The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1929, Page 4

F £ Flying Sh GLOTHES CAUGHT IN LOOMS KEPT 10 and 18-Hour Day} Slavery (By a Worker Correspondent) mili in which I work is the +t in town. It is the West rIston Mtg. Co., of Easthampton, . employing about 1800 work- it is noted for its lousy condi- tions, large labor turnov and low re Poles, ns and Lithuanians ren from 14 up. Any- of-town is sure of 2 are dumb as to be driven better. 7:15 and get through at 5, getting one hour off for lunch. There isn’t any eon for about 2 mile so we have to either go home or if we live too far eat in a room with dirty cotton flying into our mouths. They give us ninutes at noon and 5 at night to get ready to leave but we h to be in at 7: and at 12:55 ready for work. (The boss makes sure he gets his.) The company keeps one week’s pay back on us so they got us stuck. | Most of the workers get $13.05 a| week and some get as wonderful a| wage as $18.00 after working 10| years. We have to stand up all the time and if we sit down the boss | gives us hell, in fact we get hell for! everything and if gate. The other day the boss kicked one guy for something and then to the kid why he d him. The kid} was right so the boss told him not! to be so slow and walked away. They | think we’re worms but even a worm | turns so they better look out. Boy,| but.it’s a good model of hell in the! Weaving room and besides some of} ‘he looms are only about a foot! part so when you go to look at your cloth (you get docked for bad hreads, etc.) and your tie or apron, | jor pose sleeve gets caught in the {machinery when you have to lean| Hover, it’s good bye and a good long tvest. But the worst thing comes is he flying shuttles. Every once ina le. one comes whizzing through ne air about 60 miles an hour and ‘’s-a pair of wings for you, if you t hit in the dome. 4 If they put some safety thing to fold the shuttle it would be 0. K.,| fat that cuts down profits, so no! chance. Two fellows got hurt this + ONE FOOT APART talk we get the | VAILY WORKER, NE 'W YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1929 | | | | | | | { In the Shop “End of St. Petersburg” Now Showing at Loew’s Theatres | Sovkino, chief of film makers of | Soviet Russia, is responsible for one of the most dramatic motion pic- tures made in Russia, the colossal film “The End of St. Petersburg,” which will be shown at Loew’s The- atres this week. It was directed by a young genius of 24, W. J. Pudowkin, and in this he attempted to film the dramatic story of Russia’s entrance into the war, of the events leading to the fall of the ezarist regime and the rise and fall of the Kerensky gov- ernment. One feature of the picture is that it was filmed without a script, and another is that the direc- tor did not use a professional actor. Pudowkin finds that the people who make a living of acting become trained in certain ways and are in- capable of really interpreting sin- cere emotions and passicns. “The End of St. Petersburg” is scheduled for Loew's Delancey St. Theatre, Delancey and Suffolk Sts., ;“Peter Pan,” and the double bill in- |eluding Tehekhoff’s “On the High Road” and the Quintero comedy, “The Lady from Alfaqueque,” which had its first performance last Mon- day night. “The Cherry Orchard” will be the bill tonight and Wednesday even- ing. “Peter Pan” will be given three times, Wednesday matinee, Thursday evening and Saturday matinee. “On the High Road” and “The Lady from Alfaqueque” will have their third performances Tues- day and Friday evenings. The week will close with “The Good Hope” on Saturday evening. In “On the High Road” Alla Nazi- moza will play the leading role, as well as her role of Madam Ranev- skaya in “The Cherry Orchard.” As Miss Le Gallienne is also in “The |Cherry Orchard,” as well as playing her usual parts in “Peter Pan” and “The Good Hope,” every perform- ance the coming week will have way last week; one got a small/and Commodore, Sixth St. and Sec-|cither Miss Le Gallienne or Madam hole in his hand and the other gotjond Ave. Jan. 21, 22, 28; Palace, |Nazimova in the cast. his Hand cracked so the boss (kind- hearted soul) put some iodine on} and wrapped a rag around it and) Sent the slaves back to work. (Hur- ray for the kind-hearted bosses.) + We slave almost 9 hours a day and | are pretty damn tired when we get through but we have heaven com- E. N. Y. Ave. and Douglas St., Pre- mier, Sutter Ave. and Hinsdale St., Oriental, 86th St. and 18th Ave., Loew's 46th St., 46th St. and New Girecht Ave., all in Brooklyn; Boule- vard, So. Blvd. and Westchester Ave., Fairmount, Tremont, Ave., be- tween Crotona and Clinton, Grand, Texan I. L. D. Branch Pledges Aid to Shifrin Fight for Freedom | | SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 21. Mared to the night mules. These! Fordham Road and Jerome Ave., all/—At ® gathering, in honor of J. Slave 18 hours straight from 5 p.m.|in the Bronx and the Prospect, at Pabinoff, representing the Jewish to 6 a, m. without even 5 minutes|Fyching, L. L, Jan, 28, 29 and 30; |Section of the I. L. D., held January off, for the magnificent sum of $17 per week (and they say we have an 8 hour day and good conditions and pay in this great U. S. A.). | The mill got a tax return about @ month ago of $157,000, but you bet it isn’t doing the slaves any good. Just a few more pennies for | the poor starving millionaires who’ Sy own the mills. There are company * stool pigeons all over so everyone re afraid to talk to each other. Men have been fired for talking about their lousy pay. 14-year old kids are taken out of schools so their | few dollars will help the family. The kids get stunted, thin and sickly. | Because they manage to eke out a| bare existence, the workers do not realize their miserable conditions and some are satisfied to slave for their pittance or if they do realize this they have to be «damn careful whom they talk to or it’s the gate which means looking for a job which can’t be found though we have the Hoover “prosperity”. Everyone in .the family works from the grand- Leew’s 116th St., between Lenox and Seventh Aves., Jan. 21 to 24; Loew’s Rio, 160th St. and Broad- way, Jan 23, 24, 25; Loew’s Seventh Ave. 124th St. and Seventh Ave.,| Jan. 24 and 25; Loew’s Ave. B., Ave. B and Fifth St, Jan. 26, 27, 28; Coney Island and Burnside, Burn- side and Walton Ave., Bronx, Jan. 30, 31, and Feb. 1; Spooner, 163rd St. and Westchester Ave., Bronx, Jan. 31, Feb. 1; Kamec, E. N. Y. Ave. and Douglas St., Brooklyn, Feb. 5, 6, 7, 8; Inwood, Dyckman St. and Post Ave., and 167th St., 167th St. and Jerome Ave., in the Bronx, Feb. 6, 7, 8, * FOUR BILLS THIS WEEK AT CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE Three of this season’s successful | bills and one of last season will) share the week at the Civic Reper- | tory Theatre. This season’s new ‘productions to be seen at Eva Le! Gallienne’s Theatre in Fourteenth | St. include: “The Cherry Orchard,” | me 6, 1929 at 441 E, Commerce St.. San Antonio, Texas, the following reso- lution was adonted after the visitor- |speaker acauainted all present with details of the Wm. Shifrin defense jcase: The resolution is signed by Mary Anne Lefschitz, Secretary and \J. Schaffer, chairman. | Having been attacked by six thugs sent by the Butcher Union con- trolled by right wing elements, who, \ threatened his life with knives, Com- rade Wm. Shifrin had no way out lexcept by defending himself which resulted in the death of one of the gangsters, Harry Silver. We accuse those elements who are sending strong-armed squads to ex- jecute murder assaults on innocent workers. The guilt falls upon the United Hebrew Trades who organ- ize vigilance committees fcr the_pur- pose of “butchering up Left Wing- ers to supply carnage for the ceme-: teries.” The guilt falls upon “the Jewish Daily Forward” which writes massacres on the Left Wing move- = “RAISE IN WAGES” FOR TROLLEYMEN 1S REALLY A CUT \Speed-up in Cleveland Increases (By a Worker Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail). —! The speed-up on the St. Clatr line has put more men on the sick list than St. Clair has ever had, and our | |bosses were not satisfied with the hardships foreed on the men by |speeding up the running time, and| jthey decided to have the conductors wear their changers instead of hang- ing the changer on the fare box. | Extra work such’as shop trips are | given to the yard men and these} men do not belong to the union. The | yard men are stool-pigeons for the |eompany. They work 9 hours per day and get a shop trip which makes | a 11%-hour day. Road men would get 12 cents per hour more than the | shop men for making shop trips. The poor suckers that work in the) yard can’t see anything in a union. We that belong to the union are discriminated against unless we do| the things that the company wants —or be stool pigeons, in other words. | Our fakers are asleep again. All the new employees have to sign up to take the company insurance or| they are not employed. The insur- | ance costs each employee $2.50 per month. The Cleveland Railway officials have their welfare schemes and send literature to our homes telling about the wonderful “sings” and parties, | and then put up a schedule that makes one sick to work regular. You work from early in the morning un- til after 7 at night, for 8 to 8% uttles in West Boylstown Mill Make Accidents Frequent, Says Correspo nden Ee itant Women Fight in Sandino’s Army Sandino has been able to rally about himself a strong army of Nicaraguan workers and peasants, both men and women. perialism until all marines are w captured from the the American forces. ithdrawn from Nicaragua, With the He has recently announced that he will continue his fight against Yankee im- aid of their machetes and guns U. S. marines the Army of Independence has been able io inflict large losses upon “Precious” Is a Wisecracking Comedy of Bourgeois Amours Bored with the professional naughtiness of night club ladies, An- | drew Hoyt, a bald-headed captain of | industry, decides to seek inspiration |through a good old-fashioned mar- |her grip. True, she is recaptured by riage with Eva Mills, a dumb but attractive product of American civili- zation as expressed in Ypsilanto, Mich. When tired business men hours out of 93 runs there are 41 marry vigorous young virgins from straight runs and 27 three-swing the backwoods, pre-marital dreams runs. \of wedded bliss are sometimes shat- On November 19 they called on all tered. In Precious,” listed as a regular men to give $5 or a day's farcical comedy and presented at the | work and extra men $8 to the Com- Royale Theatre, James Forbes por- munity k'und, and asked for a larger trays the trials of the business men} donation than in 1927, Some men With an eye for beauty and an ap- reiused to give as they did not have Preciation of a shapely leg. | taith in the Community Fund and) At times a good line is put into were not financially able. ‘The the mouths of the players; at times| average per man at St. Clair for the players make good use of them.| 1927 was $2.59 and in 1928 $4.70, But on the whole the comedy gives | The leaders of the community fund ‘the impression of being little more are the biggest open shoppers in the than a labored series of wisecracks | city. |which do not always prove bright The secretary of our union was in- spots of a weak theme. vited to attend a meeting on October| When Andrew Hoyt (played by) 16, 1928, held by committee of Cleve-|John Cumberland), announces his | land workers for the purpose. of immediate marriage with Eva Mills, fighting the tactics of tne employ-|(Dorothy Hall), his go-cetting busi- ers in getting employees to con- |ness partner, Luke Radcliffe, is| tribute, put he did not attend the |cynical. Hale Hamilton gives a use- meeting, although he attended a ful interpretation of a realistic Bab- meeting of the American Legion last bit. He asks awkward, unromantic spring and delivered a speech to| questions, and advises Hoyt to liqui-| them and was favorable to ine Cleve. rte his “suppressed desires” through | jand railway Uo., organizing a pos. the accepted channels, ot ex-service men, ut the ex-ser-| However, pastoral charm and the| vice men did not favor the move- clever scheming of the gold dieging| ment and our secretary was not sister of the winsome bride win the eugivie and the schemes was not day, and Andrew retires from bach- successiul, Jelorhood and becomes Andy. As| I want to give three cheers for the |“Stella darling” Cora Withersnoon National duimers and ‘Lexule Work-/|gives a clever-interpretation of the | ers Unions, and it looks as though role of the crafty sister who under-} the day will come when the street stands the necessity of buying pres- | car and busmen will aiso demand a ents for herself when she obtains, | | National Street Carmen and Bus-|throuch her sister, the key to lavish] men’s Union. |wealth and charge accounts. | Last May we were given 2c per| One month after the union Andy | hour raise in wages and the capital-|discovers that his bride is more in- ist papers of Cleveland spread the terested in beautifying the home with| news in big type across the front |delicate pink cushions and cute dolls | | pages of their papers and stated;than in playing the role of the de- | |now many thousand dollars it meant | voted young wife. And Andy sighs} to the men on the cars. But the|to escape from the dream world of | | Arizona, were let by the U. S. gov- company cut the running time 6 minutes on each round trip and not a word was said about that in big headlines of the capitalist papers. The officials of our union were greatly in favor of cooperating with the company, We make the same mileage haul- ing, the same amount of passengers |as we did the year before witn 6 romance to the more restful ways of hard-boiled bachelorhood. Oliver Denton (Edward Leiter), arrives to} design a nursery at the suggestion of the optimistic Andy and other- wise improve the architectural ar- rangements of the house. Besides possessing a Greek chin and marcel wave, Ollie dances divinely and one interpretation of the tango throws Eva off her balance. But it takes convince her that it is quite the thing to elope. For a hick town girl, even Eva requires some persuasion. But the lure of becoming a fallen woman | overcomes her, and finally she packs the watchful Stella, who is alive to Andy’s disillusion and the traps set to encourage the elopement. But in a general denouement at the end of the scene there is better understand- ing all around. So Eva leaves “to live a life of sin in Philadelphia.” Supporting members of the cast! are Frances McHugh, Louis D’Arclay, |} "° = Veree Teasdale and Howard Benton. | West’s Department Is Giving Out Enormous) Electrical Contracts) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Con- | tracts totalling $240,000 for elec- trical equipment and hydraulic tur- | YOUNG MUSICIANS WED. CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (UP).—The world’s youngest opera conductor and jone of the world’s youngest lyric |the terrific heat, according to eye- soprenos—Henry G. Weber, and Miss Marion Claire—were married at noon |today at the Congress Hotel. SEEK ENDURANCE RECORD. A new endurance record for solo flying will be sought by Arthur Jen- sen when he takes off at Roosevelt |said or done about it. |Field, Long Island, in a Bellanca| traps are not very good for ad- |monoplane, at dawn Wednesday. WORKERS ARE " MENAGED BY OWL WELL FIRE Is Third Big Fire in Death Traps (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).— |On January 9, the third large fire during the past six months broke | out in Santa Fe Springs oil wells. Roaring through the air 200 feet, a sheet of flames—yisible in Los Angeles, 20 miles away—shot from |the General Petroleum Co’s oil well | No. 145-C, following an explosion | which ignited gas in the well when the drilling was down to the 3500- foot level. Ten hours later, when |being drilled at the 4000-foot depth, Getty Hill No. 20 well blew out with ja similar deluge, sending mud, | Water, sand and towering flames |several hundred feet in the air—or jtowards the pie-land in the sky, if jyou please, An unidentified man working on |the 145-C derrick when the blast came escaped only by jumping 50 | feet to the roof of an adjoining shed and crumbling to the ground. The derrick melted soon afterward from witnesses, The condition in which \the worker was picked up is kept as secret as the oaths of Klansmen and 4th degree Knights of Columbus. A number of workers were killed or | hurt in oil fires at Santa Fe Springs last summer, as published in The | Daily Worker, but not much was No. Death- | vertising purposes anyhow, they say. BEECAMEO SHOW | American Premiere U-BOAT9 AUTHENTIC—SENSATIONAL Photoplay of the German Terror of the Sea bines, to be used at Coolidge Dam in ernment today. The Westinghouse Flectrie Co, received a contract for $180,000 for a power house and transmission line. A contract for two hydraulic 10,000 horse power turbines was given General Electric Gets 3 Years, Paroled| MIAMI, (By Mail).—Robert Ma- lone, convicted of second degree murder for killing a Negro worker in a construction gang, was sen- tenced to three years prison. He was not sent to prison, however, but was paroled to his brother, Syd Malone, who defended him during the trial. G. W. Bowers was sen-| tenced to 30 days for trying to bribe one of the jurors for the release of Malone. | Seed | PLANTATION SLAVES WEST PALM BEACH (By Mail). —Following the opening of the Southern Sugar Company’s mill at Clewiston, 12,000 acres of land for sugar-growing was bought by the| company, Negro workers will. be | hired at a starvation wage to de- velop the land and slave on the plan- tations. PLYMOUTH ARTHUR HOPKINS presents HoripaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea, W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2.35 Co. for $60,000. Contracts for Fay Bainter pete |power machinery are now controlled | , West 39 St. by Roy West, secretary of the in- JEALOUSY Eves. 8:50 |terior and an Insull power trust In Wate eek _ LITTLE 146 W. Sith St, Wy PLAYHOU: Kills Neero Worker, MVIC REPERTORY '48t .sthav Eves. 8:30 0c; $1 00; $1.50. Mats, Wed.&Sat.,2.8¢ EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Lady from _Alfaqueque.” and “On the High Road.” Wed. Mat., “Peter Pan.” Wed. Eve, “The Cherry Orchard.” Theatre Guild Productions SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE : Thea. W. 62nd St GUILD Eves. 8:50 Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sat., 2:40 Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th St, West of 8th Ave. Evenings 8:50, — Matinees Thursday & Saturday, 2:40. ENE O'NEILLS HU Strange Interlude EVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 44 St.W.ofB' way. SHUBERT © f,30, Mats. Wed. WALTER WOOLF in the Thrilling The Red Robe Musical Hit with HELEN GILLILAND. Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra ites Ethel Barrymore Thea. ee Eves, 8.50; Mats. Wed. and Sat. Chick. 9944 The New WALLACK’ Thea., 42 St. W.B’y Tonight at 8:30 In a New Program ISADORA DUNCAN ment, and aids financially in free-| minutes per trip less time, which jing the murderers as in the case of | means that in reality the motormen |Comrade Aaron Gross, si and conductors on St. Clair line got The guilt falls upon the right 4 wing union leaders who introduced |#_cUt of about 2c per hour instead the practice of gangsterism in the|°! # raise. mother to the 14 year old kids. They pay $6 to $10 a month rent for an old company house. The work- ers are just like dumb animals, they eat, sleep and work and eat, sleep SINGING JAILBIRDS by UPTON SINCLAIR the youthful architect a month to ‘Soviet Cities Develop Rapidly;MoreWorkers| Mussolini’s Decree and work again. On Sunday if the workers go to church they listen to! a pot bellied tool of the mill owners tell them to starve and be satisfied | on earth so they can go to heaven. | There is even a blue sky law) \cities of the Soviet Union are grow- MOSCOW, Jan. 21.—The leading | trade union movement. Self-preser- ing and their population is steadily increasing, according to the latest statistics. vation is the first law of nature; self-defense—the first duty. Therefore, be it resolved: That we pledge ourselves to do The last move by the company was to increase the salary of the starters which means about $10,000 more per year out of the car-riders’ pockets, but I do not see anything on Chamber Signed ROME, Jan. 21 (UP).—The king signed a decree today dissolving the chamber of deputies and ordering a new election on March 24, as ap- 25 Cents p> DANCERS everything in our power to free Cont- rade Shifrin from “Forwardistic vengeance” and capitalistic “justice.” We further pledge our full moral and financial support to the newly formed I.L.D. in this city in its movement to free Comrade Wm. Shifrin as well as all other victims of the class struggle. Giceen ae, ee an il) | TORONTO POLITICAL SCANDAL, Bat , Wales (By Mail) —) Bie Sees ‘get better psy and conditions, Hur-|Duncan Connar, a miner at A ce Aa aly bb sia y for ihe new union! | Moors Colliery, Newton, was elec- lof Roxie. What Wika Gunieesiile, =A WEST BOYLSTON SLAVE. | trocuted while ‘at work. fon thees hewen wonbeeh banca wena, ber found it necessary to resign be- cause his opponents had evidence that he hadn’t been paying his taxes. This capitalist controlled city govern- ment is in considerable turmoil be- cause its finance commissioner has resigned. They are going to let him about that spread across the front pages of the daily papers of Cleve- land. But I do notice that they claim their interest fund is low and they must raise the care-fare. Let’s get our heads together, boys, and get a square deall—CARMAN. Scott Nearing Speaks at Meeting in Madison MADISON, Wis. (By Mail).— Scott Nearing addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting of University of Wisconsin students and Madison townspeople Thursday evening, who listened as he analyzed the contra- dictions within the capitalist sys- tem and its inevitable breakdown and replacement by Communism. Nearing also brought out clearly The population of Novosibirsk, ainst Saturday night entertain- od hd feo capital of Siberia, has increased 72 ments because the people wonldn’t A i church Sunday, Workers! this| per cent as compared with 1917, will gct you nothing but more kicks | while that of Nijni-Novgorod, Vi- and worse conditions and pay from} atka, Omsk and Petrozavosk rose the bosses. Organize and fight the | about 45 per cent, Moscow’s popula-| Voases instead of humbly submitting. | tion increases about 5 per cent. an- Answer the call when the National | nually, Textile Workers’ Union starts to or- ganize the oxploited slaves of this town and then we will be able to proved by the cabinet last week. The king also signed a decree ap- pointing the new members of the Fascist Grand Council, in accordance with the recent law providing that the members be designated by royal decree. Under the new law, the grand council is a recognized and official part of the government. The mem- bership is almost the same as tlie preceding grand council. READ THIS INTERESTING PROLETARIAN PLAY ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA L W. W. NOW BEING PRODUCED AT THE PROVINCETOWN PLAY- HOUSE) = o % se = Workers Library Publishers 35 East 125TH Street, N. Y. C. GO TONIGHT! Grove Street Theatre Sheridan Saunre, Teh “Ave, Sub Station WHERE ALL NEW YORK RADICALS MEET TO SEE Singing Jailbirds fexican Communist Youth Greets the “Young Worker’ “Young Worker” has received the following letter from the Com- Company of 20 with IRMA DUNCAN vist Youth League in Mexico: nominate his successor, But what- a DIRECT FROM MOSCOW “Fditor, Dear Comrade: ever happens, and whatever scandals bis Ping SP healt By UPTON SINCLAIR. Qa behalf of the Mexican Young Communist Federation, we greet |lie below surface, the tradition of|{/ ace” e A Powerful Revolutio Play of the Class Struggle in Americal 4 ig Worker, the organ of the class struggle of the young workers |local politics covers everything with Pei pact. Di pea penal Picsiuted: by: the: New Playwrights ‘Theatre Will Dance All Week i pr States wishing you success in your campaign to make the|a veil of politeness. MEXICO POLL FIGHTS. rected Kian ROS ANTM lane AUN! Co DIeS a weekly. he eine Cc:amunist press constitutes one of the best arms for IMPERIALIST BETTER. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21 (U.RI—A No Worker Should Miss lt—Many Come Back to See It Again Popular Prices fe agains: militarism and imperialism, which is a task common] PARIS, Jan. 21 (U.R)—Marshall|dispatch to the newspaper Grafico POPULAR PRICES x leagues, especial!y in this period of colonial expansion of the ‘ lism: towards the South. vs of the wor'd unite! entral Executive Committee, Mexican Young Communist Gorge Fernadez Anaya, Gen, Secy.” Foch’s critical period of illness has|from Zempoala, state of Hidalgo, passed, Dr. Daverniere said late to-|said today that six had been killed day. Starting tomorrow, bulletins|and several wounded in a fgiht be- Discounts allowed on block of For information call Comrade Napoli, Busine: Playwrights Theatre, Watkins 0588. ager of New on his condition will be issued only|tween partisans of two rival candi- every two days, he said, Buy Tickets in Advance at the Box Office _ dates for governor. 4“ tf