The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1931, Page 3

931 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1 WisT FARGO ARMOUR’S IN EXTENSIVE LAYOFFS; FIRE ALL OVER 40 YEARS North Dakota Farm Jobs Now Offer from $15 | | to $30 a Month Local Railroad Slow in Re-Hiring Men Laid Off Around Christmas Daily Worker: West Fargo, N. D. Armour and Co. last week had another extensive lay-off at their plant here, the second in two weeks. were laid off “till business pic alone. An announcement was 40 or over will be laid off and Thirty workers ks up” (!) in the first lay-off issued then that all workers of no more hired. Armour wants ‘em young to stand the speed-up that prevails in all depart- ments. The pay to workers was 874 cents an hour, but the new layoffs are preparing the which is generally expected. Many of the old hands “are fin- ally getting their eyes opened as to the prospects for steady employment and good wages at Armours.” Railroad Firing The N.P.R.R. is going very slow in rehiring its maintenance of way men it fired before Xmas, contrary to its promise, It is transferring its foremen here to another point, so the discharged workers will find it doubly hard to get hired again by the new foreman, who may bring his old crew with him, The new Interstate Grain Eleva- tor is completed now. It was built up under a speed-up and starvation wage plan such as hasn’t often been exceeded here. Minneapolis contrac- tors did the job. Ten hours a day at 30c per hour with half an hour way for a new wage cut soon, —— for dinner was the schedule. ‘The carpenters were so terrified at they used to start work 20 minutes too early every morning. The writer visited the slave mark- et in Fargo today. There are many men looking for jobs but many job- less and few jobs to be had. A few farm jobs offering from $15 to $30 @ month. During the blizzard last week the Fargo police station was crowded like a sardine can each night with un- employed and homeless workers. ‘The Union Mission on Front Street hhas been starving 50 homeless men, women and children every day on the average of two meals a day, all winter long. —W. Ss. ‘Albany Dock Bosses Try to Cut Stevedores’ Pay Albany, N. Y. Daily Worker: | The dock bosses on the pulp- wood docks here are up to some old tricks. First they put an “ad” in the paper for longshoremen to unload pulp. But the longshore- men want 85 cents an hour for this work, to which they are en- titled, When you consider how we ave speeded up on the job, many times being forced to work straight through, without any dinner, it is ‘y no means enough. And nobody knows how many get crippled on the job. Well, now they advertise for “Laborers” to come and do this tongshore work. For this “labor’ they pay 50 cents an hour. T is a low-down trick, and the long. ‘noremen here are going to organ- ixe into the Trade Union U League, which has its headquarteis at 9714 Hamilton Street, Albany, to fight against conditions on the docks here in Albany. s —A. J. (formerly on the Lakes) Birmingham Soup (From the Southern Worker.) Birmingham, Ala. We want to let you know about — our slop kitchens. They closed | them up, before the workers that | had to cat there died of poisoned food. Since they started that dump for the wholesale houses to sell their rotten food to, there have been ! if 1 Line Shuts Down many workers got sick, especially children. The poor workers had to depand | on the Red Cross, and they have quit what little they did do. It is high time that the men who are working should get together with us and demand real cash re- lief for the unemployed workers. UNEMPLOYED. Fail to Intimidate Chi Student Who Exposes Teachers Lie on USSR Chicago, Til. Daily Worker:— It may be of interest to your read- ers in particular and to the working class in general to’ know what is go- ing on in some of the Chicago schools. As a son of a worker I know my duty to the working class. Whenever there is a discussion on the system of gov't in the Soviet Union I tell my “teacher” and classmates what I know. Then a few so called “social- ists” get up and “dump” the usual lies of “forced labor,” “soviet dump- ing” and “religious prosecution,” After I explode these “yarns” a young | lady get up and says that, there is not enough food in Soviet Russia. I was just going to explode this nur- sery tale when the teacher realizing that I told the class the truth and expressing her patriotic feeling told me to sit down and stop talking. however defied this 100% boss and went on speaking when she sent me to the Dean of boys. The Dean said that I would have to stop favoring Russia and sent me back to the class. I show my revolu- tionary spirit yet, however. I am not intimidated by the threats of the teachers. I point out quotations from the New York Times but my teacher still protests and tells me to sit down, A Young Worker, Case Stirs Mass Resentment; LL.D. Rush- ing Attorney to Start Appeal Proceedings (CONTINUED FROM PAGE OND) of 5,000 population. Tuesday when the first verdict was brought in there . \Was a demonstration in the crowded ‘gourtroom against the defendants. In the face of this, the trjal judge, Mudge J. A, Hawkins, has the ef- fontery to deny the charges of the international Labor Defense that the Negro workers are not receiving a fair trial, that they were being le- gally lynched. . Hawkins made his denial following receipt of a telegram from the na~ tional office of the International Labor Defense denouncing the trial as a frame-up and a legal lynching, and warning the judge that the working elass of the United States, and of the whole world, would hold him responsible for this atrocious crime against the working class. The 1. L. D. had also denounced appoint- ment by the judge as defense attor- neys of local attorneys who had pre- viously openly expressed their desire for a speedy execution. Governor B. M. Miller to whom the International Labor Defense had also sent a telegram of protest has re~ fused to take any action to prevent. the mass legal lynching. He said he would “take no official recogni- tion” of the I, L. D. protest! A Frame-Up! The nine youths are charged with raping two white girls after throwing their white male companions off a freight train on which all hands were " rides, The two white girls, who aresknown here as notor- fous prostitutes are busy capitaliz- ing their appearance as star wit- nesses of the State to drum up trade. pe ae I, L. D. Takes Up Defeise. NEW YORK.—The International Labor Defense has sent another tel- egram to the governor of Alabama and the trial judge advising them that the workers’ defense organiza- tion is entering directly into the case and is sending an attorney to offer to the defendants the services of the I'L. D. The telegram warns the governor and the trial judge that they will be strictly responsible for the safety of the I. L. D. attorney. The I L. D. attorney will arrive in Scottsboro tomorrow. The Communist Party last night issued an official statement calling attention to the significance of the case, and exposing it as lynching in another form, that instead of the mob, the bosses are staging a legal lynching. In the statement, the Communist Party calls on the International La~ bor Defense, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, The Trade Union Unity League and all workers’ or- ganizations immediately to send tel- egrams of protest to the governor of Alabama and the trial judge. A national campaign of protest meetings of various kinds is being organized, according to a statement given out by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights last. night. Efforts the prospect of losing their job that | q FAKERS BETRAY V. L MASSES) Negro World Offers Bosses “Solution” NEW YORK. — Goncretely illus- trating the rotten reformism of the | Garvey misleaders and their consis- tent betrayal of the liberation strug gle of the Negro masses in every part of the world, the Negro World in its current issue makes the proposal that the impoverished masses of the Vir- gin Islands be permitted to buy back themselves and their country from the United States imperialists to whom they were sold, willy-nilly, by the Danish imperialists. After reviewing the difficulties of American imperialism in the islands, quoting Hoover's statement that they are “an effective poorhouse,” and claiming that the Ame! bosses are faced with a yearly expendi- ture of $500,000 in order to maintain their rule in the islands, the Negro World offers the following solution: “To overcome all these obstacles, | |the Negro World suggests that the | | Virgin Islands be SOLD to the IN- HABITANTS thereof.” Not one word does the Negro World say about the right to self- determination of the Virgin Islands masses, the right to determine and control their own form of govern- ment, irrespective of any claims of | American imperialists who bought them like so many cattle. Not one word of criticism has the r World for the Danish imperialists | who sold a people and their homes or for the American imperialists who bought them. The Negro World accepts the deal | as quite proper. It even goes out of | its way to praise the Danish impe- | | Tialists with the lie that the popu-| lation was “prosperous, contented | |and happy” under the Danish impe- | rialists. It paints Danish imperial- | ‘ism as beneficial, deliberately cover- ling up the fact that imperialism, | whether British, Danish or Ameri- | can, functions to rob the colonial} sasses for the benefit of the impe- | jalist oppressors. While the is-/ -nds were more prosperous under ‘ye Danes than now, the popula- on was certainly never happy and yntented. Negro workers! Repudiate _ the zarvey misleaders! Fight this fake solution for the misery of the mass- | a Chief U. S. imperiz ship for visit to Vir the oppressed population impoverished by Ame- Hoover boarding war- rican imperiali ¢ he insulied as a 9 Oper o | ism by characterizing the islands ent effective poorhouse. | View of Capital of Virgin Islands In inset: New civilian governor who will carry out policies of American imperialists. es of the Virgin Islands! Demand ditional fight or self-determination | onstrate May Day unconditional independence! Sup port the. siruggle for a free, fed ated West Indies! Demand uncon- for the Negro majorities of the West Indies, Africa, and -the Black Belt of the southern United States. Dem- against imperial- ism, against the bosses’ starvation | jsystem, against the wage cuts and | lynching! ‘STLOUIS WORKERS. PLAN MAY DAY, | ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 9—The Ne- |gro and white workers of St. Louis | are preparing for the biggest May Day lemonstration ever held in the his- \.tory of this city, A call for the con- ference has been sent out to working | class organizations by the Communist | Party, the Trade Union Unity League land the Unemployed Councils Thousands of copies of the call are | being distributed to workers in the | factories urging them to organize | committees in the factories and pre- | pare for May Ist, International Fight- | |ing Day of struggle, to fight against | wage cuts, speed-up, stagger system, | lynching, persecution of Negro and foreign born, against imperialist war, | against unemployment and for un- | employment insurance. The call points to the unbearable | conditions that exist in St. Louis) where the government is forced to ad- mit that there are over 100,000 work- ers unemployed. The conference will lay out plans for proper mobilizations of the workers for a demonstration the city never saw before. All work- ers’ organizations, locals of the A, F, of L., fraternal groups, Negro organi- zations, committees of workers in factories, etc. are urged to send dele- gates to the conference on April 19th | at the headquarters of the Trade} Union Unity League, 1601 Franklyn Avenue. THREATEN LYNCH YOUNG CROPPER MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 9.—Follow- ing a fight between the manager of a plantation near Locke, Tenn. and Paul Walker, 18-year old son of a tenant farmer, a sheriff's posse was organized to run down young Walker who is said to fled the scene after Janding a charge of shot gun in the face of the plantation manager when the latter attacked him, following an argument between the two, The bos- ses are threatening to lynch young Walker. Victor Wilson, the plantation slave driver, was brought to a Memphis hospital today, his face torn beyond recognition. He is said to be in a serious condition. This is one of numerousincidents of individual revolts against’ the brutal slave system of share cropping intro- | duced by the bosses in the South and Southwest following the Civil War and the paper emancipation of the Negroes. Both young Walker and the plantation manager are white. a Against the high cost of living! Against wage cuts and speed-up, For the defense of the Soviet Union! Workers! Send protest telegrams to the governor of Alabama! Organ- ize protest meetings against these will be made to rally all Negro and white organizations on the basis of the sharpest struggles against the legal lynchings of the nine young Negro workers, mass murders by the ruling class Jandlords and capitalists of the South! Demonstrate on May Day against this legal lynching of nine young wor'ers! ‘ 500 Were Killed In € During Fight 1857; Ga ina Aalsyy dhj s ¥ ect a Goes W 1p awnpore, India, orst Battle Since lans More Betraya \ Vi to Lenden to Talk Over Crushing of In-| dian Rebellion Together With British “Labor” Government What the capitalist new: hting in C ig to light. about the severe fi recently now con Indian National Congress, repr oisie, no fighting which followed by the mur der of Baght Singh, and three othe’ revolutionaries, by the British Labo government. It is the most seri conflict which has taken place sinc the Calcutta mutiny of 1857, when hundreds were slaughtered by the British government. The Dawnpore fighting taok place during demonstrations of the Indi- an masses against the execution of the three revolutionaries. who had been tortured by the representatives of the British “labor” government. British troops were called in and slaughtered the people with cannon and machine guns. Communal fight- ing later broke out, whipped up pb; the British, as the result of the burn- ing of several religious places. The British imperialists are now using the Cawnpore uprising as proof for the need of more troops in In- dia and a stronger military rule, After the hanging of Baght Singh and his companions fighting took plaie in other parts of India, such as Benares, Agra and Mirzapur, and the fight of the peasants in Burma, in the Tharrawady district flared up fiercer than every. Despite the “unity” of the India National Congress behind Gandhi, and his sell out to British imperial- ism, the masses are seething with revolt. The Cawnpore uprising is just partially expressive of the deep discontent throughout India, and against which Gandhi is working in alliance with the British imperial- ists. Gandhi leaves for London soon, where he, alone, will “negotiate” with the Labor government, acting for the imperialists, on how best to quel the rebellious spirit of the In- dian masses, DAR RRR EN JOBLESS SALESMAN COMMITS SUICIDE : CLEVELAND, Qhio.—Despondent because of unemployment, William Conners, a jobless salesman, shut himself in his car with the engine running and killed himself by bréath- ing the exhause fumes through a hose. spapers have been suppre ‘awnpore, India, that took place A committee elected by the esentative of the Indian bourge- reports that 500 persons were killed in the recent] Hoover Jokes About Starving Kids (CONTINUED OM PAGE ONE) | will be known as either strike day or Communist Labor Day,” said the A. F. of L. resolution, But the workers who now feel the yals and sell-outs of the fak- ars in the A. F. of L. will rally to | May Day as a day of struggle against | unemployment and wage-cuts and if strikes to smash the bosses’ at- tack on the working class. * 8 CHICAGO, Ill... April 9.—The Chi- cago District of the Communist Party has been mobilizing all of its sec- tions to have the biggest May Day | demonstrations possible, not only in the larger cities, but in the smaller | industrial towns. The District Com- | mittee has set out a quota of May | Day demonstrations in 25 places, as compared with the 14 demonstrations on Feb. 25, * So far the following cities reported on making preparations for May Day demonstrations: Chicago, Chicago | Heights, Rogeland, Hegewich—So. | Chicago, Cicero, Gary, Hammond, In- diana Harbor, Indianapolis, Milwaur kee, Cudahy, Racine, Madison, St. Louis, East St. Louis, Madison, Col- linsville, Rockford, Rock Island, Wau- tkegan. Indianapolis and the South- ern Illinois mining seetion did not send in yet a detailed report, but these two sections will at least have |5 or 6 demonstrations. . So far nine united front May Day conferences have been reported by the sections. Preparations for May Day will be specially concentratedin the factories. Plans of work sub- mitted by the sections show greater concentration than ever before on reaching the employed workers, with- out neglecting, of course, the unem- ployed and the workers in the vari- ous mass organizations. Pie air PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 9.—“A | broad united front conference to | ‘6,000 MORE FIRED | _ BY BOSSES CREW NUED PROM PAGE ONE) (CONTE Committee expects a new unemploy- | ment crisis worse than this one, in| the Fall, though it keeps up the bluff that the can take over the men it is firing during the summer. It is maintaining a skeleton organization. Firing started April 1. Men have} | been laid off ever since. Only 25,000} lof the total of a million jobless in | Greater York were given any | work. The New York City board of esti- mates was notified weeks ago that the Prosser Committee employees were to be thrown on the street, but did nothing until a couple of weeks ago, when it passed the buck to the state legislature, saying that it would like to appropriate $10,000,000 to go on hiring these men, but the law wouldn't permit. Laws never stop a ruling class from doing whatever il- | legal thing it wants to, but are ex- |ceptionally sacred when there is something to be done that the rulers don’t waut to do. The legislature, however, with an eye on the coming elections, passed the buck right back. The republican legislators put through a law that New York Tammany administration could appropriate the money. Now the board of estimates will have the question of appropriations up once more today. But Tammany has already announced, through its} city officials that a lot of the men) formerly employed by the Prosser | Committee, will not be taken on be- cause they are not voters here for the past two years. And it is already made clear that the $10,000,000 will not be paid out in wages to the hun- gry. Instead it will be used “only as needed” for city construetion work, and wages will be a small part of! that. The Prosser Committee spent | about $8,000,000, JS Gunboats Fire | On Chinese Soviets A dispatch to the New York World- Telegram on Friday tells of the action of the American gunboats in China shooting at revolutionary workers and peasants. The manner in which the World-Telegram reports this action of the imperialists is that of thinking it good sport of murdering men, women and children in Soviet territory, The Chiang Kai Shek government very gladly accepts the assistance of the imperialists gunboats on the Yangtze river. The World-Telegram dispatch says that the American gun- boats of the Yangtze Patrol “are en- gaged in constant potshot warfare with armed Chinese,” The officers of these gunboats, the report says get great thrills out of this slaughter in } to refer to the graft scandals which | SPRING JOB MA NEWS CLUB SALES IN OAKLAND, CAL ers and typists, ete., the fol- ional volunteers who Worker in gete work which has ut of the 60,000 cire Anne M. Schif- d_ explains Oaklani “€ seoson has ca Spring € x0 S. Glick, New York; 1 here.” The | Louise Bergman, Bror Ed Bruel, | same situation pre o some ¢ Brooklyn; Joe Mermelman, Coney tent, in Alban. Y > Island; Charles Kosofsky, Brooklyn, charge of the D. | “Please send us a bundle of ten tion in all pa prepare to Daily Workers every day,” write Frank and John N, of Steubenville. From G.V.B., Daily Worker agent of U 4, Detroit, Mich.: “Plea change the address of bundle of 10 to Unit 4, and send it to me. Also send a new bundle of land’s past good re | fidence they'll r n Workers to the grocery | figure. —— and send the bill to k W. M e as newsst a CTRL RE, I lined up 10 newsstands at 3 a ¥ “When unemployment tions close, lack of fur “it will be up to the American masses to figure this out: Starve or read the Daily Worker?” We'll know how to bet on Rhode Isiand workers! To Oklahor use there is no on get out and once was Comrades mu and neglect. calling unemployed to membership before Canvess house-to-house! “IT am in debt $45.50 to the Daily cire factory Worker since the time I was in jail for 10 days for ‘obstructing the side- } walk” That is the debt oc- Here's Henry Lipkin, star mem curred,” writes B, T. of Norfolk, Va.! ber cf the Bronx Red Builders’ “If you will send me 20 copies daily| News Club in New York. He sells the money sent I will see that To our appeal is betwen 50 and 70 every day, rain p from sten-| or shin Wage Cuts and Un 0 employment Rife yoy Cigar Factory Horrible Conditions In Perth Amboy Concerr Only 150 Left Out of Crew of 800, and These Are On Part Time N. PERTH AMBOY Conditions in the G tory on Courtland § | us women so that we can’t make more en 300 cigars. The working women still accep’ posed as follows by a women: c everything, about the class struggle worker: or solidarity they don’t want to hear “A year and a half a | yet. They still read the religious pany put in machin newspapers, from which they only work on one machine, and t {get bunk, and comics. The priest preaches that we shouln’t listen to the Communist because “that is why God is punishing the world” their suffering is changing them though, and soon they will begin to give theit ditions are not the rosiest; because | they work for starvation w but | their conditions are rosy compared | to the handmakers conditions. Our job is not sure, the material we work | with is bad, and we get different | OWN conditions attention. Let th prices for the cigars we make, we| Priest and bosses enjoy the joys o get 75-80-95 cents or $1.05 for every| the next world! 100 cigars we Now most women | 1 the machine floor department where women make cigars on mae are working on the 45 cent | chin machines worked dred cigars. There are only thre only two r teams working on the 95 cents per) 4nd last week 10 machines were idle. hundred and about six women work-| The women who knew how to make ing on the $1.05 s per hundred vs by hand were working in that partment the rest were sent hame. Now the machine cigar workers are not allowed to work any longer then 9 to 3 P.M. Women machine cigar makers get 85 cents for 1,000 cigars and make only 4,000 cigars a day. ciga: Many nen were hired not long ago to work on the 45 cents per hundred. Women on e 45 cents price make 3 and $10 at the most per week, working from 7 a. m. to 5 a. m. Some women used to make good money and so there never | was unity among the working women. 2ritic q i The younger women used to make} irtish Toms .. our burmese from four to six hundred cigars a (Cable By Inprecerr) ay. be ag ee en ere "| LONDON, April 8—British troops charged Burmese rebels outside of a. serious situation. There are rumors | that the factory will shut down and ‘ ; start up again with machines, t| Tnin, @ village in the Tharawaddy the end of August we got a four week | “strict, when a detachment of mili- | tary police encountered a rebel en- campment, Rifle fire was exchanged hn the two British troops. Four rebels were killed. forced “Vacation.” September 30 women man. tells nice work have jobs, At the end of we went back but about were laid off. The fore- us to work slow, produce and be thankful that we| They are always nagging Against persecution of the foreign- borr MINE, STERL JOBLESS READY ough they will be stopped immediately even if they have to bring in the state police. and It might be remembered that y's funds, refuses | George Bauswine, who is now the chief of police ef this town, was formerly connected with the Phila- delphia police foree and fled frem Philadelphia when asked to explain to the Grand Jury his sudden aeeu- mulation of a large bank account. Burgess William Wilson ts also editor-in-chief of the Norristown Times Herald which is the bosses’ most effective means of broadeasting lies and keeping workers from organ- | izing and fighting for the right to | live. Mayor Ki caused by over-eating spending of the c z from boils over- are being investigated in Pittsburgh for the past month. Charges that over a million dollars was wasted in the past year by the Department of | Public Workers and actual proofs of | it haye been shown. Thousands were | wasted in other departments. Daily new charges are ueht to light showing that the good-hearted May- or, who is so ge! s with the city's funds, ordered solid gold “souvenirs” for his friends, gelden-tone photo- graphs, mother-of pearl fittings for the police chief's toilet, custom made tires for Mr. Kline's $7,000 limousine, ete, and paid for them with city funds while thousands are turned down by the relief agencies, and the Pittsburgh Plan grafters go to work- ers’ pockets for their ‘relief schemes’, March Starts April 17 The hunger march starts frem | Philadelphia April 17, and a mass | meeting of employed and unemployed | Workers is called to meet at 9 a.m. on that day at the city hall to give them a send off. These marchers and those from the other end of the state will call * eae PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 9. AKRON TAG DAYS TO AID prepare mass demonstrations May 1 HUNGER MARCH | will take place Sunday, April 12, at AKRON, Ohio.—Since the city 2 p, m., at Boslover Hall, Seventh council has refused to feed the hun- | and Pine Sts. Organizations that do ger marchers on April 17, Akron| not meet or for one reason or another workers are preparing for tag days| have not elected delegates to this on April 11 and 12 to provide for te| conference are asked to be repre- Jobless delegates who will make the| sented through their officials, No Jong trail to Columbus, working-class organi*ation can af- the interest of imperialist rule. Against evictions, for rent redue- | tions! When the delegate from the unem- ployed council of Philadelphia, Gil | Vear, went to the Norristown officials for a permit to hold an epen air ford to stay away from such a con- | meeting in Norristown as the first ference and it is to be expected that | stop of the hunger marchers on the this conference will be a real mass/| way to Harrisburg, he was nob only gathering of working-class organiza- | refused but bluntly told that if any tions.” attempts are made to parade through all to the international demonstras ainst unemployment, for re- lief, and against the imperialist war | their bosses are planning, as they go through the industrial towns on the |way to the state capital, This in- | ternational demonstration is on the | Piet of May, International Labor Day. " tions