The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR UST =- Fe cP rs Er Ea EE mm &S& ETOFrS Not So Sweet to Work in Curtiss Candy. Factory | Chicago, TH. | Daily Worker: { Another childhood dream is gone| to pieces. As a child I looked with enyy at those who were working in the eandy sactories, wishing to work there too, for they certainly have candies aplenty. But, believe me, it is not so sweet to work at candies, especially where I am werking for the forelady tell-| ing you to work like horses. About 250 are now employed in the Curtiss Candy Co., where I am working, mostly young girls. We are working piece work and no ex- tra for overtime. Some weeks we make ten dollars. sometimes up to fifteen dollars, but many of us make only about eight dollars per week. Sometimes we work ten hours a day and sometimes eight hours, and work only about three days a week. The wages are very low as I men- tioned above. There was a wage cut of thirty per cent and it is pretty tough to make a living. And that is that, as far as the sweetness of working in a candy factory is concerned, but I suppose that it is just as bad in any other factory, especially now, when there is s0 much unemployment all over, Yes, it is not so sweet to slave for any boss and being sped up by ‘the forelady. A YOUNG GIRL WORKER IN THE CURTISS CANDY CO. IN BRIEF— Uniformed Thugs Are ‘Heroes’ in Bosses Eyes New York. Editro, Daily Worker, Dear Sir: The armed “heroes” of law that | take advantage of their position and strike unarmed men and injure wo- men and children may get medals and promotions from their capital- ist masters. However, when we Communists get in power we will every one of them out of their graft ridden jobs. —PHOTOGRAPHER. Patchogue. L. I. Toilers Fighters Too! Patchogue, N. Y. | Editor, Daily Worker: | Dear Sir: | To begin with, don’t neglect some | of the folks here in Patchogue, L. I. We, too, are recognizing the im- portance of Communism. Soviet Russia is the topic of attraction in our daily discussions. Comrades, only a few days ago we) attempted to invade a few private beaches to seek a little comfort and coolness out of the hot scorching | sun. We were driyen away by the! lords of the land and property| (hogs). They have tacked down conspicuous boardsigns which read: “For property. owners only—pri- vate.” This covers large tracts of land bordering the South shore. | Wonder if the ocean belongs to them | too? \ | A SYMPATHIZER. G00 OUT OF 5,000 AT STEWART, WARNE Wage Cuts Put Across in Various Ways (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. —Prosperity? I don’t know much about the prosper- ity of other factories in town, but I can give you a few incidents about the “prosperity” at Stewart & Warner. Out of the 5,000 workers formerly employed at the Stewart & Warner plant, only about 600 are working now. Some departments are shut down completely, like department 45, where they used to produce auto horns. This department is shut down and 200 men are walking the streets looking for “Hoover’s prosperity,” Slave Driving Foreman, Besides that John “Bananas” who is the straw boss of the department is a regular slave-driver. In department 2 they laid off the men from the heavy punch presses and put in their places girls, and instead of paying 60 cents an hour as the men used to get they (the girls) are only paid 85 cents per hour and only 40 girls work there now. And so all the way down. Cut Wages Right Along. But if you think that this is all and aside from this everything is rosy, you are greatly mistaken be- cause I forgot to mention how they are cutting wages. Here is the way it goes. They are laying them off and later on they hire them again for less wages. —A S. & W. WORKDR, Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent, Canada, U. S. Gov’ts Refuse Aid to Gassed War Veteran Daily Worker: In 1916 I enlisted with the 15th Battalion Canadian Highlanders and was sent across with the boys to make the world safe for British trade that Germany was threaten- ing. Being up in front, I got gassed in 1918, at one of the battles. It knocked me pretty bad. When I shipped back I went for the States. In San Francisco two years and {I |tried the Veterans Riverside marked “as a proper pub- lie eharge” and a note to the Re- gional medica! officer of the War Veterans Bureau, at 235 West 84th St. A week after I got this card of admittance to this Riverside hos- pital I received the following letter: “We are herewith quoting for your information part of a letter which we have received from the Department of Pensions and Na- tional Health, Ottawa, Canada, New York,NY. | I got a card for admittance to CAMPAIGN IN | 13, 1930 Page Three | HL DISTRICT \Communists Announce | Candidates Communists In pe, \ 2 | CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—The on'Eslection Meet paign for the nomination of candi-| dates on the Communist Party (Wireless 6 sped . k ae 1 8 y inprecorr) pener wives proms 8 | pressed tion demonstrations and theliveliest staged by any party) arrested 28 Communists. in the history of elections in the oe oe and State Assemblymen, all of them | workers, five of them Negroes and| ‘2,,4¢at- three women. The candidates are the following: For U. S. Senator, Freeman Thompson, national sere- Many were given long | jail terms; others were banished. | .* * TOKIO, Aug. 12.—Harbin reporis state. Eighteen candidates have} papis, Aug. 12—The French| ===, U. 8. Senator, U. S. Congressman| demned 12 Anamite revolutionists|PO"ts from Bangkok, capital of Bureau there to get some help. They told me to apply in Canada, but the Canadian government then said that since I was in the United States that clears them of respon- sibility. Became Tubercular. Meantime the gas had started to do its work and I became tubercular and needed treatment very badly. There’s a place called Raybrook Sanatorium where you can get half way decent treatment and I could stand a chance to make some head- way against my condition, if I could go there. I got no pension or any- thing. Here in New York I applied at the lhospitals. |They wanted to send me to one of the hospitals where several weeks’ treatment is worse than none, like the Metro- politan and Riverside Hospitals, I told them I wanted to go to Ray- brook. regarding your request for treat- ment, “*The Board of Pension Com- missioners has ruled |that Ithis man’s condition of Chronic Bron- chicitis and Pulmonary Fibrosis are not related to |his |seryice, Treatment for this disability therefore cannot be authorized at the expense of the department, If, however, he considers he is suffering from some other dis- ability related to his service he is entitled to forward a medical cer- tificate, obtained at his own .ex- penses, definitely describing and diagnosing his condition.’ “In view of the above quoted letter, this office cannot at the present time give you any treat- ment. By direction: W. W. VERNER, MD. Regional Medical Officer, New York Regional Office.” | One Man Now Operates 5 Machines in Inter- national Harvester CG Dear Fellow Workers: . P ’ yv Chicago, Ill. Just a few lines to tell you that the workers in the tractor ma- chine shop are no better off than the rest. The speed-up here is get- ting so that it makes us nothing more than human skgletons. In the milling machine section (on gears), one man used to operate two machines. But now, the company has installed automatic type ma- chines and one worker is made to operate five machines. This was |tary of the National Miners’ Union. |who is now facing sentence for hav. ling led a struggle of Illinois miners during the December strike in the bituminous fields. | _ For Congressmen: Lee Mason and August Poansjoe, bith Negro work- | ors Lydia Beidal, Brown Squire, |Negro truck driver; James Eloe- jvich, printer; Sam T. Hammers- |mark, Paul Chromak, painter; Ed- |ward Hirschler, needle worker, and William E. Browder, Chicago secre- tary of the Workers’ International Relief. For the offices of State Assembly- men, Joe Hale and Romania Fer- guson, Negro workers; Michael Ba- |ker, stockyards worker; Wilson Kelly, ,.egro worker; Nicolai Bull, building trades worker; Wayne Ad- |amson, food worker and secretary of the Chieago local of the Food Workers’ Industrial League, and Martha Beigler, a woman worker, are running for office, Petitions are being circulated for the nomination of these candidates, some of whom need as many as 5,000 signatures. The membership of the Party feel that the heavy requirements are in fact an excel- lent opportunity to reach thousands of Mlinois workers and farmers | With the program and literature of ously with the collection of sig: | tures the Party workers are carry- | ing on an extensive program of sale the Communist Party. Simuitane- | | white-guard bandits in the west Cer district. Barga authorities are un- able to guarantee travelle fety HELSINGFORS, Aug, 12.—Fin- jnish fascists are carrying on elec- |tion terror. The fascist organi | tion is issuing secret election cireu- |lars demanding Communists be pre vented from voting, and that Work- | ers-Peasants and Left functionaries | INCREASE LIVE — STOCK IN USSR Organize New Cattle Breeding Farms MOSCOW (LP,S.),—The Soviet | | authorities have issued orders for {the rapid development of cattle- | breeding and particularly of pig breeding in order to fight the meat shortage. The State Pork Trust | “Svinod” will organize a series of piggeries in the neighborhood of | | the industrial centres during the course of the year. Three hundred | \further piggeries are to be organ- | ized during the course of the year) 1931, In the economic year 1931-82 | |the trust must produce 3 million) | pigs, and in 1932-33, 7 million pigs ~ | Other bas Tail 28 German BRITISH PRESS IN CHINA ADMITS RED ARMY 1S WELL DISCIPLINED International Notes , 10 Chir Comunists have been sentenced for 15 years. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia. retary of the local Young Comm i ‘ue In , was arrested. See- ist L Hrdlick dek, comrade PRAGUE. June fell to 136,000 ton compared to 162,0 industrie: Steel lose franchise. \cists in Heinicke have kidnapped the workingclass evolutionist Mitruh, His whereabouts are un-| known, ’ MOSCOW,.—“elebration of t 10th anniv ry of the founding of | the Tartar Soviet Republic has be-| ie: gun. It has been decided to intro- | |duce the 7-hour day in the larger factories on October 1. * * BERLIN.—Ten per cent of the} Siemens works will be dismissed. | * *# »# | BERL Variou capitalist | parties are trying to create a block | to fight the growing revolutionary | temper of the workers. Among} these parties are: The German} People’s Party, the Democratic | Party, the Economic Party, and the Vestarp group of the German Na- tionalist Party. MUNICH—The Munich offices | of the Communist Party were| raided recently. The police pillaged des drawers and large quantities | OPENELECTION ENTERNATIONAL | tention to the activities of the are not troops of bandits as many cipline for t SINGSFORS, Finland.—Fas- | by followed with a cut on price and while a worker produces much more he does not get any more money but in fact less because any delay on any of the machines cuts down his wages, so that it’s really one grand hell. —An Old Timer, * * of Communist literature and collec-| for slaughtering. tion for the campaign. The State Beef Trust “Skotovod” Ss Cae will organize 150 new cattle breed- ing farms next summer with MEET IN MEM Y 3,200,000 head of cattle. farms will be organized chiefly in These | \of literature. | |for the U.S.S.R., has bee! | Council of People’ passed by the Sommis “ee This place is practically shut. TWINE MILL, The bosses said that the workers {the Volga district, in Kasakstan, in| provides for production of a mini-| would be laid off for a short time only and then would be called back, but the way they have been laid off in the summer when we should have most work to do, then it will be no surprise that the whole plant shuts down in winter. workers after September 3rd. The bosses say that they will take back the We will see. —One of those laid off. Real Need to Fight Growing Speed-up of Reduced Force At Western Electric Daily Worker:— It is true that only about one- third of the regular force in my department is now working. But that does not stop bosses from driving us more and more, and, in fact, speed-up occurs daily, and, while we produce more, our wages are being cut. The piece-work rates have been cut down left and right. There was no protest raised to that effect. Workers learn to kick on each other instead of on the bosses—it looks like they don’t | know their real enemy. But the circumstances which are confronting us, they teach us some- thing which we overlook, and that is the necessity for unity of us work- ers. There is no use kicking on each other, because workers are not to blame, because there is another cause for slashing the piece rates. All we need is to set up a strong, militant union, and we will have ‘A CR UST OF B only one front to kick—the bosses. —W, E. WORKER. ee In Dept. 8858 a machine opera‘or by the name of Steve P. Kinak was hurt. His two fingers were broken. While going through with operation on a machine he lost his third fin- ger. That happened in October of last year. It is already more than nine months past and the company still refuses to settle up with him. So this worker went to court, but can hardly believe that a poor worker has any chance in the bosses’ court. This is one of many reasons why the workers must organize them- selves into the militant unions and fight for their rights, Workers! Let’s organize the shop committees and join the Metal Trades Industrial League. —MILITANT WORKER, READ (Continued From Page Que.) already sky high, and poor workers’ children are suffering from lack of milk in their diet. The Borden Milk Co. with its monopoly on milk (and many other food products) calmly decides that there will be a raise in the price of milk—and it goes into effect. The government, their government, will see that it is paid, The Tammany “Health Department” makes a few squeaks just for sake of appear- ances, and that’s all, But just let the low paid dairy workers of the Borden Company, « any other workers who cannot pay for milk, strike for one cent addi- tional per hour on their wages, and the whole army of government force and yiolence will le used against them, This is what they mean when they talk about “government of the people!” Translated it means: Gov- ernment of capitalists, by capitalists and for capitalists—at the expense of the workers! The workers must fight against this indirect wage cut, just as they must fight direct wage cuts by striking. How? We'll tell you: Firstly, this brazen steal must be met by immediate, open demonstra- tions by workers, housewives and school children. Every market, every grocery, every dairy should hear—yes, and feel, this mass pro- test. Workers and housewives should not take this added burden and try to adjust their meager earn- ings to the demands of milk rack- eteers, The organizing of a mass | | protest in front of every market, mass refusal to buy miJk unti] the price is lowered, are methods the working class will have to adopt to fight against this form of wage cuts. “Don’t starve, fight!” means that the workers must organize. The A. F, of L., after 49 years of existence is in cahoots with the capitalists. Green says wage standards are maintained, and adds another lie that “prices are coming down.” More, all the “organizing” the A. F, of L, does is to make the workers in the A. F. of L, good “loyal” slaves to the bosses, One cent more a quart on milk means nothing to Green, Woll and Co,, except that it may help “stabil- ize” the milk business, But the workers must not take this laying down, Organize shop committees, build revolutionary industrial unions of the Trade Union Unity League, prepare for strike struggle against wage cuts! This is the best and only answer the workers can give to the bosses’ attempt to make the workers pay the cost of the economic crisis, And the farmers can get help only if they go fetch it themselves! Let them organize township committees of action and run Legge back to Washington with mass demonstra- tions demanding real relief. A dem- onstration in every seat would make Herb Hoover sweat blood! Strike against. wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance] Honor Sacco-Vanzetti_ in Both Americas zetti demonstrations are being or- | ganized throughout the entire coun- try on Friday, August 22, as well as throughout Latin Ameicra on August 23, the day on whirb the/ anniversary of the death of the two | labor martyrs falls in South Amer- | ican countries, according to reports now coming into the national office of the International Labor Detense in New York, | On the Pacific Coast, San Fran- | cisco, Seattle and Los Angeles will hold great demonstrations pretest- ing the treatment of political pris- oners throughout the capitalist world and stressing the demands for the release of Mooney and Hil- lings, the Imperial Valley prison- ers the Atlanta “insurrection” eases and the Unemployed Delega- tion in New York. Defy Gag Law. In Boston in spite of the refusal of the police to permit the use of | the Commons the International La- |bor Defense of that district is pre- paring to hold its demonstration | there. | In the anthracite region meetings | have been announced in Pittsburgh, | Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Minevs- | conferences to make full prepara- tons for great memorial demonstra- | tions, and in Buffalo the Saeco- Vanzetti demonstration will take | place in Elmwood Music Hall. MINE COMPANY UNIONS USE GANGSTER TACTIC The Lewis and Howatt company unions are fighting each other with | the old gangster methods both have used on the militant miners of the National Miners’ Union. Recently Joseph Claypool of this city was | kidnapped, so he says, by Lewis gangsters, carried over into Illinois | and tarred and feathered. The journal of the Howatt-Fishwick | crowd, the Illinois Miner, gives most of its front page to expressions of indignation over the matter, | * * 6 | Airplane Bombing. PROVIDENCE, Ky., Aug. 1 An orange colored monoplane fly- ing 2,000 feet high today dropped 9 small bombs into and near this town and near the entrance of the Rueckman mine, where miners have recently been on strike. It is not known yet whether this is an at. tempt by the operators or by Lewi at terror, nor just what part the Howatt outfit play in the affair. The bombs exploded, but did no damage, ganize 102 such farms. | son in the Soviet Union. | Siberia, in Central Asia, in the|mum of 125 kilos of potatoes, 150 Caucasus and in the Soviet Far| kilograms of other vegetables and |Fast. This year the trust will or- | 260 kilograms of fruit for each per- In order to supply trained work- | ers for this extension of activities | the two trusts are opening up| special courses for directors. Qual- | NEW YORK.—Sacco and Van-/| ified workers may report them-| protest the selves for these cou ‘Twenty-| five soviet cattle-breeders are being sent abroad to study modern cattle- | breeding technique in Europe and America. The Soviet authorities are organ- izing a State Butter Trust, which will commence operations this year with 10,000 milch cows. By next year it will have 70,000 cows. NANKING TROGPS QUIT CHANGSHA Red Armies Marching 7 ah to Enter City (Continued From Page One.) ing” gunboat, fully “protected” as it is by a squadron of imperialist gunboats. The failure of the imperialists | and, therefore, their lackeys, the | Koumintang |militarists, to jagree | upon a temporary truce in order to | organize a united front of counte: | revolution against the Communists , | ville. ., |Fesulted in a renewed attempt of | Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit], s, imperialisms to further | are holding preliminary unted front | strengthen the Nanking for thus trying to “save” Chiang Kz shek from the jaws of death as it did last December. It is no accident that the Amer- iean press which has been report- ing jhe precarious position of Nank- ing for some time has suddenly changed its tone and is carrying news of Nanking’s repeated offen- sive in the Shangtung front. | Nanking has concentrated the ever seen before in Shangtung. The fact that all the aeroplanes con trated are “bought” from America, as almost all the capitalist dis- patches admit, is of great signifi- | cance. Wall iStreet is supplying | Chiang Kai-shek with war funds, ueroplanes and advisers, and so on, both to fight the lackeys of its | British and Japanese imperialist | rivals in China and to attempt to} suppress the revolt of the ma. against imperialist and native tarist. domination. |ing 14 days in the {ment, to the jonly to tell the truth about the So- * * VIENNA.—The revolutionary op- | position in the Printer: Union. called a mass meeting recently to tempt of the reform- ist leaders of the union to gag the “Rot and prevent criticism of their social-fascist policies. Visit U.S.S.R.; Observe Socialist Upbuilding MOSCOW, (IPS fter spend-| et Union the delegation of Norwegian fishermen returned to their country yesterday. Before leaving they handed a sta‘ ral Council of So-| viet Labor Unions thanking the| Russian workers for their hospital- | ity and recounting their experiences. | The delegates express the convie tion that the gigantic construction | work they witnessed was really the| building up of socialism and mol lusiastic witness to the great nts of the wor of the Union. They promise not viet Union to the Norwegian masses but also to mobilize the masses for | the support of the first workers and peasants’ state in the world. ITALY’S WHEAT SHOWS BIG DECREASE ROME.—The international Insti tute of Agriculture here reports | that the wheat crop forecast for | this year is 6,071,000 metric tons | compared to the 7,082,000 metric tons of last year. | upon a policy of attempting a di- | rect extensive intervention for the | suppression of the Chinese Revolu- tion, The extensive open air meetings | and protest demonstrations which have been arranged by the New| York district of the Communi: | Party is the first organized expres- | SHELBURN, Ind. Aug. 12. largest air foree that China has/sion of the fighting de | rmination protest of the American w - against the Wall Street war against the Chinese workers and peasants These demonstrations will certainly lowed by other workers’ or ations in New York and other parts of the United States. The | International Labor Defense has al | ready announced that it will jam the | United Front protest today threugh- , out the city of New York and vicin- | ity. Every class conscious worker | and all enemies of imperialism {should respond to the call of the! While fully supporting Chiang {Communist Party tonight and take ai-shek to fight the Northern | part in the meetings and demon- Coalition, American Warships and} stration in solidarity with their fel- | | marines are taking care of the} low workers and peasants in China | |southern front for Nanking. It is not for no reason that, at this moat | critical moment of workers and} peasants uprisings and advances by | ithe Red Armies, Nanking ¢an still | afford to divert its military forces |to the northern front, It is an es- | tablished fact that American im- | perialism, together with other im- | perialist powers, bave embarked FARM IN THE PINES Situnted tn Pine Forest, nenr + Lake, German Vabte Notes: 810+ $18. Swimming and ishing M. OBERKIRCH ox 78 NON. | CHIGAGO SEPT. 1. MEET, WASH, SO. To Fight For Workers Social Insurance oO | | When They Leave the § City Iiicls.Hor a Strategic Reason CHICAGO.—The ( Union Unity L d Monday, shingtc ‘o will be of view of th arranged by ers of the Chicago Federation of Lahor. The Ch Federation of Labor is “Picking the issue of unemployment in order to head off the ma from turn ing to the Trade Union Unity | League and Unemployment Coun- jeils for guidance and | The Trade Union Unity calls upon the workers of ( | to demonstrate for the Worker cial Insurance Bill proposed | T.U.U.L. Labor Day beginning of a huge m of the unemployed | workers to fi Workers’ § importance emonstration” SHANGHAI (LP.S.).—The Eng- | s which appear in a, pay particular at-! ari- | Red armies which are operating | t the Kuomingtang forces. British journalists are com- ed to admit that the Red Armies al Chi would like The “Cen- ’ which appears in concerning the the Red Army in the newspapers will s srovince of loyec The tro stern dis- There was reckl slaughter. The reds executed a few persons, but only after they had been tried nd sentenced. When they retired y took hostages with them, They 1 for all the goods they took and | left the population in peace. When the Red troops retire it is y for strategical reasons and | not as a result of lost battles. They | do not care to stay for long in big| 4 .,¢ K centres, but prefer to operate in| Strike: Fieht Scabs the open where they are in less| pag ; F danger of being surprised. Accord-| purine the Weta dag te Sm ing to all reports, the governmental | of vicient eellisinny Poe seeens troops fly after the first brush with|i, “Basie, ‘hetwons tne cccurred the Reds, Bre, striking eRe % ... | woodworkers who have now been At first the foreigners fiving injout for over 5 months and strike- Yoochow, heard of the Red advance | breakers whereby the latter svato eaalnay the town fle whee ie | use of pistols. Today the cantonal ed troops were already marching | government issu i through the stree’ The govern-| f fies en eniee Erohih: ment militia preferred to avoid alice zi} grenilngy tal deraanetee. battle altogether and so it retired] ing picketing. sian to the other side of the river. The i Red troops are well armed and sup- plied with ammunition, captured under no means 1 : : | ployed workers end their families to | live. | All employe dand unemployed. white and colored workers will rally to the Labor Day Demonstration in Washington Sq., on Monday, Sept 1, at 8 p. m. i eels iene aD Swiss Woodworkers on us from the government arsena! in Tinkiang in southern Hupeh. WORKING CLASS Against CAPITALIST CLASS Is the Main Election Issue of the Communist Party ELECTION PLATFORM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. A. Five Cents The prime duty of every revolutionary worker is to place a copy of this Election Pragram in the hands of every worker in the shop, factory, trade union and mass organizations, Write for orders and quotations to: WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 EAST 125TH STREET NEW YORK CITY Spend Your Vacation at FIRST PROLETARIAN NITGEDAIGET CAMP—HOTEL e Accomodations to suit the taste and desire of every camper HOT AND COLD WATER; ELECTRIC LIGHTS; SWIMMING POOL; TENTS; BUNGALOWS; HOTEL ROOMS, Cultural Program for the Season The Artef Studio; Mass Theatre; Mass Singing—J, Shaeffer and L. Adohmyan, Directors; Dance Plastique, Edith Segal; Sports Director, Saul Fisher; Educational, Olgin and Jerome. Every Dav Something New! Athletics, Games, Hikes, Excursions, Dances, Theatre, Chorus, Lectures, Symposiums, ete. Sbecial Feature Programs for Week Ends § t 1—The Entire Fretheit Gesangs Ferein and the at. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra in a Variety of Revolutionary Songs. J. Shaeffer, Conductor, Aug. 2—"Under the Banner of the T. U. U, L— revolutionary mass pantomime produced e! 16th tirely by the eampers. 3—The Nitgedaiget Chorus—J. Shaeffer, Con- ductor, 4—Recitations—by Members of the Artef. Ww GALA PERFORMANCE — SAT., AUGUST 23 An Entirely New Proletcullure Program, The First Time in Camp Nitgedaiget, Watch for the Announcements! CAMP NIPGEDAIG PHONK BRACON THE 1, BEACON, N. Yq