The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 6, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, A , j PRIL 6, 1928 Thousands of Unemployed Textile Workers to Meet, Correspondent Says COMMITTEES ARE Sailors ys FORMED INMANY Suze! S22 | Seaman Fj ue SPINNING MILLS) (By a W keh Cc Correspondent ) just completed a trip on the ent Harding, a passenger ship, Ore anizers Tell of Great the hooks ita: quate, of: ther parasites Lead and Pine Field Al- |I am sending you a communication to Sufferne who are bent on pleasure and “Con-| most 100% Idle | print Jin our beloved DAILY ; tinental freedom,” as they call it. | WORKER. Pro- mai LOWELL, | Legions of French ship called at Algiers, a French garden spot for} 14. enclosing a clipping from the| Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join-|ates a shop at 1267 Theriot Ave., the one oe pea for! Daily Oklahoman of March 21. The|ers of America, at Hartford, Conn.|Bronx. This firm does only new Peter [the explted, ite in i gametes of s tells itself. The poor worker’s| The meeting was opened with Brother | W°Tk- te everywhere visible Pi a ES bn i : ener i peanizer i ovikeka, audcthews vent unsa was cut so low that he W@S) Thomas Russel as chairman, and as| _, There are three partners to this ms | di ibable. Th al an old auto tire and it ia othe ch j firm. They are Messrs. Steinman, a v ; a y hovels thatareindescribable. Their Ge noes ilied hin’ soon as it was under way, the chair- Moo Deriatand Levinson: e reported ith that Allah will deliver them | man announced that there was a man, ra : on the conference | makes them forget the legions of 35,000 Jobless. Boss Is Union Man! | which all} w En, held impc lar rotten con ploited t under in rench soldiers that are quartered in the city to suppress any sign of re- | volt. | When our boat arrived at Genova, |I visited a Soviet ship, The Dnieper, It had just arrived in port with a 2 cities in N described the intolerat There | (By « Worker Correspondent.) | Carpenters’ Local Gets Sob Speech (By a Worker Correspondent.) | HARTFORD, Conn., (By Mail).— 130,000 IN ONE OKLAHOMACITY; 39,000 JOBLESS Some time ago I was present at a =| meeting of Local 48 of the United OKLAHOMA CITY, (By Mail).— Will say that all wages here are named so and so, who wished to speak lower than the “American standard” |to our meeting if there was no ob- and there are 35,000 men out of work. | jection. There was no objection and Just think of it! The last census gave) the man was allowed to come in and this town about 130,000 population} apeak on a anhlec tine was nob worn but among this number can be count ie ed thousands of floaters who don’t|® Spoonful of rotten beans to or- | ¢ IGNORE PLUMBER oy PoE” OPENS AT Firm Head, Member of | UNION RULES ON MANSON CO. JOBS No. 463, Is Foreman | (By a Wietkee Goccoanonent) | | The Manson Plumbing Co. oper-} Mr. Derin, one of the bosses acts as foreman on the jobs. He is a member of Local 463 of the Plumb- ers’ Union. Brothers, cousins and landsleute | people who come from your own) ——~—DRAMA——+ THE GUILD MONDAY ‘M. COHAN COMEDY, GEORGE ~“Playing at Love,” the Theatre Guild’s final production of the sea- son, with Richard Bennett playing the principal part, will open at the Republic ‘‘heatre on Monday night, | April 16. This will mean two Guild | premieres in successive weeks, since Ben Johnson’s “Volpone” is scheduled to open at the Guild Theatre this Monday night. When “vVolpone” opens, it will alternate at the Guild Theatre with “Marco Millions,” the O’Neill play now current. “Playing with Love” will be presented for an uninterrupted run. “Playing at Love” is from the Hun- garian of Sil-Vara and has been adapted by Theresa Helburn and Philip Moeller. The cast of “Volpone” includes: Al- fred Lunt, Dudley Digges, McKay Morris, Margolo Gillmore, Henry Travers, Ernest Cossart, Helen West- ley, Philip Leigh and Morris Carnov- Elsie Lawson who plays an im- portant role in “Whispering Friends” now in its second month at the Hud- son Theatre. conditions Fall River where the |cargo of meat from Odessa. ¢ many things about this Bolsh | vik ship which immediately interested } | me. on the | cotton workers received a 10¢ Fellow-worker unions now ex recently wage cut, Crew’s Quarters. belong here. 1 guess the police think | ganized labor. they belong in jail for vagrancy as; There is about fifty per cent of the they have had the city jail full all) workers, or more, unorganized in the | ® ‘ k winter. The police have “left” thou-) building trades here in Hartford. And | 3° UG ae COnUnOI enOW eke | tow n) are mostly employed, by them. | A stranger is watched pretty close | so that he does not lay down on the > in the | | i In the first place, whereas on all , sion. control of officials— A ; ; : as. tw ights he scale. other ships cargo space is the main|as much as two nights. The third] § : tl | pee, we a deem Shicsaver and the ieee 's quarters are|time you show up you go below for|“®S going to tell us something and According to the rules of the pens-—the Workers’ | out down to a minimum, here the|10 days. show us a way to organize these un-| Pluribers’ Union, all wiping of traps. eae ae 2 DER crew's quarters were spacious and| The Ford plant has been closed for| organized workers into building| lead bends, etc., has to be done on i: ace fhe Haase er | well-ventilated and with better sani- ;a little over a year, tho they say it| trades unions. But it was not as I|the job. These bosses do the wiping Eeéikors Hage: te, fe aiialgamate| ook conditions than on any ship 1 | will open before very long with ee eee in the above mentioned shop. these unions together—for one union | *#¥e ever seen. Some of the cargo|men. They are hiring about eight or ; ait began his worthless speech by} Sometimes the bosses actually of the ad wtoue Rud space had even been cut down and | ten men every morning at low wages | nad us with tears in his eyes that|work on the jobs which is a viola- “Confer after conference was |‘¥™ned into quarters for te crew. and there are from 1,000 to 2,000 men | the oe president of the Connecti-| tion of the rules of Local 463. called, he said, but the officiaidom al- The wages paid were 79 roubles|jn and around the employment office pe ederation of Labor was a good| These are just a few facts that per month for A. B.’s CanieHodied }seamen) with overtime at the rate of ys blocked official representation. d Front Committee was 1924 for the purpose of unions and to organize | vith aigthes That the textile |seaman after 1 can be organized |“ bees | titled*to a two weeks’ vacation with | The men were supplied | ef ch months work uniting th | first hour. the workers cot u ‘ en- | Pas oven i aic e1 2 pro- d lost it. Several people were i : : pmccives, under the me “ ithe | pay. killed, mes Pnsee ee nee run- bag 4 ery une, about the big unemploy- Sa eee ee : oa : Ship is the Crew's. |ment here in Hartford and all over| Association of Plumbers’ Front Com organized ning on the American plan ever since} +), country. He didn’t say hing | Hel ich et fee tae ted Te: I was especially struck by the at-| they won the strike and pay a man say anything | Helpers, which seeks to organize the titude of the vaueus pride ke men. They took a in their ship and nsidered it their own. They were antly onthe lookout that all He explained the new form of or- ganization, the Textile Mill Commit- tees, the outcome of the progressive | rules and working conditions were ob- | textile conference of March 11th in| served. The ship’s commiitee, co: Boston. } posed of representatives of the vaci- He said that any worker belonging |ous departments, firemen, to another union could join the tex stewards and officers, were really the | committees by the showing of their! executive committee of the ship. union card and that these members Compared with my experience would not be cormpelled to pay dues—| American ships where the crew is since they are already paying high| treated like cattle, this Soviet ship dues. was like a dream of paradise. The out 3,000 working} I invited some of the Russian sea- in the textile mills of Lowell—1,500 | men over to visit an American ship. | in the Merrimac mill, 500 in a worsted mill and 1,000 in the Pepperell mill. t 10,000 textile workers are un- An unemployed mass meet- e held on the Lowell com- of ihe men to come aboard when hej found out that they were from the Soviet ship. I suppose he was afraid | that the crew would find out the real jtruth about Russia. I remonstrated to ing is mon under the auspices of the Textile Mill Cc ittees, Sunday afternoon, | with the officer and my reward was April a fine of $12.50. The Dnieper, while in Genova, was WORKER. PIONEER CAMP BUILDS FOR 1928 Number of Tents to Be} constantly under the surveillance of |the fascist police. Three Italian | workers were arrested for trying to | visit the ip. | Fascist Tyranny. While ashore in Italy I got glimpse of conditions under fascist rule. All over are signs in view with he order “No politica lowed!” These signs are present even in the brothels. Doubled Workers are dissuaded from dis- cussing Mussolini. The fear of sud- PHILADELPHIA, April 5, —|den arrest or violence even for speak- | Among the aigns conducted by | ing critically of the fascist regime is the Young ue of Phila-|@lways present. : delphia is the There are periodical roundups in} builc the cafes. All are made to line up at 5 kopeks and double time after the | seamen, | The officer at the gangplank forbade | al sands sleep in the police court room) 4. f..4 7 thought that this speaker | man and a good fighter for organized | | labor and that he passed away and There are two big packing plants |left his wife and children in misery |here and they have fired most of the | because he was not paid enough by good men. The men had a big strike | 'Sanized labor for his services. He ae trons judi clacee tive) ohare ago| did not come here to show us how to | wanting work. | Lay-off Any Old Time. | trade. Attacks Helpers. “Bill” Doran, the president of organize the unorganized, he didn’t|conditions enforced on jobs. about the coal strike which is a year old or how to organize relief commit- tees for the support of the strikers and for the unemployed workers hore jin Hartford. No, he came for some- thing else! He came to get money for Pl us to pay the mortgages on the house ., |of the former president of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor and to |here, I understand that there arejhelp his widow whom he left in | 20,000 unemplo: At Miami, Okla-| poverty as the speaker stated. He homa, 208 mi northeast, at the| also wanted to send her children thru| Wi! they remedy this situation? jedge of the lead and zine field, about | school and give them a university| @Msier is up to them, everybody is loafing and that is true| education. He would have been 4 all over the lead and zine district, the} Wonderful speaker if he had not for- | \largest in the world. |gotten to tell us anything about) | Mines Shut Down. | those who have no chance to finish Nearly all the mines have shut | public school, but have to go to work down and the unemployed all flock| When they are 14 or less to support| to the nearest big city, thereby in| one of eheee ene nenelren |creasing the already big army of un- employed workers. : —MEMBER LOCAL 43. by the hour. You are liable to get| fired at ten in the morning, maybe} at 11 or 3 p.m. They lay you off at! ;the end of any hour they please and} | the low wages keep everybody broke. -|A lot of the married men are hun- |dreds of dollars worse than broke. At Tulsa, 125 miles northeast of | better conditions on the jobs. would be a benefit to the helpers to the plumbers. bers’ Union but the helpers are not admitted into the union. THE CIRC US. I was] mances were sold out with many tors turned away. |many of the mechanics work below | prevail at present in the plumbing does not care to see the union plumbers’ helpers in order to obtain Will the plumbers allow this state! of affairs to go on any longer —OAKUM.. | The circus opened yesterday after- noon at Madison Square Garden. Both the afternoon and evening perfor- | The stay here is that Lo- He This and | McCoy, |James, Al Roberts, Halliam Bosworth Bosses are allowed to belong to the|J2™eS Al Roberts, Halliam Boswor who work side by side with the plumbers | oe or) The | visi- | There are hundreds, yes, thousands| | of workmen starving here. Lots of | | them go to the large bakeries and beg | stale bread for chicken feed, they eat] K R U P gs K it themselves. | I gave a DAILY WORKER to a trusty at the city jail to read and) ja few days afterwards I saw him| sweeping. He told me a Wobbly was | lin jail and had gathered the prison-| Jers all aroynd him and read Thc} | DAILY WORKER all thru to them | and they all liked it. I am going to get another copy and let them read it. —J. AYA In the APRIL COMMUNIST tells “How Lenin Worked” Lenin’s mind worked with the pre- cision of a clock. His method of study and thought is vividly described in this fascinating account by the com- * * * EDITOR’S NOTE: The clipping of the account of the police killing of 24 year old Oliver Kirk, a worker who stole because his wages were at starvation level, was sent us by TI 1 in the sum-|2ttention and their papers are car ~| the Worker Correspondent in Okla- : Rs of the most if fully scrutinized. _ | homa City. rade who was his closest collaborator Bot As to conditions among. the Italian | Oliver Kirk, 24 years old, 334 East and iviend kind. amen, in ony Se with the "us-/o7th St., South, died Tuesday night chile ) per cent earl real wages of $40 p ma te fat a hospital here of gun wound: on ; alian si nen recei a mon inflicted by police M A y Tons Ws, wore aecom, | With 17 per cent extra if they take the |ne fied after frustra acre THE COMMUNIST ongin, vere accom- | e saetve i vor’ saan . # Pe } i mod: pediper week le® ened pe age a Maras as work! tempt to steal an automobile tire] 43 East 125th Street. New York. was $7. The food and comforts the}°° °C SU Ly RB near the Merrie Garden, 619 West| ADS HORSE children »d could compare with ; | Main St. a that o' lin any Unlik ed with amp that charge many camps, t a net profit of USSR Culfural Society Holds Annual Meeting The annual dinner meeting of the | American Society for Cultural Rela- tions with Russia was held last night to be Doubled. at 99 Paik Ave. plan for this year calls for the| Dr. William Allen Neilson, presi- ent of doubling the number of jdent of the organization, presided. Re- sxpansion of the dining room | ports were delivered by Lee Simon- and kitchen, and, what is more im-|80n for the arts committee; Floyd portant, a reduction of the camp fee Dell for the book committee; Edgar below $7. This will enable more| Varsse for the music committee and workers to send their children for al) Mrs. Norman Hapgood who arranged summer vacation to a working class | the exposition held last February. children’s camp, instead of going thru | Be rer tate de the humiliation of applying to char- ImportCottonInto USSR ity camps as many workers are forced etsatiees to. tutes a part of the money that will be used for improvements and expan- | Tents A monthly bulletin issued by the American-Russian chamber of com- merce, states that the Soviet Union has so increased the productivity of its textile industry that it necessita- ted an increase of raw cotton impor- tations, to the extent of 23.7 per cent ver the cotton purchasing season of To Attend Conference. This plan can and will be realized. Already a considerable section of the labor movement of Philadelphia un- derstands the importance of this Pio- neer Camp. This can be seen from 2 conference that was held under the} \V°" © at . auspices of the Young Pioneer cam; | ‘*t yeat. Since the break in trade recently. ‘lations with England, the Soviet Seventy delegates, repre: | senting thirty-six organizations, .in-| cluding trade unions and workers fre- | ternal organizations, participated the conference. The decisions of th: conference to mobilize the labor mov ment of Philadelphia to raise a mini mum of $2,000 for the enlargement « the camp are being placed intu pra tice by an advisory commitige. Mor Inion has transferred most of its “ganizations have affiliated with} ‘xe conference by sending representa- ves to the advisory committee. As » ‘of the ways to raise the $2,000, uild the Pioneer Camp” certificates ere issued. They are now on sale. otton purchasing activities to Egypt | Kirk, an employe of the Long-Bell| } Lumber Co., told J. K. Wright, coun- |ty attorney, that he was forced to steal because his salary was not suf- ficient to support his family. George W. Sipes, 19 years old, whe was with Kirk, will recover from wounds inflicted by the police, doc- tors said. Mrs. Kirk told police that her hus- band had started to a drug store & buy medicine for their sick children and that he had asked her to accom pany him. When she declined he took £.pes, his wife’s brother. | Kirk admitted, in his confession that he was attempting to steal a tire when J. W. Perkins and J. B Ryan, city detectives, interfered. Lucile Kirk, 3 years old, daughter of the dead man, and her baby sister,, Betty Mae, 18 months old, are said to have pneumonia, Only Summer Tours to Soviet Russia 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. . A Bally-hoo Fails WASHINGTON, April 5.-—-Senator Borah has admitted that his publicity gesture to raise $160,000 to repay the contribution of that amount that |} Harry F. Sinclair made to the repub- jlican party campaign fund in 1923 | has fallen flat. Only $7,000 has been raised. APPLY IMMEDIATELY WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 69 Fifth Ave., New York Telephone Algonquin 6900. Are you a “DAILY WORKER” [3 worker daily? PO enfl sky. The title of the Sil-Vara play which the Theatre Guild will shortly pre- | Broadway Briefs Briefs _ | “Strange Interlude,” the other The- atre Guild play by Eugene O’Neill will continue at the John Golden The- |atre, where it is playing nightly to sent at the Republic Monday, April 16 will be “Playing at Love.” to-fore the play has been called “Play- ing with Love.” crowded houses. 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