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CONN. JOBLESS DEMAND
“WORK OR WAGES”; GET
THREAT OF AIR BOMBS
Committee Elected by Unemployed Brutally
Beaten Up by Police
Bosses Suddenly Discover Air Patrols Fulfill
“Long-Felt Need”
(By a Worker Correspondent)
New Haven unemployed workers receive an answer from the city
administration, to their demand of work or wages. The nature of
this reply would indicate that more demonstrations are expected.
On March 6 the unemployed marched on the city hall led by a com
mittee elected by themselves. The police brutally beat up this com
mittee (however, the cops got a few souvenirs for their zeal). The
full police force was mobilized to break up the demonstration, the
night cops were called in, also all forces from the outlying stations
were called into the central stations, airplanes were circling overhead.
At that time it could not be ascertained who they were, but their
presence was regarded as hostile to the demonstration.
An editorial in a New Haven daily paper dated March 30, says an
air patrol was started yesterday, and that previous work of New Haven
police in rented airplanes indicated that the air patrol will fill a long
felt want.
It looks like Mayor Tully intends to give us gas bombs from air
planes operated by so-called guardians of the peace, and we have to
pay for this service in taxes.—R.W.
Slatington, Pa., Silk Weavers’ Strike
(By a Worker Correspondent)
SLATINGTON, Pa. Twenty
eight weavers, constituting the day
and night shift of the A. F. Bittner
Silk Co. walked out on a spontane
ous strike against a wage cut of
10 cent.
The owner of the mill informed
the workers that he had decided to
cut their wages 1 cent on every yard
woven. The plant aerated on a
pieco-work basis, and this cut
amounted to approximately 10 per
cent loss the weekly wage. The
day shift walked out immediately
when r 'ificd of the cut. The night
shift also struck when notified of
the cut.
Workers Refuse to Scab.
The mill owners tried to break
the strike by importing other work-
What the Miners Fight, Led by N.M.U.
(By a Worker Correspondent)
TAYLORVILLE, 111. (By Mail). — The following is what is happening
at these mines. At number 58 mine, Taylorville, a motorman was laid off
| his job and put to riding trips, because he missed one day, because of a
| very sick son. The man has only two fingers on either hand and is about
* 58 years old.
A man was fired at number 9 mine, Langlcyville, because he stopped
for dinner and would not work overtime and because he did not shoot
down enough coal.
Freer.nan Thompson, Jack Stewart and Arthur Hershcy were ar
rested as they were coming out of a miner’s home, and their lives were
threatened. Freeman was beaten up. He was twice hit over the head
with a black-jack. The charges against Staurt and Hershcy are con
spiracy against the interests of the Peabody Coal Co. The charges
against Thompson are threatening to kill within three days the two
Peabody deputies and inciting to riot. The warrant was sworn out on
December 10, and Freeman was in jail at that time.
They are out on bail now.
—ILLINOIS MINER.
Eldorado Miners Being Forced to Act
(By a Worker Correspondent)
I ELDORADO, 111.—No. 10, O’Gara I
mine, went on strike two weeks {
ago on account of the company not
sending a dollar assessment to
Peoria strikers. O’Gara Coal Co.
wanted the miners to send dues to
Fishwick, which the miners refused
to send dues either to Lewis or Fish
wick. The men were influenced to
go back by a bunch of parasites on
one side and yellow socialists on the !
other. This is what they did, voted ;
to go back after two weeks’ strike,
and went back to get only three!
days’ work. •
Gypped by Employment Sharks: “Wipe
Them Out!”
(By a Worker Correspondent)
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—l write to let my fellow workers know what
kind of sharks these employment agencies are. I write from my own
experience.
Three dames keep such a place at 125 Court St., Brooklyn. I
asked for a job. After few days they had painters’ helper job. Charge
was 10 per cent of month’s pay. Didn’t have $8 so paid $6.50 and
balance was to pay later.
Went to the place. To my surprise another man was there nl
• ready. Went back and the three women admitted they had sent the
* other man just as I left for the job. This fellow he paid them $8 what
I didn’t have, and they told him to take a taxi so he’d be there ahead
of me.
Now fellow workers I am only two weeks in this glorious city but
soon got to know of these rotten conditions. The private employment
agencies should be wiped out and dumped into the river, that’s proper
place for them.
Communist Party is only party that can and will do something
for the emancipation of the workers. I am going over to the Com
munist rank and file soon.
—UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
Police Brutality and a 60-Year-Old Worker
(Bu a Worker Correspondent)
I wish to tell you about one ex
ample of police brutality. I and my
ivife have been housekeepers for a
XTurnishcd rooming house of Mrs.
lieen working for the new Mrs. on
wlrendt a charity worker. We have
joen working for the news Mrs. on
he same condition as before, one
nonth’s notice. But to our horror,
it the end of the month, she told us
;o get out. I insisted on our agree-
■?o Many Jobless, Cut Snow Shovellers’ Wage
(By a Worker Correspondent)
. CHICAGO.—The Chicago and Northwestern R.R. Co. which is the
head of the finance committee which loaned the city of Chicago fifty
™ l “ l0n at a big rate of interest in January, noiv on March 26 the N.W.
It.R. station was blocked with snow. They called a Madison St. slue
market for snow shovellers, 75 cents an hour. They got so many the,,
t,}. wages to SO cents an hour next, morning. One man said he had
nothing to cat and nowhere to sleep. He had no overcoat mid no under.
Z7ed CoZaZtwZ we sot t 0 d 0 Bomethino: lct ’ s join thc Uncm ~
|eis from the neighboring town of
Northampton. These workers were
approached by the strikers who ex
plained to them that they were hired
to scab. Upon being informed of
this all the workers walked out of
the plant.
The organizer of the N.T.W.U.
approached the strikers and offered
the full co-operation of the N.T.W.U.
to the strike. He explained that it
was necessary for the workers to
picket daily and organize themselves
into a union in order to win their
demands. A meeting was arranged
with the leading committee of the
strikers, whereby the N.T.W.U. will
take over the leadership and conduct
of the strike. Strikers demand res
toration of the old wage scale and
recognition of the shop committee.
—SILK WORKER.
| The mine worked today. The
j company put up a notice for two
i days’ skin-up while the men were
jin the mines. The miners will have
ito quit following yellow socialists
and stool pigeons.
Some of the miners were so dis
j gusted they did not work today. We
will have good news for The Daily
j Worker in less than three months
j if things keep going on like it has
;in the last three months. For men
will be forced to act. N.M.U. is the
I only miners union.
—ILLINOIS MINER.
ment. But the next day when 1
went to work, three police officers
came and frightened my wife and
my kids, one of them two, the other
six years old. The police told us to
get out of the house. They said it
was orders from the station house.
So I ask you whether Mr. Whalen
and his captains got nothing else
to look about. I am 60 years old
and never was in any court r 1
yet.
-60-YEAR-OLD WORKER.
Weeping Willow
Perkins
“Ah,” sighs Miss Frances Per
| kins, New York State Commission
j er of Labor, “unemployment is
J worse than at any time since 191 b.
But what can we do about it?” A
j typical sob-sister social worker,
Miss Perkins wants the bosses to
be good and start another war in
the struggle for world markets to
relieve unemployment. The work
ers know what to do about it.
Fight for “Work or Wages.' 1 ’
SENECA MILL TO
BE ORGANIZED
Kidnapping Won’t Stop
Textile Union in N. C.
GREENVILLE, N. C., April 6.--
The safety of Ann Burlack and Jack
Dorn, two organizers of the National
Textile Workers Industrial Union is
assured, after attack by a fascist
mob led by a deputy sheriff at Sen
eca, N. C., who kidnapped Dorn and
harassed Ann Burlack when the two
were making an attempt to organize
the workers of the Seneca Mill at
that place.
The Seneca Mill, a cotton mill, re
cently installed the stretch-out sys
tem of speed-up, and the N.T.W.I.U.
arranged an open air meeting for
Thursday at 6.30 p. m.
Comrade Jack Dorn, while distrib
uting leaflets in the mill village, was
threatened with arrest by a deputy
sheriff, but kept on with his work.
The deputy gathered up a gang of
boss’ men in a car, seized Dorn and
took him to the backwoods about 10
miles from Seneca where they took
him out of the car on a bridge and
tried to drown him. He escaped,
however, and walked to Clemson,
J hitch-hiked to Greenville, 35 miles
I away, where other comrades joined
him to return to Seneca where Com
rade Burlack was due to speak at
J 6.30 that evening.
; Arriving in Seneca at 6 o’clock,
I Comrade Burlack was warned by two
boss men to get out of town, but she
stuck and when a crowd gathered
began speaking. The fascist gang ip
five cars prevented her speaking by
honking their auto horns and yelling.
So she distributed N.T.W.I.U. liter
ature and promised to keep in touch
with the workers, who listened very
sympathetically.
The incident has aroused great:
sentiment among the workers and
farmers of Seneca, in favor of the
N.T.W.1.U., and none of the boss
men and their violence will prevent
the workers of the Seneca Mill from
organizing in the union.
Favorable Result
in Paris Suburb
PARIS (By Inprecorr Mail Serv
ice). —Despite a furious campaign of
slander and incitement, the Commu
nist list topped the poll in the mu
nicipal election in St. Denis, the
famous working-class suburb of
Paris. The Communists received
6,137 votes, the reactionaries 5,327,
the opportunist renegades 1,641 and
the socialists 1,083 votes. A second
eliminating election is necessary, j
but here the Communist victory is j
certain. Demonstrations took place
in St. Denis until late in the night,
and frequent collisions with the po
lice occurred. The whole municipal
ity has been put under a state of
siege.
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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930
RED UNIONISTS WIN
WORKER COUNCIL VOTE
IN BIG ANILINE WORKS
Also Gel 289 Votes in Askania Workers to
Social-Democrats 129
166 Large Factories With 365,000 Workers Put
Up Red Lists
BERLIN (By Inprecorr Service).
| —The result of the workers’ council
I election in the Aniline Works of
ithe I. G. Farben Trust, in Qitter
! feld, is a victory for the list of
the revolutionary trade union oppo
| sition which received 969 votes and
I seven seats, whilst the reformist
i trade union list received 857 votes
! and six seats.
Similar successes aie reported
from other parts of the Reich. The
i election in the Askania works in
j Berlin gave the revolutionary trade
| union opposition 289 votes and the
Woodworkers Strike in Basle
BASLE (By Inprecorr Mail Service.) —Both the workers and the
j employes have rejected the mediation proposals of the court of ar
\ bitration here and last night the carpenters and joiners voted with 950
against 150 votes to go on strike in support of their demand for wage
increases. The employers demand wage-cuts. The struggle is likely
to be protracted.
A strike of the building workers is also possible. The existing
tariff expires at the end of March and the building workers have put
forward wage demands which will almost certainly be rejected by
the employers even if the latter do not put forward demands for wage
cuts.
Budapest Shipworkers Go On Strike
VIENNA (By Inprecorr Service). |
Budapest reports state that yester
day 1000 workers of the “Danubius”
shipyard went on strike against a
newly introduced system of ration
alization, which means the dismissal
of many workers and the increase of
the intensivity of labor by about 30
per cent, according to the state
ments of the firm.
This strike disturbs the govern-1
Don Basin City Named “Comintern”
MOSCOW (By Inprecorr Service). —In the Schachty district of j
the Don Basin the coal field Nesvetai which is extremely rich, mil j
be turned into a socialist toivn entitlde “Comintern.” Building has !
already been commenced and from 55 million to 60 million Roubles ;
will be provided for the work. The first buildings will house from |
1,500 to 2,000 people and will be completed this year. Twenty such I
living combinations will be built.
Cabinet Unity at Workers’ Cost
BERLIN (By Inprecorr Mail Ser- 1
vice). —The complete capitulation of
the social-democratic ministers to
the demands of the German Peoples
Party, the party of heavy industry,
in order to maintain the present
cabinet in which the social demo
crats play the leading rgle (numer- *
Antwerp Workers Win Jobless Relief Increase
BRUSSELS (By Inprecorr Serv
ice). —The Communist agitation
amongst the unemployed workers in
Antwerp is bearing fruit. The mu- j
nicipal authorities have granted an
increase of the unemployment sup
port for unemployed workers with *
Workers Against Anti-Soviet Drive
AMSTERDAM (By Inprecorr
Mail Service). —A demonstration of
several hundred revolutionary work
ers took place here in front of a
Force Withdrawal of Berlin Demonstration Ban
BERLIN (By Inprecorr Service), t
—ln view of the fact that the fre- ;
quent demonstrations and open-air
meetings of the workers under the
leadership of the Communist Party
have rendered the prohibition of j
Grzesinski ineffective, and in view
of the fact that May 1 is approach
ing, the new Prussian Minister of
the Interior, the social-democrat.
Waentig, has decided to withdraw
the prohibition. Thc social-demo
crats know perfectly well that the
workers will demonstrate on May 3
on thc streets with or without per- I
mission. A further blood bath would
be extremely unfavorable for the
social-democratic party, whose lead- |
ers have not forgotten the result o!':
the municipal election which fol -
reformist 129 votes. The reformists
had the majority on the workers’
council here previously.
In numerous other factories and
| works the revolutionary trade union
j opposition has succeeded in winning
from one-third to the half of the
seats in the councils, although it
was not previously represented at
all. In the Ruhr district four times
as many red lists were put forward
this year as last year. One hundred
and sixty-six factories with a total
of 65,000 workers have put up red
lists this year.
| ment because it falls on the eve of
j the anniversary of the proclamation
.of Soviet Hungary. Workers dem
| onstrations are expected in favor of
ihe Soviets and the authorities have
made great preparations to crush all
attempts at demonstrations in the
bud. The police have received in
structions to take the sharpest meas
ures against any attempts on the
I part of workers to demonstrate.
' ically only), sealed when the cabinet
came to an agreement on the basis
of the proposals of the Finance Min
ister Moldenhauer (German Peoples
Party). First of all the contribu
tions to the unemployment insurance
scheme will be increased by Y<%, in
other words an increased load of 35
1 millions annually for the workers.
•children. The unemployed workers 1
demand an all-around increase of 2 j
francs a day. With this partial
granting of the unemployed demands
j the authorities hope to split the
united front of the unemployed
workers behind the Communists.
building in which the dignitaries of
various churches were holding a
joint meeting against “the religious
persecutions in the Soviet Union.”
Mowed on Zoergiebel’s May Day
slaughter, and made the Communist
Party the second strongest party in
Prussia.
———W—Tti
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INDIAN RAIL
j STRIKERS IN
HOT STRUGGLE
Sharper Clashes Ahead
in Railway Strike
(Continued from Page One)
their leaders.
Following the shooting of 30
strikers at the Bombay railway
station on Friday, the tactic of pre
venting movement of trains by lay
ing themselves on the rails, has
been adopted by the strikers, 7,000
having volunteered this form of
i “picketing,” according to reports.
But that there are still more mili
tant tactics in use is reported by
the British government police who
ray that the strikers are adopting
the slogan “brickbats for batons
(clubs).” It is clear that the strike
is taking forms of open physical
conflict.
Gandhi, meanwhile, tries to wean
all attention to his fake program of
violating the law against manufac
ture and sale of salt. He aims to
make a little salt from sea water,
|and though n is not fit for use, to
sell it, thus courting arrest. Last
; year he likewise burned English
| cloth in a public park, and was ar
rested and fined one rupee (about
jBB cents). It is this sort of fake
j “fight” against British imperialism
| which the capital st press chooses
to give more space to than the real
struggle led by the revolutionary
workers.
66 P. C. of Government
Expense Is Used for
Preparing New War
I WASHINGTON, April 6.—Wat
j expenditures and preparations for
| the next imperialist war eat up 66
jper cent of the entire government
'expenditure, admitted the Treasur-
Department in figures just compiled.
| While spending 81,262,000,000 for
war purposes each year the imper
ialist government cannot find funds
tor a full-wage unemployment insur
ance demanded by the 7,000,000 un
employed workers in the United
'States.
The total expenditure of the
; World War by the United States
| government is now computed at §51,-
1400,000,000. Most of this money
reached its way into the pockets of
the big bosses who profited heavily
from the last war and now seek
another one.
—
15 Summer Camps
Are Planned for
Workers’ Children
Fifteen summer camps, where the
children of the workers can spend
a vacation, building their bodies and
learning the lessons of the class
struggle—this is the goal of a drive
that has been launched by the Work
ers International Relief.
The Workers International Relief
points out that the maintenance of
IS camps last year was made pos
sible by the contributions of work
ers’ organizations and individual
workers.
The W. I. R. is now issuing coupon
books containing coupons to sell for
ten and 25 cents, in order to raise
the necessary funds for the camps.
They may be obtained from the
Workers International Relief, 949
Broadway, Room 512, New York
City.
“HOOVER PROSPERITY.”
Overhead in the editorial office of
a San Francisco capitalist news
paper:
Reporter on phone to City editor:
“Do you want a cheesy little suicide
for the final?”
City Editor: “Oh, Hell, give it
a paragraph.”
War and the Sea;
Rapid Arming of the
Merchant Ships
(Continued from Page One)
'meet, now going on, the question of
! merchant ships as part of the war
1 armaments of the imperialists was
I brought n the fore, but was quickly
j squelched in the newspapers be
cause it revealed too much about
1 u> active war preparations.
The Hoover Committee Report
: says that “One argument for gov
ernment aid to our merchant mo~-
! ine has been that ships unde'- our
! flag arc necessary in case of
j war.”
“In these war preparations on the !
| seas, the imperialist exploiters get |
| the help of Furuseth and Ola.ider
of the yellow International Sea
! men’s Union,” said George Mink, ’
secretary of the Marine Workers
! League.
“The ''avy Department looks on
• c:'.- - *. fakers as .Mai lieutenants in
| organizing the sailors for the
bosses’ war. The International \
Seamen’s Union works with the big
slro companies against tne sailors
:nd with th* government in active
ly preparing for war amongst the
imperialist powers and on the Soviet
Ui'hn.
“"’'he war la lg-r and the question
of oiganizing ti e 123,000 sailors to
j fight against it and for the defense
j of the Soviet Union will be one of
the most important questions before
our national Marine Workers’
League Convention April 26-27. We
will fight for organization of all
seamen against rationalization, for
better working conditions, higher
wages, and against using them as
tools for the bosses’ wars. Many
American sailors have visited the
Soviet Union and have seen the tre
mendous progress of building so
cialism under the Five-Year Plan.
We will organize them for the de
| sense of the workers’ republic.”
I. VV. W. in Bosses’
Front Against
Marine Workers
HOUSTON, Texas (By Mail).—
The latest recruit in the campaign
of the ship owners, the chamber of
commerce and the Seamen’s Mis
sion against the Marine Workers’
League, which is doing successful
work among the seamen and long- |
shoremen in the port here, is the |
local I.W.W. With the special con- j
sent of the “Seamen’s Mission ’ they
have posted a sheet on the latter’s
bulletin board, in which they let free j
course to their rage about their ex- )
posure .by the Marine Workers’ j
League. They try to discredit the •
revolutionary trade ’ unions and the
Communist Party in the eyes of the
workers with the lie that “the Com- j
munist Party cannot point out one |
instance where it has been active in
any strike and show that tfte work
ers gained one iota either in wages j
or condtions.”
The Texas marine workers’ answer !
to this will be a strong delegation |
of Negro and white longshoremen
and seamen to the national conven
tion of the Marine Workers’ League
in New York on April 26.
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Page Three
WINTON ENGINE
WORKS MEN ISO
HRS. IN 2 WEEKS
One Reason for 125,000
Jobless in Cleveland
1 (Bn a Worker Correspondent)
| CLEVELAND, Ohio.—We have at
the present time 125,000 unemployed
i here and yet some of the industries
are working 12 and 14 or 16 hours
a day, while there are hundreds of
I workers by those same shops, beg
ging for work, every day.
I know a shop that used to work
its men all winter, not only this
winter but always. This shop is on
West 106, Cleveland. It is called
Winton Engine Company. I spoke
: to a man one morning just before
i Christmas about unemployment con
-1 ditions.
Slave 180 Hours in Two Weeks
This man was telling me that his
friends in Winton Engine Company
i are working 180 hours in two weeks.
At about the same time city employ-
I ment commissioner B. C. Seiple
called on Cleveland manufacturers
to cut down the working hours in
the shops and hire more men to
work.
But so far this same company,
j Winton Engine works its men over
time, as it always did. I wrote to
j the city employment commission to
i investigate that shop. I don’t know
| if it ever did or not.
Why He Writes to Daily.
About two weeks ago I wrote an
article on this same shop to the
Cleveland Press. But so far it w-as
not put into the Press. That is why
I write about it to the Daily Worker.
I wish those workers that read this
letter in the Daily Worker and are
looking for a job and go to the
Winton Engine Works ask for a
job, and if the boss tells them he
i has no job, just tell him that he is
; a damn liar and investigate it bet
j ter if they are still working 180
j hours a day. To write about it to
the Daily Worker or Labor Unity
I and also write to the city council to
| investigate these industries that
] work so many hours.
Your duty is to join the Trade
j Union Unity League and the un
i employment council.
—Cleveland Jobless Worker.
Workers Resist Attack
Join the Party, Y. C. L.
BUFFALO, N. Y.—Police and
American Legion hoodlums were un
able to break up an open-air meet
ing of the Young Communist
League and the Young Pioneers, ex*
posing the legion's militarist cam
paign in the schools of Buffalo and
Erie County. After the arrest of
Murray Melvin, of the Young Com
munist League,"District Organizer J.
Donald immediately continued the
meeting. The workers rallied around
the platform, thus frustrating the
attempt of the cops and legionnaires
to break up the meeting, which was
brought to a successful end, a num
ber of workers joining the Young
Communist League and Communist
Party.