The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 4, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY W ORKER, N EW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928 Allen-A Hosiery Co. Imports | Drunken Scabs, Factory Correspondent Wnites -ETECTIVE FIRM FURNISHES ALL .} a STRIKEBREAKERS ohn and. J. B. po Called Aides ya Worker Correspondent) SNOSHA, has for the people of | ye regret deeply to report a in desperation, has | me of the most infamous | strike' eakers and thugs | These men are now nd from work in taxi- | ructors, as the | in the mill. crowd of shift- | s is Frank Wilson, a who has been} ber of cities by the | s disorderly con-| rising that Wil. | Allen A Company | | morning. The | does he get the | to keep him drunk, and who | to him? | y a short time since Wilson | was deported from the city of| E Pada ah, Kentu by the police of | d gone there on the t brings him to| aw was his conduct | did he become for f the community that the | d to throw him out. n of this type known to | any cities, that the Company welcomes here, to workers of Kenosha. He to the peace and order | of this flithy crew, Wilson, are John and J. B. These men have been profes- nal strikebreakers in practically ike that the American Fed- Full-Fashioned Hosiery had on its hands. They as professional strike- and thugs in the following rs has served edale strike in Reading, the strike in Easton, the ike in Brooklyn, the Rivoli ainfield, the Huetig strike the Brownhill and Philadelphia. irnished by the Bell de- y of the Philadelphia Manufacturers’ Association. Fi do not stay long in e as they are a shift-lot and rtest ex re puts them to One of them is known as 1 the other as “Black- | and men who have been | 1 Pennsylvania to at- ker-citizens of Kenosha. —MANN. FIRED FOR NOT OVER-WORKING Mul tholland Goes Free; | Lineman Gets Gate cca } (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail).— | William Mulholland, builder of the | St. Francis dam, a structure which | collapsed with the result that over| 400 persons lost their lives, is still on the job as chief engineer of the| s water and power bureau. Fitzhugh, lineman in the| nd power department of the | man Richardson ause he refused to| pole, three minutes | the climb a 16- yard before noon. The dam catastrophe was only “an honest error of judgment” on the part of Mulholland, according to Deputy District Attorney Dennison. Fitz- hugh’s “guilt,” however, was a terrible one, “Clock-Watching.” Fitzhugh has made application to the civil service commission for re- instatement. The case was continued one week to give commissioner Ken- yon a chance to investigate. When a, worker steals a loaf of bread because he is hungry, he goes +6 jail. When a rich man steals a Taijroad, for no reason at all, except g@reed—he goes to congress. —L. P. RINDAL. > | ee ‘Letters on Election Drive Sent to Units A letter of the greatest im portance, dealing with the election| ieampaign and the mining campaign has been mailed to every unit from| the National Office. Your unit did} ‘not receive it if we haven’t got the ‘address of your organizer or sec- yretary. © Fill in this blank and mail it to: 43 East 125th St., N. Y. C. Dist. .... OL ae | i | Bection...... Sub Sec....Unit.... MRR sews. oe hay Aid oad’ Wis. (By mail).—We } see how much love the Allen | | “Bent, Zigragged and Crooked” | } aes The above trestle on the Zanesville and Marietta, Ohio, narrow gauge is being investigated for repairs. ist politician, railroad, surveyed by the present f With reminiscent appropriateness, zigzagged and crooked” railroad. Say Bellevue Hospital Help Is Worst Paid (By a Worker Caneeponds nt.) Bellvue Hospital hospital in the city. Many workers,| men and women are employed there.| The orderlys do some of the hardest} work. Their working day consists of| eight hours. For this a man orderly| gots $45 a month. A woman orderly gets $45.50. The men orderlys get their boar The workers are speeded up by their-overseers. Many of those who get these jobs are down-and-outs. They. wogk until. they save up some money and then they quit. The women orderlys have to change as many as 45 beds a day. Let me tell you that this is no easy task. If they get done early they are given some more work, to do. All the workers are constantly threatened with dismissal. Some are fired every week. The nurses also work very hard and in long shifts. All this is in the greatest city in the world. Yes, our city can spend millions of bucks a year for all kinds of European nobility and our own workers cannot even be well paid. The labor movement should raise its voice in behalf of these men and women. —JOSEPH GATT" SAYS INSTITUTE RECRUITED SCABS Seamen’s Church Pastor Did Dirty Work (By a Worker Corresptndent.) Several weeks ago I was unem- |ployed and destitute, and applied to |the Social Service Department of the |Seamen’s Church Insittute, for relief. |I was told that hospital cases were |the only ones that received relief at the time, although the unemployment |situation at the waterfront was very |bad. As I turned to go out, the reverend | Compton (chaplain) called me and be- gan to question me. One of the ques- tions was whether I had ever had any military training. I answered that I} had. He asked. me where, and I re- | jplied that I had gotten it at the Cit- izens’ Military Training Camp. He then summoned a man that looked like a subway inspector, who asked me whether I would like a job working on the subway, saying that I would have to stay in a watch-tower on the platform with a machine gun in front of me, and watch for trouble. The pay, he said, would come regard- less of whether there was a strike on or not. I had been under the impression that the job was a regular job at first, but when he mentioned guns and the subway-yards, I knew that he was recruiting scabs for the strike. I re- fused to take the job, whereupon the chaplain refused to give me aid. He pushed a button on the desk, and two plainclothes men appeared in the of- fice and forcibly ejected me, The office was heavily guarded and} I realized that it would be futile to} say much there, and so I was forced to ship out of New York on the same, day, on a boat run under the rotten-| est conditions. When I returned to New York, sev- eral men told me to write to The DAILY WORKER, knowing that the truth would be published, and I sin- cerely hope you will do so. —H. V. R. Maybe Reported Them When They Did Not Pay Because he was known to have oc- casionally reported violations of the health laws, Bartholomew Phillips 36, of 8501 Fort Hamilton Parkway, a former board of health milk in- spector, was acquitted Wednesday of taking a $300 bribe from the Mor- risania Stock Farms, Inc., despite the fact that a witness testified that he had seen the money paid. Phillips is still under indictment, however, on 2 ." charee. is the greatest) yl sine: The route was formerly General Charles G. Dawes. speak of it as the “bent, the nativ "Bosses Forced Men to Lie in| Englewood Fire (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER, Colo., (By Mail).—Tiie, number of deaths resulting from the explosions and fire in the dope build | ing of the Alexander Industries Inc. of Englewood has reached eleven. The coroner’s inquest and subse- quent investigations have shown that, altho danger of fire was always im- minent in this building, almost no attention was given to exits. There were two doors to the building, one of these was partly clamped shut, tne other was often obstructed by the piling up of materials, completed atr- plane wings and so on. The windows, which were higher than usual from the floor, had boards running across the top and bottom and a rod thru the center. The materials uged in the work, ether, banana oil, etc., are highly explosive and malodorous. In fact the dope building was such an obnoxious place that the office clerks took turns at running errands to that part of the factory. Employes testified to the existence of these terrible conditions at the coroner’s inquest. The next day the names of these same employes ap- peared on an affidavit absolving the officers of the company from all blame and voicing their confidence in their employers. This surely must give all the work- ers food for thought when we have | to give even our lives for our jobs. ; —H. U. Z. FORM MILWAUKEE JOBLESS COUNCIL j Ask Federated Trades to Aid Relief | (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail).— Several meetings of the unemployed have been held in this city in the course of the last few weeks. A Mil- waukee Couneil of the Unemployed was organized. Make Demand. A delegation from one of the mass |meetings of the unemployed went tu, the session of the city council with a resolution requesting: 1.—That city appropriates such sta- tions for the relief of the unemployed and their families. 2.—That free municipal lodgings | and kitchens be opened. 3.—That the council request the manufacturers to abolish all overtime work and shorten the work day. aval 4.—That representatives of the un- | employed and other Federated Trades | Council be put in charge of managing the relief stations and relief estab- lishments. The delegation of the unemployed was not allowed to the council cham- ber. The resolution was referred to the committee on finance, which will meet next Tuesday. | A meeting of the unemployed was | called subsequently and aldermen of | four adjacent wards invited to appear/ | before the meeting ior the discussion on the unemployment problem. Only one appeared, promising cooperation in securing the necessary appropria- tions. he socialist alderman who was among the invited did not appear. ; There are two socialist aldermen on the finance committee, which consists ot five members. Petitions are now in circulation em- bodying the demands of the unem- ployed and signatures are being col- lected. These petitions will: be pre- sented to the city council in order to substantiate the demands of the un- employed. A communication was addressed to the Federated Trades Council re- questing them to be represented at the Council of the Unemployed re- questing a hearing for a representa- tive ot the council before the next meeting of the Federated Trades Council and that a committee on un- || list and refusing to allow discussion ) Bryant to an indictment charging her | in the securing of relief action by the COLORADO PLANE WORKERS TRAPPED IN BLAZING TOMB Inward Swinging Doors Pen Them in Flames (By a Worker Correspondent) ENGELWOOD, Colo., (By Mail).— On the 20th day of April, young and adult* workers left their homes for work ‘at the Alexander Plane Co., thinking of nothing but a hard days work ahead of them under fierce ex- ploitation. The workers thus started to toil. Everything was going alow: fine, the’ women were sewing, while a few feet away’from them the men were spraying airplane wings with a high “explosive mixture, cellotse- nitrate. Tr’the next room men “were ‘up- | holstering seats, and the carpenters were busy building frames when sud- denly’-a crash was heard and the whole building was in flames.’ Men and ‘women rushed to the doors, but the doors» swung inward and they | couldn’ t get out in time to save them- | selves: thus, resulting in the death of ean jus injury to others. ye:of the Alexander firm” told a coroner’s jury that he refusqd,.to let his, wife work in the dope m, because, it was too danger- + life. and health, because the company would not supply the proper ventilation and make proper éxits in case of fire. “I was fired for doing so,” he ‘sa Another worker ‘testi- fied the company. “docked” him ,a yeat “ago when he went home. to change his clothes after rescuing two comrades from a former explosion and fire... Another worker testified that fumes in the dope room often overcame workers. The dope was al- lowed to. dfip to the. floor where it collected in pools which were a con- stant menace to the workers because of the dope’s high inflamability. Carl B. Moseley, 22 years old, gave his own life while trying to save the lives of three fellow workers. After coming out of the inferno he saw his fellow workers struggling with some timbers which caved in on them. He rushed back into the blaze in an ef- fort to free them, but failed and lost his life as did his fellow workers he vainly tried, to save. Workers who had been working at the plant realized the fire menace and asked the officials to provide fire exits and improve conditions at the plant, were fired for making these demands. The tragedy clearly shows that it could have been avoided had the workers been organized. They could have forced the officials to improve | conditions at the plant, they could have forced them to move the women’s sewing room into another building, instead of having them in the same room where the men are using the spraying apparatus. They could have forced the company to prevent this disaster. Let this be a lesson to other work- ers to organize and improve their} conditions. —H. SINGER. “Daughters” Resign NEW HAVEN,: Conn, May 3.— Stating that jn maintaining a black- on: many current topics, the national countil..of the Daughters. of the American Revolution is “virtually denying the members the ‘use of their intellects,” eleven-members of the’ D. A. R. have resigned from that organi- zation. The statement, which was is- ed by Mrs. William Lyon Phelps wife of the Yale professor and Mrs. Joseph Whitney, widow. of Edward B, Whitney, former United States at- torney’ in New York City, continues t.“the present-pelicy-of the Daughters of the American Revolu- ‘tion substitutes a face about to tyran- ice suppression of all who differ the present national officers on ike" questions of the day.” Postmistress Guilty Mrs. Fellah J. Quinlan, former post- mistress. at East Northport, L. L, and republican appointee, has plead= ed guilty before Federal Judge with stealing mail. She was fined $275 and-sentenced to one year and three .months’. imprisonment, opera- tion of the jail sentence being sus- pended. months ago, finally makes its report, which is long overdue, Also that the Federated Trades Counci! cooperate city council. One of the late meetings of the unemployed was held at the front of the city employment office, about 200 unemployed were present. The meeting was successful and caused a great deal,of discussion. the Unemployed Council to the Co- operative Society in Waukegan with the request for their assistance in relief work. The issuance of a bul- letin on the unemployment question is being contemplated, also a calling of a conference of labor organizations employment, which was elected by thc Federated Trades Coungil som ‘}each in Chicago, Boston and Phila- A letter’ was “ordered to be sent by f pr Aw 'Theatre. Gutld. Tour for i Theatre Guild is planning’ an extensive tour for next season ac- | cording to the announcement sent out yesterday. The repertoire for the Theatre Guild Acting Company on, tour has also been seleeted: One section ofthe company will play “Molnar’s . comedy “The Guardsman” and Shaw’s “Arms and the Man,” while another section will play O’Neill’s “Mar- co Millions” and “R. U. R.,” the Ca- pok play, the latter being planned as a revival of one of the Theatre Guild’s earlier successes. The Acting Company, which is be- ing e ged, will also be divided into two sections in order to make the ex- tensive tour and to fill simultaneously the productions planned for New York. While one section of the com- pany is touring, the other section will Bernard Shaw be playing in New York and vice-|_~ vers This tour will include eight weeks delphia and four weeks each in Balti- more, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cin- cinnati and Cleveland, a total of 44 weeks. In addition the Guild will send out “Porgy,” “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” “John Ferguson,” “Ned MeCobb’s Daughter” and “The Second Man” as its attractions. No decision has yet been made on the touring of “Strange Interlude.” Claude Rains is one of the latest additions to one*of its com- panies for next season. ‘Si unny Days” is now in its last week at the Imperial Theatre. The production goes to Buffalé for a week and with Chicago ‘to follow. “Congratulations,” new play’ by} Morgan Wallace, -seheduled to be shown here later on, will have its initial presentations Friday and Saturday of this week in Asbury Park. Lawrence Shubert Lawrence, nephew of Lee and J. J. Shubert, is sponsoring the production. “Skidding,” a comedy by Aurania Rouverol, will open at the Bijou The- atre Monday night, May 21. The cast will include Marguerite Churchill, Louis Carter, Clara Blandick and Charles Eaton. Hyman Adler and Marion Gering are the producers. The all-star revival of “She Stoops to Conquer” will be presented by} George C. Tyler at Erlanger’s The- atre on May 14. The engagement is for two weeks only. OHIO anil TRANSPORT SCABS § Strikebreakers Retusel™ to Live in Shacks (Special to The Daily Worker.) WHEELING W. Va. May 3.— Strikebreakers at work in the mines |’ in Dillonvale, Piney Fork, Tiltonville, Dun Glen and Yorkville are unwill- ing to live in the houses provided for them by the coal operators near the mines in which they work, travel from here to their places of work daily on the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad. The unwillingness of the scabs to live in these towns is attributed to the miserable housing provided by the companies and to persistent mass picketing demonstrations of the strikers in these localities. The price of daily railroad fare, which under ordinary circumstances would be $1.50 for a round trip is reduced to one dollar by a special arrangement with the. railroad passenger agent. The fare is paid, presumably, by the strikebreakers themselves. Heavily guarded on the inside by company guards, and by United States marshals at stations in Ohio, the train bears its daily load of strikebreakers from here. Unwilling to lose a sub- stantial part of their week’s earn- ings to the railroad and to make the tiresome journey daily, large num- bers of the strikebreakers desert con- tinually. Mass demonstrations at every town where the train stops to discharge crews of scabs have been staged ever since the coal operators, inaugurated the new method of “scab herding.” } Frequently the trains carry only half grown city boys who have ‘never seen the inside of a mine, but, who are persuaded: by the agencies to pose as, mine to persuade the strikers,.that their militant picketing has been inef- tive, he, new sinetho: st n mines with scab labor is bi lieved by the miners in Eastern Ohio to be the last desperate’ effort on the part. of the operators. to counteract the effectiveness of the. mass picket- ing which swept. scores of stricken f-supplying the on the question’ of unemployment. mings in the territory clean of strike- Planning Coming Season POLA NEGRI. Is appearing in her newest film “Three Sinners,” showing at the Jef- ferson Theatre this week. Union to Aid Fight for Students’ Free Speech that Charging “self-appointed BURTE BIE fh tle, MUNNS Ob Colma tiete ia as bad tial they ell ene youths have undertaken to interfere with the discussion of controversial social problems before college audi- ences,” Dr. Harry F. Ward, chairmién of the American Civil Liberties Union, has announced that the organization stands ready to aid any student group whose freedom of discussion is vio- lated. The union will take action on any, cases reported to it by giving full publicity to the faots and protesting to the authorities and graduates of the institution involved. i ‘WHITES, NEGROES Page Three ARE SLAVES OF OHIO CASTING CO, Workers Forbidden to ‘Assemble Before Shop (By a Worker Corresepondent.) COLUMBUS, Ohio, (By Mail).— There is a foundry in this town called the Buckeye Steel Castings Co. It is one of the largest of its kind in Amer- ica,.and also one of the worst hell- holes for the workers regardless of their nationality, religion, or the color of their skin. The union in this shop was destroyed about 24 years ago. At that time it was pretty strong, but the company officials realized even then the danger to themselves of workers’ organization, and so they destroyed it completely. These workers were duped to come to the factory from down south dur- ing the “great war for democracy.” They work here together with white workers for starvation wages, and since the place is busy for only four or five months during the year, they have to shift for themselves during the other seven months. Without food, without sufficient clothes, their selves to the company by promising to ‘work there again when the next busy. Season comes. It is, in fact, actual ‘slavéry. There is no hope of betterment in sight for the future, unless they or- ganize into an industrial union which in time will raise the wages, better the working conditions, and advance their standard of living. Slaves of all colors! organize! Wake up and - BAY. SNe —— The Theatre Guild presents Bugene Strange Interlude O'Neill's Play, John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions i]q Th. W524 St. Evs. 8:30 Guild Mats thurs. & Sat, 2:30 Week of May 7: “Volpone” 1A MEO New York Showing KEITH-ALBE “THE RAIDER ‘AMEO Wi. sizer Actual Exploits of Famous German Cruiser. EMDEN” 7 HARRIS fhe. 42d. W. of Bway. Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. ‘LOVELY LADY Beith Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson ai Bys. 8:30. Mats. pyinter: Garden Oar eee 2) Greenwich Village Follies i GREATEST OF ret REVUES. °S, Evenings at 8:25 46th ST nr Groaaway Mats. Wed. ve Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GO, OLSEN and HIS MUSIC HUDSON Phentre, West 44th St. Eys. 8.30. Mats Wed.&Sat. THE ABSOLUTE HIT of the TOWN WHISPERING FRIENDS By GEORGE M. COHAN. » 41 St. W. of B’ National E¥S9"so. sits Wed.aSat, ‘The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Vetller, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherrymap 33rd WEEK prac FULTON 8.30. Mats. Wed, & Sat. 2.30 “See It and Creep.”—Eve. Post. BROOKLYN THEATRES FULTON ST. & 'MOMART ROCKWELL PL. NOON TO 11:30 P. M. SECOND BIG WEEK |. Amazing Russian Masterpiece! “CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE” with LEONIDOFF and Moscow Art Players. Afts. 35c,Evs. 50c, exc.Sat.,Sun.&Hol. The Lighthouse players, blind actors, .will give their last perfor- mance of the season at their audi- torium, 111 East 59th St., May 4, 5, and 6, with four one-act plays. EAST SIDE THEATRES | YIDDISH ART THEATRE 2nd Av. & 12 St. Phone, Stuy, 7195 Every day from 1:30 P.M. to 11 P.M. LEONID LEONIDOFF ,;, CZAR IVAN THE TERRIBLE ADDED ATTRACTION Pictures of the Tenth Anniver- sary of Russian Revolution; also “Views of Moscow.” Eve. 50c. Popular Prices—Aft. 25c. Si EFEERSOS oe Sat. & Sun., May 3-4-5-6 HARRY DELMAR’S REVUE with Sid Marion—Broadway Show at Popular Prices—Other Acts. Thurs. Eri. POLA NEGRI in “THREE SINNERS”, SOVIET FREE VISES All tours include a 10-day tional interest May 25 “Carmania” May 30 “Aquitania” $450 AND UP. “ALGONQUIN 6900 VISIT THIS SUMMER LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- “Groups Served by Official Travel Buro of Soviet Gov. COMPLETE CUNARD SERVICE $500 AND UP! VIA—London, Helsingfors, Leningrad. RETURN—Moscow, Waleay Berlin, Paris. INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, Inc. 69 FIFTH AVE. RUSSIA INTO RUSSIA stayover in MOSCOW and will be visited. July 6 “Caronia” July 9 “Aquitania” ‘ $500 AND UP. NEW YORK, N. Y. 5 Si SATIS