The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928 WO CENTS LESS AN HOUR IS CUT SCHEME OF FIRM E: Never Warn Men When} | | Decrease Is Made mt two cents an hour week, other | we used to sat gang wor q “ame out with the St land started to pay of. sixty-five and aty an hour. This went on for a month. Then sev || hundreds of men are at the of FORGE DOGKERS — Has Own Cops, TO WORKIN GAS FILLED CHAMBER (By a Worke PHILADELPHIA, (By 22#0).— | | The Budd Motor Body Co. here has | | | 1 Toil All Day Without Masks for Fumes | Slashes Wages; + Correspondent.) , laid off scores of workers. Wages | have been slashed ten per cent and many men retired. | The hours at the factory are ystem is in |fumes which somehow or other leaks from the adjoining tan It is | very dangerous to descend into this hole after the hatch has been battered own for a week or so, and at least four hours airing is required an could go down. That’s ight to be done, but it isn’t. 1 no sooner arrived when we | ers discuss conditions they get slugged by the thugs hired by the Budd officials. Budd’s is the rottenest scab shop | | | in Philadelphia. But even at that em- | | ployment office the | daily, hoping to by being hired as An effort MISERY, HUNGER | ARE SYMPTOMS Walking along South Street, bai | came over to Pier 15. This pier is) Ly | owned by the United Fruit Co: About hers cee Army of opless Grow 1,000 workers were waiting to be! Hundreds of Jobless Crowd Ne 2. £1eTs | | | i : ire ane Se eta eran eS hired. The wages paid these men are| without plays of similar ilk being of-| Ei (By a Worke: spondent.) iat BEES TOR Bees 3 (By a Worker Corresepondent.) | fifty-five cents an hour. The work-| . Fortis eeponden? j fered to the public, but unfortunately _» ) DErtRorr, Mail) £1) are shout: $202 eee S. P., At Sea (By mail).—Men |¢?S Work four hours a day. They| Cy 6: Worker, Corr es voniehts) sc} eon Colyiolia “ewaaenel fever Maveuedee hope: you have in ‘The here, but a? is ave all are forced by the prevailing hard |ever work more than six hours. | From the rock-bound coast of! plicated the success of that play, YAILY WORKER for telling about | | Me een ‘and a hard boiled boss to work | ‘The speed-up system is in full| Maine to the Gulf of California, from] which revived interest in the scare -onditions at the Studebaker “ st i bo aati Me ee fore hole of an oil tanker filled | SWing. The workers are “pepped up”| Puget Sound to the Florida Keys we) drama. At uni and 4, the co i Raxeertace ae : are ‘i aes a ae Riihcean Sapient Jas in the days of old. |can see one vast army of unemployed One of the latest of such offerings setting so bad th being | chs ben 8 ieerenee ne relates mee hia hole. is. calways tall of nail 1 Day a Week. |and breadlines. While one “servant|is now current at the Cort Theatre organize the workers. If the work- Ss alway as | lof the people,” that grand and glor-( Only three ships arrive at this pier per week. Those that do get work earn between $8 and $10 for three} da Some workers. work only one| day per week. Most cannot get any work at all. ious president of the United State Calvin Coolidge, sits in an easy ch in Washington, D. C., surrounded by luxury and tells the workers all about the grand and glorious “prosperity.” These “lu workers who get a| What I want to know is where is! PEC ites here anche: job only work a few hours a day | that prosperity ? Where in hell an Those that are not fortunate enough|it be? Or is it like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Long be- | season has not passed on Broadway |an English murder mystery play set SEN BREN Re CS = esc NACA ot — aa dae “The Wrecker,” an Eng- lish Mystery Play, at the Cort 'VER since the phenomenal success of “The Bat” some years ago a with the novelty that this time it is forth by a company of English actors. Concisely, the plot concerns itself with a fiend suffering from a decided- | ly Freudian choo-choo complex. This} baleful demon—unmasked, of course, | just before final curtain call—finds complex satisfaction in causing a se- ries of wrecks which intimidate the IN “HOBOKEN BLUES.’ Jane Barry, who is playing an important role in “Hoboken Blues” at the New Playwrights’ Theatre. This is the final week of the Michael Gold play. ———_—_—_ The play is the work of Arnold they started cutting two cents 2 ‘ i 7 : + he ehh achat aaa | will be made to organize this shop. | were given orders to open the hatch to get a day work are turned away é a, : : | : é ip 'Ridley and Bernard Merivale. hour while produc tion | ea | _W.C. P. which had been battened down for two | frozen and starving. fore Calvin uttered those immo tal English traveling public, causes the Rumor has it that this shocker has Now 2 are getting fifty-nine and After leaving Pier 12 I went to words there were overcrowded mis-| railroad stocks to fall disastrously enjoyed a long and prosperous Lon- 5 r cents I have been talking tc ther fel-| low worker in Dept. Plant 3.) His wages have been cut to from] seventy-eight to sixty-nine cents. | In Dept. 17 they have been cut | »nine cents. | © They cut your wages and then they | #don’t, say anything to you about it either. | Private Interests Rule & = oe -& Four of the company’s long- | |s 2 sent down to sling oil LOBBY 6 Hl A R f F D The seamen were to run the | winch: and some other longshoremen were to stack the oil drums on the TO COMMISSIONER! cs. sisos om. | These longshoremen work steady }for the company. Their work ex- |tends from picking up scrap around |the plant grounds to loading box cars on we sions and unemployment, and a gen- eral air of depression on the west |coast. The wonderful cities of Seat-| about four hours all the workers were | tle, Portland, San Francisco and even |Los Angeles were filled with unem- turned away because no banana ship arrived that day. | ployed workers. Leaving the waterfront I walked} Industry was at a standstill out up to Market Street. A line of about|there and misery and hunger were 500 men were waiting in front of} beginning to show their face. What the Madonna House Mission for aj it has become since it would be piti- Pier 26. This pier is also used as a banana dock. About 700 workers were waiting to be hired. After waiting and in the unraveling of his identity ads to one good old-fashioned hokum situation after the other. The final explanation of the maniac’s acts is that the noise of the trains distracted him, all of which is rather a far- fetched solution for a sophisticated Broadway audience to swallow. Love} interest is supplied by’ the female sleuth from Scotland Yard and the don run, just as “The Ghost Train,” which the American people refused to welcome on the rialto last fall. Maurice Schwartz, director of the Yiddish Art Theatre will present a new comedy, “American Chassidim,” this evening. It has been written by Chune Gotesfeld, author of the musi- cal comedy, “Mamele,” in which Molly Foc worker should read The} nid pa abt : bowl of soup and a piece of bread, | able to tell for when I was there it/hero, a nephew of one of the heads| pj daa DAILY WORKER. My y the a ar 2 7 and ships. Their pay is $4.50 a day. | : ¢ = Bae ene taten hactot the railroad: icon starred last season. WORKER goes into ne ae | Tar iff Body Th are all married men and of ‘ Filthy Food. | fone eee netearios ee . aN pinged eophee ta ant ae ies ren me and I give it to the fellows to| WASHINGTON, March 15.—|/talian descent. | 7k decided: to imgestigate, Toe Mya | oe Sarda aubae NitoNRer Go Or diel lable Cetened eta wo, &| “Artists and Models’ will conelude read. —“AUTO.” | Cha the United States} In leas than fifteen minutes the four |*"0 1 walked inside the mission, The) Te yee es me Wend oo bad CAC moon In Aral Gece, When One cae | eee oe cmiene ak abe Wintst Garman (eat aes , of which he has|men climbed out of the hole—their |2°t, {tom which the soup is served ne vonay ae ps bua (th Ku ee eat Senate yb one sus-/ Saturday evening, March 24, and will elebrate Women’s nee. tai fenean tis | tacan whitelas aver, aud teelite Tike |is filthy. It looks as if the pot hasn't i _ ve sea pale ie cae pes chal ano HeeoaaN a to throw! begin a country-wide tour in New 4 a Hon ih 1909; issincapable and the soot deimlennde Seon’ the famed Ob the eas, | been washed for a few weeks. The| sais lemselves) were on e switches and wreck the express.) Haven the following Monday. The Day in Berlin LaPi epeatal inten ilwand Comal: ihe boasted th oh pees en |smell is unbearable. The bread they|Verge of applying to the Knights of|In the nick of time our hero and our| succeeding attraction at the Winter Bae 1 ban pa his teniountion to: Pecadont ais Shae NERA Tine ken serve is hard enough to break your | Columbus for rellet, Dope i heroine arrive and take a long chance} Garden will be “The Greenwich Vil- ee Porte Correipendént.) | Coolidge today. aeid chee tacd ie 1 B, | teeth. The soup looks like mud water | While up north, in cities like New| in manipulating the levers that save lage Follies,” featuring Dr. Rockwell, On March 8th, a year ago, I ea hee accor ad penaeet- Coal earoemaaty a Pare ara epee are | The bowls are also filthy. The tables] York, Boston and Philadelphia, we the onrushing express from total de-|its cast including Grace La Rue, Seened ae ‘women workers of Ber- tee Re i big yeaa ene es 18 “Get cas et a dock you “god |2%¢ inches thick with dirt. |see unemployed workers and bread- struction. Evelyn Law, Jans and Whalen, Flor- lin, Germany, marching through the | 82n's letter reads, gown on the dock you “god | About 200 men were fed. The rest| lines blocks long. And we can decide| The fanatic is of course exposed , ence Misgen, Laura Leo, Bobby Wat- streets to celebrate Women’s Week. In the square in Internationa] | Of approximately $3,000,000, the ta: fia=—— bs,” “ae 1 commission has made 32 reports to} He then called four other men to | dent on the flexible tariff|take their places down in the gas-| for ourselves whether Coolidge’s talk on “prosperity” affects the workers were turned away. This is the way the missions care Who is he? Ah, that might be spoil- ing the evening for you. son, Carlos and Valeria, Annie Prit- chard and Grace Brinkley. we, Studebaker Automobile Co. Slashes Wages, Detroit Worker Correspondent Says © | | Budd Motor Co. front of the Karl Liebknecht House,| ‘he pre |for the unemployed workers. Besides or not. women from two districts assembled. | Provisions. filled hole. these missi igi Sram 4 sala 2 tesoeeahe | ssions pump religi ik Working women of all Berlin distri For Private Interests. _| The second group of four men did |; he ta pee. gious bunk | , These reports have grown out of | : _’ |into the minds of the workers in order were to have come together at t pene mee jnot remain down as long as the first |to make them more obedient t their| point, but by police order the districts , MVestigations not freely chosen by| group. They came up, their eyes roll- | masters sé were separated, and only two groups | ‘ ission, but instead requested | ing queerly. They told the boss they | ey allowed to meet in one place, | by the president or the We see, fellow workers, that “pros- | , perity” enables the so-called first | TF IR families to hit the promenade decks | FOG Que at Miami, Lake Placid, Newport. | Paris and the Riviera, while the work- nn Pie —HENRY BLOOM. enate, under |could not stand it. He became furi- | It was early evening. From fac-}2 Practice set by president Hard-| ous and after cursing them, he went | Seszevanye. “Hor how. eee longer | eG ant chen, a interests. eee , |were suffering teak bad head-aches, | Shall we bea rthose parasites on our | 3% KEITH- ( ‘AMEO 42nd St. | NO" N working women gathered at the| . SoMa spent de ssi | After a while he returned with two! 4nd I have my doubts whether he, Becket y Oy snelt Wa itbdeoney oot ALBEE ey, different meeting places. As two|sioners, Costigan charges Chairman consumptive looking individuals who |WoUld have given a damn if they all | Unite to put them at the business end |i NEW YORK PREMIERE divisions of women, red ’kerchiefs} Marvin, of Massachusetts, wit ad's | Were company inspectors. They low- |48d died. | of a pick and shovel to do something The remarkable Russian sereen masterpiece—A Sovkino Production a tarif: r New England’s fected wea lalint interest The papers would have announced | Useful for society? How much longer protected capitalist i ests. + on their head, fell into line behind hall we dally and bick id be shall we dally an iecker aroun - the workers’ band, five motor trucks full of armed police moved forward } with the procession. Each policeman | carried a rifle, a pistol, and a hand} grenade. Young Pioneers in white jackets sang, “Brothers, march onward to freedom,” and a company of Workers’ Red Cross marched with the women. Workers in Germany have learned from long experience that their own Red Cross is needed when police aro present at a workers’ gathering. \ Never shall I forget the sturdy march of those German women work. jered an apparatus in the hole to find |th tf laa b out how much gas it contained. Aft at four men had been overcome by | ‘ : i. teeta Sicko eee Beas +. nae gas fumes, while working in the fore | fore we take and control that which Population Exceeds 120 agreed that the men could go down ae of the 8.8. » union oil com. | Va meen Merheracf, bhp cweeld, agus ovi ey ife li pany tanker. | ! Million, Report Says provided they had life lines around —“BLACKIE,” A SEAMAN. If they had died outside the com-/ : |pany’s plant the papers would not} WASHINGTON, March 15. — De- spite the growing unemploy jhave carried the news that they had! p . |died from the effects of gas fumes,| situation the population keeps ahead} out gas masks. Not one of them died. |the newspaper would have said some-/| of it, meaning still more mouths: to| But they inhaled plenty of that un-|thing like this: Working men found fill, according to a provisional estim-|healthy gas. And since not one of |dead from the effects of moonshine. | ate issued by the census bureau./them died, what did the boss care it | Yours for the day when every ship based on the available returns on|they all went home sick that night? | will havea Worker Correspondent. births, deaths, emigration and immi- | ts S gration. The figures are as of July CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE Hee Enacted by the MOSCOW ART PLAYERS : headed by LEONIDOFF. Acclaimed in all the capitals of Europe as a_ worthy successor to Potemkin, | their bodies, with a man at the other jend of the hole. They were to be re- | lieved every twenty minutes. nt| And so they worked all day with- Says Coolidge Chooses W. C. Burbank, New York banker. | today declared that he had learned} | on “undisputed authority” that Presi- | |-dent Coolidge would be a voluntary) aaa in the coming presidential | election. | ws An amazing re-creation of the mad monarch and his times! SAM HR. Thea., HARRIS pray. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 424, W. of Winter Garden ®ves. Eva. 8:30. Tues, WORLD'S LAUGH SED They could not eat their supper and | —S, ers. The red ’kerchiefs flashed under ee : ‘ ee ne ESS L ATION! th street lights. ere the | 2, 1928. If the estimate is right the | A V eetien ones ‘old muha wae Pia population of the country has in-| Artists B Models LO E L 7 LA DY ji ae ereased 14 per cent since 1920 and ie | with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson, aged, some were young. But they now 120,018,000. New York State had —— The Theatre Guild presents —~ all marched with a vigor and a deter- 1 ma ‘ Anos tao GE | heatre, West 48 St. Evs, 8:30 mination that made me wish we could|® Population of 10,885,227 in 1920 Skane |CORT "Mkts" WD. sna SAT. 2:40 see such a parade of working women | The state’s population will be, accord- Play, Strange Interlude | #WRECKER in New York or Chicago. ing to the estimate, 11,550,000 July 1. John Golden Then,, 58th, B. of B’way FREIHEIT The regiments of women workers | The greatest population increases are| Evenings Only at 5:30. | “Thoroughly Entertaining Shocker.” from different districts came to-| Predicted for Florida, with 48 per | evr gether at a big hall, and several|cent, and California, with 35 per Bernard Shaw’s Comedy | thousand women crowded in. An ap-| cent. r 7 WINTHROP AMES presents peal was made to all women workers Tae eae pe DOCTOR’S DILEMMA | Booth, W. 45th St. Eves. 8:40 | Mats. Wed. & Si Jat, Th., W. 52d St. Evs. GALSWORTHY’S Play JOHN to come into the Women’s Jnterna-/[J.S,A, Drab Service Cap Guild 6TH JUBILEE tional. The women workers’ delega. * : ay. 164 Maney Bat APE St tion from Germany to Soviet Russia| JObS Go to Philadelphia | Week of Mar. 19: “iarco Millions? SC asta enacted scenes to illustrate their ex- ——- | = periences in Moscow. Banners, band,| PHILADELPHIA, March 15.—The| PO R ( - » songs, speeches, enthusiasm, a! | }¢ quartermaster depot of the | ng Ar th of organi ng wome HUTCHI Th. W. 42d. E Mats. Wed.&Sa: showed the visit workers the stre among German we GRACE men | { ation Jnited States Army tracts to Philadelphia cl for the anufacture | Thurs. Pri. Sat. & Sun., Mar. 15, 16, 17 | THEODORE ROBERTS | creen Star—in person Harmon & Sands—Russell Carr—Others “The Cohens & Kellys in Paris’ with Geo, Sidney & J. Farrel MacDonald Republic Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’ sauonal Eyssau. Mt Wedaset. “The Trial of Mary Dugan” with ‘Gx uaetineaes Uhereiiean HUDSON heater Evs. 8:30, Mats. Wed.& Sat. 0 |) RED, YELLOW and BLACK LABOR of significance of this step be- immediately apparent when it is known that the award was made} ALBANY, N. ch 15.—]simultaneously to nine firms, who Jumping bail would be made a felony,| are pledged under the contract to A New Felony 26th WEEK racula West 44th Street, FULTON if the defendant w; ed with aj produce an average of 1,500 caps . 4 * " THE NEW COHAN FARCE B'way,46 Se. felony, under a d by the | weekly till completion of each firm’s MASS THE GREATEST Bvgs.at 8:86 senate Corder: WHISPERING FRIENDS muir fans OF THEM ALL» Wed. & Sat PLAY of the Development of the Working Class = - — ~ | BPRPEPKLEE VE EREVAE LEEPER PEP ELEVA ELPPEVPLVELEREREE YP YY | es “COMMUNIST” MARCH Marx and Engels on “AMERICA AND RUSSIA” THE LAST WEEK OF HOBOKEN BLUES Russian revolution as a beginning of world re- volution. Other important articles in this issue: ais Glveetet be oe. is wie? Movement EE this delightful play by Michael Gold i Cans nat eave ek satuante of oe ae, | in Recent at the New Playwrights Theatre (call | velopment of American capitalism and of the Years. Walker 5851) before it closes. Thousands . j have seen it, over twenty labor organiza- tions have taken nights during its run. Music, song and dance and delightful \ humor run thru every scene of this gay musical comedy of Negro life in Harlem and “Hoboken.” For Tickets Call Stuyvesant 6584. Local Daily Worker Office, 108 E. 14 St. RUTHENBERG AS FIGHTER AND LEADER, by Jay Lovestone. AFTER THE CANTON UPRISING, by John Pepper. MARX, LENIN AND THE PARIS COMMUNE, by Alexander Trachtenberg. SAVE THE MINERS’ UNION CALL. THE PROLETARIAT AND WAR, by Lenin, CAPITALIST EFFICIENCY ‘SOCIALISM,’ by William Z. Foster. ATHEISM AND EVOLUTION, by Bertram D, Wolfe. LITERATURE AND ECONOMICS, by V. F. Calverton. ARARAARARRAAAAEAAERAAL ABEARRABERAEEE SARE ACERAERAS A BIG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SERGEY RADOMSKY WILL SING NEW SOVIET SONGS, Organizations: Buy $100 worth of tickets for $80. Prices 75¢-$1-$1.50-$2. All seats reserved. Get yours now Llelslsisisbsisinieieitet CITT ere rr cry baininininhninbsiniaininininininininiaininininisisisineisieiees ieinicniecteccieeinee A