The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, T AUSTRIA TOILERS FIGHT POLICE AT BIG MEETING, After Great Resistance by Workers Police Use Bayonets to Clear Hall Mass of Spectators Who Demonstrate Against Police Brutality VIENNA lisions oceurred in Traisentha]l at Whitsun as a result of the prohibi- tion of the Communist youth meet there. Young and adult workers traveled from various parts of Aus- tria to take part in the meet and under mass pressure the authori- ties permitted the holding of an inr door meeting. The meeting was packed to overflowing with work- ers and the first disturbance oc- curred when a small force of police entered the hall in order to watch} over the meeting. They did not get far, for the in-| dignant workers seized them bodily | | and flung them down the stairs into | the street. Feeling that discretion (LP.S.).—Severe col-; a level-headed policeman shouted to his comrades to put away their pis- tals, and, in faet, the police ignored the order of their officer and no shots were fired. In the end the police succeeded in clearing the hall at the point of sons on both sides were injured. sHeryone $2 the hall was arrested and marelfed off under armed escort. There were so many prisoners that the loca] prison could not hold them, so they were interned in the court- yard of a local factory. The wild happenjpgs drew sym- pathetic spectators from all sides and the streets were soon black with people demonstrating against was the better part of valor the| the police brutality and cheering police retired until reinforcements | the arrested workers. The prison- were forthcoming. The building | ers hoisted a red flag on the chim- was then surrounded and stormed.|ney of the factory amidst loud The workers defended themselves | cheers. Owing to the action of the desperately with sticks, hottles, | police the Traisenthal demonstra- chairs and anything that came to} tion was an undreamed of success hand. During the fighting a police | for the Young Communist League officer gave the order to fire, but and the Communist Party. JOBLESS DRIVE (STATE TROOPERS INLAKE COUNTY KIDNAP MINER Steel Workers for Called on Miners to National Meet | —S— Continue Strike CHICAGO, Ill, July 2—Steel] SCRANTON, Pa., July 2.—At s e - <y| Special meeting called of miners ee ane CORDS AER LEY working in Dunmore Colliery, No. 1, unemployed. Meetings have been last night the question was dis- held daily at the gates of the Gary| cussed as to what was going to be plant of the Steel Trust and on the| 7one in answer to the Pennsylvania streets of the company-controlled | C°#! Co’s policy of victimizing the towns of Gary, Indiana Harbor, etc. | militant strikers and the question During the few days preceeding | of fighting the yellow-dog agree- die aaaes demonsteation ja. Union ment that is being foreed upon the A ee es ea Lay ;.| miners. Fark, this activity is being intens\-| ‘The president of the local advised ployed council is mobilizing to in-| the miners to “leave everything in vade the company property of the the hands of Johnny Boylan and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.,| i” the meantime not strike again, put up their speakers right under| but to sign the yellow-dog agree- the noses of the bosses, and are) ment if they wanted to. te lefend the speakers| ~ Tash Proceeds to Speak. mares the seers aoetre, As soon as the chairman was through announcing agreement with rs, ete. ‘ SERED, Se. throughout Lake the sell-out, and proposing to leave County are just beginning to feel| “everything to Boylan” —Joe Tash, the full force of the crisis and the National Miners Union organizer yaection is one of militancy and! in the anthracite, asked for the fight. Trucks have been obtained,| floor. He began to explain the \ signs are being painted, and the| causes of the strike, the worsening | route from Gary into Chicago for | conditions, unemployment, part the Union Park demonstration, on| time work, ete, and called on the July 4, 3:30 p. m. will be a series) miners to continue the strike. a — of demonstrations of the employed) After speaking for about three and unemployed, uniting in the| minutes, the chairman of the local fight for Work or Wages. | recognized one of his henchmen, | who demanded to know whether | Tash was working in the colliery. CHI. TRACTION MEN | The chairman then called on Tash } | to stop speaking, and, in the mean- EAGER FOR LEAFLETS time, the state troopers, who were present, made a grab for Tash and tried to arrest him. The miners, CHICAGO, Ill, July 2—The yho had been listening very intently traction leaflet that has been put) to what Tash had to say, then COPS FEAR TO USE GUNS the bayonet and a great many per- | out by the Trade Union Unity Lea- gue group of traction workers has stirred up a real fighting spirit amongst the traction workers. The traction workers are realizing that the ordinance will wreck their or- ganization and will further increase lay-offs and unemployment. The company has put on special dicks to watch that the workers} will not get hold of the leaflet that | was put out by the T.U.U,L, group. | Even though terror is open against the workers, both by union officials and the company, that if any work- er should dare to open his mouth, they would fire him, the workers have taken up the question in their local unions and are fighting against the ordinance. The terror of the company cannot | Where Is Your jumped up and forced the troopers to release him. As Tash was leaving the hall the troopers grabbed him again, forced him into a ear and drove off. Late last night the International Labor Defense was unable to locate Tash, The loeal police denied that he was being detained there and the barracks officer of the troopers denied that Tash was in the bar- racks, The National Miners’ Union is still continuing its agitation, expos- ing the miserable sell-out and be- trayal of the Grievance Committee. stop the workers from demanding their rights and fight for the mili- tant program of the Trade Union Unity League, ‘Daily Worker’ Campaign List? Again we report the contributions, for the Daily Worker fighting fund. A total of $819.50 was received in the last two days. We want to re- peat what we called your attention to the other day. The Daily Work- er sent 20,000 campaign lists to 20,- 000 workers, readers of our paper and Party members. We are asking you frankly and directly, where are these lists, where is your list, what are you doing with it? These lists were sent you offi- cially and must be returned to the ‘WORK OR WAGES’ FIGHT OF ENTIRE WORKING - CLASS Communist Party Is- sues Statement (Continued from Page One) To prevent the revolutionary or- ganizations of the working class, {the Communist Party and the! | Trade Union Unity League, from organizing and leading the struggle |of the unemployed, the bosses ini- tiated a wave of terror throughout | the country, killing and jailing the militant fighters of the working | class. To mislead the workers and break | \their determined resistance the bosses enlisted the support of the fascist American Federation of La- bor leadership, who work hand in| | glove with the police and the un-| |derworld in killing workers, break- | ing up workers’ demonstrations and | | railroading the best fighters to jail. | The bosses spend billions of dollars | |to build new battleships, but not a/ cent is given to the unemployed to} feed themselves and their starving | families. This wave of terror and suppres- | sion will not stop the struggle -of | the workers, under the leadership | of the Communist Party and the} Trade Union Unity League, to} fight for work or wages. The American workers must resist this combined attack of the bosses, they must organize and_prepare to strike against wage cuts, to fight for full social insurance, Only by the mass action of the. workers will we defeat the attack of the bosses, their government, and the fascist American Federa- tion of Labor. Only because of the| mass action of oyer a million work-| ers on March 6th was the unem-| ployment question brought to the) attention of the entire world. Only by broader mass actions and better mass organization can the workers enforce the demands for unemploy- ment insurance, The main task of the unemployed convention in Chicago is to organ- ize for the struggle against unem- ployment and for social insurance, The lack of organization, the ab-| sence of functioning unemployed councils, are precisely the greatest weakness in the unemployment struggle. This convention must take the most energetic measures to organize the unemployed into coun- cils, to establish committees of ac- tion consisting of both employed and unemployed workers, in the struggle against unemployment. The unemployment movement must be consolidated organization- ally, must be provided with leader- ship and a fighting program. Work- ers still employed on their jobs must be drawn into the struggle; specia] steps must be taken to or- ganize the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor to fight against their reactionary fas- cist leadership and against unem- ployment. We must follow up the heroic struggles of the American workers on March 6th with organization, building of unemployed councils, committees of action, organizing demonstrations and building the revolutionary trade unions. The struggle against unemploy- ment must involve every American worker, must penetrate into every shop, factory and mine. As a next step in this campaign the conven- tion should make Labor Day, the first Monday in September, as & national day of struggle against unemployment. It should use Labor Day as a continuation of the strug- gle begun on March 6th, as a day of mobilization of millions of American employed and unem- ployed to fight for social insurance, and to defeat the combined attack of the bosses, the government and the corrupt American Federation of Labor. Fight for social insurance! Demand work or wages! Resist the terror of the bosses! Expose the treachery of the American Federation of Labor! Fight against bosses’ wars! Rally to the defense of the So- viet Union! Fight for full social and political equality for the Negro workers! Demand the release of the New York Unemployed Delegation! Demand the release of all pris- oners of the March 6th movement! Coll, by I. Limon, Paterson, N.J, 11.25 A group of patients at hospital, |) Build Councils of Unemployed! col” bys. Ekta, | Build the Trade Union Unity Ore. : 2.60 League! ect s, fvaen sh. s.oo| Join the Communist Party! Coll, by Chester | pas . Coll by George Fe Partridge, CORRECTION! Rochester, (Minn. ..... te... 23) The article, “Don’t Starve — x dhend, Ni Kittle walls, Minn, 100! wight!” published yesterday on the 40| last page of the Daily Worker, was rae given to the Daily without proper 2,00| introduction, The text of this ar- eatcimorel a 107 | ticle is a Resolution, which was ‘Tyomes Society, Superior rag written by the Unemployed Dele- Finnish Dp ederatew, N, Hf gation now in prison for leading) | try to tell us through their }5 'HURSDAY, JULY 3, 1930 Page Three romthe: “GRAVEYARD SHIFT” IN PACIFIC STEEL IS HARD ON WORKERS Organization Into Metal Trades Industria] League Only Answer to This Seattle, Wash. Dear Comrade:— In this period of capitalism, we find that the bosses of the indus- tries are putting the burden of t! present crisis on the shoulders of | the working class. More than eve the workers are exploited and the speed-up is terrific. The workers are beginning to fight back the onslaught of the bosses. In Seattle, the so-called “land of the flowers,” as the capitalists ng newspapers, the workers enjoy Hoover “prosperity”; it is not as the bosses try to tell us, Here in Seattle there is a Pacific Steel Corporation, where human toil | is so exploited in this plant that the | bosses drive the workers like slaves. The workers work three shifts for | the starvation wages of $3.60 per) day. The workers’ health means nothing to the bosses. Those wor! ers who work the “graveyard” shift (11 p. m. to 7 8, m,) must be very strong to be able to stand it, be- cause the lights are so poor that workers, when they come from work, look as if y came from the ard. Workers must work un- se awful conditions in order to make more profits for the boss and increase the misery for them ves. In this plant they have dif- ferent departments. The one I work in is called the bending, where the steel is cut and shipped out in a hurry. They check up on the work by handing the man who is work- ing at the shear an order on a piece of paper. On this paper you find that it is rubber stamped, which tells you what time you started the cutting and when you finish. The workers of this plant are get ting sick and tired of these condi- tions. What we must do is to join the revolutionary unions, like the Metal Workers’ Union, which part of the Trade Union Unity League. Long live the revolution- ary working-class unions. All work- ers unite. Stop sleeping. With Communist greetings, M. LUCAS. 30 Cents An Hour Fighting Fires in Michigan Trayerse City, Michigan. To the Daily Worker: | Workers in the lower peninsula | of Northern Michigan are seiting forests on fire in order to get 30 cents an hour to fight the fire. Local papers have been carrying this news in heavy headlines. This region has very few fac- tories. All are unorganized. largest plant in Traverse “ity, a reed furniture factory made a more er less unsuccessful attempt to bet- ter their condition a year ago. A few eanning factories employ- ing men during the summer months The} take care of the surplus labor in this section. Men who flocked to Detroit to work in automobile factories are re- turning, As one drives through the covn- try in every direction he sees many abandoned farms. Former sumber towns have been abandoned, and liveab’ dwelling houses may be had for the asking. Merchants are feeling the power of chain stores and are organizing to fight them. ALBERT KYSELK A. Dayton Gets Ready for Jobless Convention Dayton, Ohio, Editor Daily Worker:— An enthusiastic unemployment meeting was held Tuesday, June 17, | at Library Park under the auspices | of the Trade Union Unity League and the Communist Party. The meeting was to prepare for the unemployment convention in| Chicago, to recruit members into the Trade Union Unity League and to protest against the jailing of the | March 6 and the comrades facing | the electric chair in Atlanta. Many workers joined the Trade Union Unity League and bought the Daily Worker. workers were present and many workers from Delco products stopped to en during their lunch hour, as Library Park is only one block away from this factory. Colored and white | Dayton hopes to send a good dele- | gation to Chicago July 4 and to build the Trade Union New York delegation elected on League in this city. FLINT STRIKERS SEND DELEGATES Fight Wage Cuts and) Hellish Speed Ups (Continued from Page One) pe’ cent in one week, and capitalist papers admit it is expected to go to 50 per cent. Out of 27 ‘furnaces at Gary, 16 have been banked; of the 12 at South Chicago, 7 are put out of production. Freight car load- | ings are 5,234 under last week; 149,- 015 under the same Week of 1929; 66,501 below the same week in 1928 Auto production is 57 per cent off from the same month in 1929, Sugar has reached the lowest price in all history—-1.23 cents. Business bank- ruptcies last month have broken the record for all history, For the workers, this means more hundreds of thousands to be thrown jobless on the street; more wage cuts everywhere; a fiercer driving of those who work to speed up faster and ever faster. The government, the watchdog of the bosses, intends to do nothing for the unemployed, All its forces, ani | all the forees of the A. F. of L. lead-| ers, who show by their anti-working class violence that they are fascists, are thrown against the struggle of| the workers who are forced to fight | for full wages compensation to the week, against wage cuts and speed- up. The police and A, F. of L. f. defend the bosses and the cap government ag: t the rising s' gle of the workers. Within the week three worker lives trinity, the bosses, the government and the leaders of the A. F. of L. But the force of masses, of mil- lions of workers, is irresistible when properly directed. They must and will sweep aside these gangsters and police murderers. The million mass es march forward over corpses of Weizenberg, of Levy, of Gonzalez! The July 4 Unemployment Con- vention at Chicago is the organi Unity | st | he ug. | izing I laid down their | ¢ as victims of this infamous | th \s and that they should steer tional center of the struggling mass: | es. The strike at Flint, Michigan against the General Motors, is one cf the sectors of the fighting front of class against class. Is is a strike against wage cuts, a part of the fight of the unemployment move- ment. The Chicago Convention has the basic task of organizing thousands of such battles, of protesting and demonstrating until the capitalist government will fear the anger of the masses mor than the loss of some of the profits of the bosses and | will be forced to establish unemploy- ment insurance at full wage rates to the jobless WORKER KILED IN ELEVATOR | SHAFT. . NEW YORK.---John Dowling, ad- dress unknown, was struck dead while at work in an elevator shafi of the American Woolen Co. 221 Students Must Hide Radical Views in H. S, New York. | To the Editor of the Daily Worker: I take this opportunity to write to in the history you sentiment expressed . In my ae European) high school I atter odern (M tk questions, and ular the comi I be the resented by f us, on conference we tre: farce and good material for ng war assure of us would opinions but 1 compells us radical tender er you many open in our of ex our to conceal es, e of the tablish world over! I serve in ¢ id in the e: m the in comrade: WARN GARY MEN AGAINST GYP Bosses Cops | Otherwise | Gary, Ind. | To the D Worker L has been practicing law in Gary for Zachary sieff, a lawyer, who several years and trading on the | double fact that he can speak Rus- sian and that he pretends to be a liberal, has recently exposed him- self as a grafter who does not hesi- tate to cheat workers’ organizations of any money he can lay his hands on. Recently, in connection with some arrests which took place on May Day, Lossieff was engaged by the International Labor Defense to de- fend the imprisoned workers. When one of the I, L. D. members went to the police station to place a $100 bond, Lossieff, under some pre- tense, took the money himself and placed the bond under his own |name. The next day, after the case had been tried, Lc f collected the $100, but refused to turn it over to the I. L. D., stating it was “safe” in his keeping. | When he was asked how much| the bill Was for defending the work- ers he said it was $140. He gave an excuse for this plain high- robbery that seven workers were involved in the c and that this only makes $20 apiece. When a committee of the I. L. D. visited Lossieff to protest against this outrage he refused to refund any of the $100. Russian workers of Gary who ve been in the habit of patron- ssieff, under the illusion that he sympathizes with the work- movement, should realize that character is a plain faker and clear of him. —GARY WORKER. Support the Daily Worker Drive! Get Donations! Get Subs! FARM IN THE PINES Situnted in Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German ‘Table. & s16— S18. Swimming and Fishing. M. OBERKIRCH Ro 1, Box 78 KINGSTON, N.Y. Is Overcrowded the| | “AILORS WANT TO HEAR YOUNG COMMUNISTS Fogey Lawyer Takes Money from Workers 1e bos Communist I thing to do wit sailors of Uncle teach them bad habits Yo was distribu have oldiers and They might One of the lors and soon to talk to some 20 ailors gathered around the and 30 longshoremen also pped to listen. he ument was getting hot; the were convinced that there was some thing wrong with the world in gen- eral, with the speak A big, fat agent of the bosses came around the cor- ner, rubbing his star, but the crowd paid no attention to him, He stood there about five minutes, trying to make up his mind to arrest some- body, but he didn’t like the looks About ten minutes later the prowler car with three cops came along and they took the Young Communist League member to the |“can” and told him to stay away from the soldiers and sailors; that they have good jobs and must be left to their duty. The comrade asked the cop if it was against the law to talk with sold and sail- ors, and the cop said: “Well, it ain’t against the law to talk with sail- ors about lots of things, but you were plotting to throw this govern- ment over and those boys are work- ing for Uncle Sam, the same as I am.” The comrade asked him if they liked their jobs the same as he did, and he s “Sure.” “Well,” said the comrade, “if the sailors like their jobs as well as you do, why did they call you .everything they could think of when you pulled me in, and now that you have me what are the charges against me?” “Well,” sai’ the e-p, “we won’t do anything this time, as you are a good looking young boy, but don’t let me catch you talking with sail- crs ar more.” Comrades, the soldiers and sail- waking up; they know who enemies a —YOUNG ors their WORKER. (0.000 STRIKERS MAPCH IN FLINT FOR DEMANDS Auto Workers Union Leading Struggle (Continued From Page One.) ro , but for a general wage in- crease, unemployment insuranee, the 8-hour day, regulation of the eon veyor speed and recognition of thi union, the Auto Workers Union, see- tion of the Metal Trades Workers League, ‘affiliated to the revolution- ary Trade Union Unity League. Amid cheers and great enthusiasm, the ing held last night roared approval of the demands pro- posed by the Auto Workers Union. | | | me Hundreds of auto workers rolling in the Auto Wor! and strike com organized on the basis of departments, are being up. Already the rank and file ‘e committee of 60 of the Fisher plant has the work of When the wo: the remain- |ing Flint plants now re , walk out in strike, immediately a joint strike committee will be set up and thrown into aetion. The workers | the way in striking against impend- i knowing the mean- ing of a departmental wage cut as in the case of the metal finishers. Not forgetting the urgent need for struggle against unemployment and } for unemployment insurance, the strikers have made preparations to send a delegation to the National Conyention of the Unemployed, meet- ing in Chicago, July 4-5. Frantieally seeking new markets fo~ automobiles, and forced to cur- tail production, the auto bosses have {iaunched a big drive to make the workers suffer the burden of the ‘crisis. Layoff succeeded layoff in all the large auto plants in the coun- \try. The belt was speeded to an | unheard of intensity, literally burn- | ing out the workers’ lives and vital- ity. Then in order to divide the workers in their wage-cutting cam- paign, slashes were put into effect | seetion by section, department by | department. About 12 of them took sides | Think | of that crowd, so he took a walk. | are determined to spread the str ito centers—Pontiac and De- ke By far the largest strike as yet in the auto industry in the United States, the Fisher Body workers led une indicate the ex- s effecting automo- bile production. Buick, Reo, Hupp and Graham-Paige report a produc- tion decline of 23 per cent as com- pared with May and 57 per cent below that of June of last year. Buick shipped 4,135 Buick and Marquette cars in June, as against the 9,374 in May, 1980, and 14,665 in June of last year. Marking the rising determina- tion of the auto workers to fight back the attacks of the auto bosses, especially the Morgan General Mo- tors Co., the Flint strike gives prom- ise of a general upsurge of all auto workers and their organizations into the fiehting union, the Auto Work- ers Union, DEATH PENALTY DEMANDED THE STATE OF GEORGIA AGAINST THE COMMUNIST PARTY CAPITALIST “JUSTICE” EXPOSED Bans Worker. Party members must | Sederman, New York the demonstration of 110,000 work-| jobless, for the 7-hour day, 5-day|Fourth Avenue. i for the Fourth | A most striking presentation of the return them to their Party units.|" "Chui, Detroit, Mich 4.00] ors at Union Square, New York, on \ i j Atlanta, Ga., case involving leaders Bee ter? tiem fo you to mage 00 March 6th, It was proposed by — ——_—______ : of July of the’ Consnunst Party, Trade easier to force soe Mg Pui id that Delegation to the National LIVINGSTON MANOR, N. Y. Union Unity League, and other rev- readers for the Daily Worker. 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The ad was placed Hs RANE HletneD fees: Nillnimnt yy FH ly 4th | TORKERS Contributions to June 27. ted cannteaken at 187-W. 14th SE stter July 4t WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS THE GOODY HOUSE ‘ontributed Armenian Workers of Det@it. Coll, by Juituw Police sluggers were called to dis- enn New York City Amount stil needed ,,.811,94451perse the jobless workers, M. FEIGELSON, Mer 39 East 125th Street LIVINGSTON MANOR, N.Y. eA 2.501 y s