The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 26, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1930 Page Three LEE. KX’ Ea = a SHOP S . HUNGER, MISERY, SUICIDE IS RIFE New Speed Up AMONG CHICAGO JOBLESS WORKERS ‘” Pittsburgh : _ Crucible Steel Worker Correspondent Sees Growing Radical-| ization of Working Masses | Pittsburgh, Pa, | Editor, Daily Worker: : 4 | With these few lines I will let : Chicago, Tl. unemployed sleep every night. | you know the conditions in the steel Daily Worker: They were starving and were | mills here. When collecting signatures 1| Temoved to the County ee tal I am emp‘oyed as a chipper at the | found a remarkable radicalization] The next Tuesday morning five | crucipie Steel plant in Pittsbureh. among the workers. oer ia td ad taken alee We used to work for 44 cents an| , ae is park in’ a starving condi- | nour and bonus—the speed. Pl Four out of five were willing to] j- fi pneu s—the speed-up’ sys- | : tion, yhom died. They sign, showing their appreciation] Wer, Suene\ man the oe hee [ot | of the opportunity. Many would) it ‘The capitalist press is do. | BUt now it is worse than it ever help me get several names. ing its best to keep these oc- |W We work now one week and Two workers_-skope of thorough! y off two weeks. | currences secret. i | Bee ES BL Ss LAST COAST CONFER. | => ENCE SHOWS REVOLT OF LONGSHOREMEN By JACK SODERBERG. | (The first part of thig report on! the Atlantic Coast United Front! Conference of Longshoremen, just held in Philadelphia, told of the as- sembling of delegates from the| main Atlantic ports, with over half | those present Negro workers. The conference pagsed a resolution in- structing the National Committee of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union to immediately take steps to Prepare for strike. The conference | tok up then the demands and pro- gram of action. Now read on.) | ieee aa | | (Continued.) Comrade Gardos is, now given| the floor as a fraternal delegate from the Communist Party. He points out that just it is neces-} sary that the workers organize on| the economic field so it is neces- | ENTERNATIONAL izations. But they also realize Som Wee? Socialists’ Aid “WILL WIN LARGER MASSES FOR is ‘aia, Metal Bosses equmyniga” SAYS GERMAN GP. ers into a real fighting union, a| ; Wage Cut Drive —- | “We Shall Not Rest Co ntent With the Results union that is out to smash the)! ses of the Election” fakers and the bosses, a union that is out to establish job control through compelling the bosses to| hire the men out of the union hall IN ERLIN—Comment' on the re-, Peop! “Rote Fahne” declares @ hopes of the comm n more the | : | know that they have nothing to fear from either of these organ- rr) he metal with the | senta- | by Inpr on the rotary system, therefore in-| uring the equai distribution of} work and also doing away with the present system of “syndicates”| sale ‘of work. | Delegates from all ports, mem- ting union rep’ ce ra re red tr the Berlin t wage roup i work- metal everywhere, | and th e of com- bers and non-members, are equally calling of delegates | ism was prog amongst emphatic and are all agreed that! trom the metal try to confer|the workers of town country | neither ‘the I. L, A. nor. the’ IW] Oct. 2nd on the situation. |had proved to be greater than had! the gove W. can or intend to better the con-| e has broken out in the | been anticip: tion for th ditions of these workers. One can} y feel the hatred | tory of of these workers | the Germa Gen haps it would have bee i ic . eral Electric Co. !| them ig they had sh disgust with the old parties, vow-! Grant Park faces Michigan | New Speed-Up System sary that they organize on the|for the fakers of these two men-|disehar ilitasiewilt 0 eames to ing they would never vote again! Blvd. on the west, which has | S¢Ptember ist, the boss called us| political field through the Com-j tioned unions. One is as bad as| ctowards, for them. One of them signed the! the brightest lights and the | 2! and told us from now on no munist Party. He speaks of the|the other. Their objects are both| are three petitions I presented. most magnificent sky-scrapers | ™0"€ day wages, only tonnage. And| election and points out that althe same—the selling out of the One man said he was working} in the city hall, and could not: sign as he might lose his job, but he told his wife and brother to sign. Many Sign. In one family three the mother said she understood} now that alll the radio propaganda] against Soviet Russia was false. In one neighborhood, a strange little girl took an interest in me and guided me to side doors, up back stair-ways, past barking dogs and thus helped me fill up my lists rapidly. One worker who signed recog- nized me as one who had distrib- uted leaflets and Daily Workers} at the Deering Harvester Works. He was a Hungarian and had been in the struggles with Bela Kun in Hungary. He informed me that the Deering plant where farm machinery is manufactured would be closed down from Octo- ber 15 (next month) to February 1981, signed and eee One worker told me he heard from a very reliable source that four workers were taken from Grant Park on the Lake Michi- gan front, where thousands of in the world. And this is called civilization! + wie oe A woman worker told me that along the Chicago River near Canal and Madison Sts. (which neighborhood is called the slave market, which all migratory workers congregate) the bodies of two or three workers are fished | out of the water almost every day. These are yjobless suicides. You do not read this in the cap- italist press. eae eae Mike, a strong, tall husky young building trades worker offered to work in a factory at 50 cents per hour. He was al- most desperate, having been out of work for more than a year. A job was promised him but when he came for it the foreman told him he had given it to a married man with a family at 35 cents an hour. I told Mike that in Soviet Russi: they pay more to a man with a family of children, while here they pay less. Take it from me, we need Unemployment Insurance badly! A WORKER CORRESPONDENT. | TAMMANY ROBS WORKING MASSES Continued From Page 1) on a site that Tweed’s gang| “donated” to the church for $83.33. | Behind that very church today, in the vicarage on Madison ve.,| occur meetings which to anyone | unversed in the machinery of cap-| italism would appear unbelievable, | Nevertheless, it is a fact that in that vicarage representatives of Tammany, the catholic church and gangland gather to divide boodle! collected from the purveyors of! the 101 varieties of crime in New| York, | Wherever exploitation exists, the church is not far away. _Wasn’t it Pope Calixtus, or maye Alex- ander VI who collected a weekly tribute from 4,000 prostitutes in fifteenth century Rome? And wasn’t it only last week that the catholic party in Germany of-| fered to support the “socialists” if the latter would contribute several miliion marks to the erection of a huge cathedral in Berlin? And didn’t the “socialists” willingly agree? And at this very moment isn’t it true that Mayor Hague, “boss” of catholic Jersey City, pays a weekly salary to almost every priest in the city? The same O'Shea, who promises to “free” the schools from Commu- nism, forces his principals to buy six hundred thousand of his text- books. And the same Tweed who bought ai entire state senate at from $15,000 to $75,000 a vote for the Erie railroad, was a member of a Board of Education that also sold its own textbooks to the city and) once charged a crippled girl $75 for a teaching job that paid $300 for the year. Tammany and capitalism can- not change while Tammany and/ capitalism are in the saddle. “Honest John” Kelly Takes Control. | ‘When the members of the Tweed Ring fell out over the division of the spoils, “Honest John” Kelly took control, Kelly's nickname, of course, was chosen by himself. One of his first moves as leader of the} Hall was to systematize the collec- tion of graft. There were to be no more Court House scandals if he could prevent them. Kelly was quite as shrewd as his | No. political descendants today. Tam- many’s own men, he considered, might suffer defeat. The scandals had been just a bit too much. Kelly decided to use a “front” in the elec- tions. Some “respectable” tool who might be able to sway the masses. Norman Thomas and his brother “socialists” are capitalism’s “re- spectable front” today. own representatives are slightly tar- nished. Despite the desperate at- tempts of the capitalist press hide the stinking corruption, the masses are beginning to suspect the What is the re- sult? Norman Thomas, Waldman, Broun. If Roosevelt, Pratt, Tuttle don’t get elected, the “socialists” will, Is there any basic difference? Both the bosses and the Daily Worker agree on that. Let us examine one of these “fronts” of Tammany in the “pre- socialist” days. Hugh Grant is as good an example as any other. In 1884 it was proved that 20 out of 21 aldermen took $22,000 each to vote a valuable street railway franchise to a large corporation. The one alderman who refused to take the graft was Hugh Grant. His “honesty” was trumpeted far and wide. Women wept when they saw him and children gazed at him as if he were a “god.” Tammany, with a great show of virtue, ran Grant for mayor and shed crocodite tears at the prospect of losing so much “honest graft” while Grant was in office. “Reformer” Exposed, What happened? As might be expected. Grant’s regime was shot through with corruption. It was less true conditions. open, true, than Tweed’s, but its ramifications were deeper and wider. And Grant himself was later proved to have paid Richard Croker, Tammany boss, $25,000 for a job as sheriff the very year that he was supposed to have tumed down the $22,000 bribe from the tvaction company. Another of the “respectable front” type was Mayor Van Wyck, who admitted that he took $500,000 in stock from the ice trust at the same time he was push- ing legislation that would have made the slling of a five-cent piece of ice illegal. Strike against wage-cuts; de- mand social insurance! x Capitalism’s | to | | he said if we worked hard we would| worker who votes republican and| workers, Both have outlived their | |make some money. But he didn't| democratic at the coming election| usefulness, both are ready to be| | Say how much they would pay on|is scabbing on the working class, | buried. | | the tonnage. just as he is scabbing during a| A delegate from Pier 5 (unor-| Now if we have clean steel wo/ Strike. His speech is given an en-| ganized coastwise longshoremen) may be able to make from $3.00 to| thusiastic reception, | takes the floor and points out the $4.00 a day. But if we have scrap The conference now gets down) glaring need for organization of steel we can not make more than|to discussion on the program of| these men. The I. L, A took $3,000 | {rom $1.00 to $1.50 a day. jaction. Delegate after delegate|from them and deserted them. § Make Men Spy |takes the floor and denounces the | men have promised to support th And when the boss told us that|fake agreement of the I. L, A.|longshoremen. He points out how he said for each man to watch the|The Philadelphia delegates, Negro|those men are exploited, paid 45) others and see that they work and | and white, are especially emphatic | cer an hour and averages three GARBAGE RELIEF |Must Fight for Real Jobless Insurance (Continued From Page 1.) not fool on the job. If they see|in their denunciation of Polly|days per week. This youns Negro| <t Stee Mae ay ee | anyone loafing report them in the| Baker and his ally, the I. W. W.|worker appeals to white and col-| = Mayor Walker did, their office and they will give them their| It is brought out during the dis-|ored to stand together under the| cast-off clothe + pie pay. | cussion that these two organiza-| banner of the M. W. L U. and a is cle So by this the boss makes the| tions have formed a united front| fight, fight to the bitter end in| Rg Ae aes They will not set up unemployment insurance this winter, or ever, un- Jess we compel them. They talk about unemployment relief and they appoint commissions to “study” the question, They open fake employ- ment offices, take lynching censuses of the unemployed, propose misty buildin programs, organized com- pany unions, unemployment schemes in respective industries, etc. And meanwhile great masses of workers starve. A. F. of L. and “Socialists” Betray You! The A. F. of L. and “socialist” party, tools of the capitalists, fall right in step with this dastardly | program.of driving the working class into the depths of misery and privation. The A. L. of L. spreads the employers’ lies that the indus- trial crisis is about over; it sup- ports every fake relief scheme of the capitalists and the government; it brazenly combats the workers’ demand for unemployment insur- ance, The “socialist” party follows the same general line. If with {words, is speaks for unemployment | to pkevent the M. W. I. U. to or-|order to sweep the fakers and| | ganize these workers. It is brought} grafters off the waterfront and out how both of these organiza-|¢stablish a real union. And so tions are backed and subsidized by| delegate after delegate takes the Murphy, Cook and other steve-| floor and demands organization. dores. The stevedores’ contractors | (To Be Continued.) | workers hate each other. the new speed-up system, The only thing is for the workers to wake up and organize into the Metal Trades Workers Industrial League and fight for better condi- tions and no wage cuts. | A STEEL WORKER. FISH USES FAKE | FARM GROUPINGS This is embargo. He is also a director of the Wheeling, “Half Dollar Continued From Page 1) Savings Bank,” with 14 per cent scoffed at the charges of Secre-| per year dividends and capital of th ] tary of State Hyde against the/ $1,824,928. sales of the Soviet Union. These ee D politicians have their ears to the| B00ze and Religious Dope ground, and know the real farm-| Another Bachman, Wheeler H., Continued From Page 1) ers are not much impressed by| is a high oficial of an assortment) sailors sure were happy and made} Hyde’s fake excuses for the ac-| of china, coal, realty, banking, | us so happy on the trip. We saw | tions of the farm board. But Fish companies, with capital high|the Krassin in Leningrad. We} | carries» on, Hyde already much) | staayed one day and onz night in| |smudged propaganda. He will) f . Leningrad <+ the Hotel D’Europe, fuming jnet Chieggp) mectiiges at| _- This) Wheeler Bachman MCA. | the best and biggest hotel in Len- ee eyes eer en eee “Con-| mgrad. We stayed only a short insurance i+ is in order only. the uel H. Thompson, president of) oy | time in Moscow. | better to betray us. The hypocrisy fe eae NA Ura era Pe cyer’ hat raat att went| _ Pleads tall) Chelle” for. as and\cf this “bocialit” party dewaad for srt ene riehe oe ;.| Virginia as a big bootlegger, with|#i¥” them our address; thell them| unemployment was exposed by e far jureaus are semi- " ; ‘3 Ae vri v oluntary, semi-governmental! charges of dealing in narcotics, | (0 write to us. Nearer f der Hyde’s thumb, and| gambling joints, and many vari- PAPEL Are Cen boyete (to (hems ‘ Peehelss under Hynes Uumb, and | Rene gn eee Mama works in the American res-|same breath that he asked for a have already indicated they will] ties o ite __|taurant. She teaches them how to| ion of the state legisla- follow Hyde's lead. So will the| Others of the Bachman family] f ill : |cook American style, because the sider unemployment, has American Grange, an organization] are neither ignorant nor innocent) Americans are not used to the Ruc-|tened to assure Governor Toosevelt of rich landlord farmers primarily, | of “Jimmy’s” " part in building the/sian style. Alice works as cashier ; : |and the similar Farmers’ Union, | family fortunes. On December 28,| there. I expect to get a job in the | ect ind } city of Ru: sia. They Fish Sessions Today. | 1928, a disastrous fire took place| factory, .. .” have here some very large factor The Fish committee sessions in| jn Wheeling, which the capitalist! Sigteat Das Some of them: ‘Krasny October,’ a New York are today and tomorrow| press of the time openly records Th Bi a 1 frie y i a steel plant, ‘Barikady,’ another big at the Department of Justice! started in the explosion of two) ~~ Second letter say:, in part:) iant, a cannery, a shoe factory, a Building, Fish has announced he| 100-gallon commercial bootleg} Stalingrad, Tractorstroy. | pig bluing and mustard factory and| will give audience, probably today, | stills in a house owned” by the Dear Comrade F. and Friend¢ then a lot «f smaller ones. Our ‘SMASH TALE OF ete., in the millions. governor of New York, who in the to the reactionary former Amtorg|most respectable Charles Bach-| “Are you working yet? We wish| factory is the biggest here—there employee, Basil W. Delgass, who man, | you were here with us. You could|are 30,000 people working in the now makes a living as a hired} jlearn almost anything here. Even| factory and there are 27 different A 5 so, | With a storm of publicity from crusader against the Soviet Union. the! ‘biisinesd diiterasta’ “pilose” ad- One reason for the readiness of “"® ‘ the Fish Committee to deal with| ™iration for money making does discredited and shady not cover a natural dislike for fire| characters | "* A A like Delgass and the racketeer Rang «arouse j tiee Hoag, | the girls learn to be engineers, ship | nationalities, | captains and to run aeroplan The “We cure saw a lot of surpris- girls that work in the morning go|ing things here. In Stalingrad to school in the afternoon, and the|there is a market about five blocks monarchists like Djamgaroff and| Cbavies alibied by saying that the|{O“Lcnoni in ‘the ‘moming, Eace| the, fecmars brine all Hinds at Bemnadsky is understood by aj store Where the stills were Tocated/ might they had a big conference| fruit and vegetables there by eam-| cypaersn of the personnel of | Varsica.” Prohibition director| Reve to decide if they work 6 ae stay Oxia she an bui ing tl tee ee se oe al-| Bradley, after interviewing Bach-| hours a day and four days a week.|thelargest electric plant here. By ready held in New Yorl yy * the) : We are very busy| Waldman, “socialist” candidate for| y of the bo mph is the b the j end in th jand in th | Germans {the deep crisi and the complete amentarism and democracy. traditional parties of the ie are in a state of decomposi- Hitler’s of the end eir career will y bourgeois morass ministries of capitalist | tri tion The leaders of the fascists will be- |eome ministers of the Young Re-| public, the last political hope of the | capitalist class. The election shows | clearly that the German wo: )faced with the alternative: fasmism Jor proletarian dictatorship? Young | Slavery or Soviet Germany? The | decision will be made in the coming great mass struggles which the Ger- | man proletariat will carry on under | the leadership of the Communist Party. We Communists are the real victors of the 14th of September, be- cause our victory is the beginning of a new wave of mass struggles un- | der the leadership of the Communist |Party. We shall not rest content | with the result of the elections. We masses of the workers to overthrow fascism and to destroy the Zoer- | giebel party. | The social democratic “Vor- |waerts” is depressed and declares | that the chief characteristic of the election is not the decr social democratic vote: crease of the Communist poll, but the decimation of the parties which are capable of governing. The shall work to win larger and larger | daily of t and entit as lower alone at | than that of th | the 1 | it pu | ple’s t was so nega- Minister lp capable of ment of the ri ack with mal Fas- cists as strongest party can hardly ng for Bruening, and all \ that remains is the Great Coalition government with the social democ- | racy. This combination would have j only a small majority and be faced with an opposition of incomparable vehemence, but there no other | way. The growth of the poll of Bruening’s own party will hardly be a sufficient consolation for the fact that the remainder of his following has been so hardly used. The “Berliner Morgenpost” (uu stein concern) points out that the tremendous growth of the fascists has not taken place at the cost of the so-called Marxist parties, but at the cost of the middle parties and the German Nationalists. The left wing bourgeois “Montag Morgen” declares that the result of the elections is worse than the most confirmed pessimist could have prohpesied. The only solution w: a government on the bas f a close alliance of the Catholic Centre and the Social Democratic Party ir. respective of minor difficult: disagreements. and the capitalists generally that even if an appropriation were made it would not go c’lect for about a year. Meanwhile the mases would be left to starve. Do Not Starve. Workers! Don’t starve; fight! Militant action by our massed forces is the only road to victory, to theimmediate establishment unemployment insurance. The great March 6th unemployment demonstration of 1,250,000 work- ers, under the lead of the Com- munist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, made a na- tional issue of unemployment re- lief. Only a still greater and far more militant demonstration of our power and determination will defeat the treachery of the A. F. of L. and “socialist” party, force the hand of the employers, and compel the government to grant unemployment insurance. The into of toiler: of not stand for a refusal. Organize |from the ranks of these demon- strations workers committees to | bring pressure upon the city and State governments for immediate |relief. From a big national dele- gation to submit our demands, the | Workers’ Unemployment Insurance |Bill, to the federal government. |Back this committee with the |Mmasses power of the militant workers, To such action alone will the capitalist masters hearken, Workers, donjt starve, fight for immediate unemployment insur- ance! Strike against wage-cuts! Demand the seven-hour day—tive- day week! Defend the Soviet Union! Fight Against Imperialist War! Build the T.U.U.L.! Vote Communist! What Will We Do? Workers! What are we going to do about it? Are we, the use- Fish Committee, the gambling! joint operator, Bernardsky, was| official interpreter for the com-| mittee, and was posted through-| friendly elbow-to-elbow _ position alongside or just back of Repre- | | sentative Carl Bachman of West! | Virginia, member of the commit-| tee. | The Bachman’s have a family, system. Carl, the Fish Committee! member, is the lawyer and poli-| | tician, most useful thing to have| |in such a group. Charles Bach-| man Realty Co.; president and) director of the Tyler Iron Works; director of Bertha Consumers Coal | Co., an $11,000,000 concern formed! by a merger of three companies in 1928. He is also a director in the Washington Transportation Co, of Wheeling. Naturally the Bachmans do not want any com-| petition with the high grade Soviet Union Coal and are all for man, was openly skeptical about | the alibi. | Drew Lease. | caught, and} Fish ssociate “Bill” was never out most of the hearings in a| nobody ever believed he actually) picture. existed. It was freely charged! that the lease was drawn merely | to protect the Bachman boot-| legging activities. And that lease was drawn up by Carl Bachman, then as now a congressman—the | same Carl Bachman who, as mem-| ber of the Fish Committee, ap-| pears at its hearings with the| convicted bootlegger and notorious gambling joint owner, the white) guard Russian Bernadsky, consults familiarly with him throughout, the sessions of the Fish Commit- tee, finally assists on while Ber- nadsky is made official interpreter of the House of Representatives “Special Committee to Investigate | Communist activities in America.”| “Birds of a feather flock to- gether.” They are now working seven hours a day. We are sending you a pic- ture of our factory. The picture shows it, but not complete. It looks nicer than it does on the Stalingrad used to be called “Zarizyn” before the revolu- tion. Stalingrad is the future big- this time you are ‘probably worry-| broader and more militant this|ful producers, going to stand ing about coal for the winter, but| demonstration, the more efective| Passively aside and let our loved we don’t have to worry because the| it will be. This great struggle,|°es hunger and freeze while the power houce here is going to heat| carried through by employed as| ‘ich social parasites revel in lux- all the colony. well as unemployed, must also| Ury at Palm Beach or in Europe “Best wishes to all comrades.|direct its force against the wage-|0nt he wealth they have stolen “Yours, cutting campaign and general from us? “A, NAZRAK, worsening of the workers condi-| Never! oss ———~| tions now taking place. Unem- | ployment relief must be made the central issue in the fall elections. | It is the historic task of the Com- munist Party and Trade Union Unity League to lead this militant | fight. We must and we will fight against the capitalists and against their A. F. of L. “social ist” party agents. The issue either fight or starve. Send greetings to the Soviet workers and peasants for the Thirteenth Anniversary of the Successful Russian Revolution, through the Friends of the So- viet Union, These greetings will be compiled in an artistic red album and sent to the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow as a token of solidarity be- tween the American workers and farmers to the Rus- sian workers and peasants of the Soviet Union. We assert our right to live, Our ; Slogan is work or wages. The em- |ployers bear the fault for closing |down the industries, it is not of | September| our doing. They are the rulers of 28th unemployment conference of| society. Their bankrupt capitalist the starting point|system cannot furnish us work, | Send Delegates. | jthe T.U.U.L. for the organization of great,| therefore they must pay us wages militant demonstrations in every through unemployment insurance. Workers, make the Price of Greeting is 25c, Unemployed 10c. | American city during the coming|The workers will finally end un- }months. Let these demonstra-|employment altogether by over- tions show the capitalists that the| throwing capitalism and setting working class demands immediate|up their own government, as the unemployment insurance and will| Russian workers have done. Send all your greetings to FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION 175 FIFTH AVENUE, Room 511, NEW YORK CITY ————— —_ ‘A million and one articles sold at PROLETARIAN PRICES Don’t buy now, you will get it at the Bazaar DAILY WORKER--MORNING FREIHEII — AZAAR Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, October 2, 3, 4 and 5 _ ORGANIZATIONS! SPEED UP YOUR WORK IN THESE LAST FEW DAYS! MADISON SQUARE GARDEN