The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1930, Page 4

Page Four Philadelphia, Pa., July 30. 'ONTINUOUS attacks against th working and imperialist war preparations go hand in hand in the Philadelphia District. The effects of the economic s are be- ng felt every day more and more. cla The large metal s and foun- iries and auto body plants are either for a vacation without pay or y reduced capaci Apex, and other ho- shut nd O. sho: mar eB.a laid off own, T nore h site region have just been forced to| a new agreement which un-| overthrown under the h ional Miners U | deliver them for five and one half| years to the coal operators and the| Lewis machine, leading to wage cuts of at least 50 per cent. “Prosperity” and War only for the s oducing for ‘ in Chester, Camden, Philadelphia, Wilmington, € are producing more than last year, but due to the terrific speed- up, they have cut down in the num- ber of worke: Through the intro- duction of piece rates and other de-| vices, the workers are having their Communist! he hard coal miners of the anthra-| | highly efficient ses in Reading, Pa. This on the job to hide ne real issues before the wo rs, to save them from going ove! side of the Comr the Trade Union Unity League, but as the a of our w them, provi all parties of in Reading show, not be fooled by come in and expose August First! will not merely be a ation against impe- and for the defense of fatherland, but one of tion for the coming strug- fore the workers of our Dis- Not a cent for armaments! ant Social Insurance!” must We w perme worl unemployment relief, and capitalist made the main struggle of rs in all the campaigns of the Communist Par The election campaign of the Par- ty in Pennsylvania will ra main slog: and will rall thousands behind our banner: like in the p ance, the Communist Par- ty will not merely have candidates for a few ery indu rial section, candida e “administration” | e the broad masses of the The fight for social insur- |) rationalization, | wages cut in half. In the steel mills} will run for congress, state senate, of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation| and general assembly, and we will at Sparrows Point, Maryland, and} reach the entire state, especially in Bethlehem, wage cuts have taken|the smaller industrial towns where place within the past two weeks| the election campaign of the Party| which amount to over 50 per cent.| will be made into a fight for the if we consider the increased speed-| legality of our organization in these up introduced with the new rates. | white terror-ridden parts of the cos- | War Preparations | sack-ruled state of Pennsylvania. The war preparations, especially | Reading against the Soviet Union, are play- The Reading convention ratified ing a major role in the District. The! the main standard bearers of our organs of capitalism in Washington| Party, Frank Mozer, for governor; and Philadelphia are devoting a lot) Pa: Cush, for U. S. senator; Sam Mellon’s Penn., the State ot the ‘Sedition Law| JENNSYLVANIA, the state con-| Mellon, Grundy, and the corrupt Vare is the state of the sedition law. Here the coal barons, the steel magnati mill owners are org .| the militant revolutionary movement | »| by using the infamous Flynn Sedi- | tion Law enacted in 1919 and di- rected against those workers who! ict of Philadelphia, which embodies the states of Dela- ware, Maryland, South New Jer: Eastern Pennsylvania, the Anthra- | cite, and the District of Columbia, the working class finds itself con- fronted every day with a growing terror of the bosses. There is not a single district in the country that as many sedition cases as the Philadelphia Distri ent time the District of 11 sedition cases, five being in the Anthracite, where the coal bar- s want to stop the growing radi- ation of the miners by jailing r leaders, the Communists. Three in Camien, N. J., where Anna Bur- Miller and Albert Brown, arged with sedition merely for being members of the Commun- st Party. Roy Peltz and Thomas Holmes, who already are serving a sentence of 1 to 20 years, in the Meadia County Jail, and in the Huntington State Reformatory, Bill Lawrence, whose trial is coming up in September on sedition, for speak- ing at an open air meeting of the Communist Party during the 1928 election campaign, in Philadelphia. Workers Defense These cases clearly prove the necessity of a strong defense or- ganization. However, sedition is not the only means with which the capi- talists are trying to terrorize the taking care At the pres- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, They Will Demonstrate Again Tomorrow! JULY 31, 1930 While Bosses Split Melon, Toilers Speeded Up and Laid Off 3 Days a Week It has been recently revealed at} |the Youngstown-Bethlehem Merger trial that Eugene Grae ident | of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation | received a bonus for the year of| 1929 amounting to $1,600,9 Mr. | ‘ace was not so anxious for this! | exorbitant amount to become known} |especially to those workers who slave in his mills for thirty-seven. 1600900 BONUS FOR STEEL HEAD— _ WAGE GUTS, LAY- OFFS FOR TOILERS mills, a new type of speed up mill. On the old type mill a crew on each mill produced 40,0C0 pounds for 8 hours but now on the continuous mills already the production has reached 80,000 pounds with a crew/ of two less men than heretofore and on top of this the wage has been | reduced to a day rate or two to five dollars less than what they used to | men were given low markings. There | }cents an hour. But event ly it/ get on the piece work system on the | |was disclosed that this his | old type mills. | bonus. For Mr. Grace the merger| For the several thousand workers | with the Youngstown Tube and the | in the tin mills at Sparrows Point a | Bethlehem Steel will mean even lar-| wage cut went into effect of 4% to ger bonuses because of the increased| ten per cent cut right at a time volume of production. when the mill has been working two To the workers of the Bethlehem! weeks out of every month. Steel who have become aware of this} Practically ninety per cent of the | immense bonus that the bosses get,! workers here are on piece work there has begun to rise up a feeling | which drives them to an inhuman lof contempt for the boss class and | speed up; but not alone is this one }each day finds new workers awak-| bad phase of piece work but on the was of space editorially to the Fish “in- and vestigation,” making it clear, as the} Philadelphia Ledger puts it, that| “Europe and the United States are| not going to stand idly by and see) their economic and financial systems smashed by Soviet Russia.” | The issue of the Russian coal min- ed by “convict labor” is used by the} coal operators and the Lewis ma-)| chine to accomplish their dual aim} justify their wage cuts and incite} Lee, for lieutenant-governor, Frank Note, secretary of internal af-| fairs; and called upon all workers in the state to rally behind the con- gressional candidates as well, to support the conferences to be called by the Party in the various congres- sional districts, to secure the twenty thousand to thirty thousand signa- | tures necessary, and to raise the ten thousand dollars to finance the cam- paign against the millions of dollars revolutionary working class. Dur- | ©Me¢ to the fact that there is a class| other hand the piece work system ing the unemployment demonstra-| “vision in society and that the} means less wages because whenever tions last winter, a large number of | Workers who produce and slave day | the workers are forced to wait for | to war against the workers’ father-| to be spent by Pinchot and Davis, workers were arrested, many of | them are still waiting for trials in September. Since May 1st, only in the city of Philadelphia, 85 workers were arrested for working class ac- tivities, Outside of this, large numbers were arrested in New Jersey, Balti- more, the Anthracite, and Chester. At the present time, six workers are |in and day out at a slave's wage are of the working class while the Graces and Schwabs who do not do} a thing but who have been excep-| tionally shrewd in maneuvering! business deals and befuddling the| workers are able to enjoy long va-! jeations and at the same time get | | $1,600,900 bonus. | The workers are beginning to see the grim farce in which they are steel, or that machines may be broke down the worker must stay in the | plant without pay. For instance in the Plate Mills there is on an aver- age of one to*two hours every day that the mill has delays due to steel not being hot enough or trouble with equipment and for the worker this delay means not a penny of wages. At the very same time that Mr. Grace draws his $1,600,900 bonus, A. FL. for Billion$ Navy and Boss’ War { PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 29— The A. F, of L, in the Philadelphia | Navy Yard is helping the big money | men in this country to build a bil- lion dollar Navy every year and to} prepare for war. Last week the| Metal Trades Council called a meet- | ing of all the workers at the Yard | where they told us that if we want to get work, we would have to cough | up with the cash to send commit- | tees to Washington and fight like hell so Congress will build more} cruisers, modernize the battleships, | etc. They made the 125 workers | present pass a resolution to that ef- fect and sent them to the boss press in the name of the 4,500 workers in | order to make people believe that the workers are for spending bil- | lions for the Navy. Speed Up The resolution did not have a word to say about the rotten condi- tions in t' Yard. Although there | is plenty of work, there were three lay-offs within the past couple of months to warn the workers to work | faster. The efficiency markings have been posted and most of the is a regular fever of efficiency, new improved machinery being intro- duced and entire departments re- organized and efficiency watchdogs are on the job to make us work faster. The A. F. of L. is helping! the government in this drive. | There was nothing mentioned in the A. F. of L. resolution about acci- dents and rotten sanitary conditions. Emery wheels are dressed only when they cannot be used any more. Ow- ing to this a worker caught his hand | when a drill which he was grinding) caught b-tween the bracket and the wheel. He lost one finger and burned: the other badly. No preau- j tions are taken to protect the work- ers working or passing under the places where burners are at work. Red hot chips fly, but what is a burned eye, hand or scalp to our officials. The same holds true with spray painting, as we know for only recently a worker contracted lead Poisoning as a result of the spray. In the foundry there is no venti- lating system to take care of the poisonous gases, especially mangan- ese that comes from the smelting of brass. Moulders become physical Greetings to the Daily Greetings from | Daily Workers. M. PAINTER I pledge to fight for the 737 Walnut Street working class. Philadelphia Ex-Soldier Henry M. FINNISH EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY i\| greets the Daily Worker in its fight for the relief of the unemployed Unit 201, Dist. 3 Ford Shop Nucleus Chester, Pa. The Hartford Cleaners and Dyers 1600 Hartford Ave. Baltimore, Md. land. These wage cuts, attacks | by Hemphill and Kistler, and by Van| already serving long prison sen- against the workers, preparations} Essen and Maurer of the capitalist|tences up to 20 years while many playing the part of a slave and this | the workers are being sped up, three I t wrecks, many of them are subject | is becoming more clear to the work-| days of the week and laid off the for war, and increased fascist ter-| parties. jof our comrades are in jail on 10 ror, as shown by the breaking up| On the eve of August First, the| 4nd 30 days sentences. All these of the Communist Party meeting) Communist Party calls upon all|@trests call for a strong workers de- and five comrades facing five to| workers to rally behind the election| fense organization based on work in| twenty years in the anthracite,! campaign, to come to the headquar-| the shops, factories and mines in charged with sedition, are the order | of the day. This cannot be hidden by the smoke screen of the social fascists, the fakers of the Full Fash- ioned Hosiery Workers and the yel- low socialist party, which is giving ters and volunteer to gather signa-|°Tder to mobilize the masses of work- tikes, raise finances, sell literature, | TS for the defense of those who are and establish a broad united front) fighting in the front ranks for the of the working class against the, °Verthrow of capitalism, capitalist class in the election Good Beginnings |ers of the sheet mills who have re-| remainder of the week. In the Tin j cently received a wage cut of prac-| Mills after years of speed-up they | tically sixty per cent as a result of | now work the mills on half capacity the introduction of the continuous | and speeding up the other half, AMONGST THE 75.000 TEXTILE campaign. VIGIOUS SPEED-UP, WAGE CUTS LAY-OFFS FOR CHESTER TOILERS Negro and Young Workers Suffer Specially— —Beset By Spies and A.F.L. Tricks (By a Worker Correspondent.) ,other needs of the workers To the tune of grinding machin-| nothing to follow suit. ery, more than eighty per cent of; Married men with various troubles the population of Chester, which is | besides too many children, find their estimated at about 70,000, hobble | forty, forty-five, and forty-six cent through their daily chores and then.| per hour rates so inadequate to as best their ebbed out strength| meet their needs, that they are fur-) will permit, they suffle home too| ther handicapped by lack of suffi-! tired to enjoy those things, home, cient food to provide enough strength | kiddies, and meals, that each na-|to continue to work, and the con-| do The International Labor Defense in the Philadelphia District has made some good beginnings in hold- ing open air meetings in the most industrial sections of the district by developing the campaign against the Flynn Sedition Law, through the holding of a broad mass conference, by establishing City Central Com- mittees, and functioning district committees. But it still fails to or- ientate itself sufficiently towards factory work, and fails to utilize its campaigns organizationally by get- ting in new members. The workers in the Philadelphia district must rush to the support of the LL.D., must join and build this organization in order to combat the vicious attack of the coal operators, the steel barons and the textile mag- nets against the workers. JOIN. THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE. HELP SMASH CAPI- TALIST OPPRESSION. turally looks forward to. Even the young workers, many of whom should yet spend a few years in school, can be seen trudg- ing along with heavy step because they have been pushed and speeded) up all day to make more and more profits for the boss. Baldwin Locomotive, Sun Ship- Wilding, Aberdoyle’s, Scott Tissue, | and others of the low wage com- panies in the City of Chester, also the Ford Motor Company, of speed up fame, which professes to be so much concerned with the welfare of the workers, are all equally guil- ty of taking the lives of workers by the installment method of a few drops of blood and a gallon of sweat per day. At each of these plants, pushers and foremen are drawn from the ranks of the work- ers and miserable as these jobs are, | they are offered to and accepted! by these workers to escape the! “misery of being driven themselves. It’s True. During the last week I helped to distribute the Ford Shop Bulletin to the night shift and many, yes, an overwhelming number of those leaving their shift, were scarcely | able to walk to their homes or to| the cars and trolleys that serve! as their means of transportation; to home. With their comrades bent on the same mission we came to a trolley stop where every last moth- er’s son was resting on the dirty curbstone because of utter: inability to stand longer. Fatigue, yes, an absolute worn-out, look adorned every face and after glancing at the Bulletin, remarks, such as “Boy, you sure have the inside track on that plant,” and “It’s time for someone to do something” were coming from every mouth. Not content with the gains from the vicious speed-up system in all the plants in Chester, wages have been and still are being cut to such low levels that workers are unable to purchase sufficient of the essentials for their well-being. Prices are cut at the work shops but the shops and | stores that supply the food and sequence is usually a siege of sick- ness or even the loss of their mis- erable jobs. At all places there is also in ex- istence the vicious industrial spy system and no mercy is shown to- wards those who are even suspected of agitating for the establishment of a union. In fact from all the plants such suspected people are be- ing constantly “fired” and even the writer of these lines was “picked out” a few days ago. To meet these things the workers must organize to fight. they must learn whom to fight. They must learn that their enemy is the boss and that the only way in which this boss, this enemy, can be| 11, defeated, is by organizing and build- ing up powerful, militant and class conscious unions in each and every one of the shops and factories in Chester as other workers in other cities and industries all over the United States are doing at the pres- | ent time. It is useless to tell these workers things which they already know— such as that the A. F. of L, is use- less to them, for most all have had previous experiences or at least pos- sess knowledge of the many be- trayals perpetrated against work- ers by these fakers. They know too, that in contrast to these betrayals are the many struggles led by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League in Passaic, Gastonia, New Bedford and in thé various mining regions and in every industrial sec- tion of the country. They know too, that in all these struggles, in which the Communist Party and the T.U.U.L. have participated that the fights have been waged on a class basis, the working class against the boss-class, and that regardless of nationality or color, these revolu- tionary organizations have rallied for struggle against the boss, unit- ing all Negro, white, and foreign workers on a program of common struggle for a common cause. The workers of Chester must un- While or-| ganizing and learning how to fight! derstand that the cause of all these troubles can only be removed by joining forces with the Communist Party and the T.U.U.L. This is necessary for the winning of such immediate demands as: 1) the seven- hour day and the five-day week; 2) A minimum wage of $35 per week. 8) Elimination of overtime and al- leviating in this manner the unem- ployment situation. 4) No double standard of wages for white work- ers and Negroes. 5) Also the youth must have equal wages for equal work. 5) Elimination of the bonus system and for the payment of real wages. The Communist Party and the T.U. .L., however, does not stop at the gaining of these immediate demands, they realize that workers’ troubles will only end when they are organ- ized in sufficient strength to follow the example set by the Russian workers. This means the taking | over of all the means of production and utilizing the same for the use and service of all workers and not for profits for the bosses, In sub- stance it means that we must fol- low the example of the Russian workers and establish here in this country a government of Soviets of the Workers and Farmers, On Friday, August 1st, the work- ers of Chester will demonstrate with the same spirit and enthusiasm as the workers in all sections of the world, to show what they think of imperialist wars. Workers of Chester are tired of bosses and by their sweat and blood tablishes a Workers and Farmers Government. Ohio Restaurant 4707 Eastern Ave. Baltimore, Md. sweating their lives away for the | they will seek the change that es- | Order of By R. PIZER Out of the 75,000 textile workers of Kensington, we find that over 50 per cent are permanently out of a job, condemned to death by slow starvation. Many workers who pre- viously owned the front porch, or half a dozen bricks of the houses they live in, now find themselves void of this property, due to the sheriff sales. Many thousands who live in shacks ‘they call homes, pay) exorbitant rent now can not pay any rent at all. Evictions are the order of the day. The credit of the Ken- sington workers in his or her cor- ner grocery store has long been used up, and now they are facing a miserable situation, such as star- vation, eviction from homes, with no possible relief in sight. Unemployment Unemployment is still growing in Kensington. Some of the big mills closed down completely, such as Apex, Abely, Gotham, throwing out close to seven thousand hosiery workers, Woolen mills, carpet, towel, upholstery, weaving, lace, have also shut down completely. While these mills still in operation are running part time at a terrible speed up. These textile workers cannot shift over to any other industry because the same conditions prevail all over. The fascist role of the officials in the full fashioned hosiery workers and in the other independent locals of the A. F. of L. is to sell out the mass of textile workers to the tex- tile barons, as in the heroic Abely, Rogers, Outcraft, strikes that took WORKERS OF KENSINGTON, PENN, 50 Per Cent Thrown on Streets—Evictions the place within the last few months. The Kensington employers bave is-| sued a statement that a wage cut of 25 per cent and doubling up on the machines must take effect immedi-’ ately, and the Full Fashioned Hos- iery Fakers fully agree with the em- ployers. Furthermore, tell the work- ers to accept this outrageous cut, and this form of making one do the} work of two will bring more unem-| ployment, While these textile workers are Czechoslovak Workers at Pokrok Picnic Baltimore the Day starving, the government has appro- priated 8 billion for the army and navy to slaughter more workers in the coming bosses war. Yet, not a red cent is being spent for the re- lief of the unemployed. The National Textile Workers) Union, affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League, calls upon all textile workers of Kensington, employed and unemployed, organized and un- organized, young and old, members of the American Federation of La- bor, members of the independent lo- cals, members of the National Tex- tile Workers Union to form a united front from below, and establish mill committees in the mills to fight back the attack made upon the textile workers by the bosses and the offi-| cials of the American Federation of | Labor. Organize and fight against the bosses war. Join the National Textile Work- | ers Union and fight for the follow- ing demands: 7 hour day, 5 day week. Increase in wages. Unemployment insurance paid by the bosses and government. Against wage cuts, speed up, and) lay offs. For the release of the un-| employed delegation, Amter, Foster, Minor, Raymond. Demonstrate on Friday, 5 P. M., August Ist, at C & Alleghaney. Against the bosses wars and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Demonstrate August Ist! A PLEDGE TO SUPPORT THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIAL- IST WAR A. NEMOROVSKY PHLADELPHIA to the “shake” they must take phys- ies every day and drink milk as a remedy, When they are laid off, then they are transferred to other shops and work as helpers. Their pay is thus reduced from 98¢ to 75¢ per hour, The same conditions of bad ven- tilation prevail in the blacksmith and structural shops. We are sup- posed to have safety engineers and representatives in the shops, but in- asmuch as they have their own work to do and they themselves are speed- ed up, little or no attention is paid to safety measures, They post nice little cartoons on the bulletin board, but that’s as far as it goes. Czechoslovak *Pokrok” Baltimore The Philadelphia District of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE pleges to defend the victims of the fight against impe- rialist war by building strong defense organizations. A. KLIMES Baltimore, Md. THE UKRAINIAN EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY of Chester, Pa. Greets the Daily Worker Sun Ship Shop Nucleus Pledges to fight the imperialist war preparations Greetings to the Daily Worker on August First In Its Fight Against Imperialist War! S. Havis G. Welsh L, Frankel J. Sovihuk Goodhart S. Olshenick P. Zoremba Barsky I, Myers Henry Dmitrush Gittelman S. Gorman N. Shechter M. Gilarsky I. Bogoslav B, Forman S. Epstein B. Tiern M. Pincos H. Axel I. Epstein . Morris Affesth B. Markison Greenblatt Osna Acker J. Barbirer THE SHOP NUCLEUS OF STEEL MILL AT SPARROWS POINT GREETS THE DAILY WORKER IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST IMPE- RALIST WAR. IT PLEDGES TO MOBILIZE | THE WORKERS FOR DEMONSTRATION. ON AUGUST FIRST.