The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1928, Page 4

aaa oe Se Page Four PLUMBERS HELPER, SWINDLED OUT OF PAY, REALIZES UNION IS ONLY PROTECTION FOR MEN finish out the day or else pay me right now. He started cursing THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928 (By a Wor. ondent) helpers get is miserable, four bucks. One in fifty gets any more all, we are only individuals and have no one’ to back us up. That Working as a helper on new work for over two years, I have than that. oceurred to me working for one boss about three months on va- me and he wouldn’t do one or the other so I told him what was deals we When work is scarce we have to live on air. Who rious small jobs, He put me on a big job. After keeping me on my mind and left without getting paid for even an hour. realized many times the way we are treated, the dirty get and yet we can’t seem to do a damn thing to better these conditions. Everybody on the job bosses you 2 all*that or else the boss can get someone else. Worker Correspondent Tells of Slavery at National Biscuit Company Plant GIRLS AND WOMEN, = VICTIMS OF BIC BAKING COMPANY If there had been a Plumbers’ Helpers’ Union fully organ- ized and recognized, the helpers in the trade would be protected against being swindled out of their pay by the bosses who prey on them like that. —"NAP.” about two weeks there he thought I was slow and, on a Saturday morning, handed’ me the pay and told me to take off my overalls and say goodbye. I looked into the pay envelope and there was only twenty bucks there so I went over to see him and told him that I had worked for an hour already and asked him to let me could save on what we get? When you ask the boss for more, out you go! As an individual, you can’t expect, and you don’t get anything out of him, But in organization there is strength. We must keep up the fight for organization. until we succeed. There are many more experiences we have on the job, but in d you have to stand for The wage we DOWN WITH LEWIS PHILADELPHIA =|. DRAMA — By SCOUTS AND } Lewis’ Lies Fail to Oust job Prop HENCHEN, OHO UNEMPLOYED TO ui, Back on Broadway aes forms. es pantie soon “The Outsider” by Dorothy Bran- \ “The Outsider,” With Lionel FLEET ASSEMBLE FOR“NAVYWEEK” Police (By a Werker Correspondent.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., (By Mail).| —An effort to oust John Brophy | as secretary at the business meets] “MYRNA LOY. ‘San Francisco z and banquet of the Union La 1S “ aif ¢ a 2 Q Speed-up Inhuman; $18 ee ee ered despite thedalee) (ous Machine” Chiefs Confer ence Called for don, whieh has been revived at the | a@ Week Common Wage | | charges brought agains: inst hie by! Come Drunk to Picket April 27 Saatiecen Hei fear geasone heck with | Guard Paraders xf some students who had been| | ee a, | 7 the same star. bunked by local labor fakers. (By a Worker Correspondent) (By'a Worker Correspondent.) | with a superior east headed. by| aah eon | DUNCANWOOD, Ohio, (By Ma‘l)., PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail)—) yjonel Atwill and Isobel Eslom, the, weird : I am a United Mine Worker who; Unemployment is steadily growing in, play develops into one of the most} | SAN FRANCISCO, April 16.—In | connecti on- with the National Boy | Scout Convention being held here, a |huge parade of 10,000 Boy Scouts, egularly packing the elections of I ; ee ody o acking toa couwarsle tilt as pee one eaten eters the United States. Today there are | finnoe ae Dene ne of een cca |flanked by army officers, police and |prefer charges a st Brophy in! | Biiaw hacihera: And I am sending|°Ve" five million unemployed in the an see ee sects ae a he Nea | city officials, proceeded down Market | |the Miners’ Union, they used the | 0. 4 little letter to help open the|most wealthy and industrially de- aon eee orld Scone Pail Baty tea | Street and held a demonstration in controlled Central Labor | | aves of the poor miner and his fam-| veloped country in the world. BS Pena eed cathe | the Civie Square, where eight months that it rightly deserves. Those who industry and| did not see the play when first pre- cy puts out|sented here four years ago, should more and more workers on the street,|now avail themselves of the oppor- . . ai tun the seepitshet ead ee a ae plot concerns Lalage Sturdee.| Picket Daily. |vants, the so-called labor leaders, Geman played by Miss Eslom.| I have been on the picket line at| nothing to make somehow easier a | ago the police broke up a Sacco-Van- | zetti demonstration and arrested 125 workers. In the present demonstra- tion, the police played the role of guardians for these boys whom em- ployers and preachers are trying to |bring up to be priests and strike- | Union to further their ends. About }a month ago they withdrew their ment of the Union Labor real | |jily, who are, after all, the While depr |sufferers in this struggle. And I ask) introduction of effi 3 you to print it in some part of your| penis Th A paper where everyone will be bound| secretary. This action was taken Hip age de. without giving Brophy an oppor-, | tunity tv reply to the lies and slan- fore by nine- thir something s: working for th who condemned to be a cripple to the| We have 15 [Gen Gf the -rexetouaries. |the different mining camps nearly | miserable conditions of unemployed.|end of her days by the medical pro- breakers. ae ly Work on. the Most of the students were of the) | every day since the operators com-| ‘The wnemployed councils which | lfession, who claim she” cannot be In “The Crimson City,” Anthony Patriotic and militarist slogans third hroom is on) jopinion that the action of the C.|/menced to open the Robyville mine} eve ad a a result of |cured, is finally brot.back to health| Coldeway’s film melodrama of the such as “One Country—One Enemy, the y the time we) |L. U. in withdrawing their en-| | near Salena, Ohio. hie: re organise a Peaia |by 2 healer not registered as a regu-| China coast, showing at the Broad- marked the parade. i + a up bout § minutes| }dorsement because of the Heht ini!" I have seen our board, metibers pie eat ee Hare Ee for|lar < doctor! The part of the. healer| way Theatre this week. And at the same time the: entire @ the clevator is not slow. Otherwise| |the Miners’ Union was too raw |doing things that make me sick at|tv® ond Sop arge ie lemenisey, DERE AO is playadsrnimanterlptfackeoar hy ate. United States battlefleet is assembled it takes us lon, nd by the time| jand decided to take no action’ | heart. But I did not want to voice my| j Chess workers: A ugg Ce < i! 5 |in San Francisco Bay, and thousands we can get a sandwich, if we are| against Brophy and to continue! | feelings, thinking things might get| The Philadelphia Council of Un- Tivo thisde or Re Sak. aateraled The season of the American Labora-|of sailors are pouring into the city | employ: ed is calling a big conference pe u of trade unions and fraternal organi-|t© Prove the superiority of mechanical zations for April 27, 8 p. m. at Grand| therapy over surgery. The remaining Fraternity Hall to find means and) [third is devoted to the love affair be- |ways of helping the unemployed |tween the cripple and the dynamic workers of Philadelphia. It is im-| |healer who manages to cure the girl tory Theatre will close Saturday eve- ning, May 5. “The Bridal Veil,” by A. Schnitzler; “Dr. Knock,” by Jules Romains and “Maritine,” by Jean- Jacques Bernard will continue in the for a ‘Navy Week” celebration, which is part of the preparations for war in the Pacific. The fleet gather- ed in San Francisco Bay is preparing to leave for the Hawaiian Islands and fortunate enough to get there on time to get it, and a glass of tea, we only have about five minutes left to gulp down our food and r back to wor Many times we do not get a chance the college again next fall without the endorsement of the Central La- | bor vain if necessary. —M. |better. But now I think the striking |miners should all rise up and resent |the actions of these so-called United | |Mine Workers of America officials, it is only elon to my mind are nothing but aj means Phthing to ther to finish and we have to le: it BS | aaohine at counts th them. > i repertory until the ¢lose of the season.'“points west” for naval maneuvers. Seti relady ‘watches when: we Hee |e that counts | lot Le ae running loose} | portant that every union and frater- lin time for the final curtain. Pi and go. And also they have trained | poeta dees ik ae jand wild, helping to sap the funds| 4) organization is represented at this} The unquestioned artistry of Mr go that due snitches| , oO” ‘He * ind: floor we: hear almost |from the treasury. | conference. Atwill is admirably adapted to the the relief gir on us if we don’t get down on time. Then, of course, we continue wor! ing at the same speed until lunch ho which starts at ten minutes twelve and ends at one. mMiintites we have for this lunch period and by the time we wash our hands and go upstairs and wait in a line of about a hundred people we don’t get to eat until about 12:25 or 12:30. | daily of girls working at the deposit-| ing machine getting their fingers ~|eaught. I have also heard of one case | “| where a baker fell through the swagering healer. He develops the proper degree of whims‘cality and naivete to make a central character j human and lovable. The members. of the supporting cast ure all highly capable: Albert Brunning gives a remarkable per- formance as the stern British father. whiie the Messrs. Wallace Erskine Gilbert Douglas Lewis “Henchmen. | Meanwhile the Council of Unem- _Men, _you who have been on the | ployed is working out plans of open- picket ine that Lavety members who ing kitchens, it has also arranged a! after | : Aa a ‘ _|are in charge, such as Dave Young | number of mass meetings throughout and was Killed instant, voted nia #888 have a few picked men who] the city of Philadelphia. | any hushed Ss | = igs on that his father died of heart Se Ne ee eae ree April 18, 2 p. m. in Kensington, | jlure. Whether the other workers _& 2 Arado j 152 Lehigh Avenue; April 20, 2 p. m.| want, while other men and their fam-|in West Philadelphia, hall to be an-| knew or didn’t know just what hap- fliea ave SONTEhe veRs: 06 etabualion Anat Vana, > were 2 i A ae -| nounced; ril, 20, 2 p. m. in South pened they were told to keep quiet or Ta thet ghey don't think’ ao) PD Pp. ou The lunches theyserve are of t lose their jobs. And then people al- a ss Philadelphia at N. W. corner 8th and | Beresford Lovett, ieheapest kind of food ete le Ps 1 | ways believe the company more than) hen Dave Young, the board mem-| Ritner; April 25, 2 p.m. in North’) and Charles Angelo, are pleasantly ous. | Phere is a heen, Rec tk im~| the worker. ber goes on his “parties,” and he| Philadelphia at 531 N. 7th Street. pompus as Fellows of the Royal Col- Bite codsiding of pork chop ae se No matter what happens in our|has many of them, and says that he! On May 9th the Unemployed Coun-|lege, to whom the success of a bone- seal | from a os big enormous eae Ry ed , | factory the machines have to be work-|is paying for them out of his bape cil is arranging a big mass meeting| setter without an M. D. degree is ELECTRIO j Meese clean: ior concernea pene | ne. and the speed kept up until to- pockets, do the men believe him? | in the center of the city. At this meet-| like a stab in the back. Mention must ODEON Special Records—Made in Europe: ‘ Saidiings them with his hands and|™ ards the end of the day when they | don’t. ing a delegation to confer with city! also be made of Miss Ferahda Eliscu ‘ i Why is it that when these board members are needed they can’t be found? Why are they in hiding when they ought to be out on the lines along with the strikers? Is it right for these men to go out on the lines drunk when they ought to be sober? Brothers, I ask all of you to get aha and ee around you and ace Mabel Arico, wife of an automobile ow the men who are paying to wor! ; for us are making fools of ai If our pelenttan; ae found guilty yesterday men will only keep their eyes on these |” the criminal court of charges by selfstyled gods, they will learn why|J0hanna Lamo, a foreign-born ser- we have not got farther with this| vant girl, who told how she was held been set for Wednesday, April 25:| es Aa a ame a ue ip et a virtual prisoner in the Arico home,| "The play was previously” announced | Konchites af the Lewlecdine. ©! beaten and refused food. for the 23rd. —OHIO STRIKER. i ERIE EL, OG | ol A e i : who as Madame Klost, is restrained ployed, will be elected. in her acting and therefore effective. —P. R. T. —S. A. PL Alien Servant Beaten astuntie are slowed down. Even then it is authorities, regarding help to unem- ’ Po-/hard to keep up as we are all tired ater in them | ut from the day’s work. The fore- or we get frank-|iady or foreman which happens to be grey ese > charge of a certain section remarks Plate which is|i¢ you can’t keep up you will have |to go up to the desk which means ex- ner months n0| plaining the reason er being fired, _wha'soever are \if it does not suit them. The girls all of the food consists ad this, therefore every bit of our | dx such as tomatoes,| onergy is used up in order to avoid , canned peas, canned corn lima bean s Also the same meat| Engi oF the ays ye that is thay wikter At the end of the day we can months. ee ase: liaediy walk being so tired out and vad for five cents | 2°™* of us have to walk five and six We get coffee for two} flights of stairs as the elevator takes it is hard to tell the | the girls from the ninth floor. Then Hack aad or | SONS home in the overstuffed and 45 “aarved boo ded sul ibway. Many of us don’t antes anova mee home until seven o'clock or after, bc heewe-eatl and about all we are fit to do afier a ha sloppy day | to eat supper and if = tired to go to some then go to bed. slopping them on our tatoes that have r then anything e furters and saue have the thirty not much different. We have pretty good results from the “Daily Worker.” But we would like to know, if there are more readers, who are delaying their orders. si We would like to hear from them, and invite them, to write to us. This would enable us to keep our advertisement in the Daily Worker. “And So to Bed” is now in its last week at the Bijou Theatre. The play will be seen next week at the Ma- jestic Theatre, Brooklyn. NEW ORLEANS, April 17.—Mrs. LIGHT CLASSICAL MUSIC by world famous composers The formal opening of “The Waltz) of the Dogs,” the posthumous An- drevev play which is having its world premiere at the Cherry Lane, has 3211 ( Raymond-QOverture (Thomas), Part 1 a 2. 12in. 1.25 ¢ Grand re mphony Orchestra, ie The electrical Raymond Overture has all the reality of a concert per- formance. ( Trio No. 1 in D Minor (Mendelssohn), And: i me Qnaulllo.” Baith "Lorand ‘rio. ee eee i 0 No. Minor (Mendelssohn), S i Edith Lorand Trio. PETE eS RANA 3212 12 in, 1.25 3 DIE AT CROSSING. NEW LONDON, Conn.. April 17.— Three persons were killed. Sunday} «= aaa See: | at the New Haven and Hartford Rail- The Battle Symphony or Wellington's Vi. y & a ht eaes Part 1 and > steht AE incerta jayed by Dr. Weissman and the 0: Ghere House Hea © Orchestra of the State Er der Herrlichste von allen (Schumann) A2s Tike-white 12in- 150 ¢ @ man come Yag with not to clean hands , is around wi not too and we are movie j—— The Theatre Guild presents — 49 & 50 Sts. | j i | the table, very of getting this Be road at the Maple Ave. grade cross- Muceas Madison Sa. Garden; ‘at 8th Ave. | 12 ree Du Silane’ entausinoae Beli dee dirty cloth, which he wines the table ing. ‘They swere riding) in an automo-\l oukits St Int | be | pihivice daily (except Sun.) 2 and 8 Emmy Bettendorff, Soprano with plans BR to our tod: bile: wher strack by & train: Play, range interiut Die Meistersinger von Nueraberg (Prize Song “Morgenlich aclig Hig tae HLA Ot “OUNG. | a John Golden ‘Then. 58th, H. of B'way ied ie greeter sheet , A | Kiama Svenings Only at 5:30, artin Ochman, Tenor with 0 out of the build Ni baba sa 12{n. 1.50 ( Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg Cam stiiee Herd zur Wi rls making $14.00 ———— =) Eugene O'Neill's cluding Among 10,000 Marvels terzeit) sa Gt caus Serco ocecos——F% M Mi lli LIATH, monster sea elephant | Carl Martin Oehman, Tenor with Orchestra. A SION TOOALL Sf to $8.50" (inet 513t Don Juan-0 arco 1 10nS Seat and War Tax). Children under 12 || “i2in.1.50 (Dr. Weissman @ the Orel; of the Since ‘ Dr. Weissman & the Orch, of the State Opera House, Berlin. Aida (Verdi), 1928 jhalf price nt all Aft, Performances ex- | cept Saturday, | Guild she " 2nd Act, 2nd Scene: “Gloria all’ Egitto, ad ie MINERS ACTIVE [T ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ « ¢ « 4 ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ e | Week of A CRE or RS , 0127 iside,” Vart 1 and Berlin State Opera House Ch nae Elections | ek of Apr, 12in-1.50 Orchestra, conducted by Kduard Murike, Bmuny Betcne » to| Save-Union ForeesDr WW rareece: ac onan Fi rece dorf, leading first soprano, a long line as we | ae é | slab WHER eR = Cavalierla Rustieana (Mascagni), “Regin. A Served and their food is noi the 2 same in New. Sections lid gi SSH 12323 50 staetes Hymn), Part 1 and 2. img" wettenautt, opate j Biers citer veo tet bates 2 Coolidge ae ig mall PRE ge is hooper headin ay. Reiner. SLLEVILLE, Ml, April 12 (By Geacella & Goes, A, Dania 3 Acts Sei ieacella & | 5 3204 Light Cavalry (Sup, >, Overt P I often wondered why so many girls The conference of the Save- Program FLORENCE VIDOR in “DOOMSDAY” 12 in. 1.25 Grand ‘Symphony, Orchestras <> mar pees ion Committee in District 12 onanimously went on record for the b&b way, 46 St. Eva. 8. FULTON Mats’ Wea. «Sat. faint during the day, but on analyz ing the food they eat and the pace at 1 PAMEG RUSSIAN RECORDS which they have to work, I certainly| organizing of three young miners’ Two pamphlets by “See It and Creep.”—Eve. Post. Ome aTIME AT ean understand it very well. Not only| conferences in this district. Jay Lovestone Soe aeritente ca VX ERT Soe hae or Ov ‘Song) ; do we have to be contented with the]! The motion brot out a great deal ERLANGER Mowed.e eat Ga AMEO “THE POLO, VECHODIT I GACHUDED, of di It rotten food they serve us and being} on from the delegates. GEO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) constantly watched by the foremen| e general opinion in the con- The various cap- an , LAST MOMENT” UKRAINIAN RECORDS ‘and foreladies and the fear that for} ce that the young miners had is a : i hee MERRY MALONES - a 4 is5a4 UKRAINL the Baier a ttake in mand, pee not been sufficiently drawn into the italist parties are Fe ada, INational = Theatre, 41 St. W, of B'way 25535 WEDDING: SONG RLM our jobs, but also are afraid of the| fight of the Save-the-Union move- UDSON ‘Theatre, West 44. street, . a, Mts. Wed. deour.2:3 20040 HONEY MOON a enormous rats which we have running| ment. The speakers pointed out how THD ABSOLUTE it are ae 4 . HI Mee Cay wo decor as ) (Ukrainian Revow ; the TOWN boat Hisx NU i @round on our floor. And many times|the Lewis machine consciously tries chooses i hf | ‘The Trial of Mary Dugan 10008 Ux NZ La HUKY CHURY COMARA ten ATED tong {t happens that the rats jump on top of the girls; a case like this happened just recently and the girl almost fainted of fright. Accidents, in general, certainly hap- pen often enough. I personally no- ‘tieed a girl, who works at the chute, and has to clean her paste-pot every- day. In order to do this she has to remove the pot from the machine, and in order to take it away she has to craw! underneath the belt and carry the pot which is clumsy, heavy and at the same time very slippery. Well,| it had to happen, she fell and the pot injured her finger very badly. The boss on inquiring the next day just ‘how and what happened, what caused the accident, ete., made a remark that she must be careful of the pot. Mean- wz. of course, that the pot is break- ‘able. That almost set my blood boil- dng. as it proved that a h to keep the ranks of the miners di- vided and that it was necessary that the Save-the-Union committee take steps to win over the young miners. Make Plans. The young miners present at the conference held a special meeting and there laid down plans for the young miners’ conferences. It was decided that these conferences are to be held in West Frankfort, Belleville and Springfield during the early part of May. | STUDENTS AID MINERS. MADISON, Wis., April 17. —- Two large bundles of clothing were shipped to the striking miners by the students of the Experimental College of Wisconsin University. The clothes were collected among the students who show strong sympathy with the Coolidge not to run— But what about the workers? How will they vote this Election Year? These two pamphlets tell the story. Spread them far and wide. soaked in oil— ' | 192820 cents, Coolidge Program—5 cents. 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