The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1929, Page 4

& eel sen Four D: AILY WORKER, nuW YORK, THURS DAY, , MARCH i 1929 Reactionary Union Leaders Make Strange Settlements in Lynn Shoe Workers Strike NEFUSE ANSWER SEAMAN RE TO QUERIES PUT BY STRIKING MEN : UnorganizedWhoWent t Ignored Out (By a Wor LYNN, M few wor in one ories here still fter rema tl he h shoe ist “harn ike was eness of prised everyone, the as the bo: es, as to be chairman who ad- “brothers” le settle- the end of | he week. He said he was glad to innounce that the Golden Rule shop had signed 2 agreement and that | ts workers re free to return to, vork. { One v h eaded worker de-} nanded now what the agree- mients as to the wage scale were ind was answered in the mosi eva- ive statement I could imagine. The hairman said the workers would *o back “under the prevailing wage *eale,” whatever that could mean; hat the state board of arbitration vould have something to do with it, nd that a “mutual agreement” vould be made after the strike was harmoniously settled.” The worker, owever, kept on asking for a bet- er answer, but was shouted down ‘yy some very obvious stool-pigeons. The union’s agent, whom I under- frédd to be Hendry, then arrived, Je_is a prospercus looking, paid ‘ynetionary, He sti d his talk by aying he was excessively busy and ‘ould absolutely answer no questions wm that account. He then read off + list of 17 shops he had just signe-1; wgreements with, and followed this tp with some general remarks, in a ‘oud voice about how the union needed a general cleaning up of ‘skunks, suckers and grumblers.” I hink the members felt he would 4it them if anyone questioned the oundness of his doings. Nothing was said of the thou- ands of miserable, unorganized ers who had responded to the ‘2 call and showed their solidar- by loyally walking out with ty these “aristocrats of labor.” Almost al! the“lusters are Yan ces over 50 years old. Lynn nas the tradition of being a good union own, and the fact that a small, in- ‘ependent union like the lasters can all a general strike seems to show his. The lasters’ union, cutter=’ irion, etc., were organized clubs and hese changed into local unions. there is no evidence of co-operation n leading the strike or neaking the Atlements, There are rumors that the shoe actories are going to move to a on- yee city after the rush sea- mm JACKSON 1 WALES OPE INSISTS ON VISITORS May Deal With Enemy Powers in War Time ROME, March 6.—The published igreement between the pope anj Mussolini establishing “Vatican Gity” as a sovereign state, and the accompanying concordat between the pope and the kingdom of Italy, adds to information already pub- ished ene new fact, the pope gets | the right to receive bishops and + missaries of government from any { coyntry in the world whateverstate f ‘war may exist between nations, -ven though Italy be one of the con- estants. It is from nations outside of the talian peninsla that most of the =apal revenues come. e concordat is an instrument of eactien giving the pope the right o,dictate forms of marriage, abol- ishing any possibility of divorce ex- he through decisions of the pope, nditurning over the task of doping be pminds of school children with éligion to the Roman Catholic yrch, which will have priests and “Shonks for that purpose in all ele- “yentary and middle schools. The bulk of the two documents s taken up with a meticulous de- iling of minor financial matters, Rise shall pay for the railroad sta- ions, the street paving, etc., in ap- Peas to the vatican. en . * Georgia Floods Kill 11; More Deaths Soon _ ATLANTA. Ga.. March 6.—Heavy ‘ains in Georgia and Alabama tatersheds added to danger of ‘ood waters today as rivers spread heir muddy waters over farm ands, highways and lower streets of ities, With » tol of eleven dead, there Sen ter! week exnected on the Flint wor. Chattahoochie cad O¢o- TY vers. } | (By a Seamen Correspondent) NEW ORLEANS, La. (By Mai!) Recently the beat I am a seaman on docked in Trinidad, and a ter- Indian workers are ground under the most: miserable conditions by the ule of the British oil bosses, who make billions out of the island, leav- ing the natives in rags, The Fyzabad Dome Oilfield caught fire while I was there and LATES HOW TRINIDAD OIL SLAVES WERE BURNT TO ASHES MINE POLICE thing happened while I was on island, tonk a huge toll of natives’ lives Ne where the Negro and|the greatest number that ever died in an oil blast there. Fifteen Negri The well was a new one, Well No. ; turned to flee, but they were caught |land hold the fat jobs and live like oil slaves were trapped in the 5. Jus3 about five o'clock that aft-|by the rapid flames and only their little tin gods on the fat of the land | flames, ten of them being burnt to/ernoon the well came in strong | bones were found in the morning. | while the natives starve. The na- ash Four crawled out, badly beads, the roar of which was heard Tke pay on the island for these | tives werk 12, 14 and 1¢ heurs a burnt, and died the next day, and tiles away. The controls gave | oil slaves—most of them Negro and | day. This island used to be a pare- one has not been seen since, The way Indian workers—is about 20 cents cise, but capitalism and imperialism PA WORKERS flames spread to the Ajax Oilfields, Suddenly there was a te? a day. have turned it inte a hell of torture ‘ and a pumpman there was burnt to | plosion, the well beleked A few aristocratic whites from the | 9nd exploitation for the workers death, ‘tower of flames and the workers |United States, England and Bite &. HARE, olt. (Above) Map of Mexico, showing the centers of the revolt against the Portes Gil government. Sonora and Vera Cruz are espe- cially affected, with some disturbances in Coahuila, Durango, Chi- huahua, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Oaxaca, (Below) Left to right, Pres- ident Portes Gil; Elias P. Calles, former president, called on to head the Ministry of War; Gen. Jose Escobar, reported in command in (3-HOUR DAY FOR | PATERSON DYE HOUSE WORKERS, IChemicals, Fu Fumes Add| to Hazards (By a Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J. (By Mail).—I am employed at the United Piece | {Dye Works. The situation in the} e hovse is something terrible; workers have to work 11 and 13 \hours in their shift without a lunch \hour; wages are low, 45 cents an hour being the usual pay, and even wage cuts are often introduced. We | |have to eat our lunch while busily at work with dyestuffs, liquids in |departments filled with fumes, bit- {ing acids and chemical dust. | |harshly enforeed here. During the | holidays of Christmas and New | Years there were tears seen on the | workers’ faces when they faced their miserable pay check, the problem jot paying rent and food bills, buy- ling some necessary clothing for the | family and self could not be happily | settled with a $15 pay envelope. | The intense exploitation is being | cased up as the message of the N, T. W. U. spreads throughout the in- | dustry. Anther Secret Warrant in Albany Pool Graft; ‘ House imper | another employe. SCAB UNION IS — ILGWU Agent LaysOff' mission of bankruptcy was made by | their $a local official of the International|»parently only the thrill of the Politicians Involved! | “The King Is Dead” | |race exploitation and lynch laws of their white masters, a Negro fam- ily migrates to Harlem, the alleged “City of Refuge.” Cordelia Wil- liams is thrilled by the perpetual gin racket. Pa Williams encounters discrimination—perhaps in slightly different forms—and Ma Williams, her religious instincts outraged by | the spectacle of youth jazzing its | wage along the broad path of damna- tion, sees in Harlem not the City of “We come to Harlem to ride sub- ways and slave,” is her despairing cry. “There’s nothing for niggers nowhere—we is doomed children.” The theme powerful social . The open- ing stages of the play “Harlem” (by William Jourdan Rapp and Wallace Thu-~#—Apollo Theatre) Cal Coolidge, one time “White pokesman” for American m, has lost his job to He sadly turned ey: ; ; ._ | away @ newspaper reporter from | express in a measure the confusion _ The destruction of mankind is} his Northampton home with the | of a Negro family, thrown into a linked up with the speed-up systems | words, “The king is dead, and | for existence struggle in the will not share his shroud.” ud izing, Southern life from che implications of which they hoped to escape. Pa Williams finds that the much vaunt- ed broad boulevards of the “Black Belt” are reserved for those who pay regular rent. He makes the bitter discovery that for the Negro worker in the city of “emancipa- tion” wages are so low that rent \can be paid only by conducting rent | Member Drive Again _ parties. As the play proceeds, however, the TORONTO, March 6.—Open ad- rebellious note dies. Like some of characters, the authors see DEAD IN CANADA Garment Workers’ Union, a/gin party in which the “lost chil- ¢ Driven from the South by the! |Refuge but the “City of Refuse.”| material for | crowded city which is just as brutal-! just as degrading as the’) IN “THE NEW MOON” Evelyn Herbert, “The New Moon” at the Imperial Theatre. The operetta will celebrate its 200th performance on Saturday. prima donna of that “there’s too many niggers.” He |Tesents the intrusion of West In- |dians. “All the good jobs,” he com- plains petulantly, “are held by West Indian niggers, They take all the jobs—they work for less money | than us Americans.” And when Basil so far forgets his breeding as to display temper, he tells the crowd in the Oxonian accents taught him by his British imperialist mas- ters that he is a “West Indian, not a bootlegging American nigger.” Both, fall victims to the prejudice, carefully fostered by their white ex- | | ploiters who fear the impending out- | break of racial—and class—revolt. ‘Negro and Boatman Gun Fire, Gin Racket, Spoils | Real Interest of ‘“‘Harlem’ Are Victims “By a Worker Correspondent) BROWNSVILLE, Pa. (By Mail), -—On the early morning of February 16, Lawson Roberts a Negro worker, was attacked in a South Browns- | ville cell by a former coal and iron policeman, Andrew J. Gallick, and |former Pennsylvania state cossack, | Ray |were officers in the boro of South S. Hartman. Both attackers Brownsville. Hartman, a few days before he was employed as boro policeman, planned a fake “shooting” on a foggy night. Hartman could not see who did the “shooting” at him, but in his report to his superior of- ficer he blamed a Negro, not men- tioning the name of the one he “suspected.” Lawson Roberts was arrested two months later fer having “borrowed a car without the owner’s permis- sion” and was sentenced to jail. While in the South Brownsville lock-up for transfer to the Union- town jail, the two boro policemen in the early morning went to the cell and beat Roberts without mercy, using the well-known third degree methods of the coal and iron police. and state cossacks to try to force Roberts to admit to the shooting. With all their brutality they failed to make the Negro worker admit any such thing. * Jack Server, a rich boatman, was heaten un by constable and boro po- liceman Jack Drennan, and Squire Trotter is said to have witnessed the beating in the boro jail. Srownsville is a mining town, and perverted, it is true—which is the most interesting feature of the play. Unfortunately, it is drowned in the roar of the guns of gang- Coahuila and Gilberto Valenzuela, candidate. believed the plotters’ presidential A. F. of L. Misleaders Praise ‘Oil Magnates and Death Traps 'i% weccies i" (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES (By Mail).—Ed- ward Hasty, 28, an+ iron metal worker at the “outlaw” Santa Fe Springs oilfield, was instantly killed | |terested in “business,” the welfare of “merchants” and also in the work | of “attracting winter tourists here,” | ete., all of which “spells real pros- rerity for the community,” he said. jreactionary organization, when heldren” attempt. to. drown their sor- made a statement to the trade press that “his organization has deferred the organization campaign for an- other season.” Since before the establishment of the Canadian Needle Trades Work- | A new indictment charging per- jury against one of the three men | now serving terms in Atlanta Fed- eral Penitentiary in connection with the investigation of the A'bany baseball pool last summer, ieee Industrial Union, a left wing) Vam> |grand jury before Federal Judge union have ‘een “threatening” |Frank J. Coleman. Federal author- ities are withholding identity of the |ment workers. Pisaneereeaairte earn based | orkers would have ncthing to do ) All th f th . | with the I, L. G. W. U. and are in-| ree of the men are now in 5 tead joining the Left wing organi- iNew York, William J, Pringle, ser- |St24 Joining . jzation. rows. an interesting superstructure of Harlem jazz life, the play declines to an approved Willard Mack gun fight. The guns are introduced by Kid (Ernest R. Whitman), a union, the heads of the socialist| former pugilist, who has graduated to|to the more lucrative practice of organize the Canadian ladies gar-| bootlegging. But Canadian needle | cause Roy Crowe, a rival bootleg: He pulls the gun be- ger, informs on him. Crove, who |incidentally finds procuring as in- |teresting as bootlegging, has per- And, even though there is/ It is this note of revolt—misdirected | land—M. M. Best Film Show in Town NOW A SOVKINO FILM CLASSIC 42nd Street and Broadway jwere killed or at that field, Feb. 28, when struck) As far as “the sound. business pol- on the head by a cable gun; -Hasty icies of the Califoinia oil operators” was employed by the MeMillan Drill- | gre concerned, Mr. Dale probably | ing Co., Compton, Calif. had in mind (Black Satchel) E. L.| Oil Field a Death Trap. The Santa Fe Springs oilfield has turned cut to be a real death trap. Fire broke out there three times last summer. For weeks, in each case, “rebellious” oil wells were throwing red-hot flames hundreds jot feet into the air toward the pie- \in-the-sky land. Although a number of workers seriously hurt, the capitalist press was mainly inter- | ested, of course, in the loss of prop- y ruled over by labor-baiting oil kings and other greedy speed-up ar- | not. tists. This adds another peculiar touch In spite of the great danger under |to the mysterious affairs of this which the oil workers here are strug- |bank which specialized_in taking gling, the A. F. of L. officialdom Italian workers’ money on deposit, has no criticism to offer, J. B.|and lending it out on forged secur- “Pete” oil scandal. Can’t Sell City Trust; State Banking Board) Bluff Fails Once More! An important banking group, which the state banking commission has told depositors would probably | \buy out the defunct City Trust Co., | yesterday announced that it would | (“Daddy”) Dale, general organizer ities, according to the depositors. | Italian fascist papers got large} for the outfit, even stated in the! master class press recently that la- |loans from it. bor conditions in the California oil-; Samuel Miller, head of a small fields “are not to perfection itself.” |trading corporation yesterday filed A. F. of L. “Evangelist.” \changes of fraud, in an affidavit “I am going to do a little evan-|turned over to Supreme Conga soe, gelistie work,” Dale said, before de- |tice Cropsey. parting for a four months’ tour of| Miller says that two days before Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. “If|the bank was closed by the state we could get the eastern employers |banking commission, he deposited to adopt the sound business policies | $8,900 in it, when the officers “at of the California oil operators, it |the time the City Trust Company would be a good thing not only for received such deposit it was insol- the men but for business generally | vent, and such condition was known there... .” |to its officers....which is a gross “Brother” Dale is very much in- fraud....” Paris = on the Barricades= eg set a cee An eyewitness’ own story of the heroic struggle of the Parisian proletariat in defense of their * dictatorship (1871).- WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS by 43 EAST 125TH STREET | Doheny and the $35,000,000 Julian, |ving 18 months, having been brot back today to testify briefly before |the indictment was voted. James Otto, and Walter J. Kane, who are ‘serving sentences of a year each, |© ‘have been here for several days and | |Otto has been frequently before the grand jury in its most recent in- | quiry into the Albany baseball pool. | The announced object of the in| quiry has been to determine what |politicians participated in the pro- | fits of the pool in return for per- | | mitting it to operate. Fraudulent| | use of the mails was charged against | \Pringle, Otto and Kane. . | \si cc a: | the first since its lavnching over which a cal! to natior wide organi- |suaded Cordelia Williams to leave the restraining maternal apron strings and live with him. Crowe attempts to frame Basil Venerable (Richard Landers), a West Indian who wants to lead Cordelia to the City Hall registrar and a life of wedded purity. The curtain de- scends while smoke from the con- |cluding gun shots of the play is in the air, but Basil’s unstained repu- | tation is cleared. Lew Payton gives a good per- formance as Pa Williams. Handi- capped by imposed ignorance, he fails to see the real enemy. The trouble with the world, he says, is The Canadian Industrial Union is oon to hold a national convention, ight months ago. This union intends to make the onvention a rallying center from ation will be issued. Not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to Itself; it has also enlled | into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletariuns. Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). wvvvvvwwe MEMOIRS T IN THE IN NEW YORK AN! READ NEW SERIAL . & & Ad & 2 4 START READING THESE 26 UNION SQUARE, New York City ON SALE AT ALL NEWSSTANDS “BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK” (EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO dearuien LISH BY SPECIAL ARRANGEM: WITH THE INTERN. PUBLISHERS) vvvvvvvvwvwe HAT absorbing story of the class struggle by one who has a distinct place in the American Labor Movement. 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