The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1930, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1930 Page Three —————) LETTERS - Fe ery res Sx’ =a E Raincoat Trades Workers Hard Driven By Bosses and Com Misleaders Rob Workers Who Only Average} $15 a Week All Year Round; Had Fake Strike (By a Worker NEW YORK.—I want to tell you about the terrible con- ditions n the raincoat trade. Iam a member of the Waterproof Garment Workers’ Union, Local 20, affiliated to I. L. G, W. U. We have only worked six weeks this season, the worst season in many years. Most of the workers in this “union” have been jobless practically most of the year, that when they began to work this season they hardly had an gry so long. HUNGER WAGES IN DAYTON, OHIO Part Time Prevalent in This Town (By a Worker Correspondent) DAYTON, Ohio—G. H. R, Foun- dry. This factory has been very slow for months. It is now picking up a little. Most of the workers are on two or three days a week, some even less. Some of the checks of the workers at the end of the week are a disgrace to a man, some work- ers getting as low as $5 and $2. They are afraid if they miss a day's wait- ing at the factory they will not get @ job even for a few hours, so they wait until something comes up for them to do. Some of those work~- ers have been heard to say: Well, it’s @ little better than last time. * Frigidaire, subsidiary of General Motors. This enormous plant worked only 9 days last month. They have a very fine efficiency system. It re~ minds one of school. You remem- ber when you went to school you got a report card and there were sev- eral marks on it—A, B, C, D, E, etc. ‘When you graduated, if you had a good report card, you could show this as a recommendation when you looked for a job. Well, Frigidaire grades all their workers. When they are laid off the worker gets a copy of the efficiency card and the effi- ciency department has the record of the worker. When they re-apply for their job if their grade is “A” theyare rehired, However, Frigidaire 1s hiring workers now, but not those who were there before, but newmen at a reduced wage. Mr. Sloan, you know, the production manager of General Motors, long speech that he believes in keep- ing up the high wages of workers! ae i Dayton Malleable (one of Dayton's| cheapest) is opening Foundry No. 9 Monday, and, as one worker who hopes to get a job there says: Well, now I'll get about $10 a week. eee Mazers Cigar Factory, which hires hundreds of women workers. A woman worker who is employed there reports this: Try as she can her daily rate does not go over $2.20. Her hus- band has not been working for 7 months and that is what the family has to live on. Last week the fore- man walked up and down the floor, raving and swearing at the women because there was too much scrap. ‘They are in constant fear of losing even that measly subsistence. The factory will close down soon for Christmas and they do not know when they will be called back to work. Maybe not at all. RED DANCERS AID UNION NEW YORK.—The Metal Workers Industrial League of the Trade Union ‘Unity League is holding a concert and dance to faise money for organ- ization purposes at New Harlem Ca- sino, 100 West 116th St., Nov. 29. Special features will be the Red Dancers, with Edith Segal. and French Creole and Negro work songs, by Allison Burroughs. Music by J, G. Smith Negro band. Changes in Daily Worker circula- tion in every district in the Party show in tables published each Wed- nesday. Red News Club in Sacramento Here is a wire from Sacra- mento: Daily Worer:— Red Builders News Club of nine organized. City divided into nine Red Sections. Red Daily Worker Sundays inevery section. Carrier system and Red Builders News Club to be recently made a} pany Union Officials Correspondent) the company union outfit, the y strength left from being hun- SPY ON WORKERS A typical eexample of how condi- tions are will be mentioned. Feuer and Weissberg shop, 40 West 22nd St. where I used to work. Weissberg is @ mean gangster and very often helps the right-wing clique who are in con- trol in the office, to beat the militant workers who fight for better condi- tions. He also spies on them in his shop and gives information to his clique who use it for black-listing. There are a few workers in this shop who work under the minimum scale of wages, that are supposed to be given. Legal holidays are not paid for and all overtime whether Satur- day or Sunday, have been paid on straight time wages. The workers are speeded to the limit. The bosses have a very big appetite for production and are never satisfied. This is a slave hell-hole. CUT WAGES How bad wages are, will be shon. The bosses had the impudence two weeks ago to take off the wages one hour for every eight hours on one day. One hour a day free to the boss is a ten percent reduction. When the workers protested a- gainst this reduction the boss told them they could go to the “Union” if they wanted to, but it would make {no difference to. him, as they could |do nothing about it. This statement opened the eyes of the workers who saw @ connecting link between the bosses and the right wing reactionar- ies who know everything what goes on in the shop. IN ALL SHOPS I suppose next January the bosses of this shop will ask a further reduc- tion in pay. What is happening in this shop in regards to wages and conditions of work is going on more or less in other shops in the trade. Just before the season started and it began late the “Union” called a stike for what was supposed to main- tain union conditions, forty hour week, minimum wage of $44, legal ho- |lidays paid for and time and a half for overtime. FAKE STRIKE The members of the “Union” know| that these conditions were violated | and is only a scrap of paper. In fact it was a fake strike and a dirty sell out to the raincoat manufacturers. While the manager and secretary of the “Union” receive $80 to $70 a week and expenses the workers make and| earn on the average the year round about $15 a week. ‘They go around in Boston and elsewhere, sporting and playing cards, when they are supposed to be organ- izing, spending the money of the wor- kers. They have accomplished no- thing while they have been in office and will do nothing as long as they remain in control. MULCT MEMBERS ‘Two weeks after we began working, after being unemployed a very long time the officials called a meeting and demanded every body should be taxed one day’s pay because the “Union” was short of money. ‘When we protested against this and said that we cannot give any money now because we have only started to work, the officials told us that whe- ther we like it or not we must pay one day's wages. And it was jammed thru amidst loud protests. We are paying dues and taxes to a “Union” for open shop conditions. In the coming December there will be an election. The Feingold-Rappa- port-Weissberg-Kessler clique must be thrown out of office. A new ex- ecutive board and secretary and ma- nager must be elected on the left wing ticket. Working Alone Is Dangerous in Mine (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—I am work~ ing on a straight pitch where it is very dangerous for a miner's life. I am working alone, without a laborer. The company does not give the miner a laborer—the miner must pay the laborer himself. We can’t do this when we hardly make enough wages to support ourselves on, I make only two or three dollars on some days. How can I pay a la- borer wages? It is very dangerous, because there’s lots of loose rock and coal. Working alone means that the miner could: be killed and no one even knows about it. If two were work- ing together they at least would be able to protect each other. We must demand that the company pay the miner and laborer on consideration. We must fight against the speed-up which kills us, We must demand and fight for protection of our lives! organize into a fight- i Sacramento Bosses Fight Jobless Demand (By a Worker Correspondent.) SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The master class of Sacramento is going to help the unemployed! They have solved the problem. There have been hun- dreds of men who asked the city for work. The city bosses had them fill out applications for different classes of work, As it has been about three weeks since the examination some of the men began to get hungry and they asked the city mayor if there would | be a job for them. The mayor said| there would be no jobs for anyone only ex-servicemen and very few of them. Fool Jobless. The city bosses figured it would cost the city $4,000 to dig a drain- age ditch around the municipal air- port so they would add one thou- sand more and dig the ditch with pick and shovel which would give a lot of jobless men work. Along comes a big contractor by the name of Reeves. He would do the job for $2,000 and the city man- ager gave him the job, The city manager said they must no squan- der the taxpayers’ money just to help out a few jobless men. The manager said that it is the contractor who is to blame for this, but I say it is the damn city bosses. The city manager’s salary is} $10,000 a year. He was a rich con- tractor when he was appointed to the job. REFUSE FACTS ON BIG ARMAMENTS Demand War Funds| Go to Jobless (Continued from Page One) insisted, was only to be the advantage of the stronger (imperialist) powers. Forgetting all his phrases about! “peace” for an unfortunate moment, | Sato wanted to know how a cruiser could go out to battle with the enemy knowing beforehand how many rounds of ammunition it could fire. This was an unfortunate admission that the cavitalis tgentlemen who were supposed to be talking about disarmament were really concerned about war. After sitting down, Sato immediately jumped up again, realiz- ing the blunder he had committed. Says Streit, the Times correspondent; “Admitting it looked bad to talk war in view of the existence of the Kellogg pact, he confusedly ex- plained the pact was only two years old and needed ‘the test of long years before all the world will have faith in it’” .., ... The workers are being fooled about the real facts of war armament. While in the capitalist countries mil- lions of workers starve to death, the bosses find plenty of money to build up their armies and navies. They are afraid to publish the facts. They know that the workers will demand this money to spend for bread to feed the hungry unemployed. All workers must be aroused to the immediate war danger.” ‘These arms that the capitalists are spending bil- lions for are being trained against the Soviet Union—the workers’ coun- try where capitlaism has been over- thrown, and where the workers are building a new life, without exploita- tion, without bosses, without hunger and unemployment, and with con- stantly rising standards of living. In the United States Hoover. Mel- lon, Hyde and the rest of the gov- ernment, can find a billion dollars | for increased naval war machinery. They are to spend over $40,000,000 for the army and navy maintenance; millions more will be spent for war preparations. But 9,000,000 unem- ployed face starvation this winter. Hoover refuses to hand out one cent for them. The bosses fight against any form of unemployment insur- ance to come out of government funds and boss profits. ‘The immediate fight against the war danger must be the demand: All war funds to the unemployed! Demand the passage of the Unem- ployment Insurance Bill! Workers Aid Daily Worker Agent in Routing Gangsters (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—On Nov. 13 a com- rade was going around the I. R. T. subway selling Daily Workers. A! drunken stool pigeon came over to him and said: So you're the guy that’s selling the Daily Worker. The comrade said: Yes I am. So they started to push the com- rade from one place to another and wanted to beat him up. A worker to whom the comrade gave a paper got up and got hold of one of the drunks and knocked hell out of him and a few more workers got up from their seats and went over to help the fellow worker, de- fending him and the comrade selling the Daily Workers. So seeing that they couldn’t scare a worker from make the bosses come selling the Daily Worker in the train they disappeared. Detroit Shakes Circulation Desk by Order for 1,000 Increase Without Warning The Daily Worker circulation desk, formeriy of golden oak, now fin- | ished in a light coat of ink spots and heel marks, will never look the same again now that it has been carressed The order for a daily increase of 1,000, which played the part of a sensation in the Daily office, looked like a mistake by the Postal Telegraph or a practical joke when it first dropped in without warning. But it has since been proved genuine by a letter from Detroit. The Detroit district office order is increased from 900 to 1,400 daily and ten other centers ef distribution each increase their orders, making a total daily increase of 1,000. Detroit took a long run before it leaped into the Daily Worker 60,000 circulation campaign, but look at that jump! WHIRLWIND MEETINGS PLANNED BY SEC. 2, N.Y. Section 2, New York, sweeps into the Daily Worker circulation cam- paign for 60,000 readers with some new ideas which make the commu- nication sent out by R. Grossman, Daily Worker representative to all units, an interesting document. In part: FLYING MEETINGS FOR THE DAILY WORKER: 1. HTave pre- pared a soap box, a flag and a seaker provided by the unit. 2 The speech js to last four or five minutes on™. 3, An extra large bundle of Dailies should be ordered by the unit. “DAILY WORKER TRUCK AND SANDWICH PARADE: In order to advertise the Daily Worker and make it easier to sell the section will have twice a wek truck parades with large signs and also comrades with signs will parade in the section territory. We will have the parade on Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Aves. on the waterfront. to send two comrades.” Don’t forget pictures of the parade for the Daily Worker. Grossman continues: “Comrade Sabbath of Unit 101 volunteered to sell Daily Workers every day. On Wednesday he sold 55 papers, on Thursday 80 papers and on Friday he started a competition with two other comrades. This 1s little Red Pepper herself. She sells Daily Workers and is the daughter of Comrade Henel Kuisma of Staten Island. CONFERENCES IN DISTRICT 1, BOSTON. Comrade Roison, Daily Worker representative of District 1, Boston, dropped into the Daily Worker of- fice and announced these important conferences in the Daily Worker campaign for 60,000 circulation. Daily Worker representatives of Boston and vicin- ity will meet on ‘Thursday, Nov. 27, at 3 Harrison Ave., Boston. Representatives of Section 6, compris- , Ing Worcester, Maynard, Fitch- ko burg and Gardener will meet on Sun- day, Dec. 2, at 10 a. m. Representatives of Section 4, Provi- dence and New Bedford, will meet in Providence on Dec, 2. There are 42 units in the Boston District and yet there are practi- cally no active Daily Worekr repre- sentatives. his situation cannot be tolerated. It is the responsibility of every Party member in the Boston DistrictT to see that every unit im- mediately appoints a Daily Worker reresentative. Units must immediately send in orders for bundles. here are over 500 Party members in the Boston district and yet the circulation of the Daily Worker is negligible. Boston! Wipe out the black spots with a little red paint! Roison, who alone cannot be held responsible for this situation, says he believes the Party will get behind the drive and that each unit will have active Daily Worker reps within a few weeks. He turned in increased orders for Every unit is instructed | with an order for a daily increase of i ra AT Racroay y WH: LPORKECS AY THE FACTOR GATEL asi his district totalling 120 per day. The} climb starts. | Roison also says: “A squad of five comrades has been organized to sell the Daily in Boston. 1 sold the first day 12 copies and within the next five days increased it to 17 copies, all | the sales taking place between 5 | and 6 p. m. as the workers came | from the factories. Comrade Whit- tier, selling the Dailies with me across the street, increased his sales from 9 to 21 copies.” This shows what can be done once the Party gets behind the drive. Italy Fascists ‘Build Up Army | itary SMASH CZARIST INTERNATION EWS AL Fé ay mingWar (Cable by Inprecorr.) LUGANO, Italian Frontier, Nov. 22. Mass arrest are reported through- out Italy during the past few days, including prominent university pr fessors, lawyers, etc. Mussolini has issued a special de-| cree announcing a 12 per cent wage cut for all workers and officials in| the government “to tide Italy over the | crisis.” A decree has likewise been issued | making all males between the years | of eight and fifty-five liable to mil- service. Children and youths | of eight to eighteen are drilled in| military fashion by the fascist youth orranizations. Males 15 to 55 must take a few) weeks annually of military service. for Co LIES ON USSR. Are All Part of War| Maneuvers HOOVER BUILDING | PROGRAM IS FLOP, |Whole Thing Only to, Fool Jobless (Continued from Page One) Bureau stated yesterday that of 106) applications for jobs the bureau has} been able to place only 41 and of | these only 15 were for full time work. At Trenton the authorities are go- ing through the farce worked in New York and Detroit, of registering the jobless. No jobs are promised those registered and only a small fraction of the unemployed sign the blacylist slips. ‘The New York Emergency Employ- ment Committee continues to collect money, and boasts that it has filled 7,100 jobs—7,100 out of 700,000 job- less in New York! The committee does not mention, but it is a fact, that many of these jobs are fictitious and most of them are temporary. Many also are merely replacements with low-paid workers of higher-paid men fired to make room for the lower paid fellows. Only Crumbs. The Mayor's Committee on Unem- ployment Relief stated that on Wed- |nesday the weekly distribution of | food would be 3,257 parcels in the Bronx and 175 in Richmond—simply an insult to the tens of thousands of starving jobless in those parts of the city. The Unemployment Councils con- tinue their great drive to collect sig- natures to the demands on congress | that it turn over the war funds to feed the jobless and pay each man|/ or woman or child out of work $2 a week and $5 more for each of his dependents, These are the provi- sions of the Workers’ Unemployment | Insurance Bill, proposed by the Com- munist Party. Teamsters Fakers Mulct the Members (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill—During the last week the Brotherhod of the Team- sters Union have been trying to raise | the dues of the membership to $15.) \One of the rank and file who has joined the Trade Union Unity League | happens to be a friend of the busi-| ness agent of the Teamsters’ Union. | When he asked the business agent why they were increasing the dues, he answered: “While we have all this unemployment it would be good if the union gave to the charity or- | ganizations $2,000, then if some of the city officials would make a) squawk that they are a bunch of| racketeers, the $2,000 would make them keep their graps shut.” Cut this out and mail immediate! New York City. RED SHOCK TROOPS For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND Enclosed find We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND. Name 1 2. ly to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, ‘Address ‘Amount |been the cheapest commodity in the (Continued from Page One) alarms that have surpassed all the records of invetiveness for Riga or Berlin ‘news sources’ and of the credulity of the foreign press and public... . “Many of these diplomats (of foreign countries in Moscow) rep- resent countries with scant sym- pathy for the Soviet and its works. Almost all of them have a person- nel familiar with Russian condi- tions and the language, with friends and fellow-nationals in all strata of Russian life. Gossip flies quickly through the diplomatic corps, but it has not yet heard about the events here lately broad~ cast by Riga and Berlin ‘sources.’ “It is possible to dismiss foreign reporters as mincompoops or cringing under the censor’s knout, but nobody can question the word of the ambassadors of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, Soviet officials, of course, assert there is a perfectly simple explan- ation of the whole business—a powerful anti-Soviet emigre or- ganization in Paris is eager to revenge itself for the plans which were blasted recently,” Duranty tells of what everyone knows. The foreign diplomats have complete, unobstructed use of the} wires on which they can send any | number of codes messages, and are | not hampered by any form of cen- sorship. News of such “revolts” as/ the capitalist lars pick up and) spread as truth would be of great significance to the capitalist powers | who are financing attempts at just} this sort of thing. Yet they do not confirm these rumors. They Yemain | silent. Lies about the Soviet Union have capitalist world since the establish- ment of the workers government. Lenin was assassinated, in Riga, Berlin, Helsingfors, London, even New York, with the help of facile typwriters, at least one thousand times. The Soviet Government, in the same fashion, has been pushed over periodically at least twice a month, and in the early days, twice a day, by no other means than the | glib pen of counter-revolutionary ournalisis, But the present lies have breater significance than their former mod- els. The Five-Year Plan is entering | its third year, with success radiating from it, despite obstacles, despite in- ternal sabotage, despite the war plots of every imperialist power on the globe. The third year of the Five- Year Plan will go on amidst a wors- | ening economic and in many places political crisis of world imperialism, with more and more revolutionary struggles. It will proceed amid the echo of gigantic class battles in the United States, Germany, Italy, Eng- land, France—everywhere in capit- alist countries. The stories about revolts in Mos- cow are intended by their Czarist manufacturers to spur on the war being arranged by the imperialists and to hearten them in this difficult task of mobilizihg the workers in the imperialist countries against the powerful forces of the Red Army in! the Soviet Union and a working-class | determined to the last ditch to de- | fend its power, The growth of the lies against the Soviet Union should warn all work- ers that imperialism is fast rushing back to the days of Kolchak, Denin- kin, and the other white-guard arm- jes who attempted to overthrow the Soviet Union. Poland, Finland, Rumania, Hungary are being pre- | pared as a battleground against the | workers’ republic. Hoover, Hyde, 4. This list is being sent by NAME PoeeeeeereeOeOeeeeerer iret et teeter itt t trite t reer rte re ATURE SA eee Tisentsscossusshacseysacssastcoes stevsescccrecsseeeeeecs Blist lands. Mellon are preparing to rush these war preparations. The working- class of the entire world will be in- volved. Not only must these rumofs and Mes be smashed, but what is more important, the causes behind them must be revealed to the workers, and the war preparations themselves must be smashed by the united action of the workers in all capit- |into effect, javiation law are published in the MILITARIZE POLISH AIR FLEET FOR WAR AGAINST SOVIET UNION All Commercial Planes at Service of Army for War, New Law Reveals War Funds to Build Up Fighting Air Service to Attack Workers’ Republic A law recently passed in Poland | 219-6) issued by the U. 8S. govern- requiring all civilian air craft to be| ment at Washington. McCeney Werr.. pressed into military service when- ever ordered by the Polish ministry | lich, the American charge d'affaires ad interim at Warsaw, Poland, fur- of war offers further proof of the|nished the information to the gov- rapidly developing plot to invade the) Soviet Union for the purpose of try-| ing to smash the government of the} working masses. This law went into effect on June 6, 1930, just three months after it was passed by the murderous gov-| ernment of blood-stained Pilsudskt, who has slaughtered already thou- sands of workers in order to main- tain Poland as an ammunition dump and mobilization grounds for capi- talists’ armies. The Pilsudski government, of course, passed this new aviation law under pressure of foreign capitalists, just as he has beaten and killed Pol- ish workers under orders of these same foreign imperialists. All private owned airplanes in Po- land, the new law demands, can be used as a means of army transpor~ tation in “peace times.” The “own- ers” of these planes are to be paid for their service from the budget of the Polish Ministry of War. Every year in December, the law states, an alphabetical list will be published of those persons who are obliged (drafted) to furnish air- planes when called upon by “recog~- nized authorities.” In case the air- planes furnished are “destroyed or damaged” an investigation will be made at the authorization of the ministry of communications for the confirmation of the amount of dam- age or destruction and of circum- stances under which the damage oc- curred. After the ministry of communica- tions finishes its investigation of the damage, according to the law, the value of the damage will be paid to the owner out of “war funds”—pro- vided by the ministry of war. ‘These “war funds” of the minis- try of war also will be used to pay all expenses of civilian airplanes drafted into service for “the move- ment of troops during peace time” by the ministry. Also, all travel ex- penses of these airplane crews, as | well as fuel and maintenance, will be paid by the ministry of war. Not only does this new law pro- vide sure proof of the coming in- tervention war against the workers of Russia, but it also provides, by its very wording, for the maintenance of a large fleet of war planes in Po- land between now and the time the capitalists are ready to begin their attempted slaughter. The militarization scheme of the Polish air force has already gone The facts of the new Foreign Aeronautical News (No, ernment. The information as pub- lished by the government was “very. delicately” worded. Thes facts show that the war preparations against the Soviet that the imperialist powers have their hands in it. MCDONALD DENIES DOMINION TO INDIA ‘Untouchables’ Speaker Attacks Imperialism LONDON, England, Nov. 22. — MacDonald took over British impere ialism’s pet Indian Round table cone ference today and adjourned it. The logic of events had already forced many extremely conservative and une doubtedly pro-imperialist Indian princes and “liberals” to solemnly warn the government that if some considerable concessions are nob made right away, India will go into revolution. McDonald's speech ending the con- gress was cautious and equivocal, but it made things pretty clear in one regard. There isn't going to be any dominion status, to say nothing of independence. India is invited to look forward to dominion status as a far off goal. Such changes in the government as are allowed, McDonald states, will be in the nature of giving the princes representation, establish- Ing the so-called “federal rule” (com- pletely British imperialist) suggested by the Simon commission. Untouchables Against Empire. Some of the princes, particularly the Aga Khan, went so far as to ask that Gandhi be consulted. The Brit-, ish government has been consulting him right along as to the best m ods of misleading the revolutionary sentiment among peasants and work- ers, but has kept him divided off from the princes and “liberals”, The whclé Indian delegation signed an agrety ment with the representative of the untouchables the lowest paid and most depressed workers and peas- ants to give them 23 per cent of the deputies in any legislative body that might be established. The “untouchables” official repree sentative came out for dominion sta~ tus, which is a significant step, for Britain has been trying to convince this large submerged group that its interests are bound up with imperiale ism against the Indian castes. ra Spend Wed., Nov. 26th (Thanksgiving Eve) at the th Opening of the IGOR’ BAZAAR ATTEND THE 6th ANNUAL “ICOR” BAZAAR for the benefit of jewish Colonization in Biro-Bidjan, U. S. S. R. WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 27 28 29 165™ INFANTRY ARMORY 68 Lexington Avenue, New York (Between 25th & 26th Streets) Articles of all kinds at "DU MPIWN G” prices Program: ‘WEDNESDAY: Russian Ukrainian Choir and Thanksgiving Eve Ball THURSDAY AFTERNOON: Dances and plays given by the Jewish Workers Children’s School THURSDAY EVENING: Dancing galore FRIDAY EVENING: Biro-Bidjan Ball. Two Orchestras—Ridgsley’s Band, and Vernon Andrade’s Negro Orchestra Two Restaurants and fine Buffet every Night! Saturday Night last day of Bazaar— All articles will be sold at your own price TICKETS: Compination $1.25 for all four days; Saturday 75 cents; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 50 cents. No hat checks “ICOR” 799 Broadway, New York City Telephone Stuyvesant 0867