TIE MILITANT Saturday, January 11, 1930 1930 to Be«Lean Export Industries Will Be Hit Heavily Racketeer is Pal Tough» Year of Matty Woll Pullman Co. Absorbs Notorious Union Foe WASHINGTON (FP) Information re toward hard times, American export trade ceived at the Department of Com faces the worse crisis since the war. Milmerce and at the Chamber of Commerce of lions of American wage workers may suffer NEW YORK (FP) Nineteen thirty will the United States shows that the coming between now and July, from the collapse of foreign buying.
By Harrey Connor be a lean bard, tough year according to six months will witness nationwido unemployment in the industries which supply The Department of Commerce expert NEW YORK (FP. Pres. Paul VaccarBusiness Week, published by McGraw Hill, the foreign export trade. Due to the severe on Latin America, writing in the Commerce elli of the Loyal Labor Legion is back on which also sponsors the leading industrial business depression in South America and Reports for January 6, predicts serious and trado magazines, Intense competition, the first pages of the metropolitan press Cuba, caused by a drop of 35 to 55 percent political unrest in Brazil, Colombia and again, This time it is because of the with disaster for weaker firms, is foretold.
in prices of coffee and sugar, and due to other countries of South America as a reWorkers can interpret for themselves the inclusion of his name on a telephone list the steady drift of many European countries sult of the present business disaster. kept by a drug ring raided by federal meaning of this ompetition in speed up, authorities.
low wages and unemployment.
Economists, statisticians, and the glorMatty Woll Pal 1fied soothsayers employed to shed presVaccarelli, alias Kelly, is best known lige on big corporations have been filling in the labor world as the sole owner and Le business press with their usual prog PITTSBURG (FP) Standard Car Federated Press correspondent that car proprietor of the Loyal Labor Legion nostications. Usually these oracles stress Corp. ruthless and conscienceless foe of company officials hoped to decrease the racket which fetes prominent labor men on tho inherent soundness of business. unionism in western Pennsylvania, has been possibilities of strikes through careful fos Labor Day, Its performance on last Labor namely poople must eat and live and there absorbed by the Pullman Co. whose own tering of the Boy Scout movement in Lyn Day was held at a Long Island resort, foro will not cease all buying. Sec. of the record against labor is unparrallelled. dora.
where Mathew Vfoll, a featured guest, Treasury Mellon typifies their viewpoint Typical of western Pennsylvania feudDecline in the demand for steel cars pinned a medal on Edward McGrady, when ho says that see nothing in the alism is Standard Steel Car plant at Butof the of as the outstanding labor led to perpetual unemployment in Butler, present situation that is efther menacing ler, near Pittsburg. Fearful evidently of man of the year.
as the plant alone could have cared for the or warrants pessimism. During the win the results of its anti union policy among entire national demand in 1927. Orders Vaccarelli algo burst into the public ter months there may be some slackness or workers, the company had one of the five were shuffled between the Butler and Hamprints recently in connection with charges ninemployment, but hardly more than is us state police barracks placed in Butler when mond, Ind. plants as well as Osgood Bradley by Maj. LaGuardia, Republican cannal at this season of the year. In this the plant was built. The company donated didate for mayor of New York in the reat Worcester, Mass. involved in the latest aunty manner does the great Pittsburgh the ground and many facilities.
cent election, that the labor racketeer merger.
Ignato toss of the plight of millions of headed a gang of gunmen who terrorized less workers. Company Town In 1926 part of the idle car plant was Italian voters in the Bronx, His latest The inevitable company town was built made into a modern rolling mill unit of the appearance in print is in connection with What About the Workers?
at Lyndora, inhabited chiefly by immigrant Columbia Steel Co. unit of the American the sensational disclosures concerning City In the deluge of words published workers and their families. It was through Rolling Mills Co. Armco) which recently Magistrate Albert Vitale, whose connecconcerning the industrial depression whose streets lined by miserable company sheds crushed a steel workers strike in Middletions with the New York underworld and Geginning was seen last summer, hardly that the police patrolled its force during town, Ohio.
the dope ring in particular are now under any consideration is given the workers who the steel strike of 1919. Often these sheds This year the Austin Automobile Co. closest scrutiny by the federal government, bear the brunt of hard times. Statisticians had barn doors for the entrance of what British concern, took over another idle the Bronx grand jury and the Bar Assn.
vend their brains to the task of estimating the company considered its human cattle.
section of Standard Steel Car plant on the The Loyal Labor Legion was organized whether profits will decline 15 or 25 On occasion the figure of the mounted understanding that common labor was not in war time to break strikes on the New in 1930, but no attention is paid to workers Cossack bent on owing guineas and to be paid above 36 cents an hour, the York waterfront and assure loyalty to the income and hardly any more as to whether wops. sent women and children fleeing rate prevailing for such labor in all Butler govern ent. Vaccarelli was later closely he is to have a chance to make a living, through the doors into their sheds.
industry.
associated with Czar Brindell at the BuildConstruction and automobiles are con Across the street car tracks was the ing irades Council, who rounded out his sidered the leading forces in depression city of Butler inhabited by native born career in Sing Sing. Then he preyed on his and recovery. The auto slump that started workers and bosses. Here the Mellon car fellow countrymen, organizing them into last fall continues unabated, and the indus company domination was more polite but try looks to the production of 1, 000, 000 municipal service unions, exacting tributejust as effiective. Years ago an old pioneer FREE MEALS PASS OUT IN YUMA from them in turn for deals with Tammany fewer cars in 1930. That means a smaller land owner and county Judge controlled YUMA, Ariz. Free meals for out ofHall. One racket was the publication of a demand for steel, textiles, electrical equip Butler, today his sons are in charge of the works who trudge through Yuma on their magazine for which 18, 000 members of ment and all the products that go into Republican city and county machines, and way from the valleys of California to the New York Laborers Union had to subauto building. In construction no marked are physician and attorney for the car valleys of Arizona in quest of the illusive scribe at a year.
recovery is expected.
company.
Job aer a thing of the past for the associNotorious Gangster Profits Rise Boy Scout Movement Anti Strike ated charities has had a large wood pile Vaccarelli was described in the AmerWorkers attention is called to the progStandard Steel Car benignantly fathers placed in the yard of the city hall. Appli ican Mercury recently by Herbert Asbury pect that many employers will attempt to all civic affafrs from the Salvation Army cants for charity will be obliged to split as perhaps New York outstanding racketand the Community Chest to the Boy Scouts.
Justify wage cuts with stories of falling wood for one hour before they will be given eer and gangster and owner, in his heyday, The Boy Scout secretary once told the the price of a meal.
profits. But the net income available for of the flashiest palace of sin in New York City. He was kicked out of the dividends for 1929 is estimated at 3, 500, 000, 000 for 550 leading industrial firms.
Longshoremen Union by Connor This is an increase of 17. over the prethen president, but later held a lucrative job in the New York District Council.
vious year.
The Loyal Labor Legion only apparent activity is social and is concentrated on the Labor Day affair, at which liquor and oratory are the pieces de resistance.
ST. LOUIS (FP) With more tban Subscription to the Weekly for One Year The culmination of the affair is the award 1, 000 workers families applying for chariof a medal to the most outstanding labor ity during the first 17 days of the month, man of the year. McGrady was rewarded December, 1929, has seen destitution establagt Labor Day for his efforts in smashing Tish new records in this city unequalled the Left wing in the New York Needle during the history of organized charity.
Booklet on the Program of the Comintern trades.
These facts are revealed by the official Journal of the St. Louis Provident Assn.
family case work agency, which says that district superintendents report unemNEW ployment the major cause of the flood of YORK (FP) Twelve known THE MILITANT is making a special otlynchings were reported for 1929 by the applications.
fer. one year subscription (52 issues) to the Natl. Agen, for the Advancement of Colored Joblessness shows the greatest increase Militant is two dollars. copy of D. Trotsky People. Not a single lyncher was punished Bcys the report, foundries, shoe factories, brilliant criticism of the draft program of the during the year.
paper box factories, automobile assembly Communist International (150 pages) is thirty five Among those lynched were four whites, plants and construction companies. Worcents. Under the terms of the special offer, both including a white woman, Ella May Wigkers over 40 years old are hardest hit.
the yearly subscription and the booklet can be obging, Gastonia union organizer, who was The purvey takes account only of abletained for only two dollars. 00. The blank is shot to death on a highway in broad daybodied unemployed.
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One of the Negro victims, reported the for rellet during December, the report estiN. A, was a 72 year old man, wlio mates, will go to families where unemploywas brutally beaten, his hands severed, and ment is responsible for the need. This is then thrown into the Sewanee River to the largest proportion of relief chargeable drown.
to any one cause. When it is considered that a family cage work agency must also The Militant care for families where the wage25 Third Avenue, earner is dead, incapacitated, too old to New York, work, non supporting, or where earnings Meetlug in Philadelphia are insufficient for the family support, Name Comrade Max Shachtman will speak the seriousness of the situation is apparbefore the Liberal League Forum of Philaent.
Address delphia, Pa. on Sunday, January 19, 1930 at pm. The subject of his talk will be: WANTS ANTI LABOR LAW, TOO The Crisis in the Communist Movement.
City State NEW YORK Condemnation of three Philly Class Ohlo workers to long terms in the penitenI am enclosing 00 to cover the subscription and the book study class in the elements of polittiary for anti militarist agitation has sugical education has been organized in Philgested to the Gastonta, Gazette and adelphia by the branch of the Communist the Charlotte, Observer the desiraLeague of America (Oppositton. The class bilty of such a law in North Carolina to is under the direction of Whitten.
Purb the union agitators.
The class is open to members and sympathizers of the Communist League.
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