The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1928, Page 5

THE BISCUIT COMPANY "= 2s r= PAYS LOW WAGES [age WORKER REVEALS Correspondent Tells Of Miserable Conditions (By a Worker Correspondent) The workers in the National Bis-| cuit Company listened with a great deal of interest to the meetifig held last Friday at 15th Street and 10th Avenue by the Workers (Commu-| nist) Party. I know, because I was| one of them, and all afternoon we workers talked about it. I wish that these meetings are kept up.) #7 We all like them and we learn a lot from them. It will be a better John M. Phillips with the Tammany Hall machine some twenty millions of dollars. ter and Son Who 4 left), tare Queens concracior, wnose operations in that borough cost the workers The innocent looking young man at the right is Francis Phillips, his son, who is now defying the “law” _@ contemptuous refusal to tell the Federal Grand Jury about a trifling $3,000,000 which is involved in the investigation, way of spending our lunch hour than siocre'starsse"™" FORUM ASSAILS INDIA WORKERS I noticed that when the speakers’ | stand was first set up in the open| lot, a cop came over and said the) company won’t allow it on their! property and made the speaker move the stand over to the corner. That doesn’t surprise me, because our bosses don’t want us to learn about organizing so that we can demand Tomorrow Night better pay and better working con-| ditions. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise | eight hundred’ cloak and ne to have the company soon take d?essmakers, crowding Bryant Hall ome steps against allowing us to|to capacity yesterday afternoon at isten at all. There are a lot of/an open forum called by the Joint spies around, and I’m sure that the . a8 whole meeting was reported to the| Board 4 she Cleve sad eas bosses jers Union, demonstrated their con- Receive Low Wages. vemy We workers in the National Bis-|i7@tion campaign now being her- cuit Company get the most terrible | #!ded by the right wing organ, The wages, especially in the department | Jewish Daily Forward. where I work, the packing depart-; The discussion revolved about the ment. In the 10th Avenue to 9th| new maneuver of the bankrupt Sig- Avenue factories. This department |man-Schlesinger machine to extract s under the charge of two managers. | dues payments from the workers in Mr. Kloper and Mrs. Delure. Mr.| these shops that recognize the scab Kloper is an old man with a bitter) union of the right wing, and in smile, and the other never smiles.|forcing more dismissals of left wing SIGMAN SCHEME Active Members Meet Over tempt for the latest fictitious organ- | They keep our wages lower even than those of the workers in other jepartments. It is the fault of these swo managers that we get as low as we do. Two years ago we were) sromised a two-dollar raise. Other | jepartments somehow managed) then to get a one dollar raise. We) ire still waiting for, ours. Once I} iappened to stand near Mr. Kloper when a young worker asked him) for a raise. Mr. Kloper said, “You)| mow, young man, that the wages you make are too high as it is ‘or another job.” workers from those factories. Free Discussions Discussions at these open forums | are conducted with the greatest free- dom and are participated in by the majority of the rank and file. slogan raised by the leaders of the Joint Board, who opened the discus- sion, was, “throw out of the shops any gangster agents of the Sigman clique” who appear. The meeting elected a committee to go to the office of the Jewish man. “The Day,” now masquerad- STRUGGLE GROWS Authorities Fire On Strikers CALCUTTA, India, July 18—A wave of unrest threatens to engulf | all leading industries of India. The strength of the recently or- ganized unions is increasing and |their growth appears to be ona permanent basis. Strikes and lockouts have affected | virtually every important industry |in the country, and for nearly four |months there has been a series of disturbances with which employers, police, civil and military authorities have found it difficult to deal. Jamshedpur now is the seat of the movement. The Tata Iron and Steel Company’s works there—lov- | ingly fostered by the legisiature be- | cause it is the only Indian indus- WOMEN T0 FIGHT trial concern of any magnitude, al- | though it is largely managed by Eu- |ropeans—has been The East Indian railway shops at Lillooah, Calcutta, are idle; the |Bombay cotton industry is para- |lyzed, and the jute industry here j has ceased functioning, due to the | strike of 10,000 workers. | The wave of unrest culminated in an open struggle at Bamangachi. | We're going to cut wages soon, and|Day to tell its “impartial” editors | Ghurka troops fired on the strikers | f you don’t like it, you’d better look | that they are excellent allies of Sig-|by order of Captain Christie, A} tombay jury completely approved DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1 = rors Cosh MOBILITE FORCES WORKER IN DISTRICT TWO FOR PARTY DAYS’ | Anti-War Demonstra- tion Is Planned Throughout District 2, of the Workers (Communist) Party from the lowest functionary to the highest, are preparing for the Par- ty Days, which have been called for July 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31 and Au- gust 1. It is expected that these Party Days will result in a tight- ening-up of the entire election cam- paign machinery of the district, and also in elaborate preparation for a huge turnout at the anti-war dem- onstration on August 4. The letter sent to the members of the Workers (Communist) Party reads in part as follows: “Every party in the Communist International has specially desig- nated days which are called Party} Days. The American party has not availed itself of this opportunity in the past. We now propose to do so. “The purpose of these Party Days is to have one Mobilization Day on | which all the comrades, from the | highest functionary to the rank and file, are required to report to their units and discuss the major party campaigns. “Many of our comrades are en- gaged in‘activities in the unions an?! Party auxiliary organizations which take a great deal of their time and energy and fail, on this account, to attend to Party units. “On these Party Days we call up- on every Party member to attend his unit meeting without fail. The names of all Party members who fail to attend the Party Day meet- ing will be referred to the district office.” members CALENDAR CONFERENCE FOR ments for this column tn he DAILY WORKER fe fore the event in que make the announcement e fective. Many announcements arrive at the office too late for publication owing to the additional time needed for the delivery of the paper. Philadelphia Picnic. Workers (Communist) Party, Dic- trict Three, will hold a picnic and carnival on Labor Day at Shutzen Park. Benjamin Gitlow will speak Chicago £ SHICAGO, TIL. e Committee of the Yc (Communist) Lea will hold an organizatl ence of shop nuclei on July functionaries of va comrades in different facto been urged to attend. * * Philadelphia Miners’ Relief. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—Philadelphia Min Relief Conference here h arranged picnic for July Maple Grove Park. Philadelphia T. U PHILADELPHIA Tra Union Education. e of Phila delphia will hold and Picnic at Maple Park Grove on August 4, ginning at 9 a. m. the next r m. and ending ornin Sports, dan WOMAN WORKERS NOT PROTECTED Many Forced to Work 70 Hours a Week By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press). Less than two-thirds of the women wage earners in Illinois are protect- ed by any law which limits their hours of work, according to a survey by the state department of labor Out of the 540,938 gainfully em- ployed women and girls in the state 197,499 are not covered either by the 10-hour law or by the child labor law. Most of them are at the mercy of their employers. The greatest number of women and girls without protection are in domestic and personal service. The department estimates the number without protection in this’ group at 95,837 or 76% of the total number 1 programs will be eches of prominent d from the U. 8. 8. R ed to attend Philadelphia Campaign Meets. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., The follow- ng open-air camaign meetings will be held here on the following dates Thursday, July 19,—At 29th and nd Ave. Crowley and Rosen- 11th and Poplar, Benjamin 20.—7th and Ritter Fu Sam Burt aturday’ J 7th and Snyder Nachowitz, Wh baum, At Kensington and Benjamin, Stanley and Thoma Philadelphia Picnic. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.,—The Work ers (Communist) Party’ here ranged a picnic to be held Au 9 at Burholme Park. Al workers are nvited to attend Chicago Picnic. CHICAGO, Ill.—A picnic forthe efit of the Northwestern Shop ews of Chicago will be held on July 29, under the ausices of 6, District 8, of the Workers ist) Party. In order to res picnic grounds, take Grand Ave. car 00 block), walle north to then one’ block west to 1 North’ Nord NICARAGUA WAR COSTS MILLIONS Coming Elections to Require More WASHINGTON, July 18.—With 302 commissioned officers and 5,318 enlisted men of the marine corps on duty in Nicaragua, the forthcoming presidential elections will require additional funds from the United States treasury to main- tain the hold of American imper- ialism on the “colony,” it was learned here today. The base cost—pay and subsis- tence of the enlisted men—would run something over $8,000 a day. General expenses on top of this would add many thousand dollars more to the daily outlay. now a | DAILY WORKER AGENCY || convulsed by |strikes which have become a lock- out. i The | Federation Announces Second Conference The Second Delegate Conference of the New York Working Women’s | Federation was announced last night by the secretary, Ray Ragoz- zin, The conference will be held Thursday evening, August 2, at the in these occupations. It also finds 64,024 or 97.5% of those in pro- fessional service and 17,947 or 14.6% of those in manufacture un- | || protected by the laws limiting hours of work. Work 70 Hours a Week. The present law, in force since 1911, provides “that no female shall be employed in any mechanical or mercantile establishment, or fac- tory, or laundry, or hotel, or res- taurant, or telegraph or telephone OF PHILADELPHIA 1214 Spring Garden Street. | A. SOKOLOV, Mgr. |I| Telephone: Poplar 0837. u B CAMP HULIET (Over the Delaware) LUMBERVILLE, PA. JUST THE PLACE FOR A WORK- ER'S VACATION. Directions Impoverished Farmers Forced Towards City WASHINGTON, July 18.4P. cause farme test cause of MINERS RELIEF iN ters. terviewed 2 : y of whom Solidarity Fair Will one-third said that farming was mf “poor business.” One-fourth gave at- Offer Fine Program | cnasnt lisbilities and old age as a their rea for migrating to the Pointing out that the fight of city. the striking miners throughout the z soft coal areas of half a dozen stat 2 is being waged in behalf of all work- ;epresent it at the conference. The ers, the Harlem section of the Na- | committee points out that “only by tional Miners Rehef Committee is orpanized efforts will this work be calling on all workers’ fraternal or- carried through to a successful end.” ganizations, trade unions and benefit ‘ ‘ associations to elect delegates to a Speakers From Mines special Miners’ Relief Conference to. A highly interesting program is be held at 347 E. 72nd St.,.Room 7, being arranged, including speakers on Friday, Juiy 20, at 8 p. m. direct from the mine-war front. The Issue Appeal for Aid ice, coming two days before “All the miners ask for,” read nehing of the nation-wide their conference call, in part, “is Relief and Defense Week, that you, fellow-workers, come to as an impetus to relief and their aid and help them fight star- defense work in Harlem. Most of vation and disease, injunctions this week will be devoted toward evictions, by liberally donating funds making a success of the sale of for relief, and to help their brothers tickets for the Miners Solidarity and sisters lying in jail on framed- Fair of August 5, to be conducted up charges by conducting drives for by the National Miners Relief Com- defense funds,” mittee at Pleasant Bay Park, and to Each organization of Harlem is include a program which for variety asked by the Harlem Miners Relief will exceed any other held in New York Committee to elect two delegates to Come With Your Friends and Family to the PICNIC Given By the Joint Defense Committee of Cloakmakers and Furriers At Maple Grove, Sunday, July 22, 1928 Take Car No. 50 on Fifth Street—Get Off at Maple Grove GAMES — PRIZES — SINGING — GOOD EATS SPEAKERS: Hyman, Koretz Boruchivitz AKRON, OHIO KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR THE Big Daily Worker Affair s are not able to mke*>* ic < es 7 : ‘ y Bus Trolley t ing in a cloak of “impartiality” for | the action of the city superintendent Labor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave. Doyleston and then by Camp This is the sort of an answer a worker gets if he is not organized nto a union. If we had a strong inion, then that worker wouldn’t save had to go to ask for a raise circulation purposes, recently pub- lished an account of the fake Sigman organization drive. * * * | To Present Plans ts an individual. He’d have an or- sanization behind him, and his de- nands would have to be met, or else he company would soon find itself n plenty of trouble. Joint Board officers will come to morrow night in Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., to present to the meet- : = ing a series of plans mapped out for “Daily” Only Workers Paper. | the successful prosecution of the or- Many times before this I wanted! ganization drive soon to be launched ‘0 express myself about our troubles. | by the Cloakmakers Union. All ac- oor conditions and low wages, but| tive members of the union are urged aever had the chance. Last week a/ to arrive immediately after work. nan offered me a DAILY WORKER} * * * ‘ree. He was distributing a lot of| * sopies to all of us workers. I took! fy machi Of fae <Beapa garda | itt f the Li it! t home, read the letter that another | be ta Ko. C. ie ie Sr pai eaten me of us workers wrote in to The| o¢ its headquarters, 16 W. 2lst St. WORKER is the only paper a work- can express himself in, and the nly paper which will help the work- | Before I close, I think there should be an Italian and a Spanish 2 speaker at the open-air meeting next | Workers Will Honor ind cannot understand English sc} rery well. —B. M. a | cert Saturday at Coney Island Sta- | dium will be a demonstration of the FORCE PARDONS militant workers of New York in DAILY WORKER, and so am wri-| sing this myself now. The DAILY) CONCERT T0 BE ors to organize. I will buy The DAILY WORKER every day at the 1ews-stands. | week, because a good many of the : ° vorkers are Italians and Spaniards | Soviet Union The great DAILY WORKER con- honor of the Soviet Union, the coun- the opportunity to discover and per- |fect his marvelous ether-music. | _ Prof. Theremin is a citizen of the try which gave Prof, Leon Theremin | | Soviet Union and will appear at this PARIS, July 18.—Widespread re- unusual proletarian musical festival sentment and growing autonomist | as the representative of the first sressuro today forced President | workers’ and peasants’ republic. It Doumergue to sign pardons for is considered no accident that this hree of the leaders of the Alsatian | astounding discovery should have | jof police in firing on strikers under | | almost identical circumstances. FUR WORKERS the meeting of active members to- | MEET TONIGHT ‘Gold to Bare Fakers Peace Pleas Forced to the wall by the rising offensive of the fur workers the right wing scab union, the Joint | Council, A. F. of L. leaders, who are the bosses of the Council, sought to establishment, or in any place of amusement, or by any person, firm or corporation engaged in any ex- press or transportation or public utility business, or by any common The conference is called to arouse | working women to*the reality of the war danger “and to organize | women to combat the forces of im- perialism. The call to the second Bus to the Camp. By Train—To Raven Rock, N. J., ‘on the Pe Form New Raven Rock,N. J. For further information and reg- istration apply to: Train to —By Fy) conference, issued at a time when news comes of the death of Presi- dent Obregon in Mexico, throws into bold relief the gathering war clouds. The struggle against imperialism in Latin-American countries, of which the latest development in Mexico is but a part, marine rule in Nicara- gua and general suppressions in all colonial countries, all point to the threatening war danger, the New York Working Women’s Federation declares These acts will plunge the workers into another world war |more devastating than the las.t. |The Eecond Delegate Conference of \the Working Women’s Federation engage in fake peace negotiations | —4i. all women workers from shops | with the leaders of the left wing| ond industries to attend, Joint Board, who are leading the | goo pRE NOS gre workers in the drive. This, as well ee LABOR SPORTS MEET y i NEW YORK AUG. 25-26 as questions of equal importance | With one of the best athletic will be reported on in full by Joint| grounds in the vicinity of New York Board speakers at the big mass | secured, and clubs all over the coun- | meeting to be held tonight in Coop-| try already pouring in entries, the jer Union immediately after work. |Labor Sports Union second annual | Will Make Exposure. | national track and field meet Aug. bee Gold, manager of the Joint | 25-26 promises to far surpass last Board, announced yesterday that he would make public the dealings | with the labor fakers at the “ne- gotiations” which he recognied im- mediately to be a bid for a breath- ing spell for the Joint Council. Other questions to be reported on are the burning issue of July wage raises for the fur workers. This question is now the major campaign of the Joint Board. Not only has the Joint Board secured raises for the workers in their own shops but the campaign has so aroused the furriers that raises are being forced thru in shops not rec- | year’s meet, which was held in | Waukegan and drew around 250 ath- letes. From all indications this | meet in New York will have more| | than 600 participants. In addition to all the regulation track and field | events, there will be soccer games, furnished by several of the cham- |pionship teams of the Metropolitan | Workers League, gymnastic exer- | cises, and a mass calisthenic drill. | Clubs all over the country are drill- | ing squads of their members to take, | part in this mass drill, and it is) expected that at least 300 to 400, athletes in all will be in this event. carrief, or in any public institution incorporated in this state, more than 10 hours during any one day.” Of the female workers protected in hours, 332,359 are over 16 years | — an@ come under the 10-hour law while 11,080 are under 16 and are covered by the child labor law. The department points out that there is nothing in the 10-hour law to pre- vent employers working their wom- en employes up to 70 hours a week The department cites figures gathered by the U. S. women’s bur eau covering 46,070 women employ- ed in factories, stores and laundries to show that 5.4% work 10 hours a day while 68.9% work more than 8 hours a day. ; A study of wage rates given on accident reports involving 1,934 ac- cidents to women and girls in 1926 shows that girls 16 years of age average $10 to $14 a week while women from 17 to 64 average $15 to $19 a week. The average wage of these women throughout their lives corresponds to the wage paid boys of 17. The average wage for men does not become stationary until they reach 25 years after which their range is from $30 to $34 Biscuit Workers Will Hold Meeting Friday The second meeting of the Work- ers (Communist) Party at the Na- tional Biscuit Company will be held at 15th Street and 10th Avenue on Friday, July 20th, at 12 o’clock noon The speakers will be John J. Ballam | Acting District Organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party and Workers’ Co-operative Assn. DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER = BOSTON, MASS. ——-—-—| DAILY WORKER PHILADELPHIA 7} Spruce Printing Co. 152 ee ENTH ST., PHILA., PA CAMP ITGEDAIGET Bell—Market 6383 Union Keystone- ain 7040. Printers, ; Sunday, August 19 CAPITAL | BEVERAGE SPEAKERS CONCERT PROGRAM COMPANY GAMES BATHING ROWING re Will take care o CT arene youu fentertain: Trucks leave 10 A. M. sharp from 38 Causeway Street, SODA WATER AND BEER || || Boston, and New International Hall, Roxbury 2434 WEST YORK § phone: Columbia < = x — ~ Chicago, Ill. SCHUETZEN PARK 88rd and Tinicum Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. Beautiful nature spot. Splendid pienie ground with a dance hall of 1,000 capacity. Will accommo- date any labor organization. DIRECTIONS: Take trolley car south-bound to Moyamensing Ave., then Southwestern car going westward. Also Subway line No. 37. Philadelphia, Pa, PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISER MARKET RESTAURANT 1228 Spring Garden St. 7,000 Will Attend the Seventh Annual Freiheit Picnic Sunday, July 22nd, 1928 Baer’s Grove, 3737 N. California Ave. MAX BEDACHT District Organizer Workers (Communist) Party and Candidate for United States Senator, Will Speak DANCING GAMES Tickets in Advance, 35 Cents; At Gate, 45 Cents autonomists jailed some time ago been made in the Soviet Union. Only | In order to assure large dele-| one Italian and one Spanish speaker Directions: Kedzie-California Ave. to Irving Pk. Blvd. | ognizing the Joint Board. DELICIOUS FOOD on charges of separatist activities. there have all workers, including Order Attacks. Dr. Georges Eugene Ricklin, one | Scientists and artists, the oppor-| This despite the active opposition of the principal figures among the | autonomists, was not nvsever, the government alleging hat Ricklin had appealed from his tunity to work without fear of op- pardoned, | Pression and under conditions which make for the best possible results. Prof. Theremin will appear on Sat- to wage raises put up by the Joint Council, who have gone to the ex-| tent of ordering the police indus- | gations from the middle western According to reports from some states, a special train is being con-| of the workers at the National Bis- Have Your Dinner and Supper tracted for this purpose. The meet is not confined only to regular members of the Labor Sports Union, but is open to all conviction, and hence a decision of UTday night in a program which will the supreme court was necessary |®fford the vast throng of 25,000 before action can be taken to free Workers that is expected ample op- nim, When the supreme court will | Portunity to observe all the beauties iecide has not. been established. | of this new »ther-musie and its in- Of the men pardoned, two, Rosse | finite possibilities. and Schall, are deputies to the| Much has already been. said con French chamber. cerning the excellence of the Arnold Volpe Symphony Orchestra and the Roxy Ballet. They will be found to be worthy co-artists of Prof. Theremin. Fines In Liquor WASHINGTON, July 18—Pro-| Tickets for the great concert are hibition Commissioner Doran an-| on sale at the office of The DAILY nounced today that more than $1,-| WORKER, 26-27 Union Square. 00,000 was collected in civil penal-| Buy them now. ties from liquor law violators during the fiscal year ended June 30. Automobiles worth $5,000,000 were seized last yaar and more than, Start In Au gu st 50 per cent of the 80,000 cars cap- tured had been sold under liens by| The first National tag days to dealers, he said. help waise the $100,000 Workers Harry Anslinger, Chief of ihe) (Communist) Party Campaign Fund Foreign Control Section of Prohibi- | will be held during the week of Au- tion Bureau said that in the last gust 19-25. The National Campaign twelve months, 5,000,000 gallons of Headquarters has urged all party liquor was shipped from foreign|organizations to immediately begin countries presumably for entrance|their preparations for active par- in the United States. ticipation in the work. Tag Days For Fund trial squad to beat up and arrest | their own members when they strike for higher pay. Inside the right wing Joint Coun- cil is a group of organized opposi- tion to the gang in control. They | are now broadening the fight for worker athletes who are not mem- bers of the A. A. U. clubs, and who are members of a workers’ organ- ization. A special invitation is ‘be- ing extended to athletes who are members of trade unions. cuit Company, the first election campaign meeting held here last Friday was hailed with great in- terest by the workers. It formed the subject of discussion all that afternoon and the next day. At the first meeting, the chairman was re- quested by some of the workers presént to have an Itaian and a Spanish speaker at the next meeting one union in the trade and have split so far from the crew in con-| trol as to issue leaflets denouncing them as betrayers and at the same time enumerating in detail the var- ious sell-outs of the Stetsky-Mc- Grady clique. \Labor Defense Outing Date to Be Announced The annual outing of the New York Section of the International | Labor Defense, which was to have | been held Saturday in Pleasant Bay | Park, has been postponed because of a conflict in date with the con- cert at Coney Island Stadium. The date when the outing will be | held has not yet been determined, but will be announced in the near future. All tickets bought thus far Directions: ~ ADMISSION ......... PATERSON Daily Worker Picnic Sunday, July 22, 1928 TO BE HELD AT AUKINS FARM NORTH HALEDON, N. J. Auspices: W. P? 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