The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEYO YORK, , MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929 Powdered | es in. Standard Bleachery i in Passaic Destroy Health, Says Correspondent NO HOIST; MEN MUST LIFT 600 800 LB. ROLLS Enforced Overtime, No Extra Pay (By a Worker Correspondent) PASSAIC, N. J., (By Mail).— This is about cond in the st. of the which Standard Bleacher; is uated in Carlton Hill, On one side we R., and on the one suburbs of Passaic, have the Erie R. other the swamps. The dyeing department is divided into two parts, the fast dye and the fancy. The fast dye is where we dye the silks and the fancy dye is where we dye the light shades of cotton goods. The pay is very low, men running a pad get 50 cents an hour and the helpers get 38 1-2 cents an hour. Dye Powder Flies Around. The workers have to get their colors in the color shop, where the color which is in a powder form flies around and gets on to clothes and in the nose. The water mangle is another job that requires a man to be of Herculean strength. When the goods come from the dye houses and bleach houses, they are washed in the water mangles to free them from. loose dye and acids. These ros are of an average weight weighing from 600 to 800 Ibs., and . two.men are required to lift these ‘onto. the machines. In other fac- tories of this kind we have a hoist te, lift these rolls, but not in the Standard Bleachery. This causes many of the workers to become rup- ured. Ten Hours Work. + Some of the departments do not ‘ave any regular time for dinner. Phis “means that they work at least zen hours. There is no drinking water in the plant, and when a worker is thirsty he must go with pails for it outside the mill. The enforced overtime without extra compensation is done almost every night in order to rush thru the goods on contract time, which means that some of the men have to work all night and thru the next day Approach of a New Imperialist War t Coolidge the s when the the ar measure by disg White House, signing the Kellogg treaties with a big gold pen, symbol of Wall Strect’s joy over of another attack on the rival British imperialism, in send millions of American workers to kill British workers and grab all the best markets. Around the table are the Mellon-West, ising it before the public as a “peace treaty.” and the near approach of the happy day cabinet of big business, and senators most active in putting over The scene is the East Room of Reeve Tells of Libel Trial of BIG POWER, OlL, Cantor Which Vhich Opens Today COPPER MERGERS. ICE MICHAELSON. e say Goy. Fuller is the mur- derer of Sacco and Vanzetti, acting as the representative of his cl and the murder was directed only aj t these two, but against all others. So when Harry Cantor calls Fuller a murderer, he is right, and we will prove not In the office of the Labor De-; fender, 799 Broadway, Karl Reeve, editor, between reading telegrams and answering the telephone, sharp- ly denounced Massachusetts’ legal network in an attempt to crush working class agitation. Trial Opens Teday. The trial will begin in Boston to- it has been announced by the prosecution. “On what occasion did Cantor call Fuller a murderer?” Reeve was asked. “When he carried a placard ‘Gov. Fuller is the murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti’ as h elead a new demon- stration in front of the State House during the election campaign.” He explained that Harry J. Ca as a candidate for secretary rte of Massachusetts on the rs (Communist) Party ticket, a e@ day to the support of the International | Defense, the only organiza-} that Labor Morgan Utilities Will Be Worth 2 Billion Merger negotiations were under of workers in Massachusetts the|way yesterday in utility, copper and courts are acting in behalf of the| \oil industries, according to informa- employers.” Emphasizing this fact, | Racve ‘cited the scvent ob: BEBc Nair tion reaching Wall Street. All of Bedford textile strikers, the Cam-|them make big labor-hating trusts bridge rubber strike in which 20 | bigger. were arrested, the Fall River tex-| Further additions to the giant tile strike, and the arrest of Com-|Morgan Holding Company, United munists in Taunton, Mass., during| Corporation, were seen in the pro- the election campaign. |posed unification of several Niagara To Re-open Case. Falls and Buffalo utilities. The Mor- “What significance has the Can-|gan Conipany, with these units and tor trial to that of the Sacco-Van- | holdings of several larger com- zetti murder?” Reeve was asked. |panies, would embrace a property | “It entirely re-opens the whole | valued at more than two billion dol- Sacco-Vanzetti case. The I. L. D.!Jarg, will call many witnesses who were eae nobiallowed to teatify-in the trialiof | -rsconss. Conner, Minis \Com- pany was reported as working on a Sacco and Vanzetti, and by present- Se 7 i ing their testimony before the jury. plan to pare ater Chile Copper wean by testimony which was never al-| sian ez ees % now bax lars lowed in the first five years of the|M0ldings. The merger case, Cantor will prove that Fuller consummated by stock transfer, ac- is a murderer.” The I. L. D. will in the near fu- protects workers from Massachusetts jus- y capitalist justice, tice is ty Not only in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, | but in a long series of prosecutions Anaconda being given for one of would be | hey ila Raa Ta: /Plarue Spreading Thru cording to reports, two shares of | without any rest, and with the same pay. If you refuse they will get rid of you in one way or another. ture issue a pamphlet dealing with the case, and with new evidence! which came to hand in the Sacco- of the leaders in protests an a= onstrations for the campai, to free Sacco and Vanzetti. hile. Standard of New York was linked | in merger rumors with Vacuum in There is only one remedy for bet- tering these conditions and that is into a “More than 20 were arrested, charged with sauntering and loiter- by organizing ourselves ..2/ing,” Reeve continued. “Cantor, union. _All the Workers should 30M | however, was held on an additional it. This union is the National Tex- charge of criminal libel.” Faces Long Term. “Where will he be tried?” tile Workers’ Uniotiof America. The Passaic headquarters are at 25 Dayton Ave., Passaic, N. J. JOE HARRISON. 20 SEAMEN DEAD IN HEAVY STORM Arctic Winds Bring on Disaster to Crews LONDON, Jan. 20.—More than} 20 sailors were drowned yesterday as a result of raging storms that swept down from the Arctic across the North Atlantic yesterday, bringing with them snowstorms over the entire northeastern areas of Europe. The most serious single casualty occurred when the steam lifeboat, Prince of the Netherlands, put out | to sea to rescue a Norwegian! steamer with a crew df 26 workers | aboard. The steamer had been! tossed ashore in the heavy sea on| the cliffs south of Gudjhem and, Bornholm, and was slowly breaking | “In the Superior Court to which the local district court had trans- ferred the case.” “Why was the case transferred?” “Because the district court con- sidered the charge serious enough to be brought to the Sunerior Court, and because it knows that there is no limit to the sentence in the high- er court. Should Cantor be con- victed, he can get a term of 10 years imprisonment.” Pausing for a moment to open numerous telegrams, Reeve contin- ued decisively: “He will be sen- tenced, judging from the past rec- ord of Massachusetts class justice,| paper for about two years before| unless workers rally very strongly | leaving for Russia. the foreign field. Other rumors con- nect Standard of New York with Phillips or Sinclair. Powerful in- Vanzetti trial. In addition, the Boston section of the I. L. D, is issuing a special leaflet bearing the title “Governor Fuller is the Mur- derer of-Sacco and Vanzetti” which will be broadcasted through Massa-| chusetts. stocks of these and other oil com- | Panies with the object of making a| jnew giant in the sppdesater este RAUL MEN BUILD PALESTINE UNION 799 Broadway, New York. JERUSALEM, Palestine, Jan. 20. Karl Reeve has just returned from!__espite the refusal of Palestine the U. S. S. R. after spending three | railroads to recognize the union of | years studying conditions there. He|raiiroad workers, the workers are was a member on the editorial staff|continuing to strengthen their or. of the Daily Worker from the day! ganization, demanding better work- it was founded, continuing on the ing conditions and higher wages. The reformist leaders of the union,’ |instead of calling a strike to enforce Funds Needed. “We are hiring ‘such Peaicinantt lawyers as Arthur Garfield Hays to take up the case, and perhaps Clar-| ence Darrow. Funds will be need-/| ed, and the national office of the} 1. L. D. calls upon all workers to| contribute toward the defense, ria Milliners to Fight Those Who Would Wreck Union Young American millinery girls, have been organized into a local union of 7,000. A few years ago, when an active group of girls started to organize |the young milliners, the leadership | recognition and the granting of the workers demands, have sent a pro- |port Workers’ Federation to the \British government, which rules Palestine with an iron hand and sup- Wages vary between 75 cents and four thousand members to decide |$1.75 a day, compared with $1.25 to whether the proposition meant really |$1.50 paid in industry to unskilled to merge the locals or to disband) |workers and about $2 to skilled our local, he stated that was a de- | workers. Although the nominal work- cision of the general executive ing day is eight hours the men are board, the highest body of the Inter- often forced to work overtime. Be- terests are said to be accumulating | \test thru the International Trans-! presses militant workers’ movements. | up on the rocks, with no means of of the other branches of the eseape open for the crew. The life- Hat, Cap and Millinery Interna- members to discuss, but to obey. He boat, manned by eight sailors, cap- tional,” which consists of men, were | then left the room. sized about fifteen minutes after it NOt at all interested in the women | A meeting of local 43 was called left shore, and no hope is held for workers. They thought it would be|at which 1,800 members partic- the survival of the crew. vidiculous and useless to try and ipated. President Zaritsky stood up i Y better the conditions of youngsters|and gave the verdict—that from HI Lifebor' Found Empty. who “did not understand anything |tha: evening on Local 43 should not us Rotterdam newspaper sent an about their conditions, but knew only | jexist, but that Local 43 should will- he lane out to the scene of the dis- how to chew gum.” \ingly hand over its fate to the other ter, It circled over the Valka, a/ | Local 24, which is under right wi Latvian steamer, aground on a dan- | Girls Determined. Neadership. a on reef, whose crew made signs| I” spite of all attempts at dis-| to fly in a certain direction. peed rane on Pack A of ea Jane, havi other branches of millinery work- i a the “paaaag reas ade ers, a few active girls were deter- ee, ad RA ny Soy area There was no sign of the| Mined to teach the youngsters to a Hi) # en ae ‘ nabtinali ed |demand better conditions. In four Cie the fate of 4,000 members with- \years 4,000 militant young milliners | Ut granting them the constitutional ‘were organized into Local 43 under | Hehe to elect and vote for whom a left wing leadership. ie mu Gn oes all corners were No sooner had our local became "27° @xclamations: \a fighting factor in the industry| ‘We want our local!” |when we were noticed by those who| “Long live Local 43!” never gave a hang to organize us. “Down with the right wing leader- Attacked By Zaritsky. ship and President Zaritsky!” The International Union, consist- iwe don’t want fake amalgama- ing of right wingers, did not at all tion! like the idea of such growing power| A vote was taken and a unanimous i junder a conscientious leadership. So: decision was passed in which we distance out in the upper Eng- | President Zaritsky, in conjunction | pledged ourselves to carry on the Channel were drowned when a| with the general executive board, de- | fight till every girl was reached, and len gust of wind capsized their | cided to wipe our militant local off till every girl was organized into boat. eis eal the map. Eight months ago Presi-|one big local. snowfall up railroad |dent Zaritsky came to our executive; The president who thought that all parts of the storm|board with a proposal of amalga-| American kids were awa’ eae noth- Aestroyed communications | mation. But the way in which the ing except paint and chewing gum Proposition was presented made it | was shocked with such militancy and ! only too obvious that behind the ap- /spirit and sneaked out of the meet- Do the 22/pealing phrase ‘“Amalgamation”|ing hall like frightened sheep. Spt nk page yoegeaaa hich was —SALLY. Zaritsky was thunderstruck to hear the voices of revolt against We ‘The Swedish schooner Sophie, ith a crew of three, was lost off The Scandinavian coast. No hope is d for the survival of any of the In’other disasters, isolated drown- of seamen were reported at) is European capitals. Waves| two sailors off the deck of | Norwegian steamer Skolma bodies were not recovered. fishermen in a little dory a: * # * eo, ee to er | in the “Cloth, | | national, and that it was not for the |sides, numerous fines are imposed ‘for petty reasons and no appeal is possible. There is no provision for lincapacitated workers and sanitary conditions are abominable. The com- panies fire workers frequently for no reason but that they are active in the organization of the union. Although the British government received the protest about a month ago, it has not even acknowledged it and it seems that it will pay no jattention to it. BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK— now running serially in The DAILY WORKER—is available in two editions $3.50 and $2.50 — Order your copy today from the Source of All Revolutionary Literature Workers Library Publishers 85 E. 125th ST., NEW YORK CITY SUBSCRIBE NOW TO The Communist and The Communist International > Each $2.00 per year Comb. Offer: Both for $3.00 > INPRECORR — $6.00 per year, $3.50 for six months HENRY FORD MURDERS ONE ‘Ola Belt Slave Driven to Suicide by Speed (By a Worker Correspondent) | worker was added to the big list of | victims of Ford when James Hag- gerty, life. Entering the Ford auto plant when he was worked steadily, hardly missing a day at the Highland Park plant. Altho a robust young man when he started, three years of slavery in the inhuman slave-shop sapped his health. He fell asleep while chang- ing his clothes or during the course of a meal. Before his death, he had on many occasions complained about |the terrible speed-up in his depart- ment and the intolerable treatment} by the foremen, Sick—Must Work. Five weeks before his death he| took a few days off owing to gen-| eral bodily illness. He promptly re-| céived a letter from the employment | ‘office to the effect that unless he| obtained a doctor’s note certifying} | he was unable to work, his services | would no longer be required. He) | was forced to return to work before jhe had recovered, | Later he made numerous requests | for weeks for lighter work, because | en his health away, but it was re fused. Later, realizing that he must} handed in his notice, which was promptly accepted. Kills Himself. Thoroly discouraged at the treat- | the same night. He hung himself | with some insulated wire, his body | being found in an alley—a few) | blocks from his home.- Thus, Ford’s | system murdered another worker. | It seems to the rest of us he could have done something better, but he knew little of organization. The| Say of us, must do that. Cock?n, China, of French Imperialism | SAIGON, Cochin China, Jan. 20.— Bubonic plague (the “Black Death”) \is spreading here. Cochin China is a colony of 26,476| |square miles, populated by over 4,- |000,000 people. The population is jclosely packed along the coasts and/ |rivers, where intensive agriculture jis carried out. Plague before the days of French} imperialism and its heavy taxation jand the deliberate suppression of native isolation practises was almost the territory last century, there have een numerous pestilences, NEGRO WOMAN JAILED JACKSONVILLE, Fla (By Mail). |--A Negro woman was arrested here while trying to pawn a watch, charged with having stolen it in a hold-up on Dec. 22. She denied the | jcharge, but was sent to prison to | await trial. SINGING JAILBIRDS by UPTON SINCLAIR 25 Cents > READ THIS INTERESTING PROLETARIAN PLAY ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA I. W. W., NOW BEING PRODUCED AT THE PROVINCETOWN PLAY- HOUSE - | Workers Library Publishers 35 East 125TH Street, N. Y. C. MORE WORKER DETROIT, (By Mail).—One more} 26, a Ford slave, took his| barely 23, he had| the heavy slavery for Ford had tak-/} ;ment he received, he took his life|.. Victim | unknown. Since France conquered® Worker Correspondents i in the cot Union | { | | | | The two workers shown above are part of the great organization of worker correspondents that keep the newspapers of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics supplied with accounts of workers’ activ | in their districts. They are shown reading one of their news stories in print in a Soviet newspaper. Reverse Conviction of | Jobless Hoaxed; No Foley and Kuthy; Had) Unemployment Dole! [Raised Jobless Funds | BARGOED, Wales, (By Mail).— CLEVELAND, Jan. 20,—The | Unemployed workers who went from | | Court of Appeals at Cleveland. upon | | this district to obtain work promised | |Joe Kuthy, who were convicted of ‘unde, and found no jobs, returned @ ere in serious condition from star- jcommon beggary last winter when | vation and exposure. Unemployment jthey solicited funds for the Unem- | dole is being withheld from the men. PAPERS QUIT; NO NOTICE FOR UNION PRINTERS le eahlne Scheme Puts 450 Out on Street | (By a Worker Correspondent) DENVER Colo. (By Mail)—When | hewspaper publishers enter into | agreements with the printing trade unions they insist on the clause be- ing inserted in the agreement that the unions give 30 days’ notice of | proposed change in wages or work- |ing conditions. Of course, the re- |actionary printing union officials | agree to this. Merge, Workers Lose. But when the press bosses decide to merge or suspend publication, the | workers, of course, get no such con- | sideration. | When the two reactionary papers, the Denver Morning Post and the Evening News, were suspended re- cently on the same day, they did so without any notice whatever to the 450 workers employed by them. | Most of those workers did not know |that they were thrown out on the | streets until they came to work that | morning. One of those workers had been a printer on the News for over 40 years. Other men who had slaved |many long terms for these two cap- jHalist Papers were similarly treated. pension of the two papers result of a combine, which now leaves one morning and one either quit the job or be fired, he | hearing the cases of John Foley and | lin a beet factory at Bury St. Ed-|«vening paper in Denver. The cap- italist newspaper bosses violated the 80-day clause, but the reactionary printing trades union officials have of course done nothing about it. ployment Council, which had organ- ized the 100,000 unemployed work- ers of Cleveland, reversed the de- cision of the lower court, which had | }found them guilty and had fined | TEN AMGEN, ERR them each $25 and costs. The cases were handied by the | Ohio Distriet of the International | |Labor Defense. Thentre Guild Productions SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE WANTS STOCK GAMBLE KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20.—The | Kansas City board of trade is trans- | forming itself into a stock exchange. |Local bond dealers and wheat buy- ers hope to cut into the profitable New York stock exchange traffic on products of the Southern Missippi alley. Stock gambling will thus become more generalized and local groups of insiders will have their chances to fleece the local lambs, say busi- ness men here, approving the | scheme. 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