The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1931, Page 2

Page: Two. Dé ATL Y W ORKER, WAGE CUTS, SPEED- LOT OF PATERSON UP, DISEASE IS SILK WORKERS; 5 FACE DEATH FOR MILITANCY By ‘AL GOLDBERG. Article 2, Five silk workers, niembers of the National Textile Work- rs’ Union, are now in the Cor t degree murder. charge of { being fighters all their lives for The textile barons and the city tions of the textile workers. that they control are ying to stifle forever the voices of these five fighters and to smash the N. T. W. U., which is the only union organizing and leading the 's in their fights against e of the silk bosses n Pat n the manufacturing of silk ordinarily employed about workers, divided into approxi- 800 “cockroach” shops em- 1 to 50 wo: There | e shops, h the f Henry Doherty's, which | silk manufacturing | * on. Of the 15,000 silk } t one-half are women largest s in the “cockroach” shops | Ten to 13 hours per | rage working time—in es as high as 18. And what | noise—the banging ning of the looms all the | aving to yell into one’s ear | want to talk. This, together | unearthly noise, gradually | s. Eyes are on the | time—watching the | cloth—seeing that there | are no imperfections (a fine is levied | we al imps fections), lights burning | y and night—actually | ut the eyes of the | causing them to lose their n early age and having lasses all the time. from $9 to $20 per week, to the number of hours, looms and how good or bad a warp On th erable pittance work- ers have t 1pport their families. g plants of Paterson e in children, force } hours without pay them as low as $3| The bosses take adv: eee | years is the age limit of a worker in | | erson. unty Jail at Paterson facing a Their only crime was that of the betterment of the condi- of their youth and because of the fact that they have to help support their families. | Paterson is noted for its speed-up. It began with the introduction of the 2-loom system, then the 4 and today 6 and as high as 12 looms per worker, The workers have to run; around all day long with the boss constantly watching—nagging them on, forcing the very life blood out of the workers in order that he may satisfy his greed for more profits. | Not only is the speed-up taking place among the weavers, but also amone| every craft in the silk industry. | Twisters, from hand twisting to ma- | chine twisting; winders and quill- | | winders, from 1 side to 4 and 6 sid | loomfixers, from 40 to over 100 looms, | |and so forth, touching every craft | and branch in the manufacturing of | silk. Always faster, more profits for | | the bosses, gradual wearing down of | the workers, Disease is rampant among the silk workers, especially tuberculosis and other lung diseases. Being cooped up | in a shop 10 to 14 hours without a breath of fresh air and with the air | so thick that it can almost be cut} surely doesn’t contribute to the} health of anyone. Practically no sanitary facilities are to be had— toilets are most of the time out of | order, drity sinks with water that | tastes as if it had dust in it is the | case in most of the shops. Women and children are working nights in| direct violation of the “law.” Forty | | the silk industry. After that you are | no longer of any use—there are | plenty of young girls and boys to} take their places. | Wage-cuts, the curse of every | worker, is like an epidemic in Pat- | To Be Biggest Ever | | Day united front conférence held here | In the last year and one-half | April 20. THE ADVE _NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931 TURES oF BILL WORKER DEMONSTRATE MAY 1 IN MANY U.S. CITIES Held All indications and reports of prep- | arations point to the largest May | Day demonstrations this year ever | held. Dozens of cities, where May | Day demonstrations never were held, | or were not held for many years,| plans are made for mass mobiliza- | tions. In Wilkes-Barre a fight will be made for the right to hold the/ | demonstration in the Public Square, | despite the refusal of the city admin- | } Tar ‘rom MM: i | istration. In Butte, Montana, indoor | ch 1D 0 ad son and outdoor meetings will be hetd. | Everywhere enthusiastic united front conferences were held. Many AFL} | locals sent representatives. e sie WILKES-BARRE, Pa.— Thirteen organizations took part in the May | From all indications Ma: wages have been cut by at least: 50 | Day will witness the outpouring of | t 8 p. m. at Webster th St, Auspices Friends Union. Adm. free. ustrial League at_16 W. 21st St ¥ Mobilization wili inters, bookbinders, ttend, ay” at 2061 sion free. Bronxville Youth Branch 407, T.W.0. at J844 Pitkin Ave 8 pm. ttan Ly our fel- t 8 p.m. at 350 B, sist Yorkville Bra I, i Ds ] at 8 p.m. at On Home, 847 EB, 2 mnesty for Po- litical Prisone Admission free. . FrIpay— nead4uarters, { Workers Cloh 749 Crotona Pk, North, ture at § p.m. on “Nicaragua in ebellion.” Lenin Drive Celebration in Bronit dor Hall, Third Avenue Good program. nd 172d St Harlem Prog. Youth Clab and discussion at § p.m. at son Ave. wsiinle Workers Youth Clah Hinsdale St.. Brooklyn, will a lecture 8:30 p.m. on “Re view of the Press,” x Meeting of Rakers of the Food Workers Ind. p.m. at Irving Plaza, 16th Bt ana Teving PY Metal Workers Ind, Lencue | font meeting at & nm, at 16] WV ' St. May First main topic. All metal work, are urged to attend. ere Fonth Section. meets at S pam Needle ‘Trades Union at 12 W. 28th St, ease | ports Vouth Clk, 408 1) » fornm on “History ance of Mav Day,” 1 400 Boston Rd. ro. and Im- at 7:30. p.m. Reth Teach Youth Branch, Tmportant meeting at snecial problems. 48 Brooklyn. acags ae 3 Ambassador Hall Gronp, TW.0. £ p.m. at 1865 University 402 T.W.0, S pm. 'to Bay osth Bt, Apt. 34, to form another I.W.0. branch: Rr 0. at 1645 Grand y and Importance Day ef May . Yonth Br, 404. 1.W.0. vier meeting et § nm New Utrecht Ave., Brooklyn. een et 9 ur of City Youth Comm he International Worker p.m. at 32 Union 8A, 0, aK Snartacus Workers Sports Club. s Il hold an affair at elub rooms, 785 Westchester Ave, Good stage enter- tsinment: refreshments and dancing. Everybody welcome. aie Dance et Harlem Youth Club at §:20 it 1492 Madison Ave. Good jazz kIy kere?” School St. Band and Ps 0B, 12th other entertainments, rt and Dance, Unemployed Council of Posten Rd, at 569 Prospect Ave., Bronx, Tickets’ at 29¢. Proceeda to Baily Worker and Unemployed Coun- ay riven 147 emens League | 1 rai will hear|# 8rand surprise up their sleeve. | per cent. Daily cuts take place. In most cases the boss cuts without even | region than has been seen for some informing the workers and the first rresumption the worker has is when | he finds a few dollars missing from | the pay envelope. It is because of these miserable | conditions that the textile bosses are trying to burn in the electrie chair | these five militant workers as an| example to the rest of the workers | not to fight against the worsening of conditions. It is because of this that the textile barons are trying to | smash the National Textile Work- | ers’ Union as the only union that is | organizing and leading the silk work- | ers against these attacks. Only the | working class can save these work- ers! Rally around their defense! | Join the National Textile Workers’ Union. PIONEER AFFAIR THIS SUNDAY [Welcome | the New Magazine | NEW YORK.—The Pioneers have You've heard about the new maga- | zine, the “Pioneer.” Well, it's com- ing out this Sunday, and you'll have your first chance to see it at the Pioneer affair April 26th at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. You'll see the magazine come to life right in front of your eyes. A |noise orchestra and chorus of 50/ pieces will play and sing the latest | revolutionary song hits, sung for the | first time in this country (by special permission of the copyright owners). Copies of the “Pioneer” will be on| |sale for the first time. M. J. Olgin will greet the magazine in the name of the Communist Party. Admission is 25 cents in advance, 35 cents at the door, and kids 5 cents. There'll be fun for old and young, | So don’t miss it. ‘MEET TO SAVE PATERSON FIVE Elizabeth and Newark Mass Meets Friday PATERSON, N. J., April 22.—A se- ries of mass meetings for the defensé of the five Paterson workers framed- up on @ murder charge is being ar- ranged by the International Labor Defense. A state defense conference will be held on May 10 in Newark. There will be a mass meet in New- ark at the Workman's Lyceum, 190 Belmont Ave., on Friday, April 24, at 8 pm. Speakers will be Richard B, Moore, George Maurer, Fred Biedenkapp and Sadie Van Veen. The Elizabeth meeting will be held at the Litvin Hall, 69 Park St. on Friday, 8 p.m, Speakers will be Carl Hacker, and Charles Mitchell. “Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It As itself an economic power. oeMard; Day demonstratis: at McKinley Mon- | |4 Arrested Yesterday greater masses of workers in this time. MAY DAY CAPTAINS MEETING TONIGHT NEW YORK—The May Day United Front Conference Com- mittee is calling a special meeting tonight of captains and .groups that have been selected by the various organizations. The purpose of this meeting is to give final instruction in regard to the line of march as well as places designated for each organ- ization. The meeting will be held in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. All captains and groups must be present. ‘MOBILIZE FOR MAY 1 INN. Y. Sq. to Union Sq, (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) this month. This march against | lynching, wage-cuts, and hunger will | call upon hundreds of thousands of |oppressed and starving Negro and y | white workers of Harlem, to join in | the May Day demonstration, to de- |feat ‘the provocation of the social- | ists, police and white guards, to de- |mand death to lynchers, to demand | the immediate freedom. of the Scotts- The whole anthracite district is | seething with discontent. Thousands | ; are now striking in opposition to the | leadership of the United Mine Work- | | ers of America. Over 30,000 miners | are unemployed, and tens of thou-) sands working part time. May Day| will be a huge mobilization for these workers for Lest d boro boys about to be legally burned | in the electric chair. | “ Working Women Mobilizing. | the unemployed council does, and by The working women and wives of workers, who stand the brunt of un- employment, of mass hunger and misery forced upon them and their | j families by the bosses, will demon- Py | strate on May Day in larger num- |bers than ever before, against the 10,000 Leaflets Out’ in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Md.—The united | | front conference decidtd to hold the demonstration at City Hall Plaza at 1 p.m. This will be preceded by a} Parade from 9 S. Green St., at 12| |noon. Over 10,000 leaflets are being | | distributed, with special leaflets for | | the steel workers in Sparrows Point, for the B and O workers, youth and , Negro workers. An indoor meeting will be held in | the evening a mach Ss a | employment high cost of living, aginst evictions, for lower rents, against child labor, for free food for the children in the schools, against wage-cuts, for un- insurance. The New York Working Women’s Councils have issued an appeal to all working class housewives and wives of work- | ers to rally to the May Day demon- | stration. The working women of | Middle Village, Long Island, engaged \in a strike against the high cost of meat, led by the women’s councils, |are engaged in militant picketing, ae hep ae Botnts in Toledo , Ohio.—Definite prepara- | lees nara been made for a huge May | ument, Court House Park, May Day, between 2 and 5 o’clock in the after- noon. ‘The workers of Toledo will gather | at six different sections of the city, and march to the main demonstra- tion. The following are the concen- | (CONTIN | 1D ON PAGE THREE) 9 FOOD STRIKES IN BRONX, BKLYN Through Injunction NEW YORK.—The Food Workers’ | Industrial Union is leading nine) strikes now, five of them in the) Bronx and four in Brooklyn. | At three of the Brooklyn shops} picketing is going on in defiance of | the injunction obtained by the em- ployers and the A, F. L. Yesterday there were four pickets arrested at these shops. They are at: 1401 Coney Island Ave.; 1399 Coney Island Ave.; and 1507 Kings Highway. Picketing is also going on at the other shop, 1201 Kings Highway. Three of the shops in the Bronx| section are Sun Markets. They are | at 188th St. and St. Nicholas Ave.; 178th and Broadway; and 184th and Broadway. Tuesday two were ar- rested at the 184th St. shop, taken to night court, and held in $500 bond for violation of the injunction. These workers refused to have bail put up and are staying in jail. The other Bronx shops are Winter Bros., at 1351 Jerome, and another shop at 2434 Creston Ave. The strike started Tuesday morn- ing. The workingwomen are picket- ing, wheeling around baby carriages with signs on top of them. The women defy a rabbi, who tries to tell them that the high prices are needed to make the meat clean, Open air meetings are being held, and there is a prospect of an ex- tension of the strike to milk and bread, - and are organizing for the May Day demonstration against the high cost of living. New Jersey Workers Rallying. The Workers of Paterson, N. J., are preparing for a mass demonstra- tion and protest on May Day against the boss murder frame up of five militant workers. A united front committee has been set up, composed | of many working class organizations who are planning to parade on May Day through the textile sections and | around the jail where the victims | of the bosses frame-up are lodged. | Phe textile workers of Passaic, N. J., formed a united front committee which endorsed the election cam- _paign program of the Communist ‘Party and is preparing for a May | Day demonstration in support of the Communist election campaign for | unemployment insurance, against the vicious wage-cuts, and killing buro, forced upon these textile workers. DOWN TOOLS MAY FIRST ALL OUT TO MADISON SQUARE PARK—13:30 p.m. GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO- VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER, WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION! ANSWER THE SOCIALISTS, PO- LICE AND WHITE GUARD PRO- VOCATION! DEMONSTRATE IN MIGHTY NUMBERS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND IMMEDIATE RELIEF! FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SOVIET UNION! AGAINST BOSSES’ WAR! 50 Machinists Strike Over 35 Per Cent Cut NEW YORK.—Fifty outside ma- chinists went on strike yesterday morning at Mason & Moore, Print- ing Press Machinists, 28-30 E. 4th St., against a wage reduction of 35 per cent and a change from the eight hour day to the nine hour day. There is no picketing. These strik- ers were in Local 304 of the Inter- national Association of Machinists, AFL, While they strike, Local 334 of the same union of inside machin- ists, stay o nthe job. The men were getting $1.35 an hour, for the 40 hour Week iat a From the Shoulder SS, Bi iLL No Uy Sethe Ge coxa 1S Always oe Se < SPORE SOR.| a eat tena, Wet, Bitt Do’ Pg EXPECT US|: “To GRow YP AND BE A A Doe WITH OUR HA CHainey ore VIET UNIAN HAS (Ww JS SHoww u “HAT WE CAN Bo pete” Young Workers Fooled by Fake | MEET FRIDAY NITE Want Ad. Respond to Council FIGHT FRAME-UPS ‘Tell of Suffering of Families and Bitter Smash Scottsboro, Pat- Experience With Socialist Party Traitors |; erson Lynchings NEW YORK.—The mighty tide of working class protest at the cynical attempts of the southern ruling class | to murder eight unemployed young | Negroes on framed charges of attack- | ing two white girls will swell to even | greater heights Friday night when | NEW YORK.—In answer to an ad-)I have learned of the unemployed vertisement in the New York Amer- | councils, etc., and what the Commu- | | ican yesterday: “Boy, to work in| nists are doing, I am much more fa- | dress shop, salary $13, Call at 8:30] vorable in my opinion to them.” | a.m. at 1441 Boston Road, near “What do you know about corrup- | Prospect Ave., Bronx,” about 45 came | tion in the S. P.?” DRIVE CELEBRATION SECTION 5, DISTRICT 2, CPUSA Friday, April 24, AMBASSADOR HALL THIRD AVENUE & CLAREMONT PARKWAY Representatives of the Central down. There is no dress shop thers,| “I asked a few of the comrades in but they lined up before one a few doors away, thinking a mistake might have been made. A member of the | is unemployed council, who also came | for a job, talked to them about or- ganizing. The boss came out and said he did not put the ad in the paper. About 35 of the boys accepted the invitation to come over to the head- quarters of the unemployed council, | to organize. It is one block away. An argument started over whether | to the council could have. put the ad | ov in the paper itself, and the American was called up to see. It was some | time before the boys, who were very mad because many of them had but thi thi my circle who know more about so- cialism than I do as to why there They said that they had plenty of it, employed councils and that the only | work is to hold lectures and give out | ‘Free Youth’ at high schools.” “What do you intend doing now?” ployed Council I am inclined more | Harry also declared that: “They, the Young Socialists, claim cently they refurnished their Bronx | Hall, 125 W. a new trial for so much corruption in the party it it couldn’t be helped. I see now at the socialists haven’s got un- Friday | | other frame-up | clas “Through the work of the unem- | no whit less say: the Communists; rer.” I will think it up involves five at they have no money, but re- | owner against hundreds of New Yor ering at a mass meeting in St. Luke’s 130th St., a jury composed entirely of white | |and Negro workers. night's sound the call to struggle against an- of the north is showing itself militant working class. Textile Workers’ Committee and District Commitice workers, gath- will demand | the eight boys, with | W. I. R. Brass Band—John Reed Club—and other features ADMISSION 25 CENTS | also | meeting will’ in which the ruling age than"that of the ARRANGE south in its attempts to crush the | sass. This trame- |! ENTERTAINMENT aterson, Jy strikers, who are held responsible for AND the death of Max Urban, a silk mill ET ie whom the National | MFETING ROOMS i Union was conduct- | IN THE walked long distances to get the job, | | got over their suspicions. The boys, hearing that there was a | piano-in the hall, came up to sing | and dance. They were addressed by Greenanthal, who told them what Urban died after an | attack by personal enemies (proba- | bly from the underworld); the po- lice have made no efforts to appre- | hend the true murderers, but instead have framed up the strikers in an attempt to drive ment unionism out of Paterson. The protest meeting will be held under the joint auspices of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the New York District of the headquarters with a radio and other furnishings, amounting to more than $60.” | ing a strike. Jewelry Workers Meet ‘Tonight to Prepare May Day Mobilization NEW YORK.—A special member- ship meeting of the Jewelry Work- | ers’ Industrial Union is called for to- | International Labor Defense. Speak- night to prepare for open-air meet- | ¢,; winl include William L. Patterson ings in the jewelry markets and in| o¢ the 1, s. N. R., recently returned front of large shops for the coming | trom the only country that has abol- May Day demonstration. All mili-| iched race and national oppression, tant jewelry trades workers are} C. A. Hathaway, | the Soviet Union; urged to come to the meeting tonight | Party sand niche Moore, national Negro or- | of the Commun at 6 p. m. at 16 W. 2ist St. Andrew | clam ‘ Overgaard, secretary of the Metal! canizer of the International Labor | now.” Workers’ Industrial League will ad- | | Defense. “Did your father ever mention | dress the meeting. | ei anything about the socialist party?” ee “He used to vote socialist, but de- 3) 7 |include both a concert and dance. clared that the party was corrupt Unemployed Council ‘They will hold this dance at- the: Dance, Sat., April 25 now and that he refused to vote for Bronx Workers Center, 567 Prospect it any moré—that in Sil their ustions es Ave., Bronx, Saturday eve, April 25, money was constantly nilssing and) New yorK—The Upper Bronx | tickets are only 29c. The proceeds Unemployed Council will give its | will be given to the Daily Worker and first large affair. They urge all work- | the Unemployed Council. Workers that the same leaders were always ers to attend this affair which will | come and bring your friends. AMUSEMENTS “What did your parents ever men- —""Theatre Guild Production tion about the Communist Party?” Getting Married “My parents were both of the be- By BERNARD SHAW Rosenthal on the demand for work- ers’ unemployment insurance. They were enthused. The organizer made a motion for the boys to elect their own chairman, and, after a discus- | sion and many questions, they were shown, most of them refusing to commit themselvés, that unemploy- | ment would last as long as capital- | ism, One of the boys was asked at the Daily Worker: | “what is your father doing?” | “A dress operator, but unemployed 1499 Third Ave. Bet.. 84 & 8S Sta, (st Floor) Open Eves 8 p. m. lief that Communists were right in their ideas but they themselves have spoiled their own ideas.” “How much does your father make when he works?” “When he works he works hard and makes $30 to $35 a week.” “How many in your family?” “Five; three children, ages 1, 12 os SUN sy rs open L & 7 Last Week | 2 and 8 p.m. and 11.” GUILD iain a Sat awe |) RENGEING “Does your mother work?” | tat Wa BARNUM & C | | BAILEY | Presenting for the First Time in N.Y, | IRON NURVED | tmON Nunver BEATTY Alone in Steel Arena with 40 Ferocious perfor'g Lions and Tigers Orla Mara Sensation—1000 New Foreign Features--800 Circus Stars—100 Clowos— 1000" Menagerie Animals, Congress of z Freaks, Admission to all—inel, seats, $1 to £3.50, inel. tax-—Children under 12 Half Price “Yes, and makes sometimes $15 and sometimes more.” | “What is your opinion about the Communist Party?” “At first my opinion was that of a sympathizer, because I could easily sympathize with people who wanted what they deserved; however, at a meeting of the ‘Young Socialist Miracle at Verdun By HANS CALUMBERG Martin Beck WW stiivwes 410, Mts, Th. & Sat. 2:40 Intern’] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 1 UNION SQUARE 8TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of DR. 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