The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 28, 1933, Page 3

Bread Price Profiteering Spreads DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933 MORE JOIN STRIKE IN STEEL, AUTO, | COAL INDUSTRIES FOR HIGHER PAY Foundry Strikers: Defeat Gangsters’ Threatened Attack 1,000 Out Solid Are Determined to Win Strike PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 27.—Car- | loads of gangsters were imported by the Walworth Foundry Co. at Greensburg, when the bosses refused to negotiate with the strike commit- tee on Monday. Riding through the town in big cars, they were preparing to attack the picket lines. Over 1,000 men are on strike under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, demanding higher pay and union recognition. Threats were sent to John Meldon, secretary of the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, one of the leaders of the strike. The strike committee sent out a general alarm for reinforcements re- sulting in a thoosand piikets assem- bling within 20 minutes. A bodyguard was thrown around Meldon and the local strike leaders, Morris and Conroy, to prevent a gangster attack. Striking United Mine Workers of America members ,in the vicinity rushed in machines and joined. the pickets. The picket line was like an armed camp all night, preparing for the gangster attack. By Tuesday morning terror evaporated, the gangsters dis- appeared, They are expected back soon, but the. workers are ready for them. The representative of the Greens- ‘burg business men, Yates, approached the strike committee on fouf differ- ent occasions, claiming to be impar- tial, and wanted to bring about a meeting between Mr. Coonley, presi- dent of the company, and the strike committee, The strike committee agreed to meet the company and to discuss the demands, The company sent back word with Yates that they would meet only with “any group of Wal- worth employees, regardless of the number. The committee interpreted this statement as non~ ition of the strike committee and an effort of the company to talk to the workers individually. The committee notified the com- pany through Yates that they would meet only as elected representatives of the strikers. This took place on Monday. During the day six machines: loaded with bosses’ representatives toured the city and the picket lines. After negotia- tions fell through many carloads of gangsters from Pittsburgh and else- where were brought in, Relief is needed badly. A soup kitchen has been set up feeding over 500 daily, functioning day and night. Pickets have thrown up tents sur- rounding the plant, getting ready for a long siege if necessary; This strike is decisive-in this dis- trict, and all organizations nationally are called upon to send strike relief to the Strike Committee, 1411 Broad St., South Greensburg, Pa. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Pitkin and Sutter Ayes, Brooklyn PHO! DICKENS 3-2013 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-8, 6-8 P.M. (Brooklyn) WORKERS—EAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria ‘ 1688 PITKIN AVENUE Nesr Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, W. ¥. Williamsburgh Comrades Weleome De Luxe Cafeteria 94 Graham Ave. Cor. Siegel St. EVERY BITE A DELIGHT 2 CAMP WINGDALE, N. Y. Take Advantage of the Last Week in Gain in Relief Made 7 by Hillsboro Miners | HILLSBORO, Ill.—A delegation of 200 miners representing various min- ing towns, won an increase in relief | of 10 per cent and a restoration of | milk when they appeared before the | County Relief Board here. The dele- | gation was led by the Unemployed | Councils. | Recently the county discontinued | distribution of flour and milk. With | the rise in prices the miserable relief | of $2.50 to $3 for a large family was totally inadequate. 1,000 Radiator Co. Workers inBayonne N. J. Go on Strike | Boss Shuts DownPlant; Workers Demanding Higher Pay BAYONNE, N. J., Sept. 27—Around ‘1,000 workers of the American Radi- ‘ator Co. here walked out yesterday | demanding a 25 per cent pay increase. About 1,400 workers are employed at ‘this plant. When the bosses received news of : the strike a poster was put up read- ing: “Plant closes at 3 pm.” The workers walked out at 2 p.m. Previously the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union held three meetings of the workers in the plant. One meeting was attended by 700 workers, Demands were drawn up at this meeting and a committee elected to see the boss to present the work- ers’ dmands. About 800 met at the shop gate this morning. Previously a company union had been formed in the plant, with delegates elected favoring the com- pany’s policy. The A. F. of L, sent two of its or- ganizers to try and break the strike by telling the men to go to the NRA. offices to “arbitrate” their grievances. The Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union in a leaflet distributed to the strikers urges the men to re- call the company delegates, and to elect a broad strike committee, to conduct mass picketing in front of the shop. | The offices of the-union are at 10 |W. 22d St., Bayonne, N. J, | Jacob Camp Dies; Was Party Charter Member GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, — Jacob Camp (Korf), railroad worker and a charter member of the Communist+ Party, died here suddenly on Satur- day, Sept. 16, of heart disease. He was 47 years old, Camp was for many years a mem- ber of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive [ngineers and #iremen and was at one time a member of the Central Committee and the District Committee of the Party. About 400 workers attended his funeral last Wednesday which was arranged by his brotherhood local with the cooperation of the Commu- nist Party. Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 3m FLOOR All Work Dome Under Personal Care of Dr. C. Weissman WILLIAM BELL Optometrist SANDWICH SOLS “tonca 101 University Place (Just Around the ‘Corner) UNITY COMMUNIST PARTY MONTH Spend Indian Summer, the Most Beautiful Season of the Year Amid the Berkshire Hills VACATION RATE: $18. ie Real iipeme - Hidng. Warn ond Gold 00 Per Week (incl. Tax) WEEK-END RATES: 1 Day - - $2.45 Oars leave for Camp from 2700 Bronx Pai 10A.M,3 P.M, 7 P.M, Take Lexini Stop at ‘Allerton Avenue Station, Round Trip: To Unity F APEX CAFETERIA 827 Broadway, Between 12th and 18th Streets All Comrades Should Patronize This OOD WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION SHOP 2 Days - - $4.65 (incl. Tax) rk East every day at 10 A. M. and Saturday ston Avenue White Plains Roard Express. station. To Nitgedaiget - - - $2.00 gle against Arkansas-Okla. “No Strike” Order Lewis Aid Returns But Is Greeted With Boos and ‘‘No’s” FORT SMITH, Ark., Sept. 26— Howled down by 2,000 Arkansas- !Oklahoma miners when he returned from Washington and spoke at a mass meeting urging them to go ‘Miners Howl Down. | | back under the code, David Fowler, | UMWA president of district 21, said e would go to each local and at- tempt to send.the men back under the code. Delegates of 21 U. M. W. A. locals voted for a strike last week while Fowler was in Washington helping draw up in the soft coal code, The wages provided for Arkansas-Okla- homa miners was the old scale of $3.75. In the Spadra coal fields, John- son County, 1,500 joined the strike. Several thousand more are out in Sebastian County. “I have no apology to make for either myself or Lewis,” Fowler said in trying to get the men to accept the slave code and wage agreement. Boos and jeers greeted him from the 2,000 miners. Fowler started to speak, but was repeatedly heckled, Riled by the miners‘ disgust with his attempt to put over the slave code, Fowler bawled out, “For God's sake, shut up before you show your ignorance.” Fowler quoted the Southwest Times-Record of Fort Smith, an operators’ paper, which said that “Lewis is the greatest labor leader in the country.” He then made an appeal to the men to return to work. A chorus of “No's” resounded from the hall. “The president appeals to you to go to work,” retorted Fowler. Again the miners shouted, “No, Tell him, no! Tell him no!” “We won't return to work until they give us a living wage and promise not to fine us for striking.” “If you don’t go to work the gov- ernment will send men in to make you go to work,” Fowler shouted flaming with anger. Fowler n changed his tactics. “I don’t bl the miners for being mad,” he said. “They have got a dirty deal. I am going to put this to a vote to see if you men won't go back to work.” Only a few scattered hands, mainly of Fowler's so-called “old guard,” went up. “I won’t bother with you any longer,” shouted Fowler, as he hustled out of the hall surrounded by his henchmen. Many Tickets Sold for Banquet Nygard Will Attend Oct. 18 NEW YORK. — Although the “Vote Communist” banquet at which Emil Nygard, Communist mayor of Crosby, Minnesota. will speak, is more than three weeks October a off, , at New Star Casino, workers and their organi- zations are rushing to make reservations. Section 2 of the Communist Party has reserved ten tables or 100 seats. Sections 1 and 15 have made reservations of five tables each. The Daily Worker print shop and many organizations. have ordered tickets. The Communist Election Cam- paign Committee, 799 Broadway, through its manager, Carl Brodsky yesterday urged all workers and groups who wish to attend the ban- quet at which beside Nygard. Rob- ert, , Earl Browder, Williana Burroughs and Ben Gold will speak, to make reservations immediately. Tickets, which include a seven course dinner, music, theatre and dance entertainment are one dollar. The Negro People an By WILLIAM L, PATTERSON. sf United States Congress Against War will meet in New York City Because the danger of a new world war learest expression formulated by the workers, farmers, and anti-war elements, The Con- the greatest pos- unite these elements & com:mon program of strug- of this will do, If to express an ocf- Fighting Wage Cut in Ford Chester, Pa., Plant a week. 3 A group of the 6,000 Ford workers who went on strike in Chester, Pa., when Ford, under the N. R. A. code, reduced hours to 32 a week and slashed pay accordingly. The men are demanding a minimum of $25 Executive Board of the Unemployed dropped a number of its applicants, from the relief rolls. The unem- ployed organization protested against this outrage and already gained aid for 400 families who were previously eliminated. A re-registration is now being made to ascertain the number who have been dropped. inadequate to meet the steady sky rocketing of prices on food products, A considerable increase adequate to meet the needs of the jobless is asked for by the Unemployed Coun- cils. Relief distribution here suffers the same’ as in other communities. At best the county cares only for a small portion of the unemployed. The constant danger that relief will be stopped and the shifting of re- sponsibility to other government bodies, makes it necessary to develop |@ coordinated program on a na- tional basis. This can best be achieved through a system of unemployment insur- ance, The federal government, by levying taxes on the wealthy could raise the necessary funds whereby every family will receive a weekly stipend in cash to live on. The councils are active in getting support in its campaign to compel the government to adopt the workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. A de- mand for a minimum of “10 weekly for every adult, plus $3 for each de- pendent” is contained in the Work- ers bill. A number of evictions were re- cently stopped here. An attempt to sell the belongings of Abraham Orma, a.farmer in Patton Town- ship, was stopped by the immediate intervention of the workers. In Ambridge, Pa., five hundred workers attended a meeting called by the Unemployed Council. Over two hundred have signed in the or- ganization. A victory was scored .| the N.A.A.C.P, in the World War (De nations,” “a war for the right of oppressed peoples to govern them- when single men heretoforé fed only on slop in the soup kitchens are now given a dollar food order weekiy. Allegheny County Relief Increased by 20 Per Cent Workers Make Gains Because of Organization | in Unemployed Council; Conduct Campaign for Federal Unemployment Insurance PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The insistent pressure for more relief brought the promise from the County Relief Board at its monthly meeting with the will be made in jobless relief. This will bring the weekly allowance per person in a family to $1.10 and for single people $1.15. The county board, however, has®— The increase in relief is totally| Councils, that a 20 percent increase 2 Negroes Fired from Dress Shop; LilyWhite| ILGU Will Do Nothing NEW YORK.—Two Negro workers | were fired recently from the Mo-| daine Frock Co., at 571 Eighth Ave., | an NRA shop controlled by the Inter- | national Ladies Garment Union, | | They compained at the NRA of- fice where they were told the boss |cannot be prevented from firing any- |body he feels like. These workers felt they had a claim on the I. L. G. U, since they were union members. When the agent pulled their shop down during the general strike, they went with the others to Bryant Hall, even when he told them they didn't have to go along. They didn’t realize the agent was following the line of constant | | discrimination of Negro workers pur- | sued by the I, L. G, U. But they are certain of this dis- crimination now, When they com- plained to the I, L, G, U. officials they were emphatically told that nothing can or will be done about their being fired from the shop, even though it is controlled by the | International. HUNGER AND FORCED LABOR By a Worker Correspondent SOUTH CHICAGO, Ill—In the little old house known as the Port | of South Chicago Association of | Commerce, on the Calumet River | by the gateway of great industrial set-up, workers are forced to eat twice a day things that it is not| expire, they have to go to work | the bosses five hours for 25 cents! to have their tickets renewed. imperilled. NEWS BRIEFS Bishop Opposes Arms Cuts. LONDON, Sept. 27.—Apprehensive of Hitler's warlike preparations and the Nazi foreign policy, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Bishop of Winchester, is- sued a warning note in his presi- dential address to the dicesan con- ference. He condemned the Nazis’ “persecution of Jews on account of race and religion, cruelty to political opponents, repression of individual liberty and unscrupulous attempt to destroy the independence of Austria.” He advised against any reduction in armaments. Balbo Plans Moscow Flight. MOSCOW, Sept. 27—It was reli- | ably reported here that Marshal Italo Balbo is planning to duplicate his American feat by leading the same Armada on a flight across Europe to Moscow. POUGHKEEPSIE, Sept. 27.—Dense fog over the river caused the Swedish freighter Roxena to collide with the Starvation i n Page Threw Cities PROFITEERING IN CITY BREAD Sho t Weight, Adulterated Quality Common S. Official Points Out; Housewives Organize Resistance WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. country reducing the weight of their ‘ot only are large bakeries throughout the bread loaves, and adulterating their quality, but unmistakable evidences of bread price gouging exist, according to Dr. Howe of the Government Agric’ ultural Adjustment Administration. In an effort to maintain high ptofits under the Roosevelt processing tax “Sugar Buying Drops; | Indicates Falling Living Standards Indicating a falling standard of living for the working class, the amount of sugar consumed during the month of August fell 8.2 per cent below last year, it was reported today. The amount of sugar consumed is considered by economic experts a very sensitive index of the living standards of a community. Partic- ularly, it is considered a good indi- cator of the food consuming stand- ards of the population The price of sugar has been rising | since March, | | |Steamer Rams Hudson Liner. | the | | | on wheat milling, large bakers are reducing their “pound” loaves to 10 and 12 ounces, Dr. Howe said. Roosevelt Raises Prices. ‘The Roosevelt tax program has re+ sulted in an increase of 1-3 cents per pound in ,the price of bread throughout the country, an advance of 16-25 per cent. The Roosevelt Government taxes wheat milling and then with the pro-~ ceeds of the tax pays the rich farm- ers to destroy wheat in order to raise bread prices to produce profits for the rich farmers and the big baking companies. The Roosevelt Government is also “dumping” wheat abroad in order to reduce the amount of wheat in this country, also to raise the price of bread. In addition to the adulteration of bread, there is developing large dis- | parities between bread prices in vari- 1500 Prisoners in Philadelphia Riot, Fire Cells Hundreds of State Po-| lice Hunt Escaped Ind. Prisoners PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 27— Eastern Penitentiary, where 1,500 long-term prisoners are incarcerated, was turned into a virtual yesterday, just before midnight, when a riot started against punishment for | some of the men. Smoke and flame belched from the cells as mattresses, bedding and furnishings were ignited. For over three hours the institution was in an uproar. Led by Warden Herbert J. (Hard- | Boiled) Smith, over 300 city police, augmented by state troopers, battled the rioters. It was only with the aid of three fire companies that the men were finally subdued. Some of them were nearly drowned by the force of water. About twenty were wounded, of whom half had to be taken to the hospital. The warden immediately relieved | Hudson River night boat, Rensselaer. | the polive, saying that they were busy Six passengers were hurt and 127|/2andling numerous strikes in the * * Roosevelt Rests. NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—-After spending the day disentangling him- self from ticker tape and attending | @ farewell dinner with his son James, President Roosevelt is reported to be city “Long sentences and overcrowding’ is given as the reason for the riot | by Deputy Warden Meikranz. “We've | got 216 lifers in here and others serv- ing 70 to 140 years, 60 to 120 and such like,” the deputy warden told. he te MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 27.— resting easily at his Hyde Park res-|Of the ten prisoners who made their idence. Italian Earthquake Kills 19. escape from Indiana State Prison, four are believed cornered near Ches- terton, Ind. Of the others, five are believed hiding near Wanatah, Ind., ROME, Sept. 27.—Nineteen persons|ang the whereabouts of the tenth were killed and over 200 injured by| man is unknown. the earthquake in. the Abruzzi Moun- The men had made a dash for free- tain regions. Hundreds are made|qom fro mthe prison shirt factory, homeless and still other hundreds| Where they were working. Four of | are sleeping in the open fields in| the prisoners escaped in a car and fear of further tremors. Jobless Council in |Re-Open Barlow Case, 4 territory near Chesterton in search | took the sheriff with them. Hundreds of the state police and leputy sheriffs are surrounding the of the escaped men. | PAPE RCA Ft. Worth Demands On Saturday the Daily Worker has FORT WORTH, Tex. — Branding the recent gre fury investigation into the death of T. E. Barlow, mur- dered unemployed leader, as a white- wash, the Unemployed Council of this 8 pages. Increase your bundle order for Saturday! Davis has announced that he con- city is circulating petitions demanding | siders the case closed. arrested with two others for “unlaw- ful assembly.” Assistant District Attorney Dawson fit for dogs to eat. And then|, new inquiry. Barlow received fatal | when their so-called meal tickets |{njuries in jail two days after being | ¢ Workers’ organizations all over the ountry should join the Fort Worth Unemployed Council in demanding that Assistant District Attorney Davis re-open the case, The Negro People Are the Strongest Allies of Those Who Fight Against War and Oppression; American Imperialism Fears the Uprising of the Negro Masses in War Time employment and hunger. Herein lies the significance of the Congress Against War to the most exploited section of the American population, the Negro people, whose economic and political status was never lower. America has never fought a war without a specific appeal being made to the loyalty and patriotism of the Negro masses. In every war time crisis the rulers of America have promised Negroes freedom. They have called upon the misleaders among the Negro people to echo these promises in order hetter to hold the masses in line. The voice of Booker T. Washington in 1898 and of Major Moton of Tuskegee, bama, and W.E.B, De Bois of Bois’ “Close Ranks” editorial, the Crisis, 1907; Major Moton’s speeches at Camp Upton and in France) echoed the lies of the war makers who said to the Negroes, “This is a war for democracy out of which will come full social, political and eco- nomic equality for you,” and “This is a war for the freedom of small ation.” The tactics of the ruling class were not accidental. Not without good cause did they fear the revolt of the Negro masses in time of war. The Negro masses today face the coming war as they faced those which have gone before. They are still enslaved; they remain the victims of jim-crow- ism, peonage, the chain gang sys- tem and debt slavery, Their cultural development is retarded by the al- most unbearable conditions in the "nigger towns” in which they are forced to live. These. hells of pov- erty and degradation, with their rat and roach infested houses, have no sanitary provisions. ‘There are no paved streets or sidewalks and few, if any, street lights. No parks, no hospitals, no libraries. These “nigger towns” are hotbeds of prostitution and of vice. Cultural development is impossible. Negro Masses Fight for Freedom is in such a position that the Negro people have faced every war. Rightfully they can be called the weak link of the American war makers, Rightfully, therefore, they can be also called the strongest ally of those who are against wars of selves, for the right of self-determin- oppression. ® Every war has brought forth the revolutionary possibilities within the Negro masses. In 1776, as slaves, they fought with the colonists for the freedom of America, impelled by their own love of freédom and by} the colonists’ promises of liberty. But having helped the white work- ers to achieve some measure of demo- cratic rights, they were themselves pushed deeper into slavery. As revolutionists they fought in more than thirty slave uprisings up to 1860. In 1860-65, they fought for the Northern victory by withdrawing their labor from the plantations. That is why, with America’s entry into the World War, a special social campaign was launched among the Negro people. They were promised all kinds of advantages, all release from their oppression—after the war. And the Negro misleaders, Moton, Du Bois, joined in these false prom- ises. And after the war these promises were droned in the wild cry of delib- erately stimulated “race riots” and lynch provocations. oe Je The new world war is already here. Japan is in China and Manchuria, preparing for an attack upon the Soviet Union. America, fearful that d the U. S. Congress Against War ° she will be robbed of her “right” to rob China, has sent her battle-fleet to the Pacific Ocean as a warning to Japan. Naval intimidation and in- tervention is prepared as a guarantee for the continuance of industrial and financial intervention in Cuba. Eng- land and America have provoked a whole series of armed struggles in South America, in an effort to win these markets. Tens of thousands of the homeless, unemployed youth of America are forced into reforestration camps under military discipline in preparation for further fighting. The Congress Against War must show the Negro masses that the wars they have heretofore fought as a revolutionist for freedom have ended at a Peace Table where the question of their freedom was never reached. The Negro masses are against war for the enslavement of others as well as of themselves. This history of revolutionary struggle here is proof of their willingness to fight for free- dom, They are a formidable enemy of American imperialism. They are the greatest allies of the native and foreign born white enemies of im- perialist wars. The Congress must definitely bring these factors into the foreground. It must deal a smashing blow to the traditional al- liance of the American white worker with American capital around the question of the Negro’s inferiority. It must help to solidify the Negro masses together with the white work- ers, foreign and native born, into an irresistible force against imper- jalist war, Y inferno | ous cities. In Indianapolis, bread is 6 cents a pound, while in Scran- ton bread is 9.2 cents a pound. ‘These sharp advances in the cost of basic foods meet with increas- ing resistance from housewives and workers, who are organizing picket lines in front of bakeries and dairies. demanding lower prices. 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