The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1930, Page 4

Ps dustries. Secondly, if we organize an unem- Pi Page Four | PRE- be By HARRIS CLERON (Night Workers Br, Section 1, N. Y.) UR unit is isolated from the section because we work at night and the section func aries work day time, the only time the section functionapfes visit the unit is when they want some money. During the recruiting én for 5,000 new Party members, our unitAn general was very inactive, with no ance to carry out our work. Suddenly we rad a report that our unit went over the top of its quota because the majority of our mem- bers are food workers and the Food Workers Union recruited some new members and we will get the credit. This was accepted by the Section Committee without criticism. Those few new members that we recruited we did not take care of, After they were acc>pt in the unit they did not get their member books for six or seven weeks. The Unit ganizer put the blame on the section and the section on the unit. Our unit Bureau did not function at all, and after a strong fight we started to meet—830 minutes before the unit meeting. I objected to this procedure and fin- ally we started to meet 2 days before the unit meeting, but the Buro meetings were and still are not on a functioning basis. I feel guilty myself to a certain extent, The Section Or- ganize> made a gesture to remedy the situa- tion but did not take serious steps. While I was fighting bureaucratism, I felt unconsciously that there were a few cases which I knew and I must see how the fight started. ; 1. Comrade Bulwark of the Freiheit was six or seven months behind dues without even attending any unit meetings. He came one day and asked to be in good standing, and he asked for exempt stamps and to pay a few months because he works for the Party. I objected becaus: the same comrade came to our unit with some stories about one year ago. The case went to the Control Commission and Com- rade Bulwark was found to be guilty. 2. Comrade Chorover was working in the Book Shop of our Party. He permitted him- self to be behind dues for six or seven months. “We sent his case to the Control Commission. The decision of the Control Commission was to give this comrade a chance because he stated that he was making only $15 a week from the “ ‘book shop, and to give him an exempt stamp for the day’s wages. I objected to the deci sion and an investigation followed in the Party "Book Shop’s books and it was found that he ade on the average of $35 a week. $. Comrade Carras told me that he could not come to unit meetings, because he worked too many hours and he wanted to pay his dues and be given a transfer to a night unit. Ten weeks *Yater he came and payed 10c, 26c, 50¢ and T5c, but the majority of the time he paid 10c a week. I fought against this, but with no suc- cess. Our unit has about seventy to seventy- five members on paper, with a regular at- “tendance of twenty to twenty-five. The records of every member's activity is not known even to the Unit Buro. The section committee again made a gesture to divide the unit into two and three units, about six weeks ago, but we stil] haye the same chaos. While there is some improvement in the unit functionaries, we are still in the second period. As I stated, the section committee does not direct and visit the unit. We have to go to the section and this takes one hour and more for the simplest questions. ees The Food Workers Industrial Union. After the failure of the drive to organize the unorganized last November, the Office Committee mobilized the fraction and the union membership to revive the drive. Various com- mittees were elected and plenty of talk of the developmnt of the rank and file leadership. We heard the so-calld self criticism about not being prepared to capture the. A.F.W. conven- tion, but we had a chance on the memoran- e whole AF, e committees were the affiliation of W.. Silvers, and the ps to do as responsible, Committee came rk rom The Hol witl into the comm h ut no atte was payed in order to increase the acti No | leaflets we: 1 he an of he com s have been pro- mised but The E only once Committee do not func- 0 give direc- t do enough pro- ndum. Then we started nd hout pre alled strike (in on2 shop only one baker came out). Blame ing f and th ever tion bee: Ne strik Only ai a report that mis as Comrade Pin- he Taupur’s and both with over rittee blames solved the lea > itn and all those comrades icized the ove and many other strikes, ete., were scrat 1 off and not even a letter was sent them for the meetin In gne of the unemployed meetings a worker made a criticism about the work too many hours. They then do you want the job?” as a job-holder, Comrade Hai up a leaflet about the con workers in the food indust comrade but does n lish. After he spent t drawing up the leaflet Grand Ce: 150 worke d hint “Why and branded him pointed to draw tions of the young y. He is a very good or write good Eng- and nights et, ling committee told, bim that it.is no good. The i mittee boasts that they would bi unions those “old timers” the hotels and restaurants if they had “t ” because they them since 1919, but say nothing out the young (I have no objec- tion to “old tim The legal act of the A. F. of not an , but t ion to nd the y and the th . and thos: ‘left “Wels id of losing their jobs by or mouths to speak on the line of the Party, and take the lead for the struggle against Lehman and Flore. Instead they follow the Yellow Socialists. These and many other mistakes after mis- takes and crimes are keeping the masses away from the union and when they do come they leave. There is again a reorganization going on, but in the same way and methods as the oth We have the correct line and analysis and if we apply them correctly with less mis- takes and a real self-criticism, we will convince the workers to follow our leadershi We must educate our mem unionism. We must stop the d | against those who make constructive criticism. | To establish organization and propaganda committees in the chain stores, hotels and fac- tories, the heads of these committees should study how to organize the shop committee and he able to explain this to the other workers. ight against craft logy (local 1, A. F. rant A.F.W.) membership, assign certain territories to dif- activize ar ferent group: that some workers | rstand, either | Next Step on Unemployment By STEVE NELSON. Saw unemployed question in many instances being neglected by our Party. Because of this many comrades thought that our or- ganizational plan, worked out previously, was not a good one. They prove this by the fact that there are very few unemployed councils in’ the country functioning properly. say, What’s the hurry, we'll have 15,000,000 unemployed next winter. Some even go so far as to say that unemployment is decreasing, that workers have gone out to farms, etc. They quote, “As the crisis fluctuates, the mood of the masses fluctuates.” This theory has been expressed by Tallentire which of course was immediately rejected by our comrades in the district. He even went so far in his argument as to say that the reason we have so few un- employed workers in our May Day demon- stration was because they had their heads Others | cracked on May 6 and they got nothing in | return for it. In discussing our plan on un- employment activities where we stressed the necessity of having our councils doing demon- strating work, Tallentire objected to that and said that we weren't going to build the unem- ployment movement through such activities. ' Phis theory of course must be combatted by our Party and the point of demonstrative work i be further stressed at our coming Party Convention. Building The T.U.U.L. Through Our Unemployed 06. Work. “The idea of abolishing our present councils is entirely wrong. The present councils could be utilized to build the T.U.U.L. Unions—not by abolishing them, but by making them func- jon properly. The idea of organizing the un- employed into separate departments of various tries will not work out. First of all, our ..- industrial leagues are at present so weak that _ they cannot give decent leadership to the shop committees that exist in their respective in- ployed section of the union then it really will og that it a Union of the Unemployed. This is ‘that we must guard against. I think wrong to have this intermediary The way to build our revolu- unions is along the following lines. Attempt to Organize Stockyards Workers. As our work in the Chicago district has r this is about the best way of getting food workers’ league has made ‘Our ; t to organize the stockyards work- doesn’t take Yes, forty thousand and they were unable to get even a half dozen workers to a meeting, while the unemployed council in that territory put out a small throw-away calling a meeting of the unemployed, and about 40 unemployed stockyards workers showed up to the meeting, and about seven employed stockyads workers. What does this example mean to Communists? Doesn’t this mean that if the members of our Stockyards Workers League and the Party members iwere active in that council they would have had an excellent opportunity to build a shop committee in a certain factory where a few employed workers that turned up to the meeting are still working? To make up for quota in the T.U.U.L. membership drive by drawing in a lot of unemployed workers would not mean very much in actually building the T.U.U.L.—It would simply be the self- satisfied attitude on our part that we have reached our quota. It would not be what the R.LL.U. wants the T.U.U.L. to he—that is— rvoted into the facto: That is why I think by having our councils function as a first at- traction to the unemployed and employed work- ers in general, carrying on anti-eviction demon- strations and general factory work, we could get the best elements into our industrial unions, build our shop committees and lead the strug- gles that the working class is faced with in the United States. Of course the main line in building the T.U. U.L. shop committees is through incessant daily activities in the shop and link them up with the building of our industrial leagues. However, the ,experiences in the district show that through the unemployment councils they can and must be utilized in building the various industrial leagues. Another point that is worth while mention- ing is that at the above mentioned meeting of the stockyards workers, five or six metal workers also showed up. What does this mean? Doesn’t this give our Metal Workers League an opportunity to build a shop committee where these workers are employed? In the case of the Metal Workers Lergue they too issud thousands of leaflets and the results have not been satisfactory. Yet we get metal work- ers at unemployed meetings. I maintain that the councils shall remain, but that the members of our industrial leagues become active in these councils and bring the best elements into the industrial leagues. This does away with the danger of building unemployed unions and it away the ‘political ¢ The Problem of Future Street Bemonstrations By ABRAHAM NACHOWITZ | Petes the leadership of the Communist Par- and Trade Union Unity League, the work- ers are learning the methods of organization and struggle against capitalism. The tre mendous March 6 and May 1 demonstra as well as the daily struggles of the wo have proven again and again the correctne: of the Comintern decisions an the radicaliza- tion of the masses. The intensified attacks upon the revolutionary movement, the Whalen forgeries, the Snell Bill to investigate the Com- munist Party and the Daily Worker, the prohi- bition of demonstrations, ete., are indicative of the determination of the capitalists to sup- press all working-class organizations of re- volutionary character. It is this general situation which brings to the fore new problems of great significance for the Central Committee to consider and act upon. The threatened refusal of Union Square to the workers, the refusal of the streets to the workers of Stamford, and New Britain, Connecticut, make the question of the possibil- ity of future demonstrations, especially in small industrial company-owned towns of great importance. The May Ist occurrences in Stamford, Conn., and the horrible consequences that followed, whereby thirteen comrades were arrested, beaten and mercillesly slugged, despite our tactics of placing several groups of speakers in different parts of the square to address the crowd at intervals and also to divide the forces of the police. As is known, the leading cem- ades are constantly traced by detectives on every step and move, and all their doings are known to them (police testimony at the trial). This situation makes it almost impossible to carry out street demonstrations without con- derable harm to the leading comrades who are left to the mercy of the police hangmen and guerrillas, once they get a comrade into their clutches. The Central Committee should consider this problem in all its phases, give instructions and advise to the lower executive bodies, because the future of our activities are to a large extent dependent upon the advise and instructions which the Central Committee will be able to render in regards to the above-raised question. More Attention to the Pioneer Groups By BILL JORDAN. HE thesis and resolutions for the 7th na- tional convention of our Party says prac- tically nothing on this all important question. The only place the children are mentioned at all is on page 30 point 34. Street nucleus 505, sec. 5, Dist. 8, has had the following experience with a pioneer group organized by the members in 1927. The nucleus selected one of its own members to lead the group. We were informed a little later that the Pioneers was a part of the Young Workers League and that they would furnish a leader. From then on it was left to the League to handle the Pioneers. From experience we find that the League is not able to furnish real leaders. Many have been assigned to this group—some are not at all capable, ‘and none of them were at all prompt in opening and closing the meetings. At times no leader would appear for the meeting and the children would be left to shift for themselves, Saturday night is a night the young folks stay out late enjoying themselves, and that seems to be the reason for their ab- sence and tardiness on Sunday morning, which is the best time for this group to meet. Time and again we have complained about this to the League in vain. Certainly under such conditions we cannot expect sympathizers to send their children for training and teaching. Furthermore it appears as though the Central Committee has done nothing whatever to have childrens’ books published which could be used for study in their meetings. To give these children something to think about and also to study along communist lines, together with their actual participation in de- monstrations, etc., is of the utmost importance for the maintenance and growth of these groups. Let us hope that the Pioneers will be given more attention in the future. y the councils should perform. It must be clearly understood, however, that the councils exist only as a gathering center for the unemployed —to be kept these permanently. The councils should be a rort of a bridge over which the unemployed will come into our industrial leagues. = Another point worth while considering is, if the council is active and carries on demon- strating work many Negro workers may join our Party and the T.U.U.L. Through council No. 3, for example, we were able to get as many as 30 Negro workers directly into the Party. Why was it possible for this council to take in so many workers? Because our Party comrades have given this council a real leadership. When one of the workers came home and found the door locked because he had not paid rent for a few months, this council organized a demonstration in front of the house, broke through the door and removed the work- ers’ furniture. The workers’ that were gathered clearly understood our slogan, Fight against eviction—No Work, No Rent. The slogan on paper became an actually reality. Tears were rolling down the faces of some of the workers there and no one dared to say, “they are a bunch of Russian Bolsheviks.” The sympathy for the unemployed council was tremendous at this demonstration. The reason I mention this incident is because even leading members of our Party think that this is the kind of work ~ that will attract the unemployed and build up our organization. In conclusion, I wish to summarize my opin- ion as follows: 1, We should not build unemployed sections of our industrial leegues, but should bring the unemployed c\-ectly into our industrial unions. 2. The counci! center that will 1 ally to our leagues. 3. The leading body of the unemployed in the city should be the City Central of the T.U. U.L. All the unemployed councils should have two delegates to the City Central, thereby combining te employed and the unemployed. 4, The comrades responsible for the latest change overlooked the following important points: They lose sight of the political aspect of the work among the unemployed. They overlooked the weakness of our industrial leagues and narrow down our entire scope of reaching a wider seetion of the workers—pai ticularly the workers in the A. F. of L. unions who would join the unemployed councils much sooner than they would the industrial unions ‘d be a sort of gathering over its members gradu- | of the TUL, ! WAR VETS Want Soviet System Here (By a Worker Co NEW YORK Hospital, Welfare Island—I have served 11 years in the United States | military service and was gassed at “Argonne, October 1, 1918, and as a result of this misfortune I have de- veloped epilepsy, which is a per-| manent disorder which affl | mental facilities of the one afflicted. | I have been admitted to the Met-| yopolitan Hospital, situated at Wel- | fare Island, for observation before being sent to a sanatorium known | jas Craig Colony, in which I believe | \I will spend the remainder of my life. This is perfect compensation, according to the methods of the capi- talist system, and is what every worker may expect in return for ; conserving and striving to continue |this system which has decayed to! such an extent that it cannot func- | \tion any longer. I will specify a} ;few of its methods. Mr. Connolly, who stole $30,000,- 000 of the taxpayers’ money, is so- | journing over here in what is known | as the penitentiary and is given| every consideration necessary to his | comfort and welfare, while I, as a veteran of 11 years of service, am compelled to sleep on a spring in a drafty hallway and consume food | unfit for human consumption and | ; submit to abuse at the hands of } illiterate executives, wh ability | at taking the neces e of the {sick is confined to what benefits jean be derived from their employ- | ment for their personal benefit. —DISABLED WAR VETERAN. * ‘espondent) Metropolitan | | | ts the | NEW YORK, N. Y., Metropolitan (Hospital, Welfare Island—I am | | taking the privilege of dropping you | | this letter, and sincerely hope you will publish it, so as to show and | ‘convince the citizens of New York | City of the methods used by the | democratic party of robbing them |and expose the capitalist system of | distribution of taxes collected, so as | to convince then: of the necessity of }a change in their administration. | There has been an increase in sal- | ary allotted to firemen and police | |of the city of New York of $500 a| | year, and an attempt by Mr. James | Walker, mayor of New York, and other members of the executive |force of this administration to in- | crease their salaries from $15,000 a | year up. | Their ability as parasitical thieves jis unquestionable, but their educa- tion is not beyond question and their | ability for the position they hold is dubious. | Hospital, situated at Welfare Island, land have been an inmate of this in- | | stitution for the past several | months, and find that physicians at- | tached to this hospital are compelled by rules and regulations to have a| college education and a diploma to | prove they have essential qualifica- | tions to perform the tasks they are assigned to. These physicians are subject to call in emergency cases 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, and receive absolutely no compen- sation, although they have the same necessities to satisfy as the para- site and his hirelings that force sub- mission by these physicians, The nurses attached to this insti- tution are all high school young) | women with unquestionable charac- | |ters and excellent dispositions, oth- erwise they could not endure the existing conditions which are so re- pulsive that the average human in- | dividual could not submit to them; | their food is scanty and of poor quality and their pleasures curtailed in accordance with rules and regu- | lations, Although their necessities of life are the same as our Mayor, Mr. James Walker, who needs $15,000 a year or more to survive, these young ladies are granted the abundant sum of $25 a month to maintain them- selves. I believe that this is one reason to prove it is time to change this system and try some other. I suggest that the Soviet system, or that which is known as “Red,” be tried and result tested. © —MAC. NURSES WORK ~ LONG HOURS Bad Conditions for Hospital Workers (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK.—The workers in the hospitals, nurses and all other workers, are very much exploited. Long hours, low wages and many other miserable conditions are very si I am a patient in Metropolitan | A typical longshoreman on the southern seaport wharves. Daily seamen and longshoreme are turning to the Marine Workers Industrial Union for organization to fight against bad conditions and low wages. LAYOFF LOGGERS Establish New Record by Speed-up Work (By a Worker Correspondent.) SEATTLE, Wash.—I was work- ing for a few days in a logging camp a few miles out of Port An- geles, They established a new rec- ord in this camp for loading logs and about a week later part of the camp closed down, throwing some of the loggers who helped to increase the profits of the boss out of work. Now, we ain’t got the job, while some of the stiffs are having plenty of time talking about how the bosses speeded us up and increased pro- duction, while we are traveling \from place to place in boxcars or on foot looking for another job, while the bosses go on a pleasure | trip for a few weeks vainly wait- | ing for the market to stabilize it- elf. This camp is known as the Cres- cent Logging Co., which is owned by a fellow by the name of Irving, who was at one time a partner of Governor Hartley, but for various reasons, mostly political, Hartley’s name is never mentioned in connec- tion with the logging operations. This camp is about like the average, so far as logging camps go. The living conditions are nothing to boast about. They have what they call an eight-hour day here, and this is it: The loggers get up at six in the morning and leave camp at 6:30. Some of them take lunches which at most times are very poor, and some come in for dinner, and they have to ride about six miles on a logging tram. Those who come in take an hour and a half for lunch, all on their own time, and when they get back into camp at night it is after 6 o’clock. A person might as well say that he has to put in never less than eleven hours and some- times twelve. This is what they call an eight-hour day in the ma- jority of the logging camps on the Pacific Coast. We have listened to some of the National Lumber Workers’ Indus- trial Union men and read their lit- erature, about the Trade Union Unity League and real red, fight- ing unions like the old I. W. W. days. Thijs is what we want here. The I. W. W. is no better now than the A. F. of L. outfit, and now I am for the Trade Union Unity League. I just swapped my I. W. W. book for the T. U. U. L. and the National Lumber Workers’ Indus- trial Union. —ONE OF THE FIGHTING EX-I. W. W’S, Philly W.LR. Camp to Hold Opening PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The open- ing of the former Camp Huliet, now W. I. R. Camp, for the season of 1930, will be celebrated by a Mid- June outing on next Saturday and Sunday, June 14 and 15, arranged by the W.LR. for the benefit of the W.LR. childrens’ camp. Admission will be free and all workers are invited to spend their common factors. Hundreds of men! weekend in the woods of Lumber- : GANGS” GET DAY: GOT $6 IN 0; GRAFT IN IT? in Calls for Unity Between American Seamen ix-Navy M € “Shore Gang” Workers Union for Fight Against Conditions a Worker Correspondent) (By NEW YORK, N. Y.—I wonder whether the “Atlantic Transport Line,” subsidiary of the International Mercantile Marine, Morgan com- bine, Pier 60, 61, 62, 11{h Avenue, are so poor these hard times that they can only pay their “shore gang” three dollars for a day’s work of eight hours? I was hired in this ng carrying stores on board the $ for the use of the passengers nu the ship’s next voyage between > sday, and we worked pretty hard MIN} HDA and CALIFORNIA g between 500 and 600 during i, Antwerp and London. These stores include icc, flour, vegetables, beef, sacks of suge@, carcasses of mutton, etc., and I can assure you it’s pretty tough work carrying these things aboard the ship est at a run. I have sailed on some of these s' not get instheir daily food the good t aboard. The “Shore gang is a “casual” job and only occurs once in every two weeks and lasts for two days, or three d at the most. The men who work at it are nearly all seamen who are “on the beach” and are therefore destitute. Of course they are not organized. The three dollars for a day’: ay we are told is “sea pay,” i. e., the same rate of pay as the crew on the ship get plus “subsistence” money. Existence would be a heit But I contend we should get “shore pay,” since we are livi ashore, not at sea, We have to live at shore prices. For ug-infested reom at the seamen’s home on West Street cos ty cents and a meal at the restaurant below it costs around forty cents. and I know that the crews do we on the shore gang carried Perhaps the International Mercantile Marine people pay the three dollars on the supposition that the men are “at sea.” Yes, it is true we are “at sea” as far asorganization is concerned, as yet. Some of the men I hve talked with say that some years ago, 1920, the shore gang got six dollars per day for this job, and that there is some graft behind their system of pgyment. When we received our pay at the LM.M. office, I noticed that nearly everyone on the other side | of the pay table was armed with guns. As the paymaster snarled at | us because we became impatient waiting for the three dollars pay, it seemed to me more like a holdup than “graft.” The Daily Worker is the only champion of the American workers, the only paper which takes up the cause of the working class. I do not think the lot of seamen orshoregangs, whether Limeys or Yanks will be any better until they, together with the rest of the workers and poor farmers have decided to change the present system of cap- italism into one of Communism. —Ex-Service Navyman. | No Pay for Overtime at Burk Leather Co. (By a Wor ver Correspondent) 5 PHILADELPHIA—The conditions |ing get extra? No. It goes to th at the Burk Bros. leather factory | bosses’ pockets. And, then, manj |here are getting worse every day. | en este oo hide The speed-up system is awful. say nase ETB BES Gs Get TARE Work which was done in one week nonenee keep their family in bare before is d t t i le | 4 : of fh HRCA apne Naturally the bosses point ou | but the workers are not organized. that there are many unemployed an¢ thus they hire skilled men at lowe) The bosses compel the workers to | woes and scare the others. start one half hour earlier so that All this is caused by the fact tha‘ be e = a a ae oe we are not organized. But we have . Sa weapon to fight the bosses wit} one half hour the workers are not and this is the Trade Union Unity oat, oe nie neo the he | League, the only union whose lead spesiee Ge eat ae vie ie are ee from the variou: & ? , t ‘SCS | shops. e T. U. U. L wunites uw pe 8 advantage because they |in one solid group, where we cat mow that we are organized. }put our demands. Workers of th: Men are being laid off, but their; Burk Leather Co., get united anc work has to be done by those re- | fight for our demands. maining at work. Do the men work-! —BURK LEATHER CO. SLAVE. Worker’s Wife, Held for Deportation, Gets Poor Food j (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT.—In a further inves- tigation in regard to my wife and boy, held for deportation to Canada, I had an interview with her after jquite a struggle to get a pass to see her and I found out that she ;was fed two poor meals a day. Her day’s rations are as follows: A small bowl of mush for the first meal and for the other meal a piece of bread and weak coffee with no sugar or milk. This is a sample of the way the American immigration authorities treat the workers. I went to the immigration depart- ment to get a pass to see her. The; | sent me to the county jail and whe: I got there she had been remover from there to another place, ani then, after a lot of red tape, I sav her. I am boiling hot. This is th way they treat workers. I told then right to their face just what | thought of the situation. Workers, rally to the front of th: class struggle and fight this dam) capitalist system that separates hus band and wife, father and son. —A WORKER. GENERAL ELECTRIC HUGE HELL HOLE OF LOW PAY AND SPEED-UP (Special to The Daily Worker. SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—Tfhe baking plant. Here many Italia General Electric is one of the largest | women workers are employed wh plants in the world. It covers 645 | Teceive $2 to $8 a day for an eight acres of ground and there is a plan | "ur day. The clay pieces are in to build.on to the plant in the near | SPected ere by piece and bake future. ‘General Electric employs | and sprayed with Tiquid green pain 24,000 workers, not counting the | ‘hat is constantly inhaled by th 4,000 office ‘workers employed | Workers. The heat in this shop i The men, Polish, Italia: ie a many departments | 4 Blovak, sthrouphant jigs ie terrific. and women are paid $45 or $50 a month, with miserable, scanty meals and dirty and dark dormi- tories to sleep in. The workers are \hired and fired whenever it pleases \the authorities, without giving any hearing or investigation. The con- tract which has to be signed is that they are not responsible for any in- jury which occurs in the line of duty; they can also discharge when they feel like it. The hospitals are “training” hundreds of nurses in la- borious and menial tasks for three years. In reality, their training does not amount to anything. The ‘hospital simply exploits them, thus ‘having two or three years of free help, giving them after a diploma with which they hunt for work. Work is rather scarce, for the hos- pitals cannot employ them all. They re thrown on their own resources, nursing the ville, and have a cool good time. ENGLISH TRADE EFFECTED BY CRISIS. LONDON..--English trade is now the lowest since 1926, the year of the general strike. During the first. part of 1930 there has been a decline of $405,000,000 in trade, Unemployment increased 225,000 during this time. rich, of course, for the poor cannot afford to pay a specisl nurse $8 a day. The hours of a nurse is 12 2 day and the case lasts one or two} weeks. The nurse ig compelled to. move her home quite often, for if |she lives in the Bronx and gets a job in Brooklyn, “or vice verse, she is compelled to lose much time in traveling. “;TRAINED NURSE, These shops are divided into the following departments, induction motors, generators for?ship pr: siovw, searchlights, high volt: cuhles, high-powered turbines, clee- teival motors, elecirie refrigerator: foundry works, clay and clay bal- ing and huge machine shops. Nearly 50 per cent of the workers, men and women, are foreign born. becomes greater all the time. Tor- j merly American workers were used, | but the company feels now that it is better to hire foreign born be- cause the work is so hard and dirty and the pay so small that the Amer- jeans kick and make trouble for them. Even the Negroes of Schen- ectady do not want to work for the General Electric for the same rea- sons. The most poorly paid is the clay- The tendency to hire foreign born | | shon carn from $5 to $7 at the mo¢: veling machines, where they weig | the clay and set the machine at th jsame moment, in order to be read: (for the machine action at the righ | second, | ‘The speed-up at the machines i Thonstreus. Each worker is an auto ‘maton and an integral part of th cinechine, All the work is piece work, in order to give—so the com pany declares—men and women | hance to earn “according to thei ‘ability.’ It means that every sec ‘ond counts, and to lift the eyes fron the machine or to go for # dri’ costs money; worse than this, th speed-up is so terrible that a mo tion on the part of finger, arm o foot at the wrong fraction of a see ond can cost the loss of limb or life ‘The same is true of all the big powe Plants throughout the country. A pa A 4 & id Workers Should Join Mashid | i | a r 2 p M I SS Sea eee eet ee. A ae