The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 21, 1930, Page 3

gic” = LL ERMAN STEEL TOILERS PREAD GREAT STRIKE eadership Ordered Arrested As Red Striké Spreads to Other Centers MONDAY, JULY DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, 0 21, 193 Demand ‘Work or Wages’ Aug.1 ‘SPEED BILLION, it (Continned From Page One.) s allowed to be built under “disarmament” treaty, be rvshed through before 1936. Fakers Aid War Plans. \ | stration for election reform Page Three Today in History of the Workers | burgh killed 26 Pennsylv a sf HOOVverRWenies JOUIGEs) tlreedsyards sul drove trocns etween Forty and Fifty Thousand Strikers) | a Cent and twenty thousand organized Clash With Bosses | csctcenaetiees Soames aaa ee ee | es | London workers joined in demon- —First Russian Duma dissolved by tsar for “plunging into realms *” 1918 outside its juri Ten thousand Newark N. i sas A 1 nr ; , | chinists struck for wage in ‘ gee desis « said this upsets the plan to 3ERLIN (LP.S.).—Partial strikes} The number of strikers is grow- | \ ulate al der the’ 1919—One hundred and twenty- the metal workers in the Rhine-|ing hourly. ‘On the morning of July | Oregon Loggers Get 35,000 Cleveland War Vets || Butte Teamsters and fui them anyway, St ndee the! Teg cheastadmiiing trade hr district have broken out in a|2 the copper works in Luenén and) More Lay-Offs and |} 5 the Machinists Strike || of? “disarmament” the “bigger Workers in Chicago locked out to F a fa téad he wire department of the Hoesch 7 H .@) 1 P tt F Id H <3 * |inavy” fake “opposition” having so break carpenters’ strike. 1919— ies of factories under the leader- works in Dortmund joined the |] Big’ Wage Cuts Too ave miy Lkotters Fie Is Growing Stronger | pe ii the tinction tee $2. Two hundred thousand miners in f p of the revolutionary trade | strike. One thousand six hundred L F i a ith ie bo ties i Yookahite, England struck agais -' ion opposition. The number of | workers of the Hahn factory in T k d atiea: wan dics de wage-cut. By MB stiiaed. i abagdlly, eveving gad |Duistery. liek, La techie? Gnae Cochran, Ore. Oo Loo orward to Butte, Montana. | st"! more warships, the move to Dear Comrades:— | Daily Worker:— now between 40,000 and 50,000.|upon the police arrested the leader cia! ) | build $1,000,000,000 of them at once I am a logger and things are lam a daily reader of your paper. ‘i i é is rus hrough with the enthusi- the makers of the reso- e reformist leaders are doing |of the Red Workers’ Council, Neu- i is rushed t z ; = ene! Reed, one of the makers of the reso: sir utmost to crush the strikes | bauer, pretty tough for the workers oat Cleveland Ex-Soldier Calls on Veterans to a oe here sure do need or- astic support of the “pacifist” ele-|jution under which the present com- d prevent them from spreading. |Three hundred workers of the Ka-| here now. Fifty per cent of all the | ganizing. he Anaconda Copper | ments. mission is working, said on Janu- logging camps and sawmills in the |Co. runs almost the whole state of Fight for a Soviet U.S. A. Duisberg the social democratic |terburg foundry in Essen came out | These “pacifist” elements, among ar) 6: Those hum, Duisberg, Balsum, Dort- | ind, Muerlheim and other towns. | The central strike committee is suing a leaflet appealing to the | orkets to extend the strike to all stallurgical works in the Rhine- thr district. -The reformist lead- | s are adopting an elastic tactic. here the workers are enthusias- | sally in favor of striking they give ay and take an unwilling part in | e strikes, with a view to throt- | ing it at first opportunity, but here workers are doubtfoul they ove heaven and earth to keep them the factories. The leaders of the hristian trade unions are openly yposed to the strikes. Northwest are shut down. some have introduced the 10-hour | foundry came out and the police ar- rested the strike committee F teen hundred workers are out in Muehlheim. The workers of the A. B. G. in Muehlheim have voted with an overwhelming majority for the strike. Collisions occurred in Muehl- heim on the night of July 1 between strikers and the police. In Dortmund the workers of the famous metallurgical works of Ohrenstein and Koppel are out. The reformist leaders have tried to per- suade them to go back and accept a 3 per cent reduction instead of the proposed 71-2 per cent reduction. Several thousand workers are out in Duesseldorf. jday. The speed-up is worse than jever. In Seattle and Portland the skid road is crowded with unem- ployed. The Trade Union Unity League | and the Communist Party headquar- ters are in Seattle and we are strongest there, although we have to contend with constant police ter- ror. In Portland we are weaker, largely due to a lack of good speak- | ers. We are growing stronger, though. Comradely yours, M. W. S. MORE ON LOCAL 1 ‘TSH WAR PLAN BOSTON, PHILA, BAKERY FAKERS Run Union for Own I wish to state a few of the many schemes and hardships the ex- servicemen of Cleveland have to face nowadays. On February 16, and again a few days the latter part of April, Mrs. Schmidt, a religious worker among the poor in peace time to try and make the unemployed workers content with no work, no union, no nothing, passed out some old bread and soup. The fakers were even wanting the use of the public square on May 1, but decided they had better go slow. There were several ex-soldiers in the breadlines, but there were several others, myself included, who were busy exposing the fake charity and calling on all ex-servicemen to wake up and join the revolutionary unions and support the only party that has the guts to fight for the rights of all workers, and that is the Communist Party. VET AND KIDS HOMELESS. A few days ago during a downpour of rain an ex-soldier, his wife and four children were found huddled up in Gordon Park with nothing to eat and no money. Thousands are roaming the streets looking for work, while the American Telephone and Telegraph reports a profit of $81,671,847 for the past six months, ending June 20, 1930, and many other large trusts piling up millions in profits. VETS BURIED IN POTTER’S FIELD. There are about 35,000 ex-soldiers in Cleveland who depend on the Potter's field for a burial plot. On July 3 or thereabouts congress passed a new law for ex-servicemen which has been played up in the Montana. We sure need good, live help us fight in the West? The teamsters and the auto ma- chinists of Butte are striking here now against a wage-cut by the pow- | erful employers’ association, Our | \big-hearted sheriff appointed 109 special gunmen to protect the scabs. I am sending you a copy of our little strike bulletin. It is the only |way the machinists and teamsters can get their side before the public The corporation press publishe: nothing but the employers’ side. | |Please give us a write-up in your good paper. Publish this letter if | |you wish. Yours truly, MeM. SAW CHL JOBLESS approved, they will be forced to/|d make some fake show of “opposition” | g by pressure of their deluded follow-|a ers and thus held up ratification. So the Hoover forces are openly “bringing pressure’ on Walsh to! 1 | hold up his proposal until after the! into effect with | treaty is ratitied, then these “paci-| when he fists” assistants to Hoover’s war! ( preparations will not be put in a hole. | The workers sh note well that | |the so-called “socialists” are also supporting Hoover’s war moves, as jin Norman Thomas’ praise of the Londgn conference as a “peace” step, and making none but favorable com- | ment for the treaty as a whole, |, jthough saying it didn’t “go far|¢ enough.” st While this $1,000,000,000 drive for might warships is being approved, a gov- ernment commission is “investigat- ing’ proposals for making every soldiers or the hell of capitalists are going to ‘ | a way” to make those at worker, not only those who are for $1 a day, lice president, Meyer, has ordered | this morning, as also did the work- j | : ' ive whom LaFollette and Blaine are| “We can fix prices, we can fix 2 arrest of the strike leadership. | ere of the Lesch factory. In Duis-| that are running have cut down| Cleveland, 0. Communist organizers here. You) mentioned, are now supporting the! the price of labor at home, so that rikes are it. progress in Essen,|herg 1,000 workers of the Berzellius |W@&es from 10 to 25 per cent and) T> the Daily Worker:— are fighting in the Past. Why not |treaty, but if the Walsh demand iscaxpenters will not be g lay, while the men who f: etting $ We w way to do ‘hos Hoover Wants Hoover himself, 924, showed what he ar Dictato as far k ie this com 1, said that the president which means himself, now) should | be | _ “Given a blanket authority to fix prices, wages, transportation charges, compen ions, to susp the right to habeas corpus and to complete absolute These are war measures, dicta- orship, raw and open of the boss lass, and no worker should fool him elf that by “ at home avoid either the hard lif PREPARE AUG, 1 ANSWER POLICE USES GRAFTER and airpls . capitalist papers as so good, but they do not explain the red tape one drafted, but those who remain at|are going to take the war to every : - Racketeering Use | has to go through to file a claim. Easy to get into the service. but ree jhome, subject to military discipline|home and shop. 3essadovsky Lies Read| Fight for Unemployed New York, | Mill to get any compensation. |Unemployed Rising to] ard work for wages fixed by the; With good reason, then, while Into the “Evidence” (Continued from Page One) Ethelred Brown, a Negro sreacher. Lyons merely read one of the ar-| icles written for French govern- nent papers by George Bessedowsky. Vren Bessedowsky was found graft- ng, he was dismissed from his post | of charge d’affairs in Paris, and im- nediately threw himself into the irms, and undoubtedly the salary, of the French capitalist country. He ias written a fanciful series of ar- ticles against the Soviet Govern- nent, giving, as from one who was sehind the scenes, whatever rumor aas already been concocted against the U.S. S. R. These articles were | sagerly snapped up and translate d | vy the Jewish Daily Forward, and | one of them, alleging that Ogpu and other “Russian secret service” agents are in New York, and also | itating that Amtorg gives money | lor the Communist movement there, vas the one read by Lyons. This is clear-cut provocation against the Soviet Union, prepara- tory to war, similar to the stories of “German spy systems” so com- mon in England during the year before the outbreak of the great war. The workers of the whole world will demonstrate August 1 against this war plan, of any imperialist war program, and the thousands of jobless and employed workers in these demonstrations will de- mand that all funds set aside for the Fish committee, or for cruis- ers or other war preparations, be used for unemployment relief and insurance. After Lyon had read the trans- lation, Fish called his attention to the fact that the Communists had notified Fostcr, Minor and Amter of their nomination to state offices right in jail where they are serving three-year terms for carrying the work or wages demands of the March 6 demonstrators to the city hall. Fish asked Lyons if he thought it right that Communists should be allowed to run for state office ’ just like any other political party, and Lyons said: “Absolutely not. I think the Communist Party should be completely outlawed.” Fish nodded reassuringly. Evi- dently that is one of the things that the committee has in mind. Lynching. Randolph told the usual story of all the labor fakers brought up. He thought Communism was growing, but not in his union. On other stb- jects, who were the Negro Commu- nist leaders, etc, he was rather vague. He embarrassed the com- mittee a little by insisting that many of the Negroes felt friendly toward Communism because of the Jim Crow laws and the increase in lynching, also the discrimination against Negroes, industrially. (The Communist Party stands ab- solutely for complete social, indus- trial and political equality of the Negro workers with white workers, and fights discrimination, Jim Crow- ing, lynching and segregation— Ed.) The juestion of the segregation of the Negro “Gold Star” mothers came up, Randolph was extremely guarded in his remarks, but he ad- mitted that many Negro workers were much incensed. Fish pater- nally informed him that the Negro war mothers had nothing to com- plain about, as their dead sons were also in “separate” (i. e., Jim Crow. =F.) regiments in the war. Editor Daily Worker:— I read the article sent in by a baker regarding Local 1. I would like to make thé following correc- tions, the names of Gund, Arko (whose real name is Gehléawisky) does not make the list of union- wreckers complete. We have to mention the names of the secretary of Local 1, Max G. Haberer, who was a Sstrikebreaker in Rockwell's Bakery in 1910. Also the same skunk did scab in the same Lakery Insurance BOSTON, July 20.—Spreading broadeast thousands of leaflets in working class sections and before the factories, the Communist Party of District One is préparing for a : ‘var demonstration August ist at Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, at 6 p. m. Under the slogans of “Not a Cent for Armaments—All Funds for the Unemployed,” the call urges the|s bi qorker to match diredt froth thalt|if 1919 and was forced to join the factories to the assemblage point Union by the at that time boss, Mr. to demonstrate against the vast | Frederick, who also paid his initia- campaign now under way to cut the |tion fee and three months’ dués in wages and speed up thos «ti1)| advance for above mentioned rat. working, and for the fight against| There is the local president, Grass, imperialist war now looming on the horizon, viet Union. * # PHILADELPHIA.—In a_ resolu- | tion sent to trade union, fraternal | and other workers’ organizations the Communist Party points out the need for mass working class dem- onstration against imperialist war on August Ist. “August 1st will mark the 16th anniversary of the outbreak of the world war of 1914-1918. The blood of 12 million workers, sacrificed to the bosses’ greed, is not yet dried. And alreau, the imperialist govern- ments are rushing with breakneck speed towards another more de- structive world slaughter. Billions of dollars are being spent for armaments, for new cruisers, air- planes—while not a cent is given for the relief of the unemployed!” Communism would die out if the Communists were not persecuted by the police. This roused the committee, who nearly all argued vigorously with Brown that no such persecution ex- isted. That line was most unfortu- nate for the committee, however, as Brown proceeded to give instance after instance where Tammany cops in Harlem made unprovoked and brutal assaults on Communists in street meetings, beating, slugging and arresting men, women and chil- dren. Finally they managed to shut off Brown and oust him from the chair with only formal thanks. The alderman, Moore, was only summoned to get his picture taken and state that the Negroes “are loyal to the American flag.” Moore is an exploiter of his own race, gets promotion for white fe licemen in Harlem who beat ap Ne- gro workers, is a director of the Rockefeller, “Dunbar National Bank,” and is editor of the New York Age, which attacks all mili- tant workers and even liberal move- ments, Randolph is a Rand School prod- uce ,took, $14,000 from the Garland fund to publish the Messenger, which stood then for militant unionism. After he got the Pullman Porters’ job he changed the policy of the paper and turned it sharply to the tight, playing up the Negro and white capitalists. The union’s sec- retary, Lancaster, was exposed as a grafter, but Randolph refused to fire him and instead expelled those who exposed Lancaster, His gang in the Pullman Porters recently helped to get Sol Harper of the A. N. L. ©, and Rose Kelley (a white worker) imprisoned for ad- vocating a fight on lynching at a porters’ meetirig. Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August 1st! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be tuthed Police Brut Dr. Brown took tl attitude that over for the relief of the ufeni- ployed’ especially against the So-| baker alive, and Paul Gerlach, the | \letter of the previous baker, when who would eat up every progressive local treasurer, who goes to Europe for a pleasure trip and géts three months’ pay because he is also a perfect Communist beater. It’s only for this reason that I correct the he forgot to mention these rats. They are responsible for the $2,000 in bonds which are still in the hands of the lawyer because this union | property was made out in the name of Henry Hoffman. Bakers, fellow-workers of Local 1, let us get together and throw out these rats and their henchmen from the office and aged and let is join; the Trade Union Unity League and the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, | under the leadership of the Commu- | nist Party. With revolutionary greetings, ANOTHER LOCAL 1 BAKER. YELLOW DOG IN HOTELS OF OHIO CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 20.— Five hundred dining room and kit- chen workers in Cleveland hotels were locked out when they ‘efused to sign individual yellow-dog con- tracts demanded by the managers. Taking advantage of the serious unemployment situation in hotel work, the organized hotel owners decided recently to operate on an open-shop basis. As a sop to work- ers they promised not to cut wages if unionists would abandon their or- ganization, sign the yellow dogs and work hard. Due to the lockout several hotel dining rooms were closed. In other hotels, bellhops, porters and office workers were pressed into service. Scabs are being imported from other cities. The lockout has caused se- vere criticism generally in the news- papers. BEAT MUSTEITES OFF AT BIG RALLY IN PHILA. PHILADELPHIA, July 20.—The officials of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers with the help of about 26 or 30 of their organized henchmen tried to break up the Communist Election Rally in Ken- Sington, the textile center of Phila- delphia, but they were badly de- feated, thinks to the defensé corps and to the siipport of the workers. About 600 workers listened to the speakers. The Party and the T.U.U.L. is rapidly gaining ground in Kensing- I was in the office for three hours trying to get an interview with someone who could give me an examination, as my health was impaiied during the world war and my nervous system greatly damaged, for which I got nothing. VET WANTS TO SEE SOVIET U.S. A. Tam what is called a 100 per cent American and refuse to fall for Fight for Bread Minot, N. D. Daily Worker:— I was in Chicago at the Union Square Park during the unemployed any anti-Soviet poison and wish to see the Soviet of the United States before many years. Just think of the great railroad built in Siberia by Bill Shatoff and the largest broadcasting station in the world in Soviet Russia and the strongest organized in the labor unions. American workers, wake up and don’t fall for the poison put out by the bosses and their tools. Join the revolutionary unions of the f. U. U.L. The craft unions are filled with corrupt leaders who are so rotten they stink. Demand unemployment insurance! Demand the release of all class wat prisoners and join the ranks of those who will fight for their release. Remember the s!gan during war times of over the top. But this time for the workers and into the revolutionary unions. —100 PER CENT AMERICAN-BORN EX-SERVICEMAN. Third Wave of Lay Offs and Wage Cuts Hits Oakland, Cal. Oakland, Calif. Editor Daily Worker:— Oakland again has a wave of wage-cuts and lay-offs. In the Southern Pacific shops the shipyard department is closing down entirely. The freight department works three | days a week with half forces. The} machine department four days a week and also on half force. The round-house department full time and half force. The passenger de- i} | to the forefront in all the struggles of the workers. August 1 is loom- ing beforé us. There will be a mighty demonstration against im- perialist wars and it will start at Tenth St. and Broadway at 6:30 p. m. on August 1. Workers, demon- strate and join the Party of your class—the Communist Party. Yours for the revolution, SAM BARMAN. aaa Il time, wi thi * ‘ vetiho dette Waking wees] B. BaBonié information fron Richmond, Cal. Pacific Sanitary More Lay-Offs. Corp. will close from July 15 to '6 Get Jobs; Thousands conference and saw with my own eyes how brutally the workers were clubbed by the police. And they eall this a free country! It is free for one class only—the capitalist class. All the workers assembled in the | park had come together to talk over | their own problems, but this is what | the capitalist authorities do not seem | to like and hence the workers are | beaten. The Young Pioneers who | were there were an inspiration to all workers. Workers Fight Back. I observed one important and very encouraging development, and that is that the workers militantly struck back at the police. The day when one policeman can cow and brow- beat a hundrew workers will soon pass in the United States. Work- ers’ Defense Corps must be organ- ized. The traditionally “meek” unem- ployed dare now rise in their might and it is not for nothing that capi- talism and its police tremble. —MINOT WORKER. Demonstrate August Ist! Refused on Bowery The General Engineering is work- ing half foree. The Hall Scott Mo- | tor Co. is working a skeleton crew. The Byron Jackson Corp. laid off entirely. This winter is going to be a hu idinger. Workers, there is only one organ- ization and that is the Trade Union Unity League and every wage- earner should make it his duty to be in the T.U.U.L. Workers, you built the factories and you have no jobs. You built the highways and they arrest you and charge you with vagrancy. You grow the wheat and they starve you August 15. Standard Pacifie is working about 50 to 60 per cent of usual force of 500 men. Pullman | shops are to lay off in a few days. | They usually employ 500 men. Only | a skeleton erew will remain. Santa | Fe shops have laid off all but 75 men. Two hundred families are starving on county support. FARM IN THE PINES Situated fp Pine Forest. near Mi Lake, German Table. taten: s16— $18. Swimming and Finhing. M. OBERKIRCH NEW YORK.—Thousands of hun- gry workmen line the Bowery every morning only to be turned away with a “nothing doing.” “Employ- ment is especially bad now,” said A. G. Smith of the Jacobson Commis- sary Co. “We have turned away thousands in the last few days. We haven't placed six men in a week, and there aren’t any orders as yet.” | The Erie Railroad job office has! the same story to tell and so on down the Bowery. Construction | agencies are charging $6 and $7 cash for jobs paying anywhere from | 80 cents to 60 cents an hour. | to death. You build the jails and | you fill them. How long are you go- ing to stand for these conditions? Organize into the militant cunions. The T. U, U. L. has a program of struggle. It shows you how to or- ganize shop committees and fight for what rightfully belongs to you. The Labor Unity is the official or- gan of the Trade Union Unity League. It gives you real news of what struggle the workers are hav- ing all over the world, especially in the United States. Join the Communist Party. The Communist Party is the only true political party that is giving the workers leadership. In Oakland the workers have seen what the Communist Party has done, coming | q 1, Hos 78 KINGSTON, N.Y Spend Your Vacation | 4 Hotel with hot opening of the new workers center, Bungalows wit! the headquarters of the CP, TUUL | and the NTWU at Kensington and Somerset Sts., next week will great- ly help in the entrenchment of our movement in Kensington. NOTICE! The Labor Sports Union is anxious to buy a cheap, sécond- hand car. Any comrade or sympathizer who has such a car or knows of one is asked Cultural Program Yor ‘The Artet St singing. Cultural Program—Com Athletics, gain tures. symposi CAMP NITGEDAIG ton wheré the workers are begin- ning to learn about our policies and the betrayal of the social fascists, which has been extosed rieht along through leaflets and meetings. The PHONE BACON 731 By Veaint From Grand Centent to communicate immediately N. with the Labor Sports Union, Room 309, 2 West 15th St., New York. Ask for Si Gerson. AbAAMAA AM As Always= q FIRST PROLETARIAN NITGEDAIGET CAMP~HOTEL Tents—to remind you the old days. Artef) Comrade Shaeffer will conduct mass Demonstrate August Ist! at Camp Nitgedaiget and cold water in every room hb electrie lights. the Summer of 1930 udio (Mass theatre with the rades Olgin and Jerome es, dances, theatre, choir, lec- ums. ete. KT, BEACON, N. Y. Y. PHONE: ESTABROOK 1406 every hour By Bout: ¢Wice dully President of the country—the head | 8,000,000 workers and their fa of the executive committee of the| starve, should the whole capitalist class. 2 class come on the streets August 1, The Draft Act passed during the] protesting against war and demand. war has never been repealed, so no | ing every cent for war go to aid the nev law is needed to force the work. | unemployed. ers into war, but the capitalists need F on. to force .le workers to slave at low wages during war. As Senator ilie working Demonstrate August Ist! Just OFF the Press! 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