The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1931, Page 3

een Oe ae ee oe. ee ac npenw EEE, | | UB id aston ecard it { | i es Sr stiri erro e1 aoe DRO WOT, NOT Cores, TOTO AT, mewor ry 1v0r ee ed FILIPINO COMMUNISTS FACE JAIL TERMS FOR FIGHTING IMPERIALIS CONDITIONS IN MILLS TRENTON BOSSES | Four Baltimore Red Builders Who Sell ‘Daily’ | Jobless Workers IN NEW BEDFORD GET WORSE; MANY JOBLESS) (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—The conditions in the Darmouth mill are becoming worse from day to day. In the weave shed the bosses have sent home one of three shifts that were work- ing 8 hours and the other two remaining shifts have been forced to work 12 hours. While the bosses have these two shifts work- ing 12 hours there are over 500 looms stopped and over a hun- dred weavers out of work. In the card room the bosses will send home a worker to loaf and right there and then hire another who is lookng for work. The worker works a week and on the second week is sent poms: fe NORE ans ite. oreo these workers are on the main floor formerly worked at the speeders is again hired. The excuse the boss uses torsthis is “We want to try to help everybody.” But this is not the in- tention of. the bosses by no means. It is just another one of their schemes to cut the wages and speed- up the workers, to bring competition between the workers. Whilst the workers are working till they almost drop in order to see if the boss will give them the job steady, the bosses reap in the profits. Miserable Wages. In the spinning room the young workers who work cleaning the spin- ning frames are forced.to clean 36 to 40 frames on their knees for a mis- erable gum of $12. The doffers in the spinning room get 9 cents a doff, Some days don’t make more than a dollar, Over 500 workers look for work in this plant daily since it is one of the very few mills that is working steady. In the weave shed alone over 200 workers look for work. In the card room #bout the same amount. On Monady over 800 look for work. When these workers come out it looks as if the entire mill has closed. While California Millionaires Seduce Young Girls (By a Worker Correspondent.) HONDO, Calif—John P. Mills, wealthy oil man, accused of “buying” @ schoolgirl, Clarice Tauber, 16, from @ Hollywood “love market”; William Jcbelmann, former publicity man for Alexander Pantages,. another mil- lionaire rapist, was also arraigned in Judge William S. Baird’s couurtroom today on statutory charges against the same girl. Olive Day is held for helping in the operation of a “love mart” in a ‘luxurious Hollywood dwelling where at least four girls, all under 18, are said to have revealed how they literally were sold to the highest male bidder by proprietots of the alleged slave markets, 2573 Glen Green St., Hollywood. ® Like Roman Debaucheries. Another girl, 18, told a story of a modern “love bazaar” that rivals the history of purple Rome. Scores of other girls of tender age are said to have been made victims of para- on Davenport, Wages Cut Davenport, Towa. Daily Worker: Conditions are getting worse. Vicious speed-up and wage-outs are takiig place. The French and Hecht Wheel Foundry have cut the wages of labor to 1714 cents per looking for work the bosses look at them as if they were criminals, They discriminate against any worker they recognize was active in the last strike, Scores of young people barely grown up stand_on the spare floor. Most of them Just out of the 6th grade in school, Must Wait For Pay. When the workers are sent home to loaf and then come for their pay on Thursday they are not allowed to enter the mill but must stay outside the mill gate and stand there some times for hours waiting till the straw boss comes and gives them their pay checks. Whilst all these things take place in this mill we find that the U.T.wW. affiliated to the A. F. of L. openly stated that they would co-operate | with a good management that tries to apply the stagger system to help the workers, The N. T. W. U. is con- ducting a campaign to organize the workers in this plant to fight against the stagger system, and night shifts and the hours of work in the weave room where there are hundreds of un- employed workers. sites of great wealth, One of the girls was said to be only 13 years of age. Mr. Mills, millionaire oil promoter, dealer in real estate and California sunshine, was identified by one of his victims, the Tauber girl, as the brute who attacked’ her in the Bilt- | more Hotel, Dec. 22 and 30, 1930. The Biltmore is one of the swellest hangouts for labor-baiting. parasites in the City of Angels. This bird is married and father of a daughter. USE CRISIS TO Throw Sop to the Jobless to Keep Them for UC. TRENTON, N. J.—The Trenton Unemployment Relief Committee 1s serving a double purpose. First by throwing a slop of charity here and there it tries to fool the workers into believing that the bosses try to pro- vide relief. Secondly by providing a handful of jobs digging ditches at $10 per week it tries to prove that workers with large families can ex- ist at so low a wage or even less. At the beginning of {ts formation it also tried, through fake registra- tions, investigations and red tape, to intimidate the unemployed and pre- vent them from organizing into the Unemployed Councils. The workers, however, soon got a true conception of the bosses’ committee and during February on three occasions demon- strated by the thousands against its fake activity. Lower Wages. ‘The bosses, who have created this committee and at whose head is John Campbell, president of the Trenton Potteries (one of the largest in the country), were quick to grasp their opportunity. By forcing a few unemployed to work at $10 a week.and in most cases less, due to weather conditions, etc., they have begun a drive to cut the wages of the workers still employed in the factories to the same level. The Trenton Clay Products is a good example of the many. Here the head of the firm got his employees together. He not only informed them that their wages will be cut 10 per cent, but also delivered a lecture as to what they may expect in the future. They were told point-blank that this is only the beginning, that they must expect more wage-cuts. With this, of course, went the story of the company operating at a loss. Worse Times Ahead. However, they were told more than this. They were told that even though this winter is bay they must prepare for the next, which will be much worse, “You will get along fairly well this He was released on $5,000 bail. The Jess prominent “social lights” were held without bail, all according to usual justice of course. | The discovery of an intimate diary kept by Olive Day contained the names of scores of schoolgirls, all of tender age, and a long list of! coming summer,” said this. fellow. “But, you must prepare yourselves for the winter. During the summer you must pay up your debts. You must discard your second-hand autos and radios, if you have any, and also your $25 and $30 a month homes. You must rent homes for $10 to $12 a month. You must learn to live on “LOWER WAGES Here are four of the Baltimore Red Builders who have been active in retaining the splendid record with which the Club started. Reading from left to right, they Sre: Hynes, Thomas, Bradley and Edwards, We men of “wealth and position.” The | $7 or $8 a week.” He also told them aot me er wie Le ae Mae they must avoid going to the shore ; . | this summer if they know what is | good for them the next winter. This to 1744 Cents An Hour 's,the future that capitalism has to hour. Most of the other shops are | shut down completely and there is no sign of them ever starting up again. The workers are beginning to take action here though they are continuing organization. —A WORKER, ‘Disabled American, Veterans” Run Racket; Hit Re: New York. Qeily Worker: While tens of thousands of dis- abled veterans in New York City are given buck-passing pie in the sky advice by various fake veteran “aid” organizations, one of the leading group of fakers have built up a busi- ness for themselves, The business is the book-selling racket, in which they hire some dummy dressed up as veterans and peddle books in the subways and other places, The book fakers then pocket the proceeds between them. The names of Hoo- ver, Coolidge, Al Smith and scores Mooney Revelation Brings Weak Groan from William Green WABHINGTON, D. 0, March 17.—- al Vets of other capitalists were used by the Disabled American Veterans, No. 1 East 42nd St. The American Legion and the Veterans of Forein Wgars are at- tempting to rebuild their member- ship and get joining fees from the loans being secured by a few of the thousands of needy veterans waiting to be robbed of half of their tombstone ‘bonus. All working-class veterans are warned against being led again into boss veteran organiza- tions. Working-class veterans must develop demands for the full pay? ment, —Ss. their activities for Mooney as before.” the AF. of L. officials, and that “the A.F, of L, whose unions have contri- buted thousands of Enclosed find .............. EMERGENCY FUND TTSTESSO See e eee Aeeeee eee Hanan eneE Een eeee eee HE eeE EEE EOE EE ROSE ORE DE RO EREEEOOEER ERENT ESAS SEEDERS ° Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily RED SHOCK TROOPS For $30,000 DAILY WORKER EMERGENCY FUND seeeeedeeees seeeees POMS oo. , cece eens We pledge to build RED SHOCK TROOPS for the successful completion of the $30,000 DAILY WORKER Ce eee er errr rrr errr ere offer to its wage slaves, ‘Wage-cut after wage-cut is taking place in all factories and mills throughout the city. On top of this the workers are taxed 1 per cent of their miserable wages to supply funds for the Relief Committee. The workers must organize and strike against these wage-cuts. The unemployed must demand union wages on all public works so that the bosses will not use them | as an example in cutting wages. They must continue their fight for real relief and for all their de- mands, In the coming city elections they must support their working-class eys, has nothing to offer them but misery and starvation. J, WISNIEWSKY. Moore Speaks At Washington Paris Commune Meet Tonite WASHINGTON, March 18.—Rich- | ard B, Moore, national Negro director of the International Labor Defense, together with the League Struggle for Negro Rights and Committee for the Protection of Born make March 28 a of struggle against de- portation end lynchings. Lt Albany and Troy to be humming OUT THIS OUT AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO THE DAILY WORKER, 50 E, 13th ST., NEW YORK CITY sabangertvess serene Conts hope the comrades down there will continue sending reports. Red Builders Order 2,624 at Jamboree, Largest Ever; Salt Lake City Forms News Club At last Sunday's Red Jamboree, the N, Y. Red Builders News Club started the week with an unprecedented or- der of 2,625 for Monday’s sales; 28 members showed up for the class in Fundamentals of Communism, which will be held regularly at the Club headquarters, 102 West 14 Street on Sunday at 10 a.m. Following are the best sellers for the week: Barnes, 600; Weinryt, 413; Glazer, 340; Girske, 300; Voss, 258; Stein, 225; Montana, 220; Al- bright, 180; De Royal, 169; Kat- trinowitz, 166; Bobik, 165; Adams, 151; Norton, 150; Glassover, 148. Next week’s prize, a set of pictures of the Albany Hunger March, will be awarded to all selling 200 or more papers. Jamboree, two of whom are Negroes -~Thomas Kelly and Comrade Shur- ley. We hope they'll do as well as John Barnes, Negro best seller of the Club. Other new members are: An- thony Streiges, Jack and Edwin Bald- win, Morris Abrams, Bennet, Karl Ehlers, and Fred Graham. -March-28.will be Red Sunday in ; New York. Party members, League members, sympathizers, and mass or- F rea WHILE THE WORKER. . WHO vorED FoR rie UNTS FOR h/oRK YORKER. ganizations will participate in the drive for @ mass Daily Worker by visiting workers’ homes, ‘popularizing the Daily Worker, and getting sub- | scriptions, | SALT LAKE CITY STARTS NEWS CLUB “Please send me four membership cards for the Daily Worker Red Builders Club, also four Red Aprons for street sales,” writes Thomas Obryne, Daily Worker representa- tive of Salt-Lake City. “The cir- culation department has been extra slow in increasing our order from | 45 to 100, Look this up at once as the workers demand the Daily Worker and our job is to sell it.” Commands like these are a pleasure | to execute, and we -hasten to carry out the orders without a minute's delay. We expect the number of mem- | bership cards to triple! ALBANY, TROY | TO SEE ACTION | H, “Ginger” Neilson who had gone to Albany to help in Unemployed | Council and Daily Worker activity there, is right on the job. He's go- to make a survey of news stands handle the Daily Worker. Of the Red Builders there he writes; “I am trying to get the Red Build- to get subs, I find that so no effort has been made to get subscribers for the Daily Worker. This will be corrected at once. So far no attempt has been made to start an unemployed council in Troy, Next week, however, we will get into ac- tion and @ Red Builders Club will}. follow.” With “Ginger’s” pep, we expect Nine new members joined up at the | | REPORT FROM BUTTE, MONT, J. K., ‘Daily Worker agent of Butte, Mont., sends a report for the week ending Feb. 28. Out of 300 Daily Workers received, 136 were sold on the streets, and 67 from house-to-house. A Dally Worker Readers Meeting is being arranged, and if the comrades in- form us of the date, we'll adver- tise it, JAMESTOWN PLANS “DAILY WORKER” DANCE “The Unemployed Council and Dai- ly Worker sales force will hold a | dance Friday, March 27, at 8 p.m. at Nordic Temple for the benefit of the Daily Worker. Comrade O, C. Mon- | son will speak on unemployment, its | causes and remedy.” Fred Hunt, | Jamestown Unemployed Council. | “ONLY ENGLISH DAILY OF THE WORKERS” | From A. B. of Iron River, Mich., we received the following: | “I am sending you §1 for the re- | newal of my subscription which ex- | pired some time ago. I would have renewed it sooner but could not on | account of lack of finances, I un- derstand that the Daily Worker is the only English daily that tells of the everyday conditions of the work- ers and the necessity of organization in order to get a better living stand- ard.” Negro Candidate | Exposed Judge Who | Is Trying Him (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Negro and white workers hain gang for long terms ne” of not having jobs, icht Before Election It lificant that this latest attack the workers of Chattanoo- ga and their organization came the | night before elections. The election ampaign of the Communist can- didates: Ledford for mayor, Coads for Judge and Cassidy for Commis- siener, has aroused the. bosses and | their tools in the city hall to fury, | They have done everything pos- | sible to cripple the campaign of the | working class candidates, but with- ; out success. The Communist can- | didates alone have dealt with the | Teal issue in the campaign, such as unemployment and the failure of the city to provide decent relief, the in- creasing poilce terror against the workers, the railroading of the un- employed to the chain gang in in- creasing numbers. The Communist Party announces that a protest meeting will be held at an early date to demand the un- conditional release of the 5 workers now behind the bars in Chattanooga and to denounce the brutal at- tempted murder of Coder and Hurst in Dallas. Dalton, Lawson and Gordon were arrested Feb. 10, at the unemploy- ment demonstration in which 3,000 Negro and white workers tried to march on the city hall, Police at- | tacked with draw guns, and these three who have been held under high bail, will be tried in Judge Lusk’s court in the county court house to- morrow morning. The International Labor Defense, which is defending the case, calls all workers to jam the court room at the trial and de- mand their immediate release, to send to the for on Fight tynching. Fight deporta- tion of foreign born, Elect dele- gates to your city conference for protection of foreign born. | whereas in November, Brutally Beaten at Mayor’s Open Meet; Build the Unemployed Councils! Build the T.U.U.L. Unions! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) blood from a wound that would have caused death. Starvation, sickness and “flu” epi- demics take their toll in Tacoma, while throughout the country, the| bosses continue to burn, destroy and dump in the bays the food so ne- cessary to the lives of workers and farmers. The International Labor Defense hopes to get the workers out on bail in @ few days. A protest meeting was called Tuesday March 17 at 91342 Tacoma Ave., 7:30 p.m, and workers are urged to attend the trial of the arrested workers. #2 oe. Famine in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, Mar. 18.—A state- ment by Warren A. Lamson, presi- dent of United Charities of Chicago, tells a story, strangely in opposition to the tune “prosperity is just around the corner” that the press is start- jing to sing again. “Chicago now faces a greater crisis in meeting unemployment than at any time during the long period of unemployment,” said Lamson. “Thousands of Chicago families are facing the disaster of hunger, celd and illness,” he adds. “Amazing numbers of helpless little children, despairing mothers and desperate fathers have nothing standing be- tween them and starvation except the help that they are receiving from the United Charities.” The charities head points out that unemployment has made paupers out of thousands of families that a year ago considered themselves in good circumstances. “All indications are,” he warned, “that wé shall not reach the peak load until the latter part of March or early April.” He pointed out that the United Charities gave help to 7,559 families, the number increased to 17,000 in February. Meanwhile, scores of plants are quietly laying off more workers and lowering wages. And more wage re- ductions are in the air, . The first heavy snow storm of the year, which came early this month, revealed how many men want work. For every man given the “oppor- tunity” of earning from $3 to $5.50 (the city scale) for shoveling snow for about three days, there were ap- proximately 10 others after the job. It is noticed that the war veterans are beginning to abandon apple- selling—not so much because of the bonus loans, which most have not yet received, but because sales are dropping off. 3 . ST.-PAUL, Minn., March 18—‘On- der the city council's relief plan the unemployed workers ar2 condemned te death,” begins a stacement of the Unemployed Council here. The statement goes on to expose the plan by which workers applying for relief are allowed four and a half days a month work at the rate ot 45 cents per hour. They do not get the money, but are given one ton of coal and $5 to $10 of grocer- ies—to last a month. There is no provision for rent, light, gas or water. The Northern States Power Co. of this city and the City Water Depart- ment have ruthless policies of cut- ting off service when payment is delayed, ‘The Unemployed Council at a special meeting has adopted a reso- ution exposing this starvation trick, reminding that the power company is making huge profits out of its franchise, referring to the power owners’ corruption of the city ad- ministration and the looting of the treasury, and repeating She demands for $15 a week and $3 additional for Saturday Sunday MARCH soon with bundle increases and sub- scriptions. Anything we can do from this end? How about Conklin’s pic- ture? STEEL WORKER SENDS 50c FOR SUB J. D, of Elwood, Ind., enclosed 50c, writing: “Tin Plate has begun work on the 23rd of Feb. 4 days per week. This is a small town, conditions are bad enough. Am glad you never stopped my paper, Will send you some more money in two weeks to renew my subscription for the Dally Worker," Correct Dangerous Bladder 4m Catarrh Burning passages, painfu) elimina- tion, night rising may be ‘the warn- ings of a serious sickness which may affect your entire health. Take steps at once. Get Santal Midy from your druggist. For half a centary, it has been prescribed by. doctors through- out the world for rapid relief. Santal Midy 19th 20th 2Ist nd WALL ST. STARTS REIGN OF TERROR AGAINST FILIPINO COMMUNIST PARTY, JAILING LEADERS OF WORKERS American Workers Must Demand Their Re» * lease; Filipino Bosses Help Wall Street Jail Communist Leaders 4 MANILA, Philippines. — White terror against the newly organized Communist Party of the Philippines has already be gun, The Communist Party here was organized on Novembes. 7, 1930, at a great meeting in Manila, It held many meetings throughout Manila and the provinces, calling on the workers and peasants to mobilize under the leadership of the Communist Party against imperialism and the bourgeois native lackeys of Wall Street. each dependant, for each unem- | ployed worker. Continued organization of the un- employed into councils and the em- ployed into the fighting unions of the Trade Union Unity League for great struggles which are just be- ginning against starvation and wage cutting are more than ever neces- sary now, The last issue of the Financial Chronicle, organ of Wall Street, makes it still clearer that the em- ployers of this country, far from seeking to solve the problem of sav- ing the lives of the 12,000,000 jobless are bent on using the misery of these workers to beat down living stand- ards for all workers, ‘The Chronicle says, discussing the railroad situation, “Only one other means of relief seems to be open, and that is a lowering of wage scales... The process of change is nevertheless slowly going on... The union scale for a bricklayer in this city is $12.60 a day, But now con- tractors are finding no difficulty in hiring bricklayers at $8 a day. What is more, labor leaders are’ winking at this violation of the union scale. In the end, the unions will bow to the inevitable and recognize existing conditions by making the union scale conform to the actual facts. Thus, in private lines, a readjustment of the inequalities between wages and other things is already taking. place... Railroad managers should-at once unite and take steps to impress rail- road employees with the idea that out of a sense of duty they should act for the common good. and ac- cept a moderate lowering-of the: wage scale.” . And along with this ie-the an- nouncement in yesterday's“ tfade pa< pers, that the Fall River textile mill | wage cuts run up to 27 per cent. weavers are on strike against a 45 per cent cut. In Kensington, 2,000 upholsterers have been striking over @ month against a 14 per cent cut. And this is a general policy, 6 8 Standard Oil Cuts Now the Standard Oi] Company of New Jersey comes out with a ten per cent wage cut for all its work- ers. While the announcement by Walter C. Teagle, president of this Rockefeller corporation, does not openly say wages will be cut ten per cent, he informs all workers in the company that “costs will be cut lo per cent.” In its fina] form, this will be a direct wage-cut of from 10 to 20 per cent for the workers, Besides, Teagle further announces thousands of workers will be laid off. He said many jobs will be “conso- Udated,” that 1s, one worker will do the work formerly done by two. A report to the Daily Worker de- clares that the Standard Oil Com- pany of New Jersey has already fired more than 900 of its men. The cutting of “costs,” does not af- fect the Standard Oil of New Jersey alone, but will take in all of the Standard Oi] companies in every state. To get around the so-called anti-trust laws, the Standard Oil Co. has divided itself into separate state corporations, but they are all under the control of the Rockefel- Soon thereafter repeated arrests followed. First Comrade | Feleo, vice-president of the Philippine National Confederation *of Peasants, was assaulted while de- livering a speech at Santa Rosa, Nue- va Ecija, at @ mass meeting of peae sants. He was arrested, together with | his attorney Nabong, who criticized the brutalities of the Philippine con- stabulary. Both were charged with “sediton.” On February 6 Jacinto G. Mana- han, Crisanto Evangelista and Domi- nador J. Ambrosio were arrested on order of the American Governor Gen-= eral and his tools Secretary Honorlo Ventura of the Department of the Interior and Secretary Abed Santos, of the Department of Justice, These three workers are leaders of the Com= munist Party. They were released oo bail and re-arrested several times. Bail each time is set st 3,000 pesos. Every attempt is made to smash the young Communist Party of the Phie Uppines. Soon after February 6, 16 other Fillpno Communists were ar- rested and charged with “sedition.” The American impertelists and their Filipino supporters, fear the growing mass discontent among the Filipino workers and peasants. As the Communist Party program points out: “The reluctance of the Moros (peae ations), the farmers resisting the owners and the Constabulary, the strike of the night school students, the uprising of the Colorums, and the oppression by the imperialists and capitalists of the laborers, are symp- toms of a movement, which if carried on with unity, will perforce about the downfall of American ime pertalism and the obtaining of Philip- pine independence,” Uppines is directing the only lippnes was directing the only struggle against American im) ism in the Islands, this the campaign of terror against it been begun. The indictment for i é real z t join in the world struggle of colonial peoples against oppressi: and imperialism. They called on workers and peasants to organize for the overthrow of imperialism and the establishment of a workers’ and far- mers’ government, For this reason they were arrested and face long jail terms. Every American worker who suffers ple must raise their voice in protest against these arrests of thelr fellow- workers in Manila. Demand the ime mediate release of the arrested work- ers in the Philippines. Expose the role of imperialism in the islands, Demand the immediate and uncondi- tional independence of the Philippine Islands. New Jersey company really covers ali of them. | This wage cut will affect tens of thousands of workers; it will spread to Canada to the Imperial Oil Co. Ltd, a branch of the Standard OU ot New Jersey, and to the Humble lers and the announcement for the Oil and Refining Company. 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