The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1928, Page 4

THE DAILY. WORKER, eR CLS ERNIE L ESET TLL SNLE SS SEP I EI en SF SESS TO OTELOSIS RE ail Mexican ee Pickers in California. Strike, DEMAND 15 CENTS“ PER CRATE, ICE WATER IN FIELDS Bosses Must. Yield or| Fruit Crop W ill Rot (By a W . have | gone on| ned today. Instead | cale, the WOR: | demand 15} water in the fields, | of the recen ers, cents ac and «¢ ions. | The ion of Laborers is| the name Growers forme a J he formation | the union. Two lawy 2 also mentioned in this conr The | uthorities, well as the growers, m that men charged the for the preparation | 2 Well, as far} the unionists | pailamsing about | ture for the or- however, that | 2 more reason aie the men need | the picking rate increased. | Strikers Jailed. | 9, the foliowing asserted | in jail: Jose Diaz, D. Lo- ano and Juan Bar ikers previously for disturbing th i literature a iled ting | strike ed for Sherifi | ave been according to lack of evide Charles: L. ¢ Distr Att “incerested oniy i .ny fore or put under 2 will be dep service will co-operate heriff’s offic reports deputy sheriftis are the s are ready to ine Importation o. ideration. The district a rding to the e detention | t four alleged f a litile Twenty county |. Dan vies in she coun discontent” | is said to be @ne of the charges against those in jril. | | Not An 1. W. W. Strike. | e Los Angele imes has blamed n I. W. W.” for the bblies are not “foreign- Union has issued 2 ent denying any affilia. . W. W. or any of the rawly Ne strike zone) does not Mention the I. W. W. at all, and the| local see inows nothi tion either, yout such an affilia-| Labor Com- xican strike lead- that the new labor union vith some “nationally Known labor organization,” but would Sot tell which one. Accordin Por season Time Strike. Right has The vegetable, p Pumors spirit is sprez tries in various etc | e e air that th ing into other of the state. str’ indus Be- Death Val- is a hot plac tt ley in that pect. For that reason} it will pr 2 difficult to, 7 “white” worke “Mexicans with i: » numerous in this state with Pablo -they will not be- ndications be settled. plapit in mind. seabs. So Strike may ory for the wor with has something . for he has n lower Cali- the internatione! 00,009 acres of fornia, just be line. If the Me s stay organized imereases in are in sight al’ along the lir spite of Chand- Yer’s par ar brand of Freedom,” observers declared. %. -—-L, P. sagiieciaes New Workers Bookshop ‘Opened in Providence PPOVIDENCT. May 17-—A Wo * Boo'chon has been ovened in thi- Westminster A k all We The DAT, Y WOPKER, th “tl Beet otal iovalutionare : ure in all Meta s. as well the latest modern publications an? h : bookshop will be open dai! n 7 to 9 p: m. ditions now | times. { factory have tried to organize more ) joining the union, for he knows tha | che present time the j method of {sion said, | | the street and tell them to make shoes | To make the shoes we are making you INTERNATIONAL are that | World’s aries Mirror Brings Moo Nearer Tay : Seta chi This 70-inch reflector, the largest mirror in the world, is now being completed at the Bureau of Standards. Photo shows A. H. Lindner, left, polishing the mirror under the supervision of A, N. Finn, right. When completed, the eee will be placed in the telescope of the Ohio Wes- _leyan Univ Univer: * PHILADELPHIA SHOE WORKERS NEED UNION (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By mail).—The unorganized shoe workers of | adelphia must be organized to better their conditions, I have had the y to listen and ak to a good number of these workers here in upon the nece of or-@ zing them into a union and here, is what they have to say. ee No Day of Rest. One of the workers of the Laird Shober Shoe Factory, located at 22nd and Market Sts., described the con- prevailing in this par ticular industry. He confined himself Phila aird & Shober Co. From I nm we can see only one that is that they understand necessity of having an organiza- tion that will defend their interest | The sentiment of organization does not prevail only among these three} workers of this particular factory bu | among a good number of them, as} primarily to the conditions now pre-|for instance, among the cutters, the| vailing in the shop where he works | fitte ight hand workers anc | He said: ‘We are to work from 14] the team workers. | to 16 hours a day, which mé 2| These wor! ave formed shop} week of 90 hours and more some-| committees in this factory in order | Workers ticular factor) employed in this par- have no day to carry on t | amor | factory. We expect that these work-| s will soon join the Shoe Workers’ stective Union and make out of this ‘union a militant workers’ union that will defend their interests. In the past the workers of this fac- an the workers employed in this | agitation campaign | e doing ” conti i mules, or worse. After the mules tory have chosen committees when ed much better than the shoe workers) discontent prevailed among them- of Laird and Shober Co. A mule deo elves and these committees have not work 16 hours a day as we work ers are compelled to do in order t ing bread and butter to our wives land children at the end of the week al He told‘me that the worke gone to the boss for certain demands The boss sometimes granted thent th requests and at other times he didn’t. But the boss did all he could of that'in order to prevent his workers from! than once before but have never suc-| once his workers get wise and joi: eceded, due to the policy adopted by/ the union he will be forced to liste: ome officials of the union. |to the workers’ demands. He told me also that he thinks atj At this time the workers of L can succeed in & Shober Co. have learned a gr organizing the workers thru the or-| deal. They understand the tricks o ganization of shop committees which, the boss pretty well. They know tha‘ he declares to be the most effective | bosses are organized in order to pro organizing the unorgan- | tect their interests. They know alsc ized. jthat if the workers are to protect Another worker working in the fac-| their interests they must organize. tory, in participating in the discus-| On, fellow workers of Laird & “that it was a very good| Shober Co! Join the Shoe Workers’ jidea what J. had just proposed and | Prote tive Union. Induce your fellow | he proy ised to give his-help, and the| worker next to you to do the same, | workers of the fifth floor would sure- Only this way will the shoe workers ly welcome this idea of organizing in| better their conditions in Philadelphia ey US FLAIANI. order to better the rotten conditions now existing in the factory. Another worker stepping in said | | brother, listen to me. All we| Coal Company Tustracta need is to orgar this way and we all the demands we will put forth to our boss, What can the boss do, continued, “if we go out on Can he make the shoe himself? Banks to Refuse Checks | TOWER CITY, Pa., May 17-—The | Philadelphia and Reading Coal and | Iron Company has sent out letters to all the banks in this valley, as well as thruout the entire territory in- cluded in the Reading Company opera- tions, notifying them that the banks must refuse to cash the wage receipts | of employees of that company. This | jwill place the workers more in the | Of course not, he needs us to do the work for him. He cannot hire anyone from need to ha ill Labor Sav » first worker id, nterrupted him “You know, if we do not you can he sure that the 1 begin to in ce new n where power of the company, since all money w ill hereafter have to be procured | the tompeny: Are you a worker | “DAILY WORKER” must or ay worker daily? re the words expressed by the 2nd ANNUAL RED POETS’ NIGHT Thursday, May 24th at 8 P, LABOR TEMPLE 14th St. and 2nd Ave. M., at the Revolutionary Poets writing in various languages, including: MICHAEL GOLD JOSEPH FREEMAN GENEVIEVE TAGGARD JAMES RORTY ROBERT WOLF ADOLF WOLFF M. J. OLGIN, For Benefit of Daily Worker and Workers Center. HENRY RSICH, JR. A. B. MAGIL ABRAHAM RAISIN H. LEIVICK LAJOS EGRI ARON KURTZ Chairman TICKETS 50 CENTS, On sale at loeal o e of Daily Workers Bookshop, 26-28 Union Si ker, 108 New Masses, lith Street; 39 Union Sq. | the Central Ba SERB FASCISTS TRY TO SMASH WORKERS’ MEET Capitalist Press Aids Attempt (Bu a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich., (By Mail).— About two months ago here in Detroit there was organized a Central Balkan Committee, composed of representa: tives of South Slav, Serbian, Bul- garian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Greek and Montenegro labor, fraternal, cul- tural and other organizations of the Balkan immigrants. This orgeniza- tion of the Central Balkan Commit- tee has for its purpose the realization of an international Balkan Federation in Europe, based on the principle of autonomy and the right of self-de- termination of all national minorities in the Balkans and on the principle of a Workers’ and Peasants’ govern-, ment. Nationalists. The Balkan Committee called its first meeting for April 28th, at the Serbian Hall on Frederick St. Two or three days before the scheduled meeting, the reactionary voices of some nationalist, semi-fascist Serbian elements, called the “Jugoslav Sokol,” began to be heard. These national- istie fanatics, in order to stop the | momentum and popularity with which the work of the Central Balkan Com- mittee was progressing, issued a leaf- let in the Serbian language which proves to be one of the most provoca- tive nature yet heard of in the Bal- kan district of this city. This raving leaflet addressed to the ‘Serbian People of Detroit,” accuses kan Committee of be- ing “under Communist control” and jappeals to the nationalism and pa- triotism of the Serbian people to de- fend their glorious national home from the Reds, who, to quote the ex- act words of the leaflet, “were trying to steal the hall away from the Serbs.” The leaflet goes on to chal- lenge the Balkan Committee to hold its: meeting, at- the Serbian Hall that night, for which hall it has paid the rent of $25 in advance. These hypo- critical’ social patriots, not only of the Serbians but of the Croatians as well in the same leaflet aimed to counter- act the Balkan Committee by calling cnother meeting in the very same hall, the very same night a half hour efore the Balkan Committee mass neeting was ealled. These chauvin- sts even tried to force the janitor to refund the money to the Balkan Com- mittee and open the hall for them They also threatened the member: and sympathizers of the Balkan Com- mittee physically if they came to the) hall “to interfere with their meeting.” Finally the meeting of the Balkar Committee was held. The chairmar representing the committee called the meeting to order. There were about forty policemen in uniform in the hall with about a dozen or more of the detectives belonging to the so- | called “crime and bomb squad.” The fascists there did their best to break jap the meeting. They, and especially their blackshirt ringleaders, Bulato- W YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1928 Correspondent Says RAG PICKERS GET SO CENTS A DAY; LIVE ON GARBAGE Junk Dealers Merciless Exploiters (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Tl, (By Mail).—Therc are several thousand “foot scaven: gers” in this great metropolis wh earn an average of 50 cents apiece y. Negroes and white men of a ionalities, and even a few wom are engaged in this world-o'd business of junk. Many carry sacks and tramp alle; all day. Each has a route. Ott in the good graces of certa’n boss are» trusted with pushcarts, big- wheeled things, which are supposed to be filled with the gleanings of the city. Many of these “scavengers” in groups. They are sea sidered the “lowest of the lo have few if any friends. The » continually warn them away from certain respectable pic! grounds Some of them have been fired upon. ach has his or her own boss, each owes allegiance to certain junk deal- ers in different districts. These deal- ers who get these unhappy folk are an unscrupulous lot; like bosses everywhere. It is easy for them to cheat their people. One west side junk dealer has frankly admitted the foul tactics he employs to wring pennies from the pickers. “After all,” he said, “they'll starve if I don’t buy their paper, rags and iron.” Again some dealers tax their pitiful toilers. I have seen an old man aceused of stealing bottles and forced to yield a load to his boss, who, of course, made good use of Hess hes of the piagest film Sonteces) will go in exten: ly in the mak- ing of sais pictures, according to {an announcement sent out by the Electrical Research Products, makers of “Movietone.” Contracts are now in force between Paramount, Metro, United Ar- First National and the Western ic subsidiary for the rights to the patents for making of talking pictures. The producers will use the name of Movietone for the production in which sound is used. Two other film makers, Warner using sound pictures; the first under the name Vitaphone and the latter us- ing the name of Movietone. Two other large organizations are plan- ning to adopt “the talking pictures Universal Pictures and the Keith- Albee-Orpheum people. It is estimated that over one thou- sand theatres will be equipped before the end of 1928 to show talking pic- tures. work Actors’ Equity to Meet In Hotel Astor Ballroom When Actors’ Equity meets, every member of the union from coast to | coast has a right to be present and actors’ union has rented the Hotel Astor ballroom for the annual meet- ing May 28 and expects to fill it to the corridors. The annual meeting is the actors’ own convention, acting on the con- stitution and defining policies for the coming year. As a representative number of theatre people are always within sight of Broadway’s bright lights, the annual meeting is held to be even more democratic than a con- vention and far less expensive. In any event it would be difficult for each union group, representing the various plays shifting from city to city, to elect and send representatives to a regular convention. J: vich and Peter Vlasich, hypocritically demanded that they should have their “constitutional right to elect their own chairman,” as if they had called the meeting and as if they had paid for the rent of the hall. They continued to shout, to throw profane statements at the chairman, and did everything to disturb the procedure of the meet- ing. When the speakers stepped from the platform to speak, they were ar- rested. Finally the chairman ad- journed the meeting and told the audience that the meeting would be continued in the Workers Hall on Ferry Avenue where a good-sized crowd attended. | Kept Press Raves. | The next morning the open-shop | bosses’ sheet, “Detroit Free Press,” ; attempted to manipulate this incident | |as a “red scare.” It is not true that those arrested have entered the coun- | try illegally, for they: all had in their possession either their citizenship pa- THREE NEW PLAYS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK. Next week will see three new plays on Broadway. “Skidding,” a comedy by Aurania Rouvernol, opens at the Bijou on Monday night; “Get Me In the Movies,” by Charlton Andrews and Philip Dunning at the Earl Car- roll on the same night, and “Doriar Gray,” a dramatization of Oscar | Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian irey,” also on Monday, is announced for the Biltmore, “The Grand Street Follies,” previously announced for May 24, will open the following week Monday, May 28, at the Booth. Bros. and Fox Film Corporation are} «-—-—DRA MA——+ Talking Pictures Will Be Featured by Big Producers GLADYS HEAD. —— In “My Maryland,” Sigmund Romberg’s tuneful operetta at the Casino Theatre. “PORGY” TO REOPEN AT THE REPUBLIC MAY 28 The Theatre Guild’s production of “Porgy” will return to the Republic Theatre for a summer engagement beginning, Monday, May 28. The play has been touring to successful busi- ness for the past six weeks, arranged by the Guild as a preliminary to its 1928-1919 season in certain cities. A special scale of prices will be in ef- fect for the “Porgy” re-engagement. WagesReducedFrom$27 To $24; Workers Strike WORCESTER, Mass., May 17.— Following a refusal on the part of the Chelmsford Ginger Ale Co. to carry out an agreement covering wages and hours as these existed at the time the company took over the business of the Worcester Products Co. about a year ago, 12 members of the Bottlers’ ; and Drivers’ Union left the plant on/ Monday morning and declared a’ strike against the company. While the agreement in question was verbal, it was generally under- stood that there wquld be no change, that the wage scale of $27 a week | would stand, and that time and one- | half for all time worked over 8 hours | would be paid for. The overtime agreement was disregarded from the start, but the union overlooked this. Now that the wage scale has been re-: duced from $27 to $24, the workers | have struck. A joint committee made up of date gates representing several labor or- ganizations has been formed to take charge of the grievance. Their pur- pose will be to make known the atti- tude of the company toward organ- | ized labor. pers or their passports, which were | absolutely bona fide. The papers of Detroit wrote that they would be de-} ported. The story of the meéting was even broadcasted over the radio sta as A INVALE Oy AML LAU ANNUAL Entertainment & Dance SATURDAY EVE., MAY 19th at 85 East 2nd St. (Cor. 2nd Ave.) Auspices Downtown Branch of the I. L. D—-MUSIC BY FIRST CLASS UNION JAZZ ORCHESTRA.—Proceeds to Political Prisoners in U. S. Evenings Only at 5:30, } Eugene O'Neil! | Marco Millions W. 52d St. Evs, 8:30 Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 | Week of May 21: “Volpone” ‘LUN The Heart of Coney Island Bate he Chateau-Thierry SKY CHASER e Circus, Con- and Dancing Swimming Pool | REITH-ALBER 3rd BIG WEEK “THE RAIDER EXCITEMENT , M. Sports: borate athletic contest, open to all Members of the co-opera- tive organizations, Program in- clad elay race for men, women, and ehildren; b) 200 and 1,500 meters run-_ ‘fing; @), Shotput; 4G) DiScus; €) Broau jump. Valuable prizes given on all evelus, &_2 M: Greetings: Neal Kruth, chairman, m Singing: Associated men’s and avonien's “choruses, of New Yor DANCING FUN « ATTEND CO-OPERATORS FESTIVAL SUNDAY, MAY 20th, 1928 BEGINNING AT ULMER PARK, foot of 25th Avenue, BROOKLYN j Program: | | | minutes walk to Ulmer Park, CO-OPERATORS’ ANNUAL FESTIVAL BATS & DRINKS Sst gauay EMDEN” 17Ge Actual Exploits vi Famous German Cruiser, 48th St. Thea. Mats. Wed. & Sat. LEON ANDREYEV’'S ‘Waltz: Dogs EDUCATION tion WWJ- The arrested speakers | % ———— were released after being held for} The Thentre Guild presents [ Winter Cacden Evs. 8:30. Mats. three days. The International Labor | Hugene Tues. & Sat. Defense furnished the legal pons eae 's Strange Interlude | ' Greenwich Villag e Folli iso A John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way GREATEST OF rr REVUES. Thea., 424. W. of “n HARRIS pyity “fives "ia. Mats. Wed. & Sat. LOVELY LADY with Wilda Bennett & Guy Robertson 35th WEEK | 830. Mate. Weds & | FULTON Sat. 2.30 “Audience Quaked Delightedly.” —World, j | \§ CHANIN’S. W. of Broadway | 46th St. Evenings at 8:26 | Mats, Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH | with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC 10 A. M. Music: Brooklyn Finnish Work- ers’ © United Workers’ Co-operative Mandolin Orches- tra. Festiv ; Impressions, ck In Cartoons: Henry Askeli. Pictures & Views: Co-operative Organ- | izations in Greater New York. ClassieaL and Novelty: Brooklyn Junior Co-operators. Bancing: New Progressives, Cubsthenios: York Young Associated sport and athletic clubs of Brooklyn, Bronx, New York, Jamaic Ma- riers Harbor and Jersey City. | coupon stating where you | ings, ete. Note sign at the gate: nited Workers 6 P.M. Danein:. | inging Soc., Bronx; resuments: Complete food i 7 i onsumers. Co-ope service all day. Flcnty of eats |p] RYBMe oe DUEINERS DI@0e ts 3.4 arving»Pl. Branch. and drinks. | i ival, while being the season's first out-door event, 1s also | eudrees sees ‘s MoOSt uuique entertainment, it is a re w of the a vd-operauve forces in Greater New York aad vicinity, oicet your i VOUr MAG saved evant i tricnus at the | . ‘ ! me oy) “4 \ & q Co-operators’ j’estival Leb eeareas HOW 7? PHERE: from Times Sq. or Union Sq. take BMT sub- i way, W d Line to 2oth Ave. Station, From there it's only two | DAILY 83 FIRST STREET SINGING Mail to WORKER TO ALL OUR READERS: ee OE RBS DER PATRONIZE OUR |, ADVERTIZERS { Do not forget at all times to mention that you ‘| are a reader of The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this buy your clothes, furnish- NEW YORK CITY, RHE Goob NEWS |