The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1929, Page 4

ee Four Speed Up, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1 Low Pay, Bad Air, Dreariness in Recreation Rooms, at Eagle | 929 Pencil Co. YOUNG WORKERS OFFER SLAVE WAGES FOR WHITE COLLAR WORKERS IN PHILADELPHIA HEARST DRIVES EXPLOITED IN SMALL ROOMS Shut.Off From World; Ideas Stolen (By a Wor Some call the Eagle Pencil Build- ing a jail, while others know it is worse than that. The entrance of these different buildings, reached by nine winding outside stairs from the small court, is called the cobweb, You leave the street next to the employment office on East 14th St., just below Ave. C, through a large wooden gate. This gate is a sliding affair, half to either side. When closed it cuts off all vision from} the outside. Then into a court, In this court open iron stairs lead to k ing, breaking at each] el and over the tops of some buildings (plateau like) into others of greater height. We have one ob-| struction in this court called the guillotine building. Doomed Workers. They say that the reason some call this section of the building the guillotine building is because some of our fellow-workers on the polish- ers and buffers look as though they were doomed to die—they are so ‘er Correspondent) (By a Worker Correspondent) | the home-study scale; PHILADELPHIA, PA. (By Mail.) | $16. The local capitalist rags recently | stance. carried a Camden manufacturer's advertisement for a mechanicall —stave-herders Hiesalde draftsman “with at least two years| white-collar serfs as never before, experience.” Now a draftsman is/'The jobless office stiff who has , eee Wi supposed to be at the top of the/ nothing to do but plow thru the help | Reering and dog biscuit business es- labor aristocracy — architectural| wanted columns while he slowly sential. Personality, neat appearance, drafting is even rated among the|starves to death on his share of | Character, intelligence, docility and Be a draftsman!” | “prosperity” knows this fact only|@bility to draw up legal papers ab- | the correspondence schools urge you; |too well. Out of the thousands (7) |Selute requisites. Splendid oppor- | “earn $50 to $200 a week.” |of want-ads he has read emerges a|tunity for ore not afraid of hard| The Camden slaver did not pay | composite come-on: “Wanted—young|work and long hours. Answer in| he Nor is this an isolated in-| shekel-swine. | Must be good steno- x Sample Ad. | bookkeeping, able to operate adding the | machine, Ford truck, addressograph, linotype, slide rule and elevator. Some knowledge of chemical engi- are £3 Device Proves That 8-4 Victims Died Needlessly | | A simple oxygen helmet such as could have bcen adapted from similar devices used by firemen for the last ten years, has been tried out and shows that the whole of the S-4 crew could have escaped. Photo shows tests on the S-4 itself. |tion of the unorganized delicatessen clerks. offered {man for office of nationally known|own grapher, familiar with double entry | |slaver was in the handwriting, stating schooling and experience in tionality, height, w adenoids, family histc gion. Enclose photograp ences. Salary to start $ Z-432, Daily Noserag.” Day by day the pay gets sr and the requirements get stif ge, A short time ago one Philadelphia market for a “young man, typist, able to take dictation.” In other words, a full- fledged stenog her. The magnif- BUSINESS POOR, IS BOSSES WHINE TO WAGE SLAVES Labor Must Organize to Get Increase (By a Worker Correspondent) In our shop everybody gets low wages and it is worth while to know how they manage keep wages low. In spite of the at the company’s profit above the million dollar mark every year, the company officers ery thei is off telling how bad business is, so that you should not come for a wage to tt Jicent honorarium of $12 went with|shade Co. starts off its girl decora- the job. |tors at $8 weekly, or about 15 cents jan hour. To qualify for slavery in that hole a girl must have attended art school or had previous experi- ence in printing shades! Such are Brain Work. A third firm was looking for a roughly experienced commercial rtist, a job requiring a special ; shades! t ceveloped thru years of study |the fruits of brainwork! and practice. And the boss was wil-| Most of the cases listed are those ling to plank down real money to|0n the “higher” level of white-collar the right man—$18. At that, it is|Serfdom. What of office workers an enormous figure when compared| With less specialized skill, the ordi- with the measly wage doled out to| nary bill clerks, bookkeepers and women workers who are engaged in|80 on? Draw your own conclusions. the same line. The Maid-Rite Lamp-| —FRED MILLER. n Ford Plant Slave Writes to Soviet Union Workers The following letter from a slave | visit the U. S. S, R. and I hope to in the Ford plant in Detroit, has|do so in the near future. I should been sent to the Daily Worker, to/| like all the workers outside of the to be forwarded to the workers in| Soviet Union to visit the U. S. S. R. automobile factory in the U. S. S.| because it would be an impetus for R. Other workers in American fac- | the development of their revolution- tories are urged to send in corres-/| ary spirit and bring nearer the world pondence, to be forwarded to the | proletarian revolution. workers in similar industries in the| Grcetings to all the workers and Soviet Union. In this way, the! peasants of the U. 8. S. R. and American workers and the workers] people working in their interests; of the Soviet Union can establish | also everlasting life to the Russian a regular correspondence with each | revolution and hopes for a speedy other. es ws a world revolution. * * * Revolutionary proletarian greet- ings from —A FORD WORKER—A. B. Dear Comrades: I am one of the} slaves in the Ford factory of Detroit where the workers are forced to ex- SLAVES TO LIMIT; 5 | | LOLLS ON RANCH | . ” ‘Entertains “Royalty | of Russia (By a Worker Correspondent ) While the William Randolph |Hearst family is entertaining the remnants of the Russian royalty at |the Hearst ranch in California, no |thought is given by Hearst to the | workers who make it possible for |them to pile up the millions of dol- |lars, to enable them to do this sort of entertaining. This so-called “friend of labor,” |though the wealthiest of publishers, jeares the least for the men and |women employed by him. Other | newspapers, paying the scale, offer | the men and women in their employ vacations with pay, Christmas bonuses, free insurance policies and many other concessions. In the Hearst publications attempts have been made to put up straw bosses to {act as drivers of the men, | Printers in the newspapers at | present are preparing for their new {scale, which occurs this summer. |'The publishers are threatening to | install tele-typesetter and photo-com- posing machines and to defeat the pale and thin. In our shop, ready for work, you! start with bad ventilation. You open windows for two hours or more before temperature becomes normal. On cold days there are draughts} Nine members of the Hotel and from everywhere. On warms days| Restaurant Employees International it is impossible to get fresh air. The| Alliance belonging to Local 302, water in the fountain is impossible | delicatessen clerks, have submitted to drink. It is dirty, rusty looking |a statement condemning their illegal and warm. suspension by officials of the local Pay Two Weeks Behind. |because they told of conditions in How does the job pay? Don't ask| the industry and demanded militant fbolish questions?! You don’t get |®ction. : paid for two weeks. They hold one} The formal charges against them week on you. Some job—$12, $14 /are that they asked members of the if you get $16 or $18 a week !0cal to join the Workers (ormmu- | nist) Party of America, and “re- = quested members of Local 302 to you’re good. And for that you wor! 59 hard hours on bad floors, worn /# Yipee a lied ooneh, dirty and stinking. We|"°"= * "ew local im opposition, work ;in small rooms—there are| Quizzed on Politics. about 100 departments for us 1,800! The nine members when they ap- workers, peared before International Presi- On the bulletin board we see want|dent Edward Flore and Vice-Presi- notices for a pencil Jengthener or|dent Lehman at the headquarters of the like. A reward of $5 or $10 is|Local 1, where the hearing was held, offered for any accepted idea—and|were asked a series of questions Nine Delicatessen Clerks Assail Union Misleaders | “2. That this campaign be con- ducted thru the establishment of rank and file committees. “3, That the local condemns the use of gangsters, “4, That the local take the ini- tiative in the calling of a conference for the unification of the culinary workers in order to organize the un- organized and overcome the unem- ployment situation and the disunity of the food workers. We believe that it is necessary that new elec- tions be held in order that this pro- |gram be carried out as our present officers will not and cannot carry |thru such a program to build our or- | ganization. “In order that the elections may be fair elections, expressing the will of the membership, we propose that adequate protection be given for | “We, the undersigned, wish to submit to you the following state- ment in regard to our illegal sus- pension and regarding the conditions in our local. “1, Our suspension is now 3 months. We have been denied our rights as members of the organiza- tion and accordingly were not given full rights in the participation of the elections. “2. We have been denied admis- sion to membership meetings ille- gally. “3. We have been subjected to terrorism and gangster methods de- spite the fact that the constitution calls for regular procedure regard- ing suspensions and trials which . * constitution has been ignored by the | °TAtic elections, officials of the union. | “We emphatically protest against “4, We demand the lifting of the | the procedure of removing members the workers give them their ideas! |which indicated only that the right |charges and reinstatement with full of our union from their jobs on the Young Workers. Most of these workers here are American schooled. They,are young. | No place for an old person! got rid of them after the war. You) know how it is. The war didn’t! take enough to run in harmony with! this speed-up and new machinery. But another war is coming that will! make it better. You'll have plenty| of work, fighting and digging graves. But you don’t want war.| All right. Follow me and get rid of unemployment. T'll take you back to work through our recreation room. The girls and| the boys dance to the tune of one} pumping piano, It’s quite dark in this room too. We just had i painted. Not so bad. Today one of our girls is getting married. Giv- ing her a time here. How often does this happen? About once a month. Once a month? Oh! More than 1,000 girls here and only once a month? What chance have I got? Don’t be foolish! Poor Food. | We pay 60 cents for a bad lunch in the restaurant, run by a private! individual, in the basement of the/ building. The meat on the lunch is fixed a different way each day. All) sorts’ of ailments result from the| food. Not so long ago one worker Was carried away on a_ stretcher after a famous feast. The fellow with the shop coat, white collar, polished nails and al clock hooked to his wrist is the ef- ficiency expert. He fixes prices on| our jobs in favor of the boss. It| doesn’t matter much if he makes a mistake and we get sore and quit. The boss wants him to find those who might resist and be, apt to make trouble. This is part of his role. | Buy this paper. Every news) stand in your neighborhood carries | it. It is the only revolutionary daily in the English language in the world. It is for you and all the workers. Support the tag day collection for | this paper which will be in your | shop. | Send in your shop grievances, no! matter how small, to your bulletin, | The Engle Pencil Worker, 28 Union | re, N. Y. C. ) EAGLE PENCIL SLAVE. iy McADOO, Pa., Strike of the fifty weavers working | | DEFEAT WAGE CUT. | in the plant of the Arrow Silk Co. | wre defeated a proposed wage cut. lomplete Sets of | THE COMMUNIST +) for 1928 $1.00 (By Mail).—A} wing gang want to punish all really working for the union. were asked as to whether the nine They | frere @ group or individuals in this | fight, and whether they belonged to the Workers Party. They objected to the question as to political affilia- tion, and one of them asked vice- president Lehman, who is a demo- cratic politician, about his affilia- tions. Lehman said the democratic party supported the present social system, and intimated that the union officialdom would support capitalism whole-heartedly against the workers. Bring Scab Agent. Heller, agent of the scab union of the Hebrew Trades was brot in by t Lehman to testify against the nine suspended workers. He said that they picketed firms with which his seab union dealt. This is no crime but Lehman tried to make some- thing of it. Officials of the local made fools of themselves in their testimony, which had to do with dis- covering Workers Party books in the workers’ pockets, seeing them maintain a booth and a sign at the Daily Worker-Freiheit bazaar, etc. Flore reserved judgement on the suspended workers, who are: I. Dreazen, I. Himmelfarb, A. Beder- son, M, Berkowitz, M. Zimmerman, M. Chorover, F, Frank, M, Budesky, and M. Schneider, Issue Statement, These workers have issued the fol- lowing statement signed by all nine, in answer to the charges against them: Spring Season AT THE New Masses Spring Carnival | Friday, March First WEBSTER HALL Cy a a i a a eS BUY TICKETS EARLY $1.50 In Advance—$2,50 at Door vvyvvvvwvrws TICKETS ON SALE AT New Masses, 30 Union 8 (Phone Algonquin 4445 St. Washingtom Square Bookshop, 27 West Sth Street, Rand Book Store, 7 E. 15th St. Questions | lrights, | grounds of difference of policy with “5, We demand that the officials | *h¢ officials of the union. Such a of the local be removed for their | Policy is leading to a disorganiza- violation of the constitution. “Tn view of the fact that the sus- pension has taken place because we have been fighting for the improve- ment of the conditions of the mem- bership of our union; in view of the {fact that the policy of our officials has been destructive to the interests of the membership; in view further- more of the fact that the majority of the delicatessen clerks are un- organized, almost half of them un- employed, and the conditions of the members of our union growing con-| here with contracts for the con- tinually worse, we demand that struction of two destroyers ror Can- these matters be called at once to the | ada. The ships will be built in the attention of the membership of the Thornycroft Shipyards, Southamp- locals by the officers of the Inter-| ton. national, and that the International! The Canadian naval program is protect our rights in bringing these | part of a general naval increase conditions before the locals and see-| program on the part of the dominion ing that these conditions are im-| governments of the British Empire. mediately remedied. We propose: | Australia has also contracted for “1, That the local at once under-| considerable naval construction in take a campaign for the organiza-' English shipyards. | ling a lack of confidence in the \ability of our union to express the |interests of our members.” ‘Canada and Australia ‘Build More Warships ‘for Imperialist War LIVERPOOL, (By Mail).—Repre- sentatives of the Royal Canadian Navy, from Ottawa, have arrived One Special Showing! | A Record #f* Which ‘Every Proletarian Is Proud 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: 50¢ to $2.00 at Box Office 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 |the conduct of such fair and demo-| jtion of our union and is establish- | raise. If you do ask them, as one who is asking for a big favor of course, and not as one in a mass, you may be turned down or given a dollar a week raise. “Most of the fellows do not even jask any longer, but try to get along jon the little they get. The heart is |taken out of them, especially when 'they see how many apply every day |and are turned down. Their ex; ence belies the much boasted pros- perity bunk, The young workers start with $14 a week, and do not get further for a year or so. Married workers, skilled |mechanics, get $25. I wish they | | would become conscious of the fact | that while they think only off them- |selves, they are easy prey of the |boss. Conditions would be improved jif only the workers got together and | organized, +-WAGE SLAVE. White Guardists Kill | Communist Worker in Yugoslavia; No Trial | (Red Aid Press Service) | BELGRADE, By Mail).—A Com- munist chauffeur named Vladimt: Matovitch has been found dead by | the police. Matovitch has been murdered by | some “persons or persons unknown.” |In fact, however, exiled White} Guards from Russia are concerned | in his murder and the police know this very well, but refuse to make jany arrests. THE REMARKABLE SOVIET FILM | authen an actual famous Ru ON THE SAME P “TWO A WUPRKU-AMKI The Russian A tremendous tragedy of an between the Whites and “Powerful Trazedy” nays Moissaye Olgin. Says Mela “The OGRAM NEMA OF Daily 2 Direction SYMON GOULD Sections and Affili 3CHEDULE A PERFORMANCE A Airwa Trades Special Added Attraction! “A Day with Tolstoy” writer changing tides of the Soviet Revolution ACCLAIMED BY REVOLUTIONARY WRITERS! “Unforgettable” . film guild cinema 52-54 W. BIGHTH ST., West of Sth Ave. Continueus Performance. Popular Prices. Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 12 to 12 (Dox Office Opens 11:30 A. ML) To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party 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 Call Paxton or Napoli at WATKINS 0588 fer Arrangements, pend every ounce of energy for the sole purpose of making profits for Mr. Henry Ford. There is a highly developed production system in the Ford factory in Detroit. Everything is mechanized in such a way that the workers need make as few mo- tions posible and there is prac- tically no waste. But all this new machinery and scientific discovery does not go to the benefit of the work in capitalist United States. The workers are speeded as much as possible with the result that they become human machines, Could Be Used. This system of production would be great if we had it in our own U.S. S.R. Then the workers would not be speeding their health away only to be dumped by Mr. Ford, when they become overworked or ill from undernourishment and bad liv- ing quarters, | It has been’ my great ambition, | since the Bolshevik revolution to | IV VVV VY Yiddish Art Theatre 14th St. and Union Sq., Tel. STU, 0523 | MAURICE SCHWARTZ, Director Announces Friday, Saturday & Sunday Eve. and Saturday and Sunday Mat. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ‘OTHELLO’ Directed by Boris Giagollin English Synopsis Supplied VVVVCT | pis Be we f tie fil k: ‘ord of the PROGRAM WITH = DAYS” NO PRODUCTION Last Laugh”? old man torn in his devotion the Reds—caught in the “Tremendous class drama” Freihe! —Michael Gold. PRESENTED IN THE RADICALLY EVOLUTIONARY DESIGN pstein to 12 (Box Office Open 1:30 p.m.) —PHONE: SPRING 5095 fated Organizations! T ONCE OF— ys, Inc. Strikers. “In AIRWAYS, INC. John 'D our Amer! workers Paswox attacks boldly akening to class con: e ely, the class war, | MORE POVERTY IN ST. LOUIS | Provident Association, the charity organization here, reports | | that it spent almost twice as much |for charity in 1928 as five year: | ago. 092 for needy families, | fIVIC REPERTORY 148t.sthay | A Ev 0 | | 0c; $1.00; $1.50, Mats. Wed.&Si Tonight, ‘The Lady from Al PL! iating society is the bogus law. We must counteract this ST. LOUIS, Mo. (By Mail).—The | by organizing so that our reactionary largest Union officials do not betray us again, by accepting long contracts, which are always against the in- erest of the workers, and a small lincrease in wages spread over a In 1928 this body spent $174,- | number of years. We must insist while in | that the hours be shortened, to pro- {vide employment for those men and | 1928, in spite of a lower budget for | women displaced by the new | family needs, and more strictness all | machines. around, it had to spend $306,956. —A PRINTER. CAMEO] Best Film Show In Town Now AMERICAN NEWEST SOVKINO PREMIERE PRODUCTION “The ASH ottte CZAR™ with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia’s Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” 42nd Street and Broadway ‘Theatre Guild Productions Fay Bainter Porras EUGENE 0’NEILL'S JEALOUSY exes] | DYNAMO ohn Hadi see se wate meee be ‘John Halliday es. 2.30) Mat., Tues, Thurs & Sa SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE GUILD Thea... W. buna St Eves, 8:50 Mats., Wed., Thurs., Sat., 2:40 ; OLIDA Y | | sities Eves. 8 Mats. Tues. & Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY bss 240 tats Sat. 2.40 ‘Thea, W. 45 St. Ev. 8.50 EUGENE O'NEILL'S Mats, Thurs, & Sat. a Extra Holiday Mat. Tuesday. Strange Interlude 30 EVA LE GALLIENNE, Director | queque’, | and “On the High Ron . Mat., “The Cradle Song.” | Eve, “The Would-Be Gentle- The history of all John GOLDEN eit bath of B’way EVENINGS ONLY AT Needle Trades Benefit Strike [oo eaaneatipataasneenasaapeeanauumeneemeenememeceeememeemeee el VVUVVVVVVVVVVVVVTVVVVVVe Workers’& Farmers’ Costume Ball PYTHIAN TEMPLE 70TH STREET (EAST OF BROADWAY) TONIGHT AR il AB i, Bs. Bi, Ay A iti Alt i, SN MD A, 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! Tickets on sale at Local New York Workers Internatiozxal Relief, 799 Broadway, Room 226 ~—ADMISSION 75c¢