The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1928, Page 6

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AN important’ event which has taken pe CHICAGO, (By Mail).—The nee ARNOLD, Pa., (By Mail).—A very —- place in the Berlin theatres and ° ican C slidated Trades Council, e successful meeting of the Labor MH which should prove quite important ogrossives Appeal for | composed of 1c unions of colored | Progressives Tell of Of- Party was held here yesterday at the Company Substitute Is to the Savisda ant thonphtful world | plumbers, ele ans, plasterers and oo ae * Umbria Hall, 1714 Third Ave. id ol is the news of a Secession Theatre, jothers, has been organized in Chi-| ficial Corruption | Representatives of about 25 labor Owners’ To established by the People’s Theatre . ae | cago. | Wiheaage unions and organizations and various 7 espondent. for those of its members who are not (By a Worker | The organization is to be furfner| _( By a Worker Correspondent) | soups and individuals from other| (8¥ ® Worker Correspondent.) | * 9 0 oe vee ed down FALL RI Ms Mail).—| enlarged by active workers in the| A larger hall was necessary to ad-|+iung around here, representing the _ Some time ago there was a strike |ooiitically and artistically to suit The city of Fall River with a popu-| various building trades among Negro|™it the hundreds of unemployed township’s Labor Party councils, and|in the I. Miller Shoe Company fac- |tastes grown bourgeois. Edwin Pis- lation of 35.000 has become the cen- | workers with the object of developing | Painters who turned out to the open | -on. workers who support the Party,|tory which made quite a dent in the|cgior, the most brilliant of the Peo- Page Six Peas mE DAILY WORK es N TW YORK, FRIDAY. MAT CH 2,°1928 General New England Textile Strike Demand of Worker Correspondent TIE UP OF ALL ter of the fight in the textile industry between the open shop forces and the Negro Labor to | also to to and es in order solida the: more streng |the unemployment situation JOBLESS MEET forum meeting called by the Inter- Local Club of the Painters to discuss in the Hold Big Labor were present. } Brother Horachdk of the Machin- profits of the Miller family. I. and Charles Miller have pursued a vicious SHOE OPERATORS | ple’s Theatre producers, was attacked last season for his audacity in mix- ; Berens. etter recognition from the | ee orl was secured. and |i8ts” Union, and a member of the Al-| Policy against their workers. aay ing films with stage scenery, in Strike for Fired Worker. i ehocauis a 7 aa beh | leghany county board of the Labor] have instituted a policy of wage cuts| stressing revolytionary sentiments ‘dward L. Doty, a plumber, secre- | °V€TY?% y got admission. and worsening of conditions that isJand in outraging convention in set- ig The Arkwright Parker Co., of Warre gaged in a fight to sm: In the Arkwright Mills the bosses have fired some union men, and the union has replied with a strike, af- fecting 475 workers. In Warren, the company shut down their plant and re-opened on Monday | on a non-union basis. The union re-|} plied with a strike and the workers | answered the call 100%. General Strike. The only reply that the workers can give is to call a general strike Textile Workers of New England! | Fellow Workers: | In view of the wage slashing,| | union smashing campaign of the| | bosses for the past three months; in view of the prevailing miser-| | able conditions amongst the tex-| | tile workers of New England; and pia view of the excellent spirit be- jing shown by the workers of Fall! | feaver in resistance to the wage jeut, which the bosses would make! }general, the time has arrived for| | preparation on a district scale for) | }and Lemke, Vern Ave., Long Island | City. ‘y of the plumbers’ union is one of | e leading forces in the new orga: zation. Doty is an experienced tr union worker and has been for y ac in trade union work among gro workers. —J.W.F,AN * Iron Bosses Get Workers’ Money By Insurance (By a Worker Correspondent.) LONG ISLAND CITY, (By mail). — I am an ironworker at Sexauer a RO WORKER, * Iam a union man. This com- pany has issued a proclamation to the | workers in its shop, telling us we} should save for a rainy day, and in- | sure ourselves in the Protective In- come Plan installed by the iron boss- es. We are asked to pay $1 a week | out of our wages to the boss, and in 10 years we will get $500. Clever idea, isn’t it, to tie us down on the job | wand kid us into thinking we are really getting something from the boss. In- | stead of raising the wages of the | workers, so we can make a decent liv- ing and save something, the bosses want us to pay them back $1 a week from our lousy wages, about $36 a week, © In the meantime the bosses will do | The meeting was opened by Brother Rappoport, secretary of the Club, who outlined the situation and the purpose of the meeting. | Calls For Union Control. 3rother Melnick, a member of the! Club was the first speaker who de- clared that in order to remedy the situa.ion the union must undertake an | organization drive and enforce union control om the job with shop-chair- men’s meetings, called by the union. “Our union officials must show that they are willing to do work and the members will give them full sup- port,” Melnick declared. Official Agent “Couldn’t” Talk. Brother Hilfertz, a business agent for the union then when requested to speak stated that he had been “sent up to listen and report” and so was unable to tell his plans for solving | the unemployment situation. Brother Jack Paul, a member of the Brotherhood of Carpenters, spoke in detail about the building trades situa- tion as a whole. When he began to speak there was some opposition from a few members who objected that a carpenter should speak, but as soon as he began to speak everyone sat and listened with attention to his interesting address. He pointed out that the post war }and an active and influential mem- | Party, addressed the meeting. Hora- chek outlined the need for a Labor Party. Brother A. Bowling, a Negro, of the Cleaners’ and Pressers’ Union, ber of several Negro organizations, pledged full support to the Party. Other representatives spoke, and| pledged their support and co-opera-| tion to the Labor Party condemning} the brutalities of the coal and iron police, the courts and the judges who are tools in the hands of the demo- cratic and republican parties. These parties work hand in hand aainst la-| hor to smash the unions and drive down wages to the starvation level. The conference then elected candi- dates for the various offices, to run in the coming primaries on the Labor Party ticket. The Labor Party platform will be printed in leaflets and distributed in a short time. —. about the worst in the entire indus- try. Among one of the I. Miller slick schemes is his company union. The company union has tried to collect dues but had to stop because the workers did not want to pay. It calls no meetings, elects no officials. pays no benefits, gives no strike re- lief, does not believe in collective bar- gaining and, to add insult to injury. jt takes $50 from every member as a deposit for the member’s good be- havior. The company union officials, ap- pointed by Messrs. I. and Charles Miller, are Superintendent Winkle and Co. These company union offi- cials sign agreements with I. Miller and Sons, Inc., which are written by Miller but which are binding on the workers and are signed by our name. The company union’s constitution and agreements are so arranged that only individual workers can make complaints. If any group of workers or any department or section of a PATERSON HOLDS G-HOUR DAY MEET PATERSON, N. J., March 1—The department having a grievance goes to the company union officials or to ‘he bosses they are fired out of the ‘hop and expelled from the “union” vith the loss of their $50. In September 1927, the welt de- vartment requested that the ten per sent wage cut be restored to them. tings. The management of the theatre came to the conclusion that their stage was not primaril, intended to be the vehicle of “propaganda,” but rather to inspire “sentiments of broad humanity and universal brotherhood as preached by known and_ tried dramatists.” Piscator, well-known Communist producer has now rented a theatre of his own in the West End, and the management of the People’s Theatre has informed its members that those who wish to see his pro-| ductions may do so on their ordinary | subscription tickets. This Piscator venture is the most important theatrical event of the coming season. The theatre opened with Ernest Toller’s new play, “Holla, wir leben noch!” (“Hallo, We’re Still Alive!”) for which a number of film interludes are being prepared. Two big political revues are also planned, of which the first bears the title of “Round About the Public Prosecutor.” Attached to the theatre is small stage known as the “Studio,” where after- noon performances of important new works of a revolutionary character will be given. GEORGE ARLISS RUN EXTENDED MARCH 10. Is playing the prima-donna role in “Lovely Lady” the musical play at the Sam H. Harris Theatre. reer New York cast will be seen in these cities!’ In October Arliss will open another season in “The Merchant of Venice,” which will take him to the Pacific Coast. Broadway Briefs — ] Michael Gold, author of “Hoboken Blues,” now playing at the New Playwrights Theatre, will speak on “The Insurgent Theatre in an Insur- gent Age” at the League of Youth of the Community Church tonight. The meeting is held in the Church House, $12 Park Avenue, and is open to the public. “The Last Woman,” a new play, will be presented this evening under at the Four Arts Club at the Pythian Temple. The pregram also includes Senor and Senora Jose Diaz in Ar- gentine tango dances; Mera Abram- off, Lilliam Newman and. Peter Klu- faxes ete eid : boom is over and the building trades The thi ki taken to the| The original six-week engagement i ; ‘a fight for a decent livelihood. We business with our money, and make al : - Wight. Hour. Day Conference will hold e thirty workers were taker f genkamp van Toorn in Dutch. folk have waited too long! The official ppraet on it for themselves. Clever | oo Tacit Oe ie cas a Gee meen at Carpenters’ Hel- office, where they age sonar sa mie het ee ee ee dances and Cecile de Nippell, soprano, leaders of the union movement||Plan——for the bosses. Do you think} Unemployment Faces Whole Trade | votia Hall, 56 Van Houten St., to- talk, One by one, the general chair- in a group of songs. | have failed to act! Now is the time }for action! | All textile workers’ organiza- | | : Iscel unions, factory groups 1 and social clubs and ~-ers political parties are asked | | send delegates to a provisional | | -farence on Sunday, March 11 at | * a. m., at 93 Staniford St., Bos- slegates are requested to come | | (Editor’s Note: The above an- | peal is being sent out by. the | progressive committee of the | textile workers to call the ex- | | ploited New England textile | slayes to the fight against the bosses who are bringing starva- tion te thousands and attempting we ironworkers are fools enough to fall for it? The iron bosses are all | trying to cut wages. They are taking advantage of the unemployment situ- ation to hire non-union workers at wages of $28, $25 a week and less. This Protective Income Plan is a scheme between the iron bosses and the insurance sharks to defraud the workers, - By trying to make the workers be- | lieve they are getting “benefits” from | and Lembke and in all thé ironworks. If the workers fall for this fake in- surance scheme they expose them- selves to any wage cuts the iron bosses want.to.make. For the bosses will have money of the workers in their possession, and will use this fact to keep them down. Iron workers, | “Unemployment is not a painters’ evil only, but an evil which faces every building trades employee,” Paul declared. “It is necessary for us building trades workers to face these problems because we do not intend to go into business as many of our past and present officials do, but we’ll have to stick to our trade by making our living with the hammer and the brush,” He pointed out the corruption building trades to obtain & five day working week. But in order for you painters to haye a five day week it is necessary for all others in the | building trades to have it also,” he | stated. | He concluded with the importance |of having a building trades council, morrow at 8 p. m. The speakers will be Robert W. Dunn of the American Civil Liberties Union; Thos. F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers’ Union; A, J. Muste, director of the Brook- wood Labor College; Henry Berger of the Paterson Typographical Union and James Ratcliffe of the Horizon- tal Warpers’ Union. Fred Hoelscher of the Associated Silk Workers will reside. BAYONNE, N. J., March 1.—Lu- cius Jenkins, a Negro worker at the American Radiator Co. plant here will probably lose his left leg as a result of burns he sustained when shaking out a casting yesterday. Some of the molten metal fell on his man of the company union, who gets a vacation of several weeks with pay, vicked them out from tack-pullers to levellers, and sent them in to be ques- tioned by Charles Miller and “Big Chief” Winkle. Miller told them that because business was good he was going to be big-hearted and give back 7% per cent and only steal 2% per cent for himself. But this time the welt-lasters department has already got back their full 10 per cent, bers. By demanding a better piece of work on every pair of shoes so that the time is doubled on every pair, they bosses have cut wages in half. Only by working long hours can the work- ers make a decent living. They come Broadhurst Theatre has been ex- ‘ended two weeks. Arliss will end his season on Saturday night, March 10, and on the following Monday, he will begin his spring tour in the Shakespeare comedy at the Shubert- Belasco Theatre in Washington. Thc other cities to be visited are Phila- delphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal, Hartford and Boston. Pegzy Wood will continue as Portia and the George M. Cohan has withdrawn from the cast of his production of “The Merry Malones,” at Erlanger’s Theatre, and the part is now being played by Henry E. Dixey. Mr. Cohan entered the cast just before the opening in Boston last August, following the death of Arthur Dea- gon at a dress rchearsal. Artists & Models) COMEDY Thea., 41st St., E. of B'way Evenings 8:30, Mats, Thurs, & Sat. 2:30. “M. ay jg ard early and not delay the tt h fficial: f the buildi . : ¢ St cence. | |the bosses under this fake group in-|2™0ng the offici zane the bui and | , rhe meeting will begin a campaign} The men do not like the “company ff] RAL | BasyA88 AY Fill out enclosed credentials and | | surance proposition, they hope to keep | Utions and appeale ade oe pas against the wage cut program of the | ynion” and many of them do not be-| gy JEON Zeatl + BNC | tretarn ‘to W. T. Murdoch, sec’y.- | | the workers’ minds off their real con- ad celaiont aera aA a wes employers and according to its spon-| ong to it. Since the Workers (Com- j Progressive Committee, Tex- | | ditions, such as long hours, low wages, shaban ected i ») 4 oe ” ‘ she ea sors will raise the slogan: “Not more| munist) Partv has been distributing = ae EV tile Workers, 20 Olneyville Sq.,||single time for overtime, speed up, |2™™' S7n00) ‘0 e86 US, he asserted.| hours, but more wages! The DAILY WORKER in front of the Ryn Pit ouaia (Cukaae SARE Ce | Providence, R, I. | dents, and the iron bosses’ stool oe there Savage ORIG ee ear shop the foremen have been bringing piconet Tues. & Sat. eR 4 | x | pigeons. t : i more pressure on the workers to force 9 i (GH SENSATION! O'Neill’s 4 * = ise IL Bliak te «pine owe fave du. Sexsue importance of helping the other Amputation Feared hen ne become company union mem- Play, Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30, Bernard Shaw’s Comedy = DOCTOR'S DILEMMA ‘Iq Th. W. 524 st. Evs. Guild sists. ‘thurs & Sat. 30 to smash the labor organiza- és ‘ composed of workers, and not as at| left foot. in at five and six in the morning and ae ‘Week of Mar. 5: “Marco Millions” tions.) | don’t fall for this scheme. present of business agents. He also leave at eight, nine and ten at night. Siac’ aE ee ae P., AN IRON. WORKER. |stressed the need of every union I Workers of the I. -Miller shop} AFTS SS** EVGS.SO* ENS folk P oO R G Y in the city. This alone can stop the establishing an unemployment bureau ce Cutter Drowns should join the Associated’ Shoe and Held over by’ opular demand . attack of the bosses and enable the workers to retain their present very meagre wage scale. The progr ve textile workers’ zommittee has issued 20,000 leaflets calling upon the workers to strike using the Arkwright and Parker Mills as a basis. The strike must be Feudalism in U.S. AIKEN, S. C., March 1.—Hundreds |of jackrabbits have been sent to this winter resort of the rich to be killed for the pleasure of the wealthy |“spor‘sman” hunters. They were turned loose in a 6,000-acre private and an unemployment fund. State Demands. During the discussion which fol- lowed Brother Margolis outlined a number of demands: 1, City work un- |der union control; 2. Unemployment fund organized and controlled by representatives from the local unions; LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J., March 1,—John Gurda, 19, was drowned yes- terday .while cutting ice for the Mountain Ice Company on Lake Ho- patcong. He was walking on the ic- towing a scow in an open channel. Slipper Workers’ Union, a progres- sive union, led by bona fide progres- sives, of, for and by the workers Then you will be able to write agree- ments and dictate conditions which will not be in the interests of I. Miller and Sons, Inc. when the ice gave way. —A SHOE WORKER. in new song program Coram & “Jerry”—Ohter Acts Reginald Denny in “On Your Toes” Theatre, West 44th Street, HUDSON Evs. 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat. THE NEW COHAN FARCE Th., W. 42d. E Mats. Wed.&Sa’ DRACU i way, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 FULTON Mats’ Wea.&Sat. 2,30 Republic extended from one mill to all the|}wood for beagle hunts. Not far|2: Division of work; 4. Unemploy- one Ae poe Pre ern , mills, and the issue should be restora-|}from here tens of thousands of| Ment statistics to be kept by th: H Jour Gutawoonnene “BELTER THAN THE BAT” tion of the wage which has been cut, the 44-hour week, and an end to the} ar southern workers, white and Negro, in union; 5. Request that the Distric Council action these demands. ES C A P B “nowcise ERLANGEN’S "et.W.44 Stvas.a0 a condition of slavery in the " Z ai / e Thea., W. 45St. Evs. 8:40 speed-up system. d cotton farms, where |. During the discussion a member o* | Raise x \BOOTH ‘Stats. Wed. & Sat. THE MER R Y MALONES Union Officials Alarmed 288 TOTS Te ee een ea eran Uoeeutte Your Voice ains e ‘\Broadhurst TV4¢S-5yeg301 | with Gkonce a. coman j y thousands of | ¥nem Tai general sae you! jProadhurst mais. "Wed! & Sat. 4 So effective has the agitation been | and so great the pressure of workers on their leaders that the U T. W. (United Textile Workers), has been forced to initiate a real organi- zation campaign and adopt the pro gressive committee’s slogans of a ge eral strike against the wae cuts anc the 44-hour week. “Progressive” React’onar'es. Horace Reviere, who lays claim to in the mills Farmers Lose March 1.—Mid-west 3 finding that instead of profit from their hogs this y ng money because ump in hog. prices. |< country specially gret‘ed by the workers present were: 1. No eviction for un- employed workers; workers shall not pay rent when they are unemployed; 2. Government insurance for the un- employed. The speal a Labor demands. also stressed the neec xty which could realiz d to feed a great deal Officers of the Club stated that th Other demands of his which wer: | | | } | RUTHE Marines in Nicaragua Gunboats in China Five Billion Dollars for the Navy A New World War in the Making NBERG crouse AR LISS in THE MERCHANT OF V7NICE is i ‘Theatre, 41 St. W. of 5’ wa: National Ds eae. Mte Wea eee rae “The Trial of Mary Dugan” Ry Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman the se afs ata cle cfs ofe ofn ety ala oe ode of MUSIC AND CONWERTS AMERICAN OPERA COMPANY ist N. Y. SEASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH. SALLO THEA, Evgs. 8:20. Mats, 2) 54th, W. of Bway. PHONE COL. inao, MARTHA, Tues,, Wed., Fri., Sat. Evgs., BPAUST. Thurs. Evg. & Wed, & Sat. ARMEN, ~ all the fighting blood in oe iS T. uid 495 cent com to hogs that sell} nex ing will be. held nex! | said at a mass meeting nizht | at only $7 to $8. ! Wednesday in the hall. } ;\ Bt fio U. 2. W. te the orly prozres fied Dn “Wednesday in esame sks |) 6 MEMORIAL MEETING It’s a Circus! sive union in the textile industry. H NEGRO WORKER INJURED HK ; : on the workers to join on] BAYONNE, N. J.. Me | Ah your finances, throw Tho word “progressive” has su7-| «, sustained a fractured 8) and ies ela a: cL a Leet aay Die be aaa r ‘SS -) n s , sus ra re A Aarts become nopular with the of | nternal injurics when he fell from a J. Moreh, 3. ; maul code wo ee ee *\¥dom bnt. the wor'ers will wat-h | >uilding he was helping to dem here are at the Sund M h 1 1 Doors Open the Ne hag id wen tee tion of these sudden “convert: terday in the plant of the Ti It of be? Ww ay, are 9 At1IP.M. i Conic’ arena Theatre at t+~-five thoucend workers 7 - +o strike. When will the ca! toored? - —-W., A TEXTILE WORKER. Ambulance Chasing er Oil Co. here. The hous cker was using a crowbar to p aboard on the roof of the ructure when he lost his balance ind fell. 55 HOUR WEEK IN SOUTH. COLUMBUS, Ga., March 1 (F?).— _ MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 1. —|/At least $4,000,000 worth of mill struck ) at work Alphons 34, a laboroy *t | the Erie Railroad, is not exnectid t live, after having had both lers ev! off when a struck Tuesday. Michael 1 tender in the Penns yards, lost his left lez when an engine Monday and his conditi Loeorr ot | CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE | 67th Street and Third Avenue —. Spea. WILLIAM Z, FOSTER hers: BERTRAM D. WOLFE (Call Walker 5851.) You can get a 10% reaue- tion on tickets for all performances at. the local Daily Worker office, 108 East 14th Street. . (Cali Stuyvesant 6584.) There’s music, song and dance— and even peanuts and lollypops © the direction of Miss Lillian Browne j é a | (it’s a circus) in this play that ev- ery worker will enjoy. Get tickets today for Disbarmens proceedings against three | construction is going on or will b WILLIAM W. WEINSTONE ‘awyers here have been recommended | goon in Alabama and Georgia. This as a result of an investigation by|includes enlargements to cot or three circuit court judges of am-/mills as well as establishment of new yulance chasing. The three lawyers, | mill Most of the cotton textile} War to the United States govern mons Cannon, attorney for Jack mills of Alabama and Georgia are nt from April 6, 1917, to June o¢ P' is critical. | THE COST OF THE WAR. “The total money cost of the Worl Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Dramatic Features Auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, 108 E. 14th Street, ADMISSION 25 CENTS. sey, Julius Kiefer and Louis|returning now to 55-aour week 7, was $47,957,272,233; while th , are charged with having |schedules after a period of severa!| net war cost was $5,119.622,144 taken fees as high as 70 per cent of weeks curtailment to 40 and 50 hours| Annual report of Secretary Me. the awards given injured workers. per week. 1927,