The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 5, 1928, Page 4

Page Four Orsanization Is Nece: -——— LAYOFF IS XMAS GIFT FOR MEN AT FRESHMAN PLANT Speed-up, Low Wages, Stool-Pigeons (B r Correspondent) the ya Wo i happen reds of young workers employed n the Bronx plant of the Freshman hun- ye one of Radio Corp. The ween the ages of 16 and young workers are forced to work st unfavorable condi- regards both health and ‘We the under ions, as ndustrial conditions. The salaries paid these young workers for a 48-hour week is $14 to $25 per week. Very few workers le to obtain that much sought after per, most of them getting $18.72, and the wages paid the or an equal amount of work is $1 In order to obtain these magnificent wages a workers must put in a full 48-hour week, but the present period of continued Coolidge “pros- ty” the Freshman workers re- four work each at ceive about days’ week. The workers the are continually under cf tue speed-up. Every ed upon a standard or This means that he is re- 2 his alloted stand- material each week. Failure s dismissal, and as quota. quired to pro ard of to do so m the majority of us are unskilled young workers having no cther means of earning a livelihood, we are forced to keep along with the resve-racking standard — require- 5 he only cnes_ benef! ng from this system are the foremen and cupervisors who receive an an- nual bon their departments do not f below the standards. The 3ronx fF carries a force »f about 800 workers, This year due cement of new machinery to the and ed speed-up there are 500 workers .employed. also being employed at 14 the men workers. 3 are to replace ble because of the in- tion of simple new machiner: t this time of the year the Freshmen workers receive their an- nual Christmas gift, the lay-off. Spies are hired to spy on the work- ers and if they prove to the satis- faction of their foremen, their capa-~ bility in such work they are made supervisors. To earn’ this reward they spy on workers who may in the privacy of the washrooms or dur- ing lunch time engage in a smoke, thus breaking the no-smoking rule. They see to it that no worker washes up before the second bell, and re- port any worker who may in any way speak disrespectfully of the boss. This is the method by which the company forces certain workers to act as lickspittles of the company against their fellow workers in re- ward for temporary economic secur- ity. | This is only a small picture of the sort of conditions that the Freshman workers have to contend with. They are also forced to absorb the patriotic propaganda put out by the company on its bulletin boards. The workers being unorganized have ro means of reacting against the’ conditicns and the propaganda of the bos: The crying need through- out the entire radio industry is or- ganization. a militant manner will we be able to better our conditions. —FRESHMAN WORKER. House-Organ Items By SAMUEL GRIERSON Dick Baily’s wife has had a child. Congratulations, Dick! We're sorry for department eight, Ten workers are out sick. Only by organizing in, i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA Y, DECEMBER 5, 1928 Imperialisms Clash, Scene around the trading ring change which opened yesterday at 2 tin changed hands during the first ¢ of the organization of American tin b which control most of the world’s su THE “SI (By a Worker Correspondent) Recently while walking on the |!” street, I felt a touch on my shoulder. I turned around, and to my great surprise I saw my old home-town friend—Smirnovsky. I looked at the pale-face of my comrade and my thoughts carried me back to Russia | # to the years of 1918-1919. Russia at that period was inythe midst of the civil war. The Soviet Union was fighting its’ enemies, both internal and external. It was at that time that the call to defend the revolition reached also the |, 1 th if youth in a small town. Smirnovsky |. .ading that a strong detachment | dent body to back them in the fight and five of his comrades gave an | \- oath to each other to join the Red M Army for the defense of the revolu- th tion and to try to stick together as 4) much as possible. they were sent to the southwest Ukraine front to fight the counter- revolutionary forces of the famous yancing, mysteriously oceupying the | versity of Pittsburgh, in explaining so-called anarchist, Machno. mi Armed with revolutionary spirit, was puzzled. with rifles on their shoulders, they |been betrayed. marched right into the battle-field. longer would he take any chances. | versity affairs. In one of the many clashes that | W lasted for nine hours, the Red Army th was driven back. Thirty-eight were tag & ” A STORY OF THE REVOLUTION jand fighting the Bolsheviks, or be-/and Edith Kine, secretary) for this rades. delib SIZ? Wi the revolution they decided to pledge time they expressed their regret for | eviks. warned them that they would receive the worst punishment under the sun ‘ : vancing army was aware of every- 4 “liberal” club, and because liber- After a short military training thing that was going on in the| als as enemy’s camp. sity for Workers in | ‘BOSSES’ COLLEGE LACKEYS SMASH NEARING LECTURE Militant Students Will Fight (By a Student Correspondent.) | PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail). Tin War Starts # Seott Nearing would give a course in “Economic Conflict” from De- cember 3 to 7, inclusive, under the auspices of the Liberal Club—a stu- dent organization of about fifty | |members—of the University of | | Pittsburgh, were torn down from the university bulletin boards by or- | der of the administration, of that | school, The reason that the admin- | istration gave to the Scott Near- ing arrengements committee (com- posed of Bill Albertson, chairman; Harry Weiss, president of the club, | of the new National Metal Ex- 7 William $750,000 worth of day. This exchange is the result uyers against English companies upply. iz shot like the rest of their com-| action, was that Scott Nearing, al- though brilliant and a genius They were given five minutes for|}some respects was nevertheless i The meeting of the |“dangerous” to the untrained minds short. For the sake of | ¢f the university students. Liberals Pretend to Fight. in| legiance to Machno. At the same eir former allegiance to the Bolsh-| Club, feeling “highly indignant” Machno was. pleased. He |over this “breach of a right of a campus organization” by the ad- ministration, passed a_ resolution condemning in mild words the ac- | Minor clashes | tion of the rulers of the university, News was in which they also called on the stu- they betrayed him. Weeks passed by. curred here and there. ‘Army was approaching, that they contemplated with the ad- | i Meanwhile | ™inistration of the University of It was | Pittsburgh, But the resolution was ever made public because this was the Red achno was alarmed. e “Six” were on the job. rough their efforts that the ad- rule never carry out their “militant” desires. Chancellor Bowman of the Uni- The Red Army was rapidly ad- ost strategic positions. Machno | his action to the Pittsburgh Press, He saw that he had stated that “the university bulletin He decided that no | boards are only for advertising uni- Anyway, if we al- (hile retreating, he gave the crder low the Scott Nearing meetings to at the “Six” should be hung. be advertised on our bulletin boards Of these “Six,” Smirnovsky was/it might lead to other things that taken as captives by the enemy; thc the only one who was afterward we do not want.” But the liberals | “Six” among them. As was usual, they were tried by court-martial, sentenced to death, with the sentence to be carried out | immediately. Due to the youth of | the “Six,” Machno gave them the |i choice of either joining his ranks | Membership Meets in | _ keep it up until help comes? Are tivess, the Seott Nearing arrange- i i rove ™y comrades dead? Or perhaps, | ments committee prepared a state- Soviet Union App are they . . ment for the press which completely Decisions of C. E. C. (Wireless to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S At meetings of the active member: Soviet Union held in Moscow, Len- ingrad, Mishni-Novgorod, Tula and | Will they see us other large cities resolutions were Ur lives. . .? unanimously adopted approving the |!ast bit of stre isions of the November plenary ‘Comrades! de mn of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 4.—Two former sheriffs and a former county clerk of Jefferson County 0 charged with improper handling of |the following an andit of / penetrated, state funds, the finances of the county, dating back several years, The sheriffs, Aubrey Cossar and Emmet 0’Neil, and Fred Neutzel, former county arged with having cred- wi Ri received as taxes. saved. lescribing those last few minutes, | ing the lectures. was a little loose. move gave me the greatest pain. My|cmash the Liberal Club and throw | thoughts were running fast. ‘by, closer and closer. |Red Army or the enemy? Suddenly | ment, in brief, was that the Welfare R., Dec. 4,—| they came into my sight. Hurrah! Fund ere |It was the Red Army, my comrades, | qances, of the Communist Party of the Pursuing the enemy. t of hands reached for us. The ropes were cut. dream,—how gently I was handled. are medal, was on my chest. out that it was the last honor being| paid to the fallen fighters for the personal accounts funds | them. could not see that the administra- | tion was using this technical issue | y's own words, to hide the real purpose of smash- | * * * Here are Smirnovs! hile hanging on a tree, next to his) Meanwhile word had. come from | ve comrades: |the Dean of Men, Armbruster, that “Somehow the knot on my neck | if publicity were given to this whole | The slightest / affair of the placards, he would Shall its leaders out of school. Never- “I distinctly heard shooting near-|yefuted that which had been released Was it the by Chancellor Bowman. The state- of Pittsburgh, fraternity chureh forums and sermons, y ete., were at present being adver- | “T felt I was losing my strength. tised on the university — bulletin | 2 Will they Save boards, although these events were | I concentrated mY not part, of the university, and ngth and shouted that the Liberal Club was. Then something happened—some- | Hundreds | ting characteristic of liberals. | After the committee had presented |this statement to the liberal club |membership for a vote, one of the committee backed out and refused to stand behind this statement which he himself had helped to draw up. As a result, the motion to release this statement to the press was lost, and Chancellor Bow- raan appeared to be the victor of evolutionary cause, ae a ene aka | ieee erate i a E | acted as all liberals do in a crisis— My five comrades, were among /thoy gave up the fight at the most strategic moment and turned con- servative. Continue Struggle. 2 “My call was heard. I felt as though in a “I woke up in the hospital. The rder of the Revolution, a gold| Music of revolutionary funeral march in through the open} indow. From the nurse I found} —S. B. Ue ioe (Written by a member of the habout 1,100, | plays | Worker Correspondence Class in | the N. Y. Workers School.) Plan Many Features at Daily, Freiheit Soviet Costume Ball | ‘The Daily Worker-Freiheit Ball ! to be held at Madison Square Gar- | den on Saturday night, Dec. 15, will |be the first combined Soviet cos- tume and colorlight ball held in the United States, it was announced at the business office of the Daily The really militant fraction of the | Liberal Club wishes to take this op- | portunity to state that it will fight | and continue to fight against the | |administration in its attempts to smash the Scott Nearing lectures, and in any attempts it may make in the future to keep radical thought and action from appearing on the | campus of the University of Pitts- burgh. This fraction also condemns most vehemently the cowardly ac- tion of the membership of the Lib- eral Club in its refusal to fight the | administration on an issue in which | the club was not only correct, but | ‘Tis rumored on the shipping floor That little Eddie Bond Was seen on Wednesday of last week With a very dashing blond. The president of our concern Is touring the west The happy workers in the plant Send him their greetings, best. Young Tom Molone and Bessie Sharp Who work upon the books Were married in the Grey Stone Church Tom picked a wife with looks. The girls who work for Miss Levy Had a delightful party On Monday last, and at the home 5 Of jolly Miss McCarty. The good will of our firm is safe When men like Georgie Dowling Come in each day, all joy and smiles; You never see George scowling. And so it goes, from start to end It’s filled with bunk and mush. What! Someone asking for a raise! Hush ... Hush... Hush. ... | Worker last night. | One of the features of the bat will be a parade of the 104 nation- alities comprising the Soviet Union. These will be in native costume. At last year’s ball, more than 18,- 000 were present. This year an eveh greater rush for tickets is expected, | and those who intend to go are ad- vised to apply for tickets at the also had the upper hand until the | sell-out by this insipid member of | January 5 business office of the Daily Work- is the er as soon as possible. : Fifth Birthday BENEFIT PERFORMANCE of the NATIONAL TEXTILE WORKERS UNION “Singing Jailbirds” By UPTON SINCLAIR at Provincetown Playhouse Daily Worker This is an event of the greatest importance to the revolutionary movement. All cities and workers’ or- ‘ganizations should make ar- rangements for celebrations. NOW! Wednesday Evening Dec. 5th 1928 Tickets on sale at NATIONAL OFFICE 104 Fifth Avenue Radio 3,000 Mexican Workers Strike U. S. Planters’ Holding. at Vera Cruz VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. 4.— Demanding that the Di Giorgio} Fruit Company, connected with the United Fruit Company and a cul-! tivator and market corporation dealing in bananas, comply with the agreement made between the agta- rian union on the plantations of the company in the Hule region, 3,000 workers are now on strike. The agreement with the company provides that the company must WAGE SLAVERY LOT OF RICHMOND NEGRO WORKERS White Chauvinists (By a Worker Corrcspondent) from among the members of the! notice immediately the segregation union, It did not do this and re- lof the colored people. fused to remedy the grievance,| “=i 4s visit to the Capitol Park. whereupon the workers walked out. In this patk is located the state the eee padiapenat ict |legislature, the governor's residence ie” land the city hall. I met a Negro Sat lthere and being interested in the ig \city asked him many questions. In Patrons Undisturbed particular I touched the race prob- as 2 Hotel Workers lem, He said that he was once up Are Scalded; 1 Dead) ‘north aiid knows about the condi- lagreed tions of the Negroes there. He that segregation was an William Miller, of Jersey City,| evil, but he told me that is it very was scalded to death, and Robert | hard to combat it. Not only do you Clark, of 884 E. 193rd St., was se-|have to fight against the white verely burned when the casting blew | chauvinists, but many Negro mis- off a steam pipe in the engine room | leaders as well. “But the time will of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, at 36 E.|come when we will have real equal- 46th St. yesterday. lity,” he said. I agreed with him on The wealthy patrons of ‘the hotel | this point. From him I learned that The membership of the Liberal| were not disturbed, those on the |the American Negro Labor Congress | upper floors not even hearing the|is doing gocd work in Richmond. escaping steam from the pipe in the | The organization is very popular to sub-basement. Clark was taken to/a certain degree. Bellevue Hospital. He and Miller|’ With him I walked to the Negro were engine room workers at the | quarter of the city. I stopped in hotel. front of a wooden house. A Negro carr REET | with two children sat in front of ey the door. His wife was rocking two Ku Klux Chiefs Stole iain to sleep. “What are the Autos, and Did Arson wages received here by Negroes?” |T asked him. “Very low, indeed,” he answered. “About how much?” “The average wage is about $15 and $18 a week. Some make more, but they are very rare exceptions.” “What kind of jobs do you folks get?” INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4.—Dis- barment proceedings were filed to- day in the supreme court against W. Lee Smith, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan; R. F. McNay, former Klan titan, and Jesse D. Hamrick, attorney. The petition cited that Smith and McNay had been convicted of auto theft con-| spiracy and Hamrick had served a prison sentence for arson. gotten, such as porters, janitors, ” “How can you manage to get ESTATE PEN along on such low wages?” SIERRA PLAY TO OPEN NEW) “we barely exist.” ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE | 1 kept. on walking until T came \to a bakery shop. There I. met a girl. In conjunction with the race |question she said: “I realize that The opening of the new Ethel Barrymore Theatre on 47th St. | west of Broadway, has been an-| you folks up north can’t understand | nounced by the Shuberts for Mon-|us, We do not blame you for this. day evening, Dec, 17, when Ethel |y personally realize that there are Barrymore will be seen in “The | many evils which exist in the south |Bingdom of God,” by the Spanish | today which will have to be solved | Playwright, G. Martinez Sierra. | some day. At present I do not see The play was adapted by Helen and | any solution to the race question be- H. Granville-Barker. The new the- | cause racial hatred is very strong atre will have a seating eapacity of |in this part of the country. We “The Kingdom of God,” which is | were brought up that way.” ai present playing in Boston, has | been appraised as one | # the finest 7 sat down to look over the ser- of the Spanish dramatist. | vices Tt Th ” . “The Cradle Song,” another of his wag telling them about peace and well-known plays, has been a popu-| ther sweet things. I thought to Jar and successful item in the reper: | rygelf: When will the time come tory of the Civic Repertory Theatre. | when these people will stop: pray- a ey Jire end demand their rights? CHANGE SOVIET POST I did not forget to go into the During winter the Soviet Trade|Workmen’s Circle at 711 West Tleet will remove its base from Len- | Broad St. There are two branches ingrad to the Port of Riga, Twelve | there, a left and right. At one Soviet steamers will ply between |time there was one branch. The Kiga, Hamburg, Havre and London. | right wingers did not like the idea Tt is expected to export about /of belonging with lefts in one 42,000 tons of goods through Riga branch. so they demanded a sep- during the winter. arate branch for the lefts. Their request was granted by the National P | Executive Committee and the lefts the Scott Nearing arrangements were formed into a different branch committee, Regardless of what hap- against their will. pens, the lectures to be given by| A Negro tailor told me that he Scott Nearing will be held! received $15 per week. A STUDENT. In a restaurant I met a white 200,000 COPIES of the Anniversary Edition JANUARY 5, 1929 FIFTH BIRTHDAY RDER A BUNDLE NOW for distribution on the anniversaty of the only revolutionary fight- ing English Daily in the world. We must make this Anniversary the occasion for bringing the DAILY WorKER to thousands of workers that we have never reached before. This edition will have additional features, special photos and will be larger many times the present size. Price, $10 per thousand. Order a few days in advance. Baily Worker 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. Please send me........+..-copies of The DAILY WORKER at the rate of $6.00 per thousand. NAME .. ADDRESS, To arrive not later than . tees 1am attaching a remittance to cover same. STATE... Negro Misleaders Aid| u RICHMOND, Va. (By Mail) —As| Placards. announcing that Professor choose superintendents of the work | soon as you arrive in Richmond you | “The worst jobs there are to be | jeannot think otherwise because we | I walked into a Negro church and i It was half full. The preacher | | S. M. EISENSTEIN The noted director of the Sovkino master films, “Potemkin” and “Ten Days That Shook the Worid.’ The last-named film, which is a dra- matie and moving story of the Rus- sian Revolution, is now being shown at the Little Carnegie Playhouse. young fellow, With him I discus the race question. “Well, sah,” said, “segregation is an evil e’ve got to have it because the ro is a ‘lower’ human being and besides it is very hard to get along with him.” “I guess you’re wrong, man, you can get along with him,” I said. “The Negro problem won’t be solved in our day, anyhow,” he an- swered. “It 3 vill, whether we jor not. With the industri of the south it is bound to be solved some day,” I replied. “Well, that remains to be seen in the future,” said he as we parted. While waiting at the Richmond depot for the train to Petersburg, | Va., I asked a young man what was the sense of segregation. “Tt is the Jim Crow law. This tra- | dition is a very strong one among us. Some day I hope we will do away with it.” ed he JA. R. i mies | ‘Orgntse the unorganized! ore ganize new onions in the unorgan- | Ined Indust: est but | F actories; Get $14 Weekly Wage PIONEERS ACTIVE IN DOMAIN OF THE LUMBER KINGS Jobless Hear Fighters (By a Worker Correspondent) SHATTLE (By Mail).—The Skid- Road, where the drifting Iumber workers meet, where the unemployed get together, where you see all the |hunger and of the West | Coast. where workers meet to dis- cuss the events of the hour, here ithe Young Pioneers of Seattle held | a meeting. Young misery It was quite a heartening sight to see the young ones, the future lead- ers of the working class, get up and Il of their experiences and their impressions of this system of so- ciety. They were greeted by an enthu- tic crowd, who vowed to support |the Young Pioneers of America | whenever calied upon to do so. | Among the speakers were Alex. | Achif, who spoke about Child La- |bor in the United States; Tom Hob- |son, whe spoke on the School Sys- |tem in America, comparing it to the |school system in Soviet Russia; | Mike Achil end Raymond Fifer, who spoke on the Pioneer moyement, what it means to the workers’ chil- dren, the activities of the Pioneers |in mass work, and so on. Mignon | Hobson made a little summary talk, | winding up with the need for fi- nances to carry on the work of the jpioneers. The collection was $20, which the Pioneers will use to print |leaflets with. The Fioneers were asked -to come and speak again, and will dosoas | Soon as the weather permits. T. 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REVELRY IN WHICH ALL WORKERS 4 ARTISTS, PORTS, ACTORS AND FRIENDS WILL JOIN IN DANCING AND MERRYMAKING FROM NINE ‘TILL THREE TO THE INCOMPARABLE JAZZ OF VERNON ANDRADE'S * RENAISSANCE ORCHESTRA, DON'T MISS THIS ONE! CN UIE EIIEInEEIEIEEneeemmmemenend ED a Get your tickets early—avold hte last minute rush and dave 81.50 TICKETS NOW $1.50. — — — — — — — AT THE DOOR $3.00 On snle at: New Masses, 20 Union Sq. (phone reservations ne- cepted until the last minute, Algonquin 4445): Workers Book shop, 28 Union Sq.; Rand Book Store, 7 E. 15th St.: Moderr Book- shop, 350 E. Sint St.3 New Playwrigh(« Theatre, 133 W. 14th St, Special rates to labor groups and organizations, Apply at office, a AR ROR ROSEEZE EINEM = ee eee ee Baer as