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

i EXPOSE AND STOP SHIPMENT OF MUNITIONS TO JAPAN! Du Pont Plant Speeds Up Workers on Chemical Output | for War; Slashing Pay Again (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 16.—I have been working in the DuPont Chemical Piant in Philadelphia for the past few years and find that the} conditions under which we have to work now are becoming worse every day. About a month ago we received a wage cut amounting to five cents an hour, for those working by the hour, and a ten per cent straight cut for these working by the week. ‘The bosses gave us about three weeks no- tice at that time either to take this cut or quit our jobs. Many of ous were very much dissatisfied, but nob knowing what to do, and afraid of losing our jobs, we were forced to ac- cept this cut. But what is happening now? The bosses of the DuPont plant saw that we took a cut in our wages without any protest—and are now preparing to give us another one. Besides cutting our wages down to starvation level, the bosses are mak- ing us work under the most terrible conditions, I would just like to point out some of the things that are going on in our plant. For instance in our plant there are many departments where if, is very dangerous to work. In shop No. 73 the workers work without any pretection from the peisenous gasses with the result that many of them get sick and unable to werk. tn shop No. 62 the heat is so bad that one can- not lest long and is ferced to quit. Last year a man died in this de- pattment after contracting some kind ef disease. In shop No, 18, the alum department, there is a terrible smell, and the workers are also forced to quit in many cases. are | And then we have another curse. | The bosses are employing efficiency | men who speed up production. , These men drive us so fast that any time one of us stops fer breath, they are immediately upon us tell- ing us to keep going. Instead of protecting us from the dangerous gasses, the terrible heat and smells in the different depart- |ments, the bosses spend large sums |of money paying the salares of these lefficiency men, There is another thing that I want to bring out. All | those working by the hour are only} allowed 30 hours a week work. If at any time one of us makes about 8 hours overtime on one week, this }number of hours is being taken off the next week, leaving us only 22 hours for that week All these things make everybody sore as hel, but still they don’t know what to do | I have been thinking about all this for a long time and have come to |the conclusion that something must |be done to put a stop to ali this. In my opinion the only way that we can get better conditions here is by get- ting together. I have heard of work- ers in other plants and industries or- ganizing and winning better condi- |tions. I wish the men here would | wake up and not only talk about all | these rotten things going on in our | plant, but would really decide to do {something about them | 1 hope that this reaches |those working in the DuPont's and | make tehm think as T do. some of ~—A Worker from DuPont Chem- | ical Plant in Philadelphia. 2,142 Sign for to Go on New Jersey Ballot PERTH AMBOY. N. J.. May 17. For ‘the coming ‘state elections in y Jorsey the Communist. Party has 42 signatures to place its ¢ for U, S. senator, James L. Creekmur, on the ballot. Only 800 ures were needed. Out tricts in New Jersey, the Communist Party has filed petitions for candi- dates in 11° the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 13th and 14th Con- ercssional Districts. . Due to neglect im the 1st, 2d and th Congressional Districts, the Com- munist Party failed to file petitions although almost all the necessary bignatures were collected. In the Congressional _ Districts where petitions were filed there were collected from 150 to 325 signatures although only 100 signatures were were needed in each district. Out of the 21 counties in the state, the Communist Party filed petitions for County) ~“‘dates in 11 counties; (six more counties than last year or any previous year). County candi- dates were filed in the following vounties: Essex County: 1 state senator, 12 assemblymen, 3 freeholders, 1 sheriff, 1 county clerk, Hudson County: 4 assemblymen, freeholders, 1 county sheriff. Union County: 1 state senator, . assemblymen, 1 freeholder, 1 sheriff. Morris County: 2 assemblymen, 1 freeholder. Mercer County: 2 assemblymen, 3 freeholders, 1 sheriff, 1 surrogate. , Atlantic County: 1 state senator, 2 assemblymen, 2 freeholders. Middlesex County: 3 assemblymen, 3 freeholders, 1 sheriff, 1 surrogate. Manmouth County: 1 state senator, 2 assemblymen, 2 freeholders. Ocean County: 2 assemblymen, 1 freeholder. (In Ocean County 2 out of the three candidates are farmers.) Passaic County: 1 state senator, 4 \ssemblymen, 2 freeholders. Bergen County: 2 frgeholders. In the city elections in Hillside, SPEND YOUR 3PRING VACATION Camp Nitgedaiget hat” water and "many other im- provements, The food 1s clean And. fresh and. especially prepared. SPECIAL RATES ENDS § Dave SCAEERRTE 8 Daye : For further information cal) the; COOPERATIVE OFFICE | 2800 Bro nx Park East Tel.—-Esterbrook %-1400 \ H ‘OR WEEK. TO WHOM IT GREETING: of the 14 Congressional Dis- | oy Communists N.J., the Communist Party for the first time has entered with a full ticket. of. two workers for township committeemen, In Elizabeth city elections, the Communist Party has a candidate for | mayor; a woman, Minnie Zuroy Slip- jtzin, and two candidates for council- man, in the first, and seventh wards. In Linden, N. J., the Communist Party has put up a candidate for mayor. | In all of the above places, . peti- tions have been filed and accepted and workers’ candidates will appear on the ballot with their program of Unemployment and Social Insurance at the expense of State and employ- ers, Against the Wage-Cutting Cam- paign that is sweeping the whole state, for Equal Rights of Negroes, etc. Many of the candidates are Ne~ groes, women, youth, and there is a good sprinkling of American born workers amongst them. 167 DELEGATES AT PITTSBURGH FIGHT PAY CUT ‘Metal Conference to | Plan Struggle In Steel Mills PITTSBURGH, Pa. May 16.— One hundred and sixty-seven Ne- "gro" and "white steel” and other metal workers, representing mill branches of the Metal Workers Industrial League, unemployed groups, organizational committees and groups in almost every deci- sive mill in the Pittsburgh district participated in the district confer- ence here today. The conference prepared a fight against the new 15 per cent wage cut which goes into effect today. It drew up plans to struggle against the Hoover Stag- ger system, and unemployment, It prepared for a national conven- tion to formally establish the new Metal Workers Industrial Union in July. The conference reported progress and fearlessly exposed weaknesses in the organization work so far. It planned for mass recruiting going along on the basis of daily strug- gles against the cut and for the relief of unemployed and part time workers. \ \ Reports of National Secretary John Meldon and District Organi- er Pete Chapa were accepted. The conference endorsed the Commun- ist Party election campaign and demanded William Z. Foster for president, DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1932 Page Three NUMBER 2 WAR DEPARTMENT Firm Address Attention: Mr. Daan Sin: Schedules previously furnished Production desired during month after notific Based upon capacity information on file, the Signal Corpe would like te be assured of the following production from you in the event of an emergency. This is in addition to the . Specification ation to begin. (SEE STORY) ACCEPTED SCHEDULE OF PRODUCTION SIGNAL CORPS PROCUREMENT DISTRICT or Firm Advisor vmeeeoee Signal Corps, | arise Will you please indicate below your willingness duplicate copy in the franked envelope inclossd To: Sena Coare Procunsusnt Dreraicr oF follows: ‘” ry Tt is to bo noted that this schedule in no way binds you or the Signal Corps, but is merely an indication of your willingness to enter into x contract with the Signal Corps when, and if, a national emergency shoud __ (ee Ae by maser ‘Wo will be able to make deliveries during the months as indicated alter receipt of formal conteset, os ‘and the deliveries that we might sxpect, retuming the Yours very truly, Manthiy Themen | : 104 would lille about % ot the By Oficial cay ‘would prevent early production. 5. ©. Form Ho. 46 "10 a ectmated that the production of (hls amoust is approximately beet a Firm same Une tbe reverse side lor remarks if desired production can not be mat, atsling major difficulties thn. 1% of cor maximum cepacty for the tems shite a pacity Edith Berkman Tells HowSheWas Kidnapped; Carried Out by Force Eleventh Day of Hunger Strike; Don’t Let This Workers’ Leader Die! ‘Demand Her Release! BOSTON, Mass., May 17.—A workers’ com- mittee has practically forced its way into the hospital room where Edith Berkman is con- fined, and has talked with her. The committee found her weak and exhausted by her hunger strike, now in its tenth day. But Edith Berkman, so weak from hunger and from tu- berculosis that she could talk but little, still, in that few min- utes’ conversation told how she was forcibly removed last Sat- urday from Massachusetts Memorial Hospital: by police and nurses who wrapped her in blankets. and earriéd her bodily out, and spirited her away to wha! they considered a safe hiding place, 65 miles from Boston. } And Edith Berkman repeated her! declaration that she would refuse to| eat until the mass protest of the! workers forces Secretary of Labor! Doak and his agents to release her. Wave of Fury. | A wave of fury swept over the| workers of Boston, Lynn, Worcester, Providence, and other towns of New England on Saturday, May 14, when they learned of the kidnapping of) Edith Berkman, organizer of the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union, by/| Mrs, Anna ©. M, Tillinghast, the| Morgan - Hoover - Doak lick spittle commissioner of immigration of Massachusetts. After repeated efforts Saturday afternoon to locate Edith Berkman who was on the seventh day of her hunger strike against the Hoover- Doak strike-breaking machine run for the benefit of J. P. Morgan & Co., the textile mill owners and the whole boss class, had failed, a score of mass meetings were held in Bos- ton and vicinity in protest against the dastardly crime. resolutions voicing the anger of the workers and demanding the immediate and un- conditional release of their intrepid comrade were sent to Secretary of Labor William Doak in Washington. Edith Berkman Found Hundreds of workers, ineluding many new elements drawn in by this last bit of villainy perpetrated by Mrs, Tillinghast, volunteered to search for their abducted comrade, as @ result of which one of the com- mittees formed for the purpose com- prising Anna Damon, Abraham Is- serman, International Labor Defense Attorney, Johanna Reed, LL.D. or- ganizer, and Harold Hickerson, Sec. of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, found Edith Berkman in the Central New| England Hospital, Rutland, Mass., 65 miles from Boston, after a search lasting 24 hours, When the committee arrived at the Hospital, it was evident from the at- titude of the physicians in charge that Mrs. Tillinghast acting on or- ders from Washington had intended to hold Edith Berkman incommuni- cado indefinitely. The committee succeeded in wringing from Dr, Crane, the examining physician, the statement that Edith Berkman has tuberculosis. The lying Mrs, Tilling- MAY CONCERN Notice is hereby given of the withdrawal of the indis- criminate offer of free copies of Bishop Brown’s books to radical propagandists. In the future only those may take advantage of this offer who are willing and able to furnish satisfactory evidence that they are promoting the commu- nism of the Third International and the political p@ty of their nation affiliated with it. The offer of a free copy of each one of these publications to unemployed workers still holds. THE RRADFORD-BROWN EDUCATIONAL COMPANY, Galion, Ohio hast sometime has been insisting that Edith Berkman has a “slight cold and a slight cold cnly,” this to cover up the fact that Edith Berkman con. tracted tuberculosis while imprison- ed at the Immigration Detention Station, East Boston, Carried Ont By Force After a tong delay, the committee was admitted to their comrade’s room, She told the following story her forcible removal from the . Memorial Hospital on Satur- on, get dressed’.” ‘What for,’ T asked. ‘Come on, get a move on and get dressed,’ he replied. Then two nurses came in and started to carry out the policeman’s order. 1 resisted and demanded to be allowed to get in touch with the International Labor Defense, The answer to this was the entrance of two more policemen. One of them said, ‘We don't know anything about that’, I insist upon seeing Dr. Pol- lock. (Pollock is the superintendent of the Mass. Memorial Hospital). ‘Nothing doing, besides he is out, come on get a move on’, and with ‘Where are you taking me? ‘You will find out soon enough’. We travelled for two hours in a westerly direction, arrived here in Rutland at about 3 p.m. I tried to get word to my comrades and friends but hospital authorities would not allow it.” Edith lay back unable to continue, but the committee left her, her mo- rale unshaken and more determined than ever to continue on her hun- ger strike against the whole strike- breaking policy of the Hoover gov- ernment until released. 2,500 HAIL MOORE, MOTHER MOONEY _ AT SACRAMENTO SACRAMENTO, Cal. May 16.— | Twenty-five hundred workers as- sembled in Plaza Park, under the shadow of the State capitol, yester- day and cheered Richard B. Moore and Mother Mooney in a protest demonstration against the lynch frame-up of the Scottsboro Negto boys and the continued imprison- ment of Tom Mooney. Mother Mooney delivered to the assemblage @ message from Tom, A resolution was unanimously adopted pledging the workers pre- sent to actively build the rnass de- fense movement for the release of syndicalist law, and vigorously pro- tested against police brutality and the deportation of the gold min- ers in Jackson, Calif. The Sacramento demonstration opened a nation-wide tour of Mo- day, May 14, 1 was sitting and talking to R DEPARTMENT PROCUREMENT DISTRICTS NUMBER 1 | SEND LETTERS TO THE “DAILY WORKER”?! HELP FIGHT AGAINST WAR PREPARATIONS! Government sheet) Lines Up All Industry for War Testimony of Frederick H. Pz ant Secreta the War Policies Commi for what it terms “indu was stated at the that it, order for war supplies |placed wih many factories. W graphic orders would go forwa tion on war supplies would beg Lynch Court In : Move to Carry Out Murder of Lee Rush Hearing; Work- ers Must Send Protests AwBpoy, BALTIMORE, May 17—The° Mary- land lynch court is trying to throw out the appeal against the lynch verdict against Yuel Lee (Orphan Jones); Negro farmhand, framed up on a charge of murdering a rich white farmer. The hearing on the appeal, originally set for next Oc- tober, has been advanced and comes up on Wednesday, this week. ‘The Prosecutor is indulging in the most shameful legal trickery in the at- tempt to block the appeal for Yuel Lee and to railroad this innocent worker to death; It happens that there is a conflict of regulations, the state law requir- ing that appeals be filed within three months and the county law requiring that they be filed during the court session at which the trial took place. The International Labor Defense at- | torneys filed the appeal within one month after the trial. The appeal has been certified by the court. The state law regularly takes precedence over local regulations, but this time the state officials have dug up the county law in an effort to carry through the’ lynch verdict against Yuel Lee, The sinister significance of this moveis clearly shown in the state- ment. made by Deputy Atorney Gen- eral Willis R. Jones to Allan Taub, attorney of the IL.D, a few days ago. Jones declared: “We don’t want to have another Sacco-Vanzetti case. We want to have this thing over with in May, Sunday, May 22, and in Polk Hall, | San Francisco, on May 24. A par- ade and mass meeting will be held and haye no up with it.” The workers must rally in vigor- ous protests and mass meetings agairtst this vicious attempt of the lynch courts and Maryland state of- | ficials to deny Yuel Lee the right} of appeal against the death verdict. | Workers! Rush protest telegrams to| Governor Albert ©. Ritchie, Anapo- | yland, and to Chief Justice T. Bond, Court of Appeals, Annapolis, Maryland! Stop the legal lynching of Yuel Lee! Rush tele grams today! Organize protest meet ings throughout the county! Mob: ilize the white and Negro workers against this infamous attempt to carry through the lynch verdict against this innocent Negro worker! | a parti | Testimony of Assistant Secretary Shows Fae- tory System Ready for Army Orders ne, Assist- y of War before the hearings of ssion last year included |the complete outline of the War Department strial mobilization.” It time that 16,795 allocations had been made— had already been tentatively th the outbreak of war, tele rd to these plants and produe- mmediately ree exhibits n or the detailed oute given in the entary ; to and maps ‘ommissi olutior on Ma The fi alled War Procurement District nto which tl for the upplies f Department the areas een di- how e country has t vided purpose of procuring Available in- Note that the dise- much small~ the heart For exe ection of ..ew included: | area, turns of the chemical ‘tates and the metal war rom all tria are closer plar the the call rapl er they ample, York only and New District mall Jersey are 3, but t prot United contains a la part of nufacturing industry Phe second exhibit, called Accepted Schedule of Production, is one of the forms used by the Signa! Corps, which is one of the seven important depart- s of the army ordering supplies. This form is used in ascertaining from ilar company the amount of pplies which it can turn out during the first month after the emergency” is declared and the wire dispatched ordering it to commence production on war goods, ‘The blank is to be filled question, showing the can be produced each r in by the the first to the sixth, as well ag thereafter This order is somewhat similar to the letter printed in the Daily Work- NEW YORK—The Workers’ Ex-, |Servicemen’s League campaign for | votes on the immediate cash pay-| ment of the bonus promises thou- sands of signatures before its ates | sion, j Although the campaign has just} begun, the first day's returns showed | 1,000 sifnatures. These men ‘who! have signed the ballots are members | of the American Legion, V. F. W., D. A, V. and many other smaller | organizations. Numbers of them are} members of the A, F. of L. and the} T.U.ULL. | Veterans are urged io get behind| the campaign and secure as many| votes as possible. Ballots will be | mailed to you upon request at no| cost to you. | 1. Wire your congressman and | senators demanding a favorable | vote on the bonus. Notify con- | | . * I am in favor of cash payment of | | T am in favor of a veteran’s march Name .. | What outfit did you serve in? .... | Address ....... | What organization ave you in now? Votes Pile Up for Cas —— er, August 17, 1931, in which @ eloth- ing manufacturer was asked by the |quartermasters’ supply office of the army how much woolen suiting and | overcoating he could turn out “in event of an emergency.” The third exhite!, called Organize< | Payment of Vets Bonus ; 8Tessmen and senators in this wire | that we are coming to Washing- | ton to personally present our de- | mands before congress adjourns. | 2, Distribute ballots to veterans | wherever you find them, regard- | less of their veteran organization affiliations. Get them to vote. Write for additional ballots to the WORKE EX-SERVICEEN’S LEAGUE, P. 0. Box 38, Station D, New York, N.Y. 3. Hold demonstrations and pa- | rades to city halls and state capi- | tols, demanding that city and state officials memorialize congress for immediate cash payment of the bonus, Veterans! On the job! Vote for| the bonus! Vote for mass delegations of veterans to go to Washington to| compel payment of our back wages! Sign the ballot below sme BONUS BALLOT geese ae the bonus to al veterans to the capitol at Washington Send this to: Workers Ex-Service- | in Oakland on. Wednesday, May 25. | men’s League, 1 Union Square, Room 715 | tion for Procurement Planning, is # more detailed schedule kept im the War Department office. It is need to keep a check on the amounts of various war supplies required, ap portioned, stored and reserved for each department, the chief ones bee ing quartermaster, medical, ordine ance, signal, air corps, chemical war service and engineers. The ordinance department ist of supplies includes for example field artillery, coast artillery, pistols, rifles, machine guns, bayonets, sabres, ema! arms, cannon, bombs, pyrotechrica, gun carriages, ammunition, tanks tractors. The Chemical Warfare Service items include fine and beavy chemicals, toxic, smoke and cloud | gases, alarms, masks, etc. This industrial mobilization { bee ing assisted by a special National De- fense Committee appointed by she Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The transportation metal and automobile industries are repre- sented on the committee which ean tains officials of the General Motors Corp., the Union Pacific Railroad, Mack Truck, John Lucas and Ga, (paints) and the Pittsburgh Plats Glass Co. WORKERS EVERYWHERE 8USB FUNDS TO SAVE BERKMAN’S LIFE To carry on the fight to save,’ the life of Edith Berkman force the U. S. Immigration thorities to release this mil leader of the working class, fumds) are badly needed. Rush di by wire to the Edith Bagkrsan Committee, 799 Broadway, Reem 410, New York City Says Might Talk Too Much About the Socialist Party Miami, Fla. The Daily Worker: Dear Comrades: Under the heading “What Our Readers Say On the Election Cam- paign,” in your issue May 4, 1932, signed “I. R.”, the correspondent Stresses the importance of dweiling more at length on “social fascism” of the socialist party. In my opinion he over-emphasizes and exaggerates the importance thereof. Were the Party's press and ‘Speakers to wdell at length as he sug~ gests, we would be advertising the socialist party instead of expounding our principles, and demonstrating the imminent and inevitable breakdown | of the capitalist system. ‘The socialist labor party has made it, its principle to denounce the socic! Democratic party, instead of working along its own way and producing any results. It is incumbent upon us to merely. reformist that i denies, the class struggle and has thus be-| come too vitiated to be of any ser- vive to Une working class, and bas| thus unwittingly become « nefarious | tool in the hands of the capitalists. | The work the C. P. is doing, its! class struggles; its class conscious- ness; its Marxism, if carried out fully, will sooa show the workers and farm- | ers where fo tun to { am not for} advertisiag the Hillgut alarm Comradely, A’ Reader, For Real Answer To All Objections Made At Meetings Dear Comrades: At last Tuesday's mem ership meet- ing of Section 1, New York, which! |was called for the purpose of dis- jcussng and organizing the coming election campaign of the Party, one of the comrades, during, the discus- sion, took exception to the proposi- tion rut forward by the reporter that ‘vis ever we have candidates who are well known tn thete respective local- What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign HIS is the ninth eries of discussion letters on the eleee tion platform and campaign of the Communist Party sent in by readers of the Daily Worker. Articles will be written by comrades from the Central Committee on tha various suggestions and proposals as the discussion pro gresses. ALL READERS ARE lL THE PLATFORM AS PUBLISHED IN THE \ IRGED TO AGAIN READ DAILY WORKER OF APRIL 28TH AND SEND IN THEIR OPINIONS AND PROPOSALS. The special supplement containing the platform cam be secured in the office of your district. CULE Seema wink jaties, instead of tne genoral “Vote | Communist Club” we organize “Vote | ‘So and So'” Clubs under the name} 0 fthe specific candidate running $e ly repeated that this was the poltiey to be followed, that it was @ good one and that it was endorsed by the & 6, 1am vondering whethe> euch clart- The comrade who took exception | /¢&H29 of important Party polieies will max: for a sufficient and correct Pointed out that such a policy does |undersirading of them a3 a prere- not emphasize the Party, that it is|quisite fer a thorough carrying out of contraiy to the policy of tle Party | tacac p 2 ies, inasmuch as it puts forward the in- ~~}. BS dividual and not the Party nor the ——— Platforms of the Party, In answer-|STOP THE SHIPMENTS ing this objection, the reporter meie- |, AND MUNITIONS