The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 29, 1931, Page 1

Hooke $ SHOCKED ~ ve STEEL WAGE tS Farvery nooey OF F Vol. Vill, No. 234 at New York, N. Y¥., under Dintered as second-class matter at the Post Office the act of March 3, 1879 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931 cr Y EDITION WORKERS HE WORLD, UNITE! Price 3C ents TO ORGANIZE STRIKES AGAINST CUT IN 48 STEEL TOWNS Magnitogorsk ORKERS, where will you find anything more vividly contrasting the vast difference between the rule of the capitalist class and the rule of the working class than in the story we here tell you? Here, in America, the million workers in the steel industry get a wage cut from the capitalist owners on October 1, of a minimum of 10 per cent —in many cases a bigger wage cut. There, where are workers rule, in the Soviet Union, all workers in the steel industry, which belongs to the workers and not to any capitalists, will receive on October 1, a wage increase of 30 per cent! Here, in America, where the capitalist class rules, the ‘steel industry is closing down furnaces, running at only 28 per cent capacity, firing tens of thousands of workers who are thrown onto the street to starve There, in the Soviet Union, where the working class rules, the steel industry—and all other industries—is working at top speed... . And on October 1, the giant steel mills at Magnitogorsk, built in -record-break- ing time under the Five-Year Plan of socialist construction, will begin operation in a land where there are no unemployed workers at all! When the steel workers of Magnitogorsk fire their furnaces on October 1, at the end of only the third year of the Five-Year Plan, they will light the fires of working class victory for the workers of all the world! They will show to us American workers that the working class can not only rte and run industry without any capitalist parasites, but that they can abolish unemployment, raise wages, establish the seven-hour day and five-day week! They will show American workers that the way out of the endless misery of capitalist rule is the way they took, the way of revolutionary overthrowal of capitalist class rule! ank and file workers from American industry, will not only read this story of the great contrast of workers, rule and capitalist rule, but they can hear their own delegates’ report of what they see with their oyn eyes when the workers’ delegation now being elected by workers in Amer- ican mines, steel mills, auto factories, chemical plants and so on re- turn from the tour now being organized for them by the organization— Friends of the Soviet Union. All American workers should be anxious to participate not the election of these delegates, but anxious also to follow their ¢¢ of what they see and head in the land of the Soviets. These worker delegates from America will not be mere tourists, but invited guests of the trade unions of the Soviet Union. Each delegate must be elected by his or her fellow workers in shops, factories and tdale unions. They should not only be workers, but workers from the ranks, the lowest paid workers, Negro workers, young workers, women workers! These worker delegates will not only witness the unforgettable cele- brations of the Soviet working class on the fourteenth anniversary of the revolutionary seizure of power by the Russian workers, but they will carry to the workers of the Soviet Union the greetings and congratula- tions of American workers for their heroic success in overthrowing capi- talism on one-sixth the land surface ot the earch and the historic yietory of building a socialist system of which Magnitogorsk is a symbol. Elect your delegates! Send greetings to the Soviet workers! Join the Friends of the Soviet Union! Hail the Five-Year Plan's success! Learn the way out of crisis, unemployment, wage cuts, misery and war! eply in counts Many Demonstrations for Release of Tom Mooney Sacramento; before the City Hall in Stockton and in San Jose. parades, radio broadcasting, and poster parades are scheduled for | these demonstrations, the LL.D. re- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 28. —San Francisco, the city in which the notorious Mooney-Billings frame-up was hatched and carried out, will be the scene on October 3 Auto | U.S. URGED BY. Wage Cuts Will C Go On--Unless iecthe Workers Take Action and Strike! NANKING 10 FIGHT JAPAN Students Beat Nan- king Foreign ‘Minister “Serious Clash” Due Spread Lies About So- viet Union The growth of the bitterness of the Chinese masses against the traitor policy of the Nationalist gov- ernment and against the imperialist attack of Japan is seen in the beating of Foreign Minister Wang of the Na- tionalist government by a mass of students on Monday and the attacks on Japanese shopkeepers in Hong Kong. | Wang was severely beaten by sev- eral hundred students who invaded the Foreign known that had refused swer to the | government the League of Nations to do anything in an- request of the Nanking that the League inte vene in the Manchuria attack. Be- fore attacking Wang the students | paraded through the streets of Nen- Uking. istration declared a “siaie of gency” to crush the mass m: which according to the New York | | Times in its grip for the past three day “Japanese shops have been smashe (up and Japanese goods have been burned by the masses. The British ‘who support the Japanese imperial- ts against the United States in the invasion of Manchuria fear that | foreign. ‘outbreak, similar to the one in 1925. tack on the Japanese imperialists is | only part of the general struggie | against all of the imperialists in China. Two British destroyers have beer berthed alongside the wharves at Kowloon in order to protect the | | Japanese liner Asamuri. Office after it became | “has been. holding: the- island:| hey realize that the at- | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 28.—Andrew BULLETIN lelion has again cut wages for tens of thousands of workers, this time in the huge Aluminum Co. of America, which is owned by the family of the secretary of the treasury of the United States. cent, has robbed the United States treasury, through Andrew Mellon, of many millions. tariff laws passed so that its profits can increase. This big trust, which on October Ist, cuts wages of all its workers 10 per It has special In short, the whole government apparatus is used to keep up Mellon's profits in the Aluminum Co. of America. Mellon has announced against wage cuts. Now he has cut wages in the Aluminum Co., in the Pittsourgh Steel Co, in the Pittsburgh Coal Co., in the Koppers Co., and in the dozens of other big companies owned by this billionaire exploiter. On the eve of October Ist, the U. S. Departmont of Labor reveals that during the period from July 15 to August 15, 221 industries cut wages, affecting tens of thousands of workers. NEW YORK, N. Y.—Wage cuts will keep on in the present drive until the big bankers feel they have taken all the profits from the, ‘meagre earnings of the workers possible, and until the workers themselves, an, in Monday's | Ameri jand ri edition- \reached the lowest level of living standard possible. Speaking to the stock gamblers and other rich parasites, the financial authority of the New York American tells of the repeated wage cuts which will come along with the present i drive as follows: banking fraternity. by their strike action, call a halt to this. This fact is admitted by the financial editor of the New York veaching significance of the day’s It clearly shows that unless the worke: sist wage cuts, the present drive will keep on until the entire working class has organize to strike “This action, in lowering wage scales, has been insistently demanded by the -.. That one reduction may be insufficient to effect the de- sired results is a thougut inspired mainly by precedent, with the post-war exper- ience of three successive reductions by the steel industry still of relatively recent memor, he “de sired result” profits at the expense of starvation of the working class Only immediate action—strike—for which all workers must organize now will stop this | prom the slash in the buying power se of more wage cuts to come to obtain the “desired result” for the bos: CS agp caer Ren How wages were cut in the past, just before the October first announceme mn- by the New York Times in an editorial item written for merchants who are wo: : The Times said: of the workers. the bosses expect to get by the repeated wage cuts is increased nt, fs told “With September retail sales running some 15 per cent behind a year ago, it was asserted that retail trade has for some time been showing the effects of more or less secret wage and salary cuts, wide-spread unemployment, part-time work in many localities and the hampering influence of fear of unemployment upon the buying of many consumers.” Thus we learn that wage cuts have been going on in secret “for some time” 1st slash that hit over 5,000,000 workers again. Only action by the workers now, through organization and preparation for strike— here may develon a “general anti- yell] as actual strike—will stop this persistent cutting: October before the UPHOLSTERERSIN Communists Gain 33,000 Votes « MASS PICKETING in Hamburg; | Socialists Lose BERLIN, Sept. 29.—About one STEEL CONFERENCE LAYS SOLID BASIS FOR BIG NATION-WIDE MOVEMENT Plan to Build Mill Locals of a Steel Workers Industrial Union Call On All Workers to Rally Behind Steel Workers for Country- wide Strike PITTSBUR GH, Pa.,, 423 felt, delegates to town-Ohio Valley | 10 per cent wage cut, to knit tc mills and departments into mi | dustrial Union and to rally the conference Workers Industrial League w ent back key mills in 48 towns to organi t 28.—The far- work keenly the Pittsburg-Youngs- of the Metal to t the gen industry Se pt. strikes gether M.W. LL Il locals of a § workers in the in the cers In- behind the demands adi opted by the conference. ILD MOBILIZES WORKERS FOR AMNESTY MEET Demand Release. of Mooney at Union Sq. Saturday What will be the wor to the determination of the bosses to keep Tom Mooney in jail under he dies? What will be their answer to the conspiracy to, railroad over 100 Harlan, Kentucky miners to the elec- \tric chair or long jail terms? What will be their answer to the efforts to gally lynch the nine Negro boys in ‘ottsboro? This Saturday, Oct. 3, the workers of New York will give their answer to these and other crimes of rulii ‘s’ answer of a mammoth demonstration in protest against Mooney’s continued | imprisonment. The demonstration, which will be staged before Governor James Rolph’s home, will be a part of a vast Pacific Coast Mooney-Har- lan-Scottsboro united front cam-| ® paign in all cases of class-war pris- oners for whose release the Inter- national Labor Defense is battling by mobilizing mass pressure as well as by legal measures. On the same day demonstrations will be held before the City Hall in Oakland; before the Lumens Genito) 4 in | ports, | Thése announcements come simul- | taneously with the report that Char- | lles M. Fickert, former prosecuting attorney in San Francisco who faked | evidence and bought perjured wit- nesses to convict Mooney, has been appointed attorney for the state board of medical examiners by Gov. | Rolph. Wo Rigas NEW YORK.—Demonstrations in the nation-wide Mooney - Harlan- THREE) (CONTINUED ON PAG FINANCIAL CRISIS SPREADS RAPIDLY AS GOLD STANDARD WEAKENS Both Norway and Sweden have gone off the gold standard. The decision to go off the gold standard was made to conserve the gold and foreign exchange resources of the central banks of both countries. Both countries have been looked on for many years as among the most stable among the capitalist countries. The) financial position of Sweden became so weak that it attempted to get a Joan from either France or the United States. In neither Paris nor New York.was Sweden able to get a loan and so it was decided to go off the gold standard. The discount rate at the National Bank of Sweden was raised to 8 per cent from 6 per cent. The Egyptian government decided on Sunday that it could no longer maintain the gold standard. It has also decreed an increase in import duties on certain commodities which fell in price due to the suspension of the gold standard by Great Britain. Greece has decided to impose thoro restrictions on all foreign exchange transactions. The financial structure of the en- tire capitalist world continues to be shaken in the latest phase of the crisis which was started by the sus- pension of the gold standard in Great Britain. It has now been made | public that the “rumor” of the col- lapse of one of the largest French banks, which was one of the causes of the break in the New York stock market last Thursday was a very real fact like so. many other Wall Street “rumors.” This bank,’ thi Banoue Nationale de Credit, was only svcd Friday night thru the estab- ‘ of a guarantee fund by the French government and the other | large banks in France. The seri- ousness of the bank’s situation and | the seriousness of its collapse for France can be seen from the fact | that at the midnight conference Fri- bankers of France, Flandin, Minis- ter of Finance, the governor of the | It is still rumored that the bank |is on the verge of collapse despite \the actions of the government and the other large banks. The latost proposal to save it is to have tie lother large banks take it over com-_ | pistely. While the first reaction of French (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) War Department Sends Rifles to the American Legion TUCSON, Ariz—American Legion members here have received a con- signment of army rifles from the War Department. ‘These rifles valued at $15 to $20 at one time, are being | sent to the Legion at $1.50 per rifle. | This is sharp proof of the intention | of the bosses in the United States to use the American Legion members as a fascist-scab army to fight for the bosses against the demands of the workers for better conditions, This is especially important for the bosses right now because of the widespread wage slashing and unemployment, « The Japanese imperialists continue ‘Battle | Seabs at. Mil- inree percent of the electorate voted | Communist Party }their attacks in Manchuria. Two trains of defenseless refugees have) g'Y'amM Upholstery Co. been attacked by airplane machine | |gun attack. In Southern Manchuria |a train was derailed and looted by | Japanese agents and thirty passen- gers were killed in the derailing. der instruction from Great Britain | continues to “consider” the invasion lof Manchuria without taking the | slightest step to stop the advance of the Japanese imperialists toward the | Soviet frontier. | sending demands to its U. S. imper- jalist bosses that they take decisive | action. A member of the Nationalist | government cabinet stated that “the | Chinese government is amazed at what sems to be Washington's policy |of temporizing instead of sharply | calling upon Japan for an explana- | | The League of Nations acting un- | | While the League continues to do | NEW YORK.—There was | picketing yesterday morning at the ' striking shop of the Milgrom Uphol- | stery Company, 56 School Street, Brooklyn. There were a hundred | workers in the picket line. Comrade | Fleiss was arrested while the police | At the station house, the case was dismissed. General strike committee is also |making all efforts to spread the | the strike in other upholstery shops. ‘They call upon all furniture work- | | ers and other workers to come down | to the strike headquarters at 46 Ten Eyck Street, corner Lorimer Street, mass | were helping the scabs in the battle. | ‘The general strike committee is go- | nothing the National government is |iM& to continue this policy of mass | | picketing in all of the striking shops. | yesterday in the Hamburg elections. (In the proletarian districts where the fight was the hottest, the poll rose |to ninety per cent. The Communist | Party gained 33,000 votes. The social- |.ists lost 26,000 while the fascists | gained 58,000 votes at the cost of the bourgeois parties. The People’ Party | lost practically half of its votes. The main figures are: Socialists, | 214,509, or 46 seats; the fascists | | 202,465 or 43 seats; the Communists | | 168,618 votes or 35 seats; democrats | 67,088 or 15 seats; Nationalists 43,- 269 and 9 seats; Peoples Party 36,920 votes 7 sc: 794 votes and 2 seats. In the pro- strike and the relief is coming in very slowly. The strike committee calls upon the workers to collect re- lief for the workers and send it to ats and the Catholics 10,- | x : justice. They will gather létarian and seamen's quarters, the | dan empiogeae aud” rene peal blots Mas and white, native and |the socialists and fascists togeth?”. | royejer 1 Union: Sauare At The Catholic vote remains usually | 1939 pm, and demand the imme- fairly stable. diate, unconditional oelease of Mo- | The bourgeois parties and the de- mocrats and Nationalists suceeded in regaining a small portion of the huge | losses in the Reichstag elections. Compared to the last senate elec- | tions, however, the Nationalists have | 50,000 and Democrats 20,000 less. The \election result means that the pre- vious senate coalition of the social- ists, Democrats and Peoples Party is now in the minority. The bourgeois | parties, including the fascists are also jin the minority. Peet beet (Cable by Inprecorr) | PRAGUE, Sept. 28—The official | | Saoaee of the Czech municipal elec- ‘tions are unaveilable as yet, but the | | general tendency is the same as in Hamburg; The Communist gains cost oney and all other class war pris oners. The demonstration is being ar- ranged by the New York District of the International Labor Defense with the cooperation of a large number of militant workers’ organizations. It | will serve as a preliminary mobiliza- tion for the mass Mooney-Harlan- Scotsboro United Front Conference being called by the I. L. D. for Sun- Oct. 11 at .0 a. m. in Irving 15th St and Irving Pl. Cred- entials have already begun to come lin for this conference, being a number from A. F. of L. locals. The latest to send in its credential is the Bakery and Confec- tionery Workers Loca] 22, A. F. of L. Soviet “Forced Labor”—Bedacht’ day, | Plaza among them | | day those present included the chief | | Bank of France, and Premier Laval. | | | tion of her actions and a clear de- | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) | at 6:30 today and every morning. Re- | Met is very urgent in the strike. The upon the workers to come to the| workers are in the fifth week of the | headquarters for collection lists. | |5 East 19th Street, and they also call | the socialists losses, whilest the fas- cist gains are at the cost of the | capitalist parties. per copy. Read it—Spread it! Introducing Mr. Bacillus Coli Workers of New York City, are you interested in being frightened out of $45,000,000 a year more for the milk you and your children drink? The World-Telegram, in evident but secret agree- ment with the Milk Trust, is trying to do that very thing. It took samples of loose milk from eighty- seven different retailers, and paid a laboratory to analyze it. ¢ And, lo, and behold! Big headlines screamed at you the next day, that “loose milk is contaminated with Bacilli Coli!” Bacilli Coli are germs! And who has not been able to keep from being frightened when told that “germs”—Bacilli Coli—are in his milk? Only those who know what experienced medical men tell the Daily Worker: That Bacilli Coli are IN ALL MILK! Yes, even in certified milk, not to speak of the ordinary boitled milk, whether it is Grade “B” or Grade “A”! More, there are Bacilli Coli in pretty nearly everything you eat—on your lettuce, tomatoes, celery, the fruit you eat, and so on. You swallow millions of germs everywhere at all times, but unless the milk, for example, has not been kept cold properly till it reaches you and the germs increase greatly, it doesn’t hurt you. Providing, of course, and above all, that your health is normally & Here is where workers suffer first. Because their children are so usually weakened by lack of correct foods generally, and the worker himself is worn down by bad food, the hell of speed-up and the worse hell of unemployment and worry. ‘ But New York milk all contains Bacilli Coli. Fur- ther, it is all weak, sometimes obviously watered, and above all—TOO COSTLY! But_are either the loose milk capitalists, or the bottled milk capitalists, or the capitalist crooks in the Health Department, or the stuffed shirt “experts” hand-picked by that Department, or Samuel Unter- meyer, the Tammany lawyer—interested in providing workers with pure milk? Or the World-Teiegram? Not on your life! Every one of these capitalist crooks are interested solely in profits, in graft, in robbing the workers. The Daily Worker IS interested in pure milk for the workers’ babies, and certainly, rlthough all New York milk is rotten, the way loose milk is handled in some places might add somewhat to the impurities already in it. But we are not interested in helping the bottled milk trust to make you buy bottled milk at the out- rageously robber price it now charges. Neither are we interested in helping the loose milk companies in protecting their robber profits from the other robbers of the bottled milk companies. What the Daily Worker demands is both cheaper and better milk. Workers of New York! Both these milk thieves charge too much! Out on the farms, these robbers rob the farmers, offering them as little as one cent a gallon for milk! There is an “overproduction” of milk, and milk is being poured into rivers and sewers because the whole caboodle of milk companies will not sell it cheaply and thus allow you and your chil- dren to buy twice as much as you use now-—if you use any at all! New York workers and millions of their children have no milk now—none whatever! None, because milk is too costly. It is too costly because ALL milk companies, both loose and bottled, demand out- rageously big profits! What New York workers should do is to demand cheaper milk. There is, firstly, no reason for the price difference between loose and bottled milk. Let all workers demand that all milk, any milk, cost no more than Eight Cents per quart, whether it be bottled or loose! Then the “loose versus bottled” milk quarrel between capitalists will settle itself? The workers will buy whichever they wish—and wherever they wish. f Helping the Borden Company to ban loose milk is a robbery of the workers unless bottled milk is cut in price to the price of loose milk. Helping the loose milk companies defend their profits from the Borden Company is not the business of the workers. Under capitalism there will inevitably be rotten milk and dirty retailing protected by grafters in the Health Department. Fight for pure milk, yes! But fight for cheaper milk first of all, because the grafters and their milk companies are trying to raise the price of milk! Don't be frightened by “Bacil! that is the false issue raised by the hand-picked “Milk Conference” of Commissioner Wynne. The issue is NOT “safe” milk as against “unsafe” milk, but the issue is one of the PRICE OF MILK! Demend milk at not more than Eight Cents per quart’ . dit ya series in pamphlet form at 10 cents ® Representativ steel center important | in the conference and all pr convinced solid ba- sis on which to build an industrial every worker in the union taking in re hie aki better con- hough called fo organizing struggle in (CONTINUED ON GANGSTERS TRY SMASH STRIKE AT LOFT CANDS Boss PAGE THREE) Agents Among 3,000 Strikers NEW YORK. Yesterda workers of the Loft Candy Long Island City struck. They received three wage cu this and on Saturday they were told t in the futur per week instead their previous basis The workers, most of them young. |are very militant. A meeting was held yesterday morning in Volkers Hall and a broad strike committee elected, with representatives from every floor. However, afterwards it appeared that some threacherous elements had slipped into the com- mittee. 3,000 Co. in had year ‘The election of the strike commit- tee was at the advice of the Food Workers Industrial Union. The strik- ers then had a picketing demonstra - tion in front of the plant. Ravketeers Appear But among the workers there is a group of racketeers fro are very de- finitely in the pay of the bosses. ‘These threatened with knives those workers showing sympathy with the |union. The racketeers shot one girl jin the arm, Foremen are included jin this group of gangsters. | Later in the day, the gangsters held | a fake meeting in an empty lot, drove some of the workers to it by force | and appointed their own strike com- mittee, which disputes leadership of Ie strike with the first strike com- mittee elected in the morning. The Food Workers Industrial Union has learned that the Loft bosses have mobilized the Democratic Club of Long Island and al! the gangsters of the district. The phones of the Club were busy all day yes- terday with calls for thugs. The company has also sent out orders to its stores throughout the city for clerks to be sent in to work in the factory tomorrow. | ‘The workers of Loft’s must be de- | termined to stay out till they win the right to live decently. They must repudiate these gangsters who want to make a permanent racket for | themselves and put their trust only | in their own committee, elected by themselves and excluding all these gun-brandishing traitors. The Food Workers Industrial Union has already given the workers the only organizational tactics. It points out that where there are men | using guns against the strikers they | must be rejected by the workers The Food Workers Industrial Union will throw all its support behind the strikers but the workers must, thru their committee, run their own