The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1929, Page 4

Four Police and Detectives POLICE DOG MEN RAILROADS ePOM PLANT TQ (By @ Worker Correspondent) bai HATTIESBURG, Miss, (By Mail) More than 150 families of Negro left this neighboring towns since the lynch- ing several weeks ago of Emanuel workers have city and PLANT IN KANSAS Place Spies in Eating REFUSE TO ries with i and children who ed by the un- Negro men, wom have been terr bridled re which hz ing the n keep- s wor part of Mis- lers. sta DAILY WORKER, NI vale With Packi mW YOPK, TUE o SDAY, JANUARY 29, 1929 ee ng inst the Workers pi and from protesting their KETS TO NEGROES FLEEING SLAVERY and their families who are leaving] The Ku Klux Klan, the wealthy} conditions. Wages in this section |this section are departing for Ilin-} white farm owners, and the bosses |for Negro workers are seldom over |ois, Iowa, Michigan, ection have asked railroad $8 or $10 a week. McCallum, the | Wisconsin, where they, not to sell any tickets to Negro auto mechanic who was the victim of the Ku Klux Klan, was} getting about $10 a week. | Anywhere From Here. led, expect to find a sort of ised land.” | leave. They have been lured there by jhave a dearth of Negro workers to | real estate men who have sent out/enslave whom they pay only the | agents down here. barest resemblance of a wage andj They fear that they will e Negro workers who seek to |* PRISONERS SENT TO DEATH TRAP MINES IN SOUTH Pits Gas-Filled and the whom they can terrorize into keep- ing silent about their terrible con- ditions by lynchings, such as that of Callum. The railroad officials, o must work closely with the wealthy farmers and hosses, will, of course, comply with their request and refuse to sell railroad tickets to the Negro workers and farmers, Places (Ry a Worker Correspondent) KANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 28.—/| “We ignore the Communists and al! | labor agitators. We are cerned about the activities of the | Our workers are | TWO uncon- | “Two Days” is the first major production of Wufku, the Ukrain- ian unit of Sovkino, the great Sov- labor agi Our company is in no way connected with the arrests of the “Red” trouble-makers in Kansas City. Kan.” Such was the content and mean- ing of the statement issued by the Armour Company through its offi- cials to the Legal Council .of the I. } L. D., which had charge of the de- fense of the Communist workers and speakers arrested by the police of | Kansas for carrying on the election | meetings among the packing house workers. The purpose of the above state- ment was to attempt to whitewash the Armour Company and the police | ‘om complicity in the campaign of willful persecution of militant work- ers and also to distract the attention of the workers from the fact that} the police department works under | the instructions of the Armour Co. | United Spy System. | The truth of the situation is that the big meat companies maintain a joint spy system, under which every worker is examined and a careful watch kept over him. One incident glaringly reveals this fact. One worker employed in the Kan- sas City plant of the Cudahy Co. was discharged from employment lowing a report made by the po- tors. safe. will have its first American pre- February. * By CHARLES YALE HARRISON. PART I. HE news that the Red Army was advancing on the town threw the The roads leading from the city were crowded with automobiles, trucks and other conveyances carry- g the effects of the wealthy fam- ies who dreaded the approach of the revolutionary troops. Merchants loaded their stocks pell-mell into waiting trucks and fled leaving their dismayed clerks behind in charge of empty shops. Bankers stuffed money and securities into valises and trunks and made feverish preparations to flee the city. It was in the Fall of 1918 and the principal city of the Ukraine lay within easy reach of the Red Army staff. Regiments of White Guard infantry and squadrons of cavalry hurried through the city adding to the impression that disaster was im- miere at the Film Arts Cinema | when that theatre opens early in | rich of Kiev into great excitement. | DAYS iet film producing organization. It | i “Listen Anton,” the Count said, we are going to bury this case here. Remember, only you and I will know where it is hidden.” j ton.” Seeing the carcass of the pup- M | ditions in the Esmond Mills are get- | ESMOND TEXTILE A Story of tne Revolution in Ukraine WORKERS STRONG: FORA STRIKE NOW Conditions Get Worse | Every Day (By a Worker Correspondent) ESMOND, R, I. (By Mail).—Con- | |ting worse and worse every day. | | The nappers, who formerly ran two | |napping machines and sewed the jeuts that they napped, were asked | jto run three machines and to do no | ;sewing. This lasted for two days und then the superintendent, William | |E. Norton, told them that they | would have to do sewing on one| napper. This means that they will | shortly be compelled to run three nappers instead of two and sewing also on three, which is a 50 per cent |wage cut instead of just the 5 per cent cut which was imposed on them | recently. Dissatisfied. The workers here are very much | | dissatisfied with the wage cut, and |there is a speed-up which has in- volved many workers. | Many of the young workers dis-| |eussed this, together with the adult | | workers, and they are now planning a strike. The workers here are sym- N “WINGS OVER EUROPE” j AGENCY SHARKS PREY UPON MEN WITHOUT JOBS Find No Job, Refuse to| Return Deposit (By a Worker Correspondent) Being out of work, I went to tke Royal Employment Agency, at 860 Sixth Ave. New York City, to see I eould find work. They forced me to put up a $10 deposit fee. Then I was sent to the American District Telegraph Co., at 188 Var- who plays an im- ick St., where I was told T could get Wings Over Eur-|# job as an electrician (which is my |trade). The employment agency, before sending me out, told me that |the wages would be $33.50. When |I got to the place where the agency | jsent_me, they would not give me| $3.50, but only $30 a week. ' They forced me to undergo 2} Fi $ Vaudeville Theatres | examination, and they piel e: PALACE stated that’they would not pass me | y unless I allowed myself to be vac- 5h Lou Clayton, Eddie Jackson and | cinated, I told them I had been vac- | immy Durante, with Jimmy Dur-| cinated six times before and did not | ante’s Orchestra; second week, Clif-| want to be vaccinated again. So} ton Webb and Mary Hay, with Phil’ they refused to give me the job, | Ohman and Victor Arden; Joe and K he F Pete Michon; Gus and Will, West] isaac | When I returned to the agency Point Cadets; others. jand told them what happened, and jasked them to iether give me an- Frank Conroy, portant role in ope” at the Martin Beck Theatre. The Theatre Guild production is now in its final week at the play- house. Timbering Faulty Part of War Game (By a Worker Correspondent) RALEIGH, N. C., (By Mail).— | Deaths of jailed workers in the open }shop coal mines in North Carolina continue every day. The imprisoned workers, most of them Negroes, are leased by the state to the coal op- erators. The mines of South Carolina, into which the prisoners are sent to slave away their years of sentence, are gas-filled and the timbering in every mine in this state in which I have worked is faulty, often causing the roof to fall. The prisoners are forced to work from about 6 a. m. to 6 p. m., but on some days long }after sunset. They work seven days a week, | Horrible Slavery. The way the Negro prisoners slav- | ing in the mines are treated is abso- lutely unbelievable. I saw two Ne- gro prisoners, who argued with two guards on the way to the mine about | something, (I did not catch what it was about), knocked flat with a club by the brutal guards. The guards did not wait for the Negro prisoners to revive, but ordered a couple of other Negro prisoners to drag them along to the mine by the collars, There was a trail of blood all the way to the mine. There are hundreds of miners job- less in this state, who were laid off because the open shop coal bosses had plenty of prisoners hired out to them, and so fired the miners. The state treasurer reported the other day that North Carolina had made a “handsome profit” thru the leasing of the prisoners to the coal Aviation contests and races are\ part of the U. S. Wall Street gov- ernment plans for the coming im-| perialist war. The scheme is thus | to trap the workers and working | youth into becoming “air minded,” | and so falling easy prey to im- perialist war propaganda. Above ts one of the Wall Street air lackeys, Martin Jensen, second prize winner in the Dole Pacific flight, who has! arranged to pilot a monoplane in an\ sc eet flight over Curtiss Field, | I. | } pees Bea fea? AU Pte iss Aaa putting me off from day to day, | | py and the red-rimmed eyes of the} HIPPODROME other job or return the fee, they re- promising a job which they never mines. department that this worker suspected of labor agitation. pending. Ten miles from the city a detach- |countess, he added: “Bury the poor thing.” ment of Red soldiers engaged a remnant of the White Czarist army! nofski, sat beside his father resplen- and beat them hopelessly. When) dent in the uniform of ‘is military news of this defeat reached Kiev, the| academy. To the fifteen-year-old} exodus of its wealthy citizens began | boy all this confusion and excite- in earnest. | ment was great fun. Anton walked A few miles from the outskirts of| up closer to the car put his hand! Kiev stood the mansion of the Kras-| affectionately on the sleeve of the! The worker soon found employment in the Wilson plant under an as- sumed name, but he was discovered ly the superintendent, who identified the worker because the latter was left-handed. He was immediately discharged. Scared of Daily. Paul, the only son of Count Kras- pathetic toward the strike, which is expected very soon. The National Textile Workers Union of America is carrying on an organization drive in Rhode Island as well as all over the United States. | They called a meeting of the work- ers of Centerdale for Saturday night at 7:30 o’clock. Hall Locked. Cherie, and the Dean Twins; Larry Rich and His Friends; Mlle. | fused, Then they told me to return again the next day, and, meanwhile, Once two copies of the Daily Worker were found in the office of the Wilson plant. More than fifty workers were summoned to the of- fice and cross-examined. Even the employment agents are now being used by the company to spy on the workers. The employ- ment agent of thé ‘Wilson Co. -in Kansas City has’ made it his busi- ness to visit evéry mass meeting arranged by the Workers (Comrmu- nist) Party or the Young Workers (Communist) League. Spies are also planted in the pool rooms and restaurants where the packing house workers are gath- ered. They snoop around and report every little move of a worker that smacks of radicalism. But the com- pany is not content with having its system of industrial spying. It also employs regular private detective nofski family. Here, too, all was! feverish excitement. At the foot of | mansion two waiting automobiles | stood loaded with trunks, valises | and boxes of valuables. The servants ran about carying out the hysterical ordczs of the whole Krasnofski fam- ily. Count Krasnofski stood directing | the packing of his valuables. One} larg. box filled with jewels and valu-| able family plate he decided to leave | behind. Calling his gray-haired old) caretaker and retainer he said: | “Anton, we have decided to leave this box behind. Do you hear?” Bewildered by the confusion and the sound of the Red artillery which | seemed to be booming just outside| the windows of the mansion Anton/| stood fixed looking into the face of | the count. blue uniform. “Be careful of the train, little the wide, broad marble steps of the| master,” he said. “Keep your head| in and ‘ook out for tunnels.” The chauffeur jammed his clutch down and the car followed by the one laden with the trunks and valises started down the path out on to the main road and soon disappeared from sight. es Anton stood waving his handker- chief until it could no longer be seen. Giving a few orders to the remain- ing servants, he took the body of the puppy and buried it near the hidden box of valuables near the oak tree in the garden. Back in the deserted house old An- ton wandered from room to room. In the enormous living room, with its highly polished floor that glisten- ed like a mirror, he set .the brocaded |furniture in order, dusting a table here and there. A drawer of another table was open and he closed it with Jim Reid, president of the Na- tional Textile Workers Union of America; Jim Conway, @ rank and jfile leader, and Joe, Figuerido, a | young worker, were to address this meeting. When they arrived at the, hall they found it closed. Immedi- ately Jim Reid inquired of Mr. Willis, the hall owner, the reason for it being closed. The owner re- ashamed, that he was ordered by the chief of police not to open the \hall, because Jim Reid and the or- ganization that he represented might cause trouble and that he, Jim Reid, jhad led a strike to victory. Mere Law Breaking. This Mr. Willis runs a speak-easy and sells all the liquor he wants to. This the chief of police don’t mind, | but to let radicals speak and or- ganize, that is different. Jim Reid declared that if he plied, in the manner of one who is | | Charles “Slim” Timberlin; Nicol| they would see if they could find me and Martin; Fulton and Mack;|a job, Next day they made a pre- others. Feautre photoplay, “Syn-|tense of calling up to see if there thetic Sin” starring Coleen Moore| was a job, but, as they were fooling and Antonio Moreno. |me, they said they could not find a pe elictanesni sr SN job for me. They told me to re- turn again next day, and the same) RIVERSIDE |thing happened. They made me re- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and/turn again and again. Finally, after; Wednesday, Hugh Clark and his) “Gang” aboard the Jazz Boat. Fea-| ture photoplay, “Shopworn Angel,”| ] keep $4, starring Nancy Carroll and Gary| I refused to let them rob me of Cooper. | \the $4. I went to the police sta-| Thursday, Friday and Saturday,|tion, but they would no do any- James J. Corbet: and Neil O’Brien, | thing. Billy Lytell and Tom Fant; Mary Goss and Charl>s Barrows; others. | Feature photoplay, ‘“Hardboiled,”| starring Sally O’Neil. demanding the return of my $10,/ they offered to give me back $6 and i Promise Job. Then I went to see Sayer, the Employment Agency License Com- missioner, and he told me to write a letter. At the agency they kept “BOOM BOOM” OPENS TO-| NIGHT AT CASINO THEA. The Messrs. Shubert will present} their latest musical comedy, “Boom Boom,” featuring Frank McIntyre and Jeanette MacDonald, at the Casino Theatre this evening. The a. 44 St.W.ofB’way SHUBERT Eve, 830 Mats, Wed. and Saturday WALTER WOOLF inthe Thrilling The Red Robe| Musical Hit with HELEN GILLILAND, cast also includes: Neil Kelly, Stan- ley Ridges, Eddie Nelson, Archie Leach, Kendal Capps, Herry Welch FTIVIC REPERTORY "4st stnay : Eves. 8:30 50c; $1 00; $1.50. Mats. Wed.&Sat.,2. EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director agencies, see “What are you staring at,” the} ae ee aes i eggi es count shouted. “Do you hear what | ti . I say. We are leaving this box be- |eouldn’t get a hall he would speak great care. ‘from a soap box, but that in the and Laurette Adams. Tonight, “John Gabri The book . nee. oe agency primarily spies on the Work- ers Party and on the packing house plant committee. The agency also plants some of its “confidence” men in the packing houses. Readers of the Daily Worker and other working class papers are re- ported to the company and the hind.” { yes, just as you say. The guns you me nervous.” “Listen, Anton,” said the count, we are going to bury this case in the garden near the oak tree by the workers are fired. south garden wall. Remember only Bosses Feel Insecure. you and I shall know where it is These few facts show that the |huried. Come on, give me a hand, bosses do not feel so secure in their | 2 will carry it out together.” efforts to keep the workers en-| After they had covered the spot slaved. The bosses only want, to| where the box was buried with sod fool the workers and keep them | and dead leaves they returned to the from organization by belittling the | nouse, cfforts of the Workers Party to or-} Qutside the house the last valise ganize the packing house workers. | was being piled into the automobiles. However, the workers will not be} Vera, the bitch and her puppy fooled, The workers in the packing | joined in the fun and barked and houses realize that the Communist yapped as though all this bustle Party is the only working class of-|and noise was being done for their ganization really trying to organize | exclusive benefit. the workers and improve the life of} The puppy crawled about yapping the workers. They also know that | at the feet of th. servants who ran no persecution and no spy systems |to and fro. The noise of the running will ever stop the militant workers | motor particularly annoyed her. from carrying on their work in the] So she stood off and yapped little packing houses, and the coming con- | squeaky barks at the monster. Ven- yention of our Party in District 10|turing too close the puppy was will lay a basis for the intensifica- | crushed to death by a trunk which tion of the organization work inthe |fell from the tonneau of the car. packing industry. Vera set up a howling and barking M. CUSHING. |as she kept sniffing the body of her 7 tThe cous ted in th + e countess seat in the car 562 More Deaths mm f star dabbed at her eye with a i i handkerchief. Severe Epidemic Ms “I know that no good will befall Cholera in Travancore | us,” she wailed. “The puppy is killed ——— and Ve:u is howling. It is a bad CALCUTTA, India (By Mail)—J|omen. Peter hurry up, let us get ‘The death toll from cholera in the | away. What are we waiting for?” last week in the state of Travancore} At last everything was in readi- was 562, with 948 new cases. ness, The count prepared to climb A virulent epidemic of cholera has | into the waiting automobile. Put- heen raging in the state for the past |ting his h: id affectionately on the five months, during which time 7,880 | shoulder of his white-haired old care- workers and peasants have died, and | taker he said: 14,000 have been attacked by the} “T-ke good care of the house, An- disease. FISHERMEN FREED FROM ICE. |] Complete Sets of GRAND HAVEN, Mich, (By THE Mnil).—The Be rene Rreag with 14 men ab have ree! from ice six miles off this port. The COMMUNIST cxews had been without food for four days. for 1928 $1.00 Workers Library Publishers 35 Easr 125Tu Street, N. Y. C. WORKER KILLED. MITWAUKEE, Wis. (By Mail). ) Traugott, 47, died of in- at stained when a large steel Mong fell on him in the Fritake and Icke Machine Co. | These were household gods to him; | “Yes, master, I hear—I hear. Yes, for nearly forty years he had been} fondling and caring for these things know, your excellency—they make |—and now—now what would become of him. To be sure, he thought, those confounded Bolsheviks would soon be here. But not for long, he added |to himself. Soon the count’s good friends in the White Army would |be along and then what a drubbing the scoundrels would get. The windows of the old mansion rattled with the noise of the bom- bardment. “Let them cdfne,” said Anton to the empty rooms. “Let them so much as disturb one chair in this room, the filthy louts, and I will tell them who their mothers were.” It was quite dark now and light- ing a candle he prepared to go up to his small room near the storage attic for the night. Outside in the garden he heard Verr, the bit.4, howling bitterly for her puppy. Looking out of his narrow window over to the horizon to the north, An- ton saw the multi-colored flashes of the Red Army artillery flashing red, orange and yellow against a black sky. And in contrast to the dull booming of the guns Vera’s shrill howls sounded strangely weird. To Be Continued THE KRASSIN Maurice Parijanine ae WHAT HAPPENED TO MALMGREN? The heroism of the Rus- sian rescuers of the fas- cist explorers—an amaz- ing revelation—the inside story of the great exploit of the Krassin . . . . ILLUSTRATED . $2.50 Order from Workers Library Publishers 35 Easr 1257 Srreet, N. Y, C. meantime he would fight for the right of free speech and assemblage jot workers here, | The National Textile Workers | Union is out to organize young workers, adults, skilled, semi- skilled, unskilled, black or white workers, all creeds and all crafts- men. is by Fanny Todd Mitchell, the seore by Werner Jans- sen, and the tyrics by Mann Heline> and J. Keirn Brennan. ARTHUR HOPKINS presents Tues, Eve. “The Cherry Orchard.” Ethel Barrymore in “THE KINGDOM OF GOD” By G. Martinez Sierra | Ethel Barrymore Thea, 47th St, W.B'way Ho Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY LIDAY Eves. 8.50; Mats. Wed. and Sat. Chick. 9944 LITTLE 146 W. STth St. ‘Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 ARNEGIE Ne Mi t PLYMOUTH yrats. Thurs. & Sat. 2.35|\/ PLAYHOUSE |Popular Pree: s. MAXINE “ Fay Bainter { utiorrs| “Escaped From Hell” A West 39 St.|Drama of Devils Island with JEAN in JE ALOUSY Eves. 8:60 |MURAT and Countess von Esterhazy. wilatinees | |Presented by “Aftillated European Producers, Inc. 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I wish to warm all unemployed workers against these thieving em- ployment agencies, which are evi- dently rrotected by the police. who refuse to do anything against them. ELECTRICIAN. —CATLIN. ‘The modern laborer, on the con- trary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto) ‘HEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS Wings Over Europe By ROBERT NICHOLS & MAURICE BROWNE MARTIN BECK THEA., 45th St., W. of 8th Ave. EVES.: 8:50. MATINEES: THURS. & SAT. 2:40 SIL-VARA'’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD THEA. West 52nd Street, Eves, 8:50 Sharp Matine Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday EUGENE O’NEILL’S STRANGE INTERLUDE | JOHN GOLDEN THEA.,, 68th St., B. of Broadway Evenings only at 5:30 sharp, Now 42nd Street and Broadway SECOND BIG WEEK “U-Boat 9” AUTHENTIC — SENSATIONAL PHOTOPLAY OF THE GERMAN TERROR OF THE SEA THE PICTURE THAT HAS THRILLED THE WORLD! “THE END OF ST. 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