The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORE 'W YORK, WEDN DAY, MARCH 28, 1928 New _ Hampshire Bigs Serfs Demand Organization, Correspondent BOSSES FORCE _WACE SLASHES, LONGER HOURS Progressives Leading Firm Resistance By « : MANC HES ER, of Worker Correspondent.) i, Ce Mail}. te that took under the Tex- New Dele- March 1 Pro Committee this. place in Bostor leadership of tile Workers’ England gates from New | gani attend ive evidence of every i the and Fall usetts, attended conference i great especially when tak with the fact that importance two above citie of ten per cent a few months ago. The conference studied the si tion in the industry very carefully from all angles and drew up a prac- tical program for organizing the un- organized textile worke 150,000 Joble The conditions eine which the tex- tile workers erable. The the last two y the last few mo more than 150,000 two per cent of the textile workers are unemployed c ing part time ‘The unemploym situation is a weapon the hands of the boss. But in spite of unemployment, produc- tion has -increased, according to manufacturer And, of course, the profits of the different have increased.’ For ex- es. companies show a profit of In 1926, the profit Inhuman Speed-up. One cause of the unemployment is improved maghinery and the in- human speed-up system. Hours » have increased in many places from 48 to 5 And in many mills night work new runs from 60 to 72 hours a week. The wage reduction that began two months ago spread thru all the New England mills. In the} | ne | corded. Merrimack Mills of Low- | | hospital officials should receive a copy | there will come a day of workers’ | Justice. the last two months the textile | barons cut the wages of 100,000 textile workers. The gi i campaign of the production has The slogan achinery, inc entire bosses is, “ of the the speed-up sy: more wage c and more production.” The te who are today ] situation must. re- stop the campaign of the bosses and better their own con- ditions. ve the po the only thing they need is organization. The result of the progressive con- ference was to urge the formation of Texti Mill Commit The basis of this organization will be mill which will link them- ttees p into a national industrial f are: “Down with the speed- up system! forty- -hour wages! we PETE HAGELIAS. JP SYSTEM. 4 March ~ A mass e¢ under the auspices of the ter branch of Interna tional Defense will be held at the on Hall, 18% Thir W. with Jame . Cannon, national se¢ etary of the organization, who will #speak on the Amcrican frame-up stem. Admis: the Ho 2 free three months’ subscription sto vor Defends hours, | |Charles D. Hilles, former republican “No overtime!” | He ridiculed Hoover as “this great “Increased; r oft ce, lt imposes a state tax of $250 | ont agencies and $50 on sub- | | sublimest instance of epistolary hum- Worker's Child POLICE BRUTALLY Cops Hound Cab N Drivers from 5 Car Taxistands A fellow-driver told me the other} | that I can find space in your | | paper for any interesting matter as| )regards the conditions of the taxicab! I think I have two good} | Sick; Hospital Won't Operate er Correspondent.) (By a Work PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). I want you to publish this story, it is true. It will let the workers know what tres they can expect at the hospi of Philadelpjhia. Today t a frail little woman, a mother; come’ from the Jefferson Hospital where she-had taken her little boy. The teacher at school had sent notes that the boy was becoming deaf and | must undergo. an operation... This mother of three: children looked as if she needed medical-care he is the wife of a man who was injur while in the service and is now wor! ing at a job where’ he makes barely ment In who: told me she had just - “éndugh’ to’ live’on. tun her little girl whe didn’t have the money The child cannot follow to get them. her studies because it makes her head| ache. At the hospital they told her that| the. boy could not be operated on for} less than, six dolla: The mother ex- plained to the al sgrvice worker | on duty that morning at the accident | ward of the Jefferson Hospital that | she had only five dollars and she had | to live until Saturday~on that. The ce worker “demanded a nd the rest when the boy was taken home. But when this worker’s wife told the social service worker that the boy had a fever (the nurse in attendance had said so) the al service worker gave her back e dollars of the fi on her that she must have six dolla for the t ion. boy’s ep: Now So! | |the cab was gone. the workers who are the this is treatment that| al ones who anything, even the food for this miserable specimen of a social service worker, are ac- It again proves that unless we are able to pay we must see our children suffer and are helpless to prevent it unless we organize to see that the hospitals are really refuges of mercy. Of course we know that, at the present time, the capitalist sys’ has control of our hospitals and that the worker: re oppressed even there, but the social vice worker and the produce of this letter to let them know that —W. c. P.. | More Oil Witnesses | Are Sent Subpoenaes | WASHINGTON, Mar. 27.—Among witnesses subpoenaed for the resump- tion Friday of the senate committee’s in igation of the republican party’s oil slush fund are John T. Adams, suc- cessor to Will H. Hays as republican | national committee chairman, and |national treasurer. NEEL rd ROASTS HOOV ER. “WASHINGTON, March 27 (FP)—|| | Sen. Neely of West Virginia, demo- entertained the senate with 2 al analysis of Herbert Hoover’s reply to Sen. Borah’s _ questionnaire | on the prohibition ue. Neely showed that Hoover after two weeks of consideration of Borah’s questions had dodged all of them but one. He} described Hoover’s letter as “the erat, er bugery within the memory of man.” zlish statesman and dodger,” and s a pity that Hoover could been born twins so that he n in both ties and on of every issue. | could r both sid THE ATRE | sc ALPER BILL SIGNED | ALBANY, March 27. Governor Smith has signed the Bloch bill aimed t scalpers in New new statute prohibits | the resale of theatre tickets in any # licensed broker’s agencies, | of ing at a fair price. i ‘ Let us estimate on your work » val eACTIVE PRESS : wee OR POR A TR Ds wera ya FIRST STREET NEW YORK OOD print all description Telephone ORCHARD 2 “Taxi Weekly, needed | alle ;|the “Taxi Weekly,” then by two gunmen who drove away | checker 47th St. LUMP” TAXIMA ON FAKE CHARGE Hit Him Over Kidneys; so Blows Won’t Show (By a Worker Correspondent.) How bad the taxi dri of New| York City are in need of an organ- ization to protect them from persec tion at the hands of their bosses and | {members of the police (lump) squad | you can see in this week’s issue of | ” a trade newspaper. Accused of tires, Albert Jurvis, a taxi driver of 1050 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, was de- tained at the West 47th St. police sta- anhattan, las k, where he he was beaten mped up) and |the “third degree” quelle. He was ar of his boss Benjamin Gluckman, fleet owner. “I drove for Gluckman about two years ago,” Jurvis told a reporter for “and was held up in add by detective Ma: a with the cab. I reported the theft at the Stagg street police station. The I was discharged by Gluck- se, as he said, I did not show enough fight, The cab was later recovered by the police. Three weeks ago, I was employed as a driver for Gluckman. Every hing went all right for four days. On the fifth day I stopped work for a little e and impressed |; Si hile to go to a restaurant at 56th t. and 8th Ave. When I came out It was a mogul cab and was not equipped | with a lock. I reported to the West police station and was tol to look around for it. I did this but found no trace of the cab. When I reported to Gluckman’s garage the next afternoon, I was told that the eab had been recovered; it was strip- ped of tires and abandoned. He struck me in the kidneys most- ly so that no marks would show. I am innocent of any theft and the fact that I was held up twice while driv- ing for Gluckman was merely a co- incidence and “tough luck.” —X. stripping his cab of | ted on complaint | The next day I was taken to the} station house and received a beating | from detective Masquelle who tried to force a confession from me. | drivers. | points to bring out. | First, as long as we are not or-| | ganized, conditions will remain as bad | Re: they are now. Many attempts have been made to organize us, but | they wanted to organize us were not con- But I can assure seientious enough. | you that if you can find for us the | right man he can do a lot for us. He will find many men ready and willing | to be organized. Secondly, | what T make. expenses. | actual trips. allowed to stay. If we remain at sny tells us to move on, and we must, course. jin number. for nothing at all. of living we’re making. GERMANS TO HONOR COMMUNE | Chi- | CHICAGO, March 27.—The cago branch of International Labor Defense, German section, |memorate the Paris Commune at a shou uld 8 ney | celebration on Monday, April 2, |p. m., at 453 N. North Ave. |known speakers will address program has been arranged in addi- tion. BUFFALO COM MUNE MEET. meeting in commemoration of the the International Labor Defense with the Workers (Communist) Party, R.| Workers League as the speakers. all failed because those who} like the majority of the cabdrivers-I absolutely must work 14 | hours’ ‘a’ day to make a living. That | does: not mean that I can save on I have to furnish my | own gas in addition to many other) And the police make us| | use up more gas than we use up on} We’re supposed to have | hackstands where only five cabs are collect from the shoe workmen. other place a cop comes along and of The hackstands are very few Around Union Square, for instance, there are just two while thousands of cabs go by wasting gas | Being hard times you can just about imagine the kind will com-|$50.00 deposited Well- the | meeting and an appropriate mus‘cal | James Saunders, district organizer of | Goetz, and a member of the Young | week. MILLER SHOE MEN DEMAND $50 FROM COMPANY UNION Dues Books Don’t Exist as Cash Is} Swindled Ever since our ae chief, Mr. Mc- Kocran, started to play dirty work |against his fellow workmen, he dress- es like a millionaire. Not only Mr.) |Me but his rat partners too. (I call |them rats because scabs are worse |than rats.) | Our big chief, Mr, Me even has the | privilege to conduct a dry goods busi- {ness right in the factory. He says | the profit is for the welfare commit- tee. That’s a pity! Our Mr. Me and his rat partners \take and divide up all the dues (10 }eents per week) that they steal from |the shoe workers that are members lof the. so-called “I. Miller & Sons Company Union.” It may be that Charles Miller, himself, gets some of the dues because he permits them to From our department or floor chair- man, we cannot get any information. |He is a scab of the last strike. He only comes around on Monday after- noon to collect the dues. They don’t even use dues books; therefore we don’t call him chairman but “col- lector” for the I. Miller & Sons Com- ea Union, As you already know, we cannot make any motions; so through The !DAILY WORKER we make a motion that each and every man (that has in the Company) his money back so that shoes and clothes for get ean buy jtheir children. SHOE WORKMEN. 5 Day Week ‘Demanded ASBURY PARK, N. J., March 27 —Northern New Jersey © building BUFFALO, March 27.-A rousing | trades workers are demanding the 5- | day week to alleviate unemployment. Paris Commune of 1871 was held here| Mor @ machinery and standardized in the club rooms of the “Valo” by) | materials are curtailing jobs, despite a normal volume of building. Union representtives will confer with em- | ployers April 10° on the 40-hour Mass.. .f C. Benedetto, Somerville, Di Perma, Somerv.lle, Patalano, Somerville , Somery Som merville, |B. L. A. Senkus, Grand Rapids, Mich. 50| a H. Dickson, Mt. View, Cal. Serdynsky ‘and Rapids.... .5C} Feldman, Detroit, Mich.. | A, Wozniak, Grand Rapids, Mich. .25 etanish Wks Club, Milwaukee P. Kozar, Grand Rap’ Mich.. | EB. Wagenknecht, Jr., Cleve., 0.10.00) L. Dudich, Grand Rap! Mich.. | An Old Timer, Cleveland, 0.. 5.00. P. Jakiras, Grand Rapids, Mich. .25| A Sympathizer, Cleveland,-O. 1.00: J. Diwebyk, Grand Rapids, Mich. .25| Wenworth Farmers’ Club, Went- ; J, Urban, Grand Rapids, Mich... .30| worth, Wis -5.00 | W. Swezey, Sioux City, Jowa est 00 LL. Kramer, Brooklyn, N. Y 5.00 . 1.00] L. Balofiani, Newark, N. J.. -1.00} W. Arvan. -1.00| Young eh 00 | 1.00} A. | “Defenders of” THE DAILY WORKER L. Gudjan, Garfield, N. J......1.00| W. P., Denver, Colo H. W. Roney, Washington, D. C.1.00| P. Reuter, Denver, Colo D. C. Radiatnoshay, Wash., D. C.2.00] Mrs. M. Horowitz, Bror Cooperman, Wash., D. C.....-. C. McCarthy, Seattle, Wash.. . Aliushemco, Wash., D. C .00| A. M. Fiery, River Forest, Ill. |W. Orr, Coeldalé, Alta., Can....1.00] J. H., F. Wenzel, Austin, Texas.6.00| (Collection), Canton, Ohio. -44.00| L. Woroshiloff, Golden, Colo... E. Wagenknecht, Jr., Cleve., O..1.50| P. Babich, West Allis, Wis.. .00 W. P., Paterson, N. J.........- 5.00| Mrs. M. Nieminen, Mass., Mich. 4.00 L. D.S. A., Elizabeth, J.....5.00| J. Malnar, Willard, Wis -50 J. M. Staples, Staurna Is., B. C. ‘1.00, L. E. Sellberg, Duluth, Minn ¢ . Gath, Rickreall, Oregon......1.00| A. Kotzubak, Paterson, N. J....4 A. F. Dennett, Rickreall, Oregon. 1.00] A. Stoll, Detroit, Mich. .2.00 A. H. Dennett, Jr., Rickreall, Ore.1.00|J.. Mullany, Butte, Mont, +1.00 L. ‘Tobin, €col.), P! . Muhlberg, Elsinore, Cal: . 5.00 L, ‘Elfant, Phila., Pa. | F. Solbrig, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.1.00) E. Svenson, Phila., Pa. F iss M. Roman, Wor., Mass 1.0 A. Coleman, Phila., Pa 0 |; Mrs, E, H. Sadis, Pitts., Pa.. A. M. Welling. Watervliet, N. P. Fino, Somerville, Ma: 1.00).A. J. Arnes, Minn., Minn. ae P. Russo, Somerville, M: i Mrs. Epstein, Hartford, Conn A. Zeno, Somerville, 0|M. Kronholm, Bryant, Wis A. Cesare, Somerv 0|C. F. Faupel, Chicago, Il. R. Ciarlo, Somerv: .1.00{J. Hegner, Irvington, N. J L. Antemo, Somerville, -2.00} V. Erickson, Detroit, Mich. . San Pedro, Cal.. Workers’ and Students’ Club, Detroit, Mich. . W. Nelson, Rose Lake, IB. Ripley, Cleveland, O . Maticich, Miami, Arizona. New Bungalows, ‘f SPRING VACATION Camp Nitgedaiget BEACON, N. Y. tions, Theatrical Productions and All Kinds of New Recreations Are Being Prepared for the Summer Season. ONLY SEVENTEEN DOLLARS PER WEEK. in Roads and Planta- ¥.1.00| |Non- Partisan League Re-Nominates Frazier WASHINGTON, March 27 (FP).— | Non-Partisan Leaguers won in the | North Dakota primary, according to Same pem 22.00| reports wired to Sen. Lynn Frazier. ‘ -10.00| who will be the league candidate this Y.1.00) spring for renomination on the repub- ..8.50/lican_ ticket. -5.00 | mitteeman will be a leaguer. The new national com- 0 | WRECKS PEONS’ HUTS. GUATAMALA CITY, March 27.— Scores of peons’ flimsy huts have been destroyed in a hurricane which swept the Zamayac district here. No report of casualties has been received. | Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? - Stalin’s Interview | with the | First American Trade Union Delegation _—————————— ee | American Imperialists | stubbornly refuse to rec- } ognize the Soviet Repub- | lic. They conceal the | | truth of the Russian ' workers’ achievements. | This pamphlet will be | an eye-opener for all | thinking American work- ers, | Order from: WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- LISHERS, 39 Hast 125th St. | New York City. le Says r would never do to put old aoe | Falstaff, as Otis Skinner portrays him, in “The Merry Wives of Wind- sor” in modern dress. That clean and beard, would just like a retired banker, or success- ful race track swind- ler, and the humor of Shakespeare, never directed against the ideals of his time, nor any of its institutions, Otis Skinner thus becomes subversive. bocker’s rather comfortable and the rather reckless Mistress Ford (as done by Mrs. Fiske and Henrietta Crosman) frame up on the old bull rusher, watching the nifty Mary Walsh, Ella Houghton and Virginia Smith do their page’s parts, hearing the French-Italian accent of Badaloni Welsh of Hannam Clark—in spite of “pribbles and prabbles” a good time was had by your reviewer, and ap- parently by all and sundry crowd which was also present. The: street in Windsor is the best scene, Lawrence Cecil as the jealous Francis Ford nearly tramples down all the hollyhocks when he charges into his house hoping to catch mrone Sir Jon in flagrante delicto. The moonlight scene by Hei Oak is riotously gay. Shakespeare did know his woods, and the feeling of pagan mystery is never absent from his countryside. You get an impres- sion of happy and hoydenish lads and lassies rollicking and frolicking on any excuse. It might be mentioned peare was writing this and other been before or since. It was the pinnacle of a period in which the so- cial sxstem had adapted itself to the level of the handicrafts system, Eng- lish fleets were sweeping the seas, and machine civilization was just ahead. The middle class was fairly secure and correspondingly not Puri- tan yet. It is to the credit of Skinner, Direc- | dignified face, with | the neat little gray | look | would in these days | However, slumping in the aoa | ats, | while the hard boiled Mistress epee as Dr. Caius, and the Shakespearean | that the craftsmen and yeomen of) England, just about the time Shakes-} plays, were better fed than they have) | | tools of production at the cultural) = PRAM “MERRY WIVES, WINDSOR” GAY AND FROLICSOME ~“LORELLE ‘McCARVER. in “Take The Air,” Gene Buck’s musical show at the Waldorf Theatre. tor Fiske, their dancing girls, and leaping jackanapes that the feeling of jollity and’ bouyance is pretty well preserved. There are minor flaws. Falstaff, is as was said, maybe not quite so coarse and gross as he is traditionally supposed to have been. Justice Shal- low was not done any too well. Mas- ter Fenton need not have been quite so silly—he was somewhat too much like Abe Slender—V. S. SOLOISTS FOR NINTH SYMPHONY CONCERT OF PHILHARMONIC Arturo Toscanini has chosen his soloists for the performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony which the Philharmonic Orchestra will give this Thursday and Friday afternoon at Carnegie Hall and next Sunday afternoon at the Metropolitan Opera House for its final concert of the sea- son. They will be: Nina Morgana, soprano; Sophie Braslau, contralto; Richard Crooks, tenor; and Ezio Pin- za, baritone. The chorus will be that of the Schola Cantorum. The pro- gram for the three concerts will also include the,Pastoral Prelude to Part Il of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Monteverdi’s Sonata sopra “Sancta Maria” for unison chorus and orches- tra, and the Prelude to Part II of Cesar Franck’s “Redemption.” TaN a ee ‘4209 ST. & BWAY ‘ Prete Si BIG WEEK. 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