The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FR ey) JANUARY 25, 1929 Employers, Experts in -Exploiiation of Labor, Fix Wipe oF N. Y. Library Workers iy wok a s PIG STY QUARTERS FOR SEAMEN ON BOARD MALLORY LINER “HOXBAR” HUNDREDS a cay 70 Book SLAVES : Fire Youth W ‘ho Sought ers as thor. ry or shop- I ky only one s as heir dutie: 1 inelude cater- »ortionment, under a prete! of i sideration, had ce as the safest one with which to exploit the young vorke oo the going applies ion alone. The | y workers in the reference ion comes from a rivate fund. How did this fund | into existen Ast Lenox exploitation of the m that phiianthropic g tributing to the “common welfare” —a gesture that brands them as parasites on the backs of the poor, and the one most common to capital- ism in its s to sell itself. scale paid to young in the reference division 5 mere a n 50 a month g¢ the minimur is a board ¢ trustees that fi ale, a , after years of intense sses, made | re of con- | whose wages amounted to as (By a Wor Coneanbondent) much as $125 a month. His duty HOXBAR, Mallory Line WS to cut down expenses to a € minimum for the sake of the bosses’ pockets. Mail).—Conditions on board are terrible. We have te kitchens, one for the officers and one for the men. The motto of the shipowners i tat little and work plenty, so that our profits will increase and the con- ditions of the seamen decrease.” SLEEP IN PIG STY. a pig sty. My mattress is in ter- rible shape, The so-called “beds” can be called rags. I went to see We had a steward on this boat the steward and asked for a new The sleeping quarters are like | he answered that conditions were | eggs, ete. | no worse on this boat than on any | other boat, and if I did not like it could quit, for there were many other seamen glad to get my job. Our bedclothes are only changed beyond all des 'y three weeks, but those of Board of Health w the officers are changed once a | efit Y Our meals consist exclu- | the b of salt meat, cheap k “Yes, We e’re Watchi ng You; Boss!” He told me there were | fish, and Again I protested, and | the off | tect the s si UNSANITARY CONDITIONS itions for the terrib! aved on are cription. .1f the | s for the ben- | d not for | t crew on every bh of the nds of have been halted long ago. but there are no health laws to pro- n to organize, as Australia have st put an end to the to live and E been cut down 5 on the sea are unor- eanteed they the rotten conditions; they must ize into a milftant union. i SELESS A. F.'L., I. W. W. The International Seamen's | | Union and the I. W. W. have’ not | helped us, Seamen, fight against ir 5 i | the spies paid by the bosses on | | nearly every ship. Seamen, enly | organization can better cur condi- tions, Join the Marine Workers’ | Must Organize to Fight Low Wages (By a Worker Correspondent) Progressive League, which was founded by seamen and fights for their interests. R. B. i) In | Enslaved Seamen Risk Lives i in. Hell Holes {detber, inathe shanigt Abreniay 14 f i W. Tremont Ave., recently, I figure: a i . WOMAN OUT Oh _ STREETS OF NY, diene Officials Aid Landlords (By « Worker Correspondent) A working woman, M Derosy, living at 634 rented some rooms m a real estate firm named S. Cohen and Sons. She ¢ame home from work about 7 p, m. recently ands found her small belongings on the street. | , All she had was a bed, bedclothes, | | table and a few chairs. The woman| told me she chased out of the | house because she owed a month rent, $14, She was sobbing v Photo above, , by a seaman ecrreevondent, was snapped during a recent severe gale on the Atle: e Ocean. Seamen are forced to risk their lives on hell-ships “enjoying” starvation wages and vermin- riaden quariers, as described by the correspondent on this page. Answering an ad. for a plumber’. to be first for the job at 7a. m. Arriving at t was nowhere near being fir | there were a score of men ahead 0 | me. Standing tting with thesa vorkers, I noticed helpers applying for the one job. By the time the boss arrived, there were over 200 plumbers’ helpers lined up outside |the shop. The boss opened his of. |fice, lit a cigarette, put on the | steam and walked out to the crowd After looking the young worker: lover, he called over one chap hc {seemed to know and took him int |The young worker did not seem t be pleased with the offer of $3 : jday that the boss made, and hx left. The boss then called in th st man on the line, and this fel |low acepted the job. The boss tolc |us to disperse then. | From this experience you, can see how the helpers get along |Imagine going to work for $3 @ | day and after three or four years ir jthe trade. What the plumbers’ applying> | terly. She explained to me she Dispossessed. Cleaners and Dyers Officials Face Revolt of Rank and File By LEON NASSOF. (Worker Corr At a meeting of the Cleaners & Dyers’ Union, January 14, Wein- traub, the business manager, pro- posed that a special meeting be called to consider the reinstatement of the expelled members of the Pro- |gressive Group of the Cleaners & | Dyers. Effrat, the big boss of the the same thing again through Bor- tion. But whereas last year the in- Cour this year the bosses are agreement. Attack Effrat. 73% of New Members station to sce if the landlord had | of Leningrad Soviet (yas not there. Are Factory Workers ity Meshal dispos (Special to the Daily Worker) | notice. e t MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The elec-/ An old working woman on the | Tl Fachot,” by J. Berlioz of Paris. ondent.) ough Councils which are later to be tion campaign in Leningrad is being | | block offered her shelter, else she This article shows that this act of| against the Right danger in the | international situation and the task E onpaniea)’ into -g Watiaial participated in by the broad masses. | would have had to spend the cold | terrorism by a petty-bourgeois Al-| German Party; the decision in the! of the Communist Parties in his owr oY penelas At all the meetings the voters | winter night in the street. She told |satian is an indication of the despair case of Brandler, Tkalheimer and and in other sections of the Com. siders were a part of the Allied|¥animously approved the activity | me she was working only tw> days caused by ten years of French im-| others; the International Coopera-|munist International. It can be ob- of The spirit | tive Alliance; and other articles. | tained at the Workers Bookshop the Soviets. Ninety-three per/this month concerned only about the svers cent of all those eligible to vote took ne they teat hove, Han cow ipart in. tie lection: oppr To date 893 members and alter- jnates of the Leningrad Soviets and | whom they must have tied up in an|P®! I took the woman to the police the right to nter her home when she | She d her, but|recent number Leading Article. in Inprecorr +00. told the| The leading article in the most) tain in Latin America; the struggle 14th St. an of Inprecorr to be | of the Hungarian miners; the strug- | York. J. K. | helpers need is a strong union that a en cok ead CPT OR Palners Life Is |S ee ee bers’ Helpers is at present car all helper | in the trade. The organization meets SuNSVE | every Tuesday at Labor Temple, Second Ave., New id she had never received any ,eceived, No. 1, Vol. 9, is “The At-| gle in Colombia against the United mi and that her’ husband was very sick and in a hospi The Tammany politicians thus | far helped to throw a poor, working tempt on the Life of Attorney Gen- perialist rule of Alsace. 1 of rebellion is growing among these ¥ This futile act, ‘om the Communist idea of tac- | Communist publications, essential to ican agents, at 43 E. 125th St. tics in the liberation struggle, w: ed people. Fruit Co.; the Russo-Norwegian | the leader of the working class whe trade union movement; the fight| wants to be well-informed on the The Inprecorr is perhaps the most) 26 Union Square, and from the important and interesting of all; Workers Library Publishers, Amer PS ees i of the district have been elected, | Woman out on the street. The cap-| be-the occasion for the French im- eouneet ee ek clique, and the members of the! At the mecting of the drivers,/ Seventy-three per cent of those |italist officials always uphold the| perialists to proceed still more TT We from the slavery of the | Executive Board attacked the pro-| Effrat was severely criticized for |elected are workers in the factories !@ndlords and the bosses against the | severely against the Alsatian au- oN: and who were put into this | PoSal and threatened to resign if the urging them to fight for the bosses and 20 per cent are women. The Workers. The workers must realize | tonomist movement, and particular- | progressives were taken in. and against their own brothers who|elections are continuing, the need of organizing and crushing | ly against the Communists, who are | es +e ee ae oe Following the meeting, which work for employers not members of | en the capitalist system forever. | the champions of the oppressed | Sti fc aeecently a Young wetker em, |Voted for a special meeting, Wein-| the association. The meeting broke| HONOLULU, (By Mail)—Horace 5 B. B. | peoples suffering from French dom-| igag sighs oP ihe theca ployed in the circulation division ap- |''2ub went around the shops and up without results for Effrat and| Dodge, American auto magnate and| RUMP RSET _., | ination, a CAMEO SA NOW | | SIL-VARA’S COMEDY nlied for an opening in the reference | #8itated against his own proposal. the association, and at the meeting! exploiter of tens of thousands of} SCHOOL CHILDREN STRIKE. | There are also articles on the elec- ALBEE fai Dike Audits to Ae | Several questions present them- of the association, January 16, in| workers, attacked Harry Kastana,a| BRIGHTON, England, (By Mail).| tion victories of the Communists in Stake he was given the job; | selves. Is there a split in the clique? | Liberty Hall, New Rochelle, the wail| doorman at a hotel here. The at-|—School children of Patcham School! Norway and Finland; the capitula- his division chief would have 6 ae | Did Weintraub, who blacklisted and was that Effrat could not put it|tack was unprovoked, the doorman are on strike against unsanitary| tions of the social democrats of | CAPRICE GUILD ae Me so. St American Premiere ‘sent. The case ended in complete har- | mony with capitalist procedure; he did n ter job and was fired from the first. This is what he was told: That it was unfair to leave a job in one division for one in the other, that since he had tried to change he could not be relied up- on ‘to stay, and to leave. The rule of play” and “busi- pitalist tissue of ; to “teach the worker a lessc LIBRARIAN. Slave Alike on Farm and in the Shop (By a Worker Correspondent) T have been three months in New York. I was compelled to leave my farm where I slaved 16 hours a day with my wife and children, to be able to pay the land-owners, so they could live in luxury. On the farm I slaved to raise food for the middleman who pays the farmer starvation prices and sells to the workers of the city for high prices. Then the farmer finds himself compelled to sell his farm, to pay the high taxes, and thus thousands of farmers must leave for the cities every year. A New Slave Pen. In the city the farmer is thrown into a new slavery, that of the fac- tory, Since coming to New York City I have started to read the Daily Worker, and I have been to the Vifth Anniversary celebration of the Daily. Where I work, I was telling the workers what I saw. Every morning I bring my Daily Worker and pass it around to the men in the shop to read. They say they like it, as it tells the facts about their ‘slavery. Fellow workers and farm- | ‘ers, help the Daily Worker to reach ‘every worker’s and farmer’s home. ‘The Daily Worker fights for us and | against the bosses and imperialism _~“ may it live. NAT CHANOW. d Planes to Aloat| .—An observation plane, pi- by Lieutenant Myron Elliott, a pursuit plane, equipped with piloted by Lieutenant Richard P,, took off from Selfridge Field Beare = Hht-nw. Mich, to ald in § for Lewis Sweet, Alanson: in, who is adrift on cake pon Lake Michivre>. i deprived the progressives of a liv- | ing, have a change of heart and did jhe later get scared of his own pro- posal, or is all this a maneuver of |iaietanas officials? | The members |present, though most of them. con- |fidants of the clique, voted for a special meeting. They evidently un- | derstood the maneuver. Clique Scared. The fact is that the clique got it- }self in such a fix that it does not {know how to get out of it. The | slugging of left wingers cost the junion a lot of money, but now the | treasury is empty, and the special | tax to defend the sluggers was not | paid by half the membership accord- jing to their own admission. Since |they started the terrorism against the left eee union meetings are attended only by a handful of mem- |bers. Membership dropped, and payment of dues dropped even more. | Members say that the bosses run | the union, and this is a fact. Last year the union called a strike to organize the bosses. Company Control. The agreement and supplemen- tary agreement between the union and the bosses made the union a tool in the hands of the bosses. The union could not organize workers in| independent shops. The bosses filled the shops with cheap non-union) | being spread by the officials of the | over on the drivers, | claims. | conditions. — All this shows that the clique is! facing a revolt of the membership, | so they determined on a desperate move. They do not want to take in the expelled members uncondi- tionally. They do not want a mili- tant union, but they want to use the j expelled members to regain the con- fidence of the membership, and to put over the agreement for the bosses. What they probably want is that the membership leave the matter to the Executive Board, and | the clique will then try to bind the, expelled members so that they.could not carry on the fight for a mili- tant union, and since the new season is near they will be able, as they think, to put over the agreement and last another year. The progressives must intensify their fight, must arouse the mem- bership to measure their organized |strength against the bosses and their treacherous officials. The | workers must be warned against the | | pessimism and defeatism purposely | | union. ‘Talk on Revolutionary | Poetry by Magil at the Phila. Forum Sunday at 8.50 |help; they cut wages and replaced} high paid men by low paid; they} i laid off union men while they kept PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24.—Carl the cheap non-union men. The union | Sandburg, Michael Gold, Arturo. allowed them to hire and fire at Giovannitti, Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, | will, and the union refused to or- Langston Hughes and Alexander | ganize the non-union workers in the | Bjok will be some of the poets dis- | shops, because the bosses would} have to pay them for union holidays | cussed by A. B. Magil, of the staff | and perhaps a better wage. Bach of the Daily Worker, in a talk on | boss did what he wanted in his shop. |““Modern Revolutionary Poetry” at. A few paid time and a half, some the Philadelphia Workers’ Forum, | time and a quarter, and most only straight time for overtime. Lockout Seen. This year the bosses are them- selves preparing a stoppage or a) | 1628 Arch St., Surday night at 8:15. |Magil will also read from the work of these and other poets. | The talk is one of a series being | lockout to strengthen their associa-/Ziven every Sunday night at the tion, and they know that the union| Workers’ Forum. Thus far Albert officials will follow them like sheep, Weisbord, Karl Reeve and Robert because to answer the lockout with W. Dunn have spoken this year. On 8 strike the union officials would|Sunday, Feb. 3, Jessica Smith, a |have to organize all the workers in| member of the National Executive |the trade and to face the member-|Committee of the Society for Cul- hip, which they dare not do. But|tural Relations with the Soviet | the left wing has warned the mem-| Union, will speak on “The Women | | bership against another sell out, and In Soviet Russia Ten Years After | jhas called on the workers to or-|the Revolution.” | ganize and resist the attacks of the bosses, and to sign the agteement m dictated by the bosses would only | “Radicalism and Personal confirm the warnings of the left. Life. wing. | A Course of Four Lectures by The bosses of Westchester Coun- ty circulated a petition among the, DR. 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