The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1931, Page 3

WORCORR BRIEFS Look for Food In City Dumps Cleveland, O, Editor, Daily Worker: While collecting signatures on Woodland Ave. between Central mar- ket and 30th St. I was surprised to see the number of women and chil- dren with baskets picking castaway half rotten fruits and vegetables. Half starved women and children of worn shoes prowling around gut- ters and alleys digging in garbage cans in this land of plenty. Is this as it should be? Shall we stand by and let this go on? Like hell, —J. N. Homeless He Kills Himself South Bend, Ind. For a long time without a job Wm, Blodgett did not have a place to sleep and was hungry. He went to the police station to ask to let him sleep in jail. He got a filthy place in the base- ment, Two thirty Tuesday morning he was lying on the floor in pain. He told the police that he had taken poison. So the misery and starvation takes the lives of work- crs everywhere in rich America. Blodgett was born in New York state was a lumber worker in Michigan. —E.T. Land 0’ Lakes Farmers Meet Zimmerman, Minn. Daily Worker: TI attended a Land O'Lakes cream- ery meeting yesterday Farmers seem nretty well discouraged although they have been told that it is 4 passing depression. Cream is about 25 cents per pound for -butter fat, eggs about 10 cents per dozen. One man sent down a yearling steer to St. Paul market tare, 85 cents cwt. hog 6 1-2 cents also 65 vents cwt. —J. i. Coe Gun r Texas Jobless Comrades: Galveston, Texas. Chief Messin of the police de- partment just got a sub machine of the Thompson type to tame the starving workers, Guns will not tame a class-conscious worker; bul- lets will only get a few. ‘The holy flop houses run by the Catholio societies here close on the first.of February and the slop line also. The chief is getting ready for the hungry and destitute in rags with their toes sticking out | Coal Region Being Miner and Dear Comrade— Just a few lines about the miners’ conditions. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1931 Page Three Even Breaker Repairmen In the Hard Laid Off and Those Working Pushed; Lewis Aids Bosses Break Down the 8-Hour Day With Greater Speed-Up for the “Fortunate” Working Time Has Come to Fight Says Anthracite the Lewis Gang Smashed | Coaldale, Pa- In the Le-| high Navigation Coal Company the miners have to stay longer in the mines and in No. 10 breaker there used to be 14 men re- paring the breaker. Now they are laid off and the jig runners and shaker men will run the jiggs and shakers for 8 hours and then the same men will do the repair work. When they took the matter up the leaders (Lewis machine HUGE VICTOR-RCA PLANT HAS ONLY SKELETON CREWS at Terrific Pace Philadelphia, Pa, Daily Worker Editor: Here are a few of the facts con- cerning the conditions which now ex- ist here at the Victor R. C. A. radio Plant in Camden, N. J. Here the rationalization and speed- up systems are responsible for the losing of the jobs of hundreds of men. Only in Department No. 12 on a single operation out of 10 men 9 of them were fired. Three machines were replaced by a single one capable to finish the whole article in ques- tion, and, what is more, by a single man. The other nine were fired. This only in one department, but this process takes place in the whole plant. Skeleton Crews. Here nobody works the whole week, with the exception of one depart- ment, out of the whole plant, and the worker in question worked only 41-2 hours this week, so you can see how much workers are making per week. This place used to employ 23,000 workers, but now there cannot be more than 7,000 workers still at work in here. They lay off workers every day. Only on Feb. 4 2,500 were laid off on the second floor, and on Feb. 5 the whole fourth floor was laid off, and it seems that more will follow yet. As for the speeding up of the work- ers, they must have learned from workers. A. McB. Intense Poverty Tn Anacortes, Wash. Comrade Editor: Anacortes, Wash, Js @ small city of about: 6,000 people. Its main in- custries are fishing, canning and lum- ber. With these major industries of the Pacific Northwest practically at a stand-stil in the whole district, ‘this little city is one of intense. pov- erty and sufféring and is typical of the entire Northwest: ‘The workers of Anacortes are now beginning to realize the importance and necessity of organization. ‘Their condition causes them to be eager to get into the -struggle for’ unemployment re- lief. On January 25 the Communist Par- ty and the Young Communist by about 100 workers, many of whom were women and young workers, Depositor, Is Chased from Bank Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Editor: 1am writing. you about a deaf friend of mine. He sells candy on the stree(s and saved a few pennies, depositing a few dollars in the bank. Now, with the apple racket, he. can't do anything. He was forced to go to the bank for money. The. first day he went they got a cop to chasé him out and the next day he went back they gave him the note which I am enclosing, which reads: “You hold this card, it is worth money to you in time, Now don’t bother us.” It was the Darby Bank and Trust Co. of Darby, Pa. —A. J. K. . Indian Is Cheated of Land Henry Ford, the slave driver; here the pushers and stool-pigeons are after the workers all the time and threatening to get you fired for no reason at all. Another thing that they do is play up one gang of work- ers against another to do more work for the bosses. Workers, join the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and fight against these rotten conditions, the speed-up, | lay off, the part time which starves the workers, and the spy system. -—?. B. GIVES HIS LAST PENNIES FOR SUB Sees Imperative Need of “Daily’ Worker” New York. Editor Daily Worker: Last week we went house-to-house canvassing for Daily Worker sub- scriptions and to collect the 18 cents from workers at the end of their week, ‘The following incident showed that the class-conscious American worker needs and realizes the importance of the Daily Worker, These workers, no matter how hard pressed finan- cially they may be, will go to many extremes to pay for their Daily. This worker, unemployed, told us that although. he would like to renew his order for next week, could not do so. No money. As we were about to leave, he told us to wait, perhaps he could dig up some spare pennies. Then he walked over to a cup about one-quarter filled with pennies and counted out 36 of them to pay for two weeks in advance. Into this cup he had daily put one cent for his little baby boy and had never before extracted anything from it. This was the first time he had ever done 60. Ss. C. G. And These AreWorked | —KEditor) told them they cannot do anything for them because —_——_—— if they would they would break the agreement and get put into jail. 12-15 Hours a Day. ‘The 8 hour men are working 12 and 15 hours and running over coal after 8 hours with the same men taking other fellows’ work. It is terrible around here and we pay the dollar just as fast they grab the money, robbing us poor workers. So remember workers what that means that the operators are pro- tected by the U.M.W.A. Let us squeez2 them out before they squeeze us out from our homes. When we are supposed to have din- ner the motormen are busy at that time, Lewis Misleaders. I thing when its dinner hour it dinner hour and when the whistle blows they shouldn’t still get coal day. That's the Kind of leaders we have. Every time we make a movement for the betterment of the conditions they will tell us nothing can be done. Let’s organize once and show them what the workers can do, don’t be afraid of that nick name Bolshevik because that’s a nick name for us, for us workers. Let’s support our name same as the capitalists want to save themselves so we must learn from them and do the same to crush the capitalist. Let’s show them who we are. This is from Coaldale, Lansford, | Tamaqua and Nesquhony collieries of | the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. AFL Raves at TUUL Influence In Phila. “Moscow Agents” Phiiadelphia, Pa, Dear Comrades* In Philadephia the reactionary “Unicn Labor Record” is making a sharp drive against the Trade Union Party here. Next week they are starting a story | called “The Red Menace.” This week's jissue is full of a lot of lies against the Reds, etc. It seems that the Phila. unions realize the radicaliza- tion of the workers as shown by the action of the upholstery weavers and the hosiery workers and that the TUUL is gaining influence. The union paper is full with poison propaganda against the Reds. Well fed and well paid-agents of Communism is one of their pet lies. This is a lie but we are to believe that the A. F. of L. organizers are starving. ~—Unemployed Worker. Big Layoffs In New Haven New Haven, Conn. Daily Worker: While the sky pilots and the pork barrel actors are shouting for the people to be optimistic the indus- trial situation is going from bad to ‘worse. Only ,this week a concern here known as the Rattan Mfg. Co. em-~ ploying about 200 hands gave every- body @ 10 per cent wave cut, office help included. This factory was al- ‘way known as the lowest paid factory in New Haven. The National Steel and Wire Co., with about 70 per cent of the help out on the street. The Eastern Machine Screw ©o., another top notcher, out of 400 hands are operating with about 28 hands, —wW. L. San Francisco, Cal.’ Daily Worker: My father died and left 200. acres of land in Stawee, Okla. I was only seven years old and my mother put these papers to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to carry until I was of age. The land was standing on oil. After I became 16 years old my grandfather told me just what hap- yened. I sent them three letters and chey wrote back, you have nothing ind do not write. I have now joined the Unemployed Jouneil and will fight with my fel- ow workers the bosses who stole the and from me and the rest ‘amily and who af the Chicago Bosses Give Nothing for Their Own Charity; Force Workers to Chicago, Ill. |Red Cross drive. Already Insull, Jr. Philip R. Clark, chairman of Gov.| vice chairman of Gov. Emmerson’s Emmerson’s relief commission claims | relief drive here and now head of the 8 i The by at that while 125,000 workers gave one day's pay each & month for Nov., Dec, and Jan. 80 far the bosses, bankers, millionaires have failed to give what could be 1th the relief drive for| Red Cross had demanded of his em- ployees wages for the Red Cross drive. Any worker protesting ts let out— fired. —T. Workers of Chicago! Put the Com- munist Party on the ballot! Every Day Signature Gathering Day in Chicago! é . 96,000 Signatures for the Mayor Pe- tation by Feb. 24 in Chicago! » out from the mines. That's no 8 hour | Print Lurid Lies About) Unity League and the Communist | one of the big concerns in this city | is going on two and three days a week | | | | mentary right to live. on Feb. 10th. The fight for relief goes on! The March for Jobless Relief Goes On! Husband, A Carpenter, Daily Worker, ~ Gentlemen :— : “t cia So Useless to Go On”, Writes Worker's Wife Who Sees Misery of Boss System; But Workers Must Fight to Live | Out of Work 5 Months and Now Losing Their Home “Speed the Day When People Will Be Free from Under This Slavery” She Writes San Diego, Cal. I have read with much interest the wonderful work your paper is doing. It seems to me that the capitalistic system is about worn out, millions are jobless and starving everywhere. My husband is a very fine tradesman, carpénter and ship builder but hs been out of work now about 5 months and no prospects of when he will get.:work. We are about to lose our A section of the 5,000 workers that marched on to City Hall after the Union Square demonstration Starvation, hunger, exposure, sickness, untald misery has millions of workers in its toils. Hunger marches on and with it the jobless masses demanding the ele- Make February 25th, International Unemployment Day, the March 6th of 1931! home here. myself. end? What prospects have the com- ing generation got for a livelihood under such conditions and what out~- look for the future? It seems so useless to go on. T do hope the Communist Party will win the Unemployment Insurance Bill and more than that the people must have Daily Worker: | used to run from 14 to 17 presses and | now they are down to 11 and the signs are they will go still lower, which means a drop of 9 men for every press. And now we will pass on to that greatest of bunk sheets, the New York News. They laid off a press and the pressmen, The New York World the great Slaughterhouse pressroom of New| York laid off a press. ‘The Brooklyn Standard Union, the home of that great philanthropist, Paul Block, in 1930 cut every dry until the infant 1931 arrived and he was left with just a skeleton force | Philadelphia, Pa, Daily Worker: This is written by one who for several months past has visited prace tically every part of Philadelphia and its many suburbs, including the wat- | erfront of Chester. Sights of poverty that would move a stone everywhere. Shortly before Christmas I called at the big Westinghouse plants in | Essington and one of the foremen | told me he had not hired a man since 1927. On the contrary, they had laid off men right along. And, | | Milwaukee, Wise. Editor Daily Worker: I heartily endorse the program of the Communist Party. I am doing everything in my power to help or- ‘anize the workers. I go to them | and tell them how the Communist Party is fighting for the working class. Sometimes they do not listen as well as I would like to have them, but comrades shall we become dis- couraged because of this? I say no! ‘Then every worker will come to re- alize the need of our Party and we | must work toward this end, not al- |lowing ourselves to become discour- | aged when the workers sometimes re- (By a Worker Correspondent.) SPOKANE, Wash.—General Jas. A. Drain doesn’t like the name of the Hotel De Gink, so he put his MILITARY BRAIN? to work for a better one more fitting and dig- nified to his sensitive military ears, and by military command the “Ho- tel the Gink” will now be called the East Trent Billet.” Well, if T un- derstand the public right, the old flophouse will always be called the “Hotel De Gink,” whether the Gen- eral likes it or not. At Olympla, our state capitol, they are busy drafting an unem- 105 Suicides In Portland, ( Ore. PORTLAND, 0.--One hundred and five Portland workers commit- ted suicide in 1930, Twenty-eight “indastrial accidents” took thetr toll etc., according to the vital statistics im the annual report of the health department, in the local press. The deaths due to “natoral causes,” another form of workers’ suicides were of course, ommitted. One hun- dred and five deaths that were di- rectly caused by a system that does not believe in “charity.” This is an indictment of capital- fsm in @ town of 300,000 that puts all the lies of the capitalist and social democrat renegades in their Proper places, A PLM Crisis Worsens In Philadelphia Section Boss Dailies Fight Cash Jobless Relief As They Lay Off Pressmen Jobless Pressman Shows Up Hypocrisy of Hearst and Other Owners New York Mr. Hearst and all capitalists are yelling their heads off | for employment instead of a dole or any other kind of unem-| Editor, Daily Worker: | ployment insurance. All right, let us review what these same} walking up and down the slave hypocritical fakers have done towards relieving unemployment. | market on 6th Avenue for the last | | Prior to the present crisis, which 4— started in 1929, the New York Times|and couldn’t cut another dime’s| of people, all wor worth. He came out with a great sensational article that in the year 1931 all his employes are assured of jobs. As for that great humanitarian gentleman, Mr. Hearst in Novem- ber sent down a notice that a press was going to be cut off and it was, but they couldn’t get the editions off in time. On Jan. 17 another notice came down that the press would go on in a week and it did. There are hundreds of pressmen in New York actually begging for a day’s work and that is not mention- ing the other departments. —A Pressman. further inquiry made brought out the fact that things are now worse than two months ago. T only mention this as an example of the breakdown and layoff which is general throughout the city. And every week of unemployment brings | suffering and despair closer to the | doors of those workers who are not | already starving. ‘The small business man and store- | keeper feels the pinch as the work- er’s wife can no longer buy. | Negro Worker for Revolutionary Action —P.H. fuse to listen to us, I am a Negro worker from Louisi- ana who heard the call of “Northern Prosperity and Freedom” for Negro workers, I have been here a number of years now and I am still on the trail of “Prosperity and Freedom.” There is a difference now, however. When I first came up here I looked for prosperity from the bosses. I re- alize now that the only way to true prosperity is the Communist way, and I say that I am now on the correct path to prosperity and freedom for the Negro workers, and not only the Negroes but also all other workers, —L. T. an outlook for the future if they are | to carry on. i God speed the day when the peo- | ple will be free from under this sla-| | very system. Can you advise if there | | seems to be any outlook in the near| | future. —Mrs. L. L. “JOIN THE REDS” IS (CRY SURGING THRU NV SLAVE MARKET arity Agant Trios Jobless Learning to Fight Bosses Low Seduction Trick New York City. | _ { Five Children Starving, from Hunger 8 months as I have, you see all kinds] Philadelphia, Pa Some are} Daily Worker Editor: | | “well dressed”, but most of them with| Here is the experience of a woman | | old shoes and old clothes, looking| who thought that she would get} | for the samething, a job. Jobs which | something from the Home Missionary | | do not exist. Society. These are a pack of crooks | Lately you notice and it’s because | living at the expense of the workers | there’s nothing else to do, most of| and before any worker can get a few |them gathered on the sidewalk or| crumbs he often gets all kinds of in- | at the employment office six or seven | sults and humiliations. or more at a time, talking. Talking | A Cheap Masher. why there are no jobs, why we suf-| This woman, E. Sante, 25, of 2539, fer. One of the bunch who is new!| Latona St., went there to ask for) | on the market will say it is on ac-| help for her five children and her | count of Hoover in office, another | husband, who is out of work for a | over, another will say it is the pro-| was sent there. This tian told her | I am so distouréged and on the verge of suicide Oh, God, when will it alle | says it is a period and soon will be| long time. As usual, an investigator | . hibition. Still another will say it is nothing of the kind and this one will be of those who have walked the streets more than 8 months. “There are no jobs and will not be any because we let those big fellows rob us of the things we pro- duce.” “Let all of us join the Keds, they are the only ones who are fighting for the overthrow of capitalism | and the establishment of a work- er’s government.” Tn Fighting Mood. All of them have no objection, you find that at most any gathering. You notice another thing, ex-sol- diers, patriots, Polaks, Greeks, etc., all those who have been on the slave market more than 8 months, they either sell the “Daily”, distribute leaflets, collecting signatures for un- employment insurance or are pro- pagandists. “Join the Reds,” is all you hear. Day by day you hear the new-com- ers who are getting “old” say that their only salvation is to join up with the Reds. So you see even the slave market is Waking up—J. R. Red Vote in Luzerne County, Pa., in 1930 3 Times 1928 Ballot (By a Worker Correspondent)* ‘WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 8.—We Militarist Chatiges Name of Hotel DeGink Ployment insurance bill, but, as usual, that will be about all they will do, DRAFTING IT, anything to fool the workers. The farmers in this neck of the woods are waking up, which can be seen by the fact that last Saturday “Two hundred embattled, fighting- mad farmers met at the court house, assailed the Washington State system of taxation and adopt- ed a resolution agreeing not to pay more real estate taxes.” Now if the citizens in the towns will do the same thing and combine with the bani af mae lla ew pe =F. 8. Wheat to Hit 25 Cents a Bushel Kamiah, Idaho. Daily Worker: A man in this region received a letter from Tennessee farmers there were paying $1.50 for wheat to Teed while it sells for 32 to 40 cents per bushel here, Present prices are 35 cents but no buying which makes that prices are going lower and buyers know ft. Farmers on the street predict that wheat will sell for 25 cents or less here soon. Let us hear from ‘Tennessee and Kentucky workers. Why not write of conditions? Capitalist press will not give the truth, “ WAL a have just gotten the vote of Luzerne County, as follows: United States Senator; Communist, Cush, 335; Socialist, Wm. J. Van Essen, 304, Governor: Communist, Frank Moz- er, 242; Socialist, James Maurer, 176. Lieutenant Governor: Communist, Samuel Lee, 365; Socialist, Winson, 449, Secretary of Internal Affairs: Com- munist, Frank Note, 373; Socialist, Rinne, 427. Judge of Supreme Court: Commu- nist, Charlotte Jones, 505; Socialist, Slayton, 424, Judge of Superior Court: Commu- nist, P, Muselin, 406, Silver, 354; Go- clalist, no candidate. The vote is three times that of 1928, that he would provide a jab for her! | husband only if she consented to visit @ rooming house with him. When. she refused, this gentleman } of the mission of corruption structs | her in the face several times. : Here we have proof for what pur< | pose these charity and mission places | exist and what the workers get from | them when in need of bread and | milk for their children. —?P. B. Five Souplines Now | in Tacoma, Wash. 12,000 Jobless in N. W. Lumber City Daily Worker: ‘Tacoma, Wash. In regards to report by Fish com- mittee appearing in the Christian Science Monitor. Please advocate in the Daily Worker a senatorial in- vestigation committee to look into our own prison camp products. that are made by prisoners and sold to the public such as shoes, shirts, over- alls, sacks, brooms and in some south- ern states peanuts, and peanut but- ter. Also in the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. here there will be a wage cut of 10 per cent the first of Feb. Five soup lines now in Tacoma. ‘The Catholic hospital is the worst as the workers have to eat out of tomato cans and use sticks to eat with instead of spoons. ‘Wages are as low as 32.20 per day in some plants here. About 12,000 unemployed here, the Tacoma Times says 9,000. Also North and End Lumber Co. will cut wages 10 percent first of February. —A. H. ‘The Daily Worker has already ex- posed the widespread system of pris- on manufacture in the United States. But Fish is not concerned with that. Fish is only concerned with plot- Miners at Versailles, Pa., Work 2 or 3 Hour-Day; Had Received A Cut Versailles, Pa, Comrade Editor: A few lines about the Habber Mine in Versailles, We miners are getting our wages cut left and right. Now we only get 43 cents an hour. In the middle of the month of January we got a wage- cut of 6 cents. We have ben shut down for four months. Just lately we are working without @ night shift, We work every day? Yes, We work 2 and 3 hours and then go home, Many of us miners are robbed of our wages, but what can we do with- out a union? After we get our little pay what do we find on our envelope? Fifty cents for doctor and 5 cents for elet+ tric light. Even if we need a doctor | or not, it’s always 50 cents off for the doctor. How long are we work- ers going to stand for this rotten system? Workers, let’s wake up for once and get organized. If the United Mine Workers’ Union sold us out, let's not. say that unions are no good, but join the National Miners’ Union, FEL bp & real union that is fighting for us,| STARVATION D RELIEF: $8.28 FOR 2 DAYS, HOW CAN HE KEEP A SICK FAMILY? Welfare Tells Him He Has A Job McKeesport, Pa. Comrade Editor: I have been working in the Me- tional Tube Co. for over ten years. T get $4.64 a day for 10 hours and for two days in a pay I got $8.22, How the hell can a worker keep a family with that money? The compary takes $1 out of our pay for the company insurance. Many workers tell the company that they need the money for food. The com- pany says insurance comes firs*. Sick Wife and Children My wife has been sick for two years and I have two children sick. It’s no Pleasure to come home and look at them hopeless in vhis rich country, for whom? For the big shots, the bosses. I went to the Welfare Fund for help. What did they say? ‘They told me is uld be sa‘ist'ed with two days in a pay. Said while I work I don’t ne~d help. My children don’t have any’.hoes to wear. I am lucky I eat once a day. J feed the family on hot coffee or tea but no food. ‘There is only one tning io do, to organize. More Accidents On Hetch Hetchy Job Safety Measures Are Thrown to Winds LIVERMORE, Cal. ~~ Another man hurt by fallen rock in one of the tunnels of this gigantic water pro- ject. Accident to one man means nothing here. At times only a ttle news item for local press. The disaster of January 13th, where 20 men were entombed in the Mitchell tunel for 24 hours is still fresh in the minds of the workers. Little accidents are occurring almost daily. Fake Probe. “Probe” on this January 13th dis- aster, which Gov. Rolph was to con- duct remains and will remain on paper. Nothing done to improve conditions and to eliminate accidents. Meanwhile the entombed men, with the exception cf three, who did not return, are tack on the job facing ‘other disasters. The company working the project, gave the rescued men a great gift for risking their lives—or 90 it sounds according to press~that gift is: they ~eceived full pay for the entire time spent (24 hours) in their ving tomb. Now more speed-up is being put in, ‘This spelling more disasters for hundreds of workers on this project. A plan for bringing Heteh Hetehy water into San Francisco, within 12 months has been disclosed by the board. of supervisors. City engineer O'Shoughnessy submitted this plan of speed-up. Not a word is men- tioned about safety precautions to avoid disasters, which have taken a toll of 72 lives already. A wage cut drive is on. Warehouse tering your struggles, A. A. Banks Crash In Tennessee “Knoxville, ‘Tenn, A few free opened op hood. Dubie around ane ORGANIZE