The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1928, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, ee 5 Bene Pickers Camp in Squalor i in Rich ( California, Worker Correspondent Reports HAnaO, TS: The master minds of British Statesmanship can find no Hated use for a million and a quarter jo less than to leave them peaaice sbout their wretched hovels waiting for the unemployment dole. Re- cently, however, Premier Baldwin Gave birth to a new solution. He said: 4 “The state permanent un- employment in Great Br n may mow be considered an emergency. * * His government in Great Brit continue the policy of loans en- abling any British E emigrate to the do Viding that he has been assured a job there. Whereupon the dominions imme- diately replied: ‘Nothing doing!” In the wor of Prime M Bruce of Au 1 epee , must be ditioned upon . . pur power sorption.” But Baldwin has a real solution of the unemployment problem which he isn’t speaking much about. He expects ultimately to fit them all eut with new uniforms and send them to the attack of the U. S. R. as snon as he can obtain the co- operation of a few more capitalist | nations. * Wants Pointers ae * Mrs. Lucia Welch, lord mayor of Southamtpon, had heard that the graft in New York City was the richest in the world and came all the way over from England to ask the four-in-hand expert, Jim Walker, to tell her personally just how he did it. Our mayor, who is shown above with the self satisfied smirk on his face, said it all lay in having an organization back of you like Tammany Hall which can pick up enough graft from the paint on fire boxes alone to pay the over- head and all the rest is velvet. This is the same whipper-snapper who recently stated that the subway @ crash in which 16 were killed, was @ success because it’proved that you can’t knock down a conerete post with a train wreck. He’s the kind a fellow who would expect you tol enjoy hitting yourself on the head with a hammer so long as you didn’t break the handle. fer One of the values of color movies will be to photograph S. P. conyen- tions. Today’s Pact Signers Now that been the gates have thrown wide open there is a gen- eral rush of the hoi polloi to sign the Kellogg “peace pact.” Those who have renounced war as an in- | strument of national policy today are shown above. Top row left to ht, Al Capone and Lou Gehrig. tottom row, Mrs. Willebrandt and Buster Keaton. RESERVATIONS: Al Capone: Inless its a defen. sive war, the first principle of de- fense being attack.” Lou Gehrig: “Unless it is neces- sary.” - Mrs. Willebrandt: aid to humanity.” Buster Keaton. venient.” _ Gems of Learning Johnny Raskob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committce: “Tammany Hall is an organiza- tion which exerts its power solely ‘on Manhattan Island. It has never sought to influence Governor Smith in his actions as Governor of New York.” Tammany has no more influence over Al than a feline has over its left front paw. * “Unless its an “Unless its con- © Senator Curtis, Vice-Presidential Nominee: “Herbert Hoover is well worthy of the party’s choice, a credit to it and to the nation, both in the eyes of our people and of the world.” Hoover is the same individual | STARVING CAMP OF MEN, WOMEN FOLLOWHARVEST, Brutal Capitalism of} West Crushes Them Bu a Worker Correspondent) SAN JOSE, Calif. (By Mail).—| Californians Inc. has raised a mil- lion dollars to advertise the state of California. This organization is composed of real estate sharks, bankers and big corporations who want the state flooded with a sur-| plus of labor so that the industries "can be run more cheaply. A true picture of the exploited fruit slaves of the Santa Clara Val- in which the city of Sam Jose located, is furnished by this ac- count I am sending you. This and simi dents happen all during the fruit season. In the canneries this year there | is less work. Workers are speeded up as never before and compensa- tion less also for the slave mart is glutted, thanks to Californians Inc. The warehouses are full of unsold fruit yet workers who produced that fruit cannot afford to purchase it for the price is prohibitive. The canneries charge us 30 cents for a commercial quart of fruit which costs them exactly 3 cents to pro- duce. How is that for frenzied fin- ance? Squatted on her haunches, a dark- faced woman with a baby in the crook of one aim; sits stirring something cooking in a battered iron kettle over an open outdoor fire. She might be 25 and might be 45—there is no telling from her unwashed, stolid face, and fat, form-| less shape. Nearby play four children, all un- der 10 years old. A man sits smok- ing on the runner of an old Ford truck parked nearby. In the bed of the truck and scattered on the ground are several bundles of ragged bedding, a wash tub and board, and. dented tin kettles gnd plates. Multiply this scene by 200—and you have—no, not Mexico—but the bank of Coyote Creek along Brokaw Road, near the Oakland Highway, at 5:30 o’clock of an evening. Coyote Camp." “We come to pick prune: plains a friendly man with flashing teeth and long mustache. “Our home? Our home is where we stop. Yes, we have all our be- longings with us. Where do we come from? Well, from Imperial Valley, do. The rest? Oh, Imperial, Pasa- dena, Mexico, all over South.” The squalor and lack of sanita- tion of the camp, and the meager- ness of the possessions of the people who have brought their all with them are unbelievable to one who has not been out to see this camp| on the bank of the Coyote. The majority of the people in the camp are right on the borderline of starvation. They all live in hope— hope of a job on a prune ranch— | tomorrow. No one knows exactly how many |families there are camped there— 300 last week, it was estimated by the State Free Employment Bureau |—perhaps 200 tonight, perhaps more or less tomorrow night, for they are coming and going every day. The camp is made up of 150 to 300 Mexican families who have come up from Southern California and Mexico for the prune picking har- vest in the Santa Clara Valley. In Ford trucks, so shaky that it is a wonder they do not fall to pieces, in old Packards and Cadil- lacks, once, bosses of the road, but years discarded by their original owners and now decrepit and wheez- ing, in cars and trucks of various makes, alike only in the particular that they are all old, the Mexicans have been arriving in San Jose for the last two weeks. Some of the men apply at the State Free Employment Bureau where many of them have been placed during the last two weeks by Tom Graham of that bureau. Others drive from ranch to ranch, hunting work. If they are success- ful, they stay where they are to work. If not, they come back to the camp to spend another night. Along towards the late afternoon the unsuccessful ones begin to strag- gle in for the night. There are few- er at night this week than last be- cause many of the families have procured jobs on the prune ranches. But it was estimated last night that there were in the neighborhood of 200 families camped along the creck, And “famuy’ gneans “family” among these Mexicans—an average of aboyt five children to the family r in besides the parents, and an oc- casional grandmother or grand- father. Two hundred families—figure out for yourself the number of indivi- duals camped between the creek and | road without any sort of central organization or any sanitary con. veniences. The barest nee food, water, fire, sing problems to Food is hard to get. Neighbors re- port that under cover of darkness | children. with pails are frequently seen surreptitiously crossing the ities of life, shelter, are pres- these campers. | Ajter a final overhauling of 0: the antarctic, three of the pilots was with Byrd in his ill-fated tr ne of the planes are shown posing with the plane. A ans-Atlantic hop. Air baperialiais Make Last Preparations which is to accompany the Byrd polar expedition to t the left is Bernt Balchen who Socialists in Minnesota Will Not Aid Coal Miners yew MINE UNION DULUTH, Minn. (By Mail).—At the recent state convention of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor which was held at Winona, |Comrade William Watkins who was a delegate of the Switchmen’s Union of St. Paul was not seated for the reason that he is a Communist. The next day, in the Duluth Herald, a capitalist sheet, the following edi- torial, headed, “Labor and the Com- | munist” appeared: “The Minnesota State Federation of Labor, in convention at Winona, resolutely clings to its position of sturdy resistance to Communism and the Communists. “In that, of course, it is right. Communism is no less the enemy of craft unionism than it is of capital- ism. “Communism is out to destroy both, and it feels that it has to destroy trade unionism first be- cause, by improving as it has the lot of labor in this land, unionism is making itself a formidable ob- stacle to the cause of Communism. “Indeed, the Communist who fights organized labor, and the union man who fights Communism, are both showing very much more intelligence than the conservative citizen who. fights unionism, not see- ing that it is a mighty bulwark against destructive radicalism. “Organized labor would be admit- | ting a Trojan horse if it let Com- munists into its deliberations, and it shows no disposition to be fool- ish. If capital were as intelligent as that, it would support unionism instead of fighting it, as it some- times does.” The editor is right when he says that the present trade unions, and we might as well include the “so- cialist” party, are a mighty bulwark against the establishment of a co- operative commonwealth, but he is altogether off the track when he says that the present trade unions are improving the lot of labor. There was a time when the trade union movement did to some ex- tent help improve the conditions of the workers, but today under a cor- rupt leadership the movement has become the tool of| the bosses. It meekly consents to lengthen the hours of labor, lower the wages of the workers, and in- tensify exploitation. It is the pre- sent trade union leadership that the Communists are out to destroy, and not the trade union movement. I mentioned the “socialist” party as playing the part of the betrayer. Let me prove that to you. As secretary of the International Labor Defense ‘of Duluth, I invited the “socialist” party local to take part in a tag day for miners’ relief. I also asked them to take part in the Sacco-Vanzetti memorial meeting which was held August 22, and was attended by several hundred work- ers. The “socialists” refused to co- operate with us in the tag day nor did they take part in the memf ial. The trade union leaders of this city, working hand in hand with the “so- cialists,” not only refused to help us raise money for the strikers, but went out of their way to call up the police commissioners and the city council to whom I had applied for ranch. It may be had for the car- rying a block or two—and the wives are glad to get it for that little labor. For fire, there must be wood. Shelter is the easiest problem to solve, There are a few fairly de- cent family tents. Other families sleep huddled in the beds of their trucks. A few have made rough shelters of brush such as one sces in pictures describing the life and habits of primitive peoples, But the hardships of their lives do not seem to appall these people. They are of more resistant fiber than the average American. An empty stomach until they find work —they can stand that—draw their belts a little tighter—and hope for | tomorrow. Are they cold at night under their thin, dirty blankets, in | their brush and canvas shelters? Curtis said would wreck the party fields to milk cows grazing nearby.| But they are used to sleeping cold! fa few weeks back. M. C. He | Water is procured nearby where it {hes been piped from a neighboring | The sun will shine tomorrow, -—CORA WILSON. Pail trade union} a tag day permit, told them not to grant such permit because the Com- munists will use the money for pro- paganda purposes instead of send- ing it to the miners. I was forced to go before the commissioners and the city council and expose the rot- ten gang of would-be labor jeaders and hypocritical “socialists.” The permit was granted and we collected a couple hundred dollars which mo- ney immediately forwarded to the National Miners’ Relief at Pitts- burgh. Of coursg, it is only a matter of a short time when the rank and file of the trade union movement will find out who are their true friends, and instead of the labor fak- ers ousting Communists from the trade union movement, the trade union movement wlil be ousting the labor fakers and their allies, the “socialists.” S, BLOOMBERG. 46 YEARS OLD, HE FIGHTS FOR PARTY Jhio Worker ker Isa Labor | Veteran ixth year I feel as young in spirit as a man of twenty, I am now ready as well as I ever was to fight for the over- throw of the capitalist system and for the workers’ rule. Tell the com- rades in New York that I don’t in-| tend to die so soon, and am ready to take active part in the present election campaign of the Party and all the Party activities, for I recog- nize that the Workers (Communist) Party is the only political force in|} the country at the present date, that will eventually lead the working class to a final victory.” These are the words of W. H. Aggus, 75 Benedict Ave., Norvalk, Ohio. | W. H. Aggus is 86 years old. I met him in Norvalk, Ohio, on the |Daily Worker tour. It would en-| |courage everyone to spend some| time with this old-young labor| | aeremen? veteran. Aggus has been in the socinliett jparty since 1905. Always a good |fearless fighter, in 1913-19 when| the socialist party adopted the pol- icy of cowardness and betrayal, Ag- | |gus left the S. P. just as every re- volutionary fighter did. During the | war he made speeches in his small 100 per cent Yankee town of Nor-| |valk, 0., declaring his opposition to | the war. In 1919 the American Legion and all the jingoes in Nor- valk put the Boy Scouts to smash |his windows and to stone him. He was compelled to leaye town and went to Cleveland. At the end of 1921 Aggus re- turned to his home, which was an old broken shack. He was friendless and deserted by his relatives. One thing remained to him—the revolu- tionary movement. Aggus’ property now consists of a small wooden shack. In the front of the small wooden “house” there is a plumbing shop where he is still at work. In the back there is a wooden bed and a very rich library. He turned over many books to com- rades and to the Public Library. This is his life’s savings. “Well, comrade,” he said, “I tell you I have more than I need be- cause I can use for myself very little. Anything I have more than I can use belongs to the movement and so he paid for a yearly sub to the Daily Worker and algo sent a contribution to the Election Cam- paign Fund. “The job we are faced with most is how to fight the influ- ence of the church in the provin- cial towns, for the church is direct- ly part of the capitalist class and its rule.” When I left Aggus bade me good- bye, saying that the comrades are to keep up the fight because they have a very big task to perform. I told him that I will acquaint the com- (tades with the old-young Pioneer. | support. |vania and Ohio. MUST FIGHT FOR Militant Workers Must | Aid By FRED BRILL. I mean you, reader of the Daily Worker. What are you doing for the new Miners’ Union? I have just been through the min- | ing field of Illinois—where organ- izers are in the field, doing their damnedest to get delegates elected to the Sept. 9th Convention. Thse organizers have been in the field for some time, damned glad if they get enough money for a bite to eat and to get to the meetings in the different towns. They are still plugging away, getting results. They’re doing their share. What are you doing for the new Miners’ Union, militant worker in| the various industries @f this coun- try? The new Miners’ Union will bene- fit all workers—it will not only fight for the miners’ interest. A strong Miners’ Union means a bet- ter defense of workers everywhere, a strong ally of fighting workers throughout the country. You needle trades workers, build-| ing a’ new union; textile workers, | building a new union. You will need | You auto workers fighting | § Smith’s campaign manager, Raskob, | of the General Motors need support | from the fighting miners. Workers in all industries, about to engage in| truggles, will need’ support from several hundred thousand courag. | cous, militant miners. | Now it is the miners who cr all need support. They have passed through a long strike in Pennsyl-| © In other sections they -work part time. They have little money to get by on. Green has launched an attack on the new Miners’ Union. He has called for a house cleaning of the “reds,” of those progressives in the labor movement who support the new Miners’ Union. Now is the time to speak up! De- fend the new Miners’ Union from | | and preying even on his equally aris-| ‘Clever Propaganda in “Money Lenders”’ at the Ambassador IRST it must be understood rare és “Money Lenders” at the Ambas- sador is a good play, from a tech-| nical standpoint, close, well knit, crisply working up to its climax, and| that it is well and deftly acted, by| a well trained cast that specializes | in making what might be merely, “types” into something rather hu- man appearing, for the time. It is| an English play, written by Roy| Herniman, and is said to have had al success in London. | The story is that of a pa te Lillian Luttrell (Katherine Stand-| ing), of an aristocratic ex-army of-| ficer who turns loan shark, in secret, tocratic relatives, amasses a small) fortune. He operates through al Jew, Samuel Lebi (Herbert Clark), a young and ingenious business man. He dies and wills a million dollars to his daughter if she marries Lebi, and to either of them willing toy marry, if the other refuses. The! play turns around the difficulties of these two, each in love with some one else. The relatives of the girl, aristo-| crats,,not business men, are shown to be as futile, grasping, cowardly. | bana and compromising as any of} he pawnbrokers of fiction. The rel- boat of Solomon Levi are mocked |S in the usual way, but gently, and| praised as good business men—not| as good as the neat young loan| shark, of course. Lillian is willing to go through with the bargain, but the two fin- cal Je ja 5 thing to sacrifice for. ism, in the form of Solomon’s beard- Jew" — |fornia against Japan. And the final trick of it all, the) I “HOME” ‘GOL Georges Renevant who plays an important role in “Goin’ Home,” | Ransom Rideout’s engrossing play at the Hudson Theatre. Even Zion- rabbi uncle, Jacob Dacosta| (George Farren) is approved of, be-! use it adds another barrier. “The| ‘w bars us, so we must bar the the argument used by Cali- ally split on the question of reli-|: 3itence that races must not in- gion, the man in the case cleverly|tormingle in marriage, though one accentuating his orthodoy Judaism. lis and insisting that any children they how of course as good as the other:| jmay have shall be brought up in fiom the Jim Crow laws of Southern \that faith. The honor of the Church | of England is finally the stiffening} states, which prescribe equally that is this essentially different Buffalo Prepares For Big Worker andFreiheitBazaar Louis Sisselman, who for the past | three months has been on a tour of the Middle West for the Daily Worker, is now touring District 4, |New York. While ‘in Buffalo a | special Daily Worker meeting was |held, at which a committee was | elected to prepare a special Buffalo Booth at the Press Bazaar on Oc- |tober 4 to 7. Ten new subscribers |were obtained a district Daily | Worker agent was elected and the jcommittee that was elected prom- ised to start an intensive drive to increase the circulation of the Daily Worker in up-state New York. On September 4 Sisselmar will | be in Rochester, on the 7th in Syra- |cuse, the 8th in Utica, the 9th in | Schenectady and Troy. | the blacks shall not ride in the white sections of street cars, and that the | whites shall not ride in the black sections? This is the equivocal pre- tension of fairness about all Jim ! Crowism, and makes the unthinking | to overlook the fact that any segre- | gation necessarily means that the | subject race gets the worst end of the street car, and everything else. | But it is to the credit of our | party that if the theory taught in | this piece of wonderful propaganda were ever to prevail over it, about | half the happy marriages in it would be smashed. And I offer this not as an idle observation, but as proof lof the fact that this play is capital- ist propaganda, dealing in senti- | ments and needs of capitalists, that do not naturally occur to the work- ing class, that the capitalist class hopes the workers wil learn by ex- ample from the capitalist class, and | which the most class-conscious sec- tion of the working class Le reiects. which causes Lillian to refuse Solo- mon Levi, and forfeit the million, 4 consummation which he has been) working toward all the time. Tt is an ending to which the audi-| = hat ence’s prejudice is skilfully fished| for by a continual development all! through the play of the theory that) the chosen people are “not our peo-| waxox’” THE LADDER aN ITS REVISED FORM? ple,” just as good, of course, admir-| Thea. W. 48 St. Bvs. 8:30 able, and all that, but “their men) CORT Mts. Wed. & Sat. are not for our daughters,” or the Money Patugded uae Satisfied other wav around. Now this, I think, is the bes' piece of capitalist, as distinct een | HUDSON; ate ‘Mons: and Wed. 2:30 religious, or professional class, or] ¢ | genteel propaganda for racial segre- gation that I have ever seen. Every |trick is used. young English bourgeoisie. of con-| ———— of Broadway CHANIN'S, w. 46th St. Fyenings at 8:25 Mats. Wed. & Sat. EXTRA MATINEE LABOR DAY SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH OOD NEW with GEO, OLSE. and HIS MUSIC Fives, at 8:30 Mats. “Goin? Home” The old trick of the | “Vivid and unfailingly exciting.” Alison Smith, World. CENTURY Thea., Central Pk. Ww. & 62 St. Eves, 8:30 Mats. Wed. and Sat. MARY DUGAN EXTRA MATINEE LABOR DAY THE TRIAL OF centrating the hated qualities of | Keith- not | Albee capitalism in some Shylock, without dignity, or the trick would be seen through, and thus deflecting | class hatred into the channel of race! prejudice, is used here. The antag- onism of capitalist for aristocrat, a side issue of course compared with lother fights, is here, in properly | |subdued form. Religion, which makes for eternal separation of Jews from Christians, is exalted, as attack by the fakers in your local union! Speak up in your fraternal organization! Collect funds for the National Convention! Bie your duty as a militant work Soon eased bythe genuin Santal Midy Effective-Harmless Pha low, Workers Party ident and Vice-Pres’ States of America. 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