The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1932, Page 4

© Pwilekee by the Comprodatly Publishing Co, New York City. Ad@ress and mail all checks to the Daily Worke 18th St. Telephone juin €-7956. Cable dally except Sunday, at 66 Basi “DAIWORK® 50 Bast 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. ries---And Poverty By. LENA ROSENBERG. new Bidwell, an led when nder which the unbearable as It is a madhouse”. often killed as a Yard has been ploy many work~- to the gates not any from far away ‘d management used to force greater speed ch makes it pos- the two new ships Co., 8 Morgan Con- n St. Louis a few years mt competition they practically every This resulted in at d off; some of whom el; Now they have om’ one to three them not even that wages are being slashed o at one time made $15 is company, now make $4 en they work full time. In the ment ten workers received $9 for ving 90c a day for each worker. artmy they pay for core boxes $1.50 to $2 at present 80c on slingers that were $1.50 now Se. Chemical has in two years cut 800 to 400 workers, But even this r works only from 1 to 7 days a week one out of two weeks, The wages run from 45 to 60c an hour. The Ford plant employ ved about 5,000 workers now only about a thousand are em- who work from a few days to a week 3 weeks. Because of trouble in the fice at various occasions when came Sraishd for jobs but could @ yea ployed. of ev at the Ford plant a worker must write. a C company. In response to this an better said a stool pigeon is sent rs’ home, who snoops around and if the worker is notified to usually means that some 1 be laid off. In this manner the workers live, what organizations they belong to, Ii often happens that a worker after re- is able to find out.just how their | ceiving a letter to come to work, he spends ear- | fare and when he gets there is told that there | 20 work for him. The Wisco Ra plant in Marcus Hook, one ef the largest rayon plants in the world, em- Textile Profits i ina Crisis Year By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. ls continue. to grind out s to the exploiters de- ‘Here are a few Certain tile profits and pay di Spite the world-wide depression. of the latest to report m Mohawk showed operat: and added over Corp. of America ei come of $1,010,094. Tt Cotton Mills, Fall River, at the end of the fiscal year, was $990,120 as compared with $445,925, at the end of the previous year. Mills, Amstérdam, N. Y., profit for. 1931 of $310,637, $165,000 to surplus. Celanese d last year with net in- Carpet Cammon Mills Co., (N. C.), reports net profit for year j ended amounting to- $2,088,917 as compared 544,638 the previous yeaF. Com- pany dividends during the past year amount $1,593,634. New Bedford Rayon . made a net profit of $31,259 in 1931. Knox Woolen Co. of Camden, Maine, recently paid a 100% extra cash dividend. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter declares that many. of the small country bce mills like this one, which employs about 275 workers,.are “making money right along”. It tells of a small Virginia woolen mill, which makes uniform fabrics, pay- ing a regular 24% cash dividend right through the depri n. This is the Charlottsville Woolen Mills, which reported a net profit of $87,676 for year ended December 31, 1931. It-employs about 175 workers. Its regular cash dividends, since 1921, have amounted to from 24”percent to 50 percent a year. Some textile companies reporting payment of Tegular dividends to stockholders. on April 1st were the following: Name of Co. Annual tate or am’t pd. Apponaug Co. eves Avondale Mills ..... Sidney Blumenthal & Co. Cannon Mills . Celanese Corp. Columbia Mills ... Dunean Mills .., Duplan Silk ... Goodyear Textile Mills . Industrial Rayon Pequot Mills . Plymouth Cordage Co. Powdrell & Alexander ... Riverside Silk Mills . Standard-Coosa-Thatcher Textile Banking Co. Tubize-Chattilon United Piece Dye «$2 comm., 612% *(p) indicates the payment is on @ preferred stock. All others are payments on common stocks. With the exception of Cannon Mills, most of the stocks are $100 par value, (p)*} urplus of the Firestone | ploys about 2,000 out of 6,000 they formerly em- ployed. The speea up and terror is record-break- For distributing leaflets in front of the wo workers were arrested and given long jail terms, is cloth weaving factory employs mostly women but the men too get practically the same wages as the women which is about $10 a@ week and most of them are working part- time and making even less. The speed up is unbearable, for the least bit of damage which is a result of the vicious speed up the workers are ei ed immediately or threatened with being fired it happens again. In all of these factories as well as the smaller ones many workers are forced to come in every day without knowing whether they will work t day or not. Sometimes they do not even get a days work, still they must come in or lose their job. In this manner they are actually slaves to these mi and factories, the only dif- rence from chattel slavery is that in those days the slaves were fed while now the masters don’t even have to feed them. About 15,000 workers are completely unem- ployed in Chester, many of them for as long as The City Welfare who gets most of by each of them above mentioned factory forcing their workers to contribute out of their wages regularly gives food orders for from $2 to $8 for those who have 8 children and more. jThe Negro unemployed workers get $2 and $3 for families of 6 and even more. No provision is made for rent or other necessities. Single workers get no relief at all nor do married couples who have no children. Because the Un employed Council prevented a number of con- stable sales and was becoming very popular among the Chester unemployed workers, the landlords are now using new schemes of forcing the workers to move out by themselves. One of the means used especially among the Negro un- employed workers is to get the minister or priest to get the family out. This results in two and three families moving together in houses, that are hardly sufficient for one. The part time workers get no relief at all and therefore are practically in the same condition as the unemployed. Due to the threatening war on the Soviet Union Chester, where ammunitions and other war materials could be produced in practically every factory, is of great importance for our Party. Because of the great poverty among the employed as well as unemployed our Party could be built very rapidly. And when we consider that the majority of workérs in Chester work in large basic industry we could see that shop nuc- lei could be organized in practically every fac- tory with little effort. By the efforts of only two comrades two shop nuclei have been estab- lished and yet the same material out of which these two shop nuclei were built exists in the Sun Ship Yard, in Fords and the rest. ‘There are a number of fraternal organizations with a membership of about 200 who almost as a whole work either in these factories and mills or have worked there and are now unemployed Regularly speakers come to these organizations, who are leading Party members either from New York or Philadelphia. The lectures they give them are on the Soviet Union and other revolutionary questions but from the results we get for local struggles the Unemployed Council and the Party we could clearly see that the lec- tures must be abstract and never linked up with the tasks before these workers, who are in the main revolutionary. Although we have succeeded in getting about 12 new members into the Party during the re- cruiting drive, only 3 come from those above mentioned organizations. And yet during th: recruiting drive many language speakers were i. Chester, ali of them Party members. This i @ very serious situation and some measures mu‘ be taken by the leadership of the Party to ove: come these serious shortcomings among ou language leading comrades particularly, Eve amongst our local comrades here who work ii those organizations a lack of faith in the Amer- ican workers and pessimism generally exists, we can feel that there is something vitally wrong in the way we carry on work among the foreign-born workers. A beginning can be made in Chester by the district and language fractions mobilizing the members of those fraternal organizations for May First. Sedition Conference which will be linked up for the freeing of the Scottsboro boys and May Ist. On April 24th we will have an Anti- | | money. All these organizations should send delegates and | get others in their language to do the same. On April.30th, a parade will be arranged in | which these organizations should participate in order to make it a success. On May. First we will have a mass meeting and concert at 2 p. m in the Lithuanian Hall, 4th and Upland Sts. If we could get the full co-operation of ail the | language organizations we undoubtedly could build the Communist Party here. ‘The Apfil Issue a “The Communist” Contents: The World Is Drifting Into an Imperialist World War For National Liberation of the Negroes! War Against White Chauvinism, by Earl Browder The Tasks of the Communist Party, U. 8. A.-- Resolution for the Central Committee Ple- num The Role of American Finance Capital In the Present Crisis, by Harry Gannes Shop Politics and Organization, by John Steu- ben. Marxism and the National Problem, by J. Stalin. On the Theoretical Foundations of Marxism- Leninism (Continued from last issue), by V. Adoratsky Oswald Spengler’s “Philosophy of Life”, by G. Vasilkovsky, Latin America and Our Press, by A. G. Martin ris ide Don’t fail to get your issue at once. Per copy, 20 cents, Yearly subscription, $2, Order from: The Communist, P. 0. Box 148, Station D, New York City, SUBSCRIPTION RATWS: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattse and Bronx, New York City. Worsign: one year, $8; siz, months, $4.50. cmt PRRIALSE \A At? hy const UF ; po MAGE | THE CUTS (in ity TUNEMPLOY MENT pO N SURE By BURCK IS U1 eta, Father” Cox and The Second Anniversary of the Imperial Valley Struggle His. Blue Shirts By S. H. FTER the fake “hunger march,” led by Father | Cox, this misleader’s activities among the un- | employed have increased tenfold. Throughout Pittsburgh numerous card parties, social af- fairs, sport affairs, plays and movies have been arranged for “the benefit of Father Cox’s relief fund,” and innumerable affairs of this nature have been organized in towns all over Western Pennsylvania. Father Cox himself appears at most of these affairs as an added attraction to make them a financial success, In mining towns, in steel towns, where most of the workers are unemployed, Father Cox has held affairs and raised considerable sums of Always using demagogic language agains “the rich,” while at the same time. obtaining considerable support from the large corpora. tions, he “appears” to the workers as a militan fighter in their behalf. In his radio talks, ii between his denunciations of the millionaires, hc sandwiches in praise for the Ward Baking Co., bitter exploiter of labor and completely anti- union trust, bread to Cox’s breadline. He has kind words to say about the Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph, because one of their Sunday issues contains the story of one of Father Cox’s fellow-fakers, Father Coughlin of Detroit. The “Sun-Tele,” as the paper is commonly known, is a Hearst paper, as slimy a yellow journalist, red-baiting, Soviet Union hating, capitalist dope sheet as can be found anywhere. Father Cox «iso is the darling of the Scripps-Howard paper, he Pittsburgh Press, the paper that sings his rais@ continuously as “a champion of the mmon people.” Father Cox is a very . good jend of strike-breaking Governor Pinchot, of ae president of Gimbel’s Dept. Store, and of ne heads of many large industrial enterprises. because they donate their stale What is most important, however, is his latest | {fort in setting up a national organization of blue shirts.” The members of this organiza- vion are to all wear a uniform consisting of a blue shirt and work-cap to “represent labor.” In Father Cox’s own words, the organization consists of “Americans who pledge themselves to be loyal to their country.” He claims he will soon have 1,000,000 members in this organiza- tion. ? It is plain that this organization, the “Blue Shirts,” is doomed to play in the United States the same role as Hitler's brown shirts in Ger- many or Mussolini’ black shirts in Italy. Father | Cox's blue shirts is a fascist organization—it is | | openly being organized throughout the United States and will no doubt play a leading part in misleading and fooling the workers in this coun- try. It will help police smash demonstrations of the unemployed, break strikes, etc., and be a 100 per cent jingoist, anti-red organization. Yet in its infancy, the “blue shirts,” fed -by the demagogy of Father Cox and others like him, and with unlimited funds at their dis- posal, this organization will become a weapon of murderous terror wielded by the ruling class against the rising militancy of the workers. It is of utmost importance for the Unem- ployed Councils and the Communist Party throughout the country, but especially in Pitts- burgh, to expose ruthlessly and completely Father Cox and his, Blue Shirts. In Pittsburgh efforts must be increased by the Unemployed Council a hundred fold to loosen the growing hold Father Cox is securing upon workers every- where. The calling of workers for mass demonstra- tions outside Father Cox’s old St. Patrick’s Church, making concrete demands on the social- _ fascist, Cox, the organizatiog of the hundreds of workers who eat in his ‘daily breadline, as well as those living in his “Shantytown,” the organization of unemployed to take the floor at all of his mass meetings and expose him before the workers gathered, the holding—not of one or two—but of dozens of meetings—especially open-air meetings, in all sections of Pittsburgh and vicinjty—on the North Side, on the South Side, in Troy Hill, covering all working-class sections of the city—the constant agitation for the burning demands of the unemployed on a vastly increased scale—only these activities wil) suceeed to show up Cox and his “Blue Shirts,” will win the unemployed away from this “holy” hypocrite and contemptible tool of the employ- ers, will put the Unemployed Councils forward as the acknowledged leaders and uncompro- mizing fighters for the interests of employed By FRANK SPECTOR PRIL 14 marked the second anniversary -of the historic Imperial Valley case. day in 1930 the Valley police and thugs in the employ of the vegetable trusts, raided working { class halls and homes and arrested over.a hun- dred members of the Agricultural Workers In- dustrial Union. ‘The Union, recently then organized in the Val- ley by the Trade Union Unity League, had been | in the midst of preparations for a strike in May —the cantaloupe season. Hundreds of Mexican, Filipino, Negro and white workers were already ‘n that union’s ranks. The 10,000 workers in he Valley learnéd to look upon the A. W. I. L. vs their fearless leader in the fight against the vretched working and living conditions. For hat reason the Union has earned the bitter ratred of the bosses. The April, 14 raids and the »rutal boss-terror that’ followed was aimed to wevent the coming strike, crush the hated un- ion and bury in jail its leaders. Criminal Syndicalism Law Applied Eight wotkers were tried and convicted to erve 42 years in San Quentin and Folsom. To btain. these convictions, the bosses used their ilest, instrument of frame-up — the Criminal | Syndicalist Law, specially invented to smash militant: workers’ organizations. So bitter was the Valley bosses’ hatred against these convicted workers that through their flunkey, the trial Judge, Thompson, they made the strongest efforts to bury these workers in prison for the full term of 42 years. This judge requested the State Prison Board to fix as the final sentences the maximum penalty, stating in his request, “The court considers them (the defendants) of no use or benefit whatever but on the contrary, a decided menace and detri- | ment fo society and civilization in general: that under these circumstances any prison term less than life for each defendant is quite moderate.” Working Class Defeats Valley Bosses ‘The International Labor Defense, which was in the very midst of the Valley workers struggle, has aroused American working class against this terror. Powerful demonstrations and numerows mags meetings were held in protest. Thousands of resolutions flooded the State and prison ad- Mministrations condemning the Criminal Syn- dicalist Law and demanding the workers release. As a result—the Appelate Court was compelled to modify the convictions. Sentences of seven of the workers were reduced to 1 to 14 years and Frank Speetor’s conviction was reversed. At the trial the paid stools failed to identify Spec- tor, yet he was sentenced with the rest. Prison Board Fixes Five Years The continued mass pressure, led by the LL. D. compelled the prison board to fix the sen- | tences at five years with paroles ranging from 3 to 1 years. Orozco, a Mexican, worker, was deported to Mexico in November, 1931, Eduardo Herrera, a native of Panama, is being deported there this month. Oscar Erickson and Danny Roxas will be released on July 18, 1932, and Lawrence Emery on. Febru: 18, 1933. Sklar and Horiuchi Victimized Carl Sklay and T. Horiuchi have been victims ized from the beginning. They were confined to Folsom—a prison for recidivisis (those con- victed of felony more than once), under a ruth- less regime, T. Horiuchi faces on Ju'y 18 deportation to fascist Japan. that is, certain death. In Skler’s case, while the Board well knew the impos- sibility for his deportation to Soviet Russia, of which he is a citizen, yet they made this a con- dition of his parole. “This is clearly an effort to keep Sklar 18 months longer in prison. Ficht to Change Parole Conditions — The LL.D. through its attorneys, had made requests upon the Prison Board to chense the narole conditions for these two militants so that they willbe free men on July 18 This tegal step is now being becked by rese ‘ions from workers’ organizations, demanding this parole onange.. 900 Demand Repeal Orimins! Synd'ealicm Law The Imperial Valley case from its beginning and unemployed workers. Unless this is done Father Cox and his fascist “Blue Shirts” will continue to confuse and mis- direct the energies of the workers and check their militancy, On that | hhas been the, vehicle through which the masses Pointing to the imprisonment of the eight Val- ley workers, the 1L.D. inf California brought | clearly to the toilers the danger of this bosses’ weapon. 50,000 registered voters signed petitions demanding the repeal of the law. These were presented to the Secretary of State in Sacra- | mento by a large delegation, which included | Anity Whitney, one of the first victims of this | law. Victory of Mass Pressure The working class led by the ILD. defeated the bosses’ intentions to bury for life the Im- perial Valley prisoners, proving in most con- vincing fashion that only mess pressure will ‘free workers from masters’ clutches, The same holds true in all other defense: is- sues. The eight Scottsboro boys would have been reduced to ashes on July 10, 1931, were it not for powerful mass pressure organized by the Communist Party and the IL.D. the world- over. It is due to mass pressure that the Ca- lifornia master class now stands exvosed, as the arch-framers in the Mooney and Billings case, which has become the symbol of the oppression and exploitation of the toiling masses by the boss class. The strugrles of the Kentucky and Tennessee miners and the frame up of their mil- | itants would be little known to the masses were | not these struggles led by revolutionary leader- | ship, that includes the I.L.D..in the defense issues. Smash the Criminal Svndicalism Law—Build the I. L. D. The continued task to free Sklar and -Hori- uchi and to compel earlier release of Emery is | vart of the fight to smash the Criminal Syn- dicalism Law. The ILD. places in the very center of the ficht aveinst California bosses’ terror, the smsshing of the Criminal Syndical- ism Law. The trial of 45 workers in Long Beach and the brilliant victory won there, must sour us on to further fight to do away with this vicious law—a fight that serves notice unon the lawing of the Communist Pariy and other re- volutionary organizations, Put the Communist Pa~ty in California on the Be"ot The Communist Partv is the onlv Party which pleces on its program the demands for the re- peal of the Criminal Svndicalism Law, the free- dom for Mooney and Billings, the Scottsboro boys and all other political. prisoners. The LL. D., therefore, calls unon its membershiv and supporters to aid actively in the campaign to ballot. The Communist Perty on the ballot will be a tremendous aid in the struerle against the whole system of boss terror and for struggle for immediate and full amnesty? for al) militants in jail. Send Resolutions to Prison Board Every workers’ organizotion must not fai) to vive further support to the fight for the Im- perial Valley prisoners. Copies of resolutions addressed to the Board of Terms and Paroles were mailed to all organizations throughout the State. If none were received, call or write to the International Lebor Defense, 1179 Market Street, Room 603, San Francisco and obtain same. Send funds to the LL.D. that are bad!v needed to fieht incressing boss terror. Cirev'nte ard sell the latest pamphlet, “Free The ‘Imwerlal Valley Prisoners”—a workers’ self-defense before the United States Supreme Court. Price 5c. (Uncover Starvation and “i-ary The capitalist press, the acents of the ru'ine clase kas been publishing less and less news about upemplorment It hides the starvation of the unemployed workers’ families. We must constantly expose the miserable trea‘ment of families of the unemployed by the city governments and charity institutions. We must uncover all cases of starvation, uw. dernourishment, sickness. We must rub- Ush these cases in our press, in the Daily Worker, {n Labor Unity, tell them at all workers’ meetings. Un- employed Coun¢ils should publish bulletins to inform atl workers of the starvation and misery of the unemployed, 4 attacked the Vicious Criminal Syndicalism Law. | i | bosses that the masses will not tolerete the cut- | | | put the Communist Pertv in California on the | i TheAmerican Work: ers Delegation to the Soviet Union Sacer dejegates to the Sovjet Union, elected by their unions throughout the country sailed on the .S. S. Europe on ‘April 19. They will arrive in Moscow in time to attend the Mey. Day celebration in the Red Square. After @.tour of the Soviet Union, visiting some of the outstand- ing projects constructed under the Pive Year Plan, they will return to the United States at the end of June and report their findings to their various organizations. They are going un- der the auspices of the Friends of the foviet Union. The delegates and their unions are as follows: Maurice. Jacobson, Brotherhood of Railroad ‘Trainmen, Loca] 625, Minneapolis; Alexander Trainor, machinist, from the Gene eral Electric Co., Schenectady; elected chairman of the delegation. Latamore Dudley, a Negro Ford worker whe was shot in the March 7 demonstration at Deare born, member of the Auto ‘Workers Union. Santo Mirabile, Amalgamated Clothing Worke ers’ Union, New York. John Lorenz, Marine Workers Industrial Un- ion, New York. John Gans, Machinists’. Union of Providence, R. LO AFL). Walter M. Frank, lather, Minneapolis Building Trades Union (A-F.L.). Warren Guyton, a Negro member of. the: In- ternational Longshoremen’s Association (A.F.L.) from Philadelphia. Peter Onisick, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica (AF.L,) from Shenandoah, Pa., and mémber General Mine Board. Tilman Cadle, National Miners’ Union, Ken- tucky. Kelsey Cottle, International Longshoremen’s Association, ‘Stockton, Calif. Marie Perez, 20-year-old girl, ‘Tobacco Work- ers’ Industtial Union, Tampa, Fla. i Frank Kidneigh, President, Internatianal Brotherhood of Boiler Makers (A-F.L.) - local Queens City, Colo. Carl Nelson, unorganized steel worker of Gary, tnd. Walter. Larsen, International Longshoremen’s Association, Tacoma, Wash. ~ Carl J.. Ausmus, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A.F.L.) from Sacramento, Calif. 2,000 New York workers gathered at Pier 4, 58th Street, Brooklyn, to give the Workers’ De- legation a send-off demonstration. Alexander Trainor, Chairman of the Delegation, spoke from the bridge of the S. S. Europa to the crowd on the pier. After his speech the crowd shouted “We want Marie,” and Marie Perez, 20-year-old tobacco worker from Tampa, Florida, was hoist- ed up on the bridge and spoke, followed by Walter M. Frank, and Tilman Cadle. Many of the passengers and visitors on the boat started boo-ing while the speeches were in progress and an attack. was made upon the group of Delegates in an effort to prevent them | from speaking. A fight developed in which two | ions. of the visitors -were injured and carried off the boat. The demonstrators carried banners reading: “Defend the Soviet Union.” “Down with Imperialism.” “Greet the May Day’ Anti-War Delegation.” ‘The delegates issued the following statement | before sailing: “We, the delegates of the May First Délega- tion to‘the Soviet Union, representing. various locals of the American Federation of Labor, the Trade Union Unity League, and other labor or- ganizations and the rank and file of the Amer- ican working class, have accepted the invitation of the trade unions of the U.S.S.R. to make a tour of investigation of their country. “The members of our organizations’ havé responded with great interest and enthusigsm, fh | the election and endorsement of thelr delegates. They want an authentic, comprehensive, truth- ful report on the economic, social and’ politicel conditions of the workers in the Soviet Union; on the progress of the Five Year Plan and the effect of socialist construction upon the lives of workers as compared with their conditions in the United States during this period. of mass unemploymenj. with wide-spread misery. ahd actual starvation. and persecution of workers struggling against wage-cuts. “In contrast to the support given the dele- gates by the rank and file, we have met with the most severe opposition from the bosses who haye threstened many of ys with the loss. ef our jobs.' The’ higher officialdom of the A, I. of L., who do not believe jn the class, struggle, lieve threatened us with expulsion from our un- The cavitalist: ¢lass together with some misleaders of labor are afraid to have the truth about the Soviet Union reach the workers. They have destroyed free speech and democracy in A. F. of L. organizations, and are further Jower- ing the standard of living of American workers, and are cooperating in preparation for war. ~ “We pledge ourselves, as representatives of the working class of the United States, and its com- ponent organized units, to make a thorough-in- vestigation, and to return with a true report of all our observations while in the Soviet Union, uncolored by our personal opinions and involving no questions as to ratiaj, national, political or religious affiliations. ‘ “We urge the rank and file and organized workers of the United States to organize meet- | ings in their various units to prepare to receive the report of the!* delegates upon their ‘return, “Regardless of, the nature of our findings, we are agreed that a war against the Soviet Union should be opposed by workers favor @ policy of hands off the Soviet Union. We also- believe that recognition of the Soviet government and the establishment of free trade relations would benefit the American working class. In this connection, we intend to inves- tigate the charges of ‘dumping’ and ‘forced Ja- bor’ that have been made by saidiinlan bess Pio- pagandists. “We hope that we will be able to Biss the facts about the Union of Socialist Soviet Ree publics, as we will see them on our tour, before the American masses when we come back, and that the trip will result in a clearer understand- ing of what: is taking place there, and closet friendship between Russian and American workers,” “History of May Day,” by A. Trachtenberg, will help you agitate and mobilize the workers for international Pee at: Pes cent pamphlet. Sell the sehaek our pakipaisa: “Unemploy- ment Relief and Social Insurance,’ in our May First campaign to mobilize them for our pro-e gram, Two cent pamphlet, _——a emer —