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THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS MOVIES || DATE OF PARTY CONVENTION FIXED AT W, P, PICNIC IN PUBLIC PARK Muskegon Beach Crowd Hear Communists MUSKEGON, Mich., July 9.—An in- ovation in Communist picnics was held at Muskegon, Mich., where the Workers’ Party Locals of this town and of Grand Rapids arranged joint af- fdr in a public park right at the mu- Bicipal bathing beach. No admission ¢gald be charged and nothing sold for Lent but the Chirman of the Com- nittee, Comrade Walter Johnson ex- pained, “We spend our money to Ping speakers on the street corners reach the masses, so why not go the “mountain” where the masses me to be found on a Sunday after- joon, and spread our message there?” In the early afternoon speeches jvere delivered to a large crowd, al- jnost entirely made up of those not ponnected with the movement. The Hpeakers included Wm. F. Kruse of (Whicago, and Eugene Bechtold and Edw. A. Kosten of Grand Rapids. | These two Grand Rapids comrades have been putting in some fine work in noon-day shop meetings at the fac tory gates in the “furniture capital of America.” The motion pictures had to be start- ed a little early to permit the Grand Rapids contingent, about a hundred strong, who had paid a dollar a head carfare, to make’ the last special car home. By means of a special day-light screen the pictures were started at 6:30 p. m. daylight saving time, and | while at first they were a little faint, the novelty of daylight movies more than made up for it and the large crowd enjoyed them very much. The first picture was “Prisoners for Prog- ress,” a three reel expose of modern industrial and political conditions, and great applause greeted pictures of Comrade Ruthenberg who was convict- ed and imprisoned only a few counties away. There was great interest also in the pictures of the International Labor Defense convention held in Chicago one week previously. “Rus- sia Today,” a one reel educational film showing the life and work of the Russian asbestos miners, completed the program. Two collections, one of $14.05 and the other of $34.27 were taken up. Y. W. L. Activities Friday, July 10, Membership meeting, 722 Blue Island avenue, 8 p. m. Matter of the coming printing industry campaign and the sub and membership drive will be taken up. Every member to be present, admission by membership card, Ps Sunday, July 12. ‘Area Branch No, 1—Beach basket picnic. All comrades meet at 9:30 a.m. at Wabash and Adems St. to go to Braeside, Ill., where the picnic will be held. ‘Detroit Comrades, Attention! fhe most peppy dance of the sea- son will be held Saturday, July 11, at] the Finnish Hall, 5969 14th street. A special orchestra has been en- gaged for this affair. The music will be excellent. In addition to many other attractions, a $25.00 kodak will | be raffled off, with tickets costing from 1 cent to 15 cents. The proceeds of this affair go to help the Detroit league in raising its quota for the national convention as- sessment. ‘The co-operation of all party com- rades is absolutely necessary. The Finnish comrades have already de- monstrated their interest, by donating the hall free of charge. Everybody is expected to attend. Don’t forget and keep this date open. Ban “Excellency” in Persia. MOSCOW.—By order of the Persian commander in ehief all the “liakaby” or honorific titles, such as “Excel- lency, etc.” have been abolished in the military department and the army in Persia. The civil administration will have to follow suit, too, as the Medji- ls (parliament) has just passed a resolution to a similar effect. Soviet Rali Aid to Persia. , MOSCOW.—As reported from Te- heran, two. locomotives and thirty goods cars were recently received at Djulfa from the Union of Soviet So- cialist Republics for the Persia-Tav- riz railway. MINNEAPOLIS WORKERS ON JULY 12 MEET T0 FIGHT IMPERIALISM MINNEAPOLIS, July 9—On Sun- day evening, July 12, at 7 p. m., the ty will hold a mass lashington Square. (Sev- jalism. Bere Slavabs Witt talk on “The ro STATEMENT BY THE ‘0 THE MEMBERSHIP OF Comrades: The date for t' call, including the agenda, drafts of resolutions for the The parity commission w the party. decision of the controversial The party membership s work of the parity commissio cipline will have to be rigidly date factionalism and: to esta policies and tactics of the its problems, free from fact discrimination. The Parity C equipped for its task of unifyi PARITY COMMISSION THE WORKERS PARTY: he coming national convention of the party is herewith set for August 9. The convention basis of respresentation, and convention, will be published shortly. The party discussion will begin immediately after the publication of the convention call. ill review and liquidate all mat- ters of an organizational nature that have caused friction in hus the parity commission intends to clear the ground and the atmosphere for an intelligent pre-convention discussion of the political and organizational problems con- fronting the party at the present time. It will make a state- ment of its findings in the party press which will be a final question. hould bear in mind that the n will inno way interfere with or infringe upon the normal functioning of the party appara- tus. All leading party committees, from the Central Execu- tive Committee down, will continue their work in the regular manner, according to the party constitution, and party dis- observed, The big task of the coming party convention is to liqui- blish unity on the basis of the Communist International. To achieve this end the party must have-a'thoro discussion of ional bitterness and personal ommission will therefore do all in its power to enable the party to come to the convention ng and strengthening the Com- munist movement in the United States. THE PARITY COMMITTEE. TELLS RICH STORY ‘the “Polly” tea rooms, four restaura many of the white-collared class eat. and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon. Mrs. Palmer has recently returned from her annual vacation, consisting of a brief half-year’s sail around the world, —the pressure of her business respon- sibilities being such that she could make no more than hasty stops in Japanese ports; Constantinople, Vi- enna, Rome, Paris, London, etc,— with a few last moments of fleeting Pleasure in New York. Every year, however, she somehow Manages to get six or eight months off from her strenuous duties as chief- cook-and-bottle-washer at the Polly Places to take a jaunt to Palm Beach or California, at least,—if not across the pond. She Ought to Know, Thus, her wide travels and worldly experience qualify her especially well to testify concerning the wages of her employes. And she demonstrates quite conclusively that, from her own cosmopolitan point of view, they are sufficiently “wellpaid” to allow her such slight extravagances as globe- trotting, beach lounging and costume- splurging, The employes, however, due to the fact that their experiences have been limited mostly to the four walls of such prisons as “Polly” tea rooms, | have a somewhat different view-point. | They might say, “What d'ya mean, well-paid?” and go on to explain that | $6.00 and $8.00 a week are the begin- |ning wages for all short-hour girls; |that most of the employes are hired only for the “rush” hour shifts; and that in two or three hours of work, they are so speeded up that as much as eight hours worth of energy igs ex- pended. And they could point out that the longer hours a girl works, the less money she gets. Six and eight-hour waitresses get at the highest $13.00, many as low as $10. Behind the kit- chen doors are girls not over fourteen years old,—on their feet from 8 in the morning until 6 at night,—except for a brief rest on a high stool for lunch,—and they get no more than $12.00 a week. If these bundles of skin and bones had the strength left to speak, after their ten-hour day (but they haven't) they would tell you, “What d’ya mean, well-paid? Like hell we are!” But then, “our employes” get their meals free, Mrs, “Suze” Palmer might inform you,—a regular fifty-¢ent din- ner. Yes, it is a “regular” dinner all right, the girls retort,—so regular that its component parts can be figured out a year ahead, if one but knows the combination. If ignorant, guess mick- le-berry sausage or spare ribs and sauer-kraut or creamed cod-fish and you will have exhausted the possibili- ties, except the possibility of there ing no leftovers. In such an emergency, “our employes” may be Biven the treat of a canned salmon salad (It would spoil, anyway) or a hot beef sandwich. Their knowledge of other kinds of sandwiches, however, or of salads, or of pies, or even ham and eggs, to say nothing of @ small steak,—is confined to the fact that they know how to carry them out stacked six and seven platters high, for others to eat. Profits Spring a Leak, Every system of exploitation hag its leakages, tho, and this was especially true last winter at Polly No. 8, at 17 North Wabash. This ts the _place where Mra,."‘Suae” Palmer ig to. venti na OF LIFE | BEHIND SWINGING DOORS OF | “POLLY” TEA ROOM WORKERS By WORKER CORRESPONDENT : “Our employes are well paid; they do not expect tips.” This high-sounding declaration appears conspicuously on all menus at ants in Chicago's loop district, where Just how true it is could best be told perhaps by Mrs. “Suze” Palmer, owner of the “Polly” cages along with her lesser partners, Raymond Friedman + os { found, whenever she happens to be in Chicago, She,sits in her balcony of- fice, overlooking\the entire floor, and keeps a fiercely glittering eye peeled for the waitresses, watching them grimly when they’eat to see that none gets an extra crumb, Accidentally, during her absence this winter, there was allowed to sneak into authority a new and ener soft-hearted head-waitress (maybe she herself had been “well-paid” once and hadn't expected tips.) Making Hay. The girls found out that she would let them “get away” with a few things,—a side dish of salad or a | piece of pie. Being bright girls, they | weren’t long in making the most,of! it. “And Mrs.* Palmer, even more bright when her own interests are at stake,—wasn't long in finding out | about it upon her arrival home. | “The old b is back,” one of the hardboiled ones put it, “and there's | not a damned thing to eat.” j | Lest the girls should “eat up the profits,” Mrs. Palmer immediately in-| stalled an official checker at the kit- chen door, so. that instead of the cus-| | tomers being checked by waitresses, | the checker writes out the prices for | | the waitresses, who pass the slips on/| | to the customers. Since duplicates are | | kept, each waitress is held responsible | for every dish taken out of the kit- chen, And she must tell when the| food is for herself, so that no forbid- den morsel finds its way to her plate. Economic Root of “Tips.” ‘This arrangement has another and even more important advantage for the boss. Altho “our employes do not expect tips,” as the menu moralistic ally reads, this does not mean that they do not “extract” tips whenever it is humanely possible . One of the first things that a Polly waitress used to do when she came on shift was to refold the menu so that the vicious. lie about her being “well- paid” and hidden. Or else she clipped a special card over it. But there was a more certain, posi- tive Way of her trying to ge full value for her labor and that was by under- charging customers. It is not so hard for a waitress with wits sharpened by continual struggle for a living to give HOLD CHINA AND SOVIET PROTEST IN PHILADELPHIA —}!! Meeting. Saturday and Picnic on Sunday By R. it PHILADELPHIA, P4,, July 9.—Phil- adelphia Workers Party and the Young Workers’ Leagie have arrang- ed a huge open air dqmonstration to protest against the atderean and oth- er imperialist nations/intervention in the great Chinese /strike and the threat of war on Soviet;.Russia. Local Kuo Min Tagg has been in- vited to participate/in the demon- stration, The demonstration will be held Saturday evening, July 11 at Marshall stregt and Girard avenue. John Williamson, H,,.M. Wicks, and R. Baker, will be the speakers at this meeting. All workers of Philadel- adelphia are invited to .,attend this meeting and .express their class soli- darity to the striking workers of China. A Labor Defense and .Communist Press picnic has been arranged by the Russian branch of the Workers Party and approved by the City Ex- ecutive Committee, for Sunday, July 12, at Bradley Farm, 92nd street and aVnce avenue. Workers Party mem- bers and ‘sympathizers are urged to attend this pienie in full force. Music and dancing will be furnish- ed by a Russian orchestra, plenty of games, amusements and refreshments will be served to all comers. Brad- ley’s Farm is one of the few cool iso- lated spots where the workers can forget their factories for a few hours and escape the heat among the many shade trees beneath which will be found a_ well-equipped refreshment bar with ice cold drinks and fancy Russian sandwiches. Directions: Take Chester No. 37 car, get off at 87th street and you will meet a committee there. From down town take Jackson street car, get off at 90th street; walk two blocks | south and two west. Our Readers’ Views Socialists Beat Up Workers, To the DAILY WORKER: As a dele- gate representing my union at the Socialist-Labor-Fusion .. convention in this city, I had the opportunity to wit- ness another descending. stunt of the socialist party's vote-catching rem- nant. Preparatory to this fusion farce, Meyer Londom “socialist” lawyer de- livered a ‘vohous h in which he _ bitterly, atta the \Workers (Communist) and the Interna. tional Workers’ World, Employing bush rounding tricks, he denounced | labor action by using a putrid phrase: “turk metliods” while at the same | time the socialist gangsters poluted the air in the hall; and only a few hours later beat down*bona-fide dele-| gates who voiced théfr indignation | against fake fusions. | Militant Delegates Unseated. | No action could have’ proved their hypocrisy better than his disruptive oration against assertive labor, Then as a verification sequence of the fus-| ion lie many of the delegates were un- seated on the charge that they were | too militant. After the unseated delegates had | left, taking tbeir seats in the gallery | as visitors this socialist mockery pro-| ceeded with its farcical comedy. | By the time the resolutions’ were | being read, to the disillusioned dele-| gates who hoped for a real fusion con- vention which would unite labor's forces for the next election campaign in this city, it became obvious that nothing of the kind was taking place. Having no other alternative the dele- gates demanded that another conven- tion be called-in which all labor organ- ibzations should participate. This request was presented to the | resolutions committee'in the form of a resolution drawn up by the dele- gates, This, however, (tending to ac-| tually unveil the socialist fraud) was} enuf to rouse the ire of the “rem-| nant”—and to signal, their gang to act. c In answer to indignant labor repre- sentatives the thugs jumped to their feet throwing themselves like blood- thirsty beasts upon men and women; thus using gorilla methods, instead of “Turk methods” which Meyer London had previously attributed to the Com- . <==: eeeersssscsssssssssss SoS SSS SSS ss esses rr er rere eres es eee eee eee ewer eee eee SS SSS ~~~ the hint to a gullible public that she personally is to be rewarded for spe- cial service and cut prices. And so it happened that the cleverest “Polly” waitresses had built up a%steady pa- tronage for themselves of certain cus- tomers who would leave a tip some- what in proportion to the amount left off their check, “Them Days Gone.” But them days are gone forever since “Suze” got back from Europe and began applying the Daweg plan of “pay or starve.” Thus, by eliminating the economic stimulus for patrons’ giving tips, she is at last teaching the waitresses not to “expect” tips. However, for more drastic measures will be necessary to convince them that they are “well-paid. Polly witresses usually are not so stupid as the babbittry whom they serve, Oc- casionally it even occurs to some of them to question whether it is Mrs, Palmer or they themselves who really “earn” all the money that it must cost to take her around the world so often and to enable her to keep up so well with the ever-changing styles, both in 4 __ insite antes munists. When the thugs had completed their Job, I found myself being treated by an ambulance the fen on being informed about the idident, gave me friendly advice: “that it didn't pay to fight against a majority.” In the throes of severe pain, I thot it wiser not to argue with the doctor, but as I'm in a better condition now, I feel it is urgent to the men and women who toil: who are in the ma- jority; the workers, or the handful of charlatans? What could be more convincing reason for us to turn our backs on the socialist fakers, than their fusion bluff in New ork’s may- oralty election campaign? Such tactics as the, “socialists” ap- ply in their last, futile attempts to regain power are certainly hastening their complete extingtion. But let labor not bomoan this historical fact. For labor is gradually coming into its own. Tho Workers (Communist) Party, supported byye majority of mom and women can elim-| ee ae the world eS The Daily Wokrer Scores Again! Begins the First American Serial Publication of a Great His- torical Document Arrangements have just been completed by which the DAILY WORKER secures the first American rights to the serial pub- lication of RUSSIA TODAY THE OFFICIAL REPORT of the ~ British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia Sent by the Trade Union Congress General Council of England Arrangements with THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS co. nike possible its American serial publication in the DAILY WORKER. BEGINNING SATURDAY, JULY 25 WHAT IS IT? HOW IT WILL APPEAR. To enable every worker to possess Woh ab rat innit bid hath this valuable publication, RUSSIA ument on Soviet Russia by an impar- tial body has ever been issued. It is an unbiased report of a Brit- ish Delegation, composed of Trade Union Leaders and experts who have travelled thruout Soviet Russia, studied every phase of Russian life today and reported in the book for the first time issued in America. 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