The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 4

pon cn SEALS & eet eyunere * Missi RO On NE A ke HOLSCOU Et washer ane Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928 sara STONE SHOE COMPANY, FIFTH AVENUE SHOP, FIRES MEN FOR PROGRESSIVE UNION ACTIVITY (By a Worker Corres Since the Associated Shoe and Slip to function it has found great response and interest among the The miserable conditions under: which the shoe workers lived and worked have now been brought clearly before shoe workers. them. The only solution they found w bosses who are now using various methods to keep the workers dow pondent) per Workers’ Union began ~ as to organize against the e di Among the first things that the union instructed all its mem- bers to do was to post and distribute stickers in all factories and shops that they could approach, This soon brought good results. An incident at the Stone Shoe Co., at 71 Fifth Ave., boldly shows what means the bosses are trying to use in order to pre- vent the shoe workers from organizing. psomised to give a raise to one or two. Seeing ed, the company promised to give This company first thinks is that the workers a bonus to those who produced a certain amount of work, whick really means a “standard of production,” “more” he promised them a bonus. enough for a_boss? But after a few days, the boss seeing that this “ ion” was ignored, began to use the old well-known method g the workers he suspected of union activity. of these workers asked why he was discharged the boss replied and if they made more than But is th “wi When one the boss ere ever A few days later when onderful deported. this: to organize and build a interests against the shoe manufacturers. that he did not produce enough to get a bonus. one of the workers came to get his tools, the boss in a furious voice threatened to have the man There is one thing which the shoe workers should learn from strong union which can protect their —s. Landless Farm Workers’ “Strike” Is First in Maryland, Correspondent Says STOP LABOR IN FIELDS AT BUSY | SEASON FOR $12 Whites, Negroes, Driv- en, Hated, Feared r Correspondent) (By a Worke sught of writ- | itions of the borers and farm tenants in , not the South as a whole | one small section of it, southern about the ¢ ryland. : Hell in Dixie. | 5 and that the con- | South are 1,000] times worse than the ions 1} shall des , as southern M is heaven compared with Georgia or ippi. spent the last six months in| called in the St. Mary’s county, at a place Pearson, 11 miles from Wash: ngton | and 115 from Ba re. I found} about 360] that St. Mary’s county is a and has a popu- 2 last county on ‘ginia. | are square miles in ar lation of 16,000. down King It is Maryland in and than eS. people 2m estab- more cant nd | I found a lished. The half the total, a tenants, landless, hated contempt, and few have been to school needed as farm lal of the } » laborer a: a week for a 60 hour If it rains no work can be dor Due to the weather not a cent has been} earned this week, altho this is con-| sidered the busy s You must understand tha there is no work. The is the poor white trash. e the whites who own no prope d work side by side with the under the same con-| ditions of life. However, they look | down on the Negro and consider themselves on a erent plane. “Rats” Their Food. The next class are the “foresters.” They inhabit t central portion of the county, which is a forest. They In sum- are both white and color y few half-starved o, either as ten- part-tin s 4 as e tenant time r fields divided into for the owner of the r the farmer. In the re themselves out on Their most common | ,” muskrats, in winter | mumer. the land owning ch farmer has several d tenants working for him, but often works himself. Very often t farms are mortgaged and the f way, to- gether with the Negro y to lose kis land to the bank which holds the mortgage. t nded ari e the farmer - They don’t their grandf e old | The bigge Cedar Point F for ,000 and 50,000. It is owned b: ank Furst. who made Ritchie governor of Maryland. | About 40 labore re employed there. The farm is run by an_ overseer. | Frank Furst comes down for two weeks in a year. The next largest farm is the Sus- quehanna, owned by Sam Young, a Texas oil million The next by a New York capitali: * There is absolut and- ing here of the , of unions, or any ide ld dif- ferent from what it is now. The peo- ple are very religious. The Catholic religion is the religion of the N and poor whites. Altho their claims that w all are “god ” chil- dren, there two different churches, one, a stone church on the hill for the whites, the other, a wooden one for the Negroes. There are different hours, too, for m for confession and for social activit For all [ know there may be two graveyards. The Methodist is the church of the farmers. dancing, anti-theatre, About 15 They are ant} | anti-movies. miles from Pearson is | Valley Lee. There the laborers get} $12 a week. However, as the} laborers of Pearson own neither autos} or horses, they have no way of get- ting to Valley Lee and must remain} in Pearson for $9 a week. i " Last week there was a strike at | Pearson on one farm for $12 a week. By strike I mean that the S|rade P. “Oil Fields ‘Mean New Form of Slavery for Michigan Workers Derrick and gusher, Mich., above, oil fields mean millions for the owners of the oil-soaked soil, but only a new form of slavery for the workers. the great Muskegon sawmills, toiling under indiscribable conditions, thrown into the jobless armies when that industry died, the Musk- egon workers will now be chained to the oil field gangs. in the newly drilled Muskegon, Once the serfs of Aided Paper; |Fired After | 6 Years’ Work (By a Worker Correspondent.) DENVER, Colo,, (By Mail).—Com- was a loyal and hard worker. He ha not plenti- ful and a wife suff to be for jobs we ng from tubcr- culosis and two children made it im- perative that he bring home a weekly wage. This, with making payments on a small house which a real estate shark had inveigled him into buying. | took every penny of his -wages, $22 ja week. Comrade P,. was no. grumbler even tho there was neither time nor money to spend for pleasure. He had to forego Party activity because of the expense it’ might involve, such as car- He did help all he’ could, fate; et howé The DAILY WORK or distributing circul and selling tickets among his fellow workers. Last week .another. South Slavic comrade asked him to sell tickets for the benefit of the Radnik. Glad of the oppor y to help he hustled {and sold 89 tickets one morning be- fore 11 o'clock. At that time a notice appeared on the bulletin board, ordering the sale of the tickets stopped. At noon Com- rade P, was told to get out.’ Six long years of efficient service could not outweigh the heinous crime of help- ing a workers’ paper. So Comrade P. goaded on by a hungry family, is now pounding the pavements with thousands of others in ‘search of work, U. Z. by getting subscriptions to} Radnik, | | | | | ' Amoskeag Mill — Workers Eager for Leaflets (By a Worker Correspondent.) MANCHESTER, N. H., April 15 |—Two thousand leaflets were is- sued by the Textile Mill Commit- tee of the Amoskeag mill to the 6,000 cotton and worsted workers of the plant today. The workers eagerly grabbed the} | leaflets and read every word and carefully folded, it and put it in| their pockets. Many of the young boys and girls during the noon time distribution came out from the mill and asked for dozens of the leaflets to bring inside. The leaflets are especially ap- propriate since the company ex- pects to hold nominations for dele- gates to the company union on April 17th. The workers have ut- terly no use for the company union and when the ballots are given |them turn them in blank. The | boss then proceeds to give out the propaganda that it’s functioning nice and dandy. Of course a few suckers and stool-pigeons are al- |ways Secured to sit in. Then their jare some honest workers accept jsuch a job thru fear of losing their ee Some of the slogans on the leaflet were: The Textile Mill Committee stands for the recognition of the |Textile Mill Committee! A return of the 10 per cent cut lin wages stolen from us last De- |eember and for an increase of | wages! | The 40-hour—5 day week! The abolition of the speed-up system! For a workers’ shop paper! —MANCHESTER. ~~ ‘9 “Defsenders of” THE DAILY WORKER New York City HR J. Di Mrs. ( Ray F Don G Jack H. W; N. Si 1. lingold E. Goldwasser .. Murrya Mandell Marvin Gararel . Ben Mrs. Be: Pi 3. L. Schoenfeld’. = li. Prasmith 25 M. Hechtman Friclix | Fistel” Alterman men just remained at home and re- fused to work. As this is the busy season and labor is scarce, the over- seer promised a raise as soon as the bess comes down. I guess this is the first time in St. Mary’s County that this ever happened. And if one farm raises others will follow. —COMMUNE. x ; Milman Carl - -1.00 5} B. Kaplan .. -1.00 Palu Paola -1.00 J. Levine 5.00 Scherer 5.00 M. Nadierman -1.00 S. Bulinsky -1.00 Charles Zazarella -1.00 SH PAONP om |G, Shupert . u. Shy H. McKinan » Fabian .. . Heder . Benjamin . W. Tenn Xi Bay... . H. Anderson Kellux Edward Seheir . E. Cohen P. Lere Goldfarb R. Levy .. B. Coplan .1.00 50 M. Jacob Shiaratz C. Calepaga Sigel A. Bereg Greenberg Mollie Strauss. M~ Grubanoff Paul Ishmuikoff . Fred Miakoff ‘jare being completely betrayed by CHIEFS BETRAYED HELPERS; BETRAY PLUMBERS TODAY Juniors and Union Men Must Work Together (By a Worker Correspondent.) After the strike the plumbers’ helpers went thru last year, we were| promised by the off is of Local 1, Plumbers’ Union, that they would consider our case at the general exe- cutive board meeting which was held in Chicago on Nov. 7. Send Delegates. Our association was invited to send delegates to this meeting. We sent Brothers Miller, M. Helfand, Seewold and Patrick. | When they got to Chicago, Mr. Thomas Burke, general secretary of the United Association of Plumbers, Gasfitters and Steamfitters, met them. He introduced them to Mr. Coe- field, the general president of the | United Association. Both told the delegates what a -wonderful town Chicago was. These gentlemen told our delegates to come on the next day. Present Demands. On the next day our delegates ap- peared before the meeting of the gen-} eral executive board. Each one was} allowed to speak. After that they | were told to leave and the meeting} would take up the matter concerning the plumbers’ helpers. Before our’) delegates left the session they pre- sented a set of demands to the of- ficials. A few days later when our dele- gates returned to the meeting, they were told that Mr. Leonard, organ- izer of the United Association had been instructed to eall a meeting of all the New York Plumbers’ Locals to consider the matter of the helpers. No Conference. A few weeks later Mr. Leonard called a conference of all N.-Y. lo- cals. We sent two delegates to-this conference. Our delegates were asked many questions. None of them had anything to do with the helpers themselves. We were promised a sec- ond conference but until this day the officials have never called: one. We tried to see “Bill” Doran, the president of Local 463, but he refused to see us. “Bill” Doran posed as a} “progressive” before the election in Local 463. He has never been honest | since. He sat in with Czar Brindell! of the building trades fraud. Yet he has nerve enough to call himself a “progressive.” Call Cops. All our efforts to see Doran were | in vain. So we staged a demonstra- tion in front of the Plumbers’ Union. | Cops, who_canie at Doran’s. orders,' arrested us. The officials of Local 1 are no bet- ter. For a year Local'1 worked with- out an agreement. Now at last a new agreement is being presented to the membership. If the agreement should be adopted by the membership, Loca} 1 will be nothing more than a com- pany union. The plumbers of Local 1 their officials to the bosses. Nothing’ is said in the agreement about the plumbers’ helpers except the usual bunk about being a helper jfor five years. Further, after five years you have to be.a so-called | junior mechanic for over a year. This} point is a great victory for the’bosses. These phrases are not even worth the paper they are written on. It is about time we helpers began exposing these officials as enemies of the plumbers and the plumbers” helpers together. We have been fooled too long by these “kindly gentlemen.” We should show them up in their true colors, They have been trying to kill us with “kindness.” Are we going to let them do this? No one can better re- ply to this question than we our- selves. As individuals we are not strong enough to do anything, but as an organization we can do a whole lot. It is the duty of every plumbers’ helper to rally to the union. Our slo- gan should always be, “Every Plumb- ers’ Helper a Union Man.” OAKUM. Fred Miwkoff S. Wolosevich N. Koshevich . Evert Carlson . C. Fethomey Herbert Ryden Roland Soneaner . |Edward Preusie .. 225 -25 | A, Rahuba M, Rukonen .. A. Waroff Nellie Johnson . A, Hanchaker Harry Franjcie H.Tonysel John Peerson . a : 5 |Hugo Larson . Bes AlWbieor:6ai's varie eonieui ei “1.00. Sy Reldmabny. |a splendid characterization. Blood and Th Melodrama a at the Royale play, “Diamond Lil,” now showing at the Royale Theatre. For an evening of blood and thun- | der melodrama, produced in a fashion} chat every minute is there is no play in New York today that is its equal. Those who en- joyed Miss West in “Sex,” the play that resulted in her taking a foreed vacation on Black~ wells Island, will find the present opus their. meat. The boosters of “Rain” will also find the present production the best! play of that type since Jeanne Eagels | closed her sensational run at the| Maxine Elliot Theatre. “Diamond Lil” is concerned with life on the Bowery in the nineties. Of course, Miss West portrays the part of Lil, who made men her prey. They ran all the way from Gus Jordan, saloon owner and white slave traf- ficker, to Pablo Juarez, toro fighter of Sevills. Captain Cummings of the |Salvatio.. Army is added to her list, but it is discovered that he is a de- |tective in disguise, who jails the white slaverg. The audience is then given’ a hint that Lil is not a bad girl after all, and that she will pos- sibly marry Cummings. In the last act, which shows us the Bowery saloon, all of the trimmings of the last century are present, and in a manner the producers can well be proud of. The gangsters and mollis, singing waiters and five cent schooners of beer, are a portrait of a period of New York life that has completely disappeared, Miss West asa Bowery queen ‘is There is no other actress that could handle the part so capably. Curtis Cooksey, as Mae West Captain Cummings, is realistic, the | same can be said for practically. all members of a large supporting cast! that includes Herbert Duffy, Jack La| Rue, J. Merril Holmes and Raffaella} Ottianto. The play is staged by Jack Einder: Ff |who is to be highly commended for the fine results he has achieved.— SAPs [eee Vaudeville Theatres | PALACE Alice Brady in “Juliet Comes First,” a comedy by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, with. Austin Fairman; Clay- ton, Jackson and Durante, assisted by the Parody Club Orchestra; Sylvia Clark, with Bobbie Kuhn ist; Medley and Duprey; Tommy and Eleanor; Wade Booth; Archie and Gertie Falls. BROADWAY Eva Clark with Dan Caslar; The Colleanos featuring Maurice Collean- os; Russ Brown and Jean Whittaker; Gilbert and French; Frank Wheeler and Dorothy Sands; and Palermo’s dogs. “The Crimson City,” a ro- mance of the China coast featuring Myrna Loy and John Miljan, is the sereen feature. JEFFERSON Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday— Healy and Cross; Gracella and Theo- dore; Bordee and Robinson; Louis Mann; Talent and Merit; and Dalton and Craig. Feature — photoplay, “Doomsday” starring Florence Vidor. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday—Nancy Gibbs and Company; Bob Hall; Wilson and Dobson; Wy- eth and ‘Wynn; Leonard: Sillman and Coca and Wyeth and Wynn. Feature photoplay, “Chicago,” starring Phyl lis Haver and Victor Varconi. L, Greenfeld Crutrin M. Greenstien . Berger J. Kiosin, Cleveland, O...... j People’s Dry Clean., Cleveland, 0. ‘i S. Nars, Cleveland, Ohio < M. Patera, Cleveland, Ohio |G. Glavina, Cleveland, Ohio. M. Reids, Cleveland, Ohio.... la. Grunberg, Cleveland, Ohio. F, Zychich, Cleveland, Ohi W. Botroff, Cleveland, Ohio. A. Adamek, Chicago, Ill.. | A, Coleman, Phila., Pa. Hanlon, Phoneix, Ariz Miller, Phoenix, Ariz A, Proter, San Jose, Calif. S. Joffe, Detroit, Mich... )'S. Uglberg, Detroit, Mic H. Joffe, Detroit, Mich. AE WEST is back on Broadway,| playing the leading role in her new | interesting, | 1.00 1.005 W. Hartman, River Rouge, Mich. 1, ‘00 - 5.00, | L. P. Lemley, (col.), Phila., Pa 46.00 C. C. Wilson, Houston, Texas. .11.00) Int. Branch, W.P., Wilmington. .35.82) under LOUIS MANN | Featured on the vaudeville program at the Jefferson Theatre the first |part of this week. The Martin Johnson African Ex- pedition Corporation Has presented to the American Museum of Natural History 200,000 feet of motion pic- ture films secured by the Martin Johnsons during their four years’ | work in Africa. It was from this film that the 8,000 fee€ of the motion picture “Simba,” recently shown at the Earl Carroll, was taken, Walter Huston, Nan Sunderland. | Harold Healy, Tom Blake, Carolyn Ferriday, Lyda McMillan, Thomas E. Gillen and Mark Sullivan will be ip the cast of the Ring Lardner comedy, “Hurry Kane,” which George M. Cohan is placing in rehearsal. f | jw The Theatre Guild presents —— Eugene Oo Neill’ s exe* Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30. Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions | | jig Th: W.,524 St. Evs. 8:30 } Guild yisis. thurs. & Sat! 2:30 Week of Apr. 23: “VOLPONE” DRA FULTON Mats’ Wed &Sat. 2: HY “See It and Creep.” Eve. Past, ERBDANGER W.@4 St. bys. $:30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 GEO, M. COHAN (HIMSELF) cits MERRY MALONES cm 42°ST.EBWAY | WiS1789 __ LAST LAST MOMENT’ Theatre, West 440 porece RUDSON 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat. THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN” WHISPERING FRIENDS TOLEDO BOSSES HAVE SCHEME T0 PLUNDER WAGES Overland Car, Seale Co., in Chest Plot (By a Worker Correspondent) TOLEDO, Ohio, (By Mail).—Here’s the latest on the Community Chest doings in Toledo affecting the work- ers in the factories. The foremen in each department.see each man under them personally and intimidate, brow beat and give the worker to under- stand in a polite way that, Oh, well, they might be looking for another job soon. Then they presént the worker with a card to sign which gives the company the right to deduct $5.20 from his pay at the rate of ten cents a week, during 1928 and for several years to follow. One worker quit, another absolutely refused. In general none of the work- ers took kindly to the proposition. The Toledo Scale Co. and the Devil- biss Co. are the plants who are put- ting in the card system. At the Over- land plant they were satisfied with ong dollar from each worker. At Overland one worker when they came around to him said he wouldn’t be so small as to give only one dollar. He told the boss to put him down for $50 and quit that night. Maybe some day the slaves will get enough. I understand that the manufactur- ers have got together here and every man that is hired must sign a card agreeing to give so much to each chest. —AUTO. Madison Sq. Garden 3? Sahay Twice daily (except Sun.) 2 and RINGLING BROTHERS AND I BARNUM & BAILEY Including Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH, monster sea elephant ADMISSION TO ALL 81 to $3.50 (inel. Seat and War Tax). Children under 12 half price at all Aft. Performances ex- cept Saturday, ‘ues. & Wed., Apr. 16-17-18 y & Cross, Mr, Louis Mann Gracella & Theodore—Other Acts FLORENCE VIDOR in “DOOMSDAY” KEITH-ALBEE FIRST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES PAUL FEJO# “THE Theatre, 41 W. of B'wi National Hvet:t0. Mts, Wed.auaurae “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with) Amm Harding-Rex Cherrymas By GEORGE M. COHAN, Thea., “2 AARRIS: ghee Mats. Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson. 424, W. of Evs. 8:30, Elizabeth Risdon has been engaged by the Theatre Guild to play in its touring company next season. Miss Risdon will play in “Ned McCobb’s Daughter,” “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” All tours include a 10-day tional interest May 25 “Carmania” May 30 “Aquitania” VIA—London, Kiel Canal, Hel-. ALGONQUIN 6900 LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- singfors. VIA—Paris, Berlin, Riga. RETURN—Warsaw, Berlin, | RETURN—Warsaw, Rotterdam, Paris. London, $450 AND UP.) $500 AND UP, ; INQUIRE: ra 3) WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. | 69 FIFTH. AVE. THIS SUMMER stayover in MOSCOW and will be visited. INDIVIDUAL VISAS GRANTED (Privileging one to travel all over the U. S. S. R.) Groups Sailing on the Following Cunard Steamers: July 6 “Caronia” July 9 “Aquitania” iN NEW YORK, N, ¥.