The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1928, Page 4

vl Ne lis ret sa) he io Tf lai ing shi An tio oT me tio ou lag stt ou lic Pace Four Avmed GAS BOMBS, RIOT STICKS, RIFLES ARE HELD READY Same Took Place at Nearing Meet (By a rrespondent) WHEE (By Mail). —The coal steel kings of West Virginia continue to show their power .and dictatorship by sending nolice to Elm Grove, break- “p a meeting of work and arrest- ng two speakers at a political m meeting held under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Using the same tactics as they the night before at Warwood, where they broke up a meeting of Scott Nearing, the lice terrorized the hall owner and threats wf arrest and s f arms The volice told the committee in charge that the meeting would be up and that the Workers hold The rty in West ommi how the meeting and as a chairman of the meet Frank Henderson, and the speaker A. Car- reno, campaign manager from Pitts- burgh, were a ed. Virginia went ahead with ttec result, the Police Terrorize Crowd A large crowd gathered for the meeting, t they were terrorized by the police and dispersed. About a hundred entered the hall and sev- “ral hundred gathered outside to see what would happen.as police armed with ges bombs; rifles and riot ticks paraded up and down in front nf the hall and others entered the hall to arrest all who took part in the meeting. Henderson, the chair- man, onened the meeting with police at his side. He did not get far be- fore he was placed. under arrest. Sarreno followed and he too was im- trédiately arrested. Then the police grdered the crowd out of the hall and dispersed it outside. Hender- jon and Carreno were taken to Wheeling and later released under bond. While waiting for bondsmen at the police headquarters the follow- tng scene took place. A local news- Paper reporter defended those ar- rested and a argument started be- “ween a policeman and the reporter. The argument would have resulted ‘n action but the chief of police in- terfered. When the bondsmen gr- rived and the speakers were re- teased, the chief gave the police who broke up the meeting a cigar for their “good work in breaking up the meeting.” —H. F. Record of Strikes in Japan for 1928 TOKIO, (By Mail).—According to the investigation of the Home Office, labor disputes in Janan dur- ing the first months of this year totalled cases, involving 39,217 person: During the corre- sponding period of last year the kes amounted to 562 12 persons, showing rease of 30 per cent. The decrease was caused by, (a) severe government suppression of militant trade unions, (b) crushing of strikes by armed force, (c) gen- eral industrial depression—which all combined placed the workers in disadvantageous positions. Horrible Housing for India Workers BOMBAY, (By Mail). — The housing conditions in the slum areas in the principal cities of India are extremely unsanitary. A recent re- port of the Bombay Government shows that 70 per cent of the popu- lation of the city live in one tene- ment dwellings without proper sani- tary arrangements. Workers are huddled together in cramped sur- roundings in which Westerners would not even keep their dogs. La- herers in Bengal and Madras live under no better co Trial Flight for Next pn TE DARL Wa Ie N TAY Sy a ko a ee tered eas Police Break Up West Imperiali st Bloodfest richshafen for its flight across Flights such as these help to key for being slaughtered in the next the Graf Zeppelin, huge German airship, leaving F ied- the Atlantic to Lakehurst, N. J. the masses up to the proper mood imperialist war. Force Auto Slaves to Join Bosses’ Savings Plan Schem (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT, Mich. (By Mail).—A rumor was floating around the city among the crowds of unemployed workers in front of the shops— “Chevrolet ara hiring.” I arose bright and early the next morning, and stood pstiently waiting in the long line on Holbrook avenue. After two hou the employment office opened, and, as I was up close to the front, I got a job. They told me Thad to work nights for 65 cents an hour. Then the business started of becoming a standardized G. M. C. employe. I was first medically: ex- jamined, and then spent an hour wandering from office to office, be- ing interrogated by white-collared employes and filling out forms. On one occasion I was handed a form sign in triplicate, and after I had done so was roughly informed that I was now a member of General Motors Pay-Day Savings Plan, and that five dollars a week would be deducted from my wages, which 1 might possibly be able to coliect if I gave them notice about a month ahead of time. It was then noon and I was told to go home and come back to work at 5:30. ?. The Night Shift. Though I had hired for a lathe, T was put on a punch press. Pro- duction in this plant is speeded up to the limit. Every hour they come uround to find out how many pieces you have put out in the last hour, and, if you drop below the standard, a foul-mouthed foreman threatens you with the can. I was told that they expected new men to make pro- duction after the first night. Dur- ing the night I hurt my finger, and before I could go to the doctor I had to hunt ali over for my fore- man to get a pass. Luckily, how- ever, I was not badly injured. When I finally reached the hospital there were two men waiting outside ahead cf me, and two more came and joined tha line while I was waiting. The lunch hour at midnight lasts 45 minutes, and half an hour before lunch time the foreman came around and told me I could only have 15 minutes for lunch, as they were in a hurry for the stuff and for this to extra half hour I would only be | overthrow of capitalism will sweep| away the despicable bootlegging in- paid straight time. This happened nearly every night. I bought a newspaper and not having time to read it brought it into the shop with me and left it in my coat, which I hung on the rack. I was warned against. doing this by one of the workers, who said it was against the rules. Each morning, after having completed the twelve- hour shift,” the watchman snoop comes around to see that you don’t leave your machine before the bell rings. No easy regulations for night men around this dump. K. é SMITH COMES TO PACKING TOWN Bosses Hold . Aloft Al’s Banners (By a Worker Correspondent) OMAHA, Neb. By Mail).—Al Smith, the candidate of the wets, spoke here recently. During the noon-hour, his automobile proces- sion toured the stock yards section. Some of the plant conference board (company union) suckers and dog- ging bosses at Cudahy’s held aloft a banner in praise of the candidate of their exploiters. But at the plants of Swift and Armour there were no srs visible. Even capitalist poli- tics cannot be allowed to curtail profits. The slaughter house slaves | have hardly time to bolt their dinner |and jump back to the job. But one of Armour’s workers pro- vided a fitting commemoration, of Smith’s visit. While the foe of “pro- hibition” was addressing his audi- ence downtown, the police discov- ered back in South Omaha in one of the miserable dwellings that house the hired hands of the meat | trust the body of Fred Stumpfmaier, his head blown off by a shotgun charge. “Suicide while under the in- | fluence of liquor” is the police ver- dict. The rest of the cutters in Ar- mour’s hell and the whole of the packing house slaves of the indus- try as well could find more fitting words to explain the incident. Let them read from the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party the following quotation: “Alcoholism is one of the most V1 rgin EXPLOIT THOSE ‘WHO FIGHT FIRES --FOR‘UNCLE SAM |Worker. Is Cheated in | Pay Check (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELFS, Calif, (By Mail).—A fire fighter, who is room- jing in the same place at this corre- | spondent. save that he helned to pull two dead hodies out of the fire in | the Sen Bernardino Mountains last Saturday. | What Price Workers’ Lives? Part of the story of the fire has | #ppeared in the papers. The re- |ports, however, deal mostly with the jloss to nropertv. Idle workers are |plentiful in California and the loss jof the workers’ lives is generally considered a matter of minor im- | The dead men, as well as two |others, seriously injured, were all Mexicans, according to my infor-| ;mant. One of the fire victims has |been identified as Mathias Cacon| (or Cachon). The other not posi- tively identified, is believed to be F. Romero. Both the men were mem- bers of Joe Sherman’s gang of fire fighters. | I came back a few days ago from! |the Ridge Route highwav where I |fought fire like hell in the pay of | Uncle Sam. But, instead of being {cited for bravery, I found my check three hours forced scab work in the interest of the plunderbund. No Identification. The most important point in this connection is that the records of the fire fighters are kent in a disorderly manner. In my case, for example, a man put down, “L. P. Rindal, Los Angeles.” Nothing more. The same was done with the rest. Suppose my body was burned beyond recognition, | which was the case with both Mexi- cans mentioned above, how could my} relatives or friends prove my iden- tity? In many cases, the names were not even spelled correctly, es- | pecially many of the foreign born workers. | A free description of every fire fighter ought to be recorded and each man given a metal badge with | a number on it, something the fire! could not destroy. The present sys- devote all our energies to one pro-| Mrs. Whiteman decided to sue Mrs. term, or rather lack of system, makes it very difficult for relatives of dead workers to collect damages. Other cases of dead, unidentified (or missing men have been reported in the papers, but details are gen- erally lacking. They do not like to| write more than they have,to about such things. Workers lives are cheap on the fire lines, as well as in war, mines, mills and factories. And the bosses, for whose interests the workers are forced to struggle and die, keep well behind the danger. Numerous workers have been re- ported more or less seriously injured in the last couple of weeks. But the whole story of thousands of thousands of men, engaged in fight- ing fires on at least ten fronts, from lower California and Mexico to the ia Workers Glory—For Whom? : For Commander Richard Byrd, of course, who has sailed for the An- tarctic from Los Angeles Harbor. But incidentally, the trip also means glory for Uncle Sam, imperialist slave-driver of the world. No wonder Byrd is the darling of the jingoes and the jingo press. Photo shows him speaking on the telephone just before sailing. New Playwrights to Open Season With “Singing Jailbirds.” A reorganization has taken place ©” within the New Playwrights The- atre. Em Jo Basshe has been chosen executive director; Paul Sifton and | Edward Massey have been elected to the board of directors. The theatre was $1.05 short, a sum representing | will open its third season about De- | cember 1st with a production of Up- ton Sinclair’s “Singing Jailbirds,” which will be performed at the Pro- vineetown Theatre for four weeks, B he announced yesterday. “The third season of the New Playwrights Tneatre opens with a radical change of policy and with new blood,” said Basshe in his first statement. “Last season we sched- uled four plays to follow each other at intervals of five weeks in our own theatre. As an experimental theatre we must work on each play until the original intent of the playwright stands revealed on the stage. harmonious adjustment requires many weeks of coordinated effort on the part of director, actors and technical men. “Therefore this season we shall duction as long as it seems necessary moving from our workshop and re- hearsal hall at 183 West 14th’Street to a theatre only when we are satis- fied that the production is as good jas can be made. “We have been labeled ‘the only revolutionary theatre in America.’ | We shall continue to be this in our selection of plays, and in their set- |ting and direction, never forcing, however, an unsuitable method or technique upon a play. The New Playwrights Theatre is not commit- ted to any school of radical propa- ganda, but will strive to produce Vital plays by American dramatists, | giving mass expression to contempo- rary social forces. “New actors, new technical direc- terrible social diseases of capitalist northern part of this state, will |tors, and a new management will society. Alcoholism is caused by capitalism itself. Insecurity of life, |the monotony of standardized fac- |tory work, the low cultural level of} never be told. And the flames are not out en- | tirely, —L. P. RINDAL. |the masses and desperate poverty| are the reasons for this social dis-| The struggle against alco-) | ease. |holism is part of the general strug- gle against capitalism. Only the dustry and the equally despicable, | corrupt, hypocritical capitalist pro- hibition enforcement.” —JIM LACEY. pores ere ram seen Labor Temple School 14th Street and 2nd Avenue i|Lenin, the Man of an Age’ ‘| -V. F Calverton TONIGHT at 8:30 p. m. Admission 25c. ONE for the GREAT COMMUNIST ELECTION CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTE TO THE $100,000 CAMPAIGN FUND Send your contribution to ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG, 43 East 125th Street DAY'S WAGE NEW YORK CITY National Election Campaign Committee ‘eedle Worker! Get a_ collection je Tradex Compaign Committee, 28 nion Square, Room 202, and collect funds for the election campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party. |from now on handle the productions of the New Playwrights Theatre. The original founders of the theatre, John Dos Passos, Francois Edwards Faragoh, Michael Gold and John | Howard Lawson, will serve in an} at the headquarters of the Nee-| |advisory capacity, “Our second production this season | will be Dos Passos’ ‘Airways, Inc’.” A low, Workers Party States of America. Included also is th Levestone, Workers (Communist the achievements of ° ating Convention. splendidly done. Acceptance Speeches Just Published FORTY-EIGHT page pamphlet con- taining the acceptance speeches of William Z. 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Y. | All orders must be accompanied by payment | candidates for Pres- e nominating speech ) Party, summarizing | the National Namin- | Communist| Pa This | ‘Possession’ Is the Sad Story _ of a Harassed Husban ESTELLE TAYLOR HAT Edward Whiteman would finally return to the roof of his/ ministering wife, and turn the back of his neck to a devoted and reason- ably taciturn mistress was clear | |from curtain rise to anybody who knows that the great American box | office must have virtue, unless it wants to risk the attentions of the police or the wrath of the voluntary | reformers. | And thus it happened at the Booth | Theatre where “Possession”, a semi-| comedy by Edgar Selwyn, presents | a living picture of the attempt of a middle-aged financier to seek un-| derstanding and companionship from | a woman other than his wife with} whom he lived under a condition of | rty Election Meet ory TRICK BONUS IN 4 METAL CO, SHOP ANGERS WORKERS Organize Into Union to Fight Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, I. (By Mail.)—Su- per Made Cook-Ware Corp., a con- cern manufacturing aluminum ware, is employing about 350 workers, moulders,/sheet metal polishers and | miscellaneous helpers. | Workers were unorganized up to re- cently. All of the The piece-work system was in op- armed neutrality for twenty-five _, Costarred with Ralph Ince in “The years. |Singapore Mutiny,” the screen drama Regardless of the social category |" showing at the Broadway The- in which we must place Mr. White- | #'Te man, and scanty tho our sympathy | is for the high moguls of money, the | ©°P ig excellence of the acting at times se-|Stander! x duced our attentions from the reali-|, It was this shot in the arm that ties of !fe and we could see a poor | >rought Mrs, Whiteman to Mrs. fat human being trying to snatch Gt@nge’s house to look after her! a few years of comfort from life husband. It was this shot that sent | before handing over his body for | Molly Russell’s sweetheart to prison ‘ |to make the way clear for young ti rtation to thi rest army | A te x sa yc © neares® @°™Y) Mr. Whiteman, who was rich and * knew the alphabet. And it was this vende aerate Te etter pink shot that broke down the powers of out another role, because I dare say rane of the miserable Mr. the most hardy bachelor in the audi- Whiteman to such a degree that he ence even if making more than $25 consented to return to his wife, with |a week, would never put a ring on| Weeping and gnashing of teeth. her finger after seeing what she did | W88—well it was some shot. | to the harried husband in the play.| The best acting was committed by She was the histrionic Mrs. White- man and played opposite to Walter Connolly, her stage husband when |that solace-seeker was not playing jopposite and with Roberta Beatty, | who had the job of acting as a mis- tress would act towards a solvent middle-aged gentleman, Miss Law- rence succeeded in making a nuisance out of herself and everybody in the audience was inclined to shed a tear when poor Mr. Whiteman, broken in spirit, was induced by his son and | other considerations to return to his |connubial fetters. shoot the innocent by- | detective. |tho, It wasn’t her fault. Then! ward Whiteman. | succumbs to a stroke and that sounds like a compliment. | because it cannot go on forever. [Be know where it is going but ends | —T. J. OF. Here is the story: Mr. Whiteman) |fled from his wife Anne to Edythe | Grange, a rather exotic individual | \ who knew. WHC ie wanted. Mrs. Shoe Workers Attend Whiteman did not like it at all. Mass | Having secured possession of letters | that Mrs. Grange had written to her} Meet in Brooklyn} Grange for sien of affections. In the meantime Mrs. Grange hired a detective agency to steal the epist- |les and the plot almost succeeded. A | bright and plausible lady detective figures in the play. She is Edna | Hibbard, and as Molly Russel in the |story she finally marries the rich |man’s son. The play might have |ended otherwise but for the fact that in a fit of jealously Molly Rus- sell’s sweetheart, also a detective, Greater New York and Vicinity at the union. Ben wold, militant leader oa 4 | 1 of eration, and the sheet metal polish- jers, who are a highly skilled class of workers, | $1.10 per hour. were earning up to Recently the company hired an He expert” to speed up the workers for the greater enrichment of the company, and the “expert” put in | operation the following scheme: organized the workers into ganes, so that one would be com- pelled to drive the other, and as an incentive for the workers to speed up on the job he established the system of “bonuses.” It is of par- ticular interest the way in which \the “bonus” is offered. The price per piece which was formerly paid |was left unchanged, but a rule was It| established that the workers may not earn more than 80 cents per hour. Anvthing they make above | Walter Connolly as Stanley White-| that must be divided, fifty per cent |man, the husband. Next comes Edna going to the company and the other | Hibbard as Molly Russell, the lady fifty per cent to the workers inthe Her words were tripey form of a “bonus.” Plainly, if the workers are te con- Robert Montgomery horns in as Ed- | tinue earning $1.10 per hour, as they He pleases the formerly did, they must produce to ‘crowd, Margaret Lawrence has the the amcunt of $1.40 per hour, the jguests hoping that Mrs. Whiteman | other 30. cents going to the company. At the same time, however, they are to believe that the company is The cast on the whole is good |#iving them 30 cents per hour as « but strangled by a play that does | bonus. The contemptible action of the company’s “expert” has aroused a protest on the part of the sheet metal polishers. They have organ- | lized into Local No. 6 of the Sheet | Metal Polishers Union and refused to accept the wage cut and speed- up system under the guise of a | Hundreds of workers employed in bonus. The workers understood the |husband before he left her home, the shoe industry in New York at-|Teal aim of the company and re- tended a mass meeting called by the | {sed te suet ce ones ‘8 — Independent Sh Work \to go unchallenged. e result was on ee aie eat lockout which the company de- Lorraine Hall, Brooklyn, Thursday | ‘lated upon the sheet metal. polish- everine, Many of the workers joined (78 01 Wednesday, Oct. 3. The strikers must stand solid and the |fight the attempt of the company furriers, addressed the meeting, ex-|to turn them into slaves. They must | plaining the terror tactics of the re- | demand the abolition of the gang jactionary officialdom which had | system. | worked against the workers in many |to the company that they will not trades, especially the Nolan-Fitz- |stand for any wage cut under the gerald gang which hal wrecked the | guise of a bonus, or under any other They must make it clear ‘ ‘ formerly-militant Shoe Workers | scheme. shot old Mr. Whiteman while gun-|), a + | nti for iia on’ of whet he was Protective Union several years ago. | I. FEINGOLD. |jealous with good reason. How like | | AD (GET YOUR OCTOBER " — | 5 Keith-Albee da 0 [ fl | American A ME 6; The First Premiere Soviet Comedy | |Organ of the Left Wing in the | American Labor Movement Published by the Trade Union Educational League. 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