The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1931, Page 3

en a Waukesha, Wisconsin. j While the bosses of this country shout about labor” in the Soviet Union and have eve Government from shipping goods to this the use of “forced labor,” let the bosses pigeons look around a bit and they'll fi as we have in Waukesha. For more than a year and a half th here. The Waukesha Motor and the other ing part-time. Many workers are out of work. The city} WAUKESHA, WIS. POOR | COMMISSION FORCES WORK WITH NO PAY Families Of Five Previously Had Received $4' Worth Of Groceries From City i | “forced n stopped the Soviet country because of and their Fish stool-| nd real forced labor | | ings are slow around r big plants are work- giving relief to hundreds of families. | April 1 they cut the rations by half, | city would the average worker getting $4 worth laa These of groceries for a family of 5. At ‘wo, the same time there is plenty of dis- crimination against many families. The Unemployed Council is now starting a fight against these condi- tions and will fight to get back the food which has been cut off as well as against ce and the shut- hall, laying ; the workers |Jabor is the | groceries to | Starvation. ting off of electri domes of unemployed workers, Force Work From Workers, | workers of |ganizing to Now the city is sending out police- | forced labor and are going to de- men to visit the homes of those un- |™nd that employed who are getting poor relief | #54 for all and ordering them to report to the tity hall for work. If they refused they would be cut off the city’s re- lief list. When the workers reported | Boss Grace Cuts Wages of Fort Workers Quincy, Mass. Daily Worker:— “We will maintain the same wage seale and there won’t be any lay- offs” asserted President Grace of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora- tion, in one of the local newspapers a few days ago. Only a bosses’ pa- per would print a deliberate lie like that. He must have meant that his and his colleagues’ huge profits would not be depreciated, yet he and his kind are trying to convince us that | there will be no wage cuts when we see it happening before our very | eyes, trying to contradict what they | have already done. All men start- | ing to work here this spring have had a 20 per cent wage cut, on their previous ratings, No doubt the cutting would ex- tend further but as they are ex- tremely busy here now, short order contracts to be filled, it wouldn't do to cut wages more openly of men wages. much work doing this, late. have faced ployment, keep body | burdening ted, groups to the office they found that the | work on various city jo! | decorating the river, moving the city | poor list and get the small ration of ty and gas inthe | jet Mr, Fish explain the term. The 'ganizing can the workers smash the jforced labor schemes of the bosses and the boss-mayor of Waukesha, that have been working for the cor- poration for years at cut-throat Indirectly however they have accomplished the same pur- Pose by making a man do twice as the workers takes longer to formul- Regardless of these shrewd tac- tics of subjugating the workers that workers with double work, discus- sions among the workers have star- Plain of conditions. Fellow workers! ers must do to have better condi- tions is to organize and affiliate yourselves with a real militant or- ganization—the T. U. U. L. in solidarity, and fight for your right to exist, —A Shipyard Worker. give them work, but no workers were put to such as tile, etc. The only thing get in return for their right to be on the city’s keep them from actual If this isn’t forced labor, Waukesha are now or- smash this system of the city pay 50 cents in Above: Left to right: L. Harris, B. ul shown below, on a framed-up charge of murder of Max Urban, a silk manufacturer. 1931 Page Three rerenerrpewr ea “1 fil iu To Frame-Up Five Patterson Workers eb, Helen Gershonowitz, Louis Bard and Albert Kotzebuck who are being held in Patterson Jail, | that the Russian workers have a con- | tempt for him and his kind that they city work. Only by or- —Unemployed Slave. | | . . | River Shipyard | | i Pe for the same wages, By open dissention among the spectre of unem- for wages that barely and soul together, and the longer employed factory, where Max Urb: get together and com- posed to have been si What the work- | For full political and Join Against persecution of born, The sidewalk in front of the and self-determination for Negroes! Against imperialist war! | 1 Eight Young Negro (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) |ployment and starvation is causing the greatest alarm on the part of the | white ruling classes. This growing | solidarity of the workers threatens to thwart the maneuvers of the bosses |to make the workers pay the cost of the crisis. Everywhere the workers, Negro and white, are rallying under the militant leadership of the Trade Union Unity League and Unem- ployed Councils in the struggle for immediate relief, against wage-cuts andspeed-up, chain-gangs, peonage, etc. Hence the wave of desperate terror. Hence the frenzied attempts of the bosses and their henchmen to whip up race hatreds between the social rights hese The bosse: device of all ruling classes, an was sup- ugged. | are using the age-old are everywhere engaged in a des- perate attempt to fan info flame the | | “wildest race hatreds among the work- the foreign- Districts Rally for Greetings, ‘Ads, Subs tor May Day, Send Orders Now May Day posters, subscription lists have gone to district organizers, district, section and unit Daily Worker representatives for a concentrated drive.for 1,000 yearly subs or renewals by May 1, All Party members, sympathizers must en- thusiastically join this campaign, also drive for hundreds of advertisements and greetings for May Day issue. Advertisements from fra- ternal organizations, local dealers, etc., must be solicited immediately. The Daily Worker in the next few weeks must receive a tremendous in- come to maintain its existence. Individual greetings should be gathered at 25c. a name. Fraternal organizations must be visited for greet- ings according to their means. One dollar is the minimum but the 10 and $25 greetings are | welcome, Members must be urged to participate | in the subscription drive. | Orders for May Day Taken Now tion, during the present week, Detroit starts its weekly district page, resulting in a big gain in this district. Here are the tables: Summary By Districts The May Day edition of the Daily Worker must also be ordered in large quantities, In- dividual workers, fraternal organizations, units, sections and districts, must order to the fullest extent for the widest distribution possible to — mobilize the workers for May Day demon- strations. Rates in small bundles, 1 cent a | copy; large bundles, §8 per thousand. The | following table gives the dates of May Day edi- tions, as well as the deadline for advertising copy to reach the Daily Worker: NEW AND CORRECTED DATES FOR MAY DAY EDITIONS Pacific Coast Edition Issue dated April 24, goes to District 12, 13, 18 and 19. Deadline on ads and greetings reaching Daily Worker office, April 20. Mid-West Edition Issue dated April 27, goes to Districts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 17, Deadline on ads and greetings reaching Daily Worker office, April 22. Eastern Edition Issue dated April 29, goes to Districts 1, 2 (Upstate New York only) 3, 4, 5, 6, 15 and 16, Meadline for ads and greetings reaching Daily Worker office, April 24, New York City Edition Issue dated April 30, goes to New York City and Northern New Jersey. Deadline for ads and greetings reaching Daily Worker office, April 25, Overdue Subs Dropped Tables for the past few weeks have shown decreases due to thousands of overdue subs cut off the list. The dropping of another 2,000 subs shows in this week's tables. Cards have gone out on all these subs that must be visited so that contact is retained. In soliciting for renewals, emphasize the Daily Worker office to start new accounts with every new sub. With very old overdue subs off, from now on we expect to record some inereases, There has also been an inclination to cut down on bundle orders fol- Jowing the demand of the D. W. for payment of all papers. This cutting tendency shows this week in dropping of 509 in bundles, However, the last few days show @ decided upturn in b) badere to 3 Pa eee a 4 a be ge FS 82 1, Boston 468 «86450 387 «421 (918 N.Y 1210 7889 1178 7839 19 8 8. Phila. 850 2031 3 Wy 4, Buffalo . 161 5260 «589687 98 5, Pitts, 290 «6288 1070 «578 —t 6 Cleveland, 716 1633 7 Detroit 850 2171 8 Chicago 1463 4292 «1241 408% 9 Mnpls. SRL 628 «448 = 666 « S73 362 263) «(568 chy oy 36 Bb 393 781 260786 908 1437 650 1487 2 15, Conn, 2 R15 439 16 South 36 5S 17 Birming. 23 152 18 Butte va 35 128-249 Increase Bt Paul... 95 6H 32 uM a2 8 35 186 20) «126 wet mM 876 4 6 452 a 150 Ere oe o@tt 78 Ot 200 Ot woe ax6 18 168 498 ao 48 ae a5 Ot 15 100 Mu 100 8 1% 200 67 200 2a nu 26 6 a8 a6 “@ 28a G 285 203 80 od ee | j Red Builders Drop | This week's tables show the total decrease is | 2576. Of this 2067 are drop in overdue subs, | 509 in bundles, principally due to disorganiza- tion of Red Builders in two districts: Chicago and Cleveland. District 8, Chicago, dropped 210 (figures do not include overdue subs off, but only hundle decreases). However, there is a possibility for renewed vigor in the Red Builders Club, Unsold copies are cut off, and new solid growth is promised. District 6, Cleveland, took off 215. The Red Builders, gone to pieces, must be im- | mediately reorganized to recoved the bad drop. District 5, Pittsburgh, also dropped 135, largely due to a cut of 100 in Herminie in addition to most forces being jailed for a month, resulting in temporary disorganization. PHILLY, BUFFALO, SHOW GAINS However, some good gains are recorded. Dis- trict 3, Philadelphia went up to 70, due to boosts in New Castle and Scranton orders. District 4,’ Buffalo, put on 129, pricipally due to Jamestown’s increase of 109, Hope Jamestown holds this, It has recently fluc- tuated in bundles, but shows signs of solidify- ing its orders. District 9, Minneapolis, gains 38. New Subs, Renewals, Ete, A total of 189 new subscriptions and 239 re- newals were put on and 131 subscriptions were dropped last week. These are apart from the total of 2067 very old subs taken off. Seatle Without Page. With Pittsburgh getting a district issue next Monday, Detroit and Buffalo planning for this week, Seattle remains the only large district not yet organized for a weekly page. This page, when finally inaugurated, will greatly aid the district in drawing toward the movement thou- sands of workers in the Northwest. Repeated communications explaining advantages, terms, etc, have thus far failed, but we hope District 12 will see its way clear to ordering one, Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U. 8. A. P. O. Box 87 Station D. New York City. Please send me more information on the Com- munist Party. NAMO sessececereeseressceeccscscsssscaesecsane | AGAPOSS ..seccecreseerensecenserseecennasereeese City . Wiasess GUM sekdoeecess Occupation .. ABO cree Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, P, O, Box 87 Station D, New York City, and white must raise the banner of They | Workers in Alabama ers, organizing lynchings and mur- ders of Negro workers. This is in order to detract the workers from the real enemy, to split up their jranks on the basis of race, and in |this manner isolating the Negro |workers from the general struggle, jleaving the working class divided land defenseless in the face of the united boss class offensive. | Frame-Up of 9 Part of Terror. This vicious frame-up of the nine defenseless Negro youths is part and parcel of the growing terror against the whole working class | which is directed and inspired by the | Fish committee thru its agents the | American Legion, Blackshirts, Ku | Klux Klan and other patriotic or- | ganizations, against Negroes foreign- | borr, unemployed and poor starving | native white workers north and south. | The frame-up of the Negro boys is being carried out by the same bosses | ond their tools who only last week attempted to break up the Unem- ployed Council in Greenville, S. C., teating up Negro and white work- ers, who were organized to fight against starvation, the same scound- rels who murdered Ella May Wiggins and wounded four other workers in an attempt to break up the heroic strike of the South Carolina textile workers, who brutally beat up and attempted to lynch Hurst and Coder, | organizing joint struggles cf Negro | and white workers against unemploy- nent and starvation. | The A. F. of L, fakers, the strike- | breakers par excellence of the bosses | are through their Alabama organi- | zations actively supporting so-called | Black laws, now before the Alabama | state legislation. These laws are calculated to make the revolutionary | working class organizations illegal. They brand as Communistic, and | therefore criminal, all agitation for | social equality and the organization | of Negro and white workers together in the struggle against starvation. Negro Reformists Aid Lynchers. The Negro reformists and their agents among the workers, the fake | socialists, Randolph and Crosswhite, | are actively helping the bosses in | their splitting tactics, Their role is | to divert the gathering struggles of | the Negro masses into channels | harmless to the bosses, and to keep away from the revolutionary work~- ers organizations, Everywhere these traitors are seeking to strengthen | reformist illusions among the Negro workers, While workers are being |lynched and murdered all over the country, the Negro reformists are in- troducing servile resolutions against lynching, before fascist A. F, of L. conventions, organizing together with the white liberals, i, ¢. the enlight+ ened slave drivers, so-called investl- gation committees “to study the caue | ses of lynchings”, and conducting |@ demagogic agitation for anti- lynching bills, which even if adopted must be carried out by the lynchers themselves. Only the mass pressure of the Ne- gro and white workers can put a stop to the Scottsboro outrage. Only the organized struggle of Negro and white workers under the leadership of their revolutionary organizations can put a stop to the lynch system. The TUUL declares that this legal lynching is a crying outrage against the whole working class. The Union Unity League calls upon white workers of Alabama over the country to answer tardly crime against the workers a more determined struggle for rights of the Negro masses, shackles of the Negro workers are at the same time the shackles of the whole working class. Every act of violence, lynchings, ete., every per- secution of the Negro workers is a blow against the workers as a whole, Against the victe ous splitting tactics of the bosses and their henchmen, tho workers Negro (Trade Union Unity League Calls On 9 NEGRO YOUTHS f| Workers to Smash Legal Lynching of GREET ILD AID (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and sent wires to Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., protesting this outrage. Numerous other meet- ings have been arranged. A number of working-class organizations have also wired their protests to the gov- ernor of Alabama, In Ohio, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the International Labor Defense have formed a United Front committee to mobilize working- class organizations, Negro and white, native and foreign born, to defend the nine young workers, Many tele- grams of protest have been sent the governor of Alabama by workers or- ganizations in Ohio. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights was instru- mental in introducing a protest re- solution in one of the liberal forums in Cleveland and forcing it through against the resistance of the leader- ship of the Forum, who tried to side- step by saying it was against the rules of the Forum to adopt resolu- tions. The L.S.N.R. delegates replied to hell with the rules when the lives of nine workers are at stake! The few honest workers present supported the L.S.N.R, and the resolution was adopted. In the meantime, the Negro re- formists and their press are treacher- ously co-operating with the southern boss lynchers by either ignoring the trial and death sentences altogether or by peddling the boss-press lies of a “fair trial” of “protection” by the National Guard lynchers, etc, The Negro World has ignored the trial altogether; the New York Amsterdam News gave it three inches on an in- side page in its current issue; The Pittsburgh Courier gave it 8 inches on page 7, with the headline “9 In- dicted For Rape in Alabama,” The Use your Red Shock Troop List every day un your job. The worker next to you will help save the Daily Worker. working class solidarity between Ne- gro and white, native and foreign- born workers in the struggle against the common enemy, the bosses, Must Organize Resistance ‘The workers, Negro and white, na- tive and foreign-born, must organize together in shop and grievance com- mittees, build revolutionary trade un- ions, unemployed branches, to fight for real and immediate relief for the starving unemployed workers and poor farmers, against wage cuts, speed up and stagger systems and for national unemployment insurance, for social equality and the right of <= TWO OF PATERSON WORKERS INDICTED IN MURDER FRAMEUP WEREN'T NEAR THE PICKET LINE Facts Prove Silk Bosses Are Trying to Kill Five Because of Their Militancy in the Working Class Movement By ALLAN JOHNSON Urban, the Paterson mill owner whose recent death has been the ex- gree murder, embodied in himself all the hypocrisy and cruelty of his class. As one of the leaders of the Work- men's Circle, a “socialist” organization supposedly organized to help workers improve their conditions, he contin- ually mouthed “left phrases.” That is to say, he expressed complete sym- pathy with all the aims of the most militant workers in the organization. Actually, however, wages and working conditions in Urban’s shop were among the worst in the city of Pat- erson. It was in keeping with Urban’s character that he make a visit to Soviet Russia, ostensibly for pleasure but actually to try to procure a lu- crative contract with the workers’| government. His exploiter’s greed stuck out all over his personality like thorns on a cactus and he wasn’t in Russia very long before he learned make tno attempt to conceal. I turned his blood to gall to see work- ers—common, ordinary workers he called them being treated like kings while he, the great Mr. Urban of Pat- | erson, N. J., was treated like a com- mon thief; which, in fact, he was. “Love” For Russia Turns To Hate, The “great love” which Urban ex- Pressed for Soviet Russia back in Paterson turned to the bitterest kind of hate during his stay in the only workers’ republic, His puny mind de- termined on revenge against all the workers, He returned to the United States—without a contract of course ~-and immediately ended his agree- ment with the National Textile Work- ers Union, declaring that hereafter his mill would be an open shop. For this action he was expelled from the International Workers Order, Last January the workers employed by Urban determined to strike against their intolerable conditions. The chances of success were good, the silk workers of Paterson were not likely to scab on their fellow workers even though unemployment was wide- Jobless for Months, Donates $5 of First Pay to the Party | CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 13.— Forced to leave the district through unemployment and seck work else- where, a worker has sent back $5.00 of the first pay he has received in months to help wage the struggle against starvation and for unemploy- ment relief and insurance. He had worked for three weeks as a janitor, getting $28.00. He wants the money distributed as follows: $1 to the literature department of the Communist Party; $1 to the Party for supplies; $1 to the International La- bor Defense; $1 to the Young Com- munist League, and $1 to the Young Pioneers, SS a a eae Baltimore Afro-American disposes of the case with a 4-inch story next to the back page of its first section, the Chicago Defender gave it ten inches with deceiving headline “Troops Guard Trial of Boys in Alabama,” The Chicago Whip ignored the trial. In the same issue the Afro-Amer- ican gave a column to the treacher- ous activities of the Negro national reformists in Harlem. The Chicago Defender, and Pittsburgh Couriers had editorials and cartoons lauding the memory of the servile Booker T. Washington, Not one of these papers of Negro business had one word of editorial protest against this ghastly frame-up and legal lynching. Negro and white workers! Unite in the fight to save these nine youths, in the struggle against the boss sys. tem of starvation, lynching and race | hatred! Demonstrate May Day! Ne-| gro and white workers! Expose the Anti-Lynch Conferences. Stop the legal lynching of the nine young Negro unemployed workers! Smash the murderous frame-up of these young workers! Demonstrate May Day! ant, OO misleaders who are co-operating with the southern boss lynchers and their courts in this planned mass murder of 9 Negro youths! Force the issue in your organizations! See that your labor unions, fraternal organizations, etc, at once go on record protesting this murderous frame-up! spread and local conditions insurs that in the next few months there | will be more unemployed in Paterson | cuse for the indictment of five work-|than there ever were. Moreover, in jets on a frame up charge of first de-|a series of strikes against individual |shops led by the National Textile Workers Union in recent months the workers were almost always success- | ful. From the beginning of the strike against Urban until February 18, | when he was attacked by underworld jenemies, picketing continued quietly | though none the less effectively. The shop was small and the picket line rarely contained more than a half a dazen workers, Attack Woman Picket. On the morning of February 18, |Urban’s automobile drew up to the curb in front of his mill. He leaped | out of the car, and after hurling the filthiest sort of abuse at the three pickets, Lieb, Katzebuck and Mrs. | Gershonowitz, began, characteristic- ally again, to beat Mrs. Gershonowita with his closed fists. Mrs. Gershon- {owitz, a victim of chronic heart trouble, suffering from anemia and recovering from two recent operations, covered her face with her hands to ward off his blows. The blows sud- |denly stopped, she raised her head |and saw Urban lying on the sidewalk |with blood streaming slowly from @ | | | head wound. Several roughly dressed |men were running away from the scene, Mrs. Gershonowitz turned to Lieb and Katzebuck, both of whom were standing about fifteen feet away. Katzebuck was reeling from a blow inflicted by the men who attacked Urban, They had raised a lump on |his head that didn’t disappear for | more than two weeks. Lie, Katzebuck and the sickly Mrs. Gershonowitz were arrested immedi- ately on felonious assault charges. Harris and Bart were arrested, as an afterthought, the next day even though they were nowhere near the scene of the attack. Lieb’s bail was set at five times the amount of the others’ bail. Why? As has been said, the mill owners of Paterson have long wanted to get rid of Lieb. The attack on Urban by his underworld enemies has given them their excuse. Urban Died of Meningitis Five workers were charged with murder the day Urban died—of men- | ingitis, the papers aid. Of these five two, Harris and Bart, were not at the scene of the attack. A third, Katze- | buck was reeling from a blow inflicted by the same attackers who struck Urban, A fourth, Mrs. Gershonowitz, is an invalid who has never before picketed and who was being beaten herself by Urban when the latter was attacked. The fifth, Lieb, is a worker of 46 who in almost two decades of revolutionary activity in the American labor movement has never engaged in violence even during the most pro- vocative days of the Passaic strike of 1927 and of the 1924 and 1928 strikes in Paterson, in all of which he was a leader. Not only has Lieb not en- gaged in violence but he has never even been accused of it by police who have watched his activity among | workers for almost 20 years. For Lieb is a revolutionary. He knows that individual violence is worse than useless as a means of rais- ing the working class from slavery. He knows that the working class will become free in al leountries only when they unite their forces, when | mililons of workers, conscious of their strength, will fight together for the things which they have produced and which have been stolen from them, VACATION: — Beautiful Mountain Views, quiet resting place, good food, $13.50 weekly—Avanta Farm, Ulster Park, New York. 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