The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1930, Page 4

ivecestir Page Four ——————— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1930 Guard Plants TUUL Organizer Got to Show Himself More | Legion Fascists Chi. Oil , Aug. 1 Often to Speed Organization of Oil Men Oil Workers Ready to Fight After Hit Hard By Speed-Up and Lay-Offs Daily Worker: I want to say a word about our Standard, Empire, Shell and Sinclair Oil workers at Whiting and East Chicago. Speed-up and layoffs in these big plan Packing House Jobless Grow in Omaha, Neb. South Omaha, Neb. The Daily Worker: So Omaha is having its fair share of prosperity in the way.of unemployment at the present time. Every morning there are hundreds at the packing houses looking for jobs, most of those are workers who have been laid off and hope to get back ‘again. Peonle do not seem to be able | to afford to eat much meat at present so their services are not required. Some bosses are having their homes supplied with home brew, wine and the best grade of hootch by the steady workers. An enter- prising hiring boss at one of the plants is carrying on a loan shark business as a side line, at a ten per cent rate. It is a bad wind that blows nobody good, you know All “hoboes” caught are being jailed and run out of town. This is probably a precautionary meas- ure as the number is expected to increase with the coming of Win- ter; so the number of jobless must be kept as low as possible to save expense to the tax payers. A case of true bourgeois foresight, you know. Sincerely yours, A Packing House Wage Slave. Old Workers Must Toil Despite Sickness, Age New York, N. Y. Editor of Letters from the Shops, Daily Worker, Comrade: I am not working in a shop, but I am a nurse and occupied either in a hospital or in a doctor’s office. Yesterday a man of sixty came to the physician. Tall, but bent and very wrinkled. Suffering from an advanced form of progressive deforming joint disease, with a bad prognosis, that is there was no hope of cure. He is em- ployed in a meat store. Always standing on his feet. Very tired, very sore. The doctor «said he should discontinue all work, but he is too poor to do that. Must Continue to Work. “Have you always been engaged in this occupation?” he was asked. “Who, me? No, doctor! Only since I am in America. In Russia I was working in a factory. Thirty- five years in the same place. Now that factory has become bigger and two of my friends who used to work with me are writing me that they are happy. As soon as they felt ired and weak, they were sent by the government to a fine place to rest up. Ach, why am I here and not there? I came to this country in 1913, one year before the war, and now I must stay here. ... But I have to go to work to the butcher store or I’ll lose the job and starve. Doctor, you should make me aealthy. If you fix me up, I’ll make t right for you.” —A. L, O. ‘|workers are meeting in the alleys Chicago, Iil. Ited in hundreds of | g cut off from our/ .. organizers have been to see us and called a meeting w |not come back to speed up their ce in the workers. Company Spies Around At the Standard in Whiting we |are told the company stool pigeons |have informed the bosses that reds | are prepared to break into the plant August Ist and demand employment. |In view of these -eports the bosses | have taken every means possible to | defend the plant and well they may |for workers are starving and they are just about ready for trouble. They are going to stand just so |much and no moe. Guns and am- | munition is said to be stored in the | plant and ready for use by trained | ex-soldiers, members of the Ameri-} jean Legion. I’m wondering just how many of, these American Legion men smelled powder on the firing lines during the last war. I’m here to say not one of them did or they would not be in line} | with the capitalistic bosses plan to- day for another bloody war. | T.U.U.L. Breaking Ground |! The T.U.U.L. is making good headway at the New Empire Oil! plant which has opened at East Chi- cago. This plant has hired a num- ber of oil workers from other plants notwithstanding reports to the ef- fect that this company expected to |bring its skilled men from other | plants. We have a weekly meeting for T.U.U.L. members anc what we need lis more support from our district or- |ganizers. Please print this in the ith a good response but they do} , should in order to in-| now organizing these workers for | bosses’ attasks, FORCE FARMERS | Daily Worker. | EMPIR«# OIL WORKER. | YONKERS UNEMPLOYED BECOMING MILITANT | Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: Yonkers, N. Y., has a population of 125,000. Many factories here are! shut-down. A carpet factory em-! ploying 8,000 workers runs only two days a week. The streets are crowd- ed with hungry, jobless workers. The town is full of American Fed- eration of Labor fakers, American Legion boosters, and patrioteers of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Whenever a job does show up a worker cannot get it unless he has a fine “shinola” tongue and will lick the boots of the bosses and the above organizations. The mayor of Yonkers is an ex- district attorney of New York City. A sum of $65,000 was spent to get him elected to a $10,000 a year job. The mayor will give no permits to! working class speakers and has al-} ready said that “no Communist meetings will be held in Yonkers.” During a recent construction job the city brought workers in from the outside while thousands of local jobless men were walking the streets. Workers here are waking up. ‘They are stripping themselves of all the capitalist illusions, American individ- ualism and white chauvinism. Yon- kers is on the rocks and the workers are up against the real thing. The and corners. They are talking. What PROFITEERS DESTROY 70,000 TONS OF PEACHES AS MILLIONS GO HUNGRY Jobless! Organize to Wrest Social Insurance From the Hunger Bosses and Their Gov’t! Oakland, Cal. Dear Comrades, Daily Worker: The enclosed item appeared in an Oakland paper yesterday. Marysville is in the upper Sacra- mento Valley. It was in Marys- ville that these arrested in the wheatland riots were tried. “PEACHES WILL BE DESTROYED TO KEEP UP PRICE” MARYSVILLE, July 19 (PCNS).—An office was opened here today at which more than 70,000 tons of first grade cling peaches will be bought for ap- proximately $1,000,000—and de- stroyed. As more than half of the world’s supply of cling peaches comes from this district, between 70,000 and 80,000 tons growth in the Sacramento valley will be de- stroyed out of the 111,000 tons which must be dropped to hold the state pack down to the market- able limit of 13,000,000 cases. Farmers will be paid $13 a ton for unharvested fruit. The entire output of 600 or 700 peach orchards in this district will be knocked from the trees. The $13 a ton price for unhar- vested fruit is declared equivalent to the $20 a ton which will be paid for peaches which are packed, graded and hauled to the canners’ receiving stations. The crop con- trol committee will collect $6.50 from the canners for each ton canned to raise $1,750,000 neces- sary to buy the surplus. A WORKER CORRESPONDENT | heuses and get what he can in. Then | these so-callec TB cows are turned | into sausages and meats. | they have to say reflects the first Arch-Exploiter | | Rockefeller, standard oil brigand, | who is now laying off thousands of | il workers, cutting wages of those | ng in the plants, and wm- ng increased speed-up. | ade Union Unity League is | struggle against the od TO SELL COWS Milk Trust and State Rob Poor Farmers Pottstown, Pa. | Daily Worker: The farmers in and around Potts town, Pa., are feeling the pressure ‘of the capitalist state and scores of them are having their cows taken away with no compensation due to, th fact that the large capitalist | milk trust is selling whole milk at} 20 to 24 cents a quart yet they pay! these poor farmers but 4 cents a quart. And the farmers must haul and chill the milk. Yet this is not enough for these blood sucking capitalist parasites. They have an over supply of | milk and the large millionaire dairy | owners have pushed through a law | which forces the small poor farmer); to have his cows examined and tested for T. B. The law states | that such cows should be destroyed | and farmers are to be compensated | at the rate of $75.00 per cow. But | the © ~ Mm st wait years for the} money and being poor is forced to) sell the cattle to the slaughter Joe Gralick. red rays of a revolutionary con. sciousness. Conditions are “srcing them to tear the cobwebs and wreck- | age of bourgeois ideology from their | minds. The workers of the United States | are waking up and soon their mighty hands will be ready for the torch of Leninism! On August Ist, FORD CLEANUP MEANS MORE KILLING SPEEDUP Men Must Organize for Struggle! Detroit, Mich. Editor Daily Worker: A general cleaning was begun in the River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Co. the beginning,-“of July. The bourgeois press says’that Ford intends to clean Dearborn of boot- leggers and his plant of drunkards. Mass Discharges. All of Ford’s brutal bosses, fore- men, spies, pushers all went to work. The first to find themselves out of the plant were those “caught” in the lavatory with towels wiping their faces. Hundreds were dis- charged for this “crime.” We were not previously warned that such methods would be used. Notices were put up in the lava- tories threatening discharge if workers had towels with them. Also workers not in their place every minute of the day will be. dis- charged. Talking to work mates means discharge, These damn straw bosses worked themselves into a fury, foaming at the mouth in carrying through these dirty Ford tricks. Mad Speed-Up. We are told at the beginning of work that we can expect to put out such and such amount of produc- tion. Some of the machines are pretty worn and broken and with) he mad speed-up lots of defective work gets through. The blame fal! upon the worker, and often dis- | harged, The pushers drive us like horses, with shouts, curses, and threats. If we dare say a few words in our de- fense we are discharged. Discharges Ready. I saw how the pusher cursed a sweeper, who working hard, and sweating, when the sweeper ans- wered back. The pusher went to! the super. Then the super running to the time clock, which meant that the sweeper was fired. When one begins to work the pusher comes up and says, “How do you do today. Full speed ahead. Shake a leg.” And all day the pusher watches the clock and us and shouts “Snap into it.” At the end of the day the pushes comes end of the day the pusher comes that machine, goddam you!” Must Buy Fords. Another thing. You must buy a Ford if you expect to pile up money for Henry. And you got to boost the tin can too, At all times of the day you can |see long lines before the discharge desk, About 20,000 workers were dis- charged when the plant closed from July 12 to July 28, Vacation With Pay? The boss press was shouting that Ford would give his workers two Ford has started another drive upon the tens of thousands of auto workers. Layoffs, wage-cuts, and new methods of speed-up to burn the very life out of the workers is Ford’s program. The auto workers must answer this murderous attack by organiza- tion into the Auto Workers’ Union and preparation for strike struggle. AFL, SELLS OUT CLEVE, CARMEN Only Strike Will Win Better Conditions Cleveland, Ohio. Daily Worker: That the A. F. of L. misleaders are constantly selling out the work- ers is nothing new. However, each | instance wakes up more workers to the betraying role played by these agents of the bosses. Here in Cleveland we witnessed the rawest kind of deal handed the street car men, only a few days ago. The street railway system RELIGIOUS DOPE WORKERS NEED More and More Masses Must Be Organized! Detroit, Mich. Daily Worker: Enclosed articles from the Detroit Peoples News, a religious colored organ. With all these fakers and preachers telling us to be thankful for our great burden and cares. If you wish you may print some in your paper the Daily Worker, with your statement attached. Let the Negro workers see the bluff. The article follows: “WHY WORRY?” By Rev. Huel J. Jackson, B.D. “There should be no worry lines Jin the Christian face. If you need |a job, see and ye shall find, ask and it shall be given. We read in the book of Philippians, 4:19 My God shall supply all your need ac- cording to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. “Worry does not accomplish any- thing. It dishonors the one who has promised to care for us. It hinders the growth of our Christian life. Prayer with thanksgiving will certainly kill worry. We can be thankful when there are great bur- dens upon us because we have one who knows all about our sorrows and cares and is willing to help us with them.” —A NEGRO WORKER. hoe) be Editorial Note: “If you need a job, see and ye shall find, ask and | it shall be given” is the kind of | religious dope handed out to Negro ‘and white workers, millions of | whom are now jobless and on the | verge of starvation. Such dcepe STRUGGLE, NOT has recently passed into the hands | supplements the widespread bosses | of the Sweringen interests and continuing the union smashing tac- tics of the previous owners, but more openly, they immediately caused a raise in the surface lines from 7c to 8c a ride with a penny for transfer and followed that up with an increase of the Rapid Transit lines from 10c to 15¢e. On top of that they cut the men’s wages 10 per cent. The rank and file immediately called for a strike vote, but the | self-satisfied misleaders thwarted | each motion for a strike and merely allowed a vote of censure of the railway bosses. Furthermore the union is no lon- ger recognized and if more militancy is not forthcoming in the near future there will be no organiza- tion left at all. Comradely, N. R Metal Trades Workers Industrial League, and the councils of the un- employed and under the leadership of the Communist Party struggle against the life-sapping working terror in clubbing, shooting and j jailing the workers who dare or- | ganize and demand the right to | live. At this time when the bosses are telling the workers that they (the |; workers) must accept the burdens | and cares of the great crisis, more organization, more demonstrations, more masses to fight to force the bosses to come across with relief in the form of unemployment in- surance, no evictions, old age insur- ance, sick and disability insurance, | organization into the Trade Union Unity League, etc., is necessary. Negro Workers Visit Soviet Union LENINGRAD (IPS).—A group of Negro workers who attended the international conference of Negro workers in Hamburg has just ar- rived in Leningrad. The group con- sists of twelve comrades, ten from the United States of America, one from West Africa and one from South Africa. The leader of the group is Ford (U.S.A.) who de- although declared illegal, we shall rally to our anti-imperialist war demonstration here. --A FOOD WORKER. weeks vacation with pay. give, to whom? here need organization. ever it is necessary to organize and ‘join the Auto Workers Union of the Will The auto workers More than conditions at "ord’s, P. S. All out on the Anti-War Day, August Park, at 5 p. m —FORD WORKER. clared that the delegates had come to the Soviet Union to study the solution of the racial and national question within the territory of the Soviet Union. streets on 1st. Cass The Whalen Forgeries Are Exposed! (Continued from Page Three) that if this attempt to bribe were not a late afterthought, Djamgaroff would certainly have told it to the editor and publisher of the Graphic. Bribery Charge' Fake, I also want to call your attention to a strange fact. Djamgaroff’s statement which was read to you by Mr. Whalen is dated May 18, 1930, the day after the Graphic broke the first story of the forged documents. Djamgaroff saw Swain and Weyrauch and Pape a week after the stories appeared. Yet, at no time was any mention made of the attempted bribery which is contained in statement ostensibly made on May 13. This committee can draw its own conclusions from that. I might also add that all of the conversation that occured between Messrs. Weyrauch, Cohen, Swain and Maines was taken down by Wey- rauch in the presence of witnesses present in the event this committee should want that testimony. I shall now return to a little earlier in the story, namely to the time when I learned that Easley had shown the documents to Huge Kerwin and that a mediary had offered them for sale to Horan of Universal Service. Swain had told me to get to the bottom of the whole thing, and dug around in an effort to do so and learn what was back of these forged documents, I learned that this congressional commit- tee before I have the honor to testify, owes its existence to the shrewd machinations of Russian monarchists and Russian monarchist sympathizers, apparently actuated by a de- sire to injure the “Soviet Government. I want to say here that I have no interest in the Soviet government. I am now making @ report as a newspaper man who was told to get to the bottom of a story that he was assigned to cover. Easley Associated with Monarchists. Since Mr, Easley had had the documents six weeks before Mr. Whalen had published them and since they had been offered for sale about the same time, and then had been sprung right after a tremendously publicized May Day demonstiation ‘by Mr. Whalen, the whole thing took on a phoney appearance. \ dug around on Easley, and learned that he is a professional patriot who has been shouting Red scares for many years and collecting a salary for it and that Mr. Easley is closely associated with Russian monarch- ists, Easley was a friend of Boris Brasol. Brasol was one of the Heads of the Russian Black Hundreds and came to the United States to enlist support for the restoration of the czar. Brazol paid $7,000 for a lot of forged documents for the use of Henry Ford’s lawyers in his defense of the damage suit brought by Aaron Shapiro some years ago. Brasol was involved in the Orloff for- geries exposed in Berlin . - the correspondent of the New York Evening Post. This is sufficient to give an idea of Mr. Easley’s monarchist sympathies and connec- tions. Easley is also on excellent terms with Djamgaroff, the secret monarchist agent in the United States, judging by the rapidity with which Easley telephoned to Djamgaroff of my appearance at his office. Easley’s professional patriotic work is concen- trated in the activities of a body known as the National Civic Federation of which he is a sec- retary. Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., is vice-president of the National Civie Federation. Both Mr. Woll and Mr. Easley, particularly Mr. Easley, have been trying to get just such an investigation as this for many years. For the committee’s information, if it has not al- ready got it, I should like to read into the record a statement made by Easley, the sig- nificance of which will be apparent before I conclude this testimony. This statement is but one of many along the same line which Easley issued to the press, It is sufficient in this par- ticular case to mention one. On Sept. 1, 1928, he issued a statement which among other things said: Statement of Easley “Strange as it may seem, one of the reasons why the A. F. of L, has so much trouble with the Communists in this country today, is that under our Federal laws the U. 8. government at Washington is without power either to in- vestigate or check the venomous propaganda of the Communists and other subversive forces which are striking viciously at the vitals of our national life and attempting to undermine the American labor movement “When, in his splendid challenge of August 29 to the Communists Mr. Matthew Woll points out that the Soviet government of Russia is sending its money to India to fi- nance Communist activities he is describing a condition of affairs which every other civil- ized government in the world would deal with most summarily. The only way to rem- edy ‘+’. disturbing situation is for Congress to make a specific appropriation which will enable the Department of Justice to keep itself informed with respect to the activities of these destructive elements.” On March 4, 1930, Matthew Woll, vice presi- dent of the National Civic Federation predicted a Congressional investigation into Red activi- ties. For a long time both Easley and Woll were trying to get a Congressional investiga- tion but they had nothing with which to appear before Congress to ask for an appropriation for such an investigation. Yet, on March 4, 1980, which is about the time the forged docu- ments were offered for sale to Horan of the Universal and were shown by Easley to Hugh Kerwin of the Dept. of Labor, we find the vice- president of the National Civic Federation con- fidently predicting’ a Congressional investiga- tion. In an A. F. of L. news dispatch dated March 20, 1930, I'find the following: Congressman Fish in his House resolution 180 said, “Viicreas Matthew Woll, acting president of the National Civic Federation and vice- president of the A. F, of L. has stated pub- August First! Oh let the sickening smell come out Spread the facts of the system about! Away with the mask the bosses have shown Let the lies of the traitors be known. Our greedy masters, the bloody knaves Who hire corwards to kill their slaves Deny the millions who should be fed And feed us bullets in place of | bread. Arise fellow-workers of America, UNITE! Let us STRIKE with our MIGHT for the RIGHT And lead the toiling masses to FIGHT! Are ~> not strong who wield all the tools? Then to hell with the justice- pleading fools! Let us lay down our tools on the workers’ RED DAY And shout REVOLUTION while the Thomasses pray! DAVE HOROWITZ. WORK 12-YR.-OLDS. INGAL.CANNERIES Pioneers to Organize Child Workers Hemet, Cal. Daily Worker: The two packing and canning | companies here are now operating | double shifts to take care of the | rapidly ripening fruit. Each can-| nery employs about four hundred | workers. Many are children only | twelve and thirteen years of age. | State Labor laws that are supposed | to regulate the hours of labor of! women and children are totally ig- nored. Canners are only paid three | cents per tray. A tray © ntains| twenty-four cans. Cutters are paid | twenty cents per box and it is im- | possible for a worker to cut more | than twenty boxes in ten hours. The | average wage for women and girls | being one dollar and forty cents | per shift. | Poor Housing | Hundreds of workers live crowd- | ed on the ccmpanies’ property in dirty little tents or shacks made of drying trays. Housing provisions have only been made for about two hundred workers and as a result the others are without any semblance of sanitation. Half naked children play among the ramshackle auto- mobiles as there is no one to take care of them while their parents | work, | The majority of these workers follow the seasonal crops from Ari- zona to the Canadian border. They | are among the most exploited work-| ers in America. They are ready | and willing to organize and fight | for better conditions. Being that | there are thousands of these migra- tory cannery and orchard workers in California, every effort should be made to organize them under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League. While many of these workers are Mexirons who are given the hr-dest and dirtiest jobs, the majority are American workers. California Cannery Worker. | | Strike Against Wage-Cuts Demand Unemployment Insuraxce! licly that he has reason to believe that the Amtorg, a Russian-American trading corp. with headquarters in New York is the sency for ».2versive Communist propaganda and insidious “red” activities directed against our form of government,” etc. I thus found in digging around that shortly after Easley appeared in Washington with the forged documents later released to the press by Whalen that Matthew Woll stated that he had reason to believe Amtorg is carrying on subversive propaganda. The conclusion is ob- vious. It was on the strength of these forged documents that the Congress of the United States was finally persuaded to giving Mr. Easley and Mr. Woll of the National Civic Fed- eration that investigation which they had been trying to get for so many years, Demonstrate August Ist! CONN, NEW PARI MEMBER CALI FOR MORE ACTIC | Want New Proletari Elements Naugatuck, Com Dear Comrades: I am writing these facts to | Daily Worker because it is a wi ers’ paper and its the workers t should know that Hoover’s pi perity is the bunk. I am only a Party member | three months and it makes my he |beat with joy when we had a meetings here a week ago to { over our future activity. I bel \to a very small unit of old Pz members which to suit me is not |tive enough, and I am doing | best to put the young proletar |element into the work, so that I {some other comrade will put Communist brand into the state Connecticut, which is sure full police terror and my aim is to w it out and on to the proletarian g ernment, A Rubber Worker. . I used to work in the Rubber generating Co. of Naugatuck one time and that plant is sur plant for workers who are able step on the gas because if you ca why, they don’t want you. Ei; hours a day and three days a w is vhe Hoover prosperity here in t plant and the worst of conditio Why, you can’t even go to a to any more because if you <2, you will get the gate for letting stock go on the floor. And the ¢ | is damn small and the workers ca even pay their rent. But I ca understand why they are afraid d- the only thng that will h them in bettering their conditic and I’m sure the, have heard pler about it and that is the T.U.U an? the Communist Party! Terrific Speed-Up. One man does sixteen men’s we now since I left and that was o1 four months azo and it’s worse some departments, Here is hopi thet with my help that the Comm nist brand will be put in this pla with the Daily Worker and Lab Unity. —A WORKER. Tammany Cuts Pay of City Hospital Orderlies, Porte: Brooklyn, N. Y. To the Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Editor: The richest and biggest city in t world has recently reduced the waz of the orderlies and porters in t city hospitals. They formerly 1 ceived $45.00 per month, Those e tering the service now receive $40. per month. They reduced the slav and gave increases to the swiv chair men, the men that do no a tual work, Fraternally yours, John H. Sheehan. NEVADA SILVER MINES CLOSE DOWN TONAPAH, Nevada.—The lo price of silver has caused all tt southern Nevada silver mines discontinue operations. There but one exception. That. of th Tonapah Extension which, becaus of the amount of gold running i the silver ore, makes its operatic profitable to the bosses. The wag« of miners have been slashed. JOBLESS! NOT SUICIDE BUT BITTER FIGHT AGAINST THE HUNGER SYSTER Under the Leadership of the TUUL and th: C. P. the Masses Will Fight for Bread! S..helbyville, Ill. Editor, of the Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: Here are three sad news items from the Decatur Herald, of July 22. From Geneva, Ill. by United Press: Heat, that shot the mercury above 100, drove Mrs. Charles Anderson to murder her husband and the 18-year-old son and set fire to their heavily mortgaged farm home and then took her own life, Sheriff L. L. Ureh said Mon- day as he reconstructed the rural tragedy. _ 8 ® Sheriff Urch said after a pre- | liminary examination of the home which was damaged only slightly by the fire that he believed that the Andersons’ were hard pressed for money. The 40 acre farm was heavily mortgaged and the sheriff said he had called several times to collect old debts. He advanced the theory that worry coupled with the excessive heat of the last few days drove Mrs. Anderson insane. " * ° * From Sullivan, Il. Despondent over his inability to find work Arthur Pence, 55, carpenter, blew the top of his head off with a shotgun at his home two miles west of here. fay Sige From Decatur, Ill. Frank Collins, despondent be- cause he could find no work to support his wife and four child- ren, Saturday night hung himself in the basement, at 1713 East Johns Ave., where he had found shelter for his family since he lost his job. * * * Meanwhile a bloodthirsty cap- italist world plots and plans to smash the Soviet Union, the first Workers’ Republic. The Soviet Union, where the state relieves the workers from the fear of old age, unemploy= ment, sickness, accident and death by social insurance must be crushed, the capitalists say, other- wise we are doomed. The gentlemen are right. The workers of the world cannot bt kept in bondage forever unlest the Soviet is shattered they say The attempt is even now being prepared. Comrades we must Prepare too, Yours for the defense of the US.S.R. —CS.B.W, ee