The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 1, 1929, Page 4

‘rage Four DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1929 —_— Th Organize to End Conditions of Slavery ‘STEEL BOSSES /FATTEN ON TOIL ‘OF MILL SLAVES Safety First Signs Are a Mockery sai (By « Worker Correspondent). XNOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (By Mail). —A few weeks ago I came here from another steel slave town, Lorain, looking for a job. So I went to the Republic Iron and Steel o;,. Wken I got there I saw oppo- site; the employment office a big sign with the following: “Safety irst to enjoy the fruit of your la- bor.” So that morning they hired about 12 workers after they took their names, They sent us to the doc- tor, for a physical examination, where we had to wait from 7 o'clock to 11 o’clock, because the doctor was too busy to see us. In the time that we waited, I counted over 40 workers who came to the doctor's office as a result of being injured on the job. That is the fruit of eur labor—we come out of the mills with our hands, legs and other parts of our bodies crippled for life, and many of us lose our lives in the steel mills. These signs hanging all over the mil) cer- tainly are hypocritical. The conditions in general in the whole steel industry for the workers are a real example of tyranny. We slave from 8 to 12 hours a day. The wages are 44 cents an hour at the most. For our day and night slavery we never get more than $100 a month. Yet the steel barons, who stay hundreds of miles away from the mills, in some lux- urious offices, and never get any- where near the mills, make their millions from our slavery every month. Fellow-workers, the only way for us to end this is to or- ganize for better conditions—to or- ganize ourselves into a fighting union. Let us workers be prepared | to resist when they want to kill us off like sheep in the coming imper- ialist war, and do as the Russian workers did in 1917. NEGRO IN SOUTH |Workers Digging Subway Mena | Laborers at work on a subway excavation at Grand Concourse narrowly escaped when a water main burst, flooding the excavatio é disrepair by the Tammany Hall grafters who hold office in New York City. ce By Bursting Mai | | | | | FLORIDA HAVE The statement which is given be- | Haitian Patriotic Union, Port-au- Prine, Haiti: “Three of our bravest workers in our struggle against U. S. interven- |Get Only $1 a Day, and (tic, in ttaiti and all Latin-Americn, | Work 3 Days a Week /Elie Gerin, Georges Petit and Jacques Romain, editors of our new icking beans. It is too dry here to |Vile policy and race prejudice of U. CORPORATION INSIDERS HIDE, STEAL PROFITS “safety first” | (By Federated Press) Insiders Profit. At the turn of the year corpora-| That corporation managers take tions are beginning to publish bal-|advantage of the situation they cre- ance sheets, showing profits for thc | ate is delicately hinted in the finan- year 1928. A revelation on how |cial journal, “If such a corporation companies conceal the truth about|manager personally buys the stock profits, larger than are reported,/at a low figure when assets have |comes unexpectedly in a Wall Street |peen hidden in one way or another Journal article called “Subsidiary|in the reports, he is guilty of a Profits Often Unreported.” breach of trust.” Stockholders zre deceived, the ar-| ‘Two instances, reported to Fed- ticle charges, by the simple method | erated Press, of companies conceal- jof setting up inventory and other|ing profits, not from stockholders |reserves against certain assets. The | but from the workers, illustrate object is to minimize the actual | managers’ efforts to cut wages while company. The corporation invests |Names are withheld, but the facts ja good part of its surplus, but does |are reported from reliable sources. not tell the stockholders the value of such investments. Pile Up Reserves. A corporation director, in an in- “But perhaps the most common |terview with the press, boasted of way of concealing profits,” the ar-|the company’s profits just reported | ticle continues, “is through owning |at a directors’ meeting, The presi- another company outright or nearly |dent was angry, and called him Fool Employes. ments of income only the dividends | veal our profits to the public at this time. strength and earning power of the|the corporation increased its gains. | outright, yet including in the state-|down, saying, “We should not re- | in Steel Mills, Says Work her Batraville, cut atrocities were committed 1918, at the town of M 24, 170 miles from U. Yankee guns, gas bombs, airplanes and equip forces er n Kept in Disrepair BF AN PICKERS IN IU. ee: “MARINE RULE general, Charlem low has just been received from the |crucified on a tree, . Colonel Hooker and a marines, to fight against Ameri- | resp FUNDS, B NOT HE Bouncer W Throw T in Port-au-P using me onder JAILS HAITI WORKERS it SEEKS UT DOES LP POOR ith Club to hem Out By @ Worker Corresponaenry’ and militant paper, ‘Le Petit Im-|forth, to destroy the Haitian pec (ig: RRS: Corvectintont 4 FORT PIERCE, Fla, (By Mail).— | partial,’ have been brutally arrested War On U. S. Justified. I wish to tell it the Bethe ff This is a poor place, Most of the|by the Yankee Assistant Chief of] wwe ave sure that the American Ship Merchant- YY, M. ( people are farmers, The farmers|Folice, General Bill Cohn, with a) 4516 do not know all these th 58 Sullivan St., Brooklyn. I jhere do not make anything. 1/@ang of his men (U. 8. marines), |tia¢ are occurring in Haiti, But w to expose these people, I ar | worked on a farm here for a while, |@nd jailed for protesting against the| tat that if Haiti were able toy ced se anything much. They get |S: imperialism. can imperialism, it would be fully me jabout 100 hampers of beans from Published Facts—Jailed. justified as a measure of defense. we jthree acres. One acre ought to! «The charge against them is that) “If the predatory campaign of back r if bring that much, They get $2 althey published ‘outrageous,’ but| Wall Street in Haiti and Latin-|the key. They told me I would hamper for beans and when you fig- ltrue, articles against President | America not resisted with every |to put up 50 s for di it. Th ure the seed, fertilizer, ete, they |Louis J. Borno, exposing the graft-| power at hand, a naval base will ke} had mentioned nothing about this at make about 14 cents clear on a ling of the high Haitian clergy com-|built at the Mole St. Nicolas to first. 7 hamper. There are no jobs here | posed of over 300 French and six|furnish additional military and The Y. M. C, A. is a fake, for the and Mt, Eden Ave., the Bronz, jany place. I know there is no use| Haitian priests; also exposures of naval base from which to carry ie actiaply are worth 65 n. The main had been kept in of going north, because I know |the numerous crimes and burglaries on rapacious attacks against all IHeRerHole place aaibacrenas 6 there is nothing there, either. I|eommitteed by U. S. marines and Southern republics, as well as to pre- sail, and has all kinds of rules t [might as well starve here. A lot|marine officers in Haiti from July pare for another imperialist war for Sih and has 21 Kinds of mules fo © _______~~| of people here used to make a liv-|97, 1915 to November 1, 1928. the redivision of the world, but yen ee ound with a club and a | ing by fishing, but the last storm] “The arrest followed the publi-/always with the aim of exploiting Lon “omtieineaple. wieilive 4 R jblew all the fish houses and boats |cation in ‘Le Petit Impartial’ of | the small nations and oppressing the Sa hone erg ais th lobby are all | |away. There are no fishermen here | November 1, of the picture of our |darker races.” My workeraatinagine, diorder: to now. up there for only one nigh Bean pickers make about $1 or Seipel Government of $1.25 a day. In good beans, they | Austria Passes More | may make about $3 a day, but they | FOR THE NEGRO | si Jonly can get work 2 or 3 jdavs a| Arms to Horthy Gov’t |$2.50 Is One Worker's *** : Weekly Wages VIENNA (By Mail).—-During the unloading of packing cases of goods League Saves Face by |in the Vienna Danube Docks it was 3) i i ticed that the “goods” were ma- Calling Vilna Matter anne atl parts. The consignment Ended; Fight Goes On| | was destined for Budapest. The loading papers described the con- | “Say, Mr. Lou, can’t you give me LUGANO (By Mail).—In session signment as “crude oil motors.” The a job?” of the League of Nations Couneil |Setder was recorded as a Vienna “Why, Jack, I thought you were the Polish-Lithuanian conflict was Cogineering firm. Upon inquiries, orking for Mr. Higgins.” again discussed. The representative | however, this firm declared that its “I was, Mr. Lou, but I only made) of the League declared, ae $2.50 last week.” .__|declared on many occasions before, nothing about the consignment in| “But Jack, I saw you hanging |that “peace” had been established be- | Guestion. | around there all week, didn’t 1? tween Poland and Lithuania and| The wuthorities either maintain | “See, its like this, Mr. Lou, welts made possible the solution of|Silence or attempt to minimize the have to hang around, but Mr. Hig-|the other outstanding questions be- | significance of the affair. All signs jgins only pays us for what we do,|tveen the two countries including | point to another consignment from that is, when we are working. Butlihe transport question, |Ttaly, similar to the famous St. Got- we've got to be there all'the time in! m4. transport technical com-|thard case, when with the silent ap- case he needs us. Hates th 5 i roval of the Seipel government war “Well, don’t you get paid from the Buea oe eee es ene ay | pacial a eae eh through : fj to consider time you report for work? j ri 7, “No. peut when we work—it|Measures for regulating the out-| Austria to Hungary. lwe work in daytime he gives us 20 standing transport questions between cents an hour, ‘and-at night he pays |the two states in order thus to give (By «a Worker Correspondent) JACKSONVILLE, Fla., (By Mail) —I had the following conversation | with a Negro worker here: 1 we } ‘Talking Movies Provide State Employment Man! \Warns of Hard Times, Growing Worse in 1929 “Every one should ralize that it than takes more election to make should be careful that our demands jas individuals should not create an ing situation that will re- embarr sult in d satis among the worke: in 1929.” He c “observe strictly omy” next BOSTON “L” MEN GAIN BOSTON (By the Boston Elevated Railw: won one week’s The average wage of 97.8 cents per hour remains. WER year, s he had |ame had been misused and it knew | warning of hard times ahead, to hav it. These eo out and er h |worth tions wor door, tk their The f is to g ruth the key, etc a ballot and an business better. We a rr NEW DEA LONDON, Dec. well-known cher announced toda new ga: tion and turmoil n our industries autions workers to the rules of econ- in an ominous t ad! “inter the gas ightest inhalation. tly with the Mail)—Workers on y have h pay TREE GIV PUERTO 81. has been disce vacation w De jmilk money “to help the poo claim, and when the poor come t It y orgar Il kinds of s they e $1 char beg are not wanted. thing they think of dcing poor man the bum’s g you put depos DLY GAS 30—(UP)—The st, Hilton Jones, he discovery of a ly that it would i suicide.” death in- c ES MILK. BARRIOS, Guetamala\ A tree yielding palatable overed here, ‘actually paid by the owned com- We are just negotiating with |panies. Sometimes these subsidiary | the workers for a wage reduction.” |S AWAKENED “Votes CotamunistParty Ticket ~~ | Ale 'y « Worker Correspondent) . Lou, I can’t quite understand | white folk. Four years ago my boss | says: ‘Now, Mose, if I hear you have “voted the republican ticket in this eetection there'll be no job for you any longer.’ Now, this fall my boss come around befo’ election and he s : “Moses, if you don’t vote the republican ticket on election day you needn't come back here for any | more work.’” “You white men are certainly | Strange creatures,” | ‘ell, listen Moses, let me tell you what to do.; You vote for the Workers Party candidate. The Workers (Commanist) Party is the only Party that’s working for the interest of the workers, regardless of their color. There is no discrim- ination against the Negro. Here, Hake thic card; it has a list of the | names of our candidates, You put your cross in front of their names on’ gore sballot and you'll make no 0 Ae Three weeks tater: »; (Hello, Moses.” “Hello, Mr. Lou.” “Well, did you vote like I told you to on election day?” “Say, Mr. Lou, I most certainly jing earnings are allowed to pile up for |years, not a dollar of them showing in the parent company’s income ac- }count or balance sheet. Meanwhile the stockholder fondly believes that once a year tells what his company is really doing and earning.” A mill manager kept telling the workers, “Every day we operate it jis a loss.” A stockholder let the leat out of the bag, revealing that |the company had declared an 18 per the pamphlet report reaching him |cent dividend out of the year’s prof- | hungry.” its, just at the time it was intro- lducing a new wage cut. An example of what may be ac- of Latin American trade unions is seen in the unity attained by the provisional committee now organiz- i the Latin American Trade Union Confederation, in regard to the recent strike of marine work- ers in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The strike was provoked by the Argentine Navigation Company, owned by Nicholas Mihanovich, Lim- ited, which, with steamers connect- ing with Uruguay and Paraguay, involved workers there in a splendid united front against the company and the various governments, Four years ago the Argentine Marine Workers’ Federation fought a losing fight against the company, which penalized and persecuted the militants and slashed wages and hours. With spies and scabs the least whisper of organization was did.” DOC & LOU. instantly smothered out. The union, Discrimimation Rife in the Schools of Missouri 8T. LOUIS, Mo. (By Mail).— “Missouri is guilty of great discrim- ination and segregation to Negroes, in the educational system of that state,” declares N. B. Young, in- specter in the Negro schools of Mis- souri, “although Negro children dave as great a claim upon Missouri 18 have the white children.” During a recent survey of Negro ‘ducation in the state of Missouri ‘e encountered situations in one chool district that are typical of all ther districts in the state. In re- ponse to a call from this district, .@ visited it and found that there ad been no public school for Negro hildren there for a great many although there had been more yan eneugh Negro children there, ader the law. Yet, contrary tothe , & school was denied them be- use the white residents of the dis- ‘tet refused to recognize the erce- on_of the building. “Whites Refuse Negro School. » conference with the dominant of the board brought out al opinion that it would be ler solution of the situation e Negro families to move to a where school facilities are provided for Negroes than hite people of the district @ additional taxes upon themselves, especially since the Ne- groes are not freeholders, As an alternative, the Negro chil- dren could attend school seven miles away in an adjoining county, where an occasional makeshift school is “kept” for Negro children. This al- ternative was tried until the teacher cf the school refused to teach them any longer because they were non- residents of the county. Law is Null. It therefore happens that in that district, as in many others, the Ne- &ro children are denied free school opportunities, although this is in violation of the law. In this and other instances the whites are will- ing to lose the funds forfeitable by non-compliance of the law. They regard such a loss as a real gain, since they derive great satisfaction from the fact that they prevent the Negro from securing an education. Due to race hatred, discrimination and segregation, a group of Negro children are literally growing up in ignorance in Missouri, and there are hundreds and thousands in the same situation. To make the racial dis- crimination of the case more em- phatie, it is reported that in an ad- joining district a school has been maintained each year for a single student, a white boy. SOLIDARITY OF LATIN WORKERS WINS OU |however, grew stronger in time. It complished by the unity movement | embraced the majority of Argentine | marine workers. The Mihanovich company, the strongest and most anti-labor of any of the La Plate region, sensed |the union growth and gathering |provocateurs and scabs, sought to |force a premature struggle on the union. The captain of the “Bruse- las,” named Villalba, who despite jhis office is loyal to the workers’ union, was among those called to the Mihanovich office. “Tell us. In case of a conflict, | with whom will you be, the company jor the union?” Villalba replied: “I will stand by my union.” He was discharged at once, but the crew stood by him and walked out. This Mihanovich had not expected and Villalba was reinstated. But, hastening preparations, Mi- hanovich a week later, fired the whole crew of two ships, the “Bruse- las” and “‘Apipe,” at the same time with hired gangs of sluggers. The union at once declared a_ strike | against all boats of the firm. As the Argentine Marine Work- | ers’ Federation is one of the key or- | ganization, not only of Argentina, but of the whole Plate region, the committee organizing the Latin American Trade Union Confedera- tion, located in Uruguay, appeaved for the widest solidarity, and a united front of action was set up with marine workers of Uruguay and Paraguay. pected drawing power, with mass meetings of 5,000 to 6,000 marine workers. The Mihanovich line was | tied up as boats reached ports in \either of the three nations, The |company at last was forced to com- promise. On October 28, the Marine Workers’ Federation of Uruguay re- ported to the committee for the Latin American Trade Union Con- federation then holding a session, the following results: The night before, the Argentine union had wired that an agreement was being reached whereby the fun- damental issue, the right of organ- ization, was recognized, with a wage increase and reinstatement of all strikers. Moreover, the work- ing conditions lost by the Argentine union in the battle four years ago, would be again put into effect, At the moment, one thing prevented complete settlement. The Paraguay- an government had militarized the industry in order to force the strik- ers to work as national employes, beating up both crews and officers | The Argentine union had unex-; but it was believed this, too, would ‘unity, Vt Keith-A CAMEO 42nd Street and Broadway ” |some appearance of reality to the au- adr aps ere ge sl tugriie GP the wentae: nRAe rua | Voldemaras, the Lithuanian repre-| aa “No, sir, Mr. Lou, and that’s why sentative, made a number of reserva-| (By Federated Press) | |I came to you. I haven't had no|tions and sharply attacked the| Talking movies have brought in work for two days, and I am|League declaring that the League |® new crop of fake job sharks prey- a |had suffered two moral defeats, one | ing on would-be actors at $50 to} Jin the Vilna question and the other |$250 a throw. At least 20 of these | jin the minorities question. The re-|Schools are busy in the New York {port of the League was finally | theatre district training people in |adopted. |a few lessons to enter the “talkies.” | Promises of jobs are verbal and |nearly always ignored. All the stu- FORCED TO WORK SUNDAY. |dent gets is the experience and a discovered a new way to make prof-| _CHEROKEE, Ia. (By Mail)—Post/ phonograph record of his talking. jits. Charging the consumer $1.15 office employees were forced to/ | 1,009 cubie feet of gas, the com-|Work on Sunday for the first time | FakeJobSharksChance Best Film Show In T Now FIRST TIME AT POPULAR PRICES O Days That Shook kb. The World 4 THE RUSSIAN “BIRTH OF A NATION” |Brooklyn Gas Company \Cuts Cost But Leaves |Wages and Price Same { | | The Brooklyn Union Gas Co. has We demand the immediate aboli- | per | utd ; oe ; > tion of all vagrancy laws; protec- ul |146 W. 57th st. pany has the gas made by the Kop-|last week. The workers threaten| fiom of all vamrancy laws: protec: ARNEGIE | Noon to Midaiens pers Co. at 36 eents per 1,000 cubic action. arrest on charges of vagrancy. PLAYHOUSE | Popular Prices |feet, which is 6 to 6% cents cheaper than Brooklyn Union could make it. The saving in cost’ price will be | divided between Koppers and Brook- |lyn Union Gas Co, | Another Mellon Company. | Koppers is a concern controlled by | 2ND SENSATIONAL WEEK “Luerecia Borgia” with Conrad Veidt and cast of 60,000, MW. by 8 GUILD ‘bea. Mts, Tues. Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and DIRECT FROM MOSCOW Manhattan Opera House—Tonight 8:30 JOLSON Ph , (th Ave, & 59th St, 8.30. Mats, Tues.&Sat. Andrew Mellon and his brother, R. misielse: Browne Re oe vere ate - 's brother, R. ; ARTIN BECK 2 1 ‘OOPER B. Mellon of Pittsburgh. Among its (Last 11 Performances) MARTIN BECK THEA. in a musical romance of Chopin 5th st extensive holdings is a new by-prod- 2 i ucts coke oven plant, now nearing | completion. The company explains | that by reason of its operation of | coke oven plants all over the coun- | try it is in a position to market the | coke, coal tars and ammonia prod- ucts of coke oven operation. “Real economy of coke oven plants is in their continuous operation, so with | | Brooklyn Union taking the gas out- | put and Koppers moving the other | products this most economical opera- tion is possible.” In a triumphant announcement |Brooklyn Union Gas Company ex- plains that this is economy for both | companies, The idea of reducing | the price to the consumer, in view of the reduced cost, has never ap- ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS Company of 20, with IRMA DUNCAN SUPPORTED BY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tickets Now At Box Office. Popular Prices RNARD SHAW Major Barba REPUBLIC The Thurs., iL Strange Interlude Jonn GOLDEN Thea. ssth B. of B'way EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF Gop» By G. Martinez Sierra Chick, 9944. 4St.othav Eves. 8:30 igivic REPERTORY ! 0c; $1 00; $1.50. 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