The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1931, Page 3

—— ee SILK STRIKER TELLS OF COPS’ ATTACK AND JAILING OF PICKETS tailroaded to Filthy Jail for Carrying On| Picketing at Colt Dye Works rternational Labor Defense Secures Release of Strikers; Pledge to Spread Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J.—We were picketing as usual at the olt Dye Works. The mill had struck only a day or two before od there were still a few scabs going in. All of a sudden the cops herded us together and said we ere under arrest for not keeping ten paces apart. As the cops were loading us into the wagon the workers | sanding across the street came over and formed a new picket ne as a protest against the police terror and to show their jidarity with us. Crowded in Cells “~ We were then crowded into small EL cells in a stinking jail. They gave us no breakfast and no drinking water. But from our different cells Velfare Refuses To we joined voices and made the rusty Give Relief To old prison walls shake as we sang “On the Picket Line,” “Solidarity” Athiest Portland, Ore. Line, and many others—and of course “The International.” Railroaded Instead of taking us before the usual court, which had been dismiss- ing the charges against strikers, Chief of Police Tracey fixed it up, on the orders of the bosses, that we be taken before Judge Freeman. This judge did his duty for the bosses by listening- to the evidence and pro- nouncing all of us guilty. Even the police had to admit that the picket aily Worker: After being severely injured while oking for work in Portland I finally as forced to try and get relief from ‘e county in taking care of myself. esterday I went to the County Hos-| Twelve of us got a $5 fine and tal and applied for treatment, as | the rest got a suspended sentence— thought any person, especially a.| except Biedenkapp, who was fined tizen and taxpayer, was entitled | $50 because he was a Trade Union I was sent by those in charge | Unity League organizer. He and sev- the hospital to the social welfare | €n more of us were sent to the county areau to get county aid. ‘There, | jail when we refused to pay the fine. hen I informed them that I was Jail Diet ‘oke and unable to work even if] We got to the jail at one o'clock ork could be found, I was given a|and we asked for dinner and the ank to fill out. The blank in-| warden laughed at us. We got noth- uded, among the rest of the red| ing to eat until five o'clock that night pe, the query as to religion. when they passed us a piece of half- « ” bakéd bread and something that look- Wee fae eee can ae ed like coffee without any sugar. For orks were wondering what to do breakfast we got the Same fare. For ith an irreligious worker, I was dinner we were given sloppy soup ld that if I wanted aid I would ive to go to the Portland Com- ons or to Grandma’s Kitchen, the cal breadlines, When I informed them that Ihad > intention of starting in the eadlines at this late age, I was Id to go to the County Farm, and ven a letter to Dr. Hess, the county aysician and superintendent at the rm. The doctor informed me that should be “very glad to go to these ily places” and though he was not Christian nor a church member he Meved in upholding them. This ctor knows which side his bread is tttered on and all workers should alize that all religion and the whole harity” system is only to keep the wkers from struggling and better- g their conditions. The only time at the workers can get a square al is when they overthrow the role dirty system and put the rasites to work. TRIKE TILL WE WIN, SAYS MINER ells How Bosses Cut Pay In Ohio Bq A MINER. DUBLIN, Ohio—I mined coal for out 27 years. I came away when »y started scabbing. I worked for cents an hour and then they cut. » pay to 30 cents an hour for the ne work, vast year we miners got $4.50 a y. Now the miners who work, and xy don’t work very often either, the technicality about not keeping ten paces apart. us were afraid to eat. The cells were reeking and filthy. All this because we workers are learning to orgaize into’ the National Textile Workers Union to improve our conditions. The International Labor Defense got us all out on bail to appeal the case, Will Spread Strike We bre going to have bigger and more -militant picket lines than ever mills here. The workers in Pater- son, seeing how the bosses and the police and the A. F. of L. against the fighting union, the NTWU, will spread the strike and carry it on to victory. HOOVER OPPOSES JOBLESS RELIEF New Wage Cut Meet- ing Called by Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent.) CLEVELAND, Ohio—Another wage-cutting conference will be held in Washington ’soon. Herbert Hoo- ver had a conference with William Doak on the question of opposing federal relief for the jobless and un- employment insurance. The press all over the country stated that Hoover was unalterably against any form of “the dole” and that he intends to muster every in- fluence in congress possible to de- feat all jobless relief measures. Industrial bosses will be called to Washington soon for another con- ference on wage-cuts. Workers should understand that this will be another cut-throat conference like in 1929, We gain nothing through these conferences; the bosses only bring new forms of speed-up and wage-cuts to the workers so they can increase their profits. Now is the time to organize real strong fighting Unemployed Coun- cils' to fight for real relief for the unemployed. We will only secure unemployment insurance by organ- izing and fighting. ‘AcKeesport Metal Workers » Organizing MWIL Branch (By a Worker Correspondent.) AcKEESPORT, Pa.—In the Na- _ nal Tube Co, of McKeesport many re laid off and nobody knows en they will find work again. broken up and threatened to be fired. ‘The workers have one foreman that. they love. His name is Mr. Every time he hires a worker “hides behind the furnaces and that everybody is working. nage @ worker is not go- the proper high speed he jumps out from his hiding place and Due to the terror in the “mil and the speed-up the workers are organ- es. The company laid off the! izing. A local of the Metal Workers’ or in the butt mill and now the Industrial League is already organ- ss roller lays the pipe for the| ized workers wishing to join the bas M. WT. L. write to 1122 Walnut St., workers talk in groups they are] McKeesport, Pa. ee reeeeenineind line was orderly; the only charge was | with some fatty meat that most of | at the Colt Mill and at the other| PATERSON N COPS AT WORK Scene of the police attack on Paterson, N. J. Many arrests were jail sentences, the picket line made. at the Colt mit, | Thirteen workers were given | New York City. Daily Worker: I am like hundreds of thousands. Some time ago I held a high posi- tion, making big money. Then I |.had nothing to do with workers. I | was not of their class. I worked and drew wages, but I was not a worker, a wage-earner. I was a high- | salaried, petty-bourgeois, aping my | | boss. In ‘fact, I tried to be my boss's | shadow and thought of workers, the masses, radicals, with contempt. In sum, I was poisoned against work- ers, in conflict with myself. And this division among workers, com- JTades, is precisely the aim of all capi- talistic teaching. I was employed by a national con- cern which was said to be sound and solid as Gibraltar. I, together with countless others throughout the |country, gave all I had to “my” firm. bigger and stronger on the promise that it would stand by us at all times. That's what we were told, what we believed. Our last thought was that “our” firm would fire us. I, for one, considered myself a fix- ture in the place. Fired. Then a day came and the impos- sible, the unbelievable happened. The big, strong Gibraltar—for which we made countless sacrifices—fired us heartlessly like a stone. “You can’t do that!” we objected. “Sorry,” they replied, “but we have to let you go.” “Can’t you—really, can’t you find places for us somewhere?” we pleaded. “Sorry, but we can no longer use you.” Emphasis:on use. None of us could believe it. “You mean... you really are going to set us loose! “We are.” Daily Worker: Here in San Jose we just went through a cannery strike against the most miserable starvation wages paid any workers in the country, ten cents to thirty-three cents per hour. In were confronted with the extremely brutal terror of the state, which, in the interest of the cannery bosses, used every available city police, state highway police, national guard and 250 deputized American Legionnaires, to terrorize the workers, and break our strike. A White Collar Worker Learns About Capitalism We were urged to make it} “You can't! You... “There’s no need for | Just go out You'll get use excitement. sit around a’ while. to the idea. Calm v will we live?” we asked | like children. “Don't wo. We'll take care of | | that. Here! Here you are. ... We} give you two weel pay.” What did they care | our families? Two weeks’ | after that, what? i | Starvation. Misery. g bosses were only sorry because they | could no longer use us. Organize! T call upon all those, who, like my- self, are or have been petty-bour- geois, to wake up before it is too late. I call upon you to join the Party| of our class, the Worke to organize, prepare the end to the shame of firing, using work- ers: death to the boss class. Comrades! The bosses will always use us and forsake us in a pinch.| Join the Communist Party and wipe out ‘the hoss-curse from the earth, Do not pass unto your children this | plague, those Judases. Join the} workers’ Party. Vote Communist. | the only Party representing our | ‘al, economic and social inter- | All others are fakes. —A Worker. about pay us, and | y, and | polit: ests, STARVATION ON RAILROAD JOB Harmon, N, ¥. Daily Worker: I am working on the New York Central Railroad. We are in acamp, the worst I have ever seen. There is nothing to eat. We have to pay a dollar a day for board and weget about 20 cents worth of food. We will have to get together on this job and organize to demand that they give us better food and Jes tell us that | be greater next _ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931 |TACOMA JOBLESS | ORGANIZING FIG aT AGAINST HUNGER Largest ‘Lumber Co. in Tacoma Closing; |Unemployment Gains (By a Wo TACOMA, W: er Correspondent) h—Even the unemployment will winter than it wa: and get less pay and that the econ-+ omic cris ing deeper than | ever before. as in all other cities in the c y—the char- i zat: on tell us that they are he b Here ses are prenar- | ing to force the workers to contribute to the commu- dd. @ couple of days nity chest or be ‘kers are be laid off right and left. St. Paul's Lumber Com- pany, the largest mill in the town, is closing on the 15th of August. The county commissioners claim to | be raising $50,000 for the unemployed | of Tacoma. But this would amount | to only three or four dollars for each r and his family for the And even this $50,000 hand because of the s, as stated by Carl man of the county jobless whole winte: will not be uncollected t: Oslund, ck board. Workers, don’t starve through an- other winter. F for unemploy- ment relicf! Come to the meetings of the Unemployed Council, 913 Ta- coma Ave, and prepare to demand real at DUBLIZER PL .ANT, FIRES WORKER al Girls Earn n $12 To $14) A Week “New York, N. ¥. stymied In the Dublizer Condenser Cor-j poration we used to have 450 work- ers. Now there are 150. Every day some of us are getting laid off for every little thing. For instance, “| when they see someone talking they come right over and tell you to go home. The other day I got laid off for this. At the same time they told the 'S nearby, if they want to go xe, they only have to talk. They workers come in and let an hour or two, then they sm to go home, that there is not enough work. If we say any- thing, they fire us. A man makes about 40 cents an hour, but there are very few and are getting laid off every day. They hire girls in- also let stead for half the money, but the, same work. Mostly girls are work- ing there now. The most we girls can make by killing ourselves is $12 to $14 full time. The foreman holds the threat over us that if we don’t keep up the others will, that come to look for work every day. Workers, how long will we stand for this? We must do something. We must join the Trade Union Unity League, the organization that leads cleaner quarters. and fights for better conditions for the workers, —A Worker. © Sa dose, Ca Build ‘Western Worker‘) To Smash Boss Press | Lying Attacks But more than this, the San Jose this struggle for better wages we| Press let loose on us workers the lies of their filthy sheets. These pa- pers carried lie after lie; they have done everything possible to fool us workers, to divide our ranks, to lie about our leaders and the union, and so forth. Need Western Worker! Tt was decidedly in this fight, that San jan Cannery Workers Must Rally to Fight Starvation Wages *was brought home to us San Jose workers. The necessity of a work- er’s paper here on the Pacific Coast is real. We cannot successfully com- bat the lies published in the bosses’ papers without having our own pa- per. I understand there is a drive being made to establish just such @ paper here on the Coast, the pa- per to be known as the Western Worker. Every cannery worker in San Jose, after the experience of the strike, knows the necessity for this paper, and should rally immediately to support the campaign for it. A Cannery Worker. Boy q0SE COFS SLUG Sr aie waded STRIKERS boss- | 200 Strike On Pipe Line in Boldman, Ky. Boldman, Ky. Daily Worker: | Two hundred striking pipe liners marched on the county seat to- day, demanding the 8-hour sys- tem, The leaders are local and they were as orderly as veterans. Starvation sure is developing wonders. Let's go, boys—give ‘er hell, Don’t let the deal go down. They can’t put you all in jail. |] Join the 3. L. D. for protection against the bosses’ courts, Join the Communist Party and get you a government of your own. Join the Industrial Unions and fight your way to victory. There last means more starva- | tion for the workers | We know that we have less work || 5 is an organizer near you—see him. By a Worker Like the Rest of You. WAGES CUT FOR FIRE FIGHTERS ;Thousands Flock To} |Fight Forest. Fires, Find Wages Slashed (By a Worker Correspondent) SPOKANE, Wesh—Out in the Washington, forest fires are raging. Workers from everywhere are flock- | j ing in here by the hundreds to risk their lives as helpless victims of roar- ing flames for the pitiful sum of 30 cents an hour and board. For these | wages they must spend long hours of | climbing monntain sides and sleep- ing “out with the dry cattle.” Five-Cent Wage Cut Las year the government paid fire- fighters 35 cents an hour and board, ome) year the food does not cost the | gov ernment as much as it did last | year but wages are cut. The gov- ernment must help Europe, you know. Down at the city free employment office workers with packs on their backs swarm like bees around a hive. Along Main and Trent Aves., the second hand district, one sees work- with hob nails sold last year by fire | fighters after the work was over and by lumber jacks who were laid off out | in the logging camps. Many workers are too poor to raise | the price of a second-hand pair of | hob-nailed shoes, but that does not bother the wage-cutting government to take advantage of the unemployed. ‘HL. P. Body Canners Tried to Strike ‘But Were Unorganized At the Time (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal—A month ago, during the cherry season, the H. P. Body Canning Co., cut wages of the men from 40c to 25c. an hour and the canners from 3c to 2c and Ic per tray. The same cut was given on the apricot pack. Workers—about 50 canners struck, but because of lack | of leadership were forced to go back. Now on pear pack last week girls struck again, but the bosses scared them back into submission, by telling them the police would be called in and they will beat them up. They had to give in on the second at- tempt, because they were completely unorganized. Since the San Jose cannery strike the night shift has been put on work- ing on the fruit sent from San Jose. But the police and the detectives are stationed around day and night to watch that no one of the San Jose strikers enters to pull these workers jut. The truck loaded with fruit was intercepted on the way here by the strikers and delayed shipment, with @ result that last Sunday all work- ers had to stay home. Workers resent this and readily give their story to Agricultural Workers Industrial Union organizers. This time they realize that an organiza- tion must be built in order to fight better and in their third attempt they are bound to put up an affective fight. That’s the right spirit! Build your Agricultural Workers Industrial Union. —Cannery Slaye. BOSSES PROMISE MORE WAGE CUTS Workers Must Organ- ize and Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, N. Y.—Secretary La- mont, tool of Morgan & Co., denied recently that employers had pledged at the 1929 conference not to cut wages; what they did, he said, was to promise to try to maintain wages. Workers, this is another excuse to cut our wages, but we must oppose all these efforts of the bosses to lower our living conditions by organizing into the fighting unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Lamont also, in discussing the sit- uation in New England, said that the bosses in New England intended to shut down the cotton mills to cow the workers into accepting bigger. wage-cuts. This shows that the workers cannot gain anything from the bosses without fighting. Work- ers everywhere should join the Com- munist Party. , IN NORTHWEST, mountains of Idaho, Montana and| ers buying second-hand shoes, shoes | POOR IDAHO FARMERS | FACE RUIN AS GRAIN | PRICE DROPS patie: Are Bare / ankers Demand Share ti Crop |Farmers C alsids | And Ba Pi ameskt Hands G et W age Cut; s Landlords Vorkers Must | Organize With Farmers To Fight Hunger | (By a Rarer ( ieee -tondent ) | BUHL, Idaho.—The harvest is getting way here. Many farmers wonder how they can pay Grain is selling below the cost of production. Wheat is selling at 27 | cents, barley at 24 cents and 20 cents—that is far below pro- | duction cost for us farme I had 30 acres of barley that made 50 bushels per acre. | I have to bear all the expense of the crop and give the landlord | two-fifths. He got $4.95 rent per acre and I am ind The parasit y that I owe them for the privilege of | working long hours in t 0 oiling sun, And the © prospects for other crops are on the level with#—-—-— grain. n Farm | Who i landlo} to ase we \for the right to live. the landlords will der |last foothold in life. While the bankers shout tha | banks are in good conditions | them closing daily. While the f |cry prosperity we look at our e cupboards and pull our belts i | other notch. Teachers’ Salaries Cut Teachers’ salaries out here are cut | $10 a month and the ‘e given more | work to do. The harvest hands a 50 per cent cu pay. The Ty Falls Genal Company cut the wages | 20 per eent with more work to do. | Some of the poor sheep owners are | hit real hard. One man with 1,000 held of 6-year-old sheep told me that | if conditions did not get better this Fall he would have to leave his sheep jon the range this winter and it is impossible for the sheep to live thru} the winter. We poor farmers have to do a lot| of work right now, even though we are gradually being ruined. As soon} as the harvest is over I will have} more time for agitating and organ- izing the farmers into the Unilted Farmers League. CLEVELAND JOB MOVE COLLAPSES Workers Must Build| Unemployed Council (@®y a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Last year at election time the cry of the bosses was: “Vote yes fourteen times and put Cleveland to work.” This echo has long since given way to the shout: “Where are the jobs and where is the money?” ‘The number of unemployed nears the 150,000 mark in the city of Cleve- land. Court injunctions, official red tape and graft are blamed for not putting the workers to work. Most of the money voted for the unem- ployed #émains idle, so the grafters and crooks can get all of it. One of the crooked council was shot down in order to close his mouth on the graft situation. This shows the kind of crooks and graft- ers that run Cleveland. ‘The only way the workers will get unemployment relief is to organize and fight for it. Join the Unem- ployed Council and force the city and state government to give us unem- ployment insurance instead of a lot of hot air. Evict Steel Worker In McKeesport, Pa. (By a Worker Correspondent.) McKEESPORT, Pa,—Evictions are taking place daily in McKeesport, Pa, One worker living on Sixth St. owed for three months’ rent. When he and his wife came home one night the house was empty. The landlord took $2,000 worth of furni- ture for the three months’ back rent. There are over 5,000 workers un- employed in this town. Workers and their families are starving. When the miners come for relief the steel workers donate food to them so they can win the strike. | tion and wage-cuts. | be curtailed | work in Yolo County, JRE i sf Ouk Dividends Is jo Fe Against The Workers (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK, N. Y.—The steel cor- porations’ action in cutting divi- dends starts another phase of defla- Pr and in many ction is to cases en- Wage reductions in increasing num re taking place The steel in- | dustries are following the line of all major industries in the country. The cutting of the annual divi- dend rates is a move to squeeze out the small fry. The cut from $7 to $4 a share is done in order to liqui- | date the small shareholder and force him to sell at a low price to the big shareholders and capitalists. This is a scheme to rob the steel workers who have stock. Many workers | bought stock before the crisis at $200 to $270 a share. Now they are forced to sell at a loss at prices ranging from $80 to $90 per share, The U. S. Steel Corporation work- ers, working under the Hoover stag- ger plan, getting only two or three days a week, naturally are forced to Sell their stock because they need the money badly. The robbers are not content torob us of our wages; they also devise other methods. Workers, organize into the Metal Workers’ Industrial League and fight these wage-cuts and the stagger system. THOUSANDS FIRED IN BEET FIELDS Cal. Landowners Reap Double Profits (By a Worker Correspondent) WOODLAND, Cal.—After six weeks where several thousand were employed in the sugar beet fields harvesting the crop, the workers are now being laid off. Thirty Per Cent Wage Cut This year we were forced to labor much harder and produce much more. Our wages were cut thirty per cent. The pay we received was $9 to $13 per week at the most. Many are hiking out on foot after ditching their machines, because they are un- able to repair and buy gas. We are actually starving now after our hard labor and have no prospect of landing another job. Double Profit ‘The growers, however, got more for their crops this year as compared to last year. Also they are reaping double profit because more than 5000 heads of cattle will be moved into the county to graze on land harvest- ed of beets. Tests disclosed that the beet tops left on the ground are good for grazing purposes, and the cattle men have contracted to grams their cattle here. Such are conditions of field work- ers in California as compared with the great land owners. We only hope that workers can hurry up and get together and organize to fight for their living conditions. EDITORIAL NOTE—Below we Communists are leading the fight on August 3rd. The fight against Cnt Chicago Workers: rent. all this year. Tl never get another start in life, Fight Against Evictions! in Chicago who has been served with an eviction notice, He calls on the workers to rally and stop the agents of the Chicago landlords and bosses from throwing his furniture into the street. This work- er, like tens of thousands of workers in America, realizes that only the workers; led by Communists—an action which the police thugs tried to stop by murdering three workers Aug. 3—has stopped evictions in Chicago temporarily at least. This does not mean, how- ever, that the bosses will not try to evict more jobless workers. More eviction notices are being served, as the letter shows. We must stop this eviction, and all evictions, by rallying even greater masses. than Please come to my rescue at once. Looking to get kicked out any day. Workers, please come to my aid. Come to 2536 West Warren, ‘The bailiffs will be here August 7th about 8 o'clock. You workers must be here before 7 in the evening. Don't fail me, workers. If the profit crazed bosses put me out, print a letter from a worker in against evictions. Mass action of evictions must go on. . Chicago, TL Tam away behind in my I've been out of work », Albert A. Washington