The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEI SDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930 Page Three CHINA RED ARMIES AGAIN APPROACH CITY OF CHANGSHA| | LETH BH S iting rorces = Fe a> rs ma SEO YP sS ee ae ae a ate IN BRIEF— Se eeeceiietal Chi. Jobless Haven’t Even Carfare Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker:— No human brains can or will con- ceive the humiliations of the unem- ployed workers of Chicago by the humble servants of the bosses, the police of Chicago, and here is one) of thousands of items that happens daily: Thousands and thousands of un- employed workers are not able to pay for street car rides to hunt for work, so very many of them pick up street car transfers and use them to find work of some kind, yet with- out results. So the Chicago police decided to arrest and persecute such offen- ders, and on Saturday, Aug. 16, the police station was filled by unem- ployed poor men. Some of them drew a $5 fine and others 10 days in jail. Now, you can imagine the humiliation of the poor by the police. At the same time we know ‘tha* the most danger- ous criminals ef the world un free and unheeded by the police of the city and they do whatever they want to. UNEMPLOYED WORKER. $15 Average Klein Store Wage New York, N, Y. Daily Worker:— In Klein’s Dress Shop, at 14th St. and Union Square, there are about 1,200 employes. Their hours are from 9:15 to 6:15, with 1 hour for lunch and 15 minutes afternoon relief. Two or three times a week very large numbers of employes are forced to work hours overtime (violating the state labor laws for girls), for which they only receive} $1 per evening. Their salaries are: Beginners, $14; 800 at $15, 200 at $16, 100 at $19; 50 at $22; 25 at $26 and 20 at $30. Discharges ara made for lateness after a night of overtime work. —AN EMPLOYE. St. Louis Rail Daily Worker:— ers are hit by the crisis as in other lar.” paying his bills he has $2 left to live on for two weeks. This is one of the conditions of the “extras.” On the job the speed-up is used especially on the older employes, | who can’t get a job outside because of the unemployment and ld age. Those workers are made to pull the big express trunks single, where before there were always two men to do that. The company has forced the men to take life insurance. Many work- ers who have been transferred from the “regular” to the “extra” list find that it is impossible to keep up the insurance, and, in order to make up for the low wages they go and demand their money. Assistant Superintendent R. R. Ripley “bull- doses those who want to get their money, not considering the fact that a worker cannot exist on $1.80 a day. The workers are forged vo do that and lose money because they only get 50 cents on the dollar, The union is not doing anything to improve the conditions of the | workers. The men should begin to understand only an industrial union |of all railroad workers will be able to successfully fight for their in- terest. —A WORKER. Recruiting Corp. See Jobless Flocking In New York. Daily Worker: I stop for a little talk with the |corporal on recruiting duty at 23rd St. and 6th Ave. “Are you getting them in,” I asked. “No,” he answered. “Wait let it get a little colder, then all the ‘bums’ you see walking the streets will be flocking the recruit- ing stations.” He smiled. if —L. 8. Yellow Boss Press Lies About Western Electric “Vacation” Chicago, Ul. Daily Worker:— | Just as we were ready to go on | our “vacation,” I happened to read |the Chicago American, and at the bottom of the editorial page column I found an article concerning us Western Electric workers. The “smart Alex” was trying to prove that there still are 28,000 workers employed in the Western. I wish that this writer would come down to the plant and convince aimself of the lie which he puts to other workers to read. In my department, 6334, there is no more, and very likely less, than one-third of the regular force left since the lay-off began, and this is also effecting all other departments CHICAGO, Ill.—I am a messen- ger boy who has always worked for a starvation wage. Now my wages have been cut. Before we got $1.92 | for 5 hours work and we were done and off for home. A few days ago the district manager called us into | his private office and told us mes- senger boys: “You boys know every- body is reducing wages and laying off and now I must reduce you boys’ wages to $1.50, starting to- morrow. But, boys, you needn’t think this is for long. As soon as yusiness picks up, you will receive in the plant, generally speaking, because some are shut down ¢om- pletely. However this is not the worst of this editorial. After praising our bosses for being good to us—for giving us two weeks’ vacation with pay, this bird looks upon our bosses and us workers as “One Happy Family.” In their opinion, we work- ers in the Western Electric have nothing to kick about. Everythirg is just “precious.” I hope the time comes when this “smart Aleck” will be put alongside of us workers, and then he and his like will know what it is to be a producing member of a family! UNHAPPY MEMBER OF THE “FAMILY.” jven Cut Wages of Western Union Messenger Boys your old salary.” He also told us that the entire working forces ci Western Union are getting a wage-cut and that it is not so bad when we know that we are not the only ones getting our wages cut. He told us that if he heard-any °f us kick about the wage-cut he would fire us all. I, for one, am not fooled by the manager’s promises. I know that once he has put the steal over on us we will get no increases to our former salaries. A MESSENGER BOY, 300 Laid Off At Hurley Machine—Wages Cut | Chicago, Ill. | The» army of 400,000 unem- ployed workers who are walking the streets of Chicago swelled by’another 300 from the Hvey Machi just four or five weeks ago. CUTS OF WAGES. At the same time as these lay- offs were taking place, our depart- ment, the drill press, received a cut of 10 per cent. 10 P. C. Wage Cut in New Haven, Conn. Dear Editor, Daily Worker: Please have this article published which I’ve found | in the New Haven Times. This is _ only one of a several places where wages are being cut in the state of Connecticut. “ANSONIA, Conn, Aug. 18,— Operatives at the Ansonia Manu- facturing company owned by Charles H. Jockmus and located on The foundry had four wage- euts—direct wage-cuts. There are several methods of cutting wages, and our shop practices them all. The workers have never got through on time—15, 30 end 45 minutes of overtime has become ay thing here lately. For ay, of course, nobody gets any * By A WORKER FROM THE SHOP. Ansonia, Conn. Plant the west side of the city, received official notice today from Leslie H. Jockmus, manager of the plant, that a 10 per cent reduction of wages of all employes would de put into effect immediately. “Up until about six weeks ago, the Ansonia Manufacturing com- pany, which employs several -hun- dred hands, was operating 55 hours weekly but lately has been running on part time.’ . Ss way Express Men on Short Time; Pay Low| St. Louis, Mo. In the St. Louis terminal of the Railway Express Agency the work- terminals. Out of 480 men only 200 “regulars” work 8 hours and the rest are “extras” who are working only | 2 hours a day. A worker has to work 7 years before he becomes a “regu-| An “extra” worker, with wife and child, told his story that after | es ‘USE TRICK TO CUT PAY IN ST, LOUIS |Organization Must Be Workers’ Answer St. Louis, Mo. {Daily Worker:— a bright trick +. cut the workers’ wages, low as they are. Some time} The Century Electric has devised | DEFEATED BY RED ~ ARMIES IN HUNAN Nanking: “Grave Dan- ger of Communism” With Nanking government forces} which were sent to suppress the Red Armies in Hunan province suffering a decisive defeat, and the comman- |der of the Nanking forces, General Tai Tou-Kuan, missing, the capture) of Changsha by the workers and peasants is again drawing near. ; The imperialists and their native lackeys are again becoming panicky: Many Japanese residents have with: | drawn to Hankow, and shipment} of goods between Hankow and Changsha has practically stopped. General Ho Chien, one of Chiang Kai-shek’s lieutenants and Nan- king’s governor of Hunan province, also suffered a severe defeat at the hands of the Red Armies and is now retreating from Liuyang, an important city east of Changsha. | struggle is going on in the vicinity | of |ting the town off from all out | war, so that a conside Violent Struggle On | Between Afridis and British at Peshawar LONDON (LP.S.).—The latest news from India state that a violent C. Batchelder, Charles former Peshawar. The English are throwing armored cars, bombing airplanes and artillery against the advancing Afridis. In spite of this the Afridis have succeeded in cut- ide ecmmunication except by wireles: |The same report states that parts of the Afridi tr are operating about 150 kilometers $ of Pesha ead ection may be as#umed. Communist Editor In Germany Is Jailed BERLIN again put out a feeler for interna- tional finance capital by proposing a new “cure for.China’s ills” at the general conference on China at the | Williamstown Institute of Politics. It is well-known that, about the time when the ‘Kemmerer Commis- the same Mr. Batch- elder wrote an article in the New York Herald-Tribune proposing a Dawes Plan for China. Now, come out with another plan, which involves the appoint- ment of an international commis- sion by the League of Nations “to formulate plans to rehabilitate nd to prepar months ago, of the insu (1. fourth penal ate of the supreme court .—The The City of Yukiang has also re cently been taken by armed worker: and peasants. | Nanking wounded soldjers, sta ing and desperate, are becoming | fortress the 1 aid.” “In other i- is a plan to make China safe for chen Arbeiterzeitung, Comrads Al- €XPloitation by international fin- ved Thomas, to 1 year and 3 months | @n¢e capital. ; imprisonment, on the| Adding his voice to the inc charge of preparation for high ingly louder chorus of interna- treason. He is made responsible for tional finance capital demanding t Leipzig recently sentenced esponsible editor of the Schle: ago the company started a savings | creasingly revolutionary. For in-| scheme so the workers will be in- stance, in Kashan, a railway town duced to save and may become cap-| situated between Shanghai and | italists. The amount agreed to was | Hangehow, 2,000 wounded Nanking | deducted from the weekly wages. | troops mutinied. This cannot be! One of the girl workers getting | considered as an isolated case but $15 a week began to save $2 for a|a sign that shows a general ten- few weeks. Then the bosses got dency, a tendency of the revolution- busy, investigated and decided that | jzation of the soldiery. }18 articles appearing in this paper. | Among these articles there are sev- 2ral for which other editors have al- ready been condemned to fortre: letention. Pr opaganda for political nass strikes again occupies the lead- ing position as being a “preliminary | intervention and more open imper- | unity, ialist control of China, Professo* , Blakeslee U. S. Commercial Attache in China, | sion went to China about eighteen | | answer is implied in INTERNATIONAL NEWS © Trying to Make China Safe For World Finance Capital Universit posed the ion hether state, in ¢ 1, inter-depe world, has the right to enjo: Clar que disorganization.” Of course the haracte’ que This sort of logic is of the imperi Apologists of im NMG slee fetal i-feudal y which perpetuate. imperialis Neither ive feudal militar out of chaos in Chin rests with the revolution proletariat and peasa with the tance of tional proletariat, torical for prosp\ Mee China. ie = y and emancipation the girl was saving too much and cut her wages $2. Last spring wages were cut from 20 to 40 per cent, but still that is not enough and the bosses are con- tinuously cutting wages in one way or another. The only way to fight against | wage-cuts and speed-up is to or- ganize in the Metal Workers’ Indus- | trial Union and to put up a fight in an organized manner against the wage-cutting . -ampaign. of . the bosses. A WORKER. TUUL CALLS ON ALL WORKERS TO 'Demand Passage of Social Insurance (Continued From Page One.) cago will stage another cclebration on Labor Day in honor of Hoover's prospertiy. What other reasons have the workers to celebrate, while eight million workers are starving? The main attractions at the fakers' auto push ball, etc. The principal speaker of the day will be a sky pilot, Rev. John W. R. Maguire of St. Viators College. After the re- cent Attacks by the church against the Soviet Union the most proper speaker at a Labor Day gathering will surely be a priest. This only goés to prove once more the unity of interests between the religious and labor fakers. The employed and unemployed workers of Chicago will not cele- brate; they will demonstrate on La- bor Day to demand work or wages, to demand unemployed relief. The demonstration will be hed! at Wash- | ington Square, 930 North Clark Street, Monday, September 1, at 3 ip. m. Why is there an iron bound united front between the A. F. of L. fascist leadership, the bosses and the “so- cialists” against the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill? The Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill demands a minim weekly payment for all unemployed of not less than $25 a week. The first demand in this direction is that all war funds passed by the boss government be turned over to an unemployed fund, to be run by workers. The A. F. of L. backs the boss war preparations, They want this money to go for war and not to. the unemployed. The Bill goes on to demand that a levy be placed against all fortunes of $25,000 and over, to create an unemployed fund. This would hit Green, Woll and the other fakers in the A, F. of L. In their collabora- tion with the bosses, in their scabby activities, they have reaped fortunes while the millions of jobless starve. Green, Woll & Co. want to pro- tect the profits of the bosses at the expense of the starvation of millions of workers, With mass, unemployment, the bosses are increasing their wage- cutting campaign. Green, Woll & Co. is pledged to do all they can to stop strikes. The A. F. of L. is pitting the unemployed against the employed—so the bosses can profit. The T. U. U. L., together with its fight for unemployment insurance, is conducting a major struggle against wage cuts. It is mobilizing the workers under the slogan of “or- ganize and strike against wage euts!” There are only five days left to September ist. The Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill has been COME OUT SEPT.1 : the workers the labor fakers of Chi- | “RICH CRIMINALS celebration will be motorcycle polo, | The victory in Shangtung against | the Northern Coalition and the cap- ture of Tsinan, the capital of Shang- | tung province, by no means broke | | the resistance of the Northern mili- | but merely gave a respite. despite a following up of the victory by an offensive drive northward, Nanking relaxed _ its | | pressure on all the fronts and issued | a manifesto appealing to the north- |ern commander to come over to Nan- king. The manifesto, of course, amounts practically to an announce- ment that Wall Street “silver bul- |lets” are ready for all who want to | be hit by it. However, the manifesto contains an important admission that de- |serves particular attention. The | manifesto refers to the “grave dan- | er of Communism if the civil war | jcomes”” and uses this as the main | | point of appeal to the northern gen- | jerals. In other words, the revolu- tionary forces are becoming so | strong that the imperialist, semi- feudal bourgeois factions are mor and more realizing the necessity o: a united front of the counter-revolu- |tion, But conflicts among these | parasite robbers are so severe that ja united front of counter-revolution jis only next to impossible. RULING AMERICA Demonstrate Sept. 1 For Jobless Aid! (Continued From Page One.) | 000, while she has drawn dividends jright along to a total of $6,693,000 | more! Get Rich While Crazy. The Journal of Commerce ad- | mitted that Gerard was wrong when | he spoke as though “great wealth connotes ability.” Indeed Harry K. Thaw got richer while he was locked ; jup in an insane asylum. But he is |not the only one. John D. Rocke- feller’s partner, Henry M. Flagler, divorced his wife, Ida A. Flagler, }5 jin 1901, giving her at the time/ $1,000,000 worth of Standard Oil} stock, Mrs. Flagler, being crazy, was kept in an asylum up-state in New York, from 1901 till early in July this year, when she died, still crazy, y but with the $1,090,000 fortune in- creased to $12,000,000, Yet mil- lions of workers, slaving for less than enough to live on and feed their families, are told by Hoover and every other capitalist politician, that the capitalists “cannot afford” | |to be taxed to give unemployment | insurance for the useful millions of | workers, It is against this brutal inequality spread in hundreds of thousands of copies in the shops, mines and fac- \tories, Thousands of workers have approved of it. More is necessary. “Unemployme t Day” will be the start of a mass movement of the workers, which must grow and grow, to force the bosses to pass the Unemployment Insurance Bill. All available energy must be thrown into these demonstrations. They must overshadow and expose the fake “Labor Day” celebrations of the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L. “Labor Day” affairs will glorify capitalism and its rotten system of starvation for the unemployed, and wage-cuts and lower standard of living for the employed. All out on Sept. 1st! Demonstrate for the Workers’ So- cial Insurance Bill! Demand All War Funds Go to the |Czech Wood Workers |the same firm. The workers in the | this, the Forward union congress and sent greetings | | the stage of civil war. The public pro- utor substantiated the whole in- lictment in 9 minutes. When the presiding judge pro- nounced the sentence, and spoke af penance and improvement, me | LYNCH CAMPAIGN Fight on Lynching workers present answered with a sounding “Red Front!” (Continued trom Page One) |line with the “discoveries” Fish Committee. Feeling that this not enough, the “socialist” paper bricates stories about. Camp Nit- daiget, at Beacon, N. Y., stating Spread Their Strike PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (I.2.S.) | —The strike of the great saw mil toriea, in Cinadievo, has now been the Workers’ International Relief joined by the workers of the saw|camp nearby and “has attempted mill at Sv. Mikulas, belonging to|an attack upon white girls.” After “a guards- s put there to wood works of Svalyava have also| man with a rifle” gone on strike. The strike in Cina- | pr dievo has spread to the match fac- | grounds. tory. Gendarmerie have been sent} The day before, in its issue of to all the saw mills of Carpatho- | | August 25, the “socialist” Forward Ukraine. The Mahriseh national conference | had another story, in the form of a letter of one of its readers, accus- on in the liquadatory wood work-/| being exploited for $3 to $4 a day ers’ union, participated in by all the | doing housework, of stealing, The Mahrish groups of the union, with| heading of the Forward on the top one exception, joined the Reich’s|of that letter reads, “Thievery ot conference of the opposition of the | Colored Women at Coney Island.” vood workers’ unions, elected a na-| ‘The central office of the W.LR., 949 Broadway, has issued a state: | ment yesterday emphatic ing the vicious lie of th The Jewish Morning Communist Jewish language organ, carrying on a campaign against nching, and against the “social- ist” Ku Kluxers. The “Freiheit,” \in its campaign for the protection of the foreign born workers, points out that it is absolutely necessary for Negro and white workers to unite against the boss attacks and mal committee, spoke in favor of the convocation of an extraordinary te the Fifth R. I. L. U. Congress. of capitalist society that the work- ers, employed and unemployed alike, are called upon to struggle in their own interest for the Workers’ Un- employment Insurance Bill, which proposes that Congress should tax wealthy and appropriate all funds now used for war, to pay workers who are unemployed, abled or aged, |a week. di a minimum of $26| VIDAOBRERA (WORKERS’ LIFE) Spanish Weekly Organ of the Make Them Pay! It is to force this concession from the capitalists, that the Trade Union Unity League is calling all workers to demonstrate in all American} cities on September First, to show the capitalist government that great | masses of starving workers will re- fuse to starve quietly while 59 men rule America and thousands of | half-witted and even crazy parasites \live in luxury and wealth off the Comunist Party will be issued regularly each week Beginning Sept. 1, 1930 Subscribe Now! misery and sweat of the workin: | w |class. ; All out! On to the streets Sep-| RATES: tember 1st! Vote Communist on| election day, so that Communists may take the fight to Hoover’s very doorstep in Congress! 1 year $2.50; 6 monthe $1.25 3 months 7% SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Bundles of 50 copies or more at 3 cents per copy. _ FARM i THE PINES ww Send All Subs and Orders to A OBRERA” 80 Union Sq, Third Floor M. OBERKIRCH & 1, Box 78 KINGSTON, N. ¥ | |CAMP WOCOLONA Monroe, N. Y. 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