The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1932, Page 3

ate « Daily WORKER, NEW YORK, S SATUVE WORKERS’ CORRESPONDENCE-- AM ALG! THE U.S NEW HAVEN TAILORS? STRIKE SOLD OUL BY AMALGAMATED FAKERS Forced Workers to Accept 35 Per Cent Wage-| (By a Worker fe Gerespenaent) ‘The miners in the state of Colo- rado are faced once again with a real task, the low wages with no good Cut and Open Shop Conditoions |conditions whatsoever in the mines; jforce by the operators on the one Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union Calls |h#>2 snd with’ misieadership, such for Militant Struggle To the Daily Worker: Sold out by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 40 of the 55 tailors in the Arthur Rosenberg shop here were stampeded back to work after striking three weeks against a lay-off of 15 of the workers in the shop. This local of the Amalgamated had been organized last October and included sa members several small contractors. The wages of the tailors had been cut twice during the last year: the total reduction amounting to 35 per cent. During the course of the strike, two 7 “organizers” of the Amalgamated | “visited” the strike, but did nothing | except request State Commissioner of Labor Joseph M. Tone to mediate, |- which Tone declined to do. The first “organizer” remained one | day and the second only two days. | In answer to a telephine call from | the strikers, the latter answered that | he didn’t think ".e could do anything | for them.” The workers consider that they were | fleserted and sold out by the Amal- | gamated fakers, W. LU, representative, spoke at a meeting of the strikers’ local. His ‘emarks were greeted with entuusiasm and the strikers voted 19 to 3 to ac- tept the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, but the following day a number were stampeded back to work, demoralized by the desertion of the Amalgamated fakers. The local Needle Trades Workers {dustrial Union group is being or- ganized rapidly and will arrange a big mass meeting at which the Amal- gamated sell-out will be more thor- pughly exposed and the basis made broader for the building of a mass militant N. T. W. I. U. local in New Haven. —A WORKER, MISERY STALKS IN LAS VEGAS. Unemployed ed 'D riven) Into Streets ‘Sy a Worker Corresvondent) LAS VEGAS, Nev.—The unem- ployed here, not having a cent to pay | for their night’s lodging and finding the city dumps and park benches un- Anhabitable on account of the bitter winds, are now forced to go without one of the most necessery of human needs. Indeed they are going with~ out sleep most of the time. Many of the jobless have wandered Into the gambling houses which are opeh all night for the idle rich and have sat on the comfortable chairs. ‘The bouncers of the places of chance some times have difficulty in sepa- rating the jobless from the gamblers and in this way some of the unem- ployed got a few winks of s! But this didn’t last long. The sleeping brothers were soon dis- covered and ejected into the cold night. Sleep for many of the work- ers in this town has become a lost art. Many of them can be seen desperate for sleep, their eyes heavy and red after days of wandering in and cold and wet. Their suffering is! undescribable. Capitalism has condemned these men to misery and torture. One question among these sleepless men | is becoming ever louder and fiercer; | What is to be done? We Communists can supply the | answer. Organize into the Unem- ployed Councils. All out in huge militant demonstrations on Feb. 4th. Demand unemployment insurance! Force the government to act by such mass action that the country has never seen before. The unemployed of Las Vegas must organize and de- mand free lodging! How Charity Works In New Bedford New Bedford, Mass. Dear Sir:— Just a few lines to let you know this case. I’m a father of 5 children. { used to get $7.00 from the Welfare Dept. I used to have aid from the City and: they stopped it for two} weeks because I went to ask the man who runs the Barber Shop if he could zive me something to do, He gave ne one chair to try to do something to pay my rent but I didn’t make more than $3.00 a week. | This in- spector Madonca, insulted me and called me a bad name and stopped the help I had from the city and my wife has been sick for one year. have two children at home who do not go to school because they have no shoes, I have had a hard time to ‘feed my children. I use to go and work down the poor farm and come home cold and sick something. Yours truly, —™M. 58. Spread Daily Worker fund drive into every working class neighborhood to save workers’ | oe “f The day before the} strike ended, H. Kapian, local N. T.| as U.M.W.A. and LW.W., on the other. But they are willing to fight this miserable condition under the leadership of the National Miners Union with their fellow workers in the Eastern states. On October Ist, 1931, the mines} owned by Rockefeller in the southern part of the state went on with a wage cut of 20 per cent. Same was done in the western part of the state. | This wage cut affected more than | 8,000 miners. ‘These miners were starving long before this wage cut was put over. For instance, soup lines at some of New Haven, Conn. to help the starving miners and their | families, In Oak Creek the soup line jis one mile away from the town—/ | four or five miles away from mines, | WAR VET CALLS FOR FIGHT FOR BONUS, RELIEF | Disabled, “Yet Federal Board Threatens to Cut Allowance Denver, Col. Any one could see thege miners’ wives early in the morning going with their children poorly dressed, bare-footed, going for a can of soup jand a loaf of bread. One Miners Story. I talk to many miners and here is the story of one miner. He was working every day three hours with | {hand pump in his working place to! pump that water out so he would) be able to load coal. This he did for @ period of days, asking the mine foreman for pay. He told him like any other boss does: You are lucky to have Daily Worker: Iam a disabled ex-serviceman. I have been drawing a small dis- ability allowance of $12 per month for over a year. Not being able to do any hard work and unable to get light work on account of the crisis, | I tried to get an increase in my allowance, Not being able to get anything done through the Veterans Bureau in Denver, I appealed my case to the Board of Bureaus in San Francisco. They in turn handed down the deci- sion that my disability was not! serious enough to warrant my re- ceiving the paltry $12 per month. It seems to me that the Hoover administration is trying to overcome | the federal deficit by taking a few | dollars away from thousands of vet- | | erans. (By a Worker Crrespondent) | 1 hope the veterans will all wake| TERRE HAUTE, Ind—On Dee. | up and act in a manner that will| 26th the town ship trustee (Sankey) | | force the government to increase our | disability allowances and pay us the | bonus in full. The way the govern- |ment is treating us who fought in | France is outrageous. | Editorial Note—This vet under-* | stands that the ex-servicemen will | have to act. .He, however, like job. If you MEMBERSHIP OF PARTY DOUBLED IN TERRE HAUTE Unemployed Council Active in Struggle for Relief ing in line. Some of these had waited all morning for their turn to get into the office. When they said that the office would close at noon some of our comrades from the Un- many others seems to be lost as to | employed Council organized the what form of action is needed. | workers and led them in singing | The veterans first must be solidly | some revolutionary songs . This organized. Without organization forced them to keep the office open they cannot win. The struggle of | and to take care of all that were the veterans must be linked up with | there ‘This office had been closed the strugles of all the workers. The | December 24 and 25 and many of fight for full immediate payment | these workers had not had anythin of the Tombstone Bonus and relief | +, eat. . for the vets must be part of the fight for relief and unemployment |. The Unemployed Council has insurance for all the workers, ‘he | forced them to take care of many organization for the veterans is | °S°S @0d on several cases he hes the Workers Ex-servicemen’s Lea- | S0tten very abusive, and has called | gue. This organization is leading the committees all kinds of names. the struggle of the war vets and is | threatened any committee from | united with the workers everywhere | faa sects niin he has ood star- | who are fighting waze-cuts and ae kaise) seb demanding relief for the unem- the workers here have not learned to Ployeu, This is the organization | form thelr own commitiees and cd for the vets. Get behnd it, buddies, | Started to ch eet te ‘The address is 79 East Tenth St, | *€ workers also did a little choking. New York City. Terre Haute has eight unemployed councils and will organize two more |Children Are Well —_|™ the near future. ‘Tétre Haute is going to go over Fed and Taken Care .,. top in the doubling of the Party Of in Soviet Union ™emvership. Each member is to — concentrate on three prospective From the U. S. S. R. members and try to bring them into To the Comrade farmers of. the | | the Party. United States of America:— We are 39 out of 42 children mem- bers of the kolkhoz “Rastzvet,” pu- pils of the 3rd group of the Voykof school 2. All our children are re- quired to attend school. We have 300 children of school age and 61 of pre-school age. ‘The school year is from the Ist of November until the first of June. Then we go to the Summer school. Two hours we work in the garden of the kholkhoz and then we have. classes.’ At watering time we work at night. Our moth- ers work in brigades in the kolkhoz. They leave their little ones in the nursery or kindergarten, where the children are fed and well taken care of. We have 88 little ones. In the summer the workers eat in | the dining room, where they get a meal of two dishes for 35 kopeks. Kostileva Ekaterina, Comradely, GOLD MINERS STARVING. JACKSON, Cal.—This is a small mining town about 50 miles from Sacramento. Forty-seven miners lost their lives here about eight years ago while two miles under the ground digging gold for the master class. ‘Now the miners who have not lost their lives through the speed-up and greed of the bosses are suffering starvation through wage-cuts and lay-offs. I think this would be a good town to organize the National Miners Union in. It has about 4,000 population, mostly miners. ‘These miners are getting wage-cuts all the way from 10 to 50 per cent. Let’s get together in this town and do a little organizing. Remember that the min- ers in the Soviet Union just got a 20 to 30 per cent increase in pay. Vv. G. M. Milk Trusts; Many Lose arms (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.—The farmers here on the small ranches are in such a state now that they cannot buy feed for their cows and chickens. They are offered $12 to $20 for a cow that two years ago would bring $75. Some of the ranches have no elec- tric lights now because they cannot pay their light bills, Milk briigs the farmer 9 cents a gallon. ‘The city workers pay 10 cents a quart for it. They are not allowed to sell their | own milk to consumers. THis is “ew it wovks In seme ine {Stances. he farmer can sell the milk if he carries it in wire baskets on foot, but he cannot go from house to house in a tin lizzie—it makes too strong a competition with the big dealers. Eggs fetch the farmer 15 cents a dozen, but the city workers must pay 25 to 35 cents, The small rancher gets 5 cents a pound for nice hog dressed ready for market. ‘The city slave pays 22 to 25 cents » pound for ham, Many of the farmers have lost their places for failure to pay taxes. They are disgusted. Communism is the way out for thes” “NO PAY!| tried to close his office at noon with | ® long line of hungry workers stand- | Dairy Farmers Wiped Out by. "BAY, FEBRU ARY Y 20, 1932 AYS STRIKE RS INVADE COLGRADO MINERS PREPARE § JAMESTOWN CITY COUNCIL TRU LETTEE GLE—WOMEN IN 2S EPOM SHOPS | Miner’s Childven Poorly Dressed and Bare- F Footed; 20 Per Cent Wage-( 8,000 Miners Threughout State don’t like 1) vou know satiat you can do, There are so many that will be glad to have your job.” The state mining laws are forgot- ten in this state. Poor ventilation exists in every mine. But in Haybro it is the worst. Material for the | City Council; | (By a Worker Correspondent) JAMESTOWN, N. ¥—This is a | report of the demands of the unem- 4%) ployed Council at the City Council | meeting, Monday evening, January 25. The hall was filled long before the meeting came to orde were standing. There e police in Plain clothes scatt all over thi room, and I could see by the tense and man {look of one near me that he was | nervous. Finally at 7:45 the meet ed with Frank Anderson, a bank clerk Presiding. (The bankers don’t dare to dictate or fool the people openly, |so they use their clerks to sub for | \ them | Proposed to Cut Fireman. Mayor Ca‘\son passed out the us- ual bunk about centralizing all fire stations into cne main station and laying off scme fireman. | fireman iiave already been cut so their checker-playing at the tax pay- ers’ expense, Mr. Anderson, unsuccessful candi- | date for police chief, got up and which he said a few truths that the citizens have known all elong—that there are drunks and loafers on the Police force, and accused Levin of full knowledge of this. Levine did not say one word in defense of his fascist police. He hinted at graft in | city management when the city council refuses to insure the city with any of the fire insurance com- panies he represents, and affect a 20 per cent in rates. A citizen arose and, said he had | worked 10 weeks the last year and didn’t see how he was going tc pay his taxes on his home and said he | was facing the loss of his home. He | suggested that the police and fire- Imen be put to part time labor on ditches and streets instead of being { city Parasites. There was tremen- dous applause by the audience at | this. Demand Cash Payment. Comrade Reader arose and de- manded that workers be paid in | cept papers good for certain amount of food at profiteering stores. He | stressed the point that workers are | entitled to pay instead of paver which reduces the workers to the ubtéks kee diaclinin | ror intare, wp toes meet ~—- Plans; Demand Real Relief ‘The poor | Much that it has seriously affected | spoke his mind to Chief Levine, in | money instead of being forced to ac- | ‘Colorado Miners Pobre to Fight Limi _Leadership of National Miners Bas e with the compa e on the BYU Cut Effects and rest of the things are the same s when the miners were get- sy Jacksonville scale. miners working places is left two “rimination lade foreign hundred feet away. Blasting powder | PO", especially against Spanish and and spikes are carried from outside | Mexican Workers exist to a great iy Anaviineee x arene y are placed in low cold a : forced to clean rock- bie toi atasie OB, With all this the coal ye enp are preparing new wage Miners li nine caMP) cuts for the miners of Colorado. The I.W.W. which led the strike in 1927 left the miners in the hands Expose Boss jover on the miners employed by the Rocky Mountain Co, 50 per cent loan to save that company from same company in on November 21 killed six strik- bankruptcy. " 19: | Status of chattel slaves. He proved ing miners and wounded 27. When that a worke ve $1.20 more the National Miners Union held food at a chs ore than a local! mass medtings this I.W.W. came to profitee the same amount our meetings attacking our union of. money fat and supporting the U.M.W.A. bour- th The in Colorado will fight ys under the leadership Jocal of the nal Miners Uriion. They Reads 1 ment Insurance see that only the National Miners bill. ; Union is the rank and file union mT 1 s tabled for the miners. Although our small rade /Andi fore are chief weakness for 0 X and 5 the spread of our program, the worker juoted the C rheless the miners of Colorado will of Com es that Jamestown | have their representative at the cre’ 1 in profit last year, | Third National Convention, which and 90 per cent of the workers re- will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. | ceived three and one third millions | 27 to March 1, 1932. jin x pay, while the remaining 10 per | cent received the twenty yen and peopte did not receive unem 4 al . | insur: the city would be bank- upt, and said the money could be STRONG COUNCT levied on the. 10 per cent that re- AVULN “ls a ceived twenty-seven and two-thirds 5 a millions, not on the mass of work- | IN MODERA CAL jers. He demanded that money now | ro Bh; Bd. y Uhh , used for war purpoces in Jamestown | and the J. 8. be turned over for poor relief. He then read the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and advised the councilmen to sign it too. Peterson | for the united workers said that the | workers should have cash inst grocery check: ‘ote Prnger March Opens Eyes of Vast Numbers of Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) ik Question. milk question { up and it was s police and fire deepriment here on January 5th when the Cali- Was | with the of gebple are buying a poor grade fornia Hunger March came through j milk. It was brought out that the | our Unemnloyed Council has grown | consumer pays 10 cents a quart of | to ove 200 members and we are milk and the Da en's League | getting results because we are or- pays the farmer 2 1-2 cents a quart | Jana steals the balance. | It was brought out that the milk sales have fallen off tremendously due to unemp!oyment, which means ganized. We were threatened with evictions, which we stopped and we are forcing more and better relief from the trustees. ‘The cotton pickers have practically that children a. going without milk, | ll quit work as they can make only or drinking infccior milk le the | about 50 cents a day here. In Fresno er receives 8 or 10 dolla week. | 1500 families of cotton pickers are The work are being mai to realize thot scabs like Ande n and | Scab organizations like the Chamber of Commerce are opposed to their interests and their only hope lies in joining the local Trade Union Unity League and Unemployed Council in order to put up a united front to r fascist bourgeoisie. Tt real- ze that the Communist Party offers the only 3ram to combat misery, unempl at and starvation wages. in destitute circumstances and are dying of slow starvation. In Hoover's golden state of oppor- tunity we find starvation has hit the ranchers as well as the rest of us. The recent state Hunger March has before never understood the program ands of more unemployed workers aré now ready to fight for unemploy- ment insurance. STRIKING HARLAN MINERS 'We Are Hungry and ‘Starving, Says Miner; Send Relic Dear Comrades:— clothing for the miners and their families in Kentucky, People down here are going hungry and starving. They are. doing all they can to win the strike. | We wish you would send more food and clothes so we could do more. The bosses have nine of our lead-_ trying to stop our food so we will | fail in our fight. This gives every: one more determination to fight | harder, It is impossible for me to go out into the big cities and get relief. All I can do is to write to you so | you will understand that we need aid. My father has been black- | listed since last February. | Many of the children out of | school because they have no clothes or boks. My daddy was un- able to buy books for me. The only reason I am in school is that our, | principle got them for me. | —Chirstein Wilson, ie EA Sai iar RR east ee Middiesboro, Ky. | | om | Ask Harvy Workers t Tam writing you about food and | ers in the Pineville Jail and are | Hunger s Protest — aT DEMAND Pri ea empty sto oma achs S Toward the patronizing sneer of charity, 3ut mouldy bread and slum soup | Jannot stifle Hunger’s protest! | Ve shall be back tomorow | Jur anger organized— Demanding Unemployed ancel | Sign Over Savings | (By a Worker Correspondent.) HARVEY, Ill.—Both banks in this | town closed down and the big shots | | are trying to get the workers to sign | | over their money that they have in the banks for one year apd then they will open the banks again, Maybe? | TI tell all the workers not to sign. The city is about broke and not able to pay their police and firemen so they had to float $200,000 bonds | to continue, | Insur- (By a Worker Correspondent) PINEVILLE, Ky.—There are about | Everything is going down except | 750 miners in the Brush Creek sec- |the Unemployed Council—ILD and | \tion. ‘They all came out on strike | the Communist Party and believe me jon January 1 and are still out 100 we are going strong. Another thing |per cent and will be until the coal | the part time employees are paying | companies sign up for the new wage | the bulk of the relief in Harvey, Il, |scale and recognize the National |and have no representation cn the | | Miners Union. | Relief Committee of. the Chamber of | Each local has a good mass picket | Commerce. This looks like taxation | tine and when the company reports | without representation. that the mine will work on the fol- They» have ‘police in our meeting | towing day all the miners take their all the fore I get it. The mail is opened be- | families to the mines and picket in ‘a mass, No one has attempted to of the fakers of Rock Mountain Coal Co., who work for their own benofit. The J.W.W. supported that } company which four months ago put | neyer- | MODERA, Cal.—Since the battle | opened the eyes of thousands who | of the Unemployed Councils. Thous- | WOMEN RIS FREEDOM IN U.S E TO NEW S. Ra SAYS SOVIEL W ‘ORKER ‘' Vera Ginga, Young Wc Plant, Writes of Soc man Worker in Moscow ial Advancement |Opportunities Undreamed of in Old Czarist i Days Now ¢ a Ree lization of Workers | Dear Comrade: Your are very much workers. t to know about struction. a cle little of my bicgraphy. My father was a worker. My mother was left with two terested in the life of the Soviet our of Social'st con- ar idea I will relate to your a He died in the imperialist war. ch'Idren (my brother and my- self) without any means of subsistence, and was forced to go to work. | Then came the Proletarian Revolution. Capitalism, in- VERA GRINKO This young woman, who was a child at the time of the Workers Revolution, is now a skilled worker in the “May First Plant” in Mos- cow. She writes to the “Daily Worker” telling of conditions of the women workers in Soviet industry. We suggest that American workers who wish to learn about the U. 5. S. R. to Comrade Ginza in care of Rabcor, Twerskaia 48, Room 12, Moscow, NORWALK UNION FAKERS EXPEL UNEMPLOYED Jobless Demand Dues Moratorium, Support Social Insurance (By a Wacker Correspondent.) SOUTH NORWALK, Conn.—The aborers union, here are over 95 per cent unemployed and starving. ‘The | union has tremendous! ased in membership end is on the verge ot bankruptcy The me! rship recent ing b | tion cf allowing | Day @ period of three months grace. |The measure would have been un- animously vcted for if it had not been overruled by the chairman. The union is controlled by a group of reactionaries and takers; such as. A. De: Tullio (business nt), his brother (pr Alfredo De Capua ( 'y) The bureaucrat trol the ur at a mee e national Hod Covrier: tion Workers “that anyone who does not y ; is no longer considered a member of the Union.” The controlling cl: workers asked them they would be considered out of the Union | because they couldn't afford to pay | any dues, answered, “We don’t give a damn whether you are in or out or the Union. Even if only 50 can carry on. his 15 answer of Mh. De Fa the when ue the president of the Ir or Onion (A. F, of L.); who was accuse 4 by the | membership of disorganiaing and be- traying the Union ‘The role of the eaders 1s becoming |clearer to the rank and file of the A. F. of L. every day. "he workers | support: unemploy urance and are willing to fithv for the Union | and see it grow stronger but the mis- | leaders are trying to destroy and dis- unite the workers, Brush Creek Miners Strike 100 Per Cent; 750 Are Out break the ranks and go back to work. Relief, however, is very bad. All the miners need relief in the Brush Creek section. If there is any sec- tion in Kentucky that will win their demands it is the Brush Creek sec- tion. There is no other section on strike that is better organized than this section. ‘There are soup kitchens and broad rank and file strike com- mittees in every local In Brush Creek. If every mine in the whole strike was organized as well as we are here the strike would be a complete vic- tory all over Kentucky, and ; tiable and gi the work arian dren edy, was overthrown established their own state. Immediately many es were opened. My her, unable to take care of us, placed us in a chlidren’s institutior Four yeors I lived in the children home. The food was comparatively good, our clothes were not of the choicest, but there any wonder? Those were years of hard-hips and utter rvin. The “White” army bands were still ha the country. In ns and want we ny food or care. I ry school and entered a fectory school which was organized just at that time. In 1928 I com- pleted the factory school course as # qualified turner. on. More then once we heard that ovr plece is at home, but nursery, lathe. ertanily not at ve have already 1 judices. Wom- s men are engaged in all s of industry. Ml you that nearly every da high school edus cation and technical training. This the was an impossibility in the time ofmi the Czar. I often think, “What would have become of my brother and myself if not for the care and education | we received in the Soviet Govern- ment institutions’? I—a turned; my brother—a technician. Under Czarism workers cou'd not dream of such opportunities. The only chance for me was to be a kitchen-maid. Due to special circumstances, I | could not enter the Institute in 1941. I went to the factory. To get work is the easiest matter in the Soviet Union. We he.¢ no unemplyoment here whatsoever. Unemployment has been liquidated. This shows us dis- tinetly that the working class of the Soviet Union, with the Communist Party at the head of it, is on the road to compiete tis tasks. Social Activities ‘We women take an active part in all social activities of the factory. |Each organization, each committee has a large per centage of women. After working hours the workers at- tend all ds of evening classes in the factory schools, institutes, poli- tical circles. Now you can have an idea how we work and study at the same time. We work seven hours a day, and the rest of the time is at our disposal. | The managers in the factories treat us well. The woman is looked upon not only as somebody to raise chil- dren, but as an equal comrade to the man in all social activities. I will stop right here. Will gladly answer I will soon study Will describe tute. WARNS WORKERS AGAINST CLERGY Calls to ‘Support the Communist Party Jamestown, N. ¥. orker class struggle is and the workers are rer nit to the Hoover diet of bunk individualism and faith, Jet the workers be warned against the preacher crusaders—the Father Coxes—who rant about the intolerable conditions in the country. They show the workers that con- ditions are horrible to the extreme, yet they offer no constructive rem- edy. They have the facts about cape italism, that is, they tell us that there is something wrong, but do not give - a cure. fusin They try tb reconcile the glaring | contradictions of the bible to the fact, that the w s are starving. The workers want results today and not pie in the sky tomorrow. We don’t want to beg. We are out to demand, We can get unemployment insurance if we get together—the masses of | workers fight for it with the Communist Party and the Uneme ployed Councils. i These who still believe that the clergy will lead them to victory, let them remember that the clesgy has been against the workers in the ‘past, A leopard does not change his spots, ” Kush every penny to save Daily Worker or leadership in \workers’ struggles, Smach O!d Trad'tions ; You can imazine how the men sneered at us the first years after the