The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 13, 1929, Page 4

7 Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, wichita, FEBRUARY 18, 1929 Work NEW SLASH OF TWENTY PERCENT BY BIG AUTO FIRM Torkers Ready to Strike (By a Wor DETROIT s at the Fisher Bc , No, 21, received another wi ut of over in the same 40 per 20 per c The gi plant were cut a cent. This action on the part of | the company was jt litle bit too | much for the worke swallow and therefore they decided to strike against it. The trimmers are the first ones who valked out, about 150 of them. Workers in the other departments are about ready to follow the call of the trimmer Wage cuts are the order of the in all General Motor branches over Detroit, Pontiac and Flint ashe At no other time in th there so many wage t the eee whole auto industry as we find at| Motors wages the present time. Genera! is determined to reduce th in the auto industry and are doing | it very openly and on a large scale. | walkouts | Scores of department are taking place and a deep feeling | of discontent makes itself noticeable among the mass of workers in the auto industry. Only the other day a department | | strike took place in one of the Pon- tiae plants, in which over 200 work- ers were paid off. The same hap- | pens in other auto plants such as{ Dodge Bros., Hudson Motor Car Co.,| | ete. All indications point to the} fact that the workers in the auto | industry for once begin to realize | that they’re up against a big strug: | gle in the very near future. The Auto Workers Union is and | in in All Depts. | ers at Fisher Body Plant Walk Out in FE ight Against Wage Cut and Speedup PHILA. WORKERS FREEZE IN VAIN HUNT FOR WORK; CONDITIONS WORSE! ARMSTRONG C0, (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— A bunk in numerous cheap “ho-’ tels” and lodging houses in the tenderloin and riverfront districts can be secured for 25 cents per night, and in a few places as low as 15 cents. Vermin infested, filthy, but shelter just the same, during these cold nights. Bad as these “hotels” are, they at least afford some sort of retreat from the wintry blasts. Better to sit around the fire in the old-fash- ioned stoves in no matter how filthy a room than to freeze to death. Better to huddle on a plank with rags and roaches as a cover than to walk the streets for the coming of sunrise, Yet to anyone who wishes to familiarize himself with the hard, bitter struggle of thousands of workers, let him remain downtown on Market and Chestnut Sts. un- til about 4 a, m, Hundreds of men walking the streets or huddled together near Philadelphia and Reading Ter- minal hundreds of men in the waiting room. A stranger would imagine that many people were spots where steam is escaping from a building. And a talk with these men soon proves that inva- riably they are workers without work, but vainly secking some- | awaiting their train. This does thing to do. Not tramps, not | not happen to be the case, how- bums. These men never ask, | ever. These men have come in _énd filled the waiting room to overflowing to escape for a few minutes the cold of the outdoors. Every fifteen minutes, the sta- tion guards, who are stationed up- stairs, come rushing down to dis- perse the crowd. never beg from anyone. True, many of these men are from other cities, but they are migratory workers, going from city to city searching for work, any kind of work. At 3 a. m. one will see at the One of pan will give a signal at the appreach of their enemies, and they will leave cn masse. They will then linger outside the railroad station until the guards have returned upstairs, when they go in, en masse, again, to warm up for a brief period. Many of these men are young, hoys, really, of 18 and 19, and even younger. All are seeking work, and I have never seen any one of them beg. They will not ask even for a cigarette. One night they will have a coat, the next night they are back without a coat, the coat having been pawned for food. And coats are plentiful; they don’t bring much in a pawn-shop. So the workers are without the 25 cents to secure a bed for the night. This spéctacle can be witnessed every morning at 12th and Mar- ket Sts. The Hooverian age is surely with us. Billions for a few, starvation for the many. Cc. RABIN. | Wall Street’s Fleet in Battle Maneuvers Prepairing for Coming _ Photo shows U. S. S. Selfridge coming alongside battleship Cali- fornia to receive orders as part of battle maneuvers the Wall Street fleet engaged in recently in south- Na- val maneuvers by Wall Street fleets have become in- creasingly fre- quent of late, as imperialist. war draws nearer, ern waters, MOULDER FAKER HEADQUARTERS IN A BREWERY \Had Things “Own Way at Montreal Confab (By a Yorker Correspondent) | LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).— The reactionary officials of the | Moulders Union held a convention a} |few weeks ago at Montreal, Canada. | |The Black Horse Brewery was} ‘The Krassin’, What is probably the greatest news reel ever filmed has just been 1. ‘ted into the United States by | import |of Sovkino of Moscow, It is en- titled “The Krassin” and consists of the Russian icebreaker of that name |while on its rescue expedition to save General Nobile and his crew of |the fascist Italia when the giant air- |ship crashed on the ice last fall |north of Spitzbergen. This full length news picture cov- the motion pictures taken on board | by Amkino, Is Greatest News ’ Reel Ever Made jans by the icebreaker “Krassin,” despite its damaged rudder and | |broken propeller, furnished ene of |Amkino, the American distributors |the most heroic polar achievements | in modern times. On their return to Moscow, Pro- fessor Samoilovich and Pilot Tschu- chnoveki were given a rousing re- ception while all the data on the ex- pedition and the rescue were care- \fully locked in the Soviet govern- ment vaults at Leningrad. Later, jthe pictures were developed and as- sembled under the direction of Sov- ‘LINOLEUM PLANT SPEEDUP GROWS 11 and 13 Hour Day Slavery | (By @ Worker Correspondent) | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., (By |Mail).—The Armstrong Cork Co. is a plant where floor linoleum is jmanufactured. In this hell-hole |about 850 workers slave. The com- pany has two other plants, one in |Trenton, N, J., and also one in Lan- \caster, Pa. In the latter two they ,/manufacture corks of all sorts and jinside shoe soles. Most of the work- ers here are English speaking. There |are also a number of Polish, Italian and Hungarian workers here, In this plant the work is divided into three shifts (this is a busy season for linoleum) and each shift is given a two weeks day shift and a one week night shift. The day shift works 11 hours a day and the night shift works 13 a day. This is the regular “course” of exploitation. Extra pay is given only when you work over 55 hours a week. | | |free beer. | their headquarters, All the delegates | ting every detail of the rescue ex- lwere served with any amount of Pedition will be shown at Carnegie |Hall on Tuesday evening, Feb. 19, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, well-known the mis- kino of Moscow, who are now releas- ing them in America, where they will first be shown in Carnegie Hall The workers here only get a half \hour for lunch. The day shift workers who worked nights the pre- on Feb, 19. | Besides drinking beer, Meyerhold, ‘HE following interview, alien from the Russian press, gives an | interesting insight backstage on the | recent appearance of the noted di- rector of the famous Meyerhold| | Theatre of Moscow as a movie ac- ltor, The gifted director plays an} important part in “The White Great Director, Plavs in New USSR Film rs must do much more in the future to | Eagle,” latest of importations from “December, and the soci conduct an energetic and systematic | organization campaign, in order to build up a strong and powerfu! mili- tant union in this gigantic war in- dustry. All of these department | walkouts must be utilized to the ut-| most for the building up of a om: | plete network all over the auto in-| dustry. It has become plain to all Farty members in Detroit, who are active in this field of work, that it is high time to begin with the for- | mation of shop committees whick | will be the most effective instru- | ment in the hands of the auto work- | ers in order to strike back. | Although only a small group of | workers are out on strike, yet the Auto Workers Union-has taken the lead and organized strike commit- tees, and the spirit among these workers is such that they are ready to fight against the wage cuts to the last. Efforts are also being made to spread out the struggle. Mass meetings are being called un- der the auspices of the Auto Work- ers Union and committees are bein; organized in the different depart- | ments. Leaflets are being distrib | uted at the Fisher Body Plant, and | turther arrangements already have | jen made to have a distribution on | Kachalov listened to him in dismay| Kursk and Tambov. a large scale at all auto plants, Establish Seven Hour Day in Rostov, USSR) State Petroleum Plant ROSTOV ON DON, Feb. 1 —The eeven-hour day for workers in the | state-owned petroleum industry has | gone into effect. The shortening of the work day was preceded by im- provement of the industry making for more efficiency with less work. |Meyerhold and asked: | black surtout. The person in black Soviet Russia, which opens at the Cameo Theatre this Saturday. One morning I telephoned V. L. “Vesevolod Emilyevich, may I see you posing) }for the ‘White Eagle?”” I was/ elated to hear his answer: “Do come) over today. I'll be receiving dele-| gations.” He alluded to a scene in| “The White Eagle” where he plays) the part of a high dignitary and} personal representative of the czar.) Arriving at the studio IT noticed | at the entrance an old-time police| | Sergeant in full regalia talking to! a cadet of the “Exclusive military | academy under the czar.” As. it) might be expected, these two speci-| mens of an extinct species attracted a large crowd of passers-by. I was conducted to Meyerhold’s dressing room just in time to be the witness of a curious scene. The famous V, I. Kachalov of the Mos- cow Art Theatre was being taken to task by a gentleman in a formal spoke heatedly, telling Kachalov that the badge of the Order of the White Eagle must be worn on the right side and not on the left.) and confessed that in the scenes |“shot” the day before he had worn|the studio, the badge on the wrong side. The} solemn gentleman protested that it! was all wrong and profane. | Here Meyerhold joined in the dis- cussion with the remark that “The | Emperor of All Russias” Nikolai Nikolaievich was not likely to come/ to see the film, that Baron Wrangel| was dead and that there were hardly | two persons at large in Russia who} had actually seen how the badge of| the White Eagle had been worn. | Bending over Meyerhold, I learned | Low Wages, Unemf'ovment, Misery for Phila. Workers (By « Worker Livtenonionsh Last April, the dire distress and acute suffering from malnutrition and all other evils of poverty on the part of thousands of Philadelphia workers had reached such a degree that the situation was the chief talking matter of the time. This year 1929, conditions are even worse than last, due to unem- ployment, wage-cuts, removal many plants to other regions, notably the South where the manu- facturers can secure labor thorolv American, at from $6 to $9 a week. In Philadelphia, those operating plants, particularly textile factories, have forced the wages down fron) an average of $19 last year to an average of $16 this year. There has also been a prolonged epidemic of influenza, a la grippe and pneumonia since early autumn which has played havoe with the| workers here. The “charity” organizations and bourgeois social to handle the situr'ion, according to public admissions made by these people. According to Karl de Schweinitz, general secrctary of the “Pamily Society,” 827 families sought aid in ty had to turn over 800 families away without | relief of any kind. This is the ex- Perience of merely one organization. for number of typical cases vouched Ave Comprises father, 1 aA three children, and a re- with baby. Father's leg in industrial accident. Com- A of | rs are unable | pensation has expired. Rent over- | due, family faces eviction. No coal, ino food and few clothes for tke) family which suffer from cold as well as hunger. | Family B.—Consisting of father, ‘mother and five children. Father jand three oldest children able to work, but unable to obtain a job. No ‘coal, ‘family owes for rent, Family C.—Father, mother and three children living in one room, Entire family including infant liv- jing on $2 worth of food per week, ‘Rent unpaid. Family D.—-Father, six children, Mother sick, boy of 6 recovering from grinpe; boy of 3 |has bronchitis; boy of 10 has tuber culosis. Whole family threatened |with tuberculosis, and there is little food and clothing and no warmth in | home. These cases are but typical ones, and show vividly the lot of a work+ er in this age of prosperity. For every family whose condition ‘is “ameliorated,” numerous others join the long list of those in want, Capitalism, thru its welfare Fed- eration and other similar societies |pecomplish nothing, for they merely look and act upon the surface of \things and make no effort to do any- thing about the roots, the causes of these conditions. For, even tho many cf the social workers know these causes, the capitalist syatem lof society, they can do nothing about it, for the Welfare Federation, etc., are controlled by the capitalists themselves, who attempt to belittle | | tasanov, is busy arranging the var- E "TA LA G ALLIENE. The talented director and chief player of the Civic Repertory The- atre, which is presenting modern and classic dramas at the Fourteenth Street playhouse. the name of this odd gentleman. His) name is Muratov and he is the for-| mer governor of the provinces of| The discussion over, we all go to| The scene is laid in the reception room of the governor- general. The visitors include mem- bers of the arch-reactionary Union of the Russian People, pages, army} officers, industrialists, police and a delegation of representative Jews,| which is composed of real Jews who} {in the pre-revolutionary days were frequent callers in the reception rooms of governors, of the very Governor Muratov, now engaged as an expert and assisting in the pro- duction of “The White Eagle.” The studio is all agog with noise and bustle, The ditéétor, I. A. Pro-| ious groups. He is followed at every step by Muratov who is again f. it, making objections and proving e| point of decorum, Protasanov waves him aside and shouts: “Meyerhold, take your place! In- dustrialists, to the right! Union of the Russian People, to the left! Jews, to the rear!” Meyerhold, his head shaved, plays the high official who came on a tour of inspection and is about to receive various delegations for the purpose of ascertaining the cause) of the recent disturbances in the | province. The actual filming begins. Mey-| erhold converses with the industrial- | ists, the camera goes full blast. Sud- mother and|denly I. M. Moskvin bursts upor | the scene from behind the wings. He interrupted his work in an adjacent film studio to witness the “shoot- ing” of this spectacular passage, He liked Meyerhold’s acting so well that he rushed to embrace him and to tell him as much. There is general laughter and — the scene is ruined, But the earmo~ man Golovyna is not as disconsolate | as might be expected, for he has} obtained an interesting “shot” of three great actors in an impromptu scene. Again Protasanov commands: “Katchalov, Meyerhold, take your pleces,” and the filming is resumed. Meyerhold proceeds with the recep- tion of delegations. Here is a dele- gation of the Union of the Russian People presenting him an icon, Meyerhold kisses the icon and hands it back to one of his retinue. Pro- tasanov shouts joyously: “Very good, Meyerhold!” ‘leaders of the Moulders Union ac- Defective Wiring jcomplished nothing. They did abso- in Movie Studio Kills a Worker (By «a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES (By Mail).—H. W. Trog, welder, 7411 Crocker St., died of injuries while en route to a rank and file. Every move made} was in the interests of the official- dom—the fat boys. When a dele-} gate who made a motion that the sick benefit be increased from $7.50 to $9 a week, the officials went the jother way, and cut it to $6.75 a hospital on Jan. 5, after being |week. Mostly officials of the union lknocked from a girder of the were delegates to the convention at {burned Paramount Studio sound-|Montreal, so they had their own proof stage, where he was working. ‘lately nothing for the benefit of the | |Arctie explorer, will speak before \the showing of the film, “The Krassin,” representing the | highest perfection of the news reel, | was made under the greatest diffi- | culties in the far north, where the | licebreaker plowed through the polar | \floes in its race with death, hunger {and cold. This heroic expedition, |equipped in Jess than five days, tra- | versed a great sector of the Arctic, | |where no ship had ever penetrated, jwas under the direction of Profes- |sor Samoilovich, head of the Soviet In bourgeois society, living labor is but a means to increase accumu- lated labor. In Commi accumulated Inbor is but a means to widen, to enrick, to promote the existence of the Ilaborer.—Karl ‘Marx (Communist Manifesto). vious week are compelled to work overtime on the long run, and if they jrefuse they are fired, The worker is paid 40 cents an hour to start and if he can stand the speedup and slavery for six months, the boss considers giving him a raise. —ARNOLD. Keith-Albee The $450,000 “talkie” stage was | - The molders international union | Institute of Arctic Studies. The ple- | ‘and slavery in the orange groves. | completely destroyed by fire a few ‘consists of about 440 locals. Some | days ago. The cause was said to be |of these are two small to send dele- defective wiring—defective on ac-|gates to conventions, as they have} count of too much speed-up, others {fess than 200 members. One dele- claim. ] |gate to each set of 200 members in At that time, six firemen and four |good standing. electricians were more or less seri- | There is no real wage scale for ous!y hurt. moulders in Los Angeles. A sliding Convicted of violating a city or-/|scale is in operation. Union men dinance by distributing Red litera- are paid from $6 to $7 a day. Union| ture at the Roosevelt High School @ and non-union men are working to- fews days ago, Alfred E. Senior, a |gether, side by side, in the shops. member of the Young | (Communist) League, was sentenced |boss is willing to pay—down to $4 on Jan. 25 to 10 days in jail by jor $5 a day. Municipa! Judge Sheldon. who claims that his nationality is ted” to take molders’ places in case English, is also forcing deportation |of trikes. Mechanics are also proceedings, thanks to William taxing the place of skiiied workers Hynes, head cf the “Red” Squad. _in the rnolding trade. L. P. RINDAL, | Nearly All Workers; Are Jobless in Fort Pierce, Town in Fla. (By a Worker Correspondent) FORT PIERCE, Fla. (By Muil).- Nearly everybody in this town is out of a job. There are no factories here. The only work to be had when there is any is truck farming | THE REMARKABLE SOVIET FILM! writer taken in 1928 when he They pay you $2 a day on the farms | { for nine hours a day and board your- self. But nearly every worker is jobless now. It is too dry to raise anything. The last big storm ruined | all the oranges and also ali the | trees. No building of any kind is | being done here. | The city of Fort Pierce has | bought 92 aeres of land to build an | airport, They will make the work- ers pay for it, and the purpose of | \the whole thing is to prepare for | imperialist war, in which the work- ers will be the victims. “TWO | | The Russian A tremendous tragedy of an between the Whites and and whispers something to the Gov- ernor (Katchalov). The director is enthusiastic about , Meyerhold’s work a.d thinks him) a superb film actor, a model for the profession. “A MERITED ARTIST OF “Powertul Tragedy” anys Moissaye Olgin. UNIQUE CINEMA OF Ri Greet the | Spring Season AT THE New Daily 2 Direction 4 SYMON GOULD Workers | Scabs are working for anything the| Common laborers in} Senior, local foundries are being “educa-| Special Added Attraction! “A Day with Tolstoy” an actual and authentic film-record of the famous Russian jtures of the rescue were taken not | jonly from on board “The Krassin,” but also from “The Red Bear,” the tri-motored airplane taken by “The Krassin” into the Arctic, Piloted by | Boris Tschuchnovski, “The Red | Bear” flew over the polar wastes | until the camp of the Nobile crew | j|was discovered huddled against the | jice-coated wreck of the Italia. After iocating the survivors of the {Italia, Pilot Tschuchnovski and his men were unable to return to “The |Krassin” due to lack of fuel. In at-| tempting to land on the ice they smashed the undercarriage of their | | plane and were marooned on Cape | Vrede, at 80 degrees north latitude, \for three weeks, | The subseqzent Tescue of the Ital- gna BE we ! Commencing Today! was eighty . . . showing the great world figure in the intimate aspects of his daily activities on his estate at Yasnain Poliana. ON THE SAME PROGRAM WITH DAYS” A WUFKU-AMKINO PRODUCTION "Last Laugh” old man torn in his devotion the Reds—caught in the changing tides of the Soviet Revolution introducing SAMCHYKOVSKI RUSSIA’S GREATEST SCREEN ACTOR THE SOVIET REPUB: ACCLAIMED BY REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS! “Tremendous class drama” Michael Gold, Freihelt.” THIS REMARKABLE PROGRAM PRESENTED IN THE RADICALLY EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN film guild cinema 52-54 W. EIGHTH ST. West of Sth Ave. Continuous Performance. Popular Prices. to 12 (Box Office Open 1:80 p.m.) Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 12 to 12 Box Office Openn 11:30 A. M.) —PHONE: SPRING 5095 Masses Spring i} Carnival | Friday, March First WEBSTER HALL Pah aeaeaeaeeae BUY TICKETS EARLY 81.50 in Advance—$2.50 at Door vvvvvv weve TICKETS ON SALE AT: New Masses, 39 Union Square. ai Algonquin He fork- tia To All Labor and Fraternal Airwa JOHN DOS PASSOS PLAY Make $240 for the Dail: Trades ir * a American workers awaken The delegation of Jews come for- the suffering or to glons the entire matter over. —C. RABIN. denly becomes uncasy, sways back ward and the high dignitary sud-) 2T Wen he Rane Book Store, 7 B Per st ae iarapt elated NC, John Dos Passos attack: boagning ae Lom Organizations, Workers Party Sections and Affiliated Organizations! SCHHDULE A PERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— ys, Inc. OF A GREAT MILL STRIKE Opening on Feb. 20 at the Grove St. Theatre ly Worker and the Needle Strikers. Cali Paxton @ Napoli at WATKINS 0588 for Arrangements. proble ‘Thin in the play i to clase eonsclousmess.” ——MIKB GOLD. New Playwrights Theatre, 133 W. 14th St., New York City |in the Thrilling | Musical Hit CAMEO 42nd Street and Broadway Best Film Show In Town AMERICAN NEWEST SOVKINO PREMIERE PRODUCTION “The [ASH ofthe CZAR™ with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” ARTHUR HOPKINS Fay Bainter MAXINE | presents in JEALOUSY wx" Horiba Y with woe. | Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY i ptitelade sed Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 John Halliday fe Sets 340 PLYMOUTH ia ihe - Bat, 2.6 Extra Holiday Mat. Tuesday. fIVIC REPERTORY pk 6thay 80 | 3 $1.00; $1.60. Mats. wed een 3¢ | ava LE GALLIENNE, Director Today Mat. “Peter Pai Tonight, “The Lady tron Ifaqueque” | and’ “On the High Road.” CASINO 29th St. & B'dway, “ee 8.30 | Mats, Tues. & Sat., 2:30 THE NEW MUSICAL COMEDY HIT | BOOM BOOM | Mad Jeanette ‘Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE O'NEILL'S DYNAMO MARTIN BECK THEA, 45th W. of 8th Ave. vs. 8:50 Mat., Tues, Thurs & Sat. 2:40 VARA’S COMED CAPRICE i GUILD Thea. Ww. 6zna Bt Mats., Wed,, Thurs, Sat, 2:40 | ats., Wed., Thurs, Sat.. 2: Hfaag dic Extra_ Holiday Mat, ‘Tues. aturday Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne ALVIN THEATRE Sand St. W. of Broadway, Fives. 8:50, ‘Mats. Tues. & WALTER WOOLF The Red Robe, with HELEN GILLILAND, | © arnogie Hall, Thurs. Eve., Feb.14, 8120) Only N. ¥. Appearance This Season MARIA THERESA will dance the EROICA SYMPHONY of Bomrnovns| . W. Meurer Steinway Hi: Hi EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John (XQ). ON Thea., bstn LD ON ee of Biwas KVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 Needle Trades Strike Benefit VVUVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVY Workers’& Farmers’ Costume Ball PYTHIAN TEMPLE 70TH STREET (EAST OF BROADWAY) FRI., FEB. 15! i ln, ly i Al, i, Ml, ls Ais ls A, es Ms SPEAKERS: BEN GOLD and M. J. OLGIN AUSPICES; LOCAL NEW YORK WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF Militant Workers! Show Your Solidarity With the Needle Trades Strikers! SELL TICKETS! COME! —ADMISSION 75c Tickets on sale at Local New York Workers International Relief, 799 Broadway, Room 226