The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1928, Page 6

AEE APRERRELED Page Six 2H DAILY WORK J YORK, SATT TRDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928 Worker Correspondents Tell Penn. Silk Mill Conditions, Calif. Women’s Zeal o— Two Air Imperialists CALL ALLENTOWN WEAVERS TO FORM SHOP COMMITTEES. Los Angeles. Chpeimeke | | League Active (By a Worker Correspondent) ALLENTOWN, Pa. (By mail). - First. I take up the Majestic Silk Company’s system of exploitation This concern is owned and managed by Bernstein and Sons. They employ about 200 workers, mostly women. } ses Se ee The French capitalists are not The majority of the workers are young, especially the winders. They all work ten hours a day for a ‘ive and a half day week. They receive piel titors grab the Latin American markets without a struggle. right above in flying togs, Lieut. Joseph Le Brix and Capt. Dieudonne Costes, sent by their government to arouse sympathy for France in Latin it their riv rival imperialists in Was shington. of the ik si Model SIGMAN CLAIMS FAKE VICTORIES _ IN THE‘FORWARD’ luines Up “With Bosses | on Hours Question Driven by a rising revolt in the ranks of even the right wing mem- bers of the International Ladies’ Gar- ‘ment Workers’ Union, who are more |and more insistently demanding unity with the left wing in the union, and faced with the fact that the workers in the trade are again rallying around the left wing Joint Board, Interna- tional President Sigman and his fake Joint Board are noisily announcing going to let their American compe- Left to fpom twenty to twenty-five cents an “victories” in the “Jewish Forward,” hour. This wage includes the quillers || algo. | | The weavers are paid by the yards i| of silk cloth they produce. There are | about ninety weavers working here, | | | Young Comrade Corner in order to hide the imminent collapse |of the right wing plans that have re- sulted in the destruction of the union. The clothing employers of all de- nominations, jobbers, inside manufac- half of whom are women. Men Run 4 Looms. |THE NIGHT SHIFT MINE WORKER The men run four looms and the | & women three. Even some of these By Rubin Ryant, a Pioneer. run four looms in order to enable them} The worker comes forth from the to make a day’s “living” wages, i. e.; mine to the sun, from three to six dollars a day. The | He blinks. Then he groans for the men weavers receive the same treat-| work is no fun. ment, with the exception ofa few je groans once more as he wends who are able to make a few cents) niore. | his way, ‘ To the ramshackle hut that he lives ‘When a loom breaks the ey in by day. themselves are forced to make some of the repairs in order to save time. tL. Still, some time is wasted in looking | His body is large and gaunt and slow, for a loom-fixer and for this loss of| And bent in the middle as if from time the weaver does not get paid.| a blow. This is due also to the company’s lack | He drags his feet slowly, but it’s as of supplies with which the looms can} fast as he can, be repaired. | And it suits the pace of the other The weavers are also compelled to} Calibans. yaste additional time in going .o the| : II. top floor for their quills. This is es- ~ pecially hard for the women weavers. | | A long shuffling procession of pieces . | of clay, eee ee nen tieth is ‘com. |Who work in the night and sleep in petted, = the cay. Bee ee eee | "There isn’t a person who isn’t cursing weights which are heavy. They also have to take off the roils themselves | S, without the assistance of any com-|For their’s is a hard lot, they who pany bosses. Only if another worker | march in the gloaming. is 6xchanging help do they get any | IV. se a he way, too, they lose con- Their wives and children are just as sideracle time. When the weaver turns in his wov- | ee Ride ra rge and gaunt and thin and gray. en cioth io the office, the officials, ered es ~ ‘ nildren who soon will be forced to uSually one of the owner’s relatives, ene k. or groan mine the goods on which they al-+ is 7 % ‘ays find some unnoticeable spots of | hee the “very who do “nothing but . ind, shirk. x i * Cut Pay In “Py n ie fh chen the officials who do this in-| One day a union organizer got inside spection, together with other officials, the mine, usually insti-ute an ina .u And organized the workers in double way as punishment. result of quick time. this, many weavers, including the wo- | {One day the workers got together men, are able to make only from $45, and walked out on strike. tw $65 in two weeks because of the| And said, “We refuse to work the rotten silk issued to them. ; mines, you may do that if you like.” This company usually has some} VI Sporadic “trouble” with their warp-| |. ‘i ers. The workers are disgused be-| The bosses got together and called cause the bosses drive them to work! the strikers mere trifles, faster and faster in order to make | They hire¢ all policemen, militiamen good quality cloth out of the rotten, and rifles. z silk. | They got all three governors to issue As a result, the warpers often do|_ bl injunctions, get together at times. Some of them | Forbiddine men to pray in church, quit or go out on strike for a few} forbidding life to function. days. Then some of them usually | vu. Inde for bei rae for good and | m,, miners need your help, for their h fast, Organize! . stre ‘ But they k on fighting for a union, ‘The workers in the Berns-ein and ibe 6 i Aen jar ree i Sons’ mill should organize themselves Wotkoval (Ghe. topather «etre? thet into shop committees from the vari- ous departments. They should discuss | their grievances, their shop conditions and demand better ones for all the | workers employed there. Wivh the | solidarity of your shop mates you your support. flag while the miners LE No. aoe will be able to defend your interests. lition Join the unions in your city. Also} and sul few read The DAILY WORKER, the only| words something about the answer. militant English labor daily in ay Wont-+43 Sat > world. ARNOLD, fs : ~ * ba Send Worker eee) Young 33 First St., California N. Y. C., stating me, age, address ~ Women’s Consumers League ks er! (By a Worker Correspondent) iS ANGELES, Cal., (By ail). readers of the DAILY WORKFR by this time well acquainted with activities of the Wou and number of p YOUNG COMRADE SUB. % year 25c—1 year 50c. en's Loi mer’s League of Los Angel Name Wherever a call for help to workers 9 fall victims of capitalist oppres- c Address n was issued the League responded whole-heartedly sparing neither Lime nor energy. ‘The Cooperative Bakery of Los eles finds its staunchest support BI the members of the W. C. L.} 5+ The strike of two years ago of the Bakers’ Union of this city found the | men of the League in the fr } tanks on the picket line and in th pnt rows of the courts when the sMlice came to the aid of the bo: akers. The Passaic strike, the loc ffiairs arranged by the I. L. D. jon and as they put it “is com- nough for us to know that received through our ef- the help of our striking 1 who are struggling for de- \cent living conditions in the mine pits of Colorado.” ‘The sum of the above reproduced ch k represents the first ten days’ C January 11th another check 00 was sent. The members of the League are confident that before the month is over more checks of sim- | ilar accounts will be forwarded, e WV. A., etc., always found the Women’s ensumer’s league aiding in .he suc- ss of these undertakings. t the present time they are en- ged in a campaign to raise funds he striking miners of Colorado. is end a restaurant was opened 18 Brooklyn Avenue, the en ire eds of which are being bs & o the striking miners. o'clock in the morning till eight the evening these women are found e kitchen cooking meat and vege- tarian dishes for .he workers who keep the place filled a whole day. The serving and dishwashing is sing done by members of the organi- tion or single cent ¢ com- \ |various business men of this city and jthe response of the workers .o the call to patronize this restaurant is a splendid showing of the appreciation these workers have for the Women’s Consumer’s League and the cause they so gallantly support. oa —M. R. TF Much of the food is donated by the | turers, contractors and sub-contrac- tors are all enjoying the situation “up to the hilt.” They are anxiously de- sirous of maintaining the status quo. in other words, a condition in the industry.,in. which there is no un‘on te put a check to their ravenous appe- tites. The severely intensified exploi- tation of the cloak and dress work- ers suits them fine. Fake Campaigns. For the past week or so the “For- ward” has been full of proclamations of the right wing “union’s” intention of starting “organization drives”; “a campaign to stop Saturday work” and a “campaign to stop jobbers from giving out work to non-union contrac- tors by calling strikes against them.” That these are fake paper cam- paigns; that they are just so much noise raised to cover up the disinte- {gration in the Sigman stronghold, recognized by even the most unin- formed worker in the trade. The so-called organization cam- paigns consist, not, as would be sup- posed, in the organization of the open shops that swamp the industry. They consist, merely in sending a squad of paid guerrillas to stop off those shops controlled by the left wing Joint Board, where union conditions still prevail. Sigman’s thugs appear and speak to the boss, who immediately locks out the workers and orders them to register in the right wing “union.” OUR LETTER BOX. Hopes All Countries Will Be Like Soviet Rusia. I read the Young Comrade and like it very much. I want to tell you something that I saw in a show. I saw a flag of Soviet Russia and some soldiers marching after it. When it was over, I clapped my hands. Very few applauded. I was very much surprised to see a picture like that. I hope all countries will be like Soviet Russia. —ANNA MARSCHALL. Little Sparks That Feed the Flames. The school teacher said that Sacco and Vanzetti and Greco and Carrillo ought to be killed. I told her that she was wrong. She told me to keep still. The Sunday school teacher said that Sacco and Vanzetti were bad men. My sister told her that Sacco and Vanzetti were good men. She said that they ought to be killed In the electric chair. She didn’t know what she was talking about. I was selling certificates for the miners and their families for Christ- mas. I asked a man to buy a cer-! tificate to help the mine strikers that are imprisoned and their families. He said that the mine strikers and their families didn’t need anything and that they belonged in jail. I told him that he wasn’t telling the truth. I said, “You belong where they are, in jail, you fool.” He sure was mad. I didn’t care if he got mad or not. —ELIANORA IVANOFF, Idaho. When the workers go on strike— Sigman claims to have made another “victorious, settlement.” Even this “organization work” has resulted in the annihilation of union conditions in only one dress shop since the “cam- paign” began. This is the Rose Dress Co. The right wing clique’s second “vic- Sends Thanks for Relief. Dear Comrades: My father is a union miner and he is on strike since April 1, 1927. One day he went to a| meeting at the Miners’ Hall where! clothes collected by the Miners’ Re- lief Committee, were handed out. My | father brought a coat for my little brother, and a blue sweater with a white collar for me. I was very glad to get it, for I needed something to wear to go to school. It made me; so much happier, when I tried on the sweater and found a piece of chew- | ing gum in the pocket. I gave a piece | to my brother and kept a piece for | myself. It tasted so good. I just | wish that there was the name and address of the owner of the sweater, so that I could write and send my thanks for it. | ie MISKO, Ohio. “A THOUGHT” By Stephie Dienuchok. i wonder if our red flag sees,—don’t you? And the soft white clouds, I am sure are talking to it; And the wind is talking to it too; | For I’ve listened and watched, and I’m sure they do. | When I pass by and see The long red flag wave, when the breezes blow it, I'm just as glad as a girl can be; And the workers are glad, too, it seems to me: For they watch it day and night! They Lie The capitalist press lies about Russia. Get the “low down” on how the lies are manufac- tured by The Press Bandits” INPRECOR for JANUARY 12. (Vol. 8 No. 2) A graphic description of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg by Wil- helm Pieck and other impor- tant articles. A yearly sub. $6. Six mo. $3.50, 10e a single issue. Workers library Publishers 39 &. 12S5® St. bee YoRK | | | .| | passengers aboard. many years. Plane Takes Rich to Balmy South; Workers Freeze The plane shown above takes off from the deck of the S. S. Columbus, which is now on a cruise of the Wést Indies with well-to-do This winter is the severest for the workers in It is estimated that four million workers are unemployed thruout the country, and in the mine fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado tens of thousands are struggling for a wage rate that would allow them to live like human beings. torious campaign” consisted in a se- 7 jobbers by stopping the work of these jobbers in 241 contracting shops an hour before the “Forward” went to press. Even if one did not know that nearly all the jobbers in ques- tion denied several days later that they knew of any strike, the absurd- ity of the story is self evident. The day following the “victorious stoppage,” Hochman, Sigman’s man- ager of the dual Joint Board, grandly announced that 4 jobbers are already prepared to settle. Asked who they were, he answered that he cannot make this public. However, said he, one jobber has already settled and that one is Adelman and Sons. Inquiries at the office of this firm, as to the truthfulness of Hochman’s statement brought to light the crude- ness with which these fake campaigns are arranged. I. Adelman, speaking for the firm said that he would not confirm Hochman’s statement. Prearranged Agreement. It is self evident that this trans- parent arrangement had been arrived at by a prearranged agreement with the right wing. True; the employer did not help them much with such a statement, but after all, if they can- not get a boss to admit giving in to a union, they can at least get him to agree not to deny it. This he would gladly do if it means continued free- dom from labor disturbances, More laughable than the other “campaigns,” however, is the one in which Sigman solemnly declares in his “Forward” that all Saturday work ‘| must stop—henceforth! The “Forward” threatened for sev- eral days to have committees appear in the cloak market on Saturdays to stop all shops found open. 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Special Prices During Run of This “Ad” 5 Lbs. $1.25 6 Lbs. $1.40 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” ORDER BY MAIL, JACK FEURER 3656 Park Ave., Bronx _ New York City. following: Monday, Sigman declared that tremendous achievements had been accomplished, thousands had been stopped from work, dozens of shops had been closed. Unfortunate- ly for the right wing clique, a state- ment made by I. Grossman, president of the Industrial Council of Cloak Manufacturers, at a banquet held by them a day after the “achievements” were claimed, completely exposed the whole affair. He stated there that he can prove that not even one fac- tory had been closed down by Sig- man for working Saturday. Bosses Won’t Obey. Apparently this is a contradiction of the statement of the left wing that the employers and the right wing are working hand in hand. This is not so, however. The employers merely used this opportunity to declare pub ‘licly that they had no intention of obeying the clause in the bitterly fought for agreement, which requires the institution of the 40-hour work week in July. They were therefore compelled to make a militant state- ment even if it were embarrassing to Sigman. The right wing can ill afford jto be so embarrassed. If the workers whom Sigman has compelled to register in his dual organization see that he has lost the bosses’ support, if they see that he has lost his most effective weapon with which to keep the work. ers in subjection, Sigman and his whole gang then become merely a joke. The Sigman International, and his whole crowd of fakers were in a bad fix. They couldn’t publicly agree to drop the clause calling for a 40-hour week in July; but still less could they afford to have antagonistic public | statements made against them by the manufacturers. They were rescued, ‘SENATOR ADMITS | LIE ON COOLIDGE WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10. — Calvin Coolidge’s often reiterated re- fusal io run for a third presidential term stressed by his political associ- ates, was exposed as a publicity stunt by Senator Fess of Ohio. Fess declared that he had told’ an untruth when he informed newspaper men that Coolidge was “displeased” wih him for stating that the presi- dent would probably be drafted for a third session, ee however, from this perplexing pre- dicament, And the employers them- selves did it. Disregard Shorter Week. Mr. Grossman, Industrial Council president, agreed to make a state- ment in the press which softened somewhat the slap he delivered at the previously mentioned banquet. The statement, however, should leave def- inité’¥oom for interpretation of the bosses’ “intention to disregard the shorter work week clause. Grossman declared that all employ- ers should try to keep their shops closed on Saturday, and live up to the “spirit” of the pact with the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union. “But we ask this,” says Grossman, “because we are anxious to see to what extent the union can prevail upon its members not to work Saturday. The union, of course, claims that it can regulate conditions, but that remains to be demonstrated.” The clearness wtih which the deal between Sigman and the bosses is exposed by the last part of this state- ment is obvious enough. Quite na- turally, since there is no union to {enforce the 5-day week in the indus- try, the 44-hour week can be “jus- tifiably demanded from Sigman, And when July comes around Sigman will say that since the workers don’t want the 40-hour week he is “justified” in giving it away. Quite pertinent to the sincerity of the first part of Grossman's state- ment is the fact that the left wing Join Board has proven how the asso- ciation president himself respects the “spirit” of the agreement, Grossman has \always compelled his workers to work on Saturdays. The exploiters of the workers, both the employers and the right wing, are not reckoning with the cloak and dressmakers. No amount of noise and drum-banging can drown out the crash with which the rotten superstructure of the right wing machine will fall. Nothing will stop the workers from rebuilding their once powerful Cloak- makers’ Union. M. 1 <==. Chaim Kotylansky Concert Singer M. Taymor Concertina / Concert and Dance Lillie Miner Alto Pianist Chaim Kotylansky TONIGHT At the WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE HOUSE 2700 BRONX PARK EAST, MIKE GOLD vill speak on—The Effects of the Machine Age on Literature ADMISSION 50c, Auspices: Co-operative Unit Workers (Communist) Party. 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