The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1929 “Rush for Jobs on Construction of California Dam, Says Correspondent FAKE FARMERS ae President Pictures of Soviet Union 10th MILITANT METAL UNION NOT FOR THE SOIL TILLER LABOR BETRAYER 'Stir Up Racial Hatred; | : Use Religious Dope | in Cleveland ~ NEGROES The Soviets Capture the Winter Palace FROM ENTIRE U, S, Speedup, Slave Condi- tions GWINETH GORDON THOSE who had no opportunity to| visit the Soviet Union during the} 10th anniversary celebration and those who did and desire to renew acquaintances, will have an_oppor- tunity of viewing the first workers’ government in the 10 reel motion pic- ture “A Visit to Soviet Russia”, to be shown here shortly under the auspices of the Provisional Com- mittee of the Friends of the U. S. S. R., it was announced yesterday. The motion picture was taken in the Soviet Union by nine operators during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the October revolu- tion and has been shown in many, countries outside of the Soviet Promised | | (By a Farmer Correspondent.) With the poor farmers groaning | under a veritable avalanche of tax- ation, mortgages, etc., the need for | organization becomes more evident | than ever. Many and varied are} the organizations and remedies sug-| sted, ranging from placing faith | in the supposedly progress Sen-! CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail). In connection with the organization drive of the Metal Trades Council of Cleveland, a mass meeting was held in the Moose Hall, on February 14, Present at this meeting was Brether O’Connell, president of the ; if Metai ‘frades D. rt) t of the A. | ators Norris, Frazier, Shipstead, | Union. The verdict has been that 7 el i st al ey 0 | Saene ir vkino film “Ten Days that Shook the ete, down to organizing in the| it is one of the most remarkable + of bh. iso a number o' | j f fil ys s | national organizers of all the Metal Trade Unions of the A. F. of L. The purpose of the meeting was’ films ever produced anywhere, at |any time. which fi ire was Farmers Union. In Minnesota, Upper Michigan and Wisconsin the Farmers Union seems to « four day run at the Cameo Theatre tonight, irected by Eisenstein. According to many film crities of Germany and France, it is | Gaston Doumergue, president of profit in the int cum’s pre “Cement Slaves Work Every be making headway. | Meetings are being held and good jmilitant farmers are being misled | France, Poincare manages parlia- | ment and the government for French imperialists and Dowmergue the best pictorial ever filmed, and there is no doubt that the American| audiences will receive it with as much} satisfaction. In “The mystery play at the Whispering Gallery Forty-N supposed to be to work out ways and means of organizing the metal trades workers of Cleveland, which. Bact | . linto joining: Lully catente |Street Theatre. by the way, means 120,000 men and ractor 4 : A ; > | i | ' Ged The picture opens with the arrival women. Porat | Day Through Entire Year)? 2th a tis tine to an’ the ary . a avait ters at Azu | y | slyze the constitution of this |note falls due? Does the “Supreme io Lae ea as coeeauon America Businessmen, bag rs ae ue pelies ares fs 3 oA Mele ESE EE ISD “ ‘ Nesters le hilar 3 : | 5 x F| out by the Cleveland Federation o OS ates No fived |.’ (Bua Worker Gorrespondant), 4 The Senbie Pane Ghostly Shed Se cee | Being” so laudably mentioned in the |and their tour through that city.| Aided by U. S., Force tito. thet th seu ua file of Anyhow, the 900 flood | ssufeud Bak gs Hee i Spee & are mone baat “To wecure unity, establish justice | constitution only want “the virtue/They are then shown visiting the 1 tq |the metal trades of ‘Cleveland are Sinol dam is ction| RE CITY, Calif. (By| ing every day in the year and has | ang apply the molt ate of a happy home for the white chil-| other sections of the Workers Re|the Hand of Colombia 5 cut iene eae near Azusa, Cailf |Mail).—I am writing about condi- | to work plenty of overtime, with no|""wr9 strive for hegemony and good |dven?” The only conclusion to be! publie including Mo the attain tiey toa paiary that 200 men are ,| tions in the cr t in which | overtime pay. The workers are dis- P| ig SCOW, putting up the nearly four | missed on the smallest pretexts, will amoag all mankind, and bro- therly love among ourselves. . . . |drawn from a study of the constitu- |tion of the Farmers Union is that | Ukraine, the Don Basin and Cau-| | affairs, they found it necessary that BOGOTA, Colombia, (By Mail).—| one of their own clique, a cigar will be in full swin The other a piece of shoe) w : AEN at) Shear: } “7 |Casia. In Moscow the workers rep-|The evening daily, “El Espectador”| maker, should be chairman and con- gl be ee if ta aamanteinabety tc. To garner the tears of the fie oy Agee at oe the Dig | resentatives view and participate | says today that the North American | trol the meeting. ape hageee and he was instantly dismissed. He | T°SS¢ the blood of the martyrs, |farmers who do not desire a mili-/in the gigantic demonstration of | firm, Ulen and Company, has invited ull, those in d and had children to the laugh of innocent childhood, the |tant fighting, united farmers’ or- working class soldiarity, which | An Hour of Nothing. jother foreign corporations Tne achievements of the masses| {ind themselves in similar conditions | in layers from sweat of honest labor, and the vir- | anization which will concentrate its cavating part is a very dangerous | | ‘ ‘, | energi ructi ¥4 i in introducing the op. A cer chem- __|tue of a happy home as brightest | energies towards the destruction of A r I <, A | The chairman in int z job. list got the idea of analyzing these| Four dollars to $6 a day looks big | jewels Lnown, ete.” Be caniealiane of the Soviet Unjon are brought tojin their relation to the Colombian! principal speaker of the evening. J | got yzing j » ete. the screen in raphic fash: government in the matter of con- From every “coun- |shells and found that they contained | money to some undoubtedly but no | How many mortgaged farmers fe Fee P ee ee | Brother O’Connell, pointed out that |he would sound the key-note for the extensive campaign to be carried Until the poor farmers of the lieve an organization, included in| Middle West realize that they must whose constitution the above trash |separate themselves from the can be found, will ever lead a move-| wealthy farmers and unite with the ment for organization? Negro and farm laborers, ‘they will “Apply the golden rule!” The |never better their conditions. iry of prosperi hungry, foot-sor workers have desc booming co all armies of jo coming in ev undreds of tired, | Shout 95 and often ragged ed upon the all friends of the U. 8. S. R. can| view the progress being made, None of the scenes in the picture | are staged. They are actual hap-| penings in the day by day life of the tracts, to form a “defensive league” to compel the government to change its policy on the subject of contracts | 5 a in that it should not demand con-| aos ce ete : tracts be fulfilled by a certain time, How ever, after heating Brother and that the contracting firms be not | 0’Connell speaking for an hour or man can saye money if he is mar- ied and has children to - support. His rent alone is always at least $30 a month. The workers here are not organized while the bosses are well cent lime and other substances to make cement out of them. After that wa terested to build a facto ing of five raw mills The bours pared to take “good care” of the workers’ slim pay checks. Job Office Ciosed. “No more men are needed for a month and a half. Then we'll open up again,” the agent at Azusa said. This month the number of work- the shells to a shiny, stance. The raw mills are 30 feet long and about seven feet in diam- cter, The mills are filled with cast | steel balls from the size of a walnut to four inches in diameter. The mills are driven by electric motors of 700 horse-power each with a organized to keep their interests up and hold the workers down. | Sacking by means of the Bates packing machine is done mostly by Italians, There has never been a | Strike at this plant as the workers | seem to be thoroly cowed. pigeons are plentiful. The one great fear is to lose the job. Jobs are| ers will increase to about 500, and a month later to 800. Part of the time from 1,500 to 2,000 men may jmagnetic clutch. | The slurry, as the stuff is called when leaving the mills, runs like very scarce and a job is a man’s life here, not to get rich with, kut t mortgage holders sucking the blood of the farmers. will be interested in applying this rule. “Harmony and good will!” The big bankers whole-heartedly sub- seribe to this sentiment on the un- Stool- |derstanding, of course, that you | ieet the note on time. Now let us pend a few minutes on the mem- ership clause of the constitution: Section 1 says: “Any white per- thick soup and is pumped by rotary exist. In this city of 8000 at the last son or indian may be admitted to be used. proke |PUMPS into large cement tanks Many workers are flat broke |caned slurry tanks, which are 45 ee perc seeeh the aepeess |ieet high and 20 feet in diameter. “ape eae ne nee ee ceeeema |. Theré are 18 of these mn all, Five hile hobocs,” as they call them. |!8"ge 225 horse-power Sullivan air selves, ere bringing their families pean ef isa rata which I eyes occa- with then. The suffering is great |%ionally, are furnishing the com- among those with empty stomachs, | Pressed oir to stir the slurry in the or nearly so, who are forced to | big tanks. All slurry tanks are spend these cold nights on the out- made of sonenebe, side. Temperatures below freezing| Before going any further I want were recorded at Pomona and even|to mention that the shells are in the Imperial Valley, the weather | dredged up by a large suction dredge bureau reported yesterday. The |Which pumps them into big barges. streets of Glendale (suburb of Los|These shell-loaded barges are then Angeles) were covered with hail,|towed by tugboats to the shell un- three inches thick, recently. Such |Joading dock. A six cubic yard | conditions means almost murder to | grab bucket is let down by means | natives of “sunkist” California and|of a crane, which travels upon a « ies” arts of the |crane railing 80 feet over the eee : |ground, 400 feet in length, and “The magnitude of the job,” Slo- |dumps the shells into large bins. cum said, “is its big features. | In the bottom of the bins are two We've got to place concrete about |feet in diameter drain screws turn- three times faster than it has been |ing, keeping the shells moving for- placed before.” |ward into large washing tanks, So speed-up are in sight for the The _clean shells then enter the workers—and plenty of risks to life |taw mills and are then pumped into and limbs, to say nothing about the special waste pans. The slurry is rotten deal injured workers can ex-|pumped into the kilns, which are pect from the State Industrial Acci- 268 feet long and have a half inch dent Commission, ruled over by the to a foot rise or incline, master class. This factory has four kilns and election not one Communist vote | was registered, tho several workers including my wife and I voted for Foster and Gitlow, but the vote: were thrown out and not recorded. REFUSE TO QUASH CHESWICK CASE |No New Trial Date Set, | LL.D. Defends Miners PITTSBURGH, March 4.—The \criminal court judges here continue |to carry out the policy of the mine} ‘owners, and have refused to quash | indictments for rioting, conspiring |to riot, and resisting an officer |which stand against 12 miners in \the Cheswick case, | The motion to quash was argued by International Labor Defense at- -\torney Henry Ellenbogen and re-| \jected. No new trial date has as lyet been fixed. Judge Drew made ja certain concession, verbally, by membership if he . . . believes in a |Supreme Being.” Section 3 says: |“Negroes or persons of African de- cent shall not be admitted... .” The point about the “Supreme Be- ing” is probably a relic of the times when farmers believed that storms, drought, bad crops etc,, were an expression of the wrath of God. No sane farmer takes that viewpoint nowadays, All know that the enemy |of the farmers is the banker, mort- |gage owner and implement trusts, ike the International Harvester Co., jand, last, but not least, the grain speculators. The most implicit faith in the “Supreme Being” will not |tend to curb the exploitation which lis crushing the farmer today. Negroes and Whites Must Unite. The second point, dealing with the xclusion of Negroes, is surely the |height of Ku Klux Klanism and a |powerful factor for disorganization |rather than organization. Do those responsible for the constitution de- sire a substitution of a racial war for the class war? Do the mort- |gege holders differentiate between |the races on collection day when the The agrarian section of the south | has a tremendous economic influence on the entire farming industry. Whether one likes it or not, our |Negro brothers constitute fully 50 |per cent of the agrarian population. No organization plan can neglect |this point. Whilst pointing out the |cconomic aspect of the Negro prob- \lem one must never forget that \there are no differnces between the jvaces, Until the slogan “full free- jdom and social and political equal- \ity for the Negroes” takes on flesh and bloood and becomes a reality, progress will be slow. |. The United Farmers Educational | league is the only organization that will lead the fight for a bettering of farming conditions. Militant farmers must not be fooled by the |Farmers Union. Wherever an or- |zanization sentiment exists it should |he directed into the channel of the United Farmers Educational League. Farmers must fight capitalism, abandon futile efforts of getting re- lief through capitalist parties or reforin organizations and must build their own class movement. Join the Vnited Farmers Educational League! Subscribe to the United Farmer, CHILDS BOASTS VICTORY In a statement Saturday night William Childs, chairman of the |board of the Childs Company, said he had proxies from 53 per cent of the stockholders for the stockhold- ers’ meeting, March 7. workers and peasants living in the} Soviet Union. The audience ac-| jcompanies the delegations in their |visits to the factories, the farms! jand then the monster celebration of jthe tenth anniversary. It is a pic- |ture that will leave a vivid impres- sion in the minds of all who see it The newspaper states that the Ulen Company has been promised the support of the United States | | minister, and that the company is| now seeking to obtain a similar} promise from the British minister. required to give exact estimate of |More, the rank and file of Cleveland costs. realized that Brother O’Connell had nothing to offer but the same old- time methods of organization, especi- ally the no-strike policy, negotiation, house to house campaigns by union members, etc, During his speech he also pointed out that the industry in the United States just like it did to ‘thousands in Germany, France and ‘other countries, SOVIET SNOW TRACTORS. | United Farmers Educational League | The date of its showing will be announced in several days, | |ANOTHER EDGAR WAL- | LACE PLAYON WAY | E, E. Clive, producer of “The | Whispering Gallery,” the mystery | |play at the Forty-Ninth Street The- | atre, has acquired another Edgar) Wallace play for American produc- tion. It is “The Man Who Changed |His Name,” which ran eight months jin London. Mr. Clive recently an- |nounced that he would produce “The | Ringer,” by the same author. Both plays will be presented first at the Copley Theatre, Boston, before show- ing on Broadway. FOX BUYS OUT LOEW’S Fox Theatres have bought a con- trolling interest in Loew’s, Inc., thus tivengthening a rapidly growing | moving picture house trust which | aspires to monopoly, it was re- ported here today. William Fox, of | the Fox Company, admitted today | securing “a substantial portion” of | the Loew Circuit by direct purchase | from Marcus Loew, Slocum said that a number of men applying for the skilled jobs have worked for him before, therefore newcomers need not apply. Color Line Drawn. The W. L. Anderson Boarding and Supply Company has secured the feeding contract, from the super- visors of Los Angeles county. The men are paying $1.36 ia day for produces 6,500 barrels, 4 sacks to la barrel. The kilns are fired with jcrude oil and air. jfrom the kiln into 100-foot long coolers and from there into the fin- jishing mills, where it is ground into cement, and then, by means of a jlarge belt, is carried into storage |tanks, also made of concrete, hold- ing $00,000 barrels, which is their The clinkers drop | stating from the bench that the| cases should be nolle prosed “unless | la very vital public interest is in-| volved.” But for the coal mine own-| ers the attempt to intimidate the| miners is a “very vital public in-| terest” of theirs, The Cheswick case is one of the} worst frame-ups. On the day befgre | READ LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R., (By Mail) at present engaged in the production | tantly i lof a new Fel e tractor especially | throwing thousands of men into the designed for use on ice or snow. Al-|?anks of the unemployed. ready 15 of these tractors have been | |has undergone radical changes since | the war, new methods; rationaliza- | tion, the trustification of industry, made more difficult the task of or- ~The tractor division of the Krasny | £4nizing industry. He also pointed Putilovetz factory in Leningrad is }0ut how new machinery was con- replacing workers and On the whole the A. F. of L. of- co.apleted and shipped to the timber | ficials were not too pleased with the regions. general results of this meeting. r Keith-Albee AME 42nd Street an TWO SOVKIN O d Broadway O FILM. CLASSICS MONDAY 4 TUESDAY | TODAY ] 1 THE FILM EPIC OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Directed by EISENSTEIN Czar Ivan the Terrible WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY with LEONIDOFF of A POWERFUL DAYS THAT SHOOK RE-CREATION OF MAD MONARCH AND HIS THE WORLD Moscow Art Theatre THE TIMES poard. “No worker of color need |total storage capacity. apply for jobs in the kitchen de-| steamboats, barges and freight partment,” the contract stated in ef- | cars take the finished cement away. fect. L. P. R. |Byerything is electrified. Cement jis made at a cost of a dollar a ton Origins Act to Go Into 24 sold for $12 to $13 a ton. . | About 200 men are employed, Effect Soon; Is Aimed ; Wages range from $4 to $6 a day. at European Workers Zhe, operating staff has never a the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti | a mass meeting of thousands of | miners was being held in a field at! Cheswick, Pa, Pennsylvania state | police broke it up by brutally riding | down and clubbing the women and/| children of miners’ families, and | hurling tear gas bombs and shoot- ing. During the reckless shooting, somebody unknown killed a state trooper, | _ WASHINGTON, March 4.—Altho) the House of Representatives last ‘week voted for one week’s postpone- | ment of the national origins act, the| Senate failed to pass the same bill) at its last session today, and as mat-| ters stand, the origins act goes into, e, It will cut the immigration m Germany and Latin and Slavic) ations about half, and permit more, International AnnualBazaar Labor Defense NEW SERIAL VvvVvvrVvVvYV “BILL HAYWOOD’S Theatre Guild Productions EUGENE 0’NEILL’'S DYNAMO -MARTIN BECK THEA. 45th W, of 8th Ave. Evs. 8:50 Mats, Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 SIL-VARA’S COMEDY CAPRICE Bs Thea, W. buna st. 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