The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1929, Page 4

oo Misleaders Play renee Role in B BROACH ADJUSTS AGREEMENT T0 SUIT THE BOSSES Strikes Out Part They Object To (By a Worker Correspondent) While the elect re pushing their fight for 40 h week, and the same as that for the is a sentiment buildir 44 hour week, among the other workers for the 40 hour w is beginning to spread rapid]; In the agreement of the union and the masters there was a phrase struck out by the fake Broach, the electricians’ union calls for the same app] 40 hour week to be au enforced by the other t 90 days. The masters saw that thru that’ phrase it would be so healthy for them. The maste sociation first thought of expelling the elec- trician bosses, so that if the | lec dema: with the tricians did get their ad should not be lin u entire building in But, as Broach struck the phrase out, they are now a bit more at ease. Now, will the masters Assoc tion allow the electrical workers to veceive their demands? They will not, by all means. That would n a general shakeup, because this 40 hour affair has been going on for 5 years and the bosses don’t feel any too charitable. When at the present moment there is unemployment not only in the building trades, but in all industries, you can be assured that the bosses take advantage of such incidents The present scale of the electri- cians is supposed to be $12 a day and if I should say that one in 100 got. that scale I would be over- estimating. If we watch the situation closely we will find how crooked a role the A. F. of L. officials will play in ‘this matter, “All these unions are only com- ‘pany unions that are controlled t the bosses, they merely have their union fakers as go-betweens. The electricians and the other building workers should not expect anything from their present “leaders.” -I. an, s. New Playwrights Defense of “Daily” The workers’ theatre, the New Playwrights Theatre, announces that a collection of $21 has been taken up by the cast and sent to the Daily Worker to preserve the organ of the working class. The following let- ter accompanied the donation: | “The New Playwrights Theatre | has always found a warm and loyal friend in the Daily Worker and now | that we read of your desperate fi-|, nancial condition we cannot let your eloquent appeals for aid go unan- . swered. “At a meeting of the staff cf the | theatre yesterday we made a col- lection of $21 which we are send- ing herewith. “We, too, know what it is to have | the hand of suspension of activities held at our throats. We think that | it is the duty of every class-con- | scious the Daily. “EM JO BASHE, | of new Cre rew vy of the ie F ing Heroic Rescues i in 1 the Arctic Ww DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, astes| e epic scenes of the rescue survivors of the fascist Nobile e Tuesday evening, Feb, 19. The gress. by the Soviet seamen aboard the Russian ice-breaker Ki in of the xpedition will be shown. in the new Amkino film at Carnegie Hall next films were taken aboard the Krassin while the rescue work was in pro- WHITE RUSS 10 YEARS OF eee (Special to the Daily Worker) MI White Russian Republic (By Mail).—In connection with the tenth anniversary of the White Russian Soviet Republic, the celebration of which took place on Dee. 30, the local press published in- ng material relating to the de- | lopment of the republic. languages, namely, White Jewish and Rus- sian, are recognized as official state languages in White Russia. There are 67 national minority Soviets in the republic, including 23 Jewish, 19, Polish, 16 Russiian, 5 st, 2 Ukrainian and 2 German Soviets. Industrial Growth. White Russia began to be indus- tr only under the Soviet power In addition to the extension of the existing factories a number industrial enterprises are be- | ing built, including a timber com- bine, earthenware, leather and match | factories, a farm machinery works, a large power station, etc. The ross output of White Russian in- dustry in 1927-28 is valued at 150 million roubles, against 120 million | roubles the previous year. The cap- ital investments in industry in 1927- £8 reached the cum of 17,200 thou- sand. youbles, exceeding the invest- ments for the two preceding years |taken together. Th ne number of workers employed stry has grown to 45 thou- Together with d transport workers | the number 0 dustrial laborers in ‘the republie is cbout 83,500, the to- {tal population being in the neigh- borhood of five millions. Electric Power. The clectrical industry has been developing with particular speed; rker to rally to the aid of | thus while in 1919 the average con- sumption of power per head of pop- | in| {ule mn was only 0.9 kwt-hours, Conditions Grow Worse for Textile Workers in Phila. (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Conditions among the textile work- ers in the northeastern section of | Philadelphia, that vast neighborhood jerease the number of looms each | (By Mail). *_| worker must work, and cut wages, | often “firing” the worker to be re- placed by a child of 16, can anything be accomplished, —C. RABIN. known as Kensington, have reached | such a pass that numerous private | “charitable” organizations, inactive | for over a decade, since before the} war, have now deemed it absolutely essential to “do something.” Unemployment, part time employ- | ment and wages to married men with families to support as low as "$16 per week have made existence “a difficult problem to the workers | “in the textile industry. So that even one or two of the| capitalist newspapers could not ig- | nore the situation, and one of them jadniitted in a small, isolated news item headed “Soup Kitchens Open in Kensington,” the truth—in a ‘» fashion. However, this sort of aid can only | slightly alleviate the abominable neral conditions. For anything | with a semblance of permanence i sworkers must organize. The workers of Kensington, ie Richmond and Frankford can now | _see for themselves plainly where the | “American plan” is leading them, | i has already led them to. doors of starvation, to charity. 4 4 ; } } } In this, the largest textile center | in America, the weavers must join «the National Textile inion, strike for shorter hours, full | “pn employment and a living stand- | “ard of wages, Only by vigorous methods aimed | against the source of the misery of | ‘the bulk of the populace of Ken- | sington, the wealthy and ever in- ¢ ing wealthier owners of the merous mills of this city, the jitical slave drivers who al- week to lengthen hours, in- “ To the | Workers’ | | > 3 avy Greet the Spring Season AT THE New Masses Spring Carnival Friday, March First WEBSTER HALL Aae-eee ene’ BUY TICKETS BARLY $1.50 In Advance—$2.50 at Door vvvvvvvvve TICKETS ON SALE AT: New Maswes, 30 Union Square (Phone Algonquin 4445), Work. ers Book Shop, 28 Union Sq. New Playwrights Thentre, W, 14th St, hington Square Bookshop, 27 West Sth Street. Rand Book Store, 7 E. 15th St. | Soviet |altundance of SIA HAILS ‘NEGRO LAUNDRY LABOR POISONED plenty of high-grade peat insures ‘Seance oe by Fumes of the further speedy development of | Escaping Chlorine the eiectrifiestion of White Russia. | In addition to the Ossinovsk skaia cen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. deadly chlorine tral electrical station, which is to| be completed in 1930, the Soviet of | Escaping fumes of | People’s Commissaries of the U. S.| 888 from a faulty cylinder in the S. R. has recognized it necessary to| Tolman Laundry at Sixth and C embark at the end of the five-year | Streets recently overcame a large period involved in the present plans | number of the workers as the gas upon the construction of a second | Spread through the building after power station to work on peat fuel.|the safety valve blew off the 200 | pound storage tank. More than 200) workers, mostly Negro men an nd | women, slave in this laundry for h of the national economy of starvation wages, averaging less | White Russia, the local government than $15 a week, and work more spent 29 per cent of its budget in than 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. 1926 and it appropriated 40 per cent | This is true not only of the Negro of its budget for the same purpose slaves in the Tolman Laundry, but in 1928. The government, together |in dozens of laundries in Washing- with about 1,000 peasant land im- |ton, where over 1,000 Negro work- | provernent co-operatives, is engaged |ers are forced to slave more than in draining 2 million hectares of |84 hours a week, for swamps, which will be turned into |than $15 a week. Most of, these ‘fertile fields and added to the land |laundry slaves are Negro women. now tilled by the White Russian pea- Always In Danger. car The escaping gas, | faulty equipment supplied by the | |bosses, is a serious danger to the} }many hundreds of low-paid laun- j dry slaves, The chlorine gas is used in the landries for bleaching jpurposes. Several of the Negro workers are still in hospitals, and were made very seriously ill. There is no trace of any union for the/ laundry workers in Washington. Even if the white, reactionary labor fakers wanted to organize the laun- dry workers, which they do not, for these reactionary officials, many of whom are members of the Ku Klux Klan openly, would refuse to allow |the Negro workers, who are the worst exploited of the southern laun- dry workers, join the union. These | misleaders are always coming out in the capitalist press of the south | with attacks on the Negro workers, | calling them “scabs,” when as a |matter of fact no worker is more In Agriculture. agriculture, the principal Education. | The secondary schools comprise | \72 per cent of the children of school | lege in the republic. Prior to the {revelution there was not a single | |university in White Russia; today | | there is an Institute of White Rus- | ian Culture, which will be reorgan- | ; ed into a White Russian Academy | of Sciences on the occasion of the | tenth anniversary of the republic; there are also the White Russian University, the White Russian Ag- ricultural Academy, the Veterinary \Institute, ete. The White-Russian government is now engaged in the evection cf special university build- lings and a university town, at a jeost of 8 million roubles. | | } Four newspapers and seventeen magazines in the White Russian guage are published in Minsk. ere are four state theatres, three cf them performing in White Rus- | sian and one in Jewish. the exploited Negro worker. Daily Worker Benefit Performance by the _.PROLAB THEATRE 231 EAST NINTH STREET Saturday Evening, February 16, 1929 presenting “THE CRIPLES” “THE PEST” By M. GELTMAN By DAVID PINSKI ADMISSION 50 CENTS | “ One Special Showing! A Record of Which Every Proletarian Is Prowd of! The Greatest News Picture Ever Filmed. KRASSIN OFFICIAL SOVKINO MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH FOUGHT AGANST TREMENDOUS ODDS AND RESCUED THE NOBILE CREW. Introductory Speech by the’ noted explorer Vilhjalmur Stefannsen CARNEGIE HALL, Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 8:30 P. M. Tickets: 50c to $2.00 at Box Office +. |stopped because my boss could not/ pure, fresh air, ete.” wages less | due to the | 4 1a | willing to join a fighting union than | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929 serene UNION FAKERS | AID THE USE OF | SCABS ON JOB Delegate and the Boss “Smoothe Things” (By a Worker Correspondent) What is the plumbing trade com- ing to? On all new work under nnion control the entire system is broken down. The machine officials | of the A. F. of L. are not assisting the members of their trade union by eeing that union conditions are up- held on the job. Whenever such a| job is reported by a militant worker, he delegate sees the boss of the job and conditiors are smoothed over. | (nolous stupid plot for such scenes | My boss is a Brooklyn master|and satire as fili the play, some | plumber, but has - level thrusts are made at the rota- Half the time I am y rian gods. to call me to w The first scene is in the filing two sets, we w room, the room where the third | then a month. All for the! copies are filed, in the Subway Con-| munificent wages of $4.00 a day as struction Co. The junior partner a plumbers helper. The first job|there ta show his publicity man some points—not a window in the | was held up every few days because | of scabs working with us, such as/jlace, nothing to distract the atten- the lathers, electricians, plasters | tion of the girl, artificial light here, sir, alwa: the same, absolutely and roofers. Finally the job was! Revolt and , don’t make me ride } any more!” That is the modern maiden’s prayer, accord- ing to Elmer Rice, author of “The Subway,” now at Theatre Masque. | Jare Hamilton utters this bitter | | wail, crouched on a shadow colored | cushion, which the audience isn’t supposed to see, playing, or, just | then, praying, the part of Sophie | Smith, a filing clerk of unbelievable simplicity for New York in 1929. For all that the cushion obtrudes itself, and that the characters are caricatures, there are some good moments in this “Subway.” In spite of the ancient plot of the | shrinking violet, plucked by a wan- | dering philanderer, tossed aside, and | swiftly withering to death, an ai There are only three weeks and = i get his payment from the builder. | In this scene works Sophie Smith, | At present I am waiting for my! and finds that the drawers, in spite boss after a months vacation. The! of the absence of windows and air, | lroughing was just finished when| are full of dust. | the Building Trades Council stopped} qyer0 her boy friend, another clerk, the job beeause all the workers ex-| abandons her, fixing rapturous eyes cepting the plumbers and helpers| oy that “good job” in Detroit, for | are scabs. It is possible for my| which he has been preparing thru | boss to finish the job with non-|eorrespondence school: “Opportu- | union help (plumbers $7 and help-|;ity waits for no man,” “delay is | ers $3) as the scabs in the other| dangerous for while YOU wait, some | trades have finished their work.| sther and INFERIOR man may take | | | | What is needed to remedy this con- | youR CHANCE.” | make an illustration for the pub- 39 “A Day y With Tolstoy ;Supposed to be where the audience | “A Day With Tolstoi” is the name | Wover, who does the artist, have ema, 52 W. Eighth St. The Tolstoi Hamilton is ene of these actresses popular with militant wcrkers in| once more—the little filing clerk ia Poliana, and its showing to: |has a soul! No, no, leave her alone! | ‘The picture was brought to Amer- | “Tripe,” with just enough hot sauce | ge |he takes the artist away from her, dition is a militant job steward sys- | eee ns building sada: y | Here is the artist who finally gets | ae ee Ee |her, after coming into the office to | licity dope. seat in a movie—an excellent scene. | | | The beam of light to the picture, | Opens at Film Guild | lis, catches their two faces and | “A Day With Tolstoi” opens to-|brings out the play of emotion. | day at Film Guild Cinema. Hamilton and Edward H. | | of a special added attraction which | |learned something of the motion pic- | will be show! m, c encing today at ture art of facial expression—in this the new Film Guild Cin- | scene it does not seem unreal. Jane film is being shown in conjunction who can weep real tears, too. with the latest Soviet film “Two| However, after a moment of re- Jays,” which is proving extremely | ality the play slants into caricature |New York. {eee “Oh, he touched me again (in | The film is a factual record of his |@ strange interlude aside), and the | daily life and was made in 1908 at |attist says (same way), “Ah, she |morrow is the first public showing | Has she a soul?” in America since the films were| ‘The publisher, who announces that | taken. |he is getting out a magazine, ! jica by Symon Gould, director of the |to make the boobs think they are | {Film Guild Cinema, by arrangement | knowing,” happens’ to be the imme- |with Tolstoi’s daughter, Tatiana | diate exceationer of Sophie. When © The picture will have an indef-/fcr a job in Europe, she jumps un- ES run. ‘der a subway train. } THE REMARKABLE SOVIET FILM Special Added Attraction! “A Day with Tolstoy” ctual and authentic film-record of the n writer taken in 1908 when he was elg! .. showing the great world figure in the Intimate aspects of his daly activities on his estate at Yasnaia Poliann, PROGRAM WITH ON THE “TWO DAYS" A WUFKU-AMKINO PRODUCTION The Russian “Last Laugh” A tremendous tragedy of an old man torn in his devotion between the Whites and the Reds—caught in the changing tides of the Soviet Revolution ACCLAIMED BY REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS! “Powerful Tragedy” “Unforgettable” “Tremendous class v4 Moissaye Olgin, Says Melach Epstein drama” Leoeccoynsng a of “The Freiheit.” —Michnel Gold. THIS REMARKABLE PROGRAM PRESENTED IN THE RADICALLY UNIQUE CINEMA OF REVOLUTIONARY DESIGN i film guild cinema | — Sf 52-54 W. EIGHTH ST., West of 5th Ave. Continuous Performance. Popular Prices. Direction SYMON GOULD SAME Daily 2 to 12 (Box Office Open 1:30 p.m.) Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 12 to 12 (Box Office Opens 11:30 A, M.) —PHONE: SPRING 6095 To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party Sections and Affiliated Organizations! 3CHEDULE A PERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— Airways, Inc. JOHN DOS PASSOS PLAY OF A GREAT MILL STRIKE Opening on Feb. 20 at the Grove St. Theatre Make $240 for the Daily Worker and the Needle Trades Strikers. Call Paxtom er Napoli at WATKINS 0588 for Arrangements. INC, Johm Dos Paswon attacks boldly the major problem af Thin in the play ‘Subway,’ Another Artistic. |the subway. He takes her to a box | It is a fitine | er uilding Workers’ Fight for 40- Hour Week (OTIS ELEVATOR "SPEEDS UP ITS SLAVES INN. J Four Men Must Share One Locker (By a Worker Correspondent) HARRISON, N. J., (By Mail).— The Otis Elevator Co. has five dif- ferent shops in its plant in Harri- son. It has a machine shop, car shop, cab assembly, paint spraying, shipping and a few minor depart- |ments. There are about 500 skilled ‘and unskilled workers slaving here. The speedup system is fierce. The slaves are timed on each job they turn out for the day, and as part of the speedup process they are given “premiums.” This varies according to the size of the regular wages. The worker who gets a higher wage Claudette Colbert, who is one of gets less premium, and, the worker the principals in “Dynamo,” Eugene who gets lower wages, is told he O’Neill’s latest play, which will have | will get a higher “premium” if he its opening tonight at the Martin|speeds up. Beck Theatre. Eight men are given one double locker, or four men to each. The company has just obtained newer lockers of cheaper tyne, in this way being able to pocket more profits. These lockers are not large enough to place four overcoats in properly. The company runs a cafeteria. It is poorly supplied with benches and bles, and workers are often com- led to sit on the cold cement floor to go without lunch. —“ARNOLD.” Good in Places IN O'NEILL'S “DYNAMO.” end, for her whole family works on The play is one of those intellec- tual-artistic reactions against the jwhole industrial system, savagely scratching at its more superficial features, and failing to get at the | \real difficulties. The heroine’s ob- | jection to the subways is not that tal they exploit labor, but that she im- | Pe! agines all the men crowded against | |or even her have designs upon her. V. S. wan (a aetna Best Film Show In Town 42nd Street and Broadway AMERICAN NEWEST SOVKIN' PREMIERE PRODUCTION “The TASH otite CZAR’ with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEY and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” presents ‘Horiba Y Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY Thea. W. 45 St. Ev. 8.5/ Mats. Thurs. & Sat. 2.3! Extra Holiday Mat. Tuesday. MAXINE ARTHUR HOPKINS ELLIOTT’S | see West 39 S Eves. 8: 30 Mats. Wed. & 30 PLYMOUTH Fay Bainter in JEALOUSY with Jehn Halliday | prvi RE PE RTORY M4St.othay Eves, 893° 50c; $100; $1.50. Mats. Wed &Sat.,2.3) tions O ‘Theatre Guild Pro O'NEILL'S DYNAM GALLIENNE, Heel! Pe eee VARA'S CAPRICE GUILD ‘thea. Mats., Wei Extra__Hol Wings Over Europe By Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne ALVIN THEATRE 52nd St., W. of Broadway, Eves. 8:50, Mats. Tues. & at. 2.40 EUGENE O'NEILL'S Strange Interlude John (} ‘a Thea,, 6816 GOLDEN ,Thea,, sete HVENINGS ONLY AT 6:30 Needle Trades 4 strikel Benefit eee pEnEpEEnenmeed VVUIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Workers’s Farmers’ Costume Ball PYTHIAN TEMPLE 70TH STREET (EAST OF BROADWAY) FRL, FEB. 157! BALALAALALALALLAALALALAAAAASASE ——————————————SS—————=—=——_ with Frank McIntyre & Jeanette MacDonald ‘SHUBERT fvs'8.0. atais Tuck, and Saturday WALTER WOOLF inthe Thrilling The Red Robe Musical Hit with HELEN GILLILAND. Eves. gat, | Carnegie Hall, Thurs, Eve., Feb.14, 8:30 | Only N. ¥. Appearance This Season | MARIA THERESA will dance EROICA SYMPHONY of PEETHOV EN | Met. A. W. Meurer Steinway Hall 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