The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 5, 1934, Page 6

age Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1934 AS ONE AIR-PILOT TO ANOTHER This column is a weekly which deals with all the branches of the aviation indus- try. It will appear every Sat- derived f ivileged few by a stent and Vicious exploita i ation worker: n of The ind ar air passe effort to much ri the jitte: doors were Parade of efficien countants and clanking medals and the well pull gave a startling exhibition of how to wreck a business kept Codes Better than Axe The red and the jitter: so the profound exec the axe and started, as the operating person: om bottom up—not too far up—the workers as usual getting the worst of it. Then the professional poli- tical wailers wept on Uncle Sam's shoulder at so much per weep, for mail subsidies and acquiring these they proceeded to parcel the pork among the select few. The inde- pendent operators who increased, ives pol i Haliburton, but the rest were just out of luck. Fields were deserted, hangars padlocked, workers fired and air transportation became the closed monopoly of a few manufacturing and operating companies. The axe kept swinging on the workers in field and factory until the N. R. A. codes were submitted by the manu- facturers. After that the axe was buried—the codes did a better job for the bosses. for the licensed mechanic under the code was 14 dollars per week and Mr. Boeing, who made millions in aviation, in a few years, sobbed sym- pathétically that a higher wage he industry defense, etc. -Rould or jeopar- ‘dise BY A GROUP OF PILOTS screamed | Joud enough were bought off as per | The minimum wage | AND MECHANICS We invite pilots, urday. workers, all aircraft mechanics, of others connected with the avia- write tion industry to to us, over ion dc and then id codes for the employees positively insulting. The obvious. The workers organized and therefore ed. Plane speed was approximately 125 ur to 180 miles per hour, were placed on an hourly ite the former mile- mechanics were is pel t made the aviation work- the necessity of an or- f they are to remain in y at a living wage. They have organized and struck at a number of points. They are} militantly fighting back in Hartford and Buffalo and other places. T have seen the old mutual admira- tion, social and company societi collapse under the necessity of de- termined and collective action, They have formed and are forming in- dependent unions that reflect a militant and intelligent understand- ing of the economic problems of the aviation workers. U ion of the Whole Industry It is, however, becoming more ob- vious that the organization of the| aviation employees must follow the same complete method of the avia-| tion combines linking together both} manufacturing and operating activ- ities in a common objective. From the pilot in the air to the engineer, mechanic, radio, student, office, traffic, etc, factory and field—all} united in one economic purpose, each functioning in its own section within a single unified organization. | | A federation of all aviation em- | ployees is the answer. There is no argument for hesita-| tion. | Organize now and demand that| your collective voice be heard in the future economic conditions of the aviation employee in every section of the industry. | A GROUP OF | | . AVIATION WORKERS. | MILITANT VOICES FROM THE MINING PATCHES Dear Comrade Helen Luke: When our column first began many of us women here in the mining field used to razz it but now we see that under your direction it is coming through as a real in- fluence: the other day when we were i how it is getting good, ‘Why can’t we women work toward a real Women’s Page? Surely we will have the support of chy BY | LUKE | sample copies to the women in such | and such a mining patch.” | These women should also them-j selves subscribe to the paper to/ know what we mine workers are) fighting for. Women who are al- ready organized can buy bundles and sell or distribute them. At) the same time let’s work toward a| Woman’s Page with one corner./| ‘From the Mining Field.” A MINER'S WIFE | A MINER'S MOTHER | cause the School Board decided to | fire certain Workers Gain Vote Steel Trust Owns Officials |Win Recosnition | PARTY LIFE Despite Manenyers And Mines in Gogebic Range Of Relief Workers’| Plan to Aid Y.C.L. Build Up of Bosses’ Party By a Mine Worker Correspondent GALLUP, N. Mex.—I am wr a few lines in what t workers can do when they get down to exp! and really try. We workers in G lup put out a United Front ticket for City Elections. Right away part of the gang rule came out with an independent ticket and called it a workers’ ticket and stickers saying, Do Away with Boss Rule.” Lots of the workers got confused and they did not know what to do. Anyway the workers came out with ov: votes apiece, in spite of the fact} that the Party was put to the front} in every meeting in the last few] weeks before the election. The damn rats in office put lots| of men to work in the city with the} promise to vote for the damn rats} and in spite of the fact that they) voted for them, three days after the election they were all laid off. had promised them 18 months so I hope lots of these work next time remember that they sold their vote for a few days work with| a pick. If you don’t move them out) of office, you will die looking for election jobs, so why don’t we join| the Communist Party and fight for| a Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern-| ment. Why can't we see that they are making it worse every day? Are we going to let this take place any more? I should say not. I think every one has had to learn and by the time these rats get out of office we will know more. Remember that these men put back in office are the ones who called the strong arm of the state to crush the miners when they were on strike, and comrades, until we unite, they will keep doing so. We, the workers are the producers | and we must get our part of every-| thing. Miners Children Picket School Board; Strike Till Teachers Return (By a Miner Correspondent) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa.— Children | of miners went on strike here be- teachers and replace them with the wives of some of the politicians of our town. Our chil-| dren struck for three days and won every demand, because they had no misleaders in their union as we have in our United Mine Workers of America. Our children picketed the homes of the School Board and when some of the School Board members failed to come to the strike meeting to an- swer charges against them, the children went direct to their homes | and got them to the meeting and at the meeting the children them- selves took the floor and told the School Board that they better make | their minds up quick and rehire all A MINER'S DAUGHTER Avella, Pa. the C. P. in this, and the added support of all the women in towns where we have not as yet a Party. If all women who read and use the column would take the Daily into their organizations and use it there, we could not only have a Woman's Page by September e could also have some Party units where we have now only D. W. readers un- organized. “The women should stay at home and not participate in any organization or struggles of the miners,” says Lewis. Comrades, we can’t eat that advice nor will it cover our starving bodies. We know full well what the N. R. A. did and is doing for us: guns of improved make, and cheaper tear gas being made in large quantities | now for use against the workers. | So we must organize, and organ- | | ize into women’s auxiliaries here in| || the mining field and take part in| the economic and political strug-| gles just as the rich women do but | with the addition of our workers’ persistence learned in face of their || machine guns and tear gas and| police dogs. | We have proved our strength | on the picket lines, and comrades, | we must use our power. Three or | four women on an organizing committee around every mine | could turn the patches upside down. No wonder Lewis docs | not want the auxiliaries organ- ‘ized! Let us start some discussion | through this column on organizing | }) women’s auxiliaries in every U.M. |} W.A. local. We want to bring to || the attention of the comrades a| “The Rank | Can You Make ’Em Yourself? 12, 14, 16, 18, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40, 39 inch fabric and 5g yard contrast- ing. MTlustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included. | paper just out again |, and File Coal Digger.” We should all see to it that | we support the “Coal Digger” so that news like this (from the N. ¥. Times, Jan, 21, 1934) can't come out of the mining field: “Officials of the United Mine | Workers of America were so con- | | fident that the backbone of the strike would be broken next week that they arrange to leave here for the international con- vention in Indianapolis.” The Rank and File Coal Digger \4s a guide to action against such | | conventions of strike-breakers who | claim to speak in the name of the | miners, and we wives of miners | should make ourselves agents for| Pattern 1781 is available in sizes | Size 16 takes 3% yards]; such a paper, give it all possible | help, see that it is published often |and sent through the mining field. |. The address of The Rank and |File Coal Digger is 929 Fifth Ave., | Pittsburgh, Pa There are many ways in which | women not in the mining field can} |help. For instance, in other or- |ganizations they can raise money jand send it to the paper (The R. “Send | land F, Coal Digger) and sa i Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write | plainly name. address and_ style number. BE SURE TO STATE THE SIZE. | Address Orders to Daily Worker | Pattern Department. 243 West 17th Street, New York City. | the dismissed teachers, and that at the next strike meeting they would jnot handle the school board as | gentle as they did now. == | | The Bosses’ May Day | | When the 5,000 Pioneers marched jinto Union Square on May Day, the workers burst into cheers, And | other people besides the workers |had to notice the Pioneers too, The reporters did, for instance. They made several cracks in their Stories of the parade. And the big chief of the New York newspapers, the “Times,” published a long edi- torial called, “A Children’s May Day.” ; It is awful, says the editorial, that | in spite of the fact that May 1) | has been set aside by the govern- | ment for six years as Child Health Day, it is not observed enthusias- tically. (In all New York City,| —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—— | Join the Daily Worker Puzzle Club, by working out and sending | in the puzzle. Across, 1. A cheer. 4. Bother 6. 1050 in Roman numerals 7. N.R.A. cuts our fathers’ | 8. Who helps the Scottsboro boys? | 10. Capable | ship which was recently in New York Down 1. A small bread 2. A dear comrade who used to write for the New Pioneer. His operetta was produced last November 3. The first name of one of the Scottsboro boys. 5. Everyone should read the —— Wo! 6. Something workers’ need and don’t get. 9. A wall to stop the flow of water. children Air Cold and Wet, Dry Houses Poor and Dirty And Mines Miles From Town By a Miner Correspondent IRONWOOD, Mich. — The steel st has for years run the works on has even laid the large public build- ings to cover up the best iron ore deposits. These make the surface value of this land expensive. The smaller companies are incapable of moving or rebuild- ing the million dollar schools and are out of the picture. All Gogebic Range officials are Steel Trust men, as well as all small town and county and school board officials. But already now we hear | grumblings that all is not well with the all controlling trust. Water and i beginning to bu church breaking, and the ground is begin- ning to cave in. Mines are stopped near the town and those that are running are 214 to 3 mi':s from town. The Steel Trust rived to its hearts content, wherever it pleased, and now prac- tically the entire town is under- mined with drifts. The mines that are running are new and wet. The air is cold and damp. The dry houses are poor and dirty, and some of them are a half! public buildings | By a Worker Correspondent PRINCETON, Ind. — In Gipsom | a mile away from the shaft. The| County, Ind., we have organized the | miners have to walk this distance in| workers that are working under the winter with their working clothes| new relief plan. Last week the men| soaking wet. The dry houses are too| decided that they would demand the | cold to dry the cloths, as the head|50 cents per hour instead of the 40 man in the heating plant is too tight | cents the relief set, so the first day | | with the steam (saving money for| on the job a strike was called. There | the company) | were 85 men on the job. All of them| If a man walks to work, his work-| responded to the strike call except day is 12 hours long from the time ome 8 or 10. he leaves home and gets back again.| Well, we soon pulled them into| | "The bus fare is 20 to 30 cents a day.|Jine and the job was shut down. Now news has “leaked out” that|The Relief had a man sent down| wages are going up 10 per cent and that we are to get 12 days work }@ month, and 5 days a week and that men will be added to the mines near town. This sort of news has probably come from some company source to keep the miners in hope. Last spring we had the same sort of Well, we met him and the rest of his | bunch in our hall. He wanted the} local Board set, but they refused, so} he told them if they did not accept} that they would take the relief out} jof the county. They set another |promises before the mines closed | entirely. The miners of the Gogebic Range are faced with the problem of or- ganizing a strong union through wage, a shorter work day with no reduction in weekly earnings, warm and clean d: the mine, and against the inhuman speed-up practiced in all the mines. Join the National Miners Union. ' —A Steel Trust Miner. ‘Tulsa Salt Miners Find NRA, Compa AFL, ny Controlled By a Salt Miner Correspondent WEST TULSA, Okla. — Judge Warren, A. F. of L. State President, of Oklahoma, who consented to issue a charter after salt workers had organized themselves, pulled the rawest sellout ever known among A. F. fo L. misleaders. Upon organizing, the workers were given to understand that no one would be discharged for union activities under the N.R.A., and when this happened in the case of Claude Pruitt, shift foreman, who was especially active in getting his men into the union, the workers were told that they had a griev- ance and the A. F. of L. heads referred the matter to the Regional Board, who decided to try the case in Kansas City, Mo., where it would be impossible for workers and wit- nesses to attend. Alabama Mine Tri To Trick Miners Into Company Union By a Mine Worker Correspondent BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co.’s, Wylan Mine, a coal mine of 2,400 workers, this happened just before the strike. Nearly 60 days ago, the bosses, such as the superintendent and other Officers, did all they could to force the miners to sign a paper, we called it a yellow dog or company union contract. Last Thursday, when the miners asked for their pay statements, they were again rigidly asked to go to another window and sign anew, to pay the doctor’s bill. The workers see in this that it was another fake way of the bosses to take advantage of the workers to get between them and the United Mine Workers’ of America. However, not many signed anew for the doctor's bill, | WITH OUR YOUNG READERS only 400 school children took part in the Child Health Day Maypole celebration). It tells how awful it is that on May Day the streets are filled with banners blaming the capitalist system that has done so much for the children! Do you know how the N. Y. Times talks about the children? It calls them “the children who look with joy- ous and innocent eyes into the fu- ture!” Is that a laugh or is that a laugh? Then the editorial goes on to tell what some of the states have done for the children during the past year. One state has had a dental survey of school children. Another has had doctors examine the chil- dren in 2-3 of the counties. Did we need examinations to tell us most children in this country are un- healthy becau:: they don’t have enough to eat? Then after the examination, did the government give free food and medical and dental care to the millions of undernourished chil- dren? You know the answer, The “Times” wants to know why all the children “saved under our system” don’t march. Well, May Ist was a workers’ holiday before it was Child Health Day, and on May 1st, workers’ children march. And how many workers’ children | have been “saved” by this system? And should those children still alive thank the government that they haven't starved to death yet? On May Day workers’ children marched to protest all the condi- tions that workers’ children face— undernourishment, firetrap homes and schools, overcrowded classes, fascism, and war. Workers’ children cannot cele- brate Child Health Day in capi- talist America. In Soviet America, | every day will be Child Health Day. Martha Campion. A New Contest Wasn’t it a glorious May Day? Throughout the United States workers were marching. Did you march too? Write a letter telling us what happened in your part of the country on May Day. The most interesting letter will be published and its writer will receive a prize. And you can pick your own, too! | Here they are: a Pioneer emblem, a Pioneer song book, or Kamo, the story of a great revolutionist, The workers took a strike vote when it was found impossible to get them to have the hearing in Tulsa and Judge Warren informed the workers that they could expect no cooperation from the A. F. of L. in strike benefits or other ways, as they had agreed to a “no strike” policy. Nothing at all was said as to the justness of the grievance and the delay of months to get action on the case, and the flagrant manner in which the Texas Com- pany had overridden the workers’ rights under the N.R.A. (supposed rights). This is what the workers must expect of A. F. of L. leaders who are judges, office seekers and cor- poration lawyers. Although the strike vote was de- feated by one vote only (even after Judge Warren demanded a three- fourths majority), the workers have found what to expect under the NUR.A. and the A. F. of L. mis- leaders. All are company con- trolled. | Rather Starve Than To Take C.W.A. Job,” Says Helper, Utah, Miner By a Mine Worker Correspondent a few days on account of pay. The company decided to call the miners and promised those willing to work that they will get paid. About C. W. A. here in Helper I open some more can't | that, just those that didn’t join our| which we can fight for a higher for | : ; 7 houses close to| t© recognize our union and our de- HELPER, Utah.— Mutual mine| | Strike is settled, which was on for) nj, understand that they are going to up some project and put on men, but it isn’t going to pay than 30c per hour. But they! get union men to work for day for the men to start back on the job. There were 14 out of 86 went back} to work, so we picketed the job but failed to pull them off. | Well, before we crganized, the re-| lief would only recognize an indi-| vidual but now they have agreed ;mands of 50 cents are going to be | settled right here in our own town. | We have learned one thing out of | | our trouble. Give the men the right kind of leadership. Even though the majority of them have had no} dealings with a union they are ready | to struggle. Things are looking bet- | ter here since we got organized though there is still plenty of room for improvement. “We Are Now Awake” Says Member of PMA By a Mine Worker Correspondent HILLSBORO, Ill.— Here is some news about Local 42 of the Progres- sive Miners of America. The P. M. A. had to get the local State’s At- torney to collect compensation due to the miners as a result of injuries receive while at work here. ‘The men here have begun to won- der where the great brain trusters | are like Mr. Dowel, Leal Reese, Mr. |Claude Pearcy, Joe Goetz, the} |super bond salesman Ed. Bohne, of | Peabody fame, and last but not| | least, the super brain Joe Pieck, bet- | ter known as a labor disrupter. Do | we not pay a flock of shyster law- |yers thousands of hard-earned dol- | lars? For what? Super-injunctions, etc. Well, we have slept long and are jow awake. Look out brain trust, | the fight is on till you are com- pletely exposed and fired. Of course, there are many more fakers in the machine but we will not forget any NOTE We publish letters from coal and ore miners, and from oil field workers every Saturday. We urge workers in these fields to Rank and File union yet. You} could easily count those in Helper who didn’t sign up yet. So fellow | workmen, I’d rather starve before I! | work for 30c—and I won't starve! write us of their conditions of work and of their struggles to organize. Please get your letters to us by Wednesday of each week. Conducted by Mary Morrow, Chil- dren’s editor, The Daily Worker, 50 East 13th St., New York City. Robert has been reading in his history book: “This is a free country. All people are free and equal.” He thinks of his father in the factory. He works so hard for so little money, That his mother must scrub floors in the homes of other people. After school Robert gets tory. Hundreds of tired workers his wagon and goes out to pick | ate coming out. There are cops firewood. at the gate. Why? At 6 o'clock he passes the fac- Union in Indiana | National Youth Day Meeting To Fight Efforts of Bourgeoisie to Win the Workingclass Youth to ‘““New Deal At the last meeting of the Party | Section Committee of Hudson County, N. J.. a discussion was held | on National Youth Day a tremen- dous demonstration against im- perialist war and for the defense | of the Soviet Union. The Young} Communist League is, as yet, very} weak here, (it was organized only two months ago and has only four | Party decided to activize the entire | membership for National Youth sistance to the activities of the Y. CL. The importance of this work is| clearly indicated by the frantic ef-| forts made by the bourgeoisie to/| win the workingclass youth to its| program of fascism and war. Many fascist organizations are cropping up, all of them making strong ap- peals to the youth. In the Ford plant at Edgewater, although no youth were working there before the last strike, which broke out some six months ago, immediately after, young workers were hired} because they are “more depend-| able.” There is no doubt that the many maneuvers to be held on the Hudson, during the month of May, will be utilized to create a nation- alistic and jingoistic feeling among the American youth. We are of the opinion, however, that all these efforts of the ruling | class to win the toiling youth is doomed to failure, provided that | the Party will really guide the | work of the Y.C.L. and help to | carry on proper activity among | the young workers in the shops | which alone will guarantee the | building of a mass Y.C.L. For these reasons the Party Sec- re Committee decided the follow- | ig: 1—To call a County National Youth Conference of all adult or- ganizations for May 11. 2—To issue special National Youth Day editions of the three Party shop papers in the Section. 3—To give 50 per cent of all May ist collections to the Y.C.L. to use for National Youth Day. Letters from ABOUT NEW YORK MAY DAY COMMOUNIST PARTY OF U.S. DISTRICT TWO May 3, 1934. Daily Worker, Dear Comrades: I deem it necessary to write | to you to make a few corrections and additions to the write-up on the Madison Square Garden May First meeting that appeared in the Daily Worker on May 3 on the second page. First, the article states that the Madison Square Garden meeting was under the auspices of the United Front May Day Committee which is incorrect. . The above committee ran the parade and Union Square dem- onstration; the New York Dis- trict of the Communist Party ran the Madison Square Garden meeting under its sole auspices. In the resolutions mentioned nothing is said about the tele- grams sent to Roosevelt and Mendieta on the situation in Cuba, the first one demanding cessation of intervention by American imperialism in Cuba and demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces, as well as Caffery, the agent of American imperialism. The telegram to Mendieta demanded the release of all political prisoners, rights of the workers to organize, strike, etc. A telegram was adopted to be sent to the Soviet Union hailing their victorious building of so- cialism and pledging defense in case of imperialist attack. 4.—To issue a special manifesto to the entire workingclass of Hud- son County to support National Youth Day. 5.—To order and sell 2,000 copies of the National Youth Day edition of the Young Worker. 6—To organize a shop mass meeting in preparation for Nation- al Youth Day in Crucible Steel from headquarters in Indianapolis.| units in the entire county) and the | shop. 7. — To organize propaganda squads for the navy maneuvers men to accept the 40 cents that the | Day and render every possible as-| during May. These decisions have already given a great stimulus to the ac- tivity of the Y.C.L. Each unit is organizing local anti-war meet- ings in prepartion for National Youth Day. “10,000 leaflets alone will be given out for these local meetings, most of them at the shops, The Y.C.L. will have a special Hudson County page in the National Youth Day edition of the Young Worker, and is tak- ing 2,000 copies (besides the 2,000 that the Party is ordering). A special appeal to the young work- ers in the war industries will be distributed before May 30. All this activity will be utilized to build up, by National Youth Day, three shop nuclei in the three concentration points of the Sec- tion. That these decisions can be car: ried out there is not the slightest doubt. Whether we will succeed or not, this will depend on how well we organize the work and fight for its being carried out. Join the Communist Party 35 E. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street City Our Readers The resolution on class war prisoners in addition to those names enumerated in the above mentioned article, that of Leon Blum must be stated as well as the fact that the resolution also called for the release of all class war prisoners in addition to those names mentioned. The last point. the facts as regards the big financial pledge made, are as follows: a sym- pathizer gave $10 in cash and pledged $50. He then pledged another $40 conditioned upon 10 others pledging $5 each which resulted in 12 people pledging $5 each. This sympa- thizer came to the District Of- fice the day following and gave the $90 that he pledged to give, making a total of $100 that he gave. This should be an ex- ample to other sympathizers who are financially able to help the Party. On page 1 of the May 8 issue in the column entitled, “May First City by City,” you state that there were about 100,000 in Madison Square. All capitalist press estimates, as well as our estimates, to say nothing of the phetographic proofs, show that there were nowhere near 100,000 in Madison Square on May 1. All of the above facts are of such importance that corrections of the article mentioned should be made in the columns of the Daily. Comradely yours, CHARLES KRUMBEIN, District Organizer. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Strabismus M. L., Bronx.—It is not usual for a baby’s eyes to be crossed. The eyes of the new-born are as straight as those of adults unless they suffer from strabismus (squint-eyes). Very little can be done for infants who are cross-eyed. As they become older, certain ocular exercises can be instituted; errors of refraction can be corrected and other meas- ures can be taken to minimize the amount of squinting, depending on the type of strabismus from which the child is suffering. When neither of the medical myasures succeed in curing the squin*ag, we have to resort to surgical correction. An operation is usually delayed until the seventh year or later. * 8 « Addresses Wanted Helen Steiner, Detreit, Mich.; M. A. L., Bronx, N. Y.—Private letters were sent to you and returned to us marked “Unclaimed” and “Not Doctor By BAUL LUTTINGER, M. Found,” respectively. Were You Ever Dead? No, of course not! Therefore, it would be hard for you to realize the state under which our Austrian comrades are existing. There are conditions that are worse than death, and the victims of fascism know this better than any other class of people. To help mitigate their horrible sufferings, the downtown section of the I. L. D. has arranged a gala entertainment and party for the benefit of the victims of Austrian fascism, at Palm Casino, 85 East Fourth Street, on Saturday, May 5, at 8:30 p.m. John Bovingdon will be there to entertain, and Norman Tallentive will speak. ‘Nuf said! There will be a jazz band, refresh- ments—all for 25 cents in advance, or $35 at the door. The affair is sponsored by Robert Minor, Mike Gold, Sender Garlin, Joe Pass, Bill Gropper, Edward Dahlberg and ye conductor of this column. NEWARK, N. J. And there is the owner of the factory riding home from an afternoon golf game. Robert re- members ihat his book says there are no more slave owners. He will ask his father that evening. The only freedom we have is the freedom to sell ourselves to the owners. But, one day soon, all the workers will overthrow them. Then we will work for our- selves like the workers in the Soviet Union. il lI 12th IVERSARY MORNING FREIHEIT Sunday, May 6th Y.M.H.A. Auditorium 8 P. M. Hight & Kinney Streets PROGRAM: Chorusses from Newark, Paterson, Passaic. Nezro Quartette, Rebel Dancers. SPEAKERS: M. J. Olgin, Editor of Morning Freiheit. Rebecea Greoht, District Organizer. ae 3 ~~ ! al