The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 4

REFUSE AID TO FOUGHT BOSSES Yet Deduct From Pay “Health Expense” (By a Worker Correspondent) BROWNSVILLE, Pa., (By Mail). =The doctors in the mining towns efuse their services to m ss be- cause the m do not have lots of money to them. At Vesta- eve Sadesky, died would help him. ays fought , and was one burg, a miner, because no d who sky, of the leading fighters from the be- ginning of the unable to get a job. He died in one of the| barrecks on Dec and at the time} he died he ng to a Run- to describe a member of the Work nist) Party, The first doctor called refused to attend Sadesky, saying that he (the doc- tor) was employed by the Vesta Coal Co. Sade: as an employe of the Vesta Coal Co. for many years had paid part of his wages for the salary of Bliss. The com- pany makes a deduction for “health expenses” from each miner’s wages. Two other doctors from Fredericks- town, also a mini to attend Sades may think there is some law that compels a doctor to attend when called to a sick person, but such a law is the bunk in Pennsylvania. I do not know about other states, but it is probably the same all over! tinder the capitalist system. The miners around this vicinity work for miserable wages. For in- Stance, the enclosed pay envelopes from the Monessen Coal Co. show -$81,97 for a half month’s wages for tivo men. In order to make this fiuch they had to slave from 5 a, m. the | UE octors in Mining Towns Re fuse to DAILY WURKER, NSW YORK, T ISDAY, JANUARY 15, 1929! Treat NEGRO WO | (By a Worker Correspondent) | COLUMBIA, S. ©, (By Mail).— A number of Negro workers met Satu night in the home of one 0 on the outskirts of Colum- C. and they formed a branch American Negro Labor Con- They showed a keen interest blems confronting the work- and an eager desire ing ¢ | to 8 or 9 p. m. The amount, you} Will notice, is $81.97. But you will notice that the bill from the com- Pany store is $58.57. This is the @mount for merchandise that two} single men purchased in a period of| two weeks from the company store. This bill of $58.57 is only for meat to | |participate in the class struggle. Every worker immediately connected up the general struggles with condi- tions in his own shop. Bricks Without Wages. One laborer in Guignard’s brick yard spoke bitterly of making 5,000 bricks a day for a wage of $150 which is not sufficient to maintain the necessities of life. Yet Mrs. The Company Union Head Appealing to the Working Class! |Guignard, the owner of the factory poses as a friend of labor. The workers are very much dissatisfied Negro organization fighting for the land are ready to join in revolt full political, economic and against such shameful exploitation. racial equality of Negroes took From this brick yard alone the A |place. N. N. L, C. can expect an enroll- Fi 4 The discussion brought in a com- ment of a good many workers. . . |parison of the workers government Porters, automobile mechanics, in Russia with the dictatorship of \chauffeurs, stevedores and concrete |the capitalist: STARVING MEN \Belt Slaves Can’t Lean Against Post (By a Worker Corresponde:t) CHESTER, Pa., (By Mail)—The | mills shut down, so I lost my job. After my job evaporated I came | , starving. I was broke. Had | nothing to sell but energy. No mas- |ter wanted it. Got hungrier and | hungrier. : Remembered the preachers’ about the “lord helping those help themselves.” Decided to. | saw a cop, Reminded me of |Been in jail. Don’t like them. \I went to the last resort of a jing man, to the Ford gate. talk who But jail. So pretty bad, I danced around to keep warm while waiting. No job. Henry says most of us don’t want one. But we have to eat. Have to sell our labor power. Met a friend. Asked for a pass for employment to Ford’s. Friend gave me a ticket. I had a new master to enslave me. The boss had me where he wanted me. It’s no joke, when you're broke for a chance to work, Promised me 62 and a half cents an hour for the first 60 days and 75 cents an hour thereafter provided I proved to be a hard-working, docile numbskull. EUROPE SEES NO ‘and canned goods, and bread. The ‘company certainly is overcharging | ‘on this bill, but the miners do not _dare complain to the company that| ™ being cheated, for they} ow that the company will ‘fire aem if they do. ‘We miners work at Alicia mines| Yo. 1 and 2. The miners while at| ‘ork cannot talk to their fellow orkers. The straw bosses watch} em very closely. The reason is| iat the bosses fear that the min- | jms may discuss their rotten work-| img conditions. Anyone talking in the pits is fired. If you make any ‘complaint about anything to the su- | *perintendent you are told, “Shut| “your mouth; if you don’t like it take ; ‘your tools. There are plenty wait- | “ing for your job.” Brownsville is a hell-hole in Fayette County, where | the authorities ;protect the interests of the bosses. » On the enclosed water receipt is the charge for the water used by a family of two for a quarter of a year. This bill for water—for three months—amounts to $7.65. If you complain that this is an overcharge _the company shuts off the service | “and you have to pay a dollar to have it opened again. lenizelos Banishes 4) volutionary Workers the Island of Death (Red Aid Press Service) iTHENS, (By Mail).—The Greek | eal police have ordered the de- of four members of the U Committee of the Tobacco ? Union. Two of them, Ka-| Andrej and Gruzu have already | banished to the island of which is reported to be worse | the darkest dungeon. | two others, Papanikolau and| have thus far avoided the e tobacco workers played a re- | itionary role during the strike} t year against the American- tobacco company. The strike general and was supported INDEMNITY CUT ‘Morgan, Expert Board, | Continue Dawes Plan ~ BERLIN, Jan. 14 (U.P).—A ma-| jority of Berlin newspapers - were inclined to believe that Morgan’s unexpected acceptance of the post signifies a postponement of several years in transferring reparations debts into private loans. A respon- |sible American authority confirmed | this interpretation in a statement to the United Press. “Evidently a powerful figure like Morgan is needed to tell Europe bluntly that the present moment is unsuitable for floating a huge block of German reparation bonds in Wall Street,” the authority said. German financiers are of the opinion that the appointment indi-} |cates a continuation of the present | form of the Dawes Plan for sev- eral years before drastic revision is possible. Meanwhile, they point out, the United States financiers would observe the development of the German economic situation. * 8 % French, English Polite. LONDON, Jan. 14.—Expressed opinion among French and English financial circles over the appoint- ment of Morgan as one of the “un- ‘dfficial” American reparations ex- perts to revise the Dawes plan is full of flattery for the big intczna- tional banker, but says little more. There is a feeling that it pre- |sages a savage conflict between |" | Franco-British desires to cut the | Union Congress, debt owed America, and the Ger- man reparations at the same time, and the American bankers’ ex- pressed wish to avoid a very large sale of German bonds, and rejection of any real reduction of debts owed in America by the Allies. Rheumatism Takes Big Toll Among Children of Workers in England; LONDON, (By Mail).—Rheuma- \Jobless Workers Die | of Cold in Chicago | While Searching Jobs CHICAGO, Jan. 14—Three work- er were frozen to death today when the coldest wave of the season swept into the Chicago area from the jto 10 degrees below zero. The suddenness of the cold wave ‘caused much suffering in Chicago jand surrounding territory. An un- jidentified woman was found dead | from exposure on the street in South Chicago, A man believed to be Al- phonso Owimet, 54, of Detroit, was |found frozen to death in a hallwa: The frozen body of Cuno Schiz |tillo, 83, was found on a prairie in Cicero, a suburb. Several other per- sons suffering from exposure re- ceived treatment in hospitals. Schiziatillo’s wife, mother of six | children, told police her husband had left home Saturday looking for work. ering into the cold at Argo, a suburb, when fire destroyed a two-story building there. A fireman was in- jured when caught beneath a fall- ing wall. Mussolini Does Not Accept Aid Offered by Amsterdam Int’! jnorth, sending the thermometer down| Several families were driven shiv- | Told me to hang my coat in the |locker-room. Looking all : {could not find any. So hung i | where the other slaves hung theirs, ALR, SHOPMEN ARE DECEIVED toilets, three deep. | Lots of men outside the gate. Henry | | says they don’t want to work. But \Betrayed by Officials they're broke like myself. They ; have to work. Have to sell their in Wage Case |iasor power. I started to work. |Speed-up fierce. No smoking per- | mitted. No chewing either. Twenty | minutes for lunch. Used to be a half hour, Ford now saves 10 min- utes on each slave on the lunch per- | After months of dilly-dallying de- signed to wear out any strike spirit \of the 16,000 shopmen of the New | York Central who had voted to in-|iog, Plugged along for a while. \struct their officials to make de-| Tired as hell from speed-up. Leaned mands for wage increases, the case | #gainst a post. Foreman ran up. was further postponed Saturday by |Such things not permitted here. tHe earings cae vue soesteall i cents for 8 cents worth of milk. in the hands of a “special board. Also 25 cents for a box lunch of This board, apparently acting un- | three sandwiches, an apple, and a der the infamous Watson-Parker | cookie, Twenty minutes for lunch railroad labor law, is given author- | time, and you have to stand in line ity to decide on the “merits” of the for 10 minutes for something. workers’ demand. By this means, Back to work. Slave like hell at the effectiveness of their trade |the Ford belt. Cars keep coming. union is practically abolished. No Six million men out of work, and news was given out as to the com- | still I am overworked. position of this board, but from) That’s the way I feel after my that fact it can be judged that it| is to be satisfactory to the com- | pany. If it grants any raise, such | raise will be so little as to be use-| less. | Jocsb Aronson, who made the | really is, won’t want to write. fight for better conditions. want to run Ford’s in the interest larguments for the company, said | LONDON, Jan, 14—Mussolini, {that comparison of wages of the dictator wf Italy, thinks that even |Shopmen with other trades could the reformist, weak-kmeed Interna- "Ot be made as other trades were tional Federation of Trade Unions |based on irregular employment. He | is too “radical” for “his” workers, | #!0 contended that wages of the according to a London Sunday Ex- \building trades were artificially i high. vress disnatch. He sharply rebuked | ¥ | Walter Citrine, secretary of the| Donald Richberg, for the union jclass-collaboration British Trades |fficials, tried to convince the New and J. Sassenbach, | York Central that “a new economic in |order existed, requiring higher te | Wages,” but had to admit that since |1922 this “new economic order” had jseeretary of the International |Rome because they attempted jpersuade Mussolini to permit the !9 | Workers of Italy to join the federa. \given only 20 per cent more money tion, | wages while the cost of living had Mussolini listened to a long ex-|¢one up 40 per cent. planation by the “labor” leaders in | which they are reported to have | 1 \veached eloquent heights in show- Enslave Natives ° in New Africa of the workers, as they run the fac- tories in the Soviet Union. ficiency there too, working class ef- ficiency. Not capitalist efficiency, which is only efficiency of cost and means of driving the workers to the limit. That’s Ford’s kind. Sends men to the scrap heap before their time. —A FORD SLAVE. The Workers (Comm: demn t! int) Party nis unemployment insura) for the entire period of the administ the workers, the cont to be ne by the state and the employ- ing the benefit of the Amsterdam Nitrate Fields “I am dictator of 50,000,000 |finishers comprised the mecting. A|Capitalist justice was denounced, | discussion touching the need of a} in the United States. | workers. FORD PLANT IS | ‘LAST RESORT OF starv-| There | | “ | are 2800 workers in Ford’s. Over | 10 HONOR MELLA | 500 on line, waiting for a job. Cold At last} and hungry and thirsty. Begging | around, 1) Americans in New York, but by all on a railing at each end of the) No union here. Ought to be one. | Lunch period. Hungry as hell. Paid} first day in Ford’s. Don’t take long | to find out just how bad this place | After a few days here, I) Want to fight, | | strike, organize into a union and| Will ‘Prades Union and other class con- Getting | the 7-hour day there. They have ef-| Miners ant Ga Militant Workers Tee RKERS OF SOUTH ORGANIZE BRANCH OF LABOR CONGRESS A mass meeting will be arranged as soon as possible to rally the large masses of Negro Workers to the ‘ranks of the A. N. L, C, The im- mediate task of spreading the Negro Champion was undertaken. There is a great task before us but the and the role of the labor fakers in the reactionary American Federation of Labor was exposed. The basic lifference between the new Miners’ ‘rand the old reactionary craft unions was taken up especially with reference to their respective atti-| tude towards Negro organizing and the Negro workers in the South | will fully partake in the strugzle. Leads Dane ing Troupe From USSR Photo shows Irma Duncan, leader of the famous Duncan Dancers, who gave a program of revolutionary dances at Manhattan Opera House Saturday and Sunday for the Daily Worker. |imperialism, through its puppet in | Cuba, has crushed out the life of one |of the most courageous revolution- jaries in Latin-America. |. “The New York District of the International Labor Defense is for- |tunate enough to have had personal | relations with Comrade Melia during his visits to this country and we came to know him as one of the Demonstration Here! Saturday Night Continued from Page One active among the class-conscious |workers of Caribbean countries. He | was an inspiration to hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans who ing class, absolutely devoted to the struggle against American imperial- ism and ready to suffer tortures and jdeath in that struggle. “Julio Mella, dead, lives in the jhearts of the workers of the world . and particularly of those on the |felt the oppression of Wall Street. yer continent, The New York | His activities are an excellent exam-| |district of the I.L.D. calls upon all ple to be followed not only by Latin |its members and all other cL ass : |to protest against this foul murder the American workers and poor/of our comrade and against all the farmers in the common struggle to! murders and tortures instigated by overthrow the Wall Street govern-|[7, §. imperialism at the Lenin ment. memorial meeting.” Appeal To Negro Workers. Leaders to Speak. Cyril Briggs, editor of Negro} Speakers at the Lenin meeting Champion, issued this appeal: —_| will include Ben Gitlow, William Z. “Negro workers! Attend the Lenin| Foster, William W. Weinstone and memorial meeting to protest against Jay Lovestone, The arrangements the murder of one of the greatest committee last night announced an champions of exploited workers and|enlarged musical program. Jascha oppressed races the world has ever|Fischermann, noted Soviet pianist, known, Mella-gave his life that we,| will accompany 250 members of the Negro workers and white workers |Freiheit Gesangs Verein in the ren- alike, might have freedom. Negro/ dition of the “International.” The workers! Join with the revolution- revolutionary artist may play an- ary white workers, who are your|other number in accompaniment to |friends and brothers, against the ithe singing of society's program. common enemy—the bloodv Wall| Another feature of the meeting Street government—in the Madison | will be a labor sports spectacle by Square Garden demonstration.” the Labor Sports Union. Tickets Louis Hyman, president of the|for the event are now on sale at new National Needle Trades Indus-| district headquarters of the Work- |trial Union, declared: lers (Communist) Party, 26 Union “The bourbons of Wall Street are | Square. | working class will emerge victorious. | |most fearless fighters for the work- | FAKERS REFUSE - TO ORGANIZE RY. CARPENTERS \Co. Stool-Pigeon Has | Four Fired (By a Worker Correspondent) | CHICAGO, (By Mail).—The cars |penters and joiners working for the Chicago surface lines repair shop on |Madison Ave. not only receive. poor wages, but the shop they work in is very unsanit: The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has done nothing to organize these shops, Last April a worker there wrote to the Slovs s Party paper, Dennik Ro t, exposing the con- ditions in this shop, and criticizing the carpenters’ Union officials for failing to organize the shop. A spy |hrought the copy of the naper to the foreman of the shop. The foreman took it to the superintendent, and imed that he knew who wrote the article. As I was always sticking up for the rights of the men in the Ishon, the foreman accused me of | writing it. I do not know who wrote the article, but it was true, It seems to me that the union officials |are helping the bosses, for when ft was pronosed by militant members |to or 2 the shop, the officials refused. saying that “the company was under receivership.” The offi- cials refused to consider the organi- zation of the shop. The officials of the union destroyed any signs of solidarity among the workers. They |allowed the bosses to have their ewn way. As a trick to keep the work- ers divided, the company last July gave a raise of 3 cents an hour, but not to all the workers, only to those who were not in the union, and those who were acting as com- pany spies in the union. Of the rest of the workers, only a few got this small increase in wages. On Dec. 8, a few moments before quitting time, |I was notified that I was laid off. |Four other workers were also laid joff. All of us who were laid off |were men who were for the rights lof the workers, This was the reason |we were laid off. A company stool- pigeon, the right hand man of the lgoreman, had squealed on us. This | stool-pigeon comes to work drunk all \the time, but as he is ae company’s do nothing to him. spy, they is Mey pee StacLnntie EN “Let us take America, the freest and most clvilized country. Amer- fen ix a democratic republic. And what is the result? We have the shameless rule of a clique not of millionaires but of muiti-million~ ‘aires, and the entire nation ix en- slaved and oppressed. If the fac- tories and works, the banks ahd all the riches of the nation belong to the capitalist; if, by the side of the democrntic republic we observe fa perpetual ensinvement of mil- lions of toilers and a continuous poverty, we have a right to askt Where is all your lauded equality and fraternity? Far trom it. The rule of democracy is accomplished by an unadulterated savage band- | try. We understand the true na~ | ture of so-called democracies.” | From speech by Lenin to Moscow | factory workers in 1918, Lenin memorial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden, responsible for the fatal shooting of | Julio Mella, brave leader of the |revolutionary working masses of | ;Cuba. Mella was a mighty enemy, of Machado’s vassal government and | \the Machado regime was determined ‘to get him.’ They did ‘get him’ but | the workers of America will not| Theatre Guild Productions x Thea. W. oynd St GUILD Eves. 8:40 scious workers to attend the Lenin memorial meeting and protest this | |latest outbreak of terrorism against the working class leaders.” I. L. D. In Appeal. An appeal by the New York Dis- trict of the International Labor De- fense, through its secretary, Rose Baron, to attend the Lenin meeting, reads as follows: “The cold-blooded murder of Julio Mella by agents of the bloody Machado regime has horrified and outraged workers throughout the world. Demonstrations of workers and peasants in Mexico City are re- ported to be greater than at any time since the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. The hand of American Mats., Thurs, and Sat. Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St, West of 8th Ave. Evenings 8:30, — Matinees Thursday & Saturday, 2:30 BERNARD SHAW’S Major Barbara REPUBLIC Thea. W, 42 +» Ev8.8:30 Matinees, Wed. & Sat. 2:30. EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea., 68th B. of B'was EVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 2:40, MIVIC REPERTORY 1 Even, 8:30 St..othav Teak | PE CAMEO SHOW 5 ‘ /-VARAIS a BVA, forget this dastardly act, will not let | eget: cal gts ae AT aeie Hare ae ea it pass without a challenge, I call) CAPRIC E | ch inalchga bey no Reomnsricste a on the members of the Needle LILY DAMITA " | in “FORBIDDEN LOVE” en. 44 St.W.ofB’ way, SHUBERT Evs. 8.30 Mats. Wed, and’ Saturday WALTER WOOLF inthe Thrilling [he Red Robe Musical Hit with HELEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” { By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea. wate Evs. 8:30; Mats, Wed. and Sat. Chick, 9944 LITTLE 146 w. Sith St. | Noon to Midnight 7th Sty Uors of the Greek fleet. (OR FORD MELLON CUT. of the Ford Motor Com-) Canada, Ltd., are expected end a recapitelization plan olders, where 100 shares of | ‘par value stock will be given, | ck dividend, in exchange for the present $100 par value outstanding, according to a article by the financial on “Wall Street Tomor- en informed of Wall Street garding the stock dividend, | ism among children of the working lass is taking an increasing toll, due to increased congestion in work- ing districts, following the severe unemployment situation, according to Dr. R. C, Lightfoot, an authority on diseases in children, About 40,- 000 such deaths have occurred in the last two years. Soviet Azneft Oil Trust Reports Big Gain in Output Ford of Canada today | Po was “just ian ‘The Azneft Oil Trust reports an output of 7.555.000 metric tons of ‘oil and 160,000 tons of gas for the ‘past fiscal year. In comparison with 1926-27, the total output increased 9.5 per cent, Of the total oil produced there |was refined by the Trust 5,281,000 \tons, nearly one-third (31 per cent) |more than in the preceeding year. \Drillings for the year 1927-28 umounted to 262,000 meters of which 221,000 meters were for pro- duction purposes, |International to fascism. When they |hed finished Mussolini said: ' | Italians. My word is law. I am| JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa, (By | prime minister of this country. I | Mail)—Vast deposits of nitrate | ani the minister of five government have been discovered in the Gibeon departments. You have the auda-| district of Southwest Africa, The city to come here and ask me to deposits are said to be superior to jdelegate the rule of my working | Chilean nitrates. Plans for the vir- people to a handful of political tual slavery of thousands of native jSanatics at Amsterdam. You have | Workers to be pressed into the ser | Wasted your own time, gentlemen.’ new Hella gee: bein male) Smyrna Workers 1 Killed, 20 Overcome Flee From Floods’; another Blast of SMYRNA, (By Mail).—Following widespread loss of workers’ lives in Gas Mains in Londor LONDON, Jan. 14 (UP).—Fiv recen’ floods, which submerged the | people who were gassed when * lower part of the city, a fresh out-_ water main burst, springing a leal: break of floods is threatened. Syrian workers have fled the town, ware Road and Oxford Terrace, Hox. ton, yesterday, were in a seriour condition at local hospitals today. One person was killed in the acci- dent and 20 were overcome by the gas. “It is childish to attempt to hold fi al PHO! gullty for e Phetween |, rhe disaster follows a similar one Tone" competing “tor the owner. at bores shortly spats ea world.” m speech |mas when an area of more a itn Maduon Sanat; |mile was ravaged by a gas main explosion. VOICES OF REVOLT vice of British imperialism in the in a gas main at the corner of Edge F A SERIES of attractively printed books containing the outstanding utterances of pioneer revolutionary leaders, with critical introductions, ~~ Volumes Already Published: I, Mazimilien Robespierre; II, Jean Pauw Marat; Il, Ferdinand Lassalle; IV. Karl Liebknecht; V. George Jacques Danton; VI. August Bebel; VII, Wilhelm Liebknecht; Vil. V. 1. Lenin; 1X. Eugene V. Debs; X. C. EB, Ruthenberg. Bound in Boards, 50c each, Order from WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 35 East 1251H Street. New York Crry. 50c; $1 00; $1.60. Mats, Wed.&S: EVA LE GALLIENNE. Director Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard.” Wed. Mat., “Peter Pan.” Wed. Eve., “The Lady from Alfaque- ‘RoEIPAy Grove Street Theatre Singing a few blocks Comrade Napoli, 138 Went 1 s 2.80 NOW AT OUR NEW AND LARGE TI{EATRE (Sheridan Square Subway Station) Spring 2772—5 Min. from B’way A New Playwrights Theatre Production directed by EM JO BASSHE, NO WORKER SHOULD MISS IT! — POPULAR PRICES, OOD OPPORTUNITY for workers organizations, unions and clubs to Dates Caisnaie PLAYHOUSE | Popular Prices 4TH SENSATIONAL WEEK “Lucrecia Borgia” with Conrad Veldt and cast of 50,000, FIRE THREATENS CHILDREN.. LAKE, Wis., (By Mail).—Fire in the Lake School, in this little town threatened the lives of 160 farmers’ children, All escaped, Jailbirds SINCLAIR. in January, We are onl; ‘ce. For details nee or call New Playwrights Thentre, Sai r of