The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1931, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931. POOR NORTHWESTERN | | FARMERS ORGANIZE TO DEMA ND RELIEF MoneyWiped Out by Bank Failures, Thousands | of Farmers Face Ruin Red Cross Refuses Help to Starving; United Farmers League Lays Base for Struggle (By a Worker Correspondent) PLENTYWOOD, Mont.—Militancy on the part. of the poor farmers in the drouth stricken areas of Eastern Montana and N. W. N. Dak., has been shown by their mass gatherings to recent picnics and gatherings of the workers. At the 13th annual Farmers’ Picnic at Brush Lake a crowd of large pro- portions gathered to hear representatives of the United Farm- er talk on the capitalistic system and its pseudo-labor and farmer organizations. ended the enthusiasm for the henchmen, the When the speakers United Farmers League was immense and organization steps were taken immediately. Jer ahi ESR eee Nase TS PRIEST, RAPIST, FREED: INNOCENT BOYS FACE CHAIR Franciscan Shepherd Attacks 2 of Flock, Free on Fake Alibi New York City. Comrades: ‘The Catholic Church has evident- ly extended its anti-birth-control ob- } session to the members of its own priesthood. The head Father of the Hungarian Catholic Church of the Franciscan Fathers, at East 82nd Bt. has recently made his meta- Phorical title a realistic one by bringing two more- proletarians into the world. ‘The mother of one is 16 years of age; the other is 17. The parents of the girls tried to sue the “father,” presumably on a charge of rape. A jury, composed of church fathers ‘and business members, found the “father” innocent, declared that the blood ran rashly to his head, in con- sequence of an ailment he suffered from, and thereupon sent him on a few weeks’ vacation until the affair blows over. ‘ Question: How come, that nine Ne- gro kids, framed up on a charge of raping two white girls (a charge for which there is no evidence), are doomed to be murdered in the fall— while a Catholic priest gets away on the same charge with a vacation, and the superfluous comment that his blood rushed to the wrong place? —L. S. GERMAN TOILERS’. HEROISM LAUDED BY U.S. WORKER Many Clases With the _Police; Send Greet- ings te Miners Koblenz, Germany.- Daily Worker: T arrived in Koblenz yesterday and became acquainted with many work- ers that belong to the Party here. hich 4 such heroism as displayed by the, workers in their fight against starva- in the U.S.A. and the struggles of the workers, despite the fact that they are very busy with their own great struggles against capital- ‘em. Scranton Workers id $175 to Buy. ’ capes F 2 F Banks Fail. Sheridan County as well as all the neighboring counties have seen in} addition to no crop this fall, most of their money wiped out by the failure of the banks at Plentywood, Flaxville, Medicine Lake, Scobey, Opheim, etc. Some of these banks | reopened through an understanding with the depositors that no money was to be drawn out in five years, only a certain percentage of it, leav- ing most of the poorer farmers to face the winter without any crop or money at any rate. Red Cross Fakery. The Red Cross organization has been completed in this county, but at its organization meeting it was @ noticeable fact that most of the persons congregdted there were not of the poor farmer type, but those who have a few dollars to take them over for a few years plus the busi- ness men’of the town and the county Politicians. The United Farmer's League meetings had drawn in the needy farmer, he no longer seemed to have faith in capitalistic. pallia- tives. One of the committeemen chosen at the Red Cross meeting stated no family could expect much ; More than $18 a month for help, no matter how large it may be. The Red Cross does not help the unem- ployed at all, and at the meeting it was stated the government would Joan to farmers on good security money for feed for its stock on the basis of 25 cents a head per month for sheep and so on up the scale for other stock., Out of this 25 cents a month the freight to bring the feed in would have to be paid. This loan is*expected not to make much of a tipple in bettering the condition of the farmers, for the farmer who will have the money has his land and stuck too tied up‘ already in mort- gages that the government would never consider his security. f In North Dakota the Red. Cross organization is proving very unpopu- Jar with its work of charity. One farmer reported the allowance of hay as 500 pounds, which in order to get one had to drive in some instances 30 or 40 miles, with the heighbor’s truck perhaps, for in Sheridan Coun- ty_ the Red Cross made it plain it would not favor giving help to any farmer driving a car. SPEED DOUBLED FOR McKEESPORT STEEL WORKERS LAG Work Part Time in Tin Piste Piant; Must Organize (BY a Worker Correspondent) McKEESPORT, ‘Pa.—During the first six months of 1931 the McKees- | port Tin Plate Co. earned $4.24 per Share. There are 300,000 outstanding shares, so figure it up, and let's ask ourselves how much are the tin mill workers getting. Here is what the tin mill workers are getting: speed- up, fast time work and plenty of hell when the bosses see that the hot weather weakens the workers. ‘The tin mill bosses are not puuting notices on boards and saying here is @ wage cut—but they do it secretly. How do the workers get wage cuts? cy Double. Work Today the mill is working half time, while the other half of the workers get one week vacation with- out pay. Another way 1s this: in the tin house department the reck- oners used t6 count the sheets of fron and pile it on a cart. Now they have to Count it, box it, and wire it which means Gouble work for the same wages. The same is true in every department. Workers doing double work for the same pay. Columbus, 0. to Hold Jobless Convention “Forced Labor” Lies Hit by Soviet ker; Tells of Role of the Youth Wor Moscow, U.S.S.R. Daily Worker: The capitalist press is disseminat- | ing false reports regarding “forced” and juvenile labor in the Soviet} Union. All great capitalist countries\| are competing in the spreading of | these rumors. The smaller. countries are following in their footsteps. But all the assertions made by the capi- talist press do not hold water. ‘The conditions of our forest worlt- ers are steadily improving. During the last season the Soviet Govern- | ment built 1,700 new barracks for | the woodmen, 28 houses for office | workers, 355 restaurants, 366 Rus- sian Turkish baths and 305 Red Cor- ners. All of which is proof enough that the Soviet Union takes greater care of its lumber workers than any | other country in the world. There is no forced or prison labor in the | Soviet Union, and impartial experts in forest work of Great Britain and | the United States ridicule these | statements, condemning them as| falsehoods. | Youth In Industry. What is the position of juvenile | ment is being: abolished, not only | | the youth of working age. The num- labor in the U. S. 8. R.? Uhemploy- |+ among the adults, but also among | Page Three Soviet Union Takes Greater Care of Lumber, count Workers Than Any Other C yountry in World years, About 500,000 are studying in these schools now and another 700,- | 000 will be added to this number in| 1931. The boys and girls educated at these factory schools receive pay- | ment for the work they do there.| Their wages are raised every year, so that in 1929 they received from | 40 to 60 per cent more than in 1926. | In the third year of their studies| they regeive full wages’ for the) amount of work doné. During the first two years they receive approxi-| mately one- ve in the f of what th hird year of their re- ud- 2 cei ies. This is the truth about the daily life and work of the Soviet youth of working age War Plots, lies ted 8. as “hard juvenile labor” » have no found: E such a are conscious that nen the international pi 1erhood and keep the whole proletariat, he international ty of the world proletariat. J. J. POLIAKOV, Moskva 9, Postbuxo 321. FIVE YEA ber of young people between 15 and 17 in the cities of the U. S. 5S. R. equals 1,805,000; 549,000, or 30 per cent, of these are already working. In 1931, 108,000 more will’ receive work. This means that not only the city-born youth can have work in industry, but over 300,000 country- born young people wishing to work in industries will find it. What are their conditions of labor? Young- sters of 14 and 16 are not allowed to work more than four hours. Night work is strictly forbidden. In in- dustries harmful to health nobody under 18 is allowed, A month's holi- day with full pay is given to ali | Workers undef. 18. The juvenile workers are all insured and those who need it are sent to sanitoriums, to health resorts, homes of rest, etc. The usual road to industrial work lies for Soviet youth. through fac- tory schools. In these schools they get professional instruction. and work for four hours daily andspend another four hours in receiving in- struction of a more general charac- ter. Boys and girls from 14 up- wards are enlisted in these schools, where they remain for three or four PLA} The best workers of the Moscow Electric Plant which fulfilled the Five Year Plan in two and a half years, These workers have been awarded the order of Labor Red Banner. bottom) are the locksmith Yalla, the worker Galenetz and the director, Kozloy. Shushnikov, instructor of the school attached to the plant, the workers Girchen, Nikolaey and Riukov. The latter has been awarded a letter of honor and a prize of 3,000 rubles. the plant and a meeting of workers in front of the building, held on occasion of the fulfillment of the Five Year Plan in two and a half years and the decis!on of the government to confer the order of Lenin collectively upon all the workers of the plant. In the left row (top to In the right row are At the background is seen (By a Worker Correspondent) JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—There were many difficulties and interferences which we had to overcome to organ- ize our ‘anti-war meeting here in Johnstown. Our committee applied for the use of the Point Stadium, a city property, but the answer from the city officials was delayed. Then the Recreation Commission demand- ed @ list of 15 signatures, eight of which to be those of citizens and tax payers for the previous year. Besides. this they demanded security of $250. é Starvation Johnstown is a city where the working class lives»under the most appalling starvation cenditions. Thousands of workers cannot even buy bread, let alone pay taxes, The committee visited hundreds of work- ers and small storekeepers and could hardly find eight who paid the tax. The petition was then presented to the “discrimination” commission with the $250 security signed Dr. Rhodes. The petition was pronounc- ed valid, but the security was reject- ed. Then we, presented a,draft check, but the signaturés were declared in- valid. New signatures had to be gathered and’ the permit was de- Miners and Steel Workers in Johnstown Denounce Bosses’ War Bosses Try to Stops Meet, But Workers Rally to Protest layed to the last hour. Thus pub- licity was’ prevented and thousands of workers did not know about the demonstration. Denounce War. When time for the demonstration | arrived a group of policemen was Placed at the entrance of the Sta- dium grounds. Many workers who are employed by the Bethlehem Stee! were kept away by these police. But} in spite of these terroristic tactics of the bosses,.many workers gathered and we had a good protest meeting. Comrade Woods and other speakers told how the bosses were preparing to attack the Soviet. Union. The work- ers pledged to fight forthe working class in the next war. Must Organize. The working class of Johnstown will have to put up a real against the| discrimination the mayor and using against the workers. We must also shatter the terror and the in- | timidation of the steel bosses. We) must organize a powerful Metal| Bethlehem Steel, a strong National Miners Union in the mine and an} invincible Communist Party. Thousands Starve in | Minn. Harvest Region Bréckenridge, Minn. There are thousands of unem- Ployed and hungry men camped along the roads and near the stock yards of all towns up here. All | Workers Industriel League in the| élght trains are loaded with un- employed looking for harvest work. About one out of twenty can get.a job. Some are desperately offering to work for their board. . WHERE HUNG Two unemployed workers’ homes in Sioux City, Iowa. Taree -work- ers were mutdered by the Chicago police for fighting aguinst such liv- ing conditions, ER STALKS ( By a Worker Correspondent) SAN JOSE, Cal—Two thousand striking cannery workers and 3,000 strike sympathizers marched on the city hall today and demanded the re- lease of eight prisoners arrested for attem} to further organize the work in the Agricultural and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, affillated with the Trade Union Unity League, which called the strike here in four large canning facto- ries. The eight workers with many more arrested in today's demonstra- tion will be charged, according to the word of Chief of Police Black, be ten COLUMBUS, Ohio—In a vigorous call to all working class organiza- tions, the Unemployed Council of Columbus asks for cooperation in a united front convention against the bosses which will take place on Sun- day, August 12, at 528 St. Clair Ave. ‘The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. Great enthusiasm for the convention is being shown by Columbus work- ers. The Unemployed Council hopes fo follow the convention with a mass meeting in a park and a parade, with criminal syndicalism. At the mass meeting of the cannery work- ers held ‘in St. James Park 2,000 members of the union pledged their solidarity to the working class strug- gle and fought successfully the at- tempt of an especially recruited po- lice force of over two hundred armed men to break up the meeting. Tear Gas, Tear gas bombs, night sticks and fire hoses failed to disrupt the meet- ing though scores of workers were brutally assaulted by the police and Workers Correspondence is the backbone of the revolutionary press. Build your press by writing for it about your day-to-day struggle. though several speakers were drag- ged from the platform and arrested. Minnie Carson, strike organizer and militant leader of the exploited cannery workers who are out on 5,000 Workers March to lease of Jailed Organizers; Cops Attack March With Clubs and Gas City Hall, Demand Re- N Strike against starvation wages ofe twenty-five and thirty cents an hour took the speakers stand after one of the other strike leaders had been pulled from the platform and ar- rested. In a dramatie appeal to the thousands gathered in the square she asked the workers to pledge them- selves to fight for the solidarity of the union and the working class struggle. With her hands out- stretched to the workers she said: “You have seen them arrest our speakers. You have seen the police attack our men and women’on pick- et duty. You have seen the flunkies of the bosses drag your fellow work- ers to the jail over there for at- tempting to organize you into one great union. Fellow workers, let us show the bosses our strength, Let us march to the jail and demand our men. But let us show the bosses that workers can also be dignified and orderly, but let us show them by this vast demonstration our fight- fhg strength. There are a great number of us here. How many of you will march with us?” A tremen- dous shout rose from the thousands of workérs. No sooner had she stepped from the platform than police rushed her and struck her with a night stick and threw tear bombs among the workers, one of which struck the girl leader in the face, seriously burning her! Two strikers picked up her crumpled body and rushed her to a hospital. Strikers March, The strikers, undaunted by the vi- cious attack of police, began their march on the city hall, the strike committee ledding the procession. Thousands of other workers and ‘working class sympathizers joined the march, The line was several miles long and by the time they had reached the city hall the assemblage had grown to five thousand. There they/found the police barricaded be- hind doors of the jail, In a few min- utes hundreds of policemen newly re- cruited from the fire department ar- rived with guns and fire engines. More tear bombs were exploded, and more workers were badly burned, Powerful streams of water were turned on the masses surrounding 2,000 SAN JOSE CANNERY WORKERS SPREAD _ STRIKE IN FACE OF BRUTAL POLICE TERROR Fine jail. Women and men were swept unconscious to the ground. The police fired shots at 'the crow and swept them away from the doors of the station. A striker stood up on the steps and cried: “We do not want tear bombs and bloodshed! We want our men! We only want justice!” He with others were seized by the army of the police and thrown into jail. They were thrown into jail to be held for criminal syndicalism! They were thrown into a jail that is recognized state-wide as being the foulest and filthiest dungeon on the coast—the jail that has been the subject of in- vestigation upon investigation by prison reformers and liberals—the jail that has been the subject of ex- pose upon expose—rat infested, dark and lousy! For two hours the bat- tery of police attacked the workers— the thousands cat-calling, hooting and booing them, Strike Just Begun. The strike has just begun. Thou- sands of workers revolted by the po- lice atrocities are joining the strike and the picket line. One cannery has completely shut down, and two others are making a sham at run- ning with squads of police guarding all entrances, and the forces of the remaining canneries have been so badly crippled as to make continued operation a financial loss. soli- | Starvation Spreads Th Jailed in Wyoming for Being Unemployed Ranches W a Worker Pa.—The (By McKEESPORT, see workers bumming from town to town. ally in the com-|cow ranger came and asked for somet conversation started, th a steel worker explains to him t | Hoover's | This cow ranger, who come | Hoover owns a ranch out west | Me | cents a week and every foreman ge | Ho 75 cents a week. way of he} making d on one ranch to steal other ow s cattle, If you are caught you get the penalty and not the ranch own- er. In Wyoming many are unem- ployed and if you are caught the government puts you.on the chai gang. In Utafi man: S freights from state to state and wh they get a job it’s washing dishes for nothing. In Denver the government makes a raid on the unemployed | once a week, throws everybody on a| freight train and warns them not to| return, Those that-do are put in| | jail for 6 months and more. | Starvation at Boulder Dam. | People that live near the Boulder ; Dam are so hungry that they eat) out of cans or anything they get a hold of in order to live in this rich country. | The Boulder Dam employes 1,000| workers for low wages and every. body lives in tents around the dam. | Forced Labor. | Let's see if there is forced labor in| | the United States. Many workers | | walk along the road trying to fifd) | real work. One ranch owner pass | you in his wagon and asks you if| | you want-a lift. You say yes and he| road. When you ask him where he’s going he will tell you this is a short | cut to town. But you find urself | in his ranch and you are {272 work without pay. The ranch owner gives you something to eat so you can have strength to work the next day. This is the way they trap the unemployed workers out west. When the ranger was given the “Daily Worker” nd the little pam- phiet, “Why Every Workers Should Join the Communist Party,” he saw a new world. For hours he listened to what the Communist Party is and | what the class struggle is. AF. OF L: MOVES TO SMASH PHILA. Cuts Off All Relief To. Force Workers To Aecept Wage Slash (Bq a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The Hosiery Union Federation has cut off all re- Uef for the striking hosiery workers in Philadelphia. The Federation. has been giving $420 relief order to the striking workers, but now when these workers are starving and in distress this union relief has been stopped. Why? This trick has been in the wind for a long time. The A. F. of L. fakers are working with the bosses to put over a big wage cut on the hosiery workers. The members of the union understand this. Many | of them say: “The stoppage of re-| lef to the strikers is a trick on the part of the betraying officials of the | A. F.. of L. to drive the workers back into the shops (by starvation) and| force them to accept the wage cut that the bosses are trying to put over.” ‘The bosses propose to put into effect a 50 per cent cut, which will put the wages below the rate paid in the non-union shops. I ask what kind of unionism is this? A union that wants to make us work for less wages than that paid in the scab shops is no union whatsoever. | We must get together and organ- ize a rank and file committee in the union and force the return of the re- lief. We must carry on the strike under the leadership of the rank and | file strike committee. . Rob Compensation Fund in Portland (By a Worker Correspondent) PORTLAND, Ore.—The annual re- lease of figures for the amount of compensation paid workers in Or- egon is very revealing. Total amount of compensation paid in 1930 was $2,694,752.22. This is supposed to sound like a large amount, but if it was just paid to the familles of the 153 workers who died in “industrial” accidents, it would not amount to $7,500 for each one. ‘This gives a good idea of what help the 646 widows and 872 chil- dren and 199 other relatives of cow ranger ans to work and exploits them. dha HOSIERY STRIKE ~ |RANCHMAN TELLS HOW HOOVER EXPLOITS MEN AT 50 CENTS A WEEK * Bat roughout West; Many ithout Pay Correspondent) risis is deepening and so we In. McKeesport a ng to‘eat. A little selling his experience and he conditions in the factory. Ranch. es from ( . Hoover venne, told us that es Spaniards and labor 50 Every gets WOOD HAVEN T. B. HOSPITAL LIKE A JAIL, SAYS GIRL Patients Are Forced to Work and Pray On Scant Rautions Wood Haven, N. ¥. Daily Worker: The St. Anthony Hospital in Wooa Haven is suppdsed to be a place to cure tuberculosis. What the pa- tients get here, however, is a lot of religious humbug and very litle foods The food is not_in the least nour ishing. We get a piece of salty boloney, a glass of near milk and some kind of desert for supper. bread for dinner, no sugar, no salt, ‘They don’t supply toilet paper, We have to buy it from the holy sise ters and pay a bigger price than we would in the stores outside of the hospital. Many of the patients, in order to improve their health and keep from dying, have food brought from home. drives a distance and turns off the} No one could improve on the food | they give us here. Forced to Pray. The patients are forced to pray, | whether they like it or not. Many | complain about ‘backaches, from | kneeling and soe throats from pray- | ing aloud. Besides’ praying before | each meal we are obliged to attend all kinds of masses and confess every now and then to the holy fatheresses. If a patient tries to get away she is threatened with going to hell when she dies. Several patients have gotten away lately, however, in spite of the fact that we are watched like prisoners. T. B. patients are supposed to re- main in bed most of the time. In- stead we are forced to wash dishés, sweep the floors and make beds. So you see there it little time left-for the patients to rest. No wonder #0 very few are cured here. If one gets well, she does so in spite of the hos- pital. All patients are working women and girls. They all tell the same story of how they worked hard in factories for little pay and were un- able to take care of themselves, ‘The workers here should demand better food tmstead of praying for it. ‘We must demand that the work of washing the dishes and cleaning the floors be done by paid Jabor instead of by sick patients. A Patient. BUCKLEY BAKING _ CO. SLASHES PAY | Many to Be Fired; A. F. of L. OK’s Move New Britain, Conn. | Daily Worker: The Parker and Buckley Baking Co., decided to cut the wages of the workers 10 per cent. The workers who are members of the A. F. of L. insisted that they would not accept the cut, but thé bosses ‘went right ahead with the cut. Now the com- pany is going to put in new machin- ery which will throw three-fourths of the workers out of work. What we must do is take an ex- ample from the coal miners, who used to be affiliated with the A. F. of L., but who overthrew them after they found out that they were not the bosses. The miners Joined the Trade Union Unity League and now they are really fighting to better their conditions. That's what the Parker-Buckley bakers should do;). Get into the Food Workers’ Industrial Union; a union that fights against speed-up, wage cuts and for unemployment in- surance, tion of this fund came to $293,371.58, To what uses S:is amount were put is not stated, except for $13.673 that was used by @ legislative committee not under the control of the labor bureau. In other words, this amount was stolen. Coupled with the amae zing discrepancy between the nume ber of workers in industry and those receiving “protection” in case of ace cident is the admission of the burd that they “collect only about 40 per cent of the claims -filed by laborers.” Against this rotten !deceit the worke ers are called upon to organize for workers who are receiving payments, The expenses of the administra- a militant struggle for unemployment relief. Join the Unemployed Council in your town.