The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 6, 1930, Page 3

ee ee ee ee ee battens =A <s fe ae en a eos Y | | 500 REPULSE SCABS DESPITE MANY CONVICTIONS Negro Press Applauds Communist Party NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 5.— About 500 river dockers, all from me dock, where there are five com- vanies, are conducting a wonderful trike against eyery dif: ‘y for 100 per cent increase in wages and recognition of their strike commit- ee, The struggle is led by the Marine Workers Industrial Union. In spite of wholesale arrests, they have vigorously repulsed the scabs jor days. A few hoats that have hanaged to slip out have been tied | jp, farther up the river, for lack |f crews, Some of the companies are offer- ng settlements at the rate of 30) ents, 40 cents or 45 cents per hour. “he men demand 50 cents, and are jonfident of winning it. Some of hi ther docks which pay the full wage. fe | Arrest Leaders. The po il leaders and convict them vitering. The sentences are ariably 30 days or $15 fine, Il Negro dock workers, were given nis sentence: Pilter Westbrook, urtis Miller, Strad Brawfex, Bam- ster Haibert, Adolph Abraham, Al- krt Bronson, Richard Jones, James larter, Leslie Booker, Eugene Sto- er, James Johnson, Abe Williams, ‘en Harris, Rayfield Jackson, Joe ee, James Smith, Marshall Clark, ‘red Carter. Some fifty cases have been dis- nissed. Hopkins E. Smith (white) out on $250 bail furnished by fiends, with no trial date set. Alex jeed, a Negro union organizer, was hot in the leg when armed scabs nd their herders fired on the pick- fs last week. He was released from he hospital August 2, and is con- lescing rapidly. The strikers are badly in need f funds. Any donations sent to the Tarine Workers Industrial Union, ational office, 140 Broad St., will e of much use in winning this rike, * Louisiana Weekly, a Negro laper, comments editorially on the lvike. After a cautious declaration hat “one is led to believe that the ‘dinary laborer must go through brment to earn a piece of bread for is family” on the waterfront, and | statement that if conditions are 5 described, “we are in sympathy ith the strikers, if not, we cannot > with them,” comes a most sig- ificant paragraph, as follows: “The Negro has tried the Repub- can party for the past sixty years, ad some of them have tried the emocratic party for the same time, ut it appears that the major par- les in the United States are trying ) freeze him out and use him only 5 cats paw to rake the chestnuts tt of the fire, but with the advent * the Communistie Party whose tms are open to all alike, it ap- bars that the Negro has found a hivation, It appears that he has ound some one that will aid him | his economic struggles, as well s his political fight for freedom, e are with the ones that are with ” ANADA AND U, S, VORKERS UNITE *hrow a Scare Into the Bosses of Windsor WINDSOR, Canada, Aug. undreds of workers among whom ere many young workers, of Jindsor, demonstrated here Aug, 1 gainst the imperialist war prep- rations and for the defense of the oviet Union, This demonstration as held under the joint auspices f the Communist Party of Windsor the Communist Party of De- voit. There was a “red scare” in the Jindsor bosses’ press, that “hordes * Detroit Reds” were coming over ne border and that the police were ell prepared to smash any at- »mpts to hold a joint demonstra- ion, The workers militantly came it to Lanspeary Park, where the bmonstration was held, The speaker for the Communist ary and Young Communist Yeague ' the U.S.A, Mary Himoff, pointed tt the necessity for the Canadian d the United States workers to sganize under the banners of the mmunist International in the ruggle against imperialist wars nd for the defense of the father- nd of the workers of the world, ie Soviet Union. Enthusiastic ap- jJause and cheering greeted the reaker’s call to the workers to turn re next bosses’ war into a war to vrthrow the rule of the capitalists nd establish a Workers’ Soviet nion of America, SHICAGO BUSINESS AT LOW LEV es The a 5 CHICAGO.—Wholesalers here re- ort business is from 10 to 12 per mt under that of last year, The tail trade is little better. e original strikers are working on | lice tactics are to arrest | of | in- | Dur-| ng last week, the following men, | } a MANY SPEED UP GROWS ‘AT CRANES, CHL |Answer Must Be Into the T.U.U.L. | Chicago, Ill. | Daily Worker: On July 2 a terrifie accident hap- | pened in the basement where they make facings for the steel molds. They have some mills to mix the facing with two heayy iron wheels and shovel inside for making loose sand inside. The bosses always kick about the facing being too wet or dry. A worker reached with his hand the machine. Immediately the | shovel grabbed his hand and took the skin off to the bone. The work- r might even lose his hand. He pital. —CRANE SLAVE. eas * In the Crame shop speed-up is in- creasing daily. The speed-up in- ereases accidents in the shops. In E-4 chipping room we are sped up to the highest degree. The bosses are standing over the necks of the workers all the time, in order te get out as much work as possible. Transportation in this department is carried on from one place to an- other by a magnet. On July 4 a worker got injured very badly by shopping casting from the magnet on his foot, The work- er was taken to the hospital; pos- sibly he will lose his foot. The boss- es do not care for the workers’ lives. All they care for it to pile up mil- lions for the company. —CHIPPING ROOM WORKER. IN BRIEF— Pay 25 to 35 Cents to Filipino Farm Workers Wenatchee, Wash. Daily Worker, Dear Comrade Editor: Thursday jumped inte Monroe and went over to porch of lettuce packing shed. The man next to me said he nailed crates like hell for 40 cents an hour. The Filipinoes get 25 to 35 cents per hour, 10 to 16 hours per day. ORGANIZER. Lay-Off Menaces Chemical Woodmen Sheffield, Pa, Dear Editor of Daily Worker: I’m sending you two pictures of wood cutting workers, One shows the workers piling the chemical wood for $1.90, now cut to $1.40. And on August first a complete shut-down. The second picture shows the workers piling wood for $3.50 a cord, which should be for no less than $6 to $7 a cord. And this paper wood would be not longer than the month of August, After that there will be no more work around here. Very truly yours, Oil Robber Lays Off Men to Save Pensions New York, N. Y. Comrades: Tell the world about the law defying Standard Oil Co, of New York, On July 1 it fired a number of old employees so this scab corporation would not have to pay them a pen- sion. This scab corporation was only paying these old employees $33 a week, Think of it comradés— $33 a week; and Rockefeller can “give away” millions of dollars a year. Comrades, workers, —G. SUSSMAN, CARPENTER. Six Months ‘Vacations’ |New System of Jobless Jacksonville, Fla. get this to all the Comrades: For a few days I was sick and confined to bed. I got me an old Ford truck and advertised for sev- eral days: “Ford truck and driver to do any kind of work for $3 per day” but haven’t any call as yet. We have a certain truck unload- ing melons. You should see how many hundreds of people white and Negroes will work several hours for a piece of melon. The seaboard ships—Atlantic coal line laid off hundreds of people, but they don’t lay them off, but they give them vacation from 3 to 6 months. This is a new system of unemployment, —A. S. wes immediately taken to the hos- | w Orleans Longsho DENTS, Faker Mahon Active In Put- ACCIDENT , ting Over Insull’s Franchis~. , Wage Cuts, Etc. On Chi. Lines Daily Worker:— CUTS, LAY-OFFS, RIFE AT DEERING Must Organize and Strike Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker: There has been a rapid laying \off of workers, which has taken place during the last year. The Deering plant has increased their production 50 per cent. The fake |company union has not made a fight against the wage cut and speed-up, Formerly piece workers were guaranteed the regular rate paid those who work by the hour. Such is not the case now. Workers are transferred to other depart- ments where they are given work at a lower rate than was paid to other workers in the department. They no longer receive a guarantee, but get only what they earn on the piece work basis, Hurry-Up Bosses Call. The number of bosses has been inereased to run about, ordering the workers to hurry up. Those who are not physically able to maintain the pace set by the stronger and more experienced workers, are daid | off, and must find their place in the great Hoover army of unemploy- ment, We workers at Deering, are not blind to the speed-up, and wage cuts which are taking place daily. Furthermore, we realize that the only one that will make a fight for us, is the union lead by the Trade Union Unity League. May we soon be led by this workers’ union, in a fight against speed-up and wage-cuts. DEERING WORKER. 2400 GATHER AT ANGELES COURT Cheer the Magnificent Defense Speeches LOS ANGELES, Cal., August 5. —Workers jammed the courtroom and corriddrs here and stood on the streets outside yesterday, the fif- teenth day of the trial of ten for taking part in the Unemployment Demonstration, They wanted to hear the speeches in their own defense of Sklar and Spector, and the clos- ing arguments of International Labor Defense Attorney Gallagher who represents the rest of those on trial, In spite of special police squads assigned to terrroize them, the crowd, estimated at 2,000, broke into spontaneous demonstration, cheered, and sang the International when the prisoners were brought out. The police were unable to clear the streets, The prosecutor made the expected flag flapping speech, declaring that the Communists “recognize neither god nor government,” that the Com munist Party is illegal, and all mem- bers subject to arrest for criminal syndicalism, For the Proietariat. Frank Spector, sentenced to “3 to 42” years imprisonment after con- vietion in the Imperial Valley case, and brought from state prison to be a defendant in this case, opened his speech by announcing that the Communists believe in the dictator- ship of the proletariat. He told of the revolution in China, of the at- tempt in Atlanta to electrocute six organizers, and of the fake trial in the Imperial Valley case. World Soviet Union. Spector stated that the verdict of the prejudiced jury in the present case was immaterial, what counts is the verdict of the whole working class. Attorney Gallagher told of efforts to disbar him for defending revolu- tionists. Sklar declared that this case was a miniature Mooney and Billings af- fair, He told of the Soviet Union, the workers building a socialist xX TrER Ss »- ke Cp es -—2 a a Chicago, Tl. We traction workers in Chicago feel the pinch of the present crisis as much as any group of workers in the country. When it began we were | assured that no crisis could affect transit workers, faker, Mahon, said: “Don’t let the stock crash affect you, unemployed as well as employed workers must ride the street cars and elevated trains.” These fakers pulled this line on us| + Insull and our union to cover up the deal they had just | put over, selling us workers invest- ment units at $50 each. Stock Crasn. The second stock erash soon showed us the role of our crooked union officials and we became aware |lay-offs which had taken place at the Western Electric, the Majestic Radio, ete. These lay-offs intro- duced to us traction workers the speed-up and lay-off that give the The surface lines discontinued 250 runs, cut down materially on their shop force, while the elevated sys- tem discharged 50 per cent of their shop force and discontinued many runs and cut off many cars from trains which were not taken off. This created an over list of many men who have no work. The Doug- las Park branch has over 26 out of 100, the Kenwood 25, and so on down the line. Recently the Insull franchise was put over on the workers of Chicago, but there is no relief for us work- ers. As soon as the franchise was elevated trains, making less work for the extra men, The surface line on Madison St. now operates a one- ear train, instead of a two-car train, which displaces more and more} men. Mahon a Faker. In urging us to vote for the In-| sull franchise our union chief, Ma- hon, said: “The many provisions of the franchise will become more plain to you from time to time as it is applied.” For once Mahon has told the truth. We are now told the Lake St. surface line will soon be discontinued, along with some other lines, which will throw many more of us traction workers in the army of the unemployed. Mahon failed to tell us, but we are wise to the fact, that soon the elevated trains will not require one man to a car, but two men will operate a 6 or 8-car train. We traction work- ers of Chicago are learning that the crisis can only’ be overcome by exposing the role of our betraying union officials, organizing under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and supporting the revolutionary Communist Party. —A TRACTION WORKER. | 6.000 OUT IN NINE FACTORY TOWNS N. London Naval Base Wild Over Communists NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 5.—/ Over 6,000 workers took part Aug. 1 in demonstrations in New Haven, New Britain, Bridgeport, Stamford, New London, Hartford, Springfield, South Norwalk and Waterbury. These are all industrial towns. Springfield has a great armory for U, S. army rifles. Waterbury is the brass center of U. S. There were 2,000 workers at pre- liminary factory gate meetings Thursday and Friday. Over 50 ap- plications were made to join the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. Navy Scared Stiff. At the New London naval marine base, the police and the American Legion united to attack the demon- stration, The speaker, Ruth Fisher, was arrested. The permit for an open air meeting was revoked and the hall secured for a later indoor meeting was locked. The Legion appealed to Goyernor Trumbull for assistance against the Communists. | The naval military police were called out to prevent sailors from attending the demonstration. Another meeting will be held in| a week to protest this assault on the August 1 meetings. . The best demonstration was in} New Britain, 2,000 were present in spite of the mobilization of the en- tire police force. Factory Meetings. Successful factory gate meetings were held before the factory gates of the American Brass Co. in An-| sonia, the Remington Arms Co. in) Bridgeport, the Underwood Type-| writer Co. in Hartford, Corbins’ in| ety there, and of the war dan- ger. He defended the demands of the Communist Party that the bil- lions being used for war prepara- tions and for attack cn the U.8.S.R. be used instead for unemployment insurance, He declared that a world wide Soviet Union vas inevitable. Strike against wage-cuts; de- New Britain. John Vincent was arrested for speaking at a factory gate meeting | in New Britain. Meyer Jacobson! and Rose Ross were arrested for! distributing leaflets in Waterbury. All were found guilty and fined, and | the cases are appealed. | Indoor meetings were held after mand social insurance! . » lie to the Mahon and Insull bunch. | put over more cars were cut off the | YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930 Tammany Sluggers je E> # ey ain § | rs | Answer the Brutal Beating of a G Defense 8,000 AT CHICAGO AUG, 1 PROTEST Many Negro Toilers in | Anti-War Meet of the serious effects of the mass} | | | | | | CHICAGO, Aug. 4—Over 8,000 | workers demonstrated this August | 1ct at Washington Square. In spite of intimidation by the police depart- | ment and continuous threats by the | police commissioner that he would the under no circumstances allow demonstration anywhere in the and in spite of the breaking up of numerous open air and factory gate meetings prior to August Ist, the continuous energetic preparations of lice commissioner to change his mind, at the last minute. This year’s August 1st demon- stration in Chicago was held with a background of war shor ranged by the bosses, big publicity given to| the Citizens Military Training Camps and National Guard, all in order to whip up jingoistic war ially necessary to note that this year’s August Ist demon- stration, more than at any other | demonstration, Negro workers at- tended in large numbers. ANegro worker, Squire, an ex- serviceman, was one of the speakers at the demonstration. Both white and Negro workers enthusiastically cheered the speakers when they spoke of the need of unity of the Negro and white work White workers in particular, cheered the slogan of the speakers that it is ap to the white workers to demonstrate | tu their Negro fellow workers that they will really take up the fight fur the Negro workers and fight against lynchings and segregation. Against the propaganda of the | bosses that there will be race riots in Chicago, workers at the demon- stration took up the slogan of the speakers that there will be no race riots but united class war of the white and Negro workers against | the boss class | Negro workers who remember the | lyuchings right after the war) against the returning Negro soldiers | enthusiastically cheered the speak. ers against war and were particu- larly enthusiastic, in shouting their | approval of the slogan in defense of the Soviet Union. In face of 400,000 unemployed workers in Cnicago, growing wage cuts, workers listened carefully to | the speakers’ analysis of the econ- omic situation and the preparations | of the bosses for war as the solution foi the deepening of the crisis. The reading of the Unemployment | Till printed in the Daily Worker was endorsed enthusiastically by *he workers, | the Party compelled, finally, the po- | | time for the wage-cutting drives of remen Carry On ) Go After Women Workers: “ROTE FAHNE”’: APPEALS nd irl Worker by Organizing Workers EX-SERVICEMEN DEMAND WORK Fake Employment | Joint Stalls Them CHICAGO (By Mail).—On Aug- the ust 1st, 1930, 16 years after outbreak of the last world scores of world war vetei crowded the offices of the Veterans Employment Bureau, at 330 S. Wells and demanded work from “their country” which they were asked to defend on the batt fields of France and which they di covered today has nothing to offer them except starvation now that they are without jobs. jobs nor unemployment forthcoming for the men elief was in line. Although many of them| were wounded and battle-scarred, none were sufficiently 1 to entitle them to the present govern- ment compensation. T. W. Creigh ton, superintendent of the veter division of the Department of Labor announced that instead of jobs there were more than 1,000 Applications for work already on file. He tried to cover up the failure of the gov- ernment to provide for social insur- ance for these men by uing an oter hypocritical appeal to employ- hat they hire veterans in pref- erance to workers who did not serve | time in the American expeditionary | forces. But the employers in Chicago not only are laying-off rather than hir- ing at the present time, but defir- | itely discriminate against ex-ser- | emen when they do employ. The | war veterans do not fall in that | category of “cheapest labor” that is | so much in demand at the present the bosses. In fact, many big com- panies infamous as employers of the lowest paid yout’ and child labor, such as the National Bisquit Com- pany, have openly refused to hire veterans of the last world war. to join the Party at the demonstra- tion, A number of candidates on the Communist ticket spoke at the meet- ing and the Communist slogan of tlass against class was endorsed by the workers who pledged them- selves to vote Communist in the com- ing elections. The Unemployed Councils, T.U.U.L,, the Y.0.L., A.N.L.C. and other working class organizations were present at this meeting and speakers representing the various organizations were well received. Comrade Lucy Parsons was one of the speakers at the meeting. She | Was enthusiastically received. The demonstration lasted for two the |office, 1413 W. 18th St.,' Roosevelt | | 4929, | Announcement of Labor Day dem- | hours and just before it adjourned, |onstration in struggle against un-|a resolution was adopted on the |employment and the social fascists | struggle against war, and in defense who will stage meeting at the|of the Soviet Union. The workers Stadium to fool the workers was| remained on the square for hours also well received. after the demonstration, singing The international character of the | revolutionary songs and discussing demonstration and the international | the points speakers raised at the struggle against war with the Com-| demonstration. munist International as the leader Among the speakers were Gebert, of the working class, was the ruling! Maurer, Bill Browder, Hammers- |note of the demonstration. Many| mark, Ferguson, Beidel, Marx, Pons- workers filled out application cards Orde HELP THE COMM All Communist Party organi: SPECIAL PRI 100 Buttons... 500 Buttons.., 1000 Buttons... (Larger Orders by § the demonstration in Hartford and New Britain. i ‘VOTE COMMUNIST’ BUTTON CAMPAIGN! The “Vote Communist” Button Is Just Out! | | Tens of thousands of workers should wear this hotton. mediately place an order for the bottens. and sympathetic organizations and trade unions are also requested to place their order for these bottons and thereby help the Communist ELECTION CAMPAIGN. | joe, Newhoff. r the UNIST ELECTION zations are requested to im- All fraternal ICE OFFER: «+ 4.00 15.00 25.00 hhh 4 4 4 4 4 Aa Order from the Communist Party, 43 E. 125th St,, N, Y. C. pecial Arrangements) Page Three Militant ——— | Strike FOR POLITICAL STRIKE AGAINST DICTA :ORSHIP Says Application of Article 48 a Decisive Step Toward Fascism Connects Withdrawal of Prohibition Against Steel Helmets With Dictatorship BERLIN (LP.S.)—Rote Fahne (July 17) appeals to the workers to organize a .political mass strike against the dictatorship of the Brue- ning government. It points out that Bruening’s use of paragraph 48 although each party strives to shift the responsibility for the plundering of the people onto other shoulders. The block of the open exploiters has reliable allies, the social democracy on the one hand and the national fascists on the other. In this situation the Communist s state Party of Germany is faced with tre- a Germany. Whilst mendous historical tasks. It is the Bruening is adopting an open dic- only party which represents the in- tatorship as a means of government, |terests of the impoverished masses the social democratic prime minis- It is the only party which appeals represented a decisive point in the ter of Prussia is negotiating with for a uni 1 united proletarian front the leaders of the Stahlhelm for the against the eee It is he withdrawal of the prohibition of this|only power which organizes the organization in the Pru: ian Rhine| workers against legal fascism, on provinces, Fascism is an attempt|the one hand, and the murderous to assist the German trust bour-| fascist terror of the national fas- geoisie out of its difficulties caused | cists on the other. The Communist by the economie and __ political Party appeals to the workers to or- dilemma of its whole system. The Bruening government has to deal with a Reichstag of the most slavish lackeys of the Young plan, ganize a political mass strike against the dictatorship under the leader- ship of strike committees elected in the factories! Today in History of | the Workers | August 6, 1838—Two hundred thousand workingmen and women joined in Chartist parade in Birm- ingham, England. 1859—Twenty- five thousand buildng trades workers n London locked out in Chi. Camp Outing For the Election Campaign) CHICAGO, Ill, Aug, 5.—On Sat- urday and Sunday, August 9 and 10, there will be an outing at Camp Nitgedaiget, Bristol, Wisc., for the benefit of the election campaign of the Communist Party. There will be a round-table dis- cussion, led by Comrade Sam Don, on Saturday afternoon. The charge| St*¥esle for nine-hour day. 1886 for the two days for those staying} ~ Eber Party of Belgium Jover Saturday night is $4, for Sun-| founded at Brussels. — 1918— day, $2. | Forty-eight women suffragists arrested in front of White Hotse while demanding passage of fed- eral suffrage amendment. 1922 William Z. Foster deported from Denver by troops. Automobiles are wanted to carry | passengers. Report to 1413 W. 18th/ St. if you have an auto which you will volunteer to take comrades out in, Further information from Camp Office, 38837 W. Roosevelt Rd., Rock- well 2806, from Chicago office of! this paper or from Communist Party FARM IN THE PINES Situnted im Pine For Mt Lake. German Vable. ta | 818, Swimming and Fish: M, OBERKIRCH Box 78 KINGSTON, N. ¥ Support the Daily Worker Drive! | Get Donations! Get Subs! You Must Not Miss the Following PAMPHLETS ofa Series Prepared by the Labor Researcu Associa- T1on and Published by InreRNATIONAL PAMPHLETS +o. WAR IN THE FAR EAST, by Henry Harr This important subject treated by a newspaperman in close touch with current political developments in the East CHEMICAL WARFARE, dy Donatp A. Cameron A discussion of poison gas in the coming war, fiction, R. 4, 10 the not as imaginative but as a scientist's statement of facts MODERN FARMING: SOVIET STYLE by Anna Louise Stronc + A description of the agricultural revolution in the Russian village WORK OR WAGES, éy Grace M. Burwuam....... The author has made a special study of unemployment and social insurance and brings together the latest information on this vital subject THE STRUGGLE OF THE MARINE WORKERS Pa APARESSNT Weng Rint. Meal Sint a teu Former editor of the Marine Workers’ Voice, tells of the little. known conditions under which seamen and longshoremen do their work and struggle for organization Send Your Orders to the WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 east 1257H sTREET NEW YORK CITY (Special discount rates to organizations) ‘ As Always Spend Your Vacation at Camp Nitgedaiget FIRST PROLETARIAN q (| NITGEDAIGET CAMP—HOTEL Hote! with hot and cold water in every room Bungalows with electric lights, Tents—to remind you the old days. Cultural Program for the Summer of 1930 The Artef Studio (Mass theatre with the Artef) Comrade Shaeffer will conduct mass singing. Cultural ¢rogram—Comrades Olgin and Jerome Athletics, games, dances, theatre, choir, lec- tures, symposiums, ete. CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, N, Y, PHONE BEACON 73). N. ¥. PHONE: ESTABKOOK 1400 i ‘ etter CORT eenmeONS By Trains Brom Grand Central every hour, By Bont: twice dally A 4 4 & & & & & b&b bp by or 4