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

vALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932 nee” — Dawe Tree as MAN ANNAN YANN SEVENTY PER CENT OF STUDENTS IN U.S. S. R. SUBSIDIZED BY STATE Receive 55 to 150 Roubles Per Month; Room and Board Costs 30 Roubles Secrecy Surrounds US Troop Movement to Pacific Coast (By a Worker Correspondent) GLENDIVE, Mont., June 15. — Three coaches loaded with sol- diers* passed through here this evening on Northern Pacific train No. 4 headed for the west coast. URVILLE SCEN radical here now. Workers Beginning to Talk Radical in Council Bluffs, Neb. Council Bluffs. Daily ‘Worker:;— ‘The workers are beginning to talk 75 per cent of the workers on this onion job are under the age of 21. Many of them high school graduates. Many stores are PRISONERS TREATED | WORSE THAN SWINE IN IND. PRISON CAMP Luesse Thrown in Dungeon for Protesting Against Railro ling of Fellow Prisoner Armed guards were posted at each end of every car. It is customary when transfer- ring troops from one post to an- other in peace time to let the closing in Council Bluffs which is a rail road center ior the middle west. The North Western Railroad laid | oft another large group of men the| first of the week, some of whom had Life Socialist Competition Keynote of New Method of Education rns Meaning of ing with Communist egro Prisoner I Through Associs Dear Comrades: You are interested in gener: schools and universiti Moscow, U. 8. S. R. al in the life and work of our public know the destination. In- quiries among the soldiers and the conductor brought the re- sponse that they could not impart the information. been on the railroad for more than 15 years. —HiLS. THE “GOLD DUST I spent on the Indiana Sta you are examined (as work can be gotten your well being) d atid ther your "picture much tasen. In the U. 8. S. R. factory workers, collective farm workers,|| This movement was not unlike nical al lad ib Ae 4 number and sent to poor peasants and their children are mainly taught at our | | op movements in 1917-18. ” L| starr ee anes soerae is morning. schools and universities, Seventy per cent of the total number LODG ; A HEL | taken before‘one of tl no| ‘The next sasehide sce sent to from 55 to 120 roubles per month. We live in dormitories. HOLE OF CHARITY place and place and name of parents. |@"¢ 31 different lines on this farm. In the majority of our dormitories and collective dining rooms IN ANDY MELLON From him you are sent into a room| After being there a few days I met ih nd bo ee eg A section of an unemployed colony in New York City. The only eye j Where your clothes Sonate tr ie! net Bape Do Poli@ll ‘Oegunivattita: ALUMIN | M PL ANT home these men have is what is shown here in the picture. 2,200 Exist Here on ee. an f est lines there. I hal ih al hesagh acta i ee Skimpy Ration and | hon you are dressed you go te the | (OO Ns Put in a hard line. We worke public organizations in our universi- Religious Dope ’ poor 8 = oe ee . oe aie snow ee ties which exist in our country: nuc- 1in ter a day's work in coal leus and committees of the All-Union Communist Party, which are manag- ing all the various activities af our life and work; nucleus and cotimit- tee of the Young Communist League, the closest assistants and reserve of the Party, professional organizations and voluntary sotieties, such as; In- ternaticnal Red Aid Society MOPPR) ete, School Newspaper. We have our own general Univer- sity Newspaper “Proletarian Cadres.” Furthermore we have our own vail- newspapers in each section and each dormitory. We have a club in the university and “red-corners” in the dormitories, where the cultural te- quirements of the students are takan care of, where our students’ meetiigs are held, as well as meetings in cdn- nectoin with all the political questions of our country. We have-our own students’ rest home in the Caucasus. Every summer we send 200° of gur hard-working students for a months rest. t Taught in Brigades, We are being taught in brigades, by laboratory metheds. The students are united in shock brigades. Socialist WORKERS DRIVEN WITH CLUB ON ONION PATCH Urge Organization to Fight Against Coolie Labor (By a Worker Correspondent) Staggered to 2 Days A Week in Manitowac Factory (By a Worker Correspondent.) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The workers of the Manitowoc Aluminum work- ers, controlled by Andrew Mellen, have had their wages cut and have been speeded up until they can hardly stand it any longer. Here the “stag- ger system” is used with its most ter- rible effects upon the workers. The crews are working one and two days per week, speeded up more than ever before. In the plating room five crews are working on 8-hour shifts on part- time (3 crews per day of 8 hours), two always waiting to be put on in place of those working. In this de- partment especially the speed-up is at its worst. Just recently the men in this department were forced to increase their production from 1,100 pieces to 1,800 without any increase in pay for the extra work. Now their wages have been cut again and the part-time shifts are being shortened. HOOVERVILLE (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Thousands of New York workers, including families, are living on waste strips of land and garbage dumps near and around the city. With a cameraman for the Workers’ Film League, the writer yisited one of these Hoovervilles, named in “honor” of the president who leads the forces that force work- ers into such an existence. We arrived at Newtown Creek, on the outskirts of Greenpoint. Waste strips of land, broken with factories and lumber yards, greeted our vision on all sides. The odor of the creek was such that one doubted any hu- man being’s ability to live within several miles of here. Several dirty barges were tied up in the stream. A few hundred workers hurried by on their way home from the fac- tories, where formely thousands had walked. We stopped a young work- er’s kid about 14 and asked him if he knew where “Hooverville” was? He told us and pointed to a barely dis- which is built up through years of dumping of all kinds of refuse. We entered some of the shacks. All were inhabited by one to four workers, with beds made out of | boards and boxes and in some of the | more fortunate shacks, cots were used. We were invited to coffee made in’ tin cans and though not hungry made a note of the menu. Rye | bread, stale, the well known bologna, and the coffee, with sugar and milk. The shacks were different in their | cleanliness, depending upon the work- jers inhabiting them. One was in~ | terested in speaking to these work- ers to see what they thought of their condition. Some of the older work- ers, completely beaten by years of | toil and vicissitude, had no spirit left |in them; while others, more new to this mode of life, were rebellious but, | confused, | “No, we don’t get any relief from |the city,” they all told us. “We pick the junk and get three cents a pound for copper and one (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—New York City is a mint for the dispensers of charity but poor pickings for the recipients. The “Gold Dust Lodge” is a horrible example of the institutions provided for the housing of homeless workers in this city. It is a “paradise” in comparison with the municipal lodg- ing house. Here is a description of this “eden.” The “lodge” occupies a six-story warehouse at the East River and there are twenty-two hundred men existing in there from day to day. They eat two “meals.” and black coffee in the morning and an equally rotten meal at night, injured wherever he turns. Only those who have no better place to go and to keep from quick starvation go to the “lodge.” After he is given a bed number and listens to the delivered *by one of the Salvation Army officers who run the place. A dish of | prunes for the “guest” with bread | The discipline while rigid is not harsh, However, one's self-respect is “address of weleome” | PLASTER WALLS ~ "WITH ROTTEN | FOOD IN CHL Start Real Militant | Fight for Better Food in Flop House (By a Worker oCrrespondent) CHICAGO, [ll—On Sunday ~al | breakfast the unemployed work the flop house at 1426 Newberry St got liver and potatoes. Both | ab ribly. | the liver and potatoes were stinking ter- The, liver was so rotten that you could smell it blocks away; the or ve cold water to wagh food not fit for swihe and you do not get any solid food Waltis Sent to Asylum “ While there they sent a Commu- nist by the name of Waltis tthe criminal insane asylum. Luesse.and I protested agaii this and /qyéf | thrown into the “hole” for so stoing. The hole is a jail on the farm used for punishment purposes. Whenra man is put in there he is chaiféd to the s with your arms about shoulder height and you stand in that position 12 hours a day. When let |down, you are given a cup of water *)and a piece of.bread to eat and a S in| blanket to lie on. Called “Nigger” The officials searched Luesse and found letters of protest written by me and him and called us into the |office. They asked me if I believed | that my opinion was considered worth }a damn by them. I told them no, ; but that I felt it my duty to protest the treatment of Waltis. They asked jme if I believed in Communism. I told them yes, with all my heart and COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa—I have | Men are drawing checks of $5 to $10 cernible sign several blocks away,! and a half cents for brass, but there|This is given after the “religious” soul. The warden asked me if I competition and shock work permeate | been unemployed since January 1,| and $15 for two weeks’ work and can-| “Dump, Drive In.” |4s not much of that getting down|services and all are herded down- |thought because my home was in all our activities the same as in all|1932. I heard of a job weeding |not live longer without struggling} In answer to our doubting question, | here any more.” stairs where they remove their cloth- | mivaton: that’ w “nigger” could eéale the factories and plants. Brigades | onions about 10 miles from here. It against these conditions, he assured that was the main boule-| Their trades varied, from house-|ing except the socks and shoes. | compete with each other, sections compete with sections, one profession competes with another for better quality and greatest quantity of work dome. Our professors and teachers compete with each other. Our coun- try expects to receive from our uni- versities its own scientific, engineer- ing and technical cadres “in: |the shortest possible time, with —best possible knowledge. We all haye clear prospects of what awaits -us-in was announced that a truck would be at the corner of Broadway and Benton Street at 6:30 in the morning to take all who wanted the job to the onion patch. The job was to pay 15 cents an hour. There were about 50 men waiting for the truck, They piled us into it like cattle. We had to work in the hot sun on our knees. The rows were half a mile long and weweeded one in 5 Workers in this plant are beginning to talk of organization and they will build committees to fight against these conditions. The workers of this plant know the sell-out record of the A. F. of L. and also the role of the government, which sends troops to break a strike in this plant 13 years ago. They will build a shop local of the Metal Worke.s’ Industrial League and fight the attacks of Mel- Jen and the rest of the owners of! yard of Hooverville. “Did he live there?” “No, not yet,” he answered, and told us enough for us to realize that the youth of American workers have no illusions about “becoming presi- dent” or even making a living. Like Moles In the Ground. Entering the gates we looked over a@ swampy piece of land broken into knolls and within five hundred feet of the stinking stream, over thirty wreckers ¢o simple labor, with a smat- | tering of more skilled workers. They | depended upon a day’s work and |some bumming thrown in, in order to have sufficient food for a bare| existence. They hold no meetings, though they understand what we in- |fer when we ask the question, for jfear of being run off, as they ex- press it. They fear to have to move from this animal existence to any- thing worse. All agree that “some- The garments are checked by bed number, the “guest” receiving a tag which he hangs about his neck, He does his share of the work, all be- ing called at stated intervals. Those working in the kitchen gang receive “compensation.” Their coffee is sugared and they eat an additional meal! They go to work at five in the morning. Coffee, oatmeal, oleomargerine and bread are provided by certain man- potatoes were black, and no one could eat the garbage, Because of the rotten food the} jown there and tell them how to run I told him I “butted wherever any capitalist lackey mistreating workers. | line has a runner, who is a convict stool-pigeon and favorite of _ the guards for he does their work while they sit in the shade and loaf. | their institution. in” ‘g) |A runner speeds up the workers and |has power to cause you to lose a” |meal or be thrown into the hole. Though my offense was not a poli-+ tical one, my meeting with Comrade the future: socialist industry, scien- hours. The boss admitted that he|,,. little shacks. The shacks were built | thing has got to change soon.” workers revolted. The walls were soon | Li ° this plant and will vote for the Part fs 0 ufacturers, yet the portions provided ers revolted. walls were soon | Luesse has shown me the meaning of tific work or other branches of so-/got $90 for a row. We got 75 cents ehat ade their struggles in te ae of tin and the roofs weighted down| We leave after taking pictures of | 4, not satisfy the hungry men. Those | Plastered with the rotten liver and/| life today and I am carrying on do- | cialist work. This is our inspiration, | apiece. with rocks. Due to the formation of | the place and promise them that what potatoes, and the windows in the so_ this stimulates us to the develop- ment of the tempoes of our work. Promotions, The students, who have shown themselves best in social and political work, as well as in the industrial and scientific line, are promoted for. sci- entific work in the future, preference being given to the workers. They receive botter living quarters and renumeration. Individual programs are made for them. Every one of them is attached to a professor, who is to prepare him for his future ac- tivity. Here I have briefly outlined every- thing I could in a short letter of the most interesting features in our life. Iam 24 years old. I belong to the We received 85 cents for our work. The boss said that there would be more weeds to pull-in three or rour days. The boss carried a club at all times, threatening us with it. We must organize here on this job and demand an increase in wages. We must demand that the boss su- pervise the job without a club; that there is water on the job; no reduc- tion in wages for time lost:on account of rain; that the truck be provided with seats. B. B. Vets Eat, Say Charge It to Uncle Sam (By a Worker Correspondent) ing election campaign, the Commu- nist Party. Hungry Workers Told | Not to Apply for Re- lief in Hammond steals | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | HAMMOND, Ind.—To show how the relief situation is collapsing exery where, the following was printed in| the local press: © “Needy persons who are not al- ready on the list need not apply for assistance at the city administration food relief commisary in the base- ment of the East Chicago City Hall, unless some plan is worked out for the land many looked like they were dugouts, but closer observation dis- closed that they were not, though workers assured us that in the win- ter time many workers have bur- rowed like moles into this ground we have seen will be related to others and help to!organize workers into fighting against the thing that caused workers to end, as one ex- pressed it, “on the scrap heap,” lit- erally. They approve of our intent. Worker Correspondents to Hold Conference in N. Y. Workers Correspondents of New York City: The Writers Federation, a section of the Workers Cultural Feder- ation, is making preparations to call a conference of all worker cor- respondents in Greater New York Center, 50 E. 13th St. Monday, July 11, at the Workers who dropped to the mission-stiff level (defeated dispirited workers—Ed.) panhandle for the funds with which to buy food and tobacco which all classes of workers crave. Bumming the butts of another’s smoke is a common practice and matches are a luxury: 95 Per Cent Penniless Ninety-five per cent of the workers are penniless. They come from the seamen, sales workers, restaurant workers, mechanics, actors, etc. Over sixty per cent are over 60 years of age, 36 per cent over fifty and the rest under 50. The place is depressing; the dope handled out by the “colonel” rightly uninspiring and I think most cruelly called dining room were smashed by flying plates of liver and potatoes. A real militant fight is be ried on by the flop house unem for better food. and the w pressed the opinion that th jtendant will think lattempts to to therh under the SS any Bank Took His Money, (By a Worker Correspondent) I wish to send in a little news in regard to the Chicago En on Re- lief Station’s treatment, of* w for Worker Kills Himself! | ing my bit in the class struggle —NEGRO WORKER. SYP SHARK MADE 10 RETURN FUND S.L.P. Member Assails Workers’ Committee (By a Workers Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The Helen Roth Em- ployment Agency at 45th and Sixth Ave. sold @ worker a job for $11 that paid $45 a month. The worker, an Young Communist League for eight] WASHINGTON, D. C.—Monday additional funds.” The purpose of the conference will be to form a functioning worker | f4cetious when visitors are present \A mite wh ane ghar cee os ei Irish woman, took the job years and am only now getting ready |afternoon a group of*ex-servicemen correspondent group, that is, a group of workers from the shops, unem- | Evening services are small in attend-|@ year lost his money in the Second id $4 on account. She worked to receive the high honor of mem-|went into a restaurant near one of y ployed workers and workers from the unions to contribute regularly to | ®NCe. Northwestern ho os ¥ ays froth 5:20 a. m. to 8 p. m. bership of C: P. U. 8. 8 R. the big markets, ate, and then told TO A MAINE STUDENT. the revolutionary press. | ‘These represent the most unfor- hough he ppp ied for sip for ndey she wanted an hour off To my information concerning the |the restaurant keeper that they had| The author of the article on New The conference will draw up plans for holding regular meetings of |‘Unate victims of capitalism. For the | weeks, he could nol obialn an at 6:30 to 7:30 in order to go to university and the stipends of which |n0 money and to “charge it to|England farming which appeared in| the worker correspondents where editors of the revolutionary papers and |*8ke of argument, I will admit, they | Committed suicide at his hom chureh and the woman boss of t I have avritten in the beginning of |Uncle Sam.” Another group did the|the June 4th issue of the “Daily; leading proletarian writers will lead discussions on the problems con- |" better off than if they were in| The worker has a family of three iry fired hor. She came to ths, my lette?, I may add, that employees | Same thing in a delicatessen down| Worker” is requested to write to L. S. fronting the worker writers and the pre: jail. “No one is realiy starving,” |children and a wife. pme ¢ and as‘ed for her money back ai are also admitted in the universtiies and receive stipends, provided they the opposite side of the street. A,, Hillsdale Farm, Ashland, Mass. Worker correspondents for all Worker are invited to attend the cont” the guage papers and the Daily ‘\ your proposals | Says Washington. Maybe not but then thousands are dying of “mal- the family is A: George Street, It and the woma a week ‘trung her along for Today she went to the Un- have worked sufficiently along in so- Fy for building a correspondents’ group in New York. Write out your sug- rematan al Laie can hai Had ye ae a ee si ide i He cha ir jer aph cil representative, the \ cial and political lines, and for the " 2 gestions now and send them to the Workecs Coreespendence Editor of lance here daily carting hem fo) y worker first noticed hat the Deily Worker sellor at 46th St. and cause of the working class. e 1 en a ommuni t the Daily Worker. to the hospital for “attention. family needed help asked for help. 8. e nigcineg - SF rnp —. | A Gelezation of workers went with You may write to the following ad- to Senate Sa S W. tt. her to the agency to demand threes ipa » Nay’ ar Ve ae: ae : Lak d t Evicted by 7 back AGS Be mu koleow, ; Death ts Socialist In Hooverville Hails Hoover akewood Ve victe y v well dade ‘The Moscow State University. (By a Worker Correspondent) “Mr. Lewis, you will go to hell| Daily. Worker: Los Vegas, Nevada.| unemployed can at least give them ° . 3 This wom- (Editor of the “Proletarian Cadres”.) | CHICAGO, ‘Il. — The democratic | sooner than you expect, and we will| I had a talk some time ago, with|some government assistance, while Charit In stitu te HK eads a d the girl in charge of the Or to my private address: . Senator of Iiiinois, James Hamilton |send a worker, a Communist, to the }an old man about seventy living in|the richest government on earth hy don't you Commu, Moscow Center, Lewis, who was advocating that the | Senate,” “Hoover City.” How he lives, I don’t | cannot. - © out and fight capitalism in- Tiiinka, 15/2, Room 4. money spent for battleships be spént/ 6. november ath, we ex-service-|XOW. He has a goat and plenty of| He then said he knew more about| _ (By a Worker Correspondent) creasing. He grants an immediate | ste ting heads broken; like for unemployment relief, shows his wile. WAIN Vota | Garni unist for our|@™@88 roundabout for pasturing, so|it than I did because he was ones) LAKEWOOD, N. J. -- You have notice if they ask for it.|we Se Labor yites, the real LIKE PRISONERS ON “RELIEF” | true color. When the delegation of own candidate, James W. Ford, for |Pethaps he lives on milk alone. Any-|the editor of a socialist paper. Then heard of Lakgwood as a resort and eman with four years |revolutionists do?” The delegation JOB, the Chicago Ex-Servicemen ap- vice-president, who is an ex-service- |P20W I found him a vicious Sovic!-/I undersiocd. A gleam of light had|Tecreation town, but did you hear|in the army couldn't » t ren’t out * (By a Worker Correspondent) CINCINNATI, Ohio.—A_ worker who is on relief work put in seven hours for two days each week at wages of $2.50 a day—total $5. He has to furnish his own lunch each day. When they get through, each one is searched as he leaves the workhouse of the city. proached him, demanding that he will support and yote for the sol- diers’ bonus, his answer was: “Gentlemen, You can go to hell,— I am going to the Senate.” , f This statement of Senator Lewis, we the ex-servicemen will remember and do our utmost to reverse the statement: man, Leslie R. Hurt, and Pzeszel- kowski, both of whom are ex-ser- vicemen, and the candidate for gov- ernor of the State of Illinois, a Ne- gro worker McDonald, who is also an ex-serviceman and a former National Guardsman. —A Worker Ex-Serviceman, hater and a real patriot who found America the greatest, the finest, the best government on earth and Hoover @ great man. I asked him why the greatest government on earth has the most unemployed of any nation on earth and treats them worse than any other nation does. Even Eng- land, and Germany with much less {suddenly burst upen Mee { Now I understand the attitude of |the Communists and the Daily {Worker toward the “socialists,” 1 had seen and spoken to one, a former | “socialist” editor, and a more bitter) enemy of the Soviet Union and of secialism could not be found. of Lakewood’s unemployed plight? The city with a population of ten thousanau has listed officially eight hundred unemployed. What does the township do for them? The officials are cutting instead ot increasing relief. We have a judge who cannot bear the tears of —A Worker, the landlords and evictions are in- The house b¢ Aged Home (a charitabie institul and he was evicted before he hi found a place to move his fami It's about time the unomployed of Lakewood organize and fight for wn- employment insurance and immedi- ate relief from the township. : —Lakewood Worker, * but to y back for her, | n workers left gation when ~ got the money. They saw what the Social'st Labor Party programe in, action means to the workers, in ad-" dition—defending a job shark—the “real revolutionists"”—bab