The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1928, Page 4

"Vare Fou 1HE DAILY WORKER, N 'W YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928. HAnaOuTS CHEATED OUT OF U. S. Senators, anxious to have he voters understand how good they are, will mail out 60 tons of ma- Srial a day under government frank turing the coming campaign. This Mill be quite a boon to overworked sostmen who are already kicking. qthey Say transporting the stuff eally falls under the jurisdiction af the street cleaning department. . Iil-tempered Rich Handing «a woman a few million dollars doesn't necessarily improve her temper. Mrs. Lydia Johnson, (right) bride of the heir to ‘the Palmolive millions lost her bracelet. She put an ad in the paper, An honest taxi driver, trying to help +tr find her jewelry, answered the d. Mrs, Johnson had the impu- lence to suggest the taxi driver had | bracelet and threatened him | Ih %ith @ revolver. He had her ar- | ested. The idea of a taxi driver searing a lady’s bracelet is absurd 3 is also that of even a class-con- H siovs worker attempting the ex- } vropriation of the wealthy classes | -adividually. Johnny Raskob, imunitive and zail, who came to the big city of vew York from the backwoods of aé south, has met more than his hare of the trials of a heartless ity. He has lost so many jobs that e can no longer keep track of them imself. Most of these he gave up volun- arily. One of them was the Chair- tanshi> of the General Motors Cor- oration. When confronted today with re- orts that he had given up positions > three railroads, Raskob said he ad resigned some such positions, ut he didn’t know what railroads hey were. He was informed that financial eports said he had resigned from he Missouri Pacific Executive Com- aittee, and as director of the Gulf Joast lines and Texas and Pacific \ 2ailways. \ “Yes, I believe ones,” he admitted. Gems of Learning Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Brit- h Home Sceretary:. those are the “Unless the nations of the world ollow the example of Great Britain nd show a real desire to curtail ir,/armaments, the compact. will se’ wothing but a hollow sham. “We desire to appeal to the great Jnited States when our signature «1 the course of a few weeks is daced alongside vf those of other » ations of Europe and say to them: “We are signing this compact at + ‘our request, a compact to end war, and yet we understand you are in- ‘Teasing your navy.’” True. Both are increasing arma- nents as fast as they can. The dif- rence is America has more facili- cies, M. C. H. SHARKS FLEECE HOTEL. WORKERS “ob igencies Work ‘Md Game With Bosses ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (FP). <Mlere where fashionables from ee York and Philadelphia gather : leisure class. sports and hotel and restaurant rving them are being uge y job sharks to the tune undreds of thousands of dollars pay 10 per cent of y wage to the job agent tie privilege of working. Oth- pay a flat fee of $5 for a job @ not more than $15 a week. ® worker must pay before re- m the job but if discharged the first week has a chance . chances for another job how- * are about nil, for there are of other unemployed work- Same vacancies. agency that charges a flat in’t even promise a job in hired. That is just the work- -torh luck. Actually hotel and ‘rant managers often keep on thir and firing workers rapidly as to divide the employment fees f “ae by the job sharks, LUNCH TIME AND PITIFUL WAGES: Election Campaign Is Way to Reach Men (By a Worker Correspondent) K SAS CITY, (By Mail).— The republican party politicians and newspapers have already started to |disseminate their election propa- ganda. They want to convince the workers that under the republican administration they enjoy pros- ri The Kansas City Star in its 16 edition showed a cartoon suggests the idea that under the G. O. P. administration, the | workers get the full dinner pail and “a car for darn near everybody.” Well let some politician wander off into a camp of some kind of a construction company and it would not be long before he will quit ped- dling that prosperity bunk. The conditions of the thousands of the laborers working on the various construction jobs are so miserable that they will spit in the face of any one that will talk to them about “prosperity.” Cheat Workers’ of Time. I had a chance to closely observe the life and work of the workers of the List Construction Co., which has contracted a job for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. All workers get 35 cents an hour. The workers are supposed to wotk ten hours, but they work more. Here is how they do it. About ten minutes to six| the bell rings and all workers get up. Six o’clock another bell rings and all workers go to have break- fast. The breakfast lasts ten to twelve minutes. Then the workers go back to the car and before they have a chance to rest ten minutes the gang foreman comes over howl- ing, “Come on boys!” and the boys start to work at 6:30 instead of 7 o'clock. The workers are supposed to get an hour for lunch. But this is a miserable deception, they don’t even get a half an hour. - Instead of stop- ping at 12 o'clock we stop five minutes later. Then it takes the gang five minutes to walk from the minutes to wash your face and sometimes even more than five minutes because you have to stay in line. Then you go to eat. When you go out from the dining car it is 12:30." At “15 “minutes to one the| foremen comes over with his usual “Come on boys!” and the boys walk along. Instead of leaving the job at six, they leave ten or fifteen minutes after, | Take Workers Money Away. If a worker works all day he makes $3.50, but he never gets that sum of money. The company takes off $1.20 daily for the three meals, so if the workers does not buy any cigarettes or some other things he makes only $2.30 a day. The work is real hard. The work- ers are forced to work at a terrific speed. Three or four years ago a worker would rest at frequent in- tervals and usually work only two- | thirds of the time. But now it is quite different. Not only is the worker forbidden to rest but he is speeded utp. Take for instance, the shovel gang. The foreman does not care whether you have to shovel sand or dig wet | Missouri mud. He. speeds the worker just the same. And when it happens, to be a hot day then the work is) simply killing. Many workers can’t| stand the strain of the work and| they quit at three or four p. m. All| workers strain their last ounce of energy to finish the day’s work and when they finish the work they walk to the cars hardly moving their feet. The workers are so exhausted that | at noon or after work they can’t eat, They have no appetite, but they realize that working so hard they have to eat, so they simply shove the food down their throats. After the workers had their supper they do nothing but lie prostrated on their cots. The wheel-barrel gang and the spikers work even harder. Of course none of these workers have any faith in the propaganda of the republican party. |shop for district eight. |to be held at Camp Hilcrest, Rock- Almost all of these workers are | native born, many come from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas and other states, Many of them were well to do. Many are farmers. But they prefer to work for $2.30 a day than stay on the farm. If Coolidge ever talks to these fellows about prosperity they | will do more than spit at him. This is not an isolated instance of the degree to which the unskilled la- | borers are exploited in the South West. There are thousands of men work- ing .as laborers on the railroads, | Americans. harvest company hopes to breed racial and| Tourist, sold at established rates. In many places exploi- national antagonisms. The workers There is one| are bitter against these conditions (construction roads, dams, fields, ete. tation is still worse. contracting company called Lewis Construction Co. hundreds of workers paying twenty- five cents an hour. to reduce the | still further. ‘hire colored [In Del Rio, Texas, over 600 workers | ie employed constructing a dam to the Party to reach them. °% the Rio Grande River. There the | |them 30 cents. the and despite the fact that they are} It employs| unskilled the sentiment is strong) | for organization. | The employers | F. of L. does nothing for the work- are not satisfied yet and they want. ers. wage of the workers | make every effort to reach this For this purpose they great mass of exploited unskilled and Mexican workers. | workers. “Says Thank You”—For Bein ror g Exploited One of the capitalist schemes for keeping the workers contented is a variety of welfare plans. The same powers which cause over- crowded working class quarters to exist also make a specialty of bringing small batches of poor children to ®he country for a few days and demanding that they be grateful. The Salvation Army and similar organizations take the lead in this work. Above, children from New York’s east side forced to salute General and Mrs. Bal- lington Booth, of the Volunteers of America, during one of these excursions before the children are returned to swelter in the slums. CHICAGO YOUTH TO HOLD LABOR TO BUILD NUCLEI SPORTS MEETING Plans Made at Recent Gall Convention in Conference N. Y. Aug. 27-28 CHIGAGO:) (By, emia TRS Coateaak one Puree Young Workers Communist League} A ri : Dist, No. 8 recently held @ confer. Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. ence here to stimulate the building) °" ie ie of shop nuclei. Twenty-two del-| I" the sphere of athletic activ- egates representing the units in| ity, two national indoor meets have Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis,| Dee held in Detroit, the second at- Weakegan, and the mining dis-|‘tacting over 150 athletes. tricts met on Sunday, July 22nd, at| tional outdoor meet, which was held the District Headquarters in Chicago] i" Waukegan in July of 1927, was| for five hours. | undoubtedly the biggest and most Comrade Platt, the new district| complete athletic meet organizer, opened the meeting with| ever held in this country. Activity a talk in which he gave some of the|has been carried out in boxing, reasons why we have no shop nu-| wrestling, baseball, basket-ball, clui. He pointed out that the league| ee track and field sports : . | and soccer. see ee eee a onan SPS ata ealaign ty moeeee tie GALS that the ‘shop ‘mnctai was the only! Soorts\ Union can point with«pride basis for mass organization. |to the organization of the Metro- Discussions and reports by the|Politan Workers’ Soccer League, representative and factory workers| which consists of 32 teams number- followed the report of comrade|ing 600 players. Through the or- Foesom. These reports were very| ganization of kindred leagues in interesting. Factory workers from| Brooklyn, Eastern New Jersey, De- such plants such as, Western Elec-|troit and Chicago, the basis has tric Co., Sears & Robeck, W. F.| been laid for the setting up in the Hall printing, doing league work} near future of a labor soccer asso- under the bosses nose. The organ-| ciation, national in scope, and chal-| izer of St. Louis, and Milwaukee, | jenging the authority of the boss- the league was prepared to start! controlled and corrupt United factory campaigns in these section.| States Football Association. | The Waukegan unit was typical of; «tp the field of publicity the La- a small unit in an industrial center:| bor Sports Union has (hee ee The league there was handicaped by| P & és .° | regularly a press service which has Peers ina ey hn ae poate been sent out to scores of labor pa-| active members. In spite of these) Pers: However, the need of a regu- | handicaps the league has tarned | 8 printed publication has been its attention to the young work.| Steatly felt. : | ers in the industry. By the hold-| “It must be admitted that educa- ing of street meetings and general| tional activity which would give the recruiting work in the industrial) members of the LSU the proper un- field. On the bases of the reports| derstanding of the economic and from the units in regards to pos-| political struggles of labor has not sibilites for factory work and the| been properly casried on. This must forces of the league in these sec-| be remedied in the future. Hand in tions a program for intense shop| hand with this educational activity work and recruiting work amongst) there will have to be rarried on a young workers will be laid out. The) more vigorous struggle against the organization of one shop nuclui was|influense of the Amateur Athletic reported at the conference. The in-| Union, the YMCA, the industrial suing work of the league in the! sports leagues, etc., which are the factories promises to result in more instruments of the bosses in the | field of sports. Cie | “In order to make this conven- League School Will |tion as broad and constructive as | possible, the Labor Sports Union! Celebrate Close by | executive board, as per the decision | i i icnic | of the first convention, has issued a Holding Big Pienic| to all non-affiliated labor ROCKFORD, Ill., Aug. 10.—The/| sports organizations to send repre- Young Workers (Communist) | sentatives and delegates. | League Training School will end its; “The executive board urges the | five weeks’ of preparation for ac-|clubs to call special membership | tive \participation in the class | meetings at once, for the purpose of | struggle by a commencement picnic | discussing the tasks of the coming convention, of electing delegates ford( on Sunday, August 26. | and of working out ways and means The training school extends an|of raising money for the sending | invitation to the workers of Rock-|of these delegates. | ford and nearby cities to participate | in the closing program. As a re-| sult of the activities of the school during the course of the last three weeks, a big turn out is expected. Thru factory sales of the Daily Worker by the students, thru open- air meetings, and thru personal con- | tacts, many workers have been drawn closer to the revolutionary | movement. Therefore, the com-| mencement picnic will be the first get-together for the progressive workers of Rockford in a long time. Our na- workers’ workers have been getting from 45 to 70 cents an hour. Now the com- pany is bringing Mexicans and pays Workers Party Only Aid. ‘Going anywhere In order to prevent organization | ; between the American and Mexi, ANY time e can workers. The Mexicans are se- Over any Line gregated and forbidden to talk to ; In this manner the| Tiickets, all classes, including Re-entry Permits, | reservations. NO SERVICE CHARGE Information about travel to all parts of the world. Illus- trated folder on request. Visaes, good As usual the A.| The Communist Party must ; |——-COME, WRITE OR CALL—— A. WESSON & CO. 309 East 14h., N. Y, C. t] Algonquin 8254 The presidential election campaign offers a good opportunity —M. C. a — List Construction Company Workers Treated Like A | day. nimals, Correspondent Reports URGES RANK AND Russian Films Cast Magic — $PEED-UP KILLS, FILE MINERS T0 AID NEW UNION Progressives Must Rally Workers WASHINGTON, Pa., (By Mail). | ne | (By a Worker Correspondent) |—I would like to have these few | lines published in the Daily Worker. As I look around in the Washing- ton Company mines, Arden, Rich- mond Hill, Manfield, Lindley, Can- nonsburg, Midland No. 1 and Tyler- dale mines I hear reactionaries saying that the Save-the-Union men are going back to work but see none of the Save-the-Union men there. On the other hand - there were the reactionaries scabbing. Now, I say to you, brothers, roll up your sleeves and fight this whole rotten gang and we will have a big victory in the near future for the rank and file. At present there is a call for a new mines convention and for a new miners’ union. It is up to us pro- gressive miners to make sure ‘the good results of the national conven- tion to be held in Pittsburgh, Sep- tember 9th to 16th, Now is the time for all progres- sives to rally all the miners t- gether, go forward through the con- vention to a victory over the bosses and their helpers, the rotten officials. —B. A. 18 Nuns Freed, Others Held in Obregon Case MEXICO CITY, Aug. 10 (UP).— Eighteen nuns from the convent of | Mother Superior Concepcion, held since the assassination of President- elect Obregon, was released yester- They had been detained for questioning, Mother Superior Concepcion, has admitted that she might “uncon. sciously” have inspired Jose de Leon Toral to kill Obregon. 6 TO SHARE DANCE PRIZE CRYSTAL BEACH, Ont., Aug. 10 (UP).—Three couples in Milton Spell in (Continued.) | “Besides the official state film companies I have named, a number of private motion picture studios are engaged in producing films with purely commercial principles in view. Therefore in speaking of So- viet films we must look at the situa- tion with an unbiased mind attuned to facts, and must remember that we are more prejudiced against Soviet® | ‘propaganda’ than the Russians are |against our business ‘propaganda.’ We cannot judge actual Soviet films | from the few examples—mostly pr ductions: of the Moscow Goskino— dsiplayed here or in Europe. “When I saw the first Soviet film in Moscow—I had even not seen Potemkin in America—I was deeply impressed by its peculiar inherent truthfulness to life, by its simply | directness, natural tempo and nor-| mal continuity, factors which are| j absolutely lacking in American and German-French films. The picture | Europe and America , Pathos. However, this film, like ‘The Last Days of St. Petersburg,’ may seem a propaganda picture from our point of view, and we leave it to the judgment of the individual onlookers. “What actually thrilled me most —perhaps because of its more or less distinctly American style of staging—was the adventurous ‘SVD’ (Soiuze Velikavo Dela—Union of a Great Venture), depicting the dram- atic lives of the first Dekabrist Re- bellion in 1825. Here the scenario | writer, the directors and the acting characters produced a film that was reminscent of Dummas, Dostoievsky and 0. Henry,—a peculiar psycho- logical adventure drama in which man, destiny and traditions play their roles in turn, (To Be Continued.) EMIL_JANNINGS IN NEW ROLE AT CAMEO Right after the inflation period FELLOW WORKER HELD FOR DEATH Dragged Down Shaft to Cellar (By a Worker Correspondent) Day in, day out, the lives of | building trades workers are being more and more endangered. The eause of it isthe speed-up system. The speed-up system is being now more than ever practised through- out the various trades in construc- tion work. Recently, at the Lefcourt Build- |ing, located on Seventh Ave., from 25th to 26th Sts., a‘ laborer was killed by falling from the fifth floor to the cellar. His job was to take the wheel-barrows coming up on the hoist to the bricklayer. The hoist stopped suddenly and he ran to take the wheel-barrow. Mean- in question was ‘The Czar and the| in Germany, when the mark was a| While, by mistake, a Negro worker Poet’ of the time of Nicholas 1 and) Poushkin. It was a distinctly poetic film of the most classic order, played in the actual palaces of the van-| ished czars, in Peterhoff. In fact} even the historic costumes of the | actual characters were used by the) film actors, under the direction of | Comrade Gardin. It was a magnifi-| cent production, realistically dram- | atic and spontaneous. “Like ail Americans, I was at! first prejudiced against communis- tic art and thought everything was | displayed in distinctly ‘propaganda’ | spirit; but my view soon changed after I had attended six or eight new Soviet motion pictures, each of | which was as different from the | others as Italian opera is from the German. A splendid picture was |‘The Golden Bottom’ (Zolotoe Dno) by the Siberian Goskino, depicting the village life of the Siberian farmers. Not less interesting was| ‘The Black Post’ (Cherny Stolb), by | | Chavashkino—the Chuvash Film |Company, in which Tani Iun, a | talented Chuvash actress, played the leading role. “As a historic revolutionary pic- ture, the Moscow Goskino produc- tion, ‘October,’ showing the down- fall of the old regime and the | triumph of the people and the So- Crandall’s Canadian-American Dance | viets in Petrograd, is the - most Marathon, which has halted here at | powerful film I have ever. seen. It] its 210th hour Wednesday, will share | is gripping, not only in its true| in the $1000 prize money, it was | realism, but more so thru in its stir- announced today by the promoter. |ring mass scenes and _ historic 1928 The Presidential Election and The Workers By JAY LOVESTONE 20 cents fl The secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party analyzes the economic and political background for the presidential elections. The role of the major parties in the campaign. The tasks facing the workers and what the Workers (Communist) Party means to them. WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 East 125th St., New ork City —— NORTH BERGEN, N. J. UNITED BRANCHES OF HUDSON COUNTY WORKMEN’S SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT FUND GRAND PICNIC Sunday, August 12th at 2:00 P. M. at Floral Park Hudson Boulevard and Angelique St., North Bergen, N. J. ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOUNG AND OLD PRIZE BOWLING DANCING | Tickets in Advance, 25¢ At Gate, 50¢ October 4, 5, 6, 7 DAILY WORKER and FRETHEIT Bazaar MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Collect Articles! billion to a dollar, a familiar, but much detested, figure in Berlin was the “chieber” or profiteer. Taking his cue from this war puppet, Emil Jannings conceived the idea of a film which he devel- oped into a scenario with the aid of the now-famous screen writer, | Hans Kraly. They hawked the story up and down Friederich- strasse, Determined to see it through, Jannings decided to turn producer himself and engaged Rudolph Schaenzler (who later was DuPont’s assistant on “Variety”) as co-direc- tor, and the result was “ Alles fur Geld” (All for money) which the Film Arts Guild will present for its American premiere at the Cameo Theatre today, under the title of “Fortune’s Fool.” While not possessing any great production values, because the Jan- nings’ purse was lean in those after- war days, “Fortune’s Fool” is marked by a naturalistic tendency which reflects the story and atmos- phere in an unforgetable manner. The Comeo program will also in- clude Charlie Chaplin in a re-issue of one of his ever popular comedies, “The Fireman.” gave the signal, for the hoist to go |down. No sooner was the signal given, than the hoist dragged the laborer through the shaft, landing | him in the cellar. He died instant- ly. The Negro worker is being held on a charge of manslaughter. The boss keeps cool, meanwhile his op- erations go on just the same. The speed-up system and longer hours of work is shortening our lives in the dyas that we toil. We must for better conditions on the jo> for everybody. —N. AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL POUGHKEEPSIE, Aug. 10 (UP). —The tracks of the New York Cen- tral Railroad from Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, to Harmon are now under automatic train control. Under the system, if an engineman fails to respond to a signal, his train is automatically stopped by regular service brakes. WIN THE 40 HOUR WEEK ROCHESTER, N. Y., Aug. 10.— Since they; won a 40 hour week as against the previous 44 hours means that the wages per hour of clothing workers increased by 9 per cent. Evenings 8:30 Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 The LADDER SEATS NOW ON S8AzL} 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 st. arvee a“ Bain, Wea. & Sat. 'y Refunded if Not Satisti. With Play. aes BOOTH Thea. 45 8t., W. of B'way | CHANIN'S46th St,W. of Broadway , Evenings at 8:35 Mats. Wed. & Sat. GRAND ST. FOLLIES Goon NEW OD NEW with GEO. OLSEN and HIS MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1 In~ employment here is very great since in all branches of industry there is a surplus of. labor according to a report of trade unionists. ALBEE KEITH- — REFRIGERATED —— CAMEO COOL AND COMFORTABLE 42nd St. and Broadway NOW FILM ARTS GUILD Presents First American Showing EMIL JANNINGS In a Tragicomedy of War's * "Aftermath “Fortune’s Fool” AND IN ADDITION CHAS. CHAPLIN in “THE FIREMAN” and “TREACHEROUS WATERS"—a UFA Novelty Reel FOR Organization of the unorganized. Support of the min- ers and textile work- ers’ struggles. Recognition and de- fense of the Soviet in A Labor Party, For a Workers’ and Farmers government. Place the Commu- nists on the Ballot. Tour speakers and organize mass meet- ings. Respond Now! 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. HELP TO PROVIDE A FUND TO Send All FUNDS to ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, Treas. National Election Campaign Committee 43 E. 125th St., New York City. AGAINST 1. Wage cuts, injune- tions and company unions. 2. Unemployment. 3.'Treachery of the labor bureaucracy. 4. Discrimination against Negroes. 5. Imperialist war. Furnish campaign publicity .and adver- tising. Publish literature. Respond Now! campaign