The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 11, 1931, Page 3

<__ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK: SATL RDAY J LY il 1931 No Starvation jor Miners in Coal Fields of the Soviet Union LETTER FROM USSR eR Sa Ea | SPIKES BOSS CLASS | BUILDING MAINTENANCE WORKERS WIN IN BRONX OVER LANDLORD'S SCHEME TO CUT JANITORS’ PAY FORCED LABOR LIES : Factory Workers Allowed 10 |Minutes Rest Rally Tenants to Support Fight; Stop Landlord) | pias ides . oe 7 Sm aang iain ° From Firing Worker Manse rae A: Sick Benefit of 180 Rubles a Month for All ‘A F of L Supplies Scabs to Help Break Main- tenance Strike NEW YORK, N. Y.—The suuperintendents and janitors | im the apartment houses in this city are working under the | most deplorable conditions, long hours, low wages and living} | | Who Work ingrad, T | Dear Comrades: Miners’ Homes in Russia Before the Tay oan ast your jas Revolution Miners’ Homes in the Soviet Union Today | : e 4 ; Pa Mae é *. arding the functions of the shop committees h quarters in the basements are the rule. The Building Service} hale ae As re Well, ate (ee : ae Xs ne : letter you have asked me for i hop comr Employes International Union has organized several locals in} New York City. For instance Local 51 in Brooklyn, Local 32} in Manhattan, Local 71 in the unions. None of these locals in the past, wages have been c the janitors evicted when thei GIRLS LURED TO Bronx, all superintendent craft | have developed any struggles | ut in many places and some of | r time was up and the unions ditions. One of the superintendents who | of the AFL standing idly by and not) doing anything to improve their con- | A shock brigade miner on his way to work. While the miners in America and other capitalist countries are starving, the working conditions of the miners in the Soviet Union is improving and the wages increasing, COPPER MINERS | COLLECT RELIEF | | Houghton; Mich, | | Dear Comrades:— \| A Mine Strike Committee has| | | | i tiner’s Clit Sivas to Death | | Daily Worker: Gardale, Penn. In the mining town of Allison there is a miner who has worked for the Honorable W. J. Rainy practically all of his life. He was laid off est daughter, a girl of about six or forced to have her buried by the for dirty coal a few days ago, and now in his family of nine, his young- eight died of starvation and he was county after a fruitless attempt to sentative of the trade union. is not only handling trade angles. Here the trade fin only. Hospitals and the priviege of getting fr All furnishings to a club, (Krasni Ugolok) radio, etc by them. The schools eit children or for the grow under the supe pro bler doctors are i (fabcom) and sport are no Ay LESION ie ies be lect sion of th PROSTITUTION B works at 2528 Cruger Ave., the a ee alors ae patany comet get enough money forwarded to him by the superintendent of his back | unions. If you are sent out of the) PAPER y who is a member of the aieaedh Li wages. They are now on the verge of starvation accomanied by many | factory you even get paid to satis Ce AE oF Sree a headquarters. The committee got aa 3 i formed Reh asdaie Gries al to work at once, as we know how|| °t¢"® |Also the Trade Schools are T W y | y —~J. Cc. | their control. Imagine the differ i 4 bs | important for the strikers to have | | A 2 by mail, that, his services were no FIGHT T SAVE 9 Salleh Mie workers Jae’ ti | of a system... There are so many longer required by June 30, and that | f Peas RTE an Se aeene : ; ison | applicants that they haven’t enough ee experience here in the years 1913- R N eee r Sales Girl Job Turns premise and make rom ti tos tor | ae szartnce ere im the vears 208-1 JOBLESS WORKER TELLS OF STALE dues books for them. Tm Editor Who Bewails ‘lay strike. | workers can join the ur DEE eS Fite < ‘ 4 ! food, clothes and money can be | } ie ata comparison to a Trade Union ror siaves in Us Disorderly House |, smmediately the BMW. Union got : brought at any time during the : in your USA ee ater (By a Worker Correspondent.) day. A call is being sent out to ie All Have Jobs vy Haven, Conn. . | the h id 34 ti ts d that ‘ i * * : : ss Dally Worker: See Hama Raat an’ aitieercoean to CHARLOTTE, N. C. all organizations. Five dotiars||Qne Worker Killed, One Injured in Ohio Steel we naven't such a thing as un-| Uw W While I was searching the city for ® job I saw an ad stating that 100 | discharge the superintendent except | that the other fellow wanted to work sales ladies were wanted to sell house | f0r less wages, for which they of| to house. So I went and applied for & job, but found that instead of sales ladies, they were looking for women to work in a disorderly house on what they call a 50-50 basis. I told the man there that I was looking for a decent job to make a decent living. He told me that he didn’t care because he could easily course blamed the landlord, accusing him for trying to take advantage of the present crisis and depression, and the union of course, did its share urging the tenants to back up the superintendent by signing a petition to the landlord that they would not stand for the discharge for the pre- ent superintendent, especially not for Just a few weeks ago I heard of |this crime the rich class wants to | carry out in killing nine of our chil- dren. I bought a Liberator and read all about the frame-up of these boys, so I called together a few of the neighbors and got a speaker to help organize a committee in my neigh- borhood. And we organized a good committee. Yesterday we had a big meeting. About 25 attended. We had with us was collected at once. Collection | lists are being sent out at once. This is our strike too. We must win it. —National Miners Union Houghton, Michigan. HARLAN MINER FRAMED UP BY Eugene, Ore. Daily Worker: About a year ago, I was discharged | Mich., about striking for more money. Well, I had no money for myself, so I took a freight for the West, and, being a widower, I took my 16 year old son with me, to search for work. Town clothes, verware. was wiping some costly sil- | | The chef asked us what we wanted, | where to go first. at the Fisher Body Plant, in Flint,|and he gave us something to eat, of | best of everything and you can crit- |; for talking to a stool pigeon|course—a couple of pieces of stale|i¢ise as much as you want, if you ‘you an idea|@re a worker. bread. This will give of how the bosses eat; and, the work- | jers get stale bread. | talists send their children to college | Eugene is a town, where the capi- | tell you, this is no count employment. Why, the place where we are working is short at least of |700 men. I have so many theatres jand lectures to go that I don’t know You can see the No such thing here as looking a job. Everybody work for loafer: If you would see Le for | , and let me | y to read the editorials Haven Register’’ Oh, tor., Mr John Davy Jack- ices the Soviet Union. The st sy: is the in the t out of a job, e jobs a on Orange a wage cut. one of the mother of the boys, Mrs. | | My great desire, is to send the boy |it is a university town. The capital- | Moscow with their new factories and § ft! a e s pari ae apa) ‘The union had several meetings| Montgomery. She told us about her | COMP: ANY THUG © school; but, we coulnd’t get enough |ist children eat turkey and chicken, | buildings, you would know what > the Bae tern that most girls were glad|With the tenants and they were de-| boy and told us that she and the to eat, so we had to hit the road | while the workers are lucky to get ajclalist construction means. Every is pri what the woman pretiyes fe prostitutes for a cup /| termined to back up the superintend- other parents were backing the LL.D. jand look for some kind of a job to|bit of stale bread. The bosses chil-|factory is working day and night.| found. us wife, a small of coffee and # little something to|ent-even if some of them had to|/n its fight to save the boys. Arrested on Charge of | Keep us alive. |dren have cares to ride around in;|The 5-Year Plan in 4 years will be| d law. The eat. Girls should consider them-|™Move out. The Building Maintenance) Mrs. Williams who came with Mrs. Possessing ‘Radical’ Here, in Eugene, we went to the | we must ride freight trains, and carry |done, comrades. Tell the comrades) j ing for the selves lucky, he said, to be allowed | Workers Union sent a letter with the | Montgomery, spoke very well about | weet £ a |Salvation Army, to try to get some-jour blankets. If we get rid of the|that the Russian workers are asking | family rse for the invalid to go into these houses and sell them. | Signatures of the tenants to the land- | the work of the other neighborhood | Literature thing to eat. They sent us to the capitalists, this will be a good country |for their solidarity. Don’t let them | mothe all the clothes, be @ selrea for $5 end $10 a day. lord on June 29, and on June 30, in| committees. Comrade Carson read | eed Hotel — one of the largest ho- | to live in. —A Worker jbe fooled. There are not capitalist- | ch: and do all T told him that x woula| the aftemoon, the landlord came to|to us out of the little book called| Harlan, Ky. | tels in the city. When I came to the slaves here. The wo! here are| the e rooms. She When ae terms and informed the superintend- | “Lynching Negro Children.” It sure | Dally Worker: : hotel, I saw a big crowd of eal |free to enjoy their la was told to re vork at 6 in the report him he said he would slug ent that he did not have to move and|gives us all the facts about this/ Will try to tell you about the aw-/|people dressed in fine clothes and in every hour you are ng, and w 11 at night. me or have somebody else do it if I ever dared to do such a thing. I try to organize and talw to as many workers as I can. I got many to join the Unemployed Council. I try to sell the Daily Worker to these workers, but as most of them are broke I have to give the paper to them. I try to do allIcan. I have to pick greens in empty lots. I don’t know how I will live this winter. —Working Woman. that he should remain on the job with the same conditions and wages as before. Now let us compare this with the action of Local 71 of the A. F. of L, in the Bronx. On Nelson Ave., our of February against a wage cut and Local 71 sent in a man for lower wages. In other words they scabbed on us. The same thing happened in another apartment on Bronx Park East where one of their men received union conducted a strike in the month | frame-up. Every one present joined the com- mittee. to save the boys. We are going to spread the Liberator and the Labor Defender so. everybody will know about this frame-up. We are ar- ranging a “Fish Fry” to raise money for the defense. We want to beat all other commit- | tees in Charlotte and in the United States and we want to hear from them what they are doing to save We decided to do all we can} in our church | fulness of Harlan County. I mean a small part of it. To tell all of it | would take a book. | Hamp Howard, who plays the role of county judge, will not allow the is trying a miner. They are always tried by Coal King law and they are always guilty and thrown into jail without bail. Here is an example of one of the many cases of those now in jail. A} coal company thug came to the home of L. F. Pirkins who was away trying |law to be read to the jury when he} the kitchen, there were big plates of turkey, and the finest food. In a wash tub was staked loads of fried chikens. The chef dressed in special WORKERS WIN IN | EVICTION FIGHT | Determined t to Stop All| ‘UMWA Scab Scale Without Pay Mollenauer, Pa. | Daily Worker: Here I give you this note about / tors and medicine, which counts a| Resi utes for a smoke Scored by Miner 'Foreed to ) Lay Track | anybody receiving w 2 the smoking room and 10 minutes before quitting time for cleaning the clothes I forgot to mention about the sys jtem of sick benefit. The highest amount of sick benefit is 180 rubles. es equal to that amount receives benefit in full | Those that receive above that amount get only up to 180 and not more, even the specialists can’t get more. Beside the benefit there is free doc- For job, she offered $6.00 New Haven, U.S.A., not pitailst system. heart goes out, to in the Soviet Union, where there is no unemployment, and the workers run their own govern- ment. Just t Kk, fellow workers, 5 cents an hour for an American wo- men 40 years of age Or Ok told how ! | s es i 3.0 7 i a wage cut and another member of | the boys and to fight for our rights.| to get some food for his starving Evictions Se eae { lot. niapenie Ud isp entersiads! ware Mes NeVer SAW their union took his place for lower children. This thug left some “radi- | fie I went to work yesterday not Well, that’s all at present nn | COl a es wages, cal” papers in the house and then} (By a Worker Correspondent) cause I want to work but I went| you write next time tell me w Bar: —— Green’s Billions: Striking Miner Writes of UMW Scab Role Beadling, Pa. The only union that puts up a fight in the interest of the superin- Trade Union Unity League. Join the Building Maintenance Union and fight against wage cuts and evictions, come to our office or send us a letter and we will visit you if you are will- tendent is the Building Maintenance | Workers Union affiliated with the 45 Wierton Steel (By a Worker Correspondent) WEIRTON, W. Va.—At the Weir- ton Steel Mills, in West Virginia, we | |went away and watched the house | rushed into the house and arrested wardrobe door and stole his gun. He was thrown into jail and is/| |man. His only offence was trying to} until Mr. Pirkins returned tired and | |hungry. Five of the dirty curs then | Workers Collapse him and broke the lock from his | ANDERSON, Ind—John Aldridge |Pecause I wanted to find out all! you want to know and I will answer of this city is a property owner,/ preacher, ex-senator and is known) as a leading citizen. The old fossil of a hypocritical | preacher had the nerve to demand / Arzil Rich, a worker, to get out of | still there. He is a good big-hearted | nis house ( a hog hole) because he | could not pay the sum of $14 a Jabout UMWA. This is the scale] piaqiy. | what they pay. I met a miner and |I asked him how he liked it. He said leadership, foll \he got the place with two cuts of {slate and I asked Mr. Boss if he was |going to pay for those two cuts of slate. His answer was, “After you |clean it you will make some money.” est re: egards to all members of Local 2090. Fight with the real low the o1 line and League. that’s the Trad With comrad ‘ge Kerekes. Comrade Kerekes is the former smash it! in Amer- capi system worker Build a workers gov HU NERY WORKER Uae STEALS TO EAT Daily orker: | When you finish the place you can S tary ‘arpenter’s Li vie ti ing to join us. Our office is located| are not allowed to quit no matter| St food for the starving children./ month for rent. The old shack 0 | Be rey of Cornentyr* Loot The children are crying now for| d. three | leave less cut of slate. Then I said to) 9999. He left for the Soviet Union (By ac eerie Chencanententh Since 1927 the United Mine Work-|at 16 W. 2lst St., and is open every | how sick, until we fall down. The | Should have been condemned three |). «m case I get killed, who is |) with ‘ a f y a Wor orresponde: ers of America has done absolutely i + the food that he would have got for | years ago. with the First Carpenter's Group. | 165 ANGELES — Frank day. result is that in the last two days| tiem 1 will tell you more the next | ‘et tava cea q|80ing to pay me for those two cuts | sist Ov eyl oe ES, Calif r nothing to help us miners. Maybe —Dan Rickert, |no Jess than 45 men have been car- | ¢ ; Mr. Rich is a hard working and) (> ates” He said, “If you don't Smith, 19 year old transit worker, Mr. Green gave three billion dol- lars, but us miners ain't seen none of them dollars. Green says that many helped keep up our wages and conditions—sure, we get regular UMW conditions—starvation! Pat Fagan's home cost about $50,000. And the other organizers of the UMW has been sitting on hotel LOS ANGELES TO SLASH CITY PAY ried out of the mill on stretchers. From the tin mill alone 25 were car- ried out within 15 hours, so you can see how conservative the figure of 45 jis for the entire works in 2 days. | time. A Miner. Workers Correspondence is the | backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it Striking Miners Meeting at California, ipa, |honest man. The house he lives in is not worth $8 a month. The old duce your rent from $15 to $14.” Mr. Rich could not pay this sum so his furniture was put out. The eviction committee of the unemployed council held a meeting preacher who owns the place said, | “Being as times are hard, I will re- | like it, take your tools and get out.” 2) Here is the second question. 1 met another miner and I asked how he was doing. He said, “No good.” I asked him why and he said, “Don’t jask me. I'm disgusted with this |union.” I asked him what's | matter. He answered, the | |Textile Hanne ses Call 20c an Hour ‘Giving the Workers a Break’ Dear sir Here in Elmwood th imwood, Pa. re is Bur- | “I got a big|kark Manufacturing Company, where stole to in order to eat in jail. | your worker told the judge thta he was broke and hungry and could find no w and wanted a place to eat and sleep. He said the rst refused to believe him them of the theft. He itenced to 60 days in the Los s | . ; f s County Jail (By a Worker Correspondent.) pt | fall from the break up at the switch. |the wor! ufacture cotton Porches and smoking fat cigars and) 10% ANGELES, Cal—According to| eiticnatecrg nian Buivestlae nly" asked him how much he is going| goods for a big rich capitalist. There | The Los Angeles Chamber of Com- doing what the bosses told them. +1. Chamber of Commerce of this | his house, | These evictions must|to get paid for that slate and he] is a tremendous speed-up in this fac- has asked the board of super- Shouldn’t be surprised if more than the AFL money is lining their pock- ets, And eight weeks ago, Pat Fagan refused to do anything for the min- Not a Cent for Miners. A member of the UMW from Co- verdale No. 8 Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Go. went to ask Fagan to do something to stop the wage cuts in the mines, Fagan refused to do any- thing. He said that absolutely nothing could be done. Two weeks later the National Miners Union called a strike in Coverdale mine No. 8, Pittsburgh Terminal. Two days later Pat Fagan started to work city, the unemployment situation is getting worse all the time. So prepa- rations for the placing of approxi- mately 300 city employes on a half time starvation basis is under way at the city hall. This experiment, as they call it, will hit the “aged workers who would otherwise have been laid off due to budget insufficiencies. The estimated saving to the city amounts to $200,- 000 a year. This saving, no doubt, will be used to increase the salaries of the highly paid officials and other parasites in the city government— such as the “red squad,” artists, etc. Mr. Hynes, head of said squad, has stop and will be stopped. There will | be no more permanent evictions in Anderson now that our unemployed council is funtioning. DAYTON CASTING COMPANY SLASHES PAY Daily Worker: Dayton, Ohio. On July 3, the Dayton Casting Co., announced a 4 to 10 percent wage cut, for all the workers employed there. Even, up to now, the workers have been struggling hard to make a living, and with this awge cut tak- practically nothing. ing place, they will be working for | |said, “Four dollars a day.” twelfth day of the next month. That | who is going to pay me?” The boss said, “Don’t argue with me, clean this fall and if you don’t want to clean it take your tools and get the hell out. And stay out from the com- pany property.” 3) I met another miner and he got the place where there was no road | Then in| | tory and the w the evening when he asked the boss | rate of 20 cents in most cases, only a to give him a note to get a scrip, the | few get 25, 30, 35 and 40 cents an/| 8rancy in boss said, “You have to wait till the | hour. rs work at the The workers work only two and is the day I’m going to take all| three hours: some days—and then | find work. dead work.” Then he answered to | they have to pay trolley the boss, “Suppose I get fired or quit, | car fare to go to work. What are these two or three hours a day? The manager calls this “giving the workers a break.” A Fellow Worker. vi to rev means of e the rockpile “as a scouraging growing va- this community.” They | propose to make chain gang slaves | of jobless workers who cah’t honestly A strong unemployed | council here could force the bosses | to give these jobless workers real | relief instead of throwing them into | jail. We must become-more active tes our unemployed couttdils here. ica. —W. L. STEEL WORKERS ORGANIZE RELIEF bi in the place and the boss told him to | ¢ __ with the coal operator making agree- | earned a raise in pay. He beat up and go and get the rails from No. 1 room COMM | I EES T0 HELP MINE STRIKE ments and ieaeaghrted oi aie Ah arrested his lip ie a her as- ; i é ‘ and carry them up to 17 room and ators. We were get 50 @ day |serted “boy friend” recently. ° ° lay a track. So he asked about the for dirt cleaning (just a few of us| Every capitalist paper admits that W wes oO Strikin Min T. F ht Bee. The boss said, “After you lay (By a Worker Correspondent) The thermometer had hit 110 de- on day time) and loading coal|there is no unemployment in the g e Ss ig: a track you will make some money! MINGO JUNCTION, O., July, 8—|grees in Steubenville, three miles brought 30 to 45 cents a ton. But|Soviet Union. Hours are decreased when you will make a load of coal.” | “No, 5214 cents an hour isn’t so bad| away, the day before. I don’t care cars weighing from 6,200 to-7,200 Ibs. | and wages increased in the Workers’ oye e e He said, “I want to be paid for all|when you are working steady, but, | how hot it is, I’m glad to make it,” were only getting marked 4,200 to/ Fatherland. 1 1tant al t Sta that work. I won't lay no road for|when you get only 2-3 days a week, |he replied. “Oh, some of them, jes’, 5,200 Ibs. House rent was $14.50 for 4 y gi ns TVA 1on no boss or company for nothing. This | why, then it’s jes‘ hell,” said a man | came crowling out,” he went on. All rooms, but we did get that reduced —— is supposed to be a union mine. l/in the blast furnace labor gang at | over, they were taking off their shirts te $10. We had to pay $4.76 for “run Here, Tm DivIDING rs Sep ® understood all supplies must be/the Carnegie Steel Mill. wringing them out, but they didn't ; of mine” coal. Striking Miner. toma Fenehesst oHt mel . Meadowlands, Pa. State Cop Beats Up placed at all places where men are) “Want to know how much I got|quit yet—they would loose. their jobs Profits from Sardines @®y & Worker Correspondent) PILLAGEK, Minn.—A local mer- chant was wondering how sardines could be put on the market to retail at 5 cents for a ounce can. A young seaman who had been fishing on the last year figured it out ‘ ‘This is what he found: At 5 cents 5 ounces, they cost the consum- ‘This means NOLMY MAN A) nf The Pleken ie < ae Daily Worker:— The wives of the striking miners are today fighting in the great strike against starvation. The women in the mine fields suffer even more than the men do, They have to wor- ry about feeding the kids. They, who must stay in the homes, have to listen to the hungry kids cry for food and they have nothing to give them. Many of the children during the school season could not go to school because they had nothing to wear. Many of the women could not go out of the house because they had no dresses. Last winter many of the miners’ families in Pennsylvania had -to freeze in the cold because they were Child Who Carried American Flag not able to buy the same coal that they dug with their own hands, with their own picks and shovels. Beat Children Us women have been on the picket lines since the beginning of the strike, where the yellow dogs (dep- uty sheriffs) beat up many of us and also the small children. One morn- ing I went on the picket line at ‘West Land where I saw a state po- liceman take an American flag out of a nine year old boy's hand and beat him with the flag stick just the same as they beat the grown work- ers. The miners’ wives and daughters are not going to stand for this kind of brutality. We are organizing more women to go on the picket line and fight against this starva- tion, these low wages. If you think anything of your children it is your duty to join the Women’s Auxillary of the National Miners Union and fight side by side with the men for the union, for our own checkweigh- men and against rotten conditions, The Women’s Auxillary already had a@ successful meeting at Miller's Hall where we collected $35.50 to help the miners and our families win the strike —E. P. working.” So Mr. Boss answered, “If you don’t like it, take your tools and go out.” 4) This is all day work rates: $4.50 motor man, $4.50 snapper, $4 labor, $4.50 track layer, $4 helper, $4.50 wire man, $4 helper, $4, $3.50, $2.80 out- side work on the tipple, $4.50 black- smith, $4.50 carpenters. 5) They start to work at 6:45. Forty-five minutes for lunch; 3:45 they quit. Man trip five minutes to four. 6) In the morning when I went down to the mine and I saw all the motormen and snappers standing in one bunch. Mr. Salesman Brown pulled out his watch and said “Fif- teen to seven. Let's go.” Stiking Miner. last pay,” (for a 15 day period)? 1 received exactly $26.85. Where did it go? Well, I paid my store bill of $15.55 and my rent $10.00. Then there was $1.30 left, and from that I had to pay gas and light $2.30, and $7.50 on my furniture, Then there was a bill for $5.00 on the piano—but, a steel worker, and a Negro at that, has no right to buy a piano—so, I guess, I've got no kick coming there.” “No, that's not all, ther’s a bill for the doctor, for my little girl being sick, $12.00, and another one from the from the dentist—but, I din't pay them. No sir, I just naturally ref- used. But when the furniture com- yany comes up to the paymaster with | <2 attachment on your pay, that’s | when you are veally out of luck” suer as anything. He went on to tell me how they closed down one of the mills, when the most of the crew went on an in- voluntary and unorganized strike, Just doubling up and collapsing at the job. They crawled out on the the river bank, and jes’ layed there, like so many fish out of water. ‘We tslked a bit about the miners strike against starvation. “ “We'd sure better help those folks win the strike, or we're just gone,” he safd; and his words were echoed by the whole group standing around us. So the steel workers of the Mingo Junction, are | organizing a relief committee to help | the striking miners. “We'll be needs jing them to help us one of thes@ | idbvsuuaid one.