The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1928, Page 4

~is lying i »_Jeast Page Four ea Foremen Jo ALLEN A THUGS FAIL AT MURDER; BEG POLICE AID ‘Locals Underwrite Help for Two Years (By a Worker Correspondent) KENOSHA, W ail).—The thirteenth week of th against the Allen-A Com inds the strik- ers more enthu hopeful than ever. of the American Fede! ed Hosiery Workers has v that the various locals of the have agreed to underwrite their s' and benefits for a period of two y Thei ike benefits are lows: married men, $20 per week and two dollars extra per week for each child in > family; for Single men, $16 per v girls $12 per week. Foremen Join Strike Besides this good news, their er thusiasm mc when they sue ceeded in winning r to their strike two foremen who were employed by , the Allen-A these two foremen are highly orke d_ their absence will greatly hinder the at- tempts of the open-shop firm to in-| he winning} over of these two men by the union! forces is a considerable achievement. | The two foremen who refused to| train scabs any further were greeted with cheers by the si rs. It is evi dent that the Allen-A Company is fighting desperately with its back to the wall and will in all probability soon capitulate. T am enclosing a tim from the Kenosha Hosie published by the American tion of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work ers. excerpt Worker } + Guns. | the} “The hands of the outfit. And it i that actual r “As it guns have appeared in Allen-A_ strikebreaking ly to a miracle 3 not done. £ our Kenosha boys| a hospital, shot down by| peel went out on last Fri-| the crew whic day night to try to spread terror} among the locked-out workers. | “Some of the ts in connection} with this episode have not been given| the people of Kenosha. It is inter- esting to know, for example, that at} ix Pennsylvania thugs w in the cars which attacked the locked- out workers. “When th to the turn fr six men| got out shed into | the cars| iceman guarding the mill. went over to the the mill and asked for protection! mad attempt to place himself in such] That has b old game of these|# position to be a little above the thugs. First, to attack our men andj 2verage {the majority) of v then rush to the police and ask for|and in order to hold on to h p- escorts to their homes or to the mill. “We a ou to examine the ar: found in these two cars by the pol which we reproduce in this issue. This proves all the contentions we have heen making about the guns, black- jacks and other deadly weapons car- ried by these out-of-town strikebreak- ers and their aides of this city. “What has been happening ‘at the mill that led up to this open defiance | of the law? Our informants have kept us advised from daw to day that the Penn nia sluggers and gunmen have been inciting the local In stvikebreakers to attack our men. | marvel at the extent of meekness and |scrambles from place to place in a | posed “soft” job he becomes a grovel-| | turning a deaf ear to the conditions THE DAILY WORKER W- YORK, TUESDA ' | The Implements of | | % | | { | | | For mont Wis., have been carryi | i pany and the dozens of armed thugs The knitting concern, which is gradually being worn down in the fight, stopped at bloodshed in its attempt to crush the hosiery pickets. s some of the instruments of terror taken by the police has The picture sho jrom Allen A strikebreakers. Sin the work-of | “DAILY” TEMPTS |GIVE LEWIS THE MAN ON TROLLEY (By a Worker Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail) —While riding in a trolley car the other day I left a copy of The DAILY WORKER on the seat and then moved An individual noticed the pa- spicious glances away. per and after many to the right and left at last plucked enough courage to pick it up and read The look upon his face was one of startling guilt and confusion, As-I watched the effect the inci- t had upon the man I began to that fearfulness the Jemocracy’’«had suc- actual ruling | class of our “ ceeded in instilling into the aneestors| of such rebels who had defeated the great English empi in the Revolu- tionary War of 1776. From a nation of independent, courageous men the capitalist oppressors had changed this country into a nation of docile wor ers, accepting conditions of unemplo ment, piece-work, wage-cuts, ete. without’ a murmur. Zach worker ing “slave” of his employer while of the rest of the workers, apparently not aware that even his own positior would be bettered were he to help the majority in their ruggles for better conditions. He firmly believes that success, that is, the making of a living wage, re ol upon his own initia- tive and er As for energy, no one, I believe, would differ in the opinion that employers will not stop }@ worker from producing more than | the next fellow, but woe be unto him if he cannot keep on increasing in order to stir up the local strikebre ers to action and gun play, sto were circulated through the mill that leading members of our union been beate was said th treated in Tillman h yond repair. “The pur ‘ ti clear. It v ke the loca e- breakers thin) if such prominent members of the union could be man- handled in this fashion, that oth could be shot down like cattle. “We are reliably informed there were two sawed-off shotguns in| the ‘murder cars’, Where these went | to, no one k Perhaps th: town slugge them with them when they went into the mill. “The time has come, beyond doubt to halt this intimidation of Kenosha Citizens. The Pennsylvania thugs tust be expelled from our city! “Taxpayers of the city will be inter ested in the latest attempt of the Allen-A Company to bring ground pressure on the police depart- ment. 2“The company has not been satis- fied with demanding and securing 50 Ppalicemen at its plant at 5°00 in the have evening, without cause, . They “so sought to make a strikebre employment agency out of the They have attempted to get the po li¢e to do the dirty work of intimidat ‘pe our members to go back to work veder un-American conditions. “This was being done, incidentally on the day following +h@ brutal at tak on our men by the gun squad of the Allen-A strikebreak While our Members were st'll sorrowing over their brother worker lying wounded iW’ the hospital, the company had the audacity to try to make these secret overtures to some of them. The at tempt proved a dismal failure. “Tt is our opinion that the police ‘ that | out-of. | under- | his production. And the more the workers produce the more of them are laid off. And the more me jare laid off the more small busi se in | had | 87 ; “| fail because of the d $s due to unempk big financiers get a stronger grip upon the workers. So it goes on, the worker trying to keep himself among those that ploy re employed and the em- rs continually using the unem- ployed a weapon to keep down! |those that are employed. And what is the result? The U.S | is now a country in which every mem-}| | ber of the household who is physically |able becomes the bread-winner when- ever he or she can find employment. Company Terrorism ining in Big Kenosha Hosiery Strike, Mill ‘PLUMBERS LABOR | UNDER VICIOUS _ SPEEDUP SYSTEM. WORKER LEARNED | FROM FARM SALE | the new “Grand Street Follies” Revue, | The Actor-Managers announce that ng on their courageous struggle agai ae t Urge Aid to Helpers in (By a Worker Correspondent) | Conditions in the plumbing trade | in New York is entirely different than | one year ago. At that time there was a strike, while today we have the men }on the job working without an agree- ment under the most vicious speed-up | | system ever introduced in the build-| ing trades. You must not let the} other man do more than you can, say the bosses. Beyond a doubt, the Building} Trades Association of the bosses have} started to break the plumbers’ locals. } There is no more a chance to get a! job from the gaffer (foreman) thru the local or from a friend. Only those} connected with the labor bureaucracy, | the rubber boots, the spies for the bosses can get a job and hold it. Today we find the delegates com- ing on the job in their annual hand- shaking tour, Well, election will be here and we must get elected again: Ask brother delegate about uném- ployment and he will tell you that there is none. And what about the} helpers, O, hell, they don’t want to be} organized but we will do something for them anyway. Local 1 at the last meeting passed ‘a motion to organ'ze the helpers. MINER ASKS ix the American Association of j Plumbers’. Helpers are put aside by | these fakers, the plumbers must in- » Correspondent) t on this motion going thru instead | (By Mail) —Things | of as. in the .past, lots of discussion | are going to hell here. hile Lewis and no action. is giving the “reds” hell he is loot-| ‘Brother plumbers, fight the labor ing the largest coal country in this bureaucrats that delude you and elect state. real progressive elements. Fight for} I have. been in Califo: for a; the 40-hour week. Assist the plumb- year working on a water line, the ¢Fs’ helpers in their fight for organi- | Oakland pipeline. I was doing rivet-| 2ation. —JOHN KELLY. - | ing work. And I am certainly sur-| in Kenosha, st the com- to the city. which it has imported (By a Wo MYSTIC, ts | prised to see what Lewis has done to WBE | this place since I was away. | | 6 WOMEN | Now is the time to give him the 4 air. "FACE PROBLEMS | Ask Increase in {was practically a complete education Safety Inspectors PETALUMA, Cal., May 14.—The State Building Trades Council has pe- titioned ‘the California Industrial Ac- cident Commission to appoint addi- tional safety inspectors, due to a rising accident rate. An increase in workmen’s compensation from $20.83 K $30 was also asked. Philadelphia who for many years have Ballot Alone Cannot! End Evils. (By a Worker Correspondent.) The talk of women’s work and wom- en’s problems is becoming more and | more audible. Not only do the work- ers talk of women’s problems but this ! . ———--— | question seems to bother even women | lof the middle class. It is therefore been sleeping have now begun to talk avident that women do have special about what should be done. Those bl We sede aes who foresight: even, join. labor}, PSOvIems: Ne BUR Dy Cver: CxAW organizations because they realize|a clear distinction between the inter- that only in numbers do they have ests of ‘the different classes of wom- the power to demand that which is! op) ssible for all workers to enjoy. E ‘ . thera ae some Phila sees wane bourgeois ete have aor 3 yy their aim to help their men to per- vevi vh docil d 4 talkative. ‘They also act. They have|Petuate the system of oppression made it possible for a worker’s paper| Which offers them:.p) comsereble an -7| luxurious living as is shown by the to reach the homes of workers daily | “A z ss A “ loption of the resolution by the and point the way for them to attain | 2° r} : their just rights as workers who pro-| Dave piers We whe evan 2 fight duce the necessities of life. | the enemy. Within are gngnou These | workers implore the other workers |. . Bice not to be bamboozled into believing|ity their main issue and expect to do that the army and navy make men.| 2Way with all evils of society through as the trolley placards would try to) the use of the ballot. When The convince you. A man is not one who| League of Women Voters” wanted to lets himself be trained to keep in sub-| Adopt certain measures against war, These women make political equal-‘the class struggle, and the nature of jection a majority of industrial slaves. A man is not one who forces a worker to give in to his oppressor. In the days of Patrick Henry a man was one who said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” a man is he whose philosophy ‘down with industrial slavery and down with those who ex- ploit the majority for their own sel- fish luxuries and interests.” —J. F. “SEE RUSSIA FOR YOURSELF” |In many cases husband and wife must both work in order to make both ends} }meet. The demand for women in in- dustry becomes gr |for men becomes less for the simple reason that women will work for a }cheaper wage. \ In Philadelphia this situation is, , very noticeable, but the workers! | trudge on daily keeping their, mouths shut and screwing up their fourage iverywhere one hears about bad} | tir Even the old stall about bad) | times before election is being doubted {by many individuals. Workers ir! or as the demand are unduly overworked as it is. It an insult to their intelligence for the} company to-.ask them to do this il-| legitimate underground work. Why| has it hired its MacDonalds and other, detective. strikebreaking agencies for | anyway? | “Have the Bell Detective Agency) and MacDonald proved such duds for the company that it must seek to mis- use the instruments. of the law ? | “If it were not against our prin tiples, we think it would be in order for us to ask an injunction against the company—to stop its secret. and open intimidation of our. members.” SOVIET RUSSI i they decided to vote for Coolidge. i The working woman is the only one | whose problems are of a fundamental character. The working woman in the house always has the problem of mak- ing her demands of life coincide with her husband’s wages. The working class mother has the problems of be- ing a wife, mother and provider at the same time. The women in indus- try are met with the problem of being TOURS to Agency Took $1,200 He Lost | (By a Worker Correspondent) | In 1925, when I was still the victim} of every capitalist illusion that came] my way, I conceived the. idea of be-| coming “free,” by purchasing“a small farm and settling down. I confess I had cherished this’ dream for some} years and there seemed no way so as to buy me’ the little farm of | heart’s desire from the firm my which boasts of being the largest rea! estate agency in America as well as) the most honest—the E. H. Strout} Farm Agency, with Héadquarters in| New York and hindquarters in scores| of smaller places. It advertises in lit-| erally hundreds of newspapers and | magazines, and there are thousands of | persons who read its alluring l'tera-| ture year after year, wishing and hoping to get a Strout farm, sooner or later. I went to its sub-agency at Char- lotte, Michigan, where I was shown a number of their farms, all of which were priced out of all proportion to their value. When I was about to leave, another man came in and the smooth-tongued agent soon persuaded him to sell his farm to me through them. I. looked it over with them. It was a-40 acre tract with fair buildings and somewhat low land. The price was set at $3,700, which seemed very high to me, although I am accustomed to high-priced, land. Still it was the best that I had so far seen. I liked) the country. At that time I had abso lutely no knowledge of modern sales- psychology or the expert methods of | the Strout people in putting things} over on their customers. But I soor learned at a very heavy cost, and it} in itself! I bought the place, paying $500 down, the balance on a contract at $200 a year with interest at 7%. It was all an “honest, strictly-business deal.” After I had settled down, I found no person who knew the place who be-| lieved that it was worth even $2,500 The interest rate, same 2s in the west from where I had come, was much too ‘heh in Michigan. I discovered that jout of my $500, the agency kept $350 | paying the owner only $160. I saw {that I had been terribly “stung.” To top my troubles, the owner was very bad and exacting, the year was not a good one for the crops, and my health became bad because of the exertion and ‘hard ‘work. Finally I went: back; to the agency, asking them to list my farm again for sale. They agreed setting the price now at $4,200, with a. ten per cent commission for them- selves, when no. other agency selling land in that region charges five per- cent, Of course they didn’t sell the| place for me, I saw that I was going to be the loser no matter what hap- pened, so in the fall, I forfeited mj contract and made no payments, but sold out my equipment and moved off the place, went to Chicago and got a job in an industrial plant. I lost in all about $1,200, but. I gained through my bitter experiences a knowledge of \capitalism in its entirety, that I will jnever forget; and_I -will never, cease jworking for that time in America when its young men can obtain the use of land without ~virtually paying |their life-blood to get it—when the |farmers and workers will rule and run |America instead of blood-sucking parasites, +-LAND SEEKER.» if |doubly. exploited, suffer from condi-| \tions which effect women more thap} men. These problems can be solved! jonly through actual participation ir ‘the every-day struggle side by side; with the men comrades. B. G. THIS SUMMER (Free Visés—Extensions arranged for to- visit any part of U. S. S. R.) Only a few Reservations left SAILINGS FOR MAY Applications for the must be sent inMat once. 2 May 25 - -“Carmania” $450 May 30 - -“Aquitania” VIA: LONDON HELSINGFORS 69 Fifth Ave., New LAT se dates an 10 DAYS Of Interesting Sightseeing Trips in ‘MOSCOW — LENINGRAD WoriLp Tourists, INC. (Agents for OFFICIAL TRAVELBURO of SOVIET GOV.) Telephone: Algonquin 6900 York City July 6 - - - - “CARONIA” Acoli On Comfortable CUNARD Steamships $450.00 and up. ER SAILINGS: - “AQUITANIA” RETURN: WARSAW BERLIN - PARIS the sixth edition of the series, will open Thursday, May 24 at the Booth) Theatre. Many of the popular favor- lites of the old Neighborhood Play-j; house will play important roles. The principals this year will include Al-; bert Carroll, Otto Hulett, Mare Loe- bell, Lily Lubell, Harold Min. Mae Noble, Dorothy Sands, J. Blake Scott | and Paula Trueman. The book is by Agnes Morgan, who is directing. The music is by Max Ewing, Serge Walter and others. Aline Bernstein designed the sets and costumes. CARPET STRIKERS FIGHT NEW WRIT PHILADELPHIA, May 14.—Pick- eting and persuasion of all kinds is “verboten” by a sweeping injunction handed down from the bench by Judge McDevitt to the H. G. Fetter- olf Co., manufacturers of Wilton car- pets and rugs. A strike has been in effect since Feb. 21. Members of the United Textile Workers are forbidden to picket the plant, singly or in groups. They are forbidden to congregate near the homes of the strikebreakers, They are forbidden to accompany strike- breakers between the mill and their |homes, or to approach them at any time, or-dn any mamner with intent to swing them over to the union’s side. If strikers: accept the injunction, their fight for unionism at the Fetterolf plant is practically doomed. The over- whélming sentiment among them, however, is for open violation of the writ. Hanging Is Staged CHICAGO, May 14 (FP).—Propa- ganda against capital punishment and against judicial frameups is put over ERE, Stes faweniereete dager.” Correspondent Writes eS Fi ae “Grand Street Follies’? Set CLASS STRUCLE May 2th at the Booth MARGALO GILLMORE. | | Gives a splendid |“Mareo Millions,” drama of the East, current at the Guild Theatre this week. performance in Eugene O’Neill’s Broadway Briefs Magda Bennett has been added to the cast of “Ten Nights in a Bar- room” the seventy-five year old drama at Wallack’s Theatre, and Courney Travers has replaced Oscar Weidhaas in the role of the villain. “Get Me in the Movies,” the new Charlton Andrews-Philip Dunning farce opened at the Shubert Theatre at Newark last night. Next Monday night the opus will be seen at the | Earl Carroll Theatre. Sterling Hollo- | way and Helen Baxter are in the cast. Another new playhouse, to be called the Craig Theatre, which is nearing completion on West Fifty-Fourth Street, will open early in August with the London success “Potiphar’s Wife.” Following a long tour in the eastern cities, Jane Cowl will return to New York next Monday night in Robert E. Sherwood’s clever satirical comedy “The Road to Rome.” The play will reopen at the Playhouse where it ran /for over a year. Sir Guy Stauding | will have the role of Hannibal. the footlights in the play “Miss Jus- | tice,” in the Art Colony Playhouse | 7 Senta The story is a melodrama ‘Concert for Pioneer that sen inister to th 11 sends a minister to the gallows | Camp Is Scheduled with no detail of the execution spared | to the horrified audience. It was} written by a San Quentin convict:in| WAUKEGAN, Ill—A concert and the death cell awaiting hanging. He dance will be held here for the bene- is now serving a life sentence as a/fit of the Pioneer Camp, Saturday at result of last minute intervention. The |8 p. m., at the. Workers’ Hall. The actual conviction is widely believed | program will include orchestral selec- to have been a frameup and the pro- {tions by the Young Workers League duction of his play is one of the steps taken by his friends to. obtain justice for him. interesting talks and many musical \numbers, 1 Srenerers: a scene from camp, several | Te —— — The Theatre Guild presents — cast’ 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 Week of May 21: “Volpone” inter Garden =¥5- 8:30. Mats. {Winter Garden *Y5.3'9): gue" | Greenwich Village Follies GREATEST OF ALL REVUES, Thea., 42d. W. of eM HARRIS fet, 2¢.,%,, 22 | Mats. 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