The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WLONES / 4 JAY, FEB. 15. srerasspitopnespaayr Worker Correspondents Expose Chrysler, Harvard Shoe and Mitchell Aarms VILE CONDITIONS OF LABOR IN BIG DETROIT FACTORY | Negro and 'White Help Exploited in Va. a Worker Correspondent) (By DETROIT, (By Mail)—The Chrys- ler corporation, one of the large automobile concerns of Detroit, cares poor slaves who toil The arrangement of haphazard, 7 time, »wded into a room far ccomodate that num- much crowding Q people leave t “between: 4:80: and 5:30| nothing for the 00 , mostly what enough, enough. one few there are, are} but there are only| There are two on each end of a t 400 st long. Each accommodate not mo Shae 10 people, and some 2 on each floor. Drinking fountains are not pro- ded in sufficent numbe there be- only three fount on each oor. Some times, especially after eating lunch you must wait at least 10 minutes, to get a drink of water. | The most noticeable lack of con ience, is the poor washing fac Ss, one ash basin only, being | provided for the 200 men, working | on my floor. This basin. has only 3} faucets on each side. By crowding} up, about 14 to 16 men can wash up at the same time. Either one must spend from 10 minutes to a half hour waiting his turn at.the wash basin, | or go home with the grime covering | all the exposed surface of his skin. No hot water is ever provided to wash up, there being no hot water faucets, only cold. | A CHRYSLER WORKER, } Virginia | | Farm Conditions Wretched. (By a Worker Correspondent). RICHMOND, Va., (By Mail). Working conditions on. the- two dairy farms of Mitchell Bros., at Richmond, Va., are far from what they should be. They employ from ten to twelve men, eight or nine of whom are Ne- groes. The Negroes receive $35 aj month with board and lodging. One} old man gets only $20 a month, altho} he does as much work as any of the | others. Those not boarding get $55,/ and a shack uated on the farm. The white workers receive the same pay, and sometimes five or ten dol- lars a month more. 15 Hours a Day The number of the working hours | are so many that no effort is ever made to count them. Up at 4 a. m. or 4.30 at the latest on week-days; on | tumbled-down shape. jeause they | Factory. | cotten. |rather play poker than work. Make } out yesterday. Major Murdered Wite | Major C. Clyde Campbell, a for- mer army man, was reading a re- ligious tract in a Philadelphia lodg- ing house run by the Volunteers of America when police walked in and arrested him for the murder of his wife. Campbell has admitted he hammered his wife to death in a New York hotel last week in what the Major called a “suicide pact.” He says he lost his nerve over car- rying out his part of the bargain. Campbell is shown above at the left, and his slain wife Mary at the right. very rarely served, sometimes of a Sunday afternoon. Endanger Workers’ Lives. Mitchell Bros. make no effort to properly equip or manage their farms. Rusty and worn-out machinery, broken equipment fastened together with hay- wire, barns and buildings in a half All this causes dents. Recently numerous all | two of the silos were blown down be- were not properly anchored. Agricultural wage laborers are practically unorganized. By building | a strong and thoro organization these excessive hours, poor board, lodging and low wages can be done away with. —A. H. * r New York Show-Up Harvard Shoe Plant. (By a Worker Correspondent) Been fired out of the Harvard Shoe Piece work system. Prices Trimming cutters would three or four dollars a day. Pay for all damaged shoes; the company keeps them. Come in when you please, quit when you want. Plenty of lights so you can work all night. Chance to get graft if you are a sucker and a squealer. Try to organize this shop. “What we need is a god damn union.” —A SHOE WORKER. Ontario Government Ignores Blast Cause TIMMINS, Ont., Feb. bodies of the last of the 39 miners | killed in the fire last Friday at the Hollinger gold mine were brought The fire is reported to have burned itself out. No steps towards determining what negligence on the Hollinger Com- pany’s part caused the fire have been 14.—The || CHARITY AID IS FORCED ON POOR for Union (By a Worker Correspondent) HONOLULU, Hawaii, (By ing the water-fronts of every port the few of us who are fortunate | enough to be working for a a able wage. Their latest exploit proves the ef-| ficiency of the ways and means com- mittee of Wall Street. Force Money From Sailors. The captains of all ships sailing out of Pacific Coast ports are instructed to enroll their crews in the Red Cross. They are given buttons and member- ship cards to sell to their crew. This is done .while the men are at sea. The crew is checked up by means of the crew-list so that the captain | knows those who did not respond to {his first callgfor enrollment and he interview these individually andj makes sure that all his subordinates| have joined up before he gets into port where the company officials have an opportunity to check-up on the crew list. If the captain has a 100 per cent Red Cross enrollment it adds to his reputation with the company. From $1 to $3 Apiece. | | On my ship all hands have joined} | paying one dollar apiece. Some even} paid two and three dollars., Those} who paid more than the minimum | were either talked into paying more or were looking for favors. | I don’t know exactly how many ships are sailing out of Pacific ports or the number of men they carry, but ;I am sure that the sums collected) must run {nto many thousands of! dollars. This is how the Mississippi flood fund is yaised. We pay the officials hru whose hands our hard-earned money goes. And we pay for the gov- ernment’s criminal negligence in the Mississippi Valley. Who Takes Care of Sailors? I should like to ask the Red Cross the following question: Question: When the seamen in every port of the United States are on the beach hungry and sleeping out in the cold, (yes, even in prosperous America), who cares for them? Answer: No one. When there are not too many of them the police might take them in for a night. But gener- ally the police only taunt them, pok- ing them in the ribs with their night- sticks while they are trying to snatch a few hours sleep. Yours for the recognition of the Soviet Union! SAILORS AT SEA Shoe Employe Appeals| Mail). | —With thousands of seamen tramp-} | in the United States, broke and sans gry, our masters find it easy to recat leather factory have declared, in al | bor that they “could no longer stand * Worker’ s Close Shave Following the drowning of his fellow worker in the removal of 325-ton draw span of the Newtown creek while thousands watched, | Thomas Casey fell into the creek | on the Queens end of the bridge | when a cable on which it was pull- | ing suddenly became loosened. He swam to a bridge fender 100 feet away, where he clung until help came. He is shown above being rescued. His “fellow worker was not so fortunate. Michigan Exploit Young Leather Workers. | (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, (By Mail)—Exploited in a most brutal manner by the boss, foreman and other heads, the | young workers in a Detroit fancy letter to the local Federation of La-| the outrageous conditions inflicted | upon them by the bosses, and unless something is done they’ll be forced to take some desperate action.” The factory employs about 50 young boys and girls from the ages of 12 to 18 years and a very few adults who are experts in the line. The work is very dull and monotonous, in some instances even hard to those who are forced to tolerate the nerve- wrecking noise of the leather-sewing machines. The place, altho light, is always dirty and dusty and the odor from the freshly dyed leather is al- ways around the workers. Most of the young workers are forced to work in a sitting position with their backs bent down. Girls often faint after working in that position for a few hours straight. . The wages range from $8.00 to $15.00 and altho the regular work- ing day is 9 hours, yet due to these “bread and water” wages they are compelled to work overtime three or four times a week if they are to meet their expenses. —A LEATHER WORKER. | folk melodies | Young Nightingale,” | lor. | whose ‘Deems Taylor Discusses Russian Folk-Musie DE SMS TAYLOR, music critie and composer played, sang, and talked (shout Russ‘an folk-songs b fore two thousand enthusiastic listeners, many ans, Monday afternoon the Russian exposition at 110 West th Street. He gave a long list of composers who have utilized Russian in their serious works, naming particulariy haikowsky, Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff and Beethoven. Yo illustrate the epic songs Russia, Taylor sang to his own ac- companiment, “The Legend of the which he said Rimsky-Korsakoff had embodied in his opera “Sadko.” “The Conscript’s Return,” used by Beethoven in the ijfinale to his Strong Quartet in F Major, was given as typical of the songs of bandits. | | “No other nation has such an im- mense body of folk-songs,” said Tay-! “There are fully ten thousand in Russia alone, besides countless more in Siberia, the Caucasus, ete. In no other nation do the songs pertain so |elosely to the day’s occupations. No are as poetic, or as strong, direct or free from senti- other simple, | mentality.” Taylor’s talk was followed by a song recital by Dora Rose, soprano, program. included “The Soldier’s Bride,” by Rachmaninoff; |“Slumber Song,” by Gretchaninoff; and “Kalinka,” a folk song. As the conclusion of its three week’s program of music, the Rus- sian Cultural Exposition will present |tonight the Balaleika Orchestra of the Anton Checkov Society. *MAYA” OPENS AT THE COMEDY THEATRE FEBRUARY 21. “Maya,” the play by Simon Gantil- lon which ran for more than a year in Paris and is at present one of the outstanding successes in London, will be presented next Tuesday night at the Comedy Theatre. This will be the third producton of the Actor-Man- agers this season. Aline McMahon, | who began her career at The Neigh- boyhood Playhouse, will play the part of Bella which was created in Paris by Marguerite Jamois. The translation of “Maya” has been made by Ernest Boyd. Agnes Morgan is directing the production and Aline Bernstein has designed the set. The play is a study of Woman. je London company of “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” Bayard Veiller’s melodrama now playing at the Na- tional Theatre, started rehearsals yes- terday under the direction of Guthrie McClintic. The company, headed by Genevieve Tobin and Morgan Farley, will sail for England in two weeks. —— The Theatre Guild presents —~ ‘ vA NE WE ay of | INA HAYWARD With George M. Cohan in his own musical show “The Merry Malones” at Erlanger’s Theatre. Marion Gering, who staged the new comedy, “So Am I,” at the Comedy Theatre, will direct two more plays for Schiffer and Shifrin, its produc- ers. The first will be a new Russian play, “The Steppes,” by Basil Vasssili- evich. Mr. Gering was formerly direc- tor for the Meyerhold Theatre, Mos- cow. Winthrop Ames yesterday received a letter from John Galsworthy in which the English writer stated that he has not retired from writing plays, and asked that the impression. that “Escape” is his farewell to the theatre be denied, James B. Fagan, author of “And So to Bed,” will produce here “The Cherry Orchard,” the comedy by An- ton Tchekoy. The production will parallel that staged by Mr. Fagan in London, where it ran for six months. | Carl DELEGATION TO USSR TO SPEAK AT CHICAGO FRI. Brohpy and Haessler to Repeat Fir Findings CHICAGO, Ml, Feb 14,—Members of the first American Trade Union |delegation to visit the Soviet Union | will speak at a mass meeting Friday evening at Ashland Auditorium, Ash- jland Blvd. and Van Buren Street. | Workers of America, Paul Douglas, » }of the University of Chicago faculty, Peter Jensen, of the Machinists’ Union, Lillian Herstein of the Women’s Trade Union League, and Levin, of Philadelphia, of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Union, will tell about their tour through the U8. 8,cR- Haessler of the Federated Press, who accompanied the Rank and le Delegation, which sailed for the Vie" nion immediately after the first delegation returned, will discuss the findings of the second delegation. 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