The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1930 Le rreRSsS —-_ Fee ay ese mM SEEOP S 4 =r 2a EE FORCED OVERTIME KILLS A GIMBEL BROS. TRUCKMAN Low Pay, Spies at Speedup Store (By a Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Yesterday I was fired from Gimbel Brothers where I worked for two months. Of course there were many others fired too, But in the two months that I was there I learned many things which I am sure all workers will find a good reason for voting | Communist. I worked as a sheet worker in the package department. One so-called worker there, is a spy for the bos: es. When I asked him one day why | a millionaire corporation like Gim- bels only pay $18 per week to so| many married men his answer was: “Dear one, do not complain. Thank Jehova for what you have. Al-| ways have the lord in mind and in| heart and you will be happy.” Fellow workers, when I was} thirsty I went to the sink for a) drink and the worms and cockroach- | es crept around the water fountain | in such disgusting manner that I| could not drink for two days. The} toilets are filthy. What is more the package department is three|aiso announced that they would ask | floors below the ground and there are no windows and the lights are dim. | Every man down there is con- stantly in danger of his health be-| cause of the dampness and the draft from the two air chutes that they have there. | workers around. Communist Watchers Read This Letter And Be Ready Nov. 4 na a Chicago, Il. Editor Daily Worker: I want to give you an idea how to get more votes tor the Com- munist candidates than would any | other way—and its no maybe. Assign at least half a dozen good men at the polling place. The worker voter must be able to recog- nize them that they are workers trom the Communist Party. This will give the working class atmo- sphere to the worker voter. He will not feel abandoned. He will be proud. He will be courageous. He will vote Communist. The last time that I voted I voted Communist. I noticed no I had no enthu- siasm. My vote was never counted. If the same thing prevails next elections I will not vote. Are you willing to encourage me? —Sympathizer. 5,000 JOBLESS IN DETROIT MEET Demonstration is 5th In One Week’s Fight (Continued from Page 1) the auto bosses to establish their own relief for their unemployed | workers. The committee eposed this as a mere shifting of its responsibi- lity in the interest of the same bosses who laid off the workers, and who they know will let the workers starve. Thus the entire Murphy “relief pro- Last wek the company actually| gram” means that even the little killed a man working on their trucks, | relief that was given before his elec- They never hire enough help, but | tion will mostly eliminated. force the workers whom they keep| The Unemployed Delegation pre- to work overtime every night in the jSented in addition to these facts also week. The truckmen that they kill- | the demands adopted at the Grand ed got $30.00 per week. | Circus park demonstration, and pre- One day he worked seventeen| sented to Mayor Murphy last Friday, hours and when he came back the| “Unpractical” boss told him he must go out again} While the Common Council was with more packages and bulk such | compelled to grant a hearing, which as trunks and ice boxes. The work-| they tried to postpone until after the er did as he was told and worked | elections, and for the same reason five more hours. When he came!did not on the spot turn down the back again the boss asked him to! demands, they already indicate the go out again with another load. same attitude as Murphy, stating But the truckman refused be- |that he will accept “some demands,” cause he had caught cold and did |put the mayor demand for relief is not feel well. He went home and “unpractical.” slept for three hours when he was Following the hearing, Woods, sec- awakened by his helper and in- | retary of the Unemployed Council of formed the boss said either to go Detroit, Billups, Communist candi- deliver the stuff or be fired. He | date for governor, Raymond, Stachel, got up and went out again but | Gerlach and others, reported to the when he came back he went right | workers who now wnederstand the to bed. He never got up. He left |role of Murphy to carry through the @ wife and child. But Gimbel’s | Ford starvation program. packages were delivered, so what | ‘The workers cheered the Commu- the hell?- . nist election drive, and Billups, can- Fellow workers, there will be at/ Giaate for governor. Gerlach urged Jeast one more vote for the Com-/tne workers themselves to carry out munist Party. |the demands by a rent strike and |refusal en mass to pay fare, and to find means to eat rather than to | starve; also to go to the factories and |demand their jobs. | Large numbers are daily enrolling in the Unemployed Councils which FOSTER REPORTS _ MISERY UP STATE one ae aa | the Common Council. \ To Mobilize Fight On| Murphy's police on Thursday" again Wage Cuts, Hunger jarrested eight workers in an eviction | fight. NEW YORK.—William Z. Foster, Communist candidate for governor, general secretary of the Trade Union Unity League and recently released | from prison for leading the jobless on March 6, has just returned to New York from a succeessful up- state election tour. He reports that in all towns he spoke, the numbers unemployed were —T.A.N. Get your organization be- hind the Daily Worker Drive for 60,000! cuts. In the building industry men | are paid only one-third to two-thirds |of the regular union rate. | There is no prtence of centralized from 30 to 50 per cent of the total working population. Practically all the workers in these industrial towns are on part time. In the Endicott- Johnson shoe factories at Binghamp- ton the men get only from two to| four days work a week. All the trainmen and engine crews | on the New York Central with less than 14 years experience are laid off, regular work, and are “bucking the extra board.” Six passenger trains are discontinued by this railroad. Cut Wages Two-Thirds ‘There are general and severe wage or general relief for the jobless. Char- ities give from $1 to $7 a week to large starving families, in some cases. ®The socialist candidate, Wollman, who toured these towns made his appeal to the small business men primarily, and had meetings ranging from 24 in Troy to about 200 in an- other city. Foster's meetings had. an attend- ance in Rochester of 1,500; Syracuse, 700; Buffalo (at both meetings) of 1,000; Binghampton, 500 to 600; Troy 5°° and Schenectady, 300. FIVE GOOD REASONS: . 1—The unexcelled quality and purity of our dairy products. 2—Our milk comes from farms near the City and is fresher by many hours, . 3.—All of our milk is sold the same day as delivered to our place. 4—Our milk is bottled in the country and is delivered to you pure and fresh, 5.—All of our milk is delivered by UNION DRIVERS. Pure Grade “A” Milk for Mother and the Little Ones MORRISANIA STOCK FARMS 883 Tinton Avenue, Bronx, New York A Quart Bottle of Our Grade “A” Milk FREE on a-Weekly Trial Order. CALL US UP AND GIVE US YOUR ORDER. ! MUST BUY RADIO | TO HOLD JOB AT VICTOR R. €. A. Layoffs Have Already Started_in Again PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Mr. Shoe- maker, the president of the victor R.C.A., likes to put himself forward as a superman when it comes to the “solution” of unemployment. The other week he spoke at a meet- ing of manufacturers in New York where he stated “talk less about unemployment but open your fac- tories, give work to people to put out a lot of goods and the unemploy- ment question is solved.” This sounds very good in theory but how is it in practice? The Victor RCA hired a good many workers in prep- aration for the Christmas season. The plant does not employ 25,000 as they are trying to make us be- | lieve, but only around 15,000. Never- | theless, tens of thousands of work- \ers were hired by the Victor RCA, | Why? Because after laying off | thousands of workers who worked for “high wages” of 36 cents an hour, they re-hired them for 32c. Conditions are so terrible, wages are so low, that the workers are dis- satisfied and waiting for action. The lay-offs have started already in our factory and will continue much more in the near future. At the same time, the bosses in order to get more business for themselves worked out a good scheme playing }on the fear of the worker that he will lose his job. I was called in by the foreman to the stockroom and he showed me an old modeled radio which looked terrible, something like an ice box. This came back prob- ably from the dealer who could not sell it. I was told that in order to assure my job I must help business—in| other words, to buy a radio. The | boss told me that they would sell me this radio for $125 without the tubes if I pay $25 down and the balance $8 per week out of the $18 I make for radios. I refused the| bargain. This means that I may lose | my job soon but even then, would) not do any such thing as buying out the junk of the company and pay- ing out the miserable few dollars for radios when there is not even money for bread. —VICTOR RCA SLAVE. Misleaders Act More | Ruthlessly More Money Collected The Communist International and its American section, the Com- munist Party of the U. S. A., fight against Negro oppression and lynching; fight for self-determina- tion of the Negro masses, not only -but in the West (45 in Africa but in the West Indies and those sections of the South where they form a mojority of the population. The Communist Party is the party of the Negro and white work- ers, It is the only working-class party in the present elections. In New York State it is fifth on the ballot for tomorrow's voting. Nekro workers! Vote against your op- —Editor. . . (By a Seaman on the Cruise of the “Booker T. Washington.”) By this time every member of the crew was in a desperate plight, forced to beg on the streets and forced to work all kinds of tricks on the population to get something to eat. The deck stewart was pass- ing himself off as a voodoo worker from Martinique, and collected quite a few pounds from the more super- stitious. Others started in to look for jobs ashore. More Ruthless, the More He Collects, About this time, the membership jin the Republic of Panama sent Car- | ter $1,000 in cash. Most of us were starving and thought surely we would be handed out a few doll jthis time. But Carter steadfastly refused to part with a penny of the money, declaring it was his. Challenged on that, he then said he had to send part of the money to the office in New York, and that he did not give a damn whether we starved or not. At this time, Carter was \also collecting money right and left ashore, and getting fatter and more prosperous every day, while we of the crew were growing thin from starvation. He got more ruthless in his treatment of the crew, too. That he didn’t give a damn for the workers aboard the ship was amply proved in his treatment of the deck steward who became sick on the way to Colon, and subse- quently died in Ancon on account of the gross neglest of which he was a victim, The doctor aboard the ves- sel quite plainly did not’ know his business and could not relieve the man who was in intense pain all the VOTE AGAINST CAPITALISM! VOTE JOBLESS INSURANCE! VOTE COMMUNIST! (Continued from Page 1) gether defend the most beastly of all anti-working class crimes of capitalism—the lynching of Negroes, “Jim Crow” system, the discrimination against and persecution of the Negro workers and the foreign-born workers. Republicans, Democrats and Socialists, arm in arm, are up- holders and beneficiaries of the capitalist system which ex- ploits, clubs and jails the workers. . COMMUNISTS FIGHT FOR WORKERS The Communist Party alone stands for all the exploited and oppressed, for the poor and against the rich. That is why its speakers and organizers are jailed. That is why its activities are “investigated” by the scandalous “Fish Com- mittee” of the capitalist government. That is why its or- ganization is attacked and harassed. But in spite of all that, the Communist Party raises its banner in the elections. It calls upon you, working men and women, to rally around this banner. It calls upon you to register your vote under its emblem—THE HAMMER AND SICKLE—for its candidates. It calls upon you to register thus, for a fighting army of working men and women. Vote and fight for unemployment insurance. Fight against war preparations and for the taking of all such funds for the relief of the hungry and homeless workers. Fight for a capital tax to turn over part of the enormous profits of the bosses to the relief of the unemployed masses. Fight for the establishment of workers’ control over the relief and insurance funds, to prevent the wasting of these funds by grafting capitalist politicians. With a vote for the Communist Party candidates on No- vember 4, you also must register your determination to or- ganize and to strike against the continuous wage cuts. Only the organized resistance of the working class will prevent the capitalists from lowering the living standard of American workers to tke level of coolies. With your vote for the Communist Party and its candi- dates, you must register your determination to organize and fight against the growing speed-up, which wrecks your health and strength and makes you old before your time. Only the organized fighting strength of the working class will prevent capitalism from making the workers into utter - slaves, chained to the bosses’ profit machine. With your vote for the Communist Party and its can- didates, you do perform an act of self-government. YOU DECLARE THAT FROM NOW ON YOUR POLITICAL STRUGGLES SHALL BE BASED ON THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING CLASS. You declare that from here and now, your political battles shall be against the capitalist class, against all capitalist parties, against the capitalist system. With such a declaration you will make November 4 a step imthe direction of establishing the working class as the ruling class in this country. Only when this aim is won, and the rule of the capitalist class is defeated, will the self-govern- ment of the workers become a reality. VOTE COMMUNIST! CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. 8 INTERNATIONAL eNews 70 OF 85 KIANGSI DISTRICTS “RED” for Extermination | SHANGHAI. — Chiang Kai-shek |has issued an appeal to the “Chinese people” declaring that its next task | jare: 1. the extermination of Com- munism root and branch; 2. the stab- |ilization of the state finances; 3. the |formation of a capable and energetic ‘central government; 4. the develop- ‘ment of Chinese industry, trade and | agriculture, etc. | The Kuomin press agency reports an interview with the “left wing” Kuomingtang leader Wang Ting-wei according to which the latter declared jthat now that the Nanking troops ‘have been freed from other districts as a result of the cessation of hos- tilities, they will concentrate their |whole forces on the extermination of |Communism and the crushing of the revolutionary danger. The bourgeoisie in the province of Kiangsi has addressed an appeal to the Nanking government for mili- tary aid against the Communists in the provinces, pointing out that of 85 districts 70 are under Communist influence. All agreements and other arrangements between the rich landowners and the peasants have been declared invalid by the Com- munists. FASCISTS IN POLAND SUPPRESS TRADE UNION WARSAW.—The Polish authori- ties have suppressed the independent trade unions in Kattowitz. The com- munique issued by the authorities: “The Communists had gained con- siderable influence in these unions and misled them into political and revolutionary activity.” The police in Posen have arrested 12 persons wio took part in an elec- tion meeting. They will be brought to trial and charged with having conducted Communist activity. | | Red _ revolutionists, see that your unit, section, district; organization is in action. Get behind the Daily Worker campaign for 60,000 readers. Vote Communist! Photostat copy of official discharge papers of Seaman author of this series of articles, showing him conclusively to have been a member of the crew Members of Crew in Rags On the Cruise | ot Garvey Ship “Booker T. Washington” Jcould be seen daily of the crew wan- | dering about the streets of Colon with torn clothes and a look on their faces that told plainly that they were hungry. Things became so had with us that the local branch which Carter had refused to recognize took pity on us and collected a benefit for the members of the ctew who were most in need. They had to give some of us clothing, cigarettes, and enough to get a decent meal. And, at this time every man of the crew had over $200 in wages coming to him. In the meantime, Carter and Lady Winton Davis were living high, and buying up all the silk in Colon. He bought silk tropical suits, silk un- derwear, socks, etc., and Mrs. Davis wore nothing but the very sheerest of silks. In fact, if one had gone into the store of Kalcham and Bal- cham and asked for silk stockings Chiang Kai Shek Calis| ' BRIEFS FROM | | ALL LANDS | ©. BERLIN.—Milkboys of the largest) Berlin dairy company, Bolle, have | gone on strike against a wage cut) }of 10 per cent. | | | * LENINGRAD.—Immediately after | the news arrived here of the begin-| ning of the great metal workers’, strike in Berlin, factory meetings) were held by the Leningrad workers | and resolutions adopted expfessing | enthusiastic solidarity with the strik- Jers and deciding to organize collec- | tions in support of the strike. | | * BUDAPEST.—Several of the Sept. | 1st hunger demonstration victims of the Horthy dictatorship have been tried. They received sentences from |2to 7 months. One of them, a Yugo- | slavian citizen, was also sentenced to| | deportation. s * a ee | BUCHARFST.—In the village of | Poianadesus tax collectors have been attacked by peasants. One of them) was seriously injured. In the vil- lage of Sabe a collector was injured. The peasants are resisting tax pay- ments. * PARIS.—On account of the strict} | censorship in Portugal just now news | | comes through about a big demon-! | stration at Lisbon on the 3rd of Oct. This day is celebrated in Portugal as the day of the Republic by all the official bombastery. After the cele-| bration of the bourgeoisie was over the workers swept over the place. It | came to clashes between workers and the newly founded fascist or- ganization. Suddenly the mariners from a war ship hoisted a big red flag. The workers joyfully lifted the sailor on their shoulders and carried | him on the street, followed by a huge |throng of workers, shouting de- | lightedly, and singing the Interna- tional. Police attacked the demon- stration with such a force, trying to take away the workers’ flag from | them. A real battle started in the | streets of Lisbon, and many victims | fell in this struggle. Alone in the hospitals there were 7 dead and 48 injured. But the police refuse to give any information whatever about the number of arrests. Vegetarian RESTAURANTS Where the best food and fresh vegetables are served all year round 4 WEST 28TH STREET 37 WEST 32ND STREET 225 WEST 36TH STREET 3ynaa Nexe6unua | DR. A. BROW Dentist | |] 801 Bast 74th St. Cor” Second Ave Vel. Algonquin 7248 Pel. ORChara 8789 DR. L, KESSLER SURGEON DENIS? Strictly by Appointment 48-50 DELANCEY STREBT | | . Bldridge St NEW YORK SOVIET PRESS ON. ‘BIG METAL STRIKE “Revolutionary Effect on German Workers” MOSCOW.—The soviet newspapers are reporting the strike of the metal workers in Berlin at great length. The “Pravda” declares that the strike will have a great revolutionizing ef- fect on the whole German working class, and that it will be the signal for the workers in all other indus- tries to prepare for the fight. The strike will demonstrate to the Ger- man workers that it is possible to {resist the employers offensive suc- cessfully. The metal workers strike is a convincing proof of the fact that the workers have entered a new stage of the revolutionary struggle, that they are beginning a counter-offen- sive against the bourgeoisie, against the government of starvation and against fascism, The strike was not only against Borsig, Siemens and the other capitalist hyenas, but against the whole Bruening system, gainst the treacherous policy of the social fascists and against the efforts of the bourgeoisie to consolidate capitalism at the expense of the workers. The ike will increase the crisis of Ger- man capit: m and is a sign not only of the intensification of class contra- diction of class contradictions but also of an approaching acute revolu- tionary situation. Continuing the “Pravda” points out | that the strike is of great importance to the workers of other capitalist countries. It would be a great error to rest content with the first success of the revolutionary trade union op- position and to forget that the re- formist leaders Urish & Co., repre- sent a great danger to the strike. The government, the employers and the reformists would do everything pos- sible to throttle the strike. The revo- lutionary opposition and the Commu- nist Party must therefore mobilize all their forces to the task of leading | the strike. Strike committees should be formed in every factory and kept free from the influence of the re- | formists. In each factory the strik- ing workers should be organized in revolutionary factory groups, The strike must be closely connected with the struggle of the unemployed work- ers and made a matter for the whole |of the Berlin proletariat. The work- \ers of the whole of Germany should | be mobilized in support of the strike. |The hour had come for the revolu- | tionary trade union opposition to be- come the decisive factor in the Ger~ man working class movement. | Courage, determination and the will to victory should be maintained in | the ranks of the strikers. Should the | revolutionary trade union opposition be successful in its work, then the | Strike of the Berlin metal workers | would be the opening point for a de- |cisive struggle on the part of the whole German working class against the bourgeois reaction, fascism, social fascism, and the Young Plan and for the social and national emancipation of the German proletariat, Paid subscriptions will solve the financial crisis of the Daily Worker. Join the drive for 60,000 readers, |] Phone: LEHIGB 6382 'nternational Barber Shop M. W SALA. Pro 2016 Second Avenue, New York (bet 103rd & 104th Stay Ladies Robs Our Specialty Private Beauty Parlor { or silk socks, the proprietor would have told you that Mr, Carter and | Mrs. Davis, along with some of the | lother officers, had bought all the) silk they had in stock. | COOPER ATIVE The fare on the boat was too plain | . for them, so they went to live ashore, putting up in the most luxurious | style. The local U.N.IA. furnished them with two servants, a man and| a woman, and they ate nothing but | chicken, turkey, and the best of | |foods that the town had. Before | this, they were staying on the ship | jand would go ashore two or three | times a day, each time hiring a! in the Bronx Co of the S. S. “Booker T. Washington” (formerly S. S. “George W. Goethals”). When we.reached Colon we tried to get Carter to buy the man medical treatment ashore, but he absolutely refused to interest him- self. Going into Colon, we had to hold the sick man up 80 that we | would not have the boat quaran- tined. Money Piled in, Crew Still Starved. In Colon, the Negro workers went wild over us also, and here again Carter collected lots of money. There were two U.N.LA. factions in this city, both having its own Liberty Hall. Carter as Secretary General of the U.N.LA. had they op- portunity to patch up their differ- ences. Instead of pacifying them, however, he clung to the one that had the most money. I personally know he collected quite a few thou- sand dollars in Colon. He then went to Panama City, where there were two Liberty Halls also. The people were quite eager to hear him speak, and he charged them, a fat entrance fee. He sold | stock right and left, and here he also collected thousands of dollars. ‘The halls were so packed that the | people strung outside for blocks and j blocks. All of them had money and were anxious to give it to Mr. Car- ter, because he repeatedly told them \that if they didn’t they would lose \the boat. He told them he did not have a cent to buy fuel or provisions to continue the trip. We of the crew were very surprised when he made | those statements, because we knew |of the immense amounts he had col- \lected from Havana all the way to | Colon, and we knew he was not giv- ing the crew anything on account of their wages. We knew too, that |most of the provisions on the boat were given him gratis by colored workers in each city we visited. So it came to us plain as day that he was appropriating this money for himself and others higher up in the organization. Crew Hungry, in Tatters In the meantime, the sad sight launch from the Canal Zone govern- ment for which they had to pay $5 for each trip one way. Certain |members of the U.N.LA. told Carter |he should use the ship's launch and |not spend the poor people’s money that way. He was spending $15 to $25 daily for the Canal Zone launch when he could have used the ship’s launch without any cost. Car- business. It was after this he took up his residence ashore. In my next article I will tell of how a division of the U.N.I.A. find- rible had to issue a manifesto against conditions on board the ves- sel. I will also tell of our exper- iences in Almerante and Bocas del Toro. Red revolutionists, see that your unit, section, district, organization is in action. Get behind the Daily Worker campaign | members of the crew who were also | ter told these men to mind their own | ing conditions of the crew so ter-| Buy in Our Codperative The Post Office Department has r As an answer to this attack PIONEER” will come out in a 16 page, 15,000 edition on its Seventh Anniversar for 60,000 readers. 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