The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1929, Page 4

Four Warehouse Workers ALWAYS SLAVE INTIL. SUNSET; | SPEEDUP GROWS 9 Most Slaves (Bu a Worker ( (By spondent) il)—I_ we nting Co CHICAGO, Canal a g freig! ost with very are plent is never befo: Up Stevedores. h stevedor ack the stu t the wor loads on pla s open and iow often rettir sompelled "‘nads through he loading vlatfor de and vush thei There ar 290m to allow any change of cloth T even to g an overcoat. There *s no washroom and there are no ‘oilet facilities whatever, except at he Pa. R. R. depot, a good bloc! vway. Th i vater, and eve: he little t up. ybody is out of the sam Not much firing is necessary on *= job, as few men can stay long under such conditions, the average out two weeks. ves are married and hese, through necessity of course,! ug probably “Iany of the si tay longest. ut. Single men soon get —MIGRATORY WORKER. BALBOA, Jan. 23.—Forty thou-! Navy and and men of the U. ‘rmy are engaged in maneuvers ere. are learning to protect his Pa a Canal in the approach- alism. The canal is useful to U. S. im- jalism for quick transit of the ‘eet between the Atlantic and Pa- Weeks Enough for r of the ess of the 7 cents an hour important sed pay for long- are com- In the rain in the wet, 0 the skin and er ankle deep on or a cloak- is no place to eat, ex- shack where the work- t noon to eat cold lunches. t even restaurants near- There is not enough drinking has to drink world war, to include a clash be- en British and American imperi- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1929 Are Soaked to Skin 2 Killed in | ¢ | { \ | ork | m- | nd ht. of tion of tracks and embankmen This Train Wreck The wreck on the Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo, Point, Ont., in which two were killed and 37 injured, and the locomotive were derailed following a was save money the company ignores proper safety de CHATTANOOGA — WORK HEAVY BUT | - ISAHELLHOLE WAGES LOW FOR FOR NEGROES PLUMBER HELPER |Workers There Dogs Organize to Make Their| | toMaster Class | Conditions Better | oe | (By @ Worker Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. A great many people outside the | Mail) —Chattanooga is building trades do not know what jthe “Dynamo of Dixi the rea] conditions of the plumbers |is constantly being indus helpers are. The plumbers’ helper | |@ great rate. is one of the most exploited of all One of the most important prob- | the building trades workers. They lems of the South is the race prob- | have such hard work as wrestling lem. Jim Crowism exists cast iron and juggling bath tubs,| |where. In the street cars, the front | ete. All for the noble sum of from seats are occupied by whites, the , $2 to $4 a d That is, when they rear by Negroes. A sign posted in | can find work. the front of the car reads: “This| I noticed an ad in the World the (By known as because it ized at near Stony Two coaches ut. In order to ices and examina- every- ts. “Pray While “7 NEW MERGERS es fi IN GRAND RAPID manufacturing concern, 132 W. 36th | Negrd and 790 most nes Hay e b| t St., are conducted under the super- |” era t-- Inerease in Prices (By a Worker Correspondent) i GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, (B: ‘ir | Mail). city, to form the “Old Kent Bank kk Kelly Ice Cream Co., thus giving i business in the city. e t!the Peoples Savings Bank. The creamery merger has already resulted in the publication of a new. 3 price schedule raising prices on their with the ‘exception of one or two, products all the way down the line. Bottled milk which formerly 6 cents a pint now sells for 8 cents PANAMA CANAL —ARNOLD ZIEGLER. BALLOT ON WAGE-CUT. EDINBURGH, (By Mail).—Mould- ers at Kirkintilloch are balloting as ‘ ; | to what action to take in reply to a/2 Chance they do the things that | five per cent wage cut. The senti-/ their leader does. Thus, the force | ment not to accept the cut is strong. WORKERS INJURED IN FOG. GLASGOW, (By Mail). — The worst fog in years took a large toll lasted three days. A worker was ___Is Slogan tn Dress Shop Dairy Combine Brings young ladies are the trusted and he final steps in the con- solidation of the Old National Banks with the Kent State Banks in this with total resources of over 40 mil-|0f superstition and call upon God to S lion dollars, has just been completed, help them in their treacheries. Both and at the same time the announce- | the ment has been made by the Grand | handle great quantities of all kinds|the lowest paid. For the Rapids Creamery Co, that it has ab-| of dress materials and they certainly | kind of work a Negro is given much sorbed the Sanitary Milk Co., the|take advantage of this fact. Not a|t!ower wages than a white worker. Valley City Creamery Co. and the| week passes that they should not a virtual monopoly of the creamery | usi The banking merger has resulted their friends, in making the Old Kent Bank the ous household articles, such as cur- largest banking institution in the tains, furniture covers and other state, outside of Detroit. The Kent things. State Bank is itself the result of a long series of consolidations in which everything. | it has absorbed the Kent eCounty| gh, Savings Bank, the State Bank of 9, Michigan, the Commercial Savings Bank, the Fifth National Bank and agld Poe private affairs, but cannot help it. of workers injured in accidents, It part of the car for white people.” | other day which read, “Plumber’s) ~~ The Isadora Duncan Dancers from Moscow, now appearing at Wallack’s Theatre, 42nd St., west of Broadway, New York City, have been giving astonishing interpretations of the new art of the dance that the great Isadora created in her school in Moscow. Thou- sands of workers have been stirred by the Revolutionary Russia.” The dancers will give their last performance Sunday afternoon and will then leave for a tour of the country. as They Slave, Worker Correspondent Say They Bring the Spirit of the Soviet Union 'BO Ss THRE ATEN fa a ie TO FIRE FRIEND ¢ A-NEGRO WORKE ‘This Is Plan to Preve: | Workers’ Solidarity | (By a Wo | er Correspondent) | In the embroidery factory whe work, there worked a Negro g with whom I became friends. ° employer as soon as he saw t friendship growing, immediately | jected. When he found out I \ |even visiting her home, he took | aside and said, “If you want to ky your job here, you'll have to br jyour friendship, and stop visit her home.” I told the boss that he had ries, “Impres ons of |In the rear is a sign reading: “This |helper wanted, experienced. No |part of the car for the colored race.” | other need apply. Wages $3 a day.” | You will note that the Negroes are I got there at 6.30 a. m., and there not even called people. was already a small crowd there, | There are separate waiting rooms | Witing for the boss to come and| for Negroes and whites at all rail- open: the sab. Pe ee one ae eee ne 5 - were even plumbers, looking for |: (By "Worker Corvesnoudent) Road erations. lavatonion the same i helper job: they hed bash oat af} | The children’s dress, sample and|~ “/terent cars on railroad trains. | 44° 's9 long. The boss told them Mor » Samp! You must not address a N s i duplicate departments of the Pearl- | «mister mutter and Mittleman jobbing and ! Eee You Exploit,” CINCINNATI, You call him by hi: toa a day. Only a dozen of the men stepped forward when the boss ask- vision of the designer and pattern. | A v ite is a “man.” A Negro is'/ed who would work for this wage.| got discharged for daring to smoke maker. These two “magnanimous” |® plain ‘nigger. A white woman While walking away with a few of|at lunch hour. is a “lady.” A Negro Woman is a the helpers, we were discussing the yal” representatives of the firm.) ‘0™4”- 21) White) girl dee gizl=- need for a new unign. One of the fellows said that the Plumbers’ Helpers Union meets every Thurs- day night at Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Ave. So I went there Thursday at 8 p. m. The place was pretty crowded and we decided on means of organizing the helpers, They prove their loyalty by exploit- ag Negro girl is s “gal.” ing their subordinates and by plot- | Whites and Negroes are not al- ting against all those who might be lowed to eat in the same restau- ys dar Ghee wae |vants. They are not allowed to at- . tend the same places of amusements or the same hotels, Factories have separate javatories for whites and Negroes. White and Negro workers | |do not congregate in the same = |places. The Negroes are given the, VAPORIZED M L FOR NEW patternmaker | worst and hardest jobs. They are STEEL. sam®| PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22.—A pro- cess of vaporizing manganese in quartz tubes to one-twentieth of one | fo per cent of purity, for the making | advertising of stronger, and more ductile man-| Workers Pious Fakers. These pious hypocrites observe all The c ficiency,” » religious rites, adhere to all kinds designer and being particularly handling of supplies. About wages. Laborers employed it; make something for their private |on the Bachwan Tunnel at Highland Not only do they make and re- | Park, Tenn., by the Hamilton Com- pair all their dresses and those of ‘pany, Tenn., reccive $2.50 a day. All they even make vari- laborers are Negroes. Chauffeurs |receive 40 cents per hour. The Chamber of Commerce of this | city is making an attempt to unite Chattanooga with the surrounding Sh ae : suburbs into a Great Chattanooga. e employs on the average of |The chamber is also inviting bids ne girl a week for her private /from firms to establish factories, work. When the boss is away, oY /rills and shops here. In many cases when she has to go on a vacation, this body gives money to firms several girls are busily engaged in ‘establishing plants here. The Cham- \ber of Commerce is practically the her own graft work, The girls, real government of this city. | She is the boss, and they must do In my next letter I will describe | in detail the labor conditions in in- | ares what she tells them to do. She has | dividual shone, two of her flunkies who do most of | oped here in the laboratories of the} Carnegie Institute of Technology. It} will have considerable commercial value, and may increase the use of | steel. _The patternmaker particu- larly has very great needs for| kind. |SAY POST OFFICE AIDS TRUST. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Small- er oil companies are demanding an investigation of the post office de- jpartment for driving away their} stock customers by inquiries about we could find. resent the idea of participating in cost to itself. Men Making Aeroplanes Receive Starvation Wages \°* (By a Worker Correspondent ) (By Mail) there was an error in the paper, and! Metal Aircraft Corporation of Cin-| 7 told us that he would pay only $2.50, cinnati has a brand new factory| times, and the workers were for- and a lot of brand new men. there as an airplane mechanic, but| Said that had nothing to do 2 workers are| Out any notice of any kind, ‘ ‘ nestiy all -ekelien pag le trade or| timekeeper then punched my carq| Union member—and so he fired craft and get a miserable pittance | “out.” of 40, 45, or 50 cents an hour, They | work eight and three-quarter hours a day, and on many Saturday af- ternoons we had to work overtime when I had the nerve to light a at the same rate of pay. The company believes in high “ef-| threatening manner commanded me and has a system where-/to put it out at once. I refused to by the bosses know exactly what and how much each worker is doing. They are certainly quite efficient in the exploitation of labor and at|°™pany rules and the way we were | stingy in the| treated, The company got profits and free| our employees.” space by selling the , white. overalls with the running this plant,” I retorted. ganese steel, has just been devel-/ company’s name or their ust mark on the back of the overalls. These were sold the workers at $2.50 | intendent was in a fit of fury, and a pair and the men were expected | yelled at me that I was “a damned to be very proud of them. The men | Bolshevik,” }do not belong to a union of any) At lunch time we did not have! any lunch room to go to in the fac- tory, nor any lunch table to sit at, | Mie. but had to sit around on anything | F0&sd i Altho there was nothing inflam-, fraud. They claim that the post of-|mable or explosive any place around | fice does this at the instigation of near where I worked, the fat and) | the oil trust, which thus financially | greasy superintendent asked me if} cripples its emaller rivals at no!I did not know that I was not al-| lowed to smoke at any time in the | right telling me who my frie were to be, and that all the wo ers in the shop were my frien | whether they were white or Ne; | boss does n | with this girl, is because he is t j ees ced him|i2@_ to put one group of work ee pa NG) seeaey ae | against each other, so that th a be 7 {not be able to fight against his ficials smoked in the factory at all ploitation unitedly. He| , “I don’t like the ith |ing to her end talking ‘u me, and became very angry. With-| her,” he continued. He knew tha|couldn’t fire me because I am Cy idea I was |bidden to smoke at any time, ion’ w | Negro friend, who does not belo |to the union. But whatever the boss says, I continue my friendship with my } gro fellow worker, I will show } that it is only because the wh and Negro workers are not orge ized together, that the bosses c do anything they want to the wor ers. This only proves to us that all t workers must organize together bo white and Negro workers, so th the bosses will not be able to car on their discrimination against o group of workers, and so divide o ranks. When I was leaving the plant after being dismissed, the superin- tendent became absolutely furious | cigarette again, and in a very ;do so, I told him we employees had a right to say something about the “None whatever,” he said. | “We are running the factory, not | “Some day the employees will be BOR BOAT LOST, CREW DEAD. MADRID, (By Mail)—A flyir boat which left Alcazares was lc in the severe storms. Its crew pc ished, it is feared. After this conversation the super- ‘Theatre Guild Productions = SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE J. ALR. her private work. They pretend to | be loyay to her and the firm. In} reality, however, they have copied | her example. Whenever they get | is reduced to the few girls who are | actually working, but they cannot |produce for the others who either | | work for the patternmaker or them- | | selves. The New Wa l l ac k Ss Theatre 42nd Street - - - - - Pass the Buck. | When the boss complains about | West of Broadway ILD Thea. W. 52nd st GU Eves. 8:50 Mats,, Wed., Thurs., Sat., 2:4( Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne AUTHENTIC—SENSATIONAL Photoplay of the German Terror j of the Sea | ARTHUR HOPKINS | MARTIN BECK THEA. | presents | 45th St. West of 8th Ave. } | Evenings 8:50, — Matinees | Thursday & Saturday, 2 | EUGENE O'NEILL’ Strange Interlude John GOLDEN thes. 58tn | Comeay Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 PLYMOUTH Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2.35) MAXINE * . of BY Fay Bainter { stttrrs| RVENINGS ONLY AT 5:30 killed in a road crash outside How-|lack of production, Miss R. blames | ° West 39 St.) i, Pre: A Eves. 8:50 fic Oceans. wood. it either on the girls or the cutting | N A N W OG M ' | JEALOUSY arachisis Then, 44 St.W.ofB'wa Used for Invasions. ~ -- or trimming department. She makes | I E PR RA i LePabbcd) ed Mab The large number of troops kept MAKE SUICIDE PACT. |so much noise that the employer is | LISBON, Portugal, Jan, 23 (UP).! unable to find out the truth. Most | —Two village sweethearts, despair-|of the time the operators are those | ing of being able to marry, attempt-| who are blamed for everything. | tervention to keep U. S. capitalists|ed suicide by mutual agreement to- They are the lowest paid, most ex- | in control of Colombia, where | day in the commune of Monte Viroen, | ploited slaves, who must not say a 58,000 workers struck a few weeks | province of Oporto. word to each other during working | ago against the U. S.-owned United} Wed. & Sat.| SHUBERT ©vs. 8.30 Mats. Wee and Saturday WALTER WOOLF in the Thrilling Phe Red Rob Musical Hit with HELEN GILLILAND. vere, under the excuse of maneuvers, s also handy for attack on any Latin \merican state that might require LITTLE }146 W. 57th St. ARNEGIE | Noon to Midnight PLAYHOUSE | Popular Prices! ‘The Three Waxworks’ with EMIL JANNINGS, CONRAD VEIDT & WERNER KRAUSS Isadora TONIGHT Fruit Co., is the first state to the south of Panama. The present maneuvers between ‘he “Blue” defenders and the “Black” ettackers uses the largest qumber of men and ships ever en- aged in a canal defense problem. ARREST RICH EMBEZZLER. David H. Gladstone, attorney, in- | dicted by the federal grand jury for | alleged embezzlement of funds as a |bankruptey receiver, was arrested | and held in $2,500 bail yesterday. He ihad been sought for several days. Farm Youth Badly Paid for Hardest Work, Longest Day (By a Farmer Correspondent) A large number of the young ‘arm youth are compelled to worl ery long hours, 14 to 16 hours a ay, frequently. Six days per week ; the minimum, sometimes seven “ays is worked, There are seldom any days off during the spring. ummer or fal! months. The farm youth are given the ardest jobs, because they have ore “pep,” say the older farmers, rorn and slowed by excessively mg hours, and stooped from the ‘low. This is especially true dur- og the hurry of harvest time. Low Pay Wages for all farm workers are “stremely low, but those of young workers are lowest. However, a arge number, about 2,000,000 of the oung farm workers toil on the oldings of their parents, and take aeir pay in the form of hopes of vheriting the farm—hopes that vow less as the father’s family _tows larger. Wages are not paid farm work- ‘vs at regular intervals. A large umber of farm workers have to it until the end of the season, .ad the sale of the crops, usually ven or eight months. When there 2 crop failures, the wage earner frequently cheated out of all or) ing regions usually toil seven or eight months a year, except for the special crew hired for a couple of weeks or less during shocking and threshing. During the period when no work is done in the fields, the young farm laborer must go to the cities and look for work, or try to live thru. This is unfortunately just the per- waen work is scarcest in the cities, too. With the introduction of new farm machinery, time and labor say- ing devices, such as the combined harvester-thresher, and other ma- chinery farm laborers find them- selves out of work. It was esti- mated that the “combine” alone displaced 10,000 harvest hands in Kansas in 1927, Not Organized. A large number of the farm} | youth do not even go to school. Dur- ing the busy months of spring and hours, for they must make up for the time, money and materials that the others use up. = The patternmaker receives $65 a} week, the designer over a $100 a week. These trusted “loyal” em- | ployes receive their high salaries for doing next to nothing, besides mak- | ing much noise and attending to all their “private affairs.” They take several vacations a year with full pay, while the operators, who re- ceive between $27 and 30 a week, are laid off in the middle of the week because the firm “cannot af- ford” to pay them a full week’s wages when it is not busy. D. Y. Z. Duncan ¢830 Nancers s+ * 8 (Written by a member of the Worker Correspondence Class inthe {N. Y. Workers School.) NEW JERSEY BUILDS BRIDGE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (U.P),— Modified plans for a bridge to be constructed across the Hackensack River between Little Ferry and Ridge Field Park, N. J., were ap- proved today. POSTAL WORKERS’ RISKS WASHINGTON (By Mail).—Of the 5,705 injuries to workers in the, government service, 2,642 in the past year were to post office employes, particularly letter carriers. This proved the postal service the most hazardous of all government employ- ment, COMPANY OF 20 WITH IRMA DUNCAN :yixye fall, they are kept going fourteen hours a day or more at home. Many parents cannot afford to send their children to any high school to say nothing of college, In the thin- ly populated sections farm youth have insufficient recreation. There are no labor unions for farm youth. We must build them, and this is an important task for ef his pay. Seasonal Work. workers in the wheat grow- “s the Young Workers (Communist) League. —ARTHUR STARR. Direct trom Moscow! [ WILL DANCE ALL WEEK POPULAR PRICES Buy Tickets in Advance at the Box Office GAS KILLS WORKER. BRUSSELS, (By Mail),— A worker was killed here when a work gang tried to pry loose a frozen ‘anhole cover with the aid of burn- ing petrol. Escaping gas exploded. MILWAUKEE, (By Mail), — James The Lamkelde Cigar Co. has locked out its union employees. Lamkelde locked the men out Jan. 1, refusing the union wage scale. . Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra Ethel Barrymore Thea. 47th St SONG RECITAL Faina Petrova Eves. 8.50; Mats. Wed, and Sat. Firat time presentation of campo. Chick. 9944 ' sitions by leading composers of | —————————— present day Soviet Russia. civic REPERTORY 148t..6thay TOWN HALL, 128 Went 43rd Street Eves. 8:30 SATURDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 26, 3 P. M, Tickets 75c-$2.00; on sale at Work- ers Bookshop, 26 Union Square. 50c; $1.00; $1.50, Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2.3 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director Tonight, “Peter Pan.” Fri. Eve. “Lady from Alfaqueque” and “On the High Road.” GO TONIGHT! Grove Street Theatre 22 GROVE STREET—1 block from Sheridan Square, 7th Ave. Sub, Station (Spring 2772) 5 Min. from Broadway WHERE ALL NEW YORK RADICALS MEET TO SEE Singing Jailbirds By UPTON SINCLAIR. mA , A Powerful Revolutionary Play of the Class Struggle in America! Directed by Em Jo Basshe and Presented by the New Playwrights Theatre MATINEES SATURDAY—PLAYING SUNDAYS No Worker Should Miss It—Many Come Back to See It Again POPULAR PRICES Discounts allowed on block of seats and to workers’ organizations. For information call Comrade Napoli, Business Manager of New Playwrights Theatre, Watkins 0583. Grand Costume Ball by the JOLLY MOHICANS (Mohegan Modern School) TO BE HELD AT NEW WEBSTER MANOR, 125 East 1ith Street FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929 Dance to the Music of Vernon Andrade’s Renaissance Orchestra from 10 to Dawn TICKNTS: $1.00 if bought in advance: $2.00 at door.—Now on ‘Workers Bookshop; 26 Union Sq, or at any Greenwich Village eat store,