The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1930, Page 6

wo : Pe sient Anite Pubit hnily exberitcs at Page Six : N Kt NY FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS AND THE ELECTIONS FOSTER leriean w« By WM. Z nae ave A ¢ conditions than th ment on winter n every dire th the cor y worse class feels ground, and tl The A. F. L. Labor and the so: America The A. Wk. of L. unskilled, for as of the. work s never tri e the as systematically to the unem s supported all the ant n legislatio x non-citizer union its pr ] coopera At the recent New York ban n, editor of the Jewisn Daily For- principal speaker was the fascist ew Wol!. This incident symbolizes the i front between the A. F. of nd the list party leadership and their basic unity Phe Fish Committee, which con heavy attacks against foreign-born recogni it re- 2 pa by tegorically mit any criticism of that party before its hearings. ‘The Communist f For organization and leagership, the foreign- orn workers, like the various other sections f the working class, look to the revolutionary to the Communist Party. In every born and native in the very fore- ment insurance, week, ‘ainst wage- legislation, in de- Negroes, inst im- of the Soviet Union Republic, are of the portance to the foreign- coming elections every foreign- r should rally to the support of tes and program of the Communist Pay The election must be made a great intolerable conditions under ard live. But it must alse come rty. ovement » of the workers, foreig Communist Party stand: ont. Its fight for unemploy the yu: day, 5-day . for defense tal i the vainst the throw of capi- not enough simply to vote for the Communis. Party candidates. In the cam- we must build the Communist Party and Trade Union intensify all their vol ary unions of the Leal nd greatly Unity work and struggle, Foreign-born worke , support the Commu ) ticket. In your language ion build committees to sup. nist Pa In the factories hborhoods join with other ion of the “Vote Commu clubs. Let the coming on for a great mobiliza- volutionary forces of the work- Party el fraternal org the port Comni and in your home neig Forward to the Detroit Auto Youth Conference y L THOMPSON T. U. U. L. Youth Organizer. THE conditions of the working youth gener 4 ally throughout the U. . are get worse as a result of unemployr ete., but in the automobile that the already intolerable speed-up system has reached a stage unheard-of in any other industry, Today in the auto industry, we have young workers working and starving at the the crisis, industry we see same time, getting $12 to $14 a week for 5 and 6 days’ work, as in Briggs, ete. In ‘the mad competition for markets and the break-neck speed-up system is used he main way of cutting the living standards of the whole working-class. Before the pres. ent crisis in the auto industry set in, the pro- portionate number of young workers was not as big as that of the adult worke: However: with the sharpening of the already fierce com- petition and growing unemployment, the bosses are setting higher speed-up production sched- ules in shorter time-limits. As a result of the fact that the young work- ers are better physically able to stand the strain and the speed of the work, the adult workers are being continually laid off, and the young workers are mostly surviving in the struggle for existence on the production line. However, this does not mean that young workers are not also unemployed, but their relative percentage is not as great as that, of the adult unemployed workers. For example recently at Murray Body and Ghevrolet while lay-offs of wor! were taking place continu- ally, it was the young workers who were mainly retained on the job. So while thou- sands of young workers are suffering the miseries of the unemployment, there are many thousands that are undergoing systematic starvation at the same time that they are em- ployed on the job. Because of the fact that it is precisely these young workers that are best able to endure the inhuman speed-up s tem, the bosses consciously follow the policy of replacing adult workers with young werk- ers in greater numbers (especially young gir) workers, who slave for even much less than the fellows do). But while for a time in the past the young workers emporarily were best able to keep pace with the increasing speed-up system, we know that there is a limit to the endurance-power of the young work This limit has already been reached, and the young workers are actually living on wages below their normal physical needs, amounting’ to $1.50 to $2 a day on piece-work scales. Young Girls Do the Heaviest ana Dirtiest Jobs. Young girls and women are being drawn into the industry at an especially fast rate. Young girls today in cértain auto plants are doing the filthiest, heaviest and dirtiest jobs in the industry such as oil-sanding, metal polishing and metal finishing for 28 cents and 32 cents an hour, while adult men-workers used to make $1.85 to $1.50 an hour two or three years ago. Even now young girls are being taken in by Briggs for duco-spraying for 30-35 cents an hour; this duco-spraying job is very hard on the lungs and even the strongest men are mot able to last more than four or five years on the: job. ‘In other words, the young workers are drawn into industry under the most miserable condi- tions of discrimination and exploitation, The speed-up system is burning out the lives of young workers. They work longer hours than the adult workers. This is especially so in the accessory parts section of the auto industry, which is a youth industry. It is nothing un- usual to find young workers slaving 54-56 hours a week, such as at the Briggs and Mur- ray plants. ere is in addition to the diseri- mination in wages and hours, the rotten piece- t ng and bonus system which is part of ne to speed up the workers. Hourly rates for young workers are as low as 18 cents an hour. As a matter of fact, young girl workers in the auto shops of Lansing were recently offered only 10 cents an hour. Even in such heavy sections of the’ industry as the foundries and steel mills oft Ford, we find nung workers employe! at the most miser- able conditions. While the young workers do the same work that the adults do, they re- ceive lower wages and are discriminated in a hundred and one different schemes. This meth- od of having the young workers speed up, work, ga sche produce just as much and even more, and get lower wages than the alult workers, is one chemes to divide the young dult of the best bosses’ workers and the use young workers a: the living standards class. Workers of 35 No Longer Employed in Auto Industry. In this way the bosses a means of cutting down of the whole working As a result of this policy of the bosses of using more youth labor, we find in many shops whole youth departments, At Ford’s, four out every ten-workers are youths—and in many departments (piston, stockroom, assembly, ete.) we have mostly young workers. Now it is prac- tically impossible for an adult worker 35 years old and over to get a job in the auto industry. The auto industry is becoming more and more of a youth industr; tens of thousands of adult workers are thrown onthe serap heap,” because they are now no longer able to withstand the unbelievable speed on the production lines, Not only have we got more young workers in the auto industry than before, but the “great humanitarian,” Henry Ford, even hires kids 12, 13 and 14 years old in his Ford Trade chool, where he trains them to be “broken in” at his Ford Rouge plant for wages 50 per cent of the adult workers. This vicious exploi- tation of child labor in his trade school and plants, Ford has the guts to call “part of the child’s education for success in life (!).” Negroes Doubly Enslaved. It goes without saying, of course, that the lot of young Negro workers is by far the wors.. The Negro workers as a whole are doubly enslaved, while the Negro youth suffer even more because of their youth and lack of organization and experience in the industry. They are given the worst jobs, the lowest wages, and are discriminated against and in- sulted in every possible way. While the American Federation of Labor ignores these inhuman working conditions of the working youth in the auto industry, the Trade Union Unity League is the only national trade union organization that actively organ- i the working youth for a. militant fight against the bosses on the basis of the class struggle. The young workers are taken into the T.U.U.L, and Auto Workers Union on an equal basis with adult members, with full power of vote and voice in the unions, The Trade Union Unity League realizes that without the organization of the working youth the organization of the unorganized is impos- sible. And now in this period when the bosses are madly rushing headlong into another world war, we must organize the auto war industry in which the youth are becoming a more and more important factor. The bosses encourage the building of the Citizen’s Military Training Camps in militarizing the young workers and preparing them for strike-breakers and cannon- fodder in the next war for the bosses’ profits. Already in these same sections of the auto industry where young workers are employed, the auto magnates have contracts with the U. S. War Department for the production of war materials, and the work in some plants has already started. (To be continued.) Meanwhile, thousands and | net VIEW Sees Dail Central 9 oes MAKE HIM COUGH UP! Workers! Demonstrate Sept. First! Demand ‘’»employment Insurance! Negro Workers, Know Your Party! By I. AMTER. Prisoner No. 52351. (Communist Candidate in the 23rd Congres- sional District, Bronx.) HERE are Negro leaders who are among the worst traitors that the race can im- agine. These leaders have only one connec- tion with the masses of Negro workers and tenant farmers and that is by pretending to represent their interests, they rise over their dead bodies and their misery. Garvey’s Fake Slogans. Marcus Garvey built an organization with the slogan “Back to Africa” and on this he raked in the scheckels. The Negroes were not permitted nor were they able to go to Africa, so Garvey trafficked with the demo- cratic party and supported Al Smith in the last elections. This is the party of Senator Blease of South Carolina, who said that when he was governor of that state, he told the whites that when they lynched.a Negro, “they should notify him the next morning.” He is the “upholder of law and order,” who said, “To hell with the Constitution” when it ap- plied to Negroes. And he still is a “respected” member of the United States Senate !—Marcus Garvey betrayed the Negroes. “Advancement” A-La Du Bois. Dr. W. &. B. Du Bois is another leading figure in the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. This organiza- tion preterids that it has stopped lynching in the South—by investigating and “demanding justice.” But, owing to the economic crisis, and the growing militancy of the Negro work- ers and poor farmers, the Negroes are be- ginning to resist this white terror. The answer of the white bosses in the South and North is an increasing savage wave of lynching. Dr. Du Bois is satisfied, as long as he and a few petty bourgeois leaders can rise out of this misery of the millions of Negroes. Du Bois is a traitor to the Negroes. “Socialist” Betrayal of the Negro. A. Philipp Randolph, socialist leader, or- ganized the Pullman porters, but betrayed them at the moment of struggle, together .with William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, when the porters were ready and had yoted 98 per cent for strike. The A. F. of L. is not interested in Negro workers and refuses to organize them. Randolph, like Green, believes in segregation and jim crow- ing. Both of them are enemies of the Negro and white workers. Kelly Miller, another leader of N.A.A.C.P., calls on the Negro workers and farmers to “fall in behind President Hoover in his pro- gram of economic and industrial construc- tion.” Miller declared that “the republican party is committed to the ‘lily white’ policy in the South.” He admits that neither the re- publican nor democratic party “has even ut- tered one outspoken word covering his Negro policy. The great (!) republican party as far as the poor black man is concerned is mute”. And yet ae says—line up behind the republican party! Miller is another traitor to his race. Poor Farmers “Stealing” Food. The country is in a fearful economic crisis (Hoover's program of economic reconstrue- ‘OR the 16th time the day is approaching on which the revolutionary young workers of all countries join together in great demonstra- tions of struggle against imperialist war and the shameful betrayal of the II. International. Today—12 years after the close of the 4-year robber war—the capitalist world finds itself again immersed in a far-reaching crisis, The wave of rationalization and the huge increase of unemployment bring with them renewed poverty and exploitation for the whole work- ing class and the youth. With the aid of the socialists, the bosses are attempting to throw all the consequences of the crisis onto the shoulders of the working class. Shockingly long hours and starvation wages, robbery of the last penny of the young unemployed—this is the way they are trying to escape the crisis. Increased deprivation of political rights and growing fas terror are the means adopted to break down resistance of the working class. tion”) which extends throughout the capitalist world. Eight million unemployed in the United States alone, vicious wage-cuts and speed-up; hunger for the workers and their families; misery and starvation for the farmers because of the agricultural crisis made worse by the drought. Bread lines and storming of em- ployment bureaus and factories in search of work; “wholesale stealing of food among poor tenant farme. families,” the papers report. Because of this crisis, lynching is on the in- crease (white terror). The Y.M.C.A. dis- charges a Negro assistant in White Plains, who had worked for them 22 years because he lived in a “respectable neighborhood.” Gold Star Negro mothers are sent across to France on a jim-crow ship, the Pullman porters are be- trayed—all of these open demonstrations of discrimination and jim-crowism. And yet Kelly Miller says there is only one question before the Negroes: “Are you wet or dry!” | Negro Masses—Know Your Party! | The republican, democratic and socialist par- | ties are traitors to the Negroes. Putting a | Negro into political office or raising him to | an influential position in these parties is for |.the purpose of getting the Negro vote and of using these people to help exploit and crush the Negro workers and tenant farmers and y keep the whole working class down. Only one Party fights for the Negro work- ers and tenant farmers—the Communist Par- ty. It stands for full economic, political and social equality and for self-determinatian for the Negroes. It fights against segregation, discrimination and jim-crowism in every form. It organizes the Negro and white workers into the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union | Unity League to fight shoulder to shoulder | against unemployment through unemployment insurance, against wage cuts and speed-up and for wage increases. It is organizing Work- ers’ Defense Corps, of white and Negro work- ers, to fight against lynching. The Commu- nists are the only fighters for the Negro as for the white workers and poor farmers. Recently in the Soviet Union, some Amer- ican workers helping to erect a factory at Stalingrad, threw’a Negro worker, who hap- pened to be there, out of a mess hall. These American workers are not before the court of the Soviet Union, and the Russian work- crs let them know that the Soviet Union with the Workers and Peasants (Soviet) Govern- ment is not capitalist America with its jim- crowing, lynch-promoting federal and state governments, The Negro workers and tenant farmers must line up behind the only Party of the working class, the Communist Party! Support the pro- gram of the Communists! Vote for Communist candidates! Join the Communist Party! (Written at Hart’s Island Penitentiary.) » Sy mat! everywhere: (ne year $6 May hattey and Bronx. SUBSCRIPTION RATES! x months $3; two mon ths $1; excepting Woroughs of | New York City, and foreign which are: One yr $8: six mons $1.90 BY BURCK. By JORGE Police Alibis. We are gently amused at the way Mr. Mul- rooney takés his own jokes seriously. After the farce of the ruction on 15th St. and Irving Place on August 1, and his pained regrets that while it seemed un- fortunate that many people were beaten up, yet it was still more unfortunate that no “par- ticular could be identified—after this it would not do to have any ‘identifications made at the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration. So the dicks in plain clothes were not given ordeis to provoke a fight, but even at that the Com- missioner took care that no uniform men would be caught. The “socialist” whom the N. Y. Times keeps to write up stuff about the Com- munists, came out in Saturday’s paper with the alibi that: “The shield number of every policeman was noted by Captain Ward before the man took his post, to aid, it was assumed, in checking up on complaints of rough handling if any should develop.” This pleasant little lie, unfortunately, was unwittingly punctured by the N. Y. World writer, who said that: “Mulrooney stationed nearly 100 plain clothes men in and about the north end of the square and most of them freely hoped for a chance to engage in one of their customary field-and- track tournaments with the Communists,”’— then adding: “Mulrooney, mindful of protests against police brutality in several recent Com- munistic meetings in the Square, had only thirty-five uniformed police on duty and they, according to headquarters gossip, were in- investigating” offender” % Vote Communist! YoungWorkers inCity andCountry! All Out for International Youth Day! Imperialists Prepare War. The armaments and preparations for war have reached gigantic dimensions. We are being threatened with the danger of new im- perialist wars which the capitalist robbers are setting ablaze everywhere in their search for new sources of profit and for the domination of the colonial and semi-colonial countries. The heroic revolution of the Chinese work- ers and peasants, the mighty struggle of lib- eration of the oppressed peoples in India and Indo-China are being attacked with blood and steel by the armed troops of MacDonald and the other greedy imperialists. More and more tightly is the ring being drawn by the world imperialists around the first workers’ state, the Soviet Union, where the working class, free from the yoke of capitalism, is going ahead at a stormy pace to build up a new world, the world of socialism. But under the blows of capitalist exploita- tion, militarism and fascism, millions of op- pressed workers in all countries have awakened and joined in the struggles. Big economic struggles and strikes, clashes and uprisings, the victorious events of the Red Army in China, the courageous participation of the youth in all these struggles and their own youth strikes witness the new advance of the revolutionary movement, Call on Workers and Soldiers. Young workers! In the factory, where you all are subjected to the same slave driving and exploitation re- gardless of the organization to which you may belong, set up the proletarian united front for a common struggle for your immediate de- mands! Young workers in the socialist and national organizations, break with your leaders who deliver you into the hands of capitalist exploitation; join the ranks of the young prole- tariat in the class struggle! Young workers in the factories and unem- ployed youth! Struggle in the united front for work and bread and against mass dis- missals! Soldiers! Establish contact with the reyo- lutionary proletariat! Do not fire on your struggling brothers, the Chinese and Indian workers and peasants, but struggle at their side! Support Colonial Revolts. Young workers! Prevent the transportation of munitions and arms to be used against the rebelling workers and peasants in China, India and Indo-China! Use your readiness for prole- tarian struggle and your spirit of sacrifice to follow the banner and the slogans of Lieb- knecht and Lenin! Join the ranks of the Young Communist International which alone is struggling for all your vital interests under the leadership of the Communist Interna- | tional—your place is here! The Soviet Union, the dictatorship of the proletariat, shows you by its tremendous success the road to libera- tion from the capitalist crisis and poverty. Defend the Soviet Union. On September 8, XVI International Youth Day, demonstrate in the streets under the banner which has been tested in the struggle, the banner of the Young Communist Inter- national. For the defense of the Soviet Union! Against the intervention of the imperialists and for the victory of the Chinese Revolution! Against war preparations and the imper- jialist war danger! Against deprivation of political and eco- nomic rights, against eaten and for the improvement of the conditions of the working youth! Es For proletarian defens. and fraternization between the workers and soldiers! For the victory of the world revoltttion! EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL, structed to let the unidentifiable plain clothes men do whatever rough-housing eventuated.” It is, of course, no news to us that Mulrooney was following his illustrious predecessor in planting dicks in plain clothes in crowds to start a fight and thus furnish the excuse for general slaughter. It’s an old game, though the young innocents of the Civil Liberties Union seem never to guess it. Nor is it new that the N. Y. Times does its utmost to cover up this hoary old trick with palaver about the policé captain taking the harness bulls’ shield numbers as a means of checking up on police brutality. What is new is that we are formed that the worst liar in protecting the cops and attacking the workers is hired by the N. Y. Times because he is a “socialist” and can excel any other press prostitute in this city of Sodom and Gommorah newspapers. * * * “Cash Talks” We always knew it, but were somewhat sur- prised to see it looking right at us out of a capitalist paper headline. So we read a bit further. A gink with the funny moniker of Jacob Cash, it appears, paid $2,000 as a bribe to Walker’s private treasurer, Healy, to hold down the job of City Marshall. Now we don't know what the duties of a City Marshall are but probably the heaviest work is drawing pay. Cash paid cash. But he didn’t get the job. Like us he always thought that money talks, but since he was dumb, Cash himself talked Walker put on the usual phonograph recor entitled “The Mayor Denies”, saying that Cash guilty of the “meanest kind of preying on poor people”. If you want to prey on poor people, don’t be “mean” about it, and Jazzy Jim won't mind. But poor people ordinarily are but slightly acquainted with Cash. And though (and I hope nobody’s goin’ to laugh about this!) an Assistant Attorney General by the name of Penny, says Cash cuts no figure in the investigation, we’re going to reveal a little revelation about this Jacob Cash. Cash—quite appropriately, is the founder of “The Patriotic League of America”, and has written a pamph- let, of, by and for Cash, “exposing the ter- rible corruption in Russia under Bolshevism” and urging all good patriots to send in con- tributions to help pay the cost of rounding up “Bolshevik agents” in America for deportation from this home of hokum. It seems this may be the “meanest” way of preying on the poor which Walker referred to. Anyhow, retribu- tion overtook Cash and he lost his cash to Healy, though he explained that he was twice reinstated as city marshall (after being twice removed, of course) for $100 cash on one oc- casion and a suit of clothes on another, both given to that chap Tommany, who has a funny name himself—so much like Tammany. Any- how, with all these grafting patriots double- crossing ach other, Walker still has nerve enough to keep the unemployed delegation in jail for six months because they were guilty of “bad manners”. in- * * * “Bring Me My Liar” Spencer once cited the story of a French king who, annoyed by some public clamor, cried out: “Bring me my liar!” referring evidently to the editor of what then passed for the N. Y. Times. The Times takes all prizes, having blossomed forth more luxuriant- ly of late with Munchhausen fairy tales about the Soviet Union. The best yet appeared in Wednesday’s paper: A tale of a British “la- borite” of how “amazed” he was at “Russian poverty,” which he says he “discovered” by “slipping «way from official couriers” while visiting the Soviet Union. To think that he went all the way from England to find poverty! He remarks upon a supposed price of butter, $4.90, which, if he didn’t invent entirely prob- ably was asked by some Nepman who saw that he didn’t look like he represented “labor.” But while one might stretch their-imagination a lot, he asks too much when he tells us that “Every ten or fifteen minutes armed squads of Red Guard parade streets” looking for people with “opinion.” But this poor liar is late. Sidney Webb told us the same: thing years ago, and the same sort of counter-revo- lutionary war provocations can be read in any edition of the Trotskyites’ local paper. In fact we can see no political reason why the “Mili- tant” is not amalgamated with the N. Y. Times. except that King Capital believes in specializa- tion of labor among his liars.