The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1928, Page 4

PO: ‘ . Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MOND. Missions Recruited Scabs for I. k. T. Strike, Worker Correspondent Charges PREACHER OUT TO GET 50 JOBLESS MEN FOR SUBWAY. Ex-Strikebreaker Would | Rather Starve || (By a Worker Corresepondent.) | Being unemployed I am lately do-| ing a hell of a lot of walking. The | other day I walked into “The All| Night Mission,” at 8 Bowery. I sat} down, I started a conversation with} one of the workers. Here is his story. | “For a long time I have been un-| employed. I was so broke that I had] nothing to eat. In order to make some} money I went to work as a strik breaker in one of the Pennsylvania mines. | “Conditio very bad there. The | Savages of A would not even| stand for it. The food that w rved | to us was very unsanitary. le pe was very . We were promised $4.00 pe By the time our fare} and other expenses had been deducted | we had not a cent to our names. After} working there for one month I did not} have enough money to buy a shirt for myself, | “The strikebreakers are in a hell| of a tin Many of them would like} to escape from the mines, but they] are unable to do so. I decided to escape and by luck I did get out of there. I hoboed my way till I came to New York. “Coming to this city, I had no place to go, since I had not a centto my name. I came to this mission. I was given a piece of hard bread not fit for a dog. The coffee tasted worse than mud water. Before I had re- ceived that, I had to pray and listen to sermons for a couple of hours. “After the ‘meal’ the preacher came over to me and said, ‘My boy, where were you born?’ “In the U.S. A.,’ I replied. “How long have you been unem- ployed?’ he asked me. “*About five months,’ I replied. “‘Well,’ said the preacher, ‘I have a good job for you. You will get there plenty of money and good meals. The work is not very hard.’ “Then I told him that I am willing to take the job and I asked him where the job was. “The preacher then told me that he had to supply fifty men to the I.} R. T. I refused to work as a scab since learned my lessons in the} Pennsylvania mines. I am disgusted as a strikebreaker. I would rather starve now than go to work as a scab. *“Upon hearing this, the preacher Said that it is the duty of all good Americans to see that strikes are pre- vented because many innocent people suffer as a result of strikes. “T wish I’d never known these mis- r sions. I would have been better off.” For a couple of minutes I kept quiet. Then I gave him a leaflet in reference to a meeting of the unem- ployed. He took it and read it. He promised to come and he kept his word. At the unemployed meeting he told me, “From now on I never will go seabbing any more.” « “Right, buddy,” I replied. And we parted. This is a true story without any fiction. The Unemployed Council ought to do something to these so-called mis- sion stiffs. A little propaganda will put them in their right place, in the ranks of all the workers. —IJ. 0S. * * * Promoter Enslaves | Jobless Men and Women | (By a Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail). —A fake promoter, M. Lippner, sold jobs to impoverished men and women in a prope Big Bear lake hotel. The sale of stock was included in the ‘MITTEN FIRM TO Chester Knit Goods Mill to Lay Off 900 CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail).—The} Aberfoyle Manufacturing Com- | pany, manufacturers of mercerized | | goods have for the past ten years} had a company union in existence.| | They purchased a large farm in} |the country known as the Aber-| | foyle Country Club. In addition to | the reguyr insurance the employes | |have been expected to belong to |this club and pay fifty cents per | month. Not long ago the Townsend | Street Mill was closed and, it is reported, moved to the south. For the past four months the two largest mills of this concern have been operating on four days per week after laying off one- | third of their help. A news item in the local paper reports the closing down of 500 looms and the discharge of 100 workers. i I have received the information | from three sources that 500 looms | j and 900 workers are to stop this | | week. | A further eut of one day re- | duces some to three days a week. | All the work is piece work. —S. DROP OLDER MEN Philadelphia Taxi Co. Drives Employes (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILA., Pa., (By Mail).—I am a mechanic for a large Philadelphia taxicab company. 1 receive barely enough to live on as we are one third the regular working force. It’s kill- ing us to do the work of the men who were laid off. It’s rotten cold and the gas fumes are awful. I will say. that the boss certainly knows how to drive you. He always informs us that men are easier to get than jobs and a few are fired every, few days. This causes the others to work like hell to hold their jobs. This concern is about to be taken over by the Mitten interests.. When this happens I know that a lot are| going to the slave market as the boss is telling the older and more inactive to step on it as the efficiency expert} is expected. That means that the older men who thought they had a job after being with one master for fifteen or twenty years will lose out. I worked for the Mitten interests be- fore and know they only use the youngest and most active producers. This shows that. being faithful to any boss don’t pay since after the; worker has given the best years of his life to the capitalist exploiters he is rewarded by being deprived of the means of existence. this the older. and more inactive workers will scab and lower the stan- dard of living of all the workers. The solution is common ownership of the means of production and when the workers decide to take them they will discover that the oppressors are few and the exploited and oppressed are many. So, fellow workers, let’s think, act and organize! —Taxi Mechanic. (Editor’s Note: The Worker Corre- spondent who sends us the above let- ter also encloses the following clip- ping from a Philadelphia paper: The number of men who, apparently becavse of unemployment, are seek- ing night’s lodging in the central dis- station houses, has increased to such an extent that the police are casting about for some emergency provision to meet the situation. The house sergeant at Tenth and Buttonwood reets reporied last night that by 11:30 o’clock, 152 men had sought and found shelter in the unoccupied cells, in the cellar and in As a result of| TRADE SCHOOLS SCHEME TO GRAB WORKERS’ MONEY Boycotted by -Garages and Electric Shops (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, Ill. (By Mail).—Cap- italist newspapers and magazines |carry a great deal of advertising of | So-called “trade schools” all over the |country but the center of these insti- | tutions is Chicago where they flour- ish like mushrooms. Thousands of jambitious but uninformed men come | hi gs, and take courses in these eases there is only disappointment course. This writer took a course at the |Greer College of Auto and Electrica] Engineering two years ago. For $200 |1 was promised complete instruction | {in all phases of automgbile mechan- ie and a complete course in electri- y. The school beasts of its equip- but the motors, , ete. used for’ the training are |mostly taken from old junked cars. |You are told that the cost of the | course is the only expense you'll have {but you find it necessary to buy ex- | pensive ‘books. You are told you need no tools. Because I paid cash I |was presented with a kit of tools The instructors are burdened with \large classes and it is impossible for them to give each student proper worth five dollars, they said. These | tools were all the cheapest possible, being the kind sold in Kresge’s five and ten cent stores. Class Too Large. attention, conscientious, tho I admit, some of the instructors are. The big lighting system of the school is bad and ventilation on some floors vile. Many of the toilets are often in a foul condition. Some of the students feeling they have been “gypped” by the school steal everything they can lay hands on. »A stranger not knowing Chicago often allows the school to find a | lodging for him. And as the landlords | for many blocks around these schools | reap a rich harvest that never ends for the suckers pour in in a never ending stream, from all over Amer- | iea and Canada and even Latin Amer- lca. $16 for a Room. I was assigned a room at four dol- lars a week which I had to share with three other students, each pay- ing four dollars a week also. So that the school was making $16 a week for the over-crowded room, | which anywhere else in the city could have been rented for four dollars a week. The school claims you can get board for seven dollars a week but \I found that in order to obtain any- thing to eat it was necessary’ to pay eight or nine dollars. You are not told of the difficulties of completing your course and no matter what kind of a man you are they promise to make an “expert” out of you. If you have money. enough to finish and get a “diploma,” you will find it worse than useless in getting a job in Chicago, for there is a kind of unwritten law among the garages and electrical firms here never to hire graduates of trade schools. If you want to be hired be sure not to show your “diploma,” Fake Employment Bureau. The Greer School maintains a fake “employment bureau” which, after being sent on a number of fruitless wild goose chases after jobs that do not exist, the student learns to let severely alone. In enrolling you sign an ironclad eontract and unless you pay in full you will find yourself denied admit- every year, often with all their} hools.” In the great majority of | § and heartbreak at the end of such aj} :: automobile | Can’t Break His Spirit 8 | | | \ |g | Boss brutality, official he- trayal have failed to break the spirit of the strikers in the coal fields. Coal and Iron cops, club- bing, jails, murder have also \failed. The miners have met them all with the same militant fearlessness that looks from the face of the young miner in the above picture. Miner corre- spondents, write The DAILY WORKER the day to day condi- tions of your struggle. |Cossacks Break Up Meeting of Miners’ Children (By a Worker Correspondent.) AVELLA, Pa. (By Mail).—I want to tell you what happened in our small village last Saturday. Fannie Toohey came down to organize the children. She had just written the children’s names and addresses and had collected them and was saying, “Well, children,” when all at once, without warning, in came three cos- sacks. One of them took Phillippi out to a store to telephone to the sheriff while two stayed to watch Fannie so she couldn’t talk. One of the cossacks asked Fannie: “What is this?” “A union,” was the answer. “No it’s not,” said the cos- sack. Then he said to tell the chil- dren to go. So what could she do? She had to tell the children that the meeting was adjourned. While this was going on in the hall, the other cossack, who had Phil- lippi, was calling the sheriff. The sheriff's answer was: “You received your orders this morning, so what more do you want?” So the children left. Fannie Too- hey and Phillippi come over to stay with us. Fannie left us some work- ers’ songs and they’re sure hot. Hope we have mass picketing here soon, and may we (we will) win. May The DAILY WORKER be al- ways fighting. —D. Mining Most Hazardous BOSTON, March 18.—NMining is the most hazardous industry, accord- ing to-a report issued by the Nation- al Industrial Conference Board. It has an accident rate of 184.76 to a thousand workers. rtance-to the classes as soon as you are~-unable to~ make -payments—en ciated with collecting agencies that wilf= make you pay by~ any~possible means if you have a cent. The DATLY WORKER exposed some of the worst frauds among the trade schools a year ago. The laws are. very-lax-in regard to them and it is very easy to start a “school.” It is time that the whole rotten graft was exposed for what it is, a colossal capitalist swindle. -—“FORMER STUDENT.” your course. And the school is asso-¢ MARCH 19, 1928 STATE OFFICIALS PLAN NEW BURDEN FOR POOR FARMER |Road Law Would Ruin Many, Is Charge ~ (By a Worker Correspondent.) week. I wish you could write a little article about it from our class point of view. | It affects me not personally, as I lam just a day laborer with no land. | You see I have to work hard and have ja family to care for, but in Fitchburg |I obtain The DAILY WORKER and jother literature. And perhaps We | workers have a psychic sense like 2 | animals for away back in these ham- | lets there are three of us who realize |that it’s to you we must look for | leadership. This is a talk I had with one of the poor’ farmers about the alleged |inerease in the value of lands. The }farmer said that to a certain &egree | this was true, but as taxes were so high and prices so low, almost all the little farmers had to increase their mortgages so that they were no bet- ter off and at present had to steai \from the soil for lack of money to buy fertilizers. He said that the pro- posed board (board to zone the state {highways in order to preserve their natural beauty and entice tourists to | spend money in Massachusetts as is stated frankly in the enclosed clip- pings: Ed.) would be composed of ap- pointed men who know nothing of the poor farmers’ conditions. “IT am a middle-aged man,” he said, “farming is all I know and they will demand expensive fences and build- ings and we make so little. Hun- dreds of the little fellows will have to give up. I never allowed billboards on my land, haye kept it as in my childhood, tho I need the money. I love the land, but soon will have to give it up. God will care for me.” You see the village church had him full of dope. I tried to show him the class struggle instead of a fight be- cween the city and the country. —A LANDLESS LABORER. * * * EDITOR’S NOTE—According to the House Bil 319, which is reported in the clippings sent us by this land- ess farm laborer, 500 feet on either side of all Massachusetts highway: would be under the “absolute ju diction” of a newly created Division of Planning. It is expressly stated that the farmers could build “no building, garage, henhouse or dog- kennel, no walk or fense” within the 500 foot strip. No farmer would be permitted to advertise a single pro- duct he might have for sale without first getting a permit from Boston. The possibilities of graft are enor- mous and would place a new yoke on the neck of the over-burdened poor farmer. “This act would apply to vil- lage as well as outlying land where- ever the state road passes thru the same.” Motorman Hurtin Crash James Bowers, motorman, of 1970 Washington Ave., Mariner’s Harbor, and three more workers were injured when the trolley car he was driving crashed into a truck in front of the United States Gypsum Co’s plant at 857 Richmond Terrace; New Brigh- ton, Staten Island. 3 The motorman, suffering from lacerations of the head, was taken to the Staten Island Hospital. Unemployment Why It Occurs— ROYALSTON, Mass., (By Mail).—} I am enclosing two clippings of the | Hovse Bill 319 which came up las: | % % Garrick, the rebellion of English colonists in America. The play little thing. Never once deserting the i. \ Mary Bilis | of jonly two (minor) characters, who are not either ministers of or to “His Serene Highness,” it yet gives an im- pression of mass revolt, of treason and sabotage, and winds up with a| boost for the rights of man. It is} all done with the general air and | movement of a minuet. Piderit, played by Basil Sydney, soft voiced, urbane, but capable of emotion, is a secretary to His High- ness, and brother of two of the twelve thousand subjects of the prince, whom his serenity is selling at 50 thalers apiece as cannon fodder to the British torys. -Piderit uses the seal of the prince’s lady love to send a message to the king of Prussia, Frederick of Prussia is the personal.hero of Bruno Frank, and Frank implies that pure humanity compels the king to inter- fere with this traffic in human flesh. Actually, Frederick did interfere, somewhat beiatedly, if we remember our history, on the grounds that he was raising German soldiers for his own use, not for sale abroad. But it makes a good play. The messenger of the king of Prussia, a colonel, played with zest and inspira- tion by Lumsden Hare, stalks into the noble man-monger’s court at the last minute, just as the twelve thou- sand sold out troops are starting a revolution—starting it wrong by throwing their rifles into the river. Frederick’s colonel sprawls comforta- bly all over the prince’s excellent and beautiful- furniture, twirls a sword twice as long as any seen so far in the play, sneers at the prince’s min- isters, jeers at the prince’s angry pro- tests, and tells him that Prussia just needs any. kind of a pretext to wipe | sjhim off the map. Then by way of further insult he carries off to safety the sabotaging secretary, also the prince’s mistress, also the secretary’s two brothers.. The only reason the prince doesn’t choke to.death on the spot is because he has quenched the rebellion by. pretending to call off the deal with England on his own account, and is busy with his minister devising new taxes upon the twelve.thousand. notion of Frank’s that there is some- | PRUSSIAN DISCIPLINE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE “ ELVE THOUSAND” at the® is an adaptation from | Bruno Frank, of the story of the in-; terference by King Frederick II of | Prussia, called} i Great,” with the sending of Hes-} sians to put down, is a quaint: self same room in’ the summer palace ; a German princeling, introducing | ‘Roman Empire, \shouting over the fields” at night to thing in common between the Decla- ration of Independence and “enlight- IN GALSWORTHY PLAY kence Macready, who is appearing with Leslie Howard in “Escape.” The |Galsworthy drama is now in its final | week at the Booth Theatre. enthusiasm for both theories than events at the time of Frank’s writing would seem to justify, but as com- pared with the dukedoms of the Holy where “men run keep the sacrosanct—noble game from eating their lowly but necessary corn—Frederick and Washington might both be said to be radicals. The right to make a revolution is defend- ed in the play, not of course the right to revolt in Prussia or in Amer- ica. The scenery is wonderful, Mary Ellis as the ‘prince’s lady is a regular Dresden china dolly, except when, on account of the hoop-skirts, she looks like a haystack made of buttercups. Faucett, the English envoy, is most realistic, especially when he accuses the prince of cheating him on the fol- lowing counts: substituting mere boys for grown warriors, giving them rot- ten and ragged uniforms, providing them with old guns last used in the Thirty Years’ War, stealing the sol- diers’ pay, and issuing straw boots instead of leather, On the other hand, the prince makes out a case that sup- plies bought of the English for the soldiers were worthless. Diplomacy, if this be a true picture of the 1778 brand, has not changed much in the last 150 years, —V. Ss. JEFFERSON Monday to Wednesday, George Whiting and Saide Burt; Lou Krugel and Charles Robles; Two Southern Girls (the Misses Rocklitz and Moore); other acts, On the screen: “Sailors’ Wives” with Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes. Thursday to Sunday, The play is shot through with the \“The Patent Leather Kid,” starring Richard Barthelmess, Vaudeville bill including Frank Wheeler and Dorothy Sands in “For No Reason At All”; ened despotism.” There is much more other acts. | KEITH- ALBEE NEW YORK CAMEO “Ivan the Terrible’ outstanding production. a Gl 42nd St. & Bway. PREMIERE nd BIG WEEK |2 The remarkable. Russian screen masterpiece—A Sovkino Production Czar Ivan the Terrible Enacted by the MOSCOW ART PLAYERS headed by LEONIDOFF. Such acting rarely seen ! fo a job contract. Housing his victims in a squalid shack, at the lake, Lippner forced them to haul water and wood as part of their “employment” pending the in the movies."—-CARMON, DAILY WOR R. “Best cinema show of last few months.”"—WATTS, TRIBUNE. “A worthy picture.”"—-HALL, TIMES, “Perfect motion picture."—-EVENINGg TELEGRAM. — every available square foot of sleep-| Defenders of” ing space not reserved for the thirty- | TH Ez DAI LY wo R K E R | How to Fight It by i two policemen of that platoon. At Eleventh and Winter Streets, 96 were accommodated; at Fourth and! hotel construction. After keeping| p, Streets ‘75 yénttath |b |E. Weiser, Passaic, N. J. ..1,00; Finn. Wkrs Club, Scotia, N. Y..25.00 Patt ig he “discharged” them and announced] funds to procure lodgings, were sent | S- Rosenthal, Canton, Ohi S. Ponce. New York City. 2.00 Booth, W. 45th St. Eyes, 8:40 || O'Neill's Str; e Interlude the employment contract as vo to the St. Ignatius’ House, at 2113}/G- Anspake, New York City. ld H. Brink, New York City. . 1.00 5,000,000 are walk- Mats. Wed. & Sat. Play, ang The labor-skinner is in | Aline Street.) |M. Shapovolov, Riverside,. Cal. G. Metoru, Rock Springs, Wyo..2\50|.f| >? > JOHN GALSWORTHY'S Flay John Golden Thea., 58th, B. of B'way complaint charging fraud will be PENI | E. Guenter, Santa Cruz, Cal.. J. Kotraros, Rock Springs, Wyo.5.00 ing the streets today | SCAPE LESLIE Evenings Only at 5:30, filed against him in the cour s today. x é \C. Carlson, Santa €ruz, Cal G. Morphis, Rock Springs, Wyo. .5.00 in this land of “pros- HOWARD | EUGENE O'NEILL'S ¢ ihe Be eevioimint ound so| Children Refugees Live | H. See cane Cruz, Cal. S. Kehayas, Rock Springs. Wyo.2.00 Be se ; a Peers ; Marco Millions : acute in this “oasis of abundance’ | 43 J. Sosko, Wilkes-Barre, i Friend, ching, N. ‘i het * < {the words of Mayor Cryer) that | UI Cavern After Flood / Chow. ske. peice eating 3 a es Bales es Beas ay | pexity l FULTON | Fy Tu, W. 52d St. Evs, 8:30 , : | e Pitted pelea ne ithenaiiate wena ; VACUA yonvscse. Guild yt "imurs. & Sat) 2:80 workers are ready to do aly \H, any- Fuller, Balto.. Md.... Camp Nitgedaiget, Beacon, N.Y.45.96 thing to escape being sent to jail as| NEWHALL, Cal, March 18—| porch 7. L, D., Newark, N. J...5.00|Jugoslav Workers’ Club, Pitts- They want to know . TEL oF Meatineees MO oak ae Haren ae fags” Emerging from the chaos of the St.) Roum, Alamida, Cal.........800| butgh, Pa, .00|1 why—they will wel- OF THEM ALL. Wed. & Sat. he Doctor's Dilemma” To eat and charge it up to the hag eae eet pont tle: A, Tobey, Oakland, Cal .200|T. H. Cottcy, Parsons, Iansas. 5.00 |{! ; eon . eg < mayor, is advocated in some quarters. | Rivera, 1 alked into Newhall to-' ntys. G, Kastliski, Palmer, Mass.1.00|8. Bitker, Lansing, Ohio... , come an effective so- SAM FTARRIS Ther, 42a, W. of P, RINDAL, | 98%; leading by the hands his sister,|y tj,galinac, Palmer, M 5.00|L. Villas.’ New York Cit ; u. Bway. ) Evs, 8:80, ee " J Belle, 10, and brother, Francis, 8, | ¢; Teprewant Gileaxe. ne “900/F. “tees Nae vee City. lution. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 9 Republic Th: W. 424. Bvs.s:40 i Taker oePhig oak ee § whom he rescued from the turbulent | >* Catt se Rigel 7 : i 7 ke Cit CPUDNC “Mats. Wed.&Sat,2: Paris Commune Meeting! flood Tuesday and sheltered in San| nin, Bunin & Co. N. Y. C...10.00|G. Fleurant, New York City, . Ss d This Timel LOVELY LA DY " |Martinos Canyon for three days and J. A. Cooney, Toledo, Ohio...... 5.00 | i. Shamatovich, Bridgeport, Con.1.00 prea Ad ‘with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson. — In Washington March 23) nights |M. Gerst, New York City...... 10.00|]P. Hecun, Bridgeport, Conn... .1.00 Pamphlet! { KEW ‘ The three children, half starved, | Lithuanian Liter, Society, 6th Br., Mothers’ League of N. E,, Brock- f | Theatre, West 48 St. Evs, 8: Se TEER ON | WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.| still wore their night clothes which | _ Phila. Pa. . ton Branch «1... 0. ...s.sse. SOO cc hai COPEBS: Ke HICORT "wars: wud: and SAT. 230 | - ace auen @ WederMan ihspean 7 +-A Paris Commune celebration will] were in shreds. Br. 31, Sec. 6, Bronx, N, b a Schnebelen Family, Phila., Pa...5.00 3 T W R E Cc K E R S KEITH-ALBEE ACTS, Including be held Friday, March 23 at 8:30 p.| Seven other members of the family, | Arven, New York City. A. Kozakoff, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. .5.00 100 or over 3c. 3 pUGMl emo Cie in, at 1337 Seventh St. N. W. under] including the lad’s mother and father, |J- Lemsen, (col.) Bridgeport 00} J. Burke, St. Pete, Fla........2,00 eK \J|Thoroughly Entertaining Shocker.” ARCELOR ame ‘yas the auspices of the Young Workers! perished. [zs a ae Coren Pa, fe oC ik % Teena wey B. C. ee 1 rie Sete | em rWerld. | itr Mary Astor & Lloyd Hughes. (Communist) League Speakers repre- jt. F. Lemley, (col. sae He etl airihhek (nts geter cnet A aghs tn) aae dt) as Sr : | WORKERS ARY PUB- We OF Sway - senting the Young Workers League, |W. Beck, Bronx, N, Y... S. Szalkey, Toledo, Ohio |. pl, mca 125th St.: National Tyss's0. vite Wed. @Sacs ae HUDSON Theatre, Went 44th Street. i the Workers (Communist( Party and|{ Are you a W. C. L. A., St. Paul, Minn. W. Szalkay, Toledo, Ohio. , hast pet i » ies ae Sn ee ee ce aie Sat. fi the Young Pioneers will address the “DAILY WORKER” |M. Almond, Detrcit, Mich. S. Reinis, San Francisco, Cal... .2. New York City. ‘The Trial of Mary Dugan \ ‘ meeting. A musical program has aisc worker daily? $|; Santell, Atlantic City, N. J..1.0 | % C, Mershon, San Fran., Cal By Bayard Veiller, WHISPERING FRIENDS eh arranged. po at M caaneg Workers P. Unit, Schenectady..10 !M.Raport, Petaluma, Cal | with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman, ' ; : : ‘ ’ ali “_=—