The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1932 Page Three “SWEAT BOX” TORTURE FOR EX-SOLDIER IN FLORIDA PRISON Milwaukee Socialists Hail Forced Labor Plan; Workers Plan to Fight Workers’ Furniture Thrown Into Streets at Night by Socialist Sheriff (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The socialists in Milwaukee, and especiallly the Miwaukee Leader, a daily socialist paper, are jubilant over the passage of the resolution on “forced labor” which was introduced by the socialist supervisors Metcalfe and Tucker in the Milwaukee County board meeting June 29, 1932. All the unemployed on the relief list will be forced to w ork for the county. According to this resolution, the county is supposed to pay 50 cents per hour for 8 hours work, or $4 per day. But $3 will be deducted.for relief and only $1 per day will be paid in cash. the county will give relief to the amount of 4 cents per day, or a total of $1.04 for 8 hours work, or 13 cents | per hour. This is-the worst kind of | forced labor in socialist Milwaukee. Even out of this $1.04 per day the workers will be robbed by half or more, and as a result. the jobless will be forced to work for a couple of dollars per week. Worst Kind of Slavery The worst kind of slavery is insti- tuted in Milwaukee county for the starving and hungry workers. There is mass starvation inMilwaukee. The Negro and foreign-born workers are discriminated against more than ever before at the relief stations. The single unemployed .are not getting anything. They are: starving, wear- ing rags, with no-place to sleep but. the park benches and the “Hoover- villes.” Losing Homes | Not only starvation, but the. work- ers are lesing their homes at the rate of 1,200 per month through fore- elcsures and sheriff sales. Because the Unemployed . Council committees put up stiff fights against cvictions, the socialist Sheriff Benson cither evicts workers at midnight or waits till the workers leave the house, then he gets his deputies and other henchmen to take the workers’ fur- uiture away. The socialists do this because they know that the Unem- Floxed Counci! will be there with bundreds of workers and will see that the workers will not be evicted. The above proves once more the role played by the socialist party in the class struggle, and that is always defending the capitalists and their government, and against the workers, helping the bosses-to-shift the burden of the present crisis~ohto the shoul- ders of the starving unemployed and part-time workers. ‘The unemployed councils“are mo- bilizing the thousands of jobless workers in Milwaukee to expose this shameful betrayal of the working class by the socialist misleaders. Only a few days ago two-hew un- employed neighborhood committees were organized in the Negro district and, on going to the relief stations to fight for the starving workers, they militantly resist the-reduction of re- lief, demanding -more_and better quality of relief, as well as fighting back against thé forced labor just: inaugurated in Milwaukee, with the leading role played.-by..the Socialist Party, the third party of the bosses. JOBLESS PARADE INROCKFORD, ILL. 1,200 March; 4,500 at Meeting (By a Worker Correspondent) ROCKFORD, Ill, June 25 (by mail).—About 1,200. were in a par- In place of the $3 deducted, BOSSES AND AFL HEADS WEEP, AND CUT HATTERS $10 Rank and File Opposi- tion Calls for Fight | on Sell-Out Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Daily Worker: Local No, 8 United Hatters of North | America (A, F. of L.) officials, Louis Afrik and Richard Humphries, put over a fine piece of wage-cutting maneuver. Our officials invited a posses’ com- mittee to speak to our membership. They staged a fine melodramatic piece that would grace the stage of any Broadway theatre and make the reg- ulars look like a bunch of hams, The bosses wept over their woes (smaller profits) and at the same time admitted the plight of the workers. After they finished, our leaders practically begged us to ac- cept a cut. They put it over on us by telling us that they have no money for striking, Our money is’ tied up with the Federation Bank! They pleaded that the bosses would have to close their shops entirely if we did not accept it. The cut amounts to about $10 a week. Our season lasts in high about four months, and we will top wages at $35. I call upon all hatters to join the rank and file opposition and fight these sell-outs. MINERS GET LESS THANNOTHINGFOR NINE HOURS WORK Owe Gatliff Company Money After Buying Carbide (By a Worker Correspondent) GATLIFF, Ky., July 8, — Those of us that are working worked four hours a week until last week, when the mine began to run three days a week. The company cut our wages, for day labor 2 percent and for coal loaders 23 percent, and told us it would give more work. ‘That. was so all right! But we could not draw any scrip at the office for groceries after we bought powder paper fuse and car- bide. Carbide is used in lamps for light to work by, so one miner was refused scrip because he owed the company and was told that had earn- ed only 40 cents after nine hours’ work. Another miner could not get scrip to buy carbide for his lamp after nine hours work, and had to Jay off the next day. Five cents worth of carbide will run a lamp nine hours, ‘At Cumberland Bend near Gatliff the coal is only 24 inches high, and must be blasted out. ‘They pay 60 cents a ton, The coal would not pay the blasting expense, so the miners quit. Because the company store had closed out of stock, the company would not credit on groceries. ‘The operator called the men to- gether and asked them why they were not working, so they told him they could live longer without food not working than they could live working without food. So the boss told the miners he could not pay more, but he had figured out a way for the miners. So the workers lis- tened to the boss explain that if the miners could get the coal out some way without blasting it, a ton would be 60 cents for groceries minus carbide, But the coal is as hard as flint. Build a workers correspondence group in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. MINE LOCKOUT FOLLOWS CUT Girard Miners Get 95 Cent Slash GIRARD, Kan. Dear Comrades: ‘The miners here were preparing for a strike. They have been getting $1.01 a ton, and on July 1 got cut to 76 cents. The company heard about it and shut down. The U. M. W. A. made a contract for the same wages for five years and the company broke it. People here have nothing to put in their mouths and the company will open up in five or six months at the 76-cent scale. The mine always has wage-cuts for us but never cuts the cost of mining explosives. With the new scale, people will be hungry even if they work. They will make just enough for explosives and union check-off. —Opposition Members Local 8, U. LN. A. Comradely, A Miner, Use Your Solidarity! By FREDRIC ROBIN GRELLER Miners, you are stronger than Samson! @ little more reliéf than usual. The Unemployed. Council of Rock- ford is sending a Iétter to Mr. Lyons, the Emerson Commission, and the Governor, stating that the food given is being held for deportation. His hearing is set for next Wednesday. “oNew York City. ‘Dear comrades: pig orl aeer ore ceettia roic example of the Newfoundland fellow workers, Pee pet, CAR ne example, {want wocktiet}o°remamber’ that two ministers “turned the tide” of this powerful demonstration at the critical moment. They turned it for the bosses. They were protestant, but we have the same kind’in cos- sacks, like Rey. Cox. Irish Worker. you fire the guts of industry— from the bottom of the earth you bring light and warmth You go down with carbide and drill and make the earth bow to your will. Miners, you are higher than the gak! ‘You stoop with a pick and blacken the sky— At the bottom of the earth your roots branch out and make the cebles hum You go down with carbide and drill _ and make the earth bow to your will. Miners, you are trees without » soil! Miners, you are mightier than the sea! You quench deserts with your power— the earth is strewn with salt of your Sweat and sends up waves of heat You go down with carbide and drill and make the earth bow to your will. Miners, you are oceans without a beach! Imagine such strength existing on company scrip— Imagine a Samson without any lip! Speak up, miners! come out of the thicket Join hands—and picket! picket! picket! Pile your sand in wide, long banks ° Build beaches—black and white ranks! If you want to grow and own the soil Make bosses pay you for your toil! Miners, you've made the earth to yield Do you need = key? © If the bosses use gunmen in the field Then use you Solidarity! Miners—you are conquerors! strength on the part of the school workers, In this they are ably sup- ported by the officials of seven A. F. of L. teacher unions, and by self-ap- | Pointed “leaders” of the Delegate As- semblies which sprang up during the year. The advice of the “leaders” has at all times played directly into the hands of the bankers and the City Hall, Last October they said to be- wildered teachers. “Accept scrip) if you really need it badly—but not otherwise.” Today they say, “Join your regular Teachers Club—they have served us well—Enter politics; but be non-partisan; — See your ward chairman tomorrow— Pay your school representative that ten-cent piece today,-and then you belong, Big Girl, you belong!” An Insult to Teachers The first issue of The Chicago Teacher Voter, organ of the Teacher | Voter Association, appeared June 2, sprinkled with the slogans above quo- ted—a strange mixture of high-sound ing, demagogic phrases and jazzy gai- ety—an insult to the intelligence of any thinking school employee. Ten thousand copies have been distributed. Among the aims of the association we find the following, “To inspire the New Plan to Hamstring HOW THE SOVIET The Chicago Teachers TAKES CARE OF By a T CHICAGO, Ill.—An unprecedented campaign is under} — | way in Chicago to slow yp or prevent the radicalization of the 18,000 unpaid teachers and other school employees. tax strikers, who have a stranglehold on all public services know the power of united action and are determined at all costs to prevent any open show of jrican suffrage the intelligence of an |freedom—To drive both external and | ITS CHILDREN ‘eacher _ | \Nurseries and Special Schools Guard Health of Little Ones teachers of Chicago to lead a nation- | Dear Comrades: | a] movement that shall bring to Ame-| I am a housewife, but before long |I shall go to work in a factory. I am attending @ course at the AMO Auto- |mobile Works, and am learning to work a milling machine. Nearly all the students. at this course are women, and only two or three are men. My husband works for the The rich educated citizenry, to rededicate Ed- ucation to the cause of republican internal politics out of the schools.” In other words endless lobbying, and a change of voting support from one Paiabe Workers Write of Vicious Treatment in a Filthy Jail Did Not See Sunshine in Seven Months; War Vet, Communis t, Held Beyend Sentence The following letter was received from one of the Tampa prisoners. This letter was received in answer to a letter written by one of the Youth Branches of the I. L. D. in Los Angeles. The letter follows: We received your letter. It made us happy because we see that you comrades organized to help us class war prisoners, who fall into the bosses’ jails for our militancy in the fight against starvation, wage cuts, unemployment, Jim-Crowism and imperialist war. Republican Democrat or Socialist to another are pointed out as safe and sane lines of teacher action—little calculated to disturb the financial maneuvering that goes on behind | | closed doors! All Chicago officialdom is raising | @ great hue and cry for “new lead- ers,” but rapidly growing numbers of | teachers understand that the whole system has broken down. and that a mere change of leadership means nothing. Until the teachers and other school workers unite in a strong Education | Workers League, joining hands with | |the parents of the starving children their classrooms, and with all expioit- ed workers, they may expect only de- magogic phrases and a steady worse- | ning of their conditions. The signs of the times are plain, and hysterical attempts to amuse the teachers and keep them from thinking cannot long succeed, By ED HUNT (Worker Correspondent) Seven o'clock in the morning. A miserable drizzle of rain pours down from a cloudy dismal sky. Under- neath the unpainted, leaking, wooden awnings along the river front masses of miserable victims of this rotten insane capitalist system muddle with their soaked blanket rolls. Back from the river they congregate for blocks in every plate of shelter from the elements. Driven out of their holes and the clumps of bushes along the river’ bank by the steady soaking downpour they gather like cattle in a storm. Driven out of useful pro- duction, they now are driven down here where thy will not spoil the scenery for the so-called better class. No spirit, no hope, Living lower than animals. This is Sacramento, There’s Plenty of Food From the river to sixth street, from the railroad yards and mills to K. waste thrown on the scrap heap. They have built up the wealthiest country in the world by their labor. Warehouses are flooded with the pro- duct of their toil. The Elevators and granarys are filled with the grain they have produced. Everywhere you hear the cry go up of overproduction. There’s food, clothes, many houses. And so our great minds, our capital- ist economic experts, our professors of sociology tell us we must do with- out food, clothes and shelter. And the newspapers, magazines, radio, movies and churches greedily grasp the Judas silver and echo the cry. And the masters prepare another blood bath for the workers as the only solution under eapitalism of the problem. This is our boasted civil- ization and intelligence. ‘We walk along slowly, watching the ; miserable hungry groups gazing into the windows of the dingy little cof- fee houses. They stare in at the long counter and the lucky fellows who have mooched a dime for scoffings. ‘They cringe before us, humbly beg- ging for a nickel or a dime. ‘We Hear a Mutter We hear a mutter here and there. A sullen murmur of revolt from one whose brain has not been complet- ely deadened by the flood of propa- ganda poured out by the “intellec- tual” prostitutes of the schools and press. Grave diggers for capitalism are being produced. A ray of hope begins to appear. Across the Sea They look across the sea at the Fatherland of the Workers, the Un- ing in groups while they wait, Pas- “What the Hell’s the Difference Who They Nominate?” (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill. — I live but a few blocks from the Chicago stadium where the convention 1s being held, and as I write the democratic poli- ticians are putting on their show to confuse the workers. Two incidents in connection with this convention have come to my at- tention, One is that of a fellow who was presented with a ticket to the convention by a member of the Ten- nessee delegation, with the under- standing that he cheer long and loud when Roosevelt’s name was put forth as a candidate. He informed me that the galleries were packed with similar “enthusiasts”. The other incident was a conver- sation I overheard. Lines of taxis wait outside the stadium for the ses- sions to let out, the drivers gather- street they gather, A mass of human | CALIFORNIA ion of Socialist Soviet Republics. The land where the workers rule. The land without unemployment. Where the sick are cared for. Where the industries are owned and controlled by the workers and production is for use and not for profit. Where in- troduction of labor saving machin- ery means shorter hours and more pay instead of unemployment and poverty. Where there are no Hoovers, Fords, Rockefellers, Morgans and their political lackeys, standing be- tween the worker and the product of his labor. Building Trust .and my daughter is | still at school. | In the house where I live, we have | formed a kindergarten for children jtoo young to go to school. This jkindergarten is open from 8 a.m. till) 6 p.m. In the morning the children | |come and are given a breakfast con-| | sisting of coffee with milk, bread and| |butter or cheese, and eggs. At 12) o'clock they get 2 more solid meal,| land before leaving in the evening | they have a good dinner of three courses. | Forest Schools In the U. S. 8. R. we have forest | schools for children with poor health. |In 1929 my daughter had weak lungs jand the dispensary sent her to one | of these schools, where she stayed for| three months. I visited her once a} month. On one occasion there was} @ meeting of all the parents to dis- cuss various questions concerning éhe | children and their education. i Children Gain Weight The food was very good. When my, daughter told me what the children | had for dinner, I was astonished. I had never eaten such food. The | children were at all times under the observation of doctors. My girl is néw kept under observation by the | dispensary staff, and once in two| ™monéhs she is examined by the doctor. She is gaining weight at the rate of 2% pounds a month. In the school was a boy Wikces| mother told me he had been to Ger- many to a health resort, but had not got on so well as at the forest school. The children of workers have first preference in getting plage. in the school. With comradely greetings, Antonina Yakovieva, Washington, D. C. Dear G.— I hope you are well with wour family. As you can see in the papers, the Senate has refused the bonus. This is no surprise to us, since we know whom we deal with. This is nothing else but a tribute to the things we were fighting for during the last imperialist world war. From now on many workers who sin- cerely believed that they really fought for “liberty and democracy” will find out that this was nothing else but bunk. Last night we had a large demon- stration before the Capital. There were around 20,000 of us who were awaiting the decision of the execu- tive committee of Wall Street, the Senate. I’m sure that there might be SEEK TO UNITE MISLEADERS INTO “THIRD PARTY” Want to Get Own Hands on Currency (By a Worker Correspondent.) KANSAS CITY, Mo—A so-called unity and third party movement is meeting here, composed almost alto- gether of liberal, petty bourgeois ele- ments. It is a hodge-podge and con- fused proposition, Colonel W. W. Wheeler, the key- noter at the convention, said: “But the key is not the tariff; it is not li- quor; it 1s the control of currency ot our country. The Wall Street gang led us into a deflation.” Roland E. Bruner, chairman of the Liberty Party, said there was 180 del- egates from 15 states. Six “third” parties have sent delegates, There is disagreement as to who is going to be the cha.‘e of the “unity convention” for Prcsident of the U.S.W.H., (coin) Harvey of the Lib- erty Party, Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party and Colonel Frank E. Webb, Farmer-Laborite, have been proposed. Father Cox is also here. My idea of this is that the think~- ing workers wil not be misled by this movement but that they will go and hear Foster, who speaks here at the International Arena, Friday at 8 p.m. sing one such group, I heard a driver say, “What the hell's the difference who they nominate—they won't do enything for us~I'm going to vote Communist.” There was a chorus of assenting “You bets” from the rest of the group. —A Worker A Letter Back Home from a Bonus Marcher Still more of us there, but they lifted! the bridge on the river, and by this} act they cut us from the rest of the group, When we received the news around 9 o'clock about the decision, our “hon- orary” commander, Mr. Waters, “an honest-to-god American patriot,” told us that we should not be discouraged now, but should be patriotic the same as we were in the front. trenches, | when we fought for the glorious “democracy” that time. And he told us that in order to show our grati- tude we should sing “My Country, etc.” So some bunch did sing the hymn of capitalism, but the rest of us sang the International, a worker's hymn, Then we went to our bar- racks, Our program is to stay here until we win. Reinforcements come to us daily from every part of the country. Many of us are from Detroit. We |had a big struggle on our way here with the police and government power. Sometimes we were compelled to push our way by force. When we came here we had in mind to thank all those that helped us in one way or the other, especially the working people, who helped us materially on our way, and even here in Washing- ton. They tried various means to split| the rank and file bonus marchers, for the sole purpose of defeating us here. They know too well that if We are going to be split we won't win the battle. They tried to chase We have been here in jail they have not taken us to the Send a resolution to the county let TEAR OFF DOORS AND WINDOWS TO EVICT VET Order Pregnant Wo- man Into Street; Hus- band War Veteran (By a Worker Correspondent.) SALEM Mass.—Timothy Jalbust, 51 Ward Street, Salem, Mass., and an} ex-serviceman was evicted by Harry Collier, rich landlord of this city. Jalburt’s wife was lying in bed while Collier and five other men climbed into the windows and began taking/ doors and windows out of the house. In fact, Mrs. Jalburt is about to give birth to a baby. So the landlord upon knowing of this, throwing the furniture out on the street, left the place with all the windows and doors taken out of the house. He hoped that in this man- ner they would move out quietly. ‘The local newspaper did not pub- lish this case on the day it hap-| paned although they knew about} it and had time to print the same in its evening, edition. succeed. We captured a 14-story building and we occupied it, Of} course, there is no light in it. ‘They tried many times to send us y at least ten minutes every day. instead of} several months. In all this time sunshine. Our bones ache us. jailer, demanding from him to The sunshine does not cost them anything Listen to what happened the other day: Here, in the cell block, the coffee man didn’t want to give me coffee. He stated that he already gave it to me, which was not true. One of our comrades, an old man of 50 years of age, demanded it from him, telling him that every day he does the same with some other pris- oners. As answer, he was terribly insulted by the coffee man, who is a preacher besides. He also threatened to throw the hot coffee over him, A few minutes later, our comrade was put in the “sweat box” with orders to give him only bread and water. This comrade is an ex-soldier ; Who was poisoned in the last war. He looks like 70 years of age. He was arrested for being a Communist, and sentenced to six months, He completed his time June 2nd, and they refuse to let him ont, He jis very sick with erysipelas and is | refused medical attention. Suffer from Cold | In winter we suffered from the cold weather, and in this time you do not have any idea what we sweat. The |name of the old comrade is Albert W. MacBride. Hundreds of young and old workers are arrested every day on charges of | Vagrancy. Mass Starvation You do not have any idea about jthe mass starvation in which the workers here in the south are living. | The papers do not publish anything jabout this. The American Legion jand other patriotic organizations say. that the publishing of such cases of hunger in the papers is an anti- patriotic” attitude. Our comrades on the outside do all. | they can to help us out, in spite of the terror the bosses, the police and |the American Legion have estab- lished. The yellow and reformist leaders are sending anonymous letters to our comrades, telling them that they will be lynched if they don’t get out of Tampa. Yesterday they pub- lished a letter in one of the local |Papers, as if it was signed by us |prisoners, discrediting our comrades. jand antagonizing the defense com- | mittee with us prisoners. The letter | says that we prisoners “believe” that ‘our comrades are stealing the money j they collect for our defense, which is not true. We immediately denied |such @ statement and, on the con- | trary, we asked the workers for their home, especially the bunch from De-|SUPport and solidarity more than troit. They said they would pay our|€ver- It just shows you how the way home ang give us three good hot | American Federation of Labor leaders meals on the road, and why should/nd the enemies of the working class we stay here hungry and cold. But |ttY to divide the revolutionary move- they did not succeed in this and they | Ment in the most low methods, during the world war in the U. will not succeed. The bonus march- ers stand like steel. T can tell you this much, that right now here are more spies and undercover dicks than there were army. I tell you frankly that this case alone opened to many of us a new vision, a new outlook on our “beloved” democracy. One thing I would like to know, how the seople at home look toward us, do they approve our fight or not? We will fight until we win. Comradely yours, us out of town, but they did not Wear,” the bosses’ trade paper: on his annual visit and is expected in Lodi, N. J., with half the number o! another reductior very likely. This company maintains a Lodi the “big shots,” also offices of salesmen, art dept.; secretary, ete. whole floor is given over to the comforts of this boss and his friends. M. W. The Gate for Workers; Europe Trip for Boss (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The following item appeared recently in “Women’s “Albert Blum, head of the United Piece Dye Works, arrived in Paris to leave presently for his country home near Deauville, where he usually spends the summer.” Albert Blum is the millionaire owner of two textile (converting, fin- ishing, printing, dyeing) mills in New Jersey. recently shut down, throwing 2,000 people into the streets. One, Hawthorne hy name, The other mill f workers, is working on a part time basis, that is, four days a week. Also those Lodi mill workers who have not yet been fired have had their miserable wages cut 10 per cent, with So much for the mills. branch which houses the offices of One It is completely and luxuriously furnished with a kitchen (containing every- thing from a frigidaire to a corkscrew) showers, directors’ rooms, modern- istic rest rooms (but not for workers) and lastly a kitchen maid and butler. Needless to say every worker in the New Jersey and New York branch has received a ten per cent cut and is compelled to take a few weeks’ vacation, Some of the workers in the mills and N. Y. offices have slaved for the boss for 20 years and yet were workers, thrown: out together with the other “A Worker. | | How to Help Comrades, we appreciate your help. But here is other help you can give us which is doubly valuable. If you S.| organize more workers into your branch, if you organize yourselves into the Communist Party and the | Young Communist League, you com- |rades will heip us one million times better. Only these organizations and the International Labor Defense can help the class war prisoners and fight readily for our release, because they are mass organizations composed by_ the starving working class, Negra’ and white, native and foreign born, Do this, comrades, and you not only will fight for our freedom, but for Tom Mooney and the eight Scotts- boro Negro boys, and you will fight against the system that sends workers to jail; you will fight for yoursélves and you will defend in this form the \Soviet Union, the workers’ ang farmers’ fatherland. |Stop Salvation Army Move at Hecker’s’ New York City, | Dear Comrades: The Salvation Army threw out over a thousand unemployed workers in the Hecker loaded warehouse in or- der to make room for their “cadets,” youths whom they are training ta carry the doughnuts in the next war, and he stopped the Army from com-, pisting their plans. This is what they” do with anything they get, if they | want it for their own use. The food is garbage. The men who. work around the place get three meals a day and the others get two. A Worker, Against Unemployed . The workers protested to Hecker, ©