The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1930, Page 3

He | ee ae - |, eRe i ———————E — Page Three \LSO THROWN ON STS. TO. STARVE jut on the Streets Aug. 1st to Demand Bread! Chicago, Ill. lo the Datly Worker: I am one among the eight million | nemployed. Sure, Hoover's pros- y is proving a lie. I am look- hg for a job every day around the nctories. Words can not express +e conditions that exist. There are jundreds of thousands all looking x a chance to sell their labor pow- r July 7th I was in Clearing, Ill. t is a manufacturing center with | yood number of factories here: I ll try and mention a few. The ontinental Can shop, the Majestic jio shop, Temple Radio, Inland s Co., and a bolt factory. Most of them are shut down, only he can shop rins at the present ime. Very low wages. Girls get rom 25 cents to 85 cents an hour. lost of them have to do a man’s ob. I was working there and had ) quit on account of the terrible rt ns. Lots of us women work: | rs have to inhale poisonous fumes’) ll day, working over a hot gas oven. Vhen evening comes, we can barely tag ourselves home. I met another employee who had} vorked there when I did, and she vas there also trying to get a job gain. We workers are not choosers, try different places before we ck to the place we worked be- This woman worker asked employment man about getting b again. He said, you quit on r own account, no use for you » spend car fare. I will not give ya job no matter how many times ou come. Her husband got sick rom the job he used to do. Now he been months without work. They rving in this land of pros- verity. No money for food or rent. I spoke to many of the workers rhout the conditions and about the s organizing in the unem- d councils. I tried to explain o them the only solution -of ou: blem and they sure agreed with The time is certainly ripe for izing the workers, employed and unemployed, but there is noz| ny kind of radical organization in ring; no Communist Party or! le Union Unity League. In Chicago, the Communist Party. and T.U.U.L. are doing fair and active work but does not reach these small towns. It is very important to reach} these workers. It’s only 15 minutes | » from Chicago, so some of the sections could reach there. Section tw could reach the manufacturing district of Clearing very easy. —MARIE PAULILKAYTIS. IRISH WORKER WITH “DAILY” Greets Stand on Police Brutality Fditor, the Daily Worker, Comrade Congratulations for your timely editorial whieh, under the cantion of “Cops, Kinzs and Wretches,” ap- peared in ‘the Friday’s Daily Worker. The Irish section of the cops was again conspicuous for its brutality against workers hete who staged a demonstration before the building of the British Consulate and pro- tested against the slaughter of the Indian workers and the working class traitor, Ramsay MacDonald, who directs British soldiers against the workers and peasants of India. MacDonald and the British gov- ernment in trying to put down the _Indian masses is symbolic of the tyranny exerted by England against the Trish struggle for freedom, ex- tending over the last seven hundred and fifty years. It is extreme subserviency when the New York'Irish cops; the sons and daughters of Itish workers and peasants, acquiesce in clubbing the member sof their class in order to protect the consulate of a gov- ernment that has been and is mas- sacring their compatriots in Ireland. In perfecting their plans to ac- eclerate the speed of the coming revolution, the Indian and Irish masses will not be detered by the onslaughts of the police. The imperialist system which breeds dumbells of the mentality of the average mercenary, and slavish cop, is the basic evil to be eradi- eated. August 1st will be a splendid op- portunity for all sections and or- nizations fostering the revolution the various countries down-trod- by imperialism to come out in vikiss formation, swelling and over- Wevine Union Square in a mon- Sous demonstration against the nding imperialist war. look forward to being among a Trish contingent in the Aug- st demonstration. Live the Soviets! —SEAN MORAN. | Fruits of imperialist “disarmament” pacts. roar again in the feverishly prepared world war brigands. ‘Wall Street's congress appropriates $1,000,000,000 for more battle- ships and guns for war, and calls u mands of the millions of jobless for ring with the ery: “Not a cent for employed” on August First, Interna Collector Sees New York. Daily Worker, Dear Editor: Tam a collector for an installment OKLA, MINERS | HIT BY CRISIS © «MUST FIGHT! | |UMWA Does Its Dirty’ | Work Here Too Coalton, Okla. Daily Worker, | Dear Comrades: T want to tell you about this dis- | trict. It is so dead that a person | can’t make over 3 days per week jin the mines. No union, They pay | * Soviet Union. of the imperialist | There is a Negro town 2 miles . east of Coalton by the name of Cat. ere is not a white person living pon its police to beat down the de- |there. There are 6 schools. They the right to live. Make the streets | are all farmers living within 2 or | armaments—all funds for the un- |3 miles of Cat. All Negro farmers | tional Anti-War Day. |so poor you could not find a 10) cent piece with a magnifying glass. | | Al! dead ripe to hear of Communism | {and are some at the republicans and democrats. Leningrad, U.S.S.R. Henryetta is a small city of 4,000. | Daily Worker, | | Growing 7-Hour Day, No Jobless at Leningrad Electrical Plant Crosses, row on row, for the hundreds of thousands killed to make the world safe for Morgan's billions 8. No jobs, starvation and misery Demonstrate the working class will to turn the im- | time off fo: perialist war into a revolutionary civil war against the bosses. DOCK BOSS DIDN'T LET MEN HELP | STRICKEN MATE |Marine Workers Fight | Such Outrages | New Orleans, La. Editor, Daily Worker, | Dear Comrade: We are enclosing a letter from one of our dock delegates. This is |only one of the many outrages that |are a part of the marine workers coffee.” ne Workers Industrial hting these slave driv- ing bosses and is lining up the Ne- gio and white workers together to beat the shipowners. Keep the Daily Worker working daily, it sure helps Misery Among 'the Masses \I \h jt I recall one incident where three | ° dollars a week were deducted from| a worker earning only $15 a week, | © with a family of five to support. | ° Nid have 4 banks but 8 of them | New York, U. S. A. ave closed the doors and stole all | Dear comrades: he money except probably 10 per} The workers correspondents and| ent. |the editorial staff of the factory When the miners had a strike here | papers of the factory Electroaparat alled by a union against the wishes | suggests to you the organization of | f Lewis and asked for strike relief | direct and consistent exchange of in the fight. For the international solidarity of the workers. 5-day week interferes negatively NEW ORLEANS LOCAL, with the absolute wages of the ews workers, on the contrary the wages | tnoroase, beat aturday a worker was hurt Jon the Bradford Steamboat wharf. nected with workers of our trade | Hv was allowed to lie on the dock and also with the electrical workers | {vee hours and some minutes. Ow- correspondents of the Communist| im# to the speedup system his fel- Sine iaape low workers could not asist him. We would like especially to be con- If possible, please print this let-| The bosses kept driving them say-/ as $50 and over. | get anything on credit you are ask- | ed where you work and the rest of late the conditions under which the | court he has not a chance against |4n¢ inion ceatract they paid ss iat yl a : | collectors work, and how the bosses, | the boss. They always tell him to| nish as $20 per month in the U.M |. NOW 0M the eve of the Fifth Con- | with the aid of the courts, rob the! Pay or go to jail, regardless where | yy ae and asesments, | | 8te88 of the Profintern (R.L.L.U.) poor working people. |he gets his money. We have no hours, we have to| The bosses also have fake station- get up early in the mornings so that! ory teed to trace customers. we could find the customers in be-|!¥, it is one sort or another package | fore they go to work. If we can't/Teftinding company stating that find them in during the day we have | there is a package for you and upon to go there in the evenings. Fre-|"eceipt of your new adress, it wi quently we are compelled to make |b¢ forwarded to you. The address éalls on Sundays. We work all holj.| 0" the envelope is fake. There never days with the exception of New|Wa8 nor will be such a company. | Years and 4th of July. Some of the | The bosses have the post office for-| collectors get as low as $15 a week. Ward all such mail to their offices | In addition to that we get plenty of | Wherever they may be. | hell for not getting in enough money| I can write a volume about the| and bubtieie, binges the ey alk les aid of he law use to extract the last ig ceca Ceara Rot | pennies from the workers. T wish $22.50 suit a worker pays as high| {2 Warm all workers to beware of Batore. you oa these installment houses and to |keep away the idea that it is very | good to buy on credit paying two ot | three dollars weekly. —A COLLECTOR. the family. They also acquire in- formation as to where your friends live, ete. You are to sign a guar- ae NOCLIPS, Wash, July 24.—The! ified machinery and for the fulfill. antee empowering your employer, no sail AAS acest Haul } Trade Union Unity League sti|Ment of the Five-Year Plan. matter who he may be to deduct Tate maintains the leadership on the] , tractically every day adds some- a certain sum out of your weekl, icket li hi 7 , | Sing new to the development of our wages in ease you fail io pay. ¥ NAP. LES SLUMS FILLED Fee ce cesthe Ah abies Weaver |factory. It would be sufficient to | The conditions now are most hor- rible. Almost every house I visit suffers from unemployment. I chal- lenge the Daily Worker’s claim that there are only eight million unem- WITH DEAD FROM QUAKE NAPLES, Italy, July 24.—A a Usual. | 3 ported the calling in of the military. | to help break the strike. NOCLIPS STRIKE T U. U. L. Membership | |The weavers | militant in their struggle on the line. ing active part on the line. | series of earthquake shocks at 1 a. m.|is building up fast. The T.U.U.L. ployed. It appears to me that if conditions are the same in other parts of the city and country as they are in my territory, the unem- ployment figures would easily double eight million. At this time of econ- omic depression, the bosses ate trav ing mad about bad collections and poor business. It is now that they are using the meanest ways of get- | ting their money. If a worker can’t pay because of unemployment, they serve him with a summons. If, however, there is a working person in the family, they do this. They go to any court and the judge signs a guarnishee notice. That notice is sent to the employer of the worker and his wages are guarnisheed, this morning killed about 700 and | has injured many more in this city and | Noclips. throughout the villages and towns} of this section, clear across Italian peninsula. As. usual in such calamities, the | crowded, badly built of greatest carnage. So far, no re-| a lief measures have been undertaken by the fascist government. 0 n Is Demonstrate against war and unemployment August Ist! Demand that expenditures on the | the Federated Industries is the job with his 11 gunmen. tenements | spread the strike through Grace| ever, do not lower the standard of where the workers live was the scene | Hargor and other mills. rested, eight in all up to now. The A mill is operating very poorly with|of living of the workers. | way there are only two real scab | Sawyers on the job. and the International Red Day, the closest contact and the exchange of experiences of revolutionary strug- gles among workers of various coun- tries, have a special significance. Our factory, which was taken in| the year 1917, during the October | The merchants called a meeting nd organized themselves into a ‘ood citizens committee and sup-| They also | hut off all credit. Henryetta will n 3 N vernight | tenth ode the city Lente ee fe eent] Revolution from the capitalists of rifles away. —T.E.C, | the Siemens and Schuckert Co., pro- duces electrical apparatus and ma- | chines, such as were never produced | in Russia before the revolution. Our production is mainly directed to the newly erected electrical sta- tions in our country. We have many difficulties in this new line of our work, but these dif- ficulties do not stop us. Our fac- tory workers with their real revo- lutionary enthusiasm which is as| jgreat as that which brought the} | October revolution, work hard for | the manufacture of the highest qual- GOING STRONG Grows in Strike (By a Worker Cornespondent) win; Halper hag Tae. | atte that in February we opened | a new department. In June, as a gift to the Sixteenth Congress of the Communist Party, we will open another department for the produc- tion of highest qualified electrical machinery. The number of workers in our fac- tory grows daily. We have abso- lutely no unemployed. Our industrial achievements, how- For instance women are tak- The Workers International Relief increased its membership in The big scab herder Gremholm of till on All efforts are being made to Weavers | living of the workers, on the con- trary, the more developed our in- dustry is, the higher is the standard While building new departments, we, at the same time lowered the working day to 7 hours and passed to the continuous 5-day week where every fifth day is a rest day. nd TUUL members have been ar- me shift of scab labor, and under ormal conditions they run two hifts with union labor. By the ter in the Daily Worker and mail to us copies of the issue when it is printed. Comradely yours, The Workers Correspondents and the Editorial of the fac- tory paper of the factory CAN, TOILER OK'S SELF -ORITICISH Will Hold Leaders Responsible Vancouver, Canada, Daily Worke Just read nrade Keller’s letter against self criticism, in a late Daily | Worker ahd the powerful answer it brought from the editor. H rade Keller been too bu: clear on this matter, or is his total lack of clarity due to a petty bour- geois base. be of such supreme importance right now if it were not held by such large numbers of even active Party members I shudder to think of just | how many in our part of the world, His attitude might not) ing “that nigger will be all right.” | So finally the dock board officials |thieatened to put the boss in jail |if something wasn’t done. Then | they called the charity hospital. | Now these men who are compelled to slave right on and ignore their | fellow worker when injured, are be ing paid 15 cents an hour, working 110 to 12 houre a day, carrying 200 pound bags on their backs and push- ing truckloads as high as 2% tons. These companies are owned and operated by plantation owners ex- ploiting all Negro labor. —J. E. WHITE. | light, even giving self-criticism lip | service (because it is popular in ad- | vanced cireles these days) but when | cornered show how they fear and | hate it when applied in their diree- tion. The issue raised by Keller is most opportune and should be thrashed out until every left winger in the land is clear on the matter and | realize what a powerful lever gen- uine self-criticism is, in learning from mistakes and preventing their recurrence, and is the chief method of holding the Party and its leader- | ship especially to responsibility be- fore the masses. Seems to be the sum and sub- stance of the matter is this! Have due on the part of the rank and | we confidence in the creative ability file to never having the matter put | of the masses or not? To have that squarely put in front of them in a/ not in words alone, for the proof practical way. lies in deeds, means we know our In the past, this has been due} cl Of all the renegades sin¢e to the heritage of Lovestone and| ths war, who can say of one he Co, in the States and Spector and | really sensed to what heights the Co. in Canada, who held out on this | working class can rise? To any sin- and other fundamentals, until the! core workers expelled through fac- membership is educated in a most. tionalism we dedicate the following: one-sided manner. But now the| ‘When self praise is sailing the Dam (damn factionalism) has burst | boat, self-criticism comes as an in- over there and we see Leninism/ truder out to destroy the Party and probing the dark corners, teaching | itr leadership.” But those days are all honest elements the art of self-| nearly over, and those two-faced criticism and showing up the con- | ones still inside will soon be corner: planned for armaments be turned —WEAVER. Neither the 7-hour day nor the over for the relief of the unem- ployed! “WHAT SHALL I DO?” On the Streets Anti- Chicago, Ill. Dear Editor: T am an exssailor of the U.S.N., marine, fireman, admiralty service G.B, ex-Canadian returned .sol- dier, coal miner, railroad switch- man and window washer, member of Local 34, Building Service Em- ployes International, until expelled and blacklisted for Communist ac- tivities. I have a wife who is sick, | four children, ages 4, 6, 8 and 10. T am out of work for four months and no work in sight. I am ill | from the endless walking from | shop to shop. Each day there is | less food in the house. I owe for | rent, I owe everyone from whom | I could possibly borrow, I have nothing to sell but my labor, and no one wants that. | I know that to go to the welfare | organizations would be useless. In fact, they would tell me to keep | on walking. To go out and steal | food! A worker only knows how to work. To commit suicide would — not feed the children. What must Ido? As a worker, I must com- pel the state to either care for the family or else the state must take the blame for the starving of the family, In plain English IT must leave my wife and children in order that the state may be forced to wosist them to survive this period. To say that I don’t care for my | family is wrong. No man who | understands the present situation | ize that it is more than an individual Soviet Duped By Wall Street to Fight = War Day Aug. Ist tried. Until some form of unem- ployment insurance is formed, hundreds and thousands of fam- ilies must be broken up. Mine is only one amongst many. —UNEMPLOYED. Editorial Note—What shall I do?! This question haunts millions of un-| cealed opportunists and how they do squirm and try to evade the search- |ed and thrown out. L, FILLMORE. CONDITIONS IN S.W. BAD Mexican Toilers Organize Into TUUL Los Angeles. Daily Worker: Working conditions in Imperial | Valley and other agricultural centers of California and Arizona are unbelieveably rotten. I went into the Salt River Valley the Ist of April, during the lettuce sea- son. Most of the workers there are Mexicans, Filipinos, Negroes employed workers who see their wives and children suffer the) agonies of slow starvation. | The weak and demoralized few commit suicide, an eseape that capi- | talism suggests. But more and more the masses of millions jobless real- problem, that it is a problem of unemployed workers facing starva- tion, of the entire working class. What role does the capitalist state play in this problem? Bil- | lions are voted for war purposes, but the demands of the hungry are met with police brutality, Fish com- mittees and fierce terrorim. | Bread can be wrested from the hands of the bosses and their gov- ernment by the organized might of the unemployed and employed by demonstrations, by strikes, by the political strike, by supporting the Communist Party in the election oa Bodies of the boys in the Michigan regiment that were sent as campaign, ete, | interventionist troops against the Soviet workers and peasants in August First must find all job- 1919, paraded through the streets of Detroit. Wall Street was forced less and employed ex-servicemen and —'» reer!) those who were not frozen in the marshlands of Finland when workers on the streets raising their the soldiers learned that they were fighting the revolutionary workers voices in the thundering deman?! v/ tre Soviet Union, who had set up a toilers’ republic that the billions spent for war pur- + ' seace to recoustynet their country. poses be given to feed the hungry Demonstrate August First against imperialist intervention in the could do different or better if he | Millions that were thrown out of} Soviet Union, the Fatherland of the workers and oppressed peoples | of the world, the factories to starve, and some Indians. The wages for farm help is 25 cents per hour, shacks are furnish- ed for steady help on the ranches. The most of the shacks are not fit for hogs to live in. Through the central west the farmers provide much better quarters for their stock. Many places have no floors, built of rough lumber with cracks an inch wide between the boards and in the early part of the sea- son the flies in these climates are terrible. These shacks are usual- ly of small dimensions, 12 by 14 and 14 by 16 feet. Mostly of one room, housing 3 to 6 persons. Sanitary conditions are not known, The men, women and chil- dren work all day in the burning sun, without any toilet facilities and with ditch water only to drink. As the work in these sections is seasonal, the whole family is forced to work in order to exist. FEH, Trinidad, Texas. Daily Worker: I'm going to tell you something that happened here, where I work, in Trinidad, Texas, for the Texaco Construction Company. On June 30, at 5 p. m., when we are knock- ing off for the night, a Mexican was fired off the job merely for taking a drink of water from the cup the whites use. The foreman said that any Mexican who drinks out of the cup used by the whites would be fired immediately. The Mexican workers are treat- ed as badly as the Negroes. The toilet has a sign: “For Negroes and Mexicans.” The drinking cups for Mexicans and Negroes are painted red, and also the faucets used by them. The work they give us is the hardest; we work in water all night. The wages we are paid is 35 cents an hour and food that nobody can eat and we are always hungry. They charge us $6 a week for this filthy “food,” and 10 cents a day for the “bed.” In each little room there are five workers. The company gets $14 rent each month for each room. In these rooms, when there are five workers inside, there is no room for one thing more, as the cots fill up every inch of space. | These rooms are more like chicken pens than houses. Families are not permitted. The boss who mistreats us thus is the representative of the com- pany and is called Mr. Sern, We want to form a local organization of the Trade Union Unity League, hut it is necessary that you help | us a lot, so that we can put an end to this terrible exploitation. —A. V." IN BRIEF |Glad That Workers Now Answer Police New York, City. The Editor, Daily Worker, | Comrade Editor: Please publish the following in your Daily Worker, the only paper worth reading. Congratulations to those brave comrades who so gallantly defended themselves and handed those lousy human weakling “New York’s Fin- est” cowards such a magnificent proletarian licking. It is about time that we show | | | 83 cents per ton. Three foot vein. for the ex-servicemen who were “lucky” enough to come back. Such | life. Yesterday the boss of the 8, | pete iprortnap ings dealt ts Coalton used to ba w good little is capitalism’s reward for the masses it duped and forced into the |§, Ethan Tillen came up to the “a in net going to fet thea Nave town of 800 families, Now it is) “Or ' make “the world safe for democracy.” = _ ; BRIpBiue Bberd coties ae) tol) RST hat pleka vee’ GOAetm Up dala filled ‘with widoos ‘All young peo- Workers and ex-servicemen! Make August First a mighty dem- | new crew that “they would have to | Toss Tene: Monit aR Tan ARR AT TAM Big gue randy 6 | ple have left. ne onstration against the imperialist war plots, especially against the | hit the ball from bell to bell with no | ¢8s , 5 bit we shall deal them blows faster | and more effectively than they can, | regardless of their arms and ammu- | nition. Comradely yours, J. WOODS. 1,500 Laid Off at Peoria, Ill., Plant New York. Daily Worker, Dear Friends: I have been without work since last November. I wish to tell you of some of my recent experiences in looking for a master. Last year I was working at the Catterpillar Tractor Co., at East Peoria, Ill. I had to leave because of an appendicitis operation. When I left my boss told me to come back whenever I’m ready, « went back two weeks ago to get my old job. I did not get it. The plant laid off 1,500 men the week I |was in Peoria and soon the entire plant is shutting down for 90 days, The only reason why Catterpillar was working this winter was to finish an order for 3,000 tractors and combines that the Soviet Union ordered last January. Now that the order is finished the plant closed down, —JOBLESS. Philantropist Wants Cheap Child Labor New York, Editor, Daily Worker: I am a 16-year-old- worker. Be ing out of a job, I applied, to. the Heckscher Foundation for one. This kind hearted philanthropist, through his employment office for workers from 14 to 18 years of age offered me a kind job at his children’s camp at Peekskill, N. Y. ¥ For six days a week clean pots and pants, clean the dirty. kitchen, help the cook, ete, for $ per month. This work I would have to do 14 hours a day. And imagine I would have to pay $10 fare, The Pioneers ought to expose this,. VL. Now Sees Thru Lies About Communism Spokane, Wash. Editor, Daily Worker: The more I read your paper, the better I like it, that is, Comniunism. Good glad and plenty tidings about the workers of the Soviet Union. Up to about three months ago, I, as many others, had a horrible feel- ing against the name of Gommu- nism, for it was connected, as I thought, with Moscow and unbelief in religion or against god, 1 used to be a Catholic, in which church going to holy mass is the most important thing to do regular- ly on pagan Sundays and even daily, —EX-ROMAN CATHOLIC. Walla Walla Jobless Talk of Mass Fight Walla Walla, Wash. Daily Worker: Dear Comrades: In this district we are feeling the full force of cap- italist prosperity with a big wheat crop about ready to harvest and a Price around 70 cents. This price is quoted on a basis of No. 1 clean, almost none of which is produced here, and usually after grades and dockage are deducted the actual net price is about 10 cents less. In the working-class section of \the city the sidewalks are crowded |with men coming in for harvest. | Less than one-half will be able to i | get jobs and still more come every day. Wages are $1.50 to $2 a day jin haying, but will probably be a little better in harvest. One can talk now with just about all the emphasis they please re- garding the necessity of proletarian revolution and almost no objection is made by even a Kiwanis intellect. Yours for action, M. CG. GC. ARREST COMMUNISTS. IN MEXICO CITY FOR MEET A United Press dispatch from Mexico City reports the arrést of two Communist leaders for holding a large demonstration -in:the ¢cen- ter of Mexico City Tuesday. The | Communists state that the.police severely wounded many .wworkers in their brutal attack on the. demon- stration,