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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928 Every Week Sees New Textile Mill Committees, Worker Correspondent Says ORGANIZATIONS — FORMED THRUOUT | NEW ENGLAND Plan to Draw In Maine, | New Hampshire Shops (By a Worker Correspondent.) LAWRENCE, Mass., (By Mai The Prog 2 was held March} thruout New the United of Lawrence unani 1 to join the Mill Committe Front | oush; have been started at shire, a a number of smaller towns mes omitted to protect the memb | The Amalgamated Textile Councils | of Provide represented at the | Progressive Conference and their dele- | gates took an active part in framing | the Textile Mill Committees Consti- | tution, so that it is expected that they will become an integral part of the new organization. oy) The Textile Mill Committees will pay a visit to the Maine ci towns within a few weeks, as as Dover, New Hampshire, and the| scene of the big Pacific Mill strike of | 1924 to aid the progres: in these places to build committees. —ANDREWS | | EDITORS SUPPORT DETROIT COUNCIL Foreign-born Meeting |: Is Held April 4.—A luncheon- foreign language edi- tors’ representatives took place at the | Hotel Wolverine to formulate a*um-| fied poliey in the publicity work con- | ed by ce of the newly formed Detroit | Council for the Protection of Foreign | Born Workers, against the proposed | tration-deportation bills now be- | fore the committee on immigration | and nd ization of congre: The Pol y News was repre- . Urban; Hungarian News | rattinger; Abend Post, by Polish Worker; Greek Constan. Perakis and Pre Jeannette D. for the National | oderated | field ounced that a local con- | f the Council would be held 2, at G. A. R. Hall, Antistrike Propaganda CHICAGO, April 4.—Nailing a started from company sources ,000 ex-Pullman porters were nobilized to meet a strike pos- western organizer Milton P. r of the Brotherhood of Sleep-| ar Porters says r union is ¢ inuing to receive allots. The Pull- not arm our 5,000 ex-porters ed unless you count the men to | Defen ders of” THE DAILY WORKER A. Schuln §. Rosent I. Singer, Phila., I. Litvakoff, Phi M. Shagendler, B. Weinberg, Phila. M. Raderman, 8. Cohen, P Kelberg, Phila, N. Zeldis, Ph +1.00} -1.00} 1.00} 2.00} Phila., Pa + 00 B. Greenberg, H. Pinsker, Phila., Pa.... . 1.00 I. Schwartz, Phila., Pa.... - 50 M. Seidel, Phila., Pa.... Mrs. Highkin, Phila. Pa G. Kirschman, Phila., Pa -1,00 L, P lint, Mich..... . 50 K. T. Diugian, Los Angeles, Cal. .15 H. G. Soghoian, Los Ang., Cal.. .25 J. Torian, Los Angeles, Cal... 00 H. G. Sohgoian, Los Ang., Cal. .2.00 C. Meyer, Los Angeles, Cal....1.00} K. S. Diugian, Los Angeles, Cal. .15 L. A. Tatosian, Los Ang., Cal. .1,00 N. Andriasian, Los Ang., Cal.. .25 A. Tatosian, Los Angeles, Cal.. .60 Hi. Mirzoian, Los Angeles, Cal. ..1.00 K. S. Diugian, Los Angeles, Cal. .15 A. K. Algia, Los Angeles, Cal... A. M. K. S, Diugian, Los Angeles, Cal. 15 M Mkrdichian, Los Ang., Cal. . .3.00 * 9. Tos Angeles, Cal.,.. t ‘ limprove working | concern , under the la |S. 51 V. Lifshut, Elizabeth, } Workers Here Slave 13-Hour Day for $19 Wage largest cotton mill in the world. We a day for $19 a week. Progressive the misleadership of the United Te formed militant mill committees. T correspondent. " ATTEMPTED TO LOWER — PLUMBER HELPER’S PAY (By a Worker Correspondent.) Many workers are under the im- that the building trad worke aristocrats. Here is a true of a plumbers’ helper } which lly occurred last week. The writer of this letter knows the helper well. I do not wish to mer tion the name because I do not wan co have him victimized. A certain foreman fre i Plumbing Co. of 1 the Bronx, by the n the Sey Jerom, name ot v Louis, got a contract to do a steam| job on Osborne St., plumbers’ helpers v They were all paid $4.50 per day. One of these fellows worked a whole day one Saturday. He only got paid for a half d Another helper worked three days on the job. When he was laid off the boss wanted to pay him $3 a day, claiming that since the helper did not make up any definite price with d pay him any price he the helper threatened case to court, he was day for the three days. Plumbers’ helpers, the only way to s to or- ociation of fighting your If you are not in the as- m you should join it at once. It its mem ip meetin every Friday night at 186 E. 24th St., New York City. The slogan of the Plumbers’ Telpers is: “Every plumbers’ helper a union man.” Brooklyn. All > on this job. ganize. The American A Plumbers’ Helpers battle: —OAKUM. COURTS ATTACK SHIP WORKERS SEATTLE, ("P).—“If a longshore- man empl by an American to aboard a foreign p he may recover against the con- is we cern employing him. But if he is em-|} ployed by an alien ship owner he can- not recover in the state courts under the laws of the United States but must seek redress against the ship of the country whose flag she fh Such ji pinion of Superior Judge W. J. nert on a demu to the suit of A. F. Schottis, a stev dore, against the North Coa: doring Co. and the yard Co. in which Schot $50,000 daw hel is seeks to for injuries un 1 the The case suprem ing will be carried to court. «+ 5,00 al. 10.00 Mrs. M. 0’S Cw: C. Kierpuns, W. Cup, Oa P. Bleonde Oakland, ichett, Oakland ocdall, Oakland, Cal. Hill Miners’ Lit. & Ath H st, Alb. B. Chiaiabaglio, Schuitma Mich, > {L. Payer, Ni Collected at Ru Meet., Los Angeles, Cal. Ilwaco’s Work Temple Ass., Il- waco, Wash P. Pressman, Bklyn, F.-Campo, Springfiel is |G. Ridgeway, Wabash, Ind. M. Rigas, Baltimore, Md. . Nucleus 1, Conneaut, Ohio... ..13.10 C. Cassell, Kalamazoo, Mich..... 1.00 I. Rose,’ Elizabeth, ‘N. J N. Lifshutz “zabeth, N C. P. Wilson, San Jose J. Freitas, San Jose, Cal J. L. Patterson, San Jose A. J. Urban, San Jose, Cal. Ac sPettes, See Fie0,.09) ———$__ a Photo above shows the Amoskeag Mill at Manchester, N. H., the 9 | fil 0} “DAILY WORKER” ARREST ENTIRE LINE PICKETING DANDY DRESS 60. ‘Police Guard Seabs in | Heart of Philadelphia (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). |—During the past two weeks there has been a strike at the Dandy Dress factory. Poor working conditions, low +} wages, and the continuous firing of workers who are in any way sus- pected of doing organizational work for the union has raised the discon- tent of the workers to such a pitch that they are demanding the recog- nition of the union as well as all —|union conditions and a complete ces- ‘i of abuses. So they are on| orkers here slave as long as 13 hours workers in this mill, disgusted with ctile Workers Union officials, have his photo was sent in by a Worker 40 In Shop. The factory is a small one employ- ing in “normal” times not more than forty workers. It is now guarded by a whole dozen mounted and foot po- lice. The boss has succeeded in lo- eating some scabs and every time} they go to work the representatives of law and order clear the pavements of the throngs of people, (the factory is located on a busy corner in the center of the city) and the scabs march in to work protected by two lines of police. They march out in the same fashion. Pickets are abused | 4 % jand arrests take place daily. | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | Appealed to Scab. SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail)—| Last Thursday a scab was stopped The S. S. Purissima arrived in Ta-| by a striker a few blocks away from coma, Washington, Sunday morning.|the factory. The striker asked the |The mate in his hurry to discharge| scab why she did not join the strik- |the cargo of fuel oil, had us connect|ers. The scab then threatened to call some extra hoses. These had not/the police. This did not frighten the |been used for some time and were| striker, however, and she kept talk rotten as one of the men pointed out|ing to the scab, attempting to appeal to him. The mate told this man to|to her class-consciousness, keep his mouth shut, since he, the) “Girls are striking, suffering. mate, was to do the ordering. | fighting for better conditions for you Tired From Long Watch. |as well as for themselves, aren’t you When we had finished connecting | shamed to seab?¥ she asked. The the rotten hose, we went below. Wel sit ebreaker then became furious. |had been up all day and night Sat-|, 11! kill you if you don’t stop bother- \urday and were very sleepy when we|i"& ™e,” she replied and attempted (weak tea bed: | to Aigtsioh ta oe eis fright- ened and desperate and dropped the | We had not slept an hour when the things she was carrying on ae pave- Rata aaeet on bad aout into| ment, |the fo’c’sle, shouting, “ ‘ands on) Since the scab insisted on fightin; | deck!” The hose had busted and] the striker jumped on her bana | while we were dressing the quarter-| the scab was at least twice as big master told us just how it happened. and strong, it was the scab who came | The pump-man, who was standing} out of the fight with a black eye, jnear the hose when it was carried} A large crowd had gathered and jaway, was knocked clean off his feet / the sympathies of the onlookerss were and hurled against some pipes. It| obviously with the courageous little was not known just how seriously he) striker, Bertha Cantor. |was hurt for he was covered from| Arrest Whole Line. | head to foot with oil. i However, the police who came We were dressed, and knowing that|‘ushing up to the scene had a differ- there was some dirty work ahead|ent feeling about things. The striker of us and that it was cold on deck,| Was taken to the station house where we went into the mess-room to get| She was charged with assault, dis- some coffee. | orderly conduct and larceny. At the We had no sooner got into the| Same time, an order was issued to |mess-room than the mate came in,|the police to arrest the whole picket \trembling with rage. “Get out on|line. Patrol wagons were called and |deck,” he shouted, “and start clean-| the -crowd dispersed. Some of the ling up that oil.” | erowd of onlookers returned to speak Fired for Drinking Coffee. jto the strikers and they too, soon I had a cup of coffee in my hand| found themselves on the patrol and told him that I would like to} V4gons. |finish it first before I went out. At|, The “dangerous” girl was separated ‘OIL HOSE BURST, 3 SEAMEN FIRED Discharged Because They Drank Hot Coffee | compositions in Moscow, as in New; |this he said that if I drank that cof-| ftom the rest, taken to the detective DR A: Moder MOSCOW, LENINGRAD CHIEF MUSIC CENTERS CIRCUS OPENS TODAY. « “THE Russian musical public is much the same as the general | musical public in this country or any} country, as far as modern music is concerned,” declared Naoum Blinder, Russian violinist, in an informal ad- dress following a musicale which he gave last night. “The general public comes to a concert, listens to the work of the moderns, says ‘That is very fine,’ but they settle back in their chairs when an old familiar tune is played, and declare, ‘Ah, that is really beautiful.’ “This is partly due to the fact that the old tunes are necessarily more familiar than the work of the mod- erns—which in turn is accounted for partly by the usual custom of play- ing new compositions only once. New York, are billed ‘First Time in Mos- cow’ or ‘World Premiere’ and then rarely played again.” One of the chief fun makers in the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey’s Four Ring, Circus which opens this afternoon at the Madison Square Garden. Goliath, sea ele- phant, is the feature attraction. Praises Soviet System. Mr.‘ Blinder, when he is not on concert tours, is professor of violin at the Moscow Conservatory, and speaks highly of the Soviet system of musical education. It is now pos- sible for any worker who is a mem- ber of the Communist Party and who shows reasonable musical talent to obtain tuition free of charge at the State Conservatory. “Moscow and Leningrad are musi- cal centers in Russia as New York is here,” said Mr. Blinder. “The state, however, hopes to educate the whole country musically, and it is the aim of »the officials to send these trained workers back to the provinces from which they come, to teach music there. year contract he has just signed to! | produce records for the Columbia Phonograph Company. | Broadway Briefs) McKay Morris, who was engaged by the Theatre Guild for it forth- coming production of “Volpone,” will also play in “Marco Millions.” He entered the cast of that play Mon- day at the Guild Theatre in the role of the Great Kaan. The Theatre Guild’s touring Re- pertory Company, which has been playing for the past thirty weeks, closed Saturday night in Montreal. Like Moscow. “The only ‘gouble with -the #lan is that those who have gpce had a taste of the jobs of urban life are reluctant to return to provincial towns to teach music. They prefer to stay in Moscow—even on very small pay—where they can have the best in music, art, the drama, con- stantly before them.” Mr. Blinder’s present visit is his first to America. He will give a con- cert under the auspices of the Amer- Catherine Willard will play a lead- ing role in “The Alimoniacs,” the new comedy by Daniel N. Rubin, to be pro- duced April 10 at New London, Conn., prior to the Broadway showing. The third play on the Provincetown Playhouse bill will be “Him” by E. E. UNEMPLOYMENT IS THEME OF QUAKER CITY TALKFEST PP Cops Don’t Harm ‘Nice People’s Powow (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). —The Philadelphia Chamber of Com- merce publishes today what it calls the result of a “long and exhaustive survey” by one of its committees known as “the Industrial Relations Committee.” ‘ This report is made public by its chairman, the well-known open shop advocate, Earnest T. Trigg, and is seized upon eagerly by all the capi- talist press to prove the normaley of business and employment conditions. This committee, according to Mr, Trigg, has been in close touch with the unemployment situation for sev- eral months and consists of “experts,” including leading businessmen, heads of various trade associations and ex- perts from the University of Pennsyl- vania. But it does not fool the workers who thru all these months of “ex- haustive survey” have been and are having an exhausting time of it themselves looking for a job which is almost impossible to find. Last night an unemployment meet- ing was held at the Women’s Trade Union League. This meeting was not broken up by the police, as was the meeting arranged by the Workers Party and the militant workers of Philadelphia several Sundays ago. All the people concerned in last night’s meeting were “nice” people, positively harmless so the police had to forego their customary method of forcing “prosperity” on the unemployed, via police clubs and prison cells. Dr. I. M. Rubinow said that the ef- fects of the unemployment will be health deterioration and crime. Waldo Fisher, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, made the very conservative estimate that there are 90,000 unemployed in this city. Edward J. Keating, of Washington, editor of Labor, the official organ of the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men, also spoke. Nothing was accomplished, how- Cummings, opening on April 18. ican Society for Cultural Relations with Russia in Carnegie Hall on April 10, though his chief mission in this country has to do with a five- bureau, photographed, fingerprinted and put in a solitary cell. She was later let out on $800 bail pending trial. The other pickets received the usual lecture from the magistrate, a Vare henchman, “If you don’t like this country, go back where you came ever. =—c. R. — The Theatre Guild presents from,” and later were discharged. All these police oppressions have not broken the courage of the strik-|]| Eugene ers and the picket line is bravely pious Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way kept up right in the heart of the city. pa a Evenings Only at 5:30. * * * EDITOR’S NOTE: This letter and many others from Philadelphia have been sent to The DAILY WORKER by Worker Correspond- ents, stimulated by the Philadel- phia “Builders’ Club.” EUGENE O'NEILL'S Marco Millions Guild 2,7, 884 9 Bre $2 Week of Apr. 8: “VOLPONE” LAST WEEK fee I must get off the ship. At this = some of the men left their cups of | hot coffee on the table and went out into the cold morning. Three of us remained drinking our coffee and were fired. This could never have happened on | board a Russian oil tanker for if one of the men had noticed that one of the hoses was worn ovt and could jnot stand pressure, they would sim- ply have decided not to use it. We just have to take orders like a lot of animals. | —I., A SE | * * * Nov. 8, 1928, up to Harry Blake, clo. MAN. SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning 21, 1928. — For information write to First Street, New York City. ~~ |i PORGY to Th, W. 42d. Evs.8:40 Republic wats Wea.&Sat.,2:40 RINGLING BROTHERS BARNUM & Madison Sq. Garden 3! 2° 3° Twice daily (except Sun.) 2 and 8 vers CIRCUS Including Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH, monster sea elephant ADMISSION TO ALL 75c to $3.50 (inch, Seat and War Tax). half price at all Aft. Performances exe cept Saturday. Children under 12 29th WEEK RACH Bway, 46 St. Evs. 8.30 FULTON Mats. Wea &Sat. 2.36 The Greatest Thriller of Them All} and including Nov. Fund. This Thursday afternoon, “TheNational Command to Love” will be presented j at the Longacre Theatre at a special benefit matinee, in aid of the Actors’ ‘Theatre, 41 St. W. of B’way Ev 0. Mts. Wed. &Sat.3:36 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Ann ing-Rex Che! Daily Worker, 33 EDITOR’S NOTE: The seaman who wrote the above letter left New York City several weeks ago | and has since heen cruising on the | Pacific. He has sent us a great | deal of Worker Correspondence ex- | posing conditions on his tanker, the S. S. Purissima, the S. S.. P. referred to in the correspondence, whose name can now be disclosed for all seamen to Jook out for, since the correspondent has left the boat and can no longer be victimized, Soviet Negro Woman Sues Ship \Line for Discrimination | | As a result of being “Jim Cro-ved”| on the Eastern Steamship Line boat that runs -between New York and| Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Rath Whitehead| Whaley, Negro lawyer, is sueing the| line in two $500 civil suits. According to Mrs. Whaley, she cn- gaged passage for herself and hus- band in July 1926, but when they boarded the boat they were compelled to go to the segregated Negro section, not being allowed to stay in the state- room they had engaged. The briefs on both sides are to be 1 before Supreme Court Justices | Grain, Delehany, and Bijur by Friday. Are you a worker daily? Only Summer Tours to May 25 and July 6 Via London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw 10 interesting days in Leningrad and Moscow. Individual Visas granted enabling one to travel all over the U.S. S. R. $450.00 up. APPLY IMMEDIATELY WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave., New York Telephone Algonquin 6900. Russia ordered and paid for CITY? ORDER FROM ORDER “ Enclosed find $. wae 5,000,000 Unemployed in the U. S. at the present time Organize, Fight Against Unemployment 500, Leaflets, analyzing the causes for unemployment and telling how the workers must organize to fight it, to be distributed by the WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY this month, 50,000 HOW ABOUT YOU? How many can be distributed by your DISTRICT? SECTION? SUB-SECTION? 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