The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1928, Page 5

t THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, J A PLEASANT JOB FOR LIFE; A SHORT STORY BY MARTIN MORIARTY 0 the time clock the shuffling old man with the stolid expres- sion of the oldtimer who has served his twenty-one years in the army was Watkins, No. 939. In the pa- per cable department of Jolson and Killicks, Electrical Enginners, Inc. he was old Sam. When a rush made him excited he shouted too many orders. Then he became bloody old Sam. But labels, whether from fellow- worker or time clock, did not worry Sam. He plodded round the shop, chewed richly colored plugs of to- to tighten the lower bolts. To get to those at the top he would use a| ladder. | * * * | THE taste of noon-day beer was| still in Sam’s mouth as he| climbed the ladder on Monday after- noon. He drew his hand across hir mouth reminiscently before he started working with the wrench The bolts were good and and tight Up one step. Tighten. Another step. Turn. His head was nearly |level with the crane rail. | Jack the craneman was busy. The| foreman had bawled him out for bacco contentedly, tightened bolts on| the cable drums, taking a just pride! slammed the controller of the cr: in the record of Watkins No. 939. who had punched the time clock ten minutes late only once in fifteen years. Sam was a good worker. lessly had army discipline ironed into him that he had learned} to do what he was told without) question. He had learned to move with the mass without concerning himself over the wisdom of the movement. His life as a soldier had been planned with the precision of a time-sheet, from “reveille” to ‘lights out.” So, if he was asked to get through with a job by 10:30 he would report ready for the next one at 10:25. He would never sneak out two minutes before quitting time to wash his hands. He would wait for the siren. True, like the others. he went outside for a smoke in the morning. But the toilet attendant was never obliged to call “939” to remind Sam that his eight minutes were up. Sam was a good worker... . * * * Sam always swung a wrench in his hand in his wanderings round she shop. His job was to supervise gangs of five or six men as they amwo'ind paper-lapped cable into the pickling tank. At stated peri- ods of the day, in accordance with an instruction slip given him by the shon foreman, Sam would let out the »il in the tanks and adjust the heat- ng apparatus. Then the foreman would give him a gang. A drum of paper-lapped cable would be pushed into position, and aoisted on a pair of lifting jacks. One man would turn the drum. ‘nother would pull up slack cable Iwo others would flake it in the bot- som of the tank. Theirs was the worst job. The edge of the tank was hot and sticky with resin and vil. The heat, would rise up from the bottom of the tank, making’ the ihroat dry and wafting a smell of stale smoked fish in the nose. * * * ee would stand by, giving a hand where necessaty. He had a thick, bellowing voice and was not slow to shout when the foreman was tround. The gang would either augh loudly as if they knew how so take a joke, or mutter something bout bloody old Sam and what he sould do with his cable drums. For ven though he had the patience of stolidity, he could become irritated oy trifles. If a new man wanted to sie a tag on a cable end, Sam would ell him to get out of the way. He iked to tie the tag himself. Newcomers to the factory would ‘ind Sam interesting and amusing They would wonder sometimes at his ibsorption in a world of wrenches ind cable drums. If they wanted io razz him, they would quote the So ruth-} ‘emark of an office clerk who once|that would cost $15,000,000. | said that Sam’s coming was herald-)| ad half an hour in advance. He did yossess rather a full nose. It-was yroad and pugnacious. It was the rose of a private who had drunk veer in the army canteen for twen-| yy-one years. | His eyes were pale blue and wat-| sry—the eyes of the city, dull, life- ess, seeing nothing but cable drums, wrenches and time sheets. His mis- shapen teeth were stained a dull hewi a lugs of |gle, ending in defeat for Locals 5, ip dea ceniatar Taree gr /15, 16 and 17 of the Amalgamated | Assn. of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. tobacco. Two front teeth were nissing, which accounted for a slight lisp in his bellowing voice. The few strands of colorless hair on ais head were brushed into a mili- vary quiff. The “quiff” would show yeneath the peak of the old cap shrown on the back of his head. For fifteen years Sam had obeyed orders, tightened bolts and organ- zed vacuum tank gangs till he per- formed his job as naturally and mechanically as he shined officers) shoes and cleaned latrines in the army. * * * 'HEN the job changed. Jolson and Killicks had made yandsome profits for several years. fngineers were reorganizing the shop machinery. New equipment jid better work with less men. On the latest model paper cable lap- ping machines electric clocks were nstalled, They stopped when the machine stopped. On a slip of pa- per attached to the clock the driver wrote down the reason for the stop- page. Four speed men were fired— thev were no longer necessary. Huge vacuum tanks were built in place of the old, and in the great work of re-organization Sam was ralled upon to fit in. He had to empty the oil from the tanks just as before. When cable was ready ‘or soaking he signalled Jack the srape driver. While Jack was com- ng he swung open the doors of the new tanks. Two men slung the cab- ‘e drum to the crane hooks. They’ helped guide it into position as the wane lifted the drum into the tank. Then they would go, and leave the rest to Sam. The wrench was still Sam’s cruci- fix. He closed the doors and tight- aned up every bolt from the bottom to the top of the tank religiously He would kneel on the concrete floor |July 7, 1921, is over. It was called |Co. and the Newport Rolling Mill punching in after second siren after lunch. Everyone wanted him. He ‘ane |to high as the lead press man sig.| nalled, Sam was at the second bolt from! the top. They had good beer at the been | Brown Bear. Turn wrench. Try the Bear again tomorrow. am!” someone yelled. Jack was too slow with the brakes The iron girder of the crane smashed into Sam’s face as he turned around. The edge of the gir-| der sliced off the tip of his nose like a razor blade as the crane was slowing down. The blood gushed from his fotehead and eyes and nose and he felt the crunch of break-| ing teeth. The wrench hit the con- crete floor with a little clang. He dropped, shrieking in agony. But he got up, pointing a trembling| finger to Jack, while the blood! soaked into his shirt, “Oh, you b—| 1” he shrieked. “You done it!”| You done it! You mad b- 17) Then he fainted. | A machine driver brought an old| sack for him to lie on. It was! greasy and stank of oil and resin. “Look out. Then the ambulance came. ’ * * * AM was off work six months be- fore he swung the wrench again. The surgeon had left some of his nose. There was a big scar on his forehead which showed up white against the yellow skin. His eyes | watered a lot, and he had to bathe them with boracic every night. ‘And | once, when he was working night| shift, he found Ted the wire-winder | pouring tea in his cup. “Don’t use| that cup, Ted,” he said. “I just| washed me eye in it.” “Oh Christ,”| Ted said, and vomited. The suggestion of the lisp was| gone—he had no teeth. And he was| no longer the loud mouthed old b—! ——-~-Sam. He became old Sam. His| voice was thin and piping, like the | voice of an old man selling shoe-| laces on the market square. | The machine driver who put the| sack under him would tell the story} to every new man told off to help| him. | “What compensation did he get?” he was asked one night. “Ah, he got compensation while) he was out. When he came back! the firm offered him a lump sum or! a job for life. He took the job for|the actions of the state department | life. Sam always wanted a steady! job.” ‘Huge Air Program is Planned by Japan LONDON, July 13. (UP). — A Daily Mail dispatch from Tokio re- ported today that the Japanese war department had decided upon a new | five-year aerial defense program | scheming malevolence. U. S. POLICY TOWARD THE USSR Tr history of the Soviet-American relations, from the October Rev- olution to the recent refusal of the U. S. Treasury to accept a shipment of Soviet gold, is contained in a vol- ume published by Internationa} Pub- lishers, New York, “American Policy Toward Russia Since 1917,” by Frederick Lewis Schuman, an in- structor in Political Science in the University of Chicago. The author traces the gradual evelopment of American policy from blockade and armed interven- tion in 1917-1918 to the pretended policy of “Trade Without Recogni- tion” in 1928. In conclusion, the the Soviet Union is summarized as follows: “The United States, alone of the world powers, has refused recog- nition and has acted upon the as- sumption of the impossibility of peaceable intercourse and the in- evitability of conflict. .. . Few would contend that the American government has handled the Rus- sian problem since 1917 in a man- ner to contribute to international peace and understanding. Its past behavior, though intelligible to the American student as a na- tural and aversion with which the dom- inant class of one social order views another which casts its sac- red idols in the mire and threat- ens it with destruction, can ap- pear to Russians only as an in- comprehensible combination of muddle-headed _ stupidity and Its pres- ent policy, like that of the Bald- win cahinet in Great Britain since May, 1927, rejects all hope of peace and reconciliation and pro- claims implacable war between capitalism and Communism until one has destroyed the other or both have destroyed civilization between them.” Bynes H bad recent attempts of Secretary of State Kellogg and Under-Sec- retary of the Treasury Mills (Hoover's lieutenant) to assert that the policy of non-recognition is no obstacle to commerce are refuted by and the treasury department, re- spectively, in opposing Soviet cred- its and refusing to accept Soviet gold. The author points out that the recent gold: rejection, “like the ban on long term loans, constitutes an important qualification to the of- | ficial policy of ‘trade without recog- 7 nition. “The official position maintained at Washington, that non- recognition does not constitute an obstacle to commerce, is therefore not in accordance with the facts.” STEEL WORKERS CALL OFF 7 YEAR STRIKE NEWPORT, Ky., July 12 (FP).—|having the board abolished Coolidge | The steel strike of Newport, begun off after exactly 7 years of strug- The fight was waged for union recognition. The Andrews Steel Co. were ready to recognize Local 5 of the skilled steel workers but would not recognize the semi-skilled and unskilled in the other locals of the union. All the 1900 workers} struck together. Governor Sends Tanks. It was a winning strike until Gov. Morrow of Kentucky sent armored} Homes of strikers down pickets. Federal Judge Co- chran granted injunctions that set a new record for judicial oppression. | though they have been surpassed | since by many other state and fed- eral judges. Gunmen ran wild. “Our” Government. Morrow’s political career in Ken- tucky did not last long after that but the Harding-Coolidge national administration’ rewarded his serv- ices to the steel trust by putting him on the rail labor board. When the railroad unions succeeded in Workers of Two Trains Escape Death SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass., July 13 (UP). — Members of two train crews escaped injury here to- day when a locomotive and eight cars were derailed at the Shelburne Falls station of the Boston and Maine Railroad. A Troy-Deerfield freight train was standing near the station when a Mechanicsvile-Ayer. freight train rashed into it. Several cars were lemolished and their contents thrown | against the station, one end of which was considerably damaged, | put Morrow on the rail mediation board under the Watson-Parker act. The steel workers, out for 7 years, will try to regain their old jobs. The companies are said to be willing to rehire a considerable proportion. FASCIST POLICE TORTURE WOMAN KISHINEFF, Rumania, July 13 —After being submitted to cruel |tanks and machine gun companies) tortures for three days by the Ru- |to Newport. jm | were riddled with bullets, tanks rode| tion,” Mme. Kollantay, aunt of the manian police to extract “informa- Soviet ambassador to Norway, was declared insane and taken to an insane asylum in a straitjacket. She was arrested in connection with the murder of an editor of a monarchist newspaper, and the Ru- manian police took this as an op- portunity to attempt to make her “talk.” The information extracting torture was so severe, that either she really became insane or was declared so by the police in order to get rid of her after their false charges. She was charged with lodging a Soviet spy in her house, and was therefore considered by the police as a person who had much desirable information. McGarry Forces Mine Strikers Back to Work WILKES-BARRE, July 183—Frank McGarry, so-called insurgent presi- dent of district No. 1, forced miners of the Florence Colliery working un- der the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Val- ley Coal Mining Co., at Dupont to go back to work, stating that griev- ances would be taken un by him with the renresentatives of the same company, , 4 manifestation of the fear | Spirit of Industrialism AAR ARARRRRRARE Yeaeeresteseee! RAR RRRRaUnenned TTT hb bb bbs TR0use the monstrous murder of Sacco and Vanzetti occurred only | one year ago, there is already a} substantial and growing literature | to remind us of the facts of their innocence, their courage, their loy- alty to the working class and the great movement of world labor | | By WALT CARMON | in their behalf. Workers will find in this literature much interest and much inspiration for their activity in the struggle. “The Life and Death of Sacco and {| Vanzetti.” by Eugene Lyons, is |dramatie reading. It is the com- plete story of the two workers who |came from Italy to the “land of op- | portunity,” their struggle for a live- |lihood, their activity in the labor movement and finally their judicial | murder. |_ “Sacco and Vanzetti—Labor’s Martyrs,” by Max Shachtman, pre- |sents just as dramatic reading, with a sharper working class viewpoint. John Dos Passos, noted poet and playwright, wrote of the frame-up more hriefly in a pamphlet, “Facing the Chair.” | “The case of Sacco and Vanzetti,” |by Felix Frankfurter, is a lawyer's | | analysis of the evidence and facts. All of these have much of interest for the worker. Here is the history, | the evidence, the drama and the les- | sons of the great crime. But poetry and art were also effected. Stirred Ly the fierce struggle between the oligarchy and the workers for the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, Fred Ellis, noted staff artist of The DAILY WORKER, for a full month preceding the execution, contributed a series of powerful cartoons that attracted attention not only through- out the country, but in Europe and Latin America as well. These draw- ings are issued in the collection, “The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons.” | “An Anthology of Poetry on Sacco and Vanzetti” contains but little of | value. Editing and most. of the} poetry coming from writers far re- | moved from the labor movement, | their horror is expressed in purely humanitarian approach. It does, however, include some good verse which appeared in the radical press, particularly “Murder at Midnight,” | Ly A. B. Magil. | Motion pictures of those stirring |days have been ordered destroyed. The ruling class wants no visible evidence of their black deed. The |daily press accounts and magazine articles must be found in the files of libraries. This literature, meager as yet, but growing, will serve as labor history to remind us ever of {the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti— two martyrs of our class. tee ae The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti. By Eugene Lyons. International Publishers. $1.50. Sacco and Vanzetti—Labor’s The VegeInn-Tarry “GRINE KRETCHME” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 St., Christopher St., Barclay. Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, wanna Railroad to Heights, N, J. BERKELEY HEIGHTS NEW JERSEY Phone, Fanwood 7463 R 1. a- | Berkeley Put the Party All Party members and all open every evening: | Section 1—Downtown Manhi Section 8—Brownsville, 154 by Louis Lozowick |The Story of Saccn and policy of the United States toward | case of withdrawal. report for duty to collect signatures to put the Party on the ballot at the following headquarters which are Section 4—Harlem—43 East 103rd St. Section 5—Bronx—2075 Clinton Ave. Section 6—Williamsburg—29 Graham Avenue Section 7—Boro Park, 764 40th St. LY 14, 1928 | HEADS THE ROXY BALLET . «-——DRA MA,— MASSIVE CONCERT ; Theremin, Volpe, Roxy Ballet 7 to Feature Big Concert Tonight pai aera os HE program of the massive con- and to give him the first universal vert and entertainment, to be giv-| Riche in the motion picture hall of . af 7 BN. | fame. en tonight at the Coney Island Stad- ium, will be divided into three parts. Arnold Volpe and a symphony or- chestra of fifty musicians from the major orchestras of the city; the} Roxy Ballet, directed by I. Nelle, and| Prof. Leon Theremin, the noted and brilliant Russian inventor. Arnold Volpe will lead his or- chestra in the following program: the Coronation March from Meyer- beer’s opera, “The Prophet”; the famous Rienzi Overture of Wagner, “Caucasian Sketches” by Ippolitow- Ivanov, Fantasy from Bizet’s opera, “Carmen,” and the popular “Marche Slave” by Tschaikovsky. The orchestral numbers will be followed by the Roxy Ballet under the direction of I. Nelle. The num- bers include popular Gypsy dances League Worries CMTC Officers FORT EUSTIS, Va., July 13. — The first lecture given to the Citi-| # zens Military Training Camp cruits here was devoted to denuncia- | tion of letters sent to those going to the camps by the Young Workers (Communist) League in Philadel- phia. Cc. M. T. C. recruits were warned of the danger of reading radical lit- erature, and all who believe in the IL rule of Morgan were called upon to defend “their” institutions against | the “Reds.” re- Nelle, noted and talented dan- cer the Rox, wil] appear with famous Ballet in and the Mazourka from Delibes’ bal-| The letters, which worry the mili ©Y°D/DS: trom Gounod opera” “Feust| cut to some mortars some’to ie |4 British Airplane tamu sclatlat ut mvc, gallo ae igo seta z LONDON Bie (on, a Courtesy New Masses.) | for El rst i eg Labor Fakers Brew small, single engined Imperial Air- tertainment. Theremin will again) demonstrate his remarkable inven- tion by which he draws music out of | 1 the air, and will play both solos and | ways plane crashed at Purley, the Votes for Wall St.| revert: Airways annoancal seis illed were employes NATI, Ohio, July 13 (U Croydon airdrome. of those of t ; : |P).. — The executive board of the ta said that thea . ° . % y reports said nat the plane Pith orchestra accompaniment. In| tatsmnational Union of Brewery, | coy used to carry baeenenee anzelll in LLEVALUTLE | tre solos he will be accompanied on | 1 5 3 gen y baggagi the piano by Affe Abileah, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drinks Work- the London-to-Continent air route Eo ee His solo numbers will be “Night” | °TS has endorsed Gov. Smith for had been taken out by several mem Martyrs, By Max Shachtman. | by Rubinstein and Etude by Seriab-| P’esident. bers of the Croydon staff. Those ir International Labor Defense, New | ine. With orchestra accompaniment | The board denounced the present the plane included two women, anc pi ment P Ft York. 25 cents. he will play Golterman’s Concerto in republican ‘administration because it three men besides the pilot. Facing the Ch By John Dos |A Minor and Saint-Saens’ famous is committed to destruction to local Passos. Sacco-Venzetti Defense | composition, “The Swan.” government through attempted en- Committee, Boston. 50 cents. forcement of the Volstead act, un- ION KILLS 10 3.—(UP)— CANNON BUDAP PLOS: ST, July The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti. |“STARK LOVE” AND “MOANA”| warranted invasion of personal Ten soldiers were reported killer By Felix Frankfurter. Little, AT CAME OTODAY | rights, destruction of the principles and several wounded when a canno} Brown & Co., Boston. $1. Beginning today the Film Arts|of personal liberty and destruction exploded at the artillery proving The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti | Guild is presenting at the Cameo of home life and child welfare, grounds at Hajmasker. , Te in Cartoons. By Fred Ellis, DAILY WORKER, New York. 25 cents. of Poetry on Sacco and Vanzetti. Library Publishers (distr . 25 cents. | Theatre for its revival showing “Stark Love,” the motion picture of life among the southern mountain- eers, which is actually portrayed by | the natives. This film which was directed by Karl Brown, is being | EG e ae shown coincidentally with its release | ~~... in Europe where it received an ex- cellent reception in all the conti. LUN nental capitals, The companion film to “Stark! AR Love” is Robert J. Flaherty’s cinema P K “Everyone in Moscow Now The LADDER NOW ON SALI IN ADVANCE EATRE, W. 48 8 Mat. Sai Satistie The Heart of Coney Island Battle of Chateau-Thierry MILE SKY CHASER TILT-A-|Free Circus, Con- WHIRL [certs and Dancing Luna’s Great unded if With Play. 99|0f the South Sea Islands, “Moana.” | Thes : Bu S Books On the same program the Film Aris; BOOTH " *** 8:30 | Guild has exhumed from private| Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 eel a gS i i vaults some unique examples of the | ALBEE CAMEO By CLARINA MICHELSON earliest films ever taken including . L te i atmert ALL Moscow is buying books. The we seen ts Oe vis 5 eS Sa , « picture ever ‘“s] a | CHANIN’S, W. of B a annual two weeks’ “Book Mar-| called “The Charse of wto'Prent 46th StF eeninge at 826 | | Sala ket” is on, On a long boulevard| Brigade.” This selection is partion, SCHWAB and MANDEL'S Ma stretching from the: statue of Push- | larly notable because it contains the MUSICAL SMASH ROBERT very first screen test ever submitted | to by Charlie Chaplin. In the short | OO D N EW i z space of about fifty feet we see! GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC where’ books are being sold—scien-| Charlie exhibiting his famous wad.| tific books, children’s books, works | dle-walk and shoulder-shrug, which| Don’t miss the Big Si by Lenin, French magazines, books | W8s later to convulse the nations island Stadium tonight. on economics,. books on the theatre, books of poems, books of cartoons, English Tauschnitz editions, books on the radio, the new Soviet En- | eyclopedia, old books, new books, books on every conceivable subject. | An orchestra is playing. Some children are dancing. Others are digging in a large sand pile. Red streamers stretched across the boulevard read: “Books are needed as much as bread.” “Without books man is blind.” “Without books workers are slaves.” Up and down the workers, men and women, look- ing, buying, reading. Workmen's Furniture Fire Insurance Society | (Incorporated) —Established 1872— Main Office: New York and Vicinity. Office hours: From 9 A. M. until 6 P. M. Saturday until 1 P. 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Half Yearly Dividends Transfer Your Savings to a Co-operative Workers’ Finance Institution ON ORAL Subsidiary of the United Workers’ Co-operative Ass’n. | 1 dividends are being paid from the first day | of deposit on gold bonds in denominations of $100, $300, $500 and $1,000 secured by the | second mortgage of the second block of | houses in the Co-operative Workers’ Colony. | i i 1 | H A is required which A yearly assessment of 10c for each $100 Insurance covers all expenses, on the Ballot The GOLD BOND CAMPAIGN Will Be Ended in July ¢. Subscribe Now, Don’t Be Left Out! - sympathizers are asked to Consumers Finance Corp. Office: 69 — 5th Ave, New York, N. Y. TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 6900. attan—60 St. Marks Place Branch Office: 2700 Bronx Park East (Co-operative Workers’ Colony) TELEPHONE: OLINVILLE 894, Watkins St. Sern whon crane