The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1932, Page 3

= RAILROAD WORKERS TO RECEIVE 37, PER CENT LESS WAGES The 10 Per Cent Cut Put Over by the R.'R. . Brotherhood Is Only Starter Cleveland District Drops from 30,000 to 19,660 (By a Worker Correspondent) | CLEVELAND, Ohio.—Adding to the recent 10 per cent| cut taken from their pockets by the Brotherhood officials, rail- road employes in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County will receive 371% per cent less wages in 1932 than in 1929, it is estimated by the Cleveland .Press. As against a total payroll of $52,320,000 in 1929 the estimated total for 1932 will be only $32,672,760, i This is undoubtedly an exaggerated estimate for 1932, Employment in RAILROAD WORKERS % ce it is based on the assumption that railroad employment —_————* this year will increase to the aver- JOBLESS DRIVE [si sss rr wie sar OUT MUSKEGON INVESTIGATOR railroad companies and Brotherhood officials when they were putting over Read Unemployment Insurance Bill to the recent wage-cut. Employment Drops City Council (By a Worker ¢ Correspondent.) The press estimates that the 10 per cent wage-cut will take $3,643,770 out MUSKEGON, Mich.—We have here in Muskegon a serious conditions due of the 1932 pay-checks of the rail- to lack of clothing for scrip workers families. There is plenty of clothing in stores. The city maneger had a welfare investigator who hed been in habit of making obscene and insulting proposals to workers’ wives and daughters when he visits their homes. Complaints have been made by workers to the city manager, who has jut.laughed it off. The inves- tigatér used to tell the city manager that those who complain are ignorant and do not know anything. The workers stood enough of it. They circulated a petition among welfare crews and welfare workers’ wives de- Lovestone Group ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa. Fellow Mine Workers: I was one of the miners here mis- ied by the Vratarich-Lovestone anti- working class group, Not long ago I signed an application to their mem- bership. I attended the meeting in Wilkesbarre where Lovestone spoke and his speech was enough for me to realize that it is no place for miners them and follow my example. I also want to state that the slow- the comrades falled to ask me to join the Party, while Vratarich paid quite a bit of attention to get up with them. So I want comrades to be more bold in asking the miners to join the leave them to Vratarich who spread lies about the Patry of working class. ; A Mine Worker. ‘The Section Committee calls sharply to the attention of all Party members in this section to take the advice of this new comrade as a OF SOVIET GAINS Is Hapvy: in Building WA DAT.Y WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, M AHOW 14, 1922 ! ORGANIZE AIN ma toel rather annals rediacournged pak you are hav ne of life? CUTS AND FLOWERS ack’ like “bis GE doesn't it. Take te bers A business may epread | ies help ly | and.may employ a: inia-. ired thousand men, oat. che average eae ally forces Reena chat tnisiness through tie.” contact with one individ- | ual. Jf Vhis person ts tide] met to overcome HE: Select | MOMENT IN THE RELATIONSIND BETWEEN RAILROAD MANAGEMENTAND ORGANIZED LABOR Co cag oleh remedgenatents pegentcry mee ema oentlageper yr eonctaston of ae Crate, the conference, tho f the rakes of oars aliomn was sent co Preekdent Wilard's oficial ca, “Tribute feom the Railway Labor Organizations to their friend, Denial Willard’ David R. Robertson, chairman of the Kailroad Unions’ Executive Committee, is shown here agreeing to a ten per cent wage cut for all railroad workers. presented Mr. Willard, president Following the sellout the officials of the corrupt unions of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with the basket of flowers depicted above. The National Railroad League, 717 E. 63rd St., Chicago, UL, is organizing the workers to fight this more and Ohio Magazine.). ut and to stop further slashes in the railroad wages. (The above picture was reproduced from the Balti- American Machinist in Soviet Please read this letter to the mem- bers of 159 Machinist Union and to the District and 775 and other lodges if you can. From Ben Thomas, Rostselmach, Rostov on Don, House, No, 6, Apt. 41, / U, 8. 5. R. . Well after a rionth journey Ihave | the old tool box set up under the Red Flag. I am working in a farm machinery establishment. I was sup- posed to go to the heart of Siberia, but when I atrived here they found that things were not ready there and! they sent me to the south of Russia. Rostov is on the Don River in the very heart of old Russia. The cli- mate is about like that of Philadel- Socialism (it (ie phia. I am working tn the tool depart- ment, I work 7 hours per day, and work 4 days and every fifth day am off from work. There are no bosses here in the scene that we know them in the States. There are no worries about unemployment. The shop conditions generally are very good as compared with the American shop conditions. The spirit under which we work is ideal, every one wants to help you. There is a real comradely spirit. If there is any dis- satisfaction about wages or anything else we go to the trade union com- mittee. , ar) Workers Rule ‘The working class under the lead- ership of the Communist Party rule the whole works in this great land. (3 times bigger than the U. S.) If one is not an actual worker in this country he does not amount to much, His conditions of living are also harder. The worker here is the lead~- citizen, and not merely on paper, i) Miner’s Wife Asks Support | of Workers to Fight Hunger (By s Worker Correspondent) CLOVERDALE, Pa. — We miners’ families here in Cloverdale have very bad conditions. We need food. We H 2 i 5 i Z u in fact and practice. You don’t see @ worker even an unskilled ap~ any of the higher up,man- agers or directors of the enterprise And then they wondeF why our sick. How can we stay we do not have half companies steal every eggs. ‘If the workers would only open) their eyes and fight hard against ‘We can win. We must gain freedom Hails Bo'shevik Success' Tells U. S. Workers to. bath ana steam heat, but the shower bath is not yet working. Of course ild Soviets : Build Sov iets In j one must understand that two years America * | ago this section was a wilderness and i . ——_——-—| the factory with all its equipment with his hat i» hand and bowing] including the large department or showing any Jign of an inferior | houses, to house workers, were started feeling. And the higher up manager | building 2 years ago. The Factory or director does not hold forth with| employs about 20,000 workers. the least attitude of superiority.| Yes, capital-m is dying and re- Every worker here ig as good and as| ducing the staidard of living of the much as any other worker be he | workers. On the other hand the So- manager or floor sweeper. The whole | viet Union is like a healthy child, atmosphere here is one of coopers-| with a future before it. The creative tion, comradliness and candidness. _| intelligence of the workers here un- ‘The workers in the shop work/der the leadership of the Commun- | diligently and conscientiously, not by | ist Party is almost unbelieveable to |pressure from above or the fear of one who has not come into close loosing a job, but through the under- | contact with the actual achievements. | standing that the works belong to If the workers of America would es- }them and that the more they produce | tablish a Soviet government I dare jthe better their conditions, This is|say that the hours of work would really a free country of free men | be reduced to 3 and 4 hours a day. and women in theory and in fact.| There is no middle ground for the | here. either capitalism or Communism. | The living here in general is hard, |The workers of America can win if |There is a scarcity of nearly every-| they rally behind the Communist thing. I live in a two room apart-| Party of the U. S. A. Ben ‘Theomas Old Railroad Worker's Pay Slashed to $s Per Week (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANELES, Cal.—I spoke to a 45. old railroad worker and he described the chances for advance- ; |ment under the capitalist system. He} After 20 years of work for the rail- had been working in the railroad/road barons this man, like many |yards and the shops of the Southern | others, stands facing destitution. This Pacific for 25 years. | worker and thousands lke him are His wages have been cut time and | beginning to understand that they time again until now he is expected | can and will get justice if they organ- to support his wife and five children | ize and fight for it. and himself on $15 @ week. In order| ‘The Railroad Workers Industrial to get these wages he must work ten | League is carrying on an intensive to twelve hours a day. \fight against the wage-cut betrayals Now he is threatened with a lay-off |of the railroad company unions and which has thrown thousands of his | calls on the workers to organize com- fellow workers and their families. His | mittees in the departments to strike Job now is cleaning refrigerator cars | for better conditions. “UNITE! By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. You workers in fields and in orchards, You toilers in factory and mill, You makers of wealth piling fortunes With your brain and your brawn and your s' Do you love so the shackles that bind you, That you kiss the fetters that bind? Do you hate so the sunlight of freedom That you'd rather wear blinkers, walk blind? Now by the mills that grind slowly The grinding has ground up the meal, The sacks are filled to o’erflowing— And yet you still sweat at the wheel. For what? .. . that your masters may rule you. For what? ,. .*that they tread you in scorn. For what? ... that your children may hunger And curse the dark day they were born. For your sake awake and arouse you! A Lenin is walking the land With the scythe of the field and the hammer Of labor aloft in his hand. The day and the hour approaches For the slaves to arise in their might; | that carry milk and meat. He must often do this work in rain soaked clothes. His health has been under- mined by this type of work. for ourselves and defend the Soviet | Union. \ Farmers and workers join forces—~ Down with starvation . . . UNITE! Ss WAGES DOWN T0 40,000 JOBLESS IN. $13 A WEEK IN HOUSTON, TEX. CITY> — er ATT RADIO. PLANT Majestic Radio Works Girls 10 Hours at Top Speed Chicago, Nl. | Dear Sir: I am an employe of the Majestic Radio for four years. I work for | Russel Hamman and Jack Le Hmen. You talk about slave drivers and no pay, you should work for either of these men. I used to work for a woman, but she was a straight shoot- er. But she got the air the other day. She was Clara Klein. If our | wages were low she kicked and tried | to get them raised. She was on the floor for about six or seven years and when Mr. Pardise, the superintendent got his job, she was taken from the floor and put on the tables, making about $13 to $14 a week, the same as I and the rest of your gang. We start every day at 6 or 6.30 and work ten hours. We get ten minutes in the morning off, and ten in the afternoon. If we dare take any time off in between these twenty minutes | of rest, we get bawled out or lose out | jobs. If we dare to turn around or talk to the girl beside us Hamman or Le Hmen are right beside us and telling us “get te work or get out.” Friday one girl in the next de- partment went to get her check bt-/ OFFERS FO Pare Three ACK ON WAGES! RCED LABOR Workers Evicted from Homes; Social Fakers Refuse Aid; Dump Milk in Sewer Jobless Must Mobilize Behind Unemployed Council for Real Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) HOUSTON, Tex.—The crisis here in Houston is sharpen- ing. Unemployment nereasing. It is estimated that ap- proximately forty thousand are out of work Workers’ children are starving to death while the wares | houses are full of food and milk is being dumped in the gutters as a price war goes on between producers and distributors. It is a pitiful sight to see those poor, ill clad, starving children standing around the gutters while thousands of gallons of m‘lk is being dumped in the Charity Refuses Help ‘The Social Charity which is supos ed to take care of the needy is refus- ing to help the starving fami A man with a wife and eight children was completely turned out into the street—he has no house and no food Many of such cas ‘e report the local Unemp local Social Sery down completely. Forced Labor The Community Chest is not used for the benefit of the workers who are unemployed, but for the benefit of the city grafters. The Community Chest has a forced labor scheme I to hem iment with a private tollet and shower | Now about another phase of life | workers to stand on today. It is| fore time to go home and Le Hmen| whereby the workers are forced to came up to her while she was in line| work two days a week for a few and asked her if she was going home. | pounds of split beans, grit and sow- She said “no, not yet.” “Well,” said | belly, while the money goes to the |Le Hmen, “you are.” “Go get your | city officials. | hat and coat and get out.” Every day more and more wor Pardise, Hamman and LeHmen are | te being put into the peonage always snooping around trying to | ut we are not going to stand for it find something wrong with us so they | @2Y longer. Some of the workers are can fire us, | living in shacks not fit for pigs to |live in. In this city which handles PS eenbeor ee ee Meetettle: oo) cree bien, calllion ‘bales of cotton’ thi Slave Shop (S. 8.) ‘the compressers working people have - | hardly any clothes to wear | ORKERS HALT ganize and fight against this rotten E VICTIO N IN | system of things. | |. There is only one way to ari Workers Must Organize 2 out around al party ses to munist | | of this, and that is by rall, ST. LOUD, MO the only workingclass po! e|which is organizing the |fight starvation — the 5 Party. 300 Rally to Return} 9 es ig ni Pa an om | . | Furniture; “Join | Werkers Must Fight | the Council | Miss Spokane Dress | Nappa 7 Gne | (By & Worker Correspondent) | Factory Speed-up | ST. LOUIS, Mo—Over a hundred! (gy 3 Worker Correspondent) | workers assembled at 15th and Carr! SPOKAN: i Ther alas | to hear the speakers of the Unem-| , SPO! Ap: rar toa neato — | ployed Council present its program | ‘ctory here known as The Miss Spo- land how to carry on a determined ae Dress factory as have ee | . |the speed-up system down perfect an peee eer ee poere cane Oe re nN Hie Shee killing off the girls by Uriving them to the | tions. While the speakers went on/ | with the meeting a worker came and leclibion paride siosention eecerea asin’ Dial eee They have a system of piecework Immediately the comrades ‘appealed | Whereby they find out the top notch \to the workers to go and put the |°f Production and fire any worker furniture back into the house. Most |*O comes under that point. And | of the crowd went in ® body to the |™@ny of these woman workers have | place where the eviction was taking | dependents in tpe form of mothers place. }and childreri which throws them on : \the doubtful mercy of the local bosses’ At the place of the eviction our | charity. | speakers were raised and about 800} | workers rallied to the call of our) comrades and put the furniture back. | After the furniture was put back over 40 joined the Unemployed Coun- cil among them quite a few Negro | workers, some ex-servicemen and | The Daily Worker: some women, Learns of Party Role At Berkley Meeting Berkeley, Cal. | I attended a Communist Party |, This is a direct result of the coun- | speech in Sacramento last August, the |cil reorlentating itself towards de-| first and last I have ever heard, but | veloping mass struggles. Councils |was much pleased with the gc | grew up but never functioned, most |and visibility of such a Part lof them short lived. This was be-/see more clearly now the er | cause any of the comrades did not! for such a P: |think the mass struggles could be |ing out what their | developed in St. Louis being that st.| I have been to many fi Louis was never an organized city. | this city looking for employme With the experiences we have in| myself to make a living. And n of need: Granite City, in the county and other | Places we can and will forge ahead of building a mass movement only through developing mass struggles. We are well on the road and promise the other section and cities to be heard of in the very near future, Spread Daily Worker fund lrive into every working class | r1eighborhood to save workers paper. | would be surprised at the ‘ance {of otherwise well informed people no {knowing what the great trouble ts |now in this U. S When I tell them how [ am situ- tated, they tell me their hard prob: {lems and seem to know nothi: |the only remedy is, but hope on the best in their darknes ance I think the Communist the only sensible, logical, idea about it and ignor A Worker. (By & Worker Correspondent) NEVISDILE, Ky.—A few men went. to work at the Dixie mine. It is a “fine” little mine. They used to work jabout 95 men in this mine, They | Started up recently with six men. ‘The coal in this mine is 18 to 20 inches high and the bosses pay 80 cents a ton for the coal and nothing for the slate. The miner averages about $1.20 per day. Day labor in the mine is $1.50 a day. The operstors who run the mine tdid little Everet Walls that if he could get some men to start to work We Are Fighting tor ‘our _ Lives, Declares Ky. Miner {told them that he would see that they |mever got back. The mine owners and their scab |foremen call us miners “Russian |Reds", We are fighting for our lives |here. Our children are bare-footed and even when we work we cannot make enough to by grub and clothes for the children. The operators say that we are get- ting enough for the work we do in the mines. We work ten and twelve hours in the mines and when we get through we are lucky to get 10 cents worth of beans All the little boys and girls here they would make him a foreman.) know Everet Walls, the scab, When This scab is doing his best to get the |they see him coming they say here men started. Some of the N.M.U. men | comes the scab man who has put the went down to the mine and this scab | Dixie mine back on a scab scale, ee sew vefore their very eyes. ‘WINERS PREPARE TO HIT TEMPLE COAL CO. CUTS Bosses Try to Make Miners Work Day and a Half Without Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) JESSUP, Pa.—The Temple Coal Co, having a few collieries around here, is now trying to enforce a new scheme ig the wages of the miners, e Coal Co. is now under vership of Mr. Dorrance, the of the Pennsylvania Anth- the Pennsylvania Anthracite lead t age cutting ers in thig, ter- all the collieries of have been .shut vance together+qvith is started afcam- paign to maki = miners believe that the Temple Coal Co. has geen losing money while in operation and will have to take a reduec~ if they want to work. 1 the mine workers refusedoto reduction in wages, the com- adopted a new scheme and he miners to give the and a half free than serfdom, = to work for the company and a half free and 1 let you w in the needed more coal for. NE ra) yi has been the down. the District o ‘als of the U. M 0 rst raise any objections dd one colliery in Jessup: ler this condition. is not a violation of W. of A, the agree The miners of the Temple Coal Co. will not accept those slave condition and are actively preparing to strike all the collieries of the Temple Coal Co. Most of the locals of this com- Pany are affiliated with the rank and file movement here and are active in spreading the movement to other collieries. The mine workers of the An’ ite will fight against the attempts ring slave conditions ir to e Anthracite. | A Miner of the Temple Coal Co. PHILA, BAKERS | GET WAGE-CUT 500 in Tasty | Plant Get Pay Cuts rs Correspondent) LPHIA, Pa.—The Tasty j the wag € Everybody, in- reman and office work~ their pay Two of the workers are The cuts from 10 to 15 per cent have two shifts in the tment ranging from 614 Now we have one shift work 13 to 15 hours every bosses have laid off one the breadline, ago hundreds of rmed the large bak~ The Co, hired over @ 1 of them. Many of the old were fired to make room for the new and cheap paid labor. The boys working in the pie de- partment get from 7 to 8 dollars « | week. Some of them can’t even pay |board and carfare despite the fact hat they are working. —A FORMER TASTY SLAVE, iow on the breadline, New Correspondence Group in Chicago he t cut h ir range We used cup cake to 7 and hours mus to About (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill.—The worker corre- spondents are establishing a South Side branch of worker corresponde t's, The headquarters of the branch will be at 3116 S. Halstead St., Chicago. The purpose of the branch will be to expose the bosses in their attempt to crush the militant workers move. ment in Chicago and to rally through the worke press more workers into the struggle against capitalism. We propose to expose boss terror wherever it exists and to rally the workers in the shops and factories te (‘write for the workers pre=- &