The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 5

BUFFALO ‘YARDS WORKERS FEAR COMPANY BOSSES Packers’ Vengeance. Is “Dreaded — By. A Worker. Coridupoiident BBUFFALO, N, Y,. Jan. 8—That the workers in the packing: hou of Buffalo, N, Y., are tramp! under the hed! of the bosses, and. Protest for fear of J9si able jobs, was shown the following incident When The DAILY.WORKKER cor- Tespondent heard of the exposure of conditions in the packing. industry that the paper was publishing, he asked a worker in the Jacob Dold Co. to write up a story of the conditions under which he works. At first he said, “Oh, what stories. I can tell! I am afraid that if I tell the truth of .the horrible things to which the work- ers are subjected your readers will not believe it.” Then a look of fear came over his face, and he refused to.talk further. “I can’t afford to lose my job, Even if the wages are low, and the conditions rotten, it’s better than walking the streets looking for a mas- ter. No, I won't write anything for The DAILY WORKER, and don’t you get me into trouble by — writing, either!” The fact that no promises of se- crecy could induce this former radical worker to expose his working condi- tions, speaks for itself. The packing industry must exploit the workers like hell to intimidate them to such an extent, ee Workers (Communist) J 15 P. M. ; at the IN CHICAGO! 8th Street Theatre, Wabash and 8th St. Among other attractive numbers the famous oratorio 11th ANNUAL CONCERT FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY & MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA “SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2: Valpurge’s Night, by Goethe, will be given. t claps THE DAILY WORKER | Workers Write” About the Workers’ Life Next Week’s Prizes! TART at once sending in your contributions for next week's com- petition. The prizes to be offered are as follows: FIRST; PRIZE—Marxian Economic Handbook, by W. H. Emmett. iA complete $lom itary primer containing all the essentials for un- derstanding Marx's “Capital.” There is a glossary of 700 economic and other terms and valuable addenda and appendices. SECOND PRIZE. ‘December the Fourteenth,” by Dimitri Merezh- kovsky. An Antense and gripping historical novel dealing with one of the most stirring episodes in Russian history. THIRD big dain original of a DAILY WORKER cartoon, framed, 7 A VISIT T0 THE STOCKYARDS By SMAXIGQ., (Worker Correspondent) , EMEMBERING « Carl; Sandbure’s “Chicago, Hog Butcher ‘for: the World,” I went to visit ‘the ‘Chicago stockyards, in 1921, The 47th ‘street entrance greeted my eyes with a sign, reading: “The Illinols Humane Séciety Office of State Agent Report Cases of Cruelty Here.” On observing a statute of Abraham Lincoln, humanitarian, a little way in, I thought “What an Rabesoming en- closure!” Further on I saw sheep, ised: pigs and cows being driven to their death plunged his sharp steel knife into their throats. The animal’s blood spurted forth as in a vomit, while the animals shook in convulsions in their vain struggle against death. The floor was covered with red hot blood. This was the beginning of the sys- tematic follow-up. Division of labor divided the animal—each worker per- forming his specific incessant task. One shred the skin; the next cut the body; the third pulled the entrails; the fourth washed, cleansed, and so onn, until what was but a minute ago a living hog was packed and sealed ham, pork, bacon, A stocky man stood elevated on a CHICAGO, ILL. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING Be cccua NEW LENIN FILM. 3 Three New Reels from Soviet Russia. | Sc rc eT TTL LLLLLLLLLLL LoL al platform over the last chamber into which the cows walked. He let his heavy hammer fall on the defenseless cows’ heads, dumbfounding them. A trap door was thrown open, and the cows rolled out. Their hoofs were pierced with sharp hooks. The moving machinery performed its untiring task, the human machines kept up their duties with inhuman speed. Use Everything But Squeals. First the cows were drawn head downward to meet the butcher's knife. Their throats were pierced. Instantly the “blood man” caught the spurting red flood in buckets. The buckets were left hanging on each so that no drop of blood would be lost. Someone has said: “In modern slaughter methods only the animals’ shrieks are lost, all else being pre- served and utilized.” Bue even the shrieks are not lost. Their shrill sharpness pierce and prey upon the nerves of tie struggling, exploited, slaughter house workers. ... I was glad to get out and stay out. I wished the wind would tear the dreaded jstench from ‘my nostrills, and blow it back to where it came from. Workers in “Golden State” Send Sunkist Communist Greetings By L. P. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 8.—What does The DAILY WORKER mean to jthe workers of California? |e The DAILY WORKER is a_ wel- | come guest to a steadily increasing | number of class conscious workers from mines, mills, shops, factories and farms. The influence of The DAILY WORK- ER in the barbarous criminal syndical- ist cases is recognized by thinking workers and fearful masters. Employ- ment sharks, labor fakers and all kinds of exploiters have been made cells, Their “intuition” must have foretold their doom, for they groaned and moaned and squealed. Machine Process at Work. In Armour’s slaughter house, amidst the last shrieks and squeals of the pigs, I watched man-made machines, man and death at united work. Man stuck a sharp steel ‘hook ‘thru the pigs’ hoofs, and thé machine, an enormous revolving wheel, raised the doomed animals head © downward. Heedless of their cries, the machine brought them to the *buteher, who Party, Local Chicago. HHT NN, } will participate M. DUBROW, Baritone T.. SENDERS, Piano ‘The entire income goes for the Jewish Daily Freiheit. Also the following soloists: ‘Tickets from 75 cents to 1.50 can be bought at the new Freiheit D. ABSTFELD, Tenor GORDON HORODETSKY, Contralto e Freiheit Singing Society Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Th The Th e Freiheit Children’s Choir office, Room 14, 3209 W. Roosevelt Rd., and at the theatre. ceeveavoerereee SU TEEGENADLEDEERAUAAUEDREESEOUAAU UAL ERE PEBGYEONE AUSSIE IN\NEW YORK!‘ © Lenin’ Memorial--Sun. Jan. 24 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON to feel uncomfortable. Now our daily is fighting in behalf of the unemploy- ed. Yes, the lives and outlook of the workers have been brightened since the birth of the foremost champion for the cause of the oppressed masses. FREE LITERATURE SUPPLIED, MILWAUKEE, Wis.— Free copies of the YOUNG WORKER, Tribuna Robotnicza, Pravda, and Honor and Truth, ¢an be secured from Frank Milder, 821 Clylesurn St., Milwaukee, Wanted: A few copies of “AMERICAN IM- PERIALISM” by Jay Lovestone. NEW STAR CEN TRAL MILLERS MANHATTAN Life WORKERS BROT FROM SOUTH TO BE SLAVES HERE Porto Ricans the Most Exploited of Workers By A Warker Correspondent BROOKLYN, Ny Y., Jan, 8—As soon as our brothers from the Latin-Amer- ican countries, yeach the hospitable (2) shores of America they are im- mediately spjpited away to some fac- tory to speed saving for Uncle Sam. An instance is.the Yale Electric com- pany of Brooklyn which employs al- most exclusty; y,, Porto Ricans at an average wage of "518 per week. They SECOND STRIKE CAUSED BY THE CHECKER TAXI Boss Violated Word Af- ter First Strike By A Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 7.— Despite the fact that an injunction has been employed against them and that slug- gers have been brot in from other cities, the taxi drivers of the Checker Taxt Co. and members of Taxi Drivers’ Union Local No. 126 are out on strike and are on the job on the picket line every day. The Second Strike. This is the second strike of the drivers of this company, The first strike was called Sept. 19, 1925. The primary cause of this strike was the demand of the company officials that the drivers purchase their own uni- are required. york in the most de- grading surrot idings—dip battery cases in extremely poisonous acids— where every scratch means a grevi- ous sore. Weak men are forced to push trucks dup high with thou- sands of powtds of battery cells all over the fa¢torf’ and the least slip on the ‘part of'‘the “hand” entails the posuibititG OF Eutting off the near- est part of thé ‘Worker's anatomy. The warehéus® fs a gigantic collec- tion of dust aiid filth in which the none too robust Porto” Rican is not infre- quently laid up with the “con.” Amidst all these idyllic surroundings we can hear on all sides imprecations in Spanish against the beggarly pay, the dangerous conditions of work, and the absolutely infuriating manner of the petty bosses and white collar slaves with the workers, Their wages do not even permit them to live like human ‘beings—the lowest standards must of necessity be theirs. The boarding hous es nearby are shambles, heapest clothing and F meals of any group at, "ve yet come across. .faused by their new- ). their inability to sh and lack of skill And all this. ness in the understand in any trade... But why ghopld we permit these South Ame brothers of ours to be exploited 40, mercilessly and by their helplesdiiete tend to bring down the standards pat work in the general labor marke’ t those Ikie myself who slave in fie Yale plant form the nucleus fo: movement of libera- tion from thi ading conditions of labor existing Low Wages, Long Hours and High Cost of Living, Newark *Workers’ Fate By THEQDORE PLECAN. (Worker, Correspondent.) NEWARK, W, J., Jan. 8—One of the biggest manufacturing cities in the state of New y is Newark—the city where you.must go for a permit to the chief of police if you want to hold an ordinapy dance. In this city;there are leather fac- tories, founderjes, cigar factories, ma- chine shops, eandy factories, an auto- mobile factory, radio shops—and many other industria} establishments. The hours @flabor are nine and some places nine and one-half and even ten a day—except in the building industry, where the 8-hour day pre- vails because it is strongly organized. Pay for machinists is from 50 to 65 cents an hour and the best mechan- ies get 70 cents per hour. Laborers are paid from $14 to $18 per week and $20 is the limit. Color- ed workers are easily obtainable, be- cause the southern farmers are bank- rupt and as they must live, they flock to New Jersey, and other eastern states. * Food “is very,ticar. Meat sells at 30 to 45 cents “her pound; eggs at 60 cents to $1.00, fresh quality; po- tatoes—that Long. Island farmers were selling at $1. 09,8. bag—are now $8.00 a bag; rents, are. high, four dingy rooms with only gas and water for $25.00, We have a “ghureh n every corner, many patriotic organizations, and over 260 saloons, where booze and the worst kind of wood alcohol poison are sold. “Demogpacy’” continues to reign supreme-=until some day the whole system will be overthrown to secure justice for Ps who are today in need and in. mi Workers hice, Ohio, HaVe Miserable Wages and*Poor Homes By A Worker Correspondent forms and overcoats, As the strike continued, however, it developed into a fight to finish, The drivers demanded a contract with a “closed shop” clause and the company held out for the open shop. It was not until Oct, 3, 1925, that the officials of the Checker Co. acceded to the full demands of the union, The second strike is the result of the failure of the company officials to keep their faith with the drivers and breaking the contract. Instigators of the strike were fired and older men with the company given a shorter day than the newer drivers. No Business Done, None of the cabs of the company are operating at night but very few go out in the day time and these are escorted by the city cops. No tele- phone work is being done. The com- pany depends a lot on their telephone calls, Only nine drivers have applied for reinstatement. There are 6550 drivers out. Strikebreakers have been import- ed from Providence, Rhode Island. These men who ‘say they have been hired as “laborers” and brot to Bos- ton by the company were not aware that a strike was in progress. Many have returned to the ~cities from whence they came. The strikers are very .confident of a victory soon, SE TTT MEL Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor, Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice To those who work hard for thelr money, | will e 50 per cent on all the!> dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. IFOUNDRY TOILERS $0 FILLED WITH DUST CAN'T EAT Hours Are from 4A.M. to 5 P. M. By Fred Zink. (Worker Correspondent) MUSKEGON, Mich., Jan, 8. — The workers employed at the Campbell Waynne and Canon Foundry Co., lo- cated here, are compelled to work un- der conditions which are deplorable. The workers in the cleaning depart- ment, where the men remove the heavy motor cylinders from the blocks in order to knock the cores and found- ry sand from them to be placed into large buckets called ramblers. A crane overhead lets a lid down upon the rambler which is then fastened. in order to have them revolve at a high rate of speed to remove the flange and to give a polish to the motor cylinders. In doing this, it causes the dust and foundry sand to fly in the air to the extent that our bodies are covered and»much of it finds its way into the lungs. This work starts at 4 a. m. and con- tinues until 5:30 p. m. with plenty of straw bosses to fire and hire at will. The forty-five minutes allowed for lunch finds us poor stiffs pretty well played out and it is with effort at times that we eat our lunch, having inhaled dust all morning. For this w are paid the sum of forty-five cents an hour, It is not a surprise to see men, mostly young, (for the old are not wanted) carried out, injured at his work by some machine, maimed for life, and every now and then one is carried out dead. Altho the entire shop is unorgan- ized, there is a sentiment for organi- zation and with the help of the In- ternational Molders’ Union, I am sure we can unionize even this shop, the “hellhole of creation.” Build the DAILY WORKER. RED STARS By Wm. F. Kruse. A new film in Russia to mark the progress of “movies” in the world’s first workers’ government— @ vivid account with photo- graphs—in the IN CHICAGO! EVERYONE COME TO THE . Journeymen Barbers’ Entertainment and Dance JUST OUT! NTT TT TULL LLL LLL Lo B January Issue Musical eum ahs News ~—- Joint celeb: ation of Oakland celebration of Oakland and WORKERS MONTHLY pias 25c a copy. Sunday, January Page Five TO WISH The Daily Worker a Happy BIRTHDAY Come to these PARTIES New York JADU TRSLARMELOABLALDEENONUO OPTUS T= Anniversary Concert Sunday, January 10 Commencing 2 p, m. Yorkville Casino, 86th and Third Ave. Tickets 50 Cents. In advance TWO for 50 cents. Los Angeles Birthday Party With a Load of Good Fun Wed. Eve., January 13 New Party Headquarters, 138% S. Spring St. Chelsea, Mass. Dance and Social Friday, January 15 Labor Lyceum, 453 Broadway. A joint party of the Jewish branches of Chelsea, Revere, Lynn and Winthrop. Admission 50 Cents, Banquet Good Music—Living Newspaper Sunday, January, 17 Workers’ Hall, 225 Valencia St. Oakland LHATUEAS TLS LOAAUOAUEERLASASH4 LUDO UGE ET LASERS OE 24 denny Lind Hall, | 229 Telegraph Ave, ee TT TT LIEBKNECHT- This Coming Sunday, January 10, 8 P. M. at FOLKETS HUS, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. (Near California Ave.) “THE DANCING BARBER'S SINGING to music DILEMMA” | Rendition of Classical and ofa A dramatic Popular Airs peru of life i ion + ay in shop eye ee Orchestra A SHINGLING CONTEST WILL TAKE PLACE. $25 in Cash Prizes to Be Given to Barber Who Puts Out: Most Artistic Cut, FOF THE BENEFIT OF THE PROGRESSIVE BARBER. ADMISSION 75 CENTS. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS | TO THE DAILY WORKER From the Esthonian Branch, W. P. Leader of the You By Herbert Zam. A pen picture of a great revolutionist in action— One of the many features of the new issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY CORMRMELE GAME SUBSCRIBE! George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue CASINO OPERA ae ASSEMBLY 107th St. and Park, Ave. (318. Grand St., B’klyn LYCEUM 66 East 4th Street BARBERTON, 0., Jan, 8—The workers in the city of Barberton most- ly work eight hours a day. Their wages are as follows: Some get 40 (Thru the efforts of the et been refused us. in all sections of the city.) TICKETS FOR SALE AT: District headquarters other capitalist agencies Madison Square Garden has Flag, We will have 25.000 w addition to the above 4 pails mites @, cal iusic “Freinit Disses Verein, Li sth Orchestra and other eels: CE Ruthenberg, Ben Gitlow, M. J. Olgin at All Meetings “ADMISSION 50 CENTS —(Tiokets, good at all halls.) Sposa Workers (Communist) Par and party zewspapera. i > ms omee—io city attend the LENIN MEMORIAL in spite of this. » ae 1p: making arrangements for overflow meetings uanian Choruses, Hungarian wvolutionary Music. sung Workers League; District No. 2 Fretheit, 30 Union Square; and at all party In and 42 cents an hour—those are the better paid workers, The laborers get 82 and 35 cents an hour and the wo- men in the factories get 26 and 30 cents an hour. The rents in workers’ sections are $25, $30 and $35 a month, Houses are not good and the section where they live unsanitary... The city is fu.of churches and or- ganizations like,the K, K. K., the K. of C, and ete. ‘.gn: There are not;many unions. There is the Moulders’oUnion and the Car- penters’ Union, I will write again soon, One-half block from Imperial Hall of Philadelphia, Pa. a PHONE DIVERSEY 0791 CHICAGO rere rrcrrree. 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