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

£ —— + we Page Four ‘12 Hour Day ‘rH vATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, CCTOBER 5 1928 OFFICIALS WINK fi ee of Child Nearly Comes 1 MAN CAR MAKES AT VIOLATION OF _ BHOUT DAY LAW Colic Knocks Girls Out, Cash Talks (By « Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail) —Hell bent on breaking production record, the Philadelphia Storage Battery Co., is breaking the health of its women workers and breaking the law into the bargain. But who cares? In war and other b enterprises everything goes. The Philco’s miscellaneous depart- ment is browbeaten into working a twelve hour shift several da a week, with no time out for supper «80 that the slaves, mostly gir often drudge away for eight or nine hours at a stretch to drag them- selyes home at last work-worn and wrung by hunger. Thus a boss can thumb his nose in the face of the State statute fixing an eight-hour day for working women, for justice with a banknote plastered over eyeis blind. The Philco radio set has just been placed on the market and in order to fill advance sales at call and stop the ferry-slip mouths of the stockholders bawling for dividends. the entire plant is being run full blast. When any of the numerous radio gags finds itself swamped despite the back breaking speed-up System with more work than it can handle, the overflow is turned over to the miscellaneous department, a sort of emergency crew. As a re- sult the workers of this group are always up to their chins in rush jobs, pulled from before and prodded from behind. A full work day taken at the clip they are forced to main- tain is destruction enough, but when young women must keep to the treadmill from 7.15 a. m. until 8 or ' 9p. m. without a break except for three-quarters of an hour at noon, the thing is simply capitalistic mur- der, slow and brutal. To try .begging off an occasional |® evening is practically the same as asking for your walking papers. The shop warden reminds you that plenty of girls would jump at the chance to fill your shoes and maybe for less money. He trots out the big fist philosophy: “Work never killed nobody.” It’s not his fault if it hasn’t. He hints that when the company, in its goodness of heart, doles out jobs, it expects them to be appreciated by the favored serfs. Your choice is between losing your _ health or losing your job. Toward seven o'clock of a recent night, a new recruit to the mis- eellaneous department, not yet broken to compulsory fasting, asked) her keeper whether she might step outside for a sandwich. The main squelch was dumbfounded and when he had caught his breath and her drift, refused the wilful worker's request pointblank, murmuring something about cooling the heels on the sidewalks. “When we have work to be done. you get it and plenty, and when you've worked yourself out of a job, you get it—in the neck,” was the gist of his remarks. This came under the head of food for thought, but not easily buffaloed, the girl mentioned the tastefully framed excerpt from a certain state statute hanging in the employment office. Wasn’t it unlawful to make her put in more than eight hours in one day? “You're supposed to keep that under your hat,”- the slave-herder growled out. ‘The women workers continue to go hungry and slave up to bedtime two and three nights weekly. A break- down means labor turnover to these gore-guzzling dollar devils, nothing else: A girl carried out with paint- érs’ colic is an everyday sight in the spraying department. The hard cash hounds know that women work- ers are not strong enough to endure Beh labor long, but a penny saved ism penny more for dividends. Wom- en will work for almést half a man’s wages and, while they last, make just as good painters. —N. B. TO EXTEND USSR RAILROAD LINES MOSCOW (By Mail).—The Pre- sidium of the State Planning Com- mission of the Soviet Union dis- @ussed controlling figures of the five years’ plan for development of transport from 1928-29 up to 1932-33. : | It is proposed during this period to lay 19,100 kilometers of new rail- “Way lines, including 2,200 kilometers which are already under construc- “tion, 11,200 kilometers of new main Hines and 4,700 kilometers of local way branches. 4 “Towards the end of this ees x ral extension of the railway Geis the U. 8. S. R. will reach 978 kilometers. The cost of the jroposed construction will amount it 1,895,000,009 roubles. » During five years the transport 4 yield 3.300,000,000 roubles of / the net profit. Capital investments fn the transport are fixed in the tt of 4,000,000,000 roubles. pital stock of the railways to- the end of this period will be sed by 28 per cent, amounting 14.790,000,000 roubles. ae caused a pogrom against little Jew Griffith, at left, disc to appear mayor and a turned later, saying for her brother By GEORGE J. SAUL, DENVER, Colorado, (Delayed).— Thousan of workers and farmers in Colorado heard the message of Communism last when Wil- liam Z. Foster, Communist candi- date for the presidency, delivered a radio address over KFXF and spoke to 500 workers in Taber- nacle Hall. Foster was greeted with enthus- iastic applause when he was intro- night station duced as the man who : napped by state rangers under the notorious Pat Hamrock eral years ago and deported out of the state. The man who is so detested by the authorities of Calorado that he was warned against entering the state, returned to Denver last night to be hailed by the militant workers is an outstanding leader in the Workers (Communist) Party which is recognized by the class conscious workers of this stronghold of in- dustrial feudalism as the only party of the class struggle in the United tates. The spirit shown at the meeting indicated a great revival of the mili- tancy that characterjzed the wor! ing class movement of Colorado other years when the great revolu- tionary labor leader, Bill Haywood, led the embattled miners in many a bloody contest with the employers. | The labor-haters who deported Fos- ter will some day be confronted with the organized power of revolution- ary labor, which is developing under Communist leadership and the time| will come when the deportees will not be revolutionary labor leaders but the parasitic exploiters. Scores “Socialists.” Foster’s speech was a clear ex* position of the policy of the Work- ers (Communist) Pa‘ in the class struggle. He denounced the reac- tionary trade union leaders for their treachery to the miners in the re- cent strike against the coal oper-| ators in Colorado, their support of the government that called out the militia and their support of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, whose gunmen shot down the strik- ers at the Columbine mine. The speaker told of the organiza- tion of the National Miners’ Union in Pittsbu: to take the place of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica which was wrecked by the cor-| rupt Lewis machine, which brought about the defeat of the striking miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West | Virginia, Illinois and Indiana in the great bituminous strike. Comrade Foster urged the coal miners of Colorado to line up in the National Miners’ Union and to fight opens the following Monday at the|length play, “This Thing Called | against the labor lieutenants of capi-! talism in the trade union movement. Foster attacked the socialist par- ty for its alliance with the trade |hearsals of his new comedy “The|terson McNutt may produce. Burke | union bureaucracy and its support of the im maneuvers of the United nment. He showed that in this support of the League of Nations, the World Court and the Kellogg -war” treaty the socialist party like the social democracy ut the world, had become the political handmaiden of imperialism and 3 not fundamen- tally different from the democratic and republican parties, Hits Thomas. Norman Thoma delivered a speech here recently which resulted in a loss of membership to the so- cialist party. The alist meet- ing was poorly attended and lacking in enthusias hose who heard Comrade f speech declared that the) vinced that the Workers (( U heir to th U Eugene V. by the socia man Thomas ra in his speeches bourgeois polit the ghostly lea par Foster atta Al Smith as agent of Wall Street. here recently and attracted much at- tention. His demogogical appeal to the workers, making use of the en- dorsement of the New York labor fakers, got him a hi ig but Fi ter’s expose of the role of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, as a bul- | wark against radicalism and the an Smith spoke ted rumor that J WORKERS LISTEN TO — FOSTER OVER RADIO MANY HUNDREDS OF MEN JOBLESS | Workers Make Threat) | to Fight Them | (By a Worker Correspondent) | PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail.)— | Several hundred street car men have Inst their jobs here by the introduc- | tion of the one-man cars which the company is putting into operation as fast as possible. Open threats of a revolt on the part of the men trooper in. Massena, N. Y., nearly |are heard on every side, and the ish settlement, when little Barbara | patrons of the cars are in a serious of Yom Kippur, Jewish religi- mood, also, as the hills up and down which tha cars must operate are very dangerous and an ever-growing | menace, through the pulling off of one of the men who run the cars. A strike is imminent, if the voice | ised her blood , at right, was forced used of the ritual charge. Girl had gone into woods to look ws had ___ of the men in their protests are any criterion by which the temper of the men can be judged. “Hundreds Out of Work. | Quite recently the officials of the | car company went before the coun- | cil and stated that they would have to get rid of two hundred men, and servile tool of American imperialism | put on the one-man cars if they helped to puncture the Smith bub-|were to finish the year without a ble. |deficit. Thus the prospect of two! Herbert Hoover was branded as|hundred men being out of work in| another representative of Wall| the worst time of the year, and they Street and the apologist for the cor-|heing added to the already over-| ruption of the Harding and Coolidge | CTowded labor market, is looming up | administration, the efficiency en-| for the Street Carmens Union, and | gineer of imperialism, who helped|the prospect is causing some con-| to destroy the Hungarian pat Ne oy a cat opera cate | Government and did his level best | {reds mr men he strike, Wt it to sabotage the Russian Revolution t trike, d + 160% while masquerading under the cloak | P°MOS "0 2 Strike, does not look any | tco bright. of relief during the great Ruasian| “(oe | i teoduction of the| tari | site busses and their multiplication on The literature sales at the Foster|eyery hand, the street car com-| meeting made a new record in Den- panies are fecling the effect of this | ver. Many copies of the “Platform competition, as are also the rail-| of the Class Struggle” and “Mis-| roads, and with the returns on the leaders of Labor” were sold and the| watered stocks dwindling. stock- workers who attended went away | holders howling for their dividends, | with enough Communist literature|ihe on'v way for them to keep the to keep them busy reading for|dividends at an attractive level is awhile. leither the introduction of the one- | P man cars or the reduction of the| ; 5 wages of the men, or both. This [ Broadway Briefs also brings another problem for the ; lofficers of the companies to solve, | The manuscript of Eugene as the prospects of the busses com-| O’Neill’s new play, “Dynamo,” was| pletely supplanting the street cars received by the Theatre Guild yes-|is looming up more and more every | terday and plans were started for| day. and the loss of their entire in- its production on the Guild program | vested capital in the franchises, car later this season. |lines and equipment must be solved by them. “The Importance of Coming and| _ With the ever-growing number of Going,” Butler Davenport's satire on |™en Who are running taxis, busses, |trucks and flying machines, all un- birth and death, is continuing at the | ‘ ‘ | ey a 2 organized, it becomes our problem | parennore tneaere.onseeat Events also, and it is one we cannot ignore. | Boren Breet |Our Party must be alive to this | new shifting of the workers to a new | The second new production of the | line of endeavor. We cannot ignore |he was as good a worker as the next.|{9 increase the volume of produc- |the present instance, he had been | a, they term it, to give the death- Speed-Up for Women Workers in Philco Plant, Correspondent Writes Abdication Rumored | SCQ)VIET RUSSIA’S FIRST MANY WORKERS | oe: ae ea | JUDGING from the Russian film) WILLEM MENGELBERG productions which have been pre- | sented in America such as “Potem- | kin,” “Marriage of the Bear,” “Czar Ivan the Terrible” and “The Station | Master,” one would be easily led to | conclude that sadness and tragedy are the outstanding motifs of Soviet |cinemas. However, here and there in some of these productions we | |catch a twinkle of humor which is laugh-provoking albeit acridly satir- ical. | Wage Slavery in Mount Rainier Rumors are frequent that Victor! A biting instance of this quality Emanuel, King of Italy, intends to|ig found in “Potemkin” when the | resign. The misery of the Italian) gold-rimmed spectacles of the little | workers under Emanuel and the | ship physician are caught dangling | Mussolini fascist regime is steadily |on the hawser as he is hurled over- growing worse. Revolts of workers hoard by the mutinying sailors, the are frequent. same spectacles, the audience in- Po alae ‘A a. |stantly recalls, which were used by | this pompous official as a magnify-| ing glass to scan the worm-ridden flank of the sailors’ meat. Another example of satirical humor occurs | NOT FOR WORKERS ©: “The End of St. Petersburg” | ; : when the sharper is relessed from| "The noted conductor returns to jail and is selected to carry ae of bis post as head of the Philharmonic jtrait of the czar in a pa | Orchestra, leading the opening con- draftees. |cert at Carnegie Hall this evening. It is unprecedented, therefore, to} note that the Amkino is shortly tol worker in their factory, who (By a Worker Correspondent) present at the Cameo the American fisnced to a Soviet official who SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail)—|Premiere of the first Soviet com. happens to be one of the examiners Mount Ranier national park is a scp 7/8 Comrie out neta en the county seat. i 2 which is de bees ool Place when the hot| primitive humor which on occa-|_ Akhov and Makhov are played by worker’s face. Mount Ranier rises |Sion is of the slapstick variety. The | Serge Lavrentiev and Serge Iablo- high, capped with snow, father of gs, however, are quite ingenious | Kov, and phate Ratitaliam le) an Aa glaciers and ice-cold roaring streams. | #nd infectious in their hilarious ap- Aig stapsed of the humor in the | 1 ie atveevich, the privates en- There are many people here try-| Peal. , léveprenedr, is graphical s ing to get back to nature and the| It seems that Soviet Russia has | ee nee ically portrayed soil, trying to forget the dusty re-|reached a point where it is quite) ie a Peo ee rea pee tne lentless city. | willing to treat satirically its own t/ im the case is played by Olga The workers are here, of course.| institutions as well as officialdom. | |” CKOvs- ae director is Alexis You find them everywhere, wherever |We have observed symptoms of it| Poney snd “3 Comrades and 1 In- dirty work has to be done. The|in their books, periodicals and car- jon’ is his first production. workers are in the park, blasting|toons, and it is interesting that we| On the same program the Am- rock, digging ditches, laying cork- | are now to be favored with a satir-|kino will present for the first time screw roads into the very heart of|ical screen treatment of some of|in America, “A Shanghai Docu- the park. You see them here, with | their foibles. |ment,” which is a psycho-cinematic shovels, picks, you see them driv-| A strange analogy between Riis noon of this unique metropolis un- ing trucks and teams of horses, you! sia today and go-getting America is ae the stress of governmental see them swathed in dust. the fact that the two nations are Change. It is a penetrating close- We met one worker who had just | addicted to the ideals of efficiency |"P of the life of the Chinese city, been fired. He had been shipped] and slogan-izing. One of these out-|CoVering the various strata of na- here from Portland, which reports a standing slogans in Russia is “The | tives and also giving a certain de- large surplus of labor, had worked | Rationalization of Production.” By gree of attention to the white con- two days and a half, and was then|this is meant the perfection and bencgiany and the foreign resi- “canned.” He was bitter in denun-| wide-spread use of machines so Siete eae ecene eenat ciation of the boss,,and swore that |to ease the worker’s lot as well as eadse-eP-the wewtsiuiake ae by ‘Why,” we asked him, “were you | tion to pre-war levels. _ SCREEN COMEDY SOON’ gpsepye yqyTH DAY IN GHICAGO ‘Huge Celebration Is Held (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, Ill. (By Mail).—Sun- day evening, September 23, at the East Room of the Ashland Audi- torium, five hundred people cele- brated International Youth Day and demonstrated against capitalist mili- tarism and imperialist war. The audience was a very enthusiastic cne and the program very interest- ing. The first speaker, Mike Zalisko, spoke on the historical background of International Youth Day. Leon | Platt, district organizer of the Y. W. C. L., spoke on the conditions fi |of youth in industry and of the ap- |proaching imperialist wars. and cf the duties of the young workers if |the fate of such a situation. He |finished his talk by an appeal to all |young workers present to join the ranks of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League. * The Workers (Communist) Party |was represented by Carl Sklar, who spoke on the war danger and greeted the Young Workers (Communist) | League in the name of the Workers | (Communist) Party. There was also a beautiful piano solo, a girls’ tableau and an anti- war playlet that was remarkably well executed. A number of voung workers signed application cards when the meeting was over. The Young Worker acceptance speeches of Foster and G‘tlow and the Lieb- knecht speeches and writings were sold. The meeting was a great suc- ;cess and an indication that the Young Workers (Communist) League is successfully reaching the young workers with its propaganda erd organizing them for the strug- gle ageinst American imperial'’sm. SAUL HELD. | the Sovkino in depicting the life of ja city and its photography has been |placed on a par with that of “Ber- jlin,” the German film by Walter | Rutthman, canned then?” He told us that} “3 Comrades and 1 Invention” ~~ everything on the mountain depend-|qeals with the adventures of two eae) ed on the whim of the boss, and in| inventors who are determined, ~ canned because the boss wanted to|stroke to local capitalism by creat- | eee make room for a few personal ing a machine which will automati- friends of his, And to be canned| cally assemble packing cases for here means something, for a fif-| soap. They reckon, however, with- teen or twenty mile walk down a/oyt the menace and opposition of | winding corkscrew road in a high|one called Matveevich, who is one | altitude isn’t fun, of the numerous small business men | The workers get $4.50 per day.| stil] conducting private enterprise | | young HUBERT Thea. 44,W.ofB'way. Ev. SHUBERT 8:30;Mats, Wed.,Sat.2.30 GUY OPETTE DE WOLF ROBERTSON MYRTIL HOOPER in a musical romance of Chopin Civic Repertory. Theatre, “‘L’Invita- tion Au Voyage,” will have its pre- miere at the Fourteenth Street Playhouse this evening. Eva Le Gal- liene plays the chief role in this play from the French of Jean| Jacques Bernard. Ernest Boyd made | the translation, | Walter Hampden’s season, which|. was scheduled to open this evening| with “The Light of Asia,” has been| postponed until next Tuesday night. | Lang and Forbe’s production of “Tin Pan Alley” now in rehearsal, the need of organization among these men, who are going to be, and | in fact are today, a real mass un- | crganized movement, and one which | is now fast .challenging the old unions of the railroad, street car | men and the teamsters unions in the number of men now being shifted | into a new line of work. The Workers Party in Pittsburgh is alive to this question and {s| watching it very closely and is get- ting ready to carry on an active campaign among the men for the need to prepare for this impending strike which is coming in the near future. This isn’t as munificent as it sounds. Out of that $4.50 they have to pay $1.50 for board and room—typical gandy dancing grub, too—a like amount for compensation and hos- pital te per month, and a few other “minor” expenses I have forgotten now. No, fellow workers, the natignal parks do not belong to us. When they want a new road, a new build- ing, a new track, a new bridge, they call on us, but the woods, rivers, and mountains don’t belong to us. They belong to the bourgeoisie, our masters who can afford to take a in Soviet Russia and enjoying a good | government contract for the manu-/ facture of such packing cases. The | trials and tribulations of these two geniuses, Akhov and Makhov, in| their effort to bring their contrap- | tion to the attention of the various | groups and organizations such as/ the workers’ factory, the county ex- amining officials, the main head-| quarter functionaries, etc., who must | pass on the merits of their inven- tion, supply the background and at-| mosphere for the splendid humor of the film. The various situations which arise are treated with satir-_ WHITE LILACS CASINO 32th st Eves. § B’ a Mats. Wed. & Sat. MUSICAL COMEDY HIT LUCKEEGIRL Central Pk. W. CENTURY ea. & 62 St. Eves. Mat.: Wednesdays & Saturdays, SUNNYDA The Musical Comedy Sensation MACHINAL 0 Oo) 8:30 2:30. | CIVIC REPERTORY 1381.61». 50c, $1.00, $1.50. Mats. Wed. &Sat.,2.30 | EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director | Tonight: “Would Be Gentleman.” Sat. Hedda Gable: Satur- ‘Invitation au Voyage.” CAMEO RD BIG 424 and Biway wee “Q SHIPS” WORLD PREMIERE | AUTHENTIC! ACTUAL! Sensational Submarine Warfare! 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