The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1930, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NO VEMBER 1, 1930 ——=s UNEMPLOYED, STARVING, JIM CROWED] SHE SOVENTURES OF BILL NEGRO WORKERS OF MARYLAND MUST VOTE FOR THEIR PARTY—THE C. P. Democratic Administration With Republican, Socialist Support Arrest and Jail Negroes Negro and White Workers, Fight Side By Side for Unemployment Insurance; Vote Communist By LEONARD PATTERSON. There are approximately 255 thousand Negroes living in the state of Maryland which consists of 17 per cent of a total population of one and a half million. In Baltimore alone there are approximately 110 thousand Negroes. The Negro workers in this state play a very important role in production. They are found in the most basic industries, such as steel, metal, marne, chemical, etc. They also make up a large percentage of the farm population. Doubly Oppressed. Despite the large percentage of Negro workers in this state and their role in industry, they are subject to the most brutal form of exploitation and | the past. We have learned from ex- oppression. They are discrim-| perience that after they get elected inated against in restaurants,| instead of them carrying their prom- theatres, and other public | ises they give us more wage cuts, places. They are given the|SPecd~ up, unemployment, higher rents, jails and clubs when we at- tempt to organize to improve these conditions. Therefore, let’s not cast one vote for them, Let us support the party of the working class that has a program that will free the hardest and dirtiest jobs, and paid the lowest wages. They are jim- crowed into the dirtiest sections of the city and are forced to pay higher rents than the white workers. The b s are not allowed to ride on) _ . the elty buses, where the fare 1s 3 | Workers from all this oppression. cents cheaper than the fare on the) This party is the Communist street car. They are hit harder by Party. The Communist Party in the the wage cuts, speed-up, lay-offs, election campaign is running both | REPUBLICAN OR Js 4 VOTE fo TH. AVOTE FOR A DEMOCRATIC. Socaris7 aes WORKER A VOTE FOR A 18 AVOTE For A lor fre Derncenric Igcmis7 oe REPUBLICA TICKET 15 4 VOTE FOR Tus | Denocharic, o>} OR. SOCIALIT Weegee —The Red Fist— "3 a A ke BRUTALIT, REPUBLI. OWE FoR 4 AVOTE op , 7 BENET 00 /5 A Vore foe THIS. Big Crowd Expected For F. S. U. Lecture This Sunday in Chi. CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Professor Sam- uel Harper, of the Russian Depart- ment of the University of Chicago and recently returned from a visit in the Soviet Union, will lecture this Sun- day, November 2, at 3 p. m. at the People’s Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Avenue. He speaks under the aus- pices of the Friends of the Soviet Union and the “Icor” and his subject will be, “My Second Trip to the Sov- unemployment, etc., forced on the workers by the bosses. Framed Up. Negro and white workers on its ticket. The Communist Party candi- dates are helping to mobilize the iet Union.” VOTE RED, LAWRENCE! To Fight for Unemployed Relief The workers of Lawrence are now |faced with unemployment, lay-offs, ;and speed-up, as they have never |been before. The American Woolen | Co. and the Pacific Mill Co. are try- | ing to bring back the twelve-hour day in Lawrence. Way back in 1912 and| Mr. Butler, who has great interests | in 1919 and then once more in 1922|in the American Woolen Co., is try- | the workers of Lawrence organized | ing to solicit the votes of the textile | and went out on strike against wage | workers in Lawrence who are now | cuts and long heurs. slaving under the worst conditions in | Prepare for Struggle the mills controlled by him. Today the workers of Lawrence| The workers of Lawrence under- Correia, Lieut. Governor; James W. | Dawson, Secretary of State; John W. | |Janhonen, Attorney General; Eva | | Hoffman, State Treasurer; Albert Od- | | die, State Auditor. Big Boss Asks Votes. Annual Chicago ILD Bazaar to Be Held Dec. 12, 18 and 14 CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—The Annual International Labor Defense Bazaar will be held this year on December 12th, 13th and 14th at the People’s Auditorium, 2457 West Chicago Ave. The I. L. D., Chicago District, has furnished bail for and defended over thirteen hundred workers during the past nine months. The coming win- ter is certain to find the workers’ struggles intensified. The I. L. D. must be prepared to give adequate defense. The International Labor Defense urges all members, sympathizers and SOCIALIST TICKET By RYAN WALKER. TE FoR OYE, IMENT Is UBANCE, VOTE. COMMUNIST... SASH CADTALISM, x GOVERNMENT ADMITS WORKERS CHILDREN STARVE AS HOOVER SETS UP FAKE RELIEF COMMITTEE “Children of America Hard Hit by Crisis,” Re- luctantly Admits Head of Children’s Bureau Expresses Pious Hope for “Solution”, and “Some Kind of Unemployment Insurance” WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—With the {only the Communist Party fights for Negro unemployed workers are masses of Negro and white workers framed on vagrancy charges and 0n the basis of full social, political, sentenced to the chain gangs to|and economic equalities and for the build highways. Ninety per cent of Tight of national self determination the workers that are building the for the Negro masses where they highways between Baltimore and make up a majority. The Commu- Washington are Negro workers who/| nist Party is also mobilizing the have been so framed up. The bosses’| Workers in this campaign against democratic government, headed by | evictions, race discrimination, jim Richie, in order to keep down the | crowism, etc., and against wage cuts growing discontent of these so-called and speed-ups and all other things convicts they give them fifty cents a| that the workers are suffering from. day. Instead of giving these work-| The Communist Party is further ers jobs at the regular wages they mobilizing the workers against wars are really using forced labor to build| of the bosses and for social insur- these roads, against the 50,000 unem-j| ance. The Communist Party pro- again are preparing to strike against the new schemes of the bosses to drive them back to the twelve-hour day. This time they are organized under the leadership of the revolu- tionary union, the National Textile Workers’ Union, which has endorsed the candidates on the Communist ticket: Harry Cantor, for Governor; Max Lerner, U. S. Senator; Maria ©. BALT. WORKER 10 FIGHT LYNCHING |Mass Protest Called for November 3 stand that we have two classes in| society, that of the bosses and that of the workers, and they will vote for the candidates who themselves are workers, The Communist Party and the re- volutionary unions are the only ones that are fighting for unemployment | insurance, a shorter working week, and higher wages. workers’ organizations to energetical- | ly push the collection of articles and money contributions and to report all collections promptly to the I. L. D. at 23 South Lincoln Street. MELVIN & PERRY BALTIMORE, Oct. 29.—In its | work in mobilizing the Negro and | white masses for a fight against the | growing lynching terror of the im- | perialist bosses which has already | taken 38 victims this year, the Am- REPORT ON R.LLU. Textile Workers Hear hunger cries of millions of work- ing-class children sounding through- out the land as desperate working- class parents try in vain to find jobs and are offered sloppy charity coffee in growing bread-lines instead of un- employment insurance wherewith to | support their starving families, the Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor today admitted that “the children of Am- erica are hard hit by the crisis.” * In a statement in the bosses press, Miss Grace Abbett, chief of the Chil- dren’s Bureau, makes the following real social insurance for the unem- ployed, and against the program of Hoover's “Hunger Committee” of sol- ving unemployment with bayonets and breadlines, Workers! Don’t sit still and let your children starve before your eyes! Join the fight for social insurance of $25 a week to every unemployed worker, to be paid by the bosses and their state, and to be administered by the work- ers. Vote Communist November 4! —_— TO CELEBRATE ployed workers in Baltimore alone) and many more thousands in the| state who are on the eve of starva-/| tion. | Bosses’ Parties Fight Relief. | At this time when the workers are suffering more than ever be- fore, when thousands are going hungry, being evicted from their homes and when thousands more are being thrown out of their jobs to join the steady army of unem- ployed the bosses’ parties are doing nothing for these workers. What the bosses’ parties really do is to further exploit and oppress the workers and make more profits out of their sweat and toil. The demo- cratic government of Maryland, claiming to be spending a million dollars “investigating” unemploy- poses that all the money spent for | warfare by the government be turned | over to the unemployed workers. Our Party is mobilizing the workers Returned Delegate ‘mild admission, in keeping with the Hoover policy of minimizing the cri- |ing a mass meeting this Monday | evening, November 3, at the Lafay- jand farmers’ government, the Soviet Union, which has no discrimination, | for th fe ,|ette Hall, 1432 Pennsylvania Avenue. or the defense of the only workers’ lwuuhard &. Moore, who ia now a tour for the national convention of | | the organization in St. Louis, No- unemployment and oppression. In| this election campaign the party 1z|Yember 15 and 16, will be the prin- further mobilizing the workers for| “Pa! speaker. the final overthrow of the rule of| , 1% {ts call for the meeting, the the bosses and for the establishment | AN-0. points out that the lyn of the rule of the workers. Vote| M8 terror against the Negro work- Communist! ers is by no means confined to the YCL RED RALLY IN 2: |ing of two Negro youths in Marion, Ind., the brutal police attacks on Negro workers in Detroit and Chi- | cago, ete. causing the death of a Negro Communist candidate for Congress in the latter place. That FoR YouR CHD Taruitcd Do my Want CLEVELAND, NOV. ment while we are starving. What they are really doing with this | | the terror directly involves the work- | ers of Baltimore is shown by the NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 29.— Sophie Melvin and Manuel Perry, delegates of the National Textile Workers’ Union to the Red Interna- JOVI eg tional of Labor Unions 5th Congress, COED will report at large meetings in New AT? Bedford and Fall River on Sunday, (2% Nov. 2nd. The meetings are being held on the historic Liberty Lot, Fall River, at 3 p.m. and in the Union Hall, TT Potomska Street, New Bedford, which were the centers during the textile strike of 1928. Great interest is being shown in the meetings not only because of the} importance of the report but also be- cause Comrade Perry is a Fall River worker and will be giving his old work mates the inside on the Soviet AF L LOCAL HEARS ILD ‘Union from the workers’ if sis and soft-peddling the sufferings of the unemployed workers: “In crises such as these the chil- dren are the worst sufferers. They mean children separated from their parents taken out of schools for part time work, dic-uptron of the home (workers forced to surrender their children to charity institutions—Ed.) malnutrition, loss of pride and stabil- ity (a natural result of their ex- perience with capitalist charity—Fd.) The effect of large numbers of men out of work is not only demoralizing to the men themselves. The whole family structure suffers, and this will eration. The greatest harm is done the children in the effect upon their mental attitude. This is a permanent loss, and it is a very serious one.” be reflected seriously in the next gen- | NOV. REVOLUTION Chieago Workers in Big Meet, Nov. 7 CHICAGO, Oct. 30.—Chicago work- ers will celebrate the 13th Anniver- sary of the Russian Revolution in the well known Ashland Auditorium, at the corner of Van-Buren Street and Ashland, at 7:30 p. m. Already dozens of working class or- ganizations have decided that their members shall attend this great mass celegration en masse. The workers of Chicago are being mobilized to at- tend the 13th Anniversary meeting around the issues of the Five Year Plan and its first two years’ success- ful operation; by contrasting the money is using it to get re-elected Will Expose Hoover’s brutal murder last week of a Ne-! gro worker who was shot down by) so that they can continue to rob | Fake Relief Plans a policeman in cold blood on Penn- |} SCHWAB CUTS PAY, | REP; REJECT SP FAKERS point of view. They have already listened to and read the capitalist dope and are ever improving material, cultural, and (It makes young rebels of them. And | social conditions of the workers and that’s very, very serious — for the | us. Workers, Vote Communist! Fellow workers! Let us not be fooled again by these democratic, re- publican and socialist grafters and politicians in this election campaign! ‘They are coming out making us the | CLEVELAND, Oct. 30—The Cleve- Jand Young Communist League is | holding a big Election Rally on the night of November 3, in order to mobilize large masses of Cleveland | young workers for the election pro- | sylvania Avenue and Preston Street. | This, boasts the bosses press, is the | Second killing by this same police- (man. Another example of terror was the arrest in this city a few | days ago of Leonard Patterson, an OF STEEL MEN No Pay for Bad Bottom Any More anxious to hear the real facts. Coming as they do just when the union has placed a new organizer in Fall River, and has functioning section organization committees in New Bedford, it is confidently ex- PORTLAND, Oct. 30.—The Granite Cutters Local of the A. F. of L. meet- ing in the Labor Temple, gave a spontaneous collection and individ- ually expressed a determination to be present at the next meeting of the same fake promises as they did in gram of the Communist Party. | organizer of the A.N.L.C., because |he dared tell Negro workers that ILD. Two “socialist” fakers, running (By a Worker Correspondent) for office in the city, were denied the BALTIMORE, Md.—As a wage pected that splendid results in new members and Labor Unity subscrip- WORKERS CALENDAR ‘WISCONSIN Milwaukee mission 25 cents. +. * # Washington and Oregon Fred Walker, one of the Portland defandants charged with criminal syndicalism will tour this district under the auspices of the LL.D. The tour takes in the following: Oct. 27, 28, Astoria, Ore.: Oct. 29, 30, Cloverdale: Oct. 31, Kelso and Longview; Nov. 1, Hockinson: Nov. 2. 3, Hood River: Nov. 4, 5, 6, Rose- burg: Nov. 7, 8 Portland: Nov. 9, Aberdeen, Grays Harbor; Nov. 11, Tacoma; Nov. 13, 14, Seattle; Nov. 15, Everett: Nov. 16. Mt. Vernon; Nov. 7, 18, Bellingham, * PROVIDENCE Rhode Island The unemployed Councils of Provi- dence have arranged an Election Campaign Rally for Saturday, No- vember 1, at 2 p. m., at the Central Post Office to hear James P._ Reid. Communist Candidate for Senate speak on “A job for everybody—how to get it.” ish S OHIO | _ | Slide pictures of “Boss Terrors’ with lecture by Jack Rose. Sunday. Nov. 2, at 7:30 p. m., atthe Ukrainian 662 Corice St. Admission 15 * on ft * * Cincinnath The LL.D. of Cncinnati, will show “White Terror” a portrayal of the terror of the bosses against the workers, In_a series of slides at the Triedston Church, 715 Clinton St., Saturday evening, Nov. Ist, at 8 o'clock. . # Cleveli Concert and Dance at Ukrainian Labor Temple, 1051 Auburn Ave. Sunday, ov. 2, 1930. A play by the Polish ‘Branch 1.L.D. Singing by Ukrainian chorus. Concert begins at p.m. Dancing begins at 8 p. m. The LL.D. Cleveland Dist., 8 call- ing a mass meeting at the Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair, Mon- y, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. To protest against the death sentence of the six workers of Atlanta Ga. Come and bring your fellow “worker. Clevel ‘The Cleveland rs Forum, at 2245 Prospect Ave., 7.30 p. m. presents the following for the month of No- —“What Will the Election 9.—Youth and the Coming he Fight Against Militarism.” lov. 16.——The Community Fund “Why Workers Should ot Support It.” Nov. 28.--The Negroes in America— vi a2 of the Working ‘orkin Admission 6 mates. sy Youngstown n Forum discussion e Coming Struggles Class.” cents, Bring shop . iv. G . “Role of p.m, Admission free, orkers And political . |other section where thousands of ‘| workers are sympathetic to the | that section of Cleveland. Automobiles, bicycles and trucks all appropriately decorated, will be used for the Rally. The procession | will start at the District omce, will| "ite workers alike proceed slowly to St, Clair and 5sth|, All workers are urged to turn out Street, where a large open air meet-| {°F this mass meeting and to sup- ing will be held. From there the | Port the struggle of the A.N.L.C. parade will proceed to 55th St. ana| 98@inst lynching and other forms Woodland Avenue, the center of the | °f Negro oppression. Organize the colored section of Cleveland, where | Struggle against lynching! Demand another meeting will be held. Then full political, economie and social on to Buckeye Rd. and 89th St., an-| duality for the Negro masses! the bosses, organizing their lynching terror, are the enemies of Negro and Hail the Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution with greetings in the Novem- ber 7 edition. EFFECTIVE SHOP GATE CAMPAIGN Wins Votes For C. P. in Wisconsin MILWAUKEE, Oct. 30.—The Com- munist Party of Wisconsin is actual- ly concentrating its election activity around the big shops and today held three big meetings at shop gates, At the Insernational Harvester | plant over 700 workers listened to the Communist speakers, and there was a crowd of about 300 at the Kearney Trecker plant as well as a nice crowd at the Cutler Hammer factory. All of these plants are part of the metal industry. At all these meetings Communist pluggers with the names of our 12 candidates were distributed. It is only by actually working at the factories, only by organizing the workers into the per unions that we can win the support of the proletar- iat. The workers in the big shops in Milwaukee are learning very fast who are their enemies and who their friends. That is why they will vote Communist on Election Day. League and Party because of the many struggles and open air meet- ings which have been conducted in All workers with trucks and auto-| mobiles in Cleveland are urged to report to the district office of the YCL, 1245 Prospect. All Cleveland workers are urged to attend the meet- ing nearest to their home and to. bring along their shopmates and their neighbors. ANGELES SHOPMEN ALL LAID OFF TO NOV. | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 29.—The Southern Pacific Railroad Shops here laid off all their men last week, worked only four days this week, and now have laid off everybody again until Nov. 6. ‘The workers in these shops are compelled to belong to a company union called the “League” which taxes them 35 cents a month for “dues” and promises to pay some kind of insurance. Typical of the way that. “insurance” racket works is the case of a worker who was so tired from speed up that as he left the job he fell over a pile of pipe and injured his wrist. For this he was fired, The state government has an- nounced a grand scheme of unem- ployment relief. It proposes to spend $1,250,000 for a big state building in Los Angeles. That means half a mil- lion for graft, half a million for building supplies, and maybe a quar- ter of a million to hire several hun- dred workers for a few months. Then Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25 copies of the Daily Worker before fac- tory gates each week to n. New classes in Workers start Nov. 10, Register now! even these workers go on starving, and the bourgeoisie point with pride be in good standing. slave I find that in different indus- fooling the workers, in order to swell the profits of the masters. As a furnace man in the “Open Hearth” of the Bethlehem Steel Company, I experienced what I call a raw one. Get Together—Stuff. About two and half years ago the bosses gave a get together supper for the open-hearth department in order to give the slaves a talking to. ‘The idea was to get more production. They promised not to cut the wages, so we took them at their word, and it worked slick. A first helper got $14.46 for a hun- dred tons of steel. For bad bottom work they got 50 cents an hour. They got gas turns for Saturday nage, in other words if a furnace turned out 3,000 tons of steel in 2 weeks and 42 8-hour shifts. In the pay you would multiply 42 shifts into 3 first helpers. They didn’t say pay you $12 per hundred tons of steel, but they did it in this way. They run the Saturday night into the tonnage which meant 44 shifts instead of 42. They took bad bottom of which means 40 hours every two weeks. They took the bonus we got when the furnace turned out over 6,000 tons of steel per month in other words, we got to make 4,000 tons of steel for the same pay as we got for making 3,000 tons. That’s a cut of about a third or more for each man working at the furnace. A Slick, Wage Cut. The bad bottom lasts from 1 to 6 50 cents an hour, now they don't get anything for it. As to the gas turns, every Satur- day on the 3 to 11 o'clock shifts they have only half of the men working. That is what they call a/ skeleton crew but doing as much work as if all the men were working. When a man did the work of two he got his regular pay, the rest was divided up for all men working there and now it goes for the bosses bonus. —A Bethichem Steel Worker. tries they have different ways of | night it was not run into the ton- | $433.50, which was divided between | hours for which the men used to get | tions will accrue from the meetings. While specifically called for the RILU report the meetings will tie up the attack on the union which is| seen in the deportation proceedings against Com. Murdoch, national secretary, and A. Pinto, Portuguese organizer and call for a fight against the deportations. Other meetings at which the dele- gates will report will be held Friday evening, October 31, at Needham Hall, 180 Essex St., Lawrence; and Thursday evening, Oct. 30, at Odd Fellows Hall, 84 Middlesex St., Lowell. floor by members of the local, fifteen minutes before the ILD representa- tives got the floor. Workers of these unions are willing to support the International Labor Defense, if they are only made ac- quainted with its work. At all times, whenever the representatives of the International Labor Defense got the floor in the A. F. of L. unions, the | workers enthusiastically snupport the work of the International Labor De- fense. 25 P.€. WAGE CUT AT IRVING MILL (By a Worker Correspondent) CHESTER, Pa.—The working con- ditions in the Irving Mill are the worst in Chester. Most of the workers are women and young girls slaving for $9-12 a week. The young workers from 14-18 are| only making $6 per week. While some of the workers only work 2-3 days a week. While the bosses intensify the speed of the workers their wages are being cut. Recently there has been a 25% cut in the already small wages. The working and sanitary condi- tions are unbearable. The workers work 10 hours a day, breathing the stinking, moisty air full of poisonous stuff from the washed wool. The floors and toilets are awful dirty, they are washed only twice a year. Cock- roaches and other bugs are crawling around the walls and when the work- ers open their lunches they find there free cockroach meat. Every Party member, every Young Communist must sell 25 copies of the Dai'y Worker before fac- tory gates each week to be in good standing. Denver, Colo. Jean Feldman, now on tour for the DAILY |WORKER, will next visit asked to give her the fullest cooperation on Denver. Comrades are | obtaining subs and renewals, GLENSIDE UPHOLSTERY | ALL REPAIRS DONE Al REASONABLE PRICES: Roberts Block, No. 1 GLENSIDE, PA. Telephone: Ogontz 8165 SHOEMAKER WANTED. Must be all round: shoe-repair man and do good work. And be good salesman for shoe repairing and new shoes. $30 a week. Long job if you know how to manage the shoe shop next summer. LEE SHOE FIXRY Fort Myers, Florida BOSTON Daily Worker Readers Meet at The New Garden Restaurant 382 Causeway Street Delicious meals, Comradely atmosphere Special arrangements can be mat for groups and parties. bosses,—Ed.) Miss Abbett then winds up with a few pious hopes that the problem of recurring crisis under capitalism will somehow be solved. Workers are daily realizing that the only solution for these crises is for the workers to kick out the bosses and take things over themselves, but Miss Abbott, of course, does not want that. So she spreads illusions of solution under capitalism. She further expresses the weak wish that “some sort” of unem- ployment insurance be tried out: “Personally I should say some sort of unemployment insurance should be tried.” But the workers will not be fooled either with her pious hopes of solu- tion of capitalist crisis or her weak suggestion for “some form” of social insurance. The workers realize that peasants of the Soviet Union under workers’ rule with the worsening of workers’ conditions under the rule of the “59” in the United States; to- gether with a determination on the part of every worker to defend the Soviet Union against the attacks of the bosses. The speakers at the 13th Anniver- | sary meeting in Chicago will be Max Bedacht, Secretariat member of the Communist Party, and Brown Squire, well known Negro candidate for Con- gress on the ticket of the Commu- nist Party. All workers are urged to raise the question of attending the November ‘th meeting in their unions, fraternal | organizations, clubs, sports organiza- | tions, etc., and have these organiza- tions decide to send letters to all of their members inviting them to this mass meeting. | RUSSIAN R at 8 GOOD SPEAKERS ELABORATE MU! Auspices: Communist Part Los Angeles CELEBRATE THE 13th ANNIVERSARY OF THE THURSDAY NITE, NOV. 6, 1930 MUSIC ART HALL, 233 S. 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