The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1930, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AU GU ST 19; 1930 Page Three LET Tre RSs E-_ Fe cy rms ‘xX’ 2a =E_ Machine Gun, Augusta, Ga. Daily Worker:— The all-wise city council of Au- gusta met last night and one of the most disgusting shows of capitalist extravagance was witnessed by a number of -workers who were pres- ent, The first motion before these capitalist tools was to appropriate $1,500 to the city traffic commis- sion for two purposes—one vas to investigate for the petty capitalists of Augusta why freight rates were more from Chicago, etc., the other | purpose was to gather data on some obseure dam project down the Sa- vannah river. C. of C. Orders. This data, mind you, had been} gotten once, but in the wrong way, | it was claimed by the traffic com-| mission, and had to be goten again | a‘ the expense of the workers. Next the chamber of commerce asked for the amount of $5,000 to advertise the city. This debate was postponed until today, when, in a special meeting, they would decide whether or not to give $5,000 away. | It would be a safe bet that they | do. Next, a motion t6 appropriate a salary for an instructor for the po- lice band. “I object,” yelled a wise one, who later voted to appropriate $50 per month, providing the police department, which is financed by eel council, paid the remainder. xt, a question in which the} Georgia Power Co. was interested. Needless to say, action was taken that conformed to the desires ex- pressed by the power company’s at- torney. Now, dear comrades, in Augusta Naugatuck Rubber Workers Are Hard Hit By Short Time and Layoffs Naugatuck, Conn. Dear Comrade:— The rubber industry in Nauga- tuck is sure hit by Hoover prosper- ity. We have six plants in town and four of them are working, and, believe me, with half of the help, and, yes, less than that, of what used to work there five years ago, I read an article in the Daily Worker, given. to..me by another | worker, and I believe he is a Com.) munist, and, anyway, he is a good fellow. I happened to see his name on the state petition for the com- ing election, and, believe me, I’m for him, because I know him and his whole family. I’m a sort of a Communist myself, but I’m still willing to learn. | Allentown, Pa. Daily Worker: The Mack Motor Car Co., of Al- lentown, Pa., has just recently laid off a large amount of workers without any prospects of ever tak- ing any of them back at their jobs. During the latter part of 1929 and the beginning of 1930 this corpora- tion, run top notch speed so as to be able to help swell the ranks of unemployed in this city. February, 1930 there was approx- imately 1,000 workers in one shop alone, in June of the same year they laid off about 800 workers in this shop for a period of six weeks. When these people returned they were laid off permanent. During this time a leading newspaper pub- lished an article from the general manager stating that this corpora- CONFER ON BILL FOR UNEMPLOYED Boston Workers Meet : August 28-29 BOSTON, Aug. 18.—A conference to prepare detailed plans to mob-| ilize mass support for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill in this terri- tory has been called by the Trade Union Unity League for Thursday and Friday, August 28 and 29, at 4 jee Harrison Ave. All working-class organizations are urged to send two or more delegates. The call says, among other things: “The bosses are putting the crisis onto the shoulders of the workers. ‘In this, the A. F.-of L. misleader- ship is helping them. Mr. Green, jive and company have promised Hoover “aithfully not to strike, not to fight for increase of wages and not to organize. The same thing ‘did our fakers in Boston, Mr. John- on of. the Building Trades, Mr. iennings, Mr. Sydd and Grages of the Cc. L. U. They, too, promised to the chamber of commerce and the city mayor to follow the footsteps of their -uperiors, “The city mayor and other capi- aljst politicians are playing with he problem of the wo esne. tially with the unempleyed. Mayor Augusta, Ga., Police Buy When Jobless Demand Work |granted, but not the machine gun— |“Oh, we thought it would be a nice | themselves. Mack Motors Lays Off Men to Starve; Fight For Bill! Gas Bombs, there are many cotton mills and other workers who are out of work or on very short time with the low- est of pay, many of them with large and hungry families. Next ques- tion was a vital one to them. On April 4 the police commission and Chief Britt, hearing the rumble of revolt among the toiling masses, asked this same council to authorize them to buy tear gas bombs, a tear gas gun and a machine gun. Police Buy Machine Gun. The bombs and tear gas gun was but the machine gun was purchased anyway. One young councilman was in- | sulted and demanded that the per- son guilty of buying without au- | thority be punished. The same com- missioner who asked for the bank master’s salary declared that the letter from the council had been confused with the original list of articles and therefore it was pur- chased by mistake. This man’s evasive answer when asked what the police wanted with a machine gun was an insult to the whole working class. He said: thing to have and some day it m-y come in handy.” A committee was quickly appointed to hush this mat- ter up. The clouds of revolt are gather- ing here and it is not the “reds” nor |“Moscow” who is to blame, but th» exploiters of thase poor workers Long live your Party, your paper and your class spirit. AN AMERICAN-BORN WORKER. I am getting the Daily here and it sure is the workers’ paper and I’m for it. We have a few things to look for here; we are waiting to see how much of a cut they are going to give the mule drivers, who, they say, are going on hourly rates after August 4. Let’s hope they pay them 45 cents an hour with a 10 per cent cut that they generally give the workers. This month is cleanout month. All of us old workers are getting the gate, never to get a job again; so here’s hoping that the workers stick together and join the Com- munist Party, which, as I see, is the leader of workers and workers only. —AN EX-WOBBLY. tion was running on a normal basis, which was nothing but a detestible lie. As to a system of “Stop Watching” this torporation ranks second to none in the country. These Stop Watch experts conceal themselves and, while a worker is busily employed retime a job and then cut the price on it. These con- ditions and others too numerous to mention exist in this plant for the simple reason that there is no or- ganization and, unity among the workers, The sooner these people get to realize the fact that in union there is strength the sooner they will be able to turn the tables on the un- scrupulous manufacturer. This from a laid off worker who really knows, —EX-MACK WORKER. Curley, an outstanding faker, is fighting bitterly against any unem- ployment insurance. The A. F, of L. officials wholeheartedly endorsed at their last state convention the stand of Mayor Curley toward un- employment. “The Communist Party has spon- sored a bill for unemployment in- surance, tho Trade Union Unity League has endorsed that bill and calls upon all workers’ organiza- tions to send delegates to this con- ference. The purpose of this con- ference is to discuss the bill, indorse it and lay plans how to fight for this bill.” Fill the he Square (Tune: Maryland, ¥ My Maryland.) Fall in line, fill the square, Red color waving in the air; In loud protest your voices raise, Kindle your heart a flaming blaze. Let the enemy see and fear, His destruction is very near, When you and I, hand in hand, On the square as brothers stand. Let them see us fill the street With clenched fists and stamping feet, in our eyes a fearless rage; Give us work or pay a wage. Let them tremble when they see, Shoulder to shoulder, you and me; Echoing a thunder’s roar We will not fight your capitalist war. EX-SOLDIER. |town that scarcely pay enough | IN BRIEF— New Haven Flat Foot Sluggers Fixed New Haven, Conn. | | Daily Worker: | The cops have a room in the City | Hall, all equipped with a chiropo- dists outfit, with a doctor hired per- | manently and paid by the munici-| pality. There the cops can go and have their corns, bunions, ingrown nails, fallen arches, etc., treated at the expense of the workers, with all of these hard times in this city, with thousands of our most deserving and law abiding workers on the streets, —W. L. Low Wages in Bedford, Pennsylvania Bedford, Pa. Daily Worker: I have been a socialist since 1909 and don’t believe in anything else. I know that we workers will have to do something pretty soon or starve. The big bosses are getting richer from our sweat and blood. We must have a change and I am willing to do my part. We have three factories in this | wages to keep a small family a) week. The big bo$ses are clearing | $400 a day while the wage earner | gets 85 cents an hour and the big bosses get the rest. I am a union man and have been) all my life. I belung to the Plas- terers’ Union. We have no work) and when we do get any work we have to do it for almost nothing. W. F. Bosses Let Fruit Rot to Keep Up Price St. Paul, Minn. Daily Worker Editor: I want to draw your attention to the fact that the Pacific coast fruit growers have entered into organ- ized agreements to harvest only about three fourths of their bumper fruit crops this year and leave the remaining one fourth to un- harvested on the trees, so they can screw up prices as high as they | like. While the unemployed are fruit hungry and hungry multitudes | stand by and look on, and are not allowed to harvest the fruits left to waste on the trees and grape- vines, The Daily Worker should expose | this hedious capitalist crime with abundant write-ups. —G, HILLMAN. —— Pay $7.50 in Coolidge Neighborhood Beecher Falls, Vt. The Editor Daily Worker, Dear Comrade: I moved up here yesterday, closer to Silent Cal. Am going 17 miles further on tomorrow, to First Con- necticut Lake, New Hampshire, to a dam that is being built by hun- dreds of slaves at the rate of 45 cents an hour, 9 hours a day. They haul cement from here on trucks, it being the closest railroad station to the job. I had one foot in N. H., one in Canada and my hand in Vermont. Canadian workers trying to smuggle themselves in here and vice versa. I intend carrying the only real message to the slaves in this very backward part of the globe. There is only one factory in this town, that of making chairs. A boy of 18 told me they were running with half crews. That he and 3 older brothers at piece work made 30 dollars between the 4 or $7.50 each and worked hard. —JAMES ELLIS. SPECIALOFFER FOR MONTHof¢ AUGUST THE FOLLOWING PAMPHLETS FREE WITH EACH YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION TO THE COM- MUNIST, Official Organ |masses of workers, | through their tools, the A. F. 5000 BATTLE FOR ‘30 PER CENT CUT) INTERNATIONAL ‘JOBS’ AT AGENCY STARTS WALKOUT. CQ NEWS © IN NEW YORK Social Fascists and A. F. of L. Aid Bosses (Continued From Page One.) cuts. The latest report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows wages were cut nearly 10 per cent in all manufacturing industries. Better Winter Ahead. s show this situation will The fight for the immediate pas- sage by congress of the Workers’ the A. F. of L. usually boast about the great “prosperity” of the Amer- | ican workers. The T.U.U.L. calls | on all workers to participate in the demonstrations on this day in mass protest against unemployment and | | starvation and for the demand of | |social insurance for all workers. For this purpose the T.U.U.L. has designated September 1st as “Un employment Day.” The demonstra: tions for the Bill are being organ- | ized in all shops and factories. All | workers must get behind this Bill ‘number of shop papers augmented. | STouping. | to force immediate relief for the Quidde, fought despairingly against | starving unemployed. As the fight for the Workers’ So. cial Insurance Bill reaches wider the bosses, of L. and “socialists,” in order to stem the tide, begin to back fake meas- ures for “unemployment relief,” Fake Schemes Afloat. In Detroit, the labor fakers and, “socialists” are carrying on a fran- tic campaign to head off the strug- gle for 150,000 signatures for the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill ref- erendum. In Boston, the mayor in- vites the labor misleaders to ae about unemployment relief.” New York the capitalist ae praises Norman Thomas, leading social-fascist and his campaign for | fake “Unemployment insurance,” In all cities, the bosses line up with | the “socialists” and A. F. of against the Communist demand for real social insurance. The bosses know that the Work- | ers’ Social Insurance Bill provides adequate relief by demanding all war funds go to the unemployed; and that this Bill makes a heavy levy on fortunes and big incomes. Hence they begin to look to the so- cialist “measures” to save them. These fake schemes, approved by the A. F. of L. petty-bourgeois by | attempting to throw the burdens for | their fake insurance schemes on the | backs of the workers, They want the workers to pay through levies on their already sharply cut wages. In France, over 150,000 workers are striking against such a scheme be- cause it only offers “relief” to the | bosses and not the unemployed. THe Workers’ Social Insurance | Bill demands that the war funds | go to the unemployed; that the | | $300,000,000 given back to Mellon | . and ‘Rockefeller’s corporations as | “tax returns” be taken back for the unemployed. That a heavy levy be placed on fortunes over $25,000 and a graduated income tax on incomes of $5,000 and over to provide a minimum of $25 a week for the un-| employed—all unemployed, the aged, sick, injured, and those out of work. Strike against wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance! 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What the Strike Fund Is For, It is for use in conditions such as the splendid strikes of the South- n mill workers, fighting brutal | exploitation, gunmen and the power! committees of the national unions |and national leagues are to direct this united campaign, issuing for the workers in their industries pos- | ters, leaflets,*recruiting and collec- tion literature and publicity to the pres: The “Organize and Strike” fund shall also be increased by af- fairs and mass events of all sorts. | Build Shop Committees. The number of mine, mill and factory committees must be in- lereased by the campaign and the} The campaign will be carried right | through mines, shops and mills to} organize committees of action, etc.,| and every wage-cut or case of wor- sened conditions and speed-up will lowing the mass raids and arrests | be utilized, explained to the work- ers, and, wherever possible, a} struggle will be waged against it. |The T. U. U. L. instructs that special | |attention must be given |to the problem of organizing the most op- pressed cl —the Negro workers, women workers and the youth, In! the textile industry, especially, there are many women and young) workers. | "ORGANIZES NESRO RICK WORKERS. BACON, N. a Aug. 18.—Sev-} enty-five Negro workers of the Hammond brick yard walked out against’a wage-cut of 25 cents and a demand of the boss that they make 28,000 bricks a day instead of 25,000. At first the workers did not re- alize that the; had to organize to} make their demand effective, In-} stead they sat at home, maki no effort to enforce their demands. At this the boss was tickled, figuring | they would soon be broke and forced | to return to work. But the Trade Union Unity League sent an or- ganizer into the situation, who} helped them organize a strike com-| | for a strike. At t frightened and withdrew the | wage- eut in an effort to break the unity |of the workers, On acount of the lateness of the of work, the workers decided to go back to work, having forced the has grown a strong shop commit- tee, which has set about organizing the workers for a real struggle later on. Talk For Redivision of War Spoils Shows Sharper Antagonisms Since the demand for the revi- sion of the Versailles Treaty was voiced by Mussolini and then fol- | lowed by Germany and Hungary in| rapid succession in their answers to | the Briand proposal for a United States of Europe, the ice was broken and official, semi-official, and unofficial cries for a redistribu- | tion of the world was uttered by almost all those capitalist powers Social Insurance Bill is a task for °f the state, that the Trade Union | that want a change in present divi- all workers, The bosses want the | Utity League conducts its present! sion of the spoils. workers to starve to death, There |‘tive to accumulate a $100,000) Recently, a speech delivered by a Steno jobs, and there will be less |2 oe The collection of this German cabinet minister during the in the future months. Immediate Jojo, for incvensed. ee cate election campaign demanding the relief is necessary for the 9,000,000 fie®m vy YT. and of mreparetion | imediate revision of the Versailles unemployed and their families. |r the great ‘Unemployment Day | reat 88 to be expected, created | This relief will come only through | (gant 1 tenor ee re. PRY considerable commotion among dip- jan organized fight, under the lead- Worke Social THRGeGnCe Bill pro- lomatic circles and engendered a ership of the Trade Union Unity Dense uelane CoancatE apie protest from Briand who summoned League and the Unemployed Coun- baoat : Se the German Ambassador in Paris | cils. The T. U. U. L. national office to his presence and requested him The first big step in this fight is issued ects an phe to “prevent such unseemly utter- is the mass demonstrations being | ated unions and leasues for these (ues, m2, the future.” Thus diplo- organized in all leading industrial \inain objectives, The 'T. UU 1, | matic | skirmishes preparing the centers for September Ist, “Labor Sa ees ene and Gianz|Stound for the coming imperialist D: GNI ATA SHAY) thes takers Glo eee eee nization and stri él ear are assuming more and more a id |against all wage-cuts. The leading | an alarming and menacing tone. Briefs From All L ands| BERLIN.—The German demo-| lies ratic party, by a vote of 96 against 4, decided to dissolve the party and |hand over all assets to the new “German state party,” a fascist The pacifist professor, this political suicide. ae oe PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia.—Fol- in Bohemia and Maehren of Com- munists, the police now seem to be turning their attention more to Slovakia. In Kashua a raid and search of local headquarters of the Communist Party took place. Homes jand local headquarters were raided in Komarno. Raids were carried {out in Bruenn. WAAG, Czechoslovakia. — T he building of a new giant armament works of the great Skoad concern has begun in Dubnitcha and Waag. ma millions are being put into his latest wen Preparation, * SHANG HAL — Revolutionary troops, under Communist leadership, have occupied the town of Yokata- kau, on the River Han, about 140 miles to the north of Hankow. Red troops are also operating in the north of the province of Hunan and are threatening Changto. CHICAGO NEEDLE TRADE MEET T0 FIGHT CUTS CHICAGO, IIL, Aug. 18.—All needle trades workers are called to a mass meeting August 19, at 8 p. m., at Mirror Hall, 1186 N. West- ern Ave. here. The speaker is Borochowitz, of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union. Chicago dressmakers are fighting a wage-cut and increase in the | hours of the cutters from 44 to 48. Piece work has returned in the cloak trade, Wage-cuts, “re-adjustments and re-organization” pervade the men’s clothing trade. Zaritsky has aided the bosses to completely smash the unions in the headgear trades. The meeting Tuesday, will take up the struggle all along the line against these evils. * Our Doors Are Open: Workers of All Races and Nationalities Come! —_—_—__ vuovwvwvvwvw WINGDALE, N. Y. Where finest comradeship prevails Well-known place for along vacation Where food is healthful and plentiful SPORTS-SONG—-THEATRE aa 4 4 a Comrade KRANESS musical director, struments, should bring them along. requests that all comrades playing in- kindly OUR BUSES LEAVE 110TH 8’. AND SEVENTH AVENUE: very Friday at 6:30 p. m. Every Saturday at 1 p. m. Every Sunday at 9 a, m. Every Monday at 12 p.m, Every Wednesday at 1 p.m By Train: From G or 125th St. to Wh 110TH STREKT TELEPHONE: MONUMENT 0111 Central jale, N. ¥. ! Battle for Markets Shows Why War Billions Are Spent The battle for the Latin Amer markets, and especially for thos an of come Argentina, is becoming hot. A/on our pa fierce struggle is now ra be- | f tween United States and Brit! im- g perialism for Argentine business v and investments. While following alone in he T y the World War American imperial- are other and t be ism made big headway; now, as the to meet pped world cris rows, the British have | victory only upon c redoubled their efforts to oust Wall|do our r A Street from this market. That this | the keenest com; friction is hing a high pitch is the gist of an article written by Dr. | eer in for Max Winkler, Latin-American trade But Wi and investment expert, id pub-| whole lished in the N. Y. Post (Au; Dr. Winkler, commenting on | D’Abernon Commission which wr jed $80,000,000 in trade 16); the from U. S., and the proposed visit of Prince of Wales as a super-sale to Argentine, sttaes: “Tt is reasonable to expect the United States will not stand by idly, while Great Britain will strive |to regain the leading position in |trade with the Argentine Republic, | We are doubtless going to have keen | ar that | | Rubio Cabinet Carries Out Wall Street Orders MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18.—The Mexican government has approved Morgan & Co’s plan of debt settle- |ment, involving $500,000,000. This action was taken following a meet- ing of Rubio’s cabinet. The cabinet had received detailed instructions ig what was expected of them from | Dwight Morre | York visited the [matters over with Rents Go Up in Italy MILAN, Italy.—The fascist gov-|sens the conditic ernment has withdrawn the law/and their which fixes rents. As a result all|helping the b rents have gone up from 10 to 12]on the other hand | per cent. With more than 300,000 | lords and m unemployed the rise in rents wor-|cost of living. Czech Workers Strike Against Wage Cuts (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLI “PRAGUE, Aug. 17.—Workers in jleadership of the Rossbach Carpet factory have | Trade Union Feder gone on strike against wage cuts | under the leadership of the Red/ti trade unions. ra million n campaign fund of ial democrati th THOUSANDS CHEER BURLAK | WEST ALLIS, Wisc., Aug. 18.— More than two thousand worke: enthusiastically cheered Anna Bu lak. at an open air meeting in Cen- POWER COMPANY IN PROF WASHINGTON, re well on the Power tral Playground Park, Wednesday,| made 96 per ce August 13, under auspices of the| year. The Ne International Labor Defense. Reso-| pany is owned by lutions of protest were accepted to| Power and Light Cc be sent to the governor of Alabama | in i urn, is coi and Wisconsin demanding the un-|Electrie Bond and conditional release of the six At- lanta workers as well as the 9 Mil- waukee leaders of the unemployed. jlatter is a great ur power |trust, the United States, | Morgan inter being formed t. Vote Communi Organize and wage-cuts! strike against BROKEN MENTALITIES: A CAPITALIST PRODUCT. ROME, N. Y.—Because of the| » hunger and misery state authorities here estimate there will be an increase of 50 per cent | in the number of insane. This is especially disastrous when the state institutions for the insane are al-| ready overcrowded, FARM IN THE PINES Situated tn Pine Forest, near Mt Lake. German Table. Rates: $16— $18. Swimming and Fishing. M. 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