The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1928, Page 4

2 Nanna SB NI SSN RRR THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1928 - = aaa 5 = = P ~~ of KEYSTONE POTTERY, MURRAY RUBBER COMPANY SLASH TRENTON WORKERS’ WAGES The most peculiar thing is the great calm with which these wage cuts were accepted, like the calm be- fore a storm. Can the workers stand much more such abuse? What will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back? —wW. easy Page Four due to low wages, are months behind) was announced, great interest was ,to quote figures on the decrease or TRENTON, N. J., (By Mail).—|in their payment of rent. The rents| shown by the model, law-obeying and /unemployment. Coolidge was freely % é : “god” i itizens ag | it | his. latest. “prosperity” . “oa he e Bt rin are extremely high, ow- god”’-fearing citizens as to. what it | quoted on. There are hundreds and hundreds of |in Trenton are extre mely high, ow would ‘BERSEhe caadovity: predictédiauf bine TRE senetisuen chy, many Workers in Trenton today who are |ing chiefly to the high rate of taxa- expected relief in a lower rate: Wworkera ss eh Tf ome. When the unable to pay their rent due to un- tion. The so-called city fathers kept|new~rate was announced it was 16 Weeks employment and there are others, who, | mum but the capitalist press began lenis per hundred higher than the Facts Right in Western Electric Co. Expose, Worker Correspondent Declares CHEAT EMPLOYES Urze Workers |eHIGAGO JOBLESS| T=tHe,Grow, ” |1aongo0 TEXTILE | ~ WITH PERCENTAGE ‘2. 4¢¢ £<00”'S FORMUNEMPLOYED OPERATIVES NEED TIME CAMOUFLAGE "°° COUNCIL AT MEET TO BE ORGANIZED eu. cas (By a Worker Correspondent) | [Aue those who enjoy musical com- } previous rate. This was quite a shock announced a decrease of ten per cent to the “perfectly good citizens.” hint all wages. Not to be outdone, the Of course something had to be/Murray Rubber Co., the biggest rub- done to relieve the situation, so our|ber mill still operating, announced a locel industries promptly “came tojcut of five cents an hour. Murray by |the rescue.” The Keystone Pottery,|the way, is one of our leading poli- | one of the largest in Trenton, at once |ticians and “most useful” citizens. before the rate for 1928! 62 | Declaration The Amalgamated Textile Coun- cils do not desire to compete with | other Textile Unions; rather it) seeks to cooperate with them in and make a united fight against the bosses. As a proof of our sin- cerity in this declaration we will the cards of. other| unions and allow their owners to Progressives Leading Fight on Wage Cuts (By a Worker Correspondent.) The Co-operative movement has| edies or operattas should visit the MenWorkTwiceasHard; |suttered BUA aes: and|Tssue 7 Strong Demands é- E their organizations have been more} j 2, . : Get Twice as Little | Want Work or Relief Lyric Theatre where a musical ver- | sion of “The Three Musketeers” is or less passive towards it. Most al-| recognize v it has been left to develop on (By a Worker Correspondent.) its own In some circles | ene (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, (By Mail).—I have been reading one of your papers dated March 14, and I am very glad to know that th is at t one good newspaper in that ex- poses some of the stic conditions @ man must go thru while working in some corporations. Plain Facts. I noticed an article in your paper giving plain facts about what is hap- pening in the Western Electric Com- pany’s Hawthorne unit. I am an employe of this company and I must say that you print noth- ing but the truth. Before being transferred, I was working in the department that assembles loading eoils in cases, and I know every- thing you had in print was a fact. I find it very difficult for a person working in any of their gang piece work department to make an exist- ence let alone trying to make a li wage. The men work much harder in the last few years and turn out twice as much work for less money; | all thru a “gyp” percentage. At the rate the men are working in this par- ticular department, they should re- ceive from 80 to 100 per cent, but they never get it and they have to be sati 2d to hold down the places and dare not complain for fear of losing their jobs. But while w. s slack and many men are out of employment they have to be satisfied until conditions are better thruout the country and then plenty will leave. The company kno Slack and they sure treat some of their employes, who have been work- ing for them 10 or 15 years, mighty rough, trying to get them disgusted so they will quit. And then they get some young help to take their place. That is a fine thing for a large cor- poration to do after they boast in the Chicago newspapers, that the Western Electric Co. and employes are one family, as well as other bunk. A military training school has nothing on this place for the “don’t do this” and “don’t do that.” “Percentage Time.” The so-called department chiefs ret a “living wage” by running their de- partments as cheap as they can, which means that their men have to work themselves to death for a bare existence, and at the end of the month on so-called “percentage time,” in- stead of getting $18 or $20 extra com- pensation for his month’s work a man finds one dollar and _ seventy-five cents. Some months he gets a little more, but very seldom much more. I will close now after stating these facts. —“ELECTRICAL.” # * * (EDITOR’S NOTE—The expose ef conditions under which the workers slave in the Hawthorne unit of the Western Electric Co. in Chicago appeared in The DAILY WORKER of March 14. In it the Worker Correspondent from that shop described the gang system, speed-up and wage “gyp” schemes of the corporation. He told how 28,000 workers are unorganized in the Western Electric in Chicago. The present Worker Correspondent should send The DAILY WORKER his name and address so that a regular fight of conditions in the Hawthorne plant can be started and the two Correspondents can, with Mayor Wm. Hale Thompson. The | EG ene — eesaareiee tere) WEEK . Eugene the proper precautions, be brought | wasHINGTON, March 22.--While | a™ouncement of the resolution to the ‘HIS should be good news to Booth, w. 44th St. Eves..8i40 || ONet's Strange Interlude into contact with one another for | do-calied -Didarm nt Conference | Mayor was received with applause and |]} Mats. Wed. at. y 8 sary J | JOHN GALSWORTHY'S Play more efficient activity. , the House Ap- ~ : ues Bveni Ont 380. ‘| eee i propriations Committee yesterday re- hall aoe present ere eee toll a bank on the East Side that SCALE HOWARD Siceee ee Warned Los Angeles _ [ported the Naval Bill for the fiscal| Sign their names an pesrigdta . . i sts, abi jyear 1929 carrying a total of $369,-|Sheets of paper, so that we could )}/ is open for your convenience che = aith WEEK \ Marco Millions Official About Dam | 190,737 described as the largest ap-| notify them of future meetings of the |} THREE NIGHTS A WEEK: (By «. Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail). —-Tony Harnischfeger was the care- taker of the St. neis dam which collapsed at 10 o'clock last Tuesday morning causing the death of hun- dreds of men and women. According to R. B, Burns, an Eliza- beth Lake farmer, the care-taker of i |movement is to abolish the capitalist vs that things are} considered purely as a com-| mercial enterprise. Very seldom do} |we find that w rs organizations | }do any co-operative work, or try to/| learn of its principles and aims. As ja result of this inattention on the | part of the organized wo: 's the co- operative movement in parts has de- | veloped tendencies to separate it |from other working class movements. Working Class Consumers. | | The co-operative movement is a movement of the working class con-| jsumers. It is a mass movement, aim-| ing to abolish all exploitation, middle- | men and the whole of the capitalistic system of production and distribution, which is based on private profit. As such a mass movement it calls to its} folds all consumers, regardless of | jrace, color or religion, to work for a} | Co-operative system of production and |distribution, which is based on ser- | vice. | As the \ aim of the co-operative | system, in its practical and organiza- tional work, it is in constant conflict | with the capitalist state. Co-operative jorganizations are compelled to fight against the unfavorable laws, such as taxation, tariff and other political moves which aid to limit and set ob- stacles for the progress of the co-| operative movement. Between the co-operative movement and the capi- talistic state there exists continuous struggle for supremacy and towards this great struggle the co-operative Movement cannot be neutral. It must take a definite stand against capitalism. | The co-operative movement organ- |izes consumers of all working class | groups, parties and factions. Elements | in these factions are desirable |material for the co-operative move- ment. And the progressive co-opera- tive policy should be to form a united | front with all of these factions and j work fairly and justly towards all of | jthem. With such a policy and work- jing program the co-operative mov |ment must gain the confidence of these working class consumers. All working class consumers should recognize the co-operative movement their own and work for it. The ollowing suggestions may help. Program. 1. In arranging socials and gatherings something about co-oper: tion should be included in the pro- gram, 2. -.Literature “committees should be instructed to distribute literature on co-operation. 8. All assistance should be given to the co-operative organizations in their membership campaigns, educa- tional activities and united front struggles. 4. All assistance should be given to the co-operative organizations in carrying on working class education among its members and employees. Employees especially are mission- jaries of co-operation and therefore their class education is extremely im- portant. Last, but not least, it is neces- that all the class conscious workers join the co-operative organi- zation as members and actively sup- port them in all their undertakings. No lip service. —HENRY ASKELI. /$369,190,737 Asked In New Navy Bill is going on in Gene propriation of the kind ever asked of Congress. Alaska Snow-Bound ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 22. —One of the worst snow storms in the history of this section has been sweeping over the Alaska Railroad belt for five days. Passengers for the CHICAGO, (By Mail)—On Mon- day morning at Redifer Hall, 30 N. Wells St., there was held a mass meet- ing of the unemployed. The meeting | was called under the auspices of the Young Workers (Communist) League of America, and about 500 persons | were present. | |talk and vote in our COUNCIL meetings of the mill where they are employed. The Amalgamated | Textile Councils will do all in its | power to facilitate the amalgama- tion of all Textile Unions into ONE | UNION, of the industry. | The national headquarters of the | Amalgamated Textile Councils of LAWRENCE, Mass., (By mail).— Workers who attended the Progressive Textile Conference in Boston, Sunday, March 11, have gone back to their re- spective cities and towns with a clear- er understanding of the textile situa- tion. The Progressive Conferer@e voted to form textile mill committees in ev- now playing. Adapted from the famous story by Alexandre Dumas, the play is produced by Florenz Zieg- feld in his usual extravagant style. | The play is gay and full of life {and is a masterpiece of color and splendor—and ‘some of it is even more than that. Special mention must be Huge Crowd. | America is at 1755 Westminster Though the meeting was scheduled | Is .. Providence, Rhode Island. for 10.30 in the morning, there was an | @— = overflow crowd in the hall at 10:00} : orelock. A larger hall was rented in|® Months for Starving the same building and this too was/| soon crowded with unemployed wor! Men Who Stole Bread ers. Many had to stay outside as| 5 ok. there was not a square foot in the | (By a Worker Gorreeponiont.) hall that was not occupied. | PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail). The meeting was opened by Samuel} Two men have been arrested here. A. Herman, of the Young Workers| They were without food and shelter League. After a few preliminary|for days. They took two loaves of remarks, he introduced Edgar Hart, bread from the steps of the sheriff’s of the Workers (Communist) Party.| home. For that they were sentenced Following him, Gilbert Green, Dis-| to three months in the county jail. If trict Organizer of the League, made| we compare this case. with those of a short address. By this time the/| Fall, Sinclair, Burns & Co., we find hundreds of unemployed workers} that the old song still holds true. —> ery city and town where a textile made of the tapestried curtains de- bay fe located. Organizers. were | Signed. by Joseph Urban which are elected to take the field and aid in @ feast for the eye. ‘ forming these committees, | The best bet of the evening of A widespread sentiment for organ-| Many delights is Dennis King whe jzation exists at the present time portrays D’Artagnan. In a voice that among the thousands of exploited tex- is more than satisfying he becomes tile workers in. this. vicinity. bosses can hardly speed up and dou- is on the stage. The supporting cast ble the worker any further. Theirjis of an unusually high character. li is about reached and wage cuts|They include Detmar Poppen, Joseph are the order of the day. With thé;Macaulay and Douglass R. Dumbrille correct program and a militant lead-|as the musketeers; Vivienne Segal ership the textile workers can be or-|Lester Allan and Yvonne D’Arle. ganized in spite of the sour-faced, | Reginald Owen as Cardinal Richelieu belly-aching pessimists who like to! must not be forgotten. throw cold water on every militant! effort. The present discontent must) ple, it will not be repeated here. Nor be crystallized and a powerful textile| should future audiences visit the op- The the center of attraction whenever he| As the plot is known to most peo-| llot of the workers in the country of | present were eager to discuss neces- | sary measures in behalf of the un-/} employed. The Y. W. L. representa- tives had laid down the following de- | mands as a basis for discussions: 1. A $2.00 daily minimum wage grant for all unemployed young work- | ers to be paid by the local authorities. Adult workers to be paid a larger} minimum wage based on number of | dependents necessary to support. | 2. The immediate establishment | of centers of an educational and so- cial character for the benefit of the unemployed. These to be under labor | control. | 3. Free food and clothing for the} children of the unemployed workers | —to be supplied in schools. 4. No discrimination against the| Negro unemployed workers in all} matters of unemployed relief. 5. Six hour day—five day week | for all young workers. The eight} hour day—five-day week for all adult, workers, . 6. The abolition of child labor and state maintainence of all children at present employed. 7. Work or Relief. Negro Appeals For Unity. | Uriemployed worker after unem-| ployed worker took the floor in dis- | cussion and pictured vividly the} misery and wretchedness that is the Coolidge “prosperity.” A Negro} worker in particular struck a sym- pathetic chord when he remarked: “We workers must get together to demand relief or work regardless of color, race, or religion.” Many ser- vice men who were present took the floor and spoke bitterly against governmental neglect of the problems of the unemployed workers. After -a lengthy discussion, the task of organizing the unemployed workers present into an unemployed council was begun. The unemployed were asked whether they desired to organize themselves into an “Unem- ployed Council of Chicago.” As one} man they responded with a thunder- ous “Aye.” Thereupon, an executive committee of 30 was chosen to repre- sent the unemployed workers. On committee were many young work-| ers. Several Negro workers were also | members of the committee. The mass meeting was adjourned after the un- employed workers were informed that the executive committee would hold a short meeting for the purpose of drawing up a resolution to present to high enthusiasm. Before leaving the “Council.” Several hundred names and addresses were thus secured. However, if work for the unem- ployed cannote be found, the city au- thorities must grant relief for the un- employed until work is found for. them. The committee then elected Samuel A. Herman as their chairman. The meeting was then adjourned and the entire committee walked over, to the City Hall and presented the reso- Why prosecute the man or woman Who steals the godse from off the common, And let the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose? The Philadelphia Inquirer states to- day editorially, that there is “a se- yere economic crisis in Russia. The situation is said to be worse than in 1921.” (It seems as though they got the U. S. S. R. mixed up with the U. S. A.). Then asks the editor, “What has Stalin been doing to turn assumed that, with’ the: exile of Trot- | sky and -other rivals,’ the -dietator would-be more friendly to: capitalism, that-it -was part of his purpose, in fact;-te-bring Russia more closely in line with the rest of Europe in re- spect>to “economic. development. The tendéicy ‘to political cooperation at Geneva. added probably to” that .as- sumption. Apparently hoe has adopted the reverse policy.” It must be mis- | erably: hard for capitalists to under- stand ‘any -Communist policy. They always €xpéct the reverse of anything that is being done. In his last lines the editor asks: “How long will it be before he (meaning Stalin) is over- thrown? There can be no stability for a house built on sand.” This ques- tion they were asking themselves ten years ago. R —F. H. SSS visit the local unions and fraternal organizations, the holding of a larger mass meeting of unemployed, etc. On the whole, the meeting called by the Young Workers League of Dis- trict 8, was a huge success. Definite organizational results were secured and the future promises to realize in Chicago what has already been ac- complished in New York, Cleveland and other cities, that is a powerful Council of Unemployed struggling unemployed workers of Chicago. back the hands of the clock? It was| militantly in behalf of the 300,000 | workers’ organization formed. In the textile industry there are a million workers. There are no more than 65,000 out of this number organ- ized, The two main unions are the United Textile Workers (U. T. W.) and the American Federation of Tex- tile Operatives (A. F. of T. 0.). The former has the larger membership. The A. F. T. O. years ago broke away from the U. T. W. principally because it was not progressive enough. But today the leaders of the A. F. T. 0. are just as reactionary as the leaders of the United Textile Workers. Both of these unions have become discredited among the textile workers because of the misleadership of Me- Mahon (U. T. W.), Batty and Binns (A. F. T. 0.Y and their machine-con- trolled yes-boys. These “misleaders therefore cannot, even if they wanted to, organize the textile workers, They had their chance, but did nothing. But the progressives must not fail in their chance. It has arrived. Organize: and activize the workers! Mill. committees in every city and town! Let every mill committee have its own shop paper! Expose unmerci- fully every misleader who would be- tray the textile workers. : FRED E. BEAL. Farm Workers’ Wages Decline Thruout U.S. WASHINGTON, D. C. March 22.— A survey recently completed and made public, investigating the earn- ings of the farm workers thruout the land, show that the average wage of a worker on the farms is $2.34 per day without board. This is a decline of about 5 cents a day over last year, in spite of the greatly increased pro- ductivity of farm labor. Industrial in- terests generally and those who em- ploy unskilled labor in particular, closely watch the wages paid to farm workers. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? deposit as you wish : OPEN TONIGHT ... until 8 o'clock! you! Now, at last, you have | a Mondays, Wednesdays and | Fridays from 9 in the morning until 8 at | night. Open a new account, withdraw or This Is Just Another Way in Which We Serve the People Who Save! . whenever you wish! eratta expecting to see 4 play of any importance. If they do, they will be disappointed. On the other hand, if one wants to see a riot of color, lynamie action and hear some fine singing voices they will have an eve- ning of enjoyment. It is a blood-chilling, blood-heating \romance, that keeps the audience on the alert for the more than three hours necessary to tell the story. But to get back to Mr. King. The musi- cal comedy business has many com- edians and beautful chorus girls but not many men who can play the type of role that Mr. King does, and- in such a superior manner, The play is adapted from the orig- inal..by William Anthony MeGQnire who also is responsible for the stag- ing. The music is by Rudolph Frim) and the lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey. The dances are staged by Albertina Rasch. a —__.. DEAD WOMAN REVIVED. WASHINGTON, March 22, — An unidentified woman was taken from a train here yesterday, pronounced dead from poisoning and removed to the morgue. Three hours later she began to breathe and physicians now hope to save her life. Lynn Fontanne plays an import- ant part in the success of “Strange Interlude,” the O’Neill play at the John Golden Theatre. Broadway Briefs aq A special matinee performance of “The Command to Love” will be given jat the Longacre Theatre this after- |noon for the benefit of the Actors’ | Fund. Bernard Gorcey, who created the part of Israel Cohen in Anne Nichols’ “Abie’s Trish Rose,” which ran on Broadway some five years, will be the principal attraction at the Four Arts Club at the Pythian Temple this evening. Ruth Manning, contralto and Florence Stearn, violinist, will form part of the musical program on the same occasion. “The. Royal Family,” will play its 100th performance at the Selwyn Theatre tonight. Fleet Plans Maneuvers To Cow Latin America WASHINGTON, March 22. — The next American “good-will tour’ may be a visit of the navy’s most power- ful fighting ships to ports on the west coast of South America in Feb- ruary 1929, it was disclosed today. Specially selected ships, including battleships, cruisers, destroyers and probably submarines, will make the cruise, The battle fleet in the Pacifie will practice fo rwar off Puget Sound, San’ Francisco and San Diego until summer. pesca KEITH- CAME ALBEE Enacted by the MOSCOW ART “Ivan the Terrible’ ow in the movie NEW YORK PREMIERE The remarkable, Russian screen masterpiece—A Sovkino Production Czar Ivan the Terrible headed by LEONIDOFF. tanding production. epost ytte,me 7 CARMON, DAILY, WORKER. cinema show of last few 'months."—WATTS, “A worthy picture.”—HALL, ‘TIMES. Ui tide ‘Perfect motion picture.”—-EVENING TELEGRAM. ES nd BIG WEEK 42nd St. & B’way O PLAYERS Such acting rarely seen SESS SESS SSS Sesessresr sss) AMES presents Lb way, 46 St. E t) FULTON ‘Mats’ Wed.«Sat. 2:30 The Greatest Thriller of Them All! Theatre, West 48 St. Evs. 8:20 CORT MATS, WED. and SAT, 2:30, PeWRECKER DRA —~ The Theatre Gulld presents — John Golden 'Thea., 58th, E. of B'way ‘ Th., W. 52d St. Evs, Guild Srais inure & Sat Extra Matinee Wednesday Week of March 26; “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY je Th, W. 42d, Evs.8:40 Republic Kats Wea @aats240 | Kea : the dam protested that it was liable|steamship Alaska were forced to| lution at the mayor's office. The ta s URDAYS pes ae alates ties gpl SU SEF EER ae to go out and was told by a high offi-|reach the vessel by airplane. | mayor not being there, his secretary ARD CUvGR EE od 3 onan 75 - | 4 ps geet = 24-25 cial of the Los Angeles water de- mt | John Kelly received the zesolution ‘ W. of B'wa: EVELYN NESBLE partment to keep his mouth shut “or and promised to present it to the . 1) he would go out.” Well, Tony did keep his mouth shut in order to keep his job. He went to sleep in his home just below the dam and was caught in the flood. The worker manner. did “go out” in a terrible aot. P. RINDAL. Arctic Explorer Saved | SEWARD, Alaska, March 22.— Radio communication was re-estab- lished late last night with the Artic explorer George H. Wilkins and his pilot Carl Ben Eielson who were be- lieved to have crashed in Alaska. , mayor upon his return. The Committee thereupon decided! to hold a meeting on Wednesday, March 21st at Redifer Hall, 30 N. Wells St. At this meeting many im- portant problems will be discussed |} such as the securing of a_head- quarters. sending out membeas to , } CITIZEN Ss. Joa $i, ‘Theatre, 41 St. eco Eys.8:30, Mts, Wed.&Sat.2:30 “The Trial af Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherrymai Galli-Curci will give another recital this Sunday evening at Carnegie Hall (in person) Brown & Whitaker—Other Acts “THE PATENT LEATHER KID® with Richard Barthelmess, Theatre, West 44th Street. HUDSON Evs. 8:30. Mats, Wed.& Sat. THE NEW COHAN FARCE | WHISPERING FRIENDS