The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1931, Page 3

GERMAN SAILORS GREET WORKERS OF SEATTLE AT LENIN MEETING DAILY: WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27:19 31 Page Three 2.—The creation of a National 3.—That the Unemployment b and gnemployed workers. sidiary organizations, demand that final form as (possibly) amended bill will follow the general line of bill. the collection of signatures. York City, for signature blanks. Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposes: 1.—Unemployment insurance at the rate of $25 a week for each anemployed worker and $5 additional for cach dependant. be raised by: (a) using all war funds for unemployment insurance; (b) @ levy on all capital and property in excess of $25,000; (c) a tax on all incomes of $5,000 a year. be administered by a Workers’ Commission elected solely by employed All who sign the lists. now being circulated by the Workers Na- tional Campaign Committee for Unemployment Lnsurance or its sub- it and elect the mass delegation to prese<t it to congress, or as (pos- sibly) amended by the mass delegation itself. All workers are called upon to help collect signatures for this Get the co-operation of all workers you know in the sig- nature drive. All organizations should activize their members (in Write to the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, 2 Unemployment Insurance Fund to insurance Fund thus created shall congress shall pass the bill, in its by the mass meetings which ratify The final form of the the three points printed above. - West 15th St. New Mine Town Scene of As Men Carry Empty Dinner Pails; Children Lack Food and Clothing Struggle Against Bosses and Gov’t for Relief Only Way Out From Certain Starvation Editor Daily Worker This is the way the Elm their workers. turn home about 7 p. m. come out they go to the company store and try to get something to eat for their families but this is what they say “You haven't got enough made to get anything”, “then the workers have to go home to their families without anything to eat for them. ‘The workers get 38 cents a ton and they move as much as three or tour feet of stone for nothing. Sornc workers go to work without anything & their buckets. Some of them don’t warty buckets cause they have noth- ing to put in them. Get Hunger Wages. The men in the mines are all work- ing two in one place and they are only getting 3 cars a day. So you can imagine how much a man makes in@ day. And what he does make the company robs half of that. That is why the meh don’t have anything to put in their buckets. For instance, a man started to work for that company. He worked two days when he went to get some- thing to eat. They told him they coud only give him a@ dollar as the. Jobless 15-Year-Old Attempts Suicide New Orleans, La. To the Daily Worker: ‘The clipping below was taken from page 17 of today’s issue of the Times- Picaque: “Fifteen-year-old Ethel Hansmith, 2719 Decatur St., despondent over unémployment, drank poison Monday morning in what police said was an effort to end her life. At Charity Hospital the girl was declared out of danger. Later she was sent home.” Similar cases have happened McKeesport Welfare fi Jobless McKeesport, Pa. Jomrade Editor: I guess the workers in McKees- port suffer like other workers do in this rich country. Just a few lines about our Welfare Fund in McKees- port. A woman on Mulberry St. asked help from the Welfare Fund. They said they would investigate her case. They came one day, opened the door in the kitchen, looked around and said “your furniture looks good” and walked out. The lady said: I can’t | McKeesport it’s this rotten Welfare eat the furniture even if it looks good. Spy On Workers. On Shaw Ave. a worker went to the Welfare Fund and asked. for help. ‘They gave Him two days’ work on the street for $3 a day, making §6 for the two days. With these $6 you must report to the Welfare Fund, where you spend every red cent. ° ‘He asked why he couldn't get more work, They told him that it would be a couple of months before he could get two more days of work. So BRITISH RAILWAY WAGE CUT LOOMS Petty-bourgeois elements and pro- fessionals are clamaering that the wage-cut be effected and hint at fas- The workers go to work at 6:30 a. m. and re- They work all the time they are in the mines at hard work. When they¢———-——— sata Intense Misery Elm Grove Grove Mining Company treats doctor gets 75 cents and the lamps 75 cents and checks 50 cents and the rest for back rent, that would only leave him one dollar. ‘There are men in around these mines who worked for 4 or five years When they went after a job they told them that they couldn’t give them a job because they don't live in a company house and don’t deal at the company store. And there lare men getting fired because they) won't deal all of their money in the} company store. Need Union to Fight. Now the workers are asking where's the National Miners Union. All the families are getting weak for the} want of food. The children can’t go| to school for the want of clothing, | they can’t go out of the house and play like some children can. They have no heat or light in their homes. When a worker can’t go to work when he is sick the bosses come to him and tell him if he don’t go to work they will put him out of his home. Let's get together, join the Na- tional Miners Union—J. D, lately, many of which were not re- ported in our local boss papers. You will note the article says noth- ing about any action taken by the isters to relieve the situation which sese fifteen-year-old girls to at- tempt to end their lives because of lack of work. New Orleans unemployed come to the Unemployed Council meetings at 308 Chartres St., Tuesdays, Thurs- days and Saturdays and Sundays at 8 p.m. —I. C. Fund Tyrranize Over the Welfare Fund told him to go and sell apples on the streets. The worker got so mead from this re- mark that he said: What the hell are you and the rest that run this crooked Welfare Fund doing with the $30,000 that you collected and forced from the workers? This worker is sick and so are two of his children. Welfare Fund Crooked. Readers, if anything is crooked in | Fund. We are also getting up to date in McKeesport. We have two soup kitchens, one on Jerome St. and one DEMAND FOR LINEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: We, the undersigned workers in the shops, mines and mills, unemployed workers r nembers of labor unions and other workers’ organizations, demand the immediate enactment of a Bill providing insurance for all un- employed workers. We demand the creation of an Unemployment Insurance Fund for the benefit of all work- ers who are unemployed or partially employed because of inability to find work or because of sickness, accident or old age. Pending the enactment of such legislation, we demand immediate emergency relief by the city and state governments. i; dependent. lated in excess of $25,000. WE, DEMAND: by employed and unemployed workers. ADDRESS 2. The creation of a National Unemployment Insuran ¢ Fund to be raised by: (a) Using all war funds for Unemployment Insur nce. (c) A tax on all inco ies over $5,000 a year. That the Unemployment Insurance Fund shall be administered by a Workers’ Commission elected solely STATE Unemployment Insurance at the rate of $25 a week for each unemployed worker and $5 additional for each (b) A levy on all capital and property accumu- Cut out this list, sign it and have your fellow-workers sign it. New York City. tee by February Ist. Ss to the National Campaign Committee for Unemployment Insurance, 2 West 15th St. end it immediately All lists must be in the hands of the National Campaign Commit- A. FE. of L. Official Is Member of Employers’ Ass’n Which Pays Him Fee to ‘Pacify’ Workers (This is the 20th of a series of articles on A. F. of L. and political corruption in New Jersey.) ane ea, | By ALLEN JOHNSON In 1910, Joseph Fay, an enterpris- ing saloon keeper from Troy, N. Y., arrived in Newark and set up shop. Business prospered and his saloon became the meeting place of some of the best known criminals and A. F. of L. officials in the city. Among the latter gentry who frequented the place was Ted Brandle, who had just started to travel that crooked high- way that was to lead him to the position of the most powerful A. F. of L. official in the state. Brandle liked Fay and Fay re- spected Brandle’s neat’ manner of selling out a strike while giving the impression that he was courageously fighting for the interests of workers. What could be more reasonable than for Brandle to invite Fay to join the ranks of A. F. of L. officialdom. Fay, with a sharp eye for easy money, jumped at the chance and became a member of the Interna- | tional Union of Steam, Operating and Hoisting Engineers. His experience as an engineer was largely obtained by manipulating slot machines but that didn’t prevent him from becom+ ing business agent of Local 825 in phenomenally quick time, Fay’s method of converting the Nework locals into a company union was & marvel of simplicity. When a minor official displayed some inter- est in the’ welfare of the members of on Jenny Lind St. A Negro worker went to the soup kitchen on Jenny Lind St. and said he couldn't smell the coffee in the cup. There are about 200 workers going to the soup kitchens every day. But I don’t believe they go there the sec- ond time. You also must give your history to the ones running the soup kitchen. -—F. H. the MacDonald government is plan- ning to betray the workers by “con- ciliating” the impending strike. The sentiment of the railway workers is for militant struggle. Hard on’ the heels of the pay-cut- ting demands of the railway mag- nates afe threats by the building trades, cotton, boot and shoe bosses that they will follow suit and start @ huge wage-slashing campaign. Rejecting decisively the labor gov- ernment intervention on behalf of the bosses, 150,000 Lancashire cotton Weavers voted against negotiating with the employers. The position of the MacDonald government was that of acceptance of a revised wage re- duction. * The Lancashire cotton weavers are While making @ pretense at oppos- ing the huge wage-cutting scheme, % i Solid against the introduction of the efght-loom system and ® 25 per cent wage-cut 4 the union, Fay would remove him without trial and replace him with one of his own henchmen. When it seemed that Fay or one of his lieu- tenants was in danger of being voted out by the rank and file, Fay would enroll enough gunmen on the books to outvote the workers in opposition to him, All this was—and {s—done in direct violation of the union’s constitution, which provides for formal charges and a hearing before a union mem- ber can be penalized in any way or removed from office. Rank and File Protest Ignored, The rank and file have repeatedly yearly and for which he refuses to render an accounting. In all these 104 locals. Huddell has suspended the annual election of officers, a right guaranteed to the locals by the con- stitution. Huddell has increased his salary repeatedly without the consent of the rank and file, and he has, at the same time, ordered the latter to work \ of wage contracts at’ below the union's scale. Huddell has literally thrown Local 263 out of the union because it fought his sell-out poli- cles, and, although the courts have declared that Huddell expelled the local illegally, the local is still out of the union and the capitalist judges have not held him in con- tempt of court. That is a penalty reserved for workers who violate anti-picketing injunctions obtained for the bosses by Huddell and his colleagues. Where can the rank and file turn, then, if not to the revolutionary union in the Trade Union Unity League? We have seen that Brandle is de- scribed in the capitalist press as a “banker and labor leader.” We have seen Lyons, the other A. F. of L. leader discussed in these articles, an employer who actually broke a strike called against him by an A. F. of L. local which protested against ex- ploitation by him, Makes $100,000 a Year on Saloon. Fay differs from these two in no respect. He, too, runs a speakeasy in the headquarters of one of the locals he controls and forces mem- bers of these locals to patronize it. An Average number of customers a night at this speakeasy, located on Ferry St., is 1,000, and Fay’s yearly profits, exclusive of what he makes on the gambling that goes on there, is $100,000 @ year. Fay, too, is an employer, an ex- ploiter. It is perhaps understandable that he should enter the business in which the members of his unton earn their living—when they work. Fay has organized two companies—the International Hoisting Mcahine Co. and the International Co. He thus became an employer of the very men who delegated him to fight for their interests against all employers. Not only did Fay exploit the men in his union, but he forced them to go out drumming up business for him. One worker, Alfred Jacob, re- fused, and Fay expelled him from the “local. Jacob, inexperienced enough to think he could get justice by going to a capitalist court, brought suit, nevertheless, with the result that the judge threw his case out of court. Fay continued to hound Jacob until he forced him out of the state. At last reports, Jacob was in Vir- ginie, out of a job. For # time Fay permitted no union member to work for excavation com- panies in competition with him. This antagonized his . fellow-capitalists, however, so Fay organized them all into the Excavating Contractors’ As- sociation, with himself as a charter member. The excavating work could thus be divided equally and the prices sent sky-high. For his services in keeping the members of his union “pacified,” every member of the as- \ sociation paid Fay $500 a year. This of course, was in addition to the in- creased business that Fay was given as a result of the agreement. It might be gathered from the above description of Fay that the “respectable” citizens of Newark, those who go to church on Sunday, clip their coupons on Monday, call Communists a “red menace” on Tues- day and howl for imperialist war on Wednesday, consider him somewhat outside the pale. Exactly the con- trary is true, however. Fay is the intimate friend of the wealthiest ex- ploiters in the city. At a “testimonial” dinner given to Fay by a small army of private gun- men in May, 1926, Governor Moore, Mayor Raymond and the four other city commissioners accepted invita- tions. When the Joseph Fay Association (formed and named by Fay) held an outing, Police Chief Duffy, as well as 700 judges, gunmen and city and A. F, of L. officials, attended. In 1927 the American Federation of Labor received Fay at its national convention in Los Angeles as New Jersey's representative. ‘At still another dinner in Fay’s honor, held to mark his departure as a delegate to the International Labor Conference, were Judge Mur- ray, Ted Brandle, City Commissjon- jers Howe and Brennan, and how re- markable, John Moffitt, representing the United States Department*of La- bor. When Fay became an Elk, 300 at- tended a banquet in his honor. Among them were the Very Reverend |Matthew ‘foohey, representing the | Catholic Church; the Honorable Judge Albano (who shortly after this event refused to issue a warrant to a militant worker who had been Wlackjacked by Fay), three city com- missioners and A, M. Huddell, presi- dent of the union of which Fay is the New Jersey representative. When Fay and Brandle left for a vacation in Europe, after they had a particularly hard time in selling out a strike, the police department glee club sang them a fond farewell at a banquet in the Hotel Vanderbilt, New York. When these two gunmen and misleaders of labor returned from their tour, who should welcome them | at the pier but a police band and part of the riot squad formed to attack Communist demonstrations. Now T. U. U. L. leaders rarely get vacations, except when they go to jail for leading courageous workers in a struggle against their pot-bellied exploiters. But try to imagine a po- lice glee club giving a T. U. U. L. leader an ovation upon his return from a “vacation!” JOBLESS AND EMPLOYED PREPARE TO SUPPORT DELEGATION TO CONGRESS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) good work and eager for a chance to work. “Now how did we ever allow our- selves to get into such a stupid situation, you may be asking. I wish I could tell you.” Nor does Woods propose to do one thing for these starving millions, Instead he repeats the old lie about “no wage cuts and every effort by business men to keep their force at work. National Demonstrations! Now the problem is to swing all these local struggles and organiza- tions into the campaign for dem- onstrations on a national scale for the Workers Unemployment Insure ance Bill, when that measure is pre- sented to Congress, Feb. 10, by @ delegation of about 150 elected in the broadest possible fashion by the starving unemployed and wage-cut masses in the industrial centers. There is evidence that the prep- arations for demonstrations in sup- port of the bill, Feb. 10, are being planned in a number of the smaller towns, practically company towns. Friday in Hancock, Mich. 100 of those miners who work for the cop- 0 per trust met at Labor Hall and laid out details of a campaign to mobilize a big demonstration Feb. 10. George Rakhonen, section or- ganizer of sthe Young Communist League and E. R. Multila, section or- ganizer of the Communist Party, ex- posed the action of the city council which, instead of feeding the job- less, published on Jan. 20 in the organ of the copper mine owners, the Mining’ Gazette, a statement that it had spent thousands of dollars buying tear gas, police clubs, and riot guns to “put down any work- ets’ uprising which might occur.” Instead of food on Christmas, thousands of dollars were spent on colored lights. An unemployed council was formed at this meeting, and will lead the demonstration, Feb. 10. Committees have been elected. A united front conference on un- employment, held in Perth Amboy, N. J. (oil refining center) brought 22 delegates, representing 12 workers’ organizations, in spite of a story published in the capitalist “Evening News” that the conference would not be held at Columbia Hall, the place selected. One of the delegates was from an At the Lenin Memorial meeting in |. Seattle, Waskington, which filled Eagles Auditorium to capacity, two delegations of German sailors parti ipated. One delegation was on the platform when the meeting opened. They held a banner reading: “Revo-| lutionary greetings to the workers} of Seattle from the German Com- munist Party!” Soon after the meet- ing opened another délegation of 14} German sailors marched into the hall] singing the Internationale. They were} seated amidst enthusiastic cheering and applause. Comrade Canile, of the Unemployed Council, acted as chairman of the meeting. Minnie Hobson, of the Young Communist League was the]! first speaker. Sydney Bloomfield was the main speaker. The workers! pledged themselves to increase the struggle tor unemployment insurance, | and to rally thousands of workers for the final overthrow of capitalism. 400 Meet In Rochester. | ROCHESTER, N. Y.—More than} 400 workers jammed Ukrainian Hall} to overflowing at the Lenin Memorial meeting held here on Friday evening. Gertrude Welsh, the principal speaker, contrasted the conditions of | the workers of the Soviet Union,| where a shortage of labor exists, | with that of the workers in the United States, with its 10,000,000 jobless. She very effectively pointed out the danger of an armed attack upon the Soviet Union by the im- perialist bandits, and urged the workers to be ready at all times to smash the capitalist war plots. Other speakers at the meeting were Mabel Husa and Ailene Holmes, just released from the Monroe Coun- Rochester, Sioux City Pledge Jobless Struggles at Meets ty Penitentiary two days ago; and David Pinsky, Young Pioneer. Husa and Holmes told of their prison ex- perience and urged the workers to jJoin,the International Labor Defense. Fred- Meyers, local leader of the Unemployed Council, presented the Unemployment Insurance Bill to the audience for endorsement. The bill was enthusiastically and unanimous- ly endorsed. aie 8 . Meet In Sioux City. SIOUX CITY. — A very successful Lenin. Memorial meeting was held here Wednesday night. Over a hun- dred workers attended. The meeting was held in Workers Hall, 508% Sth Street. George Stalker told of Len- in’s life and the struggle of the work- | ers throughout the world. He pointed out the role of the Communist Party in leading the workers against cap- italism- and for the establishment of the socialist society. Three new members joined the Party at this |meeting. A nucleus of another Un- employed Council was started. Special stress was laid on the Feb. 10th hunger demonstration which will be held here along with the other na- tional demonstrations. Jailed for Leaflets. TROY, N. Y. — J. Gladstone and Steve Dore were arrested Friday for distributing leaflets advertising a Lenin Memorial meeting. They are to appear in court Monday. The po- lice notified the hallkeeper to refuse to allow the Communists the hall for meetings. A temporary injunction was issued against J. Gladstone and the National Textile Workers Industrial Union for organizing the workers in the N. & S. Shirt Co., in Cohoes. Club, Fourth Oakland is the latest to form a Red Builders’ News Club, adding a fourth’ notch to California’s present News Clubs in Sacramento, Los An- geles and Stockton. Oakland has been doing some heavy selling of the Daily Worker, and we look forward to its taking its place among the highest in circulation. C. Mugianis, section Daily Worker representative, writes: “We have organized a Red Build- ers’ Club and are going to make all efforts to reach every worker in Oakland. The secretary of the club is J. M., who is ready to challenge any district to build the bundle sales, At the present time we are receiving 215 Daily Workers every day, besides the bundle orders that the other comrades are receiving.” Let the other Red News Clubs watch their circulation steps! PHILADELPHIA RED BUILDERS’ BANQUET | Announcement of a banquet for the Red Builders’ News Club of Phila- delphia is contained in a message from M. Silver, district Daily Worker representative. He writes: “We are planning a hot dog feast for next Tuesday, Jan. 27. This feast is being arranged for all Daily Worker committees and members of the boosters’ club. Comrade Platt will speak on the importance of spreading the Daily Worker and a good meal will be served to those in- vited. It will be held at 715 N. Sixth 8t. Oakland Forms Red Builders in California; Challenges Other Districts OPENS NEWS STAND, WANTS 10 DAILIES “I just haye opened a new news- paper selling station,” writes J. D. T., Shenandoah, Pa. “I would like to sell Daily Workers, too. Kindly send me 10 copies at once and regularly every day after that until further notice,” > a FIGHT Wer Tae Aly) Worker AGAINT Tee Ener) JE 1€ OF The WORKERS” JOBLESS FOR YEAR; SENDS $3 _ “I owe to the Daily Worker for two months. I haven't worked for a whole year, but I am sending you $1 that I owe for November and December and $2 donation.”—F, P., Cincinnati. * A. F. L. local. This man, Hanson, was elected by the conference to go wit hthe delegation to present the | bill in Washington, Feb. 10, and ar- | rangements were made for a mass | demonstration on that day to back up the bjll. There will also be a local demonstration demanding immediate relief for the 5,000 jobless in this city. This demonstration will be Feb. 4, at the city hall. Feb, 7 and 8 have been set aside for a house to house canvass to collect signatures demanding the passage of the bill. Hartford Conference Tuesday. The Hartford (Conn.) County Un- employment Conference will be held Tuesday evening, Jan. 27, at the La- bor Lyceum, to prepare for the Hunger March on the State Capitol on Feb. 10. Thirty or more organy izations»will be represented at the conference. Over a thousand signa- tures have been collected for the Un- employment Insurance Bill, and a final effort to collect another thou- sand before Feb. 10 will be made. Néw Haven Prepares. William 2. Foster will speak at a mass meeting on Friday evening, 8 p. m., Jan. 30, at the Lyceum Audi torium, 36 Howe St., New Haven, Conn., to prepare for the Hunger March to the City Hall on Feb. 2. Yntensive preparations ere being made so that the Foster meeting will be a huge success. 10,000 Jeaflets are being distributed among the un- employed. énother sneaker at the mass meet- Faitford organizer of the Commu- nist Party, who is now in jail for his unemployed activities and whom the International Labor Defense is tryifig to get réleased by Friday. Richards. also faces a ten year jail sentence for speaking at a meeting ing will probably be Nat Richards, | Androtti Bank which failed. New Haven has collected nearly 2500 signatures for the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, and will go over 3000 before Feb. 10. New Haven workers and jobless will be in the hunger mareh on the state capitol, Feb. 10, in support of the bill and for local demands. Portland Demonstration. A report has been received from Portland, Oregon, scene of 4 most vicious repression, and also of great unemployment in the city and poy- erty among the farmers around, that: @ county demonstration for the bill will be Held Feb. 10. Feb, 10 demonstrations are now |4nnounced also for New York, Springfield, Mass.; South Bend, Ind.; New Britain, Conn.; Dwuth, Minn.; Chicago, Johnstown City, Pa.; Wheel- ing, W. Va., and San Antonio, Texas. ‘This week unemployment confer- ences which must take up the ques~ tion of Feb. 10 demonstrations are being held in Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 1 and 2; Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 29; Springfield, Mass., Jan. 30; Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 29; Canton, Ohio (mass meeting), Jan. 31 and Grand Rapids, Mich. (mass meeting), Jan. 27. CAMP AND HOTEL NITGEDAIGET PROLETARIAN VACATION PLACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAB Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEE OAMP SITGEDAIGET, BEACOR, ¥.' of small depositors of the Pallotti-