The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1929, Page 4

} Wo rk Doubled, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929 Wages ‘Slashed, Wo man Card Room Workers in Pemaquid Mill Rebel \ OVER ONE THIRD \Workers’ Soccer Teams in Close Competition OF NEW BEDFORD WORKERS IDLE Spinners Run Twice| as Many Frames (By a Work -espondent) NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (By Mail).—The mills in New Bedford are getting worse every day. More than one-third of the workers are out of work. Many mills instead of cutting five per cent, cut what any- one would call y per cent. Many of the workers can’t stand work. So the bosses hire new peo- their jobs and have to leave their ple, but it doesn’t take long before the new workers walk out also. Many workers realize now what our union is doing. The majority of them are coming to jein the union. The mills here in New Bedford are what people would call jails vather than mills. There is one mill here that can safely be called the worst of all. It is the Pemaquid Mill. In the card room the women are running three pairs of speeders for about $16 a week. Recently in the card room most of the women walked cut. In the weaving room the men are getting from $12 to $16, where they used to get $25 to $30 per week. In the spinning room they run 24 frames when they used to run 12, and for this they are getting “12) | i | | | a . NEGRO WOMAN — | CIGAR SLAVES IN WALKOU Soviet Film of the Krassin to | Be Shown at Carnegie Hall HAT is probably the greatest! polar achievements in modern times. W newsreel ever filmed has just been imported into the United} States by Amkino, the American distributors of Sovkino of Moscow. | It is entitled “The Krassin” and After rescuing the Italia crew, “The Krassin” then set out to lo-| eate Amundsen who had flown in| the airplane “Latham” to rescue the Italian flyers. On its vain search ___ After elimination contests lasting for more than a month, the Seandinavian Workers Athletic Club and the Spartacus Sports Club met for the finals of the Championship of Division “C” in the Metro- politan Workers Soccer League, Sports Union. close score of 4-3. which is affiliated to the Labor After a hard game, the Spartacus team won by the to Photo shows the Scandinavian Workers Athletic Club on the left and the Spartacus Club on the right. In the center is Referee Hecht with Emil Austin, chairman of the soccer department of the L, S.U. Students Fight Goose-Step in Negro Colleges of U. S. (Crusader News Service) Eight strikers at Negro colleges in recent years are evidence of the re- volt of Negro Youth against the ef- ferts of white college presidents to turn out future “Uncle Toms”. to sueceed the crop now fortunately dy- ing out. That “benevolent despotism” of white college heads or trustee boards | is teaching “pacifism and servility” is shown by John P. Davis in an article in the January “New Stu- dent.” Davis is a graduate at Har- vard and a former Bates College debater. Every moment of the students’ time is scheduled, his clothing prescribed even down to his N. C., as at Hampton and Tuskegee, there is compulsory chapel, Davis points out. “Regulation uniforms are required; matrons rule men’s |dormitories; students are forbidden |girls are forced to work 10 hours a) to entertain visitors in their rooms; playing cards and tobacco ure strictly forbidden on the campus. Every thing is done to make “uni- ing in the Bayuk factory come out rhe < 3 ” a A letely |S0t Samoilovich, head of the Soviet versal robots” out of grown men and with their health nearly completely Suattiute 44 Aettla odien: The! women. Nothing is left to their own initiative, Every effort is being made to teach servility and pacifism. But the Negro student has long since given up the motto of his pre- decessors in college: “Take the world and give me Jesus.” underwear. ‘Demand to Be Taken) | Into Union (By « Worker Correspondent} PHILADELPHIA, (By Mail).— | Over 100 unorganized Negro women workers at the world’s largest cigar factory, Bayuk Brothers, corner Ninth St. and Columbia Ave. walked out a few weeks ago in protest) Jagainst the miserable slave condi- | tions they had to work under, Given | a rate of 25 cents for stripping 12 and a half pounds of tobacco, the pay | lenvelopes of the group for # full) |week ranged from $3.50 to $11 a) | week, the average the women made being around $9. | The girls demanded an increase lof 10 cents in the rate and walked out in a body when the bosses re- |fused to grant the demand. The} day or more, and the conditions they | work under are unsanitary. In a} \few years the girls and women work- destroyed. They were entirely un- organized at the time the strike | started. { The Cigarmakers’ Union officials | did not try to organize these work- | ers, but the girls were so anxious to} ‘join a union, that they walked in a) body down to the office of the union asking to be taken in the union. |on board the Russian ice-breaker of | sacrificed his life in an effort to consists of the motion pictures taken| for the great explorer who had that name while on its rescue ex-| rescue General Nobile with whom pedition to save General Nobile ard he had flown over the pole in 1926, his crew of the ill-fated Italia when| the Krassin went to the rescue of yne giant ership crashed on the| the German steamship Monte Cer-| ice last fail north of Spitzbergen. | vantes, which was sinking with This full length news picture covy- 1800 passengers on board after a ering every detail of the rescue ex-| collision with an iceberg. After) pedition witi be shown to the public! six days of strenuous salvage work at Carnegie Hall tomorrow (Tues-|the Monte Cervantes was finally day) night. Vilhjalmur Stefansson,| brought safely into Hammerfest well known arctic explorer, will| Haven. | speak before an audience composed} On their return to Moscow, Pro- of prominent officials and experts| fessor Samoilovich and Pilot on arctic exploration. | Tsehuchnovski were given a heroic “The Krassin,” representing the reception while all the data on the highest perfection of the newsreel,| ¢xpedition an the rescue were care-| was made under the greatest dif-| fully locked in the Soviet Govern-) ficulties in the far no.“h whrre the| ment vaults at Leningrad. Later, ice-breaxer plowed throussi the polar| the pictures were developed and as-| floes in its race with death, hunger | 8embled under the direction of Sov- and cold. This heroic expcuition,| kino of Moscow, who are now re- equipped in less than fire days tra- | leasing them in America by Amkino. | versed a great sector cf the arctic | where no ship had ever penetrated, RIVERSIDE was under the direction of Profes-| pictures of the rescue were taken) not only from on board “The Kras- sin” but also from “The Red Bear,”| the tri-motored airplane taken by| “The Krassin” into the arctic. Pi- loted by Boris Tschuchnovski, “The | Red Bear” flew over the polar wastes until not only the camp of others. Rigoletto Brothers; others. Fea-| ture photoplay, “Red Hot Speed,” starring Reginald Denny. FRANCINE LARRIMORE Star of “Let Us Be Gay,” a new) play by Rachel Crothers, which will} have its premiere at the Little| ot Theatre this evening. | Krassin Film Will Be Shown for Benefit of THREATEN T0 ‘DEPORT JOBLESS - WOMAN WORKER Saginaw Officials Let Her Starve SAGINAW, Mich., (By Mail).— I would like the workers in other towns to know how the bosses in Saginaw make the working girls {starve. I moved to Saginaw last spring. I have lived here since, half starved, without finding work jand have no way of making a living jfor my family of seven little brothers and one little sister. I went out to look for work, and thought I might find something, ly a job in a restaurant where the bosses eat, but because I, being poor, was not well dressed enough for the rich customers, they dismissed me the same day. I. asked the city tc help me, and they told me that if 1 asked them again they would deport Needle Trades Strike | me to the old country. Two snecial performances of “The | HUGE TOLL OF WORKERS Krassin,” film epic of the heroic} Be asa Ra opal Prowred ms rescue by the Soviet ice-breaker of Plane Rishon, tens Becthers,|the Survivors of the fascist Nobile | Fee ade Pe nga | expedition, will be shown for the) thetic Sin,” starcing Colleen Moore. Co"4viduy "and Saturday, Feb, 22 have been killed, in the last. eight apnursday, Friday and Saturdey:| and 23, at the theatre of the Film) fom . Hall and company; The Guild Cinema, 52 W. 8th St. Both | 84s performances will begin at midnight. Tickets are on sale at the local} office of the Workers International LONDON (By Mail).—Over 3,- 000,000 British workers have suf- fered injuries at work, due to negli- | gence of the bosses, and over 22,000 according to labor ministry FEW JOBS IN HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD, Cal. (By Mail).— Relief, 799 Broadway, under whose | Only 469 out of the 15,000 who He is compelled to at- They were tired of the long years |e Nobile craw was Glacavered| HIPPODROME auspices the performances have been | sought jobs as movie extras found the per week when they used to get $16 to $19. Now about the mill I worked in, the Nashewena Mill,—well, the con- ditions are not as bad as in some others, but they’re plenty bad enough. They have the speed-up, small wages and about the same amount of work as before, I am a doffer in speeders and was getting $9.70 before the strike. Now| I am getting $8 per week for eight! hours per week. Before the strike we did about 12 doffs a day, now we! do about 25 doffs a day. This is about all for now, but will write more later. From a prompt member and good delegate who will stick to the end. SCOTTISH DYERS tend chapel and is put to bed every night at ten o'clock. Especially is his reading censored. In many col- leges and schools in the South, even the magazine of the wobbling and fearful Du Bois is barred. Latest books on the race question are abso- lutely taboo. SELL GIRLS INTO _ WHITE SLAVERY Fisk resulted in resignation of / Presidents Durkee and McKenzie,} both of them white arbiters of what Negroes should be taught. Davis notes other strikes as follows:! LOS ANGELES, (By Mail).— Hampton, Kittrell, Knoxville, St. The existence of 2 slave market has Augustine and to additional out- been discovered on ‘a Sacramento breaks at Howard University. Minor River houseboat. The houseboat is revolts have been staged at nearly | used as a “home” of the girls until every Dixie College. they are sold into slavery in San At Hampton white faculty mem-/| Francisco and other coast cities. Two bers were accused of membership in Chinese and three white girls were the Ku Klux Klan. They ate at/arrested in connection with the ex- tables separate from the Negro |posure of the human slave market. teachers. At Fisk Howard. and| Girls in great numbers from all ist. System —— (By a Worker Correspondent) Strikes at Howard University and |Are Victims of. Capital- | of slavery they had to stand when they were not organized, and na- turally tho the union officials did not | seem to care about them, they were | desperate and went to the officials | lof the union to be organized. | | —IDA, a Negro Cigar Slave. Bosses Kill Mond Plan; ‘Hope to Smash Unions ‘Without Collaboration LONDON, Feb. 17. — A die-hard | group in the National Confederation of Employers’ Associations and the | Federation of British Industries has {won in the dispute over whether the {British capitalist class shall enter linto class collaboration schemes with the English labor unions, or fight openly to crush them. The British version of the B. | huddled against ice-coated wreck of the Italia; but also the} now famous Malmgren group from| whom were later rescued Captains| Mariano and Zappi. Dr. Finn Malmgren, Swedish scientist, who led the two Italian officers in a dash for safety, perished. After | locating 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 subsequent rescue of the starving and frozen men by the ice breaker “Krassin” despite its dam- aged rudder and broken propeller, furnished one of the most heroic) | gymnast. The feature photoplay is, | “Interference,” starring Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook and Doris Ken- yon. PALACE James Barton; Ben Bernie, and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra; Nina Gordani, in song recital; Jeanette Hackett, assisted by Jose Shalitta,| Dan Hurwyn and Wally Davis; “Herb” Williams. | ‘The Communia ceal their views disdain to cone aims. They | thetr emda can. | ined only by the forcible ow of all existing soctal con- (Communist Joe Smith and Charlie Dale; Avon | arranged. Comedy Four, assisted by Lillianjobtain their tickets early as there|agency reports. These few hundred White; Mario and Lazarin; Joseph! are a limited number of seats to be| averaged only a few days work a E. Howard, composer; Hap Hazzard, ! sold. Hest Film Show Workers are urged to| work last year in Hollywood, an week. In Town 4and Stree AMERICAN PREMIERE CAME “The [ASH othe CZAR’ sane BIG WEEK NEWEST AMKING: PRESENTATION t and Broadway |Hampton the faculty called in white | over the world are coming to Holly-'@. plan, the Mond Plan, propos ea | STRIKE IS SEEN [peti 2 ea eee hall hoping to get jobs in the by Baron Melchett, formerly Sir Al | students, with KACHALOV, MEYERHOLD, CHUVELEV and ANNA STEN, Russia's Greatest Artists Worthy Successor to “Potemkin” and “Czar Ivan the Terrible” DIRECTED BY I. A. PROTOZANOY. Based on the famous story by Andreyey, “The Governor.” ears .fmovies. Only = few succeed, how-| fred Mond, for abolition of strikes | |” Students’ mail is opened by thelever. The rest—strangers in © thru arbitration and efficiency | \faculties of most of these colleges; | a i strange city and generally more 07 | sch, ‘ jected today by the} Union Misleaders ‘Plan especially is mail from the North/less short of fonds—often Hebd bare Pigs athartien ea ify ‘scrutinized. Students mail usually victims of men and women: engaged | isi Mond Plan fe to Sabotag e Workers jgoes through two classes of censor-|in the white slave traffic. perosihin: see leds eae TOMORROW NIGHT! — One Special Showing! The Greatest News Reel Ever Filmed! GLASGOW (By Mail).—An acute | Situation has arisen in the Scottish bleaching and calico printing indus- | try, owing to the threat by the em-| ployers to reduce the wages cf ju- | veniles by amounts up to four shil- | lings a week in the first week of February. ‘The employers have vlso refused the workers’ demands that their wege scale be brought up to the level. of the English rates. The crganized dyers have threat- ered that they wil strike the first of February if their demands are net met by the bosses and if the wage cut against the juveniles is net rescinded. About 5,000 workers | would be affected by the strike. A collective piece-work system, proposed by the bosses, is being con- sidered by the reactionary officials of the Amalgamated Society of Dyers and Kindred Trades, over the protest of the militant workers. Scottish Coal Company Owners Issue Notices of Ware Cuts; Lockout LONDON, Feb. 17.—Scottish coal- mine operators are issuing notices reducing the wages of hoisting en- gineers from nine shillings eight pence ($2.32) to eight shillings nine pence per day. The union has of- fered to arbitrate but the employers refuse. Notices are posted of the reduction to take place in two weeks. A lockout in the Scottish coal fields | is probable. Hunter and Ross Alexander, “PLEASURE BOUND,” a new open at the Royale, Monday, “The Broken Chain,” by William “AIRWAYS, INC.,” by John Dos The New Plays “LET US BE GAY,” a new play by Rachel Crothers, will be offered at the Little Theatre by John Golden on Monday night. Fraucine Larrimore, has the principal role. In the cast are Warren William, Charlottee Granville, Kenneth premiere at the Majectic Theatre, Monday, The players in- Clude Phil Baker, Jack Pearl, Aileen Stanley and Grace Brinkley. The book and lyrics are by Harold Atteridge and Max and Nathaniel Life, and the score by Muriel Pollock. “KIBITZER,” by Jo Swerling and Edward G. Robinson, will and Jeanne Greene has the only feminine role. Maxine Elliott’s on Monday. Fowler are the leading players. “FIGHT,” by Susan Meiriweather and Victor Victor, will be pre- sented at the Longacre Theatre, Monday night, Miriam Hopkins, Eleanor Woodruff, Ernest Glendinning and Donald Dilloway are the chief players. Grove Street Theatre Wednesday night by the New Play- This is the second production of their current ship, first at the Post Office where all mail to Negroes is carefully watched, and again at the hands of the faculty. At Storer College and Tougaloo College the faculties re- serve the right to dispose of ob- jectionable “mail” “in any way de- sirable.” At A. and T. College, Greensboro, There are 200 brothels in Los An- geles alone. As these places are said to be overcrowded, numerous girls—all victims of a rotten social system—are captured and sent to other parts of the state, or even into dance halls and booze-joints in lower California, and Mexico, —L, P. RINDAL. BEATEN FOR TEN CENTS, Manager Calls Thugs to Attack Boy} (By a Worker Correspondent) Albert Nahnias, 17 years old, of after being accused of stealing a ten-cent ring from a counter in the Woolworth store at 118th St. and Fifth Ave. The boy, accompanied by his mother and a friend, Abe El- lis, had previously purchased two of these rings. When one of the store spies ac- cused Nahnias of stealing the ring, he offered to allow himself to be searched. But the store manager, J. C. Smith, immediately attacked him, When he put up his hands to offer resistance, the manager called several floor-walkers and thugs to his essistance, who viciously beat him up and manhandled his mother. Bleeding from the mouth and nose, the boy asked a soldier rresent to summon a policeman, and asked that both the manager and he be arrested and allowed to tes- tify in court. The policeman re- }fused to permit this, suggesting that ‘disturbance,” | 75 E. 111th St. was badly beaten up| When the young soldier was asked | Shubert revue will have its Mr. Robinson heads the cast J. Perlman, will be offered at Frank McGlynn and Mary Passos, will be offered at the they Fush up the 1o testify in the boy’s behalf, he re- fused, saying he was afraid the news weuld reach official headquar- ters and action be taken against jim. Pi J. C, Smith, the-manager of this store, is notorious in the neighbor- hood as a thug and roughneck. Fre- quently in the past he has been ac- cused of manhandling women in the atore and mistreating both the em- ployes and children who come in to make purchases. Halt Worker Fishers to Aid the Wealthy NEENAH, Wis. (By Mail).—Six motorbeat patrols will be assigned by the state next summer to halt fishing on Lake Winnebago by fish- ermen who depend on fishing there for their livings. The state is act- ing at the request of wealthy. pri- vate fishermen. Not only hi forged the weapo: orate te itnelf; it t te Dance Admission 75¢, Office Workers THURSDAY EVE., FEB, 21 at NEW WEBSTER MANOR | posed equally of employers and | union bureaucrats, | | “PROSPERITY” } | ST. LOUIS (By Mail).—The cold- | est night of the winter recently | brought 735 jobless workers to the | |St. Louis free municipal lodging- ‘house seeking shelter. A worker) aged 92 hobbled in on @ cane, say-| ing he was without home or work. } UNION Ds sz >< eZDPaA DAA UD TVVVVVVVVVTVCVCVVCC GS GIVEN BY THE Union on 8 PLM, wm 125 EAST 11TH STRERT —DORSHA DANCERS —MARGARET LARKEN in “COWBOY SONGS" Harlem Jazz Band “KRASSIN” The Epic of Proletarian Heroism! E H OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH FOUGHT AGAINST TREMENDOUS ODDS AND RESCUED THE NOBILE CREW Introductory Speech by the noted explorer Vilhjalmur Stefannsen CARNEGIE HALL, Tomorrew (Tues,) Night at 8:30 Tickets: 50¢ to $2.00 at Box Office @{ DAILY WORKER qj BENEFIT PERFORMANCES Tuurs., Far, Sat., Eve. 8:30 p, M. FEBRUARY 21st, 22nd & 23rd te, de te te te he te hy be he te tr te tr NEW PLAYWRIGHTS THEATRE —a dynamic vivid drama of the machine age AIRWAYS hac. 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