The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1930, Page 3

ATL Y WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 193v 1OKSE CREEK I] EEE RS ~- +2 es VALLEY, S.C, TEXTILE WORKERS CHAFING JNDER A. F. L., WANT FIGHT iA, F. of L. Fakers Organize for Increase in| Bosses’ Profits an d Against Workers Mill Hands Ready for Struggle and Want the ; National Textile Workers Union |ditor Daily Worker: Bath, S. C. For many years the cotton mill slaves of Bath, Langley and Clear- ‘ater, S. C., have been living a hani cotton mill slaves of the South ha LUMBER BARONS PLAN FURTHER ATTACKS ON MEN nto Lumber Workers | Industrial Union! Seattle, Wash. Pear Editor:— | Conditions for the workers in the Northwest is. steadily growing ‘vorse. The lumber industry, on Which hundreds of thousands of Uorkers depend on for a living, is ow in the throes of a crisis, The [ead of the lumber trust said the oviet Union was rapidly taking ontrol of the lumber markets of he world, He admits that nothing an be done except through high 3 arkets, Secret Meeting. The lumber barons in a secret eeting in Tacoma decided to take ne following steps in curtailing roduction, To close down about orty mills and camps, lay off all cht shifts and remaining camps mills to work five days a week. iese steps to be taken at once. Pay Cuts Loom. ' The pay in the mills are from 2.50 to $3 a day. Horace Greely, pokesman for the lumber barons, i ng to representatives of the apitalist press, warned the public nat unless the lumber industry is otected that Seattle, Portland, .berdeen and the rest of the cities § the Northwest will be ghost ties of the past, as 60 per cent of he payroll of the states of Wash- ngton, Oregon and Idaho comes irectly or indirectly from the log- ng industry. This, he says, will ing on mass unemployment and it Communism. He said you ay all laugh at the word Commu- ism, but already the forces of ‘ommunism are at work in the log- ing eamps and mills and they are inding a fertile field for their york, He is quite correct. The T, VU. ). L. is growing in the Northwest, nd so is the Communist Party, in closing I appeal to all lum- workers to join the Lumber ariff to try and save the home T f the T. U. U. L, —PRINTSHOP WORKER, The “socialists” work hand in clove with the Tammany judges. ‘The grafter, Ewald, has sent bun- dreds of left-wing furriers to n at the instigation of the pris Communist! ‘Tammany grafters go free— the Unemployed Delegation is in prison-—vote Communist} Cal. Highway Sacramento, Cal. o the Daily Worker Editor: ay for 5 weeks, ons there are simply rotten. The construction of the highway s supposed to be a stat® job, y it’s worse then slaving for svivate corporations, The job is old to a contractor by the govern- t an this contractor does his to loit the workers, There The laborers are amp to camp, nits and the other in the m shovel crew and truck drivers erew. Sieam vovel engineers are quitting every iy because of the need-up and the low wages paid. he wages for steam shovel en- ineers went down to $6 from the 10 they were getting last year. “he truck drivers are paid as low s $5 daily. Kitchen Help Underpaid, The conditions in the kitchen pperation, one ww as $40 a month. The cook is id $100 monthly instead of the 150 he used to get last year. The meals supplied by the con- ctor are very poor and in small vs’ Industrial Union, a branch | “socialist” company union——yote | Men EXploited at Every Turn We just arrived from Viola, Cal.,} vhere we were slaving on the state, The condi- In| are 59 workers slaving on! he road, working 11 hours from} baid $4 a day. Three shifts are in! murderous ; id to mouth existence. Now since the ve begun to wake up and the Trade * Union Unity League has started or- ganizing and leading these slaves in their fight for better conditions, the corrupt A. F. of L. sees that in order to serve its masters, the big capitalists, it must disorganize and confuse some of these cotton mill slaves so they can be used against the ones who are in real live, mili- tant unions. A. F. of L. Busy Selling Out. the A. F. of L. in all these years has made no atempt to organize these Horse Creek slaves until after the Passaic, Gastonia and Marion and other textile struggles took place under the leadership of the T.U.ULL. Horse Creek Valley in which the above mentioned mills are located is one section where these fakers are active. The workers here are very mili- tant and anxious to organize, there- fore the A. F. of L. is succeeding in drawing many in its ranks, And the bosses want the A. F. of L, mis- leadership among the workers. Workers Want Fight. Regardless of this outfit many of the workers fight. One case to illustrate. A man and his wife were discharged without an explanation (the wished a few minutes later he had given one), planation these were so enraged un- til they kept the bosses in a state of terror for some time locked in their homes and would have given them what they justly deserved but |for the intervention of the police and these A. F. of L. fakers aided | by a politician who is the mill own ers’ tool. Into the T. U. U. L.! from the “Labor Review,” a fake lat veekly published by the A. F. of L, This clipping shows the rotten way in which these fakers | treated this latter case, We need the T.U.U.L, - —AN OBSERVER AND WORKER. Song of Freedom (Tune: “La Marsiellaise.”) Ye men who work for rich men’s pleasures Lay down your tools’ and strike | today. |Your gain will be the future free-! dom, Your gain will the future reign. Re not afraid to fight for the right, Ye haye been slaves for them long enouth And now it’s time to start fighting hard; For work or wages we will fight, The ery for justice ever spreading. Come on and join us now! We need you in the fight! Right now! So fight, and you will see— That VICTORY can be ours. —MARGARET RICHARDS Strike against waze-cuts; de- mand social insurance! Construction portions. They cut down on our sandwiches from 4 to 2 at supper time. When the workers began to kick then the con ractor ordered the eook to give us 3 sandwiches, but they are cut so thin that we are half starved, And to think we have to pay $1.50 every Jay for our rot- ten meals and the tents which the coniractor provides for our sleep. Must Have Own Blankets. we would freeze to death. It’s cold up here and there’s plenty of snow on the mountains. You can’t get the job there un- less you paid for it, $250 fee to the employmeni agency sharks in Sacramento. You are also forced to ride 200 miles to camp in the employment agency’s second hand automobile and pay $8.50 for fare. Some day this junk of a machine will collapse in the road and in a ditch and many workers are going to lose their lives. The necessity of organizing the workers on construction work is urgent. To think of it, ‘hat we had to spend $20 for fare both ways and fee, ari $1.50 daily for rotten food and come back after 5 weeks practicall, wroke t> stert from the beginning gain is something crim- nat, There are tens of thousan? ~ This is evident from the fact that) superintendent | Many were put off without ex-| The writer is enclosing a clipping | We are forced to have our own! blankets and beddings, otherwise | Rotten Conditions For Los Angeles Hotel Workers’ Los Angeles, Calif. Daily Worker: The conditions in the hotel indus- | try here in Los Angeles are simply rotten. Some time ago I was visit- | ing my son, Richard Drake, who} is one of the March 6 defendants, | now out on $1,000 bail awaiting a decision on the I.L.D.’s appeal against the 6 months and $500 fine sentences, I met an old lady who was there visiting her grandson. He was held under a 60 days sentence on a trumped up vagrancy charge. Through talking with her I found she was a housekeeper in a moderate sized hotel, She worked hard from | 4 o'clock in the morning till 6:30 or | 7 at night. For all this she receive | the pitiful sum of $10 a month and her room, rather her cubby-hole. The chambermaids working under {her received $6 a month for the | same number of hours.»Once in a while, about once a month, the hotel mnaager would get generous and give them a half day off. The meals they received were the left-overs from the dining room. I couldn’t believe such things were true unti! I visited this hotel. The same is true of the greater majority of hotels in Los Angeles. I have work- ed in several and I know of the ter- rible conditions prevailing through- out this line all over the country. We must organize into the fight- | |ing T.U.U.L, unions alongside of |our brothers and fight against such slayery not only here in Golden California, but all over this marvel- | ous country. For an American Soviet, CLARA DRAKE. RED TUESDAY FOR ALENT. JOBLESS |Organize to Fight for Relief Allentown, Pa. Daily Worker: | August 12, 1930, will be remem- | bered by the workers of Allentown | jas a Red Tuesday. For the firsi ‘ime in the history of Allentown id 125 unemploye! workers, young} ‘and adult, march down 8 o’clock, in| he morning through’ the main| streets of Allentown, to the Work- | ers Centre, 337 Hamilton St. ‘hey | organized an unemployed council with about 75 workers signing up. | and pledging themselves to organie not only the unemployed, put also the employed workers of Allentown. At 7 p. m. the same day the | Communist Party and Young Con.- munist League held an open air | election campaign meeting, at 5th} jand Gordon Sts. Over 300 workers, | about one-third of whom were} women and approximately the same | amount were young workers, an-| swered the call of the Party. At} 7p. m., the square waiting for the meeting to start. Workers Cheer Speaker. The workers cheered and ap- plauded as she described the mis- | erable conditions of the workers | here, and compared them with the conditions of the workers in the Soviet Union. They applauded when | the speaker explained the eiection | program of the Communist Party | sarcastically referred to th e} “Hoover prosperity.” After the! meeting when the speaker asked for | questions, a priest who happened to be in the crowd asked dra:zatiecally, “are you telling the truth woma®i, | read the bible, that’s the truth.”| There was no need for the speaker to answer this. The whole crowd ‘burst out laughing and began booing. This lasted for about 5 minutes. Even the two cops, who were out there guarding the peace, had to turn aside and laugh. Many more questions were asked. When the chairman called for a collection, the crowd which consisted mainly | | of unemployed workers, responded splendidly. They also bought up all the campaign literature that we ha: on hand, | This meeting proved that the | workers of Allentown are ready to be organized. They are ready to support the Communist Party, in | its campaign, and are ready to fight under the leadership of the Com j | munist Party and Young Commu nist League. —ROSE SOKOLOV. ‘migratory workers in Sacramento Vailey who are confron ed with such | | conditions. The Trade Union Unity | , League is conlucting a campaign for organizing these unorganized) workers into militant revolutionary unions such as the R.W.1.L,, A.W.) LLL. and other sections of the T.U. U. L. Visit Workers Center. It’s up to us fellow workers to! j come together and organize to fight against these miserable conditions prevailing in the golden state of California. Visit the Workers Cen- ter while in Sacramento at 821 Second St. In going out to the camps, or orchards or agricultural fields get literature and supplies and begin organizational work. The time is more than ripe. —TWO HICHWAY CON- STRUCTION WORKERS, WEST COAST MILL i pigeons, a rat named Davis, ha: | they voted to keep them 100 per ceni STEEL WORKERS | S**" =~ ORGANIZING IN Exposing Boss Stool Pigeons Pittsburg, Calif. | To the Daily Worker: Dear Comrades: I am going to write a few lines | about conditions in the steel mills in the United States Steel here. The rolling mill is running on a three-day week, the sheet mill three days, the nail mill four days (where the daily pay of experienced feeders is around four dollars), The tin mill has been running five to five| and a half days a week, but the) orders are so light and the iron so rotten that the pay is low anyway. Face Short Time. After the p-esent canning season} the tin mill faces a two to three day week, if not a total shutdown (last fall the mill ran on a three! day week, and the amounts of fruit canned in California is cut in half for some fruits this year). A regular shop bulletin has been issued for the last six months, The workers like it - id contribute to it. The “super” of the mills, Cohen, is frantic, and even snoops for Red: hir-self. One of his private stool been exposed by the militant work- ers and we are getting the other) stools lined up for exposure. There | are the dens brutal company pol-! ice continually spying on the work: ers, but their brains are as flat as their feet. | We are building a local of the Metal Workers Industrial Union| that aims t be ready before winter. | Greetings from A STEEL WORKER. iS With the steel bosses driving t AUTO PRODUCTION DEULINES | DETROIT, Mich.—During the first six months of 1930 this country and Canada produced 8,413,000 trucks, | eabs and passenger cars, Vor a} similar period of this year 2,350,000 | were produced, showing a decline of 32 per cent. The June, 1930, out- put, compared to that of June, 1929, has fallen off 32 per cent. ers has never been greater than it mill affiliated to the Metal Trad preparations for gigantic str The bosses’ attempt to divide struggle against the boss, molds for ca ting. he workers at a madder pace every day, laying off many thousands permanently, and putting many more | months, that I had to thousands on purt time, the need for ov ‘on among the steel work- Shop committees in every rs Industrial League and i es Wor struggle in the steel industry, must (in bad shape and he would do some- now become the day to day work of the men who make ste the Negro and white steel wo rs must be fought down, for only unity of all workers will win in the Above photo shows a Negro steel worker pouring liquid metal into Photo by Ewing Gallaway. Tells of the Company. Too!’s Part in the Fisher Body Strike Brown City, Mich. ™o the Editor, Daily Worker: I read in the Daily Worker of the strike in Flint and went there and stayed until it was over, and { think it opened up the eyes of the workers and showed them whose in- terests the police are hired to pro. tect, the workers or the General Mo tors. The evening before the state troopers beat and slugged the boys on the picket line I heard Comstock tell the boys not to fight or get militant. That he had talked to the | chief of police and it was O.K. for them to picket. You could see from the line of his talk that he was go ing to betray the workers. Stool Pigeon Comstock He asked Comrades Woods and Killop out of the hall for a few min utes and to their back asked the com- mittee if they wanted them as lead ers or not. Another comrade and I gave them a few pointers and ers know the union of their class. Comstock didn’t belong at the head of the auto workers he betrayed. He belonged with the A. F. of L., with the rest of the labor fakers, He | would get up to address the work- Jers with an army suit or uniform and looked proud of it. But I think the boys all know that it as well | as the yellow carcass that it cover- |ed well repressuted our enemy, the capitalist ¢] Seld Daflies. And I want to say comrad suid Daily Workers there and th crowd bought them with better faith than they wonid take a free handbiil before Mareh 6. I read in our Worker the boys tak-n for a ri by thngs of the bosses the lks of things we will be abl to return their tricks, But will the be man en'ugh to stand one-half oday abour turn yellow ax they did in Flint and let the parade go on when they se” they aie outnumbered, I received a letier tr and that goes to show that the work MEXICAN AND NEGRO $ a frien | COLO ¢ UD in By Men Terribly Expleited by “Contract” System and Robbed of the Miserable Wages They ( ." Franciseo, Cal. fer, the “gents” furnisher, who in Daily Worker# The Biennial Report (1927-1928) of the California State Bureau of Labor Statisties reports “progress” in its work of “supervising” the paying off of Alaska salmon boat! crews, which “supervision” was be- gun in 1918 in accordance with act Chinese compradore. These before they are allowed to foreed to buy “or or ler” in store at least $30 worth of shoddy goods, Robbed by Bosses. 2 ayer’s On the boat and throughout the | of legislation that year. Section 8 of Act reads in part: “The commissioner shall . . . allow or reject any deductions made from wages provided, however, that he shall reject all deductions made for gambling debts... and for liquor sold to the employe during such employment.” Contract Workers. These are the facts: Most of the workers sent to Alaska are Chinese, Mexican, Filipinos or Negroes, They are “recruited” by private “employ- |ment agencies” whose services are engaged by Mayer Bros., owners of a “gents” furnishing business on Grant Ave., San Franciseo, And the workers are paid off on their re- turn—that is those who do return— in the offices of Mr. Mayer and in the presence of a deputy from the State Bureau of Labor Statistics. These workers, five or six hun- dred of them, are coniract labor supplicd to the Glasrow Packing Co, © J ‘Viary af the Cna’*ornia whole season, which may last three months, the men are plied with booze, kept drunk and systematical- ly robbed by gamblers and dope peddlers working under the protec- tion of the packers ard unler the “supervision” of the packers’ goy- ernment azency—the State Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unmentionaile vices flourish on the ships and under indescribable conditions of filth and misery the workers toil while there is fish and while there is daylight. It is well to mention at this point that the Al- aska night is very short—there be- ing perhaps 21 or 22 hours of day- light out of the 24. The biennial report of the govern- ment gives as the latest figures these for the year 1926, Seven ships with 686 men had $7,350.00 ad- yanced before sailing and had $42,- 781.23 other reductions leaving a balance of $85,57%07 due on return 7°70, Th's gives the avero7e wi Packing Vorpoiation, by Mr. May- as $124.74 which average inclules |Communists Boycott | Bruning Tax Demand | (Wireless By Inprecorr) | BERLIN, Aug. 21.—The Commu- i functionaries of Weis ben Man d and Lei- ed to boycott the emer- by |@eney taxes promulgated | Bruening government und }48 of the Weimar co 0 without the approval of the Reich- ' stag. the The Communist Party fights lynching—vote Communist! | of mire who jived in Flint near me d, “Please send me the ad dress of the Daily Worker. This damned Appena pancr is too dry for me after Ir e naner of ont s few copies to pep T’m sure you will 00n, n un a bit an hear from hi The Worker leaders in ijailin Flint are on hunger But I think that is a small 11 they feed them what ‘aistake. of whut they gave us or will they they fed me they sure ecovld not! same thing will } emell of it. Just imavine your mouth and eat it e hoping to see this in ear t ing it to oll, I cl bur paper. | —CLYDE DEMPSEY, | An old Fisher worker. P.8. Talso demanded th f Foster, Minor, Amter and Ra; ond, nie nom ibaeck to and the hap he of the packers ically calls the “The deductions include over $3,000 |for a school iax! $1,074 for “clean. | 082.73 or 60 per cent of the wages as deducted for merchanlise in | the Frisco store of Mayer, Finally, in the figures for 1927 it is stated in the government report that the deductions to cover items of merchandise bought in San Fran- (cisco are not shown. As the report ith callous cynicism brutally puts “,.. the reason for this om- mission is that Mayer failed to show in the payrolls the amount of mer- |} chandise bought and ordered by the Alaska cannery hands before they had been paid off. Forward to Struggle. Let us look back, but let us also {look forward to the rising revolu- tionary struggle in China, in the Phillipines, in the South and here on the coast where the growing re- sentment of the workers of all na- tionalities is being organized by the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League and which will overthrow this damnable system and establish a proletarian dictatorship out of a total “earnings” of $135,- | and a workers and farmers govern- | ment, ~—JIM LACEY. him the | d today that the | ing ship and launch hire” and $30,-| Worker with Kids and Wife |Unemployed Workers Must Push Fight for the Workers Insurance Bill |Conditions of Jobless Growing Worse Daily and Winter Will Be a Bitter One | Detroit, Mich, To the Editor of the Daily Worker: Dear Comrade: I want to tell you how the Ford Slaves are thrown out of job: starved to death and evicted from their houses. I was working in the Ford Coal Mines for 6 years, then came tc Detroit 2 years ago and was prom- ; ised a job upon After | going to the different offices, final- ly they gave me a job last April, after being out of a job 11 months. Naturally I was in debt and every- thing I saved during the three months went to pay up part of my| debts. On July 10th we were laid| off and they told us that this lay| off will be-only for 2 weeks, and NPL TAILORING AGAINST TOILERS I was charged $5 to hold my badge. vn On Aug. 4th the plant started to work again and I went to get my| Tailors Must Join the job, but instead of getting my job,! 7 TITTY 5 my badge was taken away from me.| NTWIU for Struggle Th me thi happened to thou-| aes esa ing happened ane oom Brooklyn, N.Y. mstanees | Daily Worker: sands of Ford workers. tried to explain my ci x y that I had a court notice to move| From time to time committees are and that I had to support six in| Selling the Daily Worker at, the In- the family, the employment man-| ternational Tailoring building, The ager told me that he hadn’t as toilers buy the Daily because they much sympathy for me and for my/ re interested in reading a real children than for dogs. ers’ press which exposes the | Bivicted From Home. of ‘he bosses and corrupt | The next day on Aug. bth, I went leaders of the reactionary unions. |to the main office to see the gen-| These mentioned leaders of the eral manager and when I told him| Amalgamated machine fear the tail- that I had been out of work 11/ rs will know the truth about their ort a| Misleading the workers. | family of six and that my land] Workers Are Aroused. had served a court notice to evict} The clothing workers are aware me within 3 days, he told me I was) of the fact that the paid officials z are helping the bosses to exploit the \thing to help me. He told me to! work fastend ef Malet): the go home and to stay home, be-| workers fight against the bosses. cause they would send some man to} py ng the Easter week the tail- linvestigate and find out if every-| \thing I was telling him was true. | Being under condition to be evicted |within 8 days and having not ors of the above-mentioned shop had been working overtime three hours every day, Sunday until 5 o'clock in the evenine. These workers were paid for single time. Thin Pay Envelopes. One of the tailors showed his pay gre earnings 5 for 72 hours enough money to buy food for my |children I waited two days for the But Ford representative to come. nobody, showed up... The. next {I was eyicted, my furniture thrown on the street—I was wi of hard work. 5 e ritho: ic vithor . . children That’. what the bosees| {¢, Shon and treated the workers aan ily . S| with drinks and expressed his ap- are doing with thouserds of Finally a friend took me Pt@tiation of the tailors hecanse they are working under sweat shop con- ditions and for starvation wages. A.C.W. Boss Ally. In 1925 the tai fought the International Tailoring for a better union, in order to attain better con- ditions. Tod five years Inter, the bosses are very content and like the | Evict Other Families. I am still waiting for the For! | investigator to come, although I am |sure that nobody will show up. | Two montt Mr, Ford ma |a s’atement ne wouldn’t 1 loff any ma The car age ist rress of Detroit had headlines| ered is work ete that Ford would employ 120.000 but |! Pay dues to the union, or they thet’ all lies, Only a few thoy-| "not work for this firma’ | "and e be taken in, and many know who the tiends thousands who ready to use them the workers on all occasions a long time in the laid off for g r to squeeze out more profits. are getting Must Join W.LU. eems to care for us so I think. The workers will never be able hat’s about time for all the work-| to rid them: of their misleaders ers to see that the only way left| Unless they will realize that these for us is to fight! Yesterday they| union age ‘collaborating with the against the workers in o them enslaved for the le conditions, Needle Trades Industrial f the T.U.U.L. is the only nization for the work- rinst the masters, which s for short hours and for @ evicted me, today that hey evicted 3 oth oT other Ford slave: |have to stop starving and w | got to organize in the Trade Union | y League and the ¢ the only ns that are fighting for the work- ers’ interests. | | Yours | moll. My | a) workers’ or an should not hesitate to W.1.U. NEW YO g to the unions Also, Editor Daily Worker: re working behind the I am writing this let n's plaves. to the food workers. I am a mem-/ All this with the connivance! and ber of the A. F. of L. Local 302, lo- cated at 107 W. 116th St. Fellow workers! It is now three| F. WI. U. Must Lead. months since I was misled. { left! Oh, yes, the executive your union. I am sorry I did. How-!| about 16 members, of which 14 are jever, not in vain, I am here and| delicatessen elerks and only two I will stay and expose this take | cafeteria men, and they are the “old racketeering organization. This is| guard.” Brother Goldstein of the |the union which at the beginning|executive board made a motion at lof our big success, a year ago,|a meeting two months ago that | seabbed on us, gave the bosses signs | there should be no election ‘held ithat their cafeterias were union for organizer in place of oin, | houses, which was a lie a year ago| whose term has expired; but the and is a greater lie today. executive board shall appoint an or- Fakers Rake In Coin. gunizer. President Flore (? and Brother Epstein and Brother Pin-| (General Organizer McDerwitt (?) |eus are drawing $65 per week, be-| were at the meeting, | sides plenty of graft. There are no| In view of the good work Pincus union conditions in any shop they|and Epstein have accomplished, he have signed, the 12-hour day still! recommended that they be ap ointed exists, the boss fires the help when-|by the executive board, So they ever he feels like it. are still in o.fice. You can’t ask The bosses put signs in the win-|them a question. The men are cf dow or else they get the help from|work and are gambling every day, the agency. The Ch ham Cafe-|including the organizers. Besid s, teria, right across the ‘suvet from|they are drunk most of the time. the union, gets the help from the|So you see, fellow workers, it is agency... I got. the. job from the|up to you to lead us, for we can’t agency and after working three| expect anything from a grafting or- days found out it was a so-called! ganization who has no intentions of union house. The Strand Cafeteria! organizing the workers. jon Sivth Ave and 49th St. has three COUNTERMAN, girls behind the counter and none Member Local 302,, nowledge of Brother Epstein, who he “tsar” of Local 812.