The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1928 JOHNSON AND JOHNSON GAUZE WORKERS DRIVEN LONG HOURS IN HEAT OF 125 is perhaps yet harder than the ones in the mixing room. The speed-up here is inhuman. cylinders and this work has to be done very accurately. The cylinder must have a steady speed. room have to run in the men’s room, the calendar workers have (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., y Mail).—The wo gauze department of the Johnson and Johnson f. compelled to work in great heat, the temperature ing as high as 120 or 125 degrees. The workers cannot go, out and take a rest during work: hours rker in this de- partment is working on 12 m st sicknesses happen in in spite of these hard conditions the highest partment are only 45 cents per hour. and the hardest work in th ctory. feel as though some one has slapped you in the bad smell from all kinds of chemicals in this ro this department, The workers are thin.and very ill looking. And In the mill-room anyone would say are the worst conditions As you enter the door you wages in this .de- face. The terrible om, and especially most exploited. T! the smell of glue, undermines the health of the workers. The glue is mixed by great cylinders, and the dust is so thick that the workers look as though they had been covered with snow. The work is so figured out on every worker that he has to run when he wants to go into the men’s room, The workers here are the he plaster is mixed in this room. 85 PAN Berens pS TCI ETON TE LF > ae eR NERR Re ene eR rete mee no time at all to go to the After the mixers come the calendar workers. Our lot here DEGREES Here the plaster is rolled on great If the workers in the mill- men’s room. —KIVIOTIS “Organize to End Johnson Slavery,” Brunswick Factory Correspondents Say RED CROSS FIRM The Gate to Hell FLESH DROPS OFF SEAMAN'S HANDS FROM DECK WORK {1 Red Star Line Gives OF MACHINISTS £ Speed-up Is Slow Death to New Jersey Workers (By a Wor I have ju: x weeks’ on the Manchuri the Red the Panama-Pacifie Line. , I have to report one of the most contented crews with which I have | shipped. yment of n medical New Brunswick, f bless men and this by starvation to vage conditions shop. Direct- Navy L pline. | The Manchuria sails from New narrow | York to San Francisco and the rea- i: |sons for the discontented workers are almost as many as the miles covered in the voyage. 1 N. J. Hundred ly acros Rutgers Col- |rule, and that is the first blow at , kick | lege where the boys loll on the steps civilian workers. a és | and lawns. | Possibly if the passengers knew Be iy % | = —__________—— | that the water in the steward’s quar- ‘ay HEER RA 5 ters is shut off from 10 every night] Pe ; PHILADELPHIA S {until 7 in the morning they would Ze ere | j not think that the sanitary conditions eheaes mee a oe |among those handling their food is Beet 2 Ms A ee j all that it might be. The water is does not even k to the ae et . again cut off from the sleeping quar eae nea agent ne |ters from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. daily. Beas pin. lee | All the men in the steward’s de- i ee aut OR rs had W1e 5 partment must report names and me time he speeds up 1 Food! F ilched From |numbers to the second steward at 6 cha rorenee) and} Garbage-Cans Jevery morning or take the alterna- they, in turn, speed up by so much | = \ tive of losing, “being logged ” 2 days? more the other He looks , (By a Worker Correspondent) ‘pay. Any member of the crew caught! ene eee teen renee ic as PHILADELPHIA, Pa, (By Mail).|on the forward deck is “logged” for —Empioyment is on the decline inj4 days, while failure to report for you say] boone and other states accord- | boat drill on either of the two weekly if he would it you when anything to him. He ought to a te al Reserve Bank re-| occasions means the loss of a week’s done away with like the Germ: aS gain proves that the | pay. workers did away with their ruler.|\...¢ars conditions are worse, with| Food Is Offal. igh 4 ee care oe ee no in sight. According to re-| The food served to the stewards’ ie ser ‘bs : < Ponies ports from more than 800 es - ~| gangs is the remains from the tables ments employing more than 265,000| of the passengers and is sometimes A majority ventilation. of the the hours of labor and wages | revolting. When San Francisco was workers are young worke and lined in March, contrary to the! yeached and there were He passen- they all look so pale and < @S/ ysual pick-up at this time of fear. | gers, we received no food but mashed though they would have just come} Mill Towns Show Decrease. ji Deer . jpoaires bread and coffee of a sort. The following report is given: York,! Enough of food, isn’t it? Sevanton, Sunbury, Wilkes-Barre and| 4 day’s work was about 14 hours. a few other smaller towns report | % é a y ‘ y eeeN | That’s that. slight gains. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, My j é e Harrisburg, Williamsport, Pottsville,| |My job was washing pots and pans, Tohhstown . Havelton, New ,| attending boilers, cleaning out boil- better conditions and higher wages! Reading, Lebanon all report declines. | TS, Washing down galleys, scrubbing for their la | Delaware also reports declines. Cooly ett a stew tore <ehdice chores In the wash-room, as in the other} In the fact of this proof of the“ was $50 a month and be- PE the soap combination I was from the hospital after a long ill-| hess. The wages here, considering | the terrible speed up, are not what! they ought to be. The workers in this department ought to be the} first ones to organize and demand departments, the conditions are far worsening of the workers’ condit te ‘ from being even half way what! the “prosperity” howlers and uni. 0 use, the flesh literally fell they ought to be. Here the wet! officialdom try to make us believe my hands. The ship’s doctor, gauze is poured out of big tubs./that everything is all right. Is that; hen I reported to him, laughed at The rs must work bare footed! so? ; me, 1 laughed the condition of Unemployment, Starvation. | my hands away as of no importance Here in Kensington it is not an un-|in his scheme of things. common sight to see workers picking food out of garbage cans. We have no ief stations. Old men and women | t doors for food, mill work- It is one of the} , and one in this department. hardest jobs in t which ruins the he ers. Here the t generous than in Dermititis. When I reached New York a skin speeialist told me that I was in pos- are no more the other depart- ments as far wages are con-.P 2 ” : jsession of a bad case of dermititis cerned. The pay of the workers ¢rS moving their miserable belong-| for which he is now treating me. In varies from 40 to 45 cents per hour. | M&S after being thrown out for rent) the meanwhile, of course, I cannot d to the landlord; park benches | w, with able-bodied men not able to work, are all everyday sights. The | The Store-house | ork and this is the price I am pay- All raw material that is necessary ing because of the horrible condition for manufacture is kept in the i 3 7 of another calling in whi vork- store-house. ‘The fat ii with big ial service director at one of the | o. scoms eons Ree sean thand trucks come here to get the! leading hospitals in Philadelphia has! \oico, 3 x Reterial they The Re ieeaee stated that the increase in sickness | oti sal the A Mee work , eas calengs ie: due to undernourishment is alarming. Fila ad that there are eight Re ce the gz peat school children here in Kensing- | WS! ing pape for 85 stewards. There workers all’ complain a the con-| ‘7 are ragged, with hardly any shoes | 8¥¢ only 2 showers for the same num- on their feet, and hungry with no re- | ber of men. In the showers there is lief in sight. |no hot water. nt, thanks to the capitalist | nda, no mass action has been} nut if this army of poverty | up the demand for justice will | ditions and the hard work they have | to do. Just imagine what we could accomplish if we were od and could come speak to him in the ~—BRITISH. oY MEDALS ALREADY BERLIN, y discipline is the} ‘DAUGHTERS’ CLAP, | Club Women and Picketing Mine, (By a Worker Correspondent.) VAN VOORHIS, Pa., (By Mail). —I send this from the striking coal! | ields. We held a mass picketing | Jat Bentleyville at 3 p. m. on April! 16, at Mine No. 10. As soon as we! reached oint where the scabs! started to j our line, three state| |eops and yellow dogs began to club |men, women and children. They} |struck us over the head and drove] jus from the public road. | | On the same day the Lewis! }machine held a secret meeting at |Church St. with the state cops and| | |yellow dogs to help them break} jthe picket line. | | Board member Fred Galek said | we do not want to call the scabs jout, we do not want to agree with {them. He said that 50 scabs were jat my house and wanted to join |the union. He said I sent them | |back skipping. But we appeal to all miners to fight the rotten Lewis machine. |We call the whole working class to lan April First. We have out 85 per cent of western Pennsylvania jand we will reach 100 per cent. Nobody can stop us, not the |sheriff of Washington County or anybody else, for how to fight we now know. i —L. LOBBIES SMILE Coolidge Speech Favors Monopolies WASHINGTON, April’ 18> President Coolidge struck a blow at public ownership and operation of the Muscle Shoals and Boulder Can- yon power plants, and at the govern- ment’s merchant fleet and river barge lines, and at all other exist-; ing or proposed publie enterprises that might earn a public profit, in, his speech at the opening session of the annual congress of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. He disappointed the fiery red-} hunting majority of the D. A. R| delegates when he failed to advo- cate a big navy or army. He didn’t} speech to them. But they wanted to see the flag wave. | The speech was applauded by the! “Daughters.” It was welcomed also by the power trust lobby, the private shipping lobby and the railroad lob-| by in the capital, as an indication of} republican campaign doctrine this year, Bay District Picnic SAN FRANCISCO, April 18—San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland Workers (Communist) Party units are holding their annual pienic Sun- day at East Shore Park. For the past 20 years the latter part of April has been a rallying time for all the militant and class-conscious workers. } This year dancing will begin at one o'clock. For the comrades leay- ing San Francisco: take the Key Route Ferry, then San Pablo car to San Paolo Ave., then street car to ganization and demand better condi- | April 18.—Medals have tions. ing sight to see | been cast and distributed here to com- sa 4 ed working slaves! memorate the trans-Atlantic : Wherever there Oo 4 rae re ‘al rans-Atlantic flight S aaheas ae Bay es , on that these condi-| of the Bremen, the gate. speed up the wo is the} 4; When they realize | eoewen i fs boss, and his chz In many de-! + the power to change | = erent each work have/them and decide to take the means | ne chaser. If any one of us work- | F . ‘of production into th ers makes a mistake or is compelled | the to slow down a bit, those workers |the full product of tl that have worked in the factory for | ® long time are behind you in a min-} ute, and we are chased like slaves./| The average age of the workers is| from 25 to 30 years. Many of the workers complain about the condi- own pen) their right, | toil. | We C Bic Naval Medical Officer | Quits Wall Street’s War) tions, and about the wages. The by way it is now, those workers that | BALTIMORM April 18 (FP).-- do easy work get higher wages than | Disgusted and ashamed, as an Amer- those that do the hard work, Many) “¢#% after four months of hospital Nov. 7, 1928, up to Harry Blake, clo. SCOTT NEARING is available for lecture dates, beginning 21, 1928. -—- For information write to First Street, New York City.” ‘and including Noy. Daily Worker, 33 of the workers have hopes to be-|#d field service in Nicaragua, Dr. come an old employee and then the: dgar E. Evans has resigned his com- 1 ce will also have an easy job. But/ Mission as lieutenant in the navy this hope is only a dream. A big | Medical COEDS. majority of us do not live long} Dr. Evans, just returned, says all enough to have an easy job, We/officers and marines who have been | sooner get into the sanitarium, than) in Nicaragua some time look forward | -to an easy job. And this illusion is|to a two years’ campaign, and not to ‘keeping the workers from a real) withdrawal after this year’s election. | spirit of solidarity. | Malaria, djsentery and skin diseases | Pe hae May i S; Organize! ‘are rife, and 30 to 40 marines have & im To wear a May Day Button means: The workers ought to think for} been killed. Few liked their job, once y Roseces Bune En heart SLOAN Me eset ‘themselves. We should not live inj its financial motive was clear. 2) STRUGGLE. AGAINST. THE Wik DANGER! We don’t! Ca ene N NE ERE SRE REED SUPPORT OF shopes but in realities. WORLD-WIDE EVERY WORKER MUST WEAR A MAY DAY BUTTON! Every worker must show his solidarity on May Day by wearing the Day Button! THE STRIKING J PROLETARIAN MINERS! SOLIDARITY! Children Mass || think it necessary to make such aj. IN LOS ANGELES; COPS RAID HALL Mexicans Look for Or- ganization (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail). —A big mass meeting of, for and by the unemployed workers was held the other day at the International Wel- fare Association, Inc., whose hall is at 107 Marchessault St. Communist Views. Frank Cassidy, a Proletarian Party leader, delivered a very interesting speech on unemployment. A lively discussion, during which points of the Workers (Communist) |Par'y were ably presented, followed. A Communist introduced a resolu- tion demanding the five-day week and the si tion in pay, so as to give unemploy- ment to the 4,0000,000 toilers now out of work. After some arguments. the resolution was unanimously passed. The hall was crammed full and many workers had to be turned away for lack of sitting and standing space. The International Brotherhood Wel- fare Association hall was raided by the vagrancy squad twice recently. Red squad artists are not idle either. One dick said he would arrest every- body found around the premises, in- cluding voters and taxpayers, An afternoon paper characterized the -ac- tion of the cops as an outrage. Since then the boys have been left fairly well alone. Feed Starving Men. One of the objects of this organiza- tior is to feed as many unemployed as possible. In the Brotherhood hall working class talk goes with the stew | pot. The cops don’t like that, there- fore raids. The DAILY WORKER finds its hood Welfare Association Hall which is also a receiving station for El Communist Party. The Mexican ele- ment is particularly strong in th's section. The ground for organization work has been prepared. The exploit- ed Mexicans must be led up from wage slavery and unemployment out of the jungles of capitalism. —L. P. RINDEL. Blacklist Upheld " WASHINGTON, April 18 (FP).— blue stocking administration majority of the Daughters of the American Revolution probably will take disci- plinary action against Mrs. Helen Tufts Bailie, of Boston, and other “in- surgents” who are ‘held responsible \for the broadcasting: of. the ‘so-called D. A. R. blacklist against liberal and labor speakers, it developed today at the 37th annual congress. The leaders, however, are opposed te introducing the matter in the pres- ent convention. They plan, rather, to act through the “regular machinery of the organization. 1928 Elections Coolidge | . Program i Two pamphlets by Jay Lovestone The various cap- _ italist parties are soaked in oil— Coolidge chooses not to run— But what about the workers? | How will they vote this Election Year? These two pamphlets tell the story. Spread them UNEMPLOYED FED the view-} <-hour day without reduc-f ! way into the International. Brother-, Machete, the organ of the Mexican|’ «7 —DRA MA——~ Pemberton Planning Four | | ROCK PEMBERTON, who has | made no productions this season, |has begun work on four plays which | will consitute the backbone of his program for next season. The first production will reach New York in August and the others ‘will follow so that all four will have had a Broad- way showing by the end of October. “Goin’ Home,” an after-the-war drama by Ransom Rideout, will be his first production. Originally called “Deep River,” this play won the ‘first prize in the recent nation-wide con- test conducted by the Drama League of America and Longmans Green & Co. The judges were N. E. Reeid, of that publishing firm, Walter Prichard Eaton and Mr. Pemberton. Previous to that, the play was awarded a special prize in a California contest held by the Pasadena Community Playhouse and was performed by the Berkeley Little Theatre. Since its ac- ceptance by Mr. Pemberton it has been considerably revised by the au- thor. The second offering will be a melo- drama by Paul Osborn titled “The Ledge.” This is based on a short story by Roland Holt “On the Plinth” pub- lished some time ago. “With Headlines” is the tentative title of another play by Mr. Osborn included in the program. This play was originally slated for presentation this season. “Colonels’ Ladies,” a paraphrase of Kipling’s suggestion that there is no sub-cuticle difference between the Colonel’s lady and Judy O’Grady, is the fourth of the quartet. This com- edy, also originally slated for this season, was withheld because the ser- vices of a woman star were not avail- able. The author, Fannie Heaslip Lea, is a well known writer of short stories. This is her first play to be accepted. Mr. Pemberton will be remembered for his productions here of Pirandel- lo’s plays. His staging of “Six Char- acters in Search of an Author,” some seasons back was the first of Piran- ae a Evenings Only at 5:30, Eugene O*Neill’s Marco Millions Spi Uh, W..52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild yrats "mura & Sat 2:30 Week of Apr. 23: “VOLPONE” 8ist WEEK “See It and Creep.”—Eve. Post. AND HIS COMEDIANS IN THE MERRY MALONES Theatre, West 44th Street. HUDSON Evs. 8:30. Mats, Wed.& Sat, THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN WHISPERING FRIENDS By GEORGE M. COHAN. asd Productions Next Season « IRENE WARNER. In “Good News,” which is now in its eight month at Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre. “ABIE’S IRISH ROSE” AT 44TH STREET THEATRE TONIGHT The Forty-Fourth Street Theatre will reopen this evening, with a film presentation of Anne Nichols’ world famous stage play “Abie’s Irish Rose” which the Paramount will present at this playhouse for a run. The cast includes Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy, Charles Rogers as Abie, Nancy Carroll as Rosemary, J. Farrell MacDonald as Patrick Murphy, Bernard Gorcey and Ida Kramer as Mr. and Mrs. Cohen, Camillus Pretal, Nick Cogley and Rosa Rosanova. The picture was made under the personal supervision of Miss Nich- olas, with Victor Fleming directing, and the scenario adaptation was writ- ten by Jules Furthman. J. S. Zamen- cik has composed an original musical score for “‘Abie’s Irish Rose.” FREETHINKERS INCORPORATE. The Freethinkers of America, through their secretary, J. T. Talton, announces their intention of filing with the appellate division of the su- preme court a petition for a man- damus order to compel Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney dello’s plays to prove successful. to sign a certificate of incorporation eee —— The Theat Guil —, Hf & 5 53 entre, CMA presente Madison Sq. Garden {} §,3° S:: O'Neill's S | d muntiees (except Sun.) 2 and § Play. trange Interlude | |srxstixe. John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way AND BARNUM & BAILEY Including Among 10,000 Marvels GOLIATH, monster sea elephant ADMISSION TO ALL $1 to $3.50 (incl. Seat and War Tax). Children under 12 ‘half price at all Aft. Performances exe jcept Saturday. Dieser wax" ii Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun., Apr. 19-20-21-23 Nancy Gibbs & Co., Caits Bros., Wilson & Dobson—Other Acts “CHICAGO” with Phyllis Haver and Victor Varconi. |KEITH-ALBEE FIRST TIME, AT POPULAR PRICES ERLANGER W. 44 st. Evs. 8:30 PAUL FEJOS Mats, Wed. & Sat, 2:30 A20STEBWAY 6s GEO. M. COHAN (HIMSELF) WIS 1789 THE LAST MOMENT” | Jationa] Theatre, 41 st. w. of Bway Nati Evs.8:30, Mts. Wed.dsat.2:30 “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with Anm Harding-Rex Cherryman All tours include a 10-day tional interest May 25 “Carmania” May 80 “Aquitania” VIA—London, Kieb Canal, Hel- LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- VISIT RUSSIA THIS SUMMER stayover in MOSCOW and will be visited. GROUPS SAILING ON THE FOLLOWING CUNARD STEAMERS: July.6 “Caronia” July 9 “Aquitania” Want the great wealth of Mr. Johnson. We don’t even want the tenth part of his wealth, which he has gathered thru our hard labor. “But we should have decent wages “and humane working conditions “We should have our own organiza- tion to take up our grievances and 4 the boss in the name of all should have a mini- }mum of 85 cents per hour, and equal | pay for adult and young worker, jer or old employee. We should | have a five day week and 8 hour | day. We can accomplish all this when we all stick together and organize. Rvery Party unit-——Spread the buttons! ivery Party member—See that your friends and fellow-workers wear the May Day Button! Every progressive and militant labor organizatlon—See that all your members wear the May Day Button! Every militant worker—See that you wear the May Day Button! 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