The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1928, Page 4

es | UNEMPLOYMENT SUFFERING SWEEPS U.S, WORKER CORRESPONDENTS SHOW i 7 ‘ xk “THE DAI 8 Moms Tyback, Saginaw, Minn. THE DAILY WORKFR, NEW YORK, URGES JOBLESS Eimblove Tells Hous ‘S, Wages | wae watll redentiee a worker at] ie Beekman Street Hospital at} ian Compel ‘Bosses tO| Beekman and Water Street. I was a porter that imit n of a hos- | Give Food, _ Clot hing ions were so rotten that pital. Co: s porter, elevator tor, and dishwasher and other jobs in the hospital kitchens. Miserable Treatment. I have also been an orderly in the ithout a doubt mployed and fy . Of all the miserably paid as Ww to be found in this | wor! and all the work held in ri A. In Chicago alone | contempt by our so-called superiors,| 200,000 job-| you can’t beat the man who does the reference | r work in the hospital. I’ll tell Feb. 18.| you how it was at Beekman St. I about 10 hours a day, swab- sting and polishing. All get ther $50 a month hole called the “help’s| The food was as rotten as you can get it. They don’t give a damn what they give worked bing up, du the porter 2 If we don’t like it we can get out; that aide: wi there are enough por hanging ployed and e workers, So [| around Frank Pettit’s all the would advise the parade committee to pping employment agencies which get the banners and have them | S¥PPly help to tt made of good m that will last They don’t care how they} @ number of year treat the help at an Street | Te ant tne Hospital. They can fire time Ways exists under cz they want to; we have no comeback. its peak e time ago ‘exidl Paps The kitchen help there also get no pre than $5( month, with the e filthy quarte All Rotten. the unemployed whom we now are a of the flood which state cannot po: tain thru the tity, county und other r see at the other ked in, the Broad f' place a ‘lower Hos- coi to use tha s ks li oan oks like ployed? 4 he private Tf labor offic continues to | e, but is quite neglect the uner das they are the helps’ quarters. They ing in Chicago, th gra ligger the hospital porter or- 6f capitalism will become a grave} and kitchen workers any| danger to organized labor. "The capi-| more than $50 a month in any hos- talists will attempt as usual to use} the unemployed to pull down every} avorkers’ o tion they possibly ¢an. But organized labor must help} these unemploy by organizing un- employed councils, assisting them at 3! times, demanding meeting halls | free for them, donations for unem- | Ployed leaflets, ete. These workers | Zan develop themselves into a power- ful weapon against capitalism. Then | “these men will refuse to seab. They Will not stand at the factory gate to | take the job away from the worker | 4—mside, but will be there to dig the grave of capitalism. Labor Ofticials Cold. T see that the fir: pital. And don’t forget, we have to clean up afier the patients mess up their rooms, we have to carry pa- ts around on stretchets, we have to do a lot of dirty work in hospitals | that you can’t mention in a news- paper. And all for $50 a month. —TOM B., HOSPITAL WORKE2. eed |700 Jobless at Gates | Of Ford’s Chester Plant | (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa., (By Mail).—A} carpenter, who is also a millwright, gs a job with the new Ford Plant at He took a job at seventy | tants per hour even tho the scale fo union men in this district is $1.25] per hour. Most all the men there were laid joff last Christmas, some even at} Thanksgiving. Hundreds are storm- | jing the gates every day for a job. rents have been raised five} s a month and taxes have gone} long with the cost of food, but the} | attempt to or- @anize the unorganized in New York | hes been met with a cold shoulder | labor from our part of * will rece’ fight Worker officialdom. _ This is | The unemployed | ion only as the unemployed will naturally eat?” welfare 1 you tne OF} doll | up, a t eat de va op Ford plant has continued to stall along} and an or ratio with a few men installing machinery. to fight. eadersh the ee pio ad fi furl the pone ployed against the state, which ved the | \, On Washington’s Birthday, at least jobless men appeared before the in all kinds of cars. The street lined on both sides for several food, clothing and she that even} squares. There is a question whether an unemployed worker needs under! anyone was hired as you have to ¢apitalism. register in Philadelphia to get a job So, on with the struggle! Organize! there. your pre opioyed councils! Tabs or of- So‘ the carpenter even offered to hire himself to a farmer in the coun- try north of the Ford plant. On ask- ing if the farmer needed corn-hus- kers, the-¢arpenter was told, “yes.” émpt but the climb lege of speaking platform, at u ‘coming when! over one another for| he un-j mployed the pri employed carpenter asked? “Pay per shock, answered, “Why I can get all the help I want for their Meetings, etc. food, cloth- childr a wife and four : property ise them to feed y while. | : insisted,” I have to have more} © Capitalism being on the dectine, they board.” ; Scannot refuse you if you show the ‘Sorry, sbut-1 “can get all I need j > strength to fight. without pay,” the farmer replied. —C. J.T. you surprise me,” the farmer Defenders oS Y WORKER Toledo, Polish Branch I. L. D., OR Sea) 76 sia Ware Wi aioishtsaeeis's it Working Women’s Educational — Club, Hammond, Ind, -5. Jack Kamlan, New York City ..1.00 R. W. Parker, Schenectady, N. Y. 4.00 Joe Richeter, Detroit, Mich. 1.50 Geo. Bloxam, (collected) Spokane, |. Washington 4.00] W. Yopkin, Pittsfield, Mass. Walter P. Sukut, Chicago, Il—1.00] Wm. Adams, Detroit, Mich. .. Sam. Johnson, Buffalo, N. Y. 10.00] A. Molisoff, B’klyn, N. Y. . J. Burke, St. Petersburg, Fla. 3.00/763 14th St. Boulder, Colo. Alma Nickelson, Detroit, Mich. 5,06] 1, Zimmerman, Bronx, N. Y. C Yi. Urison, Kirkland, Wash. ....1.50/S, L, Brunner, Alliance, Ohio .. » P. Danskevich, Clifton, N. 2.00). Plaxin, (collected) Detroit, > A. H. Stone, Miami, Fla. ...... 5.00 MOM 50S spats Gisiaeli' sop he Ladies Lenin B. W. C. 464, Nor- D. Berkingoff, N. ¥. C. folk, Va. E. Tarkoff, Boulder, Colo. ‘Vera Fruman, Balto, Md. Karsten, Long Island City M. Larson, Hasty, Minn. .. H. Geltman, Bronx, N. Y. . U0} J. Lobido, Kirkland Lake, Ont. , Canada Leo. Mellan, Chicago, Ill. . M. Feinstone, B’klyn, N. Y. . 0 C. Nelson, Cleveland, Ohio . ‘A. H. Johnson, Chicago, Ill. ey S. Marhow, Lafayette, Calif. 2.00 ‘James R. Jones, B’klyn, N. Y. 3.00 Margaret Streson, Central Islip, nda Mothers League A. S. Bell, Wilmington, Del 1.00 (ail Mass 7 M, Acevedo, Bronx, N.Y. 2.00 : A NAAT er Re Pes + 5. to Braum, Oakland, Calif. ..12.50 J. R. Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1.00 Francisco Settish Educational | I. Hoffman, (col.),.N. Y.C. 20.00 E. Altvater, N.S. Pitts. Pa R. Kosen, Trenton, N. J J. B. Price, Lansing, Mich s. E. R. Nagel, Erie, x lum, San Francisco, Calif. 2. Poughkeepsie, Y. 6.00 A. Schnebeken, Phila., Pa. J J. Chespak, sec’y. of Polish bo b. I have worked in many hos-/} help to eat. | “What do you pay per shock?” the} “T am unfortunate enough to havey 1,” the car-! 4.00 | j SPEND $1,200,000 TO BUILD PENN. _ NATIONAL GUARD | Plan Re-enforcements to Strikebreakers (By a Worker Correspondent.) WILKES BARRE, Pa., (By Mail). -—Announcement came recently from Harrisburg that over one million dol- |lars will be used to improve and build ‘ger buildings for the Pennsylvania tional Guard in order to greatly merease its efficiency and enlarge {the Pennsylvania National Guard | which is otherwise known as the | State Militia, This the workers must |take into consideration and ask: Why does the state want a bigger militia? Why is it willing to spena at this time over $1,000,000 for this |purpose? Why, when hundreds of thousands of workers thruout Pennsylvania are unemployed, does it not spend one cent for their main- tenance, and why the state does‘noth- ing in connection with the support of |the thousands of miners and their families who are starving in the soft coal fields? Why is nothing done by the state for the fifty per cent of the {miners who are unemployed in the ‘anthracite field, while it is able to spend over a million dollars for state militia? The workers have long ago learned thru experience what the state militia is being used for in time of strikes and for what reason it sup-|h' | ports this proposition. Especially the | worker around these particular vicinities should look into the ques- tion because it is at these places that | unemployment is the ‘greatest. following places are.the ones llotted sums: $175,000; Scot Dale, Norristown, $100,000; Loch $60,000; Latrobe, $50,000; ster, $100,000; Carbondale, ; Harr urg, $200,000; East | Stroudsburg, $50,000; and for the whole of Luzerne county $50,000 for | the purpose of training an army to |be used in time of strike to shoot | down the miners and help starve them !into submission when the coal opera- |tors want to break the strike. | Why should not this money which has come from the workers be used lfor the purpose of relieving the un- employment. situation. The only way that this can be abolished is by the aac erganizing a Labor Party thru which they can abolish alto- Nether the state militia. | Be OS PAPCUN. ‘Church Fakers to Urge War With “Peace” Talk ,000; Haven, | WASHINGTON, (FP) Feb. 27.— Without committing themselves Jeither for or against the Dending: naval appropriation bill, which makes available for naval construction pur- poses $274,000,000 and starts an ar- mament race, a delegation of church- men will appeal to President Cool- jidge February 27 to “promote peace.” |The delegation will “deprecate” the |big navy program, but will not specify whether the program reported to the House by the naval affairs committee, is considered big. “We are here today, not to oppose, but loyally to support your policies,” Dr. Charles §S. MacFarland, general secretary of the Federal Council of | Churches of Christ in America, and spokesman for the delega‘ion will tell the president. Workers Grow Old Slaving for Wealthy (By a Worker Correspondent.) I walked down this morning from 116th Street to 57th Street. What did I see? I saw apartment houses with uniformed employees (receiving from $80 to 90 a month) opening the doors and tipping their hats to madam. Madam is also very busy. I notice she has to drive to the but- cher, the baker, the grocer, etc., and give her order, while she sits in the ear and the things are brought out on the sidewalk for her by a clerk. I see the old heads and faces and young shoulders of the grocer, but- cher, baker, laundry boys, miserably dressed:and working for twelve hours a day for from $18 to $20 for a six and a half day week. -They pull dumbwaiters down from the top floor, then put the order on them and pull. them up again and down again to make change for madam and then up again; the total amounting to from 24 to 48 floors that they have to haul on the dumbwaiter ropes. T’'ve done it and know the effects after a long day. Madam’s children are being wheeled around in a $60 perambula- tor by a worker’s child: The baby looks wonderful in his expensive} clothes, but the maid is poorly dressed. The policeman, also, the son of a worker's family, still thinks he is inferior and bows to madam. In summer it is the best summer resorts with the poor man’s child waiting on madam and her parasite band hand and foot while thou- nds of workers are hunting for a job. —M. S. a Gary Workers Expose | Bulgarian Peasant Renegade | (By a Worker Correspondent.) GARY, Ind. (By Mail).—Kosta Todoroff, an alleged paid agent of the Serbian imperialists is touring the United States and is trying to speak wherever he can and promote the interests of his benefactor, the king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovy- enes. He poses as a friend of the toiling people. Once he was one of the leading members of the Bul- garian Peasant League, but since the overthrow of the Stambouliski gov- ernment, Todoroff went over to the other side of the barricade and be- came an agent of the Serbian gov- ernment. On Feb. 19, he tried to lie about the conditions of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union, but the audience of 300 workers from the Balkans hissed him down. Speakers from the audience exposed him as a traitor to the peasants of Bulgaria and as a paid agent of Serbian (French) imperialism. They were applauded and cheered by the entire audience. —A STEEL WORKER.: Holdup Brings Arrests CHICAGO, Feb: 27. — Said by police to. have had $17,000 loot in their possession, 20 men and 5 women haye been arrested as alleged mem- bers of the..gang which held up a Grand Trunk mail train here Satur- day for $133,000 in cash. | Patients Flee Fire WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Feb, 27.—A fire in the Inwood Sani- | tarium near here yesterday drove 25 patients to the street. Ss Se ee spokesmen the YOUNG WORKER 43 East 125th St., New York City. Enclosed you will find $.. Name . Address AMERICAN LEGION ATTACKS YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE! A united front has been perfected between the Legion and the local business men’s organizations to scalp the League and the Pioneers in Warren, O. They fear the militant toiling youth and their YOUNG WORKER Semi-monthly fighting young workers’ paper. Help the YOUNG WORKER get 5,000 new subs and raise $3,000! the YOUNG WORKER'S $3,000 drive. rrr reer reece rer re reece es —— my contribution to t TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928 STARVATION IS RAMPANT WITH Keep Alive (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail).—The people of Chester have been laboring under the delusion that prosperity has been with us and was here to stay forever. While the streets were being tramped by jobless workers and the employment bureaus of the dif- ferent industries were thronged day after day by men seeking work, the employed men continued to think that prosperous tires were here. Miners Relief Conference. The trade unions have been strange- ly silent about the question of unem- ployment and labor conditions in gen- Then who was responsible for ing the bubble of prosperity A conference was called for miners’ relief to which the unions were in- vited. Some few responded and set to work to get relief for the miners of Penn., Ohio and Colorado. The members of the different or- ders who attended suddenly discover- ed that their members were: destitute and in need of relief of their own, and that many were bordering on actual starvation. Children Starving. One mother had gone the limit of her eredit with her breadman and had been refused. She went to the flour barrel and found it empty. She tried the corn-meal can and got about a pound. Then she found a few hand- tried to make bread. It was not a suc- cess but it was all her children had to eat. The father had not had a job since “Thanksgiving.” When the case was brought to the attention of the union the leaders turned it over to: the women’s auxili- ary without any further comment. The brother was given a short-time job. Men on the job who were not acquainted with his. conditions were surprised to see him open a paper and take out a crust of bread for his lunch. Thus the Chester workers grin and bear until foreed to disclose the facts. Hungry Children Eat Sticks. Thete is another case of children chewing sticks to kéep from hunger, which the informer corrected to read, “to appease their appetites, because,” he added, *“they couldn’t live on sticks.” Wherever you approach the work- ers you hear that our own people must be helped first, and yet they must be told about the miners. Peo- ple look around and notice that many houses are for rent. Those who can’t get work beg, borrow or steal. Petty stealing has been going on for some time. This is another page in the prosperity story. —M., A WORKER. Fire Kills Three HAMMONTON, N. J.. Feb. 27.— .|Mus. Minerva Weaver, 35, and her two children were burned to death in which they lived. She was a Negre working woman. The father, James Weaver, is working in Philadelphia. THOUSANDS IDLE ;Children Eat Wood to ;the Warsaw Philharmonic fuls of oatmeal and with these she} when fire destroyed a wooden house } 'Star Cast Revived at the Cosmopolitan Theatre i Hose second of a series of revivals to be presented by Chamberlain Brown at the Cosmopolitan Theatre is “Sherlock Holmes,” by William Gillette based on the exploits of Sir Conan Doyle’s famous character. Altho the cast includes several well-known stars, of the past and present decade, the play seems to have something lacking. Whether the modern clothes worn by the charac- ters in a story of the past is respon- sible or not is hard to determine. Suffice to say, the play does not ring true. Some of the mystery plays which New York is full of, at the present, appear to be more realistic at times. The title role is played by Robert} Warwick, who portrays Sherlock | Holmes, the part made famous by William Gillette. Mr. Warwick is a suave and polished master detective. Professor Morrison, king of Lon- don’s underworld and arch enemy of the detective is played in superb fashion by Frank Keenan, one of America’s veteran actors. Another old-timer in the cast is Fritzi Sheff in the minor role of a maid. Other members of the cast are Julia Hoyt in the role of a scheming villainess; Horace Braham, in a skill- ed character role and Stanley Logan as Dr. Watson. Warsaw Conductor to Lead N. Y. Symphony Arthur Rodzinski, who came from to the Philadelphia Orchestra, leading one o, its concerts in New York last year, is to take Walter Damrosch’s place ‘Sherlock ‘Holmes’ With, Sherwood’s Robert Emmett satirical comedy “The Queen’s Hus- band” at the Playhouse. In “MARRIAGE ON APPROVAL” OPENS ON THURSDAY A alte addition to the openings of this week is the new comedy “Mar- riage on Approval,” by Michael Kal- lesser, which will be presented by Mr. Kallesser at Wallack’s Theatre on Thursday night. Phyllis Povah will be featured in the cast. Butler Davenport, who came to Wallack’s Theatre last week from his own play- house in East 27th Street, has ended his engagement of “The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” on Saturday night. Labor Bill Tonight as the New York Symphony Orches- tra’s conductoy in Carnegie Hall next Thursday afternoon and Friday eve- ning. A new program will be presented, instead of the “London Symphony,” the fourth of Tchaikovsky, with Stra- vinsy’s “Petrushka” and the preludes to “Oberon” and “Meistersinger.” Mr. Damrosch, who has been ill is ex- pected to appear for his final concert as guest conductor this season at Meeca Temple next: Sunday. Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, who will arrive‘on March 6, has been an- nounced to conduct the New York Symphony Orchestra in a special con- cert at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 13. SPARTANBURGH, 8S. C., (FP) Feb. 27.—No hope is held for the passage of the 48-hour work week pill introduced into the house by representative John E. Stansfield of Aiken. South Carolina cotton textile mills will use every means to fight the bill in case it is reported out by by the judiciary committee. Truck Driver Dies UNION CITY, Feb. 27.—William Stanton, 24, a driver of a milk‘truck, was instantly killed yesterday when a Lehigh Valley train struck his truck near Geneva. WTA SAI LUNZUS 4%, well QED 8:30. Mats, WORLDS Danes SENSATION! Artists § Models COMEDY ea. sist St, i of Bway Evenings 8 Mats, Thurs, & Sat. 2: a0. ce AY AY Winter Garden Bes “& Sat. 1 — The Theatre Guild presents —— Eugene oxe's Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, H. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. Bernard Shaw's Comedy = DOCTOR'S DILEMMA ‘Th., W. 524 St, Evs. “Guild Mats, Thurs. & Sat. 20 Week of Mar. 5: “Marco Millions” bit “EVGS. Sie Si davly ‘Liem. OL Ve Cle BELLE BAKER “THE INCOMPARABLE” Roger Imhof & Co—Other Acts Dorothy Mackaill & Jack Mulhall in “MAN CRAZY” PORGY | «, Th., W. 42d. 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