The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1928, Page 4

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TEXTILE COMBINES TRY NEW FAKE COLLABORATION SCHEME ON ME i Restaurants Are Exposed (By a Worker Correspo more tels something to the eating pro who, by al the advantage of grace of the « the me: relax at t hotels and r the to ent ir lishment, blood. pre named cc but receive the 1 ever how It is wor most of the so-called f taurants and hotels vate kitchens for th de by thi ste,” so the stuff get grub that the ave the ” who make e dirty ons have left over. houses situated f the town, and In the class “B” ditions are j few dumps that eards, one wotld take them to be a little better. but you will soon con- vince yourself of the fact that in those ‘“mad-houses.” wh the workers have to r death, especially con! d, when one s for a ned to be with me. on conditions and s imr shown the door, heing naturally called down for be ing a damned “Red.” These houses ion cards only for nience that it serves and use of the we benefit’ that the bu everything i that their wor progres if any member-of the: union dares euestion the agent he is immediatel a “Red and a Communist, it has be tradition among all good and end loyal union ers th Gere not aue the auto: ights of union nays hi organi: ests of some a protection of some d The Collab We, in sunny Ca blessed with a system, or fake co-ope’ good illustration of these co-operative ,restaurants and rooms are the taurants. Mr. the fficials and hodows. poration ative A so-called lunch throw-away | z Mislea BRIN “DAY, PTCEMETR 1 iG MORE SLASHES IN ST. LOUIS IN (By a Worker Correspondent) ’ HAVEN, Conn. (By Mail) exploitation to the workers e of Connecti in the t 1, owner ments” to the textile New England to move south “where labor is cheap, and no labor or- exist,” there arose a between these two com- both in the stock exchange field of production. uggle was centered around trol of the immediate market two compenies turned out ical products. Finally the Blu- al Company prevailed, but not bid of the internal of the Salts Textile Mill, group of whom “survived” le, and are now becoming B enthal outfit. But rity of the so-called ‘will not fare so well,” struggle m: nd feiled in quite a schemes in Portland and So his christian social- arted aching for the of California and his secret s told him of a new way to ’ his fellow-workers and poor brethren of Galifornia. He then opened a co-operative lunch in Frisco, with most of the workers ing their wages. Large signs that “ninety-five” yed, appointing him- ident with a salary suitable ; With branches all over the d, but they were assured that is used to open up more branches, and therefore the money ain in one family. And it told, ‘some of Mr. s branches are sold fo: ir price, and the workers can ag: ok for another chance to get rich quick in some other profit-sharing scheme, if they have not learned from their recent experience yet. And what is the A. F. of L. doing to organize the workers? Out ef eight thousand employed in the industry, only about fifteen hundred are organized in three lo- cal unions and when looking for working in one of ihe larger hotels, one must be sure first to hold a membership card in some other fra- nal organization, like the Geneva, international scab outfit, the Pa- : st Waiters’ Association, or the Chef de Cuisine, where first- class chef-slaves belong. Then you given a chance to work for part es and commission or patronize the employment sharks, where you usually are made to pay from six are to fifteen dollars for a job that will in most cases last only a few week: f the food indus- y are we going to stand for such miserable conditions? How long will we keep paying dues to some graft institutions that force the workers to scab on each other when opportunity arises, It is time to organize a real industrial fighting organization. Then and then only will we be able to establish decent how long acess of squeezing out the employers of labor, causing its tempo, in one sec- tion of the textile industry in’ the t, which culmi- gover of the in Bridgeport by of the profits for the workers de-| one of the local papers, “In fact” this paper conti , “there is probably no re: y in sight for most of the owners of preferred k, which will cease to have any value when the bondholders the companies’ factories by closure.” Mill Closes, Men Jobless. When the “crash” came, eleven months ago, the Salts Mil] closed down. All of the workers were layed off. They were told to go and apply for jobs in Blumen- thals Mills in Shelton, Conn., which then suddenly became very busy. Most of the workers, who were able to go there, were hired, but for the “Blumenthal scale of wages,” which was much lower than they had been getting from the Salts Mill. Six months later, however, when the appetite of the few big sharks to swallow the greater number of the smaller fry reached its zenith, and the chance for such an act ar- rived, a cry was raised to the effect that the Salts Mills of Bridgeport could not continue under the pre- sent strained conditions. It must go] to the receiver. It went. A great number of share holders, among them workers from the mill, who listened to the bosses’ bunk about investing their savings in the business, were made to sell their holdings for a song. The result was obvious, Very few, especially the workers, were able to get anything for their shares. Tyo months after |it went into the hands of the re- ceiver, it was reopened again, but on part time only, filling orders for the Blumenthal Mills of Shelton, Conn, After the first month, it be- {came obvious that the Blumenthal Company im conjunction with the big share holders of tke Salts Compa was in complete control of the lat company, which besides the mill in Bridgeport includes mills in Phila- delphia, which were kept idle for 2 |long time for the same reason. The Bridgeport local pap: ried the following annouh “after a long time seeking to verify = fore- ten or and Company, Incorporated, whose pile fabric plants in Shelton, Conn.! j are operated under the name Shel- ton Looms, would become the pur- chaser of the Salts Textile Company, we are now able to announce that |contracts have been signed for the | immediate taking over of the plants |by the Shelton Looms.” |, The total results of the “strug- |gle” of these two sets of bandits and the “victory” of Blumenthal over Salts are as follows: | 1, Eliminated competition between | these two companies, which was an | obstacle for common action both jin regulating the prices of their | | commodities and in their effort to [reduce the wages of the workers.| |In place of two companies in the |field struggling for the control of the markets, constantly in friction,| |there arose a single but powerful | monster. f 2. It immensely reduced the own- lers of these mills to a very ingigni- | ficant number, but made them many | times more powerful than they wer efore. ? 8. Not only the wages of the work- |ers formerly employed by the Sn'ts |were reduced to the level of the Blumenthal Mills in Sheltcn which |ranks among the very lowest in the | entire country, but already there has! taken place a wage cut in several departments of the Shelton Looms; |a most neck breaking speed up sys- tem has been introduced in all of \the rumors that Sydney Blumenthal |: NEW HOSPITAL JIM CROW PLAN Swindle Negro Voters to Get Clinic (By a Worker Correspondent) ST. LOUIS, Mo. (By Mail).—The Board of Aldermen and t'e Public Welfare Committee on Friday unani- mously approved a measure which would Iccate the proposed hospital north of and adjoining the main city hospital for whites. This would repeal an ‘ordinance passed several years ago, locating the new institu- tion in the heart of the Negto ¢ ders Close Eyes to Starvation Wages DuPont Tool __Jewish Workers to CROAT FAKERS ‘Fear Masses May Oust | Them as Well as Serbs! VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 10.—Dis-| patches from Zagreb, Croatia, point| to increasing tension between the) political leaders of the Croatian na-| tionalist parties and the Belgrade | government. Politicians Fear Masses. | | The Croatian nationalist leaders | trict. The repegl measure, it clearly understood, is for the pur- pose of: reducing the proposed 00,000 hospital to a Jim-Crow ward, adjacent to-the white institu- | tion, and the abolishing of the Ne- gro doctors, nurses and superin- tendents. Mayor for Jim-Crow. Victor J. Miller, mayor of St. Louis, has been unalterably opposed the plans of the Negroes, to the ent that he stubbornly refused to ase the funds with which to| build the new hospital provided for in the passage of the bend issue. Incidentally, Miller is a, candidate for re-election, Negroes voted fcr the passage of the bond issue with the understand- ing that they would get a new hos- pital to be named by Negroes, lo- cated in the block bounded by Cot- tage, Kennerly and Goode Aves. and While Miller has argued for the site adjacent to the white hospital | on the pretext that_it could be op- nd would have ; better well known to the majority of the Negroes, here, that the motive of joining the h pital to the main institution is ,pri marily to have the Negro patients | rve as clinical material for the | ‘al white medical schools. It is | to be remembered that St. Louis is the city which has repeatedly re- fused to erect a school for the Ne- gro children. , Farm Fakers to Hold Annual Congress to “Aid” Poor Farmers | = CHICAGO, IIl., Dec. 10.—Another relief plan to coax the farmer along will be drafted at the tenth annual convention of the American Farm Federation, which opened here to- day. The claim is made that this will represent the views of 2,- 000,000 farmers. The convention, at which farm- | ers from 36 states will be “repre- sented,” will draw up a legislative, program claimed to cover the needs of the farmers. It will demand of Hoover that a “farmer-minded” secretary of agriculture be selected, and that relief legislation be en- acted at once. Militant farmers here to observe | the convention say that it will simply be another Wall Street af- faiy, since the farmer will continue to be relieved of nothing but his in-| come. They back this up by show- ing that the report on agricultural conditions will be made by Virgil Jordan, chief economist for the manufacturers’ and bankers’ Na- tional Industrial Conference Board. | ' | will be given to the | Hainisch feels a little sore because | Seipel’s clerical party and one who Judge Daniel 0. Hastings, of the Municipal Court of Wilmington, Del., who has teen picked by the DuPont interests to take the place of United States Senator T. Cole- man DuPont who resigned officially because of “ill health.” The Du- Pont munitions trust practically owns the state of Delaware, includ- ing the sleek-looking judge abov Koroshetz government, which is op-_ posing nationalist activities with an) iron hand, by daily taking a more) insubordinate stand against his Te-| gime in the local councils. In this} | way they lope to attain their own| ‘politieal ends, which include control | jof the local government, without | drawing the peasant and working} masses into the active struggle.| | To Hold Big Detroit They admit that the peasants and} Workers’ Sport Meet | workers are aroused and they fear that an open nationalist struggle Saturday and Sunday | might lead to.an open outbreak of the peasants and workers and the DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 10.—The | overthrow of their own political Voima Athletic Club of Déiroit, a| power as well as the Serbs. member of the Michigan District of | This makes them calculate every the Labor Sports Union, will hold) move they make and causes them its first athletic meet of the indoor | to refuse to lead the open outbreaks season this Saturday and Sunday, at | of workers and peasants against the the Finnish Workers Hgll, 5969 14th | Serbian government police. Such St. The program will start Satur-| spontaneous outbreaks have already day afternoon and continue till Sun- | occurred during the couyse of the! day night, starting at 2 p. m, Sun-| struggle. day afternoon. Observers in Zagreb point out| To date many entries have been | that the Koroshetz government is| received from the other Michigan | not very likely to fall, and that District clubs that are members of | Koroshetz is acting with a high| the Labor Sports Union, as hand because he feels he has the from some of the cther dist support of the majority of the bour- cluding New York Vesa Athletic) eis members of the parliament | Club. | with him, : Walter Burke, the national secre- | Parliamentary Moves. tary ef the Labor Sports Union, will) The Zagreb district council yes- be the princ‘pal speaker Sunday aft-|terday voted to refuse General) ernoon. \Maximovitch, who has been dis- | The program of events for the cussed as a successor to Koroshetz,| meet is as follows: 1, apparatus tri- | to sit in their council. | consisting of horizontal and| Koroshetz immediately replied parallel bars; 2, jumping tri-event, | With an order for the drafting of a consisting of standing high jump,|1¢w law which will dissolve all broad jump and hop-step and jump. | Councils which are reported to be! These events are open for seniors | Tesisting the state. | and juniors. International medals| From which it is clear, the Croa- + three win- | tian, Communist leaders are point- ners. A standing broad jump and | ing out to the masses, that the gov- a running high jump will also be |¢rmment of Maximovitch will be held for women. 3, wresting will be | Just as oppressive as that of Koro-| held at the following weights 112,|Shetz. They say that the belief, | 118, 126, 136, 147, 160, 75 and-over; | which the Croatian politicians have 4, a basketball tournament will be | been spreading, that the Maximo- held between Detroit and the out- | Yiteh government will be better for of-town teams. | the Croatians, are illusions. Hainisch, Shelved by Find Another Way for Seipel and Reformists, ‘Santa Claus’ to Work Is Sore in Back Yard UP the Retail Trade aoe, ; ee WASHINGTON, Dee. 10.—A no-| VIENNA, Dec, .10—Dr. Michael | tins: to poktmistete asm result of o A ¢ federal investigation of a New York Chancaloe Belper paw it fit to place | OT@@Rization known as “Santa Claus bite ae Association” states that “charitable” someone closer to his clerical reac-|- oo: a4: 3 Pa .. | organizations to whom postmasters tion in the presidency of ‘Austria. have in the past been turning over Wilhelm = Miklas, a saémber of | Jetters which credulous youth writes to “Santa Claus” have been using the information gained from the let- ters for commercial gain. | would offer full support to the re- actionary regime has been placed in the presidency with more power than Hainisch ever enjoyed. | | It must not, however, be supposed | Order More Planes for nd Speedup A NEW REBEL THEATRE MACHADO WI | probability will run for at least two | Open Play Sunday | The Workers formerly known as the Dramatic Studio, will debut on Broadway Jewish Theatre, Freiheit make its on Sunday night, Dee. 17, according to an an- heatre’s business departnient. ‘The group has engaged the 48th St. Theatre and will, present “At the Gate,” théir first production, for seven consecutive Sundays, and matinee. SHUN STRUGGLE |/nouncement made yesterday by the *. tl in Los Ange BAR VOTER CUBA ELE |Many Disenfrar in Cuba All Cuban citizens wl evening | vote during the preside. | tions of October in Cube “At the Gate” is a trilogy by'Machado was the only Steiman, a young Russian writer; will be disfranchised, ac who met his untimely death at the hands of the white guards on the barricades in the civil war follow- | ing the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. The group is made up entively of night. “At the Gate for the past six months under the direction of Jacob Mestel, who studied under Rein- hardt in Germany, In their efforts to wipe out all traces of amateurism the group has been trained in dancing by Fokine, in the art of make-up by the make- up expert of the Habima players and in Voice culture by Serge Rodanskp. Mestel, the director, follows in technique the methods of the State Jewish Theatre, which is coming to New York from Moscow next month, the anndtincement of tt Electoral Board of Cuba. | All attempts to nomi | Presidential candidates th do were repressed and |three “parties,” the “cor believe that they can force the Ser-) workers who work at their trades | “liberal” and “popular,” bian government to withdraw the|in the day and who are actors at | inated Machado as thei They have been rehearsing | candidate were recognize These three “parties” ha | ferences of program and |; warded by posts in the | government. The recent | nationalist party of Ci tried to nominate an i candidate in opposition t and applied to the supr against the ruling of th board to allow only one was rebuked by the cour There was very little the whole country, no o ures were given out as ti ber of voters. Only the Machado was announced. | In one town, Ranchue New Playwrights Need | persons went to the polls a Larger Theatre for 284,’ be forced to 20 |threats of the police in with a special article 88 the “Singing Jailbirds” | “Singing Jailbirds” the Upton} Sinclair play which is now running | at the Provincetown Playhouse is proving successful from the finan-| cial point of view, according to an) announcement made public by the) New Playwrights Theatre group, producers of the play. | Practically every night during the | current month is sold out as many | organizations have bought out en-| tire performances. | The play was originally scheduled | to run for one month and in all! more months. The producers are) negotiating for the rental of a larger house than the Macdougal Street playhouse. ‘Branch Banks to Win | South American Loot | Proposing a plan for further fi- nancial enslavement of Latin Amer-| ica thru a system of branch banks of big Wall Street concerns, Dr.| Samuel Guy Inman of Columbia! University delivered Friday a speech along the lines of the most approved | peaceful conquest type of American) Imperialism to the School for In- ternational Relations in New York! City. The professor did not say at just what point the Wall Street bankers would begin clamoring for U. S. intervention in the countries where their branch banks are set up. punishment for voluntary from the polls. Havana Traitors Cuba Stirred Argentine A HAVANA, Dec. 10.- sized stink has been stirr among imperialist boot-] don;t like to be advertise over the allusion made | gentine paper, “La C Havana as a “beautifi city.” The editor of “El Exc: principal organ of the Ma ernment, which does not so exposed, to Latin Am tempt, objects to the term ing that it may be possib Argentine paper wished the Cuban government. The “Excelsior,” whic] to endure many more suc to its sensitive but ,treas tor, admits that “La ( Argentina is one of t ; modern and best-inform) |of Latin America. Whi ers. say is the reason pré¢ it used the term “a bea} kee city” applied to Ha The Dally Worker wi years old on January 5. from parts of the cc sending in greetings. went in yours? If not, | today. CF IRN eal i = Keith-, Best Film Show In Town AME 42nd Street and Brondway Albee | : At p - ae (ui meses hae theta " I a socialist and Christiar conditions in the food industry. the millé which will result in a most) 757, “trouble” brewing for the|that Hainisch Was at all an enemy He is known as quite an miserable condition for the workers | generally. Anniversary Edition JANUARY 5, 1929 FIFTH BIRTHDAY Company Union “Clubs.” There are company unions in all of the mills which function under} the names of “workers clubs,” social clubs, etc. In most cases these clubs are genuine proletarian organiza- tions in composition. With very lit- tle effort on part of the workers! they could easily turn them into in-| | struments for proletarian struggle | against the bosses, It is true, that} | most of these clubs are composed of |the most skilled workers in the | Shops, the weavers and loom fixer: |But the rationalization process, | which is now evident in a most | dynamic form, manifests itself in the | introduction of a most deadly speed | up system, by the application of the | most highly developed methods. of| | production, replacing men by women, | adults by children, ete. In other words doing away with the skillful- bosses, A militant group, which is| beginning to struggle against the} company control of the club, has | shown determinedly a spirit to fight | the company dictatorship, and for) a real union in the Shelton Looms.) Recently the superintendent of} the Shelton Looms announced that| the company would no longer pay| the rent for the clubrooms. The workers on the other hand welcomed this announcement with a statement | that they will pay their own rent} from now on. The spies and the| agents of the Blumenthal Mills, how- | ever, are working overtime to pre-) vent the growing independence of) the clubs trom tne bosses. With the greater concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands,| and the attempt on the part of the employing class to exert greater pressure for greater exploitation of the workers, we find even the com- pany unions will develop into in- of the Seipel regime and its fascist allies. He ever enjoyed the sup- port of the social-democrats pre- vious to the elections. Some of his wrath can be traced to this source, since the “socialists” gave him the cold shoulder to vote for one of their own reliables and he was left in’ the back yard by Seipel for a stronger political ally. B. of R. T. Chairmen in New Trick to Smother Discontent at Danger CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—The general chairmen of the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen, recently met\ here and formed an association of their own. In announcing its purposes, A. F. Whitney, president of the the Nanking Regime HANKOW, China, Dec. 10,—The bloody Nanking regime has ordered | five more airplanes from the Ryan- Mahoney Company of the United States, in addition to the six it has already bought from the same firm. Chiang Kai-shek’s regime announces that these will be used to develop an air-line in central China, but those better acquainted with Nank- | ing activities think that they will be used against revolutionary work- ers and peasants. The “Spirit of Canton” is now touring China in a flight of “good- will” and carries with it the spirit of the brutal oppression of workers | in Canton. i { The Workers (Comma fights for the organiza’ unorsanieed ee eckere ) Party of the RDER A BUNDLE NOW for distribution on the anniversary 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 pér 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. ness of the weavers as a skilled group in the textile industry. On| instances cited above are being re-| the other hand as a result of this| peated in almost all of the big shops rationalization a strong mass pres-| where such company unions exist. sure is being exerted upon these! But lack of outside support, both clubs to admit all of the workers| organizational and moral, all at- in them, thereby further changing| tempts on the part of the workers the nature and composition of these| to break away from company con- associations, when it will become) trol have so far not materialized. easier for the workers to capture) The Blumenthal Salts Mills are) pany agents and tools. | busy, with the large orders on hand A year ago, the weavers club of for their special line of auto up- Bridgeport, in its annual election holstery, velvets, plushes, etc. which of officers, elected a rank and file| has largely a market of home con- slate of candidates-against the com-| sumption, and is little effected by pany men, Whether this had any-| international competiticn. thing to do with the company’s ac-| At this time an effort must be tion that followed could not be es-| made on the part of the left wing tablished. No sooner were the re-| and militants, particularly members sults of the elections announced and| of the National Textile Union, to a declaration that the workers! develop fighting rank and file | would no longer tolerate the com-| coups within these company unions panies’ interference in their club af-| with the aim in view of turning The| ing” against the dangers forced on} | and control them against the com-' at the present time becoming very) | Brotherhood, said that trainmen and | conductors are “vigorously protest- the men by excessively long trains | which cannot properly be controlled. The new association, while claim-! ing to do something about this, will) limit itself to preparing statistics and lobbying and doing anything and everything hut leading the men on the only road to victory—strike | action. Newark Worker School Opens Classes Dec. 14) The Newark branch of the Work- ers School will open its term def- initely I'riday, Dec. 14, at 8 p. m., | with a class in “Fundamentals of | Communism,” with A. Markoff, in- structor. Efforts are being made to organ- ize a more advanced class in “Prin- ciples of Marxism” within a very January 5 is the Fifth Birthday of the 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. DARING! By the Producers of “ SENSATION Another Remarkable Sovkino Production “YELLOW PAS D OF ST. PETERSBURG” MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St. West of 8th Ave. ® Tivenings 8:30 Mats, Thurs, and Sat, 2:30 Major Barbara JUILD Thea. W. bend st. GUE Eves, 8:30, Mats. Thursday cnd Saturday, 2.30 Strange Interlude John (} )N Thea., 6sth GOLDEN oy Bway HVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 LITTLE 146 W. 57th St, ( ARNEGIE. |x to Midnight PLAYHOUSE lar Prices “UNEASY MONEY— THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF A BANKNOTE” Produced by KARL FREUND y ii SHIA. W. oT ERLANGER TS Evenings 890 = Mat, Wed. and Sat. at 2:30 George M. Cohan's Comedians with POLLY WALKER in Mr. Cohan's Newest Musical “BILLIE” Wings Over | EUROPE | 22st ARTHUR ‘HOPKINS 4 “HOLIDA a new comedy by Philip CHANINS 46th St. W. Bg Mats, Wednesday and § | SCHWAB and MANt MUSICAL SMAS} (WOOD NE with GHORGE OLSEN'S NITE HOST VANDERBILT 'T! W. 48th St. Ev: Mats. Wednesday and civic pra 50c; $1.00; $1.50, Mats. Wi EVA LE GALLIENNE, Today Mat—*Peter Pan.’ Tonight—“L’tnvitation A\ MISSING FLYER § ALBANY, N. Y., Dee. Just as Russell Townsen hany airport today to sea Parevasasees! ‘ fairs issued, than the company de-| them into real trade unions to strug-|short time. Registration has been J ON th & oth St,| brother, Oliver, believed Ps nee \clared the plant closed down and|gle for the best interests of the) already received for the classes in} ! Ml IN Live, 8:30, Mat. Wed.&Sat.| crashed in the Alleghe ' : a discharged ail workers indefinitely,| working class. There are 35,000 tex-| English and all those who want to/ AAD aR ve wot | tains in Pennsylvania in i fo arrive not later than take classes are urged to register at | e Air biplane Friday, wor i 1 am attaching @ recommending to them they could) tile workers in the state of Connec- with a “clean” record were hired.) new National Textile Union. In the Shelton Weavers Club too,| —CHARLES MITCHELL, get jobs in Shelton, where only those | ticut affording quite a field for the | once at 08 Morcer St. Levina, Stern | jand Freiman are in charge of the | ivegistrvation, ' Ina austen! romance of Chopin leeived here telling of { safe arrival last night ¢ licksburg, W. Va. }