The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1930, Page 2

Page Two GREEN TAKES HOOVER AND BOSSES | WAGE-CUT CAMPAIGN } | LEAD IN — HOLD MEET AT LAUNDRY’ |DESPITE BOSS AND COPS BROOKLYN, Aug. 6.—Despite the efforts of the bosses to prevent Negro and white workers who slave at the Independent Laundry . at Strike-Breaker A. F. of L. President Approves) Herz! st. and Livonia Ave. from Imperialist Seab Policy | Wall Street Sheet Says Down 12 to WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Wil- ascist president of the a or of Labor, yes- n praised Hoover for his ing policy, In a conversa- the imperialist chief d him for what he call | d of from 10 to 25 per cent inflicted in all the lead- s. Foremost are the the National Cash Register, town Sheet and Tube, Fishe- Co., Flint, all Anaconda Cop 25 per cent cut for hos ‘J ers (done on the initiative of the Musteite fakers). McGrady another A, F. of L. faker soon after the Hoover conferences was forced | to admit wages had been cut in 49 industries. | The occasion of Green’s visit to | Hoover was to invite him to address | the forthcoming A. F. of L. conven- | tion in Boston, scheduled for Oct. 6.) Hoover said .e would aid Green in befuddling the workers, if he can spare time from his task of trans ferring the burdens of the crisis onto the backs of the workers. To show | the other fascists that hgygoes not ' YOUNG BROUGHT ESTELLE SMITH Underworld Character! Used Against Mooney} SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 6. —One of the reasons for suddenly | extending the Mooney and Billings | hearing to include other witnesses than MacDonald, for whom the hearing was originally called and who was at one time stated to be the only witness, is now apparent. Estelle Smith, the underworld | character employed as a witness to frame both Mooney and Billings, | discredited since it was discovered that she was under the influence of morphine while on the stend. it now is known, was summoned by Governor Young, after a consider- able search was made for her. She admits this, although the state supreme court is always careful to refer to her as a “voluntary wit- ness,” The reason Young wanted her was because she has now been persuaded to repudiate in part her affidavit signed in 1928, admitting that she lied in her trial testimony. She was also willing to make charges that Robert Minor, at that time secre- tary of the Mooney Billings defense committee, “threatened her through the mails.” Estelle Smith, however, made a! bad witness, admitting many dam- aging things, such as that she was | under the influence of “medicine | with morphine in it” while on the witness stand, and that the suitcase she said Billings had, was too light | to hold a bomb of the sort that ex- ploded at Market St. in 1916, ete. She also showed evidence of hys- teria. ELECTRIC RATE “CUT” IS PLAIN SWINDLING NEW YORK.—Rapidly growing resentment is plain on the part of the thousands of users of small quantities of electric current, the families of workers mostly, to the swindling “reduction” of price of- fered by the Edison Co, here several days ago. The electricity monopoly issued a declaration that rates were cut from seven cents per kilowat to five cents. That’s fine. The big user of electricity, the corporations which very likely are owned by the same people who own the Edison Co. will save hundreds of dollars. But, with the reduction, goes an in- crease. A new service charge of 60 cents is levied, with fine impar- tiality on the poor and the rich alike. To the corporation saving hundreds of dollars, it is a mere triviality. But 6 the housewife, saving only ten or twenty cents on her electric bill, paying a 60 cent additional flat charge is + plain in- crease. The pennies of the thou- sands are added to the profits of the company, to more than make up for the loss of the dollars of the few big users. It is estimated that a former 65- cent monthly bill will now become a bill of $1.65 a month. Communist Activities Daily Worker Pienic Will be held in Pleasant Bay Park on August 17, All organizations and all party comrades are asked to par ticipate. 8 must dispose of Hekets they recelved. * n Section 5, Unit 5 Open air meeting Friday, 8.30 p. m., Wilkins and Jennings, ney eee Section One, Campaign Didectors Alt Unit Flection Campaign Direc- tors of Section 1 will meet Friday 7 p.m. shi Fast Fourth St. | “Yes!” | dropped from 15 to 17 per ¢ | significant paragraph: “Both prices | spend an additional $85,000,000 for All Wages Must Come} 17 Per Cent | discriminate, Hoover said he would also address the convention of the American Legion, which meets in Boston at the same time that the fat-bellied officialdom gather for| their strike-breaking and wage-cut- ting confab. In an editorial calling on the lead- | irg t to cut wages of all work- | ers still further, the Journal of Commerce (Aug, 5) spikes all the phrases about maintaining wages. Of course, this is meant for the hosses to read and not the workers. The editorial is entitled “Must Wages Follow Prices?” And the Journal’s answer jis an emphatic Wholesale prices have The bosses now insist on a wage cut of | at least the same amount, even though retail prices and rents are practically on the same level as !ast year. It is to further this move- ment that Green talks to Hoover about “maintaining wage stand- ards.” The editorial concludes with this and wage readjustments (wage | cuts) are indispensably necessary to business recovery.” SPEND $85,000 000 "OR BOMB PLANES Communists Demand! Funds Go to Jobless WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—While 8,000,000 workers starve the Navy Department rushes ahead with its war preparations, and is going to 1,614 new bombing planes, it was announced today. The planes will be used as part of the equipment for the 69,000 | tons of new aircraft carriers to the | built under the London “treaty’ passed by the senate, and to cost millions of dollars. The Communist Party in its Workers Social Insurance Bill de- mands that instead of being used for imperialist war purposes, the funds proposed for these planes, and other war material, be turned over the unemployed workers im- mediately, in the form of unemploy ment insurance. LESSON OF IMPARTIAL CHAIRMAN TO LOCAL 38 NEW YORK.—Members of Lo- cal 38 (ladies’ tailors and dressmak- | ers) of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers have just been taught a lesson about what the “im- partial chairmanship” means, and | how the I. L. G. W. chiefs fight for the boss against the workers. I. Slonimsky was a member of the shop committee in the Hattie Car- negie Shop, 711 Fifth Ave. He had been working there for six years. The new manager issued an edict that members not working any day should not be admitted to the shop. Slonimsky, one day when he was not working, came in to distribute the work, according to his duty. He refused to leave when ordered out, and Herman Carnegie had three po- licemen put him out. Workers Walk Out. The crew walked out July 14 and held a meeting at the headquarters of Local 38, refusing to go back untik he was reinstated. Brazin, manager of the local, found it con- venient to be away on his vacation. The business agent, Romolo Fas- cini, told the workers he had an order from President Schlesinger of the International ordering them back to work, or others would be sent. At another meeting, the next day, a combination of threats and a prom- ise that Slonimsky’s case was “well | taken care of” sent them back. About two hours later Slonimsky came before the impartial chair- man, Raymond Ingersol, and found he had two lawyers against him, jone of them being M. Rothenberg, attorney for the I. L. G. W. Roth- and asked only for mercy. The firm’s attorney said no mercy should be shown, as it was necessary to make an example for the rest of the workers. Decides For Boss, Ingersol’s decision in favor of the firm and against Slonimsky recites that Slonimsky is unusually intelli- gent and a fine worker, but “The attitude of the worker toward the superintendent and the foreman and his remarks to them were of an im- proper and insubordinate character.” This is what the impartial chair- enberg said Slonimsky was guilty | listening to speakers of the Kegel ican Negro Labor Congress, copies | | of the Daily Worker and Working | spjendid Women were sold and five contacts made. These workers e each week for the miserable pittance of $12 a week. A cop, unable to break up | the meeting, but eager to do all he | could against it, tried to chase the workers off the sidewalk. FIGHT ALF. OF L. NO STRIKE PACT | Chain Building Toilers| to Bosses (Continued from Page One) tion, mechanization and the plification of labor have but shar- pened the crisis within the building industry. Conservative figures on unem ployment in the building trades for the last six months of 1929, as given by the A. F. of L. itself, were 42 per cent of all building trades work- ers. From July 1 to July with 21 business days, the Annalist, a capitalist financia] sheet, places the loss in the value of building con- tracts at the conservative figure of 41.70 per cent, as compared with the same period of July, 1929. More Jobless. Placing the unemployed in the building industry for July, 1929, at the conservative figure of 42 per cent, and adding to that the decline of 41.70 per cent in the value of building contracts for July, 1930 we can safely conclude that the to- tal of unemployed building trades workers for July, 1930, can be placed at the approximate figure of 65 per cent of all building trades workers. And this at the height of the building season, It is to meet this situation, and in an attempt to stem the growing tide of revolt on the part of the building trades workers, that the bosses, together with the officials of the A. F. of L., have organized the National Board of Claims for the building industry. The class-collaboration between the bosses and the officials of the A. F. of L. in the creation of the Board of Claims further exposes the A. F. of L. as an open agency of the bosses, opposed to the interests of the workers. According to the agreement be- tween the bosses and the A. F. of L. officials, any building trades union daring to strike for better condi- tions and higher wages js to be penalized by the trading division of the American Federation of Labor. No further proof is necessary that the aim of the building bosses and the oficials of the A. F. of L, is to complete the work of company- unionizing the building trades unions, Another part of the agreement betwen the building bosses and the officials of the A. F. of L. stipu- lates that in the event of the fail. ure of an employer to comply with the decision of the Board of Claims the penalty is to be decided by the National Association of Building Trades Employers. No Penalty For Wage Cut. No class-conscious worker can | ever imagine a group of boses pen- alizing an employer for his attemps to cut the wages and legthen the hours of the workers. In the strug- | gle against the workers, the bosses maintain a united front. \ The National Board of Claims is | also the contribytion of the build- | ing bosses to American imperialism in its preparations for the coming imperailist war. The officials of| the Board of Claims composed of building employers and the A. F. of L. fakers, will utilize its apparatus in an attempt to whip into shape} the building trades workers as part) of the war machinery in the com- | ing imperialist war. | As a result of their present and past experiences with the A. F. of | L. officials, thousands of building | trades workers are now fully con: vinced that the A. F. of L. and its| affiliated building trade unions can| not and will not lead the work into struggle for higher wages and | better conditions, that only the| Trade Union Unity League, the new | revolutionary trade union center can | and does lead the workers into| struggle for higher wages and het- | ter conditions. | A. F. L. Company Unionized. | The thousands of unorganized | building trades workers, who, for) Many years were refused organiza- tion by the A. F. of L. fascist of- ficials, now correctly realize that | the A. F. of L. will not and cannot | organize the unorganized workers, | anc that it is impossible to trans- form the A. F. of L. building trades | company unions into trade unions of | the workers ag instruments of strug- gle against the bosses. These workers now look to the manship and the “protection” of workers by the I. L. G. W. amount to, Needle trades workers should join their own union, which fights for them, the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union. — the food industry must be present at the fraction meeting of the F.W.1LU. Youth Section, Thursday, Aug. %, Dom. at 26-28 Union Rquare, fift! Food Fraction members who work in floor. | Members id aia ing will be brought hefore the setpline Corm- mittee. Be on time! Building Trades and Construction Workers’ Industrial League to or: ganize and lead them into struggle fo: higher wages and better condi- tions. The Building and Construc- tion Workers’ Industrial League also carries on the struggle against the fascist leaders within the company unions, to win the honest rank and file workers for the new center in the building and construction in- dustry, | very METAL MINERS RESIST ATTACK Hold Fine Meetings in Ironwood, Hancock IRONWOOD, Mich. Aug, 6.— After an attempt to break up the August 1 was defeated by persistent mil taney of workers and speakers a successful meeting of over one thousand miners and lumber work- ers was held here. This was fol- | Pieanor te Communist | lowed later by a successful indoor | * Since 1928 he served as meeting, : | Chairman of the Central Committee Tole Anduchor semadidata’ tor (State nouains: des Workers’ Sy ihe ebiteh ve trl Unlom Congress in the ith District o Wisconsin, was pulled down and rested when he started to sf but immediately on his rele | short time |. he resumed speak- ing to an enthusiastic meeting. Martin Kuisto, who took the stand on Anderson’s arrest, was also pulled down and arrested. RENEGADES AND GARVEY MEN SLUG COMMUN'STS NEW YORK, —Garveyites with tance from some Lovestoneite: made Lenox Ave. between 130 and 132 Sf. Harlem, a regular battle- ground yesterday in an attack on a Communist meeting. The Communist meetings have been uniformly successful here, One was going on at 132 St. and Lenox yesterday evening. Weisbord, speak- ing under the name of a non-existent body, the “John Brown branch of the I.L.D.” opened a meeting at 130 St. When questions were asked from the crowd by Communists who had got into the Lovestone meeting. Lovestoneites attacked the question- ers, The Garveyites then attacked both meetings, and the fight raged up the street. Several Communists were injured, Grace Campbell, a Lovestoneite, was seen pointing out Communists to the Garveyites, and yelling, “Kill them, kill them.” Demand the release of Fos ter, Minor, Amter and Kay mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. demonstration | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. 1930 |METAL WORKER IS EW COMMISSAR | (Wireless Imprecorr) | MOSCOW, August 6,—Uglanov has just been removed from the post of the Commis of Labor. He is replaced by Zi nm who was born | in 1887 and who for fourteen years worked as al worker, He join- ed the Bol ts in 1906 and was d by the Czarist ers Deputies in Moscow (the Mos- In 1 cow Soviet), “TORE STRIKERS | ONT IN FRAN Many Win Increases in | Wages; Aid Strikers (Wireless Ry Inprecorr) | PARIS, Aug. 6.—Twenty thou- id more strikers walked out in Northern France yesterday. This brings the total number now out to well over 250,000, Masses of strik- ers turned back Belgian scabs were a ing in buses. S buses were overturned, Collisions urred with the police at Halluin Shots were fired, One policeman everely injured. The arrested workers were rescued by the strik- jers. The government is rushing | more troops into the district today. | | oc Organize and strike wage-cuts! against Labor and Fraterna! Attention! All workers’ clubs and fraternal or- ganizations are ai to take tickets for the Daily Worker picnic which will be held in Pleasant Bay Park m August 17, * 8 p.m, Nick Spanoudikis Greek Branch, 1 W. 29th St. 8 p. m. Downtown e LL.D, Branch, 13 _W. 17th n. Bath Be Julio Mella LL.D Branch, 48 28th St, 8 p.m. Vote Communist! “Holiday” at Cameo One of The Best Films of the Year Philip Barry’s famous play “Hol- | life. John rebels at this. Here is iday” in a motion picture version | the rebellion of youth who see life presented by Pathe, is now playing | other than through the eyes of at the Cameo Theatre. It is one | money crubbing babbitts. The en- of the best films of the year and!gagement is broken. John then those who have in the past scoffed at the talking pictures will now have to admit that cinema pro- leaves for Europe and Linda (Miss Harding), Julie’s sister leaves on the same boat going on an eleventh ducers can turn out masterpieces. The story concerns Julia (Miss Astor), who falls in love with John | Case (Ames). Julia’s father who | worships at the altar of gold. He} agrees to the match only on the! condition that his potential son-in- law follows his directions in-so-far as his business activites are con- cerned, also that the future bride- | ommendation. groom will let him lay down most] The rest of the Cameo program of the directives in his day by day ‘this week is equally good. hour decision, While the story may sound rather hed upon the silver screen, And as I said above and repeat the plot is only secondary to the features |of the film. The only way it can jbe appreciated is by being seen, This should be done without delay | and with the most emphatic rec- POLICE VOLLEY KILLS INDIANS 28 Dead; 150 Wounded in Northern City Capitalist press dis renewed “communal rioting” in In- the revolution, he was dia, not only at Ballia, where there | Food Workers a member of the Council of Work-| was said to be a fight several days | was served on the pickets yesterday, in the | Picketing will go right on, as these| he was elect- | Northwest. At Sukkur, British cen-| workers do not recognize the right! of the Moscow Dis-| sors admit that the police fired vol-|of the bosses’ courts to break their ago, but now at Sukkur jleys indiscriminately into Moslem jand Hindu crowds, killing 28 and | wounding about 150, Grave doubt must be cast on the “communal rioting” angle. This is an imperialist government term used to describe religious struggle between Hindus and Mohammedans The government has several times been caught fomenting these fights, to distract attention from the anti- imperialist movement, and to divide the forces of the work ard pea- sants. j Anti-Imperialists? The fact that the police acted with such murderous ness against the “rioters” indicates that something else was going on tha’ merely a battle between sects. would be easy under the pre; conditions of censorship in India, to describe firing on a mixed Hindu and Moslem anti-imperialist demon- stration as “suppression of Cum- muna! rioting.” Motilal Nehru and his son Jawa harlal Nehru have been transferred to Poona, and placed in jail with Gandhi, at ne request of the gov- ernment negotiators, Jayakar and Tej Bahadar Sapru. The three are the main leaders of the Indian Na: tional Congress, and the transfer in- dicates the continued progress of the negotiations for a sell-out of the nationalist movement by the Gandhi chieftans. It is generally understood now that Gandhi will turn traitor to the independence movement, as he did once before. Vote Communist! R OOL ¥ CameO 42ND STREET AND BROADWAY WIS, 1789 NOW! BASED ANN RA! Broadway|Daily from LOB! &46th 10:30AM “LITTLE ACCIDENT” With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Anite Page, Sally Blane and Zasu Pitts We Meet at the— COOPERATIVE CAFETERIA 26-28 UNION SQUARE | FRESH FRUIT SODAS AND ICE CREAM U. S. S. R. CANDIE Fresh The Perfect Talking Drama! * ‘Holiday’ is the kind of picture that no etvilized person has the right to miss.” EDWARD EVERETT HORTON, A.F.L. GETS BAKERY AN INJUNCTION Food Union Calls All To Factory 5 Gate Meeting At Nabisco NEW YORK. — The injunction secured through the efforts of the agents of Local 507 of the Inter- national Bakery and Confectionary Workers (A.F.L.) against former ches tell of |members of Local 144 of that same} the} Junion who have now joined Industria} Union, |strike against the 14-hour day and abolition of legal holidays. |under “Paragraph 600” which pres- leribes penalties for violating an in- | junction. This is done, in spite of |the fact that the injunction has not} |been decided yet. Decision is still} | pending on the injunction at Patos| jand McLelland bakeries. A new! |injunction has been issued to the] |Glenmore Restaurant and Bakery on Allerton Ave. Twelve cases in the Coney Island court were dismissed yesterday. A strike at Schnieder Bros. Fruit} | stores at 268 Cypress Ave., resulted | in one arrest of a worker named strofsky. This shop violated the union agreement by hiring non- union help, Since the Fruit Bosses’ Associa- tion formed a union with the aid} |of the A.F.L, workers in these shops | are in steady revolt and are ap- proaching the Food Workers Iidus- trial Union in numbers joining in the struggle, Tomorrow at noon there will be a factory gate meeting at the Na- tional Biscuit Company at 15 St.| and Tenth Ave. All workers are) urged to be there. Speakers from) the Food Workers Industrial Union will be there. This is important as a result of the recent situation in the factory where the workers have) expressed a willingness to struggle as evidenced by their stoppage some | weeks ago when the bosses at- tempted to inflict a wage cut on them, AY ON PHILIP BARRY'> STAGE PLAY EVE, POST. cast with @ superiati RDING, MARY ASTO! » ROBERT AMEb, HEDDA HOFER “A Theatre Galld Production" THE NEW GARRICK GAIETIES x W. 620. Sve. 8:30 GUILD 2%, agevaito S——CIGARETTES Vegetables Our Specialty Demonstrate at the Daily Worker Picnic-Carnival ! SUNDAY | AUGUST | 17 Pleasant Bay Park Biggest and Best Workers’ OUTING of the Season ! EVERY WORKER MUST COME TO OUR BUILD THE Daily Worker PICNIC AND CARNIVAL BASEBALL — FOOTBALL — GAMES FOR GROWN-UPS AND CHILDREN — BONFIRE — DANCING ‘ SINGING — REFRESHMENTS ONE ADMISSION Held in Co-operation with —All Revolutionary Workers’ Orgamzattons; ; —All Communist Part Three arrests were made at the) bakery at 616 East 180 St. Tuesday, | SACCO-VANZETTI MEMORIAL AUG. 22 Mass Protest Grows in Atlanta Jailings NEW YORK.—Increasing activi- ties in the struggle against the death sentences sought by the judi- cial lynchers in Atlanta Georgia against Powers, Carr, Newton, Storey, Burlak and Dalton, and in the demand for the release of the imprisoned New York Unemployed Delegation, Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, have been planned by the International Labor Defense as the result of a tour as far west as Minnesota, just completed by J. Louis Engdahl, general secretary. “Special stress w tricts for the nece: mobilization for August 22, the third anniversary of the electrocu- tion of Sacco and Vanzetti, which is being organized everywhere as a protest against the proposed judi- cial lynching in Georgia and the continued imprisoned of the New York jobless leaders,” said a state- ment of the LL.D. Engdah! spoke to a great mass meeting in “The Haymarket” in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the March sixth jobless demonstration was attacked by the police with the socialist mayor, Daniel W. Hoan, voicing his approval from the city hall. Rally Sept, 1, Day. Unemployment “For All Kinds of Insurance” ([ARL BRODSKY Velephone Murray Hill 555 i Kast 42nd Street, New York AU ‘.omradea Meet at BRONSTEIN’S Vegetarian Health Restaurant 558 Claremont Parkway, Bronx RATIONAL be Vegetarian RESTAURANT 199 SECOND AVE, JB Bet. 12th and 18th Sts. Strictly Vegetariun Food —MELROSE— Dai VEGETARIAN aL RESTAURANT eades Wil! 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