The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1928, Page 6

Page Six 1, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1528 Girl Correspondent Tells BELLAS HESS CO, DRIVES GIRLS AT 310 A WEEK WAGE Is High Pay Speed-Up Plant At (By a Worker Correspondent) I notice a campa of the mail ord house. of Th DAILY WORKER an item about ‘riday containin ional Bellas on it sion on it y worker ig wha is going to happen them no doubt realize DAILY Worker is about, but m haven’t the least conception. Many of the girls are under years of age and schools. Wh i section heads to school. Comrades, the conditions are mucl worse than you have been informec irls commence at the rate of $12 Boys probably get a dollai | ement is very slow and | 1 end continuation s very busy the vise them not to gc all for the average worker, as workers | are taken on and fired continuously, for no reason at all save the fact that the rush is over, or that the individual is net fast enough, or has not entirely pleased the department or section he: It is called by the term to workers “reduction of iz forces.” Unbelievable Conditions. Some of the conditions existing | there are unbelievable. In the de-| partments where many girls are em-| ployed a matron supervises the wash | room. She is paid to hurry and rush} the girls while they wash up and at-| tend to their wants. The matron gen- | erally scolds the girls in the crudest | and severest language for the least | thing. Girls must not have any com- | munication with each other at all in| the washroom, r linger a minute | over fhe time the matron chooses to | allot to them. The washrooms are not nearly as large as they should be arid department is permitted in only ng a prescribed hour. Many work- are afraid to ener the washroom} hind the time set*down by rule even} of necessity to avoid the of the matron and her in- vugations, A radio has just been installed in} hreom, but simultaneously s of worl have been laid id many employees have not re- ed an increase in wages-in years. ew and cheaper workers are con- | ously misplacing the old hands.! here are girls who after working for five years have not advanced to more than $15 a week. Speed-Up | New methods troduced con: harder. Not time recently efficiency are in- ly making the work} ng is paid for over-| id Sunday work does} than the usual day’s! ated last Christ- | re is absolutely no figh.ing the ‘employees. They grumble continuou: but make no} attempt to improve their condition by; mass co-operation or by pro-est to the | management. It ly unknown | to most of them to strike or. to or- ganize. Many of them have never worked before and they know no hing | of unionism or of class soli 4 | | ere- | continued, ; and interest | , aroused i ganda is bound to c on the part of propaganda with th be carried on d other workers. I The DAILY WO to the majority c an ar- { ticle directly c them. | « Propaganda here must be especially | Made to suit their requirements and * intelligence, he I Sincerely hope to sce the day when he National B: ss will bej ad organi The energy al @ady expanded mus: not be for Maught nor in vain. Every effort st be made to continue the work ore effectively, and more suitah) 'the requirements of this type of ers. urs for a Bellas Hess U {lenge the union if it had pursued a |trie power interests. Conditions in Big New York Mail Order House Where Packing Workers Are Drive | Above is’a picture of the Armour plant in Chicago. Here thousands of workers are driven like beasts for In front of the employment gates of the giant factory, other thousands of workers gather daily, driven by hun Armour company is a key unit in the ® n Like Beasts ANTHINJUNGTION BILL 1S FOUGHT BY POWER TRUST Lobby Would Strangle Unions WASHINGTON, April 27 (FP).— That the joint committee of the Na- tional Utility Associations, commonly known gs the power lobby, included the Shipstead anti-injunction bill as one of the chief measures in congress in which it was “deeply interested” was disclosed by Josiah Newcomb, its $35,000-a-year Washington counsel in testimony before the Federal Trade Commission. Newcomb admitted that the Walsh resolution for investiga- |tion of the power and utility indus- try was the first object of their anx- | iety and that the danger of competi- tion from the federal government, at |Muscle Shoals and Boulder Canyon ,in the generation and distribution of j electricity, was next in importance. | Fight Injunction Bill. | This was the first time that the jlobby of the federated electric, gas | and street railway corporations of the United States had been shown to be among the big business interests that are preventing action by the present congress on the labor injunction issue Already itis clear that the Shipstedd bill is to be reported to the senate long hours at the lowest wages. nger to seek slavery within. The huge packing trust. UNION PICKETIS FACING ARREST ¢ Milwaukee Strike Reply to Lockout MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 27.— The men’s clothing company, David Adler and Sons, who recently locked out their workers in an effort to es- tablish the open-shop, has Sworn out! a warrant for the arrest of one of| the most active union members. At- tempt to frame him up is to be made because his leading of the picket line prevented the reopening of the plant with scabs, The membership of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers’ Union, whose agreement the company broke, are determined to compel the capi- tulation of this boss, knowing that his success means an immediate at- tack by the other union firms in the city. They also criticize the union ad- ministration for neglecting to carry on any organization campaigns in the city. They point out that this em- ployer would not have dared to chal- is abl en SO} co} militant organization policy. Show Lawyer’s Presents) | WASHINGTON, April 27.—Can-| celled checks, records and testimony | were produced in the investigation by the trade commission to show that: Merritt C. Mechem, the lawyer who| as representative of the state of New| Mexico signed the demand for the delay of the consideration of the boulder dam project now in congress, in an attempt to defeat the bill, has} received payments totaling $5,2:! from the Joint Committee of Nation- al Utility Associations, propaganda and lobby organization of the elec- POSTMISTRESS ON TRIAL. ‘elah L. Quinlin, former post- mi and republican party ap- pointee of t Northport, L. L, is on trial before Judge Campbel federal in Brooklyn with stealing United States n Trouble Promptly Relieved by Santal Midy Sold by All Druggists A Night in att Arranged Under leration, The Chinese Workers’ Al nese DANCING. and the Philippines FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928, TP. M. ORIENTAL RESTAURANT IN CHINATOWN “ 4-6 Pell Street, N.Y. ' THE NEW YORK BRANCH OF THE ALL-AMERICA ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE | P In Co-operation with: e Venezuelan Labor Union, Philippinean Club of New York, Philippine ‘Worker-Peasunt Revolution, Chinese Students i Spanish Workers’ Center. S $1.50 at 39 Union Square, and Local Daily Worker Office:. 108 East 14th Street. Nicaragua he the Auspices of liance, The Alliance to Support the Alliance, The PREALRRPPRRENIRERN PERE REALE AL EP PRERUPRERA VIET EE PLAICE LOL RE RELL LEPLE IEA AR ERED, ENTERTAINMENT. Workers Forced to Toil box workers of New York City are compelled to toil are described in a report made public by Nelle Swartz, director of the state bureau of wom- ority of the paper box factories are located in old buildings. Cellars are used for cutting rooms, workers to extreme heat in winter = and cold in the spring and fail. many factories were below the gen- eral standard, the report indicates. are women. dustry throughout the state. McKee of New York after the 19- vols’ paper box makers strike of 27. Brerrs :. and it is likely to come to a vote there in accordance with a pledge made by republican leaders early in the session. But the power trust for- ces in senate and house are able to prevent its enactment. 2 Billion of Water. Chief Counsel Healy for the com- mission brought out in examination of Newcomb that the power lobby first became alarmed at a newspaper interview with Sen. Walsh of Mon- tana, last year, wherein Walsh de- elared that $2,000,000,000 of utilities capitalization was water. A man named Roberts, an expert on utilities finance, was brought from New York and had a number of talks with Walsh, resulting in modification of the resolution when Walsh finally brought it into the present session. Then ex-Senator Lenroot was hired to argue before the senate interstate commerce committee that the senate should not adopt the Walsh measure. Monopoly Demanded. APER BOX SHOPS ONDITIONS BAD in Cellars ALBANY, April 27.—The deplor- le conditions under which the paper in industry. The report points out that a maj- exposing MUST FIGHT FOR HUGE MAY 1 DEMONSTRATION (By a Worker Correspondent) } I see the May Day meeting this year is in Madison Square Garden. It is different from what it was before in the country when we marched up Fifth Ave.—all the workers. I wish it could come again that way. In Italy it is different now too. I¢@ Jail For Celebrators. Fear that the government would! was in Trieste in 1920 before the fascisti came into power. The Com- munist movement then was very strong and we had a wonderful May Day celebration. 70,000 Workers. Nobody is working on that day. All the workers were marching and listen- to speakers. Early in the morning music wakes up everybody and they know it is time to get together for May Day. We gather in the square in the city, the Piadza Donadoni, 60,- 000 or 70,000 workers, and there we hear many good speakers telling about May Day and why we celebrate and how we have to fight and how we have to have a workers’ government, And then we march. We march through the whole city in long columns. We march past the Communist Party office, where is a beautiful, red flag hung out and the whole parade marches under it and cheers and sings. We have bands that play revolutionary music. We carry red flags and we have red flowers and red ribbons in our button holes. The police and the soldiers march with the workers. We know why they are there, but no trouble comes. —_—_—_—_— cut rates for electricity, following the example of the Ontario Hydro-Elec- tric Commission, was shown in much correspondence as well as in New- comb’s testimony. The lawy'er stated that his organization was wholly hos- tile to anything like the Ontario sys- tem, since private corporations would have their financial arrangements dis- turbed by it. He said they had to plan years in advance for develop- ment of their own sources of power and would be injured by the sale of power by the government to anyone except the operating companies. Conspiracy Shown, O. C. Merrill, executive secretary of the federal power commission, was shown to have suggested, at New- comb’s request, the draft of a para- graph for a letter which the joint committee was to send to Chairman Smith of the house committee deal- ing with the Boulder Canyon dam pill. Merrill’s suggestions were not used, but Newcomb’s ideas were used in the letter, which protested against | } federal entry into the power business in the southwest. Physical working conditions in About two-thirds of the workers An average of 350 per- ns a year are injured in the in- The investigation was made by a mmittee appointed by Acting Mayor Rugoff & TONIGHT 4th ANNUAL CONCERT of the FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA JACOB SCHAEFER, Conductor L. E. MALAMUT, Soloist tablishment. models in pervision of Ina Program of NVITE you to visit the newly reorganized es- pared to offer you a vast assortment of the new- est spring patterns and Suits and Topcoats under the personal su- Our establishment is located at 85-87 Canal Street, corner Eldridge New York, N.’ Company We are pre- Mr. Rugoff. ‘ St. RRARAR RELA AECE BOL REEL EEE RARE ELLA LE LAL AE ARRERREARABRRRARLES Wednesday .. Nov. 7 Thursday .... Nov. Saturday .... Nov. 16 mUSeE. Sunday ....... Nov. 11 ond (Sunday Afternoon, N. Y. C.) Schubert, Haydn, Saint- Monday ..... Nov. 12 : Saens, and Schaefer TONIGHT, SATURDAY, Apr. 28, 1928, 8:30 Sharp at TOWN HALL, 113 West 43rd St. (Bet. Broadway and 6th Ave.) New York City. TICKETS: 5c, $1.00, $1.50 (no tax), at the box office. York City. SCOTT NEARING Lecture dates still open: 9 Thursday .... Nov. 15 For information write to Harry Blake, clo Daily Worker, 38 First Street, New Wednesday .. Nov. 14 Monday ..,.. Nov. 19 Tuesday ..... Nov. 20 Wednesday .. Nov. 21 But now it is different. Now on May Day everybody works. If the boss is democratic he gives us maybe half a day, and if he is fascisti, he gets the worker in prison if he stays away from work. So we don’t march and we don’t have speakers, but we celebrate just the same. After work we meet illegally in comrades’ houses or near stronger and better fighting against the fascisti and for the Communist movement. Here in America we must also fight to get back again what we had for May Day many years ago. We must go to Madison Square Garden, thou- sands of us, and demonstrate for unity j of all workers on May First. Give Anti-Imperialist Entertainment May 4 “A Night in Nicaragua and the Philippines, @ supper, dance and en- tertainment, will be given under the auspices of the All-America Anti- Restaurant, 4 Pell St., on Friday, May ee Organizations of Latin America, Philippine, and Chinese workers will cooperate with the Anti-Imperialist League. Tickets at $1.50 are on sale at the office of the Anti-Imperialist WORKER local office, 108 E: 14th ae and the Civie Club, 18 E. 10th Are you a “DAILY WORKER” worker daily? | the city in the woods, and we plar for | Imperialist League at the Oriental | League, 39 Union Square, DAILY! FEDERATION HEAD I$ ACCUSED IN SHAKEDOWN DEAL Martel is Candidate For A. F. L. Delegate By H. M. WICKS. DETROIT, April 27.—Frank X., Martel, president of the Detroit Fed- eration of Labor, was for six or seven weeks on the payroll of the cleaners and dyers employers association, ac- cording to testimony in an extortion trial taking place in court here. Nathan Shogan, treasurer of the associated cleaners and dyers, testi- fied that Charles C. Jacoby, head of a big dry cleaning concern, paid Martel $100 a week when Martel straightened out “some trouble we were fiaving with our inside help: They wanted shorter hours and moré money.” Martel is one of the worst reac- tionaries in the Labor Movement and it has long been an open secret that he was destined to follow the foot- | steps of the notorious Brindell. For weeks the shakedown séandal” has threatened to break over his head and now it is here. Martel is a prominent member of the Typo union, and is at present a candidate for delegate to the Ameri- can Federation of Labor Convention jon the so-called “Progressive” ticket, |dominated by Frank Morrison and Charles P, Howard, president of the international. 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