The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 25, 1931, Page 3

{ | q \ DAILY WORKER, NEW SUPPORT STRIKING MINERS’ FAMILIES! SE SELL MINERS’ HOMES FOR UNPAID TAXES IN KANSAS MINE REGION UMWA Completely Dead; Miners Now Look te National Miners Union for Leadership County Cuts Off Relief; Unemployed Councils Being Built In All Mining Camps Daily Worker: Pittsburg, district, known Workers of America, a union (and correctly so) as a 100 per Kansas, is in Pittsburg, Kansas. the center of a rich mining as district 14 of the once powerful United Mine which the miners now regard cent company union that works for the interests of the coal barons. U. M. W . A, Dead The John Lewis machine is completely dead here and the miners all agree that the thing to do now to better the con- ditions of the miners is to bui Union and take the Lewis machine? to one of the strip pits and let the steam shovel cover it up. One miner, in proposing this, said that we should then put up a small monument with the inscription “A Sad Experience” written on it. Lose Homes. Crawford County covers the main coal-producing part of this section, with a population of 50,000. for back taxes. These homes are mostly homes of miners, who ac-| cumulated them after years and years of hard toil in the mines. Many miners’ homes have already been sold under the hammer for taxes of $100. All this was caused by the betrayals of Lewis and his sang. To complete the job and destroy what little protection the miners had, Alex. Howatt came down here to fool the miners. He began to talk loud and told the miners that if they would follow him he would run John Lewis out of District 14. He said everything would be rosy then and the miners would have a “real cham- pion.” But, as was proven in prac- tice, Howatt wanted to get the graft lor Howatt instead of Lewis. _,last winter the miners found « Jremselves in such a destitute posi- tion that they began to revolt, The This} year there are to be 2,500 homes sold | id up a strong National Miners SOVIET WORKERS EXCEED QUOTA IN FIVE YEAR PLAN Make Up Losses Caused By Inter- ventionalists Orenburg, U.S.S.R. Daily Worker: After having completed success- fully the second year of the Five- Year Plan we now began to carry out the third year’s plan. During January and February, due to the efforts of the intervention- ists, we fell down 30 per cent of the plan. However after the trial under the leadership of the trade union and the Communist unit here, we Succeeded, within a short time, to gain all the lost time. In fact, we already accomplished more than Specified in the fourth year of the plar: county, fearful of this revolt, gave the miners some “charity” relief, but | Repair workers .. now they have cut that off. Build Jobless Councils. % Over Plan Locomotive parts 27 Metal ingots 13 Smiths .... 10 Carpenters 1 . 7 We won because we inaugurated socialist competition between one The miners were very glad to re-| department and another, of one bri- ceive the program of the Unemployed | gade with another. Couneil of the Trade Union Unity On May 1 we put out 25 locomo- 6 Miner’s Wife and Five Children Jailed tor Picketing Ohio Mine Urge Workers to Help|) THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST STARVA- WIN BY SENDING RELIEF!. A LETTER FROM SOVIET CHINA When the first part of the 15th Red army won Insham (western part of Anhui) the soldiers of white army called us over—“We have the ammunition for you,” “come faster Red brothers.” According to accurate infor- mation just received, the Soviet dstrict of the frontiers between Anhui and Hupei are becoming stronger every day, and that is why we see such rapid develop- League. That will lead them in a|(tives instead of the 20 prescribed by fight for real relief (not charity)|the plan. We are now congratulat- and unemployment insurance. Un-|ing our heroes, the winners of so- employed Councils are being set up| cialist competition, 80 best workers, im all the camps and towns. And] who receive prizes for that good they are beginning to function. work. They show an example how 3 —A Miner, {to fight for socialism. These 80 workers expose the lie about the HUNDREDS FIRED “slave labor.” We work for our- | IN SPRINGFIELD selves and not for the bourgeoisie, Steel and Truck Men that is why we work so willingly. —Group of Orenburg Workers, Meet to Snread Coal Hit In Bosses’ Drive eis Daily Worker: SPRINGFIELD, Ohio.—The Inter-| I am a young unemployed worker, national Truck laid off 500 men inj having been out of work over @ year. the last two weeks and more will be|Conditions in the steel mills and laid off next week. The Crowell pub-|mines are terrible here. More are lishing House has laid of hundreds losing their jobs daily and those that and has cut the hours and also the}are working are only getting a few Ohio Steel Foundry has changed to|days a week. the tonnage system and men who| The miners and their families are made $6 a day are now making $8 actually starving and are all talking in three days. No one in this mill’ about the great strike that is going knows how much his pay check wilt}‘on west of here. We are getting be until he sees his cyeck. The’ ready to go on strike here too un- whole town, as far as the shops are der the leadership of the National concerned, is shot to hell. Miners -Union. We are holding regular shop meet-] We had a good conference here ings. It looks like the workers will | July 19. We discussed our demands Johntown, Pa. :Strike In Tohnstown |: _ Soon be ready to take action. There about 7,000 out of work, some of them for, over a year. Coal dealers say everybody have to pay cash for coal this win- ter. We workers will have to take this back this winter. A lot of the workers are still holding a stiff lip, and laid the base to spread the mine strike throughout central Pennsyl- vania. If we are sure of getting re- lief, we will have no trouble getting all the miners out on strike here in Johnstown. - No race hatred in worker’s Rus- but when the snow flies, they will be| sia by Patterson, in July Labor ready to take action, I am sure. Defender. Poor Farmers sist Sell Below Cos ‘Waco, Texas. The Daily Worker: Throughout the Southland, when- aver appears a man who is a worker, & bookkeeper, a manager, a tax-pay- er, a supporter of a large family, and has a pair of freightened eyes, he is @ farmer. To behold this face coming to a merciless, cold cash town is to study a pitiful story in poverty. ‘Yet the fields are bursting with the vegetation that he has planted. The cotton is blooming, and there is plenty of it. But all this brings only @ miserably low price, which this is below cost of production. Add- this is the terror of the ticker | with every false upspurt, only the next day, is frightening its out of the farmer. long caravans that are seen 3 5 2ipks t of Production place, are those of tenant farmers, who in a state of so much land es Texas has, cannot find land to work on, A few years ago the Negro laborers in Texas was threatened into work in the cotton patch at very little pay, this year he is facing the same sit- uation. — What Texas needs is a strong or- ganization, one that will give the farmer to understand that in a coun- try of plenty it is not necessary to suffer, and that the Jim Crow law is a brutal instrument of the banker and- the Southern merchant. That organization is the Communist Party. Hurry up Texas. JOHN GREENBERG, 40814 Austin Avenue, 3 so often moving from place to Fight Weco, Texas, ment of the peasant revolution. On March 8 the Red army| marched over to Insham and chased the white army into the city. .The soldiers of the white army did not want to fight against their Red brothers and | having killed their.officers called thie Red army with the words quoted above. We received from the soldiers the following: 2,000 rifles, 2 cannons and four ma- chine guns, The most pleasant event was! the capture of 20 rich landowners whom the peasants hate so much. The removal of landlord class is: a real cause for jog among the peasants, Three Young Communists Esperante Correspondents MONT. FARMERS APPROVE USSR Drouth Drives Poor Farmers to Ruin (By A Worker Corrsepondent.) PLENTYWOOD, Mont.—To one of the largest audiences that has ever gathered to hear a speaker on polit- ical or economic subjects in Sheri- dan County, three workers, Comrades Sneider, McGortle and Lawrie from the western coast, spoke on the achievements af the Russian people under Communism, and the success of their Five-Year Plan. These three speakers who were atcompanied by the local organizer for the United Farmers League, Com. Omholt, had just recently returned from a tour of Soviet Union as the guests of tne Friends of the Soviet’ Unio.:, and were going to Froid, Montana from there working their way back to Ca- lifornia anc Washington. The crowd that came ‘o listen, one coniposed mest ly of grizzlea aid c. Wern fay Sand workers and iheir wives eagerly listened to the stories these comrades had to tell of the Russians. Their applause was stim- ulating when they heard that in Rus- sia there was no unemployment, that children were the first consideration in the minds of all, that men and women were absolutely eaual politi- cally and economically and that the aged and the sick were taken care by the state. All of the audience seemed in hearty approval of the “Hands Off the Soviet Union” policy to allow the Pussian woikers to go ample wich- rference by war by all the it countries. WORK aia a 1931 Page Three Collect Food to Speed Strike to Victory | St. Clairsville, 0. | Daily Worker: | “You send me to jail, and by babies | go with me.” So said Mrs. Stella| Bonifini, the mother of five children, | and the wife of a miner now on strike | in Ohio, whom the police arrested for | “throwing stones at scabs.” | With a stern face, and proud of the part she had played in helping keep | the scabs away from the mines on/ strike, she took her five babies and} off to jail she went. Mrs. Bonifini is only one of 40,000 miners’ wives and mothers who have been subjected to a very harti life. | Caring for a big family, with the| washing to do, taking care of the| house sourse, cooking often times for boarders. for there is never enough to eat from what “he” makes, so it’s necessary to keep boarders to help out. No Food for Babies When the pay is brought home “you just don’t know what to do with it. You have the rent to pay, grocery and butcher bills, and ogten times doc- tor bills, for our babies most always get sick since we can’t aggord to give them the right kind of food.” women became active in helping their | men’'win it. The strike is one against starvation, and the women, the wives of the miners, know it better than anybody. So, after tdking care of the housework, the women together with their children go out on the picket line and take their place to- gether with their men against starva- | tion for the right to live decently. Wives Militant Every day as the strike is devel- oping, it can be noted that more and! more miners’ wives are drawn in to the struggle. Remarkable militancy is shown by the women. Although, in many cases they go on the picket line without food, but this does not, discourage them from fighting. They are subjected to arrests, beatings, but even this does not keep them from the battling field. What they most need now is food. With sufficient food for themselves | and their families, their fight for a decent living wage and against the} | UMW betrayers will be won. Every worker must help collect feed for the miners and in this way help them win their battle. —J. Cc. So when the strike broke out the | ; boss of a big drug New Britain Food Workers Staggered Placed On Half Pay, Work Increased New Britain, Conn. Daily Worker: “Sorry, boys, but you will have to Sheridan County and its environs | Work @ half-cay from now on at half has suifered from one of the most ;P®¥ and one meal a day.” serious droughts in many years this This what the restaurant bosses are tell- past year, and many farmers and|inS Us vestaurant workers in Britain. , workers are on the verge of starva- The half pay amounts to $30 a month; tion. The steel barons shoot children in the July Labor Defender. Scviet “Forced Labor”—Pedechit’ series in pam form at 29 cents per copy. Read it—Spread it! ARIZONA TROOPS TRAIN FOR WAR Mesa, Ariz. Daily Worker: I am living in the Rocky Moun- tain region of Arizona. In the next block to me is a training barracks for soldiers where the crack of rifles may be heard all day. .The khaki clad soldiers are taught to be used to the guns and to get used to taking orders and being obedient, Every night we hear the clatter of horses’ hooves along the roads as the soldiers; train in the dark and silence. For what are they training? Not for peace, surely. We re- member the last war “to end all wars” and to “save the world for democracy.” Now every capital- ist nation is lining up their forces for a new war to “save the world What are the readers of this fine working-class paper doing to avert this slaughter that the bosses are preparing for the world? Are you telling your friends the truth about how the bosses are preparing to dupe them into another slaughter? Give them the Daily Worker and let them learn how the capitalist nations are preparing an attack on the first workers republic, the Soviet Union, A WORKER. and if a worker gets sick for one day the boss at once gets another for less pay. The Victor Lunch of this city changes its buss boys around every day. They have to wash dishes, peel potatoes, help on the counter, cook and carry dishes at the same time. Thes2 restaurant bosses learned from the manufaciurers about the stazger system which Hoover and his com- mittee advocated. ‘We workers must wake up and learn that this stagger system means starvation. Every one of us must or- ganize like the coal miners did. We starve when we work and we starve when we don’t work. How can we support our families on $30 a month. Let’s take action now and stop the bosses from kidding us along. We should all read the Daily Work- er and learn how to fight. We must organize into the Food Workers In- dustrial Union and put an end to these conditions. —A Food Worker. Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it . TION: HELP Le (0 STRIKE, BOYS, SOCIALIST TELLS WORKERS IN MEX. Labor Faker Advises Workers to Work For 80c A Day Mexico City. and I sure believe that the “Daily Worker” is the voice of the working class and I would like to see the names in the paper of some of the enemies thet the working class has here in Mexico. Just afew. days.ago my siNdicate @Y Rad a deep problem with the tore, only because the workers didn't want any more to work from 12 to 13 hours a day with a salary of $2 or $2.25 (, rer, Mex- ican money, it is about’80 cents), the leaders hardly knew what to do; the boss sent to jail one of the workers, calli him “a dangerous Commu- nist.” Then the policemen searched several houses of the workers plun- dering them, thinking that they were going to “find something,” after all this we were ready for the strike and decided to get what we wanted; but ‘then the boss accompanied by a law- yer come to see the head social lead- er. After a long conversation the socialist leader, to us: “No of the boss is a great friend of mine and he has promised me that soon everything vill And against the wishes of the work- ers, everybody went back to work to keep on being exploited. I know that this is only a little particle of what they do and what they are capable to do against the laborers; but I want as a Mexicah worker, to tell the American work- ing class that here in Mexico as in the U. S. A. we are fighting for our vights and against the imperialism of the bosses—sure we will keep on till we get what we need and musi have. For the rights of the working class, —R. BR. B. Prepare for Aug. 1 In Hancock, Mich. (By a Worker Correspondent) HANCOCK, Mich.—A united front conference was held here at the La- bor Hall to prepare for the August 1 demonstration against war. There were 17 delegates present, represent- ing as many organizations. These delegates went back to their organ- izations to mobilize the workers to come out and demonstrate at Reven and Franklin Sts. at 2 pm. Au- gust 1. Another conference will be held July 27 at the Hancock Labor Hall, to make final preparations. At our first conference the question of the miners’ strike was brought up. The delegates resolved to take up the task of collecting relief for the strik- ing miners as soon as they gat back to their organizations. We also ar- ranged to hold a big workers’ picnic some time in August. ou because I am a) A. Perez Medina, said j e, boys, the lawyer | be all right, so get | back to the job till I call you up.” | waked ici ¥ ts | ees CHIC” We We INTERNA : VipR Begin | lf Heavy Pay Cuts i} | In Paper Mills at Gen. Motors Cuts 70 P. C.; Workers Look Toward Communism Monrce, Mich. Daily Worker: Here in Monroe ther: are sev paper mills. At the best there ar eperating about 60 per cent. The { bosses seeing the workers out of work, thought that this would be a good chance to cut wages. 50-70% Wage Cuts The wagés here ate: cut from 50 to 70 per cent. There is one metal factory here, a new one under the control of the General Motors, that has no shame at all about cutting wages. This mill cut the pay down 70 wer cent. It is sure time for the workers to get together and protest against this c 1 business of the bosses. We are all reedy to get together and act— ail we need is some good leaders, some good Communists. Talk Communism The workers are all asking each other, “what can we do?” Everybody is talking about the American , Communist Party. One worker told me he always heard the Communist* foes trying to destroy the country “Well,” he said, “this is the only Political party that knows how to build things. It’s a workingman's party, too, and that’s the party for me.” Butte Miners Must. f Pay Toll to City (By a Werker Correspondent.) BUTTE, Mont—This city {s called the “richest hill in the world.” All the business blocks are owned by non- residents of Montana. The workers ‘Vive in cheap built up shacks in the County of Silver Bow. Our Mayor is in the ‘wholesale business. The miners must pay toll of $1 to Butte way to work in the mines. PRE PARING FOR THE SLAUGHTER mae Against Imperialist War Danger! All Out A Monroe, Michigan) ND FOOD AND TENTS! @ | CHINA RED ARMY SALMON FISHERME DECLARE STRIKE AT CAPE FLATTERY,WASH. Demand Greater Share of Salmon Catch; Call Fishermen to Stay Off Flattery Waters Received 6 Cents Per Fish, Divided Into 13 Shares; Strikers Demand 10 Cents (By a Worker Correspondent) TACOMA, Wash.—To write an article, not only the pre- sent but also the past conditions of the fishing industries of the Puget Sound, in the state of Washington as well as in Alaskan waters, one must actually be a member of a boat’s crew in order to fully describe the conditions on them. I have just returned from Cape Flattery where the fleet ying on most of its < at present. It is a most dan- is car gerous place to fish. T are always rough and a crew of eight or nine men are crowded into small 50 and 60 foot boats. One or two have to work in the rough seas in a small skiff of 12 or 14 feet. A worker has to have a lot of nerve and be pret~ ty hard up in order to put up with this life. It is one of the most dan- and hazardous occupations hat I know of 93 BUILDS 300 NEW WORKER SOVIETS Low Pay What do the fisherman get for this work? Perhaps you think that he is well compensated. Don't fool 5 v4 Pe ame for big business has its 15,000 New For Ces | sin there too. The fishermen Join Communists ke piece-work, and the catch is divided into shares. The owner of the boat pockt two shares and an- other two shares for the seine. Still he takes another share for bossing the crew on his boat! Each fisher- man gets one share out of which he ays insurance, board and other in- In Hankow (By a Worker Correspondent.) SHANGHAI, ¢ 300,000 | soldiers of Nan r their victory over the Norther t were transferred by the orders cidentals. Now how much do you Chiang Kai Shek to the Red front.| think we get for each salmon This grand army equipped with mi-| caught? A pitiful six cents regard= less of size and this has to be di- vided into 13 shares. To put it an- other way 13 fish must be caught before a man gets 6c. litary airplanes armored tanks and armored trains er the three months of extermination of Com- munists, now have to perform this task under the personal leadership | of Chiang Kai Sh with the help of for The three months are the results? | Figure it out yourself how many | fish must be caught in order for a | worker to make a decent wage to compensate him for his labor and the danger involved. Maybe you Before the Nanking army ever saw| think the boat owners don't make the first detachments of the Red|much either but this is not so for army Chiang Kai Shek lauded his| they also own the canneries. By da the army | d 8-10] detach- 2 true, because the Red army one gun for four or five so! rs. However, the Red army is welcomed everywhere by the workers, is now found in 300 So- viet regions, and after the announce- | ment of the destruction of the Com- munist army, the workers and pea- sants have e their part to des- troy it by increasing its forces to 15,000 in Hanko and 10,000 in Shanghai, and similarly hundreds of #rousands of pe nts joined the ranks of the Red Army rywhere. army five tims which “her thousands of ments.” That this method they lower the price of the catch and pile up profits. Strike! Of course no human being can work under these conditions so the fishermen got together on July 3 and declared a strike. The result is that no boat is fishing at present and we fee] sure of success. We are demanding ten cents a fish and wil not go to work until we get it. If will be better for all salmon fisher- men to stay away from Cape Flat- tery and nearby waters until our de- mands are granted. Sincerely, —Fisherman. NOT SLAVES, BUT FREE WORKERS BUILDING SOCIALYZED INDUSTRY Soviet Werk er Answers Capitalist Lies . KURGAN, U.S.S. Deas Comrades: We are not slaves, suffering under the whip of hirelings of cap- italism, but self-conscious workers who construct socialized industry in US.S.R. Let me relate to you one of the numerous examples: In a Siberian part of U.S.S.R. there was constructed a gigantic metalurgical plant. The successful completion of this plant helps in many ways to transform the backward Sib in region. This metalurgical plant gave a basis for Sibe- flan| ag ultural development as well. This plant wes to begin production on October 1 and is to produce rails, locomotives, and parts of other machinery. The builders of this pliant have shown many times their devotion to proletarian construction, Neither the long distance from cultural centers, nor the shortage of labor —nothing stopped their onward progress. There is the brigade under Com. Bargshnikov which was working on the construction at 58 degrees year plan in four.” (By a Worker Correspondent.) WALSENBURG, Col.—Over seven- ty miners attended a protest mass meeting here Sunday afternoon at spoke to the miners dealing with the crisis of capitalism and the coal cri- sis in particular. The miners were very indignant Providence, R. I. ugust fast! D Dear Comrades:—- I went to Central Falls to get a permit to sell papers—so I could sell the Daily Worker in thetextile strike zone. I was refused the permit, but got one from the Providence police. I went with my Dailies to the Providence Woolen Mill and at 5 o'clock when the workers came out of the mill, I started to yell the slo- gans of the Red Builders Club and the sergant of the police came up and told me to move. I told him that I had a badge per- mit and he said: “How do I know | | | Carpenters Hall. O. J. Christensen | to drive through the city on their} emonstrate! below zero. In spite. of everything they worked and conquered. Such enthusiastic workers are found everywhere. because of “duty” but because of desire and will to complete the “five They work not —A Group of Kurgan Workers. Colorado Miners Hit Policies of Pinchot and U. M. W. A. when the speaker explained the poll- cies of the U.M.W.A. and the libera Governor Pinchot against the strik ing miners. A telegram of protest wai sent directly to Governor Pinchot. Most of the miners here are un: employed and are ready for organ- ization. All the miners asked that an organizer from National Miners Union be sent. Glad To Be Reds, Say Textile Workers that is yours? 1 called his bluff by asking to come over to the sta~ tion where I got the permit. All this time the workers from the shop were looking on. This thug of capitalist law tried to impress the workers that he was protecting them from a “dangerous Irish Red.” But the workers knew his scheme. They came to me and bought my Dailies, and in doing so enraged the cop. I told him, and so did some of the workers, that if the Communists were fighting to better the conditions of the workers then we were damned glad to be called “Reds.” —ELR. } RR a at al i