The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1928, Page 4

4 4 ee cease Page Four STEED DAILY W ORKER, NEW YORK, THU TH DAY, MARCH 29, 1928 Sun Shipbuilding Company y Conditions Worse, Worker Correspondent Shows NEGRO WORKER IS DEAD; 1 INJURED ON CHESTER WAYS | Shipbuilding Co.| Off, Speeds Up | ¢ Fumlake yey 2 Sun Lays Worker TER, Pa., (By Mail).—Con- | have gone from bad to worse | Sun Ship Building and Dry-| A year ago there were The Co. at dock thr boats under construction of | the ’ The two “dry docks” were kept busy all winter. There is| now one boat on the “ways” and an| occasional one for rep: and paint- ing ¢ he “ doc! { The speed-up system has been put| in operation ‘while the force has dwindled to a possible five hundred. Even this force compelled to sub-| Snes up process. are treated mn and one week off. | to one| The rate of wages for un-skilled is fort mts and the others are } semi-skilled. cents to sixty-eight cents s On short time it is easy to figure the pay. | The Sunship Building and Drydock } Company knocks them off. Not only off the payroll but off the scaffold. | In addition to the casualties men- tioned in the clipping one had a toe; y-five amputated by a steel-plate. | The article in the “Chester Times” | does not tell all the truth. Two others were swept from the scaffold with Leroy Howard, one jumped and saved | himself. The other, no one seems to; know much about him just yet. But} this is going some for one day. | (EDITOR’S NOTE—The clipping | referred to by the Worker Corre- spondent from Chester is from a lo- cal paper. It speaks for itself). One man was fatally injured and | anothe: ustained injuries that may prove fatal in two accidents, which | happened almost simultaneously, at the plant of the Sun Shipbuilding | and Drydock Company this morning. Charles Simmons, Negro, of 207 | Edgmont avenue, died shortly after} he was removed to the Chester Hos-} pital. Leroy Howard, of 1127 Curry st.,| Sun Village, is in a critical condi- | tion in the same hospital, with deep lacerations of the scalp and a frac- tured pelv Simmons, who died as the result | of a fractured skull and internal in-| juries, lest his balance while clean-| ing the side of the S. S. Wheaton, | which is docked at the local yard./ When the victim lost his footing he] dropped through a hatchway, land-} ing on his head on a steel deck. He} fell a distance of 35 feet. ve employes who saw m drop through the open hatch | 5 ran to his aid. He was bleeding pro-| fusely from the nose, ears and mouth! and was unconscious. He was rushed | to the Chester Hospital but died | on the operating table while physicians were working over him. About the time Simmons met with his fatal injuries, Howard was brushed from where he was working | aboard a vessel by a steel plate and| hurled a distance to the deck below. | He was also picked up unconscious, | and removed to the Chester Hospital, where examination revealed that he | is suffering from deep lacerations of} the p and a fracture of the pelvis.) Physicians say he may recover. } | work, The rates | it Mexicans Give | tionality LEWIS HELPS T0 STARVE ps Cab Driver Crutses 14 Hours a Day (By a Worker Correspondent.) | Conditions are bad for workers in} ee: bub: I think that the cab- | drivers are among those that suffer|It Is Pennsylvania Re- most, rg Personally I must put in 14 hours | lief Aids Miners a day if I want to go home with eight | (By a Worker Gorrespontaid) jor nine dollars. When I say 14} ; ua i a hours I don’t mean that I actually! HENDERSONVILLE, Pa, (By work so many hours. I mean that I| Mail)—I. must congratulate The work from six to seven hours and the| DAILY WOKKER tor fighting so lrest of the day I cruise around look-; hard to save our union from going ing for customers and wasting gas |under. We have been fighting for and the: y my wages. And don’f| years to get near where we are and think its fun to ride around in the/!t seems that Lewis and his machine city for so many hours. It’s outside | Want us to lose out. They prove it by but it’s certainly not healthy | kicking against the Vennsylvania- as for so many hours.| Ohio Relief headquarters which is r om ovperience I had | taking care of us poor miners. I also} with the police last Saturday. I see that Pat Fagan wants the relief }going home. i pretty damn | Stopped on us poor people. That is} well how much the ‘like” us.{ Very nice from our “leaders” of the | work to inhale I must mer now police ‘ | And I also know how damn hard 1 | United Mine Workers. $3 Dollars a Week. They have put us down to three is to make a cent. So I’m very care- | ful when I drive. Nevertheless, care- ful or not, if the cop wants to get us, | dollars a week. Who can live on three he os us, and that’s all there is to | dollars a week? We are on strike and And a cop got me, for absolutely | they starve us at the same time. If no reason at all. There was no ‘use lit wasn’t for the relief we are get- arguing. The police are always} ting we should have been starved long right. I had to pay a $25 fine. And | ago. But that’s what keeps us living. that was my week’s net profi | What the union is giving is noth-| |ing. It wouldn’t keep a dog alive, let alone a family. | fighting day and night in order to get {something to eat. Pat Fagan and them don’t care whether we starve or not just so as they get something | for themselves. They live fine. They | have the money and have a good time and go where they please. And we S| slaves have to stay in the house or we will be arrested. Aid to Dam Flood Victim Coal Cops. (By a Worke er en Coreeenonden: ) e fi LOS ANGELES, Calif. (By Mail). The a police and the coal and| —Mexican workers gathered at the, “iron ea ae feo are trying vo do: Plaza today, as strong as linea Saba: ere acta is : ee His ten to eee es earls ng | trouble in the coal camps and they | ith scare donawae ich re a |won’t allow us to talk to anybody. |Machete, the organ of the Mexican|_,/£ the governor would put these lc t P a apis | State police off the force and stop the cmmunist Party. .,|¢coal and iron police dogs, we could One of the communities hardest hit | taj, to those scabs and ot oak: atria Solas fullas «tren, eniet S aoe : : Estee sx AINE) 0 S0WN ©| All these seab police dogs know is ai ere. valley, Se ene | how to shoot and beat people up, be- a large exican popu. A | cause th f A rough estimate of the flood vic-| the hell pactbed ei on Pow” aah tims in that locality is 200, one of the | jspeakers at the meeting said. A col- | Tako thelr guns sean ee lection for relief was taken up at the | a will run to get out of the way. meeting and the workers, hard-hit They would sooner shoot down poor themselves owing to the unemploy- | |laboring men than go to work them- ment here, responded to the best of | selves. They would rather shoot their ability, and then some. | down poor women and children. If =L.-P. Dee | everybody was like me we would take [them out in a field and shoot them. Now they will have to show up all this crooked work they have been put- Hag across on us for years. They ave been robbing us from head to (Bu « Worker Correspondent.) foot. And we are not allowed to say PHILA., Pa., (By Mail). — The | anything. West Philadelphia, Strawberry Man- $1.11 a Ton. sion, the Uptown and the Downtown | The coal operators don’t want to wish Workers’ Clubs have held a| pay anything for their coal. If they goint meeting at which it was decided | could get the law to make us poor to join forces and units for a special | miners dig for them for nothing they \drive for the Pennsylvania-Ohio |would do it. Just think what we are |Emergency Relief Committee. | getting for a ton of coal. Pick work Six hundred dollars were pledged | |for a ton is one dollar and eleven by these fraternal organizations for |cents and machine coal brings a lousy the first month of activities. | seventy-seven cents a ton. This is ee Soe | the Jacksonville scale, and if we ac- 26 CENTS FOR 3% CENT MILK. | cepted the scab scale it would be a WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 28. | |fifty-six cents for machine loading, —Milk sold by the Inwood Dairy of | | with pick work at sixty-five cents. A Rye for’ 26 cents a quart otk miner would get rich on that scale! Jonly 31% cents, former District At-| He could afford a nice car! So the torney John Holzworth, counsel for |0Perators say. But they know in (he defendant ina suit brought by eo Senin that the miners cannot the Inwood Dairy make a living on that scale. ual, to | Philadelphia Clubs to, |Join Mine Relief Drive “Defen THE DAILY WORKER G. A. Mich. Be ine otal F. Ridley, Pontiac, Mich E. B. Techanskoff, Pontiac, Mich. =w Haven, Conn. M. Boyko, “New Haven, Conn. J. Osochowsky, New Haven. M. Luliuetz, New Haven, Conn. P. Ruzylo, w Haven, Conn. O, Naciuk, New Haven, Conn.. §. Unilowsky, New Haven, Conn. F. Horbatyj, New Haven, Conn Kurnicky, New Haven, Conn. “M.Huculak, New Haven, Conn. . Bundziak, New Haven, Conn Blaylock & Co., Pontiac, ] 3.00 1.00 1.00 50) 1.00 | 50} -1.00} 5 | 25 . Eutka, Haven, Conn. 25} . Diedo, New Haven, Conn.....1. ne . Broucerz, Bridgeport, Conn. .1.00) Nortalind, Bridgeport Conn +100) . Kaucoma, Bridgeport, Conn. .1.00} C, Wilson. Houston, Texas. ..1.00} , Houston, Texas 50 Houston, Te . Houston, Texas . Fleer, Houston, Texas. . . Lawrence, Houston, Tex: . Houston, Texas... . Berd, Houston, Taxas. 1.00 | 50 | .25| nT ee 1.00} , Houston, Texas. {¥. Stoyckoff, Flint, Mich. - en. And Flint, Mich, . 1.00 TA. Petroff, Flint, . Bockunian, Flint. A. Stulkan \L, Stife, Flint, Mich *B. G. Petroff, Flint, Mich 1.00 US. Georgerifi, Flint, Mich......1.00/ 1M. Yaneff, Flint, Mich... 50 WN. Dimitroff, Flint, Mich. 50} “P. Stoenchoff, Flint, ‘ 1 8 Paletoh Flint, Mich Mich... \J. |C. Flox, Flint, Mich.. |M. C. Susen, Oakland, Cal. |M. Mlinare, McDonald, Pa.. | J. H. Weppler, Mt. Vernon, Ww. ‘| E, W, Langley, Lansing, Mich. ) I. Melnik, S. Pittsburgh, Pa. ; -70| J. Klarin, Atlanta, Ga albreia's Also if it wasn’t for the coal and We have to keep ee ‘Miners s Relief | Aids Strikers’ Long Struggle (By a Worker Correspondent.) ‘CHERRY VALLEY, Pa., (By Mail). —wWill you please send me a few copies of the DAILY WORKER every |day. We have been on strike since | the first of April, 1927 and don’t know | when we will return to work. I would like to send you some money but you know that the coal miners haven’t got any money at all. But for the Pennsylvania-Ohio Re- f Committee we would be all work- ing. Then Lewis and his henchmen would gain a tremendous victory for the coal operators, the Pennsylvania R. R., the B. & O., the New York Central, the United States Steel Cor- | pération, and all the capitalists in- | cluding Mellons, Grundys, Atterburys {and other parasites and suckers on jus poor mine workers. Then Lewis would satisfy his ambitions and land in the government as secretary of labor for which position he has been striving for a long time. That is why he sold the United Mine Workers to the Mellons and Wardens in August, 1925. yt ‘Union Plumber Helpers Active ; To Hold Rally (By a Worker Correspondent.) | The American Association of Pluimb- }ers’ Helpers, whose headquarters is located at 136 E. 24th St., New Yorl City, held a social gathering at the home of Brother M. Jacobs recently. Many plumbers’ helpers and their friends were there. Everyone had 4 fine time. After dancing, refresh- ments were served. This is the second gathering the ascvciation has had. These social gatherings have proved « big factor in keeping up the spirit of the boys. A swimming team has been organ- ized. Brether M. Singer is chairman of the swimming team. The team has started practice, and has decided to affiliate with the Labor Sports Union. creasing in attendance. A mass meet- ing will be held in the near future. We will also issue our official organ, The American Plumbers’ Helper soon. The Plumbers’ Helpers are making progress in all their activities. —OAKUM. LITHUANIANS JOIN DEFENSE. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 28.— The Lithuanian branch of Interna- tional Labor Defense has been organ- ized here and has already applied for a character in the organization. There are good prospects here for the building of the movement. working. But if they do now the state and the coal and iron police would force them back to work again. If they refused they would give them a good beating. That’s one of the reasons many of them don’t stop working. When I talk to them about stopping scabbing they say that they would rather scab than be beat to pieces or shot to hell. And that’s what they get from those damned seabbing yellow dogs of coal police and state police. Those damned yellow dogs of state police are worse to us than the coal and iron police and they are dirtiest dogs under the sun. | iron police, the scabs would stop ders ae Golliver, Flint, Mich. - 1.00} 2.00 | W. Bodek, Flint, Mich. 50) Mr. & Mrs. Vrijaiess, Oakland, Cal.1. oe Picuca, Oakland, Cal. J. Stipic, Oakland, T. Glibic, Oakland, N. Portulan, Oakland, A. Carie, Oakland, Cal. . : Famous Jewish journalist, member | worker in the Jewish colonization | arrived from the Soviet Union, will M. Cibelic, Oakland, J. Vukovie, Oakland, T. Brstilo, Oakland, Cal... A. Komar, Oakland, Cal... P. Boskonic, Oakland, Cal. M. Gojcote, Oakland, Cal. M. Rorglic, Oakland, Cal. F. Bjelovucic, Oakland, Cal. Slavic Workers’ Onbland, Cal. oo. ccvas |M. Mlinare, McDonald, P. Cal. Cal. Club, | Educa, Tl. Marrange, E. Wieser, McDonald, Pa. Passaic. N. J. W. M. Patterson, Zanesville, O W. Paananen, W. Concord. N. H Shop Nue. 1, Chicago Hghts, I! Theodore Cella Sub-Dis. Com., Mt. View, Cal | Greatest American Harpist of |W. P. Nucleus, Ambridge, Pa... Li rates greeny v. E. Br, W. P., Balti., Md. | if Nucleus 31, Toledo, O.... | Work. Sick Ben., Assn., Cleve- | Speakers: land, Ohio ... 3. Larson, Afognak, Alaska Trade Unionists, Seattle, Fale bee viele 10.00 Unit 1, SS3C, New York City. .11.50 S. J. Kovadi. McKeesport. TICKETS 50 cents and 75 cents, Pal | M. KATZ: “ICOR” Friday, March 30th, 8:30 P.M. | TAMMANY HALL, 145 E. 14th St., N. Y. C. SERGEY RADOMSKY Tenor of the Moscow Opera House, in Operatic Airs | and Folk Songs of Soviet Russia. | REUBIN BRAININ, DR. E. WATTENBERG. DR. J. GLASSMAN, Chairman. of the “Freiheit” staff, active movement in Soviet Russia, just 1 report at the Scipione Guidi First Violinist of New York | Symphony Orchestra. Steinway Piano Used. The membership meetings are in-} }1927 HUGE PROFITS IN STEEL STOCK IS SHOWN BY RECORD Workers Starve While Bosses Clip Coupons By LELAND OLDS, The steel industry’s generous pro- fits even in a year of decreased de mand and falling prices is reflected in the 1927 reports of 8 leading stee! companies. These reports show a combined 1927 operating profit of $271,290,626 with $138,183,773 left for the stockholders after all deduc- tions. Although this was short of the record profits of 1926, it meant a re- turn of more than 12% on the “ac- tual investment in the stock of 6 of the 8 concerns while all showed a profit for their stockholders, More than 60% of the profits of the industry went to the owners of U. S. Steel. Its operating profit amounted to $164,324,376 and after heavy charges and deductions for de- preciation $87,896,836 remained for the stockholders. This gave common stockholders a profit of $8.80 a share or about 12.3% on their investment in the stock prior to last year’s 40% | stock dividend. The U. S. Steel re- port was created at length in a pre-| vioys Federated Press article. Get Huge Returns. Bethlehem Steel ranks second, with a little less than 15% of the com- bined profits of the steel group. Its| operating profit of $40,378,899) is cut to $15,826.142 by the time it reaches the stockholders as a result of heavy interest and depreciation charges. This meant a return of $5.02 a share to the common stock- holcers. But if we take into account a 200% stock dividend in 1917 it appears that stockholders are getting at least 15% on their original in- vestment. In connection with the Bethlehem profit we should recall the statement of its chairman, Charles Schwab, be- fore the senate committee investigat- ing the coal industry. According to the Chicago Journal of Commerce his yoice broke when he said: “I have never made a cent personally out of Bethlehem Steel. It is surprising con- sidering I have been in the steel busi- ness for 40 years. It has been a work of love and all I have tried to do is to drive a peg to mark progress in human relations.” Low Pay to Workers. Some Bethlehem employes should have been at hand to rise and suggest that he tell it to Sweeney. Bethlehem employed an average of 61,978 workers in 1927 and paid them a total of $111,193,699 or an average of $1,793 for their year’s work. In 1925 it paid 66,072 workers a tota) of $121,891,931 or an average of $1,- 846 in wages. The report also shows 60,764 stockholders and, according to |- Schwab, “the most important stock- holders in Bethlehem Steel are its workmen.” What Price Aliens in America? by Edith Rudquist An analysis of the sev- eral anti-alien bills; their vicious provisions, and the purposes of the law- makers in proposing them. Spread this timely | pamphlet and fight the conspiracy against for- eign-born workers! 10¢ LISHERS, 39 East 125th St. | WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- | New York City. H «——D RA MA——~* “THE BEHAVIOR OF MRS. CRANE,” LIGH T COMEDY ~ SERGEY RA\ DOMSKY. ISS) MARGARET LAWRENCE} celebrates her return from Aus-| tralia by appearing in “The Behavior of Mrs. Crane,” now playing at Er-| langer’s Theatre Those who enjoy a drawing room com- edy built along the line of those writ- ten by Frederick Lonsdale will like the present opus with the exception that the present play is not quite as Margaret smart as the play- eal vd wright, Harry Se- gall, expected, it to be. The story tells of Mrs. Crane, cleverly portrayed by Margaret Lawr- ence, when informed by her husband that he wants a divorce, agrees to give it to him provided he supplies her with another man to take his place. Hubby agrees to the bargain and brings a candidate for the posi- tion of husband on the scene. Then a fly appears in the ointment in the jperson of the woman wno was sup- posed to marry the husband deciding |she would rather marry the man sup-| plied for Mrs. Crane when she dis-} |covers that he has a healthier bank- roll. The play attempts to appear smart and clever to an extreme degree but does not succeed to the extent that its sponsors hoped for. In many places the play creeked when it was supposed to be a high point in the production. All these faults, however, cannot be blamed on the cast who do their utmost to squeeze every bit of theatre out of a play that would have to be a hundredfold better be- fore it could be given any degree of consideration in the class it wants to be placed in. Special mention must be made e Isobel Elsom who plays the part of the woman who first wants to marry the husband but decides to get the man with the biggest bank account. Other members of a fine supporting cast include Walter Connolly and Charles Trowbridge. The settings are by the usual fault- less Yellenti and the staging by Ber- tram Harrison. The noted Russian tenor will be one of the chief attractions at the sixth “Freiheit” Jubilee, which will be held at Madison Square Garden this Saturday night. “Nize Girl?” Hutcheson Boyd, which Chamberlain Brown is ‘sponsoring, will open in New Haven Monday evening. The cast is headed by Georgia O’Ramey, the new farce by Helen Lowell, Dorothy Hall, Lawrence, Mabel Frank Allworth. Betty Montgomery and “Four Walls,” with Muni Weisen- freind, is this week’s attraction at the Shubert-Riviera. Actors’ Equity Association is spon- soring a spring series of benefit ma- tinees in aid of the Actors’ Fund, the first of which will be presentation of “Porgy,” at the Republic this Friday afternoon. The acting version of the Sil-Vara play, “Playing With Love,” which is to be the Theatre Guild’s final pro- duction of the season, has been made by Theresa Helburn and Philip Moeller. Wy Publ & OWAY Prd BIG Lo 4 —— The Theatre Guild presents Eu, O'Neill's Play, Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30. LAST WEEK Bernard Shaw’s Comedy = DOCTOR'S DILEMMA Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 ‘Guild Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2 Week of Apr. 2: “Marco Millions” LAST 2 WEEKS PORGY fe Th. W. 42d. Evs.8:40 Republic yyite Wed.&Sat,2:40 sant JE! Nee F1s 35'- EVGS SOF Baie Sh ‘Thurs., bstases Sat. & Sun., Mar, 29-30-31 Apr. 1 ZEZ CONFREY & BAND Hunter and Percival—Other Acts Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton in “WIFE SAVERS” CAMEO i 7a Pore ZAR IVA WEEK! THE TERRIBL: LEONIDOFF_& MOSCOW ART PLAYERS iQ Ja ” GERHAL EVE WOR CVE. TELEGRAM “4 “WALL, MY. TIMES 28th WEEK The Greatest Thriller of Them Alt Theatre, West 48 St. Evs. 8:30 ing ig MATS. WED. and SAT. pt tWRECKER “Thoroughly Entertaining Shocker.” —Worla, Thea 41 National Evs.8:3C. Mts. fed, ant “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann’ Harding-Rex Cherryman_ “The Greenwich Village Follies,” which will have its premiere at the Winter Garden on April 9, is playing in Detroit this week and next. Soviet First group leavin Inquire WORLD TOURISTS Announce Summer Tours Other groups following July and August. € WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave., New York Telephone Algonquin 6900. Russia g the end of May. at the