The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1930, Page 3

bisa : DAILY WORKER, N =- Ee ay rs “E’ Es EE OTRHOUR DAY AT SiSteatandboot tor OPTICAL MEN | CROWN LAUNDRY SPEED DRIVEN Correspondents | | The Editor: | Join Medical Workers Build TUUL. Strike | Dear Sir:—I observed in to- ~A Story of Soviet Youth’ iA Written Version of the Russian Movie For American Working Class Children | By MYRA PAGE 1 (Continued) | Immediately everyone wa | damp here.” “But all workers |children should have playgrounds king ; now.” EW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 19: Children of the New Day| INTFERNATIO ) " . Page Three oN EWS © 60,000 at Ber- acicks has Te BES lin Red Shorts sd Fvench Un 10n ek to From | All Lands|fakers Se New York. day’s Daily Worker that the Cen- 7 ! | tral Bureau for Worker Corre- Fund For Fight! spondents plans to issue a small a handbook for worker correspon- E epee New York. | dents to help them in their work. To the Daily Worker:— I feel sure that this would give The workers in the Crown Laun- dry Co. work under miserable condi- tions and a speed-up system. a helping hand to many workers We come to work at six o'clock to express themselves better. in the morning and we work until | ARK MINERS RET seven in the afternoon, about 13} fy i | —WORKER. hours a day, six days a week, and} Industrial League! Mount Vernon, N. Y. Daily Worke Four months ago I happened to find some work in the General Op- tical Co., Mount Vernon. Speed-up and slave-driving is the general rule in this shop. | Low Wages. The wages here are very low. | Young workers, boys and girls have been getting $13 a week for 48 “Yes,” Vanya put in, “there . , oN jquestions and talking at onee.| are more than ten thousand new D ogyonstvaltlon — sai —— Spire a Sell-out tight here, in the house where | playgrounds in the Soviet Union LONDON.—The reports on t Lenin lived. How could such a) but still far from enough.” —— ¢ n of no fewer 000 ae thing happen in Leningrad!” It} “Oh-h” Nick, a red-haired Pio-| BERLIN (LP.S.). The Red| Communists in Changsha »! PARIS (LP.S.).—It is now self- |was decided to go find Fatima at|neer spoke up, “remember what | Workers’ Sport and Culture Day | retaking of this town by y that the reformist leaders onee, and get all the f Alex | Vanya said about us doing our part.| held in Berlin recently was emin ter-revolutionary are d evmined to force the resump- took them to the entrance where | I’ve got a real idea. Why not us/ently successful. The revolution-| being ois | tion of wrok ille on the basis |he had last seen Fatima and the | Pioneers make these kids a play | ary workers arrived in great proces-| papers here of the cond pwn by the Pioneers entered the courtyard. | room sions from a number of meeting | employers’ completes The children playing there crowded| “That's a swell idea. Let’s Let’s.”| places to the Neukollw Stadion,| BOMB AY.—Reports reaching ery, “What curiously about the newcomers. | room?” | “Do you know Fatima G do you mean, a play- | which wa one of the children asked. | vi crowded by over 60,000 rs, here result from the gre: tate that continuous activity of the conflicts trade Where does she live?” “Yes, yes,” | “Oh,” said small Alex, waving| The workers’ choral societies sung | insurgents the British in they answered in chorus, she lives | his hand in a grand gesture, “It’s a| a revolutionary song, and Comiade| troops. 23 there was fight- strikers are however down that cellarway. But she ain’t | room full of toys and games and|Heing Neumann then greeted the| ing ng the whole. nigh y roused, and the workers there now. She’s run away agai | They questioned the children and books and _pictures—and—every- thing” he ended a little lamely. Fatima’s aunt also, but what they “Where’ll we have it?” someone Red Review in the name of the Ger- | in s of Northwest | are everywhere protesting indig- man Communist Party. He provin nantly against the latest develop- spoke a few words in honor of the n In different places spontan- that makes about 78 hours a week | | hours’ work. work, | | If you happen to be one minute | “a : late in the morning the company 20 C +f Women. 5 ‘i 20-Canks An tious Rar Naren! — cuts off 15 minutes off your wages The boss pays the men 35 cents} Bonanza, Ark. | and also you lose one hour “bonus.” an hour and the women 20 cents an|To the Daily Workér hour, and the women work the same; I am well pleased with the Daily. hour more extra and calls that eer: ob Kotike jTt is the right paper, carrying the | “bonus” if you don’t happen to be ge LY he 2 right message and should go into} Jate, When we asked the boss far 8) every working man’s house. | Lay-offs Follow Speed-up. raise eh told us to go, because he} The miners here are unorganized. | could get cheaper labor today than|No check weighman around on the | {he workers have been laid off and ever before. tipple. | generally the shop works four and Workers Must Organize. | All mines work less than half} five days a week at present. But We know that today the boss| time. One mine at Midland works |the workers must now work faster makes more profits than ever be-| full time, but the miners don’t get | and do the same amount of wo foies pay day nor have not had one for they did before in a full week. New machinery produces more|/a month, only what they take up; Workers in the General Optical work with less workers and brings in store ord ‘ " Co., join the Medical Workers’ In- more profits to the bosses. If a miner is hard up for a little! dustrial League! The bosses throw more workers) cash for doctor's bill or something|can fight against the out of work than ever before. | the store don’t have, he can get $10 | Hoover prosperity. The only way to solve this prob-|or $15 by discounting at 10 cents lem of rotten conditions, misery and | or the dollar. slavery is ‘to organize ourselves,} Well, some few attempts have employed and omployed worker’, | been tried at reorganizing the min- | | into the revolutionary unions. ers back into the U. M. W. A., but most of them have got enough of John L, Lewi —V as infamous —COMPANY SLAVE. COMMUNISTS ON PENNA, BALLOT Write as you fight! Become a worker correspondent. B. THOMPSON, Sentiment For Revolutionary Miners Union Among Montana Miners Saturday and Sunday PHILADELPHIA, Pa., —Through the help of wo: ganizations, the Communist Party company houses. Living On Spuds Roundup, Mont. Editor Daily Worker: | Dear Comrade:—I am sending my} Some men are not working for fraternal greetings to you all and|over a year and some families are | at the same time sending a report] living on bread and spuds. Once| is today on the ballot in Pennsyl- on my travel to the West Coast. In| every two days one square mea] for | vania. the sections I visited I see that in| children, so you can see how the | collected (in spite of over 700 stolen many cities_they need field organ-| conditions are here. izers and delegates. Riding the Rods. tion of blue laws and confiscation Miners Unemployed. So you see that they need an or- | Of lists by the police) 12,500 signa In Roundup, I spoke to several! ganizer here badly, but if possible | tures have been given. Only 6, groups of coal miners and as I see| see if the T. U. U. L. can send a | are required. % s the sentiment for the new N. M. U.| man. bag | The Communist election campaign Sept. 10 | That means the company pays one The “rush” is over and some of Campaign Tag Day on ers’ or- The number of signatures | | in one ctiy near here b yapplica- learned was scant enough. It was asked. Then everybody clear that they must find Fatima each other. noked at crowds of z-| VIENNA ers celebrated Solidarity Day of Grea ations have been held. onary trade unions have dead and severely wounded in E lau, of the Red Army of Chir herself and make friends. Also| “This is a fine idea,” Vanya | of the Soviet Union, and then turned| Workers’ International Relief. Com-| issued the slogans: Down with com- |the Society for Protection of Child- | agreed, “just the kind of job for|to the questions of the election| rede Schuller greeted the demon-| promise, long live the strike! It |ren must be notified. Pioneers to do. Shall we go back’ struggle, being held amidst the| stration on behalf of the Austrian| will soon be observable to what ex- “Ts this the only place you’ve got | to our headquarters and plan it out} want and misery of millions of| Communist Party The Solidarity! tent the workers of Lille submit to |to play?” demanded a Pioneer of | a bit?” |human beings, of unemployment,|Day proved a great demonstretoin | the pressure exerted by their lead- one of the courtyard children, See-| “That's right.” “We'll be back|mass taxation, and all the ccnse-|for the revolutionary trade union! ers | ing the youngster nod, the Pioneer| soon” the Pioneers ealled back, as | quences of the capitalist collapse. | erposition eee | said indignantly, “But this ain't a| they marched off. A fascist wave is rushing over Ucr- | to | fit place for kids to play in.” “No,”| “Don’t forget. Don’t.forget,” the | many. We have decisive str BERLIN The. former ‘afhister PRAGUE TEXTILE TOILERS | others chimed in “it’s dark and| children éalled after them. PLANS PARADE TO NEEDLE WORKERS “SS FOOL WORKERS BACK TUUL FUND ‘Victor to Put On Fake Potash to Speak in Prosperity Stunt Philadelphia Today PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 10. ~|—A mass meeting is called by the (Continued from Page One) iy j in Camden—young workers es-| Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | pecially girls may be seen every} Union to meet here at Garrick Hall day wearing bandages over blis-| Thursday to start the drive for tered, bruised and cut-up hands and| building the Trade Union Unity arms. In spite of the fact that more and more are being packed in to. this slaughter house, it is a .| known fact that this is only for @/ New York organization, will be the very short time. For the majority | main speaker. will be laid off in two weeks time,| yoy. , W. I. U. in Philadelphia after the 19th of Sept. parade. | 5, carrying on an extensive organ: This is how the Victor Radio} ization campaign. In the men’s Plant will solve the problems of | clothing trade, where the Hillman arvation for millions of jobless. | regime is working with the bosses For two weeks time approximately | to speed the workers and force new 20,000 workers will be given jobs,| wage cuts on them every day, a big working night and day, at ter ¢,| meeting of men’s tailors was held speed. At the end of this time on | Sept. 6 as a result of which a num- September the 19th, the big show ber of shop committees were or- League “Organize and Strike Fund” of $100,000, Trving Potash, secretary of the before us. We are confronted Ly| ci? home affairs, the soci emocrat, |the serious danger of a fascist dic-| Severing, speaking at a social dem- T0 STRIKE AGAINST CUTS tatorship in r ocratic meeting at Oldenburg} workers d to the knife] stated: | Z against the threatened mil i n the prese period of emer- PRAGUE, Czech s vakia As tatorship. A storm of revc gency I find that an opposition, by | already reported, the textile - awakening is go which the party i would | nates have given notice of the ex- ' The workng ¢l gain, would be too e path. We Piration of the collec agreement for the Warnsdorf Zwickau district, son that We recognize the necessity |and demand a 15 per cent wage re- of a policy on a broad governmental | duction. Last Wednesday the firm majority.” This a direct offer|of Klein, Warnsdorf, gave noti hunger, against the exploiting in dustrial magnates. The camp in which this ur , unity offer our co-operation, for the r I : unity ag: h to be found is the C inist tz| of support to the fascists. that it was beginning at once with jof Germany. After the 14 | ar nee |the 15 per cent wage cut. Upon September there will begin a lif%| ppppin t tort. |this the workers elected a fighting During the fir ht f August the Commu ty of Germany, Baden district, ed 140 new members. In the same period of time the Young Com- munist gained 112 new ‘committee, and resolved on Friday ,almost unanimously to go on strike. The strike committee is composed of working men and women without difference of political and trade union party membership. The strug- gle of the Klein factory workers is of great importance inasmuch as it may become, in view of the similar vings among the textile employ- and death struggle against the threatening fascist dictatorship. Only with the aid of,the masses cax! y er ward cff this ¢ ‘ we Comrade Ulbricht read the ng oath, which was repeated by the members. masses, standing, with raised fists. * * * This was followed by sports, per-]_ pRaGut formances by Agitprop troops, pro-! 9: the political pris League —Since the last strike isoners, the Red eo ete poses peneucls and) Aid has been ¢ ying on a great! one of the whole of the North Bo- caripattires) /ekc: : | cempaign . against’ judicial terror|;emian textile industry, the center The police had sent large forces,| and for the release of all political; ce, struggle Whole of the which adopted the most provocatory | prisone eh eee at ele aa attitude, and made many arrests on | b trade unions. The Communist Par- |ty and the Red trade unions, in view jof this strike, are appealing for the | acceleration of organizational fight- ing preparations all over the dis- | trict. the pretext of the wearing of for-| bidden uniforms and the like. FARM IN THE PINES ated in Pine For Disturbances in Your $18 Wishing is pretty good here. About 600men| Every freight train carries 50 to are out of jobs and the U. M. W. A.|a hundred men going east or west has taken their cards away because | and the police are helpless, but they they refuse to work for cut wages.| won't even let the men go to town The wages are high at $7.16 a|if they can’t show them some money day, outside workers get from $4/to buy some grub. to $5 a day. The conditions are rot-| Well, must close to get down to ten here and the U. M. W. A. is| the yards and get the train going working and spying on the men and | west. evictions occur every day from the —M.W.LU. DELEGATE 914, committee calls on all workers to j vote for Frank Mozer for governor, | E. P. Cush for U. 8. senator, Sam- |uel Lee for lieutenant governor and | for the rest of the ticket, To pay expenses of a thorough campaign, the workers are urged to | participate in a tag day, Sept. 13 and 14, Headquarters for the tag day are at: Ukrainian Club, 715 N. Kidneys | ana Bladder will be staged. The two main’ ganized, and a conference will be actors will be the arch faker, | called in October. Dwight Morrow, republican candi- Great Struggle Near, date for state senator of N. J, and ‘ the bosses’ hero Lindy. Twenty| In the dress trade thousands of | sonia be checked at once. It’s dan thousand Vietor-slaves will be a col- ,!2"sanized young and Negro work- gerous to neglect these warning orful background to show off to the ¢'S are being exploited. Conditions pains. Night rising, back - aches |“publie.” ‘These workers. will be i8 the International Ladies’ Gar. burning pains ean usually be quickly forced to march on September the Ment Workers shops are as bad ax relieved by using Santal Midy (usec | forced to march on September those in the open shops, The all over the world for nearly a.cen 19th or lose that day’s pay. In this tury). Get some fron M. OBERKIRCH 7S KINGSTON N | The Communist Party fights | lynehing—vote Communist! CAMP WOCOLONA on Walton Lake, Monroe, N. Y. will be Oben Through Sept. 24th | Sixth St.; Workers Club, 4045 West and 2926 THE BANKRUPTCY OF CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURALISM Six volumes, paper bound, 256 pages each; twenty-five cents per volume, stamps or coin. These boks are primmers for children, yet a post graduate course for collegians. They are written from the viewpoint of the Trial, Vol. I; The Sciences, Vol. II; History, Vol. III; Philosophy, Vol. IV; The Bible, Vol. V; Sociology, Vol. VI. There are twelve chapters of about twenty pages in each book. The first and second volumes have been published. The third volume will be ready in September and the other three at intervals of six months, Send fifty cents for copies of Communism and Christianism and the first three volumes of the Bankruptcy of Christian Supernaturalism. HERESY This is Bishop Brown’s quarterly magazine. Each number consists of one of his lectures on the greatest and most timely among cur- rent subjects. So far they have been as follows: January, 1930, The American Race Problem; April, The Pope’s Crusade Against the Soviet Union, and July, The Science of Moscow and the Super- stion of Rome. Send for a free sample copy. p +} | Girard; Workers Center, 567 N. bth labama Miner Gets $15 After Two Weeks Toil | s¢.; Workers Genter, 612 N. Breok- Serie: sninecn Worker) | Rittner Sts.; Workers Club, BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The conditions in this mine called Docena | West Gordon St.; and Worke and owned by the T. C. I. are just as rotten as they can be. Just yes- | Center, 2802 Kensington Ave. terday I got my statement and only made $28 in two weeks. Then | they cut me for bathhouse, 50 cents; doctor, $1; store clerk, $8; explo- only drew $15 and I got a family to take care of and you can judge by | BILL GREEN LIES that I am in a hell of a fix. The rent man is coming and he wants $10, the furniture man wants | ABOUT “DOLES” $5, and that’s all I got. This T. C. I., which owns this mine is one of the dirtiest companies : in the state of Alabama. But I can say this: the only way we white aa strong masses and demand what we want. The bosses kow that as long | 0n rice—the same as Chinese as they can keep us separated and use one worker against the other, | coolies. they can always sit down and eat pie and cake and we white and colored Look on page 4 of the N. Y. Times workers work hard as hell and have to eat the crumbs that the bosses | 0f Wednesday. You will see there leave. * —A MINER. that letters are coming into the prs _._-. |fake “employment” office of Tam- “A woman living in Des Moiues, Towa, reported that there were so many girls and women in that COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISM locality in need of employment that they were willing to come to 225th fhousand, paper bound, 247 pages; twenty-five cents. New York and work for as little “Like a brilliant meteor crossing a dark sky, it held me tight.” By Now if this sort of wages is not MY HERESY “a dole,” Mr, Green, what in the hell This is an autobiography published by the John Day Company, ||] 875 ‘Red? Are they those “better New York; second printing, cloth bound, 273 pages; price $2.00. that you gabble.abutt, trying be make believe that the workers who And what are you doing about it? About these hellish low wages all over this country. Bill Green, | didn’t you promise President Hoover last December that you would pre- vent strikes for higher wages? You And you have “warned” against Communists who were leading s*rik ers for higher wages. Green is not against a dole. is for a dole. He is against higher wages because the bosses whose them, He is against the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bili of the Commu- nist Party because it demands that the capitalists whom he serves and who fill his pockets with graft, must pay wages to the workers if big wages, but just $25 a week, and to all workers who cannot find a job, or who cannot work because they are crippled or sick or are too old for the bosses to hire. The Communists are against a for a dole if you’re working, and for you starving to death if you're not. The Communists want the workers to eat, whether they have a job or not. Green wants them to starve whether they work or not. |lyn St.; Workers Club, 8th sives, $3.80; supplies, 85 cents. After they got through cutting me I and Negro workers can get better conditions is to unite together in (Continued trom Page One) many town. The Times says: Bishop Brown's Books as $2 a week.” “The most important book of the year 1926.” have jobs now really get? did. And you prevented strikes. boots he licks would have to pay they do not give them jobs. Not dole, Green and the A. F. of L, are That's all! Subscription 25 cents per year. Single Copies 10c each, THE BRADFORD-BROWN EDUCATIONAL CO. GALION, OHIO ” | cover up the existing crisis of un- He } Schlesinger outfit is discredited in the eyes of the workers, The N. T. W. I. U. has carried out a num- ber of stoppages which have raised prices on the work. A daily strug- gle is going on and shop ‘commit- tees are being organized. The union is being built on the basis of a great struggle in the coming spring with istants their will manner the RCA capita the help of their ready a: | represented by Morrow and |darling Colonel Lindbergh, employment and push in the back- ground their vicious speed-up and | wage-cut methods in making huge profits. These will be the methods | Saacon, used to blindfold the working masses to the present rotten condi tions and fool them into believi that Morrow represents the int ests of the people, in the coming November elections. fur workers are preparing for intense strug-le against starva- tion wages, in both corporation and | contracting shops. Kauffman’s In- |ternational Fur Workers’ Union is openly selling out and betraying the workers, The N. T. W: I, U, calls on ali jneedle workers, cloak, dress, shirt, |rary employment and that immedi- | ™Jllinery, fur, men’s clothing, to | | ately following the big show on the build shop committees, build the in- they are being used to fool other = {YD CELEBRATION Victor bosses of speed-up and wage- | bonus em, the» speed-up and day week for all young wor | city wide celebration is being pr |19th, they will again be forced to| dustrial union, get back of the “Or- workers into believing that RCA is | cut. We must organize and join| IN Industrial ' |wage-cut. We must fight for a 7-| Young Workers Urged under 18, We must fight to abolish pared for Friday night, Sept. But the working masses will not be fooled. Especially are the radio workers of Victor's already realizing that this is only tempo- | The radio workers must realize that | "87st wage cuts and speed-up. must reveal the methods of the Union and fight against the fake workers and a 6-hour lay and 5- PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10.—A join the army of jobless workers. | &@"2¢ and Strike” fund, and strike employing workers steadily. We the Metal Workers hour day and 5-day week for all naga To Participate | the fake insurance system and de | mand a real insurance for all ac | dents. nist League to mark the 16th anni versary of International Youth Day The LY.D. celebration will tak place at the new district headquar. ters at 567 North Fifth St. (cor Fifth and Green), at 8 p. m., Fr day. A real proletarian program i being arranged. There will also b: speakers from the Communist Par 3,000 Vote For De- troit Communists (Continued from Page One) | from voting because of the residence | qualification, Also many unem- ty, Y.C.L. and Young Pioneers ployed workers were disfranchized | After the program there will be 2 in the same manner, dance, This was the first time a Com- munist candidate appeared on the ticket for mayor in the city of De- troit. In the last presidential elec- tion, William Z, Foster, presidential candidate on the Communist ticket, | received 2,800 votes in the entire | state of Michigan, The election campaign will merely | spur the ever-increasing fight for the. Unemployment Insurance Bill, which the Communist Party in De- troit is now carrying on in the shops and factories. The recent attack against the leaders of the Party in | Detroit, which began with eleven ar- { |rests and warrants for Raymond| '¢? The Young Communist Leagur has issued leaflets ealling upon the employed and unemployed young workers of Philadelphia to come in large numbers and celebrate Inter. national Youth Day. The LY.D. celebration will also be another pro- test against bosses’ preparations for a new war, and a demonstration of solidarity of the Philadelphia Negro | and white workers of the Soviet Union. All workers, young and old | | are urged to come to the celebration Demand the release of Fos Minor, Amter and Ray jand Stachel, will but spur on the) mond, in prison for fighting | activities of the militant workers. | for unemployment insurance. EO = - = “| by the Philadelphia Young Commu * your druggist at once Santa Mid 1 | T.U.U.L. Members $17 per Week j Daily Rate $3.50 per Day | Phone: Gramercy 2862 ° Office: 10 East 17th St., N.Y.C. Only Three More Weeks Left to the Gigantic DAILY WORKER Morning Freiheit 4 Million and One Articles Sold at Proletarian Prices Workers’ Organizations and Individual Comrades, let us know at once what you have done already for the Bazaar. If not, tell us what YOU ARE PLANNING TO DO.