The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 6

a 3} gi ey ln m rai rei, ast ort rm pe ns r Ne oir Im re art 114 14 Phy ca Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928 Associated Shoe and Slipper Union Growing, Worker Correspondent Writes @ MEN WORK FROM 48 TO 60 HOURS IN VILE SHOPS Must Support Families Thru Long. Slack Time (By a Worker Correspondent) The r the worke end the worke , have to; take in were th There the b gain. } on the comr made of the worke of schemes workers in subjectior are company unio’ to keep among wr low dog con- by which tracts and compulso: rent security against union ations. The worl from 48 to 60 hours conditions conceivable. But at the end| of the week found in their pay eny| velopes from $35 to $50. Out of these} earnings most of the shoe worl will have to support their families through a three months period of slack which is rapidly approaching. | While the,bosses are trying to si eure themselves against the workers that they would not create any| trouble, yet the workers are not safe | with their jobs, because the boss has the right to throw them out of the} shop at any time and under any pre-| tense. Now a Union, { These conditions are due to the fact | that there was no union to which the | workers could turn to for protection. With the establishment of the A ‘sociated Shoe & Slipper Wor' Union of Greater w York which | has recently been organized by the rank and file of the shoe workers of | Greater New York an effort to end} these deplorable conditions is being} made. The union i functioning | joining the union c the organization have | end cfficers elected. Plans for sive organizational v rcanped out. The various sicts in the city will be covered by zor al committ stablished on a y members ‘a io toric ungon. and th Join ne LEVINE CLAIM SETTLED. WASHINGTON, April 13.—Set- tlement of the government’s claim of | $500,000 i Charles E. L vine. | trans-Atlant f and = a‘reraft manufacturer, for $150,000 virtually has been arranged it was learned to-} day. Jersey Taxi | Drivers, Send | Us Letters} ia | Five hundred taxi drivers are on \strike In Newark and vicinity. They! \have been striking for a t against the intolerable conditions| of their industry in northern New} Jersey. | They are striki of receipts fror la third to forty per cent lof drivers’ liabili for land holdups, abolition of the 18 thour day driver and recognition of their union. for an increa three and During the time they have been| | on strike the bosses’ press has} constantly thrown cold water on jtheir struggle. The bosses are out) gunning for the taxi strikers and it is the policy of their press to| keep, suggesting: “You are going to be defeated.” It is time for the} Newark taxi drivers themselves to| answer t attitude of the boss press by writing their own stories of their fight to The DAILY WORKER, which has consistently supported them. A letter by a New York taxi driver in this, edition of the paper | gives the Newark taxi men an ex \ample of how the workers can use \the columns of The DAILY| WORKER to tell the stories of | heir strike and hardships. These | ‘etters do not have to be typed or ‘written in swell English. Facts | ‘sbout the day te day struge d | he conditions eut of which it grew | are what is needed. Newark taxi drivers, let the whole American labor* movement | read your own accounts of your | strike. Simply write your letters to | \Worker Correspondence, The | ‘DAILY WORKER, 33 First St., |New York City, and they will be | jcorrected for spelling and pub- lished as you wrote them. You will | receive special copies of the paper | containing your letters. Bring your | pee: and its issues before the | whole American working class 50 | ‘that it may receive the Widest sup- batts sometabe | rae, | foreed \ieause the wars. do they live or wou!d |‘ “When Mine Delegates Gathered at Save-the- Union Meet rE ; Lamorin of Pittston, John | the-Union Mike many men slugged by Cap- tional committee. m committee, of tha good, a member of the x Shenandoah, I rs He ud Powe n and ex-service men the army and navy d to The DAILY writer will not be of the URGES VETERANS NOT TO | FORGET: Dear F who served in the armies} during the late war will recall that our ideas, at least in the beginning, Were mostly ready made for us—and | how careful the powers-that-be, the | official war machine, were in telling ‘us how to speak, how to act and even how to think. Instead of facts we got the bosses’ propaganda. Sometimes this was elu- ive and subtle, but more often it was ‘rect and to the point, and always had a few interestin, I believe most’ of and I want to ask stopped to think what we to defend—“our country Bosses Are the Danger. Well, if it ever was. in danger it is now—from the. bosses, the Wall Street class which robs the workers) q and even uses acne government Mey tending in the one direction, to play swindle the Pope as in t “| up the way as the class interests of -and now has the gu the bosses saw it—not the war a$ fight for the us, but big war they’ dr lousy, T. B.; leg: which those bo a : m. At pr Y s soon as they start a and we get 1 other things | we, the sons of workers, should and gradually did get to see it, " Struggle for Light. Looking back on it all after a lapse ~ |of years we see the dual nature of this struggle of the workers in the “| war for light, and the efforts of the ist war machine to smother eiforts to obtain the truth about the war before it had a chance to grow and develop, Even in the train- ing days the realities of things were ‘| forcing themselves upon us with the help of the hard school of experience, which was more than enough to kill most of the illusions created by the bosses. Then in England and at the chan-| {nel ports in France, remember how they watched our every move for the | sign of a rebel, and how those instruc- | tors played up their atrocit;) tales so vividly and so often that they be- gan to believe it themselves, and how some of the fellows’ flesh would} p until they got to be hard-boiled | and callous. And then that moral at Ae can Aicaeiedn Bybieth ana also{ the en 1 emember now there is no a worker and know the class I am/%0d German but a dead one,” end- de Gabtedine one avd i ,o¢|ing up with the detailed advice cal- edie aR Fe at | culated to develop all the latent sav- in uniform who don’t think what|®8'Y within us. Sage ge es | Priest Beats Colonel. But when. we do, this mighty army; Some will remember at. Havre ; where the colonel in charge of the ft us ward? - experienced s s.do we get ll over’ ¢-4he nor e of benefits—worse at home. Use ve Against Workers. “ppled ex-servicemen| in fact paying for to beg in the toilets this if they were not While those who seen los this priv Would the to do so? they want to live as we do? «R, in Pg wa ede will| farewell talk to the new drafts just _|ready to entrain for the front, so the padre when saying the final word would get positively bloodthirsty and more than overdid his act. And then those first prisoners ase our training to establish a work ers’-and farmers’ government for the class which produces everything use- ful but is robbed by the common enemy of all workers—the capitalist whom we had a chance to mingle system! with s fter th vi soon after they were captured. The bosses are always ready to| 4, : « |Here all the tales of our officers take US and use us to further their) 1a into sharp collision with reality, interests, ‘and when we ‘start think-) yy; eae 7 st , While al r tra 2. ing and cease to be their tools then a fhe Vaae ee rai en along will fight for-our own interests | ijugde” wot hot ne ows were ies tales -,| devils” yet they didn’t look it, but ad of against our inter for| ala sansian | ead had the appearance of any - | body of men who had been carrying jon so close to the border line between | life and death for so long. in: Use Training for Workers. When we take notice of the past ice to our class and recognize hes’ e I In Action an injury to a worker by the| Cy Petia baer puke apitalist clase -is-an’ injury to slb bodies of a fants ee oan | we will then use our training to see} 47... Sat alive, b [that the industries which our labor| On iito a half of dene geo ered has built up is placed into the hands |in> tanks emashed all tre ones of the workers and farmers of this] j¢0 ¢ . galt the remaining Bde, | life from their bodies—this was what I v- : we had to view. The thought of hate f. Peegain ‘sate I am an American|@nd fear ~and despair degenerated and want to.see the resources of mY | under ‘such an extreme mental and | country and means of production, in| physical excitement, and after such |the hands of those who produce al’| experiences would come a dead] | wealth, And workers, whether fatigue thru every cell of ithe body are in the army or navy, what's the|and I remember at such times h | difference—we are all workers and let jour little group gave thé mébisindier |us think and believe me the fiends} of the cigarettes to some fair-haired | who c¢ used the last slaughter will) Saxon boys who were prisoners. The , not repeat it without opposition like|/had been carrying out our wedge | before—but will have’ a lot of work-| for hours in what seemed tai | ers, including those in uniform, fight-| death. With what ie smile sie cane ling against them, radeshi ived i; | af ‘ ies ‘adeship they received those smokes |_, Write to the DAILY WORKER| _to appreciate this one needs to re- Column, agree or disagree with what | member that there was real belief at | L say, .but think about these things! that time that all prisoners were lined | if.you are a w r—because the mas-| yp and .shot, Later more and more t ss is ca ready to use us| ot to see thru the imperialist lies of again in another r sen ¥ ¥ ng " ‘NAVY MAN.” {She Hed suingnt Na in all the countries. | First Fraternization. f | Here I think was the first feeling A |of internationalism'and practice of a Brooklyn Dance Tonight | permanent and lasting kind, Well, " pouch is modern war, but maybe you | A Concert and Vetcherinka will be|s y why bring all that up, let’s for- hes tonight at 122 Osborne St, and forget. No, we cannot do Brooklyn, under the auspices of the} this as long as the bosses continue United Council of Working C’uss Wo- | their effort to have us go to slaughter men, Branch 7. | to protect their private interests, You An elaborate prozrein has been ar-|may have been too young for the last ranged for the early part of the eve-| war but will be just ripe for the next ning to be followed by dancing. The|one which we see being prepared be- inj nt S | | | | a | Philadelph‘a; Pa. | TAXI DRIVER IS License Taken for Aid FARMER DESCRIBES STRUGGLE ON LAND (By a Worker Correspondent) ELWOOD, Ind. (By mail)—Am sending you one dollar for the May Day honor roll. There isn’t much honor on my part in only one dollar, but, comrades, we’re having a struggle here to get thra on the farm. The of eyes. The worker knows he is | know which way to jump. Mills Slash farms by economic forces. They go| able to continue on the farm are} economic question is driving the eo me working class to look thru a new pair | ‘ ne is| \RRhode Island hard hit and knows that he will be} harder hit yet, but he doesn’t always | j | To City Slums. | Textile Wage | Many are being driven from the} . to the cities to swell the ranks of the | already unemployed. Those that are! struggling under absolute economic | slavery. | POLICE VICTIM FOR KIND DEED to Dying Man (By a Worker Correspondent) Taxicab drivers of New York City, on account of police control over that industry are often victims of the most brutal persecution and oppression of which the following cases are typical. It will be noticed that in this instance, the driver was victimized by the police solely because of his efforts to help a fellow human who had been (By a Worker Correspondent) PAWTUCKET, R. L, (By Mail). —J. P. Coates, the largest thread manufacturing ‘company in the} world, announced yesterday that a wage cut is to be. expected at mortally injured. If the workers in the mines, the | [eat ees AA AU | Picked Up Injured Man. miils, shops and factories will throw| | “They were followed by the] | David Rosenfeld, a taxicab owner|their strength to the last ounce of | srebrihal@he Ca). With a “etmglay|'| and driver of 5110 Ninth Avenue, their ability into the labor movement, | atateniont: % ‘ they will save their unions and will} grow in power until we are able to penetrate the farm distrigts with our fundamental arguments of self-evi- dent facts. Thus we will draw the farmers to help in the mighty move- ment that will unite all the working ass of eyery nation, kindred, tongue j and color under one Red Banner.! That is the only agency to destroy 3rooklyn, on Sunday morning, March 18, while driving thru 42nd St., near 11th Avenue noticed an injured man lying in the road. The street being deserted at the time, he placed the dying man in his cab himself and rushed him to the Roosevelt Hospital 59th Street. On the way picked up an officer who accompanied him to the hospital. J. P. Coates are a British con- cern and dominate the political! |policies of the Asquith family. | Some years ago the British govern- ‘ment voted $16,000,000 to them to| | assist them to secure contro! of the} | Egyptian and Sundanese cotton. In the Pawtucket factory there} are employed 4,000 workers, and a strike is certain if leadership is The victim of the accident made a|the cursed capitalism in this world. supplied. to these unorganized death-bed statement to the hospital}That will help us out from under eco-| | Hacces, interne to the effect that he had been |nomic servitude, in other words, pri- | —WARREN. struck by a street-car. This state-|vate industrial bondage: = ‘Atheist Scheduled for Trial in Baptist Case Charles L. Smith, president of*the American Association for the Ad- ment was repeated to the policeman and Rosenfeld. The man died five hours later. The policeman went over the ground where the injured man was found and, after a careful exam- ination of Rosenfeld’s cab, found everything in order. He told Rosen- feld he could go home. False Testimony. Two days after this occurrence, Rosenfeld was asked by another offi- cer, named Hooks, who had been as- signed to investigate the case, to take his taxicab to an address on W. 56th St. A man came out, who it was later revealed was a street car motorman and, barely glancing at Rosenfeld or his taxicab, accused him of having struck the deceased with his cab. Unite! When I have used up my last cent, I will use my mouth until hushed by | prison walls. Working men andj women of the world, unite. We have} already lost all and can only gai | ncement of Atheism, will go on now. | trial in Special Sessions next Mon- The capitalist lass has kept the|day on the charge that he sent free working class divided by false doc-/ thought literature to the Rev. Dr. trines, race hatred, craft divisions, | John Roach Straton, pastor of Cal- war hysteria, They have kept the | vary Baptist Church. working class of one nation fighting! ‘The Appellate Division of the against that of other countries. Yet) Supreme Court last month deciled in in our misery, comrades, take cour-| favor of the district attorney ‘in an age, Capitalism is digging its own | appeal from the action of Supreme grave broad and deep. This is becom- | Court Justice Crain in dismissing the ing so plain that the way-faring man, |clergyman’s charge against Smith. tho a fool, can’t help see and even the |Magistrate Gottlieb had previously UNION HEADS USE TRICK TO DELAY TEXTILE STRIKE % Mill Committees Call . Workers Out (By a Worker Correspondent.) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., (By Mail). —With the rising tide of feeling among the workers here against the proposed wage cut, threatening to |break into a general walk-out after tonight’s strike meeting, the union heads and the manufacturers’ in- terests are already preparing to avoid the clash in its fullest force. Delay Strike. The mayor and the New Bedford Times have called for a conference between the Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, and, the union heads, which is a time-honored method of delaying ac- tion until the full force of resentment against the cut has spent itself. At the same time the Slasher Tenders’ Union instead of carrying out the original plan of taking a strike vote at tonight’s special meet- ing, took the strike vote at heir reg- ular meeting last night, thereby pre- venting numerous workers from cast- ing their vote. Counteracting forces are at work, however, and by the distribution of 10,000 strike calls to all the mills, the Textile Mill Committees are appealing to the workers to turn out to their meetings and vote strike. Whether the American Federation of Textile Operatives is to live or die depends upon the action of the leaders in this crisis. If they strike and carry out the mandate of the workers in the mills, the union may recover from the Fall River fiasco. If the leaders follow the example of the Fall River Council and betray the workers, then they shall be swept aside and their place taken by a fighting union. —JOHN MACDONALD, WEAVER. Organ Makers Enter blind can feel its destructive forces. | Let us unite as quickly as possible. —A FARMER. The street car company, evidently sensing a possible law suit for damages by the estate of the dead man, tried to avoid the claim by forcing the poor motorman to testify falsely regardless of what might hap- pen to Rosenfeld who, after all, is “only another taxicab driver.” However, upon calling at the in- terne’s home he corroborated in front of officer Hooks what the dying man had said about being struck by a street car. In spite of this evidence of Rosen- feld’s innocence, officer Hooks, on March 22, four days after the acci- dent, hailed Rosenfeld before magis- trate Glatzmeyer, who ordered him held for homicide and. set bail at $1000. Rosenfeld had to pay $40 of his own money to furnish bond. Take Hack Credentials. At the same time his hacking cre- dentials without which a. hackman cannot work were taken away. Notes were due on the cab, insurance pre- mium was due, the landlord had to be paid and Rosenfeld found himself without money. At the trial in the homicide court before magistrate Macrery, on March 28, the motorman’s testimony was proved false. The interne testified to the truth. He also said that the nature of the injuries indicated that} * the deceased must have been struck by a sharp and heavy object and not ja vehicle as light as a_ taxicab. | Magistrate Macrery dismissed the case against Rosenfeld. A Hearing. Thereupon Rosenfeld went to the | Hack Bureau, presided over by a |ezar in the person of Fourth Deputy Police Commissioner Nelson A. Rutten- berg. But even in the face of such joverwhelming evidence of his inny- cence of any crime, Rosenfeld was told that he would have to come back for a hearing on April 13. In other words, unless his hack license is re- stored sooner, Rosenfeld will have been deprived of making a livlihood from March 22 until April 13, a period of 22 days. Unorganized. | On account of the disorganized state of the industry, there being no trade union among the drivers, police op- pression of the drivers continues un- checked. Having none except petty politicians who demand their “bit” to go to the front for them, taxi drivers often plead guilty to charges of which they are innocent, realizing that if they do otherwise it will go much harder with them. Often the victims of loan sharks, ete., they have little money with which to carry on a court fight, _ Many workers who wish to remain in the industry feel that there is only one way to stop police persecution and oppression and improve conditions of work generally and that is to get together in a strong trade union. Questions are often asked as to why the Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Stablemen’s Helpers, a regularly constituted branch of the American Federation of Labor, does not conduct an organization drive. There isn’t any doubt but that the 50,000 taxicab drivers of New York would welcome such an effort and would join up solidly, especially in view of the present rotten conditions sion. Smith has brot suit against Straton for $100,000, charging malicious pro- secution. Flyer’s Body Found NORFOLK, April 13. — The body of Commander T. G. Ellyson, of Richmond, Va., one of the three naval airmen who disappeared while flying from Hampton Roads to Annapolis February 28 last, was recovered at Willoughby, a suburb, yesterday. Citizenship Refused WENATCHEE, Wis., April 13.— Application by Leslie P. Dunning, of Wenatchee, for American citizenship has been “dismissed without preju- dice” by a federal examiner on the ground of Dunning’s conscientious objections to war. Dunning is a Can- adian. Strike a Blow FO Against the Nicaraguan War Merereen For the Organization of the Unorganized For a Workers Work or Wages for Unemployed Name Amount Get Your Friend to Send Collected by: Name duis ace redinevedadnwenhce es OReeb. ¢ proceeds will,pe donated to The Daily fore our eyes every dayy- rate | WAP Virrrast” Dia ee hap that prevail in the industry. x ane j (DRIVER. | oe held Smith for trial in Special Ses-} All greetings received will be printed in the May issue of the Daily Worker. ily Worker, 38 First Street, New York City The Injunction List | Oregon manufacturers have asked \the government to help them defeat efforts of the Piano and Organ Workers International to, organize jtheir employes. They have asked a federal injunction against the inter- inational and other unions concerned lin making and installing the. big music boxes which would bind the unions hand and foot in all organi- zing activities. The companies seek- ing the writ are Eolian, Wurlitzer, Moller, Estey, Skinner and Austin. Workers of the World Unite? | International ® solidarity ‘A Fighting Miners’ Union and a Victorious Strike For the Recognition and Defense of the Soviet Union |:For a Labor Party aad Farmers’ Government For the Overtlirow of the Capitalist System This Is My Token to the May Day Honor Roll seegasneaneyracncees seveweme, ssneceamense | pecsanes, Send in Your May Day Greeting at Once > a Greeting — seeees City Nesiande ube Send in your list at once