The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1928, Page 4

Distribute Thousa GREAT RESPONSE"; "aes TO DRIVE FROM nds 3 Sa TE TE DATLY WORKER, W YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1928 Ford Construction Workers Workers” OPEN SHOPPERS iii tie Mie Fire in Auto Plants in Red Election Campaign WAGE SLASHES “By Request” Comes in Like a IN CONTROL OF today continued to eat its way thru oe SLAVES OF BELT) tain colliery of the Susquehanna Coal Company here. While some miners were playing ARKANSAS, OKLA, | | the ground level of the Short Moun-| streams from fire extinguishers and «SHOE WORKERS LIKENS, Pay Oc 8 Q1M0—Fire| FREQUENT FOR Lion, Goes Out Like a Lamb [7 is the fashion nowadays in the IN THEATRE GUILD PLAY. best dramatic circles to treat the . formerly sacred institution of mar- riage with a degree of levity that does not square with the speeches of capitalist politicians whose main Organization _of Men Is Task (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).— Four thousand and eight hundred copies of the Ford Worker with a| statement on the election campaign | of the Workers Party were distribu- | ted at the Fordson plant. This is | Farmers and Workers Misery Great a hose line on the burning timbers and coal, others were erecting act) barriers to impede progress of ths flames. |Need for Organization Is Great | plank is that the home is the foun- | dation of society. In the first act of almost every play I have seen this the first time that it was possible | (By a Worker Correspondent) LITTLE ROCK, Ark., (By: Mail). | —In this state where the one party | | system dictates the political life of the state, where Negroes are denied the semblance: of a right, we find that the workers and farmers are going deeper and deeper into misery Much has been written and said Season, much hilarity is produced by Several mules in one stope, cut) about the slave conditions under |Tevealing the little animadversions off from rescue by flames, are be-| which the shoe workers are exploit- | 0f husbands and wives in violation lieved to have been burned. No|ed. Although the subject is far 0f their marriage vows. In the last miners were caught ‘by the fire. | from being exhausted we will how- ee virtue usually has its in-| The ount ever not dwell upon it at the pres- ° | peon Warten tet ee er ene Hee atieeara stoke the hor.| In “By Request,” the latest opus | : i ; ; % rible ditions fter all |by J. C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent, Discovering the fire yesterday,| in pote nage He renented by George M. Cohan, at and debt. There are only remnants |two pump runners had the fire| Well known and the shoe workers of trade unions left in the state, | nearly under control with a fire ex-| Surely do not have to be told about | the Hudson Theatre, the guests have for-the Party members to reach so | many thousands of workers in this huge auto industry of Henry Ford. The Fordson plant is built in uch a way that it is almost impos- sible to reach these many thousands | of workers from the outside. The | workers come out of the factory and go right into the street cars, busses and machines without getting off the property of Henry Ford. Many efforts, but without any) suecess were made on the part of the Party. In this election campaign thescomrades began to discuss the distribution of the Ford Worker at his'huge plant and after thoro con/ sideration a crowd of comrades were organized and the distribution was made with a very big success. It is true that we could not go right up* to the plant, but the workers were covered with the Ford Worker | inside and outside of the street cars| The Young Workers (Communist) and busses, away from the factory.|League welcomed the U. S. Battle This attempt on the part of the|Fleet to San Francisco some time Party to reach these workers in the ago with a distribution of letters to Fordson plant, is very important the sailors. The letters pointed out and it created great interest. the Y. W. C. L. program concern- Im this election campaign many |jng all service men and appealed to new ideas and many new methods |them as workers in uniform. De- are being put forth in order to/mands for the elections of non-com- yroaden out the campaign and open | missioned officers, the right to vote, up the field of activity for our big |to organize and to hold office were task which is the organization of | made. these thousands and hundreds of| The day after the distribution of thousands of workers in the auto in- these letters the fleet sailed to San dustry. Pedro, California, which is a few Henry Ford alone employs at the | miles from Los Angeles. Members present time 120,000 workers. We |of the League in Los Angeles and are being informed that the pro- San Pedro met the sailors there and duction from now on will go up distributed more of the same letter and that 10,000 machines a day/to them. will be the aim in the very near Sailors Approve. future. This of course will mean a| At this time the sailors remarked sig struggle among the auto manu-|to the Y. W. C. L. members who facturers, who build small cars.|were distributing the letters to This will further mean wage cuts, |them: “No, thanks bud, I got one peed-up in the auto plants sof of them in Frisco,” and at the same Henry Ford and General Motors. |time pulling the letter out of his All in all it certainly will mean a | pocket and displaying it with a grin. | struction work a living wage (By Ex-Soldicr Correspondent) SAILORS APPROVE OF RED LEAFLETS Photo shows workers descending to foundation bottom eighty feet below strect level, in construction work on New Yorker Hotel. s among most haz Con- ardous, yet workers do not obtain why the officers c? the navy do not dare to mention the contents of our letters, bulletins and leaflets, And that is why they lie to the sailors and tell them that our national head- quarters address is a fake. The League will continue to fear- lessly point out the stupidity of the officers. It will be able to put our program into effect with the contin- uation of the sailors aid. When the servicemen of this coun- try and of the world understand that they go to war with other na- tions to satisfy the greed of Wall Street money-mongers we will have no more war. It is a sailor’s duty to know why he goes to war as well as who sends him to war. We all realize now that the cry of “a war to end war” was. a fake. The Unit- ed States is at war with Sandino’s troops in Nicaragua at this moment. Rumors of war are ever heard and the time is not far distant when the sailors who grinned and talked with us will find their bodies blown to pieces. Shattered and torn that an- other million might be obtained. with the major ones long ago de-/tinguisher when the chemical be- | feated by the treacherous policy of | came exhausted. When they re- the leaders of the railroad and min-|turned with more extinguishers, |ers’ unions. The bosses will kill or| dense smoke drove them away. run out of the state the industrial | unionist and will only rest with the ogo ‘TO HOLD DRESS Bankers Control. In Little Rock, the common la-| | borers receive seventeen cents an | RALL | a hour and the skilled carpenters in| ' the building trades receive thirty- | | five cents an hour. The mortgage | ——- has deprived most of | the es New Union to Launch i jomes | : . . farmers of their land an mi Organization Drive and in the cities the majority of the | Continued from Page One cottages are in the hands of the| bankers. re een : In Oklahoma the workers’ condi- | ganization Committee in New York tions are not any better with un-| have replied to the local office here employment in both states grow- that Louis Hyman, chairman of the ing. The bumper crops are in the | N. 0. C., will come here to speak to hands of the bankers and exploiters | the workers. Efforts have also been before they leave the freight cars. |made to get Ben Gold, leader of the | In both Oklahoma and Arkansas |fUr workers, to come*here to speak. the Workers. (Communist) Party is|H. Koretz, of New York will also fighting to obtain a place on the |SPeak. ballot. The Oklahoma laws are| Preliminary meetings of unorgan- drastic and framed to keep the | ized workers held in the office of party of class struggle off the bal-|the new union, at 42 North 9th St., lot. The man the capitalist picked | show _8 remarkable sentiment for to look after the election laws in |°Tganization among the non-union Oklahoma, McAllister, makes the workers. The freshness and honesty | laws of the game and uses them ef-|0f the new union movement made a |fectively against the workers, un-|PoWerful appeal and lent new hope less the law can be used against the |t this city’s unorganized workers capitalist. Then he refuses to rec- when they contrasted the enthu- | ognize his own law. The drastic|Siasm of the new union with the laws prevent us from entering our | ‘orruption and cynical disregard of | ticket, so the Farmer-Labor Party |*he unorganized which the Sigman | was used. A petition of a hundred | °fficials have always shown, names was filed in protest against Labor Defense Autumn | our electors in order to keep us off | the ballot. According to the laws of | ) their game, these protesters vnuet |eVel Planned Oct, 27 be registered voters of the Farmer- | |Labor Party. Fact proved they were not such. A protest and bond | Preparations have already been | started for the annual Proletarian |Autumn Revel of the New York | them. Within the last few years reduc- tion on top of reduction has been | |made. This has reached a stage where it is about imposstble to earn a living. Yellow-dog agreements have been introduced. In many| shops the bosses are demanding se- curity from the workers who in some casas have to pay several hundreds of dollars for permission to work. Many other evils exist) _which take too much space to men- | tion. The shoe workers have been | degraded and humiliated. Vicious Circle. | In order to make up at least part | | of the losses caused by the many {cuts in wages, shoe workers are | | compelled to work long hours which | |only leads to further reductions. | Do you realize that these long hours not only undermine you physically |and mentally, but also’ create a! | large army of unemployed who are |competing for jobs and which | bosses use as a whip against all shoe workers? | No one should believe that the | Workers have lost their militancy | and will forever put up with the in-/| sults and abuses of the bosses. | Shoe Workers! We know that) | you are not, }ou cannot be satisfied | with these miserable conditions. We | |know that you are complaining | about your conditions; we know | that you are wishing that something |be done. We also know that by “something” you know and realize | that the only thing to do, the only | way to combat the greedy appetites |of the bosses, is to organize, to | build a strong union, but instead of | wishing, you must do something to | bring this about. | It Depends on You. | | You must realize that if we must | | and conditions by joining the Inde- | boss to dinner nothing to kick about until the au- thors decide the time is ripe to preach a moral lesson. This hap- pens immediately after the first act. A young man: leaves Massilon,| Ohio, to seek betterment in New York. He is a journalist and his| aim is to become the New York cor-| respondent of an Ohio newspaper | magnate. The boy from the hinter-| land falls into the usual pitfalls| that yawn before every innocent! who is not obliged to get up at 6) o'clock in the morning and keep his hand on the steering gear of some industrial machine until his day’s toil is ended. And when pay day. comes around he is lucky if he can spare enough, money to take his family to the movies. The young man from Massilon Helen Chandler who is playing in the new Theatre Guild produc- tion of “Faust,” which opened at the Guild Theatre last night. falls slightly in love with a blonde, tho he is disturbed’ by qualms of conscience. He has a wife back home. This wife suddenly appears at a party at which he is enjoying’ {himself and the usual complications {result. The newspaper magnate who its work depends upon you. You intended to give him a job as New must help, you ought to do your | York correspondent decides that a share, and the first thing that you|™an who is unfaithful to his wife should do is to join the Independent | 8 not the kind of a fellow to have Shoe Workers’ Union and strengthen |0 ® Paper that caters to the home the forces that are working for a isis ae nee bat Legge 229 Will be’ able to liberate ourselves ong. the young man from Massilon from the present slave conditions. — +). Ss. |returns to edit the town paper, leav- Start on the road to better prices |ing the blonde to accompany the and write snappy pendent Shoe Workers’ Union of stories of New York life for the Greater New York and vicinity. magnate’s Ohio customers. ainee)s CAMEO apacity | 4" © —— 42d and Bway cotta “Q SHIPS” WORLD PREMIERE AUTHENTIC! ACTUAL! Sensational Submarine Warfare! paste fe oun irctueewmeteake Aik aati | JOLSON Thea., 7th Ave. & 59th St. Evs. 8.30, Mats. Fri, & Sat. ODETTE DE WOLF Strange Interlude wore favorable condition for or- | Others became friendly to a point of zanizational work. discussion on the merits and de- The Workers (Communist) Party | merits of our letter, but all were in n the city of Detroit is calling upon |accord with our demands for their —EX-SERVICE. put up by our electors was ruled | out. A mandamus proceeding is | now pending. Section of the International Labor have @ union in order to better our Defense, 799 Broadway. The revel Conditions, then it is the shoe work- | will be held Saturday evening, Oct, 1* themselves who will have to Guy ROBERTSON MYRTIL HOOPHR | | 1m @ musical romance of Chopin John GOLDEN Thea. 58th E. of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 these workers of Henry Ford and rights. General Motors, that the only way| Another told us a story that 10 fight these bad conditions, such shows the officers of the service in| as speed up, wage cuts and the gen- |a true light. It seems that the of- aral worsening of working condi- ficers realized that they could not dions, can only be done by organiz-|counteract our demands or even de- ng on the part of the workers. In |nounce them, for, according to the the election campaign, we call upon |story of this sailor, the sailors the workers to register their pro- | aboard his ship were called together vest against these open shoppers, |and given a lecture by their com- against these bloody aristocrats, by |mander. The commander began his voting for the platform of the class tale by stating that he had wired ‘truggle, by supporting and joining back east and found that the address he Workers (Communist) Party. of the League headquarters in New| The election campaign will intensify | York City was a fake, and that no yur campaign to organize these un- such numiber as 43 East 125th Street wganized workers and to get them nang J He told them that the let- nto militant trade unions, such as |ters we distributed were all faked he miners, textile workers and|and that it would be of no use for | aeedle trades workers are building |them to write to the address on the it the present time. jletter. Nothing at ald was said —JOHN SCHMIESS. |about the contents of the letter ex- ass cept about the address given. He closed his threat to the sailors by {2 Men Saved From [saying that court-martial . action i H 7 |would be taken against anyone Sinking Freighter yous possessing one of these let- ALBANY, Oct. 8 (U.P)—After a ters. yarge of the Standard Oil Com- Show Rotten Conditions. any struck the freighter Cohoes to-| But we, the League, and the sail- lay, 12 men of the freighter were | ors themselves, understand why the saved from the Hudson River hy|commander failed to mention the he tugboat John E. Birwind contents of the letters. He cannot The freighter was crushed just| denounce it beeause it is so clearly tbove the water-line and began to/an appeal for justice that even the ‘ounder in shallows. The tug boat,| most illiterate sailor would see thru jailing up the river, pulled the Co-|the denunciations, and realize more woes back into the channel. The|the rotten conditions and the en- ‘reighter then proceeded toward slavement and uses of the capitalist Troy. |tools—the armed forces. That is ELECTION DRIVE TOURS Communist Speakers Covering Uo Se Oct. William Z. Foster, presidential | ndidate of the Workers (Commu- st) Party; Benjamin Gitlow, vice- ssidential candidate, and Bertram Wolfe. national agitprop director d candidate from the Tenth Con- veasional District of New Yori vill speak at the following cities ¢. heir election campaign tours: ‘Foster—New Orleans, Tuesday, dct. 9, Atlanta, Ga.; Thursday, Oct. (1, Norfolk, Va.; Friday, Oct. 12, Minn.; 15, Wash. In addition to these three tours, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Communist candidate for attorney general of New York state; William Patton, candidate for governor of Towa, and “Mother” Ella Reeve Blocr, vet- eran Communist speaker and agita- tor, will speak at different cities throughout the country. Poyntz—Tuesday, Oct. 9, Omaha; Monday, Seattle, Richmond, Va.; Sunday, Oct. 14,| Moines; Tuesday, Oct. 9, Omaha; Washington, D. C. Wednesday, Oct, 10, Sioux City. |, Gitlow-—Tuesday, Oct. 9, San|_ Patten—-Monday, Oct. 8 Des Diego, Cal; Wednesda: Oct. | Moines; Tuesday, Oct. 9, Omaha; 0, Phoenix, Ariz.; Thursday, Oct.| Wednesday, Oct. 10, Sioux City; Saturday, Oct. 13, Council Bluffs; Sunday, Oct. 14, Omaha; Monday, ‘Det. 15, Sioux City. 1, Tueson, Ariz.; Sunday, Oct. 14,| Mouston, Tex.; Tuesday, Oct. 16, | ort Worth, Tex.; Wednesday, Oct, | ‘7, Oklahoma City; Thursday, Oct,| Bloor—Tuesday, October 9, and ‘6, Tulsa; Friday, Oct. 19, Arma,| Wednesday, October’ 10, in the fansas; Monday, Oct. 22, Omahay| Kansas coal fields, Arma, Kan.; day, Oct. 23, Kansas City. Wolfe—Tuesday, Oct. 9, Dulutl Thursday, Oct. 11, Kansas City; Friday, Oct. 12, St. Joseph, Mo.; Wednesday, Oct. 10, Superior, Wis.;| Saturday, Oct. 13, Council Bluffs wsday, Oct. 11, Minneapolis, Sunday, Oct. Friday, Oct. 12, Minneapolis, | Oct. 15, Sioux City. ree 14, Omaha; Monday, | WHITE COP BEATS UP TEXAS NEGRO Papers Refuse to Print News of Assault Continued from Page One ties was hurt, so they demanded that Webber be punished. The police obliged—they suspended the swash- buckling Webber for a day. Law and Order! And in their frantic efforts to conceal the brutality of the hired hand, the police recorded his sus- pension as a violation of a police rule requiring policemen to pre- serve order at elections. But they needn’t have worried about the newspapers printing any- thing so trivial as an assault ona Negro worker. Even after the re- porters dug up the story the local capitalist papers wouldn’t touch it. “Tt's too late to be news,” ex- plained the ‘unctuous city editors. They d'dn’t mention the quite evi- dent fact that it would be bad pub- licity for the San Jacinto Trust Company, which hands out juicy ad- vertising contracts to nice little newspapers that speak only when they’re spoken to. Wade is a member of the National Alliance of Postal Employes, Colored Branch. State Action Ilegal. |27th at 8 o'clock, in Webster Hall,| build it. And you sister or brother | In Oklahoma as well as other! 119 E. 11th St, states all power is used to prevent) The I. L. D. Autumn Revel this the Party of the class struggle, the year will be unique among affairs , Workers (Communist) Party, from |of this kind in that its proletarian entering the campaign. | character will be maintained in the Another typical example is the | Smallest detail. Colorful costumes, state of Nebraska, The law pro-| fancy outfits will be taboo;’ rags vides that candidates can enter in-| and shabby clothes of all sorts will dependent by petition with one /Tule the night. Valuable prizes will thousand signatures. We are in- be awarded to those wearing the formed by the state officials that /Oldest and shabbiest clothes and no matter what the laws say, they | keen competition is expected among will throw our petition out when |the hundreds of ragged proletarians we present it. They insist that we | Who will attend the affair, | use the other method, that is a con- | vention of five hundred delegates, | a method that has kept the workers off the ballot in this state for years | Persons were killed near here late | and enabled Norris to capitalize the /today when two airplanes crashed | radical sentiment on the republican head-on. One of the planes burst into flames when it fell to the | ticket, in order to lead the opposi- | d | tion back into the swamp if it be-|STound and two of the bodies were comes too dangerous. burned beyond recognition. The exploited, suppressed work- | Pobe trier Waist 5 KILLED IN PLANE €RASH DETROIT, Oct. 8 (UP).—Five \shoe worker who may read this let- | ter must ask yourself first before | asking it of others, “What am I (doing towards the organizing of shoe workers?” You must ask your- | ‘self, “Am I doing my share toward | the building of a union?” If every shoe worker will do this, it every shoe workev will realize his duty, it will not take long befure we will have a powerful union | through which we will be able to do away with these miserable condi- | tions. From recent reports you already | know that through the efforts of | progressive active and militant shoe | | workers, a union under the name | Independent Shoe Workers Union | ‘has been organized. This union | earnestly set itself the task of or- | ganizing the shoe workers to im- | prove conditions but the success of | | | ers and poor farmers of Oklahoma | and Arkansas and the subjected Ne- gro workers and peons are watch- ing the fight of the Communist | \ Party to obtain a place on the bal- | lot in these two states because they | | realize that only through a party of | the class struggle can they obtain | freedom. The majority at this stage | are only watching, fearing to ex- | | press themselves. A minority, the | | most class-conscious are lending | their support to the activity of the | Workers (Communist) Party in| their work in the south. —R. A. | A low, Workers Party | The Socialist Party | —by M. J. 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