The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY \yJRKER NEW YORK, MO Organize the Traction Workers WORKER SCHOOL JOURNALISM 600 ARTICLE IV, THE COMP By ROBERT MITCHELL, The great menace of the company union to which attention was drawn in the last section was illustrated in the case of The Interborough by the fact that the Interborough “Brother- hood” has all the advantage of the industrial union operated in the in- terests of the company and all the weaknesses of the craft form of or- ganization dividing workers, "Never Meet. The Interborough “Brotherhood” embraces some thirteen thousand men but is divided into thirty-three sep- arate locals which do not meet under any conditions, Representation is provided for on the basis of one dele- gate to- every 250 men, making a total of about 65 delegates to a gen- eral committee, which, with the presi- cent, is the governing body of the company union. The rank and file are kept in com- plete ignorance of all activities out- side of their respective locals. The delegates of the general committee meet as a joint board, a body oi unique coercive power, as the last July strike so clearly portrayed. DENTISTS Tel. Orchard 3783 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET Cor, Eldridge St. New York | Tel. Lehigh 6022. : Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF SURGEON DENTIST } Office Hours: 9:20-12 A, Daily Except Friday and junday. 246 EAST 115th STRERT New York. Cor. Second Ave. Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Phone Stuyv, 10119 Room 803 TO OUR MUTUAL INTEREST Have your teeth cared for by a fellow union man, a member of I. T, : for the past 10 years, card AMINATION FRED. consideration on showing union card. Freiheit Jubilee SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 2nd, 1927 'taeks is a study in itself, NY UNIO Elections to the general commit- tee are held on company property un- der the supervision of either com- | pany officials or the delegates them- selves. Ask John Lewis, for in- stence, what may always he depend- ed upon _to happen under such cir- eumstances. John was recently de- feated for the presidency of The United Mine Workers. Nevertheless, he is still in office and will be the infamous misleader of the next fake settlement with the bosses or of an equally fake strike call due next April, Company Runs Union. Accordingly it is same to’ assume that the Interborough officials have had no difficulty in managing the general committee. The president of the “Brother- hood” is a genial Irishman by the name of Patrick J. Connolly. Pat’s early history is, as the books say, altogether shrouded in mystery. There are in existence various trou- blesome rumors reporting him to have been one of a crew of strike breakers imported from Chicago dur-| ing the 1905 strike. He has never chosen to “brand” this rumor for the lie that it still might not be. But the | question as to the historical accuracy of this fact loses its importance in |the light of Pat’s more recent and more clear-cut claim to the role of strike breaker. Pat’s Queer Friendship. | “Paddy” Connolly began his ca- |veer very definitely as a thick-head- {ed, dorhineering company tool, but junder the skillful tutorship of Mr. ; Quackenbush and his legal lights, Paddy has developed into a shrewd, | genial, semi-suave, cunning and de- ceitful hypocrite. In the staccato of his very marked Irish brogue you |will hear the ring of warm friend- | ship. You are sure to believe that be- neath that breast there beats a heart overflowing with:the milk of human kindness. But this gentleman, more than other single agency, is respons- ible for the exploitation, suppression and peculiar forms of outrages prac- tised on the men. By such methods as will presently be deseribed he has been the means | fin some instances of compelling the |workers to vote themselves a de- crease in pay at times when the ris- ing cost of living had left them a wage hardly above the subsistence | level. Keeps Pay Low. On other occasions he has utilized the company union “machine” of the | general committee to turn back any vising demand for increases in pay | The method | or changes in hours. which he adopts to carry out his at- plete tirade of abuse is launched, first by one of his ready henchmen, usually Mr. Mangan. Immediately the attack is taken up by one, then another of the “gang.” No insult or | slander is left unused in order to | beat down the opposition of an ag- M gressive delegate. Ask Lavin, Bark, | Phelan or Waish for testimony as to | this fact. But of them, later. Pat Gets Rich. In characteristic condemnation of jany such rising minority, Paddy is | wont to hurl the thunderbolt of his Ready Now! CE. RUTHENBERG A com- | -HO W IT WORKS jinevitable formula: “Remember, the | dog ean wag the tail; the tail can’t] To gppreciate this is necessary to hear it ! wag the dog!” remark i! with the bro, To understand its économie basis it is necessary to} know that Faddy Connolly hag .al- ready acquired considerable real es- tate, The company union has an elabor- ate and carefully worded constitu- tout to be very interesting. tion. Even though you read it with! sbout 35 years of age, married and The two stories below are the wo Labor Journalism of the Workers School, jects of great interest to workers are treated in a concise and ner, The story dealing with the ruin of a worker's health by conditions in a chair factory is the most spectacular of the two but both are good examples of workers’ journalism. * CHAIR-MAKING RUINS By JACK GLASS (W. Tunch time. As usual we chatter while eating. This time the conversation turned A worker one eye closed and the other half| having a few kids, works for $27 a open, you will have ‘no difficulty in; week as a packer It’s herd work | distinguishing behind the sereen of | having to make heavy bundles, pack |“legally” worded fakerism, th of the author; the bush,” as the men say. A pun for which the workers will surely be par- doned. Your Job or Your Office! You notice for instance such pro- visions as that for the election of | delegates to the general committee, free and unconditioned ‘as you please. | But read a little further. This inno- cent paragraph, apparently so unim- portant, really means that the fine! say as to the qualifications for the} delegetes is reserved for the general | {committee itself. Quite like The| Central Trades and Mr. William| Green! | In the last “Brotherhood” election, for instance, delegates who had been nominated were summoned before “Paddy” Connolly, questioned as to their “loyalty” to the brotherhood and either approved, of or disquali- fied. In the case of. the particular delegate who presumed to run against Paddy himself, he was asked which he preferred, his dob or, the office. He preferred the job! Concessions—Not, Exactly! You will containing the. embddiment of long fought for demands*on the part of the men. Reading thede provisions you may again be impressed with the liberality and justice:of the princi- nles laid down. But turn to the sec- tions referred to which’ are to pro- vide for the method by which the| concessions made are’ te be carried | out. You will not find these sec- tions and articles at all! It is quite like having prohibition. without the | provision for an enforcement act, guarantees of justice with capitalist judges on the bench, the right of la- hor to organize with the equal privi- lege of the injunction: typical and | inevitable examples of the hypo-| | crisy of a class society the principles | of which are directed against the ex- ploited but leave the exploiters free to continue their purposes. (To Be Continued). Tabloid Editor Will Talk at Worker School The editor of one New York's pic- | | ture papers is to be the speaker to-/| ;night at the Advanced Labor Jour- |nalism class which meets in the! | Workers’ School, 108 East 14th street, jst 8 p. m. | The subject of to-night’s discus- | sion will be “Tabloids”, and the vir-| tues and vices of these modern, and | much-abused newspapers will be pre-| | sented by the speaker and com- |mented upon by the class. | Each week, this class has a spec- }ial feature in the person of some | well-known journalist who talks on \ the topic of the cveniy, lens Bribery Cost for Use of Saw by Murderer In Wlinois Jail, $1,500 CHICAGO, March 13. Robert | Torres, one of three Mexicans who wages we l got a job in a chair factory. factory is somewhere on East 50th St. making as much as $45 to $60 a week. and my duty hold the @ and drill day in and day out. bad. relatives envied me. I, a ‘greenhorn’, was they, little as $25 or $30. week, notiee other provisions}in my stomach. form | them and ship them and without any “Quack-in-the | essistant, The conver were T asked him, jon was on the low petting. Mike, how is it ‘ that you can get along on such a few dollars?” “I have to,” he replied. “Tt’s a lone story, but if you want me to tell it to you, here goes. Rosy Outlook At First “When I came to the United States The We worked piece work and were i was more or less of a carpenter was to drill. T had to I) against my stomach “The first few days were not so T was stronz and healthy. My making so much money while ‘Americans,’ were making as Hard on the Stomach “\ few weeks at the job and I began to realize that I worked about 10 or 11 hours a day and 6 days a I also began to feel a pain I tore the buttons off “Our lunch hour was over as soon as we got through eating, usually | I took about | from 19 to 20 minutes, 10 minutes t6 swallow my sand- wiches. TI, began to eat less and less, E THE PARIS COMMU) By Max Schachtman On March 17, once again we commemorate the great day in working class hixtory when, as Karl Marx sald, the Freneh workers “were storming heay- en.” This booklet (No. & In the Little Red Library) is a brilliant necount of that great first atiempt at proletarian dictatorship, 10 cents Twelve Copies for a Dollar. THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. “BUY THE DAILY WORKER At first I thought ; it was the buttons on my shirt and| underwear. but that didn’t help. As a matter of | fact I became worse and worse every | day. ARCH. 14, 1927 Page Five rk of pupils of the Class in Advanced They are good stor Two sub- eadable man- * * Needle Trades Joint furriers’ Sigman had tried to prejudice the cases of the imprisoned strikers by calling them gangsters and declaring they were not really union workers. ment is most effectively shown by the Defense Campaign On” records of htese loyal union mén who have been so active in building up the union which Sigman is now try- ing to destroy. Who They Are. The names, locals, length of the time in the union and the sentences those now in jail are given. by Hyman as follows: How many (Continued from Page’ One) unions, and of the way The utter absurdity of such a state- of WORKERS’ HEALTH Name Local years.a member Sentence orker Correspondent). Charles Wolfish 2 18 years 4 months not because I wasn’t hungry but be- Max Bornstein eae iia hed cause the food wouldn't go into my | Paul Kalichman 35 9 years indefinite stomach, I+ got stuck as soon as it|Atthur Zinn 10 17 years indefinite reached the stomach, T had to take | Anton Luchek he i 2’ months 2 very small bite and then-a dyink | Nathan Lenz 2 ter in order to wash down the | Harry Freedman es Ry the time I left I couldn't | Morris Turetzky y penitentiary ° jeat at all. T ate about one sandwich | Joseph Perlman 2 6 months und three bottles of water witheit. |John Peransky 85 i penitentiary “Frequently when through eating | Anthony Romanchuk 35 6 months I used to vomit. I noticed that 1| Louis Antonofsky 2 probation 8 years wasn’t the, only one. Some used to|Max Gorenstein 35 probation 3 years vomit blood. Big streams and Jumps | Jacob Levine 2 probation 3 years of blood came ont of their throats. Theodore Scutiri 48 probation 3 years Health Ruined Furriers: “Tn the department where I worked | Nathan Mailman 5 2 years T used to ser at least one new face Julius Mailman 1 years d of course an old one| Abe Ritter 5 4 years disappear. I found out the reason! Abe Weiss 5 2 years later when I was fired for not put- |J. Polach 5 6 years ting out enough work. | Max Gorsky 10 6 years “I worked there for about 6 months! Peter Sykuahz 5 5 years Other speakers at Saturday's a hordly missed one day. : {to come in to work sick, tired andj discouraged at finding country’ so damn rotten was dirthy, filthy, no air, bengal, | this were never washed, floor very sel- | dom swept. The toilets were deseribable. jthere except when vomiting. while there. The toilets were cleaned about once a week when they | should have been cleaned at least! every day. “At last I was fired. I was taken! to the hospital, where I spent a few | months, spending all the money I had saved, borrowing some from relatives | when mine was gone. I pulled | through 9ll right but my stomach is still wrinkled’ and at times I feel a pain.” : | It took several lunch periods for Mike to tell me this, since we have only half an hour for Iunch. Fe has been living on $27 a week or less for | |about a year, with a slow season of [ome and a half months ip the bargain. NEGRO WORKERS SOLD BUM HOUSES (By a Worker Correspondent.) Many workers trying to find relief | from high rents in the city, go to} the suburbs. If they come to South | Jamaica, it will be a case of jumping | from the frying pan into the fire. The district where poor peopie live is unspeakably ugly, with an ice plant, a city dump, a filthy ditch, an incinerator, and a steam laundry | belching smoke. In a storm the | streets, deep in ter, are almost | jimpassable. This is the section where most-colored people live. The Building Boom For about a year, feverish build- | ing activity has gone on here. Hun. | dreds of box-like, six room houses Lave been hastily thrown up. These | jerry-built structures are made at- tractive. by flashy paper, paint and modern improvements. The builders ask between six and seven thousand | for these cheaply built shacks. | But they are new and so find réady | and quick purchasers. In many | Cases the houses are sold before they jare finished. An appeal is made to |eolored people throughout the metro- |politan area. The clever ads bring | | droves of colored workers out every | pleasant Sunday and sales are brisk. | |The southerner yho doesn’t like a | Marlem flat anyway ‘and the north- erner, oppressed by outrageous rents, ; | needs little persuasion to buy one of | these new clean shells. Defects Concealed | | However, there are a few items} | left out of the salesman’s spiel. He doesn’t mention the long distance ‘free | An express company truck, enroute to | The factory | Cloverdale, Pa., with a payroll for mines of the Pittsbutgh Terminal | Nobody ever went in| burgh-Cloverdale highway near here It’s a| shortly after noon today, and robbed! jwonder that many of us didn’t faint | of part of the $100,000 eash carried. | by the workers. 8).— PITTSBURGH, March 18 (ID meeting were Henry Robbins, chair- man of the Defense Committeé; Jo- seph Boruchowitz, manager of Cloak- {makers’ Local 2; Sam Lipson afd Coal Company there, was bombed grange ‘ 5 in- | from ambush by bandits on the Pitts- eine, : Shes, chalrman ‘oe “Fate A collection of $550 was contributed We Want the “lowdown” on this Theatre Guild aoed —Let’s meet the girl with the affected voice —Let’s smoke some of those free cigarettes— Harbor Allen, Daily Worker Dramatic Critic, Writes: Nobody before in the theatre has sold the buncombe of “art” and “European drama” to i bourgeois school téachers, clubwomen, culture H hounds, and dilletantes on such a grand scale. j Almost everything the Guild produces is either “so artistic,” or “so Russian,” or “so German,” or “so French,” that there is nothing you can { do but praise it. Unless, of course, you want / to show how crude you are, how poor your { tnste. The Guild shrewdly knows that above all its dilletante audience and its New York sophisticates shudder at the bogey of “poor taste.” From its ritzy foyer to its free ciga- rettes and the girl with the affected voice who peddies subscriptions during the intermission, thé Gulid is working “good taste” overtime. It brings in the mazuma. After reading that we feel as we do, after hearing an evangelist describe Hell—we want to go there! : Here’s a Wonderful Chance ’ |from Jamaica’s business center, the | time necessary to get to the city, the| ‘eost of cleaning cesspools, and the | - MEMORIAL escaped from the Will County Jail | jwhere they were awaiting execution ‘for murder, confessed today that the AT THE NEWSSTANDS ATTEND THE | |] manison square . GARDEN 49th Street & 8th Avenué Freiheit * Gesangs Verein accompanied by New York Symphony Orchestra will present the poem of the Russian Revolution TWELVE written by Alexander Block, Music and Conducted by JACOB SCHAFER. COMO RIMINI and SERGEI RODOMSKY in \ a special program, The well-known soprano SA RAISA ita special program. Thig will be her first recital in New York within the last 2 years. ALL SEATS RESERVED. Tickets: $1, $1.50 and $2 at Freiheit, 30 Union Square, POST CARDS Ps ok KUTHENEr RE 9. ANNZ= Died March 2. 1 ru jerkers (Com: his last words were: ” Ps Ha gone thie renbs, 10 xi American worbiee slash, wnier the leadorrhis ir ose Cominiern will win, LETS With the life record on reverse side. 10 CENTS EACH Special rates in lots of ten or More. The DAILY WORKER PUB. CO. LITERATURE DEPT, 33 FIRST ST. NEW YORK eseape was an “inside job.” He said £1,500 had been paid prison guards to | orovide saws and pistols that were | used in the delivery. Edward F. Gibbons, one of the *suards, was arrested early today, Al- bert Markgraf, sheriff of Will county, charges that Gibbons handled the $1,- | 500 fund the Mexicans had provided. | Juanita Gallardo, a beautiful Mexi- | can girl whom Bernard Roa, the only one of the three convicts who has not | heen captured, won, when she visited | the jail, steadfastly declared today | that she did not carry the saws ond the guns to the prisoners. Train Dispatchers Get Raises and Vacations With Pay from 2 Roads: CHICAGO, March 13. (FP),—Va-| cations with pay and increased | ; Wages are granted to train dispatch- | jets on the Chesapeake & Ohio and} the Hocking Valley railroads. Hock-| \ing Valley dispatchers are increased | | 564 cents a day to $9.78 except one, | dispatcher who wil get $9.38. The C. & O. raise is 38 cents a day and 40 cents to assistant chief dispatch- ers. The daily pay is $8.44 and $9.78 a day depending on the assignment. | The American Train Dispatchers Association from its national head- quarters in Chicago also reports a $10 a month raise for all positions on the Central of Vermont, giving a top wage of $242.33 a month on that line. BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS A WEST INDIAN ORCHESTRA The best orchestra in New York will play at the NEW MASSES Anti - Obscenity Costume Ball WEBSTER HALL 119 E, 11th Street Friday, March 18 —9:30 Tickets $1.50 Now. | over-crowded schools. | | Colored Workers Sold Bum Houses Two inefficiently managed car lines | serve the section, but one of them | breaks down in any severe rain storm. All this the bally-hoo man | keeps under his hat. | Not until he has spent a winter in his fancy contraption, does the worker wake from his dream of home owner- ship. After that experience he re- alizes that installments plus interest charges, taxes, coal, water, insurance and carfare bring his expenses up to Iris Harlem rental. He wants to | send an SOS call for a Harlem lodger. But worst of all he has a bill for repairs. A year hasn’t gone and he needs a new roof. Water is coming | through in several places and spoil- ing the new rug. Heavens, it isn’t paid for! | Read The Daily Worker Every Day MEETING HALLS Booth Phones, Dry Do Oftice Phone, Orchard 5: Sri 7845, At the Door $3.00. By mail from NEW MASSES, Dept. W. “89 Union Square Stuyvesant 4445 or at Jimmie Higgins Book Store 127 University Place, Patronisze MANHATTAN LYCEUM Available, Tel. Dry Dook 8206, 8045, 2691, I, KITZIS, Prop. THE ASTORIA Palatial Ballrooms & Dining Rooms CATERING A SPECIALTY 62-64 E. 4th st, New York City, THEATRE GUILDS PRODUCTION George Bernard Shaw’s PYGMALION during THE DAILY WORKER BENEFIT WEEK March 21 to March 27 (inclusive) The play may provoke you. The luxury of the theatre nay drive you to tears. You may get mad at Shaw. You nay tear your hair—but anyway, you'll spend a lively — svening and have something to discuss when you get home. MOST IMPORTANT: ‘if you want this benefit week to bring in the mazuma to ‘The DAILY WORKER, and also if you want choice seats, — . it is absolutely necessary for you to buy your tickets at. least three ays in advance at The DAILY WORKER of- » fice, 108 Bast 14th Street (Stuyvesant 6584). The DAILY WORKER will not derive one cent benefit from tickets purchased less than three days in advance, or from tickets purchased at the theatre. BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY.