The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1931, Page 3

_DATLY WORKER, NEW YORE, SATURDAY, iene det 12, 1951 UST SMASH TERROR .ND TRIPLE SPEED-UP IN NASH AUTO PLANT led Worst Sweat Shop in City of Racine; | Plant Overrun with Stool Pigeons rkers Forced to Clean Machines on Own Time; Many Blacklisted (By a Worker Correspondent) RACINE, Wis.—The Nash Plant in Racine is known as| worst sweat shop in the city, due to unbearable speed-up long hours of work, while young workers hired in their place. id to a wage system whereby they are unable to know} much wages they have coming, the stock market crash was deplorable, but at the present the bosses have a speed-up system introduced in the en- plant and the workers-dare not voice their opinions against | pment seer n @ 1 TOE Sen? Of dosing thelr. jobs. RROR SPREADS, SEARS PLANT | INDIANAPOLIS: | Militant Worker) c Speaking at Shop Gate Meeting ty a Worker Correspondent.) JIANAPOLIS, Ind.—One of our des, who started to. gpeak at a ng in front of the Sears Cab- ‘Plant, was pulled off the box re police and thrown into the > car. He was taken to the po- yeadquarters and locked up. talked to several workers from plant and they say that they nly drawing $1.880 a day for 10 % work. The workers come out e plant in disgust. speaker went today to address workers at the plant and was ed by Morrissy’s cossacks. 2 plant made two wage-cuts re- y and informed the workers they would reduce the wages L is firm makes cabinets that re- § from $50 to $75 each and the ny uses the most vicious speed- 1ethods. A worker who has children to support showed a check for $10.80. This was his ‘s pay. We will probably have bomrade out of jail when you his letter. URCH ADVISES BLESS TO PRAY 1 Lends I Deaf Ear is Supplications Omaha, Neb. Comrades: » Omaha Council of Churches ‘the Omaha Ministerial Union « that they have come across a that will “solve” the unemploy- 5 Troblem. ‘They are going to urage widespread prayer for le Rev. Mr. Esveld said that the acil of Churches holds no meet- in September, but that its mem- would be notified and the sug- on made to them that they heed call for prayer and mention the onal Federation’s attitude to ‘ orkers! all the praying that you do will not help you one bit in ing a job. In fact, it will work other way—you lose all that time. talism is the thing that causes be idle and starving! Only by aes capitalism from the earth you find relief! The way to re- 2 it is to fight it—don’t pray to od! —A Worker. ‘reat to Raise iy. Tenants’ Rent | the Nash plant is based on the lat- every day cleaning his machine with- ldlorde Pr Press More mands on Farmers } aie By a Worker Correspondent. _JEYSVILLE, Ky.—I just made a _ through the farming sections ~ ‘loyd County. Crops are pretty | But, get this—the landlords are * anding that their tenants not ~ } pay their unjust share for a |; to work on the fat landlords’ _, but to gather and store the lords’ share into the granary of charge. Also, it is reported od authority, that next year the are to be raised one-third on and one-half on roughage, al- { taking everything the poor ten- raises and produces, Renters! ants! Organize in a body against 1 outrageous schemes to rob you. the “fat-bellied” landlords be- tenants and renters have the limit. They are ready for \Y WEEK ONLY IN U.S. S. R. a@ Worker Correspondent) | one breath Secretary Jahncke that the five day week is at and in the next warns his against the spread. of Com* ic propaganda. Yd like to know just where the stant Secretary of the Navy that the five day week orig- Tooks as if Jahneke has to admit Nee for the workers, but hates ve Communism the credit. old workers are being laid oft | The workers are sub- | The speed-up system be- | This system is headed by an agent | of the bosses, whose name is. Bob Grant, who is hand in glove with the so-called efficiency engineers. The plant ‘is so ‘rationalized with more modern and speedy. machines that | only few men are used on production on various machines. ‘The entire system of production in est capitalist method of production. A worker entering the plant must punch his clock-card five minutés before the whistle blows and if he is two minutes late the company de- ducts one half an hour from his working time. He, the worker, must be at the machine ready for work, and if he fails to comply with this rule, he is fired and placed on the black list, Triple Speed-up. The shop is operated under a group work system, that is a group of workers work together on a cer- tain part of production. When a new machine is introduced, the com- pany will use a stool-pigeon to work @ couple of days at top rate speed to try out the machine and at the same time set a speed-up system for the workers, who are to be put to work at this machine. After the stool- pigeon set a pace, the company takes a@ young worker and place on this machine to work, forcing him to do more than the stool-pigeons can do. —that is, if the worker wants to hold his job. They can now do more in 6 hours of work than three times that many men could do in 18 hours three years ago. The bosses make great promises to the employees. They promise the workers to pay them 60 cents per hour to turn out a certain amount of auto parts per day. But the men work more than 13 hours a day for 47 cents per hour, or 79 hours per week for little more than $35.00 a week. No Overtime Pay. At the end of each week, the work- ers are forced to clean up the ma- chine on their own time, taking not Jess than one half hour to two hours. If.the worker wishes to hold his job he mitist work at least two hours out extra pay. If a worker wishes to stay with the company he must become a horse, a stool pigeon or a door mat or anything to be trodden under the feet of the profit mad bosses. Build Shop Committees. Fellow workers of the Nash plant, how long do you think we can stand this outrageous treatment. Let us organize grievance committees. Or- ganize and strike against these dam- nabie conditions in the shops. Join the Auto Workers Industrial Union! Indiana Relief Fund , Not for the Jobless, Says Fat Governor (By a Worker Correspondent) TERRE HAUTE, Ind.— Governor Leslie of Indiana is trying to kid the workers along with promises of road work amounting to $750,000. This may sound like a huge sum, but it amounts. to nothing when one takes into ‘consideration the large vastly increasing army of unemployed here. ‘The Governor stated in an inter- view with the press that “no bums who depended on the county trustees for donations would be given work.” This. means that the actual jobless who are in need of food and shelter will not be considered in this so- called relief program. This fat parasite calls us unem- ployed workers bums because we de- mand relief from the county. We must answer this by organizing strong Unemployed Councils and force this ‘city to give us real relief. Starvation Sweeps OverWesternN ebraska; ManyWorkers Desperate, A ttempt Suicide Omaha Press and ons! Suppress News of 4 Suicide Attempts (By a Worker Correspondent) Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Comrades: With the thermometer hovering around 82 in the shade, and green leaves still on the trees, the people of Scott’s Bluffs County, a sugar beet district in Western Nebraska, already see a winter unprecedented with starvation and horror ahead of them, Three Attempted Suicide In just two days at least three persons were sent to hospitals in Omaha as the result of trying to “end it all.” Jake Simon, ex-cafe owner, despondent over loss of prop- erty and failure to find work, shot himself in the head. The bullet glanced from the skull, but Simon may not recover. John Jamovich was found late at night on a viaduct. He was groaning and it was dis- covered, after the doctor arrived, that he had taken poison. The po- lice surgeon branded it as a “stall,” like he does with every poison case that has chances of recovery. Mrs. George Raines was found in an unconscious state, with three gas jets of her stove turned on. “She has been despondent over financial troubles for some time,” her mother told the police. There may have been other acts of this sort during the time ‘stated, but the local capi- talist newspapers and the Omaha police force are determined to sup- press all such news, UTICA MINE CORP. ROBS MINERS AND SMALL RANCHERS Gains Water, Power Control; Holds Grip On Small Ranchers (By a Worker Correspondent.) ANGELS CAMP, Cal.—Uticay Min- ing Corporation, which contréls the water right in this region, is out to rob the small ranchers and miners even more. Angels Camp area includes many small ranchers and mining claims. Water is an absolute necessity, When the Utica Mining Corporation ‘cor- nered the water supply it agreed to supply all these claims and ranches with water at a specified rate. They are now trying to raise this rate or else cut off the water supply. A year ago the Railway Commission refused to permit them to either raise the rates or to cut off the supply. This is an exampl of the “democ- racy” we enjoy. When one branch of the bosses’ government makes a gesture, some other department in- terferes. The mining company went before Federal Judge Louderbach, who issued an injunction restraining the Railway Commission from inter- fering. The agreement between the small mine owners and ranchers and the Utica Mining Corporation, under which the company got control of the water, now amounts to only a scrap of paper. This is the way the 59 rulers control the destinies of this country. The fact that the Railway Commission made a pretense of pro- tecting the small ranchers and min- ers only means that they are thus trying to keep up the illusion of democracy. The water users have a protective association. But this association put their entire dependence on appealing to the supreme court. We must or- ganize into the United Farmers’ League. The water and power in- terests have almost every small rancher in California at their mercy. Only through our own organization of small ranchers can we combat them successfully. 15 CENTS A DAY IN VA. APPLE ORCHARDS. (By a Worker Correspondent) STRAUSBURG, Va.—It is reported BOSSES EVICT AGED INVALID Thrown into the street from the home she occupied 19 years, Mrs, Ethel Tapee of Los Reson: penniless and an invalid, was forced to live on th» sidewalk. Evictions of jobless workers can only be stopped by organized resistance of the workers. borhood to fight evictions and demand’ unemployment insurance. Organize an Unemployed Council Branch in your neigh- Dear Comrade Thomas Mooney: ing ten days through the whole Russian-Baltic railway Comrade Thomas Mooney, in A Letter to Tom Mooney Your letter received from the damp American prison passed dur- amounting as well as.the whole Socolniky District with a population amounting to 450,000 persons, out of which 50,000 are members of M.O.P.R., In- ternational Prisoners Relief Society. Members of M.O.P.R. are form- ing shock brigades in your name at the plants, Moscow, U.S.S.R. district of the Moscow White- to 15,000 railway workers the name of a 50,000 army of M.O.P.R. members of Sokolniky District, I am sending you our brother- ly hearty proletarian greetings and wishes of firm revolutionary calm- ness and strong working class patience while expecting a quick re- lease from the damp American: prison, General emonomic depression in imperialistic countries and the revolutionary temper of the workers of the whole world are bringing nearer the inevitable death of capital. that. at a meeting of the orchard owners an agreement was made that the wages to be paid to the apple pickers this year would be 3 cents a crate. This means 75 cents a day of ten hours for the workers in the apple orchards this year. Across the border in West Virginia the miners are fighting for a living wage, Pittsburg, Kan., Workers Face General Industrial Lockout (By a Worker Correspondent.) PITTSBURG, Kan.—Before the Wall Street crash there were two brick yards here, employing around 250 men; a tile yard, employing about 200; an iron works, employing 250, and the K. C. S. shops, employ- -4fom 800 to 900 men, making a 1 of 1,800 workers. ’ What do, we find today? The two brick yards have been closed down for a long time. The tile yard closed down completely a few days ago. At the iron works there are only eight men working and at the K. OC. S. railroad shops there were only 300 men working two and three days a week, but now the shops are closed down completely and indefinitely and the boiler shop is likely to close down any day now, making it a com- plete lockout in Pitsburg, a town of 18,000 people. Can anyone be surprised when every day workers come down to the headquarters of the Trade Union Unity League, asking to be sent from capitalist America to Communist Russia, where there is no unemploy- ment. And most of these are skilled workers—ex-army aviators, elec- tricians, engineers, machinists, ete, Hoover and Green should go into another huddle with Fish and Woll. ‘They have made the workers in America mad, alright, but not at the workers in the Soviet Union. They are angry at the capitalist robbers in the United States of America, economy. Comrade Thomas Mooney, I do not intend to demonstrate be- fore you the figures of growth of the Soviet Union. steady fighter know yourself that we in our country under the faith- ful leadership of Stalin, will create Socialism. the fact that we have already erected the fundamental of socialist We, members of M.O.P.R., will not cease working to support fight- ers of revolution of the whole world and their families. With brotherly proletarian greetings—58-year-old railway worker of M.W.R.B. railway, member of M.O.P.B. of Socolniky District. You, as a strong, It is evidenced by B. F. KOULIKOF, Stockton Unemployed Council Exposes City Welfare Fakers (By a Worker Correspondent) ) un STOCKTON, Calif—The fake | “charity” organizatoins, whose main | function is to provide fat jobs for | politicians, were again exposed by the | | Unemployed Council. A migratory iss worker, his wife and two children, | aged 4 and 11 months, found them- selves stranded in Stockton without | any food or money. They went to the so-called welfare and were flatly refused, on the grounds that they did not live in town for a year. Ac- cording to those fakers a worker who does not live in town for a certain | period need not eat. ‘The worker came to the Unem- ployed Council, which has been ac- tive in forcing relief and exposing those fakers. It being too late to go to the Welfare and force relief, the comrades saw that the family re- ceived enough for immediate needs. ‘The next day a representative of the Unemployed Council called upon the supervisors and demanded that this man and his family receive relief. The supervisor wrote out a letter to the Welfare. The Welfare referred the worker to the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army gave “relief,” two loaves of stale bread, a mess of uncooked beans, a few rotten spuds and some mouldy onions. This is | what they expected to feed a family, | | including one baby in arms who needed milk. The family did not even have the means of cooking or any shelter, nor was any provision made for shelter. The Unemployed Council sent a committee to the Welfare with this worker to demand relief. The grafter (who, by the way, has con- veniently resigned since he has been exposed by the Unemployed Council) in charge stalled and told us to come back. The committee did, reinforced by many more workers. The police put the worker in a car and whisked him down to the Sallies. There he got some food and enough money to leave town. It is very significant that the police were so anxious to get this worker out of town, espe- cially as the ? elfare head admitted he had an agreement with the Sal- vation Army. The whole bunch seemed to be afraid of an exposure. The chief of police and about twelve of his men attempted to intimidate the workers, but the workers refused to move until they were sure the worker had obtained relief. HERE'S oo. THE MONEY - GOES ‘While 11,000,000 unemployed ‘workers face a “winter of saxyation and misery, the U. S. government spends millions on such high-power fireworks as shown here. A lf4-inch disappearing gun has just bel- lowed and is crawling back in its hole. The Unemplvyed Councils de- mand all war funds for the unemployed. Join the Unemployed Coun- ceils, Fight starvation and war! KY. FRUIT CROP LEFT TO DECAY; | MINERS STARVE Rich Landlords Refuse to Give Rotting Crops to Hungry Miners (By a Worker Correspondent.) GOODLOE, Ky.—Great fruit crops around here. In seven miles from here are large mining camps where the miners are literally starving. Peaches and apples galore, but the owners, as a rule, have these rotten | fruits for sale, not to give away. | I made a remark about a wealthy codger who owns thousands of acres of land, and vast orchards of fruit, | saying, Y didn’t see why, if the min- ers brought a wagon that this land- lord wouldn’t give give them a few wagon loads of fruit. My informant, who was a landlord, himself, and who had given away considerable fruit, replied for me to just try it. “He wouldn’t give you an apple.” | That is the foundation of capital- | ism—rotting apples and capitalism | in this section is rotting and decay- ing far more faster than the apples. This same landlord runs trustees for schools in many districts, his domains stretching far and wide, and him having four sons and a daughter who teaches school. Usually he just de- | mands that his tenants and renters | vote his way or get out, and that gets him elected. But this year, lo and behold, the renters and tenants | backfired and the landlord got beat | in many districts. The masses are | coming to the fore. Workers! In all lines and industry, awake to class conscience and stop this rich dicta- torship that fosters slavery. Organ- ize and fight for a dictatorship of the workers and farmers. A gov- | ernment of and by you. Down with capitalism. Up with the workers’ and farmers‘ flag—a Soviet U. S. A. EVICTION CASES MOUNT. NEW YORK.—According to an un- official count, the state of New Jer- sey had 163 evictions in the month of July. North Carolina had 471 and South Carolina 519. Alabama, Geor- gia and Virginia had 523 evictions reported. These, however, were only a small percentage of the actual evictions. Write to the U.S.S.R. “The letter which you forward- MCKEESPORT STEEL BOSSES SLASH PAY; PROFIT INCREASES Tin Plate Mill Cuts Ww ages SRR to 30 Per Cent; Workers Driven Like Cattle Metal Workers League Calls Steel Workers to Organize to Fight Starvation (By a Worker Correspondent) McKEESPORT, Pa.—In July we learned the “news” that the net profits of the MsKeesport Tin Plate Co. for the six months ending June 30 was $1,270,722. The shares were worth $4.23. In the “prosperity” year of 1929 the shares were worth $3.61 a share. Then on Sept. 1 we saw a new wage scale in the mill. We got a wage cut which ran from 10 to 30 per cent. Driven Like Cattle The bosses drive us like the cowboys drive cattle—that is, wherever they want—but how much longer are we going to same time. ‘MISERY IN CALIF. impossible to make the iron. Through | mill demand that the company build | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | for the workers. | greatest hand-shakers and publicity workers call on the other metal work- | pleasing grin. to spread the strike. Build Committees Organize a grievance committee and partment so that the whole mill will be represented on the committee. Hold a meeting, work out demands and present them to the bosses. In order to spread the strike, workers, we must organize ourselves. The Metal Workers Industri2] League is the or- ganization for the steel workers. Get your shop mates to join. Write to| the MWIL, 1125 Walnut St. Mc-| Keesport, Pa. BABY STARVE STARVES TO. DEATH IN INDIANA. Prof. Lauds l U.S. A. As Workers’ Paradise (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Every now | and then some prominent American who has been in Europe breaks into |the press with a rosy word picture of the living conditions of the work- ers in America as compared with the conditions of the workers in Europe. The latest addition to fakers is hte president of Butler Col- | lege, ‘Dr. Athearn. From his glowing description of conditions in the United States brought out in contrast with the con- ditions found in Europe ,one would think that want and suffering were unknown in America. His woeful ignorance or his mis- representation of the facts is brought out clearly by this little item I clipped from the Indianapolis “Star” of Sept. 5, 1931 “COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Sept. 4.—(United Press).—A physician gave starvation as the cause of death of Robert Lee Johnson, 13 months old baby, in his report today. “An investigation disclosed that the Johnson family of five had ed to us from a group of workers in Stockton, Cal. was published on the front page of the Pravda. It was read in every factory Moscow. It was a wonderfi stimulant.” The foregoing was taken from letter to the “Daily Worker” from a group of workers in the Soviet Union. These workers want to hear more from the American workers. Write to them through the International Letter Ex- change, Daily Worker, 50 EF. 13th St, New York, N. ¥. ty eaten but one loaf of bread as food in a week, the doctor said. An- other child is ill of malnutrition.” ‘This is not the only case of death caused by starvation, There are many deaths like this in Indiana, but the press is keeping very silent about it. The Unemployed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League is the only organization that is really fight- ing for food for these children. All the unemployed workers should get into this fighting organization and support the great struggle for unem- ployment insurance. Workers Starve in Las Vegas While Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent.) LAS VEGAS, Nev.—While starva- tion runs rampant on the outskirts of this town, in the town proper thousands of dollars are being squan- dered nightly on the roulette tables and at other gambling games. A beautiful contrast of capitalist civilization. So common has become the sight of the unemployed in all of the cities searching the garbage cans for food, that I forbore to men- tion it in my last letter. But here, too, in the city garbage dump, men and women can be seen searching for bits of potato and whatever else Play Roulette ‘This is simply another symptom of the declining days of capitalist civilization, Just as the Roman civilization had its day, so the civil- ization of capitalism has had its day, which is now drawing to a close, as can be readily seen throughout the world. The capitalists, to solve their prob- lem, would like nothing better than to fly at the throat of the Soviet Union, but they are held back through the fear of a single thing— mutiny in their armed forces and a revolution in their own country. For, after all, the armies and navies of the capitalist nations are com- posed of working men, \ ers to take steps in their own mill| have workers elected from every de- | this set of | let the bosses drive us like slaves and cut our wages If more wage cuts take place we will find our- rere selves working and starving at GOVERNOR ROLPH During the hot summer days we saw workers being carried unconscious ‘Ss M if LE § AT MASS from the mill to the hospital after they collapsed from the speed-up and the heat. On day the bosses made | the mills work 34 guage and it was | forcing the men to make the iron, stickers and rough rollers developed.|LO Act As Judge In The bosses run crazy from one mill “ smi to the other giving everybody hell. Pleasant Smile The lockers in the mill are crowded | Contest and dirty. We workers in this tin | ae he dry house and lockers outside for| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Smiling ‘the workers to change their clothes | Jimmy Rolph, governor of this state | and wash. Why? Because the com-/|and chief demagogue of the West | pany spends plenty of money to build | Coast, is ever on the lookout for | garages for the officials and there is | publicity to further his political am- jPlenty of room to have dry houses| bition. He is one of the world's | In every department of this mili| hounds. Here is the latest attempt |the workers have grievances. We | to bid for popularity: | must take an example from the Fort| Governor Rolph is going to judge Pitt Steel Casting Workers. The | which beautiful girl has the prettiest | Fort Pitt workers are striking against | smile in California. He is also going a ten per cent wage cut. These | to judge which baby has the most Smiling Jimmy, when the contes- tants in the beautiful girl smiling contest meet, how many girls from | the canneries will be there? These | girls work long hours at an average of less than $1.50 a day and how many girls from the San Jose strike, who were met with a brutal attack from | the city, county and state police when | they struck against starvation wages? | What did you do to keep the “cheer- | ing smile on their fresh young faces” | on that occasion? How about the | babies, thousands of whom do not know what fresh milk is like and as | @ result are wasting away and dying | from malnutrition and starvation at a time when millions of gallons of milk is being dumped to keep up prices? Will any af them be in the | | contest? ‘ But, if we have to have a smiling contest, then Rolph is the best quali- | fied to judge. He well merits the title of the “smiling governor” from | long experience. He smiled when his | police framed Mooney and Billings when he was mayor of San Francisco, he smiled when his police thugs clubbed workers in the longshore- | men’s strike, when they clubbed the | telephone girls in 1921 when they | were out on strike. He grinned when his police and city legal apparatus | broke the backbone of the carpen- ters’ strike. He leered at the 10,000 unemployed when they demon strated on March 6 and used the occasion to further his political am- | bitions. One time he did not smile was last Jan. 7, when the workers in | a demonstration demanded relief for | the unemployed. When he attempted to make a political speech they shouted: “To hell with your ‘long- winded speeches, we want an answer to our demands!” Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Rolph judges smiles while 600,000 un- employed search in vain for work, facing evictions, starvation and even deprived of light, water and fuel. | Let smiling Jimmy judge smile con- | tests. We workers will organize | Neighborhood Branches, fight for im- mediate relief and for unemployment insurance. Five More Dead on Boulder Dam Job Fighting Spirit Gains Despite Defeat (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS VEGAS, Nev.—The strike i smashed here, but not the spirit of the workers. The combined might of the governmet. end the Six Com- panies proved tu be too much for the strikers at this time, who were so poorly organized. The U.S. government, after placing this section under semi-martial law, began preparations for the importa- tion of scabs, in order to convince the strikers of the “hopelessness ~ their cause” The Six Companies’ open-air slaughter house is again operating in full blast. The appalling accident rate continues. As I write I have before me the screaming headlines in the local press, announcing the death of five more workers at the dam. The horrible conditions continue. The wage-cfits continue. The de- mands of the strikers have been de- nied. The leaders of the strike have been banished. Such has been the outcome of the courageous Boulder Dam strike. Very firmly indeed has the class struggle been brought to these workers. They have learned frort this strike. They say that the inext time they will win.