The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 23, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928 ALL NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY BOSSES NEED.IS A WHIP TO DRIVE UNDERPAID SLAVES (By a Worker Corr need is a whip to drive the workers with, Your paper, distributed again at ae ‘t., in front of the ploys fifteen men and it ree white-s National Biscuit Co.. re is worth reading for what it says about palm-beach suit man to driv lave the National Biscuit slave drivers. Not only one but all the plants are The so-called assistant manager from the the same. All the bosses + of them all. One department em- uit men and one office is the: bull A union is the need here, talking about organizing in one of the plants so that means that I make a round of all the plants, so I know how things are going all over from Ninth Ave, to Eleventh Ave. I could tell you more. They are Thanks for your paper. they are thinking about it all around. —NATIONAL BISCUIT WORKER. Editor's note: The. writer of this letter should get into im- mediate touch with The DAILY WORKER. Chamber of Commerce Warred on sah Painters, Correspondent Writes AVERAGE WAGES 0 PER CENT OF | UNION’S SCALE Police Arrest 600 Un-} employed in Day | | | | } | (By a Worker Correspondent) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, (By| Mail).—I want to tell you how our] union was br up, | I was a member of the Oklahoma] City Sign Painters’ Union for a long| time. We had about fifty members | Then the Commercial Club, or, as} some call it, the Chamber of Com-| merce got busy. | It was done this v When one of | the 150 drug stores here wanted paint- | ing all they had to do was to phone} to any of t three big ice cream manufacturer: id tell them they| would handle their ice cream. The} ice cream people would then give them | all the work they wanted free. it Often amounted to hundreds of otikne | ¥ promised them anything | nt in the future. ilege Sign: The 7 ty stores got all the | free work they wanted if they would | handle Campbell bread. The cigar | stores, and they are everywhere. | would agre > to handle a certain brand | d the tobacco people would | nds of free signs painted. | | ‘e even spread to the res- | nts and other lines of business. | free work is called “privilege urally when the union sign | inter saw the trade of the entire city ruined, and his former customer$! Pll gone, he applied to the advertisers | He was everywhere told | e the advertisers were in the} for good workmen, the paint-| ould be expected to work for} Iv Jess than ten dollars a| t nion scale so that| asked to give their| lehor away. Then came thé “hard times and > poor fellow was glad to get work at} F The average pay remained | ; 50° below the union scale. y union in the east, or any- e for that matter, ever sur- such a cut in wages? s a consequence one after another oped out of the union until only m were left and finally it blew up rely. Destroyed. have a big city of from} 0 to 169,000 people and the sign} union utterly destroyed | amber of commerce. I have| met a good many sign painters from other cities and they tell me that the| me conspiracy is taking place, or ginning, in other places also. ey don’t cut are we i | | 1 ut your wages herelerable conditions under which we 40 ¢ as they do in the east, but 50 or slave. | ee then fix it so a fellow has} ~ Some of us are discussing the let- | HT FOR §- HR DAY to stand it. {ters printed in The DAILY WORK-j Oklahoma City is lite rally an open- shop town filled with unemployed and| it: always will be filled with unem- ployed. The workman fortunate | enough to have a job at all, has so litgle money: that the chamber of com- merce stores with which he deals| have in a large measure gone broke. Walk around the town and every- | where you will find empty stores. | You don’t see scores of them but hun-| dreds. Look to right and left, any-} where you want to go, and there are big red ‘ signs in every | window. If an unemployed worker takes a flop in one of these vacant buildings } andthe cops get him he flops for the next thirty davs in the city jail. The Jungle. The favorite flop camp is the “Sungle” south of the town on the} Canadian River, east of the Santa Fe Railroad. Several hundred men are there all day and all night. It doesn’t do the cops a bit of good to tell them to move on, as swarms of new work- ers come in every day and the bulls have given it up. Over 600 got pinched a few days ago. The tax payers raised a ery about the city’s having to pay out $3.15 a week apiece to feed these men. So the officials had to turn them loose. but told them to get out of town. I don’t think a single one left. A peculiar situation was brought out. Everybody wants to be arrested as a vag so as to get three meals a day and a place to flop. The cops are on to it, and everybody is giving the bulls the horse laugh. The city and the county jails are both full. We have a police court with two”sessions a day and nine justice courts with daily sessions and the county courts are crowded with unemployed defend- ants. Come west, boys, and beat the high cost of living. —dJ. H. AIR PILOT KILLED. RICHMOND, May 22.—Pat Mor- risey, air mail pilot operating between and New York, was killed early v when his plane went into a nose d crashed near the city air- | lers will get theirs, but we have to |have to stay in town just the same. jout pay, |get paid for the “holiday.” The bosses | | °F her again, but so that we can don’t even give us a treat in the way ep in close. touch with each/ of an outing or picnic. That would Wheat in-his struggle, —+| we might begin to discuss the mis- jlessness and neglect in handling the) organiz {ment Research—dealing with the dif- | Hopelessly Cpees War Victims Must Grin The picture shows the hopelessly crippled veterans of the world war. In order to, give the impression that the men are well-cared for and happy, it is the custom of photographers from the capitalist press to herd the victims into grinning groups. BISCUIT FIRM LAYS OFF MEN? Ws Plea \Speeds Up We Workers Atl | By a Woman Worker Correspondent| This is in answer to your article Other Times in The DAILY WORKER, May 16. elt is doubled at National Lapeer ae Is | Biscuit Co. . eee called “ (Continued from page one) Biscuit Co.” back at 1 o'clock just the same. The } I have read your article over} same thing happe at night. Many| | several times and my heart just| of us are kept until 5:30 and a few! | beats with joy. Because workers} work as late as 8 and 9. We don’t! |do realize that they are working get paid extra for overtime. Only if| | finder a Ford system in many we stay later than 5:30. The boss | trades. j8ee to it that we are out of the fac-| | Workers, it is.time we unitec tory before 5:30, so that the National Biscuit Company gets more profits out of our work witheut giving us even one cent for it. The b know their stuff—they are organized. | I have been working here for a, good many years and I haven’t had | a vacation yet. Of Course, our fore: men, foreladies and other slave-driv- and fought, this Ford system to | gether. Weare selling our bodies | for bread and butter. Workers why stand this any longer? The time has come to build our union. So let us start! ~—WORKING WOMAN. * * * EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the | ‘cond letter which has reached The DAILY WORKER since the} \distribution at the National Bis-)/ leuit factory from workers with, | |whom the paper had no previous | contact. This shows that the Na-! jtional Biscuit slaves are aroused} jat last. But we ought to have still] {more letters about conditions in| |the factory and about our distribu-| |tions. We like to know what the workers think of them. We also like to receive names and addresses | so that the worker does not simply | write us and we never hear of him suffer through the terrible heat as; | best we can, and it’s no cinch to work here, especially in the summer, Even |if we could get off for a week or two, how could we afford it? With all the lay-offs we can’t even make the feouple of dollars of our wages keep us going until the next pay. I know I couldn’t save a cent this winter and if I got a week for vacation I would We get no vacation with or with-} | and no pay when we don’t work. The straw bosses get theirs, though, and if we are laid off, they cost them some money, besides it would bring the workers together and ! SILK WORKERS TO ER, which is being ‘distributed in front of the plants. They certainly tell the real facts. Please print this letter in your paper and I hope that | many more of us will come across with some speed or for you. Membership \ip Meet to Be First Step PATERSON, N. J., May 22.—The first step in the organization cam- paign of the Associated Silk Workers Union to reenforce the 8-hour day, and other union conditions, is to be taken Indian Bureau Issues | Alibi and Asks $250,000 WASHINGTON, “May (FP). \Facing a nationwide investigation by at 4 membership meeting called espe- a senate committee of its own law-| cially for the purpose of choosing an r to lead in this work. The affairs of the Indians, the U. 8. In-) meeting will be held Thursday even- dian Bureau has published a lengthy} awa oh 201 |report made by a private agency img at the union headquarters, |the Brookings Institute for Govern-| Market St : ; Since the time when the silk mill | ficulties of the Bureau’s tasks. It| owners quietly began to depress the | proposes that a new Division of Plan-| working standards of the broadsilk ning and Development, with at least | workers by increases in hours, earry- $250,000 a year to spend, be created | ing this thru mill by mill, the union to guide the Indians on the road to|has been formulating plans for education, health and a desire for ci-| launching a drive to organize the tizenship. It also asks for better|broadsilk workers and thus beat back personnel—“an enormous strengthen-| the bosses’ offensive. ing of the personnel”—in the Indian} In the announcement issued by the Service. This is in substance an ad-| union, all members of the Associated mission that the Service is rotten with| are called to participate in this work inefficiency, if not worse, as charged | which is so vital for the organization, by Sen, Frazier. and for their shop conditions. JUNE NUMBER of the MMUNIST Contents: A Programme of Action for America—by John Pepper. The Labor Movement in America—by Frederick Engels. ‘DAUGHERTY USES LEWIS METHODS BUT IN PUBLIC Plays Farrington Role for Coal Barons (By a Worker Correspondent.) BELLAIRE, Ohio, (By Mail).— Oral Daugherty, former sub-district president of Hocking Valley, has been | addressing meetings of business men} and miners trying to bring an end! : ei jof his own work, which the-manage- to the strike, with the miners making all the concessions and the operators igetting all the gravy. | Lee Hall, the president of the dis- trict and a faithful supporter of John L. Lewis, declared from the public platform that Daugherty was a hard working official, but had to be ousted because he was guilty of insubordina- tion. That’s all. Insubordination. Daugherty admits that he is guilty of insubordination, but that in urging the miners to return to work or starve he was only saying in public what Hall, Lewis and Murray. have been saying privately. In this Daugherty is no doubt correct. ]t appears that Daugherty, seeing the debacle which the leaders of the United Mine Workers of America in- cluding himself, brought on the union, decided to take the lead in the expected march of union officials to the operators’ payroll. There is no doubt but Daugherty is slated to play the same role as Farrington (tho for less pay) and other reactionary leaders of the United Mine Workers of America, who could not resist the | tempting odor from the fleshpots of the coal barons. Go Ahead with Plans The Save-the-Union forces in Eastern Ohio are going ahead with their plans to take the organization | away from the corrupt agents of the operators, whether parading openly like Daugherty or covertly working like Lee Hall and his gang. The members of the seventeen: lo- cals that have been “expelled,” re- inforced by the membership of other locals are determined that they will remain in the union after Lewis and Hall are put out. They are not fooled by Daugherty’s professions of devotion to. the ideal of “free speech. Daugherty only wanted free speech for himself in his efforts to betray the miners to the operators. Official Burden The miners are firmly convinced that a strike is saddled with a ter- rific burden from the start in the weight of an officialdom that thinks in terms of the employers’ interests and not in the interests of the | workers. Daugherty’s alliance with the opera- tors was proven last week when, in the course of a, meeting held in Athens, which Philip Murray was the principal speaker, two airplanes circled over the crowd dropping leaf- lets singing Daugherty’s praises. The miners listened to Murray for half an hour and then howled him) off the platform. Most of them were! equally dissatisfied with Daugherty.) Murray had no program of action.| |The only hope he held out for them! was in the senate investigation. This! they knew is a vain hope. Daugherty advised immediate surrender. —W.ARE. | 1 | | | ' | | { | er Carl, a nasty little fellow with col- lize Broadway theatres, - i AAA ‘Andreyev’s “Waltz of the | | | | I “Deol Worth Seeing we ha Waltz of the Dogs” at eal Forty-eighth Street Theatre is a gloomy drama, luridly unwelcome td the sort of people who usually patron- simply be- cause. the most of these people are trying to soak up the prodigeous sur- plus value and unearned-increment of recent years, are engaged in a kind of polite but perpetual orgy, and don’t like the old Egyptian custom of pa- rading a coffin at the feast. Andreyev, in a little. appreciation ment kindly publishes in the program, says: “‘The Waltz of the’ Dogs’ rep- resents the most hidden, cruel mean- ing of tragedy, which renounces the meaning and reason of human exist- ence. This is a responsible work... .” Andreyev was one of that large group of Russian intellegentsia who functioned as irritating lice on the back of the already putrescent tho only half dead body of tsarist upper class society. Through “Bloody Laughter,” “The Dilemma,” etc., he, like his fellows, chewed away the silky hair of the beast, and showed the rot- ting flesh beneath. Undoubtedly a useful task. But when the guns of the revolution shot the thing to pieces, the poor little lice had a hard time of it, and were undoubtedly much upset. They didn’t understand anything at all that was happening, and Andreyev, for one, in his exile‘among the White} Guard emigrees, simply stuck to his original thesis, and broadenéd the field to include all life. It. is significant that the only proletarian characters in “The Waltz of the Dogs” are even more despicable than the “precise” cold, bank official hero, who dis- charges his clerks: ruthlessly for er- rors and unpunctuality, and whose de- terioration, mentally, morally and physically is the main theme of the play. The thieving, bribe-taking Servant Ivan of the play, if they be taken as types, are probably simply the in- sults of a resentful playwright, “who hates to think about the Red Army. The degenerating upper ‘lasses shown in the play are the people of the playwright’s own circle, and his stor) of their corruption is, on the face of . it, something like a confes- sion. Now for the play, and Andreyey's'| philosophy. It is really simple. Henry Tile, the bank official, ruth- less employer but otherwise imprac- tical, full of conventions which he thinks are high ideals, is thrown off his balance when Elizabeth, his fi- ance deserts him on the eve of the wedding to marry a richer man. He enters upon a long course of dissipa- tion, spends his nights drinking with one of those sloppy, helpless and hopeless characters of which the pre- revolutionary Russian writers were so fond, one Alexandrov, nicknamed Feklusha. He boasts to Feklusha that he has stolen from his employ: and that he is going away disguised to enjoy heavenly riches, but in the last moment of the last act, he shoots himself instead. His death just then probably comes as a misfortune to his younger broth- | lege boy manners, who has made Elizabeth his mistress, and_is. plan- ning with Feklusha to kill Henry as. soon as they get hold of an insurance |policy in favor of Carl. They have already prepared a suicide note. toy leave by Henry’s body, willing Ser. vant Ivan 500 roubles. -But Henry. ; Who knows nothing of their scheme, gives up_ the, ghost before the. policy The Mining Crisis Deepens—by Wm. Z. Foster. The Economics of American Agriculture—Richman. The Youth Movement and Six Years of the Young Work- ers League—by Herbert Zam, De Leonism and Communism—by Karl Reeve, BOOK REVIEWS. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 EB, 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Reservations must be made in advance. are $1.50 per plate, and are on sale at 108 East 14th Street and 26-28 Union Square. RED WELCOME. Arranged by the Party Members of District 2 in Honor of the Delegates to the_ National Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party of America to be held on SATURDAY, MAY 26, at 8 P. M., at the WORKERS CENTER, 26-28 Union Square Tickets LAURA LEE. In “Greenwich Village Follies” the revue now current at the Win- | ter Garden. arrives, and without leaving any note at all. So everybody loses everything. Even Elizabeth, who is ready to come back to Henry, loses her chance. “The Waltz of the Dogs” is reall) the name of an ugly, tinkling little tune which} Henry occasionally thumps out on the{ piano, and which seems to typify the| drab worthlessness of human life, ac-|s cording to Henry, and Andreyev. Since .Andreyev is obviously rub- bing gt in, all the way through, that’} this is a cross section of bourgeois | j life, the average critic takes it out on the .poor actors, according to, the same logic that causes kings to kill the messenger who brings bad news. I vise to their defense. the actors do a mighty good job. They bring in that same confused and eramped ‘and disgusting atmosphere that the play demands. Carl, played! by Rudolph Lovinger, is, with his ‘un-| usually expressive face, and slight, form, a real Oxford snob, of the mean-} est and slimiest type. Harold Johns-~ rud’s Henry _is thin, narrow, ego- centric in all his actions and appear-} ance. "His thin cheeks flush and he wayes his arms and says he is going to break up all the furniture because Elizabeth has deserted the apartment she was intended for. But he contents jhimself with throwing around a few |boxes—impotence forever! Elizabeth yowls, through the aed of Sylvia Hoffman, like the spoilt | baby she is, like all who would shave | their cake and eat it too. Antoinette | Crawford, Samuel Baron, Douglas Krantzor and Edward England do} their minor parts with considerable skill. Take it all around, it is a perform- ance worth seeing. Aas, IR LSS ROWE ak = —— The Theatre Guild presents ——)0 Eugene oss" Strange Interlude John.Golden Thea., 58th, 5. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. ALL THIS WERK VOLPONE Th, W. 52a St. Guild yiats“Pnurs. & Week of May 28: “Marco iltions” ‘AMEO “A Daughter of Israel”? with Betty Blythe an International Cast. \ KEITH-ALBER ( 48th St. Thea. Mats. Wed. & Sat. LEONID ANDREYEV’S Masterpiece ‘Waltz: Dogs! LUNA arr PAR SoWAY 1S1789 ana ‘The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau-Thierry MILE SKY CHASER “TILT-A~ | Free Circus, Con- WHIRL | certs and Dancing Luna's Great Swimming Pool Eys. 8:30, Ma ts. Winter Garden Pys,8'90- Ma Greenwich Village Follies. GREATEST OF ALL REVUES. | gruff cx | Tashinsky SHERIFFS BREAK UP MINE MEETING IN PENNSYLVANIA belie Committee Aids Fight (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 20 (By Mail).—Flourishing clubs, and threat- {ening violence, five deputy - sheriffs and six state policemen dispersed a crowd of 800 str g miners who had gathered at Imperial, Pa., to hear Joe Eashinsky, young rank and file ay evening, according organi to reper ived here today by the | National Miners’ Relief Committee. When 75 cf the miners arrived at {the hall to open the meeting they |found twe deputy sheriffs posted at “Sheriffs orders,” was the janation. “You violate the | sheriff’ proclamation if you hold | this meeting. Call Reinforcements. When the ininers protested, the two deputics called for re-enforcements. Three other deputies, followed by six state troopers burried to the scene. Tashinsky was forced from the thres- hold of the hall with a shove that ent him sprawling into the roadway. “If it weren’t for the heavy rain,” told the troopers, “We’d hold our meeting, hall or no hall. We just want to let the men know what’s happening in other parts of the strike and that’s exactly what you don’t want. the docr. Old Game. “The police hope to break our striké hy refusing to let us hold meetings,” said Tashinsky later. “It’s nothing new to us. We'll find ways to hold meetings. What we’re afraid of is starvation.. If the National Miners’ Relief Committee can continue to give is enough relief, we can see this triké through in spite of deputies and state troopers.” The National Miners Relief Com- mittee is helping the miners fight starvation, the strongest ally of the coal operators. Seven Hurt When Train Collides with Engine WINNIPEG, Can., "May 22, — A trainman and six women passengers were injured when a Canadian Rail- jway passenger train collided with a llight yard engine about a mile west jof Trascona, near here. An open switch is supposed to have ‘oes the mishap, in which several icars left the rails. of Broadway enings at 8:25 Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC HAMMERSTEIN’S Phone Col. American Premiere NEXT MONDAY at 8:40 Seats Now Arthur Ha presents The Russian Film Classie THE END AT. PETERSBURG Music by Herbert Stothart Russian Choir--Symphony Orchestra Nights 8:40; 59¢ to $1.50 | Mats. Daily 21403 50c to $1, Incl. Tax “Somebody Else Needs Me!” —The Daily Worker. TONIGH T---8:3 FILM AND Prof. Pavlov’s film, ~ BRAIN,” will be shown, as Auepicee AMERICAN SOC, FOR RUSSIA. on the work of Prof. Pvt “THE MECHANICS OF THE Watson, “CHILDREN AND FEAR REACTIONS.” Lecturer: DR. JOHN B. WATSON 0--- TOWN HALL LECTURE | will also a film made by Dr. CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH TICKETS $.75 to $2.00.