The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 4

samt sm Gite | i \ Page a - = DAILY WORKE EW YORK DNE! Y, APRIL 19Z8 Mill Committees Formed m 3 Lawrence Textile Mills, Correspondent Says 19 IS AVERAGE | Where Textile Workers Have Formed Committees yar PRESS IS | Se —DRA ice - COOLER SPONSORS WAGE; SPEED-UP, eee ATO, ee eee eicbrcna” OF CONSCRIPTION DOUBLING REIGN | EXPLOITS. MEN) oi. setce a ait ~~ KILL HOUSE VOTE Arthur Hurley to stage the book | ops No Lunch Time; Men: Decger anda Rove | which willbe | Ts ‘oo Much Flag-Waving | | | “CLAIRE. } : lum Daily : : i Eat at Machines | Slum Dail; the title of the musieal ‘version of Held Unwise Now : hie )| Bus, Work * Correspondent) Edwin Justus Mayer's “The Fire-| | penitent ea en (By a Worker ¢ WOR i - sai sLE) o Peg (By B bathe brand,” the play seen here io sea- | Ay attariptiiy Hep. RavaleTonneen ot , Mass., (By Mail) Lotngeaer at annual ereew auaie: "vait SORS back with the younger Schild-| {South Dakota, on April 5, to stam- Woolen Co the GaUeatind Ge die, Ieee | amo Inacley Sevan dat neato when | | nede the membershin of the house into { | ordering his general conscription bill f the| it was produced at the Morosco The- ise me of the) it was produced at | broucht immediately to the head of friends, thru nterest and, if you adv date of pub! tion, my atre, where it ran an entire season. ions . Ww: 2 7 iti I Wood Mills ab meannanes hep: bone. ta’ the lanes sboreta ey : = > a | the calendar was defeated for noliti- rmont, Rhode i‘ pe ge atteenena Ei ges. xabious, te largest worsted | me, will remit for 100 copies. Then! He also staged “The Desert Song”! jeal reasons by members of the house ae "Phe x n the world. Here the workers earn $18 if they work a full week. the lukewarm few will see that, even - ‘ | evs ; * Kentuck ne pee Sts ‘et ae nae Ae Well? camnmttbnes: fies Tine peg |and other plays. | military affairs committee, Johnson ean 4 nt they are to work two days in seven. Mill committees | tho the International Association of hae 2 a | | ¢ieq nati Ontos dnitiediate ecuien he the Wood Mill | been formed in this and other teatile mills thruout New England | Machinists are dead in this locality,| Liveright’s other production, “Dra-| Shick would besting euecticetie aie Law? ee, the We ee nnat tha <entolersble conditvona: of kspeed-up, doubling-ip. | shatcthinking otewy tn thigi ener arc} cules by tick man Mea cere at poet uA ere he hit fe or M aAShin; mv ° % re é iz mem vi s . ’ J oe “Wood Mill ages wor: ane lay-off, |; going further in an attempt to|the Fulton Theatre, just celebrate ~ ie their ae tending to safeguard the country world and, be remedy their conditions. its 200th performance. Bernard Ju-} IM PENNSYLVANIA i | against profiteering in war time, is joubling up ¢ A __ 1 represent the so-called radicals| ies, who plays the role of the lunatic} — Star of “Our Betters,” Somerset |<o worded that all factories conld be 8.000 work It is] in the Hoe and Co, shop at Dunel- in the play, simultaneously celebrates! Maugham’s comedy now playing at | iijlitarized, while all manufacturers named ‘ ‘3 A W A / H NC fs 4 Y MEN eo his 1,000th performance. Jukes orig-| the Henry Miller ‘Theatre, could be permitted to profitcer. ner pre "5 z vara tha re handled by inated the role of Benfield for the| = === Hanford McNider, former national er r ig presses that are handled by ty ati iveright brought ; i ; rT f oolen eae seo — U heceltteumat ‘ ,| London production. Liverig! i ommander of the American Legion, me Pres (By a Worker Correspondent) Beaapagares rer of the ‘Printers! tha English actor over for the Broad- Screen Notes——=|| commander of the American cia mite PHILADE , (By mail).—Here is something that might be | care how ome eno OF Pet-| way production after Jukes had play- | trust, was credited by Johnson with Johnson quoted ckvatisrncna ch ak j haps care how our downtrodden 470 interesti of Pennsylva }ed his ‘role 800 times in England. workers sweat and toil to build the The Paramount film version of. originating this bill. > was its head, accc } state met t and discussed the crime situation, aap . diy princely eee Anne Nichols’ “Abie’s Irish Rose,” is| his own war record and the testimony fe to ¢ filed by the Ame At their n ng they unanimously¢————— EN Se ee cee their Princely The newspaper comedy by Charles| ccheduled to open at the 44th Street) of past experience of the government an Wo: n the Boston su-/agreed that the only way to check] sand years, yet crime seems to be| The ahiet slave aitvex here is. Graf, | eacArthur and,Ben Hecht which Jed) qi catre Thursday evening, April 19. | to prove the obvious fact that busi- perior court a w erime would be to enact a law similar increasing exactly in the proportion|the..works manager. Known 2 th ae JF ap Ree wee pe sehen) —— ness men have robbed the government. The for the woolen! to the New York Baumes law. Altho Re ake ‘s: | clean s gee SO en ae peed tne, tone UPAEE: Lee fraey:| ‘The Harry Langdon comedy, “The| in all its wars. He did not allude in ll week, which| they do not mean to copy the Baumes/ that misery and poverty increases. lout tence nye Hoe’s, his job is tol creator of the hoofer-role in “Broad-| Chaser,” which is atthe Cameo The-| ny way to the fact that labor bodies ese days. The}law word for word, they want the| I wonder if these clever attor cut wages and make two men do the| way,” and Osgood Perkins who did ng roor) receive | Pennsylvania law to rest on the same our week. I The Baumes law automatically Mill employs} convicts a man to life imprisonment The average if arrested for a fourth offense. Washi 500 workers. The about wage for a full week is $18. The ef-| : i The attorney’s decision was lauded athe Min the PI delphia papers as a very bright id But to us, crime seems have been needing up and doub the carding room, at ficiency this plant experts ling up work to be the result of certain causes and night, kers now run three/in order to check crime these causes| gill-box¢ tead of two and receive! nust be removed. Crime will exist $26.88 for 60-hours a week. There is} ,. long as poverty, hunger and want The worker in nch. the machine is no time off for has to eat while motion. exist. People ve been shot, hanged | electrocuted for the last few thou- stopped to think that if the living conditions of the poor and exploited were better, crime might decrease But this is a problem which can only |be solved by a government of the | workers. Under the capitalist sys- jtem they enact Baumes laws. In | other words, you're safe if you can get hold of a million dollars but | you have nothing to eat and you ; steal four loaves of bread, one at la time, it means that you go to jail ‘for the rest of your life. —F. H. Both Wood and Washington night workers have been working only one or two hts a week for months. The workers in these three plants| are joining the Textile Mill Commit- | Wo rkers Earn tees, the new pr sive organiza- | tion, which was the outcome of “$1 25 Together March 11 conference in Boston. NDREWS. Shik (By a Worker Correspondent) Iam sure that most of your reader: have never heard of stickers. Well, v Five Safety-Pin' Fired for Aid to Negro Loan Shark Victims » (By a Worker Correspondent) In New York City we have many loan sharks and just as many insur- ance shar! The underpaid laborer lwe “, | | work that three men staggered under | bates {such good work in “Spread Eagle,” Lee Ore | will have prominent roles in the piece lar itty wage slaves of the white col-| which will open at the Apollo The. |lar class, production clerks, time- ‘atre, Atlantic City next month. “The Front Page” will be staged by George . Kaufman. |keepers, etc., all marri on $25 a week. Threats of moving the plant keen | ithe machinists cowed, and stool- | pigeons from the Metal Trades’ As-| at Love,” the Sil-Vara play now in {ee eeen weed out the so-called mal-'yehcarsal at the Guild include Janet Bees i‘ | Beecher, Cathleen Nesbit and Claude Ge e ] Toe Co. has a $2,000,000 order | Rains. Richard Bennett heads the sty Presses for the Chicago Daily: cast, Robert Milton is directing the | News, yet even union men in Chi-| play which will open next week. at cago without fuss or worry assemble] the Republic Theatre. seab presses for union men to oper-}| ate, | ied men, exist Additions to the cast of “Playing T 3 | Jane Cowl will not appear in Lon- et us wake these chaps up. It’s don this summer in Robert Emmet whe Sweat and toil that make the | Sherwood’s “The Road to Rome,” but ‘ions for the Hoe Co. | will be seen here early next season We slaves, who patronize the res- Biss in a new play by Mr. Sherwood which augant remémber army days, slum, is, as yet, without a title. She has s| nth every, day. But it is eat here definitely decided not to appear again or starve, for we are fifteen minutes in London until the spring of 1929 from the nearest lunch wagon. Eat|when she will be seen there in a slum or go hungry is the Hoe motto. group of plays which may include —RUDY BENITO. “Romeo and Juliet.” } | | Broadway showing of the latter film. this week, has been borrowed by D. “The Battle of atre will end its run this Friday night, in order to make way for Paul Fejos’ “The Last Moment,” which will succeed the comedy, opening there on Saturday. This will be the first wage increases in time of war. x * * Phyl'ts Haver, the Roxie Hart of the screen version “Chicago,” which is showing at the Broadway Theatre W. Griffith from Cecil B. DeMille to nlay the part of a “gold digger” in the Sexes.” te congress. have steadily fought his scheme be- cause its real purpose is to prevent WASHINGTON, April 10 (EP). — That the Capper-Johnson universal draft bill is a fraud which neither conscripts capital nor takes the profit cut of war, is the statement of Fred- erick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for Prevention of War, who declares the bill one of the most dangerous ever submitted ELFCTRIC ODEON Special Records—Made in Europe: |has to begin to pay up his burial “ae ck” or pin safety-pins on cards| expenses in monthly or weekly in- Ca AMUSEMENTS, seta } for rings. | stallments which he must continue | Workers Earn $1.25 jall his life. A worker, twenty years Bi gbae | We do our work home in the after-|of age, takes out a policy for about | heatre a ae | ; a Our | i—— The Theatre Guild presents —— W. 44 Bk) yeep We have pretty good results from the “Daily Worker.” But we {| Million a Year Loss Is | 01s and nights. My mother, my} $200 and starts pastng about $15 a)) A |ERLANGER Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 would like to know, if there are more readers, who are delaying ’ z | brother Steve 11, Pete 9, and my sis-| year. A non-payment in a period of || GNtin's GEO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) their ord We would lik fi ‘. invite thi B. & M. Aim |ter Mary 8, and I, who am the oldest | thirty days causes him to lose this |] Play, Strange Interlude AND HIS_ eir orders. We would like to hear from them, and invi e them, ¢ | 14, all together make about $1.25 a| insurance. || John Golden Then, 8th, E. of B'way COMEDIANS MERRY MALONES to write to us. This would enable us to keep our advertisement BOSTON, (FP) April 10.—Railroad | day. You see our bosses only pay us| workers may have a taste of Coolidge | one-fourth of a cent for sticking 50} Evenings Only at 5:30, Prey on Negroes. The greatest prey for these sharks | | in the Daily Worker. 44th Street. s. Wed.& Sat. HUDSON Fests, % ALL THIS WEEK mediation if the Boston & Maine per-|safety-pins on a ring. The pins must} is the Negro population in this city. | sists in its efforts to cut wages of union railws by 3 to 10 cents | an hour. Although the road has net-} ted profits of $20,000,000 since 1924, | it is seeking to shear a million a year| from its clerks. | When the dispute is presented to] the Parker-Watson mediation board the union may agree to arbitrate the | wage decrease, with an almost certain | eut in sight. But if the el refuse | to submit the probability of having a sla inflicted their paychecks, | President will ha the | power to appoint a fact-finding com- mission, whose report might also lead to a slash. The union would be re striking to preserve til 30 days af: the f port, affording the road a tunity to ma on Coolidge ained from | ple opr rshall strikebreak Alleged “Loan Shark” Turns Up; Seven More Indictments Issued | ~ | Julius Knepper, of the Julius Knep- | per Fi Company, formerly of 468 E. 162rd St., one of the first of the alleged “loan sharks” indicted. | has finally given himself up after 10| days of hiding. Knepper was in the} Federal Building March 29, just a| few minutes before the grand jury | handed down an indictment against! ‘him. He left so suddenly that he did! mot even notify his wife. Knepper| ssaid that he had suffered from stage fright” but that he had now sregained his “natural composure.” Knepper was indicted for fraudu- Tent use of the mails in connection with his attempts to evade the anti- usury laws. He was freed on $5,000 bail. Seven more warrants, covering four individuals, were issued late Monday by Chief Magistrate McAdoo, | sitting in the state usury inquiry ;Eleven companies and individuals fwere also summoned by him to ap- ypear at today’s hearing, as well as »two notary public, said to be wo- *men, accused in connection with loan ‘company papers. The first of the ‘trials will be held Monday. j The first public hearing on the in- ‘vestigation into activities of city mar- )shals in connection with the “loan ‘shark racket” will be held Thursday ' morning, it was announced by James _ A. Higgins, commissioner of accounts of New York City. | way they call us Pollaks. »e put on straight and even with the | izes or the foreman will make us do it all over for nothing. My father works as a polisher anc gets $26.50 a week. He works 11% hours a day. But sometimes there is no work and sometimes he is home sick because the dust gets in his lungs and he coughs a whole lot. That is why we must all work all the time. Our fingers are always sore because we stick ourselves ying to work fast. If we don’t work fast all of us together can only make about a dol- jk The companies that write industrial jinsurance do not accept Negroes. | They claim that this is due to the |high mortality of the Negroes. | | Therefore, the Negro worker is open to the small insurance sharks, who them from the benefit when the poli-) cies become due. | The writer of this article came to} work for one of these sharks (name | omitted for obvious reasons). As a| Communist he thought it his duty to| bring the message of Communism to lar a day these unorganized Negro workers. Last year Pete got blood-poisoning|_, With the help of the Workers| in his hand. They took him to the Party section, he organized quite al hospital and he got better all right.| Successful meeting addressed by | | Party speakers. Those Negro work- jers, for the first time in their lives. |heard the presentation of working | |class ideas. | | There is a traitor in every cause,| and someone carried a report of th |meeting to the «ffice and the office acted promptly. The writer was call-| ed in and was told that he was to! | be discharged. A 100 per cent Amer- ican office cannot employ a Commun- ist. As a follower of Lenin, he man- euvered with the bogs and as a re-| sult he is still able to keep his con- nections with the Negro workers and he will keep on his work and spread our propaganda among them. Losing a job is not so bad as it is for our Chinese comrades to lose their lives. A Communist must pay the price. \ey sure hate the Pollaks in the hos. they would hardly let us see We all work for the ring Co., near W Scoville Manu- terbury, Conn. ory very very big and is x blocks long. There are about 5,000 people working there. 3 Mile Haul. T have a small wagon I made and every morning at seven o’clock I bring the finished work in and take back new work. I pull the wagon more than three miles over the hills end it is heavy too. When it snows hard I use my sled. Please do not print my name for we will lose our work and my father his job. Our bosses want us to like what we are doing, but we can’t. Any- a The about So do not print my name or where T live, so they won’t find out who wrote the letter, because nearly all the kids’ mothers and old people around here are stickers, Passaic Mills Close PASSAIC, N. J., April 10.—More than 1,000 textile workers are out : of employment through the closing Combine Forestalled | {nPgyment, throug and the New WASHINGTON, April 10.—By al Jersey worsted mills in Garfield. standing vote of 124 to 80, the house | ; 5 killed the Newton bill to permit| American industries to form buying combinations to fight foreign gov- ernment monopolies in raw materials, particularly rubber. —W. N. Electricians Organize CARBONDALE, Pa. (FP)-—Electri- cians have applied for a union char- ter. Contractors are reported willing to sign an agreement, COXEY GETS HEARING. WASHINGTON, ‘April 10 (FP).— “Gen.” Jacob S. Coxey, who led the army of unemployed to Washington 84 years ago, has been granted a hearing before the house committee on banking and currency on his bil] MOSAIC LAYERS WIN CONTRACT | CHICAGO, April 10.—The mosaic and terrasso layers of Chicago, Local 41, Bricklayers’, Masons’ and Plas- terers’ International Union, will get $1.50 an hour until May 31, 1930, as a result of a newly signed contract Base machine men will get $1.15 and besides collecting heavy fees, cheat |r THE ABSOLUTE 4 VOLPONE ild 7, W, 524 st. Bvs, 8:20 Guild Mats. ‘thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Week of Apr. 16: “Marco Millions” By GEORGE M. 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