The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 7, 1928, Page 4

“age Petr THE DAILY WORKER,.NEW YORK, MONDAY, Ms , 1928 Boss Schemes Aim to Paralyze Labor on Pacific Coast, Writes Correspondent LUMBER BARONS Power Wasted as Congress Wastes Words TOY WITH CLASS COLLABORATION «Sas Walk-out Tied Up Saw- mill (By a Worker Correspondent) SAN FF SCO, (By Mail). The lumber y on the Pacific and to eke eee e able on the exploited lumber | in order to keep them unor- through nee Coast rest- te these ne Th “offers” accident preven tion id ibution by the worke where this plan s in force | 8 tite PE : STARVATION IS The above ‘pictur Muscle Shoals power pl p States congressmen lend a timid but fascinated ear to the whispers of the, power trust whose lobby, main- time, of the tained priz how the gi h d wasted while the U in Washington for some gantic generators and the lower side lant’ where billions of units of power is still seeking to land this rich ZEITLIN SPEAKS SEAMEN'S LOT ON SOVIET UNION ® Room for ¢ } | |Crowd Shipping Board | | Workers Party } Meet ‘Ts | Jobs | Large in Denver } =P AGKING HOUSE t{| Slave in Foulest Condi- tions (By a Worker Corresepondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail).— {A | the | Chi | Lal be lag sign, red lettering, on the wall of local branch of Wilson & Co., icago packers, reads: “The Wilson bel Protects Your Tabl It might that “The Jungle,” written -years » furnished the inspiration which caused some of the owners of filthy slaughterhouses poe to become almost ts. Low Wages, Long Hour: The majority of the worke em- ployed ry ion & Co. here, are y work 8, 9 and 10 [ho a day, and the pay is ¢ |eents and 40 cents per hour. Butchers, killers {industry with a wa e the “aristocra of 80 cents per {hour. Women and girls, also Mexi- cans, are getting $15.80 a week. One lof the foremen said, however, that some cf the g a ‘ork or overt (to the em (By a Worker Correspondent) | (By a Worker Cores spondent.) giving workers{ The seamen find it i ingly| DENVER, (By n Suni compensation. In| hard to be employed a a ship|»fternoon, April Zeitlin, of Oregon, ¢ 100,009 has been | as the crowds at the various shipping | Denver, spoke o nate Glimpses | contribute workers during t ne | ic They wait lc hours | of Soviet R open forum | past 14 Thus the emp S y rooms wai nder the of the Work- 2 the bufden of ac upon out a per the compar of the California | dent Commission also favors idea as follows: “Money thus collected becomes a trust fund in the hands of the em- ployer to be disbursed by him as a are able out of the pockets An attorney Industrial trustee the sole (?) benefit of | the emp .” Not only, theny do | scamen the workers themselves pay the |t9 be tix costs of accident rance, such | The as it is, but the fund is placed in | sheep the hands of the employes to do | job as th with as he sees fit, “for the scle | ance of benefit of the employ | But the s the type of “social legisla- jis not e tion” trade union bureaucrats. advocated by reformists and A form of company union is seen|tions from an office hoy, is re- in the announcement in “The Timber-] quired tc rip for examination. man” that “in order to tematica: If he pi es he is sent out to the care for workers’ appeals in time job. If he is employed in the engine twood, California tion form d River Lumber Compan) ill administer all re- | s (food, clothing In order to was is. anothe den of h upon in a fund is cont mpany-con- trolled boa rs. Any one fami! r town, (par-} ing for ticularly th pany towns} those m: en the P: <nows that the} employ “frater i¢ organizations” | you, are 1 controlled by the lumber arons Tied Up Mall, house, e of worker- -manage- chance. seems to be taken} It is lumber companies evidenced announcement from the “V of a strike Lumberman” e green chain} ing for At long intervals Joe appears a |the waitmg m. struggle to be the fir pa | He must | After repl |lost or not ; oduced 1, sends you bac and time toanot redress and you must strong protest will re- being blackballed. e seamen who with no s There: | seekers are indifferent and la face of this intolerable situation. Tt is industry to find the precious 1 the United Stat rk room is massed with seame ing behind a high partition wait- | providing otherwise you do not Imployment Office, Joe to mark up a job. Struggle For Job. s of men pusn apers. He 2 cown to lucky one. reminds rily waiting for of food, the appe: one iood, one the doctor f ig to a be ‘om he applies to the engineer whe usually is of The engineer the usua er long wait. There is ir spicion thz ed in that ce ood ships q ess. a strong m is pra placed on ut delay. nd worse conditions -prevai ping offices. The g the rounds. T' nt sharks who w you will pay two weeks board and lodging in ad- vance in-their own private boarding stand a unbelie bad: enough for work to hand hin of the K. boiled type. demands more charges, and if s job, car- arty at the I. L. D. hall. He told of quite ences he had vi The only large city was Moscow. sited asked th | hundreds of questions and in that | found out the attitude of the p |towards,the Soviet regime. He relate experiences he many |the peasants. ants surrounded them and thot} they had a counter-revolutionist among them, and cleared up by f papers the peasants all had a good ugh and said they were going tc ‘ e the affair up and publish it in their peasant paper. be about the time that feeling was! running high against England among| the Russian people. While the open forum had a good crowd for a nice warm Sunday afte noon the right wing of the Work- men’s Circle of Denver mustered only 30 people anarchist from New York, talk on or >| agaist Russia and the left wing move- ment. He spoke in Jewish and he be- Nn} rated the audience for being so smal! d told them they had better shut up shop if they couldn’t do any better In order to try to make the expense: f the meeting he charged all thosc asking questions 50c each. pes i | On Sunday eveni: five members lof the Workers Party went to Fred- | erick, Colo., and spoke at a “Save the Miners’ Union” meeting. The m ing w very successful and quite a number of DAILY WORKERS and Labor Defenders were sold. —L, L. eamens’ Church Institute is acti |in the intere: of the parasites a exploiters 9 subsidize and con- ily to this stronghold of institute doing i gang of the Lumber Com-| the seamen is forced to acquire : pany of Libb: tana, walzed off|iebs in the course of a year, usually | unified seamens’ organization in i r ‘an -dncrease in being | discharged at the end of a trip.| pliance with owners desires. _ This mplete tie-up The few dollars received must sus-| Institute should be shown up in its worker: Iked out i n again, article strikebreaking company uni In anot in magazine, the employers are urged by experts to let down in productior| during the next few months, so that “market conditions could improve materially.” Evidently, unemploy- ment and over-production are begin-| ning to hit the lumber industry, too | when the employers have to take such Measures. We have reports that un-| employment is becoming more acute in and around Eur a lumber cen- ter in Northern California. Con-} struction work on bridges is urged by the employers, and campaigns to ‘ase more wocd in building work, point the same to the devressed conditions in the dumber ind: Another ificant item is the pro. posal that all lumber interests must | ‘ret together in one national associa-| tion. The lumber workers should) follow suit, and organize themselves | fato a national Lumber Workers’, ‘Union. * | W. SCHNEIDERMAN. | { | | Raise for Postmaster WASHINGTON, Mer ise the salary of Postmaster Robs | ert W. Gniloche> of Buffslo from 86,- | 900 to $2,000 5 yoo: has boon iatro- duced in thy hours 0° Nives. No mention is made of increas- | the wages of ths wadevpaid B ft | post office clark:. \ G—A. bil! to | saneagan ta a he nied him, precar! ‘ious Any comforts and luxuries for him seldom has the seamen a bank account or a substantial amount of cash he can is out call his It has ‘long been known that the m until the time he vation Edge. he atrocious wage shoddy clothes. The righ y and usually broke. of the question, for own. can procure . receives keeps him on the verge of starvation. He can afford only cheap lodging and food and "Ito a ieee standard of living is de- average seamen living true colors, and there real purposes in the Internatio mens’ Club, en organization founded to promote the welfare and condit sea-going work: | a militant, progressive | activity, and the privilege of accord- ing to them “a living wage. It pro- claims that enly through an honest determined unification of the seamen into an effective, fighting force to back their demands can there be any results, t|of the hz ers. It f AVY. LITTLE RED LIBRARY Eleven Copies for ONE DOLLAR MARX AND ENGELS ON REVOLUTION IN AMERICA, 1, TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA. 2. CLASS STRUGGLE VS. 8. PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM, 4. WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. 5. POEMS FOR WORKERS, 6. 7. THE DAMNED AGITATOR AND OTHER STORIES. 8. 1871—THE PARIS COMMUNE, 9. HOW CLASS COLLABORATION WORKS, 10. CONSTITUTION OF THE U, 11, JIM CONNOLLY AND IRISH FREEDOM, Important Questions treated by outstanding leaders of the American Labor Movement, Ordo: “WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 43 Hast 126th Street, Now York City, ess to go right out among} had out among} One time a crowd of} after it qwas all} showing quite a number} It happened to \ to listen to Chenausky, ar) | th them” itlin and his wife made | can > extended tour of Europe during | wago a number of | dirt iting around | up the péasants and people living | minus are He madc|a high top on for good measure while pi ‘There plant. littered with oleor These same barre. for urinals. running, don’t get over $14 No eé rate for Sunday week, aitary Conditions. it from good authority re working hell oft of underpaid workers. One workers pulling eat, around on ind and broken st oe mules, Uns I he see slave-like , loaded w alw s drop off right and left. They e picked up again and, without cleaning process whatsoever, turned over to a boy who stamped it “Inspected and Passed.” are two basements in the The lower one has a dirt floor, rgarine barrels. rve as screens On the door a sign is in “Don’t Spit on the Floor.’ ly “the cuspidors and ‘urinals epected to be kept Separate, respectively. Dirty water is dripping, sometimes from old rusty pipes. Se | pools of water, anything but pure, are | to | on be seen on the ground as well. as the top” of said’ barrels, Through | eracks, part of the stuff is bound to come in contact with the imitation | It A bre |m inside is filled with “ an expression from an old book, freely quoted, very cool. move other, foll water packing tion of any tention to the preaching. butter and give it a “tasty flavor.” The plant had been condemned, ous kinds of repair work was going on, and I did ray part of it. The old building is like plastered graves. but the —to use looks nice on the outsid wort Warm and Cold Temperature Some rooms are warm, others are Foul air in all of them. number ‘of workers are forced to around from. one room to an- Cold and other forms of illness During a period of one week, pipes in the lower basement twice. Several workers, in- low. ‘oke cluding. myself, were drenched to the} skin. vented our escape quick enough. The temperature of the place was nearly | square Crusader, official organ of down to freezing. Barrels of oleomargarine pre-| Literature Handed Out. Similar conditions exist in other} plants here. Both boys and girls| n Communist Party, but A few who appreciated The i R -were also. found.| Followers of Aimee Semple McPher- on held holy ghost service the | noon down at n and Macy Sts., But the workers didn’t pay much at- plant, one you Ly ostly in the| No organiza- | J. Plenty of men and) women looking for work at the gate) Foreign-Born will surely have better} every morning. seemed to like El Machete, organ of| the Mex my work in the place was finished in| at] atre HE Moscow Art “t Th 2 is »plan- ning to take an active part in forth- coming Tolstoy centenary celebration according to an announcement ~seat out from Moscow.. Many plays of Tol- stoy’s popular in Russia and abroad, will be presented by the group from the Moscow ‘Art. At Yasnaya Polyana preparations are now being mads for the forthcom- ing celebration. N rooms’ in’ the house have been bro back to their original condition, including the re- the roont. where - Tol- 's body lay in state, the room .of his medical adviser Makovits! that me. Sophie Tolstoy and his type-| writing room. The large room used} a brary at Bigs ya Polyana | 16,000 volumes the charge of Mos ch contains over has been placed und \ Prof. peuney arian of the cow Hi seum. The S als are not ar | to making tl! elebration a suc The admin king ext » plans to entertain the large num : of excurs‘onists who usually ar- e during the summer.and autumn m the U.S. S. R. as well as from; si abroad. Romain R¢ «4, .the,. well-known French novelis planning to visit during the centenary celebration Among commemc ive buildings and titutions to’be opened in ‘connecticn | with the anniversary will be a village hospital and an agricultural school. Some of the Tolstoy . plays. which Moscow Art may: be revived by the Players for the occasion include: “Re-| * “Anna Karinana” and O'NEILL TO: V SIT Moscow | TO SEE PLAY PRODUCED | Word comes from Eugene O’Neill, who is now in Europe, that he is writing his new play, “Dynamo,” which‘ the Theatre Guild, will produce next season. He in- tends going to Rus- sia soon. While in Soviet Russia O’Neill may visit Moscow to see PDantchenko stage his “Lazarus Laughed” there for the Moscow Art Theatre. O’Neill says he is going ahead slowly on “Dyna- revision is always painful work for him, is the explanation. Two of his plays, “Marco Millions” and “Strange Interlude,” are now current here. O'Neill ell; Paul Kochanski, noted violinist, been invited by the Soviet gov- sment, through the composer, Glaz- ounov, to teach at Leningrad, taking Anne now Davey turing Ruth Stanley in “Musicapers”; Guy Voyer, “So This Is Marriage”; |Freid Heider and the “Green ‘Girl’; Bud Troupe. jwill be “Partners in Crime” Wallace Beéry and Raymond Hatton. Lenore Ulric London,” by Michael Arlen, supported| by Sidney Blackmer; Frank Fay; “The Knocker’s Club” with Lenore Ulric, Frank Fay, Dora Maughn, Billy and} Elsa Newell, Will and Gladys Ahern;| Dora Maughn; Billy and Elsa New-| Will and Gladys Ahern; Nellie Arnaut Chappelle and Harry Carlton. “The Docks of New York,” original screen story by John Monk Saunders, “The Legion of the Condemned,” will be George Bancroft’s next starring vehicle. rect. Moscow Art to Take Part m Tolstoy Centenary Celebration “MILDRED McCOY. In “Bottled,” a new comedy by Collins and Alice Timoney, in BROADWAY. White’s White Hawks fea- and Van; photoplay Harris The Kitayuma attraction starring JEFFERSON. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday— jeben and Gilmore; Charley and Ruth | Flagler; Syd Morehouse; others. Fea- ture photoplay “The Leopard Lady” starring Jacqueline Logan and Alan Hale. Thursday, Sunday—Shean and Cantor; Morton and Stout; others, Raymond Hatton Crime.” Friday, Saturday and Teller Sisters Ackland; Photoplay, Wallace Beery and in “Partners in PALACE. in “The Legend of and Brothers; Josephine author of “Wings” and Josef von Sternberg will di- jof the ; Committee was invited to speak on i its second month at the | Booth Theatre. ee ee | Vaudeville Theatres an MINERS WARNED COPS WILL SLIP GUNS ON THEM 'Troopers Try to Break Youth Meeting (By a Worker Correspondent) DICKSON CITY, Pa., (By Mail).— The mine workers of Dickson City and vicinity have decided to organize a Young Miners’ Club at the meet- ing held in Sidorovich’s Hall on April | 30. Stanley Dziengielewski, chairman) tri-district Save-the-Union the conditions in the miners’ union |and the mining industry. He spoke |in Polish first and then in English. All those present, about 200, applaud~ jed him enthusiastically when he men- | tioned a six-hour day and five-day’ week as the solution for the miners’ unemployment. He asked the men: Who w,uld they rather see go from the miners’ camp, the 30,000 unem- ployed miners, or John L. Lewis with | his foolish reactionary policy? | When the meeting had been in ses- sion about 20 minutes, the Lacka- wanna County Sheriff Mirtz, with seven or eight state troopers, entered the hall. The sheriff and the troopers walked from one side of the hall to the other, swinging their clubs in or- der to scare up the audience. But everybody remained quiet and patient listening to the speakers. Finally the sheriff walked up to the speakers’ table and took the notes | Dziengielewski was using for his speech. He then called all of the state troopers and secret service men and discussed the notes with them. Then he asked for our permit. He was shown the permit. So he waited until the speaker had concluded his speech and adjourned the meeting. Then he asked him questions. The sheriff put the notes in his pocket and took the speaker’s name, Then he searched everybody. Accord- ing to the story in the Scranton Re- ; publican one gun was found. | The progressive miners of the Save- |the-Union Committee warned the | sheriff and his dicks that at the next meeting they will search everybody entering the hall, andwif they find a stool-pigeon or a provocateur with a gun they will politely ask him to stay away from the meeting. They also warned the rank and file miners to watch their pockets when they go to a meeting so as not to al- | low some stool-pigeonto slip in a gun jor something else into their coat pockets, for we know their game. —ARD. “Rain or Shine,” the saga of the circuses, starring Joe Cook, celebrated its 100th performance at the George M. Cohan Theatre last night. the post once held by Leopold Auer. Sri Ragini, the noted Hindu inter- preter, is to give three recitals of he: songs, dances and instrument-play \at Carnegie Hall, Friday evening, ¥ 11, iP By y | An gelus Temple, seemed to be met | with the same lack of interes Only an elderly foreman took it all in seri- ously, it seemed. Crusaders of the Council: for: the Protection of - the luck than Aimee. Try it! The L. A. | unit will soon be in the field, aceord- ling to Nina Samorodin, executive secretary of the national council of} said organization, who spoke at the | Open Forum, here, last night. By —L. P. RINDAL. [3 pooe eee oe. —The Daily Worker. , Jee | oa Else’ Needs “Me!” | Sunday afternoon and evening | DR CUA 13. | A “See It and Creep. "—Eve. CHANIN’S 46th St. ceninae at rh UDSON Theatre, West 4th WEEK Bw FULTON *2" 46 St. Eves. & ed. 2.30 Post. at. 25 Broadway Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL’'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO, OLSEN and HIS MUSIC 44th St. 8.30, Mats Wed.&Sat. THE ABSOLU TE HiT of the LOWN WHISPERING FRIENDS By GEORGE M, COHAN, The Four- VISIT SOVIET THIS SUMMER FREE VISES All tours include a 10-day tional interest LENINGRAD where places of historical and educa- Russia INTO RUSSIA stayover in MOSCOW and will be visited. | Dhimah, Egyptian dancer and for- | mer dancer in the Sech Salaam Opera in Cairo, .will give a recitalvat the Guild Theatre on Sunday “evening, May 13, for the benefit of the Dance | | Theatre. ‘ “|[—— The Theatre Guild presents Bugene O'Neill's cscs Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, H. of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30 ALL THIS WEEK VOLPONE sJq Th., W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild yiats. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Week of May 14: “Marco Millions” Wi ¢ Evs. 8:30. Mats. {Winter Garden "ys. 8°) gat Greenwich Village Follies { tT OF ALL REVUES. ae Thea, 42d. W. of } HARRIS Bwas Eves. 8:30. } Mats, Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LAD with Wilda Bennett & Guy Roberteons. KEITH-ALBEE 2nd BIG WEEK : “THE RAIDER A2°STEBWAY EMDEN” WIS 1789 Actual Exploits of Famous German Cruiser. CLASS COLLABORATION, 8. 8. R. v From Groups Served by Official May 25 “Carmania” May 380 “Aquitania” $450 AND UP, ~ $600 AND UP, VIA—London, Helsingfore, Leningrad, RETURN—Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, INQUIRE: WORLD TOURISTS, Ine, ALGONQUIN 6900 «69 FIFTH AVE, | NEW YORK, N, Y, COMPLETE CUNARD SERVICE Travel Buro of Soviet Gov. July 6 “Caronia” July 9 “Aquitania” $500 AND UP, Wednesday ., Nov, 7 Thursday .... Nov. 9 Saturday ,,, Nov, 10 Sunday ...... Noy, 11 (Sunday Afternoon, N, ¥, G.)— Monday ,,... Nov, 12. York City, F SCOTT NEARING Lecture dates still open: For information write to Harry Blake, clo Daily Worker, 88 First Street, New 14 15 19 20 21 “Wednesday ., Nov. Thursday .... Nov. ' Monday ..«.. Nov. Tuesday ,,.., Nov, Wednesday ., Nov. }