The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, VDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928 Worker seb lees Expose Standard Ou, U.S. Navy, irra, Co Sanada’s Hired =< PETROLEUM SERFS TOIL IN COLD TO EARN SMALL PAY Steals | | } : Company _ Time | From Men Arthur Ellis (above) has been the « besides | high executioner for the Dominion which there i Standard | O;l ref vc; of Canada for the past twenty aL refinery Hook.| years. He will spring the trap Bavonne, where at le: 000 work.| from under Mrs, Julia McDonald, Altho my boss is the in the world, we laborers get only cents an hour, or about $25 a weel 1 children whom I e wages. T haw T have never ve any of tt vears ago th ‘old buttor richest man | American wor entenced to hang for the murder of a Montreal taxi driver. heen there other comp: ag a reward for in 10 y ret a raise, I have been promised an ther button, with a little s to the company, but supervises” the elec nts the vote 0 who rd Oil wants electec ave no union in the id the workers are sure J. Fed Joes not want to'c ize the wor at ve me s’ work men, FIREMAN SHOWS tion of Labor | Jiamond on it. I don’t exr 20 more years at the r forced to but I wi button with two small diamonds if I do work for the Standard that long. The speed-up is terrible in the Jer- sey Citv Standard Oi! refineries, and are 1 get a gold svery day they saueeze more work out of us. There are about five fore- men for every 25 workers, and they are alwavs forcing us. Work In Freezing Cold. All my work is done out of doors, | where the tanks are. and in rain or| snow we cannot work, and so lose a Jay’s pay. In the winter we freeze, for we are not; allowed to build fires to warm ourselves. we handle oil, but the company will} not allow ns even a second off every onee in a while to warm ourselves in the boiler room. We are not allowed to even talk on the job, for we are liable to be fired if we open our mouths. If we are a second late to work, | we lose a half day’s pay. We are supposed to start at 7.20 a. m., but we must get our checks by 7.15. and are fined a half day’s pay if we don’t | The company makes us come in 5 minutes early in the morning, but when the whistle blows for quitting at 4.30 p. m., we are not allowed to get our checks too soon after the whistle. If we do this 10 times, we ‘are laid off 2 days. We elect poleeaee every year to x This is all right, because | because they ave been “squared” by the Standard Oil Co. interested in the other | es here are some: an hour; painters, beilermakers, 80c an carpenters 75c an hour; ma- carpenters, 75¢ an hou m. hour; stillmen, 70¢ an hour; tru drivers, 7lc an hour; coopers aver- | | age a little more than 60c an hour; pressers, 71c an heur. | —A SERIO OIL WORKER. \Charge Hospital With (Refusing to Take Man If you are WARES ickla: 70 hour; hour; JERSEY city, N. J., Feb. 19.— |The North Hudson Hospital is charged with having refused to admit | Joseph Barnett, 61, of Secaucus, who was struck by an automobile Friday. | A doctor who was called after the old |man was struck by the auto, whose driver fled, stated that it was neces- sary to remove the man to a hospital. An interne who arrived when the |North Hudson ambulance was sum- moned would not allow the removal of the injured man to the hospital, jand told police te take him to the almshouse, if Barnett had no one to take care of him. The North Hud- son hospital was recently charged with detaining a small child because its father was unable to pay a small bill for medical treatment. CONDITIONS ON NAVAL VESSELS nlistments Pour Years of Prison (By a Worker Correspondent) I am an ex-sailor from the U. S.| navy. I was a fireman. Here a j ‘ew of the questions about the na }{ am often ed, and my answers. Unemployment and Enli istments Q. _Why do men join the n: A, The main reason men join the avy is because of poverty due to un- mployment, ete. ome disconten rade, a Other reasons are | | learn a 1 where + homeless | employed work The and th Avenue in th The United Stat lly does nothing for towery nploye “Learn While You Earn!” ng my enlistment I was on Ss and among over fal men altogether. I never @ man go to a trade schoo]. are trade schools, but the chance to go there I judge from my : rience to be one in a thousand. Most of the me nics in the navy come in as mechanics, having learned lin civil life. People should learn that |the United States naval and military | forces are not trained for constructive | work, but for destructive purposes. Navy Fireman’s Life. Q. What is life like a navy fire- man? A. Our ship was a coal burner. While sajling our watches were four hours on and eight off. We had to a. hat chance is there to learn} fic, EUGENE O’NEILL. Author of ‘ “Marco Millions,” range intaniude? and both playing here— | the first at the John Golden, the lat-| ter at the Guild Theatre. hem at one time. We would be nearly half dead. a few breaths of fresh air ve to get right back to work. » were relieved from watch we'd go up to the wash-room to wash|the ranch inhabited by Don Armidio | Band. ourselves and clothes. There were no shower baths or lane for the crew, but only for the officers and C. P. O. (chief petty of- | and our clothes in a pail! For our bath we were not sup- posi of , one to soap our bodies with, the other one to wash ourselves down by lling it over our heads. bucket of water was washing clothes. There was a hose of cold salt water which we used to rinse soap from our bodies and our clothes. The wash-room was small and crowded to add to our discomfort. Coaling a Warship. Coaling ship is the hardest job in the navy. We coaled about every six weeks. The barges with hundreds of tons of soft coal tie up next to the ship. Then nearly everyone sets to the back-breaking work with the shovels. The coal is put in canvas work almost to the point of exhaus- tion to keep up the necessary amount of steam. The work was killing And our ship only sailed up and down the Atlantic coast of the United States. To make more speed we sometimes had forced draft watches down below which means they closed up the fresh air ventilators and forced artificial air into the fireroom thru fans over our heads. The coal dust would fly and it would -get terribly hot. Your lungs would burn from the lack of fresh air. When the forced draft was not needed any longer the fans were stopped and the ventilators opened again. Everyone would crowd under Fake State “Probe” Absolves Criminal Coal Cops y T. J. OFLAHERTY. i eevnan Pa. Feb. 17.—} Driven by a grow: ing storm of popular | workingclass ahger against the dep- vedations of the coal and iron police in the service of the scabby coal operators—the state government ordered an investigation | of the charges made against those | private gunmen clothed with police powers by a coal and steel legisla- ture. The investigation was conducted under the direction of Captain J. C Mauk, of the state blood brothers to the “yellow dogs.” Acquit Police. The result of the quiz was a fore- gone conclusion. The coal and iron police were acquitted of all charges f violence, and the ages recently committed by the ow dogs” and the scabs were ced on the union miner: Captain Mauk dealt specifically with the towns of f oting up of the mining ston and Broughton on} id f armed | ral volleys 360 children while the build- when a kers poured se strikebre into a schoolhouse where lay huddled on the floor scabs were shooting into the ing. Stores in Bruceton, owned by strike sympath were found riddled with bullets deserted the day after the fusillade. J+ is not denied by residents that they replied to the fire of the strike- | breakers when their lives were jeopardy. tion it was stated several lives would have been lost on the strikers’ Admit They Were Paid. The two strikebreakers confessed that they were paid each to open fire on the miners’ barracks in order to intimidate the strikers, and tho those two were placed under heavy bail by Justice of the Veace O’Rourke and large quantities of arms and am- munition were found in the scab bar- racks Captain Mauk brought in a report regarding the disturbance at Broughton, on Fesruary 2, which reads in part as follows: “About 3:10 p. m., about six color- ed employes of the Pittsburgh Ter-| minal Coal Company were walking; over the Pittsburgh and West Vir- ginia Railroad tracks, from the Hor- ning Mine No. 6, where their homes} When they arrived at the point Broughton school, several are, opposite shots were fired, union people claim-! ing they were fired upon by cqlored ‘yn and unprejudiced peopyf (he *s people who are pr ‘ced| the strikers.—O’F.) cl: be ~ “yellow dogs’—the | constabulary, | le blame for the} in} . i | But for this defensive ac-} side. | did not see the colored men do any shooting, but the strikers were shoot- ing at the colored men when they were going down the track toward their homes. At this time Robert Lane was shot in the right temple, but all the colored men continued on{ | home to No. 6, Bruceton, where they lived, and the striking miners who came from their barracks after them with rifles returned.” “From information received during the investigation from people that in no way connected with the} r controversy in this locality it) seems the discontent and agitation is caused by the United Mine Workers that are on strike.” Ready for Inquiry. This fake “investigation” was hur- riedly made so that it may be avail- able, should the senate committee de- cide to probe into the activities of he coal and ‘ron police, it most | likely will. Already there is strong jsentiment in vor of the disbanding | | }of this private army of thugs, but under cover of eliminating the “yel- low dogs” the state constabulary augmented by the in- charged” coal and iron ne clus thugs. This will not remedy matters in the slightest for the workers, since it is universally admitted, except by |the most reactionary of the labor of- |ficialdom and of course by the cap- jitalis's, that the state troopers are] | always on the side of the operators. | In fact. an authority thar former *inchot, republican | opportu al offi seeker, |admits this. In a letter recently ad- dressed by the former state executive }to Senator Johnson, relative to the | proposed mine .inju it is ~harged |that “the policy of using the power of the commonwealth of vania to break strikes has again been put in effect.” We accept Pinchot’s testimony gladly even tho during his term of office the powers of the state were at the disposal of the coal | operators. The governor also said that: mines before I took office as gover- nor of Pennsylvania in 1923 the state took the side of the mine owners as} a matter of course. It gave the em- ployer the whole police power of the | state to use in substantially any way| he chose to use it. It commissioned jas special officers, known as coal and iron police and authorized to exercise the police power of the state, any men the employer chose to name, | including, \jg’ countless cases, thugs and gunme® of the most Hepreved ap’ despical type.” Pennsyl- | “In strikes and suspensions in the| According to the former governor of Pennsylvania there are twenty of those “yellow dogs” for every state policeman, besides additional thugs sworn in as deputy sheriffs. And for those deputies, sheriffs were paid by the coal companies one dollar a day for each man sworn in. Information collected by investiga- tors for the Pennsylvania-Ohio Min- ers’ Relief Committee, with head- quarters at 617 Penn Ave., Pitts- burgh, proves that former governor Pinchot’s criticism of the conduct of the coal and iron police errs on the side of caution. Many miners frankly declare that had the former governor been sincere in his castigation of the “yellow dogs” he would not confine his ac- tion to a polite letter to Senator Johnson but would lead a state-wide movement to organize the masses not only against the coal and iron police but also for the abolition of the state constabulary system. Pin- chot is merely trying to ride back into power on the back of a popular wave of indignation against the con- duct of the Mellon-Fisher-Reed ad- ministration in the present industrial crisis. Pennsylvania is a shining example of the need for a Labor Party, thru {which the workers in all industries could organize for a campaign against | state ci s, coal and iron thugs, | deputy iffs in the pay of the | operators, company judges and the two political wings of capitalism in this state, the demécratie and repub- lican parties. Saturday Eve Concert ad Dance at 2075 CLINTON AVENUE GOOD MUSICAL PROGRAM. ADMISSION 50c. Auspices—Bronx Section Workers (Communist) Party. PROCEEDS TO. DAILY WORKER. bags and carried to the bunkers where the coal is stored. Firemen go into the bunkers and trim, that is level, the coal. During the coaling which takes about eight hours the officers and chief petty of- ficers do the ordering. It takes at least a day to clean ship after coaling. Other hand jobs are cleaning, chipping and painting the bunkers. They are painted with red lead. As the bunkers are hot the color would blind us and we had to go up for air every few minutes. “Sold For 4 Years.” Q. Do you advise anyone to join the navy? A. Hell No! It’s a slave's life and you're sold for four years. Discipline is very strict and the slightest dis- obedience means the brig, i.e. prison. The happiest day in the navy for me was the day I received my discharge. —An EX-SAILOR. * * * EDITOR—The former U. S&S. sailor who wrote the above letter makes a special request in a post- seript that his name be omitted. The DAILY WORKER takes every precaution to protect the names of its Worker Correspondents. We never publish names except at your request. * Pennsylvania * Steal Aluminum Workers’ Wages. (By a Worker Correspondent). ARNOLD, Pa, (By Mail)—A friend of mine who is a foreman in the dye and tube department of the aluminum factory of this town, told me_about the conditions under which the men and women are working in that” shop. He told me about their wages and the bonus they make. Whatever time they slow up for a moment, no matter how, if their machine is broken, or the crane isn’t on time, or they are fixing their tools to work with, or they need tools and go to get them or for any other reason which is inevitable on a job like that—that’s time lost! Special men are on watch thru the department to mark down the lost time in a special lost-time book in which they keep the workers’ names Then the lost time record is turned in and the amount taken off your wages. Women make twenty cents an hour and men forty-five cents there. Many times they take off as much as twenty or fifty times on your lost time which nullifies your bonus and often ‘half of your wages. Ves .. March 3rd We had to wash ourselves | ed to take more than two buckets | One | allowed for | Ancestors of ° “q70T PAN,” now on exhibition at the Provincetown Theatre is de- | signed primarily for amusement, and |it does not fail of its purpose. The title of the play derives its name from an alleged mining village in | California in the days of 749. The | | twenty or more characters are a hard (ae raking, hard swearing, bloodthirsty lot. the newspaper editors who serve the | Southern Pacific railroad, the preach- lers, the climate boosters and the rest of | State, | The action of the play occurs dur- | |ing one Sunday—but what a Sunday! A group of r rs arrive and occupy | Herr and the female of easy virtue leita temporarily his mistress. The jleader of the gang turns the place intc a gambling house that soon has innumer: |get out alive. It is difficult to keep accurate count on the murders, the knock-down and drag-outs that punc- |tuate the action. | The gambler does not maintain con- trol very long. He is ousted by a |bar and rents an adjoining room to |the gambler, Gold is discovered inside or under the house, which causes a wild gold rush inside the dump; mean- while the murders proceed regular as clock-work. Finally the original pos- sessors‘of the place, Herrera and his mistress, stage a hold-up. They ar about to be lynched when announce- ment is made that gold has been dis- covered ten miles away. There is a mad scramble in the direction of the new find and the original owners are left again in charge of the house. Thus the thing ended where it began, except that there were a number of very comical deaths. One thing can be said in its favor that cannot be said about the major- ity of shows, It is not dull or stupid and doesn’t pretend to solve any prob- lem. Hence it is far superior to the drivel that is usually on tap at the various “little theatres” about town. As a matter of fact the play is so amusing that it even offsets the dis- comfort of wandering through the twisted thoroughfares of Greenwich Village in order to locate a theatre that once was a barn. —H. M. W. PALACE. Fannie Ward is chief headliner at the Palace this week. Other acts in- clude: Waring’s Pennsylvanians; Teck Murdoch and Company with Iris Ken- nedy, Marion Meredith and Adele Webster, in a musical act with book by Harry Charles Greene and music by Charles Maxwell Smith; Josephine Harmon and Georgia Sands; Serge Flash; Worth Sisters and Coly. E.OoR YOU R HEALTH Strictly Pure FLORIDA HONEY Guaranteed by the BEB-FARMER. 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 2656 Park Ave., Bronx New York City. o the current aristocracy of that| patrons, some of whom | | 99) ‘Native Sens California Gold Rush Furnishes Amusement at the Provincetown Theatre JEFFERSON. Monday to Wednesday—Nan Hal- | perin; Whitehead in “Variety”; “Ok- | lahoma” Bob Albright, and other acts, | “The Chinese Parrot,” is the screen feature, with Hobart Bosworth and} | Marion Nixon. Thursday to Sunday—The Ingen- | the ancestors of the present day | ues; The Briants; Summers & Hunt; | siened by California native sons—the babbits, | others. W. C. Fields & Chester Conk- | mittee. | lin in “Iwo Flaming Youths” is on the screen, | | po Cet SC ORES { BROADWAY | Kathleen O’Hanlon, dancer Theo. Zambuni head the Wend | program, with Amata and the Gaucho! Others are: Ed and Tom, Hickey; Denis Chabot, with Nonette | Tortoni; “Thank You Doctor,” a com- | edy by Gilbert Emery, with Eleanor | Hicks and Edwin Jerome; Frolice | Four, On the screen, “Beau Sabreur,” PARTY MEMBERS TO GET REPORT Membership meetings of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, at which there will be given a report of the |; work and decisions of the last plen- | ary session of the Central Executive | Committee of the Party in New York | Feb. 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be held thru- jout the country. Speakers as assigned by the Po- ‘itical Committee to report to the membership meetings are as follows: Boston—A. Bittelman. New York—There will be held see- tion meetings, speakers to be ag the District Executive Com; Philadelphia—James P. Cannon. Buffalo—Wm. W. Weinstone. Pittsburgh—Wm. W. Weinstone. Cleveland—Wm. W. Weinstone. Detroit—Wm. W. Weinstone. Chicago—Max Bedacht. Minneapclis—Norman Tallentire. Kansas City-—Hugo Oehler. Seattle—James P. Cannon. San Francisco—James P. Cannon. New Haven—A. Bittelman. Meetings will also be held in the saloon-keeper, who promptly erects ay smaller cities in each district with local reporters assigned by the Dis- |trict Committees. | by Percival Wren, with Noah Beery, Gary Cooper, Evelyn Brent and Will- | iam Powell. ais \ Ng 4s Se p . 8:30, ts. Theatre, West 44th Street, Winter Garden a ieat ie ser : HUDSON s. 8:30, Mats. Wee -& Sat. i i Opening Tonight at 8:3 WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! THE. y COHAN FARCE Artists § Models WINTHROP “AME Whispering Friends ||—— The Theatre Guild presents —— ' J ' JOH™ GaLSWORTHY’S Eugene IES CA P EB "ipezaze {|| g8c""* Strange Interlude Thea., W. 45St. Evs. 8:40 Mats. Wed. & Sat. BOOTH Th., W.44 St.Hvs.8:30 Broadhurst Mais Wed & Sat GEORGE ARLISS in THE MERCHANT OF gs ae ce dM Nati MRACU B'way, 46 St. Evs. 8.36 pi Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 AN THE BAT” er Thea W.44 Stva.8.3¢ THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN John Golden Thea., 58th, H. of B’way Evenings Only at EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 GUILD wats. thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Extra Matinee Wednesday Feb. 27, “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY Th., W. 42d. Ev: Republic yiats. wea.@Sa Mon, Tues. & Wed. 8 Keith-Albee Acts, including NAN HALPERIN “OKLAHOMA” BOB ALBRIGHT JUVENILE STEPPERS—OTHERS *The CHINESE PARROT’ weird mystery with Hobart Bosworth & Marion Nixon MUSIC AND CONCERTS OPERA COMPANY SUNG IN ENGLISH vgs. 8:20, Mats. 2:20, S4th, W. of ay. PHONE COL. 1140, Mon. Eve., Carmen, Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. Eve., Sat. Mat. Martha, Wed. Mat., Faust. i ‘Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'wa: National Byssse, mie we seers “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Amm Harding-Rex Cherryman SAM Thea. 42d, W. of} a. HARRIS pray. “nys. 8:30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY with Edna Leedom & Guy Robertson. The shooting’s all over now. Still in all seriousness, but with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights present at their theatre, 40 Commerce Street (phone Walker 5851) Michael Gold’s New Play Hoboken Blues For all performances, a 10% reduction will be given on all tickets purchased from the local Daily Worker Office 108 East 14th Street. Phone Stuyvesant 6584. \ISUNDAY | =f CENTRAL Opera House Tickets 50c. House Warmin Second Block Houses of the United Workers Cooperative Ass’n Spectacular Strike Scene Mass Demonstration Mass Singing Machine Dance Mass Declamations Coop. Section of the Freiheit Singing Society Coop. Section of the Freiheit Dramatic Studio under the direction of ob Schaefer and Jacob Mestel a