The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 20, 1926, Page 5

1] ve RRS TATA TI FIRST PRIZE WINNER. DESCRIBES FORD | SPEED-UP PLAN AS IT OPERATES Work Faster. and Get Less Pay By a Worker Correspondent; JERSEY CITY, N. J., Nov, 18— Henry Ford, in an interview, considers five days a week as a cold business Proposition. Studied in cold cash, it works out splendidly for frugal Henry. In the final assembly of the Kearney plant, where a moving conveyor whips ‘Zhe men into increasing action, effi- mient production was made this week Yn three days and seven and one-half thours’ work. They were sent home Friday at 4 o'clock, whieh explains the missing half hour. At the present scale of wages, which includes the mueh-advertised raises of 2% to 5 . cents an hour, the men will draw from $25-to $27 pay. Before going home Friday, Nov. 12, they were told not to report for work until the following Tuesday morning. Speeded Up. Recently Superintendent Gartha went around the plant looking for more action. As he passed thru the final assembly he demanded that the men working alongside the line should work directly on the moving conveyor, thereby adding to operations already loaded to capacity. In this way men are constantly tested by having their operations added to or doubled, Statistics and records are also brought into play, the operations, num- ber of men employed andy costs being matched with.other plants, Workers Weeded Out, A definite weeding-out process is under way. One man, John Morris, was removed by the superintendent to the salvage department after 10 years of faithful service as a small boss. He had under his control the wiring of all outgoing cars, but was unfortu- | nate to get beyond the years favored by Ford’s speed and efficiency and ‘was replaced by a younger man of 25, Jolin Morris is now working in the pen Kearney meadows with about 40 ther men. There is no shelter while jalvaging old wood from rain or snow and they are open to stiff breezes from jhe Passaic River. In this way old wemployes are eliminated thru addi- ‘tional pressure and disagreeable jobs. Prolet-Tribune Will Be Out Tomorrow | at Workers’ House The next issue of Prolet-Tribune, the /Russian living newspaper of the Novy \Mir worker correspondents will be out “Saturday, Nov. 20, at 8 p. m,, at the “Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. Admission will be 25 cents. All workers who understand the Russian language are invited to attend, BOSTON International iPRESS BALL | Friday, Nov. 26, ’26 JACQUES RENARD'S ORCHESTRA STATE BALL ROOM Mass. Ave., Boston Gents 75c Ladies 40c | At Door: Gents $1; Ladies 60c International Press Balt for the benefit ‘of the following papers: ¢ The Daily Worker soon glish Daily The Young Worker betes ..Youth Bi-weekly The Young Comrade Bteenpain .. Ii Lavoratore Lithuanian Daily Russian Weekly Daily News .,.. Ukrainian Daily +++ ¢ . NOVEMBER 26 = jerks” and apprentices. James Dolsen. books in your worker library: war prisoner. By WILLIAM ALBERTSON (Werker Correspondent) PITTSBURG, Noy. 18. — Probably the most exploited young worker in Pittsburgh is the “soda-jerker” or pharmacist’s .apprentice. Before ob- taining the job, the worker must first |get an apprentice’s license from the state which entitles him to work in the drug store, and which costs him two dollars, We must even pay for allowing ourselves to be exploited. Does Everything. He is then given the work of shin- ing the fountain, sweeping and mop- {ping the store, washing the windows, etc. When this work is finished, he |makes the syrups; and, if the store happens to sell sandwiches, he makes them also. If the gtore does not have a frigidaire fountain, the ice naturally makes a very wet floor which is a great aid to colds and rheumatism, If he has any time left over—the boss usually sees that he has—he must work in the stock room which means lifting heavy loads and. marking prices. While he is performing all this work, he is naturally expected to wait on trade. ‘ According to the bosses, all this work will eventually make a full- fledged pharmacist of the apprentice. BE AT GLASS IN WORKERS’ JOURNALISM TONIGHT AT 6:30 P. M., DAILY OFFICE The Chicago class in worker cor- respondence meets tonight at 6:30 o'clock in the editorial offices of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd. The class hour has been changed to 6:30 from 8 o'clock to accommodate workers | whe have other meetings on the same night. Once more all workers in Chicago who want ‘to receive training in worker journalism to enable them to prepare articles for the press are urged to attend the class tonight. Every worker who wants to learn to write, or whose position in an organ- ization demands that he write sto- ries and news articles should be- co! member of the class at once. The clags is held every Friday night. Members are urged to be on time tonight In order that no time will be lost because of the new class hour. Sample stories should be brought to the class as a basis of criticism, Paper Box Strikers Set Up Restaurant By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, Nov, 18.—At a mass meeting of the Paper Box Makers’ Union held Noy, 9 Brother Markovitch pointed out the tricks which the bosses are using to break the strike, After this a fellow striker, Deauch spoke, He said in spite of the fact that the bosses are using the police and every possible method to break the strike and the union, “we are stick , and even tho and children haven't enough am going to fight and stick the end.” Comrade Powers spoke next, and said that ho had heard that the bosses were asking for an injunction against picketing, He pointed out that this was a healthy sign and means that our picketing ig really hurting, Caiola, manager of the unoin, said that the workers were starving while they were working, that families of five were living in $11 rooms, and that the bosses were living on River- side Drive, He asked the workers if they were ready to fight. ‘Dhe ‘workers rose and answered that they would fight till the end, and they all left the hall and went to the picket lines. 1000 WORKER CO The third prize is awarded Joe Plotkin of Gary, Indiana, a copy of “The Industrial Revivat in Soviet Russia” by A. A. Heller. PRIZES FOR NEXT WEEK. Three attractive prizes for worker correspondence stories next week will be given to those who send In the best stories, you have been thinking about now, workers! RD PRIZE—"Government-Strikebreaker,” by Jay Lovestone. present government fights against the workers, EVERY WORKER SHOULD SEND IN A STORY THIS WEEK! REMEMBER: WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! THE DAILY WORKER - THIS WEEK’S PRIZE WINNERS Three more prizes are given this week to workers who have sub- mitted best examples of worker correspondence articles for the week. A Ford automobile plant worker In Jersey City is awarded the first prize for his story “telling how Ford’s “five-day week” plan really works. He Is given a copy of “The Eighteenth Brumaire” by Karl Marx, The second prize winner for this week is Willlam Albertson of Pitts- burgh, Pa,, who wrote the story telling of exploitation of drug-store “soda- He is awarded “The Awakening of China” by He is given Send in that story You can have one of these ST PRIZE—“Romance of New Russia,” by Magdeleine Marx, a splendid account of the new Russia, in a cloth-bound edition. ONY. PRIZE—"Bars and Shadows,” by Ralph Chaplin, beautiful poems by” Aaah proletarian poet, written in Leavenworth penitentiary when a class- How the SECOND PRIZE WINNER. ORGANIZATION IS NEED AMONG EXPLOITED DRUG APPRENTICES Long Hours, The average working day is from eight o'clock in the morning until twelve at night. This day js divided into three shifts: from 8*to 12, 12 to) 6, and 6 to 12. The worker is sup- posed to work two shifts per day. One day he warks from eight to six; the next day, from 12 to 12. One Sunday he works from 8 to 12; the following Sunday, from 12 to 12. This averages Seventy-four hours per week! And what do you think the wages are: from $15 to $25 per week! In the chain stores like Mays and Mce- Cullocks, the.wages are about 26 per cent better, but the work and disci- pline is about 25 per cent worse. Students Compete, During the summer months, the reg- ular workers are sometimes dropped in favor of the students who are having ‘no school, and who will work for less money. During the school term, some students work after schoo] from six to twelve almost every night, Their wages average about $1.25 an evening. A remedy is needed for this pitiful condition. There are hundreds of such “goda-jerkers” in Pittsburgh, but the spirit of organization, which ig the only remedy, is lacking. MEXICANS IN U. S, ARE NOW AWAKE TO ORGANIZATION Union Already Formed In San Diego By a Worker Correspondent. SAN DIHGO, Cal., Nov. 18.—The or- ganization of the Mexican worker has been thought impossible by many or- ganizers, for two reasons. First, be- cause of the race prejudice that barred the Mexican from the A, F. of L. unions, and, second, that the major- ity of the Mexican workers were ig- norant of the fact that they are being organized for their own good and against their enemies. New Awakening. Now that the workers in Mexico are being organized, they are awakening to the fact in the United States that they need organization, : The Confedegacion Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM) is already taking steps in combination with the Ameri- can Federation of Labor toward the organization of the vast masses of un- organized Mexican workers. But the workers want mass organi- zation, instead of being hog-tied into trade unions, They want their own organization. They already have their own organization here, La Union de Trabajadores Mexicanos (Mexican Workers’ Union), but it is only a local of the Hod Carriers’ and Laborers’ Union, Therefore, they can only bring in laborers while there are Mexi- cans in every kind of work here. And that is the reason they want an or- ganization where they can take in any Mexican worker, regardless of class of , Help Passaic. To prove their willingness and their spirit of solidarity, we have only to take into account what they are doing, A motion was passed at the last meeting of this union to send $5 to the Passaic strikers’ relief fund, They are just starting to organize now and hope to have a good organization soon, THIRD PRIZE WINNER, COMPANY TRIES TO DENY WORKER ~ COMPENSATION Testifies Falsely Before | Commission p A - (Worker Correspondent) HAMMOND, Ind., Nov, 18.—Seven months ago Wi ©. Crawford while working as a pipefitter helper, was injured in an aecident. Because of a weak cable, a erane pulley block By JOE PLOTKIN, | | | | weighing over 300 pounds fell on the man’s shoulder atid injured him per- manently, * The case was ‘tried before the indus- tria) board of Hémmond. Couldn't Work. Crawford said he is 45 years of age and is a car builder. At the time of the accident he.was hit by the pulley block on the left shoulder and on the right foot.. He lost much sleep be- cause of pain. Altho he still suffered, he went back towork, but had to quit in a few days'beeause he could not stand the pains»Crawford went to work many times after that. He had many different kinds of work. But he always had to quit after a few days because of the pain in the shoulder. Crawford received only $200 since the accident, He has a wife and four children to support. Dr. Hack ‘showed the commission’ that Crawford could not move the arm effectively. Crawford cried with pain during the demonstration. Company Doctor Lies, The company doctor as a witness was like.a man lost at sea. At first he said that in order for Crawford to get his arm in good shape he should go back to work. After some hot questioning by Mr. Dorsey, Crawford's attorney, the etor admitted that the arm was in a very bad condition-and disabled and uld be treated by a doctor. The company doctor tried to keep himself in the good graces of his bosses which payed him by testifying that Crawford is able to work. The decision ‘gn the gase will be rendered at thé next meeting of the industrial commission of Indiana, Form Shoe Workers’ Co-operative to Aid Industry in Russia By a Worker’ Correspondent. NEW YORK, Noy, 18. — A shoe workers’ co-operative to manufacture ladies’ and men’s welt shoes in Soviet Russia on the American system has been organized here under the super- vision of the Technical Aid to the So- viet Union. A group of members of the co-operative met on Nov, 6, and decided to organize a group of 75 shoe workers, All shoe workers who are interested s*ould apply tothe secretary of the Technical Aid, 799 Broadway, Room 402, New York City, or to the secre- tary of the co-operative, Harry Capell, 236 McDougal street, Brooklyn, The next meeting of the co-opera- tive will be held on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 2 o'clock at the offices of the Technical Aid. WORKER DIES BECAUSE N.Y. GENTRAL FAILS T0 PROVIDE ILLUMINATION By FREDDA GARDNER, (Worker Correspondent) EAST SYRACUSE, N, Y., Nov. 18.—Inadequate light of the New York Central DeWitt yards caused the, death of another humprider. Roy A. Brownell, 22, of East Syra- cuse, was fatally injured Friday Companions with him on the night shift last saw Brownell swinging on the rear end of the boxcar which he was to ascend before applying brakes as the car reached the proper place in the yards. When the lad falled to return his fellow-workers started a search down the slope. Near the b of the incline they found B: Mt lying uncon- scious, a leg a badly severed. Altho the b n’s unconscious state made It | ible to learn full detalls of the int, fellow-work- ers ascribe the directly to lack of sufficient I!lumination, j Only five weeks ago Edward Ryan, 25, died under the same cir- cumstances, . Over one of the largest railroads yards In the country, nine miles long and, fully a half mile wide, practl- cally all of the lighting apparatus . consists of two flood lights. A short time ago the demand of the brotherhood for increased tl- lumination resulted in Inspection by safety men. No attempt to provide additional lighting facilities followed their re- ports, Meanwhile the greed of the N. Y. C, R. R. and the lack of direct action by the brotherhood will make poss ble a continued toll of the lives of | Street mine, owned by, the Giendale “Page Five AMINERS LOSE | LIVES IN SCAB | MINE EXPLOSION W. Va. Disaster Was, Avoidable, Charge By ROMA. (Worker Correspondent) MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Nov, 18.— Once again labor has paid a toll of death to the grim monster of capital- ism, when four miners were killed and two injured, and another one killed or seriously injured in a non-union mine in this city. Early on the morning November 16 an explosion occurred at the First Gas Coal Company, Twenty miners were in the mine at the moment of the blast, working night shift. Thir- teen of these, working in a locality a short distance from the place where the blast occurred, were led ‘to safety by the night foreman, while seven were in the midst of the explosion, Rescue workers recovered six of the miners, three dead, two seriously in- jured, and one in a serious condition, who died shortly after he was rushed to the hospital. One of the miners cannot be located. Those dead are: Walter Fogle, 19, single, motorman. Reuben Kirkhart, 23, single, brake- man. Mike Kavesack, 44, married, loader. Joseph E, Stifel, 50, married, loader, The injured are: H. F. Cumber- ledge, loader; J. W. Lemaster, loader. Disaster Avoidable. This disaster was avoidable, as any miner will state. All the mines in this section are non-union, with all the unsafe, non-union working conditions. Each mine is full of gas, ready to blow up at the least ignition. Miners complain that the air circulation in the mines is bad; the pumps are poor, and the air is not circulated even thruout the mine to prevent dangerous pockets of gas from forming or accum- ulating. Recently safety lamps were in- stalled on the part of the miners. The coal barons, however, have not fol- lowed their part of the bargain. In all probability, and as all miners firmly believe, this explosion was caused by the sparks of the motor coming in contact with a dangerous pocket of gas.. Many of the miners stated that the motors are unsafe, and that the sparks issuing forth are ex- ceedingly large and sure to cause an explosion if there is gas. These mines are not examined as rigidly as they should be. The mine inspector, when inspecting, goes only thru the main part of the mine, but does not go to the out-of-the-way places where miners toil, and which are dangerous gas traps. The mine is then pronounced safe, when, as a fact, it is not in local places, CONVICT THREE WORKERS INN, J FRAME-UP CASE Court Upholds Scab’s Testimony By a Worker Correspondent. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Noy. 18. Harry Fox, Mickey Toloman and | Antonio Pienitari, former employes of the Raritan Copper Works, Perth Am. boy, N. J., have been convicted on an astault and battery charge here. The three men were accused by Frank Lovel, a worker at the copper works, of severely beating him with a six-foot iron pipe the night of August 15. A strike was conducted by the Interna- tional Union Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, of which the three defend- ants were members, against the Rari- ton Coppér Workers, at the time the assault took place. Lovel was a scab working at the copper works, The case was manifestly a frame-up engineered by the company to get rid of these three militant workers. Each f the accused proved by several wit- nesses that they were miles away when the scab was beaten up. No one saw the attack take place. Lovel testified that he was alone when assaulted; that the men approached him from behind; that he was on an unlighted street. He also admitted that he pre- viously knew only one of the men. Despite this, he swore that he was positively sure that these three men beat him up, The defense brought out the fact that the complaint on which the war- rants were issued had been made by an official of the company and that Lovel was brought to the jail after the men were arrested by a company of- ficial and asked to identify them. Of course he promptly said these were the men. New Brunswick is a notorious open- shop town and the state prosecutor played cleverly on the manifest preju- dice of the jury against labor, In his summing up he was forced to admit that Fox in all probability was not at the scene of assault, but he asked for his conviction on the ground that Fox was an official of the Perth Amboy local of the union, and was the brains behind the other two innocent work- erm, ‘ Tho International Labor Defense, phon Sinclair tCopyrigat, 1936, by Uptom Sinciair) Bunny would go away, and find himself haunted by a figure in a scanty one-piece bathing-suit, a figure of youthful, sinewy but graceful, vivid, swift. It was evident that she liked him, and Bunny would wake up from his dreams and realize he liked her. He would think about her when he ought to be studying; and his thinking summed itself up in one question, “Why not?” Echo, in the Torm of Dad and Mr. Roscoe and Annabelle Ames and their friends, appeared to be answering, “Why not?” The one person who would have answered otherwise was Henrietta Ashleigh, and Henrietta, alas, was now hardly even a memory. Bunny was not visiting the blue lagoon, nor saying prayers out of the little black and gold books, Bunny would call Vee Tracy on the telephone, at the studio or at her bungalow, and she was always ready for a lark. They would go to one of the restaurants where the screen folk dined, and then to one of the theaters where the same folk were pic- tured, and she would tell him about the private lives of these people—stories even stranger than the ones made up for them. Very soon the screen world was putting one and one together in its gossip. Vee Tracy had picked up a millionaire, an oil prince -—oh, millions and millions! And it was romantic, too, he was said to be a Bolshevik! The glances and tones of voice that Bunny encountered gave yet new echoeg of the haunting ques- tion—“Why not?” Iv Sitting on the beach, half dug into the sand, and staring out over the blue water, Vee told him something about her life. “I’m no spring chicken, Bunny, don’t imagine it. When I came into this game, I had my own way to make, and I paid the price, like every other girl. You'll hear them lie about it, but don’t be fooled; there are no women producers, and no saints among the men.” Bunny thought it over. “Can’t they be satisfied with finding a good actress?” " “She can be a good actress in the daytime, and a good mist~ ress at night; the man can have both, and he takes them.” “It sounds rather ghastly,” said the other. “Tl tell you how it is, there’s such fierce competition in this game, if you're going to get ahead, nothing else matters , nothing else is rea]. I know it was that way with me; I hung round the doors of the studios—I was only fifteen—and I starved and yearned, till I'd have slept with the devil to get inside.” She sat, staring before her, and Bunny, watching her gut of the corner of his éye, saw that her face was grim. “There’s this to remember too,” she added; “a girl meets a man that has a wad of money, and can take her out in a big car, buy her a good meal, and a lot of pretty clothes, and set her up in a bungalow, and he’s a mighty big man to her, it’s easy to think he’s something wonderful. It’s all right for moralists to sniff, that don’t know anything about it; but the plain truth is, the men that came with the cash and offered me my first real start in a picture—he was just about the same as a god to me, and it was only decent to give him what he wanted. I had to live with him a few months, before I knew he was a fat-headed fool.” There was a silence. “I suppose,” said Vee, “you’re wonder- ing why I tell you this. I’m safe now, I’ve got some money in the bank, and I might set up for a lady—put on swank and forget the ugly past. If I'd told you I was an innocent virgin, how would you have known? But I said to myself, ‘By God, if having money means anything to me, it means I don’t have to lie any more.” Said Bunny: “I know a man that says that. It made a great impression on me. I’d never known anybody like it before.” “Well, it makes you into a kind of savage. I’ve got an awful |reputation in the picture world—has anybody told you?” “Not very much,” he answered. She looked at him sharply. “What have they told you? All about Robbie Warden, I suppose?” “Hardly all,” he smiled. “I heard you'd been in love with him, and that you’d sort.of been in mourning ever since.” “T made a fool of myself twice over a man; Robbie was the last time, and believe me, it’s going to Stay the last. He put up the money for the best picture I ever made, and he was hand- some as a god, and he begged me to marry him, and I really meant to do it; but all the time he was fooling with two or three other women, and one of them shot him, so that was the end of my young dream. No, I’m not in mourning, I’m in rejoicing be- cause I missed a lot of trouble. But if I’m a bit cynical about love, and a bit unrefined’in my language, you can figure it out.” And Vee shook the mountain of sand off her bare legs and stood up. “Here’s how I keep off the fact,” she said, and put her hands down on the sand where it was wet and firm, and |stood the rest of herself upon them, her slender white limbs going straight up, and her face, upside down, laugh- ing at Bunny; in that position she walked by slow handsteps down to the water, and then threw herself over in the other half of a handspring, and lighted on her feet and dashed into the breakers. ‘Come on in! The water’s fine!” Bunny thought over this conversation, and learned from it his usual lesson of humility. Vee had had to fight for her suc- cess; whereas he had never had to fight for anything. If he wanted a moving picture career, Dad would arrange it for him, the studio doors would fly open. And the same thing applied to any sort of career he could think of. How could he afford to pass judgment on anybody? Also, while he listened to Vee Tracy, he had the memory of Eunice Hoyt to keep him humble. No, people didn’t know what was right about sex; or at any rate, if they did, they didn’t make it clear. It was disagreeable to have to think about so many other men; but then, too, it helped to clear the atmosphere. She wouldn’t expect to marry him right off; there were marriages among the screen people, but apparently not until they had made sure they were happy. Also, it enabled Bunny to be certain that Vee would not be shocked by the knowledge that she was haunt- ing his dreams, ~ ' ‘(Continued Tomorrow.) ETHEL AND Jos. VAVAK ‘Teachers ,of- Violin and Piano Spend a Pleasant Evening in the Reading Room of the WORKERS (Los Angeles, Cal.) BOOK SHOP $22 WEST SECOND ST, Telephone SUNNYSIDE 8472 Address 1146 MONTROSE AVE., CHICAGO A labor library is here for your convenience. There is also a splendid selection of books for your purchase, Hours—9 A. M. to 10 P. M, Sundays—1 P. M, to 8 P.M Use your brains and your pen to ald which conducted the defense, imme- diately announced that the case will be appealed. NS ON) i the ‘workers in the class struggle, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Tel. Metropolitan 3265 el anne inatlee eee a lsat