The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1930, Page 3

} coon | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930 2 _— ee LETTERS - Fe ac res eae a a SEFTOo YP S 4 5 MINERS KILLED, 37 INJURED IS TOLL TAKEN BY MURDEROUS SPEED UP MINE BOSS AT PORTAGE, PA. Miners Hurtled to Death in Car, When Coup- ling Not Inspected, Runs Wild (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTAGE, Pa.—This is about the slaughter at the Son- No! Jobless Will Not Lie Down Or Die Quietly New York. Communist Party, Gentlemen: We are compelled to write you regarding yesterday’s inhuman dem- onstration staged at City Hall. It seems to us that the followers of your Party use no strategy in man Coal Company mine owned by Mr. Powell, also owner of| combatting the present evil’ of un- the Boston Braves team. This company’s mine was one of the first in this section to import scabs in the 1927 strike and force the miners into open shop and low wages and severe speed-up; it has a half dozen wage cuts to its credit since that time. This mine has more murders to its credit than any six mines in this vicinity. Only this morning this murderous company hurled 14 two ton mine car loaded with miners down the long slope in the FOUGHT SPEED-UP, =", inn, ahem 3 IS THEN LAID OFF coupling broke at the top of ‘A Plucky Fighter for the slope just as the man-trip was starting down the long Workers’ Right (By a Worker Correspondent) grade into the workings, when the trip rider discovered the trip run- ning away he made several attempts PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Well, comrades, am now in the army of unemployed; was fired this morn- ing for being a Communist. Here is the rub, while not actually one, put willing to be one, am fired on the say-so of a common rat or man- ufacturers’ stool pigeon. Well now that I have so much more time, am busy distributing) Vote Communist pamphlets. Have handed them to workers on street cars, tacked them on telegraph poles, | etc. Yesterday a machine followed me right to my door, was tacking one on a pole, but to hell with them, “Right is Might.” might where would the U.S.S.R. be today? They would still be bound in Blavery, rotten living and working eonditions, like we have today. This dump I was just fired out of, here is how they work: They cut the rates terribly low and put the worker on piece work. He is forced to work at top speed to make 50c an hour, At the end of a few weeks time the full force has caught up on production, then comes a lay-off. This happened on the 14th, half the force was laid off, and the rest had to work like hell to make the 50c rate; if they don’t, they are fired, and younger, stronger workers brought in who will. I try to make my fellow workers see the results of this method of production. Most of them answer: “Hard times, how can they keep us on and give us decent wages, when the bosses don’t get the work them- selves.” low rates actually doubles produc- tion, enables the manufacturer to work with half a force. and puts money into the lustful pigs’ pockets. Well, the old saying is, live long enough and learn. Lets hope the workers learn real soon, and see the capitalists as the lustful greedy pigs they really arc. More power to the Communist Party! Lets ‘fight the pigs to a finish; lets hear them beg for mercy from the people they compelled to live like animals. —wW. P. S. Irving Trust to Fire 20 P.C. of Employees New York. To the Editor of the Daily Worker: It seems to me you may be in- terested in these facts, which I have on very good authority, and may wish to make us of them in the Daily. The Irving Trust Company is going to let go 20%. of their em- ployes. (Hoover's speech in Cleve- land, asking the bankers to help, is bringing results.) In spite of the rumors that a large number of dividends were reduced or omitted entirely since January 1, statistics show that the aggregate amount of cash dividend payments actually have increased every month this year over last year, the total cash dividend dis- bursements for the first nine months of this year were more than $3,600,- 000 as compared with $2,400,000,000. (Curious facts in a year of severe depression). —A sympathizer. 800 Apply for Four City Jobs in Milwaukee MILWAUKEE. — Yesterday Mil- waukee papers announced that 4 fire- men were needed and that only those should apply who were of special heigth and physique. Altho only 4 Jobs were open, 300 men applied and 3 of these arived before midnite, al- though the doors of the gymnasium were not to be opened until 7 o'clock the next morning. This is how things stand in the city of Milwaukee, which the “socialists” say is such a wonder- ful city for the “people.” Workers, defeat the “socialist” traitors. Vote Communist. If right was not) They just can’t see that | to throw the drag derailer out of the leading car to derail the cars,” only to find it was not in working condi- tion, so he was helpless in the run- away trip, and when it wrecked going at terrific speed with its load of humanity they found 5 dead and 37 injured in the wreckage, (and its probably a miracle that any were | alive). Bosses Dish Up Excuses. The company’s only excuse was a coupling link broke, leaving the re- maining 10 cars which still re- mained on the cable under control of the engineer, while the 14 run wild down the long slope loaded with miners, the company did not think it worth while to mention why the drag or derailer was out of order and would not work, which would have avoided these killings. No Safety Consideration. About one minute would be all that it would require to test the derailer each morning before start- ing down this dangerous slope with the miners, but probably minutes | are more valuable to this company than miners, for faker John L. Lewis often said there are too many miners. So miners awake, “join the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers Industrial Union, the only union in the coal industry that fights for your rights, it is a class-conscious miners union and all are wanted to join regard- less of creed, color or nationality, join today and have your fellow | Workers to likewise, and then you can force such murderous open- shoppers to have safety devices to pretect your lives, you can have the things that are rightfully yours, for the M. O. S. W. I. U. is the only class-conscious union that will | fight for the miners’ rights, while | beth factions of the company con- | trolled UMWA stand for wage cuts |and speed-up. ‘245 COMMUNISTS ARE ON BALLOT Can Vote Communist In 25 States (Continued from Page 1) senator, lieutenant governor, attor- ney general, etc..... twenty six of the 87 Negro candidates are run- ning for congress and local state offices. ;f the 250 candidates al- ready nominated, there were 26 women workers. “To nominate the 245 candidates, the Party collected in 16 states, ’9,950 signatures. However the total number of signatures collected reaches the number of 170,000. “Write In” Communist. In addition, the Party is also con- ducting a sticker campaign and urging workers to write in the names of our Party candidates in the states of Alabama, Ohio, Cali- fornia and West Virginia. “The terror against the Party this year was greater than ever before. In the state of regon, our entire state ratification convention was arrested, the foreign born dele- gates are now held for deportation and because of the police terror and brutality, the party was prevented from placing its candidates on the ballot. “In the state of West Virginia, the Communist Party was ruled off the ballot by the secretary of state on certain technical grounds, which was preceded by a “Red plot” and dynamite stories spread through- out the state by the authorities. In the state of Rhode Island, the state authorities threw out half of our signatures and thereby kept our state candidates off the ballot. In the state of Ohio, where the Party had to collect signatures in ’0 coun- ties for its State candidates, the sig- natures collected were confiscated, and our collectors driven out of town, “In many states, the bosses told the workers through their foremen not to sign the petitions of the Com- munist Party. Workers who signed our petitions were intimidated, and employment or any other evil. Why do they always manage to cause such a commotion and confustion. Your Party cannot arouse the in- terest of the sensible men and wom- en by using such methods. We are a group of people inter- ested in movements which tend to better mankind, socially and econ- omically. We have been willing lis- teners to representatives of your Party, and just at the peak of our interest, a mob scene which occur- red yesterday certainly dampened our spirits. Whatever opinions we may have had about your members are now unjustified. For how in heaven’s name can intelligent people resort to barbarous outbursts and not be looked upon with scorn and hatred. * * * Editorial note: When 15,000 jobless workers, the militant van- guard of the 800,000 New York jobless, demonstrate for the right to live, for bread for themselves and dependents, they are a lawless mob! When Nessin, leader of the jobless, demanded at a so-called public hearing that the miseries of hundreds of thousands of work- ers be relieved immediately he was set upon by the savagethugs of Tammany and barbarously beat- en, he was called the inciter to riot! Their right to live for the workers is a crime in the eyes of the bosses and liberal soft-scrap- ers “interested in mankind.” Without exception it is police provocation and sadist slugging that cause the “commotion” our liberal ‘friends’ are so wrought up against. Did not Whalen boast that he hal planted men to “get things started?” Today, the capitalist system is murdering, yes, plain out and out murder, thousands upon thou-.. sands of workers, by slow starva- tion, cold and other miseries. In this the great scene of mis- ery, it is to wonder that there are not more “barbarous outbursts” that keep our “liberals” on tender hooks (and in fear of the income they get to carry on their “liber- alism”), More and militantly fiercer demonstrations will follow. There is no alternative to the millions of jobless, outside of dying a mis- able death. Rejected Wage Cut, Negro Worker Is Railroaded to Jail Following his refusal to accept a wage cut and longer hours, George Buford, a young Negro automobile worker was fired and subsequently framed up by his boss and the po- lice. A few days after he left the job, a young man came to Buford’s home offering him to sell him a car cheap. While taking a demonstration in the car, he was arrested, charged with stealing the car. The young man who had brought him the car denied his part in the frame-up and told the police Buford was giving him a lift. It subsequently developed that the car had been left at the garage from which Buford was fired, and that the owner had not notified the police of the loss of the car, the owner believing the car still to be in the garage. Buford, who is married and has a child, was sentenced to five months in jail, the victim of a vicious frame-up. Insull Taxes Workers for “Jobless Relief” CHICAGO, IIL, Oct. 24—Sam Insull, ezar of power companies and street railways and owner of both democratic and republican organ- izations in the middle west yester- day told Governor Emerson’s un- employed commission, that “if busi- ness does not meet the crisis some one else will come in and meet it.” To save the exploiters from Com- munism, Insull’s plan, as announced on the occasion, was to compel each man still at work in his companies to donate one day’s wage a month for the jobless. This is so much more satisfactory to Insull than cutting into the profits. received letters from their employ- ers and “patriotic” societies to with- draw their signatures. However, in spite of this fascist terror, the Party developed the election campaign and was enthusiastically received by the workers. It put out millions of leaf- lets and other literature and sold 140,000 copies of its congressional platform. | j lieve |the republican leader, as when Al| |Smith recently obtained a permit! | his who wanted to build a huge “in- | personal graft and by permitting cap- Acrobatics The boss press say 14,000 police now engaged in a door t ‘The only thing workers get from cops is something that will not re- hunger. Unemployment in| Queens has been practically wiped| out by the police census. Even the sun-dried, fake figures of the federal census listed 25,000 unemployed. The cops only bumped into 150 in their flat foot census. If all the police in the U. S. could be mobilized to slash into the unemployment fig- ures in this way the boss crisis could be wiped out by police reports alone. Scorn this hokum. Breadlines are growing in every city. Thousands more are thrown out of work as the stagger system puts 10 off and 2 on. Anser the boss breadcrumb program with 60,000 circula- tion for the Daily Worker. Gird loins for the factory gate offensive. Units, sec- tions, districts, organizations, warm up to the factory plan. Concentrate on selected fac- Answer Boss Jawbone with 60,000 Circulation' ‘unicipal forces that will be mobilized to ex- ecute the plan” (for dribbling out jobless relief) “will embrace the city’s for Jobless 0 door relief census.” Admit Loss of Huge Trade INTERNATIO aN EwWS © ANGLO-US. FIGHT FOR ARGENTINE MARKETS SHARPENS WAR DANGER British Bosses Now|Confiscate Rote Fahne) NA |\Bruening and | Socialists tor Strike Sell-Out Issue; 258 Now Dead) (Cable by Imprecorr) i i | BERLIN, Oct. 26—Negotiations iM Aachen Mine Blast in the strike of 140,000 metal work- tories. Sell at these gates every day. Each one sells on one or two days. Send subs. Feed a giant who volution. 1 cent; sell it at 3 cents. Relieve your own financial problem. Greetings for November 7 edition, anniversary of the Bolshevik Re- Read how one of the Garvey officials on the Booker T. Wash- ington got himself a job as an engineer and tested the hot bearings through kid gloves. Garvey’s career in graft starts tomorrow. Well, it looks like a Daily Worker year. Divide the work among all members. | Unit organizations, buy the Daily at | will smash capitalism. TAMMANY, WHITE, HOUSE IN GRAFT, Workers Must Fight Behind Communists (Continued from Page 1) istration in Washington they utilize/ from Andrew Mellon for a friend of | dustrial alcohol plant.” From Mel- lon to the White House is but a step, and it is often traversed for favors to democrats. The “socialist” administrations in Reading and Milwaukee manage to “keep their peace” with both demo- cratic and republican parties in the same fashion. The foremost charac- teristic of capitalist parties every- where is their ability to assume any color that will best dazzle the work- ers they exploit. Sham Capitalist Investigations. Another indication of this is the sham investigations which they oc- casionally fling, although very gently, at one another, and which fool none but the unwary. Consider the hun- dreds of pages of newspaper space which have hinted of Tammany cor- ruption, although the total effect of the capitalist news has been to dis- guise, rather than reveal, this cor- ruption. Consider the several “in- vestigations” which have been started by democrats and republicans alike. What has been the net result? One judge, Vause, actually sentenced to jail—and for tax evasion at that, tather than the most flagrant kind of outright thievery. As for the “investigations” them- selves, one, on food racketeering, was dropped “for lack of funds.” The same hypocritical reason has crippled the Ewald jury, and it is now rumored that the jury will discontinue its “in- quiry” until after election. The Sea- bury “investigation” has been quest- joning hundreds of witnesses and will continue questioning them until after election, when the capitalist press will announce that “no proof has been discovered to substantiate the charges that every judge in New York is a grafter and a thief.” The “inves- tigation” started by the Commissioner of Accounts at Walker’s request has never even broken into the boss press, except to report at intervals of two or three weeks that “prgoress is be- ing made.” All Capitalist Politicians Alike. “Investigations” of capitalists by themselves would mean absolutely nothing even if they were meant to investigate, which they are not. Even if they proved beyond the vestige of a doubt that every government of- ficial lives by grafting, both by italists to extract the last drop of blood from the workers’ tired body, it would méan nothing. For the next batch of officials would emulate their predecessors. By destroying the symptom you cennot eradicate the disease, There is no cure for corruption in capitalist government other than the destruc- tion of capitalism itself. Investiga- tions, “reform” administrations, “so- clalist” governments are perfect proof of that. Workers, {t is within your own power to change the government which enslaves you and crushes you in @ poverty which is no fault of your own. For freedom, for life, for an end to capitalist horror, for bread itself, you must join the ing army of workers consciously iting to overthrow capitalism and to es- tablish @ Workers’ and Farmers’ government, a Soviet state! And as a sign that you are ready to join the struggle on the side of the work- WALKER TO COVER. UP EVICTIONS Takes Cue From Hoov- er Hunger Committee | (Continued from Page One) That means that 13,222 families were so close to starvation that they permitter their names to be taleen | by the clubbers of the jobless. This | spy-system is going to be carried | out all over the city. No relief goes with it. It is just a boss trick to threaten and bully the unemployed and to warn them against militant | action. In Queens where '25,000 | were reported unemployed by the census, the cops could find only 150.” The Walker crew also talks about finding “jobs” for the unemployed, conveniently overlooking the fact that Rybicki, head of the fake ‘free’ city employment agency said that from 6,000 to 7,000 “desperate? men visit the agency begging for jobs, | and none of them get any. A London dispatch to the New| York Times dated Oct. 23, gives a sharp picture of the keen rivalry | and the growing war danger be- |tween U. S. and British imperial- | ism over the struggle for Latin] American markets, especially Ar-| gentina. “Despite official denials from Buenos Aires and a lack of official | confirmation here,” says this cable, “London is beginning to resign it- self to the fact that the trade agree- ment with Argentina negotiated by Viscount d’Abernon is dead.” The d’Abernon agreement provided | for $80,000,000 trade with Britain to | be yanked away from the United States. The Uriburu regime which stepped into power when Irigoyen was deposed, made overtures to Wall Street and was taken up right away. The Times dispatch goes on to say that “it is a double blow to Brit- ain. It is, of course, a serious re- | verse for the British steel industry, | which would have received $40,000,- 000 worth of orders for railway equipment. ... “British business men realize to- day that their alarm over the down- | fall of the Irigoyen regime was well | founded. It is freely stated here— never officially, of course—that the Uriburu government is being influ- enced by American bankers in the direction of more trade with the United States.” This shows the sharpening fight throughout Latin America for mar- kets. The recent happenings in Brazil magnify this struggle. While the Times dispatch talks of the trade struggle, it fails to mention the tremendous armament going on behind the scene and the rapidly growing war danger. Every | worker must recognize this fact, and act now against the imperialist war maneuvers, RED RALLY MON. IN BRIDGEPORT Tallentire, Mrasco and Joe Scott Speakers BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Oct. 26.— Op Monday evening at 8 p. m., Oc- tober 27, the Communist Party will (Cable by Imprecorr) “BERLIN, Oct. 26.—Today’s issue of the Rote Fahne, official organ of the Communist Party of Germany, was confiscated on account of an article attacking Severing, minister of the interior of Prussia. The official casualty list in the Aachen mine disaster has mounted today to 258 dead. Others are still underground. The capitalist dailies are trying to conceal the responsibility of the owners, although local newspapers dare not deny the management’s guilt. POLISH TERROR GROWS AGAINST UKRAINIANS (Cable by Imprecorr) WARSAW, Oct. 26—Two more ers were adjourned until Monday, |The government is proposing the |workers return to work under the | existing wages, while the bosses and jthe socialist union leaders appoint two representatives each with an |“impartial” arbitrator. The latter’s decision, they propose, should be accepted under all circumstances on the lines of the settlement of the Ruhr conflict when Severing acted jas mediator and the workers were betrayed after a heroic struggle. | The revolutionary trade union opposition is appealing to all work- s for a general metal strike. The jbosses are refusing to negotiate | with the revolutionary trade union | opposition. | It is clear when the strike is ap- proaching a decisive phase the trade ; union leadtrs are preparing a drive | to end the strike. | Ukrainian deputies were arrested | yesterday. The Polish punitive ter- | rorist columns are continuing their | barberous atrocities; peasants are | being murdered wholesale; a num-| ‘CHIAN MASSACRE’ ber of arrests are being made, and property looted and destroyed, as well as cooperatives and Ukrainian libraries. A Canadian journalist, William Day, was arrested because he had notes referring to the atro- cities. His notes were confiscated. Today in Workers’ History October 27, 1644—Army of par- liament defeated English royalists under Charles I at Newberry. 1917 — Israel Weinberg acquitted of frame-up charges in San Francisco bomb explosion. 1919—Red Army decisively defeated Yudenitch be- fore Petrograd. 1925—Thirty-eight members of the International Labor Defense arrested in New York while picketing Hungarian con- sulate against threatened execution of Rakosi and Weinberger. Bosses Get Insurance Against Hunger Riots LONDON, England, Oct. 24— Lloyds of London, the biggest in- surance company in the world, stated yesterday that big property owners of United States are taking IS PROVEN A LE | Priest Admits Nothing of Sort Happened SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 24— Complete refutation of the false stories about ‘Communists killing | 60,000 in the capture of Kian in |Kiangsi province appeared here to~ | day through the account of two priests, captured and afterwards | released by the Red Army. The fullest story is told by thé | priest named De Janlis. He said that the population of the whole city is 60,000, but that there were | some thousands of rich men and landlord refugees there from terri- | tories’ previously captured by the Red Army. On the night of October 5, the Reds, numbering 20,000 stormed the | city. The defenders lost about 2,000, | There was no massacre. The pop- ulation, according to the priest, “welcomed the Red Army and pro- fessed Communism, knowing their |lives would be spared.” The rich | fled again. Large fortunes were | confiscated and distributed to the | starving poor, “The story that 60,000 were mas- sacred is nonsense,” said the priest. |“The story that 8,000 were killed is | gross exaggeration.” These massacre stories were un- | “« stag? | hold an Election Rally and mass A “Hunger Committes meeting at the St. George’s Hall, 396 A high-salaried Tammany hench- | gtratford Avenue, Bridgeport, at| man, Frank J. Taylor, commissioner | which Norman Tallentire will speak: of public works, is heading Walker’s raward Mrasco, Communist candidate | “hunger committee.” Eevry worker for Congressman, 4th District, and} knows what to expect from -these| yoo scott, District Organizer of the grafters. The whole policy of| young Communist League, will also Walker and his fakers was amply | speak. demonstrated at the Board of Hs-| Gn ‘Tuesday night, Tallentire speaks timata's: zheeting, when the unem-| 9 an Election Rally in Hartford, at Ployed council | proposed definite |e Labor Lyceum, 2003 Main Street. out insurance with Lloyds against | riots during the unemployment} doubtedly started by Chiang Kai crisis. The U. S. employers do not | Shek propagandists to excuse in ad- care how many starve, but don’t) vance the massacres of worker and want to lose money if the starving | peasants their expeditionary forces decide to fight. | will engage in. Much of the insurance, according| Chiang himself became a Chris« to Lloyds’ statement, is being taken | tian last week to further solidify out by needle trades employers in| his interests with the imperialists New York. in China. w | 11,000 WISCONSIN Milwaukee Tannery and real measures for immediate unemployment relief. Walker’s policy is now openly one of “black- jacks and breadlines.” Every worker should support the | fight for unemployment insurance waged by the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council. Vote Communist! Issue Propaganda Not) Relif For Unmployed, (Continued from Page 1) capacity the week before last to 53 per cent. This means many thousands thrown out fo work. Automobile pro- duction dropped. Auto output now stands at 49.2 as compared with 121.8 last October at this time. At least 65 per cent of the auto workers are jobless, Facts Belie. These are the facts which belie the big talk of the bosses about the | results they are producing to “ale-| viate” unemployment. Less and less jobs exist. | As the Daily Worker has repeatedly |pointed out this winter will be a |frightful and devasting one for the workers. There will be at least 9,- 000,000 unemployed. Many will have | been out of jobs for from six months | to a year. That starvation will be| rampant is admitted by Hoover him- | self now. The problem of relief can- not be downed. The bosses’ methods. on which the Hoover “hunger com- mittee” is active is a fight against un- | employment insurance, and straining | every effort to keep the bosses’ profits intact. The Communist Party is lead- ing the fight for real relief—imme- diate relief in all cities, by concrete demands on the city governments as in Chicago, Detroit, New York, Mil- waukee, and elsewhere, and fighting for the passage of the Unemployment Instirance Bill, against which Hoover his committee, and the bosses back- ing them direct their chief fire. Fight for unemployment insurance! Vote Communist! ers’ revolution, Vote Communist on November 4th. Vote Communist! Next Wednesday night, R. S. Kling, Cammunist candidate for Governor, will speak in Waterbury, at Wash- ington and Bank Street, near the Dugan School. On Thursday, Richard B. Moore speaks in Stamford, at the Workers Center, 49 Pacific Street. Harry Yaris speaks in Danbury, at) the Armory, on Library Place. Wm. Schneiderman speaks at a mass meeting in New Britain. On Friday, Oct. 31, Max Bedacht will address a mass meeting in New Haven. . A series of Red Election Rallies) and parades will be.held on Saturday and Monday, November 1 and 2, to wind up the election campaign. Closes Down; 3,000 Workers Affected MILWAUKEE.— The Pfister and Vogel Tannery plant in this city an- nounces thru its secretary Mr. Chrigt- ensen, that the plant is closing down in a week or so, Even Mr. Christen- sen practically admits that the plant will not be opened again. This plant employed 3,000 men a few years ago and last May only 900 men were working, while at the present time there are 600 working only part time. The closing down of this plant is only part of what is happening in general in Milwaukee with more un- employment, wage cuts and speed up being the order of the day. Workers, fight the growing misery! Vote Com- munist! | FARMS ABANDONED | MILWAUKEE.—In the past 10 years 11,000 farms have been aban= doned in the State of Wisconsin. It is a fact that thousands of farmers cannot pay the taxes on the farms jand are forced to abandon them and g0 into tenant farming. Today it is | reported that an entire settlement in | St. Croix county has gone into tenant \farming simply because they couldn’t raise enough money to pay taxes, The Communist candidates on the state | tour must get the poor farmers to jally with the workers and vote Come | munist. Vote Communist! SCH the originator of opening of his in perfect comfort. 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