The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1932, Page 3

Snare Sales Girls Handled Like Live Stock in Bosses Demand That Klein’s Dept. Store Girls Spy On Fellow Workers to Hold Jobs Applicants for Jobs Subjected to Most Vicious og Inuisition (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Here is an example of slavery in one of the well-known department stores, situated right in the heart of New York City on 14th Street name of this store is “Kleins”. and Union The uare. As a bookkeeper and being unemployed for a length of time, I went to seek a position in Kleins Store. The first thing that I saw was about three hundred young girls, looking pale, undernourished, disgusted and tired of locking for work, waiting for the store to open. A Mad ¢ doors opened there hh, so that some of us oct got trampled. After running wp three flights we were lined up in Single file, Then the selection be- ked over like liv out individually best fit to go to the| The personal head} at you twice if-you undernourished. You would looked thin and have to be attractive and healthy to work there. ng about eight girls hundred we were tions to fill out. We e at ieast good refer- Cn the bottom of the card was SV interesting para- owing is’ the para- it was on the ap- id you consider jt your duty ert in writing or otherwise any act ot condyct of your fellow vees that you consider against ts of eur businecs?” one of the ways Kleins has the girls from organ- heving the girls spy on But it is against just ‘s that the girls in the stores must organize T.U.U.L. groups. We were then questioned about our previous jobs, the salary we were paid k we did. ere examined by a doc- mined by a nurse, ced us cur history from the yoy oxe born {o the present. Cf course if we w Rush ve not physically | fit, they wouldn’t acept us. Five-Hour Lecture. An instructor then gave us a fiye- hour lecture. She told us how good fr. Klein was and of his generosity to his employees. Last winter he gave a dance for the employees in the Hotel St. George and it was en- tirely at his expense. This ts a very good method to fool the workers. Once a year he runs a dance and the rest of the year he sweats it back from them by exploiting them 8'% hours a day, 6 days a week for the measly sum of $8 a week. Those workers that have had experience in other stores in. picking up dresses from the floors are given the mag- nificent sum of $9. The teacher pointed out that Mr. Klein's generosity was overwhelm- ing. Every Christmas he gives a bonus to all the employees that have been faithful to him all year. If you are very good, spy on your fellow- workers, don’t complain about the long hours or the salary, and did something extraordinary for the benefit of the organization, you might receive a bonus. This is if he doesn’t lay you off for your Christmas gift. After working in the store three months Mr. Klein has your picture taken at his expense and on your time, so that he could always iden- tify you. After going through all this I landed the job. After working a few days I was a fit subject for the hos- pital. B. O. Ler Correspondent) YORK.—Our little Jimmy. powdered and smiling, whose fe is to play gigolo to ng about town tell- NEW ing the millions of starving workers in the city and nation that beer will bring back prosperity. Now if Miguel Cervantes were alive today Walker would no doubt be pic- tured as Don Quixtote. I dare say Urges Miners Rank SCRANTON, Pa.—The corrupt United Mine Workers of America has so little power in the anthracite that now the petty bosses of the coa] com- panies will have little to do with them despite the fact that the officials of these unions are vying for favors from the bosses. Only now and then do the bosses give the U.M.W.A. officials a few crumbs when they stay on their knees long enough. Last week the grievance committee of the Lance Colicry of the Glen Al- den went into the office of Mr. Dim- » mick, the manager of the company. This is a regular practice of the U. M. W. A—that is, to try to settle grievances with the boss by a sort of | arbitration. Mr. Dimmick asked them what was the matter with the colliery. The Committee asked him what he meant. He replied that the committee was bothering the bosses with all sorts of grievances. He told them the more grievances the less work. And the UMWA gang crawled on their bellies |" ny Walker, Beer and Prosperity he is a good one. Jimmy, however, cannot deceive the Communist and the class conscious workers, for we know that beer will not bring back prosperity. If beer would bring back properity then Ger- ‘any and England, where the people re drinking millions of barrels of tegal beer would be the most pros- perous countries in the world. Jimmy is a well-fed boy crowning and prancing because everything is well for him and the clique to which he belongs. His little hour of glory is brief. Soon his despicable act will be over for the hand writing on the wall reads, “Down with Capitalism!” ._ When capitalism is down in the dung heap where it belongs then there will be peace and plent for all the workers. and File Committees in front of the boss terrified. What does the District do, brother Nothing. They gloss over miners? everything so the membership will not squawk. Brother miners, our path is clear to us. Organize against the bosses and the UMWA officials, Elect rank ang file committees. Center the con- trol of the union in the common worker, the rank and file. G —W. 6. Sacramento City Faces Bankruptcy (By a Worker Correspondent) BACRAMENTO, Cal—From eight to nine per cent of the real estate taxes have not been paid in this ee aera To the Readers of The DAILY WORKER )P he only Crechostovak working class y newspaper in the U, S._ an dn, It stands for the very same ueiple as THE DAILY WORKER Yearly gubscription $6, for 6 mo. $3. « Write for free sample copy today Is your neighbor at home, shop, mine pp farm lovak or Czech worker? Tf he ta, e him subscribe to the Daily Rovnost Ludu ‘Czechoslovak » of the O.P., U, ii0 Wr iste Bey Chicago, De 4} shops last week. town and between thirty and thirty- five per cent of the street bonds re- main unpaid. The city is on the verge of bankruptcy. ‘The bosses are worrying about bal- Jancing the budget. They are hold- ing on to their big salaries and pro- fits of course, The Southern Pacific Railroad Co. lald off 40 workers in the Oakland —V.G.M, SICK, FORCED TO WORK FOR “RELIEF” (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, Ohio.—The follow- ing complaint was handed in to the Unemployed Council of Cincinnati. A small family was told to go to the Opera House Restaurant to work six hours a day to pay for food received there. They report that they never received any relief. The wife is sick, has had an operation, and a nurse of the Associated Charities even so the food ‘House Restaurant was to eth, ———————— | FRENCH AID PLOT BY JAPAN TO SEIZE CHINESE EASTERN} Offer to “Sell” Japan Discarded Czarist “Rights” The French imperialists yesterday came out openly and brazenly in sup port of the war aims of their Japa- nese allies. They offered to “sell” the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Japanese. The railway is jointly op- erated by the Soviet Union and China, The French base their fraud- ulent claims to “ownership” of the railway upon the Tsarist interests which were wiped out by the Oc- tober Revolution. A Uaris dispatch to the New York Times reports that French officials of the Franco-Asiatic Bank are in Tokyo negotiating for the “sale” of the railway to the Japanese. This move is clearly directed toward help- ing the Japanese tighten their grip on the railway, “legalizing” the Jap- anese seizure of the line and as the most desperate effort so far made to provoke the Soviet Union into war. The negotiations are being carried on by M. Massanet, the man- aging director of the Franco-Asiatic Bank. Massenet is accompanied by two experts in forgeries. He is re- ported as stating that he has official French government support for the negotiations. OUT TO DEPORT FOREIGN BORN Los Angeles Workers Face Death in Home! Countries (Special to Daily Worker) LO ANGELES, Calif—The local immigration authorities recommend- ed to the Department of Labor that the “aliens” arested during a raid in Long Beach on January 15th be de- ported to their fascist homelands at the Government's expenses rather be permitted to leave at their own expense for some country of their chaice not contiguous’to the United States. Among the workers to be deported are one Greek, East Indian and nine Japanese working~class fighters. This steps was taken in definance of the evidence conclusively showing that if deported to their home coun- tries, these foreign born workers face Jong imprisonment and possible death. It is clear that as part of its pre- parations for imperialist war the United States Government is inten- sifying the fascist campaign to sup- press the activities of militant work- ing class leaders by imprisoning them and even demanding their death by deporting them to fascist countries. AKRON COPS GET WAGE-CUT AKRON, Ohio.—Akron cops, al- ways ready to do their bit for the rubber bosses by beating up workers, have just had their wages cut 10 per cent, Other city workers have been slashed 25 per cent, det, St Men Her cg, inivales Ga- A few clippings from capitalist newspapers throughout the o show the conditions in which American workers find themse! up the Soviet press at present one reads of the building of ilisids Resident's Body Found by Brother summer homes, of the opening of parks, of raises in wages and the steady im provement in the food supply of the workers. In the United States the press tells of continual closing of factor and in the Soviet Union May Ist was celebrated with the opening of huge new places which will employ hundreds of thousands. Win Demands i 3 Pittsburgh Cleaning Plants; 6 Out on Strike : PITTSBURGH, Pe, May 26.— Three cleaning and dyeing plants Tuesday signed the agreement pre- sented to them by the Cleaners and Dyers Industrial Union (affiliated to the T. U. U. L. and six of the largest chains were struck the next morning with militant picket lines established at their plants. ‘Two scab drivers attempting to op- erate two trucks went to the hos- pital. These trucks driven by inex- perienced drivers were turned over somewhere along the road. Last night the bosses invited a committee of the Union to come to their conference. John Harvey, Trade Union Unity League district secretary accompanied the full executive com- mittee of the Union, and was their spokesman, Harvey stated that what he said was not his opinion only but the position of the entire union, when the bosses attempted to split the union commmittee. Instead, the unity of the bosses’ conference was split when Harvey told them cate- gorically that the union had definitely decided that no changes would be made in the agreement and failure to signit would mean strike on the morrow. Three plants, the Sanitary, the Century Cleaning and Dyeingn and the West Penn broke away and signed the agreement. Threat To Arrest Harvey ‘The other plants were picketed. At threeo’clock in the afternoon, a mass meeting of the members was held. An inspector andsergeant walked into the meeting asking for Harvey. Harvey came out and was questioned. It appears that the bosses had sent themto “get that desperado from Chicago,” John Harvey. But the police were convinced, after seeing the well-known labor leader, that he was no stranger who had just ar- rived from Chicago. He was not Jimmy Walker Bulldozes-- ‘Workers Rights Denied Amter, Communist Candidate for Governor, Exposes Walker’s Demagogy “The workers of New York must take a lesson,” declares I. Amter, proposed Communist candidate for Governor of New York, “from what is happening in this city. Mayor Walker, the grafting “boy friend” of the bus manufacturers and other big capitalist concerns, is talking about efficiency in the city government. This man who loafs most of the time at bathing resorts, night clubs and cabarets, who is mostly out of the office for which he gets $40,000 a year, suddenly “discovers” that he has a whole nest of wardheeler office holders, who do nothing—just like him. This braggadocio, to cover up what is leaking out through the in- vestigation now going on, is pure de- magogy—and Walker thinks he will get away with it, "Walker knows or should know, as Mayor of New York, that the worst unemployment is in Harlem; that men, women and children fall on the streets from hunger, The relief dis- tributed in Harlem does not even touch the 250,000 hungry people of Harlem. But Walker, in the fullness of his heart, presents the Negroes of Harlem with a swimming pool! “The shoe workers of I. Miller, Long Island, are on strike. They are putting up a militant battle against the rotten conditions there. They are part of the large number of shoe workers who have gone into battle from the deputy police commissioner of Jamaica for a march around the Miller shop on Monday. The cap- tain of the precinct reported to the strikers that the permit was granted. Two hours later, he notified them that it would be granted only on Condition that they would not march around the factory. “It might cause trouble,” he said. “Yes,” the strik- ers replied, “the other workers might come down on strike and tie up the shop completely.” The police, acting as tools of the Miller concern, do not want the workers to strike. They are Walker's police, the bosses’ pol- ice, who everywhere operate against the workers, denying them their rights, Seeing, however, that the workers were determined to march, the captain later reversed his stand and granted the permit. “Also, at Endicott, N. Y., the shoe workers of Endicott and Johnson went out on strike, and immediately had against them the police and fire department. The mayor threatened to bring in the militia, “If the bosses think they can cow the workers by show of force, they are mistaken. Neither their dema- gogy about sacriftces nor display of force, will keep the workers from fighting for decent conditions. If the bosses and the police think they can take away the rights of the workers by denying them permits, they are mistaken. The workers will march, permit or not» permit, and this right they will get by organiza- tion and struggle. “This act of the police will con- vince the workers more and more of the correctness of the program of the Communist Party, of the fight against wage cuts, the fight for workers’ rights, The workers will an- arrested. Seven pickets were arrested and later released, four before the Con- solidated plant and three before the Paulson plant. The newspapers here. in writing of these events, are manu- facturing terroristic details. The newspapers announce that fifty additional deputies will be put onthe job and attempts will be made to operate trucks with two deputies riding in each truck. Thus far, duction in the struck plants is com- pletely paralyzed. To Reinstate Negro Worker Last week the cleaners and dyers, in a mass meeting of the union, agreed that if any member were fried cad union membership, the plant in which. he was emloyed would be struck.. The following day, a Negro worker, Jess, was fired by the Paul- son and Dutch Cleaners and Dyers. A one-day strike, in which Negro workers living across the street par- ticipated in the picketing, resulted in Paulson's calling for settlement. The management agreed to all the de- mands, reinstated Jess and paid full wages for the day's work lost. When time came to sign the agreement Monday, he backed out. Therefore, the strike was resumed today. Demands 1.—Recognition of the Cleaners and DyersIndustrial Union, with all grievances to be adjusted by the shop committee of said organization, ® 4s -. and the rights of organizers to enter the plant will full freedom to part- icipatae in adjusting any said griev- ances or complaints, The right of the union to control all help, regardless of race, creed or color, and adjust all working conditions. 2.—A 54-hour week for men, to be at the rate of nine hours a day, 5 1-2 day week, with time and half pay for the next three hours. After 12 hours, double time to be paid. Other demands include a 44-hour day for women with time and a halt for the three hours after 5 p. m. and double time after eight. These rates also apply to piece workers. The union replaces all men hurt or un- able to work for other reasons, within 24 hours. No inside men do outside work and vice versa. No ad- justment of wages in any plant or department without an official com- mittee of the union present. DAILY WORKER PICNIC AUG. 21 ‘The annual picinic of the Daily Worker will be held August 21, in Pleasant Bay Park. We ask all Party units, mass and language organizations to keep this day free, not to arrange any affairs of any kind. “Toward Revolutionary Mass Work” Pamphlet containing 14th Plenum Resolutions | | | | | | NANKING THREAT \Mass Anger Rises / Imperialists Attack | Strike | ‘The strike of Chinese postal work- ad throughout all | China continued yesterday with un-| | abated The Strike Com | mittee an ultimatum issued| |! by the Kuomintang Director General] Posts, Huang Lai-hsu, who ordered | the workers to return to work under penalty of losing thelr jobs and being ers which ha strength defied replaced by scabs | ‘The attempts of the United States| Consular-General Cunningham at| Shanghai, and other imperia Jagents, to break the strike | served only to further dire wrath of the Chinese masse: st} by the imperialists to establish “an| emergency post office” at Shanghail have met with failure. The imper-| her if ialists threatening ft t the are now measures” again: | they do net return to w The Nanking government has dis- charged and sted Chien Chun- |chi, former director general of the | postal administration, on the charge| that he encouraged the strike. Can-| ton is the only important city not effected by the strike. The imper ialists and their Nanking tools are in daily fear that the strike] will spread to other industries, and| become a general strike with tre-| mendous political implications. HOLD YOUTH DAY | "IN MANY CITIES Young W orkers Act Against War DETROIT.—The two day program for Second National "Youth Day in Michigan includes the following high spots Sunday—Field Meet at Belle Isle at 1p. m. Youth Rally and Dance at 7 p. m. at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th. Here the film of the Ford Hunger | March will be shown | On Monday there will be a mem- | orial at the grave of the Ford Hun- } ger March victims at 10 a. m. The | Youth anti-war parade will start at Goldberg Field and end at Grand Circus Park where a pageant will be held. Among the organizations partic- ipating in the preparations are the Strugglers Club, National Studens League, Labor Sports Union and | Young Communist League. May 27 and 28 will be Tag Days to raise finances for New York D. Workers are asked to volunteer. | ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Plans for National Youth Day here call for an outdoor mass meeting in Washington Square on Sunday and a giant track meet at the University of Rochester on Monday. The mayor was forced to grant a permit for the use of the Public Square afterthe workers in- sisted that they would fight for the | right to use the place ae Bere BUFFALO, N. Y. — The young workers of this city will hold a mass protest demonstration against im- perialist war at the Workers Centre, 476 William St., at 8 p. m. on Mon- day. A musical concert will be a feature of the program. Among the organizations participating are the National Students League, the Valo Athletic Club, the Young Peoples Zionist Association and the Marine Workers Industrial Union. | ST. LOUIS, Mo.—The mining youth from Williamson and Franklin Coun- ties as wel as Benld, Staunton, Belle- ville, Collinsville, Springfield and Bloomington are being rallied to par- ticipate n the National Youth Day demonstrations to be held in Granite City. | Under the pressure of the mass| United Front National Youth Dayj Delegation, Mayor Kirkpatrick was cage iby CHINESE POSTAL |WarVeterans Prepare for STRIKERS DEFY Gigantic Bonus March FRANCISCO.—Four | war gathered ete of the world t the Ninth and Howard Streets on 25 to be delegate | ch to Wast o demand cash payment of the bonus terans of Foreign Wars tries to split the ranks of the vet raising the cry*of Comm veterans, however, silenced the di Jrupters and pointed out that t Communists who were ma were marching were bonifide ans. Militant spirit rules throuct the ranks of the marcher TERRA HAUTE, Ind—A delega tion of veterans, marching under the| leadership of the Workers’ Ex-Ser vicemen’s League. left here Wednes NEW YORK Workers E met last night to outline p! the march to Wa: ride York veteran n 20 trucks hundred , contingent will leave New yn the morning of June 4 1 all posts ir on greater York will hold mass outdoor ral eterans for a march to city hall on ion of veter arve in A delegz necticut % 3. Delegation ayton, Ohio. and B e for Wash: Meanwhile government Washington have issued the false ree port that 70,000 veterans are exe pected in the Capitol and have called from Clevela e are prepat officials 18 }on the representatives of the Amere ican Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterens Association, Salvation Army, Volun- teers of America and other fascist take steps agai t. for the bonus and unemploey- uance for all jobless work~ ment in Ex-Servicemen’s elected several fratermal the National Nominate i f the Communist left here today for Cine A group of B & O poliés to Cincinnati by train June to demand tl the Board|to prevent the veterans from taking of Estimate send a resolution to|a train from this point to Washing« to C ess in favor of the bonus. ton, D. C. ; * * * ac BONUS BALLOT Ma DULVUS Aa t MARE aN 4x? 1am in favor of cash payment of the bonus to all veterans Ct IT am in favor of a veteran's march to the capitol at Washington Go Name aon, City # State oes eonialll What outfit did you serve I?.....-.s.ceeseeeeneaseneen sescoonbihe What organization are you in now? Send this to: Workers Exe Servicemen’s League, 1 Union Square, Room 715. CARPENTERS’ OFFICIALS FEAR JOBLESS INSURANCE MOVEMENT (CONTINUED UROM PAG out that in addition to the 800 local unions, large bodies lixe the Cleve~ land Central Labor Council, the Minneapolis Building Trades Coun- cil, composed of 16 loca! unions, have one on record in fayor of their com- mittee’s stand. Although the Min- neapolis Council nas been expelled by President Green because of their position on unempicyment insurer have refused to repudiate the:: erdorsement of ‘he New Yor Com- mittee’s proposal. FButchinson and Duffy in their let- ter raised the bugaboo of “forced labor” in their argument against un- employment insurance. They say: “We want relief for the unemployed but not relief that will make scabs 500 Teachers Protest Tammany Pian to Take Th,eir Jobs Away NEW YORK. — 500 unemployed teachers with some parents of school children massed in front of the open meeting of the board of education yesterday afternoon, demanding that the board’s plans to increase classes from 37 to 40 pupils and hire no more teachers, should be changed. The president of the board of educ- ation said he was sympathetic to the jobless teachers but the board had no money, all the funds come through the board of estimates. The teachers then challenged the board of education to send a delega- tion with them to the next meeting of the board of estimates, June 10. The board of education excluded more sympathy, and refused. huge demonstration right on the steps of City Hall. GARY, Ind.—A mass send-off for the young workers taking part in the N. . Day demonstrations in Chicago | forced to grant a permit as well as to allow the parade to end up with a will be held at the corner of 1914 Broadway on Sunday at 8 p. m, of our members In view of the wage cuts ranging from 25 to 40 per cent (New York) forced upon the membership by these officials which has materially wore sened the conditions of the build- well known fact that in recent yeart below the wage scale, this hypocrite ical statement is intended only te befog the real issue raised by the fight of the rank and file committee. This issue is whether the workers are to continue to starve on the beg- garly charity handed out to a small number of the millions of jobless or force the government and bosses ‘to grant relief through jobless insur4 ance. Threat of Expulsion. The fear of the trade union bur eaucrats of the wide sympathy anid support which the struggle for @ referendum is gaining, is compelling” them to resort to threats of expul« sions against the membership. Suc¥ a threat is contained within the lete ter sent out by Hutchinson and Duf« fy. The letter states: = “This whole matter was consid- ered by our General Executive Board at the last meeting of that_ body...... and the General Presi= dent and General Secretary were directed to issue a warning to alt local officers and members to have. nothing whatever to do with the New York A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee on Unemployment In- surance and Relief, or with the: Communist Party or similar .or kindred bodies, and under no cit= cumstances to vote or give thenmt financial aid, or support or encour=~ agement of any kind, UNDER PENALTY OF SUSPENSION FROM THE BROTHERHOOD.” The New York Committee is com> ducting a fight against expulsion and. suspension of its members and sup- | porters who are victimized because. of their activity in behalf of @He resolution for a referendum. ‘cine More Use of Slogan For Insurance and More From Marx San Francisco, Cal, Editor of seems to me that the full possibili- ties of the uses of Unemployment In- surance have not yet been uncovered. Aside from its humanitarian aspects, it would become a powerful weapon in maintaining strikes by preventing scabbing by men want. And, as such a valuable weapon against strike-breaking, it should be acecpted and endorsed by all union labor men who have been defeated in strikes by scabs. Unemployment in- surance will make the scab market hit rock-bottom and bust, and so make strikes effective, ‘The general public is ignorant of le philosophical background of the movement, Print more suffering from the Daily Worker:—It! form published in the issue of April ally, Ar letters, All readers of the Daily Worker are invited to write their opinions and suggestions about the Communist Party Election Campaign Plat- 28, and about the campaign gener- les will be written by comrades of the Central Committee an- swering, summarizing and making use of the suggestions received in the Lenin at the foot of your newspaper columns and at the top of bills, pam- phlets, etc. Do this during the elec- tion campaign. especially. Working- men are not too dumb to understand them, and the stricken bourgeois will be attracted by them.—B. B. Concrete Issues; Circulars Without Technical Words New York Dear Comrades; In relation to the forthcoming election campaign 1 would like to suggest the following: —A localization of all issues, is; Communist “The strikers received a permit| Communtst Party and its candidates.” |excerpts from Marx, and | Unemployment insurance-to-be stres~- sed in contrast with local charitable institutions “relief Names of de: titute persons to be used and cases What Our Readers Say on the Election Campaign I! | | | stressed in neighborhoods (persona! | appeal) all in relation to national conditions today. 2.—A phraseology in circulars more sympathetic to the undertaking of the average worker, is: Boycott on all technical terms like “chauvinism,” “imperialist,” etc. Have circulars worded like this: “If this is a country of the people and since the working- class is in the majority, surely then a workingman should be president, to represent the proper interest of most people. . .” 3.—Concentration on munit ist sections and politically tree’ si organizations, is: West Side of New York, Columbus Circle section, Sut» ton Placesection and the hood” unions.—-A. P. COHEN. 5 6 Why Not Raise the ° Issue of Hands Off. Latin America? New Yort. Dear Comrades:—I should like t9 know why there is no demand im ear election eampaign platform specific- ally mentioning the workers of Latin America and the Philippine Islands? It seems to me that the demands~ of these workers are not included in the present six planke, and that sinee it is “our” capitalists which are op-. pressing them, some demand should. be raised. T suggest: “Self Determination for Philippine « |Islands—Hands Off Latin Ameriost® Cuba, Haiti and the - Sthit RINT. PanDD ing trades workers and the further © these workers have been working far *