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

aad Page rour THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1928. M isleaders Talk Po —_——__¥ HANaOuTS In a capitalis newspaper office the head of 2 department store oc- cupies the same position that St. Francis does in the Catholic Church It is no wonder, then, that the fol- lowing item was given prominence last week in the New York Tele- are given once a week a Arnold Constables to the department that has exceeded its week’s quota of sales. A small Tolling piano and several profes- sional singers invade the depart- ment leading in sales for the week and proceed to sing it aises in terms of popular songs. The moral of this little st is contained in the next sentence Jn- fortunately customers are not in on this; it takes place in the morning, just before the store opens.” On the workers’ own time! Im- agine an overworked employe get- ting out of bed half an hour earlier to get to the store in time not to miss the serenade. * Send Snaps Like This! Comrades, you have noticed pic- fiires often run in this column of Cal Coolidge, famous menial who picks up the cigarette butts and empties the garbage for Wall Street. The pictures come in the regular service and they can only be pub- Wished in this column because no Communist paper runs a zoological | fection. On the other hand if any| tomrade has a picture funnier than the above he should rush it in by television, expense. Cal is shown cutting a piece of cake for his wife (right above) on his recent birthday. Cal, who is not noted for his. generosity, spent half an hour sharpening the knife, it is reported, to be able to cut the slice thinner. our * * * The commercialization of sport is indicated in the news that the boys who work in the stock rooms of Mar- shal Field in Chicago and Altman’s and Macy’s in New York are re- quired to wear roller skates. The bosses want to roll a little more profit out of their already highly exploited young workers. There's even a move on foot not to pay the workers. Some of the employers | g0 so far as to say the boys ought to he charged for the privilege of skating on their floors because, if their work is analyzed, it turns out to be nothing but recreation. eons * Political Jokesters | Al Smith and Joe Robinson, presi- Mential and vice-presidential candi- a on the democratic ticket are ited above at the he’s a farmer to get the vote. Even if a vice-presi- were elected who really wanted lp the farmers, as an individ- he could no more stop the capi- machine than an ant could chairman. Al's stand is that if business wants to own the gov- t after he's elected it has to Al and Joe are shown laugh- t the” monke: Their amuse. nothing compared to that f inside the cage, | workers broken ‘a steam roller. But the demo- | d ‘ weren't fooling when they |—Workers employed by the Amer- of “Yowlees Raskob, General Motors chief | ican-LaFrance and Foamite Com- in this work. REFUSE TOCALL OUT UNSKILLED KENOSHA-LABOR Attack Communists for Militant Leadership (By a Worker Correspondent) KENOSHA, Wis. (By Mail).— The “Committee of 1,000,” composed of unionists, unorganized wi and local lawyers and _ politicians, that is securing signatures on a petition to abolish the reactionary open-shop city manager form of government of Kenosha and replace it by-an aldermanic form of govern- ment, held a meeting on July 24 at | the German-American Home. The principal speakers were law- yers who for the most part based their arguments on petty issues against the city manager system, neglecting or giossing over funda- mental issues that would be of in- terest to workers. For example, one of the speakers recalled that |several years ago, when Kenosha kad an aldermanic form of govern- ment, a “citizen could get in touch with his alderman across the street, whereas now no one knows how f: away a member of the council may live,” ete. A “socialist” speaker also har- rangued the workers by praising Don Hoan, “socialist” mayor of Mil- waukee, and La Follette. After speaking was over the| chairman asked for speakers from the audience, | (Communist) League, took the floor and pointed out the position of the league. He condemned the city | manager form of government as a pliant tool of the open-shoppers, citing numerous examples where workers were arrested for peace-| fully picketing, street meetings of up and complete failure cf the city administration to oust company gunmen from the Allen-A mill out of the city. Herman urged the idea of a united front of all local labor organiza- tions for the purpose of choosing representatives of workers’ organ- | izations only, to run on election pro- | \ grams based upon the needs of the workers, This speech created havoc among those present. No sooner was he | through speaking than Louis F.| Budenz, editor of “Labor Age” and | leader of the Allen-A strikers, rose and hurled a titade against the | Communists. in general and the| speaker in particular. This “liberal” | misleader of labor, who helped the Allen-A company in its over tive. | month attempt to smash the strike | by not permitting the strikers to picket except on occasional noon hours two or three times a week, | who has viciously refused to listen | to suggestions that the hundreds of | unskilled. unorganized Allen-A workers should be called out to aid the locked-out knitters and toppers, with the result that the firm has over 220 scabs in its employ and is holding out firmly against the union, This labor faker denounced | lities Instead In Preparation for Impe rialist Slaughter. National Guardsmen of the 14th Infantry regiment shown march- ing for Camp Smith, New York, where they will receive instructions which will make them useful to the exploiters in the next imperialist The Young Workers (Com such troops. war. munist) League is active among WORLD NOW OWES U.S BANKERS $25,000,000,00 The first half of 1928 saw the armies of American investment dol- lars advancing as never before to extend the domination of the Ameri- can capitalist empire throughout the world. In the 6-month period, ac- cording to the U. S. department of| commerce, $1,053,164,650 of foreign | securities were publicly sold in this country while privately arranged in- vestments in foreign countries raised the total to at least $1,825,664,650. This is more in 6 months than the annual total of any year prior to ince 1914, the department shows, foreign securities have been publicly offered in this country to a total of | $12,712,518,179. If private invest-| ment abroad were included the total would’ undoubtedly top $15,000,000,- | 000. Nor does this include the in-| debtedness of allied governments to} the government of the United States. | Including this the total indebtedness | of the world to the United States ap-| proximates $25,000,000,000. | Great Britain is the only serious| rival of the United States as an in- vestment empire. Her capitalists hold something like $20,000,000,000 of foreign securities and in spite of tha industrial depression which per- vades England the total expands at a pace only exceeded by the dollar conquests. British Boast of Imperialism. Commenting on British and Amer- ican overseas lending, the monthly review of the great British Midland Bank says: “Ultimately what overseas lend- ing means is that the United States and the United Kingdoms are currently supplying goods and services to other countries on credit; that the rest of the world is going into debt to these two countries; and that these two cred- itors have enormous claims falling due from day to day on account of interest and repayment of debt. It is a cumulative process by which the rest of the world is becoming mortgaged to the two leading Anglo-Saxon countries.” MESSENGER BOYS SLAVE FOR LITTLE i} Wages Often Cut By} Western Union | | By MESSENGER. | The company I am working for is the Western Union Telegraph. I have been employed in this company for over six months as a messenger bos and during this period have learned quite a few things about this firm. The owner of the Western Union is Newcomb Carlton who makes about fifteen million dollars per year. | 19 ARE KILLED IN MEXICAN BATTLE Soldi ers Put Down Rising EL PASO, Tex., July 29.—Seven- teen reactionaries and two federal soldiers wer ekilled in a battle in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, between a| band led by Felipe De La Torre and Fiacre Sances, and the 76th and 77th regiments, a dispatch to El Continental, Spanish language newspaper here, said today. Two reactionaries were taken tha Communists, whom, he stated, | While he makes so much money the| prisoners as the reactionaries fled cfitieized him severely. Ever the | Messengers doing all the hard work|toward the state of Guanajuato. | braggart, he strutted forth ‘as the |Set very small wages, and about 2/The battle lasted several hours.| “hero” of Kenosha, battling for months ago the company cut the| Twenty rifles, progress, humanity, etc. He concluded by asking the chair- man to adjourn the meeting imme- diately, so in fear was he that work- ! ers might take the floor to criticize his unwarranted attack on the league and the party. After the meeting was over sev-| eral speakers came over to Herman | D zone and 24¢ for the E zone. This yp in complete bewilderment as to Budenz’s motive in “attacking” the Communists for no reason at all. FLANGE. No Union Clause in Federal Contracts July 30 (FP).— WASHINGTO. Contractors bidding for post office | or other federal building construc- 'Minne ta, tion jobs do not have to agree to employ union labor, the treasury department informed the Fall River (Mass.) Central Labor Council through Sen. David I. Walsh, July 26. The Fall River’ labor movement asked ‘Walsh to try to have the union labor clause written into any contract for post office construc- tion in that city. Federal laws provide that all such contracts must be let to the lowest bidder who is responsible and can be held to perform the work accord- ing to the specifications. But these specifications take no account of are directed solely to getting the executive | biggest value for the government’s |tion has not been forgotten. on zoo in Albany. The capi-| dollar, and hence they tend to en-| have organized our own baseball parties usually put someone | courage the employment of the team and athletics is a part of the ticket for vice-president who | cheapest efficient workers, whether curriculum. | these be union or non-union. Workers of Resort | City Go on Strike PALM BEACH, Fla, July 30. | pany here have been on strike for several days. The LaFrance Company manuf: ments. the opposite of the millionaires who spend their winters here, 100 saddle - horses, OF SHOP PAPER Thousands Exploited in Kansas City (By a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY (By Mail).—In no other city have the real estate and merchant capitalists developed | such an effective system of spread- | ing lies and misinformation in their | campaign of boosting Kansas City. If one read the ads in the news- | papers, movies, street cars and every | other conspicuous place he would be |led to believe that Kansas City is the greatest city in the world and a paradise to live in. Truly, the | stupid local patriotism of the bab- bits has reached such grotesque dimensions as to exhibit in the | course of the republican convention | placards bearing such inscriptions jas “Kansas City, the Heart of | America,” “The Heart of the | World.” | Of course the intent purpose of | this campaign is to impress the | minds of the workers with local pa- triotism in order to distract their at- | tention from the real issues and | problems that confront them. | Of course the capitalists have rea- | son to be proud of Kansas City. If | America symbolizes ruthless ex- | ploitation and suppression of the |working class then Kansas City truly earns the title of being called the “Heart of America.” For of all | the big cities in the United States | Kansas City is the worst open-shop city of all. The incredibly low wages, long hours of work, bad working and living conditions of the | workers have become proverbial | throughout the southwest. With the | breaking of the great packing house | strike the local capitalists have suc- | ceeded in making Kansas City safe | for the capitalists. No wonder it is | fast becoming the mecca of the great open-shop interests. The capitalists may boast of Kan- sas City as growing to be the metropolis of the southwest, but what do the workers get out of this? Kansas City may be the home of the second largest world’s packing and | flour mill center, it may be an im- portant rai’road center, it may have | many stee] mills, soap factories, | garment shops, with its mail order | house concerns, employing close to | 10,000 workers, it my be the dis- tributing center of the southwest, but ali this dees not mean that the working pceptulation has a great share in reaping the fruits of these industries. | On the contrary, the conditions of the workers in the Kansas City in- dustrial establishments are unbear- able. No wonder that many manu- |facturers from the north and east are moving their plants here. Ford has built up a large assembling plant; the General Motors Corpora+ tion is building a big Chevrolet and | Fisher Boy plant; the Fulton Bag SLAVES IN NEED | | Manufacturing Company is opening | |up a plant which will employ 600 | workers. The local capitalist news- papers are trying to explain this mi- gration of industry to Kansas City, | because of the city’s strategic posi- | rates again. We work here on a com-| and other war supplies were seized | tion, but thts is not the sole reason. mission basis and go according to zones. We used to get 4c for the A| zone, Tc for the B zone, 14c for the C zone, 20c for the D zone and 26¢ for the E zone. Now that they have cut the rates we get the following: 3.6c for the A zone, 6.8¢ for the B zone, 12c for the C zone, 18¢ for the actually means that we lost about $5 per week. Besides, we have to work 2 hours overtime every day. I am trying my best to get the boys to organize a union and. to join 18 to the Young Workers (Communist) | League. If the boys will organize we will be able to put up a better fight against those who are exploit- ing us at present. ools | Make id Progress (Special to the Daily Worker) CLOQUET, Minn., July 30.—The YWL courses at Cloquet opened on July 16 with 41 students attending from all parts of Minnesota. This year we have other courses at Han- cock, Mich., for the Michiean and Wisconsin nart of our district. The subiects taught our courses (Cloquet) are: sociology, economics, American history (from the workers’ viewpoint), role and | program of the youth movement, the interests of the workers; they public speaking, and research work. | The recreational part of our educa- We The YWL {s quite strong and widely spread In this district, being led by students of tho former courses, This district {s actually tackling the work which a young Communtat organization should do. And we know that the present class will help and continue CABMEN MAY BE KILLED. PARIS, July 80.—The police pre- 1 up the cash now, In the above |tures equipment for fire depart-| fect of Paris has ordered that taxi- | - cabs must not blow their horns at The conditions of the workers is street crossings between 1 and 6 p. | |m., in.order to guarantee the rest | of the Parisian inhabitants, by the fededals. School for Naturalists In the Soviet Union sete MOSCOW, July 11 (By Mail).— the outskirts of Moscow, border- jing a large forest on one side, and | on the other rolling fields and a river, is a school for young natural- ists. Here 150 young workers, from 18 years, come to take a 5. year course. The first 8 years cover general work and the last 2 are specialized. Experiments with grain, vegetables, fruit, animals, | 30 cents an hour, | birds and flowers are made, The schoo] which is just 10 years old is one of many nocessary to accom- |modate the 30,000. “young natural- ists” in the U. S, 5, R. | The real reason is because of low | wages and lack of union organization | among the workers. cents an Lour. The majority of the railroad workers make from $3 to $5 a day. Especially are the common laborers exploited, of whom great ttumbers are employed on the rail- way building, road and other con- | struction jobs. The bulk of them get 25 cents, 35 and 40 cents per | hour. Very few get 40 and 42 cents | per hour. The working day is 10 ‘hours. The Kansas City Public | Service Company, in carrying out its | 52-mile road construction, is paying The Union | Pacific, the Missouri Pacific and the | Katy lines pay 35 cents an hour. It | would take pages to list the large companies paying low wages. 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One of his early pro- | | ductions—some seasons back—was | Pirandello’s “Six Characters in| Search of An Author.” Last sea- | son Pemberton staged one or two| new plays, but made little effort to | bring worthwhile plays to Broad- way. Of the new plays scheduled for next season, “Going Home,” by Ran- som Rideout, will be his first offer- ing and will have its initial showing in Freeport Monday, August 13, coming to Broadway a week later. “Going Home” is a story of Negro troops in France. James B. Lowe, who played Uncle Tom in the Uni- versal picture, has an important role in the piece, The other plays include “Hot Bed,” a drama with a college back-| ground, by Paul Osborn, and | “Colonels’ Ladies,” by Fannie Heas- lip Lea, a play dealing with mar-| riage and divorce. _ Be | Jed Harris started rehearsals of | “The Front Page,” the play by Ben | Hecht and Charles McArthur, which | opens at the Times Square Theater | on August 14. The production will play a week out of town starting August 6 at the Broadway Theatre, Long Branch. Lee Tracy has one wage for the Negroes and Mexican workers, 25 and 30 cents an hour. Unemployment is very widespread. The local papers true to form and tradition when reporting the fact that rany local industrial establish- ments are adding new plants and also the coming of new industry into the city are trying to create an il- lusion in the minds of the workers that this will relieve unemployment. “Expansion” of the local industry goes on with such a speed that the hew industries coming into the city cannot absorb all the workers that are thrown out as a result of this “expansion.” In addition to laying cff {he men and the installation of speed-up systems the workers get ever fresh wage cuts. Such conditions could only have | been developed because of absence | of a strong labor movement. The) existing A. F. of L. local unions, due to reactionary leaders, pursue a do- nothing policy in regards to organ- izing the Since the losing of the packing house | strike no serious attempt to organize | thé. workers has been made. Now, however, a new force is entering into the local situation. The | strengthening of the Communist | Party organization has already been | evidenced by its participation in the presidential election campaign. The | Workers (Communist) Party has also made the first step in the direc- tien of organizing the packing house | workers by issuing a packing house | The near future will | witness an awakening of the work- | ers to the necessity of organiza- tion and struggle to improve their | conditions. —M. C. The Vege-Tarry Inn “GRINE KRETCHMB” BEST VEGETARIAN FOOD MODERN IMPROVEMENTS \ DIRECTIONS: Take ferries at 234 St., Christopher St., Barclay St. or Hudson Tubes to Hoboken, Lacka- || wanna Railroad to Berkeley | Heights, N. J. 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The play opens August 6 at Wal-| lack’s Theatre. Suzanne Bennett, Marion Haslup, Hugh Thompson and essie LeRoy are in the cast. * * * Another opening scheduled for the | same week is “Trapped,” the newest spins by Samuel Shipman and Max | Marcin, which opens at the Forrest Theatre, Tuesday, August 7. Among the principals: are Felix Krembs, John Miltern, Frank Monroe, Calvin Thomas and Linda Watkins, BRITISH ARMY FLIER OFF. LONDON, July 30.—Lieutenant PR, Murdoch of the South African air force left Croydon Airdrome in an attempt to make a fast flight to South Africa in a light Avro- Avian airplane. He will pass over the Sudan during the rainy season and will make observations that will be used in the creation of the air route to Cape Town. PACKING HOUSE “Going Home”, Negro Play |POLICE SMASH on Brock Pemberton’s List PIONEER LINE IN “GOOD NEWS” . -—ATPHILA, SHOP | AS. Dex OF Pic’ <ety With Whites. | (By a Worker Correspondent.) | PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).—A group of more than 50 members of the Young Pioneers, marching arounee eT Ce atothing face tory, at 13th and Callowhill Sts. in ‘a demonstration of sympathy with the strikers at this plant was broken up by the police, four full patrol | wagons of which arrived on the |scene. Among the Young Pioneers | were Negro children who joined in | solidarity with their white comrades. | Jail Flaiani. | The police arrested the leader of | the demonstrators, Dominick Flaiani, of the Young Workers (Communist) | League and one of the most prom- | inent members of the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers’ Union, Esther Glass and Helen Bennet, Young Pioneer leaders. Z All were held in court on the charge of corner lounging, a most absurd charge. The lawyer repre- senting the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union refused to provide bail for Flaiani. The reason for this is that the Amalgamated officers are trying their bes to railroad | Flaiani to jail. The Young Workers (Communist) League is active in the organization drive of the Amalgamated now tak- | ing place here. The League~mem- | bers are trying to force the officials | of the union to make this drive a real effective one. After the arrest | of the Young Pioneer leaders, the | Young Pioneers of Philadelphia is- sued the following statement: “The demonstration in front of the striking clothing shop is only one of the means we will use to help the clothing workers. We are going |to make an intensive drive to or- | ganize the children of the clothing Wen workers.” = ——$___—__— Thea., 45 St., W. of BY BOOTH Evenivigs 8:30 Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 eve a GRAND ST. FOLLIES SEATS NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 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