The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1928, Page 4

Dole Out Condemned Rotten Meat at Swift Plants, Worker Correspondent Writes '__-Bigots Jail Atheist In Arkansas IN NEW MOLNAR PLAY. STOCKYARD STILL SAME AS IN THE PRE-JUNGLE DAYS Saloons Flourish With Bosses’ Protection By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO, II Mail).—Un- der the whip ec ie n T recentl the Swift Company packing plant in Chicago. I joined the long line of slaves waiting the employment bureau door and was duly taken on, given my number to ic me in ease, I got mangle igned to he, Hlinois Cold S ant. Un- Jer an despsiate urge of 1 I managed to es- eeks k t my feet Nickel Plate ake me. During ime I was there make the following as fast the brief per i managed observations: Same as in Pre-“Jungle” Period. Bxcept for the installing of United States meat conditions n the stoc! actly as they were twe about the time, of Sinclair’s “Jungle.” The meat is inspected before it is hipped out but the condition of the wotking man has not improved. His wages have gone up but in propor- tiom as they are raised the e of iving goes up and he is no better ff than before. The majority of the workers are Poles, Negroes, Bohemians, Mexi- ans; Poor Whites and Yankees whdse farms have failed and who have come to the city to make nough money to live. After a few aonths in the stockyards they all negin to look the same. Each man ‘oses any characteristics he hap- ryened to have before he came to the stockyards and became one of the aerd. They all have the same gen- eral appearance, the same dull, un- comprehending stare. Every mor ing at the same time they come shuffling down the street, a long erey line of slowly moving forms. } Back to the same job, the same posi- jon in front of the same machine vhere they have been working for veeks, months, years. to ards are years ago, nty Seek Escape in Drink. Only once a week, every payday foes the slaughterhouse slave look for any sign of escape. He finds it 8°n the rows of saloons that flank the stockyards. He gets drunk and wants to kill somebody. This i v u é 1 nly way he can find to ent-up wrong festering in his soul. Te fights, sings, makes love and aises hell in w too numerous to e here mentioned. Then when his ! tittle spree is over he shuffles back "0 the yards, to go over once more She same motions he has made god ‘mows how many thusands of times. $mall wonder his soul is dead! The head of the plant is much too wise a man to allow the government to close up the saloons. Phe-brain-inflaming rot-gut an effective deadener to protests of * he stockyard workers, If this were taken away from him he might seek other ways of ridding himself of thé burden of oppression that is al- ways- weighing him down. He might befome class conscious. He might sven strike, who knows? : Hovels and Rotten Meat. ié stockyards are dotted with little"board shanties where the rot- tern beef and pork condemned by the mspectors is doled out to hungry wofkers at five cents a cut. Chicory is fhree cents a mug. Nothing over se cents in the place. It is called a “restaurant” and it is run by the company. This is a very profitable way of getting rid of bad meat. ingtead of sending it to the fer- ii#8F field they boil it up and sell it. One more trip to Europe for thé Swift family! WALLACE ROGERS. ‘ ( business CHANGE CHILEAN SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 21 WU. A number of changes in the Chil- r °am.diplomatic representation were n “nn@unced by the fore office to- f Manuel Salinas has been ap- soipted Chilean minister to Colom- t ia, Carlos Morla Lynch will re- } “lage Senor Salinas in London. Luis € “enard will replace Senor Lynch at vladrid, r a 3 “GRAF ZEPPELIN MAIL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (U.P). — Mail to Germany will be carried on che Graf Zeppelin at the rate of one jollar an ounce for letters plus the gular five cent rate for letters to fermany, the post office depart- rent announced today. No special tamps will be issued. shows ent Charles Smith, of Atheism, in Photo cem “calculated to disturb the pea president of the Association for Arkansas jail for distributing Make Macy Workers Pay For Services of Spie (By a Worker Co jondent) Last week you published an ar- ticle by a worker correspondent in which she disclosed her experiences n attempting to get a job at Macy’s. She mentioned the fact that altho many hundreds of workers. applied for work, only a few were “fortu- nate” enough to even be permitted to remain for further cross-examin- ation and indexing. Lest there be any illusions as to the character of this “good fortune,” I’ll take up where she left off and relate the rest of the story. I, too, waited for four hours, was duly questioned, given a mental test, inspected and finally sent for a physical examination. Surely, thought I, this must be the first sign of Macy’s concern over its em- ployes. Why else would one get a physical examination but to learn of one’s condition and take steps to re- tain one’s health. I felt somewhat encouraged; well these bosses have one or two good qualities. Thought- fully I glanced at the card in my hand, when what was my surprise to see no information of a medical nature, no notes as to my health— simply 8 lines which read, good risk, poor risk, and fair risk, and the doctor had checked me as a fair risk, Apparently they thought my health would hold out long enough) for them to exploit me thru the pre- Christmas rush. Workers Pay Spies. I was told to report the next day for work. In spite of the fact that I had spent the whole day at Macy’s being hired, I received no pay for it, since my employment officially started the next day. Upon my ar- rival in the morning I was assigned to my section and placed under the supervision of an older employe, who acted in the capacity of train- er. These trainers are favorites who are permitted all sorts of privileges which ordinary employes do not re- ceive, not the least of which is get- ting the commissions on all sales made by the new clerks (who do not receive their salesbooks for four days). I sold sixty dollars worth of merchandise in the first two hours. I was obliged to turn these sales over to my trainer, since I had not yet received my sales book, and she received the commis-| sion. You can readily see that altho the rate of commission is only one- half per cent still a trainer with! five or six clerks under her aver- ages a considerable additional in- come. This practice obviously is a direct bribe to make the trainer act} as a spy for the bosses against the other workers. In view of the fact that a clerk receives only $15 week-| ly she could use even this miser- able commission of one half per cent very nicely, but such is the way of bosses they make us pay for the| services of the very spies who be-| tray us, “Palm Beach” Insurance. Macy’s has a system of employes’ sickness insurance. We are taxed with a portion of our miserable sal- aries to make up this fund, and yet cannot benefit from this insur- ance unless we have been employed at Macy’s for at least twenty weeks. | Close to half of us are fired at the jend of twelve weeks of employment Hence, although we all pay for this insurance from the day we are hired, most of us are not kept there long jenough to ever be able to claim |even this dubious benefit. In addi- tion if you are one of the few Macy employes who average $30 per week we FOSTER, GITLOW TOURS ‘Red Nominees Continue Despite Terror The police terror against the Communist presidential and vice-presi- | tential candidates, William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, has neces- | hey will speak follow: FOSTER. } Sunday, Oct. 21, Cleveland, Ohio. tondey, Oct. 22, Akron, Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 23, Toledo, Ohio. | Wednesday, Oct. 24, Columbus, 0. | Priday, Oct. 26, Canton, Ohio. { | itated several changes in their itineraries. The dates and places where | | Low. | Monday, Oct, 22, Omaha, Neb. Tuesday, Oct. 23, Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday, Oct. 24, Milwaukee, | Wis. | Friday, Oct. 26, Chicago, m1. | (some of the men do) you are not « compensation at even finger-printed. entitled to any sich all. The theory seems to be, that if you make that magnificent sum, you ought to have enough in rail- road stocks to see you through an WORKER KEPT IN PRISON 4 YEARS WITHOUT TRIAL Railroad Poor Man; Rich Crooks Freed (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., (By Mail).—Herman B. Hoppe has spent {28 months in jail and the ps pathic ward without trial. There is no charge against him as the case is off the calendar. At no time was he found mentally unbalanced. But the authorities have kept on send- ine him back and forth from the jail to the mad-house. Finally Hoppe got his story to the outside world thru attorney-general Arthur B. Rose, who located the “lost” pris- oner in the county jail on Sept. 19. And what about those fifty graft- ers connected with the bankrupt C. C. Julian Oil Corporation? They got away with $30,000,000 from 40,- 000 stockholders, including numer- |ous workers, widows and fatherless children, according to published court records. After a hearing last- ing for months, the case was finally dismissed before it came to trial. The get rich quick artists were not Only innocent workers, penniless or unemployed, vagrants and common drunks are considered dangerous enough to the present social system to be forced to cho- illness and send you to Palm Beach|&° thru such a disgraceful process besides. There is one other “privilege »| of persecution. Hoppe’s almost unbelievable story, Fay Compton, in leading “Olympia,” Molnar’s new play at the Empire. lady Nazimova Returns to Stage in PENNA, COURT. ‘ Aries a lengthy tour in vaude- ville, Alla Nazimova returns to the legitimate drama to play the leading role in the Civic Repertory Theatre’s production of Anton Tche- kov’s play “The Cherry Orchard.” The play has been translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett. While the play as times seems to drag when compared to recent American productions, as a view of pre-revolutionary: Russia it is re- markably fine. The last play writ- ten by Tchekov before his death, it and peasants, he nevertheless shows a groping towards a better day for the Russian masses, Josephine Hutchinson plays the part of Anya, the younger daughter of Madame Ranevsky, who is in love with the student. Her youthful enthusiasm helps to put a sparkle into the action of the play. + Other members of the capable | cast are Donald Cameron as Lopash- | in; Paul Lyssae as Gaev and John! Eldridge as Firs. | The play is in four acts, the first THUG IN TRIAL Attorney Brow Beats Militants (By a Worker Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Pa., (By Mail). —The inquest into the shooting and death of George Moran hy Louis Carboni held in Washington, Pa., indirectly prophesies the end of cap-|two seem to be slow in getting today turned into an inquisition of italism and the ushering in of a ‘workers and peasants government. | started, the play improving as it goes along. The end of the fourth serted he wanted and has asked for | R¥ssian family who find that their] tic of the play.—S. P. an early trial. The next record in the case is an entry of Sept. 30 showing that at the request of the district attorney’s of- fice the defendant was transferred to the psychonathic ward for ex- |}, amination. On October 7, Hoppe was returned from the hospital and no report was made on his mental condition. He was taken into court and the case was continued until Oct. 18 for trial. Hoppe went back to the psychopathic ward and re- mained there until Oct. 21 altho his trial had been set for three days |prior to that date. | On Oct. 21, the case went off the calendar, a legal move usually ac- companied by dismissal of charge. Then Hoppe sank oblivion of the jail and madhouse for nearly two long years. | Buried in Ward. | On Sept. 19, 1928, Hoppe con- which I must mention, and that is|®S Tecited to attorney Rose, is a tale ‘ferred with attorney Rose. The next the allowance on clothes. You know, Macy’s allows you 20 per cent re- duction on personal wearing ap- parel. But, it mugt be cloth ;can wear only during store hours. That is, you may by underwear, but not nightgowns and pajamas—you don’t sleep in the store, you know. You can’t wear more than one pair of garters in the store, so Macy’s very considerately permits you to buy just one pair. You can’t buy sport shoes and certainly no house slippers; a worker is not supposed to have comfort when he rests. Another Time’s Coming. Of course there are rest periods but not when,its busy. When sales can be made there must be no rest even if you are ready to drop with fatigue, —R..N. of a man who for two years and | four morths has been shunted from the county jail to the psychopathic | ward nad back again. Court records |on the case are incomplete and very |vague. No charge against the man at present. Penniless and frightened, Hoppe was arrested May 20, 1926, on a statutory charge of four counts. Fol- lowing a preliminary hearing, Hoppe was bound over to the superior court for trial. On June 17, Hoppe pleaded not day there appeared on the court records a notation showing that, up- on motion by district attorney, Hoppe was again! returned to the} psychopathic ward from the county | jail. There Hoppe has remained. | The name of the deputy who repre- |sented the district attorney’s office in making this motion is not in- cluded in the record. With the denying of a writ of habeas corpus by superior judge |Charles Fricke, Rose declared that | |the only hope of gaining the re-| into | old estate will be sold due to their |lack of money. The most treasured | part of the estate is a cherry or- chard which is the pride of that sec-| |tion of the country. The property is bought by a former peasant, who | typifies the rising industrial ruling class which -at that time was at- tempting to assert itself in czarist Russia. An attempt to save the| | property for the family by having Plan to Operate Zep Line Within the U. S. LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 21. —| Among the visitors shown the Graf | Zeppelin yesterday was William B. the witnesses appearing against Carboni as to their belief in “god,” | The story concerns a decadent/act is the most moving and realis- their stand on Communism, the work of organizing the youth and the dis- tribution of literature, and if they were in favor of overturning the government of the United States by force and raising the Red Flag over the stars and stripes, rather than an inquiry into the shooting of Moran by Carboni. In this the state was used in the person of Warren §. Burchenal prosecuting attorney for Washing- |Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford | ton-County who spent his time in one of the daughters marry the cap-| Motor Company, and others said to | browbeating and bullying the wit- italist fails, the house and the cherry be interested in forming a $14,000,- | nesses who went on the stand to vit orchard being torn down to make 090 corporation to establish a trans- | ‘heir version of the trouble in the {room for summer cottages for the| |petty bourgeoisie. The role of Madame Ranevsky, | who owns the cherry orchard is play- he jed by Nazimova in a convincing man- ner that gives an air of reality to the drama. The ease in which she} conducts herself helps a great deal | to do away with those parts of the |Play that tend to become boresome. |By making her a member of their permanent company, the Civie Rep- ertory Theatre has made a wise move. | The fine coordination of the the- atre’s activities is seen in the fact that Eva Le Gallienne, its director, submerges herself in a comparatively small role, that of Varya, adopted | daughter of Madame Ranevsky, who | attempts to marry the new owner} of the estate. Miss Le Gallienne por- | trayal of the twenty-four year old! girl is one of the best in. the play. | She does not push herself forward, | allowing Nazimova to play the lead- | guilty on all four counts and the/lease of his prisoner lies with the|ing part unrestrained. | trial was set for August 12. On that date the trial was postponed to Sept. 16. higher court. | So Herman H. Hoppe is still | Special mention must be made of | the part of Trofimov, the student, The records further dis-| locked up either in the county jail, | played so capably by Harold Moul- close the fact that on Sept. 16 and |located on the top floor of the $9,-|ton. It is the student who renounces on motion of the defendant the trial / 000,000 (half of it graft) “hall of | the decaying aristocracy, at the same | was continued until September 30. To Rose, Hoppe denied ever mak- ‘ing such a motion. Instead, he as- justice,” in the ee or psychopathic —L. P. RINDAL. time predicting the coming of a new | period in Russia. While he does not | |mention a government of workers Cut This Out, Fill In and Mail to Us at Once Enlist im the Defense of the Sovict Union Fight Against the War Danger Vote Communist I PLEDGE TO Defend the Soviet Union at all costs. 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. —_ Name Amount Name Amount COLLEC' TED BY: City State .. continental dirigible service. Wheth- | respect was not ascertained. ee To Investigate Charge. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — The) navy department yesterday “re-| quested” the commandant of the Lakehurst naval air base to report Zeppelin, it was stated. } local of the miners’ union in Bentley- ville where the shooting took place, ler Mayo represented Ford in this|and where Carboni shot to death | Moran. For six hours attorney Burchenal bluffed, bull-dozed and brow-beat the | witnesses, who appeared in the in- quest, (they were suspected of being members of the National Miners’ Union) while the bloody hand of Carboni the assassin was made to jon the mistreatment by marines of | appear as the defender of the United | visitors arriving aboard the Graf | States government and the upholder of Jaw and order. W. J. WHITE. . 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