The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 11, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY: _WOR jag othe (By a Seamen Correspondent) ‘On the wall in the lobby of the Seamen's Institute, 25 South St., is On this board are « bulletin board. ee and photographs of missing seamen. It reads like a Lloyd's list A- missing ships. On the lower ieft-hand corner of this board is an incons; note which reads as follows: 22, 1928; notify friends; was found dead in mother’s address, ‘Lawrence, Ma: Sept. E. Bremen the Battery; 190 Willows St., KER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1928 § SEAMEN SLAVES GO. TO BONE-YARD AFT Very brief, for there 1s no need to mention the cause of his death. It is the answer to the question: What becomes of a seaman when the ship-owner is through with him? Yes, there is a snug harbor for seamen who are over 60 and worn out. Yard. But Bremen was young and dreamed and schemed in the hope of the future. Almost a stone’s jihrow from the Battery, a huge a ‘building rears to the sis It has a ‘Medal for errincical Ww on EXPLOITS THOUSANDS IN EUROPE ALSO sompl 35 to 48 Cents an Hour suing +. The germ brane which & call oa ers. for Men ta (By a Worker Correspondent) eonfe’ MILLTOWN, N The Miche- sine Mire and Tube pay starva- Partiction wages to the workers here. This alls concern is known to have large fac- Aictiortories in the following European Geclaicountries: in France, where their “ “Tcheadquarters are; in England; in tailoritaly and in Germany. Several thou-| éry asand workers are employed in each| “Siplant. Geleg: in th et Br In the local plant there are about You 12,200 workers of all description em- eomirployed. There are both young and “Czadult workers, men and women. The| Wastenty difference with the women is| we Vin numbers, there being about 600 Tamtemployed here. Shop About 60 per cent of this number rent are French workers, who have been the yimported to this plant either thru Broov; agents of the company or thru rela- vaytives from France who came here Tearlier. This importation has been frat SOE on for years. Thousands Slave. General Ely, orkers it Slaughter U.S. arch-jingoist, decorates Captain Kyburg for his services to Wall Street in the late imperialist world war in sending the workers into slaughter. the s These are the dominant sections) eyof the workers and the others fol- tti,ow in order, Polish, Hungarian and on j(Greek. The factory is divided into| wbout 20 different departments ac-| Ghio cording to the nature of the work cone: | (By @ Worker Correspondent) | fe Wages of Death. | I happen to be one of the em- wk Wages for the workers are equi-| Ployes—white collar slaves—of a id Valent to slow starvation. Male|PTosperous concern, to whom one of Gemoadult and young workers average|the folders described here was iportifrom thirty-five cents (for starters) | Meee ; iéy oto forty-eight cents an hour, But| “1, erewith enclose my help is; icMorty-eight cents is only paid to hoe continuing the Prosperity o: fear. workers who have slaved here for|jpe jbrovent. administration under . “*yfrom ten to fifteen years past. Ree eee eee jand Charles Curtis $— jearn The company also issues premi-| “Put your check, bank note, P. O. ‘pulums to their slaves. These paid! order, express order, in this envel- tratipremiums are classified on the basis|ope. Seal it tight, and mail it back judgof the nature of the work and the | to. headquarters.” @gaitnumber of pieces a worker produces. | The Picture on this campaign cir- KaveThe night premium is practically the|cular is sickeningly sweet—a per- ito'same as the other. Last but not/fect picture of rich men’s “prosper- Baveleast, the regularity premium applies | ity,” rosy-hued and delicately pastel-| fick workers who have been slaving|Colored. and there the longest number of years | We, white collar slaves, wage BOSSfat so much an hour on the premium |4rners, aze appealed to, to uphold Be Gieeach year he works. “prosperity.” What does “prosper- 5 ayy ity” consist of? Let us examine a deve |picture of it presented to us as an fhe In case a worker cannot account| inducement to help continue it under partfor one or two days absence from| Hoover's leadership. en of twork, he either partially or wholly, , 4 Portion of New York’s billion deetloses his weekly premium. These |@llar skyline is pictured—a symbol gee ; a ae of thriving commerce; factory chim- Some Ate Siven to workers on! 655 are shown belching smoke from Reedpiece work and they are paid on the|th2;, towering stacks, of course not and basis of from two to ten cents an the black, suffocating smoke we Barthour. The latter is only given to!know in our lives, but “baby-blue” ; tthe Iongest employed workers. The smoke such as you might find in the Same system is applied to women fairy tale books—a symbol of pro- the ‘and young girl workers, except that| gressing industry. ‘famthe hourly wages are ten cents less} At the foot of New York’s temples matéhan the males. Besides, they work |of Mammon lies what is supposedly} Partone hour more, that is three hours|the mouth of the Hudson River. Its| nd a steady day shift. In some de-| waters on the picture of “prosper- the | partments the workers are compelled |ity” resemble the serene blue crys- oa to work overtime for which the com-|taline surface of Lake Louise, a M pany does not pay extra. The only | most beautiful lake up in the Can- i sith exirs is the hours. adian Rockies, an amusement resort capi for multi-millionaires; | whereas,) jocit This Eoreuy: forces yellow dog| 127, waters as we workers know the contracts on the workers, especially | them are turbulent, dirty and grey. plic@n the French workers who have| 4 majestic steamer, symbol of whobeen imported from France. Thru-|travel, leisure, fun and luxury is jg tout the entire factory there ane about : : anchored in the serene harbor of] partl100 workers of various natioral-| Prosperity. | Cities who are on the payroll of the! Qn the right hand side of the pic- “qeompany’s contract system. Of|ture is featured rich crop fields— of teourse, the company brings strong symbol of bounteous harvests. | unitpressure to bear on these workers) An aeroplane hovers over the dervto sign these yellow dog agrecments| whole scene—symbol of science, in- diticto save the bosses from labor troub- | vention and expansion, imperialism. the les. There is a perfectly kept mansion, *{ I asked a worker, who is himself| with a nifty, highly polished limou- @reon this contract payroll, “What’s sine stationed in front of it. Wptwritten on this contract paper?”| In the extreme background the wsit And he told me that the undersigned | ilded dome of the Capitol at Wash- We is not permitted to speak on organi-| ington dominates this view of re-| MAzation of the workers in their de-|SPlendent “prosperity.” a Ampartments or participate in any SE on eat Be nothing | OF union mecting. In case of a strike but @:féiry, tale to us, to whom it was handed as a sample, But even irre 70t allowed to leave his place) Thite collar slaves no longer believe| ‘ ‘of work. Vicious Premium System. Some Hlusions. In this factory the work is divided Jin fairy tales; no more than we be- ma: |lieve that any portion of this pros- the perity will become ours to enjoy by into various groups. For every five fecrtinn ds ger ee ate te i workers ae pile a anyhow. Everyone knows right well Brenmec: foremen. is is true of all) that wishing to enjoy any particle ffother departments, too. The speed- of this sugar- Heigl proaperity? up is ever increasing because the} will not bring a wage earner indus- workers are mortally unorganized| trial power, or the calm azur waters ‘Wand left to shift for themselves. | of Lake Louise instead of the murky There are workers at Michelin’s| Hudson’s; will not give him or her who still slave under the bosses’ il-| even a corner in one of the sumptu- } Tusions after all the years of hard | ous steamers that sail the seven seas work at starvation wages, under full of fun and frolic. the impression that they will be ele-| Most farmers in the country can vated to an easier job. Just the| tell an en opposite story about contrary is proved in departments | harvests. than one of “prosperit, us where workers become old thru| A white collar slave, or worker veg Forking here for the past ten or|as not the time to learn about ™M€ Fifteen years. They can’t produce | Science oF invention. Expansion nitthe “required” amount of work any |°TiMgs workers no greater pay, let |alone mansions and limousines. thi more, 80 the boss simply transfers them to lighter work in other de- ¢h partments where they get less pay. This is one way the company cuts 4 the wages of its workers and them always Leth ere ie |Bvery worker knows full well that none of these things are to be got- ten by means of wages or salaries, it requires millions; it means the exploitation of others. Then for whom is this much-heralded “pros- perity”? The industrial magnates Hand ‘Prosperity’ Bunk To White Collar Slaves who own and control the factories, the money kings who dominate com- merce, the moneyed, the capitalist class. It is this class that make workers and white collar slaves work | and run things for them only to grind out fat profits for themselves,| leaving to their employes the dross. With these profits they build their temples of mammon, and absorb the best of the harvests. They alone may enjoy the advantages to be gained from aeroplanes, science, in- ventions. Expansion brings them more wealth, more wage slaves to toil for them and make them more profits, mansions, luxurious limou- sines, etc. “The Heart of the Nation is the |Home” is the inscription written be-| neath the scene of a wealthy man’s| mansion in front of which stands a| limousine. Such homes, “prosperity,” belong to the rich. Wage workers, white collar slaves live meagerly, most often miserably, because their wages or salaries do not enable them to live any better. We know of no “prosperity.” —R. P. A A, FAKERS NOT SAYS NISLEADER These are 6 Words of Ally. of “Socialists” (By a Worker Correspondent) | READING, Pa., (By Mail).—The Federated Trades Council, the cen- tral labor body of Reading, the so- cialist controlled city, is conducting | a “join the union drive.” The “drive” is being confined to a cam- paign for “education” for unionism, of the type favored by the bosses, consisting of open air street corner meetings. No active effort is being made actually to organize the work- ers in the many large mills and fac- tories. Among the speakers addressing these meetings is mayor J. Henry Stump, socialist; councilman James 'H. Maurer, George W. Snyder, so- cialist; Jesse George, business repre- sentative of the plumbers’ union, |president of the building trades |council and socialist candidate for | the state assembly, as well as chair-| man of the Berks County (Reading) |Labor Party; Jeff Davis, “king of |the hoboes”; W. C. Cushing of the | American ‘Federation of Labor and many others larger and smaller fry. | [Fire company for our socialist | leaders! Birds of a feather, you |know. We are better able to recog- |nize them because of the company they chose, just where our alleged progressive leaders” stand in the labor movement. Reactionary bureaucrats along with the rest of them! Cushing spoke not only for him- self, but for his colleagues, includ- ing the Reading socialist leadership, when he said at a recent “join the union” meeting, “Labor unions are not hostile to employers.” Yes, I guess he is right. “Labor unions are not hostile to employers, if he has in mind the kind of union which he represents and which’ we have here in Reading. But real unions, truly representative of the interests of labor must carry on al struggle with the bosses and their/ {class in the interest of the workers jand thus cannot be other than hos- | tile to the employers. GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE. | DEDHAM, Mass., Oct. 10 (U.R).—| Stephen J. Hoppe, notorious bandit!| and jail-breaker, today was sen- tenced to life imprisonment at hard} labor for the murder of Patrolman| Alfred N. Hollis of Quincy, shot and killed on Oct. 4, 1927, while inves- | tigating a robbery in that city. WOLFE, OTHERS TOUR Patten, “Mot ‘Mother’ Bloor Hold Red Meets Bertram D. Wolfe, national agit- prop director of the Workers (Com- munist) Party and candidate from the Tenth Congressional District of New York; William Patten, Commu- nist candidate for Governor of Iowa, and “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran Communist speaker and agi- tator, are now touring through vari- ous states of the country for the Workers (Communist) Party elec- tion campaign tour. A list of the | cities where they will speak follows: Wolfe. Thursday, Oct. 11, Minn. Friday, Oct. 12, Minneapolis, Minn. Monday, Oct. 15, Seattle, Wash. Tuesday, Oct. 16, Seattle, Wash. Friday, Oct. 19, San Francisco, Cal. Minneapolis, Saturday, Oct. 20, San Francisco, | Cal. Sunday, Oct, 21, San Francisco, Cal. Monday, Oct. 22, Los Angeles, Cal. Tuesday, Oct. 23, Los Angeles, Cal. | Friday, Oct. 26, Denver, Colo. Saturday, Oct. 27, Denver, Colo. Monday, Oct. 29, Omaha, Nebr. Tuesday, Oct. 30, Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday, Oct. 31, St. Louis, Mo. Thursday, Nov. 1, St. Louis, Mo. Patten Saturday, Oct. 13, Council Bluffs, | | Towa. | | | Sunday, Oct. 14, Omaha, Neb. Monday, Oct. 15, Sioux City, Iowa. | Bloor | Thursday, Oct. 11, Kansas City. | Friday, Oct. 12, St. Joseph, Mo. | Saturday, Oct. 13, Council Bluffs. Sunday, Oct. 14, ‘Omaha. Monday, Oct. 15, Sioux City. OCTOBER COMMUNIST The Socialist Party Offers Itself | —by M. J. OLGIN | America’s Fight for World Hegemony ||, and the War Danger —by JAY LOVESTONE The National Miners Union—A New Con- ception of Unionism— : —by ARNE SWABECK ——by JOHN PEPPER | WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 E. 125th St., | New York City. American Negro Problem Latin-America and the Colonial Question | —by BERTRAM D. WOLFE Books and Self-Study Corner WORKER 10 STEAL other little nautical touches, as they put it, “to make the seamen feel at home” at night. Many Bremens may be seen pacing the street in front of this beautiful building. | When they are tired pacing they go is tacked on (he lower left-hand cor- ner of the bulletin board in the lobby of the Seamen's Institute, and to- night the light in the tower will ro- ate like it did when Bremen saw ‘last. For it does give the build- ing a nautical touch. | kicks them up and tells them to ;move on. Many times the cop has |hicked once or twice and when the man has not got up and run like the others did he scratches his head and writes a little note like this one that ER THE EXPLOITING SHIP- OWNER IS THRU WITH THEM It is known to us as the Bone | lighthouse on its roof and many | to the Battery to sleep, until the cop Marine workers, the only way we can escape a fate like Bremen’s is to organize the Marine Workers Pro- and help build a real fighting union. gressive League J. i. Wall St. “Broutestive” The true “progressivism” of Sen- ator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., who has attempted to mislead the work- ers by styling himself their friend, was shown Tuesday, when Charles Curtis, Wall Street candidate for vice-president on the republican| ticket, endorsed La Follette in glow- ing term HUNGER DRIVES A Good Example of “Prosperity” PHILADELPHIA (By Mail). —Peary Williams, 409 Pine St., had searched long and vainly for work until all his resources were gone and he had nothing to eat. The prosperity speeches of Hoover and Curtis do not afford hungry workers any substantial nourishment, so Williams decided it was up to himself to take vig- orous action to get a square meal, So he stole an automobile in the hope that he would be ar- rested and that, when in jail, he would get that meal for which every fibre in his being was ach- ing. He drove the stolen car until finally a traffic policeman ques- Vicious Premium System, Starvation Wages, Yellow- Dog in Michelin Tire Plant \Moliere Comedy ‘Well Done | bv Civic Repertory Players GEORGES ZASLAWSKY ANSTEY, of Pu Punch, iSaanctea |? * Moliere’s “Le Bourgeois Gen-| tilhomme” into English, and under Eva Le Gallienne’s direction they are |playing it at the Civic Repertory | Theatre, here on 14th St. “The first thing that strikes the proletarian who happens to wander in, even before the quietly pleasing little orchestra begins with the min- uets, is that Andrey “caught pol- icy” from Punch, and never forgot that while the bourgeois may be kidded, they mustn’t be insulted. This is not Moliere’s day, this is the period of the capitalist dictatorship, | so the name of the play, even, has to be shunted off on a side track,| through this title: “The Would-Be} Gentleman.” That Anstey’s artistic conscience clashed with his meal ticket seems to be attested by his| weak and specious apology, signed and printed in the program, to the effect that “The title of ‘The Would-| Conductor of the Beethoven Sym- Be Gentleman’ is not intended as a| phony Orchestra who will give their correct rendering of ‘Le Bourgeois | first concert of the season at Car- Gentilhomme,’ for which it is diffi-|negie Hall this evening. cult to find an English equivalent.” O K maybe about that difficulty | parent zest. of finding an English equivalent,| If you want the story, you can get but Anstey’s title is not only as far | better translations o! it in the pub-| from being an equivalent, or of the lic library than Anstey’s, But no-| spirit of Moliere as anything could body else is putting it on the stage, be; furthermore it shows a different | give the Civic Repertoire credit for class angle. Moliere’s play reflects| that. And if you want a good time, the scorn of an established ruling! of the lodge initiation sort, without class, the nobility, for the upstart|the trouble of joining the Knights | capitalists, who were trying to crash |of the Purple Tailfeathers in any | the gate of the high society of the of its various fraternal order incar-| period. The fact that it pokes fun nations, go and see them make a! at the nobles too, in quite a differ-| noble “Mamamoochie” of Jourdain, ent way, merely indicates the loss | the bourgeois.—V. S. ‘COMPENSATION LAW FOR BOSS; CHEAT WORKERS $8.57 a Week for Man Who Is Crippled (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, IIL, (By Mail).—Rob- ert Blanchard, 17 years old, and just |out of school, started on his first job at the wage of $17.14 a week op- erating a press for the Carter Radio Company at 300 So. Racine Ave. Jwing to failure of the company to eep its machines in good repair, he machine slipped before time, vatching young Blanchard’s both ‘ands in the operation, As a result, ve has one finger amputated at the ‘irst joint and end of the finger on he other hand is off at the finger nail. After iting almost four weeks and receiving no compensation, an uncle went with him to the work- men’s state compensation depart- ment and succeeded in finding out that, according to the laws of the zreat state of Illinois, he is only entitled to compensation of $8.57 per week while incapacitated. And 20 weeks of one-half pay or $171.40 for being left a cripple for life. This boy’s father has been a republican all his life and still falls for the capitalist political fakers. The boy has his life before him and on his first job has come face to face with laws made to protect the bosses and compe! the worker to ac- cept a mess of pottage for his lost limbs. Such is justice to workers under. capitalism. Le Gallienne herself takes no part in the show, except that of director. We miss her; she could have done of sense of dignity, the collapsing | morale, of the nobility of his period. — = rien a ny either Lucille, the grocer’s daugh- ter, or the Marquise, better than either Ria Mooney or Mary Morris, whose acting, though competent, had little inspiration or fire in it. Egon Brecher, with his good facial con- trol, his rolling eyes, and Indicrous- | ly sly expression, was well cast as| Jourdain, the retired grocer and money lender who spends his cash) CASINO Shag oe ate ee ee to acquire the accomplishments, Wrest Pere omeny HIT dancing, SOmBesIDe, fencing and) denna, conponng, feng and T CK EE GIRL JOLSON |" phos, 7th Ave. & 69th St.) . 8.30, Mats, Fri. & Sat. GUY ODETTE DE WOLF | ROBERTSON MYRTIL HOOPER | in a musical romance of Chopin tioned him about it. Williams was eager to admit his guilt, so | he was arrested and held for | grand larceny. However, in jail he got the meal for which he was searching. It was not the best foud that was served, but it helped, anyway. Williams is a boy of only 18 years. The plight of this young worker is but a typical case, thou- sands of workers being jobless and driven to desperation for only one square meat. C. RABIN, Every new reader of The DAILY WORKER 1s a potential soldier in the coming battles of the workers, | CHE THEATRE Presents FAUST 3UILD Thes., 2s 52nd St. GUILD 8:30; Mats. hurs., Pie Sat., 2:30 Strenge Interlude |||: IN Thea., 58th John GOLDE: Ny of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 attributes of a gentleman of the| civic REPERTORY 14st, thay, period, and spends it in vain. Nicole, | CENTURY Thea., Central Pk. W yi $1.00, $1.50. Mats. Wed. &Sa P30 with her hearty laughter, is rollick-| 62 St, Eves. 8:20 | EVA Lid GALLIENNE, Director |ingly done by Beatrice de Neergard| Mat-: Fri. (Col. 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