The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1927, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1927 THE WORKMAN Overworked, un- organized, and Speeded in Ford's Factories. HENRY FORD GOLDEN FLOOD REACHES TWO BILLION GARY BOSSES TRY TO FORCE TOILER Discharge Men for Work Against Imperialism GARY, Ind., Feb. 8—Albert Sal- the Workers Party in this city, call- ing a mass’ meeting against imperial- OVER TO Y. M,C. A. ario distributed leaflets put out by) | DRAMA MARY SPOOR ‘New Drama Group Take | Over 52nd | St. Theatre | A new producing. group dedicated | te the “Expressionistic Drama” has | been formed by John Howard Law- | son, Em Jo Basshe, Francis Edwards | Paragoh, Michael Gold and John Dos Passos. It will be known as the New Playwrights’ Theatre. The organiza- | tion has taken over the Fifty-second Street "Theatre. “Loud Speaker,” by John Howard Lawson, (author of | Roger Bloomer, “Processional,” and SEN. J. COUZENS Minority Ford stockholder, charg- ed with cheating government. F0SEL FORD Accounting experts estimate Henry Ford’s wealth at two:billion dollars, ) perts, and developed the Ford system, a more complete and scientific exploita- and sworn testimony exists that he was offered a billion for his business al tion of human labor than any known before, making the worker more of an month ago, Y i the offer. A little over tw ized with a capital ¢ 8,000. ing to buy it for half present the elc son, Edsel, has as minute or $2 The Ford fe corner of the ind ago, Ford’s automobile company was organ- At e is the holding of a squatter, a man who found one | $12,500. 1 system not already occupied by some one of the} | automaton, working at a higher rate of speed, and wearing out faster. Other employers now know the Ford systém; there is room for no more By 1916, New York bankers were try-| manufacturers of cheap cars—and therefore for no more Fords, except per- By 2926 they had doubled their offer. a checking account of $300,000,000; and his! timated that Edsel’s income is $190.25 a} | haps, in a few still undiscovered and minor fields of industry. In 1919 Ford bought out minority stockholders in his company, among | them principally Senator James Couzens. The price paid for the shares was Couzens paid profit taxes on the difference between that and 500 a share, his figure of the value of the stock in 1913. The government great trusts organized last century. Ford developed a new thing, the low| Claims the stock was worth only $3,500 in 1913, and $30,821,000 more taxes priced automobile. He hired the best and most unscrupulous efficiency COMPENSATION AGT WAS FROST TO FRANK HILL Decisions as Capricious | As Artist’s Mood (This is the 5th article on work- man compensation written for The Federated Press and The DAILY) WORKER by Attorney Wm. H. Seed.) Seed has handled the compensation} work of two of the largest insurance companies for a number of years. The previous articles will be sent free on request.) * By WILLIAM H. SEED, (Federated Press) Injuries due to the weather give rise to many compensation disputes between employers and employes. The records contain sunstroke and heat prostration cases, and at this time of the year frostbits injuries demand settlement. The law on this subject has not varied, through the practice has varied considerably. The rule is stat- ed again in a case just reported in| Illinois.. Frank Hill had his hands} frozen while shoveling coal for the Consumers Co. at Evanston Ill. The rule is that if the workman is exposed) to greater risk of injury because of his employment, he is entitled to com-| pensation, But if he is only exposed} to the same danger as anybody else in that particular climate he is not entitled to it. In the earlier years of the compen- sation acts such cases were usually decided against the worker. More re-| cently the decisions have mostly been) in his favor, but the Illinois supreme| court by a divided vote, refused com-| pensation to Frank Hill, although the} industrial commission and its arbitra-| tor had awarded compensation, and! the circuit court had affirmed the ward. The situation is not peculiar to any one state. A Massachusetts case,/ one of those which started the cur-! rent of decisions in favor of the em- {ployes, awarded compensation to a longshoreman engaged in unloading} a steamer on a cold day, because the cold om the pier where he worked was! greater than in any place he would have ‘been likely to be otherwise. Many cases of lumberjacks and other, outdoor workers seem to turn on whether the man was at liberty to stop work and take shelter. There was an elemént of this kind in the Hill case, because there was a shanty available for warming up again. There are other cases of chauffeurs and drivers where the issue depended on whether they were compelled to be out at the particular time or could have postponed their run until after the cold, spell. Tendency Is Toward Compensation Many of these decisions are based upon yery fine distinctions. The re- sult will probably be that all such cases will have to be decided liberally in favor of the employe, because there is no other way of arriving at consistency. If a workman is frost- bitten while at work it is re: to assume that the injury arise; © ofMhis employment. It is true that a person might perhaps just as easily be frostbitten in cold weather if not at work, provided he exposed himself. But if a man is killed or injured in @ street accident while on his em ployer’s business nobody disputes the compensation, although he might just as easily have been in such an acct- dent when not at work. In short, the decisions are uncer- tain, If you get frostbitten apply for compensation. The more cases are won for frostbitten workers the sooner the compensation law will be finally settled in favor of this class of injured. They say that Senator James Couzens is the financial shark who made the Ford Motor Company He helped Henry organize the first company; advised all the financial deals, and finally parted company in 1919. show why. Couzens is a “big business man” with a self assured way. Since he sold his stock back to Ford, he has been ceaselessly cam- paigning for lower income taxes. .| Should be paid. WHY DID COUZENS AND ne? FART? ROCKEFELLER'S r — TTCHING PALM STRANGLES ROAD Second Richest Man in U.S. Is Greedy Miser By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press). How private ownership of the rail- roads permits a single profiteer to block more efficient transportation until his exorbitant demands are met, is illusrtated in Wheeling & Lake Erie hubbub. In this instance the greedy multimillionaire is the elder Rockefeller. The country’s interest requires that small railroads like the Wheeling & Lake Erie be merged into larger sys- tems. The transportation act, which ended’ government control provided for consolidation under supervision of the interstate commerce commis- the money grabbing concern it is. The present trial may ownership. Following out this provis- ion two workable plans have been de- Offered a Billion John W. Prentiss of New York, senior partner of Hornblower and Weeks, bankers, testified in the tax suit against fromer Ford stockholders that he offered Henry Ford a billion dollars three times for his company, but Ford refused to sell. Hungarian Needle Club Invites Public to Hear Gold Speak, Thursday The Hungarian Needle Trades Workers’ Club will have a meeting, its second since organization, at the Hungarian Labor Temple, 350 East ‘ist Street, New York City, Thurs- day night at 8 P. M. fhe principal speakers will be Ben Gold and Mrs. Warshafsky. There will be specia! delegations there from the Joint Board of the Fur Workers, and from the International Ladies Garment Workers, also from the Amalgamated" Clothing Worke: addition to speeches, explaini: purpose of the unions jn organizing workers, and the fight which the rank and file of the needle trades unions find themselves engaged in at rresent, there will be an excellent cert. ‘ The Hungarian Needle Trades Club is not limited to union members, Its purpose is\to bring together for so- cial and educational purposes ail workers in the industry. The initia- tion into the club is ten cents, and the dues are ten cents a month. Subseribe for The DAILY WORKER. vised for the Wheeling & Lake Erie. In Complete Control. Can this road be brought into line at a fair valuation? It cannot. For Rockefeller, althongh owning less ASK R. I. L. U T0 {than 10 per cent of the road’s out- standing securities, is in complete | control. HELP AMSTERDAM Rockefeller’s céntrol results from ! | his ownership of $11.396,100 of the} | $11,882,000 of prior lien stock. Ac-| 2 cording to the stipulations covering | Told Unity Conference | the issue of this stock, the right to| ° elect a majority of the directors lies Much. Desired |with the prior lien stockholders as Moscow, | long as their dividends remain unpaid Feb. 8.—In answer to! for 5 consecutive years. Dividends on | the appeal of the International Union | this stock have piled up but remain | of Working Class Free Thinkers that | unpaid. since Nov. 1, 1916 and now there should be better cooperation be- | amount to 71 per cent. Consequently, tween the Red International and the | Rockefeller elects a majority of the Amsterdam International of trade | road's directors, unions, the R. I. L. U. has once more} Made Large Profit. reasserted its willingness to confer) fp 1996 Wheeling & Lake Erie made at any time with the Amsterdam of- |q profit of $3,300,000 after all charges, ficials for the purpose of forming equivalent to $29.51 a share on the d the company rules. sion as a substitute*for government |’ ism. Salario worked for the Amer-| “Nirvana” will be the first “presen- ican Sheet and Tin Plate Co., and} tation and it is now in rehearsal. vather expected to continue doing so,, heir second presentation, “Earth,” as he had heard no complaints about) by Em Jo Basshe, (author of “Adam his, work, and had not broken any of| Solitaire’) will open the following y iat ay al Lr Bisa i piteeaata thereafter The next night he was sick and) wit ud Speaker.’ The organ- could not go to the mill; the night) izers are all playwrights recognized fcllowing he appeared, and was sur-| as advocates of the so-called expres- rounded by a crowd of workers who sionistic drama. wanted to know why he was being! hunted by the company police. On the Carpet. BROADWAY GOSSIP Two nights later a company spy led a policeman to him, who took his) The premier of “Inheritors,” by ; number and told him to see the su-/ Susan Glaspell, which will be the | perintendent, Mr. Graff. | eighth production by the Civic Reper- Graff argued with him against the| tory Theatre, has’ been paced leaflet, tola him that there were ways) from Feb, 21 to March 7. There will of getting rid of him, that the Com-| be a special matinee performance of munist party was made up of Mexi-| “Cradle Song” this Thursday after-' cans and foreigners, and he would] noon, Sierra's comedy’ has “taken lose his citizenship papers. |on” big at the 14th Street Theatre, “Why Don’t You...” . Soa eee ie Detaeipiees and The Theatre Guild’s special matinee eo Dede eau easing ee sae Reacn bag i oagep “Right You om : re ou ink You are,” now in | firing vee though I marca want to.| rehearsal, will open Wednesday after- ae sei ag i pie a Na noon, February 23. jae ot pit Hai ae reed heal The oe consists of Laura Hope | ican ‘citizen, and go to the library) Mason, Mgt Mone mice |and read books. It you do that, you! Robinson, Helen Westley, Henry aon ene es and fe pi Bh an Travers, J. W. Austin, Phyllis Con- it is, come tomorrow a ree o'clock) nard, Arfina Marshall, Dorothy Flet- and get your check.” | cher, Philip Lo: It was soon discovered that other) Maurice see? Philip Leigh, and workers were having the same ex-| perience. Edwin Redding, who plays the role ve Earl Watkins in “The Scarlet » sily” at the C y, Wii ~pro- the plants of the U. S. Stee Corpor-| ducer with” ik Gate, a ee ation and its subsidiaries. | Pushover,” i il Workers are fired from their jobs| soon under which will be“ presented upon the reports of these spies. | tie Peri ” No worker will’ held his gob ig helt see is in favor of a union of the work- ers in the mills and talks about it in} the plant. No worker will hold his job if he is opposed to the one man} tule in the city of Gary, through the} political machine of the Steel Trust. No worker will hold his job if he} is in favor of higher wages and bet-| ter working conditions. ° Milan Malesevice, Jim Roleda and| Neighborhood Playhouse Albert Salario were fired from their) 466 Grane ’St. Drydock 7516 jobs because they distributed cireu-| 2very Eve, (Except Mon,) Mat. Sat. lars announcing meetings not to the) ‘DP [T NV W H E ie Sigg 1) ae Judge Gary admitted using spies in} Dorothy Overand has succeeded king of the Steel Trust. By Francis Edwards Faragoh They were not distributing these! “THE DY: NemPebd. 17, circulars in the mills. They did not! THEA. W. 45th § aa violate any of the rules of the plants! KLAW MATINEES THU! & SAT. Their work was satisfactory. They) 66 99 | were fired becaust they exercised Ss ER ¥ | their constitutional right of freedom) = |of opinion. They were fired because| Wt* Allan Dinchart & Claiborne Foster |company spies reported them to the| PLYMOUTH Faget e 2 BMod comgeee-. and Thu, and Sat. Mats. ‘THROP. AMES’ | Gilbert & Asks Catalina Channel Race. " OF PEN- LOS ANGELES, Feb. 8Mrs.| ouz"t,, & PIRATES = zance Myrtle Huddleston, Long Beach, Cal.,| Thursday Evenings Only, “lolanthe” | sat. Evenin, its original title of “Plas-| and Mattoon, Ills,, first women to) conquer Catalina channel, has not had enough swimming. She wants some |more, and she wants to race some- bedy, preferably a man. This man, she said today, might be Henry F. Sullivan, of Lowell,| Mass., the second male swimmer to cross Catalina channel. Mrs, Hud- dleston’s time was three hours better than Sullivan’s mark. Aimees’ Radioist Again In Trouble. LOS. ANGELES, Feb. 8.—The my- sterious “Miss X” of the Aimee Sem- ple McPherson case will probably be named co-respondent by Mrs. Ruth ‘Theatre Guild Acting Company in PYGMALION Week Feb. 14—KARAMAZOV |] GUILD Thea., W. 52d st. Bvs | Mats. Thurs. & Sa’ ‘| Ned McCobb’s Daughter Week Feb. 14—SILVER CORD Joh Th., 58, E. of B'y.|Circle ohn’ Golden site. Thurs. eset) sera | In “No, No, Nannette,” the Mandel- Harback musical comedy playing. at the Bronx Opera House this week. Auriol Lee in “Lady Alone,” the Alice Brady play at the Forrest Theatre. “Pinwheel,” at. the Neighborhood Playhouse, occupies the entire stage. sy’s. “Le Boite a Joujoux” (The Toy’ Box) will not be given February 13, but on Sunday afternoon, February 20, and Tuesday afternoon, February 22, when “The Dybbuk” will be the evening bill. A new group, calling themselves the “Theatre Lovers’ Society,” have organized under the directorship. of John Piccori, 32. Barrow street, in the Village.. They announce a desire for original play manuscripts and new members. |. The Theatre Guild’s production of | Pirandello’s “Right You Are If You Think You Are,” which will be pre- sented at matinees only, will open at the Guild Theatre on Wednesday aft- jernoon, Feb. 23. The cast will inclide Laura Hope Crews, Elizabeth Risdon, | Reginald Mason, Beryl Mercer, Ed- | ward G. Robinson, Helen Westley and | Henry Travers. Av. & 14 St. atkins 7767, |Civie Repertory Cor. § EVA LE GALLIENNE This Afternoon, “TWELFTH NIGHT” Tonight ....... “MAST. B LUDER” Tomorrow’ Afternoon “CRADLE SONG An @ MERICAN TH TRAGEDY MONTH Mts, Wed Longacre Ws and Sa). The LADDER Everybody's Play WALDORF, 50th St. East of Bway. Mats. WED. and SAT. Thea., 48th St., W. of By. E RITZ 8.30. Mats. WED. and SAr, 230, Bye Bye Bonnie | Musical Bon Bon with Dorothy Burgess, | Rudolph Cameron, Louix Simon, William Frawley. Sam. 51g THEA, West dina Bt H. HARRIS tyice Dally Bee oD WHAT PRICE GLORY 'Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 60c-$2_ ‘PHILLIPS RANDOLPH IN SLANDEROUS ARTICLE | By H. V. ___ TO REACTIONARY PAPER DISPLAYS BAD MOTIVE PHILLIPS. The children’s performance of Debus- - one all-embracing international of un- | Rockefeller stock, while in 1925 the ion labor. ‘ | profit was $3,286,279 or $27.65 a Free Thinkers State Case. _| share. Altogether in the last 4 years Pointing out that workers are in| the profits total more than $75 a no position at present to meet the | share, but no dividends have been au- capitalist line-up, the I. W. C. F. T-.’s | thorized so the control has remained plea states: “No one can dobut that | with Rockefeller. Peters Ormiston in hef suit for divorce against Kenneth Ormiston, “phantom radioist,” formerly of Mrs. McPherson's Angelus Temple, it was learned here today. | In his slanderous letter to Abraham I. Shiplacoff, chairman of ‘the Committee for the Preservation of the Trade Unions (reactionary official- dom) as published in the organ of the socialist party. The new, léader, A. Philip Randolph, erstwhile socialist, writes: “Permit me to congratulate you upon the valuable, necessary and effective fight you, Brothers Sigman and Beckerman of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers and. the Amalgamated Clothing Workers respectively, are making to preserve the the most urgent task of the moment Larger railroads are now attempt- is to rally together all the workers in| ing to obtain the Wheeling & Lake the trade union struggle or at least | Prie for the consolidations as pro- to secure better cooperation between | vided by congress. It is rumored that ” r of t Tr t ye'ne of his steck plus r to the invitation is a decisive affirma- | gant accumulated dividends plus Lard tive. ‘ tevest on these unpaid dividends and Welcome Initiative. he has refused the offer, Aside from “The executive bureau of the R. I. | getting an even better price another U. bapa ad ae Lari yh maton re raaet if suggested. your International, e respont e Wall Street Journal says: | s, “and is ready to come to your | The Money Sharks. | ‘istance in this matter in every pos-| “Within the last year it is under- | ie wind tee ie oaks tec idl stood negotiations were resumed but pee ae ages pe ee | the Rockefeller interests turned down t SANS “an offer of par plus accumulated divi- | possible of achievement, ie trade | dends and interest. It is quite possible union, by its very nature being oe | wat the Rockefeller interests take | organiz tion: embracing | bakin ai of the position that a further decrease | "| four or fi¥e years an at such ay . eight vase seninery i arian mel development may considerably reduce | the direct and indirect attack of capi- sca ip a seed eget Tita Gi cite: Uneeakeamen ones and interest on the divi-; 2 the, increase, | dends. ployment is growing.’ | The road’s capital issues total $89,- | ETE LON | 300, or $187,200 per mile. Adding. Child Slayer Goes to Trial. + he 71 per cent due on Rockefeller’s a ahey to, ar Hoveld Soames Ovoahin |taligation ne’ suite, cet ciation for ‘the brutal slaying of little Walter | or $204,900 a mile. But the inter-| Coane wae cay ee Chief | state commerce eommission’s valua- | Justice jam J. Lindsay in crim-|tion of the road, even if we add all} inal court here today. Attorneys for | subsequent investments, is only $56,- | the defense and the state expect that | 536,400 or $117,700 a mile. the jury will not be completed for ; at least a week. : | | The Federated Press, 156 Washing- (ton St., Chicago will be glad to hear) from readers who desire information, ven particular points. Roll in the Subs For The DAILY WORKER. ABook for thelrish Worker “Jim Connolly and the Irish Rising of 1916” Introduction by T. J. O'Flaherty, By G. Schuller. i PRICE 10 CENTS. Jim Connolly was the military leader of the Easter Week rebellion in Jreland which broke out when the British empire was passing thru one of the™most serious crises that faced it during the world war, Con- nolly, the international Marxist, Joined his small army of workers with the nationalist secret: society known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood and raised the stand- ard of an Irish republic, Connolly was one of the first revolutionists in the international socialist move- ment to appreciate the value of the nationalist question in the workers’ struggle against imperialism. He was a Bolshevik in the full sense of the term. This little pamphlet by G,. Schuler ts the first serious at- tempt to give Connolly his rightful place in the revolutionary history of this period, it was first pub- lished as an article in the official organ of the Communist Interna- tional, It skould be distributed In large quantities among the Irish workers in the United States, Con- nolly is a magicename with every irigh worker who has a spark of the divine fire of revolt in his system, it can also be read with Interest by every radical worker who wants to soak up on the strategy and tactics of revolution, Comrade Sehuler declares that Connolly was a Leninist, He was, He fell before « British squad in 1916, one year before the Russian workers ‘and peasants buried the Czar and Czar- dom and began to build a Soviet Republic on the ruins, Koll Communists.” Communists Save Unions. | The Communists, of whom Mr. Randolph writes, are the center of the left wing in the trade union move- ment and are class conscious workers who have joined the party of class conscious workers, the Workers (Communist) Party. They have the interest of the working class in gen- eral at heart. In the interest of the workers they fight the capitalists and | their lackies. Were it not for the Communists, sympathizers and class-conscious workers in the trade unions, the un- ‘ions would become merely employ- _ment agencies run by the reactionary ‘officials of unions in the interest of the capitalists.. The workers, them- selves, would have little or nothing to say as to working agreements, pay, hours, ete. This would all be ar- ranged between the bosses and the of- \ficialdom of the trade unions. A | worker would have to take what was | offered him and say nothing. { Good For Fakers. | Mr. Randolph is head of the Broth- erhood of Sy a Car Porters, and \I agree with him that this would in- |deed be an ideal situation for the re- actionary officials of the trade un- ions, but how about the millions of workers? Have they no rights? Must they all be republicans, demo- erats or socialists? Mr. Randolph has proven by his letter that he is just trying to feather his own nest like the rest of the re- trade union movement of America against the disruptive tactics of the actionary officials; he is afraid there might be some Negro Communist in his union who will demand that it be run in the interest of the sleeping car porters. like Communists so much? Do Com- munists keep Negroes out of the trade unions? Are not Communists the hardest fighters for the admittance of Negroes in the unions on an equal basis? Is it. not the Communist Par- ty that fights for Negro workers the same as for all other workets, mak- ing no distinction whatever? Support Communists, No, Mr, Randolph, you won't get all of the Communists out of the unions, but the expulsion tactics of this un- ion-wrecking committee of which Mr. Shiplacoff, is head, will only make members for the Communist Party. The workers won't be so f fooled. They know who fights in the interest of the workers against the . capitalists and their hirelings and re- gardless to what political party these workers belong, the intelligent work- ers will follow the leadership of those who fight for the interest of the working class—Mr, Randolph to the contrary notwithstanding. . Housewives Meet Today. The central committee of the Uni- ted Council Working Class House- wives will meet on today at Manhat- tan m, 66 KE, 4th, near Bnd Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER. If not, why does he dis- Lyceui Ave, All delegates must be present. °