The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1928, Page 4

Poee Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928 OLD JOHNSON THOUGHT CHILDREN DISTRIBUTING THE DAILY WORKER WERE SEIZING PLANT NEW BRUNSWICK WORKER on t Thur: vorkers in the Johnson f ‘avorably. lise the paper. N The di od tory he stories of their life in the factory. litions can only go on in secret in the The workers recognized that the stori istribution up the whole town e talking about the paper very In the factory small groups formed the next day to in the paper Discu n about the shop. The manager the superintendent are nervously order about the to find out who the conditions, T are when they would organize. were con work and that The bos Pan S are so much ome day organize, ers might an order has been wate Bhs for the least chance in htened about the idea that their and demand better conditions, issued in the factory that every worker S are exploited and their conditions could only be changed » that sent in the news beginning to see that bring the paper up to the office. to question eve out whether he was the one who sent the story in. attempt of the bosses to scare the workers has failed. the workers reported at the office, in spite of the fact most every one has received a copy of The DAILY. who received a copy of The DAILY at the distribution should This way they probably want worker who comes up to the office and find But this first Naturally the city fathers and the police are ail behind the bosses to help them. None of that al- when we will take matters At the distribution Mr. that the workers would take over the factory the next day, and his good days would be over, so he himself motored down to get the police to arrest those that were distributing. workers have to say to Mr, Johnson thought All that the Johnson is that “the time will come into our own hands, but we will have our organization first, so that Mr. Johnson will not be able to tell us to go if we do not like i bs —KIVIOTIS. Plumbers’ Union Tncksters Are Out Electioneering, Correspondent Keveals “LEADERS” WHO SOLD OUT STRIKE HUNTING VOTES! Fake Organization Plan for Helpers Discussed (By a W Correspondent) With the i ase of building con- struction, the plumbing’ trade has picked up a little during the past month But the F still many plumbers and many rs’ helpers that are actu- time. The ill greater. ions. unemployed, imated about 50% of th ally unemplo number of helper: als 2 election. They going around to all the jobs telling the plumbers how rood” they have been, the same time asking each man his vote. “progressives” of Lo- | 1, who sold out the plumbers ing their ten-week a . The rank and aking up to the The so-called ‘ cal No. file, fact that their officials are a bunch of fakers. The Local No. 1 will} e of their own in com- The s of milit | | nominees will be| ing election. announced at a later date. Mr. Crain. Mr. Crain, one of the delegates of Local No. 1, went this week to a cer- tain job and asked one of the plumb- ers there to vote for him. The plumb- replied that Crain’s record as an | ial did not suit him and that! The tipple of the Johnson mine of the Crain would never get his vote. On| Powhaton Mining company near here, They are taken out hearing this re Mr. Crain said, “I| was destroyed before dawn Friday,) |quickly as the “red” am.going to be your next delegate |May 18 by fire. The mine was to! ;them in. And, of course, they al-| anyway, whether I get your vote or|have resumed operation about June) |ways find their way back to the | not.” In plain English this means | 1st, according to crews of workmen| | Picket line. that the officials of Local No. 1 may | who were cleaning the diggings. The The spirit of the strikers is fine. | put over some crooked stuff during} coal pits were completely closed They have the Will to Win. the election. The plumbers of Local| down by strikers for more than a —L. P. RIND: AL. No. 1 should be on™ their guard | year. The tipple was insured for . against this. 00. Accordixig to newspaper re- \Prisoner Escapes Mr. MeDonough. ates running for cDonough. The at this guy has a] is worth about | One of the de re-election is Mr. } plumbers all house in Brook! $50,000. Every year he sends his family to Eu sure trip. How ¢: e so much are well known | of Local No. 1} to put over r the j Rescaaioe | trade unionism. |tempt to cast suspicion upon at the member- | strikers in the neighborhood, ship m g of Local No. 1 which | company invites the fire marshal to| _ Was held on May 3, seal | gate the destruction ,of the ried that the officials of the said lo- | 5 heavily-insured tipple, aying they cal should organizing | helieved incendiaries were responsible. take steps for the plumbers’ hel $ further called ent body, to same end. I The motion } A., the par- e steps to’ ds the | this what it pre- | tends to do, why haven’t these offi- | cials dealt with the American Asso- | ciation of Plumbers’ Helpers, the only organization tha really the plumbers’ helpers is a move to with the f the of- is a move ational work of | $ of Local td hinder the the Amer rf ciation of Plumb- ers’ Helpers. The only we helpers can or- ganize is by engthening i¢an Association of Plumbers’ ers. Help- ENDORE. Youth Conference Send i $1,200 For Miners’ Aid During the last two weeks the| Youth Conference for Miners’ Relief | has sent in 00 for the relief of | the starving miners in the striking | areas. | ‘During the two tag days held re- ip! eéntly, it collected over $1,200, The | complete account has up to now not} which | been made out. This account, will soon be forthe: ming, is to show even greater those already found. Tarrytown Barbers Fight Wagecut , TARRYTOWN, May 23.—Most of the barber shops here are closed today | as a result of the strike declared by) the journeymen barbers yesterday | ‘ter an attempt to cut their wages| R. Saarine, Portland, O D, Hamlin, Portland, expected} G. Tuukkanen, Portland, Or York, but] T. Koshaner, Portland, only four scabs appeared. At present} H. Nikkinene, Portland, the hair-cutting industry of Tarry-| B. M. H., Portland, Ore had been made. *The shop-owners had strikebreakers from New town is at a complete standstill. ) | ascertained. | formerly used for river ‘The Red Cross That Crushes the Workers aos a general view of the Johnson and Johnson, medical supply plant are mercilessly driven by e of starva- icy of this fac- el that their at New Brunswick, At the tion by the miserable wages Johnson pays. the ‘speed-up. tory to make the interests wre different. shop. conditions. agains same time TRY 10 FIX FIRE \|Upholsterer BLAME ON MINERS | Burned Tipple Carried | Heavy Insurance (By a Worker Cor PIPE CREEK, Ohio, ports The origin of the fire, which started |at the top of the tipple, has not been! The structuye spanned River Highway the Ohio loadings. Bottom was tion wi Superintendent covered, ‘THE DAILY WORKER Shapiro, Kratofl, . C. Douglas, lo, Inc., Buffalo C. Kratochoil, Ch M. Biringer, f' Klimes, ..Nucleus 2, Erie, ih Renne, Philadelphia, ‘Pa. . Paulich, Klein, Mont. Oakland, ‘Cal. N. la Whitne;, L. Kramer, Bk yn, Dawrence was on hand when the flame was dis- and caused the tipple to be > is waking up from | dynamited to avoid the destruction of and is beginning tothe power house near by. In an at- (col.) Providence... Norwalk, Ohio Chicago, Ill.. Waterbu Baltimore, respondent) , it will not be rebuilt. blocked by and all telephone communica- s destroyél by the fire. —BEND. here American and foreign born work In reality they both have to wage the same fight (By Mail). — | and was both railroad and The highway below; Larch | the worker: they are forced to the vi It is.the p LOS ANGE ES, Cal., Grade Upholstery, | DAILY WORKER. 93 33, Samuel Debro, the Here he er hand « | partmen the the store. | snapped. saved his life. Deseadan at. Pa. | Lettish Singing & I. LD. Socie yy Cleveland, Ohio . W., Nampa, Karu: Chicago, \F. Schirer, St. B. Sarafin, Lynn, M Karaian, Lynn, M. Vartanian, Lynn Ww. C, Kaloyan, Lynn, Mas J. Kiiskila, A. Hancoe} Bell, Hancock, M ion, Haneock 'M. Bryas, E. Jinutinen, [veflander, M. Hayainen, Hancoch R. Nikkinen, A.A ikainer, A. IL A. Laine, Portland, J. Nienn, Portland, Paul, Ma . J. Carrole, Hancock, Hancock, Portland, Portland, S. Mannislo, Portland, Portland, Portland, Ore atola, Portland, -4.00] G. 5.00] A. Haho, Portland, Ore. Nevala, Portland, Ore Him, Portland, Ore. . Gallenius, Portland, € Huoviners, Portland, Finnita, Portiand, Aalum, Portland, Ore. Maempaa, Portland, . Piehla, Portland, Ore. . Peura, Portland, Ore.. 2 00 H. 1.00 | Peteran, Jamestown, Or Pickets in Jail Again (By a Worker Correspondent.) (By Mail) | |—Pickets at the California High| 2132 St., have been jailed seve: ince the last report was sent The} again as! squad puts! to the Hospital of 17 Grand St. alleged confidence man, is in Belle- | cause as an old man he will not get vue Hospital with a broken arm and | contusions suffered when he fell six} | came back to stories in an attempt to escape police. At the West 100th Street Police | Station, he ran for the stairway and gained the roof of the building. ssed on a clothes line er hand, to the top of a de- Debrs had “almost |won’t drop dead from hunger, and| reached the other roof when the line} Several other lines which he} Mandl | struck before hitting the paved court below checked his fall and probably | Ire Or e. Or ’. Sholand, Portland, Ore Viemon, Portland, Ore . A. Palala, Portland, Ore Jahianaie, Portland, Or nia, Jamestown, N. Y Freeberg, Jamestown, N. N. 00) United Council of Workingelass | Women of Bronwsville, N. Y..15 00 | two men and two women, 10.00| Ukranian Working Women’s Or- n, | Conn. Idaho. 10.00, ganivations Il. +150) P. Shea, New Brit Minn 1.00) J. Booshik, Buffalo, N. 1,00; F. Clement, Lutz, Fla... -1,00 | Mr Mass Mich. Mich... Mich Ore... Ore Ore Ore Ore Ore, Ore Ore.. Ore. Ore. 00 M. Howat, Keno uncil 20, N, H., A. H. Millers, ba yas J. Treskow, (col.) Endic |P. Luhn, Cincinnati, Ohi E. Hoffin, Pklyn, N. | J. Jensun, | H. Battle, S. Slomberg, |J. R. Brodsky, 5!M, Monlin, | H. Sanick, M. Miller, |{. Gould, Montreal, S. R. Bedford, W. Gutzke, A. Peterson, Cleveland, F. S.S. Pitts., Mies Clifton, N. J. F, Miller, Bozeman, Mont. .1. 2.00 G. Zimmerman, W New York, N.J.3.00 J. SAL vu Si ae cago, ml N. io. y Bridgeport, Conn. Orange, Mass | I. Zilie, MeKos antl; Pa. Roundup, Mont (col.), Chicago, ‘Th. Canada... Cleveland, O. Cleveland, O. 0. Flandera, Jy., Cleveland, 0 « A Friend, Cleveland, O........ 1.0¢ . JOHNSONFOREMEN IGNORE: FISHWICK LOLL ON TABLES, OUSTER TELEGRAM DRIVING WORKERS LEADERS BETRAY Bomensa 8 -Cent Mini-| ‘Machine Abets Compa- mum Wages ny Union Attempt | (Continued from page one) | (By a Worker Correspondent.) |for “cheap” Johnson. Those who do| WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, (By not do any useful work, like these} Mail)—-Another cut throat Jackson- | slave drivers, get the good wages and} ville scale has signed up West |those that work hard from morning| Frankfort, Ill., Number 8 of the old till evening, get starvation wages | Ben Coal Company under a proposed But one dares not say anything be-|scale submitted by superintendant cause as soon as you say something | James Dunn of the Old Ben Coal Co. you may as well leave the factory. | This is the worst temporary agree- Another thing which is installed ir’) ment yet encountered. The Old Ben the factory for the amusement of the/Coa] Co. is where cutting machines | bosses and not the workers, is the} are used-in connection with the great radio set in the office. T#: set! mechanical loaders. A scale has been was installed in a special room and proposed and accepted at a rate of cost fifty thousand dollars. The price) 9 cents per ton or a flat rate of $10.07. of this set has been sweated out by| ‘The coal company agrees where it | the hard labor of the workers, but| js impossible for a machine runner to |none of us even is allowed to listen| makeeten dollars and seven cents at jto this radio. We are not even al-| the tonnage rate to make up the | lowed to go near it. Sometimes when] difference. In case the machine run- |1 think of it I remind myself ofa] ner doesn’t have any cutting they phrase that the priest told me when place him at any other labor they T was a boy in school. The phrase| agree to pay him at the rate of $10.07 was, “He who does not work, shal] per day. This to apply to machine- not cat,” and now I see that it is not} runners only. This is supposed to be lexactl): as the priest said it. Because | signed as the Jacksonville agreement. |here the one who does not work has | everything good, has a ‘nice home | | good clothing, nice automobile, eats | | and drinks whatever he desires, and | || < This was accepted by the member- ship of Labor Union No, 959 without a dissenting vote in the presence of sub-district board member Hessy Heinman. we who work, who ought to get these First! | things, have hardly enough for bread isms | 1: The workers are dissatisfied, and | |in their anger they only clench their | and curse at the inequality and| injustice done to them, The pay en-| velopes are so thin, that in this pe- | riod of high prices the workers can hardly buy something for their 40 and |45 cent hourly wages. But not even Now the tonnage previously for the-short wall machine-runners was 13 cents per ton, for the breast machine runners 14 cents per ton. | Now we see coming into operation the company union when the superinten- dant of a coal company attends a local this wage is given to every Kc junion meeting with a contract drawn Neca See aietie es sae |up by the company which the miners 2 er in the shop Who! aecept over the heads of the United | gets only five dollars a week, and he | Mine Workers of America. has to make a living out of that wage | ( j And this worker who gets five dollars | | weekly has been working for Johnson| |for the last 25 years. It happened | that once he got intoxicated and he | was fired. The superintendent knows very well that he will come back, be- The scale so made in the presence of the sub-district board member, who never objected to the same, proves that the Lewis and Fishwick cut- throat system of signing up separate and temporary agreements is destroy- ing the miners’ union. The wage cut- ting now going on by formulating la job anywhere. After the little sav- jings of this worker weré gone he Johnson to ask for a job because he did not want to steal, he wanted to earn his living. The super- | intendent gave him a job. He told the | worker, “I'll give you a job but your wages will onl): be five dollars a week ae this money is not given to. you | by Johnson, but by me so that you where previously they had been paid tion in wages. Mr. James Dun, superintendent proposed that a com- mittee of miners be appointed by President White of No. 959 to sign the said agreement as proposed by. the Lewis-Fishwick machine. The membership of the local union afraid of expulsion from the organization, and the use of “gunmen of the ad- ministration” along with the presence of the coal operators’ representatives in the union hall makes it smack very much of company unionism. Here we can see by the silence of the board member, his raising his voice against the contract proposed by Mr. Dunn, the corruption. of the officialdom of the United Mine} Workers of America. jcome in to work tomorrow. ” How | good hearted our superintendent Mr. is! He had mercy on one | worker, Among the piece-workers in the Johnson factory, there is a very bad habit. The one who ¢an bribe the inspector best makes twice as much |as the one who works honestly. The jwarker who does not bribe the in- [Bherios or does not buy candy for him makes only two dollars a day. And as | a result of this the work is not divided }evenly among the workers. Let us demand that this should not happen Workers, do not bribe the bosses, de- It now appears that Lon Fox will | have to call a strike at mine No. 8) and possibly have to call in the Save-| mand the wages that you earn. De-|the-Union Committee to help picket! mand day wages instead of piece-| the mine. In order to maintain his | work. own ‘position he will now have to | threaten the miners with expulsion] We must organize in spite of the at mine No, 8, | terror of the bos: only thru an or- ganization can we win. We iust demand an 85 cent mini- rea 33 mam wage, an eight hour day and ¢ Gomez, eae of Dictator, } ‘50, five day week for all workers alike. ‘50| —kiviotis. | Sails From Venezuela | 150! : RE 0 FOG BLAMED FOR MISHAP. | CARACAS, Venezuela, May 23,—| BUFFALO, N. Y., May 2: 50 | 00 |dense fog prev D4 accident which caused the death of |left the country. Their au- | Europe with his family, it has been \tomobile tore through am steel cable -10,00/guard and plunged over an embank- 1.00 mare to the railroad tracks 20 feet lof the rumored disagreements be-| itween the father and son. What I Saw in China by TOM MANN For the past three years the Chinese masses have been struggling for freedom from the clutches of Imperialism. Everyone nowadays is either talking or writing China. Tom Mann, “grand old man” of the British labor move- ment, contributes his observations after a stay of six months in China with the International Workers Dele- gation. 10 Cents Please include postage with every cash ordet, WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 89 EAST 125th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. day wage rate for machine runners! by the ton means a substantial reduc- | making no protest or) 3.—'The | General Jose Vicente Gomez, former E_S iling here yesterday | Vice president of Venezuela and sor} .50| Was blamed today for the automobile |of the president, is reported to havc He will travel te’ 9 . nil “See Russia for Yourself” TOURS to announced. The vice president’s ace) tion is seen as significant in the light Goethe’s “Fau cided on production for next sea- | son. This will be Goethe’s “Faust,” | which was first announced for this| season. The version used will be by Graham and Tristam Pawson, which | has already been utilized by the Old| Vic in London. Friedrich Holl, one of the directors | of the Volksbuhne in Berlin, will stage | the production for the Guild. Lee/ Simonson will design the settings. | George Gaul has been engaged for} the title role according to present plans, and it is expected that Dudley! Digges will be the Mephistopheles. | Helen Chandler will be the Mar-| guerite and Helen Westley, the mother. For three years the Guild has been planning a “Faust” produc- tion, This time the plans are definite. Charles Dillingham will present “The Brass Ring” at the Apollo Theatre, Atlantic City, the week of June 4 before offering it to New York. The authors of the play are | Buford Armitage and Philip Dunning. Nydia Westman, Gail DeHart, Buford Armiage, Duncan Panwarden and Marie Taylor are the featured players. “Bottled in Bond” hereafter will be the title of the comedy, “Bottled” which moved from the Booth to the Klaw Theatre. Bobby Connolly, who staged “Good News” and “The Desert Song” for Schwab and Mandel, will have the task of staging the production of ‘‘The New Moon” for the same producer. The American Laboratory Theatre announces as its first production ~ | Season, a revival of “Saratoga.” a play popular in the 70’s and was writ- ten by Brennon Howard. | “The Domino Parlor,” a play of an -——-DRA ae st” to Open Theatre Guild’s New Season HE Theatre Guild has already de- | ELSIE LAWSON Plays an important role. in “Whispering Friends,” George M. Cohan’s comedy now in its fourth month at the Hudson Theatre. Strikebreaker Released; Strikers Held in Jail KENOSHA Wis., (FP) May 23.— A strikebreaker caught by a deputy sheriff as he was firing several shots at a locked out union man was re- leased without further ado by the Kenosha police. But 24 pickets near the Allen-A hosiery plant were ar- rested, locked up overnight and held on $100 bail each before their cases were dismissed, all because they had been shouting at the men who had taken away their jobs. This is openshop justice in Kenosha. Lake Crew Endangered SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., May 23.—The steamer Ericsson carrying 300,000 bushels of grain, was rammed by the steamer Harvey and beached at Detour in a fog on Lake Huron, a radio message here said. Oklahoma small town, by Lynn Riggs, has been acquired by the Messrs. Shubert for early Ege | |\|—— The Theatre Gulld presents — JES" Strange Interlude O'Neill's Play, John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 5:30. ALL THIS WEEK | | VOLPONE | 8:30 . 2:30 1 PAMEO | | ‘’AMEO | | aa - with Betty Biythe an International Cast. | 48th St. Thea. Mats. Wed. & Sat. LEONID ANDREYEV’S Masterpiece +! 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