The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1930, Page 3

wJAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FrowaY, avuuust 29, Lyov irk a a oo -_ Fe ay res ea ae a SHorwsS> rage ‘I’ hr Tee HW} aaa, SOUTHERN OHIO FARMERS ARE DEBT-STRICKEN 3osses Keep Them in State of Serfdom Lynchburg, 0. Jaily Worker, Dear Comrades: I have lived amongst the Ohio rmers for 10 years and made a ial study of their living condi- especially in the southern vart of the state. Always in Debt. Living conditions are deplorable nd getting worse all the time. In hose counties where the farmers epend mostly on tobacco, for a noney crop which averages from 0 to 25 cents a pound afer hauling to the market and paying com- iission, taxes and grocery bills, here is usually nothing left over nd often in arrears with their bill or the next erdps. Just like the joal miners in West Virginia, al-| yvays in debt to the boss. they work | or. The farmers have large families. {heir children go around in tatters, ndernourished and a large number rippled. Their education they re- eive in the little one room school ouse mostly is religious opium. Bankers Rule. The southern part of the state urnishes most of the states institu- jfions with its inmates, The bankers, lawyers and busi- ‘hess leeches and professional opium |peddlers advise and control their estinies. Anyone with a progres- |five idea is not welcome in their ist. They all vote dry and drink noonshine, lgnoranee, and dire poverty pre- ils amongst the farmers of South- n Ohio, Bee = chine. Carbondale, Pa. Daily Worker:— In 1925-26 the coal miners were striking five and one-half months. The grafting leaders of the U. M. W. A. have now imposed on us a five-year contract which worsened our conditions, which agreement ex- pires Augusts 31, this year. Miners’ Wages Down. The wages of the coal miners during these five years decreased from 20 to per cent. It is be- cause previously the coal miner would be paid for all the dead work. But now this is not the case. This work is now done for little pay or without any at all. During the last year the coal bar- ons started an attack against the workers. Whoever was not willing to work under the conditions offered by the bosses was chased out and his place filled by “backward” ele- ments, vw atless Days Here Again, Says Worker in a Parody Song Detroit, Mich. the Daily Worker, City Editor—Dear Sir: En- closed please find words for a parody on the current song hit “Happy Days Are Here Again,” which I hope you will be able to use. I am broke and out of work even as these words suggest. Hoover Prosperity Song (Tune: Happy Days Are Here Again) I Many Local Strikes. Many local sivikes took place and the leaders were usually discharged and blacklisted, and this was done with the help of the Lewis gang. The coal miners were expecting that the new agreement would im- prove the situation. It did improve the situation—of the bosses. Ninety per cent of the coal miners are against the new agreement, which erslaves them for five years and seven months, Meatless days are here again, Since Hoover resumed his reign Now we must all strive in vain To find ourselves employment. big Fatless days are here again Starvation seems to be his game High tariff helps to make us Disgusted. ion of this new agreement oak place in the local many miners wouldn’t even attend the meeting and they were bitter bureaucrats. Whoever dared to speak against the agreement was U. M. W. A. elected at a cial convention, at which it was ratified. Check-off For Lewis. We, as workers, have to pay Just to see old Hoover play His game of prosperity. IV If you've never seen his flag Here it is and its no gag We cannot support that wag \nd his prosperity. Vv vil I'd like to be the first to talk Right now I think we all should squawk Then we afl could ride not walk red have real prosperity Vill And if this song seems too long Remember six months is also long That's what you get—right or wrong For Hoover unemployment. —Q. R. Sunny days are here again But the combines cut the grain And we must compete in vain With Hoover’s prosperity, VI Whengver this country goes lame The right one never gets the blame Don't you think that is a frame Of Hoover and his clan. Poultry Farm Workers Driven By Rich Farmers Seattle. | two dollars before he gets the job. From the crew of workers he picks one slave to drive the others and as inducement, gets easiest daily Worker, Jear Comrades:— Please if possible print this let- against the union and the Lewis| strain given the gate the next day. To find work to do. In some instances no discussion TH was permitted at all. This agree-| Capitalists seem to have their |ment was not approved by the min- way, ers, but by the bosse:’ agents of the Peasant delegates from the village Seltso, arrived at the Ivanovo-Voznesensk factory “Zariadie” to witness the | carrying out of the revolutionary competition entered into with the factory workers. Above photo shows the peasant delegates examining a textile ma- Anthracite Miners Bitter Against Sellout Worsening Their Plight; Bosses Glad er of condition on a big poultry ym in the northwest. By unemployment the agricul- ural workers are hard hit, poor farmers cannot afford to hire help. have been walking around for two lays in the farming district job, he told me if I would take a lollar a day and board, I could go work, I ‘told him that I thought . jhe wages were pretty low and he jold me that I could take it or leave » he said he could get all the help e wanted for that. This farm is owned by a former I.W.W.) logger, the farm is located ix miles east of Kent, Washington. he name of the owner is August Vax, he lives in a big modern up- date house and has 20,000 laying a isa eighbors as slave ‘driver and man iller. The same day that T was hired, a orker quit his job, he only stayed few days, he said the slaves were ming and going all the time, the ew consists of 4 or 5 workers of purse, Mr. Wax does not do any- hing himself. hey ves his mer ostly throng ‘Sent arks, which relieve the slave of | end of the work, at the expense of the rest of the slaves, before we are done with one job there is always one or two jobs waiting for us. This kulak is sure taken all the advantages of unemployment, he works the slaves from 5 o'clock in the morning ‘till 6 o'clock in the evening, and works us seven days a week withvut rest, after supper the slaves roll in and stay in their bunks ‘till the next morning, and for three days the same cold tough beef was served on the table. In the same locality between Kent and Auburn, ‘Washington, some time ago, the Filippino workers were beaten up and rough handled by the white workers, the 5-minute men, so-called 100 per cent Amer- icans were the instigators of this race riot, they told the white work- ers, the Filippino workers were taking their jobs. Fellow workers, organize with your Filippino brother and fight the bosses system that makes these rotten conditions for the Filippjw and white workers. So long ay te bosses can keep the workers, figght- ing between ones “tp yore | he can exploit thon, ¢» Sauk. province Kostroma, the check-off. The coal miners are opposed to the check-off. They know that the Lewis gang have practically ruled financially the or- ganization and the money is spent for the favorites and gangsters of the Lewis gang, $300 to $1,000 a month for eacs man, Lewis Gang In Saddle. The check-off is used to keep Lewis and his gang in power and the miners know if they strike they will not receive a cent of this money. The agreement says that the cval miners have agre to co-operate with the employers in increasing ef- ficiency and in producing more. At the present time the coal miner gets paid for tonnage, ut the bosses sell it by the short tonnage. If rocks or anything is found in the cars loaded it means the miner will be penalized by being sent home for several days. Arbitration Trap. The new agreement provides for arbitration, namely, a committee of 12, consisting of 3 presidents and 8 secretaries of Districts 1, 7 and 9, and six from the employers. They elect an “impartial chairman. The agreement provides that the pit or grievance committees are not to mix in any question involving work- ing conditions, but to confine them- selves to inner union matters. And that strikes will be avoided. (It was precisely these griev- ance committees that led a whole series of local strikes against the bosses, against and contrary to the wishes of the Lewis machine, and were important in responding to the need for struggle.—Editor.) Lewis Has Plans. Lewis aspires to become secretary of labor. He hopes by his sell-out of the 150,000 hard coal miners he deserves a good recommendation from the coal barons. No meetings of the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers’ Industrial Union are permitted to be held in the An- thracite, and the miners are terror- The new agreement provides forized not to attend. FOUR GARY BANKS CRASH IN CRISIS Workers’ ‘Savings Are Wiped Out (By a Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind.—Up to date four out of 17 banks in this steel city are closed. It took 8 days for the money sharks to swindle $2,200,000 of the | people’s money (deposits). The Americe’ State, the Mid- City State, the Fifth Avenue State and the Gary Labor Banks are closed, while some more are getting ready to liquidate with the people’s money. Jobless Situation “rows Worse Daily in Tl, Everywhere Chicago, Tl. Daily Worker, Dear Si Well things are getting worse in Illino Here is the state department of labor's re- port from Springfield, Il. During the month of July 2 men out of every 28 working or 8.7 per cent outside the city of Chicago were laid off. That means 8 men out of every 92 were laid off in July. Then the rotten newspapers tell us things are getting better (some bung). T myself can’t get a job for $20 a week and am married and put 3 years in the American army, Every worker should vote the Communist ticket, the sooner the better for the workingclass. There will be a few more millions out of work this winter. —AN EX-SERVICEMAN. The Communist Party fought for Sacce-Vanzetti—the Commu nist Posty Comore! =otos on Sareas Vanzelli day—vote Communist! , | BIG LAYOFFS FOR W.VIRGINIAGLASS TOILERS NOW ON Gene Tunney Spoke There For Bosses Charleston, W. Va. Daily Worker: Have been working for two years at the Libbey, Owens, Ford Glass Co., here, makers of flat draw glass. I want to say that this company has been in line with all other in-} dustries in the two years that I have} worked here. The company has cut the forces 75 per cent in that time. Tunney Speaks for Bosses. Gene Tunney made a visit ta this plant and made a speech to the workers about the wonderful spir- itual benefit we got for making pro- fits for the bosses. But nothing about the layoffs and speed-up. Gene said he didn’t get what he said we got, that’s why he quit the boxing game. Now he is trying to blind us workers to take what the bosses | want to give us. | Layoffs Start. The boss layed most of the men off in my department, than he start- ed with the men that couldn’t keep up with the terrible speed-up. The boss came and told me he was sorry to let me go as I was one of the men he would like to keep, but on account that I was single he would have to let me go. ° Now I am another of the millions looking for work that can’t be found. | There is no union here but the cut- ters league and the company only works half of them at a time. —A Window Glass Worker. RAISE PRICE BUT PAY FARMERS 4c Milk Bosses Gouging Workers (By a Worker Corresnondent.) ALBANY, N. Y.—Just a few illuminating facts about the milk situation near Albany. The drought has not affected the | dairymen much. The dairymen tell me their cows give just as much milk as ever. Those who ran short of feed got a slight decrease of ‘nilk production. Note, also, the farmers are not|~ getting any more money for their milk from the dairies. They get about 4 cents a quart, same as be- fore the “drought.” SCORES OF OHIO JOBLESS SENT = TO JAIL ON ‘VAGRANCY’ CHARGES | Workers Must Fight For Workers’ Social In- surance Bill to Keep Alive This Winter Dayton, Ohio, Daily Worker:— DAYTON, Ohio.—Beautiful city. Clean streets, nice lawns, good- looking homes. Everybody’s happy. Got their own homes, cars, jobs; perfectly contented with their life. Perfect bliss reigned in this delight- ful town of 200,000 people; until those terrible Communists came. And then they tried to rule the city; took the law in their own hands, exposed the role of the police; even dared to lead the workers in a march to the city hall and proved to the workers that the mayor would not move one little finger for the relief of the unemployed. The Commu- nists upset the sacred quiet of Day- ton and continually insisted on “dis- turbing the peace.” Sure they did. They disturbed the mayor. They disturbed the chamber of commerce. And, worst of all, they disturbed the factories which are owned by the General Motors Co. In fact, the whole town is almost completely controlled by G. M. interests. And in this apparently peaceful town the Communists exposed some of the very true pictures of poverty and misery. Burn Bread. The Dayton Bread Co. finds itself with six or seven baskets full of bread after the day’s sale. Unem- ployed workers in the neighbothood come around at night to ask for bread. But, instead of giving the bread away, the company burns up the extra loaves. What's one more starving worker, more or less? Scores of unemployed workers are taken to jail every day for loit- ering. They have no place to go. Workers, born and raised in Day- ton, Ohio, on their last steps on the road to starvation. Many of these workers become desperate. Work- ers who are employed are brought to court for having a bottle of home brew and given high fines and sen- tenced to the workhouse. No re- gard is shown to the workers, They are treated as low as anything can be treated, and this is epecially no- ticeable in the court room where Judge Hodapp presides. Jobless Jailed. Scores of young workers are sen- tenced by him to the workhouse merely for =rancy or some other flimsy chaige. ‘ing drunk. jhe gets the epileptic fits all the Modern Sovi A view of one of the many h bread for the Soviet workers is bak Hundreds of huge communal and most modern kitchens and bakeries that are part of the Five-Year Pi more and more relieve the workin drudgery of the kitchen. Toilers of Nau Communist Candidate | | \ \ A. Borgnis, candidate for At- torney General of Connecticut on the Communist Party ticket. Com- rade Borgnis, who is a well known worker athlete, will help rally the workers of Connecticut for strug- gle against the bosses. | When a worker is being held for} bond in the police station they hold| him for any length of time until) the trial is called, if he does not get out on bond. The men w. have no beds bunk one on top of the other. Often there are so many men that half of them have no- where to sleep at night but the dirty floor. The girls have a little easier time of it, as there are beds provided for them. However, both the men and women suffer alike from the miserable food given to them. Two pieces of boloney in the morning, with tasteless hard-tack (pasty crackers) and the most vile coffee imaginable, which only to smell it makes one nauseous. At noon a plate of “vegetable” soup— and some more hard-tack and, if one can stand the sight of another! cup of coffee it is brought in. At! supper time the same nutritious meal—a plate of soup and hard- tack. Workers Brutally Treated. There is a girl at the police sta- tion at the present time who has been kept there for 25 days and fed this criminal diet. She has been| one of the many girls in Dayton who made starvation wages and was forced to make her living as a prostitute. Nevertheless, the capitalists are responsible for such professions. They should have some regard for them and pay girls a living wage so they do not have to sell themselves for a meal. A man today was brought in for trial. Unemployed. Lives at the Soldiers’ Home. Charged with be- After the court was dismissed we all waited for the pa- trol to take us back. This man sud- denly had a fit and we learned that time. The man didn’t know when they called his name, in fact some- one had to tell him, and then he looked half-dazed. This man hould have been sent to the hospital. He was so weak when told to get up that he could hardly move. Of course, that’s nothing. What of it, if he did serve in the world war and now he has no job or no home? Workers Must Fight Back. Hundreds of other things that make one’s blood boil at the out- $12.00 Wage For Rubber | with a greater decrease in help and | We have four plants of the U. S. | popular here on account of my foot- | their socialist bunk. A AS SMOKESCREEN ven. et Baia uge bakeries in the Soviet Union. equipped.with the most modern devices obtainable, where the daily ed. lan for socialist construction will ng women and housewives of the | i} gatuck, Conn. Naugatuck, Conn. Dear Comrade:— The rubber shops in Naugatuck are now working four days a week, at a lower wage. Some of the de- partments are working on the ar- rangements made by the foremen to suit themselves. The average wage here is now $12 a week and plenty of hours to earn it in. The town is full of dis- |satisfaction, but they still have a | lot of prosperity in their minds | which will soon be frozen out by the cold weather, The town is full of unemployed and some are in pretty bad shape. Rubber here and three others and the same conditions exist in all plants. Some workers are earning $5 a week and a little more, but not a hell of a lot more. There is also a foundry in the town and the workers are pressed for all they are worth. They work nine hours a day and thirty-five hours a week with very low wages. We are now starting an election campaign through the state and Naugatuck will be one of our stops, not only one but plenty, as this town used to be a great socialist town at one time. I am a candi- date on the Communist ticket for attorney-general and I am very ball activity, which I have now given up to put my full time to Party work, I have been asked to run on the sccialist ticket, but I told them that I am a Communist and I can’t see BORGNIS. | “WET” PETITIONS Workers Must Demand Social Insurance Chicago, Ill. Dear Editor:— I noticed in this morning’s Tribune in big headlines “400,000 Sign Wet Petition.” It is a wonder to me that the Daily “/orker has not al- ready exposed the fake issues of this prohibition question. The bosses’ scheme is to deliber- ately blind the workers to the real issues, such as the “Social Insur- ance Bill” as advocated by the Com- munist Party. To Befuddle Workers. Of course the purpose of this signature campaign is to obtain the workers’ votes in the coming elec- tions of the parties of oppression, viz, republican, democrat and social- ist parties. The rottenness of these fakers’ government stinks to hea- The lynchings, finger-print- deportation of the foreign- ;born, discrimination against world |war veterans when applying for work are of this government. | Seeing with alarm the growing | radicalization of the masses, they do {not know in which direction to fly and therefore they have hit upon \the plan of befuddling the workers’ |minds with the prohibition question. Millions of workers are out in the streets looking for a job, and what they need is not booze, but food, clothing and shelter for themselves, wives and families. While in the Soviet Union work- ers are receiving social insurance and countless other benefits when unemployed, in this land of so- called liberty they are given police clubs and insults by the bosses. How much longer is the American working class going to stand for this state of affairs? ing, hy against the working class. Stories of misery and suffering, which makes one realize that the workers have nothing to lose but their chains in fighting the capital- ist class. Such facts, when brought _ ELIZ’ | ters worse, every job in the yard i: PY BETHPOR SHUT DOWN F ACCIDENTS iki Men Must Answer By The Daily Worker: Dear Comrades:. as one of the sla leose the admission was not made te result of their enforced “vacation”® would be whacked up emplg the | coupon-clipping parasites. was to a straw boss that the ae shot was overheard giving the real rea-| son for the lay-off. Workers, Not Bosses, Suffer. No, it would not do for the slav: to know that they were being vi timized for the sake of dividend They were treated to a sob ballad] about the hard times from which the | bosses were “suffering,” about the drop in freight loadings, about “taking an inventory,” etc. Even} though the workers in our shops have to diet on this hooey for the} next half month, the pot-bellies must | get their regular boodle. Speed-up In Repair Shops. Repair work on the 500 locomo- tives in the Jersey Central service is done almost exclusively in the Elizabethport shops. Working con- ditions are frightful. Hardly a| month goes by that a worker is not killed on the job, despite the book of “safety rules,” a copy of which is given to every new hand with the warning that if he loses it he will be docked four bits. A hell of a lot of good the “rules” did the poor) worker who was working inside a boiler recently when live steam was shot into it. He was scalded to death before he could think of read- ing up on the “safety rules.” Patch and Repatch Work. The “rules” don’t have a word to say about what to do when the out- worn cable on a traveling crane snaps and pots a “safe and sane” worker on the head. There have been many “accidents” of this na- ture, directly traceable to the greed of the bosses, who will not hear of spending a few dollars to replace rotten equipment, in the face of which all the safety rules in the world don’t mean a damn. It is a wonder that there are so “few” wrecks to the credit of this| road. Engines are constantly out lof service. Not a single length of pipe is junked by the Jersey Cen- tral before it is as full of holes a sereen door. We keep patching| up antique locomotive parts until they are all patches. To make mat- done on piece rates, which means that the workers must rush like! blazes just to make cigarette money. | And, as a premium is put on speed | and quantity production, the qual- ity of the work suffers, endanger- ing not only the slaves on the job, but also the train crews and passen- gers who are hauled about by these rickety locomotives after they leave | the yard. “The stockholders must be satis- | fied,” come what may. But the| The Elizabethport yards of the tral have just been shut down for two weeks because |must be satisfied,” |be sure, when the hundreds of workers employed in the s | Farmers T,N.J. SHOPS OR 2 WEEKS; Fi iv SHOPS Bosses Put Burden of Cota on Workers While Their Dividends Go Marching On “Or unization Into the RWIL. of the TUUL Elizabethport, N. J New Jersey Cen- “the stockholders ave-drivers cynically explained. To hops were turned p them that the payroll saved as a FARMERS RELIEF, INSURANCE FUND TILLERS NEED Must Unite With City Workers LB a Eile Corr spondent) —I note Hoover | ees to the white | house to discuss “relief” for the drought-stric mers, Just imag= i r “relief” this will These kers will “grant” the farmers loans on “easy” security up to $20,000,000, plus interest, of cours The poor farmer, we all know, has no security of any kind to give, and since there are about 4,000,000 farm families in the United States needing relief of some kind, each family will, if they get it at all, receive the big sum of 00! Farmers, this is nothing but an insult to our class, and we must not stand for it. nother ridiculous capitali: 2 scheme is the one given by y of Agriculture, Hyde, who there is a balance |} of $800,000 from the flood relief fund, which can be used for the stricken farmers. On 4,000,000 farm families needing relief this will be 20 cents per family, so now we have the magnificent total of 20, and, mind you, this will be a loan at six per cent interest! Fellow-farmers, we must cease following these capitalist bunk peddlers and do some real fighting ourselves! How different is the program of the United Farmers League! The U.F.L. demands that a special Farmers’ Insurance and Relief Fund be raised by tax upon corporations, a tax on all foreign loans and investments, the turning over of this and of all Farm Board funds to an administration of actual farmers. Billions are needed for farm relief and we must fight for it, strike for it, demonstrate for it, yes, take it! Jersey Central workers will «ot be | “satisfied” forever with the way these swine are running things. —WU. BIOREN. Yours for the overthrow of the| capitalist class, —UNEMPLOYED WORKER. * * * Editorial Note:—Prohibition was | one of the earlier paticnalisaticn| schemes introduced right after the| war to eliminate the “blue” Mon-| days and spe’ up reduction. Its| potentialities as a fake issue were recognized later by the bosses. The Daily Worker may publish several articles showing up the true class |nature of prohibition and its use as a huge smoke screen for the cap- italists. Demand the release of Fos- ter, Minor, Amter and Ray- mond, in prison for fighting for unemployment insurance. Vote Communist! Active Amon Cleveland Jobless Council g Unemployed Cleveland, 0. ginning was to hold our meetings in the Finnish language because all To the Daily Wor our original membership were Fin- Cleveland Council No. 2 of the T.U.U.L. Unemployed Council was/ nish speaking comrades, But the organized August 3, 1930, with aj first time we had a non-Finnish membership of thirty. 1 personally | speaking comrade with us we saw know that most of the members| the mistake. Now all our meetings have been out of work for three | are in English. months or more so they all know Our work has been to send dele- that something must be done about | gates to the city central council. the situation and they were ready| We organized squads for going to organize and fight against the from house to house in our district capitalist class that has robbed us| to find out the number of unem- of the commodities of life which we | Ployed, giving them our leaflets and produced with our labor and which | explaining our work, belongs to us, | We also hold open air meetings LW.W. Disrupters Ousted. |in front of the factories on morn- Our first meeting was not quite | ings when the workers are going a success for there was this 1.W.W.|to work and the unemployed are element that tried to poison the} there looking for work. September progress of the organization by|1 demonstration is aiso under con- their soup-kitchen ideas, But this! sideration, meeting accomplished this, that it] On Thursday, August 28, we are cleaned away this harmful much of | holding an entertainment and dance L.W.W.ism. Now we are under the} at 8 p. m. It will be held at the leadership of the T.U.U.L. and the | hall where we hold meetings. The Communist Party which wil! lead} money from the affair will go to us not only in our daily struggle| and be used for T.U.U.L. work. for immediate demands. bu’ «!so| The meetings are held every Tues- in the preparation for the final|day and Friday at 2:30 p. m., at struggle for the overthrow of cap-| 1808 West 58th St. All the West italism and for the establishment of | Side comrades are welcome to be home, can only be wiped out by the rageous insults of the capitalists organization of the workers. a workers government. | there. One mistake we done in the be-! —SECRETARY,