The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1928, Page 4

any sy _ tences looming before Murdock, Beale, | this Page Four JUNE 20, 1928 PICKETS CHEER AS BEAL AND 200 TEXTILE MILL COMMITTEE STRIKERS JOIN THEIR LINES oy a Worker Correspondent) rch in body to headquarters on beth sides of the NEW BEDF nae Ma (By mail). The New Heneoue tex- leaders of the T. M. €., Beal and Murdoch, would is now 10 we old. 2 meeting. This would take place twice a day. Wil- m and Binns of the A. F, of T. O. and U..T. W. urged the picketed their control to stay in bed as the best method to M. C. pic ». However, their members protested so strongly E. the textile mill committ have rent of the mills e during the The picket lines would form at the orkers mill gates and, wi different against this decision that these misleaders were forced to come out to urge at their mass meetings the necessity of picketing. So today for the first time in nine weeks 47 of their members of the Pemequit mill. Two hundred o: came on the line and joined with them, led by Fred Beal and Ellen Dawson, and were met by wild a f the T. pplause, Frank J. Manning led the Textile Council pickets, Batty arrived by machine and joined the end of the line for one round and went back to»the machine. on the side lines as the ¢ry went.up that Beal and Batty were to be on the picket line together, Great crowds watched —JOSEPH G. PACHECO. Textile Mills Committee Has Won. Strikers’ Trust, Correspondent Writes ‘Type of Strike Appeal Issued to Lumber Workers | AFALL RIVER WILL FLY, LEWIS TOOL, JOIN IN WALKOUT NOTICE OF SOON, HE SAYS: Fight on We age Cuts, sn RIKE Hour Week, Spreac \ » At Schafer Bros. Shingle Mill BOARD MEMBER r Correspondent) (By mail). th (By a Wor NEW BEDFORD, M The rati (By a Worker Correspondent) ROUNDUP, Mont. (By. mail). — Renegade Stephen Ely is again seek- f indus ral Europe- on of the jing favors at the hands of progres- sive miners of Montana. Posing as a |progressive he is trying to force the putting the tex- |Lewis faction into line, and at the} of chronic | same time trying to play ball with » history of |the ‘progressives. “Fence Fixing.” | away from the |so long that he should not be qualified to run for office in Montana. But a| ient tool of the “Lewis machine” easily secures an organizer’s | ist. Wage reduction on three machines, equal to commission near an election time ? at $1.00 to $1.50 per day. Slugging of a sawyer by the when bars machine needs some “fence fi 6) foreman, Bob Shores. ei a Ely as an organizer, as such, claims he is entitled to a place on the ballot | ‘rrespective of how far he has drifted | way from knowledge of conditions: | fter another. e of the cotton to the bureau of eae Montesano, Washington. fiky ae: been mien This is a strike based on the following points: good subserv then, Areode average he more been lowered consi ig workers in th as low as $7 and $8, and the chilc We The above conditions are not sult of the lack of militancy of the textile worke These workers hay: struggled heroically, one need only a re- 2nd. Re-instatement on job of a sawyer whose work was up to grade but was dismissed to place a man mention the Lawrence, Paterson, and i * Running for international board | Passaic strikes, but because of the On job who refused to work under a union card. member from Montana, Ely is tour- continued betrayal of the A. F. T. ¢ g the mining camps of. Montana and the U. T. W., have remained un- trailing with Neil Ferry and Van A. 3rd. This is a strike to prevent disorganization of a union crew by introducing on the job of a man who is unfair to Union Labor. YOUR HEARTY SUPPORT IS EXPECTED TO WIN THIS STRIKE GZ> Above is a reproduction of the strike handbill ed to the u of the Schafer Brothers Lumber mill who are striking against their bosses in the heart of Washington, one of the most reactionary states in the Union. The handbill was sent us by the Worker Correspondent whose letter appears below. 3ittner, two members of the United ine Workers, who are here in the interest of Senator Wheeler’s can- didacy. organized helpless victims to the on- slaught of th It is because of these be' 2 sellouts, linked together with the extensive spy tem in the industry, that created z attitude of wariness and general mi oy among the worl Howe’ the persistent and unscrupulous at- ta of the bosses have given the workers no other alternative but to} i <tent where even the T. O. has been fore- altho betraying at | They Know Steve. The boys in Montana, knowing. Ely o be a staunch Coolidge supporter, ive wondering just what kind of a game “Slipper” Stephen is playing and how he will square himself with his copper-collared friends in Mon- tana. Realizing that there is a dou- ‘blecross in the offing, the progressive {miners of Montana are. being warned to be on the lookout for slippery Steve (Since his schooling in the Lewis ma- ~~ !ehine has taught him the ways and Jack | of | 'means jof ‘gaining his personal ends as-is demonstrated by his state fed- -LUMBER WORKERS TIE LS demonet 4UP WASHING TON MILL ily da the apeesident of the: Montana rhkers nt struggle of the 28,000 s in New Bedford must | ed from the general | the The textile Because of faith i in unions, ond ee Be 0. and. t 3 Commits we find that this |State Federation of Labor, by the far aets or on a ‘grace of manipulation, and it is often a lock es re struggle (By a We : Cor nandeny) said that sin¢e his ascendancy to ‘this 4 MONTESANO, Wash. (By mail) —Owing’to the strategical position of Position, the state federation has been \in a sorry state of affairs. x Rumor has it that he will be un-|~ of 1920, |seated atthe coming convention to be | rs of this state have not held at Roundup, Montana, June 26th, ffair ye ghey. ike al- 14028 i's someone does: not Hesse 80} in aie Schafer Brothers’ shingle mill, ea Boos chante they he ever, tod strike ¢ ing infl Bedford Textile fil with the The wor forgotten t »_ |members of the 1. W. W in from Central and tried by _| warned by the r law and order, mz s ing of fhe ‘New Workers’ Union, af. Textile Mill Cor the growing | mittees, ad with this, spirit, determination, and militancy | barons and busin RE the-wor Hac the America: One Mill, One Branch: s they brought in a verdict of THE a 2 - s The workers are learning that /ilty they would never leave the | & R the New Bedford Textile Workers’ |Couttroom alive. : Union under the léa ip of Mur- I am, of course, referring to the dock, Bi or; and Weisbord, is. the only | for their in-|the bosses did not A Friend,, N. Y..€ Unit 2F, Section 6, N. reckon with their | Annonymous | terest: riously under- | host. lc. Kap W. N. Patterson, Zanesville, O ees t of uniting the ta Wins Confideice. ly. nate f {L. P. Weiner, N.Y. C.... 10.00 and organizing the unorganized, In- INOUE ur’ M.*Fledman, N. Y.-C... sl stead of having as its panacea the) The union has well counteracted all | J, Brishhler 3; Schwarta, Nae Mass ee “Lewis Batty” theory, of “too |these attacks of the mill owners, and }E, Schneiter J. Smolin, New Brighton, Pa. ..5.0 many workers in indust \this un- | Proved itself worthy of the confidence | R. Morshoni 0013f. Feinstein, Bklyn, N.Y... forward unider the a the workers. The union, by the | J, Minkelmere Se aaa sr Ci fiaw GO ope us attempt of the spies to de- thin, has only_ been all sincere workers trick. Th Green . Selminitz akuk chneider . . ms . Renne, Phila., Pa... Dr. S. Goldberg, Phila., Pa. |G. Johnson, Portland, Ore. growing menace < ation of {Can 00 /if, Kruse, Portland, O ; storm thus f Idberg 1.00 | 4° propigc eked pe atrugg! cket orm: t roldberg . ‘001A. Reinis, Portland, Ore e the entire comple and rocky path to travel 4, Flekch 1.00) Valeske, Portland, Ore ion o have become wor- | befe |A. Annelleo 1.00). Reinis, Portland, Ore tied. between the 1) One of ike i iest factors in this | J. Erb we gl gee oe EY Be 9 aa id | new doubt representat closed doors no of the hetr movement in the textile indus- ilitancy and leadershi ung workers. Batty . J., Portland, Ore...... . Salmen, Jamaica, N. Y. . Murmis, Pamaica, No¥3s¢ A. and means of struggle is sharp-|B. Rebz .... YW. 1G 4 T. W. U. ‘they. know oment, the young work-|M. Parison . LOO Pate Geen nee as long as this union continues gral role. Some of |C. Porsche -1,00 Naitn’ Patant ae ied . Helin, Jamaica, N. Y grow and spread courage and solidar- the fin s and leaders of the |H. Brown . 1.00} R° Anderson; Jamaica, N.Y ity in the r 1¢ workers be- | Union young worke: It is these |C, D. M, Lennan, Se 001 6: *Tomareeny: Jarwicn, N.Y trayal is imp young guarantee that | A. L. Kaplan, St. Lost 1.001 Keto, annaten N 'y ‘f e aim of the bosses is “no. com-|Wheth won or lost, a] W. P. Sukut, Ch Ea ‘ Bae . Kanpun, Jamaica, N. Y. . Kaltio, Jamaica, N. Y « Kowen, Newberry, Mich. . Sala, Newberry, Mich. . Rosanin, Newberry, . Henderson, Newberry, Mich . Abonen, Newberry, Mich. . Hautalo, Newber: i . Kasata, Newber . King, Newberry, Mich. Cooperatives in Soviet Union Are Expanding | MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., Jtme 19-—a! summary of the most, important work of the consumers’ cooperatives of the Union of Socialist Sovict Republics during the last 3 years shows thes societies. had. 7,129,000 members, 0: whorr 8,529,000 belonged to rural or- strong militant union will stay in New | Lithuanian Working We Bedford. |) lianee of Amer., Bklyn, N. ’, T, 0, |}Bakers’ Local 164, N. Y. J. L. D., Wilming' H. Shulman, Worceste Mostadt, C promise.” In accordance with th aim their strategy is to smash the union and with it the resistance of the workers. The following are the tactics of the mill owne rest and i + (2) Use th as lating the union, and Support of its follow thizers. (3) Cri the ranks of the N. B. T. W. oralizing it from within. (4) ip voted, for strike by », the Textile Mill Com- paring the ground for | Jd. 3 The rise of the | P. ‘Senijo, Chicegn: ‘Til. is inevitable, it is|M. Karsch, Los Angeles, of time. In this center |S. Friedman, N. Y. C. Wy dem. | of gravity ung workers are|H. L. Benrons, N. Y. C... the foreg They have not! Kora, Chicago, Ill,. as expedient issue injunction inst |had the sad e periences and gone | L. Seuth, Los ‘Angel picketing. ‘thru the betrayals of the older work- |} Taylor, Oakl ne need not go very far to show jers. They have less dependants, and | ‘armer® Club, Law these tactics in action. The j so much more exploited, that | Ukranian Work. Wom. section of the textile workers is} Hamtromek, Mich. ‘Porter, and others, is a sign of the | by far the most militant and aggres- | ic. M. Chotkins & family, Dem- attempt to remove the leadershtp/sive. Not only in Fall River, but in | apiNSS: Uy Ree depedayar on arniae [hive We enwe x 5.00 from the field, and to demoralize the | Providence, Taunton, Pawtucket, and | 1 Leta, Ni iei@y « saens un ac 1.00 picket line. The reading of the New \thra the entire field one can see the iL. Schwartz, Montieello, N. Y...1.0! Bedford Mercury, Times, and Stand- | start of a real textile union, and here |. Scheier, Jackson H'ghts, L. I..1,5¢ ard for the past week shows the ma-!as in New Bedford, the guarantee for | W. P. Nucleus, Milwaukee, Wis. .53.62 licious intents of the press. The most |the organization of the unorganized, | Amer. Lith. Literary Society, Br. npa- Fall River wo: ijonly a matte she. total membership haa grown to 15,075,000, of whom 9,026,000 were pendsous action, however, has been/|for abolition of the wage cuts, for} 103, Hudson, Mass............ 5.00 | rural. members. attempt to create inner dissension | abolition of the 53-hour week, lies in| A. an Nelson, Rose Lake, Idaho.6.00! Poor peasants predominate among which was for a time used by stool-|the hands of the young workers. It}G. ®epresas, Chicago, Ill........5.00 the present shareholders. The coop- ons and spies working within the |is they who are laying the foundation | ${.Johnson, Wapello, Towas 's of the union, However, in all/for a militant mass textile workers’ Colvert, Mapwood, Ill........ 4 per cent of their purchases in Mier attempts to crush the union, | union, —GILBERT GREEN. ‘ff KF Kmiec, Milwaukee, Wit 1b, Sscebeeh> = 6 AOE ae pipes supplied. rural people with hrs | Has Been in Mine for! Years | |ployed as | show that 3, 006. appli ganizations in 1924, whereas in 1927 , JANITOR WANTED; BUNS ASMONTANA 2) APPLICANTS i AFTER EACH JOB Lucky Men Pt Put on Half Rations (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal. (By mail).— A little army of 150 nten will be em- janitors in the new city hall. The salary rate calls for $100 to $115 per month. Official reports tions had been received a week Undoubtedly, the number of candidates has greatly increased by this time. t ‘or examinations before the civil service commission, the applicants will be assigned to various y » in- ing a number of school buildings, for the two hours of Written work. To be eligible, the applicant must be between 21 and 55 years of age, a citizen and a voter. He must be, physically fit. He must have resided | in Los Angeles at least one year, sol- diers, sailors and marines excepted, and must have had a year’s experi- ence at janitor work “or aggregate, | including work in marble, tile, fur- | elu niture or vacuum cleaner jobs,” aut similar work, Well, 150. jobs and. 3,000 job-seek- ers. That means 20 men im line for each job, The number of applicants may be doubled before the examina- tion takes place. In that case 40 wor ers will compete for each of the 150 jobs. When the qualifications, men. tioned above, are taken under consid- eration, 40 to 1 or even 20 to 1 isa very high percentage against the workers and in favor of wage-cutting intérests of every description. Sup- pose, for the sake of argument, that) every man in this city between the| age of 21, and 55 was given a chance ;” to try his’ or her luck before the civil | service commissioners, the number of | applications would no doubt be 50} times 3,000 or 150,000. Such a figure | would give a fair illustration of the | labor situation in this city of fallen) angels, invisible government and the | greatest crime center in the world, | according to a vice-crusading morning | paper. Janitors on Half Rations. The so-called living wage in this! country is about $2,200 a year, So thig Mayor Cryer’s oasis of abun- | idance” places its $100 to $115 a month jjanitors on a little more than half ra- tions—the starvation point, } The invisible government isswell or- ganized. Janitors and other victims of the present day society of special interests ought to do the same. The process of cleaning up a rotten so- ciety is a far more important job than the polishing of marble and brass, ete., in a master class institution like the new $9,000,000 city hall—with its: 400 feet high tower pointing, hypoerit- ically, towards the heaven of our mis- | sionized soup-house keepers, too nu-/ merous to mention, City Jobs to Pay More. A On May 265 the city council raised the salaries of 247 city. employees’ of , a “higher” class. On May 31 came the turn for a raise to 800 technical men and 1,100 laborers. The latter were granted a raise from $5.75 to $6.00 a day. The lowest paid workers were forgotten altogether by -the mayor and the éfficiency “director.” The city council, however, increased their wages, on‘June 1, from $4.75 to $5.00 a day, So this class of..workers: are now better off than the janitors. How long will the “dust-eaters” in ithe city hallstand for it? | Fear was’expressed in the city coun- cil that the Iowest paid city workers hay join the forces of organized la- bor. The Los Angeles Times is keep- ing a close watch on the “dangerous” sityation. =LeP. - RABD ALS, Worker Dies in Tank» of Boiling Chemicals “Struck by a@ swinging bucket yess. Lterday in the Bronx repair shop of ~ ihe New Haven Railroad, James Reil- an employee, plunged to ‘death in Ge tank of boiling water and chemicals. Fellow workers were forced to drain the vat to recover the body.” ~The cauldron was used for cleaning} j#rease from. motor parts, which were) jlowered into it in buckets suspended | ‘from ®@ crane,- Reilly was standing at. ithe edge of the tank when the bucket struck him, toppling him over. Rei hy, an employee of the road for the’ st 2 years, is survived by four; children, Child Injured in Fal] | His skull foacatel bye fall down, 1 85-foot deep subway excavation near his home, Donald Pezzutti, 8, of , . 85 Sixth Ave., is i dition today in St, Wincent’s hospital. He crawled through a guarding fence jand dropped through #n airhole in the. nk voofing, | a serious con. o+——-DRAM ; si “Elmer Gantry’’, den Sche eduled jor Early Showing MONG the new productions listed] for next season and scheduled for early opening here are “Jarnegan’’| and “Elmer Gantry.” Patrick Kearney made the drama- tization of the Sinclair Lewis novel, | which Joseph E. Shea will present at| the Playhouse Monday, August” 6. The play is now winning in-Cleveland. The Jim Tully story “Jarnegan”| was adapted by Charles Beahan and | Garret Fort, and is scheduled to open} at.the Longacre Theatre the week of | September 3, after a tryout~in tle| suburbs. Charles Hopkins has a new play by! T. C. Murray) titled “The Blind Wolf,”! which was recently produced by the} Abbey _-Theatre, Dublin. Murray’s| “The Wheel of Fortune” and “Autumn Fire” were produced here some sea- | sons back. | “The Lawyers’ Dilemma” by Sea-} man Lewis will be produced by S. L Simpson at the Belmont Theatre on |Monday, July 9. Stanley James will} head the cast. The 10 per cent government tax} on theatre tickets costing $3 or less | will be discontinued in legitimate | theatres on Friday, June 29. Jocelyn Lee has been signed by Universal to play an important role in “The Night Bird,” Reginald Den- ny’s comedy of the prize ring, which was written by Frederic and Fanny | Hatton. Milton Sills is next to play a rail- road .man, “The Wrecking _ Boss,” written by Frank L. Packard, will be started upon completion of the cur- rent Sills’ film, “The Barker.” Asher, Small and Rogers -plan to make a film of “The Revolt of Modern Youth,” by Judge Lindsey, as a se- quel to “Companionate Marriage,” on which they are now working. “Batter Up!” is to be the title of the musical production which will be | launched by George M. Cohan as soon |as the Nugent play, “By Request,” is jomt of the way. DOLORES DEL RIO. In “No Other Woman” the screen feature at the Broadway Theatre this wey John Cumberland has been engaged for the mew Chopin operetta, “The Charmer.” Mr. Cumberland was re- cently seen in “Furies” with Laurette Taylor, and in “Pickwick.” “Annabelle’s Ancestors,” a comedy by Frank Russell and Julian Thomp- son, is being placed in rehearsal by Oliver D. Bailey, lessee of the Repub- lic Theatre. This will be the first play that Bailey has produced in some years. It-will open on June 25. Grace George, it is said, is eonsid- ering a pl&n to produce a season of plays in New York next season, the organization being similar to that which she sponsored\some dozen years ago at the Playhouse. During her year as an actress-manager she put on such plays as Langdon Mitchell’s “The New York Idea,” James B, Fa- gan’s “Earth,” and “Captain Brass- bound’s Conversion” and ‘Major Bar- bara,” by Shaw. ‘ — ——Theatre Guild Productions POR GY | By Dubose & Dorothy Heyward REPUBLIC THEA., West 42d St. Mats. WED. & SAT. || O'Neill's gce"* Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of Bway venings Only at 5:30. VOLPONE Xia Th, W. 52d St. Evs. 8:30 Guild Mais. Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 Eugene 45 St., W. of B'way Rvenings 8:30. BOOTH ™*; ; 22, and Sat., :230 Mats. Fri. June 22, ‘Grand St. Follies EX. ST. PETERSBURG OF Thea., B'way & 53 St. Hammerstein’s 7py32 PO Say S39. Twice Daily, 2:40-8:40. _ Prices, Mats., bbc to® al. bo. Eves., 50c to $1.50. ‘All Seats Reserved. 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