The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1928, Page 4

Page Your THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TU SDAY,. APRIL 17, 1928 Mill Committees Aid in Big New Bedford Walkout, Correspondent Writes TEXTILE UNITS WOULD MOBILIZE | ‘NON-UNION HELP. Urge Common Struggle With Common Foe (By a W NEW BEDF —I am enclc » Corr ‘ORD, Ma ing a Bedford workers to strike ag: wage-cut, and speed-up system which was i 5 Textile Mill Com- hru the s how the supported Bedford unit. Te tile Mill Commi strike movement. To Willia: American Federation of eratives: In the name of the tien (The Textile Mill Committe I have been instructed by the Execu- tive Board to make you the following statement, and pledge of support to es , secretary of the Textile Op- the American Federation of Textile Operatives’ Union. The Textile Mill Committees con- sider that the action of the Cotton Manufacturers’ Association in cutting the wages of ¢he New Bedford work- ers, to be a challenge to the workers of the industry thruout the entire country. The Textile Mill Committees have some strength in New Bedford among these workers who are not in your union. These workers will support SEAMAN FINED; WOULD | | | | the | above organiza- you in the fight to resist the common | attack on our living standards. We suggest to you that a strike commit- tee composed of representatives of all the mills in the city be called into be- ing in order to guarantee common united action. The Textile Mills Committee fur- ther pledges itself to take measures | necessary to secure supporting action | in other centers thruouat New Eng- land. Signed: W. T. MURDOCH. rOR’S NOTE: The Worker ondent who sent us the above letter r of the Textile Mill Committees does not state that the effer was turned down by William E. G. Batty, secretary of the New Bed- ford Textile Council, who refused to ive the aid which the Mill Cor wished to bring to the textile Corr To Open ‘New Courses at | San Francisco School sc choo! of San F the opening of a number of on May 7, which are to run for about ten weeks. include Elements of Pe and Economie E E Youth Problems Dick Ettlinger, iia Schneiderm NOT SCAB ve G t and flagshi S it was n A Se his kind of “Floating being replaced by a newer He type. is «| » of the pas: icers crew to work 0 very embar- | red that it} for the were 2 were worked 13, sich and after that] to work again after, I refused to go tol work again and was fined four dol-! Southampton Ss at one (By a “Worker Correspond Co ae the United States government merchant fleet. according to the ship’s officers, for us to | getting the mail off the ship by prom- |man, threw my case out of court ad- | mitting he knew nothing of maritime} |my pleading my own case without a | ciple involved in this case is very im-} |similar to mine. ON DOCKERS pondent.) and seventeen cents. The mate used slimy methods in ising the men ice cream, double por- tions and first class cabin steaks, and also by appearing at work him- self, tho he ducked once he got the men started. Back in New York alongside the dock, we were ordered to work cargo which is in violation of a seaman’s duties and belongs to a longshore- man’s job. When I refused to scab/ |on the longshoremen, I was fined} |four dollars and seventeen cents | again, Sustains Fines. I appealed to the shipping commis- sioner, who is supposed to see that the seamen get a good hearing and square deal but he sustained all the fines. I then sued the company or the | United States Shipping Board for the money I was legally robbed of. But Judge O’Neill, a faithful Tammany law, and also taking advantage of large battery of lawyers. The prin- | portant as it furnishes a prgcedent | }for other seamen who have cases| I had a conversation over the tele- of the International Longshoremen’s Association, and asked him what he} | thought of the entire matter. I asked | him, also, what he thought of seamen | abbing by doing longshoremen’s| work aboard ship and he answered | {that he was not interested in sea- men doing longshoremen’s work as they were not members of his union. | Altho there are many members of the} International Longshoremen’s Asso-| ciation out of work, Ryan showed that} he doesn’t even have the welfare of} his own men at heart. —H. GARLICK. Agen Is Try to Disrupt Labor | Soup _ Kitchen (By a Worker Correspondent) The other day we visited the unem- | ployed kitchen which is conducted by the Workers’ #Internationa! Relief, Hundreds of folks are fed here. Ever ne knows that the Worl Inter- national Relief is supported by dona- tions from the trade unions and other | ations. | some of they are upholding Amer- stitutions have been trying to} the work of the Workers’ In- | factory. the elements who|s | Party FireCommunist | phone with Joseph P. Ryan, president | tions we had with the United Associ: PLUMBER HELPERS FIGHTING STILL MEETING REVEALS pra | Booth “Theatre is unique for the | innumerable bottles—cobwebbed ~ bot tles of old Kentuck; whiskey—which fill the second act and flavor the — entire play. While> cer- tainly not the best play to appear on Broadway this sea-| son, theatre-goers are forced to admit Hit Registration Plan In New Agreement (By a Worker Correspondent) A large mass meeting was held by the American Association of Plumb-| ers’ Helpers on April 12, at the Man-! hattan Lyceum, East Fourth St. This was part of the movement to rally! the plumbers’ helpers once more to} that this tis “good ; their union and fight for admission| Nellie Callahan stuff.” Anne Col- into the United Association. lins and Alice Brother Alexander Spreiregen, het-| Timoney are the authors. ‘ ter known as “Murphy,” called the| Aside from its bottles, the story is meeting to order. He introduced the) a conventional one of heirs to a for- chairman for the meeting, Brother| Une waiting for their inheritance and Helfand, the president. f | meanwhile forced to bow ‘to the dom- ; Hereto -Stay | ineering will of a grasping widow ho controls the estate until the Brother Helfand explained the pur-| 7° 7 . pose of the mass meeting. He point- ade anddaughter is of age. When he twenty-first birthday arrives, th« | ed to the “many attempts which had) granddaughter, the widow's bachelo: fences in the eee oie ean son, and the old maid daughter learn eikend folth a ee = seer A that the old woman and her lawyer helpers t i ee $ “Thi have tricked them out of the money Sere ee. ee one 1S) and all they get is a distillery which attempt we made to organize the) j, 1922, the date of the action of the; plumbers’ helpers has been the best play and two years after Volstead, is| one yet. We conducted our strike on) not ng but a white elephant on their | strictly American Federation of La-| hands. In trying to make the white | bor policies,” Helfand said. “Th | jo.hant yield.a profit to pay debts} American Association of Plumbers’} ..+racted against their expected for-| | Helpers is here to stay.” tunes, they make an unsuccessful at-| He then reported on the negotia | tempt at bootlegging only to discover that the old widow is carrying on a} vrefitable business in that line. Using} this knowledge as a cudgel, they, force the widow to divide a portion | of her gains among them. The grand-| daughter then flees to Louisville} with her lover; the old maid marries} one of the distillery workers whom it} took seventeen years to “pop the} question,” while the son spends his} money on a Kentucky thoroughbred. | Nellie Callahan as Jo MacMullin, the old maid daughter gives a credit- able performance, while William H. Gerald as the bachelor son, Ashton, is at his best during the second act among the bottles. tion and the plumbers’ locals ir Greater New York. A letter wh‘ck. was sent to Mr. Leonard, organizer of the U. A. was read. About the new agreement betweer Local. 1 and the Master Plumber S Association of Brooklyn, Brother Hel-| fand said: “This agreement does not | guarantee us a union. It is the same) old registration scheme. It does not} state anything about our increase in wages. Now more than ever we must | unite our ranks. We do not want any registration scheme. We want a union that will protect our own interests. Company Union. | “This agreement is nothing more} |than company union. We will not al- | low, any company union in, the build- San Francisco to Have 3| ‘Who Ran on. Labor “Ticket (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail).—/ Varga, the Communist candidate for | Iderman of the ninth ward in this | city was fired by the International | Harvester Co. last Saturday, Mareh_| 21. He was working in the plant for| long time and his work was satis- The discharge followed atier| meetings by the Workers} at noon time at the factory | gates. Party campaign literature | was distributed at these meetings. At! | everal | ing..trades. We must. rally all the} | building trades workers against com- ; pany unionism.” cAsresolution was ‘adopted protest- jing unanimously against the new} | agreement of Local 1 and the Brook- livn Master Plumbers’ Association. Copies will be sent to all plumbin; | Iécals inthe city and to the press. The meeting was a great success, It showed that the plumbers’ helpers} SAN FRANCISCO, April 16—The district office of the Young Workers’ (Communist) League, district 13, an- nounces that in the summer, of 1928, three workers’ childrens’ camps _ will | be conducted by the Young Workers’ | League and the Young Pioneers of America; one near Fort Bragg, one} near the Bay Cities (San Francisco, | Oakland, Berkeley), still have their fighting spirit. | Southern California phe ae Ne Those helpers who are not in our geles. A Workers’ Childrens’ Camp | ranks should join us at once. It is never too late. Once more we have showed the labor movement that we are alive. “The future is still ahead of us.” —JOSEPH GATTI. | Conference is being called by a pro-| nal committee, to be held in San} |Franejseo on Sunday, April 29, to! which all labor, fraternal, women and children’s organizations are invited to send delegates. the new comedy at ine? i | Workers’Children Camp, Be oe eee “Bottled,” a Quaint Comedy of Post- Volstead Days E NICHOLS. Author of “Abie’s Irish Rose,’ which will be seen in film version, opening Thursday night at the 44th Street Theatre. . MASSEY PLAY “BOX SEATS” OPENS THURSDAY AT LITTLE “Box Seats,” a play by Edward Massey, is a late addition to the five | ypenings of this week. It will have its first performance on Thursday night. at the Little Theatre, sueceed- jing» “March Hares.” In the ‘cast of “Box Seats,” which is the initial pro- duction of Gordon M. Leland, for- er dramatic critic of the Billboard, are John Storm, George W. Barbier, Elizabeth Patterson, Patricia Bar- clay, Harold Elliott, Paul Guilfoyle, Jane Barry ‘and Frederick Manatt. “March Hares” will play at the Little through Wednesday night, jafter which the production will be taken to Rochester. Relief for Miners MILWAUKEE, April 16 (FP) — The Milwaukee Federated Trades Couneil’s fourth large shipment of clothing to the striking Pennsylvania- Ohio miners weighs 2,050 pounds. The combined freight bill for the four shipments made so far is $48.34, -| i NEGRO WORKERS FIND NEW SLAVE DRIVING STATE ‘California Ranchers Grind All Races (By a Worker Correspondent.) RIPLEY, Calif., (By mail).—It is |high time that a determined effort was made to organize the vast army jof migratory agricultural workers of ithe West. From Crop to Crop. These workers follow the seasonal |crops, migrating from the wheat to *\the fruit belts, then to the hop and \the beet fields and the cotton belts of | { the irrigated desert areas of Cali- fornia, Many of these workers have no vot- ing residence, they are rarely in a locality long enough to qualify. Many are Negroes from the south and ere either discouraged or intimidated when they attempt to vote in local elections. No Houses, All of these workers are bitterly exploited. No houses are provided on many of the ranches and those pro- vided are usually one-room 10 by 12 shacks of the flimsiest construction. Families of from 6 to 10 frequently occupy these shacks. The Negroes suffer the most in- tense exploitation of all the groups. They are frequently even denied cot- ton to pick. Frequently a rancher re- fuses to work Negroes with other races, especially the whites. This flatters the white workers, and the rancher takes advantage of this sit- uation to get the work done as cheap- ly as_possible. Most of the white cotton ranchers are from the South and many of them think it their privilege to insult any decent-looking colored woman. If a colored man resents this, he is fired and word is passed about by the “grapevine” that he is an “impudent nigger” and he is denied employment. A solid phalanx is built around him and he is frequently forced to leave the locality and seek employment else- where. —JOHN H. OWENS. KLAN BURNS ANOTHER. NORTHFIELD, N. J., April 16.— The Ku Klux Klan lit a fiery cross yesterday in front of St. Philomena’s Roman Catholic Church here. i—— The Theatre Guild presents ——, Eugene O'Neill's re"”* — Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30, Bugene O'Neill's LSU BIL a , ‘Nadine Sa. Garden {2 &,5° Sts. Twice daily (except Sun.) 2 and 8 sae CIRCUS | BROTHERS BARUa « Piacitahig Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH, monster sea elephant ADMISSION 'TO ALL 81 to $3.50 (incl. Marco Millions Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild Sais “inure & Sat 2:90 Week of Apr. 23: “VOLPONE” the last meeting held recently copies | = ef Harvester Worker, shop paper de- | | Walnnt Sts. under the auspices of | | voted to the interests of the workers the Workers Party, Al Berson, so- | lof the plant were distributed. |cialist party campaign manager and ternational Relief, the organization ch supports the trade unions and | the jobless workers from be strikebreakers in time of la- Seat and War Tax). Children under 12 half price at all Aft. Performances ex- cept Saturday. R. R. Union Amalcana ‘tion Committee to Meet. students of | . These gentlemen always| Varga has a family. The brutal candidate for alderman of the s a ; “Bist WE Suet the u League and pour forth from their mouths words | action of the corporation gives a lie! ward, attempted to disrunt the mae CSD: ane me AC i heeee COR ees AsTs. EVGS fe W rkers w ill be sent to the|apout “violence” and orde te oh fable of the bosses that we live ing. Jumping pon a running board | | ference tor fatiroad. union, amalgams: Mon., ‘Tues. & Wed. Apr. ae Washi ngton. id ent. They are sent by institutions B. SHlar, the fecretary of the Wis- that the Gomuratice speaker was tell- | es . hostile.) peas Rising say’ FLOREN oF VIDOR’ in ghee aa aes which are enemies of labor. Most of|consin organization of the Workers ing lies and called upon the audience |UM2"% hostile legislation and labor Bway, 46 St. Evs, 8.36 Sisal Malis these institution: s scab herders | Farty, was arrested for the distribu-’ to rally around him to hear his story. Deine Baad to. Misee any SERED FULTON Mats’ Wed-esat 2.30 1 CAME ALBEE Young Workers in St. in time of strike. ticn of clection campaign literature. We answered by a challenge to a de: |J07¢ 2-8 by the International Rail) “See ¥¢ and Creep.”—iive. Post. _ | FIRST TIME AT Louis fonvention | Al workers who hear the filth | The charge is distribution of obscene bate but this was not acceptable to Riper etc ats Committees Ream ERLANGER W. 44 St, Bva. 8:30 POPULAR PRICES : poured out by these gentlemen should | literature with the intent to corrupt the socialist. Instead he threatened f . 68rd St., Chicago. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:30 "AMEC lenar ee ee LOUISS, gril 16.—The first|ignore them entirely. Pay no atten-|the morals cf the youth. As was re- to arrest the Communist speaker if THE AGE OF DISCRETION Axis woe: Soe eee) ae HE of Young Wo |tion to them. Expose them as low| Ported by the local press the cartoon he would not cease to make his ap- ROCE plot bran MERRY MALONES |* LAST MOMENT” res who would do any vile act reproduced on the circulars peals to the audience for a debate. | EW ROCHELLE, N. Y., April 16. Besides “ents: were members of the cabinet in “un- Policemen were attracted upon tl ; agreeing to “a ll'o-w aN oD aS i: ‘are of theiv in.[ dignified poses.” ‘The inscription scene and Mr, Benson called upon the | 22%,’ their own diseretion| HUDSON Theatre, West 4am street, National Mid MA car it . e care of their in- Hania SN : a on called upon the | in the use of tobacco, the annual New THE 8:30. Mats. Wed.& Sat, By 0. Mts. Wed. &iat.2:36 ae ‘The working folks should also|""der the cartocn was: “The high officers to “do their duty.” The of-|yo.k Bast Conference of the Meth. ABSOLUTE H of the TOWN ° has| to Thala ee power laxative of the Teapot Dome however, were reluctant to in- | odist Episcopal Church dealt with WHISPERING FRIEN “The Trial of Mary Dugan” hip in 30'S aia’ OAKUM. oil makes special provisions necessary 2 in view of the fact that the| world, LatincAmerican and navel ‘at. DS By Bayard Veill core dak for the meeting of the cabinet.” The ; e protested the interference of | ” an a af- By GEORGE M. COHAN. with Amn Harding-Rex : Cherrymas th of srigabenalen? presented at the and fraternal dele. it also be yention. Visitor gat from ot* Dy ited to attend. For every $2 re- ceived we can print 1000 of these stick- own | TACTICS IN THE SOUTH. ASHEVILLE, 16.— con-| Governor Al Smith of New York re iterated today his intention not to drawing showed the cabinet in ses- sion suffering from the influence of the laxative. A jury trial is pending. 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