The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1931, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR! TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 19: 31 Page Three REVOLUTION STARTS IN Vacations and Improved Conditions for Workers in Soviet Union; Breadlines and Garbage Cans for American Toilers Associated Press and N. Y. Sun Admit Life Growing Securer and Better for Toilers in the USSR Millions of American workers will spend their “vacations” on the breadlines. Those who are still in the factories will pay for the bosses’ vacation by slaving longer hours at less pay. Conditions in the Soviet Union are different. With the in- crease in productivity, the workers’ vacations are extended, their pay increased, their life made®- fuller. Planned industry is planned for the workers. Even the capitalist newspapers can not remain utterly silent on the ad- vancement in the standard of living of the workers in the Union of Soviet | Socialist Republics. A recent Asso-| ciated Press dispatch from Moscow | printed the folowing facts about so- cial insurance in the Soviet Union— the safeguarding of the worker's life when old, ill, incapacitated or acci dentaly out of work. | The Soviet government in one year has put aside a fund of $1,058,500,000 for social insurance, Last year $230,_,| 000,000 was spent for pensions for the aged and orphans, and $215,000,- 000 for free medical aid to workers. | In the United States Andrew Mellon | handed a few big corporations $160,- 000,000 in one chunk for dividends, sothat the parasites could gorge and wallow in Florida and California. To the workers the American capitalist | government gave nothing but insults, | Policemen’s clubs and jails. | In this issue of the Daily Worker | we publish some photographs indi- | cating what these exxpenditures of the Soviet. Union were for. The Associated Press goes on to/| tell some more of what life means | for the workers in a workers’ coun- | During 1930, the Social Insurance Department maintained 661,270 workers in rest homes; 78,500 in sani- toria, and 19,500 in health. resorts. Besides, $115,000,000 was spent for workmen’s housing schemes and $33,000,000 for schools for training and re-training of skilled labor. So much for social insurance—the amount of which increases each year as the Five-Year Plan advances. While unemployment in the capi- talist countries breaks up tens of thousands of homes, makes slaves and beggars of the workers’ wives and children, in the Soviet Union | mated plans are going ahead to lessen the drudgery of the home and to better the feeding conditions of millions of workers. Charles R. Ferlin, staff corre- spondent of the New York Sun, in a special dispatch from Moscow, writes of the new communal kit- chens being built in the Soviet Union. The headline that the Sun gives this article must seem strange to the 10,000,000 American workers who don’t know where their next meal is coming from. The title is: “Russia Will Feed Her Workers.” Ferlin tells about the planning of “a large number of public kitchens and restaurants. They are bent on Telieving these workers (the women) of household drudgery and at the same time provide their husbands and children with meals that hitherto have been prepared in homes.” “Thus the government has made provisions in the 1931 budget for an appropriation of $60,000,000 for pub- lic feeding. This amount is 130 per eent over that appropriated for the purpose in the past fiscal year.” By the end of this year it is esti- that between 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 people will be fed through these communal kitchens—that is, skilfully and scientifically prepared food in sufficient quantity for all— while 10,000,000 American workers without jobs must eat garbage, if they happen to have lost their re- maining few pennies in a bank crash or to beg their bread from the bullying and degrading charity fak- ers, On May Day the American workers, who are faced with the most drastic wage-cut drive in the history of the United States, with more of their fellow-workers without jobs than ever before, should think of what is going on in the Soviet Union, where | the capitalist system has been de- stroyed. Negaunee Hospitals Allow Workers to Rot Negaunee, Mich. Daily Worker: Workers who can’t pay for med- ical attention when they are sick have to depend on the city for care at the city hospital. Where they are left to rot as far as the doctors are concerned, The city doctors come around two or three times a week to see if you are living yet, if you are they feed you on the same pills, no matter what the sickness is. The rooms are small and stuffy without any ventilation. This is an example of City Wel- fare and charity, slow starvation until you get sick, and a menu of pills in the hospital. Workers, let’s fight to get rid of this lousy system that kills a work- er and if he is lucky enough to last out gives him pills. Down with this fake relief. ~—A Lucky Patient. Duluth, Minn., Unemployed Council Stops Eviction DULUTH, Minn.—One of the com- frittees of the Unemployed Council found that a widow woman with 4 children were to be evicted from their home, at 305 E. Second St., that same day. The neighbors, mostly workers, were immediately mobilized by the committee. About 200 came to the house, held a meeting and decided not to permit to throw the widow's furniture out on the street. When the deputy sheriff came and saw the bunch of militant workers waiting for him, he just took to his heels. He did not like the reception com- mittee waiting for him. The worker's family is still in the house and the committee of the Un- employed Council is seeing to it that fe stays there and not being terror- See Need to Fight Many of the unemployed workers are realizing that they actually can | obtain relief and even some protec- | tion from eviction if they fight side by side in an organized manner. In ers came to a house meeting. About half were women. Most of the fam- ilies were in immediate need of re- lief, A committee was elected to go to the Welfare Board to demand re~ lief for 18 families in the neighbor- hood. The Welfare Board was forced to give a hearing to the committee and as @ result a few families got relief. One family with three children after this hearing received an increase in relief. Before they were getting $3 per week but now they get $5 per week for groceries, The workers in the East End Unemployed Council are determined to obtain relief for all the 18 families. Washington Saw Mills Are Closing Down Aberdeen, Wash. The Daily Worker: A few words about the labor con- ers, Wish to state that we had Com- rade Bloomfield down here from Seattle a week ago on the 2Ist and 22nd and he held two meetings, one here in Aberdeen and Sunday evening in Hoquiam for a crowd of 200 to 300 that he held spell- bound for over two hours. So, after all, perhaps the slaves will wake up some time. —0.S, Jobless Suicide in New NEW ORLEANS, LA. Despondent because of unemploy- ment J. C. DelBondi, 32 years old, 251 Napoleon Ave., drank carbonic acid and died Sunday evening. Yet our lousy lying boss papers here keep tellings us workers that the worst is over and things are now definitely on the up and up. . Like hell they are. Fellow workers, you “ain't” seen nothing yet. As Jong as you continue to starve peacefully and take your own lives without fighting back at the bosses, so long will they continue to cut wages, speed up the jobs and Jay off more and more workers. Orleans; Call for Fight! Men, if you are going to die, die like men. Die fighting for food, shel- ter and clothing. Don’t kill yourself to please the bosses, Join the Unemployed Council at 308 Chartres St. Don’t be afraid of the police who expressly come there to terrorize the timid. Make some protest against the damnable rotten boss system under which you suffer, starye and die, Come on our fellow workers! Let's give them such a May Day demon- stration here as will make the bos- ses send a lot of extra clothes to the laundry. wd. 0, oneal the east end of Duluth about 25 work- | | | Ait in the U.S. USS . (Right Center)—Resting. Where the Parasites Ha eo: 5 A NEGRO MASSES | RALLY DEFENSE Demonstrate Against Lynching May -1 | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ae ae [lawyer appointed by the Scottsboro, court to “defend” the nine. young- | | sters and whose double-crossing was. | exposed by the defendants, and the} |I. L, D. The Negro masses reacted | |immediately against the double cros- | | sing boss lawyer, and the Ministers’ | Alliance of Chattanooga whidihad re-"| tained him for the defense answered | his attack on the I. L. D. by firing him | and branding him as a traitor. Negro Refromists Aid Lynchers By Silence. While the Negro and white masses | are rallying throughout the country | to the fight to save the lives of the} nine boys, the National Association | for, the Advancement of Colored | People, the National Urban League, | the Universal Negro Improvement | | Association (Garvey Movement) and | ternal organizations, unions, workers’ | The diagram on the right refers to | other reformist organizations continue | |to maintain their treacherous ees | lin the face of this murderous frame~ |up and court room lynching. ‘The | Negro reformist press continues either | | to ignore the case or to publish news of it from the viewpoint of the south- | ern boss lynchers. So deep is the feeling of the Negro! | masses over the outrageous Scottsboro frame-up and legal lynching that at) @ meeting in a Negro church in Cha- | ttanooga, the I. L. D, became the | chant of a Negro spiritual, and shouts | and stamping of feet greeted the) news that white and Negro workers | throughout the country were rallying | to the defense of the nine youths. Negro and white workers! Rall for | a mighty protest on May Day! Down | | tools! Demonstrate May First against the Scottsboro legal lynching, against | starvation! Demand death to the) lynchers! Demand a new trial for the nine youths with a jury of workers, | half to be Negroes! Down with peon- | age and share cropper slavery! For | full equality for the Negro masses! Negroes can never get justice in the courts of the white capitalists and landlords! Demand the right of self- determination for the Negro people— the right to a Negro state in the | Black Belt! | aaa tags NEW YORK.--While pushing the | preparations for huge militant May |\Day demonstrations against lynch- | ing, starvation, wage cuts and im- |perialist war, workers’ organizations | throughout the country continue to | voice their horror and denunciation | against the murderous frame-up and | court room lynching against nine col- |ored youngsters by the Alabama boss | court. A resolution denouncing the frame- up was sent to the governor of Ala- bama Jast night by the Detroit City Council of the Trade Union Unity League The resolution declares, in part: “This fram.ovp charge against these 9 young colored workers is but a continuation of the wholesale lynch- ing of Negroes of which 53 have taken place in the last 15 months. It is through these methods that the boss class tries to prevent the com- mon organization of Negro and white workers in their struggle for equal | rights, against wage cuts, speed-up and for unemployment insurance.” Other protests were sent by mass meetings of workers held in the fol- lowing places, in addition to those already reported in the Daily Worker: | tion of bundle soon. | Stockton. Thousands Answer Call May Day Greetings, Subs “Right here!” willbe the answer ; “must have the D. W.” Johnstown of thousands of Workers to our appeal | for May Day greetings from indi- | vidual workers, Party members, sym- | pathizers: and their friends whose mames (for 25¢ will appear in the | May 1 edition of the Daily Worker. | “Here,-too!” will come-from unions, | fraternal organizations, Workers’ Clubs, Party units in the form of a liberal financial greeting to the Daily Worker. In addition, ads are being solicited from local dealers ($2 per column inch) in every working { | class neighborhood. Only a few days | left to send them in time for the| May 1 issue. Rshu all greetings, ads by the following dates: April 20 for | Districts 12, 13, 18,.19. April 22 for} Districts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, April 24} for Districts 1, 2 (Upstate N. ¥. only) | 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16. April 25 for New! York City and Northern New Jersey. Get workers in the shops, in fra- | clubs, and other mess organizations to pour their greetings to the Daily Worker for May Day! Units, Bec- | tions, districts, send collective greet- | ings! Rush them without delay! Daily to Spread in Ironwood, Mich. | Single bundle of 40 copies “were sold from house to house to miners in the locations,” writes Irma M.,| while in Ironwood, Mich. as Dis- trict rep., who believes “it would be very easy to dispose of a bundle fhere every day.” She informs us section convention elected special commit- tee for building the D.W., electing section literature agent, A, H., “will- ing to work.” We look to continua- N. C., another miner in Johnstown, Pa., when the Daily failed to arrive once,, satted that in condition he is now in, he of Workers to ve Been e | (Upper left)—One of the communal dining reoms to relieve the drudgery of the women in the home. Over 12,000,000 in these dining rooms in the Soviet Union during 1931 (Right top)—Playing games during time off—not looking for jobs that don’t exist as S (Left Lower)—Workers spending their vacation and rest period in the Caucasus, Southern part of the -R.—formerly a home of the bosses. (Lower Right)—New homes for workers on Leningrad Avenue. The Five Year Plan includes the building of thousands of these, for the workers. of Daily for ordered 100 copies carrying Johns- town story, a good method for gain- ing contact. No Dust Gathers in Portland “The Unemployed Council is get- | ting rid of most Dailies but not yet | all. Trying to get regularly estab- | be f Moses Smith, ex-sea cook, now sells with New York Red Builders. | He's 39, but you'd never know it! paying those Daily Worker bills. lished group to sell Dailies,” reports Fred Walker, secretary, explaining Portland trials consume much time. Workers in Raymond, Mont., show keen interest in the D. W., accord- ing to Wayne L. G. who believes spreading the Daily “is the best thing we can do now even if it is small compared to what we're going to gain.” He shows good understanding of special problems. Asks for “Work- ing Woman” for Plentywood, Mont., woman, J, W., writes: “Send some old copies of the D.W. It will help a great deal,” meaning the organization of an unemployed Council in Tulsa, Okla, We anticipate new copies once the U, C. gets started. ence, representing thousands of} workers; Niagara Falls mass meet- | ing of 400 workers; Kansas City United Front May Day Conference; Boston Commons mass meeting of 500 Negro and white workers; mass meetings in New Haven, Danbury, Conn.; Elizabeth, N. J., May Day Conference, representing 13 organiza- tions with membership of several thousand; mass meetings in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and All sent wires to Governor B. M. Miller, Montgomery, Ala., protesting court room lynch verdict. Other meetings are planned in Stamford tonight, at Workers Center, 49 Pacific Street; Hartford, Thurs- day at corner Canton and Bellevue Streets; and on the same evening in Bridgeport and Danbury. Detroit district has perfected a well-planned campaign, with mass meetings throughout the district, and with speakers being sent to all Negro and white organizations rallying them to the defense of the Scottsboro victims. For full political and social rights and self-determination for Negroes! Against imperialist war! Only the organized power of the working class can save the political prisoners! 1931 CALENDAR FREE!) Quotations from Marx, Lenin, ete. x be thn tenallé tm Ribarert RUMANIAN KING — SEES DETERDING| Push War ] Plans On Soviet Union VIENNA.—A report from Buchar- | est states that the present trip of Sid Deterding, the general director of the Royal Dutch Shell, to Ru- mania, is due to the personal invite- tion of Kink Carol, who feels much under obligation to him for financ- ing the coup d’etat of June 8, 1930. Deterding himself has granted an interview to the press agency “Ra-~ dor,” three-quarters of his usserances being a savage attack on the Soviet Union., The “Curentul” of March 30 emphasises Deterding’s declaration that “the world crisis will not be over- come until the Soviet system has ceased to exist.” Besides this it is necessary that bourgeois Europe should establish its economio unity, the ‘united front of capitalism, All this shows plainly that Det- erding is exploiting his personal re- lations with King Carold to spur Rumania to greater readiness for war, He regards Rumania to such an extent as bis tool, that he has al- ready reviewed his Rumanian inter | vention troops against the Soviet Union, On March 25 he attended, in company with the king, the mili- tary parade held on the occasion of the taking of the oath of allegiance ollie HONDURAS—UNITED FRUIT CO. Driven Out ao workers will be fed GIANT RAILROAD MERGERS COMING Will Increase Unem- ployment (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, O.—The railroad work- | ers are facing more speed-up, disre- garding of contracts by the bosses, and giant mergers, all of which are sanctioned by the misleaders of their organizations and the Interstate Commission. In spite of the rumors. | that mergers will mean more work, | they will in reality throw thousands of railroad workers on the streets, and speed up the rest. Some years ago, the New York | | Central acquired the properties of the Toledo and Ohio Central lines and the CCC and STL system. Even. in this small consolidation, the cler- ical forces were reduced by the T. and O. C. and the CCC and STL in Toledo about 30 per cent. It can plainly be seen what will happen | when the Large Trunk Lines com~- plete the mergers now in the making. Fellow railroad workers, we are as helpless as new born babies with our antiquated union machinery, with our traitorous leadership in the crafts, even to thold the concessions we now have, let alone combat the giant mergers of the transportation. industry. ‘The petty bosses have the guts not only to ask the workers to work overs time for the straight time rate, but they even make clerks work in excess of their eight hours for nothing, with the promise that they can have the time off later to make up for it. This is the result of individualism and: the lack of organization. The situation must be remedied, and very quickly, or it will be too late, The only way to do this is to organize industrially, with a militant leader- ship and program, and weld the forces of the railroads into a strong united body of workers. With such @ union we can fight for the shorter work day with the present wages in- tact, demand security for workers thrown into the streets without jobs. Let us show the boss we are real red bloded men and not worms, then we can take the whole damned business. —A White Collar Slave. \Greet Tom Mann 15 _Years Old (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, England, April 18—The Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain, publishes a message of greetings to Tom Mann, veteran revolutionary trade union leader, on his Seyenty- fifth birthday. * e ® Tom Mann was the leader of the “new union movement” which grew up out of terrific dock strikes toward the end of last century. The note of tnilitancy he struck then he has never abandoned, He took part in some of the earliest delegations to the Soviet Union, was a familiar fig- ure at congresses of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions, was head of the British Minority Movement (the left wing movement in the Eng- lish labor unions), and in 1927 went on a delegation sent by the Com- munist International through China, just at the time the struggle between right and left wings was developing there, and Chiang Kai Shek was OF She woe leaders of the uprising are pet Colindres taking all of the graf handed out by the United Fruit Co. The insurgent movement, which is gaining strength all the time by the | addition of thousands of armed| workers, is under the leadership of | Roman Diaz, an army officer, and| is supported gy General Gregorio | Ferrera, former presidential candi- date, and about five other generals. The crisis, which has been wrack- | | ing the entire capitalist world and| has particularly hit the Latin-Amer- | ican countries under the domination | of imperialism, has fallen with a| heavy hand on the Honduran} masses. Those who work for the) United Fruit Co. are virtually slave] laborers, working under contract un- } der the worst conditions. Their| wages have been cut repeatedly, their | trade unions smashed by a united| front of the United Fruit Co. and) the Colindres government In order to rally this mass discon- | tent, the Diaz-Ferrera forces put for- ward the slogan “against ‘special privileges’ to foreign companies as prejudicial to the national inter- ests.” Under this slogan the masses believe they are fighting against American imperialism and all of its agents. But they do not have inde- pendent leadership in this fight and are following the petty-bourgeois generals. The armed struggle in Nicaragua has inspired the Honduran workers | and peasants to fight against Amer- ican imperialism in their country. ‘The fighting in Honduras started at | Tela, the headquarters of the United | Fruit Co., and the rebels are re-| ported to have captured ‘the towns} SOVIET ELECTRIC © FACTORY FULFILLS FIVE YEAR PLAN | MOSCOW.—The greatest of the Soviet Russian electric indus- | | try, Blectrosavod, fulfilled the Five- | | Year Plan April Ist, thereby- reaching this goal in 24 years. The Electro- |asavod now leads the electrical in- dustdy of the whole world. Only the |General Electric Company can com- pete with its output, and it must be remembered that this company has existed for 45 years, while the Elec- trosavod was founded only five years ago. Four years ago the Soviet Union was obliged to import its lamps from | abroad, but today the Electrosavod lamps are burning not only all over the Soviet Union, but in South Amer- ica, in Turkey, in Persio, and other countries. | Fifteen thousand workers are em- | ployed by the Electrosavod at the present time. The factory supplies one-fourth of the total electro tech- nical production of the whole coun- try. In 1930, the factory’s output amounted to a value of 60 million roubles and in the present year this value will rise to 461 million roubles. According to the Plan, the factory | was to produce to the value of 420 | million roubles by 1932-33. The rapid | accomplishment of the Plan has en- | abled the factory to schedule an out- | put of 530 mililon roubles for next year. | In view of the mighty work accom- plished by the Electrosavod workers | |in the fulfillment of the Five-Year factory | |Plan, the presidium of the Moseow | District Trade Union Council has re- |solved to build a senatorium for the workers of this factory. TERRITORY U.S. GOVT SENDS WARSHIPS, MARINES; MASSES FIGHT; BUT LEADERS PLAN BETRAYAL United Fruit Co. Controls Gov’t; Cuts Wages Employs Slave Labor; the Crisis Has Impoverished Thousands of Workers An armed uprising against the President Colindres-Unitea Fruit Co, government of Honduras has broken out. thousands of workers and impoverished peasants are in the army which is bitterly fighting the government troops, the While bourgeois generals who resent ports say these towns were lost. La- test news dispatches from Teguci- galpa, the capital-of Honduras, said there is severe fighting going on, with many killed and wounded. The United Fruit Co. has already requested troops and marines, and Stimson has ordered three battle cruisers to proceed to Honduras from. Guantanamo, Cuba. American im- Perialism fears that the revolution in Honduras, which involves the im- Poverished masses, will rally hun- dreds of thousands throughout Niea- rague and the rest of Latin-America to a determined fight against im- perialist domination. That the imperialists do not fear the leaders of the uprising such as General Ferrera, is shown by a state- ment in the New York Times, which Says: “Officials of fruit companies re- gard General Ferrera as favorable to American interests and do not expect rebel assaults upon their property.” The United Fruit Co. is the lead- ing Wall Street investor in Hon- duras and controls 35 per cent of the capital invested in that country. Wall Street Rules, American direct investments in Honduras are greater than in any other Central American republic, Guatemala ranking secoond with $69,979,000, Salvador third with $29,466,000, Costa Rica fourth with 22,166,000 and Nicaragua fifth with $13,002,000. For a while there existed two lead- ing fruit companies in Honduras, the Cuyamel and the United Fruit. These carried on a struggle against each other, but in 1929 the United Fruit took over the Cuyamel and has had things completely its way. After the consolidation, the United Fruit cut wages 25 per cent, worsened condi- tions of workers and started an at- tack against the workers. There re- sulted severe struggles and many class-conscious workers were jailed. In the present fighting the workers seized locomotives and other equip- ment of the United Fruit. The in- surgents are well armed and have a good deal of ammunition. Despite the fact that Diaz and Ferrera, lead- ers of the uprising, try to limit the struggle to a fight against Colindres and his control of the government and the graft from the United Pruit Co., Communist elements among the masses taking part will try to force it into the channels of an anti-im- perialist struggle against the oetypus that engulfs the entire country--the United Pruit Co. Soviet Union Tour ‘207: Includes all expenses for 7 day tour in Moscow and Leningrad Steamship tickets for all countries at reduced rates Tickets to the USSR also for one way For further information communicate with Gustave Eisner ial &. S. Ticket Agent 1133 B'way, cor. 26th St., New York Tel. CHelsea 3-5080 Use This Map to Order May Day Editions Pick out your state on this map and order your May Day edition for the date indicated. Large bundles $8 a thousand. Small bundles for individuals, etc, 1 cent per copy. Rush your orders, All bundles, ready to start on his bloody slaughter| must be paid for in advance or they will not be shipped. _. Mhey, are strikers, “They folight with and for the workers ag) mamie;