The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928 Army Correspondent Charges 20 Percent Sick at Fo FOOD ROTTEN AND BARRACKS SIEVES AT ISLAND CAMP Soldiers Are Ragged Slaves in a Jail Dear Friends: “Casual” didn’t leave much unsaid in his letter about } appeared in The DAILY but I think I can which make the me “How are we going to like this for three Already 20 Per cent Sick. We are here only ready 20 per c are sick from food. In the m up (5:30) they give us fore we get black water, whieh nobody give us some days old, and about 90 per cent of u don’t touch the meals but are eating just jello and bread, After 1 o’clock they give us odd jobs and we are working about three hour y hard, painting the barracks, cle windows, etc, The 3rd Company lives in barracks all of wood, so old th é thru the wood like be two open fingers. The ground in front of the 8rd Co. barracks is co d with man- ure’over the new gr so that it helps convince the soldi that they are living in a stabl Besides the bad smell it is so di the men can- not even walk in front of their bar- racks. WORKER, some facts ch other: le to live Guard House Slaves. In the guard house the r¢ ate working harder than slaves two hundred years ago. The food they are given is even worse than what | the other soldiers get, not fit for] dogs. Their clothes are in rags and | their bodies exposed to the cold. | The whole island is more like a} prison than like a camp, with guards | stationed everywhere lest some of the “prisoners” escape. There is a cath- | olie church on the island, and every | soldier must go there on Sunday | mornings, according to officers’ or-| ders. At the theatre every Wednes- | day they play all the militaristic | songs to make the soldiers more | against the workers, and have the/ nerve to charge us 30 cents to get in. | Another “Casual.” | Fort Slocum, N. Y. ikexican Worker | Killed in Cave-in (By a Worker Correspondent.) Lue ANGLES (By mail)—A seore o fmen were diggir conduit and had reached a depth of 15 fee when the wooden guards on either side collapsed and trapped three of | the workers. This was at Eagle Rock, Calif. One man, identity unknéwn, is dead, and Harry Gomez and Rafael Verigon were dug out in time to save their lives. E eated, both men v inhalator. Gomez suffered | tured right leg. All three men are Mexicans. isoners How much damage would Secre-| 7 tary of State Kellogg demand from the Mexican government if Amer- ieans were killed and se sly hurt on account of carelessn or worse, belo wthe Rio Grande? there will be a pauper’s grave for one worker and endless misery for the two who are alive, which is about B all that Mexican migratory workers | can expec to get out of Coolidge “prosperit if L. P. RINDAL. Raise Your Voice Marines i Five Billi RUTHE Honor the Memory of ; Spea WILLIAMZ. FOSTER ~ WILLIAM W. JACK STACH ‘ort Slocum which |} In this case | 5 Against:— Gunboats in China A New World War in the Making MEMORIAL MEETING went to jail fighting against the last World War Sunday, March 11, YiRAL GCPERA HOUSE 67th Street and Third Avenue Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party, 108 E. 14th Street. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Jobless, Had to Join Up; Sails | for Hawaii Hell To DAILY WORKER: I have worked in the mines of West Virginia all my life, until recently I found myself out of a job, another ) victim of the “new machinery” which | is replacing thousands of men at coal | digging. Not being experienced at| any other kind of work, altho I am 32} s of age, after months of looking | a job in vain it was either the| army or the river for me—so that’s | why I’m in. | Altho I am sailing tomorrow for | Chateau Thierry, I ua few words before didn’t out her e than can be d s in our barr: rta e letter about Fort Slocum exaggerate DAILY WORKE well as > letter addressed to ‘ ual” dis- buted by five girls out here. Since have been forced into the army in the same way, by unemploy- | that many of ment, you can be s us will take the advice contained in } most of nd continue to fight for | and for the inter- | » in whatever Wall we go to. As for myself, uniform or no uni- form,°I can promise I will not forget where I came from, or what I am go- | ing back to when my three years are up. After all the miners have had a little experience with the U, S. army (and there are quite a few of us here) and you can be sure we will do our best to prevent the bosses from using jus for the same kind of dirty work in Hawaii. “Coal Miner.” Fort Slocum inders of” De THE DAILY WORKER Contributions Collected by DAILY} WORKER Agent of Nucleus 30,| H. G. Seghoian, Los Angeles: H. Badoi . 5 M. Arutoonian G. Ovikian .. 25 H. Kevorkian 1.00 J. Toroian ... 50| A. Edikarian F. Alxanian . . Ogannerian .. oghigina ... jian . 50 5 . Abajian .. . Hagopian FROES: 5:4 . Andikain . . A. Aruthoonian . . Mgrdichian E . Danelian . . Barsegian . Ashanian ... . Doloff ... Minarian . J. Magarian . M. Zakarian . |S. Eranosian |T, Ananian .. B. Arutian .. H. Mirzoian ... Rs n |M. Medrichian ... in Nicaragua on Dollars for the Navy NBERG C,. E, Ruthenberg who Doors Open At 1 P. M. hers: BERTRAM D. WOLFE WEINSTONE EL, Chairman, Dramatic Features | bigger aircraft SARATOGA PROVES WHY GOVT. WANTS, NICARAGUA CANAL Giant Carrier Just Clears Locks Editor, DAILY WORKER: On our recent trip from the Phila- delphia Navy Yard to San Pedro, the S. S. Saratoga had a close shave |coming thru the Panama Canal, and when passing thru the Gatun locks cleared with only four inches to spare on each side, and with the auxiliary apparatus on the huge aircraft car- rier scraping off several inches of cement along the top of the canal walls. Which shows that the gov- {ernment has more than one “reason” ~ | for its attempt to conquer Nicaragua and crush any attempts by the Nica- raguan people for independence, for they will need a bigger canal for the earriers they plan to build for the coming war in the Pa- cifie. There are 2,000 hands on board and just before we started. out for duty with the West fleet, nine airplanes and 25 airplanes pilots were with the personnel. It is expected that the “Sarah” will start training at San Diego early in the summer for the battle exercises due to be held later in the season around the Canal Zone. The aircraft carriers Lexington and Langley, with a division of destroyers plus sixteen squadrons of fighting, bombing, tor- pedo and scouting planes will alsc take part in these war practices. —“SEAMAN.” Ask Openshoppers Ads for Union Program (By a Worker Correspondent.) I am a member of Commercial ; Checkers’ Union, Local 874. We are affiliated with the International Longshoremen’s Association. Our | union is going to give a ball, and | they have written to all of the em- | ployers, asking them to advertise in | the souvenir’program the union will print for the dance. They have writ- ten to some of the worst open shop irms in the city. I am wondering if + is right for the union to ask these | with an ad in the souvenir program Met Brutality With Courage; Is Put in Jail As a “hillbilly” I used to serve the “big interests” in enslavement before I served them as a soldier. I was not a wage-slave as I have been since the world has been “saved for democra- bondage by means of mortgages, rents, interests and high prices. Recruits in War. My first day in the army was enough to prove to me that recruits at least were not free. I had ar- rived at Camp Funston early in the morning (in 1918) and after being cursed and driven and “put thru the mill” and moving on still under strict discipline for “mess” and “bunk,” we were halted for a few minutes while a priest presented us with the real meaning of “full surrender” and “de- votion to the cause.” In the morning there was a call for volunteers »to typewrite, clean har- ness, clean guns, ete, I answered the eall to clean harness. I must have made good there, I stayed on the job over a week. As a result I was a week behind the other recruits’ in drill. Officers Right or Wrong. Then I was put on the pivot of the | squad without any instruction what- soever, “Squads right” and “squads left” were terms I had never heard before. The drill sergeant immediate- ly got angry when I got lost, without as much as asking “why.” When I got lost again he got more angry and thundered a little louder: “Hold that pivot there!” When I got lost the third time he was right at the place where I failed to hold the pivot, and shaking his fist in my face, he added to his other remarks: “I’m talking to you! You!” In re- sponse to which I removed his clench- ed fist with another and retorted: “Keep your damn fist out of my face! ; I hear you!” Taken to Headquarters. The sergeant was too yellow to fight, and since a buck private is not 'supposed to have the right to cuss his superior officers I was taken into cus- |tody and questioned by the “higher- jups.” The questions asked me were ‘answered correctly. The reason I did ou open shop firms to “come across”|not respond correctly to squads right | was-admitted as a just one.. I was | book. Checkers are employed at all| patted on the back as “one who would 0 docks handling cargo. The union has|™ake good,” and thert asked, in a sit- | asked all the firms whose goods we) vation where an officer might be en- handle to “eome across” with an ad. — . Mcheterion ... TOTAL COLLECTED 225 . Markarian 25 . Ogonnerian . 50 gishan .. 1.00 . Kazarian . 1.00 . Sogoian .. 1.50 . Sogoian . G. Sogoian 8.00|in the American army. $26.25 | tirely wrong: “What would I do?” When I answered that I would not ‘take his insults and stupidity with- lout answering him correctly, the |“come to Jesus” attitude .of the of- |ficers immediately, changed, and I | was dispatched to the guard house. Such was my first lesson in the re- 1.50 lation between officers and privates Tt was also [my first lesson in class consciousness. “War Veteran.” cy,” but a farmer who was held in| |The DAILY WORKER, telling how CALLS SEAMEN’S INSTITUTE SCAB RECRUITING POST Machine Guns in Sky Pilot Nest (By a Worker Comssnondent) I have seen several articles in the Workers’ Correspondence Page of rotten the Seamen’s Church Institute, 25 South St. is. There is one thing I want you and all workers to know. The Seamen’s Institute is a scab agency. In the employment depart- ment there they are now hiring scabs for a subway strike. Where do these scabs come from? There are more than 10,000 unem- ployed seamen and dockers walking along South St., West St. and Erie Basin, Brooklyn. They are starving and most of them have no homes. Some of them are willing to scab, but. many of them refuse. But the Sea- men’s Institute does not tell the workers being hired that they are} going to be used as scabs. I tell you, this Seamen’s Institute is one of the worst scab nests in New York. Scabs are hired there to break any strike. The big corporations con- tribute to this Seamen’s Institute for that purpose. This institute is sup- posed to be a charitable organization to help the seamen, but that claim is a lie. Just try to get something for nothing there. The guards will beat you to a pulp. Every guard is well armed. Why, the seamen say there are machine guns hidden in this building. I think this is a regular arsenal, for use in case the hungry and jobless seamen start something to get food. Workers of New York, the Seamen’s Institute is one of your worse enemies. —T. BURNS. * * s Jail, Drive Out Pueblo Unemployed (By a Worker Correspondent.) — PUEBLO, Colo., (By Mail) —It is the policy of the trade union official- dom not to try to organize the un- organized workers or the unemployed workers. If we expect to accomplish anything, we must start to organize the workers ‘into mass industrial or- ganizations under Communist contro]. The organizers and officers of trade unions should put in all their time in union work and should not receive more than the average wage in industry. iS Warren ‘Textile Workers Force | Mills to Close (By a Worker Correspondent.) FALL RIVER, Mass., (By Mail). —The Parker Co. mill in Warren announced last night that the plant would be shut down for one week. This is illustrative of the real situation inside the mill. De- spite the superintendent’s state- ments to the contrary, the mill could not be kept on a running basis against the striking solidar- ity of the workers. The Arkwright Co. of Fall River also makes an announce- ment that their plant will be closed down indefinitely. The fact that these two concerns have been forced to close down makes it all the more imperative that the pro- gressive textile workers’ policy of general strike be adopted. Other- wise the other plants in the city will complete the orders for the two companies while their two fac- tories are closed. The time has come when the workers of New England must learn that their old established custom of local striftes is obsolete against the widely distributed manufacturers. Organization for a general strike must be the order of the day at the Provisional Con- ference to be held on Sunday in Boston. Denver Workers Raise Funds for “Daily” (By a Worker Correspondent.) DENVER, Colo. (By Mail).—A dance was recently given here for the benefit of The DAILY WORK- ER at the International Labor De- fense Hall. ment Owing to the manage- of our HL U. Z. Amalgamated Pact Negotiations Soon ROCHESTER, March 9,—Formal negotiations for the renewal of the agreement between the manufactur- ers’ association and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union are expect- ed to begin next week, it was learned. It is .believed that Sydney Hillman will come here to conduct negotiations for the union. The agreement now in force expires on May 1. — DAILY WORKER agent, Zooner, things went very suc- cessfully and a tidy sum was real- ized for the defense of our Party press. rt Slocum, New York BLOODY VOMIT IS HUDSON FLUID'S EFFECT ONGRLS Company Fires Every Sick Employe DETROIT, (By Mail).—I want to tell you some of the conditions in |Dep’t. 825 of the Hudson Factory and I hope you will expose them. In this department the girls have to use a certain fluid that they clean the glue off the cardboard panels with, That fluid has a smell like ether, and jit makes them vomit so hard that |they vomit blood, and some of them faint and have to be carried out. Mr. Miller, the superintendent, came through and said that there was no smell at all, the girls just imagined it. When the forelady got sick and had to stay home it was a different matter. Then they had 2 ventilators put in, but it don’t mean anything. If the girls got together and walked out they would quit us- ing it. They did not use it before. In Dept. 810 the percentage on the avork has been so small that where the girls used to make $30 and $82 a week, now we only make $24 and $23, and we turn out twice as much work. If any girl gets sick and dares to stay out even one day, she is fired the very next day. That is, unless she happens to be one of the forelady’s pets—then it’s a different matter. Our new head forelady, Ann Mar- tin, is a regular tyrant for work. She cnly has to look at the girls and they work like the devil so that they won’t get laid off. But it doesn’t make any difference, for the slightest ex- cuse they fire you. You work like the dickens and don’t know what for. They promise you a big percentage. When pay day comes around we get 170 and 165 percent and we turn out so much work that when we get home we're too tired and sick to eat. After smelling and breathing that poison- cus fluid the girls find it impossible to eat. They do nothing but vomit. When you do that they tell you to drink buttermilk and you will be all right the next day. One day 62 girls were out sick, Those who can afford it quit, those that can’t have to work and poison their lungs for nothing. | A HUDSON WOMAN SLAVE The city officials here in Pueblo, are arresting all the unemployed workers and sending them to jail and later deporting them to the city limits where they tell them to keep on going. This is what we can expect as long as we have no power and are unorganized. I hope® the Workers Party will act in this crisis. —C. E. K. Why Pa a savings of from $7 Zuni Maud Efroim M.. Nadir----Words of Yosel Raskowitch----A thletics Freiheit Gth Anniversary Sunday, March 25th, 1928, 2 P.M. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN—50th Street & 8th Avenue NEW YORK PROGRAM 1, RED, YELLOW AND BLACK—Labor Mass Play of the development of the working class movement in recent years. Adolf Wolff—A uthor Jacob Mestel—-Director Jacob Schaefler-—C omposer B. Aranson—~Decorations & Costumes M. Epstein Sh. Epstein S. Almazoff P. Novick in collaboration with L. Hyman Morris Pass N. 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