The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4; re OVEN MAN EXPOSES LOW WAGES, SPEED-UP; PAID BY NATIONAL BISCUIT CO.; NEED FOR UNION (By a Worker Correspondent.) There are about 10,000 workers in The National Biscuit Co. plant. Those who have been there from 10 to 20 years make wages from $30 to $35 a week. They start you with $18 for a man and $13 or $14 for a woman. There is no higher pay for overtime. Very often they hire new and cheaper workers and fire the old one whose wages are higher. Day by day they It is mer time when the hot weather happens that the wotkers scratch their hands or hurt cases the bosses and the foremen do not take care of things the way they should but very often declare that the worker who should get damages their feet. hard for the workers comes, very In these cut down the number pf workers without cutting down at all on production. at the ovens in sum- will be fired. Some departments in the factory are dirty and un- According to a number of workers there are foremen whose treatment is cruel. For example, Walsh, the boss of the bouquet icing de- healthy, without fresh air. It very often partment, unit 3B. He sends the men to work in full of steam where there are no windows. Most of the workers Spaniards. a room windows. here are Italians, Greeks and them would like to make the factory a union one. they have families and are afraid to lose their jobs. The basement department is particularly dirty. The stock is jelly and butter. They do not know their rights but many of But It is filthy and there are no —BISCUIT. Jersey Senate ioe Mull Owner, Grinds Serfs, Correspondent Says Food Workers Toil 11 Hi | TRENTON DRIVES: Be Gi 2.50 | LOS ANGELES, Calif. (By Mail). | —Work is speeded up to such an ex- | tent in at least one restaurant of ithis city that the average “life” of a} |dishwasher on the job is from four to six hours, Center Lunch at 644 1-4 | j}South Main St., is the place in ques- REPUBLICAN IN Stokes’ Men Work 1é Hours Without Stop (By « Worker Correspondent.) TRENTON, N. J., (By Mail)—The tion, ac ng to an employe sent | republican campaign of humbug and|out by his boss to look for another deception is in full swing here in New| prospective “pear]-diver,” Jers It is practically conceded that} $2.50 For 11 Hours. ex-Governor Stokes will receive the} This man told several of us that | ‘ nomination for United States sena-}the p; 50 for an 11 hour work- To make the primary campalgn|ing day. When the shift is split, as | some weak opposition it gen y in most restaurants, In attacking the capi-|this means from 14 to 15 hours spent | talist rivals of ex-Governor Stok for the nomination, a statement was| To finish a shift from two to three made by his henchman that the op-/men are generally used. Last Thurs- | posing candidates kept silent as to/day four different faces were seen on their merits due to a guilty con the job. The men are speeded up and | science. Ex-Governor Stokes de-jotherwise abused. So they quit or scribes himself as not being a dollar!are fired. tor. seem real, being shown. man. To the mind of the Trenton} The grub is not so bad, the man! workers, if he isn’t who is? jsaid, but it is hard to find time to | Owns Banks, Factories. jeat in a place where they are serving | The Stokes family of capitalists; Waffle a la king as a specialty. | and bankers is well-known in Tren-| In a restaurant a few doors from | ton due to their influence and con-|Where I am stopping, the waiters, | trol of a number of banks and manu-|{ishwashers, etc., are working 12) ecturing plants. |hours a day without rest for $15 a One of these is the Stokes Rubber| eek. And this city is crowded with | Co, The workers in this mill are|P eee ey whee all around the La- | exploited and driven to the limit of|D°" Temple. But no serious effort The plant itself is com- | made by the officialdom to organize | endurance. z f _|the workers in the food industry. posed of a number of low and poorly Beat Up Militant. ventilated wooden structures. It is) Last year a member of the Work- a veritable hell-hole during the SUM! ers (Communist) Party took up the mer season. : matter of organization in his union. The plant, until recently employed] pis reward was a terrible beating by about 1,000 workers. Today only|the bootlegger boss of his American about 400 are employed, due to the| Federation of Labor union. “Broth- | speed-up and piece-work system/er” Johnston, who ran against Bug- | which has beén introduced. The/zell for the secretaryship of the Cen- | plant was recently shut down and|tral Labor Council at the last elec- | only the “best” workers were reem-| tion, was present at the union head- ployed on the piece-work basis |quarters when the beating took | Those who were rehired at a day rate|place. Altho Johnston claimed to be had to accept a reduction of fiveja left-winger at that time, he cents an hour. Even tho hundreds of|nothing to prevent the outrage. workers were thrown out of work. L. P. RINDAL. the production itself increased and eee ene SURED THE DAILY WORKER, NEW) the wage decreased. Each worker must produce much more for a much YORK, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4, 1928 did | smaller pay. The highest weekly pay before the shutdown was $30 a week at a day rate. Now the highest pos- eh eC IRCUL pte sible wages for some of the workers REQUIRED BY CONGRESS OF 4 are only $24 to $26 a week. 2a 04 Of “The Daily published | 2 Men; 4 Pres: daily, New York, Before the shutdown five men op-|N. ¥ | erated four presses. Under the pres-j Stare, of) | ent system two men operate five} Before me, a Notary Public in and ies Pain. ‘g ; sp{for the state and county presses. Where about 18 mill mer personally» appeared Raye, were employed mixing compounds] who, having been duly sworn according (amp-black, sulphur, etc) with rub-} [9 tiW, deposes and says that he is the , : ‘ Business Manager 0 eDaily ber, now with the introduction of a] Work and that the following is, new machine, only two men are used/{? the best of his knowledge and be- es ef, 2 e statement of the owner- lon each shift. The other 32 were|ship, management, etc, of the afore: disposed of. said publication for the date wn | Pp E “oN Wy Jin the abov on, required by the ixploit Negro Women. [Act of Aug embodied in There is some hard, dirty, unhealth- een 411, Pos Py and Regula- A 4 ,| tions, pr on the Tse ful work to be done, that no white| firm’ tp Beneapevonne. of: thie If owned by tated the r their One the known pouahoaares s, and other si y holders olaing 1 per cent or husky Negro women are ‘employed.| the publisher, tor, managing editor, Publishing st Street and two shifts are employed. The : aging Editor, Robert Minor, h half an hour for|New York City. af must be and also immediately rs are tired and weary when jgiven. If owned by a firm, company, ruocut Jey erse ne’ ‘a and thruout New Jerse#, unemploy individual "member, must be 4 2 ‘ 3.0. B out of work. There is no immediate [2 criminals in order to exist. | of total yunt of bonds, mortgages, ing influence of the Stokes, the Mur- | : 4. That the two agraphs . “4 ome n not only the list of united Labor Party must be A pecurites-holAera * workers want to do. For this strong] 1. That the names and addresses of ? eas and busihess managers are Their rate is eighteen cents an hour.| Publisher, N Daily Worker, The plant operates day and night/} : w York , Robert First Stre w_ York City ten and one half raerass a A : as «7|Street, New. York City in the morning until | Sve “Kawaba trove he night shift works 13 hours| 2. That the owner is with no time for lunch. The|*,co™porat its name and address thereunde mes and addresses Rieialwrorit- ia; dire. of the “individual owners must be thing is certain in Trenton|or other unincorporated concern, its name and address, as well as those of yeent is here to stay. The not ete National Worker Pub- System has thrown hundreds of men| en City; relief. Prostitution is becoming com- oer et mon and men and boys are rain 3. Tt | mortga There is but one solution. The|oW"ns, workers must get rid of the dominat-| or other urities are: (If there are hone, sta No: ys and Roeblings. The workers|ayove, giving the names oF the ust have their own representatives khoiders, and security holde ed at once. A Labor ticket with|appear upon the books of the ones ‘ha in the| Pt, ase, in cases where the stock a rogram must be placed holder or security holder appears upon fiel@ Organized !nbor must lead the|the books of the company trustee ee, iat nit. |" in any other fiduciary relation, the way and the uner:ployed and exploit-| tame of the person orc corporation for ed workers will do the rest. Men! from the ranks of labor must oppose | #is0 tat the the Stokes and Eatons. Men who will | culi for the masses, “Open up the) or we will open them.” | whom such trustee is said two ting, is given kraphs con- affiant’s {as to the under say ho do not apy id out officials of the American peduudccuitien rice ation of Labor must be swept/that of a bona fide affiant Now is the time for the workers] por of Trenton and all New Jersey tc solve their problem. With Stokes in » said #tock, bonds or other | P stated by him, ‘ . #e number of Washington, only misery and a lower this publica- | standard of living awaits them. Saath Bin | —W. |during the six. month ing the date shown above (This informatio ANOTHER CALIFORNIA FLOOD | daily publications only.) JREKA, Cal., April 8A’ cloud- aglyl sigan bu that struck in the Humboldt} sworn to and subscribed before me county tills abo here lay caused a flood in the I Li lel River that swept this 30th day of Mareh,. 1928 MAX_ KI‘ ES, Public, bs (SBAL) Nota over the breakwater above here and) (x;y commission expires March 30, Mundeted a wide acreage. 1930.) — jeach day in connection with the job. | ° | to go on with the demonstration. | Green charged brutally into the huddled Minor, | thousands. | With clubs swinging, M they rode their horses, cossack «| fashion, tramping on men, women more | POLICE TRAMPLE. | JOBLESS MEN AT CHICAGO MEET | Unemployed ‘Thousands Blacken Streets (By a Worker Correspondent.) CHICAGO, (By Mail). — Or | Wednesday, March 28th, the Chicag« Council of Unemployed staged a! monster parade through the streets; of the downtown section of the city.! The parade followed upon two large | Y meetings held at 30 N. W ells} Street. ? Z housands of unemployed workers, g banner: ith slogans: “Work d,” “Give Us’ Work Or Relief,” For Battleships, Not a | Penny For the Unemployed,” “Our Children Are Hungry,” etc., marched to the City Hall. They paraded twice around the one-square block occupied by the city hall building. The march around the city hall was to focus the attention of the unemployment situa- tion on the public eye, as well as to impress the .city council which was then in session to act on the resolu- tion before them, demanding work or | relief for the unemployed. Thousands On Streets. From the city hall, the unemployed | thousands marched east on Washing- ton Street to State St. On State St., |they marched south to Madison St, where they halted. On State and Madison, commonly known as_ the} siest corner in the world,” the nan of the council, Samuel A. “Billions chai Herman, member of the Young Work- ers (Communist) League of America, mounted a box and spoke to thou- sands that blackened the streets.| After several minutes he was dragged down by police, whereupon Clara Shapiro mounted the same box and spoke until police made it impossible The March to the City Hall. The scene was unforgetable. Peo- | ple huddled together around the un- }employed speakers, countless heads ticking out of department store | buildings, traffic stopped, confusion, | bewildered police and shouting motor- ists all made the affair a spectacle without a parallel in many years. Dispersed at he “busiest corner in the world,” the anemployed marched again to the eM@y hall, followed by numbers of people, photographers of various newspapers, reporters, and polic Near the city hall another open air meeting was staged. Gilbert mounted a “Keep the City Clean” box and addressed the large jnumber of people that gathered {around him. The alderman of the City Council and other politicians peered down }upon the heads of the assembled porn with looks of surprise on their faces. Following the speaker, Samuel A. Herman made a short address. | By this time a number of mounted | police appeared on the scene and and children. Herman wa araeeed Bes sack: s and *aaced und t, aaliet the jeers an dderis of the |unemployed ond spectators nearby, | aimed at the bru‘al police. Two other unemployed were also arrested one of whom, Nathan Schaffner, being |singled out because he was carrying a huge American flag. Council Ignores Unemployed. Fifteen minutes after the exhibition of police brutality, those arrested were released. A half hour later a cordon of police running into the hun- dreds were thrown around the city hall to break up’any other demon- strations of the unemployed that may | be attempted. The city council has | meanwhile adjourned without paying | any consideration whatsoever to the esolution of the Chicago Council of | Unemployed that was given to ther a week ago. The city council merely pigeon-holed the resolution demand- ing relief or work for the unempl By their action, the local pol | have demonstrated the truth that was stressed by all speakers of the un- employed, namely, that the workers must not depend on the politicians of the capitalist class, but must form their own party to battle for their nena re national Labor Party. WASHINGTON, Avet 3. —- The first airport corporation has been or. 4 ganized Wall here, backed by powerful Street financial interests. A of airports, easily convertible ilitary purposes, will be estab- lished by the corporation, which is ‘mown as the American Airport Cor- Wall St. Backs Airports| i -——D RA MA——»* “WE AMERICANS” AT THE COLONY 100% PLUS @----—— «JE AMERICANS,” adapted from| a stage play by Milton Gropper | and Max Siegal is clearly propaganda | for a new Imperialist war; it makes no pretensions of being anything else. It is precisely this thing that dooms the show to some- | thing less than mediocrity, desptte ! the excellent char-| acterizations and good acting by Patsy Ruth Miller, John Boles and{ George Sydney. In| EDMUND LOWE Ruth Miller “We Americans” Patsy patriotism is} In the new screen melodrama smeared on s0}“Dressed to Kill” at the Broadway thick that it nauseates the intelligent | Theatre. reviewer. The picture is only worthy | == = = of applause from those in whose in-| great debt of gratitude to America terests it is, and so it has the willing | which has given the father the splen- endorsement of the Secretary of La-| ‘id opportunity of pressing pants in bor, James W. Davis, who dedicates|® Sweat shop for 15 years. This vie it with diplomatic eloquence to the| bit unnatural, on the part of the immigrant. mother at least. The boy soon eases their conscience by announcing that The picture is preceded by a beauti-|both he and the son of the Italian ful study of America’s natural won-| parents have already enlisted. The ders, the great Niagara Falls, the|German’s patriotic fervor. is not gorgeous Yosemite Valley, the|strained to the test as he has only a Rockies, etc., all of which is very fine. the sweetheart. of the However the story itself is ridiculous and unbelievable. We are introduced to three immigrant families in pre- war days,’ German, Jewish and Italian. These families have great difficulties with their unruly Ameri- canized sons and daughters, who are ashamed of their un-American parents and spend their days and evenings away from their homes; the daughter of the Jewish family even leaves the parental roof because of its foreign atmosphere. The trouble is soon arighted by a too sudden realiza- tion of the values of evening school education by the three immigrant families and they proceed to .attend. Here they learn to read and write English, together with sizable doses of patriotism. The patriotic fervor of the Jewish parents reaches so high a pitch that at the entrance of Ameri- ca in the World War they plead with their son to enlist and thus pay their daughter, Italian lad. There is a bit of humor woven in seatteringly by the comic expression of the Jew, and quite a bit of war pathos—the parting for the war and who has had the great pleasure of sacrificing his leg for the cause of democracy; while the Jewish boy does not return at all, but has valiantly given his life to save that of the cap- tain of his regiment, the American lover of his sister. The parents re- ceive the telegram from the War De- partment, announcing the death of their son, while at the evening school, at the time when the mother is read- ing the Gettysburg Address of Lin- coln. She had learned enough Eng- lish to realize the import of the mes- Altogether this movie at the Colony Theatre is a great boost for the next great war for “democracy.” 'ONAE SUCCESS EIOUS WE: Amazing Russian Masterpiec: —— The Theatre Guild presents “29th WEEK Bugene O'Neill's ma" Strange Interlude | RACH John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. 6 St. Evs. $3.30 Bway, Mats. 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The firing of large numbers of old em- ployers and the hiring of new men cannot continue indefinitely. Ford’s run by-this daily shifting of labor And those men who are still work-| ing at the old pay are never certain when their turn will come. They also realize that Ford’s old rule of} “Keeping workers employed on jobs Show Letters to Shop Mates, Urges Wniter (By a Worker Correspondent.) On Monday, March 26, The DAILY WORKER carried an ar- ticle exposing the conditions in the Roy Cafeteria. I showed this article to four people who are directly concerned; with it. All of them told me that | they liked it because it is in their} interests. Now all of them are} jreaders of The DAILY WORKER. | Everyone should show articles to !the workers when conditions in their own shops or trade is des- | eribed in the Worker Correspond- lence page. This is one of the methods that will help to gain new readers for The DAILY WORKER | —J. O'S. best suited to their health” is ‘fast disappearing. 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