The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 26, 1931, Page 3

DATLY WORKE WORKERS’ CORRESPONDENCE-- YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 JUDGE JAILS 200 JOBLESS IN LOS ANGELES—STUDENTS WRITE ON SOVIET S$ SCHOOL SYS- NES PATIENTS BRUTALIZED IN WASHINGTON STATE HOSPITAL FOR INSANE Forced to Slave Long Hours on State Farm on Meagre Rations and No Pay Death Toll Mounts As Doctors Deny Proper Medical Attention (By a Worker Correspondent) SEDRO WOOLEY, Wash.—The capitalist press writes and hollers about the forced labor in Soviet Russia, but they never mention anything about the forced labor here at home Nijni-Novgorod Dear Comrades: ‘We send you greetings from the children at the school “Pamyati De- kabristov” (Memory of the Decem- brists). We children of the Soviet Union study in practical schools, where we have practical lessons in wood work- ing and metal working, and also the following subjects: mathematics, che- | mistry, physics, social science, Ger- |man, Russian grammar and litera- ture natural science, drawing and | painting, music and physical culture. Letter from Nijni-Novgorad School Spikes Lies in American Press About School Life in Soviet Union helps us to fit up our school work- shops and to get practihe at working in the factory. Shock Brigades In order to improve the quality of our studies, ‘the classes have been split iito brigades which have de- clared themselves to be shock brig- each other, class competes with class and the whole school competes with another school, The points of the competition are: (1) Attendance, |(2) Success in studies, (3) Discipline, (4) The largest number of shock brigades, Pioneers xnd members of voluntary societies. Te —SOCIALISTS THREATEN NEGROES—LETTERS FROM SHOPS, MILLS AND BREADI [Food and Clothing Furnished Free of Charge | | to Workers’ School Children in the Soviet Union in the school is the Scholars’ Com- mittee, eletced by the children. Every member of the committee di- rects a definite part of the work. The birgades in the classes have also def- inite tasks given them—quality ‘of |ing illiterates to read, general educa- tion, patronage and the striggie for industrial training in schools. Scholars may write of the successes school wall newspaper. On the 14th anniversary of the study, discipline, habits of life, teach- | or weaknesses of school work in the | S = LOS ANGELES JUDGE JAILED 200. BECAUSE | THEY WERE JOBLESS 45 Men Forced to Sleep ie ison Pen 25x50 Ft; Denied Baths Held Regularly in Jait? Arouses Western Workers Meetings Terror (By a Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES, Cal.—I happen to be one of the more unfor- tunate—that without work—and I am forced to drift from in the U. S. A. Up-at dhe Northern State Hospital they have |Our school has an uninterrupted October Revolution we had a dem- | place to place working at odd jobs for a livelihood, ades, The brigades compete got 1,400 patients, 99 per cent of which are workers driven | insane by poverty or railroaded in there so the bankers and| other crooks can get their land and money away from them. | If they aren’t crazy-when they come there they will be crazy in a short while by-treatment they get. The main diet at this JOBLESS SEAMEN EXPOSE CHARITY SCHEME IN PHILA. Break Through Terror onWater Front: Score Church Institute (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA.—Two weeks ago Farmer, of the Seamen’s Unemployed Council was caused to’ be arrested by the infamous Seamen’s Church In- stitute (Waterfront -Graftopolis) on ridiculous and trumped-up charges. Last week Farmer and Wood, of | the City Unemployed Councils con- ducted similar meeting during which the role of this chamber of horrors and scab-shipping agency was revealed to the seamen and public in general. Samples of the meager por- tions of half-cooked slop which the SCI has dished out, by other panic- victims, without wages, were exhibit- ed. Seamen were urged to stop this promiscuous going South with funds panhandled in their name by salaried gre fters. ‘The effect was immense. A colored minister greeted, complimented the speakers and agreed to join the Un-. employed Council. One of the SCI thugs and information-seekers slink- ed away under the barrage of truth directed at him. A wholesaler who operates in the SCI building became so enraged at the cmazing revelation that he do- nated food to a contemporary insti- tution on South 8t., fully well realiz~ ing that according to facts laid down, seamen. were suffering Starvation and exporure regardless ofthe fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars are chiseled in their name, .., ‘These Unemployed Councils are our only mediums of obtaining -substan- tial and immediate relief. We can- not, however, assume the “Let Georg? do it” attitude, but every man of us must shoulder our own, portion cf * the load. Now for a large eraaaty S pow- erful organization and RESULTS, Indian Children Starve to Death in Santee, Neb. OMAHA, Neb.—Two Santee Sioux Indian children starved to death, on the reservation in the thern part of this state, and hundreds of others will soon suffer the same fate. There SaPin tet nee reservation and every. single one of them is in dire circumstances, Over a year ago the government oe it Hl By reservations, -» Certain individuals have ;tried to iat spreading among All of one attending Andian cases say that the Indians are “undernourish- | Seal tee ts ck oc on c 8 In Washington, Pa. By a Worker Cor Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Pa,—Starvation fa * hmong the coal miners'is common in re Ce. two days a week and average $1.50 to $2 per day, Out of this place is spuds, parsnips, carrots, beans, bread and mush. They have about 400 hogs, 2,000 chickens and 80 head of milk cows, but the biggest milk, pork, meat or eggs. | top of all this whenever the insane | complain about not feeling well or being sick they fill them up with weak they can’t hardly stand up. Heavy Death Toll. The patients die on an average of about two a day and they bring new ones in just as fast as they die. The! | patients do all the work taking care | | of the cows, hogs and chickens. They get up at four o'clock in the morn- ing and go to bed about nine at night after they are through working. | They also do all the farm and gar- den work. This consists of cultivat- ing and harvesting the crop on 200 acres of ground on a vegetable and Epsom salts diet. And Dr. Ruge, the superintendent, goes around bragging working. He gives them their choice of working or going without tobacco. If they don’t want to work they don’t don’t get any tobacco and those tobacco in a week to keep an ordinary tobacco user going two days. The conditions at the Northern as they were two years ago. Here conditions get worse just the same as the workers’ conditions get worse and are going to keep getting worse until the workers overthrow this dirty rotten system of belly-robbing cap- italism. Carpenters Local Assesses Members Rank and File Urged to Oust Misleaders and Consolidate (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—In the Carpenters’ Local Union 2725 (New York City), which formerly had a membership of 1,000, the recent exodus caused by the inability of the membership to pay dues brought the membership down to 260. The finances can no longer cover the per capita expense and the lo- cal expense, which includes a $66 | @ week salary to the finance secre- tary, & $66 a week salary to the busi- ness agent and salaries to the presi- dent, recording secretary, etc. What should be done in such a case? The most sensible thing to do is to dissolve local 2725 and transfer the good standing union members to @ neighborhood local union—consoli- date the two local unions into one. ‘This, however, would mean that all the salaried officials would lose their permanent soft jobs, To safeguard their soft places they have played up another scheme. ‘They mustered at a regular meet- ing about seventy votes from their motion.| Now the members of Local 2725 have in addition to their dues book a white book spaced for past- ing stamps to secure the salaries for the officials. San Joaquin Builds Unemployed Council SAN JOAQUIN, Cal.—We have the hungry unemployed and grafting “relief” just the same as in all towns. ‘The citizens have been begged to death by the “relief” outfits and now the town is being begged by those whom the “relief” outfits were sup- posed to relieve. Everybody is be- ginning to ask what has become of all the money collected. We have established an Unem- ‘ployed Council, have 72 memebrs and will soon have a hall. We have held some meetings in the Court House Square and are gaining more and more support daily. “The labor movement will gain the part of the patients never see any | And on} Epsom salts, which makes them s0 | about how he has got them all busy | that are working don’t get enough} State Hospital are twice as bad now | to Pay Officials week. That means that we go to | school for four days and are free on | the fifth, but various classes are free {on different days. In addition to | study, we carry on social work in the school and are members o voluntary |Societies such as ILD (the Interna- | tional Society for Labor Defence), the MAS (Militant Atheist Society), the CFS (Children’s Friend Society), ete. Free Meals The social fascists are spreading | the lies that we are dying of starva- |tion. This is not true, of course. On the contrary, all the children receive | hot meals at school, and if their pa- |rents have low wages, they get them | free of charge. School children are | Seven boots, clothing and school In ‘addition to |school work, we work inthe Pioneer detachment. There is a Pioneer detachment in every factory and works, and the | school is attached to a factory. Our | school is attached to the “Krassny Obuvnik” (Red Boot Factory”). We | help the factory to carry out its in- dustrial plan and to fulfil the Five | Year Plan in four years, The factory |with The chief organ of self-government STUDENTS IN USSR A group of students in the Soviet Union studying collectively their home work. These students, unlike the American students, are supplied warm meals and adequate clothes by the government. tasks and achievements. On November 6th, there was an | entertainment for the anniversary of | the revolution, and all the classes and | organizations in the school sang the International in German, and gave the anniversary, the ILD branch is- sued a wall newspaper and a bulletin. The active children recetyed free | tickets to the pictures. Twelve of | the best Pioneers were passed into the YCL. Comrades, will you send us an ans- very interested to know your life and work, Signatures: Rudakova, Sutirina, S. Makarov, Guseva, Sveshnikova and the Committee of the ILD branch. Write to us at the following address, USSR, Nijni-Novgorod. Office of Nij- Kommuna, for the school Dekabristov.” Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. FARMERS RUINED BY FARM BOARD, FRUIT DEALERS iO-bts Drive Florida Fruit Growers Off of Land (By a Farmer Correspondent) SEFFNER, Fla—We sete in our capitalistic press all kinds of stories ‘about slave labor in Soviet Russia. But nothing is sald about the slave labor of the farmers and growers in the U.S.A. As a grower and farmer in Florida I will give a few high lights on how we are swindled by the dealers, who |are backed by our Washington gov- lernment. It cost the growers at least one dollar a box of 16 0z., to produce oranges. The fruit is sent to so-called | “cooperative” packing houses to be | packed and shipped to the northern markets, and is sold at auction to commission men up north at any price this gang of cut-throats are willing to pay; and in most cases it doesn’t bring freight and charges, and charges, and a bill is sent the grow- ers for expenses. This system has been going on for over 20 years. The U. S. farm board is furnish- ing this ‘ ‘cooperative’ association with money to lend to the farmers then takes a mortgage on the farm, altogether with an ironclad contract |to market the grower's fruit. Now as the grower can get nothing for his fruit to pay his note this con- tract is in force indefinitely and the growers eventually loses his farm. This same fruit for which the grow- ers get nothing is generally sold for 60 to 80 cents a dozen or about ten to twelve dollars a box retail. The dealers take it all, The growers and farmers in ihe U. S. are absolutely slaves to the dealers. Of course that is in the U. S. A. and not in Soviet Russia. EVICTED WITH FIVE CHILDREN Daily Worker:— = Newark, Ohio. Iam a working man. I worked 14 years in the coal mines and served also as a railroad brakeman and fire- man. For nearly two years I have been out of work and for the last few months I was unable to pay_rent. Last September the landlord evic- ted me and my five small children. I had no place to store my goods and like many people had borrowed mo- ney from a loan shark, so the muni- cipal court phoned the loan company who took all the furniture I had. They left me with nothing. I had no place to move to. Today one of my little girls is liv- ing with my brother, two of the girls and one of the boys are in an or- phan home and my 5 year old baby is with me and my sister-in-law. This is just a brief sketch of the way I was treated in rich capitalist America. And they say that Com- munism breaks up the home. I have bitterness in my heart against the whole capitalist ystem. According to the daily papers the “reds” are a desperate lot. Well, af- ter going hungry and having my chil- dren robbed from me by the capital- ist civil law, after reading the Daily LENIN. too Worker, I have made up my mind ED. Negro Worker Writes from Southern Chain Gang Camp Charlotte, N. C. Dear Comrades: Although I am here with the cold steel around my leg and can't do much, I have been watching the struggles that you workers are carrying on with great interest. News leaked in here of the great National Hunger March to Washington to demand that the poor people be given food and shelter. I know that I am a victim of this system of starvation and slavery and pledge myself that I will carry on a fight against this system as best I can. I am anxious to get out of here and take up my place in the fight. You know what these chain gang camps are: we are not getting enough food.’ What we get is hardly fit for hogs. We must work hard all day with a chain on our leg. Now, comrades, carry on a good fight under the leadership of the Communist Party to free us from this misery. I send greetings to all the class war prisoners like myself. When | the workers return from Washington they will have to get busy doing a lot of organizing to build stronger unemployed councils so that we can win unemployment insurance. Forward to a strong Communist Party in the South. Long live the unity of the Negro and white workers. Intensify the struggle for the SHERIFF SALES DRIVE WORKERS INTO STREETS |Phila, Real Estate Sherks Profit on Cheap “Buys” (By a Worker Correspondent) onstration with placards showing our | reports of the work performed. On | Wer as soon as you can, as we are | -| shows up the lying capitalist “Pamyati | I have made two complete and everywhere I went I found the working clas jand want, alhtough every city consists of watery soup lines | lying capitalist papers tell the ting better, etc. This writer stories and found no work, some cases the industries mi jas “picking up” are closed | gether. In Deriver and‘ San Francisco 1| found the unemployed councils very busy and doing good work in de- manding more and better relief for the unemployed and starving masses. Working conditions in Southern | _ | California are terrible, which also | press. | | For instance, a cotton-picker receives | one-half a cent per pound for pick- | ing ectton. An experienced man can | pick about 170 pounds a day, which makes him 85 cents for a full, hard | day's work. The orange-pickers re- | ceive 5 cents per crate for picking or- | a ioned | alto- | Jailed In California. I was picked up in this wealthy city of Los Angeles, in the land of the free and justice for all, because | I happened to be unemployed. I was | thrown in jail and along with 200 | more workers was taken before a} | woman judge, a petty politician, a | lackey of the idle rich, who has such | | @ warped view of affairs and condi- | tions that she told us that there was | plenty of work if we wanted to find | it. As a result, we drew from 5 to 20) days in jail for being unemployed. While railrouded to jail it was my | | good fortune to find comrades there | | whe were awaiting trial and doing | time for passing leaflets favoring the | repeal of the anti-labor criminal syn- dicalism law. Regular meetings were | showing that the working class in and in» trips across |‘rich’ America, iri poverty “relief,” which boasts of its and lousy flop houses, while the workers that conditions are get- h some of these )A. F. L. FAKERS FOR OPEN SHOP ON US. DAM JOB Sshotare All. Moves of Local Unions. to Or- ganize Workers follow ed (By 2. Worker Correspondent) LAS VEGAS, Nev.—The Daily Worker has persistently claimeé that the A. F. of L. is making no ef- | fort to organize the masses of unor- ganized workers. What I have just learned from conversation with un- ion officials here proves beyond @ doubt this claim and should convince any rank and file worker of the A. F. of L. I was talking the other day with an official of a local building trades un- jon local. During the conversation he mentioned the fact that ever since the start of the work on the dam, his union was pleading with the in- | ternational for funds to organize the Boulder Dam workers. It has per- sistently been refused. On drawing him out I found that the other locals have likewise pleaded with their Internationals and have likewise been turned down. Not only have the locals been re- PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Real estate| ro angeles is ready, shark seeking cheap “buys,” mort7aze | jeaq the way. ts 2 nS es rea we | jp Srmaltions in ail are terrible gang politicians, as well as the capi- | } providing we | All| | the jails are overcrowded. Two hun- | fused funds, but all organizational work among Boulder Dam workers | has been discouraged by the big offi- cials. The local unions certainly feel freedom of the Scottsboro boys. are long and monotonous. movement by writing to them. Death to all lynchers . Biggers Chain Gang Camp, No. 1, Charlotte, N. C. R. F. D. No. 1. Editorial Note.—Comrades are urged to write to Comrade Nelson telling about their struggles. The days and nights on the chain gang Very little news of the class struggle reaches the prisoners. Let us keep the prisoners in touch with the WALTER NELSON, RACINE, Wis.—We have more so- cial demagogy in this town than in any place I have ever been. This is due to the fact that we have a so- cialist mayor, chief of police and fire chief, And along with this clique we have the “progressives” to fight, too. The whole socialist city leadership is carrying on a secret campaign of terror against foreign-born and Negro workers. In fact the socialists are using the police officials of foreign birth to privately approach their own countrymen, threatening them with deportation if they join the Unem- Racine Socialists Launch Campaign Against Negroes Threaten Foreign sa Host ele with Deportation for Joining Unemployed Council (By a Worker Correspondent) ployed Council. This has been especially true among’ the colored workers and those of Danish nationality, of which there are many in the city. The Italian workers are also threatened with be- ing taken for a ride, In answer to this we say, smash the dirty rats and and stool pigeons. Form a lgnguage’ branch in your own fraternity or organization. Fight for the demands of the Unemployed Councils in your own organizations. Let the slogan be UNITE ALL WORKERS, COLORED and WHITE. THIS CHECK MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT WITHIN SIXTY DAYS AFTER DATE talist newspaper owners who receive | tremendous sums of money out of the | city treasury for advertising, were the four groups of parasites who benefit- ted from the largest sheriff sale on | record in the city of Philadelphia. This “sale” was held on Monday, Dec. 7, and 2,000 properties, chiefly | small homes of workers made des-| titute by the crisis and who can no longer pay taxes or interest on the mortgage, were sold. This kind of selling really meant the transfer for a $50 fee to the sheriff, from the workers to the owner of the mort- gage or to a real estate shark. Sales Held Monthly Each month a similar sale is held and each month the. number of work- ers evicted from their homes in the manner described, increases. Now the Vare gang proposes the tax fate 35% cents per hundred dollars. This new tax rate means virtual confiscation of small homes of work~- ers, as the economic situation of growing unemployment and new wage cuts for those yet employed gets more acute. - Workers! opportunity seeking lawyers, t!2 busi- | nessmen’s association and certain po- \itical demagogues who are trying to | cash in on your misery by organizing | torchlight parades, big mass meetings at the swanky Bellevue Stratford Ho- tel ballrooms. More Factory News Needed for “Daily” NEW YORK.—Although our work- er correspondents are supplying the Daily Worker with considerable good news of the class struggle, we still lag somewhat in actual factory and shop correspondence. The bulk of corre- spondence at present is coming from |the unemployed. Let's hear more from the employed workers. AN EXAMPLE OF CAPITALIST ROBBERY Bwnolifit Exactty C) DoLLARS 5 Crs “*™ °°" Bes, ay wae P a 3 =] To THE ORDER OF F 5 x Isidore Cohen Pe 3 899 E 169$§ St “oO New York City Bas E BANK OF MANHATTAN TRUST. Cc Company Bian or univao avarue tm Ciewieatron Here is a check for 15 cents received by Isidore Cohen, an unemployed worker and depositor of the defunct bank of United States, as his second dividend, Although dead broke, Cohen left the check to ald the Daily ‘Worker fund. He says: “The hundreds of thousands of poor workers who were robbed of their money will never forget nor forgive. They will not forget also the state government which neglected to protect their life- upper hand and show the way fethat I am one of that desperate lot, J, time savings.” Cehen has an honorable desi arge from the U. S. army and navy. rss at oe dred to three hundred men go | Puzzled over the action of the offi- | through the human stockyards every | Cials. The wonder why organiza- day. In our cell 45 men lived and | tional work is actually. being sabo- slept, @ cell 25 feet by 50 feet. The |taged. The tie-up between the A. stench in these cells is terrible, as a} | F. of L. officials and the company is | bath is out of the question only on | now quite obvious to the workers. the day you come in, and there is no | They are feeling very bitter over the examination of these men to find | actions of Green, Woll and Co. and | out what diseases they have. | have Savelopes § Coreen a decided left bias. Do not be misled by the ‘The food is rotten, weak, watered | coffee and potato hash for break- | fast, half cooked or else burnt twice @ day as a rule. Petty graft is the order of the day. | Prisoners who have fruits, tobacco, magazines, etc., serit to them find the packages torn open and articles taken by trusties and officials, who sell these same articles back to the pris- 20 to 25 cents per package; Bull Dur- ham, 10 cents; 2 boxes small matches, bar of candy, 10 cents, etc. We are ready, fellow-workers, to smash such conditions, both in and outside of penal institutions, so let's fight the criminal syndicalism law. SHOE SHOPS CUT Mass Lay-offs in All} Factories in City (By a Worker Correspondent) NEWPORT, N. H.—The Interna- tional Shoe Shop, largest shoe shop in this locality, was closed down for two weeks, all the office help and petty bosses being laid off also. Then the workers were called back to work cut 10 to 50 per cent. The workers have to wait for material and only put in three or four days a week. ‘They are now earning from 50 cents to $5 per week. Brampton Workers Staggered ‘The Brampton Wollen Mill is em- ploying only part of the workers at a time. has been put into operation in this | factory, thereby throwing more of the | burden of the crisis in the backs of the workers. The Richards Mill has also been laying off workers, not giving any’ definite date for their return. Prom- course, for the purpose of keeping the workers patient and away from organization. Women Speeded Up ‘The Curtain Shop employing only ‘women, is taking those who can work very rapidly, forcing them to. do the work of two or three. The less ex- perienced ones are laid off for an indefinite time. It is plain to be seen that the workers in Newport must organize to bring about better living and work- ing conditions, Let us not wait until we are driven to further desperation. Let us organize now. oners at exorbitant prices—cigarettes, | 5 cents; 2-cent stamp, 5 cents; 5-cent | PAY IN NEWPORT. to find that their wages had been} The Hoover stagger system | | ises are made for more work, of | ASKED FOR FOOD, CHILD REBUKED City Fa the rs Deny Relief | | Danbury, Conn. Daily Worker:— I am a child of one of thee many employed families of Danbury. My | father has been out of werk-for eight months, I have five sisters and one brother. I had two brothers, but one died of infantile paralysis three months ago, Four months we have been living on bread and potatoes which we get from City Hall. we got sick and tired of eating the same old thing for eight months, so I fin- ally went to the City Hall and asked | for some meat to eat with the bread and potatoes. City Hall told me that I should be thankful that we get help at all. | I left the City Hall feeling very | angry, and as I was walking home to | tell my mother we could not get any meat, I met a member of ‘the Dan- bury Workers Club who told me pbout the National Hunger March of the unemployed to Washington. Al- so I learned about the ‘Unemployed Council of Danbury. | I made up my mind right away to | help all I could. When I went to the club, Kate, who organizes the people here, told us such a fine story about going to the Capitol, and the White | House for unemployment insurance, | She knows what she is talkinc about, as she was there as a delegate. And we are glad she is back to help us | organize—not for potatoes, rice and | beans, but for money to buy every | thing we need, so as we will be | healthier kids. And we too are ready to fight. Iam a kid of an unemployed hate ter. —13 years old. Plenty of Good Food In Red Army Barracks (By a Worker Correspondent) MOSCOW, USSR.—The Red Army barracks that I visited here look like a big hotel. The soldiers are given the best of food and eat in a nice clean dining room, four at a table, The meals come in three courses with plenty of meats. I never im- agined that the Red soldiers were treated so well. I have seen the cone ditions in the American barracks, “ed soldiers are treated the Rest