The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 31, 1928, Page 4

; / M™andments for our fellow workers in the Joh = Row'on, and then on v _ be published by it. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1928 OHNSON & JOHNSON FA (By a Worker Corresponaent) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. (By mail).—Here ya | SE Plant. And when we all 1i Miserable conditions, and e Worker a Worker Corr to thes » fruits of our labor. should be our sl we win. ott > up The Worke 1. Unite with fight, together Self as well cause and by doing this and he does not deserve your present. the one who should receive the fruits of your labor. Xo not be a boot-lick, because that u are bei Jo not bring presents for the bo: on) y for Yn the . Do not spy on your fellow worker. The organized force worker i will punish you for this. For t your time in the u are ruining you aloons and gambling places f and your family, and ly helps one boss’ fellow workers. are his slave, trary, you are you £ he in 3 of the ity or the other. 8. Instead of the capitalist papers, read the workers’ papers, which will teach you how to fight against your exploiters. capitalist papers are poisoning you with their propaganda not to All are workers equally exploited. fight your bosses. They serve not your They do not want you, they CTORY CORRESPONDENT GIVES 10 COMMANDS TO FELLOW WORKERS 6. Do not let yourself be fooled by the lies of the priests, for they are your most dangerous enemies. interests but those of your masters, only want your money. 7. Do not differentiate between the workers as to whether they are foreigners or Americans, whether they are one national- 9. Join a labor organization, come to the Workers’ Homes, become a fighter for your class by joining hands with your fel- low workers who are fighting your cause. For information for joining the Workers (Communist) Party write to 57 Brooma St., Newark, N. J. 10. When The DAILY WORKER is given to you, accept it and read it. 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Write about the conditions in your department. —PATRAS., The Where Over 200 Mi AJAX, FEDERAL, EMMET MILLS IN GROWING STRIKE Mass Picketing Called: Urgent Need (By « Worker Correspondent) PHIA, 2 of the Perished in Blast and Philadelphia receiving fr mine at Mather, Pa. the victims on stretch the approaches to the scene of the eting has been 1 Mill where the s is the’ most se- t further} y fought. issued at the attack of the bi vere and the wage cuts is be Picketing. ax Hosiery Mill picketing what is needed is and organi on of At the A is goir mass pic the unorgan The boss little The these import: the hosie ference, 1 is sending his work to} s like Phoenixville } uld see that This is (By a Worker With the season in full swing at orga the capita’ t their recent con- plans to begin} will be forced to work. Beginner receive the nominal out nall towns, thereby| amount of $12 per week. For this is. They hope to| they work 48 hours a week. Their » most ‘backward ) working day begins at 7 m. and truct the unorganized] ends at 5 p. m. with a relief of one d when the unions in Phila-| half an hour for lunch. ike, the bosses, hav-| The company maintains a lunch- in the country towns,| room at which they claim to sell food independent of the unions and| at cost price. The restaurant, how- rkers. ush the an t | ever, is not any more reasonable than others which the workers would or- ’\dinarily patronize. The food is plentiful display of pick-| poor that the majority of the workers deral Mill is ary.| bring their own lunches. Those who ‘s picketing, and mass|qo eat the food-generally leave half | help win this strike at] of it in disgust. h and Race Sts.| Murmurs of discontent are heard all gone on strike. Pick-| around, but because of the shortness eting o t to go on all the time and of the lunch period little can be efforts ought to be made to force all done about it. What is the reason those in the mill to strike. for only one half an hour for lunch? ‘Those on strike should cooperate | so that we workers have no oppor- with The DAILY WORKER. It is|tonity for coming together to voic their paper and it will fight for their | our discontent? Or is it so that w interests. News of developments will] wil) not be able to come into contact . x with other workers from neighboring ’ Offensive. |factories and so discuss our terrible must be made to un-| conditions? these strikes are but! forerunners of an attempt to crush|. There are different kinds of work their union. They must fight this at-| jn ‘this plant, such as blade examin- tempt and not allow the capitalist | ing, packing, and machine work. The exploiters to break down their stand-| jot of the blade examiners is indeed ards of living. |hard. They work under very strong The fine weather is here. Open air| tights which we all know have harm- meetings of the strikers should be} yj effects on the eyes. Also the work held near the union hall or in the|j, very dangerous and requires the recreation park in the heart of the| constant use of peroxide, iodine and workers’ distr Kensington. Then! other first aid treatment. the workers affected by the hosiery} yt ig not at all unusual for us to strike could bring their struggle to! cog girls walking around with ban- the attention of all the workers. This | gaged hands or even fainting. The would greatly help to win the strike.| »eward for exposing themselves. to Our slogan should be, mass and these conditions is the measly sum of militant pi cketing and organization} ¢, 14 to $18 per week of ‘the unorganized. The workers who! roy om tea Bo: The werk derstand that Cut Hands. 1 5 fe * The Autostrop Co. requires its are receiving the fruits of “coopera-| workers. to work: one hour and 15 tion” with the bosses, should take @/ minutes overtime. Excuses to be re- decided stand against the capitalis leased from working overtime are owners of the hosiery industry or they} will see the destruction of their union} and be forced into company unions. | There should be cooperation among} the workers against the bosses of the} mills. —W. C. P. MANY JOBLESS iN CALIFORNIA Ford Plant Was Closea| (By « Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal, (By Mail).— seldom accepted. If we workers are excused we must work on Saturday to make up our share of the nightly overtime. | Time and a half is paid for the first i |hour while the other 15 minut paid straight. We workers, how are led to believe that we are being paid for time and a half for the whole time. This adds a bit to our poor salaries of course. but in the end our wages amount only to a few dollars even with the htly overtime. We workers are certainly ited to the greatest extent possible. Pay For Fun. One of the compar j conduct an annual outi expect to hear that we get paid for the half day spent on the excursion, {but this is not so. The company is While emptojiment conditions in!mean and cheap enough to deduct Washington and Oregon were seri-|two hours pay out of the four. This ously affected by unfavorable weather} cut naturally diminishes our already and curtailment of the lumber indus-| small enough wages. try, California had an overwhelming] To add to the abdve grievances surplus of labor embracing praetically| there is the fact that advancement is ing to the| very slow if at all. As an example, eport for April just issued |] will take the case of a M hi . department of labor. girl has worked in the Autostrop Co. Angeles and vicinity, the|for five years. As a beginner, she largest surplus of labor was in the} was a packer, earning $12 a week building trades and oil field work,| Now after so many years, Miss X. the government’s survey said: Dur-| ing April many plants here operated with reduced forces, but those manu- facturing agricultural and irrigation equipment worked full crews, the re- port stated. | Ford Plant Closed a Year. There is no unemployment in the United States, Henry Ford told re- porters in London, England, a montn or so ago. But even Ford’s local plant was practically closed for a year previous to the auto. king’s false statement to the English press. His Los Angeles plant started op- eration again recently, and the line of | week. less than one dollar a year. what they call advancement? Knowing that The DAILY WORK- ER is a paper which fights for the interests of al! the workers, oreanized This is an average raise of Ts this job-seekers was a block on the opening day. Applicants had to strip themselves of all clothing, and an up-to-date medical examination followed. long in Ford's emnlove inf. the of the speed-up system plants,” a former The picture shows the removal of some of Coal company and state troops patrolled all disaster, preventing all but the com- pany men from entering the grounds. ANGELES STREETS | Thousands Are Idle (By a Worker Correspondent) Francis I. Jones, director general of the United States Employment Ser- vice, who has just made a govern- mental survey of the unemployment situation in this state, says in part, as follows: Starvation Record. The orchard and farm work which Industry Stagnant as | LOS ANGELES, Cal., (By Mail).—] OF BLAINE LOCAL Woman-Jailer Hardesty | Turns Trick for Lewis (By a Worker Correspondent) WHEELING, W. Va. (By mail).— An example of how the Lewis machine works was revealed at Blaine, Ohio, at a recent meeting of the Blaine |local. The sub-district officialdom in a final frantic effort to prevent the sub- |district convention at Bellaire, sent jtelegrams to “loyal locals, calling RAZOR WORKER GETS $16 AFTER 5 YEARS began in March will continue, Mr.\special meetings. The purpose of Jones tells the world. No stop to it at|these meetings was to rally the few jall. So we are led to believe that|remaining “loyal” members together |“prosperity” is here to stay. Herb’s|for a final effort to-confuse the rank hat is in “the ring,” and his “starva-| and file as to the true purpose of the tion” record may be overlooked under Convention. : such favorable condition of continuous} The stronghold of the Lewis ma- work—paid for in sunshine and G. O.| chine in this district is the Blaine lo- Assue Injunction Against Philadelphia Hosiery Pickets, Correspondent Says JAIL UNEMPLOYED CALL SHERIFF TO | WORKERS ON LOS EXPEL MILITANTS Ca. ‘A Man With Red Hair,’ Walpole Drama, Slated for Broadway IN “MARCO MILLIONS.” The first performance in this coun- try of “A Man With Red Hair” will oceur at the Great Neck Playhouse, Thursday night, June 7th. This is the Hugh Walpole melodrama that caused the British censor to raise his eyebrows when the piece was an- nounced for the Little Theatre, Lon- don. Donald Blackwell has been added to the cast which includes Crane Wil- bur, Joan MacLean, Alan Brooks, Hugh Sinclair and Henry Carvill. The play is scheduled for early showing here. | s, co-composer of “The | at the} Ray Perki: Greenwich Village Follies,” | Winter. Garden, and Grace Fulton} Oursler, wife of the novelist-plaj~ wright, have completed a new musi- | cal comedy, “Blue Lady,” for which Mrs. Oursler wrote the book and lyrics and Perkins the music. | neeresinntnactaaraemciit Noe ay apply for work. Little do these applicants realize under what conditions they This |¢, is still a packer, but receives $16 a'= Correspondent) | the Autostrop Safety Razor Co, many | MR. JOHNSON TO P. promises. | Orange harvesting has begun in Tulare county, and cotton chopping in King county will begin immediate- ly, the government official nounces, to offer additional jobs for workmen. ~ BUY NEW SLAVES New Brunswick to Have) Rival in England | | | (Continued from page one) places, Naturally the women get much less than the men were getting. In the napkin department the speed-up has become so big that pro- duction has almost been doubled. But the wages have remained the same. The workers are revolting against this inhuman exploitation. The nap- kin department is working day and night. The workers on the night shift work for twelve hours, and as a result of that the work is piled in a short time and the workers will soon he laid off here too. The mothers can then wait in vain for the bi-weekly pay envelope, and the children can ery in vain for bread, Mr. Johnson will not hear them. The interests of Mr. Johnson demand that this be so and the lives of the workers do not} matter in this case. Whether they} have food to eat or not does not mat- ter, as long as Johnson gets his prof- its. Mr. Johnson recently visited Eng- land and looked over slaves in his factory there. He also bought a new factory in Canada and one in Massa- chusetts. The profit he is making now on his workers in New Brunswick is not enough for him, he wants some more from other workers whom he can exploit better than us here. Mr. Johnson is so greedy and profit hun- gry that the workers have given him the name of “cheap Johnson.” But this is not the solution of the prob- lem to better our condition. What we have to do first is to see that the various nationalities do not fight against each other but all unite against their common enemy the boss. All workers of all nationalities are equally exploited and therefore they must fight united against their cx- ploiters, KIVIATIS. Williamsburgh Council Will Welcome Gordon The Williamsburgh Council of the United Council of Working Class Women will welcome David Gordon. red poet, on Sunday, June 3, at Royal Palace, 16 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn. Gordon will read some of his prison poems. Among the speakers will be Juliet Stuart Poyntz and Ray Rago- \zin. MORE AIR PUBLICITY, BERLIN, May 30.--Capt. Wilkins ‘and Carl B. Hielson, who piloted their ploration plane from Alaska to tzherren, made a flight over Ber- in in the Junkers plane D-1000. As ' civicled the city they were ac- Dea Carman ene dy jand tr ,» I am making my appeal thru it. I therefore urge you, \workers of the Autostrop Co., to untte and organize. Fight for your in- terests. P == STIPOSTROP. jvichest man in the world said, as he was standing in line waiting for an- lother chance to slave for a living. In this city of “true industrial free- jout in another article. - —L. P. RIND‘... ‘ / Well, the sunkist orange growers| ;are generally long on climate and | short on change around pay day. And !King Cotton is likewise a very poor |paymaster. The cheapest men on the overcrowded slave market are hired) to work in the cotton fields. So it is| now up to the workers in the counties) of King and Tulare to organize—in| order to chase the wolf from the doors| of the toilers and into the front yards of fruit barons and “royal” masters. | “Lumber mills have operated with| reduced forces and the oil industry| remains curtailed,” the government report further stated. | The lumber, workers are hard hit} in the states of Oregon and Washing- ton as well, according to other sources of information. And California oil? Well, numerous workers bought oil} stock and paid for same out of small) savings made during the war. Some of them are still the owners of artis- tic-looking slips of paper—but the oil promoter artists, who issued the stuff, are holding the cash. What about the C. C,. Julian oil graft case? It has been before the courts for a couple of months—and is still going strong with legal technicalities. | Can’t See It, Tho. | “Construction work is steadily in-| creasing now,” Director General Jones announced in referring to California generally. Nice, But nothing of that sort to be noticed in this city. Shortly before the St. Francis dam disaster, March 13, Mr. Scharrenberg, secre- tary, California Federation of Labor. made a kick because the state did nothing to provide work for the un- employed. The secretary, besides stand on the Box immigration bill, also pointed to a law violation by the board of public works in this connec- tion. The next day Governor Young announced a $50,000,000 road building program to be started immediately. But nothing has been done yet, as fgr as the writer knows, “The larger plants here were in | full operation recently and manufac- turers of agricultural and irrigation! ; machinery were reported working full) forces.” Good. But where are the ; “larger plants” in Los Angeles lo- cated? That “tire plant,” referred to by Mr. Jones, isn’t built yet. And the rest regarding large plants is mostly hot air “prosperity” stuff. This city is not a manufacturing center, except for the making of crooks and invisible governments. It is, however, a Mecca for tourists who want to be sharked out of their cash, “The labor surplus at Long Beach has decreased lately.” Glad to hear it. But how much, Mr. Jones? The labor surplus around the slave market in Los Angeles has decreased also Not because of more jobs, however, but simply because idle workers are either made jail birds, or told to leave this “oasis of abundance” for a healthier climate along the highways and byways of this state and nation. |The same thing is done in Long Beach and every other city in this \ “land of liberty.” Backyard-Cleaning Bookkeeper. Mrs. Rogers, self-appointed man- ager of the new free job bureau, 212 | South Spring St., continues to talk lll | about success locating jobs at any wage. “Here we have nearly 1,700 heads of families asking for work of any kind,” she declared today. Her latest “success,” as reported by an “Tt |dom” men are found who are willing} afternoon paper, was the location of: takes a strong man to stand the strain to scab on scabs, as will be pointed| a woman who “could use a man for al few hours to clean her backyard.” A -was .sent,.“He-wont out an-| | hours. criticizing the A. F. of L. for its} cal of some twenty-five well-fed mem- bers. Therefore William Robert, sec- {retary of the sub-district, and a gang |of international organizers came ~here |with silver tongues to tell the “poor jignorant” people that the leadership of the Save-the-Union Committee is Bolshevistic and Communistic. However, Roberts and his gang were royally welcomed by the rank and file of the local who showered him with questions and he was a per- fect personification of confusion him- self. Calling to his cohorts, who in a |drunken orgy the night before were rounded up to attend the meeting, he asked that a motion be passed to throw out all who questioned his poli- cies. Many motions were passed but no action was taken. In the meantime, the meeting of 125 dwindled down to 30 members. So confused was Mr, Roberts that he almost forgot his friend, Sheriff Clyde Hardesty, erstwhile escorter of the 51 Lansing women to the county jail. Sheriff Hardesty, of Belmont county, nationally prominent as an escort, and notorious as a strikebreak- er, was summoned. Arriving at the meeting, he walked to the platform, shook hands with the sub-district officials (must have met before) and asked what he could do to help them. Mr. Roberts pointed out the men who had held up his eloquent speech for two and one half After the militant rank and \file leaders were ordered out, the 22 “loyal” members continued the meet- ing and Mr. Roberts and the interna- tional organizers were left in peace. —WARE. Stamford Worker Killed By High Power Wire STAMFORD, Conn., May 30.—Mat thew Ryan, 55, of 301 St. Ann’s Ave. New York City, died today at Stam ford Hospital a few hours after h had come in contact with a powe wire carrying 11,000 volts at the round house of the New Haven Rail- road here. Ryan was an engine repair man |He was horribly burned by the higt {voltage and also suffered a skull in | jury in falling to the ground fror |the engine on which he was working jand the lady put him to work. H |spent the rest of the day at it, with jout lunch, but he was happy for h | was going to feed the kids at supper time,” the manageress went on. The remarkable thing about the in stitution is the fervor with which mer grasp for any opportunity, Mrs Rogers declared. The bookkeeper, sh said, when asked “do you want t work?” replied simply, “where is it?’ Mrs. Roger didn’t state what kinc of luck, if any, the rest (1,699) o those “heads of- families”-had~ or that same day. Or was it only on’ short job for 1,700 job-seekers? Well “there is still considerable unemploy ment in Los Angeles,” Francis I Jones, director general of the Unitec States Employment Service, said. City Jails Job-Seekers. The City Council appropriated $25, 000, 14 weeks ago, for the purpose of creating a municipal service burear for jobless and homeless men at 425 Central Ave. This bureau was a tem. porary affair. It was operated by the department of social service only for men who had been in the city less than three weeks. Jobs in the city parks were given at the rate of 40 cents per hour. No one, however, was permit- ted to work longer than a total of three days. After that they were ex- pected to beat it out of the city with the $5 saved up. If they didn’t act “vags.” —L. P. RINDAL. “The Showman,” a new musical comedy starring Joe Laurie, Jr., goes into rehearsal today. “My Maryland” did not close Satur- day but is continuing at the Casino Theatre. The operetta just passed its 300th performance. | Dudley Digges who has the im- portant role of the Chinese phil- osopher in “Marco Millions.” The O’Neill satire is now in its final week at the Guild Theatre, ture choral arrangements of some of Schubert’s compositions. “One Mile Up,” a new play deal- ing with travel by air, has been pur- chased by Paul Streger for produc- jtion. It is the work of McElbert The Theatre Guild announces that its subscription books for next season will be closed this Friday. Renewals quick enough they went to jail as _ and new subscriptions has been so great that the Guild has as many subscribers as it can adequately ac- eommodate. Over 25,000 are now on the books. Mae West will give a special mid- night performance in “Diamond Lil” in the Royale Theatre, Thursday, June 7th. The Russian Symphonie Choir will start a farewell tour of this country next October which will extend from Moore, Earle Crooker and Lowell Brentano, co-author of “The Spider.” Another play which Streger will pre- sent on Broadway next season is “Eclipse,” a drama by Florence von ‘Wien. WHITE CIVILIZATION. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 30.—W. Earl Smith, former credit manager of a large Louisville store, is now facing a charge of criminally assaulting a small Negro girl who worked ‘in his home. The child is now in the hos- pital suffering from the effects of the coast to coast. The program will fea- attack. 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