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LETTERS lei - S 5,000 lobless G. E. Workers Get No Aid Valatie, N. Y. Daily Worker: Paid a visit to General Electric at Schenectady the other day. 15,- 000 working now; 20,000 work dur- ing normal times. Production is 92 per cent of normal times. Few if any of the five thousand unemployed are enjoying young unemployment insurance, They had introduced a nef form of speed-up; piece work on the belt| system. Each workers drives the other one on. They use the belt in making refrigerators. —CORRESPONDENT. FROM THE HOPS Work Boys 12 Hours a Day Without Pay On State Farm —> Valatie, N. Y. Comrades: On the question of exploitation of convict labor in the U. 5. A. There is a state farm for boys sent to reform school. There are about 60 boys from 10 to 18 years old. Most of them are mentally de- ficient and were sent there for stealing and other misdemeanors. They are worked on this farm 12) hours 2 day, six days a week and} 52 weeks a year, holidays excluded. | They get no pay except 50 cents a| week for “luxuries.” All of them} are workers’ children. Thirty-five of the boys were sent out to work for farmers under the! same hours. The farmer pays the | state $1 a day for this privilege, and $1 a week to the boy. The boy, gets $1 for working on Sunday also. If a boy saves any money it is usually taken away from him. Some of the farmers cheat them of their) money and then complain that they | don’t put in a full day’s work. —A CORRESPONDENT. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, | THU RSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930 New York Police. Acivonints. 2 With Rifles $o ‘Shoot. Bown Wi icles At “Camp Mulrooney” in Pelham Bay Park the 400 men of the police school are trained according to the regulations of the U. S. army military academy. year. Inspector Noonan, in charge, declares in the pre ordinarily useful to policemen, it has value in this pe of it, the police department can “turn out 8,000 expert This practice was s that althov od of radicalization of the instituted for the first t h rifle practice ne this sidered masses, for by means militiamen.” is not Thr eaten “Slaughter If Revolt Does Not End, M'DONALD STIRS Revolt Does Not KURDS 10 WAR; fe foe pee THREAT U.S.S.R. Railroad Cut. Before Anti-Labor Pennsy Bosses Get Underpaid Non- ‘Union Building Labor Philadelphia, Pa. To the Daily Worker:— The Pennsylvania Railroad, large share owners of the imperial com- monwealth of Pennsylvania, land, roads, mines and workers, is now having constructed for ilseif a sub- way, bridge and station in Mor- gan’s metropolis of Philadelpaia, To build the subway the Key- stone State Corporation (a Vare subsidiary), a construction com- pany notorious for its leecheries upon the treasuries of Ph-iadelphia and Pennsylvania, has been en- gaged. This construction company is largely owned by the grafting politicians of the corrupt Phila- delphia republican machine, loyal servants of W. W. Atterbury, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania R. R. Non-Union Work. With the exception of plumbers and certain metal workers, who are union men and are employed only because no other can be gotten, all the men on the job are unor- ganized. The regular work-day is 10 hours | a day, from 7 to 5:30 p. m., with half an hour off for lunch. The Los Angeles Police Thugs Now Patrol Roads For Jobless (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif—Unem- ployment is widespread in the open- shop paradise of Los Angeles. So rapidly are the number of unem- ployed workers being augmented that drastic steps are being taken to get them out of the country, Motorcycle road officers atbitrarily refuse to allow migratory workers to enter the city. Mexican workers are shipped to surrounding ranches to work at starvation wages. Many of the children never get to attend school. Negro workers are simply left to starve. They are refused employ- ment and even the County Weliare TEXTILE UNION TO GREET RILU Auto Workers Prepare; Support in U.S.S.R. (Continued From Page One.) September 1 (Unemployment Day), will demand the release of August Pinto, picket captain here during the strike and since active in unem- ployment organization. Pinto is facing deportation. The N. T. W. national board will have particularly the unemployment situation in mind for discussion and action. Terrific unemployment, with wage-cuts and worse conditions for those left at work is prevalent through New Bedford, Fall River, Manchester and Lawrence, as well as in Philadelphia, the silk region and the South, The board will particularly plan the organizational tasks to follow and take advantage of the demon- strations, Struggles are approach- ing in New England and the South. ek ae Detroit Workers Prepare. DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 13.—The Trade Union Unity League and the Auto Workers’ Union, Food Work- ers’ Industrial Union and Construc- tion Workers’ Industrial League and Tunnel Workers are co-operat. ing to hold two great meetings on August 15. One will be at Ferry Hall, 1348 E. Ferry Ave., and the other at Yeman’s Hall, 3014 Ye. mans, Hamtramck. Both meetings “start at 7:30 p. m. Among the speakers will be the defendants facing trial i. cases growing out. of the auto workers’ strike against wage-cuts in “lint. Other speakers will be the local T. U. U. L. sec- retary, and the meetings will be by the Communist Party ict, organizer, enon ciniitninenitntemmennmeteiisitentesitiie tA Ditties week is a 60-hour week at back- breaking toil: This 60 hours put the men all in, yet if they do not work overtime when asked they ore fired from the job. Some of the fa- | | borers are required to work 85 hours | a week, including Sundays. Pay Low Wages. For this they are paid 40 cents an hour, subject to careful watch- ing by the watchmen called fore- men. One worker, upon taking out a handkerchief to wipe the per- spiration off his faecce a second time was told he’d have to stop it or be laid off. This worker, though strong, was feeling the effects of the work. So he told the foreman to pay him off. “What do you think I am, a horse?” Carpenters, skilled though they may be, are paid only 70 cents an hour and speeded up the same as laborers. Only through organization into the Trade Union Unity League will these workers free themselves from these conditions, for the A. F. L..is making no effort to organize, pursuing their usual tactics. -—-C:; RABIN. Department refuses to give them aid in many instances, leaving their families without food or shelter and forcing the women into prostitu- tion. Negroes are brutally slugged and intimidated if they attend Commu- nist demonstrations and are dis- eriminated against even at muni- cipal beaches, swimming pools and parks. Restaurants refuse to serve them and policemen frequently “legally” lynch them in the streets. This boss-riden town is ripe for or- ganization under the red banner of Communism. —L.,A. WORKER. All these unions have had recent struggle experience, and Detroit is full of jobless. The building and tunnel workers have compelled the bosses’ city council to admit through the mouth of Ewald, $100-a-week president of the A. F, of L. Brick- layers’ Union, that lack of proper safety devices have cost the lives of eight tunnel workers here re- cently. a 8 On Boston Common. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 18+ With F, G. Biedenkapp, member of the national executive board of the Trade Union Unity League, as speaker, the Tenth Anniversary of the R, I. L., U. mass meeting will be held here Sunday, August 17, at 4 p. m. on Boston Common at Charles St. Mall. * . Great Support In Soviet Union. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. 13,— The industrial unions are aroused to the importance of the Fifth World Congress of the Red International of Labor Unions. The Tenth Anni- versary celebrations have already been held in Leningrad, Saratov, Nizhni-Novgorod, Voronesh, Baku, Tiflis, Kharkov, Niepo-Petrovsk, Minsk and other cities, with floods of questions from the assembled masses showing their interest in the international movement. The All-Russian Central Gouncil of Trade Unions receives daily hun- dreds of Tequests from local organ- izations in various cities for quali- fied speakers on this subject and for literature about it. An article by Lossovsky, general secretary of the R. I. L. U., has been reprinted in an issue of 100,000 pamphlets and is only a diop in the bucket. Ten leaflets issued in the Ukrainati language by the Ukrainian Worker to the number of 150,000 copies have already been snapped up and the workers are clamoring for more. \establish an Want to “Extend Traq War Base on Soviets (Continued From Page One.) Angora goes on to state: “Fear ex- pressed in certain quarters that Turkish drilling operations might drain the valuable Mosul oil basin, most of which lies in Iraq. This fear was aggravated when Eyoub was sent secretly to investigate oil possibilities at Lake Van.” MacDonald Government Supplies Guns. Another United Press dispatch from Berlin quotes the sVossische Zeitung, organ of the German in- dustrials, as saying that the “Kurd movement had received money from England and that the Kurds used machine guns of British origin.” The British threat against Tur- key, and MacDonald’s “desire” to imperialist puppet, buffer state between Turkey and Persia brings them closer to Soviet territory. The military airplane stations es- tablished in Iraq are a direct threat of to the Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics, and the present move of Ramsay MacDonald is a step to- ward war against the Soviet Union as well as against Turkey. The Usual Lies, A cable to the New York Times (Aug. 18) shows how rapidly Ram- say MacDonald is preparing for war against the Soviet Union. The cable, dated at London, states: “Connection is seen between Rus- sian-fomented trouble in Kurdistan and the disturbances in the north- west frontier of India. For some time, says the Express, it has been known in official circles that the Russian Government has been busy in Kurdistan trying to revive the trouble which the Turks once man- aged to quell.” This is an outright lie, perpetrated by MacDonald to cover up his instigation of war against the Soviet Union. At the same time the British tool in Iraq, General Jafar Pasha el Skari, a few days ago, addressing the Kurds at Kirkuk, was loudly denying the fact that it was the “deliberate policy of the British gov- ernment to encourage Kurdish na- tionalism to the embarrassment not only of the Iraq Government but also of their friendly neighbors, Persia and Turkey.” The reason he took the pains to deny this was that it is a well known fact throughout Traq. “Labor” Party Takes War Step. In this manner does the British “Labor” Party, with the help of the entire British imperialist press take a direct step for war against the Soviet Union, The immediate: situation involves the refusal of Persia to permit Turkish troops to enter Persian ter- ritory in order to suppress the Kurdish bands, paid and instigated by Ramsay MacDonald’s govern- ment, who have been attacking peaceful Turkish villages. The Kurdish bands are entrenched near Mt. Ararat, and in order to drive them out, it is necessary for the Turkish troops to enter Persian territory. While there exists a o—_ Today in History of the Workers August 14, 1775—Liberty tree dedicated in Boston by hanging on it effigies of those who passed British stamp act. 1883—General Trades Union of the City of New York and vicinity, first perma- nent American city central body, organized. 1917—General strike and revolutionary outbreaks in Barcelona and other Spanish cities, 1920—Four French troop trains on way to aid Poland's at- tack on Soviet Russia side-tracked by German railroad workers. 1921—State militia sent to break cotton mill strike at Concord, N. CG. 19283—Gas explosion in coal mine at Kemmerer, Wyo. 97 killed, More literature is being hastily prepared and all union printing 9/ fices are collaborating on a sch-~ to publish in it huge ouantities. ‘the nly limit to the quantity that can ¢ used seems to be set by the phys- ‘al difficulties of finding encugh paper Troop Train in Sindh | | The capitalist news, services re- port the deliberate murder by the | MacDonald government of women | and children of tribesmen who have marched against the British im- perialists. While the peasants are away fighting for independence | British airplanes yesterday con- | | ducted wide raids, dropping thou- sands of bombs on their home vil- lages, killing the old men, the women and children. This is no accident of war. Three days ago the British authorities, | sent by the Labor Party govern-| ment in London to command the Peshawar area, threatened the tribesmen with the blowing up of their villages unless they disbanded and went home. Reyolt Grows. The men of the tribes continued their struggle, carrying their at-| tack to the very gates of Peshawar, the British military center in the northwest provinces, and taking | over control of the country all around, with the exception of cer- tain British military posts which they isolated. The bombing raids followed, and a terrible slaughter of women and children was accom- plished. Their blood falls directly on the head of MacDonald, and his “socialist” government. Tribes Aroused. The result has been not the: ex- pected terrorism, but the most in- tense indignation. The Orakzai tribe yesterday held a tribal assem- | bly and voted to join the rebellion They will attack Kohat, marcniny down the Khanki Valley. After vil- lages of the Tirah tribe at Massozai Had been blown up beca members volunteered ag; British, the whole tribe voced participate. Far away inthe Sindh railroad along which Briti are proceeding was found cut tween Quetta and Sukkur. Sell-Out Proceeds. It was announced yesterday a regular council, under Br government protection, took place at Gandhi’s apartments in Poona fortress. Present were Gandhi, Jawaharlal and Notilal Nehru, Vrs. Sarojini Naidu, Vallabhai Patel and the two emmissaries of the British viceroy, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Jayakar. The outcome is not an- nounced yet, treaty between Turkey and Persia providing for just such an emer- gency, the British imperialists have engineered a refusal. Want Turkish The object of the British imper- ialist government, is to drive a wedge between Tirkey and Persia, extending its oil fields closer to the Soviet Union. Writing in the Inprecorr, No. 35, V. Chattopadhaya, writing on “Iraq as Britain’s base against the Soviet Union,” declares: “In the meantime, it is neces- sary to follow closely the in- trigues of the British Government among the Kurds who are being financed and armed to revolt | against the Turks, the Persians and the Irags and to constitute | a buffer state between these coun- | tries which shall be completely under British control and form a new military base for British im- perialist wars.” | MacDonald has already taken the| first steps for actual war. Under’ the slogan of “no indepenilence for | India” he advances the British im- | to perialist’s wishes in India, and| under the hypocritical slogan of | “independence for the Kurds,” he instigates war on Turkey, with the} next move war against the Sovict | Union, | In every imperialist move, Ram-| say MacDor-'1 is supported by the | yellow Second International, and its | American ion, the social-fas socialist party. FARM IN THE PINES Situated tn Pine Forest, near Mr Lake. German ‘Table ttates: #16— $18 Swiniming and Cishing. M. OBERKIRCH . Hox TS KINGSTON NOY MacDonald’s Airplanes Kill ‘Women of Men Fi ghting Him BRANDIES WILL GET APPEAL OF ‘JOBLESS LEADERS But Real : Reliance Is On Mass Demands NEW YOR Because Justice Harlan F. Stone is in Europe the International Labor Defense at- torneys today will make their ap- plication for an order allowing an | appeal in the case of Foster, Minor, Amter and Raymond, to Louis Brandei: who is Chatham, Massachusetts. The International Labor Defense now is determined to 'y this case to the United States Supreme curt, alleging that the handling of the case by the New York e cluded denial of legal rig s in- the defendants. They were charged with a misdemeanor, but, contrary | to their right, they were held in- communicado, fused a jury trial. The Parole Com cently recommended in- determinate sentence be set dei itely for six months from the date of their detention in prison, exccpt for Raymond, who gets 10 months This makes the date of their release October 21, providing the commit- ting judges confirm the recommen- dation of the Parole Commis The date is set so as to pr their taking much part in che el tion campaign. Foster is nominated for Governor and Minor and Auster for other offices. The International Labor Defense {has conducted a campaign of pro- test against the imprisonment of these men which has resulted in resolutions demanding their irme- diate release signed by literally hunderds of thousands of men and women, workers and symp: 3, throughout the country. jon. | Demand Unemployment Insurance! ‘In Elections Page Three aoa | INTERNATIONAL rf Eews © Communists In|; ‘ Germany Busy International Notes PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. — 500 workers have been dismissed by the | boot and shoe works, Busi, in Tre- (Wrretess by Inprecorr.) | ERLIN, Aug. 13.—The Ger t 18,000 are about to be fired BERLIN, Aug. 15—The German) 10 Gooch State Railways, {election campaign is going on at —oe full swing. Comrade Thae Imann | HELSINGFORS, Finland.—From n-| the Ist to the 20th of July over 100 aders of the revolutionary work-| ingclass organizations have been ar- | rested here. A series of great trials | are being prepared. «+ speaks at Hamburg, stating the |ternational importance of the Ge man election. He said that the viet Union shows the way of escape from the Young Plan misery. In Corbach, near Cassel, Commu-|_. BERLIN—In the municipal elec- cigs aay |tion, in Muenchenberg, which took nists gained one seat from the 50-| nace on July 27th the Communist cial democrats in the municipal) Party polled 502 votes as compared | election. | to 321 votes in the last election. The ee united bourgeois parties polled 758} votes as compared to 920 last year. LENINGRAD, Aug. 13.—The Eng- * * * lish and Irish delegations arrived’ MOSCOW—The Council for La- {bor and Defense has ordered the | | building of a new overland power | | supply centrex in Dniepropetrovsk | with a total capacity of 96,000 kilo- | here, They were elected by workers | meetings organized by Friends of Soviet Rus: jing out Morrow’s orders. Aner watt. The new power station will be| PARIS, Aug he general! Put Partly in operation by the au- f ios e . » 9 jstrike in northern France continues |W" of 1981. to spread. The reformists ai |tempting to make the worke Justice | in| denied bail, and re- - | Chr MORE CHO SCHOOLS —OPENINUSSR, | cept partial demands. 150,000 ar strike at present, ‘SHOW UP NEW. FASCIST PARTY | Union has decided to introduce gen- German State Party | eral compulsory schooling for all j child ren from 8 to 10 years inclusive BERLIN (IPS).—Commenting on|in the year 1930-31. In the year the new political formation entitled | 1931-32 the schooling will then be the “German State Party,” the/ extended to all children of 11 year: Communist Rote hne writes: | of age. Special local difficulties “The exchange jobbers celebrate | will be taken into consideration, but | the birth of the new party together! in no case may the term for the| with its new leader the fi st Mah- | introduction of compulsory school- n. Democrats, bankers, the rep-|ing be later than a year or two entatives of the I. G. Farben) behind the main districts. Trust, In the year 1930-31 a start will also be made with children from 11 to 15 years who have not visited the elementary schools. These chil- dren will be given two year courses, hand in the new formation. {In the same year a course of seven- | “The picture of these old political | year schooling will be introduced jobbers founding a ‘party of youth’| in the industrial districts for all may be funny, but the background | children who have concluded the ele- of the new formation is more seri-| mentary training. us. The old discredited bourgeois} Large sums have been put for- parties are carrying out new ma-| ward by the government: and the neuvers to deceive their disappoint-| proletarian mass organizations, the ed supporters and to win the votes | labor unions, the cooperatives, the of the hundreds of thousands of| collectives, ete., will be drawn into young electors, the work. The economic organs of “Under the dictatorship of para-|the Soviet Union are instructed to graph 48, the leaders of the former | provide sums for the building of Democratic Party \jettispn the word] schools and for the provision of “Democratic” as no longer in ac-| education in all their financial and cordance with the Zeitgeist. “Dem-| building plans. Industrial districts, ocracy” has become old-fashioned. | districts where a solid collectiviza- The formation of this new party is|tion has been carried out and cul- | a flaming sign of the rapid pro-|turally backward districts are to be| lgress of bourgeois ‘democracy’ to| especially attended to. fascist dictatorship.” The training possibilities of the a few Hirsch-Dunker and| the an trade union leaders, owners of the “Koelnische and the master of the fa German Order Mahraun are hand in} | ‘Use Media Prisoners to Build Chester Ballfield Chester, Pa. Daily Worker:— Prisoners from the County Work- house at Media were brought into Chester to construct a ballfield on a vacant lot at Third and Ulrich Sts. This lot is two blocks away from Henry Ford’s Chester plant and is used by the weary Ford workers as a short-cut going to and from work. This happens just as the Tord plant shuts down for two weeks end the unemployment situation i at its worst in Chester. l'or:ed “free” labor used at this time proves that the bosses care nothng about the workers. Media workhouse is the same ELECTION place a copy of this Elec mass organizations, Write WORKING CLASS Against CAPITALIST CLASS Is the Main Election Issue of the Communist Party COMMUNIST PARTY U.S. A. Five Cents The prime duty of every revolutionary worker is to every worker in the shop, factory, trade union and WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 EAST 125TH STREET various# pedagogical institutes are | to be considerably extended in order | to provide the iecessary teachers, and the material situation of the village school teachers is to be im- proved. The Young Communist Lea- gue must place 20,000 of its mem- bers at the disposal of the govern- ment for this work during the course of the next three years. Poor pupils are to be assisted with free | books, papers, pens, ete., and if | necessary with food, clothing and leather, Free tramway and railway tickets will also be provided where necessary, The Central county jail that shuts the sunlight Jout of Ray Peltz’s life, one of the two workers sentenced because an unemployed demonstration was or- gunized last March. It’s a tough place. Besides being forced to work for nothing, prisou- ers cannot read the daily news- papers, not even the common gar- den variety of lousy caitalist rags. copies of Mencken’s | “Mercury” and “Forum” were barred when workers sent these magazines to Peltz. “You foiks bring such terrible magazines,” the guard remarked, “you’ll get me in trouble.” Committee of the Recently —GEORGE CARTER. Unity Where finest co PLATFORM Where food is hea tion Program in the hands of for orders and quotations to: musical director, that all comrades playing struments, should kin bring them along. NEW YORK CITY ‘Extend Plans For Child | Education eigee MOSCOW (IPS).—The Central “Rote Fahne” Exposes | Executive Committee of the Soviet| a> > a> 4 4. ————— ee Comrade KRANESS requests Steenational |o..000,000 | Debt Yoke for Mexico Masses WASHINGTON, D, C., Aug. 13.— Clamping a “Young Plan” on the Mexican masses, to the extent of $1,000,000,000 by Morgan & Co. is now being considered according to statements made here by official sources. Morrow has already gotten his tools in the Rubio government to hand Morgan & Co. $6,000,000 in cash. Reports from Mexico say htat “Dwight W. Morrow, American ambassador, has been cooperating with the mi: ty of finance offi- cials in this task.” What is more likely the truth is that the ministry of finance officials have been earry- Morrow’s orders are all in the interest of his former (?) concern, Morgan & Co. The proposal is to lump all the fake claims and debts into one pile, |hand it over the Committee of In- ternational Bankers, in reality Mors gan & Co., and then make the Mex- ican masses sweat and work in the | interest of the imperialist bandits | for the next three or four genera- | tions. Of course, Rubio and his gang |would get their share. However, ‘they count without the growing dis- content of the Mexican workers and peasants, AIT DELAY | IN MEERUT TRIAL 31 Have Been in Jail For 18 Months LONDON (By Mail)—The 31 prisoners now in the Meerut, India, jail, on trial for their revolutionary activities, have been in prison for |18 months. According to a letter received from one of the prisoners, B, F. Bradley, the trial will last until June, 1931. “Out of over 300 prosecution witnesses,” Bradley writes, “only 129 have so far been examined.” The London Daily Worker in an editorial comment on the Meerut trial states: “Why are the Meerut prisoners, the pioneers of militant trade union organization in India, the leaders |of the mass strike movement of 1928, on trial for ‘conspiracy against the King-Emperor,’ and why is their trial dragged out week after week and month after month? “The crime of the Meerut prison- ers is that they helped the Indian workers and peasants to organize themselves—to rely not on bourgeois nationalists and parliamentarians, but on themselves.” FIVE GREAT GENERATORS FOR SOVIETS. Soviet Russia has ordered five ;More great hydro-electric genera- tors from the General Electric Co, Four of the generators will be con- structed in Soviet Russia. The fifth will come from Schenectady, N. Y, These generators, which will supply power to the south of Russia, are of record size—bigger than those used at the great power plants of Niagata Falls. tee Communist Party of the Soviet Union appeals to all its organiza- tions to regard the introduction of general compulsory schooling as the most important political campaign in the coming period, and to organ- ize the members systematically to support the school and supplemen- tary organizations, nein lst ti tine Our Doors Are Open! Workers of All Races and Nationalities Come! een wwowwvvwvwe Camp WINGDALE, N. Y. mradeship prevails Well-known place for a long vacation Ithful and plentiful SPORTS-SONG-THEATRE OUR BUSHS LEAVE 110TR ST, AND SEVENTH AVENUE: Qvery Friday at 6:30 pm. Hvery Saturday at 1 p.m. Every Sunday at 9 a. m. Every Monday at 12 p.m, ins | Every Wednesday at 1 vp. m. dl, y By Vrain: From Gra: or 125th St. to Wing Central N.Y. NOTH STRE! TELEPHOSE: MONUMENT 0111