFREQUENT > Works orks iMand in Glove With Boss for “Efficiency” “Comunittee’ Lead Fight A pany Union (By a Worker ( C ndent) Nothinally I work in a union shop. But what a misuse’ of name! There tan be no baser mockery than to say that the right wing official- dom of ¥&@F onion is representing the interests of the workers. T.U23,.L. M gainst This Com-} In'the cap trade our shop is th ¢ rgest n New York. I have been working here for two years now and have not heard him utter a word BAD FOOD, DAMP QUARTERS FOR CANAL ZONE MEN : Young Soldi tice Calls Fight on Bosses for w are because of food there is practically impc drill you in the a. damn hard in th recruit gets the The officer while we wo for future cannon At Fort Slocum in N. Y. recruit drills in the a.m hard in the p.m. The fo so rot- ten that it is impossible to eat it. They also have a restaurant on the grounds. There they charge you double for everything and the food is only fair. The officers haye the best of food and the best of every- thing. ‘The accidents there are num- erous betause of faulty equipment. All army camps are about the same; insome camps they take your evilian clothes and sell them to dis- charged men at a very high pensivé price. The recruits are y tically a4 sons of poor workers, who are fotted by the mass unemploy- ment'afid the smooth tongues of the recruiting’ officers to seek jobs so as to-bé*able to live, but they will be withothe revolutionary movement fighting” against the capitalists in the next sso In‘thé-U. S. army camps we differ fromthe Red Army. Here we have no tiiné’for reading or any political discug¥ion or anything but in the Red Arniy there the soldiers are trainéd*‘and have the best care. Theré'they have classes and are | taught’Wow to develop. into good! fighters’for the working class. Youws’ Workers! Join the Young Communist L: and be prepared to fight against your common enemy in the hext war. This was sent to me by a friend who hag been in these camps and is now down in the canal zone. —L. L. B. BRITISH TOMMY TELLS OF MUTINY Conditions Bad for Men in Jamaica > rotten it to eat it; they and work 35 it the new y worse of it. a damn good tim being trained ler. fod there t By a British Worker Correspondent BRADFORD, England.—I was a Private in the 1st Battalion, the West Yorkshire Regiment. We left Belfast for Kingston, Jamaica, to relieve the 2nd Battalion, the Ar- gyle and Sutherland Highlanders, and I was one of the picked men to go on guard to relieveethe Pri- vates that were left behind. After we had taken over there were three men. left behind in the guard-room..I spoke to one of them and he told me he and his two mates , had got five years for inciting mut- iny. They had been out in the af- ternoon and got drunk, the reason being the bad food and tha way they were treated (the conditions out there are murder), At night they went into the can- teen and were refused drinks. They came out and went into the barrack room, where they all joined in sing- ing the “Red Flag.” The officer came on the scene when they started their tactics and he told some of the men to fall in as escort, but they refused point-blank. This showed the spirit of the men. When the officer saw this he got the three men and had to shut them in -ther,uatd-room himself. All the way: they were going into the guard-room, the whole company were singing the “Red Flag.” For this the soldiers got five years’ penal servitude, and if there was ever a living hell it was this | place. —Tommy. Demand the release of Fos- fer;‘Minor, Amter and Ray- mond: in prison for fighting or, unémploy ment insurance, (ite > aims fina hw manner to anybody. One sits at the machine in co 2 wild ke In o: t upon by t es the foreman. Next come to retain er reling has to appr forces them to work at top speed, to swell the profits of our magnate, We shop, have a “committ in the function it is to help ntain the ezarist regime. The committee consists of corrupted rascals who do not halt at anything, to further their personal retain their privileged po- in the shop. OSS € comm m work in ‘sets They work with girls who receive starvation wages. Under the whip- control of these set-leaders each girl operator produces as much work as a man operato The minimum wage of a man operator is supposed to be 44 dollars for a 40 hour week while a girl operator averages o 20 dollars a week. The committee helps the boss to carry out all the rationalization schemes. A week does e-n not pass but that we are made to work a few extra hours without pay Now and then redu ms in wages ‘are forced on us. Workers are laid off for a week or so, is plenty work in shop. The lay- off is used as a punishment for a worker for his attempt at protest- ing against an unjustice. One of the means aiming at the doping the minds of the workers in the shop is the establishment of a sick fund in the shop. say, the fund is undér the control of the committee. we The proceeds of that hour were sup- posed to cover the wages of a work- er who was sick. On the next week we worked another hour on behalf of the same worker. At a shop meeting a worker asked a naive question: The proceeds of one hour's work equals a sum that can keep benefit the full'amount of his wages he receives in the shop (and that is | tionality Needless to! ORRESPO | | a well-paid job with such although there! DAILY WORKER, NEW aS SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930 SEAMEN TO COME TO LONDON MEET Arabian Workers 'S Also Be Present ker Correspon — Talking West an seamen in the Tiger Bay nbout their conditions, I Will! to entioned tha coming Intemational Negro Labor Congress in London on July 1. They were not only sym- but pathetic, that it nud be possible to send one of their num- bers as a delegate. I and another comrade with me stressed the London con ecnnection ‘with who was thie: elt put up by the he Board of Trade Union and seame ba wh joint efforts of the National Seamen’s the Labor Party. Among the Arab seamen here there is also great interest in the London congress and readiness to send a delegate We were asked if we were among those who had demonstrated in that area with posters on May 1, and when we said yes, we were told that all Arabs agreed with the slogan “Down with the starvation Now, one week| were told to work an extra hour.| | Labor Government!” In general, we found that the colored seamen are politically very much alive. The Arab seamen are prepared to organize along with all other sea- men, we were told (1) to smash P. C. 5 and the scab National Sea- men’s Union; (2) to prepare to fight for better conditi in face of the impendinz boss attack on, up a sick worker more than on¢/the present conditions; week even if he should get as sicki control, as seamen 3) to take of the proper allocation of so many of each na- to make up the crew of not the case) so what became of the| each ship, money collected from the hour’s work of the first week? When an election of offic: the union aproaches, the committee- men get busy ordering each and in} —Seaman. dues and tax What. concerns these high-paid officials of the union that all our every worker in the shop, on the fine| union conditions were wiped out and of expulsion, to come to the meet-| the situation of the capmakers has ing, where the workers of our shop | been worsened manifoids. They ,are being watched with seven eyes| wrest from us dues und assessments, how they vote. The entire e: on the extortions that are out from the worker in the form of they have a treasury whence to draw| istence of Zaritzky’s clique is based| their rung | them. ey that’s sufficient for) —Cap Maker. Kentucky Miners Have Use for Fakers (By @ Worker Correspondent) WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — I was in Madisonville, Kentucky, trying to organize for the National Miners Union. Comrade McPher- son from Benton, Illinois, was with me. We were spotted as soon as we arrived. The miners there went on strike for better wages and conditions, without orders from U. M. W. A But Lewis had his men there an? they have the miners fooled. | guess they are getting some relic! from what the miners say. John L. Lewis knows if he loses Ken- tucky it will be harder to hol’ other places, and he is doing al! he can to hold Kentucky. The miners drove us out of the coal- fields there and had driven eight other organizers out in the last two weeks. They thought we were for Fishwick and Howat first. But we told them we were against MOSCOW SHOPS ON SEVEN- HOUR BASIS, ALL WORKERS ARE EMPLOYED Worker Visitor Writes That Health of Workers Is the ‘Primary Consideration of Workers’ State (By a Worker Correspondent) The following are ea Dear... “It is difficult to begin. | cow is a ve ~ York in ae ye on the seyen hour basis. employment is on a six hour basis. ever, two hours for ten minutes. and get ten minutes rest every two hours, rpts from a letter | worker correspondent from a friend visiting the Soviet Union.—Editor. both groups of the U. M. W. A. and tried to tell them what was wrong with them. But the miners wouldn’t listen to anything we had. to say. They only said it would be too if we didn’t start. The fake leaders would say to the min- ers as they came up: Are you sat- isfied with your strike and who is feeding y ‘The miners there they have dynamited two homes, and another charge failed to ex- nlode at one of the law’s homes. The miners told us that every time they had any trouble, some one came and tried to break it up. We will have to send in litera- ture to these miners, as an or- ganizer can’t stay there any length of time. All they can do to the paper is tear it up. And what they do to an organizer is just as bad. . M. U. MINER. received by a woman . . I don't know what to write first. lively city and, I dare say, in a few years will beat New May 9, 1930. Moscow. Mos- “I visited a few factories both in Leningrad and here, and have learned more about how things are here. Many shops already are The border work or the mote dangerous ous workers have rest periods, ists work six and one-half hours. The four days work and | one day rest proves lo be very successful and popular. I spoke to NDENTS TELL Building Trades Workers! > are aiming to fight this time, as | Fight Murdero Photo after collapse building opefations at Hudson and Dominick Sts., Manhattan, in which three latorers were injured. Build- ing laborers take gteat risks at low wages under a killing speed-up sys- left shows wreckage f sidewalk shoring in on tem. Severe unemployment for many, and speed-up and great risks on the job for those working, is today the lot of thé building trades workers, But they are rallying for struggle under the banner of the T.U.U.L. WEST AFRIGAN CAL. GROWERS CUT WAGES 25%; WORKERS ARE READY TO FIGHT Must Get Drinking Water from Irrigation Ditches in Imperial Valley (By a Worker Correspondent) COMPTON, Cal.—Hundreds and thousands of Japanese, Filipino and Mexican agricultural workers around Los Angeles get low wages and long hours. Yesterday, the Japanese Farmer: in this town, announced their decision to cut our wages 25 per cent., that is wages reduced from 40 cents to 30 cents an hour. We can not earn enough to five on such a wage. We need the organizers of the Agricultural Workers Industrial League. We are ready to fight. AGRICULTURAL WORKER. * * * Association (bosses organization) (By a Worker Correspondent) IMPERIAL VALLEY, Cal.—Field workers here get 35 cents an hour. In some places it is as low as 20 and 25 cents an hour. Condi- tions are very bad here. The workers here must get their drinking water from ifrigatién ditches, And as for housing conditions, here they are: In some places poor brush shacks, and in general poor. No bath house. The working days in the winter average about nine hours, and in summer they are anywhere from sunrise to sunset. Unless we fight back, things will get worse: cultural Workers League for coming struggles. | IMPERIAL VALLEY WORKER. Balto. Sharks Try to Shanghai Negro Workers! (By a Worker Correspondent) BALTIMORE, Md.—On the wate: calls Negro workers to go to Eastville; Va., sharks asked for fees, too. So some Negro workers broke up their homes, sold their things. But some kicked. 4 The sharks called a cop who beat up some of the workers to make them come along. A patrolwagon came and took them away. We got to fight against this boss slavery. Negro workers, join the American Negro Labor Congress. ; —Negro Worker. | Workers’ Lives Mean Nothing to Ford 4 So into the Agri- front here the employment dgents to pick berries. And the (By a Worker Correspondent) HAMTRANCK, Mich.—Not very long ago in Dept. 195, four men were working on the press adjusting dies. Now, everybecy knows 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 setters did not give a damn, and hollered at the men, “step on it!” and shoved a temporary pine 4x4 under the open press, just as much as to say, “well, what the hell do we care for one or ten men, when there are thousands of them waiting for a ghost of a chance of a job. | Well, when the die fitters started to grind the die, the press slipped and fell with a tremendous crash to the floor, splitting the dies and hurting the four workers very seriously, and injuring a few others working nearby. I was working on a press about twenty-five or twenty feet from where this happened. Ford does not give,a damn about our lives. cheaper than safety. : We got to fight such things by organization. Into the Auto Workers’ Union: FORD WORKER. Workers to him are | Here’s A Frisco “Daily” Booster (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO.—Here’s hoping you can keep the Daily Worker going (or coming to us) even if for a while it has to be reduced to a single half sheet. A little sheet is better than none at all—Up with the Daily Worker and down with the Capitalist Some workers read their paper and throw it away. A printed line on top: Pass this paper to another worker, might be of use on the sheet, Am sending a dollar on payday next. ‘ Heavy Layoffs in Toledo Swells Jobless Army | (By a Worker Correspondent) | TOLEDO, Ohio. -—- The Overland} All other plants are doing the |plant laid off indefinitely 2,000 | same in Toledo in smaller numbers workers on the 12th and several | #"d the army of unemployed is rap- idly increasing. May the Daily Worker weather | The foremen have received an all- | the storm and continue publication, around wage-cut. ‘for if ever it was needed it is right | Electric Auto Lite commenced lay-| now, and we are doing all we can} ing off a week ago and have con-|in Toledo to keep it going. tinued to do so every day since. —TOLEDO TOILER. =S. F. Worker. hundred Tuesday including foremen. | many workers and heard many complaints, but no one said a word against the five-day week, Yet this in itself is a revolution—as you know. Every worker gets two weeks vacation, Those who are at hazardous or hard work gets a month. For instance, laboratory work- ers, bookbinders, some workers in the steel factories, etc., including, of course, miners, etc., get four weeks vacation. Once in three year: worker gets not only two weeks vacation with pay, but he s sent to a specal workers’ rest place, where he gets food ete., free. Unemploy- ment insurance—full wages when unemployed. At present there are no unemployed in Moscow. Even the peasants who come in are ab- sorbed. More and more women are placed in the industries, Con- | ductors, street cleaners, are almost 95 per cent. women. The streets are exceptionally clean. Switch workers—at street cars—are women. One manager in a factory told us that latel,, when he applies to the Ex- _ change for help, they send him only women. | The women, in time of pregnancy, ate exceeptionally well treated. | Two months before and two months after giving birth, she is off us Speed- Up! res OF F ATAL BLDG. CRASH; 3 KILLED |MURDEROUS SPEED-UP. IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FATAL BLDG. CRASH ‘Bosses Use Thin Angle Iron to Dismantle Derrick Boom Frequent Short Time for Workers of the White Construction Company (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK—Three workers werekilled and nine injured at the White Construction Co, job at 11th Avenue and 55th Street, when the derrick official whitewashings, The White Construction Co. | Unemployment Rife in Jacksonville, Fla. (By a W JACKS | read in the eapitali : | good business was I went down to| |the Mayor and asked him: if business jis so good, why can’t I find anything | t° &¢t. |to do. He gave mea list of the most| . Besides their murderous speed-up | | prominent places and told me to see | the White Construetion Co. uses the |them, And so I did and.the an of laying off at 10 A. M. and} jof everyone of them you will find| Starting at 1 P. M. again, of laying | irene off some days and taking on Jacksonville Terminal Co: “we ave| thers and things like that, BUILDING TRADES WORKER. | | tions, | facts? 1 neck all the time. Faster and taster. | HE ii A KE § THE The building was-supposed to be a four-story building. No steel] | |frame work, no columns, re-inforced | | as they should be. And the speed-| ROUNDS AND GETS them-up bosses decided to take} | down the, derrick boom in a hurry,| using thfn angle iron, It crash rf Yled and carried everything with it, and the wonder is that more| br kers weren’t killed. Speed-up and| |the ciminal negligence on the part of the bosses are directly responsible for this fatal accident. Now they’re | getting their whitewash. | Already, several hurt workers} rave been made to sign papers for] a hundred dollars or so. ‘The car-| | penters that were sent home at 3.30 | only got seven hours, and not the| eight hour pay they were creat | how we | laying off.now”; Clyde Steamship Co: “no. wor Mervrill-Stevens Co: \closed; MeGiffin & Co., Stevedore: | “no work”; Municipal docks: 00. DETROIT | work; all’ of the oil companies: | \ “slack”; “Chevrolet Co.: “no busi- | ness”; same for Buick Co.; Southern | Railway’ Yards at Grand Crossing: \: ‘nothing”; Foremost Dairies: “no work for old hands”; the Crane Co., “not for ‘some months” and’ so’ on all the way down the list. I wonder how much longer the workers will be fooled by the bosses? A. MS.) GREADLINES ARE MEN ABOUT JOBS | Worker Boosts “Daily” There (By « Worker Correspondent.) - DETROIT.—A few days ago the | Detroit Times ‘and other papers } printed an item that all the men/ getting help from the Welfare j would get jobs in factories, those that had families. More apple- LONG IN DETROIT sauce. ‘ Between 900 and 1,000 men were waiting to get something they couldn’t get. I would have liked to tell them about our movement, but . knew | that the bulls would have been on | me hefore I got started. Anyway, I hinted to some of them what we) do to fight this gnawing I am a daily agent for the “Daily” and I’m fighting hard for its speedy growth. Par of Tobleks Getting Worse } | i (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich. —I_ will write just a few lines about the true con-| | dition here. The other day und 28th and Michigan Sts. I saw very long lines —bread lines about 4 blocks long. I was watching the crowd and saw) ;one fellow worker go in twice. So} pee —Worker. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mast crashed through and carried with it all the columns. are now under way. let~ uP, no rest for a minute, on your ®— after he came: out he went straight {down 28th Street to the railroad ywhere he was living. | mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. little stove in the midle of the room. I asked him why he went into the line twice. He ate the soup and the {2 sandwiches he took home to his |family... He showed me his living) | quarters. One room, with hay and a I saw his three little children. The workers cannot live under the capitalist system. —An Ex-Soldier. |To the Company Union Needle Trades Fakers (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—In your leaflet you | with the bosses, which is net to setated that in open shops workers | nothing in wages. As long as you are sent off from their jobs whgn/| have your job and fat wages. For the season is over. Well, I must tell) your part let the: workers starve. | you, Mary Goff and Schneider of | Have you done anything for the | Local 62 White Goods Workers, that | workers, to better their conditions? | it is only in your so-called union | Nothing at all. You sit there to get {shops (company union shops) the ; wages, and you ail are there as in a workers are laid off. all the time| gold mine. If there is a so-called with the help of the labor fakers. union shop working at time work, I would like to know in what union | you arrange with the boss to have shops they work 42 hours. Not one | pieee work, You fakers are always of your shops. Where do they divide ] worried about the boss. The bosses the work? I think that about di-| are not making enough money. Why viding work ‘in your company union | don’t you worry for the poor work- shops have long been forgotten., ers? You don’t care a bit for the Since the Goffs and the Schneiders | workers, The only thing we work- have combined with the bosses. You | ¢rs will gain, anything, forty hours, know distinctly that you are not | double timg for overtime, five-day | telling the truth. None of your | week, higher wages, is when we join shops pay double and time and a } the Needle Trades Industrial Union, half for overtime. Also you don’t | 131 West 28th St., New York City. give the workers to have price com- | It is a union for workers, not for mittees. You are making the prices | bosses, —R. C. from work, with pay. For the first nine months after her return to work, she only works sir hours per day, but receives full pay. In the seventh month she gets a special allowance of mlk. At birth, she receives 30 rubles for child’s clothing, etc., and for seven months thereafter, 8 rubles each month, for the child’s milk. She stays in the hospital from six to tend days free, and the best attention. If, after the two months, she is too weak to begin work, she gets an extension, with pay. 1 has beene found here that the belt and automatic machine | undermines the heealth of the workers. So by means of determin. ing the energy spent in a certain movement, it is possible to regulate the speed of the belt, so as not to harm the health of the workers. Is it not wonderful?’ Of course this is still in an experimental stage, but | \@ i} “Investiga- But what are the has a killing speed-up system. No ‘WHITEWASH FOR BOSSES IN FATAL NY, BLDG, CRASH Will the Bosses Be Held; Hell No! (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The Daily News gives the police great credit for the way they kept the crowds of people in order where the building crash oc- curred a few days ago at the corner of 5ist and 11th Avenue. The build- ing collapsed, killing 2 (latest fig- ures are 3—Editor) and injuring 15 or 20 persons. The district attorney and the new police comimissioner were on the job, but nb arrests were made, I should think that the engineers of this White Construction Co. or the responsible parties, should be ar- rested, and tried for murder. But no. They will get away with the same old fake investigations, as they always do. I will bet a hat they will not have any of the men who were working on the job at the time, on the jury. Fellow workers, do not be afraid to kick and fight against such rotten conditions they are trying to force on us at present. We must fight the killing speed-up the bosses force onus. The Building Trades Section of the TUUL must take up this fight. —WORKER. 17 HOURS WORK FOR NEGRO GIRLS Laundry Workers Must Organize Them (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—This is what a Negro woman laundry worker told me while collecting on a Red Sun- day. “Thrity-seven Negro giils. are working under terrible conditions in the Blake Laundry, 620 Cleveland St. We were getting up to/$17-a week for 11 hours work. ‘THat" was not enough for the boodthirsty boss, So from Easter he made us work 7 days instead of 6. And in addi- tion to that we must work one and half hours overtime in the summer months, from 7 to 7:30. It is more than we can stand, but the Blake Laundry boss bss we must be thankful, Soon, more girls will be at of school for vacation and: he ‘will be able to get them for $14 a week. The girls are afraid to say any- thing because we are not organized. But something must be done, Tell us what to do.” —Ozone Park Worker. Corresbondents! Join in “Daily” Bldg. Campaign “Write as you fight” is yous slogan, a very good slogan. But with it must go another slogan: "Get readers for what you write.” All of you write splendid : stories of the conditions in your indus- tries, the speed-up, wages cutting, the every day struggle. If only. you read what you write, if the workers in your mine, mill or shop do not read what you write, then you will never make headway in your shop in building the Trade Union Unity League, in building the Communist Party. When you write make sure that the Daily Worker containing your story is distributed and sold to the workers you write about, And what is very important is the question of securing regular read- ers of our paper in your shop. ASK THE WORKERS WHO WORK WITH YOU TO SUBS- CRIBE TO OUR PAPER. Two months $1.00, six months $3.00, one year $6.00. Five, twenty, fifty workers in your shop, getting the Daily Worker regularly, by mail at their homes, will soon lay a it indicates how the interests of the workers ate considered primarily. There are six such institutions in Moscow. You see, this city is divided up into six sections—call it Boroughs. Each section has one such | institution.” it iit ann .. N.Y. WORKER. basis for organizing the, Loranger or —,