The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1930, Page 1

Steel Workers, Organize Shop Committees of the Metal Trades Industrial League for Fight Against the Killing Speed-up, Layoffs and Wage-Cuts. Join in the Fight for the ALL OUT TO THE DAILY WORKER PICNIC AND CARNIVAL, TOMORROW AT PLEASANT BAY PARK orker WORKERS Workers’ Social Insurance Bill For Un- OF THE WORLD, “Watts. A Ont an Hopton ber tant Cisbeal UN fun oD arty U.S.A. UNITE! hill of the Communist ee ab a muntter at the, Hos ‘i678 : NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST Ale: 1930 FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cent Vol. VII, No. 197 Untered a. necon at New York. UNEMPLOYED STARVING: PUSH FIGHT FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE ' In the Metal Industry NANKING GOV'T 1, 500 K.K. Ks ‘MEET Ik MEMORY on JOBLESS ARE DESPER A E, AS VAMILIES BEG FOR BREAD; DEMAND SOCIAL INSUKANCE “ i Bat'even in #8 shops Wperating, the men are actually working T K THE R aid Ca mb to Ae M A nT Y RE n and starving at the same time! : Np ed co This is due to the wave of wage cuts, cuts in piece work. Cuts Kall Gc h ild ven are now put over on the once rather proud machinists, without even | 00- YAN ETT notifying them. They just get it. The supposed aristocrats of the A. SOV T iJ | , a Y Ny | 7 F. of L. are finding out that Mike Tighe of the Amalgamated Associa- ‘ ELMIRA, N. Aug. 15.—Fif- eeGdsio a CW tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, tries to make them accept wage teen hundred Ku Klux Klan mem cuts of 20 per cent, while Bill Green goes about making speeches of | bers last night surrounded _ the "And along with this goes the | Red Army Reaches the n’s camp at Van Etten, near, Demand Rel aase of 6 how Hoover is “preventing wage cuts.” Pee pinteed ization dor metal workers, the Metal Outskirts of qaaee aaslgets ene ata waenino Facing Chair in | > 1 here is only one organization for metal workers, the Metal a jacks, vers; a | : ; = | Workers’ Industrial League, with headquarters at 611 Penn Ave, Hankow guns, and ordered the campers to Atlanta, Ga. Penny Job STAND IN RAL N Pittsburgh, Pa. lts program is one of| struggle for better conditions sere leave the camp within thirty min Aef against the bosses and the fas st bureaucrat uch as Tighe. Its pro- Terrer in Shanghai mse gram is one of industrial unionism and class struggle, as part of the ces e national center of revolutionary unionism, the Trade Union Unity ; ze | children who comprise the workers | : League, U.S. section of the Red International of Labor Unions. Berlin Workers I ledge | chitare: 2 eu mettre by the Defy Police On Bos | Worl nternational Relief were Everywhere in all metal shops there should be workers ready to | Qo ot Ching Rey Interna i ‘ ey take up ihe task themselves of forming a Shop Committee, with de. | SUPPOrt China Rev olt completely, unarmed. cated Common, Augus eatened to shoot the women and | — pant sections in the big plants such as at Sparrows Eoinks (Wiretess by Inprecorr) iriagea’ onal completely) tovaset NEW YORK. These Shop Committees are the basic organizations of the Metal | peRLIN, Aug. 15—A big demon-|tho camp, A. fiery” cross wae | and. Va Workers’ Industrial League, which is building a union of all metal | stration for the support of the Chi-) burned. Many of the autos used | spreading; cities large and small | workers that cannot be wiped out by the bosses nor betrayed by the | nese Revolution was held in Berlin! by the yaiders had Pennsylvania | Will pay their respects to the mem |Self Defense, Gastoniz thirty adults and seventy | Agency ls @ fEop ynps al Gratt Scheme FOR HOURS | NEW YORK.—Over 2 2,000 unem- iy | ployed workers, most of them on the “free Labor” Woll | verge of starvation, stood for hours 8,000,000 Are Closer to in the rain wai i f s for 2 “free” Stapyve } HW Apy , reactionary A. F. of L, Its program centers around the fight for | wider the of the Workers’ | licenses, Geer Gh aha ie Some B ei for the “free” Starvation Eve Day Workers Social Insurance, including unemployment, disability and old | trternational R Abe aweunenens | Minne anaeainaie creat ce Tei tatiatiteli tires veutecago uy Mas Fl cTu INKINDL jcity unemployment office to opea ieee age benefits not less than $25 per week, and around organization for |tative of the Communist Party of | campers’ ctarad the teed of the ehusetls, on August He i ORES Friday. The only jobs at the un- A harrowing story of desperation strikes against wage cuts and-a fight on the speed-up. ‘ hina was received by the crowd) murderous Ku Klux gang. The! Today the National Office of the employment office were those held | illness and starvation o ployed Communists everywhere must support this work to organize the | with great enthusiasm. The work- flood of protests sent to the gov-| International Labor 1 applies t« over four million metal workers. They must give detailed and indi- | ers’ audience pledged to help the ork vidual attention to every worker and every shop, patiently, even if | Red Army by refusing to transport ! slowly, building up Shop Committees, There must be more persistent S$ container fense has OF DHEA EN by the Tammany grafters who herd- | WO"Kers—a Story, which ernor yesterday forced him to act. | rece ived word from eed) ae ¥ it cy ed the workers in and out. neonate: oaths At the last moment state troopers rict announcing demonstration: pons for the counter-revclution- | a yriy : 6 ae 3 following additional citic When the Tammany officials saw!in an interview with a group of : He arrived, breaking what was appar- ne wing additional citi lobiaue a sy More “ines” and eareful work, and jes fatile sporadic efforts. The metal workers | ary militarists. aS aisrioaa aeieeuent veins | Wheeling, West Virginia; Canton, SOVSK Oe huge cerowds they. exclaimed: aS at the Nen y or x ee are ready to organize for struggle. * * * iy é be a eae og y CaS Ci ni bl ny) “Now we know the federal census | & 1 gureau, opened Friday : : : ’ lore » wall by advancing | off” until the Klan did its dirty! Akron, Youngstown, — Cincinn LQ Hh PE ks os / Bulla iste Melal; Workers, lndusuwial League. eee a eile oe esi ty local farmers came out | Dayton, Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio. figures on unemployment are too | These interviews were given to a oer ine er ines, the tetterine {to defend the children, ‘The troop-| The Canadian Labor Defense or- fom! Fe corel a, teas nee Telegram. No charge of “propa ganca” can be leveled against th stories. They are vivid pictur the situation confrontin ployed all over the country show how important it is to on an immediate fight for and peasant uprisings, the tottering : bo ian a Pete oo ; : ! Nautiag peste with he in-|€® were very gentle with the thugs | ganization is instruct all its| Meets A Ce risis Turns , Pointing aut the inempl oyment i Call Their Bluff! stigation of American imperialists, |@%4 let them hang around for hours, | Pranehes throughout Canada to o1 Political, He S level packer tue eum clea has again opened its attack aga Tonight is the last night of | ganize mass meetings and make | tical, in all parts of the country, will be- é papas si «.1|the camp's vacation period and the | the third anniversary of the Sacco- | = come worse this fall and winter. Niestimatdd increase of $0,000,000 a week in the prices of foods).|the Soviet Union. In an official) ee nee ee een ee ase is mak, | Vanzetti eléctrocutions the occasion | |the Trade Union Unity League is is being taken out of the pockets of the masses of New York City | Statement, the peut government Hee ae Eee ae | P7GoniniedoniPage iF Wwe)! sued a BiNehibv to "all wankers tp alone by the food monopoly. This, to the employed workers, represents (Continued on Page Hive) ara een aan then Pee ee : mobilize for the huge “Unemploy. ge of the W rs? a wage cut, to the unemployed it represents disaster, even starvation Sores seaitbeettoch ge of the Worker to order by of ies pe Ee Red In ment Day” demonstrations on Se} naa Pi for those who have no member of the family working. | “nae denen ce end | ATTACK ON NEGRO is to he ance Bill. But to the food monopolists it represents a good piece of jack put MAN T0 ATT | , a oe F ae tary, I In g a No worker can read the tal | The trial of two of the children’s : over on the false excuse of “It’s the drouth.” And, last but not least, | septa Sie areas ticle he writes that the (Wireless MOSCOW, U.S. The Fifth World mal of Li The Sept. 1st demonstrations will! of the blackest misery and not se be the Starting point for a concert-|to work immediately for ¢ 0 teachers arrested*as a result“of the Hada a endl ay anihinal Wie this enormous robbery represents to Tammany and a host of other | ¢¢ " [Ku Klux Klan raid on this camp PA ES SOVIETS held at a complicated, critical mo-| eq fight for the passage of the| demonstration on Se ¢ SIGE eae cities, (02 core elle tee aaucroly to Sale the Sse | DAILY PICNIC Tuesday, comes up tomorrow in ment. | The world economic crisis | Workers’ Social Insurance Bill, ad-| “Unemployment Da force the by rushing into print with tall, but empty talk about “price hearings, Elmira, where they will be defended - ee See ee “re vocated by the Communist Party,| passage of the Workers’ Social In- “investigations,” “fair price boards,” and so on. and in| and supported by the The success of the Soviet ee 7 ‘ | Negro Up On Charges hate of the capitalists and their gov- delepataanan | ernment. P.U.U.L. surance Bill—the on! advocated that provid } cial insurance for all unemployed. ial| In their own words, here are th by an International Labor Defense yet Workers must not take, seriously all the hullaballo being made | pre Ps attorney, Bert T. Baker. The ar-/ AMerican Who Struck by capitalist politicians and capitalist papers about “protecting the | All Out Sun., Aug. 17th} rested teachers are Mabel Husa and housewives” and “preventing profiteering.” This is done firstly to . Hien ie x Aalede aiolite Faroe taneerer te Couto rome meron Grit gtath dor! hetawacm ietiet |) 00 Pleasant Bay Park i fF -U.L. Coun , where over nted .indus! q ‘la rica wegic The PR > unions, fraternal organizations, A, Stories of the unemploy¢ ft: ficials making the “threats,” and secondly to keep the outraged work- | = BO eco sand american Legion | According to capitalist press re-| The RuI.L.U. congress aims to) 1" FT, toeals, and shop commitiess | Fred Josephs, 1305 Morris Av ers quiet, keep them from doing anything “radical,” under the illusion There are many ways of building tonight Aarinnnancs fheldrial . T a ports the Soviet workers and press mon Baus Sob ebat ound ey aaa | thoroughly discussed the prepara. the Bronx—“I was in the r busi- that something is being done. the Daily, Worker. Here is an easy | tonig @ trial. The | are thoroughly aroused over the | Plied in this will be the united front | it ne ont ist dena, (ness. I've been out of work six What thé workers may expect from the Hoover government is told | Way. All you have to do this time pa are eae he Amer- | attack upon Robert Robinson, a| from below in all struggles of the by the Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, | is attend a picnic. We do not in-|ican flag,” based on the attempt | Negro worker, by a backward group | Workers against their oppressors, s the T.U.U.L, statement, | Months. People aren’t buying radios ; now. For three months, ¢ as follows: “The question of profiteering by food distributors entered | tend to say that you should stop eo a sone ees pio make of Americans who are reported to | leadership of th "economic| | “Delekate Last elapse pointed '[ walked the streets * for the equation today, but in administration circles there was a tendency | that. But this one day, Sunday,| Husa and Holmes kiss the flag after jaye ejected him from the common | Struggles, contact with the enslaved he necessity for organ Gt Theseus mate to discount the reports.” More, even if Hoover could be “convinced,” |August 17th, the most important they had been kidnapped, held for colonial wor nd peasents. shop committees and strengtheninz job he sot me (Contmnen on Boa all of a alingrad tractor with $10. I lost the Unemployed Councils. Acco an alibi is given in advance that “there are no laws” by which the | task for the Daily Worker is to|hours, and Mabel Husa deigssd a few days ago. Stern Ten years of experience by the government can stop profiteering. ‘make the regular annual Daily | beaten by the HOSUR ES miiediae beenipivanitat Soviet (aRed Inte ional guarantecs its|™% to all signs the demonstration Gach Meanwhile the capitalist press helps the food profiteers, as for | Worker Pienic Carnival a success. Russia will not tolerate race dis- capability of fulfilling these tasks | Will be a huge one. All the affiliated eample the N. Y. Telegram publishes a list of prices, headed, “You | At this picnic, to be held in Pleas- Are Being Victimized if You Pay More Than This.” Yet the facts are |@t Bay Park, Bronx, N. Y., there once that you are robbed outrageously if you pay as much as the Telegram | Will be By sl ae entertain- on : Hee d istribation of leaflets To prove it, we give the following list of prices paid as on June | y be . = Peer je been ordered to appear | a ees ‘ Sa a Bs SC fi 15, to producers of New York State where possible to escertain, and |Sports Union, The proletarian WORKER IN J All eake ibuve been “ordered tp anpens 30 From U. S. [Was passed to elect a campaign . {for trial before the workers of the them a majority of UBions and leagues are holding shop | @ § A Hine PEE AT ass to a program of 24te meetings at concentrated points a 4 crimination or permit the doings of and of winnir bourgeois America within her bord- | the working ¢ overthrowing ers. m and estab- Tae er eee a eigtay RK enC ner 7 are or gcectarnie are cere ey eicuae: Maa tees el | Metal Trades Union of Stalingrad.| A delegation of 30 United States committee in all unions api edie as: experts”: P aes Y Rothe ‘Legal action may follow the inves- Workers representing many indus- eee Sacehe ay DE Ne OU re (eee a alle Bor Article Paid Producer Where Telegram’s “Fair” Price [be mass singing. All revolutionary) Wreteane Tsland Jailors|tiestion and trisl. | | tries is present at the Fifth World| ™unist Party, and give full suvport| N. Y. District Calls For Milk (quart) 6.45 cents N. Y. City Not given (Grade B. 16c) | OrBAnIZAbIOnS | Nave encore te . ~| "In the meantime, huge mass | Congress of the Red International. |, the Communist election cam-| More Action Potatoes (bu.) $1.55 N.Y,State 4e per Ib., $2.40 per bu. ie uretent call’ on their members to Maltreat Him meetings have occurred in Moscow hee a ae . Butter (1b.) 34.7 cents U.S. Average 58 cents per lb. sweet ca W — idvotiian tatide of inausovier U Maca Atsolions Ty sat the Eggs (doz.) 186cents U.S. Average Grade “B”, 50 cents Admission is only 35 cents. NEW VORMO ME torwih Sie ee ae ae aaa The District Committee i Chickens (Ib.) 19.0 cents U.S. Average 42 to 45 cents he ere : ss : |at which the attack has been In many cities of U. de pent Party, New Y regular permit from the department | sharply denounced and tion de- Union Unity League district organ gently calls upon each Party Pork (Ib.) 10.5cents N.Y.State 35 to 45 cents MEET DEPORTED len ceuredti a Repeated peateedes ay bananden b th Unio y : : ponsible.| izations and its industrial union: ie and revolutionary worker to re. f (Ib. 7.0 cents N.Y. State 42 to 65 cents { 1 Pte bt pencil and see how much profit there is in this for the | Welfare Island prison to visit Steve and leagues are holding mass meet- double sae ae to secure signa food profiteers on each item, the cost being given by the U. S. Gov- | Stevenson, food worker framed for | f ticles. ings to greet the RI.L.U. world) MONSTRATI tures to place the Communis ernment report on “Crops and Markets” for July. The Telegram’s RED AT PIER! assault in the last cafeter’: strike. | Race prejudice and discrimination | congress. These meetings will mob- didates on the ballot in the coming price is so outrageous that it sets prices above those so far prevailing, The prison authorities drove him | 2°°, t¢tles - a ecru bisiade ize the workers also for the Sep- two hes i he palace: i encouraging the profiteers, just as it encourages social fascism by away with curses and refused to tem. Lynching and race preju- | tember 1 Unemployment Day . paign has ee &: Se ee boosting Norman Thomas for Congress. allow bln ta bs Wa Fdend. lice | also be abolished in the | demonstrations, for the fight for the Worker Orgs ganizations, down during the last week. oe bai bbed, getti i a | ee Uni coll States when the workers, e 1 Insurance Bill a 5 At this time when the leading “i: Cee eee ates sate 110 Vietims of Machado} nis is but one of the attempts junder the leadership of the Commu | shich, appropriates, $5,000,000,009 | CALL Meets to Prepare communist candidates, Foster, Mir or and Amter, ‘are in prison the working thet the geverninent/aud: the: gratters ofiTammany in particular ‘will Arrive Here Today | °f the Welfare jailors to “take it | nist Party, overthrow the rotten | including all war funds from. the help the robbers of you and your children’s stomachs. t system and establish a) national treasury for insurance | out” on workers in their power for | capit NEW YORK.— With over 60 I. L. Party ani the must y ee : i ol ek the exposure of graft and mistreat- | workers and farmers government. | mostly of jobless workers, and for | branches and other worke> or-! without fail pla Don’t stand for it! Demand social insurance to aid the jobless and | Today at 12 o'clock noon, the 5 : i ey mostly of jobless workers, and for| tions re Hi mate disabled! Organize shop committees and strike for higher wages in | Communist Party will hold a mass ane Lees recently through the WR the $100,000 general strike fund of Hanns Seslfeitee a ve comrades on the * . P | LL.D. an nist Pres y > st! . T.U.U some 2 credentialed delegates ek , ey ie your work places! Rally the housewives, the children who must eat | meeting on the waterfront to greet Pee ce eee i eveve Communist pene) ECU Vas liprosentsethe | laceo:VansetitcUnited| Scoot tne communist less if this robbery is put over! Hold mass protest demonstrations at on the ballot is a concrete step tw the Spanish workers bein; rted| ~ — — | Front Conference last 1.i . your market place! Blockade: sales! Make your protest known by ee: eve, OSBor}e re erence opened last ight the movement to release Foster ur |from Cuba to Spain. The mecting | with K. Mathews, recently in the yg; ‘ 4 srl eae ining the Unemployment Demonstration September First! Fight the | wit take place at South Ferry, Pier | Imperial Valley, in the chair. The| tet egen of te ete ieee h price wage cuts! Down with the government which permits capi- No, 8 Mcntsbencestnras teutvlevedae ahone tial pait of the struggle for the talist speculators to starve your wives and children! Call their bluff! ; é ey Social Insurance Bill and the Pro | The fascist government of Cuba with credentials either from the I. 20,000 signature y , je cat gram of the Communist Party under the “Butcher” President Ma- F HH | their death was not in vain. Only | Ls D: or workers’ organizations tal Notwithstanding ihe good results Do Y M It? use fs deporting monde of | By ROSE BARON. ; j\a few months later two needle|\"® io 0 was @ serious mect- achieved to date. unless extraordi militant workers and members of ij , * ‘ ing, to olan an enormous cemon- fs P . e 7 it is a well-known fact that the) #2 ‘ trades workers, Calogero Greco and | 47"): tri 2G nary efforts are made now to secure ou ean hd the Communist Party of Cuba, | 7 “ A a | Donato Carillo, were free men, afte Aneel oes, Union Squares AOKUBU| the: additig militant shoeworker, Nicola Sacco, HILE the Fish Committee may have its funny aspects, like all On the steamer “Cristobal Colon,” | and the equally militant and class 1 from the electric chair To March With B within the next two weeks, fish it is full of bone. It means business. | which means Cristopher Columbus | conscious fish peddler, Bartolomeo ; the organized efforts of che mass rhe wate sis te i Pa an be faced with defeat. ‘ nf peeyR | 4 of worke oP » guidance of Pe en AOS: LOR e gus o time must be lost. One of the chief ideas of the Fish Committee is to put the Daily im English, there are ten Spanish | Vanzetti, were murdered for the ef-| f ; the Thien under the guidance of 9/ demonstration include: All or- = : Signature campaign is a concrete Worker out of business, And just for that reason it should be the | Workers arriving who are enroute|forts they put forth in behalf of | ational Labor Defense. a nieaks Rapes at n dhiled bosiutes af. all dln conscious wotlsed, whither Coninaltide or Erion. thaclalt Coluiabue discovareddieis clase against the exploitation August 22, 1930, marks che third 84"! sich Nag te Vineet form of struggle against capitalism not, to put the Daily Worker in a condition where it can function in |i" 1492, to tell the Spanis' work-/and oppression of the master class. jyear of Sacco and Vanzetti’s mar- ,° i. a tatlipSiietee te td) Committee, spite of attempts to suppress it. [ers that what Columbus called | ‘This, and this only, was their crime. | Iga 4 2! | tyrdom. jto the square; committees to get Communist Party of L Trae aire artiececia | special placard: from the I. 4. D.| All signature collections are cen % ‘ ' 4 H ‘ | Cuba—“The fairest land the human | For this they were framed up + Firstly, of course, is the business of building up circulation among i i cee Sp dedihel At ely: | where office Friday morning, distribution | tralized i s follows , the workers in the shops; yes, your shop, too, reader! And establish. | °¥® has ever seen’—is ruled by a|“murder” charge. For this they | our Imperial Valley fighters are | of 50,000 Conlon Foe Aten dine Faas “ta a ae aa ing a route of regular readers in.working class residence districts, to bloodthirsty savage in the interest | suffered sever ears in the hell-| | imprisoned; in Illinois, in New York,| the first part of the week, with an- sapsunnvere whom the paper should be delivered daily. of Yankee imperialism. holes of capitalist prisons and | where our Unemployed Delegation other Segtion 4th St. Sale ; i ; a \§ dienes Our) leaflet to follow; open Retiiow 4: S08 Lenox Ave, 28 New York workers have, on this Sunlay, Aug. 17, a chance to help While it is unlikely that the cnr were eae oh Heat by is in jail—in shor in every indus-| meetings Wedres and Thine ‘ager 308 Hele 26 W the Daily Worker and ehjoy a picnic at the same time, The Daily watch-dogs of imperialism will let ee procedure in the electric tr ial city in the United States, we throughout the city, and collec Seetion Bros en ee Worker invites you to come out Sunday to Pleasant Bay Park in the | these 10 revolutionary workers so | chair. find representatives of the working | for leapt Their execution was a brutai de-| defense of prisoners facing Section 6 St. Brook Bronx to its own Pjenic and Carnival. Sports, games, dancing and a pee band nt foot ashore, it is the Hanes of the World-wite demand by , ™ on cass tA | prison or electrocution, Many money yn. 136 15ih St. bonfire at right, with all the fixings that go with picnics, The direc. duty of all New York workers: who BHNeaM at Workeke ene, hand by § eee | Workers! Show your solidarity | pledges were made at the co ference Seetion 8: 0 St tions are: Take Bronx Park Subway to 177th St.,.then the Unionport tam get to South Ferry, Pier No. 8, |villions of wotkers and | sympa- Sy with your imprisoned comrades! — |by the organizations participating. y car to the end of the line. A bus to the Pleasant Bay Park will meet | 8t noon today, to join the protest Ect ee i | NICOLA SACCO AFTER THE Build the Inteynational Labor De-| The conference calls on all work- y 28 Jackson Ave, you there. ~ ‘against the tyrant Machado and his jacana Aan bn oy ite J ECU 2 fense into a powerful defense or-|ing-class and fraternal orguniza- Long Isl s 5 lagna tH NY, a mportan alpaca p ie . 8 ‘hia 16 mo mubstitute ‘tor dothg your dnty In shop distribution ob | bouts: in. Wall, Street. ernest yepareae ye ee usled themselves seeking tox "jan. | sunimition and help abolish this sys-| tions to call special meetings of| The above headquarters are open the Daily, but since we still have capitalist Sunday, you may as well y gonized strength and that the courts | ‘tice rete lien jtem of society where legal capital- | their membership during the week, every day from 6 to 9 p. m. for this make it count for the Daily Worker. Thousands sav ihev like the | Organize and sitike against Were only agents for the capitalist ¢ fight to save our comred list anes lynching are everyday oc- | August 17 to 22, to make final ar-|work. All revolutionary wor iy. | Leh Gv as icni (mest “ibe F ight to save our comrides, | currences, rangements for th ion Square are urged to participate i Daily. Let us see you at the picnic, wage cuts! jclass, “liberal” defense crtnhl (thes | Saceo and Vanzetti, failed, Demonstrate on August 22nd! [OAR ALGR EA eu Square este 1 to participate in this 2 aay 22, a agit