The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1931, Page 5

Hoover Visited Porto Rico to See Masses Starve and to Speed War Preparations; Sixty Per Cent of Porto Ricans Jobless Disease and Hunger Far Spreading As Yankee! Sugar Companies Steal Land to Increase Their Profits One of Hoover's first messages when he returned from his aunt to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands was devoted to itatements against any form of relief for the unemployed work- | ers and starving farmers. Yet the capitalist press said he went | to Porto Rico and, the Virgin Islands to “help the poverty- | stricken people.” of thousands of Porto Rican children, suffering from pellegra or tuberculosis is one whit the better for Hoover's visit. But the big sugar corporations felt happy abdut the trip, So did the fakers in the nationalist and socialist parties. They fawned at the feet of the imperialist president. Hoover's trip to Porto Rico was part of the war maneuvres in the Carribbean, He travelled there in the battleship Arizona. In this issue of the Daily Worker we print a picture of Hoover in the shadow of the big guns on the battleship Arizona. They are preparing these huge guns for a new slaughter to increase the colonial empire of American imperialism so “that ever ‘more millions can be brought into \the starvation rule of Wall Street. The navy officers showed Hoover how they would use those, very guns against the workers of the Soviet Union. The conditions of the Porto Rican Masses are so rotten that even the ‘Wall Street governor general, Theo- dore Roosevelt, Jr. admitted 60 per cent were unemployed and starving; ‘600,000 have hook worm disease, 200,- 000 more have malaria and 30,000 have tuberculosis. This is the bene- its American rule has inspired in . Hooyer on the Arizona, just before leaving for Porto Rico to speed-up the war preparations and to tighten the Wall Street yoke. HE RIDES ON carlin ok malaga Not one of the tens. = Porto Rico, | Is it because the land is poor in Porto Rico that there is no food and | the people starve? Not at all. The} Porto Rico masses have been robbed of their land. Big sugar corporations | have taken over 100,000 acres of the | choicest lands, while the poor peas- | ants who still have any land are pushed into the mountains were they | | can barely scratch out a diseased | livelihood. All the produce of Porto Rico is pumped out by the large Wall Street corporations. The American exploiters who live in Porto Rico have palatial homes, such as the one pictured here. The poor peasants and agricultural laborers live in hovels like pigsties. We have the picture of a Porto Ric- an workers’ home here in contrast to that of one of the imperialist barons. Neither the nationalist nor the so- cialists in Porto Rico desire any change in the conditions of the mas- ses. Their main object is to please imperialism, not to disturb its deep roots. Only a struggle by the mass of workers and peasants for the land and against the imperialist robbers can lay the basis for wiping out the horrible poverty of the Porto Rican masses and the increasing strangle- hold of disease. . FIVE PATERSON WORKERS FRAMED Must Mobilize On the First of May (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) _o’clock the next morning and taken to jail, where they are still held with- out bail. Indictment by the Grand Jury is expected to follow within the next few days.” Boss Papers Incite to Lynching - Whipping up public feeling against the workers, Paterson newspapers have carried editorials like the fol- lowing in the Evening News of March 24, under the headline, “Violence Should Be Paid in Kind.” “No ef- fort should be spared to mete out to ‘those responsible the punishment Which such acts merit ... Red prop- indists who stir up such violent tions in the breasts of the work- ers will now have an opportunity to ‘preach their doctrine of violence be- fore the court of law... the cause Mf decency and of respect for other e's rights will be splendidly served if punishment commensurate with the magnitude of the crime is meted out.” Defense Attorney Allen Taub, rep- resenting the International Labor De- fense, is arranging with Paterson lawyers to help in this important base which might easily become a ‘second Sacco Vanzetti case. At a conference held on March 29 a united front committe was formed, the Paterson Textile Workers Defence Committee. Speakers for the union declared the workers must not leave the. defense to lawyers alone, and that only by solidarity and mass protests can this new frame-up be defeated. -- Defendants, writing from jail, have issued a statement to fellow workers which reads in part: “We send you greetings from be- hind the bars, Our spirit is excel- Jent. . . The National Textile Work- ,ers Union has been made the tar ‘Bet of the bosses, and we five worke> hhaye been singled out in framir ys upon charges of murder, of whi- ywe.are no more guilty than Se~ ‘and Vanzetti! . . . We know that er force can ‘free us from ‘hitches of the bosses and | agents but the uniled force of ‘or kers.” NORWAY TOILERS FACE PAY CUTS Bosses Out for 20 P3C: Slash In Wages OSLO, Norway—The Norwegian Employers Association has given no- tice to 50,000 workers and aims at securing wage reductions varying from 15 to 20 per cent. The reform- ist trade union leaders are making no preparations for a fights They propose the introduction of the 7+ hour day, but without wage com- pensation, in other words, they are also in fayor of a wage reduction. The revolutionary trade union oppo- sition, whose influence 1s growing, demands the 7-hour day with wage compensation and is organizing a campaign in favor of this demand. 29 EAST 14TH STREE1 NEW YORK Tel. Algonquin 3356-8843 We Carry a Full Line of STATIONERY AT SPECIAL PRICES for Organizations NITGED AIGET CAMP AND HOTEL ROLETARIAN VACATION PLACK OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $17 A WEEK CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON N14 PHONE 133 ‘The upper picture shows the house i a sugar baron in Porto Rico, one of the owners of the rich sugar lands | that squeezes profits out of the | Below, the squalid hut of a It is in such huts that the | masses, worker, The great majority of the “orto Ri- can people live in these pig pens. masses starve and become diseased. | DAILY. WORKER, NEW LORE, S! ATU RD: AY, APRIL DAILY STRUGGLE. TO WIN RELIEF (CONTINU! D FROM PAGE ONE) unemployed workers whose furniture was moved back in when they were dispossessed, show that these day by day fights are needed and win results. Go Get Relief. Some councils, when cases of star’ ing workers are brought to the ci! councils and the welfare agencies without relief, are going out and de- manding of the business men of the neighborhood that they come thru directly with relief, to be. adminis- tered by the councils. This has hap- pened in Greenville, where pregsure with good results was also brought on the Red Cross, and in New York the Unemployed Council yesterday sent sums collected for relief of two starving families to those families. With the increased organizational and other activities of the jobless councils, must go a steady organizing of the workers who still have jobs. The terrific wage cuts, speed-up, and constant threat of discharge makes the fight of the employed and un- employed a united fight against the same enemy. All the organization and the state hunger marches, one just carried out in Maryland, and two more develop- ing in the middle of this month in Ohio and Pennsylvania, culminate in general mass demonstrations for un- employed relief, all over the capi- talist world on May 1. a le bie Fined $75 For Being Negro. CHICAGO, Ill, April 3—For hav- ing moved back a family evicted for non-payment of rent, two workers were jailed. The judge fined one of the pair, a Negro, $150 and costs, while his companion was fined $75 and costs. Race discrimination is not confined to the South. The two men are working at the House of Correction at the rate of $2 a day. The starvation plans of the siate of Illinois are for a gradual closing down of “shelters” and gradual cut- ting off of what little relief has been given, The governor's commission states that it will end all its work by June 1, and between now and June 1, Jeaves only two members of this commission, called together by Goy- ernor Emerson to try and stave off the determined demonstrations of Chicago workers and jobless work- ers, on the job. 37,028 Got Sops, The number of families carried on WANTED FIFTY (50) Comrades to SELL DAILY WORKERS EVERY DAY! LIVE WIRES! BOOST YOUR PAPER! Help build RED BUILDERS NEWS CLUB Call at the following centers for information: New York: 35 E. 12th St. Room 505 Bronx: 569 Prospect Ave.,6-7: bse J Dm 1472 Boston Road id Broklyn: Inquire 35 E. 12 St., R’m 50: Harlem: 308 Lenox Avenue Passaic: 287 Monroe Street, Workers Cente: Patterson: 205 Paterson Street, Union Hall Albany: START TODAY! ‘arn your expenses and he’ read the DAILY WORK!) “9 weehly—Avanla Farm, Uls. atk, New York. | staggered among them, a names public. (first bund'e Dailies on credit!) the family charity list will be stead- ily cut down, during this month, As the commission explains it, “e: ordinary relief’ ends April 1, but | regular charity will go on. The headquarters of Governor Emerson's relief committee closed down March 30th. With hundreds of thousands out of work and destitute here, there were 37,028 families carried on the | Li lists of six family charities in Feb., an increase from 10,650 in October last year. Besides this, 8,019 heads of fami- lies were given a work dole, emerg- ency work in parks, etc. They were not allowed. to make more than $50 a month each, and the work was More Pressure! ‘Itis ‘evident that the welfare work | is to be eut off as fast as the author- | ities think fhe jobless will stand for | it.” They‘make it clear that the pre- sent plans are “subject to revision.”|f the A. F. of L. has particul Welfare work did not start until a| Stood behind the imperialist pre terrific mass protest against starva-| dent, aiding him while he directed | tion went up from the Unemployed | %e wage cutting drive under the Demonstrations. More pressure will | SU's DE aeenne ew win more relief! Build the unem-| Sc#les,” and by keeping back str ployed councils and the militant|°* breaking strikes that do take unions! All out to demonstrate May | Place. ll May Day will sec a new flood of * €,6 wage cuts all over the country, as Lumber Co. Fires 800 PORTLAND, Ore., April 3—Coos Bay Lumber Company with two camps and a mill employing between eight and nine hundred men has shut down “until there is a demand for timber.” “Let's not wait for that time but prepare a strong Lumber workers’ union and unemployed council; says one worker. BILLIONS IN FOREIGN MENTS WASHINGTON.—American _ capi- talism invested at the end of 1929 in foreign plants a total of $1,535,000,000, according to figures furnished the Senate by the Department of Com- merce. Against evictions, for rent reduc- tions! 4% REDUCTION TO CITY AND UNION WORKERS | Have Your Eyes Examineo | and Glasses Fitted by Oil Company Massachusetts tov that cent. bama House, that Hoover knew who \¥ the national wage cutting ting drive is the entire A. F. | ficialdom. the drive is just getting under wi in an organized manner. ers must rally cuts, organize under of the Trade Union Unity League to strike against out in the May to strengthen workers starvation and wage cuts. Hoover Hides Wage Cut Drive ws (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONED of Cali car men River and ns have be wages will he cut rnia in Lowe! other n told 10 per street Fall Union awrence, their fie of leader of statement sentative Mc democratic issued a Repre d the sked that he make in his the wage cut- of L. o presid Supporting Hoover ering to push forwar William Green, All wor these w leadership against the all wage cuts. Turn Day demonstrations the solidarity of the their struggle against in Against the high cost of liv Against wage cuts and speed-up. For Union! the defense of the Soviet Phone: Lehigh 4-1812 Cosmopolitan Hardware & Electrical Corporation Tools, Builders’ Hardware, Factory Supplies .2018 2nd AVENUE CORNER 104TH STREET NEW YORK CITY WORKERS MUTUAL |) OPTICAL CO. tnder personal supervision ot | DR. M. HARRISON i Optometrist a8, SECOND AVENUB 13th Street sew. 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At least 90 percent | traded PES 7 _ | of the, miners of the West Virginia | o1o¢nir DETEOND an year | fields never see real money eaioune i rized by t un- “Miners’ families are not allowed] earnings employment in the automobile in- | to keep hogs or cows. The usual diet | for dustry, the main one here, and by | 18 flour, salt meat, potatoes, coffee ee the state the mest outrageous tyinz to the | 24 Kies eoraty a Piet te | emerg food relief ha starving unemployed by the city i Seg cos Ae EL be eae A government about that never for two pounds elsewhere. casvds lane Tepatcat toe was given, just suits the antocom- | you could see the babies. Rick et s chatp Sontd “tet a. par The Ford Metor Co, an- | tS and every sort of infant disease lie approached Charlestor f have made terrible inroad Coc) Geroteat lai na’ | “When @ miner dies his éldest son Sieh we Se ais and states that it made, In | isnerits his debt to the compan Sse gar andy st of the mess hunger, a And 90 per cent of the mine Mie hd % in e net profit of $40,000,000, Speed-up, |in debt to the companies monti inal Maar aa wage-cuts by firing men and hir- | after month in, normal times. Com- | { ibe tA nee figitenn hack at swages, | Pany scrip, the only legal tender, is| (14, memb, ee | discounted one-fourth if m wish | and utter brutal disregard of the e ee ach of Frank Keene : to buy outside of company stores. Also tne Gnited Mine misery of the discharged masses | moving picture house near Ward has|@0™M the United Mi who never were hired back, was |a sign: ‘Tickets for adults 30 cents; | America when very profitable for For | in scrip 45 cents.’ Few dare to trade | Lag yee ne , | outside the company esd eey DETROIT, Mich., April 3. May-| “In addition to all this, a month | Borich, of ‘ jor Murphy’e latest -ni p plan| ago the men in many Su NTN N.M ie | for “solving unemployment” can not | were given a 10 per cent wa j states that 1 even convince his own advisory com- | Tt appears on the long list of acaie: jee 4 mitiec, it became appa at their | tions in their pay envelopes as sun-| W | last meeting. | dries. They wanted to hide the} Murphy, since the complete | ware-cut.” jin ci ates Borich. ure of unemployment emergency he miners are isolated in blact:|"If they do not buy eno the | work program, on inflated boosts of | Villages and the mines are guarded| lose their jobs. Lately which, he 1 his elec 1as de- | by co y guards, Scott said. I Dasiee Un ea pearance vised the idea of | e joble: On one occasion, the witness tes- | 845 masks, © safet nts try to raise gardens on some dot tified, an injunction was issued pro- | Shoes, ete., so much that if | ful 15,090 acres of land bel hibiting miners in another state from | buys them all it will cost to the city or offered by private | offering relief to starving West Vir-| In some districts if a mine! } person: |ginia miners. After remaining in| buy the whole outfit’ he loses f Ballengerfi assistant to| force for a time, however, this in-|Job. And these ‘things have to 1 super end?) ublic | Junction was dissolved. bought in company stores. liare, broke the s to the com-} There are 112,000 bituminous min- | Woeden Money. ; | mittce as follows Jers in West Virginia. In 1929 they| “There are m coal mines thi | “I daily come in contact with hun- | produced 139,000,000 tons of coal, al-| have their own money,” states | dreds of jobless men and they all| though one-third of the mines were|tich. “The company pays 1 tell me the same thing: ‘I don’t want | shut down and the rest were working| With this money so that th a garden, I want a job. I can net| part time. Thirty-five thousand | deal only: in company. stores fecd my family today on the spinach | miners, he estimated, are wholly un- | there is the blacklist, yellow-dog con- hat I am going to raise | employed; another 35,000 to 40,000] tract of comp: are working only one or two days| towns, etc. so that actually sm the mayor, “to do would in any way inter! city adminis’ record of ec: | “our Coing v little. Our ceased to function. A | has been turned over t | ment of public we j been continually slashi | ances to unemployed, t entire relief than a ¢ son program they for failure to 5 S en whom I sent | @ fort of the city nomy.” employment bureau has been tive employment week; of and the fact admin- | g that fere with the | Scott said he nothi | on the remained are working with no pay, for the | from three to six days a week. Wages f works, virtu- | are $2 a day for outside labor and j al no shoes,” Mr. Ballenger | $4 a day inside. Hours range from | told the committee | 9 to 12, under the “clean-up” scheme, | mentioned casually | whereby the companies compel the when empioyed at tonnage rates. had applied three times to Red Cross state headquar- ters in Charleston recently for as- 's effort to estab- | sistance for the miners in his field, ond had been refused a cent of help the ground that the Red Cross sub-committee | | would do no relief work outside the has long | city limits. ll relief work ‘0 the dep: which, has ng ow- il by now its is little more state as their attend meet- 's wages asked that their The fact was brought in the mines, improved coal-cutting and machines are steadily displacing men and that the com- A group of workers in ical plant, who had pledged each to the Red contribu- out s be sent to the hungry miners, but this plea was rejected. that lo&ding gs. | as panies do absolutely nothing toward | Use your Ked Shock troop List| getting jobs elsewhere for the men every day on your job. The worker | thus let out. Moreover, next to you will help si Worker. ave the Daily any earnings whatever t only oO its one | company in the state has guaranteed men feudal governments are developed in the towns, with the’ coal and police in control." "This, with terrific wage-cuts -and-only two o: three. days work’ a°‘week for that have jubs, and’ with more t tl previous | miners to do a lot of extra work| half unemployed altogether, means mass starvauon. It is not, a° rare incident now for a miner to faint.in the mine. He goes to..work without anything to eat and: collapses’ under the speed-up.” Scotts’ “Union” ‘Does Nothing. The “union” of Howat and Sco and Keeney has never done anything; for the miners. The only organiza- tion that fights continually for im~ proved conditions and against wage- cuts and swindling: of, the miners and which demands. relief, the National Miners’ Union. 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