The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 15, 1928, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WOR RIKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER | 15, 1928 {1 AND 13 HOURS A DAY SLAVERY; GRUEL SPEED-UP Even Workers Glee Club Is Banned (By a Worker Correspondent) Our city is under the complete control of the open shop manufac- urers. They rule us with an iron hand. In the plants of the Amer- ean Wire & Steel Co., the John- yon Motor Co., the John Mansville o., the Chicago Hardware Foundry 3o., ete., the workers of Waukegan and vicinity are slaving long hours ‘or miserable wages. For them the 3 hour day at present is just a beau- iful dream, for they work from 9 ‘o 11 hours during the day and on iight shifts from 10 to 13 hours. failing to pay us a living wage, the employers naturally compel us to make up for the low wages by work- ing long hours. The night shifts are longer than he day shifts because like all crim- ‘nals, the American Wire & Stcel Jo., the Johnson Motor Co., the John “fansville Co., and others are try- ng to hide from the world their | lark deed of slowly killing us by ‘ong and strenuous hours of work. ‘n order to prevent us from getting ogether and rebelling against these onditions the open shop companies jave agreed among themselves to ‘stablish and maintain a spy and ‘lacklist system not only in the hops but extending to our hom:s, sublic and social life. Anyone who ‘ares to talk unionism or to object 9 the rotten conditions in the shops 3 immediately reported, blacklisted end fired. We are prohibited to read »yapers which we would like to read; ve dare not belong to organizations | f our own choice; we are not free 0 attend meetings which we would ike to attend. The spies of the open hop exploiters follow us into. our omes, sneak into our mail, infest the organizations to which we be- long, attend public meetings and carry back their reports to the spy epartments of the open shop com- anies which penalize us. Recently everal men were fired by the| \merican Wire & Steel Co. because hey were reported having attended a picnic given for the benefit of the striking miners. The men had to plead and to promise not to attend such affairs any more before they vere taken back. Just a few weeks ygo members of the Swedish Glee Slub were prohibited by the officials f the American Wire & Steel Co. | to sing at the picnic of the Wauke- san Cooperative Society at which} Magnus Johnson spoke. The pay- master of the American Wire & 5teel Co, was noticed at the meeting of the International Labor Defense arranged to demand freedom to hold ypen air meetings by labor organ- zations in Waukegan. The pay- faster, a “champion of free speech,” He was sent to spy upon the workers and scare them from ttending future meetings of this sind, Must Have Own Political Party. The election machinery, the city government, the courts and police are securely in the hands of the steel trust and other open shop manufacturers. The workers of Waukegan have not rallied yet around a political party of their own, The union officials of the American Federation of Labor are playing into the hands of the bosses by preventing the organization of a | labor party and advising the work- | ers to support the “good» men” of | the republican or democratic par- ties, which are subsidized by the steel trust and other capitalist ex- ploiters. The union officials are sreaching collaboration between la- vor and capital. The socialist party seconds this policy and is dead in Waukegan. The workers of Wauke- van have tried to experiment by alecting to the city office one from | Blacklist § Stool- Pea Sys \natural. They said what they meant “Plane D Down in Publicity Flight for Fascists overs ad down the Coluindia, plane belonging Charles A. 4 ho , on its second attempt to start on a flight from Curtis Field, Long Island, to Ro The flight was planned as a publicity stunt for Levine and the fascists. FACE WORKING YOUTH PROBLEMS AT MEETING : ea Z MORE WAGE CUTS FOR AUTO SLAVES |Co. Takes the the Blowers Away; Breathe Dust (By « Worker Correspondent) FLINT, Mich., (By Mail).—The men in the fender department, No. 55, of the Buick plant here, were earning 9.8 cents per fender, which | (By a Worker Correspondent) A ene Youth Conference was held sx Sept. 29 and 30 at the Irv- ing Plaza, This is not the first time that such a conference has been held. It sur- | passed the previous conferences, | however, with its clean-cut analysis of the present problems of the work- ing youth and its eagerness to carry | on all outlined proposals. If you will compare this recent conference with the conferences which have been held by the Brook- wood Labor (pardon me, I mean “Slobber”) College, there is all the difference between day and night. At the Brookwood conferences fat-bellied lads, respectable gentle- men and ladies, professors and other mueks who care about the youth as much as a religious Jew cares about pork, played the main role. These learned men tried to teach is to be respectable and other sweet things. cut was ordered and Ray Smith, the general foreman, quit rather than put it thru. McCrowder took his place. He immediately put the men! on a gang basis and cut the price) 8.4 cents per piece. The men who) nei to do 88 must now do 97 pieces per day to earn the same pay. Be- sides this they must now make up for new men while they are. break-| ing them in. All production work- ers earn straight time for overtime. : — “In days gone by when we were lads and lassies like you, we were the same,” they said, “when we got) In order to reduce expenses, the| older we got wiser. You have to oo.-nany removed the blowers and take it easy. You will do the same|tpo sc) must now breathe in the when you grow up.” This is the usual bunkum you can expect from them. Muste tried to teach us what is good for us. In order to hide his crookedness he gloated towards heaven like a nun. Muste at last has shown his true color by appearing at the funeral of the United Textile Workers’ Union with MacMahon. At the recent youth conference dust. Some of them asked the fore-| man, how about the dust? He re-| plied, “You can bloody well chew it if you want to.” The men walked out and quit. Mae doesnt know anything about | the job, but he’s a good slave driver | tl and that’s all the company wants. Wage-cuts, speed-up, lay-offs are taking place right and left. Even none of these gentlemen were |the doctors are kicking. present. We didn’t miss them| They complain of poor pay, while either. All the delegates acted|the men complain of poor medical attention when injured, which oc- curs all too frequently. The Saving | Fund Plan is just a mill-stone around the workers’ necks. The only thing in the best language they knew. No professors were there to teach us ethics, in other words, we hit the nail on the head. Let no one think that the work of this conference is over. Far be it. | I say that we are only at the begin- ning. Our efforts must be re- doubled. This conference proves that the youth is willing and can be organ- ized. We must grab the opportunity for time and tide wait for no man. Now is the time. ‘conditions is to organize. —k. M. FARMERS HIT BY FLOOD, MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 14—Although nearly a month has passed since hur- rieane winds hurled the waters of Lake Okeechobee over thousands of acres of farm lands, little progress has been made in draining the land so that farmers may replant their —A. P. H. | crops. eed pte ah eee helpless; that not being responsible to nor controlled by the workers he is easily influenced and cajoled into submission by the power of the ex- | ploiters. It appeared as though the | steel trust and its allies have com- pletely crushed the workers. But | you were bravely risking and sacri- presently, there comes upon the |ficing your lives for the profits of scene the Workers (Communist) | the bosses. Your courage is needed | Party of America and dares to dis-|now to fight your own battle. Be turb the peace of graveyard es-| determined to make sacrifices in or- tablished in Waukegan by the ene-| der to win better conditions for your mies of the working class. Its youth | section, the Young Workers (Com- munist) League comes to the fore- front with a message of hope to the thousands of enslaved workers. This | was sufficient to arouse the wrath of the money power, and imme-| diately the speakers of the open air workers. The steel trust and its ‘allies are alarmed because they |know that we’re bringing to the workers a program of organization | and struggle which will lead to vic- tory over the forces of oppression. If the last world war many of | dren. Workers of Waukegan: only by your intelligent and great mass power will you defeat your enemies. Remember the Russian czar was also thought to be all powerful, but | where is he teday? In the election campaign stop casting your ballot \meetings held by the Workers Par-| for the republican and democratic Express | ty and League were thrown into| parties. Vote Communist! | Jail. The campaigning of the Work-| your protest against the capitalist ers (Communist) Party and the| system of oppression and your de- ‘heir own midst only to find that |Young Workers League is indeed a} termination to establish the power an individual not backed by the or- danger signal to the enemies of the | of the working class. ONE DAY'S WAGE GREAT COMMUNIST ELECTION CAMPAIGN for the $100,000 CAMPAIGN FUND ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, 43 East 125th Street National Election Campaign Committee CONTRIBUTE TO THE Send your contribution to NEW YORK CITY tem ‘Reig made $8.64 for nine hours work. A| class, a better future for your chil- | OHIO WORKERS WELCOME RED CANDIDATES Miners Face a Hard Winter (By a Worker Correspondent) y CLEVELAND (By Mail).—Com- 2 Sadie Van Veen, of Cicveland, | member of the National Campaign | Committee, has been touring the jstate for the past few weeks and | reports excellent spirit and response ell meetings in towns where there is no organization, She is s conducted meetings in many ustrial and mining towns and ai the following conditions: Low wages, bad working conditions, much unemployment, and a great desire on the part of the workers to listen the working elass. In Corning, Ohio, 2 mining camp, Comrade Van Veen spoke for two | hours to 200 miners, who listened eagerly to her. She found that the miners here are facing another bad | winter. Some of the children in |Corning are not in school because |they have no clothing. They also | have to pay for school books. The cemand must be raised and fought |for: free books, and one good meal | at noon for the school children. Comrade Van Veen tried to see the president of the local school beard, who lives in a luxurious house in the “best part” of town, jbut he was away on a visit. She | | then spoke to another school board member, who is leaving shortly to spend the winter in Florida, This gentleman claimed great ignorance, and declared that he did not know the miners were in need. He lives among them, lives on their sweat and blood, and knows nothing of their suffering. This is the kind of man that the state appoints to the school board. The Corning mines are scab mines, the men make five dollars a day, and the majority of them are out of work. In Zanesville and Coshoctor, Ohio, the pipe and tile works pay from $2.50 to $4.50 per day, and the | workers have been forced into com- plete submission, knowing what un- om of living. Coshocton, a town of 15,000 is dead. Even small candy nd fruit stores are hard-pressed, | for no one buys. Comrade Van Vee addressed a meeting of 500 at Cosh- ccton, Five cf these, a miner, a | the wokers can do to improve their steeple-jack, a laborer and two fac- | Mr. Hopkins is staging the play.) |tory workers, agreed, after th | meeting, to join the Party. ceived the promise of a large num- ber of workers that they would | vote for the candidates of the Work- ers (Communist) Party. In this | way, she entered a town without any connections; she left behind a number of sympathizers who are ready to work for the Party. At Zanesville, she spoke for two hours to a crowd of 200. A heckler who started a rumpus was sum- marily dealt with by the crowd, who answered his heckling with counter- questions, and deciared that every word Comrade Van Veen had said | was correct, and no two ways about lit. They pointed out that he was a stool-pigeon. Our Red campaigner | states that she has been heckled sev- eral times, but she did net expect the crowd to participate so heartily \on her side. She got the names and to the message of workers’ | solidarity and a political party of | nent means to their standard | She re-| Heer is a mystery play without cocktails or spicy language but the transients who flocked to the 49th Street Theatre to see “Straight Thru The Door” were more than compensated for their inability to he excellent acting of William Wodge in his mystery comedy which is based on the murder of a con- ctor with the apprépriate name of Wowser, said murder being a by- product of the flirtations wife of Eugene Thomas, playwright, impersonated Hodge. Only after one gets out on the sidewalk and takes a couple of sniffs of the beery atmosphere of the | speakeasy belt does it dawn on the ‘customer that there is nothing much in this mystery-comedy except good acting. Yet, shiver my timbers, if I did not spend my two and a quarter hours in the theatre betting on the, | | wealthy by Mr. oe & She The noted Russian artist will play Jan important role in “The Cherry | | Orchard, ” which will be revived by | the Civic Repertory Theatre at their [Fourteenth Street Playhouse this T won nity bet. evening. | Eugene»Thomas has engaged the | services of a contractor to build him | | Vaudeville Theatres |, suppose he should appear before | jthe contractor—who becomes enam- PALACE. William Hodge Makes Up for Everything Is Lacking in Ap Mystery Play. worship Bacchus from a distance by | of the | ja house, He calls in an architect— | composograph. Mr. Harcourt is one| ns in aL Waukegan Plants, Says Correspondent seaman moms “Straight Thru the Door” FOOL WORKERS me WITH FAKE TALK The play ends with the architect | leaving in the custody of the law| (of course you have already sus-|5()() Apply for Jobs pected that she is the villain), the, That-Don’t Exist lady decorator recognizing an ac: | complished fact, namely, that papa | CHESTER, Pa. (By Mail.)—An- for ex-' other report in the Chester Times, loved memma and that a third party | did not have any real b istence in the Thomas’ scheme of zelating to the coming of another things. |large industrial plant, to be located 1 é | Just below Chester on the south, Mr. Hodge speaks in a low: voice ‘along the Chester and Wilmington which happily carried to row K. Not | pico, even the murder excited him unduly. | ais Indeed audiences are getting so used |, The Teport reads: “the (P.& GC.) to histrionie murders nowadays that |, "°° Sh 49-5 ‘ |have secured the abandoned works nothing short of the slaughter of the formerly operated by the National entire cast would get them excited. Benzol Company.” In addition to the superb work of | mm, company left Chester just Mr. Hodge, honorable mention must | thew apr told, be given'to: William (Gullch sa thelt puto Nig ee eee detective and to Maurice Harcourt,| go time ago 500 men and boys the press agent. Those who have were at the gates after a job. The jnever suffered from this pest in the | man at the gate said “he would like eligibility of a certain member of | |flesh may be of the vonion that Mr.!1, ynow who put that stuff in the the cast for the role of villain. And | Harcort’s stuff was overdone, but! Naper, as no resort was given out not so this reporter. A. congenital|}. him, and it is false. A few men press agent would kill his grand- | have been engaged a few days re- mother to get a banner line and a) moving machinery; that is all.” The Chester Times would like to |to the manner born. | make the unemployed of Chester be- The play is from Mr, Hodge’s own lieve in prosperity. The real estate -|oured of Mrs, Thomas, so between | typewriter, under his direction and|men of Chester would like to rent |the architect and Mrs. Thomas, @ he also does the heaviest part of | some of their empty houses. Even Sophie Tucker, Vanessi, in her | pretty lady interior decorator who | the acting. From the point of view the empty ones are being used at latest vaudeville offering, staged by | stalks Mr. Thomas, and Sam Channon, with music by Jay carpenter, plumber, painter |Gorney; The Foy Family; Hooper maison, everything is being done| and Gatchett, with Eva Hartman; except the job. There is much light | Herman Hyde and Sally Burrill, and ‘raillery at the expense of the skil- others. led workers who dally in harmony with the dalliances of Mrs. Thomas | and the architect, but the workers are no meek individuals and they show that they have a union behind them. Mr. Wowser is hounding Mr. Thomas for money. Mr. Thomas being an easy-going fellow, refers | Wowser to the architect but the lat- ter is so busily engaged discussing |landscape with Mrs, Thomas that he | only succeeds in making Wowser angry. BROADWAY. ” Adeline Bendon; George Beatty; Primrose Semon; Billy Burke: Rey- nolds and White; Norton and. Bower and Nicol and White, Feature photo- |play, “Singapore Bound,” starring | Ralph Ince and Estelle Taylor. RIVERSIDE. | Feature photoplay Victor Hugo’s “The Man Who Laughs” starring Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt. Wil- \liam Hoctor and Anne Pritchard; | Joe Weston and Colette Lyons; Toby | Wilson and Company; and Arthur Petley and Company. | thing else to do,does it to Mr. Tho- | but he is a playwright. The vamp role is played to perfection by Jean- nette Fox Lee, but her assault, liter- ally speaking, breaks against the | Arthur Hopkins announces that | jhis second production of the season | ill be “These Days” by Katharine | |Clugston. Settings are to be de- signed by Robert Edmond Jones and | Evidently he was not on a raisin diet. - The shooting of Wowser brought las stupid a detective as anybody ever | met in real life to the footlights. | Naturally he suspected the wrong The | man. This is a conventional play, 'so after several amusing episodes | the culprit was apprehended, not by | \the detectives but by the suspected killer, only after he had disarmed the detective and his assistant and | got them safely handcuffed so that they could not do any further injury ehearsals are now in progress. opening is to be out of town late | this month, with a New York premi- ere to follow soon after. Po ape. “Tin Pan Alley,” the Lang and) Forbes’ production featuring Clau- | dette Colbert and John Wray, opens at the Broad St. Theatre, Newark, | Monday, October 22, prior to its Broadway premiere. . * * Fe GET YOUR OCTOBER, Arthur Richman’s comedy “Heavy | Traffic’ moves to Henry Miller’s Theatre tonight. addresses of 15 workers of Zanes- ville who are ready to support the Party in the campaign and after. Comrade Van Veen will spend sev- eral more days in the mining sec- tion, and will continue her work un- til the elections. L. N. 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