The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1932, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED) SDAY, SEPTEMBER a9 32 21, 19 FAILURE TO OBSERVE LABOR SAFFTY REGULATIONS PUNISHED BY SOVIETS| MORTALITY RATE DECLINES IN USSR Contrast With Lack of | Protection for U. S. Workers The Labor Commissariat of the Soviet Union has recently called to account the factory inspector, Kuba- rev, in Kulebaki for failing to carry out the existing labor protection regulations. The manager of the Southeast Railway, Bobrikov, and the railway inspector, Moshkov, have been severely reprimanded for neglecting the necessary safety labor measures. A manager of the factory “Crassni Proletari” will be tried for the same} reason. | Chea pinta | How does the capitalist government | in the United States of America deal with those officials who close their eyes ¢ i deliberately neglect to en- force even the inadequate provisions existing for the safety of the work-| ers? d Graft In the U. S. “The chief of the Bureau of Navi- gation and Steamboat Inspection, who is responsible for the explosion of the “Observation” in the East j River of New York is allowed to go free while some of the workers who ; escaped death when the tragical ex-' plosion occurred are jailed. The grafting “inspectors,” whose criminal negligence resulted in the death of 43 workers, are “good” citizens in capitalist America! While here, in spite of the few and insufficient labor safety regula- tions, coffin-ships are allowed to float to save the funds necessary for the substitution of obsolete ships, the Government of the Soviet Union in- tends to spend 169,000,000 rubles in 1932 to further increase the protec- tion of the workers. In 1929 it has spent 99,000,000, Labor Safety In U. S. S. R. Already the amount expended for labor safety in the mining industry has increased from. 16,000,000 rubles in 1929 to the present 45,000,000, in transportation from 14,000,000 to 30,000,000. At the same time the amount al- lotted for social insurance has been increased by 70 per cent within three years and is 3,500,000,000 rubles in 1932. Thus the factory “Serp i Molot” in Moscow sent 1,500 workers to the day rest-homes in 1928 and 8,000 in 1982. The funds appropriated for labor safety measures have been properly applied. In the first quar- ter of 1932 the chemical factory “Chelkov” has already spent for the safety of labor 32 per cent of the amount to be spent during the en- tiré year, the factory “Cherbykov” 34 per, cent ang the “Dynamo” 40 per cent. Mortality Here and In Soviet Union. As a result of the funds actually spent for the protection of the work- ers'and for their material and social position, mortality declined by 30 per cent, as compared with 1928, and the number of industrial accidents de- creased in the Donetz region by 17 per cent, in the building industry by 5 per cent and in the most important chemical factories by 10 per cent. In the U. S. A, the most indus- trially developed country in the world, mortality increases, industrial accidents reach new high levels and suicides succeed one another with unheardof rapidity. Plan to Increase Soviet Labor Saic.y. To this must be added that no so- cial insurance for the workers ex- ists here and that the “charity” handed out to them is being con- tinuously curtailed. In New York alone 154,000 unemployed workers were evicted from their homes in 1930 and 199,000 in 1931. ‘Thousands are being thrown out in the streets every day throughout the country. Only in the Soviet Union the workers receive full social protection and insurance. Only in the socialist country, the workers’ safety labor measures are being applied success- fully. The Soviet Government, however, is not satisfied even with this and realizing that some time the labor safety regulations are not regarded as being of tremendous economic 4 political significance, it deals reilessly with those who fail to ure the utmost protection for the orkers. The Soviet Government in- tends furthermore to mobilize the in- itiative of the workers themselves in devising during the next months new and more adequate labor safety regu- lations. SMASH THROUGH LAWRENCE BAN Sie I the capitalist government. Sacrificed to the Greed for Profit! Bodies of members of the Observation’s crew hurled in the air by the terriffic explosion of this rotten ship 0.K.’d by the “inspectors” of “Martial Law’ Republic Steel Plant (By a Warren Worker) WARREN, O.—Ever since the strike in the Warren plant of the Repub- lic steel mill, it is just like martial law. No two men are allowed to talk together at any time. They are not allowed to go to the water foun- tain together, The men in the mill the boss and demand that this prac-. tice should stop and the men should be treated as human beings. When the company shut down its Ford Plant Tries to Help Prosperity Myth (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich.—The recent wage cut by the Ford Motor comes on the heels of the so-called reopening of operation of the Rouge Plant, which was sup- posed to involve 55,000 workers. Out of this number about one half were called in only to lose their bad- ges and be sent home, Of the other half, 50 percent were sent home later in the day to report next week, and the remaining 25 per cent of those reporting to work were kept working but for how long no one seems to know, ‘Wage-cut, or “readjustment” and firing on a large scale is another end of the Ford myth, Worker Correspondence should elect a committee to go to; ” in Warren All: Workers Regardless of Organization and Politics, Form Mill.Committees ! Liberty mill a cowple of years agor| the men in the Trumbell mill (War- ven) voted to divide work with them. Since the strike (in which the Liberty men did not come out as well as the ‘Trumbell men did) the company and AA have worked to get the Liberty ;men he best jobs, leaving the Trum- bell men jobs mostly as floaters (ex- tra men who only work when some other men are sick or all in or for some other reason not working). New men, we must unite employed and unemployed in our union and fight and we'll get just as much as we ask for and fight for. Seize 9 Children of Unemployed Widower CONNEATVILLE, Pa.—I recently spoke to a man here by the name of Steve Homoky. His wife died in.1930, He has nine children, They took his: farm. away from him.and divided his children among different people. Two children they took away to a home for the feeble minded in Polk, Pa., ; and they do nothing for the father, What we need here is a real or- ganizer and a speaker, The workers here want to be organized, The char- ity here refuses all relief to the fore- bos born, BLOCK WORKERS REPORT ON USSR Minneapolis Bosses Stop Meeting “ MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20, — Over 1,200 workers and other friends of the Soviet Uion held a protest meet- ing in front of the Wesley Temple Hall on September 16 to protest the action of the Rev. Dr, Mecklenberg in cancelling a contract for the hall for the report of two American work- er delegates just returned from the Soviet Union. ‘The two returned delegates, Walter Frank and Maurice Jacobson, were Supported by their brother union members and many friends in de- nouncing the action of the minister, Wage-Cutting Minister, Speakers at the protest meeting accused the Civic and Commerce Association of intervening to prevent the meeting. Macklenberg had con- tracted with the secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union for the meeting, A few hours before the Meeting was scheduled to begin, Macklenberg advised Walter Frank, one of the delegates, that the meet- ing could not be held in the Wesley Hall because he, Walter Frank, had been active in a strike against wage cuts at the new post ofiice site, When on unger program the bosses, this reverent minister who collects a salary of $8,000 per year, declared that 20 cents per hour was Communist Message From Hotel Window Franklin Hotel on Broadway, right in the heart of town, Saturday night. The mill owners’ bankers’ city council has ruled that Communist election meetings shall not be held in this mill town. While this speech was being given and the crowd was shouting its ap- proval, police, detectives, bell boys good enough for workers during the crisis, A Liar Flies In attempt to prevent the work- Minneapolis from learning about. the triumphat pro- Socialistn costruction in the Soviet Union, the Civic and Com- Merce Association, in addition to banning this meeting, brought an anti-Soviet speaker by airplane from New York, This gentleman, Carvath Wells, a Fellow of the Roy: the Five-Year Plan and /the Soviet workers, The returned worker delegates will answer the lies of this prostitute of harried capitalism at a huge mass meeting in the immediate future. and unemployed workers ‘to build HALF DOLLARS TO SAVE “DAILY” An improvement over last donations {s seen in the figure of $494.97 for Sept. 14, three-quarters of which came from N. ¥, District. ational Workers Order con- tributed $16: while the Women’s Coun- cil, through showing of a moving picture, raised $100. From the Edgemere committee came $29.37, raised at a “Daily” party. In Cleveland, Unit 223 sent $14. “Sure don’t want to see the Daily Worker suspend publication as it is the only paper on the side of the workers and producers,” “am .” Co- ‘I'm making a contribution Haven't worked over two years, and there is five in our family so it 1s pretty hard for me to mal larger con- tribution. Hope the “Daily” may live for that is the only paper of interest to me.” Start the march of half-dollars in the $40,000 drive! Send them into the Daily Worker as you collect them. List of Sept. 14 follows: Amount* received Wed., Sept. Total to Wed. u District 1—Bost Concord Unit Gosnold Mill Westerly Finnish Night Shift 1 ‘mittee Fred Cammer 3.00 Worcester Finnish ‘Womens RF Norwood WIR Sec. 6, Unit & Westminster Fin- Workers 5.00 nish Wkes. 2.00 1..D. Gonza- Signal Shor los B 2.00 - Nnolel 60 H. Polsky 1.00 Roxbury Unit Jacob Goldfarb 1.00 No, 2 Party 8.75 Morris Rozens- y Unit No. 2 lists L. Weinberger H. Bommikerist Tisetoletes pettus Textile Ne Un- and fight for relief and against wage cuts. Thousands of leaflets were dis- tributed. The police finally broke into Cor- John Ballam, Communist candidate for governor speaks here Sept. 24. -. ae pies State Cottee Ti, Dis, 2_.$385,57 Shop Wkrs, 2,00 Til to date $5,199.43 Beth Taraet District 3, Phitn- Hosp. Wkrs., 6.20 delphia Nothing 1. ©. Sarbu 1.00 TH. to date $604.76 M. ite 25 District K, Stadheim 1.00 fale yi 7 1.00 TH to welt 35 Die. 8, Pi . McKenna 3k Thomas n 3 re pees G. Luts (95 A Friend Ww. ; 4 va 1.00 L.W.0. Br. 148 2100 Joe Brown 5.00 John B. Krat wi 120 0 ites 50 A, Wlesen Brown, 100 A’ Friend Suk 100 MD. Bryren Ow .¢ . De Ellison 1,00 John Ritomen =, 50 Jack Smith ¥ ie Sl at Pleating | |G. Rantole 1s] Workers 5.50 A. Lestor 10 THREAT OF CHACO WAR SPREADING Colombia and Peru Rush Armaments The Bolivian newspaper “Ultima Hora” yesterday charged the Argen- tine Government with giving sub- stantial moral and financial support to Paraguay in the war between Bol- ivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaca region. The charge was de- nied by the Argentine Minister of ‘War who, nevertheless, continued the Mobilization of Argentine troops on the Bolivian frontiers. The Paraguayan ‘ Government which has already accused American imperialists of aiding Bolivia, yes- terday reported the capture of a Chilean Army officer leading Bolivian forces in the battle raging in the Gran Chaca region, which yesterday entered its eleventh day with una- bated. fury. The present Chilean government is notoriously a tool of Wall Street. ‘The developments emphasize the acute danger of the war spreading to include other South American states as participants in the present armed struggle between American and British imperialism for control of the rich oi] deposits in the Gran Chaca region. Agents of the Stand- ard Oil Company are actively aiding the “Bolivian cause.” In the northern part of South America, where the two rival imper- ialisms are also in conflict, a rabid war spirit is being fostered by the Columbian and Peruvian govern- ments. A few days ago the Colom- bian Senate voted a fund of $10,000,- 000 for war against Peru. Yesterday, the Peruvian president Louis M. San- chez Cerro lead the chauvinistic out- burst in Peru with a donation of one month’s salary “toward a national defense fund to purchase armaments for Peru.” In both Colombia and Peru, the bourgeoisie are fostering demonstrations demanding the im- mediate opening of hostilities. The Colombian Government charges the Peruvians with/seizing the Amazon River port of Leticia which was ceded to Colombia under a former boundary treaty TOWN AROUSED OVER KILLING Masses Support South River Strike (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the factory gates and insulted the women. The men heard of this and came to the gates at 4 p. m. Workers Threatened At the Reiser Wash Dress Plant, which was the scene of the shooting, the deputies were forced to withdraw on account of the militancy of the strikers. The thugs threatened the workers and were answered with a hail of bricks. Police were present and helpeq the deputies by firing over the heads of the crowd. In about @ half an hour the work- ers reformed their ranks and charged the deputies. Women from the fac- tories screamed at the thugs to get out. The thugs were driven from the factory. They started firing aft- er they had retreated about fifty feet. Workers in the nearby neighborhood rushed to the scene of action and answered the bullets with bricks. Po- lice also fired shots. It was during this action that Wal- ter Rozak was killed. He was play- ing marbles two blocks away. Following the murder, the police and deputies jumped into cars and rushed to the Boro Hall where they barricaded themselves behind bolted doors. The retreating police and dep- uties were followed by masses of aroused workers who demonstrated in front of Boro Hall demanding that the murderers come out, “Give us those rats,” shouted the workers in front of the crowd. The prosecutor spoke from the steps and begged the crowd to go away. The workers laughed and heckled his promise that “the guilty will be punished.” The sheriff began to speak when someones cried: “They'll try to get them out the back!” Hundreds of workers rushed to the back of the hall. The door was open and a car was waiting to make a dash with the gun thugs. The dicks slammed the door and withdrew into the sanctity of the hall again. In front the crowd kept demand- ing, “give us those rats.” American Total Dis. 6-$25.35 Dis. 13 San Francisco ‘TH. to date $850.51 Finnish Work- District 7, De- troit Nothing TH, to date $445.31 lease ‘Dis, 10, Kans, City colection 8.00 Total Dis. 10 $9.00 Tt. to date $53.90 | ‘that his furniture was sitting out in ——| attending. We announced Page Three SOME BURNING ISSUES AT W.E.S.L. CONVENTION Experience Shows Need for Unity of Negro and White Ex-Serviceme By SOL HARPER 'HE Workers E- rvicemens Lea- gue, as a major part of its work, has carried on a strong fight for the unity of the veterans—Negro and white, native and foreign born —before, during and since the bonus march to Washington, In Washington the rank and file vet- erans undér the leadership of the W, E. 8S. L, conducted a courageou fight against the special Jim-Cro policy, and “divide and rule tricks” of the Hoover government, it’s of- ficials, Glassford, the military po- lice, and other agents, including those in control of the Veterans Administration. It fought partic ularly the actions of the Waters’ clique to segregate the Negro bonus marchers by placing them in separate camps, and sections of buildings as they did in Camp Marks, during the June 7th parade, and in Pennsylvania Avenue “Bar- racks.” We must point out that the first place the police and War De ment attacks (of the governmen was made against the Southern Negro and white veterans on Penn- sylvania Avenue where at one time more than 200 Negro veterans from the South were Jim-Crowed on the top floor, The first bonus marcher arrested was a Negro disabled vet- eran, Contrary to the exception of the government that the white veterans would net unite in strug- gle with the Negro comrades there was immediate unity of the South- ern white and Negro bonus march- ers in defense against the murder- ous attack upon them by the mur- derers of Hushka and the other vets, IMPERIALIST WAR OF 1917-18 In all of the wars of the imperi- alist government, the Negro work- ers have been drafted, enlisted and used as shock troops. Even while | the United States government was | preparing to enter the imperialist war of 1914-18, soldiers, members of the 24th Unit- ed States (Jim-Crow regiment) In- fantry were executed and many others were thrown into prison at the behest of the ruling enemies of the white and Negro workers, The southern and northern senators called the war a “white man’s war,” ‘The same war which took five mil- lion workers in America into the military service, had 400,000 Negro workers in the service. HE Negro workers who were Call- ed upon to fight to “end all wars” and “make the world safe for de- mocracy,” were Jim-Crowed in the military detachments, by the spe- cial orders of Franklin D, Roose- velt, and with the knowledge and consent of Herbert Hoover, then Federal Food Administrator, The Negro military victims were forced to load ammunition ships, do the most dangerous and dirtiest work, and were Jim-Crowed by the Young Men's Christian Association, Saly- ation Army, Red Cross and other government controlled institutions, ‘They were even lynched in France, after their return to the United States they were lynched in their uniforms. AFTER THE WAR After the war, the Negro war vet- erans were further separated from the white victims of the war that disabled over a million American Negro and white workers, The Ne- gro ex-soldiers and sailors were even denied vocation training in the majority of vocational disabled cases, ‘they were Jim-Crowed in every possible way, denied even ad- mittance into government hospitals for veterans, and into private hos- pitals, thirteen Negro | t istrations of both and democratic px “Socialist” city of } has been re: erans, and the tricks u them are most effectivel: the same tin f r rights are f: ened with impr ment on lies of “attempting to defraud govern- ment” and thousand of white and paded to in- 1 M head of the Vete the government: Charles Forbes, members of the Presiden! BARRED FROM THE A. F The America: leaders have cons’ fight for F A, F, of L. of Negro soldiers n trained in the few Ns allowed by the governm On the contrar at the head of the cluding the Socialis! encouraged false theories and denied Negro veteran even a their living while t mass unemployment of fifteen million workers U.S. A. ENS of thousands of Negro veterans in neeq of medi treatment in the south are toda denied any treatment by the ch: ity hospitals for their war disabili- \ and refused admittance into | the government owned hospitals, as | for example in Atlanta, Georgia, the American Legion has never is- ties, The Legion has refused to ters to Negro veterans in y of the places in the h, has Jim-Crowed those who manage to form even Jim-Crow In all of the conventions of n Legion Negro vet- been either forced to die g admittance into the hospital at~ Tuskeege, er of the lynch area, tch-hike to the North where y have likewise been systematic- any real attention and issue ¢ maj e wait: ON TO CLEVELAND! | Negro war victims have every bl of discrimination it them. Gold star have been Jim- on the boats going to ance by the government officers e of the detachments, in y, a Negro tubercular e Peterson has been d to be electrocuted on a arge, in the same state where the nine Negro innocent Scottsboro boys have been ’ meed to the electric chair, white veterans of Alabama have in gangs, crimes against All of these the war veterans, white and Negro must be fought the rank and file veterans in all of the U. 8,.A. These, as well as other major ise ues to both Negro and white vets will be taken up at the coming con- lon of the Workers Ex-Service- ver men’s League in Cleveland, Ohio on Sept. 23-24-25th Veterans—Negro and white—on | to Cleveland! Red Army General Enjoys Sports Meet General Budenny, popular gene! ral of the Soviet workers’ Red-Army, is shown with his wife and children at a sports’ meet in Moscow. | United States Preparing War, Rushes Munitions to Outpost on the Pacific Military Measures Follow Sharpening of Con- flict With Japan Over Loot in China Marine Workers Industrial Union Calls on Seamen to Stop SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 20. War Shipments Reports from Seattle and San Pedro indicate that the Washington Hunger and War Government is carrying on | an intensive concentration of war ma Pacific.” terials at Honolulu, “Croasroads of the Recently, the S. §. Diamond Head of the Matson Line, left San Francisco loaded with empty shéll cases. At the same time Seattle workers Teport that explosives from the Du- pont Powder Works are being loaded by night on every Matson Line freighter visiting Puget Sound. An extract from the workers’ report states: “When the delegates went to the dock he got in touch with five members of the crew of the S. S. Maunalei. They admitted that the ship was loading explosives. This loading, they declared, is done un- der cover of darkness, out in the stream. A barge comes alongside, no name on it, and unloads. The sailors do the work, getting time off in Honolulu. They were very reluctant to talk, declaring that all were under a pledge of secrecy. One of the crew had been on an- other ship of the same company CHINA GENERALS’ WAR SPREADING Masses Push Boycott Of Imperialists SHANGHAI, Sept. 20, — The anti- imperialist masses are continuing to push their boycott against Japanese oods, a . Two Chinese stores which insisted on carrying Japanese goods were bombed yesterday by members of the boycott associations. A Japanese shop was stoned and its windows shattered by a crowd of angry work- ers, Shanghai workers are also expres- sing their angry protest against the Generals’ war which, commencing several days ago in Shantung Pro- vince, is threatening to spread to in- $5.00 | clude all North partition of China by the Japanese and other imperialists. Marshal Chang is already actively “00 co-operating with Gen, Liu, who is being supported by imperialist rivals of Japan, 3/2500 Join to Sight Evansville Eviction EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The workers of Evansville were holding an unem- ployed council meeting recently when @ worker came up to Us and said the street. About 200 workers were it and everyone started, and by the time that we arrived at the place we had gathered about 2,500 ,others. The furniture was put back. LF ¢ where the same thing took place. | The Matson freighters are the Maunalei, Maliko and the Diamond Head. The cargo is unloaded in Honoiulu and is dynamite.” In addition to the above come re- ports from San Pedro that besides the heavy oil shipments to the navy fuel station at Pearl Harbor, Hono- lulu, airplanes are being loaded for this destination. In the Northwest ports, the Mar- ine Workers Industrial Union has issued a call to the seamen on the Matson Line freighters to refuse to handle war materials. The Union is receiving effective sup- | port from the longshoremen, who | in 1919 effectively stopped the | shipment of munitions for the American Expedition of interven- | tion against the Soviet Union. H Recent weeks have seen a tremen- dous sharpening of the antagonisms between American and Japanese im- perialism over the division of the loot in China and supremacy in the Pa- cific. At the same time both powers | are desperately trying to unite on the | only common ground available: mu- tual hostility to workers’ rule in the Soviet Union. Both powers have engaged in counter-charges that each was arming and concentrating naval and military forces in pre- paration for the solution of their antagonisms by force of arms. THREATS TO RAZE JEHOL TOWNS New Blood Baths Manchurian volunteers and parti- san troops are reported massing to attack the Japanese forces in Chin- chow, important strategic city in| South Manchuria, Sharp fighting is still proceeding around Harbin, and Mukden, where the Japanese invad- ers are belaguered. Insurgent actly- ities are also on the increase through- out North and South Manchuria, Japanese troops blocked by volun- | teer resistance in their invasion of Jehol Province are threatening to raze Jehol towns to the ground, un- less the insurgent forces cease their resistance. Leaflets to this effect.) were dropped yesterday by Japanese Planes on scores of Jehol Province ; towns within 18 miles of the Man- ) churian border, pa a ‘ Japanese Planning| PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 20.—The held. at 3 Governor St., Paterson, on adapted: by calling out the weavers only, the N. T. W. U, plans to unite all in all shops, including the.,dye! whose present conditions are, if po: sible worse than those of the. textile workers, sectarian and calls upon all workers to unite, regardless of present lead- ership or political’ belief. The great- est néed is for organization, now, while the mills are still busy and while conditions, though extremely bad, have not gone as low as they will sink without a strong militant resistance, Build Committees Workers are called upon to organ- ize shop committees and present their united demands to the boss. ‘This policy has won victories in both, the Cohen and Sugerman mills during the past week, In the first case the weavers obtained an increase in wages and the demand of the wind- ers for a straight wage with dedu tions for slack periods was recognize In the Sugerman mills, an eight hour day was put into effect and the weavers received an increase, These are only two of the many instances where strohg organization has prov- en effective. The strongest weapon is united action; workers must not allow their shops to be split into factions as the A, F, of L, leaders to begin the fight where the A. F. of L. officialdom left off. The new policy is entirely non- | Now Paterson Struggle Really Begis; N.T. W. Urges United Action hat Victories Were Won in Stoppage Were Result of United Front Committees National Textile Workers’ Union plans At a meeting Sunday night, these resolutions were “Whereas the A. F. of L. officials deliberately weakened the past struggle jadvocate. The past stoppage which lacked the support of the greatest number of workers proves this as }mothing else can | Some Criticism The executive board of the N. 'T, W. U. was rightly censured for al- |lowing the stoppage to eatch them unawares Preparations for the strike should have been started. at least a week before it was called, instead a | leaflet was not issued until the day | of the strike and a strong movement {was not begun among the confused | workers until the whole affair was | almost over, At Sunday's meeting, the board was reinforced by new members chosen from the rank and file who | will act. The spirit of discontent which is | now rife was expressed by one weaver, | @ former member of the U,-T, W. U, | when he declared that nothing has ever served to show him the hope- |lessness of winning a struggle under the old leadership as thespineless contest that has just’ been waged. After the stoppage was called off, he immediately enlisted with the N..T. W. U. and carried thirteen of the, fifteen other workers in his mill with him, It was in this shop that the | united demand for shorter hours and ‘an increase in wages was granted. thousand, This Post Card should be in every worker’s and farmer's home — 50 cents a hundred — $4.50 a It can be ordered at your district or direct from the Communist National Election Campaign Committee P. 0. Box 87, Station D, New York, N. Y, WORKERS and FARMERS GOVERNMENT