The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1928, Page 4

i i EXPLOITED ot ORGANIZE AGAINST BOSSES. Six Ag gressiveDemands Make Up Platform (By a Worker Cor Tinhouse men ed skilled and ser eany trade. Conditi ying worse ever si ying started in th 4 jonden*) 10st exploit- Med workers in have been get- late mak jtime there was a cfor every ti nning machine (paten The bran polishing m pot). i independent and pot. ybranner ¥ ‘ It was then our trouble began. The plates would not go on right from the branner to the pol They would slip, lie any old way and slide around while the tables piled up. At other times, they would pile up and then enter the polis! This would cause all kinds of damage to the plates and cause returns. A little later duplex and double du- plex tinning, machines were installed, with 48 and 90-inch rolls in the tin- ning machines. This added immense- | ly to our difficulty and made our task | terrific. Besides there was a machine | catcher, instead of a boy, to do the | work, and with all the added con- fusion, the tinner had to work all the combinations alo Even the latest so-called Norton cleaner gives us aj good share of trouble, besides damag- | ing the plates. Bad plates, which are called menders, have to be turned} back to the tinners, which is ridicu-| lous when we are working patented | machines. The hot-mill men are not blamed for “wasters,” when they have to put} * dirty tin bars thru the mill without ‘knowing whether or not there is for. eign substance in them. Other depart. ! ments are making wasters which they ; ¢an’t be blamed for because of the ‘ speed at which they are working does ‘not give them time to see what they} , are doing correctly. | The Sheet-Mill Men’s Union, the| , old Amalgamated Association, at the _ beginning made it safe for the tin ‘ hot-mills.) While from the very be- | ginning the patent-pot men had to » take the wages and conditions given ; them and purely because they had no union to back them. They have al- ways suffered from this. The union} 4 that the tin-house had at one time } was a farce and isn’t worth mention- } ing. 1 Now let us lock at Saturday’s work ealled drossing. You take apart the| slides, then lift the catching machine! jand raise the tinning machine from | ithe metal and oil pot and set it or} , take it down to be replaced by a new| jone. Then you pull the fuse b ] Then you slobber in the greasy flusey muck up to your knees and elbows. It is the hardest, stinking’ job a man} could ever think of, sweating and + puffing for breath in the foul smoke ' arising from the flusey filth all ‘Tinplate Worker Takes Weapon of Coe espondence| In the warkee ‘Corvenpoudisice | today appears a letter from a tin- plate worker describing conditions in the tin works and calling upon | all his fellow workers to organize As the first step in organization he urges all tin workers to ex- their opinions thru the Worker Correspondence page of The DAILY WORKER. At the ame time he calls upon the pro- gressive workers in the tin-plate industry to get in touch with one another thru the Worker Corre- spondence editor, This will be done letters thru Worker ence to other progres- kers who letters ap- ‘Daily’ From there | change they will be forwarded to the workers for whom they are in- tended and thus communication will be established without any- | one being endangered. As soon as it is advisable these ‘neonvenient safeguards can be with. But in the mean- y protect all workers wish- g to get in touch with other like- For this reason is necessary that all workers 1 their name and address to- ether with their correspondence. very possible precaution is taken o protect you. The tin-plate worker who sent this appeal has learned the pur- pose of the Worker Correspond- ence page. He has learned to use The DAILY WORKER, his class paper, a weapon with which to fight his bosses. Let all other workers follow his example, and mail their stories of | the conditions on their jobs and jin their unions to Worker Corre- spondence, The DAILY WORKER. 33 First St.. New York City. If {you have no job or no union, there | ‘are thousands of workers thruout {the United States who want to read what you have to say about minded workers. t @ “ELECTR WORKER FINDS “DAILY” IS RIGHT ON BROACH ’ Little Caesar” | (By a Worker Correspondent) 1 want to tell you how much I \enjoy reading your wonderful paper, |The DAILY WORKER. It’s my idea ‘of a real union paper which until only a short while ago I didn’t know existed. The “Worker and me are | iends from now on. | I’m one of the electrical workers ;who have been reading your articles | about Broach, the Little Caesar. It’s {great stuff. Only keep up the good | work and expose some of his wonder- |ful unionism. He’s like Green and the rest of the 'A. FP. of L. gang who have been fool- ing us long enough. They’ are no junion men. They work two ways, for |the bosses and for themselves. You .know that nearly all Irishmen jare Democrats. Well, the Democrats |have lost two votes for life and three children who will vote some day. |That makes it five, and I mean it. Every Union Man A Subscriber. {the heads of the unions were good juan men, every member would sub- | will come and if I can help it, will come soon. Two of my friends are |steady readers now. | (X, the name given in the letter | cannot be reprinted: Editor) is The |DAILY WORKER’S true friend. | There is a man who is in it heart and | soul. He has done everything in his | power to bring The “Worker’ into | our union and he’s making headway at last. : By reading your paper F am learn- ing something about our wonderful government “for the people and by the people etc.” and I'll know how to vote next time. I wish you luck and I hope the DAILY WORKER lives long to take nion Head “Is Really | If we were good union men and if! {scribe to The DAILY WORKER. It} Workers "3 Relief Give Real Aid to Unemployed (By a ecnlen: Goreaspoudent}) 1 am one of the workers who. at- tended the opening of the Workers In- | ternational Relief kitchen at 60 St.) | Marks Place. . It was some treat tous workers who are used to being kicked around and} |treated with contempt by all whom | we apply to for aid. As one of my fellow workers expressed it—“It sure {seems good to be met with a smile here.” L:am going to relate here how un- employed -workers are treated in this city’so that you will understand why I so appreciate what the W. I. R. is doing. . Firstly Mayor Walker and Governor Smith underestimate the number of unemployed in this city. There are thousands tramping the streets here, and everywhere we go its | the same old story—‘Nothing here} for you today.” But it’s the contempt with which we are treated that hurts. Much publicity has been given Mr. | “Zero,” the great philanthrophist of |Zero’s Tub who has been auctioning off workers. The other day in preparation for this “great event” Mr. Zero called a number of us together and told us of his plan to sell us as chattel slaves. Only two or three volunteered. He looked at us rather surprised and then started cursing us and said that such ungrateful men as The meeting then Jus should starve. adjourned. So that for Mr. Zero. Real men will |starve before undergoing the humila- tion of being sold as a slave. We are grateful to organizations like the Workers International Relief who show their solidarity to us. —AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER ——— ————————— us workers out of the dark and show us the true light—R. P. D. EDITOR’S NOTE:—If the corre- spondent who sent us this letter will mail us his full name and address he will be able to help The DAILY WORKER in a direct way.) TEXTILE STRIKE SMOULDERING IN PAWTUXET VALLEY Rhode Island Workers | Fear New Wage Slash (By a Worker Correspondent.) PROVIDENCE, R. I. (By Mail).— The Crompton Company at Centre- ville, Rhode Island in the Pawduxet Valley, the scene of the big cotton | ene of a few years ago, started up Feb. It is rumored they have a large gare for corduroy auto up- holstery. But listen mates. are going to have a company union, bonuses, etc. The weavers are going to be asked to zwh 4 Knowles looms. Senator Jesse Metcalf started the 2 loom system some years ago. Now the Crompton company is doubling up on this. The fixers are going to be made to attend to 25 looms for $30. The nor- mal section of looms for a fixer in this class of looms is 20 and they get $387 and more for this in the Olnevville mills. Day and night rate of pay 18 going to be the same at the Centre- ville plant. I think I smell another strike smoldering in the Pawtuxet Valley and it may break out before May Day. The Cotton division of Textile has had its wage cutting, this looks as if the woolen and worsted division bosses are going to start it too. —A WEAVER. “VEILS” OPENS AT THE FORREST THEATRE TONIGHT. A late addition to the opening of this week is booked for the Forrest Theatre this evening. A..S. Snyder will present “Veils,” a new play by Irving Kaye Davis with.a special musical setting and score by Donald Heywood. The cast includes: Elsa Shelley, Hilda Spong, Charlotte Granville, Grant Stewart, Frances Underwood, Warren William, Julia Ralph, Arthur |R. Vinton and Henry Crosby. > around us. the danger of being burned when the lifting and dipping is done on the grease, we look to the tin-pot. There there is a pile of metallic filth from | the week’s work, emitting such var- ious shades of poisonous stenches that we get more than our fill of them before we have taken it off the face of the metal. And all this is done for a few cents per hour. We want this kind of thing changed and when all of us see and believe |as one man we will be able to force a change for the better. We should see that the matter is taken up earnestly by the men from many of the mills, by writing and | telling how things are done at their We ought to have DAILY WORKER from every mill in the country. Names of Worker Correspondents will not be printed so you need not particular mill. letters in The x.| be afraid to tell all you can. After we hear from each other in this way, we can use the same means for communicating with each other in order to form plans by which we can carry on our struggle. I should like to hear from any per- || jon IN AR RUTHE | | | | ‘ | | | GPM out this blank and mail to Wo NAME ADDRESS OCCUPATION If you are on strike or unempl please check this box. () UNEMPLOYED AND STRIKERS (Enclosed find $1.00 for initiati LENIN DRIVE and receive dues exempt stamps until employed. EAE FIGHT! NBERG FOR i AGAINST 1. crema of the unorgan- 4 1. Injunctions. ize 2. Miners’ Relief. ; 2. Company Unions. 3. Recognition and Defense of i 3. Unemployment. the Soviet Union. 2 >, wat . A Labor Party. i 4. Persecution of the Foreign | 5, A Workers’ and Farmers’ ff use Government. bf 5. War. ion a Fighting Pasty! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America | Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Party / wkers Party, 43 E. 125 St. N. ¥. C.) oyed and cannot pay initiation fee ADMITTED WITHOUT INITIATION | on fee and one month’s dues.) + son who is working in connection with a tin-house as we intend to unionize all hands including the pickling crews. So, men, get busy and do what you can for this cause. We want to hear from all the tin mills, from Sparrows Point, Md., to the mountains of West Virginia, from Gary, Indiana, to Granite City, Illinois, and southwards. I am writing here just a few of our needs and wants and want every Worker Correspondent who is a tin- ner to give his opinion on them and to make suggestions as to what else we should do: 1. *Tinners to be paid in full for all plates run thru the first time. Menders when returned to be run over again must be paid for as new iron, 2. Every plate the machinery makes a mender or that cobbles after | i leaving the tinning machines and for) which the tinner has never received payment heretofore, he is to be paid} in full for as tho they were prime| plates, because these accidents are not his fault. Hundreds of thousands of cobbles are made which have al- ways been a total loss to the tinner. 8. The company to put as many attendants at the machines as will keep them running properly .so the tinner can go on steadily. Also to prevent damaging the plates and pre- yent stoppages which put the tin-pot and the machine on the bum. 4.. The tinner to be paid for all patches and green plates as prime plates. 5. The night shift shall finish all plates at 8 a. m. Saturday mornings. The day shift must not be allowed to do-any tinning on Saturdays. 6. The next shift man, or the day tinner, to do the drossing with help from the company machine men. I¢ the pot closes down at any other day in the week but Saturday at 12 noon, the same tinner will do the drossing end the rate of.pay per hour is to be one dollar for drossing. —“TINNER.” s * (Editor’s Note: The correspond- ent who sent in the above letter should get into direct touch with The DAILY WORKER so that ac- tion along the lines he lays down can be started at once. The name would never be found if all the things he fears took place every day.) GLASS WORKERS STRIKE. BUTLER, Pa., March 12 (FP)— Five hundred and fifty workers at Standard Plate Glass Co. are on strike | again. eer re ence rete ee Ii 1. RED, % B. Aranson-- Morris Pass Yosei Cutler Zuni Maud Efroim Costumes Yosel Raskowitch—A ¢hletics M. Nadir—-IWords of songs Freiheit Gth Anniversary Sunday, March 25th, 1928, 2 P.M. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN—50th Street & 8th Avenue NEW YORK PROGRAM iLOW AND BLACK-—Labor Mass Play of the development of the working class movement in recent years. Adolf Wolff--Author acob Mestel--—Director Schsefter---Composer ~Decorations & Costumes in collaboration with ML. Epstein Sh. Epstein $. Almazoff P. Novick L. Hyman N. Buchwald B. Fenster 2,000 actors Freiheit Dramatic Studio Freiheit Gesange Verein Freiheit Sport ALL SEATS RESERVED—75c, $1.00; $1.50; $2. 00 (tax exempt) Tickets to be gotten at the Freiheit, 30 Union Square, N, Y. C. and at the advertised stations in your neighborhood. Dramatic Sections of Bronx, Downtown and Brownsville Workers’ Clubs 2. SERGEY RADOMSKY, Tenor, will sing Soviet Songs 3. A BIG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA } Editorial Board from the Clubs They i :|pression of serfs whose lives are not | chased for the screen by Metro. HROW. out your chests in justified | pride, my comrades. Another jsplendid movie achievement goes to the credit of cur comrades in the first workers’ government. “Ivan The | Terrible,” comes to us with imagina- | tion, artistic honesty, glimpse of real! beauty and above everything, with acting rarely seen in the movies. European critics have been loudly singing the praises of this picture for |months. At the Cameo Theatre a crowd that was packed to the doors voiced its approval in generous, un- stinted applause when the picture jended, “Ivan The Terrible” is different. Different from the pictures we've seen and different also from marvel- lous “Potemkin.” The greatness of “Potemkin” was its beautiful sim- plicity. In contrast, “Ivan The Ter. | rible” is complicated in plot and in- volved in presentation. It is not as| great as “Potemkin.” Yet neither does it suffer in comparison. All complications of plot and_ picture combine to give us the muddle of in- trigue and brutality of the times of Czar Ivan of Russia in the last half of the sixteenth century. The growth of the power of Russia, the development of trade, the estab- lishment of a new landlord class, all this is pictured vividly and clearly; and at the expense of the brutal op- | only exploited, but also taken at the whim of the ruling class. The lords steal the serfs from each other. Like in the days of American slavery, families are broken up, women vio- lated at will, men whipped, tortured, beheaded and run thru with a pike. The horror of all this monstrous cruelty is never played up. It is presented calmly, without em-| phasis and only as part of actual past life and historical accuracy. This fea- ture of “Ivan The Terrible” is to the credit of the masterly cold-blooded direction of Juri Tarich. The rest of the picture is in the same, almost dis- passionate. calm tone allowing the horror of the picture to speak for it- self. The story is too complicated for complete retelling. “The Wings of splendidly acted by I. Kluvkin, is an ingenious inventor, in love with an- other serf, Fima, who is violated by a monstrous old lord. Nikita fixes | plocks, is handy at everything and | | Saitet Film. at. Cameo . M. LEONIDOFF. Gives a masterful and understand- able performance of the mad monarch in “Czar Ivan the Terrible” the Sov- kino gilm now showing atthe Cameo Theatre. Beets Ds finally wants to fly like a bird. He patterns wings to fly with and suc- ceeds in flying before the Czar, who orders him beheaded as something contrary to the laws of God. The dark period of sixteenth century Russia swallows up the tragic efforts of progress. The Church is presented as a handmaiden of a brutal ruling class and partner in all the brutality. The Soviet film makers are unsparing in their realistic, honest picture of the role of the church in this period of Russian history. the Serf” is the sub-title. Nikita, Technically it is not like “Potem- kin.” There is no modernized ex- treme of presentation. No absolute simplicity focusing attention to one point. It is rather old-fashioned, but in this method it helps also to take us back a few centuries into dark Russia. The photography is able and the scenes of the bleakness of vast Russian spaces and quaintness of small Russian village life is enough to make any Russian homesick. “Ivan the Terrible’ adds another outstanding production to the credit of Soviet movie technique. —W. C. RY SEU ads Eves. 8:30. Winter Garden *"3". °° 5.2 Beftoige-auiind LAUGH SENSATION! Artists § Models —— The Theatre Guild presents — on Strange Interlude 0" Neill s Play, John Golden Thex., 58th, E. of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30, | | Bernard Shaw's Comedy = DOCTOR'S DILEMMA Th., W. 52d St. Evs, “Guild Mats. Thurs. & Sat. Week of Mar. 19: “Marco weiitioae? PORGY Th., W. 424. EB Republic ysis wea.&Sat. j 1] | 1 i ‘Theatre, 41 St. W. of B'wa | National Eva. 30. Mts. Wed-&Sat.2:30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veilier, {with Ass Harding-Rex Cherryman , West 48 St The \CORT WED. and SA EWRECKER “Thoroughly Entertaining Shocker.” i —World. George’ M. Cohan’s comedy, “The | Baby. Cyclone,” recently playing at} the Henry Miller’s, has been pur- Mats. ; [IRENE RICH in “THE HUDSON RNY? sie La "Cano: ior) New York Premiere?” WORTHY SUCCESSOR TO “POTEMKIN™ ENACTED _ BY THE es COW ART Re: EReeTION ‘OF LAYERS headed | the"MAD MORARCH #e by LEONI DOF AND HIS TIMES. ipmecaail Eeaaatiea FUL wes, & othe i CARNIVAL ROSENBLATT sratic Selections Other Acts ILVER SLAVEY CANTOR JOSE in Jewish, It Adeline Be & 0 FULTON racula Sinacieee THE GR TEST Evgs.at 8:30 R Matinees ALL. Wed. & Sat, OF atre, West 44th Street. .$:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat. HE NEW COHAN FARCE WHISPERING FRIENDS Hoboke TEESEEE TPES ESTEE TTT E PTET oho ole fo to oe ola obec cba neh cde hs el ol eb ola ola ols ela eh sea trace It’s a Circus! UGGLE your finances, throw dull care to the winds—take the whole family to see the circus in “Hoboken 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% reduc- 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 n Blues