The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 8, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED APRIL 8, 19: 31 Page Three } 7 RAILWAY EXPRESS CO. LAYS OFF MANY MEN WITH LONG SERVICE One Hundred and Fifty Laid Off a Few Days Ago; Greater Speed Up Now Union Misleaders Previously Put Up Bosses Proposals to Stagger Jersey City, N. J. , doesn’t include all that are laid off Editor Daily Worker:— During slack seasons, which are January-February and June-July, the Railway Express agency has always laid off a number of men. Those lay- offs used never to effect, men with more than 2% years of continuous service. But with the past year or more those lay-offs affect men with 5% years service, and they say men with 6 and 7 years service in this com- pany will be laid off this summer. A few days ago about 150 men were laid offfin March. This number is from the vehicle service .only, and in their other departments or in any of their 15 big depots in New York City, Brooklyn and Jersey City. The real cause of those big lay-offs is the fact that one man in the express company today does more work than “3 used to do 10 years ago. Sunday at about 10:30 p. m., those who were laid off antemany of those still working are going to the local 808 at 1133 Broadway to ask the dele- gates what they are going to do about it. This is nota meeting called by the unions’ two locals which have 3 delegates and no slack times. —A Worker. South Norwalk AFL Tries to Frame 3 Workers| South Norwalk, Conn. Daily Worker.— . A group of union laborers were tried three times by the same court here. These workers belong to the Hod.Carriers and Common Laborers Union, a section of the A. F. of L. ‘They were framed up last August, ac- cused of having worked below the union wages. At first they were tried in the union Jocal court, where it was declared that, guilty or not guilty, they should be punished for their fighting in the union. Later the case was brought innocent. The labor fakers demanded another trial, in which all except two| were found guilty. This trial was de- clared illegal, and in the final trial all were found guilty, on the demand of De Falco, a grafting A. F. of L. organizer. ‘This shows the trickery of the A. F. of L., but the workers are waking up, —P. L. Eagle Pencil Co. Pull s Down With Holiday Excuse New York, Daily Worker:— As I am a worker at the Eagle Pencil Company I want to let you know about the conditions which hundreds of workers are forced to work under. Now what has hap- > a 1 ‘The bosses take advantage of the religious holidays this week and use them as an excuse to throw almost every department out of work fer at least three days. Conditions weré bad enough when workers put in only five days but now they are ‘worse. Don’t Iet the bosses pull down the salaries by the Easter Holiday ex- cuse. Force them to restore the five day week, protest against the inauguration of the three day week which they are planning to put across. Conditions are bad enough now without the bosses making them worse.. With more wage cuts, shortening of working hours and speed-up systems. Eagle Pencil Company Worker. Akron Children F AKRON, O.—The other day a com- rade observed two small children with buckets picking up coal on the rail- road tracks. They appeared to be about 4 or 5 years old. The comrade asked them what they were doing and they said “We have to make a fire,”! s0 you have to pack coal, yes, they | said, my father doesn’t work and we lave no fire. ‘The comrade thought that Hoov- year, or about $215 a day, must be gotten at the expense of such chil-! ‘ren as these and their fathers. Then xe thug of the speech made by! er’s prosperity salary of $75,000 a| ‘orced to Pick Coal the National Commander of the | ing up the meetings of the Commun- jists in New York. The comrade {thought that the Bolsheviks would prove real angels to these little mites ing crushed to death in their strug- their poverty stricken home, ean order a special train when he wants it but the father of these two | children cannot buy even a bushel o coal to keep his family from freezi>: to the District Council of the A. F.} of L. Here they were at first found! | American Legion in Akron last night} | when he called the Russians angels! because they sent back the dead sol-| diers and then boasted about break- | who were in constant danger of be-| jgle to gather a little warmth for: Hoover } No Breadlines in Soviet Union Lannber Camps! Scenes from the Jumber doows in the Soviet Union which disprove the tissue of lies spread by the capitalists about Soviet Union Worker. British. capitalist forest engineer says about the lumber camps, forced labor, Read what the in today’s Daily e ‘Lumber Bosses Get | HOQUTAM, Wash, April 7—Des- | pite the fact that wages in lumber | are the lowest that they have been } since 1914, the bosses are still driving }them down. In Aberdeen the Bay | City mill has laid off 40 men, 20 from | each of the two shifts, thus throwing | more work on those left on the job. | No mention was made of this in the local sheets, but on the same day | the Schafer Bros., mill No. 4 resumed | operations after a short close-down | and one could fairly hear them scream: “150 more men put to work.” Even so they failed to mention that this was not as many as the mill had laid off two weeks ago. ‘The Robt. Gray Shingle mill in Ho- quiam resumed work the first of Ap- ril with another wage cut, the day mhen were cut from $3 to $2.50 and the packers who work piece work were cut 1 cent per thousand shingles. The sawyers were cut 2 cents per thous- and. This cut brings the packers to | 10 cents and the sawyers to 16 cents | Together to now it is $8 to $9. General Wage Cut. It seems that at the last meeting of the West Shingle Manufacturing Association it was decided that a gen-| eral cut in wages of the workers would be made. Therefore all of the mills have cut the wages at the same time. Not only did they cut the wages, directly but they in many instances put more work on the packers by making them place their bundles af- ter they packed them upon the kiln} trucks, heretofore this work was done) by a tallyman who kept the tally for) each packer, but now the packer is his ; own tallyman. | The mills when they do run never | operate for more than a week or ten days at a time. Cc. O, (“Dad”) Young, general or- ganizer for the A.\F. of L. told the carpenters at a meeting here that the lumber industry was being hurt; by imports from the U. S. S. R. and which is the lowest for this kind of that it was cut by convict labor. One | work since 1904, of the carpenters took issue with him | But there is this difference: in 1904) on this, the weavers had the pick of the wood to cut shingles from, but now all they get to make shingles of is stvff that will not make longer lengths of «ar lumber. Then again the cost ¢ i>¢ was low in 1904. One paid o HYPOCRITICAL HENRY Henry Ford, who talks glibly about maintaining high wages and high ving standards” but who has con- stently cut wages and laid-off his Districts Swing Into 1,000 Yearl y Subs, 05 to $5 a week for board, wh"! workers at various times. Action in Drive for Ren-wals by May 1 ConeeE a lists have been sent to every | Summary i}; Cities Bundle circulation at present is in a standstill district and sub-district Daily Worker repre- | | position, with a slight drop this week. Aport | sentative, to spur activity in the sections, units, | ne a s | from this, another 2,056 subs were taken off and mess organisations for 1,000 new yearly sub- ar bi Pes, = 3 during the past week which have not as yet pe awhile My Sole 3 Py Si as Pa =} been tabulated according to districts, and the | or ta of Feawale by Bay } lowing are Fs $4 54 $k 5S =| drop will therefore show in next week’s tables, | subscriptions or renewals sent, by the districts, ble Read et tage | District 3, Philadelphia, shows the highest in- ; covering the number of mohths: District 1, eR RET E | crease of the week, a total of 327 due mostly | 46 mos.; Dist. 2. 81 mos.; Dist. 3, 37 mos,; Dist, 2 86 43 mal : s i de oT | to the extra bundles of 500 a day to the Anthra- pi sgl ral Be we sores f Bi aly 1, My - S | cite. District 6, Cleveland comes next with a | 7; Dist. ‘12, ‘Dist. ‘13, 70: Dist 15, 14: iat 7 693 6325 603 | gain of 66 helped largely by increases in orders | 4: Dist." 8; Dist. 19, 31: Unorg., 35 46 45 46 45 —¢ from Dayton. District 1, Boston, which has , 31; » 35. 420 909 «438 «876 18% 1299 0) Shown little life since the campaign began, now \ In the United Front May Day conference, the | 86 421° «8% «421 5OT OR ij puts on an increase of 44, aided by bundle or- | Daily Worker should be welded into every pro- | Wash. D. %@ 98) eo MM It th ders of 25 each in Manville, R. 1. and Providence, | gram of action. Every mass organization should | 8eftale 42 118 42 «118 160 «160 R. I. Districts 9 and 10 gained 33 each, helped | toe drawn into this campaign. Greetings from | 4 183-43) 1381S 1) by increases from West Allis, Wise, and Sioux workers and workers’ organizations should be BE ee a AR EO RR 8) Citys Tan. i sent in, as well as advertisements. Names will HH yrs 1 a: Ae PT A District, 8, Chicago, shows the worst loss of be printed at 25c, and organizations should send aie at tae 418 for the week. Aside from dropping last week's according to their means. Make this May Day 351 689 «386 667 «1040 1003 ~-37| SPecial order of 2,000 from the Milwaukee page, a target for 1.000 subs and put the Daily Worker 560 1520 58l 1520 2030 2101 wi} the district has suffered from disorganization, on more solid financial ground! 60 100 «63 «100 «160162 2| with the result that bundle cuts of 150 daily r. Thi 5A 1 aa shih ~ Roel eaigeeg aes 49| Red Builders News Club has disintegrated to os * «ee ie We ae the extent of cutting its bundle by 100, and FA i ee 2 ie 66 «320«(66:SsRCOC dropping completely out of sight as far as re- 31 196° «385 «126 «15% 161 4| Ports of activity are concerned. | igi z if ii 14 816 «76. 876 «450452 2 District 13, California, lost 169, due to a drop | . . < = 52180 «52-139 «282 «211 ~=—21| Of 100 in Oakland. Oakland retreated in the last 1. Boston 466 4 le 818 aa Bit 764 878 «514 1195 892 —243| week or two, for reasons still unknown to us. aN. Y. 1210 7839 9049 9049 . 396 158 336-158. 404 494 C. McGinnis, D. W. agent, there, promised a letter 8. Phils... 899 2031 2603 2930 g97/Omelend = -.- - 88 551 89-425 639-514. —125) of explanation which has not yet arrived. Cir- 4. Buffalo ... 181 534 192 397 715 sap —126/Secramente Peder ae ae cae ae culation has always been good in Oakland, and |g pitts... 644 418 47 498 1061 1070 9 | Dewar be te be Se data! McGinnis has promised to back to | ecleveland... 1069 1807 1094 1848 2870 g042 gg| ORM Clty 1 25 WL 25888 btahs come her 1 Detroit .;. 888 2200 926 2198 007 size at aah MO Bam ah le oe ae cog gae Sion | soniearo ... 1460 4712 1467 4202 6172 Siso 413 ROME ws 18 100-15 sO 115 65 — 80 ea gleg Pasar ame ype ee > Mnpls, 503 S81 eR 1176 CIRCUL eee: | 10 Rans.cty... 872 568 pid he pl Gana on IGHT yon an shop. strike there. District 4, Buffalo, shows a | an Agri. ..5 72 «OSS 126) 198 2 bad drop of 126, due to decrease in Jamestown. | 12 Beatle ... 808 78h 1921 1174 49 ‘Tables for last week show a total circulation | However, they have since put on about 50, | ts Calle. 908 1437 2514 2245 —169| Of 34,393 which, when special orders of 642 are New York fiqures are the same as last week's | | 18. Conn, 286 $74 891 760 —191| tAken Off, leaves a solid circulation of 33,751. | due to fot ’ to obtain latest figures from | se month 75 t8 197 183 16| This week, the total circulation is 34,060, but | the dirt \ | 17 Birming 102 165 255-285 1o| Since there are no special orders, the loss of 333 288 1A Butte... ia Pie ae pit ant porn in heey Heit inditates a net gain of 309. |) RENWY ‘ \ fowever, is the result of extra papers being A total of 2,056 subs were dropped this we Kf 198 we e pp is week, PN ip beskati'y 83 201 191 poe | sent to the Anthracite region in Wilkes Barre | but 123 new subscriptions and 165 renewals were for thé present mine | put a” Nash ASS EXECUTIONS Put Through General Pay Cut IN CHINA CANNOT STOP RED WAVE! | Militarists Fear Break- down of Own Armies To stem the growing tide of revyo- ; lution throughout China, mass ex- ecutions are being resorted to’by Chi- ang Kai Shek and all his supporters in the provinces. Detailed deserip- tions of these executions of workers and students is given in a dispatch from Changking, Szechwan province, China, by Hallett Abend, New York Times correspondent. The militarist rulers are becoming frantic at the spread of Communism and the support for the growing So- viets. “The military authorities here | are exceedingly nervous about the; strength of the Communists in this province,” says Abend. He goes on to point out that “if a new civil war breaks out there will be grave dan- ger of a general uprising, arid the extent to which even the armies have been infected with Red propaganda is a cause of serious concern.” Hence General Liu Hsiang, ruler of Szechwan province, under orders f-om Chiang Kai Shek, tool of Wall ‘treet, decrees wholesale executions nd tortures. Abend goes on to tell of some of them. He says: “Not a week goes by that Chinese Communists are not executed in Chungking, for Communist propa- ganda workers are constantly busy | here, and the city police and local military authorities are as constantly busy tracking down the workers and making arrests, “Yesterday two young Communists were executed here by shooting, and these executions, as is the invariable practice, were carried out in public. | Sometimes the condemned men are done to death on the military parade | ground, and again they may be taken to the foreshore on the banks of the | Yangtse River and beheaded before a multitude of spectators. “Wherever the executions occur, they are always witnessed by thou- sands of Chinese, for the prisoners are first paraded through the streets, each one with a long white board protuding from the back of his col- lar and the tale of his crimes written large in black characters for all to read. The condemned men make every use of the parade to the place of execution to shout Communist slogans and propaganda catchwords, ; and to denounce the “tyranny” of the | present regime. “Twenty Communists have been publicly executed here within the last sixty days and arrests have been numerous. Today there are more than 100 men and women in prison | here in Chungking awaiting trial on charges of Communist activities, Acquittals are few and the death sentence is invariably pronounced against those who are found guilty.” Despite the executions and terror the Communist forces are advancing. The masses are more and more fol- lowing Communist leadership. This is admitted on all hands—it is the reason why the militarists let flow a sea of blood in the hope of physi- cally destroying the revolutionary leadership of the Chinese masses, COMRADE OLENATH DIES PASSAIC, N. J., April 6—Dmitro Olenaih, an active Ukranian worker, was killed, and Charles Simchers was very badly injured, as a car the lat- ter was driving collided with a train at a railroad crossing. evidtions, for ren rent reduc- SMASH THE CRY OF “CONVICT-LABOR”—-WAR PRETXT ON USSR! (8. LUMBER BARONS CALL FOR AN EMBARGO AS SOVIET SHIPS NEAR WITH 4,000,000 FEET OF RUSSIAN LUMBER British Forest Engineer Says Talk of “Forced Labor” Is Fabric of Lies; Soviet Lumber Camps BetterThan He Built Himself Soon the whole cry of “forced labor” will be whipped ap to greater fury. Several ship loads of Soviet lumber are on the way to the United States, containing 4,000,000 feet of Rus- sian timber. They are expected of the workers’ republic are u ganda campaign against the U. The National Lumber Manufac- turers’ Association, which exploits the American lumber workers under the most miserable conditior taking the lead in the cr “forced labor.” They s be- come interested in “labor.” Behind them, of course, is the A. F. of L. the chief shouter. The National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, in a letter to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman, demand this lumber from the Soviet Union, now on its way, be stopped and all fur- ther shipments be barred. In this issue of the Daily Worker we printf a collection of pictures taken from ‘the Russian lumber camps. Even the capitalist press on many occasions was forced to admit that the workers in the Soviet lum- ber camps fare better than in any camps of the same kind in capitalist lands. Many capitalist investigators have Jobless Delegates (CONTINUED FRO! tion in every industrial town of coun- cils of the unemployed, and of the militant unions of the Trade Union Unity League. The main task of these councils and unions is, besides supporting the demands on state le- gislatures and national government for unemployment insurance, to fight the day-to-day battle against wage- cuts, against evictions, for relief for particular cases of starving ‘workers, to organize tenants’ leagues, to stop any attempt to use the jobless as scabs, etc. . Marchers Start April 17 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 7. — | Unemployed and employed workers are called to meet at the city hall, | Philadelphia, April 17, at 9 a.m., to send off the state marchers to Har- risburg. The unemployed councils circulate | leaflets throughout the city, giving the main demands of the hunger marchers, and explaining that there are 1,000,000 unemployed in Pennsyl- vania, with hundreds of thousands starving, being evicted, suffering from pellagra and other food defi- ciency diseases, while the warehouses burst with food and clothing, houses go vacant, and the half starved part time workers are heavily taxed by their employers to provide what little “relief” is given the jobless. While this goes on, millions of dollars are appropriated by state and cities for military purposes, for state police, for high salaries for public officials. Pinchot Broke Promises “Governor Pinchot has betrayed his election promises to the unem- ployed, as he has betrayed every elec- tion promise to the workers and small farmers of the state,” the un- employed councils point out. The socialist party officials have introduced a bill which will provide only $2 for relief per week to each jobless family. The A. F. of L. fights any insurance whatever. The state headquarters of the un- employed councils, 929 Arch St., Phi- ladelphia, calls on employed and un- employed workers to get together, form jobless councils, and send de- legations to join the march. They should communicate with the state headquarters as soon as possible. It calls on A. F. of L, union members to get their locals to endorse the march, and to have their delegates at the state federation of labor con- vention fight for the demands of the hunger marchers. Fight for Demands! 1. Immediate enactment of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, calling for a weekly payment to the one million unemployed of a sum equal to their average wage, but not less than $15 a week, with $3 additional for each dependent; the funds to be raised by a tax of 10 per cent on fortunes over $25,000 and on annual incomes over $5,000, This fund to be managed by the workers themselves, unemployed and employed. 2. An emergency appropriation by the State Legislature of forty-two million dollars from the proposed budget, to be turned over to the Unemployed Insurance Fund, and to be paid out to the unemployed as indicated above, 3, Immediate cancellation of all debts and mortgages for poor farm- ers. No taxation of poor farmers. 4. No eviction of the unemployed. The repeal of the State Eviction Law. No sheriff sales of workers’ homes or property of poor farmers, for non-payment of taxes or mort- OO as lee 1 Geeta meee Ne Demand In- surance From Legislature M PAGE ONE) gro workers, women workers and young workers in the administration of relief. Equal ‘rights for Negro workers, 6. Free gas, electricity and coal for the unemployed. 7. The right of workers to free speech and assembly and to strike. The repeal of the Flynn Sedition Act and granting of an amnesty to all political prisoners. Abolition of the injunction in strikes, and the imme- diate release of Shoe Organizer C. Lippa of Philadelphia. Abolition of the. Coal and Iron Police in all forms. ae eee Mansfield Mass Meet. MANSFIELD, Ohio, April 7—To rally support for the hunger march on Columbus, the unemployment in- surance committee of Mansfield is calling a mass meeting for April 3 at 7:30 p. m. in the Trades Council Hall. The committee was elected at @ recent unemployed meeting to guarantee that five’ representatives of the Mansfield jobless will join the march when it passes through the city on April 21, and to prepare for the reception of the marchers from other cities. EXECUTE 20, ONE WOMAN, IN CHINA Militarists Desperate At Red Advance Reports from Tsinan, China, state that twenty-two Communists, one of them a woman, were executed Mon- day. Executions of Communists and alleged Communists is taking place with greater frequency throughout China, Enraged by his failure to stamp out the growing Communist forces, Chiang Kai Shek, and all of the war lords supporting him, as well as those quibbling with him, are re- sorting to wholesale executions of olutionary workers and peasants. ‘Their fury arises out of their des- peration in the face of the constant extension of Soviet territories in China. A cable report from Shanghai by Hallett. Abend, New York Times cor- respondent tells of civil war having broken out in Szechwan Province be- tween the militarist General Li Chi- hsiang and another militarist clique of provincial commanders who have put forty regiments in the field. In a former dispatch Hallett Abend said if this civil war did break out in might lead to a general uprising of the masses under Communist leadership, as the workers and peas- ants were beginning to get restive under the depradations of the war lords. He said that even the armies used by these conflicting militarists were being “infected” with Commu- NITGEDAIGET CAMP AND HOTEL PROLETARIAN VACATION LACE OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR Beautiful Rooms Heated Modernly Equiped Sport and Cultural’ Activity Proletarian Atmosphere $11 A WEEE CAMP NITGEDAIGET, BEACON, ¥.¥ PHONE 181 officialdom, with Matthew Woll as} 1 to arriv soon. All the enemies sing this occasion for @ propa SR te visited these camps at their own will and under their own guidance, with- out any hindrance. All of them |have branded the stories about | “forced labor” as outright lies, Yet these stories persist, The capitalists are trying to stir up the workers against the Soviet Union by means of these lies, Perhaps the most smashing blow to the stories about “forced labor” in the Soviet lumber camps was dealt by J. F. Stewart, a capitalist con- sulting forest engineer, in an article published in the Manchester Guar- dian, England, Feb. 10, 1931. Stew- art wrote this article at the very height of the anti-Soviet campaign in Britain—under the cry of “forced labor.” Here is what this expért said: “I was recently engaged on behalf of a London trust company in in- specting forests in the north of Rus- sia. I traveled thousands of miles through the forests, and visited, fed in and lived in the lumber camps wherever I went. I was not on any conducted tour, but went wherever my work called me, without regard to the wishes of the government, who, I must say, never placed any obstacle in my way. “The camps themselves are quite good, and mostly a good deal better than I have often built for my men and myself in other countries. I was not impressed with the food given me, black bread ahd tea, but it seemed all the food the people ex- pected, and I must say they looked well. “In many cases the loggers do not live in camps, but come from the nearest village. “The work itself is not unduly try- ing to a healthy man who is used to it. The felling and trimming of trees, and even the amounts ex- pected, as reported by refugees, would be laughed at, by, for ex- ample, a Scottish woodsman, who could do the whole day’s work in @ couple of hours and think nothing of it. “I have been in hospitals in the forest villages where they were well equipped, excellently managed by partly qualified medical woman, kept spotlessly clean, and, in their smalf way, were the last word in efficiency. A very good mail service is kept up throughout the entire North, as well as an efficient telegraph service. This is the testimony of @ capital- ist expert. Hundreds of others have borne him out. The pictures we print are further proof that the cap- italist press is filled with lies about “forced labor”—all designed to pugh forward the war drive against the workers’ republic, to shatter the con- struction of the Five-Year Plan and to keep back Socialist upbuilding. Every worker should give his an- swer by participating in the May Day demonstrations and voicing his solidarity with the workers of the Soviet Union against the war mon- gers, Magil Speaks on 5-Yr. Plan In Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport HARTFORD, April 6.—The story of the famous Moscow trial of the eight counter-revolutionary engineers @nd the meaning of the Five-Year Plan will be told inv words and pictures by A. B. Magil, proletarian writer and journalist, in an illustrated lecture to be given consecutively in three Con- necticut cities. Tonight (April 7) Magil speaks in Hartford at 8 o'clock in Lyric Hall, 593 Park St. Tomor- row (Wednesday) he will speak in New Haven at the Labor Lyceum Auditorium, 36 Howe St., and Thurs- day he will talk in Bridgeport at Lithuanian Hall, 407 Lafayette St. The meetings are under the ayspices of the Friends of the Soviet Union. Magil, who was a correspondent for the revolutionary press at the en- gineers’ trial, has just completed a tour of New York state where he spoke at successful meetings in Buf- falo, Albany, Schenectady and Troy. Many applications for membership in the Friends of the Soviet Union were received at the meetings. The pictures he is showing were taken in the Soviet Union and give vivid views of the great work of socialist con- struction in Soviet industry and agri- culture. Next Sunday evening Magil will speak in Baltimore, Md. Use your Red Shock Troop List every day on your job. The worker next to you will help save the Dally Worker, VACATION : — Beautiful Mountain Views, quiet resting place, good food, $13.50 weekly~Avanta Farm, Ulpter