The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1930, Page 2

Page Two, EE WORKER, NEW _ DAILY YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1930 > EVEN LIAR TAT HIN GRE NOT STAND LAMON TALE OF BUT 2 MILLION IDLE Gapitalist Press Chokes Over It Also; B Statistical Advisors Dunn’s Review Talks of “Half Year With No|«ts) of the c “gd Gains”, and WASHINGTON, D. C., June —When William Green, of the A. F. L. and alwa: to please the bosses, c ployment figures in h an estimate on the b tics his office h many union members work, he thought he he could for the Hoover lia put the figure at 3,600,000 in the country, and stuck to it in the face of all evidence and reason, The angry outcry from his own union members, who know that in each of the u there is a tr mendously high percentage, and that conditions are still worse among the unskilled and those who are not even allowed in the job trust unions, did not make him any more truthful. But when Secretary of Commerce Lamont shows up with a real, ra- tionalized, large scale business, high finance lie by saying that the census shows there are only 2,198,- 588 jobless, even Green has to gasp. | He can’t compete with Lamont. } body would believe him. For his own sake he has to reprove Lamont. He does so as gently as ible: “The federation’s preliminary es- timate of the total number une ployed in May is 3,600,000. Th ers or farm laborers. The prelim-| inary figure shows a gain of only 3) per cent since February when 3,- 700,000 were out of work. “The hoped-for improvement unemployment did not in} materialize summer | enough figure does not include office work-| their carefully built up, even though | and pr !New York Sun yesterday editori 2 a 30585 | Admit Crisis Worse Depression Comes” cent of the union mem- 1 out of work. This fi j as many unem- ry (20 per cent) h there been a slight ent since the Feb: 2 per cent were unemployed. e than one-third ( per cent) of those out of work y are back at More than tw f work are out June 122 per Meanwh “The week closed a half y developed _ not new in the com cial situation. “With the advance toward mid- year and the announcements of preparations for extended vacation shutdowns or curtailments in in- dustrial lines, there has been a fu ther quie’ trade distributi whi ofan g¢ fund nercial and All thi lated into pla English means that the orthodox economists of the bourgec s+ tem, when talking for business men and not to fool the worke: admit things are bad and getting worse. Certain capitali: papers think of their circulation and false, reputation for meeuracy to r volt at Lamont’s yarn. Thus, the characterizes as “patently culo’ a statement that only 3 per cent of the population is out — —— T TAX SWINDLE pao i. ce Misealled “Dues” NEW YORK—The regime of ger Golden in Local 42 (block loth Hat, Cap and rs’ Union, was badly meeting Thursday night linery Work shaken in which was called to ider_the| very unpopular collective agree- ment, but which never got around! | to that order of business because| the members insisted on assailing| even more unpopular swindle e clique is putting over on them, | At a meeting in March the; clique put over on the 1,500 mem-} bers in t x, to be| paid for a week. | ied it was, is que got around it by it a raise in dues. When es were read at the next ¢ (the one Thu: ay night) led a raise in dues, and mighty prote: at the Dis- had already arisen at the oft ’s recording of the dollar as dues in the union dues books. A| ; mem of the opposition groups made a motion to reconsider the use about dues. The machine fought this, and there were a num- ber of votes, and appeals were} |€aken from the rulings of the chair, | in which the chair was voted down. | Finally a motion carried to put} | the Golden henchman out of the; | chair, bet Golden got himself elect- Jed by majority of one as chair- man. Zari the expulsion expert} lent of the union, was! Golden, who has a feud | theless called him| s how to decide | the matter. The workers rejected this with vigor, and Zaritsky re-| tired, shamefacedly. | i and | with him, nev to tell the wo: there, | ers’ children and the release of the FOREIGN BORN N. Y. WORKERS CHILDREN )F] Ef ATION iS SEND DELEGATION TO CHI.’ GREETED AT MEET NEW YORK.—Together with the adult workers and young workers, the workers children are participat- ssed $52 Which Is. ing in the national conference of Tel] gf Growing Work-! Pri the unemployed at Chicago. | Under the leadership of the Young | Pioneers of America there will be| a special children’s conference held! at Chicago, to raise the demand of free food and clothing for the chil- dren of the unemployed and the release of Harry Eisman. The workers’ children of New York are sending a delegation of twelve chil- dren, among them, a Negro, a Spaniard, a bootblack, newsboy and caddy, three unemployed work- ers’ children and a few others. This delegation has been popul- arized among the workers’ children and when it returns it will carry to the fore the struggle for food and clothing for unemployed work- ers State NEW YORK.—With enthusiasm, more than 400 workers present at the membership and mass meeting of the Friends of the Soviet Union, \held in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. | Fourth St., greeted the trade union delegation that recently returned |from the Soviet Union. | Harriet Silverman, secretary of the I’. S. U., welcomed |the delegation in the name of or- ganization. M. J. Olgin charged the delega- tion with the duty of letting the | workers of the United States know that what the Russian workers |could do in 1917 could.also be done | by the American workers, now suf- fering under the miseries of the | capitalist crisis. “The delegation comes at a most opportune time,” declared Robert | Dunn, noted economist, speaking on the Fish Fishing Expedition, “to counteract the anti-Communist drive planned by the Fish committee.” The Fish Expedition is a serious one, Dunn said. The present fa cist trio of Fish, Woll and Easl want to play the part played by Daugherty, Fall and Palmer in the Red raids of 1920. The Civic Federation, militant workers child, the member of the Young Pioneers, Harry Eis- man, RALLY JOBLESS Italian Workers Hit Evictions in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, June 29.—The | language organizations are coming | Woll is acting president, is work- out of their isolation and beginning | ing hand in glove with the Fi to respond splendidly to the task | committee toward preparing fed- of preparing for and helping to jeral legislation outlawing the Com- make the convention of July 4 and|munist Party and the revolutionary us success, The lan-| unions of the Trade Union Unity of Chicago is giving | League. Great applause greeted the ap- 5 a tremendot guage press the unemployment issue much more publicity than formerly. They are giving their full ener- | gies to the tasks of electing dele- gates to the conventions and pre-| paring food and lodging for those Even man of the delegation, arose to speak. and collected facts, Donovan told of the notable achievement of the Soviet toilers under their Five- New York} of which | pearance of Daniel Donovan, chair- | when he} Marshaling figures | |$3 FOR 12-HOUR DAY ON BIG CAPITALIST ESTATE | AMARILLO, Tex., June 29.—The | harvest stiff of old would feel pret- lty uncomfortable on the Hickman} s 15,000 acre ranch in the) panhandle, where tractors| | operate 24 hours a day and men | work in two shifts of 12 hours each. | | Price boasts that they eat their {lunches on the machines. Ten 60 | h. p. caterpillar tracto | bines cut grain costs to $ |he says. Price expects to s 500 and even 1,000 h. p. tractors in | use, to cut costs further. | The ranch king pays his tractor labor $3 a day and 10 cents an hour bonus. To keep thenrfrom stealing occasional refAxation, he has meters on each machine. WAGE WAR ON “C. S.” STATUTE Selling Tex: Threaten Deportation For Daily Worker in San Fra ANCISCO, Calif., June 29.—On Fr y, June 20, a worker | selling the Daily Worker was picked the streets by an immigra- SAN F 29. }up on |tion officer) and sent to Angel \Island, where he is being held for | deportation. His name is Harry Smith. The International Labor Defense on the Pacific Coast, consisting of | Districts 12, 13 and 14, are having a Pacific Coast Conference July 27 in Los Angeles, Calif., to take up the question of the fight against the |eriminal syndicalism laws and a fight to free the Imperial Valley workers. The Pacific Coast Conference will follow district conferences to be held in three distrits. San Fran- | cisco will have its conference on July 16 at 145 Turk St. Calls have been sent to unions and fraternal organizations and they will also be visited by the I. L. D. representa- tives. BRITISH JOBLESS ARMY VOLUNTEER EVERY WORKER! EVERY PARTY MEMBER! EVERY Y. C. L. MEMBER! for Daily Worker NEW HAVEN Sunday, July 6th Apply at 38 Howe Street ROCKFORD July 11th, 12th and 13th coming in from out of town. and says, of Lamont’s Golden saw his position was very | © in June. Reports from trade un | Year Plan. s a matter of fact, th do not mean anything.” in twenty-four cities show unem- fig- ployment just as high as in Ma: Police Murder Demonstrators in Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia, June 27.—There | of La Paz, is captured by the Ca- was a joint demonstration of work- | macho regiment of troops stationed ers and students in this city on Sunday, June 22. The police at-! , tacked the demonstrators and 84) ofticors controlling the city persons were killed by the police. / named four men as their choi Some of the victims are women and |form a new government in Bolivia. children. The dead bodies of the |‘The four men named are Alblanco ioe ae ry one pies | Galindo, Jose Lanza, Mariaca Pando Bevee een Olbuere € POPU-| Osnorio and Julio Sanjines. lation, particularly bet ia are| “The intensified political situation very excited. La Paz is the capital) j, Bolivia is a result of the shar- oft Bolivin. pening conflicts between British Oruro, a city of 33,000 popula- and American imperialism in Latin tion and about 125 miles southeast America. 30 Million fer Warships, While Jobless Starve A bill providing for the modern- | war mongers in order to bring the jzation of three battleships of the | Wall Street fleet up to parity with American imperialist fleet was ap-| 1; i, worth noting that while the proved by the house naval commit-| wall Street government refuses to tee yesterday. The bill authorizes| give a single cent to the millions an appropriation of $30,000,000 for | of jobless workers, it has millions modernizing the New Mexico,jof dollars to spend on war prepara- Mississippi and Idaho. This is con- | tions in defense of the bosses’ prof- sidered necessary by the imperialist! its and markets. in the city, according to an offi | communique issued by the Council f Ministers Wednesday night. The have Spargo, Social-Fascist Trained, Bosses Dark Horse WASHINGTON, D. C, — John] had reached the end of his rope as Spargo, ex-socialist leader and cru-| far as handing out brazen and sader extraordinary against Com-| hopeless lies about unemployment, munism has been trotted out as a| the crisis, etc., Wall Street began dark horse for the post of Secre-| casting around for a secretary of tary of Labor. Spargo supported) labor that possessed the finesse of Hoover during 1928. a socialist-trained politician. As a Seeing that the “rough andj result Spargo is being boomed for ready” republican James J. Davis! the post. A Prelude to A New Scene in Arms Race ROME, June 27.—The prelude to|ister of finance, openly stated that a new scene in the imperialist race| if the proposed increased expendi- for armaments has just been sound- | ab for Bea pase a 5 e is passed by the Frenel ed in Rome Wednesday night. In| chamber, Italy will make similar his budget speech to the Senate, Antonio Mosconi, the fascist min- Britain Launches $45,000,000 Navy Program LONDON, June 27.—A. V. Alex- increases armaments. struction program for 1930 } | With both Zaritsky and Golden bad- | the fleet of the British imperialists. | in her expenditures on will weak, and had one of his gang| move to approve the minutes, to) art all over from the beginning. | This did not pass, and the clique} then managed to adjourn the meet- ing, which had lasted from 7 p. m. to 11:20, with nothing done, but} st ly damaged in prestige. Golden was caught showing his following! how to vote. The clique’s tellers were caught miscounting votes. There will be more meetings soon, The question of the collec- tive agreement is a vital one. Zar-|} itsky united the previously unor- | ganized bosses into an association, and arranged an agreement with | this association. It still has to pass the union membership, and the clique is straining every nerve to | force it through. Naturally it is | bad for the members. CAN'T STAND SPEED-UP; KNOCKS OUT MILL BOSS SIMPSONVILLE, S. C., June 29. —This small textile town is seeth- ing with excitement over a mill | worker’s retaliation against a boss | man who was hounding him con- | tinually for greater speed, A |stretchout system had just been in-} | stalled in a branch of the Wood- |side mill, and the bosses were tramping around slave driving the | workers. | One of them who could stand it no longer snatched a bobbin off and| laid his tormentor low. The boss is in the hospital, and the worker is { out on bonds. Bail was granted to! pathetic Italian clubs in the terri- | will Bane quite the angry mill workers who| |think the man with the bobbin did | just right. HETCH HETCHRY MEN COMPLAINED Told of Dangers But Reports Were Ignored; Gas Blinded Workers. | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June. |29.—In connection with the recent |explosion in the Alameda tunnel of the San Francisco water system, which cost seven lives, the Indus- trial Accident Commission has | cil, which meets regularly at 900 S. | more than that, the various organ- izations are holding mass meetings on the issue of unemployment and organizing the unemployment coun- cils. In one case, the Italian Work- eys’ Club, demonstrations are held in front of houses where evictions are taking place. The language papers will have; a special issue on International | Solidarity Day, tomorrow, which | will deal mainly with the July 4} and 5 convention and stress the necessity of helping the movement of the revolutionary workers and peasants of India, Defend the Evicted. The Italian Workers’ Club has organized an Unemployment Coun- | Paujna St. This council has al- ready held two demonstrations in front of houses where evictions have taken place. On June 23 a giant demonstra- tion, attracting over 1,000 workers, was held near a house from which | a tenant had been thrown out be- | cause of inability to pay rent. There | were several squads of police and) detectives at the spot, but they did not dare to attack the meeting until | the crowd had nearly dispersed, and only a few remained for the pur- | pose of removing the furniture which was lying’ in an alley. After everybody had gone they proceeded | to beat up and arrest several com- rades. Field Organizers. This organization has also sent two field organizers out of town Their job is to hold open-air mass | meetings and obtain delegates from | the mass of workers and the sym- tory. The Freiheit Workers’ Club has organized an Unemployment Coun- cil, which will hold its meetings regularly. | Branch 89 of the International Workers’ Order has donated $25 to the convention and is preparing to house and feed delegates. The Ukrainian comrades will send delegates from 16 organizations to the convention. The women are go- ing of cellecting food. Also, they have donated the use of their La- bor Home for feeding the delegatés to the convention. BREAD AS MANY STARVE |YOUNG PLAYS POLITICS; ander, the first Lord of the Admir- alty, revealed Wednesday in the House of Commons that Britain has just launched a $45,000,000 naval building program which will be completed in three years. The con- consist of three cruisers, all of the six-inch gun type; one flotilla of destroyers, comprising one leader and eight destroyers; three submar- ines; four sloops; one net layer and a target towing vessel. Ukraine Fulfills Spring Sowing Plan MOSCOW (LP.S.).—The agricul- tural commissariat of the Ukrain- ian Soviet Republic reports that the spring sowings plans for the country have been fulfilled 100.4 per cent. Up to May 25, 17,924,000 hectares were sown, making to- WORKERS gether with the autumn sowings a total of 27,748,000 hectares, The Pravda publishes an appeal to the other grain districts to fol- low the magnificent example of the Ukrainia and carry out the sowing plans 100 per cent by the opening of the Sixteenth Party Congress. CALENDAR NO! eo mmunist Parey picnic will be on Sunday, July 6 at Elm Tree ve, 6541 ing Park Blvd. All welcome, PENNSYCVANIA i} ta. for the return of Am 0) and Farmers ation to the $.R, will be held ¢ FSU. ae few Treymore Hall, ; Klin and Columbia Aves. on July at p.m. | 4 M Picnic arracigedtty the Communist at Frank Gadjas at 7 Mime ee WISCONSIN Piente Arranged by the Workers E - tional Club of West Allis will met on July 4 at Arcadia on the Green- field Highway. Bi i d the Dalle Worker: enefit Radnik and [CONNECTICUT ——~] Ratification Cont hrence, Of the onnecticut electlon campaign of the Communist Party twill be held on Sunday, July 6 at i1 adm. at Venta Hall, 103 Green St., Watefbury, Conn, TEXAS COLONEL TELLS HOW TO BLIND PICKETS made public a list of complaints sent in last March by workers, which were never acted on. These include charges that food was unsanitary, that men became CHAIN STORE BURNS THE: PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 29.) —While victims of unemployment are starving, the American Stores, | chain grocery.corporation, feeds its | furnaces each day with two truck- loads of unsold bread. “One day I saved some cakes,” a} fireman said, “to take home to the | kids. I thought it would be all) right. The foreman spied me at| the gate and he raised the devil | and told me it should never happen } again.” | “We're having tough times in| Philly,” said the fireman. He was a boilermaker, he said, and only} took this job because of hard times. He had to work at the furnace nine | hours a day and got $28 a week. “My home’s mortgaged,” he said, “and I’m not too far from the sheriff.” Last year sheriff sales | of Philadelphia real estate amounted | to $67,000,000. When organization was suggested the fireman answered: “Sure we need a union. I used to belong be- fore. It ain’t no cinch to live.” - MOONEY, BILLINGS PAY. SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 29. Governor Young has reiterated | his statement that if the supreme court makes a recommendation of | he ler it his duty to pardon | both Mooney and Billings. He dep- recated the claim that his delay was | connected with his candidacy for | | re-election. Since this charge has |never been made publicly, the gov- | ernor’s apology is a good indication | of his fears and furnishes further | evidence for the earlier prediction that if Young is nominated in Au- gust the Preparedness Day victims will remain in jail. jclemency in the Billings case, PHILADELPHIA LITTLE THEATRE 2222 MARKET STREET AMKINO PRESENTS ‘The World Famous Film GROWS. LONDON—The unemployed army in Great Britain is steadily increas- ing, according to the latest report of the secretary of the ministry of labor. On June 2 the total number of unemployed that were registered amounted to 1,775,100. This rep- resented an increase of 5,049 over the week before and 674,975 over a year ago. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! DAILY WORKER excursion JULY 20 Workers International Relief Opens July 6th, 1930 at Lumberville, Pa. Rates: $6.00 and up per worker’s child. REGISTER NOW! 39 NORTH TENTH STREET Walnut 6614 PHILADELPHIA ‘he work we make is good. Or- ganizations’ work—our specialty. sick because of lack of garbage dis- | posal, that insufficient water was |furnished, that gases at Indian! | Creek Camp caused partial blind- ness and the men received improper treatment, that no rescue equip- ment was near the point of work and that not even superintendents were skilled in rescue work and a some of them in violation of state dangerous equipment and rules, |variety of complaints concerning | law. Sears Roebuck Holds Printers Under Guns INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 29.— Non-union printing trades men pro- ducing the Sears Roebuck and the Montgomery Ward mail order catalogues are housed in what is “ARSENAL” a WUFKU production Directed and written by ALEXANDER DOVZHENKO Symbolic representation of the Ukrainian Revolution, | Photo- graphy beautiful and dramatic! Pantomime and tableaux superb. DALLAS, Texas, June 29.—Tear gas ain’t good enough. Pickets can still run away, unless, as at Marion, N. C., they are shot in the back. So Col. L. E. McGee of the Texas National Guard advocates blinding gas. That stops ’em in their tracks and makes their capture easy. Sawed off shotguns, that will tear a striker’s head orr at short range, steel helmets to keep stray bricks harmless and gas masks to save the militia from the effects of their own rashly thrown bombs are other pieces of strike-breaking equipment. DEATH RECALLS FORD-SUHR CASE. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 29. Death of Jonathan H. 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It was on Durst’s ranch that the trouble occurred which resulted in the framing of Richard Suhr and Blackie Ford, and || their long imprisonment in Folsom. oon GLENSIDE All Repairs Done at Reasonable Prices ROBERTS BLOCK, No. 1 | the vaunted American plan exem-} plified in the Nth degree, Pe siags | to Mass Conference |, Glenside, | gainst Unempl Suly tthe ovments Chicago |! getephone Ogontz 316s) 2 | { UPHOLSTTeY | Spruce Printing Co. 162 N, SEVENTH ST. PHILA., PA. Bell—Market 6383 Union Keystone—Main 7040, wrioters PHILADELPHIA CRYSTAL LUNCH Fresh Food FRIENDLY SERVICD N. & Corner 11th and Spring Garden Sta, PHILADELPHIA DAILY WORKER Philadelphia Otfices 1124 SPRING GARDEN 87. M. SILVER, Representative Poplar 3849 PHILADELPHIA WOLKOWITZ BROS. Proprictors sRAND HALL 410 WHARTON ST. Lombard 5295 GIRARD MANOR 911 GIRARD AVB. Poplar 07 iF Halls for rent for all occasions. |Help in the campaign to raise $25,000 to keep the Daily Worker Going and Growing! 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