The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 12, 1928, Page 4

“~ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928 i HE DANY WORK, NEW YORI TUESDAY, API FR cael NEW HAMPSHIRE TEXTILE WORKERS, PAID $14 A WEEK, ARE EAGER FOR ORGANIZATION (By a Worker Correspondent) WILTON, N. H. (By mail).—The woolen mills, the Hillsboro and Souh workers in the ve been given a wage cut on which they can barely exist. Workers in the Souhigan Mill work pe ing for a ten-hour receiv- i fifty cents or thirty-five cents an hour, so that working from three to four days a week, they make about $10.50-$14 per week. The speed-up s. ystem is the same as everywhere. The workers are forced to work on the high loom sys- third less than plug for their tem and have only a short lunch period. The young people in these mills are paid about one They, more than the They leave school the adults. meagre pay. first or second year of high that they may help keep together their homes. others, at the They would anxiously help the older workers to organize. The workers, mostly French Canadian, are listening with interest to the question of organization and want to organize and improve their conditions. —wW. Cc. “Textile Com mittee Distributes A ppeal at Amoskeag Mi ill Gates:” Correspondent _ RETURN 10% WAGE SLASH; ABOLISH SPEED-UP, PLEA Set Up Your Own Shop Paper, Is Demand (By a Worker Correspondent) i MANCHESTER, N. H, (By| Mafl)—Enclosed is a leaflet issued} by the Textile Mill Committee of the Amoskeag Mill direct to the mill workers at the gates this morning. The Leaflet The bosses own the factories a the machines and with these thi own our jobs and control our lives. The boss does not care for us, é: eept to hire us cheaper, to make us work harder, all for profits for him-| self. So the boss cuts our wages and speeds up the work and makes us work | Yonger hours. He tries to fool us with fake employee representation or company union plans. We have no use for the bosses’ com-} pany union which gave us the w ge} cut. We want an organization own—an organization that will fight} for a better standard of living. Such an organization has been} formed. A big New England Textile Conference of progressive textile our workers’ unions and clubs was held in} This conference | i to build a new Progressive|the most mi Textile Workers’ Organization to be|are found in t as the Textile Mill Commit- | that These workers’ committees are |the canc ilt up in every textile mill and | mines, od together into one strong!the beet f nal body of Mill Commit-| cotton plant Boston March 11th. decid known tees. to be b to be j united nat Already workers in Lawrence, New Bedford and mills have their commit- ht here in the Amoskea; mittee has been formed. hen your fellow-worker asks you. Join it comes to your house. for: 2. Mill Committees! 2. in’ wages stolen from us last De-| The children must also fight the tionary meeting, the participation of | zember! vercrowded conditions in the schools, the Pioneers has infused new blood 8. For an increase of wages! . j|they must fight unsanitary condi- and enthusiasm to those present. 4, The 40-hour 5 day week! ions, all of which a common to They have carried on systematic 5. The abolition of the speed-up|schools in the working class neigh-/education within the organization. system! | borhoods. Special classes have been formed for 6. For a worker's shop paper! Military Propaganda. the functionaries, The older Pion- The Textile Mill Committees are! The workers’ chil must demand eers are being prepared to enter the against: \the establishment of kitchens in the | Young Workers (Communist) League. Employee presentation or com-|schools where the children of the un-/At the recent Liebknecht memorial pany union plz arted by the bos: oyed will be The children ; meeting of the League fifty Pioneers \ to fool us and to make easier to| ight the anti-labor propaganda |were graduated into the ranks of the | \ put over wage cuts, speeding up, ete.!| instilled in our children in the schools. | League. All of these are already ac- | All textile clubs of the bosses! All newspapers controlled by thejtools of the {intensification of the militar it-|the youth in the war, bosses! Issued by the Te tee the Headq Providence, arters, R. Westminster St., Young Workers to Hear « Talk on “Superstition” CLE AND, 0., West Side Branch Workers (Commu hold an open mee headquarters, 4 B p. m. Nell A the branch, April of the 1l— e; will 18th, on Superst All young workers in the have ing Class. neighborhood attend. Branch of the Young League of Cleveland holds ppen meetings on every other F night at 4309 Lorain Ave. Inte ing educational subjects are dise sed. Worke ford to pay for the papers. attacks makes it impossi miners- they appeal to all cls them get the Daily Worker. labor movement. when the organizer | ‘The | 4 Young | 0" been invited to} Progressive Textile Committee In = Mill y| Ayer Woolen Mill, ab is one of the three largest textile mills Mass. The work in the textile industry, underpaid, laid-off and speeded up, have set up their Textile Mill Committee in this mill. The Mill Committees.have already spread thruout New England as the industry seethgs*with unrest. PI PIONEER S’ CONVENTION AND CHILD PROBLEMS' By LOUIS SISSEL complished much. At ‘he same time that an army of Each Pioneer knows that his 5,000,000 unemployed march along “shop” is his school. He knows that | the s of our orious land of it is there that he must carry on his | prosperity,” there two and one- fight to win the worker’s child for half million children f five to six- the working he Pioneers have | teen mercil od in the carried on successful struggles in the American schools against overcrowding, again: discrimination of pupils. In _ the These childre r fights they have rallied thousands of ba t | readi place them with child offer a better means of exploitation, since their demands are fewer, \they offer less r The Textile Mill Committees stand| this we find that the problem of child jlabor besides being a problem for the is a special problem to the a problem of in Zz In ne The recognition of the Textile) jadults, |children themselves, Return of the 10 per cent cut/ vital importance. The te ew talled | schools. in | fro: it) ence The mine workers are on strike. a sy sed on pr e street bootblacking, y industry, ¢ ind ld m where ever financi rs ance. acher alist class. pr military training in even the militant of our children ffectiv hem to be ship and or m the Young Wo League. the Pioneers in New York t ‘Thousands of Miners are asking that the Daily Worker be sent to them. They cannot af- The Miners Need the Paper. s conscious workers to help Workers, the miners’ fight is the fight of the entire : The miners’ struggle is your strug- 5 gle. Send them a subscription to the Daily Worker. textile mil ions of the Sout g imperialist wa must our children fight opaganda against the newsboys, is, coal ustry and especially in of Michigan and the h. it is quite obviou magnates will very re- who and re willing and pliant In the | The Young Pioneers tion of their district convention proud of | n for a|their past, are full, of hope and en- is being elementary ld must be taught struggl w ely, it organized period of ex- have The financial condition of the Daily because of the le to meet the requests of the and Because of (Com- ac- y children. Every month the Pioneer distribute copies of the Young Com- rade, the organ of the Pioneers, among their school mates with the | iew of counteracting capitalist pro- Under the leadership of the Pioneers a conference for miners’ ief was called in January. conference over ten thousand children represented. Now thousands of workers’ children have been drawn into the relief work, and have be- come acquainted with the miners’ struggle. Pioneers’ Camp. The New York district has con- ducted a camp for three summers, where many workers’ children had | their vacation. At every celebration of the working class, at every revolu- | tively participating in its wo thusiasm for the future are facing them. The tasks are great, | yet we can very confidently say that | the Pioneers will carry on their work | mong the workers’ children, interests of the workers’ children and y |the working class, successfully. The Pioneers have proved by their !past deeds that they are the children who are destined to be in the fore front of the coming struggles of the American working class. If the workers wiil not understand the ne y of a strong children’s organization our children will be won by the bourgeo Every worker who is honest to his class must sup- is |port the Pioneer movement, must see to it that his own children join its ranks, must see to it that every work- er’s child he comes in contact with becomes a Pioneer. To you, young brave fighters, we convention, Forward to a real work- ers’ children’s organization that will be the pride of the ers! THE DAILY WORKER 33 FIRST STREET New York City ing ‘miner for .i03.64,., months. RATES 12 months 6 months 3 months 2 months 1 month Address ame At this | coming to} tasks that | in the} send our hearty greetings on your American work- \NORDBERG ENGINE ~ CO. DRIVES MEN ) AND 11 HOURS. But Milwaukee Slaves Are Paid for 8 and 4 (By a Worker Correspondent.) | MILWAUKEE, Wis.,. (By Mail) — I have lately been victimized by the Nordberg Manufacturing Co. for [Beats activities. Open Shop. This is a large engineering plant |which specializes in the construction of Diesel and steam engines. It em- { loys over 1,000 men in open shop conditions. The day shift is nine and one-half hours and the night shift {1144 hours. According to the Company’s word we get paid for a 10 and 12 hour jshift respectively. But in truth we |only get paid for about three and four hours of work. Most of the trades- | men are started out with only fifty {cents an hour. Yet the company has the audacity to say that we get paid according to our abilicy. (I find that |my ability is about double in a union | shop). Men Buy Own Tools. A few of the men have been there over 20 years, but are still unable to jretire because they will never get a \pension. This is one way that the company “economizes.” Another way is by not providing sufficient tools in {the tool-cribs, and by forcing the workers to buy tools, which the com- pany sells at retail prices to the men. Thus the men are made to spend their own money to save the company from doing so and in order to make profit for the company. The locker-room is very dirty, over- crowded and lacks many conveniences. Good ciothes would soon be ruined | there. To save hiring helpers or laborers for the mechanics, the new men are | made to do a great deal of that work. Boss Propaganda. | The men are kept divided among themselves by receiving different | wages and partly by boss propaganda \daily on the bulletin board, urging |the men to “be loyal,” “efficient,” to produce more, to worship the goddess success, to be satisfied and so on. The company employs labor spies too. At present six huge high pressure gas compressors are under construc- tion for the Atmospheric Nitrogen Corporation. These are of a new and special design and will be used in the coming war for making explosives or lethal gas and for chemical fertilizers in time of peace. \ —D. Answer Is Easy NEWARK, N. J., April 11—Will business interests of New Jersey give heed to polite recommendations by the Social Service Bureau that they conduct a survey of Newark unem- ployment and create a permanent em- ployment clearing house? The bureau has formally requested such action by’ the Btate bere of commerce, -——D RA MA——+ Opens at HE first of many revues and musi- cal comedies that are expected to open in New York during the next month or so, is the “Greenwich Vil- lage Follies,’ now playing at the Win- ter Garden. Those who have visited the “Green- wich Village Follies” in the past will be well satisfied with the present edition that is by far the best of the series, and ranks as or the outstanding re- vues of the current season. While the music is utterly lacking in catchy tunes the show is impeccable. None of the songs are of such a character as to be remembered long after one leaves the theatre. When one comes to discussing the} comedians, there is a different story | to tell. Dr. Rockwell, mary years to vaudeville fans, is one of the chief funmakers. His style of comedy is slightly similar to Joe Coo, and while he is not so expert Grace La Rue kept in a constant uproar. A team known as Jans and Wah- len contribute a great deal to the gaiety of the evening. Their dialogue is fast and adds prestige to the entire production, Blossom Seeley is another member of a large and distinguished cast Those who have seen her in years gona by must sadly admit that her type of humor seems sort of slow in 1928. Some of the serious moments of the evening are when Grace La Rue sings several sentimental songs. The revue also has some very fine danc- ing numbers directed by Chester Hale and Ralph Reader, while a team of dancers called Carlos and Vakeria execute faultlessly remarkably fine. exhibitions. There are 27 numbers all told in the production. The dramas that are travestied as usual in revues, are “The Silent House,” “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” and “The Command to Love.” The extravaganza opens on a bus bound to Greenwich Village, which deposits its passengers in the Purple Cat. The rest of the revue is devoted to the adventures that take place thereafter. The sketches are by Harold Atter- idge and the music by Ray Perkins and Maurie Rubens. The lyrics are by Max and Nathaniel Lief. J. C Huffman is responsible for the stag- ing. ADMIT UNEMPLOYMENT. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 11.— Admission of the serious unemploy- ment crisis was made when the city council yesterday approved the rec- ommendation of Mayor Parker for the appropriation of several hundred thousand dollars for public works. Unemployed in the U. 50, How many can be CITY? SECTIO! ORDER FROM Price $2.00 Enclosed find § ADDRESS . ordered and paid for by Chicago District, HOW ABOUT YOU? DISTRICT? SUB-SECTION? NUCLEUS? WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY 43 East 125th Street ORDER BLANK WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY, 43 BE. 125th Street, New York City 5,000,000 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. 000 000 i distributed by your IN? New York City per thousand known for} Broadway Briefs ; | “Greenwich Village Follies” Winter Garden PHYLLIS HAVER. In the film melodrama “Chicago” at the Broadway Theatre this week. The Theatre Guild will postpone the opening of “Playing at Love,” sched- uled for next Mond t the R i in handling his part, the audience is! Bip ian HR ERAS et Glin Theatre. The play may open on the following Monday or in the middle of the week of the 16th. “A Lady for a Night,” the new Hutcheson Boyd comedy will open to- night at the 49th Street Theatre. Esther Howard is featured in the leading role with a supporting cast that includes Helen Lowell, Dorothy Hall and Betty Lawrence. John Gilbert and Greta Garbo are to appear in “A Son of St. Moritz,” a screen story of Viennese life. Be- fore starting work on this film the two players will appear in individual pictures. Mr. Gilbert will act in “Four Walls,” from the John Golden production recently seen here, and Miss Garbo will be seen in “War in the Dark.” Philip Goodman, on his recent: visit to Paris completed arrangements with Maurice Chevalier for his first TEXTILE UNIONS VOTE ON STRIKE Workers Demand Fight Against Wage Cut (Continued from Page One) cut wages because of competition is branded as hypocritical by the work- ers. They prove that all the mills in Maine, New Hampshire, and the South which produce the same quality of fine cotton goods and rayon mix- tures, do not equal in output that of three large mills in New Bedford. These are the only mills where the wage problem may prove an excuse for competition, As for the large mills in Connecti- cut and Rhode Island, where the quantity of production may be suf- ficient to compete with New Bedford, these mills have not made a wage re- duction in spite of the fact that wages are higher than in New Bedford. Buying Difficult. Another significant fact pointed to by the workers is that several Southern mill owners made state- ments to,the trade journals giving specific instances to prove that they were never able to come within sev- eral cents a yard of the low prices |quoted by the New Bedford Mills, in |spite of their cheap labor. A encouraging stimulant to suc- cessful strike action was also made public in textile trade papers. This is a news item announcing the difficulty of textile buyers in obtaining spot de- liveries of fine cotton goods. * * * PAWTUCKET, R. I, April 11—A strike was declared in effect yester- day at the mills of the Darlington Textile Company by the United Tex- tile Workers of America. The mill management had locked out the 200 loom fixers and weavers in the factory when they refused to accede to the de- mand of the employers that a lower wage scale and an increased system of loom operation be adopted. The lockout was made a week ago. They were joined yesterday in a sympathy strike by the 50 reamers who remained at work last Monday. This takes the last man out of the mill in spite of the fact that the mill operators had posted notices yester- day that they are reopening the plant, and will take back those returning on the company terms, The new system of paying for the operation of four looms instead of three as previously, reduces the wages of the operatives by 40 per cent, the American appearance next slanuary, — The Theatre Guild pres presents —— Eugene O'Neill's gas"* — Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. ALL THIS WEEK VOLPONE Anilq Th. W. 624 St. Evs. 8:30 Guild Nate inure '& Sat 2.30 ‘Week of Apr. 16: “Marco Millions” Madison Sq. Garden 3? &,5° Sts. fly (except Sun.) 2 and 8 “fee CIRCUS = including Among 10,000 Marvel GOLIATH, monster sea elephant | ADMISSION ‘TO ALL $1 to $50 Ch LL nel. j Seat War Tax). Children under 12 halt price at all Aft. Performances ex- | cept Saturday, Theatre, 41 5: National Eyw.8:30. ates, “The Trial of Mary By Bayard eats with Anm Harding-Rex Cherryman- 30th WEEK | ppaces |. Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2.36 “Blithely Blood-curdling.” —Herald-Tribune. The screen rights to George M Cohan’s comedy, “The Baby Cyclone,” have been purchased by Metro anc will be released sometime later this season. oan (SES oD tworkers declare. Evs. 8:30 ents — ERLANGER 3, 30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. GRO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) ‘owepisxs MERRY MALONES COMEDIANS HUDSON Theatre, West 44th Street. IN THE Bys. 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat, THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN WHISPERING FRIENDS By GEORGE M. COHAN COHAN. — TURIN EA rs,,Fri.,Sat. & Sun., Apr, 12-13-14-15 Ralph Whitehead & Co. Herbert Faye & Co—Other Acts Richard Barthelmess in “The Noose” MEO AR LANGDON ey 789" in ln newest comedy “fHE CHASER” ~ MUSIC AND C AND CONCERTS _ 20TH ANNIVERSARY Concert BORIS LEVENSON Friday Eve., April 13th at 8:30 P. M. At the TOWN HALL 113 W. 43rd Near 6th Ave. THE WORKERS’ CHORUS OF ELIZABBTH, N. J., will sing 2 Revolutionary Hymns. Nov. 7, 1928, up to Harry Blake, clo. SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning First Street, New York City. and including Nov. ai, 1928. — For information write to Daily Worker, 33