The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1931, Page 3

MINERS NEED FOOD; RELIEF WILL SPEED | STRIKE TO VICTORY Striking Miners and Families Determined to Win, Fight On Without Food Workers Urged’ io Support the Great Strike By Sending Funds for Food Millstone, Ky. Dear Comrades of the U. S. A.: I would like to know why you sleep while your brothers in the great coal fields struggle for a wage increase that will permit them to raise their little half naked and starved, be- loved families? Have you not seen enough to know that there is only one class of people being underfed and ground underfoot—and that by a handful of fat bellied pot-gutted capitalists who have a long train of seape-goat preachers and politicians out in the field preaching and making laws to keep you divided—lest you arise and exert your power. You can do it, only your backwardness keeps them in Power. Arise and show them that they cannot put millions of dollars into great church edifices and let the millions of workers and their children ery for bread. Show them that no twenty-year Plan, or no plan put out by them will suffice. Show them that it’s time for @ plan of your own. You have the ablest leaders in the world — The Communist Party, and the Trade Union Unity League and its affili- ates are able to lead you into power and the right to become men. And better still the right to keep and maintain your family on an equal footing with anybody. If you wish to dodge that slavery" that is sure to be yours, you better get busy and get behind this class struggle. What has the capitalists paid you for allegiance to his crooked plans? Starvation, unemployment and de- gradation. It is by keeping you di- vided on race and religious lines, that they keep the power over you. Re- member your class—stay with your class. Get some of your own by join- ing the Communist Party or their revolutionary Industrial Unions to- day. Let’s go back up the big strike, rush funds to their aid now! Your comrade, F. C. SLONE. Worker Tells of Ala. Slave Camps New Orleans, La. I just returned from a start I'made to the Unemployed Conference held in Washington on February 10. z g z s 5B af i haz a : E E as ze I Faae g g VET CALLS ON ALL WORKERS TO SMASH BOSS WAR PLOTS tit i fy Te i not to parade in full tune of @ military band, : E CADILLAC PLANT DRIVES WORKERS AT HIGH SPEED Fight Speed-Up In| Militant Auto Workers Union Dear Editor: Detroit, Mich. Now please do not drop dead when I tell you that I am still working. And ain’t that somethin’? Yes. It is a blessing for the parasites such as Charles Fisher and his underdogs, but not for the workers when we} must work at high speed four hours a-day, four days a week and our wages being constantly cut down. Charles Fisher is the parasite who is supposed to have recommended Mr. Lewis for the Welfare position at which Mr. Lewis stole some $207,- 000. Mr. Lewis got his job under Mr. Dolan and Mr. Dolan is the right hand of G. Hall Roosevelt, city controller. Mr. G. Hall Roosevelt is not a bit better in the city politics than his boss, Mayor Murphy. As soon as Roosevelt was appointed city controller there was deposited in the American State Bank $3,500,- 000 of city cash. This bank at that date was already under investigation by the state banking commission, but Mr. Roosevelt was a vice president of that bank and no wonder that the city deposited money there. The American State Bank failed and the city almost lost its deposits in it. In the shop we must work under terrible conditions and great strain because we are not sure whether we will work tomorrow or not. The bosses speed us up and we slave as the men did on building Egyptian pyramids. I talk with workers and they listen to,the necessity of mili- tant organization but ‘somehow they are passive in joining the Auto Workers’ Union. We work so fast that we break almost our necks and I never worked harder even though I work on the same job six years. Workers! Stop and listen to reason. ‘What do we get for working so hard and so fast? Nothing. We must organize and refuse to starve while our bosses live in luxuries, of @ job, are common “crimes” that will get one 60 and 90 days in Ala- bama, And then they have guts enough to talk about convict labor in the USSR. Comrades, we must organize against, this slavery, if we don’t want to die with chains on our feet. —M J. Bethlehem (By a Worker Correspondent) SPARROWS POINT, Md—Words | cannot describe the miserable slavery that exists in the Bethlehem Steel | plants here. Just look here in this| one department which is ideal com- | pared to the blast furnace or open hearth. ! In the 110 inch and 60 inch plate | mill, there are 12 slab reheating fur- naces of which ten are running con- stantly. In the process of heating this steel a certain percentage melts off in the bottom of the furnace which is taken out once in every 8 hours. This cinder as it is called must be ksated up to a boiling point so that it can flow out of a tap hole in the back of the furnace. 37 Cents an Hour Negro workers called cinder tap- | pers collect this cinder in small steel | buggies. If the mill works 10 hours | a day the wages are 37 cents an) hour, for an 8-hour day the wages are “generously” increased to 42) cents an hour. As the boss says, “in | keeping with the standard of living.” | The wages for a full 6-day week are $20.16, which can be increased if} you are a “favorite,” but the increase | does not happen because you're a) favorite, but becatlse you get the fa-| vor of working on Sunday doing odd and end jobs that can’t be finished during the working week. “Hot As Hell" | These workers don’t last long on this job. A 4-months man is ex- | ceptional. It’s hot as hell. Boiling steel gushes out of the top hole | into the buggy on wheels weighing | in all about 800 pounds. As soon | as it fills, another buggy must be in its place immediately. The bug- gles are old and unfit. The floor plates are bumped and out of place. The buggy doesn’t move, muscles can’t strain any more. The steel | rushes out of the hole and begins to splash all over. It can't be stopped. Remember, working class readers, it is not the splash of luke warm | wate: that is like balm to the skin, It is hot steel of a temperature of 2500 degrees farenheit and when it} splashes on the body it takes the flesh off easier than a bullet. The struggle for bread forces him to dis- regard the danger. His life means nothing. | All day long, every minute the work | | goes on. Something like 70 to 80/ buggies are filled a day. Each one has to be taken and unloaded in a} gondola car. The work's very heavy. The furnace room has to be cleaned. Furnace doors have to be changed: which is an extra job formerly done | by the millwright gang. If a furnace door breaks through, | @ new door has to be placed on im- mediately, disregarding the smoke filled heat in the furnace. A door is placed on the cradle. One Negro | worker has to get on top of the fur- | nace with a hook to swing the link | into the furnace hook. Another Ne-| gro worker has to stand on a hot steel extension of the charging cran and ride up to the open place on/| the furnace. Often the flames and heat prevents quick operations and if you stand off and observe, you can see the whole operation is hell. Steel Bosses Fire .Old Workers; Jail 3 Militant Miners By A Steel Worker. HOMESTEAD, Pa—tThe old work- ers in the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa., are getting a nice reward for slavery in the factories. These old workers are being fired from the mills and the company has arranged with the Salvation Army to feed them on a few crumbs and some miserable slop. In Duquense the same thing is happening. Three miners were ar- rested in Duquense for collecting food for the starving miners. They but he recalls the thunders of the cannon, the buzzing of the rifle and Machine gun bullets, the zero hour of going over the top, with fixed bay- onets to cut some one’s heart and to face the It same fate. is up to us ex-servicemen to spread and to relate the experience, that war is hell in-the fullest sense they usé the press, church and school to influence the younger generation, that there is beauty in dying for one's country. ‘We have to use all means of anti- war propaganda if we want to save our children from the horrors and dreadfulness of war. were arrested and sentenced imme- diately so they could not get out on bail. Those who were arrested were | ing in their plant, DAILY WORKER, NEW Y Steel Drives Men to Scrap Heap in 4 Months by Terrific Speed © ry fi \ OR \CHILDREN OF MINERS PLEAD TO SEND FOOD TO HELP WIN STRIKE SATURDAY, JULY 4 1931 ee Steel Worker Describes Class Pride of Little Fight- ers from Coal Fields Workers March With Miners : | | Their Presence In Detroit Awakens Class Consciousness New | | | Dear Com until his do | opened to tt | class fighter. | | | | | | | A Class Pride. in our family have two miners us when they cam urpri wy SOVIET RAILMEN eee a Start of the great Miners’ Hunger March, Pittsburgh, Pa, June 20. Thousands of steel workers enthusiastically joined the line of march endorsing the striking miners’ demands for relief and calling upon the steel workers to fight starvation and speed-up in the steel industry by organizing under the leadership of the Metal Workers’ Industrial League. BLAWKNOX STEEL WORKERS STAND READY TO FIGHT Wage-Cuts, Lay-Offs Arouse Workers to Follow Miners Dear Editor: Blawknox, Pa. The Blawknox Steel Compan: which used to have 1,600 men work- now has only 1,200 working two and three days a week. The company just recently cut the wages of the laborers 5 and 6 cents an hour. Layoffs are taking place daily. Workers who have worked for the company for over ten years are being fired and young workers are being put in their place—and the bosses say that business is picking up. The men at work must work piece work and on pay-day they get paid for day work. They work over- time and don’t get paid for it. Stool Pigeons, The factory is flooded with stool Pigeons. A group of workers were holding a meeting discussing about the Metal Workers’ Industrial League Conference held Saturday, June 27, in Pittsburgh, Pa. One stool pigeon, Eddy Ramdolf, told the boss from the Atlas Mine of Atlasburg, Pa. Three boys, who were passing leaf- lete for the hunger march, were chased like criminals by motorcycle cops and patrol wagons. Terror is spreading in Duquense. But the mil- itancy of the workers is also increas- ing. of this meeting. Next day everyone who was at this meeting was called to the office and given a warning to keep away from the Reds. The boss made us all work Saturday and Sunday so that we could not go to the Conference. Many got to the Conference anyhow. All around Blawknox workers are | here in Livingstone. Four Days a Week for Mont. R. R. Workers; 300 Smelters Are Fired (By a Worker Correspondent) LIVINGSTON, Mont.—Conditions in Montana are very bad for the working people. The railroad work- ers are hit hard, those that are JOBLESS FATHER STEALS CLOTHES: "JAILED 25 YEARS working are only putting in four days'| Police Heads Indicted a week. In Miles City all the shopmen in the Milwaukee Shops were laid off for sixty days. ‘The smelters at Great Falls have shut down, laying off 150 men. The smelter in East Helena has posted a | notice that they will close down for ninety days the first of July. 150 men were laid off by the gas line The sheep men have big stacks of wool and can’t sell an ounce of it. LL. D. VICTOR IN “VAG” CASE Force Release of Three | Militants (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN PEDRO, Cal.—Arrested in San Pedro (sea port of Los Angeles) and charged with vagrancy for sell- ing Communist literature, William Burns, a marine worker was acquit- ted last week. He was defended by the International Labor Defense. Two other workers, Alex Ivance and A. Sherman, were arrested in Los Angeles recently for collecting money for the International Labor Defense without a license. A new ordinance was violated, the snoopers of the holy (go-to-hell) Mayor Porter claim, The prosecutor tried his best to convict; but the right of the ILD to collect funds for the workers was upheld by Municipal Judge Frank Smith, who feared the pressure of the masses of workers rallied behind the ILD. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day to day struggles. being laid off and are ready to strike. Steel workers, take an example from the striking miners. Go out on strike and tdke the situafion Mm your own hands. Its better to starve striking than to sterve work- ing in the factories, —A Steel Worker. Men Flogged With Rubber Hose at Kansas City Municipal Farm Kansas City, Mo. Dear Datly Worker: Below is an account of conditions in Leeds Prison Farm, the Kansas City, Mo., Municipal Farm, where I just recently completed serving a $25 fine for selling the Daily Worker here, I was sentenced without trial in the court of Judge Holland, dem- ocrat, after having been arrested by two republican policemen. Rock Pile. The conditions at the farm are the worst imaginable. Most of the men are there on the usual “vagrancy” charge for being unemployed, when it is well known and even acknowl- edged by the court that it is prac- tically impossible to obtain work of any kind. After arriving at the farm, most of them are placed upon the rock pile under a real slave-driver. Forced to Work. They are fed three times a day [Brutal Guards Force Jobless to Slave On Rock Pile when they work—a thin stew for breakfast, with bread and black cof- fee; beans (mostly soup) with bread and water for dinner; and soup with bread and imitation black coffee and fruit for supper. If a prisoner re- fuses to work, he is forced to work anyway, and given only one meal a day (breakfast) while at the other meals he must sit by and watch the rest eat; is put in the dungeon at night; and is subject to a terrible beating at the hands of the superin- tendent (a frail individual of about 300 pounds weight). If a prisoner attempts to escape, he is first knocked down by the super- © intendent (who delights in this type of brutality), and then stripped to the waist, chained, and beaten across the bare back with a aubber hose by this fine exponent of democracy; after this, he is shackled while at work; placed on the “dry line” (one meal a day); and at night is placed in solitary. And any prisoner who tries to matte things a little easier for the sufferer, feeeives the same treat- ment. Conditions are a little better while a political prisoner is at the farm, as Mr. O'Rourke, the’ superin- tendent, knows that when a political prisoner leaves, he will report con~ ditions. And this is in free America, so T don't suppose that Mr. Fish will say anything about this—he is too busy thinking up lies about the Soviet Union, Comradely yours, Chas, Coder, for Bribery Go Free | on “Word of Honor” Detroit, Mich. | Dear Editor: The other day I read an article in ja capitalist paper that a couple stole | clothing for their children. These | people got a jail sentence of 15 to 25 years. The couple had no other means of providing for their children as the father lost his job and they were refused help from notorious Murphy’s Unemployment Committee. | is justice, then I am a lunatic, Again if a Communist goes before the automobile shop and distributes | leaflets, he gets arrested and his bail | will be fixed by the capitalist judge not less than $500. Now this man does nothing wrong but he merely tries to organize his fellow men so they could earn decent living. Is this a crime? On the other hand | when Detroit police heads, McPher- son and Waldfogel, were recegtly in- Law is supposed to be just. If this | | | ican ra | | Our Mopr orga: | bers, at the beginning of 1931, 1,200, | and, towards the end of May, 1,500. | any questions that inter SCORE ALABAMA _ LYNCH VERDICT 1500 Workers Protest Tell of Successes of 5-Year Plan Dear Com : Bolshevik greetings to the ilwaymen ganized the Mopr tional Labor Defense) railroad. We have les American capitalists and t eys have launched a c: terrific terror against th ar ‘eing-cl i sentenced to “ine innocent Negro boys on 1 up charge. We prot word to support our morally as well as ma Sverdlovsk, where we center of the Ural trict. A provincial t October revolution, Sv vsk has grown to a large city with houses 5 or 6 stories high, built exclusively for workers and their families. The number of workers employed on the Perm Railroad in Sverdlovsk cmounts to 1,800 members of trade unions. At t! beginning of 1930 ation had 400 mem- al dis- wn before the Please let us know as soon as pos- sible about your e in capitalist America—your worries, wages, work- ing and housing condition: With Communist gre —The Mopr, Perm Railroad, (Ural Workers’ Letter Exchange Dept., Sverdlovsk). dicted by grand jury for graft, brib- ery and perjury, they were let go free “on their word of honor” from the court until their trial. Grafters, bribers and perjurers are set free on their word of honor, can you imag- ine? If these men have honor, then I am an angel. And many people wonder why I am Communist. M. F. longer required by this Company. Company at Avella, Pa, tohaye requived by this Company. Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation ee ET edn era EE tes re Notice is hereby given you that your Services are no ‘You are further required, pursuant to the provisions of the lease dated the 29%bday of May Company 6 Letsor to you as Tenant, (under which there was leased to you the house known as No. 337 Township, | ¥ashingtén County, Pennsylvania), to yield up and deliver filet and peaceful possession of the sald prémises to this Company with- tm five days after the notice herein given you that your services are no 2b detexdt of your yieldiog vp euch possession, this 788 take much eepnoe gromeadings ws itgasy be advived exe pro- + 19 3% made by this ‘on the premises of the Coal in Independence The coal companies, with the aid of the police, are evicting hun- dreds of starving miners’ families from their homes in a desperate at~ tempt to break the strike, The miners, many of them homeless and without food, still fight on with grim determination to win. Do your bit to help them win by sending relief. San Antonio, Texas. Dear Editor: Mayor Chambers and his adminis- tration bunch are elected again and the workers have been faked into believing prosperity is here. For a few weeks before elections thy gave work to some of the unemployed cut~ ting weeds but two days after elec- tions, Faker Chambers made the statement that until the next pay- formation in his office to show how BOSS POLITICIANS ELECTED ON FAKE JOB PLAN FIRE THOUSANDS there has been already over 1,000 | Pete, the elder of the two, pleads with us to send food to the fight- The children in the listening on the ight fo these les relating unbe- at y and pledge never to stop h until vict is won. —A Working-Class Parent. DETROIT JOBLESS RESIST EVICTION Negro, White Workers in Struggle with Cops (By a Worker Correspondent.) DETROIT —La: Wednesday, une white and Negro, ttled with police for three hours when the constables a‘ pted to evict a Negro family from the house jat 3632 Rivard Av ie. The police | reserve were called to help the con- |stable in carrying out their dirty | dirty work in spite of the fact that |Mayor Murphy constantly preaches | that there will be no eviction in Det- | roit. | “The unruly crowd,” as the capi- | talist press calls them of 3000 persons |sorrounded the house. and militantly | struggled with the police bulls for | about three hours before the police reserve forced the workers to retreat. Nine workers w arrested, three Negro and six white. About a dozen workers were injured by the club- bing of Murphy’s police. This Mayor Murphy’s police is not only notorious for breaking up work= ers meetings in Detroit but also tak- ing bribes from bootlegers and rack- Jetteers. Not long ago, Mr. Watkins, police Commissioner ordered the po- lice to take census of the saloons and blind pigs in Detroit and took police one month to list them all. There is no secret in Detroit that every boot- | legger and saloon keeper pays lisence. fee from $500 and up thru some fak- er attorney who then slits this fee | with police heads. If you have $500 | to spent for a lisence fee, you will have no trouble to get lisence to ope« rate a saloon in Detroit. Well, such) Jare the rules of HIS MAJESTY | FRANK MURPHY. |WORKER SCORES | HOKUM OF POPE Cites Bloody Record of Church (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—According td the New York American, June 28, the Pope promulgated a “constitu~ tion” to bring about uniformity and | “improvement” in Catholic univers sities which grant ecclesiastical de grees, F History tells us that the Catholid usurpers were always ready to grant ecclesiastical thinks, such as—boiling people in oil, torturing innocent worke ers to death and taking life, blood or money for the sake of “the father, son and holy ghost.” ‘The article further mentions it “heavier entrance requirements for theological degrees.” This can have but one meaning: He who is best fitted to exploit, mislead, bluff and enslaye the working class will be granted the honor and right to do so by the pope, the father, son and holv ghost The pope, says the article, wags layed off and before the end of the| dea in reaching his conclusion by week many more are to be without @ job again, The A. F. of L. here en- dorsed the administration ticket and Chambers who are sending the city firemen out to finish the weed cut- ting work and burning of weeds that | was giving a small pittance to sev- eral thousand jobless recently. The city budget and the tax has roll is made up he will not have in- | already been raised and prosperity | continues for the fakers while the many men have been laid off but’ workers starve. ; many American catholic “educators.# It is being said that even in Kalas mazoo these same “educators” prayed all day and overtime that god would strike dead “godless Russia,” It looks like the father, son and holy ghost company is having a little dumping party all of its own. Anyhow the pope is being dumped too! Grate tiie miss Read the Labor Defender on the miner's strike soe he uk