The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1932, Page 3

\ | = sieeen Oe ee ‘Three SOVIET AUTO WORKERS GET NEW: WAGE INCREASES A Letter to Henry Ford from.a Worker in Soviet Workers Over 55 Ca Con F Receive Full Wages in U.S. S. R. Meals in Factory Dining Room C All Are Insured Against Sickness From F. ROSKO, Moscow (A worker in the Amo, now Stalin, plant) Mr. Ford: read this letter to your workers. I am like you, a former worker in the Fellow workers: Auto Plant Tiecontiane Work and st 23 Cents ; Ford plant.~ First of all I want to describe to you how we, the workers of the U.S.S.R., live and work without the bosses and exploiters. I am working in an automobile plant making trucks. Our plant.is named in honor of Stalin, formerly Amo. We are working 7 hours a day, 5-days per week, and our wages are growing constantly. I receive 200 rubles per month. We have| lots of work in the Soviet Union, ne unemployment. The work-) ers are insured. free medical care. Vacations Besides this the Soviet worker re- seives a two weeks vacation every six months with full wages. And you, Mr. Ford as son as your worker who worked a long time for you is con- | sidered ‘by you as useless you throw him out. In the Soviet Union a worker reaching 55 years of age has a right to discontinue working and he receives full wages. And you, Mr. Ford how are you treating your workers after they work 15-20 years? You throw them out without any compensation. The only thing the workers get from you after working long years for you is a hunchback to remind them of your exploitation. one Factory Dining Room We do not have the speed-up sys- tem that exists in your plant where there is a slave-driving boss for every five men. Also Mr. Ford I let you know that our plant there are two big dining rooms. The workers get one hour for lunch and the lunches are good. We get soup, meat, pudding and the like. All this costs (23 cents.) In case of sickness they receive full wages, | ‘There is also a lunch counter in every department where they have milk, candies, tea, biscuits and everything | else the worker needs. Conditions are different here than in the capitalist countries, Workers Run Plant ‘There is no exploitation here of the workers. The workers are working | here for themselves—that is for the | proletarian state. There are no cap- italists here to work for. And we have in our plant a factory committee | which runs. the plant. This com- mittee has been elected by the work- ers themselves, Althou#h we have senior workers (foremen) they'do not drive us but show us in a comradely fashion. All the workers belong to the union. There is a digantic construction of shops and factories going on at pres- | ent. We are completing the first five year plan. In the course of the sec- ond Five Year plan we will overtake | and surpass the leading capitalist countries of Europe. And under the | Soviet government, under the leader- ship of the All-Union Communist (Bolshevik) Party we shall conquer. Parades, Meetings Throughout the Country Commemorate Commune NEW YORK, March 17.—Sixty-one years ago today the revolutionary workers of Paris set up the first workers’ gov- ernment of the world and proclaimed the Paris Commune! Seventy-two days later, the Commune was drowned in a sea of workers’ blood. Thiers and the bougeoisie launched into a wholesale butchery of workers such® as the civilized world had never before seen. For days thousands upon thousands of working-class men, women and children were lined up before the wall in the Pere la Chaise cemetery in Paris and cut down by the mitraillieuse, the early machine guns. Wounded and dead were bu- ried alike in the same ditches. So great was the slaughter that pesti- lence threatened the city and thous- ands of bodies were burned in heaps. The Paris Commune died but its spirit still lives. It inspired the work- ers in the November 7, 1917 revolu- tion which gave birth to the tri- umphant Soviet Union. Today, with capitalism in its dying tremors, it is a beacon light to millions of workers throughout the world who will gather under the banner of the Interna- tional Red Aid’ to protest terror against the working-class. From New York to San Francisco American workers will parade, dem- onstrate, hold pageants, mass con- certs, and mass meetings to show their solidarity with the prisoners whom capitalist terror keeps locked in its bastilles for working-class ac- tivity. Among the chief issues before the working-class in America today are: 1. Tom Mooney’s frame-up. 2. The nine Negro boys threat- ened with death and imprisonment because of the Scottsboro, Ala., frame-up. . 3, The worst terror known in American history projected against the Anglo-Saxon native-born miners of Harlan and Bell County, Ky. 4. Attempts to outlaw revolution- ary unions, the Communist Party and all militancy among workers in Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif., in ‘Tampa, Fia., in Danville, Va. in Chi- cago, Pittsburgh and the entire South. The common “legal” procedure is the “criminal syndicalist” or “sedition” act which calls a worker a “traitor” for fighting against starvation. 5. The Detroit and Chicago po- lice assaults on jobless workers in a hunger demonstration and anti-war protests. 6. The workers still held in Cali- fornia dungeons for organizing agri- cultural workers in Imperial Valley. 7. The dragnet spread by “de- portation” Doak, Hoover's Secretary of Labor and chief bloodhound on the 4: of militant foreign-born workers. 8. Lynching, flogging and legal terror against Negro workers every- where, especially in the South. Paris Commune meetings will be held in these cities: New York City, 18 parades, meet- ings and demonstrations in every section of Greater New York, in- cluding New Jersey cities. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, mass meet- ings directed especially against local arrests of militant workers on “va- grancy” and other “frame-ups.” Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., four demonstrations, the leading one before the St. Paul Court House, where workers have just been sen- tenced for resisting evictions. Duluth, Minn., protest meeting at Camels Hall. Chicago, Coliseum mass meetings for Mother Mooney and Mother Montgomery. Kansas City, Mo. mass meetings. New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford and Springfield, Conn., open-oir demonstrations and mass meetings. Los Angeles, mass concert with program by the John Reed Club. Boston, Mass., demonstrations for the release of Edith Berkman, stricken with tuberculosis in the im- migration prison where she is being held for deportation to Fascist Poland. Philadelphia, Pa., protests against frame-ups of Negro workers and gen- eral terror. Protest Ford Murders | in Duluth, Minnesota DULUTH, Minn.—A mass _ protest held here last Saturday, against the murder of four workers in Detroit. A resolution was adopted denounc- ing the massacre, copies of which were sent to Governor Brucker of Michigan and Mayor Murphy of Det- Toit. Martin Kuusisto and J. Cogan spoke, and L. Tuuri was the chair- man, Every shop, mine and factory a fertile field for Daily Worker sub- meeting of about 300 workers was| A SOVIET WORKERS’ FACTORY RESTAURANT Japanese Fascists Plan | Blood Bath Against . Masses, War on USSR Shanghai that the feudal-milltarist | elements have not, abandoned their |plans for a fascist dictatorship. A Tokyo dispatch to the New York A number of Japanese troops ated for withdrawal from} Shanghai, South China, were told by ,General Yoshinora Shirakawa in a farewell speech yesterday to be “ready to rally to the call immediately when things happen.” General Shirakawa stated: “The conditions at home and abroad are increasing in difficulty | daily and the responsibility which the imperial troops face in these circumstances is mounting grad- ually. Under these conditions, upon returning home you must train yourselves sufficiently to be ready to rally to the call immediately | when things happen.” This statement by the Japanese | Commander at Shanghai is directed | toward creating sentiment among the | troops for the support of the fascist | movement in Japan, for the increas-. ingly savage attacks by the Japanese ruling class against the revolutionary struggles of the Japanese masses and for the sinister plans of Japanese imperialism, now in their final stage, for armed intervention against the | Soviet Union and its successful So- cialist construction. -| ization of the Japanese Cabinet on Japanese Proletariat in Heroic Struggles The heroic struggle of the Jap- anese proletariat against their own imperialists, must set an example for the working-class of the whole world. Workers! Rally to the fight against imperialism! crisis at the expense of the life- blood of the toiling masses, at the expense of the victories of Socialism in the Soviet Union! Defend the Soviet Union! Defend the Chinese asses! The Japanese imperialists are butchering the Chinese masses! They are preparing a new biood bath for the revolutionary masses of Japan! "They are pushing their monstrous war provocations against the Soviet Union! Demonstrate against the Japanese imperiaHsts and their diplomatic agents! Push the fight against your own im- perialists as the best defense of China and the Soviet Union! Prevent the shipment of arms and munitions against China and the Soviet Union! Sharp Conflict In Camp of Japa- nese Ruling Class. Renewed conflict in the camp or the Japanese ruling class has again | thwarted the immediate realization of the plans for an openly fascist dictatorship. Premier Inuaki has been forced to rescind the appoint- ment of Kisaburo Suzuki, present | Minister of Justice, as Home Minis ter. The premier has himself as- | sumed temporarily the post of Home | Minister. The| move for a fascist | dictatorship ig supported by the Japanese “socialists” who, in common with other sections of the Second International, continue their betrayal of the working class on all fronts. It is clear both from developments in Japan and from the speech of scriptions, General Shirakawa yesterday at BERLIN, March 17.—Mass raids of offices and rooms of fascists through- out Prussia and Hamburg has been Proceeding since 10 o'clock today. Sixty raids in Berlin alone were made. This action was resorted to as a result of finds during former raids. The Prussian government has pub- lished a memorandum enumerating details of fascist preparations for a coup d'etat on election day, providing the'reslults were favorable. The me- morandum exposes plans to surround towns, seize arms and requisition Ford trucks, etc,, imprison hostile officials, and seize power. The bourgeois democrat mands immediate suppre Reveal German Fascist Plot to Seize Power by Coup a’; tat For aug the workers’ press has | published similar details of f: intentions without the police Preventive measures. ‘ches still proceeding, but the police report concerning the results not yet available. Today the government ordered a) compulsory Easter politica! armistic extending from March 20 to April 3 inclusive, when all meetings and other Political activities are forbidden. | The League Against Imp: ism announces as international anti-war conferences in Berlin to haye taken place March 20 has bees made im- possible by this decree and ail invita-| tions are invalid. A new conference | are | | | Down with | those who seek to get out of the | | masses of Canton whose fury is grow- fascist storm detachments, date will be announced Mater. i Times admits that: “Strong currents are moving in favor of a fascist system, which would be practically controlled by the army.” The dispatch further. admits that | the postponement of the reorgan-/} lines of open fascism is only tem- porary. It says: “In political circles the consen- sus was, however, that the matter was merely postponed. A reshuf- | fling of the cabinet was consid- ered likely to follow the short par- liamentary session, with the possi- bility of renewal of the movement for a national cabinet, including the strongest leaders of all par- ties, to lead the empire through a critical period in domestic and in- ternational affairs.” CANTON ARMY T0 'To Demonstrate in the} PHILA. JOBLESS WILL DEMAND RELIEF TODAY, Front of Ford Office PHILADELPHIA, Pa Mayor | Moore, while addressing a fashion- able women’s club last Monday af- ternoon, after he and the ladies had just finished a very palatable and | savory meal of turkey and other tasty foods, said, in his talk to these | | refined and cultured ladies, that he| took this opportunity to Philadelphia’s 400,000 unemployed workers that from now on they will have to learn to take care of them- selves, as the city tReasury is com- | pletely empty, and it would be im- | possible for the city to furnish fur-| ther relief. The employed and unemployed | workers of Philadelphia would like | inform | | to ask Mayor Moore, who the hell) is responsible, for the city being | broke? Certainly it is not the un- | employed workers. Furthermore, since when did the city of Phila- delphia furnished the unemployed with relief? As a matter of fact, the employed workers under threat of losing jobs, have been compelled to support | INV. ADE CHINESE pea and the unemployed. SOVIET DISTRICTS Chiang Against Revy- | lutionary Masses | The Canton clique of the Kuom- intang is reported to be sending 50,000 troops at once against the Chinese Soviets districts in Kiangsi Province. The movement of Canton troops are being timed to occur simultaneously with an attack by Chiang Kai-shek on the Soviet districts in Honan, Hupeh and other provinces. In announcing this latest service to the plans of the world imperialism for drowning in blood the revolution- ary struggles of the Chinese masses’ and for the partition of China among the imperialist plunderers, the Kuomintang misleaders at the same time made the sham gesture of “send- ing” reinforcements to the Shanghai front. In their bloody plots against the ing at this latest act of Kuomintang | co-operation with the imperialists, | the Canton Government has decreed | that all policemen in Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces are to receive military training “and will be in- corporated in the army at critical times.” A Shanghai dispatch to the New| York Times admits that at least 6,080 unarmed Chinese workers and their children were killed by the aerial and artillery bombardment by the Japan- | mands as made by the South Phila- | | march to the Ford assembling plant | they will offer their protest against Demonstrate Today. employed Councils all over the city. | The workers will also march to the | assembling plant of the hypocritical, | | murderous Henry Ford, located at| Broad and Lehigh Ave. to protest | the Detroit massacre of March 7th | and in memory of their four fallen fellow workers who were murdered at thé hands of the Mayor Murphy, | Edsel Ford, and his father. The Unemployed Councils of South Philadelphia section will assemble at 13th and Reed Streets 10 A. M. Fri- day morning March 18th, and from | there march to 13th and Washington | Ave. the local branch of the Lloyd Committee, to protest against the measly, insufficient food orders and make further demands for an in- crease in food, fuel, and against evictions, The Unemployed Councils of North | Philadelphia including 1331 N.| Franklin, Kensington and Richmond, | will assemble at 4th and Lehigh and march to 3160 Kensington Ave. the Jocal branch of the Lloyd Committee. The Tioga Unemployed Councils will assemble at 22nd and Lehigh and march to the Venango Street local branch of the Lloyd Committee, where they will make similar de- | | delphia Councils, and from there} at Broad and Lehigh Avenue, where the massacring of their four com- rades at Dearborn on March 7th. ese of the densely populated prolet- arian district of Chapei. The dis- patch admits that this estimate is conservative. It says that “more than 2,000 were wounded and 10,040 are | missing. . , . "In addition, it admits that “160,000 Chinese families were driven from their homes, most of the homes being ruined, entailing build- ing damages of 1,400,000 silver dol- lars, which is about $350,000,000 in gold.” DECLINE IN RECEIPTS FORCES FOUR PAGE | ATURDAY - | The decline in receipts of the| drive to save the Daily Worker | in the last weck places us again | in emergency situation, not knowing when suspension may The dispatch further admits that | tens of thousands of Chinese refugees | jare still suffering actual starvation | in Shanghai, with most of them be- | ing forced to sleep an the streets in} the bitter cold. A committee of 40, representing | * over 3,000 former employes of the | Commercial Press, which was des- | | troyed by the Japanese bombs, yes- | terday visited the company’s office | and demanded unemployment: relief. | The dispatch reports “the committec | refused to moye a single foot until | the demands were granted threatened a hunger strike,” Raids by imperialist troops von- tinue against the headquarters of the Communist Party in Shanghai, Not a single day passes without the arrest of scores ef the revelution- ary leadora of the working-olass, and | \ | hit the paper. | As an emergency measure to| conserve the meager resour at hand this Saturday will be a four-page pape stead of the usual six urdays issue. o in- Sat- for CORRECTION A very serious error was made in __.| ism” of the court and the jurors by |of the “Red Squad” of Los Angeles | the January 15th raid on the worker's | The workers, knowing these things | will reply to Mayor Moore by de- | | monstrations conducted by the as Plan Joint Attack With | | murdered by the coal operators’ gun there | — | GOD BLESS SPIES, ‘Rank and File Committee to Organize | STOOL PIGEONS, peatincicite Strike Vote Meets Tonight | SAYS PROSECU TOR Continue to Expose | Police Brutality in Long B ache Trial LOS ANGELES, “Col—God bless | our spies and stool pigeons,” shouted | Devies ,the bosses’ prosecuting at- | torney his summation speech | against the 45 workers being tried | in Long Beach for having attended | a lecture on the crisis, addressed by | in Sam Darcy of the Communist Party. Devies inyocked this blessing| against the attack made earlier in| | the trial by the defense attorney on Abbot, a Red Squad stool pigeon. tempted to appeal to the “patriot- bombastic rhetoric about the “glory of Amerivan capitalism” and “damn- able” Communism, Earlier in Tuesday, Edward San- | dler, who is running for Mayor or| Los:Angeles on a working-class plat- form in the special recall re-election to decide on the ouster of Mayor Porter, took the stand again and completed testifying to |the police brutality in the Long Beach, Cal., jail. One of the chief demands of Sandler's campaign is the dissolution under captain Hynes, who directed lecture, Sandler was followed on the stand by John Culeuau, a Mexican worker who described the beating up of the workers at jail by police. Liev amit, Murphy, in charge of | the Long Beach detectives was forced | to admit when questioned by Gal- lagher, the workers lawyer, that the risoners were not given blankets or matresses in the jail, but he said | that not he, but the individual offi- cers were responsible and have been “disciplined.” In this way he hoped to cover up government’s responsi- | bility for a policy carried out by the | individual police. Murphy also ad-| mitted using vile language to the| prisoners. In the course of his tes-| timony later he cried out, “Reds haye no right to home and family.” Philadelphia Meet Tonight to ‘Aid Striking Miners, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 17.— | The National Committee for the De- | fense of Political Prisoners, together | with the Philadelphia Committee and | the National Committee to Aid Strik- | ing Miners Fighting Starvation, will | have a joint meeting tonight at St. Stephens Community House, 19 8. Tenth St., at 8 p.m. | Harold Hickerson, playwright, mem- | ber of the writers’ committee which | was kidnapped on its way to Pine- | ville with food and clothing for the | Kentucky and Tennessee striking miners; Allan Taub, Elizabeth Bald-| win, wife of Julius Baldwin, who was | thugs, and Waldo Frank will speak. The moving picture of the Ken- tucky-Tennessee coal strike will have its first showing at this meeting. Dr. Carl E. Grammer will act as chair- man, Conference in Perth Amboy, N. Brunswick To Prepare for May 1} ~ | NEWARK, N. J.—Workere in New Brunswick and Perth Amboy are al- ready preparing for May 1st. Conferences of working-class or- ganizations are being arranged by the Communist Party in these two cities. The conference in New Brunswick will be held Sunday, April 10th, at 11 a. m. in the Workers Home, 11 Plum Street. The conference in Perth Amboy will be held Sunday, April 3rd at 10 a, m. at 308 Elm Street. The miseries of the unemployed, the cutting of relief, and the war preparations of the bosses against the Soviet Union, and their present attack of the Chinese masses will be the main points at these conferences. Working-class organizations are asked to send delegates to deal with these important problems. Livery shop, mime and factory 2 fertile field for Daily Worker sub- seriptions. the ‘article “U. 8. Statistics Show Ayerage Meat Packers $1.50 Per Day.” | Pal Aap as 39 : 0 BAS! t ST. which anpeard in the Daily Worker | 0 EAST 13th ST. h The article states that | (here are 29,618,522 workers in the ineat, packing industry in the U.S. A Name .. The figures given by the U 5.| ‘ Department of Commerce in the 1931 | FO Cee lalla Btatistical Abstract show 59,548 in the | Meat packing indusiry in 1920, No | Mgwres are given for 1929. SCRANTON, Pa,, March 17.— The rank and file strike commit- | tee of District One, United Mine Workers of America, has issued a call 0 miners now on strike under the leadership of Maloney and Shuster, to run the strike into a real strike against wage-cuts and starvation. 1 The miners are carrying on a militant fight against state troop- ers sent in by the bosses. The men forced the strike against their growing grievances and hunger. Maloney was forced to sanction the strike, but is attempting to switch it into harmless channels and then betray it. The main de- mand he pet over was “equalization of work-time,” which in reality is the same as the Hoover stagger system. Tonight there will be a special meeting of the rank and file com- mittee to organize strike yote meet- ings in affiliated locals, and for the election of a broad strike com- mittee, The demand of the rank and file committee is that there be a guar- anteed minimum working week and against wage cuts. It is calling on all miners to support those now on strike, to ¢ome out and make the strike into a real effective mass struggle. Devries in his final arguments at- | R FIFTY CENTS WILL HELP SAVE THE WRAP THIS COUPON WITH YOUR 50 CE 70,000 Half Dollars by April Ist ‘The Fight for aa In nsurance | poser BULLETIN Just received from Chicago 16,500 individual signatures and 8,500 collective endorsements, UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS OF OHIO 1426 W. Third St., Roos 210 Cleveiand, Ohio March 11, 1932. National Committee, 16 West 21st St., Room 402, | New York, N. Y. Dear Comrades: Under separate cover we are sending you 18,908 signatures from this District. From now on we will send them in every week. Also sending | eight collective endorsements and this, too, will get more attention from | now on. We have sent out instructions to the Councils throughout the Dis- | trict on the signature drive, asking them to set quotas, call mass meet- jings, arrange a local conference and prepare for the State Conference | at Columbus. Inclosed find a copy of these instructions. Note chai- | lenge of Minn. District. | The following is the list of the signatures sent in today: Toledo, 9,975; Cleveland, 7,082; Akron, 1,100; Canton, 441; Elyria, 262; Columbus, 48. Total 18,908. Also eight collective endorsements. Fraternally, D. W. WILLIAMSON, Secretary. The following signatures came in this week: ! Great Falls, Mont., 1,057; Birmingham, Ala., 590; Milwaukee, 872; Peoria, Ill, 73; Rochester, N. Y., 1,352; San Francisco, Calif, 1,743; } Cleveland, O., 18,908; Kansas City, Mo., 985; New York, 5,379; Total, | 29,974. : These figures show that many districts are not paying serious at- tention to the drive for signatures. ALL DISTRICTS SHOULD RUSH IN THEIR SIGNATURES TO THE NATIONAL OFFICE AT ONCE! Following is a summary of the quotas and the actual number o signatures ccllected to date in each district: How Do You Stand in This Campaign! ¥ Signatures District Quota Collected WieeCMe EIN an4. 56 <0 sch ean oye eoeeesace » 75,000 1,108 2—-NEW YORK .... + 350,000 12,688 3—HILADELPHIA 200,000 None 4—BUFFALO ... + 50,000 2,205 5—PITTSBURGH . + 200,000 None 6—CLEVELAND «+++ 150,000 20,476 7—DETROIT . + 200,000 331 8—CHICAGO . + 300,000 6,058 9—MINNEAPOLIS + 150,000 5,091 10—KANSAS CITY . 30,000 4,056 11—MINOT ... 10,000 102 12—SEATTLE . ‘75,000 None 18—SAN FRANCISCO . 100,000 1,743 15—CONNECTICUT . see 35,000 None 16—CHARLOTTE + 10,000 None 17—CHATTANOOGA 10,000 580 18—-MONTANA . 10,000 1,115 19—DENVER 50,000 None TOTAL . + 2,000,000 55,463 WORKERS IN MAN CITIES PROTEST FORD MASSACRE. PASS PROTEST RESOLUTIONS | NEW YORK.—Meetings of workers | everywhere, expressing the high in- | dignation of the workers against the Ford massacre, continue to pass re- | solutions of protest. At Hartford, | Conn, the Scandinavian workers passed a resolution voicing a vigorous protest against the murder of 4 De- | troit unemployed. A mass meeting | in Portage, Pa., protested the Ford- Murphy slaughters. The Quincy, | Mass. Labor Sports Union declared: “The machine guns of the Ford mur- derers cannot stop the forward march of the masses!’ ® Important Expose | Starts In Daily ~, Worker er Saturday, Beginning with the Saturday's ‘ssue of the Daily Worker, Bill Dunne will write a series of two |urticles exposing the role of a lead- ing liberal who is on his way back |to the United States to mobilize jall forces and finances in an at- || empt to crush the Chinese Soviets | yy |and the Communist Party of Chi- aa, the onyl party leading the Chi- |aese masses in the struggle against | | the division of China by the im- | perialist robbers. | DREN EDO SONNE Rca OPEN relief and unemployment tpeiciasion: “These barbaric and criminal out- rages against the working-class by | the capitalist class will more firmly unite the workers of the nation in ® . more determined struggle. . . .” MINNEAPOLIS, Minn—The Min-| 1 Minot, N. D. workers ang farm- neapolis Building ‘Trades Council | rs united in protesting the murders passed a resolution of protest against | 0f unemployed workers. At Hanckock, the savage murder of workers in the| Mich. @ mass meeting was held in Ford Hunger March. The resolution | Labor Hall which “emphatically pro- - sent to the officials of Michigan| tested the cold-blooded murder of and Detroit, as well as Ford, reads,| four unemployed workers by the in part: “We urge the rank and file | Ford-owned police of Dearborn, Mich. of the A. F, of L. in Detroit and| When demonstrating for unemploy- elsewhere to demand immediate cash | ment relief or work.” DAILY WORKER! Send to Dail NEW YORK CITY Cott Dery USA. ‘Cap eaal ne oraue wits. eae MRLs halogen ae .