The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1930, Page 2

Page Two Civil Liberties Gets Praise of Bosses In Attack On Reds Employers Association Commend Their Work in Helping Courts Jail Communists; Link Up With Drive Against USSR NEW YORK —The League for In- dustrial Rights, the legal arm of em- ployers associations in the U. S., i openly approving the American Civil Liberties Union decision in its refusal to give bail to the International La- bor Defense for imprisoned Commu- nist workers and linking this incident with the campaign against the recognition of the Soviet Union. The decision of the Civil Liberties | Union, not to give any more bail for | ™ Communist workers grew out of the Gastonia strike when the five men departed for Russia after sentences of up to 20 years were imposed upon them by the Courts of North Carolina with no chance of amnesty from the southern millowners. Roger Baldwin, one of the directors in the Civil Lib- erties Union, had stated publicly that neither the International Labor De- | 0 fense or the Communist Party ap- proved of the departure of these workers. The International Labor Defense is raising the money to re- pay the American Civil Liberties Union In its Official organ Law and La- bor, the employers’ associations point out that the “American Civil Lib- erties Union is satisfied that it can- not trust the Co! ists and it ha announced that no further bail will be written or recommended for mem- bers of the Communist Party by the American Civil Liberties Unior In this satne editorial the bor-7s’ maga- zine states that “various ments in Europe have recogr Soviet Union, and their recogni has been followed by confusion controversy involving charges the Communist government failed in its obligations.” sentence in its editorial Labor” contradicts its own statement by saying that “in this country, var- ious business organizations have had | business relations with the several businéss representatives of | the Communist government.” with Gordon Merrit as its chief coun- is the legal representative of ifacturers and employers’ ass ions in various injunction fights | strikes in general. Merrit is cil and the man who headed a number of years ago, the fight against the hat- ters’ union in the Danbury struggle | when a decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court of over $250,000 damages in favor of nd the ramshackle homes ers in Connecticut were taken by the courts to pay the “da incurred through a boycott. When the American Civil Liberties Union made its decision not to give any more bail to the International | Labor Defense for imprisoned Com-| munists, Wm. Z. Foster immediately | resigned from the executive commit- tee of the organization, pointing out, “that for many years I have allowed | name to stand on the list of executive committee members for your organization... but I am| forced to the conclusion, by your ac- tions in the Gastonia case that you| are no longer seriously engaged in| the fight for civil liberties, that you have become a tool in the hands of Norman Thomas and his party of! apologizers for capitalism and that the workers have nothing to expect ages” and that has| from you in the way of assistance in The next | their desperate struggle against capi-| “Law and | talism.” Daily Worker Irkes Socialist Clown NEW YORK. = Heywood Broun, chief clown of the socialist party,! who continues his “socialist” cam- In ordet that the workers may not misunderstand either Broun or his| friend Coolidge, the socialist high-| paign with the fat salary of $50,000 @ yeat on the New York Telesram S@laried cloun tells his readers: is much disturbed by Coolidge’s re-; When next you read the Daily| Worker won't you, for my sake (and| he might have added for the sake | of capitalism which he represents) | just add a grain of salt?” cent statement, “If monopolies were permitted a few men in key positions would soon control our economic and probably our political destines.” He tries to extricate Cal Coolidge! Broun uses his column to attack from the implication of his state-|the Soviet Union, while doing his} ment, and like a good one hundred |damndest to keep the workers’ at- percenter advises, “Have faith in|tention away from growing unem- America, Mr. Coolidge.” {ployment in the United States. . ; Hoover Fires Workers, Uses Convicts NEW YORK—That the Hoover ad- ministration is following a policy of firing civilian workers on government jobs and employing convict labor was revealed yesterday by a worker. 180 prisoners from Leavenworth and ‘The army base at 59th St. and First| Atlanta were used to rebuild the Ave., fired 100 civilian workers, labor- ; buildings. ers, several months ago and put on convict labor from the Federal pris- ons. | When the Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, 180 Inf. stables burned down, “Chain Gangs,” Texas Jobless “Solution” SWEETWATER, Texas, Nov. 16—|to work on the chain gangs. Only | An increased use of the “chain gang”| the larger towns would be asked to| as a solution of unemployment was) pick up the workers and send them advanced by the Texas sheriffs in| to the chain gang. The smaller town session here. All workers found on| sheriffs are supposed to send the un- the roads without jobs, they recom- | employed on to the larger towns so mended, should be arrested and put| they could be put into chain gangs. Workers’ Budget Provides Workers’ Welfare MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.—During | will be allotted by the Moscow Soviet 1930-31 the workers organizations, in- and six i a Midag worxets’ cube, will acquire re millions by the federal bud. several thousands new automobiles. i This, consequently, brings up the| J" sharp contrast is the way the | question of garages. This matter | budget is made up in the U. S. Here| has already been ,taken care of | we find billions given towards war which is typical of the speed with | preparations for the slaughter of which problems are solved un-| millions of workers. In the Soviet der workers’ rule. Appropriations} Union the entire budget. is com- ‘mounting to $11,000,000 have been | posed of ways and means to satisfy made for the purpose. Five millions | workers’ wants. Tax Steel Workers for Relief to Jobless YOUNGSTOWN, O.—Workers are being forced to pay for their own relief with a vengeance in the Young- stown Sheet and Tube Steel Mills. When the small property owners of| “Well, the boss says he can't afford the city turned down the mill tax) to keep any man on his payroll who levy for unemployed relief at the re-| does not give at least one day’s wage cent elections, the Youngstown Sheet| to the chest,” the foreman replied. and Tube announced its solution for} Only 8,000 of the normal 12,00 the problem. Emyopes will be made| Sheet and Tube force is on the job to contribute to a special fund to| now. Property owners who refused pay some of the light, gas and rent | the mill tax to relieve destitution are bills of unemployed workers. At the | asking that old clothes and tea- same time slips are being handed | leaves used only once be given to out to workers by foremen, pledging | charity. NEEDLE BOSSES TAX WORKERS Employers Raise Fund to Fight Strike (Continued from Page One) cloakmakers for his vicious attacks upon their already miserable condi- tions, openly states that in his opin- jon “the situation which now pre- yails emphasizes the justice of the councils’ appeals for uniform stand- ards throughout the industry .. . if the council members are given a rea- sonable degree of equality in labor with other sources will operate successfully.” In other words, sacrifice at the unemployment was to declare that wage- e necessary to equalize the la- them to pay from $3 to $12 to the Community Chest. One worker told the foreman he could not afford to give to the chest. dustrial Union calls upon all the needle trades workers to fight unem- ployment and the bosses’ unemploy- ment schemes through organizing and striking for the 7-hour, 5-day week which the coming dress strike will fight for the establishment of week work throughout the industry and unemployment insurance at the ex- pense of the bosses and not through cutting wages still further through taxation. Refuse to build a fund which will be used by the bosses, not for unemployment relief, but to at- tack the workers with and break the coming dress strike! 20,000 SPANISH MINERS GO ON STRIKE. OVIEDO, Spain.—Striking against the conditions they are forced to work under, and against the fascist dictatorship, more than 20,000 miners in the coal fields here walk out a The League for Industrial Rights, | the publishers of “Law and Labor,” | THE ADVENTURES OF BILL WORKER = —— —Their Belly’s Full— | |Buy ou OF FooD ALways \ mx [THE BANKyT Beuy 1s Furr. of Money ND THE BANK ro | ti, - fon of By RYAN WALKER. FIGUT Fo) SYARVE For us_ fo) Warr THe HELL Dowe Care! US, WE OWN Tae PUDGES THE SOLDIER S RUS The Worker [{MY Beviye THE Hanes Belcy UR BELLIES ARE fy Ee v MY BetLys {5 FULL. OF Money Say ae a Nie ir W Ci he v Rr Foun OF Foop AnD THE Banks Money FULL. Te Pee 8 < ae SAND / DANK | To US, THe POLICE CLUB wt MASS REVOLT IS IN THE MAKING General Oil Strike in Mene Grand Fields mitted to Balboa, Canal Zone, from} Maracaibo, Venezuela, state that a| mass revolt 1s brewing in Venezuela | against the dictator Gomez and his backers, the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. and the Standard Oil Co. | A general strike has broken out in| the Mene Grande oil fields of the Royal Dutch Shell Co. The imme- diate cause of the strike, according to the meagre reports, is the dis- charge of 500 to 600 workers. De-| spite the vicious terror of the Gomez regimeé, the workers are preventing the oil companies from carrying out any work until their demands are acceded to. At the same time reports from the state of Zuilia, suppressed in the Venezuelan press, declaré that at- tempts were made to assassinate Vincenzio Perez Soto, president of the State of Zuilla, and a tool of Gomez. Several shots were fired, and the president's bodyguard were assaulted. Venezuela is the leading oil pro- ducing country in the world. There is a sharp battle going on between the Royal Dutch-Shell (British) and the Standard Oil, with Gomez, the dictator, balancing between both, and making huge fortunes out of the ex- ploitation of the rich oil lands. The workers live under the worst reign of terror ever known in Latin America. Thousands have been put to death in Gomez's dungeons after being inhumanly tortured. The en- tire population is seething with re- volt, as the workers and peasants have been reduced to the most mis- erable conditions imaginable. Gomez he~ been able to maintain his re- gime only by means of his vicious terror and wholesale murders and jailings. Party Activities, A SPECIAL MEETING OF ALL PARTY MEMBERS WORKING IN The needle trades in the downtown district (14th St, to South Ferry) will be Weld this Wednesday, Nov. i9, tight after work, at 6 p. m., at Section headquarters, 27H. Fourth St. This meeting is of utmost impor: tance; all Party members must show up on time. Labor and Fraternal RED UNION: Let workers know of your meeting nights and activities. This column is ‘for this purpose and should be taken advantage of. Write up your notices as short as possible and mail them in. THE WORKERS’ LABORATOR THEATRE OF THE Wel Re Holds its organizational meeting Wednesday, Nov. 19, 8 p. m.,_ at. the new headquarters of the Workers’ International Relief, Local New York. 131 W. 28th St., first floor. Bronx Open Forum 569 Prospect Ave. near 149th nday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. Sub- “Youth in Industry.” * * At St., S Ject * NEW JERSEY Jersey City Workers — interested in taking courses at the Workers Center, 337 Henderson St. (one flight up), should register at once at the above address. Fees for each course (12 evenings) $2. Unemployed fee, Come up and talk it over, Friday night. * A Class in Workers English. Af the Harlem Prog. Youth tonight at 8 p.m. at 1492 Madison Ave. See us about tuition rates. unemploved comrades, 50 cents for the éntire course. For a Good Meal ‘and Proletarian Prices Fat at the UNIVERSAL CAFETERIA Cor. 11th St. and University Place (Special Room for Conferences) EAT THE BEST AT THE HONEY DEW CAFETERIA Incorporated Fourth Ave. Cor. 12th Street HOME-MADE MEALS You can select the best foods, as we have @ great variety. We are sure you will like our cooking 12,000 Textile Workers Start General Stri i | A\| Rank and File Forées Declaration; National | IN VENEZUELA’ Textile Workers Union Warns Mill , Hands to Organize for Control BULLETIN, READING, Pa., Noy. 11—Due to the deliberate mismanagement of NEW YORK.—Cable reports trans-| strike arrangements by the U. T. W. only about a thousand of the mill workers here responded to the strike mands published, no arrangements for paper notice of a mass meeting in the ball park, The strikers are left demoralized by the U. T. W. tactics. ganize any picket line at the Berkshi ers, but they did try to intimidate members of the National Textile Work- ers’ Union who distributed a circula: mass picketing, a rank and file strik is calling a mass meeting tomorrow. READING, Pa., Nov. 17—The in-” sistent demand of the 12,000 textile | workers in Berks County has finally overborne the delay tactics of the Officials of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers’ Union, 4 subsidiary of the United Textile Workers, and the strike was voted yesterday to start today at 10 a.m. The workets at the meeting at the Orpheum yester- MASS FIRING AT KLEIN'S STORE Discharge 200 in Wage Cutting Scheme NEW YORK.—Saturday about 200 | girls were laid off at Klein’s Depart- ment Store on Union Square, one of those “business houses” which con- tinually beseach the police depart- ment to use greater severity in dis- persing workers’ mass meetings in the Square. , Not even business depression or bad times was the reason. The girls | wére discharged because the efficiency experts decided that those who had | been working for years and were earning $15 or $17 a week could be | replaced by others, cheaper. Many when given their discharge notices burst into tears. Some of them who earn $15 a week have families to support, the parents hav- ing been out of work for a long time. They must realize that crying will not help them. Only organization will give them power to resist these attacks by the boss. They should get Klein's is one of the worst hell holes in the United States. Here the girls work long hours at low pay. Sometimes they have to put in over- time without pay. Klein's has a little scheme to bribe the girls. Each worker gets a $500 life insurance policy, free. Providing she is working there at the time, her relatives can collect the money when she dies. Due to wholesale discharge, no girl ever works long enough in| Klein's to die of old age, and the) company nds the life insurance busi- cent increase, no speed-up, equal pay for equal work, etc. The N. T. W. WOMEN'S GALA | ke at Reading (CONCERT NOV. 21 Feature Evening NEW YORK.—Among fhe attrac- | tions at the gala concert of the United | Council of Working Class Women, Friday, Nov. 21, at 8 p. m., Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., will be a series of recitations by Yosel Kotler: The Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra will | appear in several classic numbers and | recent revolutionary orchestrated | | pieces. it exposing the betrayal, demanding ‘The concert will fittingly celebrate @ committee, and demanding 10 per | the seventh anniversary of the United Council, Presentations to the councils and individual members in vs recognition of their work will be an | day demanded revocation of all wage | added feature of the evening. euts since January 1, 1930. This} The United Council and affiliated | means they demand practically twice | councils have bsen active partici- the wages they have been getting) panto in all of the struggles of the since the last cut was ordered at the | workers in this city, taking part in Berkshire and other mills. the Communist Party election cam- The mass meeting was addressed | paign, anti-injunction campaign and | by Callaghan, Phillips and Ritchie of | have always responded to active duty | the U.T.W. Their policy has been|on the picket line. to call on the workers to organize | Tickets may now be secured from to prevent a strike, they have invited | any of the councils. in the U. S. “Conciliation Bureau,” | and have aligned themselves with the | PHILHARMONIC. Reading socialist administration; The Philharmonic-Symphony Or- which has already promised plenty | chestra, under the direction of Tos+ of police protection to the bosses. | canini, will give their next concert The workers themselves showed|on Wednesday evening at Carnegie intense enthusiasm for the strike,| Hall. The program includes the and there were only four votes | Schubert Symphony in B_ minor against it. (Unfinished”); “Wanderer” Fantasy, All now depends on the ability of |OP- 15; Mephisto Waltz, Liszt and | the workers to seize control of the | Danse Macabre, Liszt. Alexander Si- | The same) call. There were no leaflets, no de- | moving the picket line, only a news- | The U. T. W. officials did not or- ite mill, where there are 4,000 work- strike itself and lead it to a success-| loti will be the soloist. Delegates to Foreign Born Conf. to Meet NEW YORK.—All delegates elected to the National Conference For the Protection of Foreign-Born and all zations are called by the district committee to a special meeting Sat- urday, Nov. 22, at 3 p, m., at Irving Plaza Hall. MURDOCH GIVEN 60 DAY SENTENCE Judge Shields Gorman U.T.W. Betrayer DANVILLE, Va., Nov. 17.—William Murdoch, national secretary of the National Textile Workers’ Union, was found guilty of “slanderous remarks” against A. F. of L. officials and was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail and fined $100 in the criminal court here. No witnesses for the defense were permitted to testify to prove the truth of Murdoch's statements, and the prosecutions’ only witnesses against the militant union's offial were five men who claimed that they had received the circular containing the exposure of Gorman, the United Textile Workers Union bureaucrat who betrayed the Marion strikers. Gorman was subpoenaed by the de- fenese but did not come to court to arswer the charges made against him by Murdoch. | ANTI-INJUNCTION Urge Greater Action in Telegram From Jail NEW YORK.—The Smash The In< junctions Committee of the Trade Union Unity Council goes on with the necessary organization work to continue the effective mass violation of the injunctions against picketing. All workers in shops, and particularly all unemployed workers, are urged to stand ready for the next call to de<« fiance by mass picketing of the in< junctions by which the bosses and A. F. of L. combine now to use the | courts against every strike for better conditions. Last Thursday's demonstration wad @ success, though 36 were arrested }and 35 of them are in jail, waiting | trial today or tomorrow under Para~ graph 600 of the state code, a sec~ tion which provides penalties for | Violations of an injunction. They are militant and have sent a telegram to the Trade Union Unity Council from | their- cells in jail, where they are | awaiting the railroading before the curious New York court of special sessions, which sentences workers to anything up to three years without trial by jury. The statement 2f the 85 is as follows: “We, the group arrested on tha Picket line Thursday before the. Zel- green Cafeteria, awaiting trial in special sessions, greet you and are with you in spirit. Keep up the fight against injunctions until it is won, We are with you in the fight!” PICKETS MILITANT — Unusual Attractions members of the executive committee | |for the, protection of foreign-born | | and representatives of mass organi-| in touch with the Trade Union Unity | Council, at 16 West 21st, St. | ful conclusion. The National Textile Workers’ Union has issued leaflets urging the formation of rank and file shop and strike committees, to see that the U.T.W. does not betray them again as it did the Marion strike and the Elizabethton strike. Mass picketing, and real rank and file control and leadership will win, but the U.T.W. cannot be relied upon for either. ATTEND THE ICOR BAZAAR WEDNESDAY (Thanksgiving Eve) Thursday, Friday, Sat. Nov. 26, 27, 28 and 29 165th Infantry Armory 68 Lexington Avenue, New York ness pretty cheap. (Between 25th and 26th Streets) THE 75° JUBILEE MORRIS VI (The Pioneer of Jewish Saturday Evenin, al HONEY DEW CAFETERIA few days ago. Their ranks are solid. 5 4th Ave, Cor, 12th St. New York ree tnnorvorated ne of Comrade will be celebrated by all revolutionary workers MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Four of the Most Famous Poets from the Soviet Union are coming to extend their greetings. I. CHARIK, I. FEFER, Y. BROWNSTEIN and SH. GODINER Freiheit Gesangs Farein — Red Dancers Artef and Others Tickets on Sale at the Office of the Morning Frethelt 35 East 12th Street, New York City Prices: 50c; 75c; $1.00 NCHEVSKY Revolutionary Literature) g, November 22 t They are: program will be- repeated on Friday | afternoon. For the Students’ concert on Sat- urday night at Carnegie, the pro- gram will comprise the “Anacreon” overture of Cherubini, Mozart's “Haffner” symphony, and Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben.” Saturday morning, the Children’s concert under Ernest Schelling, will | illustrate the flute in works of Men- delssohn, Brahms, Gluck, Liadow and Moussorgsky. FRANKLIN THEATRE. An eight-act vaudeville bill is the chief feature at the Franklin Theatre program this week; while Ann Hard- ing is to be seen on the screen in “The Girl of the Golden West.” The | acts include ‘Gatidsmith Brothers, Al’ AMUSEMENTS Judge Lées in the Criminal Court | here ‘ruled at the opening of the! case that “the burden of proof is on the defendant.” “For All Kinds of Insuranee™ (CARL BRODSKY Telephone: Murray HII) 555¢ | Changes in Daily Worker circula- | tion in every district in the Party | show in tables published each Wed- | tiesdlay. | 7 Kast 42nd Street, New York B. White and Renie Riano, Fleeson || Cooperators! Patronize and Manners, the Three Foys, Edison and Louise, Joseph K. Watson and | S E R O Y Kajyama, CHEMIST Wednesday to Friday: Fall Festi- val, and Joe E. Brown on the screen in “Top Speed. 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