The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 14, 1928, Page 4

4s. ~traking more y Page Fotr NEW BEDFORD STRIKER CALLS YOUNG WORKERS TO BUILD STRONG TEXTILE ORGANIZATION (By a Worker Corr NEW BEDFORD (By mail)- the most sensible Remember that while w pread for our mouths and De without these we are unable Our r into one g the working A strike work- fight- our heads because f tk the ones w But it 2 to keep up one st xt move must be organize textile union. The re now trying to form this big Ives so to know enough to the victory is won. The idea is not only to get relief now and at the end of the all the textile workers tekiile mill committees are up to all the workers to be sincere ruggle for life. strike forget abo we will not be gi ing hours. union. and firm and stick to this union, The DAILY WC these yor will lea Young workers, ut this union. We must ven any more cuts in wages or any long I appeal to the young workers to read the newspapers and magazines written by the workers for the working cl: ORKER or The Labor Defender. n the struggle of the working class we are now Se eee for you. By all remain firm, Remember so that rer work- fight for your children, that some day you will be fathers and mothers and will have to So don’t spend your time now in pool- rooms or watching ball games, but come and learn what we want fight for your own rights. I do not call mys end by once more a their power to orga a writer king all worker into one great Textile Union. to teach you so that when your time comes you will know how to y a speech-maker but I will young and old, to do all in Arey Easton Silk Bosses Use Prece- Work to Split. Workers, Corresponcent Wnites ONLY 3500 OF 8,000 MEN ARE NOW EMPLOYED Is Vitel | Organization Need that the 4 of L. bodies do not sufficient care to organizing the workers. Only the A. S. W. of A. union takes much inter in Mian zing, but, being very weak itself not develop a greater mov ement. Crafty Bosses. One of the piece-work system. that kills the workers’ solidarity. To make more profit for the bosses and to weaken the workers, the bosses installed more looms. The three looms System has e ed a few years al- teady both in Easton and Phillips- bosses’ traps is the burg. Some of the mills have installed as many as four looms, namely, The Gunning Silk Co., which even tried to put in as many as six looms. There are many workers mostly women that work on the two looms and yet they get paid by the yard just the same as those on the three looms. y of the workers fool themsely ying: t if 2 work ha en I make more on 4 looms. E what the bosses are waiting for. T to the workers: “Work on more looms, it’s true that you get léss by the ya but b; Js you get bigge workers fall in this So nd the worker. K arty of America is | ystem, and the ghting for or- workers into Ss rization of ie: silk their union. Night Work. The Easton jand Phil have a “wi mills run day a eir is good day and night. must toil to the bosses, urg bosses y let their No matter e when the} e running the Then the wage slaves Wo and night workers wor 9 hours a day, « five nights a ‘week 10 hours each night, that means } that both the day and night weavers work 50 hours a week. Some places they work as much as 12 hours day and night, that is pr at the Nanpareill Silk Co. (McKenlly | mills). Wages. Those workers employed on wind-| img machines, etc. get very poor wages. The w make a little more, but thei not large. Day} workers’ mi 5 a week on 3 looms. h r t a little more; they get one cent more on a yard than t tch- ing four 896 containi spools, run * around the mack the whole day and cannot r more than $16 a week. Girls working on winding ‘make the v machines, former M@ide of the m containing © 3: spools, now have ch four sides gontaining 45 spools each and their Wages are not more than $18 a week. It is well to know that the cost of living in Easton is much higher than tching only one in Philadelphia or elsewhere. Here seg clothes and rent are much ‘igher. The house which you could rent in Philadelphia easily for $25 a month, here you must pay at Teast $35. Wage Cuts. ‘ In December 1926 the bosses at- tacked the workers. Stewart Silk Co., Allschuller Bros. Silk Co., Wal- dace Silk Co. R. H. Simon Silk Co., Nanpareil Silk Co., Haytock meyer Co., Tirrell Bos. Silk Corpora- tion and others, cut the workers wages from per cent to 25 per eent, As tho reason for this cut in ‘wages, the bosses said that they must of the Easton & Phillipsbur those of the silk workers. The workers though hurt and en- raged could not oppose their bosses; not having their class organizations they were forced to accept the busses’ terms. The local Workers (Communist) Party section issued a call to the Eas- Allentown & Bethlehem Bye f ing that both are satisfied, | Crone- | k workers even with} | ence flight.” oe 2 ue near future. Lope: z “OPEN ESPERANTO. GLASS IN WEST) It is the system) | Los ‘Atigoles 1 Workers to Study (By a Worker : Corréspondint) LOS ANG , Cal., (By Mail).— Under the di ion of Parley Parker Christensen, candidate for the pres dene on the Farmer-Labor Party in a class in Esperanto. (interna- mal language) was formed here re- cently. One hour free instruction ig given every Sunday from 6.30 p. m at the Los Angeles. Open Forum W: as _Audite m Bldg., (Lincoln place as “teacher. uate from a Buea ‘art stud ied in Germany and speaks seven anguages, he He has made the; 20 years. }come in handy in m ttending interna- ete. room for qrOREbi are sttendings | —L, P. RINDAL, ing why the wag ing them to orga: ter conditio: mittees, Join these committe one ;Committee and make Easton Phillipsburg another Passaic. In | other words, to fight for the silk in-| dustry. Answer to Bos: The end of th | beginning of 19: was the time | workers’ agitation. A mass me | was arranged by the Workers e to fight for s into! E Attacks. x 1926 and the ng (Com- |rade A. Weisbord, but was dispersed \by the police. The second meeting {was successful. Comrade Bentall spoke in one silk weaver’s meeting. | Some help was gotten from the A Ss. Ww. of A. Union thru its Pennsyl- izer, Pitkoviez. More Is to fight the bosses were issued and the work of organizing Shop Committees was started. There were many defeats, viz: Nanpareil Silk C where the work were orga’ 100 per cent into a Shop Commiv |The company closed the mill, using |the lockout method. Later opened. again, selected workers, pany we ut wage: | ‘The R. H. Simon weavers were the ‘first’ to go on a’strike. After.a few | weeks of fight, the company scared that the strike would turn into a gen- eral strike, made terms with workers returning half of cut wages. Second to strike was the Stewart Silk Co. The workers were on strike for 9 weeks. After getting back 50 | per cent of the cut wages they re- turned ‘to work. Shorter. strikes were at. Morris Silk Co.,-Laros Silk Co., and Gunning Silk Co., the workers winning some- thing more or less. The Tirrell Bros. Silk Corporation | (Phillipsburg, N. J.) workers were striking with great solidarity, both the day and night shifts. The work- ers of another mill in Milford, N. J., of the same company, 16 miles from Phillipsburg, went out on a sympa- thetic strike. But the Milford strike was lost, thanks to the crafty en- gineer, Mr. Shefer, who forced the workers to return to work, The Phillipsburg workers returned to work on the old scale of wages after 10 weeks fight, but won better conditions and a reorganization of Shop Committee. These local strikes stopped the cuts forced to return part of the ton & Phillipsburg workers, explain- SWEPT IMME sss A in wages. —SOKOL. they | taking back only the} but still the >om-| oy, Wall Seek ‘is Diane to ahi the Capt. Emiliano Carranza will fly from Me Photo shows Carranza viewing plane ivation wages. United States his home for the last | | Mr: more} and give credit to the miners, A number of; that the miners would never pay back jtheir debts. were cut and urg-| | company , and to form shop com- |ecredit to the miners. poe reene store-owners of Elm Grove | | on and Phillipsburg Shop| h?®™ BE: and | credit. of | attack on organized labor. | their ue indbergh 0 City to We |TRY TO STARVE MINE STRIKERS Paisley Co. o. Would Cut | Off Credit (By a Worker Correspondent) ING, W. Va.. (By Mail).— » them” is the slogan and stra- tegy used by the coal operators in} efforts to break the fiehting it of the militant miners of West | irginia and force them back to wor! under miserable conditions and stz The Paislev Coal Co., whose mines have been effected by the strike and whose coffers are not overflowing be- cause the men refuse to work for a |starvation wage, has sent atents to| spread propaganda to the effect that » this strike will end in favor of the operators. Storekeepers Sympathetic. The son-in-law of Mr. Paisley, who An international language would | married into the Paisley fortune a / ning elevators, manning ships, store-owner at Elm Grove, owned by} Smith and asked him not to trust saying However. Mr. Smith showed him the door and told him that he was running his own affairs. The Paisley Coal Company operates stores and have However. in- | - come to the r e and given/ Relief Urgent. Friends! You can plainly see the | strategy of the operators. They will starve the miners back to work. Send relief. This is your fight. This is an An at- tempt to smash all trade unions. Your union may be next. Come to the aid iced mostly|munist) Party of America for Com-| of the miners. Let’s all join in this fight, block the attempt to smash the | labor movement in America. The Na- \tional Miners’ Relief headquarters is at 611 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. —IKE. Tanners Strike ALBANY, (FP) M May 13,—The Al- bany Tannery’s 10 per cent wage cut was answered promptly by a strike of all employes. refused | SHUT FILIPINOS OUT IS LATEST JINGO CAMPAIGN |Reaetionary 1 Labor Of- | ficials Bleat | (By a Worker Conredtendent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Union labor cn the Pacific now raised the third anti-Oriental | cry: Exclude the Filipinos! The Chinese were fi the Japanese next and now the Filipino “menaces” his white brothers. The last issue of the Seamen’s Journal has This journal edited by rg, also secretary of} California State Federation of Labor,! lis the official organ of the Interna- | | tional Seamen’s Union of America. Although not eligible to U. S. citi- |zenship, the Filipinos are privileged |characters under the immigration! |law.. Any number of them can come | and go at will. And the young, little fellows are on their way by the thou- | | sands, Scharrenberg says. “Migration of Filipino laborers to} | these shores is under way to an alarming extent,” he points out. “It |pinos have been imported by sugar | planters to Hawaii in the last decade. | Every one of these has the right to |eome to the main land. It is esti-| | tion of 30,000 Filipinos today. And lit is significant to recall that the} ~| Japanese problem was no more acute} |than the Filipino problem when the | ancedotes were, until they became! Japanese exclusion agitation began.” Scharrenberg says that there is no lack of room in the island. True, | perhaps, because a lot of people have | | been killed over there by American ‘ paytriotic patriots. We also learn} | the w: age in the Philippines is 40 cents | ja day; in Hawaii $1 to $1.50 a day | }and here $3 to $5. | Filipinos are doing farm labor, clean- ‘industry, he says. But he is par- | ticularly interested in their enforced | celibacy—because the Filipinos, under | our laws, can’t marry white girls. Oh, yes, in some states they can. On ac- count of unemployment and low wages, the white workers are not much better off in that respect. “America for the Occidentalg, | Scharrenberg shouts. But what about | the Philippines for the China for the Chinese, Nicaragua for icaraguans and Mexico for the} ia ans, etc? This A. F. of L. of- ficial don’t say much about that. There is plenty of room and every- | thing else in the United States. But | the present social system does not permit the workers to get their share of the good things of life. trying to keep foreigners, out, or- ganize them when they get here. Put the capitalist system on the scrap pile! Pablo Manlapit has been forced out of the way. Who is going to take his place? —L. P. RINDAL. UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASES. ALBANY, May 13.—The labor de- {partment in a statement just issued jadmits, that unemployment in the | building trades has increased. sounded the first battle cry against | | the influx of cheap labor from the}! is known that more than 70,000 Fili- | In America the | run-| cal Filipinos, | ¥ P jin a dramatic episode from Dickens | | titled “Bill Sykes”; Frank Hunter and| — Instead of | DRAMA-~ “Blackbirds of 1928,” Nes Negro Revue at the Libert rly a A NEGRO revue Tenis “Blackbirds 1a | ” has opened at the Liberty | id for those who enjoy fas y ‘dancing it can be high} | recommended. While the dancing is unusually fine a Yegro mn ows, the atures Lew Leslie’s pro- duction do not live the produ expectations. ssptab tai de a doubt b away | honors of the even er witi He gives an exhibition of tap dancing that would | her | be hard to duplicate anywhere. Ot hoofers who -help to enliven thing: jup are: Earl Rucker, Lloyd Mitchell | Blue ‘land. While most of the songs are of | just ordinary quality, “Diga Diga} Do,” rendered by Adelaide Hall has | 12 ay tune. . “I Can’t Give You Anything But i Love” and “I Must Have That Man.” Most of the sketches are rather | nointless and silly. A burlesque on “Porgy” is not so good. The smile of Tim Moore, a hap- | hazard comedian, helps a great deal |to bolster up the weak points of the | producti ion. When he was shown in a cemetery at midnight picking out e2/ | mated that California has a popula- | plot for his grave, and meeting cer-| |tain confidential ghosts. he was 2 hilarious coward, but the piece was drawn out too far, as most of the other | tiresome. Another interesting number | was Milton Crawley whose acrobatic stunts while playing a clarinet, halneds pep. up things a bit. | The revue has lyrics by Dorothy | | Fields, daughter of Lew Fields, while | | the music is composed by Jimmy Mc- Hugh. The production has some good ma-, terial badly put together, so that. the | show lacks style. A revision of cer- any ways—not the | few years ago,-visited an independent | ing windows and penetrating every | tain parts will help its future exist-| ence by giving it. a more polished exterior. —S. A. P. Vaudeville Theatres } | Harold Lloyd in “Speedy” will be the screen feature at the Broadway) | Theatre beginning today. The vaude- le show includes: Owen Me‘ | Mae Percival; Louis Lowe and Robert |Sargent with the Weil Sisters and |Johinny* Lee; Wm. |W. Rea; | Hoover. Buddy Doyle and Peggy JEFFERSON. Everett Sanderson will hold topline honors at the Jefferson Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. He is as- sisted by Walter Riley and Marjorie Vaughn. The screen feature will be|—— Rod La Rocque in “Stand and De- liver.” Other vaudeville will include Fred Heider and the Green Girl. Sailor Boy with Jimmy Sargent; and Murray and Leonard. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and be: Mahon and Scott Revue, with} Hilliard Triplets and Bill Mele; Eddie! Allen and: Dorsi Canfield; James “SEE RUSSIA FOR. YOURSELF” TOURS to THIS SOVIET RUSSIA sunite (Free Visés—Extensions arranged for to visit Only a few Reservations left FOR MAY SAILINGS Applications for these dates must be sent in at once, May 25 - -“Carmania” $450 May 30 - -“Aquitania” VIA: LONDON HELSINGFORS LAT an up. 10 DAYS Of Interesting Sightseeing Trips in MOSCOW — LENINGRAD part of U. S. S. R.) ER SAILINGS: July 6 - - - - “CARONIA” July 9 - On Comfortable CUNARD Steamships $450.00 and up. “AQUITANIA” RETURN: WARSAW BERLIN - PARIS Wor_p Tourists, INc. (Agents for OFFICIAL TRAVELBURO of SOVIET GOV.) 69 Fifth Ave., New York City Telephone: Algonquin 6900 cant daneer is Bill Rob- inson, and without McAlister and Mantan More- | Other catchy melodies | ‘A. Jones “and” Al| Sunday the vaudeville features will] iH AROLD LLOYD. The noted comedian will be seen in his. newest film, “Speedy,” open- ing at the Broadway Theatre tod Burke and Eleanor Durkin. Lloyd in his newest comedy, “Speedy,” will be the screen offering. PALACE. George Sidney; Chry “The Woman in Black,” by Allen Woolf; Joe Frisco; Robert Chis- holm; Anne Codee; with Charles Collins and Arnoldos |Gypsy String Orchestra; Norman Thomas Quinette; Whitey with Ed Ford, Labor Misleader Lauds Imperialists | | MJAMI, May 13.—P. T. Byrne, of- | eal here, recently sent an announce- jto manufacture boilers for Indies. ‘Unemployed ed Delegates {| mittee of the TRADES COUNCIL WON'T CARE FOR MILWAUKEE IDLE Told to Get Out (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis., (By Mail).— Two delegates from the unemployed Council, the secretary and myself, went to interview the executive com- Milwaukee Federated | Trades Council to ask their assistance | jwhat we wanted. in getting relief from the city for the unemployed here. A letter had been sent to them previously, stating that our council had heen formed and We went to them to learn what they were going to do jand what their answer to our letter | would be.* We were received by a body of fat well-dressed individuals, smoking cigars, looking very prosperous: and autocrati¢. Indeed one might have | been pardoned for mistaking the com- mittee for the chamber of commerce. There appeared to be no chairman for we were. cross-examined and Haroid heckled by most of the members in a i very insolent way: They said they were getting relief ‘for the unemployed by finding jobs { : members. our letter be returned to us. | _ The militancy of the terrifically ex- ‘they didn’t | ploited workers in this British col- | al Herne in, for them, and asked why we should Edgar | not do the same. When they were told that we two Nitza Vernille' were not in any trade union, they made several offensive remarks and said they had quite enough to do in looking after their own unemployed One man suggested that “Hurry up now. You have only two minutes to finish speaking in, we have no time to waste on you, our time is too valu- jable,” one man said. Other members said that we did |ficial of the Sheet Metal Workers lo-|not deserve their cooperation because iwe had severely criticized the mayor ; ment to a local sheet metal contractor, and the city government at one ol ‘congratulating him for obtaining a ‘our meetings. contract from the British Government getting a direct answer: from them British | Finally they told us ‘to get out of the gunboats stationed in Nassau West room, and that we could tell the un- We had no success ir ‘employed anything we liked, because care, No report was made by the exee- onial possession necessitate the con-/utive committee to the full counci tinued: presence of gunboats to keep lof the | them in subjection. |\|—— The Theatre Guild presents —— JES"> Strange Interlude O'Neil)’s: Play, John Golden Then,, 58th, E. of B’way evenings Only at 5:30. 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