The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1928, Page 4

A f i (pePRS IS cal Page Four ~HE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928 SOCIALISTS SUPPRESS CRITICISM AT MEETING OF NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED USE OCCASION FOR ATTACK ON WORKERS PARTY Unemployed Council (By « Worker Correspondent.) Recently an unemployed meeting} was held at the Jewish Forward| Hall. As an unemployed represen- tative of the Unemployed Conmiti T went there to~Tistenm Tne enair- man announced Norman Thomas as the first speaker. He spoke minutes during which time he not mi a word about the ec did ition struggle. Then Claessens took the platform While he a photo. grapher People were sc door. row Out } Members of | for ten| 1] | | | ° bh i Cla to the unemy “It’s very | bad to run to the We're not like the Co They start a fire, the When Claessens was thru spe ing, Harry Mey was annou aA He statec that when ‘Theodore! Dreiser come back to this country, he | Said there were no bread lines in Europe. Silver, of the Unemployed Council, s. aid to Meyers, “Why don’t yau mention the Soviet Union? Three strong arm guys came up to the baleony and threw Silver out of the hall. Isidore Korn was the next speaker. He claimed he had never heard of the Unemployed Council before. valled him a liar. Then he shoute from the platform, “Throw him, out. 1{i c | whi an anti-strike in- “| ae on’t you move into the barracks?” d , ‘lee}Then my wife told him about the union} baby. So he asked how much rent mead { Garman coven || MINER TELLS OF on Wage Slashes'| HARD STRUGGLE IN PENNSYLVANIA | | i (By a Worker Correspondent.) | For 5 weeks I, with the other |workers of the Garman Iron| |Works, 59 Davis Street, Long| | lIsland’ City, have been out on} Serre i {strike against the attempt of the! |Knows of Lewis Bribe |} | Garman co » force non-union} | Treachery | |conditions on us. | gaa || There were 25 or all} | (By a Worker Correspondent.) Hoy pene ey he ar il AVELLA, PA. (By Mail),—My jtural Iron and Bronze Workers'| | wife has been reading the DAILY | | Union in this shop. | We were ge] | WORKER most every day. We get ting 88 to $40 aw a ‘king | i l44 hours. Then Garman started| |i¢. from Phillippi and “god” only knows how much we would like the | paper but now we have not the price | of the paper on account of the strike It’s not only since April that we’ve been on strike, but since March 6, | 1925, we only worked eight months | here and out we went again. | My conditions are very | | a «oupie of union day, and bring in He paid these $8 , and made them Garman fired 15 non-union 1 bad at ana awe hee n out} | Present. Before Christmas we wrote ane this shop |to Mr. Lewis, (may the devil take ‘ |him), asking him for help for the j house rent. My wife had a baby in —~$ | Wes t Virginia. Nine days after we | moved into the barracks here my nage two doctors and eal been sick every day since. No money to pay the doctor, no rent. Lewis answered, “Go to Mr. Fa- jgan.” All right, my wife went. And the answer she got was “How does happen that you have a private house?” My wife told him that we in the|couldn’t get a company house. “How rt seek-|mnch r do you pay?” he asked. five dollars besides lights .” Then he said “Well, why Court of St. ve owed. My wife said four months. Packer: Iron“Co. Fires 30; Whole “Shop Tied Up (By @ Worker Cerrespondent) Team an ironworker at «acker Tronworks, located at 551 Rocka- way Avenue, Brooklyn. I am a member of the Architectural Iron and Bronze Workers’ Union. There are about 45 workers employed there normally. About two weeks ago the boss started to fire the union workers in the shop, who were getting $38 and $40 a week. He began to bring in non-union workers at $28, $27, anything that he could get away with. He fired 80 union men out of the 45, and tried to make the rest of us accept the wages he was giving the non-union men. But we all struck a few days ago, and we will stay out on strike until we win union condi- tions. This Packer Company treated the union agreement as a j Scrap of paper. —A STRIKER. BOSS GETS TASTE OF WORKERS’ LIFE PASSAIC, N. J., Mar. 4.—Being a mill worker has its drawbacks, is} the probable conclusion arrived at by Ainsworth Hird, president of! amuel Hird and Sons, woolen and worsted goods manufacturing com-| pany of this city, and also president | of the Passaic Rotary Club. While visiting his plant last week in a semi-annual demonstration of his ‘democratic leanings,” which con- Three strong arm guys were stand-| the Supreme Court | Then he said, “We'll see after Christ-| sists of operating one of the ma ing in the aisle where I was sitting | the of the | nas.” Now we think he meant after|chines for a short period, Hird| but the unemployed workers were|St- Louis Federal © act in the 1929. | caught his hand in the unguarded | with me. ituation, due to the fact that the} We've always been against Lewis] mechanism, resulting in a very pain-| Then Harry yers jumped down| company is owned entirely by Mi and we know also about the bribe he | ful injury to his hand. and took me over to the platform.|ourians. The firm sw sie noo from ae coal company a ie ips began to sp avian the. Work. state court on the .grounds that}coke region because we read the a Party nik Stine oe x an has eane tthe Gagorations had a Delaware] paper which Carl Tresca publishes, Workers Not Sad Over te the City Hall. He said that the| charter. What is Lewis doing for the min- 3 workers should get their is! ‘The case grew out of an organiza-|ers? Well, by jiminy, he is feeding] Death of Silk Boss clubbed to bring the Soci led by us lots of hot air. Trae ian, No use to bore you more with my PASSAIC, N. J., Mar. 4:—All aa Ask United Front. : g|story and hardships and my two| rations will be suspended in the Then I spoke. I proved that he was which a dr vi ratchet a babies, both gone. If it wasn’t for Botany and Garfield Mills here on a liar and that w ewere against the | tained parade. was since I asked Meyers how long it he was attacking Forrest Bailey and Norman Thomas in the columns of the DAILY WORKER and showed how now he is going hand in hard with them. Then I said to Meyers, “Why build an op- position when there an Unem- ployed Council in existence?” I asked him why he did not unite with us, adding that we were calling an Unemployed Meeting at Webster Hall on Mar. 17, which would be attended by trade unionists. When I Said he d not ar working s and move- ment know what the tand for—misleaders of the v HENRY BLOOM, Unemployed C: uncil firm a month after the|my wife who is such a determined {person and is trying to keep our eourage up, father’s and mine, with her own courage, I don’t know but {I might ha gone to work. After y th was.called. Monday for a five minute period of silence.in.observance, of the.death of Eduard Stoehr, chief stockholder, who died at his home in Germany late last week. strike Prisoner Killed nye years t) BALTIMORE, Mar. 4.—John -W, eure year . gee ee Bea A press release issued by the mills Roles, 23, a convict, was crushed to more battle. states that many workers will re- death in a tumbling machine at) I am‘a‘citizen and would like tc all the “happy chats and observa- work in the prison here. His cloth-| soi. the » Workers (Communist) | 98S” With Mr. Stoehr when the boss | ing became caught in the unguarded yas on his annual inspection trips, were the most vicious in their fight against the organization efforts | made by the textile workers in the| Engine Kills Worker | Coal Crushes Miner John | ee tL March 4 SECAUCUS, N. J HILLSBORO, Il, Mar. 4—John |oreat P; : 2 |Hird, a worker on the Erie Railroad, | Maninfior, 46, the eather af (hive BER paneer tattle, sibike of 1926. | was ‘instantly killed when struck by| children, was’ crushed to death be. tines an engiye in the Brie yards here. {neath a fall of coal at the Hillsboro Militarism in School | He had worked on- | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Mar. 4.—| mine last week. | Young Cor Young Cont iedis aCatet | ar| \ly a few minutes when the accident Ramer The army is planning to establish an| “air academy” here on a large tract of land donated by the city for the aviation school, as part of a cam- paign to militarize the traditions of ||Aged Woman Homeless = — Mrs. Sarah Hanser, 78 years old,|American youth. Students from col- What Education We Get. y in school our principal gz us about America. He . never goes to I know that lie. If any country tries to people America sends her 2 she did to Soviet Russia China, Nicaragua and Mexico. They think that the children don’t know anything. They tell us lies and try to make us believe them. De you see dear comrades, what education we get in the school -—FRA told us that the U. war with any country. a it is 2S GEDVILES. A WORKINGMAN’S PRAYER. By Alex Bardos. (Translated from Hungarian) God in heaven, Who sits on the heavenly throne Open your ears, Listen to what I have to say. I. Thou are the omnipotent, ey are the omniscient ju knowest I am not a sinner, And yet you punish me. Til, Tn the factory I work like an animal, From morning till night I slave, T have nothing to feed my children, But your servants are raising larger stomachs. Tv. The bosses have cut our wages, Your servants say: endure, The bosses want to do you good And God will help you. y's We endured, we suffered, till our life is a misery, In spite our prayers we get no help, * Please tell us God almighty, How long have we got to wait. VL Tt seems to me that the ministers, Are not your ministers, but the bosses. They keep them to deceive us, And keep us from revolting. vil. They thought up heaven and hell, ee. machine and altho chis companions Higenge my mistakes because Tar Iso: pointing out that these de- ishers and No. 1 John sae Dae ried to extricate him, he was pro- trying hard to fight down my memo- | Hoctatic ways found great favor) gistered as rough framing there: ore nounced dead when taken to the |ries and emotion. f among his employees. jnot capable for the ahs then, Me 2 prison hospital. | D.M., A STRIKING MINER Most workers recall that the| Jone ve Nee ww. pape cart Botany and Garfield mill owners) !8™& 2m eae sae oes = HAS HONEST PLAN FOR UNEMPLOYED Union Business ‘Agents Give Favorites Jobs (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHETER, Pa. (By Mail).—Be- cause of the increasing unemploy- ment in the trade unions of Chester and what is considered to be the un- fair awarding of jobs by the Busi- ness Agents of the unions, one bro- ther has submitted the following plan for the approval of the leaders |}and membership. | The plan does not at all meet the |approval of the officials. There has ‘been a discussion of it but no official action has been taken as yet. There jis a possibility that there may be a |fight on it or that it may die a na- tural death. The following is the plan: | RULES GOVERNING BOARD |The following rules must be posted on the board at all times. (1) Each member shall report to the Business Agent or person in charge of the board as to his ability | and where working last in order to} become eligible for a job. : (2) Every man must report in person as soon as possible after get- |ting out of work when his name shall | |be registered at the bottom of the} list in the order of reporting at the board. (3) Where a call comes in for a certain man or men by “name,” for a job it is the duty of the person in |charge to send out that man or men |if they are not working and can jeasily be got in touch with no mat- ter what their position on the board. (4) When a call comes in for men {wanted at once it is the duty of the Business Agent or person in charge |to send out the men who are in the \hall at the time the call comes and) |who are capable of the job accord- jing to the position of their names on the board. And if the required num- ber of men are not in the hall then those with whom he ean get touch with most conveniently in the order of their registration on the board. (5) Every man registered on the board shall report at 4 P.M. every day at which time it shall be the duty of the Business Agent or person in charge to make known all calls for men wanted on the following day or days and send out the men accord- ing to their position on the board. amely, a call comes in for two fin- the next man on the list, listed as aj} finisher would be the two men sent; out) and their names would be stricken from the board until such} |time as they report out of work | again, therefore the necessity of the men being registered as to their ability. (6) Every man failing to. report at the board at 4 P.M. forfeits his} right to any job which might be given out that day to the man next below him on the list and if the man fails to report for three successive was found wandering in the streets in the Bath Beach section of Brook- lyn early yesterday. She said she had ro home or family and had eaten practically no food for several days. She was taken to Kings County Hos- pital. i And that rot they want us to believe, They have their heaven here, But now we want our share. Vill. I believe in thee no more Lord, Because the rich have made thee too, From now on Ill fight thee will days he shall, be considered working and his name shall be striken from the board until such time as he re- ports out of work again when. his name shall be placed on the board at the bottom of the list again. (7) If a man gets a job himself while his name is on the board it is leges will be asked to take a year’s training to qualify as pilots in. the regular army ¢or reserve corps. Aviation courses thruout the south, as well as the rest of the country, be introduced in the public schools, if plans of the army go thru. PRRERAAPREREY, ee red love PRRR A. psychological study of sex-rela- tions in the post- war period, by Mme. Kollontay. meer A love-story with a new, reju- venated world as a background. And make a heaven here. COME ON! By ELIZABETH JACKSON. Come on eve Young Comrade Corner needs news, Stories, puzzles, poems and views; Write them now and no time lose. Come on Pioneers! I know all of you can write, Gather news with all your might. Send it in both day and night. Come on boys and girls! Really I’m surprised at you. I know all that you can do. Write and show that you are true. Come on comrades! Write it now and don’t be slow, Always be “right on the go.” Send it—show how much you know. LRARARARERARRRARARE RU AAREAARAARRE NEANEARBRMABR ARERR ARRERERRRARRRARE | coarse nnntnnin nP POR DDARR RPUR 500 Window Cleaners Strike in Chicago CHICAGO, Mar. 4.-Five hundred window washers, organized as the Building Service Employes’ Loca! Union No. 34, with Charles F. Wills | as president, have been on strike here for more than a month for higher | wages and shorter hours. They are demanding a wage of SR $160 a month and a 44-hour week. mere They have been working nine anc | ten hours a day, Seven days a weel Special from $2.50 to jin some instances, and receiving $136 $1.00 /a month, bs A few individual owners of build- mer ings. have signed the new wagi scale, but the Building Managers Workers Liprary Pus- Association, of which Earl Schultz is the president, in control of many of the large downtown office buildings, is resisting the demands of the ) union. LIsHERS, 39 East 125th St. New York City. anntainiiaminntamianaans: A vorvie AGainst:— Your Voice ; Marines in Nicaragua Gunboats in China Five Billion Dollars for the Navy A New World War in the Making RUTHENBERG MEMORIAL MEETING Honor the Memory of C. E. Ruthenberg who went to jail fighting against the last World War Doors Open 9 At1P.M. CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and Third Avenue Speakers: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER BERTRAM D. WOLFE WILLIAM-W. WEINSTONE Sunday, March 11 ‘Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Dramatic Features ‘CHESTER WORKER’ Auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, 108 E. 14th Street. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. ‘Cheating the Camera An Art With German Film Producers German film producers are consid- ering cheaper methods of making cos- tumes, particularly in historical films. The expense of brocade for elaborate scenes has hitherto been necessary be- cause of the terrible truthfulness of the photographic lens. But the camera appears to have been deceived at last by a method now being employed by the director of the big German film, “Luther, who is using the cheapest materials | for everybody throughout the whole picture. Plain nettle-cloth, treated in a certain way, with patterns, folds, lace, and ‘all ornamentation desired, painted on its surface, will photo- graph in the same way as heavy bro- cade. Ordinary sateen may be made to look like the finest satin. In “Strange Interlude,”* Eugene O’Neill’s impressive play, at the John Two processes are involved in the |Golden Theatre. treatment—the broad strokes of a i glorified house-painter and decorator, | who saturates the material, and that of the artist, who paints in his pat- 6. The principal roles will be taken tern on the prepared surface. In the |by Michio Itow, Martha Graham, Al- German “Faust” film, and in one °Y bert Carroll, Lily Lubell, J. Blake two figures in “Metropolis,” the same | Scott, Jacques Cartier, Leo Bulgakov method was used, though the boldness | aq Blanche Talmud. of Professor Rainer, the present pio- neer of the method, is as yet without precedent, ——_———————— Manhattan Opera House May 4, 5 and ERNEST BLOCH’S “ISRAEL” NOW IN REHEARSAL BROADWAY “Gossips of 1928,” a junior musical We : |comedy unit, with Billy Dale and cast Bloch’s symphony which the Neigh- |including: Billy Hibbitt, Marie Hart- Rehearsals of “Israel,” Ernest borhood Playhouse will give early in | man; Six California Peaches with Al May, has been arranged for the stage Buttes; Ward Brothers; Alice May by Trene Lewisohn and Nikolai Sok- | foward and Sophie Bennett; Marjorie oloff, are now under way at the thea- | Moore’s Ten June Buds; and Ray tre on Grand Street. The perform- | powell, Con O’Brien, Marty Gibbons ances, in conjunction with the Cleve- | jand Fred Kuhlman, Feature photo- his duty to report same and: where working to the person in charge of the board so his name may be taken off the board and record kept. (8) Every member making a mis- statement as to their ability or re- porting on board before getting out of work will subject themselves to a fine of ( ) to be paid ). ( (9) In the ease of the Business Agent or person in charge violating any of the foregoing rules in the registering of men or awarding jobs he shall subject himself to a fine of ( ) to be paid ( —S. A WORKER. land Orchestra, will be given at the i play “The Cohens and Kellys in Paris,” with George Sidney, J. Far- rell MacDonald, Vera Gordon and Kate Price. Added attraction, Jack Delaney vs. Tom Heeney fight pic- tures. PALACE Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough, comedy stars, last seen in “The Ram- blers,” in “The Interview”; Will Fyffe, Scotch comedian; Donald Brian assisted by Harry DeCosta; Adela Verne, pianist; Solly Ward and Com- pany, with Marion Murray; Honor- able Wu and his revue, “Chinese Nights”; Mickey Lewis and Jimmy ). Winthrop; Speed Manning and Alotta |Class; Luca and Lillian. Eves. 8:30. Mala Winter Garden ®v2%;,.°*20: 42 WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists § Models nn + + +--+, WINTHROP AMES present» JOH’. GaLSWORTHY’'S | E S Cc A yp E SE tod } BOOTH Thea., W.. "st Seg a 40} Mats. Wed. & Sat. Broadhurst 12-44 St-Bys.8:30 | LAST WEEK Mats. Wed. & Sat. cronce ARLISS in THE MERCHANT OF V2NICBE eee ——y Thentre, West 44th Street. HUDSON fivs.'s:30, Mats Wea Sat THE NEW COHAN FARCE _WHISPERING FRIENDS Mtoe Wed. aba 2:30 |The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman 1S Then. W.44 St.Evs.8.30 ERLANGER'’S Then.W-44 St. & Sat. GEORGE M. COHAN’S "HE MERRY MALONES — The Theatre Guild presents — ONC eas"? Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions s1q Th., W. 52d St. Bys. 8:30 Guild yrats. thurs & Sat, 2:30 Extra Matinee Wednesday Week of March 12: “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY Th., W. 42d. Evs. Republic ysis Wea&Sac, RACulA Bway, 46 St. Evs, Mats. Wed. &Sat, 3.1 Bt ‘DR. “BETTER THAN THE BAT” Thea., *" HARRIS fie Ea nian 380, Mats. Wed. & S: ibd LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson. she che ote ete oe cece cet ee ce cece eo ce cet ee ce oe ce It’s a Circus! A Bene your finances, throw dull care to the winds—take the whole family to see the circus in “Hobokea Blues.” A delightful new musical comedy by Michael Gold at the New Playwrights Theatre at 40 Commerce St. (Call Walker 5851.) You can get a 10% redue- tion on tickets for all performances at the local Daily Worker office, 108 East 14th Street. (Call Stuyvesant 6584.) There’s music, song and dance— and even peanuts and lollypops (it’s a circus) in this play that ev- ery worker will enjoy. Get tickets today for Hoboken Blues FFEEE TEEPE PETES EE EE EEE EPP EE = ]