The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1928, Page 4

ee as sd h ste in Ju m' In, he spur wages which they pay us twice! ‘a month, ‘holds us up for about five days work | ‘That is how the Schwartzenbach-Hub- al Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FER, 22, 1928 Tunnel Labor, N. J Silk Mills, = Firm, Exposed by Worker Correspondents FOUL CONDITIONS PREVAIL IN WIS. SEWER BUILDING Sm Urge Communist Vote at Milwaukee Polls (By a Worker Correspondent). MILWAUKEE, (By Mail). The work sewer con dan- | gerous, unhealth of is of the ttannet workers have not im On the wages ar tem intro. from the fol-j| proved. eut and the dacéd as will ontrary, peed-up he seer the Methodist Er Brooklyn __Brooklyn Monds lowing Wage ev ening, in full 1926 1927 $1 Tunnel miners, up $1- Muckers, Top men, The by the Clay November of and up and up to Bribe (By a Worker Correspondent.) : How the Pullman C at- the construction of 5 tunnels at John- 3 a Ban Woo: j tempted to bribe offi the Sim ts were effected in the | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters open-cut wer construction and open} was revealed by Brother Roy Lan- ditch sewer work. The wages for open-| caster at a meeting of the Brother cut sewers were in 1926, 85¢ and up.}hood at St. Lukes Hall, 135 Wes' These ures held good for about/i30 Street. Brother Lancaster’ told 70 per cent of the workers. In 1927| how P. A. Sample, instructor of por- they were from $.60 to $.75. Thejters for the company, came to him same firm, the Clayton Construction] and asked for a very private inter- Co., profited By these cuts. These|View. When this had been granted, figures hold good for at least 70 per| Sample indicated that he came from cent of the workers. The Holton Con-|J- F. Mitchel, District Superintendent of New York, and that even higher officials were backing him. The proposition which Sample ered Lancaster was a simple one. He must merely pick a quarrel with the union and use that as a pretext tractors and Wenzel & Hannoch also profited by the above mentioned weer cuts, tem. in tunnels Speed-up speed-up sy The ystem rks as follows: A picked gang of{1 quit. For this, the Pullman Com-| s put to work under most favor- pany offered him a lump sum of| able conditions. They are promised] from thirty-five to fifty thousand a bonus of 75¢ a day in addition to; dollars, and $250 a month for the rest their regular wages of $1.10. From) of his life. Ye would have to work time to time they are shifted to other! for the company for a few months in places. After they work for a while | order not to raise too much noise, but in a new place, and set a record of|after that he could retire. Moreover, high production another gang is called | Sample said that a little trip to ypon to replace them and is being | Europe could be arranged in order to tonstantly driven to maintain the high | get him out of the way during the record without getting any bonus, | first publicity which might arise. | Klan and Churchmen Work Together '» Pullman Oficials Fail —S | i | | | | in | Tegalia. Union Leader Brother Lancaster listened to this proposition with interest, as did the two other brothers whom he had smuggled in, unknown to Sample, to{ isten privately to the conversation. He then demanded an interview with Mitchell himself, and that, too was arranged. But Mitchell, after ap- pearing on the scene twice, each time got cold feet and never turned up for | the interview. Lancaster had ar-} ranged a reception committee for him consisting of Arthur Garfield | Hays, other witnesses, and two steno-| graphers. | The main speaker of the evening | was A. Philip Randolph, General Or-} ganizer® of the Brotherhood. He| rged the members to strengthen| their organization, pointing out that the five million Jews in this coun- try, although also an oppressed race, had more power than the 15 million Negroes, because the Jews were or-| ganized. Brother W. H. Des Verney | reported on the progress of organi- zation throughout the South. Brother | Grain announced a dance for March 11, and urged the brothers of the} union to support it. About five hun- dred members of the union were present. —-A SLEEPING CAR PORTER. | As every worker will realize, the) 971, one loom when they start, which speed-up system is another form of | pay deni lesat- then’ $20 Gu week: a # wage cut. {they are there longer, they get two Accidents, Health Conditions. looms, and later on, after some years |The speed- up system leads to in-| three looms. If something goes wrong riumerable accidents resulting in in-| with a loom, instead of repairing it juries and deaths for the workers.|immediately, the company takes it The health precautions are neglected.| away from the girl, and thus her The rate of death and sickness; Wages are reduced. -Winders, who among the workers engaged in tunnel | wind the thread, get an average of work in Milwaukee is much higher|$18 a week. Twisters, who twist the than in Detroit or New York, Con-| Warp, get an average of $25 a week. ditions in this respect are so appalling} Warpers, who make the warp, the that a state commission was set to| hardest work, get $20 a week. Spool- work recently to investigate the health |", who spool the silk, get $20 a conditions in tunnel work of our city.| Week We work 9 hours a day. While workers are crippled, are} Even tho the girls are mostly Pol- loosing their health and even lives, |ish girls who are told by the Catholic the contractors grow fat on the sweat |* | priests to ob 2Vver and blood of the Many al bey the bosses and never worker to complain, they are beginning to grow tired of standing for such things as being cheated of several days pay each month, of being laid off each summer for a few weeks, and of hav- ing to be slaves with no way of a come-back, There are old women in the Schwartzenbach-Huber Mills who get $18 a week. —S., A'SILK WORKER. Electrician Killed NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 21—John Sikorra, 45, of East Orange, was killed yesterday by an electric shock when testing a commutator in the plant of the Start Electric Motor} Company here. cockroach contractor grew into a oa lionaire executing sewer and other! forms of construction for the city. The workers of Milwaukee must de-| mand that the city of Milwaukee should carry out elf its eonstruc- | tion problems. T would eliminate the fat profits which are being reaped by the contractors and will enable: the city to pay higher wages to the tun-| ‘nel workers and to secure for them | adequate health protection and safety | measures. Seciali socialist ts Indifferent. officials of our city erent to the The socia party caters to the business men. It brags of the fact} that there are no labor troubles in| Milwaukee. But the workers cannot improve their conditions without a struggle. The socialist party prides itself in the fact that it is able to paralyze the struggle of workers for better conditions and is able to se- eure for the capitalists “peaceful” ex- ploitation of their workers. The workers of Milwaukee need a more militant leadership if they are | to turn Milwaukee from a biggest .open-shop city into a trade-union stronghold. In the coming municipal elections the workers of Milwaukee should support the candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party. —H. Py N. J. Silk Mills Plunder Girl Workers MBy & Worker Correspondent.) » I am sending you some more formation about the ins Schwartzenbach- | Huber Silk Mills here in Bayonne.) One of the girls here sent a letter! about the conditions there which you| published in your Workers’ Corre- spondence page last week. She told show we have to wait several days for| In that way the company} each month for which we are not paid. an average of $22 on three looms, AO pe dee Tang Waneenne mat | TONIGHT! — “HOBOKEN BLUES” | at the | New Playwrights Theatre 40 Commerce St. BENEFIT PERFORMANCE | a | | 27v money | jobless. =< 2 |make anymore from them. ‘The Ku Klux Klan which specializes in lynching parties visited | ‘opal Chureh at South Third and Union Ave. | that will last a couple of months. ; government in the Soviet Union. | |Makes $8.4 a ‘Week; Lives in Tent in, Woods (By « Worker Correspondent.) FORT PIERCE, Fla., (By Mail).— I got your card today. I haven’t got now. Everybody here is I have been jobless now for This summer I made about me year. | fifty cents a day out of my chickens. But eggs are down now and I can’t We live in a tent in the woods. But I happened to get a little work I just started on this job and will send you the money the first pay-day, about the twentieth. Only Job In 300 Miles. The job I got is about the only job on the east coast of Florida. struck it hreky. It is clearing twenty acres of land. The man who is hav- ing it cleared is a millionaire seven times over. There is only one kind of work for people in Fort Pierce. It is‘'what,they call shrimping, pulling the heads of} crawfish. You get fifteen cents for a fourteen quart water-bucket full. The job is on the river. The fishers bring the crawfish in on their boats. But half the time they don’t catch any shrimps so you just have to sit and wait. You can make from one to three dollars a week. But you have} to be there’ every day and half the, night. | $1 a Day—When Lucky! | There are thousands of people} here, young and old, who are glad if they.can make seventy-five cents or} a dollar a day to keep from starving. | They don’t hire you at this job | and they don’t fire you. If you can} get. a_bucket you’ye got the job, but | it is hard-to get at the bucket. When the shrimp: arrive they open the door and everybody grabs for a bucket. But there are five times more people | than buckets. There are lots of people here who don’t know that we have a workers’ st have been giving my DAILY WORK-| ER’ to people to read. I will try to séé if'T can get some of them to take the DAILY WORKER. The mail- man. who brings me the paper looks it over every day. ¢ --H. G. I just | Special Performance Blues” for Daily. Many readers and friends of The DAILY WORKER will gather tonight at the New Playwrights’ Theatre at the special benefit performance of “Hoboken Blues,” the new play by Michael Gold, which is now current at their playhouse at 40 Commerce St. The play deals with the colony of Negroes in their Harlem community and shows the social and economic | background of the Negro in the past twenty-five years. | James P. Cannon in a special ar- {ticle on “Hoboken Blues” in The |DAILY WORKER has this to say about the author ang the play “The main impression left with me is that here is emerging a playwright | with a richer humor an dsharper wit than the Broadway wise-crackers and without their rotten and standardized eynicism. He wants to see people happy, living in “Hoboken,” where folks don’t work too hard, where there’s plenty of food and beer and} musie, where both white and black | are free and equal and all men are| | brothers. “That’s what he wants to see. And} \if it appears in his own play only as | ja fantasy it is because the vehicle of | Chile McGregor’s horse-car philoso- phy is at best only a dream-eseape from the stern realities of ‘the exist- ing capitalist order. “Underneath its laughing humor the | play rages at the excresences of ‘the machine age; the ‘noise and stink of the leather factory,’ the speed-up, the dollar fever, the persecution and ex- | ploitation of the poor man and the | black man.” As the seating capacity of the the- jatre is small, DAILY WORKER jreaders who haven’t secured their tickets in advance, are advised to get them early today. Al Jolson will continue under the Shubert management next season, in a new play script by Irving Berl and It will be called | James Gleason. “Mister Bones.” Marion Gering will return to Rus- sia to stage a spectacular production of Cervantes’ * “Don Quixote,” at the Eves. 8:30, Mats. Winter Garden ‘Wed. & Sat | ‘WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists * Models F Theatre, West 41th Street. HUDSON Evs. 8:30, Mats. Wed.& Sat. THE NEW COHAN FARCE WHISPERING FRIENDS | one | WINTHROP AMES | JOH GaLSWORTHYS | | a with L ree AP} 458t. vs. 8:40 Mats, Wed. & Sat. [nee Th.,W.44 St.Bys.8:30 Mats. Wed. & Sat, croncr ARLISS || in THE na MERCHANT x AF. Ve VEstoR DRAcu Bway, 46 St. Eves. 8.36 Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.30 “BETTER THAN THE BAT” ERLANGER’S Thee. W.44 St.Ev: Mats. Wed. & THE MERRY MALONES with GEORGE M. COHAN 30 /Nationa Theatre, 41 3t. W. of B’ t Eeantonaite Wed.&Sat.2:30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman “aM HARRIS Ps ogee w. t | way. vs. 8: 30, Mats. Wed- & Sat. LOVELY LADY | | \ | —— The Theatre Guild presents —— osc’ Strange Interlude O'Neill's Play, John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions GUILD?}: W. 52d St, Evs, 8:30 Mats, Thurs. & Sat. -2:30 Extra Matinee Wednesday Feb. 27, “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY Republic JiisWwea'eeace to Kame Js eters g ABTS. SON Ak, TODAY 8 Keith-Albee Acts, including NAN HALPERIN “Oklahoma” Bob Albright—Others ‘The CHINESE PARRO'L” Weird mystery Thurs. Direct From To sun. The Ingenues jieptetd Follies MUSIC AND CON! CERES AMERICAN OPERA COMPAN ist N. Y. SEASON, long IN SNCLISH GALLO THEA. Evgs. 8:20. Mats. 2:20, S4th, W. of Biway, PHONE COL, 1140, Mon, Eve., Carmen, Tues., Wed., Thur: [wit ith Edna Leedom Guy Robertson, Sat. Eve., Sat. Mat., Martha. Wed. Faust, The shooting’s all over now. with laughter, music, song and dance, the New Playwrights present -at their: theatre, 4 Walker 5851) Michael Gold’s New. Play DAILY WORKER |Hoboken Blues Tickets on sale at Daily Worker, 108 E. 14th hie St. (Stuyvesant 6584) and in the evening ' t at the Box Office. \ Comrades, Readers and Sympathizers will meet tonight at | the New Playwrights Theatre. i 108 East 14th Street. Phone Stuyvesant 6584. “ For all performances, a 10% reduction will be given on. all tickets purchased from the local Daily Worker Oftice Still in all seriousness, but 0 Commerce Street (phone HILFERS DUE FOR ‘FIRING SOON; WAS IN GRAFT MESS Still Holds on to One Soft Job NEWARK, Feb. 21.—Henry Hil- fers, for 22 years secretary of the Essex Trades Council and at present local organizer for the American Fed- eration of Labor, and with a long re- actionary record in the New Jersey hederatior of Labor, will be forced jfrom at least one of these offices | when his term expires next July. | Hilfers announces his resignation | from the office in the Trades Council | | | | Tonight of “Hoboken Worker readers IN MICHAEL GOLD PLAY. on the grounds that increasing work for the A. F. of L. now requires his exclusive, attention. It is known, however, that even the reactionary officialdom of the New Jersey Fed- eration of Labor can no longer tol- erate his crude methods. | Stays on A. F. L. Payroll. At the last convention of the state federation it was disclosed that Hil- fers and other officials had “appro- priated” thousands of dollars through deals with employers. Although the local labor officials for “diplomatic” reasons are forcing Hilfers to resign, he will still retain his position as representative of the Al Ricot i Boat Employes Win San Francisco, Feb. 21.—Nearly 1,300 ferry boat employes of four railroads have won an 8 hour day and an average wage increase of $10 a month. This means an additional $230,000 annually to the workers. The railroad companies _ pleaded poverty in a dissenting opinion. Sylvia Feningston who plays an | important role in “Hoboken Blues,” which is the current play at the New Playwrights’ Theatre. world famous Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow. Mr. Gering was formerly | director of the Meyerhold Theatre. Frances Sebel, soprano, gives a song recital at the Town Hall, Thurs- day evening, March 1. 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