The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 4

Page Four Fishermen’s GREAT RISKS 100. MILES OFF LAND ALONE IN BOAT ree Weeks of very 1 Correspondent) (By a W Slavirg f long after sun small boat 100 miles or the neare c Qcean, we ve the worst job in t ld. At the end of the day. r pulling 1,000 fathoms (6.000 f eavy fishlines from or 19 p. m., our y lumps of flesh, there are so many blisters on them. Just at present we are engaged in tile fishing 100 miles out on the At- lantic from New York City. We are working for the Caleb Haley Co. wholesale fish dealers in Fulton Market. Some of the other big fish dealers located in Fulton Market, | for whom we fishermen work, ai the Portland Co., Cheseboro B: G. H. Hanson and other compa: All of these companies cheat us. be how we work. The company supplies the boa There are 15 men to each fishing schoon: schooners are two-masters, $50 For 254 Hours’ Slavery. The crew of the smack is sup- d to get 60 per cent of the 7-9 of tha entch, to be divided up fm even shares. The company is 40 per ci uy and sup] hoat. trip out on the Atlantic frkes about two or three weeks, This means 21 days of slavery, 14 hours each day, sweating our strength out in pulling the heavy fishlines. The most fish we can ‘atch on a trip is from 20,000 to 0.000. This means that for three Yeeks of slavery, after the crew vides up, $50 is all each fisherman gets. That’s $16 a week for slaving Seven days a week, 14 hours a day. r Bosses Cheat Fishermen. t)After we pull into New York with fie catch we got to the Haley Co., @ whatever company in Fulton Mar- Ret that owns the boat we were fleving on. It do make any difference which it hey all cheat us. They cheat us in many w: Fhey tell us that all they will ‘be le to get for the fish is 6 cents a 5 a.m. to 9 hands look like is for pound or 7 cents. They give us What they want to. Then, after they give us this small amount, they go out and get 14 cents a pound for it. When the fishermen come in to the market, Haley or Hansen or the other companics tell us they are going to pay us 6 to 9 cents a pound, They take the fish, and, when we return for our money, the company tells us: “All you'll get is 3 cents a pound. If you do not like it, then go to hell.” The bosses are supnosed to get only 40 per cent, but they take what they want. Often they rob us of about 400 pounds of fish after has been weighed out in cases. sneak a case away from us. We do not let them chest us on the weight, because we weigh the fish ourselves. Alone—100 Miles Out. Ocean fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs there is. A man goes out alone in a boat for 14 or 16 hours, and, often, he never re- turns. Often the little boats we go out in get run down by ocean liners. These are the risks we have to take. Sometimes the boats are in rotten condition. Then, another risk we have to take for the $16 or so we| get is in stormy weather. Just at present we are tile-fishing; also go- ing out for cod and scallops. Most of the fishermen out of New York are Norwegian. There are about 150 or 200 of us out of New York. | Forced to Fish by Poverty. the fish | They | {or knowledge of cooperation work, * * DAILY WORKEP NEW YORK, MOND. Hands Photo shows Grover Whalen, exploiter of thousands of Wanamaker workers, and new Tam- many Hall police commissioner in New York, receiving decoration of arch-fa |, Italian consul in New York. lini, thru Emanuele Gr a reign of terror in New York. Whalen, Accepting the medal from Mussolin protect fascist activities against militant workers in New York. T “drive on criminals” is expected to be the jailing of militant workers. AY, DECEMBER 31, 1° WOMEN SLAVE Cc ok Unable to Stan] After Day’s Work (By a Worker Correspondent) OAKLAND, Cal. (By Mail) not stand any longer. working me 16 hours a day. a poor woman. I have a family to support.” When I asked this working woman to tell me what the matter was, and she told me that she was ing in Los Gatos, California, t terrorist, Musso- imitating Mussolini, has begun ni, Whalen shows that he will rhe next step after the Whalen WOMEN ACTIVE IN | USSR COOPERATIVES HE Octo! ing the to’ the U.S. S, R. at the helm of state sounded the clarion call to the working and peasant women to build up their | | new life on a par with that of their brothers, to share in building the socialist structure on the ruins of capitalist Russia. Cooperation is the true path to socialism; it is built on the pennies jof the toilers and with their own hands. It sets as its aim that the toiling women, who from the very beginning of the Soviet govern- ment were given equal right with |men, shall be drawn into the task of practical work and construction. | Many obstacles stood in the way of social organizational and econ- | omic work on the part of the wom- en. They were hampered by cus- |toms which stifled their minds and | activity with housework which has not yet been fully overcome, with conservative views on women, their economic dependence upon the fam-} ily, ete. The cooperatives had to devise special forms of work to draw the |women into their ranks, With this |in view special instructors have | been employed since 1923 in the | consumers’ cooperatives to ‘work among women, and wherever this was impossible those who engaged} in other tasks have to work also| |among and for the women, to make | | cooperators of them. | In the few years that have passed, we see how slowly. but] |surely, the role of the women in |the building up of the cooperatives is increasing, how they become ac- tive social workers and how the number of women inembers is growing. More Women in Work. | Thus in 1924 there were 275,270 | women members in the rural coop-} \eratives (7.8 per cent); in 1926 their number increased to 782,494 (10.8 per cent). The number of women members jin the urban cooperatives in 1924 |was 847,b48 (23.7 per cent), and | |in 1925 the number increased to 1,- 123,519 (25.1 per cent). In order to develop a permanent} body of “activists” in the consum-} cooperatives, there is a special tution for working and peas- |ant women, who have no experience eratives and 8,046 for the urban | cooperatives. The others learn to} be -salesmen in the cooperative | shops (2,726 in rural shops and| The rotten conditions are the same for all the fishermen on the | Atlantic Coast, from ya Scotia | and Gloucester down to Newport News, Most of us are forced to be| fishermen because it is so hard to get work at other jobs in other work. Even the worst vaid factory slave is not as bad off as we are, for at the end of the day they can #0 back to their hor and fam- ilies, and they at least know in ad- vance what pay they are going to get. But we never know what the fish bosses will pay us. They pay us what they want, and they tell us, “if we don’t like it, to go to hell jout of here; there are plenty of ‘éthers waiting for the job.” | There are many men out of work, (Grifting to fishing from the other industrics. A, Must Organiz The reason the bosses can do what they want with us is that we are fnorganized. What we fishermen jmust do is organize a strong, fight- ing union. and then tie up ail the ‘boats until we get decent wages and conditions. We have no union now, tbut we had one a few years ago. || When the Storm Breaks. ') I want to tell you one happening, lhust to show you what dangerous itisks the fishermen must take, and ‘how we are cheated by the bosses. A while ago I was on the crew of the Haley Co. fishing schooner, the {Mary P. Mosquito. A heavy storm ibroke, and we wanted to beach the ikbes off Cape May, N. J. The cap- tain, however, promised us much money if we would risk our lives in the storm, and we kept the boat afloat until we reached New York. |members of managing boards, au- | 1,932 in towns). In addition the cooperatives have already trained 70,000 women who are now directly engaged in coop- erative work. Many of these are \diting and shop committees, dele- | | gates from cooperative | and delegate meetings. To an ever larger degree develop the cooperatives their work along the line of improving the living |conditions of the toiling women. |This problem occupies an impor- tant place in cooperative construc- | tion: first of all the cooperative in j working for the cultural advance- | ment of the toiling masses, try to | Dewgin by teaching mothers how to jrear children and take care of | themselves in order to bring up a j generation of socialist builders, [healthy in both mind and body. Secondly, this work is important | for us in emancipating "woman | from household drudgery and the | care of children and thereby giving sections | | docked the boat in New York, When we asked for the money for the \pumping, which the captain had promised us, we got nothing. We are supposed to get 75 cents an hour extra for pumping. The Haley Co. has never made good that prom- ise to this day. The captain of the fishing schooner is with the boss. He is supposed to get only his {share of 60 per cent of the catch, but he robs us all he can, and helps the boss. What we fishermen must do, I say again, is to organize to fight this slavery. Next time I will tell you more of the everyday life of the fishermen on the ocean, and We did this, but we had to pump {Zor 43 hours straight before we dty- ire iJ will describe my next trip. FISHERMAN, Staaten) | work is of course as yet inadequate |are 95 women learning to be in-/| shoulder with them, we may create | structors, 91 to be manager, 1,216|a new life, that we may build up| to be cashiers for the rural coop-| cooperation, the true path to So- |the ninth anniversary of the Work- | * Revolution, in plac-, her more time and opportunity to engage in social work. For this purpose from 2 to 10 per cent of the profit made by the| consumers’ cooperatives is assigned for such work, About 2,500,000 rubles have been thus assigned in 1926-27 primarily for the organiza- tion of kindergartens, playgrounds, and clinics. There were 228 new creches and 831 play- ds and kindergartens opened All of them have inaugurated not only with or- ganizational but also direct ma- terial support of the toiling moth- ers. For instance, a kindergarten was opened in Nizni-Novgorod, 25| per cent of the expenditures of which have been supplied by the mothers themselves. Some cooperatives granted siderable sums for such work. The Moscow Consumers’ — Cooperative Society, for instance, granted 362,- 000 rubles. A special form of this work has been instituted in the co- operatives, known as “Mother and Child Corners” of which th were 3,015 in the villages and in the towns on July Ist, 1927, In these “corners” a mother can pur- chase everything necessary for the care and training of children. Most of the corners are connected with the Department of Mother and Child Protection,“ and with the Health Department, and assist in the work of rearing a healthy gen-| eration, | Cooperative Restaurants, | Apart from this work, the cooper- atives also build restaurants. In 1926 the number of cooperative res- taurants was 1,158. These res- | taurants serve over 50,000 dinners per day, thus freeing a large num- ber of women from househo}d work. | Cooperative baking also relieves | the woman from baking at home and enables her to devote more time to social work. The cooperatives have | opened 621 bakeries in the towns} and 548 in the rural districts, In| addition, we already have 28 large! scale mechanical bakeries. This} ereches con- 570 to accomplish the drawing of the “millions and millions of toiling women to the cause undertaken by | the Soviet government.” (Lenin). | | We must increase tenfold the energy | § to learn the coperative business. | and self-activity of the cooperatives | | There are 14,076 women engaged in| and of the toiling masses belonging | the study of the various branches | to lof cooperative work. Thus there | the women, so that, shoulder to the cooperatives, particularly cialism, Pittsburgh Workers | Celebrate Ninth | Party Anniversary | pubis). | PITTSBURGH (By Mail), — A| Proletarian Banquet, to celebrate ers (Communist) Party of America, will be held Tuesday night, Jan. 1, at 8 p. m., in the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., Pittsburgh. A musical and literary evening will feature. | Refreshments will be served. The affair will be held under the auspices of District 5, Unit 2, Dis- | trict 5, Workers Party- | ing the New Bedford cases. | You might do it by sending me the a restaurant named the Blos- for som Restaurant, and that she was slaving as a cook 16 hours a day for $100 a month. This is how even the women workers are enslaved un- der the capitalist system in “Sunny” California. These conditions can he "TINGS HELPS TEXTILE TRIAL ended if the women workers gs well — as the men organize in a fighting Allowance Money organization, GUST VANTJAS. i; r De | to Labor Defense | onetit of political prisoners, I am re jenclosing a check for same. “With the best wishes for a speedy release of all those behind the bars from an ex-political prisoner, (Signed) A, FISHER.” (Continued from Page One class which roused the ire of the in- stitntions which deal out capitalist justice. In his letter to the International Tabor Defense from Folsom Prison, Warren K. Billines, himself the v tim of the capitalist frame-un in the Mooney case, who has spent the last twelve years in prison, says: : . y |to enable them to have snecial com- «cy, 7 Prisoner Donates. |forts and to buy necessities in tho ‘Your letter reached me about ten | Christmas period and has been user days ago and T assure you that I am) for the families of the political aware of your difficulties regard-| prisoners, i I would “ be very much pleased if you could Billings’ Mother Than!:ful. transfer that money over to the New| The mother of Warren K. Billin: Bedford Defense Fund as a contribu- | writes the following letter acknoy tion from me. However, to do this|edging the check of $50 sent fre you must make the transfer in your |the Christmas Fund of the I. L. D. own office, because if the checks are| “Just a few lines to let you know sent here for me to sign. I will not that I yesterday received the chec! he allowed to send them back again.| for $50 and hope to make the best It is a strict rule here, that any|use of it, I thank you all. I wil! money that comes here must stay write my son, Warren, and let him ere. here, one has to have nine reasons | 1 am almost 73 years old and have and the extra special permission of no money and not able to go to work the warden and the unanimous con-! and earn money any more. sent of the Board of Prison Diree-| “With best wishes and good lu tors. It takes four to six months to | to you all, Iam acquire these special permissions, if | ,.. they can be acquired at all, which is| (Signed) MRS. A G. BILLINGS.” indeed rare. If you can possibly arrange the matter, please do so. Part of the money which has bee raised and which is still pouring in the I. L. D. National Office, hos been used for the political prisoners Have you bought your ticket for the Daily Worker Fifth Anniver- sary Celebration at Manhattan Opera House on January 5? Tick- ets are $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50. All seats reserved. Buy your tickets now and get the best seat receipts and letting me sign them} and then transferring the money over, in cash, to the Defense Fund.” IBHOURS A DA” To send money away from |trow what that you sent it to me. | | Chener aw Lumps of Flesh After 14 ‘lour Day of Slavery on Ocean Terrorist “Honors” Terrorist; Whalen Uses Fascist i “SUNNY” CALIF, “Fergi..on Family’ , ill Lamas ees “ Bring in Maiy Shekels For the last few seasons Gustav m has presented plays that have Family” | by |plavs sponsored by him. —As| Similar to the other plays which|mood whenever he is on the stage. | I was sitting in a store drinkin< |have brot in the shekals, for Blum,|He portrays the sure fire business milk, a middle-aged woman came the present play is about the life; man and does so very convincingly, | more, out on the end of the Skillen in with a little girl, crying to the |of a middle class family. In many} storekeeper, “I am all in, and I can- | Ways it resembles, “The Show Off” They are/one of the successful plays shown honors among a sunerior cast. I am sful runs on Broadway |stage. 9 their plots have been slender |shows how the ond artificial. His latest opus, “That |ducts his camnaien for more money, reason Howard | . y, is now at the Little The- lines to laugh at. atre and undoubtedly will be as hug: |a Broadway success as the other|Aubrey Piper in “The Show Off” is ‘45¢ AN HOUR FOR MEN BUILDING A BIG PLANE PLANT | They Are Unorganized; | $1.50 for Union Men jable to put the audience in a happy | |dinary middle class family is hrot jinto view end examined on the In meny respects the play petty bourgeois con- The audience can easily find many Rudolph Striker, ho closely resembles the character | (By a Worker Correspondent ) | BUFFALO (By Mail).—At Ken- The part is capably played by Ar-j|line (under the infamous Mitten thur Kohl, who easily gains first management) a giant aircraft fac- Mrs.|tory is under construction. The in New York several seasons ago. Ferguson is played by Jean Adair, | building is over a quarter i 4 e n | | bi ter of a mile |Many times during the evening the| other members of the cast include |iong and over 300 feat wide. ete jresemblance is so complete, that it |Marienne Francks, is quite startling. One of the Ferguson daughters | steal a few dresses from the de- partment store where she works |while the son who is a civil engi- ineer, wins a prize for his bridge The other daughter elopes and keeps the audience interested jin her love affair. | plan. i That in short.|be disappointed for the play is only is what the play concerns itself written from the point of view of |with. The everyday life of an or- (cresting laughs.—S. P. M Alan Ward, Hal-|this factory the Curtis Airplane liam Bosworth and Rita Paige. Corporation proposes to turn out If you want to leave your wor-/130 planes a day, This building is ries home and laugh at the expense| being constructed by the Games of the middle class, you could do| Stewart Co. and all the workers no worse than pay a visit some eve-|who are unorganized, the bricklay- ning to the Little Theatre. Those|crs, laborers, carpenters, concrete who would expect a critical exami-|laborers and pick and shovel staffs, nation of the petty bourgeoisie will|are being paid the great wage of 45 cents an hour, whereas the brick- layers who are organized are get- |ting $1.50 an hour. These unskilled 4B & 0.” Proponents : | Get Together to Fool | Other Shop Workers BALTIMORE, Dec, 30.—A B. and| ©. plan conference. in which class oving, Standard rail labor unions on the itimore and Ohio are sponsorine reilroad Iabor conference at Johns in Baltimore. ; Mechanization, steady . Tail labor legislation, moto: apetition and “labor’s construc- ‘ve function in the industry as de- veloped by railroad organizations” ill be emphasized. cng the B. and 0. will send dele- | Union and railroad execu- crates. tives will Japan Brazil Concession: (By Mail).— representing Japanese syndicate, has opened offi- ces in Acara and has requested the | Brazilian government to grant his company concessions similar to those ~ granted the Ford Co. ‘syndicate plans to settle thousands |of Japanese workers, enslaving them. \It will attempt agricultural develop- | ment and exploration of natural re-| PARA, “Machiro sources, pkins Unive 19-20, laborationists will meet and try nchinists’ be speakers, Bosses Seek Brazil, Fukiro, road officials so reed shop crafts can ‘> swindled in the same way, is Local lodve: The Japanese Billings Donates Relief. Another political prisoner, A. 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