The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1928, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, 1928 Intensive Drive to Organize All Drug Store Clerk HOOVER'S DEPT, 4NSPECTS” LIFE BOATS OF VESTRIS Maryland Has Enough ““ to Save Herbie Continued from Page One to test the tackle and the davit gear- ng. They are satisfied with merely swinging the < over to the side, slipping one t’s tackle fe nehes down and then they call it 4 day and thank the skipper for giving them grub and hard liquor ind go home “Huh! You roats all over the s ime in history! » he inspectors required yoats swing free. Every b ails out of this hart sear frozen with rust so t t takes six men with axes t t free if it has to be qurry. Lines Rot, But Who Cares? Then there’s the tac The line } § run from the boats thru the heaves of the gearing (pulleys) and he most of it is kept coiled w over. The part under cover be itrong and in good condition, but he outside end is rotten from the veather, If it is not prope’ tested y swinging the boat low qver the ide, Christ only knews whether the ine “will stand the strain or not vheni the ship is sinking and peoj ie for the before have that all the at t chop Will Bring New Chief of U. . Imperialism Back Fro The U. S. S. Utah, PR eaaess which is now on its way to South America, where it will pick up the new head of American imperialism, Herbert Hoover, and bring him back from his tour over the domains of Wall St. | m Triumphal Tour | | | | } | | Continued from Page One morni It was only SCAB IL MONDO’ fire port boiler. Water overflowed| ming a good way off, I found a Rap Socialist Paper Slates of the stoke hole. Monday| morning about 10 o'clock with the ship listing badly to starboard, I|/that and got a much larger piece. | was ordered to go to the starboard| alley to bail water. All firemen and ailors were ordered to do so. It as quite impossible to bail any ater however. After coming back on deck chief ‘ ficer ordered all fireni+ below, egos bene sp steam and pumy bilees ent ee oe and radio. I worked on. the port don’t : iler which was a difficult job. The ws Kick we-are put in angle at which the ship lay was so nutifiy and if we try to sharp that we had to chain each ives when the sh alled cowards! »% What Do You Mean, | “Some ships have a double | ife-boats, one above the other hose tnderneath never are distu one year’s end Inspection! “This supposedly ‘superior’ oat davit, the Weyland Patent s not any better than the rest when t is allowed to get n with rust ind the tackle boat tself leaks. B didn't ave even that poor excuse of a lavit. Money, Not Safety, First “The best kind of a davit is used m the Morgan line to the Gulf along he coast. By rel z the tackle he boat swings over the side auto- natically in three minutes. It = ts worth when the “El Sol” w: is rotten and t Ve! n two right here off the statue of uiberty. “But the t don’t like 0 usé this better da because it runs down requires space, its base 0 the lower deck. That takes room ind room can be used to make money ‘arrying passenger go. What the hell do the companies care for safety as against cash! Lifeboat drill, supposed to be held at sea, is a joke, but not funny, if you know what th know, and what the writer rom experience in many Once a week perhaps, or once in a three weeks’ trip, all hands are called up to lifeboat drill. Men go out on trips taking months and never know when they finish what is their station or how to work a lifeboat. Specialization Causes Danger When the writer was on the Lam- port-Holt liner V: to the Vestris, Buen and for Aires two years ago, kitchen dining room stewards scrambled into and fife-jackets ard milled around on deck hunting up their supposed sta- tions, most of them unfitted by the specialization forced upon them as constant servants waiting attendance on passengers to know much of what to do or how to do it. The davits were swung around but that was all. Not a sign of loosening the tackle or letting even one boat take even the weight of one man down the side to the Just a form pulled off to kid the passen- gers! Beat Drill Only A Form “There simply any organiz- ation on the Ve a sailor, “put neither other boat. G tackle ‘in the ge line thru the outside s or they don’t know how to reef the tackle or splice it when it breaks from be- coming rotten by exposure. That's not their fault, but the company’s, which merely goes thru the motion of boat drill, and doesn’t allow the men time to learn how to work the boats in case of emergency. | We showed the sailors the story sent by the British News Agency, Reuters, to England, saying that the Vestris “sank because the Negro firemen refused to keep up steam in the boilers” and that “Captain Carey did not send an S. O. S. sooner be- ieause there was no need for it.” Be iy Liars and Their Lies “Hell, would you look at that!” exclaimed a seaman. “The starboard boilers were under water and the water. he ing the by puli ‘ | other to tHe holes so that we could set coal to put into the fire. I was ing with Ollivere. I passed him oal, then had to hold him along vith the chain so that he could pitch work t into the fire. Ordered Below. We all stayed down there until about 11 o’clock Monday morning, then, seeing conditions were so bad, we determined to leave. After go- | ing on deck we were called to throw away cargo for about a half hour, |and then we were ordered back to the stoke hole. After going back” | down to the stoke hole it was quite impossible to work. All the boys left. When I came up from out of the stoke hole, it was about 12 o’clock. Going forward, looking for a life belt. After getting it, Ollivere ask-| ed me if I was going to leave this way, if I was not going to put on ny clothes, because the boys on k were expecting a ship at any moment. “Get Below!” | After getting a life belt the chief mate said: “All the firemen must go back down, and see what you can do down there.” The boys know- ing that the conditions were bad down below, theyswere stiff about | going down below. The engineer| came down to “mule” the boys, | treat them roughly.) | After getting as far as the after- companion, the third enginéer, see-| ing the whole gang going that way,| dered back in the stoke hole, and he{ told us it was no use going down| About an hour or so later the other | bela because we could not do anything.! man who I took for a Spaniard yel-| the socialists of Il Nuove Mondo Then we had to turn back after he said so and the boys started to look| for the boats. | All this time sailors were work-| ing pretty hard trying to get port! side boats over. O: far as two feet below the promen-| ade deck. All this time I had not} eaten anything since Saturday 5 p.| m. I then went and stood by my! boat, No. 4. Iphad to wait until the| women and children were in first. | After that the eighth engineer and I went in, awaiting orders. Boats Failed—Jumped Into Sea. At that time the boat was 30 feet piece of dunnage. Holding on to that for about 25 minutes leaving Life Boat Turns Over. Whilst on that piece, I saw life oat No, 9 half way under with water. It was with pas. S nd crew, I left my dun vent over,to No. At. got there she turned over. Women and children were» many in that boat. I held on to the bottom of No. 9 boat. After a length of time, ye got the boat bottom back on the water again so thet we could stay inside but the children’ and women that were dead around there were so thick I had to leave. After seeing so many dead bodies there! T took off my clothes and swam away from there. 1 got another piece of dunnage’ about 6 feet long. After hulling about on that for about an hour, just before dark, I saw a friend of mine, a member of the crew and a white man. He was mess room steward. He was hanging on a large piece of wreckage and asked me to come over to him. So I swam over and we both held to the wreck- age which was a hatch cover, I think. We had a hard time keeping above water in the heavy seas. My friend was unable to swim and had a life belt on. Early in the night I heard a shouting near by and couldn’t see who it was. I made out a large piece of wreckage and I heard some man speaking in Span- ish. My friend and I wanted to get over to the big piece of wreckage, but he couldn’t swim. I had to tow the wreckage by a piece of rope which was attached to it. After get- ting half way I was unable to go any more, then we decided to pad- dle. We did so until we got to this other piece of wreckage. When we got there, all three of us held on to the big piece of wreckage. Men Drown Amid Darkness. Aboit midnight, I think it was, my friend’ ¢omplained shook hands and he disappeared. led something at me but I didn’t understand and soon he disappeared Shortly after that I saw red rockets on the horizon and then everything went black. I don’t remember a ring to the list) thing that happened thereafter until| Wage of $65 a week for a 39-hqur} that the ship had, it was quite dif-|1 woke in the sick bay of the U. S.|Week, while the American news- ficult. At 12:30 boats got down as's. “Wyoming.” I was told that I| Papers, which are richer than us, was picked up by Anthony Pelosi of Providence, R. I. Immigration Is From Mexico and No. Europe Recent immigration into the United States has shown many changes so of being| “° : b he asked us where we were going | cramped all over and a few minutes | “ion, which took years and years | and we told him that we were or-|jater he said he was leaving and we|°f Struggles and sacrifices to build. from the water and the ship sink- far as national composition is con- | away on port side. "| two ing over to starboard side fast. Captain giving orders for lowering After the boat boats astern of mine was launched, the captain gave orders to lower No. 4, but it couldn't be, lowered as we had stuck on the side just as a ship would stay on dock.| After trying to force the boat, off} the ship side with all efforts it fail-| od. The keel of the ship was show-| ing to the surface of the water. Finding that I had no way to get er than passenger liners plainly said that they would not “take the trouble” to go to the rescue. Why don’t some- body raise a howl over that? But not a line against the big shipping companies in the capitalist press. Big ers Also Dangerous “These big liners; yes, the Levia- than and the others, who claim to have the latest thing in life-boat davits, and so on. Some of them run by electric motor, but we sailors fire in them put out before the fire-| know that most of them won’t work men came on deck. And that the and that, some time or another, a captain did not send the S. O. S.|Vestris scandal on a still bigger soon enough is darned well proven | scale is coming. But try to get that by the fact that the captain him-| printed in the capitalist press, just self is drowned. What more do you try! want? | “Every now and then,” continued “But that’s what we expect from | “Blackie” as he shifted his voice capitalist newspapers. Look at the into a growl, “If you watch the time when that Dutch boat went papers, you will see about three small down in a storm on the North At-) lines on an inside page of some cap- lantic in the first week in October. italist sheet, stating that a freighter She wag a freighter; nobody but the has gone down somewhere with all cerned. In 1927, 25.4 per cent of the 250,000 persons coming to this coun- try were from Mexico, 18.9 per cent from Germany, 15.5 per cent from Ireland, 11.4 per cent from England, 9 per cent from Scotland, 6 per cent from Scandinavia, and 4.8 per cent were Jews. The bulk of the immi- grants are still unskilled laborers, though the proportion is much small- before the war. sailors like me and the gang here. We don't count. But let some passen- ger ship go down and all hell’s to pay if some fat slob of an exploiter loses his precious life. And if there’s no organization as on the Vestris, ond the black gang is kept below as it was on the Vestris, but at the moment it sinks they make shift to save themselves if they can, then some damned capitalist newspaper editor, some sniveling prostitute seeking to shield the company and the damned capitalist system, squirts his poison inta the headlines—‘Sail- ors must tell why they live!’ Well, that is about the limit! “What we need 1s organization. Only a big union and a fighting union can ensure safety on the sea, for both passengers and crew. That’s what we’re working for here in the Marine Workers’ Progressive League.” Tomorrow we will tell you some- eréw to lose their lives. She sent) hands. out an %° S. and some of the big| ag not news. They’re only, thing of what the sailors think on unions, past, present and future. for Anti-Unionism | Continued from Page One ganized for? To } hi nughing | Stock of Il Nuovo Mond. hich de- | fantly and absolutely refused to] bev the no hereby gnaw ing at the fal very hast , Of course not. | As a soclali publication, TL Nuov hoon a living | loaling with | class union trike. ‘This v ay noon, | Nov. 2, 1928, ¢ Mon. | day, Nov. 5, the strike was settled, and the man accused of being a fas- | ¢'st, in order to avoid troubles for | |his fellow-workers, willingly re- |nounced to his right to work in the composing room of Il Nuovo Mondo. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3-and 4, | the paper was set and printed, | thanks to the help of scabs. The union printers went back to work the same day the strike was settled. | Propose Wage Cut. In the evening, Hon. Vincenzo acirea, socialist, ex-member of the Italian parliament and president of | the Avanti News Company, which | owns Tl Nuovo Mondo, called all the vrinters to a special meeting, and he made the following proposition ; to them—to work for $10 a week junder the wage scale stipulated in |; the contract between Il Nuovo Mondo and the Italian Typo- graphical Union No. 261, no pay | whatsoever for overtime, no extra | pay for nightwork, Sundays or legal holidays, no extra pay, not even a | cent, for the foreman, who assumes the responsibility for the efficient management of the composing room. |The printers told him that they would discuss the matter at their next chapel meeting and then give him the answer, And the answer “To” saturally, How could they have accepted such a humiliat- ing proposition? It would have veant a death-blow to the labor | | And such a blow was to be struck by a‘socialist institution. Do not |fght for labor unions? What would the union printers say if the | management of Daily Worker would put the following proposition up to | them: You are receiving, say, a are paying $65 a week for a 45-hour week, Well, then, we are willing to pay you $10 below the American seale, no pay whatsoever for over- time, no extra pay for nightwork, Sundays or legal holidays, and no } ‘extra pay for the foreman. If you (do not accept our conditions, con- sider yourself discharged this very minute. Is this, we ask you, con- sistent with the postulates of the socialist party, of which Il Nuovo Mondo is a mouthpiece? And to think that Il Nuovo Mondo did this same very thing! Fires Workers. So, on Saturday, Nov, 10, 1928, each and every printer—with the exception of one who is a scab, and, sorry to say, a member of the soci: ist party—was discharged, notwith- standing the fact that they be- longed to the union, which has a contract legally signed by Il Nuovo Mondo. Are labor union contracts hecoming scraps of paper for Il Nuovo Mondo, too? The result now is that union men are walking the sidewalks, while scabs, imported by Il Nuovo Mondo from Buffalo, Chicago and Pitts- burgh, have taken their places. Tl Nuovo Mondo has written a lot about the ‘Italian Typographical Union. It has even stated that the union has not given the newspaper the help it needed and deserved as a bonafide labor newspaper. The people of Il Nuovo Mondo do not tell the truth, and they know it. The union has done everything | stage of its development, is, in | telman and Foster “TALE OF DEATH TOLD PRINTERS HIT BY VESTRIS FIREMAN | jclear, I pulled off my life belt and| possible to| jumped over the side. After swim-| | of tolerance toy of a new war launched against ist Cannon grou T'eki tion to the expul: ! reantime the Nanking | organize « | the Commun’st International. | Reservations to the decisions of | ME AY a PAY the VI. World Congress of the | (43i0 4 Vee L Comintern and the decisions of | ¥&** s Is Started By Miltant Union COMMUNISTS IN. (CONTINUE WAR NEW YORK HIT PREPARATIONS AT TROTSKYISMM 1H MANCHURIA “Ror Comintern and | NankingGov‘tWatches | C, E. C. Leadership” Japan’s Hand Continued from Page One PEKING, Nov. 20.—That matters danger—outright opportunism— /*re by no means quiet in Northern is the main danger, and Trotcky- |©'"@ and that Manchuria, under 2 peg inspired impetus, may again launch ism in its present—the a drive aga'nst Peking and the Nan- ling government, are opinions ex- ressed here as a result of reports om Mukden that war preparations are going on with increasing speed. Tt is a known fact that a large Menchurian army is maintained on the border of Shanaikwan and even Jast— spite of its left phraseology, the most consistent and unified sys- | tem of opportunism. | 5. The District Fxeeutive Com- mittee proterts aPainst the state- | ment of Comrades Aronbers. Bit- | in the Polit- | H t ome distance on this side of the ical Committes, according to |(reat Wall along the Peking-Muk- which the present Central Ex- {den rail The Mukden arsenal ecutive Committee leadership and | not Trotskyism is the main dan. |sums, much of it believed to em- ger; and the District Executive |anate from an, are being spent Committee considers the ‘attitude |abroad for huge quantities of pow- of these comrades a and other war material. Mm weaken ee the effect pavations are entirely on he strugale aguinst 7 a scale to confirm Muk- and outright opportunism. official statements that they 6. The District Executive Com- » for defensive purposes, and to | mittee warns agains’ many they indicate the possibility ad. and night and great and bi in our Party. %. The ficht against 1 ism can be carried to its full cass only under the leadorshif the Executive Committee of the | ; cn Communist International must re- | ‘Same Time as Cloak | iu 8. The District Executive Com- mittee demands that the opposi- tion repudiate the statement, “Right Danger in the American | Party” printed in the renegade | Trotskyist Cannon organ, the “Militant,” and accept the Com- intern decision which states “The charge that the present Central Executive Committee has right wing policies is unfounded.” 9. The District Executive Com- cided to call a Special National Con- City on December 29 and 30, 1928. Corrupt International “At the present time the fur work- lers all over the United States and Canada are convinced that nothing whatever of a constructive nature lean be expected frorh the demoral- ized, corrupt and degenerated Inter- |national. Today the reactionary offi- cials of this mi an dence in the Central Executive |agents of the bosses and their com- Committee. |pany union. Their so-called Inter- 10. The District Executive Com. | national no longer has any prestige, mittee calls upon every Party |nor power, nor influence. | member, upon all Communists, to | “On the ruins of the disintegrated | Central Executive Committee workers throughout the United against Trotskyism and the right | States and Canada are ready to build i wing danger, for the line of the j/a new union without any craft divi-| Communist International. ‘sions, without expulsions and per-| Sera S |secutions of members for their poli-| \tical beliefs and affiliations; a union | with rank and file control and cap-| Bronx Co-Op Tonight | able of defending and promoting the | es interests of the workers. | Ray Ragozin, militant woman| “The Sub-Committee also acted on ||} leader, will lecture on “Women’s the proposal made by the Cloak and Work” in the auditorium of the|Dressmakers National Executive United Workers’ Cooperative House Committee for working out definite | at 2700 Bronx Park Bast, tonight| plans for the immediate amalgama- | at 8 o'clock. All members of the|tion of the Furriers’ and Cloak and | Workers (Communist) Party and | Dressmakers’ Unions at our coming sympathizers are urged to attend. e nventions. Hey ce eer ed The,talk has been arranged by the ously decided to accep' is - International Branch 6, tection 6 ‘of posal, because the amalgamation of v i .' |these two unions will undoubtely | because Siesercieen act ‘ereate a powerful union for the work- | ers and will be a definite step in) ‘the direction of amalgamating all) | garment workers’ unions into one | powerful organization. SAO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 20.—| Will Organize | ‘The commander-in-chief of the Bra-| “In addition to this important zilian navy. Rear-admiral Jose Isias | problem, the convention will also act, de Noronha, resigned here, it was|on the task of organizing the many announced today, His resignation was unorganized workers and strength- |f accepted by the government. ering the locals. The Convention will | The resignation followed a meet | also act on a proposal to establish ; ing last week of the Navy Club when shop control of the organization. | Ragozin to Lecture at Resignation of Brazil Naval Chief Accepted Ingraham, mittee expresses its full confi- | stand unmasked and exposed as the | of this local unite under the leadership of the and corrupt International, the fur [iy by a practically unanimous vote the | former members who were connected with the insurrection on the battle- ship Sao Paulo in 1923 were re- instated. eae a neEY company. The management now still owes them two weeks’ pay, plus 20 per cent of their weeky salaries, for nine consecutive weeks, which the union printers allowed the man- agement to detract each week as a} loan, the total sum being about | $1,500. The case now is in the hands of a lawyer, and summonses have already been served. Il Nuovo Mondo never said a word about it. It says that the “According to the basis of repre- | sentation to the Convention decided upon by the Sub-Committee, your) local is entitled to elect five dele-| gates. | “All credentials of elected dele- gates must be in the hands of the} Secretary not later than December, 25.” | Father Urges Search | For Whereabouts of Boy, Lost 2 Months, Irving Axelrod, a member of the! Young Pioneers, disappeared from | his home at the Bronx Cooperative | more than a month ago and has not! printers were receiving too high a wage! A socialist publication com- plaining about workers getting too high a wage! Why does not Il Nuovo Mondo tell the public that the union print- ers have made sacrifices and sac been heard from | since. He is 14) years old and tall. for his age. His father, Mor- tis Axelrod, ha: asked that any rifices, financially and otherwise, tc help Nuovo Mondo as a_bonafid: labor paper, and that they have beer recompensated with dismis: news of the boy be sent’to him at 2700 Bronx Park | within its power to help that insti- tution. Through its help, Il Nuovo Mondo has saved thousands of dol- lars in expenses. Not only that, Two years ago, the Italian Union voted a donation of about $350 in favor of Il Nuovo Mondo. The mem- bers of Il Nuovo Mondo chapel, who ‘have been discharged without being paid in full, donated more than two weeks’ pay, bought shares of the ig | East, Apartment | q 2.1. Young Axel- | rod is thought to Is Il Nuovo Mondo initiating a campaign for the open-shop move- Irving Axelro ment? Is it the forerunner of the| pe in California at present, and coming reaction? We would like | workers of that state are urged to to know what are its intentions in|he on the lookout for the missing attempting to break up a labor|young Pioneer. union. ‘The father has said that everything Very truly yours, Italian Typo-|will be forgiven if the boy returns. graphicai Union No. 261; Oreste |The fare back to New York, from Schettini, president; Anthony Renzi, |whatever locality young Irving Ax- secretary, elrod is, a sent by his father. Photo shows new president of Colindres, hand-picked by Wall Street. ANTI FURRIER onduras, Dr. Vicente Wallstreet Tol WORKERS RALLY jy TOMEET ATTACK OF BOSS ASSN Fight for Better Pay, | Shorter Hours An intensive drive to organize the drug store clerks is now under way according to an announcement made yesterday by Aida Flomenbaum, secretary of the Drug Clerks’ Union. Increasing unemployment, low wages |and fearfully long hours, she sald, : | are forcing the workers to unite for |the elimination of these evils. At the same time the American Pharmaceutical Association, the bosses organization, is preparing it- | self for a fight against the union. At a recent meeting held by this as- | sociation, a resolution was adopted | virtually declaring war upon any at- : |tempt to unionize the trade. The RIT R ANTED |challenge was camouflaged with a |declaration that the organization Tudge Gives Socialist) Permanent Injunction | drive was a menace to the “health |of the public” in that they, the bosses, would be deprived of “free- dom of action” and “destroy the in- | itiative which has brought pharmacy |to its present important position in Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice | community life.” pitalist judge for one of netions. Name & | judge alliance succeed in depriving vention to take place in New York | this small union from its treasury of | about $4,000, the members reiterate |their determination to fight against any attempts to wipe out the organ- ization for which they have made so The strike of the machine fleshers, the key craftsmen | of the organization, still continues to | (UP)}—John tie up completely the plant of Gabbe| stage and screen star, and Dolores The workers in Costello, film actress, today filed defunct International| this plant maké up the membership| notice of intention to marry. The ‘any sacrifices. nd Son, Brooklyn. The Wo Monday accommodated | the socialist officialdom of the As he. . of L. International Fur Workers’ Union, by granting them an injunc-| tion thet prevents the members of ) Fur Dressers’? Local 88 from using its own treasury. The local, in . fighting against an attempt of the) . right wing officials of the so-called | IRDIEDe 1eCt! [international to break their union| PeeMeeeS? pW thru a dissolution order, has had to face the most unsé¢rupulous tactics f the socialist leaders, from the! | outright |this more recent attempt to choke | \the organization by application to a} their in- 14 use of strikebreaking to) ers (Communist) Party fichts for the organization of the unorganized workers. “This sort of camouflage has been ard from employers before,” the secretary said. “But our organiza- tion has been active for a number of | months and the results we have al- | ready accomplished is the best evi- | dence that we are here to stay. “In 1917 a union was in existence and the average wage was $50 per week. It is this that the bosses are afraid of. At the present time hun- dreds of registered drug clerks are | being thrown out of employment and | replaced by others at less pay. Many clerks work between 60 and 70 hours week under the most wretched con- itions, sult in undermining the confi- | —. . . | «Phe union is fighting for better dence of the workers in the Com- | Meet; Will Merger pecees pa) ik Ge to | wages, shorter hours and for recog- intern and must weaken the strug- 2 Gal.” nition, We stand for the interests gle against Troiskyism. Continued from Page One | Even should the socialist-boss-|°f the junior clerks as well as for {the registered men.” The union meets regularly every first and third Thursday at Stuyve- sant Casino, 142 Second Ave., at 8 o'clock. . BARRYMORE TO WED LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 20 Barrymore, famous | couple said no definite date has been | set for the ceremony. pee, | Barrymore gave his age as 41 and | Miss Costello said she was 22. First Soviet Costume Ball at Madison Sq. Garden PARADE OF 104 NATIONALITIES COMPRISING THE SOVIET » UNION IN NATIVE COSTUMES ADMISSION 1.00 in advance; $1.25 at door. Now on Sale at the Daily Worker Office, 26-28 Union Square, N. Y. Auspices: Daily Worker and Freiheit Saturday Evening December 15 —n > agg 4 nner aecianici raat Smtr See