The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, y Worker:— Sandwiched in between Pennsylvania and Maryland, the little strip of stline known as Delaware might ering office buildings of the power companies who have their main ces in Wilmington at the head of ederal Tin Young Workers Must Organize Baltimore, Md. itor, Daily Worker: This is to let you know that re is no ventilation in the deral Tin Factory. It’s hot tside but inside we can hardly rathe. We have to work fast d can’t stop for a minute. my of us faint as was the case th a spinner who fainted a few eks ago because of the suffo- ion. He was taken to the hos- al. If we had good yentillation wouldn’t have such cases. In the last paper you gave out u said that we have to get to- ther and put up a fight for tter conditions—ventilation and rything. I think you are right ause otherwise the bosses will ver give us better conditions. | do my best to build a union in e Federal Tin. I only wish that » rest of the Federal Tin work- s would hurry up and do the me thing. —A YOUNG SPINNER. asult Totlers seeking Aid at Hospitals New York, N. Y. itor: to show the workers that » the capitalist class pre- $ to give the workers some aid, hospitals, they have tricks 1 to fool the workers. ed the New York Eye and tal, 2nd Ave. corner 18th d me to a desk or counter, and a dear lady was hurrying the ploited workers for the if the workers had them, t, would tell them to go home get it. Syrupy Social Workers front of me was a fireman of arter: Vilmington Bosses Separate {egro and White Workers By Playing Up Discrimination —* Wilmington, an industrial center, Wilmington, Del. not be noticeable were it not for the the state. has by no means escaped the gen-| | eral depression. Some of the con- | struction companies here are expect- | ing to lay off practically their whole | depleted working forces. The mo- | Tocco factories are installing ma- chines which will do the work for- merly done by fifty workers. The street car company has finally won | its battle to have one-man cars. The textile mills are in about the same condition as textile mills elsewhere. Workers’ Districts. Behind the imposing front of the headquarters of the du-Pont, Atlas and Hercules powder companies are the dirty, low districts known as Starvation Pay For Those Still Working @iw | Biber 950 38 # Ber 630 Es =e «10 ZS bel = 10 we 25 ee case BR gs as ge Eb #5 YT = a Hald this Envelope ax Recelpt'f EXPLANATION Deductions monn RE Mitnecoe Betas Fae ENB TGrote Amount Bsroed ‘SUN SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. CHESTER, PA. Yom 48 While the millions of workers now jobless have no means of livelihood and are slowly starv- ing amidst plenty, the bosses are cutting down on the wages of those still working, which means semi-starvation for many more The three pay envelopes of workers in the Sun Ship, shown above, gives a fair idea of the over Third St. Bridge, Gander Hill— over llth St. Bridge, Little Italy and Browntown. Down along the east side, where the Negro district League and determined strike ee Pace Three \- ee | BE INSURANGE ms | SBEEDLUP, WAGE CUTTING SCHEME WEEK ENDING = Eo - | . : #2 3% Organize and Strike! ZS : 3e" 1a100 Be Against Pay Cuts! = =e ‘nen eq 4% 10 -BE Philadelphia, Pa. Be i149. =o Daily Worker: rill a According to the bosses’ press, Mr. #8 a8 Owen D. Young established for the 28 workers in the General Electric, = = | especially with their new scheme of “unemployment insurance, reduction Hold this Envelope as Receipt for Deductions i SUN SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK CO. CHESTER, PA. Pom 6 mutions, extent of the average starvation wages of those working under a _ killing " The workers must answer by organization into the revolutionary unions of the Trade Unity struggle. of unemployment” and other bur’ jum. The only truth on this is t! |they are taking one cent out jevery dollar for insurance of wh | we will never see even a cent. Whe Jare the actual conditions in the | Phila. plant? Wage-cuts are taking | |place daily. Skilled workers, who/| jused to make $1 an hour are forced to produce much more, for almost |half. Riggers are getting 50 cents, |electric maintenance men 65 and Hold thie Envelope an Recs EXPLANATI NET-Cush io envelope REU-Reict aun mat Cob Ovductions Sec REN Rem ‘SUN SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK co CHESTER, Pa. Form 08 | Owen D. Young, head of the Gen- eral Electric Co. and one of the big shot bosses and slave drivers of the United States. Young hands out bunk about “in- surance” and cut wages. He tells speed-up system. | millwrights 70 cents, The latter are| Ms workers to be “loyal” and speeds | TEXTILE WORKERS “READY TO FIGHT Must Organize Into | NTWU For Struggle | Clifton Heights, Pa, Daily Worker: | We workers in the Clifton Heights Mills are being exploited by the | bosses to such an extent that the workers do not get paid for working overtime, especially in the winding and reeling room. The bosses tell you that it is piece work when you tart to work, later when it comes to receiving your wages, they give you as much as they please, $8 to $17. Unsanitary conditions are exist- ing. We are not allowed to get our breath, and there are no methods of first aid. Long Hours. The rayon factory and the Clifton |getting laid off and their places |taken by apprentices of 15-16 years meets that of the poor whites, ex- tend long rows of drab houses, many of them without bathtubs. Here the workers sit, waiting always for 1 entering, an attendant es-| the morrow. Despite the growing unemploy- ment, Wilmington has practically no labor movement. There are plenty of workers to be used against each other, Little Italy has thousands of Italians, Browntown has thou- sands of Poles, the east side has thousands of Negroes. And then, if the workers become rebellious, | there are thousands of countryfolk | along the eastern shore of Delaware | and Maryland who are constantly | coming up to compete with the city workers. Farming Sections. To the south of Wilmington, one comes to the flat farming and fruit country of Kent and Sussex coun- ties. A young worker spoke to me, showing his fingers, the tops of which had been cut off by a punch- ing machine in the fiber mills. The| mills had now closed down. The! bosses claimed that the tariff might make it possible for them to open |up again, He got a job on a farm for 30 cents an hour—a big conces- sion, he explained, for the other | we s only received 25 cents, “but with a wife and four kids one can’t | remain unemployed long.” Now the farmer lays him off. Hearing about the harvesting of apples in Kent County, he hiked down in the hope of wor The district is crowded with workers who have come from all over. It i id that there are as many worker: apples, so, won- Hunger Wages At Sun Ship; Build Boats With Gun Bases Chester, Pa. Daily Worker, Dear Comrades: The workers in the “Sun Ship” work eight hours a day if there is enough work. If not they are forced to hang around the place un- til the day is over or lose the chance of making the little money they do. You will note that there is ten cents taken off of each week’s pay, no matter how small the pay may be, this is for the fake insurance} the company is supposed to carry for their workers in addition to the state compensation There are over 3,000 workers slav- ing in this hell for wages such as those shown on the enclosed envel- opes, and every one must pay this fake insurance to the company. So HUNGRY JOBLESS | BEG FOR FOOD Organize! Fight for Bread! you can see that the company 1s not satisfied with the enormous profits they make, but they even keep up the reputation of the capitalist class and take as much as they can from the small wages they pay their slaves. Workers of the world, there is only one way to better these con- ditions. That is to érganize into militant unions and affiliate with the Trade Union Unity League. Read the Day Worker. Join the| Communist Party! The only politi- cal organization that is fighting for social, political and economic equal- ity of the workers of the world. With Communist greetings I am Fraternally yours, McKenzie. CAROLINA STATE LABOR OFFICE FOR LOW WAGE GREENSBORO, N. C., July 30.— Frank D. Grist, state commissioner of labor and p-.inting, North Caro- lina, is a Legionnaire who imbibes his labor views from the North} Cerolina Cotton Manufacturers As- | sociation. | Daily Worker: | terrific and the workers can only| ot age, who are getting 35 cents an hour, have a four-year contract and | are forced to prod&ce more than the jadults. In a lot of other depart- |ments, punch-press, grinding ma- | chines, ete., women, girls and young fellows are hired, forced to make | good for the production limit, other- wise they'll be laid off. The speed-up is being enforced by introduction of piece-rates, which is ONG HOURS AT P E N N § U G AR being lowered by the rate-setters in —— many departments, such as the weld- jing department, where a lower rate has been set several times in the past week. All kinds of efficiency | experts, pushers and spotters are }on the job to increase the bosses’ | profit. There is also a rumor that At the Penn Sugar Refining Co. because of the too many goods pro- wages paid are 45 cents an hour, 1 duced by this increased speed-up cent less than at the Franklin Sugar | there will be a 4 to 6 week lay-off) Refining Co. |in the near future. The Penn Sugar Refining Co. is|, The workers of the General Elec- | a lerge concern located on the Del- ‘vic are beginning to learn about aware River and Schackamaxon| ‘heir rotten conditions, while the St. employing huge numbers of “!@rcholders are making hundreds workers. The workers work 11 °! ™i! profit. The police, al- hours per day under the most mis-, W@Y8 on the job to protect the in- erable conditions. j terests of the bosses, are trying to In one section of the refinery, Prevent the _Communist speakers ; where cane and beets are boiled, 400) from organizing the workers who! workers are employed. The heat is|®¢ beginning to speak more and| more of organization, I saw my-| work in a condition where all their | Self several Communist meetings) clothes are off. | broken up by dozens of police run-| Workers Catch Cold ning around like wild dogs before : the G. E. They arrested the speak- , hen pion Areas pee PGE ers, confiscated the literature. Just in from the Delaware upot e as Mussolini, the G. E. and the police: sweating, nearly naked workers. As $ Pe ds, | are trying to use terror to prevent a result many workers catch colds,| the workers from organizing them- and often are the victims of pneu-) selves in a fight for better condi- monia and even of tuberculosis. LOW WAGES AND Organize Into the Food Workers Union Philadelphia, Pa. them up and burns their very life; Yarn Mill works 9% hours besides out. | cvertime, constantly speeding up the He represented Wall St. in| Workers, introducing new machinery schackling the workers of Germany| ‘© displace the workers—and mak- with the slave Young plan that is|in& life more miserable every day. intended to grind out reparations| That is why hundreds of workers —as the lone police stated—the from the workers. | | PIGAR WORKERS GET “VACATION” Must Organize For Wages, Hours Philadelphia, Pa. Editor Daily Worker: At the last meeting that you fellows had near our factory gate I heard you people speak (before the cops grabbed you) of the great vacations that the bosses get and how we are laid off. You’re damned right. We have been slavir~ for years at 9-10 dol- lars a week, working 9% hours every day—and now that the sum- mer time is coming we are given a “vacation”’—permanently. I am sorry now that I didn’t get in with you guys while the chances were good. When I was still in the factory I was afraid to join you, thinking that I will lose my job. Now I lost my job and can’t even tell the others in the factory that it was possible for us to force the boss to lower our hours and raise our wages—if we organize—and stop |whole town came out to hear the speakers of the Communist Party at its election campaign meetings. Hundreds of workers streaming from their homes came to the meet- ings and received enthusiastically | the platform of the Communist Par- | ty speakers. Workers Ready. | The response of the workers to the revolutionary program of the | Communist Party in Clifton Heights, where the Party has entered for the first time—should convince every worker that everywhere and particularly in the textile mills, the | textile slaves are ready for organ- ization and are looking to the Com- munist Party and the Trade Union Unity League for its leadership. A TEXTILE WORKER. BAD CONDITIONS AT BALTO, PORT the | | Is Organization Only Answer Baltimore, Md. Editor of Daily Worker: I’ve been a longshoreman in the port of Philadelphia for the past three years and have been a mem- The preface to his an- nual report is taken from the Manu- facturers Record, reactionary Bal- | tions. This brutality makes us learn| the boss from firing us anytime he | | about this so-called free speech in|likes, Well, now I’m with you and | Philadelphia and instead of getting| will help you organize those work- dering how the kids are to be fed, how the rent is to be paid, he found it necessary to come back by train fire department. The dear lady, Although the nominal wages are y said, “No charge for ber of the crooked and rotten organ- 45 cents an hour, yet in many de- Dear comrades: Chicago, Il ization known as the International The effects of the crisis of world ” directing him to another itali fasta he | ti bo f | partments .the wages are much low- d we will figh' | wi re still in the consoli- | Longshoremen’s Assn. Which same i e ls’ were do. crow capitalism sure is being felt by the|timore trade sheet that boasts o | seared we will fight more not under} ers who are stil! e s i Resear, 2 ab OU Ene orc are Pe ila Oe eee ae arecican woringslaia’ Wii cvork [Man CDiGe (ADIT. er. In one department, where most-| the leadership of the fakers of the|dated—I know a lot of them and | Cannot do anything for its members. were standing where cards were a By Bl ers are hiching freights coming and] The part of Grist’s statement |ly Polish, Lithuanian and Russian! 4 ¥ of L,, who don’t try to organ-| will help you visit and speak to| I was sent to Baltimore as an ued. On this.-card, printed very is Wilmington, the boasted |going East, West, North and South| which aroused most bitter criticism | Women are hired to sew up the jute ize the workers, but under the lead-|them. Good luck to you. organizer. The second day I was arly as a direct slander to work- who are unemployed, starving d can’t find a job, especially du x this Hoover prosperity—this i tution is for the poor only. \fter you have been asked ques- you are directed to the clinic you are allowed to wait a ple of hours, where you are ed, shoved and then find your- seated in front of the Doctor. ‘ou over ag he asks you a ore questions, writes a pre- ption, then tells you what to do how to do it. Because to give treatment would do away h the graft from what the poor ave buys in the way of medicines. Workers Must Organize e are some of the blessings capitalism. How much longer e the workers going to allow the tten conditions to exist? How uch longer are the workers going » be blind and accept such condi- The entire damnable system capitalism weighs heavy upon » shoulders of the working class. Every worker should and must yin the Communist Party and the e looking for all their worth for a job and everywhere you go you hear and see “To hell with Hoover’s bunk and baloney about prosperity” and at the same time these poor hungry work- ers are hitching freights coming and | for food, many of these homes along the R.R. are bummed to death. I have also seen men with a child or two lying in the bushes waiting for a freight to pull out. Workers how long are you going to stand for this misery? Are you not men, have you not the fightng ability of put- ting your shoulder to the wheel, both Negro and white workers? Workers stand by your class, the Communist Party, the vanguard of the working class. _ On with the Revolution. | “first city of the first state’ Her workers are kept apart through segregation and memories of former race riots. Negroes and whites must not patronize the same restau- rants, they cannot patronize the same theatres, they cannot use the same schools. Wilmington possesses three news- papers, democratic, republican and non-partisan—all controlled by the same financial interests. Demonstrate against war and unemployment on August Ist! Demand that expenditures planned for armaments be turned over for the relief of the unem- ployed! |Trade Union Unity League. Only Comradely yours, PAUL BALASH. then, united, will we, the working class, overthrow this rotten system of unemployment, starvation, misery and hunger. This does not exist in the Soviet Union, the only Father- land of the workers. Defend the |Soviet Union, and read the Daily Worker. —Unemployed Food Worker... Defenders of Toilers’ Republic The Red Arny, the pride of the is the army of the workers and hurled back the armies of the imperialist brigands and their white guard allies. revolutionary workers of the world, peasants of the Soviet Union that Today they stand ready to safeguard the great achieve- ments of the workers under the Kwe-Year-Vlan trom imperialist attack, All Hail the Red Army, first line of defense of the First To the Workers of New York and the Provinces: Dear comrades: Fifteen years have passed since the first shots of the world war of 1914-1918 were fired. Its cruelty and destruction is unparalleded in the entire human history. The capitalists forced the workers and peasants to kill each other for the bosses’ profits. Imperialists and their lackeys— the social democrats — declared that the war of 1914 was the last war, and that war would not be fought any more and that all dis- putes in the capitalists’ world shall be solved by peaceful means. On the other hand while talk- ing about peace and spreading pacifist illusions, the capitalists and their faithful servants—the social democrats—are actively pre- paring for a new, more destruc- tive and more cruel war. Intensive preparations against the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics are not slacking, down. Just the opposite, they are being intensified more and more. They agree behind the stage on various military and political affairs. They arm the small countries along the Workers Republic! Show your solidarity with your comrades-in-arms on August 1st! Photo shows Red Army group engaged in machine gun maneuvers. boundary of the Soviet Union. The capitalists and the social democrats are organizing fascist reads: “If the mill workers have any conception of what is for their | best interests, they will turn a deaf | ear to the organizers and agitators, and take whatever they can get to do at almost any wage they can get, until business conditions generally improve.” Pellagra, due to malnutrition, has made heavy inroads on the Cone mill workers. The mother of six said she could not buy the food pre- scribed by the county doctor for one of her pellagra-stricken girls. The tather gets $7 a week, the 3-day shift common among south mills. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance, ANSWER THIS APPEAL OF TH Apbeal of the North Caucaustan | bags, containers of sugar, when the ership of the Communist Party and Metal Workers Industrial League. G. E. Worker, Ex-Cossack Chief Whalen Cuts Pay at Wanamakers Editor Daily Worker:— Whalen, the general of the Union Square massacre, has won work is what the workers here call | “rotten” the wages average as low | as 11 cents an hour. | Give Rotten Jute. | This is due to the fact that both the cotton and the jute is rotten, | and the Penn Sugar Refinery pays only for jute bags handed in perfect condition. Thus these women work- ers can make many bags that will | be rejected by the refinery, and | work hours getting nothing for their | work. Must Organize Into T.U.U.L. The average of 11 cents, some- times as low as 10 cents, or some- times as high as 12 cents or a week- ly average of $7 to $8.50 is terrible to contemplate. jean accomplish something to help Only organization of these sugar | out these workers from their morass refinery workers into the Food | of horrible conditions. Workers Industrial Union, affiliated week. ONE OF THE SLAVES. C. RABIN. E SOVIET WORKERS! Soviet Workers August 1, 1929 organizations, to prepare workers for the next war. While they talk about naval con- ferences and gossip about peace, the armament preparations are going ahead. The Soviet proposal for disarm- ament was turned down. The Comintern calls on you to demonstrate against these military preparations. Let the Red Day of August 1, stand as a protest day of the in- ternational proletariat against the capitalist war preparations. On August 1, the International Proletariat is to show the im- perialists that it shall not permit an attack on Soviet Union—the fortress of the world revolution. On this day the proletariat will show to the capitalist world its power and its will to turn the im- perialist war into a civil war for establishment of proletarian dic- tatorship. During the fourteen years of the existence of the Soviet Union it has shown the strength of pro- letarian dictatorship, in spite of all the hardships and all the enemies, The Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics is growing in strength and power. We are constructing our indus- try according to the Five-Year the | —A FIRED CIGAR WORKER FROM THE CONSOLIDATED. DROP IN INDIA IMPORT |DEEPENS BRITISH CRISIS LONDON, July 30.—Importation of Brittish cotton piece goods to Bombay dropped sharply and con- |tinuously in April, May and June |this year, The total for the three | period last year. This situation which is a result of the severe economic and political to the Trade Union Unity League | crisis in India will very scriously|ing members. accentuate the crisis in the British textile industry which is already quite helpless. Jobless workers in Lancashire will undoubtedly grow. The drastically desperate attempt |of the British textile barons to save |the situation for their profits is an important factor in determining the British policy of suppressing the Indian revolt, in sharpening the im- perialist struggle for markets, and finally in bringing about the im- there I went d do some distribu jarrived at the docks a | hov prised men work there. to see longshore- y were send- {ing out drafts with ninety cases of jean goods. Which if a pair of |horses would do it they would lay | down, | Bad Conditions in Baltimore. \ I alw thought that the port |of Baltimore was a good port to | work in but I found out differently. another battle. He cut the wages | months is only 27,000 packages as|In the port of Philadelphia we have of all Wanamaker slaves $3 per |compared with 43,000 in the same| a little better working conditions jeven though we have the ILA But the LL.A. is fading away, out | of 5,000 members only 350 are pay- So you can sée | What’s becoming of the LL.A. | The whole waterfront of Phila delphia is willing to go out on a | strike under the banner and leader- | ship of the Marine Workers Indus- trial Union, but is waiting for its brother port which is Baltimore. So the fellow workers of Baltimore should line up in the Marine Work. ers Industrial Union and follow the footsteps of their brother port. Not before can we do one without the Plan. According to the Five- Year-Plan we shall double our in- dustrial output and improve our conditions two-fold, Under this Five-Year-Plan a number of factories have reached the five-day week and seven-hour day. Soviet Union firmly persues peaceful relations with other countries in spite of imperialist provocations, Our Red Army is guarding our boundaries. Our Red soldiers are not only taught military science, but also social science so that when they come back to their homes they will be capable to do their share in the socialist con- struction and be useful citizens in the new socialist society. All claims that the Red Army is large in size, are a lie. The Red Army, compared in size to population, is the smallest army on earth. We propose to re- duce our army forces to even a greater extent provided the other countries follow us, but re- duction of the armies was not ac- cepted by other capitalist coun- tries. The capitalist countries are threatening our peaceful con- struction, and the rest of the pro- letariat with a new war, whose victims shall be millions of work- ers and peasants. On this day of August 1, your class brothers of Soviet North Caucasia are calling on you to pro- test and demonstrate against im- perialism, against the new war. We are certain that united and organized, under the leadership of the Communist Party, you shall defend the Soviet Union and turn the military war into a civil war, We shall then demonstrate to- gether, dear comrades, on August 1, against the capitalist system and show them our might. We are with you, for your lib- eration from oppresvion and ex- ploitation. Everybody out on August 1, under the banners of the Commu- nist Party. Long Live August 1, the day of International proletariat against Imperialism. Long Live the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—the party of the workers of the World. Long Live Proletarian Dictator- ship of the whole world, Workers of North Caucasia. (Received and translated by Work- ers’ Esperanto Correspondents) Strike Against Wage-Cuis! Demand Unemployment Insurance! perialist war against which the| other. workers will demonstrate on Aug. 1.1 —ANDREW TURNER. Where Workers Rule With real wages increased 75 per cent over those of 1918, with numerous privileges and social insurance of all types guaranteed by their class government, the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia are building at such a great rate that the capitalist world is alarmed and prepares to attack the workers’ republic. On August First hundveds of thousands of American workers will show that they stand behind their brothers of the Soviet Union, and ready to fight imperialist intervention. Above scene shows woman workers devoting themselves to study to fit them for higher positions in the workers’ state.