The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 4

Four Wi nchester Arms Co MEN WHO KICK mpa The Tractor Comes to the Soviet Village ny Robs Work ABOUT STEAL ARE DISMISSED Stool Pigeons There to Report Them no] er Corresnondent) ‘Ru a W W HAVEN, (By Mail).—The Winchester Ammunition Plant, New Haven, Conn., one of largest in the world and employing at pres- | ent 5,000 orkers, has just put across a vile scheme of robbery and| exploit n through the establi ment of the “Winchester Employes Fund Association,” through which a weekly deduction will be made fr the pay envelope of every worker in the plant. The rercen of the ded will be on the basis of from 6 cents m wages ranging from $10 to 99 a week, to 14 cents from wages ranging from $30 to $39.99 a week. | | On the basis of the existing low . wages paid by the company, the h t h it pay envelope of every worker every week will be from 12 to 14 cents. For 12 months the complete sum will amount to r $40,000, a sum not to be sneezed at and which will represent the real life blood of the workers. The Winchester Plant workers were asked to “vote” for the scheme when it was first prepared five months ago. On August 10, 1928, every employe of the Winchester Plant and its subsi ry companies like ‘he National Refrigerator Com- pany was given a slip of paper on which was inscribed “Vote Yes.” A week later company officials an- nounced that the workers of the Win- chester and subsidiary companies had “approved” of the plan for the formation of the employes’ fund as- sociation. According to the “laws” for the administration of the fund, the pur- pose of the association will be to give financial aid to welfare insti- tutions and aid tubercular workers. But the rules state, too, that the mone,’ will be spent as “the trustees deem it advisable and necessary.” The Board of Trustees shall con- sist, the rules continue, of 11 mem- bers, ten of whom shall be appointed by the ten divisional superintend- ents of the plants, and one, who shall be ex officio, and treasurer of the fund. Later the rules provide that the treasurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms shall be also the treasurer of the fund, who shall de- posit the financial resources of the fund in such banks or trust com- panies as the company may select.” Part of the scheme consists of the establishment of a perpetual trust e system through which of- ficials will hold responsible positions indefinitely. It will be seen that while, as at ptesent, the company will collect an average of $40,000 annually, this | figure will be increased tremendous- ly when, in time of war, the number | of employes in the plant will be five 1A DIE IN SNOW ~ GALE IN EUROPE Unemployed Suffering From Cold killed when gales and blizzards sunk vessels, derailed trains and destroyed homes on the northwestern coast of Europe. Eleven seamen were drown- four died in Belgium from intense cold. The crew of eight of the Hook of Holland life boat were drowned when they put out to sea to aid a vessel in distress. The Swedish schooner Sophie was lost with a crew of three off the Scandinavian coast. Blizzards accompanied by a heavy fall of snow brought suffering and havoc to thousands of unemployed workers in Germany, Sweden and |Belgium. In Brussels three persons died from exhaustion caused by in- tense cold and scores were injured in the storm. New breaches in dikes |were reported from Termond and Moerseke, inundating the surround- ing country for the third time in tsix weeks. AUSTRALIA DOCK WORKERS FIGHT 900 Resist Attack of Mounted Police ed when their vessels floundered and | ; Bosses in __ Accidents Caused by Neglect (By a Worker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES (By Mail).—D.| |L. Sutton, lineman, Long Beach, may recover from the shock he re- ceived when 4400 volts of electricity went through his body, a report | stated today. The worker was un- | conscious when from the pole. Gas Blast Hurt Two Workers. A workman’s pick striking and piercing a gas main at Echo Park Avenue and Landa St., recently ceused an explosion which sent two kers to the Georgia Street Re- ing Hospital with serious in- he was removed e cigarette ignited the gas and was the “cause” of the explo- sion, it is claimed in some quarters. But what about those sparks that were flying around when the pick hit the pipe nobody seemed to know anything about? The cigarette tale will probably be used to prevent the workers from collecting dam- ages. The Ind. Accident Commis- sion is a hard-boiled body anyway. Lynn Hall, 25, of 8464 So. Flower St., and Earl Markley, 36, of 33 E. | | Hellman St., were treated with first | and second degree burns and face | and hands. H. Wariz, foreman of | the water department crew, was | harled 25 feet to fall into a dump} of brush, which saved him from) serious injury. J. A. Welling, of 187% N. Olive St. janitor of a municipal power plant, was instantly burned to death and his body completely charred the | other day in a terrific explosion which shook the massive concrete | substation of the Bureau of Power | and Light, 1630 North Main St. The | blast occurred in one of the dozeh 35,000-volt control galleries. | L, L. Dasbach and B. Montgomery, | pany at market price and sell it|/U. S. TO VOTE ROCKEFELLER. U.S, GIVES VOTE TO STEWART FOE Alien Property Proxies Are for Rockefeller Dealings in Standard Oil of In- diana on the Curb Exchange guieted down yesterday and the price re- ceded, on profit-taking. The buying ‘in the issue was by opposing inter-| ests for John D. Rockefeller Jr. and| Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman! of the company, in their fight for control. But the stocks staid sold, unlike| most booms in particular stocks, and ‘that ended the competition, except for a few odd shares here and there. The Rockefeller and Stewart experts | |turned their attention to some other phase of the revolt in the Standard Oil family. It seems that Rockefeller has the inside track with the government. It} is reliably reported that the alien {property custodian will give him proxies on 38,000 shares of Standard {Oil of Indiana held by the U. S. | Hero of Teapot Dome. | This revives the story that the | whole Teapot Dome prosecution and| consequent exposure of graft and) crookedness was engineered by} Rockefeller because Sinclair was a} rival, and because Stewart, head of | \tinental Oil Co.” fraud, but was en-|later in a hospital here. gaging in a fratracidal competition, |with the Standard Oil Companies of fied. other states. Stewart was one of the Sinclair gang which organized the Continen- tal Oil Co., whose only transaction} was to buy oil from a Texas com-| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929 ers by Deducting from Pay for Co. Union FORD WORKERS LOSE 15 MINUTE LUNCH PERIOD A Few Hundred Hired Out of Over 10,000 (By a Wor Correspondent) | YPSILANTI, Mich. (By Mail).— |} Out of a crowd of over 10,000 un- | employed men before the Ford plant | today lined up in a vacant parking | ground space mm zero weather for | hours, only 400 were hired. As that many are laid off or quit every day | at the Ford plant, the hiring of the Having been an officer in one George Constantine Valueff (right is continuing his heroic care Russian Monarchist in Hot Water of the late czar’s regiments, Connt ), now residing in New York City, by campaigns among young girls. But Helen Truez, 15-year-old high school girl, decided to call a halt to the count’s meteoric career, so she haled him into court where ke was held under $500 bail. 400 a day by Ford does not make a the unemployment situation in Det- ole ‘Rayon Mills W The Ford efficiency experts have | solved the problem that was worry- ing Henry—how to get out of losing 15 minutes on each shift by giving the men that much time for lunch. | There were three shifts working § hours each—7 to 3; 3 to 11 and | 11 to 7. Ford had to give them at least 15 minutes for lunch, There | was no other way oyt of it; three! times eight are 24, But Ford’s high | salaried efficiency experts solved it. | On Monday morning the day shift | would start work at 7 a. m. an| Lariff Hearing Exposes work until 3:20 p. m., with 20 min-| Tmperial Preparation utes for lunch. The afternoon shift | works from 3:20 until 11:40 p. m,,| 20 minutes for lunch. The midnight shift is from 11:40 p. m. until 8 a.m. The rest of the week the shifts are 8 to 4, 4 to 12, and 12 to 8. On the fifth and final day | er- of the week the midnight shift would (Yes, ana, means Steer wie acy stop work at 8:20 a. m, 20 minutes reads to make every soldier a ma- off for lunch. ‘chine gunner. JOHN SUTTON. | rieut. Col. Townsend Whelen is the officer. He told the representa- KILL THREE ON tives that private firearms manu- SECTION GANG actually small machine guns. | Others to Follow Suit. facturers should be given higher Make B.&O. Men Work | While Train Nears MIDDLETOWN, Ohio., Jan. 17. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—An at- tempt by an army ordinance officer to help his friends, the firearms manufacturers get a higher tariff thru his testimony before the House would be needed to make several mil- lion automatic rifles, shooting well las the present .30 Springfield, but |tional Harvester Co., Ford, and other |tractor manufacturers will now ask \for higher tariff because they will 3 ..’ |be needed to produce unlimited quan- —Three men were killed and five | tities of trucks to carry the ammuni- hurt at Poasttown three and one | ,; ; tion that the new light machine guns half miles northwest of here today, heii fects: 8 g when a Baltimore and Ohio Rail-| road train plowed into a section) gang of nine men, because the| company was so greedy for the} extra shovelful of gravel that the | Downgrade for First men were kept at work too long) e | Time in Nine Weeks after the train was seen. | Frank Keehner, 27, Shandon, | WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UP). — Influenza Deaths on ithe Indiana company, was not only Ohio, was killed instantly and Miles | Reports today from the U. S. Public [fleecing his own stockholders, one| Haney, 26, Fostoria, who boarded jeaith Service and the Commerce lof whom is Rockefeller, by the “Con-| in Middletown, died about two hours | Department showed that the influ- ; | ivendon = e . |€nza epidemic is on the down grade. The third victim is still unidenti-| fo» the first time in nine weeks, * deaths from influenza and pneumo- Homer Harold, Middletown, was nia in 40 cities in the United States the only one to escape uninjured as| decreased. Hailey Bell, Excello, lost his right + There were 3,283 deaths from both heel when he jumped from the track. | 1. sees last week as compared with 8,893 for the. week previous, a de- cline of 610, the commerce depart- profits thru the tariff because they) It is expected that the Interna-/ ill Be Turned Into Arsenals for Government AUTOMATIC GUNS. | (By a Worker Correspondent) HOPEWELL, Va. (By Mail).— Hopewell, located on the James | River, is the home of thousands of slaves of the Tubize Rayon Co., huge | |makers of artificial silk. The slaves | ef the Tubize Co. work long hours, as high as 12 and 14 hours a day, jand their wages are low—averaging | about $!4 a week. The Rayon Trist jig pretty strong in this town, and |being one of the industries which |controls the law and its officials, jthey make it pretty hard for any |militant workers who talk about do- |ing something to end the misery of | the Rayon mill workers. Formerly there used to be mostly small fac- | tories in this town, but the big trusts have broken in, and are mak- ing the workers into so many ro- |bots. The Rayon workers are en- |tirely unorganized. One of the stages in the produc- |tion of Rayon, which is a combina- |tion of the chemicals cellulose and jacetone is what is called the nitro- |genation of cotton. Now, it is not only the purpose of the bosses to keep us unorganized, but the United States War Department has an in- terest in keeping the slaves from organizing also. And the Rayon bosses go around |boasting that they will be backed up by the U. S. government in keep- ing out “troublesome agitators.” Here is the reason why. Every fac- tory making Rayon will be turned into a government munitions plant at a minute’s notice when war comes. The process of nitrogenation of cotton leads to the direction of gun- cotton and cordite, for explosives. In a Rayon plant are all the mate- vials necessary in the manufacture of high explosives. So the Rayon slaves will be turned into slaves who will be forced to manufacture explosives to kill other workers. The |Hubize Co. is planning to expand, and will bring in thousands of more slaves, poor farmers and mountai- neers from Virginia, In the plans |to make Hopewell a center for the {manufacture of munitions in the ‘A.F.L. FAKERS AID POLITICIANS TO LARGE SALARIES ‘Probe Lickspittles to Capitalism (By a Worker Correspondent) LAWRENCE, Mass., (By Mail). — |The Central Labor Union of Lawr- ence, this week set in motion the political machinery of city and state to raise the salaries of the mayor and aldermen of the city council, from $3,500 to $5,000 a year. They have presented a bill to the state legislature for permission, and they jask all civic and community organi- |zations to support them in their | action. | In view of the fact that one-fourth {of the tenements and stores are empty and three-fourths of the | working people unemployed, and the |banks are foreclosing on mortgages jon every hand, this action by the lick-spittle C. L. U. is almost typical of labor fakers. After all, what else could we expect from the A. F. of L, —I. 8, Fatal Coal Mine Blast Caused by Gas, Union May Have Prevented FAIRMONT, W. Va., Jan. 17 (U. P.).—Steve Henderson, 30, died m the Fairmont State Hospital today from injuries received last night in an explosion at the Sands mine of the Continental Coal Company. Eight other miners were injured when they were caught in a second blast while attempting to rescue Henderson. Most of the crew of 200 miners had left when the ex- | plosion occurred. * * * The fatal explosion at the Sands mine was caused by gas, in which |the men were forced to work be- cause their anion, which would have prevented such abuse, was smashed thru Lewis misleadership several years ago. Hundreds of Chinese Peasants Killed in Earthquake, Report | PEPING, (Peking) China, Jan. 16 (UP).—The Chinese press re- ported today that “hundreds” of per- |sons had been killed by an earth- | quake in Northwest Shansi, near the Mongolian border, The quake was said to have wrecked villages in the area which is suffering great hardship due to famine. coming imperialist war, the multi- million dollar allied chemical dye trust will locate a plant which will cost $120,00,000 or more, for the manufacture of explosives also. and six times larger than the num-)| electricians, suffered severe burns. to Standard Oil of Indiana and other| It is stated on good authority that | ber working now. The former died in the hospital, and |firms in the deal at 25 cents a barrel | the U. S. government alien property | the latter is reported recovering. above market price, thus establishing | custodian, Sutherland, who holds ment’s report from the larger cities | revealed. Of these deaths 1,974 were | | When a worker applies for a job) ‘SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 17— “tool” of the company hears a work- “much fuss about such a small sum!”| companies, resisted the police when they attempted to break their lines at Port Adelaide today. One hundred foot and mounted police charged the workers, swing- ing their clubs freely. The fight lasted for an hour, during which er complain he at once gets busy.) many workers and police were in- They are instructed to say: “Ah,! jured. don’t be so cheap! Why make 80)" mhe workers are still on strike ae = 3 |despite the sell-out of the water- And if in spite of all this a worker 'Front strike by the reformist labor still persists he is marked and the|)_. 421s who put the workers at the “privilege” of being robbed when he gets his pay envelope. Almost everybody, every week, the workers complain, is short by) 25, 30 and sometimes 50 cents in the pay envelopes. Whenever a Although officials are slow in giv- |pot Dome oil reserve. ing out facts, Arleigh Heinz, as-| “Moral” Indignation. sistant chief engineer and general} And now the government comes manager of the plant, said that the [to John D.’s aid in his present fight | explosion occurred when gases |with an insubordinate state presi- formed by boiling oil in one of the |dent, by providing 38,000 proxies. | generators at the plant were ignited | by a short circuit, and the automatic are hit, Responsible city officials oil release valve failed to function | neither went to jail nor lost their in time to stop the explosion. |jobs. So the same course will be Nearly 400 workers lost their |lives in the St. Francis dam disaster | last March. That scandal was white- | washed as usual when higher-ups followed when workers are killed on a small scale instead of whole- sale, as in this explosion-killing case. Indiana company. This bears out| |the contention that the Rockefeller | \interests inspired the prosecution of | Sinclair, Stewart and the Teapot Dome clique last year, to smash a rival. Stewart and Rockefeller are competing on the New York stock market for shares in Indiana S. 0.! This has forced the price of the stock up from 92 to 108 1-4, “Our theory must give an an- problems that practice ‘Lenin, Lenin memor- ial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden, 000 cases of infiuenza as compared with 194,000 for the preceding week. ‘Radicalism, and Personal Life.” A Course of Four Lectures by DR. BENSION LIBER MANHATTAN LYCEUM 66 East Fourth Street New York City | | CAPRICE COD ee i Mats., Thurs. and Sat. 2:40. in the Winchester Ammunition plant Eight hundred dock “workers and ne. explosion blew the janitor jon the “profit” a slush fund of $3,-|12,000 shares of Standard Oil a a ee a «he is therefore obliged to submit. a rat ayabe th hiring of non. ‘*tough a steel door and broke 000,000. This was used to “grease Indiana stock, will vote them for) eats 2 4 not only to a neck-breaking speed | strating artes the a ed ing of Teatly every bone in his body, it |the way” for Secretary of the In- Rockefeller, against Stewart, Rocke-| Reports from 43 states for the | ‘Thentre Gulla Productions | of KEITH St ip, company spying and stop watch |tnion men and the discharging of as learned. |terior Fall to give Sinclair the Tea-|feller’s rebellious president of the|week ended Jan. 12 received by the | SIL-VARA’S COMEDY ALBEE’ pwar SE timing by speed men, but to the|union dock workers by the ship Public Health Service showed 137,- | ~ THE QUEEN OF BEAUTY 1 LILY DAMITA in “FORBIDDEN LOVE” 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 Thea, 44 St.W.ofB’way. "next day is told to “stay home for oo oe | 4 y of the Bruce government and a few days.” ape ser fener the company thugs. As a result of ods these Peat pe sit deeper | the sell-out the companies retained are driving a sharp dagg' the scab labor and refused to re- deeper into the flesh and blood, ~ fs Be us workers of the Winchester Mite the union workers, —L. P. RINDAL. SHUBERT Evs. 8.30 Mats. Wed. i and Saturday WALTER WOOLF |in the Thrilling "The Red Robe Musical Hit | with HELEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea, eat 8:30 P. M. “Health and the Radicals.” Single Admission 35c—Course $1.00 Auspices: ROAD TO FREEDOM. 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The class. is. also the deportation islands commenced to oir from which the company influence banished persons who it foe foremen, spies and speed | were made weak by sickness, family worries, ete. and worried them so | long until they finally agreed to ac- | V cept the amnesty and make servile managed to survive a continu-' statements of thanks to the Duce drudgery of 30 years. These|for the amnesty. This time Musso- kers are today more dead than Jini has not been able to find any ve, but they are being used by|of the deported prepared to make y's officials to speed UP/any such thanks and to sacrifice of the workers and help | their opinions for their liberty. ‘The second or senior class is known ; a is the Gold Medal organization, and | givic REPERTORY rr nas Ba yearn tore working | 600; $1.00; $1.50, Mats, Wed.&! EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Hedda Gabler.” Sat. Mat., “Peter Pan.” Sat. 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