The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1930, Page 3

»afLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930 hist: WE’ )’3BE RS © © °7 + 60% Now Jobless, = GOOD CROPS BUT tron, Bronze Men NO MONEY FOR | FOR DONNELLY Need Organizing MONT, FARMERS o'2,"""°"". CORP, TO GET St |rezvous of the exploiters of many} cities in the north, south and middle west, kitchen “help” is working 16% Page Three MUST TOIL 14 HRS, nt Correspondents of Soviet Union Worker-Peasa 16 Hours a Day For Kitchen Help At Atlantic City Philadelphia, Pa. City and Land Toilers Scab Outfit Treats Men Bosses Using Unemployment As Club to Beat Down Wages to New Low Level Daily Worker: The iron and bronze workers greatly by the present economic de| New York, of greater New York are hit very pression. Over 60 per cent are un- employed. Some even give up hopes to find work at their trade and are CAL, ‘CMTC REBEL’ MAKE SOLDIERS SIT UP AND THINK Train Cannonfodder For Imperialist War San Francisco, Cal. Daily Worker: The State of California has its place in the sun in the role played by American imperialism. In Cali- fornia three C.M.T.C.’s were held. Each camp was filled to capacity. The recruits were given a full course in militarism and were also given a good lesson in American citizenship. The camp did not only teach the young workers how to shoot but we were also given a lot of propaganda about the Commu- nists, In all the citizenship lessons the instruetor took special pains to ind the boys what a wonderful government the United Statse has. He also took special pains to tell us how terrible the government of the Soviet Union was. Young Students. The majority of the boys were high school students that) e been filled with the same pro- paganda in the American schools. They all have ambitions ‘of being generals in the next war. The bulletins issued by the Young Communist League and the Com- munist Party, were received by the candidates in the camp and many of the boys realized that the camps | were not held just to make a lot of | generals. the camp was held only to drill yo more youth to be slaughtered in the | next war. Communist Party Points Way. ‘The Communist Party and the Young Communist League are point- ing out to the workers that there will always be unemployment and wars as long as the bosses rule. The bosses will always have mili- tary training camps to train the h to fight the bosses’ battles in the struggle for markets. Workers, join the ranks of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League. Only unde the leadership of the nist Pariy can the capitalist » be overthrown. When cap- italism is eliminated then war can be eliminat<d, ~—A YOUNG WORKER FROM FORT WINFIELD SCOTT. KENTUCKY FARMERS APPEAL FOR AID LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Members of the Farm Bureaus of several coun- ties in this state are formulating an appeal to the Federal Farm Board for financial aid. The boys realized that! “looking in vain for any kind of | work. The “lucky” ones who are work- ing, slave under inhuman conditions. Union conditions gained by the iron |and bronze workers through their {union by years of struggle, espe- cially during the last strike, are entirely wiped out. Wages are cut to the utmost. Workers are laid off | and some rehired at helpers’ prices. Slash in Wages. The General Bronze Co. and the Atlas Iron Works can serve as an example for this, Workers who were geting $40.00 a week a few weeks ago were laid off and rehired for $25,00 a week. In many shops the working hours were lengthened. The speed-up is unbearable. The present officials of the so-called Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers Union as well as the offi- cials of the International are not making the slightest attempt to or- ganize the iron anc bronze workers in order to resist the atack of the bosses. Union Wrecked. The present administration with their expulsion policy have ruined the union. The members ran away from them and out of a member- ship of over 2,000 which the previ- ous left wing administration left over only a handful of about 75 remained with them. Fellow iron and bronze workers: Never before has the need for or- ganization and solidarity among us been so urgent as now. We must or- ganize our forces under the new militant trade union centre, the Trade Union Unity League and fight for better conditions. —A. ROSENFELD, Iron Worker. Letters From Steel Workers Next Saturday Our Saturday, August 15 issue, will contain special letters from the | steel plants thruout the country ex- posing conditions, unemployment, etc., in the mills of the Steel Trust. Letters from workers in the Spar- rows Point, Md. Bethlehem Steel and tin mills, from East Chicago, Ind. steel workers and a letter from a west coast steel plant. Arrangements should be made for special distribution at all steel cen- tres to acquaint the steel workers of the fight for organization into the | revolutionary trade unions, for social insurance, ete. Postpone “With the Shop Papers” Column Due to the limited amount of space and the press of important letters this week, the With the Shop Papers column is postponed for sev- eral weeks, San Francisco, Cal. Dear Comrade Editor: We have just returned from the annual maneuvers held by the 260th Coast Artillery of the California National Guard in Capitola, Calif. At the camp there were 650 men and among them a big majority of young workers. The first day of camp, a young worker named Learned was killed when he fell un- der the wheels of a big military truck, He leaves a wife and child without any means of support. Many Young Workers. Most of the workers, because un- employed, were lured by the fairy tales of the petty officers that for two weeks they would have a good time, But upon arrival at the camp they discover the real kind of a vacation it was. We had to rise at 6:30 a. m. to be ready for work at $;30 a. m. after which we were sent te the cannons (big guns 155 mm.) for instruction, firing every day at the targets out on the sea. And dig- ging ditches and trenches for ma- chine guns, ete. In some batteries the food was very badly prepared and the big majority of workers had to either eat it or starve. Realize Meaning of Training. Some of the workers in our bat- tery to which we tried to explain the real meaning of the maneuvers, understood finally that these ma- neuvers are only a part of the pre- parations now going on for the next imperialist slaughter for which we are expected to lay down our lives. We are sure that the majority of the workers will not respond to the next call of the 250th Coast i Lure Jobless Workers Into West Coast War Maneuvers Artillery. Our task will be to ex- plain to them that in the next im- perialist war, in turning the weap- ons against their own commanders they have nothing to lose but a world to gain. Yours for the overthrow of the capitalist sy’ m and its tools, —A GROUP OF WORKERS. ‘MORE WAGE CUTS IN MUSKEGON Conditions are very bad in Mus- kegon. The Brunswicke Radio just sold out to Warner Brothers, and they have announced a flat cut of 15 to 40 per cent in its piece work rates, The Continental Motors is almost shut down, and pays its men only 85 cents per hour. Girls work for 25 cents an hour at the Bruns- wick-Balke-Collendar Co., and have been known to draw as low as 14 cents an hour, The only foundry and machine shop working to any extent is the one that has an order from the Soviet Union, Workers in this town feel that something must be done and done Pe ae The great army of worker and peasant correspondents in the Soviet Union are in the forefront in pushing the giant tasks of the Soviet Union, in ferreting out bureaucracy and corruption wherever it exi of acting as the eyes of the Party and trade union press in the work of building a free socialist society. Above photo shows a group of delegates to a conference of peasant and worker corr Already the movement to organize worker correspondent groups in the b Soviet Union. and shops in the United States is under way. More and more thousands of workers must be the eyes o, the Daily Worker in organizing the workers in the trade wnions, in fighting for social insurance, etc. Join the worker correspondent group in your city. Thousands of Farmers Ruined By Low Prices, Drought, Etc. Must Fight Under C.P. Banner Unity With the City Workers in the Coming Elections Under Communist Party Shelbyville, Il. Editor Daily Worker: Dear Comrade: An event of the greatest political importance has been overlooked by the Daily Worker. I refer to the recent destruction of a large part of the corn and oats crop by excessive drought and an unusually severe heat A tonth ago the prospects were|“er, Further it means that there for a bumper crop, today the situ-| Will be an increasing number of ation is reversed and one of the| Commercial and bank failures in cen- smallest crops in many years is now | ‘al and southern Illinois, this year, expected, | and it is no secret that many others are in a tight situation, All Farmers Hit. 1? Al, PS ayo sO aS a necessary complement Here in Central Illinois in many | it means that there will be an in- fields the corn yield will be 50 to}... b a A 500 per cent less than previous! the following: eis, aan ie years. “In some fields the damage “PITTSFIELD, Ith, July 30.— is even more extensive, while in| The heat wave which has been southern Illinois the damage is much} worse. It is reported than 20 per| cent of the fields are completely | destroyed and that in some local-| ities the farmers are even cutting | the corn for fodder. | The pastures also are in a very bad condition and are daily causing the farmers losses through reduc- tion in milk and kindred products and forcing premature use of hay and forage stored up for next win-| ter’s use. Some farmers have in addition lost livestock and horses | because of |the terrific heat. | More Bankruptcies. | raging through the middle west which recently appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It shows clear- ly why the farmers are dissatis- fied. “The farmer is on the rocks with his 1930 crops. Compared with a year ago poultry products | are down 37 points. Cattle grow- ers are taking a loss of from $20 on fat steers; meat animals are down 22 points. Cotton is down 31. points. Dairy products are dawn 17 points. The plight of the wheat grower is too well known to reiterate here. Wheat, selling for from 75 to 82 cents a bushel at country mills in Missouri, cost more than a dollar a bushel to produce. “Now that is the immediate si- | tuation. Farm specialists from Secretary Hyde down to the most obscure county agent are advising curtailment of production for next year; a continuation of low process is now candidly predicted.” Socialist Fake Schemes. | for more than two weeks today, | indirectly was responsible for the death of E. N. Woods, 55, a pro- minent Pike county farmer of the Atlas neighborhood and also one of the largest growers of corn in this county. Mr. Woods took his own life ear- ly today by hanging as a result of the destruction of his corn crop by the heat. Financial worries caused by the loss of the corn are believed to have temporarily up- set his mind.” * From all this, What this means is that hundreds | it can readily be of farmers in the cornbelt, who ajseen that discontent is bound to month ago were on the border line| grow mightily during the coming soon. They are all set for organiza- tion, The thousand workers at the August First demonstration prom- ised to come out on the streets as often as necessary in order to get wages for the unemployed and de- cent conditions for the working class in general now insolvent and thousands are between solvency and insolvency ere brought dangerously near the bor-! months. But let a farmer state his own case, the following is from a letter jhas made And what have the capitalist par- ties to offer these discontented farmers? The Republicans have a very much discredited Federal Farm rd. The Democrats have nothing iticism of the Farm Board. alists have nothing at all officially, but Mr. Norman Thomas six proposals the value of which he timidly admits he is not certain of. However, it is plain that the socialist party is becoming in- creasing aware of the seriousness of the farmers situation. Without doubt they will try to gain ideol- ogical control over the farmers in order to lead them into a blind alley. Party Must Lead Farmers. Thus it is quite clear that a situ- ation is rapidly developing which is quite favorable to the growth of tuation which the Party must first analyze carefully. Then a concrete program must be formulated to lay before the farm- ers. Then plans should be laid ‘out for an extensive pre-election cam- Communism, a Must Organize )hours per day, 7 days a week, in |the swell restaurants of the Board- | walk section, for the munificent sum |of $10 per week. And these work- Raymond, Mont. Dear Comrades: Worker I can see the great advan-| Atlantic City from Philadelphia and tage of having a nation-wide cor-|have to pay their return fare after respondence of farmers and workers.| three weeks’ work, when, I will give you an outline of how strength gone, they can no longer us farmers live out here and our) stand on their feet. financial condition at present. | The only solution to this infamous The farmers live a dull lonely life| capitalist outrage is that all the and very few know but little what; food workers at Atlantic City join is going on outside of the country.| the Trade Union Unity League and I am in hopes that we farmers! go out on strike for the 7-hour, will get an educational program. 5-day week. —C. RABIN. Has Good Crops. | —$$$___ The farmers must take many], chances on losing their crops like| "Mf hail, dry weather and low prices.| . LAY-OFF 1S GIFT ihe OF MODEL N.C.R, |But we have been very fortunate | Workers to Organize jin getting good crops in the last| ten years, but we are now running| and Fight Cuts DAYTON, Ohio. jon very limited finances so you can see that it is enough to set anybody | to thinking. | It is very easy to see why we are| poor in this rich country if we stop and think and investigate. The money and wealth of the| country is going into the hands of| the few. The money will not cir- culate under this capitalist system. There are farmers that can not buy licenses for their cars this year.|Daily Worker: As I continue to read my Daily | ers have to pay their own fare to| their} |I find farmers’ families living out | 25 to 30 miles from town that never | know what real life is. Sincerely yours, WAYNE LARANGE. Invent For Boss and Get the Gate Chicago, Ill. Dear Editor: Over at Robey Street Car shop, a worker, not realizing what he was doing, worked out an idea, for wash- ing refrigerator cars much faster |than a man. Because of this very same idea, some of the workers were |laid off. One of the workers has four children. His family is facing starvation. —SYMPATHIZER. | paign of agitation. The start should| be made in vicinities where the Party already has some base among the industrial workers and from] these points spread out as rapidly s possible. There should be a wide | Dear comrade—At the National Cash Register Co. in the factory de- partments notices were placed in which they let the workers know] that their wages from now on will] be cut 10 per cent. At the same time, on Friday,| July 18, 1,500 workers were laid off. The workers of Dayton will not) limit themselves by simply com- plaining “that times are bad” but they will join the T.U.U.L. and the Unemployed Councils and they will struggle for better conditions. New Machines Installed. The administration of the N. C. R. Co., boasts very much about the im- provements in their machinery, which they say brings about better working conditions. In the enameling dept. conveyor Like Thieves Brooklyn, N. Y¥. | Dear Editor:— I hope you will print the follow- ing: While millions of workers are unemployed and are starving, ready to do anything for the price of a \meal, there is at the present time a corporation known as the R. H. | Donnelley Corp., located at 28 E. ; 28th St. which handles the dis- | tribution of the telephone books for |the telephone company. This firm pays men $1.50 a day and a cent for each old book they bring back, the average being about {$ day for a fourteen-hour |and sometimes it is even necessar |to work a few hours more | This is not steady work, but when- |ever you are needed then you work. |The men are treated like a bunch jof cattle thieves by the supervisors |and sometimes worse. | The work is very hurd and a man |must be physically fit in order to do this disgusting work, as you are required to carry from 80 pounds to 150 pounds on your back each and every trip. | The average number of trips a day you make amounts to eighteen, They also have a blacklist, which contains the names of the men who have done such things as eating on a trip. The men found it necessary to do this as there is no lunch hour and all hustle and bustle from early morning until nightfall. In order to work for this firm you must report every morning at 6:30 o’clock, sometimes being greeted with such remarks as these: “Sorry, boys, there’s no work today.” When there is work to be done the hours are from 6:30 a. m, to 9 or 10 p. m, without any lunch hour. Task you is this justice? Hoover’s prosperity. Bah. ONE OF THE SLAVES. A Salute to Young Soviet China By JACK McCARTHY. sf chains of 7,000 feet are saving the| The “Heathen” Chinese is awaken- company (not the workers) 50,000 | ing, a year. | And is taking his place in the sun. New drill presses that automatic-| Your unequal treaties he’s breaking ally drill 100 holes at a time have re-| You taught him the use of the gun. duced very much the number of men! He can shoot i just as straight as a who were required for the old drill| distribution of special issues of the| Daily Worker, the United Farmer} {and such pamphlets as “Modern Farming, Soviet Style.” | tically and operated Leading cadres and Daily Worker} man, | correspondents must be developed,! Make Old Workers Set Pace ete. Plenty of tasks for all. But in : E my opinion if the Party has the|, The new machines which the ability to carry out these tasks it will meet with certain success. e : refit conclusion however let me warn any|™aking our work vasier, are bring- |who might be afflicted with the|"@ ™ore profits for the bosses. romanticism of John Pepper,|. The head of the indicator dept. | agai the farmers becoming revolutionists en masse. They won't. The fact remains nevertheless that | $0. thousands will accept the Party’s|, While the workers were produc- leadership, if only it is able to reach|img Wealth and luxuries for the hole at a time. javerage length of service is 40 years | machines that used to drill only one And his bullet will drill 3, A | Screw machines now run automa-| He's Not yet,|4"d their production record is very| p; “Christian,” just as clean, getting his share of attention by only one/Since he gave up the use of mor- phine. | He’s been robbed and exploited and beaten, |bosses of the N.C.R. are trying to Insulted as coolie and slave; In| Make us believe are for our benefit; Then doped at the missionaries’ meetin’ About “happiness” beyond the graye, holding any illusions about|!§ Very proud of workers whose! But the masses of China are rev- olting, ighting for the right to be free, | From parasites foreign and native, |Including their own bourgeoisie. them with the right kind of propa-|bosses after forty years of toil they| The masses of China are advancing, ganda. This the Party must do, | ae Still forced to slave for the} —C. G. B. W. |record, so they should not lose their | SOVIET LUMBER WORKER SPIKES WOLL’S LIES Material Well Being of Lumber Workers Zealously Guarded by Soviet Editor's Note: The letter that follows was received a year ago by the Workers Esperanto Group. The great advance that has taken place in wages, working conditions of the Soviet workers within the last year includes the far-off lumber wor'-| ers. Besides a brief insight ir the conditions of the Siberian lumber centres of the Soviet Union, this let-| ter helps show up the lies of the Fish Committee and Matthew Woll in their poisonous propaganda about “convict” and “conscripted” labor in lumber camps. oo, 8 * Dear editor: Ever since the Fish investigation | the attack against the Soviet Union has assumed greater proportions. Now every enemy of the working class is coming out in the open and tries to do everything within his | power in order to stop the trade between U.S.A. and Soviet Russia. The last attack was on the lumber products which have been exported to U.S.A. According to the rumors the lumber is being produced by the convict labor. We correspond with workers from all over the» world. We have also Espeiinto correspon- dents in Vladivostock. We offer the following letter received from the vicinity of Vladivostock from a lum- ber camp as a proof that no convict labor is being employed in the lum- ber camps, and that the workers in Russia do not work as convicts—ac- cording to Mathew Woll’s state- ments. We hope that this letter will show to American workers the necessity to correspond and develop the workers’ correspondence. SOR RR Nachtache, Viadivost. Okr. : Soviet Union. Pargacheyskij. It seems to me that every work- rid | Committee work? er correspondent should write about the things that he is well acquainted. Therefore I am writ- ing to you now about the life of lumber workers where I live and work—Nachtache, situated on the North shore of the Japanese Sea. The general situation in our region does not permit payment of high wages, and therefore we the workers of Nachtache do not live in a paradise. However we have our Soviet Government, our Soviet power, and therefore we pass laws which aim to improve our conditions and to defend our interests, The first organization which defends our interests and enforces the labor laws is the Workers’ Committee (Rabochkom), This committee consists of a few (from 3-7) syndicate representatives, who are elected from our enter- prises. The election is free and every group or an individual can nominate candidates: The tasks of this committee are: 1, To defend the material wel- fare of the workers, 2. To raise the professional skill of the workers. 3. To explain the labor laws and the contracts. 4. To lead general work, 5. To develop in the workers the international spirit of class consciousness. In order to carry out these tasks, the Workers’ Committee or- ganizes different sub-committees. The first task is taken care of by the Tarif-Conflict-Committee. How does the Tarif-Conflict- To understand the situation you should know that besides the labor laws ‘here also are labor contracts — co!lec- tive and individual which are made cultural by large private and state under- takings. The contracts are con- trolled by the respective syndi- cates. According to law, all con- ditions may be improved in the contracts over the minimum guar- anteed in the labor laws, so that conditions below the minimum cannot exist, The Tarif-Conflict-Committee consists of an equal number of representatives from the Workers’ Committee and from the admin- istration of the workers. This committee relies on the laws to solve any disagreement. If the committee disagrees, it has no power to decide and the case is carried on further to a higher court. Then we have the Labor Safe- guard Committee, whose duty to study the conditions in which the workers live, and to guard their health, it is its duty to co- operate with “State labor inspec- tor during their investigations and inspections. This system exists in other places as well as in our town. Now I would like to deseribe to you the place where I live and the con- ditions of work. In Nachtache there exists a rayon mill of the lumber trust— “DATTES”. The main work con- sists of cutting down and shipping of trees. Overtime and Sunday work is only permitted with the consent of the workers—however over ten hours work is not per- mitted, and overtime is only done in an emergency, when the forest may be destroyed, or the ship- ping may be tied up. Overtime is paid time and a half, on holidays double pay. When a worker gets sick he receives full wages and is treated gratis not by the concern but by jobs. Strike against wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance! | the Welfare Insurance Co. which | is provided for the workers and | paid for by the concern, Every pregnant woman receives a leave of four weeks before and 4 weeks after she gives birth to a child. If the child is living, she receives | Newton Upper Falls, Mass, Daily Worker Editor: Boss Pulls Off Eyesight Swindle On Textile Girls From the center along to the sea, bosses and keep up their production | Imperialist bandits they're bouncing rom the cities along the Yangtze. | We hail thee, Young Soviet China, Wish thee success and good speed In ousting the apostles of profit, And defeating the disciples of gree if anything were wrong. Don’t worry, they never saw him after he from the Insurance Co. some | I am writing to the workers thru/ collected his ten dollars | money (10-315) and for nine | the Daily Worker, how they treat! There were many iris who months about $5 extra for better | the workers in the New England | thought they had good eye sight, se food. Slack times and lay offs do not exist in our neighborhood, we are always short of workers. Com- | paratively the wages are low, however, we have enough to live on because for room and board | one person pays $15-$17 a month and those who live and eat collec- | tively—in communes—spend only -$10 a month (receiving from $33 over $50 a month). Workers have a club where they play chess, checkers, read news- papers, magazines, find musical instruments and sport accessories. Visitors do not pay anything. The Spin Silk. rooms that are still running, they | laid off a lot of girls and men, and the rest that were left work three and one-half days for 9 dollars a week, The Picking Room I work in the picking room. We have to pick 80 pounds of silk ev- The boss thought he was not mak- ing enough money, so he thought the workers, of a plan to pull some money from) had no need for gla some of them went to an ove and There were many rooms shut|ear infirmary in Boston to tiod out |down three months ago, and the! if they really needed glasses. Eyesight Good Many doctors there examined their eyes and gave them a paper written by the doctor that they do not need glasses. One worker showed the doctor the glasses she got from the mill. He looked at the glasses and told her ery day. If you can’t pick so much,| the frames are not bad, but he said they don’t bother keeping you there.| the glasses did not fit anyhody’s | ; that they are plain glass, | Well, the girls got proof that they es, and started musical, theatrical, sport, politie- al, self-instructive, atheist and Es- peranto circles are functioning in the club. You find there a library of 2,000 books. We also have our own news- paper which is typewritten. A large number of workers corres- pond in Esperanto with workers of other countries. I also cor+ respond a lot but until now we did not have any connection with the American workers. Therefore I am asking the editor of the “Daily Worker,” to help us to get in touch with tie workers of New York for collective correspondence. We shall have to use Esperanto, since no one here knows English. N. S. Pagachevskij, (Received and translated by the Workers’ Esperanto Group). tor to examine the eyes of the out. drunk. fired. Collect Money Well, the doctor collected from each worker ten dollars, and natur- call Frenchman. And the French- sweat took a trip to Switzerland. He got some kind of an eye doc-| money. The doctor told the workers that) with such dumb people it ss he would come once a week to the| for the other workers to liv mill and the workers could see hiw ’ to look for the return of their Two gi: went up to see him and argued in office for workers and the worker had to buy! two hours, finally getting five dol- glasses from that fake doctor. There! lars a piece to keep still and not to were more with glasses than with-| tell the rest, and promised to give {the other five at the end of the And when the girls would put/ month, that is, maybe. the glasses on it made them like| od They got dizzy, and when|the same, but they are so afraid they take the glasses off the fore-|of being fired, that they do not man came running along to tell them| know any day they will find them- to stick them on or they would be| selves out of work. They are wait- The rest of the girls ought to do ing for better times. I’m not, be- Vauis I know they won’t come; the days are growing worse. When you come in late three minutes they ally split it with the boss whom we| dock you off for twenty minutes. I hope some day I will see a man with the workers’ blood and| strike in our mill that’s what we vid, ard need. But the ers & —A. 8.