The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1928, Page 4

a JHE DAILY wunnmn, wuw YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1928 Worker Correspondent Reveals Job Purchase Conditions in MINERS FORCED, TO BUY JOBS AT Slaved for Years; Now| Dupe of Bosses | (By a W r Corresnondent with expensive liquors of all sorts, for Hangout of Broadway Parasites Padlocked greatly saddened when the Silver ra year. They can console them- the year of penitence is up, the which l pay the usual graft for police EDWARDSVILLE, Pa (By | Broadway's parasite boozers were Mail)—Can you pub! the letter slipper night club was nadlocked fo T enclose? I wrote it to the Hudson elves with the thought that when Coal Co. bosses telling how they sell! cid will again flou jobs in the hard coal. I have no gre convenience the owners will place to go to tell about the mine protection. bosses selling T haver (By a Worker Correspondent) \NGELES, Calif. (By Mail) | between the lines the | LOS t personnel of the U. S. navy. o many “hoboes,” “tramps” and ums” in it, according to a state-| not |ment in the Los Angeles Examiner » of |recently by Lieutenant-Commander dale, U. S. N., in charge of se|the Los Angeles recruiting station. b- | Migratory workers may be a little lition | Red, you know. n the The Daily The Evening Herald, abso aj and other | Hearst sheet and, therefore, getting the reli- information \from the same} non-Com- | source, I suppose, went a little fur-| his fght-|thor. It characterized all foreign-| ker. in addition to the above men-| sent by |tioned element, as unfit for navy , d to the 'service. The authorities, it seems, Co. headquarters at! look upon every foreigner as 2 Bol- : shevik—rebellious enough to join “T am a mine laborer for the Hud- |General Sandino in Nicaragua and | son Coal Co. in Luzerne County. I|the Communists in China and other bought a job from a mine boss for |countries. The Herald pointed out | bt is vay coal. I)that a prospective recruit must pro- I was not/duce first-class recommendations n Coal Co. for la-|from his employer, for a period of e which they reveal nunist worker placing ing paper, the Dail; The following letter cur Wor correspon Hudson nt not |} “| NAVY OFFICIALS FEAR Sacramento is bossing this y. Attorney General Webb has taken over the legal machinery: of Los Angeles. So much grafting all around in official quarters as to prevent the people from losing faith in the “law and order” of the ruling class. The district attorney and a number of others indicted, jailed and prosecuted for alleged graft, brib- ery, ete. Anyhow, to know the name of the president and the name of the cap- ital in the home state of the presi- dent-eleet is the highlight, it seems, of the “groundwork of schooling” vequired by navy officials before the “brains” of prospective recruits are considered bright enough to figure out the most effective methods whereby workingmen can be legally murdered—in the name of the flag, country and the dictatorship of the cupitalist class. “The navy seeks men with some education,” Tisdale declared. “The NEGRO WORKERS BOOED SPEAKERS. OF CAPITALISM Are Wise ta, Betrayals | of Old Parties (By a Worker Correspondent) | The two old parties, the demo-! crats and republicans, had a hard | time explaining to the Negro wo: jers in Harlem the betr | race which have been sanctioned b: their organizations. They found ii increasingly difficult to trick ie | Negro workers into voting thei | tickets since these betrayals hav become known to the Negroes. Four) for a stand | | | up before a Negro audience in the streets of Harlem and deliver an in- Jever, he will undoubtedly qualify as, sincere spiel about their parties’ re- a bluejacket in the near future, be- cause everybody knows at this time that lations to the Negro, “promi for betterment of their condition, etcetera, But the winds are blow- ing in a different direction this | year. Recently, on the corners of 138th St. and Seventh Ave., a few repub- |lieans tried to address the Negro | workers that were passing, urging them to vote the G. O. P. ticket. The speakers began with the same} old vague and _beautiful-sounding | phrases, calling us “friends,” and citizens, and a lot of other bunkum | catch phrases that they used to use with results several years ago. | But this time, the crowd of Negro! workers that listened to them did | not bite. Instead, a veritable volley of questions met the surprised G. O. P. speakers. “What is Hoover’s |stand on the Negroes,” “Yxplain | Hoover’s role in the Firestone in- | terests in Liberia!” and “What is | Hoover doing about the neglected |Negro victims of the Florida flood?” were some of the questions fired at the speaker. The speaker, y 1 got gang- months and er thet I got sick and I had the doctor, and after I thought I would e mine boss so he would . I was s going to die; and the gave me bai the y , and 0 the other ick two months two after months I went to ask for a job from the mine boss, Thomas Edwards, so he would give me a job, and the and mine boss said that he didn’t have any job for me then, only for his friends. And I went to the super intendent, Mr. Fiynn, and I said that ! bought a job from the mine boss, Thomas Edwards, and the superin- tendent made a case and sent it to Cadwaleter Ev: Jr., general man- ager, Scranton, Pa., and I went to Seranton to the manager and the manager asked me what company is in Kingston, I said the Kingston Coal Company and the Alden Coal Company, and the manager said to me: “So you won't go working for | the Hudson Coal Compa So I go working for the Alden Coal Com- peny. “I said I did not buy a job from another coal company, only from the Hudson Coal Company, from the mine boss. The manager said to me that Thomas Ei rds me the money in Hudson Coal Com- pany. Manager said to me that the mine boss gave me the money, so I won't ask no more job from him. I asked the manager if the Hudson Coal Company were selling jobs? And the manager said “No.” And T said why is the mine boss selling jobs for miners? The manager said nothing to me. I said that I have no money, because I was sick and I hadn’t any job from the Hud- son Coal Company. The mine boss said who buy jobs and who has good work and good pay, and who does not buy job won’t have good pay, and the mine boss sells jobs. And the manager covered up the mine boss and protected him. Any kind of ease goes from the superinten- dent to the manager is not pro- ducing any result: The manager said he got thousands of cases with him and after I asked the manager to give me any kind of a job, the manager said I cannot give you any work, but the m!ne boss is working for ‘us twenty ager said he ‘on’t discharge him, and the manager said if he would give me a job he has to discharge the mine boss, and the manage not give me any work. “I was to the manager six times, king for work, and the manager said, so I won't go wo Hudson Coal Company, hence I was obliged to go to the Alden Coal | answered, quick as a flash, “George |endorsed a republican candidate in Company. I said to the manager, *T haven’t any money and no work for the Hudson Coal Company, and the mine and I said T ave not got any money and no work.’ And after I went to Mr. Vice-President, Fine, he gave me the job as laborer and I worked one year and my miner got sick and I asked to get a miner’s job and they did not want to give me any work, because I have no money. And I said I do not want to buy work and I do not want to rob the company, the Hudson Coal Com- pany, and now I am a miner and a laborer, and I please the Hudson Coal Company to make a case. and let me see, “T cannot write anything that in the letter that is in the case, but the mining bosses are bossing the su- perintendent and they are bossing rhe ma r, and I said that I gave | ars and the man- | l|years, in order to prove beyond aj reasonable doubt that he used to | he a perfect, loyal slave for his boss and master, | | The Fxaminer puts it this way: \“Any man er boy who comes here |(to the recruiting station) to be a |sailor must have the mental train- | ing required by any commercial con. | cern. Boys, not men, are pre- |ferred by the Herald. The minds of |men of 30 or more are more or less \fixed, you know, as a rule—not so jeasy to get imperialistic war lord ideas into the heads of persons of | that age, unless the capitalist seed as there before they joined the navy. Well, they are trying hard |to get boys from “respectable,” pa- triotic homes as ballot counters, {money collectors and butchers of | working men at home as well as |ebroad—ail for the benefit and| glory of Wall Street. | The Examiner article reads, in | part: | “Nowadays if a boy can make the | grade to become a sailor, dad can} sll throw out his chest with pride. | Because now you must have brains |to become a bluejacket. . . . Where ence the navy was,esteemed by some | a semi-reform school, where once | the hobo, the tramp and the bum en- red it to dodge the cops; where jonce it meant simply four years of | rubbing decks and seeking foreign s, it has become today: he training school for a nation, |the opportunity for visual, physical | and manual education, a place of | rapid advancement and learning; in| iact the mecca for romance and ad- | {venture for the youth of the jland....” (Emphasis mine—L. P. R.) “Now you see why ‘getting into the navy’ isn’t simply a matter of \desire. And Lieutenant-Commander |M. S. Tisdale, in charge of the re- | jeruiting service here, personally |sees to it that only the highest type of the thousands of applicants he | jhas each month becomes one of the | |favored sixty.” (Sixty per month |reeruited from this district.) An applicant must give “the |highlights of his history since the |day he was born.” Also a physical examination. Tisdale is strong on education as well. He “checks back with your school,” but he doesn’t take the “word of the school au- training courses offered provide | ¢Vidently a paid political hireling, splendid opportunities, but to fully | did not choose to answer, doubtless appreciate them there must be a| thinking that Hoover's connection groundwork of schooling. | with the mentioned incidents had better be left unsaid. “Any man or boy who comes here | °°," ees to be a sailor must have the mental] The democrats also tried, in a training required by any commer-|™eeting, to bamboozle the Negro cial concern.” The “mental train- | WO'*ers of Harlem into voting for ing” of a Red would not do, of | Tammany Al Smith and the other course. This point, or the real | C@0didates of the corrupt and labor- meaning of it, was better explained | hating organization. But when the in the Evening Herald. “They go in| SPeaker tried to tell them why they sdnubbing ‘decks; (but if 1 4bink ieee vote democratic, he was they're the sort’ to be still serub- | Poved vbr shoal ttn te bing decks four years later I tell| oS USe¢ DY the Tammanyites was them that the navy doesn’t want | % Set two Negro speakers to ad- dress the meeting. But they were In four years the sailor | ial rate T: e should emerge a petty officer. And} one, one and not allowed to he’s certainly given every cppor-/ Al) the ti ; ‘ | thr fae teat ts eco teat e time threats were made . _by both the democrats and republi- And here the “rapid advancement | cans that if the Negro workers did and learning,” mentioned above, | not act “peacefully” at these open stops—despite the selection of the air meetings, they would fix it with “highest type” of men, | the city authorities that all meet- Now, suppose that all those boys | ings be prohibited in Harlem. of “brains,” sons of flag-waving pa-| the end of the democrats’ meeting, triots, become petty officers, who is|@n enraged speaker promised us gcing ‘to do the dirty work—the| that he would have police “protec- “serubbing of decks?” tion” at his next meeting. This is a similar proposition as| But the Negroes were not intimi- the insane illusion that every | ated by this. Most of us have worker in this country has a chance | learned that they can expect noth- to become a millionaire, and even| ing from the dirty Tammany ma- president—some day, they add. Yes,| Chine or the reactionary, Negro- after the overthrew of the capital- | ¢nslaving republican party. ist system—with the help of the| —A NEGRO WORKER. bluejackets, perhaps. | r, xpelled f: 1 eae A boy, 16, was expelled from the | taining,” but because of flat feet, \he declared. In the past the authorities must |have been of the opinion that the |mavy could take care of men with |radical ideas. Now they seem to ‘think that the radicals may be able jto take care of the navy. And this change undoubtedly comes about on account of the rec- ords made by Comrade Crouch, | Trumbull and Porter; letters sent to | the Daily Worker from soldiers and sailors; work done by the Young Workers (Communist) League and the Young Pioneers. Reports that U. S. marines have been joining General Sandino in Nicaragua have also helped to put the fear of God into the sinful hearts of American imperialists, L. P. RINDAL. Ig. P. to Welcome Aid |—=—— of Other Capitalist Parties, Says Thomas Roosevelt High School a couple of years ago for alleged Red propa- ganda among the children, Yes, young Homer Batchy was strong on both Communism and atheism. The police told him and his mother: “Join the navy, or go to reform school or jail.” That was an ex- ample of democracy in the land of the free. Batchy went to jail sev- eral times, but, finally, he decided to join the navy. “The sailors are more in need of education than the birds,” he pointed out as he en- tered the recruiting station. | When the writer met him later on he said that he had been rejected —not on account of his “mental ” either. Even some school s are Reds themselves. Scott | Nearing, for example, The com- The Who’: tutes ? |mander asks questions hims rst he wants to know is, the President of the United had never heard of him. But a story ng in the|about “the Father of his Country” was fresh in the boy’s mind. So he Washington.” “John Smith did not get in the Nav: that time—but soon, I a bosses are selling jobs, |suppose, ecause John (not his real name) must have heard about Cool- idge by this time on account of the president’s Armistice Day speech. Another youth was rejected when he declared “that Los Angeles was the capital of California.” How- ell, Coolidge has been so silent in| “forum” at the Rand School. office that the prospective recruit |Rev. Thomas failed to define what Political Alliances “of the proper sort” will be welcomed by the social- ist party, declared the Rev. Norman Thomas at a Saturday afternoon The he meant by “the proper sort,” but | the action of the socialist party in| the recent election campaign when it} Brooklyn in return for a similar KAY CARLIN. A pen COWL, who hasn’t been seen on Broadway for some time is back on Broadway in “The Jealous Moon” at the Majestic Theatre. The play, however, is of that gossamer and fanciful material that we fear it will fail to attract New York theatre-goers for long. The opus is a long, involved and sumptuously cast and mounted work by Jane Cowl and Theodore Charles. Prominent among the actors are Miss Cowl, Philip Merivale and Sir | Guy Standing. | The story is one of some pup- peteers with a prologue showing the |tiny stage of a marionette show as | Columbine expires gently in a moon- lit garden in the arms of Pierrot. The curtains slide back. The little wooden figures are trussed up and the puppeteers descend from their gallery; real Pierrot and real Col- |umbine, with a Harlequin and the other Columbine accessories them- selves play the loves and drama of their own lives. | Miss Cowl is stunning to look at, South’s New Heavy i nin ; er costumes particularly appealing, Industry Center Is jand she is given every opportunity Birmingham, Ala. to indulge in the famous weeping | that was associated with her his- BIRMINGHAM, Ala, (FP). — ee performances earlier in her From whatever road the traveler! bitin Morivale is effective as approaches Birmingham, he discov-| 5; Peake bak Standing # t ers that this is the capital of south-| Ure» 2p) uy “ianemg seme ern heavy industry. Nagcis caters On the var-| yea tal pl ious highways leading into the city | Once there was a successful play the visitor finds coal mines, iron} In “Night Hostess,” Philip Dun- ning’s play of Broadway night life. The comedy will be trans- ferred this evening from the Mar- tin Beck to the Vanderbilt The- atre. of this genre “Pierrot the Prodigal,” mines, great steel works, big steel| that had an elfin sprite in the per- and wood fabricating plants, brick| Son of Margot Kelly, she of the factories and textile mills. Meg eat: red locks. Charlotte, N. C., may be the cot- Another time there was another ton capital of the south. Durham/ Performance of this sort, “Clair de and Winston-Salem, N. C., may dis-| Lume,” by, with and for the Barry- pute for the title of tobacco capi-| mores. This opus was not a suc- tal. Chattanooga, Tenn., may be! ces. the center of greatest diversity in| It seems to us that “The Jealous industry. Atlanta, Ga., is the mer-| Moon” falls somewhere between chandising distribution hub for the | these two plays. south Atlantic states. And New| In this theatrical era of sex-rid- Orleans can find no rival for first|den Broadway productions, night place among southern ports. lelub and bootlegging dramas it But Birmingham lives up to the| seems that the public should react traditions of its English name. With/ to a thing of silk fancy again; prob- big black tipples, mounds of red| ably they would if “The Jealous iron ore, tall smoking stacks of| Moon” with its present lavish trap- steel mills, go miles and miles of pings were a better play. shabby shacks housing the thou- sands of workers. In the mining] Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, camps the little weatherbeaten| during his recent visit to Russia cabins stretch bleakly across the} made the following statement re- hills and hollows. Closer to the city | garding “Ten Days That Shook the the drab rows of flimsy bungalows | World.” This is the cinematic spec- are packed densely on unpaved/ tacle commemorating the first days blocks, few bits of garden to re-| o¢ the Soviet Republic, produced by lieve the scene. Barefoot children | «: ang? j in tattered clothes romp where they | S°YKino” of Moscow and just now can, no proper place to play. Almost every road leads over sev-| modern conveniences utterly un- eral pilly ridges where middle and| known in the workers’ bare board upper class homes cluster, rovry|homes. Hilltop homes, too, climb structures of brick and stucco, big| out of the smoky pall into some de- apartments with steam heat and/|gree of sunshine, VOICES OF REVOLT A SERIES of attractively printed books “* containing the outstanding utterances of pioneer revolutionary leaders, with critical introductions. F WV Volumes Already Published: I, Maximilien Robespierre; II, Jean Paul Marat; III. Ferdinand Lassalle; IV. Karl Liebknecht; V. George Jacques Danton; VI. August Bebel; VII. Wilhelm Liebknecht; VIII. V. I. Lenin; 1X. Eugene V. Debs; X. C. EB. Ruthenberg. Bound in Boards, 50¢ each. Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS | .35 Easr 1251H Street. New York Crry, i] NEW MASSES BALL | DECEMBER 7TH, FRIDAY WEBSTER HALL, 119 EAST ELEVENTH STREET | Special Attractions favor seems to point the direction of the party’s future policy. | The reverend appealed for “a con- {structive movement” of “progressive |men and women” without distinction ‘of class that would give the socialist party the opportunity of serving capitalism in this city instead of ‘Tammany Hall. At the same time he announced that Morris Hilquit, | wealthy corporation lawyer and boss haven't any money and no work,|of the American socialist party, and the mine boss is the one that I | would be the party’s candidate for bought the job from, Thomas Ed- | mayor. wards, at No. 5, Loree, Plymouth,| Hillquit was pictured by the Rev. Pa. No. 2, Loree Colliery, Ply-|Thomas as a sort of knight of the mouth, and Superintendent Fine of | holy grail who would enter the cam- Scranton has my case. timony needed with respect to this | gaged in the usual deferential S. matter.” tit tilting at Mayor Walker, Tam- many Hall, etc. aL paign, not merely to further the i erwists | “Please look into these matters | terests of the socialist party, but “to orto™ xin gt Cio. end Iam ready to give you any tes- | redeem our city.” The reverend en- 90 Lexi, st < 16 be oan ° The cast of the “Singing Jailbirds” now playing at the Provincetown Playhouse, will give a selection of | I. W. W. sengs—and those boys can sing! | New Masses artists will make sketches of interesting | costumes. | Dancing until 3 a. m. to the music of Vernon Andrade | Renaissance Orchestra. | ; Buy Your Tickets Early. Avoid the Last Minute Rush. TICKETS IN ADVANCE $1.50——_AT THE DOOR $3.00 Special Rates to Labor Groups and Organizations. s 15th St; Modern Bouk- B50 EB. Sist Sta New Playwrights Theatre, U3 W. Lith §¢ the Anthracite F : — |The Jealous Moon,” by and 'BENERAL | with Jane Cowl, Is Wistful PAY 90 CEI released in this country by Amkinc Corporation, representing “Sovkino It was directed by S. M. Eisenstein, the brilliant young creator of “Po- temkin,” and is running now at the Little Carnegie Playhouse in New, York. | Lewis said: “In Moscow I | several pictures directed by Eisen-| stein and I was weirdly impressed. I think that’ Eisenstein is one of the greatest directors in the world. | His work reminds me of the heroic | sereen effects of Griffith. The dif-| ference is in the. ideas which inspire | their work. It would give very in- teresting results if the director's | mind of Eisenstei: could be com-| bined with the American technique. You Russians are searching for new methods. We follow with interest | the growth of your young cinematie | art.” | saw “Ten Days ‘That Shook the| World,” the second Eisenstein pic-| ture produced by “Sovkino,” Mos- cow, which Amkino Corvoration re- | leases in the United States, is in. its fourth week as the feature at-| traction at the Little Carnegie Play- house. ° | | The “Sovkino” picture entitled “An Exploit in the Aretie Ice Fields,” the exclusive scenes taken by Soviet cameramen and dedicated to the heroes of the epic expedition | which went to the rescue of the, missing members of the Nobile, Pglar expedition, has arrived in the | United States and will soon be ready for release, Amkino Corporation announces. Tobaeco Bosses Make Millions; Workers Slave The makers of Camels turned over to stockholders in that company last year more than $29,000,000 of prof- its. The stockholders of the firm which manufactures Luckies got a profit of $23,250,000. The owners of the factories where Chesterfields are made found themselves the richer by $18,750,000. Meanwhile, the 12,000 wrokers in the first of these three companies average slightly less than $11 per week, I WORK 1 Young Work Organizes ir (By a Worker C SAGINAW, Mick The newly-formed Young Worker League in Sagina meeting recently { young workers her: of the League and ganization. For t distributed leaflet young workers to ¢ ing. One of the while distributing { met by a hundred rous American,” w son of a b——— and cannot be menti threatening her thi Bolsheviks were ¢ would kill them, But this incident’ timidatee the li The Board of Com: therefore decided their bloodhounds t find out what is about 8 o’clock, w was scheduled to came in, according ranged instructions know what the 1 about. They utili tunity to intimida “not to come to’ Br egain.” The attempt on bosses’ hirelings 1 League in this cit; hinder our growt! trary, the young w the meeting receiv son in “Americen city of Saginaw, throughout the ¢ amples of the 1 “American open-s Sonora honograp eral Motors, Centi are’ exantples of tk conditions and lo} sands of young | ployed in these fa 25 cents per hour, to 12 hours per d Weith-Albeer Best Film Show In Town AMEO- Street and Broadway oe "be ane The BRITISH “2"~ PARA] “The SOMM Remarkable record of one of the er “Grim Realism” N. Y. 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