The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1931, Page 3

Gobo WORKER, 2, NE W YO! RK, SATURDAY, AUGUS' T, 22, eS ioe est. whe Asai inst U.M.W.A. _ Check-off System With Sticks and Stones “ Page 1 ihrer THE WORKINGCLASS IS MASTER OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOVIET UNION | HARLAN MINERS CALL Scrantan Miners Fight FOR AID IN STRUGGLE AGAINST STARVATION % Y rT gt c ey A ® went it te ere (ara Worker Coccespandent) UM.W.A. and Mine Operators Hire Armed] iad tha chee oni rete tel EMS Gangsters and Underworld Killers Brought to| PEO SBUSON, Pepteet Eerie Thugs to Collect Dues; } s Refuse; cash slips were collected. |A Group of Stalingrad we orkers Write How Harlan By Bosses to Terrorize Workers le ed on the anthracite min- | To Build Rank and }ile Committees | Driven from Convention | ufillins Five Year Pian cements canis sides aiatitnimanes tem. Many of us| ae At the biennial convention of dis- | Sinseteaipiaeeces ns t the system meant. | | trict 1, Boylan and his gan® refused | Miners Determined to Fight. oe 1 es We knew, and more know now, that| UMW Officials or'the: fale ‘progres- stand sses, union officials, their} to Jet the rank and file into the Production in “Zaria”, New Oil | Build Strong National M the, chackecit ayatem is ‘a dhain. tol oe | thug > to see who pays and | convention hall. Not only did he re- | ‘vy Heralds Farly + | ‘ off 8) | In August at the Archibald mine| who ref | u ctory, Heralds Early Success fuse to let the miners into the hall} bind the miners hand and foot so } Boylan put his thugs police a nee — - ~ { (By a Worker Correspondent) | thet they will not be able to move| aa eee ans tla. tet tom This Cine te ae ee ced to| Dut instructed the police to drive| I HARLAN, Ky.—Here is one section of the country where oe we OE nic the miners their dollars for dues, But! npany union. The Boy-| bed ae aed ae sae are maltose ne | there actually exists an inner kingdom. The coal operators of} ..... e coal operators did not see any |'the miners refused to pay. The Glen| jumped out and tried: to| cic chanel AMC oie So i “Ww, on | y reason to enforce the check-off sys-| aiden Co. has worked | arrested. The miners learned that We ar cious | this county (Harlan County) have set up 2 government unto| tem until the present time however. Gneck-ort. Gente caine : the miners to give up their] there-was no use to pay dues to the Bit themselves whereiti the courts, the sheriffs and all the gov-|They cut the wages without the as-/ given their pay in envelopes and al 30> mines fname the wan’ over| agents of the coal operators. ‘They reel es ernment agencies are part of the coal operators’ machinery of | sistance of the officials of the United! check-off slip for the $1 a yee eyes Miata, | decided to keep their dollars in thei y, . ap , eontrol which functions only in promoting the most ‘inhuman | M2? Workers us erg they en-| gues. These slips are festened told a fase bhai OLEAN were in- | pockets. ek hive he ner ete ee areulode, she Dave ne 01 he speed-vp s f ae is i i ‘ constructed our work in our own way—as wi nus exploitation of the workers in the mines. Many of the mine srs | mine, the speed-cp system in every| the envelopes with rubber bands. The| jured, The district organizer, Phil- eres, pecans coy eal ae | eae Be : i Pate te oy Nea aie NOs ceomane ee ive ee miners are s s to give these nthon e a 1 system. here eir fatherland. have been deprived of the most ordinary rights of citizenship, | sections of mines and thousands were | cine in at ee nae cies Feud Anthony Panne and the/ in be many more fights at the pay Ganitae ; are ‘ : r even to the extent of being prohibited to read newspapers of | thrown out of work aie eRe a uct ee ec nbepy polles ‘ran to the pey car; | Araows it the Takers try to take the eee ge Oleranm ti Bie Panne oro er ere ————— their own choice. | Dust in Miners’ Eyes ~ eer SES ae miners’ money. The Loomis miners | ts wor se oD and discussed by ves and after discus- SOVIET SE AMEN | an an effort to gain control of the line te by cmnaty ote signed by MINE are preparing to strike against tie | seta siors a righ I iiet acc cngleprunedt of tie workers | -Boylan gang for five and| inst ‘ay ?¥ | shutting down of a section of the| °° ‘° sa and | WD KE ’ qQ [earibaes au theracemi etna (ee ERS ADDRESS NEW YORK W ORKERS SAR SP eET oe i icithee | OVERTLY dbs WURKEA AKIN) | both while at work and at home, tne | andu | coal operators—Lewis, Boylan, Hart- | neady, Brennan, ete—spoke through | the capitalist press and at mass meet~ Glen Alden strike. Miners of this district and in all the anthracite must learn that Boy-| al butchers of the coal barons | ae resorted to all kinds cf espion and even TARMET S FARE THE SAME OF be Ty the cc 3 z Cm ‘ a 2, intimidation, threa:s ; % 1A! GP Ric AS PASSENGERS rccetal evictions. | ings and seid that @ great schieve- . i 3 Coun cp fe Jan, Brennan are fakers working for 2°" Ce’ fan (oe onniaes ment was attained by the union of- ” x 6 the bosses the same as Maloney, eee LAND OF FREE | phe e:mpexy owned towrs o this| ficials a a an ange miners. This Tomack, Davis and Daugherty. By ay) cor lcoal county are so com ly iso- ab Leica eonifas = Talners S7ea! They are not fighting for the min-|@de® on the basis i — American Sa Sailor Tells | totea as to inake the operaicrs’ policy | Th® Coa! operators were able to cut ers’ interests, but for soft jobs for| Worker is striving honestly Rracieanes TAF Bch Siendard on |obsslap-pisenge. stay ot cxaction oie and worsen the miners’ condi- themselves. ‘There is no difference| the plan. Those that | -o Workers Work ¢ [Every phase of life, indusc. al, poll- | ions. és whether Boylan, Brennan and Hart-| fF fulfillment of the pla: AS shatter Slaves in Soviet Ships | tical, social and econom’c. is in ao-| Strikers Betrayed by UMWA neady betray us or Maloney, To-|Known and . . {solute control of the coal darons, | In the first sever months of this year mack and Daugherty. They are the| Country. Best Southern States Leningrad, U.S.S.R. | since every medium of law enforce-| over 50 per cent of the miners went same agents of the operators. ae ent sheds all = das 3 ; | : heed | 3 he ae a 4 eive pr (By a ker Correspondent) Dear Comrades: | ment is in their hands. During the} on strike against the rotten condi ‘ Build Rank and File Committees Gur tidisay ds siced SAN NCISCO, Gal. — The I am a second-class passenger on ® Soviet ship, one of the six new ships of the London-Leningrad ser- vice ‘This ship was built in Leningrad three years ago and has every mod- ern convenience for both passengers end crew. The finishings are beau- tifully done, which shows that there | are indeed some good cabinet makers im the Soviet Union. Crew Gets Best. ‘The crew eats the best of food and works eight hours a day. The bath and wash rooms for the crew is the @ame as those provided for the pas-; @ nice chess board chairs and two vic- uch things are unheard of American and English ships. ‘There is also a photographic Jabora- the crew may practice phy. the with ‘ble tion and on Hee the officers give instruc- to crew in navigation in spare time, and the Russian en know that there is a place them when they get ready for a ZERUEE 8 is growing and the seamen do we to worry about trade de- pression, lockouts or wage reduc-| tions. There is no capitalist class: operating the ships cheap by forcing the wages down and cutting the food | short. The wages and standard of ving are gradually going up. I have been a sailor on both Brit- American ships and my best | to the American seamen is! ie ticket, The Soviet, merchant | Join the Marine Workers’ Indus- | |Jast four years while the bosses were | gradually enforcing their policy of | | starvation cn the miners, any 2 | ‘ne raised his voice in pratesi he was jinstantly suppressed. Miners Revolt, But the Jimit to what men can be| driven to was reached a few months | {ago when tie miners of Harlan re- | volted agdinst any further imposition of the bosses’ repuls've program. The long suffering miners, realizing | that their pcsition had secome abso- lately intolerable, banded themselves together in a union to fiz these condit:cns. And au all the forces of “law and orcer, which they imposed tre utmost trust, were gathered toget:: > again t them to crush their fight against absolute slave conditions. Campaign of Terrer, The operators, calculating that, they could drive the miners away) from their so-called constitutional | right to unionize, intensified their! campaign of terror. Gangsters and | underworld killers were imported | jfrom the large cities. Especially since the miners of this district be- ‘gan joining the militant National Miners’ Union in support of their constructive united front program haye these gunmen been going the limit in their campaign of terror. Breaking into union meeting places, | confiscating membership cards and applications, terrorizing women and children in raids on homes by 15 or 20 thugs armed with sub machine |guns, dynamiting homes and cars | used in relief work, and even the shooting from ambush of a news- paper reporter who came down here | to ascertain the real facts for pub- lication—ali this is just part of the | terror thet exists down here in) Harlan. | | Determined to Fight. The mincrs, however, are deter-| | mined to fight on with their own j union, the National Miners’ Union. | | We need relief and the support of! the whole working class and we will win our struggle againct starvation. Send us relief! Help us win! American ships and force the rich American shipowners io give the American seamen better conditions. —An American Seaman. BURLINGTON RAILROAD FIRES SECTION CREWS (By a Worker Correspondent) KIRBY, Ky.—This town is on the Casper division of the Burlington system, Last year they employed three men to a section. This year they only employ two men to do the same work. Now an order has been posted stating that 60 section crews will be eliminated this week. SEND RELIEF AND WE WILL DO TH! REST, SAYS HARCO MINER Harco, Tl, Daily Worker: Iam @ miner working at Peabody 41, Harco, Ill. Miss Peabody closed this mine two months ago to “divide” with Mine 43 in in Harrjs- but the men in Mine 43 were and re-opened 47. in very bad shape. dangerous for miners to go it, I told many of the men is not safe to go down in the mine make it safe, but the men are all down and olt and hungry and won't pay much attention. Die In Mines. Y came home the first day and that morning they brought men nearly dead from the mine, One died two hours later. On which was the next "nen Camp for Miners’ | Children in Conneaut (By a Worke. Correspondent.) CONNEAUT, Ohio.—The Miners’ Children’s Camp has been opened with 24 miners’ children from the coal fields in Eastern Ohio, The Pioneer Camp, which ‘was opened on July 5 and then was at- tacked by an armed band of the sheriff's forces and was closed tem- porarily, is again running, having been opened to shelter children of the striking miners. ‘These children say they will keep i the camp open, sheriff or no sheriff, dead. The boss observed that any man is liable to get sick and die. They claim the miner died from a stroke/ Then I decided to go and try it again, but was feeling too bad, so when I got to the mine I talked to the miners and tried to get them not to go down, The miners are so starved many of them would rather go down and die like rats, About 30 of them remained out .with me and we went to the superintendent and demanded an order to see the doctor, but he refused, saying that this company did not pay any doc- tor bills. We went to the doctor any~ how and now the super tells me that I have no job. ‘The miners here are with the Na- tional Miners’ Union, but the com~- pany has such a hold on them by keeping them in debt to the company store, that it is hard to get them out. If we could give the miners some relief here, assure them of some food and a place to live, they would all_come out on strike, What the workers everywhere must do is to in- tensify their efforts to get relief down here, We miners will do the rest, —A Miner, tions and the misery in the coal fields. But every strike was crushed by the A. F. of L. fakers. At Glen Alden Lewis was unable to crush the strike, so Tomack and Davis did the job, In district nine Brennan was unable to do the job, but Daugherty succeeded. Every move of the miners | against rotten conditions, wage-cuts, discrimination, against closing the mines were crushed by either the RUINED FARMERS REFUSE TO SEND CROP TO MARKET Farmer Now Averages 15 Cents a Bushel for His Grain Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Comrades: N. B. Updike, owner of a large chain of elevators, and other capi- talists are beginning to worry about the attitude of the farmers in the corn and wheat belts. Grain receipts ‘totaled only 92. cars of wheat on Thursday and 81 on Wednesday on the Omaha market. That is several hundred carloads be~ low the receipts for those same dates of previous years, These receipts were so small that they left the mar- ket at a practical standstill. Vast quantities of wheat are being held on farms with announced intentions by farmers that they ‘will feed it to live stock and poultry ‘during the winter. “I predict,” said Updike, “that pro- ducers will refuse to market new ‘ corn this fall. The farmers are on a virtual market strike.” As the prices now stand, in Omaha,} where a country elevator charge of 2 cents and freight hauling within a | radius of 100 miles ayerages 14 cents a bushel, the farmer is receiving an actual figure of only 15 cents a bushel for his grain, based on the Chicago price of 31 cents Thursday, ‘—A, B, 2 MORE DIE FROM STARVATION, N Y. Found Dead in Park on Waterfront New York. Daily Worker: Another sample of starvation in the midst of plenty manifested it- self again in New York. Monday morning two men were found dead from starvation and exposure in Battery Park, one at 4 a m, and another at 6 a.m. So far I have seen nothing of this in any of the local papers. Had this occurred at the Seaman's Institute the usual thing would have happened: The reserve empty-alco- hol-bottle-supply (kept exclusively for this purpose) could be tapped and an empty be inserted into one of each of these fellow’s pockets. Thus, these benevolent custodians of our souls and destinies excuse them- selves at the expense of these poor fellow's character and regardless of the feelings of their relatives, ‘We can now plainly see how well these lads who brave the seas carry- ing on the country’s commerce are taken care of by ship operators and the government, Government subsidies for ship- owners and starvation for sailors, ~A Sailor On the Beach. CUT BEAN PICKERS’ PAY (By A Worker Correspondent.) EASTERN SHORE, Md.—Several families went to the farmers to pick beans and other vegetables, These men were promised 35 cents an hour and the women 25 cents. But after getting there they found that wages had been cut for men 25 cents and women 15 cents, Two striking miners from the Pennsylvania coal fields are shown speaking to the workers of New York at a mass demonstration on Union Square. The workers gave (1 e miners a thunderous ovation and pledged to support the miners in their struggles. (By a Worker Correspondent) SANTA CLARA VALLEY, Calif.— Scores of jobless Mexicans, with their wives and children, are star- ving near the highways here. ‘These Mexicans migrate through- | out California valleys (some for sev- eral years now), working at any kind | of field work. This year, since they were laid off from the rhubarb crop, they could find employment only for several days. ‘The women and childven are barce | footed. Children are not attending school (because of migration (as they fear to stay long in one spot). Even) if they would stay longer they could | not attend because of lack of clothes. | ats and miserable they looked in mm rags. Their bodies are covered with sores, One mother of five children told ‘he writer, that her baby died two! davs after birth and she had to bury it In a field in the northern part of the state. She said she knew that, the baby had no strength to live because she was starved during; pregnancy and it just barely breathed for two days, too weak to nurse! Families In Rags. fF Starving Mexican Workers Terrorized By Deportation ‘They were telling how they just barely made their living while work- ing last year. Before this they said that there were times during the summer season they used to make enough by skimping to live through the winter months, but last year they pulled through the summer year they have nothing but fruit picked by the roadside (when no one sees) and occasionally a yegetable pulled “out from some natch. What they are going to do when winter comes they do not know. gIhere is no prospect of get- ting food and they dare not apply to ' charities, for they fear deportation. “It will be worse when they deport,” We must organize ourselves into rank and file committees in every mine and in every local and take the locals in our our hands. We must form unity with the soft coal miners in their struggles. We must form unity with the National Miners Union and fight against our common en- emies, the operators and the fakers| of the UMWA. This is the only way we can win. ACCIDENTS. GAIN AMONG YOUTH IN BETHLEHEM MILL O<ccupatioanl Diseases and Accidents Mount at Sparrows Point By A Worker Correspondent SPARROWS POINT, Md.—In the tin mill and sheet mill department of the Bethlehem Steel plant here they had an extra order to make and as the bosses were afraid that the workers would go on strike against the speed-up and the threatened wage-cut they put on twenty extra men on each shift. They completed the order in a month and now all the men are back on 2 and 3 days & week and the speed-up is worse than ever. The most exploited workers in this mill are the Negro workers. They have separated the Negro workers into groups with white foremen over them who terrorize them and drive them at a most unmerciful speed. In all departments accidents are increasing and many young workers get sick from the speed and the heat. Most of them are suffering from kidney trouble. The small accidents are uncounted there are so many of them. The only reason the bosses can at- ing. Here are s me figure published an article in about slaves ‘arst papers Last year we worked their Sunday editions Taatt 18,100) tonsa’ of raw. an being bought: and sold under the 04} ab the! sare weil wa & d stripes. It was written by per man studying condie 8,200 tons and in 1932 we a posed t@ work up 11,000 ton material. «Together ¥ of industry, the work: ing its standard of tions in the Philippine Islands. Fis article v very good, but it was une ‘or him to go to the other world: to find these con- | ditions he could find the same | conditions if not worse right here in the U. S. In the southern part of the U. 8. e large plantations which have life and Subscription for the Loan ‘We wish to inform you about achievements in subscription for the loan of the third de¢isive year of the Five-Year Plan, issued according to/ the same slaves and families they the demand of the working cla: had before slavery (chattel) was the sum of 1,000,000 roubles | abolishe These plantations are bes a ee to sectio: Each slave Comrades! This is not th loan; there were many ot and if the building up o would require a new loan we ready to realize it! The subscription of this loan was organized in the following way: Even before the government h sued the loan (we have working at our factory) we a preliminary subscription for gned to a sec- tion which they are forced to plant, irrigate and harvest. When is done the crop is In the center of; these \ are stores from which |these workers draw their supplies, rations and so forth. These supplies to their accounts. This bosses call a percentage ; the slaves buy the tools, till il, 1 the crops and then along cor parasite (the ,boss) and grabs all the proceeds. At the end of the year the, boss figures up all the accounts and his calculations always show that the workers are indebted to him. Another thing that takes place on these pla: ons is that they have hard-boiled, cruel foremen who ride from section to section to see that are same, that gave us the sum of 9,000 roubles. | } | But after the loan issued, we | made a final subscription, which gave to the government 20,000 roubles. Most of us subscribed one month’s salary and some even two month's! | salary. There is not a single bour- geois country that could distribute the loan so successfully. Only the pro- letariat can do it for the sake of} building up Socialism in its own country, to stride forward to the Com-/ the workers do their work. They munistic society. carry a bu un. If Just because we are bosses in our/ the fied as to | country, we know v the qu ything have no hope to g is not wo g just right, he puts the \italists. In order to whip to If ywever, the work- bourgeoisie and carry on er puts up a defense the foreman trialization of the countr shoots them in cold blood. So you see, fellow workers, we don’t have to go to the other side of the world to nd forced labor, it is right here in the United States. —A White Worker. issued and are going to issue loan: in the future. Among all responsible probly that in spite of difficulti e solving the most responsit that we have to carry on protect and broaden our achievements at the front of industrialization and FRUIT GROWING they kept saying, “for they dump us over the border and we surely will tack us in this way and worsen the conditions of work is because we the fight against all kinds of at- ; them and they got their older chil- | plain. They are eager to learn what ' they could do, die quick in the Mexican desert— like rats,” They are ready to fight for their lives here in this country, they said. The “Daily Worker” was left with workers are not organized. If we were organized the bosses would not have a chance. We must organize into the Metal Workers Industrial League and then we will show the Schwabs and Graces who's who, dren who attended school for & couple of seasons to read and “ex- tence wpe doedielrrennpett group in your factory, shop or neighborhood, Send regular letters to the Daily Worker, Hartford Mayor’s “Charity” Scheme Turns Out To Be Forced Labor On Golf Course New Britain, Conn. Daily Worker: T was looking for a job in the to- bacco fields and they told me that in many places they cannot af- ford to pay any money. I was told that if I wanted to work for my meals | I could have a job. | In Hartford, which is near here,| the city officials have terrorized the workers into working on the aviation field for no pay. They give the workers a ljttle fake charity and then tell them that if they don’t go out and work on the aviation field they will arrest and put them in jail} for asking for charity. ‘The local papers are doing every- thing in their power to terrorize the workers away from organization. The bosses who contol these papers are afraid that the workers will organize and force the rich parasites to pay the unemployed unemployment in- surance, Forced Labor ‘The mayor has been very busy tell- ing how much the city has helped the workers. The city collected money and out of every thirty dollars col- lected the workers get about three dollars. About 500 out of the 1,300 workers got little relief out of this money. Today the mayor sent let- ters to these that got a little miser- able “aid” asking them to go to work on the city golf course ta ranay ane city for the “charity” they were>now that the Communists are leading | given. the fight for resi relief and unem- ‘Che workers here are fast learning | ployment Insurance, who their real friends are, They see —A Worker. Otonce 4 quioLEY WILLIAM T. FAY ‘eacnetane S Dear Sirs) « You have volunteered to do ane day's work eve! two weeks at the Tantoipel Golf Cours, tea ng Iam a end teats iinsiy Fepor’ a ae the Welfare 'e, Washington Place Wednesday morning, ~ ~ ith at 6:45 O'olook.: : have volun- tempts of the interventionalists ‘This is so clear to each of us, we will fulfill it as an absolute neces- sity. We are pledged to accomplish this task. The most honorable part be longs, however, to the Red Army, | which is the offspring and pride of the October Revolution. On behalf of the workers mill “Zaria.” of oil- Five Signatures. Nine Month Baby Starves to Death Terre Haute Jobless | Force City Relief (By a Worker Vorrespondent) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Here in Terre Haute the wage-cutting cam- paign is felt in all the railroad shops. Many workers have been recently laid off and those that are working are speeded up only working part time. The American Car and Foundry Company, a Wall Street concern, are driving the workers at a high pace for twelve hours and are paying them 25 cents an hour, We have actual proof of a nine month old baby dying from starva- tion, Our Unemployed Council recently took a starving unemployed worker to the city trustees and forced them to give him relief. We sent a dele- gation to the conference of railroad- ers in Chicago, We are going to or- ganize these workers into the Trade Union Unity League. Write to the workers in the Soviet Union. They will answer your questions concerning the Five Year Plan. Send all letters to International Letter Exchange, Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St that | FARMERS RUINED Must Build United | Farmers League (By a Worker Correspondent) GERMANTOWN, N. Y.—Here in the fruit-growing district the work- |ers are being shoved to the wall, | Here there is an abundance of fruit, ; but it does not pay the farmers to pick it, for if they do the railroad commission men demand more than the fruit will bring on the market. There are many who will lose their farms this year, as the farmers are unable to pay the interest on their mortgages. These people are be- | ginning to realize that there is some- | thing wrong with the system that lets millions go hungry when there is so much food going to waste. We are trying to show the farm- ers and workers out here that the | only way we can better our condi- ‘tions is to organize into real fight- ing workers’ organizations, the Com- | munist Party and the Trade Union | Unity League. We mist begin to build the United Fatriers’ League and organize the farmers to demand relief from the government and to refuse to pay taxes, rent and debts. | Anti-Soviet Move Hits Jobs in U. S. New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: It is known that the Mergenthaler Linotype Co. have been on, part time | Since the first of the year and that from Aug. 1 the plant was shut down for a month, Is it generally known that this or- ganization turned down an order | from the U. S. S. R. for linotype | machines which would have cleaned | out all of their stock? Orders were | also promised which would have kept | the plant going full blast for the next three years, —L. Ss. |