The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 11, 1928, Page 4

Page Fotr THE DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928 Metropolitan Life Insurance Workers Are Co. Slaves, Correspondent Says PIECE-WORK AND GROUP POLICIES ARE FIRM SCHEME Wages ees (oe | MONESSEN STEEL MILL EMPLOYES DRIVEN INSANE Speed-U Up ' Victims at Colling Wood Woven Wire Chain Shop (iup AA Strindberg’s “The Father’ Opens at Belmont Tonight "DENNIS KING. Robert Whittier will present “The | |Father,” August Strindberg’s drama j sean {tonight at the Belmont Theatre. The play has been announced time and | i\Finger, Hand Is Com- again and a theatre set, but the pro- imon Price of Speed-up | duction did not open. “Mr. Whittier will play the title role. The leading (By a Worker Correspondent) ees ae Bh be played by MONESSEN; Pa., (By Mail).—The| 7, cvence conns. ate Mayhew, | Ameriéan'Sheet arid ‘Tin Plate Go, at| Pobert Le Sueur, Albert Reed, Peggy! Keenan, Edward Everett Hale, and Monessen, Pa., has been in full oper: amas j 7 ri es tion for a month now. We work five pRUcgaS agua are other players! \days a week and they have started |up ten more mills recently, since they Martin Jones, for several years as-| »d down the same company mills ‘ + e é ‘ | Riou Kerninglonc anil anenteink- sociated with the producing firm of} A. L. Jones and Morris Green, will | fering their orders to other mills in} ; Vatkeenit Anema Chey Broke some | 2°Xt season produce on his own ac- uo - count. His first offering will be “The 2 ee nore eae Cu hom | Tomb,” a mystery melodrama by J. of workers, amounting n°! N. Robinson. dred and twenty-five men, fifteen gangs in all. They are to finish their orders here. Range From $15| to $19 | No capitalists in the world have proved so fertile in schemes to keep their workers slaving in silence as the American bos. This picture shows the victims of American speed-up methols at the Collingwood Woven Wire Chain factory, at Attleboro, Mass. Each worker has an ear-phone thru which he receives radio programs that keep him working faster and without tine to think of shop conditions. MINERS STARVING, "Arrest Night OFFICIAL SAILS School Pupil wont on Vag Charge ae ‘ : (By @ Worker Correspondent) Interested in Non-Par-|| tos ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail) tisanship Only —Dominick Bertina, 24, of 704% * Gibbons St., was arrested recently in —— (By a Worker Correspondent.) t other Soepeanondent.) | recently employed by the n Live Insurance Co. in x division plant in Long i ‘STEEL WORKERS GET HALF RATE [Union Seale Violated at Packing Plant Island City. Although this which is thie itutions in of having more re- England, f its employees st he Bank of “The Lyric version of at the In the musical Three Musketeers” Theatre. ‘Coolidge Opposes Even | ‘Small Salary Increase the worki gc » foster such m: ious the open shop, company sharing schemes in| t over their group which is nothing | Herman Gantvoort will transfer his production of “Bottled” from the Booth Theatre to another playhouse on Monday, May 21. d profit No Union. It also seems as though the new in a public park, where he was} harmlessly en, ng the California} (By a Worker Correspondent.) than a scheme tc| CARLINVILLE, Ill, (By Mail).—} |synshine—to nothing about|| LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail).—|men that were brought here have the | to his employer ve-}t am enclosing a clipping taken from| |its “prosperity.” |The building of ‘the local Wilson &j head chances in the mill, and the olt| Horace Liveright will produee|For Federal _Employes f conditions in order to de |:he Springfield, Iinois Register of| | Municipal Judge Caryl Sheldor| | |Co. packing plant (slaughterhouse),]™men who have been here in this mill) pita Lascelles’ new play. entitled 5 benefit from his policy. The pane |\esterday dismissed vagrancy| |Lyon and Macy Streets, was con-| for the last ten to twenty. years have | ueretia Borgia.” Miss Lascelles, A ene worker has to be employed for 2( | “ecent date. z presume this will mean | harges against Bertina and sev- | |\demned recently. Funk and Bunker,|the second places. It is not fair, is a novelist and short story | S°oner had the chopped-down Welch years on one in order to gain any | other. special assessment on th erely criticized the arresting cop| | Pneumatic contractors, 417 E. 15th| but what can we do against the mill writer, is best known for her book | S#lary increase bill for federal em- thing. We ¢ readily see that this | vorkers of Illinois to send this polit had the contract on the steel work| owners orders, as we have no unions Bertina produced a letter from). “Sacrificial Goat” published by Mr. ployes passed the House than I’resi- him from going ot | ‘eal falir on a jaunt to Switzerland| |Edith H. Molony, prineipal of the| |in 3 basements. The work was very|in these mills around here. They |riveright some time ago. James | dent Coolidge’s voice was again raised ais er » and it] ta ti uae ° this! |Albion Evenin, h School, rec-| |dirty, extraordinary heavy and ex-, have put the old and steady men to|Tiont who staged “Hamlet in 1 {in protest against the “appaleing” a time when the workers of this} }A/vlon & ge te . | ies rork ti i th yi to | Light, who stage amlet in Modern | i job he the money } ommending him as one of her pu-| |tremely dangerous. The steel gang,|WOrS aS ex Tas and the new men to) Dress” and “Black Boy” will officiate | total of expenditures proposed by | @ate are having difficulty in getting | ‘ough to eat. i This is the Walker that used to be/ in the so ist movement, then in the the old men’s places. But the old men and workers here wouldn't stand for it and they raised the dickens about that so they had to give some of the fellows’ their former places from his pay envelope 6 men, came in contact with hot, or live, wires twice one day. Nobody |was killed, however, which was a | |wonder. One man was painfully hurt, and he has yellow spots on his legs Congress. This measure carries less than $20,000,000 annual wage increase for 135,000 government workers, in place of the $40,000,000 first pro- pils, studiously endeavoring to master English at night school and as a man of good character. P. RINDAL. in the same capacity for Borgia.” “Lucretia hese policies are very pouch a Sydney Stone, author of “Restless mall, after Small purloined the state and “armer-Labor party, later a booster) ~~ ne ” é af “* | posed as a fair adjustment. r Lowden, ee are later still of {yet. Well, a sign on the air com- ack, Z Moree ae area R. oy a In a statement issued after the [ pressor read: “We Hurry.” They have all kinds of rules and ee oy peakeasy = and | yolcall in the House, the National “Veils,” formed a producing corspany yesterday. Their first production will be ‘Over the Wire,” a2 melodrama of night clubs, by Sydney Stone. regulations which we must go by and, if we disobey them, we are likely to be reprimanded for it and also are most liable to be fired or given a few days rest as they call it. In the hot-mill there are nine men N in a crew, and four of them get paid pretty good, but of course they work The air compresser was paid $6 a amount of six hundred thousand ay (8 hours), air-hammermen $5 and lollars i HIGH FARE FIGHT | seach men $4. Same rate for Sunday This is the same Walker that bled| eee eis ee i Z Newell, who has taken the she ete a aall anil ies aps ieee . place of Bunker (dead), was riding os pte ae a eee e Page s rat (By a Worker Correspondent) jaround in a car on which the seal of perative deal that went on the rocks. | The same Walker that cries for the| LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail) —|the American Legion appeared, Federation of Federal Employes de- clared that this bill is “intended simply as temporary relief pending a i} thorough investigation by all avail- i| is able agencies of the government with GRO YOUTH SLAIN. | reports to be made next December, in NEW BERN, N. C., May 10.—As|order that the next session of Con- the result of a clash at Trenton near | gress may have before it authorita- ' sury paid back one-half of Metropolitan Life In- instrumental in put- effect speed-up and plans for the benefit of the Conditions. ; i i : for it also. The other five don’t get|here,'a Negro youth named Si tive dat: on which comprehensive As for treir own working conditions]. ..6n ae aaa ia > The case was reported twice to the a gro yi r ‘immons | tive data, up: , pI in their piakt; fhe e ntuings 0 sired pth children’ while Ades off | Heide Kree/and Beat Foie > nOW | Metal Trade Council, but the right! paid quite so good and they work}was killed and a white youth, Gus |revision of the entire salary scale k about. dies lone oe sal eee pore |the slogan of thousands in Los An-|man was “out” both times. The|Just as hard for their money as do | Eubanks was seriously wounded. imay be based. e s plant is fi foremen and who was never known to work! oojes, The protest is directed against| second time, however, I was told to| ‘he others. eT: : z RE They have an insurance in this =| and every man that enters this mill jas an-employe must take out this in- surance or else he doesn’t get to work here. They sure know how to hand out for a living at any useful occupa’ |see Mr. \ Green in the pool hall. “Yes, he is here, we are all Irish in| \this place,” was the clerk’s answer to my question about Green. This man said that the structural iron workers are “organized” and the lie of varied descriptions. Workers have to fill out time sheets, marking down every job they have done every five minutes of the day Those that are put on piece-work | ‘ and company 4 -'|the car fare increases on the Pacific In all probab ty he will take his | mectric Railway (red lines). “private secretary” with him as he ss : i has not been on a long junketing trip| Free buses are being put into with his “private secretary” now ; operation by a citizen committee. The | since he was in California on another | Cost of operation is $5.40 a week, and | CRT i 34th WEEK —— The Theatre Guild presents —~ RB i ‘ axpediti vorkers’ the program is said to have been com- 1 ¢ their orders when you are at a dis- Eugene have to turn out a tertain percentage] immketing expedition at the workers ° union wage scale is $9. Charles Ray, | *"°) a O'Neill's eae icver-the average, in, urder, to | CXPEnsEe. pletely nderver tien for 8 weeks. The |the foreman in charge of the work in|@dvantage, and must bow to their Play, Strange Interlude : <a railroad least con- of resentment against t ons is a challenge to be tire: he company gives their em- dinners as part of their | Also —COAL MINER. Engineers Have to Fire state commission may be |forced to re-consider its action, it has been pointed out in many quar- | ters. The’increases hit the workers hardest of course, because they are |the union, he |said plant, used to be a member of said, my impression 3 , |was that the union officials will doi Oy honr, and the hot-mills are paid inothing. When the Funk and Bunker men demands and orders or out you go. The ‘laborers’ wages are forty cents by the tonnage. The hot mills work only eight hours and three shifts a DRAc™ Biway, 46 St. Eves. FULTON 8.30, Mats. Wed. & “See It and Creep.”—Eve. at. 2.30 Post. John Golden Thea., 538th, E. of B'way Evenings Only at 5:30 too poor to own automobiles. The trade union movement is back- ing this protest. “But why not say day, while the other depts. work from |ten to twelve hours. It sure would | be wonderful if they could be organ- | M CLEVELAND, May. 10 (FP).— Many locomotive engineers have been finished the job, they were given Mr. Newell’s personal ‘checks on an Al-' wages, of the but the quantity and quality food is so poor, that many Th., W. Mats. Week of May 14 52d St. 3 ‘hurs. & Sat. 2 Guild CHANIN'’S 46th St. Evenings at 8:25 of eames rs eat putside restaura veduced by lack of runs to a fireman’s |! : 2 |hambra bank, located outside the city cei & Sat. ; superintendents of the dit-|job again, according to grand chief |it by starting in more earnesty, to/of Los Angeles. Being Saturday|ized in these mills here, as this isj CHWAR and MANDEL'S departments. how sngineer Al Johnston of the Brother- |Organize the carmen. Jafternoon, the workers had to get|Tite an important steel town. | pat aoe aie NWint&e Garden = 1 very good dinner in hood. —L. P. RINDAL. [along the best they could until the They have the speed-up system OOD NEW inter mn 5a =e ar a Be following’ Monday for their’ hard-| {here too; all the newest kind of | machinery, everything up to date and with GEO, OLSEN and HIS MUSIC modern as they have in all the other SST RS i mills and other towns. aa rh 42d. W. of | We have a big plant here, The “ HARRIS ; E Eves. 8:30. Pittsburgh Steel Co. They have the} Mats. plaid, alge , wire mill, nail mill, tube mill and rod} mill. It is nothing new to hear of a LOVELY LADY! man losing a finger, or hand in the) with wilaa Bennett & Guy Robertson | wire mill. The work in the rod mill is also just as dangerous as the hot ‘Greenwich Village Follies GREATEST OF ALL REVUES. KEITH-ALB éarned money. They were glad to THESE MILITANTS SENT (ei ®8ine%os Pa¥t “of the “steel job, was done “ ” \directly by the packers, Wilson He Co., DAIL 4 MA R jusing..men working for 3744 .cents, per hour. —L. P. RINDAL 2nd BIG W “THE RAIDER 4 28ST EBWAY EMDEN” WIS 1789 Actual Exploits of Famous German Cruiser, as the Red Cri looked at with re heads of their depart * Wages are very low, 2» of $15 to $19 for r and wage in About $1 per year provid ent. | ranging from | The DAILY WORKER, organ of the Workers (Communist) Party and | »| spokesman for the militant proletariat of the working class has just com- | pleted another year of struggle. It has been maintained only by the con- y Spectacular Performance given by CQ-OP MARKETS 15% MORE. CHICAGO, May 10 (FP).—The man approves of you. tinuous sacrifice of its readers. The following supporters of The DAILY. Farmers’ tihidn. “Livestock Commis’ ods arin onitie cache In order to have the privilege of] WORKER grected May Day: sion,ithe co-operative sales agency of ¢ ie liable to get severely burned. hours are very long as they work from thirteen hours at night and ten these low wages in this you must our district politician | working for wonderful company, sponsored by (Continued) be ees Werner, Charles Weiner, M. “tthe organized farmers, sold 15% more jatethé Chicago stockyards in April} W. Haitman ve 1928, than the previous April. Five) ; s $ 4 or someone else of equal prominence Welsh, Edward Wingard, A. B. Marcus i ianarad twenty-three cars of stock bcieh a ay. ena et ae og Kopelevich-Luganoff and Esfir Lez or e you'll be bound to wait for Wheelek, A. Basil Wolfson, Hyman Raport were sold. This makes a total of Bien: shits head EAN OREe ast GRE someone to die in order to get a job.| ~ "Weisberg, 2. f Soren {360 cars sold site the first of the| ‘W0 Shits Stfalght through are oes|| of the FIRST SOVIET REVOLUTIONARY THEATRE Ee Weisberg, A. Y. Juss }year with a market value of $6,286,- . : AND THEIR N. Y, DRAMATIC STUDIO. Washington Press Yedwal,: D. Waitzman 012. 67. Shipments were'tecdived from do it or not, as orders are orders and Wulman, Tillie Young Worker Zipon |organized farmers in 21 states, with} ches “talk bie hie we pie ne on Saturday, May 12, 1928, at 8:30 P. M. Yarock, I. Ylonen, Otto Netzberg Towa first, Tlinois second and Mis-|O8¢® ‘alk either, The nail mit is at 2075 CLINTON AVENUE, BRONX | Yampol Yerman, Jos., Jr. Hymen Rubin |souri third, The principal far western| 2/°° very dangerous and the noise is|] ynaer auspices BR. 2, SECTION 5, WOR (COMMUNIST) PARTY just deafening. You can’t hear your Yessne, A. : Yerman, Joe Henry Rajola lshippers were California and Colorado 4 : data 5 For the first time in America the famous Russian Play Yerman, Jennie Reb fe neighbor say one word. Employes “ 5 WE ARD BY LABGR Yerman, Jemie, Willan Ola Becca fa eee AS ARMORED TRAIN NO. 1469 Ylijoki, Nestor I a a | (“Somebody Else Needs Me!” deaf or lose their minds. Something will be presented this evening, PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 10—Loes' | Yurgilas, J J. K. Selandes | —The Daily Worker.{ | happens to them medile also “PORT” by Maupassant, and a comedy-sketch, “BOMBA” Ss 8G ’a., May 10-—Loca . < 4 J. K. Selande H a Mista —MILL WORKER. THIS WILL BE FOLLOW relief committees affiliated with the Zinlin, A. Yager, Joseph A. Lindjars e ze cana z | DANCING AFTERWARD: * Relief’ Comnaittes du: Zurokovsky, John Yager, Joe Jr. E. Sulandeic Se — The following actors will participate in this unusual presentation: National i Yager, Edward, Jr. pas and Canadian cities Zaidel, Albert fe Wm. Hendrickson a a sr h-Luganoft — Estir Lez hav spond to the con. Zaleskas, John ogee itus J. John Kaija ° ee oe ‘arasoft 1. Yrina Seintly. sw itor "fond: anal eippab, CG. ae Otto Elirtessa ass em onstration tents” om the strike area of Zuegors, Minnie Sy baad $d Herman Winn - » “ . Yeager, Otto Yamabe, K. Yoshiora Ylioza, Hilga Yohias, J. lvania and Ohio according to a news release issued today. Sub: Ww. —antial contributions and news of proposed tag days, dances, entertain- ments, and picnics tdicate a ‘favor-) able reaction on the part of local re- Penns Wiki Hill Matti Niskanen Waino Farfula Osear Kauppi A, Tuovi John Luvri Zukerman, f. To Greet the Delegates Walsky, Alex to the Wozinschik, A. Wiik, &. Wessels, H. z. TO ALL OUR READERS: Y sa # Ps | ERROR DAS POS AEA ES PITRE RE ERE National Nominating Convention lief committees" to the program of rs " ¥ Joseph Lammck A cae 4 ai Coa Wiliams, Bradford Zion, Louis zs ee ‘ 5 broadening relief eolleetion activities Welse, Hans ae Zelnick, D. J. Maitell For President of the United States in proportion to the new demands cain: career Zange, M. C. Theodore Schulz which ure bi ng made daily upon the Wirkkala, Sofi Pet eetiey Tauno Konenen of the National Mi Relief Committee. 5 , ; Zorica, feat Wiehit Bee iddcics ot altiea, inatty, of thaws Wirtanen, Antti Zolinov, B. a ‘eas A places where only small relief confer- Palot, Femi. ie. Waseca Workers (Communist) Party of America ntial péabenitioas ; 4 "4 j ts ‘ $ is oe ; A. Lotker 4 i ae anaes | as wears Be Fite Vibe Titewsky Speakers: ; Speakers: Do not forget at all times to mention that you ¢ ’ ance wei dteeald thie Wohl, Harry Zingarelli, Michael Rosenfeld William Z, Foster Friday 3 Ben Gitlow are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this | 4 beginning of the relief committees’ alee: 5 ae = poseaiy B. H. Lauderdale, Tex, 3 Evening ae Seid %e coupon stating where you buy your clothes, furnish- = ion’ e y field of work- | alsh, B. Zenic m. . Sen. Chas. EF. Taylor, ames P, Cannon i: i rami ions into every field of work-' Ree Win Paleiepalh pc B. Mazon et CaN ‘aylor May Win, P, Patton, Towa ings, etc. New York City, Childven’s’ Center| Wallace, Mait Zavtanan + Lotker Scott Neseina. Mon nita C. “Whitney, ° Name of business place .. ene for Miners Re $1000; Detroit, Wilde, Julia Zuponic, Andrew J. A. Yankawich Rie paysibid P Calif. i Mich., Miners Relief Committee, $1,-| Weissman, Nathan Zalmen J. Zinevich eet * Tom Rushton, Mich. TIIMEN oe vias nes ohaihe Aue ROR Ea oe e es Hivec ewan VeaieneM } 000; Chel Mass., Miners Relief Wonen, Sam Zaar, Hyman 8.N. : Signa Scott Wilkins, Ohio y is Pirimittee, Wood River, Ill.,| s: hane, S. Gecrpe uiesien A tanley Clark, Okla. William W. Weinstone OUP NAME ce eeee eee e ener e eaten tee eeneeeenee tena seeseane Miners Relief Committee, $124.00; Wozni, M. A. Lichtenstein Milan Lubazevic' ‘ Bitizeport, Corin, ‘$184; ° Vinalhaven, | Willnelker, Jos. A. Brody Anne Shenuk JAY LOVESTONE, Chairman RUOROUE) 65 eee a “i k Maine, $132; Binghamton, N®Y. Min- Worgren, M. G. Schneider S. Kuchar : fail to ‘ ers Relief Conference, $434; Carson Walentonauriens, K.-H. Green Henry Holub MECCA TEMPLE Lake, Minn., South Slavic Miners, Weringer M. Simon Geo. Maravich 138 West 55th St. New York DAILY WORKER $227; Trenton, N. J., Hungarian Min- White, Wm. J. S. Natensen John Caughlin i + 33 FIRST STREET NEW YORK Y ers Relief Committee, $430; Cleve- Wutanen, T. E. Shweitzer S. Poydasheff ADMISSION 50 CENTS. cir land, Ohio, Miners Relief Conference, Wayrynen, J. S. Haltunen N. Poydasheff onan i i Wirkkula, A. G, Stalkoff — W. N. Ng _ t | \ y