The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1933, Page 3

=? N J DEMONSTRATE AGAINST MATSUOKA; BOAT WILL BE HERE TOMORROW Die to delay in arrival of the steamer “Leviathan” the demon- | stration arranged by the American Committee for Struggle Against War against the Japanese imperialist agent Matstoka has been ad- yanoed to Friday, at 10 a.m. Boat docks at Pier 59 North River (West 16th Street). All workers, workers’ organizations and peace organiza- tions are asked to rally in great masses at the newly scheduled time. demonstration. Matsuoka has been traveling in France, Germany and England in concluding war munitions contracts and has come here for the same purpose. Telegrams are being received by the American Committee for Struggic Against War from all over the Uni- ted States, praising the militant stand the New York workers are taking against this imperialist. NEW YORK.—The National Stud- ent League calls on all students. in New York City to participate in a demonstration to “receive” Yosuke Matsuoka, chief Japanese delegate to the League of Nations, when he ar- rives in New York aboard the Levia- than Friday morning, March 23, at 10 o'clock, at Pier 59 on West 18th Street. The National Student League stipports the Atnerica~ ‘Committes for the Struggle Again:: War in this Mass Butcher MASS ANTI-WAR YOUTH MEETING The Harlem Anti-War Youth Com- mittee, representing Various sport and social ¢lubs of the heighborhood, is holding a mass meeting at the Julio A. Mella Club, 1413 Fifth Avenitie on Friday, March 24, at 8 p. m. Yosuka Matsouka, the represen- tative of Japanese Imperialism whom workers will ‘greet’ when ke The Committee has invited the| artives on the Leviathan tomorrow. Nationalists, the YPSL (Harlem | While in Rome, Matsouka did as Branch) the Porto Rican League,| the fascists do and said of Mus- solini, “He is next to God. He is like God,” despite the hostility be- tween Japanse and Italian im- perialists. Bakers Strike When Demands Are Refused Ine., and many other organizations te take part in the mass meeting to protest against the wars now racing in South America and the Far East. Boss Arrests Worker | Selling “Daily” With War Factory Exposure NEW YORK.—Artésted and charg- ed with disorderly conduct for dis- tfibuting the Daily Workers in front of the General Instrument Compatiy, = 225 Varick St. David Nelson and Leon Sverdloff were given suspended he 54th magistrate’s court, it was reported today by the New York Dis- trict International Labor Defense which catried on their defense. The issue of the Daily Worker dis- tributed carried an article stating the General Instrument Company’s plant was pfepared to mantifacture wat supplies. The arrest and cotviction of the workers clearly indicates that the boss-class fears the “Daily” ex- poses of its imperialist war plans. The workers were defended by J. Buitenkaut, attorney for the N. Y. District, LL.D. SMALL DEPOSITORS MEET IN BROOKLYN The St. James Place Block Com- mittee affiliated to the Crown Heights Unemployed Council of 1777. Atlantic Avenue it ane & Workers afid small depositors meeting to take up the questions confronting the workers due to the inflation policy of the Government. The mass meeting will take place on Friday, March 24, at 1439 St. Johns Place, neer Utica Avenue at 7 8 pm. We ask that all workers come to this meeting in view of the fact of the present sittiation confronting us ail. f entences Wednesday at a hearing in| NEW YORK.—Refusal of the Tru- bia Bros. Bakery at 694 9c Ave. and the Aurors Bakery in Long fs. “14, to sign a contract with the Baxery Workers Industrial Union guarantee- ing ho speed up atid wage cuts for 4 yeer, resulted in a 100 per cent walk- out in both places Monday night. On Thursday the Di Carlo Bakery injunction hearing will take place at the Jamaica courthouse. The Di Carlo pickets have been assaulted and one has just been released from jail after serving 30 days. Workers must crowd the court. MARCH ISSUE “WORKERS THEATRE” HAS INTERESTING ARTICLES NEW YORK.—The March issue of Workers Theatre has an interesting article on “15 Years of Soviet Theatre” by Comrade Boyarsky, chairman of Art Workers Union of the U. 8. S. R. There is also an analysis on the Broadway Bourgeois Theatre. This issue also contains a ‘play called “Oh, Learned Judge” and ‘% mass recitation 6n the Patis Com- mune. CORRECTION: — Tuesday's Na- tional Edition and Wednesday's City Edition of the Daily Worker has a typographical error which makes Louis Weinstock introduce an amend- ment “providing for the lowering of Wages” in the Black Bill. It should say that the Black Bill lowers wages and Weinstock’s amendment was against lowering wages. 7,500 Haverhill Strikers Reject State Arbitration Shoe Workers Protective Union Official’s Sell- | Out Program Gets Set Back HAVERHILL, Mass., March 22.—Seven thousand five hundred strikers, on strike for the past two weeks for wage increases, unanimously rejected the proposal of Agent Keleher of the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union today that the strikers submit their demands to a local or state arbitration Board for settlement. The defeat of the betrayal proposal of the Shoe Workers’ Protective officials was the result of¢~ ~ the activity of the militant rank and ial file opposition, which successfully ot oe gr an Hl a convinced the workers that inter- meciaries representing the state and) in Boston by Bixby | BOSTON, Mass. Mar. 22—With the employer's will not settle the strike | the remaining 4,000 shoe strikers in their interests. back at work, the Boston shoe strike ended here in a complete sell-out engineered by the officials of the Na- tional Shoe Workers’ Association. As in the Gase of the Lynn strike which was settled by the same com- The rank and file opposition has foreed the officials to organize relief io keep the strike going. The strik- ers are showing a determined spirit to remain out until they win their demands. At the same time the lead- ership of the Protective, in co-opera- tion with the bosses, continue their efforts to maneuver a sell-out agree- pany union leadership the workers return without any increases and the question of wages goes to the State Arbitration Board, which Jast year agreed upon a cut for the Brockton Shoe Workers. By agreement, the bosses retain the right to fire work- ers. Chester Bixby, an organizer of the National Shoe Workers’ Association is reported’ as being sent to Now York with the object of pulling a similar fake strike. ment without dealing a blow to them- selves. The Haverhill Board of Trade to- day proposed.te settle the strike with a compromise offer of a 15 per cent increase in wages, according to reports. ‘Thecstrikerk Are reported as vemaining firm for their original de- mand of a 20 per cent increase. Penn. Farmers Halt Sale, Hold 3 Deputies Captive Defeat Maneuver of Auctioneer to Put Over | Fake Bid; Farmers Defy Gun-Play Sinsellicsosaiapeebsoatiaiesopebias lial PENNSBURG, Pa., March 22—Rough-honsing three deputy sheriffs, one of whom had acted as an auctioneer, five hundred ancry farmers thwarted a foreclosure sale here, temporarily saving the farm ed Soke Site: » ly ie owned by Susie and One of the deputies tried to hold the crowd back firing into the with his pistol, but he only succeeded jest ors" eto Mire cs ‘Daily’ to Start Series on Forced Labor Tomorrow The Daily Worker will begin publishing tomortow the first of & series of installments from the book, “Forced Labor in the United States,” by Walter Wilson, which has just been issued by Interna- tional Publishers, ‘The installments are a smashing exposure of the system of forced convict labor, chain gangs and peonage in the United States and its colonies, These conditions are contrasted with the system of free, co-operative labor prevailing in Soviet Russia, Don’t miss this important series first installment tomorrow. TURN LOCKOUT INTO STRIKE 50 Join Metal. Union; to Spread Strike NEW YORK.—Fifty workers turned a lockout against them into a strike against the Cromwell Manufapiuring Company yesterday when the latter firm objected to the workers joining the Metal Workers Industrial Union. The workers, polishers, solderers, platers, die setters, ete, under the leadership of the union, are spreading the strike to other metal work shops and have placed the following de- mands: Recognition of their Shop Cominittee, division of work in all de- partments, no wage-cut, and no dis- crimination, The boss of the Cromwell shop, Mr. Gatroway, is the sectetary of the bosses’ association that stands against the strikers with all its funds. Tag Days Start Sat. Continue to April 2 For Scottsboro Boys Needle Workers Endorse Drive The Needle Trades Workets Indus- trial Union today issued a full heart- NEW YORK. — A_ Scottsboro Unity Conference will be held to- morrow, Friday, March 24, 8 p.m., at St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St. All organizations send delegates. Save the Scottsboro boys! ed support of the Scottsboro Tag Day drive. Following are some of the Tag Day stations: Upper Bronx:—2800 Bronx Park East; 792 E. Tremont; 4215 Third Ave.; 288 174th St.; Midtown—109 E. 26th £c.; 419 W. 53rd St.; 265 W. 25th St.; Downtown 818 Broadway; Brooklyn:—136-15th St.; 240 Colum- bia St.; 4109 13th Ave.; 172 Bay 3ist St.; 74-40th St.; 316-57th St. Local 22 Left Wing Forum on Elections NEW YORK.—The left wing group of the International Ladies Garment Workets Union, Dressmakers Local 22, which is now in the midst of ® cam- paign for the election of left wing delegates to the executive board and for officers, will discuss its program at an open forum this afternoon at 140 W. 36th St. ‘The left wing group is running on a program of uniting all workers in the trade for the purpose of organizing a general strike against sweatshop con- ditions in the trade. the only way in which the workers will be able to win a living wage. All workets irrespec- tive of their views and opinions are urged to attend the forum and par- ticipate in the discussion. ns HOLD ANTI-FASCIST MEET NEW YORK.—Unit 19, Section 1, is holding an anti-fascist open-air meeting Friday night at 7:30 p.m. on the corner of Thompson and Bleeker streets. All comrades in the neighborhood are asked to be pre- sent, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933 BANK CRISIS WORSENS INDUSTRIAL CRISIS (By Labor Research Assn.) Production and freight car loadings, according to the New York Times Weekly Business Index, declined 11 per cent during the three weeks fol- lowing the closing of the Michigan banks on February 14. For the week following the closing of the Michigan banks in the country on March 6, the decliné amounted to 6 per cent, The decline of 11 per cent in the three week period (ending March 11) after the Michigan crash, is over twice the rate of decline during the six week period between the first of the year and the date of the Michigan bank closing. (The dectine during this six week period amounted to 5.4 per cent). ALL PRODUCTION FALLS The detailed figures for the three week period following the Michigan closing show that freight carloadings dropped about 19 per cent, steel mill production over 9 per cent, electtic power production aver 5 per cent, and automobile production 26 per cent. (For week ended Match 18, figures for which have just been published, the automobile production index dropped a further 29 per cent, making a total decline of 55 per cent, over one half, in four weeks!) Only one of the items which go to make up this Business Index showed ah increase. This wes in cotton cloth production which due to special conditions in this industry showed a slight increase of 3 per cent. Prior to the recent banking crisis the lowest point in the Business In- dex since the beginning of the crisis in 1929 was reached In the weeks yded August 13 and 20, 1932, when the index stood at Bae NEVER SO LOW BEFORE During the week ended Match 4, 1933, the index had dropped to s new low of 51.5, and for the week ended March 11, 1933, the index dropped to 48.4, a decline in one week of 6 per cent. ‘These cold figures, of course, tell only a fraction of the actual state of affairs, The sharp increase in the rate of decline of production, re- flecting the closing or slowing down of factories throughout the whole country, has increased the army of unemployed and has resulted in wage slashes all around. And the prospect during the inflationary petiod ahead, with billions of paper currency appearing, spells more wage cuts due to higher prices in addition to all of the other factors which have previously existed, and an unprecedented increase in the misery and suffering of the working class. This is Roosevelt's “New Deal.” All N. Y. Insurance Firms Stop Payment on Policies NEW YORK, March 22—All domestic life insurance companies doing business in New York state are prohibited by rules and regulations issued by George S. Van Shaick, supérintendent of insurance, from declaring divi- Page Thre: Huge San Francisco United Front Meeting tor Mooney 15,000 Hear Robert Minor Expose Capitalist Interests That Martyred Mooney; 7,000 March to Meeting; 36 A.F.L. Locals Come in Body SAN FRANCISCO, March —Fifteen thousand persons filled Civic Auditorium, one of the largest halls on the Pacific Coast, here on Sunday afternoon at a meeting called to demand freedom for Tom Mooney, now serving his seventeenth year in San Quentin prison on framed-up charges. A resolution, demanding that Mooney a new trial based on counts upon which he was not tried at the origi->— mouly adopted by the seai| {Vital Steps for |(PERKINS FOLLOWS Mooney Defense oe DOAK’S PROGRAM ence, | A sathing denunciation of the Ar California capitalist interests who} 1—1 diately send resolutions | flung Mooney into jell and who plan reeyrager aes a addressed to Judge Ward, Superior to keep him there until he dies, was| | Court, Hall of Jnstice, San Fran-| | Declares Wi iS made by Robert Minor, member of | | cisco, with copies to Matthew! Declares Will Bar Jobs the Central Committee of the Com-| | Brady, Dist. Atty., 333 Kearny St.,| to Foreign-Born muniat Party, who came from New| | san Francisco, and James Rolph, | | carociinsnte York to address the meeting. Minor| | Jp,, Sacramento California, de-| | WASHINGTON, D. C., Mareh 22— was identified with the defense from | the first, coming to Mooney's aid im- mediately following his arrest. Huge Parade. The crowd began pouting into the auditorium even before noon, fol- lowing an enthusiastic parade par- ticipated in by 7,000 workers of 72 organizations, including 35 locals of the A. F. of L. Sam Goodwin of the Mooney) Molders Defense Committee opened the meeting, with Sam Ornitz, author | manding a new trial for Tom Moo- ney, and that he be brought to| court personally to argue the mo- tion fot a new trial at the hearing before Judge Ward on March 25th. 2—Secure the endorsement of | the Tom Mooney Congress to be} held in Chicago, April 30th, to| May 2nd, 19333 by your organiza-| | tions, insuring the election of del-| Frances Perkins, egates and financial support for| | y the Congress. 1] | | nouncing that the undercover rk of a special division created by . Doak, former Secretary of Le- r the plitpose of hounding, deporting foreign born rs be handied in the future by nigration service, the “liberal” present Labor Sec- tement today revesied she intended to follow the same in t 3.—Help build a powerful, un 7 and member of the National Com-| | ted labor front for Tom Mooney’s) | against the foreign born pur- mittee for the Defense of Political| | freedom by aiding every Lapoerfl| |sued by het predecessor of the Prisoners as chairman. Speakers, in| | inary conference, mass meeting] | Hoover cabinet addition to Minor, included Lincoln| | and other preparatory artange-| | ‘: Steffens, Benjamin Ellisherg of the| 1} ecg ad alaericige@cinnoo / ments for the Congres: tors of immigration to maintain a labor policy “of not permitting al'en workers to put American citizens ont Ornamental Piasterers’ Union, Adam Vurek of the Lithographers’ Union, | Rey. Alexander of the Federation of | dents to policy holders the boards of dire Reorganize Insirance Racket As the banks are being réorganized on a lower scale at the expense of the small depositors, so the insurance companies ate to be reorganized at the expense of the policy holders and the widows and orphans whose only means of livelihood is insurance pol- jcies felt by their deceased husbands and fathers. Billions of dollars of insurance as- sets are in farm mortgages, other real estate paper, in public utilities, industrials, etc. The continued deep- ening of the crisis makes it imposs- ible for the insurance trust to realize dividends and interest off their game so they now have ‘the assistance of the state government in getting theirs by victimizing the policy holders. With inflation started now, those few policies that will be paid out will be in depreciated currency and will not buy as much as before inflation was started. ARSE ic Tomer ae FOR UNEMPLOYMENT and in surance, agsinst sedition and eviction laws, for the defense of the Soviet Union, against imperialist wart BANKER MITCHELL NEW YORK, March 22.—Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman of the National City Bank, is held under bail of $10,000 to appear at a hearing on Mar. 29 before United States Com- missioner F, A. O'Neill on a charge of evading payment of $657,152.40 in- come tax for 1929. Mitchell was served with @ warrant, taken to the federal building and ar- ranged bond. This is the same Mitchell who, with other board members of Na- tional City, loaned to themselves $240,000,000 without security to cover their own market manipulations, while selling short their depositors. “during the present emergeticy.” This order does not prevent the payment of dividends to policy holders, which have already been declared by @———————____—-——___— HARRIMAN AIDED BY U.S. OFFICER Charged With Graft; Has Strong Allies NEW YORK, March 22—The Comptroller of the Currency at Washington requested postponement of prosecution of Joseph W. Harri- man, founder and former president of the now bankrupt Harriman Na- tional Bank and Trust Company, ac- cording to George Z. Medalie, Uni- ted States attorney. Examination of officers and dir- ectors of the closed bank concerning “improper debits” revenled amounts totalling $1,661,170, which Harriman withdrew from depositors’ money to finance purchases of the bank’s stock. Hold Sylvester for Forgery. Horace C. Sylvester, vice-president Of the National City Bank, is held in $2,500 bail on @ state indi¢fment ARRESTED FOR NOT PAYING ON HIS TAKINGS Government Not Prosecuting for Swindling of Depositors or Cheating Employes They are the same Who sold to their employees National City stock at $200 and $220 a share and force them to continue making installment pay- ments although that same stock is now down to $30. The government arrested Mitchell, not because he robbed depositors and the clerks in the bank, but because he didn’t turn over sufficient of his loot to the government. ‘The officer taking Mitchell under attest borrowed a ¢ar from his broth- er so the former president of the Na- tional City Bank would not have to ride in @ patrol wagon like a com~- mon worker under arrest. Churches of Christ, Loren Miller, Los Angeles Negro editor; Sam Darcy, District Organizer of the Communist Party in California; James Branch, Max Westetmian of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, and representatives of the Engineers’ and Enginemen’s Local 143, and Jack Green of the Santa Rosa Labor Couneil. The claim of the “Labor Clarion,” A. F. of L. sheet, that the federation locals had withdrawn from the united front fight for Mooney, was refuted when speakers from the unions took the floor. Marty Mooney, 84-y of the famous labor prisoner, broug & message of greetings from her son. ‘The meeting adopted resolutions demanding a change of venue to Birmingham for the Scottsboro de- fendants and denouncing the mur- derous Nazi terror against the revo- Jutionary workers of Germany and their leaders. Harlem Mobilizes For Relief Fight’ NEW YORK —Negro and white workers will demonstrate today under the leadership of the Upper and Lower Harlem Unemployed Council from the following mobilization points at 11 a. m.: 22 West 114th Street and 126th Street and Lenox Aye. The demonstration will embody ten de- mands among which are establish- ment of & permanent relief station in ite vicinity of 133rd Street, imme- diate relief for single married couples and election of a Work Committee to administer relief funds. Workers must support this important demonstration. charging him with third-degree for- gery. The charge grew specifically out of the fact that Sylvester directed the treasurer of the bank to take $10,020 out of the account of a syn- dicate formed to float a Port of New York Authority bond issue of $66,000,- 000, which was used as a “loan” to John E. Ramsey, general manager of the Port Authority. Sylvester lives at Caldwell, N. J.. and is noted in sporting cirdles as an owner of prize dogs, Auto Factory Owners Look Again to the A. F. of L. for Help Against the Workers By PHILIP RAYMOND The leadership of the American Federation of Labor never made a serious attempt to organize the auto workers. It consistently fought, and helped to break the strength of the Auto Workers Union, from 1919 to 1926. The A. F. of L. Convention in Detroit in 19236 went on record to organize the automobile industry. Soon afterwards, seventeen A. F. of L. eraft unions, claiming jurisdiction over auto workers, were called to a conference. Each craft union had its own set of high-salaried officials, anxious to have an opportunity to carry on business with wealthy auto- mobile manufacturers. Each group of officials was determined to look after its own interests. No definite agreement could be reached. At a second conference on March 24, 1927, it was agreed to suspend jurisdictional claims for workers en- gaged in all so-called “repetitive” and unskilled processes, so that temporary local labor unions might be formed. The officials of the seventeen differ- ent. A. F. of L. craft unions were asked to be patient and wait until the whole goose could be captured ganization to the workers at the working in co-operation with an factories. ‘The auto manufacturers did not find it necessary to mobilize their American employer, with trae American respect for the right of all citizens, would be able to pro- in being badly shaken up and getting his clothes ripped. When the deputies arrived at the farm they found the crowd of de- lermined farmers on deck. Following 4 few moments of frozen silence when the auction first ced, the farmers began bidding nickels and dimes. Ready to fake the sale, the auc- nioneer drew from his pocket what ae claimed was an offer for $1,200 for all the property and demanded know whether any one was pre- red fo raise the bid, After @ few before proceeding with the division of the swag. Rape of shouted, “gold |" ‘Things did not pass off as easily Did Not Go to Workers as the deputies had hoped, for be-| The great A. F. of L. campaign fore they could make a get-away |Sot under way. Although Detroit the farmers surrounded their car and | never heard of it, it was the most held the three men captive. It was| novel battle of giants ever witnessed at this point that one of the depu-|in the history of the American labor silence, he city and state police, their courts, newspapers and radios in order to repel the attack. Not a single A. F. of L. organizer landed in jail. In fact, not a single A. F. of L. organizer went near a factofy or even spoke to an automobile worker. The first big gun fired by the A. F, of L. in their auto campaign can best be described in the words of James O'Connell, president of the metal trades department of the A. F, of L., in his report: “The president of the A. F. of L... deeided to try to reach the officials of some of the automobile manufacturing companies with a view to Inducing them to enter into a conference with US for the pur- pose of trying to negotiate an understanding that might result in lessening the opposition on the part of the officials of these com- panies to their employees being orzanized.” I ‘What were the arguments that these “courageous” organizers of the A. F. of L. used to persuade the em- ployers to allow them to organize their workers? The main argument used was that it would pay the auto- mobile manufacturers to permit the A. F. of ‘L, to organize their workers. As one vice-president of an interna- tional union put it, “It is pretty generally recognized that organization of labor under tigs whipped out his pistol. movement. Automobile workers did ‘After the men were held captive | not see the city flooded with leaflets by the farmers for about an hour, | calling on them to organize and fight Sheriff Lever arrived, taking his men|for better conditions. Auto workers out of hock, mumbling something | did not see nor hear of hundreds of about the sale being “postponed un-! shop gate meetings where A. F. of L. tf April 3) speakers brought the message of or- wise leadership is a stabilizing force that industry needs, Without responsible leadership, labor would be exposed to the wiles of profes- sional agitators of every stripe.” Another A. F. of L, official argues: “The American trade anion, duce a cheaper and better Ford car or any other American product.” In short, they offered their services to the auto manufacturers, as being better slave-drivers than the foremen and efficiency ¢xperts then em- ployed by the companies, The auto manufacturers refused the offer. The great A. F. of L. campaign came to an end. The A. F. of L. Again Offers Tts Services In 1938, the Auto Workers Union Jed a strike of oil sanders in the Fisher Body plant st Flint, Mich- igan, a6 part of the campaign to organize not only the Fisher Body plant, but the Buick plant as well. The rank and file membership of the Flint Federation of Labor wanted to co-operate. ‘They offered the use of their hall to the strikers. At the first meeting called in this hall, the workers found the hall locked and a sign posted, stating that auto workers must not meet there, by order of Frank Wade, president of the Mich- igan Federation of Lahoz. The hall was finally opened, after members of the Painters and Elec- trical Workers Union threatened to smach the doors. Later, the officials of the Flint Federation of Labor issued an attack on the Auto Work- ers Union in a pamphlet entitled “Americanism yersus Communism.” A list of firms which financed the publication of this pamphlet included the firms of the A. C. Spark Plug Co., Marvel Carburetor Company and the Buick Motor Company, General Motors building contractors built Wade a beautiful home in the city of Mlin* Since 1926, the Auto Workers Union has led every major strike of automobile workers in the country. It is the only organization that has worked persistently and patiently to build an organization of automobile workers and prepare the auto workers to strike against wage-cuts and for better conditions. In doing this work it had to overcome the lying propa- ganda of tho leaders of the A. F. of L.,, the I. W. W. and the Socialist Party. who claimed it was impossible to win strikes in time of depression and unemployment. ‘This year automobile workers in several plants felt that they were orgenived sufficiently to offer resis- tance to further wage cuts. The record of the Union this year is victory for every strike led by the Auto Workers Union. Manufacturers Look Around for Help Auto manufacturers are alarmed. The old system of slave-driving can not work against auto workers who are aroused and organized under the militant leadership of the Auto Work- ers Union. Stool-pigeons and com~- pany spies are no longer as effective against thousands of workess deter- mined to organize and fight. The automobile manufacturers are looking around for the help of A. F. of L, officials, with their seventeen different craft organizations claim~- ing jurisdiction in the auto ingustry, able to divide and confuse the workers, leaving them powerless before the organized might of the employers. The A. F. of L. policy of discrimination against Negro and foreign-born workers would help to further divide the workers. Automobile workers must not allow A. F. of L. fakers an opportunity to betray them ar-old mother | 2 13TH FOL _IS OUT ON STRIKE Ben Gold to Speak at | Friday Meet NEW YORK.—The Foltis-Fischy cafeteria at the corner of 104th Street and Broadway came out on strike |Yesterday. This is the 13th cafeteria that has come out on strike s0 far. Meanwhile, the bosses haye made application for an injunction ist the union and the strikers. ‘This comes on top of the contempt of court of order applied for by the bosses some weeks ago, and which is till pending A mass support of for Frida: Manha ecting of all worker: trike has been ca h 24 at 8 p. m. at ti an Lyceum at 66 Kast 4th St. Ben Gold, National Secretary of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union will be the main speaker. Workers are urged to come to the meeting and help the Foltis-Fischer strikers win their fight against the injunction, against the Contempt of er, and for their strike de- FORD TO SPEAK TO TOBACCO STRIKERS NEW YORK.—James W. Ford, Ne- gro leader of the Workers vicemen’s League will speak at the benefit entertainment and-dance to be given by the tobacco strikers of the Edwin Cigar Co. at the Finnish Hall, 156 West 126th Street, Friday, March 24. The 150 strikers are fight- ing a 35 per cent cut and have been out 100 per cent TIS SHOP | Ex-Ser-| | of work.” he activities of the former secret ice group within the departmer |of labor was only nominally intended to enforce the immigrant contrac labor law, its primary function wes |to carry on the most vicious ratds |and attacks on the foreign born for the purpose of driving them out of | jobs and out of the country. It was | organized by Mutray Gerson in 1920, jat @ personal invitation of Mr. |Doak, and consisted of 70 agent: | This special group is being dissolved in the present re-organization plan |of Miss Perkins and 16 men remain |in the immigration service to con- tinue the persecutions and deporta- tion drive st the foreign born. |LABOR UNION MEETINGS Dressmakers 4 knitgoods workers will the past year's: activities candidates for trade for the com! ing y! ship meeting wii take ing © Irving Plaga tonight ‘Thursday, 7 p.m. The knit’ | place at | goods workers meet at the union, 121 W. 28th St. tonigi All workers are urged to com: |imporant membership meetings the activities of the union, to ell objection :ommittees, and nominate can didates who will lead the union during the coming yeat. 2 office of tT p.m to these diseuss electio % 2 report on artment for the ndidates tor council an@ paid be held Thurs- board, exect | off The meeting will aay, 7 p.m. in Irving Plaza A membetship meeting of knitgoods work+ ers will be held on Thursday, 7 p.m. at the Office of the union, 131 W. 28th Bt. <8 | The Left Wing Group of Loc ing an open forum for Thursa at 140 West a6th St. to discuss th situation and the program of the Left Wing in the present elections. Arms Cut Off, Bones Crushed ion Jig Saw Puzzle Machine o Safty Devices, Speed Up, Send Workers and Boys to Hospitals By HOWARD CRAIG NEW YORK.—BSehind the harmless looking jig-saw puzsle, latest craze the American bourgeoisie have thrust upon the workers, lies a grisly tale of grief and horror, of workers’ bones crushed and fingers smashed, arms cut off and hands slashed, as a result of inhuman speed-up and negligence. Conforming to the best traditions of capitalist exploitation, running presses night and day at top speed without o— necessary safeguards, hiring in some, ‘© * cases inexperienced boys at much} es,” that do not stop automatically lower wuges, sacrificing every con-| Fe used. Those presses that have sideration in their frantic compete-|@utomatic devices meant for ordinary tive scramble for profit, the jig-saw| "ates of speed, do not stop when they printers have exacted a frightful toll|@@ speeded up. For these presses an in crippled, maimed and permanent-| @dditional safety brake is essential. ly disabled workers. | In most cases, the brakes are not pro- the jig-saw work. “Runnixg press- Deegan, whose entire right hand was| cut off at the wrist, while operating | a press in the C. H. Forsman shop at 318 W. 39th St. This was a re-| sult of the so-called “running press” which has no automatic stopping de- vice as some presses have. Anoth worker, named Faulk, lies) in Polyclinic Hospital, with five fin-| gers ground and smashed in a ma- c e of the Hollis Press firm, of 312 E, 2rd St. An i8-year-old boy lost his arm in a Hollis machine a few weeks ago. At the same shop, still another worker, had his entire arm so badiy crushed, while reaching in for a piece of cardboard caught in the machine, that it had to be ampu- tated Pete Portorico, who was hurt at the U. 8. Printing and Lithographing Co., 85 N. Third St., Brooklyn, was sent to the Greenpoint Hospital, In the Post Graduate Hospitel there is a worker who was hurt at Lieb’'s, a shop at 312 E. 23rd St. At Bingon and Freeman Co., in Leng Island City, two boys had t fin- Horrible Facts vided. In St. Vincent’s Hospital in Man- | Speed-up hattan, ‘there lies a worker, George| In order to increase the output, four men are put on a machine with @ control that can be operated by only one. This means that three men are supposed to co-ordinate their | Movements with those of one, a thing practically impossible of achievement every time. Also, in their holy haste to capitalize as much as possible the demand for puzzles, the jig-saw boss- es are hiring underpaid, inexperienced boys to operate the complicated press- es. Finally, as a result of the terti- fie speed-up, workers become qui¢kly exhausted, and when the bosses forte the workers on to more and more speed while tired, the accidents be- come inevitable. Most of the acci- dents have happened during the hours when bosses sleep, but workers are grinding out profits for them—the night shift. Having already driven the cultural level of the masses down to such a level where so great @ demand for jig-saw puzzles is possible, American capitalism finds & new opiate to keep the minds of the workers off their misery. gers crushed, ust a Few Cases These are but a few inst what happens in many shops thru- out the city, A score of others could| be listed. The Daily Worker knows definitely of at least eighteen stich “accidents” in New York, since the beginning of the year; an more there are is almost impossibl to tell. The bosses flood the country with every size, shape, and description, and grind out a horrible, human jig-saw puzzle, with workers’ arms and limbs as component parts—a puszle which can never be put together! Bve jig-saw worker, to keep his limbs from the clutches of the bosses, to protect his fellow workers, to fight geinst the horrible cenditions and tpeed-up, should immediately get in Sacrifice Workers for Machines touch with the Toy and Doll Work- Unwilling to spend the money for| ers Union at 266 Lafayette St., in new machinery, the printers are at-| New York City or at 1062 Broad St, tempting to adapt their old machines! in ‘Fenton, New Jersey. ? x ances of