The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 29, 1928, Page 4

Page Four American | Printing Co. Enslaves Workers with 66 Hour Week alt Starvation Wages WORKERS NOW KNOW MILITANT UNION IS NEED Struck Solidly Last Aug ist (By a Worker Cor peampeneds nt) FALL RIVER, Mass. (By Mail) In the mi American Prin ing Co. i River, the exploita- tion of the young and old workers is of the severest. This plant has 8 big divisions. The cotton division consists of five big mills with the ca- pacity of 2,000 rorkere. The print ing and pai on consist of 2,300 worker » are about 40 per cent young workers in this plant The workers in this plant have been ake the betrayed oy the and afiliated with the American F. tion of Le the last t four years these workers have not to fight against the Since 1 e work- received ae up systems The O. and out these work all these ye: The workers are aroused by the leadership of a new union. In the cotton mills the workers are receiv- ing measly wages for hard work and long hours. The workers here are getting the average pay of $15 per week, These workers are slav- ing in the card rooms, spinning.| spoolers, and weave rooms from 48] to 55 hours, The young workers| average pay is $6 to $12 a week. These young workers are slaving| in dangerous jobs for low ae hoisters $12.40, cilers the can boy Ratio ie Waah aallna! Novembe | become educated and become a pro: THE DAILY Hurricane Carries Destruction to London Working Class Districts The hurricane rotting homes of the that swept the city. P ng blown down in one of the working : KNOWLEDGE °S FLO WERY Cash Register Trust “PA TH; BOSSES’ THUR acm fessional. To me this statement is la proven lie. Is education free? | Does a worker have an opportunity emphatically no! I came to Nev after being years. York June, 1927, | workingclass sections Most of my|My of London hoto shows workers ngelass suburbs. | was wrecked, $18 To Live On. My fifteen dollars a week was having an old hat, when hats were necessar rooms the sanitary conditions are/ friends, or rather circle of acquain-|was the joke among the boys very dangerous to the youth. The| tances whom I knew in New York|the school. suffered clearing away the debris al- |to become educated? My answer is|Teady increased to $18, and from| this I had to pay about five dollars a week to the school and to m absent for about six|tain myself. Like most unskilled work-jer in a clothing shop, The bobbin boys get $10.50, roving | ers in the United States, I had been|about 25 dollars a week, so that I $13.75, card) compelled to do many things, but/could not depend on. him. room doffers (girls) $7 and $8 dol-| nothing which I could call a trade.|/along without a winter coat lars per week, sweepers $11.24, and| Naturally my position was very in-| year, 0. In these card-| secure economically. I got ‘hat spring coat. of Of course, working by WORK ER, y YORK, THU RSDAY, NOV MBER £9 Te Tyler, Craig, Ross proddetion | batik of beth” is different, at whether better or worse than others. For one thing it more colorful. The Gordon Craig stage settings are in the newer | entire | thin ionistic, but some- for example, gray- ness, gray costume, gray lighting | for the sleep walking .cene, but real stairs, real walls, nevertheless. A jpowerful, menacing, solid |castle exterior to welcome the Ea Duncan to his last banquet, but pretty maidens dressed in peach col- or, and light green, ete, It seems indeed, that cot only} has Craig determined on making) “Macbeth” pretty if possible, but worst from the from the side of a build- the recent gedy of the title character, some of the brooding fatefulness that Shakespeare put into the play has been definitely eliminated through \the use of divertisements; Banquo’s Looms in Combine it is said, will| This production is not a psycholo-| he presented by Emory Buckner,|gical study. The internal -onflict | }former district attorney of New|in Macbeth’s mind is played down.) ork City, and Ezra M. Kuhns, gen- | the edge is taken off of it, the solil- eral counsel for N. C. R. oquys are shortened, one act is lost lin the rearrangement of the whole into four acts and fourteen s:enes. |Saturday’s petition, WORKER ARRIVES TOO SOON. My FAtiAe tee ante WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 27|This has the effect of hightening making only |the spectacular effects, speeding the action, concentrating more at- tention on the minor characters, and less on Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth, (Lyn Harding and Florenag Reed). In this light Banquo (William Far- num) comes to the front, simple, un- affected, dignified, restrained in his suspicions, but never fooled for a (UP).—An apparent attempt’ to wreck a Baptist church at Pittston, | |near here, was discovered today | when a janitor found a burned-out | fuse that had reached to within two inches of a cache of 17 sticks of dynamite placed against a wall. y, yard men in this plant are getting| formerly, had gone in various direc-|day and taking five subjects in the|was out of a job, did not know| minute, except that he did not think $14.50 per week. The machinist/ tions, and I was out of touch with|evening was a man’s job, and I|where to find work. Everywhere |his old friend Macbeth would move helpers (these are young workers)| them all, so that I had severed all could. only catch up with the home|I went there was a long line wait-'so fast towards his own murder are getting $13. per wek. In the | connections and had to begin at the work by staying home Saturday ing for the job, and here I was of-| The scene of the murder of Banquo weave rooms the cleaners, filling and the battery b are getting the average pay of the spooling rooms are getting very low wages, $9 to $12 per week. The women in the spinning are running 20 sides for the average pay of $15 to $17 per week. the workers are forced to work from 55 to 66 hours a week for the aver- age of $18. The young workers here are working 55 to 66 hours per week for $14. In the color cals are very dangerous, the werk- ers are slaving long hours for short | pay. In the place where the cloth is bleached the workers are forced to use rubber aprons and boots. The wages they are receiving average $12 to $16 per week. In this room the heat is terrible and the cement floor is flooded with water. These workers are ‘working 66 hours a week. In the packing divi- sion where the majority are young workers they are receiving $9 to $18.63 per week. The workers this plant put up a wonderful fight under tHe leadership of the National Textile Workers Union. Under th leadership of organizers James P. Reid, Sam Wiseman, Bill Soroka and Pete Hegelias the workers demand the 10 per cent be resinded and seek better conditions. On Aug. 6 at 10 a. m. the workers struck in the American Print Co. At 10.30 a. m. 2,500 strikers were in the Liberty Lot to hear the lead- ers speak. The demands were: restoration of the 10 per cent cut,} 5 day week, 40 hr. wek, 20 per cent increase and equal pay for equal work, At 11 a. m. the strikers formed a big picket line around the plant. In a half hours time a force of 300 police clubbed and arrested the strikers. The U. T. W. and A F. T. 0. told the strikers to go in back to work and scab. Five times the picket line was formed and| broken by the brutality of the police. Strikers were clubbed and arrested left and right, democracy, In three da ers were arrested for picketing and singing. 83. stri peacefully In these three days, the police,| church, papers, bosses agents and} labor, fakers used every possible | way to break the strike. In this| part fight the young and old wor put stubborn fight against odds. The strike ended by the be- trayal by the U. T. W. and the A. F. T. O. and the brutality of the police, The workers in Fall River have lost their first fight but have learned their first lesson, to fight against the bosses for better condi- tions. All workers young and old must join the NATIONAL ,TEX- TILE WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA to fight for better con- ditions and better wages. MANUEL PERRY. Jail for Starving Milwaukee Worker; Socialists Rule MILWAUKEE, (By Mail). George Valenti, starving and unem- ployed, was sentenced to 60 days in jail for stealing a $15 leather coat. The socialist. administration in - waukee has long boasted that “pe perity” existed here, but uner ment mounts daily. the average pay is ftom} In the printing division | shop where the chemi- | in| a taste of American | ft very foundation. After trying to get into the elgc- | trical trade, in which I had some{ jexperience, and finding it impossi- |ble because of the conditions im- | Union, apprenticeship of four years, I fi-| | shop. | the | break king rampage, and, needless to |say, this was an open shop, which | I had secured through some family |eonnection. After wasting the usual number of weeks in the shop with- out pay, I finally began to receive $15 a week. | Meanwhile the summer was pass- ing. During this time I was a fre- quent attendant at the Stadium con- | certs, visited old haunts, and tramped in city parks, but with the | coming of the autumn there was| the problem of what to do with the evenings, The past few years I had] | passed in passive vegetation and in. Jactivity; T had accumulated ener | and was bubbling over with it. The | Sacco-Vanzetti case also stirred me |so I wanted work, real hard work. |For veasons which need not be |stated here, I thought it wiser for |me to abstain from radical labor ac- tivities, and, besides, I did not know how to get into them. Those radi- | |cals that I had a chance to meet | were only going to meetings. lec- } tures, and entertainments, and this | did not appeal to me. And educa- |tion teased and lured me; so I de- | cided on the latter, and threw my- self into it with the avidity of a Martin Eden. The Sieve. | To be accepted as a student in a | doi institution of higher | learning, one must present examin- ations in subjects totaling 15 study | units. I have found by experience, | and anyone can easily find this by | examining the facts, that this al good sifting method, an effective process which eliminates most of | the proletarian element, and only a ew who are fortunate and those | who are economically well-to-do are | permitted to squeeze through. In city high schools, the preparatory | period is ordinarily a course of four ly 's study, but in private schools one can be prepared in a much shorter period. I had read widely and was well acquainted with Eng- lish literature, history, and some theories of political economy, and evolution. I calculated, the that I could finish the prepa 3 course in one year, studying only elementary sciences, mathematics and a foreign language, and to re- view the other subjects for myself when occasion offered itself. In fact, the few compositions which I submitted to the teacher were eas- ily the best of the fourth year Eng- lish class, and he told me that J could pass examinations without | further study. As an explanation for the lack of balance in my edu. cational baggage, I should add that |I was an immigrant of seven years standing, having come to the coun- try during the latter half of 1920, jand that I had mastered the rudi- | | ments of the English language with- | }out the benefit of the schoo! teacher. | My labors of the fall term were jand Sunday. | Fur Shop. ment 50. The girls in! ing a posed by the Electrical Workers’ |!ooked very attractive to me, but I which included a mediev: 1) was practiced in suppression. Besides, York entert in New |fession, I must also admit that, be- jcery store, or girls|and changed to another job which young fellow, some In the meantime, however, week proved a calamity. middle of the second term, cation came to an abrupt end. s expensive, which meant long hours in spite of and where was I to get the money? Of course, this being a true con-|study. the |for study. |nally became an operator in a fur fur season ended and I was out of time now This was the period when| Work, which I did: not regret so | through ight wing was on its strike-|much, but the lack of the $18 a education. In the|now my edu- |class. as a a job grocery clerk,|is played on the stage, but in dim light, and is not very effective, for the little pay, and, of course, no|some reason, though it seems as Since then I left the gro-|though it should be. Perhaps it is rather it left me,|too noisy; the amount of yelling done would not seem to fit in with brings me a few dollars more, but,| murder, as we know it in New York, alas, the hours are still too long But even if I could find| a sense of unreality on that account. for education, I am) Perhaps when men were killed in with formal dr as-dust | Shakespeare's time or earlier, every- I am being educated| body conversed loudly meanwhile. in the ranks of the worki g| The scene outside of Duncan’s I Shakespeare’s well known aristo that some of the despair and tra-} looking | with an entrance guarded by! | Craig Creates Colorful Production of “Macbeth” eratic contempt for the lower classes. Harding's Macbeth even adds a little more than usual to the is far | oily ease with which that noble lord tells ‘of his casual killing of the two grooms, so sharply in contra-! neither entirely realistic nor diction with the qualms he had| about stabbing Duncan, Douglas Ross plays a Duncan | that anybody would like to kill. I do| not know whether this is part of| the general policy of softening the horrors of the original, or merely accident, but anyway, a more un- heroic, sleek, snivelling little fox of a king there would be hard to im- agine, And he, too, is a peacock for colors; not the militant | Scotch plaid, either, by no means; Duncan’s court dresses in silks and’ satins, gowns, and if not turbans, then something like them. Florence Reed is govd in parts, and a ranting fool in others. One |neat trick at least she works; Lady Macbeth’s lean bloodthirsty, sion-wrecked, pas- red-robed, vampirish effect in the first two acts fades away in the next, prosperity and the royal table have evidently done her regular | good, and she looks quite plump and) comfortable as a queen. The next With this general atmosphere es-| change, the period of the sleep- meant | curiously enough, there is a notable dulged in earlier in the play. The |sleep-walking was done as though it] might really have happened, was |not overdone. There are light ef- fects, changing the robe of Lady Macbeth to a duller and more neu- oe 4 I. Ohio, Nov. 28 ghost is preceded by a bagpiper; ——__—___—_ sg eit Pralathen Sry pa | a tumbler rolls along the floor dur- (By a Worker Correspondent) |estimated my powers; but what a ombeny of i on ee apply to ing the banquet scene; dancers The experience of Beatrice Git-|term that was. Certain conditions ae sat tia ca hae ie wal apitey | COME. in queer juxtaposition lo Mac-| ler in her effort to obtain an edu-|were in my favor, I w ngle, was | 1°" ee eo 2 1 ay it he 41 och’s outbursts of conscience. cation, as recited in the Daily of|accustomed to live a simple and stock : ae ee Ee r 9, aroused me to give my|poor life, was independent in ne nae ewe vy Hr was Ye! ablished, it is no wonder that the| walking scene, gives her an oppor- “-!own experience of such a venture.|thought, and had a complete disre- | Ported 3 : | ~ | tunity Swen, an The patriots claim, bid the liberala/gati. for popular cosventiohe’ saa|\ lie Dayton Comps Capea rere oe se al gi tan pY for ey bes and here and even many workers believe, that | respectability; but my economic! >Y an injunction, issued in 1916 absence of ia education is free in the United Hagen mie ieee a |from scauibing, contol ob Ohnen i, Shain aes eared a. as eal ela gg si : « eS “| cerns facturing cash regi door. States and that every worker can|worker), and on this rock my ship |CeT™mS manufacturing cash register tral hue as she walked lower and|’ lower down the stairs, sinking low- er and lower into her delusions. Macduff is a type that admits of little originality; there is apparent- ly only one way to act that part, and Basil Gill does it well enough. The same may be said of most of the rest of the caste. They get by. They are not great. The origin- ality in the production is mainly a matter of treatment of the text, and of stage setting. Minor faults show; the witches are too heavily material, humorously exaggerated in make-up (though this may be willful, part of the same general | policy of toning down) and what is and maybe we read into the scene) surely an accident, the fact that in this play stone walls flap in the breezes.—V. S. HEADS GOOSE-STEP SLAVES. BUFFALO, N. ., Nov. 28 (UP) —G. Carl Alverson, superintendent of schools at Syracuse, was elected president of the New York State| Teachers’ Association at its annua! meeting today. Inez M, Maples, of death chamber does not minimiz Binghamton, was named vice presi- dent. Read and Spread the Daily rewarded with eredits of five one-third of the necessary 15 and in subjects new to me, was evident that I had not (THE ORGAN OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE) Your Shopmate! Werker On Sale at All Newsstands In New York and Vicinity Buy an Extra Copy for were saved. the editorial department to the east. and decorations of the many affairs FAY BAINTER MOVIE WORKERS RISKS SHOWN IN TWO BIG BLASTS | Explosives Stored Leaky Sheds (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Calif., Noy. 28. |—Another movie blast, the second |studio explosion in two days, oc- curred in the Metropolitan Studio at 1040 Las Palma St., Nov. 15. This blast injured Jack Summers, a prop- erty man, who was standing 25 feet away. That two carpenters, who left the powder room only a few jminutes befcre the explosion, and numerous stars, extras and workers ‘escaped death or injuries is de- scribed as another miracle. The blast at the Metropolitan lot ‘as caused indirectly by the rain, is believed. Fire department of- ficials believe that rain water trickled through the property room, ‘became mixed with sulphuric acid and caused the explosion. But why not have a waterproof in \ Star of “Jealousy,” Eugene Wal- ter's engrossing drama now playing at Maxine Elliott’s Theatre. Schooner Sinks; Crew Reported Rescued But Not Seen Any More’ BREMERTON, Wash., Nov. Nothing further has been heard here of the condition of the crew of the | gasolin> schooner Prince of Wales, | ive miles south of Wrangell, near | Heceta Island, last night. A radio /house for explosives? The movie message intercepted shortly before |harons have the money and thou- midnight stated that the ship hadjeands of idle workers are looking gone down in 20 fathoms of water, |foy all sorts of jobs. but that all members of the crew | Burbank. ckplosion) A | In the Nov. Ii is thought that they i Se ki | may be floating in # small boat, 14, one man was killed on the spot, another died in the hospital, a re- port stated, and a third may die, All three worked in the plaster skop. This explosion, studio offi- |cials say, was caused by “spontane- |ous combustion” (rain dripped on smoke hombs). An act of God, 1 | suppose. Deputy Fire Chief Olchvary, Bur- bank, near here, is said to be con- |ducting a “complete inquiry” to de- |termine whether the First National | Studio had official permission to ‘handle and keep high explosives, and whether the blast was due to crim- inal negligence. Sign Service Becomes Daily’s New Neighbor The Daily Worker recently ac- quired a new neighbor, ‘bordering on It is the Union Square Sign Service, responsible for most of the posters that the left-wing labor movement has held. The new neighbor announces that it executes cloth banners,’ show cards and other color advertising work. The work is strictly union. ‘Those interested should apply to) the office of the Service at 26 Union Square, 4th floor. ’ The Workers (Communist) L. P. RINDAL. MAY CUT IRISH R. R. WAGES BELFAST (By Mail).—The Bel- |fast and County Down Railroad has made applications to the Irish Rai! |way Board to reduce the workers’ | wages 10 percent. ARTHUR HOPKINS presents “HOLIDAY” e: new comedy by Philip Barry \UTH Thea., W.45thSt.Eves.8.30 MO Mats, Wed., Fri. & Sat. Party | fights for the enactment of the 40- hour, 5-day week. IaH ————___.-__.. THE THEATRE GUILD Presents Major Barbara GUILD Thea. Wo bund’ st Eves, 8:50, Mats. thursday ¢nd Saturday, 2.3 fivic REPERTORY '48t.sthav Eves, 8:30 Strange Interlude “sv: ustawnarsaene Tonight, M “The Cherry Orchard.” “Peter Pan he Would-Be John Thea., 6stb GOLDEN thea, ssn EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 ERLANGER THEA. Ww. seth ST | | | | | nileman” a Evenings 880 — Mats, Thurs. & Sat. at 2:30 George M. Cohan's Comedians with POLLY WALKER “BILLIE” The SOMME Bee of the crucial campaigns of the Great War. Nu H@STESS ea. 7th Ave, & 59th St Evs. 8:30, Mat, Th. & Sat. Guy ODETTE DE WOLF | ROBERTSON OMY RIL HOOPER | tn @ musical romance of Chopin Mats,, Thursday and Saturday. WHITE LILACS — luitte CARNEGIE PLAYHOUSE, 141 W. FAY BAINTER Continuous Noon to Midnight. “ JEALOUSY” “TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD”. JOHN HALLIDAY | Pop. Prices. Cirele 7561. MAXINE ELLIOTIS Then., W. 39. | | 1 JOLSON © MARTIN BECK THEATRE, 45th St. 8th Ave. Eves. 8.30 Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 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