The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1928, Page 4

SENTENCED BY JUDGE HUNGER TO SLAVE PEN Briggs Body Factory a Little Inferno (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT (By Mail)—I hadn’t| sommitted any crime. I was simply broke, An ad had appeared in the papers for some time asking for men to work at the Briggs Auto Body factory. before I ap Briggs factory savory a rep 1 for a job at the Briggs has too un- ation among the work- ers for any one in his right mind @ ask for a job in this hell hole, ex- cept as a last resort. After applying everywhere else without success, I| finally appeared at the Briggs slave) market. I got a job with little difficulty and my rate was to be 45¢ per hour plus a bonus that would be about 50 per cent. Before going to work, Land a number of others were given a lecture on safety. The lecturer| sure could paint mental pictures. | Some of us actually thought we were going to work in the Garden of Eden. It didn’t take two hours for those of us suffering from hallucinations of this kind to be rudely awakened. The pace on the line was simply I hesitated a long time} Briggs Bosses to THE DAILY WORKER, NEW y YORK, WED | Remember ! Workers, when you go to vote, remember your fellow~ workers who have been put in jail by republican and democratic city, state and national governments; remember the injunctions ssued by republican and democratic judges; remember all the crimes com- mitted against the workingclass in the name of “justice.” ber—and Vote Communist! “ec maddening. Still we heard the cry “Step on it! Step on it!” Foremen and straw bosses were yelling, cus-| sing, swearing. In fact this was| the first time I ever saw a foreman| Remem- Unholy Trinity” Does Dirty Work for L: A. Employers NESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1928 FARM WORKERS _ ARE TOILING FOR "BOARD IN PA. |No Wages, No Clothe Utterly Hopeless (Bu a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail). | While Pennsylvania is an industrial state, there are nevertheless a great number of farmers surrounding the |industrial centers. Although our | agricultural situation can not be | judged by the conditions of the farm- |ers in this state, we must pay some |attention to them because they are workers. * | The election campaign’ is now in full swing, both oily Herbert: and Tammany Al are trying to create illusions in the minds of the farmers by promising all kinds of relief, although nothing definite whatever. |Farm workers may vote for one or the other, their conditions will re- main as they are. While on the farm one Sunday on a picnic to get some fresh air and sunshine the following incident oc- | curred: | Two or three men of the farm- ers’ help stood there on the field, right near myself. _I asked one of them if I couldn’t find a board any- where to sit on, as soon as I hed said it one of them ran and brought | mejone, when he came back he said: “Mister, please, can’t you get me a job in the city? T have to work here for nothing, all I get is my board and for that I have to work | from early in the morning until late S, Workers; Straw Boss | Ousted War Lord Gen. Chang Chung Chang, north- ern Chingse war lord, who has slaughtered thousands of Chinese workers, has been driven from Shantung by another bloody war lord and tool of imperialism, Liu Chen nien. Chang is shown above. Liu, who hoisted the Nanking flag over Chefoo, has split with Nanking, and now threatens a war. MEXIGAN FRUIT - PICKERS STRIKE Form Gommunist Unit. Among Workers sthe Kicks Men in Spee - Sacco- Vanzettt Play Opens | Tonight “(ODS OF THE LIGHTNING,” a play based on the Sacco-Vanzet- ti case, by Maxwell Anderson and | Harold Hickerson, will be presented by Hamilton MacFadden and Kel-) logg Gary at the Little Theatre, to- night. Twenty-six of the forty-eight | roles are speaking parts. The lead- ing role, that of the labor leader, will be played by Charles A. Bick-| ford, others “in the cast include: | Horace Braham, Sylvia Sidney, Leo| Bulgakov, John R. Hamilton, Sam Silverbush, Douglas. Wood, Robert Brister, Eva Condon, Molly Ricordel and Harry Bliven. lan Dinehart in “Girl Trouble” at | Belmont Theatre, tomorrow} |night, the latest comedy by Parry | Conners, author of “Applesauce,”! |and “The Patsy.” Others in the cast | are: Mary Murray, Georgia Lee Hall, |Sara Haden, Lucia Moore and Vir-| ginia Howell. Lucille LaVerne will revive Lula Vollmer’s play “Sun-Up” at the Lu- |cille La Verne Theatre (formerly |the Princess), tonight. Miss La Verne will again be seen as the| ‘Widow Cagle, the role she first play- ed here in 1923. W. Somerset Naugham’s latest play, as yet untitled, is now in re- jhearsal. The new play wilb receive Richard Herndon will present Al-|, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The|its world premiere under the Ken-| district headquarters of the Work-) dall-Miller alliance, the same group) ers (Communist) Party was notified! who produced Maugham’s “Our Bet-| that a strike of 500 Mexican agri-| ters,” last season. Prominent in the |cultural laborers broke out on the|cast will be, Clare Eames, Mary Jer- at the Little OLIVE BORDEN. _ Starred in “Stool Pigeon,” a new film melodrama showing at the Broadway Theatre this week, Young Workers Aiding | Communist Candidates SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The Young Workers (Communist) League is arranging a series of| youth election mass meetings in San| Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, | and other cities of the district. The San Francisco meeting will be held on Friday evening, Oct. 26, at 1212 Market St., at which Anita Whitney, Communist candidate for U. S. senator from California, and members of the Y. W. L. will be the speakers. d-Up COAST WORKERS — ASSAIL TERROR AGAINST GITLOW Prepare Mass Protests Against Persecution SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The District Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, Dis- |trict 18, has issued the following | statement in connection with the at- tempted kidnapping of Benjamin Gitlow, Communist vice-presidential candidate, while in this district: “The attempts of the reactionary \forees to prevent Comrade Gitlow from speaking at several election campaign mass meetings in Arizona, the recent campaign of terrorism opened up by the police on the Party and the Young Workers League in | Los Angeles, the attempt to prevent street meetings from being held In San Francisco, clearly shows the fear of the capitalist class that the Workers (Communist) Party is gain- ing ever wider influence among the workers, the poor farmers, the ex- ploited Negroes, Mexicans, and Oriental workers. “The District Executive Committee is taking all possible steps to or- | ganize resistance and mass protests against this campaign of terrorism, and will protect by all necessary means the Communist candidates who are carrying the message of the class struggle to the workers and farmers.” | ation. Fat Jobs for Fakers. Fight Needle Trades Union. | In this industry, which produced 172 paul Scharrenberg, secretary of | Sbout 15 million dollars worth’ of e California State Federation of|!sdies’ apparel in 1926, over 3,000 Withbor, is now a state harbor com: |4tessmakers are employed, earning if issioner. “Union men” have been|*#S low as $12 a week, and several “appointed as inspectors by the board | hundred cloakmakers, who, due to Wiof public works, and have done|the fact that they are organized, \Meverything they could to support the |®te commanding a higher scale of | ‘Sopen-shop contractors. McLaughlin, | ¥@ges, although not enough to call | 7% reactionary official in the Team-|it a decent wage. Efforts are being made to organ- ize this trade. A number of strikes vere called in the past two jwars, | sters’ Union, is the collector of port in San Francisco. ..Now they have completely sur- frendered their “opposition” to the conservative faction of the repub-_ liecan party, and have fallen in with Senator Johnson’s agreement to sup- | port Hoover, in return for the united f republican support for Johnson as senator. Johnson is no longer iden- . tified with the “liberal” wing of the |} party, and supports the Los Angeles | Times and the elements controlled | by the Merchants’ and Manufactur- | ors’ glssociation, and the red-baiting Better American Federation. Santal Midy Effective-Harmless Sold by All Drugaist, World War. Always and forever to fulfill my Revolutionary Duty to the working class. Name Amount Name Street Return this list with names at One Dollar each no later than October 25th to DAILY WORKER, 26:28 Union S All Grectings ceceived will be printld in the Russian Revolution Sgecial Edition, of the Daily Workes which wi ie COLLECTED BY: Name City ¢ ' are, New York, N.Y. 3 ; 4 het aioe se ie thi air|fruit orchards near Watsonville | , ipa “ ” NAVY D actually kick a man to get him to| | By A TRADE UNIONIST — |and under the leadership of a mili-|* ae aie Med cae eee Cailtortla absut 100 willes anathiatliker nn ee eee sunne Oakland meeting will be held YWL TO “OBSERVE” NAVY DAY. speed up. | ‘The Chamber of Commerce, the|tant rank and file most of the i ue h The: strike ARGON : day evening, Oct. 28th, at Fra-/ SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Un- le Chamber of e, Fikes UB bg her, | Pants on). I don’t even get money| here. The strike was a spontaneous ternity Hall, 7th and Peralta Sts.,/ daunted by th sts of its mem- The man was on his knees work-| Merchants and Manufacturers As- | Strikes were won and the member-|1o "boy any clothes.” | revolt against the unbearable ‘ondi rN Danes at which Minnie C ri laut inaeie eGeatant ca | be seets joa, {thip is steadily. increasin y any bea ; : William Jeffrey will join the cast| mnie Carson will be the | bers in Los Angeles and San Pedro, « “tig on the lower part of an auto|sociation and the Better American |* ae Bigg thee pac é | During the time of chattel slavery| tions under which the migratory| \¢ «phe Squealer,” the melodrama-| §Peaker. the Young Workers (Communist) Ritts) 'The foreman & | Federation is the Unholy Trinity ir vabor Misleaders at Work. 9 E |workers of this state, particularly | % ; : ; ; RSS Pee : y sting sunshine and | nt visite une cette) te onack, [clothing and shelter. Since then we : p : : | will be seen here shortly. |dent Club has been organized among | paring to distribute thousands of eee Co Nell up. the line; where he/roal setate takes the existing unions, while this Un. | "®¥¢ made so much “progress” that) A unit of the Workers (Commu-| Soa the students of the University of|znti-militarist leaflets on “Navy ‘ belonged. fs was the teehee: I| Among the many excuses for its |holy ‘Trinity is becoming more ag.|i™,"etum™ for our labor we only re-/nist) Party has already been organ-|@ Q@ RK Y’S RECEPTION IN | California, which will hold a mass Day,” Oct. 27th, to the young work- $8 ever Saw this man around. Heleve existence is ite labor-hating policy, |<... “atti leer hes ts ceive food and sometimes not even| ized among the strikers, and a strike MOSCOW SHOWN AT |meeting in the near future. ers and the sailors. $e it or not, but the following figures fostering and maintaining the open- ane: cutting deeper into the | that. The only hope for the farm|mass meeting has been called at » s | Rafa a ais S} “ate the facts: shop, to smash the existing unions, | M¢&"t of organized labor, the offi-| workers is the proletarian revolu-|which Emanuel Levin, district or- THE CAMEO.- i che 80 men started to work in this de-land true to its name this Unhol;¢| “ial labor leadership is playing petty | tion that will put the coupon clip-|ganizer of the Party, and Mike Si Ss | vas partment in the morning. \Trinity is employing all unholy | PXlities, absorbed in the “tremendous | pers to work and end all the misery | Daniels, are scheduled to speak, de-| A new item has been added to ¢ 21 men quit by noon. |methods, covered with a mantle of | SSK” to decide who are labor's polit- | and poverty existing in this society ‘spite threats made by the authori-| the interesting film collection at the 3 men were left after 3 days. —_| hypocrisy, labeling its sinister work | 1°! friends or enemies in the capi-| today in which the great masses are |ties to prevent them from speaking.|Cameo Theatre this week. The lat-| Company Steals Five Minutes. {with “Liberty.” “Freedom” and | “list political parties, where*there | ruled and exploited by a few power- One Communist Party member has/est Russian Sovkino news reel is! Keith-Albee is ive cware. allowed ‘#0: sainutss- far fMAweseardens jare no one but enemies. ful parasites. jalready been arrested for “disturb-| being shown in connection with the - be inch before the whistle blew, we| Sasha Wis kecd imines |, The American Federation of La-| Therefore, the farm workers must| ing the peace.” regular program of “3 Comrades and American A ME Weis told that wo woald hace tcl ures Workers to Misery. bor officialdom, in its deceptive poli-| also support the candidates of the| Large bundles of Communist lit-|One Invention”, and “The Shanghai| Breinieke 2d Week $ swork 15 minutes of that time in| Creating the impression that they | cies, is becoming a close ideological} Workers (Communist) Party that|erature and the Daily Worker are|Document.” Amongst the remark- | s 42nd Street and Broadway ag = order to catch up, as we were be-|#t¢ Solely responsible for the natural | ally to the Unholy Trinity. has as its ultimate aim the over-|being distributed among the strik-| able news reel shots included in this THE FEAST SOVIET COMEDY w hind in production. After working act ara, Ream) Se ot ee eat ie eae eee of the old and establishing|ers. A strike committee has alte a reel is a full cinematic report) 6 OME, five minutes, the foreman yelled:|Southern California, making god| |The Pinttorm of the Workers (Com-| of a new social order. jorganized to take charge of the|of Gorky’s homecoming and recep- Th Cc d @ { ‘Never mind boys, go ehead and|imighty a mere subordinate and a|furm et the class struggle, —F, HELLMAN. © situation. tion in Moscow. ree om rades t © eat.” The company got this five|Profitable trade mark, this Unholy| e ” {| minaes for nothing. ag Helena wen hgh and One Invention i In the 30 minutes allowed for|/#™8 every year advertising their Cut This Out, Fill In and Mail to Us at Once oie Gt alle tani iba ek WY mea ciate | } ~ lunch, the workers must get in line|°UPoTe country Tt lures thousands “A Shanghai Document” | EXTRA AvDED FEATURE 9 _ {© ring out, get in line again at the| ut the country. It lures thousands < oS _ = Sensational Film of Recent RUSSIAN NEWS REEL REG wagon, bolt down’ the. licks | kers ) ngeles, E i ¢ th BD IY Y th Ss ¢ U. na Uprisings Direct from Moscow Fe aerate toe ee tinehs| promising “plenty of Jobs," with in-| MREESE BHD eC Derense oO e@ sovie GRUGL — in at the clock (failure to ring a Meese to swell the ever-increasing | | IVIC REPERTORY 14St.,6thAY. | THE THEATRE GUILD $ OF out means to be docked an hour),|7™Y of unemployed and then carry ; 500, $1.90, $1.50. Mats. Wed. &Snt 230 | rete and to be at your post on line when|°" & Tuthless sae ers b4 |EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director | Pike whistle same workers whenever an attempt gs Bist t e ar anger | , | ' i is being made to organize and de- Mat, Today, “L'Invitation au Voyai 2 The workers are brutalized to| tae i Tonight, “The Would-Be Gentlem | GUILD Thea. W. 52nd st. t such an extent that they steal each | and a decent living wage, the | Thurs, Eve., “the Cherry Orchard.” | & Eves. 8:30; Mats. } others tools, causing the loser to| 8° ipenosetem 80. lore ie te [Eat Mat; «the ‘Cherry. Orenar pilin earl Si ict BE tiscen forthe lou. Aa limpossible for a worker to suppor V t re t Sat. Eve., “The Would-Be Gentleman.” | few days of it I had enough and|4 family without the aid of his wife ote OLR sRAS Mon. Eve., Oct. 29: “The Cherry OF- | Strange Interlude 1 quit. On receiving my pay, I found|*%4 children, who are subjugated to euir | {that I was short changed $3.50,/the severest form of exploitation. | at | youn GOLDEN gran | After going through a controversy| T° carry on a systematic attack i wants ” \{)_eveENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 | with the time keeper and paymaster,|@ainst labor in -general and upon L | Dineniyn ee. i I was shown a mass of figures run-|0TSanized labor in particular, th A new Ve Treadwell |JOLSON Thea. reir LP 9 ning into the ten thousandth decimal,| Unholy Trinity has for its aid the | PLYMOu Hats Thats Set | Guy ODETTE DE WOLF |. that would be difficult for an auditor | Anti-Picketing and Anti-Syndicalist | tak apehenotentaranahe Mot t to understand. I was also told that| Laws and Injunctions. | _ = ——- ‘na musical romance ot opin Thea.45St.&8Av. Thad been docked a dollar and some| Division of Labor. | Martin Beck s7ehinwed.saia0 | change for insurance.—WOR-COR. | To make their attacks effective | = |this Unholy Trinity is dividing the | NITE HOSTESS, 39th St.eBiway. Eves, 8:30 f y {dirty work very efficiently, each sass be REN Ee CA’ Mats. Wed. & Sat, 2:30 group doing its bit. The Chamber Produced by JOHN GOLDEN, MUSICAL COMEDY HIT } y |cf Commerce, considering itself a Galondetacd bly’ wweticiel Be UCKEEGIRL the almighty dollar, directs the ERLANGER Jr utoatiwesa =| Uil s work. The Merchants and Manu- Mat.: Wednesdays & Saturdays, 2:30. 4 facturers Association does the spy George M. Cohan's Comedians mavren’” ~— THE LADDER |work, with the help of the Intelli- te arate eee |e anaee ga eranteaa “ pee S § . an's M | S M. By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. fred Seced® ath Betta ‘N oe Comeays | CORT Nee ni Sue 8:30 ry M. NE ERMAN, et » ane e Better mer- . ed. at, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — The|iean Federation preaching a certain a B I L L I E f Money ‘Retanded: it Not Battatt Teeent state convention of the re-|hrand of “Americanism” and morals ee hdl cad publican party was the final step in| through the aid of the police and the na ing | CHANIN'S46th St.W. of Broadway ‘the complete triumph of the reac-| American Legion. Noterious among Keith-aibeo |22¢ N- ¥. Showing} Mate, Wearyenings at 8:28 jonary wing of that party over the|the three groups is the Merchants “Stool Pi 44 SCHWAB and MANDEL'S ip, 20-called “progressive” faction which| and Manuf: s Associati Broadwa geon MUSICAL EMASH in, . nm nufacturers sociation, 41 bas succeeded in winning the “labor | whose platform is open-shops, Secret | at dist sc. | MP-Roaring Crook OOD NEW: | yote” by pretending to represent the| boycotts and sabotage against | With OLIVE BORDEN ) ’ ifiterests of the labor movement. Sie | giacatachiears eraploving Bong and 7 Keith-Albee-Orpheum Acts, | with GEORGE OLSEN’S MUSIC, : eile Raredage Asso-/bor is a matter of course with this \d om- ] merce now have undisputed control | "particularly are they active in the | Poety, which veces Gf, the republican | needle industry, which is growing bohd ® the state of Cali-| here rapidly and is becoming an ine | WHY CO-OPERATION The reactionary labor leaders of|“U*tti#! factor on the Pacific Coast. | . ‘ { California have peddled the support| reat deal of ep Nh I PLEDGE TO CONSUMERS’ COOPERATIVES IN THE } Of organized labor to the capitalist|Syeccmakers Uninn a ip a UNITED STATES i a in return for which they cont rank and filo leadership ie be, Defend the Soviet Union at all costs. j we received many juicy plums in|, ie . . | . a . e 4 the form of jobs in the state admin-|"& developed. Never to forget the experience and the suffering of the working class in the Imperialistic by GEORGE HALONEN There are at the present time over 700,000 co-operators in the U. S. In this country the movement dates back to 1791 and is assuming ever greater importance in the Labor Movement. Halonen’s booklet is indispensable to any worker who would understand the nature and present status of Co-operation in America. £ 10 cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th Street New York, Nae PO cae her 284