The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1929, Page 4

Four DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, Jodbcssaiicsuals 26, 1929 oases Co. Guilty of “Murder, Roasting Worker to Death, Correspondent Says Union en Fired tivities for ee workers in the warehouse the million were disch: sr union act « the lead in to demand . The wi Hunters P. int paid the Bloomingdale engine | ONE UNION FOR BUILDING SERVICE AND POWER WORKERS IS NEEDED || Ay oFF FOR hospitals or power hop is prevalent, with conditions worse than in any other ij While other w for the 5-day, 40-hour sands of maintenance workers ha to work 7 days a week and 12 hours a day. Three Jobs For One Man. A worker in a loft build runs an elevator for passengers and freight combined, has a boiler to tend to. He has to be on the job ne hour before anybody enters the building, in order to get up steam and have the pulang warm before plants the open (By a Worker Correspondent) _The bosses throughout the city e@ engineer- becoming more The men working in this industry all unorganized. In loft, i, factories, launderies, the tenants arrive, and has to bank | days a week. his fires and close up the place after | ybody has left, besides running or all day. The wages for average from Some hotels pay by the month, others by the week. The high-speed elevator operators in office buildings have wages rang- ing from $22 to $27 per week, but in smail office buildings they pay $15 to $18 per week. Th apartment house workers are worse off yet. Their wages are very low. They depend on tips, eat the food left over by the tenants, make use of old shoes and clothes and collect bottles, paper and junk to sell. These workers quit their jobs quite often, because of unbear- lable conditions. launderies the engineers en work from 70 to 80) week, with wages for engi- neers from $40 to $50 and firemen from $30 to $35 per week. 84-Hour Week. In the hotels, wages and conditions They cannot be accurately es- mated, as the small hotels work ‘their men 12 hours a day and 7 In the | One could go on reciting limited. A. FP. of L. Fakers Ignore Them. The American Federation of La- | bor fakers have done and will do nothing to or ize these terribly exploited workers to improve their | conditions and wages. The Amal- gamated Power Plant and Building |Service Workers Union is carrying on a campaign to organize all work- | ers in the production and application of light, heat, power and service to buildings, apartments, hotels and factories. All engineers, superin- | case | | tendents. firemen, oilers, handymen, after case, but time and space is | elevator operators, mechanics and {all other building service and power | | plant workers must be organized ins | WORKERS IN to one union in order to force de- cent standards, from the bosses. Meetings of the City. able conditions in our trade. wages and hours Amalgamated | Power Plant and Building Service Workers Union are held every Wed- nesday, at 8 p. m, at the Labor Temple, 248 E. 84th St, New York | All workers are invited to at-| tend the meetings of our union and | join in order to abolish the unbear- POTTSTOWN, PA |Replaece McClintic Co. Men With Women | (By a Worker Correspondent) | PCTTSTOWN, Pa (By Mail).— | Workers at the Spicer Manufactur. The New “Progressives” a Aumapican Federation of Labor Tie UP PLANT IN it expression _ FIGHT ON SLASH By EARL BROWDER. The “new progressives” have set themselves to convince the workers finds its first expression in strug- gle against this union officialdom and its treachery.” in the retreat to the protecting arms of the m rs, the capitalist em- ployers. that it is possible to find a middle course between the reaction of the A. F. of L. leadership on the one hand, and the revolutionary union- ism of the left wing on the other Their position is not inaptly by their own principal spokesman, A. J. Muste, as “an un- comfortable seat in the middle of the fence, spending most of their time perhaps in protesting to the Communists that they were not A. F. of Lers and to the A. F. of L. that they were not Communists.” This seat on the middle of the fence is, however, only a verbal position, designed to deceive the masses. Ac- tually in every struggle they have been, and will continue to be, on | the side of the A. F, of L. bureau- | crats, on the side of class collabora- tion, which means on the side of the capitalist class. They will continue in the future, as they have in the past, to fight against the left wing to the last ditch. (“We fought them to the last ditch,” boasts James Oneal, in New Leader, Feb. 2, while pleading for a little, just a very little, tolerance for his group from Woll, Green & Co.) The words we addressed in 1924 to the workers of America regard- ing these “middle of the road pro- ives,” as they like to call them- hold true today with added At that time we said: “Struggle between the official oligarchy at the head of the A. F. of L. and the militant section of the membership is becoming more bitter, not because anyone has decreed that it be so, but be- the same the store ere getting ae sland City, I must that happened last millionaire Joseph n in the warehouse sted to death fell into the erator was in Both of the arches nd Taylor fell into the roasted to death, due last e ce ire and for I had pointed out to the chies engineer a k before that the in’ this condition. A vhile before this one of the | |. When I was cn it, epped off jus ep been b old the engineer of the con- he told me to fix it a little, for the company | a new arch i g a makeshift | When It dition, € i of me le the goat ad | sent to jail, for I} neer. The chief | a handyman tie up the } h, ane the ult was that | an, Taylor, was burnt to | later. Thus, I say,the| cause the struggle between the loomingdale company is guilty of | Working class and the capitalist class is becoming more intense. The inner-union struggle is a primary fact in the class strug- gle, because the workers find it | impossible to attack the employing class while the union bureaucracy stands in the way. Because the official oligarchy protects capi- talism against the workers, there- fore the class struggle inevitably thing to remember. | xe of this accident appeared | ‘n any of the capitalist papers, for | . The B toomingdals com- | es thousands of dollars in| capitali to h Today we must add to that infor- mation, that struggle against the re- actionary A. F. of L. leadership ‘and social-reformist policy, re- quires an equally determined strug- gle against the illusions of the fake progressives with their semi-left, semi-socialist phrases and their treacherous activities. We must add, that the working class must break sharply with all the old theories of “trade union legality” which called for surrender to the old officials whenever the struggle became acute, in order to prevent the officials from splitting the union. Today the workers must be prepared for the actual organization of revolu-~ tionary trade unions separate from and fighting against the class-col-| laborationist, social-reformist A. F. of L., organizationally and_politi- cally. More than four years ago we said: “The superficial observer of events in the labor movement judges that the labors movement is becoming more and more reac- tionary, that the masses are being brought under the control of capi- talism more and more completely than ever before. Such a judg- ment is mistaken indeed, for the very opposite is true, The basic reason for this concerted swing to the right of the officialdom, for this studied and systematic co-operation with all the varying forces and institutions of capital- ism, is the fact that the masses are swinging to the left, are being disillusioned, are becoming radi- calized. The reactionary official- dom cannot go along with the broad, sweeping radicalization of the masses, without making a clean break with their peaceful past. They are either corrupt agents of capitalism, or are timid bureaucrats seeking nothing but a peaceful office life with a secure salary. In either case, their re- action toward the seething rank and file unrest is one of fear, and “Let the rank and file workers make no mistake about this— there is no middle of the road course between the demoralizing, disruptive, disastrous policies of collaboration with the capitalist class, on the one hand, and the path of revolutionary class strug- gle on the other. “Our movement has had exper- ience with the timid progressives, who, in words, are loudly against the reactionary leaders, but who, when a decisive moment arrives, turn and run.”—Or, as we now | know, turn and join the bureau- eracy and fight against the left wing. + “In reality such pro- | gressives are camouflaged follow- ers and servants of the most reac- tionary officialdom. Progress to- wards greater power for the working class can never come from such people. But their role is the inevitable one for all who | seek a half-way course. The issue is between the revolutionary class struggle or reactionary class- collaboration. Every worker must make his choice.” We understand more fully today than four years ago, the treacher- ous role of the “progressives,” as the bearers of social-reformism even | into the ranks of the left wing work- | ers themselves. We will no longer waste our energies and time in dis- astrous attempts to work with these fake progressives. We will never again become involved in such treacheries as the ending of the Pas- saic strike, where we (shameful page in our own history) made use | of the “progressives” to lead the new union into the A. F. of L., there | | to be cut to pieces and destroyed. | We will never again put forward |such a “progressive” as Brophy as leader for the tens of thousands of revolutionary miners, who have nothing but contempt for such spine- | less quitters. We are entering upon | a new course, blazed out by the creative energies of the working | masses who jolted the organized left wing sharply when it itself hesi- | Lack Union, So Fall Prey to Bosses (By a Worker Correspondent) DETROIT (By Mail).—Workers | all over three departments et the Bee plant struck work Tuesday, | Jan, 8, when they found that their wages had been cut, unknown to There were a few fascists present at the opening showings of “Kras- |sin” at the New Film Guild Theatre ‘on West Eighth St., but they were a meek lot, and no looked-for |citement occurred. “Krassin,” the feature of the pro- gram, was reviewed in the Daily Worker following its preliminary \cxhibition at Carnegie Hall Wednes- | jday night. This film record is of the greatest Arctic deed yet accom- {plished, and acecmplished by work- | tors from the first Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic. It depicts the | expedition from beginning to end 50 | ex- jof the Chrysler Corporation, which \they went back to work the matter | them. Trimmers in Dept. 68 quit work for two hours in the morning, | e the sanders struck in the aft- ernoon. The girls went home as a result of the ruthless wage cutting intimately that any worker forgets | that he is on West Eighth St., and lis carried with the gallant Krassin ,crew on the trip to the Arctic. The {film duc to its rough and ready character, is of course not nearly so great a technical achievement as “St. Petersburg” and “Potemkin.” The footage of the film has been owns Dodge. The trimmers were | {promised by Boss Carter that if| ld he They it cues ae tierra gee “quit /eut so much that the whole thing again Thursday morning, in order jlasts little more than an hour. You to make sure that their demands | Have Me ie lai perigee would be complied with. The work- |STe2) deal in certain spots, but it's ers in these departments are work- | t hard to imagine what ing pect ing for they don’t know what. \left out. Enough is shown to’ warm ey e {the cockles of any worker’s heart in About three weeks previously a | pride for the courage shown by these vague notice had been given that | |sons cf the Soviet Union. pay would be based on day rates and | | The Teak of the werbailn te’ made bonuses. No mention of either what | ey amity were the day rates or the percentage | UP of a color picturization of the of the bonus was made. One trim-|_44ventures of Baron Munchausen,” “A Day With Tolstoy” and a resusci- Weity ht, Workpe ob outs in| sated Charlie Chaplin one-reeler, “Sunnyside.” The animated color picture of cents an hour, was given $19 for | Munchausen’s adventures is amus- 52%4 hours’ work, or 36 cents an jing. hour. In a “Day With Tolstoy” we are These are not exceptional cases, |allowed a few glimpses of the home but are typical of what the workers life of the old gent. The well- on these body lines get for their two |dressed Tolstoy and his wife with weeks’ work. \the up-tilted nose offer a great con- On Thursday morning the trim- |trast to the ragged peasants around mers again tied up the line, this |“8snaya Polyaaa. We see the old me being actively assisted by over |™2” graciously distributing largesse 300 workers on various other jobs. ito the peasants, starving under The workers presented a united sets “ipa |front all along the line and when Sunnyside | Superintendent McKee came down he faced a united group, all of whom had downed tools at the word of strike. He was furious and strode up and down, threatening the whole | mer, the whole two weeks, got $29 for his patti, or 55. — an hour; a trucker, is one of the original piloaatogan ale company, whose departient s for union activities. Vaudeville Theatres PALACE. The Duncan Sisters, James Bar- ton, Rudy Valle, Watson Jr., Creole Belle Horses. and Christianson’s HIPPODROME. Fannie Ward, Noree and Com- gany, Walter “Dare” Wahl, with Emmett Oldfield; Glenn and Jen- lins, Philson and Duncan, and fea- | ture photoplay, “Captain Lash,” | tarring Victor McLaglen. RIVERSIDE. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday andj Wednesday, “Interference,” starring | Evelyn Brent, Doris Kenyon, Clive | Brook and William Powell. On the vaudeville program: Flora Le-| Bretcn, Joseph E. Howard; Willie, West and McGinty. Thursday, Friday and Saturday--— Ann Greeenway and the Leavitt and | Big | “Bill” Blomberg’s Alaskans, Weston | and Lyons, Danny Small and “The | Report $300,000,000 ‘Socialists’ Would Save Seu of 3 Farm _ Austrian Fascists from Implement Companies Workers TheyAttacked SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 25 we.| Bieta Mail).—The = |citement and indignation amongs' | —The Spa eal alg | the workers in industrial lower day said a merger of three large! austria at the fascist attack upon ‘farm implement companies has!the Workers Home in Glognitz is been completed. | still high. In the Hart mine near The companies named are the| Glowitz the workers have gone on Oliver Chilled Plow Co., of South| strike in order to force the owners Bend, the Nichols Shepard Co., of to dismiss a number of fascist em- Battle Creek, Mich., and the Hart-|ployees who are known to have Parr Company of Charles City, |taken part in the attack on the Towa, the paper said. workers, The new concern, according to the! The social-democratic leaders are |News Times, would have resources |doing their best to calm down the | of $300,000,000 or more, making it| workers. In the industrial districts |a rival of the International Har-|a number of conferences are taking vester Co. place and being addressed by Karl Renner as the representative’ of the | Jugoslav Dictator to | Central Committét™of the Austrian 'Try to Win Croat Chief, | Social Democratic Party. Renner is pleading for discipline and sub- | VIENNA, Feb. 25.—King Alex- | ander, who has set up a dictator- Communist Slogans, \ship in Jugoslavia with the support) The fascist press abuses the so- lof the French and British im- cial-democracy and declares that it perialists, will soon proceed to Za-| will taste more of the same medicine greb, Croatian capital, for a lengthy |i in the near future. The Communist Party of Austria ‘stay, it was reported here. } It is believed that the royal dic-| has appealed for demonstrations in Central Committee. tator will attempt to offer the lead-| Vienna and in the industrial dis-| ers of the Croatian Peasant Party tricts of Lower Austria, and de-, | ordination to the instructions of the |department with firing. Finally he shouted: “Every man here who isn’t satisfied can get his time and go tated—the course of independent struggle, independent leadership, in- dependent organization, inside and A ‘ h . Ev s acl outside of the existing trade unions, work? tt it Ah ag Fi die for the buildi f | Belpre, | A eee sonnet nae ey The workers hesitated and the especially of the unskilled and semi- skilled in the basic industries, for | line moved—they took up their tools | nd went back to slavery. Any the creation of a new national cen-| ter for revolutionary trade union-| ism, and a_ relentless against all forms of class-collabora- for work thinks twice about leaving tion, of social-reformism, of surren-|% job which is giving him just der to the capitalist class, The |enough to starve on, The workers working class is entering upon a/|Were set back temporarily, but they new period of sharp mass struggles, |have gone back with resentment at It must arm itself with new and|the glutinous corporation which is | modern weapons, in policies, leadership, and in’ organization. in} Wallowing in profits while they starve. The time for union is ready. Strike! If the workers had been or- | The last inatallinent of this ar-| ganized ‘nto a strong auto workers ticle by Earl Browder, to be printed | union they would have remained | in tomorrow's issue, will take up the|united in this strike and have won struggle for revolutionary leader-| it by sticking to the end behind mili- ship, and the perspectives for the | tant leadership. A fighting union future. is the auto workers’ need. March 2nd RECITAL OF MUSIC LEON THEREMIN RUSSIAN SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR Ether-Wave Music Instruments CARNEGIE HALL SATURDAY at 8:30 worker who redds about | struggle |£2,000 workers at Ford’s begging | | | aAmnnr= Sm Zz CARNIVAL DODGE STRIKERS (Great Film of Nobile Rescue by “Krassin” at Film Guild MAYO METHOT ton Theatre. not warrant revival. same era. just the same. lutionary class.—Karl munist Manifesto). Marx Featured player of Fulton Ours- ler’s comedy, “All the King’s Men,” now in its fourth week at the Ful- Charlie Chaplin pictures which does | It is no better | than a Mack Sennet comedy of the But you have to laugh, Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today the proletariat alone is a really revo-|chism, is characteristic (Com- | talist countries—V. I. Len! > jing Company and McClintic-Mar. shall plants in Potstown were showr what Hoover “prosperity” means fo: the workers when conditions wert lowered by these firms. At the former plant half of the jmen engaged in the manufacture o1 universal joints and automobik jparts have been laid off and thei) | places taken by women. At th: | McClintic-Marshall structural {ror works extra pay and a supper al lowance when the workers ar forced to slave overtime have beer abolished. Some of the women who have beer hired at the Spicer plant are th: wives of the men who were laid off for they had to go to work wher their husbands were jobless a long time. When McClintic-Marshall discon. tinued the supper allowance of 7 |cents an hour and $1.25 night bonu: for overtime, which was poor eriougt pay for overtime, the men struck The bosses then fired 200 men |many of them having worked there for years and years. A number oj | these discharged men were later re- |hired at reduced wages. The wages were reduced from 80 cents an how to 30 and 35 cents an hour, less thar half of the pay than before the wage cut. The treasurer of this MeClintic- | Marshall Co. is Henry Mellon, re- |publican leader and of the Andy | Mellon family. J. A.D. The pettt-bourgeots, “gone mad’ |from the horrors of capitaliam, ix ; |xocial phenomenon which, CLetv Communism ). Actual! a Direction SYMON GOULD Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE O'NEILL'S MARTIN BECK THEA. Mats., Thurs, & Sat. 2:4 SIl-VARA’S COMEDY The Undying Example of Proletarian Heroism! THE SENSATIONAL POLAR DRAMA WHICH SHOOK THE WORLD ! A Sovkino Production—An Amkino Release THE OFFICIAL MOTION PICTURE OF THE SOVIET EXPEDITION WHICH SAVED THE NOBILE CREW —and on the same program — “A DAY WITH TOLSTOY” AN ACTUAL FILM RECORD OF THE GREAT RUSSIAN ilmguildcinema 52 W. RIGHTH ST. (bet. Sth & 6th Aves.) Continuous Performances. Popular Prices. , Daily (incl. Sat, & Sun.) from 12 to 12. SPECIAL FOR WEEK DAYS: —PHONE: SPRING 5095 DY NAMO 45th W. of 8th Ave, Evs. is au Now Playing! Authentic! 12 to 2 p. m...35¢ 2 to 6 p. m...50c “BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES” Actually Photogra on the Battlefields Seockwood Unit; feature photoplay,|some inducement for their full-| pads ah the workers ie to it that | rele ld ms Me sebaalchity rs Et eaaieey ie NEXT FRIDAY C APR I C E Lofaehtteaearborein doco theatre “Marked Money,” starring Junior | hearted allegiance to the dictator-|in the future every public meeting Pp A 5 SKY, “oghlan. Iship, |and demonstration of the fascists 1s (J CN PROGRAM: CHOPIN, PROKOFIEFF. RAVEL, ETC. March First at GUILD hea, pena ae ARTHUR HOPKINS a {broken up as has been done on a) Webster Hall, 119 E. 11 St. ea Sensational Attraction! 160 The music is produced solely by delicate and aunts bygone of Mats. We Wed., nurs rd. Thurs., Sat., 2:40 2:40 hands and fingers in the air without contact with the {i SEATS NOW ON SALE PRICES: $2.50, “ya 00, $1, 50 vn 00, 75¢ number of occasions in Vienna by | the workers under the leadership | HoripaY Chicago Censors Forbid Film of Heroic Miners’ Struggle CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Chicago may i0t see the feature picture, produced y the Workers’ International Re- ief, showing the heroi¢ struggle of he Pennsylvania and Ohio miners. The censorship board considers that | he picture is “prejudicial to a class | of citizens, setting them open to} ‘corn and ridicule; incites to riot, selling the audience to *~-ak the _” aws of our cou~’ +. of the Communist Party. The “Rote Fahne” Flag, trian Communist Party) publishes (The them to participate in this manner, |giving vent to their prejudices and |hete.” Policemen, coal and iron police are mez-ly carrying out their sworn duties when they beat up, trample (upon and kill striking workers, That | they do this is “pitiful” according to the censcrs, but the workers of Chi- |cago must not know it or see it. |The district W. I. R. secretary ex-'| plained that these were true happen- Mass action by the workers in the industrial districts, strikes, demon- strations in the factories, the for- mation of anti-fascist defence com- mittees, and the arming of the workers, TRAIN DISPATCHERS WIN IN- CREASE, TORONTO, (By Mail),—Organ- “Red | ” the official organ of the Aus-| DEMATERIALIZED MUSIC NEW TONAL AND ARTISTIC POSSIBILITIES ARTHUR JUDSON, Concert Management. the following slogans for the work- | ers in the struggle against fascism: | To All Labor and Fraternal Organizations, Workers Party Sections and Affiliated Organizations! SCHEDULE A PERFORMANCE AT ONCE OF— Airways, Inc. JOHN DOS PASSOS PLAY OF A GREAT MILL STRIKE The whole scene showing the sroup of miners’ children waylaying 1 scab and beating him up with fists, ings to which censors replied, “Yes, yes, it is awful, but you know we| “od teain dispatchers on the Cana- dian National Railways have won an increase of $12.50 a month on Make $240 for the Daily Opened Feb. 20 at the Grove St. Theatre Worker and the Needle THE SAVOY WILD CATS THE PRIDE OF LENOX AV. GEORGE GANOWAY and BERTHA ee in a dance selec porated Feet" GEORGE SNOWDEN and PAULINE MORSE in their interpretation of the HARLEM STOMP VERNON ANDRADE Renaissance Orchestra Dancing till 3 a. m. GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY In advance 505 at the door New Mi d— Al, 4445)5 Bookshop, 23 ae 7 By Robert Nichol Maurice Browne EUGENE O'NEILL'S Jonn GOLDEN. eetat Wings Over Europe Over Europe Strange Interlude Comedy Hit by PHILIP BARRY PLYMOUTH Thea, W, 45 St. By, 8.5 Mats. Thurs, & Sat, 2.3! Chanin’s: MAJESTIC Theatré 44th tat hala wi qregetye' ves, Mat: Wed. & Sat” 2:3 Pleasure Bound American Symphonic Ensemble || Conductorless Symphony Book Store, cannot afford to show the officers Negro Champion, 3 ‘too Wz 1 of the l>~ in this light.” The local Werkers’ I..: :rnational Relief intends to fight for the right of workers to see this picture of their struggles despite the efforts Trades Strikers. Call Paxton or Napoll at WATKINS 0588 for Arrangements, sticks and stones is taboo. Such vonduct on the part of American hildren is scandalous, says the cen- ors. “They are committing a law- oss deed, that ‘worker’ (sic) had a _ erfect right to work and the chil- Orchestra Carn 4 Hall, Thurs, Eve., » 28th, at rane ist certo Grosse in F Violin certo lines east, and $10 a month on lines west, bringing the wages to $257.50 and $260 a month respectively, SHOEMAKERS STRIKE. No nooner tm the explottntio: the Inborer by the manufacturer, no far at an end, that e clans wat ‘workers ‘awakening’ to “class consctousnena.” ——MIKE GOLD. keeper, the pawnbroker, ete-—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). to work and th MARLBORO, Mass., (By Mail).— epaic be Gio tapekuarrisas Gre ee | Wanna ree Melsterninger ven should be punished for beating | of the censorship board to shield the| The 20 shoemakers of the Madison Sven OF ‘ulin odbgaaet aga ery ‘ana 924.00 » faithful workers and the parents |brutality of the ruling class and its|Shoe Co, here have gone on strike New Playwrights Theatre, 133 W. 14th St., New York City pottorisd. eet iradieashareehe aii eee Mrickets $1500" 0 ‘to $2.50 agents. for higher wages, Mgt. Beckhard & Macfarlane, Ing, OED