The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1930, Page 3

| enc 4 ‘3 ' =-_ Fe ay rs x of th fee Story 'GORMAN, U.T.W, FAKER HAS LONG (SPEED UP OTHERS _ LIST OF BETRAVALS OF WORKERS MINERS STARVE; Rank and File U.T.W. Mem National Textile Daily Worker: ers’ Union at the Great Northern !i bers Must Be Won for the Workers Union New York. At the second day's session of the A. F. of L. United Textile Work- | Mr. Gorman, the first vice presi- | dent, said that the time has come {or organization. Well, Mr. Gorman, I know you very well, and heard you saying the same thing in 1923 at Pawtucket, R. - I. Where after Local 799 after a seven months’ battle you were the one to put a monkey wrench in the strike and succeeded in getting a fake statement in favor of your skilled machinists and the un- skilled workers, beginning the first days of the settlement kicked out by the company and why? You , know its policy, that all that work- | ers who are in the front in cigdal| , time must be kicked out after the | ‘strike is sold out. | ‘ Known Agent of Bosses. | And why are you angry about the | South so much, when you know that | you are the one who helped the bosses to move to the South from Pawtucket, R. I., and you were the | one who supplied them with ail the skilled workers that the bosses | needed, also securing a good num- ber of experienced weavers to go and teach the learners at the rate | of $45 a week to Cleveland, Ohio, mills, Fooled Women Workers. | And you are the one who put the dirty trick in the 1929 Pawtucket Valley election campaign that by | fooling the women ‘voters in order | to secure them a job. The bill} | passed and the young girls and old | women began to work 12 hours a night in your locality. And you are the one who supported the cock- roach bosses at the time of the Pat- erson strike to come to your town, where there is no higher wages | and shorter hours. Then you be-| gan to organize a settleement with | } the bosses in 1929—men and women | 5-54-60 hours day and night and| 5 cents a yard and a charter of the | Ae et A | You are the one who threw al monkey wrench in the Wilkes-| Barre strike by letting the day | weavers scab on the night weavers and the night loom fixers never | walked out because they belonged | to a skilled craft, but they are a! bunch of shoemakers, anyhow. | Join N. T. W. U. for Fight. And there are many more betray- als that you pulled off. And a man like you dare have nerve to be the spokesman for the millions of starving textile workers! And what kind of a union are you selling when a labor traitor | like you is the vice-president? We, the mill slaves, don’t need your dope any more, and you know it very well. We belong to the only union where there are no fakers | like you, workers from the shops | are the vice-presidents and every-| thing, and American, foreign-born, | Negro and white workers, men and womeen, have the same equal dem- ocracy. Long live the National Textile Workers’ Union. Down with the U, T. W. fakers! —J. GREGORY. WINTER HELL FOR JOBLESS | | | Must Speed Fight For Job-| less Insurance j (Continued From Page 1.) ‘| Christian Science, with a dash of lurid witchcraft, men hope to expel the crisis devils | STREETCLEANERS TOIL LONG HOURS Foremen Speed Up the Men; Hard Work New York City. Editor Daily Worker:— I am working for the City of New York in the street cleaning department, and I want to tell you of some of the conditions we have to put up with. 9-Hour Day. We have to work nine hours a _day, seven days a week, and no pay | for overtime. We have to make {six loads of rubbish a day and| sometimes we are working two or | three hours a day overtime with- | out time off or overtime. We have | foremen who speed us up and who chase from morning until night. Hard In Winter. It is not a soft job in the winter time. We have to work in the snow, rain, wind or heat and we are exposed to all kinds of sickness. | Sometime ago one of the men fell dead from the heat and he was working overtime when this hap- |pened. He was the sole support of his wife and four children. I will keep you posted on events in this department. I wish you would withhold my name as I would get fired if they found out about this. —SWEEPER. production, More workers are being unemployed; more wages are being cut. Proof? There is loads of it, which the capitalist press hides in the corners of its financial pages. The very same New York Times, (Sept. 13) which oozes with the new optimistic and magical spirit in its cold figures as contained in its week- ly business index is forced to concéde that “The weekly index of business activities shows a further slight de- cline.” except to the boss magicians? Worse still. The latest issue of “Business Week,” whose workers all undoubtedly wear buttons with the Hoover lie, “Business is Good,” tells us that ‘the general business index for the week now ending (last Sat- urday) stands at 83,5 per cent of normal, a new 1930 low, and a de- cline of 3.3 per cent from last week's figure of 86.8 per cent.” Instead of an upturn we have a drop to a new low! It takes more than the drowning of effigies to over- come a fundamental, deep-going crisis of the rotten capitalist system, with its 8,000,000 of unemployed. What about this seasonal pick-up which the New York Times financial writer says came in the fall of the crisis of 1921, though it was followed by a sharper downturn. It’s not panning out at all, though it could take place and still not affect the con- tinued deepening of the crisis itself. Again the Times ballyhoo gives way |to this admission: “This year’s fall | tion, pick-up in business lacks vitality.” In short, it’s weak, anemic, lifeless and meafis nothing at all to the mil- » the boss medecine jiong of unemployed, nor will it stop’ the International Harvester Co. in What's confusing about this, | A Written Version of American Worki By MYRA PAGE. (Continued. ) Alex out Going home the next day spied Fatima and pointed hex |to his companions. She was stand- ing in her old place, near the marble lion, begging. When the Pioneers reacher her side they found a mem- |ber of the Society for Protection lof Children already questioning her. Vanya took Fatima by the hand “Hello, Fatima, we've been hoping to find you; won't you come to the playroom’s opening | tomorrow? “And why are you here, begging? the comrade from the society ques- tioned her gently. Fatima, hang- ing her head, began to cry. : | didn’t want to; my aunt made me.” | Pass Around “Daily.” | “Don’t cry, Fatima, no one blames | I have passed my Daily Worker you. We're your friends and will jon to my friends and when they |help you.” | have read it a couple of times I will| The inspector looked stern, but | sake dhasa: ta subsccibe, | his voice was kind, “So that’s how | ; as 1 Know |; is, ch, ‘Weill look into thig, right | there is only the truth about labor | sway’ Jotting down Fatima’s ad- |eonditions in it, so whoever reads | dress in his notebook he went off |it soon realizes it’s the paper for in search of the aunt. | every worker to have. The Playroom Opens. Early the next morning every- 2-Day Work Week. 3 The miners here are working two | thing in the courtyard and nearby was in great excitemet. “Get up, | ‘ ~, days a week in the U. S. Steel Co. 4 5 es, mines and here of late the one Pea- | et up,” the children called. “To- body Coal Co. mine has been work-|day the playroom opens.” Doors ing every day since they have in- opened, heads popped out and chil- stalled modern loading machinery dren came running from every- and laid off half of the miners. where, tumbling down the stairs over one another in their hurry | taey, force sheiapeciall speed-Un| “eso the eats and dogs came system and work their men under! ‘ ee Thi the most hazardous conditions, espe- bouncing out to see the fun. ns | time, Fatima also was on hand. | cially loose roof. i , The Pioneers came marching in, Many Injured. a s huts; This company has kept the hos-|*¥° by two, banners flying and pital full of injured miners since| Singing their Pioneer march song. iise-obtation by Miachinely |The rhildren’s committee joined The U. S. Steel mines are hand-| loading and every system of safety | is practiced, but they expect plenty FIND UTW HEADS ec? work for their money, as do all) (Continued From Page 1.) Big Tell of Workers | Accidents Keep On Taking Westville, Til. Daily Worker:— When I joined the Party I was asked to keep in touch with you! jand inform you about the workers’ | activities in this community. I am | enclosing a clipping of our “labor | day” celebration to give you an iden of what kind of bull thrown here, was other greedy corporations. | Lewis Gang Here. | The miners here have not heard} anything of the Communist Party and hardly know what it is, does or fights for. The Lewis gang has! them in their claws just now. order, stories of Batty’s itching pain I will boost our Party and be- much parliamentary skulduggedy | lieve others here will join. jetc., was that the resolution was =o. Be a cat: (Tae | The convention, held in a comfort Sees Finnish able bourgeois hotel in New York . : Group Lagging Behind tar trom the gunmen of the Southern |mill owners, adopted |which they hope to a plan by Dairytown, Pa. | Dear Comrade Editor:— I moved here and was surprised | that no words were mentioned about the Mine, Oil and Smelter Work- jers’ Industrial Union in the Fin- nish working papers. In this mining town we have a so-called Finnish co-operative hall which could be used for any pur- pose, but is not used for Commu- nist purposes. destroy the National Textile Workers Union in the Caro linas. the workers‘ organization, Much of the convention was taken |up by the explanations of Emile |Rieve, president of the Full Fash foned Hosiery section of the U.T.W. as to how his organization took the lead in cutting the wages of hosiery Te técua to me that the winnish | "OC? 7 Pennsylvania. fractions are not over their right| The fake delegates here were tendencies, and yet they should be|€#sily satisfied, but the problem is over them by now and getting down | how to present this excuse to the to brass tacks. | hosiery workers. Mayor Stump, head ‘Any Communist that does not do | the socialist party administration Party 4nd ution work daily is a In Reading with about 35 per cent very poor Cénimunist Sy of the hosiery is manufactured, has ee been secured to address a commu nity mass meeting in Reading and Int’] Harvester try to gut it ever. ‘The argument Lays Off More Men will be that the kages had to be cut in Reading because they are now in the South. Moline, ll. | |. Daily Worker: The National Textile Workers | Dear Editor:—I read in the Mo-| Union, on the contrary, has a policy line Daily Dispatch the other night /°f O'Sanizing and striking against that the Rock Island Railroad) “@%e cuts everywhere, and of rais: workers, 1,400 men, will be taken 98 the southern wage rates. back to work the 15th of this month |after a two months’ unpaid vaca- But only for ten days will | they get work, unless things pick | up on the road. And I heard from someone that 25th thousand, paper bound. |them and the rest fell in behind. In | Bishop Brown’s Books COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISM the increase in the unemployed army. Rock Island have laid off 500 more from the body of capitalism. Their | lies, their extortions, their acting | and incantations will have no more | Some Details. So numerous are the facts of the worsening crisis that we have space | | mén—so the capitalist system is the best we can wish for? I think we better organize and vote Com-| Like a brilliant meteor crossing a dark sky, it held me tight.” MY HERESY effect on the crisis than the beating | of tom-toms has in curing disease. Why They Do It. | The “50” rich rulers of the coun- try, who are back of it all, know, this. But they also know that the | workers are not going to starve to death quietly or continue to swal- low Green's advice that they accept wage cuts, speed-up and worsened | conditions. Capitalism is facing the bitterest winter in its history in the United States. The bosses demand | of their preacher, their press, their | conomists, their fascist union lead- | ers, “For God's sake, do anything, | but prevent workers from acting in their own interests!” Facts About the Crisis. ' Fundamentally the crisis, which is | is over one year old, is getting worse. | seasonal upturn, but even this which | occurs in the worst crisis years, this time has fallen flaiter than a pan- cake. The New York Times (Sept. 13) admits that the only thing that has improved is busincss morale, and adds that while “busiess statistics continued to present a confusing pic- ture,” “encouraging statements is- | sued by economists and busines lead-| | ers,” were increasing, The business | | statistics are not confusing at all) | to workers, even if thy do confound | the bosses who begin to believe their; own witchcraft and find facts do not fit in with them. \ The basic industries are decreasing \ |for only a few of the more important | munist on top of it. | items. Steel orders have dropped to the lowest point since 1923. Build- ir; contracts, according to the F. W. Dodge Corporation, for the first four days of September showed a daily aversge of $10,960,000, com- pared to a daily average of $19,650,- 200, a drop of nearly 50 per cent! And we must remember, Septemb 1929, the crisis had al- rerdy berun. Bank clearings fell to 38.7 per cent below the level of tne correspond. ing week last year. Ford is curtail- (Ing production sharply, and Chevro- let has already cut its low produc- tion in half. Business failures con- tinue way above normal. Some Retail Li Knowing that the basic industries ‘The bosses are counting on a slight in the fall and winter will cut their | production still further, the boss press {s yelling about increases in retail trade, What is the truth about this? Sears Roebuck & Coy the largest mail order house in the United States, showed a drop of 14 per cent for the week ended Sept. 10. Sears Roébuck usually keeps up its retail sales when all other ré- tail stores lose business. There's not much backbone to their fairy story about improving retail trade. Starving workers can't buy food, let alone winter overcoats or shoes for their bare and aching feet. It {s evident from these facts that the entiré campaign of the boss press {s a lot of baloney to fool the too, that In! | —SYMPATHIZER. | Workérs who have reached starva | tion level and are girding for a fight to demand unemployment insurance, as well as to organize and strike ‘against wage cuts. By the A. F. of L. figures we are told that 39 per cent of the building Six volumes, paper bound, 2 These boks are primmers for ch trades workers have been unem: for collegians ployéd for the entire year. There Vol. 1; The Sciences, Vol. II; His won't be any building in winter. - Bible, Vo! 1 y The Bible, Vol. These men haven't got any money to live on, The auto workers have | heen only half employed. The tex- tile mills have been practically shut down for months. The steel work- érs have been given woge cuts and most of them have worked part time, | When winter comos tens of | thousands of jobless who now sleep in the stréets will be faced with the question of protecting themselves from being frozen (0 deat o@ wall | from statving to death. Evie: jtlons will mean going out » the |Snow and {ce for the workers’ tam ilies. Lies won't feed memployed | They are not meant to. The bosses | Want to raise the workers’ hopes | |to keep them from fighting. But | only by organizing and fighting as) #, demanding unemployment | insurance, will the workers be able | to stave off disas! | There are twelve chapters of a The first and second volumes will be ready in September The American Race Problem; A stion of Rome, Send for a free the Subscription This is an autobiography published by the John Day Company, New York; second printing, cloth bound, 273 “The most important book of the year 19% THE BANKRUPTCY OF CHRISTI! SUPERNATURALISM 56 pages eac per volume, stamps or coin. They are written from the viewpoint of the Trial, e been published. The third volum: nd the other three at six months, | Send fifty cents for copies of Communism and Christianism and the first three volumes of the Bankruptcy of | Christian Supernaturalism, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 15, 1930 KE RS Children of the New Day) INTER x’ Ea E Soviet Youth the Russian Movie For ng Class Children | front of the doorway they halted a moment while Nick declared in a clear ringing voice that the play- room was now ready to be opened. This belonged to the children of the Lenin house, for them to prize and us It ras just one sample of the New Day which the Russian revolu- tion was bringing to workers’ child- ren throughout the Soviet Union. “And,” he ended, “we Pioneers hope that here will also organize a Pioneer troop.” At this the children cheered. Tash opened walked in, the door and all h Pioneer wiped his or her feet on the door mat as they entered, but the others, not under- standing this ceremony, just walked in with dirt and mud clinging to their bare feet. “Comrade citizens,” said Tash , “your feet.” So one by one 1ey carefully wiped the mud on the not and entered. What a room it was! Everyone exclaimed at once atima’s eyes grew round with wonder. Windows, walls, even the doorknob shone with cleanliness. The walls were tinted a light cream-color, and the small chairs and tables were painted green, to match the curtains at the window. Picture books, crayons and paper, balls, blocks, games and toys were placed around. On the walls were red banners and Lenin’s picture, In one corner was a small library, with Tash in charge. The children moved happily about, ex-| amining everything, while the Pio- neers and committee followed along, explaining and all the while broadly grinning and trying not to look too proud over what they had done. After all their hard work it was good to have the children so pleased. (to be continued.) WDONALD RULE STARVE JOBLESS (Continued From Page 1.) ‘amilies are in actual starvation. tamsay MacDonald is vacationing | with the King and the Duke of | Sutherland in their great castles, This is the “socialist” party in action! This is how it always acts. The story of its activities in Ger- many, and other countries show: a similar future. What the Bri tish “socialist” MacDonald is doing, ist” Norman Thomas would do if that is what the American “social- given the power. Have we not, in| fact, already had a taste of*soci ist” treatment of the unemployed in Reading and Milwaukee, where their actions in clubbing the dem- onstrators on March 6th, in evict- ing unemployed workers, etc. are| indistinguishable from the usual | | brutal treatment of the unemployed in other cities? The promises of | the “socialist” party to the unem-| paper they are written on! ployed are worth less than the| Unemployment Solved in the Soviet Union. | of the “socialists” in action on the Compare this treacherous record | question of unemployment with the} way the Communists have handled | it where they control, in the Soviet | | Union. There the problem of un- employment is solved. The army of | the unemployed is practically liqui- dated, in fact, millions of new in- dustrial workers are heing trained |to fill the insatiable demands of "the flourishing new industries and | . 247 pages; twenty-five cents. pages; price $2.00, twenty-five cents ildven, yet a post graduate course tory, Vol, II; Philosophy, Vol. IV; ciology, Vol. VI. bout twenty pages in each book intervals of HERESY | This is Bishop Brown's quarterly mag | of one of his lectures on the greatest and most timely among eur- | rent subjects, So far they have been as follows: January, 1930, |}| ‘azine, Each number consists ||} pril, The Pope’s Crusade Against the Soviet Union, and July, The Science of Moscow and the Super- sample copy. cents per year. | Single Copies 10¢ each. THE BRADFORD-BROWN EDUCATIONAL CO. GALION, OHIO Page Three NATIONAL ok EePws. Polish Workers BRITISH MINERS PREPARE FOR Feel Brunt oi STRUGGLE TO INCREASE WAGES Fascist Terror Communist Party and Minority Movement De- WARSAW (LP. From ever g 3 : vote Special Attention to Mine Fields part of Poland come news of tematic campaign of slander against all left elements and Communists LONDON (LP.S.).—By Dec. | candidate at the parliamentary preparing the way for pogroms in M&W Wage agreements must be con-| election, Last week another center E i i ded in all the coal districts of | Tillery, was expelled and the ex | West Ukraine, and for unheard of England, as the “coal law” comes | pulsion of others is expected repressive measures. ery rail-| into force on this date. The tarif: Cook and the other leaders make way accident or forest fire is laid| Negotiations for South Wales be-| great speeches on the resistance at the door of “Ukrainian terror- | 2% 0n Sept. 8. The miners demand | which the union would make against a wage raise compensating the any reduction of wages: “The min ists and saboteurs beter Dec. d from ers must resist any attempt to re In Lemberg the police searched 1 onwards duce mine owners wages.” But in the same the premises of the legal Ukrainian emar ge-cut i rrespon- ch Cook shows himself to be Workers and Peasants’ Party “Sel | dence to the lessened ut result- apostle of “industrial peace. ie sore ng on the reduction of working | The coal mining law s down rob. vidence has been found | pours to 7 ie eeneeneavin apoel oni “against” the organization cor’ collaboration of the representatives spondence with the Red Aid in Ber of the mine owners, of the lin and Paris. Preparations are ol Hs ae ; government, viously being made to prohibit th Beane carried) one in oFden F : : bring peace and a certain degree mass party of the Ukrainian work of prosperity to the industry.” ers and peasants. The Communist Party and In Warsaw the premises of the Minority Movement, ¥ House Servants’ Union have beer, | Minority ™ utmost | campaign for the “labor charta searched, 55 memb were ar-| Of its power BiG Mardy ats Se Young - Spetiel benbon ato pasted: the cundon discolvad ho cen AS eX union | mining, as an attack on the alread police. At the same time the p for refusing to exclude Communists | low standard of living of the mir broke up a meeting of the Left 22d for supporting the Communist| ers is on the way. Metal Workers’ Union and arrested ~ to exist on twenty-two dollars. La 52 trade union members. borers, unorganized, are paid fifteer The Seym deputy of the White : ‘ Russian Workers’ and Peasants _ Open revolt against the double public meeting in the Grodin district, 3 I has broken is charged under a paragraph pen ‘ Lut alizing with four to fifteen years’ Sake some of those forme iy shouiee r, T wen ¥ 7 eir devotion to th ‘Fakeration hard labor. Twenty-one pe Refused to Accept a Wage PREM ay piace: ae are being charged at the same time C os eM teh get titeveaea alineriann sat onal Railroad Industrial League Ta irae = oe and the National Unemployed Coun n Warsaw the left socia (Continued From Page 1.) are concentrating on winni called a public protest meeting ration Of Lahor fell) dnto’l ova, tha aidecntantad workera foro against the execution of the three the company's plan of | united struggle against the bosses young workers of Lemberg. The ped cutting | @aeee peleni 5 Open Air Meets. meeting was prohibited by the po- e men to slave at a Barapa 5 Open-air meetings on the day the e and the place where it to V wage, wit mili- | _, : beet have been held cut off by police 1 the fight ec 1 the Be BOGS saree cocee ee pase sti company to live up to its agree. | Planned for three of the main gates eee eee eerie leading into oe ae is ile As reporte¢ ew weeks ago prominent speakers will addr he ensational scene took place in the e kers workers. Leaflets are to dis: court of justice at Lodz. A young t North triputed daily calling upon tite un- worker, sentenced for member worth the omployed to fight against lay-offs and of the Y. C. L., shouted, paper they en on 15 | wage-cuts and against the sg2°i-up sentence was pronounced: “We are | proven by t s lay-off, which | system, The Daily Worker and La beaten in prison.” Since then con- | is in direct violation of contracts yo, Unity are to be sold and «is ditions in Lodz prison have not now in force tributed at the open-air denionstra- changed. On Aug. 22 three young The lay-off also proves the dupli- tion Wednesday, September 17 people were again charged with |, of the busine gents in sign- Rally to Struggle. “anti-state activities.” All three ing the union-company management ‘The National Railroad Indy shouted in court, first to the judges cooperation scheme, which through | League is rallying the wok or and then to the public: “We are 1. increased sped-up, has “cooperat- |a s le to obtain the five-day beaten in prisor On the orders 44" jn shoving over three thousands | week, six-hour day with a substan of the presiding judge, the prison- , it of their jobs tial increase in pay for all employ ers were taken out of court Nowene naa: ees. The company wil also be moet ee eee Che low wages paid both mechan- | with a demand to compensate every what fe wthere are out of work ics and helpers have made it impos- | worker it lays off, such compensa consist mostly of peasants freshly sible for the workers to set aside |tion to be not less than twenty-five from the country, functionaries anything out of their pay for such | dollars per week. The management. from the old regime, etc. an emergency as this and it is cer- | it is pense out, inc ased its a Workers, support the Communist tain there will be much suffering ings is 1929 by twenty Ave bards Party. Vote its election ticket, | if the shutdown lasts long. Under |dollars over the previous year, 192 Demand the enaction of its Unem- the fake fiveday week m¢ and wil be asked to use this gigal i ployment Bill, Repudiate the | have ben receiving but thirty dollars |sum to pay unemployment compensa per week, while helpers have tried ition when the shut-down takes place treacherous social-fas' Only Three More Weeks Left to the Gigantic DAILY WORKER Morning Freiheit 4 Million and One Articles Id 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. October 2, 3, 4.and 5 MADISON SQ. GARDEN