The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1929, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA JANUARY 16, 1929 ears R WORKERS INTHE PONY EXPRESS BUS DRIVERS ON STE (By a Worker Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, (By Matl).— do not know when I took the wheel, I was so tired,” said Juli Spooner, a ear-old bus driver for the Pony press Co., when ex- amined by the Indiana Public Ser- vice Commission after an accident in which a passenger was killed and 23 injured at Elkhart, Indiana, on Dec. HOLE’ SLAVE IN POOLS: OF MUCK Speed-up Accompanied by Obscene Orders (By a Worker-Correspondent) I rd Jast August my practically gone and I When I got to Boston it was four o'clock in the morning so I went to the Commons to get some sleep. The} night had been very chilly for that} nd a heavy dew was | I had never spent ity patk before and} i for what I found Every bench had a sleeper | were as many lying benches. ci there. on it and the: in the we' Here th | as possible by spreading out some| None had overcoats so must have suffered a from the cold. It was y must be badly exhausted before they could actually sleep. As a member of the proletariat I learned something from my effort to get a job that morning. I had heard of the new Sears and Roe- buck store which was opening up so I went there at six o’clock in the morning. People soon began to ar- rive and the employment office filled and a line extended down the two flights of steps and down the street. I estimated there must have been over two thousand. The man who did the employing started wav- ing the line aside as they ap- proached but I refused to pass and after about five minutes of my talk he decided to hire me. Later five others were employed. We soon found that altho Sears 1 oebuck Co. Spies on In a USSR Village 123. Spooner had been on duty con- tinuously for three days and three nights and had been at the wheel while making three and a half round trips between Detroit and Chicago before the accident occurred. I never had to undergo such slavery as while I drove for the Pony Express Co., a long distance —— ~ooee { Every Floor of Department Store, Corresp two drivers on each bus, one reliev-|for the Public Service Commissions |than $25 a week. Their hours and |speed laws. There is only one way ing the other and the one off duty! ou’ in the middle west are all in tie snatching such little rest as he can. pay of the transportation companies. The men are compelled to work sev-| But the company gets whitewashed, eral days at the wheel before any altho they are responsible for making time off is allowed. It is hard to the drivers slave long periods with- keep awake during this gruelling out sufficient rest. The drivers are |slavery, and mary accidents happen in a pretty weak condition, for they asa result. All the time the driver | have no sign of a union, THOUSANDS OF | JOBLESS WOMEN | STORM FACTORY “Must Cooperate With Boss,” Are Told Barbara Benedict Alla Naz They are - | bus company. The company keepsiis made the goat for these accidents, | miserably underpaid, averaging less | also mileage are whatever the competing | companies care to make them, They are compelled to make schedules on the thickly congested main high- | ways, which not only endanger the \drivers’ lives, but the drivers are compelled to violate the traffic imova for the bus drivers of the Pony ex- | press and other bus companies to \end this slavery, and that is to form la fighting organization and bring |the bosses to their knees. —FORMER PONY EXPRESS SLAVE. in Cast of Chekhov’s “High Road” The Civic Repertory Theatre pre- sented last night at its playhouse |on Fourteenth Street the fifth bill |of its third season—“On the High | Road,” by Anton Tchekhoff; and | “The Lady from Alfaqueque,” by the | Brothers Quintero. These two plays will be repeated |on Wednesday and Saturday nights ce EUROPEAN COLD (Great Suffering for SNAP CONTINUES: (By a Worker Correspondent) | DETROIT, (By Mail)—I am | writing of an experience in this so- lealled country of “prosperity.” Be- | ing out of work, I had to answer an |ad that Turngtedt Co, had put in |the paper. Arriving at their Fort |St. plant at 7 a. m. I found over |1,000 girls there before me, waiting \for a job. After waiting in the street about an hour, a few women got to talking about this wonderful | “prosperity.” So I gave them a |few copies of the Auto Worker and jtold them about a workers’ paper. The watchman, seeing that we were starting a conversation, and attract- ing attention, immediately put some of us out of the line. Took Their Time. It was 11 a. m. before they opened the employment office and hired a few girls (about 25). I was told to come back about 2 p. m. to start work. When I re- turned, they asked me where I | worked before, why I quit, would I be willing to cooperate with the em- ployers, and Roebuck has the best looking | building in town from the outside the conditions of work were the ‘worst we had ever experienced. The bosses were absolutely unrestrained in their language. Orders such as “hurry up you sons of bitches” and “get hot you lazy bastards” were | the common ones. The suckers and, squealers got the easy jobs and th sub-foremen who were the most heartless in driving the workers, of desperation, got the promotions. | Tt was my hard luck to be put in| the basement, better known as the| “hole.” The. light here was artifi-| cial, for the first two months there | was no water available for any pur-| pose, no toilets and—besides this it c ‘ was against the rules-to.leave the| (Special to the Daily Worker) job during working hours. Because} SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 15.—The of all this and ‘the fact that there |entreace of Otto Hall, Negro field Were dozens gf waits in the base- lorganizer of the Workers (Commu- rter to cl th nd a rer cnaiaee Ubbehcable” ang|nisty Party into the Seattle district, large puddles of muck accumulated |has given great stimulus to the ac- Hall Addresses Meets; Many Join Party in different places. For these rea-|tivities of the Negro workers here, | sons most left.and I was almost the |Where the best meetings in the west only one who stayed more than two so far have been held, according to or three weeks. « ¥ |reports from workers in the district. T3978. : When the storé finally got started| Cn Saturday, Hall addressed a we found ourselves: the objects of meeting a the Negro section, at- @ thorough «system'‘of spies and|*e™ded by more than 200 Negro stool-pigeons, Dépariment 211 i \workers, Pointing to the conditions the headquatters of the detective force. I was unable to find the exact number .of.detectives em- ployed to’ watch-the~ workers but there must be at least 20 “genuine” dicks. Besides this there is a stool- Pigeon on every’ floét who is un- known to the work His duty is to get the confidence of the rest and squeal on them if they loaf or Steal anything. Added to this the| onaitions of the workers there. bosses themselves are always ready | or ke A 3 to stabilize their position by telling| The applications of nine Negro anything they can find out. Be-| Workers for entrance into the Work- | sides all this the company has suc-|¢Ts (Communist) Party and three| ceeded in getting the finest collec- |YOUns Negro ‘workers into the Young | tion of suckers for workers I ever Workers (Communist) League cap- saw. |ped the meeting. | ivdet | On Sunday evening Hall addressed The up-shot of my experiefce there eas thi: one mnie Tsniseea overflow crowd. of workers ab the) my breakfast and when I grabbed Seattle Workers’ Forum, on “Prog- | something to eat “illegally” the man |T¢5S in the Soviet Union.” Six new) I worked with who was very greedy jmembers for the Workers (Commu- | ‘at helping me eat the food I tool: Mist) Party were recruited from the| tured out to be the squealer for /*udience. Many workers had to be| that department and I was prougiit |turned away for lack of room. Mon-| a pier ore ya the “Skidroad” in Seattle, Hall re- me a soft job instead of prosecuting |PUdiated the lies ae of oe me provided I would tell on the ones the sandr ahi e es x Mere | who had been stealing. When I said| Tompson, who is also supporting SE aidwi know of any 1 was given the Trotsky renegades, had charged dick in the’ pants and/sent on my that the trade unions of the Soviet | leiy. | Union were forced underground. : JACKSON WALES Hall effectively answered these lies. * | Other cities at which Hall will |Speak during the next few days are | Spokane, Wash., on Jan. 17, and in \the Twin Cities from Jan. 20 to 22. lof segregation, lynching, Jim Crow- ism as applied to Negroes and other loppressed races, Hall contrasted this ‘condition with the position of Negro and nationalities in the Soviet Union, “wher> to be a worker means free- dom.” Hall recently returned after ja long stay in the Soviet Union, and speaks authoritatively on the day evening, at a meeting held on) “If we are to perish, then let us perish for our own cause, for the une of the workers, for the so- alist revolution, and not for the is of capitalists, land own- Appeal by Lenin World War the m Lenin me make our conditions worse. He said he would write me a card to come I said not if they would; THE WORKERS SCHOOL to work, but I am still waiting. Although the workers there are rushed, still they never make AMERICAN COLLEGE EEE oe enough to live on because the bosses steal a few pieces from every work- er, and then give us hell for “not making production.” We must or- ganize. | The average American college stu- dent has been the object of much! |ridicule and abuse. His intense de-| |votion to athletics, fraternities and! | sororities, and his lack of interest in| \any serious studies have well merited | ee attacks made upon him. It is a | comparatively simple matter to skim KILLED NEGRO; 5 |through four years, touching but WHITEWASHED | superficially upon the courses neces-| |sary to acquire the degree which 509 Cops Who Riddlea |is the passport into the business |world. Teachers, thousands of them! Boy Broke Law; Freed CHICAGO, Jan..15 (CNS). — At are ground out annually from the educational mills. Of necessity they become tools of the enslaving capit-/ the inquest just held into the wanton alist system, suppressed, dull killing by two hundred policemen of Cea doling out education | the 16-year old Negro youth, Frank Resi will ~~ — similar unsuS-| Whitehurst, a compromise verdict | Pecting, disinterested, stupidly con-| was rendered. According to this | tented fools. | verdict the police were justified in | ,The average college student is/ killing the boy because of the large abysmally ignorant in matters of number of policemen killed in recent political importance, {nternational| months and the boy was justified —0. E. | | } In S. S. Glencairn” at Province- town Playhouse. HUGHES FIGHTS _ FORHIGH TARIFF Imperialist Helps Loot Subway Workers Here WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Charles Evans Hughes, during intervals when he is not discussing the best way to exploit Nicaraguans with Hoover, is arguing the case of the | I R. T. of New York. He represents | the subway companies in their fight today and tomorrow for a seven) ‘eent fare. | Red Tape. b Arguments were opened by Sam-| uel Untermeyer at 2:30 today, and ‘like. There is every indication that the court will be presented with jnothing which will embarrass it if it intends to grant the roads a privi- jlege to mulct the workers of New Yorkg forced to ride to and from work in the subways. “Jimmie” Watches Game. Arguments will continue through | seven hours, taking the rest of to- | day’s and tomorrow’s sessions of the | court. The state transit commis- |sion and the city were allotted an | hour and a half each to “defend” {the 5-cent fare, and the company | 7-cent fare proposed'and granted by ‘a three-judge statutory court in New York. The city and the transit | commission will then have 30 min- | utes each to conclude their argu- | ments. Mayor Walker is a spec- | tator. JOBLESS BAER with Alla Nazimova as a last min-| the Workers jute recruit in the leading role of} | Marya Yegorevna in the Tchekhoff} |play. Madam Nazimova, who joined) ROME. Jan. 15.—Northern Italy |the permanent acting company of ‘vas in the grip of a severe cold |the Civic Repertory Theatre at the; Wave tonight. The temperatures at | beginning of the season and who| Milan, Turin, Brescia, Parma and | made her debut with in the leading|Modena were low and 15 degrees are entirely technical and lawyer-| was given three hours to defend the | workers and other minority races! |ranged in worshipful attitudes — | their pursuit for money. jnow existing in the United States affairs or their dearly beloved coun-|in shooting seven policemen in view \try’s expansive imperialist pro. | The only thing he is interested j to de; jects. in is grip securely that much desired gree, The supposedly serious students! major in history or political sciences. They accept unhesitatingly scholars secluded in dim halls of learning, away from the scene where| |the daily battle for existence is | waged. The possibility of world re- volution does not exist—and the Bolshevist experiment is an idea to be treated delicately and vaguely, and then only by the more daring} and radical instructors. Inviting a group of college girls to a lecture by a Communist speaker | evoked bewildering inquiries from all of them and one imaginative stu- dent visualized to the open-mouthed | listeners a dimly lit garret and a handful of long-haired creatures ar- thus the higher institutions of learn- ing in these enlightened days. On the one hand the dizzy pleasure seeking youngsters inevitably wird- ing up in a sad mess as miserable failures, and on the other earnest students grinding away at unneces- sary studies which are forgotten long before their college years are over, These become the professional physicians, lawyers, teachers—petty bourgeois snobs scurrying madly in How different the atmosphere in the Workers School! Gone the silly philandering and useless studies deliberately designed to keep the more intelligent minds from active interest in subjects of vital im- portance. There, in one compact “TRES SUIDIDE |Out of Work 6 Months, Lungs Affected of the fact that they had no warrant to enter his home and he therefore had a right to treat them as burg. But the boy is dead and no- body will be punished for it. Barnett. D. J. Bentall and L. Cc. H,| Amsterdam Ave. where he lives Delaney were present from the Chi-| with his brother John, by slashing cago Local of the American Negro | his wrists and throat with a safety- Labor Congress, which has taken a|tazor blade. He was taken to the keen interest in the police murder of young Whitehurst and has given the hereaved family every help pos- sible in pushing the charge against the police. The congress was in- strumental in arousing public opinion against this brutal exhibition of po- lice terrorism and had thousands of mass meeting on December 17 against the crime. Of the inquest jury of six only one was a Negro. Southern Railroad Seeks Court Aid in Preventing Union NEW ORLEANS, (By Mail).— The Texas and New Orleans Rail- \road, a subsidiary of the anti-union Southern Pacific, will appeal against the right of the Brotherhood of Rail- way Clerks to organize, and will compel its employes to join the com- to be heard shortly. + 55.429 New Cases of Negro workers go on record at a} }seek to get the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals to give it the right to pany union. The appeal is expected Knickerbocker Hospital after his brother found him, bleeding pro- fusely from his wounds. His brother later explained that Conrad has been out of work for more than six months, and had al- most starved to death before he jfound him sick, with his lungs af- fected, in a little boarding-house job, Conrad had seldom had ailments of any sort, his brother said. At the Knickerbocker Hospital last night, his condition was re- ported to be serious, and doctors held slight hope for his recovery. “Our theory «ive an an- that practice Square Garden. Matinees: SAT. room in Harlem. Before he lost his | The New WALLACK’ |vole of Tchekhoff’s “The Cherry | Orchard,” had intended to make her | second appearance on the Civic | Repertory stage in the title role of | Andreyeff’s “Katerina.” This was | changed at the dress rehearsal on | Friday afternoon and Nazimova entered the cast “On the High Road”, a play of Tchekhoff which is famil- iar to only a few of his admirers, | since it was discovered ten years | after his. death in the office of the censor who had prohibited it back in 1884, | | YIDDISH ART THEATRE TO | PRESENT GORKY’S “SMUG ITIZENS” Several radical changes have been made in the schedule of productions at Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre for this week. One of these is the revival of Peretz Hirshbein’s “The Blacksmith’s Daughter,” which | Will be given this evening. An extra mid-week matinee will be played on Wednesday when the | bill will be Maxim Gorky’s “Smug | Citizens.” Thursday evening's an- nounced performance of Sholom Asch’s “Kidush Hashem” has been cancelled fer the appearance of the Russian lyric actor, Victor Henkin, who made his debut last Monday jevening. Henkin will be assisted by |members of the Yiddish Art The- |atre company; and Tchekhoff’s “A Marriage Proposal” will be repeated | with Mr. Schwartz, Celia Adler and Gershon Rubin in the cast. The scheduled performances of the new version of Gordin’s “God Man and Devil” will be given on Wednesday evening, Friday evening and twice each on Saturday and Sunday. Disenfranchise 10,000 Workers in Palestine City |. JERUSALEM, (By Mail)—Nearly /10,000 workers have been disenfran- chised in Tel Aviv as a result of the tax qualifications recently im- ,)posed by the government at the in- stigation of the employers. The bosses feared the rising discontent Joseph Conrad, 59 years old, an/of the working class, for working | The inquest was held at the coun-/ unemployed baker, last night at-|conditions and wages are steadily | the| ty morgue. The Whitehurst family |tempted to commit suicide in the | going down. archaic teaching and theorizing of|was represented by Attorney F, L,|bathroom of an apartment at 832) | “The fanction of the soviets, | the significance of the dictator- ml ft f of the revolutio: majority, HAYWOOD’S BOOK— now running serially in The DAILY WORKER—Is available in two editions $2.50 — Order your copy today from the Source of All Revolutionary Literature Workers Library Publishers 35 E. 125th 8T., NEW YORK CITY Thea., 42 St. W.B’y Tonight at 8:30 & SUN,, at 2:30 ISADORA below zero was reported at Udine. A few bears, driven from the Alps |by the cold, were seen at Tolmezzo. {One of them was killed. The farm and city workers, their standards of living reduced by Mussolini’s | wage euts and longer work day, are | suffering severely. Many are frozen. * i ne Cold and Sickness. Athens, Jan. 15 (UP).—A siege of cold weather has caused consider- able suffering in West Macedonia during the last few days. Ten de- grees below zero was reported from one district and snow was said to he so deep that the Graco-Yugoslav railroad lines were blocked. An epi- | demic of gripne is spreading in |Greece, particularly in Athens. eee Eleven Deaths. WIESBADEN, Germany, Jan. 15. (UP)—The coldest weather the | Rhineland has known for 42 years | held this district tonight. Eleven deaths were reported here within the last two days, all due to the cold weather and all poor workers or unemployed. The thermometer registered 4 degrees below freezing Sunday night, * * ~ Three Die in Avalanche. Chambery, France, Jan. 15 (UP) The bodies of three men killed in @ snow avalanche on a mountain veak near here were recovered by ® relief expedition today. At the same time eight other members of the party who were seriously in- jured in the avalanche were treated for frozen hands and feet. FIGHT SPRAY GUNS. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Py Mail).— Organized painters of Wyoming are method of applying paint, which destroys the health of the workers. firhting the use of the ‘spray gun | ondent Says ADY DUTY 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTSHADDOCK MINES “DEATH TRAPS TO COAL DIGGERS ‘Miner Who Falls May Choke to Death ‘ker Correspondent) LUZERNE, Pa. (By Mail).— Other miners of the Haddock mine have written you of some of our erievances. Here are some more. We are forced to buy our own tools to hold the job. No mamcan get a job unless he has his own jack-ham- mer and other tools. We are also |forced to buy our own batteries, costing $16 to $20. The “11 feet” vein is a death trap. Ventilation all over is very bad. We get sick from gas and black damp. If a miner falls down, he is bound to choke to death. We have many cave-ins. Even if we put in 3 ft of timber, they break down in no time. In “Monkey” vein, every man, miner or laborer, must load one car a day. For this he gets $6 fcr miners and $5.16 for a laborer. If he can’t make it, he is kicked out, Not satisfied with the millions made out of the exploitation of the miners, the Haddock Co. makes rrofits out of the powder it sells the miners. They charge $3.75 for a box of powder sold by other com- panies for $1.50 to $2.50. In the Ross vein conditions are ‘rotten. There is no contract signed |and no agreement to regulate work- jing conditions and wages. Every lsecond day the men work double \shifts in the Top-Ross. The wages jare the lowest paid in District 1,— |$6 for miner and $5.16 for laborer. |Several miners who put up a fight |for better conditions were discrim- mated against and had to quit the job. Brothers, we must fight the |company and force it to make our jconditions decent. 18 SEAMEN DIE ~ TN ARCTIC GALE ‘British Trawler Was | Old and Rotten | TROMSOE, Norway, Jan. 15.— \Sixteen seamen, composing the whole crew of the British trawler ‘Thomas Hardy, were drowned when | the ship foundered in the eastern |part of the Arctic Ocean. | It was impossible for the crew to remain afloat after the ship went down because of the icy waters. Three German ships in the vici- nity said that it was impossible to come to their aid because of a vio- lent gale. The trawler, like many of its kind, was an old ship and un- \fit for the stormy weather of the Arctic. AEN yj" Theatre Guild Productions SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD thea. . sera st Eves. 8:40 Mats., Thurs. and Sat. 2:40. BIWaY. | THE QUEEN OF | LILY DAMITA in “FORBIDDEN LOVE” Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and aurice Browne Mi MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St, West of 8th Ave. Evenings 8:30, — Matinees Thursday & rday, 2:30 BERNARD SHAW'S Major Barbara REPUBLIC Thee. w, 42 ¥ 0 Matinees, Wed. & 2:30, SENE O’NBIL/ Strange Interlude Jonn GOLDEN ,thea,. sets BVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 EVA LE GALLIENN! Today Mat., “Pete Toni! E. Director ‘© Pan.” “The Lady from Alffaque- que.” Thurs. Eve. “The Cherry Orchard.” SHUBERT fs" “a0, Mais. Wed. and Saturda; WALTER WOOLF {nthe Thriling The Red Robe Musical lit with HELEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “fHE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea, 47t St. Evs, 8:30; Mats. Wed. and Sat, Chick, 9944) °" fivic REPERTORY '48t.stnay | AQ nirtin 148 W. Sith St. f Eves. 8:30 ( ARNEGIE [3 to Midnight 50c; $1.00; $1.60. Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2. PLAYHOUSE | P lar Prices 4TH SENSATIONAL WEEK “Lucrecia Borgia” with Conrad Veldt and cast of 50,000. NE 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. NOW AT OUR NEW AND LARGE TIIEATRE Flu During Past Week WASHINGTON, Jan, 15 (UP)— little building the very air is su- charged with a certain electricity, a vitality and life that is amazing. (Sheridan Square Subway Station) Spring 2772—5 Min. from B’way Grove Street Theatre n 88 Per Cent. Increase in Length The total distance covered by all the lines in the USSR this year was 2,383,430 kilometers compared with 1,817,952 kilometers lgst year, an ‘increase of 31 per cent, and the number of passengers transported was 8653 against 7079 the previous year, the increase being 22 per cent. The freight figures were 221.7 tons and 170.4 tons respectively. During the past year no casual- ties were recorded on any of the air lines in the U. 8, S. R. MOSCOW (By Mail).—The Civil tion Inspection has just pub- d the results of the activity of Soviet Aviation Societies for the 28 flying season. ly the end ofthe year the total h of the air lines renched 11,- an increase of 88% Seat uring & 152 against 2869 the preceding ~~ we ate Despite the. handicap of slaving daily in shops and offices, hundreds of workers flock eagerly to the place that will show them the light. Where their groping minds are taught sci- entifically the causes of their un- justly evil conditions, and the methods of bettering them. History, economics, literature and the English language all vitally essential to the worker’s preparing for the great class struggle, There, all is concise, exact and vibrating with enthustasm. There there is no diploma as the DUN Reports to the U. 8. Public Health Service today showed a total of 55,- 429 new cases of influenza in 23 states for the week ending Jan. 12 as compared with 60,820 cases re- ported to the same states for the week previous. self enlightenment, It is the school of the future. —BELLE BECKER. . * * (Written by a member of the Popular Prices Worker Correspondence Class in goal but just the spirited search for the N. Y. Workers School.) CAN DANCERS Company of 20 with IRMA DUNCAN DIRECT FROM MOSCOW Buy In Advance Singing Tre Birt sell-outs, Dates open in away from Union business = mai Jailbirds By UPTON SINCLAIR. A New Playwrights Theaire Production directed by EM JO BASSHE. NO WORKER SHOULD MISS IT! — POPULAR PRICES. ons und clubs to We are only | nre. letails nee or call New Playwrights Theatre,