The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1930, Page 3

HUGE TRACTOR PLANT | IS VICTORY IN SOCIALIST UFBUILDING IN U.S.S. R.| Dyerjinski Plant in Stalingrad Has Capacity of f 50,000 Tractors {Whole Tremendous Undertaking Was, Com- pleted in Little Over One Year MOSCOW (IPS).—On June 17 the great Djerjinski tractor works in Stalingrad was opened. This new giant tractor works is one of the largest industrial undertakings built within the framework of the Five-Year Plan and ranks in importance with the Turkestan-Siberian railroad. The works will turn out a largé “International Tractor” every six minutes and have an annual production of 50,000 tractors, thus representing one of the largest industrial undertakings in the world. The annual production of the new works will have a horse power capacity of a million and thus exceed the total capacity of the Dnieprostroi power station with its 800,000 h. p. It was originally intended to build a factory with an annual capacity of 10,000 tractors, but with the magnificent development of Soviet industry the plans were enlarged on a number of occasions. were to be opened was also cut down on a number of occasions, The date at which the works At first the date was 1932, then it was fixed for October 1, this year, then July 1 and finally the workers decided to have everything ready by June 17 for the opening of the Sixteenth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The whole tremendous undertaking was completed in a little over a year instead of the two years calculated by the American engineers in their plans. A little over a year ago the building site was a desert, today it is the site of a tremendous industrial undertaking employing 10,000 workers, with a socialist town to house them and their fai es, with clubs, theatres, cinematograph theatres, cooperatives, . schools, hospitals, laboratories and 30 kilometres of railway line. ~ Tractors were formerly built in the Putilov works in Leningrad and in the locomotive building works in Kharkov. These tractor de- partments are also to be increased so that the Putilov tractor depart- ment will have an annual production of 20,000 tractors and the depart- ment of the Kharkov locomotive works an annual production of 1,500 tractors. Further, two new giant tractor factories will be built in the Urals near Cheliabinsk and in Kharkov with an annual production of 40,000 and 50,000 tractors respectively. The building operations on these two giant works have already commenced. Both factories are to be completed inside 15 months. ‘At the end of the Five-Year Plan the Soviet Union will have 572,000 tractors at work socializing agriculture. In two or at the most three years the annual tractor production of the Soviet Union will be the largest in the world, larger even than the United States production. The building of agricultural machinery is also being pressed forward energetically. culgural machinery will open up in a few days in Rostov A large-scale factory for the mass production of agri- on the Don amd pour modern machinery into the Russian steppes. GONVENTION OF MUSTE'S UNION PARTY CLOSES OFFERS PAY CUT Accent Turn to the Or- ganization of Masses (Continued From Page One.) to the limitations inherent in capi- talist agriculture. This error in its grossest form conceives that capitalism is laying the complete technical basis for so- cialism, and is an opportunist con- ception of the possibility of “ gari-od capitalism.” Finance capital in agriculture is parasitic. Through contro! - keting, mortgages, monopoly prices, ete,, finance, capital takes its toll of agrivalture without, in the ma'> being interested in direct produc- tion, It is not performing a pro- gressive role. Another error is the belief that the technical advance has alone caused the agrarian crisis by caus- ing the surplus. But the surplus would exist without that, on the basis of the one-family anachronis- tie farm. It has been and will be accented by the diminishing demand due to growing unemployment, wage cuts. With the existence of the “scis- sors” (disadvantage of farm prices compared to industrial: prices) the great robbery of rent is a further cause of the sharpened crisis. Crisis Affecting Farm Workers. Details of the crisis as affecting the different categories of farmers end farm wage workers were given, vasline the advance of proletar- ianization, the pauperization of the poorer farmers, the intensified ex- ploitation of farm wage workers. The recommendations comprised those for immediate work to organ- ize a union of farm wage workers, concrete demands for poor farmers varying according to district but aimed to bring about a real strug- gle, strikes against high rents an4 taxes and eviction, struggle against the Farm Board and so-called “co- operatives” as agents of finance capital, to expose the “farm bloc” as tools of the banks. Particularly must this work center in the South, where the United Farmers League should center its activity. Comrades Martelo, Rowan, Bloor, Olmholt, Harju, Trachtenberg, Hei- kinen, Ehrenberg, Bloomfield and others participated in discussion, Heikinen specially pointing out that if work is not done in the agrarian field, yolitical conclusions must be drawn—that the comrades do not understand the necessity of this work to the proletarian revolution. The summary, accenting the im- perative need for a new turn in this as in other Party work, related the U. §S. agrarian crisis to the world crisis, and stressed the major in- fluence upon agriculture and the agricultural population of the ad- vance of socialization of agricul- ture in the Soviet Union, the effect of which is shattering world imper- ialism. Chicago Conference Against Terror The Chicago International Labor Defense will hold a conference on Sunday, June 29, at 10 a. m. at Kedzie Hall, 205 S. Kedzie Ave.. and all workers’ organizations and workers from factéries and shops F ‘or- | Hosiery Clique Ready for 50 P. C. Slash PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 26. —An open proposition for a wage cut which will amount to from 20 to 50 per cent on different classes of work was made yesterday by the bureaucracy report to the an- nual convention of the American |Federation of Full Fashioned Ho- siery Workers, in session here. This union is controlled by the Musteite | Budenz and his gang, and is a com- ponent part of the United Textile | Workers, also a Muste-owned outfit, with a reputation of outrageous sell-out of strikes in Elizabethton, Marion and other places. Fake Insurance. To make the wage-cut offer a little more palatable to the union rank and file, it is connected with a proposition for unemployment in- surance. However, it is made clear, though not emphasized in the re- port, that there will be no struggle with the employers over the insur- ance feature. All the Muste gang asks is that the bosses “accept in principle,” and no attempt is to ‘be made to force them tp contribute to the jobless during this mass un- |employment in the industry. The wage scale is so highly com- | plicated, being different for each of 150 styles, with about ten sub- divisions to each style and with dif- ferent rates for the various crafts and divisions of crafts (toppers, jleggers, helpers, etc.), that no one jean understand i, and the boss |can pay any rate he sees fit. Trick Already Exposed. The National Textile Workers’ Union and articles in the Daily | Worker have previously warned of | exactly this trick. The whole story of the deal between the employers jand the Fu Fashioned officials and the bangaining over whether the cut shoukd be 19, 23 or more per cent has been explained. The pres- ent convention (really a conference of hand-picked officials) will prob- ably accegyt anything. It is up to the rank; and file of the Hosiery Workers to put a stop to this, by disregaiding their officials, elect- ing mifl committees and making connection with the National Tex- tile Workers’ Union, are urged to send delegates. The aim of the meeting is. to intensify activities and to be able to insure | defense to all workers taking part class struggles. o | Today in History of the Workers June 27, 1896—Socialist Tra and Labor Alliance organized | Socialist Labor Party adheren‘ .in New York. 1905—Crew « Russian armored cruiser Poter kin mutinied at Odessa again mistreatment by Tsarist officer 1909—Pittsburgh, Pa., street co lines tied up by strike. 1917- Arizona militia called out to break strike of I. W. W. in cop- per mines. 1895—American branch of International Labor Defense founded in Chica, |in the present and in the coming UNITY LEAGUE Eisenman Calls for Fight on Renegades New York. | Dear Editor, Daily Worker— | About five months ago there was |formed the United Association of | Plumbers Helpers. The group was formed through a strike that arose |out of a wage cut. The plumbers (helpers who partook in this small \ strike realized the necessity of an \organization and immediately start- \ed the United Association of Plumb- lers Helpers which they thought | would fight for their demands and \give them better conditions, But |these helpers did not realize that they were putting their trust into a group of misleaders, three reaction- ary Cannonite renegades. These renegades maneuvered the group in such a way and they forced the comrades out of the group be- cause the militant comrades who |were in there fought to affiliate | with the Trade Union Unity League, | the only organization that is organ- izing the unskilled as well as the skilled workers. The T.U.U.L. is not selling out and betraying the workers as the fakers in the A. F. of L. are doing and whom these Trotskyite misleaders are trying to affiliate with. The plumbers helpers can not ex- ist as an isolated little sect com- pletely disassociated from the rest of the revolutionary working class that is organizing under the Trade Union Unity League. The renegades who are keeping the plumbers help- ers from j yelling their heads off “Don’t join that organization, it’s Communist, they’re out to mislead you.” These are the words and many other re- actionary slogans that come from the mouths of the renegades who claim that they are the good Com- munists in existence. The helpers have long carried on their struggle under the American PUT CANDIDATES Ratification Meet Sunday, July 13 MINNEAPOLIS, June 26.—Hun- signatures to place the Communist candidates on the ballot in the No- vember elections are now being cir- culated throughout Minnesota, the election campaign committee of District. 9 announced. The Communist Party of Minne- {sota has already nominated as its standard-bearers the following candidates: For U. S. Senate, Rudolph Harju; for Governor, Karl Reeve; for Lieu- tenant Governor, Andrew Roine; for Secretary of State, Henry Bart- lett; for Congress, 5th District, Minneapolis, Rebecca Grecht; for Congress, 10th District, Minneap- olis, David Moses; for Congress, 4th District, St. Paul, A. N. An- derson. Two More Days \ ing the T.U.U.L. are | IN FIELD IN MINN, dreds of nominating petitions for | in the elections | “ WORKED) romthe. Toledo, Ohio. Daily Worker:— Just a little information about | working conditions for women in | Toledo. In the Mercy Hospital here conditions are just like hell. day, 7 days a week, with four hours |a week off for recreation. | Kitchen help work 9 hours a day, 6Y, days a week, under the most miserable conditions. Their sleep- ing quarters are without ventila- tion and it is like sleeping in an oven. The food is rotten and not enough of it. Being a Roman Catholic institu- tion, it is dominated by priests and nuns, who treat the help like species of animals. Civility and courtesy to the help is entirely unknown here and from what little is paid in wages deduc- tions are being made for commu- nity chest and other “charitable” institutions. « ae PAY $7 A WEEK IN LAUNDRY. ..The Reliable Laundry of Toledo did employ a large number of | women and girls, but have cut down | forces considerably. Those retained Association of Plumbers Helpers and have long carried on their struggle to get into the A. F. of L. The | know that it is a losing fight; they have had that experience. The help- | ers are also beginning to realize who |their misleaders are. At the last \election they elected a plain rank and file worker as president of the organization. The A. F. of L. has many times before told the helpers that it is not interested in organ- {zing the plumbers helpers. Plumbers helpers, don’t let your- selves be misled by the fakers like |Sperigan and his clique who are | trying to line up the helpers into |the A. F. of L. so that they will be misled. The only way that you can get organization is to join the | and Construction Workers Industrial League, the only section of the Orderlies are worked 12 hours a | Plumbing Section of the Building | | work like hell to make $7 or $8 a | week. est pretext and the boss struts around like a bully, raving and shouting at them like a monster. The help is constantly changed and everybody in the place is most un- | happy and miserable. ; Woolworths, Toledo, is no better. In fact, every girl employed here is considered a potential thief, for | every morning when they go to | work their pocketbooks are searched | and the money counted. This is re- peated at quitting time, to preserve and protect the Woolworth millions. ORGANIZE FOR FIGHT. How much longer are the work- ng women and girls of Toledo go- ing to tolerate all these humiliat- ling conditions? | Why don’t you organize into a mass industrial organization and |learn how to fight for a human standard of living. Get in touch |at once with the headquarters of | |the Trade Union Unity League, | 2011% Canton St., where all infor | mation and assistance will be given |to you. Now is the time, for delay | will mean more misery and suffer- | ing. | —TOLEDO GIRL WORKER. | working class in the building trades |that is organizing the workers and is not selling them out or betraying them to the bosses as the renegade |Sperigan and his clique are trying |to do, but the helpers are beginning to realize this and are begging to |drop out. Join the plumbing section jof the Trade Union Unity Li now. Don’t wait until the f sell you out! —HARRY EIS PATERSON MILLS CLOSE INVENTORY. Because of over-production Pater- son mills will close down and take |inventory—in some cases as long as |ten days. This is of great concern to thousands of workers who, when mills run full-blast, can hardly keep |themselves fed and clothed. FOR They get fired on the slight- | CALLS PLUMBERS Hunger Wages, Humiliation HANDKERCHIEF HELPERS 10 JOIN Toledo Women Workers Lot SIRLS MUST FIGHT LAYOFFS Organize Against the Wage Cuts! New York. Daily Worker:— Over ten years I had to work in the International Sealpackerchief | Handkerchief Co., 187th St, and Willow Ave., under speed-up and piece-work. Conditic ten for the 500 gi tory. After working so long under rotten conditions the bosses of the factory laid off all the older work- ing girls and a few remain for work with wages cut in half. This happened a few days ago. All these girls were turned away without any protection. Why? Because we are without organization, and workers without organization, it seems to me, are without hands. For many years we had the opportunity to organize, but nothing came of it, because these girls could not under- stand what “union” means. | After a,while a bulletin was is- sued by a few members of the Young Communist League. For four years from the issue of these leaflets they did not show any progress. Why? Because the above group was afraid to do ‘their duty. I appealed to these girls from the Daily Worker to join the union and fight against the ex- ploitation of the bosses. Other- wise we had to be slaves for the -drivers. firing the girls, one girl was walk- ing on the street right near the | A detective came over and ed her what she wanted there. She replied that she was waiting for someone, and this tool of the said: “Get out of here.” She said: “What for?” He said: “You will tell it to the judge.” Then he started to chase after her for about three blocks. —SYLVIA FILIGES. factory. bosses Together with the drive for sig- natures, an intensive campaign is |being carried on for delegates to the state ratification conference, which will be held in Duluth, Min- nesota, at Camels Hall, 12 Hast Superior St., on Sunday, July This conference will expose the Farmer-Labor Party, given effective proof of its char- acter as an agent of the employing !class, in its attack upon the unem- ployment campaigns of the Trade Union Unity League, its open ap- peal to small business men, its com- plete failure to raise its voice against the wage-cutting, speed-up campaigns of the bosses in Minne- sota. The struggle against social reformism and open fascism, in |which the farmer-labor party and A. F. of L. officials, the IL. W. W. leadership and the Trotskyites are united, is one of the principal is- sues in the Minnesota election cam- paign. All workers’ organizations urged to elect their delegates and send credentials immediately to the office of the Communist Party, District 9, 424 Kasota Building, Minneapolis. are FROM 10 TO MIDNIGH PLEASANT BAY PARK Bronx Park Subway to East 177th Street Unionport car to end of line and Fifth Avenue Bus to the Park. SPORTS tel eenen which has | Left to the Red Election RED SPEARS ARE. ACTIVE IN CHINA They Are Essentially Discontented Peasants Capitalist press reports state that “Red Spears are overrunning a great portion of Shantun: have been active in North China for years. Who are the so-called “Red Spears?” They are armed peasants organized in bands, partly for self- ‘ense against the ravages of gov ernment troops and heavy taxation ete. Such bands are prevalent in North China. Although essentially organizations of the peasants, the Red Spears are partly dominated by |rich peasants or even small land owners, and are politically very beckward, They are entirely dif- ferent from the peasant Soviets and peasant guerilla troops in South China which are 100 per cent class j ors nizations of the peasants, led \by the proletariat, and are politically very developed. However, militant workers are RALLY THE WORKERS IN YOUR SHOPS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ATTEND THE RED ELECTION | CAMPAIGN PICNIC Sunday, June 29 T ENTERTAINMENT Admission Thirty-five Cents NEW YORK STATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY In fact, they | Campaign Picnic! |Hold Annual Picnic July CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The an- nual picnic of the Communist Party that will be held at Minona Park | July 4th, will mark the beginning of an intensive election campaign. | Together with I. 0. Ford, candi-/ s date for governor who will be the |main speaker there will be other Communist candidates who will ad- dress the workers present. In addition to this splendid pro- gram their will also be sports, gan refreshments and dancing. | Directions to get to the Minona Park: Take West 25th State Road car, change to Dinky car, then ride to the end of the line, gradually penetrating into the Red Spears and are helping the poor peasants to secure hegemony of these organizations. FARM IN THE PINES Situated im Pine Forest, near Mt. Lake. German Table. Rates: 816— $18. Swimming and Fishing. M. OBERKIRCH Box 78 KINGSTON, \Pr.4, N.Y. Fight for Communist Election Program DANCING A few days after) Page Three (ATLANTA BAIL | AIDS LYNGHERS Set High to Hold Five While Klan Works Up June ATLANTA, Ga | hind it the very sinister purpose of | giving the Klu Klux Klan another hoodlum elements an opportunity to storm the jail and lynch the workers is becoming clear ey Only a few weeks ago, the Klu Klux Klan, long dead in the cit Atlanta, began to revive its act ry day | ties. A leaflet was passed out in \large numbers during t night throughout Atlanta calling on all | their members to gather together at a certain spot where th to “hear all, see all, and say n ing to foreigners.” At the se spot the following day, a large num- ber of real estate shar |of the gospel, lawyers, man, bankers, mill owners, bootleggers owners of dives, politicians—all this scum met, and listened to the rav- ings of their leaders, and allowed their pay-triotic fervor to to fever heat. Then, robed in the gown and dunce cap of their outfit so were h- ected ministers rise that they were safe from being identified, they paraded through the mill sections of Atlanta and surrounding territory—a deliberate and provocative attempt to intimi- date the workers. It is significant that they chose particularly those seetions of the city where working- class literature and leaflets has | been passed out in the past, by the International Labor Defense, and | other organizations. Parade Past Jail Since then a parade has been staged by the same elements past Fulton Towers where the six work- ers are imprisoned. The word was freely passed that “we will get |those reds yet.” However, they did not consider the time just oppor- tune enough, nor their number suf- ficient. Assistant Solicitor-General Hudson is deliberately playing their game in setting the bail so high, in refusing under any conditions to |lower the bail, in putting numer- ous difficulties in the way to ob- tain the release of the workers un- | til the date set for the trial. Atlanta is at present having its own Tea-Pot-Dome scandal. Nu- merous leading politicians and members of the City Council are | hurling charges of graft, bribery, | ete. at each other. What better then to divert the attention of the work- ers in the city from the corrupt, |graft ridden administration, then to stage a red-baiting campaign | against the six workers! It is said | that George M. Cohan, the play producer, was once given to run | across the stage with a huge Amer- | ican Flag whenever one of his plays | Was particularly rotten. In this way, the audience forgot all about 4, Cleveland |the play and would break out in| }loud applause. The mill owners and | their city administration are trying the same game, are engaging in a | réd-baiting campaign to cover up | the foulness of the administration— | with the lives of six workers at ke MASS SINGING, CA SWIMMING, BOATING, Concert Program for String Qu less Symphony Orchestra. Add 50c per week Reservations with $5.00 deposit 10 EAST 17TH STREET Rallroad fare Fishing in Register No Register Our buses lea és i \ ian — -_ shalepeemainas cto. A. = $ he e548. ee REGISTER NOW FOR JULY July and August $21.00 per week Ee REGISTER NOW BEFORE IT IS LATE! UNITY CAMP WINGDALE, N. Y. CAMP PHONE WINGDALE, N. Y. 51 A COOPERATIVE CAMP FOR WORKERS Gather Strength for the Looming Fight! Good Food, Comradely Atmosphere Proletarian Sports, tural Activities. Bathing, Boating, and CARNIVAL, BALL, MUSIC AND DRAMATICS AS Seventh Avenue, New York City. Tel. Monument O111 or at ‘he Barber Shop, 30 Union Square. ‘BURLAK TO SPEAK AT CONFERENCE Philadelphia Welcome at Station Tomorrow PHIA, Pa., June 26.— loyed will as- 1 St. station of ‘oad at noon Anna Burlak, ‘onal Labor De- facing in electricu- and for worke will be on the fifth anni of the founding of the International La- bor Defense and one of many cele- brations and demonstrations that PHILADEI 4 Workers uner - greet ld Interne organi: in the el are also held ‘o and white v nder whe chair for ta N organizing will be held that day. F e other workers in jail in At- lanta are also electtrocu- tion on the s s, “incite- | ment to insurrection.” 1 released on bail last tempts are being made to bail the other workers held for Speaks In Plaza. | | Burla , after her arrival at the railroad station, will be taken to the City Hall Plaza, where she will deliver a short talk. On Sunday she will deliver a report on the Ate lanta cases at the I. L. D. confer ence at 95 N. Fifth St., at which delegates will be present represent- ing many industrial and trade unions and labor fraternal organ- izations. Plans are also being con- sidered to hold a banquet in her honor. After leaving here Burlak will pay a short visit to Bethlehem, where her parents live and where she worked in the textile mills for four years. The Anna Burlak Branch of the I. L. D, in that city is arranging a huge welcome for her. ‘ Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- | mond, in prison for fighting | for unemployment insurance. WANTED VOLUNTEERS UNEMPLOYED SOLIDARITY DAY Sunday, June 29 STATIONS: 10 E, 17th St.; 27 E. Fourth St.; Needle Workers, 131 W. 28th St.5 Food Workers, 16 W. Zist Sts Unity Cooperative, 1800 7th Ave.s Bronx Cooperative, 2700 Bronx Park East; 26 Union Square; 68 Whipple St., Brooklyn; 2001 Mer- maid Ave., Coney Island. Collect for Chicago Unemployed Convention Workers International Relief | WORKERS COOPERATIVE CAMP WOCOLONA WALTON LAKE, MONROE, N. Y. TELEPHONE MONROE 89 SPEND YOUR VACATION WITH COMRADES! MP _ FIRES, SPORTS, DANCING, DISCUSSION intet arranged by the Conductor- Costume Ball FOURTH! for the Labor Press. to be made at New York Office Phone Gramercy 1013 82.60 round trip. Recreation and Cul- Lake Unity. w for July 4th at ance at Tel. Stuyvesant 8774. Corner 110th Mon, 12 noon. mth Avenw