The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA Quiet on Surface in Hide Growing C Spain Cannot risis; 500,000 Are Unemployed; Strikes Show Unrest Anarcho-Syndicalists Declare Themselve s| “Politically Neutral”, Playing Into Hands of Capitalists PARIS.—The bourgeois press is full of the happenings in| are made to round up such unfor- * Spain, whereby it means the haggling of the politicians on@he | tate victims of capitalism. They surface. It reports little or nothing of the surging tide deep| 2° then arrested for begging or for down in the masses of the population. The economic crisis in Spain is the basis on which the| the municipal authorities for com- political crisis has developed. coming more and more acute. steadily worsening. The cost The economic situation is be- The agricultural situation is of living is rising. There are} at the moment at least 500,000 workers unemployed, an unpre- cedented figure for this agrici ultural country. The defeat of PRISON LABOR USED IN FINL AND) sz: with a political background. | | These strikes were directed very def- Export Products “Forced Labor” STOCKHOLM, Sweden. — Swedish timber trade is suffering from the forced labor employed by its com- Petitors. However, this forced labor is not in the Soviet Union but in capitalist Finland. Prison labor in Finland has developed rapidly since the fascist victory. A number of rialway %n-r intended for the timber trade ary oY ¢ built exclusively with prison isbvr Further, the author- ities are organizing quarries at which only prison labor will be employed. ‘These quarries will produce flagstones for export in competition with the Swedish quarries which employ nor- mal wage labor. The political pris- oners in Finland, of whom there are large numbers, are mostly employed in the timber trade. Sharp punish- ments are inflicted for failure to produce the norm’set, The first time ithe punishment is four days soli- tary with bread and water. The sec- end time 14 days solitary with bread Finnish timber merchants have suf- fered considerably from the com- petition of prison labor. The gov- ermment has come to their assist- | ance by letting them ip on the, busi- ness. Great profits are being made af! “the bourgeois republicans has not stopped the deyelopment of the work- ing class movement. Last year there were 119 great initely against the government. The general strike was carried out in 60 industrial towns, including Bilbao, Malaga, Seville, Cadiz, etc. Thirty-five provinces were stirred up by strikes and disturbances sim- fultaneously in December last. The mass movement which led to the fall | of Berenguer has not yet come to a stillstand, but the social democrats | are trying to throttle it according to their old habit. On Sunday: the re- formist leaders\in Madrid issued an | | appeal to the masses for “law and | order” calling on the workers to wait | |for the measures of the socialist party and the trade unions. ‘The | leaders of the Anarcho-Syndicalist | unions which still possess consider- | able influence, have declared them- selves politically neutral! This plays directly into the hands of the bour- | geoisie because it holds a section of | the working class inactive. The Com- | munists alone are continuing the | Struggle with all energy and determ- | workers’ and peasants’. government. TWO CENTS FOR SOLDIERS | GAETA. Italy.—Military service is |compulsory in Italy for twenty-twe DANE JOBLESS ‘FORCED LABOR’ Arrested and Put to Work Without Pay COPENHAGEN.—With the growth | of the economic crisis in Denmark, the police are increasing their cam- paign against “vagrants” and other homeless persons. Organized hunts being without visiblemeans of sub- sistence,| and delivered in masses to pulsory labor. The social democratic | municipal authorities lend the police | every support in this brutal work. The victims are held in the great task-wrok colony in Sundholm. There they are compelled to work under strict supervision for “pocket mcney,”, about eight cents a week and their keep, The work is performed for private capitalist firms who in this way are provided with cheap labor | by the social democratic government. ; For the most part this forced labor is for the Danish brewers. As Den- mark exports large quantities of beer, | the exploitatfon of these unfortunates concerns the workers of other coun- | tries. Perhaps the conservative press |in Great Britain would like to con- | duct a campaign against Danish beer and against the forced labor which is used to produce it? But it prob- ably wouldn't. Oil Refinery Worker Killed in Explosion Santa Paula, Calif. Daily Worker: An aged employee, John Smith, “60, employed at the Capital Crude Oil Co., was burned to death in a fire which damaged the refinery. Smith was a refined still opera- tor. One of the stills exploded where he was trapped in the | flames. These refineries are not built where all protection against danger | is given. Many accidents occur THE BARRICADES MARCH 18, 1931 Page Three / Wy UY, iii TL hy ? By WILLIAM SIEGEL. Hail 60th Anniversary of the Paris Commune! | Educational Society. The steel town from the Mahoning Valley were well) represented by Negro and white} | workers. Triva and F. Miller made reports} | on the economic situation, problems | where workers lose their lives. Oil refinery workers will be able to fight more successfuully against | such fire traps when they organize | into the Industrial | the leadership of the T. U. U. L. —A WORKER. ORGANIZE TO END | ination for the overthrow of the mo- | and water, and so on, Even the | narchy and the establishment of a} and yet the goods are still under- | months. The fascist government pays STARVATION; ' RELIEF! priced. \ its soldiers two cents a day. DEMAND Union under facing our movement, preparation for | the state hunger march and how it | should be organized. Many workers took part in the discussion, especially on the point in the resolution de- manding full wages for workers’ un- employed insurance. Many were not in agreement with that, stating that there must be a more definite de- mand of so much per week. But after the discussion the resolution was endorsed unanimously. Chicago and Calitornia Districts Lead in Week’s Increases; Philadelphia Cut Breaks All Records Figures in last week's circulation showed a total of 35,036 including special or solid circulation of 34,682. show a total of 34,673, which includes special orders amounting to 95, leaving a s tion of 34,578. Due to there being orders this week than last week, figures show a total loss of 363, and the loss in solid circulation (in which special orders are not fig to 104. DISTRICT 8, CHICAGO, STAR FOR THE WEEK District 8, Chicago, holds the best record for ‘ the week, a gain of 191 of which is solid circulation. shows the results of consistent activity in Chi- eago and their recent concentration nal organizations. District 18, California, is next in solid gain of 97, aided largely by increases in Qakland orders, and in spite of cuts trom San Prancisco, The Oakland section has siderable vitality during the last two weeks in the Red Builders News Club, and example for the rest of the state. District 4, Buffalo, put on a_good solid gain of 69, indicating that activity is picking up in the Buffalo territory. GREATEST LOSS FOR WEEK IN PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT District 3, Philadelphia, shows the in circulation over any other district, of 325 a day. This is principally due to the cut of 200 in Reading, Pa., a minor cut N. J., and a cut of 100 in Philadelph: Reading should go back to its original order of 350, now that bundles are delivered there on time. There is no reason why Philadelphia should allow a cut in bundles. its orders by 100. ict, and would be disastrous for other districts. District 2, New York, lost 88 in bundles, a solid joss since no special orders were put on last week, and now dropped, District 5, Pittsburgh, comes next with a loss of 84, but from dropping last week's special order of 99, so that District 5 actually put on a District 10, Kansas City, took a drop of 50, just spent more time on the Red Builders News lub there would be no necessity to cut down figures if not for the good gains in 134 per cent of their quota. Detroit (Dist. 7) Apolis, also shows a loss of 22 due mostly to | League members and sympathizers must demand that every copv received is sold. Whenever the Daily Workers are allowed to pile up in head- quarters, the national office of the D. W. must be informed immediately. This situation, preva- Jent in the Cincinnati district, is criminal in this PBupiphi Fevers DD Dyu.zedohreKer @" DisyeibuTe. //PATUY period, and we hope no other district or section is guilty of such gross negligence on the part of Were it not for the healthy increases in some of the districts, the loss before the flow of bundle cuts was stemmed would have been sev- As it is, the net loss of solid circulation for the week was only 100, Bundle cuts may be avoided by issuing short, attractive leaflets inviting unemployed workers to the Red Builders jamborees or meetings; care- fully organized work on the part of the Party and League members to cover selected spots each day with the Daily Worker, with a different comrade each day whenever necessary; cooper- ating with fraternal organizations in establish- ing steady bundle orders for weekly, bi-monthly or monthly meetings, and in drawing in unem- ployed workers in the organizations to form a group of steady Daily Worker sellers. This last method is very well illustrated by the Chicago district which has established a permanent Daily | Worker Builders and Sustaining Council with over 30 delegates (representing organizations), many of whose organizations have already or- dered bundles, donated money, arranged for af- fairs, and are voluntarily contributing an op- With the popularity of the weekly editions con- taining articles of local news interest expressed by the three districts now receiving special issues of four columns each, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Cleveland, more districts have shown a response to the value of district pages and are planning such issues for their own territories. Besides the three already mentioned, the line- up is as follows: Pittsburgh will order four columns every Monday starting March 23. Buf- falo asked for a page starting April 17, but we suggested Tuesday, a day not yet selected by any district. Minneapolis has ordered a dis- trict page of two. cglumns every Friday, and will receive their first issue March 31, California has placed a definite order, but has not yet selected its date. Butte, Mont., is now negotiat- ing with the various sections in the district for material, and will try to arrange for space. In ew "York, the Bronx is considering ordering a page of four columns, and contemplates ordering Seattle and Detroit are ‘the only two large districts not yet in line for a district page. Of the smaller districts, we urge Connecticut, Boston, Kansas City, and Denver to lose no time in planning a weekly issue in order to strengthen their apparatus and raise the cir- culation. ‘ders, and « dropping last week's special orders of 50. This week, tables Here are the tables: lid circula- Summary By Districts less special i | eae ured) comes $ Se 32 32 | 2 be 25 $i e) I oR 1. Boston 1017-995 | 958T 9199 all but 36 . Buffate ee 3 This is a good gain, and} land... D SHOP. 7 Detroit tJ ) Mnpls, line with a |'0Kans.cty 1 Agric, leading functionaries. 12 Seattle 18 Calif. shown con- 45, Conn, 16 South sets a fine (17 Birming. eral hundred, 18 Butte 19 Denver Unorg. \ worst drop an average Ea Fa ian, Te * EE laa ‘in Trenton, i st 3E aE EE @: 9: ia bundle. é 4 ages 25 b§ fa 6S at 86 169 _ 167 — 7 ct) aM If the district Wa dais on 63 68 423° 873) «1197-1296 —1 This is a bad drop for the 83 42k 498 504 6 this week’s A 18. 74 ~ 88 9 OT 198) 260 57 122 qian —g| tional affiliation fee. 158 238 «418 «396 ae 91 133° 224 ‘297 rs MORE DISTRICTS NOW 47 | 83 128 120 2| PLANNING WEEKLY PAGE 88 «6185 «293 «273 ~—20 this comes) 333690 1035 1083 1 898 151d 2422 2412 —10 gain 5 Girand Rapids 59 100 59 100) «159159 ee jMilwaukee ... 123° 400 125 430. 523 6752 St. Louta 119 «2200 (113) 220389833. 6 them on reaching | 1034 2830 9375 3364 <u st 249 434 333 —101 oo 7 12 16) 16 | superior 66 sf GY 88k KansasCity .,, 29 126 31 126 185 157 2 Seattle ., 7% 953 72 BSS 48H 485 Portland 158 SL 183 20441410 Lon Ang’ 866 379 481-729-860 ASL San Francesc... 326 204 330 163 130 493 —37 89 313 90 «443-408-583 Aah 15 100 1 100 115 115 73 200 «76 «(209 262 «285 3 12 1000 «11 100 118k BUNDLE CUTS STOPPED; MUST SELL BUNDLES Bundle cuts was the first answer to letters sent to the districts demanding that all papers be | 4,000 extra copies a week! paid for. This has been pegged and reductions in orders have stopped when the districts began to realize that this is no solution, Especially in the present economic crisis, we cannot cut down on the distribution of the Daily Worker. Party, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA JOBLESS T0 MARCH ON THEIR STATE CAPITALS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) A resolution condemning the out- rage in Dallas was endorsed by a | Standing vote. ‘The State Hunger March was post- | was done because the state legislature will open on April 27. The march is to start from Cleveland and other points on April 16 and be in Colum- | bus at the time the legislature is in session. An executive committee of 10 was elected: two women and one Negro worker on it. The following were elected on the committee: F. Miller, E, Triva, B. P, King, Sophy Ma- | zeika, C. G. Zehe, from Cleveland, | | John Underwood, A. Walton, from Youngstown, Nina Vilcox, Joe West, from Akron, and Gust Lahti from Conneaut, Ohio. ‘The executive met right after the conference and elected F. Miller, 1436 West 3rd St., room 316, Cleve- land, Ohio, as secretary. The next state conference will meet | on April 26 in Columbus. | * . . The New York officials of {the Young Womens Christian Association appealing yesterday to starving un- |employed girls to “go home again”, } and evidently to get back into the country towns from which they were starved out, so their hunger will not affront the rulers and priests of the richest city in the world, accidental- ly let out a fact that shows why nothing is really being done for the jobless. , Mrs. William Henry Hays, presi- dent of the Y. W. C. A., stated: “Girls now at work report that many employers require much over- time work for which there is no ex- tra pay.” Using the Crisis. | Thus the situation in office work | is seen to be like that in all indus- try, the employers seizing gladly on the fact that millions are out of work | and desperate, to terrorize those still }at work into taking lower wages, | longer hours, and speed-up condi- | tions. For this reason, the campaign to organize the jobless; into unem- ployed councils: is a joint campaign with that to organize these still working into the militant unions of the Trade Unidn Unity League. There has to be a united struggle for unemployment insurance and re- lief, and to strike against wage cuts. This is the time for intensive organi- zation, The starvation and the wage cutting is just starting. Terrific struggles are ahead. Former Chief of Police Woods, now \head of President Hoover's “Emerg- ency Committee” on employment, is- sues weekly the usual statements that “conditions are improving”. He has a difficult utime finding any evidence and admits frankly in yesterday’s statement: bs “Improvement is proceeding slow- ly”. He places his main reliance on the road. building campaign in the states — on which only an infini- tesimal percentage of the 12,000,000 unemployed can get work. Industry hangs at the same level week after week, with minor fluctuations. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany’s house organ, “The Pennsyl- vania News”, shamelessly boasts of its profits gained by firing workers and speeding the rest, as follows: “The wide success of the Pennsyl- vania’s: program of efficiency in all departments....proved an impres- sive factor in retaining a sizeable surplus from the year's _ business.” This surplus, in addition to all ex- penses, sinking funds, ete, and in addition to paying the stockholders an eight per cent dividend, was $11,- 500,000 for the year 1930. And this in spite of what the “news” calls, “an unprecedented decrease of more than $118,600,000 in operating reve- nues.” ‘A Pennsylvania R. R. worker writes in to say that the company’s scheme is to abolish positions, make the rest do the extra work, or those who form- erly got higher wages take lower paid Jobs, and drop those standing on the wargin, poned from April 1 to April 16. This| CIVIL LIBERTIES Southern Chief Sends Letter to Police | (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal. — The real character of the Civil Liberties Union is shown in the letter sent by Clinton J. Taft, director of its Southern branch to Roy E. Steckel, chief of Po- lice of Los Angeles. The letter in part says that his organization “took cog- nizance of the fact that there was | no violence exhibited by the Police on Wednesday, February 25th in ar- resting Communists at their so-called demonstration.” In other words it is merely the vio- lence that Mr. Taft the head of the Civil Liberties Union is worried about. When the workers are arrested on the picket line for demanding higher wages, when the unemployed are tak- en to jail for demonstrating in hun- ger marches, when the right of speech and assemblage is followed by sen- tences of many years in the prison cells, the Civil Liberties Union not only does not dare to raise its voice in defense of the worknig class but on the other hand it deliberately en- dorses the action of the so-called law, | for the letter further states that, “we feel particularly grateful over the} showing that the Police made on that occasion (meaning the Feb. 25th dem- onstration.)” It further says ‘‘we | as an organization have never ob-| jected to the Police Department mak- | ing arrests....” | White Washing Agency. Of course not. The Civil Liberties | HAMMOND, IND. ‘RELIEF’ WHITEWASH COPS FORCES HUNGRY FAMILY OF 12 Worker Had Come to TO MOVE FROMCITY Hammond From Phila- delphia Looking for Work Found Many of the Stand Steel Car Company Workers Out Daily Worker: On the Streets Hammond, Ind. Joseph Stricko came from Philadelphia in August, 1930, to Hammond to get a job because the bo: him that the Standard Steel C s’ paper informed r Co. needed 2,000 men to work. So he was sure he would get a job. But when he came he was surprised to see the gates of the S. S. C. C. locked tight and the workers who had been working in the S. S. C. C. thrown out on the street. Before he came to Hammond Stricko’s family was a good, ious family. kc and with the t's recom- ndation Stric and 12 yrs old daughter got a job in the Queen Ann Candy Co. where they both get $4.80 a week on piecewor are 12 persons in reli ko's wife Stricko's So Stricko went to a relief com- mittee asking for help and the chief of the relief found out that Stricko 9 went to the priest to ask for me from a different state and tcld him “you don’t get help, be- | cause you are not a citizen of Ham- | mond, Ind.” “You must get out of here in a period of 3 days and if you don’t we will put you in jail for 2 years.” | And yesterday Stricko moved from ' Hammond. —M. T. Chicago Worker Jailed for Selling “Dailies” Chicago, Il. Daily Worker: While selling the Daily Workers in this town I was put-in jail for 25 hours and they had the nerve to | all well dressed and fed. After they made a lot of noise about Jesus we told them that we were locked in and so we could not go to Jesus and that the best thing they could do for us Union has long ceased to fight for the | ask me what authority I had to sell| would be to get us some ham and principles that its name stands for.| the newspapers. They seem to think | eg¢s for we were too weak and hun- It is more and more deteriorating int a tool of capitalism to fool the work- | ers into the enemies camp. | The Civil Liberties Union will have | to shake hands with its brother or- | ganization, the A. F. of L. the Amer-| ican Legion, etc., but hands off of the | working class. We will defend our| own class. We will build and sup- port the ILD which is the only or- it is a crime to sell the worke paper on the street, but they nev say anything about the capitalist papers. While in the cell awaiting the court decision the cops | ight in about 20 boys from the ages of thirteen to seventeen who had played some prank. While we were sitting on the benches talking about the unemploy- | ganization in this country fighting for| men situation in rich America, three all rights of the working class. —A Sympathizer. LSU BALL LEAGUE IN PHILADELPHIA Conference March 21, At 1208 Tasker St. PHILADELPHIA. Pa—The worker sportsmen in Philadelphia are start- ing on a real fight against the bosses in the field of sports. Before the baseball season actually begins the Labor Sports Union in this district is getting busy, organizing baseball leagues here. A’ number of teams have already sent in their requests} for admission into the Labor Sports Union Baseball League. In the call issued for their confer- ence to organize the league and ar- range the schedules of the teams, the L. S. U. states in part: For Workers Sports. “Spring is close at hand and the opening of the baseball season with it. The fans are going to be told that they should go to see the won- derful Al Simmons and Jimmy Fox and the World’s Champion Athletics. But for us young fellows, many of whom have been out of work and can’t even buy a baseball glove—for us the sport pages have nothing to say. In fact, they want to keep our minds off our troubles and keep us thinking about the famous stars. In both professional sports and so-called “amateur” leagues under the control of the AAU and the city politicians they always pick out a few good players and let the rest of the fel- lows go hang, especially the working fellows who have to work six days a week and haven't the time to prac- tice. Therefore the Labor Sopts Uff)n is building LSU Baseball Leagues in Philadelphia. _ The Labor Sports Union invites all labor sportsmen to send delegates to our conference regardless of race, color, creed or religion. “Your club or team is cordially in- vited to send representatives to the Conference for the Philadelphia La- bor Sports Union Baseball League to be held Saturday March 21, 1931, at the Labor Sports Union Center, 1208 Tasker Street, 2:30 p. m. sharp. For information, write to the Baseball Committee, Labor Sports Union, 1208 Tasker Street, Philadelphia, Pa.” SHARPEN TOOLS FOR WAR WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Wall Street government is experimenting with dust such as blows about in factories, grain elevators and thresh- ing machines as an explosive to be used in the coming war. Success is reported. C —— VACATION: — Beautiful Mountain Views, quiet resting place, good food, $13.50 weekly—Avanta Farm, Ulster Park, New York. | sky pilots came in and prayed and | sang, telling us what good things Jesus had done for them—they were Farmers in Resiona Militant Over 100 Delegates A NEW YORK MILLS, Minn., March 16.—The first United Farmers League Regional Conference of the middle Northwest states was held at the Heinola Hall here Sunday, March 8, with a good representation from | North and South Dakotas. Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and | Minnesota. Over a hundred delegates of the various state and district or- ganizers and the report of the central office. The Regional Conference formu- lated plans for an intensified cam- |paign of organization in the states that were represented at the con- |ference. Organizers will be sent to | unorganized territories to carry on organizational work among the Ne- groes and white poor farmers who have been fleeced by Hoover “pros- perity.” The reports and the discussion very clearly brought out the fact that never before have there been such opportunities for the United Farm- ers League to rally farmers around its program for struggle as there are now. Farmers everywhere are awakening through bitter experience to the realization that only through the workers of the cities can they get relief. The Conference discussed thoroughly the methods of approach in carrying on our work as well as ing demands on the basis of the United Farmers League program, North Dakota has an excellent rep- resentation of 18 delegates of militant farmers, many of them being young militant workers with such enthu- siasm that wilt assure progress for our movement. Also Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and South Da- kota were well represented by a good delegation from each state. Minne- sota was represented with the largest delegation. The conference elected a Regional Executive Committee that will direct the work in these five states. The Committee has members from North and South Dakota, Michigan and Wisconsin who will be constantly in touch with the work of the com- mittee through correspondence and will meet once or twice a year in an enlarged session Beside the regular delegates there | Were almost 200 visitors who followed the conference work throughout the session, Many of the visitors came enthusiastically received the reports | militant organization in alliance with | the line to be followed in formulat- | to pray to Jesus for some, Since the city’s officials are too busy the heed the demands of the | workers, the workers here have de- | cided to organize. They have joined the Trade Union Unity League and the Unemployed Councils. They will continue to sell the Daily Worker as a method of organization. Jesus is too busy playing his golden harp and Hoover and Thompson are very much rushed with politics to alleviate ;the rotten conditions among the | workers, —A Worker. ] Meet Plan Fight On Starvation t Regional Conference of United Farmers League Show Determin- ation to Fight Boss Hunger System |from long distances to listen in on the conierence discussions. The United Farmer was discussed by the delegates in a very serious |manner. All were of the opinion that the United Farmer must be made a semi-monthly in the very near future. Comrade “Mother” | Bloor, the North Dakota United Farmers League State Organizer, in her appeal for support for the United | Farmer stated that “we must make the United Farmer a voice of tha militant spirit of the hundreds of thousands f American farmers who are being reduced to paupers by the system of expoitation and robbery of capitalism, by building a mass circulation and by giving our undi- vided moral and financial support to our paper.” The conference un-= animously passed a motion to start, @ well plapned campaign to get five’ thousand new subscribers for the United Farmer during the next five months. A collection of $121 for the United Farmer was taken at the Con- ference in cash and pledges by Com- rade “Mother” Bloor. 1 the delegates and visitors who pafticipated in the conference left for home determined to work for the United Farmers League in their re- spective home communities as never |before. “We can res assured,” said Comrade Harju, the editor of the | United Farmer and the national sec retary of the Unite dFarmers League, “that we shall see a new spirit in our movement as a result of the March 8 conference, for the comrades who have been at our conference have seen the fighting spirit of the farm- ers and now know that we mean “business” and not only mere talk about organizing farmers into the United Farmers League. 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