The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 4

Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1929 GRAND PAY OF 1745 WEEKLY FOR SLAVERY Nearly All in Depart- ment Strike (By a Worker Correspondent) EAST HAMPTON, Mass., (By Mail).—The workers in the West Boylston mill, which at present em- ploys 1,700 ‘hands, sensed that no good would come out of the watch- ing and figuring that the so-called “efficiency” men were doing recent~ ly. The result of this figuring was shown in No. 8 weave room, where vation”) Hoover, and swearing knowing wink to Herbert. The Wall Street’s Latest President Doin Supreme Court Justice Taft wearing the official skull cap, handing the bible to Herbert (“Star- the forces of American imperialism. g the Preliminary Swearing ee the blood thirsty Quaker into the task of being field commander of Taft was once a president himself, and seems to be giving a photo was sent by telephone. — COAST ARE FOR | A first-hand account of how t COMMUNISTS survivors of the ill-fated “Ita | y were rescued in the Arctic wastes by the heroic crew of the Soviet T.W.W. Slanders Result | in Failure he licebreaker “The Krassin” is related by V. Valentinov, correspondent for | the Leningrad Pravda, who was the} official correspondent on board the | rescue ship when she picked up the ‘By a Worker Correspondent) | lost battalions early last July. SEATTLE, Wash. (By Mail).—| The following are excerpts from Reing that I was a member of the | letters written by Valentinov to his \I. W. W. for 13 years, I feel as|newspaper and indicate the hard- though I ought to know a little of |ships and suffering endured by the |that organization. I have been in|Russians in their hazardous under- |the strikes at Lawrence and Lowell, | taking. | Ma: McKees Rocks, Pa.; Hetch! Eventually Chuhknovsky, the pilot |Hetchy, Calif, and the Edison Co. | of “The Red Bear”, takes off in his Weavers in West Boyleston Mill Walk Out When Number of Looms LOGGERS ON THE Pravda Correspondent Tells of the Krassin’s Voyage GYPS, STRAW ALAN BROOKS Is Doub led EMPLOYMENT Speed Up Construction Men Thru Shark nt to an emplo: They offered m yor foreman on vork in a steel mill at The fee was to k | y Gia c ay |of Southern Celifornia in Fresno, | search for the Malmgren party who ; ie naltesararane naa Ua the cord fabric for automobile tires | | A FEF cg F k BI M Cal., in 1922, and the great lumber | are’ reported to be stranded some.| In “She Got What She Wanted”, ee FASCISTS JAIL fae b. L. LAREY ames ISELY strikes of 1917-25. . where near Seven Islands. The cor-|which opened on Monday at Wal- When the workers started up their looms Monday morning, Feb. 18th, the boss came and told them that hereafter they will have to run six looms in place of three; that they will get a grand pay of $17.45 for this double amount of work they will put out. (On three looms weavers were getting at present $15.45.) This announcement was so stun- ning that the workers kept looking at each other without moving, until the boss woke them to action by his demand of “waste no time; work.” Then one after another all answered that this is humanly impossible, we refuse to run six looms and will go home, As they went for their coats, the boss thundered, “Go, I will get plenty who will be glad of the ad- vantage of making more money.” With the exception of four who stood Italian Worker: |. Perfunctory Trial (I. L. D. News Service) ROME (By Mail).—Five Commu-| jnists from Venice have been brought | before the special tribunal accused | |of being suspicious elements and of having conducted Communist activ- jity, in particular of having collected | monies for the relief of the political ilies, i. e., of Red Aid work. The accused were Michele Bacci, Aurelio Fontana, | prisoners, deportees and their fam- jer improvements in the interest of | (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA (By Mail).— a Cliven |puitaisignia as iors fo wober \throughout the country as a “seab” | |city, notorious as an_ exploiters’ paradise. The “American” plan, or |open shop, largely prevails, and one of the evils rampant in industry here to an extent unsurpassed in any other large industrial city in the country, is the company union. These company unions are fakes through and through and provide no: real guarantees, protection, security the workers whatsoever. The real reason for the weakness Bruno Mazzari, | 4 ‘ i \Emilio Lionella an of the labor movement here is the back and later turned out to be| scabs, all in the room walked out. tences, respectively: Eleven years Boss Manhandles Women Weavers.|and 11 months, 10 years and This was a spontaneous walk out,|months, 10 years, 4 years and 2| not prompted by any planning or! months, and 3 years and 9 months. talking before hand. It so enraged|The prisoners all held themselves | id Gildo Barbon. | stranglehold held by corrupt labor bureaucrats of the American Feder- ation of Labor on what organiza- tions do exist. William Z. Fostcr. Ie his book, “Misleaders of Labor,” devotes several chapters on the sit- nation in Philadelphia. ; COMMUNISTS)” Workers on “Low Tariff” which is dominated by the reaction- jery A. F. of L. misleaders have only 110,000 workers organized, And now comes Burch, who in jhis statement announces that of the | 110,000 workers 50,000, or more than |half, are unemployed. He also ad- |mits that conditions are even wo: amongst the unorganized workers. With the characteristic insight and profundity of the average know- little, or want-to-know-little, labor »| “leaders” of this city, Burch places the entire blame on the present |“low” tariff, This, of course, is jrure buncombe. | The textile industry, one of the most important industries here, is particularly hard hit, and has been in a bad way for some time. But even if the Hoover adminis- | tration succeeds in raising tariffs on imported textiles 1,000 per cent, or 1,000,000 per cent, the Philadel- | phia weaver will be in the same boat None of these strikes were really | respordent writes: led by the I, W. W., at least 90 per } “The plane grew smaller and cent of the men were unorganized, | smaller. We climbed an icehill, and | and I venture to say that at least| stood there for half an hour, 90 per cent of the men would not have come out if they thought the 1.-W. W. was leading the strikes. | Byeryone was nervous, and presses The Edison Southern California |}i, neighbor's hand. Everyone re- |strike of 1922 was pulled by two | assured everyone else: | Canadian workers and myself and we | paid for doing the job out of our | | watching that dwindling spot in the | sky which contained so many hopes. | “‘Our flyers will do their duty. | own hard-earned money and never nentioned the I, W. W During this strike I wrote to the “Indust Worker” in Seattle and “Solidarity” in Chicago, and called for delegates, and sure enough we had over 100 of them in a couple | jof weeks, and they claimed to have j ined up 2,800 strikers, when, as a matter of fact, they had been strik- |ing for two weeks previous to this. Our Comrade Chuhknovsky will do | his revolutionary duty.’ | “From the right, we saw a heavy fog closing in. It was the same fliers down only 27 miles from our ship. lack’s Theatre. Flood and Drought in Argentine, Colombia SANTA FE, Argentine, March 4. (U.P.).—The worst flood in twenty years is threatening North Province Bay as a result of the continued rise of the Parana River, author- ities said today. Refugees from farms villages along the river have been provided for here, many of them || “They had gone; and for some sleeping in public buildings. reason, we on the Krassin felt deso- ec late. a 2 RIO HACHA, Colom March “Every 15-20 minutes our radio|4 (U,P,)—The most seve picked up short messages drought and small |‘ from'in many years is causing Chuhknovsky. “We are now flying over the island of Carl XII. Solid ice coming to an end, (On the Krassin our | hearts began beating faster.) | “We are approaching Broch Is-, land. (This island could be seen by | |The strike was won after 58 weeks. | Loggers for Communists. | The loggers on the coast prefer the Communist Party and they don’t believe in folded arms. Their slo- gran is “shoulder arms.” They know by this time they cannot starve out spread suffering in the Goajira region. A party of Indians seeking water was buried under a landslide in Goajira district. Most of the party was killed by the falling rock and dirt. You fee Of eonrse I did the Woolworth buiid f to make me lize that the ant superintendent, who charge of co’ his from the employ that I, in order to hold my job, would be ep the labor moving.” one guess as to what I told that d. Well, I'm a little too big for him to throw me out! Just the other day, the people who run the room ig house re I’m ) recommended the employment here in New York. In going down saw a si I went up ther the dark hally gilt letters, “Bry ment Agency, h Thinking this was the door, I turned the knob, but tt ntrance door of me. § 7] | 7 the Krassin crew from one side, and | 7\ the boss, that when the weavers went | steadfastly before the court and de- | To what a low level Feeney, Irey ke was in before. back to their looms to get their scissors and possessions to take home, he threatened and pushed the women weavers against the looms and some almost lost their balance when he pushed them downstairs. After this walkout the boss brought up weavers from No. 8 weave room, but upon seeing what was being required of them, they also refused to work on these looms. The result was that three were paid off and two of them sent back to No. 3. Plans for Other Departments. The “efficiency” men have made out similar plans for other depart- ments, but are wisely not putting | them into effect until the weavers strike is settled. Thus department by department will -be-rationalized and little by little the workers broken in on these speed-up plans. The bosses claim that the com- pany does not make enough profits and would have to shut the mill if they did not accept the speed-up. —ANN ALDEN. Poor Lighting Ruins Eyes of Factory Labor (LRA).—That 50 per cent of workers in shops, factories and mills throughout the United States can- not see clearlygwhat they are doing has been shown by recent authorita- tive surveys, asserts a General Elec- tric advertisement in Textile World. Too little light from windows and poor lighting in work places is held laregly accountable for the workers’ semi-blindness. Calling it a loss in “productive efficiency,” the company does not mention the resulting strain on the eyes of a worker who, when he be- comes blind, is thrown on the indus- trial serap heap. EW MISSISSIPPI. FLOOD MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 5 (UP). —Flood warnings for the Mississippi River in the district from here south te Vicksburg, Miss., were issued by the United States Weather Bureau today. “The Mississippi in this district will rise, reaching the flood stage at Cottonwood Point, 84 feet, and at Memphis, 35 feet, by March 10, The lower St. Francis will rise,” the re- port said. 3s ian | clared themselves to be proletarian land their ilk have brought the or- | revolutionaries. | zanizations they control can be seen 43 Years’ Hard Labor. by a statement issued yesterday by | In February, ten workers from||rrank Isurch, secretary and treas- \Genoa were tried before the special | prer of the Ceniral Labor Union, to jtribunal, accused of having at- a local tabloid waging a relief :am tempted to rebuild the Communist | paign for the numerous unemployed. jorganization there, After a very’! his city has close to half a m |summary trial, the following ac- lion workers, but the unions affili- ragnoli, 8 years and 4 months; Carlo | Piccolo, 7 years; Antonio years; Raffaelo + Pieragostini, years: Giovambattista Sivero, 4/New York ShowMarked ts; Silvio Fedemonte, 3 years; 6 lio Multese and Anacleto Bocca- Increase in Past Year latte, 8 years each; Gino Salvetti, 2 | years, and Pietro Bisagni, 1 year| Tuberculosis cases in New York \and 3 months; all the sentences with |City increased by 11,614 during hard labor, plus the customary 3/1928, according to the report just years police supervision to follow |issued by Godias J.. Drolet, statis- the sentences and plus the loss’ of |tician for the Association of Tuber all civil rights. \evlosis Clinics in the city. The fig- cused were sentenced: Carlo Ter- | ated with the Central Labor Union, | Not until he stops working in open shops, or leaves the present union, snd joins the National Tex- tile Workers Industrial Union, and, through this real union wages a real |campaign against the local textile | plutocrats can he hope to better his | condition and remedy such a situa- tion as now exists here. C, RABIN. * § Tuberculosis Cases in| Stewart-Rockefeller | Proxy Battle to Stir | Stockholders’ Meet | CHICAGO, March 5 (UP).—Dis- puted rules of procedure in the bat- tle between John D, Rockefeller, Jr., and Colonel Robert W. Stewart for control of the billion dollar Standard |the boss who has the warehouses jfall of food and guns and ammuni- tion to see nobody touches them while, on the other hand, the ma- jority of the workers don’t know where the next meal is coming from, Folded Arm Philosophers, There is a man named Sullivan here, who joined the I. W. W. after [he lost his leg, as a meal ticket and |his fellow shirker, “Big Jim” Thomp- | |son, a folded-arm philosopher. They jwould be lost for words if they |could not talk against the Commu- |nists and the IT L. D., but every knock only seems to boost, as their crowd, which is small, comes over and listens to the intelligent Com- munist speakers and buys the “Daily | Worker.” The workers here are now aware jof the ‘fact that the I. W. W. is only |a small labor union, while the Com- SOVlecT REINDEER MEAT MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By Mail) -The Soviet Trade Delegation in Norway has sold. on behalf of the by the Italians from the other.) { “We are sighting open water.| (Hurrah, what luck, open water!’ | “Then suddenly! . . . Radio mes- sages from the plane ceased. | Archangel State Trading Organi: “Seven o’clock that night! tion, 120 tons of frozen reindeer “The cabins were deserted. Every-| meat to a Norwegian firm. one now was on the top deck or on the ice, “Waiting, waiting .. . l , | “We waited. long, long time.|™ %f- For five hours we did not hear from! “ ‘Where Chuhknovsky. Then, at one o'clock | "ively. in the morning, the Krassin radio| “‘To rescue Malmgren and the picked up a message from him. He) other Italians of course,’ said Com- had been forced down 27 miles away |mander Eggi.” from us, about a kilometre and a| This is a first-hand description of half from shore, near Cape Brade.|the finding of the Malmgren party |The message continued .. . |by the courageous Russian pilot |__ “Chassis broken. Damage slight. | Chuhknovsky, ich is told in | Men are well. We sighted, if we| graphic, hair-raising fashion in the are not mistaken, the Malmgren | official motion picture, “The Kras- group on the ice. Two men were sin”, now being shown at the Film smile, ‘in about four hours we should to?’ someone asked, “We Love Machine Guns.” The following is an extract from a speech by August Furati, secre- tary general of the fascist party: “We love our weapon; it is the machine gun. It is perfect today, and will be tomorrow also. In the future, too, we want to be able to kneel behind it to feel its charac- teristic triggers under our fingers, to listen to its voice and to feel the | joy of mowing down our opponents.” The Cultural Policy. The following is an extract from | \the “Tevere,” which is published in| Rome: | “Present day education is not fas- | cist. Tt may bear the Lictor Bundle, but ‘still it is not fascist. On the | contrary, when it bears the Lictor | Bundle, it is not only not fascist, | but it is hypocritical. We must show courage enough to introduce a period in which the educational level | will sink, In other words, we must clean out the universities, irrespec- tive of the professors and without | consideration to the Lady Education. The result would be the mental im- poverishment of the universities and a sinking of the general level of education which would iast per- | | cases. gasoline tank truck cacrying 1,500 burned to death two men, William | turned going into Liberty Ave. from i Water St., explodiig’after striking ures included surveys made in 29 Gil Company of Indiana will be car- clinics operated by the department | ried to the floor of the annual stock- of health, and compare with 10,873 |yoiders’ meeting at Whiting, Ind, eee |on Thursday, developments indicated At the same time an increase in! mare? P tubercular patients treated was Yesterday. noted. A four per cent increase was; All attempts of representatives of shown by the figures for 1928,|the two opposing leaders to agree £7,057. These included old and new |upon a method of voting contested |proxies apparently have failed and According to the location of the |it appeared certain that the dispute clinics, the survey shows that the |over the proxies of the 58,000 stock- vast increase was made mostly in holders of Standard of Indiana will the working class districts. Harlem, | not be settled except on the floor of lower East Side, parts of Brooklyn, |the stockholders’ meeting. ete. Continued speed-up and lack | - munists have the Red Flag flying | © A ee - fern standing up, waving flags, the other | in every fifth acre of the earth and |was lying on the ice. Come quick | | will not stop till it is flying every- | ig . | where, ‘J. CONNOLLY. pena save—save the Malmgren aed | |....Ice conditions..good .... AS SEIU RA TE pes can wait.... | “What glorious news. The Malm- gren group, given up for lost, had) _been found! Now we could do some- | | thing. The Krassin was ready for} its duty. | “Later that night if you can call | it night, with the sun shining bright- | ly, the commander of the Krassin, Eggi, came into our cabin. He moved softly in his night slippers. « “Well, comrades’ he said with a SOVIET POWFR PLANT LENINGRAD (By Mail).--The | reeently-built Leningrad power sta- ltion “Volkovstroi” supplies a cur- rent .of 30 kilowatts a day. In the last few months the power station bas caused a saving of 600 wagons of coal, or of 2,350,000 rubles. In the immediate future the current supplied will be increased to 40 mil- lion kilowatts a day. of proper ventilation and sanitary | conditions in the factories have | caused more than two-thirds of this | total increase. | GAS TRUCK KILLS TWO | PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 5.—A gallons of gasoline overturned and M. MeGlaughlin, 45, and Jchn E.} O’Brien, 25, The tank truck gyer- a curb at a sharp turn. 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