The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 14, 1928, Page 4

"AOLING “COMPANY SPEED UP SCHEME ENSLAVES MEN Stool-Pigeon System Is Employed (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail).- Just a line to assure you that the : rs in the Northwe a en- ng Coolidge “prosperity” with the aid of Kellogg. Peace and prosperity at any price. The 700 odd workers in Boling Airplane F Seattle, are pay- ing the price I went to work there j ou curiosity, and it has been tisfied, for when you read this I'll be off the payroll I went in as a tinner or sheet metal worker Something which I consider far worse than any speed-up system known has been introduced 2 was not long in learning abo! They have very skillfully and s} tematically introduced the 12-hour day. Tr call it overtime, atic -overtime, for peri ss nine and ten months at a They fool the workers to a nicety. Monday, Tuesday, 12 hours; Wed- nesday, 8 hours; Thursday and day, 12, and Saturday, isn’t introducing the 12 would like to know what mon labor received 45 cents per hour and mechanics (tinners) 70 to 85 cents per hour. The greatest majority received 70 cents. Union Sheet metal workers receive $1.25 per hour, the 8-hour day and 40- hour week. Quite a contr Three-quarters of an ho’ is al- lowed for supper’ and e is ' large garbage can, called a cafe- teria, where the slaves pay exor- bitant prices for soup. p it is. T doubt if a pig would eat much of it. I talked to the men arourd me and found many who didn’t like the hours, but they were only there for a temporary job and didmt either care to say much or else were afraid. Those who were home guards agreed that it was kind of tiring if it was for a long stretch, but were satis- fied. My second day proved to me that the stool pigeon was on the job, be- cause I was told to shut up. I was told later on by one of the slaves é thus: “If you want to stay on down ! liere be careful whom you talk to, as there are many stool pigeons. Now, readers, what:I want you to do is this. If any of your friends’ hear of the “great” northwest, give them a warning to steer clear of Bolings. I can’t say anything about the other firms, as I couldn’t find out anything. Bolings is, I believe, rgest factory of kind in the d States, and they are turning out lots the of death-dealing instruments to murder the workers whenever they make a stand to declare themsel as men. THE TINNER. PAINT UNION FAKERS BETRAY SAN BERNARDINO, Cal.—Mis- leaders of the Painters’ Union here and a half day week, afi ‘oa by the painter b The Daily Worker will be five years old on January Workers from all parts of the country are er an ap- reached before. Daily Worker Please send me NAMB ADDKESS a|ing have decided to return to the five} sending in «reetings. Have you sent in yours? If not, send it in today. ' 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 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, 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. copies of The DAILY WORKEK at the rate of $6.00 per thousand. Vo arrive not later than ..... Jam attaching # remittance to cover sam me AILY WORKER, NE WwW YORK, FRIDAY, » DECaI Here They Work 7 Hours a Day no bosses here to exploit them. Th and other benefits that workers in By March 1, 1932, ¢ et Union will work ata maxi would get. So rs in a State plant in the Caucasua, L very factory, ev LOTT J. S. S. R. There are ey get two-weeks vacation with pay capitalist countries only hope they ery industry in the T-hours per num shift of CONNECTICUT CHILD LABOR ON INCREASE y a Worker Correspondent) W HAVEN, Conn., (By Mail). —The local Babbits are beginning somewhat disturbed about the that child labor is on the in- se in the city of New Haven, Conn., according to the city school census issued the other day. The census established that 6 out of the total of 39,000 children of school age are not attending school because they are compelled to go to work in local shops, fac- tories and stores. Besi the number) which the cen- sus definitely accounts for as hav- ing left school to seek employmnet, there are nearly 500 more that have not registered in the schools , apparently having chool to seek employme’ All of these children, num ng over 3,000, are between the ages of 7 and 14, The total expenditure for each child annually is put at $2.25 which is given by the state to the city in the form of bounty to the schogls. Simultaneously with the city re- port on the delinquency of the work- ing class children came the report of the state on high school atten- dance, which says that only 16 per cent of the children in New Haven go thru the high school grade or at least enroll for the first term but very few even of this number real- ly complete the entire term. The reason for this, the report hastened to explain, is not because of personal disine tion but be- cause of the steady di income of the working class fam- ilies. In the four years the standard of living of the workers has declined to 40 per cent while the cost of the necessities of life has decreased only 7 per cent. This is held as being mainly re- sponsible for thé general decline in school attendence by the working class children, as well as for the failing to go thru high school. At the same time there is an increased tendency, the report states, on the part of the “well-to-do” wealthy: class to take their children out of the public schools and place them with private individual teachers. In 1924 there were only 3,000 children taught privately; in 1927 there were 4,000 and. in 1 this number in- creased to over 6,000 for the city) of New Haven. About this whole question, the re- | port sums up as follows: The recent} general decline in school attendance is not so much due to personal dis-| inclination yas ‘to lack of means. The report also remarks about the]| 500 ,0O0O COPIES of the Anniversary Edition JANUARY 5, 1929 FIFTH BIRTHDAY left crease of ‘the| \ “Self Defense” Theory and | amount of wages that the children get, which, according to these fliin- keys of the master class, is an in- ducement for the children to leave For the first year of ap- nticeship the children are’ being paid as low as 14 cent: while the value and quantity of their production is incomparably higher than the products of apprentices of former days, never in history has there been such a demand for child’s labor as at present. ularly so in seasonal s the tobacco crops, ete, where tens of thousands of children are actually driven like slaves for 12 and 14 hours a day for a miserable pittance of 14 to 16] eents an hour, The agents of the employing class are compélled to admit that child labor in the Nutmeg State is becom- ing the rule rather than the excep- tion, but this is not because of the “inducement” afforded by the ex- ploiters of labor, as the spokesmen} of the capitalist class wants us to believe, but because the wages paid to the heads of the family and adult workers are not sufficient to main- tain the family in decent condi- tions, —CHAS. MITCHELL. SQUTHERN WHITE MURDERS NESRO Ruined by Witness COLUMBUS, S. C. (By Mail).— E. H. Addick, who murdered Paul Harmon, a young Negvo here. in a} white cafe on Thursday night, is be'ng held by a coroner's jury, be- cause of contradictory testimony of the white witnesses, | The murder occurred at about jeleven o'clock, when, according to ‘seme of the white witn mon entered the cafe in en intoxi- cated conditicn and threatened to kill all the whites present. They |further testified that he attempted to purchase a package of cigarets! jon credit and when he was refused eu d the entire group. This was proven false by the testimony of jcther witnesses, J. M. Parker, & clerk in the cafe, leit! that Addick, the murderer, ls the cafe a few minutes later and |was accosted by Harmon, who struck him (Addick) in the face. | | Addick then pulled out a revolver | and shot him three times, killing | him almost instantly. Addick’s defense testimony tallied ie tly with that of Parker, but |Dave Vanderhost, another white | man, declared that he was taking | Harmon home, when Harmon> de- | jcided that he “wanted to go the| other way.” Vanderhost agreed with the testimony that Hermon |met Add'ck face to face, but em- |phatically denied that Harmon was rintoxicated, A search of Harmon’s body re-| vealed the fact that he was un- armed, that he was not intoxicated and that he was killed as the result of three bullets in his chest, which were fired at close range. Other white witnesses: agreed with the tes- timony of Vanderhost, stated that Harmon did nothmg to start the shooting and declared that the shooting was uncalled for. | Harmon was employed as man on the Southern Rail | Addick is an engineer on the same (road, Inter-racial Dance of HarlemYoung Workers Declaring that only by white and Negro workers banding together against race discrimination can this evil be effectively fought, the Har- lem branch of the Young Workers (Communist) League announces a gala inter-racial dance at Imperial Auditorium for the evening of Sat- urday, Dee. 29, 1928, In a statement announcing the | dance, the League declares as a part of its program “a militant fight for {the abolition of race discrimination segrogation.” It further ¢ dares “The Young Workers T- ‘hnows no race, creed ov color.” gue an hour,| BER 14, 1 928 WORKER TELLS OF SPEED-UP IN GARMENT TRADE System of Piece Work Reduces Wages By a Worker Correspondent) When an employer, driven! by his ever increasing greed for more and larger profits, begins to plan re- duction of labor costs, the first thought that strikes him is the in- stallation of piece work. 'His aims jare to increase production without |enlarging the plant, to speed up the | work so that each operator pro- | duces more for the wages he for- merly received, and to ee ihe jsame standard of quality. engineers have “vised in-| | tie plans by means of which = Hast drop of energy can be extracted | from the workers under a piece} work scheme, The first industry to adopt piece work rates was the metal industry.| The plan won favor among employ- ers in other fields until now it has tablished in a great many It is now being intro- duced in the clothing industry. Al- though the unionized operators fought against the scheme, the of-| ficials, collaborating with the larg- er employers established piece work in the New York clothing market. | It constitutes a disgraceful sell-out and marks a new low level in the degeneracy of the labor misleaders at the helm of the once powerful Amalgamated —Clothi Workers’ Union. Such a policy one result—to further weaken union, been industries. the Worker Bewildered. In a modern factory the wor divided into such minute opera soit that a worker cannot successfully | argue piece work rates. knows is that he is forever produc- ing more and earning le should happen to eava good pay through extra effort the| price of his operation would be im- mediately reduced. At best, the | price is based on the earning power| of the fastest operatives. No allow- ance is made for fatigue, for ma- chine breakdowng, and for lack of work caused by delays in other de- partments of thegshop. Under a piece 4work plan, the bosses are always “afraid they are not getting the highest standard of work and an army of inspectors are distributed to keep a close watch.on the quality of the work. This is an expense which is figured. into the! labor costs and which further re-| duces the piece. work rates—the op- erator pays for those inspectors in the final analysis, Carrying the spection stations entails a good deal of time, which the workers lose, and the complicated records necessitated | by the system plagues the workers, who not only lose a great deal of |time keeping the records, but are subject to mater‘al los--s from the] inevitable loss of coupons, Fake Bonus van, Under the pretext of obtaining a uniform flow of work throughout | the shop, eliminating congestion at certain points resulting in what is known as_ bottleneck condition, wgrkers are continually shifted from one operation to another. Every time an operator is shifted, he finds himself worse off, earning | less, working harder, and more at} a disadvantage, | The trump card of the whole vi-| cious system is the Group Bonus} plan. This not only tends to stir up animosity between the workers, since the faster worker suffers from the lesser production of the slower worker, but it ereates a -constant spying and jealous atmosphere in |the shop which tends to dis-unite the workers, Wherever the piece work system| installed, the workers become} dissatisfied, every resulting speed- up attempt, every cut in the pay envelope, finds them at greater odds | with the bosses and with those who forced this system upon them. NORMAN SILBER. Huiswood_ Will Teach | ‘Negro Problems’ Class | lat the Workers School “Problems of the American Ne- gro,” with Otto Huiswood as the in- , will be given at the Work- ers School on Friday evenings, be- sinning Dec, 28. This course will he one of the most important courses to be given by the Workers School, in view of the importance of the Negro problem, both for the Negro | race and the entire working class. ‘The course will deal both with the | history of the American Negro and | with the problems facing the Negro race and the American working class today. Among the topics to be taken up are the following; 1, the Negro Problem as a Worid Problem; 2, Af- \rican Background of the Negro in America; 3, History of Slavery— | Anti-Slavery Movements and Slave Revolts; 4, the Negro in the Recon- |struetion Period and Post Construc- | tion Period; 5, Present Social Con- | ditions and Class Divisions; 6, Spe- cial Consideration of Negro Prole- \tariat; 7, Agricultural Workers and Farmers: 8, Development and Role | of the Petty- Bourgeoisie and Bour- seoisie; 9, Present Race Movements; | 10, Status of the Negro in America: 11, Policy of Party and Communisi “-ornational; 12, the Colonial Ques Ne JULIETTE -DAY a é In Edwin. Burke’s comedy, “This Thing Called Love,” which will be given for its hundredth performance this evening. BIRTHDAY GIFTS SENT 10 ‘DAILY’ Workers Enclose Cash |} With Greetings Continued from Page One sponse to the appeal for greetings and donations for the special fifth} anniversary edition, Jan. 5, 1929. Workers thruout the country are showing that they appreciate the significance of the fifth birthday of the Daily Worker. It will be a holi- day for the entire American work- ing class and will be celebrated in various cities thruout the country in fitting manner. In New York City, | Manhattan Opera House, Highth| for the celebration on Jan. 5. The | program will be something to re-| | member long afterwards. The mere| \fact that the Isadora Duncan danc-| ers are coming from the Isadora Duncan school in Moscow to take "All he| Patt assures an evening that will) fully live up to the importance of the occasion. But above all, greetings from workers and workingclass organiza-| | tions—thousands of them—are ‘nee-| this week. essary to make the fifth anniver- sary of the Daily Worker a real celebration in which every section of | the American working class will be represented. Workers, get busy! WORKER BURNT MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 13.— |Helmuth Falk, 39, was seriously burned when a gang of workers built a fire around a drum of oil to thaw it from the ground, to which it was frozen. MAY ENJOIN JANTIONS) CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Owners of the Central*Plaza Hotel have peti- tioned the Superior Court for an Union, Local 1, f establishment, . |The Houseboat on the Styx” | Scheduled for Liberty Theatre ED JACOB’ Sha mnusical satire, “the Houseboat on the Styx,” by John . Hazzard and Kenneth Webb, | based on the John Kendrick Bangs | Stories, is set to open at the Liber- |ty Theatre, Tuesday evening, Dec. | 25. The large cast is headed by |John E. Hazzard, who will create |the role of Captain Kidd. Blanche Ring will play the part of Eliza- | beth. Hal Forde will be Sir Walter Raleigh. Others who will play the roles of famous historical characters are: Sam Ash, Alice MacKenzie of {the St..Louis Opera Co., Bertram Danforth. The music and lyrics are ders, composers of “Tangerine.” | RUSSIAN SYMPHONIC CHOIR TO APPEAR TONIGHT | The Russian Symphonie Choir | will appear in the Artists’ Recitals | series, under the auspices of the People’s Symphony Concerts at the) Washington Irving High School this evening. The program consists of the following numbers: Easter Song by Bortniansky, To Thee We Sing, by Rachmaninoff, Unfinished Sym- phony by Schubert, Oriental Song by Cesare Cui, Moscow Street Song by Kibalehich, Dubinusha (labor song) by Kibalchich and other numbers. This series of concerts is especially arranged for Leila and workers. Ruth Draper, who is continuing | in Boston a second week, will open | here Christmas night at the Comedy an have only| Ave. and 34th St., has been secured! Theatre and will present her char- acter sketches the entire week every evening, and matinees Wednesday, Friday and’ Saturday. “Exceeding Small” will be moved to another theatre. 4 “Follow Thru,” the new Schwab and Mandel musical ceomédy which opens here early in January at the 46th Street Theatre, is playing Cleveland at the Hanna Theatre | “Poppa,” the H. S. Kraft comedy by Bella and Samuel Spewack, is | showing its wares this week at the | Windsor Theatre in the Bronx prior to its moving to Broadway. With the production of “Tin Pan Alley” at the Republic passing its fiftiéth performance, the producers, the {Lang-Forbes Corp., announce the presentation of three additional productions which are scheduled to arrive ‘on Broadway during the | coming year. BOSS NEGLIGENCE KILLS PITTSBURGH, Pa. (By Mail).— |work to and from the central in-|injunction to restrain the Janitors | A¢cidents in the anthracite region in m picketing the! October resulted in the death of 38 miners, ? SAME ADDRESS OVER 75 YEARS 1928 po FTROPDUTAN SAVINGS BANK ASSETS EXCEEDING $2! Deposits mude on or day ¢ 000,000 before the 3rd the month will draw ti from the Ist day of # Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) until Ranking by Mall We Sell A. B. A. Travele: Come to ISADORA DUN 4% Soctety Accoun’ See the CAN DANCERS OF MOSCOW, U.S. S. R. “ IRMA DUNCAN in a pre REVOLUTIONARY the at ‘ogram of DANCES Fifth Anniversary Celebration of the DAILY WORKER Saturday Evening, January 5 MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE . Tickets: $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 are now on sale at the Daily Worker ‘Office, 26-28 Union, Sq. All Seats Reseryed. q | Peacock, Marietta O’Brien and Wm.) ___ | by Monte Carlo and Alma E. San-) ‘Poetry and Jazz at. 3rd Red Poets Night Poetry will mingle with jazz at the third annual Red Poets’ Night, | Friday evening, Dec. 28, at Man hattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St. A Dance Bacchanal has been arranged \after the readings to help clear the heads of those who listen too in- tently to the poetry. John Smith’s Negro Jazz Band will be the music-makers of the eve- |ning and their scintillating jazz will prod proletarian toes until the early hours of the morning. The leading revolutionary poets |of many nationalities will read from | their own work. A lecture on prole- |tarian literature by an acknowl- edged authority will also be « fea- jture. Tickets are on sale at the | business office of the Daily Worker, | 26-28 Union Square. |Nanking Asks Hoover to Visit China Too NANKING, China, Dec. 13.’ Chiang Kai-shek, head of the bloody | Nanking regime, has extended an invitation to President-elect Hoover) to visit China and help stabilize the) Kuomintang reaction with Wall Street dollars and speed-up effi-; ciency. The Chinese minister at Lima, Peru, conveyed the invitation to Hoover when the latter passed Lima) in the course of his imperialist cir- cumnavigation of Latin America. FIND MURDER SUSPECT. WATERTOWN, N. Y., Dec. (U.P),—Frank Ferrante, 42, fail of killing his wife in a hotel here, this morning, was apprehended at Carthage, near here, shortly after noon, 12 Best Film Show In Town Keith-. AME 42nd Street and Broadway Slaves Making Planes pe Imperialist War ‘Preparation Get 12 Hour Day in 1 Seattle VITAPHONE TO THROW 126,000 OUT OF WORK | Musicians ‘Need. Strong ,| Union to Fight | (By a Worker Correspondent) | With the rapidly increasing use of the mlovietone and vitaphone mach- ines, 126,000 musicians will find |themselves in the ranks of unskilled and unemployed workers These jmusicians can hove for very little |protection from the American Fede- ration of Musicians, Mr. Weber, the president, himself is a shareholder in the American Talk- ing Movies Corporation. Of the musicians, the first to suf- |fer from the modern popularization ‘of jazz bands were the string instru- [ment players who either lost their |jobs, were forced to learn to play |some jazz instruments, or, if they | were to remain in the musicians’ |ranks, were compelled to open up | their oy own violin studios. “A more serious blow was dealt with the enforcement of the ill- famed eighteenth amendment result- ing in the closing of thousands of refreshment clubs, and the subse- quent addition to the vast army of unemployed when tens of thousands lof musicians had to seek work in | other industries. | In spite of our difficulties, our past experience has enlightened us in realizing that only by a powerful union can we keep secure our posi- tions as musicians, | since } —J. A. | (By a member of the Worker Corre- | spondence class in the N. Y. Work- ers School). | Attend the Dnily-Freihelt cos- | tume ball at Madixon Square Gar- den Saturday night, Dee, 15. TE ST ste-de =e NOW! 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