The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1928, Page 4

* Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928. ‘Low Pay MA ANaQuTS Tt has just been disclosed in the hearing before Commissioner of Ac- counts Higgins that the street clean- ing department of Al Smith’s Tam- Many Hall maintains a snow re- ff office during the summer. i possibility of a traffic tie-up due ? to a sudden flurry. during July and August is thus eliminated. When Stanley Baldwin, slow- ‘ witted British premier, was recently i told by the International Transfer- * ence Board that 200,000 jobl min- ers must be driven from their homes to seek work elsewhere or be doomed to starvation, he offered as his im- mediate solution of the problem the following optimistic buncombe: “I don’t believe this country is played ont or is going to be played out.” Baldwin and the other capitatists will continue to eke oul an exist- ence by clipping coupons, which is the hardest work they ao, as long as labor cepts starvation without a fight. lf, however, anything should happen to the scissor snipping business, the capitalists will maké vse of their one panacea for all ills, “War.” Uncaged The above article, that looks like something you throw peamuts to, is Johnny Raskob. He trying to make the gullible believe he quit as head of General Motors to be chair- man: of the democratic committee to elect Al Smith president. What did is he ever do around General Motors. He never put bolts on Chevrolet cars. The workers made the auto- mobiles and sill do. All Johnny did was to keep the plants open-shop and not let the men organ He feels he can still do that, for a few months, by telephone. He claims he’s quit for good. After the elec- tions he’s just as liable to keep away from General Motors as @ thirsty cow from a water hole. . * * Unconventional means sorted to in Blairstown, N. J., to obtain a new schdolhouse.’ The old school was without proper wash- rooms and ventilation facilities. The town council refused to appro- priate money for a new one. The other day the old schoolhouse was burned down. Whoever did the deed left a 40-quart milk can which was once filled with gasoline. Asked who did the job, William Penn Vail, president of the board of educa- tion, said: “We suspect everybody “big enough to carry the can.” * Outfit —— were re- Eastern Cow When society only provides a tage of its population with fe bs the rest will be found at singu- activities to keep from starving. Above is Miss Alice May Sisty, \ wearing a cowgirl costume made famous by Tex Rickard. She rode all the way from Reno, Nevada, on the above brave charger to invite the ctiy officials of Boston to at- tend the rodeo at Cheyenne. A rodeo is an event where a placid steer is given a shot of dope and kicks his heels up in grand style and a horse is taken off the laun- og given a charge of elecm wicity, and bucks prettily so that ‘the rich easterner can see the wild and Hard | woodchopping. Now, I hadn’t been |From the expression of his earlier nditio Charged With Killing Longshoreman STRAW TO LIE IN, RAGS FOR BEDS IN CAMP Vermin Crawl Filthy Floors (By a Wo Correspondent) POTTER VALLEY, Cal. (By Mail).—This little line of prosperity is written from the sun-kissed Cali-) fornia where Arthur Brisbane gives the regular bunk of the great op- portunities to be just gone after and Over er on his person, James MacGuckin, in $10,000 bail after he failed to ns for California Woodchoppe whis a coast guard, is alleged to have shot and killed the worker. MacGuckin, at rignt avove, was released appear in court. gotte not alone in its fertile pla but also in mountains, woods and desert. Let me try and tell Arthur something, not thru his ster’s voice but thru the voice of a worker. I came here some three years ago from Detroit. worked in Los Angeles while the working was good. When I say good, $18 was considered very good in that city, good, and all, as it was.. As per usual, the job didn’t last. GREENSBORO, N. C., Aug. 9.— At a mass meeting here, called to discuss the low wages, especially in the textile industry, workers took the stand and declared that the only solution is or ization and a fight against the textile barons, in spite of the danger that they would lose their jobs as a result The movement of the workers to fight against the terrible conditions here is becoming general throughout the central and western part of North Carolina. The 60-hour week is still the rule in most of the mills, and often chil- dren of eleven or twelve work ten hours daily for a miserable wage. A fresh labor supply is recruited from the rural sections where the farmers have been unable to obtain the necessities of life from the farms. Local chambers of commerce, in appeals for northern mill owners to come to the south, have pointed out that “labor here is American and loya!,” meaning that there is no or- Police Get Jobless. I shifted to “Frisco” and found conditions, if anything, worse, That city scared me a bit. Every day the cossacks were working overtime, rounding up the unemployed in the tenderloin district, Madison, Harri- son and 3rd Sts., and booking them on charges of vagrancy. The dead line was Market St. That’s where the slave instinct tells him to get off the grass. Things didn’t look healthy in “Frisco,” so I thought that I had better pack up my few belongings and try the great, wide, open! spaces, where men are men and workers carry their blankets after trudging most of the way from “Frisco.” I struck oil in Willits: a one-eyed gentleman hired me in partnership to chop wood. Boss Rules, By the way, what a slave is up against in the wood-chopping line of exploitation is pretty bad. To begin with, the boss emphatically lays down the size, length and fin- ish to the standard requirement and should you contradict any of his orders, he is sure to remind you of the depression prevailing through- out the land and that many men have contracted themselves to do the same work for lower pay. Anyway I tackled the job, in partnership with the boss’ foreman. That was my first experience at exploitation is practically unlimited. Although the American Federa- tion of Labor will take no steps to lead the workers, a spontaneous movement of the employes in the mills is developing in North Caro- lina. * * # “Daily” to Have Arficles on South. industry and conditions of the work- ers in the south will be written for the Daily Worker by Pau! Crouch, a native of North Carolina, who is ening to make a tour of that sec- jong in partnership with this bird | "°™ when I found out he was a snooper and conscious lackey of his boss. eels es COTTON CROP WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UP).— The condipion of the cotton crop in August was 67.9 per cent of nor- mal, indicating a production of 14,291,000 bales, compared with sentiments, I could easily see that he was a staunch advocate of Ku Klux Klanism. He was very hostile to all labor organizations, especially Ge the Communists and 1.) yicujture department announced to- W. W’s. day. I thought I'd try to convince ~~ him that there was light and a way to better our miserable conditions in today’s life. First, I pointed out the cabin in which we were living. A DAILY WORKER corre- spondent is the real spokesman and leader of the workers in his No. Carolina Girls ganization of the workers and that | A series of articles on the textile | 12,955,000 bales last year, the ag-| MILL HANDS STARVING Work for $5 Weekly NEWS IN CONTROL OF POWER TRUST National Censorship of | Papers WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—An un- dereover newspaper editorials and news xnatter, carried on through an ange of re- ports and state propaganda directors of the elec- tric power interests in Federal ords today. The evidence consists of a num- ber of letters sent by propaganda directors of the power trusts to the editors of different papers. letter, from J. B. Sheridan, souri propagandist director, company manager reads: : “Many thanks for your favor of April 14 with that wonderful edi- torial from the Sedalia Democrat attached. ‘ “T am glad that you were stimu- lated enough to put out such a | marvelous editorial, and when that reaches 60 Wall Street (the H. L. Doherty Company offices) there fought to be something doing. censorship intere! influence among as disclosed Trade Commission ree- Mis- to a in Missouri, | Something like a 100 per cent in| the salary of the manager of the City Light and Traction manager, | | together with a nice block of stock. “I wish we could stimulate other |editors in Missouri to write cdi- torials like that.” FIGHT SHARK AGENCIES. Because theatrical employment agencies have charged actors as high as 10 per cent. of their wages during the period of their contracts for securing jobs through them, the Actors’ Equity Association has \ started a war against the agencies. It had better have been called a + aa THE SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 coffin. I showed him the beds we tried to rest in, a litter of straw, with gunny sacks as matresses, rags and odds and ends as blankets. | {I pointed out the cheap food on | which we had to live. Always beans | |and coffee for our meals. | | There were the vermin of the| woods running on the cabin floor which I showed him. They were} also in the so-called beds and on the table. The table was two planks | ETROPOLITAN Deposits made on or Banking by Mail Gailiitell) ASSETS EXCEEDING $29,000,000 day of the month will draw interest from the ist day of the month. Last Quarterly Dividend paid 1 on all amounts from $5.00, V/A to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Soctety Accounts Accepted We Sell A. B. A. Travelers Certified Checks SAVINGS BAN before the 3rd We: Yas | laid on boxes. | Long Hours. | I pointed out the long hours we} |had to work, from sunrise to sun-| eNO’ THIRD AVE. Gor 72ST. One | |set, and work in all kinds of| weather. You can safely say you're | working if you make three dollars | in twelve to fourteen hours. My talk was true, but to the 100} | per cent. flunkey it was all in vain. | All he could answer in “arguing” | | back was, “Why don’t you go back | where you came from if you don’t \like the good old United States?” | So ended our partnership. From Willits I went to Ukiah, only to find conditions exactly the | same. Here I worked at the ranch of a government official to chop wood. I had the same rate of pay and the same miserable living con- ditions, although he exploited his | slaves more than the Willits 100 UNITED BRANCHES WORKMEN’S SICK AND GRAND Sunday, August 12th at PRIZE BOWLING Tickets in Advance, 25¢ NORTH BERGEN, OF HUDSON COUNTY DEATH BENEFIT FUND PICNIC 2:00 P. M. at Floral Park Hudson Boulevard and Angelique St., North Bergen, N. J. ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOUNG AND OLD DANCING At Gate, 50¢ PLUMBER BOSSES Avssian Films FAIL TO SCARE YOUNG HELPERS Must Resume Fight to Strengthen Union (By « Worker Correspondent) | The officials of the United Asso- |ciation of Plumbers, Steamfitters and Gasfitters have been dodging all questions concerning the recog- | nition of the American Association of Plumbers’ Helpers. The officials of the Plumbers’ Lo- cal 463, of Manhattan and the Bronx, came out more openly, late- ly, against the plumbers’ helpers. helpers by saying, “We will do Their last statement is to scare the away with the helpers completely 1 | HOSE who have followed the de-| yelopment of the film industry | in Soviet Russia the past five years | and have noted the remarkable progress made, not only in the type of films, but in the direction, will find the following article by Ivan Narodny taken from the current is- | sue of Musical America, both inter- esting and informative. “Like the Russian music and the Russian drama of a decade or two |age,” says Narodny, “the Russian |film is now casting an irresistable | racial spell'of attraction over the) outside world. The Soviet motion} picture is a tantalizing novelty to audiences in the Far East and America, “This is a strange phenomenon at a time when the motion picture |from the, trade.” Of course, we all | Production of other countries is go- Know that’ such words are pure| "8 through a crisis in which it nonsense. It is only thrown at us |S¢e™S in danger of losing. its original attraction and when all| in order to prevent us from organ-| izing the plumbers’ helpers! into a -, “ i union. Local 468 is supposed to be | Movietones, vitaphones, etc., are in- | the mouthpiece of the 300 plumbers" | tToduced in order to fill the theatre. locals all qver the country. | Arthur James, veteran American Such a statement before the na-| film critic and editor of Motion Pic- | tional convention of the United As-| ‘Utes Today, explains the situation | sociation clearly indicates that the|®5 due to ‘the raw Russian bear | officials of Local 463 will fight |Meat Served in the barbdvic splen- |against any attempt to admit the | 40Ts.’ helpers into the United Association,| ‘American and European audi- | This attitude towards the helpers | @n¢es—apart from those of the So- clearly shows that they are not| Viet republics—have seen but working in the interests of the| rem fraction of the vast variety of plumbers but in the interests of the | the latest Russian kinetic art, and master plumbers’ association, the| thus jump at the hasty conclusion| | members of which are the sole gain- | that it ‘is all a propaganda stuff.’ ers of such a policy. The rank and| What they have seen of the Soviet} | file plumbers, themselves, know our | films are ‘Potemkin,’ ‘Ivan the Ter- | | reasons for fighting for recognition | Tible,’ ‘The End of St. Petersburg’ | from the United Assocaition. How-|and ‘The Station Master’—pictures | ever, it has never been brought to | that truly belong to the class of his-| light. toric revolutionary plays. Such| We must again resume all efforts | cinemas do not by means deserve to| to combat pessimism in our ranks,|be called ‘propaganda’ films any) Only through the American Agso-|more than Wagner’s operas are| ciation of Plumbers’ Helpers can| propaganda for German nationalism | our aim be achieved. —N. | or ‘Aida’ for Egyptian. | A Cultural Message. | 4 Drowned, 27 Killed | “According to Soviet terminology, | by Gas in F-14 Tragedy | the above named pictures are called POLA, Italy, Aug. 9.—In the| | kulturfilms, which means, films| with a cultural message. It is per-| |pocket of the uniform of Ca | i z ptain | Wiel, comamnder of the submarine haps correct to call the preachy proletheistic pictures—according to) |F-14, there was found today a brief note, written as he was in the last the view that Communism is a re- ligious cult. The ideas of propa- jagonies of slow asphyxiation. It | said: kinds of additional devices, such a | |ganda is even taboo among the most devout Communists, as the be |period of propaganda making is| \ : and De Ge ‘a | considered long passed. if Wiel had not the strength to con.| However, the so-called kultur-| tinue, | film of the Soviet output is only a} Four of the F-14’s crew were | Part of the total productions of the drowned when it sank after colliq- country, and the term is rather ing with a destroyer in the Adri- Vague. First of all, the Soviet films atic, it was found today. Gas gen- | are not produced by the central erated from thesbatteries killed the | State concern in Moscow, but by| other 27 aboard. The tragedy oc- | Several, all over the country. And} eurred while the fascist submarine ; besides, nearly all the different 'na- was engaged in militaristic maneu-| tionalistic states forming the fed- Masa eral union have their local motion “Poor mother, | mothers of——” Its Tonight! |] THE MOST EXCITING EVENT OF THE SEASON The New Masses Debate | Subject: “Do Radicals Pussyfoot on Sex?” YES—Says V. F. CALVERTON Editor of Modern Quarterly NO—Says MICHAEL GOLD Editor of New Masses Come Early and Get a Good Seat—You Will | Not Want to Miss It—It’s Going to Be Good! TONIGT—AUGUST 10th—8 P. M. LABOR TEMPLE 14th St. and 2nd Ave. ADMISSION, SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS | pér center. Besides chopping wood, you had to clear his ranch of under- | | brush without thanks or compensa- tion. | The gentleman’s salary as offi-| ‘cer to the Mendicino Company ex-| |ceeds $600 per month and he has) |been holding that fat post for 24 years, Yet he didn’t pay me for | | what timber and underbrush I had put by in some four months. Other fellows have the same complaint | against our governmental boss. I’m rather long about this letter, |I know, but that’s what really hap- pened, its true and I can vouch for | its authenticity. | If any readers of The DAILY WORKER want to live a little lon- |ger under republican prosperity, just give California a wide berth. | The sunshine is pretty nice, but never nice enough to make a meal for a hungry stomach. I, for one, would like to get out of California, but in the three years I've been here I’ve not been able to | save enough to leave and get into! the “promised” land, America. | | QUALEY.. | Collect é . October 4, 5, 6, 7 DAILY WORKER and FRETHEIT Bazaar MADISON SQUARE GARDEN | Articles! TO ALL OUR READERS: NE ST one PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTIZERS Do not forget at all times to mention that you are a yeader of The DAILY WORKER. Fill out this coupon stating where you buy your clothes, furnish- ings, etc. Name of business place .....sceccscscecssecccscsvccccccees Address Your name ......sscesccesesessecpsccvccenssccscves Address Mail to DAILY WORKER rs, Corresp Spell in Europe and America |the Chuvashkino, the Tartar Kino, | Soviet policy is to give each of the | berian goskino does it in the spirit a| State Film Company, Uzebekgos- t Writes POLICE BREAK UP spondent Cast Magic picture studios, either maintained by the government or by a private | company,’ supported by the state. | “Thus to my knowledge there ‘are | at least six or seven different local | state film companies—goskinos—|Arrest Chairman and which all work in their own inde-| . pendent way, as for instance, the | Disperse 400 Georgian Goskino, the Ukranian) Goskino, the Central -Asian Goskino,| Police last night broke up an open air meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, in Passaic, N. J. held for the purpose of furthing the election campaign of the party, and arrested N. Katz, chairman, after having brutally pushed him joff the stand, Four hundred work- ers, gathered at the meeting place to hear the speakers, were dispersed when a squad of police arrived on the scene. Katz was taken to the police sta- ete. All those state film companies | work very much like some municipal | theatres, each in its own way and style. Individual Liberty. “The outstanding feature of the nationalistic state administrations liberty to manage its affairs in the | spirit of its folk lore and racial tra-| ditions. Thus an Armenian gos- tion, charged with disorderly con- kino produces pictures in the spirit|{uct, and released after a few of Armenian traditions, and a gi. | minutes. He was ordered to appeal ‘ in Court this morning. | This was the first time that the police had broken up a meeting in Passaic for a long time. Up till four weeks ago, meetings had not been held in a Passaic, police cen« sorship having been exerted on the workers ever since the great strike |in 126. The last three meetings | were not disturbed, but the police finally decided to “break them up once and for all,” workers said. N. Y. Stock Brokers Get Illegal Interest (By United Press.) Interest rates on time loans on the New York Stock Exchange went up to 6% per cent today, the highest rate quoted for time money in seven years. Under New York laws any rate of interest on time loans over 6 per lcent is illegal as usury. Conflict Depict Life of People. | with the law vas avoided by brok- “Pictures all depict the lives of \¢TS offering 6 per cent interest and the different nationalities whien| % of, ome per cent as “commission” form part of the Soviet Federation; |£T their loans. they are performed by local actors | RGA EER LISS and managed by native stage and| - KILLED BY. LIGHTNING. art directors, | “CHICAGO, Aug. 9 (UP).—One |man was killed, two children were |injured and twenty others | stunned when a bolt of lightning struck in the midst of a crowd of bathers in lake Michigan here to- day. The electrical display threw a crowd of 200 bathers into a panic as they ran for shelter. of Siberian folk lore, etc. The Tar- ar goskino is at present at work in Mongolia on the production of a film called Genghis Khan, with one of the distant descendants of this historic Tartar ruler playing the heroic role, and natives cast for the Golden Horde. “Some time ago a magnificent Central Asian motion picture was produced by the Central Asian kino. This was called ‘Kryty Fur- gon’ (Covered Wagon), and showed the unknown life ofsdifferent Cen-| tral Asian natives. It was also a| powerful drama conceived in a true racial spirit. To my judgment a far more powerful picture was ‘Sar Pige’ by Churashkino—dealing with one of the Tartar races inhabiting | the plains between the Volga and the Ural rivers, (To Be Continued.) JAILED AS STOWAWAY SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 9 (UP).—Miss Betty Simpson, 25, who gave her address as Ada, Okla., end said she was a newspaper re- porter, was sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment at the police court today for stowing away on the liner Aquitania. It was said to be the girl’s fourth voyage as a stowaway. PROTEST PRISON LABOR BURLINGTON, Ia., Aug. 8.—The members=of the Trades and Labor Assembly here protest against the hiring of contract ‘ prison labor against which there has even been passed a law. of Biway CHANTN'S46th St.W. of B 8:30 * Evenings Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL’S MUSICAL SMASH Godb NEW with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIO 4mnd & NOW CAMEO “Si ADOLPHE MENJOU in “The Woman of Paris” and “CALIGARI” THE GERMAN FILM CLASSIC with CONRAD VEIDT BOOTH Thea., 45 St, w. Evenings Mats, Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 GRAND ST. FOLLIES The LADDER SEATS NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. Eves. 8:30. Mats. Wed. & Sat. Money Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play. You're in the fight when you write for The DAILY WORKER. SUPPORT THE $100,000 Communist Campaign Fund A campaign to rouse the workers and poor farmers to revolutionary struggle against the capitalists and their government. FOR AGAINST A Demanasen Wo 1. Wage cuts, injune- tions and company unions. 2. Unemployment. 3. Treachery of the labor bureaucracy. 4, Discrimination against Negroes. 5. Imperialist war. the x Support of the min- ers and textile work~ ers’ struggles. 3. Recognition and de- fenxe of the Soviet Union. A Labor Party. For a Workers’ and Farmers government, HELP TO PROVIDE A FUND TO Place the Commu- Furnish campaign nists on the Ballot. publicity and adver- Tour speakers and _ tising. organize mass meet- Publish ings. literature. campaign Respond Now! Respond Now! 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