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

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1930 Page Three Bosses 6-Hr. Day, 4-Day Week at $15 Means Slow Starvation for Rubber Workers in Akron Rubber Workers Must Organize to Fight This New Scheme of Bosses Unemployed Must Push Fight for Immediate Relief From City Treasury (By a Worker Correspondent) AKRON, Ohio.—Enclosed you will find a clipping from the local Times on the six-hour day and four-day week that will be in effect starting Oct. 14 at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. PAYCUTS TO PAY FOR LOW PRICE SHIP CONTRACT A, F. of 1. Guy in on ‘This Deal: -” At the Firestone Rubber company’s plant No, 2 the workers are on a four-hour shift and 4 days per week making their weekly wage of about $15 per week just enough to starve on. Suicides, In the past ‘month four suicides have taken place in Akron and the local papers stated that they were because of ill health, but were (By Worker Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Espe- really because of unemployment as | in the case of a man with 4 chil- dren who was out of work for a cially the bankers and the big store; period of 6 months. owners all agog over the fact that $16,000,000 in shipbuilding for the Panama Mail Line may be awarded to the Bethlehem Corp. here. Eastern Yards have made bids $650,000 under the Bethlehem bid, | so a “Citizens Committee” was! formed and pledged to contribute $650,000 to the Bethlehem Corp. is is the plan they worked out to raise said $650,000 difference: $150,000 is to be raised in taxes, and the remainder by “deductions from workmen’s wages.” Wage Cutting Committee. On the “Citizens Committee” that plans to rob the workers of $650,- 000 directly through wage cuts and indirectly through taxes in order that Frisco bankets and store own- ers can pocket $16,000,000 are two rats beside the bankers. These are Angelo Rossi, Acting Mayor, suave racketeer, who made a hypocritical speech to the unemployed on March 6th saying how sorry he was he could not give them relief; and the other filthy rat, John O’Connell of the Labor Council (“representing labor,” according to the capitalist press).‘ You see this rotten betrayer of the workers has sold them out in advance. __ Real Sell Out. This sell out and robbery of San Francisco workers is a two edged thrust at American workers, It is the Chamber of Commerce and other financial and business organ- izations, together with the A. F, of L. agents deciding on mass wage cuts before the job has begun, and without the corporation having to bother at all. The other edge to the knife is this: Frisco is regard- ed as a hindrance to cutting wages the country over, INSTITUTIONS, JAILS, CROWDED Vets Must Vote Com- munist Nov. 4 (By an Ex-Soldier Correspond:nt) National Military Home, Wis. ~ The state institutions are over- crowded, no roon: or space to place more victims of this rotten capital- ist system. The national soidiers homes are filled, the Veterans Bu- reau Hospitals are overcrowded with a long waiting list for sick to get in, Even the jails have only standing room. In Richest Country. This is a picture of the richest eountry in the world to pin on the one hundred percenters who met in Boston last week. The patriotic organization with pay-triotic leaders can bluff the ex-servicemen with Hoover's pros- perity and capitalist justice, but sooner of later the ex-servicemen ‘will learn who misled them by Sweet dreams of patriotism. ‘The A. F. of L. rank and file will earn soon who their leaders are and why they face hard struggle. Vote Communist! The Communist Party is the only ‘workers and toilers party to lead the masses of toilers to victory in class struggle for emancipation from capitalist exploitation. Workers and ex-servicemen, ‘ or- ganize under the Comriunist lead- At the Goodrich plant workers are continually being laid off, some of them working as much as 20 years at Goodrich. Also Good- rich is hiring boys 14 to 16 years old in the tire building department to pull stock off the rolls and these rolls weighing sometimes as much as 150 pounds and the boys must keep working at top speed in order to keep up with two machines. For this work they are getting 38 to 48 cents per hour, —A. P. : ee ae Editorial Note: The short time schemes of the bosses ‘are spread- ing rapidly to many industries, and represent a concerted attack against the workers still working. It is preparatory to wages cut while the workers are half- starving on greatly reduced wages. The fight for full wages while working, and immediate $25 a week plus emergency relief for the unemployed workers must be pushed through the organization of shop committees of the revolu- tionary unions and through the Unemployed Councils, simultan- eously. “SOCIALIST” NOW A SLAVE DRIVER Girls Worked Until They Drop (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—‘What you telling me of the conditions of the work- ers? Don’t I know them and haven't I worked in the mill myself, and not only that. But I want you to know that when a boy back at home, I was a member of the revo- lutionary party, and even went to Siberia for my ideas.” Thus the boss Killing Work. Colored girls and married wom- en slaving in this laundry from early in the morning, till late in the night, doing very hard work. It’s hot in the laundry, and when finished with the work they can hardly walk home from exhaus- tion. For lunch they get thirty minutes. The girls are always on time, and dare not take a chance on being late, for they are sure of losing the job. Speed-Up Devil. When the girls thought the boss was out one day they took a couple of minutes to say a few words to each other and change the mon- otony, but the boss was in, he jumped out of his office like a crazy man. The next day five of the girls remained home, canned for having allowed themselves the luxury of talking to each other two minutes. As to wages, well, call it that if you wish. But it’s just a pitiful existence. Hunger Wages. One girl having worked in the place for over two and a half years and if she puts in from 7:15 every day till 7 p. m, every evening she will make $6.50. But this happens very seldom, not that the girl re- fuses to work these long hours, but because the boss does not always give her enough work, and besides ership and carry on to your friends and tell them to vote Communist, —Ex-Serviceman, You’ve Got to Hustle, Then Some at Sears (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—You're not out of a job if you are lucky enough to rate a job selling at Sears Roebuck’s Detroit store, even if there is a depression, they don’t reduce your pay. They say, “Joe, you won't mind for a while if you work only mornings,” and so you ring out at twelve neon, and your pay stops. But do you go home—not much. The boss says, “Joe, hang around a while, it might get busy and there is no one on the floor.” So you stay sil afternoon and Jose your job if you don’t stay. But they don’t reduce your pay— not much—only half. ® —A Worker, he does not want her to make so much, Vote Communist! | etseee Rubber Workers Starve Here Houses of the rubber workers in Akron, where now dire want, misery and hunger stalks the working and jobless workers. The bosses’ short time scheme means more suffering especially during the winter months, (Below) At work in a rubber factory at a man-killing pace. The rubber barons have piled up fabulous fortunes, while today the workers who produced this wealth are undergoing all the tortures of insecurity and hunger. SUICIDE WILL NOT GET FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER FOR THE UNEMPLOYED, FIGHT WIL! Jobless! Fight as You Never Have Before to Keep Alive This Winter! With the growing misery of the unemployed workers more and more suicides of despair-crazed workers are daily reported. These workers do not understand the system that has condemned them to a miserable death. They have dropped out because they didn’t learn fn time the need to fight tooth and nail against the murderous capitalist system. But suicides will not get relief for the jobless. It will not feed the children that remain behind. It will not secure the vital necessities of life this coming winter for the millions of jobless to live. MUST FIGHT. The fight for immediate unemployment insurance must be pushed for the very lives of countless thousands are at stake. The heroic fight of.the New York jobless must be redoubled in all the industrial centers, Mighty efforts must be made to get a big Communist vote November 4th to send Communists into the legislative halls of the bosses to fight the battle of the unemployed there. Daily the battle of the jobless against the money-swollen bosses must grow in volume. Ue ciaball | Suicide in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O.— Unsuccess- ful in attempts to secure employ- ment, George Hahn, 35, shot and killed himself in the basement of his home at 364 Dalewood Ave., police reported today. ee ae Poor Farmer Kills Self. REIDSVILLE, N, C.—William Shuff, an impoverished farmer, cut his throat with a razor, after trying unstccessfully to obtain work in the textile mills of Spray. Shuff leaves behind a wife and ten children. Young Worker Collapses. YONKERS, N. Y.— Catherine Smith, twenty-five, a young work- ing girl, collapsed on Hawthorne Ave. here. Taken to the hospital, undernourishment was admitted to be the cause of her conditions. The young worker had been unemployed for two months. Sate Jobless Worker Faints. ELLAVILLE, Ga.—E. C. Wil- liams, unemployed worker of Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 60, fainted from hunger and fatigue here, after going from city to city in search of a job. Fight All Fake Relief Schemes The bankers, their government, the A. F. of L. fat boys, he 80- cialists, have declared against real unemployment insurance in the interests of their profits. All kinds and varieties of fake schemes are being foisted on the jobless, to kid them along, to make the workers pay, and to postpone real relief. Fight like hell, in demonstrations, day to day and by Voting Com- munist for real relief, for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and against such breadlines as above, that mean slow starvation. Bad Conditions in California Rice Fields for Men (By a Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal.—I was at 625 Second St. and saw the Gills employment office collect $2 office fee and $1 transportation from six men, to drive bundle wagons in the rice fields and told them to report at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow morning. One of them wanted to take his car, he was refused as the conditions are rotten, Have to sleep in rag tents of 10 oz. duck and a bunch quit as they got wet from rain Sun- day night. NEW SPEEDUP AND LAYOFFS ON N.Y. STREET CARS; TAMMANY IN ON IT New York. Editor of the Worker, Dear Sir: I wish to draw your attention to the unemployed and our politi- cians. There is a violation of the law going on in this city now and causing loss of lives and injury in this city. There was a law passed in the early 90’s to stop a one man horse car and now it is violated by our city authorities, letting the Third Avenue Railway and the BMT permission to run one man cars and rutting men that worked for them 25 to 45 years out of a job, and these men won't get a pension either. One Man Cars, The Tihrd Avenue is going to put one man in 42nd St. and Broadway and Webster Ave. cars in the Bronx after election. They are breaking in the men on the 59th St. crosstown to be one man operators and we have no one to stop them in violating the law. Guards working on the elevated V. of A. in Pie- in-the-Sky Campaign (By Worker Correspondent) SACRAMENTO, Cal.—Received information from a caretaker from Mr. Short, race horse and clubman, a millionaire, residing at 2ist and T Sts. that he has gone east to reorganize the Vol- unteers of America for the coast | defense, The Volunteers of America is a religious outfit and a section of the Communist Chest. While it spreads its poison propaganda about pie in the sky, it closely co- operates with the defense coast of U. 8. A. Amery actually prepar- | ing those they come in contact with on the Pacific Coast for the next imperialist war, J. K. 8. Vote Communist! and subway have to go between cars to open a 10 car train. There is many a men killed in this posi- tion and not a word about it. The company’s excuse is he was walk- ing across the tracks when he got hit. They don’t say he slipped hetween cars. It would look bad | for the one man operations. —T. G. ADMIT 10,000 KIDS ‘GO WITHOUT FOOD IN PHILA. SCHOOLS Into Jobless Fight! (By Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—It was to- |day openly admitted by Dr. Edwin C. Broome superintendent of public} are attending schools daily without meals, a direct result of depressed business conditions in Philadelphia, the school authorities declared. The city of Philadelphia and the state makes no pri ion for funds for emergency relief, Distress is Great. So acute is the distress amongst the children, who are compelled to go to school by law, whether fed or} unfed that the school authorities in- jtend using what money is available as well as making an appeal to| private (charitable) sources. When the fathers and mothers of |these school children go to the polls to vote on November 4th they remember that the, only p party putting forth real dems | Obminniat Party ata against the 3 boss pa Jobless Vet Will Fight for Rule of the Working Class Children Should Get} ' schools that at least 10,000 pupils | .. This condition was declared} © On Garbage Rationg fe: “Everyone has an equal chance’ says Hoover. But here we notice that increasing number of jobless workers must take their “chance” of slop after the fat rich bosses throw out their garbage. Mane uy out of their swollen profits, Vote Com- munist November 4th! (MEN ON WACOSTA tie ‘HOTEL DEGINK’ DAMP DARK BASEMENT IS BOSSES “GIFT” TO SPOKAN: 20,000 JOBLESS Terrible Degradation of Unemployed Toilers Is Bosses’ “Solution” of Crisis V’orkers! Fight Like Hell to Make the Bloody Leeches Pay for Real Decent Relief! (By a Worker Correspondent) POKANE, Wash.—Here in Spokane we have like e where else a whole lot of hungry unemployed and hom workers. I and another comrade went over to the Hotel De Ginks today to sée for ourselves how nicely the hungry ee home'ess jobless workers are taken care of at this ‘Hotel.’ (The Hotel De Ginks is located in underground vau Its beneath an old abandoned brewery. Damp, dark and utterly unfit to live in, it has been turned into what the bosses choose to call a hotel for the jobless and run by one ‘boss, aie Comilini, president of the Italian inca Ds Comp: an: ’ bina | |Fight These. Miserable ‘a place that served for kitchen First we were shown the} (MAKE and commissary or store room| which by the way was kept} clean and orderly. A colored cook was busy preparing the food which | on that day cabbage and pork re, and after being oifered little of it to taste the same I say that the little they had was b ter prepared than we have GED ALL PAY Conditions! Bronx, N. Y. Comrade Editor: After pounding the pavement for the past 12 months in search of jobs that are not to be found, I have decided to vote Commu- nist in this and all other elec- tions, until we seize power, which I hope will be seon. I fought for those damn thieves that oppress the working class, but I will fight this time for the establishment of a prole- tarian dictatership. I urge all ex-servicemen to join the Com- munist Party and vote Commu- nist. —dJ. W., An Unemployed Veteran. ‘MORE LAYOFFS IN RR. Shops Shut Down for Second Time Chicago, Ill. Daily Worker: Why don’t your.paper print about all the shut downs. The Rock Island railroad shops closed October 10 was closed for 9 weeks this summer then opened for 2 weeks and now closed. Two thousand laid off at Silvis, Ill and the International Harvester Co. laid off 900 more at Moline and Rock Island. More Layoffs. There are thousands out of work at Moline, Rock Island, East Moline and Silvis, Ill. so workers stay away from there. There are some things that should be cut out of the Daily Worker and print instead all, the layoffs. Let the people know what ing their way in box cars. Why don’t you print things like these? —EX-SERVICEMAN. Editorial Note: We have no correspondents other than worker correspondents. It is upon such as Ex-Serviceman that we must depend for the news that he claims we do not print. On the job, worker correspondents! MISERIES DAYTON: JOBUESS GROWING Boss Leaders in Fake “Relief” (By a Worker Correspondent) DAYTON, 0.—The business, in- dustrial and vrofessional leaders of , Dayton met Wednesday nivht at the. Miami Hotel ballroom to discuss the unemployment situation as it af- fects this vicinity to “work” out! some plan to relieve distress from that quarter during the winter months, No Clothing. Reports were given by several leading social workers that more families have asked for help than ever before, One story was told | of how a woman went to a family ' in order to investigate their con- ditions. When she got there the woman was downstairs. Asked where her husband was, she was told that he was in bed. Is he sick? No, the woman answered. We have only oné suit of clothes in the house. In the morning the father stays in bed while the son goes to school in the suit. When he returns in the afternoon, the son goes to hed and the father goes out looting for work. Fake Relief. at The city manager reported that the city had been rivine unemnloved a day’s work for $3.60 in groceries, | This was helning the unemployed and keeping them from starving! A preacher was there who re- ported that 80 per cent of his congregation was out of work and that the pastor had two months tas er ‘leaving port the ithe y | told the crew | the A. B. stood 4 hour wheel watch | with no relief, and the rest of the j mate and a that they had coming for working ILL. TRI-CITIES, | us 1 put in irons and put in the paint | peak where he and the second mate | about inhuman treatment. is going on. Men and women beat-| ; ‘the wages that we had coming to | Dept. had to admit that conditions wages due him, that unless some help came from the city the church would have to close up. The reporter from the Industrial in many of the lumber and road camps. Of course, the bill of fare | Satcuey™ not very assorted but they had prunes for desert, At 3 o’clock sharp the guests ar- rived and it didn’t take long before the dining room as they proudiy call another part of the basement, was filled up. Young men, old men, some of them hardly enough clothes on them to hi r nakedness. And the most pityful sight of all was a Mr. and Mrs, Goebel with four little children ranging from four years, three years, two ye and three months in age. Pat Har- ris told me that they had been com- ing regularly for tne last few day lf these people have a home hore | in town or where they live, I was unable to find out. ~ Slop Given. The food to feed those hungry men is given by the merchants of this town who well enough know that as long they can keep the many jobless in this town sup- plied with a little slumgulion once or twice a day they will be able to keep them contented, so «ey won't make any trouble demand- ing theirs, what by right belongs to them. {Pm a Worker Correspo gO shipped on the § V ed by the American sailing for Genoa, crew had to work from 8 a. m. to 2 m. the next morning, with the usual promise of getting the time when they |hit the other side, Line, back When the ship was ready to. sail re- all hands were put on watch a q 1 by law, but afte lot the mate ¢; that 3 A. B deck boys would stand the being as the deck boys couldn’t steer crew went on day work. Upon reaching the other side the crew were given an advance (that is money); they then went to the 1 for the time back overtime. The mate’s answer was, you get it when you quit the ship. So three of us went ashore and stayed for 3 days and when wej| came aboard again the captain had | locker, Brutal Beating. The smell of the paint and tur.’ pentine made us sick and we raised a commotion so that the captain was forced to remove us to the fore sleeping quarters, If it is mag.n- and| able to call them so. Anyhow, 1t 1s an old stable, with about a bunch of straw six to eight inches thick on beat us up with blackjacks brass knuckles for raising a protest | After 2| days he let us out and refused to| tie us shore eae ab we dee 2 no cots or matresses in the stall, to go ashore and sce the American | and aiver asking I was informed that consul. By demanding our rights | some of the merchants had sent we got throwed back in the fore| them a few cots and mattresses and peak again for 6 days on bread andj that they would get more later on. water. And this in a town where the mer- The day before the ship s-' | chants give every year from $25,000 | frem port the captain took us be-| to $30,000 to the Salvation Army, fore the American consul to pay us; the Volunteers of America, the Y. off. While he had us locked up this| M. C. A., and other opium peddlers. tool lorzed us for all Fight This. Workers, how long will you stand for such degrading treat- ment? Eating slumgolion, sleep- ing in barns on straw? And be satisfied with the scraps the mas- ters and the bourgeois class will throw at you. Workers, estimation shows that in and around Spokane there are about 20,000 if not more unem- ployed of which about 250,000 are in average given slumgolian at the so-called Hotel the Ginks. What about the rest of them? Don’t you think it is about time that we all the unemployed come together and form an unemployed council? Don’t be jellyfish and show that you have a backbone. To hell with the slumgolian and sleeping on straw in a basement of an abandoned brewery or any- where else. Let us demand our us. Having done this he paid v off -nd the consul made us s'~ as workaways for a nenny a month, The consul told us if we diin’t sien on that he would have us thrown! in jail for one yeat, Seamen, are we going to tolerate this any Iong- er o~ are we going to join the Mar- ine Workers’ Industrial Union and set up shivs committees and fight | against these conditions, were very had, that unemploymet increased and announced only i0 000} unemployed in Dayton. However, the only thing that was done was to boost the plans for the Community Chest and to suggest that the solicitors for funds should receive more tham 16 per cent of | all they collect so that they will collect more money. Another thing | which was done was to elect a committee to investigate unemploy- rent. right and not crawl on our belly and beg for a few scraps. —An Unemployed Worker. Plan Robbers. The Community Chest drive has | begun ani will. extend until the! week of November 17th. Besides the Community Chest robbing the people a bond issue is coming up| this election which taxes the people in order to make up the deficit for the Welfare Association. Workers of Dayton, refuse to give a penny to the Community Chest. Vote against the bond issue, Fight for the Workers’ Social In- surance Bill, Vote bia in November, PHILA. MUSICIANS GET USUAL ARL. Send Photo Mats to Daily Worker Worker correspondents are urged. to get the matrix of all unemployment photos clipped that they send in. The Daily Worker will pay the cost. Further, worker correspondents are urged to write brief sum- maries of clippings they send in instead of the clippings alone. ‘FRIENDLY SELLOUT IN SHORT STRIKE | (Bu Worker Corresnondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The big movié moguls, Fox and Warner Brothers, having only the A. F. of L. and their class collaboration methods to contend with, easily came off first in the musicians’ strike here. A “friendly compromise” was reached by the A. F. of L. Mu- sicians’ Union and the bosses. As a result of the settlement, elose to 100 musicians will now. find themselves permanently un- employed, Given the Gate. ‘In reality they've been “given the gate’ by their own union, which accepted reduced orchestras at all the leading picture houses here. These mammoth houses charge high prices for low forms of amusement presentéd as cheaply as possible. Now with the reduc- tion in the size of the orchestras, these places will be even better out of, ) A i; “'Money Used for Anti- than they were before—to stay | After this we were shown the the bare floor, for those that had | Even Children Are Here. a0 RKERS PAY FOR BOSSES’ CHARITY IN CAL. Worker Groups That racket- known as the eering Community Ch Los Angeles tribute from th to be nd vicinity exacting e of us “fortunate” and making pxefits for the tribute that is e refuses is fired. In other bute to the Gom- at so he m: be permit- on working. Exact Tribute. s the schedule adopted by one company in Los Angeles, I: be- lieve it to be standard for ali of | them here. Labore: at $24.00 donate” $5.00, candy workers (women) $9.00° to }0, $2.50 to $5.00 contribution, ng shop (women) to $25, $2.00; office help (men) $25 to $40. $10; office help (women) $18 to $25, { $5.00. While Workers Need Money, The candy workers come to #work dressed in well-worn clothing. “Bare legs are not in style at present»but these girls wear no stockings, In another company a man who | was injured on the job was noti.ied |that he would not have to donate till he was working again. The great pity is that this money ground out of the working class is used for fascist organizations such as the YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, ete., which are composed of middle class ele- ments, the basis for fascism. Fight This. Where is the Unemployed Coun- cil? The Community Chest finds no favor even among the highest paid workers. Even a moderately strong attack at the right time in | this direction should result in vic- tory and gains for the workers. ea @ Just met a friend who was in Mex- ico two months ago. He reports that the favorite topic of conversa- jtion there is the corruption of, the | present regime with its Wall Street {domination and the coming war be- tween the United States and. the Soviet Union. —UNEMPLOYED, BRIGGS DIVIDE AND STARVE PLAN Is Attack on on All re Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—Patriot Briggs keeps the native gAmericans work- ing. Depressions such as wars turn out undiscovered one hundred per cent Americans, Briggs is, the latest to do something in a big way for the lucky boys who were born in the only land where freedom to starve is written right into the con- stitution, Briggs says to the foreign worker \“Get the hell out of here” and at |Briggs they say it with kicks |plenty. But to the native he says |“Come tomorrow John, there may | be something” and one or two days out of every fifteen there is some- | thing—maybe, and there is $5, in | the envelope every two weeks to |feed the kids. But John has got to get in line every daytat Briggs. John isn’t-out of a job, he’s starving for Briggs, the super patriot. John can’t look for work anywhere else, he’s got to be at Briggs every morning, and he can’t get enough from Briggs to live on, but Briggs says “You've.got a job” and you can like it. 4 —A WORKER TRYING THE POISON AT BRIGGS.