The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 4

Page Four 1 Carpet BIG WAGE CUTS FOLLOW IN WAKE OF THE SYSTEM ‘Worker Council’ Other e raft against the other; and finally ntroduced the “New Departure,” vhich is quite well explained in the onelosed clipping. This “New Departure” is being ‘ollowed by: all of the bosses around [gs Welcomed: his wart of the country, including ° Is Rapid fessional ancestors, of the fierce | Plan of Owners Shop Boss mustache, scanty vocabulary, epi-} ~ leptic movements and_half-wit in- Bu a Wo 5 (Bu a Worker Correspondent) nocence, in the melodrama called | NEW HAVE Saas dee tL) ROCHESTER, N. Y. (Bv Mail).|“Trapped” by Max Marcin and ~Several week the most ski —With slight onnosition, Governor) Samuel Shipman at the National vorkers of t Al Smith, one of Wall Street’s can-| Theatre. | Parpet Co. we didates for president, recently re-| As a work of art it is eminently | on increase in ceived the formal endorsement for successful in creating the choicest | about a day or so and suddenly went the president of the United States| aggregation of dumbells that ever yack to work again, b by the 65th annual convention of deserved to starve with hunger. The | lay the company annc the New York State Federation of | hokum is so plentiful that it keeps| ver cent n the wag Labor assembled here. In this ac-| the audience constantly wondering vorkers in the mill, excep tion, organized labor of New York | what niece of idiocy is going to turn hat were on str The Mayor Walker paid a visit the other day to his fascist chums aboard the Italian motor liner State was again mislead and be-/ up next. he latter got an increase in \ eS Aug Walker is shown above in the center, helping the fascist officers of the ship to squander trayed. None c” the characters has f from five to ten per cent. Which h mey wrung from the Italian workers slaving under the Mussolini terror. “Opposition Steam-Rollered.” | enough intelligence to qualify for means that the company cut the |——— — — - a a eee When the resolution endorsing | a job as trained ram in the Chicago | vages of 80 per cent of the workers iu Governor Smith was voted upon, stockyards. The play is an insult to n the mill and increased the 20 per CLUB M ETS NEED there were about half a dozen |the holdup profession and had Mr. vent, thus dividing them one set or \! uw = “noes.” Edward Walsh and Theo-| Shipman dared to present his libel OF THE JEWELERS is Growth artford, New Britain, Middletown, 3; ote. The U. S. Rubber Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) in Hart- ‘ord the other day announced the|* When the Jewelry Workers Wel- ermation of a “workers council” in fare Club was organized five months he plant. The way this company ago, it was confronted with the diffi- s by selecting three cult task of drawing-in the demor- to be proposed to the | alized, disorganized jewelry work- vorkers, to vote for and “elect” ers who by now were getting tired hem as “their revresentatives” to of being called repeatedly to union set with three of the representa-| mass meetings which always result- * ves of the company to form the|eq in a le : Be eeralled “workers council” in, the| put in spite of the prevailing con- fa ant A seventh member to the| sitions the organization of our club ee a Meee shoe eas weleomed immediately by the wo! and it has had a healthy ~re eine introduced by the bosses, “ad the limitless exploitation is go- = on while the so-called leaders, Need for Club. of labor are| The few affairs that we have had seatine in New London, and instead |in this short period of activity have * neannsine nlans how to organize proved to the most pessimistic of he 98 ner cant of the unore tnized|us the great possibilities and great ~ this «tate, they har- | need of such an organization, ao eur ee being un-| Still the growth of our club, althé ne tn abo at “ha a social mutual aid club, has ed the right wing of Local 1, Interna- welry Workers Union. Upon " earning of the existence of the club, MITCHELL. (they immediately called together * their fellows and passed an illegal steady growth since. ~ rather misleaders, Rulwne tonie be- jt jg .” which all | great! ane tn chow that thev are like dogs jewel rs “nde~ the master’s table barking for tional “mbs. s@ on the black List, ete CHARI JES * * Worker Exposes Mayor Pays Visit to Fascist Friends; it William Z. Foster, Workers (Communist) Party candidate for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, vice presidential candi- date, are now on the first lap which will bring them into every important city in the United | of a nation-wide speaking tour States, winding up with a monster mass meeting in Madison Square Garden, New York City. FOSTER TOUR |, , on November 4. GITLOW: TOUR TEMBER 18, 1928 TRIE ASOD aS TS w Departure,” Scheme of Bosses for Further S! Jobless Starve, Mayor Revels | ABOB FAKERS The Old Fashioned Gangster DUNCAN, A. Fi, it Lee Is Revived im WAX FAT, IGNORE KODAK WORKERS Green Is Guest of Open THE gangster who subgidizes grand | 4 opera and reads the American Mercury, the cop who lectures on behaviorism and the banker who knows enough to get in out of the wet, have given way to their pro- dore H. Freese, Rochester delegates in Chicago, he would be well ad- of the Typographical Union, asked vised to buy a bulletproof vest from |for a division of the vote. Presi-| Mr. Goldberg of Philadelphia before |dent Sullivan, veteran labor faker, | visiting the Windy City. After all rejected this demand with the re-|there are things that even a patient mark that “I see and I hear that gangster cannot put up with. the vote is overwhelming.” ‘A wealthy banker was happy in “Then we ask to be recorded in| the possession of much money and a the negative,” shouted Walsh and danghter. A group of kidnappers, Freese, who ‘support*the republican on the lookout for business, picked machine. But President Sullivan! on him. Unless he came across with quelled the uproar by pounding the two hundred and fifty grand, they | gavel while other resolutions were! would slice the flapper into sand- being railroaded through. Resolu-. wich meat and-present her to him) tions favoring the recognition of the in a sack. A messenger in the em-| Tuesday, Sept. 18, Aberdeen,| Wednesday, Sept. 19, Duluth, Soviet Union and amalgamation of ploy of the fond parent’s bank was| Wash. Final arrangements to be|Minn., Woodman Hall, corner 21st craft unions were rejected, by the| induced to call for the swag. A announced. Ave. and Ist St. labor fakers. police inspector, who evidently Wednesday, Sept. 19, Portland, ni ireint Pay Raises For Fakers. knows what an adult moron looks Ore., Swiss Hall, 288% ‘Third St. | Mion Gall spaditeam mim | Pay inereases of $1,000 each was |like, complicates things by mistaking | Friday, Sept. 21, San Franciseo, | Hall, ; “|voted to John Sullivan, president the young man for a bandit. The | Calif Civic Auditorium, San Fran-| geturday, Sept, 22, Bismarck, N.|@8¢ John M. O'Hanlon, secretary-| young man conducts himself as if cisco. | Dak Pies Hall at McK aid treasurer. This brings their sal-| he had just arrived by air mail from Sunday, Sept. 23, Los Angeles,| Hote), 422 Main St enZie aries up from $7,000 to $8,000 a|Sleepy Hollow. His _imbecilities Calif., Whiting Woods, Rosemont,) . 7, co year. helped the inspector play his jack- Calif. |__ Sunday, Sept..23, Belden, N. D.|” At the opening session, President | ass role with inimitable skill. Taxi | Tuesday, Sept. 25, Salt Lake City, Final arrangements to be an- William Green of the A. F. of L.,|drivers, butlers snd . ore +e-i Utah, W. 0, W. 168 S. W. Temple | Runced. \lauded the candidate of Dupont and | drivers appear, much excited, a state St., 2nd floor. Monday, Sept. 24, Plentywood,|Rascob as “the great friend of the, that did not communicate itself to Thursday, Sept. 27, Denver, Colo. Tabernacle Hall, 20th & Lawrence Sts. Mont. Farmer Labor Temple, Plen- tywood. Wednesday, Sept. 26, Great Falls, FMITOR’S NOTE: The scheme, related in the clipping. which ap- nears below. hv which the Bige- Jaw-Hartford Carnet Ca. plens to farm > “workers enuncil” nf tanta. earnot receive ton careful EG Conin acane senihiar’ Sto. ‘War schemes, under this or other samen ove heing emnloved whole- sa]e throughout the United States 4a delude and further control the are. in the interests of class ation. that is to say, in the Sosses’ interests. 7 th bait at the end of the third paragraph. A NEW DEPARTURE The Bigelow-Hartford Carpet 0. announces a new plan of con- ducting business which is an in- novation as regards employe par- ticipation in the management of the company. Three separate groups have been established, a works council, 4 foremen’s council and an advis- wry board, each with definite ac- tivities in regard to improvement of working conditions. bettering manufacturing methods and gen- erally promoting a spirit of co- operation, harmony and good fel- Jowship throughout the plant. In addition to the three groups, a suggestion system also is to be installed, providing for boxes to be placed about the mill in which employes are to deposit signed suggestions on any matter per- taining to plant problems. Cash rewards are promised for sugges- tions which result in manufactur- “ing economies of improved qual- ite: Here is the novel plan as it has heen worked out and is ready for the great experiment. Membership in the works coun- il shall be limited to workers only. That is, no one in a super- yvisory capacity shall be eligible for membership in this group. | So far as is possible, represen- tation in the works council shall ] be on the basis of one represen- tative for every seventy-five em- ploves in a department. Where sma!l departments make this im- possible, the employes of several rooms shall be considered as one “unit so as to make up the re- quired number. In order to get the organiza- tion started, the overseers have ‘appointed temporary members ‘om their respective departments. ese temporary members shall “eamprise the works council until ‘the first regular election has been. “held. It should be thoroughly un- derstood that although these mem- hers have been arbitrarily ap- ted, a{ soon as the organiza- tion is functioning smoothly, mem- bership in it will be possible only election. The advisory board shall be ap- . d by the management of the “sompany, and shall consist only of ‘he several departments. ‘The purpose of this body shall adjust points of issue upon the works council and the ’s council might not agree, resolution condemning the club as a dual union. And they then pro- ceeded to expel illegally all the most active members of the clu who hap- pened also to be the most active members of the union. They were so sure of the demor- alizing effect of their terror that the president predicted that “at the next dying meeting the club will automatically disband.” He pointed to the successful elimination of the former general - secretary, Abe Greenstein, by Local 1 and the In- ternational and predicted the same fate for the club. Allege Greenstein Was Corrupt. That there is no comparison be- tween the two cases does not ap- pear to Beardsley and Cd. They don’t realize that Abe Greenstein was a corrupt, unscrupulous indi- vidual wh@ was hated by all the progre elements in the Inter- national. Now it is Mr. Beardsley, who was then in the oppogition, who uses Greensten’s dirty tactics ana is in turn despised by all progres- sive element's. But their desperate tactics only make matters worse for them. Already some of their sup- porters who even voted to outlaw the club, have broken away *from them, joined the club and are among its active members. While the Beardsley crowd in des- | peration commit blunder after blun- |der, the club grows in numbers and influence. We are already arrang- ing a ball and concert for November 3, at New Webster Manor. We appeal to all jewelers not to hesitate but to join the club and help to build up an organization of jewelry workers that will raise the jewele neir present chaotic state into class conscious of mind workers, It is also up to the members to take advantage of the present favor- able sentiment ‘among the workers and to draw them into the club in greater and greater numbers. All jewelers should also get into the Union and see to it that we clean Local 1 of the clique that is re- |tarding its growth. Demand a new organizer, a new executive board, instead of the hand-picked dead- heads. Demand the re-instatement of the expelled members and the activization of all elements willing to work to build up a strong union. Beardsley and his clique would not and could not build the union. They must go! BC, and any other executive matters that may come before it. The statement says in part: “It is the sincere wish of the manage- ment of your company that every employe in the plant will enter into this program with a hearty | spirit of co-operation, for it is ‘only in this way that effective work can be done and the fullest | benefits derived. Let us all take | advantage of this opportunity to } share in the management of the plant in which we earn our liveli- | hood” Friday, Sept. 28, Omaha, Neb.|Mont. Final arrangements to be Son Theatre, 14th & Farnam Sts. | announced. Saturday, Sept. 29, Kansas City.| Friday, Sept. 28, Spokane, Wash. Mo. Musicians Auditorium, 1017| Final arrangements to be an- Washington St. nounced. Sunday, Sept. 30, Chicago, Ill.) Sunday, Sept. 80, Seattle, Wash. Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an- nounced. nounced. Monday, Oct. 1, St. Louis, Mo.| Monday, Oct. 1, Portland, Ore. Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an- nounced. nounced. Wednesday, Oct. 8, Indianapolis,| Tuesday, Oct. 2, Astoria, Ore. Ind. Final arrangements to be an.| Final arrangements to be an- nounced. | nounced. Thursday, Oct. 4, Cincinnati, O.| Thursday, Oct. 4, Oakland, Calif. Final arrangements to be an-|Final arrangements to be an- nounced. ‘nounced. : ITALY PREPARES COOLIDGE BACKS FASCIST FORGES —15-CRUISER BILL Largest Army; Strong Enters Competition In Aviation After Kellogg Pact ROME, Italy, Sept. 17—Mus-/ WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—While | Solini’s government has entered the | naval officials are stating that the world race in armaments, well in| Kellogg pact “is one thing and the the lead, having during the last five | NAVY'S needs are another,” and Presi- years attained a status with the | ent Coolidge has declared that the fess 0h : i daod and | United States navy bill will continue ere RSS POW aren a ee a in its construction program in spite chemical warfare, maintained one|of*the Franco-British naval pact, of the largest armies n Europe and certain interests here are beginning has rebuild its old navy and added |to propagandize for the passage of considerably to its naval forces. | te 15 10,000 ton cruisers bill. Its ship-building program for the| The Franco-British naval pact re- year 1927-28 includes two cruisers | stricts the construction of 10,000 ton of 10,000 tons each, twenty swift | cruisers while allowing freedom in destroyers, 15 submarinnes varying |the construction of smaller and from the large cruising type to the | Speedier craft, which is not in ac- smaller swift type, a school ship|cord with the policy of the United and other smaller craft. During the | States navy. The bill will provide last year three submarines and one|for the construction of 15 large cruiser were launched. This build-|cruisers during the course of three ing program follows in its general | years. lines the program of the British} and French navies, who are also/ jt was ; n : building small effective battleships Hi Geahaie wimg KAISPE EARS te instead of the old-type large and “outlaw war” Great Britain, France, clumsy warships. Japan and Italy are not slowing up The airplane building fury Mre their programs of naval construc- is already too well known to need | tion. further description, for Italy is} In discussion among officials here |labor movement.” This was part of|the audience. With the aid of the his “prosperity” hokum, ® |inspector and the young bank mes- Mr. Green “forgot” to mention| Senger the flapper gets kidnapped, \the great nation-wide offensive of |but thanks to a 100 per cent Ameri- |the bosses which is fast wrecking |can in the ganz and the half-witted- | jeverything worth while in the A. F.|ness of the bank messenger, the | of L, Not once did he mention the | Sangsters made a sorry mess of the! struggle of the miners, the textile; business and wound up by getting | workers, and needle trades. He) Pinched—just like that. | readily dispensed with the problem| Up until the last moment the ‘| of organizing the unorganized work-|dience would be justified in believ-| ers, by denouncing them in the fol-|ing that the police inspector. was | lowing words: “Those who are on|the head of the kidnapping gang, | | the outside, working 10 and 12 hours | but that may be due to reading the a day, have only themselves to Newspapers. blame, because they are working a| The Americanism of one of the |greater number of hours than are|S@ngsters breaks out when he re- jineluded in the recognized working | fuses to sanction the murder of the | | kidnapped fraulein saying: “This is | day.” ; ; ; Hf “For Efficiency and Speed-Up.” | dirty foreign business anyhow. “High wages and greater produc-| tion go hand in hand and combine to make a high standard of living.” | |Mr. Green does not wish to be re-| {minded about the wage-slashing campaign that accompanies in-} creased production in every big in- | dustry—in mining, textile, steel, and | others. “This is a golden age,” Green continued, when referring to the present high productivity of labor. He urged greater productivity for every worker, | Distribute Kodak Shop Paper. | Every one of the 600 delegates to} the state convention was handed a| copy of the latest issue of the voked such an attack vindicated the real position of this Communist fac- | tory organ. To give further proof that capital | and labor can travel arm-in-arm!/ William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, broke away from the conventién sessions to be the guest of Mr. George Eastman, “Kodak King,” no- torious open-shopper of the city. Mr. Eastman is the virtual boss of this town having recently forced the city-manager form of government on to the city because it enables him to more efficiently control the |“Kodak Worker,” organ of the Com-| local government. The present city | munist nucleus in Eastman’s plants.) manager is a former Eastman em- A special letter appearing on the | Ployee. front page was addressed to the| The luncheon took place at Mr. |delegates of the A. F. of L, state| Eastman’s home, 900 East Ave. Ac- convention. |companying Mr. Green were sever- The letter cites the betrayals by|a! other labor fakers of the A. F. the A. F. of L. leadership of trade | of L. ‘ 4 unions and calls for their removal.| While Green dined and weaned \It also points to the millions of un-|With George Eastman, one of the jorganized workers in auto, steel,|2astman plants, Camera Works, re- ‘rubber, and other. plants that the | cently discharged 65 metal polishers, | A. a. of L. willfully refuses to or-|members of the A. F. of L. with ganize, and calls upon the workers|Whom the company had a verbai to support the Communist Party|agreement. The men were receiv- program for such work and in the|ing 94 cents an hour and were dis- ‘coming elections. President Green, charged and others rehired at about in his opening speech, indirectly re- 55 cents an hour. The Hastman Ko- ferred to the Kodak Worker and|dak Co. is pursuing a similar policy \ other shop papers published by/in other departments. Eastman, the Communist factory groups as not|symbol of reaction and the open)| |being representative of the senti-|shop, welcomed Mr. Green and his ment of the American worker. ‘The|fellow labor fakers into the city. | ifact that the Kodak Worker pro-| ROSE HOROWITZ. | ranked among the first of the avi-| ation powers. Besides the regular army, the National Fascist Militia, numbering 300,000 men, is being | i kept in constant practice by numer- | ous maneuvers, and is used also for | the suppression of “rebellious” cle-| ments at home. “END OF ST. PETERSBURG” AT PLAYHOUSE This week the Playhouse Theatre | in Chicago is presenting the latest | wonder film from the studios of Se- | viet Russia, “The End of St. Peters- | burg.” This film is a wonderful realistic record of the entire crash of the Old | Russian government. Pudowin the \director has taken for his chief | figure a bewildered youth, who goes to the city and becomes part of the great overturn. But the hero of the | picture is really the mass of Russian workers and farmers. The story is told violently, in sharp flashes, lash- ing at capitalism with irony and |hate. The film catches the restless- ness of a whole sullen people in the \ chaos of revolution, THE VOTE COMMUN Printed over a Red Hammer and Sickle with be PRICE: Quantity lots: 55 books for 126 for $100. 43 East 125th wk ui TWO COMMUNIST CAMPAIGNERS background formed by the of Foster and Gitlow tastefully worked in. i posted on envelopes, grams, shop papers, bulletins, étc. Book of eighty stamps, $1.00. Can be resold at 10c per page of eight stamps. National Election Campaign Committee WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY Designed By Fred Ellis THE VOTE COMMUNIST BUTTON A beautiful arrangement of the photographs of Foster and Gitlow within a solid red shield, VOTE COMMUNIST stands out. 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OLSEN and HIS MUSIO Slavery “Trapped” IN “THE BIG FIGHT.” | a "OFFICIAL, DIES; "PAL OF GOMPERS \Was of Old School of | | Misleaders QUINCY, Mass., Sept. 16—The |death of James Duncan, former viee president of the American Fed- eration of Labor and close pal of Samuel Gompers last Friday, marks the passing of the old line of labor 1 | misleaders who founded the Fedet- } ation and who for a generation di- } \rected the organization along the 4 |lines of careful and limited collece | | tive bargaining. j Duncan, like his close associate i |Gompers, was always a bitter ene- a 2 |my of progressivism and militancy Estelle Tayler who is co-stared| Which they attacked with the cus- with Jack Dempsey in a’ new play tomary epithets about “Reds.” At “The Big Fight,” opening this even- the same time these old misleaders ing at the Maj differed from the present more open labor traitors who rule the Federa- tion, in carrying on a struggle against restrictive legislation which threatened labor and against the | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17 (UP). George W. Elliott, former director *. of public safety and for two years |°°mPany Union. ‘ an assistant to Brig. General Smed-| Duncan was president of the ley D. Butler, will be called before) @™anite Cutters’ International the grant jury for further question.| Union. In 1924 on the death of ing as Philadelphia's fifth week of |GOmpers, he sought to become pres- investigation into its gangster and ; dent of the Federation. Because alcohol racketeering benigs. |the new group of younger and more aE aS eer aggressive misleaders voted him You see the gang was mostly com- down, he threatened to resign. He posed of Sicilians. retired in 1925. He was seventy- The outstanding character in the|€ years old. plaw is Felix Krembs as th TEC vr aix feet andeact| FASCISTS PLAN FLIGHT. leader, who is over six feet and well mustached. Calvin Thomas, the 100! 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