The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1928, Page 4

j) CHUNKS OF A BiG p¢ MACHINE HURLED y INTO WORKERS Repair Man Blinded, Poltus"” Wife .Penniless in (By a Worker Correspo A do’ DETROIT, (By Mail) wkermendous speed-up at th herewitor Co, plan Commof serious inju the niof the belt. huge toll g the slave have been pany lost. In the indus the large 18 in grinding machines Department 1518 seriously wou d 6 workers Th a single mon ) scak wheels are too big for | tha dous speed 1100 te Wi” “ions per ‘ninut- at wn hip run. When the end-haf no ly worn the vi' on ce TE in the wheel, and then piece Ww eff, which are led with § (ous speed and force. B On Oct. 1° of 2 these machir J chunk of one t is still in a hosp : E pled for life. Three more of these ¥ aeeidents occurred soon x Estill no removal of the cause of the . accidents. t. Tears Hole In Stomach. ey On Nov. 18, a Ford slave had his sai, Stomach torn open, and was near! killed. Finally, after all these ac- Hd nd cidents, the wheel broke again, one of the pieces flew machine and broke thru guard an eighth of an This was the last straw, a men in this department refused to go-on and threatened to quit work. After this demonstration of resis- tance by the workers the company was forced to replace the wheel with others of smaller size. Blinded, Wife Penniless. Ellis Wann, machine repair man, is now lying in the Ford Hospital, in danger of losing his left eye after an accident which occurred at the Ford River Rouge pressed steel department on Nov. 15. He was re- pairing the automatic on an electric spot welder when a piece flew in his eye.” He went to the hospital to have the eye treated. Infection set in. Altho he has slaved for Ford for the last 6 yea wife was in such straightened circumstances that the boys in his department took up @ collection for her. a metal ch thick No Jail Terms Given to Border Patroimen for Accepting Bribes DEROIT, Dec. 20 (UP).—Twenty former customs border patrolmen were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of accepting bribes from rum runners. Fourteen of those indicted are free jon bonds and six others have been j unable to furnish bail. All were FIND WORKER’S BODY. % SUPERIOR, Wis., (By NM The unidentified body of a work- ' inmgman was found near Port 5 Wayne, on the shore of Lake Su- 4 perior. | AM I i (By a Worker Correspondent) I am refused everywhere. In one) big shop the boss, who can hardly -/ stand on his feet, is trying to tease| me. “What are you, a suit case jaker or a trouble maker? I'll ive you a job provided you pro- mise to become a good boy.” “Nothing doin’!” mixed in another boss, “I know these guys. First they promise everything and after they prove to be Bolsheviks again. We haven't got a job for you! Go «to your union for a job,” he ad- ded after a pause. That's the sc the system of workers. +I am trying my luck in a small job where I had worked years ago. The boss meets me ‘with a great welcome. ‘Well, so you are back again. Remember when I told you “mot to quit the job. You would have gotten used to the shop by this time. Well, take off your hat and _ eat.and get to work.” Ae e shop-is about the same as it was when I left it three and a half -_years ago. A-dark, narrow building ‘with the ceiling hanging low on your head. Some window glasses + “are broken, giving a free access to ~ the blowing wind and snow. The mice in the shop have more liberty than the workers. It’s always cold “qn the shop. One has to wear a “sweater and warm clothes while working., The idea of the boss is, the colder it is, the faster we'll work to warm up. On my second day in the shop the _ poss approached me with a big good ; ing. I knew that it means ing. “Say, Jack, you wana nave good time?” he asked. Mr. Mindell,” I replied. Jack, you see my eyes ne of the bosses, acklisting active is » women deplorable for the las a t positions to another * d the ® A TROUBLEMAKER? ASKS MILITANT WORKER tion departm ad race to pile up m k nder a terri workers to slo s t 1 Worker Cor consequenc pondent on th Employment Agencies Are AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMPER 01, 1628 ent at the Ford plant at Highland ore millions of dolla Ford forces fie speed-up system, regardless of the workers from accidents, as described by a is page. Helping to Lower Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) I am an office worker, that is heed bookkeeper and accountant and have ctieal experience in this line for about eight years. I found em- ployment in this line for men and years, in this city, which is supposed to be t industrial center. The news- do not have any business advertised, least y few are to be fou the Help Wanted columns. We had papers d, nd in ve here in Cleveland a chain of nt Agencies, who have devoted themselves to getting+all the jobs from the industrials and small asi and in return demand ) for $100 per month jobs and 60 70 per cent and more for jobs ying over $100 per month. They ays talk by the month instead by the week. In other words they want from us poor undernaid workers the f . second and third week’s wages | and the fourth week’s wages are left for us, and in most cases these jobs don’t last very long, the apnlican either let out or laid off for some purpose. The only jobs that are advertised for in our papers, are in most eases for certain skilled trades, or types of machine work that not everybody can do. nesses. is Furthermore, it is no wonder that these employment agencies captured the whole trade of employment, They have their hirelings or women clerks call all the firms in the telephone book from A to Z. They have cor- nered the position market and not only sell jobs to the workers but keep their wages down. These agencies, as I have found out, are playing into the hands of the bosses ard are selecting from the unem- ployed those who asked cheap wages. These agencies have developed into | true enemies of the workers. The fifty or so employment agen- cies are getting about $1,000,000 a year out of unemployment here. Not only do they get the commissions de- manded, but also charge each appli- cant one dollar for registering with them. This certainly is a fine way to clean up. These parasites are| waxing rich on us poor underpaid workers. If I find a job that should pay about $125 per month I figure iam only getting about 50 to 60 cents per hour. That shows that my condition is no better than that of | a laborer. Not only are we expected to work overtime gratis, but are bject to_be layed off, or dismissed at any time. T had an argument with one of | wife almost fainted. Such a drama | of real life. Here are two benefit tickets, the proceeds are for the Hebrew School. Take your sweet- heart and go to see the show.” To refuse meant to anger the boss, to| accept meant to spend $3.50. So I} went on a compromise telling him that my sweetheart is sick, and after| a short argument bought one ticket. | I hardly got rid of him and an aged Jew comes in the shop. He elaims he comes direct from Pales- tine to collect money for a Hebrew School in Jerusalem. The Irish cut- ter gives him a quarter. I looked through the window and I saw an- other old Jew ready to gét in, as soon as the t one got out. I got sore, and demanded a credential which the old Jew could not pro- duce. I threatened to telephone to the organization he claims to repre- sent to find out more information. |Hearing that, the holy representa- | tive picked up his books and disap- jpeared. ‘The Irish cutter is sore for giving the faker a quarter. The boss is a little offended for my bother- ing the holy rabbi. The wind began to blow in thru the broken windows, picking the heavy dust from the shelves right into our lungs. The mice ran around the shop as free citizens, the work is the limit, but you’ve got to work, | work, work! Three weeks later, I was fired. This time for trying to organize the few workers in the shop for the | improvement of our conditions, I am back in the street again, | hearing the same old song: “What, jare you a suit-case maker, or a | trouble maker?” —J. SKLAR. Ce (By a member of the Worker Correspondence Class in the N. Y. | Workers School.) | was given a job on a machine mal | destination tonight. these agency officials, some time ago. I told him that a dishwasher makes a hundred dollars a month with eats, and why should office people pay $50 for such wages. Well Nota Line About Anti- Imperial Pickets (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— Every American worker knows only too well how the prostitutes who own, edit and write for the capi- talist press lick the boots of their masters, the bosses. There are six |daily so-called “newspapers” in | Philadelphia, all with large circula- tions. There cannot be any city in which the venality of the capitalist press is greater. Each day the “Record,” “Public Ledger,” “Inquir- er,” ete, show the workers how they are for the bosses only. A glaring example was furnished Satur onstration of over 150 pickets took place at a busy hour of the day i | | IF NOT PLEASANT Sao y and Sunday, A mass dem-| he said we have a right to charge front of the United Fruit Company | such commissions, a contract is contract, and furthermore, they can sue in court for their commissions. That shews the courts uphold such , contracts, Wages in this city as a rule are not v good. Man and wife have to go working in many ¢: » and the cost of rent and living is very high. eee Because I’m too much of a fighter and refuse to go that far and pay one of these parasites for a job I don’t own, I had to take up some other kind of work that I could find. The first of the year I was hired with the National Acme Co. in a} large department store making shock absorbers for the Ford Motof Co. I ing these parts on a piece rate basi: like all other workers. We were told work twelve hour shifts, two weeks di and two weeks nights. If a worker shows weakness, he is discharged. Because of working in this hell all year, I finally had to lay off for a while several weeks ago, and due to this, I was dis-} charged. This prov contracts demand workers to work twelve hours per day, whether its scraps them or not. Lone Driver Rushes to Frozen Yukon Town to Relief Pox Epidemic CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 20. (U. P.).—Unfavorable radio conditicns have made it impossible to ascertain the progress of a dog team which has been mushing through the fro- zen Yukon to the little town of Holy Cross, stricken by a small pox epi- demic. The team of huskies and their driver left Anvik early Tuesday for trails and should have reached their But for more than 24 hours static has prevented the hearing of radio signals, which form the only means of rapid com- munication with isolated affected districts. Holy Cross is an inland tow: of 142 persons, situated at the fork of the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, about 150 miles from the coast. British Jail Samoa King; Natives Angry LONDON, Dee. 20. (UP).—King Tamases of Samoa has been arrested and taken aboard the British steam- | am telling you, I cried so much, my|er Tofua to New Zealand to serve a six months term on a charge of ob- structing police, an. Evening News dispatch from Suva, Fiji Islands, said today. : The king refused to pay $12 taxes. The western section of the islands is under the administration of New Zealand, but the population |should be treated as a common crim- inal. | The program at the 5th Anni~ | versury Celebration of the Daily Worker at Manhattan Opera House consists of adora Duncan Dancers of y S. Re im evolution- (0 now on sale at Daily Work- All sents reserved. er office. of Samoa was deeply indignant that} their nominal king and high chief | docks at Delaware Ave. and Arch St. Thousands of workers saw this demonstration, which was in sym- pathy with the 40,000 striking Col- ombia banana workers. The thou- sands of workers were interested in| the picketing. ‘As is customary, the police called for a huge army of reinforcements, and started to halt the demonstra- tion. But the class conscious work- | ers are not so easily “dissuaded” | and continued to picket. The po-| lice charged: the picket lines and ar-| rested 43 pickets. Now, this is not only news, but big news. the papers here handle this news? The reporters were on the job and phoned in the news at once. Not a word appeared. in any of the capi- talist papers in Philadelphia, ex- trying to increase And, even t mentaty. There had been a s0- of, the Fahnestock, in the city. bear when poor worker who has the ill-fortune to fall into the law’s clutches. ing too far” on several occasions. Imagine what kind of a trial the {43 pickets had. It was a farce. “Can’t you see that I am a woman; don’t say ‘yes, sir, say, ‘yes ma’am’.” “I am not a woman, I am the law.” Not a word however in the papers about the trial, in which 40 of the workers got 60 day ) sentences, However, on Monday, we had with | lus in Philadelphia the account in the “Daily \Worker,” which is be- |coming daily better known to the workers in Philadelphia as the only | paper available that prints news and ip dianidcyecger mi reaoD hee eee eae ; me °d'| talist press hides the news, the soon-| pany, nor the union officialdom de- er will the workers realize that they are throwing money away in buying the capitalist papers, and the soon- er will they subscribe to the Daily Worker to learn what is happening! in their own city. | —C. RABIN. Yugoslav Cabinet in Crisis Due to Croat | Autonomy Movement BERLIN, Dec. 20. (UP).—King} Alexander of Yugoslavia conferred with Premier Koroshetz at Belgrade twice today, according to Telegraph Union advices. It was said the conferences con- |cerned threats of the cabinet to re- | sign due to the critical situation in (the controversy between Serbs and |Croats over political privileges and power. British Imperialism to Build Airports Throughout China | HANKOW, China, (By Mail).—} Aviation Co., under the control of British in- Air transport routes will be established, British imperialism will thus gain a further foothold in The Wuhan Commercial | terests, has been formed here. airports built, under British and control, ‘China, In the Shadows By J. C. EDEN. ‘The guards parade agai The watch-towers are manned heavily. nst the moon, Listening to the creaking silence, Fingering their triggers. Far down in the shadows, invisible, They stir, these masses Softly, quietly, Their eyes burning the The watch-towers are m By sons of those in the Some know who hide in messages. anned heavify shadows. the shadows, Some wait to greet them. And one night, when th The walls will not be so The guard will not heed e moon hides, high. the sealing rustle— And swarming masses will rip the walls asunder. slaves of Ford. But did Deportation Cases Still | eept in one local tabloid which is| Comrades Grossberg and Deveranos 4 its circulation.| have both been released from jail his account was frag-!on bail—reduced And Sunday’s papers?| $1,500. The immigration -called “trial”! are trying to deport the former to 43 pickets before Judge Viola! fascist Poland and the latter to} the only woman judge Greece. Judge Fahnestock is a| cases are before the it comes to not only! With the exe that Ford Prosecuting but also persecuting any} an Austrian, a She public, as their homeland. is so vicious that even official) comrades were arrested in raids by| bodies have called her down for “go-| the “Red” squad in October. sed Speed- Up at Ford Automobile Plants Cripples Workers Who Where Slaves Pile Up Dollars for Ford at the Belt ED HARRIS has two new plays which he expects to present in New York shortly after the new year. On Jan. 7 he will bring here “The Lady of Newgate,” by Edwin Justus Mayer, author of “The Fire- brand.” Ina Claire will be starred in this production and the cast will inelude Arthur Byron, Richard Bird, C. Henry Gordon and Edward Rigby. The play opens next week at Wer- ha’s. Brooklyn Theatre and then, plays in Newark for a week. F The other play. now in rehearsal, is “Serena Blandish,” a dramatiza- tion of the novel of that name, by S. N. Behrman, author of “The Sec- ond Man.” stance Collier will head the cast. “Serena Blandish” will play two weeks at the Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and will be presented in New York the week of Jan. 21. Three experimental productions jwill be presented by the Theatre Arts Institute of the Laboratory | Theatre to invited audiences this | |month. The plays are Pirandello’s, “Sicilian Limes,” Cervantes’ “The Jealous Old Man” and scenes from | Above are two views of the belt |conveyer system at the Ford plant, |“Coriolanus,” based on a study of | opened at the new Ethel Barr bringing parts and material to the | the Goya grotesques, | FASCISTS HARRY COAST WORKERS John Henry Mears has, postponed | the premiere of his new melodrama, | Herbert Ashton Jr’s “Brothers,” ! starring Bert Lytell, from December 24 to December 25. The production opens at the 48th St. Theatre on Tuesday evening. Joe Physioc will do the scenic ef- | fects for “Dark Alley,” by Margaret Martin Medbury, that McBride and Stoermer have in rehearsal now. Peggy Allenby and George Probert have been engaged for the leading roles. Before Courts (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).— “Angela,” the new musical com- te cdy at the Ambassador, will be 5,000 0 transferred on Monday evening, Dee. authorities 9: to the Century Theatre. from $ : .t0) «Hot Water,” the new éomedy by deportation | telen Smith Dayton and Louise - Courts also. Tascom Barratt, in which Lucille La one worker, Verne will be starred when she pre- em claim the) conts it at her theatre in January, the first workers’ re- * ‘All these | Went into rehearsal yesterday Several other eption © 1 Soviet Union, ” at the Maxine Elliott ‘Theatre, will not be played on Mon- day evening (Christmas Eve). There will, however, be an extra matinee on Friday of that week, Inciden- tally, the Wednesday matinee will mark the 75th performance of this interesting drama by Eugene Wal- ster. from the French of Louis Vor- neuil. —L. P. RINDAL. IMPOSE PAY CUT Hose Union Offers to Speed Up Workers (Continued from Page One urer of the McCallum Hosiery Com- \taken by the federation, which is the sole financial support of the U. \T. W., was to reach an agreement |with the hosiery mill owners in Philadelphia to reduce the rate of | pay of the knitters. Now the manufacturers are pro- |nosing something new, which the Kenosha strikers have been fighting for almost a year in a bitter strike, namely .the. two-machine. system. And the union officials, according to trade journal press reports, are by, ne means presenting a very strenu- ous opposition to this vicious speed- 7 * vhich would throw out of Thomas F. McMahon, president of |“? SYS‘em wile! H the parent body, the United Textile free UMNDSNA, WES AOU Ree . ri 4 Seer ne trade paper admits that a Workers Union, in promising the|.y: a Sag BOP ae |suggestion that the mill owners put bosses larger profits if they only |/4q°Oc. cont of their plant on th let them—Geiges and McMahon— |," Per Get © i uaiggar te i two machine system each year is attend to the matter. being received with no disfavor by That this is no idle conjecture can|the officials. In the two machine be proven by the speech recently de- system, one ,knitter is required to livered by Geiges at the sessions of |operate two machines, whereas now the Taylor Society in New York, an| they run only one. organization .of .“industrial .effi-| Tn reporting on this question, the | ciency engineers,” or speed-up ex-/“Daily News Record” says, “This, perts. \if adopted, would mean that some Geiges there confessed that the of the large plants would require tendency of the manufacturers to ten years to operate the whole fac- move south threatens to weaken the | tory on the two machine plan.” But union. He did not, however, pro-/ militant workers expose this as a posed as a remedy, the organization |subterfuge to deceive the workers. of the south, but as admitted that Ten per cent each year is a joke, “the .manufacturers. are .being they say, the bors would, with the prompted by the union to develop |collaboration of the union chiefs, grtater efficiency to obtain greater force the whole plant to go on the profits in their present locations.” |two-machine system before one year nied that negotiations for a wage cut were under way. . The front of progressivism, which the A. F. F. W. U. was accustomed to assume in the past, has long been openly discarded ly the officialdom. Now president Geiges vies with The concrete measures already had passed. Siaiatt Pesca 2 ST THE ss DAILY WORKER | ON ITS SEND IN A DONATION SEND IN A GREETING FIFTH BIRTHDAY Today 26-28 UNION/ SQUARE. NEW YORK CITY. Jed Harris Will Produce “The Lady of Newgate” Ruth Gordon and Con- | |For Independent Labor Slave at the Belt AUTO GO, LURES “JOBLESS TO CUT SCALE OF WAGES ‘Situation Is Serious in | Nova Scotia | (By a Worker Correspondent) .NEW GLASGOW, Nova Scotia (By Mail).—When the Trenton Car Works announced that it had pro- | cured a large order for cars, unem- ployed workers began flocking to |Pietou County by the thousands from all parts of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Bruns- wick and Newfoundland. Although only a handful of new men was taken on, three or four thousané workers came looking for the job. | Conditicns in Nova Scotia are very jbad as far as employment is con- cerned. ‘Thousands of miners have | been laid off, and the lumbering in- dustry is going pretty bad. The the |hosses in Pictou County, especially which |in the steel plant at Sydney ‘and the ymore | Trenton Car Works in this city, are ‘tempting to take advantage of the igreat number of jobless workers AT MOSCOW MEET EVHEL BARRYMORE Who is back on Broadway in “The jKingdom, of God,” a play by the Spanish playwright Sierra, Theatre last night. and are using ‘these men to beat cown the already starvation wages ‘of the men who are working. No | “prosperity” in sight for Nova S tia, despite the promises of the poli- | ticians. ‘Propose 5 Year. Plan for Oil Wells in USSR MOSCOW, Dec. 20.—A plan of exploration and research for new cil and gas fields during the next five years has been proposed to the Struggle (Wireless By “Inprecorr”) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 2 Losovsky, Secretary of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions, speak- ing at Tuesday’s session fo the Con- Soviet geological committee. gress of the Labor Unions of the) This work will be concentrated in Soviet Union, pointed out that the| the center of the Soviet Union ané Congress was taking place at the/also along the seacoast at poinis same time as the attempts of capi-| suitable for the export of oil. The talism to encircle the Soviet Union, | Soviet oil trust has started boring while attacking its own workers. _cperations in the Kerch Perinsule “The past two years have seen near Batum, many important events in China, Australia, Austria, Japan, Latin- right-wingers are afrdid of the new America, France, Poland, Germany methods and the forms of the strug- and the Balkans,” Losovsky. “Events | gle against the reformists. confirm the attitude of the Fourth} “The revolutionary trade union Congress of the R. I. L. 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