The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 25, 1930, Page 3

| East Coast Conference Shows Lon DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1930 : KTS RSs E- Fe ay rw ‘KX’ 8a E ROCKFORD, ILL, BOSSES START PAY GUT DRWE Take Advantage of Unemployment ROCKFORD, Il. Editor of the Daily Worker: When thousands of the furniture workers of Rockford are to buy their labor, the bosses are taking advantage of the unemploy. ment situation, and cut the wages for those few who are working. In the last eight months the workers have been getting, not only one, but several wage-cuts. But still, the bosses give out presents in form of wage cuts. It seems as if the bosses were attempting to teach the workers how to live on air. hoofing | the streets looking for an opportu-| nity to get some one who is willing | Low Wages For ‘Young Toilers In Los Angeles os Angeles, Cal. | Editor, Daily Worker: | | Just a few lines on the conditions | | prevailing in the so-called city of | Angeles. | I went to work for a box concern run by a bunch of Jewish parasites | |last Thursday morning and worked about five hours repairing lettuce | erates. They pay the very large} sum of one-half cent per crate. | 54 Cents First Day. The first day I put out one hun- dred and eight boxes which amounts |to a large sum of fifty-four cents. | Friday I worked about nine hours |and made $1.52. Saturday I worked five hours and made fifty-two cents. | |Monday I got bawled out as the! | boss claimed I was not making them | | right. After working all day Monday I} made seventy-five cents. Tuesday | {morning I got fired. The boss} FLINT LAYOFFS MEAN IMMINENT WAGE SLASHES Comstock’s Union Now Petering Out FLINT, Mich. Editor Daily Worker: A few remarks how the Flin workers are enjoying the Hoover full dinner pail prosperity. The | Dinner pails are full of Hoover hot| the unanimous adoption of the fol- air and the workers are not satis- fied with just hot air. Also we have learned a good lesson about the promises of Gen- eral Motors not to cut wages. Wages are being cut and the wholesale layoffs at Buick, Fisher and other plants are nothing more than preparations for a gigantic wage slash. Fake Promises Now the promises are spread in Recently the workers at Rock-| called me when I came to work and| the capitalist press that after the ford Cabinet had a 10 percent! acked me -how many boxes I had| first of January the boom will various committees took wage cut. The workers there are| put out Monday and when I told| Start. No doubt it will for the big now organizing into the Furniture Workers Industrial affi- League liated to the Trade Union Unity | League. | Cut Wages The Rockford Cabinet is not the only furniture factory in Rockford where wage-cuts have taken place the last week. In some factories the bosses cut those who are high- est paid. This is just to fool the} workers and get them to fight} against each other. If the bosses now are cutting the wages for the high skilled, next time it will be|” the none-skilled workers who are} going to be cut. The bosses try to} get one group to fight against the other. The workers understand that only by organizing in the Trade Union Unity League can we defeat | the bosses. Build the Furniture Workers In- dustrial League affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League. GC. THE STORY OF FORTY THIEVES Tweed, “Like Healy, “Sold Books” him he paid me off without saying | a word. Is Fired. robbers. They believe by then the workers will be so docile and hun- gry that they will stand idle while gshoremen Want to Strike Aga inst Evils UNEQUAL PAY, SMALL GANGS, LARGE DRAFT LOADS BRING REVOLT | Negro, White, Polish, American Workers Unite; Led by Marine Workers’ Union By JACK SODERBERG. | being sold out in the renewal of | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 24.|the old agreement by the I. L. A.| ’ ot Mr. O’Toole —The Atlantic District’ Rank and|and w how. utterl; helpless | AA , USSR |Fil ic auW rents coucateacstet ereitue cl cneaeeneaaaceinces gainst | Longshoremen opened with a welljin the I. L. A. and the IL. S. U. | attended mass meeting in the Ma-| How glaringly the betrayal of the KIEV, U, S: 8) R— The. 1 tine Workers Industrial Union|longshoremen by Ryan and Polly informed, Hall, 121 Catherine St., here, Sat-| Baker is showing itself. The more} utterances of the “labor” member urday evening. Speakers in Polish| we listen to these reports, the more|of parliament Mr. Toole concerning and English outlined the purpose|we realize the need for a different|the condition of the workers in the and objects. How well the long-|form of organization. Soviet Union have aroused the in- |shoremen and seamen present rec-| Over Half Negroes. dignation of the members of the Show Up Lies ognized the need for just such| After reports from the different English students delegation (in- a eonference was manifested in| ports had been received, the re- cluding a number of members of the outbur: of approval that port of the credential committee|the British Labor Party) which is greeted the speakers remarks and|is given: 30 delegates are pre-|at present in the Soviet Union sent; 15 Negro and 15 white with|engaged in a serious study of lowing resolution: “The Atlantic|seven more Negro delegates on! economic amd cultural conditions | District United Front Rank and/ their way from the Port of Ches-! there, File Conference instructs the Na-|ter. These delegates represent} The leader of the delegation, tional Committee (of the Marine|many thousands of discontented! who just arrived in Kiev, Adail, Workers’ Industrial Union) to im-|longshoremen, unorganized and or- energetically refutes Toole’s ab-| mediately take steps to prepare| ganized, from Boston, Mass., tol surd farrago of nonsense and de- for strike by strengthening and| Baltimore, Md. They come from|clares that the investigations of! intensifying the work of organ-| the ranks of the M. W. I. U., the the delegation have shown that the jizing committees of action for the|I. W. W. and the I. L. A. They! masses of the workers of the Soviet calling out of the longshoremen|come from the I. S. U. and frcm| Union are engaged with remark- and for the enforcement of the|the unorganized coastwise demands.” |They come because they want anjwork for the carrying out of the Election of chairman and the! organization that is willing to!Five Year Plan and the building place on| fight, that is built on the class|up of a new society. Sunday. After all these prelimin-| struggle, that is controlled by the! Adail declares: “We have been |ary arrangement had been attend-| rank and file. offered every possibility of study- ed to the conference got down to) The report of the Program of|ing life in the Soviet Union with- | business. Report on the national} Action Committee is the most im-|out let or hindrance. The seamy Orhanel dared: Aine ie that meanb aeey, are robbed of the last shred of | situation was given by the national) portant point on the agenda. This|side has not been withheld from us. |I was through he said, “Yes,” and |I said, good as I was damned dis- |gusted with such slavery for such |measley money. Besides repairing |them we had to chase after them \first and then those that had names of different companies on them we had to paint over and then after | that was done we had to stack them —J. M, A YOUNG WORKER. Bosses Taunt Jobless Workers | Seattle, Wash. Daily Worker: There are hard times in Seattle on the waterfront. High-price cars stop at the soup lines and the occupants crack jokes about the workers waiting for their| meagre hand-outs such as, “the dignity of standing in a soup line,” “the results of being a bum.” “They always end up here,” “They wouldn’t work,” “they don’t appre- ciate it.” They seem to get a big kick out of it because they drive away laughing to beat hell. States. Whereupon he maried the woman, “to remove,’ as a writer of the time quaintly remarked, ‘in some measure the stain of bastardy |liberty and submit to the worst) secretary. After this followed re-|is the report that must be slavery in history. The General Motors Corp. is laying off men that have given their best years of life. Men that have worked fifteen years and more faithfully to the company than to themselves. Workers Must Fight Tt is about time that the workers begin to be faithful to themselves and they are realizing the fact that they must fight for whatsoever they get and the Communist Party is the only workers party, ruled by the workers themselves. The workers of Flint are finding that out in spite of the reign of terror instituted against the work- ers by our stool pigeon Police Chief for General Motors. It will not stop the workers for long, nor will the Comstock company union be-! fuddle the workers. C. Comstock, | R. Barrett, R. Carlson, A. Carpen-| ter, S. Beamish, what a wonderful stool pigeon union, the first of its kind in the world. —FLINT WORKER. | each bill was paid to the contractor, who immediately refunded the ex- cess money, the gzaft, to City Audi- tor James Watson, one of the Tweed Ring. Plaster—Lots of It! thor-| Toole’s comparison of the condi- ports from the various ports rep-| oughly discussed and understood.| tions in the Soviet Union with resented. Baltimore, Philadelphia,| Out of this report we must build) those existing in Poland is in-} |New York, Providence, Chester and| our future plans for action. From| credible. It is hardly possible to |Boston all reported on conditions| the discussion and decisions of this, realize that a man who has not and on the activities of our union.| report, we must shape our policy. lost his reason or who is not | Through all these reports there|The report was read by the na-| violently prejudiced, could compare runs a _ thread of discontent. | tional secretary and put aside for| Poland, the land of brutal white Through the reports we see how} discussion. tw terror seething with armed police | thoroughly the Jongshoremen ee (To Be Continued.) and spies, a country of innumer-| able prisons in which every liberal | | idea is stifled, with the Soviet | Sea-Cook Tells | Union a country of incomparably “AIDS SOCIALISTS — Seamen sailing on shipping board | Of Cutting Down | On Supplies By Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) | “ ; »? ships all are aware of the class of | Am. Business World jgrub that is handed out on these| Praises Them Highly |ships. Crews always blame stew- ards and cooks for meager supplies, Continued From Page 1) They are wrong. The company’s | |been designated by the socialist/ supply list cut down 20 per cent in| jparty to run for congress from|the last three years. For instance, | |the Eighth Congressional District) enough eggs were put on the ships of Brooklyn. | “Thus another strong congres- sional candidate has been PARASITES GIVE STEAKS TO DOGS 8,500,000 Toilers Must Fight, Not Starve Continued From Page 1) to give the crew eggs for breakfast | inscription: jat least 5 days a week. Now the| “This pbuilding is dedicated to| Placed| crews are lucky if they get eggs|the loving memory of Elephant,| jupon the socialist party's ticket,/three times = week and then they| Jim, Mary, Pips, Nellie, Gret. jmaking its candidates outstand) are doctored, Other provisions are|chen, Girlie, Tee, Brownie and| | and attractive to members of that z d if 2 jeut down accordingly. |many other faithful friends,”—all| Mr. Vladeck adds strength) qy, only way we improve our|long departed dogs. conditions generally as well as the! Beefsteaks and beautiful homes,| | party. to his party’s ticket and will rally men.) able enthusiasm and devotion in the: j INTERNATIONA Briefs From All Lands ROME—In the barracks of the militia in Parma, Communist leaf. lets have been found. The com- mander of the forces called the} streets leading to the place andj made a speech against Communism, | threatening such who might be in sympathy with the leafl In spite of these threats, the distribu- tion of the leaflets has been con- tinuous. we LONDON—The London “Daily Worker” prints figures, collected from the Indian Pr Service nount of ar- The total thus far The biggest number in Bengal, with 6,000 prison Behar with 4,158; Andhra wit 3,000 and Punjab with 3,500. This does not include political prisoners arrested before, such as the Mee- risoners, who have been nine months showing the great am rests in India. is 26,311, in | PRAGUE—When the news of the Budapest unemployment dem- onstrations reached here, the work- ers marched through the streets protesting against the bestiality of the Horthy government STOCKHOLM—A conference or- ganized by the anti-fascist commit- tees here founded a Red Front League for the struggle against fascism. The aim of the league is to nfobilize the working population of town and country into a united front against fascism. * * « BERLIN—The republican defence| force, the so-called Reichsbanner, is breaking up in Bielsfeld, the old| stronghold of the social democratic | leader of the metal workers, and ex-minister, Carl Severing. Re- | cently 200 workers left the organi-| zation. i} e * * BERLIN—The number of muni- cipalities which have decided to join the tax-strike movement or-| ganized and led by the Communist | Party against the illegal taxes im-| posed by the Bruening government, | is steadily growing. The munici- palities in Lausitz, Struppen, Aue and Rohracker in Saxony have| Joined the movement. | MORE SINECURES FOR BOSS | MEN AS SEAMEN STARVE, | ~— (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Forty-five new| shipping inspectors were put on the | public payroll the other day. The L Militarists In China Worried In Red Advance SHANGHAI.—A conference of impudent and malicious|militia to a meeting, closed all the| the civil and military authorities of the provinces of Hupeh, Huan and Kwangsi has taken place in Han- kow to deal with .the menacing sit- uation created by the great activity of the revolutionary troops, Hoin- ching, the Minister of War of the | Nanking government was the chair- man of the conference, He re- Ported that the Red Army was now composed of 19 army corps in pose session of a fair quantity of mod- ern arms and munition and other modern war al, The repre- sentative of the nee of Kwan. gsi reported that with the excep- tion of the town of Nanchang and the immediate neighborhood which were now in the hands of the government troops, all the villages and towns in the province were flooded with Con ps there were organized and well armed. Discuss Five-Year Plan Drive in Ukrain Plants MOSCOW (IPS).—In response to the appeal issued by the Central Committee of the Coumunist Party e Soviet Union, a lively dis- has begun in all Ukrainian institutions, etc, with a arrying out the industrial and finance plans in full, work« ers themselves are making nu- Merous suggestions in order to abolish the deficiencies and catch up. The workers of the Charkov electro works declare that the failure to carry out the Program in August was due to the fact that the Bolshevist methods of socialist com- petition and the shock group move- | ment wer sufficiently put into ac- tion. In the factory “Svet Schach- tyera” a “Battalion of the Red Guard of the Five-Year Plan” has been formed which has undertaken to remain in the factory until the end of the plan. After close exam- ination of the new productive prog- ram the workers raised the quota from ten million to 18,000,000 roubles. ners Collect Greetings FOR THE NATIONAL PRESS Continued From Page 1) dren the ‘scientific’ way, or as he y vhose for New York Children,” of how to| P&S = 3 from the brow of the child.” One of these contractors, Andrew | around him an intelligent body of! Garvey, a plasterer, serves as an ex-| citizens who desire to bring to grub on the ships is by organiging| thus fare the dogs of the para-|W°TSing class of the United States sites. What about the workers’ | That’s another story, and a long| one. We can only give a few] BAZAAR has a lot of money to throw away | it seems, the shipping inspectors | only get from $200 to $300 a month. | which will be held at the “oat” io ” | Jimmy Walker, was A. Oakey Hall. Reet cat Boece He had as great a capacity for mak- ing silly puns as Jimmy, and the reputation of being the “best dressed doubtedly Walker has left him far behind on this. Connoly was known to all as| “Slippery Dick” —which describes | bim. He came to New York and to} power in Tammany Hall after a rather despicable mistreatment of a market woman of Philadelphia. In fact he “fled” from Philadelphia Everything went under Tweed. The judiciary was probably as cor-| rupt as at present, and certainly | more openly so. Lawyers who op-| posed Tammany judges were beaten up on the street. The police de- partment, unsatisfied with the graft from simple prostitution, encouraged | the robbery of men visiting prosti-| tutes, protected the robbers (who No one who is “not acquainted} with the varied population of New| York,” he says, could write text-| books. It would be better to say/ that no one not in the Tammany} Ring could write and sell 600,000/ copies of school books and clean up such a graft as O'Shea, the com-| panion “red-baiter” with Fish. We| must add that of course O’Shea| himself didn’t write the books, but} got some poor teached to do it for) him, Tweed, too, was. a member of the| Board of Education. Think of it! But then, think also that one of the| lesser lords of Tammany, district | leaded Martin J. Healy, is now) known to have ben selling school books to the city, ith an intelectual capacity far below zero. Tweed had} his Board of Education charged §75|were usually pimps) and forced| for jobs as teacher, a position then| the~ to divy up the proceeds. paying only $300 a year. | “S™TSPin Money for Walker Besides Tweed, and his Ring,! ‘he total estimated graft in the were Peter Sweeney, Richard Con-| six years from 1865 to ’71 was about ample. In one month, that of July, |congress representatives of broad ees ae sagan pene | 1869, Garvey got $153,000 for plas-| cultural training who will bring a SEA-COOKK. | tering. In May the next year, his| fresh point of view and a con-| i aaa 2 bill was $394,000. And such an ex- cellent plasterer was he that in the next two months he drew $946,000 —enough to plaster the whole At-| lantic coast. However, some of the| plaster evidently got loose, and Gar- vey was paid $133,187 for “two days’ repair work!” Like the labor fakers, Tewed| started a bank, which of course be- came the repository for city funds. Rooms in Tammany Hall were| rented to the City for $86,000, worth around $2,000. Thirty-five chairs and five tables for one of the ar- mories cost the city $170,000. If New Yorkers go down to City Hall Park they can see where the New York County Court House, a veritable monument to Tammany. The cost of the Court House was originally estimated at $250,000. Its final cost was $13,000,000. One of the most extraordinary expenses | was that of several hundred thou- sand dollars paid to a Tammany con- tractor for “repairs” to this remark- | Jissues of the day. | congressional structive outlook to all the major. —— [of the latest briefs to show the| |gets its share of praise, along | Sneral drift: ats “We cannot but praise the fine| with the endorsement of the “so-| ee candidates named|cialist party.” While ex-Cossack| BE etre Sonn errr ia this year by the socialist party.) Whalen’s own Wanamaker’s, which] [, a BREE pits a & s A] With Norman Thomas, Heywood / exploits and prostitutes its thou-) 2° . er Wottee ar ire Broun and Charney Viadeck, the|sands of miserably paid girl work-| 14! i any ‘A cones 4 sae bsp | followers of that party are offered| ers, is handed a fair share of P!4” ae Pe Sa av | three candidates who are excel-| publicity. j Prepared. 267 ~ workers ert. lent, They would make the next) wall Street firms, such as the| session of congress immensely in-| stock brokers Newburger, Hender- | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 24.—| | Anton Misluiski, 59, hung himself| teresting |son and Loeb, advertise in the|~. ; : The capitalist endorsement ap-| pages of the “American Business| te is Sepenae a ie ee pears on page 27 of the Septem-| World.” One: anticline thie the 98 9 | jhe had vainly tramped the streets lias Sates Manufactur.| f°" work and could not bear to ber issue of the “American Busi- ness World,” and the same issue tells its boss readers about the wonderful opportunities of ex- ploiting labor in the South; it backs the big power trusts. The! Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., which | parasite readers of the “Opportu- nities | fa asiiy i ide in Canhda?” Mowe a8 thé war| S€° his femily starving to death. industries is contained alongside of | Nwnlle: the sboksen build baantieal praise for the “socialist party.”| E 2 2° |homes for tleir dogs we get the Page 7 contains an article telling) from /liance, Ohio, that| of the organization plans of the| n°WS This of course means more money | for the bosses, instead of giving the | working class unemployment insur- | ance they are thinking of new and! better ways of taking the pitiful amount of wages they are paying} us. Workers we must organize | under the Trade Union Unity League a strong revolutionary and militant union that will fight for the work- ers, reach with its demands in the Unemployment Insurance Bill for) a tax on all incomes of $5,000 and over and a levy on fortunes of| $25,000 and over to pay the $25) per week minimum demanded for) the jobless. | The workers, employed and un-| employed, must organize to fight | for this and for the smashing of} Madison Square Garden Oct. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Organization Greetings! Individual Greetings! ONLY SHORT TIME LEFT! ACT AT ONCE! PETIT eae ATT SAO ONT ERT TR TR a ocamnenitigheat neminteiiiiiieraneniannee Have You? SOLD TICKETS cut wages 10 per cent, comes in| for some lauding because it has been able to keep up profits for the bosses despite the crisis—and,| of course, through wage-cuts. Charles Cory Corp. and its merg-| ing with the Bendix Aviation Co. and of course it does not need| to tell its nowing boss readers that as war preparations are speeded the City Prison is providing sleep-| ing quarters for the unemployed | who are fortunate enough to get there before the cells are jammed. | ht eat. the ‘entire capitalist system of starvation and war. To’ The Workers in Your noly and A. Oakey Hall. All dis- tinguished men. Sweeney came | from a family of priests and livery | stable owners. His son became 4 big lobbyist for the principal coach companies, the “taxi trust” of his day. Sweney had a passion for old engravings and a woman who had peen a “rubber” in a Turkish bath- house. . A Prospect for President ‘ There was apparently nothing to impugn in tkis, only acording to pourgeois morality he was “living time, when he began to be men- tioned as a for the presidency of the United prospective candidate | $200,000,000. But that was a mere bagatelle compared with what Tam- many gets today. One might say that it would hardly suffice for pay- ing off more than one of Mayor Walker's. movie actreses or more than a dozen ordinary chorus girls of Judge Crater. Of these we will have more to say later. The Tweed Ring, though far from as clever as today’s Tammany, had asystem. Every contractor for sup- | plies or city work was instructed to |raise his bils before submitting them to the city, first by 55 per cent, later by 60 per cent and finally by 65 per cent. The face amount of The scab Columbian Carbon Co.) will mean ‘Sufferers from. able edifice before Itw as built! “Our” Wonderful Court House! The city paid $675,000—no, not for the building, but for carpets and curtains! The temperature was im- portant, as may be understood by | the fact that the city paid $7,000 for thermometers for the building! But cleanliness, being next to godliness, cost the city $41,000 for brooms to sweep this wonderful building! The royal purveyor of plaster to His Majesty Tammany, charged $531,000 for plastering the darned Court House. But needed “repairing.” So for repair- ing the first $531,000 job, Mr. Garvey it immediately | up this merger big} From Cleveland comes the re- doughto them. | Port that evictions are piling up New York Court House is a marvel! | This should be an eye-opener to|so fast that tho Associated Chari- Tammany never overlooks a pay-|every worker. The “socialists”|ties has long ago given up the roll graft. Thousands of people|have tried to wave aside the|idea of doing anything about it. were on the city payroll who never| charge of the Communist Party! ‘heh Bass | worked, turning over a fat part of|that Norman Thomas, Heywood] | the graft to the Tweed Ring, People|Broun, Charney Vladek and their got a cool $1,294,684! Surely, the| Cats and dogs of the rich are well fed. They find plenty of who could neither read nor write “socialist” party is no different] money for dog houses with beau- were paid as “interpreters” and|from the other. boss parties, the} tiful inscriptions. They find bil? many a man long dead was still| republican and democrat. Again| lions for war preparations. Even | drawing regular salary. |we have the bosses’ word for it| during the economic crisis their | One Mickey Fay had no less than| that they “cannot but praise” the four city jobs at once. This unusu-| “socialists” for helping them to| “blessings” and ot ally talented man gave up his pas-|keep down wages and fool the|capitalism for the working-class. time of Killing rats with his teeth | workers in the interest of capi-'It is these capitalist rotters that when he became an alderman talism. the Communist Party wants to | Profits are high: These are the “privileges” of Bladder .n4 | Kidney Weakness should get rapid relief from their burn- ing pains and discomforts through the use of Santal Midy. This remedy, discovered by a doctor almost a cen- tury ago, has been used year in and year out with great success all over Re, the world. Ask your druggist for some. Santal Midy Shop for the DATLY WORKER FREIHEIT BAZAAR which will be held in me ‘, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th Madison Square Garden Sell your tickéts, Settle for them at the Bazaar office, 30 Union Square, at once! And get another bateb of tickets to sell. ‘A million and one articles sold at PROLETARIAN PRICES Don’t buy now, you will get it : at the Bazaar o> DAIL Y WORKER.--MORNING FREIHEIT BAZAAR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, October 2, 3, 4 and 5 ORGANIZATIONS! SPEED UP YOUR WORK IN THESE LAST FEW DAYS!