The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1931, Page 3

_DAILY WORKER, N! W YORK, TUES ee OU EE 20 188k =S— SOVIETS FREE WOMEN > FROM DRUDGERY AND SLAVERY OF KITCHEN Receive Full Pay When Sick and Four Months’ | Vacation During Pregnancy Women Now Take Active Part In Social and | Political Life of U.S.S.R. Moscow, U. S- S. R. Dear Comrades: | organization and struggle, represented Having read about the lies and calumnies spread in your country regarding our life we just how we really live and struggle for a better future. We work on the Moscow-Kursk rail- way and there are many of us women employed in different are transport workers, departments—locomotive, car, the depots. We do the same work as the men and receive the same pay- We received a bad heritage from Tsarism and all the ene- mies of our country who attempted to tear us to pieces in order Correspondence Briefs Editorial Note—Due to lack of space it is impossible at this time to print all our workgr’s correspon- dence in full. Therefore, in order to give space to a large number of correspondents, have opened this column of Corresponence Briefs in which we will publish the best extracts from letters that we cannot publish in full. os 8 8 Preparing For War PICATINNY, N. J.—At the Arsenal and Powder Works here there is more war material being made than during the war.—A. W. See Slave Labor in New Britain NEW BRITAIN, Conn—The New Britain Diner and Restaurant was paying the workers $8 a week. Now they have fired all the old workers and ‘ave hired new ones to work only for their meals. The same plan ts being put into operation in half of the restaurants in the town. These workers are forced to work 12 hours a day and 7 days a week. It’s time for the restaurant workers here to get organized into the Food Workers Industrial Union——A Worker. eR eo. i Cents for 9 Hours Work BARBERTON, Ohio—The Sieber- ling Rubber Co. employs a number of women in the buffing department which was started about two months ago. The first week they received $2.25 for 9 hours work. This lasted a week. Now they are on piece work. ‘They are now getting between $10.70 and $12.90 for 14 days work, an aver- age of 77 to 92 cents a day. One woman is pregnant and is forced to work because her husband has no job. —A Reader. ert ner oe Starvation Wages in Loft’s NEV SORK.—$14.85 for eighty hours «0 &, minus $2.85 for coats and aprons. This is in the Loft Candy factory. Added to this insult is a little note on the pay envelope ad- vising us to “Save Now and be in- dependent in your old age.” Here's what the bosses say about us in one of their advertising leaf- lets: “The Loft organization of over 5,000 men and women are all paid to wages, and all of us are proud to be associated with Loft, Inc. who is fair and square to its em- Ployees and to the public; that is why Loft today is the largest candy chain in the world and has prac- tically no competition.” Lying hypocrites!—J, W. and F. M. Wage-cuts Arouse Panther Rubber Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) STAUGHTON, Mass.—Conditions in the Panther Rubber Co. of Staugh- ton are awful. Every worker has to work very hard for very low wages. The following are a few examples: ‘The packers only get 3 cents per 100 pairs for factory heels. These are packed in cases. They give the workers 7 cents per pair for jobber’s heels. They are packed in cartons first. The workers sure have to pack plenty of heels to, make from $17 to $18 a week — and there are many workers who get much less. The inspectors have to inspect at least 7,000 pairs per day for $11.05 a week and now the bosses want the workers to make much more than that. They have to keep up with four trimmers. The four trimmers work on machines and they get about $17 to $18 a week. They only get 10 Kansas City Prepares for Hunger March (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Mo—The unem- ployed work here is going forward in preparation for the hunger march and permanent councils established. In Kansas City, Mo., at 16th and Paseo, in a Negro neighborhood, an unemployed council is now being or- ganized. Alsooneat625 Kensington and another in a Spanish and Mex- ican working-class section of the city, at 7013 Independence Avenue. In Kansas City, a new council of 25 members has just been organized at Argentine and another branch at Armstrong of 30 members. These new councils have pledged them- selves to become active in the Mis- souri hunger march. At Springfield a successful meeting was oldvcseed iecontly by John Daw son, ‘rade Union Unity League or- ganizer. One thousand were pres- ent. This meeting has now become want to write you and tell you We tool department, the club and to rob us. You know that they did not succeed in this and got what they deserved. | ‘We work seven hours a day and have a four-day week, resting on the fifth day. Every year we get two} weeks’ leave with full pay. We can!/ go to our rest homes without paying for it. We also have free tickets on the railways and are able to travel anywhere within the Soviet Union free of charge. During sickness we get full pay and if necessery are| sent to sanatoria or health resorts. | We women get four months’ leave | during pregnancy, two months be- fore confinement and two months after, with full pay. Newly-born children are given various articles, enough to keep them in bedding and clothing for a year. Working mothers leave their children up to three years | of age in day nurseries, while those | above three years are sent to kinder- gartens. During the summer the day | nurseries and kindergartens are moved to the country and health re- | sorts and sanatoria, all at the ex- | pense of the state. Cultural Achievements. | In the past all we knew was the kitchen, pans and diapers; now we are taking an active part in the so-| cial and political life of our ;coun- | try. We know what we are fighting for and are ourselves organizing our social life. We go to universities, technical and other transport schools. We learn to read and write and de- velop culturally. We, the signatories of this letter, represent the editorial board of our wall. newspaper. We have @ library and reading room, where we can go in our spare time to read and rest over a book. We have free moving pictures and the- atricals. We have communal dining rooms,.which free us of the domestic drudgery. ‘We have lunch rooms, where we have our breakfasts, din- ners and suppers. Meals cost us 30 kopecks apiece. We have our stores and shops, where we get all kinds of goods at fixed prices. But the latest and most important achievement of our Soviet Union is that under the leadership of our Leninist Central Committee we abolished unemploy- ment. Comrade women workers! Write to us about your conditions of life and work. What are your prospects for) the future? Ask any question in your letter to us and we will gladly give you all the details that may in- terest. you. With comradely greetings, women workers of Station Moscow, I, Kursk Railway. Nadeja- Tomashevich, Polina Burova, Aleftina Petrova, Polina Popova, Natalia Chijeva, Praskovia Moisseeva. cents per hundred pairs on the scoop heels, which are very hard to trim. The wages in other departments are Just as low. Just a few weeks ago the office help as well as the foremen got a 10 per cent wage-cut and we believe the bosses will give us a wage-cut too. It’s hard enough now, working so hard and getting such little wages. What will we do when we get a cut? I think we should all organize a union in this shop in order to fight against a cut in wages and to de- mand better conditions. If we all get together we can win better work- ing conditions and higher wages. Come on, fellow workers, let’s get to: gether and organize a real workers’ union. Let us go to the Trade Unity League, 3 Stillman Ave., Brockton, and ask them to help us build our union. the talk of the town. Today (October 13) a commitee of ten of the Unemployed Council and some neighbors called on the West- side Provident Association, a so-called charity organization to get food for William Lewis, 1024 Jeferson, his wife and baby, who had not eaten for 36 hours. The association wanted post- ponement but the committee was de- termined to have action at once. They got it. ests 80,000 Mexican Workers Deported STAFFORD, Cal.—The capitalist | class in Southern California boasts that it has deported 80,000 Mexican workers “at their own expenses.” ‘This ‘s = very simple method of “solving” the crisis and enriching the Red International Central Council Meeting Dec. Ist (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) secretary of the R.LL.U., and there will be co-reporters from France, England, America and India. 2) On the work and the problems of the International Committees in the various industries. Reporter: Wiederkirchner. The R.LLU. secretariat lays down as one of the main problems for dis- cussion the gap which exists between the objectively favorable situation for in America by the terrific unemploy- ment and the sweeping wage cuts, a 40 per cent reduction in wages gen- erally since 1929, and the relative organizational weakness of the revo- lutionary unions and the left wing movements in teh old unions. The R.IL.U. secretariat urges that the greatest attention be paid in the union press to the education of the workers to the importance of this ses- sion of the leading body of the in- ternational organization of revolu- tionary unions. The union, and cen- tral organization papers such as La- bor Unity, should devite a special sec- tion to communications from workers on the tasks of this meeting of the Central Council, and should also carry regularly a special column of latest news and directives in the preparations of material to present to the council and formulation and discussion of the problems of the workers and unemployed workers. WORKERS RESIST FASCIST ATTACK IN GERMANY! Police Aid Fascists;| Take No Action to Protect Workers (Cable By Inprecorr.) BERLIN, Oct. 19.—Fascist parades occurred at Braunschweig on Sun- day. Hitler and other fascist lead- ers spoke and thousands of uni- formed fascists established a reign of terror against the working popu- lation, Beginning Saturday night numerous collisions occurred between workers and armed fascists. The fascists sent punitive columns into the workers’ quarters, smashing doors and windows, using revolvers. An attempt to storm. the offices of the Workers International Relief was repulsed. The attacks continued throughout Sunday. During the struggle two workers were killed and seventy injured. The dead are Hein- tich Fischer, father of three children, INFLATION PROGRAM SPEEDED UP eee ss eteee ON ORDERS FROM WALL STREET (GONTINUED FROM PA GE ONE) | ist finance and will have very seri- ous effects. “Of course, when viewed in this way, the advisability of issuing notes secured by bonds becomes a minus quantity and the undertak- ing assumes a hazardous aspect which hardly can be exaggerated.” One of the most conservative of the capitalist journals, the Commer- cial and Financial Chronicle, points out that the situation in which the United States now finds itself is dan- gerously similar to the situation in Germany before the Hoover nwra- torlum and in England before the suspension of the gold standard. The Chronicle intimates in the following that the United States will follow) the path of the two other imperial- ist powers on the road to financial collapse. | “In the last analysis it cannot be denied that in its.main charac- | teristics the state of things now | prevailing in the United States | bears a remarkably close resem- | blance to the state of things pre- vailing before the unfortunate up- heaval in Germany and the still more unfortunate upheaval that came later in Great Britain, We have first « large outflow of gold; secondly, considerable credit infla- tion, and thirdly, we have the need of balancing the budget, so that our Government expenses will not run in excess of Government reve- nues. This last has received very little attention in the United States though the Government deficiency in this country for the current fiscal year seems likely to run any- where between $1,000,000,000 and $2,000,000,000—a deficiency, in other words, as great as for two or three of the leading European countries combined.” As @ result of the steady worgen- JOBLESS TO MARCH IN MANY CITIES (OONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) whole police force and denied admis- sion to the city, While they were holding. a meeting,.the police at~- tacked and beat. up dozens of the demonstrators, and arrested 24, some of them mothers with babes in their arms. Six women were later released. ‘The ire of Police Chief Robert Al- spaugh..was roused by placards de- nouncing the cutting. down of relief by the city. A committee of 50 of and a Communist, Endelke, father of six children. The police made only six arrests. ‘The police were shame~ fully lax. This fascist terror is im- possible without the silent toleration of the police. Many fascists were also injured by workers desperately defending them- selves. GREAT MASS PICKET LINE IN LAWRENCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ise of a wage increase “when the de- pression is over.” Won't Accept Cut. The mils] opened all right, but the pickets were on the line and so far all the complicated arbitration swindle in which the operators, the state and the leaders of the United ‘Textile Workers have co-operated, have failed to brea). the strike. A few strikers were arrested on the picket line this morning and charged with “assault” and “intim!- dation.” Ferdinand Sylvia, U. T. W. or- ganizer in charge of the Arlington mill picket line, threatened to drive the United Front Rank and File Committee members off the line be- cause they stopped a scab. The fak- er’s idea is to have peaceful picket lines, and let the scabs pass Fight Arbitration. The Lawrence strikers are out for: No 10 per cent cut, no arbitration, free speech, release of the strike pris- oners, recognition of the mill com- mittees, no discrimination. ‘The strike is led by a Central Front Rank and File Strike Commit- tee, and mill committees are being formed in the various mills. Election of the leading strike committee was at the advice of the National Tex- tile Workers Union, which is the only union actually fighting the wage- the delegation is camping at the city limits,. at last accounts, demanding the right to parade through Pontige. . e 6 KENOSHA, Wisc., Oct. 19.—The Unemployed Council branch here is mobilizing the workers for a city- wide hunger march on Oct. 26. De- mands include $15 for each unem- ployed worker and $5 for each de- pendent, for immediate winter relief, free coal, gas, light water and rent for the jobless; free hot lunches for school children of the jobless; free medical and dentel attention, and for the city council to go on record for state unemployment insurance. ‘The unemployed propose that the necessary funds be raised by cutting the salaries of city officials to $2,000 @ year, taxing corporations with over $100,000 a year income, taking over the contingent funds of the city, taking half of police department ap- Propriations, etc. ; ete PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19.—The United Veterans’ Unemployment League here elected delegates to go on the Washington hunger march. ‘This organization is made up of job- les sworld war veterans. Other or- ganizations are swinging to the sup- port of the march, and the unem- ployment council is carrying on @ campaign for it. Invade City Hall George Papcun, Trade Union Unity League organizer, came to the city council and after a struggle ex- cut. Conditions which brought on the strike are described in Labor Unity, official organ of the Trade Union Unity League, to which the N.T.W. is affiliated, a8 follows: ‘Weavers in Wood Mill (American Woolen Co.) working on large (American Woolen) Mill receive 40 cents for from 8 to 16 yards of cloth, work taking from one to four hours. American Woolen dyer averages $10 a week, to support his family of four. When « weaver fs transferred from a 54 to » 86 pick job his pay Southern Pacifie , Railroad, The Mexican workers are the most ex- ploited in California.—J. H, remains at 54 pick rate. When he is transferred from = 64 to a 68 Pick job his pay remains at the 64 Cut In Wages N. J.—Oct. 16—The Inter State Store Fixture Co. of ing of the economic crisis in the Uni-| Newark has announced a 12%c¢ cut ted States the financial stability of|in the wages of the workers em- the banking structure and of the! ployed to take effect Oct. 21. This government are becoming rapidly | meansa five dollar decrease when the undermined. The attempt at infla-| worker works full time. None of the tion which the bankers are pushing} workers work full time, which means thru to prevent a worsening of the} that this cut will bring the workers | crisis will have just the opposite ef-|in this shop to much worse condi- | fect—the economic crisis will be| tions. Although only a small shop sharpened acutely. STATE OFFICIALS young, nevertheless this cut is a fore- | | Tunner of further cuts in the other | | store fixture shops in the city of | Newark where hundreds of carpen- Page inree nes WAR VETERAN SENDS PICTURES each time is has pulled how, What has helped the Daily in such a seemingly hor spirit of the workers United States who hi capitalist bosses v them into becaming submis "| 000 and the Riverton State Bank at TORTURE AGED | | NEGRO FARMER Boss Law and Order | Deniés Him Right of Counsel BALTIMORE, Oct. 19—The mur- derous third degree torture to which| state and Worcester County officials) subjected Orphan Jones, 60-year-old Negro farm hand, surpassed in hor- | ror and savagery even the Spanish | Inquisition, according to the admis- | sion of a reporter of the Philadelphia | Daily News. This reporter, himself | an eye-witness to the revolting tor-| ture of the 60-year-old worker, de- clares in his dispatch to his paper: “Throughout the long hours, as grim Eastern Shore prosecutors, constables and deputy sheriffs ‘worked’ on him, the man’s screams of pain could be heard clearly through the open windows of the county jail.” ‘The third degree torture was ap- plied in the county jail at Snow Hill) | before Jones was removed to the city | jail at Baltimore. When he left the Snow Hill county jail “his face was puffed and bruised, with livid scars } offering a contrasting background for strips of adhesive tape.” Jones has since been held incom- | nlunicado in the city jail here, where he has been denied permission to see | the counsel engaged to defend him by the International Labor Defense. ‘The LL.D. has sued out a writ of habeas corpus to force the represen- tatives of capitalist law and order to produce him ‘in court today that he may consult with counsel. In the meantime, the state attor- ney is rushing through an indictment | in preparation for another legal | lynching of a Negro worker. White | and Negro workers throughout the country must raise their voices in vigorous denunciation against this extorted from him by the most brutal and revolting torture. Wire protests to Governor Ritehie of Maryland and to State's Attorney Godfrey Child of Worcester County. Stop the legal lynching of Negro workers!- SMALL BANKS IN MANY FAILURES COLUMBIA, Cc. — The State Bank Examiner here announced that twelve banks in the southwestern part of the state were jpsolvent on October 15, es 6 Toms River Bank Closes TOMS RIVER, N. J.—The Toms River Trust Co, and the Wildwood Trust and Title Co. were closed by order of the commissioner of bank- ing and insurance, October 14. . . ° ‘Two Banks in W. Virginia Go ‘The Union Bank of Jane Lew, W. Va., with deposits of $343,000, and the Farmers Bank of Shinnston, W. Va., with deposits of $600,000, failed to open for business October 15. * 6 * Nebraska Banks Crash | OMAHA, Nebr—The Omaha Bee News here reports that the depart- ment of trade and commerce closed the Harrison State Bank at Harrison, Sioux County, with deposits of $234,~ Riverton, Franklin County, with de- posits of $100,000. Others insolvent banks in the state include the First National Bank of Auburn, and the Citizens State Bank of Orchard, all of this state. The deposits of the First National Bank of Hastings were reported at $2,165,- 000.000. Demonstrate for Place On Ballot (Telegram to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, ‘Pa., Oct. 19—A big demonstration against ruling off ee z i ge a8 il rE abe A se i the ballot Communist Party candi- dates for councilmen will be held ‘Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. before City Hall on the City Hall Plaza. ‘The County Commissioners arbl- trarily ruled off the Communist can- didates in the first, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth councilmanic dis- tricts ‘when the necessary number of signatures were filed with the county. ‘The Communist Party here has or- ganized a campaign to demand the placement of the Communist candi- dates on the city ballot. To date many working-class organizations have passed resolutions condemning the action of the Vare machine com- | in the shop are paid only 65¢ to 75c FRENCHHOARDING dastardly effort to frame up this) to reduce their risks. ‘This means in- | the crew of a German liner. worker on the basis of a confession creasing tension throughout the en- | second picture is of the Red Builders |Look-at the pictures below. ‘The ters are employed. | thousands of such groups throughout ‘These carpenters are organized in! the country reading the Daily to- discussing it together, the A. F. L. Carpenters locals of | gether, Newark. The scale calls for $1.17! | | per hour for all workers. Six months | ago when a wage cut took place | bringing the wage down to $1 an| hour and although the carpenters | appealed to the district council of | the carpenters, nothing was done by | the officialdom. The young workers | per hour for the same kind and type of work as the adults do and will now get the same 12% per cent cut. | The AFL carpenter locals here have never defended the interests of the | young carpenters. | The T. U. U. L. has already ar-| ranged a meeting of some of the| workers and young workers in ed shop where a plan for organizing the shop to resist the wage-cut will be | worked out. | INTENSIFIES ITS BANKING CRISIS Hungary’s Finances “Near Collapse; M ay | Declare Moratorium The hoarding of currency in France is assuming very great proportions and its continuance means a sharp- ening of the financial crisis. Nor- mally in the weeks following the end of the month there is decrease in the currency circulation but in the first weeks of October there.has been a very large increase in the currency. ‘The increasing uncertainty of the fi- | nancial situation in France,-as in the United States, Mas led the depositors to hoatd currency. The banks also, in order to protect themselves, are maintaining large cash balances and are curtailing their credits in order learing to organize into revolutionary unions. ‘These pictures were taken by com- rade A. M. B. and were sent to us from Tampa, Fla. The first picture shows this comrade reading news of a strike in Germany to members of The tire financial system. Of more se-/Club in Tempa. Looks like & pretty rious significance, though not as im- | Jive club, doesn't it? portant as the hoarding of currency | at the present moment, ts the ten- | dency to hoard gold which is starting | in France. McKEE SUGGESTS COLLE BE CLOSED and | 3 Hastings, the First National Bank of | = ‘The growing financial crisis in France is due to the sharpening of the economic crisis. This is openly stated by the New York Times cor- respondent from Paris who admits that the reports about the “good” economic situation in France are lies. “Unemployment being far in ex~ cess of the official figures, muchof what is being said and written pub- licly about the fortunate position of France is taken here with re- serve.” This hoarding is going on through- out central and southeastern Europe. So serious has the situation become in Hungary that the League of Na- tions commission is trying to get the creditors of Hungary to agree to a “standstill” agreement—an agree- ment not to withdraw their loans from Hungary. If, this is not suc- cessful “it will probably be necessary for the government, with the sanc- tion of the League Commission... . to declare a debt moratorium.” This will mean a sharpening of the finan- cial crisis throughout Europe. One way to help the Soviet Union is to spread among the workers “Soviet ‘Forced Labor,” by Max Bedacht, 30 cents per copy. boss class, NAME Notwithstanding the already heavy graft in New York government, Tammany for more. At a recent meeting of the Board of Estimate Committee of the Whole, Aldermanic President Mc- Kee suggested that the city colleges be closed and a scholarship fund in private universities be established. merely a waste of money. group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. Hall leaders are looking | To capitalist politicians education is | Build a workers’ correspondence | y age. t going e for Hooey Hoover or Wall Here is a photo of some of I am beating this rotten spirit of the workers that keeps the Dai ¢ not working,” the nd I can’t promise dy donation every month, you 25 cents this time, and "t give you more. I p where I worked and d to call me to work next rked there for fourteen I work I will donate ag in the neigh- 100 percent Amer- There are two subsribers reign born. I asked s to subscribe nd he said, ‘I am not a He is not working and S$ money in the bank. ing to the unit meeting for speakers for a meeting in my house “We have a dick here and his wife asked my daughter if I was a Com- munist. She said, ‘I don't know, but what's wrong with the Communists? I'm one myself’ The dick’s wife said Communism was good for Russia but not for America. In America there are 11,000,000 starving but in Russia is happy and nobody is borhood, bi ican fascist here and t one of tt to the D: Bolshe he lost starving, my daughter said “I am going to do the best I can for the Club I am trying to start.” Blank forms have been sent out for greetings by wot 's of America to the 14th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. 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