The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 4

se Two Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NE YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1925 BROACH’S “EXPENS (By a Worker Correspondent) Electrical workers who are inter- ested in learning what becomes of, the money paid intg their interna- tional office will be rewarded by looking over the quarteriy report of the office. T have before me now a copy of the report covering the months of April, May and June, 1928. We glance over the receipts and go to 500.000 SLAVES IN MOLTEN HELLS: §.000 ARE IN UNION Big Corporation Buys Up Officials, Police (By a Worker Correspondent) SSPITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).— The steel workers of this country Stand as an unparalleled example of the need of organization. For of all the workers in the country who are supposed to have some skill in their “fork they have a smaller member- ship in the organized membership of the American Federation of La- bor, in proportion to the number semployed in the steel industry, than sany other body within that organ- ization: Of all the skilled and semi- ‘skilled craftsmen in this country which the officials of the Federa- tion claim control there are less members in the Amalgamated As- sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Plate Workers, and more non-union and open shops in which no mem- bers of the Iron and Steel organ- jation can be found than in any of the other branches in which the many thousands of workers are em- ployed. In the whole industry in the country there are working, when the industry is running at ca- pacity, about six hundred thousand skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers and out of that vast whole it is doubtful if there are six thou- sand bona fide steel and iron work- ers in the Amalgamated Associa- tion. Open Shop. The steel mills of the country, both Bessemer and open hearth, are notorious for their lack of organ- ‘zation, notwithstanding the fact that the men are exploited under the most inhuman speed-up system. The blast furnaces of the country have been open shop and non-union throughout the history of their ex- istance as part of the huge iron and steel trust, and even earlier than the formation of the trust, the men who worked in the blast furnaces were mercilessly exploited, thru long hours, in the exhausting heat fro the barest existance wage. The trust have ruthlessly used their pri- vate army of coal and iron police, and their espionage system of stool pigeons, and private detectives, to keep out any organizers and break up any attempt to organize these wage workers. No union has ever béen permitted to get a*foot hold in the steel mills or the blast fur- races of this country since the Homestead strike. Not even in the great effort of| 1919 when Bill Foster made one of the most determined attempts to organize the steel workers was the organization allowed to take deep root in the mills, by the officers of the steel trusts thruout the coun-| try. In that strike they used every| force at their command to break up the union, before those in charge | were allowed to consolidate the ranks of those who had joined the| new union. forts of the Garey’s must be added | the open and secret sabotage of} this work by the reactionary offi-| cialdom of the American Federa-| tion of Labor, who did their best to see that no organization was al- lowed to get a start in the steel mills and blast furnaces of the trusts. Divisions of Workers. One of the difficulties that must be faced in the organization of the steel workers will be that this in- dustry is divided into a great many different kinds of fabrication plants as well as into many different kinds of production plants. The organ- izers of the steel workers must reckon on going into tube mills, pipe mills, rail mills, rod mills, nail mills, mills where they turn out armour plate for battleships, tin and sheet mills where they turn out the metal for the bodies of automobiles and trucks, and many other plants in| which the steel workers are em- ployed and in which we must carry on in our organizing campaign. Steel in City Polities. | The steel trusts have learned a lesson in their numerous campaigns against the workers for the open shop, that it would be well if the workers would take to heart, They are always found buttressed in the| numerous political offices in the! towns where their plants are oper-| ated. In Homestead, Braddock, | Rankin, McKeesport, McKees Rocks | and the other small bores and towns in and around Pittsburgh, | taking this city as an example,| every office of any note is in the! hands of some tool of the big cor- oorations. In Woodlawn, a suburb of Pittsburgh, the Jones and Laugh- + ES” the disbursements, the money paid out. At the head of the list—J. P conan, April salary $700. Wow! Seven hundred bucks! Say, wire- pulle , how long do you suppose a is working class view- point ona ry of $700 a month? Setting the average dues at four dollars, it takes dues from 175 wire. men to bu; papa Noonan his salary. And one more feature is that it Militarists Watch Transcontinental Non-Stop Flight ARE TOTALLED BY ELEC comes regularly every month. Win- ter and summer he never has to ask for it or wait till the boss gets in a check from a job. No worry about unemployment here, boys. Year round job. Next on the list comes a man with whom the electrical workers of New York are well acquainted. H H. Broach—April salary $441.66 Not so bad, but a little farther along comes a notation: H. H. Broach— $300 for New York difficulty. What difficulty? Putting over his dirty work on Local 3? Then comes an item of $203, expenses to March 31; then $222, from March 31 to April 7; then $220 for the New York dif- ficulty. Difficulties come high in New York. Then $201 from A 7 to April 14, and again $206.75 from April 14 to Ap: , making a total of $1,794.41 taken out of the treasury by Broach in one month TRICAL WORKER; $1,794 IN A MONTH erhood of Electrical Workers is a|Do we get a reduction in dues out Is Broach using our money to working class organization, not 2|of the profits of our investments? fight his battles against us? Use| millionaires’ club. All our initiation) Do we get insurance any cheaper your own judgment. Is it any won-| fees go to the international office | than from the other companies? No. der that the fat-boys try to keep Why not go fifty-fifty with the lo-| Think it over, wire-pullers, and ae- the per capita coming in regularly? | cal union and build it up instead of| termine that these felicvs shal’ By’ golly, it has to come in pretty piling up big surpluses for these | come down to earth. They are away regularly to keep them in limousines | birds to use fighting their battles| out of touch with us. They have and porter-house steaks. If they against us and providing fat jobs| lost the workers’ viewpoint and look were real honest to god union men| for themselves as heads of insur-|tipon us as the capitalists do, ar they would work for the scale and| ance companies and the like? Where| poor saps to be exploited and bled expenses. The International Broth-| is the benefit of the rank and file? | to the fullest extent. M. 0. the month of April, 1928. American milita tra bait to lure fl t rs along the tran from Roosevelt ield to Los Ange. crossed the Atlantic with Ruth Elder, will pilot. Below, man, wife of the Wall Street f at right. 8 are paying close attention to the swiftness w rush bombing planes from one coast of the country to the other. Bla nscontinental hops which have been. occupying the fl ying world fo purse of $22,5 Above, the Bellanca monoplane scontinental route is a les. inancier, Steel Workers Must Push Organization Thru U. vith which it is possible to zing the trail for them are the r some weeks past. The latest 00 for the first non-stop flight which George Haldeman, who the plane belonging to Mrs. Anne U. Still- Her pilots, George King and Olivier Boutillier are shown lin Steel Corporation control the en- tire town. The intern church move- ment exposed in one of their re- ports on the conditions of the steel workers, that the police of Pitts- burgh who had beats in -and near steel mills were paid during the 1919 steel strike $150 per month by the big steel corporations, exclusive of their regular pay as city police- men of the city of Pittsburgh. This accounts in part for the many meet- ings which could not be held in any of the towns in‘and around the Pittsburgh district. They were paid by the mill barons to see that their interests were not interfered with and they delivered the goods as every organizer in the steel cam- paign can testify. The steel cor- porations enter the campaigns and have their tools in office so that when trouble comes they are ready to beat up, arrest, jail and send to prison those who would interfere with their “business” by organizing their slaves. Politics In Organizing Game. This phase of any effort on our part to organize the steel mills is not to be overlooked for it is a big problem and one with which we are confronted at every turn in our work. The gun of the thug and gangster when backed by the ad- vice of the rulers in steel—“to go the limit and we will protect you and see that no harm befalls you no matter what you do”’—has caused many a militant organizer to slow up in the steel owned towns of the country. These thugs and| gangsters are hired in every big in-| dustry’ not only in times of strke| but in the days even when there is no evidence of trouble they can be| seen strutting about the mill yards| with colts strapped to their belts. | They know the mayors and bur- Of course to these ef.| 88s are owned and are the tools| of the big trusts and if they bump | off some organizer of the workers they will be protected. Hence we | must make this a very concrete part of our work among the iron and steel workers and go into the poli- | tical game witih the deliberate in- tention of wresting out of the hands of the steel barons this potent wea- | pon which they use so effectively in suppressing the right of free speech and public »-semh!~ W. J. WHITE. PAYROLLS DROP. WASHINGTON—Payroll totals in selected industries dropped 3.1 per cent during July, as compared| with June, according to the Bureau | of Labor Statistics. Employment de-| clined 1.1 per cent in the same pe-| riod. | - | POTTERS AGREEMENT. | EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio—The| National Brotherhood of Operative | Potters and organized employers re-| newed their agreement for two! years, | HAVE FIVE-DAY WEEK, | DALLAS, Tex.—Plasterers’, lath-| ers and electrical workers in this city have established the five-day week, Bricklayers, sheet metal workers, carpenters and painters are| next {in line, CHAMPION RUNAWAY, SECAUCUS, N. J., Sept. 12 (UP), Joseph Barnett, 4, champion rana-| way of the east, has been found, here, nine miles from his home in Guttenberg. Police cannot remem- ber whether this is the 10th or 11th time Joseph has run. away from home this year. TO SHOW ‘THE CROWD” Great Film at Labo v Temple Saturday “(THE CROWD,” by. John V. A. Weaver (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) which created a sensation when it was shown at the Astor Theatre last spring, will be shown for the benefit of the New Bedford textile strikers next Saturday evening, Sept. 15, at the Labor Temple, 14th St. Albert Weisbord and M. J. Olgin will speak before each performance at 8 p. m. and 11). m. Here’s what Robert Wolf, author of “Springboard,” who was ci cow, said about “The Crowd” when| it was first shown: Crowd’ escaped creating a sensation among both the intellectuals and the radicals here. “The Crowd’ in a quiet and un- assuming way is so revolutionary that if the police knew their busi- ness they would arrest King Vidor is: Can anybody make a success in America? Y-e-e-s. . .try and do it! It is the first direct attack upon the great capitalist myth. ‘The Crowd’ is the story of a disillusioned : inema | white-collar slave. Out of the vast|him never to come back to work no critic for “Sovietskoe King” of Mos-| mass of commercial workers that is, OTe. downtown New York, Weaver have picked two, John and Vidor ’ and S., Correspondent Says RUTH LYONS In “Night Hostess,” Philip Dun- Broadway | ning’s play of Broadway night life at the Martin Beck Theatre. 1 . a} PACKARD AUTO 2dwin Burke Comedy to Open WORKERS FIRED —— By Neo Monday night Patterson Mc- FOR SISKNESS Nutt will present “This Thing) — Theatre with Violet Heming and| Minor Watson as the featured play- ers. The supporting cast includes (By « Worger Correspondent) | er, Henry Whittemore, Enid Ro- DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).—|many and Josephine Lewis. This | Some red-blooded workers should go| is MeNutt’s first Broadway pro-| is a slave-driving outfit, especially | Fiske as the star. He is the co- certain motor departments. author of “Pigs,” a success of a f2w | There is a bull boss there named | Seasons back. | he wants to holler his head off tel- phaelson, author of “The Jazz ling the men that they work too| Singer,” goes into rehearsal today | slow. i and is scheduled for an out of town Gave de Gul Good ced plaest Cc]. Inc Abeatuets SPldacie ita pule| lun Meulstrantnaaehnd Sateenae! There we work from fifty cents, itzer prize play by Paul Green, will|dous success in Europe. It relates i i v1 ted an invention ready. The bull tells him that he'll leaves for an extended road tour. | Finn, who have creat 0 get ae in wages not a raise. I’ye| Performances begin on Friday eve-| which does away with hand labor in) known men working there for three | ning, September 21, and end with the making of wooden packing i illi immi i bring their inven- T’'ve asked the big bully about the| William Crimmins has replaced their efforts to bi ; bonus and he says that we did not Al Roberts as the Uncle Tom of the tion to the attention of the Soviet make any bonus. They don’t want | troupe in “Eva the Fifth” at the authorities is replete with comic Called Love,” a new comedy by Ed- | win Burke, at the Maxine Elliott | Department Boss Is Called Bully Malcolm Duncan, Juliette Day, Ruth | Garland, Bruce Elmore, J. H. Brew- to the Packard plant in Detroit and | duction since he sponsored a revival | organize a union beceuse htis plant of Ibsen’s .“Ghosts”, with Mrs. | Smith, who never speaks to anybody) |. PE who works under him except when Young Love,” by Samson Ra- If we want to find out something | opening prior to its or ask him something he never | Showing. i i tories of two young men mod- to fifty-four cents an hour. If a| have four performances at the the si % Laanetel that he gets too much al.| Provincetown Playhouse before it|elled on the style of Huckleberry i i ‘i: the Sunday evening performance. boxes. The attempts of the pack- prea mao eee ee seal ing box manufacturer to frustrate anybody to know too much, the less Little Theatre. |situations and indicates that the a man knows the better for the Russians are quite adept in the mat- boss. If a man is a little educated| Robert Long is the latest addi- | ter of unique “gags.” he is no good to them, he knows too tion to the cast of “Possessions,” “On the same program will be much, which is now in rehearsal. The «The Shanghai Document” which, The bosses’ system is never to Play is due here next month. while ostensibly a news reel scenic, talk to the slaves, just be rough to them, don’t tell them anything. If a man stays at home a day be- cause he is sick and comes back to work the next day, he gets a good} bawling out and may get fired too. gives one the feel and throb of life ‘OVKINO COMEDY BOOKED in this amazing Chinese metropolis FOR CAMEO THEATRE. better than any previous produc- tion. Its direction by J. Slokh and The Film Arts Guild announces| photography by Leo Stepanov has |the American premiere of the first| been acclaimed by the European & Second Ave. and and John V. A. Weaver. Ite onieal |e aman gets a raise in wages he Soviet comedy at the Cameo Thea-| press as equal to the best to be gets only two cents an hour more. _ tre which has been tentatively titled | found in Russian productions. This | One man told the bull that he “The Three Moscow-Teers.” This | program will come to the Cameo wanted to go home because he was Sovkino production is the first at-| Theatre about the first week in Oc- sick. The bull told him to go ahead tempt at cinema humor by the Sov-| tober, | and stay home altogether. He told | — Parden me for my bad writing because I, have no time to go to “This is the first really great|Mary, any two of the clerks and|school under this system, They Bar Ani Sa American film-drama—a movie, it|stenographers that you would hit at| want you to work hard till you die,| ___ Seems to me, quite worthy to rank! at the noon hour from a Broadway then you get promoted. I started to CHANIN'S46th St.W. of Broadway | HUDSON West 44 eee See ty with ‘Potemkin,’ ‘Variety,’ “The Last | office-building window with a brick.| work when I was nine years of age ee age Se hae BRN A ease Laugh,’ ‘Ballet Mecanique,’ the best of Chaplin and the other few first- rate achievements of the screen. “I do not quite see how ‘The “The Crowd’ is an artistic expression so detached, so skilful, so restrained, that it is difficult to find wards adequate to praise it.” Makes Corrections on Expulsion of Lesco The Daily Worker has received the following statement from the Dis- trict Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of Ohio, rela- tive to the expulsion of Steve Lesco from the Party: In its statement on the expulsion | of Steve Lesco from the Party the District Executive Committee of District Ohio made a few errors in| regard to happenings at the meet-| ing of the District Painters’ Council. | which are corrected in the follow- ing. The progressive who was beaten) ip was not attacked directly in the) office of the union, but was taken into the men’s room of the building and assaulted. At the meeting of the District| Painters’ Council no charges were preferred against the progressive. masses of the workers—a Labor Communists will help to wean the, The council appointed an investigat- ing committee without any charges being preferred. Isaacs was a mem-| ber of the investigating committee and altho the progressive was given no trial whatever, Lesco reporting for the committee recommended his expulsion from the council. ‘his was done. | The above facts do not alter the of workers endeavorin, situation, nor the decision of the District Executive Committee on the expulsion of Lesco. The facts them- selves justify more than ever the ex- pulsion of Lesco from the Party. Another sentence in the statement of the District Executive Committee needs a little elucidation. Today the masses of the American workers are not yet prepared to join a revolu- tionary party. This is due to their illusions about American “democ- racy” and to the fact that they still have some faith in the capitalist parties. How shall they be made to feel their class positions? How shall they begin to think and act as a class—as workers? Qnly if they are weaned away from their support of the capitalist parties and | form a party embracing the broad | Party. | This party will be a class party, only in so far as it will have a la- bor platform and will put up candi- dates of the working class. But this | Party will be limited in its possibili- ties, for its program wiil not con- | template a change in the capitalist ‘system. It will be a party made up to secure | re Mats. Wed. & Sat. SCHWAB and MANDEL'S MUSICAL SMASH and still I am a slave. “Goin . Home” Iam a disabled ex-serviceman and “Vivid and unfailingly exelting.” ader of The Daily Worker. G oO D N EW Allson Smith, World. —N.'R. TERIAL Mika? CE PDE gs with GRO. OLBES and aus music CENTURY "ea, Central Pic w EDITOR’S NOTE—The work- Mats. Wed. and Sat. er who wrote the above piece of Fi THE correspondence asks his fellow | #4¥2.X°° THE LADDER vaiat Mf ARY DUG AN workers and the editors of his IN ITS REVISED FORM? eu class paper to pardon his “bad CORT ee reat Es. 8:30 wccae C EO BIG 3 writing.” There is nothing to ge a re Sat ae CAM | pardon. As a letter describing || M°P*Y Refunded it Not Satiatieg | Albee | yco tee ar. WEEK | conditions in the Packard shop | and the slavery of the workers | there, this is very good writing! If there were words misspelled in the original letter, the writer tells why: “I started to work when I was nine years of age and stil] I am a slave.” The Worker Corre- spondent does not care about swell English. Write the best you can | and we will do the rest. 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