The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1928, Page 4

; | i H # i a _J. Mosiko, Bronx, Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1928 « re eS | 2,000 Strike Bills Passed at Rhode Island Mull, Says Worker Correspondent " BOMPTON PLANT pe Jobless |QHIO STRIKER, WORKERS EAGER FOR BULLETINS Fight Bosses’ Union in|; Textile Plant 23 (By a Worker Correspondent.) AKUTIC, RPI y Mail).—This morning at the arwick Mill) and at the Centreville plant of the in Arctic, 2,000 leaflets | Ave Jailed in Los Angeles (By a Wi orhae Corresponde: nt.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail). -The Central Labor Council appealed |to the board of public workers yes- |terday, asking that that body adopt '@ resolution in favor of “patronizing {home industry” in order to aid the ‘army of thé jobless,—70,000 strong. | Members of the council “feel that lit is sufficiently wrong for our gov- ernmental agencies to furnish money Eeepton Co. \t ivertise for people to come to Mint the: ¢|to advertise peop! bie af eee ee Ocal Los Angeles seeking employment eeton were Sinem cut to the workers | Without said agencies at the same he Gre given ow mitten of the|time sending work away from our while an orge e ” Ct ee Amalgan: is Ce earch ee The “sending work away” refers in ong alae mpan See which parti ular to fancy lampposts which 5 eee AS, made in other parts of the coun- has been in force oo Yeast Wat |try and put up in residential districts eH go ete a eke 2. In working ¢ districts, how- eee | ighting posts, if any, are gen- there last year and v the Comp- Ss ROB) 5 8 ton Mills are just sta ers’ seized on the leaf] is usual were ready workers who w The Ar s eagerly, England, and; to talk to the] distributing. H d.Bulletin while it! as| has many s comings strikes at the] heart of the problem “the Company Union” and ows capacity for} leader their warning against | the introduction of the four loom| system. The workers in the mill are willing | to talk and one fellow remarked with | a grin that the superintendent is very | generous, and will ‘ all} the looms they want; “the sky is the| limit.” The workers of Arctic, textile centre of the wtuxet Valley, have ja name for m ney, and the lesson f the Iron Battalion, under the de-| ermined leadership of Louis Nardella| is not forgotten. How about you ardella ? At least one delegate from the| valley will be present at Sunday’s Conference despite the remoteness of | the meeting. | —W. G. MURDOCH. | ea ae | (By a Worker Correspondent.) ATLA) CITY, N. J., (By Mail) —I am one of the 700 workers in the Tarymore Hotel here. For $40 a month I have to work like hell. I’m not the oniy one who gets this miserable salary. There are others} getting less. For the average wage here is from seven to ten dollars a week. Of these 700 workers, 500 are Negroes. Everyone of us has signed a con- trac: with the boss to work by the | month and.to get paid by the day,) with the full right for the boss to| break the contract at any time. We work every day from 15 to 18 hours without any extra pay. Every Sa.urday we have inspection. | We have to be perfectly clean. Just imagine, for $40 a month we got to have clean clothes and we can’t af- ford it. A week ago the boss employed five | workers for es work. But he told; erally few and far between. Several unemployment conferences were forced on the city council re- cently with the A. F. of L. official- dom absent from the hearings. The money spent by commercial bodies, scabby corporations and greedy real estate sharks etc. goes into millions. During the month of January nearly 4000 men were arrested for | Vagrancy; 2160 served time in city \dungeons and 0 in the Count# Jail, located on the top floors of the new $8,000,000 Hall of Justice. Even tourists, with money, property | and friends, have also been mistaken Their answer has been ms’ and Tourists’ Protec- {tive League.” —L. P. ee ‘Harlem ( Chain Stores Employ Few Negroes Less than a dozen Negro workers }are employed in any capacity py the 85 chain stores located in Harlem. New York City’s biggest N-gro dis- trict. The League for Equal Political jand Civic Rights has made the sur- |vey. The stores do a monthly busi- jness of $100.000, mostly from Negro |patrons. They include chiefly gro- jceries, bakeries and tobacco stores. Daniel Reeves Co. has made one of its four colored clerks a store man- ager, which no other store chain has done. United Cigar Stores employ no Negroes at all. Atlantic & Pacific has four Negro clerks but allows no ad- vancement. Wages are very low and hours long. The workers have not joined the Retail Clerks’ Union. three well-trained fascists who terrorize the workers. Hell on Earth. If any worker reading this letter could see us working in this hotel he really would not recognize that we are human beings. He would see and believe that paradise and hell are on from Italy them they had ady jobs. So they; spent over $10 to buy clothes and | when the busy time s over he fi red | them. He do to save money. This hotel is owned by W. Motto, blood-thirsty million who hi made millions and millions of dolla: since he built this hotel, while the| workers who spent their lives to cars| those millions for him got no thing | but sickn All this hap-| pens be inorganized. ' But the boss has the pans y to! use against the worke He brought} earth and not in the sky where the preachers tell us. The kitchen and its stairs are the hell where the workers kill themselves |in the rush time and the dining-room is the paradise where the so-called high society dines. While we, the workers have no means to live, they e dining and amusing themselves with luxuries s ding sometimes $200 or $300 a day. That’s what Mr. Coolidge calls Amer “prosperity.” “Prosperity” for bosses and his starvation for the workers. —HOTEL WORKER. “Defer ders of” THE DAILY WORKER L. E Hberg, Duluth, Minn... .4.00 J. Mu Butte, Mont....... 1.00 G. Nickman, Minn., Minn.......2.00 1.00 A. Tiala, Knoxville, Tenn. ¢ - 1.00 V. Dehn, Knoxville, Tenn. . Belgium J. C. D. Branch, Detroit.10.00 1,00 Colfax, Calif.... , Lorecetown, Ohio. mic. New York City. H Olah, Wi liffe, Ohio...... America Fraction, Chicago, M. Molnar, Pomona, Cali my Braznick, (col.) Luzerne, -10. W. Murphy, Bklyn, N. Y.:..3.00 lish Frac. W. P., Cleveland, 0.4.00 M. Krickstein, Providence, R. 1.3,00 Mie Mataytes, Phila, Pa......... 2.00 FB. Annelin, (col.) Gardner, Mass.3.00 FH. Stran, (col.) Raclindale, Mass E. Bunn, New York City & Seiler, Los Angeles, Cal. A. Kotzubuk, Paterson, R, L. Klein. New York y d We M. Costley, (col.) Pitts., ‘Pa. 1,76 Finnish Formers’ Clu of Buck Lake, Nashweuk, Minn.......15.50 H. Scott, Cleveland, O.. J. Gibson, Cleveland, O ; Janocar, Bronx, N. Y ‘iro, Bronx, N. Y “Woytusik, Bronx, N. $3 ‘Leekoviak, Bronx, N. Y. Avolkoff, Bronx, N. Y. Wysotsky, Bronx, N. Y. slichko, Bronx, N. Y.. D in, Bronx, N. Y.. W. Macdonald, Hempsted, L. I..3.00 8th St. Dry Cleaning Co., Canton.1.00 C, Birnbaum, (col.) Canton, O. M. Metler, Canton, O Section 4, New York City.. F. Voigl, E. Landerdale, Fla... .1. Je>ish Work. Cul. Club, Canton.16.00 V. A. Camms, Los Angeles, Cal C. Javeoch, Whiting, Ind.... A. M. Welling, Watervliet, N. Y St. Nucleus 4, San Fran., Cal... “16.65 W. P. Nucleus 24, Los Ang., Cal.6.57 W. P. Nucleus 26, Los Ang. Cal.4.15 A. Brenner, (col.) San Fran., Cal.26.50 F,. Lagelbauer, St. Paul, Minn... .1.00 M. Norkin, Sea Gate, N. Y. F. Greska, Lowell, Mass. . K. Sook, (col.) Lowell, Mass A A. Wielechowski, Newark, N. J.1.00 A. J. Lifshitz, Los Ang., Cal.. . E. Moffitt, Los Anz., Cal Munding, Toledo, O... mith, Decatur, Il. . Kettula, Finlayson, Minn. J. D. Love, Phila., Pa Oltchur, Phila., Pa.. L. House, Coshocton, O... Le lenae Club, Luzerne, Pa . Payes, New York City 7 Malnar, Willord, W. Lith. Br. 6, Detroit, Mich E. Tatatuski, Phila., Pa. A. Vlasak, L. I. C., N. Y. M. Kuncir, L. I. ©, N. ¥ J. Rasal, L. I. C., N.Y... M, Viasak, L. I. ©. N.Y. H. Randarezik, Edwardsville, Pa.,5.00 ie Groh, St. Paul, Minn. 3.00 , Bronx, N. Y.... niet Bronx, N. Y.. Haeck, San Fran., Cal.. " A. Stillman, San Fran, Cal... 600 |% Dreutk, San Fran, Cal. CORRESPONDENT, | AWAITS ARREST One of 4,000 in on Seab Mine (By a Worker Correspondent.) NELSONVILLE, Ohio, (By Mail). —I thought that you would be pleased to know how the strike is coming along in the Hocking Valley. As we are now in the twelfth month and times are awfully hard, it keeps us very busy to keep the scabs from working in our sub-district. The op- erators, using every means under the March | morale of our men. So far they have failed. We need help and more help. Our people are going hungry in this dis- trict. We made a march on a scab mine about four miles away from our lo- eality. We took them out and made them agree to stay out. We had over 4,000 union men in the march. A scab operator has got his scabs together and is going to the county of this march. So we are expécting before this is in print that the writer | will be under arrest. We have bondsmen ready to gc our bonds for us. Of course we will jhave to fight an injunction. That means money and more money. But pect to keep up the fight till the bat- tle is won. The ofticers of our sub-d doing all in their power. all good men. support we can get from our brothers | everywhere, A HOCKING VALLEY UNION MINER. ict are Ree eu James P. Reed Would Help Labor Organize (By a Worker Corresepondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif. (By Mail). —In the opening speech of his cam- paign for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, held at the Olym- pic Auditorium, Senator James A. Reed, Missouri, spoke on American | labor and the “protective tariff,” in part, as follows: “The only way that labor has been given protection was by its organiz- ing so that it could protect itself,” the noted opponent to the Wilsonian | league of “damnations,” shouted. True. And it is also true that; class-conscious workers have been) tyrannized over just as much by the! Democrats as the Republicans. What did the “democratic” Palmer, former attorney-general and bomb-plot art- ist, do? Palmer’s gumshoe men, di-| rected by the labor-baiting W. Burns, now convicted as a jury-fixer, arrested thousands of innocent men} in country-wide red raids. The! name of one of the victims was Sal- sido, I think. He was picked up on the street, dead, after a mysterious | ‘fall’ from a window of the building} Out of this tragedy grew the Sacco- Vanzetti case. What the Democrats started, the Republicans finished. So the stand on labor of these Wall St. parties is about the same — tyran- nical. In the South—the stronghold of Democracy—wages are lower ‘and conditions in general worse than in the North. The Southerners are also} the greatest lynching experts in the world. The writer has been there and knows. Labor can expect nothing from the! Democratic party as such—and next | to nothing is to be gained through} the A. F. of L. policy of rewarding | friends and punishing enemies, All master class politicians are enemies of the workers—when it comes to a show-down. —L. P. RINDAL. + a 6 (By a Worker Correspondent.) FALL RIVER, Mass. (By Mail)— The American Printing Works of Fall River is the largest of all the cotton mills in this city and is owned tions in the country. In the Fall River plant there are employed 6,500 workers under condi- tions that border on slavery. Herc the 8-hour day law is no way affect. conditions. Sixty hours per week i: spinners, while the back-benders on the print machine have to work 7: hours regularly. And the corporation pays the princely sum of $17 for this time. In the weaving sheds it has been the practice for the past two years for the weavers to run 24 looms bui since wages have been cut the bosses are demanding that the workers run 50 looms, In the spinning room, the worker: are being forced to run 12 and 14 sides, only receiving payment at the corporation’s low scale for 10 and 12 sides. Pi This company yast year paid out $6,000,000 in profiis alone, and it is one of the first at all times to lower the living standards of its workers who average, on a yearly basis, only $000...The company. js. sun, are trying to break down the | seat to get warrants for the leaders | with the help of our friends we ex-| They are} But we need all the] ‘lis a sample of the in which he had been held a prisoner. | by one of the richest cotton corpora- | the usual run for the printers an | 300 Jobless in Lineat Durant Auto Factory (By a Worker Correspondent.) For some time I have been un- employed. \ It has been impossible for me to find a job in New York City, I | decided to try my luck in New Jersey. Bayonne Dead. First I went to Bayonne. There I walked into many establishments ask- ing for a job. None of them had vacancies. The building industry there }is at a standstill. The Standard Oi! | Works at Bayonne have laid off many | workers. Not being able to find any- thing in Bayonne I went to the neigh- | boring town of Elizabeth. | As soon @s I came to Elizabeth 1j | went to the employment office of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., on Trum- bull St. “No help wanted,” was the reply. ‘The next day I went to the Durant Motor Co., on Newask Ave., Elizabeth. About 300 workers were standing in line formation looking for jobs. A cop was there to keep them in line. None, however, were hired. Walked Till Tired. So I thought I’d walk up and down the streets till my feet were tired. | Then I walked into the Union County | Court, on Broad and Elizabeth Ave. The juvenile court was in session. lA little Negro lad was charged with stealing some small change. His mother is a poor working woman who learns $15 per week. Out of her wages she has to pay $13. per month for) jrent. She said that it is impossible |for her to care for the boy. The Iad |w as sentenced to the reformatory at Jamesburg, New Jersey. The whole The was too poor to hire a The court did not give her The prosecutor even demanded trial took about eight minutes. woman lawyer. | one. 1|Hopeless, Haggard Men THOUSANDS SEEK WORK AS TRENTON, MILLS SHUT DOWN Pace Dead Streets (By a Worker Corresepondent.) TRENTON, N. J., (By Mail).—In spite of all the reports of unemploy- ment from other parts of the coun- try, I doubt if any locality has been hit harder than Trenton. What was once its’ leading industry is not only at a standstill but has been practically wiped out. Not only are the rubber mills idle but a greater number of the smaller factories have gone into the hands of receivers, have been sold at auction, and with the machinery stripped they now lie deserted. The Bergongnan, Trent, Globe and United Rubber Mills have all met this fate, while Ajax Rubber, employing 2,000 workers, has been idle since May, it’s machinery stripped and transferred to its Racine, Wis. branch. The few remaining mills are doing two and three days work a week. The potteries and other factories are not doing any better and thou- sands of workers have been idle for months, Production in some of the indus- tries has been up to normal, but, due to the devilish speed-up and efficiency system, a great number of workers have been thrown out of a job. The wages in such mills have been brought down to the lowest level. The average wage of an unskilled worker is from $10 to $20 a week. The misery and suffering is great and men and women and children he poor woman pay money for nses while at the re-| The presiding justice saw | would be too much for her | so he decided she shouldn’t pay any- ight minutes for a trial. This is the/ “justice” handed out to the poor. Then a white lad was charged with | breaking a lock, The owner of the es-| tablishment claimed that the lad was innocent. The judge suspended the se and put the boy on probation for months. No eharges or counter- ges were heard. The judge {simply gave his decision. The trial took five minutes. e No Justice. After this little fellow, a boy of 14 was charged with “mishandling a | little girl of five years.” His trial | took up several hours. His folks were | well-to-do and they provided an at- |tormey for him. Altho all the evi- | dence showed that the lad was guilty, | his charges were suspended and he |was put on probation for one year. |Had this lad’s parents been poor, he | would not have got off so easily. This “justce” that I | saw handed out on that day. After two days I came back to New | York City and began to look for a | job as previously. | | “OKUM.” ing $1,000 in profit per worker in | ones year. e In this plant the United Textile Workers have their main strength, and a large percentage of the A. F. T. U. weavers and spinners work in the mill, Yet no atiempt has. been| made lw these unions to fight for betterment of conditions in — this jplave-pen and the workers are begin- ning to ask what their unions are |wortht under the ‘present leader- Pp. If the old leadership will not tight, then the others will and the confer- ence in Boston on March 11th must | point: the way. W. G. | MURDOCK. loternational Press _ Correspondence Every worker should sub- scribe to thie weekly peri- odical for valuable material on important current events of world-wide interest. A Yenrly 86. Six Mo, $3.50 10 Cents a Single Issue. Sole Distributing Agents in America: Workers ibrar Publisher 39g &. 12S® St. | poverty-stricken, and suffering from ‘cold and hunger. |a fish or two were not caught there alike are seen on the streets, shabby. One sixty-five year old couple have been penniless and without means of tence for months. Fishing was their only means of support and when was nothing to eat. They had no fuel whatever and on cold days were both compelled to stay in bed to keep from freezing. The woman finally col- lapsed from hunger and now the city is furnishing them some meagre aid |Bayard Veiller’s Drama “Within the Law” Back on Broadway lain Brown’s standard revivals at Veiller’s famous play “Within the New York for two years when _ first produced 16 years ago. Altho the play seems sort of. rusty as a result of the Jong time that has passed since it was originally on view, it is well able to hold its own with most of its present-day contempor- aries. As usual with the plays in Mr. Brown’s repertoire, a group of stars have been gathered together for the cast. Another feature is the debut Charles Ray +on the speaking stage of Charles Ray, famous motion picture actor. While Ray is pleasing to look at, he is more or less out of place in this legitim- ate production. Other members of the galaxy of stars are Robert Warwick, who is the best bet of the evening. Also Violet Heming, Julia Hoyt, Claudette Col- bert and Conway Wingfield. The plot has many good spots. It concerns a department store sales clerk who is sent to prison for three years after her conviction for a theft of which she was not guilty. She dise from the store where she was working. While the judge was will- ing to release her on a suspended sentence, the department store own- er demands that she be sent to jail as an example to the other girls in his employ. In=comparison to the boss’ attitude towards his employes, we see how differently he acts to- wards the wife of a banker who is a kleptomaniac. Not only is she re- leased as soon as she is recognized, but the store owner apologizes per- sonally and discharges the store de- tective who made the arrest. After her reiease from prison the girl forms a crime ring that works “within the law,” using high-priced In another family of six both hus band and wife are compelled to work. Their total income is $26. The mar earns $13 from the benevolent Mr Roebling who has been awarded th, civic cup froni the city of Trenton and the woman also earns $13 a week in a local cigar factory. Sulien and haggard, people are seen everywhere and, where a few months ago groups were discussing when things would pick up, today a helpless attitude is seen everywhere The streets and stores are deserted early and the city is taking on a loo! of apathy. Will the workers wake up and come out of this ‘trance? —wW. Inventor Injured WASHINGTON, March 11.—Lester | | J. Hendershot, |called “fuel-less” motor, is a patient inventor of the so- at the Emergency Hospital recover- ing from temporary paralysis, caused from an electric shok while experi- menting with the motor in the Wash- ington Lean and Trust Building. It is estimated that 2,000 volts went through his body. spread Daily Worker and get a new bist pathizers and an ers we ask you to speak to your nearest newsdealer. He should order. the DAILY WORKER. Fill out the coupon and send it to us. Circulation Dept., Daily Worker, 83 East 1st Street, New York City. Name of Newsdealer ...... “Addresé ... 25. .evvsesedooers No. of Copies’ .....csee00008 My Name and AAG iste sees eve Buy an extra Daily Worker suersday and give it to your mnate or friend, lawyers for their blackmail schemes. All in all the play is’ worthwhile que third production of Chamber- | the Cosmopolitan Theatre is Bayard | Law,” which ran in| was charged with stealing merchan- |} | In “The Wrecker,” the newest of the mystery plays to reach Broad- way. This entertaining shocker is housed at the Cort Theatre. BROADWAY. Ella Shields: Jos. B. Stanley & Co. in “Waiting.” a farce, featuring Warnita Wilcox; Josephine Harmon and Georgia Sands; Ann Frances and Mr. Wally; the Pickfords and other acts. On the screen Richard Barthel- mess in “The Patent Leather Kid” |with Molly O'Day. PALACE. 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