The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1929, Page 4

OATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDA a by De < Four Murder OFFICERS KILL SLAVES WHO rees Is Lot if Indian and Chinese ‘Seamen on Board Dollar Liners EX-SOLDIER IN SIBERIA TELLS HOW WORKERS WELCOMED RED ARMY ANSONIA BOSSES TRAIN WORKERS (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis. (By Mail).— ; The American army in Siberia gave th cue to the fact that the officer in| streets like buck privates with their | possible and at the same time clev- |The last one to board the ships wus | charge of the venereal ward was | insignia in their pockets. The allied |erly outwit the imperialist gener-| our commanding officer. Due to criminally insane and always full of | officers ordered a strong line of re-|als. In order to do this, the Reds |the fact that he was so full of we inherited in Siberia. The Philip- pines and Hawaii Islands are diffi- cult places to go “over the hill.” ; he Russians a poor impression of |cocaine. This officer was allowed | sistance around Vladivostok and ex- | planted part of their army within “coke” (cocaine), it took six men to| Due to the cruelty of the officers “ “Americanism” as taught in the |to occupy this position until he | pected to give the Bolsheviks a hot’|the enemy’s lines, weeks before a|put him on the ship. The reasou | there were at least 25 to 50 prison- DEMAND RIGHTS schocls of this country. As an ex-|caused a number of deaths and was | reception on their arrival. But the |conflict, so that at the right mo-|for this resistence was that he fell | ers sent to U. S. prisons each month. | FOR SLAUGHTER service man now residing in Mii- |responsible for many human wrecks. | Russians were al er enough | ment they could spread leaflets and|in love with one of the prostituies This was the taste of “civilization | a waukee, Wis., who has had more| We had the most modern war|to outwit them, and beat them at |call upon the enemy forces to join |in Siberia and he insisted on staying |and democracy” we received. | wks than three years service with one |equipment in the world. Regardless|their own game. Saturday came |the Red soldiers, This proved more |unless she went along with him.| The treatment the officers handed | Mates Peddle Dope tO [of the American regiments andwho |of all these advantages over the |and to everyone’s surprise here w: ective than bullets. ; |When we were seaelee Manila we out to the enlisted men explains the | May Force Worker to Asiatics saw service in the Philippines and poorly armed Bolsheviks, our offi- g Red parade down Dwetlansk There were huge piles of coul in| were formed into company groups |many suicides among the soldiers. Fight Worker - Siberia, I can state accurately just |cers showed the utmost lack of | Ulica, the Main St. of Vladivostok. the coal yards of Vladivostok that in front of our commanders. We/|I intend to write additional letters & € ‘ what 1 saw in the army. *|eourage. Our own company com-| And the allied troops were still on|were guarded by the American | Were told that we would be ap-|to the Daily Worker, telling in de- 7 ye BUA ence cee mt) |. When we were stationed in Si- |mander was so yellow that wherever |the outskirts of the city waiting to forces. ‘The Russian people were |proached by newspaper reporters in tail how the government robs the| (BY « Worker Correspondent) Of slavery on various tramp ships beria, engaged in fighting the Bol-|he went he had a large bodyguard give the Russians the “hot” recep- | not allowed to use this coal to keep | Manila and San Francisco, and that | poor soldiers out of their measly| ANSONIA, Conn, (By Mail).— operated’ by the Dollar Line |‘heviks, our officers showed the |accompanying him, even if he had | tion, themselves warm. But when the if any cnlisted men would answer | wages, by unjust fines, and about | Steps are being taken for the mili- of New York. The slavery on these |&eatest streaks of yellow in skir- to walk a distance of afew paces.| How did the Bolsheviks get into | Workers’ government took charge | their questions or give any informa- the fake $10,000 insurance policy |tarization of sections of the workers hell-holes of tubs is what I want to|™ishes with poorly armed Russian During battle skirmishes, or on|the city? was the question, You|there was a radical change from |tion about what we had seen going which is forced on them. I have |in,the shops and plants of this city, write you about. To begin with, the | Workers, and would take to their /night patrols, the officers would re-|see they were there right along.|hunger, cold and misery, to joy on in Siheria, he would be severely written a letter to the secretary of |@‘~ording to Neil M. Paulsen, com- food is just garbage on the rotten |heels at the first shot. Many of our | move all their insignia in order to |Some were inside the army of Kol- | umongst the workers. Food and | punished for it by court martial. We | war demanding $435 that I have |™ander of the First Company, Na- ships rousting about the seven seas, CWN enlisted men are probably still avoid detection by the Bolsheviks. |chak and others were in the city as fuel were distributed among the certainly were sore to be taken out |been cheated out of, but have re- |tional Guard, stationed here. ceived no answer yet. | This was made known by the local The Surgeon General of the U. S. |Jingoes after a conference was held army reported that there was a/|between the employers’ association ratio of four times as many suicides |and the militiamen. Elaborate plans in the service 2* among the civilian’ have been discussed for the military population. Representative La Guar- Trilling and training of a select group dia of New York, looking for a lot |Of workers from each shop and fac- of cheap publicity, has requested an |0ry. Paulsen stated that “the time doing time in the United States p: ons for taking their officers’ amples in seeking amusements There was quite a bit of venereal disease brought into Siberia by the Japanese forces and it did not take very long to spread throughout the whole “red light” district of Vladivo- The Russians would not harm the enlisted men; that is why the pri- vates had nothing to fear. Our superiors” were always trying to put fear into us and poison our minds against the Russians, but the hospitality ‘of the Bolshevik soldiers | to us v such that we were on most workers. Only they were waiting | workers and hospitals were opened for orders from their newly organ-|to them. Palaces and apartment ized Workers’ government when to | hotels were thrown open for families declare their presence. This appear- |that did not have homes, While all ance of the Bolsheviks inside the | this was going on thi merican en- city was quite an embarrassment | listed men were restricted by the for the imperialist officers, To let | officers to their quarters. Strong the “ignorant” Bolshev lip one |chain guards were placed ahont of a country where the temperature was often 15 below zero and to be | marooned on a tropical island with a temperature of 110 degrees in the shade, Regardless of this sudden change, we were forced to drill and slave in hot tropical sun while our | offi ere lying around in their These rotten ships go off on a trip which may take you from New York to Bombay, taking these slow old boats months. I have had experi- ence mostly on British owned boats; the slavery on the American tramp ships is bad enough; the food and bunks are rotten; but the conditions on the ships flying the British flag |stok. This “red light” district was |friendly terms with them. over on them certainly made them |them to deprive them from getting artificially cooled quarters, enjoying | explanation, which, naturally, will |W88 coming fast when every indus- cannot be imagined by any land yrotected by Admiral Kolchak’s| Some time in the early part of |feel pretty punk, However, when |into close relations with the Bolshe-|all the comfort that their well-|be faked, unless he hears the reason |t*ial town will be a battle front of worker: The tyranny of the cap-|White Terror government, which 1920, after tho fall of Admiral Kol-| they saw that nothing that they |viks. But that did not stop us. trained flunkies could produce, such |from some buck privates in the |Sverrilla warfare and the forces of janarchy will reign supreme unless | army, | * at | In conclusion, I would like to call |W° Prepare and train the patriotic tains and mates on the Robt. Dollar and other lines chartering tramp was a government financed and backed by Wall Street exclusively. govern Bolshevik ent, were ould do could defeat the Bolsheviks, | Most of us found ways to they hypocritically made formal jand learn the real fac s gin-bucks, ice-cold lemonade, etc. any of the boys died because they ip away any of dvancing to- freighters is worse than the slavery Qver 30 per cent of the U. S. army |ward Vladivostok, which was the al- | congratulations to the leaders of the |our own boys even participated in|could not get used to the climate, |upon every ex-serviceman to write |itizenry to cope with the situation.” the Negroes had to undergo when |officers were infected with venereal |lied headquarters, It was rumored|Red Army for their bloodless cap-|the big demonstrations and |and others went insane. | their i n this paper, and|7H@ Plans he outlined and which they were the “property” of the diseases. d occupy the city by |ture of Vladivostok. were punished for it by our soldiers.| The yeason why we were ma- ise to write more articles |Were accepted by the bosses of this bosses of the South. A sailor’s life| ‘The treatment for victims of thi Then you ought to see| Every Bolshevik campaign was| When oor outfit was ordered ovt |rooned on the island was in order |also, ley, Ste or Pre screen mesch a0D Se ee ; lor factory in conjunction with a Your for the working class | | militiaman to select a number of § ves /men—American born—for training, -—-|who have “unquestionable and loyal records of service to their employ- ers.” Foreign-born workers too will |be selected, but these must be vouch- ed for by the local priest for their {loyalty to American institutions,” |All workers selected will be released !from work at 4 p. m., 3 days a week, without loss of pay. Great emphasis will be laid upon training in riot duty, the use of riot guns, the dis- of assembled crowds, strike , ete., according to the plan. |This plan by the jingoes and bosses of Ansonia is not only for the train- ing of cannon fodder for the coming list bu o for the pur- f i nks of the training the most docile and loyal to the bosses for use against the mili vorkers when is in the hands of the officers of the British ship’s officers; they can kill a man if he grumbles about | the slavery and low wages. I per- sonally have seen two seamen killed | by captains of British freighters be-| cause the men claimed they were} cheated out of the amount of wages | promised them. When the boats ar- | rived in Southampton of course the British Admiralty Courts cleared the captains, and even praised them for putting down “mutiny.” Wages in the British ships are as follows, on the average: Sailor— White (British or American)—9 pounds, about $44 a month. Sailor —Bombay Lascar—Two pounds, six shillings—about $10 a month. Sailor —Calcutta Lascar—One pound, 17 shillings—Not quite $10 a month. Sailor—Chinaman—Three pounds, 5 shillings—A little over $15 a month. Greasers—(White Men)— Ten pounds— $50 a month. Greasers—Lascars—Two pounds, 19 shillings, or a little over $10, and 1) pound 19 shillings or nearly $10 a month for Calcutta Lascars. Greas- ers—Chinamen—Three pounds, 19 shillings, or about $16 a month. The wages of firemen are a little less than that for greasers, being $45 a month for white men, $15 for Bom- bay Lascars, $9 for Calcutta Las- the fear among all the aliied offi- I lcers. They walked through carefully planned, so as to make all the | battle engagements as bloodless as disease was very poor in the Amer- ican base hospital at Vladivostok— 1 into the sardines. to d pline us and to drive the Bolshevism out of our minds that of Siberia we were pa iold U. S. S. cattleboats like | “Prosperity” Under | Capitalism: $15 a _ Week, Pay sna Hell Hole for Asiatic Seamen I t (By a Worker Correspondent) | FOND DU LAC, Wis., (By Mail).| |—In an order sent to a Chicago la- bor agency for track laborer ae Soo Line Railroad is offering such | workers 32 cents an hour for an eight | hour day, with the provision that they “should be men who will board! selves.” This is $2.56 a day, $15.36} a week, or $61.44 a month. This is the great “American prosperity” Hoover spoke about during his elec- tion campaign, the “prosperity” the American workers will soon be call-| ed upon to “protect” in the next im- perialist war. litant |the latter fight against their slavery. | —C, M. MISSING FISHERMEN SAFE CHARLEVOIX, Mich, (By Mail). -—Three Charlevoix fishermen miss- ing four days in a 50-mile gale on Lake Michigan have returned here. ; They have been without food for three days. Will Give Dance for Paterson Strikers Scene at 42nd and Broadway, during the theatre hour. After routing out the “criminals” and doing away with every (?) speakeasy in town and jailing all the unemployed workers who looked “suspici- ee es Photo shows Dollar liner President Garfield, described as a hell- hole by a worker corresnondent, who sent in photo. Caucasian dances and revolution- lary songs will be featured on the} entertainment program at the ball | ous,” the police commissioner has turned to regulating traffic. While doing this he can close his eyes to other things Tammany Hall does not want secn. As a result of the new traffic scheme the taxi-drivers ears, and $15 for Chinamen. The way these Indian. seamen are | to be given under the auspices of the | | Armenian fraction of the Workers | feb, 9, at 221 E. 27th St. The af- are not permitted to “roll” empty on the main streets and are so terrorized by the police that they find it hard to pick up a fare. treated on board the British ships is nothing less than slow murder, and sometimes murder not so slow. Their working day never seems to (Communist) Party and the Ar-|e.:. will conclude with a tea party menian branch of the International ea aiek Labor Defense on Saturday evening, oo end, They just drop down after Ci they get a short respite from work. pee up an OW ay in an ‘Theatre Gulla Productions The Calcutta Lascars (Indian sea- d=: CAMEO us | SIL-VARA’S COMEDY men are called Lascars) are treated ALBEE vn CAPRICE GUILD Thea. yo st Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sa’ Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th Bt, West of 8th Ave. Evenings 8:50. — Matinees Thursday & Saturday, 2:40. EU a Strange Interlude John GOLDEN Thea., 68th even worse than the poor workers from Bombay. They are clubbed by the mates, who usually do the cap- tain’s dirty work, for the slightest hesitation. No horse or ox in this, world has ever been forced to do the American Premiere U-BOATS9 AUTHENTIC—SENSATIONAL Photoplay of the German Terror of the Sen Dartmouth Textile Mill (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass., (By . |Mail)—The day I attended the con- work that these poor brown-skinned |vention of the National Textile workers are forced to do in one day | Workers’ Union I was booked as a on board the British tramp ships. worker in the Hathaway Mill. But The poor Chinamen come in for their when the strike was ended, I found share of killing slavery too. No myself blacklisted for being active wonder these poor seamen from Asia in the strike. For several weeks now fall victims to the opium habit. Talk-|I have been working in the Dart- ing about opium, the officers of |mouth Mill and I am writing about many a freight tramp make thou-|the conditions in the mill. Condi- jothers 24 looms, and are getting the |same pay as those running 12 looms. |Now that I am speaking about pay {here is a good chance to mention jthat the weavers get an average of |$20 to $25 a week, where they ought ‘to be getting $35 and $40, and still I would not call that good pay for the hours they have to put in. The Jacquard weavers are run- ning six looms and the yarn is so bad that half the time the looms are stopped. These weavers are also The New Wa l l ac k Ss Theatre 42nd Street West of Broadway ARTHUR HOPKINS presents | HoripaY Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50| |PLYMOUTH 7)7°2 sf ‘ IN A NEW PROGRAM Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2.35 | sands of dollars by peddling it to|tions are bad in the Dartmouth Mill |*-°FF 7 | oe * MAXINE E. of Bw. the Asian seamen, and believe me, |and there is plenty of speedup. For| Ting ae ‘oat apt ain iP the | Fay Bainter { EuLiorr RVKNINGS ONLY AT 6:30 they soak the seamen plenty. Many instance the weavers in the draper THe Gears ye oe cpap ay peat i: E LOUSY Eves. 8:60 | of the Lascars and Chinamen are /room | are working from 6 in _the ing and gerahing The weavers get I } Wea. & Bat. | ‘Thea, 44 St. W.ofB'way. kept in perpetual debt to the metes, morning to 6 at night. The night $18 to $20 k. Th it | : *|SHUBERT Evs. 8.30 Mats. Wed. because the $10 a month or less that |weaver starts at 6 p., m. and quits| soviet in git Dax tmouth Mill yi LITTLE, | 146 W. S7th | st: and Saturday i i ift | | al ‘oon to Midn| they get for wages is more than at 6 a.m. This makes a two shift) otto, ‘There are times when the| CCRNE SE on wepulet coeies WALTER WOOLF eaten up by the amount they have to pay the officers for dope. 2 Here are the reasons the ship- owners employ the Indians and Chinese for slavery on board ship. } jjob. |floor is so full of waste that it looks Also the yarn is so bad that it|more like a pickers’ room. The a- | keeps the weavers busy all the time/tory is dirty and half the time ‘the and they have no time to snatch even floor is full of water and the weav- | A a light lunch. Before they used to|ers hate to go in there. The walls For one thing, they can pay oe be able to sit and eat, now they are|that should be spick and span are worse than starvation ise} the oP their feet all day long. Some of|spattered with dirt and look like ss they huddle them together in the|t,. weavers are running 12 looms,|chunks of mud. | rottenest part of the ship, as living | FIREMAN SAVES ENGINEER accommodations. The cost for ; cost aon ns ARBITRATION FOR board is less. The amount of com- | Gould, a fireman, saved the life of | = NAIRY STRIKERS in the Thrilling Musical Hit The Red-Robe with HELEN GILLILAND. Duncan a830 Pancers ‘The Three Waxworks’ with EMIL JANNINGS, CONRAD VEIDT & WERNER KRAUSS *IVIC REPERTORY ' ha 50c; $1.00; $1.50. Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2.30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Today Mat. “Peter Pan.” Tonight, “The Cherry Orchard,” Thurs. Eve, “Peter Pan.” _——— 0 TONIGHT! Grove Street Theatre ris Saxeseszin ave. yp. seaton WHERE ALL NEW YORK RADICALS MEET TO SEE e e e e Singing Jailbirds By UPTON SINCLAIR. A Powerful Revolutionary Play of the Class Struggle in America! Directed by Em Jo Basshe and Presented by the New Playwrights Theatre Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea. 47th St. W.B'way Eves, 8.50; Mats. Wed. and Sat. Chick. 9944. . If claims are made, and dis- : i fe - ‘arise—well the claimants are|John Rodger, a Canadian Pacific in oad roa er ana Yadian and |e engineer, by dragging pom Cugevian wil rebel, and the | the engineer off the tracks before | white seamen will fight ape: approaching train, when Rodger End Militant Picketing 3 | mith them for conditions that the) id his footing while at work | Tricked Back to Work | | | or death, is little better than noth- | i titled to have. fam * SACK BROUGHTON. on top of a locomotive, and fell. Barber Union Chief Spits | Verbal Lava at Militants | | CHICAGO, Jan, 22.—Farmers on | \strike against the Borden and Bow- | |man milk distributing companies | |were tricked today into submitting | |to arbitration their demands for | i |$2.85 per hundred pounds of milk. MATINEES SATURDAY—PLAYING SUNDAYS i Hbclt plies’) Te ceeentle 4 sore No Worker Should Miss It—~Many Come Back to See It Again POPULAR PRICES ¥ form. First he fumed in denuncia- | tion of the most audacious “Reds,” | |who dared to criticize his local hench- (By a Worker Correspondent) A true fascist stalwart is Interna- bitartors take their time. Farmers had developed militant | picketing, during the course of which Discounts allowed on block of seats and to workers’ organizations. “President Shaughnessey of Barbers’ Union. With all the|™e" 1” leaflets issued by the pr ‘gressives in the recent elections. |“Throw out all those who criticize ithe administration,” he began. But this was only a starter. “If they don’t like this country,” he blared, “let them go back where they ca from.” He grew more! daring. “Kick them out, take their jobs away,” he raved. And with a) final snarl, the International presi- dent said, to the hearty applause of « his little group of “socialist” local planned and drummed UP officials, “Before you kick them out where ‘the president him-| make them kiss the flag, knock their s to speak,” materialized into | teeth out if they refuse to kiss the ng of 35 members of the flag.” After all’ this, a vote was taken. Out of the 35 there 10 votes against the expulsions, nineteen—gang func- tional president yesterday de- | ‘an address to Barbers’ Local detailed to the officialdom methods of violence they in “annihilating” the heralded with advance pub- r, while enroute to pay a special New York in order to speak meetings here, the elabor- the Giant-Killer” Shaugh- y stalked forth upon the plat- |milk had been diverted from Chi- n average of 400,000 pounds of cago daily. Many hundreds of thousands of pounds were poured out after farm- er pickets had captured the wagons and tank cars in which it was being hauled. SHOE WAGES DOWN. WASHINGTON, (By Mail).—The average wages of women bootmakers decreased from $19.65 a week in 1926 to $19.43 in 1928, the department of labor reports. | tionaries and hangers-on—voted in| favor. Despite the abstentions of a few, the gang tellers counted them, too, as in favor of expulsions, POPULAR PRICES COMPANY OF 20 WITH IRMA DUNCAN Direct from Moscow! WILL DANCE ALL WEEK | Buy Tickets ih Advance at the Box Office For information call Comrade Napoli, Business Manager of New Playwrights Theatre, Watkins 0588, Grand Costume Ball by the JOLLY MOHICANS (Mohegan Modern School) TO BE HELD AT NEW WEBSTER MANOR, 125 East 11th Street . FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929 Dance to the Music of Vernon Andrade’s Renaissance Orchestra from 10 to Dawn TICKETS: $1.00 if bought in advance; $2.00°at door.—Now on sale at Wonkers Bookshop, 26 Union 8q., or at any Greenwich Village store.