The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 4

Page Four Trenton, N. J. Is a LABOR FAKERS HAVE WEAKENED TRADE UNIONS. 3.000 Slaves Support 107,000 | s a city with a popula-| bout 130,000 people. Ac-| to a local paper which ted the local unem- . Nor- are productive workers. Last cording to this statement, were only 23,000 productive This an amazing It shov clearly that the toil. of these 28,000 slaves sup- Photo shows Lt. Commander I aviator, on flight across Atlantic to war. McDonald’s flight is intended man militarist Zenpelin here workers w statement ; of Ge Paradise of 1$ TQ) | May Not Serve Lone |4 ‘Little Accident’ at the | FIGHT NEW UNION ? ORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, 0 CTOBER 19, 1928 sis the Open Shop Bosses, Writes Worker Corresponden Y. C. McDonald, British militarist | A boost preparations for imperialist as British tories’ answer to flight ported the other non-produe 107,000, The wealth produced L ST BACKS hese 23,000 workers holds in e: Fy istence this other great multitude and outside of the workers’ fam- j ilies, under much better conditions. AL WOLFE SH Besides the capitalists themselves 5 with their fat profits, the clergy, the lawyers, the doctors, the busi- ness men, the agents and still others all gain tence from the la- bor of this mere handful of wealth- producing slaves. It is readily seen why this middle group in society are such staunch supporters of the pres- ent capitalist system. r ex Many Unemployed. Last winter, Trenton had a great number of unemployed. Many more than were admitted. Besides the productive workers, many engaged in non-productive work were also thrown out of employment. Some factories operated with a greatly duced number of workers, some part time and others shut down pletely. Since then production h: increased greatly with the exception of the rubber tire indust Many of these rubber mills have shut down permanently, Even though produc- tion has increased greatly, the num- re. com- ber of e loyed workers has not been increased, due to the speed-up and efficiency systems installed. New machinery and new methods have been installed which greatly reduced the number of required workers. In one of the few remain- ing rubber mills, a compound mix- img machine has been installed which, operated by two workers, de- prives 18 mill men of their jobs. Unorganized Town. Trenton as a whole is an unor-| ganized town. The organized labor movement has been practically wiped out. The few remaiging unions exist only in skeleton form and are under the control of the most reactionary leadership, Outside of the building trades, yery few workers are organized and the few unions remaining are under the control of the t The trolleymen’s which at one time a militant organiza- tion and which has a splendid past record of successful struggles, today dominated | men who are mere flunkeys of the traction inter- themselves. union, is ests. It has been reduced to a com- pany union and is dominated by the bosses themselves. The most en- slaving conditions are being im- posed, agreements are broken and ignored and the officialdom suc- cumbs to the whims of the company without pr . Machinists’ Union Weak. The machinists of Trenton also had a strong militant organization. Today only a skeleton exists. Al- though strong in number at one time, today the membership of Local 298 is only known to the officials themselvese The meetings are at- tended by the heads only, four or five at the most and dues of two dollars per month are collected by the business agent who now and then comes to town for this purpose, He, by the way, is a reactionary of the worst type and dominates the others with an iron® hand. Nothing is being done to bring the member- Ship to the meetings and the ma- jority have lost track of when the meetings are held. This is to the liking of the business agent and nothing is being done to change this policy. The unskilled workers have no organization whatever. The Roeb- ling mills which employ thousands of workers ar olly unorganized. Here the are greatly .ex- ploited and at the complete mercy of the bos Long hours are in force and as little as cents an hour is paid to a great many of the workers, i Open Shop Rubber Mills, The few remaining rubber mills are also open shop institutions. The | rubber workers also at one time! were partly organized, but toda: nothing remains of their union, Eve w workers ving the root of the existi: “Socialists” Are Also} Business Men’s Party Continued from Page One their votes, If elected, he would ac- complish no more than Hoover to- wards relieving the distress of the of prohibition. According to reports the funds of the democratic campaign committee are about equal to the republican’s, for the first time. The significance of this is that the big business in- terests are supporting both parti The democratic party is no longer the party of small business and farmers. It is, like the republican, under the absolute domination of finance-capital and just as reaction- ary. “The socialist party has become liberal party, appealing to the rmer followers of LaFollette, to ive” farmers, the mid- is and small business men. has displaced the demo- cratic party as the party of the middlesclass. It has lost its revolu- tionary character. The tradition of Debs has been inherited by the a dle ¢ It | war. ir wages have been great- | though the’ \ly reduced, a most vicious speed-up system has been installed. A great many men have been displaced by women and girls. The workers in these mills are discharged at will for they can easily be replaced. In one mill for instance, they have been told they must support the re- publican ticket in order to hold their jobs. The potters’ union is also a thing of the past. The potters at orie time were among the bureaucrats of rican labor. The unskilled workers were looked upon by the potters with contempt and their at-| tempts to organize were sabotaged. The Sunday school strike of the pot- ters for still higher wages has been broken and the new casting system) installed. Under the casti tem no skill is required, brute strength and endurance. despised laborers have taken the jobs and only a few potters were able to work under the new condi- tions. The old bureaucrats have be-| come insuranee and real estate agents and some are employed to-| day as janitors. Among these can be found the old leadets of the so- cialist party who had strongly dominated the potters’ union. “Prosperity” Is Bunk. A great deal is being said about! prosperity. Have the workers of Trenton prosperity? With the low wages, the high rents and the high| cost of living there is no-prosperity. merely The |The standard of living has been| greatly reduced. Only the Roeblings@ the Murrays, the Stokes and the| Kusers can claim prosperity. To these few Shylocks, gold is flowing| abundantly. The present misery of | the workers to these exploiters does! mean prosperity. Only they~in their | greed can shout “prosperity, . pros- perity, we have prosperity.” Can the| workers of Trenton with the great unemployment, stand much for this capitalist prosperity? longer Will |they permit themselves to be duped by the lackeys, the capitalist press and the A, F, of L. officials to also shout prosperity when their chil- dren are ragged and hungry? They will not. They will rally to | the standards of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, the revolutionary | party of class struggle, the only party which can overcome the evils of capitalist prosperity by destroy. ng evil it-| self. —TRENTON WORKER. 1852 THE SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 Y BARS 1928 Depostts made on or Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Banking by Mall We Sell A. B. A day of the month will draw interest from the Ist day of the month, 42% Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P. M. Society Accounts Accepted ‘Travelers Certified Che: ‘THIRD: AVE. Cor. 7ST. before the 3rd ® | Foster, Benjamin to Speak at Meets in South Protesting Terror (Special to the Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 18.—Her- | bert Benjamin, Philadelphia district | organizer af the Workers (Com- munist) Party, will begin a. tour throughout the south, where he: will | address protest’ meetings against the tervor drive initiated against |the Workers Party in various parts of the country. His first meeting will be in Ports- mouth, Va., on Sunday. On Mon- v, Benjamin will speak in Nor- folk; on Tuesday, in Richmond, Wednesday, in Washington, Thurs- day, in’ Baltimore, and Friday, in Wilmington, Del., where William Z. ~ Communist candidate for president, and other Workers Party nominees have been arrested during the last few days. Workers Party, the only party of the working class. “The most important issue of this campaign is never mentioned by the other parties. It is the war danger. The United States and Great Bri- tain are driving madly straight to- wards military conflict, as the out- come of their competition for world markets, The Kellogg Pact is a fraud and a delusion, a camouflage behind which they are preparing for The Anglo-French agreement is an attempt of Great Britain to strengthen her position. It is di- rected against the U. S. on one hand and Soviet Russia on the other.” \that they had complete OF MILITANTS Operators Form Large Organization Continued from Page One control over the U. M. W. A. and with the aid | of the corrupt officialdom of the Lewis administration it was easy to | slash wages and break contracts. Aggordingly the organization known the Pittsburgh Coal Operators sociation was dissolved. : Fear New Union. But now with the organization of the New Miners Union the operators the beginning of a fighting rainers’ union with rank and file con- trol. It is against the New Miners Union that the operators have “teamed up” and they will go to any extreme to break up the organ- tion of new Pennsylvania. Under the name of the Western Pennsylvania Coal Traffic Bureau the most powerful coal companies of the bituminous fields have united. boro Maurice president of Queens, sentenced to 1 Connolly, former year imprisonment after he had made a fortune in sewer graft, is |not expected to stay in jail long. | Capitalist . party holders always manage to be freed on the rare oc-| casions they are jailed. <= NEGRO IN SOUTH eoneqe 18 EXPLOITED see Continued from Page One Among those listed are the Pitts-|South. The difficulties) however, burgh Coal Co.. Westmoreland Coal|are great. Any Communist propa- Co., Hillman Goal and Coke Co.,/gandizing and organizing the Terminal Coal Corporation, Key. | Negroes and poor white workers is stone Coal Co., Clinton Coal Co.,|always in grave danger. This how- ever, will not stop our southern cam-| paign for organizing Negroes and white workers in unions, in the/ erful combine of operators states | Workers (Communist) Party, and that the purpose of the organiza-|for leading them in struggles for tion is to fight against rate discrim- | better conditions and their ultimate | ination, yet it is clearly evident that | CConomic emancipation. it pr purpose is to maintain Negroes Terrorized. ‘ toostmarte coal “fields non- “Negroes were usually afraid to union. They will, no doubt, launch attend my meetings. They are for- s attack upon the New |bidden to sit on the same floor with ners Union and make the attack |the whites, and generations of dis- while the organization is in its in- |crimination, abuse, lynchings, ean fi They fear this new union | Jim Crowism have them very sus- of rank and file leaders and are out |picious of all whites. Communists to crush it by any means. jare alone in fighting for full Against this powerful organiza-|equality for all races. Therefore, tion of coal operators, with courts, |we will send our Negro comrades police and money at their command, | trained in Communist work, together | Poland Coal Co., and numerous other smaller. companies in Western Pennsylvania. Although this pow- ‘the New Miners Union hurls the} with white Communists, into the slogan of “organize the unorganized | ‘black belt’ to organize the Negroes into new unions with rank and file |for cooperation with white workers control!” in the coming sharp struggles From deserted villages the grim-|against the capitalists, against im-| faced coal diggers, reduced to pov-|perialist, wars and for the victory erty and starvation by the corrupt |of the workers’ and farmers’ gov: leadership of the U. M. W. A., an-|ernment.” swer with words of encouragement | Nearing will speak in Mansfield, and pledges of support to the new|O., tonight and in East Liverpool, organization. 0., tomorrow. BRITISH DEMAND Morosco Fair Entertainment ppeentine LAND A Saturday matinee aud‘ence lib- | erally sprinkled with stenographers exercised their lungs with hearty gusts of lenghter at the way Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell took a poor blcke who wanted to do the right thing by his Isabel and made him go through three sweating acts, simply because the mother of the | | unwanted child refused to marry the willing father on the ground that the| |demands of her artistic life pressed | more insistently on her than what- ever duty she owed to her child. | Norman Overbeck, son of a sol- | vent father, met Isabel Drury, an} art student, in the vicinity of a uni- | versity. Walks im the. moonlight end the worst came, As Mr. Over- | beck was about to rehearse for his | marriage to Madge Ferris among | the letters on his desk was one from | # maternity hospital in Chicago, in-! viting him to visit the place and talk matters over with the head of the establishment. This epistle did not help to re- lieve the inflated cranial condition under which Mr. Overbeck labored as a result of tossing off cocktails until the wee sma’ hours of the mornin’, and his attempt to find a way out of his dilemma with the help of a friend is good for much giggling, and methinks the business was overdone. Mr. Overbeck left the visiting clergyman, his fiance and all others concerned standing at the church |end bounced off to catch a train for Chicago. In the hospital there was more comedy, two anxious fathers |being dragged in to illustrate the |fact that the pains of labor—at least the psychological pains—are not confined te the laboring mothers. Miss Drury has decided to leave the child with an adopting family and betake herself to Paris, but the responsible unmarried father would not have it that way, so he kidnaps the child and the third act finds him trying to solve the problem of how to feed the baby. Women seem to have a weakness for Mr. Overbeck, with the excep- tion of Miss Drury, who got over hers, so in the boarding house where the little accident is being tortured with clumsy care the unmarried father is again almost in the toils | of the landlady’s daughter, who pets the unwanted child in order to win the wanted father’s affections. The thing comes to an end with | Miss Ferris walking out of the pic- Cut This Out, Fill In and Mail to Us at Once Enlist in the Defense of the Soviet Union Fight Against the War Danger Vote Communist Defend the Soviet Union at all costs. I PLEDGE TO Never to forget the experience and the suffering of the working class in the Imperialistic World War. Always and forever to fulfill my Revolutionary Duty to the working class. Ps Name Name Street COLLECTED BY: .. State Name Amount Return this list with names at One Dollar each no Jeter than October 25th to DAITY WOPKFR, 26.28 Union S ware, New York, N.Y. Adl Grectings received will be printed in the Russian Revolution Syecial Edita of che Daily Worker which will appear October 28th t ture with as little emotion as if she had changed her mind about taking a piece of candy, the landlady’s| daughter doing likewise and the| . mother of the unwanted baby acting | a as if she might have agreed to marry/ Tq Hold Land Despite Mr. Overbeck had th lay contin- . dinky | Counter-claim ued indefinitely. The play proves conclusively that! BUENOS AIRKS, Oct. 18.—The the unmarried mother, provided she Argentine government will continue has the dough is not nearly in so bad| to claim ownership of the Falklands, a predicament as the poor father | South Georgia and the South Ork- who is troubled with a conscience. | ney Islands, despite actual posses- The acting of Thomas Mitchell as|sion by the British whose flag at Norman Overbeck kept one from do-' present flies over the islands, it was ing any thinking at all about the revealed here today when the notes play. He looked the personification exchanged between the two govern- of trouble and if he overgcted it ments were made public. was just because he had either to, It seems certain that the British do that or lay off every five minutes|have no intention of relinquishing for want of something intelligent|the islands since they are strategic to say. points for naval bases and wireless f |stations. The government protested There was hardly anything for/that Argentina had built a wireless the rest of the cast to do except to station in South Orkneys, which punch the clock with the exception! are southeast of Cave Horn, but Ar- of Fleming Ward, as Gilbert Rand,|gentina replied that the islands are Norman's friend. This young man|hers, and that the Falklands are did a lot of talking, most of which hers, but she has’been unable to take seemed to me unnecessary. Kather-| possession of them because of ine Alexander as the unmarried | British occupation. Argentina took mother showed up for a few brief|formal possession of the Falklands moments and defended her point of|in 1833, but was forced a year later view rather unconvincingly. One felt|to abandon them by the British. that she was liable to fall in love| Another point which has attracted | with her child at any moment and considerable attention is the British- |turn the tables on the author. Elvia/ competition in. wireless and tele- | Enders as Madge Ferris, Mr. Over-|ST@Ph, which has recently resulted beck’s fiance, will have to put more i” gains for United States interests. pep into her love-making if she ever Jt i stated, although this has not wants to get anywhere in real life,|Pe confirmed, that the chief in- | terests in the wireless station in the Lots of laughs but little to take! South Orkneys are owned by Ameri- |away in the head.—T. J. O’F, Ten (ee leans, Sa | | { American Premiere Keith-Albee AME Street and Broadway “Three Comrades |. and One Invention” \@ “A Shanghai Document” Sensational Film of Recent China Uprising The First Soviet Comedy 42nd EXTRA ADDED FEATURE— “KILLING THE KILLER” A Cobra and Mongoose Fight to Denth | ——~ —— |JOLSON Thea. 7th Ave. & 59th St. Evs THE THEATRE GUILD .'8.80 Mats. 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